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mjaques··on Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation
Self host on Hetzner, it will save you time, money and troubles.
mjaques··on Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
Alright folks calm down, the resistivity of LK-99 is higher than copper... https://twitter.com/bedoya_pinto/status/1686776302785773573
mjaques··on Launch HN: Roundtable (YC S23) – Using AI to Simulate Surveys
AI for simulating surveys is pretty bad (read, pointless), but AI for simulating clinical trials is straight up criminal.
mjaques··on Nobody needs a faster dishwasher – solve real user needs
Good to know I'm not the only one noticing this.
mjaques··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
Huh, that's good feedback, thanks for pointing it out - I don't think we had considered the workflow of a user downloading all the decks back to back.
mjaques··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
Hmm, maybe we need to make the pricing pop more :D.
mjaques··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
You are correct, but I'd say this one is fundamentally ambiguous (I'm Portuguese myself, where this also applies), as it is a one-to-two mapping here. Without further context you can't really choose one or the other, so we just left it as is :).
mjaques··on Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell
I sell cheap but high-quality Anki decks for language learning: https://deckmill.com

Created using a mix of automation (TTS, machine translation, etc.) and human reviews.

Built it with a friend, making around $500 a month, very stable over the last couple of years. Spend 1 or 2 hours a month on it, mostly customer support.

mjaques··on Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
Yes. At Deckmill (https://deckmill com) we hated subscriptions for language products, so we built a language product that you buy once and get the content forever (much like a book).
mjaques··on The Sam Bankman-Fried empire crumbled. What happened?
This is exactly what I was wondering.

It's possible (likely) that Alameda has invested that money in iliquid assets or assets that have since lost value. Also, since the loans of FTX to Alameda were backed by FTT, which has since collapsed, even if FTX makes a margin call, the collateral has a fraction of the original value.

mjaques··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
A friend and I made a repository for high-quality, affordable language learning flashcards around a year ago.

https://deckmill.com

Made using a mix of ML (translation and TTS) and human translators.

mjaques··on Show HN: SpotML – Managed ML Training on Cheap AWS/GCP Spot Instances
I'd like to point out that this seems extremely similar to Nimbo (https://nimbo.sh), to the extent that even some of the terminal messages are exactly the same, and even parts of the docs are copy pasted. E.g:

Nimbo docs: "In order to run this job on Nimbo, all you need is one tiny config file and a Conda environment file (to set the remote environment), and Nimbo does the following for you:"

SpotML docs: "In order to run this job on SpotML, all you need is one tiny config file and a Docker file (to set the remote environment), and SpotML does the following for you:"

Make of that what you will :).

mjaques··on Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, turn it off
This is very similar to https://nimbo.sh, which is also an open core project.
mjaques··on I developed a tool to train neural networks on AWS with a single command
My friend and I developed Nimbo (https://nimbo.sh), a dead-simple command line tool that allows you to run code on AWS as if you were running it locally.

We decided to build this because we were frustrated with how cumbersome using AWS was, and we just wanted to be able to run jobs on AWS as easily as we run them locally (and make use of our credits). All in all, we didn't like the current AWS user experience, and we thought we could drastically simplify it for the machine learning/scientific computing niche.

For this reason, we also provide many useful commands to make it faster and easier to work with AWS, such as one-command Jupyter notebooks on EC2, easily checking prices, logging onto an instance, syncing data to/from S3, etc.

Unlike other similar services, we are solely client-side, meaning that the code runs on your EC2 instances and data is stored in your S3 buckets (we don't have a server; all the infrastructure orchestration happens in the Nimbo package).

We have tons of ideas for Nimbo, such as docker support and one-command neural network deployments.

We will be hosting a live Nimbo setup session, so if you are interested register here http://eepurl.com/hx-jyv.

mjaques··on Show HN: Nimbo – Run jobs (and notebooks) on AWS with a single command
Hey everyone,

I (Miguel) am an ML PhD from the University of Edinburgh and Juozas is a Software Engineer also from Edinburgh.

Together we developed Nimbo, a dead-simple CLI that wraps the AWS CLI, allowing you to run code on AWS as if you were running it locally. You can find the source code here (https://github.com/nimbo-sh/nimbo) and the docs here (https://docs.nimbo.sh).

We decided to build this because we were frustrated with how cumbersome using AWS was, and we just wanted to be able to run jobs on AWS as easily as we run them locally. At the same time, we wanted to make use of the cheap spot instances (on Nimbo, this is a single parameter). All in all, we didn't like the current user experience of working with AWS, and we believed it was possible to vastly improve it.

For this reason, we also provide many useful commands to make it faster and easier to work with AWS, such as launching notebooks on EC2, easily checking prices, logging onto an instance, or syncing data to/from S3 (you can see some useful commands at https://docs.nimbo.sh/useful-commands).

Unlike other similar services, we are solely client-side, meaning that the code runs on your EC2 instances and data is stored in your S3 buckets (we don't have a server; all the infrastructure orchestration happens in the Nimbo package). We are also open contribution, meaning that all the source code is publicly available on our GitHub, and we welcome community contribution.

We have tons of ideas for Nimbo, like adding docker support, and providing instances with preloaded datasets like ImageNet, so that you don't have to download and store it yourself - you simply spin the instance, and the dataset is available at /datasets. We are currently working on adding GCP support, so that you can use AWS or GCP with the same config file.

We are happy to receive any feedback and suggestions you have.