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TachyonicBytes

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Building a WebAssembly consultancy at @tachyonicbytes. Hire me to port your project to WASM or to start a new WASM project.

Interested in wasmer, wasmtime, wasm3 as runtimes and AssemblyScript, Rust, Go, C, C++ as languages.

Write to me at support ampersand myname dot com

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TachyonicBytes··on Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?
It has the payment button at least
TachyonicBytes··on Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?
It seems that both use / leverage pyannote. I wonder if the whisperX pipeline can be combined with DiCoW-v2.
TachyonicBytes··on Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?
Yes, this is exactly where I am going. The LLM also has an advantage, because you can give it the context of the audio (e.g. "this is an audio transcript from a radio show about etc. etc."). I can foresee this working for a future whisper-like model as well.

There are two ways to parse your first sentence. Are you saying that you used whisperX and it doesn't do well with diarization? Because I am curious of alternative ways of doing that.

TachyonicBytes··on Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?
It seems to be pre-built on github, in releases.
TachyonicBytes··on Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?
I use whisperfile[1] directly. The whisper-large-v3 model seems good with non-English transcription, which is my main use-case.

I am also eyeing whisperX[2], because I want to play some more with speaker diarization.

Your use-case seems to be batch transcription, so I'd suggest you go ahead and just use whisperfile, it should work well on an M4 mini, and it also has an HTTP API if you just start it without arguments.

If you want more interactivity, I have been using Vibe[3] as an open-source replacement of SuperWhisper[4], but VoiceInk from a sibling comment seems better.

Aside: It seems that so many of the mentioned projects use whisper at the core, that it would be interesting to explicitly mark the projects that don't use whisper, so we can have a real fundamental comparison.

[1] https://huggingface.co/Mozilla/whisperfile

[2] https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

[3] https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe/

[4] https://superwhisper.com/

TachyonicBytes··on BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank
There was an article around here about how battery life actually improves if you ultra-fast charge the battery when you make it.

Maybe it will deteriorate it, but it seems that the effect that different charge types have on batteries may not be complete yet.

TachyonicBytes··on Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained
I have to add https://nullprogram.com, just because of the care the author took to have it work better in lynx[1]:

    Just in case you haven’t tried it, the blog also works really well with terminal-based browsers, such as Lynx and ELinks. Go ahead and give it a shot. The header that normally appears at the top of the page is actually at the bottom of the HTML document structure. It’s out of the way for browsers that ignore CSS.
[1] https://nullprogram.com/blog/2017/09/01/
TachyonicBytes··on Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers
Is this a different method from the httptap [1] that was on hackernews a few weeks ago? Somebody in that post seemed to say that it also generates CA certificates on the fly.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919909

TachyonicBytes··on Why blog if nobody reads it?
I use Zotero[1] as a personal web archiver. It downloads the page locally, placing most of the resources inside a single html file (pictures become base64 encoded pngs, for example). I find it the best way to have the content available offline and also to be able to reference it easily, seeing as it is a citation manager first.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/

TachyonicBytes··on Git clone –depth 2 is vastly better than –depth 1 if you want to Git push later
It can, but that's another type of "shallow", or more exactly "not-deep" cloning, called blobless cloning [1]. There is also treeless cloning, with other tradeoffs, but much to the same effect.

I found this[2] very enlightening.

[1] https://github.blog/open-source/git/get-up-to-speed-with-par...

[2] https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/how-to-use-git-shallow-clon...

TachyonicBytes··on Composable SQL
I assume that framework is not open-source or somewhere I can look at it?
TachyonicBytes··on Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
Not the OP, but they are "Headers". Probably coming from the <h1> tag in html. What outsiders probably call "Headlines".
TachyonicBytes··on Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
What libraries have you seen that do this?
TachyonicBytes··on Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network
You don't need error correction for some crypto primitives. There are QKD networks deployed that don't have that kind of error correction, as far as I know.
TachyonicBytes··on Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network
With quantum tokens, law enforcement have to crack your physical devices, so they at least have to good-old-fashion bug your devices. With classical schemes, they can intercept on the way.

I wouldn't say that current side-channels, most certainly enabled by hardware, not software, are easier to audit.

TachyonicBytes··on Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network
Yes, in theory. In practice, photon generators won't behave perfectly. There are lots of possible attacks, like photon splitting [1].

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/qute.202300...

TachyonicBytes··on Derivatives don't always act like fractions (2021)
Would you mind giving us the titles of those books?
TachyonicBytes··on Derivatives don't always act like fractions (2021)
You can always try infinitesimal analysis[1]

[1] https://people.math.wisc.edu/~hkeisler/calc.html

TachyonicBytes··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
Simulating a quantum system is a hard challenge and it's actually how Feynman proposed the quantum computing paradigm in the first place. It's basically the original motive.
TachyonicBytes··on Willow, Our Quantum Chip
Link to the actual article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08449-y
TachyonicBytes··on AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
I wonder if following the mouse for focus would be doable without disabling SIP. It's one of the features I didn't even see in other macOS WM.
TachyonicBytes··on Turn Your Android Tablet into an IDE with VSCode and Nix
Emacs itself added support for Android, so you can find Emacs proper in package managers like f-droid, or even build it yourself.

Seeing as you can do most things from Emacs, as well as making Emacs as light as you wish, it might replace termux + vim altogether, especially now that it comes with a lsp client builtin.

TachyonicBytes··on Radient – vectorize many data types, not just text
Would you be interested in posting the library here, or the vector parts? Your use-case sounds interesting to me.
TachyonicBytes··on I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code
In an ironic twist, the original Lisp paper has mismatched parentheses.
TachyonicBytes··on Verified Rust for low-level systems code
Is there any relationship between this and Kani[1]? Do they work differently?

[1] https://github.com/model-checking/kani

TachyonicBytes··on How to Use JSON Path
The thing about querying tree-structured data being currently humanly harder than tabular data rings true to me, I always struggle with some very simple tree-sitter queries.
TachyonicBytes··on How to Use JSON Path
The Readings in Database Systems book calls it "general purpose hierarchical data format" at some point, which seems the most fitting name for me.

You generally don't see yaml or XML be called that, but there's some information on the net that you can find about it.

TachyonicBytes··on How to Use JSON Path
Seems easier to create a program where you can click the element and it shows the jsonpath itself
TachyonicBytes··on Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
Why is there a link between WebAssembly and rasterization? Genuinely curious, it seems interesting
TachyonicBytes··on I’m writing a new vector search SQLite Extension
Really nice to see Wasm there, usually vector search in sqlite wasn't available in the browser.

Did you ever consider making it syntax compatible with pgvector, in order to have a common SQL vector DSL? I am sure the benefits are much smaller than the disadvantages, but I'm curious if it's possible.

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