skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree! I'm an MD with a BS in human nutrition and a deep personal interest in diet and fitness (which is what eventually prompted me to pursue medical school). One of my most common refrains is the paradox between the tremendous proportion of the human population that consumes food, the tremendous proportion for whom diet strongly impacts health, in contrast to the tragically small body of truly rigorous, adequately powered, properly controlled, sufficiently longitudinal, non-surrogate-outcome'd research on the topic.

It's also surprising how many on HN seem more willing to accept my half-baked self-taught opinions on tech topics than they are my opinions on health. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fine but it's an approach to knowledge, not a belief system.
You don't need any storage to get to 80-90% from renewables, which can be achieved by overbuilding renewables and creating an international market for energy. Denmark is a good case study.
A FIRE movement pioneer says he must return to work to afford his kids’ college
> To drive the point home, google will autocomplete it for you.

I'm not sure if the irony here was intended or not. But it is poignant.
To use R2 you’d need to host images/assets separately on their own domain rather than just put a CDN infront of your entire site and forget about it. Putting assets on their own domain isn’t uncommon but for some stuff it can be a big inconvenience with build pipelines/software support.

I’m not sure on R2 specifics but I remember when I wanted vanity names on Cloudflare I.e assets.example.com it was not possible unless you give Cloudflare control over your entire domain, dropping your current nameservers or sign up for an enterprise plan for cname support.
> If AI output is 60% as good as a person, but costs 1/1000th the price... what decision maker is going to justify paying 1000x more for 40% more quality? We're really in for it.

Really depends on the type of output. For content marketing that most people are just going to skim over anyway (aka is just going to be used for blogspam/content farming, which is what it sounds like the linked writer was doing for this client), yes, it absolutely makes financial sense. But a lot of output is very much winner-take-all: music, movies, TV. Only the top 1%, for some definition of top, of that stuff is actually purchased in meaningful quantities. 60% of top quality of that is worth the same as 0%, which is nothing.

> What if there was a cheeseburger that was 50% as good as McDonalds but was only a nickel? That'd be real bad for the McD's share price.

Not so sure about this; you can look at, for example, generic store-brand colas, which taste exactly the same as Coke and Pepsi and are cheaper, yet Coke and Pepsi haven't collapsed after decades.
People at Amazon, Apple, and Netflix do sell products (although they also have advertising divisions).
there's a reason why in many places you can't name a street after a living person
define low - usually there's always wind on a sufficient large area
Cool! That sounds like me. I think I may have noticed a very few seldom greys at 25 in the hair, but I didn't even have much beard back then haha. Around 35 grey was much more noticable, but "blended in". Beard still not grey. Now at nearly 40 if I pull my hair up to show my temples you can see very white, but if I let it hang down, it looks only like a bit of grey blended through. Beard just a few hairs grey then rest dark. Most people seem to have the beard grey first. What you think of the hair grey first then beard?
Look around the door the next time you open it. You are compressing a rubber gasket that keeps out noise/water etc. out.
chatGPT is a good way to understand what I should search on Google.
But at some point a human will add so little value that they're not worth the price.
That's pretty rudely dismissive, and doesn't really add anything substantial to this conversation.

$80/hr is a pretty decent salary full time, so if people are finding chatgpt a reasonable alternative salaried office work isn't far behind here.
I've toyed with that kind of thought. The technical part seems fun, finding customers (especially the first customers) seems difficult :p I'd really like to work at such a company though.
Traditional (not “quick”) oatmeal is probably a safe bet, it contains carbs so you get some balance but due to its β-glucan is easy on your insulin levels.
It's just an example. There's plenty of backend "engineers" who don't really engineer anything.

This all leads back to a conversation one of my professors talked about. In other engineering professions, you need to be licensed by the state. Software "Engineers" don't have this license, so anyone can go to bootcamp and become one. I think if we changed this, then we would be able to differentiate software engineers from simple developers and that would help engineers maintain their status above chatGPT for a while longer.
Elon Parroting Russian Propaganda
Thank you! Yeah I guess you're right, there's always a silver lining--haha
AI is going to really filter out which people are providing value to society and which are not. Was this person's marketing material actually that valuable? Probably not. But obviously they need to make a living. Hopefully AI will force us to either do more productive things, or give us more leisure time to pursue things with higher meaning. Assuming we aren't enslaved by them of course.
Personally, I found high-powered reading glasses to be really helpful for soldering. They're cheap, available at any dollar store, and much more comfortable to use than visors.
Is it the low carbs though? I’ve notice I get inflammation flare ups on rapid weight loss. Even with generic cal restricted rather than low carb specifically
> When it comes to infrastructure, the suburbs are subsidizing everyone else.

My understanding was that suburbs are subsidised by everyone else. Here is an infographic that came up when I searched to see if I was wrong: https://i.imgur.com/2rgkaOZ.jpg
Well, the difference is coming from both directions. ChatGPT is pretty amazing, but Stack Overflow has been self destructing for many years ahead of this.

Likely the future of training these systems will come from interacting with their users and perhaps directly with the tools and compilers too. They can learn from that without needing a new corpus of human-human interactions.
It already is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man
Exactly. If you have the skills to get hired at a place like FTX, a below-the-radar amount like ten million dollars isn’t an utterly life-changing amount of money. Not something worth risking years of freedom.
They could. Just don't expect the same pay when the assistant is performing a big chunk of the work.

Same goes for engineers. Just wait.
Configuring the entire development environment with Chat GPT
> generic store-brand colas, which taste exactly the same as Coke and Pepsi and are cheaper, yet Coke and Pepsi haven't collapsed after decades.

which is because coke & pepsi uses massive advertising campaigns to ensure the brand is doing the heavy lifting. Coke is basically a marketing company that happens to sell a liquid drink.
Anecdotally, musical instruments are a constant, unending brain game. If they don’t make you smarter, almost nothing will.

Of course, there’s the studies, but we’re all capable of looking those up.
Once tech companies can no longer cover negative cash flow with "funding", persistent tech unemployment will be reality.
Actually they see tokens, which are, usually, parts of words.
> login.gov works fine with ssa.gov

Could you please be more specific? How do you know?

The flow I've been using goes like this, starting at the IRS website:

1) irs.gov homepage -> click 'Sign in to Your Account'

2) https://www.irs.gov/payments/your-online-account -> click 'Sign in to your Online Account'

3) https://sa.www4.irs.gov/secureaccess/ui/?TYPE=blahblah (uuid/session url param)

I'd consider using login.gov, but apparently someone didn't finish the job yet even though it's been at least one year since this was announced.

It occurs to me SSO is nice in theory but one might surmise the diffusion of responsibility is problematic.
> We're still a long way from sci-fi scenarios of AI world domination.

You only have to program the memory logic once. Now if you stick it in a robot that thinks with ChatGPT and moves via motors (think those videos we’ve seen), you have a more or less independent entity (running off innards of 6 3090’s or so?)
Sorting here by top comments, 1 month, shows about 50% of posts are GPT doomerism.

Yikes.

I wonder how many occupationally linked subreddits show similar trendlines.
No. I agree that it is morally right to help people in need. But it is not a fair trade.

You cannot redefine the term "fair" to be inline with your moral values. We have different terms for what you are referring to. When you donate to a charity you use the word "donate". You have not conducted a fair transaction.
Often it can actually solve more complex problems but needs to have its "hand held". Essentially the model needs to be guided to/through problem solving techniques. We have to remember that LLM are literally inference engines. They default to providing us with probable results, probable responses. They can pe pulled away from these "knee jerk" responses.
Make the channels that those ads are pushed through.

Both are fundamentally negative for people in the long run, but I think the superiority complex comes from the naive idea that if you’re the place the garbage is sent to then it’s somehow better. There’s probably a lot of TV execs who felt the same way.
That's because the fumes aren't toxic, they're just an irritant. 3rd hand? If you need to secure the workpiece, get a vise.
I love cars and I love driving them (I used to take mine rallying and on the track etc).

But even today, even in north America, they're barely rational. Most people don't mentally add up the purchase price plus insurance plus gas plus maintenance etc. And the inconvenience of garage and parking and clearing driveway and snow etc etc.

The reason we have them is convenience. Public transit in North America with our huge suburbs is on average crap.

I firmly believe that for modern generation, car is increasingly a liability not pleasure. So if we / they can exchange it for a self riding car that magically shows up when needed but also magically buggers off when not, we / they will.
they didn't equate protein and the data was self-reported, so take this with a grain of salt.
Sorry, we're at the thread depth limit here, but in brief, I simply disagree with your assertion that IQ isn't primarily genetic. I enjoyed your exhortation to agree with you ("please reconsider"). It reminded me of one time, in Paris, when two Mormon missionaries said something similar.

I understand you think your view is scientific, but it just isn't. There is plenty of data on many, many traits being genetically determined, and IQ is no different. IQ absolutely has relatively less research, which enables you to poke holes in what is there. The reason there is less research is because of a quasi-religious belief that studying such a thing is "wrong." That belief would not exist if there weren't a substantial fear that such research would show conclusively that people have predetermined genetic ceilings for IQ (as they do for many other traits such as maximum VO2, height, etc.).

I see no convincing argument here that environmental explanations should be the prior. It's just like religion. Activists have essentially outlawed IQ research, then insisted on compelling evidence to change their minds. Such situations remind me of Galileo and his telescope.

The saddest part of all of this is watching society tear itself apart, laboring under the false assumption that the culture is beset by racist boogiemen. While evil people do undoubtedly exist, the vast majority of people are well-meaning. Being honest about IQ research would enable people to see that.
I wouldn't argue against your points. Yet, we need to have a discussion about character and role models. As I believe we should strive for the better not pointing out the flaws of others. Destruction is easy.
Same. I've immersed in Japanese for 10+ years and lived in the country. I grew up monolingual, and after that experience I felt like my brain "expanded". I think being able to understand concepts that didn't even exist to me before did that.

For example, I remember after finding out what "tsukkomi" and "boke" are in Manzai I started seeing it play itself out in English conversations with my friends. It's kind of weird seeing a concept play out that was there the whole time, but you re-shaped your thinking to observe and categorize it.
You got it, but also add: likely dealer bankruptcies because the overhead is absolutely bonkers (and is often required by brands to set up a dealership; every brand wants a bunch of air-conditioned space to show off their new models!).

This is also why you should never take your car to the dealer service center if possible. They try to rip you off so hard (and underpay their service techs) because they truly don't make that much money off each car (at least before the covid boom season, but as we see that is reverting HARD).
Reading Mad always felt so subversive!

And this was before I had any idea what the word "subversive" even meant.
Even more mystifying is that someone would do this IF THEY KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT SEARCH ENGINES. This is BASIC marketing level SEO knowledge, you don't even need a search architect to tell you this info.

I agree. The irony here is simply profound.
I don’t really like any of them but store brand colas definitely don’t taste like coke
In otherwise healthy individuals, I don't think protein poisoning is due to high consumption of protein but low consumption of other macros.
What if features are permanent, eg users in Brazil get to see certain products, a special import-tax panel, etc, but no-one else does? What if authorized users leave?

The concepts are similar if not the same if you ask me (access control), just as the article points out, but they generally have different uses and patterns of use, again, just as the article points out.
I would also argue, that they in fact, do not taste the same, even in double blind tests I’ve conducted in this area for college
Plumbing wasn't an issue for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Van_Ness_Avenue

I think the shape of the building matters most.
User-friendly is subjective. I think it would be more user friendly to tell users "hey, this code you're writing can't be verified by the compiler" rather than "hey, this code is unsafe. beware"
I can see it making sense. Paying a bit more for good quality work and paying far less for "mediocre but acceptable enough for our business needs" quality work are not mutually exclusive options.

When the client offered to pay more, ChatGPT wasn't even on the cards.
In my experience GPT-Neo never produced any useful output.
all of these are pre-existing problems with public transport that have solutions along the anarchy<->totalitarianism spectrum, with US, European and Asian mega-cities' transit agencies serving as illustrative examples of tradeoffs of various approaches. I'm not sure how self-driving changes the game, ain't nobody helping you when the foil and torch lighter comes out on BART late at night.
Is AI then … not providing value if it just does the same job?
Tcl also has a simple but effective package management architecture, that required specification of package versions from the start, so no version hell.

Later, a fully functional multiplatform binary package server/client was developed for Tcl [0]. It died of neglect while pythonistas spent (are spending) years trying to build something satisfactory.

[0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Teapot
Marketing aside, power-law of costs is fairly common. If a good guitar runs you $300 and a professional guitar runs you $1500, a custom guitar for $40K is still only going to be marginally better.
Every single store sells coke or Pepsi. Supermarkets might have a range of off brand which some taste good and some don’t. But Coke doesn’t cost that much, I’m not going to learn a bunch of new brand with spotty availability to work out which one tastes good to save 30 cent.
When my neighbor's job gets taken away by ChatGPT, it's a recession. When mine does, it's a downright depression!
My father was a physician and one of his specialities was diet. Weight loss.

He told me just to eat well-rounded healthy meals, not to be a glutton, and walk for an hour a day.

There's too much splitting the hairs these days.

"Follow the crowd" people say: "I heard that hopping on one leg, eating a egg through the nose by sucking it in, and belching loudly in church is the best way to be healthy. This week. Next week it's going to be eating 45 tiny meals a day, somersault 5 times, click your heels three times and say "There's no place like Alpha Centauri.""
Just as with any standard PRNG (e.g. Mersenne twister) the outcome may be fully predictable with some information about the state or the previous rolls, but its still usable; and the general distribution of values matches what is desired for that section of the game.
You're framing this as if there were a single yes-or-no question that we should all agree on. (Are the LLM's "any good?")

But in real-world contexts, there are some tasks that just about anyone could do, others where "average" human performance isn't good enough and you need to hire an expert, and also some jobs that can only be done by machine.

So it seems like the bar should be set based on what you think is necessary for whatever practical application you have in mind?

If it's just a game, beating an average chess player, someone who is really good, or the best in the world are different milestones. And for chess there is an ELO ranking system that lets you answer this more precisely, too.

A paper about how well chatbots do on some reasoning tests can't answer this for you.
Why? Apple seems to pretty okay/cooperative with the project
I agree with this one. I have a niche open source project (ntfy) that is somewhat popular in its space, and my promotion so far has been almost exclusively in the r/selfhosted subreddit. It is very very tricky to find a subreddit that will even accept self-promotion, though, and you will always walk the line.

My strategy has always been to be humble, be kind, respect the subreddit rules, and only promote if you have something actually valuable to share (new features, relevant things). And then only one per month or so.

And, as OC said, posts with screenshots or GIFs do so much better.
McDonald’s already is that product. It costs 1/4th as much as a restaurant burger. And half the time it’s just as good.
A feature flag in general needs presence on both the frontend and backend because a change may coordinate between the two.

More properly due to frontend caching issues an HTTP request should include a header with the active features, separately from the header containing the auth token. And that gives a first semantic difference: feature flags take effect when the app is updated/reloaded, auth changes take effect immediately.
Isn't a better approach to starting using ChatGPT, charge per amount of stuff produced instead of time at attractive rate and focus on tweaking the output to be better than just plain ChatGPT? Unless the writing yourself part is so important to you.

Once ChatGTP starts producing good enough code, I'm going to start focusing on efficiently driving it to increase my overall productivity, and not give up on programming altogether.
I think I understand better where you are coming from. In computer science I don’t know what they typically mean when they say “division”. I’ll be more precise. In abstract algebra division means multiplying by the inverse. All of the notions of division mentioned in the Wikipedia page come from this idea. Computers can’t work with within the realm of the entire real number system. There they have notions of type. They like to extend common operators like “/“ to things that normally it doesn’t apply to. A computer language will sometimes return a value of int or some other type when the integer 5 is divided by 3. Depending on how the language designer wanted things to work. This isn’t division in a mathematical sense though.
Presumably, you work in a challenging area of software which has not yet been remotely threatened by "low-code/no-code" tools or outsourcing. Consider simple CSS editing/webadmin work where a business user currently has to wait ~1-6 weeks for a change and pay 1-4k for an expert to change the color on a page. Now imagine what will happen when ChatGPT can get it right ~90% of the time with the right prompts from a business user.

Considering that GPT-5 will be out in another 1.5 to 2 years, with 6 out in ~4-5 years. Consider how far we are from autonomous coding assistants for high end development work. Consider how tooling could be made to speed up AI based development.
nvim allows more than one language server to be attached to buffer...
Well, right now, a manager can’t just write a vague description of what they want into a text field and get back working software twenty seconds later that they can deploy by clicking a button. That may change in the coming years, but the situation right now is that you need a human developer for any nontrivial production use case.

That’s not the situation for copywriters. Marketing copy doesn’t have an objective threshold where it either works or doesn’t, and AI can easily take “here are some points to cover, give me three paragraphs” and spit out something that won’t be embarrassing to paste into an ad.

In short, the difference is that AI can’t do our whole job yet, but there are some writing jobs where it basically can.
Yeah I might be off on my comment thinking from the perspective of how sometimes they’ll jack rent up to flip tenants to bigger businesses with bigger wallets. Like if a few tenants don’t renew on a 15 story bldg then jack the rates up to get the rest out and hope for a larger company to lease the full building since they won’t want to build in this economy.