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Show HN: I made a 'Useless' GPT-4 plugin – Is it that useless?
Hey HN!

I've been experimenting with GPT-4 and ended up creating a plugin that, at first glance, might seem utterly 'useless'. It's called Pulsetic, and its sole function is to check a website's availability worldwide. Now, you might be thinking, "Why on earth would I need that?"

Here's how it works:

1. Visit the GPT-4 plugins store.

2. Search for Pulsetic: Once you're in the plugins store, look for "Pulsetic". When you find it, go ahead and install it.

3. Check a website's availability: After you've installed and activated Pulsetic, you can start checking website availability. Just input the URL of the website you're interested in into the chat field, and you'll get your results!

Now, here's where the controversy comes in. Some might argue that this plugin is utterly useless. After all, there are already plenty of tools available that can check website availability. So why create another one?

I'm curious to hear your thoughts. Do you think Pulsetic is a 'useless' GPT-4 plugin, or can you see its potential value?

P.S. If you find Pulsetic useful (or amusingly useless), please consider sharing it with others. Your support is greatly appreciated!

Question: In an age where there are countless tools and plugins available for almost every task, how do we determine what's 'useless' and what's not? Is there a place for seemingly 'useless' tools like Pulsetic's GPT-4 plugin in our digital toolbox?
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This is US customs is better: https://6street.com/listing/pubcrawler-of-austin/
Then you just inact harsh punishments for farmers that do so, like every other criminal law ever made? Why would you ban restaurants entirely because people might get sick eating from one every so often.

If you'll sell $2000 more raw milk when you lie about its safety and the potential fine is $200k that will ruin your life if you're caught doing so, the trade off is not worth it. This is also the problem with corporate America in general, the fines are too damn small and are just taken as operating costs instead of nuclear deterrent.
Sure, cause and effect rules everything, but I suspect that most large systems are chaotic enough that any description we lay on them is just telling stories.
> not believing that Christ existed physically

The vast majority of historians, including atheist ones, think that someone answering to that general description _did_ exist, though they obviously don't think he was the son of God.

> not believing that Christ existed physically, but at the same time believing that following the tenets in the religion is the right thing to do for the greater good

Substitute 'God' for 'Christ', and yeah, that's common. Many people are also purely _culturally_ religious; they don't believe in a god (or at least not the one their religion mandates), and do not accept many of the teachings or beliefs of their religion, but do _identify_ as being a member of a religion. In Ireland, say, 70% of people identified as Catholic on the most recent census (in the 90s this was closer to 90%; younger people _are_ less likely to engage in this practice and the child abuse scandals also caused many older people to break away), but in polling the majority of Irish Catholics do not believe in, well, Catholic stuff (a personal god, hell, transubstantiation, the virgin birth, etc), or accept the Church's moral worldview (see outcomes of referendums on abortion, equal marriage etc).
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I’ve been assured that Musk is a business genius , so just have confidence folks.
You must be right, there also must be mechanical steps or wobble at play here. I was hesitant because my 3D printer (lower-end than an Axidraw) seems capable of smoother angled/curved lines than what we can see here. On the other hand plotters I've seen (a long time ago) seemed to not eliminate all vibration in the pen.. but I did not see a mid to high end recent plotter running.
They are usually considered allies in the context of WW2. The Von Ribbentrop-Molotov pact was evil, though, and it doesn't look like the USSR would have attacked Nazi-Germany if they hadn't invaded. So in that sense, it was an ally only out of necessity.

IMO the discussion often boils down to definition of words and emotional attachment to those words. I don't think people here disagree on the (most prominent) facts.
If there is a downfall of RISCV, it's going to be the myriad of sub-architectures and their weird naming schemes, with an added layer of marketing drones muddying up the waters even further.

This is going to confuse the hell out of the potential customer base and it would be a crying shame, wasting a golden opportunity to get out of the oxygen-choking clutches of proprietary ISA vendors (who at this point are purely rent-seeking and add exactly zero actual economic value to the ecosystem).
> that the '...-oriented' affix was frequently used in the 60's.

That's actually what also IEEE stated on their Simula Milestone, see https://ethw.org/Milestones:Object-Oriented_Programming,_196... section "Features that set this work apart from similar achievements", which says:

"For instance, terminology involving "objects", "oriented", and "instance" first appeared at MIT in the late 1950s and early 1960s..."
I think it might have started with Thiel. I read an article about PayPal being the first to actively avoid support
yeha it seems like upstrem bug . Inscape is porting to 1.4 so hopefully this will be addresed there
One thing that always strikes me as a fascination is that oriental views of Islam always grasp at Shi'a and Sufism, and push aside to the authentic Islam.

There is a perception that there is a 50/50 split in sects for Islam. That is not true as 90% of Muslims are Sunni Muslims and 10% are Shia.

As for Sufism, this concept was not known to the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and his companions. If it does not exist within the Qur'an and the authentic narrations/actions of the prophet, then it is a man made innovation to the religion.

If you want to learn about Islam, stay away from the small sects and divisions.
What if there is a separate Sports Org and it funds scholarships?
Inkscape also has an experimental OpenGL backend that seems fairly stable. When I tested it, it seemed pretty stable and glitchless. I hope it will replace the Cairo backend soon, since OpenGL will give Inkscape even MORE performance!
Not 100% sure if the GP and I share the same friend, but I know someone that fits the description exactly. Morals and ethics are all relative. There are people who have absolutely no qualms about running a porn business and there are people who couldn't care less about you or someone else spending your hard earned money on nonsensical information.

They would see it as just as valid a business as an author that sells fiction books. Depending on their background this may be understandable, or not. I know a gay guy in Toronto that runs a porn empire, he doesn't care one bit about other people's opinion on it. Given infinite time he would spend it all on watching porn so for him it's a natural to want to be on the supply side, he understands his audience perfectly and the way his business is set up (co-op) gives everybody in it their own share of the take.

What I think you'll find is that morality and what is ethical can differ greatly from one person to the next and that it is possible that someone disagrees strongly with you on what is ethical or moral and that all you will end up doing is to argue the case based on your own experience and your own (cultural) background without ever arriving at some idea about what 'absolute' morality or ethics would look like.

You can see this very clearly in debates around abortion, war and other controversial subjects. People on both sides of those arguments fervently believe that they (and only they) are in the right and that everybody else is delusional, amoral and un-ethical.
Hence the blocking of said URLs afterwards.
>Hollywood writers

I'd wager the writers are just pandering to the mores of their audience, who currently seem more inclined to an affinity for cult-like behaviour than sustaining an actual interest in the reality of history.
Is this information available in non-video form?
Here, you can watch a video demonstrating how the plugin actually works: https://twitter.com/getpulsetic/status/1681273580317712384
The name of the file is just part of the committed interface that the binary consumes. You could just as well suggest it's silly that every Linux system needs to agree on the behaviour of each system call number, or no program for another system will possibly be able to run on it.
I think it’s worth explicitly comparing our childhood issues. It took a long time to come to terms with the fact that it’s just nothing close to what women go through.

It’s horrible in its own way. But women are judged for the rest of their lives, in exactly the ways this thread illustrates. When have you ever wondered if your body was the reason you did or didn’t get a job?

It’s one thing for image issues to impact your self esteem. It’s quite another for them to be the central focus of your life. The makeup industry is massive precisely because of this double standard.

If that negates a few of our childhood experiences, perhaps we should try to get comfortable with that. The fact that we think we’re special and that we have it just as bad is part of the problem.
Didn't that just park your account until you changed it? I don't remember seeing anything about it deleting your account, and I can't find it now.
Hey is there any way to bookmark this on my iPad? I cant find a way to create a favorite, it seems Safari doesnt allow to edit the url, and it is bookmarking the redirected page.
> That's probably because men tend to use rational thinking, and women tend to use magical or intuitive thinking.

Seriously?
_Good quality_ internet polls these days are fairly comparable in accuracy to high quality traditional polling. This isn't the CEO of Yougov posting a twitter poll; there's a process.
> 4chan blocks the ip addresses of bad users, many services require a phone number to sign up, some sites have tried requiring a credit card, Facebook I believe uses the social graph to figure out how likely an account is to be real. Apple, Microsoft, and Google all use some combination of biometrics and telemetry data to authenticate users. I've noticed more sites requiring government ID (see LinkedIn's verification process).

IP addresses, phone numbers, government IDs are all forms of outsourcing the problem of identity verification to another organization (IANA, phone company, Social Security Administration in U.S.) so we should ask if those organizations will continue to be able to effectively distinguish real humans from AÍ-powered bots armed with the ability to “deep fake” any person, using whatever tools and techniques those organizations have today.

The implications seem staggering: AI bots that can collect your social benefits, withdraw funds from your bank, open lines of credit in your name. The modern economy might not be able to function if this happens.

From another article:

> The company’s identity technology will be important in a world where artificial intelligence raises new questions of what’s human and what’s not on the internet, [Tools for Humanity co-founder and CEO Alex] Blania said. It’s also an example of the overlap between the crypto and AI industries.

https://archive.is/k5j6j
This part I do not know, but NULLs are either Codd’s idea or the one he sided with.

Another example when an invention goes against the established logic would be quaternions.
> If you fancy being locked out of your money for apparently a thought crime, then X is for you

The entire banking system is for you*
I've read this paper a few years ago, it's a timeless classic :)
Giving me Hans-Georg Rauch vibes. (http://www.hans-georg-rauch.de/espresso/federzeichnungen.htm...)
Spotify Increases Prices
Free-Programming-Books on GitHub – Free Programming Books
Windows updates could be turned off back then. And often was
I love Inkscape but for as long as I can remember it's always been laggy on a
Mac. IIRC at one point there was a disclaimer on the website that the Mac version wasn't well maintained.

I'm running Inkscape 1.1 on an M1 Pro. I just measured time between clicking a plain rectangle and it being selected. It takes about 460 ms.

New 1.3 version takes 216 ms, about twice the speed. It looks a lot more usable!
OpenSource boards have been a thing for far longer then open SoCs. So of course most of the board in the world will be proprietary and that fine. But open boards has been possible for a while, and the open source tools to do that are fairly good.

RISC-V makes it possible to have Open CPU or even OpenSOC on an OpenBoard. That basically wasn't even possible before. We are even getting to a point where there are open PDKs. There are libraries of analog IPs that are open. Now that there are lots of options for OpenCpu people are going after the missing stuff. Open Ethernet PHI and so on. There is also now a big movement in regard to making the tooling open source to compete with commercial tooling. OpenROAD, OpenLane, Verilator and so on.

The benefits of this are amazing. Project like Core-V, OpenTitan and so on simply wouldn't have happened.

You have things like RISC-V International, the Chips Alliance, LowRisc, Google and many others working on all aspects to make a fully open ecosystem possible.

But that doesn't change the fact that most SoC and most board in the world will be property, RISC-V or no RISC-V.

> RISC V is not extension free

Not sure what this means. Exertions are part of RISC-V. The waste majority of extensions used in the real world are all part of the same standard put forward by RISC-V International.

Most of the non-standard extensions came about before there was a standard for them, and most are converging to the standard pretty fast.
Bruce Lee was good at what he did and entertained millions. I had many happy moments watching Bruce Lee movies. I don't need to live like Bruce Lee or follow on his footsteps - it's enough that he impacted my life in a positive way by bringing me happiness.

What you say is a bit related to cancel culture in the sense that we expect every person to be good at everything and, if they are not, we should condemn them. Nobody is perfect. To be honest, I don't mind his bad decisions given that he made the great decision of making movies and sharing with the world what he's good at.
Has someone used DietPi long enough to verify the promised performance gains and longer memory card lifetime?
it’s easy to attribute malice to what is done by sheer incompetence.

It's easy to attribute incompetence to what is done under the influence of drugs.
TFA is the paper resulting from the video. Although you're missing a lot not watching the video as his presentation style is unique and entertaining.
That's because liberal democracy is indeed broken. The capitalist class use state power to advance their own material interests. Why wouldn't they pay for laws that give them an immediate advantage or at least divide the working class?
This man is burning anything that had any value at Twitter. From an extremely valuable list of verified users to the name which is even used as a verb.

There is absolutely no reason to rename Twitter. The name isn't even that stained compared to like Comcast or what ever the name was of that phone company in the 90s that sucked so bad it was renamed.
I thought this too, then I remembered that TikTok is probably going to be the generational company for Gen Z
it's an old article it's not ai generated
> I told her her beliefs were akin to racism.

Very nice argument against the BS that is astrology.

Thanks, will add it to my arsenal.
Whoa. So no attempts at using a GPU, and still performs that fast. That's bloody impressive. Kind of scary, actually.

Thanks for explaining.
His most recent one was on HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36806970
Here is the main page:

https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books
> But how they have evolved!

I'de disagree with that statement as some of their moves (such as purchasing GitHub) could be equally viewed as part of their typical EEE strategy that permeated the entire business.

WSL could also be, and indeed is by many, viewed the same way ("Microsoft is just trying to pseudo-own the linux ecosystem by embedding it within Windows").

Personally, seeing how EEE permeated the entire business in the infamous 90's & 00's era Microsoft and all of the dirty laundry that ended up being aired, I don't doubt for a second that the current-era Microsoft is just as bad, but better at hiding it.

Apples don't fall far from the tree.

Fool me once...
usury: the action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.
It seems to be available for $14.99 on Amazon.
I would argue that astrology is in principle testable and it should be able to make concrete predictions. Obviously, popular astrology uses such woolly terms that all of the predictions can be interpreted as accurate to the believer.

However, the few times that anyone has tried to verify astrological predictions, it's turned out to be false.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1986-30007-001
The GHC Typechecker – Simon Peyton Jones [video]
Pedophilia != child sexual abuse.

Just like being attracted to women doesn't mean you're a rapist.

You can be, though.

Also consumption of any kind of distrubing porn doesn't mean you actually want to do things you see in it in the real life. This is about the same principle like when people are watching action movies (which is an accepted kind of often very disturbing cinematography), most don't want to go around and shoot/stab people.

Some very tiny percentage will, of course.
> mostly natal astrology is a cute neutral way to get people to talk about themselves

It‘s a way for people to excuse their shitty behavior, and take no responsibility for it. "Haha, I can‘t help it, I‘m an X."

It‘s a way for people to harshly judge others, without knowing anything about them.
Do films directed by women have more women in the cast?
These are the same assholes that let you use a email containing a + in the email. e.g. name+shittyuplay@gmail.com, and
Automatically log you in after registration, so you can register and buy games.

Then dont allow you to login or use the support services later on because the email contains a +. So I get their emails, including eventually one about the cancellation, but still havent been able to login or use the support for my account. And if I post on the forums I just get the shitty advice that I need to login to support services or request a password reset because neither of those allow + in the email either. I also received what looks like a ban for using curse words in my support request at one point, and yes I did use <name>+shittyuplay so well thats true, but if thats the damned problem dont let me register it in the first place.

I dont care anymore since the game I registered was just some shitty thing that came with a graphics card, but I am astounded at how incompetent they can be while still trying to become more popular than steam. Steam only needed to provide better service than pirates, but Uplay needed better than steam, so well they are doomed and good riddance.
Absolutely. Urbanisation, climate change, global travel are going to increase the frequency of pandemics until we are always going to be in one. A professor of mine who worked on modelling the spread of disease warned about this years ago. (And yeah you can argue about the definition of pandemic, but having more endemic diseases is not a good thing either.)

Adding to this is that we lost a great deal of capability of large scale coordination that we need to fight such diseases, compared to say 60 years ago. We eradicated smallpox, and completely suppressed measles and polio in most of the world. We rid Europe and the US of malaria. We had multiple chanches to stop covid: right in the beginning of course, but also in the summer of 2020 when the incidence numbers were suppressed to single digits per 100000, at least in most of Europe.

(Corona viruses are actually well suited to eradication because of something called overdispersion: A majority of people are effectively not contagious at all, whereas very few people cause a large number of infections. That means the numbers go down very quicky with social distancing or by partitioning the population, and once they are low enough you can do contact tracing and catch the remaining cases.)

Instead of being enthusiastic about doing something for their own health (and maybe enjoying two or three weeks of work from home or paid vacation which would have solved the problem at one point), people turned wearing masks into a ridiculous political issue.
Anyone remembering the um 'Stripped'-cracked games coming with only a fifth (or lower) size of the original CDs/DVDs using UHARC and...well some of them came without any graphics (still games, still playable) sometime ...?

(-;
That just reads very very delusional to me.

Is this again we're very rich people are so disconnected from the world that they don't see the issues?

At least this stuff further adds to the decentralized nature of Blockchains.

Now everyone uses their own Blockchain at least when you read how many new projects add to this.
I think the circles you follow give you a skewed idea of Musk's reputation.

Most people still think of him as IRL Ironman. It's a small contingent of terminally online people who hate him, another minority that dislike him, and then most who don't follow news around him enough to care. This tracks for every topic you can think of.
Not X, 𝕏. (Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X, U+1D54F)
Straight men, of course, prefer MBTI. Personality divination magic is somewhat gender-coded.

(I'm gay and haven't noticed astrology being particularly popular with gay men, though it may be regional.)
As for discoverability (of keyboard shortcuts as well as commands), few versions back Inkscape introduced `View > Command Palette`, by default bound to "`?`" key:

https://inkscape.org/doc/keys-1.3.x.html#idm734

It allows you to search for command by name and "tooltip description" and displays their assigned shortcuts. This is IMO the one of the few recent features that should be implemented in all applications. In Inkscape it is not as smooth as in IDEs, has somewhat slow first run, but I'm super glad it is even there.
I don’t understand this argument. Are you saying the internet should be organised in a way that benefits the US, even if it is confusing for people in other countries? By your reasoning, it would make sense for .com to be US-exclusive because the US had a primary role in inventing the internet. Let’s pause to ask ourselves “what is an actually good system?” instead of “how can we justify US privilege?”.
The US online community turns on rich people like nothing I've ever seen
>There’s serious hate for Apple amongst techs.

According to the StackOverflow developer survey, 33% of developers use macOS [0], which is approximately double its overall market share of ~15% [1].

In my experience, every tech company office I’ve ever been to has been a sea of MacBooks.

[0] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_sys....
Those grifters are providing entertainment for the believers. Not sure how it’s that much different from video games or musicians.