Hacker News: hiidrew

New comment by hiidrew in "JPMorgan to sell customer transaction data to advertisers"

hiidrew — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:13:52 +0000

This makes me curious on what type of data my bank (and others) share with companies involved in these ad/offer-type systems.

This announcement doesn't seem like it's anything new on the consumer side, instead it's a platform for brands to access the data from their ads/offers, create campaigns, etc.

New comment by hiidrew in "Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age"

hiidrew — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:11:25 +0000

I agree. I usually finish most books I start but Snow Crash was an exception. I can't quite articulate my distaste. Looking back, one of the small things that ticked me off was Hiro Protagonist – I couldn't take the book seriously at all. Felt almost overly cheesy and clichey.

I'd like to give him another shot with Cryptonomicon or The Diamond Age. I've appreciated him elsewhere, like as a podcast guest. He definitely has an interesting mind, just didn't enjoy Snow Crash.

New comment by hiidrew in "Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet"

hiidrew — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 03:54:48 +0000

https://www.farcaster.xyz/ is an interesting alternative that's not bluesky

New comment by hiidrew in "Leaving Twitter"

hiidrew — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:04:54 +0000

https://warpcast.com/ is the best alternative yet

New comment by hiidrew in "California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment"

hiidrew — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:57:49 +0000

How does the price of these compare to Uber/Lyft?

New comment by hiidrew in "Arc browser built-in AI features [video]"

hiidrew — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 18:22:39 +0000

Arc is great but my favorite feature is the simplest. The shortcut 'shfit-ctrl-c' to copy your current page's link.

New comment by hiidrew in "First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision)"

hiidrew — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:15:51 +0000

As a Hoosier I'm thankful that they used an example of our absurd pork tenderloins sandwiches.

New comment by hiidrew in "Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024"

hiidrew — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:28:46 +0000

Add it to the list: https://killedbygoogle.com/

New comment by hiidrew in "Ask HN: How to find people willing to test side projects?"

hiidrew — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 17:25:38 +0000

Would try to target communities that align with your target audience - Twitter, Subreddits, Facebook groups, or Discord. Can also promote more generally on some of these platforms or ProductHunt

Another method, guerilla testing, worked well in grad school. Go to a public place - a library, coffee shop, etc. Politely ask random people to test your project. The obvious downside is they may not fit your target audience, but it's a cheap and scrappy way to get some feedback.

New comment by hiidrew in "Update on KDP Title Creation Limits"

hiidrew — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:49:55 +0000

Their distinction:

>AI-generated: We define AI-generated content as text, images, or translations created by an AI-based tool. If you used an AI-based tool to create the actual content (whether text, images, or translations), it is considered "AI-generated," even if you applied substantial edits afterwards. AI-assisted: If you created the content yourself, and used AI-based tools to edit, refine, error-check, or otherwise improve that content (whether text or images), then it is considered "AI-assisted" and not “AI-generated.” Similarly, if you used an AI-based tool to brainstorm and generate ideas, but ultimately created the text or images yourself, this is also considered "AI-assisted" and not “AI-generated.” It is not necessary to inform us of the use of such tools or processes.

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200672390#aicontent....

New comment by hiidrew in "iOS 17 is available today"

hiidrew — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:57:15 +0000

I wish we had more control over default apps in general. Similar to the settings for email, browser, calendar, etc.

New comment by hiidrew in "Ask HN: How to do literal web searches after Google destroyed the “ ” feature?"

hiidrew — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:18:35 +0000

try https://perplexity.ai/

New comment by hiidrew in "The Tyranny of the Marginal User"

hiidrew — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:34:42 +0000

Other Reddit enshittification is their pushiness to use the mobile app. Great UX case study here, this guy makes them very entertaining - https://builtformars.com/case-studies/reddit

Also related, Cory Doctorow's essay on this where he labeled it 'enshittification' - https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

New comment by hiidrew in "Apple is reportedly spending ‘millions of dollars a day’ training AI"

hiidrew — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:46:45 +0000

I find this type of image search incredibly useful – but mostly for when I take pictures of documents and it recognizes the text on them.

New comment by hiidrew in "Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD"

hiidrew — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 20:31:25 +0000

Unity and Epic seem like two glaringly omissions from this.

New comment by hiidrew in "The Cables That Run the Internet"

hiidrew — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:03:35 +0000

This map makes my optimistic about humankind. Similar to https://patrickcollison.com/fast. Amazing we can achieve such feats, it's inspiring.

New comment by hiidrew in "Twist: Slack alternative from the makers of Todoist"

hiidrew — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:56:02 +0000

You're right about the multiple logins with discord critique. A seamless switcher would be nice to have.

New comment by hiidrew in "Sriracha Fight"

hiidrew — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:54:50 +0000

Nice post. I've found Trader Joe's option to be somewhat decent, but still not better than Huy Fong's.

Like this blog though, will be diving into more posts.

New comment by hiidrew in "Twist: Slack alternative from the makers of Todoist"

hiidrew — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:19:10 +0000

I agree, this is my main critique of Slack. Discord's approach to servers as only requiring one login for many makes way more sense. Compared with Slack's multiple logins for many, way more confusing.

New comment by hiidrew in "Treemaps are awesome"

hiidrew — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:05:22 +0000

I thought this post was going to be about tree (species) maps that you see in parks sometimes: https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/03/T...

These are awesome too.