skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome!

My home studio doesn't have plain, unobstructed walls for some simple shots, and while a paper roll backdrop is a good substitute, sometimes you want a wall, or a corner, or you just want to use wallpaper.

So I built a massive construction with doubled-up cardboard sheet, girders made with pallet corners, these gigantic split pin things and hot glue, and then I spray-mounted wallpaper on it.

I also did it at the wrong time of year, when the air was still too damp and the heating needed to be on, so it didn't last an enormously long time before things rippled, because it turns out cardboard has some quite organic behaviours in moist air.

So it was almost a failure. But I'd absolutely do it again, replacing the cardboard with foamcore or thicker insulating board.

It was a really fascinating, liberating process to take that much control over the process, and I've been doing similar since, assembling my own photographic tools to a level that looks a bit like obsession.

I think maybe many software developers here don't understand the parallels between doing this sort of thing and assembling your "stack" for a few applications.

A true photographer's "tools" barely even start with the camera. There's a whole array of tools beyond that, beyond peripherals, that extend into the scene or into methodology.
It uses FindFirstFile etc https://github.com/seanofw/spacemonger1/blob/6a41c012534b170...
https://combinatorylogic.com/table.html it's hard to read, but there's a ton.
> OpenAI did not fail. They suspended the sky voice and backed down

Yeah, that's failing.
It takes nine months to make a baby.
I already said I didn’t think it was worth continuing the conversation, so I hope I don’t regret trying to be kind.

> Is it a popular opinion or is it manufactured clickbait outrage now bordering on conspiracy theory?

Please realise that calling something “manufactured clickbait outrage” itself borders on conspiracy theory.
Again, empathise, look at your argument with an outside eye.

> it annoys me to no end

Don’t let it. Being annoyed on the internet only ruins your day. And the more unhinged you become, the less sense your arguments will make and the more it will backfire.

Unless you have a personal relationship with either Altman or Johansson, I recommend you let this one go. It’s not worth the cost of any mental wellness. Some issues are, but not this one. Save yourself for the issues that are important.

Again I wish you a relaxing weekend.
> heighth

I've heard this said, and seen this in plenty of codebases. `let width = 10, heighth = 10`

Its intuitive match to "width" makes me wonder why it ever became "incorrect."
This comment and the replies are extremely insightful. Humans are flawed, just because high IQ Newton invented physics doesn't mean he was good at the fomo of the south sea stock. https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/73/7/30/800801/Isa...

Personally I think it's dilluted the hackers from other sites (like me). But your theory sounds much stronger. A lot of new sites and ideas are not pay to win, they are buy to belong. Crypto, 3D printers, gaming forums, PC hardware forums, AI. These communities manifest free marketing and updates in products to convince you they're good for you to buy them.

I found HN great for some things but you did click this link too. This is a celebrity gossip thread and you joined. I found John walkers site from here didn't know about it. https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

'Real hackers' are live on git, maybe twitch. Chill out and listen to what your general peer has to say here and imagine non hackers discussing it. Nobody outside here cares about this drama except Twitter bots. Check out Google trends. https://trends.google.com/trends/trendingsearches/daily?geo=...
If you had no life stressors or responsibilities and the ability to work on whatever you're interested in, would you have trouble focusing?
Yeah, the easiest way is to generate attributes and instantiate any Rails model like the one below:

Pbt.assert do
Pbt.property(name: Pbt.printable_string, age: Pbt.integer(min: 0, max: 100)) do |name:, age:|
user = User.new(name: name, age: age)
# write your test here
end
end
I always use Brave first, and when that fails, I try Bing. If Bing fails, I try Google. Most of the time, I can just use Brave.
Why the snarky tone? MS Copilot is a mixture of enhanced search, ChatGPT like chat and Dall-E 3 for image generation, but without the need to create an account (only for image generation, I think). I use it at work every day and it is super helpful. I haven't compared it to ChatGPT, though.
Mathematics for Machine Learning (paid course)
The AI voice is what’s in question here and there are plenty of examples, just listen to ones that aren’t intentionally selected to try to create the impression of similarity. Sky has been around for half a year so you don’t have to limit yourself to the tech demo but even if you do if you listen to the whole thing you’ll see the normal speaking voice is very different from ScarJo.
What do you mean by "flim-flam"?
From DDG: https://x.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1793557968027570527
> Only in the tech bubble could a hobby which is challenging and probably gruesome at certain points, be held against you.

Did you mean to say something completely different? What if your hobby is making crush videos?

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Man-heads-t...
> an always on life assistant from pop culture

It's not "from pop culture", it's from a specific film. Starring Scarlett Johansson.
This is not only Google. Most of the big and medium tech companies CEOs have been about as gullible and delusional as the crypto-bros of 2k18.

And now, as all the FOMO-driven AI integrations are starting to bear fruits, it seems that we're going to enter a chapter of unprecedented bullshit and disappointment in the history of personal computers.
There's more to it. Have a look at the specific idea of "breast crawl".
Sky sounds like Scarlett to me. Not all the time, not in every sentence or statement, but frequently enough that combined with Altman's outreaches to Scarlett there's no way I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Try to ask yourself: is it at all plausible that others operating in good faith might come to a different conclusion, particularly given the surrounding details? If you can't find your way to a "yes" then I'm not sure what to say, you must view everyone (seemingly the majority though who knows for sure) to be deluding themselves or trolling others.
I always found that wallpaper a weird choice, being dark-depressing and uninviting to the average user.
I always get suspicious when it's a company providing records saying they didn't do something, especially when they have access to technology that can be used to produce documentation that appears to be legitimate but was completely computer-generated.
I was diagnosed with ADHD in my early twenties during university and didn't manage to get medicated until 3 years later (The queue was quite long and I ended up getting a prescription from a private doctor in my home country)

I think it became really obvious to me when I would require a ton of discipline to do assignments around making applications, but doing something like configuring linux from scratch was so personally interesting to me I could stay up nights and days without any external stimulation.

I found that medication (Methylphendiate 20mg) have definitely helped me focus, but the direction of what I'm focusing doesn't always yield productive results (hyperfocusing on reddit for example). I've also started worring that what I've really done is created a dependence, where eventually ill have to up the dose as what I'm currently on will make me feel like I did pre meds, and stopping will make me feel worse.

I hope you find a treatment that works for you OP, but I agree with other comments that you might have just discovered you have had ADHD all this time because its not 'onset'.
The trial was just a small part of it - the man spent years crusading against the teaching of evolution in schools.
Can’t comment on the accuracy of their methods, but hidden cameras in AirBnBs are actually a big problem.

Alternatively you could find the router, login to the access panel and see if any cameras are logged into the network.

Amazon has a ton of cheap, hidden spy cams. It’s quite scary.
Support for Windows 10 will end October 2025
> Also pretty much guarantees flight of your former customer base to close compliments - who then have improved revenue to bring their products closer in alignment to yours.

Classic VM hosting is a dead end anyway. Customers are shifting to the hyperscalers wherever they can, if only to reduce the headcount of their IT departments due to acounting wizardry making it worth it for the stonk markets even if the cloud costs more in the end.

And then, there aren't that many alternatives to VMware, and none of them (bar OpenStack) as comprehensive.

As long as Broadcom manages to squeeze enough out of the large customers who are vendor-locked too hard over the next 3-5 years, it'll be worth the money for them, and chances are the gamble pays off, with a small trail of extremely large customers paying for a decade until they can get their internal chaos sorted out to migrate off.
I don't get the point... ANSI Common Lisp is a standard. Of which there are many implementations. I was expecting a post about how far the different implementations have diverged from the standard. Perhaps some of them have begun to create their own language.

But no, this post is enumerating different features of the standard? And how you can write the same program different ways using them? And then Clojure?

Is the point that the language standard has too many ways of writing programs?

Interesting pull-quote about C++ at the beginning. I do wonder if there are compliant implementations of the standard across different compilers that behave the same way but are semantically different (or the other way around). The standard is about 1.2k pages longer than ANSI CL or there about. Hard work proving your compiler is compliant across the whole spec.
I didn't get anything close to that from your original message. I thought you meant "I write functional JS, but am wondering why a language like clojure or OCaml isn't more popular"
I was diagnosed at university. Around my freshman year, which is over 10 years ago. In my country there were not many ADHD specialists and medications in circulation at first, mostly atomoxetine was used, but it made me sick (nausea, stomach pain).
Eventually Concerta was introduced to the local market and things got much better with it.

After migrating to Europe, I was re-diagnosed by a good specialist with all the right methodologies and then got prescriptions for Elvanse (in the US it's kind of like Vyvanse, I think) 30mg and clonazepam 1mg to control anxiety.

Been taking it for a couple years now, works pretty well.

Not so long ago I have seen studies on which Elvanse is considered almost the best drug among analogs, so I can only recommend it. It is quite mild and has a long release.

From personal experience: it is better to refrain from coffee and caffeinated drinks in general when taking medication.
Looks terrible and not all that similar.
Exactly this. Any smart CTO will be planning their exit. It’s pretty obvious that what made VMware great is now just a zombie.
> He emerged from behind an acoustic panel, so I wasn't seeing him there

You were seeing acoustic panel, and the edge of it from where someone could conceivably emerge.

Yes. You might think it's unfair. But the world and life and even law is unfair from time to time. Getting behind the wheel means taking upon yourself a risk of consequences of events you are not in full control of.

You are in control of how much risk you want to accept. If on a given road it is strictly forbidden to exceed some speed it doesn't meant that you can safely drive at this limit or you are absolved of responsibility of consequences of doing so.

If you were doing 90 instead of 130 (assuming it was allowed there) you'd have more time to react and less risk so a second wouldn't be a matter of life and death.
If Right to Publicity laws indeed favor Scarlet here, then the law is really outdated and needs to catch up with the current paradigm.

A company wanted a voice, had something in their minds, approached a voice actor who has a similar voice to what they have in mind, got rejected, then approached next candidate and worked with her. Simple as that. If this is illegal, I don't know what is legal.
The best thing for my ADHD has been finding the right professionals to help me diagnose and manage it. Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but I get the suspicion that you (or certainly others reading this thread) will take this information to try to self-treat.

I've never heard of "late-onset" ADHD. Late-diagnosed, absolutely (I was diagnosed while I was in university), but to my knowledge there are no identified environmental causes that would cause ADHD to develop later in life. Professionals can help you determine whether you in fact have ADHD that was not diagnosed until now, or whether there are other factors.
> buying the same functionality from a competitor is not a reason to get you fired unless there are other specific conditions

There are different expectations depending on the kind of bucket you are spending from.

The amount of capital you have to spend in the R&D bucket is much larger than the Finance&IT bucket and who you report to (CTO vs CFO) is different.
Could you share that with me
Absurd. They have been doing search for so long and couldn't build their own search index? I understand it's a huge investment, and clearly for some data sources you need to create partnerships and depend on others (e.g., youtube videos). But you would think that a search engine company would invest more in this area.
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid. Medication made me extremely miserable and tried it again as an adult and it still made me miserable (made me focused, but completely on the wrong things).

There are a lot of coping mechanisms that can help. Taking notes, leaving your phone behind, etc. I also switched from coffee to tea which helps a lot.
Is that really the case? I was under the impression those organizations have specialized people, some write the software, some do the hacking, some the social engineering etc. Once there is much less money this kind of system would probably fall apart?
Could you share that with me I am interested in it
And you can bet that many of them are currently looking at removing or severely reducing their VMware dependance, maybe even decommissioning projects that are deemed unfeasible to move to another platform.
Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not endless shrimp
The book Trillion Dollar Coach ( written by Eric Schmidt and other ex-Google leadership) has a first hand account of how they went from a philosophy of few managers to more. Surprisingly the debate was settled by impromptu interviews with ICs who said they wanted more managers to help make decisions.

Managers can bring value from multiple aspects, one being faster decision making by shifting away from decisions through consensus. What Amazon calls disagree and commit.

If you go back even further, the no manager philosophy traces to Steve Jobs and his "It's better to be a pirate than in the Navy" quote. With the idea that pirates self organize and are a stronger team. Works great in a skunkworks department, where Jobs personally selected pirates. Falls apart at scale.
Like others have said, try out Kagi. I didn't buy the hype but the results are much better.
Gervaise: "Oh, poor artists.
RAID1 is mirrored. That is not what I would call a typical distributed system. It is a very redundant system. Like a cluster.

A distributed system without redundancy would rather be something like data stripped across disks without parity.

And that actually makes it less resilient, because failure of one component can bring down the whole system and the likelihood of failure is statistically higher because of the higher number of components.
Completely agree with mnky9800n and tanepiper as well. I was diagnosed when I was 32 when suffering from a burnout. It surprised me how thorough the research was on "do I have it or not". Childhood records were needed and my parents were shortly questioned about my behaviour as a kid.

For the medication, I currently don't use it. I tried some stimulants, but I have a non-operable arrhythmia (the good kind) situation which got worse every time I took the meds. With the help of therapy and my closed ones I've become better at regulating my emotions, so I don't feel the need to take medication. I still have some periods of hyperfocus or periods where my attention is certainly just all over the place, but then I just try to focus on stuff that is good to do when in those periods. Kind of stopped trying to force myself, a square peg, to fit through a triangle hole.
The reality is that in many organizations, nobody wants to update or reboot anything unless absolutely necessary. I once took a contract job at a company that wanted me to migrate and upgrade some Linux VMs running on a 5+ year old distro. This was a decent sized, established company, not a startup (1000's of employees, 100 million+ revenue)

The existing VMs had not been updated or rebooted in years. Several had 1200+ day uptimes! These systems were accessible from the Internet and regularly used by customers for an important, highly specialized product. The only reason they were even bothering was they had failed some security scan and nobody there could even understand how to use SSH.

The minimum level of IT security is apparently barely anything.
Firefox users can create their own "bangs" with bookmark keywords. Just bookmark https://example.com/%s and then assign a keyword to it from the Library window (full bookmarks manager).
Russia says will strike British targets if UK weapons used to hit its territory
> In California, personality rights have the same protections.

Makes sense if you read "California" as "Hollywood", which has movie stars where the rest of the world has intellectual property.
Is fundamental science a victim of its own success?
Sounds like a glitch token
South Korea Sets Aside Record $19B to Fuel Chipmaking
Wow, I didn't know about them. Thanks for letting me know!
Interesting how the Border Beam component uses the exact same inbox example as ShadCN/ui.

- https://magicui.design/docs/components/border-beam
- https://ui.shadcn.com/
A new age of sail begins
I'm also finding missing data, and data inconsistencies. Perhaps this is a case where some data is 10x better than none.
I know you're joking, but I'm talking about legal responsibility like this: https://insideevs.com/news/575160/mercedes-accepts-legal-res.... In this case, Mercedes, not the the developer, is assuming liability, but that responsibility will trickle down.
Distributed systems with tight coupling and no redundancy are less resilient. It's not so much a question about distribution but more about redundancy and coupling.
> Those industries don't pay well to anyone involved but are a global benefit. Such a strange world we live in.

It's pretty clear that are are trying to manipulate readers through your suggestive use of "strange". You're not actually confused by it - you're trying to suggest something about labor laws or pay or something without actually making a point, through the use of suggestive language. People do not talk like that unless they're adding a subtext.
Keep in mind that effectively TM/LN sells tickets on the secondary market.

Just because tickets are on the "resale" market doesn't mean they were bought by Jane Doe and she can't go anymore so she's re-listing them. For some concerts only 8% of the tickets are actually available at the listed price, the remaining 92% are all available either as a special offer (credit cards) or given to various individuals associated with the event (such as the headliner) who can then immediately put them up for resale.
I think this is mixing somewhat the portrait of that person with who that person might. The portrait might be somewhat stereotypical but the person might not be.
Brother eughh...
Generative AI like ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Sora can't replace human creativity
Fair point. I was thinking solely from a Upper Market perspective.

Higher Ed is in a weird place where budgets are small but the personnel are fairly adept, so depending on the size you guys could actually be a good fit for deploying and managing a FOSS offering like Proxmox.
When I say art has no intrinsic value, I mean that art doesn't feed, clothe, or house anyone. Nor does an artist contribute to society's productivity, objectively he's a dumb load.

Note that this isn't to say art is unnecessary, a society without art is a damn boring one. But art is quite a ways down on the list of priorities.

As an aside, tradesmen usually make good money while artists are stereotypically broke.
I don't know much about Nostr, but would like to learn more.

The author says they usually publish their messages to the relay at wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com

Does that mean when I use a Nostr client, I can instruct it to pull from that relay and as long as that relay relays them, I will receive all their messages?

If so, I would call that decentralized.

The fact that a relay can decide to drop a message seems hard to change.

I guess one could put an incentive into the protocol for relays to not drop messages. Like having them stake a certain amount of value and slash it when it can be proven that they refused to relay a message. But that might be pretty complicated. For example: How would you know the relay received the message? Maybe with a web of witnesses which each have a certain amount of earned trust? Tricky.

My feeling is that the easiest way is to just accept the fact that relays can decide to drop messages. And for publishers to post to trustworthy relays, and for readers to pull from trustworthy relays.
now I know why their results are so trash. switched to kagi a few years ago and it has been quite nice.
That’s good. As the big companies have proven themselves inefficient capital allocators, there will be more space for upstarts.
You can’t just say “No, you’re wrong.” And expect me to change my mind??

Both being a goth and being a furry are about way more than clothing and appearance. Goths don’t really have anything to do with furries. I don’t know why you’re bringing them up.

Every furry I have met in real life thought it was a sex thing. Every normal person from the outside looking in thinks it’s a sex thing. Just look at the history of furry magazines and subculture and it is mind-numbingly obvious that it is a sex thing.

Even if it wasn’t a sex thing, would you want to discuss it at work knowing 99% of people will think of it that way?
Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a bit of my journey with you all and maybe get some advice or find some folks interested in collaborating.

About six months ago, I was really inspired by RewindAI and decided to create my own local memory app called "Recall". The idea was to build something that could capture and index digital activity, making it easy to remember and find information later.

After months of hard work, I finally got Recall to a point where it was working well. I've managed to ask him for information on my activity from a week ago with details and all that locally with local llms! It was exciting to see it come together and actually do what I hoped it would.

But then, I found out yesterday that the new Copilot+ laptops have a feature called "Recall" that does pretty much the same thing but better. It was a bit of a shock. Here I was, thinking I had something unique, only to see it already out there in a big way.

So, now I'm not sure what to think. Instead of giving up, I decided to open-source Recall and rename it reMind. I believe that by sharing it, maybe some of you might have ideas or want to help improve it. If you’re interested, I’d love to hear from you!
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