All the AI founders (e.g., Dario Amodei) seem to believe that we're nowhere near the end of seeing performance improvements in LLMs as they are trained on more data (i.e., LLM scaling laws) - at least that's what they say publicly, but they obviously have skin in the game. Curious what knowledgeable people think who are not incentivized to make optimistic public statements?What I really want to...
My father has dementia and I have had to step in to manage his financial life, and there are a bunch of inconveniences with this process (nothing major, but certainly a hassle). Would love to hear if anyone is facing similar problems and what they've found works wellProblem 1 - He lives across the country, so I am not in person with him / don't have access to his computerProblem 2 - He's...
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I agree with you. Especially the focus on security / 2FA has made it very hard to monitor his accounts, which is good and bad I suppose. For example, I changed his gmail 2FA phone number to mine yesterday, and they changed it back today. That's already a huge task when helping him remotely.
Websites are also getting much more complex which makes everything worse. For example, the new gmail minimizes the navigation tab on the left unless you hover over it. That's awesome for me, but TERRIBLE for him.
Hey all,I created HelpElf after my sister just graduated from college this spring and started her first real job. She knew she should be saving and investing, but didn't know how to get started. Most of the articles and guides she tried to read on the Internet were for people who were already proficient in personal finance and investing and were confusing for her. And there's a TON of bad...
My grandfather sadly has dementia, and is finding it harder and harder to use his computer. He has a Macbook Air and mostly uses 5 websites (gmail / Google, Netflix, Amazon, Times of India, and CNN).I'm concerned about the following: + People send him email spam, or even corporate emails, and he can't tell the difference between a real email and a phishing email / corporate marketing email +...
Any recommended libraries for programmatically filling in forms and accessing data behind them, preferably in Node?
We've spent a lot of time transforming data in complicated tools at companies like Google and McKinsey in Python and Excel. We believe transforming data should be as simple as asking for what you want.
We're still in our beta so it's a free service to use!
Also... "why did we allow so many unprofitable companies IPO? When did losing money become acceptable and the new normal for publicly traded companies?"
This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how public markets work.
The recent post on Supabase (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319901), an open source equivalent of Firebase got me wondering what other proprietary / SaaS solutions there are that should have an open source equivalent?
Many studies show that private equity owned companies, which typically run businesses the leanest, actually perform better.
Does anyone know of a product that provides backend analytics like heap.io does for frontend?Ideally we'd be able to set it up and have it automatically track all database changes / function calls on the backend so that we can run analytics on it. Is this possible?