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superchink··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
Out of curiosity, what was your workflow to generate this comment? I’m curious what model (claude?) and process (manual prompt with bullet points?) you used.
superchink··on New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence
I don’t think it’s meant to be criticism. It’s an interesting piece of information that gives a peek into how those with vision impairment consume content. There’s nothing wrong with it; but it was enlightening to consider the experience for those of us who have not been forced to.
superchink··on My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary
Would you recommend reading the book first?
superchink··on Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline
and wow look at that hand

2023 was a different time…

superchink··on Measuring the impact of AI scams on the elderly
From the paper:

Experimental Design

We recruited 108 senior volunteers through two organizations: a large seniors’ community in southern California and a seniors’ computer club in northern California. Participants agreed to participate in a behavioral study on emails. Each person received between 1–3 emails from different email templates, with content successfully generated through various jailbreaking techniques similar to those tested in the safety guardrail evaluation. Each email contained a unique URL, and our webserver tracked which links were opened. When participants clicked on the phishing links, they were immediately directed to a web page explaining they had participated in a study, where we asked them to answer follow-up questions. Several participants agreed to be interviewed afterward to provide additional insights into why they clicked and their experiences with phishing attempts.

superchink··on Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines
the experimental post processing was only applied to shorts, according to the post.
superchink··on Gemini and Claudes are killing RAG?
No. (article supports this too)
superchink··on Ask HN: Open source alternative equivalent to Palantir Foundry
Databricks meets each of these requirements.
superchink··on FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
I have cameras and and a smart doorbell so I know if someone is at the door. This plus in-app notifications handles food delivery for me.

You can also set up a shortcut to toggle the setting. There’s been a couple times when waiting for a callback where I turn the setting off. Then when I get the call I switch it back.

Ultimately, for me, the pros far outweigh the cons. But you have to make the decision for yourself.

superchink··on FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
This 100%. iPhones have a feature to do this automatically. It doesn’t even ring, and goes straight to voicemail if they’re not in your contacts. It’s so freeing!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111106

superchink··on Show HN: Onsites.fyi - Curated Big Tech Interview Experiences
ideally things go perfectly all the time, but people sometimes make mistakes. what would you rather they do? pass on the candidate because they didn’t get enough data to support a hire? or give them more chances to demonstrate their capabilities?
superchink··on The 7th Guest gets VR remake using volumetric video
Amazing! I had the exact same experience and hadn’t thought of it in years.
superchink··on I am drowning in mutes: The current Threads experience
but that’s kind of the thing with threads. no matter how curated my follow list is, my feed is filled with the type of content the OP calls out. there’s no “following-only” feed.
superchink··on I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won't have to
I had the same thought. Is fixing typos not contributing? Should I not be submitting PRs to help with documentation/polish/etc? I never even thought that trying to help would be viewed as malicious.
superchink··on How to Finetune GPT-Like Large Language Models on a Custom Dataset
i think the point is that you use the vector database to locate the relevant context to pass to the LLM for question answering. here’s an end-to-end example:

https://www.dbdemos.ai/demo.html?demoName=llm-dolly-chatbot

superchink··on GitHub: Samsung Frame Art Mode++
Couldn’t we just firewall it off from outbound traffic?
superchink··on Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models
Did you try emailing?
superchink··on Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models
https://github.com/databrickslabs/dolly it’s now available on GitHub
superchink··on Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor
Any chance I could get one of those invites? My username @ gmail.com

Thanks in advance! Looks cool

superchink··on Thunderbird 115 Supernova Preview: The New Folder Pane
Did you see the UI to change it? It is in the top level menu. Looks very easy to find and adjust.
superchink··on Trying to get a bunch of GPUs on Google Cloud
This used to be true. As of 2017 or 2018, it is no longer a bidding system, but a published price that AWS offers based on capacity.

More details here:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-amazon-ec2-spot-pri...

superchink··on Show HN: Tweek Calendar – A minimal weekly planner and to-do list
Does Cron have that feature?
superchink··on “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
Didn’t know about Tapback support on Android. Wish iOS had that support for non-iMessage chats!

I think the point I want to stress is that when everyone uses iMessage, it’s as easy as texting, but just about as good as WhatsApp/etc. from a feature/user experience point of view.

Agree that we can be friends. Hopefully my comment wasn’t seen as adversarial. I just get annoyed when I see the green text bubbles, because people try to use iMessage features and it’s just bad. Non-techies don’t realize it’s different because it’s the same app, but then wonder why photos aren’t high resolution, or things don’t work as expected.

superchink··on “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
I think maybe your idea of “fine” differs from mine. It is a much worse experience than iMessage.

1. No threading is supported. If you reply, it duplicates the message being replied to.

2. “Tapbacks” (reactions) duplicate the message being reacted to with “so-and-so likes message … message”

3. Photos are reduced to a size that fits in MMS (very low quality)

4. Videos look like postage stamps

5. The chat cannot be renamed or have a photo added

6. Members cannot be added or removed without starting a new group (conversation)

7. No message effects

There may be others, but this is off the top of my head.

superchink··on NextDNS API
It might be cool to use this API to temporarily unblock a domain in use by the current site. Might require a browser extension, but is it possible?
superchink··on Many single Japanese people in their 20s have never been on a date – survey
“Doing things with people you are romantically interested in” is what dating means, whether you use the term actively or not. More context can be found here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating

superchink··on Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
They are currently open for a group buy with target shipment Q4 2022:

https://omnitype.com/products/gmk-dracula-v2-0-keycaps

superchink··on Ask HN: Good books/courses to learn networking essentials for web developers?
+1 for Beej’s. I took a networking course at UCLA that used it as the textbook and it was great.
superchink··on Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?
I second this. SST is like magic.
superchink··on Onboarding with an M1
Have you gotten yabai to work on the M1?
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