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by dx034 4y ago
It seems to me that few people today actually use extensions. They're hard to find in browsers (in Chrome you need to go through several clicks) and have warnings installing them. I'm always surprised to find that many non-technic
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by dx034 4y ago
So the question is, do we in future even need specialized models or will GPT4/5 outperform anything else? If general models can perform well in niche domains, it'd massively speed up adoption in companies.
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The Class of 2023 Faces a Jittery Job Market(wsj.com)
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by dx034 4y ago
The 100x analytics seems due to columnar storage like with TimescaleDB, but how do you get improvements on the other things? Is it really faster on a database with good indexes?
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by dx034 4y ago
But it shows here that it performs better than humans who did that in the past. Few annotation tasks were performed by experts. For example, I guess most annotations for animals weren't created by biologists. So tail cases were already
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by dx034 4y ago
Dishwashers were just an unimportant example. Construction, retail and logistics are examples where there's a lot of very simple tasks that robots cannot perform and that pay very poorly.
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by dx034 4y ago
I would assume some spy agencies already evaluate this. They get too much material to review manually and ChatGPT could really help identifying people they should look at closer. If it can be used that way, I guess we can expect export rest
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by dx034 4y ago
Absolutely. We've been great at building AI in software, but hardware is still absolutely lacking. Robots are nowhere near usable for even simple tasks, at least if they don't follow the same pattern each time. Just look at househ
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by dx034 4y ago
At least they opened up the product. It's available for anyone paying $20 per month and soon via API. Historically, most products of that kind were just aimed at large B2B. They announced partnerships with Duolingo, JPMorgan and a few
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by dx034 4y ago
Maybe it wasn't parameter count increase that made any of this possible but they don't want to give that away. By keeping all developments vague, it's harder to determine if they found some novel technique they don't wan
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by dx034 4y ago
Is there any way to know if the model is "holding back" knowledge? Could it have knowledge that it doesn't reveal to any prompt, and if so, is there any other way to find out? Or can we always assume it will reveal all it&#x2
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by dx034 4y ago
Search indexes are pretty smart at indexing and I assume they have custom rules for all large sites, including HN.
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by dx034 4y ago
But did you notice how many construction workers are shown there? You can certainly build faster with prefab, but it's still a very manual process, both at the factory and on the construction site. And anything afterwards (wiring, HVAC
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by dx034 4y ago
I use it actively and feel like recommendations have improved, at least for me. Ads are a bit more annoying but I've faced zero problems with stability. But I'm only reading, not actively tweeting.
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by dx034 4y ago
Could very well be. Especially in large companies, it's very hard to judge the importance of some roles and people. That's why there are always complains about how promotions work, no one has figured out how to value the work of a
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by dx034 4y ago
Then you've been at different small companies than I have. Obviously if you're the only person in tech at that company it's hard to do groundbreaking stuff. But small tech companies solve challenges everyday. And being able t
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by dx034 4y ago
Is that bad? You can solve interesting challenges in C# with CRUD stuff. Nothing that scales to millions of users, but there are challenges other than scaling.
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by dx034 4y ago
That's all of social media. I don't like what's happening there but I also don't see how Facebook engineers can change that. Closing Instagram just drives more people to TikTok which is arguably worse.
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by dx034 4y ago
The best people I've worked with stayed in the same role for 20+ years without any promotion. They did great work, knew exactly what to do and didn't have to play the politics game to get some favorable review for promotion. I wis
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by dx034 4y ago
> Then after a month of ChatGPT hype he wakes up and fires everybody. What a clown. Changing course when you realize you were wrong has nothing to do with being a clown. Not defending Zuckerberg or the lay off, but for large companies i
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by dx034 4y ago
Government bonds yield 3-4%. I don't think they ever calculated with a margin of just 4%. It's true that liquidity has dried up to some degree and companies have alternatives what to do with their money, but it's not like the
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by dx034 4y ago
Crypto might stay popular, but I also don't see any indication that web3 will live up to the hype. They still haven't found real use cases that need web3. Crypto, however, will remain popular as long as governments don't ban
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by dx034 4y ago
Construction is actually one of the few sectors that hasn't become more productive per employee over past decades. Buildings have become vastly more complicated but there's comparably little automation.
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by dx034 4y ago
Aren't technical challenges at smaller companies usually much more interesting? Pay is worse, but smaller companies usually offer much more freedom to implement your ideas and shape the company.
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by dx034 4y ago
In most big companies I've worked at, I thought I could identify the people who made everyone slower and were a net negative to productivity. However, they never seemed to be the ones threatened to be fired. Often they were really good
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by dx034 4y ago
So far, there seem to be surprisingly few issues. Some glitches here and there, but overall stability looks still quite good. I would've expected major issues much sooner, especially as they did push out new features in the meantime.
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by dx034 4y ago
Thanks for the info. Wouldn't it be worth insulating cars more with the shift to EV
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by dx034 4y ago
When it comes to refinancing at a bank, they certainly are. It's a very specific subject that few ever come in contact with. It's like kernel programming, also a topic that indirectly affects most people but is truly understood by
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by dx034 4y ago
If there's one thing the US has enough of, it's space. For Europe, that's going to be much harder. But the US has ample space to not only satisfy their own demand with renewables, but also export it in one form or another.
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by dx034 4y ago
1kw for air conditioning? Seems like a lot for a car..

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