itsdesmond (u/itsdesmond)

itsdesmond commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes

ivape · 6 days ago

Dude.

It’s $10. You’ve got to be joking.

itsdesmond · 6 days ago

No, I’m not. They asked for feedback and specifically called out their pricing strategy. It’s a critical part of launching a product, it merits thought. You just don’t know enough to recognize its importance.

itsdesmond commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes

itsdesmond · 7 days ago

Presale pricing is weird, or at least unclear. I am totally fine with pricing strategies where you buy a perpetual license for the current major version only but this seems like less than that. It appears that for $10 we can have something available for free that may be updated some unknown amount, but probably without any significant new behavior, and then we’ll get a discount that could very well be less than the $10 we put in.

You could improve the situation by presenting some kind of roadmap and indicating the limit of presale or stating clearly the amount, or a minimum amount, of discount on V1 offered to presale purchasers.

I haven’t yet tried the thing but it looks interesting. It also looks reminiscent of quickly implemented Whisper or GPT-3 front ends released a couple years ago. I’d like to better understand the value you’re providing over Apple Intelligence provided APIs.

itsdesmond commented on OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5 seangoedecke.com/gpt-oss-... · Posted by u/emschwartz

jofzar · 16 days ago

Sorry just to ask, what kind of job do you have? Sex therapist sounds like the closest?

itsdesmond · 16 days ago

I don’t think they’re using it for work.

itsdesmond commented on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives blog.cloudflare.com/perpl... · Posted by u/rrampage

cma · 19 days ago

These are more like a store putting up a billboard or catalog and asking people to turn off their meta AI glasses nearby because the store doesn't want AI translating it on your behalf as a tourist.

itsdesmond · 19 days ago

It is not because the store does not expend any resources on the singular instance of the glasses capturing the content of the billboard. Web requests cost money.

itsdesmond commented on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives blog.cloudflare.com/perpl... · Posted by u/rrampage

dang · 19 days ago

Whoa, please don't post like this. We end up banning accounts that do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

itsdesmond · 19 days ago

Aw, alright. I thought it was a funny way to make the point and I figured the yo momma structure was traditional enough to not be taken as a proper insult. Heard tho.

itsdesmond commented on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives blog.cloudflare.com/perpl... · Posted by u/rrampage

fxtentacle · 20 days ago

I find this problem quite difficult to solve:

1. If I as a human request a website, then I should be shown the content. Everyone agrees.

2. If I as the human request the software on my computer to modify the content before displaying it, for example by installing an ad-blocker into my user agent, then that's my choice and the website should not be notified about it. Most users agree, some websites try to nag you into modifying the software you run locally.

3. If I now go one step further and use an LLM to summarize content because the authentic presentation is so riddled with ads, JavaScript, and pop-ups, that the content becomes borderline unusable, then why would the LLM accessing the website on my behalf be in a different legal category as my Firefox web browser accessing the website on my behalf?

itsdesmond · 20 days ago

Some stores do not welcome Instacart or Postmates shoppers. You can shop there. You can shop with your phone out, scanning every item to price match, something that some bookstores frown on, for example. Third party services cannot send employees to index their inventory, nor can they be dispatched to pick up an item you order online.

Their reasons vary. Some don’t want their businesses perception of quality to be taken out of their control (delivering cold food, marking up items, poor substitutions). Some would prefer their staff service and build relationships with customers directly, instead of disinterested and frequently quite demanding runners. Some just straight up disagree with the practice of third party delivery.

I think that it’s pretty unambiguously reasonable to choose to not allow an unrelated business to operate inside of your physical storefront. I also think that maps onto digital services.

itsdesmond commented on Show HN: Compass CNC – Open-source handheld CNC router compassrouter.com... · Posted by u/camchaney

itsdesmond · a month ago

Yoooooo. I am very seriously considering buying that kit. Do you intend to provide an upgrade path between revisions?

itsdesmond commented on Show HN: Compass CNC – Open-source handheld CNC router compassrouter.com... · Posted by u/camchaney

recipe19 · a month ago

It's probably worth noting that a commercial version of this exists (Shaper Origin). It's a bit pricey but is remarkably nice for a variety of tasks that can't be handled by a stationary mill. And because it's hands-on, it's also easier to catch mistakes as you go.

On the flip side, it's just much, much slower than a stationary setup. You can't really push it quickly while retaining enough control to stay in the narrow range it can compensate for. Further, because it's less rigid, high feed rates produce nasty finish.

itsdesmond · a month ago

A big difference between this and that is that this appears to determine relative positioning through multiple mouse-style optical sensors, rather than visually checking relative to patterned tape.