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New comment by neutralino1 in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

neutralino1 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:58:26 +0000

Asking people to change their ways is pointless. When something is systemic, only a systemic solution can work.

I have become intimately convinced that engagement-based feeds are the root of many evils of our time, loneliness included.

Here are some of the perverse effects (if ever they needed be told), and how they relate to the loneliness epidemic

- they incentivize individuals from a young age to find stimulation from scrolling mindless content through short dopamine loops instead of seeking satisfaction through longer-term endeavors (e.g. projects, board games, bands, sports teams, etc.) which tend to foster connections with friends, neighbors, family, strangers

- they radicalize and polarize into extreme niche communities (political extremes, conspiracy theories, manosphere, etc) so that it's more difficult to find common ground with a random average person, giving you the impression that everyone is your enemy

- they reflect a skewed version of reality where societal standards (beauty, intelligence, success, wealth, etc) are distorted and artificial, which drives people to believe they are insufficient and ostracized

I firmly believe that engagement-based feeds should be heavily regulated, the same way that other addictive behaviors have (e.g. tobacco, gambling, etc.).

New comment by neutralino1 in "The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers"

neutralino1 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:33:42 +0000

You win today.

New comment by neutralino1 in "Declarative Schemas for simpler database management"

neutralino1 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:30:39 +0000

It seems to me Rails has been doing this but better for years. It definitely keeps atomic and historical migrations, but also maintains a schema.sql file that can be loaded as a one-off (e.g. for mock DBs in tests).

How OpenAI's o1 changes the LLM training picture

neutralino1 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 18:03:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.airtrain.ai/blog/how-openai-o1-changes-the-llm-training-picture-part-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41723384

Points: 8

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Show HN: Fineweb-Edu-Fortified dataset: Fineweb-Edu deduped, embeddings included

neutralino1 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:14:06 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/datasets/airtrain-ai/fineweb-edu-fortified

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247729

Points: 22

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New comment by neutralino1 in "Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments"

neutralino1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:08:28 +0000

Yeah sorry about that, this is a data dashboard. Not optimized for mobile viewing.

New comment by neutralino1 in "Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments"

neutralino1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:07:05 +0000

We debated doing 2D vs 3D and 3D brought a bunch of usability issues. We also noticed most SOTA embedding visualizations were 2D and already yielded good insights.

New comment by neutralino1 in "Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments"

neutralino1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:43:21 +0000

The original dataset is located at [1] (not our HF account). HN data is directly available via the HN API [2]. The privacy policy you point to does not cover HN posts.

[1] https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenPipe/hacker-news [2] https://github.com/HackerNews/API

New comment by neutralino1 in "Show HN: Semantic clusters and embeddings for 500k Hacker News comments"

neutralino1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:38:59 +0000

Oh you cannot actually view the raw embedding vector, only the corresponding row.

Any particular use-case to view the raw embedding?

7 Different Prompting Techniques with Examples

neutralino1 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://axflow.dev/blog/insiders-guide-to-prompting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39618248

Points: 1

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New comment by neutralino1 in "More than 80 AI models from Qualcomm"

neutralino1 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:06:17 +0000

There are cures for hiccups!?

New comment by neutralino1 in "Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI"

neutralino1 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:32:56 +0000

Satya is buying popcorn.

New comment by neutralino1 in "Mistral Large"

neutralino1 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:30:41 +0000

Price is the advantage.

New comment by neutralino1 in "Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids < 16"

neutralino1 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 01:49:42 +0000

I often draw the parallel with cigarettes and alcohol. Kids need to produce an ID to purchase them. Sure they can fake it, but then they are breaking the law, and that still raises the barrier.

But that's likely not enough. In addition, there should be public health campaigns to warn against the risks.

Cigarette use has plummeted since the 90's, so something must be working.

New comment by neutralino1 in "The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday"

neutralino1 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 01:42:09 +0000

Ideally yes, but the liabilities are likely too great at this time. So better start with the "hopeless", where no harm can be done, then go up from there.

New comment by neutralino1 in "Launch HN: Dashdive (YC W23) – Track your cloud costs precisely"

neutralino1 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 01:38:50 +0000

Congrats on the launch!

New comment by neutralino1 in "A Theory of Grift"

neutralino1 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:58:16 +0000

I wouldn't go as far as to say business executives have good social skills. They are often ruthless, cunning, and deceiving, which makes them successful. If by good social skills you mean the ability to convince (read deceive) a lot of people, then sure they have good social skills. But who wants to have a beer with their CEO, VP of Sales, or other top exec? They are often depicted as wolves or sharks for a reason. It is true that they are good at networking with other people like them, but not really good at empathizing, helping, or caring for others.

New comment by neutralino1 in "TinyML: Ultra-low power machine learning"

neutralino1 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:51:50 +0000

A lot of ads on this page.

Comparing Software Developers with ChatGPT: An Empirical Investigation

neutralino1 — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:56:35 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11837

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36046186

Points: 2

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Bot or Human? Detecting ChatGPT Imposters with a Single Question

neutralino1 — Fri, 12 May 2023 17:43:10 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06424

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35919464

Points: 2

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