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theolivenbaum

783 karma · joined November 29, 2020

Aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur, building and growing http://curiosity.ai
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theolivenbaum··on UI is a function of your organization
We used to use an app from a startup for local orders that would always say 17 minutes to pickup. They couldn't estimate the time, so just used a number that didn't look like it was hard coded. Took some time for us to realize the lie and stop trusting it
theolivenbaum··on $3M Annual Recurring Revenue from a simple GPT wrapper product
Seems like it's around 10k/month https://twitter.com/yasser_elsaid_/status/175671030669533226...
theolivenbaum··on Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Also unless they significantly change their pricing model, we're talking about 0.5$ per API call at current prices
theolivenbaum··on JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry
It's probably because macOS bundles are nowadays notarized by Apple, and if you change the content of the .app "folder", it breaks their verification chain. Learned painfully about that when trying do implement plugins on our end too
theolivenbaum··on Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42M GB of Data per Day
It's not clear if they're double counting the traffic across all the lasers in the traffic path or if it's only in and out of the laser mesh.
theolivenbaum··on A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
Or many years after with some custom cut acrylic pieces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7wp70Xyxxw
theolivenbaum··on Easy-to-Use Apple Vision wrapper for text extraction and clustering
Nice! We maintain one for C# too: https://www.nuget.org/packages/LiveTextSharp
theolivenbaum··on The Secret Life of Machines (1988)
It's one of the best places I've been in London last year, definitely recommend!
theolivenbaum··on Airbus Shatters Record for Jet Orders as Demand Soars
More or less that - the rationale being that pilots could overreact in stressful emergency situations and thus the flight control system would prevent unintentional damage that would only make the situation worse.
theolivenbaum··on Apple Rejects the Hey Calendar from Their App Store
"Hopefully our example, and the countless others we’ve seen over the years, will finally force competition authorities around the world to act." You would think Apple, in the middle of being investigated from all sides for monopoly, would think twice before rejecting Hey for a second time for a stupid reason
theolivenbaum··on Netscape 1.x
There was a post about it sometime ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36982856
theolivenbaum··on Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL
ss before youtube.com brings you to a download page (i.e. ssyoutubecom)
theolivenbaum··on China Eastern A330 Engine Fanblade Rips Through Casing in Uncontained Failure
Some Pictures on avherald: https://avherald.com/h?article=511ef863&opt=6912
theolivenbaum··on Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes starting December 4
They were sold to Bending Spoons, and they've been trying to squeeze as much as they can from it before it dies
theolivenbaum··on Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down
Nevermind, found it: https://foxrow.com/til-api-for-saving-webpages-in-the-waybac...

I'll add this to our hn.curiosity.ai server asap, should be pretty easy to automate as we already have post sync implemented there

theolivenbaum··on Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down
Is there an API for that? I could only find one to check if a page is available (https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php)
theolivenbaum··on Fluent Search
We're working on something similar at https://curiosity.ai - no plugins yet but something we have in our roadmap for next year.
theolivenbaum··on .NET Blazor
Or similar for c# with https://h5.rocks (disclaimer: author here)
theolivenbaum··on Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time
There's no parachuting from 900km/h
theolivenbaum··on About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
From what I see, it's exactly the opposite. It's more like we hired all these people because we're growing so fast, so please give us money
theolivenbaum··on Slack's Google Drive App can share your private Docs and Drive files
It probably just uses Google drive search API and includes the results into slack's own results.
theolivenbaum··on Tell HN: DNS record "hn.algolia.com" was gone
If anyone needs an alternative, we host a HN search at https://hn.curiosity.ai
theolivenbaum··on When allocators are hoarding your precious memory (2021)
Interesting, we had very similar issues with malloc and RocksDB on a production instance, ended up switching to jemalloc and the problem went away. Cloudflare had some similar issues with it as well: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-effect-of-switching-to-tcmal...
theolivenbaum··on HN search engine now shows Google's 404 error page
If you need an alternative, we host one at https://hn.curiosity.ai
theolivenbaum··on 32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine
Your blog is the most effective bug reporting tool for Windows issues. Thanks for keeping it going!
theolivenbaum··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
I was wondering what would be the impact of being in the front page of HN, it's awesome that their stats are open: almost 2k new members!
theolivenbaum··on Meet your AI Executive Assistant
We're actually exploring that with our app, if you've a GPU large enough you can run a llama2 based model locally at almost chatgpt speeds... If you're interested in trying drop me a message at rafael (at) curiosity.ai
theolivenbaum··on World’s Smallest Commercially Available Camera Is the Size of a Grain of Salt
The "extended focus range of 3 mm to 30 mm" might complicate it a bit.
theolivenbaum··on Instead of collaborating or supporting me, Google stole my idea
Reminds me of something they mentioned on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Code series: Google asking small startups for a sales offer, copying the startup instead, and using the offer as a shield against future lawsuits (look, they only thought it was worth X)
theolivenbaum··on Vitalik Buterin reveals X account hack was caused by SIM-swap attack
The only time where Google's absolute lack of customer service for end users might pay off
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