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If you saw OpenAI launch Computer History you might have seen that data collection and aggregation are becoming more prevalent.

It turns out it's useful!

But having all my data sent to an AI lab in realtime feels wrong.

So I built an open-source version instead. Interestingly, local inference worked in my testing though it's certainly lower quality. Once we capture more data, we can explore LoRA adapters to improve local quality even more.

Open to feedback!

This is a funny post. Shows how deeply technical folks fail to understand business, risk, and open source.

Chromium is great. Why exactly should they innovate their first? A v1 should take whats available and not seek to reinvent the wheel.

Also curious how the agent works?

The worst ever YC demo and company I've ever seen.

Technology is supposed to make the world better. This is vile, and the script itself shows the founders do not care or understand what they are doing.

Love the idea.

I guess, just my opinion (probably worthless), if you can get it to speed up even ~20%, I think that would be enough to make the average person agree.

How much faster will the robotic arms be able to go? Currently this looks far too slow, though as a v1 it's great.

Those look... far worse? What am I missing.

I almost thought the opposite, but im no db guy.

But annoyingly sometimes this is great advice. It's not that dissimilar to YC's make something people want, but it relies on you having taste/needs/wants that are an addressable market. Which is sometimes true.

Will be excited to see the typescript bindings once out. We may be able to use this to handle some of our workloads at Embra.

Will reach out! Congrats on the ship.

The difference in the size of the TAM of consumer vs military application must be wild.

Seems radically useful for military apps. Somewhat useful for RV/camper vans. Cool either way.

Sounds to me like he made a couple unfortunate moves:

- Propose a 5 year plan (lol) - Don't lead the incident with leadership, but with blame - Speaking about problems more than solving problems (hard to do) - Lack of relationship building

On one hand, I empathize with Chris. On the other hand, this sounds to me like he just didn't know how to perform in this environment. And that's totally fine! Not everything should learn how to perform in the bureaucratic knots -- startups are simpler in this way. And there's a reason the big guys lose their edge over time, and then some exec in a board room is faced with -10% YoY loss without any truthful VPs around the table.

For such a good idea, this design is comically bad.

Nah, this was solved by most teams a while ago.

If you're interested, we're building Co-pilot for Mac. https://embra.app

:)

Given the model performance is thus affected by a k-nearest neighbor, but those algorithms are proving not great for baseline vector search, how well will this actually work?

It seems mostly like a vertically integrated vector DB + existing LLM call, but correct me if I'm wrong. There are of course some performance gains with that, but the holy grail of "understanding" at unlimited length still seems unsolved.

Stripe moved off of First Data and become its own processor way back in 2019.

And those are measured in the same way Stripe measures the $14B number.

Granted, PayPal has a higher take rate than both Adyen and Stripe. But also much lower growth.

Tax liabilities on (optional) employee secondary stock sales is most certainly not a normal business operation.

Oof. Nevermind. i don't seem streaming in the new docs.

I need 100% of my output streamed. I rarely ever have a use case that doesn't include streaming.

Literally struggling through python right now, and this is amazing.

Helllllllll yeah.

Given these are fines from the card networks, the business, if it's in the right, can go to court quite readily.

Illegal processing is no joke. This isn't as much "Stripe ruining a business" as it is "a business appears to have been processing illegal activity, which puts it into liability".

To be clear, in some jurisdictions and depending on the activity, illegal processing also carries a jail sentence! The most extreme of which is, of course, terrorist financing.

Thanks! Your document tool looks great as well.

Might build more extensive file support, if users ask for it.

This was a lot of fun. Very unique game. Congratulations on making it! :)

If you're in tech and worried about job losses, you may want to look at how history has literally done this 100 times in the past to numerous industries.

Bringing race into this is nonsense. If the robots are taking jobs, do you think they care what color someone is? They don't. And it's literally going to come for everyone's current job. Which is a good thing, so long as we have an economic system that evolves alongside it. This is quite literally the only way to eliminate poverty in totality.