mmcwilliams (u/mmcwilliams)

mmcwilliams commented on De minimis exemption ends washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/ajd555

It's also not clear that allowing factories that underpay exploited workers to ship stuff over is a net win

The alternative here is the exploited worker will no longer have any job. Doesn't seem like that is a legitimate concern for their well-being.

mmcwilliams commented on Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic github.com/openai/whisper... · Posted by u/edent

cyp0633 · a month ago

The same happens with whisper-large-v3 on Chinese transcription: silence is transcribed to something like "please upvote, share and favourite this video". I suspect they trained the model on some random YouTube video without carefully picking really useful data.

mmcwilliams · a month ago

Similar in the English model. Pretty clear they trained on YouTube videos where creators will put that in otherwise silent sections to ensure it shows up for people with CC on.

mmcwilliams commented on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral techcrunch.com/2025/07/01... · Posted by u/exiguus

account42 · 2 months ago

Most countries don't give you a court hearing for being in the country without a visa or other authorization. Being shipped into a detention facility until you can be deported is the norm here.

mmcwilliams · 2 months ago

How many of those countries are subject to the US constitution?

mmcwilliams commented on US Supreme Court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/leotravis10

paulvnickerson · 2 months ago

This had to happen. The state of affairs prior to this ruling is that any of 700 district judges could unilaterally block the president from exercising his authority under the constitution pending a review, including matters of national security, based on their own subjective politics. It broke the proper functioning of the government. This restores a proper functioning balance of powers.

mmcwilliams · 2 months ago

What you're describing is the "check" in the term "checks and balances".

mmcwilliams commented on How OpenElections uses LLMs thescoop.org/archives/202... · Posted by u/m-hodges

missingcolours · 2 months ago

Not being standardized is fine and even a positive (diversity of technology vendors is a security feature and increases confidence in elections). But producing machine readable outputs of some sort, instead of physical paper and PDFs, is clearly a positive as well.

mmcwilliams · 2 months ago

Physical paper outputs can be machine readable if they are made using fonts with that are more-accurately OCR readable.

mmcwilliams commented on High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers wsj.com/lifestyle/careers... · Posted by u/lxm

vlovich123 · 4 months ago

Is an undergraduate in engineering a professional degree or an undergrad degree?

mmcwilliams · 4 months ago

The differentiation here is usually that a professional degree follows a bachelors or undergrad degree. Law school and medical school are categorized differently than masters degree programs. In US colleges an engineering degree would typically be an MA and in some fields the MA is not a terminal degree.

mmcwilliams commented on High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers wsj.com/lifestyle/careers... · Posted by u/lxm

Ifkaluva · 4 months ago

What is a “professional degree”, between master’s and PhD?

mmcwilliams · 4 months ago

That typically refers to a degree like a JD or MD.

mmcwilliams commented on High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers wsj.com/lifestyle/careers... · Posted by u/lxm

itronitron · 4 months ago

True, but let's consider the next age group up from 17, ... graduate students earn less than that, don't get paid overtime, and will have to search for a new job in a few years.

mmcwilliams · 4 months ago

That may be true but we're talking about an anecdote. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks that people with a high school education, on average, earn about half of what people with masters degrees earn [0]. It's easy to lose the big picture when focusing on an outlier.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/emp/chart-unemployment-earnings-educatio...

mmcwilliams commented on Inmates in ElSalvador tortured/strangled-hellish conditions in Bukele's prisons (2023) english.elpais.com/intern... · Posted by u/nobody9999

BSDobelix · 4 months ago

From 2021 to 2024, the homicide rate in El Salvador decreased by 10 times [1]. Sure, torture is terrible in El Salvador's prison, as it is in Guantánamo's "prison", but public safety is the number one priority for any government, without safety any other achievement for a country is impossible.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_El_Salvador

mmcwilliams · 4 months ago

This could also be due to the agreements Bukele reached with the MS-13 gang in 2020 [0]. Keep in mind this story came out over 4 years before the prison's existence was politicized in the US.

[0] https://elfaro.net/en/202009/el_salvador/24785/Bukele-Has-Be...

mmcwilliams commented on Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service clevercoloringbook.com/... · Posted by u/darajava

xdfgh1112 · 4 months ago

It's nothing like Ghibli, you are overthinking this.

mmcwilliams · 4 months ago

You think that the model is not properly producing the style it was prompted for in the below prompt? I don't see other artists or styles mentioned.

> Make this a page in a colouring book. The drawing is in a simple Studio Ghibli portrait style. Bleed all the way to the edges. Background colour is #ffffff and lines are bold and #000000. There is no shading or crossthatching.

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