heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: RSS Feed for Comments?
Thanks, yes the quality can certainly vary, however have been a subscriber of HN for as long as I can remember and find a great deal of value, but yes, as time goes on most of my feeds/site do you require a bit more effort to find as much quality since so many are shouting these days. I've recently switched RSS readers and that improves for my needs in almost all aspects except with the major one issue of not properly support linkblogs/hn etc. So until that's resolved figure a different feed that has the comments page as the primary link will be a good workaround. Sounds like HNRSS.org maybe the solution. Can't seem to find an HNRSS equivalent to the main /rss feed however. This appears to be the closet
https://hnrss.org/?link=comments but where /rss just includes a few of the most popular per day, that HNRSS feed seems to show every single one that hits the front page which wouldn't be ideal for my needs. It looks like you can use points such as
https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=5?link=comments to get closer. Do you know if the main /rss page is based on some point threshold and what number that may be? Or is it based on other metrics beyond points and thus HNRSS won't be able to provide an exact equivalent?
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: RSS Feed for Comments?
It looks likes hnrss comments supports "points". Do you know what the threshold for the main /rss feed points is? That is, perhaps items only show on that if they are 5 points or higher or something? If so then on hnrss could do something like
https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=5?link=comments. Unless RSS uses other signals other than simply a number of points?
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: RSS Feed for Comments?
It seems like that /frontpage one shows every single item that appears on the front page, rather than /rss that shows just the top items? Is there a hnrss.org ?comments one specifically for /rss? If so that would be perfect.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: RSS Feed for Comments?
Oh I didn't see that. I think that might work! At quick glance it looks like it's showing different results than the normal feed I subscribe to: "news.ycombinator.com/rss". Can you confirm the "/frontpage" is the same feed as "news.ycombinator.com/rss"?
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: RSS Feed for Comments?
Is that HN top news, or another website aggregator? While I imagine there are a lot of other aggregator sites out their with various rss feed types, this question would be in regards to HN Top News section specifically. Unless that link is for that?
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: RSS Feed for Comments?
Yes, I love HN in my RSS and find it very useful, but yes, I'm sure that varies for everyone. Dedicated apps for HN, Reddit, etc, certainly offer a better experience for those platforms individually, but for me having everything in one place is much more practical and ideal, and then can use apps/sites for individual sites as needed.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: RSS Feed for Comments?
Thank you. At quick glance, in that list I don't see any feed there that is of the standard top HN but have "Comments URL" labeled as just "URL" so will pull into RSS feeds normally? Unless maybe I'm missing something? Eitherway, glad to discover that link as could be helpful for other things in the future.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Twitter starts limiting how many tweets you can post per day
Ditto yesterday after a few tweets. Assuming this is bug, as others have noted similar even with only two tweets. So one has to assume a bug, or perhaps some other issue where they felt they had to manually temporarily limit the number of tweets drastically to help avoid some larger failure. Ironically, I and most presumably wanted to post about but where unable to because of the nature of the bug.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: ChatGPT lied to me and then tried to deny it
I asked the same and got relatively similar but when I got to asking it what else is included in the prompt, it said the following: "The initial prompt provided by OpenAI included the following information:
"You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI.
Knowledge cutoff: 2021-09
Current date: 2023-02-08"
This information is used to provide context for our conversation and helps me understand the background information and the limitations of my training data."
Perhaps they saw this thread and tweaked that answer accordingly?
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: How to talk to GPT-3 through Siri
I asked what the current version of Bootstrap Framework was. It said as of it's cut off date, it was a certain version, that seemed slightly off and I regenerated and this time it gave a number that was higher and thus definetly wrong, I said that is wrong. It said it was sorry and that it was wrong and gave another number, (also wrong), I said wrong again, and again confidently provided a new number. GPT-3 is astonishing, at so much and if you know how to use it, and are asking questions in a genhre you know then when it gives you partially wrong info you'll usually know but will still help you along your way. But if asking in areas you don't know and it gives you a wrong answer such as how long and what temp to cook a chicken etc, if it gives you a wrong answer and you don't know better, could be troubling.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Tell HN: Gmail's spam filters have gone bonkers
Was excited to see this post thinking maybe it's not just me lately, alas it looks like you have the opposite problem. I've had a Gmail Business email for well over a decade and usually I could count the number of spam emails that went into my inbox every year on one hand, as I make sure not to subscribe to anything and unsubscribe if I do. Past year or so, now get several a month at least which may not sound like a lot, but just things that are obviously spam, or recruitment emails etc. And it's bit annoying since I use third party email clients and I'm told marking as spam in those doesn't do the same as marking in spam in a gmail client, so I have to always then open up gmail.com and mark as spam there. But yes, guess glad don't have the opposite problem as a couple spam is a hassle but a couple real emails not coming through could be a far bigger problem, since many of us have rarely needed to check the spam folder often unless something we are expecting didn't show up.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages
Love Preview and for all those basics find it much easier than Adobe for rotating, rearranging, deleting, merging, etc. Alas for some things still need Acrobat. For forms that need to be filled in more often than not preview is problematic where the entered text doesn’t appear right or issues with drop-downs etc. Like how I prefer safari but still run into compatibility issues sometimes and need Chrome. Also Adobe is better at compressing file size while retaining quality. And finally if I need to ocr a file and make the text or elements editable need Adobe. Would love to see Preview improved in those areas as solid as Preview it’s not one to see growth in features or compatibility over the decades.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: General Mills, Audi pause Twitter ads, will evaluate site
Your cereal brand cares about profits like all companies so it doing what it thinks is best to not lose those. If being on the new twitter was more profitable in the long run then they would stay.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having
Yes I’m still confused what it’s attempting to say.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Lesser known Apple Watch workouts
While presumably most meant to be humorous the dog walking was a real struggle. I would use outdoor walk, but the main issue, is when trying to look at my walking progress (getting faster, lower heart rates, longer walks etc), hard to compared apples to oranges since the pace with dog is always different as having to stop or when someone walks by affects things, etc. So wish there was a "solo walk" maybe that is just me and meant for imrpoving performance etc, vs regular walk that could be with dog or with friends etc, which will have various metrics etc.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Apple’s Killing the Password. Here’s Everything You Need to Know
We went from having one password used on most all sites to having unique random passwords for each site saved in a password manager. But of course those are all accessible then via a single , traditional memorable easy to type ‘single’ password. Yes requires access to one’s devices and helps avoid phishing and all other benefits but just interesting. With passkeys assuming one still uses a password manager to manage the keys (since otherwise if your devices were lost or stolen you’d be screwed) then all your passkeys are stil behind a regular memorable easy to type password and a computer password that is also by nature a memorable password, etc. There are again still lots of benefits for the new method and help avoid the most common issues for people currently so none of this is bad but more good to realize you still have a password in general just one to manage them all.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Tim Cook's response to Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone'
Grandma is probably more than happy with her familiar experience and rather the iphone son user who loves his iPhone but hates the limitations of having to send SMS essentially with his grandmother. So in this scenarios Tim saying son should by an android would make more sense as he’d be able to learn a new system easily than her presumably or them both having to use a separate less ideal app just to communicate with each other. If they both preferred signal or such they would use it but even in that case the rest of their friends and fam would still be using another app. So just get person an iphone isn’t realistic especially if some have to use one or the other since work pays for phone or such.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra
Yes, I'd be happy with even just the the extra side button to start workouts and such, since whenever I put on the homescreen it mistakenly gets started when crossing my arms or such and gets pressed. I imagine that may eventually come to the regular models.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra
Remember will be 60 hours in low power mode, and that seems to only disable things such as always on (which I always disable with hikes as drastically improves battery life and theater mode), and won't auto detect workout, but one can easily just set to hike or what not when starting the workout manually. 60 hours for all the benefits of the watch seems impressive. The 49mm size however will be the bigger issue presumably for most woman and men with small wrists, since the small was already large for that demographic.
heavymark
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3 years ago
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on: Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra
Most ladies, and many men like myself have small wrists, so the "small" apple watch is already quite large compared to normal watches for most woman or men with small wrists. The "large" would over hang on many of those people, so you can only imagine how a 49mm would fit for most woman and people with thin wrists.
