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by bschmidt1 2y ago
> Why are you focused on YC/startups? I've worked at a couple of large, well-known companies too but I like startups because there's usually more of a focus on building a product, and usually everyone on the team is intere
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The T Bell in Pacifica might be a little pricey but has the best views and serves margaritas!
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Is 7 days a week the new norm (for YC)?
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I imagined if it was proof-of-work the mining would actually be the compute work requested. Everyone is racing to solve the problem just like in Bitcoin, except the problem is the requested GPU task. The fastest/first one to provide
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That's actually interesting. While crypto GPU mining is "purposeless" or arbitrary, would be way cooler if to GPU mine meant to chunk through computing tasks in a free/open queue (blockchain). Eventually there could be s
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Especially considering how many people are attempting something similar - for example everyone copied ChatGPT's UI. Will be funny/ironic when the first AI companies start suing each other for copyright infringement. Personally f
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Music. CDs. Google "6-disc changer" For Vista in this era it was mostly boot from USB stick because it was too big for CD and DVD was bougie
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I didn't know it was that strict, no offense to the other poster, it was just a little disagreement :)
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Amazing, great to hear it :)
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> If we release an API, you could use it Absolutely, especially if the pricing makes sense! Would be very nice to just focus on the creative suite which is the real product, and less on the AI infra of hosting models, vector dbs, and pay
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Always thought React (specifically JSX) made JavaScript "the new PHP" in that there is markup all mixed in with syntax that is so similar to old school PHP. "New school PHP" frameworks like Laravel are nearly exactly lik
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Re: Hashing - The point of one-way encryption is that it can't be decrypted. A plaintext password has 1 job, to be read, not saved - yet you want to encrypt it as if it will be saved, but because it's one-way encrypted now it can
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If I had a penny for every straw man argument. Who said anything about writing plaintext passwords to files - you just made that up? Also you might not understand web dev 101. Every website including this one that uses HTTPS sends encrypte
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
Amazing work! This technology is only going to improve. Soon there will be an infinite library of rich and dynamic games, films, podcasts, etc. - a totally unique and fascinating experience tailored to you that's only a prompt away. I&
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
If Y-Combinator is: Y = λf.(λx.f(x x))(λx.f(x x)) And in JavaScript it's: const Y = f => (x => f(x(x)))(x => f(x(x))); Then Silicon Valley's YC must be: const YC = startup => (getMoney => sta
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> Relativity is not the same as relativism True, really just meant "not absolute". > such that C happened before D in every reference frame If that's possible, considering the seemingly infinite number of instances wher
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New Tailwind classes "look-good-mobile md:look-good" /s
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Despite being called an "engineer" a lot in recent years, it always feels icky because of what you just said here about it being a protected title in other industries. Not quite imposter syndrome - just feels like the wrong word f
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To address edits: > when to encrypt It depends on what you want to do, if it's user login over HTTPS you can pass a plaintext password to the server and hash/compare on the server only. It would still be secure because the plai
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> A lot of this data - what I've seen anyway, is far cleaner than anything you'll find on the open web, with significant data on human preferences, validation, cited sources, and in the case of e.g. coding with verification th
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There are class actions now like https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/clearview-ai-fac... Nobody even knew what OpenAI was up to when they were gathering training data - they got away with a lot.
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First you described exactly the concept of password hashing, now you're describing something else entirely: > It doesn't answer arbitrary questions about the data. Why would you need a "ZKP" to prevent anyone from &qu
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Nobody denied the term is used in language models, I only pointed out that they use that term because of what it already means in the context of vector operations (long before OpenAI). The wikipedia on deep learning transformers: Al
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Of course they benefit, that's why it's a deal. But we don't. The free market or average taxpayer doesn't get anything out of it. Competition and innovation gets stifled - choices narrow down to 2 major providers. They m
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Because lobbying exists in this country, and because legislators receive financial support from corporations like OpenAI, any so-called concession by a major US-based company to the US Government is likely a deal that will only benefit th
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> I was in fact an intern at Apple working on the first iPhone when it launched > I’ve had conversations with people who were within the company including some senior leaders There we go, why didn't you just say that in a disclai
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They don't have good intentions. Thanks.
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