skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell HN: Apple, please just replace your dictation with Whisper
dear Apple Inc.,

Here I am, trying to dictate anything on my iPhone, but I have a feeling this appearance massively decreased since you switch to under Weisse machine learning. Honestly, as an owner of one of the most expensive devices out there, I feel it’s very smart what the state of dictation looks like. If you will have any honor left, please just throw out whatever you built and replace the on device model with whisper, ported to Core ML

Thanks a lot.

Dictate it on an iPhone. (sic)
Yes - imagine you start sketching out a data model and something is hot-reloading generating the database schema and autogenerates CRUD-type data flow through the DB to see if my system can actually accomplish what I’m imagining.

Same for like a distributed system with message/event queues, it can start demonstrating various data flows that introduce possible race/concurrency conditions as I’m still in the design phase.
I find it fascinating that people think that optimizing a tool doesn't matter when they will be spending over 50% of their actual productive professional time in that tool. At least.
Apple Faces $98M Hit on Back Taxes in Japan, Nikkei Says
I was thinking few days ago that why are fruits tasty and nutritious for humans? Our digestive system is too strong to help spread their seeds by eating them.
https://www.desmog.com/climate-intelligence-foundation-clint...
Tell a human 200 years ago that we can access any knowledge of the humanity within minutes, that we can travel at 900kph, that we can drink sea water. They'll tell you that we are indeed super-humans.
Most people consider self-hosting as "running service x yourself", which I think i fair considering most people treat self-hosting as an alternative to SaaS offers
The nice thing about Snowflake is that for many use cases it requires little management.

Things you can learn regarding Snowflake, other than the obvious (SQL, and Snowflake specific language extensions to SQL): proper table partitioning, Snowpipe (and the associated cloud messaging pipelines), and query performance tuning. (Complex queries can become a bear; identifying when its your query/partitioning or when its something on the Snowflake back end is challenging.)

There are always new additions to the Snowflake tooling ecosystem since the company is in competition with Databricks and others (e.g., Snowpark with Python).
Obviously the setup is not practical in a real game. The point is a theoretical demonstration that the rules of MTG can be used to compute arbitrary functions, demonstrating that there can be no general computable strategy for all game states. This is similar to lots of CS results, where we might demonstrate that some problem is NP-Complete or undecidable or whatever even though in practice there are efficient algorithms that work for most instances of these problems.
He's paying 1 dollar per email to someone who will annoy spammers.
Interesting, thanks.

In the UK there barely is a constitution, and as much as it does exist, it really only governs how the different parts of the government interact with each other, and how they operate. As such 'unconstitutional' isn't really a thing there, which is one of the reasons I asked.
The best way to brush your teeth
Cnet EXCLUSIVE

Thank You. Adding it to my list of potential Apple PR Submarine machine.
> - you can remove '| sh' and read the script;

But why can’t I copy the URL into my browser? Why discriminate on user agent? Why couldn’t it be https://clickhouse.com/install.sh - so that it would work with browsers and curl alike?

> - the deb, rpm, tgz, and docker packages are also provided, but only as advanced usage;

How are deb and rpm advanced? How do I uninstall something installed with your custom script? Also, why are the RPM packages [0] still using /etc/init.d and not systemd?

[0] https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/install/#from-rpm-packages
Atmospheric methane emissions in northeastern China growing with natural gas use
I don't think 1Password has any free tier, at least pretty sure it doesn't have free syncing across devices anymore or even ever.
This is exactly it. We have web properties that only have one cookie at all - the cookie to store the result of the cookie pop up!
Agreed. A way I do it is to take a picture of a page, and then use my phone's image editor to add the annotation directly to the photo.
Or you can use the ad-supported version "for free".
haha me too but I'd say I have a bit of dyslexia
Japan to require negative Covid test upon arrival for Chinese travellers
Cool stupfh.

Minor bug: I unchecked “CLI,” and still got this row:

> CLI export includes attachments
That is correct, it is referring to that standard.
They had horse carts then. People weren't cycling to get around. A car is simply a horse cart without the cart and occupies about the same amount of space
> I am more willing to pay for Amazon Prime and its music service

I pay for Amazon Prime, so when I played the music, I clicked the track and it played another song. I though I had misclicked.

It turns out Amazon Prime’s music offering is “It plays something else unless you pay up another specific fee.” It’s quite entertaining.
Why do you care more about what is externally known?

There is no "december shafting" happening. Almost all media coverage has been clickbait at best or lies at worst.
You’ll have to excuse my language: bullshit. We had the data back in 2020 to know that covid wasn’t a huge threat. It was harmful to very old people with existing underlying health issues. The average age of those who died was older than the life expectancy, and we shut down the world for that.

The danger was in people’s minds and that was stoked aggressively by nearly every major institution we have: the government, the medical field, the media, and the tech companies. Each of them benefited from promoting fear.
> Bob the Prepper has filled his underground HEPA filtered bunker with masks

As a bit of a prepper, being a prepper is about being prepared. Being prepared means you don’t need to buy essential PPE in the midst of a crisis.

What I observed were people hoarding to intentionally cause supply shortages so they could price gouge on the secondary market. Scalpers in other words. Preppers and Scalpers are not the same thing and the continuous insinuations that they are is as offensive as it is stupid.

Preppers are the only reason many communities had PPE for medical staff. I donated respirators and P95 masks to my local hospital during COVID, exactly zero of which were purchased during the pandemic. In fact I didn’t buy any masks during the pandemic except a cloth mask later on.

Given that a situation like COVID was pretty much bound to happen sooner rather than later, most preppers consider biohazards as one of the primary things they prepare for.
Yeah it seems like, it doesn't automatically solve all problems, but the comment made no such grand claims. I don't see how "take the wind out of a lot of injury suits" is even controversial.
https://archive.is/3Fma3
Kyocera to Invest $9.8B in Semiconductors
https://archive.ph/RpDQl
Laws and regulations are indeed the only way to prevent it. But note that GDPR applies only to EU. So even if Google is complying (and not using loopholes to avoid it) those of us who are not Europeans are still screwed. (As I pointed, the 100's of millions of dollar fines that Google is facing worldwide for its abusive practices also indicate that they are willing to violate the law / regulation if it is still profitable to do so).
Super cool. Thanks for sharing, going to set this up over the weekend!
Why post these conspiracy theories? Seriously. You can find 1,000 people to agree to anything these days. The science is settled on this - you are convincing nobody.
Lawyers are rarely hired by the defense to pen long arguments why they were intentionally breaking the law. They’re always going to argue that they didn’t do it, and if they did do it they didn’t intend to ( because intentionally violating can have higher penalties ).
Free speech on centralized platforms is a pipe dream. Every company always has motivations to censor including legal, financial, personal, practical usability, etc.

Just because the ticket has finally come in for censorship that offends your sensibilities, does not change the fact that this dynamic has existed for the past two decades. The pot has been slowly boiling, and you are now realizing it. Good - jump out!

The only way out of this is decentralized platforms running on Free software, period.
What I said:

> Sorry, I'm not reading all of that.

What you think I said

> But taking time to reply only to say you don’t have time to reply is a lie.

I'll buy 'Shit that makes no sense' for 500 Alex.

Lets paraphrase your comment here.

"How can you claim someone tried to prevent him from speaking when they failed due to the Streisand Effect!".

ummmmmm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

> Attempts to hide, remove, or censor information often have the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information via the Internet.

Oh, and we did define it. We defined it as "that which happened to Dorian Abbot". You gotta keep up.
Isn't the whole article about how the author made his tool "most closely aligned to the task at hand"? Bonus points, since it's a flexible tool that can be aligned to most tasks, he is able to bring his specialized knowledge and experience of the tool to this specific task at hand as well.

It's the best of all worlds!
I was introduced to the concept via comedian Fluffy's story about visiting India: https://youtu.be/6jqj1bnG4gc
I have no idea if this happens or not, but I imagine it is trivial to monitor bluetooth and wifi beacon probes to identify all people who walk into a physical space.

Similarly, I have no idea if it is possible but I imagine it is trivial to link purchases, especially if they require showing a membership card, with identity, and feed all that into a CRM / customer identity database.

It'd be kinda silly to run a large scale retail operation without doing these things, honestly.

The chicken / hot dog reference is to a USA based "big box" store that sells these things (meat products) at cost / loss as a form of advertising to get customers in the door. That chain also requires that people be "members" of the club prior to letting them in the store.
Unrelated to OP, but is it SOP for Russian agencies to deliberately obfuscate or outright lie on otherwise uncontroversial data?

> Laika died within hours from overheating, possibly caused by a failure of the central R‑7 sustainer to separate from the payload. The true cause and time of her death were not made public until 2002; instead, it was widely reported that she died when her oxygen ran out on day six or, as the Soviet government initially claimed, she was euthanised prior to oxygen depletion.

There seems to be little reason to lie about this given Laika's survival was already nil.
Pypy, probably. You could also consider writing pre compiled extensions for your "hot" code, eg. in Cython.
I know password manger services are super convenient, and probably worth the cost for most, especially non technical users. But my preference has always been to manually manage my own local KeyPass database.

Sure it’s more cumbersome when it comes to syncing between devices, but it’s really not a big deal. One or twice a month I will combine my DBs from all my devices ok one machine, use the built in ‘merge’ functionality, and redistribute the I updated DBs back out to each device. It might take 10 minutes.

But I can rest assured that I’m the only one who has a copy of my DB/ key files, and a breach of _blank_pw_manager_ service can’t compromise my secrets. Highly recommend KeyPass. It’s free and open source, with high quality community ports available on every platform. https://keepass.info/index.html
MacOS/OSX has long had insanely slow updating. It’s always bothered me. The time estimator on the installers for it are not even suggestions.
Google your oven model and “hot surface igniter”. (I haven’t seen any on stove/cooktops, but usually on ovens. Stovetops seem to mostly use spark ignition.)
I use xsel for CLI stuff. You may want to check it out and add it to your toolbox
Directus (https://directus.io)
I can see what you are saying, but personally the longest lasting legacy for me was a deepening of my distrust of about one third of humanity that will drag us kicking and screaming into the void if given power. The anti-vaxxers, the anti-maskers, the ivermectin cult, the toilet paper hoarders, and all the others that have no idea how science works in its stumbling manner.
We already know what would happen, there are other projects that are more in-line with what you want and _NONE_ of them are nearly as successful.

So, while your thought experiment is probably fun, we already have the answer to it.
What does Overture Map mean for the future of OpenStreetMap? (part 2)
Could it be related to the leap year? Our bodies don’t account for it, it’s us humans that do this artificial adjustments. A minute a day is roughly equivalent to a day every 4 years.
The same flow for Linux can be had with 'xsel'
“Dark web” is used more and more to refer to “sketchy” and not literally “onion-only site”.
> He’s a common one

How did he get into the "usual suspects" box?

> it’s worth remembering that despite lying about the severity of the disease

He wasn't just wrong or mistaken (if he was) or providing a different view, he was lying. That must be how he got into that box. I presume you have some sort of evidence, given such a bold claim?

> pushing myths about herd immunity

Would you care to give an example of that too? As I understand it, he was pushing the conventional line, conventional up until this pandemic, at least.

> Twitter chose not to have their company amplify his voice but his followers and organic discovery were unaffected.

That isn't true. From [1]:

> Actually, it’s a set of tools that include locking users out of searches and preventing some users’ tweets from trending—which is how countless other users discover what’s popular or being talked about on Twitter.

> “We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do,” one Twitter employee told us. Two additional Twitter employees confirmed this.

and from the Unherd interview I provided above:

> What I understand is that my Twitter messages can reach people who directly follow me. But they have no chance of being put on a broader visibility setting, so that people who don’t follow me would see my messages.

That means "organic discovery" is severely limited. I wonder if you would consider a hellban to be deplatforming or not.

[1] https://www.thefp.com/p/twitters-secret-blacklists
Thank you for this work! Could you add Bruce Schneier's PWSafe? https://pwsafe.org/
Part 1 discussion:[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34122719
Shit like this is constantly done in graphics card drivers too.

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/44947/why-do-gpu...
I think one good analogy to why vim is great is to examine other tools everyone already uses.

Imagine instead of pressing backspace to delete a character, you would have to delete the individual bits that make up the character. A character is just an abstraction of bits, that your text editor/IDE takes care of for you so you don't have to think about it.

Vim is also an abstraction, making it similarly far more convenient than doing everything by hand. Think about it: Is "forward 2, backspace 5" or "delete this word" a more natural abstraction?

So what's the advantage? Speed, but not typing speed. It's about the mental distance between the model in your head of what you want to happen (delete everything between the parens) and the model your tool understands (go forward some words, go forward 1, delete backwards 20). Since speed = distance per time, reducing the mental distance increases mental speed.

And that therefore uses less mental energy on translating for your tool, and leaves more room for doing hard mental problems, like fixing a bug.
Stories, Standards, and the Point
Some people see things very differently than I do, is what I realized - I thought science, tech, pharma, and government did brilliantly (after a slow start because of ... reasons), and I was amazed at the mind-numbingly massive delivery of the mRNA vaccines (and all the others).
If by the trash you mean all the videos that seem to be about young women in tight clothes plus some lady in what looks like a Muslim headscarf with the meme label “MY VAGINA” then I think that is trash and it lowers by YouTube experience whenever I see the front page of YouTube.
breached dot vc

And the people not wanting to mention the names amuses me, it’s like Voldemort or something ha!
Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
Platform Engineering Is Not New and DevOps Is Not Dead
Thanks for the reply.

Given Qt, Slint[1] and similar, and Rust being supported on a lot of embedded platforms, it didn't seem out of place to imagine it on an higher-end STM32, ESP32 or similar.

Will definitely dig deeper, looks interesting.

[1]: https://slint-ui.com/
You're saying that Swiss-based Protonmail is worse for privacy than Australian-based (remember Australia's horrible digital privacy laws?) Fastmail? I'd love to see if you can even slightly substantiate that claim. Fastmail, by OZ law can legally be forced to allow snooping on its users without even telling them, while Protonmail has actually fought hard to stop snooping even in edge cases, yet you say you "won't touch" them? Some specific reason?
Thanks! I know about it and use it as well :) just not necessary when working in vim which covers most of my needs.
> Primarily in schools and the desire by some on the modern left for educators to have private conversations about the topic with their children without the parent’s knowledge.

You'll have to substantiate this, because I'm not aware of "the left" pushing these policies.

If there isn't a "problem" with trans people, what's wrong with kids knowing about them, similar to gay people? I'm not saying educators should say "hey, did you consider if you're really a boy?!?!" but avoiding the topic altogether, which is what it seems like the right wants to do (have you looked up "trans social contagion" at any time? this talk is EVERYWHERE).

They think there is a problem, and it is only natural to not want problems to exist. There is a gradient, but most conservatives, in my view, do not want trans people to be a thing - they think there is a problem with it.

I am aware of people in my circles thinking trans people is a disease or a medical condition and want it to go away.

> There is not a single conservative that I know who cares one iota what a trans adult does, identifies as, or believes about themselves

Does this extend to them using bathrooms, or whatever, as well as the "women need their own private spaces!!" narrative? I'd certainly say that caring what bathroom a person uses falls in the "caring about what they do" category.
Wow, I read that completely wrong. Apologies. Wish I could delete the comment.
For 3, they make segmented rods designed to make getting the new one in easier. (The old bends easily if the magnesium has been consumed.)
Am I the only one who uses their disposable 3 or 5 blade razor cartridges for months at a time? I shave probably once a week and they last almost 5 months for me. I only need to buy a warehouse replacement pack every decade,
Photography didn't kill off painting, painting was only for rich people to begin with.

Photography began putting commercial artists out of work in the 40s and 50s as print processes for mass photographic reproduction became better and more accessible. If you leaf through magazines from the era in which Norman Rockwell and JC Leyendecker took turns doing covers on the Saturday evening post, and the era in which the MAD magazine artists were forged, the editorial and advertising art in print media was overwhelmingly hand made.

Print media illustration took another huge blow when everybody bought iPhones and stopped buying print to entertain themselves while on the go.

Of course, it's not like there are less artists employed today. Now the Lion's share work in TV, movies and video games.
> My understanding is that N95 masks have a shelf life (2-5 years?), so stock would need to be regularly repurchased.

“Shelf-life” on non-perishable goods is highly conservative and often regulated by profit motive. Millions of N95 and P95 respirators were destroyed shortly before the pandemic due to “shelf life” and yet would have been a god send compared to having nothing or treating active COVID cases with a t-shirt or bandana over your face as happened in many US hospitals.

Proper planning could have rotated stock to maintain shelf life, slightly less proper planning could have realized the sheer stupidity of destroying working strategic materials due to an arbitrary and made up number.
Recall Christmas Day eating some sweets (which I didn’t like) and playing this (which I did like). I got this for my 6th (?) Christmas. Most memorable things for me were demonstration of gears (using mammoths) and the guy who would pop up if you went AFK.

Also dorling kindersly’s eyewitness soundtrack deserves a special mention.
As a side note: the culture or installing stuff via curl is like a virus. If you check the npm docs, they say "We strongly recommend using a Node version manager like nvm to install Node.js and npm". Then if you check nvm docs, the primary installation method is curl to bash, and not even from their official website - it pulls stuff from github...
Wouldn’t that change all of the passwords?
You have not given any sources in your comments, this person is just operating in the mode you set them up for. Where is the left pushing these policies on children? Is there any substance to your claims?
IMO, this illustrates a major problem with the current approach to Covid vaccine research.

With most vaccines on the market, the effect of vaccination according to the recommended schedule is tested for real: actual disease outcomes are studied and the vaccine schedule is determined accordingly. For example, people who get both measles vaccine doses largely don’t get measles (and largely is quantified). People who get two doses of the chickenpox vaccine don’t get chickenpox [0].

With the Covid vaccines, for some reason public health authorities are okay with flying blind. The effect of, say, bivalent boosters on their recipients’ blood neutralizing viruses and virus-like imitation viruses are studied in the lab (but even the studies of this effect by the vaccine makers are barely public and seem to consist mostly of press releases). Studies on actual infections rates seem to be almost completely absent.

And now we have this study, which at least gives a plausible mechanism by which repeated mRNA vaccination could fail to improve actual immunity or maybe even reduce it.

What we need is a real study of whether vaccine recipients on different schedules get sick and how sick. And these need to be well designed, ongoing, and public.

For what it’s worth, IgG4 production is observed in allergy patients receiving immunotherapy, which consists essentially of very frequent repeated vaccination against allergens.

[0] The chickenpox vaccine is incredibly effective against chickenpox — it makes any of the Covid vaccines look pathetic. But, to be fair, the effect of chickenpox vaccination on shingles seems to only slowly coming in to focus by real studies. But to give the FDA credit, figuring this out takes multi-decade studies.
I think the point is not to become like the people in wall-e (or Idiocracy I might add).