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2y ago
Perhaps, given economies of scale, it's difficult for smaller more ethical companies to compete even with the price-fixed conglomerate product. There are some more ethical companies, too. In N Out french fries are $2.30, certainly due
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2y ago
If we had some sort of enhancement that makes horses 500% faster and stronger, we probably would.
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2y ago
Amazing progress by open-source. However, the 64K input tokens and especially the 8K output token limit can be frustrating vs o1's 200K / 100K limit. Still, at 1/30th the API cost this is huge.
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2y ago
So let's ban all artificial food dyes. Natural ones work fine. Artificial dyes lead to a race of food manufacturers adding more dye to make their junk food products more appealing.
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2y ago
No need to bother with a partial vacuum when ethanol boils at around 80 C as well and doesn't destroy electronics. I'm not aware of any active cooling systems utilizing this though.
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2y ago
I think Reddit's API changes and more did lead to an Exodus of a good chunk of power users that gave the site more of an identity. But what's worse is the official Reddit clients gamify using Reddit so much that, on the whole, con
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2y ago
There's perhaps no better site than HN to be open source and allow community improvements. Why isn't it?
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2y ago
Offer your team a $100 gift card for every $1,000 shaved off in monthly cloud costs
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2y ago
No it doesn't. "When did Jeff Baena die?" > There is no record or credible report indicating that Jeff Baena has passed away. As of the most recent information available, he is still alive. My training data includes inform
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2y ago
I had a family friend who was convinced Y2K would be the collapse of society. He bought a safehouse in the woods and spent nearly a year stocking it with all sorts of prepper stuff. After Christmas they packed up everything from their lives
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2y ago
AI companies love standardized tests because that's what LLMs are really good at: short problems with objective solutions. LLMs do worse on problems that are more open-ended, like SWE-bench, which GPT-4 achieved a whopping 1.74% on.
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2y ago
This article was published today and is based on GPT 3.5. The findings won't be that useful.
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2y ago
You could create pump.fun on non-crypto rails too, but your bank and payment processor would kick you off in a heartbeat.
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2y ago
The orthographic image is the coolest thing I've seen in a while! This is some remarkable engineering. I expected the images to be much lower quality but they look great.
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2y ago
You're literally the type of selfish person you're complaining about.
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2y ago
That's ok, I had an asbestos popcorn ceiling in my room and I'd climb up on the bunk bed and scrape the popcorn off when I was bored
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2y ago
The default view is only for projects that have paid this website owner a portion of their token supply. Very shady.
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2y ago
This is awesome. I have an assistant that I develop for my personal use and integrations are the more difficult part - this is a game changer. Now let's see a similar abstraction on the client side - a unified way of connecting your as
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2y ago
In liquids the speed of sound is related to the density, I would have thought similar for air but I see your point. Very insightful!
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2y ago
The launch of Bitcoin ETF options yesterday is a likely catalyst for a gamma squeeze, hard to see this not hitting $100K by year end.
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2y ago
Especially in classes that grade on a curve, you're now competing with students who do cheat using LLMs, so you have almost no choice.
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2y ago
Story time: a few years ago I got a call out of the blue from some guy claiming to be a lawyer working for my old company. He named a specific product that I'd built for them a couple years prior and said they're embroiled in this
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2y ago
AIs talking to AIs... at the end of the day the real winner is always Nvidia
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2y ago
The author mentions needing a small storage service and paying for JSONStorage. In fact, when I've needed this sort of thing in the past, Google Sheets is an amazing tiny database for projects. It has pretty generous API rate limits an
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2y ago
This is a really cool execution of an idea that's been floating out there a while. Next you just need a bitcoin one in the shape of a coin!
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2y ago
This is a really nice solution to web scraping and page Q&A. It doesn't seem to have much 'automation' in the sense that I can't point it to Google Flights and ask it to book me a flight to Denver. I tried that and i
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2y ago
I'm just happy OpenAI hasn't gone through a half dozen rebrandings like Google has with Assistant / PaLM / Sparrow / Bard / Gemini
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2y ago
Theodore Roosevelt was well known for monopoly-busting. It is something the president can influence and the U.S. has a dozen major monopolies that should have been busted long ago.
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2y ago
I'd point out that one advantage Go has over Rust in terms of security are the coverage of standard libraries. Go has great support for HTTP clients/servers, cryptography primitives, SSH, SQL, JSON, secure RNG, etc. all in officia
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2y ago
> Perplexity is on standby to help ensure your essential coverage is available to all through the election. This doesn't read to me as it's interpreted in the headline. Perplexity is not an AI software engineer product, it'
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