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numtel··on The UIs ChatGPT Won't Replace
It doesn't have to write code for each button in a UI, it just has to know that it's showing a UI and you click on a button titled "increase quantity" or whatever and the changes can be handled by the model itself.
numtel··on Monthly Fediverse posts cross 1 billion for the first time
For even more, see the reading list for the ongoing Summer of Protocols:

https://efdn.notion.site/0314a1800b774258a8e6197487c479bc?v=...

numtel··on [dead]
This must be fear mongering propaganda. Nobody "injects" mushrooms
numtel··on Rural children now grow slightly taller than city children in wealthy countries
That's the median city in the set of cities with population greater than 100k, not median of all cities.
numtel··on Rural children now grow slightly taller than city children in wealthy countries
Where'd you find that stat?

> The total 2020 enumerated population of all [331] cities over 100,000 is 96,598,047, representing 29.14% of the United States population (excluding territories)

From: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...

numtel··on A non-federated decentralized social protocol based on Git
If you want decentralized without hosting your own servers, you can store data on a public blockchain. Each interaction pays a small amount of gas that grants them hosting indefinitely. Protocols are a progression from platforms since they can be ownerless. Blockchains enable protocols by acting as a general purpose database.

This is what I'm doing with https://nonphysical.systems

It's still under construction so it's on Polygon mumbai testnet therefore gas is free. The source is linked in the first message board.

numtel··on Prove email and phone are required in online services
Could use Sign In With Ethereum using a social recovery wallet but I don't think all the pieces are ready yet.
numtel··on Can light reset brainwaves to treat Alzheimer’s? A startup has $73M to find out
There was an article (I think I found it in hackernews) a while back about a study that showed 40hz having these restorative abilities.

I installed a frequency generator app on my phone after reading it. I also made a binaural tone generator tool:

https://numtel.github.io/binaural-playground/

From what I read, low frequency waves can influence awareness at different level:

    1-4 Hz: Delta (Deep sleep)
    4-8 Hz: Theta (Meditation/REM)
    8-14 Hz: Alpha (Relaxation)
    14-30 Hz: Beta (Focus/Energy)
    30-100 Hz: Gamma (Maximum Awareness)
numtel··on The heaviest bicycle in the world is 4800 lb
Not all humans. This article was posted a few days ago:

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-a-wilderness-...

numtel··on Can Engineered Writing Ever Be Great?
I feel like this author gave up prompt engineering much too soon.

ChatGPT 4's responds well to prompts that remind it to improve the composition. Eg. "Write a story about X. Make it funny and dramatic with a surprise ending. Don't be obvious. Follow best practices for writing fiction. Be sure to show, not tell."

Adding "Make it compelling" adds a flavor of a try-hard writer.

I would guess that getting great writing in a response is quite possible with a great prompt.

numtel··on GarlicGPT – we hallucinate so you don't have to
Made one of these websites a few months ago when chatgpt first came out:

https://thedailydreamer.com

numtel··on Tell HN: My son is being bullied for owning an Android phone
Everytime someone with an iPhone shows me a video on YouTube and has to wait for an ad or two, I use that time to make fun of their expensive preference and inability to install an ad blocker.
numtel··on RAM 1500 EV Will Offer a Range Extender Gas Engine, CEO Confirms
This article is completely missing any stats about how effective such a range extender would be.

I came across this page last week about EV charging using a generator:

> A typical EV such as the Volkswagen ID.4 has a 75 kWh battery that allows it to drive about 275 miles on a single charge. That works out to around 3.5 miles of range per 1 kWh of charge. Now let’s assume you have a 2.2kW generator that can output 1,800 watts continuously. If you ran the generator for 4 hours, it would produce around 7 kWh of energy. Now, that’s assuming 100% transfer efficiency, etc. So, in 4 hours of driving, it could possibly add maybe 24 miles of range. But things being not 100% efficient, it would be lucky to add perhaps 15 to 20 miles of range to a 250-mile trip.

https://www.rvtravel.com/rv-electricity-generator-in-back-of...

numtel··on Ask HN: What are these strange random strings spamming my blog?
Zoho is $12/year for 5gb and allows catch all
numtel··on The end of Type 1 fonts
An article about therapies under development before they reach the market would absolutely fit on HN while being ignored by news outlets.

I guess that article would be titled, "The coming end of Type 1"

numtel··on The end of Type 1 fonts
That's a misleading headline if I've ever seen one.

Type 1 without extra qualifiers refers to diabetes.

numtel··on WSJ: Bitcoin's future depends on a handful of mysterious coders
I'm not going to read this article but its inception is famous for mysterious coders. That's it's whole thing!
numtel··on Gigapresses – the die casts reshaping car manufacturing
Probably because welds are usually stronger than the materials they are binding.

As far as casting, I would imagine that would result in more brittle components that would snap instead of bend in a crash.

numtel··on Boobies on the Ethereum Blockchain
I've got a whole site setup for uploading whatever you want on Ethereum layer 2, Optimism: https://newgeocities.com
numtel··on Capitalism and convenience are making us lonely
I feel like the designs of our houses have a lot to do with this. Recently, I explored the idea the implications of larger houses:

https://gist.github.com/numtel/28ffb7181ad1a296a077db76c474b...

numtel··on I tried a $7,600 desk that lets you get horizontal at work
I've got an rei quarter dome tent that I can hang my laptop at the top and use external mouse and keyboard on the ground. It's not perfect but pretty nice for computing horizontally.
numtel··on Australia approves medical magic mushrooms and ecstasy
Are you joking? The transition from decriminalized to legal cannabis meant going from homemade infused butters and oils to precisely dosed edibles and tablets. The user experience is so much more consistent. The same thing would happen with psilocybin.
numtel··on Is Worldcoin a Crypto-Currency for the Masses or Your Digital ID?
I'm wearing my Worldcoin socks today (they're a cool design) that they gave out in Bogota but there are some serious issues with their approach.

From talking with them, they're working almost exclusively on the hardware. Reading between the lines, this tells me that eye scanning may not be the absolute answer to Proof of Personhood they thought it was.

Secondly, for trying to create a universal currency that can serve all humanity, they don't allow any democratic control of the supply. As far as I could tell, these kind of things aren't even on the radar of the people that work there.

IMO, if there's going to be a cryptocurrency that serves humanity, it must begin with an institution of humans that operates policy openly and inclusively, building a new democracy around its distribution. I've considered cribbing the US Constitution to make a document that outlines an institution that does this.

numtel··on Always look down in London: Pavement oddities
LA and southern California could use some roundabouts. There's so many places with stop lights almost stacked on each other.
numtel··on Small Penises and Fast Cars: Evidence for a Psychological Link
A McSweeney's reader?

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-here-to-buy-a-car-tha...

numtel··on Interactive California Reservoir Levels Dashboard
Afaik, whiskeytown is kept close to full all year since it's downstream of the trinity lake reservoir, which looks more like lake Oroville with exposed shoreline.
numtel··on A US federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves
There's a Bay Area startup fixing this by adding a battery

https://www.volts.wtf/p/induction-stoves-with-batteries-buil...

numtel··on Researchers Hacked California's Digital License Plates
> Curry says a vulnerability in the Javascript of the website let the team change an account type from a regular user to an administrator

...

numtel··on When the Writing Demands Talent and Discretion, Call the Ghostwriter
There's already the Dramatron tool from Google that queries GPT3 to write a screenplay. How long until there's an input form for the "bricks" of the memoir that can output a "house?" (To use the metaphor from the article)

I guess it could be done using the GPT3 api if you're willing to pay for the tokens to input lots of text.

numtel··on Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola hands-on: a ThinkPad’s best friend
Is copy/paste from laptop really worth paying 3x a normal Moto G? Couldn't that just be done by an Android app?
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