Head of Engineering @ Stay22 | Montreal, Canada, Hybrid, Full-time | stay22.com
You'll be working with me (CTO) and leading a team of a dozen engineers to transform the way <scripts>, <a href> and <iframes> are done in the travel industry. We use a lot of AI (specifically traditional ML and LLMs) to predict, extract, and even do critical thinking for decision making when generating travel offers.
I tried using langchain.js after a bit of hype and overwhelming dev support and incremental releases, but it became added complexity for no reason for our case.
OpenAI's NPM is much easier to use. A lot of what langchain promised out of the box didn't work like caching. Anyways it's still beta i believe
that tool should be a standalone service, something our team would pay dearly for. It goes through all slack public channel's history, creates embeddings and also goes into github, confluence, etc. And then people can just talk to the bot to get their questions answered if it can answer as good as chatgpt4
We are starting a series cheekily called "Replace a SaaS" with this one as the first one.
There is a trade-off between build and buy and we aim to reduce the chiasm so you don't end up with a billion generic SaaS subscriptions and with a bit of code build truly tailored solutions.
I'm building https://seeker.so. It's mainly to index and search through your data, but you can get chatgpt to answer your question based on your data as well.
we work in the affiliate business and this has the potential to completely desotry the business model. Many of our partners rely on affiliate money to make ends meet, it is what powers most content creators.
Safari is planning to use ML to detect click_id type of query parameters and strip that from URLs. That's just poor execution and business destroying. PCM restrictions are horrible too.. we have to design the link so it stays within safari's specs:
> With an ad-click, an 8-bit ID can be transmitted (a number between 0 and 255, i.e. 256 possible values / campaigns) - per domain
> For a conversion, a 4-bit ID is transmitted (a number between 00 and 15, i.e. 16 different types of conversion) - per domain
Not to mention Chrome and Firefox has other ideas, each different on how their PCM will be integrated. Other than the mega corps, noone is benefitting from this privacy enhancement. Just more work to adapt.
> Other than the mega corps, noone is benefitting from this privacy enhancement. Just more work to adapt.
One time I was talking to a real estate agent, shortly after some of the post-'08-meltdown regulations had gone into effect. She said something like:
"It makes it so appraisers can't fudge the numbers a little higher to make sure people get their loans, now. Which I know wasn't what they intended, but it's what they've done, and it's hurting people."
She thought one of the things the regulation was definitely supposed to do, entirely on purpose, was some accident, and that this thing happening before that was not OK and was, over many iterations, partially responsible for the housing bubble happening in the first place, was in fact fine. She was totally unable to grasp that this behavior was bad and that the regulation was supposed to stop it, and that that was definitely a good thing—but it was making it harder for her and her banker(!) husband to close deals and sell loans, that is, to make money, so surely it can't actually be a good idea and overall beneficial to lots and lots of people.
Can't the tracking information just be stuck in the actual URL itself? Even in the domain name? So instead of amazon.de/product?affilate=hamhamed it would be something like hamhamed.amazon.de/product?
And if that won't work, just encode the entire url as amazon.de/2ec1a277-0c96-40d3-8fe1-e418fd82986d
Since Apple has access to everyone's emails, they could see that the same email has a unique link in every email and show the user some kind of warning like "This link has a unique tracking ID, do you want to proceed?"
Puts the information and power back in the users hands.
Yeah, I make money from affiliate links. That's how I can work full time making completely free content. Many of my partners use Google Analytics and already struggle to track leads. This won't help.
My personal recomendation for HN users to get into Ghibli is to start with The Wind Rises. It's more recent (2014), and loosely based on a true story/biography. No crazy monsters or spirits. It also emcompasses creativty, engineering and hard work as the main characeter design a fighter plane. Truly a masterpiece that resonated with me
Of course the other ones mentioned in this topic are good too.
As a counterpoint, I thought that was maybe my least favorite movie directed by Miyazaki!
Even a bad Miyazaki movie is pretty good, but for me it didn't have what makes his other movies special. I'd recommend it only if a person absolutely can't, say, tolerate elements of the fantastical in their entertainment. The lead character is an engineer who makes planes, but the movie (understandably) doesn't really go into that part.
Mononoke is probably tied with Wind Rises for "most serious Miyazaki movie." which might make it a perfect starting point for some in the HN crowd.
Spirited Away is probably the closest to a universal crowd-pleaser?
