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sytse

12,257 karma · joined December 15, 2009

I'm a co-founder and executive chair of GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/ and co-founder of Kilo Code. More information about me is on http://sytse.com/ I'm also a general partner at Open Core Ventures https://opencoreventures.com/ (portfolio companies are listed on the website)
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sytse··on Things to know when you get cancer
“Check out all the resources and materials at the Sijbrandij Foundation. Sid (GitLab cofounder) took matters into his own hands when standard of care ran out. Schedule a call with these guys. They are great and have good materials and questions to ask your doctors.”

Thanks for your kind words about FCCT from the Sijbrandij Foundation. We help people look beyond the standard of care for cancer. Calling with them is a free service.

sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
cancer@sytse.com is a good address to reach out to. Thanks for reaching out. I look forward to discussing. You can find some of my ideas in slides https://share.icloud.com/photos/020eRAUd5TqDwlypQCT-qhK7w
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Glad to hear that!
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
There are lots of waivers but the law prevents you from signing away liability for treatment.
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Not that easy but started Echo to make it easier https://www.echoimmune.com/
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Thanks, I replied to your email.
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Dank je!
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
It wasn’t easy to learn it while dealing with the side effects of chemo. But AI helped a lot, also see the OpenAI forum talked linked on the page. Love BillionToOne, also see https://osteosarc.com/timeline/ MRD Northstar for my results with it.
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Yes, I’ve met many people already. Feel free to reach out if you have questions cancer@sytse.com
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Thanks for the warning, I hope that it wasn't a personal experience for you.

Thanks for the compliment about the elaborate design. I think that when you make something for one or a few patients it is easier to be more elaborate, even with the same knowledge and equipment.

Maybe the TCR and BCR-seq was most helpful for mRNA design and effectiveness monitoring, but hopefully someone else on my team will answer that better.

sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Of course it depends on what they need but please email cancer@sytse.com with a screenshot of this message and we can discuss.
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Really appreciate it. I agree the capability is here today. I'm trying to get it to more people so that the learning effects and economies of scale can bring the costs down.
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
I'm not knowledgable able fibrosis except that my tumor expresses a lot of FAP and it is a workable target for radio and immune drugs.
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Thank you! I've been cancer free for 10 months now. If you're curious please see https://osteosarc.com/timeline/ > MRD > Personalis.
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Certainly hospitals are in the business of minimizing liability while patients would prefer maximum survivability. Those are very different goals.
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Thanks for you kinds words, glad to hear you recovered from Peyronies.
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Yes, it felt like the universe provided in this case. I invest in my batch mate. We end up becoming best friends, our wifes become best friends. Biotech VCs are afraid click chemistry isn't hot enough. I lead multiple rounds and become the biggest investor and it becomes my biggest investment. The year I get cancer click-chemistry wins a Nobel prize. And I become a patient. Unbelievable.
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
All of these companies (including the Even One Ventures and Open Core Ventures ones) have CEOs who run them day to day. I try to help with positioning and setting ambitious goals. Y Combinator really opened my eyes to how helpful setting clear and hard to reach goals is.
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Doing well. We've not seen the cancer for 10 months (not for lack of trying) and I'm enjoying an international trip for pleasure!
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
I have a stoic mindset, I try to not care about things that are outside my sphere of influence. While the cancer was unfortunate it was out of my control. Having my YCW15 batchmate step up for me during my initial set of treatments to get me Shasqi opened my eyes that I could help create and take new medicines. It was within my sphere of influence. When I reached the end of standard of care I stepped down from the CEO role of GitLab and pushed to do this for me. While it was hard it was easier than I expected and I created companies to help other patients in the same way (maximum diagnostics and single patient IND pathway).
sytse··on Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
Thanks for posting this. Happy to answer questions!
sytse··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
In case you're considering moving to GitLab we currently have no plans that I'm aware of to pay from bringing your own runners. Happy to answer any questions.
sytse··on Mixpanel Security Breach
Yes, the OpenAI disclosure about the same incident is much better https://openai.com/index/mixpanel-incident/
sytse··on Sunsetting Supermaven
Sorry but I'm don't know how Kilo autocomplete compares with Supermaven. Maybe someone else does?

BTW For completeness, while we’re still in rollout for existing users autocomplete is default on for all new users already.

sytse··on Sunsetting Supermaven
At Kilo (VScode plugin, BYOK so works with Claude Pro) we just rolled out autocomplete to 10% of our user base on Friday and we're happy with what we're seeing. The autocomplete is based a Mistal model (Codestral) that is fast and accurate https://mistral.ai/news/codestral We copied a lot of code from Continue.dev (best open source autocomplete in our view). We plan to roll it out to 100% of our users no later than Tuesday. The autocomplete is consumption priced (no markup) but the cost per month should be low single digit dollars.
sytse··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
The cost improvements are great. If you miss the automation that AWS does for database servers consider using something like https://www.ubicloud.com/ that is great for PostgreSQL servers. On bare metal these typically also support 5x the number of IOPS without paying through the nose.
sytse··on New California law restricts HOA fines to $100 per violation
The other post went from 0 to 5, people do appreciate it. I'll continue the experiment but under another account.
sytse··on New California law restricts HOA fines to $100 per violation
Thanks for the comment. This was part of my 2 comment experiment to see if ChatGPT summaries would be appreciated. The only other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45477313 got a downvote. So they are not appreciated and I won't post any more.
sytse··on ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving
So the core idea is to use an LLM to draft reasoning as a structured, JSON domain-specific language (DSL), then deterministically translate that into first-order logic and verify it with a theorem prover (Z3).

Interesting that the final answer is provably entailed (or you get a counterexample), instead of being merely persuasive chain-of-thought.

sytse··on Tsunami Warning for Northern California
I should have hit Fort Bragg by now but I'm not seeing that on https://www.noyocenter.org/live-web-cam

The earthquake was real but it is probably really hard to predict if that leads to a tsunami.

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