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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.

"Walking robots are to robotics as hello world is to programming."

You say this confidently, but it is nowhere close to true.

One of the first Show HN's i've read where my first thought was "would invest based purely on the single sentence description"

Nice idea. Have fun executing!

It's in the link already posted above...

Here is the full text.

Apology and reflection 今日头条的朋友们： Dear friends of Jinri Toutiao: 我真诚地向监管部门致歉，向用户及同事们道歉。 从昨天下午接到监管部门的通知到现在，我一直处在自责和内疚之中，一夜未眠。 I earnestly apologise to regulatory authorities, and to our users and colleagues. Since receiving the notice yesterday from regulatory authorities, I have been filled with remorse and guilt, entirely unable to sleep. 今日头条将永久关停“内涵段子”客户端软件及公众号。产品走错了路，出现了与社会主义核心价值观不符的内容，没有贯彻好舆论导向，接受处罚，所有责任在我。 Jinri Toutiao will shut down once and for all its “Neihan Duanzi” app and its public accounts. Our product took the wrong path, and content appeared that was incommensurate with socialist core values, that did not properly implement public opinion guidance — and I am personally responsible for the punishments we have received [as a result]. 自责是因为辜负了主管部门一直以来的指导和期待。过去几年间，主管部门给了我们很多的指导和帮助，但我内心没有真正理解和认识到位，也没有整改到位，造成今天对用户不负责任的结果。 I am responsible because I failed to live up to the guidance and expectations supervisory organs have demanded all along. Over the past few years, the regulatory authorities have provided us with much guidance and assistance, but in our hearts we failed to properly understand and recognise [their demands]. Nor did we properly rectify the situation, which led to the present failure to be responsible to our users. 自责也是因为辜负了用户的支持和信任。我们片面注重增长和规模，却没有及时强化质量和责任，忽视了引导用户获取正能量信息的责任。对承担企业社会责任，弘扬正能量，把握正确的舆论导向认识不够，思想上缺乏重视。 I am responsible also because I failed to live up to the trust and support placed in me by our users. We prioritised only the expansion of [platform] scale, and we were not timely in strengthening quality and responsibility, overlooking our responsibility to channel users in the uptake of information with positive energy. We were insufficiently attentive, and in our thinking placed insufficient emphasis on our corporate social responsibility, to promote positive energy and to grasp correct guidance of public opinion. 同时，我也辜负了投入无限热情和心血打造了这款产品的同事。产品出现这么大的问题，停止服务，我有领导责任。 At the same time, I failed my colleagues who invested such boundless enthusiasm and hard work to create this product. For such major problems to emerge with the product, and for service to halt, I bear leadership responsibility. 3月29日央视报道我们的广告问题后，我不断反思自己以前的想法，反思公司现在的做法，开始大力推进公司员工提高意识、改进管理、完善流程。 On March 29, after China Central Television reported problems with our advertisements, I engaged in steady reflection over my previous ways of thinking, reflected upon the company’s current methods, and began an energetic campaign among our staff to raise their consciousness, improve management and streamline processes. 我是工程师出身，创业的初心是希望做一款产品，方便全世界用户互动和交流。过去几年间，我们把更多的精力和资源，放在了企业的增长上，却没有采取足够措施，来补上我们在平台监管、企业社会责任上欠下的功课，比如对低俗、暴力、有害内容、虚假广告的有效治理。 My background is engineering, and my originating idea in starting this business was to create a product that would facilitate interaction and exchange among users worldwide. Over the past few years we have invested more energy and resources in the growth of the company, but we did not take the proper measures to improve supervision of the platform, and we did not adequately do our homework in terms of effectively controlling such things as low-row, violent and harmful content, and fake advertising. 我们作为一家十八大后快速发展起来的创业公司，深知公司的快速发展，是伟大时代给的机会。我感恩这个时代，感恩改革开放历史机遇，感恩国家对于科技产业发展的扶持。 As a start-up company developing rapidly in the wake of the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, we profoundly understand that our rapid development was an opportunity afforded us by this great era. I thank this era. I thank the historic opportunity of economic reform and opening; and I thank the support the government has given for the development of the technology industry. 我深刻反思，公司目前存在问题的深层次原因是：“四个意识”淡薄、社会主义核心价值观教育缺失、舆论导向存在偏差。一直以来，我们过分强调技术的作用，却没有意识到，技术必须要用社会主义核心价值观来引导，传播正能量，符合时代要求，尊重公序良俗。 I profoundly reflect on the fact that a deep-level cause of the recent problems in my company is: a weak [understanding and implementation of] the “four consciousnesses” [of Xi Jinping]; deficiencies in education on the socialist core values; and deviation from public opinion guidance. All along, we have placed excessive emphasis on the role of technology, and we have not acknowledged that technology must be led by the socialist core value system, broadcasting positive energy, suiting the demands of the era, and respecting common convention. 我们必须重新梳理我们的愿景。我们说，要做全球的创作与交流平台。这就要求我们必须保证所“创作”与“交流”的内容是积极向上的、健康有益的，能够给时代、给人民带来正能量。 We must make a renewed effort to sort out our vision of the future. We say, we want to make global platform for creation and conversation. This demands that we must ensure that the content of “creation” and “conversation” are positive, healthy and beneficial, that they can offer positive energy to the era, and to the people. 我们必须重新阐释并切实践行我们的社会责任：正直向善，科技创新，创造价值，担当责任，合作共赢。我深刻地认识到，企业的发展必须紧扣时代和国家发展主旋律。 We must renew our understanding and enactment of our social responsibility; upright and good, innovative technology, value creation, taking responsibility, cooperation and mutual benefit. I profoundly recognise that the company’s development must stick closely to the era and to the main theme of national development. 今天，监管部门、公众和媒体指出了公司存在的问题，是对我们的善意提醒和有力鞭策。我跟我的同事们将立即着手改变，改变自己的思想，改变我们的做法。 Today, supervisory organs, the public and the media have pointed out problems in our company, and this is well-intentioned reminder and an encouragement to us. I and my colleagues will work immediately to bring about change — changing our own thoughts, and changing our methods. 一、将正确的价值观融入技术和产品 Introducing correct values into technology and products 1、加强党建工作，对全体员工进行“四个意识”、社会主义核心价值观、舆论导向、法律法规等教育，真正履行好企业的社会责任。 1.1 Strengthening the work of Party construction, carrying out education among our entire staff on the “four consciousnesses,” socialist core values, [correct] guidance of public opinion, and laws and regulations, truly acting on the company’s social responsibility. 2、强化各业务线履行社会责任的制度化机制化，将其列入业务考核范围。 1.2 Strengthening implementation of systems and mechanisms for social responsibility in various business activities, bringing them into the scope of business assessment. 3、进一步深化与权威媒体合作，提高权威媒体内容的分发，保证权威声音有力传播。 1.3 Further deepening cooperation with authoritative [official Party] media, elevating distribution of authoritative media content, ensuring that authoritative [official Party] media voices are broadcast to strength. 4、强化总编辑责任制，全面纠正算法和机器审核的缺陷，不断强化人工运营和审核，将现有6000人的运营审核队伍，扩大到10000人。 1.4 Strengthening the editor-in-chief responsibility system, comprehensively correcting deficiencies in algorithmic and machine review [of content], steadily strengthening human operations and review, raising the current number of operational review staff from 6,000 to 10,000 persons [carrying out content review]. [Translation omitted here for section on management of online communities] Finally, I again express my apologies to supervisory organs, and to the friends who care about us. 我们理应做得更好。我们一定会做得更好。 We ought to do better. We will definitely do better. 我们真诚地期待社会各界帮助和监督我们的整改。我们绝不辜负大家的期望。 We earnestly await help from various parts of society in supervising our rectification. We will not disappoint everyones’ hopes. 今日头条创始人、CEO张一鸣 Jinri Toutiao founder and CEO Zhang Yiming. 2018年4月11日 April 11, 2018

The CCP literally sits on the board of ByteDance.

ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming has stated on the record that he will ensure his products serve to promote the CCP’s propaganda agenda.

Companies that refuse, such as Alibaba, are stripped of their power and their leader (e.g. Jack Ma) literally disappear for months.

Read more about what happened with WeChat as well: https://chinamediaproject.org/2018/04/11/tech-shame-in-the-n...

Hello, OP here.

I do not aspire to be Dan Price. That is all.