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Better models than… whisper, cohere, parakeet v2/v3? Did I miss the comparison on the webpage?

Is it just the models I’m paying for, or an app too?

I’ve been using anomalyco/HEX and MacParakeet… which are free and work great for my uses…

I agree. It was utterly ridiculous how noticeable the improvement was. I was doing z3 solving for ICFP contest the first couple weeks after getting the m1 air. And it was consistently smoking my teammates maxed out i7 MBP

If you haven't tried the new slackbot you should... I've been using it at work and I'm blown away at what it can do with the context it has on you and your teams from slack.

https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2026/01/13/sl...

For what it's worth, I notice this week that the built in macOs screenshot tool will capture in HDR.

I don't think claude has even once used this in my conversations (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Voice conversations...) Sycophancy, yes absolutely!

Maybe it has something to do with your profile/memories?

Is essentialai/rnj-1 not the latest attempt at that?

https://huggingface.co/EssentialAI/rnj-1

Why?

Thanks for sharing. I also like the diagrams for this.

Agree. This is huge. Definitely makes me want to buy more Bose products for my house.

Thank you for sharing. I feel similar to you; jealous this system works for others, sounds like a dream, but too overwhelming for me once it hits some point of no return. Your structure sounds interesting.

I'm genuinely curious how others do not get overwhelmed or sucked into yak-shaving some reorganization of a system like this.

LOL this is great. "Jepsen: NATS 4.2 (Still losing messages?)" Ouch, sick burn Gemini.

Not sure if its better, but it is free and it works for me. Thank you for sharing!

Agree with you! I wonder that myself, also minor unperceetable pixel color differences can be corrected as well i'd guess?

Is it possible that some of the reason pixels are messed up is because of the watermarking? https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/

Or is it purely because the models just don't understand pixel art?

Thank you for the information! Appreciate it. Will look into this more.

Thank yoU! Totally missed this.

Fair enough. I personally did not read push back in the questions/statements asked/made.

> Trust with regards to...?

I took this to be a good faith ask for clarification

> Orion doesn't have any telemetry... You can audit the application's behavior with standard tools to verify that it isn't "phoning home", etc...

I took this as a statement if what I could do, not specifically what I should do instead of getting it open sourced.

Maybe I read it with more good faith intention and curiosity than I should have. I see your point on how that could be perceived as push back, but I landed somewhere different from where you might have.

What? Since when was asking questions to clarify someones position considered "pushing back?"

Can you help me understand what about the questions make you uncomfortable?

I am completely unaffiliated with Kagi. I find it concerning that we've come to a world were we can't ask questions without it being taken as something hostile to the person/people/idea being questioned. Is that not what science is?

What is the non-open source codec?

Well said. (I too want that.) I found my first reaction to `MutableArray` was "why not make it a persistent array‽"

Then took a moment to tame my disappointment and realized that the author only wants immutability checking by the typescript compiler (delineated mutation) not to change the design of their programs. A fine choice in itself.

...doesn't mean there is a right or wrong either :)

Fascinating thank you.

> Once that data has been released to the public, more and more interesting things are being found in the existing data rather than requiring new observations.

Really highlights the value of the data being public, which I feel is often overlooked now a days. Hard to tie KPIs to value that comes like this.

Awesome, thank you for the input. I suspected NASA was operating this way, but I had no idea there was a period of exclusivity. In the case of NASA, the private companies are those like JPL and the sorts I guess?

I assume it is/was similar with other data collected, like weather data/radar, oceanic current/buoy data, etc?

sigh I hope LLMs can save us from ourselves. :)

Maybe I need to write a news filter/browser extension that rewrites rage-bait articles to have titles and content based only on the meaningful content/facts, and less the speculation/insinuations.

Its an interesting question indeed. You're saying there might be some expectation of privacy even in public?

The line here is a little different. I could point a camera out my window and record every license plate that drives by my house, and that would be allowed because its recording public activities, and the data I collect would be private—its mine from my camera.

The question here is if a public/government agency pays a private company to setup cameras in public, for the benefit of the public, then should that data collected by those cameras not also be public?

The courts seem to agree that it should be public, and I fail to see why it shouldn't be. Maybe I should read the opposition briefs on it.

I can't stand this type of "journalism"/sensationalism.

> Redmond’s Police Department was not among those listed in the report, and has never allowed external agencies to access their Flock data without requesting and receiving permission from the police chief first, according to an Oct. 24 statement by Lowe.

So because the arrests were near a Flock Camera the "journalist" is connecting the two? Even with the statements an information to the contrary?

:(

A little annoyed, this seems like is has nothing to do with the ICE arrests...

> The city suspended its Flock system because city officials could not guarantee they wouldn’t be forced to release data collected by those devices someday, she said.

Key part is "someday". Seems like the article is implying that flock may have shared this data with ICE which led to the arrests... but there is no proof supporting this...

> On Thursday, a Skagit County Superior Court judge ruled that pictures taken by Flock cameras in the cities of Sedro-Woolley and Stanwood qualify as public records, and therefore must be released as required by the state’s Public Records Act, court records show.

This is the more likely reason. What do folks here think about this ruling?

IMO it seems obvious that this should be public records/data, but would love to hear alternative positions to this.

What database were you using? For example with SQL server, by default it clusters data on disk by primary key. Random (non-sequential) PKs like uuidv4 require random cluster shuffling to insert a row “in the middle” of a cluster, increasing io load and causing performance issues.

Postgres on the other hand doesn’t do clustered indexing on the PK… if I recall correctly.

Slightly tangential question: Why doesn't the government "own" the intellectual property for their citizens to vote?

I'm all for free markets and capitalism, but I think its not clear to me why some fundamental responsibilities and operations of the government can be contracted out. Is there a way this make sense to anyone?

Having just gone through really yak shaving Aerospace into a spot that I'm happy with, I'm curious how folks on here manage having so many overlapping keyboard shortcuts?

Maybe it's just me, but I want to map to many things to some combination of hjkl just for the ergonomics...

Aerospace's modal feature sort helps solve that shortcut conflict... How are others dealing with this?