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pomtato··on Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
You should give VoiceInk[1] a go. It works great and has decent latency.

https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk

pomtato··on Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame
Amen to that. Wish I knew better before I got mine.
pomtato··on LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers
Well it kinda did change things up a bit. Me being able to receive payments across borders without significant delay or crazy fees is a decent perk, you can hate crypto culture and grifters trying to make a quick buck but it's applications are very real.
pomtato··on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
wait what? you get morning erections when on low testosterone?
pomtato··on Researchers find a way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells
> Human Beings are incentivized to cure

i'm not so sure, insulin for diabetes is a solved problem yet it's costs hundreds of $ all because scumy of pharma corps(looking at you Eli Lily) keep renewing the patent using legal loopholes.

pomtato··on xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure
not from a tech field at all but would it do the context window any good to use "think" mode but discard them once the llm gives the final answer/reply?

is that even possible to disregard genrated token's selectively?

pomtato··on QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning
it's not a bug it's a feature!
pomtato··on Starship's Sixth Flight Test
With all due respect, that's one of the most misguided(i wanna say retarded but.. HN) takes I've seen in a while. How could he even compare the SLS (which costs per launch about as much as it took to develop the entire reusable Starship system) to Starship?

The guy is just blinded by his hatred for Elon to even acknowledge one of the historical achievements SpaceX engineers worked their asses off for.

pomtato··on Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)
hahaha gave me a chuckle.
pomtato··on Show HN: Bullshit Remover
>Also, if you care to explain, what' the stack used?

a claude prompt apparently haha

pomtato··on In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
well to steal a quote, "Neural networks are second best at almost everything"
pomtato··on Show HN: I made an open-source Loom alternative
Heck make it even better by making that an option, so the user can set the countdown to their preference.
pomtato··on US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
haha that reminded of a quote Osho.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5AeO-dKGBLs

pomtato··on French artists in 1899 envisioned what life would look like in the year 2000
these are pretty cool! thanks!
pomtato··on Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio
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pomtato··on Light can make water evaporate without heat
Interesting, reminds me of Microwave Emitter from Batman :D
pomtato··on Distil-Whisper: distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster, 49% smaller
Fortunately yes, recently i've been playing with this https://github.com/rpdrewes/whisper-websocket-server which uses K6nele as frontend on android if you really care about performance.

Tho if you're looking for a standalone app then you can give this a go : https://github.com/alex-vt/WhisperInput and run it right on your phone :]

For now they both run regular openai whisper thus tiny.en but as you can see there's tons of impromvement potential with faster-whisper and now distill-whisper :D

pomtato··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
i understand where you're coming from but like any other ecosystem, we'll need a bunch of puzzle pieces and this just happens to be one of them :)
pomtato··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
well you're in for suprise!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02901-1

now while this isn't nearly at the level of human cloning, it never ceases to amaze me how far we've come.

pomtato··on What will LLM-powered software look like in the medium-term future?
You can already do that with praktika.ai , they're in ed-tech and got ai avatars of sorts that you can "video-call" to :D
pomtato··on TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts
Truly, I'm starting to think they think of it as opportunity cost then an actually fine.
pomtato··on NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, possible hint of life
wow thanks! this was super fun, do you happen to have some souce about the calculations that go into determining the time dilation based on different velocity? i'm aware about black holes being capable of well, doing time dilation thingy due to their massive gravitational force but nothing else.

edit: souce as in something a regular average joe can make sense of haha

pomtato··on NASA says distant exoplanet could have rare water ocean, possible hint of life
so you're implying speed atleast 10x the speed of light? i think you'll have better luck increasing the human lifespan instead.
pomtato··on Ask HN: SaaS operators, what is the cost:earnings ratio of your SaaS?
hey that sounds nice and cosy, what do you do if you don't mind me asking.