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by rexreed 4y ago
The HackerNews community is not reflective of the general tech, consumer, or business environment. First-hand experience in delivering and selling AI solutions to enterprises and governments plus activity at conferences, venture capital inv
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by rexreed 4y ago
I'm experimenting with your Discord bot right now. It would be great to have a command that shows where your processes are currently in the queue or maybe the discord bot can update on queue position.
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IKEA has been shipping flat chairs for several decades. I guess we can shortcut the tedious assembly process by watering our chairs instead. Sounds like a solution in search of a problem?
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"AI-designed optical filter blurs out areas of an image that don't match the pre-trained network design" - seems to be a bit more on point.
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It's not about efficiency, it's about avoiding getting caught for criminal acts. Since criminals don't pay taxes on their earnings and don't have to pay for all sorts of things others do, they're already more "
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by rexreed 4y ago
RPA is such an awful term for what is really primarily scripted or screen-recorded software bots that automate UI tasks, but I guess RPA is sexier. The term still seems to confuse people it seems.
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Have you been following what's been happening in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? Much of that isn't even AI and it is having an impact on the workforce.
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The # of banks and financial institutions stays fairly stable so that covers the ongoing fixed costs. The number of transactions is highly variable so that covers the variable costs. According to https://bank.codes/us-routin
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The fee is so minimal ($25/mo per bank / $0.05 per transaction) that any bank that even attempts to pass it through is really doing a disservice to their account holders. That said, I put nothing past Wells Fargo or Bank of Americ
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It would seem from the article here [0] that pricing for FedNow is $25/mo per routing number (which generally means per bank not per account, since many accounts at a bank share the same routing number) and about $0.05 per credit trans
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by rexreed 4y ago
It's $25/mo per routing transit number , which means basically per bank or financial institution, since each bank has usually one or a handful of routing numbers, even if they have millions of accounts. I'd like clarificatio
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How does the subscription / onboarding process work, especially if they cancel their AirTable, etc? Did you already write any posts about how that flow works?
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What customer support needs generally take up the most of your time? By rest of your time, are you talking 40 hour weeks? 60 hr weeks? Just trying to understand the time commitment for this amount of MRR
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Do you handle payments outside of Airtable? Just curious how the payment system works and who controls the customer relationship and what Airtable takes as a cut, who handles the recurring payments, etc.
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Can you share how much you invested cost-wise in the prototype process? Curious to know how expensive the "keyboard hobby" is.
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The old joke goes: "What's the easiest way to make a small fortune? Start with a large one."
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I guess a distinction between a "successful" scammer (Adam Neumann) and an "unsuccessful" scammer (Elizabeth Holmes). Scammers alike but I guess different post-scam collapse treatment by the investment community. Makes y
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I used to have a high opinion of venture capital, seeing them as tech visionaries and folks with access to deep pockets that fund the best technology that is truly changing the world. Maybe something has changed, but now all I see are just
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I agree, and a few other comments here also say that the call that executives are operational geniuses is far fetched. Most are sociopathic ladder climbers looking out for no one but themselves. Corporations aren't meritocracies - you
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Specifically, it's Lead Acetate vs a lump of metal lead. "Lead acetate, also known as sugar of lead, is a salt that (ironically) has a sweet flavor—a fairly unusual quality in poisons, which are more likely to taste bitter, signal
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by rexreed 4y ago
What if it's your CEO? Or someone from the bank? Or a college professor? Or a political prisoner?
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In 2019 Cognilytica did a voice assistant benchmark testing Alexa, Siri, Cortana, and Google home. Those voice assistants didn't do so great, adequately answering only 30% of the questions correctly. This Blenderbot fails completely, u
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Spending 5 minutes with it makes it clear it's no anything killer. My guess is that Meta will be turning this off as quickly as they shut down their M messenger.
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That's exactly what I believe happened. This is where the bot fails because it can't adequately understand the context of the term, which any human could pick up quickly. And it can't get basic facts right, treating informati
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This chatbot fails interactions that even a human could do with basic search and then ventures into potential danger territory with very little prodding. Clearly no Turing test winner. Example: Bot: Hey! I'm happy to chat about anythin
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You might be surprised then about the total impact of Citizens United because it's not as basic as you imply. "That decision and subsequent lower court decisions have led to SuperPACs, which allow corporations, unions and individu
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It sounds funny because it is in the context of Citizens United v. FEC, which struck down as unconstitutional a federal law prohibiting corporations and unions from making expenditures in connection with federal elections. In that case, the
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It was the consumer's choice on what to buy and where to buy it from. But demand for low prices, regardless of where and how things are manufactured (overseas and in sweatshops) and lack of demand for accountability in the 1980s and 19
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Apple is always in a win situation for themselves. They win from cheap labor (China labor, low US prices). They win from large markets (China). They win from keeping unions out of their sweatshops. They win by imposing their large will on d
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Of course they want their intellectual property cake and to eat it too. Companies want to be treated like people if they are creating campaign and advocacy content that is protected by the first amendment, but they don't want AI system

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