skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spaghetti Sorting is just one of the Analog Gadgets called out in Dewdney's "The Armchair Universe" (originally in his Computer Recreations column in "Scientific American"). There are many other cool ones (beginning on page 28):

https://archive.org/details/armchairuniverse0000dewd_x2e7/
Wow I always want to analyze the products and highlight the positives that I found, but at least on Firefox mobile this site was unbearable slow to the point that I have to quit. And being a site build with the product it promotes, it speaks volumes, sorry.
Why should I hire an additional 50 Infra Engs who are underutilized when I can use that to hire 50 additional SWEs or Salespeople to expand my TAM?
How is your self motivation? Your ability to do everyday tasks like showering and cleaning up after yourself absent of any contact with another human? Do you get annoyed with other's inability to focus on things you can focus on? Do you lack patience and have to try very hard to give others grace?

Edit: I was diagnosed at the age of two and now I'm 36. I've never worked in a professional setting.
Serving different resources based on reported user agent data.
Problem is, you are opening up the market for open source competitors by not servicing the mid market.

Customer service is becoming truly extinct.
> Problem is, you are opening up the market for open source competitors by not servicing the mid market.

You aren't. They go to resellers or other large vendors (eg. this example of going from VMWare to Nutanix)

Open Source competitors (NOT open core companies) do not provide the SLAs on support needed if SHTF.
Don’t attribute this stuff to strategy. The people running “the BU” are just counting on friction to hold on to revenue. They aren’t able to even meet the commitments they make and are disrespectful to customers in other ways.

I think they overestimated their market power. I have 2 years left on my main ELA. I have budget to spend 5x to exit. My spend will go from 8 figures to under $1M.

Personally, I resisted the visceral “fuck you” emotional response. But it’s one of the rare times when the quick take is correct. The reality is VMWare is dead and is too risky to keep in place. The smart move is not to play.
This reminds me of my favorite Onion article: "William Safire Orders Two Whoppers Junior"

https://www.theonion.com/william-safire-orders-two-whoppers-...
Re: “consequence of forcing people”, who is doing the “forcing” in your scenario and how is that force applied?
I'm still unsure of what MS Copilot is. For the longest time I thought it was GH Cp because of the obvious association, but it's not. I'm assuming it's some bunk ass Bing "AI" assisted search?

I truly think MS is the perfect example of a moat experiencing a drought. Unfortunately, money can't buy rain, it can only pump water from other sources. This never works.
> (I am VERY surprised how the previous CFO did not get fired for something like that)

It always make me smile how fast people on the Internet would fire CFOs without knowing the context of the situation. (Not to mention that this case proves the guy was right.)
More like a negative tax *or UBI based on satellite technology.
Makes sense. Does that mean there is a bigger market for mid-market and below now? Maybe it is too annoying for the big companies to care, but could be lucrative for smaller ones.
Well, first, it seems fairly unrelated to that question in the context of this discussion -- we're talking about the proposal to require everyone who contributes money to engage in public advocacy to have their PII published openly. The original phrase was "shape public opinion", not "shape public policy". It's not clear to me how such rules would have had any effect on the scenario you're describing.

Second, the way you're describing that situation seems very odd. Surely the legislator in question had to make an intentional choice to accept the draft legislation from the corporate representative, make an intentional choice to introduce it into the legislative session, and then the other legislators had to intentionally choose to vote in favor of the bill, then the governor had to intentionally choose to sign it into law.

There are a many processes involving individuals taking intentional actions sitting in between the the corporation proposing the bill and it becoming law, so characterizing those people as having "zero input" seems invalid on its face.

If your complaint is that the intentions and incentives of the people who actually conduct the legislative process may not be aligned with what you consider to be the overall public interest, that's a totally valid argument. But that indicates a problem with the legislative process itself, so it seems very strange to attempt to address it by imposing limits on public discourse far upstream of where the problem is occurring, instead of proposing reforms to the legislative process itself.

Perhaps it makes sense to require disclosure of authorship of all draft bills brought before the legislature, including all incremental revisions made between initial proposal and final voting. Maybe all legislative work should be done in public Git repos, with detailed commit messages being required.

But that's a very different concept from forcing disclosure of the identity of anyone who donates funds to any organization expressing opinions in public discourse.
Regardless, the photographers may well encounter those amazing "happy accidents" (something that so rarely happens when I use software).
Good for proxmox.
While I agree, depending on where you're staying, 'aparthotels' (hotels where rooms have little kitchens) are becoming increasingly widespread and affordable - can be a good alternative to Airbnb for long stays in many cases.
Lack of regulation has costs too. I’m open to your argument if you can demonstrate somehow what “tends” to be true. I suspect you can’t, and neither can I, which is why we should assess regulations on a case by case basis of their own merits instead of totally unsupportable “regulation good” or “regulation bad” maxims.
I used to have a site up that yielded about $100 a month from AdSense. That enabled me to make my house payment more than a few times.
I'm not sure why DDG has become such an acceptable google alternative. Even google returns less IP-based, irrelevant results. It's not terrible and sometimes it's good, but results are frequently absurd. I find an instance of searx, or even swisscows generally superior. DDG has no regard for specific queries and always seems to insert a handful of ridiculous IP-based results, however impossibly pertinent to the subject. I think DDG has IP tourette.
One Cerebras Wafer Beats an Exascale Super at Molecular Dynamics
'Deny, denounce, delay': the battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods
It's probably because Bing is down
I was a youth camp counselor, then a 'physics counselor' for a small non-profit that teaches a lot of stem via experiments and who got called at youth camps, schools and by other non-profit.

Let me guess how you were successful:

You had at least one adult not working but present (I saw that with parents, but also an uncle and a greatfather once).

- You probably lived near activities, in an urban or suburbian area, with OK to great public transportation (forgot you could drive as early as 16 in the US, maybe I'm wrong about the public transportation, but it help).

- you probably had a support network (non profit with other parents who homeschool their kids).

All this is practically mandatory for successful homeschooling.

Then stuff that help: access to the official curriculum, independant home, curious parents (all this non mandatory)

Also, when comparing success with homeschooling VS public school, you have to compare socioeconomic class and home stability. In country like France or the US with terrible public school system, I guess homeschooling 'the right way' should be a bit more successfull, I doubt this is the case in northern Europe or in countries with good to great public schools.
Curiously, though, we don't really know it is coded in DNA.

Michael Levin has been discovering lately that biology is more complicated than we thought. His YT videos are mind-boggling. Flatworm genetics are a dog's breakfast that the cells work around by means nobody understands.
Read TFA. Customers are going to Nutanix, Citrix, etc. NOT Proxmox.
Scanning the Dark Universe, Euclid Finds Scenes of Cosmic Light
https://archive.is/AV5x8
Is there a native Linux client yet? That's why I stick to velocidrone, liftoff, and wings.
"The Hot Mess Express" vs. "In the Zone"
The movies were indeed way ahead and knew -- Mothership snaps and the entire fleet just collapse like an unplugged discharged device.
They are arguments that were made three years ago, and they are arguments that still hold up today.
Its a tax, a pretty standard thing to do. I would say that people from southern countries would benefit even more.
Data Oriented Programming in Java – Version 1.1
Well, the test did not specify that a particular method should be used. It just asked for the student to calculate the answer and show the working (which he did). He knows the "correct" way of doing it too, and could have done it if instructed to.

He has other ridiculous examples, e.g. a question that asked what reason might explain why people were smoking less. He gave a perfectly good answer (better awareness of the risks), it just wasn't the "approved" fact they were looking for.

It was somewhat like this when I was at school, but it's much worse now. No thought, even correct answers with working not accepted. Sometimes you just have to guess what the approved fact you are supposed to regurgitate is.
Also note the similar Best Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

And I seem to recall seeing a "best of all time" comments, but I can't find a direct link to it. Anyone know the URL for that?
Yeah, the company I work for has millions of dollars tied up in Pure storage arrays. We evaluated Nutanix and I just stopped listening after they said they don't support external storage. Huge missed opportunity for them.
> Hate to burst your bubble, but even the super tight-laced "serious" journalism, especially in tech, all works the same

You ain't bursting my bubble. I've wined and dined DarkReading, SDxCentral, etc.

At least they aren't being mean while selling access.

This is why I said read practioners personal blogs and stuff, not these kinds of corporate journals.
How I Try to Keep Up with the Data Tech World (A List of Data Blogs)
Yes. Look into radios from radiomaster with ELRS or multi protocol hardware.

They have USB ports and can be plugged in and detected as a joystick.
This discussion being AirPod Prose.
McKinsey trains you to squeeze every cent possible from corporations
> The software support for iPads have been excellent imo, especially compared to competition.

Yes, excellent in comparison to the other "black rectangle" devices, phones, tablets, etc but compared to a regular PC still awful. My core 2 duo PC from ~16 years ago is still going strong.

I think the difference is, with an "open" platform like the PC it's up to the user when they want to replace the hardware, usually when it's too slow to keep up with the things you want to do. But with these newer devices you're completely at the mercy of the manufacturer - at some point the power flipped and that's a shame.
> I worked for a year with no engineering manager, no software director, no VP of Engineering

No you did not. You were the engineering manager
Sheldon Cooper can afford a nicer apartment.
Or BGP
You might be right, but at least it is SOME skeptical source to fight back against the unending gusher of marketing bullshit.

The fact they may preferentially apply the snark based on "extortion" isn't great, but at least they are SOME voice, and like comedy some snarky sarcasm is often much more incisive that (shockingly) fluff.

And considering the gushing amound of shadow-sponsored fluff in other magazines, aka the flip side of your alleged "extortion". If anything, the non-snark is an honest signal to an informed reader.
I encountered MS Copilot recently when I reluctantly installed Windows for a local charity (their idea, not mine). Basically, if you do a search it'll give you the results but will then fill your screen with other information allegedly related to your query but relayed in the most verbose and annoying manner possible.
Wings are just so much fun because of the longer flight times and no need for a flight controller.

FC are essential for long range missions typically, but I have pushed several miles on just GPS overlay in my video feed.
I agree with the push for the ban to remove incentives but I do wonder about consistency. These days it seems the world is compromising and “negotiating with terrorists” all the time. For example look at how Hamas is being handled, for taking all those hostages and still holding onto them months later. Are these situations different?
Or someone using sound recorder on Windows.
Content creators tend to use FPV more and more, because it lets them do tricks and "spectacular" shots not possible otherwise. But in many cases, even if the drone itself isn't DJI (and it usually isn't, for now), the video system is DJI (O3).
Do we really want someone's voice to be copyrightable, to a point where similar sounding people can't be used?

This is such a weird issue for HN to be upset about when other IP related issues (e.g. companies suing for recreating generic code, patent trolls, trademark colors, disregard of paywall, reverse engineering, etc), people here overwhelmingly fall on the side of weaker IP protections.

I guess the diff is some people just pick the side of "the little guy" and the example of centi millionaire beautiful actress vs billion dollar founder, the scales tip to the actress
> Lady Miss Kier's catch phrase

Not to over-analyze your use of language, but using the possessive here makes it seem like she personally owned that phrase or its use was associated with her. First, I don't know if that's true. Did she say, "Ooh la la," constantly, or is it just something she said at the beginning of the music video (and possibly studio recording) of the one hit from Deee-Lite, Groove Is In The Heart? Moreover, that phrase is a fairly well-known and widely-used one, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooh_La_La. It certainly was not original to her nor would its use indicate an association to her. To your point, its use plus the aesthetic of the character does seem like a reference to Lady Miss Kier's appearance in that music video (if not also her style and appearance more generally, I don't know if that is how she always looks). But she didn't sue everyone else on this list for the use of her supposed catch phrase, ooh la la.

I hate to say one person's fame is so great that they get special or different treatment in court, but I think "Lady Miss Kier" was punching above her weight in trying to sue over use of her image. Her fame was a flash-in-the-pan one-hit-wonder in the early 90s, no offense to any Deee-Lite fans. It was certainly a great song (with some help from Herbie Hancock, Bootsy Collins, and Q-Tip).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg
Still need a spotter. And if you have 107 for YouTube money, then sub 250g doesn't give you any alleviation from RID.
And yet, every single large company I worked for had AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, without exception. Many also have extensive on-prem resources.

Also, the contract negotiations you mentioned work much better if the competitor is already well present in your company.
Probably nothing, or a rogue AI is taking over MS.

This is the real world...if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it
Epic is fighting for a part of Google's cake that is protected by anti-competitive means.

In this case, even if they were a morally bankrupt organization, they are doing something that in the end will benefit users.

We should be able to recognize that even if we don't like Epic.
They're likely going to write Scarlett Johansson a large check and get a new voice.

What else do you think is going to happen?

The entire company gets shut down?
Ugh. It does sound like they're zealously anti-war. Strictly in the moment. And utterly indifferent to the fates of any & all innocent victims of conquest.

Two millennia ago, the author(s) of Revelations chose to make Conquest and War two separate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalyps... (Along with Famine and Death). Given the history which said author(s) had recently experienced - perhaps that was a painfully well-informed choice?
Good reason not to use amazon then.
Here, a direct comparison:

https://x.com/chriswiles87/status/1792909936189378653
I don't get it. He was looking for specific voice. Scarlett Johansson is one of the people who has the voice of this kind. She wasn't interested. It's only logical to approach a different person with the same kind of voice.

It's kinda nasty for one person to monopolize work for all actors that have similar voice to them just because she's most famous of all of them.
Everything is vendor lock-in. The difference is negotiations are not as protracted, the muscle to develop a multi-cloud strategy is fairly well built in our industry, AND cloud purchasing offers multiple different styles of billing (eg. subscription driven, multiyear, credit driven, etc) whereas with on-prem you have only a single type of billing model.
However, would it be sensible to keep a small team on a different tech (in this case move everything to N but keep a small V team) so that when shit happens in the other side you have an immediate team to migrate everything to this side?

(I'm thinking about MSFT who maintained a small Windows team when the majority effort went to OS/2 back in the 80s)
While training your competitors or political rivals as well.
"We're currently experiencing an issue with DuckDuckGo Search. Thanks for your patience while we get our ducks in a row.

In the meantime, you can use other search engines right here by using "bangs":

Google: !g why did youtube remove my subscriptions list
Yahoo: !y why did youtube remove my subscriptions list
Wikipedia: !w why did youtube remove my subscriptions list
And many more."

This change just happened. I've been waiting on Ddg since ~10am in Frankfurt, Germany.
> It's a bad use of capital. At the end of the day, Infra is a cost center. It's something used to keep the lights on, but doesn't expand your TAM.

Indeed it is and while CFOs may not completely understand the technology they do understand risk and if the CTO has flagged "single vendor" as a risk then the CFO will go with that.
Use D's -betterC flag?

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
There's a setting in DDG to disable ads. I'm aware of the Amazon affiliate link URL addition but since I don't buy anything from Amazon it doesn't concern me personally. Either way everyone can benefit from running a content blocker (I'd be surprised if anyone from this audience wasn't).
Imagine what GPT-5 might say in the future, once it's been trained on a snapshot of the Internet including these articles:

> whose voice do you use?

> It's based on Scarlett Johannson's performance in "Her."
I have good news, AI will be the cover for all mistakes now, since it can be fingerpointed/scapegoated as the source of all code.
Yep [1] is also a new interesting search engine, based on the index that Ahrefs [2], a SEO toolkit, has been keeping for 13+ years.

The only downsite is that it's slower than DDG and Google.

[1] https://yep.com/
[2] https://ahrefs.com/
"It was his egalitarian concerns that prompted him to so vehemently oppose the teaching of evolution, which, in the textbook Civic Biology, was being used to advocate eugenics, selective breeding programs, and the sterilization of undesirables"

It's a conundrum. We do these things in animals, but find it morally wrong in humans, yet the science is there, we can modify ourselves and each other in horrible ways, or possibly good ways.

Everyone forgets that the Nazis got there eugenics program from the US. The US was leading the way in Eugenics in the decades before the Nazis came to power. It can happen again with CRISPR
> This is actually extremely valuable as a life experience, and not gaining it as a child represents a major loss

Indeed: if you don't get this life experience, you don't learn to cultivate a fervent hate towards other humans. :-( Whether this is a desirable trait for you children to get is up to you to decide ...
In the US a criminal charge against someone is not relevant for a civil liability lawsuit.

Civil suits are between citizens. Criminal suits generally have the plaintiff as the state government, albeit with rare exceptions such as RICO.
Listen to the side by side comparisons. Sky has a deeper voice overall, in the gpt4o demo Sky displays a wider pitch range because the omni model is capable of emotional intonation. Her voice slides quite a bit while emoting but notably doesn't break and when she returns to her normal speaking voice you can hear a very distinct rhotic sound, almost an over-pronounced American accent and she has a tendency towards deepening into vocal fry especially before pauses. I'd describe her voice as mostly in her chest when speaking clearly.

Now listen to SJ's Samantha in Her and the first thing you'll notice are the voice breaks and that they break to a higher register with a distinct breathy sound, it's clearly falsetto. SJ seems to have this habit in her normal speaking voice as well but it's not as exaggerated and seems more accidental. Her voice is very much in her head or mask. The biggest commonality I can hear is that they both have a sibilant S and their regional accents are pretty close.
Oh, I wasn't aware of the last bit (brokenwall). Now we're entering gray area, depending on what was said exactly, and how much of a contribution voice actors made their characters.
No thanks, it's run by cryptobros.
Get tapes from 100 actors. Select the one who sounds closest to Scarlett
Gotcha, thanks for the insight.
Kagi has the same problem for me. The results don't load about 50% of the time. I had to cancel my subscription because I couldn't just roll the dice every time I searched to see if it would come back. Happens to all devices on my network.
Your attitude will change as soon as you have an obviously smart pre-adolescent or adolescent kid, going through puberty and other hard times that come before and after, and deciding to viscerally reject school and study, as proxy for other hard upsetting things they have to deal with as you become an adult.

You ready to let them mess up their future, in the name of not being called an helicopter parent?
A common model in some cost cutting software is to charge x% of the total savings... Win/win...just a suggestion... use picks "main LLM" and you calculate the "non optimized cost" based on that. Whatever savings you drive you take a share of the savings.
Sounds like a native MS product.
> every single large company I worked for had AWS, Azure and Google Cloud,

Multi-cloud is different from on-prem related stuff like multi-hypervisors, because there are multiple billing methods, the muscle to migrate is much better built in the industry, and your cloud costs can be placed within R&D (which traditionally gets way more leeway due to tax benefits) whereas any IT Infra spend will inevitably fall under the Finance&IT budget.
Ive used a less expensive plan years ago. The thing that bothered me the most was that they limited exports to 1000 or something unless you upgraded
Maybe because it's the most famous recent good movie about voice interface AI?

He's wasn't citing Lucy or whatever other garbage.
Interesting how they insist that they use "so much more" than just Bing for their results, but the moment Bing goes down their search functionality is down entirely, unable to show a single result.
The title states that this is von Neumann’s “first computer program,” but the writing includes plenty of indicators to the contrary and introduces the qualifiers “stored” and “extant.”

Maybe Knuth will issue a reward check to someone who emails him to fix the title?