Hacker News: selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=selllikesybokHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 08 May 2026 20:28:25 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced"]]>Okay, but to clarify:

- This is not Gemini performing a search. - This is Google providing a layer of ass-covering in case Gemini produces a factually incorrect reply.

Right? I am looking for something like ChatGPT with Bing - it will run a query, pull back results, and operate on them, all dynamically within the system.

Gemini doesn't seem to do this, no matter how you try to wrangle it.

]]>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:33:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39305675selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39305675https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39305675<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced"]]>Question for you -

> better at incorporating search results in its answer vs gpt-4 bing

How are you getting it to incorporate search results in its answers?

I can't for the life of me get it to find any real-time external data except for the 5 official 'extensions' under settings, which are for Flights/Hotels/Maps/Workspace/YouTube.

Did you mean that, or have you found a workaround to get Bard to actually search on Google?

]]>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:30:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302283selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302283<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Sex and Sexuality"]]>Why wouldn't it be?

]]>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:14:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473164selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473164https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473164<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Sex and Sexuality"]]>>Ultimately, an atheist can no more say, in an absolute sense, that Joker is worse than Batman.

The Joker is worse than Batman. ;) Denied.

Let me ask this - do you think an atheist can be ethical?

]]>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:14:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473160selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473160https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473160<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Sex and Sexuality"]]>I'm not sure I follow, though it seems we might agree?

You say something is wrong, I can say you saying that something is wrong is, in itself wrong. Ultimately, it either doesn't matter at all (we're all just talking), or enough other people agree with us that there is some social consequence.

]]>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:09:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473116selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473116https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473116<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Sex and Sexuality"]]>I suppose that gets more into agency? I would assume, barring a good reason, that in most conversations 'consent' would imply that the persons involved in fact had agency to give consent.

]]>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 17:04:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473070selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473070https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17473070<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Sex and Sexuality"]]>Perhaps, rather, it is morally wrong to say that certain consensual sexual practices are morally wrong?

]]>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:25:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17471184selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17471184https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17471184<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (2008)"]]>Is 24 not a personal assistant? :) Yes, taskrabbit seems appropriate for discrete tasks (wait from 12PM to 3:27PM for my repair window)... but I'd insist on bonded people, not randos, even ones with lots of 5-star ratings, to be in my home.

Maybe something in a chatbot for text-based interfaces? Make it speak/listen with text->speech and voice recognition? Since most of the human interactions on the other side of bad customer service are scripted, should be possible to build counter-scripts.

But after all that I don't think I'd pay anything just for this on an ongoing basis. So who is the market? Impatient wealthy people? We're back to assistants!

]]>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 23:50:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16434020selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16434020https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16434020<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing"]]>Ah - yeah, mobile search sucks, right now.

I mean, in some ways, it's great. I can get a song lyric or a football score or a movie ticket very easily.

But research? Forget it.

]]>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 04:27:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16220314selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16220314https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16220314<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing"]]>Depends on your browser, but for example, in Chrome, you can set your default search in chrome://settings/searchEngines for the omnibox search. Mine is:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&filter=0&num=100

You could easily add the verbatim parameter as well.

Nothing similar for safari?

]]>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:42:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216114selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216114https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216114<![CDATA[Losing Your Job for Sexual Harassment Is Not a Violation of Due Process]]>Article URL: https://rewire.news/article/2018/01/18/losing-job-sexual-harassment-not-violation-due-process/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16183601

Points: 9

# Comments: 10

]]>Fri, 19 Jan 2018 02:16:35 +0000https://rewire.news/article/2018/01/18/losing-job-sexual-harassment-not-violation-due-process/selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16183601https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16183601<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No"]]>Amortize the time he took figuring it out / getting his systems in place across that weekly schedule, though. I bet even after 20 years that's still closer to two days a week. ;)

]]>Fri, 05 Jan 2018 18:23:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16080452selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16080452https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16080452<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No"]]>Vending machines are still a thing, too. Similar model. All those $5.99 transaction fees add up. Even at 2.99, the machine pays itself off in a year with ~5 transactions a day.

]]>Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:46:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16078232selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16078232https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16078232<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?"]]>Belated, but thanks - will check out the web tool.

]]>Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:19:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742865selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742865https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742865<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "The Cost Center Trap"]]>From the context? A hypothetical next release of a software product.

]]>Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:10:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742281selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742281https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742281<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "The Cost Center Trap"]]>They are, actually. All your operationally necessary but not directly revenue generating business units/functions are cost centers, in this model. And they get beaten with the same stick.

]]>Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:07:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742250selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742250https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742250<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?"]]>I find the desktop tool by import.io a little challenging to work with. Their toy web-demo is solid for simple table extraction, though.

]]>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:15:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15694675selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15694675https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15694675<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?"]]>Second this. My go-to for years now. Inexpensive for what it does. Factor in the cost of building out it's features in your home rolled solution, and you'll be saving a ton. Plus the team is very responsive if you need support. And is open to small consulting projects if you need something beyond your own abilities.

]]>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:13:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15694659selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15694659https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15694659<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "The Enduring Legacy of Zork"]]>Was it MC Chicken in the Hat?

]]>Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:54:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15081097selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15081097https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15081097<![CDATA[New comment by selllikesybok in "Why We Terminated Daily Stormer"]]>Well, actually...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/spoonuniversity.com/news/the-di...

]]>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:17:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15035654selllikesybokhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15035654https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15035654