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gpickett00on Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

Agreed. I see these claims all the time. Feels a little bit like, "dId yOu KnOw iNsTaGram lIsTens tO yOuR cOnVeRsAtIoNs?"

It would be pretty easy to prove. Show us before/after screen shots.

gpickett00on Into Thin AirPods

The author initially resisted getting AirPods due to a fear of losing them. However, they eventually bought a pair and ended up losing them. Using the "Find My" app, they tracked the AirPods to a house in a nearby town but didn't confront the thief. They then visited a museum where the AirPods were located again, but couldn't definitively identify the thief. The author continued to track the AirPods as they moved to different locations, including a Walmart and an outlet mall, but was unable to recover them. The AirPods are currently in Lost mode, and the thief has not contacted the author. Despite the frustration, the author contemplates going to Mexico to search for the stolen AirPods.

gpickett00on Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://pickettg.me

gpickett00on A Safer San Francisco

As expected, all of the comments here are very critical of this without proposing something new. What are some alternate proposals to solve these problems?

gpickett00on Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive

No hit counter :(

gpickett00on Opendoor is cutting 35% of its employees

TechCrunch is likely seeing declining ad revenues, meaning they need to post more trolly/blight/clickbait-y content to compensate to get more page views.

gpickett00on More Than 5.2M More U.S. Workers Filed for Unemployment

You’re getting downvoted but I fully agree. Most people are talking as if the virus will be gone in a month or so. The lockdowns are not going away. We are going to have new hotspots popping up every week once lockdowns start releasing.

gpickett00on Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

I love that someone followed through and got it done. I bet a lot of people thought about it. I bet that there's even someone seeing this right now pissed off that they didn't finish first.

Great design. Where'd you get your little illustrations?

gpickett00on Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

I would use this if you had a category/filter for plant based recipes.

gpickett00on Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

Good work man. What technology stack did you build this with?

gpickett00on Sign In with Apple [video]

If a better remedy exists someone else can build it. Nobody is forcing us to use Apple products/services.

gpickett00on Autopilot was active when a Tesla crashed into a truck, killing driver

The overarching tone of the article is "Tesla isn't doing a very good job with its autopilot and could have prevented this". I wonder if there's any data about how many Tesla's get in crashes versus other cars. I'd suspect that given that only 2 people have died in over 1 billion miles driven in autopilot that Tesla's are safer than other cars.

gpickett00on Show HN: The Urlist – Group links together and share them with a custom URL

Interesting. I like the simplicity. What do you see as the main use case?

gpickett00on SpaceX Gets FCC Approval to Sell Wireless High-Speed Home Internet from Space

Once there are space hotels, surely they’ll be the default internet provider

gpickett00on Slack S-1

What is this hidden truth you're alluding to?

gpickett00on Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

The first few generations probably will be. But it'll be solved.

gpickett00on 996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening

Wow, that's a brutal work schedule. Hard to believe it's the norm. Isn't there enough demand that tech workers could elect to work elsewhere if their employer enforces this?

gpickett00on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019)

SEEKING WORK - Remote - Frontend Engineer Location: Between California - Florida

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: Javascript, ES6, React, Redux, Node, UX-obsessed

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pickettg/

Email: gpickett00[at]gmail[dot]com

Website: https://pickettg.me

Startup I founded: https://roisignal.com

gpickett00on iOS 12 released

That's really cool. I'm looking forward to more sites implementing this. Imagine if every Amazon product had this.

gpickett00on Microsoft translates Chinese to English with the same accuracy as a person

This is really exciting. I'd love to be able to regularly read Chinese news sources

gpickett00on What Airbnb Did to New York City

The article should have mentioned this at the very top: "It’s also worth noting that Wachsmuth’s research was funded in part by some avowed foes of home sharing—the New York City Hotel Trades Council—and was cosponsored by housing and tenant advocacy organizations."

gpickett00on SpaceX just launched two of its space internet satellites

The article doesn't mention what I find to be the most interesting part of this mission:

From Ars Technica:

There is heightened interest in this launch because, for the first time, SpaceX will attempt to "catch" one of the two payload fairings that enclose the satellite at the top of the rocket. The value of these fairings is about $6 million, and recovering and reusing them would both save SpaceX money and remove another roadblock on their production line for Falcon 9 rockets. These fairings will separate from the rocket at about three minutes after launch and are "steerable" in the sense that SpaceX hopes to guide them back to a target located in the ocean.

"Going to try to catch the giant fairing (nosecone) of Falcon 9 as it falls back from space at about eight times the speed of sound," SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Instagram Thursday morning. "It has onboard thrusters and a guidance system to bring it through the atmosphere intact, then releases a parafoil and our ship with basically a giant catcher’s mitt welded on tries to catch it."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/spacex-to-try-again-...

They didn't 100% succeeed in their first attempt at this, but got really close!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/966692641533390848

gpickett00on Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming

It depends what time scale you're looking at. If you consider the US government's reaction to the events of 2008 a success because the stock market is high right now and unemployment is low, that would be misleading if the effects take an even longer timeframe to show themselves.

The Austrian economists would argue that what happened in 2008 was a breakdown of the fiat monetary system and that the responses were just bandaids. In the longer-term view, when you look at shifts in power and rising and falling of empires, 2008 could be the first of many massive shocks to the economy.

gpickett00on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2015)

  Location: San Francisco
  
  Remote: Yes
  
  Willing to relocate: No
  
  Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, UI/UX development
  
  Résumé/CV: http://pickettg.me/files/pickettgeorge.pdf
  
  Email: gpickett00@gmail.com

gpickett00on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2015)

  Location: San Francisco
  
  Remote: no
  
  Willing to relocate: Yes, to NYC, Austin, Berlin, San Diego or LA
  
  Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, UI/UX development
  
  Résumé/CV: http://pickettg.me/files/pickettgeorge.pdf
  
  Email: gpickett00@gmail.com

Website: http://pickettg.me

After college in 2011 I moved to NYC without a job with my best friend and opened a quasi-legal "Airbnb Hostel" where we hosted over 1000 people in a single year. Inspired by numerous guests building their own companies visiting from Silicon Valley and around the world, I started teaching myself web development. Four years later I'm a frontend engineer in SF.

Last year I traveled South America and Europe for 4.5 months, making somewhat of a 'reunion tour', catching up with over 25 former Airbnb guests.

I'm a motivated, curious soul. A tinkerer, life-long learner. I've broken things. I've fixed things. In my next role I want to work on a team that believes in the product we're building.

gpickett00on “AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming during customer’s free trial period”

Why is that "worth noting"? Is that an unfair rate? If so, what is fair? Your implication is that "about a hundreth of a cent" per stream is not fair.

gpickett00on List of Unsolved Scientific Problems with Large Monetary Prizes

They should make it so that people can donate to the prize of their choice to increase the size of the prize. Shouldn't we try to drive the prize $ up in order to create more of an incentive to solve each of these challenges?

gpickett00on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2015)

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: possibly
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Ember.js, Meteor.js, MongoDB, Node, Git, Photoshop, Illustrator, UX
  Résumé/CV: http://pickettg.me
  Email: gpickett00@gmail.com

Working doing front-end freelance work in SF at the moment, looking for either more freelance work or something full-time. Looking to work primarily doing front-end work with JavaScript. Willing to learn any programming language or framework and relocate

gpickett00on Tied elections

I customize wordpress themes

gpickett00on Please stop live tweeting people’s private conversations

Ironic that you're asking people to stop live tweeting conversations, then you link to said conversations and give them more pageviews.