MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joshred | 2025-08-18 18:57:06+00:00
They might not now how whisper works. I suspect that the answer to their question is 'yes' and the reason they can't find a straightforward answer through your project is that the answer is so obvious to you that it's hardly worth documenting.

Whisper for transcription tries to transform audio data into LLM output. The transcripts generally have proper casing, punctuation and can usually stick to a specific domain based on the surrounding context.
by bangaladore | 2025-08-18 18:57:37+00:00
I think we (sorry I) have seen that degradation has not the concern, it's the pack engineering that is an issue by a large margin.

Tesla's packs first produced in 2017/18 for the model 3 represented largely the industry's first mass produced packs that will largely fail naturally, not due to pack engineering issues (failed cells, leaks, cooling, etc...). Before that required a much higher pack replacement rate, and other manufacturers have the same issues.
by pgwhalen | 2025-08-18 18:58:51+00:00
I don’t understand the difference between NIMBYism and NIMBY other than the part of speech. I also don’t understand the level of vitriol in your responses, I do not intend to shut down arguments or virtue signal.

Your association with NIMBYism as strictly economically motivated is a popular and recent one but the term predates and is much broader than that, and being purely motivated by historical preservation on a local level definitely is NIMBYism.
by monknomo | 2025-08-18 18:58:51+00:00
The moving thing is not true; or if it is easy we're at a historic low of people doing easy things (at least in America)[1]. Internationally, it sure looks to me like folks want to tighten borders and reduce international movement [no cite; just vibes].

As for retraining, I am skeptical. I think it, at best, puts an older demographic in competition for entry level jobs, and generally at a disadvantage[2].

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/geograph... [2] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/01/the-fa...
by notatoad | 2025-08-18 18:58:54+00:00
>Alternatively, it’s the equivalent of having a sign saying “Caution, Tarpit”.

yeah, the fact that it is actually useful for blocking crawlers is kind of a misleading thing. it's called "robots.txt", it's there to help the robots, not to block them. you use it to help a robot crawl your site more efficiently, and tell them what not to bother looking at so they don't waste their time.

people seem to have forgotten really quickly that making your website as accessible as possible to crawlers was actually considered a good thing, and there was a whole industry around optimizing websites for search engines crawlers.
by bmacho | 2025-08-18 18:59:38+00:00
It's not a quote, but a statement. And even if it were a quote, random other quotes from the same person are not relevant. "This is just a part of the quote" people are so annoying. Like guess why it is "only a part of a quote"? Because some parts are neat, insightful and true, and some other parts are irrelevant and garbage.

Sorry, this was a more general rant, because it is so annoying every single time.

In this case: Who the hell cares about that random guy's random views? How is it relevant in this conversation?
by hellojesus | 2025-08-18 19:02:05+00:00
I just looked it up, and you're correct. I must have misinterpreted its messages to me, or maybe it was the one-prompt-too many for it as I was using it that got to me.

Edit: I think I remember now. As I was using the terminal it was asking me to allow it to access directories as I was cd-ing into them. That forced use of the mouse was too much, even if there was probably a trivial way to disable it.
by nomel | 2025-08-18 19:02:31+00:00
> then you can either prune it down to a more recent date range

Yes, this is the required inevitable hack to get around it, which involves rewriting the history in various, creative, ways, which (last I checked) changes all the git commits SHAs, invalidating all the issue tracker links, and everyone doing a bunch of manual work to get things sane on their local sides, which are now unrelated history.

Git was not build for any of this.
by amluto | 2025-08-18 19:02:36+00:00
You said that, “given the crosswalks”, W Hudson isn’t obviously unsafe. I tried to figure out what crosswalks, plural, you were talking about.

There is one crosswalk at the E side of the intersection with Lyon. There is not a crosswalk on the W side, nor is there there one before W Hudson ends a ways to the west.

If you follow Lyon to the south, you will find the word “SCHOOL” in big letters in the road, with no associated crosswalk.

If you go east a couple thousand feet, there’s another crosswalk. Sure, a couple thousand feet is a credible distance to walk if you’re going for a walk, but it’s rather far to detour as a pedestrian to get across a street.

Okay, maybe the kids in question should have used the crosswalk at Lyon. If your mark is right, I buy that.

But this road looks awful. Suppose you’re at Southwest Jr. High and you want to go to La Bodega Food Mart or Subway. How do you get there while using crosswalks to cross major streets? The obvious locations that seem like they should have crosswalks don’t have them.

> What's a SCHOOL marking?

Check out satellite view and go south a little way on Lyon. “SCHOOL” is painted on the street. Notably, no crosswalk is painted on the street.
by belter | 2025-08-18 19:02:59+00:00
> They also don’t have solid recognized leaders or talent in the space and it shows.

AWS was built by exceptional technical leaders like James Hamilton, Werner Vogels, and Tim Bray and I would include Bezos also, who people seem to forget has a Computer Science degree. But the company has consistently underpaid developers, while relying heavily on H-1B workers, and treating technical talent as poorly as Amazon treats delivery drivers.

When skilled engineers can get better opportunities elsewhere, they leave. AWS below market compensation, has driven away the technical expertise needed for innovation.

AWS has shifted from technical leadership to MBA driven management, and lately aggressively hiring senior middle management from Oracle. The combination of technical talent exodus, cultural deterioration and MBA style management made AWS poorly positioned for the AI era, where technical excellence and innovation speed are everything.

During major technological shifts like AI, you need a engineering first culture and inhouse technical skills. AWS has neither.
by Bender | 2025-08-18 19:03:10+00:00
Any time I think about robots.txt, I think about a quote from Pirates of the Caribbean. [1] "The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do." except that I replace man with bot. Everything should be designed to handle pirates, given the hostile nature of the internet.

To me, robots.txt is a friendly way to say, "Hey bots, this is what I allow. Stay in these lanes including crawl-delay [2] and I won't block you." Step outside and I can put you on an exercise wheel. I know very few support crawl-delay since it is not part of the standard but that is not my problem. Blocking bots or making them waste a lot of cycles or get dummy data or wildly reordering packets or adding random packet loss or slowing them to 2KB/s is more fun for me than playing Doom.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4zwh26kP8o [video][2 mins]

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt#Crawl-delay_directi...
by coldpie | 2025-08-18 19:03:19+00:00
Your experience in Chicago is definitely not universal. I live in Saint Paul, MN and many of our residential roads are perfectly straight for miles. Earlier this summer, someone was killed by a driver going approx 100 MPH on a perfectly straight, Saint Paul residential street. https://www.fox9.com/news/100-mph-intersection-crash-homicid...
by godelski | 2025-08-18 19:03:48+00:00
Many things are slow because few programmers (or managers) care. Because they'll argue about "value" but all those notions of value are made up anyways.

People argue "sure, it's not optimal, but it's good enough". But that compounds. A little slower each time. A little slower each application. You test on your VM only running your program.

But all of this forgets what makes software so powerful AND profitable: scale. Since we always need to talk monetary value, let's do that. Shaving off a second isn't much if it's one person or one time but even with a thousand users that's over 15 minutes, per usage. I mean we're talking about a world where American Airlines talks about saving $40k/yr by removing an olive and we don't want to provide that same, or more(!), value to our customers? Let's say your employee costs $100k/yr and they use that program once a day. That's 260 seconds or just under 5 minutes. Nothing, right? A measly $4. But say you have a million users. Now that's $4 million!

Now, play a fun game with me. Just go about your day as normal but pay attention to all those little speedbumps. Count them as $1m/s and let me know what you got. We're being pretty conservative here as your employee costs a lot more than their salary (2-3x) and we're ignoring slowdown being disruptive and breaking flow. But I'm willing to bet in a typical day you'll get on the order of hundreds of millions ($100m is <2 minutes).

We solve big problems by breaking them into a bunch of smaller problems, so don't forget that those small problems add up. It's true even if you don't know what big problem you're solving.
by kulahan | 2025-08-18 19:04:15+00:00
Wow, I did not expect anyone to be offering a SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND mile warranty on their batteries. That's some serious confidence. I didn't see anything about it transferring, though. That would be smart on their end - the resale value for electric sports cars at least, is about 50% in the first year, then it levels off hard after that. This would encourage buying new, but not aftermarket. I'll have to look into this.

Still, while this removes a primary concern of mine, there's still one major hurdle that cannot be bypassed as far as I can tell (yet): If you have shared parking, there's essentially no way to charge your car. Maybe if it's an outdoor parking lot you can rely on solar power somewhat, assuming you're in a good situation for that?

Still, my point is that my parking space isn't actually mine, so I can't modify anything in the garage. Assuming superconductors aren't figured out any time soon, this appears to be an impossible solve, which cuts their consumer market significantly.

Also, not exactly the same thing, but they could remove those warranties and instead get some nice replaceable battery cells in there. Let me turn a thing to unlock it, pull out that one cell, and replace it. But maybe I'm a little more wrench-y than their customers want to be?
by MisterTea | 2025-08-18 19:04:28+00:00
If you have seen the film Brazil you will remember the scene where Harry Tuttle, a rogue heating engineer, removes a modular wall panel to service the equipment behind it. Now I know most homes have no need for such modularity and most people value aesthetics over practicality and prefer the seamless look, but I would totally want that in my home. Would make adding or moving wiring, fixtures and plumbing a breeze.
by extraisland | 2025-08-18 19:04:47+00:00
That unfortunately is a common fallacy that people engage in.

In the first chapter of "Anatomy of the State" this idea is utterly demolished.

> With the rise of democracy, the identification of the State with society has been redoubled, until it is common to hear sentiments expressed which violate virtually every tenet of reason and common sense such as, “we are the government.” The useful collective term “we” has enabled an ideological camouflage to be thrown over the reality of political life. If “we are the government,” then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also “voluntary” on the part of the individual concerned. If the government has incurred a huge public debt which must be paid by taxing one group for the benefit of another, this reality of burden is obscured by saying that “we owe it to ourselves”; if the government conscripts a man, or throws him into jail for dissident opinion, then he is “doing it to himself” and, therefore, nothing untoward has occurred. Under this reasoning, any Jews murdered by the Nazi government were not murdered; instead, they must have “committed suicide,” since they were the government (which was democratically chosen), and, therefore, anything the government did to them was voluntary on their part. One would not think it necessary to belabor this point, and yet the overwhelming bulk of the people hold this fallacy to a greater or lesser degree.
by Confiks | 2025-08-18 19:05:29+00:00
A month ago a potential customer automatically included their Otter.ai meeting agent into a Teams call. The customer never turned up (he canceled the meeting somewhat later), but me and a colleague chatted a bit in the meeting. Then the Otter.ai meeting agent posted a link in the chat, from which it was clear that everything had been recorded, up to a complete video of the meeting with full facial imagery.

As I'm a European citizen, I filed a GDPR removal request with them to remove all images of me from their servers. The email address that they list in their privacy policy [1] for GDPR requests immediately bounces and tells you to reply from an Otter.ai account (which I don't have). I was able to fill in a contact form on their website and I did receive replies via email after that.

After a few emails back and forth, their position is that

> You will need to reach out to the conversation owner directly to request to have your information deleted/removed. Audio and screenshots created by the user are under the control of the user, not Otter.

> We are required by law to deny any request to delete personal information that may be contained within a recording or screenshot created by another user under the CCPA, Cal. Civil Code § 1798.145(k), which states in relevant part

> “The rights afforded to consumers and the obligations imposed on the business in this title shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other natural persons. A verifiable consumer request…to delete a consumer’s personal information pursuant to Section 1798.105…shall not extend to personal information about the consumer that belongs to, or the business maintains on behalf of, another natural person…[A] business is under no legal obligation under this title or any other provision of law to take any action under this title in the event of a dispute between or among persons claiming rights to personal information in the business’ possession.”

Which is a ridiculous answer towards a European user, as the CCPA doesn't apply to me at all. Furthermore, I don't think the CCPA prohibits them at all in deleting my face from their servers, as the CCPA merely stipulates that I can't compel them under the CCPA. Otter.ai can perfectly decide this for themselves or be compelled under the GDPR to delete data, and their Terms and Conditions make it clear they may delete any user or data if they wish to do so.

After these emails, and me threatening to file a lawsuit, "Andrew" from "Otter.ai Support Team" promised to escalate the matter to his manager, but I got ghosted after that: they simply stopped replying.

So I'm going to file that lawsuit (a "verzoekschriftprocedure" under Dutch law) this week. It's going to be a very short complaint.

[1] https://otter.ai/privacy-policy
by simianwords | 2025-08-18 19:05:30+00:00
I investigated the first link with ChatGPT. All the percentiles have increased except 10th percentile. But they do not account for after tax wages and other benefits and transfers.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59510 shows this. Bottom 20% wages after accounting for benefits and taxes have significantly increased. If you want to answer the question: are the bottom 20% materially more well off at 1960's than now - this is your answer. Hourly wages without accounting for benefits is missing a crucial element so not really indicative of reality.

Caveat: this shows the bottom quintile (20th percentile) and after looking at the data it appears to be a change of ~60% of real disposable income from 1978 to 2020. 10th percentile would be similar.

TL;DR: if you use real disposable income that accounts for taxes and benefits (what really matters) the wages have not stagnated for anyone but increased a lot - by almost 60%.
by nulld3v | 2025-08-18 19:05:46+00:00
Most of the budget scales I've seen are accurate to <0.1g. If in doubt, grab a cheap set of calibration weights for $20, I have 2 sets from China and both are accurate to <0.01g on all the weights from 1g up to 200g.

Obviously if you have the money, you can buy actual certified ASTM weights, but they are insanely expensive.
by chao- | 2025-08-18 19:06:15+00:00
I have experienced the same situation with facet-like pages in the past. Links leading to (for example) the same product with a different color pre-selected on page load. Or within in a listing of a category products, a link might change from price descending to price ascending. All else equal, even the crawlers don't want to re-index the same page in eighty different ways if they could avoid it. They simply don't know better, and have decided to ignore our attempt to teach them (robots.txt).

In the past, we've used this behavior as a signal to identify and block bad bots. These days, they will try again from 2000 separate residential IPs before they give up. But there was a long time where egregious duplicate page views of these faceted pages (against the advice of robots.txt) made detecting certain bad bots much easier.
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-18 19:07:27+00:00
It's almost like that's a consequence of not enforcing anti-trust vigorously enough, allowing capital to accrete in Big Tech, and creating extremely large tech companies whose primary innovation comes from acquiring rather than building.

The reason a competitive ecosystem of tech companies is effective has less to do with market hand magic and more to do with big companies being dumb and conservative, largely as a consequence of their leader selection criteria.

Microsoft missing web and mobile.

Intel missing mobile and GPU.

Google missing productizing AI.
by alaithea | 2025-08-18 19:07:27+00:00
Your concerns are extremely valid, but it is not _that_ bad in many places in America. I relocated my family specifically so that my kids could have a walkable community to live in, and since then (about five years), we've had no issues with them getting to schools, parks, the library, friends' houses, and downtown shops on their own.

That said, we live in the inner district of a small city that was settled in the mid 19th century, so it has a street grid, alleys, uninterrupted sidewalks, etc.... everything that makes a place as safe as possible in this day and age for kids to get around without getting hit by a car. (One exception being dedicated biking infrastructure, which would be awesome.)
by lpedrosa | 2025-08-18 19:08:09+00:00
I believe the difference between ICE degradation and EV degradation is that the EV one actually affects the car's range.

While it is true that your car might consume more oil, and some other component might need replacing, its range, assuming it has been serviced properly, should be similar to what you could get out of it new.

I do wonder if the sum of the costs of getting the ICE car back to mint condition will be the same as getting some cells replaced so you get full range again.
by tomwheeler | 2025-08-18 19:08:13+00:00
In 1995-1196, I worked at an ISP. Our first step when trying to troubleshoot an access problem for a new user was to run the finger command on our server to see if the account had been provisioned yet.

30 years later, I still recall the time I had to calm down an angry customer after a frontline support tech told her that he was going to "finger her to find out what the problem is." He _really_ didn't think that one through!
by karaterobot | 2025-08-18 19:08:32+00:00
> Precisely one reason comes to mind to have ROBOTS.TXT, and it is, incidentally, stupid - to prevent robots from triggering processes on the website that should not be run automatically

Counter-point: I have a blog I don't want to appear on search engines because it has private stuff on it. 25 years ago I added two lines to robots.txt file, and I've never seen it show up on any search engine ever since.

I'm not pretending nobody has indexed my blog and kept a copy of the results. I'm just saying the blog I started in college doesn't show up when you search for my name on Google, which is all I care about.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-08-18 19:09:09+00:00
Copyright was created because we realized that it takes effort to put works together (in the original case it was educational information) but that distribution can be done without rewarding that initial effort. Which then results in the initial effort not happening. Which then ends up in a dumber, less intelligent, idea poor world without those works.

Society agreed to copyright because of the social benefit of having people willing to put effort/expense into creating works. We're not talking zero value internet BS, but real works. People who create the works don't make them scarce, their distribution is infinitely scalable. They just make it so that they are compensated.
by gausswho | 2025-08-18 19:09:46+00:00
I don't agree. More tech will always have snickets we can bypass our best self-imposed gaols.

The mitigations that work well for me are purely encouraging endogenous dopamine production. Hiking (or anything outdoors). Sleep improvement through regular rituals (no phone in bed). And, indeed, nutrition. Basically, the old adage of eat well, sleep well, get some exercise. That's how you get your groove back.
by jjulius | 2025-08-18 19:10:21+00:00
I get it. It's inconvenient. It's a shitty road for pedestrians. I'd also like to increase my chances, by whatever small or large amount, of making it home in one piece. If the downside to increasing my likelihood of survival is that I have to take a few extra minutes to continue to exercise my joints and my cardiovascular system, then... okay.

I am very much typically on the side of, "Cities are too car-centric and we need to redesign them for people and bikes," but, seriously... how have we reached the point where, "It's a few extra minutes of flat walking," is the primary argument against something?
by cuttothechase | 2025-08-18 19:10:25+00:00
>> That’s not bad, given that most cars are scrapped somewhere in the 150,000 to 200,000 miles range. At that point, a Tesla will have more than 80% of its initial capacity, and in some cases, even more. So people will probably give up their car, well, well before the battery gets close to becoming a burden.

Can they not see that this is because of correlation and not causation. Why would an EV be given up at 150 - 200K when it has much less moving parts and stressors compared to the traditional ICE based vehicles?