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antonyevans.com 2mo ago

What we learned at YC's AI alumni event: running AI-native companies

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www.nytimes.com 2y ago

Nvidia Says Growth Will Continue as A.I. Hits 'Tipping Point'

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phys.org 3y ago

Sound finally decomposed into basic components

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wildearth.com 6y ago

Can you get coronovirus from pets?

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www.thedailybeast.com 7y ago

Can robots fall in love and why would they

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www.synthesis.cc 8y ago

Biological Technology in 2050 [2001 predictions]

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venturebeat.com 10y ago

Equity crowdfunding can do for biotech what Kickstarter did for hardware

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updates.wefunder.com 10y ago

GMO Fragrant Moss coming to homes soon

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www.wefunder.com 10y ago

TAXA, YC S14, launches first Title III equity crowdfunding campaign

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www.newscientist.com 10y ago

Mutations in Y Chromosome made us separate species from Neanderthals

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www.kickstarter.com 10y ago

Glowing Plant (YC S14) clears final technical milestone

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www.sketchdeck.com 10y ago

What we learned from designing 200 pitch decks

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www.kickstarter.com 10y ago

Virtual reality comes to space

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www.indiegogo.com 11y ago

Crowdfunding synthetic biology: color changing flowers

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www.indiegogo.com 12y ago

Show HN: Biohackers are engineering baker's yeast to produce Real Vegan Cheese

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blog.glowingplant.com 12y ago

How we raised $484k on Kickstarter to make Glowing Plants

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Competitor is giving my app 1 star reviews... what do I do?

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glowingplant.com 12y ago

What does a Glowing Plant look like?

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www.kickstarter.com 13y ago

Glowing Plants: Natural Lighting with no Electricity or CO2

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: How do you deal with advisers when you disagree with their advice?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Let's go to Cyprus and promote Bitcoin

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Heroku down?

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burners.me 13y ago

The flying Internet of things comes to burning man

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venturebeat.com 14y ago

What kindergarden kids can teach your startup

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Can you get a J1 visa for your startup if admitted to an accelerator?

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radicalfinance.com 14y ago

Spreadsheet to help founders estimate their personal burn rate

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

The business of bitcoin?

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radicalfinance.com 15y ago

How money works

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www.theatlantic.com 15y ago

Mind vs. Machine - Can a computer be more human than a machine?

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radicalfinance.com 15y ago

How the Internet differs in emerging markets

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I hope this works. A decade ago I submitted glowing microbes to the epa but they blocked it. My read from going through that was that it was politically impossible. Hopefully times have changed.

Edit: my microbes were gmo, these are not, so no epa rules. Good luck to them!

Not only that but they seem to have cut my plan ability to use Sonnet too. I have a routine that used to use about 40% of my 5 hour max plan tokens, then since yesterday it gets stopped because it uses the whole 100%. Anyone else experience this?

It's the other way around. Cashier's spend their 4 percent, where's the lawyers probably save it. Though of course median salary for the two categories means 4 percent change is different in absolute dollars

I've found meditation very useful in this regard. If you focus on observing in detail #1 type pain, you find that the #2 becomes much more managable. The technique is to get curious about the pain, ask what type it is (hot/cold/electric etc), where exactly is the pain. what shape is it? how does it change over time? It sounds counter-intuitive but by focusing on it it becomes easier to manage (because I think a lot of #2 is story and mental reactions to the pain rather than the actual pain itself and the mental reactions are self-fulfilling in a negative way).

This has not been my experience at all. I moved to the bay area in 2012 and 5 people I met living there have built unicorns/have net worth now around > $1BN. None of them leveraged family connections. this might be true in Europe but the best folks figure out how to move to america.

Yes, because if AI can do maths then it can use that to improve the efficiency/quality of it's algorithms to self improve...

If they are in such high demand, then are they just being priced below cost? why else is the capex so much higher than the revenues? These things must depreciate over only 3-5 years (or less?)

Meta Horizon OS 2 years ago

"we encourage the Google Play 2D app store to come to Meta Horizon OS, where it can operate with the same economic model it does on other platforms." - I feel like this might be the rub of this. Google is way behind in building the android of spatial computing, and maybe this can play into the trust busting cases where meta can show Google not playing fair?

This isn't just climate change though, that period was significantly colder than previous periods (google 'little ice age'). Not disputing man made climate change at all, but the earth naturally goes through warming and cooling phases and we shouldn't expect New York to be as cold as 1800 today even without climate change.

Of course this kind of natural change is what gives ammunition to climate deniers!

The Best Essay 2 years ago

I wondered that too. A subtle endorsement of Sama perhaps. A way of saying there's no bad blood there despite what the press was saying about his 'firing' from YC. Sama did a great job running YC, and certainly made PG a boatload of money. Also seeing the success at OpenAi, hard to argue Sama didn't make the right call to leave and focus on it, could hardly have done that plus keep running YC. (my guess at what happened is Sama started openai on the side and gradually it became more and more of his focus until there was a conversation about whether he should focus exclusively on it, which they mutually decided should happen).

The Best Essay 2 years ago

I'm struck by the parallelism between this process of writing the best essay, and the process of developing a successful startup. Both require starting with a good question, that sets the upper bound for the value to be created. Both require curiosity, and hopefully to reveal some unintuitive insight. Both are functions of their time, what is a good startup today is not timeless much as what makes a good essay today is not timeless. And so on...