PaulMest (u/PaulMest)

PaulMest commented on Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone cloud.google.com/blog/pro... · Posted by u/mariuz

bodantogat · 7 months ago

I had the opposite experience with cloud run. Mysterious scale outs/restarts - I had to buy a paid subscription to cloud support to get answers and found none. Moved to self managed VMs. Maybe things have changed now.

PaulMest · 7 months ago

Sadly this is still the case. Cloud Run helped us get off the ground. But we've had two outages where Google Enhanced Support could give us no suggestion other than "increase the maximum instances" (not minimum instances). We were doing something like 13 requests/min on this instance at the time. The resource utilization looked just fine. But somehow we had a blip in any containers being available. It even dropped below our min containers. The fix was to manually redeploy the latest revision.

We're now investigating moving to Kubernetes where we will have more control over our destiny. Thankfully a couple people on the team have experience with this.

Something like this never happened with Fargate in the years my previous team had used that.

PaulMest commented on Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? · Posted by u/yawn

joshstrange · a year ago

I often use the “Report junk” button on iOS but after spending years being bombarded with political SMS messages that I didn’t sign up for (always addressed me by the wrong name, and I’ve had my number for well over 20 years) I finally got relief.

I found out which provider was sending the SMS and contact their abuse line (I would reply STOP but they would just send from a different phone number) and got the name of the customer who was sending the messages. I then contacted that company and got them to blacklist my number (they were a company for sending political sms only, I have no worries about needing to get an sms they would send).

I now get 1-2 political spam messages a month, if that, and I’ve been too lazy to hunt down the source of the few remaining spammers. It went from 2-3 a day to 1-2 a month, huge relief.

PaulMest · a year ago

This sounds like my exact scenario. Can you outline in a bit more detail how you traced it back to the origin to ask to be put on a blacklist?

PaulMest commented on Launch HN: SSOReady (YC W24) – Making SAML SSO painless and open source github.com/ssoready/ssore... · Posted by u/ucarion

PaulMest · a year ago

Congrats on the launch! How does this compare to BoxyHQ's SAML Jackson [1]?

[1]: https://github.com/boxyhq/jackson

PaulMest commented on Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support buzzinga.io/... · Posted by u/Wolfmans55

PaulMest · a year ago

Very cool! I built a no-code version of this for my friends' birthdays where all of the clues were about them (inside jokes, dumb bets, catch phrases, etc). I just printed out categories in a grid on a sheet of paper and had a bunch of questions listed out in OneNote on my phone and manually kept score. I didn't put penalties in place if somebody got it wrong to encourage people to participate vs just optimizing for score. "Jonpardy" and "Joshpardy" are two of our friend groups most cherished and repeatedly cited events from the past 10 years.

I've dabbled with the idea of creating some real implementation of this. I most recently put together an @Midnight / After Midnight no-code game for a friend's bachelor party. The buzz-in mechanics and score-keeping are somewhat similar. Maybe you could repurpose your core logic for several different game show themes?

PaulMest commented on My co-founder wants to bring his wife as a late joining co-founder · Posted by u/HaowenJohnWei

PaulMest · 2 years ago

It's pretty rare to give someone 10%+ equity after a business has been operating for several years. Even if you brought on a professional CEO, I wouldn't expect to see that. I've seen some founders put together special agreements to transfer some of their own shares to a person recognizing that they'll be taking over a big part of their own role and that it wouldn't be fair to dilute the rest of the company.

Regardless of what you do, make sure there is a vesting schedule in place (e.g. a 4 year vest + 1 year cliff).

PaulMest commented on Audiobox: Meta's new foundation research model for audio generation ai.meta.com/blog/audiobox... · Posted by u/reqo

echelon · 2 years ago

And the millions of other RVC websites. Musicfy, Uberduck, Coversai, Kitsai, FakeYou, Voicemyai, Voicify, Bangerapp, Tryreplay, Weightsgg ...

RVC is so easy anyone can spin up a website for it. No moat. Over a hundred thousand trained weights files in the open, so it's easy to bootstrap.

PaulMest · 2 years ago

For anybody else who also hadn't come across the term RVC before:

"The RVC model is a Retrieval-based Voice Conversion system using AI for high-quality voice cloning. It utilizes artificial intelligence to modify or clone voices in real-time." Source: https://speechify.com/blog/rvc-vocal-models/

PaulMest commented on Ways to capture changes in Postgres blog.sequin.io/all-the-wa... · Posted by u/chuckhend

PaulMest · 2 years ago

I enjoyed this blog. I think it provides a great succinct overview of various approaches native to Postgres.

For the "capture changes in an audit table" section, I've had good experiences at a previous company with the Temporal Tables pattern. Unlike other major RDBMS vendors, it's not built into Postgres itself, but there's a simple pattern [1] you can leverage with a SQL function.

This allows you to see a table's state as of a specific point in time. Some sample use cases:

- "What was this user's configuration on Aug 12?"

- "How many records were unprocessed at 11:55pm last night?"

- "Show me the diff on feature flags between now and a week ago"

[1]: https://github.com/nearform/temporal_tables

PaulMest commented on Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints reuters.com/investigates/... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

Kosirich · 2 years ago

Carwow did a test fairly recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvwOa7TCd1E

PaulMest · 2 years ago

I didn't watch the whole video, but found the summary to be helpful. You can see it at 37m21s: https://youtu.be/fvwOa7TCd1E?t=2241

spoiler: Of the 6 cars they tested, Tesla Model Y had the best performance in terms of miles per kWh and total range. But it still clocked in at only 81% of claimed range.

PaulMest commented on Ford EV Customers to Gain Access to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers media.ford.com/content/fo... · Posted by u/bhauer

candiddevmike · 3 years ago

As a non-EV owner, how much do charging stations cost typically? What's the price of a "fill up"?

PaulMest · 3 years ago

I rarely have to use Superchargers because I have charging at home. But when I do, it's about $25 for an 80% top up (e.g. going from 10% -> 90%) in my Model Y.

Just looked it up: $0.45/kWh the last 4 times at Tesla Superchargers in California.

PaulMest commented on TS to JSDoc Conversion github.com/sveltejs/svelt... · Posted by u/ajhenrydev

rich_harris · 3 years ago

Lordy, I did not expect an internal refactoring PR to end up #1 on Hacker News. Let me provide some context, since a lot of people make a lot of assumptions whenever this stuff comes up!

If you're rabidly anti-TypeScript and think that us doing this vindicates your position, I'm about to disappoint you. If you're rabidly pro-TypeScript and think we're a bunch of luddite numpties, I'm about to disappoint you as well.

Firstly: we are not abandoning type safety or anything daft like that — we're just moving type declarations from .ts files to .js files with JSDoc annotations. As a user of Svelte, this won't affect your ability to use TypeScript with Svelte at all — functions exported from Svelte will still have all the same benefits of TypeScript that you're used to (typechecking, intellisense, inline documentation etc). Our commitment to TypeScript is stronger than ever (for an example of this, see https://svelte.dev/blog/zero-config-type-safety).

I _would_ say that this will result in no changes that are observable to users of the framework, but that's not quite true — it will result in smaller packages (no need to ship giant sourcemaps etc), and you'll be able to e.g. debug the framework by cmd-clicking on functions you import from `svelte` and its subpackages (instead of taking you to an unhelpful type declaration, it will take you to the actual source, which you'll be able to edit right inside `node_modules` to see changes happen). I expect this to lower the bar to contributing to the framework quite substantially, since you'll no longer need to a) figure out how to link the repo, b) run our build process in watch mode, and c) understand the mapping between source and dist code in order to see changes.

So this will ultimately benefit our users and contributors. But it will also benefit _us_, since we're often testing changes to the source code against sandbox projects, and this workflow is drastically nicer than dealing with build steps. We also eliminate an entire class of annoying papercuts that will be familiar to anyone who has worked with the uneven landscape of TypeScript tooling. The downside is that writing types in JSDoc isn't quite as nice as writing in TypeScript. It's a relatively small price to pay (though opinions on this do differ among the team - this is a regular source of lively debate).

We're doing this for practical reasons, not ideological ones — we've been building SvelteKit (as opposed to Svelte) this way for a long time and it's been miraculous for productivity.

PaulMest · 3 years ago

I don't use Svelte, but I appreciate the principled approach and the clear explanation.

I primarily coded in Python for 4 years. Then I founded a company that didn't need as much data science and my primary language switched to JavaScript (2 years) then TypeScript (4 years). Overall, I really like TypeScript. But I do absolutely miss being able to cmd + click into a function/class from an open source package and see the actual implementation and not just a type definition. This is probably the biggest day-to-day frustration I have with TS compared to JS and Python.