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suchintan are you on X by any chance

how can i contact you

Combine this with SLAM+VIO + humanoid robot and you got Skynet literally

ah this is actually quite valuable because it utilizes CV

I'm kinda surprised why you chose to open source this instead of slapping AGPLv3 like all the YC funded github projects are doing

It's always the same story with web scraping product building: On the surface it's very interesting work. There is joy in seeing the fruits of your work automating human hours. There is also pain in seeing race to the bottom in that its very tough to get a recurring client who is always looking to reduce the cost.

One concern I have with this is I don't see the benefit of using a fuzzy blackbox in an area that has largely been solved with traditional tree-based one-shot approaches that doesn't require AI.

Granularity and explicitness is often written off as expensive in this space but throwing a large model at a largely solved problem with existing tools and techniques seems spirit of the times.

at this point i dont even flinch when i see "open source and free" until I check the license.

this is not even a fair comparison. mozilla isn't using all of our data to build a product that will be metered

Asking this question on a platform pretty much aligned with Sam Altman and expecting real nuanced answer is unrealistic.

Remember they shut down the thread regarding Sam Altman's sister alleging she was molested by him.

Its just incredibly sad to see how society is quick to overlook one's transgressions if it stands to benefit from that individual. Artists, CEOs, politicians, celebrities.

Just one sick world and this blatant disregard for "non-profit" because bunch of men feel they were chosen.

There was an NYPD officer who was an active tong member in NY....

Fun Fact: You don't need to apply to Ycombinator to build a business or play the product-market fit lottery

The year is 2024: companies that used scraping to build its products are now trying to legislate scraping as an illegal act

Ah the Yelp biz model:

"would be a shame if somebody read a bad review about your biz, pay us to remove it"

to Netlify

"would be a shame if somebody DDOS'd your serverless website, subscribe to our DDOS protection plan"

Personally I really don't get this outrage over emulators.

A huge chunk of the population can't afford Nintendo Switch or its expensively priced licenses. They turn to a zero-cost grey-market online. Nintendo wants to turn those people into paying customers?

Somebody who owns a Switch and buys games aren't going to stop paying so who is Nintendo really trying to deny?

How do we decide who gets to listen to a song and who doesn't on the internet where information constantly tries to reach homeostasis by becoming free and widely available? Capital?

oooh i really like that stop loss example. having a netlify serverless website is basically selling a put option without receiving any premium.

It used to be we will take your server down. Now its we'll DDOS your serverless website and leave you a 100k bill.

I'm not sure how sustainable such business model is. When you owned the server, you could unplug it. Now you have no way of knowing if somebody is going to hit your /api a million times per minute

im not sure what the legal liabilities are for offering this type of service but couldn't somebody potentially use this to scrape a highly litigious website and end up bringing heat to browserless's company and its founders I wonder

"we just provide the tool" defence no longer works in court

like there's even a 7 day trial opening this up to anyone with bad intentions

One good thing Lambda provides is contractual guarantee, if you want 100000 code spun up you can put it in writing and hold AWS against it

but then you realize you can achieve the same thing at 98% discount with traditional "monolith" setups with a load balancer soaking up all the requests

Serverless is a major failure

My only wish for AWS team is that they measure success based on how complete a product is. There are still 4 year old outstanding critical github issues around Cognito. There are lot of things that are advertised that aren't delivered.

In fact our trust in AWS and the team has plummeted that we ultimately ditched serverless and went str8 to VPS

The days of zero interest rate series B buying up reserved EC2 instances in the millions are gone. As capital gets expensive we see more reluctance to moving to cloud.

AWS claims of "10x faster startup @ half the cost" is confirmation that the Serverless movement is DOA

> offers up to over 10x faster startup and up to 2x overall lower cost

i've been burned by Amazon with these type of claims can we get confirmation this is backed up actual real world testing from a non-amazon affiliated source?

Today the SEC ruled that stablecoins are securities.

It is a moving goal post.

Where to buy ESP8266 with cash ?

Wish I could just go on craigslist and buy one so I can build minimal home automation