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by npilk 2y ago
It's important to recognize that life is path-dependent. But as a counter-point, worrying too much about each decision as a potential mistake can lead to the kind of fear-based paralysis described by Sylvia Plath in the Bell Jar: &quot
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by npilk 2y ago
> If you want a DRM free e-book collection you will need a book scanner or send it to a scanning service. Well, technically there's a third option...
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by npilk 2y ago
https://archive.is/hm5Ai
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by npilk 3y ago
Hey, really appreciate the feedback! - Agree that it may not be quicker than filling in a form depending on the use case. To me the potential benefits are more about responding via email or text, avoiding churn from long and complicated for
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Show HN: Semiform – A new kind of web form, powered by LLMs(semiform.ai)
1 points by npilk 3y ago|3 comments
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The Internet Archive's Privacy Policy was last updated in March 2001(archive.org)
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by npilk 3y ago
Reminds me of the guy who pranked his roommate with Facebook ads targeted to an audience of one: https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...
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by npilk 3y ago
Of course, so is your comment here :-) (and mine, too)
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Personal data is everywhere in public(notes.npilk.com)
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by npilk 3y ago
One rebuttal I'd add is that "just in case" reading increases the amount of knowledge you can reference when faced with a new problem. E.g., if you only try to learn things once you know you need them, you miss out on things
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by npilk 3y ago
This is what I made for myself at https://www.bulletyn.co - regular email digests of content from Reddit, HN, RSS feeds, etc. It's helped me significantly cut down the amount of time I spend on Reddit particularly. I had be
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by npilk 3y ago
Love it. I had a similar post-by-email idea for microblogging a while back: https://www.weejur.com . Generally love to see services that integrate with email.
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by npilk 3y ago
These must be computer-generated - the third image under 'goose' has a Shutterstock watermark (oops): https://textart.sh/topic/goose
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by npilk 3y ago
Agree - he writes like he's showing off, but he's good enough for that not to matter. It reminds me of some of David Foster Wallace's work in a way. But I also agree with the other reply to you – sometimes his arguments don&#
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by npilk 3y ago
For anyone who hasn't read Sam Kriss before and enjoyed this piece, I'd also highly recommend his essay 'the internet is already over': https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-internet-is-already-over
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by npilk 3y ago
https://archive.is/sFTAq
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by npilk 3y ago
Based on the headline, I expected this article to argue that success in business depends more on connections and resources than it does purely on resilience.
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by npilk 3y ago
https://htmx.org/ The examples at https://htmx.org/examples/ may also be helpful
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Monthly Resolutions(notes.npilk.com)
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by npilk 3y ago
Custom daily/weekly email digests for Reddit, HN and RSS: https://www.bulletyn.co
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by npilk 3y ago
This is what I’ve used for my last couple of projects, including https://www.semiform.ai - not sure I’d call it “non-trivial”. I’ve really enjoyed this stack. The structure just seems to click in my head better.
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by npilk 3y ago
It's at least nice to see a company call this what it is (a "major outage") - seems like most status pages would be talking about "degraded performance" or similar.
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by npilk 3y ago
Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Django, htmx Resume: see bio for website Email: see bio for website I've got years of experience leading user research for innovation and design alongside building
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by npilk 3y ago
From an htmx perspective, you would probably calculate things like that on the server. So the row delete button might have an hx-get="<delete-confirm-url>" that returns an HTML snippet with your modal content ("Really d
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by npilk 3y ago
A friend fooled me in the ~late 2000s by pretending to have a program installed that could recognize hand gestures to control the screen's UI. So if you moved your hand in the air in front of the webcam, the mouse would follow it aroun
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OneLogin outage enters third hour(onelogin.com)
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Show HN: Semiform.ai – A new kind of web form, powered by LLMs(semiform.ai)
10 points by npilk 3y ago|1 comments
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by npilk 3y ago
https://www.semiform.ai - playing around with a replacement for web forms using LLMs to parse free-text responses and create structured data. Not perfect right now (you can try it out at https://www.semiform.ai/e
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by npilk 3y ago
I've been meaning to write up a blog post. I've had a lot of success with: - Using LLMs to summarize, create structure, etc., rather than relying on them to generate responses - Having my apps rely on receiving LLM output in an ex
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Writing for Others: A guide to more effective communication in the workplace(notes.npilk.com)
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