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New comment by jerkstate in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

jerkstate — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:21:39 +0000

How do you know those aren’t the same thing?

New comment by jerkstate in "How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S."

jerkstate — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:34:59 +0000

Their cohort studies are across three completely different populations. I would be willing to listen to an argument that for some specific population there’s a firearm ownership level above which there are diminishing safety returns, but I find the idea that this same level would hold across wildly different populations absurd

New comment by jerkstate in "Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket"

jerkstate — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:25:43 +0000

Try the audiobook, although I’m sure purists would consider it cheating. You can zone out and it keeps going and something will pull your attention and you can rewind to get the context.

New comment by jerkstate in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

jerkstate — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:52:58 +0000

How do you know what volitions and abilities it doesn’t have? My agent teams continually improve the process and tooling they use for teamwork

New comment by jerkstate in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

jerkstate — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:10:09 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method

New comment by jerkstate in "Ask HN: Why do we snore? And what to do about it?"

jerkstate — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:59:51 +0000

Get a sleep study done to find out how serious it is

New comment by jerkstate in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

jerkstate — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:22:26 +0000

Do you consider it humanitarian to further weaken a nation where the average gdp per capita is less than $3000 and who are in no way a threat to us? In what way do the immigrants arriving from there improve America? Can you give a coherent argument? I can easily argue the opposite from statistics:

From Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) and Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey (ASEC CPS):

Of Haitian immigrants ages 25 to 64, 17.1 percent have not graduated from high school, 30.3 percent have only a high school degree, 30 percent have some college, and 22.6 percent have at least a college degree. This compares to 6.6 percent, 25.4 percent, 30.4 percent, and 37.6 percent for U.S.-born Americans. (2022 ACS)

Of households headed by Haitian immigrants, 52.7 percent use at least one major welfare program. For households headed by native-born Americans it is 28.4 percent.5 (2023 ASEC CPS)

So it’s clear that the previous immigration regime that allowed this was optimizing for something other than improving America or intentionally weakening rival countries.

New comment by jerkstate in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

jerkstate — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:20:43 +0000

Are you implying that we should be trying to weaken Haiti?

New comment by jerkstate in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

jerkstate — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:11:32 +0000

What about the immigrant groups that don’t dramatically out-earn American-born citizens?

New comment by jerkstate in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

jerkstate — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:39:26 +0000

So what prevents the incompetent and lazy from immigrating?

New comment by jerkstate in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

jerkstate — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:43:40 +0000

so in order to increase our median intelligence, we should make the process super easy?

New comment by jerkstate in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

jerkstate — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:41:17 +0000

It’s a shame they were so anti-nuclear. Best song on that album was Ohm Sweet Ohm.

New comment by jerkstate in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

jerkstate — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:26:03 +0000

oh, believe me, I can just tell from the way they're talking about stuff, just like a webapp/psychology double major is well-versed in evaluating data systems

New comment by jerkstate in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

jerkstate — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:53:46 +0000

What credentials does this author have to cite social science research in their determination of the competency of other people? Their only other article is about eschewing native apps - why am I supposed to take their opinion about measuring competency seriously if they are a software engineer, not a psychologist? They are clearly outside of their domain of expertise and therefore incapable of producing work with any value whatsoever, according to their own arguments.

New comment by jerkstate in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

jerkstate — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:29:04 +0000

why indeed

New comment by jerkstate in "Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team"

jerkstate — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:16:52 +0000

This means the patient makes up their own strategy and the doctor says “we are checking”

New comment by jerkstate in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

jerkstate — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:04:20 +0000

This is really cool. I vibe coded almost exactly the same app, mine also tracks saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, and fiber (I'm getting older so these macros are pretty important to me). One of the really cool things you can do if you have tool calling hooked up is to have the LLM analyze your diet and tell you what you can do better to hit your targets - swap pizza for pasta, decrease the amount of cheese you put on your sandwich, if you're gonna have fast food don't get the fries and eat low fat/low sodium the rest of the day, etc. What model are you using? I have found Qwen Flash to be really good for my app - smart enough, tool calling works really well, and very cheap.

New comment by jerkstate in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

jerkstate — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:45:19 +0000

Nice. I vibe coded a similar kind of system, you can dump a recipe into the chat window and it will use tool-calling to lookup macros for any foods it doesn't have in the DB and put them in, estimate raw -> cooked changes in nutrition and weight (if needed), estimate total weight of the cooked product, and macros per gram (e.g. writes a 100 gram serving to the db, you can scale it up and down and it scales the macros linearly). Similar to you I have used this app to alter my macro mix from high-fat to high-carb (for workout performance) and cut my sodium from ~4g/day to ~2.4g/day by interrogating the DB about what foods I should eat more and less of. Found some surprising wins in my habitual diet that were easy to change to hit my health targets, and looking up and logging these things by hand without LLM assistance would have been too tedious and time-consuming for me to continue to do it for as long as I have been (maybe 3 months now)

Curious, what model are you using? I have found Qwen Flash to be really great for this - tool calling works well, it's smart enough, and very cheap.

New comment by jerkstate in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

jerkstate — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:27:33 +0000

Maybe people who choose blue do so because they assume there’s some kind of monkey paw involved in the choosing the red option, like your wife and kids die or something like that

New comment by jerkstate in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

jerkstate — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:58:35 +0000

If your goal is to reduce the number of dead, is red really the one to campaign for?