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Counterpoint: asking GPT can provide useful calibration not to facts but to median mental models

Think of it as a dynamic opinion poll -- the probabilistic take on this thing is such and such.

As a bonus you can prime the respondent's persona.

// After posting, I see another comment at bottom opening with "Counterpoint:"... Different point though.


HODLer stopped HODLing a bit is all, why is this curious in any way?

If one thinks of this thing in orders of magnitude, seeing support at 100,000 with 1,000,000 still a ways off is a fine checkpoint.

Thinking back, 10 and 100 weren't interesting, 10k could have been but for reasons felt unripe. By contrast, 100k feels on "this side" of a lot of things aligned, fewer things left unaligned, so, meh.

And now, more topically, the BTC vs. alt coin behavior on China tariff Friday suggested a new kind of institutional support that could give a long term HODLer comfort for selling into it once that dust settled.


On MacOS or iPadOS keyboard, option - and option shift - give n and m dashes respectively.

No, but their actions do suggest they think they're nearing a disruption to both browser and web page: a new way to acquire and make use of information.

Like an information OS for the information cloud.


I suspect that this will always be just one more year away like Tesla's robotaxis

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On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

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


Thanks for the extract. I feel quite comfortable that my post is on-topic and gratifying. I understand others may disagree (and do in nearly every post on HN)

I haven't checked recently, but previously a Lightsail account was a full AWS account. Tie route 53, app or API gateway, and some instances.

That said, for your use case, you might want the predictability and guarantee of having no "noisy neighbors" on an instance. While most VM providers don't offer that (you have to go to fully dedicated machine), AWS does, so keep that in mind as well.

For BYOL (bring your own hosting labor), Vultr is a lesser known but great choice.


just, and, and, and ...

IF you need it, soon you wish the lego blocks pulled IAM all the way through and worked with a common API


Exactly.

I hadn't seen your comment when I wrote this, below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45616366

I love your farm-to-table grid: works for everyone not just HN commenters. And putting DOORDASH on the right is truer from cost perspective than the metaphor I'd used.

For HN, I'd compared to a pricing grid (DIY, Get Started, Pro, Team, Enterprise) with the bottom line that if YAGNI, don't choose it.

Your grid emphasizes my other point, it's about your own labor.


> This setup is probably also easier to reason about and easier to make secure than the messy garbage pushed by Amazon and other cloud providers.

Ability to do anything doesn't mean do everything.

It's straightforward to be simple on AWS, but if you have trouble denying yourself, consider Lightsail to start: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/


There are many other costs besides that AWS bill. Naming two it's hard to put a number on, but get discussed at board room or senior exec level:

- client confidence

- labor pool


And to add to that second one, ability to bring in a third party contractor to reduce headcount when needed.

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