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by pllbnk 1y ago
Remote work is the way out of this. It has the ability to free people from living near their workplaces that comes with a benefit of lower cost of living and higher quality all at the same time. However remote workers are fighting against b
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It's reassuring to know there are more people that feel that way about remote.
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During COVID WFH peak I naively thought that the government, especially the EU, will take the growth of remote working as an opportunity for its Green Deal the bureaucrats love so much talking about. It started falling apart quickly when th
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by pllbnk 1y ago
Interesting thoughts, to which I partially agree. 1. The progress is there but it's been slowing down yet the downsides have largely remained. 1.1. With the LLMs, while thanks to the larger context window (mostly achieved via hardware,
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by pllbnk 1y ago
Given that the goal of generative AI is to generate content that is virtually indistinguishable from expert creative people, I think it's one of these scenarios: 1. If the goal is achieved, which is highly unlikely, then we get very ve
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by pllbnk 2y ago
With my limited knowledge, I can't help but wonder, aren't current Transformer-based LLMs facing the five nines problem of their own? We're reaching a point where next token prediction accuracy improves merely linearly (maybe
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by pllbnk 2y ago
Actually, a lot of jobs that are listed as "hybrid" can be negotiated to remote.
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I also see this as spreading FUD. I have led quite many remote interviews recently with European candidates and I can guarantee that not one of them was an AI generated pretender. Also, since LLMs is a popular topic nowadays, it was easy to
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by pllbnk 2y ago
Just today I have been looking through old photos of mine and saw a few pictures from a team building night in one of my previous workplaces 9 years ago. Out of around 10 people I only remembered the names of two, and then two more after so
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by pllbnk 2y ago
> It was already pretty clear that this was not the case as even GPT3 could do summarization well enough, and there is no probabilistic link between the words of a text and the gist of the content, <...> I am not an expert by any m
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by pllbnk 2y ago
ChatGPT is mostly a tool which prints words on the screen; what the user does with those words is outside the domain and the area of responsibility of OpenAI. With iOS the expectation is that it will also do actions. It's almost a bles
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by pllbnk 2y ago
No one is taking credit, but no one is giving credit either, which is nearly the same. Also, to your second point, when you (speaking of any regular person) put in the number of hours, it might not be valuable. When the domain expert puts
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by pllbnk 2y ago
That's a very interesting and refreshing take. But that's the culture that has been nurtured in the capitalist present - climb up to the top and push the ladder behind you.
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I support it in general because regardless of the origin of the business, if it has significant power to control the market, this power has to be removed. However, what I am concerned with more, and this is not being discussed at all in the
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by pllbnk 2y ago
How can they claim that GPT is talking about that specific person? Have they tried asking it to also print a personal ID or some other information identifying that person? One of the news websites says ChatGPT printed this: "He was the
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by pllbnk 2y ago
The problem is nobody knows if they are really better at targeting ads. They say so, of course, but who could prove it? Google is the main player in the ad industry and when they say that they are the best, everybody hears them. If a small
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by pllbnk 2y ago
I don’t think there are many people of such caliber in the country as Putin has gotten rid of any potential competition. It’s likely Western countries would be able to sign Budapest-like memorandums and get those nukes in favor of some guar
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by pllbnk 2y ago
Not nobody. Some of us would love the prospect of not having Russia border our countries anymore.
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I think with the current monopolistic trajectory there will not be the next generation of US companies because current companies just buy up everything that shows any kind of potential. There's no benefit to society from trillion-dolla
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by pllbnk 2y ago
There's no reason not to think that within their current model architecture they accidentally discovered lucky configuration which helps them achieve better results than competitors. While companies still need tens of thousands of GPUs
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by pllbnk 2y ago
Long time ago the European company I worked for tried getting into the US market. They embarked on looking for potential clients and partners. Soon after they discovered that the American counterparts wouldn't even want to talk to them
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by pllbnk 2y ago
In software engineering divide and conquer is considered a key pattern. In business, it is widely considered that large monolithic entities are the most efficient at delivering results. My point of view is that these large entities seem and
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What I would like remote working advocates to say more for the benefits of this arrangement is not only the time saved, being with families, but also these things regarding pollution: by not driving to the offices co-located in the same dis
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Mostly niche services of local relevance such as local online shops. I could probably email their support and ask to update my email address but often it's not worth the effort because I can still keep my gmail for low importance mail.
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by pllbnk 2y ago
That's an interesting juxtaposition. I think the core difference here is still that home address is somewhat bound to a physical location; you could have a central registry which maps the old address to the new and carry them that way
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Interesting. What do you think will replace email in 20 years as a means of identification? I could imagine forced log ins via corporate authorization servers but that would defeat the purpose of having custom domain and email.
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It used to be before government regulations were put in place. I don't care much about the technical feasibility currently. When and if a law is put in place it becomes up to the developers to create a solution.
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You could have said the same about using a GSM provider's SIM card back in the day. Yet, now we can easily switch the provider without changing the number.
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"That's not how internet works" is as powerful an argument as "That's not how GSM works". Buying a domain and setting up a new email address won't help you when you have been using your @gmail.com for the
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Ask HN: Why there's no email address portability like with phone numbers?
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