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Re:Towards a future free of disease (& looking for collaborators) on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @12:19PM (#43473057)
There's a bit of discussion happening over here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SsLkxCxmkbBudLHQr/tabula-bio...
Re:First Blood Test for Dozens of Hereditary Cancers Approved by FDA on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:53PM (#37746098)
Yeah sorry didn’t make it clear - specifically in the IVF process when you get to the decision of which embryo to implant, it’ll be immoral not to screen them all and choose the one with lowest health risks.
Re:First Blood Test for Dozens of Hereditary Cancers Approved by FDA on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:41PM (#37746001)
I hope this is a first of many and that genetic testing of more conditions gets approved soon.

I’m currently paying for a test suite during my IVF process that will also test for things like ADHD risk, diabetes risk, and low IQ risk[1]. I think soon it will be basically immoral to not do these type of screenings and it should be accelerated.

[1] First learned about this stuff here https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yT22RcWrxZcXyGjsA/how-to-hav...

Re:Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts on Thursday March 16, 2023 @09:40PM (#35191731)
Oh hi fire
Re:Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts on Thursday March 16, 2023 @09:24PM (#35191545)
I'm waiting on my GPT-4 API access so I can use gpt-4-32k which maybe can soak up 10k LOC?

Clearly this will break eventually, but I am playing around with some ideas to extend how much context I can give it. One is to do something like base64 encode file contents. I've seen some early success that GPT-4 knows how to decode it, so that'll allow me to stuff more characters into it. I'm also hoping that with the use of .gptignore, I can just selectively give the files I think are relevant for whatever prompt I'm writing.

Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts

Posted by mpoon on Thursday March 16, 2023 @08:59PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/mpoon/gpt-repository-loader

I was getting tired of copy/pasting reams of code into GPT-4 to give it context before I asked it to help me, so I started this small tool. In a nutshell, gpt-repository-loader will spit out file paths and file contents in a prompt-friendly format. You can also use .gptignore to ignore files/folders that are irrelevant to your prompt.gpt-repository-loader as-is works pretty well in helping me...

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Ask HN: What has and has not worked for remote work in 2022?

Posted by mpoon on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Now that more of the world has been remotely working for a while, I'm sure teams have tried tons of different tools, processes, communication styles, etc to fix some of the difficulties of remote work and collaboration.What did you try and were disappointed by?What did you try and were surprised by?If you were to blank sheet a remote company today, what is your "remote stack"?

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Re:ETFs, Volatility and Leverage: Towards a New Leveraged ETF on Sunday April 05, 2020 @07:31PM (#22789631)
OP does address this near the end of the post.
Re:ETFs, Volatility and Leverage: Towards a New Leveraged ETF on Sunday April 05, 2020 @06:41PM (#22789335)
Could you expand a bit further on what you think the OP's misunderstanding of the market is?
Re:U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @04:50PM (#19323223)
The headline is disingenuous. I suspect a lot of folks are taking away from the headline that Facebook the company is on the ropes, however looking into the primary source[1] indicates that they are only talking about Facebook the product. The press is not making that distinction here. A vast amount of people leaving "Facebook" are just going to Instagram.

[1] https://www.edisonresearch.com/infinite-dial-2019/

Ask HN: How to validate info is shared/understood across company?

Posted by mpoon on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @05:54PM
from the ask-hn dept.

There are often times where we share info (decisions, strategy, etc) across the company, but don't have a great way to know if the right set of people got the info or understood it. It basically boils down to the telephone game and the fact that broadcasts aren't two-way so I can't confirm whether someone actually read/heard the communication.I've thought of using short quizzes sometime...

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something ... on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:27AM (#12897903)
You should make this happen! I ended up getting a part time over the weekend gig at a San Francisco coffee shop - it was super satisfying to be on the other side.

I made the effort to befriend the baristas since I see them every day anyway. Eventually asked one of them to teach me during slow hours and I started to make my own drink each time I came in. One of them baristas ended up referring me to a different cafe (allowed me to avoid the awkward conversation of a weird looking resume) and I passed the interview by making decent drinks.