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by zachthewf 4y ago
These startups are not actually banks—they will partner with banks that fulfill those capital requirements. For example, the Robinhood debit card is issued by Sutton Bank [0], a 100 year old bank in Ohio that very successfully provided the
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by zachthewf 4y ago
It's a B2B2C product (sold to businesses that are building consumer fintech products). There are a bunch of neobank fintech startups whose offering is "Banking for X", where X is some segment of the population with specific n
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by zachthewf 4y ago
What is the status of hardware acceleration for micro-VMs? I know that Firecracker doesn't have GPU support yet, are there any other options that handle this?
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by zachthewf 5y ago
Safes are the most common way for startups to raise seed today. You can read about them here: https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/#about
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by zachthewf 5y ago
For international, Deel does this from the employer's side and https://rebase.co/ does it on the employee's side.
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by zachthewf 5y ago
What did you hear about it?
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by zachthewf 5y ago
Taking a break and going for a run sometimes does this for me as well.
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by zachthewf 5y ago
I decided that I had to work in science or technology when I was 14 after reading his memoirs. (I didn't get into programming until later.) I think many on this site are in the same boat!
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by zachthewf 5y ago
The immoral part is "while millions around him suffer", not "the amount of wealth one person can have," and billionaires don't actually have all that much to do with that.
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by zachthewf 5y ago
Really excited to try it out. I've had a heck of a time setting up spot instance training on Sagemaker in the past so simplification efforts are much appreciated.
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by zachthewf 5y ago
Thank you so much for your incredible work on FastAPI! This looks like another really cool project, can't wait to try it out.
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SQLite Is Dynamically Typed (2020)(blog.zachwf.com)
135 points by zachthewf 5y ago|122 comments
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by zachthewf 6y ago
It doesn't sound like techno-babble to me. They've distributed storage across nodes rather than replicating on each node, hence the model size is now scalable with number of nodes rather than being limited to what could be stored
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SQLite Is Dynamically Typed (2020)(blog.zachwf.com)
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by zachthewf 6y ago
I first saw vo.codes in the huge pandemic project thread and have been following it since then. Very exciting to see your user base and the Discord community around it grow. Regarding monetization, have you considered either having a paid A
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by zachthewf 6y ago
This isn't a Google research project, it's just hosted on Colab. Also this is from April, pre-GPT3. Also given that there's tons of cutting-edge pre-trained models available for free but relatively few resources on how to act
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by zachthewf 6y ago
That's really cool. Do you have to pay income taxes in Spain if you do that?
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by zachthewf 6y ago
Indeed, the internet allows a public figure to simultaneously be a pariah to the mainstream and also have a platform where they reach millions.
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by zachthewf 6y ago
Fascinating. Why don't you think it's possible to build such a construction company? (I have no experience in construction.)
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by zachthewf 6y ago
I find it bizarre that that was taboo. It seems incredibly intuitive and obvious to me.
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by zachthewf 7y ago
The uniquely differentiating thing in Seattle is the geography (as you say). If you don't care about having nearby skiing and mountaineering (and more but you get the idea), you can do better elsewhere.
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by zachthewf 7y ago
"Why would I pass up on a 100% chance to make 100k when someone is offering a 0.01% chance to make a few million?" You don't have to start a startup. And if this is your attitude towards risk, you probably shouldn't.
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Largest mega-analysis of sex differences in variability of brain structure(twitter.com)
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by zachthewf 7y ago
I completely agree. It's not just retirement-age people either. I've noticed many Bay Area peers in their ~early 30s buy their first home and (understandably) swap camps from "very concerned about housing prices" to &quo
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by zachthewf 7y ago
How can you assert with such confidence that the elimination of mundane jobs would obviously be a negative force in the world? In fact, plenty of humans do stop working by choice; we call this "retirement". It tends to be a high
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Homeless US student population 'highest in more than a decade'(bbc.com)
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by zachthewf 7y ago
I dunno, I don't buy this explanation when I think about my anecdotal experience. As a kid I recall it was pretty easy to find fun games to play in yards or in suburban streets. All we needed was other kids. I suspect that this change
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by zachthewf 7y ago
I totally agree. Beyond the obvious privacy gains (which I am very much here for) I'd love to be able to take on different virtual personas within some of these apps just to understand the media landscape of people other than myself. I
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by zachthewf 7y ago
I'm no SQLite expert but by this logic aren't all single-host databases that tick the "Durability" ACID checkbox "just file formats" in the sense that yeah, the bytes we care about exist somewhere in the filesy