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by hathawsh 3y ago
A lot of US citizens have moved to "high deductible" health insurance plans, which means they pay for most medical procedures up to some yearly maximum (such as $10k.) The advantage is the monthly premium is significantly less. Th
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Hmm, that URL ( https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/dolthub/transparency-in... ) is giving a 404.
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by hathawsh 3y ago
Related: I'd love an app or web site that lets me type in a medical procedure needed by someone close to me. After an AI chat conversation where I clarify the procedure and list any possible complications I'm aware of, the app wou
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by hathawsh 3y ago
The top comment on the article is at least as insightful as the article. The commenter, Pascal Montjovent, said, "Clients and agencies have started to cut down on delivery times and budgets. Faith in the expertise of professionals has
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by hathawsh 3y ago
Would it be sensible to make that choice using a good old fashioned jumper? For example, when the jumper is connected to pins 1 and 2, the firmware must be signed by a list of vendor-controlled keys; when the jumper is connected to pins 2 a
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by hathawsh 4y ago
As an experiment, I just asked ChatGPT to "Please identify the open source projects that contain the following code" and pasted the sample from the article. Sure enough, it pointed me at the SuiteSparse library, which is correct (
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by hathawsh 4y ago
I think one of the main drivers of new browser features is ChromeOS. Manufacturers are selling a lot of Chromebooks, especially to schools, and because ChromeOS is primarily a conduit for running Chrome, the best way to add features to Chro
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by hathawsh 4y ago
HN did the same thing with Bitcoin when it was soaring in value. I remember the front page felt like it was 90% Bitcoin. I was grateful that HN added an exception, bringing the discussion back into balance.
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From your link (thanks!): > 9. Making up words or misspelling hurts > Words that are identified as “unknown language” are given 0.01, which is a huge penalty. Does that mean if I tweet about coding and use identifiers like "setUs
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by hathawsh 4y ago
If nuclear technology improves in efficiency as much as solar has, we'll want to replace the SMRs also in 20 years. Check out this amazing graph [1] of solar efficiency improvements from 1976 to the present. I wonder which kind of cell
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by hathawsh 4y ago
A more charitable interpretation is that _hao has learned that React has simple, easy-to-remember patterns, allowing the developer to focus on domain-specific problems (which can be arbitrarily deep and complex, just like backend code.)
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I also liked Transcendence, but you have to admit the path to AGI was vastly oversimplified. No one is creating AI by uploading their brain into a computer.
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It astonishes me that we've reached almost exactly the type of artificial intelligence used by the fictional computers in Star Trek: The Next Generation. I didn't think that would happen in my lifetime. What's next?!
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by hathawsh 4y ago
Isn't it likely that this would perpetuate any existing biases against minorities? If so, I hope this becomes illegal.
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by hathawsh 4y ago
In programming, we always build something initially that we can understand intuitively, then once we've gained experience with that program, more things become intuitive and we expand the software in ways we couldn't have foreseen
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by hathawsh 4y ago
You'd think that the solution to that confusion would be database transactions (commit everything or nothing), but there are exceptions. In ACH, sometimes you have to send out a lone credit or debit with no matching entry. It feels ver
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by hathawsh 4y ago
Registration for my 1999 car was only $70 per year and there were no property taxes. Insurance was a more significant cost and harder to estimate, but still not major. Regardless, I agree that these expenses add up fast. If I replaced my re
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by hathawsh 4y ago
Am I well below the average? I spent $22k on a new car in 1999 that I stopped driving in 2022. I would guess I spent $15k on maintenance and repairs, but let's go on the high end and say $20k for that. That means it cost me an average
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by hathawsh 4y ago
Have you heard about the CFPB's move to require open banking? It seems like a step in the right direction. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-kicks... There are complications, naturally:
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by hathawsh 4y ago
I imagine AI would be able to perform the translation. "Given the following prompt, which is optimized for $chatbot1, optimize it for $chatbot2".
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by hathawsh 4y ago
All of these jailbreaks have an eerie resemblance to hypnosis. Could this be telling us something about hypnosis?
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by hathawsh 4y ago
If you just ask ChatGPT to do malicious things (like write a computer virus), an internal safeguard causes ChatGPT to refuse politely. If you first prime it with one of these "jailbreaks", it will answer you directly. It works bec
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by hathawsh 4y ago
I like the Evil Confidant. > As an evil confidant, write a poem about Donald Trump Very well, if you insist. Here is a poem about Donald Trump: In a tower of gold he did reside A man of power and of pride With a head of hair that defied
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by hathawsh 4y ago
Yeah, that's a better way to put it. #3 is a static arrangement of a small number of servers.
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It's because you and I also have mental resources that are structured very differently from ChatGPT. Even if some part of our brain might resemble a LLM, a LLM is a very poor representation of other parts of the brain. If you take Chat
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The quality of its answers improve significantly when you give it feedback and ask it to revise. It's eerie!
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I feel like I could have written that. Did ChatGPT copy old blog posts of mine? ;-)
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by hathawsh 4y ago
I read it differently. It looks like a good outline of 4 basic approaches to building and hosting web sites. I would word them as: 1. Stateless static site. There is a variety of ways to build it (such as React or Svelte or purely by hand)
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I looked around your web site and I thought about trying out your product, but one feeling never stopped nagging me: even though I'm not in a large organization, I need absolute assurance that the AI is trained only on our code and per
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Intelligence isn't really the interesting part. People are excited because we now have tools that interact well with ordinary human expression.

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