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alvis··on Bank Failures Visualized
At times, it's not the size that matters, but rather the quantity that makes a chain reaction
alvis··on OpenAI's ChatGPT Blocked in Italy
If privacy is a concern, facebook or twitter or instagram should have be banned long long long time ago, why ChatGPT? What if a government ban everything but only those which agree with their voice, as in China?
alvis··on OpenAI's ChatGPT Blocked in Italy
Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations

https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-privacy-regulator-ba...

alvis··on ChatGPT Plugins
A rogue AI with real-time access to sensitive data wreaks havoc on global financial markets, causing panic and chaos. It's just not hard to see it's going to happen. Like faster car must ended up someone get a horrible crash.

But it's our responsibility to envision such grim possibilities and take necessary precautions to ensure a safe and beneficial AI-driven future. Until we're ready, let's prepare for the crash >~<

alvis··on GPT-4
IMO, it's a good opportunity to re-think about exam and future of education. For many schools, education = good results in exams. Now GPT-4 is going to slam them and say what's the point now!
alvis··on GPT-4
It'd be terrifying if everything has an "accuracy score". It'll be a convergence to human intelligence rather than an advancement :/
alvis··on GPT-4
GTP4 demo today in the next 2 hours!

https://youtube.com/live/outcGtbnMuQ

alvis··on Meta plans to lay off 10k employees
A players always in demand, no matter whatever the economic situation. They have the freedom to choose wherever they want to work.

I'm not sure how many A players have left meta, but I'm sure A players never want to work in a low morale company. The damage is much higher than layoff number.

alvis··on Meta plans to lay off 10k employees
The message is loud and clear "As I’ve talked about efficiency this year, I’ve said that part of our work will involve removing jobs". & no surprise, "future" has only mentioned 4 times

Mr Zuckerberg, what is the future of social connection?

alvis··on Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
To be fair, cost is the only thing that is prohibiting applications to adapt GPT. Even when GPT-3 was cut to $0.02/1k tokens, still it wasn't economical to use the tech in daily basis without a significant cost. i.e. would you add $10 extra a month for a user using your app with GPT-3 capability? Some do, mainly content generation, but majority won't.

Seems like we're going to have a vast among of Chat-GTP backed application coming out in the coming short period of time

alvis··on Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers (2010)
There are 2 things that excite human -- learning and realisation. The author pointed out the way how to realise a thing.

But as many are also saying, being aimless is an opportunity to learn, explore and discover new possibilities. It's like how many of us are playing with ChatGPT at the moment. It's a journey of discovery that can lead you to realise the potential and create something truly amazing in later time. Would anyone say porting ChatGPT to many existing applications aimless?

alvis··on Twilio is laying off 17% of workforce
or maybe the seniors think headline layoff is an opportunity for free advertisements
alvis··on When feeling worn out, rotate
It has a very valid point, and I can see how providing flexibility at work can further boost performance rather than just a tool to retain great talent
alvis··on Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI
I used to spend lots of time to prepare some coding tests that mimic real-world situations for candidates, like introducing a small bug to an example code or pretending I've bad coding practice etc.

Now I found the best tool ever! Thank you.

alvis··on Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool
I'd have no doubt about the demand given the tools we see daily. However, what beg the question is why are we still interesting in pushing this tread to the top? I'm surprise to see yet another web scraper be featured on the front page on HN
alvis··on Tesla.com/.gitignore
One of the best technology companies (let's assume it's) cannot maintain its site with modern technology. How can I trust them?
alvis··on Tesla.com/.gitignore
No. You never checkout a site directly from git to begin with. You don't let other people know what files are ignored from git doesn't mean people cannot access them. :/
alvis··on Tesla.com/.gitignore
There is a `cron.php` lol
alvis··on Extremely Linear Git History
It look appealing from a perfectionist point of view.

But! How can I collaborate with my team when PR merges are inevitable? O:

alvis··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
It's unfair to call the dev lazy on this ground. Even modern browsers are far better than the old days, there remain many discrepancies between browsers and they are still hard to come up with solutions that fit all platforms.

Making a static web page work on different browsers is much easier than making a web app work on all the browsers. For a web app, even 1% of the API doesn't work, the whole app is a failure. Can you accept an app only work 99% of the time?

I've no idea what makes it incompatible with Firefox, but without knowing the reason, it's an offence to call it laziness.

alvis··on Hey, GitHub – Waiting list signup
For repetitive tasks like preparing a report in the demo, saying is definitely faster than typing. It's quite impressive if your boss ask you to prepare one and the report is done in less than two minutes.

However, I too really doubt if there's any better use cases than simple tasks, let alone everyone would hear what you ask the AI to do in the office. Oh my! How embarrassing am I?

alvis··on Ask HN: Why do startups avoid Java?
A better question maybe. What is the edge of using java over others? 20 years back it was about cross platform support, but which language is not cross platform nowadays?
alvis··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
Surely they're not all engineers, many are sales and admin positions. But the number is still large tho
alvis··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
Corporate robots are the same, that's why corporate mistakes are also the same :/
alvis··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
Honestly I think GTP-3 can generate a much better human-touched message than the template
alvis··on AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers
I think we all agree that when we says about the damn things about JIRA, it's about development experience...
alvis··on AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers
I can imagine it can be a fintech opportunity. An AI that automatically performs a credit check behind the scene and lend you the money in advance, probably money in your account in seconds. It's not too hard actually.
alvis··on AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers
I’d prefer JIRA got replaced by an AI system tho
alvis··on AI will replace middle management before robots replace hourly workers
The funny things is we all know the content is kinda nonsense, & yet our reaction pushed this thread to the top of HN in just 2H!
alvis··on U.S. FCC set to ban all U.S. sales of Huawei and ZTE equipment
This is a very unfortunate and dangerous development in the ongoing battle between U.S. and China. Maybe banning these companies from receiving new equipment licenses will help keep the U.S. safe from cyber-attacks. But it also give another excuse for the CCP to isolate itself from the world's platform and acts as a hostile country like North Korea.
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