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Show HN: No more meeting minutes with GPT-3
We recently plugged in GPT-3 to our software which can record / transcribe / search and share meetings. And the quality of the meeting minutes outputted is just baffling.

GPT-3 understands what a discussion revolves around - even if the subject matter is only mentionned once - and summarizes it really efficiently. It lays out the different topics and always puts forward the next steps.

Linked is a quick example on one of my conversations with a company in the Philippines.

An amusing bug was that if for whatever reason no to little transcription was outputted, GPT-3 would insult the participants (is it trained on Reddit??).

The danger would be if GPT-3 misinterprets something and this then gets into the formal decision process of a company. However I haven't seen it yet after 1 month of live production and a little more than a hundred of internal calls tried out on.

Check it out it's free to try out: https://cutt.ly/welcome_to_spoke :)
Show HN: I used rustface to get a Twitter bot's best faces
Step 1: Carry a small stack of index cards with you at all times. You can stuff these into a binder, into a notebook, in your satchel or purse. Have stacks at your desk / kitchen / in the car / airplane / submarine / starship / Tardis / ...

Step 2: When an idea occurs or noteable fact appears, write it down.

Step 3: File that card with others in a single central storage location.

Fleeting notes still happen. They end up in one place.
No, this doesn't make sense. If your goal is to reduce fossil fuel usage, and Bitcoin also incentivizes fossil fuels, then there's no reason to expect that Bitcoin will help reduce the share of energy produced by fossil fuels. Worse yet, if it increases total energy consumption, and doesn't affect the percentage produced by fossil fuels, then that will increase the absolute amount of greenhouse gas emissions.

Your arguments work just as well for reducing risk for investing in "marginal" fossil fuel sources.
Yes, I ignored that on purpose because it doesn't make sense.

I'm reminded of Abraham Lincoln's joke: "How many legs does a dog have, if you count the tail as a leg?"

The money counts as spending, even if you say it doesn't.
Check out the LGIT (low glycemic index treatment), aka "the south beach diet". It's a more relaxed low-carb diet (80g/day), which has shown similar efficacy to keto for seizure control. It makes it much easier to feel somewhat normal at restaurants and the dinner table when out with people.

https://www.epilepsy.com/treatment/dietary-therapies/low-gly...

One interesting thing about these low-carb diet therapies is that they can result in long-term seizure control even after discontinuing the diet. They are worth trying imo. However, I'll personally attest to the fact that they are not a silver bullet.
Terrible analogy. Energy production requires large upfront investments in infrastructure. There is nothing analogous to seed in energy. There are only farms and corn that expires extremely quickly and is hard to transport.
Can’t resist quoting David’s Sling[1] (not a masterpiece of philosophy by any means, but makes some good points):

> We don't want to destroy advertising. We want to destroy manipulative advertising. We want to eliminate the kind of advertising that persuades the listener to buy in spite of the best information, rather than because of it. We want people to filter the informational content from commercial advertising—and all too often, when an advertisement is run through an informational filter, nothing is left.

The adversarial approach is the problem. This is akin to the difference between a jury trial or televised debate and an academic argument: neither permits outright lies, ideally, but in the latter intentional cherry-picking is (or should be) disqualifying whereas the former just dumps two opposing cherry-pickers in a bag and lets them fight it out. (Not coincidentally, an academic argument doesn’t require an audience.)

I’m not entirely sure that advertising, like law, can be different, because it may simply be impossible to do better when the participants don’t trust each other to act in good faith. But it’s also no wonder that the result seems revolting when a large portion of your identity is centred around seeing things as they are and not as you wish they were. In any case, defending manipulation and cherry-picking requires an argument (such as this one) stronger than “you still need to inform buyers about your product”.

(If you’re talking about convincing rather than informing, you’re already assuming the conclusion.)

[1] https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7661157M/
Land near city centres is more expensive. Thus tax of such land would be higher than let's say much farther away. This would put pressure to torn down a plot where there is single family and replace it with building with let's say 3-10 families. Now those new residents would pay one third or one tenth to live in same location.
It's not really an issue since it's only a minute reduction in light gathering power and the active optics was able to correct the mirror deformation after re-calibration.

Speaking of telescope being shot with a gun.. There is a telescope in Texas (Harlan J. Smith Telescope at McDonald observatory) that was shot a few times by someone in the 1970s in the hopes of shattering the main mirror. The overall effect however was only a 1% reduction in the light gathering power and the telescope is still in regular use today. You can find a picture of the primary mirror here [1].

[1] https://astroanecdotes.com/2015/03/26/the-mcdonald-gun-shoot...
Up to a point, yes. Utility tends to follow a sigmoid curve.
Bingo. Get distracted between wash-dry cycles and vinegar is your best friend.

I actually learned that trick in college, while commiserating about having to rewash clothes 2x to get the funk out.
Another good example is the deciphering of Maya script. Yuri Knorozov did it[0], but who was he? Some Soviet nobody, so the field treated him with disdain and upheld the nonsense theories of the leading Mayanist, J. Eric Thompson[1]. Until Thompson died, that is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Knorozov
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Eric_S._Thompson
Vatican encouraged colonization of Indigenous lands – enabled Crown to keep them
I’ve only done sales at AWS, but this wasn’t ever the approach I saw. Marketing might make wild claims, but it was out job in sales to make sure the customer could achieve their goals, even if that meant sending money to a competitor.

A pretty typical example would be Cognito, which is just mismatched with a lot of use cases. Referring someone to Auth0 just made sense a lot of the time.

The view of marketing internally was also not great.
I think the parent's point was that they might think that way because of Apple marketing, not any kind of innate preference.
A monotonic clock without leap seconds could be kept next to UTC, it can easily be standardized.

The idea that this problem is so hard that users have to be inconvenienced to the point that reality is ignored is a bit strange to me.
Thank you. My search yielded similar results[1]. I'm a bit stuck on exactly how to parse this. Vacancy rates, while a fine metric for answering some questions, don't seem to be well suited to this one. Vacancies per capita might be more along the lines of what I'm interested in.

1. https://landgeist.com/2021/08/03/vacancy-rate-in-the-us/
1. Leave your apartment/house. Don't think about work, programming, anything. Just leave your house, go outside, go for a walk, maybe a restaurant, meet people, do things.

2. Stop smoking weed. At least stop smoming regularly and during the day.

3. Think about taking a vacation.

You need to shake things up. You need to just live life. Some outside stimulus will help invigorate you, might even help with creativity. At least you know you're in a rut, the way to get out is to sharply steer away from it.

As for ADHD, in my experience, people who are diagnosed as such do well doing many different tasks and having lots of stimuli. They get bored doing one thing. So do many things.

Anyhow, the way to get out of a rut is to do completely different things.

Edit - I also missed some of the question, how did I get out of my rut?

I'm old enough to have been in a few so have been there. And the advice above is more or less what I did.

- I took a long vacation in Europe (I'm Canadian) where nothing was planned so everyday was an adventure.

- I left a toxic relationship and didn't date while trying to work on my own problems

- I eventually moved to a mountain town.

- I make sure to make time for being outdoors, physical exercise plus coding side projects and work. It sounds like a lot but it's easier to do many things when you're motivated than to even just get out of bed when you're stuck in a rut. The more things I plan in a day the more things I accomplish.

Not going to say everything in my life is 100% but I'm accomplishing personal goals and am happy, if nothing else. Have a (non-toxic) partner and we're expecting a baby any day now, making good money, there's progress on a side business I've been thinking about doing and even though I'm busy I'm not stressed or burnt out.
What's always helped me is identifying what I want and creating a plan for getting / achieving it.

In that plan I identify the risks at play, and the mitigating actions I can take for those risks.

This process help me understand my feelings, gain perspective, get out of limbo and get myself back on 'offense'. I hope it can do the same for you.
At the very least we can kick out Chinese and Russian "investors" that only want a way to keep their cash safe from their dictatorship governments. That should drive down our prices and put some pressure on the elites to push for better governments at home.
I took a pay cut in order to get out of the situation I saw as a rut.

I have some regrets (pay cuts are hard to swallow both for the ego and lifestyle), but I have a career path once more.
Or the Italian one which is anti-Austrian.
For the first day of class, I asked my students to read both essays along with the original Cotton op-ed, and write on the following question: Do you think the New York Times should have published Cotton’s essay? Why or why not?

We are woefully lacking in the ability to respond to anything with something other than cheering or frothing hatred. I don't know if the problem is actually getting worse or if it's just more visible these days, but I feel like I used to be able to see someone be called a fool without also calling for his crucifixion. Instead of criticizing and mocking we attack and attempt to destroy. If we fail we make an enemy into a worse enemy and when we succeed we make an enemy into a martyr. Fear is the wrong tool to use in the shifting of public opinion.
Consumers and producers can form cooperatives. They are middlemen, but not overfed ones.
The first step of getting out of a rut is knowing that you are in a rut, so you're already half way there.

When this happens to me I delete Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Podcasts etc. from my phone and spend more time talking to real people, reading books or just doing jobs around the home.

That may give you the mind space to slow down and consider your next actions and find something meaningful for your life.
In the end, your product can't provide value for anyone if no one knows about it. Marketing is big and messy and illogical but overall it helps society more than it hurts, much like capitalism as a whole.
>not controlled by any company, and has a goal that no more than half the contributors to the language should be from any one company

Not controlled by Google in that Google literally owns at most half of it?
i was actually reading a bit about oslo the other day. i'd wanted to see maps and pictures of the underground roads/parking but the article i was reading didn't have any.
Running a small company and balancing time between marketing and building the core product is really hard - it's hard to see the immediate value in marketing when the opportunity cost is a worse product.
> one thing I'd like to clarify: I'm not suicidal.

Well hey, it could be worse.
It's pretty nice when you're paying off your mortgage instead of your landlords.
Bitcoin is my and millions of others store of value, it is definately decentralized and is definitely private if used properly. I don't touch any "cryptos".
In the 50s to 70s when the population was growing a ton and new housing was needed the government funded a ton of public housing (Danchi) to offset the growth in demand.

Things have changed a lot since then but it seemed to have been very successful at fixing the housing crisis of the time.
So, time is a human construct and Earth doesn't care how we measure it.

It's not that we'll never need another leap second; we could add ten, negative ten, or zero in the next 25 years and Earth won't care. Who will care are humans, who may get a bit annoyed when the sun starts setting in equatorial latitudes at 3PM.
Academic freedom for Amherst faculty is important to the college's mission. Their students will inherit the leadership of large institutions or storied family businesses and will need to know how to navigate these topics with poise and care. Understanding how to message to an increasingly diverse stock of labor supply is crucial to the good stewardship and continued accumulation of generational wealth.

For those blissfully unaware: Amherst has a $3.8B endowment and 1745 students, or $2,177,650 per student (endowment income: $87K/student/year at a 4% withdraw). In addition to that $2M/student from the endowment, they also charge $61K/year in tuition. Amherst is a undergraduate-only teaching college, so unlike R1 these funds aren't e.g. funding a giant amount of R1 research labs or anything like that. They really do just have $90K/student per year in safe endowment withdrawal and then also charge $61K/yr in tuition.

Academia has a lot of exhaustingly bullshit inter-personal stuff in general, but I have no idea how I would sit through the faculty meetings described in this post without exercising an excessive amount of academic freedom... UMass next door does infinitely more for all of these stated goals by just... not being a finishing school for the wealthy elite.

(I don't have anything against Amherst per se. It's just a bit insufferable how few faculty at places like this understand that they are running finishing schools for the economic elite.)
The problem is right there in the title: Global Housing Market. The commodification of housing has been disastrous. The cost to develop new housing and the length of time it takes has means market manipulation is always going to be an easier path to profitability. Why would anyone build something new when they can just sit on what they have and let it appreciate while renters subsidize the mortgage and taxes.

Imagine if you could just put iron ore in a warehouse and make a 25% return every year, we'd have no steel!
Because most western economies face an age related economic time bomb. The “locals” are all getting older. The immigrants are usually young, productive and bear more children.
But it doesn't matter, the patterns are already set where it makes it incredibly difficult to change some existing "non dense housing" in the US.

E.g. look at Austin TX, it's housing prices have skyrocketed in the past 5-10 years. It's not particularly dense, but the vast majority of the existing housing stock is typical single family homes - there are very few open tracks of land where you can just build dense housing. So to increase density, you have to change existing neighborhoods to be more dense, and I'm not sure I've ever seen folks that I previously thought of as rational, compassionate individuals fight tooth and nail over even modest increases in density.
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Aside from being businesses based primarily in mining usage data for profit, social media platforms are basically fleeting note disseminators for its users. It's allllll fleeting notes (with obvious exceptions). If you're asking how to share your ideas, and get lots of eyes on them, and not have those eyes based on affirmation currancies like Likes and Follows, the only thing I can think of is in the fediverse or some other web-adjacent locale. I'd be curious to know what others think.
Unpicking the link between smell and memories
Did you consider quitting your job and working on personal projects/startups for some time?

It really helped me.
Exactly. He’s proving my point w/o even noticing it
I'm not sure if it works for everyone but you could try reading some books to gain perspective and get some motivation. Something like can't hurt me[1] is brutal and honest. It describes the life of a man that was incredibly depressed and stuck in a rut where he had lots of excuses and how he was able to turn it around and become awe inspiring.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Hurt-Me-Master-Your/dp/154451228...
What evidence did you present? Did you take comps - sales comps and/or equity comps? You may be aware already, but in general, people take photos of their property that need repairs e.g., cracks in slab/foundation, leaky roof, mold infection etc.
Something to consider which no one has mentioned yet is the remote aspect of your work. Remote work is not going to provide the socialization you may be in dire need of if your hobbies are weed, tv and video games. Office life has many cons but it does have a built in social scene and especially in your late 20s it's a great time to meet people.

Also like many other people are saying, drop the weed, it's just burying the real issues. Keep a clear head, and find a therapist.
> …, adhd meds, you are scrambling and desensitizing the already compromised executive function center of your brain.

Any references to prove or substantiate this? I’m specifically interested in the claim about adhd meds
> Building on the existing literature, we just published a working paper based on a sample of 10 OECD countries since 1970 that isolates the impact of inflation from other factors driving income inequality.

> After accounting for the effect of other economic variables, we find a negative correlation between long term inflation and income inequality for low inflation rates. The results suggest that this link turns positive for higher inflation rates (i.e. above a threshold that we estimate at an inflation rate of 13%). These results are in line with other previous studies, which also find a U-shaped relationship between inflation and income inequality (Galli and van der Hoeven, 2001, Bulir, 2001, and Auda, 2010). However, they contradict the strong and widespread belief that inflation hurts the poor more than the rich and thus increases income inequality.

https://www.cepweb.org/inflation-and-inequality/
General-purpose computing is just too economically valuable to be gotten rid of. Those who might otherwise want all machines to be locked down have no choice but to acknowledge this. The FUD has been going around for a decade and a half, and we've only ever seen it play out in small corners of the industry, not in the big picture.
It's a technical marvel, but also perhaps a rare case where a long shot matches both the physical environment (the camera floats along a street, long as the long street) and the emotion (slowness, somberness).
That’s all it is, they ran into an engineering problem and they’re trying to get the world to bend to their will instead of solving the problem because they think it will be easier. Mark’s arrogance is nauseating.
I'd suggest the way Tokyo does it wouldn't be acceptable to most people in vastly smaller and less dense cities (i.e. basically every other city in the world), where we have a very high expectation of how much space/land a house should be able to take up.
I think we will see a reckoning of this in USA in the next few decades. "Classic" houses like colonial or victorian style houses are venerated and preserved, but live on mostly due to survivorship biases. These were the houses of the elite, and they could afford better building materials or adornments deemed historically valuable.

Most houses built since 1920 don't have the same value. But the meme of "old=worth preserving" still lingers on. In San Francisco there are old row homes built as temporary housing after the 1906 Earthquake. They are preserved only due to their age, not any intrinsic value. Houses built in first half and mid century are developing major structural issues. Their foundations may be cracking beyond repair. Their plumbing and electrical are several generations beyond current standard. They may have been built in a more temperate climate and lack central heating/cooling. Their layout may not make sense for a modern lifestyle.

These houses should be torn down, and new ones built in their place. But this is really difficult to do in some areas due to preservation committees holding on to every scrap of history. Instead you get completely insane practices like gutting a house except for 4 posts and rebuilding a new house within it. Or building a new houses around an old one.

The lot next to my apartment was like that. Instead of razing the structure and building a new one, they had to engineer a way to build a new house around what was a literal rotting shack. The new structure retains almost 0 of the original framing, and definitely retains none of its architectural features. So the project cost probably hundred of thousands more, and took months longer, just to satisfy some petty council's need to never tear down an old building.

As the oldest generation dies off, I would hope to see these attitudes change, and the USA open to more rebuilding. But unfortunately these rules will remain on the books. The capital class has no incentive to change it, because it would disrupt their control over the housing supply.
> So it's not only about robustness vs efficiency, but also about additional factors like ownership and freedom + security et cetera.

Id argue those are part of centralization vs decentralization

Plenty of systems that look decentralized at first glance really just have human organization as the central failure point. This is a great example of why most cryptocurrency is centralized (centralized development and management)
Construction is not cheap. If what you were saying were true renovations would be cheap, which they are not.

And the land becoming more expensive is the point. If an area becomes more popular then it will be denser meaning the land is more expensive meaning the housing is more expensive.

Building denser does not necessarily result in cheaper housing in the net.
Your argument doesn’t hold up. A government can change its mind and priorities too. The diversity of right holders (private, government etc) over land ensures some good prevails through various political, social or economic circumstances.
See also: The Digital Imprimatur (2003):

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/