benjbrooks

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by benjbrooks 7d ago
I'm happy with OpenRouter. They're good at routing requests & spend tracking/management. You should just expect to directly own your relationship with the downstream model provider. Source: Enterprise customer doing $XXM
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by benjbrooks 8mo ago
https://brooks.team
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by benjbrooks 11mo ago
disclosure: i'm an eng on this team sales is a really interesting breeding ground for the first wave of vertical agents: - success metrics are well-defined (did we get an email response? did we book a meeting? did we move a deal down t
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by benjbrooks 1y ago
I summited Mt Whitney last fall, a trail that 1) is notoriously hard to get a permit for and 2) requires all waste to be packed out via Wag Bags. I was surprised to see a dozen or so wag bags tossed to the side of the trail over the course
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by benjbrooks 1y ago
o3 has yet to fail me on complex, multi-table queries. Not a fan of BigQuery’s Gemini integration.
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by benjbrooks 1y ago
would love to use this but def need soc2 to justify it to our security folks
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by benjbrooks 1y ago
I was trying my best to finish quickly, initially in hopes of making the NYC Marathon. The "best" way to do the trip is probably to take everything in and have a few zero days, potentially bake in some time for wandering. I think
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by benjbrooks 1y ago
check out the map! https://map.brooks.team
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by benjbrooks 1y ago
i was a little worried about bears for the night or two i was in bear country but my fear of cars and weather was far more top of mind
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by benjbrooks 1y ago
i didn't look into different tires. my hypothesis is that most of my flats can be attributed to all the weight being on the back tire. favorite part was jumping into extended conversations with strangers. from a scenery perspective, co
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How to bike across the country(brooks.team)
242 points by benjbrooks 1y ago|130 comments
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Show HN: Street View My Cross-Country Bike Ride(map.brooks.team)
1 points by benjbrooks 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Reflections on a Failed Computer Vision Startup(brooks.team)
5 points by benjbrooks 2y ago|3 comments
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by benjbrooks 2y ago
We’ve been running our company’s friends and family newsletter on buttondown for more than a year and love it! Congrats on the domain purchase.
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by benjbrooks 2y ago
You may consider starting with what you consider to be a reasonable price and doubling the price for every subsequent customer until they start to churn during pricing discussions. This is particularly useful if you’re doing B2B sales, less
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by benjbrooks 2y ago
Update: Thanks for your recommendations everyone! We decided to go the route of measuring successful hits on the endpoint associated with our docs (inside our monitoring service). That's the default health check associated with our loa
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by benjbrooks 2y ago
on second read, this is something that is set up on the service-side. I.e. if our service goes down, we would also stop sending data to Signoz Cloud. We wouldn't be able to run a status check, let alone send it to signoz cloud.
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by benjbrooks 2y ago
ah, this is the answer I was hoping for. thank you!
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by benjbrooks 2y ago
thanks! this has been recommended by others. I'm not feeling excited about migrating to another monitoring service but it might be the right move.
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Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?
108 points by benjbrooks 2y ago|82 comments
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by benjbrooks 2y ago
Disclaimer: I’m one of the founders We’re working on text/image prompted vision models at DirectAI ( https://directai.io ). We help clients do detection of bespoke objects by defining them with a single phrase or prompt image
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Show HN: Computer Vision w/o Training Data (Free API)(github.com)
6 points by benjbrooks 3y ago|0 comments
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I Made a Computer on Minecraft(twitter.com)
1 points by benjbrooks 3y ago|0 comments
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by benjbrooks 3y ago
helpful context, just sent for discussion in our team slack
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by benjbrooks 3y ago
this is sick!