<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: vjulian</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vjulian</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 03:28:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vjulian" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vjulian in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a few thousand audio interviews as MP3, around an hour each and with specialized vocabulary. Typically there are no more than 2 to 3 speakers. Audio quality ranges from mediocre to fair to good.<p>I was thinking of creating a local app that calls OpenAI’s VTT model. In my most recent evaluation, the OpenAI model was best for my use case. But is that indeed the case?</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejaculatory_prayer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejaculatory_prayer</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199811">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199811</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:18:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejaculatory_prayer</link><dc:creator>vjulian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vjulian in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, better decided top dowm by a cabal. The more uniformity, the better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:02:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055130</link><dc:creator>vjulian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055130</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vjulian in "Lobbying is corruption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Clearly, I’ve struck a nerve. A skill for argument is not a skill for comprehension. Insulting me personally is very telling. Clearly you’ve got quite a lot of skin in this game.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:09:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50038062</link><dc:creator>vjulian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50038062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50038062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vjulian in "Lobbying is corruption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In common parlance, lobbying refers to range of activities many of which are highly undesirable to the regular guy. It is your choice to focus on the language and ignore the phenomenon.<p>I am lucky I have been afforded considerably more access than the average person to sway government workings to my benefit, though I do not.<p>This HN discussion entails three parties: the naive, the just, and the exploiters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:40:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037460</link><dc:creator>vjulian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vjulian in "Lobbying is corruption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The discussion has been lost in semantics between technical definition and practice. At issue is the latter.</p>
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<p>Reading this as sarcasm, it indeed reflects a portion of the faerie tale descriptions of government taught in American schools. It is state propaganda of the most traditional (and effective) sort— that which is directed at children.</p>
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<p>Did the recorders just happen to be running and capture this candid utterance from Sam Altman? I suggest we stop entertaining manufactured quotes as anything but.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:37:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029611</link><dc:creator>vjulian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029611</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vjulian in "Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My, how sex averse. Personally, I would rather good design prevent people from picking their noses in robocabs. Disguising.
Good design enables sex.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:40:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964087</link><dc:creator>vjulian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vjulian in "Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>David Lee Roth did it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:52:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947658</link><dc:creator>vjulian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vjulian in "Grandmother falsely accused of bank theft after alleged AI facial recognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>50 year old grandmother of 5.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 05:01:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772620</link><dc:creator>vjulian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vjulian in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m not suggesting that Three Mile Island was anything like Chernobyl. I’m saying that neither is comparable to the HF situation where mere 1s and 0s interacted in an unplanned way. It’s an interesting data point—-back to work.<p>Not is the HF data point anywhere near a Three Mile Island type incident. Most commentary I read is a wild overreaction fueled by paranoia, to say nothing about my other point about the implications of AI as a national security asset.</p>
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<p>I don’t understand the bases of all these recommendations. AI is an asset for national security. It will be developed and incidents will happen, no different from other national security programs.<p>Someday, laws will be useful to curtail plebian misuse of AI. It is naïve bordering on silly to think such laws would be put in place and genuinely applied to frontier AI development.<p>By the way, the HF incident is not Three Mile Island or Chernobyl—-it is a very interesting data point where unintended things happened to existing 1s and 0s.</p>
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<p>This seems like yet another piece in a build up to a civil war. And those in governance know it.</p>
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<p>That is an unnecessary default and also generalizes AI to the point of being analytically not useful.</p>
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<p>That’s an excellent philosophy that ought be applied to your own child but not extended to others.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:18:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657922</link><dc:creator>vjulian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vjulian in "Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because “science” doesn’t know everything, and people don’t want to wait until their options are scientifically-validated.<p>Yoga, breathing exercises, meditation and the like were once considered fads and derided by your ‘science’.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid-safety-rules-for-every-other-social-media-platform/">https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid-safety-rules-for-every-other-social-media-platform/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49463539">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49463539</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:17:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid-safety-rules-for-every-other-social-media-platform/</link><dc:creator>vjulian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49463539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49463539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vjulian in "Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s lazy shorthand and also serves the obscurity that these individuals seek.<p>Similarly, I get irritated when people frequently almost continuously attribute actions and results to ‘the President’ or such state heads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:17:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399985</link><dc:creator>vjulian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vjulian in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Working like a dog like this is necessary if you’re gunning for the elite / upper echelon of society, yes. If you’re already in that echelon of society, it’s not necessary.<p>Thank goodness I didn’t need to work so hard, but I can acknowledge what a shitty system it is.<p>Help me understand why these children or their parents are gunning in this manner and working like dogs in this manner, to join into and propagate such a shitty system?</p>
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