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sethgecko

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sethgecko··on Saying Goodbye to OpenSubtitles.org API
I've made this little wrapper to do all that locally. `makesub video.mp4` will split the stream and create video.en.srt locally via whisper.cpp

https://github.com/mcdallas/whispersub

sethgecko··on CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs
I made a small wrapper too, you call it from the command line and it keeps the conversation context for 15 minutes in a temp file.

https://github.com/mcdallas/gptask

sethgecko··on Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video
I’ve done something similar here https://github.com/mcdallas/summarize it feeds an audio file to whisper and then summarizes the transcript. You can easily wrap it with yt-dlp to download the audio portion of a video
sethgecko··on Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
> there needs to be a way to distinguish between a user enjoying a song and the user not paying attention

There is a way to do this, the signal is adding the song to your favourites or a playlist

sethgecko··on Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash
Whatsapp messages are e2e encrypted so no.
sethgecko··on Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash
They didn't train a classifier, just a hashing function.
sethgecko··on Quad9 and Sony Music: German Injunction Status
Until Sony sues Cloudflare/Google etc
sethgecko··on A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
I’ve made something similar in order to learn how everything works and made it into a python library. Everything is in pure python with no dependencies, only std lib. I’ve implemented all the crypto stuff, address generation including HD, transaction serialization and even the bitcoin script. https://github.com/mcdallas/cryptotools
sethgecko··on Tether Mints Record 2B USDT in One Week
Yes it is backed because when they print a new tether they sell it for 1$ which they put it in their treasury.
sethgecko··on Tether Mints Record 2B USDT in One Week
Of course HN in it’s infinite wisdom can’t get the causal connection between BTC rising and tether printing right.

Tether is being printed because btc is pumping. They have to print tether to maintain the peg at 1$. If the price keeps rising due to demand for tether they need to print and sell tether.

It does not matter if you can redeem your tethers for dollars because they buy tether when the price goes below 1$ to maintain the peg.

sethgecko··on Writing well
Didn't think much of the content but I am impressed he managed to get the julian.com domain and the @julian twitter handle. I would assume that it's a pretty common name.
sethgecko··on Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys
Excuse my ignorance but how does someone else signing my message prove that I sent the message? Moreso if the body of the message is not being signed at all?
sethgecko··on Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs
I've done that a few months ago on an ubiquity router. Two VLANs, one with normal access and one with a Wireguard tunnel into my self hosted dropplet that also runs pihole. Works like a charm.
sethgecko··on Notion Timeline View
I see a lot of nice recommendation for note taking apps, but for me the 2 biggest features that I need are

1. No vendor lock in. I can’t lose access to my notes because of random account bans or the company going under or w/e. Also plain markdown, no nonsense proprietary formats.

2. Platform independence, I work across mac/windows/ios on home and work.

So I ended up using a git repo with markdown files. I use Noteable and Typora on mac/win. No need to import/export anything they both work with plain markdown files on the fs with tags as markdown front matter (I sync manually with git). For mobile I use GitJournal which basically has the same features and it can automatically sync with a git repo.

sethgecko··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
It uses the ARM architecture which is much more power efficient than the x86 architecture used by intel
sethgecko··on Show HN: Please-unsubscribe.com – fwd emails to unsubscribe from marketing
I have an email rule that sends any email that contains the word unsubscribe to the spam folder.
sethgecko··on Attempts to make Python fast
Yuri Selivanov tweeted yesterday that Python 3.10 will be "up to 10% faster" https://twitter.com/1st1/status/1318558048265404420
sethgecko··on Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet
People running hospitals need to sleep too but they dont close for the night
sethgecko··on Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
“I don't think/worry about guns - ever.”
sethgecko··on NordVPN confirms it was hacked
If you are looking to spin up your own vpn server with wireguard and pihole there is an excellent guide here https://drexl.me/guides/wireguard-pihole-vpn-setup.html
sethgecko··on One-lined Python
If you want your mind to blow up I recommend watching this year's "Lambda Calculus from the Ground Up" PyCon talk by the wizard David Beazley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkCLMl0e_0k
sethgecko··on A Primer on Shooting in Manual Mode: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO [video]
I am an amateur photographer that mostly shoots long exposures (milky way/catching lightning/night time time-lapses) and you can only shoot those with manual (or bulb) mode
sethgecko··on Kriegspiel
From a machine learning model’s perspective they are both turn based. In SC2/Dota case one turn is one frame. There is nothing fundamentally different between these and blind chess apart from the possible moves space being vastly smaller
sethgecko··on Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra
Grin (mimblewimble) is also written in Rust https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin
sethgecko··on Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers
The choice of consensus algorithm (PoW/PoS) has nothing to do with scalability (tx/s)
sethgecko··on Bernie Sanders interest-rate cap could end credit-card rewards programs
But then you carry a balance
sethgecko··on Bernie Sanders interest-rate cap could end credit-card rewards programs
What if you don’t pay?
sethgecko··on Ask HN: How did you learn parsing?
Check out http://norvig.com/lispy2.html
sethgecko··on Keybase is not softer than TOFU
Then this is not a request for transparency but for them to change their business plan
sethgecko··on Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to go 100% renewables
How is nuclear safer than solar/wind etc. Who has solar power ever killed?
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