Hi Hamel, thanks for releasing this. Slightly OT, but do you have any advice for someone who wants to work on/with LLMs at a tech company? How can a fullstack engineer transition to work on LLMs? How do I get the attention of some of the good tech companies since they usually want some ML related roles on the resume? What sort of projects can I work on? Maybe blogging about my learning might help? I know this is a very generic question, but any advice from someone like you would be great!
Slightly off topic: I'm interested in taking part in the Vesuvius challenge[0], but I don't have a background in ML, just a regular web developer. Does anyone have suggestions on how to get started? I planned to get some background on practical ML by working through Karpathy's Zero to Hero series along with the Understanding Deep Learning book. Would that be enough or anything else I should learn? I plan to understand the existing solutions to last year's prize and then pick a smaller sub challenge.
Don't live tweet your HN submission, it's a shitty way to get followers to upvote the submission even if you didn't mean to do that. Next time, save your tweets for 12+ hours after submission and post it on twitter.
2. Pay above market rates and promote when it's deserved.
3. Allow them to retain IP of their side projects. People who want to build startups will eventually leave, but you can delay it with this. Considering most people will never reach product market fit, it's a win win.
Sigh, here we go again. The top comment (rightfully) calling out a poorly thought out/worded sentence (or an incorrect statement) instead of discussing the real issue that the post is about.
The apologists support a right wing party known as the BJP which is in power. These people are not paid by the government or anything, it's that they genuinely believe in the hindutva ideology and this is the most concerning part. Good catch and watch out for this pattern to repeat itself.
What source do you want? The app literally asks for your phone number, name, profession. Which of these details make you think "anonymous" has any meaning at all.
> Wasn't this the future everyone imagined ? or we all want to carry more X number of cards ?
I think you're referring to the future where all tickets are digital, which is fine. This is in addition to the ticket, id checks etc. You will need to show the aarogya setu e pass to prove that you're low risk, don't have a history of coming in contact with a person having covid 19. In theory it sounds fine, the devil is in the details : having to link phone number, have all location history stored etc. If its like how apple and google designed it, I would be fine with it. Privacy is preserved. And this should never be mandatory in the first place. Reading : https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...
I don't think people realize the gravity of what's being done. While google and apple design nice apis which can do contact tracing while maintaining privacy, that's not how contact tracing will be implemented as shown by this app. It requires :
- a mobile phone number
- location and bluetooth, always on
- name,profession
The mobile number part concerns me. Government wants to use it as a way to contact people but the potential for abuse is there.
Installing this app is mandatory for public and private companies. So if you are an employee, you have no choice in the matter. It's like a surveillance state in the making.
They are also planning an e pass feature which will be required to board a flight/metro. Chinese level dystopian shit in the works.
To top it all off, non compliance is a criminal offence. FYI the law enforcement, legal system is a complete joke in India.
Random cops stopping to ensure you have the app installed? Happening. Non complaince? Do situps, get beaten with a lathi. I wish I was joking.
Edit : Manufactures will need to preinstall it on new devices. You can see where this is going.
I am interested in working as a software engineer at Gitlab, what do you feel is a good path to land a job at the company? I plan to start contributing meaningful changes to gitlab itself and have a couple of side projects to show. What else can I do to land a job and how do I get noticed since it's mostly outbound hiring going forward. Note : I don't use linkedin and don't plan to. Given my unique circumstances, any advice would be nice. Thanks.
Edit : Another question : since I am currently in my first job, whom do I give as references? I can't give my current manager as a reference for obvious reasons. Weird question : I contribute to OSS projects (and plan to contribute to gitlab), do you think I can give the OSS maintainers as references?
The company I work for uses Outlook/teams for booking meetings and it works incredibly well. The scheduling part you talked about is almost exactly like the scheduling assistant feature in outlook and teams. Sorry if this comes across as a negative question, but what exactly does zync offer over outlook and teams which have scheduling assistant?
Can you also briefly talk about your traction? Eg- no of users, growth rate and at what stage you were in before YC and currently. Good luck.
I came across your twitter profile a couple of times, wasn't it called brew before? It was initially something like a patreon clone then became a podcasts app if IIRC and now it looks like you're back to buy me a coffee. Can you talk a little about the journey of what you learned through the different pivots and what you learned along the way? Can you also talk about your experience in YC? Good luck.
On their patreon goal of $1600/month : "We can start working on an easy-to-use mobile app that let people deploy their own VPN server without touching a terminal window."
Really cool service. Using warp on my phone and it surprisingly makes a big difference in locations with spotty 4G. Couple of questions :
* I read that cloudflare generates a unique id for each install and the purpose was to track referrals. Consider adding an option to opt out of the unique id tracking since some users will be concerned about it.
* Any plans to add an option to use an ip from cloudflare instead of my ip address being visible to the websites I visit, at least on the paid plan? I know this opens a can of worms dealing with abuse of the service which could lead to certain ip addresses belonging to cloudflare being blacklisted.