Suggestion for the next blog entry: How my blog post going viral on Hacker News pushed me to finally use a CDN
How I generated static html for my static site and it got served and cached.
I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
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Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#62When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.
It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…
It will never come for us. You think it will, but that’s because you don’t understand software.
Pick any random Jira ticket for a large software project. Could an AI understand and implement that feature into a larger project? Can it correctly deploy it without interruptions to production jobs? Will it correctly implement tests and decent code coverage? If there are regressions will it know how to go in and fix them? If there are bugs reported by users will it be able to investigate and accurately fix them? What about when multiple branches of feature development have to be merged, will it know how to do it correctly? Will it know how to write high performance software or just use shitty random algorithms?
If it can’t do these things AI is basically useless. Because this is basically 90% of software development.
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#63Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220808212448/https://deephaven...
Unfortunately the images are cached at a very low resolution
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know. I wasn't actually expecting to hit front-page. Trying to reinforce it best I can.
Fwiw, in my experience you don't actually need a CDN just to survive HN. It may be enough to just make sure you're not hitting a DB on every request; ideally you'd be caching the HTML output wholesale (via static site generator or otherwise) For reference: with cached HTML, my single Node.js process running on Heroku's cheapest tier has weathered the front page multiple times without breaking a sweat
Right. So a CDN?
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#65Am I one of the few people who finds these generated pictures really bad? They often have weird and unsettling details when you look closely. I mean, it’s an incredible achievement in AI that we can generate images at this level, but I don’t want them shown to me on a daily basis while I’m reading blogs.
I agree. They're pretty in the same way as fractals are pretty, but still boring and bland.
I would not have any of the ones that I've seen this far on my wall, or as my blog icons.
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fwiw, in my experience you don't actually need a CDN just to survive HN. It may be enough to just make sure you're not hitting a DB on every request; ideally you'd be caching the HTML output wholesale (via static site generator or otherwise) For reference: with cached HTML, my single Node.js process running on Heroku's cheapest tier has weathered the front page multiple times without breaking a sweat
I switched backends a bunch of times because everything I tried (Go stdlib HTTP, Tornado, etc.) kept getting taken out whenever I would hit the front page, either due to CPU overload or some sort of resource leak. I ended up using Warp+Wai+Servant ( https://github.com/yesodweb/wai ) and it has been smooth sailing since then off my $3/mo VPS. It can take thousands of req/sec without flinching (which is higher than wha…
What VPS are you using and can you recommend it?
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#67You should've invested in CloudFront first because your site isn't loading.
Would nginx (caching everything) work on a $5/month VPS?
Should work fine. I personally avoided using a reverse proxy like nginx or apache because they tend to have a ton of vulnerabilities (check out the CVE database results for "nginx"), making them a security management headache.
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#68An important lesson: >99% of your blog readers will visit during If your goal is to allow people to read the stuff you write, you must be capable of serving your content to >1000 people per second. Use a good backend (I recommend Servant+Warp or Snap - the only two I've tried that could handle it, out of probably 15 popular options tested) or a good caching reverse proxy (insofar as such a thing can be said to exist)…
Static html, from a cloud bucket.
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#69When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.
It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…
"Physical" engineering fields will probably come first... think AI-generated architecture, with AI-generated structural engineering, plumbing, electrical wiring, etc... with human-guidance of the generative process, and human-review/accountability of final output. Amplification of humans, not obsolescence.
In software, yeah boiler-plate and function-level code-generation... I could also see generating trivial UIs for CRUD apps, or no-code data-pipelines for small businesses... maybe even generating high-level architectures for new services... but we're far off from AI auto-generating code for enterprise applications or foundational services. The differentiation being making changes within an existing complex domain/code-base, in contrast with generating new assets from nothing.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know. I wasn't actually expecting to hit front-page. Trying to reinforce it best I can.
Fwiw, in my experience you don't actually need a CDN just to survive HN. It may be enough to just make sure you're not hitting a DB on every request; ideally you'd be caching the HTML output wholesale (via static site generator or otherwise) For reference: with cached HTML, my single Node.js process running on Heroku's cheapest tier has weathered the front page multiple times without breaking a sweat
At that point, why not just have a static blog hosted on an AWS bucket?