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by beambot 5mo ago
Andreessen-Horowitz, who most people (and they themselves) refer to as a16z and have the eponymous domain name (a16z.com). They're one of the top VC firms on the planet -- exceedingly relevant to HN audiences and commonly discussed he
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by beambot 5mo ago
Sounds like a solution to a problem already solved by DECT NR+ -- a 5G technology that is 'subscription free'.
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by beambot 6mo ago
Sayre's Law: Academic Politics Are So Vicious Because the Stakes Are So Small Maybe universities, tenure committees, and funding sources should stop measuring academics by vanity metrics such as H-Index and publication counts. And don
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by beambot 6mo ago
To be fair... I miss being able to access my location history data via the browser. So it's not a case of "google being evil", it's a case of "sane defaults", "shifting regulations", and "uninte
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by beambot 6mo ago
Best source of "open" financial data I've seen from this sector is Whiteclouds: https://www.whiteclouds.com/ They did crowdfunding via Wefunder, so their financial docs performance is available online: https
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by beambot 6mo ago
They still just bought access to all the code you've ever fed into the model...
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by beambot 6mo ago
Isn't this the equivalent of asking Google to delete your image off every Android phone (not just yours)?
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by beambot 6mo ago
No pilot has ever been a con artist...
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by beambot 7mo ago
So you're saying it's still at the discretion of a single magistrate? I'm sure China could find some judges to rule in the name of national security if it would give everyone warm fuzzies. Judicial checks and balances only fu
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by beambot 7mo ago
It's like opening copilot in a word doc and it telling you it can't see the document in its context
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by beambot 7mo ago
Anthropic was very clear about the usage restrictions: They didn't want them being used to control autonomous kill drones or mass surveillance of the American public. That's it. DoW didn't like that -- for reasons that will
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by beambot 7mo ago
Some things are hard because you overcomplicate them. Some things are hard by their very nature. Unless you are a Claude Shannon type, adding fundamental new knowledge to humanity's corpus is generally actually hard - at least in scie
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by beambot 7mo ago
> This is actually what ruined my respect for Academia. Spoken like someone who never went through grad school at a competitive R1 program It was already a grueling 60-80 hour grind every week with frequent all nighters, high-pressure de
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by beambot 7mo ago
They just need to do what oil & gas (and other "dirty" industries) do to avoid reputcussions: form lots of shell companies to shield the parent. It becomes a hydra of corporations kinda like terrorist cells.
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by beambot 8mo ago
The general public absolutely cannot. You have to be an accredited investor or qualified purchaser; you need to have access; you have to pay carry & fees (maybe multiple, stacked middlemen).
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by beambot 8mo ago
SSO and passkeys don't solve adult verification. I don't see how this problem is embarrassing for the www - it's a hard problem in a socially permissible way (eg privacy) that can successfully span cultures and governments. I
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by beambot 8mo ago
The same way that Google+ never overtook Facebook
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by beambot 8mo ago
This is effectively PKI for personhood. The State DMV acts as the Certificate Authority (CA), signing a "leaf certificate" that is bound to the device's hardware Secure Element. It’s less like a TLS handshake and more like Op
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by beambot 8mo ago
Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and Common Access Card (CAC) credentials used by US government & military via NFC already work on web browsers. States should just move to digital IDs stored on smartphones, with chain of trust up t
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by beambot 8mo ago
Crypto gets a lot of hate... but this really puts its utility into perspective: No counterparty risk with random banks or foreign companies, near-instant settlement, vastly lower fees, immediate fx conversion.
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by beambot 8mo ago
> but on something as emotional as a vehicle (Ferrari especially), this design falls flat. Strongly disagree. To each their own...
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by beambot 8mo ago
That is, indeed, what 9-9-6 means: 9am-9pm (12hrs) * 6 days per week.
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by beambot 8mo ago
This is getting close to a Ken Thompson "Trusting Trust" era -- AI could soon embed itself into the compilers themselves.
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by beambot 8mo ago
Definitely uncommon, but not unprecedented: Hakeem Olajuwon - didn't start basketball until 15 or 16. Kurt Warner - undrafted, returned to NFL at 28. Francis Ngannou - started MMA at 26.
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by beambot 8mo ago
> Elon can't legally financially entangle Tesla to SpaceX Bill Ackman has proposed taking SpaceX public by merging it with his Pershing Square SPARC Holdings, distributing 0.5 Special Purpose Acquisition Rights (SPARs) to Tesla shar
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by beambot 9mo ago
Precisely why RLHF is undetermined.
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by beambot 9mo ago
Seems to be the inevitable trend... Just in recent times: Pebble drama, Arduino joining the dark side, now Sparkfun & Adafruit. End of an era
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by beambot 9mo ago
Sounds a bit... Neurodivergent.
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by beambot 10mo ago
They also have a history of buying good private companies at a good price and then let the management keep cooking. This is especially relevant to family businesses that want liquidity for the heirs and good long-term (indefinite) stewar
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by beambot 10mo ago
> Publishers are now rewarded for publishing more papers Publishers have a finite capacity based on the number of credible peer reviewers. In the past, it felt very exploitative as an academic doing peer review for the economic benefit

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