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Show HN: Demo.fun – a browser extension for creating interactive product demos
Hi HN, my name is John Wheeler, I’m a soloprenuer and this is my product launch.

This is my second “startup” or “app” or whatever you want to call it. The first one was an eBay feedback reminder I made 10 years ago. I created that because I initially wanted it to make enough money to pay a utility bill, and it ended up being my main source of income.

The rub was that I had eBay doing all the promotion for the app because of a special circumstance: they had an app store initiative, and it wasn’t as popular as they hoped with developers, so they closed it down and left only 50 apps there; mine being one of them.

So, I got a ton of leads I didn’t have to work for, which was a blessing and a curse because I never had to teach myself any real marketing. But I’ve always wanted to - I just could never sink my teeth into that eBay app I wrote. That’s because I originally wrote it for my brother who was an eBay seller, and though I tried to get into it myself, I never could. Selling on eBay sucks.

But I can get into creating product demo software. For the last 9 months, I’ve been heads down in my room just pushing and pushing through. I’m so proud of myself for doing that, no matter what the outcome is. I learned so much about HTML video, Framer motion, Floating UI, and React.

My aspirations are that I want 200 people to pay me $23 a month each to help them create a demo of their SaaS, host it on their site, refine it over time, and track its engagement and conversions with Mixpanel. This is the second SaaS I’ve created. The first one was an eBay feedback reminder that I wrote 10 years ago.

I’m responsible for all of the software engineering and now marketing. I’m a solopreneur, but I’m interested in talking to other people who can help!

I created it so SaaS businesses can explain how their products work in that precious, small window of time their customers initially engage on their sites. You have about 3 to 5 seconds during that window, and if customers are able to play with an interactive, click-through demo, chances are they’ll click through to the end and leave with a better understanding of what it is you do.

I started taking a Ben Marriot Motion Foundation course https://www.benmarriott.com/ and I created this product video, which I’m using for my Product Hunt launch next week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJuiTbTjlAo

I hope you’ll check it out and help me spread the word about https://demo.fun Thank you HN! Please let me know if you have any questions!
Similar to the increase in prescriptions of accutane for acne in teens. Coincidence?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11907498/
I like your comment.

When we feel bad in our jobs, we tend to put blame on coworkers, managers, or the organization's structure. But often the situation is not as bad as we think, we just feel bad and want to find a cause.

As long as we feel good on the other hand, we tend to think, where's the catch?

So indeed as long as she likes the job, she just should keep doing it and get personal growth out of it.

I would be interested in reading mentioned personal blog.
The Effects of Opening Move Selection on Investigation Speed
Considering that 43% of the words (in my dictionary at least) include "s" it's not so strange:

$ cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
235976
$ cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep s | wc -l
101882
Someone else suggested Climate Crisis which is actually alliterative and also sounds bad rather than neutral like “change.”
Oh no… I hope we will be able to disable it… Or use DNS blockers to block whatever servers it’s accessing.
> If Apple's position is - "then don't buy it", they can come out and say it. They certainly have that right.

They have done that since day one, when AirTags shipped with anti-tracking features enabled...
I fully don't agree.

> I am pretty sure that GPT-3.5 should be thought of as GPT-4-lite, in the sense that it uses techniques and compute of the GPT-4 era rather than the GPT-3 era

Compute of the "GPT-3 era" vs the "GPT-3.5 era" is identical, this is not a distinguishing factor. The architecture is also roughly identical, both are dense transformers. The only significant difference between 3.5 and 3 is the size of the model and whether it uses RLHF.
It's not that complicated, generally more woman-like voices test as more pleasant to men and women alike. This concept has been backed up by stereotypes for centuries.

Most voice assistants have male options, and an increasing number (including ChatGPT) have gender neutral voices.

> why isn't the voice actually the voice of the pissed off high school janitor telling you to man-up and stop hyperventilating

sounds like a great way to create a product people will outright hate
I think it’s safe to say Siri and Alexa are officially dead. They look like dusty storefront mannequins next to Battlestar replicants at this point.
I think putting internet usage in the west and the developing world into the same bucket is… of questionable utility. I bet access to the wider world is in fact a benefit in many parts of the planet.

But why on earth is that comparison worth examining as evidence that the internet is good for wellbeing in the west?
80-90% of climate scientists at bare minimum would vehemently disagree.

The existential threat is very, very real. The ignorance and even aggression towards people saying so is also awfully real.
> This blocks JavaScript that isn't explicitly licensed exactly the way they want, right?

The way you want. Nobody forces you to run this plugin. You can run this plugin, or not, or even change the plugin source code to better fit your needs (something that you cannot do with the javascript programs this add-on is designed to protect you from).
I think I would agree with you. In my opinion, that already exists and is decently mature. CuPy [0] for Python and CUDA.jl [1] for Julia are both excellent ways to interface with GPU that don't require you to get into the nitty gritty of CUDA. Both do their best to keep you at the Array-level abstraction until you actually need to start writing kernels yourself and even then, it's pretty simple. They took a complete GPU novice like me and let me to write pretty performant kernels without having to ever touch raw CUDA.

[0] https://cupy.dev/

[1] https://cuda.juliagpu.org/stable/
It appears only the top border of a space is clickable
Oh I should try elinks for that too! I'm using aerc, not mutt :-).
Yeah and they say as much in the blog.
> do lots of useful work for free

Have often wondered about this in terms of some of their control plane APIs, a read-only IAM key used as part of C&C infrastructure for a botnet might be interesting, you get DNS/ClientHello signature to a legitimate and reputable service for free, while stuffing "DDoS this blog" e.g. in some tags of a free resource. Even better if the AWS account belonged to someone else.

But certainly, ability to serve an unlimited URL space from an account with only positive hits being billed seems ripe for abuse. Would guess there's already some ticket for a "top 404ers" internal report or similar
for me, CodeGemma is super slow. I'd say 3-4 times slower than llama3.
I am also looking forward to CodeLlama3 but I have a feeling Meta can't improve on llama3 it. Was there anything official from Meta?
It’s about protein folding, not about some foldable home.
It seems very promising!

2 questions:

- do you distribute query processing over multiple pg nodes ?

- do you store the metadata in PG, instead of a traditional metastore?
Nice design and funny idea! Maybe add a no signup no email badge. I was a bit hesitant to type something in, because I feared the classical lead trap.
Only if they think only their own direct personal experiences impact their bottom line, and fail to see how rising tides lift all boats (including the value of their equities)
But you’re saying investing in multiplexing and compression was also dumb?
That's a bit weird since it says on the front page that:

> All generated hashes for a given version of GxHash are stable, meaning that for a given input the output hash will be the same across all supported platforms.

The github repo is more recent so maybe it wasn't stable at the time they tried to get it into smhasher from last year?
What’s the base idea in your mind? Shorting more than 100% of a share’s float seems to put hedge funds at extreme risk of a squeeze, no?
What is the point of pointing faults that will be fixed very soon? Just being negative or unable to see the future?
“persona”
“segment”
https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/data-cloud/data-cloud-...
Maybe that's not the right metrics to compare.

True, the model is bigger, but required less tokens than Llama 3 to train. The issue is when there's no open datasets, it's hard to really compare and replicate. Is it because of the model's architecture? Dataset quality? Model size? A mixture of those? Something else?
Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks vs Regular Deep Learning [video]
As I know physics, all these could cause low frequency interference, or even some relatively low voltage DC.

Most people will not see any significant effects (except Aurora), but electric distribution equipment safety fuses are very sensitive, so very possible for them to detect false alarms and turn off power lines.

Same problem with railways, as many still use 100years old low voltage signalling to control arrows/semaphores and other equipment - they could gather "air electricity" on long lines (wires and rails) and could happen malfunction.

All modern equipment, approximately after 1960s, use galvanic isolation and high frequency signalling, which is immune to low frequency interference.
Ok, but what will the net effects be? Technology can be extremely impressive on a technical level, but harmful in practical terms.

So far the biggest usecase for LLMs is mass propaganda and scams. The fact that we might also get AI girlfriends out of the tech understandly doesn't seem that appealing to a lot of folks.
Hyping things up with magical thinking isn’t great either.
That’s because Apple themselves limit access to authenticated (but supposedly anonymous - aka doesn’t matter whose) Apple IDs before allowing access to the geodatabase
Intel's Lakefield also comes to mind, pretty underrated chip imo. The first x86 big/small heterogenous chip, using Intel's Foveros to stack memory, CPU, and platform chip into one package. It made for a very simple design that just needed power. LPDDR4X-4266 doesn't crazy fast but in 2020 it was pretty swift. https://www.anandtech.com/show/15877/intel-hybrid-cpu-lakefi...

Alas the 1+4 Skylake+atom were all pretty meh chips & Intel hasn't tried again. Conceptually I really.liked it, and it was doing great against the Qualcomm 8cx competitor for the tablets/2-in-1s it was in, but people wanted more.
Every phone is already being being tracked and logged. What youre really saying is that people often tolerate some tracking if done by CIA/phone company/Apple/Google/FB. We're just playing with semantics here. Tracking is either acceptable or not. The only real solution is to go off-grid.
The wake word detection is an interesting problem here. As you can see in the repo, I have a lot of mis-heard versions of the wake word in place, in this case being "Raspberry". Since the system heats up fast you need a fan, and with the microphone directly on a USB port next to the fan, I needed something distinct, and computer wasn't cutting it for this.

Changing the transcription model to something a bit better or moving the mic away from the fan could help this happen.
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Spread?!

My wife is the first of seven. Yes, she was the one financially most able to help her parents, both from being here rather than there and because she has a strong work ethic, unlike her siblings. That doesn't mean the load should have fallen virtually 100% on her when the other 6 were in the same city, not on the other side of the world.
This is such a hot take, it should go in hot-takes.io LOL
> take an awful lot of time to get that data out, though.

That’s what glacier is for!
ChatGPT is now powered by Genuine People Personality™ and OpenAI is turning into the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (who according to the HHGTTG were "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came")

The jokes write themselves.
Only 5% is not so bad at all honestly. Apollo program was like 5%. Especially when you consider the population eligible for medicare and medicaid is already paying the highest medical costs (the point of the system in the first place after all).
I've done some security testing against this hash function. Does anyone want to follow up and see if they can extend the attacks I describe[1]?

[1]https://github.com/ogxd/gxhash/issues/25
Lumen: Magic auto brightness based on screen contents. (Mac OS)
Rather than maintained, C# and F# have gained given how the tooling and developer experience turned out in the modern versions.
Or perhaps the news media has been increasingly effective at convincing us the world is terrible. Perceptions have become measurably detached from reality:

https://www.ft.com/content/af78f86d-13d2-429d-ad55-a11947989...
I have do that now with every AI over explaining or providing loosely related info I did not ask for. I hope there is a verbosity level = minimum.

Even in the demo today, they kept cutting it off.
Been following Mikoto[https://github.com/mikotoIO/mikoto] which seems like a Discord replacement on steroids.
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Honestly I found it annoying that he HAD TO cut the AI off mid-sentence. These things just ramble on and on and on. If you could put emotion to it, it's as if they're uncomfortable with silence and just fill the space with nonsense.

Let's hope there's a future update where it can take video from both the front and rear cameras simultaneously so it can identify when I'm annoyed and stop talking (or excited, and share more).
You’re free to use the purchased device. You’re not free to demand changes. It’s not like you’re unlocking functionality that should be built in. Changing this would require patching the firmware of every iPhone
> You can be sure that exactly the wrong type of people ... get promoted / raises in a system like that.

In stark contrast to the system we have today.
> explicitly states that much of the effort for this release was focused on things that make it feel magical (response times, multiple domains, etc.), not on moving the needle on quantifiable practical performance.

Hmm, did you mean implicitly? I've yet to see where they say anything to the likes of not "moving the needle on quantifiable practical performance."
What the energy utopia "Eneropa" would look like in 2050
Not if it's another person's.

Edit: I think I misread that. When you see an AirTag popup, you can choose to ignore it for the day or forever. That's from my recollection. I haven't seen one in ages.
I’m specifically saying, in the US, we don’t do anything special with our trash. Mostly no recycling of anything but metal. We put it more or less securely in the ground and bury it. That’s all.

And that is fine. We would have to fix a whole RAFT of serious serious problems before landfills are anybody’s radar. We will never see it our lifetime and I hazard that we may never see the day.

Other countries have tighter land requirements and they might be more forward thinking, but the idea that plastic packaging is impacting the environment is just not supported by data.

As long as you’re not throwing it in the river, plastics waste just doesn’t matter much.
As for the Mandarin tones, the model might have mixed it up with the tones from a dialect like Cantonese. It’s interesting to discover how much difference a more specific prompt could make.
Unless you're aware of any additional correlations or of any causal studies, probably yes.
More people generally is better.

I do some fantasy world-building in the little free time I have. The setting is diesel-punk/atom-punk, so 1950s era. A little bit of disco-punk mixed in too. Essentially, modern post-war USA.

So, when I try to model a city, or a country in this era, you gotta go after the data. Because we actually have it for this setting.

Medieval data is just horrible in comparison. The high fantasy settings will get a little bit of data on city dynamics and some on 'nation' level data and the like. But most of the modeling is starting from pretty much guessing with wide errorbars.

But in the atom-punk setting I have, there is just mountains of data from all over the world. It makes modeling really easy and you can get really fine-grained about it (much to the detriment of story-telling, I get lost in those tables and charts, happily so).

One thing that really stands out in trying to model this data is that population is literally everything.

How grimy a city is, how tall the skyscrapers are, the walking speed of people in the city, the talking speed of bank tellers, the number of patents per capita, the monthly charge for sewer access, tonnage of warships, the length of subway track and it's heights, etc. Pretty much every metric will correlate best with the population of the area. It's not just cities, it's states and countries and smaller towns too. Really anything about the setting and world-building is best modeled by looking at the population first and then working from there.

To be clear here, not the population density. The only metric I could find in my notes that better correlated with population-density was the number of subway stops on a line. I'm sure there are other examples, too.

But, in the years that I've been doing this, the number one thing that seems to pop out to me is: Raw population is everything.

Now, I'm mostly interested in themes and settings and the like. But most of the data is coming from the motivation of trying to increase the quality of life of people. So I get to stare at that a lot and make graphs.

And I can say from my eyeballing of all this data over the last few years: More people = better.

Most of the metrics we use to quantify if things are 'good' or 'bad' will correlate with more people = better. It's not, by any means, a 1-1 thing. This is human population stuff, If you see a r2 value of, like, 0.6, that's pretty darn good. There is a lot of noise here and the stats that are taken have just huge issues with them.

I'm not going to be able to really prove this, I'm just mucking around with a setting and world-building. But from the years that I have been staring at my poorly organized notes and the various governmental and NGO data tables, the underlying message is that things get better with more people around.
In Germany I often come across MEAN Stack: Mongo, Express, Angular and Node.JS.
Also Java Spring, ASP.net and MySQL is still in use heavily here.
Agencies and E-Commerce mostly have PHP backends and React frontends including Next.JS.

Hard to tell what the future holds, but those technologies will be around for longer.
Adoption within the industry is much slower that you’d anticipate.

Personally I’d go with the GoX-Light-Stack (just made that up): Go + SQLite backend and HTMX frontend.
So much negativity.
Is it perfect? No. Is there room for improvement? Definitely.
I don't know how you can get so fucking jaded that a demo like this doesn't at least make you a little bit excited or happy or feel awestruck at what humans have been able to accomplish?
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The Raspberry Pi 400 is a distinct product. It doesn't use a Compute module internally.
Awesome work! You should put it behind a CDN like Cloudflare and see what's the cache hit ratio
I don't think I use any proprietary web services outside of either my web browser (90%) or command-line CURL (10%).
it should be possible to imitate any voice you want like your actual parents soon enough
The new voice capabilities haven't rolled out yet.
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Inferences have uses. I’ll always try to target marketing based on user segments that are deterministic and I’ve read how the data is collected. If I can’t find that, I’ll look for modeled/etc audiences that include inferred data points. It’s likely discord would have targeting/data for self-reported demographics at a smaller scale and higher price point. Then the inferred demographics at a larger scale and lower price point.
Or when the children care but can't be there to see what's going wrong.
$30 / million tokens to $5 / million tokens since GPT-4 original release = 6X improvement

4000 token context to 128k token context = 32X improvement

5.4 second voice mode latency to 320 milliseconds = 16X improvement.

I guess I got a bit excited by including cost but that's close enough to an order of magnitude for me. That's ignoring the fact that's it's now literally free in chatGPT.
All of that is awesome, and makes for a better product. But it’s also primarily an engineering effort. What matters here is an increase in intelligence. And we’re not seeing that aside from very minor capability increases.

We’ll see if they have another flagship model ready to launch. I seriously doubt it. I suspect that this was supposed to be called GPT-5, or at the very least GPT-4.5, but they can’t meet expectations so they can’t use those names.
Sure, maybe! Although I've generally found that the overall quality of ingredients tends to be better in the places I've traveled compared to the US. That's not to say I haven't picked up great figs at a bodega in the mission, or don't get good berries at the farmers markets near me in NYC. But if I walk into the produce aisle in most grocery stores in the US these days there is abundance, yet a lack of quality.

Personally, when it comes to fresh produce, I'd rather only be able to eat mostly what can be grown in season somewhat close to me (which would include greenhouses), rather than be able to get anything all year round and having it suck.
I'd argue that Apple is operating on the same scale, at least regarding physical presence.

Apple disallows disabling Bluetooth and WiFi easily because it allows them to track their air tags everywhere.
At least for AirTags before today, this functionality allegedly only triggers when the device is not near one of the owner’s iPhones/iPad/Macbooks.
So rather than your battery lasting 15 hours it only lasts 14ish. Probably a rounding error considering how much a poorly coded website can impact your battery life estimates even on apple silicon, and the fact your battery degrades over its life anyhow and never gets what it says on the tin (especially apples tin).
you should try -4o. It's incredibly fast
CodeGemma has fewer parameters than Llama3, so it absolutely should not be slower. That sounds like a configuration issue.

Meta originally released Llama2 and CodeLlama, and CodeLlama vastly improved on Llama2 for coding tasks. Llama3-8B is okay at coding, but I think CodeGemma-1.1-7b-it is significantly better than Llama3-8B-Instruct, and possibly a little better than Llama3-70B-Instruct, so there is plenty of room for Meta to improve Llama3 in that regard.

> Was there anything official from Meta?

https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3/

"The text-based models we are releasing today are the first in the Llama 3 collection of models."

Just a hint that they will be releasing more models in the same family, and CodeLlama3 seems like a given to me.
I am still baffled at how I can not use a VOIP number to register, even if it accepts TXT/SMS. If I have a snappy new startup and we go all in VOIP, I guess we can not use (or pay to use) OpenAI?
GPT-4o is also describing things that never happened.

The first users of Eliza felt the same about the conversation with it.

The important point is to know that GPTs don't know or understand.

It may feel like a normal conversation but is a Chinese Room on steroids.

People started to ask GPTs questions and take the answers as facts because the believe it's intelligent.
Pay attention to the signal, ignore the noise.
Weird vague-posting.

Are you aware of some mainstream liberalism that didn't kick off with guillotines or muskets? Then make it clear.