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bag_boy··on Ask HN: What is your preferred general purpose AI agent?
How are you using it?
bag_boy··on Ask HN: What is your preferred general purpose AI agent?
Since it’s a general purpose bot, wouldn’t I want to convey instructions in plain English?
bag_boy··on Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]
Tangentially related:

My coworking space is a century old hardware distribution building in Birmingham, AL. It's about a 1-2 miles away from the predominantly African American neighborhood that was constantly bombed in the 50s.

I was told the FBI searched the building a few decades ago in the hopes of finding the rifle used in MLK's assassination.

Birmingham was a wild town for many years!

bag_boy··on Philip Low Unmasking Musk
No disrespect, but who is Philip Low?
bag_boy··on SEO Specialist Explains What Went Wrong with ML and Google Search Results
Small businesses are going to be in big trouble when agents take over search.

Their only hope is that the chat interfaces incorporate conversational ads.

The web is going to seem much smaller than it does now.

bag_boy··on New Model Y – Tesla
No blinker in the lane change scene. Come on!
bag_boy··on Ask HN: Service for helping me protect family members from scams
I wish match.com did more to prevent spam accounts.

My step father passed away in 2018. My mother was grieving and isolated during COVID and turned to match.com.

She was scammed out of a lot of money. It still blows my mind how much money she gave away.

But the more I consider her situation, the more I realize match.com doesn’t have the correct incentives to pursue and destroy spam accounts.

bag_boy··on Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin's Children Left on His Manuscripts
Ah, how nice is this?

We’re no longer in the “they’re being auctioned off as NFTs soon” phase of digitized historical documents.

bag_boy··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
Yeah, but same story with the marketplace. There’s a lot of hourly jobs that need to be filled. Restaurant jobs really…
bag_boy··on WikiLeaks has just put all its files online. It's all there
What's with the line "the Vegas shooting perpetrated by an FBI sniper"?

What is the author suggesting?

bag_boy··on Sam Altman responds to his sister's claim of sexual abuse
What’s the alternative?
bag_boy··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
Just wait until they release a job board. They’ll figure this out soon.
bag_boy··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
It also gives Facebook a new product feature that encourages user activity.

It was the correct chess move given the current board.

bag_boy··on Perplexity got ads
It’s so weird that Perplexity decided to go with sponsored posts/results for their first rollout of ads.

It’s not very congruent to what they’re known for.

bag_boy··on Ask HN: AGI is here, what do you do next?
Ask it which Beatle’s album it likes the best.
bag_boy··on Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro
Can you tell me more about pano content? What does that mean?
bag_boy··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
Same. It was relatively short lived and not a huge deal. I can see how it can develop into a big deal, though.

Did you ever deal with any of the paranoia?

bag_boy··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
Yeah, speaking from experience, unfortunately.
bag_boy··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
Totally agree.

I wouldn't be surprised if he went on an adderall bender that he never recovered from. Adderall and rabbit hole topics without a resolution (societal change) are not a good mix.

bag_boy··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
His x posts read like he was on an adderall bender.

I wouldn't be surprised if he went into psychosis after losing a lot of sleep and never really got back to stability.

Adderall and a passion rabbit-hole like societal change are a dangerous combination. The more deep you dive, the more disinterested people become with you, and the more disconnected you become with other people.

bag_boy··on Chinese Ship Suspected of Dragging Anchor 100 Miles to Cut Baltic Cables
That would be perfect
bag_boy··on Launch HN: FlyCode (YC S22) – Stop losing revenue due to failed payments
This is a really good idea. Who are your competitors?
bag_boy··on Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?
If you’re getting qualified traffic and can’t convert, you could try a freemium model.
bag_boy··on Nardwuar on his best and worst interviews
The Richard Simmons comparison is PERFECT
bag_boy··on Twelve sentenced for violent home invasion robberies to steal cryptocurrency
Relevant to discussion:

“A list of known attacks against Bitcoin / crypto asset owning entities that occurred in meatspace.”

https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks

bag_boy··on Company Says It Uses Your Phones Mic to Serve Ads for Facebook, Google, etc.
From a Cox VP of Digital Strategy's blog post:

"Our technology is on the cutting edge of voice data processing. We can identify buyers based on casual conversations in real time. It may seem like black magic, but it's not-it's AI. The growing ability to access microphone data on devices like smartphones and tablets enables our technology partner to aggregate and analyze voice data during pre-purchase conversations."

IMO, the smoking gun here is their partner ingesting and analyzing the voice data.

bag_boy··on Show HN: Hacker News for film buffs
Love the idea
bag_boy··on DOJ may want to break up Google
How could the advertising service be uncoupled from search? How would search make money?
bag_boy··on CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
“Okay, 1 down and 399 to go”
bag_boy··on Ask HN: Simple AI Startup Ideas That Will Instantly Make Money?
I would love a translator portal that I could pay $9.99/month to help me talk through tasks with outsourced team members.
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