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1. Coding 2. TTS (Text to Speech) and STT (Speech To Text) 3. Image creation and understanding For me I've been using: 1. qwen3-coder-next 2. Fish Audio S2 Pro (TTS) and Whisper fo…

I can relate to this and in my journey, I was able to maintain feeding my need to be useful to the world around me and do well money-wise. The latter was my desire to be there for …

R.I.P Joe Armstrong - he was an amazing man, engineer, and human overall. :(

A quick write up since I see so many people who don't know the difference. Now that AI is writing a lot more code, I wanted to share something useful for humans. In HTML, div and s…

How are you preparing data, what challenges do you face, how do you generate data at scale (using LLMs to create synthetic data for instance). Curious minds what to know :)

I don't recall when I first met Bob; I've known him for over 14 years. I've known him first virtually on IRC and then in person at around 2010. We share so many common friends, it'…

I personally don't have children and I didn't _really_ understand how difficult it is to have kids at home while working. When I moved back East, I did spend 3 days at my brothers.…

Item #1 - 100% correct. Item #4 - I fully disagree. Some choices are scary to actually make, but are healthy. For instance, my mom stayed with her abusive husband for many years be…

I was in Austin last year and was shocked by the homeless there. I spoke to a few people and they had informed me that some laws changed recently which allows them to live under br…

You might want to kill me after I say this, certainly people on HN want to kill me just for fun ;), but I also drink coffee. I only drink sugar free Red Bull. What's strange is I c…

Life choices always have an impact. I'm not judging you, because trust me, expensive areas like New York City (I love living there) are great, but blow during a pandemic since you'…

I agree - dressing up was implied with "get washed/dressed". It's very important to get dressed for work.

I 100% agree. I moved from Mountain View CA to Jersey City, NJ. When I moved, I intentionally made sure I found a place with an extra bedroom. That being said, trust me, I know not…

Personally, I'm not burnt out. To void burn out, I did a few things which I feel are extremely helpful. 1. Have a room that is a dedicated office. When I leave this room, I leave t…

I just have to say this "magnets how do they work"? ;) Anyone get the reference?

We're allowed, but the vast majority of the time I'm inside. A typical day for me, pre-covid, was coffee shops, bookstores, that sort of activity. Now those options are not availab…

Lucky me, growing up my mom didn't make more than $8k a year - this would have been impossible for me to do lol. It was also impossible for me to eat properly and have new cloths..…

Sadly my eyes are too small to actually track the pupils. I remember when I got my ID, the lady taking the picture said "Sir, please open your eyes". I looked at her and asked "The…

I'm not at all opposed to companies like Google, Facebook, etc asking Algorithms, Data Structure and Big O related questions. Why? It's very applicable to problems at their scale. …

I use to live in NYC; in Battery Park City. I was looking to move back, currently in Mountain View, then COVID-19 hit. How is live in NY? I was there in Dec before this whole thing…

For me - Cooking and furniture refurbishing Making homemade bread, Italian food, various other meals from different cultures etc.