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jwineinger··on A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There
I suspect only if the election goes drastically against the current administration.
jwineinger··on eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media
Do I, as a US-based English speaking person, need to have CAs from India and other places trusted by default in my browsers/devices? My gut says no and it just represents unnecessary risk, but I'm also not fully aware of how interleaved cert issuers are with cross signing and such.
jwineinger··on Second Circuit allows government to search electronic devices at the border
from https://www.help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1253?language=en_...

> Immigration Officers, without a warrant, may "within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States...board and search for non-citizens in any vessel within the territorial waters of the United States and any railcar, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle. 8 CFR 287 (a)(1) defines reasonable distance as 100 air miles from the border.

from https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

> Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population, over 213 million people, reside within the region that CBP considers falling within the 100-mile border zone, according to the 2020 census. Most of the 10 largest cities in the U.S., such as New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, fall in this region. Some states, like Florida, lie entirely within this border band so their entire populations are impacted.

jwineinger··on Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
One of the Counter examples is incorrect, tested on both 3.13 and 3.15.0a

  >>> from collections import Counter 
  >>> c = Counter(a=3, b=1)  
  >>> d = Counter(a=1, b=2)   
  >>> c-d  
  Counter({'a': 2})
jwineinger··on Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition
Looking at the ASR leaderboard (https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard), Parakeet (.6B) is still near the top on speed, but about 10th on WER.
jwineinger··on Parallel Perl – Autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT
Standing in that hole without shoring... no thanks. Impressive project nonetheless though
jwineinger··on We put Flock under surveillance: Go make them behave differently [video]
Well, I didn't know there Flock cameras in use near me, but apparently I'm nearly surrounded and would have to take a weird route to avoid them. Some are marked as being operated by the local PD, and others are "Unknown". Thanks for the link
jwineinger··on 'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40
Calvin and Hobbes was the only comic I ever truly loved and collected. All of the books are well-worn from my childhood. They sat on a shelf for a couple of decades, and now I get to enjoy watching my kids fall in love with them too.

I don’t think I fully appreciated the range of humor and topics Bill Watterson explored when I was young. Plenty of strips are perfect for my 9 year old; she was in fits of laughter just yesterday at Hobbes’s physical comedy and the elementary school drama with Susie and Mrs Wormwood. But other strips are much more intellectual, touching on politics, life, and morality. I appreciate these more now as well, because they often spark deeper conversations with my kids when they ask me to explain them.

I doubt he’ll ever see it, but thank you, Bill, for giving multiple generations so much laughter.

jwineinger··on Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch
US. I ride shoulders on semi-rural highways. Sometimes there will be traffic in the opposing lane creating enough noise that I don't hear the vehicles coming from behind. With my Varia, I get warned well before they show up. It has even detected "hidden" vehicles that I couldn't visibly see -- like a small car trailing a truck.
jwineinger··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
I'd love to hear WHY you want to do this.
jwineinger··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
I felt the same. I got a few tiles in and then just couldn't figure out what was next. https://cluesbysam.com/help/2025-04-29?state=EDQ%3D. Apparently Tom is Innocent, which I found by trial and error.
jwineinger··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
The quality difference I find between Costco and Walmart is significant, even if the price is not that different.
jwineinger··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
I was thinking of something similar during pruning season for my apple trees a few months ago. I even went so far as to take a scan of one of my trees with Luma and had it generate a 3D render of it. This worked surprisingly well, though it did take several days to get it rendered as it seemed their service was saturated.

My need/idea was to post that some where (r/backyardorchard probably) to get help in determining which limbs to prune. However, there didn't seem to be an easy way to share that sort of thing and time was of the essence, so I just forged ahead on my own.

jwineinger··on Why is there a screen that says "It is now safe to turn off your computer"? (2016)
May I ask why you still have an XP machine running?
jwineinger··on Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch to block distractions
I have occasionally wanted to trigger location-specific behavior on my kid's devices, like turning the wifi off when in their bedroom. This feels broadly in the category to me.
jwineinger··on TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?
The number of parameters the model is trained on, in billions
jwineinger··on A Message from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to Employees
ASML?
jwineinger··on Boxed – Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours
I've had multiple MRIs and I always ask about my two rings. They have always said they're fine. It feels like they know something I don't, and also feels sketchy.
jwineinger··on NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues
I wonder if the astronauts themselves get some say in this. What if they decide, since it is their lives, that they're not getting into the starliner, even if NASA decides the risk is acceptable?
jwineinger··on Future Ford's May Detect Speeding and Report You to the Cops
Thus generating aftermarket demand for car cellular modem faraday cages
jwineinger··on Upside-Down-Ternet
I remember pranking my college roommates with this close to 20 years ago. Thanks for the memory refresh :D
jwineinger··on Show HN: Creating custom coloring pages from photos. Great for parents/teachers
I uploaded a picture of my dog and none of the styles looked like HER. They were just some generic dog in the same pose as mine.
jwineinger··on Bython: Python with braces. Because Python is awesome, but whitespace is awful
why not braces then?
jwineinger··on FDA approves first medication to reduce allergic reactions to multiple foods
We did achieve this with OIT for peanut allergy. Once we reached bite-safe levels, our lives literally changed for the better. We didn't have to worry about interrogating anyone serving us food (restaurants, friends, family), and we could go to some places that were just never an option before where cross contamination is likely or even expected, like ice-cream parlors. There's still a protocol we have to follow every day though, so an actual cure is still a dream for us.
jwineinger··on Auth0 OSS alternative Ory Kratos now with passwordless and SMS support
Auth0 can do this. Identifier first login, SSO domain aliases, and MFA are all supported. They have an Organizations feature as well, but I'm not certain if you'd need that from what you've described. Customization of various aspects of the authn flow can be done via Actions (and Rules, but they're deprecated).
jwineinger··on Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets
Agree with these. I was a dev at a retailer that did catalog/phone sales and was starting to use web. Small salary, small PTO, no benefits. Pay increased when the business had an existential crisis and came to rely much more heavily on tech. Next was software consulting company churning out sites designed by marketing agencies, billed to the 15 min. Small salary, small PTO, some benefits. Then I went into SaaS (startup, then a public company). Nice salary + stock, great PTO, great benefits.

Aside from the comp/PTO/benefits, I learned that consulting isn't for me. The client interactions felt... adversarial, where they were trying to get more work for less money, while we were doing the opposite. I did not like that constant tension in conversations.

jwineinger··on Show HN: I'm open-sourcing my game engine
This feels a bit like NIH syndrome to me. Maintaining your own authentication solution is not trivial, especially for small/one-person operation.

Edit: Re-reading, I guess this is specifically targeted at Okta, who have had their share of problems.

jwineinger··on Two pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine doesn't work
My dad is a physician and as far back as I can remember, he said it was worthless.
jwineinger··on The Seamless Communication models
What challenges have you faced? I’ve been planning do the same thing (whisper for ASR, and something else for text to text translation).
jwineinger··on The Seamless Communication models
Any ideas on what kind of hardware this would require to run S2ST?
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