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UmYeahNo··on Show HN: Meelo, self-hosted music server for collectors and music maniacs
What are you using to manage artist and album artist tags for your jellyfin server? I've been trying with Picard and both artist and album artist are a mess for me in jellyfin. I'm probably doing something wrong.
UmYeahNo··on Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT
I tried this yesterday, asking it to create a simple daily reminder task, which it happily did. Then when the time came and went I simply got a chat that the task failed, with no explanation of why or how it failed. When I asked it why, it hallucinated that I had too many tasks. (I only had the one) So, now I don't know why it failed or how to fix it. Which leads to two related observations:

1) I find it interesting that the LLM rarely seems trained to understand it's own features, or about your account, or how the LLM works. Seems strange that it has no idea about it's own support.

2) Which leads me to the Open AI support docs[0]. It seems pretty telling to me that they use old-school search and not an LLM for its own help docs, right?

[0] https://help.openai.com/

UmYeahNo··on Ask HN: Why Are You Here?
Mostly to hear the penetrating opinions of seaofliberty.
UmYeahNo··on Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought
What you're describing sounds an awful lot like a barebones obsidian vault.(https://obsdian.md)

I'm not familiar with the OP's notion of a "zettlegarden" but I get the impression that they want something a bit more than just markdown files. Perhaps the idea is to increase the notion of connection between captured notes, whether intentional created, or "serendipitous".

UmYeahNo··on Ask HN: Why is 100K singular but 20Megs plural?
Because "kilos" already had a meaning outside of computer file size, but "megs" did not. So we understand "megs" to be megabytes, but "kilos" is usually a measure of weight. So there was a different shorthand for "kilobytes".

Now, maybe I'm the minority here, but I've not heard many people use the shorthand "K's" for kilobytes, but I have heard "kb's" as a shorthand, and "kb" would be pluralized in the same way as "megs". "Forty kb's" is definitely something I've heard before.

Similarly, we would not say "The file is forty Ms", which would be parallel to forty "K's".

UmYeahNo··on Ask HN: Best Minimal Blog Site?
Bear blog: https://bearblog.dev/
UmYeahNo··on Show HN: Akas: A Micropodcasting App
What does this marketing even mean? What makes it a "safe space"? Is it anonymous? Is it private? Does anyone get to actually hear the podcast? How are you "safe" if you air your unedited thoughts? Long on promise, short on information. Pass.

And, the privacy policy seems to be stolen/ copied from thedrive.ai.

>Akas is a micro podcasting app that allows you to capture your raw, unedited, personal thoughts. It's a safe space to voice your inner thoughts—small victories, daily reflections, or unfiltered musings that don't fit elsewhere. Here, your thoughts don't have to be complete or polished. Share them as they are, privately or publicly. Give your voice to what matters, even if it is raw and unrefined.

UmYeahNo··on Budget Android (€99) vs. Expensive iPhone (€1000) (2018)
(2018)
UmYeahNo··on Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric
(2023)
UmYeahNo··on Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff
What was said:“As CEO, I take full responsibility for this decision and the circumstances that led to it..."

And what was unsaid: ...but I shall suffer no consequences, and I'll upend your life instead. So, I'm good, right?

What even means "I take full responsibility" in this case, if there are seemingly no consequences.

UmYeahNo··on Ask HN: What strategies do you use to attract traffic on Pinterest?
It's simple. I see a link to Pinterest, I don't click.
UmYeahNo··on Accha FM – World's First 100% AI Generated Audio Entertainment Super App
How does one sign up? I don't see anything on the site to do so. Did I miss it?
UmYeahNo··on Starliner Spacecraft Noise [audio]
That sound, shockingly, sounds like a sample from the Song "Break Law" by Dog Blood. Check out 10 seconds into the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uidibRc_U3o
UmYeahNo··on Children of You
Did that feel weird to anyone? For me the TL:DR is "Everyone should have kids because I really liked having kids."

And perhaps if you're rich and comfortable that's a fine argument.

But not seeing mention in this essay of things like climate change, the increasingly real prospect of a dystopic future, the widening income gap, anti-captialism, extremism, and a general bleakness of outlook felt by young people today feels myopic.

In the US, I don't see or hear a lot of optimism for the future from Millenials or Zoomers. What I do hear from them is prospect of bringing a child into a world running out of clean water, clean air, and arable land just to work in an ever more hostile world for billionaires who think you're expendable is a pretty good set of reasons not to bring a child into the world who will have to deal with it long after we're all gone. And, after the last pandemic there is little appetite for bringing a child into this world.

UmYeahNo··on I built a productivity tool for ADHD professionals
It says "Get Started for Free" which I take as marketing speak for, "oh, you'll pay for it later". But there is no pricing page that my ADHD addled mind could find.

So it is free, free for a limited time, free for a limited feature set, or something else? Let's find out....

Oh, I see, you have to go way down the onboarding path before they tell you is between $130 and $200 a year - after a 3-day free trial. "Weekly pricing" also seems pretty sneaky to make it appear less expensive than it actually is.

Why not just be up front about it? Do you think that your pricing is too expensive good enough, such that you have to hide it?

At least it gives you a "delete account" option at the pricing page.

UmYeahNo··on Why is it so hard to share links on LinkedIn?
My previous employer's evil HR director weaponized employee Linked In profiles. The hr department would actively monitor employee linked in pages. You were expected to regularly post positive stuff about the company (it would come up in reviews), BUT if it looked like the employee was buffing their resume they would have the employee's manager bring the employee in to try and figure out if they were getting ready to quit, and in certain cases use those updates as the impetus for us to "find a reason" to PiP/fire the employee.

Or, if you were a manager on HR's shitlist as someone they wanted gone, they would use employees updating their profile it as cause for the manager's manager to investigate if the manager should be fired for low staff morale, since the employees were seen as getting ready to quit, and so it must be the managers fault.

The company's position was, you should only use your linked in profile to talk about how good the employer was, and anything else to promote the employee or look for a job was a trigger for "finding a reason to fire".

It was horrible. Glad I'm not there anymore.

UmYeahNo··on Why I left Google
If you love your coworkers, but hate your company's mission, should you stay or leave?
UmYeahNo··on Ask HN: Whos responsible for CrowdStrike crisis – Administrators or CrowdStrike?
This a false dichotomy, isn't it? It's an interesting formulation of the question anyway. It gives the choice of assigning blame to the large abstract entity of Crowdstrike or the individual in the IT admin. Pretty asymmetrical.
UmYeahNo··on Electric Clouds This Summer
I might have thought that too, however the article specifically called out rockets as a cause. So, if rockets are contributing a significantly more particulates such that it causes a phenomenon of more cloud cover at lower latitudes, is that a cause for concern? I don't know either way -- I was asking what we might think it meant.
UmYeahNo··on Electric Clouds This Summer
I meant worsening from the perspective of becoming more and more over time, not necessarily making things "worse". a bad turn of phrase on my part.

If there is a constant cloud cover that only becomes thicker / more constant over time at very high altitude I wonder if there will be detrimental effects. That was my question. What does it mean if these clouds are constant?

UmYeahNo··on Electric Clouds This Summer
I have more questions than answers after reading this.

"They’re lit by a twilight sun catching on ice crystals and seeded by rocket exhaust and space dust." and

"Exhaust from rockets, which have been launching in growing numbers lately, can also seed the clouds, as the AIM satellite research showed."

...are a pretty startling notion.

Should we expect, then, that this phenomena will be constant / worsening moving forward as the proliferation of rocket launches increases thereby pumping more water / alumina / particulates into the very upper atmosphere?

I'm not an alarmist normally, but taken further, then is it too hyperbolic to say that SpaceX and its high-frequency launch competitors are already changing the global weather within just a few years of ramping up operations?

Can we say with certainty that the occurrence of these clouds is not an harbinger / indicator of future weather changes? Like, does having more ultra-high altitude clouds increase or decrease greenhouse effects, for example?

UmYeahNo··on Odyssey, Hollywood-grade visual AI
The fact that the trailer on that site didn't end with "Made By Odyssey", and seemed to contain a lot of stock footage tells me everything I need to know about it's capability.
UmYeahNo··on [dead]
I mean, good album, but... why on HN?
UmYeahNo··on Ask HN: Where the heck are the junior Full stack positions
I've been thinking about the potential impact of AI on the job market, particularly in the tech industry. There's a growing narrative that AI can handle the tasks typically assigned to junior or entry-level developers. As a result, we're seeing some developers become significantly more productive with the aid of AI, which might reduce the overall need for hiring new devs.

If this continues, we could / will face a shortage of senior devs in the future. As the current senior devs retire or move on, there might not be enough experienced devs to fill their roles because the initial demand for junior devs has decreased. This potential gap could have significant implications for the industry. What happens then?

UmYeahNo··on Obscurest Vinyl
Companies are spending billions upon billions of dollars on GPUs so we can get "Daydreamin' (About Taking a Huge Dump, Then Getting up To Piss on the Dump To Cut It in Half)"

Sigh.

UmYeahNo··on Ask HN: Does Clicking on 'Dead' Comments Freeze your Browser Too?
It expanded immediately for me. Chrome, Mac.
UmYeahNo··on Reddit is updating its app to focus more on comments
...and to encourage you to write a reply, so they can sell that reply as training data for LLMs.
UmYeahNo··on Trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why
The vendor got yelled at / severely chastised.
UmYeahNo··on GPT-vetting: The first ever AI interviewer
Perfect! I have my GPT-Based Interviewee.ai ready to go to interact with your Bot. It's been trained on my personal repos and writing and can answer just as I would! Now I can interview for hundreds of jobs simultaneously! /s

Actually, thanks for creating this. It's a perfect screening device for companies I would NEVER want to work for. Seriously. If you employ a service like this to fully dehumanize job candidates, then you are definitely NOT the kind of shop I would ever want to work for.

UmYeahNo··on Ask HN: Why is the Netlify post with 1k in 7 hours on page 5?
Apparently HN has a "flamewar" detector. Perhaps this is the reason?

I found it referenced here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230513

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