alexchantavy

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I think there are some primitives for agents that need to be built out for better security and being able to reason about them.

Agents run on infra, they have network connectivity, they have ACLs and permissions that let them read+write+execute on resources, they can interact with other agents.

To manage them from both an infra and security perspective, we can use the existing underlying primitives, but it's also useful to build abstractions around them for management, kind of like how microservices encapsulate compute+storage+network together.

I think of agents as basically microservices that can act in non-deterministic ways, and the potential "blast radius" of their actions is very wide. So you need to be able to map what an agent can do, and it's much easier to do that if there are abstractions or automatic groupings instead of doing this all ourselves.

The PvP was so deep too. You would go 4v4 or 8v8 and coordinate a “3, 2, 1 spike” on a target so that all your damage would arrive at the same time regardless of spell windup times and be too much for the other team’s healer to respond to.

Could also fake spike to force the other team’s healer to waste their good heal on the wrong player while you downed the real target. Good times.

Data point of 1: Having hired juniors as a startup founder, I need more generalists than AI/ML specialists. AI application work right now is basically standard software engineering - you’re finding clever ways to supply the right context to a model within certain constraints.

No one knows what’s going to happen in the future. Yes there already are fewer SWE jobs than before because of AI, and yes the days of companies hiring new grads in droves at $300k+ packages are likely over. IMO all you can really do is study what you’re interested in, learn it deeply, and do good work with cool people. If unsure, it’s possible to go back to what you were doing before if the new path doesn’t work out.

I still find it funny that for my personal setup I have a $700 Macbook Air but a $1500 iPhone Pro and it feels like it makes sense.

Feels a bit like Jack Ma and Alibaba

Partial agree. YC created HN, though the HN community is very much _unlike_ anything I've seen at YC.

HN is deeply skeptical, technical, cynical, sarcastic. It's a great place to learn new things and I've loved it since I found it in 2012.

The current startup climate (not just limited to YC) feels very AI bro YEAHHLETSFUCKINGGOO (and I say this as a founder myself having gone through YC recently in W25).

To add, I also loved Fury 3 because it had outdoor environments - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmOtHKZHjxU - though Wikipedia tells me it's a rebrand of Terminal Velocity

Dumb question but what's the difference between headphones and over the ears? I looked it up but I'm still confused

Does AutoRune still work on there with auto catcher when PKing? The concept of "having catch" on another player based on player ID was just crazy. All these weird bugs that ended up being core mechanics of PKing.

I love tech hype cycles haha, I remember when you got laughed at for using jquery and now it seems everyone’s burned out and happy to go back to a simpler time

I didn't do IRC until early 2000s but I felt a lot of curiosity about being online with other people: were they from an opposite corner of the world? What was life like there? How interesting that we can talk to each other!

Just the act of getting online to seek out others was super niche, so I feel like it was a bit of a "finding your own tribe" experience for me.

https://www.yourhtmlsource.com is my favorite resource from the early 2000s on how to make a website and I'm so happy it's still around. It could be modernized to teach things like viewport and whatever but I found it super simple to understand as a teenager.

> You seem to be falsely equating private schools with "the wealthy" and public schools with "the working class"

Agree. Plenty of non-wealthy get to attend private schools through scholarships and financial aid

Are you still in China? If so how are you finding the work life? Should blog on it esp as a YC alum that’s a cool perspective

Haa don’t get me started about BART. Though maybe that’s just me problem not having Verizon.

lmao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%27s_model

This is such a great story

This is still my way of doing things!!

What have you moved on to?

Grandia II's battle system was really great but the story and voice acting was so rough haha, I ended up not caring about any of the characters and skipping all that I could to get to the combat

> they mimic common misconceptions found on the internet (e.g. "chameleons change color for camouflage")

Wait what, what do chameleons actually change color for then?? TIL.

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So if I understand correctly, you take existing models, do fancy adjustments to them so that they behave better, and then sell access to that?

> These are both applications where Fortune 500 companies have utilized our technology to improve subpar performance from existing models, and we want to bring this capability to more people.

Can you share more examples on how your product (IIUC, a policy layer for models) is used?

Not really unfortunately. This video goes a bit into why (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-t37idOfvk), but the short version is the skill floor (or ceiling?) was too high, making it unwelcoming for people to just pick up, unlike a COD-like shooter.

I think the tone of of UT2004 was slightly sillier than UT99 and the guns felt .. fatter? I'm definitely looking at this with some nostalgia but UT99 will always be my favorite shooter

> So, while it’s clearly possible to have a career in a lucrative field you dislike, it’s (a) going to be harder for you than for people who like it and (b) maybe you should consider a field that you do like?

> You gotta want it. Do you want it enough to go through the tremendous amount of effort it takes to learn it? Maybe you hate programming, but you want the money enough. Maybe you don’t care about the money, but you want to program every second of the day.

> Just make sure you have the drive to make it happen.

Man this is so true

> its like going to the zoo

This is a hilarious way of putting it, thank you

Small plug for my open source project: you can use Cartography [https://github.com/cartography-cncf/cartography], to map your infra and then run this query (https://gist.github.com/achantavy/2cc7cc49919a8f761fea5e2d75...) to see if you're affected

Been a decade since I've seen a Half Life 3 joke on the internet, thanks for this