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How are you using AI?**
'm a journalist working on a story about quirky ways SF and Bay Area locals are using AI.
Have you used to code for you at work or write your performance reviews? Compose a break up text message? Create a meme for a inside joke? Pretend to be a lawyer and fight your landlord over email in legalize?
I would love to chat to anyone who lives in the Bay Area and has an interesting story.
I can offer anonymity to anyone who feels the way they use it is sensitive.
The piece is for the SF Gazetteer, a n ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: Is there a free equivalent of ChatGPT today?**
I'm an early adopter and paying customer of ChatGPT but I keep hearing that several other models managed to catch up. I use it 1-2 times a day to satisfy my personal and professional curiosity (so it would be nice if it could be more or less up to date on contemporary cloud platform engineering).
I tried using built-in AI in Bing but it's answers feel very shallow (I assume it is ChatGPT-based but is very token-/resource-restricted).
Is there a way to send those 300 b ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: Advice for Parents of an Autistic Child
Hello HN,
I'm a parent of a 4 year-old daughter who was just diagnosed with autism. We've known for a while that something was different about her and have had her in speech and occupational therapy for about a year, but an official diagnosis has been overwhelming. She's a sweet, happy girl and she seems to be developing well, but I wanted to draw on HNs experiences with autism for advice on how to help give her the best life possible. What are things you wish you had known ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: Where are the paid Linux desktop distributions?**
Why isn't there any paid linux desktop distribution for personal use?
I don't need enterprise stuff like RHEL, Ubuntu Pro or SLE and I don't really want the latest and greatest release of the usual distributions (often with breaking changes).
I run something more stable i.e. KDE 5, which only has minor deficiencies for my setup. For obvious reasons I'm not yet switching to KDE 6.
Nonetheless, there are still a handful older bugs and occasional issues introduced thro ... ⌘ Read more
Ask HN: Why Is Internet Archive Included in Cloudflare's List of AI Crawlers?**
Was just looking into some steps to block AI bots from crawling a site, a feature that Cloudflare promoted recently and noticed on their list of "Verified Bots" for AI Crawlers, one called "Internet Archive" is included. Why?
There is also another one "InternetArchiveBot" listed in a different category as "Monitoring & Analytics". Will blocking the AI one mess with Wayback Machine activities and that kind of 'useful' thing?
The recent announce ... ⌘ Read more
Asset Recovery
Like some of you who left a comment, I too was taken in by the Fast Invest adventure. I started investing in January 2021 and I must say that the return on investment was more than conclusive. Then I wanted to test the withdrawal to make sure everything was OK to continue, and that's when the trouble started. At the time of registration, there were no particular rules, but a few months later, it was impossible to make a full withdrawal of the sums available for investment. We had to proceed in increments of ... ⌘ Read more