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asah

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early@Google, 10+ startups, 3 IPOs, 25 patents.

Investor in very early stage startups - I try to help every company have the best chance of success, and about 1 in 3 do (vs 1 in 30+ for accelerators). https://zerocapital.vc/

https://linkedin.com/in/adamsah

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arxiv.org 1y ago

Intuitive physics understanding emerges from self-supervised pretraining

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arxiv.org 1y ago

NoLiMa: Long-Context Evaluation Beyond Literal Matching

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newsroompanama.com 1y ago

El Salvador Ends Bitcoin as Legal Tender

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www.theatlantic.com 1y ago

The Online Porn Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

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arxiv.org 1y ago

Cache-Augmented Generation (CAG)

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arxiv.org 1y ago

Gaze-LLE: Gaze Target Estimation via Large-Scale Learned Encoders

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apnews.com 1y ago

Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s

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www.bloomberg.com 1y ago

REMspace: Communication Between People in Dreams

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www.microsoft.com 1y ago

Trace: Self-adapting AI agents without gradients

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www.tomshardware.com 2y ago

US House of Representatives passes ban of Chinese drones including DJI

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arxiv.org 2y ago

CodecLM: Aligning Language Models with Tailored Synthetic Data

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Ship of Theseus vs. Neural Networks?

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cleantechnica.com 2y ago

Pumped hydro is the only real gravity storage solution

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www.facebook.com 2y ago

Show HN: Video+audio Translation Including Lips

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www.nytimes.com 2y ago

Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known

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www.yankodesign.com 2y ago

Kerbal Space Program gets its own Lego set

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How do I get anonymous mobile phone data for NYC?

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www.joinmassive.com 3y ago

Third option besides ads and subscriptions

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www.supremecourt.gov 4y ago

US Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade [pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Management is fishing; mentorship is teaching people to fish

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arstechnica.com 4y ago

Every ISP in the US has been ordered to block three pirate streaming services

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Should there be a “draft” for cyber war?

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9to5google.com 4y ago

Waymo gets permission to charge fare and operate 24/7 in San Francisco

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Did you have your Google Account frozen?

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www.sammobile.com 4y ago

Samsung demonstrates MRAM in memory computing

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techcrunch.com 4y ago

Massive rents your spare compute power to pay for apps ($11M round)

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news.crunchbase.com 4y ago

Why Is 4-Year Stock Option Vesting Getting an Overhaul?

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www.nytimes.com 4y ago

Texas’ Near-Ban on Abortions Takes Effect After Supreme Court Fails to Act

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techcrunch.com 5y ago

Nana nabs $6M for academy/marketplace for appliance repair

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news.mit.edu 5y ago

Less Scatterbrained Scatterplots

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...or the evacuation of highly populated Long Island.

Three Mile Island was a * big * deal - if that had happened on Long Island, it would've been unimaginable disaster and permanent stain on NYC.

To many people, "three strikes you're out" - 3MI, Chernobyl and Fukushima was the final straw, reasoning that even the Japanese can't safely manage this technology, so "Homer Simpson" stands no chance.

Meanwhile, even the country's leading experts have no politically viable strategy for disposing of the waste, including the risk of derailments, terrorism, etc.

This isn't the world I want, but it's reality. IRL, people would rather die slowly from CO2 than live with the fear of 3MI/Chernobyl/Fukushima regardless of how rare they are (and they're not).

I'm optimistic that modern reactor designs and reprocessing technologies can overcome these issues, but I can understand why voters go full NIMBY.

two techniques I use with pg:

1. "materialize" the view as a full table, then index that. Any reasonable pipeline/ETL tool can provide incremental updates between tables. Obviously, anything materialized requires considerations around storage, replication, backup/restore, I/O, etc.

2. use a regular VIEW and index (precisely) the underlying expressions mentioned in the view, i.e. so when the view is used, then the indexes get used.

Both require rewriting SQL, though I've used VIEWs to make the change transparent.

can these banks/brokers sell the data?

can these banks/brokers get hacked?

I'd love to see a way for people to revoke/replace their personal info, kinda like rotating passwords or changing their names - but for street address, birthday, government ID numbers, etc.

Penalties (of any scale) are insufficient to ensure absolute security.

Tidal AI Policy 23 days ago

+1 - and what about an entirely AI generated song with a human who adds a 0.1 sec hum. Or even this hum is copypasted from another human generated song.

Foldables are life changing - everyone I know who's got one, doesn't go back.

It's all the benefits of a tablet with the weight/thickness of a cell.

Example: maps shows both the map and listing detail.

Example: messaging/email apps show the message/channel list and the current message

Example: virtual keyboard has plenty of space for punctuation, emojis, etc.

Example: games and multimedia are perfectly pleasant to view, even for hours.

Example: I used the remote-control app to take photos from my Sony and Fuji cameras, and the live preview was large enough to easily check for tack-sharpness, which is hard even in the camera viewfinder.

meh - by this logic, every new tech and startup ever is a "scam"

The truth is that the AI companies are gambling that inference cost will continue following a hyper version of Moore's Law, e.g. Google TurboQuant.

The countervailing thesis is that frontier models are consuming more and more compute.

The deepest truth: you often don't need a frontier model to get commercially acceptable results from AI. Thus, bring on the true pricing! and I'll just switch models to something financially sustainable.

UAE to leave OPEC 3 months ago

Counterintuitively, I see modern OPEC as mostly net-positive for the West because business and government most cherish stability which OPEC helps provides (emphasis on helps).