skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not fast without pre-segmentation as they do in WhisperX. It actually has terrible transcription speed. For speedup we have to use Ctranslate2 kernels. The decoding code is also a mess where its hard to plug your own custom language model. Not to mention streaming ASR requires even more tweaks. Whisper Small is very fast and quite inaccurate. If you deploy whisper on a GPU which costs around dollar per hr, you really to ensure that the cost savings are worth it.

Although all of this is from a production lens. For personal use, honestly nothing is as easy to use as Whisper (even works on a laptop).
Related numberphile video which goes into a different variation of using all digits in ascending and descending order: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ruC5A9EzzE

but in this case there is a unsolved gap!
European alternatives for digital products: https://european-alternatives.eu/

https://www.scaleway.com/en/

EuroStack: https://euro-stack.eu/

https://www.ceps.eu/a-bold-proposal-to-build-the-eurostack-b...
So what you're saying is that "waste reduction" is such a holy goal that the means justify the ends? Not matter the consequences, no matter the outcomes, no matter the harm.

I think that's where we fundemtally disagree, not to mention your blindness to their stated ideological ulterior motives. Thr Project 2025 document explicitly states it's goal of ultimately replacing federal workers with its cadres that work towards to it's political project.

I'd like to be proven wrong but I have a feeling all of this will never provide any cost benefits to those that aren't the rich. Even if they somehow manage to reduce the taxes on the avg joe, a big if, the Joe will pay for it in other tangible ways. I.e. I don't think it's waste being eliminated but projects the administration disagrees or wants to privatize. Can you address these concerns?
You’re not wrong, but your point doesn’t diminish the point of the post.

Maybe we should discuss one topic at a time so we can make progress somewhere without the implication that progress that isn’t everywhere is progress nowhere?
They also move too slowly, so they fall further and further behind each year.

For example, Hetzner has great potential, but they’re only just now releasing object storage after 4 years in the cloud space, and they don’t even have managed database yet.
I don’t know what OS you’re talking about, but that’s basically never been true on Windows. Native tooltips don’t natively try to dodge the cursor, and there’s no configuration of times and such, and not much actually even uses the original native stuff any more, nor should it. And as regards dodging the cursor, I don’t know of a single piece of software that actually queries the cursor in order to dodge it—though my dad told me years ago he’d implemented such a thing personally back somewhere around 2000.

This wasn’t much of a problem in the past, because the largest cursors shipped out of the box were only two or three times as big, and not much would collide. But in I think 2019 Windows 10 gave you a colour and size selector, and it extends the range past 1–3 all the way up to 15, which I think might have been 256×256 or something, which is absolutely huge and I actually had a lot of fun deliberately doing bright orange size 15 cursor for a whole week when that feature first came out, before eventually settling on 4, which is still way bigger than people are used to, and well worth it, in my opinion, except that for size 3 and beyond, tooltips get occluded, and so I’d lose the first couple of letters of tooltips. (I like the way macOS enlarges the cursor if you shake it about, so you can find it if you lost it.)

Huh, just checked the original Firefox bug from 2004, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248718, and it looks like they’ve finally fixed this after twenty years, in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1712669. Still took five more years of occasional complaints, but I wonder if Windows making it so easy to get bad tooltips has pushed more software to fix their tooltip placement. Nice to see, even if it’s too late to benefit me any more.

Of course, on the web you can’t do it properly with in-DOM tooltips; only with native tooltips, which are unfortunately very limited and often unsuitable for other reasons.

—⁂—

Now as for Linux + Wayland… ugh. The situation is still laughably bad. I use Sway, `output eDP-1 scale 1.5` and `seat seat0 xcursor_theme Adwaita 96`, and the cursor still appears at at least three different sizes, depending on the app. It used to be five. GTK is just ignoring the size thing so I can’t judge it, Qt seems to be actually positioning tooltips sanely these days, avoiding the cursor, which I don’t think it did four years ago. Good show.
I recently got a message on LinkedIn from an AWS headhunter for: "Position for European Sovereign Cloud".

So I assume most of the mentioned issues will be irrelevant soon™. Because a) the convenience, b) lack of actual competitors.
All this doesn't mean your back-end should be based on something like Microsoft Windows Server with MS Sql Server. Or modern equivalent of serverless Windows Azure.

Russians (and everyone closely watching) started that transition almost painlessly in 2014.

Have your own search engine. Have your own payment system. Base your infrastructure on open-source.

You know, be sovereign, not dependent.

The users switching from iOS to Android is just the last mile.
To save the grep, you can do:

sed -Ene 's/^location: (.*)?utm.*$/\1/p'

If you've got a newer `curl`, you can just print the header:

curl -I -s -o /dev/null -w '%header{location}' <url>

But you'll obviously still need the sed if you want to trim off the UTM cruft. Unless you want to go the route of `bash` substitutions.

l="$(curl -I -s -o /dev/null -w '%header{location}' <url>)"
echo "${l%%?utm*}"
I used to work with a web developer in state govt who purposely coded a couple seconds delay before data was displayed so that the spinner would always show. He was actually one of the best developers on the team ironically.
Step 0 for keeping a secret from anyone is not asking them to store it in their house.
The literal worst thing Penn could do for students at this point is to take more on they aren't sure they will be able to support through their Ph.D. They are protecting and looking our for the students they have by not accepting more.
seems cool, but weird non-oss license ahead warning.
Incidentally I saw this post also flavged
Intuitive physics understanding emerges from self-supervised pretraining
Intuitive physics understanding emerges from
self-supervised pretraining on natural videos
Random bias is responsible for history's biggest creative breakthroughs
You can email me: aravind [at] coderabbit.ai.

We are hiring in BLR and SF.
It is so simple to install Linux
So, you're absolutely sure you want to switch to Linux because your current system just isn’t cutting it anymore? Tired of being spied on, locked into proprietary formats, and dealing with endless software updates right when you have zero time for them? Ready to explore the other side—the freer side? No more talking—let’s get straight to it. Here’s how to get up and running in no time.

Do you think this is difficult? Tell me what I could do better in this extreme to the point guide. Thank you!
Define "full control" for those of us with GrapheneOS installed, pretty please.
I would argue that gRPC and Kafka is "general knowledge" in the sense that these are language-agnostic. In other words there is no requirement "Go language knowledge," but a requirement "gRPC and Kafka knowledge."
That’s not an optimal selection outcome, but it actually is a decent one.
Security isn't a "safe" vs. "not safe" bool
Issue is America is actively supporting Russia while America is exaggerating own contributions.
I would argue that the Gamma function is more fundamental than the factorial operation. But you are still correct that if arbitrary functions were allowed, the game would degenerate to triviality.
Not yet, but it's achievable, just like my relatives are using GNU/Linux on desktop without problems.
Hey, thank you for the feedback. I have created an issue to add a quick start for Kubernetes as well. Most of my decisions behind this project is to make it super "dumb" and easy to use. Thank you so much for the feedback!
Engineer to CEO in 3 years: These key lessons got me there
22.1 came out at the end of last year: https://lineageos.org/Changelog-29/
> We don't refuse the treatment to a 65 years old

We certainly do: because they have unlimited demand for healthcare so there needs to be a budget. I've had indirect experience with the New Zealand healthcare system avoiding treatments due to cost. Cost is often not given as the reason, instead waiting lists and other palatable reasons are given. NZ spends 11% of GDP on healthcare.

Health NZ’s cost pressure uplift is 6.2% across all of Health NZ's operating budget

Higher than inflation or tax increases. The unsupportable trend is towards 100% of taxes being used for healthcare?

It is unrealistically idealistic to pretend we can afford infinite cost pressures.

The wealthy pay the majority of the taxation base so they mostly fund public healthcare. People that have chosen unhealthy lifestyles are often the recipients (e.g. my poor friend with COPS from smoking). Not just the unlucky.

> all get a shot at chemotherapy

Great example. New Zealand does fund cheap chemotherapy options. There are expensive chemotherapy options that are not available through Pharmac (our public healthcare drugs purchaser). For expensive drugs you need to pay yourself either directly or indirectly via private health insurance policies (e.g. I noted a policy that covered up to $600000 for unfunded chemotherapy drugs).

Two drugs that our health care system won't pay for due to expense:

* Eribulin can be a useful option after ‘standard’ breast-cancer chemotherapy has failed.

* Atezolizumab (Tecentriq®) useful for women with locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer that cannot be treated surgically and whose tumors are positive for a protein called PD-L1

https://sweetlouise.org.nz/drugs-not-funded-in-nz/

I have private insurance (through a non-profit provider). The unlucky collectively get the benefit from that, and I sincerely hope I never need to benefit from it.
I just don't know how this makes any meaningful difference towards the threat model of the US gov't becoming compromised if a US company still controls said servers and the CLOUD Act allows the US gov't to freely subpoena the contents of those servers. The companies involved will still do what the US says because they are forced to.

Like, the conversation will go, "Get us this data"; "EU law says we're not allowed to"; "We don't care, do it or we shut you down."
I believe it was more complicated than that, with some moving around since the 1930’s at least. I think the 1960’s civil rights movement just made it painfully obvious.

Having said that, Americans seem to be extremely pragmatic when it comes to voting, not ruling out someone for being a terrible human being if their policy proposals make sense to the voter. I wish Americans would be more ideological and principled in that situation.
Who are “they”? Several European countries have nuclear power (together with some other source as well of course) and are planning to build more. It will probably take a long time though.
You posed the original comment in one frame (costs). I responded with a different frame (politics). If I have a hope from interacting with you and others about our political moment (or history in general) on HN it is simply that you may broaden your horizons on the role and function of government to be more than as a sort of beekeeper of the hive. I have personally done very well materially under late stage global liberalism and have nothing to be resentful about. But even so I find the its ideology inhumane and offensive in the nose.
If my tax dollars are supporting research, I'd rather they go to universities even if that means some bloat in the form of more people hired than otherwise, rather than corporate shareholders.
Fidelity who helped finance his buy out of twitter and a large owns equity stake in it.
Americans have some of the best and cheapest colleges. First, most people don't have to pay tuition (low income) or a lot lower than tuition. Then, in-state tuition is ridiculously cheap. Citizens are eligible for a LOT of grants and scholarships. They can work on-campus as teaching/research assistants which offer fee waiver and get paid a decent wage! Their parents/grand-parents/etc fund tax advantaged college savings account, which has to be used for college! They can work off campus or any remote job. And finally, a range of federal/state grants, loans, etc are available. Student health insurance is also incredibly cheap. And health centers on campus. And there are no rules that say you must go to college and be done with it at this age (unlike other countries), US is incredibly flexible, you can defer, do part-time, do slowly (work one year, college next year), lots of options!

The only people who pay sticker price are international students. I don't know if we can say American higher education is subsidized mostly by people from third world, taking massive loans, usually half of or almost all of their family's net worth!
Linux will gain traction as soon as people have difficultly figuring out how to open a terminal window - by design. The main problem with linux, or specifically linux distros, is that they are designed and maintained by people who like using linux, which eternally damns it to ~5% market penetration.
Hey, thank you for your feedback and I agree. This project is still under heavy development and one of the lovely HN people opened an issue regarding this. I'll get to make the demo accessible without any accounts. Thank you!
The problem is that, sometimes, "no input" looks very much like "I have input, but I haven't had the time to give it", so you end up waiting for nothing. This way you put the responsibility on the other person, to say "please don't do this yet, I'll explain soon why not" instead of just staying silent.
I personally can't get hired because nobody is hiring for entry-level positions.
Android devices run a Google OS and report data to Google. Apple's privacy claims are not actually impressive when inspected, however Android is far, far worse when it comes to privacy violations. It doesn't really matter than the phone itself might be manufactured by a 3rd party. In fact, it could be worse; your data could be excessively leaked to both Samsung and Google, rather than merely Google.
No, it’s just a statistical fact.

Trump gained 3 million votes post 2020; the Democratic Party lost 6 million. At best, you could say 3 million swung to Trump, and 3 million stayed home. Combine that with the first popular vote victory in 20 years (edit: for a republican candidate), and the quality or perception of the candidate is a statistically likely cause.
I just spent several months helping someone who got released after 40 years. He got used to smartphones very quickly. He'd seen them in movies and TV, and they have tablets in most prisons these days to download music and movies and do texting.

Had to teach him how to pay with a debit card and PIN for everything as that wasn't a thing before he went in.

Humans are very adaptable.
There's also a reimplementation of the original Dark Forces [1].

[1] https://github.com/luciusDXL/TheForceEngine
The EU hasn't even got a home-built social network with significant market reach, let alone the wherewithal to pull off ditching Microsoft and Google. It'd be nice to see that change, but there's surely some sort of blocker after 25 years of the Web being a mainstream technology.
I never was. Claiming otherwise is blatant political propaganda.
"About politics" is kind of vague. It's not like an article is either political or it's not. If you saw these headines at the top of HN, which of these would you consider "too political" and worthy of flagging?

- "Funding for NASA's next science mission in question"

- "A deep dive into the IRS's legacy computer systems"

- "State governors band together to propose new cyber-security rules"

- "UK government again takes aim at encryption"

- "List of IT systems DOGE staff members have access to"

Are all of these things just not-discussable here anymore, merely because they brush up against a government or politics?
makes me wanna find pre ww2 visual art from there
> Aren't sports a net money generator for universities?

only for a select few; most are a loss
Hello, sorry for not making the demo accessible without an account. Currently there's an open issue which I'm working on to do so. This project under heavy development, sorry for the troubles.
The EU is a pretty capitalist organization (I mean the single market is a big part of it). I think they have trouble competing with US tech companies because of our economies of scale, and widespread use of anti-competitive business practices, general inertia, and the tendency of the US to brain drain the rest of the world. I guess, fortunately for you guys, we’re trying to throw away many of our advantages.
Yeah, it is call free trade. Paying to someone else. You know the trade deficit thing? Selling these things made it smaller.

You will surprised, but American businesses benefit from selling their services.
I sorta want to do this, but developing completely open source games.

Maybe even developing my own game engine.

Of course all this costs a lot of money with no clear way to make it back. If I had to come up with a monetization model, I would come up with an ad network similar to Unity.

If Unity needs 2 billion in revenue to barely keep going, I reckon a more focused engine could be funded for 20 million a year.

It's a moot point since I'll never have that much money or be able to raise a VC round.

But HN, let's dream. Imagine a .net or JavaScript engine that's web first. With mobile and PC support coming later( PC can just run a local server). The engine developers dog food their own engine, making very high quality examples for the community.

Keep the engine focused on small lightweight games.

Unity's ultimate problem is they keep trying to do literally everything.

I wouldn't do that. I'd say straight up this engine isn't going to do AAA gaming. It's not going to scale. I'm not supporting 800 design patterns.
https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to
"AWS Services That Do Not Support IPv6" - https://github.com/DuckbillGroup/aws-ipv6-gaps
Just to be clear that's a similar story about a different university (University of Pennsylvania vs. University of Pittsburgh).
It really isn't. It's very much tied to certain stacks, while it's completely uncommon in others stacks, because they're solving the same problems in a different way. I've never touched it in my life. Sure, I can pick it up, but I fail to see how it should be considered common.
The world literally has hard proofs of mass espionage by the NSA and CIA after Snowden and Wikileaks Vault 7. Moving your government secrets to the US cloud has been madness for at least 12 years.
It seems like the better comparison from your article would be 1992, but really, having RFK Junior sitting there with a chainsaw is in no way comparable to 2013
>Is it a benefit to oil companies? Yes, most definitely, due to the time value of money.
I guess so, but based on current events, it doesn't seem like the US Govt. has any secrets that it places any value on. Between a bunch of glorified interns being given access to anything & everything and a bunch of known compromised department heads being appointed... it doesn't strike me that the US Govt. takes its national security very seriously at all.

The US Govt. seems empirically much more vested in what goes on in public restrooms than it does in what goes on in global affairs and military conflicts.
I love that.

Especially when some things feel like they should have a low threshold for flagging (if 2 people agree it's obvious commerical spam, or terrible-quality content, or a duplicate submission from the past 48 hours), while others feel like they should have a higher threshold (e.g. if 5 people agree it's off-topic for HN, or a threshold proportional to upvotes).
Kids these days barely know how to make a proper waterfall model before they start writing. It’s disgraceful.
That video is nightmare fuel.
This is really excellent work you're doing here
>>negative anticipation

Seriously? Please read just a little bit of history and civics, and stop making false equivalences.

These moves are straight out of the bog-standard authoritarian playbook.

Under well-functioning democracies, the branches of govt (legislative, executive, judicial), and the branches of society (press, industry, business, academy, religion, sport, social, etc.) are all independent with a relative balance of power

Under fascism, all of these institutions are coerced or corrupted to serve the will of the executive.

Every move already done (not anticipated) is a decapitation or coercion attack on the institutions to force them to serve the will of the executive.

Over seventy moves already done have been challenged in court, and the judiciary, even those appointed by appointed by the same President, in the preliminary rulings have been ruled illegal.

No other administration has ever sued or prosecuted a Press organization or journalist for coverage they didn't like. This one already has in the first few weeks in office. That is not anticipating, that is observing fascist moves in real time.

The administration has already challenged the legitimacy of judges' rulings ("who are they to tell the executive how to rule?") and threatened to not follow judges' rulings. Again, in the first few weeks, and utterly unprecedented.

Russia and Venezuela also "still vote". The Rs have already introduced a bill, the SAVE act, which will disenfranchise most married women (require them to register to vote with a birth cert matching their current driver's license name). And that is only one attempt to disenfranchise anyone not a white male.

>> I wouldn't say republicans started the cultural wars over progressive ideologies

I would say they did. What you call "progressive ideologies" is simply living up to the ideals of the country — equal treatment for everyone. It does not take rights away from anyone, only allows everyone to have the same rights in public spaces, employment, healthcare, etc. It is the right wing who turned it into a culture war. It sure as hell was no one but the right-wingers who politicized and turned simple scientific public health measures like N95 masks and vaccinations into a culture war.

>>Fascists charm everyone

Seriously, the fact that Trump and Musk are not charming is your argument they are not fascist? You seriously think Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pol Pot, Chavez, Maduro, etc. etc., etc. charmed everyone? They managed to create chaos and barely get elected before corrupting their countries into their dictatorships.

Again, please get real, read some actual history, stop posting misleading nonsense and looking like a Useful Idiot (in the specific Vladimir Lenin sense).
That's cute considering how many false DMCA takedowns are given on the daily.

You keep living in that fantasy world of yours.
Germany pretty much only ordered the F-35 to carry US nuclear weapons because their current platform (Tornado) is getting retired. They didn't want to hand over Typhoon schematics to retrofit it. They pretty much only had the choice between F18s or F35s.
> It’s the kind of reasoning that’s impossible to argue with

I admire your eye for detail.

Occam's razor: That the dumbest most simplistic explanation is never the right one doesn't mean one can't convince himself it is.
Redux: Why are you lying to me? Some criticism from folks on Hacker News
"Incus" and a bunch of jargon? and some AI-generated-lookin' art? Just point people to the Linux Mint download page and have them use the installation guide there. Otherwise, what's your angle?
one of them is former ally supporting Russia and far right movements.