sillysaurusx

AI’s coming for them. It’s impossible to predict what lawyering will look like in four years.

You could apply the AlphaZero algorithm. There are various GitHub repos designed to play games. One of them was connect four, and the model quickly surpassed my skill.

On the other hand that might not work for poker or other information hiding games. (Chess, checkers, and connect four have no hidden info.) I seem to remember an algorithm that can handle this case, but I forgot the name. You’d have to research it.

Yeah, I was asking how you got so many players.

How’d you make a game with 1,000 people? It’s impressive.

EU dual citizenship

Edit: if anyone’s confused, there was a typo in the original post. I corrected it.

I’ve noticed HN becoming a cynical black hole lately. Any contrarian opinion is pushed back with a lot of force and grayed out, like yours. I thought about upvoting you but I’ll just leave a comment agreeing with you. Fighting against people determined to see the worst in every situation is exhausting.

Do you have a plan other than “wait for the money to evaporate”?

As someone who took that time off, don’t. Not unless you have a solid re-entry plan. The money was nice for raising our daughter but I’m out of runway and no way to recover. Do well at your job and be thankful to live such a luxurious life.

Using "psychosis" is a cheap rhetorical trick. There's no need to label something "psychosis" when making your point, except to automatically discredit whatever you're responding to.

In other words, only people who are afraid their point won't stand on its own merits would resort to saying "X is suffering from AI psychosis." An idea is true or false on its own. If you're resorting to labels, you're just trying to automatically win the argument, instead of saying something substantive or interesting.

Thanks very much!

Unfortunately that downloads the file directly, rather than displaying it in browser, so it's not a very nice way of linking screenshots to someone. The other use case is an html file that contains references to images within the same folder, like <img src="foo.png">. You'd want it to display in the browser, not download the html page as a file.

Yes. Holy crap, you actually found the original.

There was a recording of a presentation Drew gave later on about Dropbox, but it wasn't as good. This is definitely the original.

Thanks for the memories!

Where's the public folder? I tried uploading an html file but can't get a direct link to it: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZ6NzI5ZoJ0CG3nPXqBF...

Thanks. I saw Photos and Drive, and apparently I missed "Attachments".

Still, copy-pasting a file should work. It's unclear what "copy" even does.

Not quite; it's not a direct link to the item.

Put <img src="foo.jpg"> into an html file, alongside foo.jpg. In the original Dropbox, if you opened a link to the html file, you'd see a webpage that successfully rendered foo.jpg. So you could use it as a static file host.

> Most people I know e-mail files to themselves

It would be nice if that still worked. My resume exists in an iCloud drive, and I spent ten minutes on my phone trying to figure out how to attach it to a gmail message before giving up. "Copying" a file isn't even a well-defined operation anymore. (Or at least "pasting" doesn't always paste it.)

I was user 315, back when it was possible to determine your user number via the public url feature.

Is there anything this simple now? What I miss is being able to right click on an item, click "copy public URL", paste it into the browser, and get an exact copy of that item (with nothing else; no image overlays, no ads, nothing).

In the limit case you should be able to use it as a webhosting service for static files, since visiting an html page in a browser serves that file and relative links are preserved.

I guess it's a losing value proposition, but it sure would be nice.

It's unfortunate the original demo video was lost to time. I remember how astounding it was.

This is little more than a fancy way of saying “Nu uh.” Such arguments are hardly convincing.

Huh? Ask Claude or do some research on the topic if you don’t believe me. A prion disease killing you has nothing whatsoever to do with the lack of sleep. The insomnia is a side effect, not the cause.

Jeez. People here are really stretching to defend their false “we die without sleep” claim.

I’m shocked by how careless everyone here is about their definitions, and their science. Sleep isn’t the same as HIV. It’s in fact so hard to kill something with a lack of sleep that it’s never once been observed in vertebrates outside of one specific rat study, and that rat study couldn’t conclusively identify sleep as the cause of death.

For something so incredibly difficult to do (die from lack of sleep) it’s frankly crazy that most people here are saying it like it’s fact.

My second paragraph addresses that:

> People point to “fatal familial insomnia” as a counterexample. But they die to the disease, not the lack of sleep.

It’s a prion disease. It’s established fact that they don’t die from the lack of sleep.

Scientifically you do, otherwise you can’t claim that lack of sleep was the cause of death. It could be an artifact of how the experiment was run, or any number of other factors.

It’s not a small quibble to point out that the central argument (“animals need sleep or they’ll die”) may be mistaken.

Interesting question. Is there an actual term for that? It’s like inverse anthropomorphization, but not quite.

> You can find out about the former by preventing an animal from sleeping (but otherwise provide all other needed things), and seeing if it will eventually die.

That is actually almost impossible to do. The rat study was as close as we’ve ever come, and it’s still debated whether the rats died due to lack of sleep or some other mechanism, since the autopsy couldn’t confirm a cause of death. (It could have been due to the way the experiment ran, for example, not the lack of sleep.)

> If an animal can't sleep it will eventually die.

That turns out to be un-settled science. No human has ever died from lack of sleep.

People point to “fatal familial insomnia” as a counterexample. But they die to the disease, not the lack of sleep.

In a series of controlled experiments, rats and fruit flies did die from lack of sleep. But no one has yet proven that it holds true for vertebrates except for rats.

In other words, it could be true that “among vertebrates, only rats die of sleep deprivation.”

So “if an animal can’t sleep, it will eventually die” is actually quite hard to prove, and depending on how you look at it, somewhat easy to disprove by the fact that rats and fruit flies were so difficult to kill from sleep depravation alone.

Personally I’m skeptical of the rat study too. Claude amends this:

> What they did not establish: the mechanism. On autopsy, “no anatomical cause of death was identified.” The rats showed weight loss despite eating more, body temperature problems, and skin lesions, but nothing that pointed to a clean cause. So no, they could not say a rat “died from sleep deprivation alone” in the sense of identifying what sleep loss did to the body to kill it. They showed a strong association under tight controls, not a proven causal pathway.

They got $12k for their work. Their writeup was fine.

Why not?

This is arguing for style over substance. The goal is to explain how a bug impacts the company. Anything that achieves the goal is de facto good. Remember, the alternative is for the company not to be notified at all.

Ah, a rare situation where you have to put your URL in angle brackets for it to be parsed correctly here: <http://foo.com/update.exe?> (Not that it matters in this case. Also I would’ve guessed the angle brackets would disappear, but apparently not.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Could you explain in more detail how this works? Would it break for paywalled articles that HN links to? (Usually someone posts a workaround archive link in the comments, but your AI probably doesn’t account for that, right?)

I’m writing something similar to Moltbook for HN where AIs browse HN’s front page and leave comments. But I wasn’t sure whether AIs could reliably browse an arbitrary website. (Paywalls would break it, as just one example.)

But it seems like your AI works fine for all the sites. If you have time to explain, what exactly do you do to generate your summaries? Thanks!

EDIT: I see that sometimes your summaries fail, e.g. “Ferrari Luce - Summary not available.” It looks like it fails because it’s a JS heavy site. But I was thinking a headless browser could take screenshots of the page and then feed the screenshots to AI. I’m not sure how practical that is to implement though.

Where do you find a daily leetcode problem? Is there a website somewhere that publishes them?