Archive for October 2022

Monday, 31 October 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Explainpaper – Explain jargon in academic papers with GPT-3

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Explainpaper – Explain jargon in academic papers with GPT-3

Show HN: Explainpaper – Explain jargon in academic papers with GPT-3
11 by aman_jha | 1 comments on Hacker News.
heyo! Explainpaper lets you upload a research paper PDF. If you don't understand a formula or sentence, just highlight it and the tool explains it for you I built this a few weeks ago to help me read a neuroscience paper, and it works pretty well! I didn't fine-tune GPT-3, but I do take a lot of context from the paper and feed that into the prompt (not the whole paper). Ppl have uploaded AI, biology, economics, philosophy papers and even law documents. Works in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French and more as well!

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Sunday, 30 October 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: WhatsApp appears to be censoring references to Signal

New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: WhatsApp appears to be censoring references to Signal

Tell HN: WhatsApp appears to be censoring references to Signal
43 by DicIfTEx | 7 comments on Hacker News.
I don't usually go in for conspiracy theories, but this one seems pretty clear-cut and I can't see anyone else discussing it online: WhatsApp appears to be selectively censoring references to Signal. Specifically, I had changed my profile picture on WhatsApp to the Signal logo and my ‘About’ text to ‘Message me on Signal - https://signal.org/download/’. However, I noticed recently (after someone happened to open their WhatsApp in front of me and I saw their chat with me) that my WhatsApp contacts are seeing my profile picture and my ‘About’ text as blank. I've checked and this seems to be the case for all of my WhatsApp contacts. See screenshots from me and my friend's phones here: https://ift.tt/ovat2b9 On the bright side, this serves as an ideal demo for convincing anyone who doesn't understand why I am trying to migrate them over to Signal. So, I guess, thanks Meta?

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Monday, 17 October 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Have you ever heard of users demonstrating against software?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Have you ever heard of users demonstrating against software?

Ask HN: Have you ever heard of users demonstrating against software?
39 by quijoteuniv | 32 comments on Hacker News.
Today in Trondheim, Norway, around 100 health doctors & nurses demostrated by walking with torches trough the city against the implementation of a new software in the hospital. The Helseplatform is an adaptation of Epic to the Norwegian Health system. Have this ever happen in history before? How bad can something be that users go out in the street to demostrate?

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Friday, 14 October 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?

Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?
35 by ilovecaching | 32 comments on Hacker News.
In college I did a month long experiment where I only used my computer's terminal emulator to do all my work. I wrote my code/notes in Vim, browsed the web with elinks, and wrote my emails using mutt. It was a great learning experience. Recently I looked into doing this again and ran into a bunch of issues: - My company uses Slack's enterprise auth, and all the CLI slack clients I could find haven't been updated in years and no longer work. - The web is using more javascript than in the past. - Mutt doesn't handle multiple email accounts natively for work/personal. The solutions are hacks at best. Email servers are starting to use more complete auth mechanisms that don't work well with mutt. It seems like the terminal world is slowly getting abandoned in favor of proprietary GUI apps. Anyone still living inside the terminal? Links to tools for Slack are appreciated.

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Thursday, 13 October 2022

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Are we all burned out?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Are we all burned out?

Ask HN: Are we all burned out?
47 by nus07 | 43 comments on Hacker News.
I feel burned out and every one of my friends and coworkers I have talked to are feeling burned out. Having a kid, covid , war in Ukraine and now recession and layoffs have left me fatigued and I can barely learn anything new or look forward to anything . All I want to do is look at my phone and consume more content.And I look back fondly to 2001-2007 and also 2010-2017. Do I need therapy or is everyone feeling the same ?

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Wednesday, 5 October 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What am I supposed after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What am I supposed after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

Ask HN: What am I supposed after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG
44 by kranke155 | 31 comments on Hacker News.
I work in video / filmmaking / ads in London. Most of the work in this space is short form video for YouTube / Instagram and TV. Now I am seeing the video generating AI (imagen video from Google on the front page) and I’m 100% sure a good percentage of the work will vanish. There’s loads of work that ad agencies will just hire an AI prompt guy to generate for ads. Big companies will still make ads, of course, but smaller gigs that keep the whole industry afloat? What about even 10 million $ shots with CG characters that will now become commonplace? I’ve retrained before. I started off as an editor, then did VR video, now moved into CG. I’m pretty good at my job - I’ve worked on stuff for Dell and Apple, including stuff you’ve probably seen. It’s funny to think I might have to retrain yet again. I didn’t expect image generation AI to be the next big leap. I was already moving into more storytelling content (ie documentaries) because that’s more defensible against AI. But I expected 3-4 years before video generation would just come out. Now it seems like it’s happening so quickly I’m not sure they won’t have good stuff out in 6 months to a year. So - HN - what do I do now? And what about the other fellas in my industry who will be out of a job? In my estimate, we are talking about tens of thousands. To counter the obvious: I have learnt web dev at one point I thought I’d make the jump, even started learning React but I found the work to be mind numbing. I just love making images. But I feel like Pierre Auguste Renoir’s who was a plate painter in France and did a good living out of it - until the process was industrialised and he struggled (maybe for the rest of his life? I don’t quite recall). What do I do HN?

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