patrickaljord

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Comment · 4 months ago
it already blocks users from Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Russia etc
Comment · 8 months ago
Unless OpenAI goes with a very liberal definition of AGI, he's going to wait decades for AGI.
Comment · 10 months ago
Omarchy and DHH are great, nice to see framework supporting them. hyprland is amazing too.
Comment · 11 months ago
Once a contract is deployed on the blockchain, its source code is immutable. So before using a contract, check if it gives permission to its deployer (or any address) to change any state at will.

Note that some contracts act as proxy to other contract and can be made to point to another code through a state change, if this is the case then you need to trust whoever can change the state to point to another contract. Such contract sometime have a timelock so that if such a change occurs, there's a delay before it is actually activated, which gives time to users to withdraw their funds if they do not trust the update.

If you are talking about Oracle contracts, if it's an oracle involving offchain data, then there will always be some trust involved, which is usually managed by having the offchain actors share the responsibility and staking some money with the risk to get slashed if they turn into bad actors. But again, offchain data oracles will always require some level of trust that would have to deal with in non-blockchain apps too.

Comment · 1 year ago
Would it be possible to have a specialized rust only dev or Reactjs only dev while getting rid of all other languages to minimize size of model?
Comment · 1 year ago
my guess is it's just an electron app or chromium wrapper with an ollama wrapper to talk to it (there are plenty of free open source libs to control browsers).
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> I dislike cryptocurrencies as much as the next guy

Is this really the general sentiment on HN?

Comment · 2 years ago
why not?
Comment · 2 years ago
it says you can host it yourself and that he may offer a paid hosted plan in the future
Comment · 2 years ago
is the server side open source too?
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Looks great. Any plan to make it work in a browser instead of having to install an Electron app?
Comment · 2 years ago
if I were him I would take the first flight to Moscow, can't trust the Australian government, they're a US vassal state, sabotaging their own economy and relationship with China to please the US. Safer to go an enemy state of the US in this case. There's a reason Snowden's still alive while all those Boeing and other whistleblowers are either dead or jailed.

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