yourcousinbilly
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Comment · 4 years ago
Two people to do the work. A founding team that can build and sell the product alone is the ideal team. All those skills in one person are hard enough to find. But the time required to sell and market is a full time job one cofounder often dedicates themselves to
Comment · 4 years ago
Video engineer here. Many seemingly network restricted tasks could be unlocked with faster CPUS doing advanced compression and decompression.
1. Video Calls
In video calls, encoding and decoding is actually a significant cost of video calls, not just networking. Right now the peak is Zoom's 30 video streams onscreen, but with 1000x CPUS you can have 100s of high quality streams with advanced face detection and superscaling[1]. Advanced computer vision models could analyze each face creating a face mesh of vectors, then send those vector changes across the wire instead of a video frame. The receiving computers could then reconstruct the face for each frame. This could completely turn video calling into a CPU restricted task.
2. Incredible Realistic and Vast Virtual Worlds
Imagine the most advanced movie realistic CGI being generated for each frame. Something like the new Lion King or Avatar like worlds being created before you through your VR headset. With extremely advanced eye tracking and graphics, VR would hit that next level of realism. AR and VR use cases could explode with incredibly light headsets.
To be imaginative, you could have everything from huge concerts to regular meetings take play in the real world, but be scanned and sent to VR participants in real time. The entire space including the room and whiteboard or live audience could be rendered in realtime for all VR participants.
Comment · 4 years ago
They are called personal CRMs.
Dex is the YC company, https://getdex.com/about/
Monica is the open source tool, https://github.com/monicahq/monica
Comment · 4 years ago
“Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools in the United States were $800 billion in 2018–19 (in constant 2020–21 dollars). This amounts to $15,621 per public school pupil enrolled in the fall of that year.”
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks! I built this from the beginning to be public, so have got into the habit to both copy and paste whenever I learn something new and obfuscate secrets.
I have had the current problem of its so massive that finding the specific sheet can take too long. I tried Obsidian, but still look for great fast search
Comment · 4 years ago
I have a massive Cheatsheet for most languages and many packages-
https://github.com/jsfuentes/Code-Cheatsheet
Also hosted on gitbooks: https://openai.gitbook.io/code-cheatsheets/
Comment · 5 years ago
The way I think about it, YC funds founders very early with their current idea and traction as their resume. Founders pivoting and iterating through several ideas during and after the batch is very common. So just because something is a YC company doesn't mean its actually a good idea that was "greenlit".
Comment · 5 years ago
Hey, it’s Jorge the CTO of Slingshow here. The security claims refer to all the video/audio in the product and were passed on from our video infrastructure providers[0][1]. Unless you are recording on the Stage, the video/audio doesn’t touch our servers. The WebRTC protocol actually mandates connections and signaling are encrypted with the Secure Real Time Protocol (SRTP).
But, I’ve spent the last hour reviewing the details and Daily mentions end to end encryption for P2P calls only and it seems Agora doesn’t mention it at all! It seems the WebRTC SFU servers (middlemen needed for calls greater than 4ish) require encryption and decryption server side breaking end to end encryption. This was all really concerning to me, and I think Agora used to claim they were end to end encrypted[2] and then their marketing became part of our marketing early on :(. I have removed all security claims from our website as we reevaluate how we approach security. Sorry about this HN.
[0] https://docs.agora.io/en/Agora%20Platform/security?platform=...
Comment · 6 years ago
Political vs apolitical is just semantics. Will companies deciding not to be socially active have a political impact? Yes. Does not engaging in political activities support the status quo? Yes. Is a particular political group more affected by a ban on activism? Yes.
And I agree focus on their goal is a great, abstract guiding principle for a company. But the better question is does a socially active company have a more positive impact on the world? Brian believes social activism has "the potential to destroy a lot of value at most companies, both by being a distraction, and by creating internal division." That might be true, but in many cases, I doubt the cost of employee annoyance and loss of focus is more than the benefit of enacting minor policy changes and fund diversion that could positively impact millions.
Comment · 6 years ago
Well the point of CSS separating style from structure is to be modular and useable across different websites/pages. So define a button class name I can use anyway in my HTML.
But the web environment has changed. React and Vue introduced modularity of style and structure with components. So I can just use a Button component across the website instead of a CSS class. This means CSS is mostly written only for that specific component or file. So tailwind and those other css-in-js have sprung up to bring both into one file.
And I’ve been using tailwind for about a year now and can very quickly throw together most layouts. It feels very smooth to be able to define the div and it’s style on one line at the same time. And short classnames like “m-4” and “w-full” are also more succinct than the raw html style property.
Comment · 6 years ago
I get the sentiment for YC, but “not one” is pretty impossible. Airbnb reported a profit in 2017 and 2018.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/airbnb-sa...
It did lose money in 2019, but because of preIPO marketing and advertising. Marketplaces have great network effects and profit margins, seems like a very viable self sustaining standalone company. https://www.fastcompany.com/90418766/report-not-even-airbnb-...
Comment · 7 years ago
The Onion did it better in 2008:
"North Korea has one of the largest armies in the world, but they save consumption by simply not feeding them"
"Truly elegant in its simplicity"