Hacker News: drewbuschhorn

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "OpenRocket"

drewbuschhorn — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:59:11 +0000

Nice, it's much more clear to a layman like me! (Not the gp)

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "Show HN: Python Audio Transcription: Convert Speech to Text Locally"

drewbuschhorn — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:04:17 +0000

You should throw in some diarization, there's some pretty effective libraries that don't need pertraining on the voice separation in python.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?"

drewbuschhorn — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:58:26 +0000

I run a small Dwarf Fortress podcast, and I didn't like the transcription options when we started a few years ago, so I wrote some python glue to do diarization (separate out speakers) and transcription using a torchaudio project, and either whisper or openai depending on how I'm feeling that day. Works surprisingly well, with timestamps and clean-up:

https://github.com/drewbuschhorn/a_strange_mood_podcast_tran...

https://astrangemoodpodcast.com/2023/01/17/episode-1-is-dwar...

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement"

drewbuschhorn — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:45:15 +0000

>The communists won the culture war.

You then cite Skousen's talking points as if those were the "communists" actual goals and not his fever dreams.

The JBS lost, "communists" or "progressive orthodoxies" (conflating the two shows your priors) didnt win.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "A shift in American family values is fueling estrangement"

drewbuschhorn — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:31:45 +0000

If you cite Skousen as proof of anything, you've made a real mistake.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

They're the seed of QAnon.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "Show HN: Litmaps – Visual Research Discovery Tool"

drewbuschhorn — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:42 +0000

That looks really great! In my attempt to do something similar ( https://github.com/drewbuschhorn/DoctorMoon ) I kept having issues from the various publisher's apis not playing nice with each other. How are you guys shimming around that for general science?

Have you considered flagging paths for publications that get retracted? I've always thought that a 'this paper you're using has three retracted parent papers,' would be valuable.

Excited to see where you guys go with this!

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "Bill Allowing Big Tech to Form “Techno-Governments” to Be Announced Today"

drewbuschhorn — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:21:49 +0000

The company owns the wires and radio bands. Maybe by a funny coincidence using alternative blockchains and working remotely for other companies creates an 'unfair to the other users' drain on bandwidth.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "People don’t want to commute; they just don’t want to miss out"

drewbuschhorn — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:39:35 +0000

But you could choose to leave your apartment to get lunch, do some shopping, or leave during non-work hours?

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it"

drewbuschhorn — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:56:21 +0000

I'm not saying there won't be an effect, but having an effect it's why you pass a law. But 8 months in, and the landscape doesn't seem radically altered.

If anything, major players deciding not to compete in a market is good to my mind, as a means of increasing a diversity of business styles. Laws like this make businesses pay for the actual cost of thier hidden externalities.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it"

drewbuschhorn — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:08:23 +0000

I feel like we had this exact same argument over GDPR, but no horror stories have descended about Mom and Pop operations run out of business but the evil Brusselcrats.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "Expert: Acosta video distributed by White House was doctored"

drewbuschhorn — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:34:03 +0000

I'm a liberal partisan, so fwiw, but I don't think in a professional setting you ever try to wrestle something out of someone's hands. This is all uncharted territory in the White House press room, but when I've seen a similar situation in science conferences, they usually stand in front of the person who won't yield the mic and ask for it back until the mic gets cuts.

But the WH had to double down and say that JA "placing hands on" on the intern, which is close to a specific legal phrase related to assault and battery charges, unless they were saying he was: trying to find the intern, confirm her into his church, or provide faith healing services.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming"

drewbuschhorn — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 13:18:07 +0000

Makes you wonder why they haven't, despite controlling all three branches of government.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming"

drewbuschhorn — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 13:16:28 +0000

I'd love to see Republican senators voting to fund an antifa 24/7 channel. I mean, they can't even get behind Sesame Street so I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture"

drewbuschhorn — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:17:19 +0000

Also kind of goes without saying, but the statues wouldn't have had 800 watt New Yorker flashbulbs on them. Between natural shadow on the 3d sculpture, weathering from the various dirty light sources, it probably blended into a decent melange of colors.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men"

drewbuschhorn — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:02:51 +0000

It really doesn't, https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/canadian-lawmakers-p... if you want primary and secondary sources.

Basically it just says you can't actively discriminate against someone because of gender identity. Which had been the defacto law for a long time.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "A Brief History of SourceForge, and a Look Towards the Future"

drewbuschhorn — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:13:32 +0000

I think the issue was that people who thought that bundling malware was ok, are still employed there.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "Digital Exile: How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB"

drewbuschhorn — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:24:50 +0000

Good try, Jeff Bezos. We know it's you.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes"

drewbuschhorn — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 04:07:36 +0000

I think you're (unintentionally) equivocating on value vs quality. The grandparent comment used "quality" in the colloquial sense for value as best I read it. I doubt that anyone running a company thinks that having thier name next to gory images makes people think the skill of the shoe stitching (quality in your meaning?) is worse, but that it reduces the alignment of the pnumbra between the company and the individual reducing the value of company's brand / ability to sell products to the consumer.

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes"

drewbuschhorn — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:47:49 +0000

That's just factually incorrect. Celebrity endorsements are actually more powerful now than in the past, I'm assuming because youtube style celebrity makes it seem more like the persona the celebrity presents is an actual person, or just more exposure though those explanations are just my handwave. https://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/nielsenglobal/apac/docs/...

Someone's random article from a non-ranked journal, but looks like it's got some decent reference papers http://www.jimsjournal.org/13%20Yi%20Ching%20Tsai.pdf

New comment by drewbuschhorn in "Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Children"

drewbuschhorn — Sat, 26 May 2018 15:25:16 +0000

Isn't that the cost of using a public good? I might not like that the municipality cleans waste out of the water (not having it could lead to allergies, right?) or traffic lights (because what if I have to get somewhere fast in an emergency?), but that's the price I pay for living on the grid.