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Diversify social logins, and let people login with Github, Microsoft, Facebook...

I personally don't like opening another app to receive something that will help me login, especially since I pay for a password manager.

> I'm still getting spam text notifications on my Android because Google isn't confident and I think that's the same reason they haven't already solved unknown callers.

I just checked my messages on my phone running Android 14 and it seems like there is a "spam and blocked" section, of messages that never made it to me and didn't come up as notifications.

Would be nice if they gave me the ability to make spam-likely calls not ring or appear.

I wrote my version of DAN jailbreak and made it impersonate a couple of personalities each time we would have different conversations. Ultimately, I would ask that personality I created with a name to describe me. Then I averaged them and made a DAN look alike to me. It can respond and follow up to most of my emails and messages the same way I would but slightly better. It also helps debug, work, and start new projects.

I'd like to know if we can somehow create a virtual body in VR and train the VR version of me to live my life for me (work from home). If this was possible, I could live forever (at least a version of me) with the same mentality and personality. It's still awful at the mentality part, but we are getting close every week.

Re:Ask HN: Founders, how much automated tests do you write? on Saturday February 18, 2023 @08:03AM (#34846605)
I only write tests for important stuff that I must continually work on. Although in the past 12 months, my tests have been written by either chatgtp or playground codex models before that. Which makes me lose 0-time testing.
I have constantly received emails(~monthly) from companies advertising these services to my business. The packages they always advertise are as follows:

1. 10 Google Reviews, 50 – 100 Words, REAL Active Profiles, Local Profiles, Drip Feed Method, 24/7 Ticket Support, for $94.99

2. 20 Google Reviews, 50 – 100 Words, REAL Active Profiles, Local Profiles, Drip Feed Method, 24/7 Ticket Support, for $179.99

I always assumed that if you have bad reviews, the go-to was to either change how you operate, change your business name, or do both.

Re:Ask HN: How did Sam Altman fail upward so well? on Saturday January 21, 2023 @06:45PM (#34472199)
I have always lived on the philosophy that "failing a lot always leads to a win," so it makes sense why Paul G might have been so fascinated with Sam Altman. That could be one thing we can all learn from Sam Altman. As a professional failure, I always try to consistently position myself in great places to get my lucky moment. This means building/joining startups every 6-12 months and finding cofounders.

Ask HN: Should We Embrace OpenAI/ChatGPT for Everything?

Over the past 12 months, OpenAI has made me a 10x engineer; I can do tasks 10x faster than I would before. With that being said, this is a terrifying behavior meaning that previously I could have hired nine other people (realistically one or two) to do what OpenAI helped me do at the same speed; this brings me to my next point.Should you give OpenAI access to data that one or two employees...

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Re:Ask HN: Racing People at the Gym on Monday November 07, 2022 @09:18PM (#33515210)
I completely agree! I think that friendly competition is the way to go

Ask HN: Racing People at the Gym

Ever since I started watching Motivational GYM YouTube Shorts, I started seeing myself turn everything into a competition. I tried to swim laps over the person swimming next to me at the gym. By the end, I had foot cramps and realized I might have created a worse experience for them. Last week I had taken a treadmill next to someone who was using it and made sure I ran faster than them, and...

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Re:Tech Worker Polls on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @12:10AM (#30928359)
After 11 hours since the post, I must say there is a very huge correlation between the “over or under salary question” and the “self-taught or college graduate” developer question. It's safe to say, on average, self-taught developers get paid less.
Re:Show HN: Guess the Weight Trivia on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:41PM (#30927892)
Thanks, for the remark, I fixed it. In the future, a slider with a range of weights might be more fun, and limiting the animals to cows only, just waiting on a scale to measure all their weights.
Re:Show HN: Guess the Weight Trivia on Monday April 04, 2022 @05:46PM (#30912373)
Hi HN, The author here, I created this intending to see what the odds are, that the actual weight is the top trivia answer on all posts.
I have also noticed lately, whenever I try to see the comments on the laptop it overheats. I suspect there is something going on to moderate the bot comments in the front-end, which somehow removes them as they load.
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