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Ask HN: Is there a tool to extract ALL emails, learn "me", draft responses
I'm looking for a product or startup that can extract all my emails, use GPT-4 to learn "me," then draft responses. It would be nice if it also had other integrations, like Slack, Messenger, Twilio, Todoist, etc., and could extract all those too for a complete second-brain/sidekick/assistant-like replacement of me. I want to grow my side projects, but 80% of my day is just managing day-to-day issues which AI can handle if it knew me.

And the key point is to update the knowledge base with each new email, whether sent or received.
ublock origin browser plugin and I saw zero ads
I was not using Mu anything anywhere!
I was looking for a WASM renderer (then found PDFium and helped with its compilation).

The dev just assumed I might be and replied to me as if I were 5 and deserved scolding o_O.
This strikes me as potentially a high impact avenue of research. Inductive reasoning is core to human learning.
It's because the engineers that build the software are also testing their own features, and are also generally tasked with handling the analytics as well, not to mention planning, tasking, and managing expectations. In other words, multiple engineering roles on the product development side have collapsed into a single role, and I believe this has impacted the industry significantly.

I think in part this happened because of how tools evolved and have become more automated, but on the other hand, there is probably some incentive from the business side to make teams less specialized and more easily replaceable. The cost is probably worth it for business because nobody demands quality software, which is the root of the problem. The end user has not fought back against endless updates to patch buggy software that somehow still has responsiveness problems with extremely powerful hardware. I guess not enough people care, and so companies structure businesses accordingly. On the flip side, there might soon be opportunities for software companies to provide a better experience via good engineering, and reverse the trend a little.
I dropped out of the University of Wollongong in ~2001 (points if you know where that is without looking it up), I've had a great 23 year career so far.

I agree that the cofounder dating was intimidating, and even some of the people fit into that category. Far more didn't though, and I've found an exceptional cofounder through it, which is one of the most exciting things in a very long career.

(I'll get around to doing YC at some point)
For the people who are into this sort of thing, did you have much experience with these old Windows versions back in the 90s when they were new, or is it about exploring old tech from before your time?

For me, I lived with 95 and 98 when they were new and looking back it was a nightmare. The ever present threat of crashes and losing work left a lasting negative impression on me, I have no nostalgic fondness for these systems. It was this pain that motivated me to install a copy of Red Hat Linux I found in the back of a book in the library and that's how I got "into computers", so I guess I own that much to Microsoft.
Llama3 is the first open model that can also win text adventures
> Modern C compilers don't allow constant strings to be overwritten

One compiler available on contemporary Linux distributions still able to handle not so modern C is Fabrice Bellard's Tiny C Compiler, tcc.
Schizophrenia absolutely can induce racism in some people.

Schizophrenia (and other related disorders) can induce in some people obsessive socially unacceptable thoughts, which can include racist thoughts. It doesn't happen to everyone with schizophrenia – there are plenty of people with schizophrenia who aren't racist. And even if a person with schizophrenia is racist, it isn't necessarily due to their schizophrenia – they could well be racist for the same reasons many people without schizophrenia are racist. But that said, there absolutely are some people who aren't racist, and then they have a psychotic episode, and as a result of that psychotic episode they develop racist delusions/obsessions.

This can take the form of persecutory delusions, but not always. Schizophrenic delusions can take make many forms other than just persecutory, so in some people schizophrenia can induce non-persecutory racist delusions.
There is also https://windowsupdaterestored.com/ but it needs some tweaking to get it to run mostly because of the url change and ssl certificates...
What a useless article. Incredibly cringe as well.

Initial beta testers just seem salty that their original private club was expended as others got access and now pine for the small community of people who had that early access. All for a model eclipsed by DALL-E 3. I cannot take any of these people seriously.

The article itself doesn’t seem to know what it’s about meandering into AI ethics in the middle before waxing poetic about an old model.

It read to me as if the people who had early access really just liked the attention they got from being the only people posting these new types of images and only now, that the common riff-raff had access, do they want to start considering the “ethics” of it all. My eyes cannot roll hard enough at these hipsters.

Also: “forged friendships”, spare me.
3500sf houses (my home is not a McMansion) are not likely to become unfashionable. They sell for insane amounts of money because they are so desirable - even old ones and all the maintenance issues that come along with them. We should be meeting the demand of what people want.
I'd like to bring some perspective as someone who comes from a non-programmer background (mainly academic data science with Python and R) and just starting to learn C++.

Bjarne's book seemed to be a comprehensive introduction and I'm currently going through it. I found that adding "using namespace std" at the beginning of the file reduced some of C++'s syntactic overhead that a beginner such as myself has to account for. It allows me to focus on the essential by learning the programming principles, rather than getting stuck on the syntax and having to (annoyingly) repeat std:: every line.

Nevertheless, I think every beginner should know the disadvantages of setting the namespace at the beginning of the file and that no one should use it in production code, but it does its job at keeping things simple if I'm just starting out with C++. There is a reason why Bjarne does this in his book, and I can see why.
As if this technology was needed.
What GP says is unfortunately true, though.

From talking with other people online, most people and articles fetishize the disease and the posts with racist words, and never really paid any attention to the OS itself.

Which to me is the saddest part. Before Terry started being banned from every place in the internet, he was chatty and always trying to drum up interest from others in hobbyist communities. Almost nobody paid attention (perhaps because everyone was also trying to do the same for their own OS), and those of us who did eventually got burned for obvious reasons. And the worst is that most people still don't care. His personality, his death, his disease, and his different practice of faith became more famous than the work he cared about, and that's all laypeople talk about. In HN people at least have a realistic view of TempleOS.
The analogy might be akin to a non profit Toastmasters club that charges members a small amount to hire a room.

Restaurants are in the small business part of the scale

Non Profit->Small Business->Growth Business->VC Backed Growth Business->Unicorn

Where nefarious treatment of customers correlates to the X axis.
Funny that you bring this up -- I feel exactly the same way and I even had more math background than average SW person.

Being on the engineering side of things without much knowledge/focus on programming languages theory and the mathematical nature of computation, one feels as if all the niceties we have in popular PLs are just laws of nature that we just had to discover, whereas in reality they too had to be derived, tried, improved first. But then you study something like this and expect to be able to finally connect the dots and yet, it's still not immediately obvious how we arrived here!
Oof - I didn't know that. Kind of a weird requirement, were/are screen readers rendered so ineffective by the content being in a table as opposed to in divs?
So are many subreddits! r/sydney for example. It ain’t that hard.
There’s a fun movie about this particular antenna, starring Sam Neill (from another famous historic movie, Jurassic Park).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dish

Worth a watch.
Does it successfully compile the above program?
I can't wait to see the next innovation, that is orthogonal to the scaling laws, that will cause the next leap in LLM performance.
Can you read Harpers book without knowing lambda calculus?
Fossils found in Somerset by girl, 11, 'may be of largest-ever marine reptile'
I don't think you can. At least not out of the box. Pixels can do stupid adaptive charging where it tries to learn your routine and won't fully charge until X amount of time before you supposedly wake up. But they do not have a setting where the phone just stops charging at 80% like Samsung or ay least my Pixel 7a does not.
There is likely some level of selection bias to it as well. If I think it's unlikely to get in without that ivy/engineering school background I might not bother to apply.

I don't personally believe that -- I'm confident in my 23 years of experience. It's unlikely I'll apply this weekend, but I did find a cofounder through the YC dating app. Maybe next batch.
TLDR: TV connected to the same network hides task bar, graphical settings in Windows, and cause other issues.

But why and how?
Yes, it does (with the expected warnings). Thanks for the fun!
"There is evidence of Norse trade with the natives (called the Skrælingjar by the Norse). The Norse would have encountered both Native Americans (the Beothuk, related to the Algonquin) and the Thule, the ancestors of the Inuit. The Dorset had withdrawn from Greenland before the Norse settlement of the island. Items such as comb fragments, pieces of iron cooking utensils and chisels, chess pieces, ship rivets, carpenter's planes, and oaken ship fragments used in Inuit boats have been found far beyond the traditional range of Norse colonization. A small ivory statue that appears to represent a European has also been found among the ruins of an Inuit community house.[13]"

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_North_Am...
You left off an important caveat from the next sentence:

> But of course I have been very lucky, there.

You do have to be lucky enough to be relatively secure in life, but nearly everyone in tech can achieve an adequate living. Not everyone will be a top earner and there are of course compromises you have to make, but should actually consider if the trade-offs for potentially earning less yet being more fulfilled at work are ones they are happy with.

In some sense I'm the starving artist in my family. I eschewed money and moving up the tech management hierarchy to pursue my passion. In pursuit of my goals, I've previously been unemployed and in recent years paid 10x less than I was in big tech.

I'm totally happy with that trade-off.
For anyone saying "I definitely won't get in" here's a counterpoint that has little to do with whether your application succeeds or not: Do it for yourself, not for the approval.

I found that filling in the application, without even sending it, is a useful exercise. It makes you think hard about what it is you are trying to achieve with whatever it is your building. It's very helpful when you come to talk with clients.

You know how they say launch fast, launch early? That's part of it, because launching means talking about it to other people. Those people will have questions or objections or an incomplete understanding of pre-existing solutions. A lot of the application is about this kind of stuff.

Personally, I wanted to fill the application irrespective of YC. I figured, if I'm serious about building something useful, I shouldn't just build it and que sera, sera. I should know what to focus on. And since they've learned a bunch about building companies, if they care about something enough to ask about it, that's a good pointer that I should care enough about it to be able to answer it.

For example, I filled it in when a solution was just an idea, as if it were already built. So it made me set expectations, and clarify what I want this thing to be. Then, once it was built, the first thing that happened when that solution met with clients was this: I'd give them the short description I've written in the application, and they'd ask - Oh, but does it have to do just that?

Without the application, there wouldn't have been the short description, without which there wouldn't have been the useful client feedback...So, again: do it for yourself, not for the approval.
You are utterly delusional.
Love the idea, had somewhat similar one and even have a demo, hope I will find time to complete it:).
Please share some video demonstration of how it works, it will help to fully grasp the idea.
Bargain compared to some stuff: https://blockgeeks.com/5-most-expensive-bored-ape-yacht-club...
Unfortunately that seems inevitable.
Poisson Designs and Minimum Detectable Effects
Thanks for sharing this. I have one question: given similar quality of applications, is it just a dice roll?

I am asking this as a trying founder who:

- has built early stage engineering at multiple startups
- has applied many times and been rejected
- is reading about many others who have been rejected and ended up building without funding

It does not change my chances but it would expand my perspective.
I think applying to YC should be seen as fund raising activity. And pg's essays clearly state that fund raising is a distraction, so when you do that, just focus on it, and get it over with, so you can continue building.

I must have applied at least 4 times now with Practal in various forms (at some point it was a different project called ProofPeer), got a rejection each time. The idea has been developed further each time, but in ways hard to communicate to a VC (or anyone, really). Reading this announcement I now have a choice: prepare another YC application in the next 2 days, or finish chapter 2 of my book about the logic used in Practal instead [1]. I think the choice is obvious, there is indeed such a thing as applying too early. I mean, I am not going to pivot to something else, there is no idea other than Practal I will ever be interested in. Working on anything else feels like a waste of my time. Hopefully I have something to show for when the winter batch comes around.

[1] http://abstractionlogic.com
We had walkable American cities for centuries. It was the norm. Kids played in alleys and walked to school, neighbors chatted over the back fence, we reaped the economic benefits of density and proximity. Then millions fled America's inner cities in the 1960s due to skyrocketing crime and racial violence. The suburbs were seen as an inferior substitute by many from the start; the upshot was that their kids would be safe from muggings on the street, gunfire in schools, and race riots. Chicagoland writer Ray Hanania (no relation to Richard) wrote about his family's experience with this in Chicago:

https://suburbanchicagoland.com/2016/01/29/midnight-flight-c...

"Yes, it’s wonderful. And, instead of placing your garbage cans in the alley where the stink and unsightliness of the trash would be hidden from view, you will place all that on the front lawn. At the curb. Next to your new mailbox. Oh. I didn’t tell you that your mailbox was a metal little box on the top of a wood poll in your lawn in front of your house along the street? Where any Tom, Dick or Harry could drive by, reach in, and easily steal your Social Security check any time they want?"

The suburbs were spaced out and isolated on purpose. The alternative was worse:

https://suburbanchicagoland.com/2016/01/29/midnight-flight-c...

"When I returned to Bowen High school that fall, there were more Black students registered at the school and there were frequent gang fights between Black and Hispanic students. The Spanish Kings were really up in arms, painting street gang symbols insulting Black gangs, and vice versa. The increase in Black and Hispanic gang violence at the school only fed the stereotype and the growing fears of Whites in the area."

"One day, there was a shooting in the lunchroom. That was bringing it real close to home, so to speak."

The people who by their own actions and choices ruined America's inner cities have never been held accountable. Instead we blamed ourselves, the auto companies, skip-floor elevators in public housing... The same antisocial patterns of behavior continue. They make Memphis, Philly, New Orleans, Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore, and Washington D.C. what they are today. And today we blame TikTok, drill rap, ourselves again...

Milwaukee's murder rate in 2023 was ten times the rate back in 1920, before antibiotics and modern medicine and 911 emergency services:

https://devinhelton.com/why-urban-decay

For as long as this continues the suburbs will remain a preferable alternative for many, especially families with young children. Young childless people can tolerate more urban anarchy, and today more people in cities are childless, but this is not how to sustain a civilization.
Which is ultimately a US school problem, as most countries don't have exclusivity deals with calculator companies, TI, Casio and HP all get in, plus whatever fits the requirements.

It not being changed in decades appears to imply there isn't really something families see as a problem, versus others.
I learned a lot from these Youtube videos. One is HEMA teacher and sword dealer and discusses pros and cons as a weapon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8a7gpoSPbY

the other has details about how it was made and a link to a paper about the steel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1z6-h7XACg
Same. I have a fondness for NT4.0. Very solid and very fast. Felt like an OS which stayed out of your way and just ran apps. I also tried NT 3.51, but didn't clock many hours on that system, but it felt even more solid and very smooth. Not much software was compatible with it though, so there wasn't much point trying to use it as a daily driver past its prime. NT4 I used probably way too long, installed cygwin on it, sshd, coaxed it to play games with unofficial versions of DirectX and Voodoo 5 and forced it to run newer versions of Visual Studio which really expected Windows XP or something.
Maybe our definitions of suburb are different. I live in what I would consider a suburb now. I see kids outside playing every day. I see teens playing basketball and tennis at the neighborhood courts. And, now that it's warming up, people at the pool. There is a grocery store at the entrance to the neighborhood, but for anything else someone would have to drive. I just fail to see how the local kids are harmed or isolated.
It’s definitely a great, high caliber school. But it’s not one of the dropout-porn inspiring ones like Stanford/Harvard.

For example, a lot of people drop out of RPI because it’s actually difficult to get good grades there (not why I did it FWIW). That’s not why anyone drops out of Harvard.
It’s explained on the solution link:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1339707/...
Consider Windows a live-service, free-to-play OS.
TV somehow became the main display. "Huzzah!"
looks like its a bug in windows where lots of new network display devices eventually corrupts the registry, and the TV gets a new identity on a regular basis - probably to protect the users identity.
Needing two tokens of lookahead is fairly common. For example, in Lua "local IDENTIFIER" is a local variable declaration and "local function" is a private function declaration.
Imagine the future where humans fuel machines, but not in a physical sense
The idea for the post was inspired by the conversation with a colleague I had where he mentioned that it looks like now there might not be enough data in the whole Internet to train new AI models. On the other hand, most of the modern online services are financed through ads, where user attention is a price we pay to have everything for free.
Who knows maybe in the future we will have more great free AI-powered staff, but will pay for it with something else:).
And the guys conclude it's the TVs fault, not Windows.

Sorry, flashbacks to the debates in The Old New Thing where Raymond would claim people blame Windows when it breaks broken software...
No, that was about the dish at Parkes, this is about the Tidbinbilla dish, near Canberra.
There are good definitions of consciousness which do not separate between "the external" and "the internal". I agree with these definitions, as a matter of experience there is only consciousness and the things which appear within consciousness (which includes thoughts, sights, feelings, pain, etc).

But I think the point I would make is that there is no way for you to know if anyone or anything else is conscious. Our current ability to understand the mind is incapable of truly determining if even a fellow human is conscious or not.
After passed 50, I started to do non competitive long distance running (jogging). With proper running form, it builds up core muscles and endurance naturally. And I do my coding either standing up or lying down on the couch, avoiding sitting as much as possible.

Take it easy and go slowly.
An unpopular opinion really. I remember at the turn of the century people were concerned that China would ignore all environmental concerns and that they had the attitude, "The west got to be dirty to scale, so we should be allowed to as well"... Its really a human belief IMO, "the rich get to rape the environment for so long, its unfair to clamp down on me now".

In my opinion- that is true. The wealthy should deplete their resources solving this, on earth, not mars. They do owe "us", for collectively hoarding wealth at the expense of everyday people... and have the time and resources to do so. Any other response is just an excuse and lies.
because windows is buggy too
Clicking inside the window activated sound for me.
The screenshot of https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1339707/... says this:

> The root cause is the TV generates random UUIDs for UPNP network discovery every few minutes. That means it poses as a new device. This caused windows to add it to the device list (Device Association Framework, aka DAF) as a new device. This means now 1000s of devices (which is the same device) filled the device tree causing it to enumerate forever. Thus the "deadlock".

> TaskManager uses DasHost to enumerate devices for some reason, so that hangs.

> Bluetooth relies on device discovery, so that also hangs, and Settings app along with it.

> Network discovery in file explorer obviously also needs Device discovery, so that also hangs.
Can't say anything about that, but had the pleasure at Las Veronicas with the brits. Holy crap, that was disgusting. The girls were dressed even more loose than the hookers.
> some people are willing to pay extra not to hear or smell their neighbors through the walls.

There's a worthwhile discussion to be had on this point alone. I believe condos are so small and bad because of a confluence of two factors: (1) a lack of regulations around quality, (2) too many regulations around zoning, making vertical space scarce instead of abundant.

Factor (1) leads to a lack of privacy and noise because the builder wants to save on materials costs. Factor (2) leads to condos being too small because vertical "land" is so expensive when it should be cheap if restrictions didn't exist.

It should not be possible to hear your neighbors through the walls, if we use multiple layers of air gapped steel or concrete. Condos that achieve this exist. They're just not common because regulations don't enforce it.