skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see this analysis done for ChatGPT, which has a much bigger 'consumer' marketshare.

I'm also very wary of their analysis method, given classifiers-gonna-classify. We already see it in their example of someone asking why their game is crashing and it buckets them into Computer & Mathematical occupation. I'm guessing the original question was not that of a game developer but rather a game player, so can you really call this an occupational task? Sure it's in that domain, I guess, but in a completely different context. If I'm asking a question about how to clean my dish washer, that's hardly in repairman or industrial occupations.

Still, it's cool they're doing this.
> Diagrams are a communication tool.

For me it’s primarily a tool that aides and shapes my thinking. I start sketching out diagrams to discover dependencies, edge cases, and so on. Most of what I draw I don’t share.

Even during brainstorming sessions I’ve found immense use of diagrams, they cut out so much noise.
To me the simple fact that millions of people kept telling us "being fat is OK and healthy" changed their mind over night now that they have a seemingly silver bullet is a big problem. That and the fact that 90% of fat/obese people could have fixed themselves with a bit of hard work and self control. What's the point of life if you're not able to control such basic things as what you ingest or how much you exercise, are you just at the complete mercy of McDonald's and Novo Nordisk. Having autonomy on your own body is such a basic thing, if you don't control that you control absolutely nothing

If it works for them and has 0 negative health effect, good for them, but philosophically it opens up a lot of questions
First, I’m sorry about your health. That sounds like it sucks a lot. I would be angry too. I’d also be afraid and very willing to adopt anything so long as it could convince me it was even marginally helpful.

> It's a generalization that paints men in a negative light, which I took personally.

With compassion, I seriously suggest that you adopt a radically different perspective. OP did not come after you personally. Yet you say that you took it personally. How did you come to that reaction?

It helps to not look at all facts as binary. This leads to a brittle world view as one tries to reduce reality’s complexity into a bits. Social group membership is not like sets and propositional logic. If you’re applying that system of logic to the real world, you’ll derive false things. I look at it like the axioms are verifiably false by observation, thus poisoning the whole system.

I don’t usually wade into deep comment threads, but I want to help here. I see something you said that I used to struggle with myself. And I struggled until someone else helped me.

Good luck with your health.
Ask HN: Which LLM framework does "AI Agents" the right way?
With so many options out there, I was wondering if you have encountered situations where any specific framework was more mature, well-thought-out, and well-documented for agentic AI applications.
I appreciate the idea (and Uiua's examples indeed look beautiful, almost like visual programming) but I'd at least like some obvious way how to pronounce the code.
You say that like "hustling" isn't a crime, like gamergate didn't happen, like "programmers" don't write code to do all sorts of things, legal and illegal.

Some of us are old enough to know that none of this is new.

No one is saying these are "hardened" criminals, but none of them care about the consequences of what they are participating in and that is just as disqualifying for public service.
I did run into this with one teller at a bank we use. Wife showed them a copy of our marriage certificate on her phone and the teller said, congrats and that was that. We had 0 issues with online check submission though.
> Is it still used in common English?

pumpkin

Though now I think about it, it's very odd diminutive. Pumpkins are large rather than small.
The irony of you being upset about people ignoring facts... :D
Rewritten, yes.
Just a reminder about GP's original comment:

> This is guaranteed to be a strong factor, there's plenty of evidence on IQ heritability and correlation with income.

> Just because it doesn't predict the outcome fully doesn't mean it's insignificant.

I'm just trying to figure out what your argument was, since it looks like you're trying to convince GP of what they already believed. Income isn't genetic after all.
Direct testimonial from people who had research grants disrupted. It's not difficult to infer that now unemployed government employees are negatively impacted. There are more, not hard to find on social media.
You are being downvoted for thinking that this isnt something people have already thought about or take lightly. You made several absolutes in a comment with a length of one sentence without providing any evidence and just assume these are settled facts that we all know and agree on. Also, a "life long dependency" doesn't really seem to apply to everyone.

Even if it were, many people would happily trade addiction for a dependency.

"Hey buddy, looks like you can use some help. I have a medicine here that can help you live longer with a better quality of life, and a boost to self-esteem but its gonna require a subscription."

Is it silly to think many people would not enter this non-binding agreement that can be stopped at any time?
Htmx is terrible once you have to manage state that has to live in the frontend
I’ve had similar experiences with the "XY Problem". When I was learning, I’d sometimes ask weird questions questions, like "Is it safe to call React's useState setter function outside the component it was created in or from an event handler?" Instead of a direct answer, yes it's safe, I’d often just get linked to an XY Problem website and told to explain what I was actually trying to accomplish. Then get argued with about whether or not this was an anti-pattern, without ever getting the original question answered.

I had similar experience with #perl on Freenode, the people there were very helpful and I don't think anyone there intended any amusement at my expense. But getting your weird questions answered was like pulling teeth.

Now, I always try to answer the original question first, then follow up with additional explanation about why doing something might be a bad idea or lead to future inconvenience.
Because that research helps you understand your market and where the value generation is. This can expose where to better invest.
"Dependence" simply doesn't mean "routinely taking this drug improves my quality of life". It means that your body comes to rely on the drug for normal functioning and if you try to quit you'll be worse off than if you'd never taken it at all. I'm not aware of any evidence that this happens for GLP-1 agonists; from what I've heard, people who stop taking them just return to their normal appetites.
> Is it used still in common English?

Not at all, really only in words 'munchkin', 'napkin', or 'pumpkin'.
I don't see the harm in something like this. If you were to train your own LLM specifically on medicine & medical data, then show it your lifetime history of doctors visits, blood work, what drugs you're taking, have taken, symptoms and etc etc etc there's a decent probability it could give some perspective you might not be able to get elsewhere - especially in the broken US healthcare system. Having access to multiple specialists in many different fields is something a large % of the population simply doesn't have access to for a variety of reasons.

I think the issue is people might assume it's going to spit out your exact diagnosis 100% of the time right off the bat. That's obviously not true, but that's not what I got from reading the description of the project. It sounds more like a potential useful tool for folks to have as an additional option, and then to bring that information to a doctor to see if it pans out.

Regardless, one extremely helpful thing I got out of reading the reddit thread was the mention of an unrelated project called Fasten, which will apparently allow you to request all your medical records from many sources and then self host them:

Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator, designed to integrate with 100,000's of insurances/hospitals/clinics

https://github.com/fastenhealth/fasten-onprem
Yes, that was what I'm referencing.

I understand these engines have their own full SDK for developing with the engine, but I'm curious about the external ecosystem/integrations/libraries. It isn't a space I'm super familiar with, but I'm interested in it, not only from the standpoint of it being an interesting technology I've never played with before, but also because I'm curious if there are similar issues in the game engine SDK space as there are in the application SDK space.

Or maybe even a whole different host of issues and practices. Not sure, that's what I'm looking into.
You would expect more from The New York Times. The article lacks depth in exploring potential downsides, broader accessibility, and possible conflicts of interest. It feels somewhat like an infomercial for the drugs rather than an objective piece of investigative reporting.
Noether proved that for every symmetry of the action there is a conserved quantity. The action is an expression (a function of the coordinates) from which the equations of motion can be derived. Examples of symmetries of the action are time reversal, spatial translation, spatial rotation, and complex phase rotation. The corresponding conserved quantities are energy, linear momentum, angular momentum, and charge.

In general relativity, symmetries that exist in the action for a flat spacetime are violated in curved spacetime. So, in curved spacetime, the corresponding quantities are not conserved. One example is energy. The reason has to do with the fact that integrating a tensor along a closed loop in curved spacetime might yield a nonzero result due to the curvature itself, rather than due to the dynamics of what is being integrated.

I don't think that the article goes into any of this. The introduction about general relativity did seem like a curve ball, even if it's historically accurate.
I suspect that is the case, yeah. I can think of maybe 3 other (famous) Bills from the UK but a lot more from the US.

Bill Bailey, Bill Oddie, and Bill Shankly - alas I don’t know any of them personally!
Harris and Harrison are other examples of this kind of surname.

In Dublin, the bus routes are bilingual and a couple of years ago I noticed that the Irish translation of Harristown is Baile Anraí¹. When I first saw “Baile Anraí” as the destination for a passing bus, I wondered where Henry’s Town might be. I then figured that Henry and Harris must be variations of the same name and that Anraí is the Irish version of both names.

Sure enough, when I check this now, Wikipedia concurs². The article it cites states that Harry is the “Medieval English form of Henry. In modern times it is used as a diminutive of both Henry and names beginning with Har.”³

The surname Hanks may also derive from the use of Hank as a diminutive of Henry⁴

¹ https://www.dublinbus.ie/getmedia/947fdcee-5f28-46e0-8785-ab...

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_(given_name)

³ https://www.behindthename.com/name/harry

⁴ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hank#Proper_noun
There honestly might be a greater chance of something happening to the .cc domain (like what's happening now with .io)

Harvard has a much larger population than the Cocos islands, I don't know why this project decided to rely on a country code tld
Somehow i feel like we can get this with employment that produces value. It'd be more productive to get people to dig ditches—ditches don't destroy our cities, roads, and services, so they produce even more value than ads do.

Anyway, the last thing this society needs is encouragement to buy even more crap they never asked for. We can be something better than "that shithole strip-mall where everyone is an ignorant consumer who worships ronald reagan". As much as the evidence points to the contrary, I do believe we are capable of more.
Certificate Transparency is now enforced in Firefox on desktop platforms
> The history of computing has many examples of products and languages winning out over technically superior alternatives for non-technical reasons.

Unfortunately, the history shows that such technically inferior languages and products winning out are also because of outright market manipulation by their corporate backers, tons of money in ads, or attacks on competitors. The elephant in the room, is to look at what's generating or paying for the hype and marketing behind recent programming languages like Rust and Zig (for example).

> I think that the massive groundswell of interest around Rust...

A review of the groundswell, around Rust or Zig, is its not attributable to just grassroots or genuine interest, and can significantly be the result of outright astroturfing and artificial brigading. Sadly, many people follow along with the marketing or are bombarded into submission, "must rewrite in X" or "GC all bad and manual all good" foolishness, versus actual use case and legitimate examination of language tradeoffs.
1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS
I'm not saying there's not a lot of hype here, but unlike crpyto, this is actually solving problems. I'm not going to get into a discussion about willpower and calories and all that, but GLP-1 drugs do effectively cause weight loss. That is bound to be big business.
Hey @aj7 and @novia.

I am very interested on this as well, feel free to reach out, email in profile.

I am actually advocating against abuse and corruption in academia, that's a swamp that really needs to be drained.
In the ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43000918
Similarly, 70s Steve Wozniak was supposed to be kinda chubby, but people this millennium seeing those old photos are like "what? he's totally average?"
At a previous company, when I had to travel, we had a contract with some sort of travel agency. They loved ignoring all of my instructions ("late morning departure, direct flight, out of <preferred airport>") and would book me on a 7:30am flight, out of an airport it would take me three hours to get to, with a connection in a totally different part of the country.

To their credit, when I would email them and let them know that I found a cheaper direct flight, leaving at my preferred time, out of my preferred airport, they would graciously change the flight to that one.

But I'm not sure why I was required to do the legwork at all for a service they were nominally providing.
Sure, I agree, but the person I was responding to was not talking about SLS specifically. They said that a moon program should be strictly up to commercial interests to pursue and that the government shouldn't purse one at all.
Linear Regression could be the world's first AGI /sarcasm
Do you have any data for how much time is spend running tests and exams on people without autoimmune conditions? That might impact autoimmune diagnostic timelines.

Anecdotally, I have heard that hypochondria is a problem in this space. So I would want to know the ratio of incorrect self-diagnosis to confirmed diagnosis, and what percentage of the system's totally human and technical resources are spent recognizing false positives.

I think that this sort of effort is probably a positive one. Patients should have access to their records are are more likely to be able to centralize data for analysis by a 3rd party - with all the attendant risks - more effectively than any other party. Secure systems without conflicts of interest - ie, insurance companies - to aid multidisciplinary diagnoses over longer time frames is a good thing.

But the risk of AI hallucinations and doctor/diagnosis shopping are real. This post was light on details on the diagnosis, how many rheumatologists they saw to get it, what tests confirmed it, and if the treatment has been effective in a way that cannot be skewed (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30139289/)
>Disagree — proponents of this point still have yet to prove reasoning and other studies agree about “reasoning” being potentially fake/simulated: https://the-decoder.com/apple-ai-researchers-question-openai...

???

https://the-decoder.com/language-models-use-a-probabilistic-...
Ozempic side effects are nasty. It's hardly "0 effort".
Yes, these inaccuracies come from using a (global) DEM for catchment delineation. It also behaves strange in river deltas, when multiple branches of the river show up.

I'd like it to render a whole endorheic basin with one selection of a lake, but currently it splits the lake into two or more, e.g.

https://topography.jessekv.com/?lat=31.4299&lng=35.4724&mode...

and

https://topography.jessekv.com/?lat=31.4136&lng=35.4702&mode...
I predict this article to be embarrassingly wrong. The moat of models is compute, wrappers are just software engineering, one of the first things to be commoditized by AI in general.
> scrolling up a conversation takes hours, this alone makes me cry if i have to use it

Funnily, this is the exact same issue I have with Slack.
I’m going to your comment as an example in my statistics class about correlation vs causality! Thanks!
Euclid Discovers an Einstein Ring
I'd add a little bit more to that.

Pattern identification and continuation can be applied to evaluate symbolic reasoning. You can see this in e.g. the semantics of a functional programming language if evaluation semantics are defined in terms of rewrite rules.

If you have a model which can convert a problem into language that's precise enough to start pattern matching to LLM-encoded generative programs that evaluate logical implications, you can get into a very interesting space. Autoregressive prediction can turn into symbolic progressive evaluation and calculation. The background LLM is still guiding choice of evaluation and goal seeking.

Reinforcing these evaluation rules seems like it should be doable without enormous corpora, as long as the base model already has enough meat on it to cleanly attach to the more precise language.
What function and timings do you use to make the space bar a modifier, but still work normally when typing? I tried a few things but couldn't figure out what to use.
The potential long term effects of tinkering with the endocrine system just leave me too uneasy to give it a try as an otherwise healthy young person with a few pounds to lose. Good for diabetics and the morbidly obese, but the whole craze is just too much. Feels like Ephedra all over again.
Has anyone rebelled violently en masse?
The FCC in Authoritarian Times
I hope this drug is safe for all the people consuming it.

That said, as someone who prefers to stay fit the hard way (exercise, sleep and balanced diet) I would never take a drug to stay in shape or for that matter anything else that could be mitigated by lifestyle changes. About 11 years ago I was prescribed hypertension medication, I never went to the pharmacy to pick them up, instead I reduced my weight, started meditation and improved my cardio exercises and my hypertension is under control now. I know eventually I might need the drug (hereditary) but I will delay it as much as humanly possible.

To each their own I guess.
Teaching an LLM to solve a full sized Sudoku is not a goal right now. As an RLHF I’d estimate it would take 10-20 hours for a single RLHF’er to guide a model to the right answer for a single board.

Then you’d need thousands of these for the model (or next model) to ingest. And each RLHF’s work needs checking which at least doubles the hours per task.

It can’t do it because RLHF’ers haven’t taught models on large enough boards en masse yet.

And there are thousands of pen and paper games, each one needing thousands of RLHF’ers to train them on. Each game starting at the smallest non trivial board size and taking a year for a modest jump in board size. Doing this in not in any AI company’s budget.
> And with laptops, I get the point to some extent, nobody says buy an engineer a 2 core 8gb ram machine, but try speccing up a Mac and see how deep the apple tax is on ram and storage, especially if you're non US.

I know you mentioned "outside the US", but inside the US, skimping on $1500 when you're already paying the developer $150k a year, plus benefits, plus the laptop already costs $2500 as a baseline seems insane.
My big beef (and this happens on S.O. all the time) is when I ask a detailed question about how to do some very specific ABC thing, and instead of answering, the responders try to question my requirements, turn the problem into a XY problem[1], or answer something totally different.

"What are you really trying to do?"

"ABC is not how I'd solve the problem I imagine you are working on."

"I don't know how to do ABC, but I know how to do DEF..."

"Why do you want to do ABC?"

I mean, thanks for all of your unsolicited design input, I guess, but I'm pretty specifically asking for help with ABC.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
Because a bunch of activities which help you remain healthy are easier when you're skinny. Jogging, hiking, and bouldering are all things I enjoy, but are very hard on my joints because I'm overweight: I'm looking forward to doing them more after I lose weight with GLP-1s, which might help prevent a rebound.
Show HN: Practice German with AI-tailored exercises
On my path to learning German (still a way to go), I realized that I often spend a lot of time just finding the right exercise for a topic I want to practice, and often there's no easy way to review what I did wrong.

Therefore I made an app where I can tell the AI what I want to practice, and how (e.g. translate, fill the gap, ...) and it generates an exercise for me! Additionally, I get a pretty much limitless amount of available exercises!

Let me know what you think! I'm looking to improve the prompt and overall UX/UI in case (it would also be cool to expand it to multiple languages later).

PS. as it's AI-based, sometimes the AI review is not correct (5% of the time in my tests). Make sure to cross-reference the result if you have doubts!
Heads up that the .cc TLD is frequently used for malicious purposes and will likely get blocked by a lot of networks.

When I've worked on spam prevention in the past, that TLD always comes up disproportionately often. I've never personally built a filter that blocks the entire TLD, but I'm sure from looking at the data that people with stricter compliance requirements have.

The Anti-Phishing Working Group ranked the TLD the second-worst in the ratio of phishing domains to total registrations, with the highest total volume of phishing (page 13):

https://docs.apwg.org//reports/APWG_Global_Phishing_Report_2...
On the other hand, not having to carry around an extra 10-20kg everywhere you go is probably pretty nice.
now do subreddits. It used to be cars.com was soooo valuable but now a days, for many words, the https://www.reddit.com/r/cars sub is more.
Gitmos: Real-time data visualizations using GitHub's repository of activity (2021)
A "bodkin," an archaic word for a small knife or sharp implement, is probably a diminutive of "bod" or dagger. A "jerkin" or a tight vest, might be a diminutive of the Dutch "jerk," (dress), but all of these words are so old it's hard to nail down their etymology. As other commenters pointed out, today's diminutive suffix is -y/-ey, used mostly for childhood nicknames and baby-talk names like horsey.
Good on China.

What do they think they gained by destroying so many Chinese lives? Do they think they were striking a blow against capitalism every time they tortured some poor Chinaman? Sounds like they've turned another rather sad corner.

The very, very large Chinese diaspora are voting with their feet and going back to China. Good. Good for everyone. Assuming they're not reassigned as farmers in Xinjiang.