Hacker News: thylacine222

New comment by thylacine222 in "Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader"

thylacine222 — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:07:44 +0000

supernote's tablets are designed to have replaceable motherboards/batteries although it's still to be seen whether they will actually be able to support that long-term.

New comment by thylacine222 in "Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes"

thylacine222 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:22:09 +0000

Analogizing this to human hallucination is silly. In the instance you're talking about, the human isn't hallucinating, they're lying.

New comment by thylacine222 in "Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs"

thylacine222 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 01:21:02 +0000

Ah yeah, the share dialog is really basic, I ended up using Firefox and installing the full extension when I wanted to save pages (also allows you to save pages from places you're logged into)

New comment by thylacine222 in "Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs"

thylacine222 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:02:32 +0000

I seem to be able to tag articles, do you not have an "Edit Labels" option in the article menu? Regardless, they definitely were lagging on Android development, but it was still finished enough to use it. There's even a version that supports pagination: https://github.com/tent4kel/omnivore/releases/

New comment by thylacine222 in "Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs"

thylacine222 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:04:30 +0000

this really sucks, it's by far the best reader app out there. Hoping that people will be able to figure out a straightforward way to do self-hosting, because I would be willing to use the app as it is right now forever.

New comment by thylacine222 in "Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs"

thylacine222 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:55:37 +0000

It's not a great self-hosting option, tbh, depends on a lot of Google services and the support for it in the apps can be finicky.

New comment by thylacine222 in "Show HN: AI dub tool I made to watch foreign language videos with my 7-year-old"

thylacine222 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 06:34:41 +0000

Whisper can also generate timings at the word level, which you could use to make better-timed subtitles

New comment by thylacine222 in "Show HN: Bulletpapers – ArXiv AI paper summarizer, won Anthropic Hackathon"

thylacine222 — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 23:39:22 +0000

The blur effect that shows up when you start chatting is very annoying -- I want to be able to see the details of the paper so I can ask about them!

New comment by thylacine222 in "Pottery becomes water treatment device for Navajo nation"

thylacine222 — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:56:49 +0000

I wasn't pointing fingers at the retirees, I specifically blamed at the federal government, who refuse to recognize the Navajo Nation's water access rights, as you said.

New comment by thylacine222 in "Pottery becomes water treatment device for Navajo nation"

thylacine222 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 02:10:54 +0000

I'm sure the authors meant well, but it's absurd to act like this is a solution. They could have a clean source of water, but the federal government is siding against them[1] for water rights so that retirees in Arizona can have golf courses and manicured lawns in the middle of a desert[2].

1: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/20/1164852475/supreme-court-nava...

2: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/05/arizona-wate...

New comment by thylacine222 in "Bandcamp Unionizes"

thylacine222 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:44:44 +0000

The working class can't live off your pity, they would much rather have a strong union movement from every sector so we can fight together.

New comment by thylacine222 in "Bandcamp Unionizes"

thylacine222 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:29:43 +0000

No, they aren't. Just look at Wikipedia, it's a common enough misconception that the page for right-to-work directs people to at-will employment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

New comment by thylacine222 in "Bandcamp Unionizes"

thylacine222 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:19:11 +0000

I certainly think they're emblematic of changes in attitudes, but I think the direction of causation is not so clear.

New comment by thylacine222 in "Bandcamp Unionizes"

thylacine222 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:59:12 +0000

Every few years someone thinks that they have a new plan to revolutionize labor organizing, usually involving some sort of app that will somehow replace the work necessary to organize a union, and they are always wrong. Building a union that's strike-ready requires a lot of on the ground work that you simply cannot automate.

New comment by thylacine222 in "Bandcamp Unionizes"

thylacine222 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:45:08 +0000

SAG, DGA, and WGA are all labor unions. The other cases I'll grant you, but it's less clear what their direct benefit to their members is besides acting as lobbying organizations.

New comment by thylacine222 in "Bandcamp Unionizes"

thylacine222 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:43:59 +0000

I noticed you were from Turkey -- I've never heard of the phrasing "chamber of engineers", but from Wikipedia, it sounds to be a kind of labor union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Chambers_of_Turkish_E...

New comment by thylacine222 in "Bandcamp Unionizes"

thylacine222 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:34:54 +0000

I think you mean at-will employment, right-to-work usually refers to bans on union security agreements.

New comment by thylacine222 in "Bandcamp Unionizes"

thylacine222 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 22:30:52 +0000

What's an example of a non-union worker organization that you've seen work well for its members?

New comment by thylacine222 in "The Pepsi Cola Addict (1982)"

thylacine222 — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 09:50:08 +0000

Apparently there was a limited run last year which claimed to have the full involvement of June: https://www.davidtibet.com/products/the-pepsi-cola-addict-by...

This one seems to have a forward by the same guy, so I would guess she's involved here too?

New comment by thylacine222 in "Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origins of Basque language"

thylacine222 — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:59:10 +0000

I was saying that it is false that is is widely accepted.

I am a linguist, that's where my knowledge of what is widely accepted in our field comes from.