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pps··on Bard uses a Hacker News comment as source to say that Bard has shut down
The same goes for Bing AI, it's better to compare Bard to Sydney than to ChatGPT.
pps··on LLaMA: A foundational, 65B-parameter large language model
I'm stupid in this area and have only a very broad understanding of "AI". But isn't this already happening in this project? https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
pps··on Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes
I shared it for completely different reasons than you listed, but you do not seem like someone who would be worth talking to, so yeah, "whatever".
pps··on Ask HN: Want to start journalling / writing my thoughts – any tips?
My advice: Buy basic notebook, buy basic pen, and just start. It's easier to do that on paper - it removes all the digital distractions. Start with an intention to write something every day, no matter how long, with the ultimate goal to write at least one page daily. Use ChatGPT for ideas to write about if you can't find anything yourself ("Give me 3 concrete ideas to write about in my journal").
pps··on Run CLIP on iPhone to search photos
Works great! Would love to have the feature to find similar photos, something like this: https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval/
pps··on Unbundling Tools for Thought
> Oh also: I want to write some notes in handwriting on my iPad, and then ocr and clean up those notes to be liked I typed them, but still preserve the original handwriting. I desperately want to be able to hand write notes sometimes, type them sometimes, have them all in one place, and have that place be a stream of consciousness and searchable.

You can try Nebo.

pps··on Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas
You can use Excalidraw in Obsidian, there is a plugin that uses it and extends it in many ways.
pps··on Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas
museapp.com works like that. Also heptabase.com and many others https://infinitecanvas.tools/
pps··on AI solves Advent of Code 2022
I would like to see how to achieve that. I tried asking it to translate the first paragraph of a site, but it provided more of an interpretation or summary of the article, rather than the actual text. When asked to copy the text from the website, it said that it couldn't. Additionally, when asked to provide a summary of a website that didn't exist before (created it myself yesterday), it gave a summary that was completely fictional, based on its interpretation of the URL.
pps··on AI solves Advent of Code 2022
Does it have access to the web? For one of my questions it answered:

"Unfortunately, I am unable to provide a detailed description of the education system in Poland and its changes over the last 30 years because I have limited access to information and cannot browse the internet."

but I have no idea if it's not lying :)

pps··on Stashpad – A New Scratchpad for Developers
It's almost perfect for me. I'd like to have additional dimension (tags) to organize things, but it's so good in other areas (ease of capture and moving things around, keyboard centric, super fast, ...) that I'll use one way or another.
pps··on Polio Detected in US
> You have to actively look for ways to disprove your own narratives

Socratic Method is one way, I can recommend "The Socratic Method - A Practitioners Handbook" by Ward Farnsworth.

pps··on Ask HN: For devs, any regrets on getting the M1 MacBook Air?
How many tabs do you have open? I have absolutely zero problems running Chrome with 52 tabs and multiple other apps (and mostly electron based). Obviously this is not enough RAM to not use swap, but I don't experience any slowdown.
pps··on Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?
Sertraline (prescribed by psychiatrist) + Stoicism (Stoicism and the Art of Happiness by Donald Robertson is a good intro, if you're interested)
pps··on Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends
At the same time... https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t6b827/russian_inf...
pps··on MonoLisa – A font designed for developers
Zeitung Mono Pro for me, rarely mentioned anywhere https://www.underware.nl/fonts/zeitung_mono/buy
pps··on For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
Absolutely! I switched back to Google as default, but still search things also with DDG.
pps··on For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
I tried for few months, but unfortunately DDG results are really poor for local searches. Whenever I want to find something in Polish, half of the results are from some autotranslated websites. Also Google is the only one that shows local business in a useful way.
pps··on Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more than official counts show
> Germany is also infamous in EU for its antibiotic resistant hospital bugs like MRSA.

Never heard that this is a problem in Germany. Maybe because Poland is so much worse in regards to healthcare.

pps··on Ten Years of Logging My Life
Yes, it works, thank you!
pps··on Ten Years of Logging My Life
I see that you released it (thanks!), any idea why it starts to install, the progress bar goes to end and then it shows message that the app was not installed? Without bothering you too much with logs and stuff, if it's even available somewhere for not yet installed apps. Android 10 on Galaxy S9+.
pps··on Ten Years of Logging My Life
You can try with gratitude instead (not tracking, but writing), it has serious scientific backing:

- https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being

- https://hubermanlab.com/the-science-of-gratitude-and-how-to-...

pps··on How to rest well
I'm on 200mg of magnesium taurate. Magnesium l-threonate years ago when the hype for it started. Absolutely no difference in anything. Also taking l-theanine + apigenin (mix that Andrew Huberman recommends) - same effect. But for people with not-the-best diet magnesium is definitely beneficial for health so it's good to take it anyway.
pps··on How to rest well
Different people reacts differently. I normally drinks 2-3 cups a day, last one sometimes after 8 PM. So to test some claims about coffee being so bad etc, I completely removed coffee from my life for a month - zero difference. And the same is true for Yerba Mate for me (although with Yerba I definitely feel different for few hours). But I believe that some simply react more to this substance.
pps··on How to rest well
Not books, but I recommend Huberman Lab podcast on YT (at least two episodes on sleep) and https://themattwalkerpodcast.buzzsprout.com/
pps··on How to rest well
I wouldn't call it "debunked". All these were later answered by author, I don't have sources, but I remember it was on author's blog and also on some podcasts*. I remember that he said all these will be answered also in second edition.

EDIT: 90% sure it was on one of these https://duckduckgo.com/?q=matthew+walker+site%3Apeterattiamd...

pps··on Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?
You can use https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ to change that. It would either require writing your own complex modification, or maybe it's already somewhere in their public repo https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/?q=german

Other solution would be to use something like Keyboard Maestro.

pps··on AppFlowy: an open-source alternative to Notion
Isn't this app desktop only?
pps··on It will take 100 days to tailor a vaccine to a new variant
https://archive.md/PLmOk
pps··on Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
Macbook Air M1 gold. I love every detail of this machine.
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