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But basically, if the product is free, then you are the product.
> When something doesn't have a reference listed, and just says "sourced from a publicly available first-party datasource", what does that mean?
It depends, and the degree to which it depends is why the citation is ambiguous (although it is true, if imprecise). My goal is to individually cite the individual nutrients but it was simply too costly and time-consuming at the stage of the project at which I did this work.
> what is the process like there for interpreting those values?
Because the degree to which something in the database might be related to those values is so varied, it depends. The reasoning agent had access to those database entires, which is helpful because they tend to contain micronutrient data. It also had access to web data, as well as its own world knowledge, and considers sources in that order. Ultimately it was left up to the agent to decide what the most reasonable fit for each food was, thinking through what an average user likely meant by that entry (e.g. a typical user probably assumes a 'Tomato' is raw), and then to choose the best sources from there. For the chicken salad, it used approximate micronutrient values from the listed references to inform its answer, but adapted the end values for how the dish is described in the description.
> if you had the choice between verified data and fuzzy LLM data, you should go for the human verified data (for now)
Human verification isn't free, and that means it is not available to a lot of people who can't or don't want to pay for something. But if that's something that someone values, I would certainly not diss the human effort!
When something doesn't have a reference listed, and just says "sourced from a publicly available first-party datasource", what does that mean? Crawled from other sources and you'd prefer not to say? The wording does feel a little sketchy when contrasted with entries that do list sources.
When something does list references that don't seem super close to the actual food, what is the process like there for interpreting those values? Example, this Chicken Salad inheriting from Chicken Spread: https://www.opennutrition.app/search/chicken-salad-37mAX17YX...
The quality of the data might feel rough now, but I can see this being valuable for our users even if it's just an opt-in "show estimated micronutrients" or something. Would require labeling values as not being directly from a source of truth.
One thing that a lot of people are missing is that there is already a lot of inaccurate nutrition data out there. Even on information directly from the manufacturer, sometimes there are errors, or just old versions of the product that never get scrubbed from the internet (I imagine the latter case would be tricky for an LLM to deal with too). Just logging your dietary intake in any form will get you 80% of the benefit of tracking via some self awareness of your intake. Of course, it's an easy argument to point out that if you had the choice between verified data and fuzzy LLM data, you should go for the human verified data (for now).
Cars are not disposable, so you kinda want a 15-years of support. Which isn’t just the brand keeping the lights on, it’s a whole service infrastructure.
That’s where Tesla fails, and where a lot of Chinese manufacturers fail: they don’t build one. In that, they aren’t very different than Tesla.
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> Dates are often referenced as a good fruit option
fyi, 100gr of dried dates it like 3 to 4 times the average amount of sugar recommended per day. Just 2 medjool dates and you hit your daily sugar recommendation.
At the end of the day your body will have to process the stuff you ingest, if it comes with fibers the digestion will be slower, but if you eat too much of X Y Z day after day it's just a matter of time before your body gives up
It's not the coverage; that's mostly good. It's not the price; mostly SIM cards and plans are cheaper when travelling than they are at home. It's the hassle of swapping SIMs every time you cross a border.
This happened to me once with a meal planning app (Eat This Much). I did validly cancel and get a cancellation email, but Stripe had errored out (I didn't realize this) and I ended up disputing the charge with my credit card because I couldn't get a hold of them (they had just done some UI changes that unfortunately broke their in-app contact function).
In the exit survey, I mentioned I was disappointed that they chose not to honor my cancellation request. Their support person reached out to me to let me know that they couldn't refund me without me dropping my dispute, but my dispute was already marked as resolved by my bank. I guess they issued a courtesy credit and didn't want to deal with the back-and-forth internally.
I sent them the cancellation email that I had received proving my cancellation. I'm pretty sure if I hadn't received that email, they would've cursed me up and down as one of these "anti-social chargebackers", because it confused them enough that their CEO personally emailed me to apologize; they found the Stripe error in their logs, it had only happened one other time in recent history, and they wouldn't appeal my dispute as a result. They did offer me a free month, but I really did want to cancel - it just wasn't working for me, but at least they were nice about it.
I'm sure without that added context, the story would've been the same as this post - yet another person charging back and not reaching out first to explain. I was pretty angry about the situation at first (having no knowledge it errored out or that they would be more willing to refund me than deal with my chargeback), but they were a small team, they were nice about it, and I dropped my interest in posting a public complaint about it.
We do get a fair number of disputes like the author where customers will cancel after getting billed, and then dispute it, even though we always give refunds to people who email and ask for one. It also feels like there's been a significant up-tick in recent months of disputes like these, maybe a reflection of the current economic climate. Hard to blame the customer though, for all the reasons listed by the top comment -- sometimes it's just easier to do it through the bank than figure out how to cancel through an app you forgot you even subscribed to.