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by benterix 1y ago
Yeah, I always unconsciously assumed it's just a random slice, never thought deeper about this. Thanks, HN!
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So?
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Out of curiosity: how do you connect your databases to external services that are consuming these data? In places I do similar work, databases are usually in the same private network as the instances which are reading and writing data to th
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by benterix 1y ago
It baffled me a bit as the rich use watches, too, and they use them a lot, and they are acutely aware of passing time. Are other articles by the same author also addressing inequality issues? So I found this: https://prajyoth.pag
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by benterix 1y ago
I noticed some companies ask for a LI profile, and sometimes this field is mandatory. So a few years ago I created an empty LI profile, just saying "consultant" started 20 years ago. Strangely enough, it wasn't a problem at a
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by benterix 1y ago
I had to go through this shit show once in my life, in order to use Airbnb. It's been a few years since I last used Airbnb and I regret that moment of weakness.
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> now it won't let me use the headset without "verifying" my facebook account by sending them a photograph of my drivers license. I believe this would be the first time in my life that I would try to generate a fake driver
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Fortunately we still have the analog loophole.
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> (I don't think it was very nice of whoever downvoted you, presumably because you're wrong, given you explicitly allowed that you might not be getting it.) I believe this is how this website works: if someone thinks you are wr
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> I am curious though, would this job that mom goes back to actually be more "productive" than taking care of a four year-old and two-year old human child? Actually, any job she likes? In this case, it's not for the baby,
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by benterix 1y ago
Not sure about your point. I live in Europe, and State pays for the first 1 year or two. Then you get your kid to preschool which is either paid or free. In this way the mother (who usually has more burden related to breastfeeding etc.) can
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You are right, I can't prove the validity of "users are finding utility from the Metaverse". I somewhat can argue that the device itself is indeed useful though: https://patentpc.com/blog/vr-headset-sales
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What recent history showed us is that neither of LLM providers is unique, people switch models easily, nobody cares about the name but about the optimal performance for a given task (which can vary a lot between use cases). (For example, Mi
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https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-quest-store-revenue-milestone-...
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Not the concept but the device itself - for players.
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Possibly. With one caveat: to do ecommerce I just need a VPS and WooCommerce or Prestashop on it. In order to do GenAI, I either need to have an order of magnitude (or more) expensive server, or using an API which depending on usage might g
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The truth is we have no idea. Personally I'm 100% sure the future will look nothing like what Altman is saying, but I'm a logical person so I have to admit there exist a minuscule probability these GenAI CEO's vision will com
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Yeah. I worked in places where using LLMs actually made sense but in very limited scenarios (the results were then checked by humans anyway). But there are many places when using LLMs is actually hurting the business, especially if this is
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So does ReactOS.
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No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1986) [pdf](cs.unc.edu)
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Yeah but in spite of that if you ask me take a Jira ticket and do it properly, there is a much higher chance that I'll do it reliably and the rest of my team will be satisfied, whereas if I bring an LLM into the equation it will wreak
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> The vast majority of programmers don't know assembly, so can in fact not work without all the abstractions they rely on. The problem with this analogy is obvious when you imagine an assembler generating machine code that doesn&#x2
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Except that (1) the other party doesn't become smart, (2) the one who delegates doesn't become stupid, it just loses the opportunity to become smarter when compared to a human who'd actually do the work.
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Well, in real life you always have a gradient (or, more usually, a normal distribution) - actually it would be interesting to understand what the actual distribution is and how it changes with time.
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I fully agree. Using LLMs for learning concepts is great if you combine it with actively using/testing your knowledge. But outsourcing your tasks to an LLM makes your inner muscles weaker.
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That would be true if several conditions were fulfilled, starting with LLMs being actually to do their tasks properly, which they still very much struggle with which basically defeats the premise of moving up an abstraction layer if you hav
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We are literally witnessing the skills split right in front of our eyes: (1) people who are able to understand the concepts deeply, build a mental model of it and implement them in code at any level, and (2) people who outsource it to a mac
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I guess someone could make such a video, the question is, would anyone have the patience to watch it.
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It depends where the the compute resources using these images are located.
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> live happy Until the next major upgrade.

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