Avi Deitcher

@nicbstme It’s an interesting analysis. Thank you for taking the time to write it up. What keeps you from becoming just an intermediary on top of the LLM services you are using?

@jasonbosco Solid. If you help the market grow really big, and capture only a moderate section of it, that’s ok for you too, as long as the gross is big enough. I guess it’s a kind of freedom?

I have seen a few folks offer hosted Typesense offerings. But that's the nice thing about not being VC-backed. We don't have to squeeze out and "capture every last bit of value", as VC's would describe it. We can share our work freely, leave money on the table, so to speak, and still have plenty left for us and everyone else.

We just reached a major revenue milestone at @typesense (open source, blazing fast, search engine dev tool) - We’ve now crossed in revenue, what we would have raised for a Series A, had we gone down the VC-backed path. So we've "raised" the same capital that VCs insisted...

@jasonbosco So much cleaner than open core style (which is fine, too). Most VC backed companies eventually switch into some variant because of those pressures. You’re free not to worry about it. Are you concerned about copycats? With the product OSS, anyone can set up competitive offerings?

If you want us to host Typesense for you on Typesense Cloud (and want a nice UI and admin/collaboration features), we charge for it. That's our main revenue source. If you want to self-host Typesense, it's completely free of cost. But it's the same binary we publish open source that we run in Typesense Cloud as well. So the dev-facing APIs are exactly identical.

@jasonbosco Congratulations! That’s really impressive. I’m curious what the business model is (in general, I find business models fascinating, OSS especially so). Open core? SaaS only? Support? Something else?

And all this while having a peaceful & low-stress day-to-day. I get to wake up each day, be grateful for everything, and have the optionality of time to do my life's work at whatever pace I so desire, with an infinite runway ahead of me. Indescribable feeling 😌 🙏

@0321K9 Oh yeah. I love Harvey’s (but I make Montreal smoked meat), but brisket bar is fantastic and better priced IIRC. Look for it on Rte 4 next to a gas station, just south of Hadera

I think I’m in love… This might’ve been the best bbq I’ve had since I started keeping Kosher. Just not enough meat for the price they’re charging.

Highly recommend David Denby’s “Great Books”.

@bariweiss listening to interview with Shilo Brooks. You said that at Columbia, you didn’t look at book as a whole, rather analyzed passages. Must be diff eras. I went in the 90s, both courses and student culture very much did books as whole.

@rhatr This is fascinating. Got a link to their proposal and/or slides?

The Rosetta Stone work by Tamago team is nothing short of astonishing Honestly, the Go ecosystem is getting a huge boost by that:

היית חושב שלפחות ספרי קודש עדיין מודפסים בארץ. גם אני. אז טעיתי. מימין חומש לשבת הוצאת @korenpublishers מלפני כ10 שנים, משאל מלפני כשנתיים. איפה כל אחד נדפס מסומן באדום.

@ericcurtin17 @Kiview @rhatr @uglock @bsideup @Docker Yeah @Kiview explained it. The talk through docker desktop is just a pass through, which ends up at the OSS model-distribution you referenced.

@avideitcher @Kiview @rhatr @uglock @bsideup @Docker And model-cli is the starting point from the user perspective...

I was so excited to discover github.com/docker/model-r… only to be completely disappointed by the fact that it is a thin wrapper over the closed-sourced Docker Desktop. This is NOT how @Docker I used to know would do important part of engineering and community leadership - sad :(

@Kiview @rhatr @uglock @bsideup @ericcurtin17 @Docker I did the digging work together with Roman. We were trying to understand how it talked to HF. Walked through the repos, discovered it just talked to desktop socket, so couldn’t see how it downloads from HF.

@avideitcher @rhatr @uglock @bsideup @ericcurtin17 @Docker lol same regarding some of the responses, but just ask me here if you have any questions on DMR.

@rhatr @Kiview @uglock @bsideup @ericcurtin17 @Docker I cannot see the response to @rhatr , only half the conversation. Which is interesting and frustrating (like reading the OSS code? 😂). What did you learn? Where can I get more insight on that?

@Kiview @uglock @bsideup @ericcurtin17 @Docker in fact there's a Xet hacker (who works for HG who would also appreciate some insight from your side)

I think the single most common answer I get from @ChatGPTapp is this image. To the point where I hit “Enter” on every query and then hover my mouse near the bottom where “Retry” applies. Am I the only one?

@LynAldenContact Thank you! I’ve been trying to find my copy to read that chapter for days. I realize I must have lent it out, as I take it up to pretty much everyone.

I uploaded Chapter 13 of Broken Money, called "Heavy is the Head That Wears the Crown," to my website for free reading. It focuses on the US trade deficit and where a lot of it arises from, structurally: lynalden.com/wp-content/upl…

@fyrewede @esrtweet @Drakonarius911 Ah I got confused. Audiobooks aren’t for me though. I love the read, the book in my hand.

It's my husband who has read it several times. 😊 He added that Patrick Tull's audiobook rendering of (most of) these books is excellent. Apparently Mr. Tull passed before he got to the last book. That 21st book seems to be a real widowmaker.😬

I had a disturbing experience with a new book this morning. It's the 17th in a series of historical naval adventures I have previously enjoyed. But the writing seemed...off. Cliched. Overwrought. Padded. It read like a sort of overstuffed mystery-meat version of every period naval adventure ever. I'm afraid I know why, because I've seen a lot of that kind of overstuffing recently, from LLMs answering questions. I think this is what happens when a series author resorts to an LLM to crank up his volume. I fear we're going to see a lot more of this.

@esrtweet @fyrewede @Drakonarius911 You’ve read the Aubrey/Maturin series multiple times? It’s fantastic. I’ve read it through 5-6 times, even have the “sea of words” lexicon. And am building a model of the USS Constitution (which appears in the series, but it is more my love of Old Ironsides).

@fyrewede @Drakonarius911 "Jane Austen for dudes" is both accurate and hilarious!

@matteocollina @mitchellh I’d like to see that config, too. I’ve been using ghostty for about a week, really like it, super fast and almost zero config. The only issue I have is tmux over mosh, same as you. VM for heavy or long running jobs that I always can reconnect to.

Ok, I’m sold on ghostty. @mitchellh created something fast. nvim is incredibly speedy. What I miss are a few lines of config to switch between splits easily. I had a few for tmux and I really miss them. Does anyone has some clues?

@mitchellh @WhitfordAnthony Is it possible mouse integration is broken? It always was strange with iterm+mosh+tmux, mouse select doesn’t work, you need to option-select. In ghostty, select still doesn’t work, but option-select doesn’t work either. Maybe settings?

@mitchellh @WhitfordAnthony Oh I def am going to try it ASAP. Now if only someone could make a mosh+tmux equivalent that doesn’t have messed up scrolling and tabs and mouse integration.

What’s wrong with using Terminal?

@_ChrisCovington @mitchellh @WhitfordAnthony Ok so that’s interesting. I’ll need to try that. I’m a mix of old school and new school, sometimes doing things in UI apps, but often just using vi or emacs or other such in term. I’m quite curious what rich TUI apps you’re building, and why that path vs native?

There’s a bigger difference if you use the term for TUI apps. Even nvim responds much faster. Though I did notice the difference even from a prompt, it’s much more subtle there. The biggest difference will come with people like me building rich 24bit tui clients that will simply not work in iterm.

@mitchellh @WhitfordAnthony My wife has a Mac, not a terminal user. Whenever I need to help her with something that needs a shell, terminal pops up and I go, “what is wrong with this??”

@avideitcher @WhitfordAnthony The only enemy is the builtin macOS terminal. It’s the IE5 of the terminal world. It’s more like if IE3 existed and was still actively used and defended TODAY. Better analogy.