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Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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> Two-pizza team of on-callers Eh.... what?

It's a Bezos-ism: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/24/the-two-p...

Thank you ^... to parent comment... Apologies. I will likely change that. Probably too tongue-in-cheek.

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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We keep working on web scraping API with custom-made mobile proxy pool: https://scrapingfish.com/ There is no AI in it so far but we consider adding support for parsing the result to extract data using LLM.

Suggest you let users sign up and make a few free requests. I would try this, but I'm not prepared to hand over my credit card number for no reason.

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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I know it's crass, but why? Aren't terminals good enough

It seems like they're trying to solve a problem that they've observed. I know I'd like to read more on the "recognizes user intent and supports it with rich interactions" comment. Time for a manifesto?

Perhaps I should. Don’t have a newsletter currently but RSS should work, or bookmarking the site and checking in every now and again :)

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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"Boring enterprise software". A manufacturing focused ERP system using SvelteKit and SQL Server. These systems are typically made with Java and it's becoming clear to me that it's massive overkill when SQL Server is (or can be) doing most of the work and the application is (or can be) a thin layer between the user and the database. Using only one language, with perfectly matched types and validation schemas for both…

> when SQL Server is (or can be) doing most of the work

Can you say more about this? Do you mean using stored procedures heavily or something else?

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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https://www.osomatsu.net/ — a little recipe writing and sharing website that me and my wife (and some close relatives) have been using over the last few years. Have got plenty of ideas to implement on it, but it works well for us as is at the moment. People can request to join for free if it could be useful for them too.

I _love_ the design!

A couple things I love from the recipe app I use (cookbook), which you could steal:

- Clicking on a step or an ingredient strikes it through - on larger screens (eg tablet), it’s a horizontal split screen between ingredients and steps - automated conversion between imperial/metric. - Could go even further with unit conversion for common ingredients (what the hell does a _cup_ of butter mean, it’s not a freakin liquid why would you use a volume unit, give me goddamn weight) and tips (volume of salt is very different depending on what salt you use)

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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How would a privacy first SaaS with a localhost option work from both business and technical perspectives?

Access to fine-grained, well-classified financial data costs money. The localhost option provides a way for you to integrate with providers of said data, e.g., using their "developer" api keys. As long as they support free personal use and you stay in their limits, the localhost option incurs no cost to you, and we have no reason (and no way!) to charge anything if you `git pull` and set up these integrations using o…

Well answered how it's possible. :)

If there is a link to sign up for a mailing list I'd be happy to be notified

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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Is it correct to say you need a multiple of 50x the value of SPY to execute this strategy (if the minimum you can hedge with is 1x MES)?

To implement the strategy in the most tax efficient manner without leverage you would want to have an account worth 5 * (S&P 500 futures price). Today that would be about $26,375. MES uses a multiple of 5 while ES uses a multiple of 10. However, with today's $0 commissions, if you aren't overly concerned about taxes, you can try out this strategy with as little as $500 and simply buy and sell one share of the ETF VOO…

Very cool, thank you. Isn’t the notional value of ES 50x the future contract price (or 10x MES)?

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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I’ve been working on a synthetic DNA assembly company. Basically, I figured out how to assemble DNA for people at a fraction of what it normally costs, so they give me a sequence, and then I make it in real life for them, then ship it to them. Most of my customers have been AI protein designers, ironically. Turns out SOMEBODY has to wrangle atoms in the real biological world and that’s me! After almost a year of work…

Now this is interesting. I've read about using synthetic DNA for data storage, but other uses surely abound.

I don't suppose you'll need documentation help at some point in the near future...?

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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A simple, self-hosted RSVP system for parties, now that FB is no longer a unifying platform for my social circle. And a "mood meter" mapping app that puts anonymous reports of how folks are feeling on a world map. I don't quite have the skills (yet) to do this latter project, so we'll see how much time I have to dedicate to it.

Got a link?

Not yet. :) All I have so far is a minimal Flask app that worked well enough for the last party. Working on building something new in Go for the next iteration

Re: Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

#290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To implement the strategy in the most tax efficient manner without leverage you would want to have an account worth 5 * (S&P 500 futures price). Today that would be about $26,375. MES uses a multiple of 5 while ES uses a multiple of 10. However, with today's $0 commissions, if you aren't overly concerned about taxes, you can try out this strategy with as little as $500 and simply buy and sell one share of the ETF VOO…

Very cool, thank you. Isn’t the notional value of ES 50x the future contract price (or 10x MES)?

exactly ES is 50x S&P 500 futures price or 10x MES, current value per contract is about $263,800
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