Hacker News: detourdog

New comment by detourdog in "U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative"

detourdog — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:53:36 +0000

Also scarcity isn’t what it once was. The biggest internal social problems were often scarcity induced.

New comment by detourdog in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

detourdog — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:14:49 +0000

I guess your right scared might be their natural state and I was wrong to presume a quantifiable fear.

New comment by detourdog in "A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS"

detourdog — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:13:39 +0000

Fortunately my DNS entry starts in 1996 and would be covered by the first clause. BigCos claims would need to predate 1996 for my domain to be seized.

New comment by detourdog in "A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS"

detourdog — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:06:29 +0000

This has been my understanding. I was told by lawyer in in th 90's that it would be described as squatting in court.

New comment by detourdog in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

detourdog — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:34:49 +0000

or they were scared and figured this was the right time to reveal.

New comment by detourdog in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

detourdog — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:28:06 +0000

The agents sound like old school hackers that would just explore what access they could gain. Creating a file for other hackers and themselves. The fact that there were 3 events for 3 major players does make it seem co-ordinated.

New comment by detourdog in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

detourdog — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:14:39 +0000

I can’t get over how the process is exactly what a hacker hive does. Communicate leaving notes in some random file.

New comment by detourdog in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

detourdog — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:15:24 +0000

The number of artists that succeed is irrelevant to my comment. No one needs to tell me about the life of an Artist or the Art world. My dad was a fine art painter, my mom was a potter, another uncle is a kinetic sculptor, one uncle made pastel's of Sulky races to get by. I have a cousin that was a pioneer in computer graphics attending the Media Lab while it was still in the architecture department.

I was raised in the art world by a multi-generational art family. None were wildly successful all managed to make enough for a good life. Farmers, bakers, masseuses, carpenters,... all work with their hands generally only artist can take rubbish and turn it into big money. The criticism of the art world you put forward is very one-dimensional.

New comment by detourdog in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

detourdog — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:55:26 +0000

It is suffering and I'm not sure it is worth it. I didn't notice the suffering until the later stage of life.

New comment by detourdog in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

detourdog — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:21:36 +0000

I found that that stock market is the way to scale income. One can't make big money with just their hands unless they are an artist.

New comment by detourdog in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

detourdog — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:19:55 +0000

I would say only a few do it and they are self-selected. The ones that do it have a sense of agency that is lacking in the ones that dont do it. Some people never notice their own agency they believe it comes from outside them.

New comment by detourdog in "“Gravity is worth asking about”"

detourdog — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:20:05 +0000

That is the point. They used to hold the user experience in higher regard than their need for a helipad.

New comment by detourdog in "In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years"

detourdog — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:10:35 +0000

I think you are off to a good start.

#title:HN00001

New comment by detourdog in "“Gravity is worth asking about”"

detourdog — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:23:12 +0000

Apple's days of simplicity out of the box are over. The simplicity is still in there somewhere. Through a combination of turning off a lot of features in settings and using a few defaults shell command it can be made simple.

Apple got complex due to dynamic workspaces that result in windows unexpectedly flying off screen or popping up as one mouses's around and the new security model which no longer trusts defaults to local applications trusting each other.

This security model is why each application needs to be granted local access. I believe Apple encourages all apps to stick to their own sandbox to the extent possible.

I'm currently trying to figure out how to give Image Events access to my local hard disk. My old applescripts using Image Events have broken due to the loss of access.

New comment by detourdog in "“Gravity is worth asking about”"

detourdog — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:07:06 +0000

I would say I'm about 90% satisfied. Yesterday I just did a bunch of batch graphic conversations by opening multiple images in Preview. Selecting all the images in the sidebar. I could then batch process manual using preview.

It was an awesome experience and the first really exciting improvement I have seen in a long time.

New comment by detourdog in "“Gravity is worth asking about”"

detourdog — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:02:09 +0000

No they would not. This is probably biggest betrayal of Apple users I have experienced. Apple should never confuse their OS's as ad delivery systems.

New comment by detourdog in "In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years"

detourdog — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:03:55 +0000

Probably I used to read his blog.

New comment by detourdog in "In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years"

detourdog — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:27:51 +0000

A read a story of a guy who bumped into him at conference and had some sort of conversation. The following week he received a follow-up from Wolfram's office with his assigned conversation number. The number was to be used for all follow-ups.

New comment by detourdog in "Buckminster Fuller: everything I know"

detourdog — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:13:45 +0000

I like to listen to it. I certainly wouldn’t want to try to read it.

New comment by detourdog in "Everything I Know (1975)"

detourdog — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:03:20 +0000

That’s what foundations are for. Transcription used to be a human job just like computers.