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Thank you! With respect to datadog the elephant in the room is cardinality and pricing. We charge $20/mo and based on usage of data storage and query execution time. DD is notorious for charging for metric cardinality, which can very easily blow up. Coinbase famously racked up a $50m bill from this!

With respect to the product, we believe there's a segment of the market that likes to know what they are measuring. Datadog and other "telemetry" tools often times install an agent and collect metrics automatically. While this is a great UX onboarding, it does make it harder to know what data you have and how to query it. Whereas with telemetry we believe having that "manual shift" mode where you log your own data and write your own queries is useful in many scenarios.

I'd love to chat more if you're up for it! Shoot me an email at hi@telemetry.sh if you're open to the idea.

Generally a big fan of Zed. Super fast and quite innovative in their grep UI. My biggest current gripe is Zed's filesystem watchers are either broken or misconfigured on Mac. If I do a `git rest --hard` via terminal or github desktop UI, zed doesn't detect it and I'm forced to do a hard reset of the app to get back to a synced state.

Touche! I guess we'll see if it's an issue in practice. My intuition is people won't change durations that frequently in practice. eg. OpenAI has a limit of 40 messages per 3 hours and hasn't changed that for months.

Thank you! I just pushed an update to the website to use the params parameter.

I'd love to make this more ergonomic for you. I'm used to using configuration propagation mechanisms where you can change configs without redeploying code (basically the webserver subscribes to some central pubsub config store). That paradigm works with this since you could parameterize the duration using the config value. What would work better for you?

Hey HN community! I've been working on something I think you'll find pretty neat: a Rate Limit API. It's a tool I built with the goal of tackling the challenges of API rate limiting, especially in distributed systems.

One of the core ideas behind this project was to make it dead simple to use, kind of like what Stripe did for payments. I wanted developers to be able to integrate rate limiting into their systems without the usual complexity. You'll find examples in JavaScript, Python, and Ruby to get you started in no time.

Let's talk about distributed counting – it's a tough nut to crack. In a distributed system, maintaining a consistent rate limit across multiple servers is tricky. There's a lot of coordination and data syncing involved, which can be a real headache. This API abstracts all that complexity away. It provides a centralized, consistent approach to rate limiting, so you don't have to worry about the underlying challenges.

On the pricing front, it's free for up to 1 million requests per month. We've got more flexible plans for higher volumes, all aiming to keep your costs reasonable.

I'd really appreciate your thoughts on this, especially around the ease of use and the distributed counting solution. If you've ever felt the strain of managing API traffic, especially in a distributed environment, I'm keen to hear how this might fit into your workflow.

Can't wait to hear what you guys think!

JR

Yep that's right! I did implement IP rate limiting, so eventually power users will either have to sign up or stop using the service. I figured this way was less friction for new users to see the value the product provides.

Hi HN,

Just wrapped up the first version of my newest project: LLM Templates. It's all about making your daily grind with Large Language Models (like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4) a bit easier.

So what's the deal with LLM Templates? It lets you create and use quick templates for those repetitive tasks you do with AI. eg.

Deciphering code: “What does this code do? {{ code }}”

Email makeovers: “Make this email sound cooler {{ email }}”

Quick info grabs: “Need the email of {{ person }}”

Right now, it only supports GPT 3.5 and GPT-4, but I'm planning to add more models soon.

I hope it could be a real time-saver for many of you. Give it a whirl and let me know what you think!

Cheers!

JR

Hi HN,

c2p is a lightweight utility binary that allows you to quickly pattern match files in your repo and turn them into a single prompt that you can copy into your clipboard and paste into LLM tools including ChatGPT. I built c2p because I found usage of ChatGPT becomes unwieldy once I want to use it for multiple file projects.

The way it works is under the hood c2p turns your list of patterns/globs/etc into a list of files. It then constructs a prompt that looks as follows:

File: {filepath}

{contents}

for every file that matches your inputted pattern.

As an example I ran

`c2p src/.rs migrations/*/.sql | pbcopy`

In a small rust webserver side repository, prefixed the prompt with some instructions directing ChatGPT to add a new feature, and bam ChatGPT took in the context of the entire repository and gave me the exact changes I needed to make to ship my feature: https://chat.openai.com/share/3c674621-e526-45b7-bce8-10c38e...

I thought this was super mind-blowing so I wanted to share it with HN to see if it would be useful to others.

Can you elaborate more? Is this in web analytics, funnels or cohort retention? Are you doing basic page views or custom events? Feel free to DM or email hi@beamanalytics.io and we can get this sorted out for you!

Does this mean my site won’t need a cookie alert banner?

Correct

what happens if my hobby site gets an unexpected surge in traffic?

Nope. You don't even need to put in CC to sign up. You'll only get billed if you explicitly upgrade. That being said if you are consistently over for many months, we may cut off data ingestion and dashboard access!

Yes absolutely! You can use custom events in both funnels and cohort analysis. You can read more about it here https://beamanalytics.io/blog/custom-events-on-beam

TL;DR

The way mmap handles memory makes it a bit tricky for the OS to report on a per-process level how that memory is being used. So it generally will just show it as "cache" use. That's why (AFAICT) there was some initial misunderstanding regarding the memory savings

Less than $2 for almost 10k users! https://twitter.com/TheBuilderJR/status/1635943930524217346

Right now it's "sponsored" by my main company https://www.beamanalytics.io/

In some sense it's a good deal since the small percentage of people who visit Beam and pay can currently over the costs.

Interesting. I can’t reproduce. Is it consistent across browsers? Can you try turning off Adblock?

Can you elaborate on what’s not working?

Should be back up... for now!

Looks like the site is melting a bit from being on the front page. Bear with me as I try to diagnose and fix the bottleneck!

Good call! That serves both purposes. Implementing right now :)

Thanks Sebastian! That's a good point. I've also thought about writing a classifier to detect sensitive information like API Keys or passwords. Let me see what I can add without regressing the UI too much!

Hi - co-founder of Beam here. Appreciate the discussion about our product in this context. We've tried to differentiate our product from the other GDPR compliant web analytics by also focusing on product analytics proxies which are easy to implement and interpret. We think our funnel analysis and cohort retention tools can be very helpful. To learn more about why we built Beam, check out this blog post - https://beamanalytics.io/blog/why-we-started-beam

They are in some sense since exec comp is heavily biased towards stock and their stock has been getting hammered recently.

A web scraper! Wrap your scrape results with an API and boom you'll have cash flow.

Staying motivated at work over the long term can be challenging, but here are some tips that might help:

1. Set clear and achievable goals for yourself and track your progress.

2. Find meaning and purpose in your work by connecting it to your personal values and interests.

3. Continuously learn and develop new skills to keep things fresh and interesting.

4. Cultivate positive relationships with colleagues, superiors, and customers.

5. Practice good self-care, such as exercise, sleep, and relaxation.

6. Recognize and celebrate your accomplishments, both big and small.

7. Seek feedback and engage in regular performance evaluations to get a sense of how you're doing and what areas you can improve.

Remember, motivation is a personal and dynamic experience, so it's important to experiment and find what works best for you.

Thank you for the feedback!

I'll agree to disagree. Thank you for the feedback!

Good catch. Thank you for the feedback!

Good catch. Thank you for the feedback!

Thank you for the feedback! Will fix!

Thank you for the feedback! Will fix!

Changed :) Thank you for the feedback!