NewUser76312

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by NewUser76312 8mo ago
Is anyone else entirely unimpressed / bored with this? It's just AI mimicking reddit... I really don't see the big deal or technical innovations, if any.
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by NewUser76312 8mo ago
Because we live in the most politicized time in history, enabled by social media. We also have the largest proportion ever of mentally ill and under/unemployed people in America with nothing better to do, no real career and/or fam
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by NewUser76312 8mo ago
I don't understand, doesn't the market solve these issues? Here's what I figure would happen: 1. App creators will pass the extra cost over to the iPhone users. 2. Android (and other platforms that can host smartphone apps) w
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by NewUser76312 8mo ago
Here's what's actually different: - This admin is deporting less than Obama was during his first year in office despite promises to the contrary, - There is now organized harassment and resistance stopping federal agents from remo
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by NewUser76312 8mo ago
Meta comment: it seems like you can only voice a particular direction on the politic topic of immigration enforcement on this thread without getting downvoted. The opinion is obvious because everyone automatically jumps to malice as opposed
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by NewUser76312 8mo ago
"I've noticed" was my wording - communicating my claim and opinion. I will make claims and opinions on a message forum, thank you very much. Unless you want to pull up a specific moderation rule instructing me otherwise. &quo
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by NewUser76312 8mo ago
LLMs have already proven themselves to be economically valuable. At a bare minimum, they can help people develop most low-mid level software considerably faster, at a good enough quality. They also have proven themselves in other white coll
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by NewUser76312 8mo ago
Ok but can we get into the nuts and bolts of what we actually want these robots to do? Because every time I think of something, either an existing industrial setup can or will do it better, or a special-purpose device will beat it. So gener
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by NewUser76312 8mo ago
The hardware is great and can definitely scale. That's why as a caveat I think teleoperation is a good general purpose application cluster for these. But I really struggle to come up with any other economically viable short-term use ca
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Ask HN: Does anyone else think that humanoid robots is a bubble?
5 points by NewUser76312 8mo ago|9 comments
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by NewUser76312 9mo ago
Meta comment - what a weird comment to downvote. I am expressing curiosity in good faith after reading the article, with a fairly logical follow up. What is the point of commenting in this community if it's primarily cynicism and negat
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by NewUser76312 9mo ago
Interesting indeed. Does such a finding suggest any worthwhile easy-to-try 'treatments' that may help alleviate symptoms? I don't know much about the biochemistry here, I assume this is not something like GABA that can be dir
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by NewUser76312 9mo ago
No, "AI" is software, and software is a tool, and tools aren't people that should pay taxes. You wouldn't charge your CNC Machine taxes for the productive labor it produces that could have otherwise been done by a dozen
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by NewUser76312 10mo ago
Costco doesn't seem to be like a monopoly, broadly speaking they compete with many grocery stores and bulk food outlets. That being said they often have solid inventory, and the samples used to be a nice touch until all my local locati
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by NewUser76312 10mo ago
They seem decent enough. I barely play games these days, so I don't fully understand the value they add. Just seems like a convenient app store that lets me port my collection across different computers.
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Ask HN: Are there any business monopolies that you like?
2 points by NewUser76312 10mo ago|10 comments
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by NewUser76312 10mo ago
I loved Pebble back in the day, and Eric is a great guy and friend to entrepreneurs trying to build cool things. I do wonder how a modern revival of Pebble will compete from a product perspective within the current landscape. Obviously ther
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by NewUser76312 10mo ago
OK but surely it can do this given your instructional prompting. I get they have a default behavior, which perhaps isn't your (or my) preference.
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Ask HN: What's holding back industrial robot automation in America?
3 points by NewUser76312 11mo ago|3 comments
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by NewUser76312 11mo ago
People comparing this to GPT-2 is very interesting. While it sounds like a nice analogy or even a good story to investors, the fundamentals are very different. To train GPT, all of the training data (the internet of text, scanned books, etc
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by NewUser76312 11mo ago
That's fine, but for future reference, robotic arms should have their specs listed and quantified - stuff like reach, payload, repeatability. If I'm a researcher, how do I know if this arm can do what I need? I can only infer so m
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by NewUser76312 11mo ago
> I would say the problem is that most manufacturers, including chinese, sell you platforms that are not reliable enough for AI manipulation, and there's a race to the bottom for it, to which we try not to participate Pretty lofty c
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by NewUser76312 11mo ago
That's just one example that came to mind. I guarantee I could dig for 30 mins and find a mobile manipulator platform from China that kills it on hardware-to-price ratio that is either 'open enough' or could be made so. As so
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by NewUser76312 1y ago
That's a cool little robot, and I see the appeal, definitely as an educational toy. I don't think the fidelity is there for real autonomous research. But the bigger issue imo is that there's no way this should cost $2000. You
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by NewUser76312 1y ago
Stuff like this is sad, especially looking at the costs involved. It just shows the stark contrast: China is interested in building and being competitive (through unruly means as well as legitimate ones) while the US is a 'lawfare soci
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Ask HN: Does anyone work with VLMs in inudstry? What's your experience?
1 points by NewUser76312 1y ago|0 comments
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by NewUser76312 1y ago
Of course not, what's the purpose of asking such as silly question? Are you being snarky and suggesting that employees deserve the same upside that founders deserve?
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by NewUser76312 1y ago
I'm still not sold on these "AIs in your codebase" tools. Same for 'vibe coding'. I use AI like a scalpel - I go in and figure out exactly what I want, use my prompting experience to get a few functions, or up to 1
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by NewUser76312 1y ago
Good comment, agree for the most part. >wrappers that implement proprietary algorithms can still thrive in the long run. This is true, but they need to defend from multiple fronts. Do you believe in Perplexity long-term, or a) OpenAI mov
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by NewUser76312 1y ago
I don't agree with this word trickery of 'everything is just a wrapper'. The internet, browsers, and rest APIs are much more like scaffolding or 'infrastructure'. Internet (and/or browser) :: website or webapp

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