It may be a good resource, but as someone living in the EU, I am "protected" from using all the shiny new AI tools to increase my productivity. And then they wonder why the EU is so behind in innovation and startups.
Claude's lawyers should find a way because they are lagging all other providers in this department. It's such a pity to close the model to a large number of countries. They probably expect to get sued for copyright infringement or something.
They went overboard a bit. I noticed yesterday they turned up the knob a bit further even. I gave it some lyrics (made by ChatGPT!) and asked it to rephrase certain things. It didn't want to comply because of possibility of copyright infringement. It didn't budge even with a prompt stating it's not copyrighted. They set themselves on a march to death that way and I can't blame them.
I got a "Content Filtered" error parsing a receipt on which was a product titled "Damen Sportbekleidung" (Women's sportswear), seems chatGPT is not much smarter.
sure agree - but it is a "march to compliance" .. to creative and free-thinking people, this is like Death.. but not the same. The leadership at Anthropic have made it very clear that they intend to partner with Amazon and other ultra-legal corporate aggressors.. to take and run the corporate AI services space.. and comply with every legal ruling.. (no mention in the public about Defense work?.. Mr Schmidt with Schmidt Futures has shown the way there)
Anthropic has the playing field to build an empire in the classical sense
Yes you can, I had no problems adding balance with a credit card issued in Finland. No need for a VPN or anything. Been using the API for three weeks now.
> I am "protected" from using all the shiny new AI tools to increase my productivity.
Can you elaborate? What’s happening in Europe that is “protecting” you from AI? America is clamoring for protections, maybe they should avoid whatever mistakes have been made in Europe.
What makes you think so?
Isn't it more "AI" providers being afraid of legal consequences (e.g. due to copyright or false output), so they protect themselves by not offering certain things in the EU?
Are you able to access Claude 3 via AWS Bedrock or GCP Vertex AI? I haven't used Vertex AI, but I know that several US regions have Claude 3 access through Bedrock.
They don't increase your productivity any more than non-AI tools do. At most they make you feel as if. But you are probably just looking for a scapegoat anyways.
So what? It's a complex problem, and they're making progress. Why is it always only Tesla that has to be held accountable for all promises? Other companies often promise great things (with deadlines!), don't keep their promises, but for some strange reason no one cares.
Every time there is an article about Tesla, the vast majority of comments here are either too critical, too ignorant, or just FUD. It's too unbalanced, no other company (good or bad) gets such bad treatment here. I see many of the HN audience here are just repeating the media narrative without their own experience or even trying to understand the topic. Yes, Tesla is moving at the forefront of EV development, and yes, sometimes not everything is delivered as promised or on time. But on the other hand, this is HN, we're supposed to love new technology and engineering! Why so negative? It's pathetic.
Because the explosive rise and sudden collapse of the company's valuation are interesting in and of themselves as a market story.
The valuation of the most valuable car company in the world has fallen 70% in the past year. Tesla has shed more in market cap in the past year than the GDP of most countries. How is that not remarkable?
It's emblematic of the collective insanity of tech investors in the past couple of years - that's the interesting story, and that's where the criticism lies. Tech investors have made comically bad, bad bets industry-wide in recent years, and Tesla has been one of the biggest.
It's not overly critical to think Tesla's valuation has been insane and unjustifiable, or that it's "just a car company". At least saying it's "just a car company" is admitting that there's some fundamentally valuable business behind it, unlike some other money-pit companies out there.
Yeah, some comments here also feel the need to justify that they’re not an “Elon fanboi” if they’re saying positives about tesla which shows how bad it is.
The whole FSD debacle feels like people just arguing semantics and gotchas. I recently watched some videos of FSD operating in tight, hilly and unusual roads in CA. I was very impressed, its obv not perfect, but its fucking cool. People here made it sound like a scam.
As a FSD purchaser, I can tell you that watching videos do not give you the full experience of sitting in the driver's seat while FSD is on. The amount of times I need to regularly overtake control in both urban and rural environments on simple turns is enough to make me not recommend the FSD option to prospective Tesla buyers. At this point, the way it's marketed, I would lean more towards scam than even gimmick.
Musk has decided to be a highly visible CEO. He regularly makes strong, often controversial, statements and is constantly in the media cycle. When all eyes are on you you get higher highs but also lower lows. This is why a lot of CEOs prefer to keep a low profile.
Well, 1000-1400 ppm is my typical level in the room 5 hours after the last airing. Just before morning in the bedroom it can go up to 2500 with all the interior doors open.
I'm using a relatively cheap (68EUR) TFA Dostmann AirControl Mini CO2 Meter (also available from different brands as well) based on ZyAura platform. I soldered a connector to connect it to an ESP8266 board flashed with ESPHome software [1] and then send measurements to the Home Assistant instance.
This system works well, the sensor is on my desk, the CO2 drops quickly below 600 ppm when the window is open, but then immediately returns to above 800 ppm shortly after the window is closed. For example, I currently have 982 ppm.
At night, with 2 people sleeping in the room, the level often rises to 2500 ppm. So even though I ventilate the house much more often than I did before I bought the sensor, it's still not enough to maintain healthy CO2 levels, and with the current energy prices and cold weather, I don't know what else I can do, I have no space to install heat recovery ventilation.
That's the same brand I bought, after the last similar thread on HN which led me to get interested in this topic.
I had never monitored CO2 at home, and now I see that it routinely goes beyond 1500 in the living room. I can open windows and in 5 minutes it goes down to 700-800... together with all the warm air that was costly to produce now that's winter and it's so cold outside. And in 1 hour it goes back to 1000+.
So I've ended up getting used to see and ignore its metrics, because the alternative is to open windows every 60 minutes and lose a lot of money on heating.
Watch this walk around Starbase with Elon and Tim Dodd, and you'll get a pretty good sense that he has an engineering brain that really understands the complexities of design, build and execute more than anything.
https://youtu.be/t705r8ICkRw
I will watch it, but is he the same the “engineering” brain that thinks his Tesla tunnels are a good idea, continually promises tech that is decades away from realization is right around the corner (like self-driving cars or a humanoid robot or a Mars mission), and got replaced as the runner of the actual engineering organization (SpaceX)?
Elon clearly overpromises - but he also over delivers. SpaceX's current capability to deliver payloads to orbit is so far ahead of anyone else (particular considering they started from scratch only 20 years ago). Even their Starlink in just a few years had leapfrogged over incumbent providers. Tesla may not have achieved all they have promised but there is no denying they are the company that is leading innovation in not only EV but even in their approach to manufacturing.
My family has had reservations for the Roadster, the Cybertruck, and we have a first-edition Model 3 & X.
Tesla has overpromised on all of our reservations, and the final product, imo, is not "overdelivering". It's honestly just barely "delivering".
>but even in their approach to manufacturing.
This is pure Tesla propaganda. Yes they have built bigger versions of existing technology (supepress, gigafactory), but they're definitely not leading innovation in car production, as evidenced by M3s still having the largest panel gaps in the industry.
Well, I am not an Elon Musk fan or hater and I don’t own any Tesla product. However, I think if your standard for him is “he hasn’t delivered yet on the two brand new proposed models of high-priced EVs that my family has reservations to buy”—I can tell you that I can’t drive 2 minutes without seeing several Teslas, I can see strings of Starlink satellites sometimes when I look into the sky, and at least a couple of times a month I can see SpaceX launches from my backyard.
Seems to me Musk may not be delivering on what you want, which I suggest is a couple of items serving a tiny elite market, but no doubt he is delivering something.
I’ll take a loose lipped dreamer that eventually delivers on most of his promises in a spectacular way over a buttoned down PR rep that consistently goes over budget, pushes delivery dates by years and drops a disappointing and outdated product at the end any day.
Admittedly, no. But, in addition to that, he has a Physics degree from UPenn and was accepted to a PhD program in MechE at Stanford, was co-founder of X.com, is Chief Engineer at SpaceX, and has some of the most respected people in their respective fields (some of whom have worked closely with him) vouch for his engineering chops (Andrej Karpathy[0], John Karmack[1], Gareth Reisman[2], an astronaut and Professor of Astronautics Practice at USC, Jim Keller[3]).
Unless you present your engineering qualifications that are of equivalent credibility as that of the aforementioned people, as well as present evidence that you've worked with him as closely with Elon Musk as some of these folks have, I'll stick with my conclusion that, yes, he's indubitably an engineer.
Is the work you do to your credit or your boss's? I fundamentally reject the argument that being financially invested in engineering projects makes him an engineer.
I'm of the opinion that engineering things is what makes someone an engineer. If you're under the impression that Musk's entire career has been in management, I'd encourage you to do some more reading.
There are many other examples that can be found by just doing a quick search.
But it seems that some individuals even refuse to do so. They would rather stick to their strong (sometimes objectively flawed) opinions. Which is totally fine. Everyone is entitled to.
It's just embarrassingly bad when they try to regurgitate it to others and continue to double down. Even when presented with irrefutable data or new information.
That’s fine you think that, but do you have anything that isn’t the same third party anecdotes that get repeated as nauseam? At least one of those is by an extremely unreliable narrator and an Elon sycophant and one of the others by another who thinks he’s knows everything as well.
I could have predicted half of those tired examples. They’re all third party anecdotes and the same ones that get passed around and regurgitated. There’s also third-party anecdotes of Elon having no idea what he’s talking about, and several first-party arguments he’s made that shows he’s a bit of a charlatan.
The most charitable interpretation is that this does nothing to disprove the perception he is simply taking credit for others engineering work. At best it is not proof he played a significant role on the engineering side of the projects he's financed. At worst, it is very much playing into the stereotype of the manager who got far too grand ideas of his talent from writing code 30 years ago.
It's not a pleasant development for the original poster, but as a side note, I, for one, would take any opportunity to work for Tesla if I could, and being separated from SO for a few months would not be a reason not to accept the offer or quit.
To me it is foolish to work for a toxic employer who would do this. I wouldn't buy one of his cars either. If this is what they do to employees I would hate to see what they do to customers if something goes wrong.
My SO would not easily be able to deal with me being gone for four months. She only somewhat manages to deal when I'm away for a few days for conventions, and often needs to have family over to visit while I'm gone.
ive had this discussion with a couple of my friends- what exactly are the innovations in those three fields that put them so far ahead? do they make more efficient cells? their cars dont have anything particularly novel as far as i know, just well designed and made, as well as marketed. what is the software that tesla makes that is so good?
Tesla made electric cars cool and desirable (starting in the 2000's when most people associated electric with the prius). They've introduced or improved a lot of tech: better battery chemistry in new form factors, more efficient motors, over the air updates, nationwide fast charging network, increasingly sophisticated self driving features etc. Tesla is exiting because they paved the way for other car companies to electrify their products.
There is so much to tell, I will mention only a few key points for the each field.
Software: self driving capabilities (i.e. autopilot), FSD (Full Self Driving) beta, shadow-mode neural net testing, OTA (Over The Air) updates, games and entertaiment, Autobidder energy trading platform, etc.
Battery: tabless design, dry electrode, new 4680 form-factor, nickel instead of cobalt, manufacturing and cost improvements, etc.
Electronics: efficient motors and inverters, custom ASIC chip for FSD computer, Dojo supercomputer, etc.
Mechanical engineering: "octovalve" thermal management, structural battery pack without modules, "mega casting" aluminium body design, etc.
