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And government in general. Populist demagogues capitalize on the misperception that one man can just make all the "easy" fixes. DOGE was a good example of that.

From my perspective, there is such a thing as "too much democracy." I don't know how to quantify the exact right amount for a given situation. In the case of companies, a benevolen…

For give my naiveté, but who pays for the training of these models?

The spam results dominating Google, runaway popups... ugh

Wow, this brings back memories. Way back in the 2000 I worked on a concept to charge “postage“ to big senders and remit payments to receivers (hosts, not end users). I also looked …

Do you have a web site? I'd like to check it out. I'm building an identity verification platform for age verification. I set it up as a nonprofit because I think this is a public g…

I could use this for a project I'm working on, but the Download link is 404 on GitHub

That link only works for verified YC founders, not just members of the network.

In theory yes, in practice it requires lots of different government services to get on the same page. How do you verify a state ID? Usually the DMV. Have they released an API endpo…

There are also SNRIs, which don't have the sexual side effects. I've done mostly SSRIs but in the last few years I've been on an SNRI called Pristiq and it's the best by far.

> He was told explicitly by his boss that they weren't promoting white men. I've always had questions about this. Did he not look at the senior leadership and get a sense if that's…

I agree with this on a subjective level, but it also makes me think of blacksmiths at country fairs. I'm sure they deeply enjoy the work, but industrialized CNC and other technolog…

I've thought for a while that I could get a good sense of someone's potential if I could just read their email. I noodled on the idea of an oauth (Gmail) based AI to evaluate email…

Thanks for your input. Once we launch the the product itself we will make no mention of crypto for exactly this reason. Lofty.ai used crypto as the back end for their fractionalize…

This is something I should use but am not at all knowledgeable about. One thing to consider as a feature is creating an llms.txt file that explains all the details so its consumabl…

A decentralized identity platform for age gating content - https://cardlessid.org

My very first programming job was with Quattro Pro spreadsheet. It was a great introduction for someone who was self-taught and pre-internet.

IMO the value of AI coding is less about what we're seeing now and more about what will happen once anyone can program their phone, watch or smart speaker just by feeding it a prom…

How so? Stable coins issued under the GENIUS Act are fully reserved, unlike regular banks.

Surprised to see so many people who dislike the article. The important background hum to this piece is that she's dating men in a place where the male-female ratio is in her favor.…

At first I thought this mean that the absolute count of pull requests was trending down and this could be a new BLS data point.

I don't have a strong opinion on this piece but I very much would like to see DID catch on. Not the WorldCoin version, but one that states and other state-backed providers can use …

Easy: parroting YouTube comments

I think that, broadly speaking, hard work and talent strongly predict success. But the circumstances can dramatically affect the magnitude. I have no doubt that Zuck would've been …