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shtack··on EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
I’ve actually found that I’m able to process two speech streams and one music stream independently from those. At least for me, music seems to have a dedicated sub-processor of sorts.
shtack··on Gemma 4 on iPhone
With reasoning on I found E4B to be solid, but E2B was completely unusable across several tests.
shtack··on LLM Year in Review
Really easy: don't argue on the internet. The approach has many benefits.
shtack··on Is outbound going to die?
Strong disagree. My personal number has also leaked and I get 5-10 cold calls per day. They call during important work meetings. They call during dinner with my family. They call when I'm away on vacation. I will never, ever willingly buy any product from these calls.
shtack··on In Defense of Y'All
Canadian here using y'all every day. Might as well make it the formal English plural.
shtack··on Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
The instances of that happening are likely the LLM failing to call the engine for whatever reason and falling back to inference.
shtack··on Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
I’d bet it’s using function calling out to a real chess engine. It could probably be proven with a timing analysis to see how inference time changes/doesn’t with number of tokens or game complexity.
shtack··on Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency
With a dedicated GPU and some cleverness it can be relatively quick. I split the response on punctuation and generate smaller clips in a pipeline. I haven't taken the model apart to try streaming the frames coming out of ffmpeg yet, but that would probably help a lot.
shtack··on Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency
The model doing the heavy lifting is https://github.com/Rudrabha/Wav2Lip

Mic permissions on mobile are tricky, which might have been your issue? Note in this prototype you also need to hold the blue button down to speak.

shtack··on Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency
Cool, I built a prototype of something very similar (face+voice cloning, no video analysis) using openly available models/APIs: https://bslsk0.appspot.com/

The video latency is definitely the biggest hurdle. With dedicated a100s I can get it down <2s, but it's pricy.

shtack··on Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
This was my undergraduate "thesis" project. We built a GDB plugin that would generate a puredata audio structure to help with debugging. Eg. it would play snoring during a sleep() call, each breakpoint could be set to a different frequency, etc. It was actually pretty interesting for multi-threaded code, though pausing to play the audio could change the runtime profile.
shtack··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
I have a lot of examples but a funny one that comes to mind is: in the early 2000s when IM clients were all the rage, I wrote a VB6 application to go through my MSN Messenger logs and rank my friends by how much I talk to them. Kind of like a MySpace top 10 prior to MySpace.

I spent a decent amount of time tweaking the UI, improving performance, adding filters, providing different file output formats, etc. Never shared it with anyone.

shtack··on Beware of fake beaches (Pokémon Go)
Also, at least the last time I checked, the Google Maps API was exorbitantly expensive. Niantic would likely get a discount, but avoiding this exploit doesn’t override all of the other benefits of OSM.
shtack··on The semiconductor industry hinges on a quartz factory in North Carolina
Fair. At the current rate, the revenue takes two years to cover the original cost. The net profit takes 6. The margins are quite good due to consistent price increases.
shtack··on The semiconductor industry hinges on a quartz factory in North Carolina
Similarly the Canadian province of Ontario leased it's only toll highway for 99 years to an international group, for an amount it currently earns in tolls every ~2 years. Fun.
shtack··on The Bulma CSS framework reaches 1.0
In case the devs are reading, the documentation link from the Github description is broken (https://bulma.io/documentation/overview/start/), but https://bulma.io/documentation works
shtack··on In 2024, please switch to Firefox
I tried so hard earlier this year to move back to FF from Chrome. I actually found the desktop experience great but the mobile app on iOS was so clunky, and I rely enough on sync, that I had to move back after a few months.
shtack··on Global CO2 Levels
I think the misleading aspect in this case is that when looking at the 800k view, it seems that CO2 levels have doubled (or more) compared to previous peaks, whereas it's actually a ~30% increase. It's still a very significant increase, and should be shown accurately.
shtack··on Web3 game project allegedly hired actors to pose as execs in $1.6M exit scam
I run/ran a website where you could shop on AliExpress using crypto and advertised it as the only legitimate crypto website around. I had universally positive reviews but made low 5 figures in profit over the course of ~4y (not terrible as passive income considering the operating costs were nearly zero) before the latest crash dropped usage to nothing and I let bit rot take over.

Unfortunately the vast majority of crypto adopters are just riding the bubble for investment and have no interest in any other use cases, which are admittedly limited.

shtack··on D1 receptors may be a more important target than D2 for antipsychotic drugs
there’s a relevant xkcd, as usual: https://xkcd.com/2682/
shtack··on Rewriting the Messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler messaging app (2020)
“Consistent” UX is often one of the downsides of cross platform frameworks. Android and iOS have distinct UX details that users expect in their apps.
shtack··on Nordstrom to Close Both San Francisco Stores Amid Rampant Crime
This is click bait. Nordstrom just announced in March that they’re closing down all of their Canadian stores, most of which are in high end neighborhoods, and I highly doubt this is unrelated.
shtack··on A song that uses AI to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd has gone viral
Eleven Labs is the best I've found for speech, not sure about singing. Open to alternative suggestions.
shtack··on Pairing With GPT-4
Probably both, depending on which developers you compare against and how you measure productivity. Keep in mind there's an entire world of development where productivity is measured by number of JIRA tickets closed for button text updates.
shtack··on Show HN: Get a Professional Headshot in Minutes with AI
Professional headshots have been both taken under unrealistic conditions and heavily edited for a long time. This is true for most selfies nowadays too. This doesn’t seem significantly different to me.
shtack··on AI for developers and Google Workspace
Possibly this: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230314005528/en/Gre...
shtack··on Fireship – Learn to Code Faster
Dollar Store comes to mind
shtack··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
I've run http://olodolo.com (it mostly runs itself) since 2018, which lets people buy things on AliExpress using crypto. I often describe it as the only non-scam crypto website :)

It's badly in need of fixes and updates, but I still do about $1500-2000 in sales and $300-400 in profit monthly.

shtack··on To opt out of Google Analytics you have to install a browser extension
Can confirm to some degree as I built this system almost 10 years ago. Back then it was used for rich data in 3 apps that were all turned down years ago. I've been out of Google for a long time, so I don't know if it's still around or what it would be used for anymore.
shtack··on Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator
This is awesome, I’ve been looking for something like this (particularly for mobile) for a while. One small issue I came across is a photo I uploaded came out with the wrong aspect ratio and I can’t seem to fix it.
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