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by starbugs 3y ago
I also hope that it will eventually wake up people and show what's really important. But I'm afraid we're far off from that happening.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Just one thing to add: Reduce the line length and make the font slightly bigger. Maybe increase the line height a bit.
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Just pass them into ChatGPT and ask for a summary - problem solved! Ask for an overly polite answer instead. You don't need to mention that it should be wordy. GPT will take care of that naturally.
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by starbugs 3y ago
It appears to be good enough to make you believe its answers are trustworthy. It's bad enough that you should not trust it with anything it says and doublecheck everything that it produces. It's great for getting started quick, bu
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by starbugs 3y ago
> HN is a bit of an exception Even here, depending on the felt "hotness" of the topic in the community, you might get a lot of negative sentiment for trying to find a middle ground or daring to look at generalized claims in mor
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by starbugs 3y ago
Certainly there’s this problem in many areas. I was just wondering how big of a deal that might be in this case. Just had another of those experiences with GPT4 where it goes into a contradictory loop it cannot recover from. It seems there
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by starbugs 3y ago
> It only seeks to elicit the same angry rants ... Goes on to submit the angriest rant of all.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how does that make sure that the training process is not going into the wrong direction because of error accumulation? Maybe I didn't understand something fundamental here. (Not an LLM expert.)
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by starbugs 3y ago
> This and, especially if the decision maker made it to their level based on merrit. Assuming a competence hierarchy, that should equal competence. Unfortunately, oftentimes it's not a competence hierarchy. In those cases, it may ta
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by starbugs 3y ago
> So we're better with benevolent dictators. Making a decision based on input from relevant coworkers while being competent in the domain you are making the decision in isn't exactly dictatorship?
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by starbugs 3y ago
I'll be blunt. In commercial settings, it is often done for marketing purposes. Well done open source projects can have an edge over the closed source competition just because they are open source. Often commercial support or licenses
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by starbugs 3y ago
> I don't think consensus-building is necessarily bad on it's own. Making decisions based on consensus is just often not the right choice in this context. If used for the wrong type of decision, it will lead to a "design b
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by starbugs 3y ago
In the early days, I made the bad decision to buy an HP laptop. Must have been around 2001 or something. Worst laptop I ever owned. After that, I never bought anything HP again. Said laptop went into the bin a year after I bought it because
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by starbugs 3y ago
Sleep. If I didn't skip it, it's not mentioned in the article, but it's very important in my experience. If you don't sleep enough, going through with a reduced calorie intake will be much harder. I personally tend to ov
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by starbugs 3y ago
250 km/h for most models that are limited. But not all are.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Thank you. Just wanted to find out if a little bit of joking is still allowed on HN.
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Why are cars designed to be capable of going much faster than the speed limit? German here. I don't understand the question.
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by starbugs 3y ago
And the consumer will pay for it.
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by starbugs 3y ago
> What's appealing about this? I don't know, but billions and upon billions are being poured into it and many "smart" people are striving for it. Men's way to "give birth"?
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by starbugs 3y ago
I must say I have no idea if this is actually true, but sure as hell it feels like exactly that's what has happened. Twitter basically made an example that made layoffs a valid option in the heads of many people I guess.
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by starbugs 3y ago
> This does seem like more of a political play Agreed. That's why I added "At least that's what the EU says." The EU is clearly whining because the Chinese local market imploded, so they are now exporting more of thei
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by starbugs 3y ago
Thank you for yours as well. It's an interesting discussion. As another commenter pointed out, it all depends on the electricity source regarding the carbon life cycle. I posted another comment with the best detailed analysis for my cu
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Somehow they ended up being more expensive, unless we're talking about Chinese brands The Chinese brands' pricing seems to be at least in part due to subsidies: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/e
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Also, just food for thought: If one unit of gas has one 1kWh energy, a heat pump can make 3-4kWh out of it (You are following right?). Not really following. I think that's a central point of the discussion. Is that COP realistic?
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by starbugs 3y ago
> big part of oil money has gone to lobbying That may be true (as it probably is for most big industries), but what does it have to do with what I have been saying? I have been talking about a comparison between two electric systems. The
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Were these studies, or "studies" that were effectively marketing for Russian supplied gas I guess your next comment will be that the Fraunhofer Institut has been infiltrated by Russians? https://www.ibp.fraunhofer.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Ok that makes sense then. Most people here will compare against an existing gas or oil heating installation I guess...
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by starbugs 3y ago
> kind of flippant accusation No. I rather meant to indicate that it might have been a good decision. There are some studies here from Germany that suggest that heat pump systems can lead to higher total CO2 emissions than using alternat
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Aren't they also inappropriate for showers, as in they can't heat the water fast enough for a hot shower? Yep. I have looked at some newly built homes in my area. All of those that have heat pumps have flow heaters installed
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by starbugs 3y ago
> We did, or rather received such calculations from the providers. Well, the calculations from the providers are highly likely to be "optimized". I would suggest the first point one might check is if the given COP is realistic.

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