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Mohit Shrivastava

(Early 20's, tech boomer)

website: <under construction>

email: mohit at precompute period net

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terminal_d··on Ask HN: What do you think is coming next for generative AI?
"Signatures" on videos to prove that, yes, they are "authentic" and not AI-generated. I have no idea how it'd be enforced though.
terminal_d··on Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
It's a very damning thing to say, you know, if all that information management systems lead to is more information management systems.
terminal_d··on Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
Can't speak to that because I don't understand this use-case, but AFAIK it should be possible to modify an org agenda as long as emacs is running somewhere. It could write the current agenda to a file (in a s3 bucket, for example) with the function org-agenda-write, and the application on a phone could read the agenda and "push" the changes back, and an elisp function could handle modifying the actual agenda.

Wouldn't be surprised if this was already posted on the mailing lists as a POC or something.

terminal_d··on Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
You should try logseq, then. Although I'd recommend Emacs.
terminal_d··on Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
A web front-end is overkill -- Emacs users can use any completion framework (ivy, icomplete, vertico) with fdfind / ripgrep to get extremely powerful instantaneous search.

Plus, there's no way any org features other than the baseline few are supported.

terminal_d··on Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform
> I understand that emacs is a big ask for someone to learn

Developing a PWA for it (basically bikeshedding) is much more painful than learning Emacs. Right now, any vim user can jump into emacs with very little friction -- Doom Emacs comes fully configured with evil-mode ootb, and is easily customizable.

I think the reason for the glut of personal kb apps is the relatively high interest of most "tech" people in these things. Unfortunately, most people bow out of their systems very often -- they either don't handle enough data or they give up on old data (or have it ineffectively categorized).

This app (aka "this week's personal knowledge manager") is the same as every other one out there. There's some trying to use GPT-3, but honestly, I don't want my apps parsed by an internet-slurry model. When (if, really) it gets good enough, one wouldn't need to take notes in the first place.

terminal_d··on Ask HN: How will the content on Hacker News change with AI tooling?
IMO it is time for private communities with restricted registrations to preserve post quality. I don't know what to do about HN though, but I'm sure they'll come up with something. Maybe every account will need to be re-verified somehow.
terminal_d··on People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”
This is clearly going to be censored a la AIDungeon. Enjoy it while it lasts.
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Which mechanical keyboard are you using?
42-key Corne V3
terminal_d··on Tell HN: I asked ChatGPT to build a login form in React and it gave me the code
Say it ain't so
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Your browser tab count
>is to gain...

Ah, don't worry about it, his comment put me off a little and I didn't want subsequent comments to snowball.

My browser is messy because it is not my primary organizational structure. It's a dumping ground of sorts that I try to organize by date (tab # in window) and window. The info in most open sequences of tabs is usually saved somewhere, so I don't need to go back to that tab but it's very convenient for quick "reminders" of how I reached a certain position / conclusion / found some info.

> When you've gone back to a tab that has been unloaded, how often has the site been changed when it reloads the data and or just not worked anymore? If you get that a lot, have you considered saving as a single file html or something?

From my OLD tabs (2017 and before) almost everything has changed. I do preserve the cache folders, so occasionally the old version of the website will load (when I enable networking but don't connect to a network). I don't see why it wouldn't work, URL deprecation isn't a very big deal for that time frame. I did use an addon to save some pages as HTML files. I don't remember its name, it was a XUL (pre-webextension) addon.

> In your daily life, do you collect and find it difficult to throw away items that you think you'll need at some future point?

> How would you describe your organization style of non-digital items/goods?

I'm not a hoarder :)

I throw out stuff I don't want / use

As far as information goes, I maintain backups although I usually never go back to them except for very broad file name / tree searches / greps. Storage is cheap and plentiful, what's a few gigs?

> Since you have so many tabs open, how do you search for the things you care about in opened but unloaded tabs?

I use a tabs sidebar extension, and a tab search extension if one isn't natively provided by the sidebar extension. It's also possible to search open tabs from the FF omnibar. Also, the windows / tabs form an ad-hoc organizational structure that's very helpful. Anyway, like I said before, the browser is just my dumping ground. I could lose all but the last 500 tabs and still sleep like a baby.

terminal_d··on Ask HN: Your browser tab count
Thanks for the unprompted psychoanalysis.

I don't have any anxiety / ADHD / any other "disorder". In fact I'm far more organized than most people. Information doesn't just "outdate" itself in a mere five years.

Also, for firefox you don't need to make bookmarks of everything -- it muddies the search suggestions. `places.sqlite` and the sessionstore are the only two files that need to be backed up, and can be accessed trivially. None of this is possible in Chrome (AFAIK).

terminal_d··on Artist feeds childhood diary into GPT-3 to have a chat with herself
Agreed, the glut of AI text generation programs all capitalize on the misrepresentation of what they do because "AI" holds different meanings in academic and social spheres. And it's better to have a sci-fi marketing hook.
terminal_d··on Erlang: ‘Let It Crash’ under attack
Erlangutans, haha.
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Your browser tab count
About 4500. Not kidding. Most of it is residue from "I'll read it later" or "I haven't properly understood it" sessions that inevitably crash. I run about ~50-100 (active) tabs at any given time, and the rest are "unloaded". And I don't want to get rid of them because they're a "sequence" of how I came to something (even though I document important stuff).

What'll end up happening though, is that one day I'll leave that user profile for some reason and make another, which will go up to 200 and then I'll convince myself that I'll go back to my old profile after I close all the current tabs. Doesn't really happen. This is what happened to the ~2k tab profile that preceded my current profile. I still have that profile (started in 2017), don't know if it'll run with the current FF version though.

This is also why I don't use Chrome, because it's a glorified dev testing environment unto itself and not really a proper, usable browser.

terminal_d··on Tailwind is a leaky abstraction
tailwind has a `gap-x` class, too.
terminal_d··on Working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years
This might be helpful.

https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/

Design decisions, though, are ultimately up to your taste and judgement.

terminal_d··on Working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years
This has been my experience as well. Tailwind is a good pair of support wheels, but it gets annoying after a while, and is difficult to maintain long-term.
terminal_d··on Working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years
It is possible to "group" tailwind classes.

See https://gist.github.com/axeldouglas/7f45b2a862401c7b515c138e...

terminal_d··on Emacs 29 is nigh
AFAIK License + Maturity
terminal_d··on New GPT-3 model: text-DaVinci-003
Students that can't write well can't tell if the generated output is good enough either.
terminal_d··on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
And still chugging along... methinks it's being pushed. Synthetic meat being "environmentally friendly" is the same as considering EVs environmentall friendly.
terminal_d··on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
Sounds like it was pushed hard and still is.
terminal_d··on New GPT-3 model: text-DaVinci-003
Make them write anything gradable in-person, while being monitored by a teacher.

Cheaters gonna cheat, no matter what. This will at least get the group back to pre-conversational AI standards.

terminal_d··on New GPT-3 model: text-DaVinci-003
You mean clicking a button?
terminal_d··on New GPT-3 model: text-DaVinci-003
It's very sad how they had to nerf the model (AIDungeon and stuff). I don't think anything on a personal / consumer GPU could rival a really big model.
terminal_d··on Eliminate Cold Starts with AWS Lambda SnapStart
It's free! Nice.
terminal_d··on Ask HN: Why do so many CXOs hate talking to tech teams?
Programming is a low-status endeavour.
terminal_d··on Create Your Own Compiler: A step-by-step interactive tutorial
Anyone know what application is being used to host the tutorial?
terminal_d··on Create Your Own Compiler: A step-by-step interactive tutorial
It looks cool.
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