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awad

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About awad

Founder/CTO @ Parsnipp Previously Founder/CTO/CPO @ Pixlee (acquired '22)

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    This is very neat! Great job :) I can empathize with your quota....was gifted a FlightWall recently ( https://theflightwall.com ) and it constantly throws a 'too many flights' indi…

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    Comment #49079073

    How does one reach you privately? Not seeing anything on your HN bio

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    Comment #49079061

    The question I have that no one has really answered is...what kind of crawling have the current frontier labs done historically and what are they continuing to do now for training?…

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    Comment #49078997

    Do you have a free or paid ChatGPT license?

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    Comment #49078731

    Congrats on everything you've accomplished so far! You emphasize two-sided marketplace so, I'm wondering, from y'alls POV which side is more difficult/which side are you going afte…

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    Comment #47406567

    Forgetting all technical benefits: people will always have opinions on headphones and it's rather fascinating that Apple owns the entire market for fashionable ones, despite there …

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    Comment #47268477

    Incredibly curious how Google's approach to support, naming, versioning etc will mesh with the iOS integration.

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    Comment #47172842

    There are competing terms currently being decided on by the market at large: AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) Candidly I am working on a st…

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    Comment #47171132

    There's this old gem about being able to ask Aristotle a question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YzLMPm3Jgw

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    Comment #47128641

    It would not surprise me that Yahoo Japan was the blueprint for many of these sites. It still is extremely popular as a portal destination.

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    Comment #46914849

    For those not as well-versed in corporate PR....Salesforce are going to do just the bare minimum to keep the service going until the revenue dries up (or some > 0 $$ threshold wher…

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    Comment #46851129

    Somewhat related but I was disappointed to learn that Time Machine would no longer support Time Capsule post Tahoe, which I suppose is fair 8 years post discontinuation, but also u…

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    Comment #46387643

    Amazon is generally good at 1) resolving an issue in your favor and 2) getting you to a human if needed but gosh does it feel like I've taken a different path to do so every single…

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    Comment #46194412

    While totally unaware of the underlying economics, I do find it interesting how the major LLM providers found a way to get a non-trivial portion of consumers to actually pay for th…

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    Comment #45983905

    Highly recommend adding some kind of canary like this in all LLM project instructions. I prefer my instructions to say 'always start output with an (uniquely decided by you) emoji'…

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    Comment #44989190

    While it could stand to be more aggressive at times, especially at intersections, FSD works fairly well in NYC and can do all of less-than-legal-but-necessary things a normal drive…

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    Comment #43166655

    The steak is sliced very thin and cooked (often with cheese incorporated), so think of it as more of a beef sandwich than a steak on bread.

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    Comment #43166433

    Plenty of those memes and reels ARE focused on 'IRL' activities, though. Obviously the full experience depends on your feed, but a lot of content is created and shared around resta…

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    Comment #42616050

    Are all the raised areas sitting on top of the jackscrews (where used) from 170 years ago? That itself is astounding.

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    Comment #42520184

    Fun fact: AMEX has been involved in international payments in one way or another for more than a 100 years and the AMEX card was the first international charge card, launched the s…

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    Comment #42506046

    FWIW Monday night games are available on standard ESPN and, sometimes, ABC and Sunday night games are on NBC. So you don't strictly speaking need Peacock or ESPN+