Hacker News: jwineinger

New comment by jwineinger in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

jwineinger — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:09:04 +0000

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.

New comment by jwineinger in "Parallel Perl – Autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT"

jwineinger — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:07:57 +0000

Standing in that hole without shoring... no thanks. Impressive project nonetheless though

New comment by jwineinger in "We put Flock under surveillance: Go make them behave differently [video]"

jwineinger — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:56:50 +0000

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

New comment by jwineinger in "'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40"

jwineinger — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:19:08 +0000

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.

New comment by jwineinger in "Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch"

jwineinger — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:59:15 +0000

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.

New comment by jwineinger in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

jwineinger — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:43:59 +0000

I'd love to hear WHY you want to do this.

New comment by jwineinger in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

jwineinger — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:41:01 +0000

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.

New comment by jwineinger in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

jwineinger — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:36:19 +0000

The quality difference I find between Costco and Walmart is significant, even if the price is not that different.

New comment by jwineinger in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

jwineinger — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:31:16 +0000

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.

New comment by jwineinger in "Why is there a screen that says "It is now safe to turn off your computer"? (2016)"

jwineinger — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:17:41 +0000

May I ask why you still have an XP machine running?

New comment by jwineinger in "Show HN: I made a app that uses NFC as a physical switch to block distractions"

jwineinger — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:11:23 +0000

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.

New comment by jwineinger in "TinyStories: How Small Can Language Models Be and Still Speak Coherent English?"

jwineinger — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:04:56 +0000

The number of parameters the model is trained on, in billions

New comment by jwineinger in "A Message from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to Employees"

jwineinger — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:09:56 +0000

ASML?

New comment by jwineinger in "Boxed – Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours"

jwineinger — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:06:29 +0000

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.

New comment by jwineinger in "NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues"

jwineinger — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:33:25 +0000

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?

New comment by jwineinger in "Future Ford's May Detect Speeding and Report You to the Cops"

jwineinger — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:41:13 +0000

Thus generating aftermarket demand for car cellular modem faraday cages

New comment by jwineinger in "Upside-Down-Ternet"

jwineinger — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:37:10 +0000

I remember pranking my college roommates with this close to 20 years ago. Thanks for the memory refresh :D

New comment by jwineinger in "Show HN: Creating custom coloring pages from photos. Great for parents/teachers"

jwineinger — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:55:50 +0000

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.

New comment by jwineinger in "Bython: Python with braces. Because Python is awesome, but whitespace is awful"

jwineinger — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000

why not braces then?

New comment by jwineinger in "FDA approves first medication to reduce allergic reactions to multiple foods"

jwineinger — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:54:23 +0000

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.