skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's disingenuous because literally none of the code transcribes or translates audio.

This is NOT an app that transcribes, or translates, audio.

This is a front end to another companies service.

In its defense, it is a useful front end, because getting whisper running locally was a pain in the butt because of py-torch's specific python requirements (not too old, not too new... juuuuust right).

This app also looks like it does very useful things with what whisper outputs.

But it is 100% disingenous because it does none of the things it markets itself as doing. I was expecting it to run whisper locally, not call out to a paid service.
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React is the most "framework" framework out there especially when hook come out, it completely dictates you how you write your program, and it's very easy to go into traps if you don't know how hooks are implemented. I'd much rather use a reactive UI framework like Solid because they use a much simpler concept
If a hardwired interconnect to the grid is what triggers your permit/license requirements, then forget that I threw out the "backup" functionality. Ignore the grid connection and just treat the monthly service charge as another tax.

Or if you can get away with having a power inlet on your off grid system and powering that system from the grid with an extension cord during temporary backup/maintenance conditions only, go for that.

For my own AHJ, grid interconnect has nothing to do with whether permits/licenses are required (and for homeowner work, they're not). So an off-grid system and grid-connected are under the same requirements there regardless. A grid-tie system that can feed back power to the grid requires additional signoff/agreement with the POCO though.

(I'm very sympathetic to the situations where the utility will demand some stiff fee to build out a grid connection to a new residence, while local regulations require this connection for occupancy. But this isn't what you described)
Texas Instruments Personal Learning Tool PLT SHH1 (2007)
Google Groups in GCP appears to be moving to the Cloud Identity product, so it’s plausible that Google Groups (the product) might be languishing while the internals are copied into other systems? (Or maybe nothing is being copied and Cloud Identity is just exposing another view into Google Groups?)
Personally I think they look pretty good.

The really ugly buildings, at least in San Francisco and Oakland that I'm familiar with, are where they take a single family house and chop it up into a bunch of little apartments. It's such an illogical abomination. From the outside you have a bunch of doors stuck in crazy places, kind of a "shanty town" vibe. From the inside all the rooms are weirdly shaped and extra plumbing is stuck in where it doesn't make sense.

It reminds me of the old joke about C++, that it's like designing an octopus by nailing extra legs onto a dog.

Anyway, I would like to see all of those replaced with something-over-1 apartment buildings.
> latest development looks like a pretty strong vindication of those who were outspoken against these tax handouts to Amazon

How so? I was in west Manhattan when that happened. We got the jobs and capital, not Queens.
why php though, couldn't the whole thing not be completely running in the browser?
I'm honestly astonished people even do it the legal way. It's not even a crime to overstay. One could easily set up shop in California, get an AB 60 driver license, live in a sanctuary area and have at it.
I get your analogy but I would not say it's the same thing, is it?

Sometimes when I listen to something on Youtube, I put my phone away while doing something else. So I don't see the ad either way, I just hear it.

The only difference this makes is my phone lasting longer.
Tree roots, or fungal symbiosis?

They don't have any fossil record of tree roots they're looking at in this paper, they're looking at sedimentary rock from lakebeds, right? So they see smoke and think 'gun'.
> but Ukrainian terrain and conditions are rather particular.

Wide open spaces and cold weather aren't unique to Ukraine, and their impact on large offensives was well documented going back to Napoleon. The WW2 Germans wrote extensively about the challenges there.

> NATO's weapons systems aren't designed for use by a mobilized population; they're designed to enrich big arms companies

Who do you think will be manufacturing these cheap, simple, disposable weapons? This means instead of shipping expensive systems now contactors go for bulk sales.

NATO systems are complex but highly effective at fighting large, combined arms wars. Mobilizing population means you're desperate.

> By contrast, Ukrainians are building weapons from off-the-shelf drones and homemade grenade release mechanisms.

Artillery and high-end spotting drones, not crappy DFI quadcopters and grenades', are still the #1 killer by a long shot. HIMARS -- long range missiles -- were a serious game changer. Shit-tier drones aren't going to with the war; ACATMS and Excalibur shells might.
>> Most flowering dicotyledonous plants don't make fruits or seeds without pollinating insects

> Is it really 'most' (I honestly don't know, I've never considered only looking at dicotyledonous plants)?

Flowering plants is way smaller domain than dicos plants and flowers use insects (or lucky burst of wind) as the only way to make a new organism, I mean a new DNA.
Finding "the RSS feed" of a website can be an annoyingly non-trivial problem, since many CMS:es and forum software produces an absolute shit-ton of RSS feeds dynamically.
https://archive.ph/lvwNo
What I hate is that even if you curate it that meticulously (gid forbid you click on the wrong thing and mess it all up), you still get fed so many random ads and "people you could follow". Just a completely whack user unfriendly platform in my experience.
Yes ! However, Conifers are not part of that group, and therefore "less" affected.
"Blew up the Norstream pipelines"...If you say it often enough, it gets truthy
Not sure how secure erase works, but I’ve run into this a few times after “erasing”. I think it has something to do with boot records or partition tables. So there’s a piece of some drives (usually at the front) that contains this data. You can overwrite it properly with the appropriate tools. I always just used `dd` on the raw drive ref in Linux to blow it up.
The vast majority of cybersec people I followed left, and tbh I only used the platform for them.
The chatbots are here, and the internet industry is in a tizzy
Not _any_ problem, but the _specific_ problem of determining how many arbitrarily placed points (cherries) can be split by a given shape of hypothesis classes/classifiers (knives) is literally the definition of VC-dimension, yes :)
Yurii Rashkovskii, the developer, wrote a short intro last month:

https://betterprogramming.pub/what-happens-if-you-put-http-s...
> It’s just not going to happen.

You say this as though we have any choice. It will happen; we can either do it ourselves, or we can wait until environmental collapse does it for us.

(I know which way I'd have preferred to go, but I seem to have been outvoted...)
It may not have anything to do with the greenhouse gas effect and emission of fossil fuels.

The desertification has to do with farmers planting too much and extracting all nutrients from the soil - same as happened in the 1930s which didnt have to do with cars and cows and methane in the atmosphere.

The overfishing - same thing

The collapse of insect populations is highly unlikely due to the slight aberage temperature changes or carbon concentrations in the atmosphere. It may be due to wireless radio signals, or light pollution, or pesticides and GMO plants.

The collapse of kelp forests or bleaching of coral reefs also has less to do with acidification of the oceans, and more with local pollution and ecosystem collapse.

The extinction of some species is due to hunting.

And so on. You could say the anthopocene is behind all these things — but that is not the same as saying that climate change is CAUSING these things.

If A (human activity) is causing B and C, and nearly all we talk about is C, then it is valid to say that B is more pressing, and that we should focus on A causing B. The response that “C is linked to B” is not enough because C doesn’t cause B and talking about C doesn’t do anything to stop B.
You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance
Ask HN: Why are the Android phone apps (Contacts, Messages, etc.) so slow?
I've owned a Pixel 2 and a Motorola something-or-other. On both phones the built-in Android apps were outrageously slow (compared to other apps like Facebook Messenger, Gmail, etc.) Long rendering times when I went into a sub-screen, slow search, major delays with adding multiple names to a single address line, etc.

What gives? Aren't these apps mostly fetching and displaying plain text stored locally--shouldn't they be really fast?
Just don't eat sweet things. There's no reason to. There's as much pleasure behind sour, or spicy, or bitter, or funky, or savory, or ... flavors.
EVs just kind of suck for travelling period.

Tesla is probably best for travel due to their network and it's reliability.

Fuel is just a lot MORE accessible. That infrastructure was built over a long period of time. Fueling up is also quicker.

Not sure how charger locations are selected but gas stations on freeways cater to trucks. A gas station in the middle of nowhere could be brining a lot of cash from truckers since a truck holds 120 to 300 gallons of fuel. So, these gas stations make sense from a business perspective.

Installing a charger in the middle of nowhere seems like not a good idea at the moment. It has much more use in the city.
The thing I dislike the most about Instagram is it seems like at some point it will be like "I'm done showing you content from your feed, here is generically popular stuff". There's a divider and a little message, but if I'm casually scrolling I might miss it and I'm on my timeline, if I wanted to be on Discover I'd be on Discover.
Just a note, Star Wars was released closer to World War 2, than today's date.

Makes you feel really old.
For professional jobs, it is very easy for a Mexican or Canadian to move to the US and work.

> The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) created special economic and trade relationships for the United States, Canada and Mexico. The TN nonimmigrant classification permits qualified Canadian and Mexican citizens to seek temporary entry into the United States to engage in business activities at a professional level.

> Among the types of professionals who are eligible to seek admission as TN nonimmigrants are accountants, engineers, lawyers, pharmacists, scientists, and teachers.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...
> it's not particularly callous to want to feed your family

Callous is callous regardless of your motive. It might be justifiable to be callous if that's what your business circumstances demand, but that doesn't change the effect on those customers.
The same way people handle Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. They fulfill different functions to different people. I could do notes, make spreadsheets, or produce presentations in any one of those apps, but each task is more or less practical in each tool.

I haven't used social media in a while, but when I did they fulfilled these separate functions:

Facebook - Keeping up to data with family (or anyone over the age of 40). Communicating with Social groups/organizing events. Messaging friends and family with Messenger.

Instagram - Maintaining a photo diary of my life. Sharing what I'm doing currently with friends. Following celebrities. Messaging.

Twitter - Following celebrities, but textually rather than with video stories. Keeping up to date on current events and trends.

Snapchat - To be honest, Instagram stole SnapChats cake completely for me when they made Stories. Younger generations use it more from my experience. Used it largely for messaging without a paper trail.

TikTok - Entertainment and following social trends. It's like YouTube, but with a better recommendation algorithm and shorter form videos.
CO2 requires oxygen. Methane is worse, but it's still carbon emissions.
>Only used discourse in a limited way but it lacks the searchability of the old forums.

Are you saying that discourse lacks search features, or that most discourse forums don't have the "history" that old forums do?
Those who are first will later be last as Bob Dylan once sang.
A PostgreSQL Developer’s Perspective: 5 Interesting Patches from Jan Commitfest
The main reason people add the tech stack is for marketing reasons.

The title describes what it does, I think you're making a mountain out of an anthill.
Even as a Data Scientist at Google, I'm still seeing plenty of teams that don't have a strong data culture. Does anyone have any tips or readings on pushing a data culture to their team? I'm finding that data isn't really used to make decisions. The author mentions the importance of choosing the right north star metrics, I'm curious to hear of anyone's experience of actually pushing these to leadership.
You missed my point and took a side in a tribal war. Then try to discredit the other side by putting in a qualifier of 'real' to change the meaning of science to something you can control by limiting who fits into this new group to whoever you decide.
I don't understand why this doesn't actually do the transcription / translation locally. Sending the data to openAI for paid conversion makes no sense. Whisper can be legally run on your computer, for free.

Running it locally way more sense for an open source project, because why would you pay and be dependent upon a 3rd party if you don't have to be.

It also makes way more sense for a service because then _you_ don't have to give all your money to openAI and skim off of what's left.

This is just.... bewildering. I really wanted to use it, but I'm not going to pay openAI to transcribe podcasts for me when i can literally use the exact same language model and do it locally with free open source code.

I'm hoping someone will fork this and teach it to run whisper locally.

[edit: getting the exact right version of python and PyTorch and dependencies to make whisper run was a pain but now i've got it set up and it's a trivial command to transcribe every mp3 i feel like transcribing]
Ukraine had a few aircraft, but they stand zero chance against the VVS and their long range air-to-air missiles. Nor do they have any real counter (SEAD) to Russian ground-based anti-air systems.

This works both ways, though, as Ukrainian AA is also very effective.
> Idk, i think borders exist to exclude other groups of peoples.

To exclude them from what? That's the question. You give one of the answers here: sometimes people would want to exclude them because they lower wages. But in reality, people who are alarmed by lower wages are rarely in the position to say anything about what happens at the border. The people who get a say about that are the people who are alarmed by higher wages.
Dunno, on Arch all packages would already use the system version of Electron.
I hate cold water (cool water is nice though). So that doesn't work for me.

Also, when you fill a pitcher of water and let it stand, the chlorine evaporates, so you don't actually like chlorine - you always make sure to remove it :)
That person might still be there and they might still be the only one on the product.
Get this long term assistant to install itself onto a newly spun up vps.

Create a small army of assistants.

Appoint one the manager.

Interface with just the manager, have it assign work to the others.

???

Profit
You won't get a syntax error if it happens to result in valid syntax (but likely unintended semantics).
Forms were annoying but `react-hook-forms` eliminated any random issues we had, and now forms are fine. Again, context saves the day here by letting me grab the form context within nested components to keep everything humming.

I don't know if we have any "timing" based components, though we manage global state using Apollo Client and again, haven't really had any issues with that.
The "analysis" doesn't seem to have been normalized by number of installs or MAU...
I don't think we will, TBH.

I am colossally pessimistic but at the rate we are going, I think we are heading for between 4-7⁰ C of warming this century, 5-10m of sea level rise, the extinction of 95%+ of species, and a small remnant of humanity, maybe a few million people, living at the poles, after the collapse of our technological civilisation.

We're not going to have time to invent magic mini flying robots to do pollination when the bees are all dead.
Third-party software on desktop is, yeah. The two big mobile OSs are resisting web apps, though.
I use Elfeed inside Emacs. This blog article gives a flavour for what sort of customisation Elfeed is capable of: https://noonker.github.io/posts/2020-04-22-elfeed/
This kind of outcome is precisely why I removed all cameras and other smart capabilities from my home on the day I moved in.

I've never once seen someone in my friend & family circle achieve some positive outcome in their own household by having more surveillance around it. The only thing I observe is increased anxiety when squirrels or FedEx trigger push notifications to phones.
The Art of Computational Narrative
It costs money to rent or maintain bees used in agriculture, but it's probably still cheaper.
Show HN: CodeGPT.nvim – ChatGPT plugin for Neovim
Exploring the Largest Overland Vehicle – LeTourneau TC-497 [video]
Please don’t turn HN into reddit.
Not sure if I'll be setting up CCTV at the new home this year or later, but for sure it'll be ZoneMinder based and everything, especially cameras, will be firewalled and behind their physical subnet.

See: https://zoneminder.com/
Or use this nice UI for now to trial, and when that reality comes... transition to the API if you still need to do what you need to to?

So I would suggest this project to try things out, then setup Whisper locally :)

But what do I know, I'm just in the ether...
With what you've said, it makes sense to feel that way. I would encourage finding ways to think about it/express it, one that doesn't make it a character flaw.

Can you phrase it in a less absolute/intrinsic way, though? "I am a dumb dumb" isn't a solvable problem.

I encourage you not to personalize this (Using "I am"). You may not be a mediocre software engineer, but that does not equal YOU being a dumb dumb.

That's a false equivalence. I'm sure there are areas where you are not a dumb dumb.
I think ZFS identifies drives by their serial number. So you can erase a drive in a pool, and ZFS on that machine will still recognise the drive based on its serial number, and know its pool membership.

ZFS should then throw all kinds of errors once it notices that all the super locks and other FS metadata is missing. But a scrub should cause ZFS to simply fix that via normal resilvering.
Making screenshots, screen recording (small gifs or video files), sharing the files, color picking, basic image editing, video converting, OCR from scanned documents. So a lot
Lately - it seems people inside countries enforce their boarders to make sure other people from less fortunate countries can't come in and drive down their wages...

We live in a democracy.

The idea that we vote to screw ourselves over completely is strange.

Some people forget that everything isn't a zero sum game. Something can be good for companies and not bad for you. And something can be good for you and not bad for companies.

Some people DO NOT care about the economy and only care about social issues - or at least the economy's importance is far inferior to social issues (usually because they don't make much money in the first place).
Personally, I'm forecasting mass human disassociation/suffering as a result of pursuing AGI as a given. :)
I get mine off eBay with varying success rates. It really is hit or miss. I suggest sticking with the ones that have a metal slide on them rather than the later, cheaper, plastic slides which tend to disintegrate over time.
Whether something is disturbing or not doesn't say much about whether it's a good idea, just that it is different from the conventional.

Around the world, governments act like abusive parents. If people could migrate freely (creating a competition for residents), much more people would live without the abuse of authoritarian governments.
It's a shame (I guess?) to drop down the super-computing rankings, but personally I don't equate "supercomputing power" with "computing superpower".
FTA:

The team suspects climate change may be warming the region and affecting bee and possibly butterfly survival.
Is there any chance you could expose a pathway to use a local instance of Whisper?
I ask primarily because OpenAI completely open-sourced Whisper in September 2022[0]. It seems odd to me to default to or encourage the usage of a paid service for something that appears to be available for free under MIT license including models[1].

My understanding is that the only reason OpenAI even setup the paid API is because it "can also be hard to run [sic]". Personally, I'm skeptical. I"m not knocking them for it but I could see how this is just brand capitalization.

[0]: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis...

[1]: https://github.com/openai/whisper
How hard is it to start manufacturing of brand new floppy disks?
perf-farm ? I think I might know what you mean, but could you unpack?
Lies and falsehoods are just as valid sentences as the truth.
Oh wow, I didn't realize how quiet lodash has been

Activity on master really died down mid-2017 [1]

And the most recent closed PR is jdalton this year (Jan 4 '23) saying he's not looking to expand lodash [2]

[1] https://github.com/lodash/lodash/graphs/contributors
[2] https://github.com/lodash/lodash/pull/5575#issuecomment-1371...
Apple to 'Re-Examine' AI Development
Infrastructure is not frozen in amber. It's honestly attitudes like these in the comment above that are the most corrosive to US as a nation. This is a sick disease that has taken root in the American mind, and I don't know what's the cure.

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-build-nothing-country
Well yes it does, when it is exceeded by the cost or hassle of earning it.

I won't support Windows 95 for a pittance
Meanwhile, in WA: https://twitter.com/CSElmendorf/status/1633484561685561344

It drives me crazy that California is seen as the model of big-D Democratic governance when there's another state nearby, also with a more-or-less permanent Democratic majority, which is not a dysfunctional mess.