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polarix commented on Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS   scriberpro.cc/hn/... · Posted by u/rezivor
rezivor · 5 months ago
If ever there were a reason to upgrade!

But thats a fair point- I drank the Liquid Glass Kool-Aid----- I'll aim more compatibility the next upgrade

polarix · 5 months ago
Do you have a mailing list?

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polarix commented on The Headlines Are Evil, and They're Bringing Us Down   writing.kemitchell.com/20... · Posted by u/feross
polarix · 9 months ago
Sure, those headlines are misleading.

But all of those other headlines are wrong and misleading as well, in their own way.

The "court"(s) cannot "block" Trump from doing anything. They don't control the military. All they can do is "say" something about the "legality" of the actions of the commander in chief of the military. The first two headlines that (according to the link) "beg to mislead" are closer to accuracy on this dimension -- the courts said something.

polarix commented on Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)   arxiv.org/abs/2502.00627... · Posted by u/leotravis10
philipkglass · 10 months ago
When I started the download this morning I was able to use wget without authentication, but I see that Zenodo has added a login-wall now.

The decompressed data appears to be JSONL, but at least the version I downloaded has a little binary garbage at the front. The first readable JSON object has the author "Fortnite Germany".

Size as .zst: 117,962,356,699 bytes

ZST SHA384: b8863645654610f1fde2859bb20bd87d913865af7791e0ec33741402944d5b9bdfdaaf65c2dc610730efb01f446e2588

polarix · 10 months ago
It is not just a login wall, they have restricted access even for logged in users, presumably to only the uploaders. A magnet would be nice.
polarix commented on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs   fosstodon.org/@frameworkc... · Posted by u/leotravis10
gnabgib · a year ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616447 (50 points)

This fractured landscape isn't better - same message on x:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616389 (10 points)

polarix · a year ago
One obvious benefit of this link and the bsky ones is that it is actually possible to read the comments on them, unlike the last one.
polarix commented on I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023)   jacobin.com/2023/11/i-was... · Posted by u/wglb
lukan · 2 years ago
" to ensure that the total operational cost of hiring people to do these terrible jobs is much higher than using robots."

He was not crushed by machinery or anything:

"Dariusz worked so hard. His job used to be done by a few people during a shift, but then they made him do all that work alone, pushing around trolleys with heavy boxes."

He was simply pushed working too hard. So a robot doing the job would have been one solution - the other simply an extra human helping, or switching tasks, to something less physically demanding.

polarix · 2 years ago
True! There might be other solutions, like having management treat people as they themselves would want to be treated. That kind of thing just sounds fairly unrealistic.
polarix commented on I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023)   jacobin.com/2023/11/i-was... · Posted by u/wglb
andsoitis · 2 years ago
what is your alternative proposal and what problems would it solve better?
polarix · 2 years ago
(presumably Geis’s comment was sarcasm?)
polarix commented on I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023)   jacobin.com/2023/11/i-was... · Posted by u/wglb
zac23or · 2 years ago
The reason for the poor view of the NH community (outside NH) is clear from the opinions expressed here. From defending Amazon's right to pay low wages to “it's easy, just quit” demonstrates the disconnection of NH people with reality to the point of full psychopathy. And everyone knows that you never go a full psychopath.

The technical part of HN is a delight. But the non-technical part, when something is said about humanities, it's sad. It's as if most of the people at HN were no longer people, they were robot CEOs who defend money above all else. I would love a tag system so I can't view these discussions (I already do this, but sometimes it escapes me)

polarix · 2 years ago
No, of course it’s not easy to quit. But perhaps it’s wrong to even offer these terrible jobs as an “opportunity” to people who have so little choice.
polarix commented on I Was Illegally Fired by Amazon for Speaking Out About a Coworker's Death (2023)   jacobin.com/2023/11/i-was... · Posted by u/wglb
polarix · 2 years ago
I hope courts worldwide continue to punish Amazon for these kinds of things. They need to change the calculus — to ensure that the total operational cost of hiring people to do these terrible jobs is much higher than using robots.
polarix commented on Ask HN: Anyone else finding Google Maps terrible?    · Posted by u/rjh29
polarix · 2 years ago
Yep. Switched to Apple Maps and (as backup) Organic Maps recently.

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