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hotpocketson Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die

need comments. but try to make it cultural that comments should be optimistic/helpful.

hotpocketson I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers

it's a conceptual art project / hoax.

hotpocketson Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores

but what if everything cost the same, like a dollar store?

I've had good results with Claude. Sometimes better than chatGPT. Never been censored, but that's probably just cause I ask it to teach me about stuff.

hotpocketson ChatGPT’s system prompts

this is what I was going to say. in fact it's the same principle in real life, if you are polite with people they will be polite back. The LLM has just learned statistically that blocks of text with polite language generally continues.

hotpocketson The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”

Additional suggestions that i think would make the game better/harder because the answer distribution is currently pretty skewed and many of your options are just clearly not covered by the rule (though all respect to rule sticklers, general contrarians, and everythings-a-vehicle hipsters):

construction equipment for park improvements (backhoe, etc)

gas powered moped

electric moped

gas powered rc car

4-wheeler/atv/dune buggy

golf cart

segway/monowheel

antique cars for some kind of demo/event

shriner guys in those mini cars in a local parade (at least i think most americans know what i'm talking about)

anti-drunk driving display (they have these sometimes at colleges, and maybe high schools, but it's basically a wrecked car and there are police there to do pr)

Note: i think many of your options are just clearly not covered by the rule, maybe keep some of them but not so many?

hotpocketson Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps

I am interested in this, but already confused on page 1. The book describes a bank needing to borrow swiss francs, but that doesn't make sense to me. Why not just borrow the money in their native currency? Does the book ever go into this?

hotpocketson Tabi: The shoe that became a sock and then a shoe again

I got a cheap version on Amazon (like 10 bucks) last summer. they are great.

hotpocketson Capitalism and convenience are making us lonely

it's an elegant system. capitalism creates problems, which are just opportunities for you to monetize.

hotpocketson Is this poison ivy?

I agree, one time I had know idea what this young "tree" was, it looked like an ash sapling, but it was a flowering poison ivy. Couldn't see the classic poison ivy "thumbs" either. Something like this: https://www.maine.gov/dacf/php/gotpests/weeds/images/poison-...

hotpocketson Is this poison ivy?

!00% and they can both a bit opportunistic in new growing areas like dried up seasonal pools. Personally I think it's a bit funny that virginia/thicket creepers show up in these, but I also think they should because it's instructive for newbs.

hotpocketson Is this poison ivy?

I got all of them right up to like 30 of them. But can we discuss something? none of the look-a-likes were the hardest one, at least in my neck of the woods. Box elder saplings. That's all, I just find it odd that so many of these poison ivy things don't include more of it. Maybe the author's don't live in Box elder zones.

hotpocketson Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says

It was 70-80 years ago and you were off by about 2 years. Inconsequential. It makes zero difference to the meat of the story exactly how man Migs were shot down. The precise number is not the story. You didn't say 'some guy' you said 'a guy', which has a different connotation.

hotpocketson Explore Wikipedia's New Look

something is definitely wrong with firefox on linux. There is no margin on the left side.

hotpocketson Tarrare

In case you are wondering why oc suspected mitochondria, it's because many people believe (though science can't say for certain) that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

hotpocketson Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution

I'm pretty sure there are crypto projects where you could, in fact, short it. Check out Beta Finance for instance.

hotpocketson Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the literature

It is the oil companies who are speaking truth. Yes, that is it.

hotpocketson Banned Seuss

Just fyi, Nobody banned Seuss. Seuss Enterprises stopped publishing a few unpopular Seuss books.

hotpocketson Walmart will use fully driverless trucks to make deliveries in 2021

It doesn't even answer the most elementary question. Who carries the product up to the house?

hotpocketson No More Google

There was a privacy focused analytics alternative that recently launched on producthunt: https://panelbear.com

No idea if it's any good.

hotpocketson No More Google

There was an analytics startup focused on privacy that recently launched: https://panelbear.com/

No idea if it's any good.

hotpocketson Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

The amount of someone's taxes isn't listed in Twitter's privacy policy. Whereas, phone numbers and email addresses are explicityly listed. The policy also makes clear its most important logic:

"Our primary aim is to protect individuals from coming to physical harm as a result of their information being shared ..."

hotpocketson Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

My point is that that is not the reason for the account suspension. Twitter's policy is very clear and equally enforced! Here is a short video from a reporter that got a suspension for posting private info in a news article, and had to delete the post before getting unsuspended:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loylqtvKAbU

It would seem to make this case very clear. Right?

hotpocketson Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/15/21516729/facebook-twitte...

"7. Twitter’s decision was, at least, more clearly explained. The site has rules against publishing hacked information, it’s used these rules to ban links before, and copying personal files from a laptop without permission — if that’s indeed how they were obtained — arguably falls under them. Twitter later elaborated on its decision, saying the Post story included “personal and private information — like email addresses and phone numbers — which violate our rules.”

hotpocketson Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/16/twitter-changes-hacked-mater...

"Twitter said the article was in violation of its hacked material policy. The company clarified that it was banning links to the article because it contained images of hacked material with personal and private information."

hotpocketson Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

Haha, immediately downvoted, with no comments provided.

hotpocketson Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

Wasn't this all about the publishing of Hunter Biden's personal information? A violation of Twitter's privacy policy, that they have always enforced. And yes, they have enforced it against journalists posting newsworthy information deleterious to Trump.

"Twitter also said the Post article contained images that included personal and private information such as email addresses and phone numbers, which is against the social network's rules. "

Weird seeing disinfo get upvoted on Hacker News of all places.

hotpocketson Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting

If it was a Nigerian 419 scam I wouldn't mind it.

hotpocketson Debt collector profits soar with people flush and easy to find

There is a real opportunity for society to learn a lasting lesson here, mainly how relatively little is gained for the economy from extra cash (tax cuts) to the already flush.

hotpocketson Public asked to report receipt of any unsolicited packages of seeds

But not a global pandemic, and I'm guessing less serious than swine flu and bird flu, which we still eat.