skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of long-term weight loss, the success rates are abysmal for keeping the weight off.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unexpected-clues-...
Moving 100 petabytes to the cloud by truck: Amazon discontinues "Snowmobile"
This seems too vague.
First sentence of comment was:

> The EU is applying similar scrutiny to other social networks as well.
So still $17kCAD over the cost of a BYD Dolphin, which is a 4 door hatchback like the golf.

https://electrek.co/2024/02/23/byd-launches-new-dolphin-ev-1...
I have always struggled with my weight — since I was 10 or 11. It's hard. I don't have any advice; just a random person on the internet letting you know that you're not alone!
This assumes every business shares this vision. I'm sure big fortune 500 companies that can absorb these costs over competitors might see some value here[0][1] but I don't think the vast majority of businesses see it this way, most would seemingly benefit[2][3][4] by being able to attract talent more reasonably, and particularly helps small business and other smaller entities. Though I imagine there is an other components that drive support or resistance[5], I don't think its uniformly beneficial for business writ large to keep the current system

[0]: Though it wasn't broadly employers that opposed both the public option for the ACA or Medicare 4 All, but insurance companies and adjacent services most specifically.

[1]: Though, there is some notion (though no hard evidence) that bigger businesses can use it as retention and recruitment tool (https://www.marketplace.org/2021/06/10/why-dont-u-s-business...) I don't think their ability to recruit top talent rests solely on healthcare options, however.

[2]: https://www.epi.org/publication/medicare-for-all-would-help-...

[3]: Though Automakers and other manufacturing companies likely benefit regardless of size: https://www.autonews.com/article/20050328/SUB/503280747/japa...

[4]: https://www.blhct.org/about

[5]: Such as business owner(s) political ideology (in either direction), tax policy implications and the like.
I'm sure that bug will be fixed soon.
For anybody who is affected by this, here is a solution which worked for me and might work for you.

I was on Ozempic for a few months, and I absolutely did lose 10 lbs a month while I was on it. It is a miraculous drug. Of course, after a few months my insurance company dropped coverage.

I started gaining 1 lb a week. After a few weeks I went back to my Dr. and asked if there was anything that could be done.

She put me on Welbutrin and Metformin. Its the same drug combination which they use as an aide to stop smoking.

Its working great. I'm only losing about 5lbs a month now, instead of the 10lbs on Ozempic. But it sure beats the hell out of gaining 1lb a week. And I lost 70lbs so far!

The only side effect I had was....I lost all interest in smoking :-( The drugs work by reducing how much dopamine your brain releases due to pleasurable stimuli. So you tend to get less jollies out of anything you liked doing---eating, smoking, or even procrastination! Yeah, I procrastinate way less too, its just not as pleasurable as getting stuff done is anymore.

Basically, it's the drug of choice for Puritans. Less temptation on the 7 deadly sins, and more work ethic. So there's that. But if you've ever seen somebody die by congestive heart failure, you know its waaaay better than that.
> average home now tops $5,500 — if you can put 20% down

$5500/mo for a 3 bedroom property with additional appreciation is a great deal in any market.

If you're in a white collar dual income household (as most of the US and especially Torrance, California which is mentioned in the article is becoming), this is relatively affordable.

You're anyhow paying $3500-4000 to rent a similar house or apartment, and paying the landlord's principal off.

Additional building is happening in California, but it's targeting this specific demographic now.
It's not a random sample of people. You're sampling the 10 most noisy people out of a million users, and those 10 people could be mistaken.

Claude 3 hasn't dropped Elo on the lmsys leaderboard which supports the CTO's claim.
I had one employer that offered that years ago. If you opted out of the healthcare plan they gave you $100 / pay period instead. I think the goal was to get married people to choose their spouses plan if they could. It seemed to me that the amount offered was too low to tempt anyone to actually take it. In my case it would have added like $300 per month to my spouses plan.
I agree with you in theory, but I think you'll run into difficulties putting it into practice.

Ever heard the phrase "the dose makes the poison"? Table salt and milk have both been used as pesticides.
Do they publish the parameter size for Sonnet and Opus?
Lots of great details in the blog: https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3/

Looks like there's a 400B version coming up that will be much better than GPT-4 and Claude Opus too. Decentralization and OSS for the win!
there's a fine line between brainwashing, propaganda, and meaningful communication which motivates and drives us (and ideals and so on)
> was on consoles

> genre defining

you walked right past it
You can use fancy numbers to pretend that Europe is relevant. Just like France touts its obsolete military and is constantly called on its bluff.

The reality can be seen around you. A few high profile projects doesnt change how things actually are.
> I have always had to have some physicality to my work in order to be satisfied

This also describes me pretty well. I was trained as a merchant ship's deck officer but opted to not go to sea as a career. Instead, I've spent my career building embedded systems. Every so often, I build a desktop app or a web application, but it lacks the satisfaction of being able to touch the hardware and actually watch my code affect something in the physical world.
I don't think as many insurance companies cover weight loss meds one would think, at least not without some other conditions such as type-1 diabetes, etc.

My proof point is based mostly on reddit forums where there are repeated complaints about insurance coverage of their medications, although I am seeing some success with coverage for Mounjaro -- which interestingly I think is the most expensive.

https://reddit.com/r/Ozempic/search?q=insurance&restrict_sr=...
https://reddit.com/r/loseit/search?q=insurance&restrict_sr=o...
https://reddit.com/r/Mounjaro/search?q=insurance&restrict_sr...

As others in this thread has pointed it, it could end up being a cost-savings measure for insurance companies if weight loss medications prevent other more costly obesity related complications down the road.
They’re going to increase the context window

https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C56MOZ3xdHI/?xmt=AQGzjzaz...
It doesn't help your case to be hyperbolic, you just come off as irrational and emotional. The average ACA insurance plan costs $477 per month. You can pay that with a job paying federal minimum wage, the lowest legal wage allowable by law anywhere in the country. That's miles away from bankruptcy.
Ugh, please don't capitalize black. That's the kind of stuff Berliner was talking about.
You probably used a well supported device.

I read the article over 3 devices and scrolling can get pretty buggy.
To be fair to AWS, they announced the deprecation of MySQL 5.7 in January 2021, and many emails warned of this change throughout 2024.
They didn't compare against the best models because they were trying to do "in class" comparisons, and the 70B model is in the same class as Sonnet (which they do compare against) and GPT3.5 (which is much worse than sonnet). If they're beating sonnet that means they're going to be within stabbing distance of opus and gpt4 for most tasks, with the only major difference probably arising in extremely difficult reasoning benchmarks.

Since llama is open source, we're going to see fine tunes and LoRAs though, unlike opus.
And not only that, in many cases they will tell you (if they reply) "oh, we can't find the source of that plot anymore". Happened to me quite a few times (although in physics).

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who's written themselves a mini tool to even extract data from a bitmap plot based on the axes. Involves some manual steps (cropping mainly), but is very convenient for the cases where people not even use vector graphics, but sometimes even just screenshots of plots... Do I like it? Hell no! It's why I've put quite some effort in doing it better for my PhD thesis.
Evaluating DeBERTaV3 with the Nonparametric Analysis
I don't know what LGTM means
That would probably work for me too, TBH.

200 mi was just an arbitrary number based on the BYD Dolphin which retails for $14k USD with a ~200 mile range.
Chartmeter, a Chart Intelligence Platform
The status quo is a weird thing. It's actually not unreasonable to ask someone to sleep in a tent. A job that requires travel, yes you're likely to get a hotel... but not all things in this universe need to be cookie cutter.
I suppose they think pharma is going to find their AI talent off the street and compete with MS, etc.
Gotta sign up for Mullvad tho
isnt MATLAB, Simulink, and Simscape already doing this at much finer detail?
For whom is it inconvenient?
> average consumer is with their health insurance provider for about 3 years

Are they? That sounds right for how long they're with an employer, but if I move companies I'm probably going with the same insurance carrier under the new company's plan. The total list of carriers [0] is pretty dang small (and not every licensed company is doing new policies).

Even if what you say is true it seems like reciprocity would make up for it - Company A pays and Company B benefits like you say, but for every situation like that there's a situation where Company B pays and Company A benefits.

[0] https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/110-health/20-look...
Researchers say 'loss avoidance' is all the rage in private equity
Plenty of recruitment teams get given targets. Just one 1 memo saying "hires that don't bring the company towards our diversity goals won't count for your metrics"...

(I have worked with 2 such recruitment teams).
"Please log in to generate images."

NOPE
If we have the option to make a human's job redundant through automation (without a disproportional reduction in quality), but choose not to because of "preserving jobs", that's inefficient.

In my view, it's disingenuous and cynical towards the person doing the job: They're effectively historical actors in a museum because we haven't figured out how else to solve for the distribution of monetary and "soft" values like societal status, feeling like a productive member of society etc.

There's nothing at all wrong in my view with letting people do what they want and cross-subsidizing that activity as a society, but why not call it what it is? And why stop at office-style work and exclude e.g. art?
> I don't think it's worth declaring what things are really about

I could not possibly agree less. You wouldn't happen to work in a related industry, would you?

> It's more likely to be it costs way more to make as nice a device that people want, that's also repairable.

Based on what evidence? Current practices like locked engines, propeitary versions of standard interfaces, drm in printer cartridges, deliberately overbundled parts, deliberate incompatibility doing things like reversing screw threads on one type of screw for no mechanical benefit, planned obsolecence, etc don't support your take. These things aren't free to implement– there's a calculable ROI that they feel is worth spending millions of engineering and lobbying dollars to implement.

> How many people would pay that premium when they're never going to service it anyway?

Considering the current state is needlessly buying an entirely new device every time something breaks, which not only costs money, it uses a ton of resources, and the alternative is better engineered products and competitive local repair options, I don't think it will be a hard sell. If corporations screwed up the market bad enough to undervalue their products because they're mislabeled disposables, well then that's on them. If they can't make it work, I guarantee someone else will. Will there be downsides? There's downsides to everything. So far "stuff theoretically might be more expensive up-front even though this limits their ability to artificially extract money from customers later on without disclosing it" isn't quite a showstopper.
https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B

https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B

https://llama.meta.com/llama-downloads

https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/download.sh
Not all Amish are the same. You're likely thinking of Swartzentruber Amish. It depends on your community, some have phones, some have a house with a shared phone. The Amish world at the moment is facing some of these changes, and some standards are evolving, but there will always be some separation with the English world until these modernities can be used in ways that don't erode community faith and relationships.
You have insurance companies pulling out because of fires, there is the earthquake risk and also highly likely water scarcity issues in 10-20years. Yearly "atmospheric river" and other unexpected water and flooding related crises are also getting worse at a place that isn't planned and prepared for that.

Are these investors looking to sell high very soon? Otherwise, it's a big gamble long term.
I am always excited to see these Open Weight models released, I think its very good for the ecosystem and definitely has its place in many situations.

However since I use LLMs as a coding assistant (mostly via "rubber duck" debugging and new library exploration) I really don't want to use anything other than the absolutely best in class available now. That continues to be GPT4-turbo (or maybe Claude 3).

Does anyone know if there is any model out there that can be run locally and compete with GPT4-turbo? Or am I asking for something that is impossible?
I have a 4k@120 Hz projector and it's downright amazing on my 120" "screen" :)

They're not that expensive, relative to some of the larger TV screens[0]. Plus, when it's off, there's no bulky appliance to navigate around.

[0]: https://www.benq.com/en-us/projector/gaming/tk700/buy.html
Yeah, there's no way I'm signing up to FB just to try this. The output is surprisingly good so far. And it's fast, and feels lightweight. If someone from Meta is reading this, do please add the stylesheet to "print to PDF". I suggested it to my friends at OpenAI but the suggestion got ignored. This would be a rather obviously useful feature.
I don't know if people necessarily want a pill. It’s just they feel they have exhausted the other options and are willing to try a new approach.

Every overweight person I know at one point or another has dieted. And lost significant weight.

This is what Google Gemini reports. Seems to line up with my life experience.

"According to a 2022 survey, 44% of Americans are on a diet, and 80% have been on one in the past. "

The difficulty is always in maintaining the long term.

5 years. 10 years. Till you die.
> I'm so surprised that Meta is actually leading the open source AI landscape?

Why? Meta has one of the most impressive open source track records out of anyone.
Magnus Metal wants to revamp the 4k-year-old way metal parts are made
I've been giving talks about Common Crawl for the last year with a slide about exactly this, using low background steel as an example.
That's not really a key problem and not how insurance companies evaluate cost/benefit. We overall want a healthier population and if you think hard enough about it, you lose some subscribers and gain some subscribers so it's a win win for all health insurance companies.

source: i'm in the health insurance industry
I do appreciate that the devil is always in the details, but I'll be straight that their new(?) "Upgrade insights" tab/api <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/cluster-ins...> goes a long way toward driving down the upgrade risk from a "well, what are we using that's going to get cut in the new version?"

We just rolled off of their extended version and it was about 19 minutes to upgrade the control plane, no downtime, and then varying between 10 minutes and over an hour to upgrade the vpc-cni add-on. It seemed just completely random, and without any cancel button. We also had to manually patch kube-proxy container version, which OT1H, they did document, but OTOH, well, I didn't put those DaemonSets on the Nodes so why do I suddenly have to manage its version? Weird

Touching CNI is always a potential downtime inducing event, but for the most part it was manageable
If Tiktok gets banned perhaps people (non elites) will start wondering about regulating other social media. It’s a desire on my part that this occurs. I’m not stating that it will occur or has occurred.
It's likely true that they didn't change the model, same for the many claims of GPT-4 getting worse. But they do keep iterating a lot on the "safety" layers on top: classifiers to detect dangerous requests, the main system prompt...

But I also think it's partially a psychological phenomenon, just people getting used to the magic and finding more bad edge-cases as it is used more.

EDIT: It seems that they do claim that the layers on top also didn't change https://twitter.com/alexalbert__/status/1780707227130863674
If the only original parts of the car, are the chassis, I would say it's not really a Honda Civic anymore.
It's easier to hire linux kernel devs, there's more documentation, tooling & examples, device drivers & filesystems are more widely available, etc.

Every other OS has to play catch-up. They either need a killer app or lots of funding, or else they'll be stuck in a specific niche.
I don't know anything about AI, but I assume they didn't have a choice after Llama was leaked onto 4chan last year.
That average ACA insurance plan also covers almost nothing. All health insurance is not equal.
One thing about these messages is that they kind of give a broad snapshot of everything going on in text form. So you get messages from people mixed with background automatic messages from news websites and so forth, with system messages due to infrastructure damage, to all sorts of things.

One thing that's struck me during 9/11, the pandemic, and some other natural disasters I've been around (I wasn't in NY 9/11 but similar ripple effects that day) is this kind of eerie intermediary time when things are breaking down, but people aren't sure whether to go on as normal or might not even be aware of what's going on, etc. I feel like these 9/11 messages capture that really well if you know what you're looking at, and know the timeline of events.
If any one is interesting in seeing how 400B model compares with other opensource models, here is a useful chart: https://x.com/natolambert/status/1780993655274414123
Beyond that, to people who interact with the models regularly the "nerf" issue is pretty obvious. It was pretty clear when a new model rollout caused ChatGPT4 to try and stick to the "leadup, answer, explanation" response model and also start to get lazy about longer responses.
Boston Dynamics is notoriously secretive.

But unlike with hydraulics, where Boston Dynamics have developed their own valves and pumps and organically shaped 3D printed in titanium manifolds, there is only so much that one can do differently from others with the electro-mechanical actuators and motor controllers.

Everybody is using the same brushless motors with one of a few known types of gearboxes.These technologies are so well developed that one usually has no choice but to source the components from the experts in their respective domains.

For now, the closest one can do to looking inside of the new Atlas, is to look at other modern robots. For example, here is what is inside of the Agility Robotics' bipedal robot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzIX2KGqpzI

And here is a teardown of a joint from a very popular Universal Robots' arm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oje2ucwe3vI

Other than that, one can read Boston Dynamics' patents covering some of the design choices for their older robots, including for the electric quadrupeds:
https://patents.google.com/?assignee=Boston+Dynamics
But how do they pay for rent, utilities, transportation, and groceries?
It’s almost like all of these LLMs are trained to always give you bullshit instead of a straight answer.

The content:words ratio keeps getting worse. Maybe the winner in this space will be the one going in the opposite direction. Deliver answers as concisely as possible instead of being a smartass.
I do see on the bottom left:

Log in to save your conversation history, sync with Messenger, generate images and more.
Of course it is possible. For example via quantization. Unless you are refering to something I can't see in that tweet. (not signed in).
It sounds like you've never actually lived in California.

It's a state with the area the size of Germany.
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus model is now available on Amazon Bedrock
Bruce Lee's injunction "be like water" probably means don't overcomplicate with agency and opposed consciousnesses, just evolve the lagrangian (towards victory).

(Speak not of the relevant XKCD)
Dude, that's just the language. "Water wants to flow downhill". It's a model, man. Everyone learns this pretty quickly. I don't get how this position is so popular on HN/Reddit. The language is giving you tools to model the world.

"The water doesn't want anything. It's just the laws of gravity."

Intelligence comes from being able to efficiently compress highly predictive models. Any computational mechanism that is unable to do this is a low-grade intelligence. If you need the whole thing spelled out carefully for you, you're NGMI.
Where does it say much better than gpt4 for the 400B model?
> $5500/mo for a 3 bedroom property with additional appreciation is a great deal in any market.

What are you smoking? This is insane even on two $150k salaries. It’s 60k a year on the mortgage alone, when your households total take home pay is under $200k.
Hey I’d love to hear more, if only you could provide something that backs up your claim.
I love OpenMCT, in 2021 I wrote some crypto DeFi arb trading bots (just doing realtime graph constructions and then bellman ford, then a hill-climbing amount optimiser and gas estimator and transaction obfuscator to help avoid sniping)

I modified OpenMCT to be the GUI for this, which showed the profitable trading paths through the graph in realtime.

I emailed NASA to ask if they could put my thumbs up, mugshot on their users page next to all of the satellites and Mars missions, they said they couldn’t because my project was a for profit enterprise, but I totally think they just didn’t want my (insane) mugshot there XD
Plane One: Pay once, use forever project management tool
Half of the grocery stores in my area are now owned by Kroger. It's getting harder to avoid doing business with them over time.

This is why I am very nervous about the threat of Kroger buying Alberstons.
Do you really want a partner whose criteria is doing dumb shit? I mean if a woman doesn't want me because I wear a helmet I figure that's me dodging a bullet
Google fires 28 over Israel protest conduct
Found it, it was a blog 10 years ago. https://web.archive.org/web/20120508004058/http://garrysub.p...
“ My cutoff date is September 2022” lmao
Yes, normal handles are easier to free up from ice, I agree.
yes https://x.com/grimdoomer/status/1780260482718573055?s=61&t=0...
Have you even looked at the deductible/out of pocket on those plans? With most of them you're looking at $10k out of pocket max.

My employer paid for health care has that same monthly cost for my entire family with a $1500 out of pocket max. I don't think you have the first clue how much money that $8500 difference is for the average american.