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> Are there any really good open source speech to text programs?

I've looked into the field this year (exploring to build a product in a similar niche to Descript), but everything I've encountered and tested is severly lacking (including Descript).

There are no good text(!) speech recognition programs in general. This is in contrast to sentence speech recognition which is decent.

Once you go beyond a single sentence you encounter a lot more problems which are generally under-researched (or at the minimum under-productivized), like sentence boundary detection, punctuation, etc..
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They're not "getting away" with anything. Your network is a serial stream. The bitrate is what matters. At the dawn of IP, machines with 5,6,7,8,9,16, and 18 bit "bytes" were commonplace. Bitrate is the only common way to measure data rates among dissimilar architectures.
Side-channel verification with the distro developers. Contact them over a channel that's unlikely to be compromised, get them to confirm that the keys in the system signature keyrings belong to them. Repeat for many channels until you get enough confidence.
"Telegram publishes users' locations online only for those who explicitly enabled feature to do so and not implicitly that all users location is shared" is a bit long for a title.

While you're right, the title is accurate although it comes with bunch of caveats of course, some of them outlined in the article. That's why we read the full article instead of just titles. More caveats are that they are using a smartphone, has GPS location on, are using Telegram, have allowed the app to access the location and finally shared their location in Telegram.
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Just thinking aloud. 1GB in 17 connections: most likely that would be videos. Could it be videos embedded in other websites?
If I go to pinterest I see the images being downloaded from pinimg.com domain.
For what its worth, Handel means "trade" in Swedish as well, but I instantly thought of the composer when I saw the name.
I thought that was mentioned in my post. It counteracts the king of the hill effect. Gives a more realistic estimate of domains where one is good at and domains where one is not and would do well to consult others or at least not trust ones judgement too much. One of the pins against bubbles of self-evaluated greatness and edginess.
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Saying signal is more secure, not better would be accurate.
There are so many email providers you'll have to explain in a bit more detail why you think the alternatives you've seen aren't appropriate for you.
>In a market the number of options available is (subject to physical limits) a function of the number of people who choose to provide options.

The function has another variable, which is access to and knowledge of capital. I can choose to employ someone, but it won't mean I have the means to do it.

>The stakes are higher in politics because of their sanctioned ability to use force to modify the behavior of others.

Economic coercion is also inescapable, but outside of small regulatory measures, not much can be done about it. Even some libertarians are coming around to the idea that economic 'nudges' are insidious.

>ensures that the relationship is mutually satisfactory

Yet even mutually satisfactory relationships can be exploitative; it's interesting that no comparison is made to feudalism or sharecropping - I suppose they're too similar to the current primary economic activity.

>To the extent that there is a free market in employment, that is true.

How do you know that? What ties economic outcome to just desert? I know of several instances of low economic reward for brilliance, and high economic reward which isn't tied to any personal achievement. Philanthropy (and indeed the human urge to help those less fortunate) go some way to disprove this; we recognize that the market doesn't always reward correctly - and I think in many cases it doesn't, and it's unclear to me what the freedom of the market has to do with justice for the employees.

>We just established that these relationships are mutual.

Mutual, but possibly exploitative or with great power imbalance. In the thread on Google employees unionizing, there was an interesting point made by someone; you have one bargaining chip with your employer, which is your employment, but the employer holds many more chips, because of all the people she employs. She can (generally) afford to lose you only because she has more leverage and more chips.

>Its not a farce to suggest that they are being paid what their labor is worth.

I think it's up for question, at least[0]. Quid pro quo only suggests one thing for another, and it's unclear to me that these are of equal value in the current system.

>You may not like the consequences of this choice but that's a matter of preference.

It's not mere preference, it's a human need to satisfy the base instinct to live - or at least live with some dignity. It's also a near-requirement; taxes make it so. Plenty of things are choices we simply "don't like the consequences of" - someone telling me to hand over my wallet or have my legs broken (and get some food and clothing in return) is also just a "matter of preference" and I "won't like the consequences". Some would even choose the latter.

When you think of "can" outside a metaphysical free will question and investigate further into capabilities[1] and structural pressures, the picture is much less clear - and I think it's a little dishonest to interpret "can" in a way which implies it's like choosing chocolate or vanilla (and I just happen to be pushed toward chocolate).

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/102452941880906...

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/capability-approach/
I think they're begging the question a bit when it comes to thermodynamics. In their video on http://constructortheory.org/what-is-constructor-theory/ they simply claim that no constructor exists that can turn a cooked egg into a raw egg and that allows their theory to reason about thermodynamics. Now presumably this is meant to be about entropy and not merely the amount of energy. However given the exact right amount of energy it is possible for a constructor to 'uncook' an egg, it's just that this constructor will work only for exactly that egg at exactly that time.

The resolution is that you're extremely unlikely to pick the right constructor but then we're back to probability again. In fact anything the recovers the laws of thermodynamics simply ends up recovering probability theory as the laws of thermodynamics are inherently probabilistic.
Brain Wallet? You could easily memorize the 24 words.
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> Think on it in a different way, most of the very revolutionary theories, those that changed how we see the world, were relatively more simple, they were generally simple enough that one fringe could develop them to a point where they shined so brightly as to be next to irrefutable. Things like how the earth might be round, and circle the sun.

Intresting trivia: heliocentrism didn't show "shining brightly as to be next to irrefutable" - it was a fringe idea that could not be confirmed through observation at the time, required some pretty wild (for the time) assumptions - such as stars being very, very far away, to explain why there's no visible parallax from Earth's movements - and went against existing understanding of physics in general (such as, Earth is very big and heavy and bulky, so it's not obvious how could it be moving in circles very fast). Also, IIRC, the predictions made by heliocentric model were less accurate than geocentric ones.

It took astronomical observations with early telescopes to provide data points favoring a mixed geo/heliocentric model, and then further observations, work of Kepler and Newton's theory of gravity for heliocentric model to finally start making sense.

This does serve as an example backing TFA's thesis: some accepted theories, like (then) geocentric model, may be just local maxima - theoretical dead ends. A potential better theory will initially look bad in comparison, it needs work to develop past the accepted one.
He got imprisoned for securities fraud because he expressed his opinion. If he'd kept a low profile he wouldn't have gotten imprisoned.
Seriously? Fastmail is awesome and so much better than gmail. And I'm sure there are plenty of good alternatives as well, this just happens to be the one I use.
The policy I guess at in the rest of that sentence immediately after the words you quote.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25640501
https://archive.is/7ztuw
While you can hide your phone number, I don't think that is the default.

https://telegram.org/faq#q-who-can-see-my-phone-number
Reading your comment history, you are only here to spew your hate for Snowden and Assange: clearly a political motive.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
-- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I do not have a strong opinion on lab origin vs zoonotic, but I think the idea that the virus didn't originate in Wuhan, or at least very near to Wuhan, is unlikely. China successfully contained COVID — enough to prevent their own population from getting much of it, at least — by implementing draconian lockdown measures for the Hubei province (of which Wuhan is the capital). I know people who had family trapped in Hubei: the highways were shut down and blockaded by government forces. Guards patrolled people entering and leaving their houses and apartments. In some cases, apartment buildings had their doors welded shut to prevent residents from leaving at all.

That didn't happen in Beijing, or Shanghai, or Guangzhou or anywhere else in China, because it didn't need to. The outbreak started somewhere in Hubei. The most likely place of anywhere in Hubei for it to have started is Wuhan, just statistically; it's the largest city, with the most people living in it (not to mention it had the first recorded outbreak). But if it wasn't Wuhan, it was somewhere nearby.
Yes, you are right to point this out. There are some important details that are still being debated. Personally my impression is that the debate has advanced enough to the point where MWI can’t be outright dismissed based on this argument. There are multiple plausible explanations and the remaining difficulties have more to do with philosophy than physics.

Edit: To give one example of an approach that I think is promising: We start by describing the observer and environment through a density matrix (a probability distribution over possible wave functions) and introduce an interaction with a quantum system (e.g. a spin). Given a reasonable interaction, you can show that the entanglement in the combined state (observer, environment and spin) leads to the system approaching a state that is a probability distribution of entangled states where each probability corresponds to the Born rule. Interestingly in this case the probabilities emerge from our lack of knowledge about the microstate of the observer/environment, so it’s actually thermodynamic uncertainty.
Not this guy again...
I mean haven't we learned time after time, leak after leak the EU countries just shove data on their own citizens over to the USA? I feel like you comment is ignoring decades of history.
Shrodinger cat is not a physical thing. It just comes from interpretation which has no mathematics behind it. There are many equivalent interpretations. And they are equivalent because none of them postulates any additional math to observe.
If you can edit the title, use 'Show HN'

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html:

>What are Ask HN and Show HN?

>Ask HN lists questions and other text submissions. Show HN is for sharing your personal work and has special rules.
6 months is a write-off? By the time I was 6 months into my first software gig I had 5 months and 2 weeks of being a contributor. It was made clear to me that I was as entitled to voice wrong opinions as anyone else, and also entitled to own as much responsibility as I wanted. I found a niche that nobody else wanted to own and learned way more than I would have being spoon-fed the way you describe.

Then again, I guess there's junior and JUNIOR! Maybe a recent boot camp grad would have been less able to jump in.
Interesting. It's the first argument I've heard against mmWave that has some merits.

Just found a paper: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1210030663890/The%20human%20ski...

> The results obtained from the simulation work were verified in series of in vivo experiments conducted on a number of subjects in the W-band (75–110 GHz). It was shown that the reflection coefficient of their skin strongly depends on the physiological stress of the subject (Feldman et al., 2009, 2008). In the experiments, the palm was held steady by a stand that was placed at fixed distance from the horn antenna connected to the input of the Vector Network Analyzer (VNA). The measurements were carried out using 13 subjects, both male and female, all were in the age group 20–30 and had given their informed consent.

Wow, you can use a VNA to measure that?
Why not just license more doctors?
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Clickbait.

User explicitly shares location to all people nearby, discovers it is accessible to all people. Feature is disabled by default, and user must find this and enable it. They are not even prompted to enable it unless they seek it.
> taxes are generally spent by government officials

By politicians I meant to include government officials; I've edited my comment to reflect that.

> Very few low-tax countries are pleasant to live in for the average human being

I agree, but I don't see the current situation being great either; I think the countries where high taxes are demonstrably increasing quality of life are outliers, and similarly you can increase QOL without a significant (or any?) raise in taxes.

My point is that in my opinion taxes break the typical market dynamics (that private companies are subjected to) that incentivise the entity (the company, or in this case the government) to spend their money in the most efficient way possible. Instead, taxes are seen as a near-infinite pool of money you can afford to burn with no ill effects because it'll just keep replenishing itself forever.

A recent example in the US another scam going around is the "Solar Roadways" which the electronics engineering community has debunked years ago and yet they recently secured yet another grant from the DOT to burn public funds on something that is known to not work (give this fact, the only reason it was chosen is because someone in power wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to show their support for sustainability/renewable energy/eco-friendliness to gain more political support).
Last time I had to do load testing in a professional context, we required 10+ million long-lived TCP and websocket connections transacting multiple times a second. There weren't any off-the-shelf solutions at that time that could come within an order of magnitude of that at a reasonable cost - the most viable solution we tested required a thousand EC2 instances to sustain that traffic.

Ended up hand-coding a load test framework in a few hundred lines of highly async epoll-based C. Scenarios controlled by a simple configuration syntax in a text file. Trivially generated enough load to break the load balancer in front, our service, and all the services and databases behind it - all this running on just a handful of instances.

Pre-existing tools are great, but often don't solve the problem to hand. If load test frameworks aren't doing it for you, don't be afraid to write your own.
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Black and white images need more contrast to be pleasing. I think that's most of the effect you see here.

Maybe you'd want to start with a decent black and white photograph to get a better comparison.

No matter what you do you probably also don't want to end up with large patches of solid white or black in your source image (unless it's the background). The hair already feels like drowning in black. But to take care of that you need to use photoshop and be careful with the gradient curves :)
This is the exact message: https://i.imgur.com/PDnMmQV.png -- Additionally, iOS allows you to make your location imprecise on purpose.

This is a non-issue, this guy "Ahmed" is just fishing for attention with an incendiary title.
No that would be a 50 million litre tank.
Medicine development should be sponsored by the government anyway. Private sector development funding optimises for drawn-out therapies that manage a condition indefinitely rather than ones that cure it. This is an unconscionable status quo.

Public funding is fine for when your end-goal is known. In medicine, the end-goal is known: cure/manage condition X, which will save lives or improving quality of life of sufferers.

Optimising for patentable, innovative techniques is no longer a distraction (because those aren't needed to "protect your investment"). Optimising for ongoing therapy rather than a one-off/infrequent cure is no longer a distraction because you already got your money from the government and ain't getting any more. You can just focus on getting the job done quickly, with the cheapest techniques available (though boring they might be), and with the cheapest possible total cost of running the therapy start-to-end.
I would say that even just aiming at perfect estimates is a sign that mastery has not been achieved yet.

Wisdom is to acknowledge uncertainty and that estimates are uncertain in nature because the information available at the time is always incomplete.
This is probably not the right answer and obviously irrelevant if you want to share things but, at least in MacOS, you can actually tag your files in Finder.
"Telegram publishes users' locations online only for those who explicitly enabled feature "

Why add more?
The main point here is that the lab escape hypothesis has been hitherto dismissed out of hand when it ought not to be.

I agree that the natural zoonotic contamination hypothesis is more plausible to begin with, but since it has not been confirmed (as in: no natural reservoir has been identified), the less plausible but nonetheless not implausible lab escape hypothesis should still be on the table.
I'm not sure they would be able to infer the board has 64 squares. They can't see the board, and can only see the locations of the starting pieces and location of the first move. The center of the board could be anything - 300 hexagons, a spin-wheel, series of mouse traps, etc.

Here's my interpretation of what they see pre- and post- opening move...

PRE: https://i.ibb.co/s6WnPNV/Chess.png

POST: https://i.ibb.co/7pg7GHW/Chess1.png
Doesn't your link say exactly what parent said?
wow I actually watched that promotional video. I usually keep short videos in tabs for months, never watching them and then close the tab.

this one was impressive, I'm also really curious about this product too!
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It is, but that's in interpretations that also don't have the concept of "wave function collapse" in them. WFC is a feature of interpretations that considers measurement as something ontologically special.
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I'm not dismissing MWI, I'm just saying that current formulations either don't reproduce quantum mechanics or don't really address the existence of randomness within quantum mechanics.
This doesn't describe reality now (and hasn't for a while), all the reasons that are left are deceptive ones.
i suspect terrorism
I think he did a bit more of an objective job than that. He compared platforms where we were advertising and I remember that Pinterest generally gave a far better return on investment (than Facebook, which was the main platform we used).
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Now that I think of it, my comment was unnecessary.

> your number is only visible to people who you've added to your address book as contacts

Means they already have my number.

There is still a tiny difference. I can pick a username and chat with people who have my phone number (without them knowing it is me). It's a very small difference.
+1 to Swiss water decaf.

I use Campos (in Australia) decaf, though I blend that with their regular blend.

1kg of decaf to 500g of their regular blend, giving me a 1/3 strength that I grind and use in either an aeropress or v60.

I moved to this, as near the start of the lockdown / wfh here I was drinking 4-5 regular aeropresses in a day with the caffeine impacting my sleep.

This new mix is much better - I have my ritual and nice coffee, and i can go off it for days without hitting the withdrawal.
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Not exactly the same, but I made something a while ago that takes a 2D image and tries to infer a depth map to create a 3D effect: https://awesomealbum.com/depth

It's based on [1] and runs entirely in the browser, allthough it takes a moment to create the depth map. It's more of a toy project at this point. But I was surprised when I saw that Google is doing the same thing now in Google Photos [2].

[1] https://github.com/FilippoAleotti/mobilePydnet

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/15/22176313/google-photos-2...
There's a difference between Googles consumer facing products where all these services are availed for free vs. enterprise clients using gcp - it'll be very surprising at the least if they don't honor these terms with their clous speech to text offerings.
On the other hand, we may develop a society where advancement does not depend on death.
I spent days entering code on the Spectrum 48k from a magazine just to play space invaders.

We had a radio show on a local station being broadcast every friday evening at 22:00 where various open source programs for different platforms (C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad, etc) would be aired. You could then record the show (which consisted mostly of "whiirrrzzzzzzbrbrrzzziii"), and load the programs on your computer of choice.

Those were the days where you'd spend hours browsing your local magazine shop for new and exiting computer magazines, and debugging included reading manuals, and not just pasting code from StackOverflow :)

I often think back to the world when i was a kid, and while the Internet has certainly made a lot of things easier, i'm not always convinced that it's actually helping. When answers to every question you have are readily available, what happens to curiosity ? At age 11 i could hook up just about any home computer, program in BASIC, could take apart electronics and fix them (which was a lot easier back then).

I learned by taking things apart (and rarely breaking them in the process), and for those more specialized things (electronics) there were evening classes for kids. We had a "programming class" when i was a kid that was basically just a lab. Show up at 18:30 and "here's a RC 700 Piccolo (https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=650) to use for whatever you like". There was no set program, and the instructor was the other kids in class. Those were the best classes i've ever taken.
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