skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The codecs and narrow frequencies used on most public safety trunked radio networks is truly terrible. IMBE and AMBE+2 should have never made it past Y2K, yet Motorola and Project 25 have ensured these remain in widespread use on these networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_25

If Whisper achieves 85% or higher accuracy on this audio, it would be a miracle. Garbage in, garbage out tbh. Project 25 needs to move to a modern codec, ideally not one seeing little development done by one small company.
Portable hard drive is probably the most practical. Another option not on this list would be rclone [1].

[1] https://rclone.org/docs/
Differences between the old stealth bomber and the new one
Python 3.11.1, 3.10.9, 3.9.16, 3.8.16, 3.7.16, and 3.12.0 alpha 3 now available
Out of curiosity, when you chunk it, what do you do about words (and maybe even sentences) that might get caught in the middle of the split?
> 1. Scalability issues related to a very large block chain size and the associated difficulty in bringing up and running a full node.

This is a problem of 2 parts: Transaction scalability & Storage scalability.

Transaction scalability's currently being resolved with various optimistic & zk-based rollup solutions, with the latter rolling out next year (zkSync 2.0, Scroll, & Polygon Zero & Miden) and the former already being improved upon & decentralized (Optimism & Arbitrum). There are still guardrails in place, as they're still being developed/improved on.

https://l2beat.com/scaling/risk

Storage scalability's a different issue that's also being worked on via data availability (DA) sampling, whereby the use of erasure codes & random sampling allows for data to be split into chunks & distributed amongst the network. With this system, every node doesn't need to hold onto all of the data: The whole network only needs to provide at least 51-99% (depending on the erasure code used) of the chunks to reconstruct the block, verify, & republish the block for everyone else.

By doing so, the average case for a node is reduced from "store all data" to "store 1/n of all data", with N being the number of data shards for the entire network.

Another way that's being worked on is the creation of Validium rollups, wherein the data is stored off-chain but it can still be proven via proofs published on-chain. It's not as secure as a fully on-chain rollup, but in return, the rollup consumes significantly less gas.

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/158866978247136870...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgwVhUjaAAEx_Bb?format=jpg&name=...
My only complaint against them is I tried to buy a battery tray from them so I could swap the battery between my Rad City and my 48v homebrew bike, and they refused to sell it to me. (Edit: To be clear I went back a couple of months later, told a different story, and got one.)

I also had a battery charging issue after 1000 miles and a winter where it got unplugged from the charger for a couple of months, but I count that as my mistake. I got to take apart the old battery pack though, and one interesting thing I found was that although the power output has half a dozen electrodes on it, only the two big + and - ones were connected to anything.
Linkedin+Glassdoor lets you target marks based on approximate salary.
Really? You go through the trouble of hooking up your phone and starting your favorite app on a 5 minute run to the grocery store rather than just letting the radio be background noise? I totally get doing that for longer trips but so many of my trips are short enough they could be done on foot or by bike if my area was more friendly to that sort of thing.

Radio does the job for the few minutes I'll be in the car.
For perspective, he shoehorned an unrelated and uneducated view on a topic into the first 15% of his talk.
> less centralized

I finding it amusing how wind and solar proponents cite this as a postive. It's actually a liability: energy demand is centralized in population centers but low density energy sources muse be decentralized by necessity. This means more transmission infrastructure needs to be built and maintained. This explains more: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s3ScJ_FwaZk
Owner tracking and priority inheritance, anyone?
You can get FLIR One cameras with Lightning and USB-C (for iPhone and Android respectively) for $300. https://www.amazon.com/FLIR-ONE-Thermal-Imaging-Camera/dp/B0...

It isn't as good as the FLIR on the Cat phone, but if you're one of those people going "Man, having a FLIR around the house would be cool" - this is the solution for you. And it will outlive your phone...so long as you don't change "sides" in the OS Wars.
It's not a yes or no question, I'm asking you to explain how these two separate things have anything to do with each other. The burden of proof is on you, you're the one who said it and you're asking me to prove a negative.
Most interesting comment (on web browsers):

> [...] starting around two decades ago, there was an explosion in the complexity of browsers as companies wanted to have more and more control over exactly what would appear on a user's screen. So they invented lots of features to control that, features where the user couldn't really customize how something would actually appear because the whole point was that the company could control that. And JavaScript was sort of the ultimate level of "the company controls everything." Because of this, going beyond the simple level of web page formatting features in Emacs is basically heading down a path that leads to subjugation. It's a path that we need to stay away from. It's a path to an unjust world of computing that you can easily see around you. Web browsers nowadays are designed to display ads that you may not want to see. They're designed for DRM. They're designed for companies to snoop on you in unobvious ways. And all of that we should protect ourselves from, protect our users from.
That was a steal, a little better a value proposition than my $100 AUD / $92 CAD / $67 USD first generation Flir One (lightning port plug-in for iPhone).

Where did you score it for that price, marketplace, eBay?

Though even the $500 AUD odd going rate on eBay is pretty good given the cost of any of the devices with a screen built-in.
There is nothing in the question which suggests some of them (or all) wouldn't respond to a second, third, or nth prompt. In many surveys, non-respondents receive multiple outreach attempts.
Why wouldn't someone just position buttons in photoshop or some image editor? Or just layout the actual program and take a screenshot? It doesn't really take much time to declare a user interface.
Yeah, to some extent- how much I'm not sure- Moore's Law became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because everyone knew that transistor count was about to double, everyone- including the Wall Street investors- agreed that you needed to spend all that money to build that new fab, because if you didn't you can be damn sure your competition would. So the semiconductor industry "was allowed" by investors to continue making enormous investments in the next generation of fabs. If there was some similar law for, say, rockets, could we have had that sort of progression in space travel instead?
Ah, so you're the one I have to thank for that! I've used it on Solus and a few others after my dual 867 "Mirrored Drive Doors" machine went down. Thanks!
I have this phone and its quite slow.
This is so retarded, I love it.
Oh that's nice to know...but to what end?
How is this company doing?
Amazon, Uber ads appear on Twitter pages of white nationalists restored by Musk
Not rural, by I had a Verizon Home LTE device (4G) for a while and it worked surprisingly well (except when the microwave was running). I got it directly through Verizon.
> There is nothing in the question which suggests some of them (or all) wouldn't respond to a second, third, or nth prompt.

Of course not. But making second, third, or nth requests is not "sampling from non-responders". It's just creating more and more different groups of responders. Which doesn't improve anything statistically that I can see; in fact it might make things worse, because you are introducing more and more potential confounders.
Tomorrow on HN: "GitHub no longer accepting PR from ChatGPT"
Oh geez, this is one of those technical problems that have so many possible good answers that it'd make a great interview question.
I've done both. I liked being able to walk around an empty little three-street downtown taking pictures of buildings in various states of decay and renewal without anyone bothering me, but it's no way to live. The people you meet are nice until they aren't, and then they can be dangerous. Younger people there are usually better, but they're all trying to get out.
Nuclear waste will help spacecraft explore the Moon – and beyond
NASA's COLDArm robot limb can handle seriously cool science
I will speak honestly and say that drawing from my own experience, it is because people feel duped.

When Musk came to public notice he was a fast-talking, confident, seemingly self-made rich tech autodidact who had personally created industries through sheer force of will and a vision.

He talked to a certain type of person who grew up with sci-fi and optimism for the future through technological advancement, only to see a disgusting anti-intellectualism and fatalism take over during the Bush Jr. years. He really spoke to me and I thought he was the real deal.

Then, slowly and over the course of years we started learning that he was a charlatan who's success was the result of luck, connections, or usurpation. He promises and promises and a lot of the big promises turn out to be laughably impractical or unrealistic to the point that no person learned in the applicable fields would take it seriously.

We learn about the subsidies that underpins the success, we learn about the terror that he puts his employees through, we learn about how he treats his family, and how he uses real people's lives and serious events as ways to increase his publicity and image with no concern for any negative effects on others.

The real 'ah-ha' moment for me was when he accused the British diver who risked his life and career to rescue trapped children in an underwater cave of being a 'pedo', because they didn't want to use his useless submarine idea.

And all the while, whenever he announces something, the fans and public rant and rave about a new revolution -- "vacuum tube transportation", "going to Mars in 5 years", "exactly like trains, but instead, cars!", etc. When we mention the problems with these ideas, and that Musk isn't really the best person to be advocating things that he knows nothing about, the fans retaliate with personal insults. "You are just jealous"... etc...

And then when he starts to lose popularity he turns 'free speech' and starts catering to a very unpleasant type of crowd (in many people's opinion). When you start appealing to the right-wing because your reputation took a nose-dive, then you are, um, "not a good person".

After a while it becomes a binary thing -- Musk == bad. I have to stop myself from thinking that way, but every time there is a raving fan talking about the new thing he is a genius at, it rears its head again.

Hope this helps you out a little.
What is mint?
It's a port of Whisper and uses the original models in a different format so it supports all the languages that the original does.
> Does anyone actually believe that our energy needs will never grow over time, and that growth isn't exponential?

IME we minimize the negative when considering costs of things we strongly desire. When considering our ability to pay costs in the future we are similarly (overly) optimistic.
> one would rarely be exposed to ideas that are extreme, unhinged, insane or downright weird

Except for the ones that were widely believed and accepted, of course. Or are you excluding those via a somewhat circular definition of "extreme," "unhinged," etc.?
In fact, this is so prevalent that in Brazil there's a name for it: "esquerdomacho". It's someone that proclaims belief in all social justice and gender inequality issues just to get laid.

Esquerda = Left
Macho = well, Macho.
Is this written by an AI?

Is this YouTuber a cognito or information hazard?

Am I reading something written by qntm?
So it's important to RMS that our software protect us from using it in the way we want if that way is going to harm us according to his personal ethics and morals? Seems sketchy to me. RMS might want to consider retiring and letting his past work define him, as he seems to be thinking and saying some dumb shit lately, IMO.

I don't know why I care what he thinks so much, I don't even use Emacs. I just bristle at his dumb moral reasoning behind what should be as simple as, "we want to focus on things other than JS support, and we also want lisp to be the primary language interface, according to our vision". His whole argument here is just moral and ethical grandstanding.
> It is impossible know which choice will result in better outcomes. Whatever you choose has probably about equal chance of success or failure.

It's a common fallacy to assign 50/50 probability to unknown distributions. Furthermore, many choices are not binary, or may not be as simple as right/wrong in hindsight.

But I agree with the idea of amortizing your perspective over many choices.
I wonder if it's possible to take multiple low-res cameras and combine their output in an array...mainly because I have a source for affordable but very low-res (32x24) thermal cameras.
Ask HN: How to Switch from VSCode to Vim/Neovim?
Hey all, ever since joining HN, I've heard so much about the advantages of terminal-based text editing, most prominently Vim and Neovim. Like most modern developers, I defaulted to being a VSCode user, however, now I want to switch to or at least try Neovim.

Do any of you all have any resource suggestions for learning to configure plugins and themes to match the functionality of VSCode (file tree, tabs, syntax highlighting, live server, etc...) and becoming more productive? The concept of self-configuration by editing Lua files or any language file is still relatively new to me.
To be fair, Americans (and anyone else) are right to resent sales taxes. And I’m saying that as an American who’s far to the left of what some call “socialism” in Europe. Sales taxes are highly regressive, disproportionately impacting those least able to afford them.
https://archive.ph/SmTYZ
Also, DateOverflow
Choice A will likely get some answers from students who didn't respond the first time, increasing the representativeness of your sample. It's only futile if you conflate as "non-responders" the people who didn't respond on the first opportunity with the smaller number who wouldn't respond even given a second opportunity.
You are probably right. But someone could argue semantics.

The project is for the express purpose of registering domain names. And the project only does queries as needed to verify domain ownership - falling under "reasonably necessary".

IANAL so my opinion means very little, but it seems like the TOS are targeted towards people who want to abuse the system for doing things like mass data collection, spamming, and other "bad behaviors". Not someone who wants to make sure domains are available for registration.

After all, how do the big players do it? Simply downloading the list of all valid domains even once a day would not be sufficient.
> The french reprocessing facilities for ex weapons MOX are filthy, release more radiation than TMI and Fukushima combined in normal operation, and are horrifically expensive, and the others are all kept secret.

The only people making these claims are Greenpeace: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site

In reality, a single transatlantic flight will expose you to more radiation than spending a year at the reprocessing site.

Greenpeace had zero credibility on nuclear power. They think a million people died from Chernobyl. This is nothing more than propaganda.

> The danger of the long lived waste isn't handling it, it's having it enter the ground water and ecosystem where it will build up in the food chain forever.

You realize that naturally occurring uranium already contaminates many regions water supplies? But it's not the end of the world, it can be treated and filtered out: https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/120396/uranium-contaminat...
Thanks!

That's a classic scenario with the gravity hounds!

I was a human paladin. Took me a while to find it, but here is my place on the Angband ladder:

http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=5859
Linus Torvalds? He has videos?
I am not denying that. I am saying it's not comparable to human trauma. This whole discussion is ridiculous because it hinges on the idea that artificial insemination is traumatic for animals when I would be really hard pressed to believe that when it's done correctly.
I'm really excited for the future of NVMe, storage nowadays is hundreds of times faster than it was at the turn of the century and I think that'll open up a lot of opportunities
I shudder to think at the Makefile which would re-implement this: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/blob/2.7.4/CMake...

I guess a bazillion

QRCODE_INC := $(shell pkg-config --cflags qrencode || true)
# or whatever the make version of this is:
$(if $(QRCODE_INC), ohgawd, ,)
People are missing the context.

The "HiDdEn FrOm ThE pUbLiC" documents amount to fractions of a percent of the total that have already been released.

There are no bombshells, just (predominately) memos containing names of people who are still alive.

There is no "aha! they are hiding the truth in this small tranche of memoranda". Hell, most of the lawsuits and freedom of information requests are to un-redact names, a small stripe of black ink obscuring two words on an entire otherwise unreacted page: a person's name.

Researchers want to interview the people before they die.

The government's default position is that nobody will be named prior to their death.

The only conspiracy here is that people wanting to market their yet-unpublished books as "containing the unreacted JFK assassination files" are pretending all of this is an exercise in truth-telling and not a cynical attempt at one-upping competing authors.
I’m not sure how he could have expressed himself any more clearly, so I don’t know what such a “clarification” would entail.
Discovery Channel’s ‘Shark Week’ Is Packed with Misinformation and Junk Science
You don't need to control for that. We're looking at total outcomes, not individual points; it doesn't matter how it reaches the effect.

Here's a proposition: Learning to make compromises and achieve partnership with your partner and growing into it is the behavior most associated with happiness of couples. Having removed the obvious necessity of it, we've created a society with much more focus on individual wants and needs that gains less from cooperation, resulting in lower average outcomes.

Absolutely, the stigma on divorce was once too high, resulting in people staying in abusive relationships too long. But people still stay in abusive relationships. We can recognize that committed partnerships are healthy and encourage them without saying that any one individual is at fault if a relationship didn't work out.
Shoot me an email (in my profile) and I'll get you a free API that will check domain availability for you.
Ask HN: What's a natural sounding text to speech system with an API?
So you don't waste time targeting the poors?
Definitely. I was going to launch with them, but then realize it would clutter the experience. Now that I have a good list of desired features from the HN crowd, I 'll be adding those, including other TLDS. Thanks for asking!
Do you care about having all your eggs in one basket?
I'd imagine they're trying to monetize your eyeballs in all of the ways spam usually does: mostly scams and advertising.
Personally, I just illegally ride on the sidewalk. It's unenforced, and it's easy to stop and walk the bike when you see a pedestrian. (Which is even more rare than another cyclist.)
I've tried quite a few and they can all be detected as a robot pretty much immediately.
Can confirm - ContraPoints and Philosophy Tube both are excellent resources on the topic, who discuss at length their motivations and experiences.

They're also very entertaining to watch, and extremely well read, particularly in Psychology and Philosophy. 2 of the more educational YT channels, even if you subtract all their material dealing with LGBTQ+ issues.
I switched to Domainr mid-morning because I ran out quota on DNSimple. Then I ran out of quota on Domainr :) There's been 120,000 domains generated today.

The issue was most likely my mistake. I think I fixed it. Let's see how it performs in the next few days.
According the article Geras' profile was used to attract older divorced & widowed women, so I doubt the parents had much input.
It's funny to think that the next iterations will most likely learn from threads like these how to look less than their predecessors.
Thread does not imply no queue or no persistent storage. In fact, if you use something like Hangfire you already have that.
The other Linus
What a coincidence, something similar happened in my country today too.
Definitely. I'll be adding a premium label soon to domains that are a bit pricy like that.
It's actually even older--August 2020 according to GSM arena (https://www.gsmarena.com/cat_s62_pro-10358.php) Got mine not long after. Kind of surprised to see it make the HN front page in AD 2022.
Does that apply to sales tax or import duties though? I’m not aware of any jurisdiction which has different sales tax rates for different types of clothing. Import duties are a whole other can of worms (in some cases, products are partially disassembled before crossing the border to lower the import duties and then reassembled after import).
You can buy a stove that uses probes to monitor the temps and hold/stick to a preset program https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/commercial/cmc850.ht...

I can't wait for these to become more mainstream so recipes start listing "Set stove to 150c" rather than "to medium" which is widely different depending on what stove you use. An amusing story one youtuber shared was the followed some advice that said to set your stove to high and leave it for 10 mins first, advice meant for a gas stove. When they tried it on an electric stove, the oil ignited on contact with the pan.
A quiet, comfortable place for hardworking employees to take a catnap sounds like a nice perk.
This has been the main thing RMS has wanted in Emacs since the late 90s or so. But I think not many Emacs users want it, nor many other Emacs developers. I think this is one of several cases where RMS is fixated on fighting the last war - in this case, vs. MS Word. But in the meantime, the importance of WYSIWYG document preparation as a main thing people use their computers for has greatly declined.
This smells like a scenario where the teacher isn't looking for the "right" answer, speaking broadly or objectively.

Instead, I suspect there is a particular concept or perspective they have been trying to impress on their students recently, and in this case they are expecting the answer that most demonstrates they have paid attention to the recent lessons.

I could be wrong of course.
The World’s Brightest Laser Pointer?
This is intriguing, and solves real world problems that I have come into writing Clojure. On the other hand, it is complicated, taking up to four arguments. It reminds me of Common Lisp's `loop` macro, able to handle complex and interesting situations, but has its own chapter in "Common Lisp, the Language" because it is so complicated. Is it really helping solve the accidental complexity problem at that point? Perhaps. I use the loop macro all the time, so it does bear thinking about.

The OP also speaks of decreasing indentation as a goal instead of decreasing cyclomatic complexity. It is true that one tracks with the other, and I'll be the first to say that I too am an 80 character wide masochist, but optimizing code structure around decreasing indentation is dubious at best.