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shishyon What we know about CEO shooting suspect

one of those Russians... lol

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

shishyon UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

My comment was about healthcare insurance, not the CEO getting shot

shishyon UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan

I know it's like this but still so depressing this is the best we can do in America. Utterly garbage way to manage a core function of society.

shishyon Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week

I used cursor to manage spinning up and deploying a full stack app in AWS last week. Took me one afternoon.

shishyon Ask HN: Are new AI code editors adding superficial value?

Cursor is amazing, esp if I index docs in and use multi composer mode to generate files and code. Once I get a good working example in my repo I'm way faster with Cursor than without. It's not just a Claude wrapper, but you have to take advantage of all its features for the integrated experience.

There are some open source competitors coming out that I'm watching but Cursor is still top for me.

shishyon Founder Mode Is Design Mode

Is there any way to read this with a gift link or something...

shishyon US Judge Strikes Down Ban on Worker 'Noncompete' Agreements

What line of work was she in? How awful

shishyon Tech CEOs are backtrack on RTO mandates–now, 3% want workers in office full-time

https://archive.ph/mP9nT

shishyon My Obsidian note-taking workflow

I use Working Copy on my iphone to push / pull from my git repo

Same on laptop

Obsidian vault is just the directory where the git repo is

shishyon My Obsidian note-taking workflow

So do you mainly use this on your laptop?

I was curious if you incorporate the mobile version too, I try to with git based syncing between the two.

shishyon You got a null result. Will anyone publish it?

All good points- I was imagining that from a funder's perspective, knowing null results is actually important to guaranteeing future positive results / being strategic about what is worth funding in (versus what is destined to fail because others failed and they just didn't know). Not sure how it would work in practice; might be bumpy but certainly seems worthwhile / not impossible.

shishyon You got a null result. Will anyone publish it?

I think that not knowing the null results of others also slows down innovation, because you never know if an area of interest / whitespace in a field is 1) because there's something there or 2) because others tried, failed, and didn't publish.

Maybe pre-registering isn't the right answer; I'm sure there are practical hurdles, but the problem to be solved still remains the same (visibility into the graveyard of failed experiments to improve the rate of innovation).

shishyon You got a null result. Will anyone publish it?

"Science of Science" is a good book / overview of this field!

shishyon You got a null result. Will anyone publish it?

Research should require pre-registration like clinical trials so others have visibility into failed outcomes

shishyon The magic of small engineering teams

Is this similar to single threaded owner (sto) models? I'm curious how they handle things like career management and promotions but this structure overall seems great

shishyon Slack wants to become the 'long-term memory' for organizations

Check out https://www.booklet.group/ (my friend is working on it)!

shishyon Springer Nature unveils two new AI tools to protect research integrity

Publishers did indeed help create this mess, although it's not just them. Funding, tenure, hiring etc. is all driven by things like citation counts.

shishyon Show HN: Searchable ChatGPT – search your GPT conversation history

We've come full circle. Now do RAG on this!

shishyon What Is Generative Art? (2022)

Some of these are so cool. I have a great piece by Manolo Gamboa Noan, made in Processing.

I think one of the founders of Etsy was also into generative art and produced some neat pieces.

https://www.artnome.com/ had some good interviews and posts with artists in this space.

shishyon Ask HN: How does Jenni AI or scite AI work?

Hello,

scite Assistant uses a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to find relevant research for your task, re-ranks sources, and then summarizes an answer using the pertinent documents.

By grounding sources from our database, we're able to 1) ensure we find relevant information and 2) create in-text references to real research we've indexed.

It's not just asking a question and generating an answer by guessing the next word but summarizing the information you need from research we found.

source: I'm the CTO of scite. Feel free to email me at ashish@scite.ai if you have more questions.

shishyon 'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue

Just because someone has an internal monologue doesnt mean they think slow. Its just a voice in your head you can talk to. Its not how you think.

shishyon Gemini and Claudes are killing RAG?

The answer is always no if the article title is phrased as a question ;)

shishyon Jason Kottke's List of 52 Interesting Things He Learned in 2023

"It's funny to watch them try to say it." is what makes him come across like an asshole

shishyon Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

For research papers, scite.ai makes citation contexts super obvious.

e.g. for this DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.08.012

here is our report page: https://scite.ai/reports/association-between-amygdala-hypera...

Metadata at the top, the list of citations below with relevant contexts from those citations about your paper of interest.

There's a visualization feature as well.

shishyon OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

reinforcement learning

shishyon ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis

Being able to do it at scale is an issue because of paper mills.

shishyon Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

It's like gumroad.com (the design I mean)

shishyon Amazon shuts down customer’s smart home

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/15/amazon_echo_disabled_...

> ...an Amazon spokesperson said, "We work hard to provide customers with a great experience while also ensuring drivers who deliver Amazon packages feel safe. In this case, we learned through our investigation that the customer did not act inappropriately, and we’re working directly with the customer to resolve their concerns while also looking at ways to prevent a similar situation from happening again."

Seems like they kind of confirmed it? Or what dd you read that indicated otherwise?

shishyon An AI Engineer Explains Why Most AI Startups Will Die

most startups die so not really a hot take..

shishyon Ask HN: I Think I Need a New Calendar App

it means there was a typo