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hammeiam··on Plastics are poisoning us
This sounds like a good life regardless of the health risks of plastics
hammeiam··on Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser
Does Google TOS allow for caching of results? A lot of APIs (esp map/geo apis) do not
hammeiam··on Understanding GPT tokenizers
Would you be willing to share a GitHub link? This seems like a fun project to read through.
hammeiam··on Understanding GPT tokenizers
ULL is also used for designating Unsigned Long Long 64bit ints in c++, so it’s not just a part of the null symbol.
hammeiam··on ScholarTurbo: Use ChatGPT to chat with PDFs (supports GPT-4)
How far do we think this product is from something that use uses langchain to parse pdfs, create & store chunks / embeddings, and feed them to ChatGPT (or a local model)? Do we think there's any secret sauce?
hammeiam··on Rome v12.1: a linter formatter for TypeScript, JSX and JSON
You can email the dependabot team and they'll opt your repo into a beta with pnpm support
hammeiam··on Airbnb nightly rates shot up 36% in 3 years
Typical accounting formatting represents losses in parens eg `$(5b)` and profits without, eg `$5b`. So you profit/loss annotations are redundant and your 2022 is confusing.
hammeiam··on Jailbreaking ChatGPT with Dan (Do Anything Now)
Neuromancer had a similar plot point - ancient texts contained the symbols and sounds which were effectively pre-language "firmware"
hammeiam··on There’s no planet B
One of their best albums to boot
hammeiam··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
You can actually ask ChatGPT to cite its sources. Anecdotally when I tried, it provided me with a valid url to a census.gov site that contained the answer to my question. That doesn't make it better than google, but it does mean that some verification is possible.
hammeiam··on D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source
Is it possible to integrate this with a library like networkx? D2 has great layouts and seems very simple to create ad-hoc graphs, but it would also be nice to support graph data structures that you can slice up how you want, like this https://github.com/hammeiam/saddle-data-graph/blob/master/Sa...
hammeiam··on Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year
Your Alexa has started talking to you and asking you for things, unprompted?
hammeiam··on Rooftop wind energy innovation claims 50% more energy than solar at same cost
Found the YIMBY
hammeiam··on Graphviz 7
I use graphviz via networkx to build a dependency tree for my company's app. I'm able to split one master tree into sub-trees based on which "flow" I want to look at.

img: https://imgur.com/7qCKA1G code: https://github.com/hammeiam/saddle-data-graph/blob/master/Sa...

hammeiam··on Chessguessr – Wordle for Chess Games
Anybody have a link to the original game? I went 0/25 and could use a hint
hammeiam··on Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large systems (if at all)?
I took a stab at writing my own UML-type diagram in Python using networkx and rendered with dot. Since it's a real network instead of just pictures, I can slice it however I want it (eg "show me all dependencies of page X" or "show me all nodes of type 'state'". It's still a work in progress, but it's helped me think through some things.

https://github.com/hammeiam/saddle-data-graph/blob/master/Sa... (scroll down for images)

hammeiam··on Show HN: A better Reddit search engine to find menswear recommendations
I’d second some other opinions and recommend debouncing user input and making the network call after a 200ms break in input
hammeiam··on Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance
agreed, I'd love a txt/csv dump of my plans
hammeiam··on Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance
I'm so incredibly impressed with this tool. In addition to the slick interface, it has some killer features and niceties:

- You can add a "dependent expense" (have a kid) at a certain age

- You can run Monte Carlo simulations of your portfolio performance

- Expenses can be configured to increase linearly, with inflation, up to an amount, or using a custom function that the user can input graphically

- Adding a house purchase automatically cancels out your existing rent expense if you indicate that it will be your residence

- Easily visualize all of your projected earnings from portfolio growth and losses due to inflation and taxes

As an avid YNAB-er, this is heaven.

hammeiam··on Zotero 6
Hosting my own WebDAV server on my symbology nas! Very easy to set up, the only stumbling block is getting a domain name and setting up ddns
hammeiam··on A non-hallucinogenic psychedelic analog with therapeutic potential
Honest question, how does one stumble upon internet communities anymore, let alone one like this? I feel like personal blogs via HN is about as far off the beaten path as I'm able to get these days.
hammeiam··on JPMorgan Admits to Widespread Recordkeeping Failures, Agrees to Pay $125M
Well now they've only got $738.45B on hand, that'll show 'em!
hammeiam··on The story behind Flexport founder's supply chain tweets
To summarize:

  is the shipping crisis even that big an issue

  this might better channeled to ramp up local industries to fill the gaps

  don't his solutions come off as a tad naive?
hammeiam··on Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Flocking to a Dead-End Street in San Francisco
What a diverse set of interviewees
hammeiam··on China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
What are the odds that this isn't an effort to get kids offline, and instead an attempt at freeing bandwidth or reducing energy consumption? This feels like when they banned bitcoin mining at the same time they were having rolling brownouts - the issue wasn't the mining but the resources it consumed.
hammeiam··on Uber and Lyft surge pricing drives SF customers back to taxis
I think it's relative. The technology is progressing, but as you said no one has a timeline. So if you're a company betting billions (and billions) of dollars on getting self-driving out the door in 5 years, and now it's year 5 and you have no timeline... "well, it didn't work"
hammeiam··on Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank
Anybody can have a Roth IRA. Even if you're over the income limit for a Roth, you can still convert a traditional to a Roth IRA after you pay taxes on the amount. These conversions are pretty common and well known.
hammeiam··on Bitcoin’s plunge intensifies, tanks 30% to $30k in single day
dydx is the first that comes to mind. There are also lots of collateralized loan providers (aave, ruler, alphahomora etc) that are probably seeing billions of dollars of liquidations.
hammeiam··on Simple bank shutdown goes awry, leaving customers without account access
While it's not an integrated savings/budget app like Simple, I think YNAB has a similar spirit as Simple + a great community. It's a pure budgeting app, but you'll know exactly what every dollar is doing.
hammeiam··on Show HN: This website moves your mouse cursor
I found that one as well, I appreciate them hiding it for only the curious to find :)
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