I could do this, or I could just throw good old React or a derivative framework at whatever UI I have to build and be done with it.
Readit Newsarcturus17 commented on Four ways to build web apps tomhummel.com/posts/four-... · Posted by u/tphummel
arcturus17 commented on Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code samdickie.me/writing/expe... · Posted by u/thisdickie
I'm getting tired of intelligent people dumping on one of the most incredible advances our field has ever seen.
I was cynical of everything - smartphone incrementalism, slow pace of biology developments, social media. It didn't look like the hope and promise of the 1950's and 60's jet packs and robots would ever pan out. You'll probably find historical comments I've made on HN criticizing Ray Kurzweil and his like for their "bullshit Singularity" (as I used to call it). I firmly believed we had plateaued as a society.
With everything going on in AI/ML, I feel wrong about my assessment and finally have hope for the future. This is the automation of automation. Second order.
Please imagine what this means in the fullness of time. You might think HTML / CSS generation is a toy - it is. But what's coming will wash away everything you know. And it'll happen fast. People are plugging themselves into this tech and starting to dig away at existing problems and markets. It'll happen more quickly than with tech and the internet because there are more of us now.
> these demos have really quickly become so boring.
I'm about to put CNN/NBC/etc. out of business, and I'm just getting started: https://fakeyou.com/news
I can think of an AI/ML way to destroy almost every incumbent business out there. You should be applying yourself to that right now.
These are just the cards I'm willing to show now.
> It just sounds to me like maybe you are burnt out, or maybe you don't like coding stuff as much as others.
Maybe they don't like churning butter. The point isn't to write code, it's to create and solve problems.
This is the biggest opportunity of our lifetimes staring us in the face. Don't sleep on this.
The “GPT is going to wash away everything” discourse sounded familiar here on HN and of course, I had read it multiple times on your posts bordering on spam.
I don’t know if your tech is going to wash away anything, and I do wish you good luck, but CNN has been digging their own grave for the best part of a decade and you claiming the credit for taking them down is some of the worst hubris I’ve read on HN.
As for the applications of LLM I’ll take François Chollet’s view that they may be more limited than many people are claiming.
Same here. Rolled over in bed to an email from Yancey to my personal email. Went to my laptop, can't log in, Slack is also dead.
Early Spring Break!
Very sorry to hear that, though you seem to have a fairly good outlook about it.
Excuse me if it's callous to ask this at this time, but as I've been observing layoffs and been hearing that people are immediately shut down from their systems, I'm wondering: how do they communicate it to you if you can't access your email? Do they reach out to your personal email, call you, send you a letter?
I might understand revoking access but if the only immediate means of communication of termination are not being to access your systems, and thus having to deduce that you've been laid off, that would be fucking abhorrent.
arcturus17 commented on Most Londoners would quit before they give up working from home theregister.com/2023/02/1... · Posted by u/belter
Yeah, still not a fan of this. Sure, there's the 1% that identity as "introverted misanthropes" (sorry mouzogu), but what about the rest? I see a disconnected society where mental health get's a problem because routine, excercise, experiencing new things and stimulation, and socializing are missing because everybody is staying at home. We move away from a society that is able to check-in on each other (possibility, not necessarily happening!) to one, where you are replaceable, transactional human resource, using other humans transactionally as resouces (yoga video from youtube, doordash driver bringing you food, gorillas bringing you groceries). I'm really worried about our ability to socialize here.
The reality is, that work is the biggest chunk of time in our daily lives. Spending it without other humans sounds like a recipe for disaster.
PS: yes, we also have 100% remote people and people can do remote work whenever they want. But fun fact: I have no feeling nor connection towards those remote employees. And that's not a good thing.
> what about the rest?
I'm not an introverted misanthrope, I like to combine times of very deep work and reflection and social interaction. Office environments offer plenty of the latter, and very little of the former, so WFH suits a lot of us average people who love to do at least a part of deep intellectual work.
> mental health get's a problem because routine, excercise, experiencing new things and stimulation, and socializing are missing because everybody is staying at home
1. All kinds of mental health issues were shooting up before the pandemic
2. I see the exercise thing repeated by all proponents of working in offices. It completely befuddles me... I go to crossfit 4x a week and golf 3-4x a week, going to the office would only get in the way of this. There are no two ways about this: you have severe imagination, discipline, or motivation problems if the only thing making you move your ass is going to a physical office.
3. I don't know what kind of office you go to "experience new things", but I worked in a large video games company where the culture was dope and we'd play Mario Kart after lunch, and "new things" faded as quickly as anything else. I think this applies to pretty much any office setting.
4. I physically interact with people at crossfit and golf, with my family and friends, and with small business owners (ex: my coffee dude) every day... Again, if your idea of WFH is not talking to anyone for days on end, there may be a conceptualization problem here.
> you are replaceable, transactional human resource
You think the shareholders ever cared whether you go to the office, other than how it affects their EPS? I'll grant that being in an office could make a marginal difference in a round of layoffs if you're particularly ingratiated with some superiors thanks to regular physical interaction, but other than that, we were all just numbers well before WFH.
> I'm really worried about our ability to socialize here.
You should possibly have more faith in the agency of human beings.
> But fun fact: I have no feeling nor connection towards those remote employees.
I employ remote people in my business, from Colombia to Ukraine. I care about them. I empathize if they tell me they have a problem. I otherwise meet customers, potential partners, and all kinds of people through video chat every week. As with anything, the mileage varies: some people leave me indifferent, some people I really connect with, a few irk me.
But if you have no feelings whatsoever towards any people you work with remotely, I don't know what to tell you.
arcturus17 commented on Time-restricted eating reshapes gene expression throughout the body sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/lxm
> EDIT: For extra credit - it's natural to look at Fasted Training in the same context. The hack here is that when you train at near peak low insulin levels ( or near peak anyhow which takes about 14h of fasting ) your body will suffer in terms of absolute performance but if done correctly you can train burning mostly fat. Theres as much on this subject to sort through as the first one. A whole host of hormonal and health benefits are purported here and I can say from experience I believe most of them having seen it myself.
I've done quite a bit of fasted training, but can't say I have seen a huge effect myself. That said, I was very fit at the time, most studies have been done on untrained subjects AFAIK. There are also studies that show that base metabolic rate increases after fasted training, but for men only while it decreases for women, which would be counterproductive if they would want to loose weight.
The main problem with most of the studies is that they have been done with very small study populations.
> I've done quite a bit of fasted training, but can't say I have seen a huge effect myself
I've tried it and haven't seen much of a difference in weight loss either. Also I have only been able to pull it off with cardio - any fasted training involving weight lifting has been a dreadful experience. I've completely abandoned the idea.
arcturus17 commented on Time-restricted eating reshapes gene expression throughout the body sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/lxm
I tried it for some time but felt cranky in the morning until I ate at lunch time. How was your experience regarding cravings, hunger and mood changes over time when starting your fasting?
Not OP, but I've done ~16:8 intermetinent fasting (aka skipping breakfast) many times during my life, and have almost always experienced morning crankiness like you.
At times I've felt the crankiness has been good; the increased aggression has led to some really productive mornings. The flip side of the coin is that it sometimes also leads to negative thoughts and feelings of pessimism until I eat.
I prefer to have a more stable mood so what I'm doing as of late is drinking a protein shake with oat milk for breakfast and a high-quality multi-vitamin. The crankiness completely goes away and mental acuity is still high. It's still excellent for weight control since it's a ~200kcal breakfast that is digested very fast. Arguably better for recovery too since I practice sports every day. It's definitely not IF but it's been serving me well.
I'm also experimenting with a ~24h fast once a week, from Sunday lunch to Monday lunch, but don't have enough experience to know what it's doing for me yet.
arcturus17 commented on Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool mrscraper.com... · Posted by u/buffer_overflow
How is this different to Octoparse and other tools in the space?
arcturus17 commented on Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising Rapidly Among Young Adults? cancer.gov/news-events/ca... · Posted by u/paulpauper
> They are concerned that young people are not drinking as much as before, not the other way around.
That's a dark concern to have :(
They're concerned about profits as any capitalist enterprise is, but if it makes you feel any better they are trying to innovate and find new revenue streams (ex: in digital technologies related to lifestyle and events - that's how I was involved with them), and not necessarily getting more young people to drink.
> What GUI framework? I barely even know what we are talking about anymore. You don't need one with PWA - again, you're using fundamental web technologies, and enabling them to make system calls.
Let me ask you this then. Name one cross platform framework that wasn’t meant to build command line tools that hasn’t sucked?
QT? Java Spring? React Native? Electron?
> In the first presentation of the iPhone, Steve Jobs laid out a vision where the smartphone would run web apps, using fundamental web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS). He quickly backtracked when he realised Apple could impose a 30% tax on transactions in the platform.
He “backtracked” because his “sweet solution” wasn’t good and everyone wanted native apps and web apps were called “a shit sandwich” by developers.
Do you know the history of creating “applications” using “web technologies”? They failed for RIM, Microsoft, and Palm. Web apps suck not to mention the clusterfuck of the front end ecosystem.
Every single platform that went down the “we can do great web apps” backtracked. They have never been good enough.
> So that's another excuse to not further PWAs, huh?
You mean making an app that’s actually performant on the majority of phones out there?
> He “backtracked” because his “sweet solution” wasn’t good and everyone wanted native apps and web apps were called “a shit sandwich” by developers.
Sure, the 30% cut of all sales was just a sweet coincidence.
> You mean making an app that’s actually performant on the majority of phones out there?
Twitter and Uber have PWAs for countries where low-end devices are the majority of phones.
> They have never been good enough.
Complete bollocks, there are plenty of excellent web apps out there, and it's one of the most important mechanisms for software delivery nowadays, in both the enterprise and consumer spaces. You are a fundamentalist and there is no point discussing anything here anymore
I think what you are doing is great! Good luck going forward!