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jt_b

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About jt_b

GIS, fullstack, AI/ML stuff in Austin, Texas

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    Comment #44522542

    https://camelai.com/hackernews/ ? Worked for me.

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    Comment #44503148

    Astro is nice, but its a different model than Nuxt, more suited to static sites.

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    Comment #44500635

    Feels like Cloudflare would have been a much better alignment, given they had some great integrations already. Hope they are able to maintain some level of autonomy.

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    Comment #44481019

    Fortunately there are a lot of great alternatives to the ESRI lock-in, and FOSS has a long and rich tradition in Geo.

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    Comment #44367475

    oh-my-zsh default prompt mode for git branches is for me! super clean. need to familiarize myself with some more of their shorthand commands.

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    Comment #44343196

    I think they probably like having an GDP 25x larger than North Korea's. Gets a lot harder to export your products around the world when you're squared off against the US.

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    Comment #44252611

    Not sure about petabytes, but pretty sure Brandon Liu of Protomaps is hosting all the daily protomaps extracts via R2. Not sure what the egress usage is.

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    Comment #44153961

    document.querySelector(".my-auto").setAttribute("style", "text-align: left;"); I'm actually having fun reading it after applying that.

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    Comment #44107034

    [flagged]

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    Comment #44103467

    HN's aesthetic has grown on me honestly!

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    Comment #44103453

    They're the ones you can't comment on.

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    Comment #44035124

    I've seen (but not used) this tool recently, which seems like it does a similar thing. Curious if it is any better experience. https://github.com/bahdotsh/wrkflw

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    Comment #43920740

    I haven't/wouldn't use it because I have a decent K8S ollama/open-webui setup, but docker announced this a month ago: https://www.docker.com/blog/introducing-docker-model-runner

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    Comment #43826827

    I'm not sure if they are "apps" per se, but both are these are running python code via pyodide in the browser: https://marimo.app/ https://pydantic.run/

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    Comment #43649936

    don't see any looping expression functionality in the PEP

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    Comment #43623859

    Perfect use case for https://github.com/urchade/GLiNER

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    Comment #43542006

    Prefect is amazing. Built out an ETL pipeline system with it at last job and would love to get it incorporated in the current one, but unfortunately have a lot of legacy stuff in A…

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    Comment #43520955

    they are great little devices. Has its own tailscale app too and can be used as an exit node! useful for me as the TV is pretty close to the fiber box on the wall.

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    Comment #43448078

    Love Go (and async python, for different reasons) but miss me with the gRPC unless you are building hardened internal large enterprise systems. We adopted it at a late stage startu…

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    Comment #43399728

    Can you talk more about what an implementation of such a semantic layer would look like?

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    Comment #43340310

    Thank you for this.

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    Comment #43311016

    You want a shape that can represent an approximately equal area, anywhere on a 3 dimensional surface.

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    Comment #43300715

    Polars seems cool, but not willing to invest in adoption until Geo support is more mature. I find I'm preferring to run most operations I'd use dataframe libraries for in local SQL…

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    Comment #43167950

    > The problem with Parquet is it’s static. Not good for use cases that involve continuous writes and updates. Although I have had good results with DuckDB and Parquet files in obje…

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    Comment #43167923

    I thought about this some more and did some research - and found an indexing approach using HNSW, serialized to parquet, and queried from the browser here: https://github.com/jason…