skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a data scientist and it's my first time seeing analysis of a dataset using prompts (as opposed to code: i.e. python/R/SQL). I'm slightly blown away! The plot titled 'Distribution of Builds by Platform and Outcome' looks professional and would take me 10-60 minutes using ggplot. The spacings between the text and other graphical elements are done well and would be time-consuming (not to mention bland) for humans.

I'm wondering if we'll soon see Jupyter notebooks with R, Python, Julia, and OpenAI-assistant kernels! (the latter being human readable plain text instructions like the ones used in your analysis E.g. rather than 20 lines of matplotlib or ggplot "Show me the distribution of builds by machine platform, where the platforms are ordered by M1 to M3, and within the platform class Pro comes before Max.".

This has blown my mind.

I'm still unclear on the exact tech stack you used. If I understand correctly, the steps were:

- generate data locally,

- use an ETL tool to push data to Google BigQuery,

- use BigQuery to generate CSVs

- give CSVs to an OpenAI assistant.

From there you asked OpenAI assistant questions and it generates the plots? Is this understanding correct?

Last question: how many times did you have to re-submit or rewrite the prompts? Were the outputs mostly from the first attempts, or was there a fair bit of back and forth re wording the prompts?
> The marshalling of public resources.

Indeed, something like a Marshall Plan!

> You can replicate that without the bombs with a public-spending initiative.

You can, but the challenge isn't in the implementation as much as gathering the political will to do that. Since the New Deal and WWII, that has rarely happened in the US, and only recently: The ACA, the 2021 Infrastructure Bill and the Inflation Reduction Act. All of those barely had enough support to pass and both are at risk if there is a significant shift in power.
I have a number of old computers lying around the house in closets, some 32-bit only. Linux not running on them anymore is actually pretty annoying since, as I said, that used to be one of its oldest mantras.

Outside of the enterprise crowd, Linux's next biggest audience are the tinkerers and hobbyists with too much free time and ancient hardware well past their Use By date. What a time it is that we can legitimately say it's better to run some version of Windows instead of Linux on them now.
Unfortunate not convince
Don't forget the security implications. If only root can run the compression/deletion script, all the compromised user can do is try to write to theirs. If you get into writing other users' data, that sucks, but nothing is deleted or exfiltrated, and the log is baked in. Break into root, well good luck with that on any system.
This is what upsets me so much about climate change. Humans aren't facing an existential crises, but millions of species of plant and animal are. Once gone, we'll never know what clever evolutionary secrets they contained.
Fun fact: early in their careers, Eric Schmidt and Philip Wadler coauthored a paper...
I lost 50 pounds this year without actually taking anything, but I figured I’d everyone is going to lose weight on it, I might as well too. People didn’t really see me going to the gym or eating less because I didn’t advertise it and it’s not something people really pay attention to, but I did do those things.

If ozempic was $100/month or something like that, I’d probably go for it, but I was trying not to blow my high deductible health plan and that stuff is not cheap.

I assume prices will eventually fall via competition or generic which should be pretty cool for lots of people.
What is RAG?
If you're trying to go "chrome but better" than Brave is a move in the wrong direction, given its bundled cryptocurrency and ad platform.

Perhaps you haven't heard of Chromium. If so, that may be because Chromium doesn't spend as much on marketing as Brave.

https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium/
One of the larger unions here in Norway published an article with some calculations detailing how much a beer should cost in a pub or bar in Oslo.

Their point was that if it was significantly cheaper than their number, the owners most likely didn't pay minimum wages or some similar shenanigans was going on.

I've often since thought other groups, like farmers, should do something similar. I've got no clue how much a small basket of strawberries should cost for the farmer to make a decent living and the pickers to get a decent salary. Same with most other things I buy in the grocery store.
This was recently also indicated by studies for excessive antioxidant intake IIRC, e
g. green tea supplements and Vitamin E.
I’ve followed this scene since peptides first started getting produced by UGLs (underground labs) and now by domestic companies operating in the gray area of unregulated chemicals (for “research use only” is the euphemism)

Years ago people started with great enthusiasm and then slowly realized that the effects over the long term aren’t always predictable. Some of these compounds make people feel great in the first few doses and then the negatives only appear much later. There are numerous stories of people getting burned out or stuck in long-lasting depressive states following experimentation, but they’re often waved away as contamination or blamed on something else they were taking.

Mainstream influencers like Huberman are now flirting with these chemicals after they’ve run out of interesting basic content to talk about for 3 hours on a weekly podcast. I’d caution anyone listening to the likes of Huberman to be extremely cautious about influencers who only tell the positives with a minimal caution to CYA and a wink wink suggestion that you don’t use them. The same story has been playing out for decades with fitness influencers and new chemicals, and every generation has had their too good to be true moment where the newest chemicals were assumed to be free of side effects.
> I don't qualify as a good hacker

yet

Getting interested is how people become good hackers.
I know that, except for a few of us, we're just kibbitzing about this stuff, but: isn't that kind of a terrifying prospect? Like, you don't know if you have any undetected neoplasms that this could accelerate?
A couple years ago I lost 80lbs in one year without any drugs. It was the hardest thing I had ever done. It required frankly extreme amounts of willpower.

More recently, I've lost about 25lbs on Mounjaro in two months. Zero effort. I was (quite literally) losing weight in my sleep.

I never felt full/satiated before in my life eating normally before starting Ozempic. Now I understand what it means to be satiated. I wonder if this is why it was easy for me to gain and hard for me to lose weight.

These drugs will be game-changers for many Americans. I think they are the solution to the obesity crisis. Now the big question: is it all priced into the stock already?
Most compositors already do redraw constantly, because it takes almost no work on a modern chip. An extra shift and rotate would not be noticed.
They can, they just don’t want it enough to make the necessary sacrifice. I agree it doesn’t happen much, but that isn’t because it can’t work, it does for almost everyone that can make permanent change in their diet and lifestyle, most people just want the easy way out.
Humans aren’t facing an existential crisis *yet
Most notably, this Wikipedia page hasn’t been updated in over two years!

It’s a fun little game I have with a circle of text friends. Almost everything you see there was updated last week. Sometimes you’ll find something that was updated a few months ago. Two years is epic.
One crush avoidance is 10 gems, but buy a pack of avoidance for 200 gems!
https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1127
Great to hear about your MIL improving!

Last year my wife got the “you need to lose weight now or else” speech from her doctor. Diabetic signs starting to appear in her numbers. I was terrified for her.

12 months of Wegovy and she is down 52 pounds, and all diabetic signs have disappeared. Her doctor is thrilled.

And, (not that this matters much to me) her looking like a million bucks is a nice bonus too.
I'd say there is some anecdotal truth to it. Two of my close friends both had a fairly large reduction in weight and both of them admitted to using Ozempic.

One of my friends, I would consider heavily overweight if not obese (I'm not sure what the specific definition is). The other was certainly heavier but not by anything I would consider crazy. She however was working out religiously and watching her food intake and still struggled. She admitted to using it and it helped kick start her journey.

My other friend (heavier one) took it to lose weight for a wedding. Dropped a lot of weight, but didn't work out or change eating habits, stopped taking it and gained weight back.

So long story, I would say it's fairly likely that some of your acquaintances are taking/using it.
As a person who is using one of those drugs, it’s interesting how fast food has become unpleasant. I used to enjoy going to such places regularly, but now it’s just not good tasting and results in reflux and unhappiness later.

I might have been thinking that I could just do whatever at the start, but I’ve drifted into eating more healthily because it’s what tastes and feels good to eat. Even nominally healthy packaged food tastes more like ash, while things cooked from whole ingredients taste better than ever. My experience is that I find myself enjoying food more and making better choices than before.

I’m sure your friends will have their own experiences and relationships with food that may differ from mine, but how people behave when they are freed from their constant hunger may surprise you.
I think my use of "boil down" didn't come across as intended. My point was that many/most people do not have the ability to independently verify the claims of experts in various scientific fields, nor do they care to. They instead trust the institutions that have been built throughout history and entrusted with the task of getting things right. Their beliefs really are roughly "this is what scientists say so I believe it". I'm not saying they don't have a good reason to believe it, just that this is the reality of the dynamic.

I think this is important because it underscores the criticality of institutions, and the importance of maintaining the health of the ones we have.

> You're acting like anything that one hasn't independently verified is something one is taking on faith

To be clear, this is definitely not what I'm saying.
I don't like how undiscoverable it is, and how it blocks browser-based debugging. I'd much rather be able to open an issue with a GET link to a stable representation, where possible.

Cloudflare doesn't support it for caching (more specific Cloudflare doesn't obey the Vary: cache header).
A lot of people are complaining about the income requirements. But it seems fair enough that they are trying to attract people that will spend a lot of money and this contribute more to their economy.

They aren't trying to attract people that will live off ramen for a year.

My biggest complaint is the application process:

> Those who wish to obtain the visa can apply via Korean embassies in their respective country.

I don't want to go back to my home country and sit there while I wait for my visa to go through! I'm already in Asia, flying back and forth to the UK to get this visa is a pain. It should be an online application process. I feel like they haven't really thought this through.
ancient rome and medieval europe are really different. you can enter ketosis every day on a diet of carbohydrates by eating one or two times a day, eating less or engaging in exercise would make that ketosis deeper and longer. all of this could have applied to most people until relatively recently.
I have to agree.

I don’t think that being obese is a moral failing at all. But caloric deficit does result in weight loss.

Anyways, there are plenty of other benefits that come from exercise and a healthy diet, besides weight loss. Hopefully these drugs can be used as part of a more holistic improvement in lifestyle, and not as a sole treatment.
> Which is probably comparable to the energy used to train AI models used in reCAPTCHA.

I had not considered that. Naturally, we're just speculating here, but yeah that does sound plausible.

I was also no aware of the "hard" 5s bound (which you seem to have tested on a normal smartphone setup); sounds neat.
Web developers should be in the habit of checking against many different configurations anyway. I've lost track of the number of times that I've stumbled on a scrollable area that wasn't meant to be scrollable, which would have been caught if the developer had opened the site in the browser with always on scroll bars.
I don't read cockiness or narcissism in his posts. Having just started reading Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin two days ago (and hoping to complete it tonight, then planning on re-reading it again), it seems to me that hmeh has learned and PRACTICED what is discussed in that book. I wish I were in their shoes!
> I think for the majority of people diet and exercise is enough.

On a population level, it has failed miserably. Sure, some can force themselves through the process, but that number is not that many.
Think of everything that has already been lost. Up to 90% of species in North America is already gone.
I love having relaxingjazz.com open as a "webapp" in an independent non-browser small window on my linux desktop. Mint makes it very easy.
I've lost 25lbs in the past two months without exercise, workouts, etc. Just Mounjaro. Sedentary lifestyle.
To people who are thinking about using AI for data analyses like the one described in the article:

- I think it is much easier to just load the data into R, Stata etc and interrogate the data that way. The commands to do that will be shorter and more precise and most importantly more reproducible.

- the most difficult task in data analysis is understanding the data and the mechanisms that have generated it. For that you will need a causal model of the problem domain. Not sure that AI is capable of building useful causal models unless they were somehow first trained using other data from the domain.

- it is impossible to reasonably interpret the data without reference to that model. I wonder if current AI models are capable of doing that, e.g., can they detect confounding or oversized influence of outliers or interesting effect modifiers.

Perhaps someone who knows more than I do on the state of current technology can provide a better assessment of where we are in this effort
My penis enlargement pill newsletter isn't showing up in my customers' inboxes. I could have been a penis-enlargement millionare if it wasn't for your stupid spam filter. What to do?
Ozempic (and similar drugs) are such a big deal. In 20 years time you'll be able to look back at all kinds of different trend charts (weight, life span, heard disease, alcohol consumption, fast food revenue, etc.) and see 2023 as a turning point.
Would be great if it worked with generic IMAP email accounts
nowhere in that commenters post did they mention preference, they made an observation. You're the one trying to apply feelings to it.
One in France (or other European French-speaking countries) would say "des Legos" to refer to a bunch of Lego pieces or Lego sets. "Un Lego" would mean a single Lego brick.
While I do appreciate historical accuracy, I find this news very disconcerting!

And here I was hoarding all this salt, hoping for our return to the salt
standard. :-(

Well ya can't win em all! And at least I'm not on a low sodium diet.
-S is available from macOS env, which is good enough in my book! Unfortunately macOS sed and gsed differences are a huge pain in the ass
You can cop it on the cheap from Mexico FWIW
Same here, using basically nothing but FF for maybe 6 years or so.

I somehow was lugging around up to 2,400 tabs for much of last year and it handled it surprisingly well. Got down to 30 at one point, now back up to nearly 400 :/

Very rarely a website won't load, I just change the user agent to Chrome and refresh and it almost always works fine.
In practice you’ll get a certification mill industry that charges lots of money to certify you. Whether it’s inside or outside universities, it will be pay to play. Developers will spend the first N years of their career paying for their taxi medallion.

If you can’t tell I am deeply and profoundly cynical of systems like this. They always turn into rent extraction schemes for bureaucrats, consultants, etc.
gmail has unubscribe button right at the start of an email. It will take a while to unsubscribe, but I think it's manageable.

the AI feature to automatically reply would be helpful.
I wonder how it would work for people who have low metabolisms. I don’t eat much. Maybe twice a day, and at that, it’s usually half a ration (I’m frankly not hungry beyond that). Yet I would say I’m above a healthy weight. Maybe 20 pounds over.

Not sure what this drug would do. I’ve heard it curbs appetites but if I curb my appetite anymore, I’m not eating at all.
My questions would be: is it possible to improve the visual results if we lift the restriction to only two levels of brightness of each pixel? I.e., would a use of proper grayscale allow creation of smaller fonts that are still readable, or allow more visually distinct and recognizable characters, than a binary font of the same size can have? Would designing a proportional typeface, as opposed to a monospaced one, help with minimizing the average advance width of the glyphs (averaged according to their frequencies in English text)?

Motivation: it is possible to reduce a book page, with ~80 characters per line, without any font hinting, without using any special fonts, using just common image manipulation tools, to just 240 pixels wide, and still get mostly readable words (but not individual letters). This is 3 horizontal pixels per glyph on average, including the gap - something that the demonstrated binary bitmap fonts don't achieve. Example: https://imgur.com/a/AlYrnSS
Yeah that really messed with me OOA and OAA shouldn't count the same imo, but at bare minimum if it's a feature not a bug it should be noted in the How to Play
I would think you would want to capture what/how was built, as like:

* Repo started at this commit

* With this diff applied

* Build was run with this command

Capture that for a week. Now you have a cross section of real workloads, but you can repeat the builds on each hardware tier (and even new hardware down the road)
strong conviction these impacts have been telegraphed from miles away and priced in. At one point, the GDP of Norway had to be presented independently off Novo Nordisk given how massive their market cap was. Also has led to bloating of adjacent companies that should be pummeled (instead of rising) such as Weight watchers. Time will tell.
Not a bad idea actually - I live in South Texas so it should be pretty feasible. I’ve never gone there for any medical reasons but have known people to do that.
You’ve emphasized existing as if to suggest that it’s the only relevant case but frankly I think that’s a bullshit claim
I bookmark things like this all the time, and my bookmark list is effectively a black hole.

I managed to get through two separate “learn something about complicated topic in one weekend” this year, so I’ll call that a W.
thanks for sharing!

I like denyhosts, because of the sharing blacklist feature. I'd rather not give the attackers a chance to guess the password when they've already hit 10 other hosts and it's a pattern.

Unfortunately denyhosts hasn't been updated in a while.
OK, just for fun, I tried an article from the Daily Caller, about the Maine ballot decision by the Secretary of State.

Output:

1. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows removed former President Trump from the state's 2024 election ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

2. Shenna Bellows has not charged or convicted former President Trump of engaging in an insurrection.

3. Bellows was elected as Maine's Secretary of State by the legislature in January 2021 and began her second term in January 2023.

4. Prior to her political career, Bellows served as the executive director of Maine's ACLU from 2005 to 2013.

5. Colorado's supreme court ruled to disqualify Trump from its GOP primary, with the decision currently under appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

One of a the things that Neutral.News left out.

“The Maine Secretary of State is a former ACLU attorney, a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat who has decided to interfere in the presidential election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden. We are witnessing, in real-time, the attempted theft of an election and the disenfranchisement of the American voter,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.

So, just one data point.

P.S. the 14th amendment mentions aiding and abetting, as well as participating in an insurrection.

Full ruling here. You can skip to the conclusion and get the main points.

https://www.maine.gov/sos/news/2023/Decision%20in%20Challeng...
I wonder if someone did a study like that 20 years after statins were released into the wild. The number of lives saved/quality of later life etc.
Well, I'm off to learn about Apache Tomcat so I can be ready for 2025.
Ask HN: Which AI tools have transformed your business?
Share your success stories and lessons learned, especially from a B2B perspective. Any tools that you anticipate will make a big impact in 2024?
>Can I just think of how to make myself smarter? It’s not working.

Clearly. Computer systems have the unique property of being able to directly modify their own code if designed that way.

Biological organisms are obviously severely limited in this regard.
I mean quite literally something is wrong with obese people that statistically they cannot “want it enough”, like an addiction. The fact that obese people suddenly are able to “want it enough” when they take a hormone regulating drug points to this imo. It’s unhelpful to simplify this into a will thing, because it just doesn’t make sense that fat people love eating so much they’re totally cool with losing their feet to diabetes. That’s clearly something deeply wrong with the fat person, in the way that something is clearly wrong with a hoarded out house, or a homeless gambler.
exactly. nobody knows what some completely neglected or overlooked line of research will result in. this is why we should ban all research. its very possible that a seemingly innocuous research could result in AGI that will make humans obsolete and enable perpetual dictatorships and other nightmares. or result in a bomb that is very cheap and simple to make that unleashes enough energy to destroy the world in one shot, thus dooming us all. almost all of the worlds problems could be solved without new research. world hunger and war is not a technology problem. so doesnt it make the most sense to stop researching?
the word "can" doing a lot of heavy lifting here. from a practical vs theoretical standpoint
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I use mine daily and update them about weekly, yes.

Leaving a Gentoo system is, as you say, not something you should do. I'm lucky that I don't have that.