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by labrador 3y ago
I figured I'd have to convert PDF or HTML to some format like markdown later, but for some articles I could do as you say. For others with great images inlined I'll stick with PDF until I actually need to convert. I'll check
812.
by labrador 3y ago
I've used HTTrack before. It's handy for downloading entire websites. The resulting pile of html can be converted to text or PDF later for processing https://www.httrack.com/
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by labrador 3y ago
It's a bit of work, more than just bookmarking it, but I've started doing it. My thinking is that we could see websites going away at a much higher rate now that we have LLMs.
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Ask HN: Should we be saving our favorite information locally?
41 points by labrador 3y ago|23 comments
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by labrador 3y ago
> According to SBF, the utility we gained by moving fast outweighed the occasional costs we paid due to poor risk checks, hacks, and the like. When I was young I "moved fast and broke things", then had brushes with the law that
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by labrador 3y ago
https://archive.ph/7Ycyu
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The Executive Trying to Make Microsoft Smarter About AI(wsj.com)
1 points by labrador 3y ago|1 comments
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by labrador 3y ago
This surprised me. I don't. It added Workspace extension to my Chrome, then turned it on. I turned it off because I was concerned with privacy. Now the extension is gone. It must have been a bug that they've fixed.
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by labrador 3y ago
Where do you find 470,000 year old wood that isn't petrified?
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by labrador 3y ago
Have you tried the latest upgrade dropped 2 days ago? It's much better.
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by labrador 3y ago
All I did was ask Bard to search my emails and it presented a link to turn on Workspaces and then did it
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by labrador 3y ago
I've heard more than once an artist say doing art is the only way to keep themselves from committing suicide. Artists gonna do art. Another example would be someone who loves to garden. If a gardening robot was invented those people wo
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by labrador 3y ago
Agreed, but devastating consequences are my interest
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by labrador 3y ago
If you believe the lab leak theory for Covid, I assume that variety wasn't created with AI. Humans will continue to be the most dangerous creatures on Earth for a long time, not AI alone. Humans with AGI could be even more dangerous, s
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by labrador 3y ago
Bard: The author argues that ASI is likely to be developed soon and that it could have devastating consequences such as 1 The development of new weapons that could easily destroy humanity. 2 The accidental release of harmful subst
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by labrador 3y ago
I wrote a lot of assembler in my early days, so it always seemed strange to me that people spent so much time arguing about syntax of higher level languages because it all ends up as machine code. There's no clear winner in the quest t
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by labrador 3y ago
Findings: In a randomized, placebo-controlled, 6-week trial in 104 adults, a 25-mg dose of psilocybin administered with psychological support was associated with a rapid and sustained antidepressant effect, measured as change in depressive
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Single-Dose Psilocybin Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder(jamanetwork.com)
2 points by labrador 3y ago|1 comments
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by labrador 3y ago
GPT-4 agrees with you and I: Q: Is common for English speakers using colloquial English to refer to fish as animals? They technically are animals, but people don't often refer to fish as animals in every day speech. Is this correct? A:
830.
by labrador 3y ago
We've already established that fish are animals ad nauseam... technically that is correct. Perhaps you don't read the other comments before commenting? What people like you don't seem to get is that I'm talking about eve
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by labrador 3y ago
The Apple II Basic prompt brought programming to the people. Around 1984 Byte magazine published an article about a hot language "C" that was used to create special effects in Hollywood. Not long after C was available in the Macin
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by labrador 3y ago
According to Google, you are the first person in the Universe to say "what kind of animals do you keep in your fish tank?"
833.
by labrador 3y ago
It's not like saying "enjoyed the animals and the big cats". If English is your second language then perhaps this will help you speak colloquial English.
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by labrador 3y ago
No problem. I'm a crusty old ex-Navy guy, but if I were a young person intimidated by Hacker News your support would have been appreciated greatly.
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by labrador 3y ago
I don't feel mocked. I feel people are being pedantic. The Hacker News comment section isn't biology class. "I went to the San Francisco zoo and aquarium and enjoyed the animals and the fish" is a perfectly acceptable se
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by labrador 3y ago
In a class room setting sure, but in every day conversation, no. Not on the West Coast of the United States. Kurt Cobain made the distinction and didn't think fish had feelings: And the animals I've trapped Have all beco
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by labrador 3y ago
No but my Irish ancestors were Catholic
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by labrador 3y ago
Do you a variety of animals swimming in your living room animal tank?
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by labrador 3y ago
I get mine frozen from Trader Joe's, Costco or Walmart
840.
by labrador 3y ago
You are right. I first wrote mammal but change it to animal, because I've never thought of fish as animals. I've never heard anyone refer to them as animals. I have never read anything that refered to them as animals. Edit: The Su

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