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EarthAmbassador··on Built an AI to Filter Gmail
It scrapes all e-mail addresses with names and allows CSV export?
EarthAmbassador··on FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
There are many valid reasons for making anonymous calls in 2024, including but not limited to being able to suss out information without exposing ones on identity.
EarthAmbassador··on Best Documentaries You've Ever Seen
The Act of Killing

JODOROWSKY’S Dune

Burden of Dreams

EarthAmbassador··on Pornhub wants proof of consent from every single performer on its platform
NO, it's perverted way to look for content that could be found without the weirdo/CP/incest references. There's no excuse for that language, and as far as SEO goes, are these webmasters trying to groom users, or do they really most of the world enjoys that nonsense.
EarthAmbassador··on Show HN: Kindllm – LLM chat optimized for Kindle e-readers
1. Responsiveness 2. Excellent voice recognition for dictation of questions and device control 3. Web reading/browsing capability 4. Instant webpage to PDF conversion 5. Instant storage of those PDFs for use as custom LLM training data 5. Functionality to copy quotes from web pages or PDFs along with auto-generation of citations 6. Functionality to export of PDFs, quotes, and citations together into PKM app, say, Obsidian or other similar PKMs

BONUS: I know Kindle isn't set up for this, but if the same could be done audio and visual media, using voice control, beginning with podcasts (auto transcript save with cite, clipping with transcripts and cite, export of clips with transcripts and cit) and then YouTube (auto transcript save with site, auto clip with transcript and cite, export with transcript and cite)

IF I could get 1-6, I would strongly consider having this as part of my PKM kit. If I could get 7 too, I would have to buy it. This may be something I have to build, unless someone knows where these integrations can be found today.

EarthAmbassador··on The Illustrated TLS 1.2 Connection: Every byte explained and reproduced
Excellent reference info. Thank you!
EarthAmbassador··on Your last name contains invalid characters (2010)
Meta and a Google have both deigned to butcher Latin surnames which often have spaces. Monocultural government and customer service reps do it too. The result is 100 aliases in my credit report with forms of my name I would never use, and many conversations spent explaining and proving my identity.
EarthAmbassador··on Ask HN: What are the economics of data brokers?
It is interesting that no one responded. These falls under AdTech and AdOps. There are some people here who can provide insight. I'm not one of them, but I would like to know more too, and would love to see a primer.
EarthAmbassador··on Blot turns a folder into a website
Indeed. In fact, I will refuse to sign up out of spite.
EarthAmbassador··on Blot turns a folder into a website
I want to second this view--simple transparency and being upfront about pricing sets the tone for an entire ongoing relationship, and is even critical to beginning one. I have a 99 percent rejection rate of every website that doesn't put pricing up front, along with a customer service phone number. If I have to click more than once for pricing, and if that phone isn't on the landing page, the entire product goes straight into the ether. Ignoring these basics is a fundamental lack of respect for my time and attention as a customer, and I won't have it. I know this view is pervasive, yet dark patterns persist.
EarthAmbassador··on Orchid without bumblebee on island finds wasp, loses self
Nature finds a wqy.
EarthAmbassador··on Nebula Genomics – First to offer consumer anonymous sequencing
That’s outrageous. Paying for a service should not mean concurrent subscription to populating police databases. I’m a bit surprised California would permit this.
EarthAmbassador··on Nebula Genomics – First to offer consumer anonymous sequencing
People are conditioned not care, but I seriously doubt that is avoid argument for not providing anonymity as a default product considering the risks when genome data is breached.

Surely, it’s not that costly to delete data? The only reason to keep this data is for ulterior motives like monetizing.

EarthAmbassador··on Ask HN: Why do so few people work on important problems?
And it is the choice of the money, over solving the problems that chasing money creates, that perpetuates our global disorder.
EarthAmbassador··on Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS
The evidence people do not prefer to be lazy. UBI studies show this too. Where is your evidence?
EarthAmbassador··on Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS
But even if professionals have studied, inordinate wealth ought not be an entitlement, since it is a gateway to dynastic wealth via inheritance.
EarthAmbassador··on Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS
Taxing the very wealthy heavily isn’t intended to fund the state. That argument is a red herring. It should be done to reduce the concentration of power that comes with dynastic wealth, which corrupts society. Arguments to maintain our status quo are typically ideological.
EarthAmbassador··on Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS
All true, which brings up the question how much better will the world be with a new elite. Also, maybe today’s generation of revolutionaries will do something different.
EarthAmbassador··on Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web (2002)
I remember this from back in the day. This invokes severe nostalgia pangs.
EarthAmbassador··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
Larry effing Summers?!

Really?

Was Henry Kissinger unavailable?

EarthAmbassador··on Claude 2.1
I do. When I asked about a type of medicine used by women for improve chances of fertility, Claude lectured and then denied providing basic pharmacological information, saying my partner must go to her gyno. When I said that doctor had issued a prescription and we were querying about side effects, Claude said it was irrelevant that we had a prescription and that issues related to reproductive health were controversial and outside its scope to discuss.
EarthAmbassador··on The UBI should be inadequate
The Horatio Alger school do economics. All BS, all the time, but orthodoxy nonetheless and the basis of conservative and libertarian economic thinking.
EarthAmbassador··on The UBI should be inadequate
Inflation isn’t simply driven up by supply but also greed.

It is highly important to remember economics is snake oil for the lost part. As short a time as a few years ago, the Nobel Prize was awarded for work proving wage increases did it limit jobs, as was claimed for generations. One would think this had been proven long ago, but that’s not the case. It’s propaganda.

Indeed, a great deal of the economic orthodoxy is little more than propaganda. All economic notions should be considered such until proven beyond a doubt.

And it probably would be a good thing to track how wrong is the nonsense of people like Kudrow and Summers, yet they are trotted out as gospel constantly. Jamie Dimon too.

EarthAmbassador··on Show HN: AI-powered feedback for your pitch deck
Chat GPT 4 accomplishes all of this already, no?
EarthAmbassador··on Audacity 3.4
Is there a good reason why there isn't a hot key combo for zooming on tracks with a Mac in 2023? Command + is the standard for a lot of media editors in Mac OS.
EarthAmbassador··on Grayjay – Follow Creators Not Platforms
It would be very nice if once all those sources are aggregated with this tool, including hopefully all YouTube, X, and FB lists, saved items, histories, and browser histories, that all of this can be downloaded as a .CSV we can use to train our own local LLMs.

Getting our data out of these platforms is a feat!

EarthAmbassador··on Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer
Now if there is a way to identify dupes and consolidate, plus a way to instantly preview and dispatch photo libraries to new locations, these features would really answer the need to wrangle data.
EarthAmbassador··on Does employer have to tell if they're spying on you through your work computer?
There is no better way to destroy employee morale than to spy on them.

If only managers would set goals, and let workers achieve them as best they can.

EarthAmbassador··on Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why
Exactly right! Even though a mandated lockdown would have been received badly everywhere self-absorbed individuals reside, and whiny business owners would cry about their profits during lockdown, and bad actors would exploit Americans' lack of discipline and interest in the public good, Fauci made the situation infinitely worse by not giving America the tough love it needed and by failing to stand up the POTUS when it mattered. The was so full of double talk that he utterly destroyed public confidence in the efforts of his office. If America had locked down long enough at the beginning, likely through the end of the summer 2020, the pandemic would have resolved quickly in the United States, and hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved. Students of history and communications will look at this period for what not to do.
EarthAmbassador··on I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
Why do HR people demand the duplication of efforts including manual entry of the very same information on a resume or LinkedIn profile, two resources that many HR people request. This is abusive, lazy, and easily solvable issue. I don’t bother applying with any company that feels entitled to ware my time.
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