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spullara

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software engineer, founder, vc — life story here:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/02/sam-pullara/

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about.fb.com 2mo ago

A Private Way to Chat with AI

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twitter.com 8mo ago

Show HN: Mac menu bar app to monitor your internet connection

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github.com 10mo ago

Improvements to Java primitive array sotring

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twitter.com 3y ago

Figma OS: Implements a CPU in Figma

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www.nasa.gov 3y ago

NASA Validates Revolutionary Propulsion Design for Deep Space Missions

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github.blog 3y ago

Preview: Referencing public code in GitHub Copilot

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dev.java 3y ago

Java Evolution from 1995-Present

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twitter.com 3y ago

Docusign thinks an IP address is some kind of identity verification scheme

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www.infoworld.com 3y ago

JDK 19: The new features in Java 19 (GA)

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www.notion.so 4y ago

Creating an iPhone app that uses OpenAI's CLIP ML model to search photos

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Nuclear Powered, Flying Hotel

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twitter.com 4y ago

Show HN: Private photo search app based on OpenAI's CLIP

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www.breezyscroll.com 4y ago

Hubble Space Telescope data suggests ‘something weird’ is going on

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www.financialexpress.com 4y ago

Mercedes-Benz G-Class Electric to get Sila’s silicon anode in batteries

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www.space.com 4y ago

French court revokes Starlink's internet license

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therecord.media 4y ago

New GriftHorse malware has infected more than 10M Android phones

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silanano.com 4y ago

Silanano launches the first new commercial battery chemistry since 1991

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silanano.com 4y ago

One small new battery, one giant leap for our energy future

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finance.yahoo.com 4y ago

Bitcoin Mixing CEO Harmon Pleads Guilty to US Money-Laundering Charge

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Alcubierre Drive (Warp Drive)

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twitter.com 5y ago

Hello World in K8s YAML and AT&T x86 assembly – at the same time

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www.morling.dev 5y ago

Talking to Postgres Through Java 16 Unix-Domain Socket Channels

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www.ft.com 5y ago

Snowflake completes largest-ever software IPO

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 6y ago

Android apps can take pictures and video with just the storage permission

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www.transposit.com 7y ago

Serverless SQL and JavaScript Service Layer for APIs

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blog.transposit.com 7y ago

SQL Order from API Chaos

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arstechnica.com 7y ago

Ion Based Quantum Computing

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news.developer.nvidia.com 7y ago

Brain waves to speech translation

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blog.shiftleft.io 7y ago

Beating the OWASP benchmark

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help.github.com 7y ago

New GitHub beta dashboard

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Anthropic declares: "Mythos is too dangerous too release to the public" Proceeds to release Mythos plus safety guardrails as Fable. Amazon removes guardrails from Fable, getting access to Mythos. Government takes Anthropic's word for it and tells them to pull it until the guardrails can't be removed. They refuse. Government forces them.

There are so many factors. I think the biggest one is that the developed world looked at women and said "hey, they are just as smart and capable as men and if they work at companies we have 2x the workers" which is obviously true but what it leads to is a DINK society - and it locks you in. It is just much, much harder to raise children when both parents work and they don't live near their parents and other familial support. Add that into your observation that the world is more fun and selfish and it multiplies.

A lot of the decrease is also correlated with access to birth control which drastically reduced accidental pregnancies which were a decent amount of the fertility rate. Then we attacked teenage pregnancy with a vengeance. In 1957 it was 96/100k teen women had babies, 62/100k in 1991 and now down to the current rate of 11/100k. The postponement of births expands the time between generations which compounds the problem. An 18 yr old could have a baby that has a baby at 18 before a 36+ year old mom has their first child.

All this leads to exponential decay of humanity. In the near term we don't have to worry about extinction but we do have to worry about the pyramid schemes we have to support non-workers (like social security). This will all play out much sooner in Asia where the TFRs can be half of the US/EU. Imagine due to China's one child policy a young working person will soon have to support 2 parents and 4 grandparents somehow. There will be some kind of reckoning and some of the speculation around what it will look like is quite grim.

Nvidia RTX Spark 2 months ago

definitely! it has the advantage that it can run CUDA kernels but on the other hand it has lower memory bandwidth and probably loses a token/s fight for many LLMs.

the alternative is people losing their accounts and people aren't willing to allow that. i do think that apple does this a little better where they try everything to contact you in every way they know and it takes a week to get access. at a minimum to change your email it should require a week of waiting to see if the user can access the original mail to the hand off.