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All the AI founders (e.g., Dario Amodei) seem to believe that we're nowhere near the end of seeing performance improvements in LLMs as they are trained on more data (i.e., LLM scaling laws) - at least that's what they say publicly, but they obviously have skin in the game. Curious what knowledgeable people think who are not incentivized to make optimistic public statements?

What I really want to know is, assuming capital / compute is not a constraint, will be continue to see order of magnitude improvements in LLMs, or is there some kind of "technological" limit you think exists?

My father has dementia and I have had to step in to manage his financial life, and there are a bunch of inconveniences with this process (nothing major, but certainly a hassle). Would love to hear if anyone is facing similar problems and what they've found works well

Problem 1 - He lives across the country, so I am not in person with him / don't have access to his computer

Problem 2 - He's constantly forgetting user ids and passwords and changing them (and increasingly accounts have 2FA), so if I want to monitor his accounts its very difficult / sometimes impossible to log in, and many services don't have "view only" access. I have joint access to some services / accounts but not others.

Problem 3 - He's increasingly naive to scams (email, phone etc), which means that he either should not have access to all his accounts or I should be monitoring them closely (probably the former).

Problem 4 - His balance of stocks / bonds / cash etc is likely not "optimal" for his age / health / expenses etc.

Problem 5 - On various days he has varying levels of cognitive ability. On a bad day he will write someone a check and not know or remember why, on a good day he can create a new bank account or open a new credit card

Problem 6 - There are a bunch of things I need to do for him / at least make sure are done - housing payments, taxes, random government payments (i.e., paying tickets), etc.

Would love to hear if anyone has a process to help with this.

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My grandfather sadly has dementia, and is finding it harder and harder to use his computer. He has a Macbook Air and mostly uses 5 websites (gmail / Google, Netflix, Amazon, Times of India, and CNN).

I'm concerned about the following: + People send him email spam, or even corporate emails, and he can't tell the difference between a real email and a phishing email / corporate marketing email + He'll make small changes, such as accidentally logging out of Netflix or removing a bookmark, and then get stuck trying to get back to the site + I haven't have a good way to remotely connect to his computer to help him out that. Even with common remote access apps they require him to click on a few buttons, which takes 20 minutes to figure out

Any suggestions?

Any recommended libraries for programmatically filling in forms and accessing data behind them, preferably in Node?

The recent post on Supabase (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319901), an open source equivalent of Firebase got me wondering what other proprietary / SaaS solutions there are that should have an open source equivalent?

Does anyone know of a product that provides backend analytics like heap.io does for frontend?

Ideally we'd be able to set it up and have it automatically track all database changes / function calls on the backend so that we can run analytics on it. Is this possible?