skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason nix-env is strongly discouraged is because it leads to a disproportionate number of people asking for help. Some discussion here:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/depreciate-the-use-of-nix-env-...

I'd put that down to because you either didn't understand the consequences of running the command, or forgot you ran the command and so later on when things go weird, it causes confusion. -- e.g. for me, I initially had run `# nix-env -iA nixpkgs.firefox`; later, I was confused why firefox was installed, even though it wasn't installed in my profile at all.

I think the risks of `nix-env -i` are overstated, and over-repeated without explanation. Albeit, it is foot-gun-ish enough that it's worth at least echoing "nix community frowns upon its usage".
I def agree with what you're saying, and so this is definitely not for me, but part of me wonders if this might become the next generational divide (ie if kids grow up with this type of content normalized, maybe they don't react as negatively?).
I knew a 23-year old customer success rep who had a non-compete enforced against her. She’d been with the company for less than a year and had no “trade secrets” or clients that she’d take with her. The company really tried to scare her too.

Without a ban, these are gonna get enforced in ridiculous situations.
Is there not a way to use the common law system.

If the common view is that these agreements are an undue encroachment upon and individuals right to use their time as they see fit, then the cases would be thrown out and potentially some legislature will ultimately be put in place?
I also have wanted to build this, but instead of voice controlled, perform thread navigation using the AssistiveTouch SDK for Apple Watch. [1]

I released a product yesterday that handles all aspects of the URL to speech process called Chief of Staff. [2]

The initial version only synthesizes article text alone.

I found there is a great deal of nuance to text to speech synthesis, from the player behavior itself to handling quotas around cloud services.

My goal is far greater flexibility and features—-a genuine Chief of Staff that briefs you on information you care about in a format and medium that beats suits your.

Thread reading is just one application of this.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10223/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34973801
much as I have sympathy for the Pine64 project and like many of their product, their sales logistics are what often ruins it for me: specifically, they don't have any viable option for Europe. The pine64eu.com shop adds way too much of a price difference to be viable, way more than the added VAT on import…

… so that it would typically be even more expensive than to order directly from Pine Store Ltd in Hong Kong AND pay not only the import VAT (via customs), more than twice more on shipping (import VAT), plus the ripoff fee that the shipping company charges to get it through customs (as you can't do that yourself any more since the exemption limit for the import VAT was scrapped) than to buy it from the pine64eu.com shop

I get it that operating a local shop in Europe costs money, but as is, the added cost is just too much from a customer perspective

edit: corrected address: pine64eu.com
> Security through obscurity doesn't work

Going to echo a sibling comment -

This catchphrase may help people who know very little about security be a bit better.

But to completely throw it out is counter to security’s goals.

Obscurity can help reduce the surface area of attacks, but shouldn’t be used as the exclusive tool to secure something.
If we live in a world where we allow victims to be punished regularly by other members of our society, often times inadvertently, and I behave in a way that perpetuates such a norm, is that also moral? If I disobey and stop tipping, and society cannot tolerate my actions, shouldn't I be punished? Two sides of the same coin. Serious questions.
I think you are right, but it is particularly pronounced in papers because you sorta want a noun-y thing to refer to your new idea. So “NounPun: here’s what it does” is a good title format for both telling the reader what the thing is, and why they care about it.
wouldn’t the market pay the actual value for all the essential things you mentioned if subsidy is not there and rural cost of living goes up significantly?

Instead of of subsidizing, we would merely pay for what we consume isn’t that a better deal ? Both you and the farmer get to choose how the money is being spent ?
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While I appreciate the kind words, I don't really agree with your analysis of my career, for whatever it's worth. ;)

In terms of Oxide: I can assure you that we are shipping the minimum viable product -- the challenge is that the minimum viable product is very (very!) large. (And indeed, the projections we made in our initial investor deck were far more accurate than they had any business being!)

Glad to hear that you're cheering us on, and thanks again for the kind words!
1000 tonnes. Though using the base units is never wrong and I generally prefer it. In common language a ton can be a short ton (US) or long ton(UK) though I am sure they are all well within the margin of error.
If this passes, California (especially the SF Bay Area) will lose one of its biggest advantages.

It’s already been losing it’s nice climate over the years.
But metre is an SI base unit and people say "thousands of kilometres" instead of megametres.
Transcribing Speech to Text with Python and OpenAI API (Whisper)
Why do you need diarization? That's attributing speech to different speakers, right? What sort of use cases?
thank you so much! I didnt know that about LLVM. and I love Swift!!!
That, and also the post offices in towns are pretty close. In my area that means there's 4 of them, around 1km apart. Covering probably 20k people in the town itself + another 10k in the general area.
There is a great Miyazaki video where some students showcase some AI tech that generates animations. He ends the talk really disheartened by the experience -- saying something to the effect that he thinks people are losing faith in themselves. I'd never listen to something that is AI generated.

When my favorite podcast ended it felt like I lost touch with a group of friends, this ain't going to have that sort of impact on me. Pass.
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It’s based on a finetuned Whisper and you’d get unlimited transcriptions for $4.99/month
Is this a reference to the recurring American sentiment of "if X gets elected as president I'm moving to Canada"?
Who will they be making money from? OpenAI is looking for companies willing to:

- tolerate the current state of the chatbots

- tolerate the high per-query latency

- tolerate having all queries sent to OpenAI

- tolerate OpenAI [presumably] having 0 liability for ChatGPT just randomly hallucinating inappropriate nonsense

- be willing to pay a lot of money for the above

I'm kind of making an assumption on that last point, but I suspect this is going to end up being more small market business to business than mass market business to consumer. A lot of these constraints make it not really useable for many things. It's even somewhat suspect for the most obvious use case of search, not only because of latency but also because the provider needs to make more money per search after the bot than before. There's also the caching issue. Many potential uses are probably going to be more inclined to get the answers and cache them to reduce latency/costs/'failures' than endlessly pay per-use.

Anyhow, probably a lack of vision on my part. But I'd certainly like to know what I'm not seeing.
> I've ran Whisper locally via [1] with one of the medium sized models and it was damn good at transcribing audio from a video of two people having a conversation.

Agree! Totally concur on this.

I made a Mac app that uses whisper to transcribe from audio or video files. Also adds in VAD for reducing Whisper hallucination during silent sections, and it's super fast. https://apps.apple.com/app/wisprnote/id1671480366
> that translated into a jump in the cost of energy from $58 to $89 per megawatt-hour

For context, the average price of electricity in the US in 2022 was $160 per MWh [1].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/regions/new-york-new-jersey/news-release...
1.7 million may be a lot or may be a tiny drop depending on your overall (like for like) spend. The % saved is the important metric here not the aggregate dollar amount.

Did you replace 5m of EC2 with 3.3m of EC2 and save 1.7m (impressive) or did you replace 50m of EC2 with 48.3m of EC2 (not really so impressive)?
The e-trikes replaced old motorcycles with saddlebags. The trike rides up onto the footpath and delivers directly into the mailbox. Usually letters and catalogues. They hop from letterbox to letterbox along the road and footpath. They are coloured fluroscent yellow, same association as high visibility shirts.

Packages are done by courier in a van or truck. Grocery deliveries are done by supermarket branded refrigerator trucks. Local fast food is done by the ubereats/menulog crowd.

A local automotive store will drop off parts by an employee in his car.

It sounds like americans get more packages delivered in one go, by the us postal office trucks?
It has daily email backups even in the free tier, that's good enough for me to soothe that particular anxiety. I've been using it for over a year with no issues (apart from the buggy mobile client as mentioned on another comment).
I think what parent is saying is that in the US a disproportionate percentage of USPS budget is spent delivering mail to extremely rural areas (far from both cities and small towns).
> Heck you can probably import it directly from Unity's asset store without even bothering with Stable Diffusion.

Try actually doing this though and it'll look like an absolute mess. You'll end up without any sort of cohesive art style and you'll have random variations in quality level. The thing about this AI generated stuff is that what it lacks in 'peak talent' it more than makes up for it in being able to actually produce something cohesive.
It feels like simple regulation could just be:

- non-competes must be paid at the max of your past 3 years earnings, including benefits.

- minimum $100k/year.

- maximum 12 months.

Assuming companies need to enforce them, they'll have a mechanism to (this is similar to what hedge funds do).
If you're interested in an offline / local solution: I made a Mac App that uses Whisper.cpp and Voice Activity Detection to skip silence and reduce Whisper hallucinations: https://apps.apple.com/app/wisprnote/id1671480366

If it really works for you, I can add command line params to an upate, so you can use it as a "local API" for free.
sometimes "good enough" wins, even when something better is available.

you must always work on things that have value to you, even if those things are unknown or unpopular. not because they are unknown or unpopular, but because they are the right solution for you.

the amount of homogeny that I see today staggers me. people don't seem to be solving their actual problems, but instead are twisting their problems so that the commonly deployed solutions fit.

Oxide seem to be developing solutions for people that have problems which the common solutions can not address, no matter how much you twist them.
Sorry you experienced something similar. It sure is unpleasant. I can feel the bitterness but I don't think I'm ready to admit I can't work through it myself. Hope things are on the up for you.
Yes, it happens more than you'd imagine.

I, personally, just am reading a novel series Japanese, 8 books in. While reading, I have highlighted all the words/parts I didn't know in order to export them and make flashcards out of them. I haven't still started going through them, but the thought of doing so feels laborious, so procrastinating is bound to happen.
My issue with it is the artistic consistency, which is clearly not there for the images Standard Notes put on their front page. Clearly they did not go for a streamlined or minimalistic style which feels disconnected from the actual product itself. Corporate Memphis art is souless but uniformity is part of the intention. They don't have random parts standing out like an eyesore.
So cool! I really think this is an awesome future! Everyone has an AI assistant they can interact with via speech.
I actually want summaries of the top comment threads. often on HN I go straight to the comments to see if the articles is worth reading. half the time I get all the info I want from the debates that I don't read the article
Is it because of web pages or APIs?

Most web APIs will run on something else.
The https certificate “expiration” date is basically just a “fallback to treating this website as http” date. The site is still perfectly accessible and arguably still more secure than an http only site, you just have to click the scary button saying you know what you’re doing and proceed to the website treating it as though it was compromised which isn’t a big deal for the static pages you’re describing.
Now, if only we had some form of digital cash. Some type of coin made from bits.
> Either Apple said no, or wanted some other control over the show's content and oversight on the Mac and the producers refused.

No. Apple have absolutely no right to dictate that. It would be fair use to use a commercially available laptop to denote a laptop in a TV show. They could ONLY contest if it was to dilute their mark through misuse. A product being displayed and used in its intended way is - by definition - not misuse.

It is possible that they greeked the product to appease a competitor. e.g. masking out apple logos if they are sponsored by samsung, etc.

But as I already mentioned in a previous comment: we live it a litigation-happy world, and the threat of a court case can be enough to scare some producers - even if it would be unjustified.
I am made highly uncomfortable being put in a position where I can victimize someone and punish them by not tipping... I have trouble understanding why any society would find it morally acceptable to have this power dynamic become possible at all during a financial transaction, so my only genuine guess is that the real underlying purpose is to financially exploit customers by preying upon an ambiguous notion of social normality that is ever-so shifting all the time and not at all clear...
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Bold of you to think the human race will be around in 100 years. I’ll be pleased if I don’t live to see the end.
No, these are standard essential patents, meaning that you need to implement Qualcomm's patented features to be compliant.
I can't help but think that there will be almost certainty that in the near future it will be near impossible to distinguish the difference between human generated and machine generated media.

While this technical demonstration is a long way from replacing "real podcasts", it's just the very beginning.

What are the implications here?
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Does this have any particular size it's supposed to be used at?
Depends on the field in question but generally, any timeframe greater than 2-3 years generally means "we have absolutely no idea because there are multiple major things to solve and a nonzero number of unknown unknowns."

10-15 years is preposterous. If they had a reliable, sustainable, net-energy-positive, commercialization-ready process today, I think 10-15 years would be an optimistic timeline for the safety and regulatory stuff alone.
That was the entire point of what they were doing at PARC: build a possible computing future. They were not trying to build a mass market solution, they were trying to pull what could be commonplace 10-15 years in the future with smart, motivated people and money-is-no-object hardware budgets. Sure, they couldn't turn it into products in the 70's, but they would have had one hell of a product roadmap for the next 50 years if management understood what they had.
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> Supporting those tinpot dictators was specifically to prevent expansion / pursue containment of larger and even more murderous dictators.

Conjecture and domino theory at best.

Many of the post WWII proto democratic governments in their infancy overthrown by CIA machinations had candidates that were no more socialist than, say, Australia.

Many wanted to throw off the yoke of pre WWII colonial rule by the French, the English, the Dutch, et. and establish their own governments for their own people without any obligation to the traditional order.

This was anthemic to both the US and post WWII UK governments who wanted Western hegonomy and in some cases stranglehold control over strategic Cold War resources.

The theory touted about was that if we (the US) don't stomp these independant governments before they grow, they'll end up freely and democratically trading with (say) Russia and China.

Ergo, we stage coup's and install monsters that take a cut from our resource companies.
Sure, we can agree that $15/hr isn't enough to be considered a living wage. But it is comparable to other low-skill/manual labor jobs that don't have any exposure to customer tipping.
Just curious: assuming this passed, how would companies circumvent? While I think it's totally bullshit to have for most of jobs, I can see it's still "needed" for some niche professions.
- tied to inflation
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What switching silicon did you end up using? Given the speeds and feeds of the switching silicon you used, was it cost-effective compared to using Broadcom, and just overprovisioning the hell out of it?
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I hope this actually works
Well, the Macintosh team certainly thought they were.

There's a YT video about General Magic that tries to paint them that way, and they thought of themselves that way at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQymn5flcek

Take it all with a grain of salt.
Gives me hard nostalgia for the old, more fun, internet
I had this thought recently too. I was wondering how a USPS vehicle being nearly silent could impact elderly who know the sound of the vehicle to know when mail has arrived. It could result in elderly making additional trips to the mailbox increasing their risk for injury in the event of bad weather. Or could they miss getting their medication because they do not think mail was delivered. Where I live mail is not always delivered on the same time even weekly. Without hearing the distinct sound of the mail truck barreling down the road I would probably have to check the mailbox more than once a day.
reminds me of the "Big Maple Leaf" gold coin: nominal value: 1 M$;

actual material gold value today: 5.9 M$

thickness: 2.8 cm (1.1 in), diameter: 50 cm (20 in), weight: 100kg.

One of them was stolen from the Bode Museum in Berlin in 2017, cf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Maple_Leaf#Theft_of_one_co...
When you control the pricing and want to drive people to your own hardware, of course it's gonna be cheaper. Gotta exercise that market power over your suppliers
For English only: This is so wrong! I actually didn't find that much significant improvement between Medium to Large. In many cases Medium was actually better for English than large was. Where Large really excels in my experience is with super noisy or distorted audio. Same thing with Small to Medium. There's no much difference in text quality. For good quality audio, Small is all you need. Medium is not much more accurate, and certainly the "value per unit time" is way higher with Small than with Medium. If you have very distorted audio you can try medium or large.

I agree that the API providing a super fast large is fantastic tho! But you can go far with the provided models. When did you last try Whisper.cpp? It's constantly updated and probably much better than it was a few months ago.

If you don't believe me (and you have a Mac) try out my free App that uses Whisper.cpp offline combined with Voice Activity Detection (Silero VAD) to reduce Whisper-hallucinating-words during silent / non-speech sections. It's really good! https://apps.apple.com/app/wisprnote/id1671480366
You're sweet, and we appreciate being a known secret, but I hardly worry about swathes of ffmpeg 6.0 nerds joining the community. Indeed they might be a welcome addition.
Yes. Congress required the USPS to be profitable, and then required it to up-front fund its pensions, and then capped the rate they can charge for first-class mail. This created incentives for them to deliver more parcels. One service they offer is "last-mile" service for private parcel carriers; so e.g. FedEx will get it to your city and USPS will deliver to your house. A significant fraction of packages ordered through amazon will arrive via a postal carrier where I am.
Most gas delivery vehicles don't idle these days. But maybe the starter motor requires more maintenance.
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Maybe https://zero-to-nix.com/
Yeah, I read about the Datapoint thing in the book about Datapoint, I was surprised, it was the parallel universe that I knew nothing about.
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I worked with a somatic therapist who was a former monk and we’d do meditations from time to time during sessions (although it was mostly talk therapy). Helped a ton!
Sure, occasionally private businesses will screw up and hurt their employees. Nobody is denying that. But what's the alternative? Some kind of magical government that doesn't screw up?

Government rarely has incentives to be efficient. It's mistakes are always covered by taxpayer money, effectively punishing those who are efficient.

Why are we always comparing real thing that has downsides with magical thing that's perfect? I don't disagree, magical thing is indeed perfect. The only issue is that it doesn't exist.
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Reminded me of "do a barrel roll"