skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The topic has changed from a study to a self selected set of people who want to lose weight badly enough they are willing to pay to be confined in some setting where they cannot access food outside of what is given to them, and they are forced to follow an exercise plan of your (not their) choosing.

You can of course study these people, but the only study anyone is interesting in is how different changes in conditions affect how much people lose and how much money you can get out of them.
Founder here...open to any questions you might have. Thx.
I don't think that the 2024 Putnam Exam questions (a *very* challenging undergraduate math exam) have made it into anyone's training set just yet, so it makes these questions useful for seeing just how "smart" the chain-of-thought models are. Neither Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, or o1 could give satisfactory answers to the first/easiest question on the 2024 exam, "Determine all positive integers n for which there exist positive integers a, b, and c such that 2a^n + 3b^n = 4c^n." It's not even worth trying the later questions with these models.

They recognize a Diophantine equation, and do some basic modular arithmetic, which is a standard technique, but they all fail hard when it comes to synthesizing the concepts into a final answer. You can eventually get to a correct answer with any of these models with very heavy coaching and prompting them to make an outline of how they would solve a problem before attacking, and correcting every one of the silly mistakes and telling them to ignore un-productive paths. But if any of those models were a student that I was coaching to take the Putnam I'd tell them to stop trying and pick a different major. They clearly don't have "it."

R1, however, nails the solution on the first try, and you know it did it right since it exposes its chain of thought. Very impressive, especially for an open model that you can self-host and fine tune.

tl;dr: R1 is pretty impressive, at least on one test case. I don't know for sure but I think it is better than o1.
To add:

You might need to zoom out a bit to see the whole map, the hole was hidden for me initially
>just not convinced on the real world applications here...

As a piece of data alone, the results are probably not of significant use.

The real-world application (and potential danger) is when this data is combined with other data. De-anonymization techniques using sparse datasets has been an active area of research for at least 15 years and it is often surprising to people how much can be gleaned from a few pieces of seemingly unconnected data.
Stop making moves like a funded startup when you're bootstrapped
17-Year-Old Designed a Motor That Could Transform the Electric Car Industry (2022)
I wish I could just use the watch for everything and dump the phone. It does some ham fisted stuff to prevent this. For example, the watch Bluetooth stack detects that it is connected to a car stereo and refuses to work.
Their twitter says

> Joined November 2017

so likely a bit older :)
I guess it can be useful for tracking fugitive political dissidents, terrorists, etc. If you can narrow their location down to 250 miles, it's already very useful information. And without raising any suspicions.
We'll have to see over the next couple years how this pans out; early in 2024 they changed their Connect app to be significantly less usable, angering their core use base with many vowing to move to competitors. While some is handwaving, others are definitely not coming back due to how Garmin has handled it.
The Connect app was a big part of their watches' popularity.

For what its worth they managed to lose 0.4 of their Play store rating down from 4.5 in short order, and thats based on 1M+ reviews, so not an insignificant number
Some people just like the hustle culture. They can't seem to stand the boredom of a sustainable company with years of runway. So it obviously depends on your personality. For some, the thrill is worth the risk. For others, it's a huge bag of nope. I for one am clearly moving toward the latter group as I get older.
But the Signal client encrypts images before sending them to the Signal server. If it padded out the images at that point, the images would all be indistinguishable from each other unless Cloudflare were actually able to break the encryption (which would completely undermine the entire security model).
This is what I call a failure to measure, or what smart people call bias. To ascend your opinion from silly to valid you only have to qualify two things:

How much more ubiquitous in this regard is Twitter than Facebook (as a percentage) and what real world impact does that number have?

People, in general, tend to invent their own reality. There are smart terms to describe that behavior from a variety of causes but dummies like me just tend to call it bullshit.
Which I feel is a recurring lesson in CI in general. CI systems have to be scriptable to get their job done because they can't anticipate every build system. With even terrible scriptability comes Turing completeness, because it is hard to avoid, a natural law. Eventually someone figures out how to make it do wild things. Eventually those wild things becomes someone's requirements in their CI pipeline. Eventually someone is blog posting about how terrible that entire CI system is because of how baroque their pipeline has become and how many crazy scripts it has that are hard to test and harder to fix.

It's like the circle of life for CI systems.
>Some things you buy in a month might last into the next month. That will introduce some variation but over longer periods it should cancel out.

Alternately: you can note the day you first and last ate from the container.

Or what I used to do: make tally marks on the container to figure out how many portions it typically provides; then, going forward, count a "standard" portion of that food accordingly.
Q4_K_M is the quantization most models are ideal at, which is about 4.5 bits per parameter. So take the number of parameters and multiply by 4.5/8 and that's how much RAM you need to load the model. Then add some for context and processing. Short answer, any of the distilled models will run easily, but you still can't touch the raw one.
> I don’t like ceiling pot lights at all

Why not? Is it not better for lights to be overhead and not directly in your field of view?
> You remember when you fell asleep? I don't. Watch tracks how often you wake up, how long you spend in the deep sleep, etc.

Anecdotally, this is very inaccurate for me.
Why should the restaurant cover any of the cost of delivery?
It’s not about people being entitled it’s about employers recognizing an opportunity to subsidize their labor costs.

The employer is the one building in the expectation for tips.
Page 18 first paragraph, it talks about how ChatGPT users engaged less with the editing process compared to other methods. Sorry, copy and paste isn’t working for some reason.
Like all my Google data? Search of what?
I got quite used to downvoting. That is why I have in my bio being contrarian. It is not that I want to be one so I go for the opposite opinion.

I agree it may not survive that long in the EU, especially in the UK I am not even sure which one is worst.
> Could you point out where exactly this is demonstrated in this paper? As far as I can tell from the study, people who used ChatGPT for the studying did better than the ones that didn't, with no different in knowledge retention.

This is what I observed as well. For the "metacognitive laziness" bit they had to point to other studies.
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yup, and we just lost 10,000 homes in California. We will be losing housing every year. Where I live they just build mansions.
ok so where do those who have been consistently mad at the people variously in power going back to 2016 or even 2008 go to complain? non-partisan free speech believers exist
Is it available everywhere?
This is the opposite of my experience. Big tech is far more hours and stress. And the work is much narrower and boring. The system is designed to make people into commodities and make you do work in the way that most benefits managers senior to yourself. Solve this narrow piece of a problem using this specific method alongside 5 other people doing other narrow pieces, versus a startup where you can just own the whole thing and iterate it faster.

Startups pay less and have to take what the can get. This probably causes a vicious cycle that makes the pay gap worse and worse.
Well, Musk hypocrisy aside and assuming the scale of this intervention is the same on X as pre-acquisition and assuming it’s as egregious and petty as then, he won’t have the infrastructure to force his views across all social networks like the Biden administration did.
"Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense."

- from the novel Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson

I take this quote to mean that most people's idea of "apologetics" (arguing to convince people that the facts of Christianity or some other religion are true) is kind of pointless. You'll never convince someone logically of something that has to be experienced viscerally. LLMs don't help with that at all.
I'm glad I read Next by Michael Crichton, or I might never have heard the story of Henrietta Lacks.

Not that I've had the need luckily but I've been wary of having so much as a blood test since then.
This is the problem with any fitness app.

They either need to show you ads, charge you for premium for services that used to be free making your free tier functionally useless (looking at you, MFP who gated barcode scanning behind their honestly ludicrously priced subscription), or sell your data, and they often do all three.

The entire industry is like this, and honestly an app that charges one time and fucks off would be ideal but given the amount you'd probably need to charge as a one off (or for major upgrades) most consumers would rather have the slow bleed of $10/mo than $25 one time.
Do they? I see a note that says it will be "available soon"?
This has been done. However prisoners have very different activity levels - they are confined to a cell for 20 hours a day. Office works get up a lot more often and generally are in the office less hours.
FDA approves J&J's nasal spray for depression as standalone treatment
Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars
How much does the "new BMI" say you should weigh?
"bit of a sensationalist" is reasonable feedback; no slack needed. After all, this is how they learn.
Lots of people get paid a normal wage to do subpar work. Why should delivery drivers be any different? If those jobs actually pay a decent wage, then better quality employees will be interested in doing them and the lower tier workers will get pushed out. It should naturally drive up the quality.
But the margins on that business are not exceptional. Operating income on "outdoor" segment of their business, the one that includes the epix and fenix series watches and so forth, is higher than aviation segment.
>How many of us still have to do these things?

Yep, we agree. That's the whole point of what I said in the first half of my original comment.

At one time, they were common skills. Things changed, they aren't common, they aren't really needed (for most people), and everyone is doing just fine without them. We've freed up time and mental capacity for other (hopefully more beneficial) tasks.

(I'm confused why this reply and the other above it are are just restating the first part of my original comment, but framing it like it's not a restatement).
It doesn't seem like - it is

Which makes it par for the course in the scam that is mobile development
I really like the proposal from black_puppydog here. Free forever self-host and a pay-per-print in case you want to have support or don't want to hassle with the infrastructure. Like Coolify is doing it.
The C172 with a G1000 setup was around $20/hr more at the local flight school than a C172 with a six pack. Def not needed for X-country but I always felt safer flying it through busy airspace. Garmin really does make fantastic avionics.
How accurate is that speech detection when you’re trying to hold in being sick after running a spicy interval?
Maybe, but people are generally like that. When they’re in the same situations they do the same things. I think few people are honest with themselves, or even know themselves what they would be like if situations were reversed.
I have been diabetic for 20 years. I have tried every method, app, plan, and tool, including systems falsely marketed as "smart." No method works or delivers decent results except for using a scale and weighing ALL the ingredients.
For a diabetic, eating "out" is always a roll of the dice.
The "fun" feedback from post-meal blood sugar is always a reminder of how "eyeballing a plate" is utterly useless.
> real resting heart rate in the 60s

What makes one measurement "real" and the other one "not real", if you're mainly using it as a personal metric?

The reason that the traditional definition of resting heart rate exists is people didn't have 24/7 heart rate monitors, and doctors had to measure what they are able to measure. And they still can't measure it well, because patients often have white coat syndrome and there's not enough time during an appointment for people to relax fully.

The Apple Watch, which uses the traditional definition, has to use algorithms to guess which of its measurements counts as "resting" or not, which adds complexity. In contrast, lowest HR during sleep is a more reliable and consistent measurement.
Is Facebook though the perfect community tool? Using centralized systems has advantages (simple/easy/available/cheap) but also disadvantages (less customization/less control/more expensive). When Facebook appeared maybe the alternatives were not there due to technical complexity is this still the case nowadays?...
I don't understand the focus on someone, in your view, lying to you - I suspect we agree that in the scenario you described, it seeming that the person has lied to you about what's in their pants is much less important than the fact that they whipped it out in front of your family. It wouldn't be any better if a man who identified as such snuck into the changing room and did the same thing. I think focusing on criminal behavior is similarly focusing on an edge case, given that the vast majority of trans people, and people in general, are not criminals who expose themselves to children.

What about this more likely scenario: If this co-worker never did such a thing, they were a perfectly pleasant and normal person to work with, and you only found out they were trans after you or they had left the company and you no longer worked together, would you still be angry they had lied to you - why or why not? Would whether they'd ever gone into a changing room in your presence affect that anger?

What if this person was someone like the photo I used in the other thread, and they looked something like this: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRO1Vem... - the next time you saw them, would you start referring to them as "she" and call them a liar?

I don't fundamentally agree that dressing, acting, or wanting to be referred to a certain way equates to lying to someone about what's in their pants. Even if it did, I also just don't fundamentally understand why it matters if someone does lie to you about that, in average everyday situations.

I can understand that there are circumstances where it does matter. I'm not saying it couldn't ever. But I don't understand why the default position is rejection and anger.

> The entire point of language is to "cut reality at the joints", we create words in order to group natural kinds together in a way that allow for common understanding and decision-making. If society wants to redefine "woman" as meaning something else, we would still want a word to mean "adult human female" because it is a natural kind. When we redefine woman, we see all the contortions people go . All of science, all of human knowledge relies on being better and better at organizing and recognizing and create common language around finding patterns in nature.

That seems like a solvable problem to me. Our initial attempts at solving it have been awkward, but we'll get there. I think I'm more concerned about what path society agrees on going forward than the specifics of how we do it, for now.

> Destroying these distinctions and saying, "it's all what a person wants to be" is completely novel in history

This also is not true. There are numerous well-documented cases of trans people throughout history, and there are long-standing concepts of "third genders" and others dating back thousands of years (see e. g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender#Old_World).
This is such a naked attempt at manufacturing consent. Really bizarre, 1984-level remove-dissent-from-the-vocabulary kind of play.
It is an important question because people want to think whatever their vice is, it is good for them. Thus you can make lots of money if you can get a headline showing something is good, no matter how bad the study is.
That was a troll feature. It usually showed any user his own information.

MAYBE some forum doxxed users by posting their informatio? but I didn't see any.
In my experience, people are especially bad at understanding how calorific alcohol is. Carbs and protein are generally 4 calories per gram. Alcohol is 7 calories per gram. Only fat is more energy dense at 9 calories per gram.

I can recall in the aughts when there was a major low carb food trend and Bacardi had a popular ad campaign around the fact that their rum had no carbs, basically marketing it as the smarter option for people watching their weight -- even though all unflavored hard liquor has no carbs and is still incredibly calorific.
Yes, with maps. The Apple Watch Strava app will record and upload directly or you can import workouts from Apple Health, both give you GPS, HR, etc.

If recorded elsewhere it can depend, but that’s due to Strava being irritating/changing/dropping integration features in the last couple of years and not an Apple ecosystem issue.

Or those people have maps uploaded but have chosen not to make them public?
> You can even have them delivered to the U.S. consulate abroad.

But you need to present in USA to apply for a new permit and attend biometrics in USA?

OP will have to bring his his family to usa every year, afaik.
Yeah it is, but I’m not aware of a good alternative that is widely used and supported
Yes that is true. Though that can be subsumed if you notice it, and ask the model to ignore those biases. (an extreme example would be opposition prep for a debate). I am not interested in politics and other related issues anyway.
Ah yes, I'm sorry, I mistook the context. If Signal encrypts the images E2E, you're right that it wouldn't matter what Cloudflare does, especially if padded.
Exactly, is OP really the one who should be influencing others preferences? Most couldn’t give two shits about the technological perils that await them just over the horizon - and should you really be the one to inform them of those horrors? Just relax - and embrace the book of faces. The movement will be swift and relatively painless, mostly.
I'm one of the authors of the paper. Thanks for raising a good point. It will be better if we upload the paper to arxiv but it's MLK in the US so submissions will be delayed by a couple of days. And we just can't wait to share some of the knowledge we gained from our experiments. Hope they will be useful for the community. Would much appreciate it if you have an idea about a better site for this.
That said our API requests are open and we'll roll out more in the next few days depending on our server resources.
Unfortunately it was shut down after I sold the company to MyFitnessPal.

I was a shitty business person who thought it made sense to try and build a free consumer product on a bootstrapped budget. We had some traction on the B2B side that paid the bills but COVID took a dent in it and it would have taken a long time to build back the revenue stream selling to healthcare companies (tip for others, it can take 6-18months to close healthcare deals and another 6-18months to integrate)

We had a few offers to sell the company and took the one that seemed to make the most sense.

If there’s anything I can do to help out my email is michalwols at the Google email provider domain
I guess even if, and that’s a big if, a founder agrees to give an early employee Class A shares (I guess that would be the top tier, wouldn’t it?), even that could be turned into nothing, wouldn’t it? Unless you’re already rich enough to be able to legally stand up for yourself.

Even class A shares are given in the form of options? Such that even to make it yours after a certain period (usually after leaving) you actually have to “buy” it and then pay taxes on its fictitious price difference.

I have come across ESOPs just once from an American startup (but I worked in my home country) and the whole thing just shocked me. The price used to change as if someone (Board? Banks? Founders?) woke up and just threw a dart on a number chart and that became FMV of that day! Even when there’s no funding round or so!
TLS doesn’t matter for End-to-end encrypted stuff though, you could exchange the data over Telnet and it would still be secure. The content itself is already encrypted before being transmitted and can only be decrypted by the receiver.
Thank you! That's interesting knowledge!
There's probably at least a few instances where you send someone you think is American a picture but it gets cached in Moscow, or vice versa. Or you post a meme to a Californian left-wing group and it gets cached in DC. Not hard to imagine situations where getting an unexpected rough location could be a valuable signal.
WasmBots
hmm yeah sorry, I meant the benefits of humans using current AI.

by that I mean, leveraging writing was a benefit for humans to store data and think over longer term using a passive technique (stones, tablets, papyrus).. but an active tool might not have a positive effect on usage and brains.

if you give me shoes, i might run further to find food, if you give me a car i mostly stop running and there might be no better fruit 100 miles away than what I had on my hill. (weak metaphor)
Designing for Speed
meta =/= x
You can disable the auto-download. Settings > Data and storage > Media auto-download, you can choose what to auto download for mobile data/wifi/roaming.
Some models have an ECG monitoring app in some countries.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/garmin-technology/health-scienc...
Newb: What a great thread of informed, courteous folks! Thanks!

Simplistic: A major impact today is that amateurs using AI can generate tons of low quality professional work for peanuts. Overall quality suffers but profits soar or rise enough. Where does that lead?
China is going to dominate the car market and shutter US factories if the US stops trying to be a leader in EVs

If America is going to be great again, wouldn't leading in emerging tech be one of those things it strives for?
It could also simply have been impotence that he did not want to acknowledge.

Made perhaps even more likely with Antoinette's alleged proclivities, her children's questionable paternity, and so on.