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I_am_neo··on Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say
Right on the rosy red center sir, that is where you can place your lips before that happens in my book.
I_am_neo··on Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home
Man I love this I'm off to build one now, but...

Oh god!! it is the AI from Red Dwarf, this place isn't the star trek universe we thought it was at all!!

I_am_neo··on Any recommendation for human like voice AI model for conversation AI?
Fast or good, choose one

Mozilla's TTS is a python package installable with pip and uses cpu or gpu resources to render a choice of voices, they mostly sound natural and this is the good. https://github.com/mozilla/TTS

Mycroft's mimic3 is the default voice renderer for the Mycroft project that runs on pi hardware and sounds ok-ish, that is the fast. https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3

There are many others but these are the two I use according to if it needs to run on limited hardware or if the cycles fall freely from the sky.

I_am_neo··on There's a 5% chance of AI causing humans to go extinct, say scientists
"5% that's wonderful news! It's under my error threshold" - A Statistician

"5% that's wonderful news! It's worth the risk!" - An Economist

*I couldn't really think of any funny converse arguments off the top of my head because they all involve humans going extinct

I_am_neo··on U.S. government’s blacklisting of Bitcoin addresses is just getting started
Um, am I missing something or can't they just generate another address(es) and side step this blockade?
I_am_neo··on McDonald's paper straws cannot be recycled
For me as long as they are biodegradable, then that's ok. Recycling them isn't that much of issue. It's the plastic materials that are introduced to the ecology and do not biodegrade in the short term that is problematic.
I_am_neo··on Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons
Relegated to the parts bin. Usefulness perhaps in a second life... https://hackaday.com/tag/amazon-dash-button/
I_am_neo··on What is the purpose of this “red room” in “Stranger Things”?
It's a dark room for exposing film to photographs, from way back when you did it by hand using pans of chemicals. The light allows you to see enough to work without exposing the photo sensitive materials and ruining your work.

"When making black-and-white prints, a safelight is commonly used to illuminate the work area. Since the majority of black-and-white papers are sensitive to only blue, or to blue and green light, a red- or amber-colored light can be safely used without exposing the paper" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkroom

I_am_neo··on Define Java_has_a_preprocessor
Nice, I've been looking for something like this.
I_am_neo··on Attorney general: Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors
“Some argue that, to achieve at best a slight incremental improvement in security, it is worth imposing a massive cost on society in the form of degraded safety,” he (U.S. attorney general William Barr) said

Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

I_am_neo··on City hopes ‘Baby Shark’ song will drive homeless away
Oh yes, lets "drive them away" instead of helping solve the real problem.
I_am_neo··on Gov Lawyers: “No Fundamental Constitutional Right to a Stable Climate System”
Looks like a good time for an amendment.
I_am_neo··on Stop and Shop now has big, goofy-looking robots patrolling its aisles
Marty sounds like a big waste of money to me. At the very least they should have made it able to sweep or vacuum up what it finds on the floor.
I_am_neo··on Facebook bans Huawei from pre-installing its apps on Huawei phones
Personally I hate the bloat/crap-ware pre-installed on my devices. I was thinking the same thing when I read this.
I_am_neo··on Ask HN: How to answer my kid's question about life after death?
Tell him what you know to be true. Personally for me, it's that the constituents of my physical body with break down and be taken up and incorporated into new life forms. Each passing on and on the building blocks of life, over and over in the gigantic circle of life, in this way I will live on and on forever.
I_am_neo··on Family swamped by avalanche of bills after son’s death: 'It’s continuous'
This may seem macabre, but the services rendered did not in fact save the child's life, then why should they pay for said services that ultimately failed to deliver?
I_am_neo··on Ask HN: Best app for keeping track of information as a manager?
It's not quite a simple solution, but Redmine has always been my go to for keeping up on personal projects. There is the fact that it requires you to setup a server somewhere to reside, but it comes with so many plugins and third party applications that make it fully configurable to meet the most complex needs.

https://www.redmine.org/

https://www.redmine.org/plugins

http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/thirdpartytools

I_am_neo··on Ask HN: How to maintain open source and enterprise Python code repositories?
I'm sure that git's branches could allow you to maintain one repo for both free and pro features for a project. It may take some wrangling but I don't see any major caveats to doing it this way.

https://x-team.com/blog/our-git-workflow-forks-with-feature-...

I_am_neo··on Termux Useful or Not
You could say that.

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/FAQ#Can_I_do_hacking_with_Termu...

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Kali_Nethunter

I_am_neo··on Derivation of Hubble’s Law and the End of the Darks Elements
Taking this one step further, in the context of holographic universes and the possibility of the universe existing inside a black hole like structure. Given the limited possibility of knowing what goes on inside a black hole from our point of view 'from the outside', we can only guess at what really happens to matter that falls 'down' inside one. But if a singularity inside a black hole does exist, we can deduce that perhaps matter is compressed infinitely toward the center of black hole structures. This compression of matter maybe taking place all around us on the scale such as our universe has, but only loosely mirroring what we think happens in the heart of black holes. Is time a scalar in this sense? Who really knows, but similarly I suspect dark matter and dark energy would become an anomaly similar to what is discussed in this paper. I can't really comment on the math, I'm no expert, however the concepts are intriguing to say the least.
I_am_neo··on Ask HN: What applications do you have open?
PCManFM, Terminator, Chrome. I spend a lot of time on the command line, even writing code there. It's just where I feel comfortable, been using computers since 8 bit processors and DOS were all the rage.
I_am_neo··on Austria mulls online registration law to deprive anonymity
Exactly, not only that, but there are other sleuthing ways to unmask a particular person. This puts the onus of discovering a person's identity on the web platform provider, rather than relying on the infrastructure of the country's law enforcement agencies.
I_am_neo··on Elon Musk says he will perform same tasks as injured workers in the factory
for a life time?
I_am_neo··on Ethiopia turns off internet nationwide as students sit exams
I love this idea, maybe the world can take note, universal holiday or something
I_am_neo··on Robert Bigelow convinced of alien visitation to Earth
R. Bigelow, just stop those god damnable red towers ok
I_am_neo··on Elon Musk: 'Chances are we're all living in a simulation'
I think our physics of time and space can be more unruly and hectic than any simulation
I_am_neo··on Republicans claim First Amendment right to send you robo-voicemails
Well we already have the constitutional right to kick there asses right out in the next election
I_am_neo··on Nintendo banning modified 3DSes from online
If they want market control, and I do mean utter control, open source that thing (unrestricted) and the masses will flock to you, total market saturation
I_am_neo··on Declassified memos show FBI illegally shared spy data with private parties
Mafia
I_am_neo··on Mark Zuckerberg Calls for a Universal Basic Income
Poverty payments, come and get 'em
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