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by sberens 3y ago
Interesting, about 95% of your comments in the last year are saying something negative about Meta/Zuck.
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by sberens 3y ago
Hm, my tech job tracker[0] shows that it's probably one of the worst hiring markets ever. Where do you see that the market is still strong? [0] https://www.hnhiringtrends.com/
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by sberens 4y ago
I think the fundamental problem with OS-level ads is that they're by design irrelevant. I don't mind Google search ads because I'm searching for something related. But in the OS, if I'm opening the start menu, my intenti
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by sberens 4y ago
> Autonomous cars in San Francisco made 92 unplanned stops between May and December 2022 So about one unplanned stop every 3 days? Seems a bit of a stretch to call it "clogging" San Francisco.
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by sberens 4y ago
> other models are in the ballpark How true is this? From playing around with Bard and Claude, GPT-4 seems to be significantly better, especially around code generation / understanding.
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by sberens 4y ago
Author here, happy to answer any questions about the experiment!
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Substack Decupled My Subscriber Growth(simonberens.com)
1 points by sberens 4y ago|1 comments
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by sberens 4y ago
> It would have increased profitability at that time, too. Not necessarily. The profit(headcount) function generally varies over time.
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by sberens 4y ago
Just to note, 3 years later they did release a phone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_First
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by sberens 4y ago
Personally, I'm really excited for the era of generative AI powered customer support. Hopefully it will bring low wait times, knowledgeable "representatives", and fast escalation.
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by sberens 4y ago
There was hype around Crypto because people were making large sums of money from it, despite unclear "real" uses beyond easily moving large sums of money around. There is hype around AI because hundreds of millions of people (incl
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by sberens 4y ago
> The legislation will leave fewer than 10 big banks in the United States subject to stricter federal oversight, freeing thousands of banks with less than $250 billion in assets from a post-crisis crackdown that they have long complained
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Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback (2018)(nytimes.com)
3 points by sberens 4y ago|1 comments
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by sberens 4y ago
Oops I meant text embeddings
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by sberens 4y ago
I'm looking forward to an OpenAI quality embedding that I can use locally. I think eliminating the latency/cost from calling their API will allow for some novel UX patterns.
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by sberens 4y ago
> As WebGPU does not support FP16 at this moment, the memory consumption of running the demo is about 7GB. For Apple silicon Mac with only 8GB of unified memory, it may take longer (a few minutes) to generate an image. This demo may also
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by sberens 4y ago
Yeah it only counts top level comments
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by sberens 4y ago
Ah thanks for pointing that out! I'll see if I can fix it. Edit: should be fixed!
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by sberens 4y ago
Actually I just realized because the "looking" comment format includes "remote: ", filtering by "remote" doesn't do much. You should filter by "remote: yes" if you want to see people who want to
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by sberens 4y ago
Thanks! Yeah, I'm working on adding an option to normalize everything by some measure of activity around each data point.
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by sberens 4y ago
Really cool! FYI, the labels in the x-axis for the first two charts overlap with each other for me. https://pasteboard.co/4ts0uaUQopxJ.png
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Show HN: Historical HN Hiring Data(hnhiringtrends.com)
146 points by sberens 4y ago|22 comments
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Show HN: HN Hiring Data Playground(hnhiringtrends.com)
2 points by sberens 4y ago|1 comments
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by sberens 4y ago
I guess it's time for me to put prompt injection attacks into my submissions
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Bing Chat Is a Precursor to Something Legitimately Dangerous(simonberens.com)
2 points by sberens 4y ago|0 comments
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Substack Has an 11.5x Higher Conversion Rate Than Squarespace(simonberens.com)
3 points by sberens 4y ago|0 comments
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by sberens 4y ago
I think yes, at least for coding. Pre-ChatGPT, when I was working with an unfamiliar language or framework, my workflow would be: google something -> skim top links for what looks helpful -> click on one of them -> parse through mo
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by sberens 4y ago
I wish I was good enough of a fiction writer to fake this :/
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by sberens 4y ago
My desire to increase my productivity was not solely (or largely) driven by doing better at my job; I find it's relatively easy to be productive if you go into the office. I mainly wanted to get a lot of side projects/hobbies done
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by sberens 4y ago
Yeah I built that chrome extension I linked (WebBlock). ActivityWatch is great for single device tracking, but I wish there was a tool for multi-device tracking and also away-from-device tracking (tracking gym, sleep, etc...) that integrate

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