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dsco
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Comment #48278892
Yeah I'm getting an error where it says account has been suspended. They really are becoming an embarassment
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Comment #47879863
Yeah but it also then strikes the perfect balance between being meticulous and pragmatic. Also it pushes back much more often than other models in that mode.
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Comment #47879823
Same here. I feel like all of these shenanigans could be because Anthropic are compute constrained, forcing then to take reckless risks around reducing it.
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Comment #47851945
Because you can't do it in public since it's illegal, but club toilets is where people take it.
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Comment #45964756
This is still the case for me
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Comment #45721600
Yes if we squint really hard then this could be the reason. It could also be because it's a PR disaster.
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Comment #45536059
This is unfair and why people see HN as largely a pessimistic crowd. Just because someone might be wrong doesn't mean they are actively trying to deceit you, which I assume you mea…
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Comment #44801032
Does anyone get the demos at https://www.gpt-oss.com to work, or are the servers down immediately after launch? I'm only getting the spinner after prompting.
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Comment #43818345
Fantastic product! I almost feel bad for Screen Studio as he's a solo creator and charges for the product, this will most certainly be bad news for him
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Show HN: An inline UX and conversion helper for developers
We've been building a tool called checkra.io to help solo developers with conversion recommendations, copywriting and UX. It's a JS snippet (script tag or npm) that adds a floating…
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Comment #43568856
I've seen this comment a couple of times. What would be a better way of doing it? Also consider that if they would've had a more complex formula, what would be the cost of needing …
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Comment #43398659
I wish I could do this for Spotify. Paid plans still include ads. They cram ads into podcast episodes which themselves also have ads, so you'll get the read ads + Spotify's local a…
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Comment #43391484
This was an incredible episode interweaving engineering, politics and an idea of where the world might be headed the next 20-30 years.
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Comment #43125253
See I kind of buy the database argument but also kind of don't. A database needs an operator whereas a LLM doesn't. You're basically melting the product into a piece of goo and the…
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Comment #42828685
How is it not emerging, if the phenomena hasn’t been hard-wired in and is unexpected?
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Comment #42442448
Things are the way they are. Sometimes you can’t be rational about things.
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Comment #42379481
How much are you saving running your own GPU infra? What are the total monthly costs for the service?
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Comment #42262861
This already happened with SBF who operated under a democrat administration. The more interesting conversation is how could the UX and potentially AI based investment assistants pr…
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Comment #42222961
It’s also a result of German unions. It’s practically impossible to fire people in the auto industry, so effectively what we do at VW is we have deadweight organisations where peop…
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Comment #41707803
Are there any areas where an AI startup can actually make an impact? All I've seen is either billion+ funded foundational models, or thin GPT wrappers - all with the same probabili…
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Comment #41626640
Another riff on this is that you won’t get better products, but more products. AI reduces the barrier of entry and you’ll have many products doing niche things (often for free!) in…
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Comment #41119694
On paper. https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/2024-06-11-us-senator...
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Comment #40842879
Where is this goal documented? I’ve seen some very counter productive immigration policies in the EU, but using migrants as a way to preserve asset prices and suppress real wages i…
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Comment #40705442
What a beautiful piece of writing, which hits close to home for me, as I've always kind of managed side projects and my full-time jobs during office hours.