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c0brac0bra··on OpenVoice: Versatile instant voice cloning
Picovoice says they do this but it's a paid product. It supposedly runs on the device but you still need a key and have to pay per minute.
c0brac0bra··on Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor
Deepgram has been incredibly accurate for me.
c0brac0bra··on Family Dollar to close almost 1,000 stores
We could probably afford to shop somewhere other than Aldi but why would we? It would easily be 20%+ more expensive for most items.

Anything we want that we can't get at Aldi (local items, good BBQ sauce, less popular stuff) we'll make a special trip for.

c0brac0bra··on Pg_vectorize: Vector search and RAG on Postgres
Any comments about using Sparse Priming Representations for achieving similar things?
c0brac0bra··on Apache Superset
Yep, we've really liked Metabase for embedding in our platform.
c0brac0bra··on Planner programming blows my mind
Thanks so much for sharing these. I had no idea that there were commercial API offerings for this kind of stuff. Just never worked for a business that had this sort of need.

I will definitely bookmark them for the future.

c0brac0bra··on How to summarize YouTube videos using artificial intelligence
The Chrome extension Harpa will do this by fetching the transcript and posting it to your ChatGPT session. Takes 3 seconds.
c0brac0bra··on Tenets
> "we explicitly aim to be the framework with the best vibes."

I quite love this.

c0brac0bra··on Proposed Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA's new tallest building
If it's anything like this, I would say from quite a long ways: https://thelostogle.com/2024/01/02/tlo-unveils-plans-to-buil...
c0brac0bra··on Proposed Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA's new tallest building
I haven't been to downtown OKC in a long while, but I don't call it having heaps of tall buildings. Having the tallest American building with not as much around it would look... interesting.

In fact, I recall the construction of a lot of OKC being 60s-70s era squat concrete bunkers. That was 20 years ago so maybe things have changed but it was sort of a depressing feel.

c0brac0bra··on Air traffic controllers pushed to the brink
That's called an earned reputation.
c0brac0bra··on He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price
You might even say that ALL laws go against human nature. If it was in our nature to follow a certain law we probably wouldn't need it codified.
c0brac0bra··on The Largest Greek Manuscript?
There's a "custodial history" section on that page.
c0brac0bra··on CloudNativePG – Postgres Operator for Kubernetes
Always AFAIK. It's a Greek word.
c0brac0bra··on We Can't Compete with AI Girlfriends
Assuming those are your only two criteria, that narrows the population to 2.5%. If you throw age and relative health then all bets are off.
c0brac0bra··on 30 years of The X-Files
I rewatched a good chunk of season one recently and was amazed at how well the show holds up.

Even the more technical episodes are fairly easy to swallow this many decades later.

c0brac0bra··on Ask HN: What do you carry in your backpack?
I replaced my 20-year-old Targus with an Osprey and I'm really glad I did.

It doesn't have an internal frame, but it's very sturdy and holds up well.

c0brac0bra··on Ghostfolio: Open-source wealth management software
I just tried and it came up fine. Onboarding is non-existent so that's unfortunate.

Edit: took me a while to find it, but the last similar too I tried was https://projectionlab.com/, and while paid, it's UX is way better.

c0brac0bra··on n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool
I'm loving windmill currently. I've been able to automated all sorts software painful manual stuff with it.

For a developer, it seems like a great low code tool with the right flexibility to write whatever script you need.

c0brac0bra··on Node.js 20.6.0 will include built-in support for .env files
It should. .env.local is a common pattern
c0brac0bra··on G9.js: Automatically Interactive Graphics
The animations don't seem to run on mobile
c0brac0bra··on A call center worker’s battle with A.I.
> I've never called a call centre for sympathy or jokes. It's always because I have a query I want an answer to or problem I want sorted ASAP.

Not every problem has a quick solution. Many are thorny and include lots of variables and long time spans.

Imagine trying to choose the right treatment facility for a child with leukemia that will accommodate your insurance and finances. Or what sort of care a senior parent with dementia and diabetes needs.

When the stakes are that high, having a human who can appreciate your situation and emotional state is almost mandatory.

c0brac0bra··on A call center worker’s battle with A.I.
In our line of business, our call center workers spend a significant portion (hours) of their time writing up notes and other information after calls.

Having automated transcription and summarization (approved by the user) will return a ton of time to them and make them more efficient.

And they could never be replaced, imo. The human impact in our sector is too important. A machine cannot, at least not yet, sympathize, joke, and persuade in the right balance, especially when the other party is emotionally agitated.

c0brac0bra··on Show HN: I made a MailChimp alternative that connects to your database
Haven't heard of resend before. I've been pretty unhappy with Sendgrid, especially their usability when running lots of subaccounts.

Since you're here, how would you say you compare vs them or say sparkpost? I looked for comparisons on your site but I wasn't able to find anything.

c0brac0bra··on Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe root causes of war (2015)
> “…the controversy over the effectiveness of HM can be traced back to the narrow terms in which HM was initially studied, at a time before social-ecological frameworks were developed. Studying a different agricultural paradigm was inhibited because—within an industrial farming paradigm—the only credible way to establish the value of an agricultural practice was to frame it in narrow, positivistic terms that removed the rancher as a thinking, adaptive agent, instead focusing solely on generic treatment efficacy for increasing forage, reducing desertification, and fixing carbon. […] A more holistic approach to co-producing scientific knowledge about HM, grounded in enhancing the capacity and agency of ranchers, should be seen as part of the system change that HM is attempting to leverage within agriculture.”

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338777621_A_half_ce...

"Monbiot’s approach falls squarely into the “narrow industrial paradigm” Dr. Gosnell warns about. In his opening remarks, Monbiot insisted that carbon sequestration is simply not adequate, and to address climate change livestock advocates must demonstrate permanent carbon capture in the soil. This demand, however, is the perfect example of applying reductionist thinking to complex living systems."

https://savory.global/statement-on-the-allan-savory-george-m...

c0brac0bra··on Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe root causes of war (2015)
> We conclude that transitioning to regenerative agriculture involves more than a suite of ‘climate-smart’ mitigation and adaptation practices supported by technical innovation, policy, education, and outreach. Rather, it involves subjective, nonmaterial factors associated with culture, values, ethics, identity, and emotion that operate at individual, household, and community scales and interact with regional, national and global processes. Findings have implications for strategies aimed at facilitating a large-scale transition to climate-smart regenerative agriculture.

(Majority of farmers in the study are holistic practitioners)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09593...

c0brac0bra··on Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe root causes of war (2015)
Alan Savory's holistic planned grazing seems to have worked for both preventing and reverting the desertification of brittle land.

Would be very interesting to see more attempts at using it in these places, especially since it would be hard to make the land worse.

c0brac0bra··on FreeWilly 1 and 2, two new open-access LLMs
Why?
c0brac0bra··on Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy
But did they measure the truthiness of those facts?
c0brac0bra··on Self hosted YouTube media server
I've had significant problems running this for extended periods.

It will crash and then restoration will fail internally with corruption errors, requiring reading through docker logs or just starting over from scratch completely.

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