skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. That does seem better (mostly because of the larger file size limit, diarization, word-level timestamps, increased speed, and hallucination and repetition reduction).

I wondered what the rate limits are, looks like:

> Use of Deepgram Whisper Cloud is subject to a rate limit of 50 requests per minute or 15 concurrent requests.

Which is a bit disappointing. I've run into whisper rate limits. That said, Deepgram should be better still because it doesn't have the 25 MB file size limit (2 GB instead).

I feel like OpenAI's Whisper API effort is a bit disappointing - it seems like a half-hearted effort. The problem with a half-hearted effort from the dominant brand is that many/most companies will still choose the half-hearted effort from the brand they know and love, which makes it harder for alternatives to get customers for a better offering, and so customers generally end up worse off.

I think the two good options for OpenAI regarding Whisper API would be either:

1) Offer a Whisper API, and make it really good - lots of iteration, feature additions, service improvements

or 2) Don't offer a Whisper API, tell the public you won't offer one, and encourage other companies to do so, and link out to them / refer users to those other companies

Instead, they're doing 3 - half-hearted effort, which hinders overall offering quality. They could improve on their half-hearted effort either by treating it like an important product, or by pointing users to other companies for when they need more production-level features with Whisper (like they do where they point users to Pinecone and Weaviate).
this is the kind of stuff i use when we get a new IT person, i walk over and ask for help doing something mundane just to watch their reaction
To be fair, we're talking about a very specific, competition, high school debate format. Not the more pure phiilisophical kinds of debate. The former is more like a sport and the "athletes" are simply minmaxing the game. The goal and how you gain point do not necessarily reflect real world values.

We can certainly discuss if they should and how we can encourage/discourage certain tactics, and it feels the article focuses on that. Not so much the comments here.
And not everyone wants to donate to wikpeda to solve a solved problem
Because we've been told for so long that any other option, or especially taking into our own hands, is a disaster and our kids will 'fall behind.'

And yet kids have never had more access to knowledge, information and quality learning resources outside of school, without the toxic social environment. Say you'll do it yourself thanks and people call you a child abuser - while their kids are bullied and 'underperforming' at school with teachers they don't like. It's insane.
Firstly, weapons ownership of any kind is much lower than it was historically in my country, and yet we survive.

Secondly, I have no interest in schooling you. You're an American, right? No free education for you. Pay for it!

Thirdly, I was being serious. Do you actually know what the data look like or are you guessing?
Either. The best results I have had was with web-mode which has some basic support for it. I also tried using LSP mode and the two Lit extensions for the Typescript server but that did little to help either.
> Why does it matter when roads were created?

Because we are talking about how our money will be spent now.

> And “our roads suck” is just an absurd generalisation and is obviously not true.

I disagree and I believe that "terrible roads" is public sentiment. I've never heard anyone praise our roads.

> You’re obviously coming here with a perspective and you have no actual interest in hearing counterpoints

I have a very strong opinion obviously and am open to being proven wrong but I am not going to just accept terrible arguments. The political class of this country is just completely inept. Everyone thinks in terms of "taxing the rich" as if some billionaires are going to be fund all these public mega projects. The billionaires do not have enough cash, the people that will get hammered with taxes are the middle and upper middle class.
> On the contrary “otaku” refers exclusively to those who are into Japanese media but who do not worship Japan, as those are always weeaboo.

Huh? I thought people that are obsessed with trains can also be referred to as otakus so it is not exclusive to Japanese media.
This works totally fine already today with Google translate on top of pages.

How would anyone even know? By definition, if someone is using Google Translate, he already doesn't know the language, so how can he judge the quality of the results?

My company spends millions on professional translators because products like Google Translate are so bad for anything beyond the most basic uses.
I thought the fraud did not invalidate the results and that plaque was still considered the primary cause.

In fact, wasn't there a drug recently released that demonstrated that?
Publishers give no shits about whether people read the books.

They just need them to buy them.

And that’s been a staple for years, any trip to Goodwill will find you volumes and volumes of books featured on Oprah, etc, where the spines show zero evidence of having ever been opened.
Humming increasing nitric oxide production is well documented. Here is one journal article but there are others:

https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/22/2/323

Nitric Oxide dilates the nasal passages and is also a vasodilator as well. A simple n=1 test is to do nasal humming and test blood pressure before and after. I can typically get a (temporary) 10 point drop.

Nitric Oxide is also anti-bacterial and humming may help clear sinus infections.
Relax, we‘re talking about an editor, not someone‘s religion.
A bit further down they confirm it's at ambient pressure. But only time will tell if all those claims are true.
Because the authors only read the abstracts.
I believe the 3 year period was recommended keeping the 2 year LTS release policy in mind, the idea was that teams don’t have to upgrade to the new LTS immediately, they can spend a year in testing before switching their production JVM.
> It's the only OS that feels truly multiuser. I can `ctrl + alt + .` to switch desktops to a totally different user

You can try, but you won't get Linux or Android subsystems.

I found out early on that if you have multiple logged-in users on a Chromebook, only the first one gets to run Linux/Android. Those apps will crash and fail silently for the other users.

Acer Support and Google Support were absolutely stumped by this, and they wanted me to RMA my device.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/20/how-to-use-multiple...

But no, it is a design limitation. (Note that article's 3 years old and it's still design-limited.)

Also, there are limitations around "Enterprise" controlled accounts. You can create them as a user without the device itself becoming "Enrolled", but be careful, because the first user you create on a Chromebook becomes the administrator forever (like an Android phone). So I had to Powerwash a couple of times after finding these things out.
These are annual financial reports, a very good first step for an investigation. At some point, if someone claims it is a tax dodge, they need some modicum of evidence. None was provided.
There is some chance (betting markets say maybe 70%) that it is bogus. You’d think a lack of replication would kill it right away but look at how there are still believers in cold fusion today.

In a few weeks there will be serious attempts at replication and probably some consensus in a few months.

They are reporting a material which does not have high performance in terms of maximum current, those samples aren’t going to outperform traditional conductors. Somebody might figure out how to make higher quality crystals, there may be enough details that you’d need to license several patents to make something useful.

Liquid nitrogen superconductors were discovered in 1986 but were very slow to find applications. Liquid nitrogen is easy to handle (we could demonstrate magnetic levitation in our high school physics lab) and nitrogen is an abundant element (most of the atmosphere) compared to helium which is common in the universe but rare in Earth. People thought it would be a revolution but it wasn’t. There are practical applications of them but when they build new power lines they almost always use ordinary metals.

Now it could be the other way around, the effect is real, people are able to make a high performing material at an affordable price, people solve all the practical problems, etc. Or it could be this round of materials is “close but no cigar” but in 10 years there is a real breakthrough. We don’t know at this point.
Basically, that is the gist of the vid, the rest is more or less common sense, I guess.

A short & catchy variation of "Overpass turbo - a super powerful mining tool for OSM" would be a more appropriate title [0][1].
It exists since 2013 but got a massive boost from the Pokémon Go craze in 2016 [2].

[0]https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_turbo

[1]https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API

[2]https://www.itechpost.com/articles/34612/20160930/pokemon-go...
There is no high principle other than the agreed upon definition of what a function is.

Of course the function that gives you inverse images is nothing more than an inverse function that is allowed to give multiple values.

You can’t use the word function for something that isn’t a function. It makes no sense to say inverse function that is allowed to give multiple values. Hence the need for terms like pre-image of a set.

In all contexts it is important that a function yield a single value for a given input because that is the definition of the word.
You have to ask who's goals and desires are in focus in these situations, I wouldn't say the child's as a first guess.
So we should expect the introduction of MFC in 1992 to draw the dividing line between the halcyon "fast desktop" days and modern slowness?
If what you say is true, wouldn't we already be seeing incredibly sweet things being sold? I don't see why companies would hold back from producing very sweet products with high sugar content; they do so already.

I'm not sure anyone's clamoring for sweeter drinks. Non-diet drinks like Coke have an established recipe, and diet sodas approximate the same balance of flavors.
The big difference is that I can choose not to pay a company I don't like, and that's fine.

Governments will happily make my life crap if I don't pay taxes. I dislike greed as much as the next person, but the monopolized incarceration powers of governments are not to be forgotten.

For some services, collective funding makes sense, like having hospitals that can stop the spread of diseases, or forcing pooling of money to locally maintain an even standard of infrastructure.
Fair enough. It's an analogy anyway and it is a broken one in more ways than one (for instance: it doesn't deal with propagation of pulses very well because these can be reflected from the end of the tube, you'd have to model it as a tube full of marbles and springs to account for that) but it serves for some discussion purposes.
I think this would result in really poor accounting since there’s a big disconnect between a government employer and a company being audited and its books kept.

In theory it works because the government auditor would be more interested in justice than corporate interests. In practice, an embedded external employee would not have the relationships to have viable information and would probably end up doing only the most perfunctory level of work to not be fired.

My org had this issue where our cyber group embedded an employee in each organization (we basically had a federation of different groups with separate funding streams and incentives) but their career ladders were disconnected from the local org. So the boss in the cyber org never really knew the work and just wanted safety. The org wanted to produce for their mission. So it led to this weird cycle where the embedded cyber person would stop stop every new project. The cyber boss was happy and promoted and gave raises. But it was bad for the org because no new projects.
The website you linked looks neat. Reminds me a little of HN - which I think has a great aesthetic.
The Buffalo shooter organized on a public Discord and unfortunately that had no effect in preventing him. But, this is getting back to my initial point, you are using Discord because you are hoping for private communication then you are using the wrong product.
The problem here would be that if mask sets wear out at an unprecedented rate, it might not make sense to use these cutting edge nodes in the future (if/when we're several nodes ahead by then) for the things that currently use older nodes. Maybe Moore's law is dead for the types of things that stay 2 or 3 nodes behind state of the art all the time.
Sorry, that was neurocline responding directly to vasco. Either way, they weren't responding directly to you.

vasco was the one responding to you.
One of my favorite aspect of Emacs is its configuration file. I use an org-mode file for configuration - which means that we can have rich documentation along with the code - all neatly folded up. The init.el file is just a stub meant to load the configuration from the org-mode file. Even better - the init.el itself is written within the org-mode file. The org-mode file can be executed like a shell script (actually elisp script) to extract the init.el file.

Similar executable org-mode files are used to configure the environment (sway) and personal information management (email, calendar & contacts). The latter one got so complicated that I had to add an integration diagram using the draw.io app.
> Because we are talking about how our money will be spent now.

Again: how do you think maintenance happens?

> I’ve never heard anyone praise our roads

Which is a great example of why public sentiment isn’t really worth a whole lot of anything. People love to complain. If we stopped maintaining our highways people would very quickly learn to appreciate how it used to enable full grocery store shelves, receiving packages and so on.

Absurd generalisations are absurd. If I said “I worked at Google, they waste so much money, every private corporation is a total waste of money and should be gotten rid of” would you think my perspective was a sensible, measured one?
> windows didn't really get any more usable after that...

The old UI is good but I am not a fan of the everything is folders and files idea of the start menu. Maybe I'm misremembering but iirc as a child I used to forget which sub menu inside the thing I needed was except for the ones I used frequently.

I like being able to just type obs and press enter in the new windows. I preferred the old theme better than windows XP Luna theme. I had a copy of tune up software and it said the old theme is somehow easier on my ram? iirc I only had 128MB on my pentium 4 computer.
The main advantage of encountered is that it doesn't go away.

I've been in contexts where I can't use vscode and I've been in contexts where I can't use intelliJ and so on. The contexts where I can't use emacs (specifically, emacs configured to my preferences) are thin on the ground.

It's a space alien user interface and software abstraction relative to most out there, but the payoff is I never have to put it down.
Or just install spacemacs and get a lot of that set up for you for free, plus a bunch of other cool stuff.
It's Time We Design a 15-Minute City for Friendship
Dirac's Belt
Popularity is not a proxy for quality.

...and just like Reddit, chasing popular posts and comments is a race to the bottom as it attracts an ever-more juvenile crowd of participants.

Nuanced opinions and expert commentary are more boring but attract a more intellectually curious crowd - and that is what sets HN apart from reddit.
I had a carefully crafted 98SE CD that was created using a tool called (I think) 98lite. It let you remove components and set defaults. That was rock solid for me, and used so few resources. Boot times were very quick considering the hardware at the time. The all-important post-install defrag made a difference.

I didn't switch away from 98SE on my home computer until XP SP2 (which I immediately theme to look like 98 because I hated the primary colour nonsense).

Actually, every Windows installation from then until I switched to Linux was "shrunk" and tweaked (can't remember what tool I used, but it wasn't an official MS thing). Having a full licenced copy of InstallShield at work was extremely handy too - every app was repackaged into a fully automatic installer and bundled with the OS. It almost felt like a cloned PC. In fact when I got a job managing fleets of PCs, that XPCD Builder script was like a superpower.
I’ve wanted to work on OS clone desktop environments (to cover all the little things a window manager alone can’t) for a while now because I think it’s worthwhile to preserve older environments and keep them available for usage even after their commercial creators have abandoned them.

Finding the time to do that is a challenge though, particularly with the higher activation energy of having to learn the ins and outs of X11, Wayland, and other bits and pieces involved in building a functional *nix desktop.
> Again: how do you think maintenance happens?

Good point, let's get rid of all public programs except social security and road maintenance and lower everyone's taxes 20%.

I'm not actually suggesting that but it's absurd to use road maintenance as the reason why the government needs more money.
In the UK ! was (maybe still is) pronounced as "pling". I know I've definitely said hashpling.

Actually surprised the American's weren't calling # "pound" then, but maybe that evilness showed up later. But whatever, it's never been a pound symbol in any country that uses pounds!

Another interesting fact about # is that in the late 90s or early 2000s, British Telecom tried to gaslight the British public into thinking that # was pronounced "octothorpe". Fortunately, everybody realised this was idiocy, and we all carried on calling it "hash" like we always had.
We're working on "scripting" support for Rust (https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/reference/unstable.h...). Currently our biggest open design issue is what syntax to use for embedding the manifest (Cargo.toml).
What makes you the arbiter of discussion? The article is about cognitive decline, this is an anecdote about personal cognitive decline that they believe happened to be caused by covid.

If you think every comment with a personal anecdote tangentially related to the article is “nonsense” and “r/x” material then you must be constantly frustrated by nearly every HN comments section of sufficient length.
It should be able to. Emacs has good built-in support for navigating around substructure as long as you're operating with a mode that recognizes the substructure.
I'm not familiar with Lit, but if emacs can't grok all the nesting, how is it even remotely human comprehensible?
> writing notes and ordering meds

This is something that is obscure to mostly young, mostly healthy people. When you think of "going to the doctor", you think of a checkup, or a UTI, or an annual gynecologist visit, or something else that happens in a clinic. Or maybe you think about your grandmother being admitted with pneumonia. And in that case, yes, it is largely writing a note and ordering meds (and a diet, and labs, and nursing order parameters for as-needed medications). But nurses are recording vital signs, and those should be searchable under vital signs. Ideally, they should flow directly from the machines taking those vitals - in anesthesia, for instance, we record vital signs at least every five minutes if not more often, which in a hairy case with a lot going on means treating the patient or treating the computer, with the understanding that you have ten or twenty minutes of data entry to follow an hour of actually treating the patient. EVERY code situation has a nurse (an RN, not an LPN or nurses' aide) whose entire job is to sit there and record the times that events occurred so that everyone else can go back after the fact and record meds given, interventions taken, etc., accurately. It takes much less time on a piece of paper than it does on a computer, because paper anesthetic records were designed to minimize cognitive workload and computer ones were not.

As for ordering meds, all of those orders have to be checked by a pharmacist and cross-referenced to ensure that there are no unexpected interactions. That's their legal obligation; they're not going to short-circuit it. And that has to be tied into billing (even in a national health system, you need to know what to order more of), and Medication Administration Records (the MAR). And every one of those notes needs to be classified by who wrote it and what department they were from, as well as the note type, so you can filter out the ones you don't need to see for one purpose or another. Intraoperative anesthetic records and surgical operative notes are the two most relevant to me as an anesthesiologist; what happened last time, and did they run into unexpected troubles? We don't like being surprised.

Billing is more complicated in the US than in most countries, but it's part of the game too (it factors into metrics, and you can't reasonably hold a neurosurgeon doing tumors to the pace of pediatricians doing well-baby visits).

The paper medical record, for all its faults, was a highly refined system, and it's not just a matter of "make a text file containing this note".
There are however various companies looking to e.g. make ethylene from CO2 which, if made economically viable, simultaneously fixes previous fossil CO2 release, and further reduces the financial viability of continuing to drill for more fossil gasses.
I don‘t think those two statements are at odds at all. Consider that the Jan 6th insurrections were trying to keep the then current president, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, in power. That‘s about as far from a citizen‘s only revolution as it could be.
Was that your way of admitting that road maintenance is an example of competent public spending while avoiding actually saying those words?
Hes saying non-whites feel like functions are foreign to them
At least in Finland this is common knowledge and pretty much every house has rhubarb growing in the yard somewhere.
Math Pages
I remember it being used as a synonym for “obsessed perhaps a bit too much” even in the 90s, probably from the idea that if you had autism you would be amazingly brilliant in some tiny subsection of knowledge, like LEGO manufacturing differences.
> Then you'll love the Framework Chromebook, up to 64GB RAM:

No, the Chromebook has 8GiB RAM and this is not a configurable option. The Windows/Linux editions are more configurable than this.
>>Baby Boomers (the largest generation the US has ever had) are retiring en mass.

I dont know the demographics data, but I know a number of boomers personally that are "semi-retired" meaning they are "retired" but they still work some in gig-ecomony jobs, some even work in smaller roles (almost gig style )(i.e project based) for either their old employers or in the same field they were in as Full time employees.
How many samples do you think they have?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/30/radical-...

Dismissing SRM technology, Prof Joeri Rogelj of Imperial College, London, called it “irresponsible, dangerous and a threat to the manageability” of our survival, saying: “It is not a solution but an extremely dangerous band-aid that covers up the global warming problem without healing it, creating a false and unwarranted sense of climate safety while the core of the problem continues to fester.”