snowmaker

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by snowmaker 8mo ago
I made a golden retriever you can talk to using Lemon Slice: https://lemonslice.com/hn/agent_5af522f5042ff0a8 Having a real-time video conversation with an AI is a trippy feeling. Talk about a "feel the AGI momen
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by snowmaker 1y ago
I think there is some risk of that. But commitment isn't static. A lot of incredible companies started with founders who were just toying with an idea and weren't committed at all, then they became more committed over time as th
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by snowmaker 1y ago
This is a good way of thinking about it!
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by snowmaker 1y ago
Yes, this is an excellent point.
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by snowmaker 1y ago
Yes, I think it would.
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by snowmaker 1y ago
Whoops - I had a typo! Thank you; fixed.
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by snowmaker 1y ago
We might, and I'm sure you're right that there are many great founders not applying to do YC because they don't want to move here. But I think it would be a better analogy to compare YC to a university, rather than to a compa
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Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students(ycombinator.com)
219 points by snowmaker 1y ago|268 comments
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by snowmaker 1y ago
Y Combinator (yes, the people who run this site) | Full stack web and AI | San Francisco | Onsite | Fulltime YC itself hires software engineers from time to time. Many people don't know that YC has a small but very important software
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by snowmaker 2y ago
This is an excellent article, basically a patio11 / matt levine level breakdown of what's happening with the GPU market.
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by snowmaker 2y ago
Amazing comment
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by snowmaker 2y ago
That's clever, we didn't think of that.
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by snowmaker 2y ago
Hi ericlin, I'm sorry to hear that you ran into fraudulent profiles. You can report them in the UI in cofounder matching, but since this seems like a broader profile, it would be great if you could email me some links to the profiles y
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by snowmaker 2y ago
No, it's fine.
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by snowmaker 2y ago
Sorry about that! Based on this thread, we removed the requirement for a LinkedIn profile.
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About Y Combinator's software team (which is currently hiring)
1 points by snowmaker 3y ago
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by snowmaker 3y ago
One of the interesting potential futures is one in which every software engineer can build awesome robotics systems. What really unlocked ML was when you didn't need to have a deep academic background in ML to be able to use it. Now t
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by snowmaker 3y ago
That's true. But I don't think revenue multiple is the right metric to look at. If you just look in terms of aggregate market cap, defense companies are some of the larger companies in the world - i.e., Lockheed Martin is valued
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Want to apply for YC W24? We opened some last-minute spots for the next 3 days
1 points by snowmaker 3y ago
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Want to apply for YC W24? We’re opening some last-minute spots
1 points by snowmaker 3y ago
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by snowmaker 3y ago
Ah, you all are correct. Thanks for the correction, will use the correct term going forward.
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by snowmaker 3y ago
A lot of the comments in here are about the debate on whether companies should be remote or in-person. That's an important debate but orthogonal to what I wrote. The YC batch is not a company. It doesn't really have a close anal
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by snowmaker 3y ago
That's exactly right. When people see YC funding a lot of AI startups, a lot of them think it must be because YC has some thesis about AI. Actually, it says something much deeper about the world than whatever YC's partners'
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by snowmaker 3y ago
Perhaps other people with deeper AI knowledge can weigh in here too. But at the time, there were the two things that tipped me off. 1) Cyc's reasoning fundamentally did not feel "human". Cyc was created on the premise that
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by snowmaker 3y ago
I was certainly interested in working at Cycorp full-time. But after two summers there, I could tell that the technical approach they were taking was just not working. My first summer, I was an ontologist, which was a unique role that only
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by snowmaker 3y ago
I interviewed with Doug Lenat was I was a 17 year old high school student, and he hired me as a summer intern for Cycorp - my first actual programming job. That internship was life-changing for me, and I'll always be grateful to him fo
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by snowmaker 3y ago
We got the hug of death, thanks HN! Working on improving load times :)
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by snowmaker 4y ago
Yes, this is definitely something that was happening. We recently added a question to the profile about "equity expectations" to try to solve this. I'm hopeful that will help, because then you can just not match with people
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by snowmaker 4y ago
Yes, this is one of the things we're working on next.
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by snowmaker 4y ago
Hello - I'm one of the people at YC who work on YC's co-founder matching site (which, if you aren't familiar with it, is at https://www.ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching ). It's not totally clear to me i

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