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Thanks for going ahead and building this so the rest of us can focus on using it!
We haven't added the ability to switch languages mid conversation... but that's a very cool feature!

You can configure the initial language with the library though! So it works across several languages that are supported by the STT/TTS providers you choose
When I was young and stupid I was trying to learn game development in VB6. I had a type library that provided bindings for DirectX. This was in the late 90s, so I would have been on Windows 98.

I learned quickly how SLOW VB was, but was in denial about it. I wanted to make it work, but anything that required more than a few lines of logic made it impossible to maintain even 30 fps. At the time, though, I was afraid of C/C++. I thought "Those languages are too complicated! Why would anyone use them when VB is so simple?"

Yeah...I learned.
I've had several people recommend the testing branches of Debian for relatively up-to-date software while still being stable FWIW
Data Scientists: the most ambiguous role of the 21st century
This why I find the geek-o-sphere so tiring dissecting things like why are the new Star Wars movies bad… I have no problem believing that… the old ones might have been better, but they were also formulaic and badly acted and the reason they seemed so profound and amazing at the time was seeing them as a kid! Those spending time watching and hating on kids movies might better seek out something that can actually challenge them.
If you don't feel empowered by AI, imho you're doing it wrong and will probably be one of those left behind to be enslaved. I'm confident in my ability to stay on top, with a help from my own AI.
I have had a lot of success with building against old glibc version and then bundling all required libraries except system ones (glibc, libGL, libX11 etc). Anything optional needs to be loaded with dlopen/dlsym but for many things that detail is already handled by libraries like SDL. That's generally what seems to be the common solution for games (well used to be at least, today most just build against the Steam runtime and call it a day). It's really not that different from Windows IMO except that the set of base system libs that you can rely on to be backwards compatible and don't need to bundle is smaller.

You can still pacakge that distro-agnostic build up into distro-specific package formats to make updates easier for users without needing zillion of different build roots just for Linux.
Beej's Guide to Network Programming was how I fumbled my way into socket programming AND C. I can't remember if I first encountered it in the late 90's or early 2000's. It's funny to think about that world now. Unless you had a shell account or ran Linux or some sort of Unix you had to _pay_ (or... not pay) to get access to a C compiler.

If you were lucky you'd get access to some FTP servers via IRC that might have some ZIP files full of good text docs, or wander upon some hacking clan's site that had good tutorials or info. But more likely you'd try to cobble it all together from as many sources as you could find.

I'm really glad we're in a time, and for the most part a community, that values sharing information free and wide, and supporting FOSS tools that put all this knowledge within reach.
Depends on your definition of "process", but parboiled rice can use the same arsenic contaminated groundwater and can raise the arsenic content depending on the process used, whereas mechanical hulling reduces it.
How would you maintain a reasonable "component-based" approach without something like scss? I'm legitimately curious.

Otherwise, you have to take great pains to ensure styles don't conflict or accidentally apply to things they're not intended for. Or you have to use some other framework/tooling to convert your css selectors and markup so that scoping is enforced
Multiple contracts or multiple full time positions (i.e. overemployed)
AFAIK, the reason cars look the same is that they are optimized to use the same mass-produced parts. Not really because of physical, aesthetic, or usability reasons.
Dias: Dynamic Rewriting of Pandas Code
It is really cool. I have some questions.

> There are two embedded antennas to ensure that we can always correct any internal frequency drift by syncing to the cell network.

What do you mean? Do you have your own DSP stack to deal with that while user receiving/transmitting? If there is, do you provide any control over it?

Aside from that,

- What is the compatibility with open source LTE, 5G solutions(SRS, OAI, etc.)?

- I couldn't see PPS input. Are you planning to add it with daughterboards?
It's easy to see countersteering in action if you have a quiet damp road. Try riding in a straight line and then turning to the right. Then dismount, walk back to where you started your turn, and have a look at your tyre tracks.
Quite a few places you would never even be able to even reach in a reasonable amount of time via bus/bike/walk. Would be like the part of the world accessible to you just radically shrank overnight.
Avoiding pain is an anti-goal. There is starting to be good evidence that aggressive pain management with a goal of having patients feel no pain is linked heavily to opiod overprescriptions (which become fent users).

That doesn't mean the answer is no pain medicine. You should try to keep pain in a bearable, functioning range.
The state already has the power to seize, freeze, or hold crypto. That has nothing to do with regulation.
I wonder if fundamental ethical values are mostly absorbed in childhood or through genetic instinct. At some point it seems most people would just use greater knowledge of law, ethics, etc to either become better at arguing why what they did was right or wrong or use the details to get better at not getting caught. Teaching a grown adult to internalize a new value system would appear quite difficult from my observation.
Of course! We loved working on this and chose to open source precisely for this reason. Heavily inspired by the work people are doing on Langchain and providing a usability/developer layer on top of foundational models.

Nothing like this existed for voice so we started cranking on it!
Are you managing the entire front-end stack? Or just design?
> If you release Debian and Redhat packages, you cover 80% of the user base.

That means you need three builds to cover Ubuntu and its derivatives (20.04, 22.04, 22.10). Two to cover Debian (10 and 11). Three to cover RHEL (7,8,9) and also a few more if you want to support Fedora. If you want to support multiple architectures you get at least twice as much builds.

No matter how you put it, that's a lot more work than maintaining a simple flatpak manifest, which allows you to target all those platforms with one automated build for each architecture. And you also get the benefit of being placed in the app store and not being hold back by whatever API is the lowest-common-denominator between all those platforms or having to clutter your code base with `ifdef`s; if you want your app to use an API which was only added in GLib 2.74, then you can just do that and it'll work.
Penrose Tiles were patented and used successfully to stop a manufacturer from using them. So this is patentable (and likely already filed I'd guess).

https://morris.cymru/en/2009/01/penroses-patent-and-the-batt...
This is correct. The tax thresholds are of the order of 12mm
> I've never had the infamous 'Arch updates are unreliable' issue. Is it certain packages that are more prone to it, or something?

Liferea is currently broken as of the latest update 5 days ago due to https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea/issues/1217

I also suffered from the grub issue mentioned here elsewhere, had to rescue my laptop after it became unbootable (though it was very simple to Google the problem and to fix it). I don't think using grub is particularly unusual choice in packages.

I also had to downgrade Samba and wait a couple of weeks for a fix to a bug it had mounting password protected shares. Again, Samba isn't exactly an exotic package.

Also had to downgrade something in my audio stack (I forget if it was pipewire, pulseaudio or a kernel issue that was the root cause) and wait a couple of weeks for a fix due to bluetooth issues.

There's also the occasional update that requires manual intervention.

All of that said, I don't think I cumulatively spent all that much time on maintaining my Arch systems as all these errors are spread across a long period of time and didn't take that long to handle. I probably spent a lot more time and nerves on Ubuntu as I don't think I've actually ever had a dist-upgrade work flawlessly and each time takes a lot of effort and mental energy.
This is such an obviously AI-generated comment.
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The dumb criticize the blind.

What an absurd situation! How did we get here? Here are the steps:

1. Large Language Models have been presented as "AI", which personifies them instead of describing how they work.

2. Goals for LLM development were set for the personified attributes, and not the actual functionally of the real thing. OpenAI brags about how GPT4 scores at human tests: as if that has any bearing on the model itself, and not simply its content.

3. The success of an LLM at a personified goal is determined by magic. Does the black box output what I am hoping it will? How do I improve it? Weights? Better training corpus?

4. An LLM is understood to be a person in a black box, and we could not possibly understand what that person will do next. Danger!
Elon Musk an expert?

I have questions...
I agree with basically all of that and thanks for sharing. The OpenAI team is hardly a neutral party in all of this though, they benefit from the hype. Exciting times regardless.
I personally would recommend Fedora. It's not rolling release like Arch so packages might be a bit behind, but with Red Hat using Fedora as their staging distro it's usually not very far behind and occasionally even ahead. And you don't have to worry about updates breaking everything. It's also one of the big distros so it's well supported
Very much agree, no shame in dropping a work you started if it isn't as good as it seemed. Also skipping ahead in books and skimming articles can help.
"None of them were ethical by any stretch of the imagination."

At least they know the course material well. Isn't that the reason why you're really enrolling in the class for?
Note though, that Office and Chrome also have many thousands of features and both start nearly instantly.
the comment you're replying to is pretty delusional to say the least, but I disagree that they aren't empowering now. ChatGPT is an extremely useful source of education that bypasses the mess that is Google, and it's much more than just code completion tricks. gpt-4 can literally write long, complex programs that generally work the first time you run them
"We ask that regulators let us catch up with our rival. Plz. Thx. Bye."
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No doubt chatGPT can't replace coder's yet. If current pace of improvement continues (a big if!), it defnly will be able to in a couple of years. Honestly I expect it to happen.

Though I don't expect software dev job to go away. It'll just change in nature. Less typey typey, more managing the LLM.
I know it can't be compared to Nile, but Danube is significant for Europe.
Elon Musk’s Twitter Widens Its Censorship of Modi’s Critics in India
I want to build a pc from scratch with this. I was on the framework site last week looking for a compact desktop option to build an Debian system.

*edit not Ubuntu given this post on the state of package management: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35354729
Jumps out at me too - it's a meme spreading all over the online discussion world. not that it's improper use or a new idea or anything, but it's become really popular in the last several months. It is a useful nuance - signifying that ownership has transferred, not just possession. But, also cringe it seems like a lot of users are trying so so hard to fit in with the cool trendy kids.
Personally, I would have had a sophisticated platform for communication between humans in place before the whole thing went down, this way we'd at least have a chance of getting everyone more or less on the same page on the range of possibilities of what is going on, the range of possibilities of actions (and the range of opinions on each), and so forth and so on.

I am endlessly amazed at how disorganized this place is, and no one seems to notice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Hacktoberfest should be interesting this year
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Yep, CUDA-flavored C/C++. We looked into Python-based solutions but in the end they didn't really meet the scientist's requirements for the code (things like maintaining the existing experience for some people in other labs who have been using the C/C++ library directly).
Nope, I genuinely wanted to know if that's what they thought, and frankly am not interested in your socialization tips, especially considering the only thing you've contributed here is antagonistic browbeating of a stranger.
I don't think LastPass is in a position to teach anyone about how to "create a culture of cybersecurity".
If you force them to define their argument, it doesn't have a foundation. I have yet to find a lab-grown meat that doesn't make me feel a little ill, but it is religiously charged to call it "an abomination." If the core argument is that this individual's interpretation of their specific Magic Book says it's bad, well, I just don't find that a useful discussion.
Again: NO

No tracking, no telemetry, no nothing. It is unfortunate, but that is the only good answer.
What does the gifter pay tax on? -$14k?
Did you use nixos for builds or as your daily driver (or both)? Using nixos as a daily driver doesn't make sense to me, but I'm probably missing something.
Our belief is that at some point OpenAI will add a speech-to-speech model. This will improve the library functionality (since now the whole stack is controlled by a single entity, so the product will naturally be better latency/quality wise).

Our library is open source so that we can all build a development/utility layer on top of whatever foundational models are created. Plugins of course also improve what the agents can do. And right, we will be building enterprise focused products in the future!
It's not slightly different at all. If I say, "The server at the restaurant gave the man a fork", would you think the man expected to walk away with the fork?

Or to put it differently: Depositors gave money to FTX, which gave the money to Almeda Research, which gave the money to SBF, who gave it to his father. But only one of these four transactions was a gift.
Ah, I didn't realize there was more content if I keep scrolling in an unnatural way. Thank you.
Relatedly, the Rails codebase recently received a (clearly marked) AI-generated pull request: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/47708

At a glance, it looks like it's been mostly well-received and has not yet been immediately closed as spam.
Funnily enough, GitLab is also melting down at the moment, with pipelines not running and pull requests not functioning:

https://status.gitlab.com/
High level IC at big tech can get you around that neighborhood
It has come to my attention as well that the more higher educated people in my circles are more blind to the power grab that is happening by government here. Topics around housing, energy, immigration, covid, EU policy, nitrogen ect are blindly followed by whatever the authority is saying and without any desire to think for themselves.

It has come to the point where debating any of above Topics is impossible and gets you stamped as "crazy, outlier".

And on a lot of these topics, the messages from government that have been sent were plain wrong, but no corrections have been made, thus the cycle continues.

Where the more 'poor' people around me seem to think more for themselves and with common sense. Those are the people that wonder why the riots in Paris are nowhere to be found in our mainstream media (Netherlands).

I wonder why this is the case and if this is unique to me. One explanation could be that the wealthier group has more to lose when going 'out of favor'. Thoughts?
I skimmed through the article and I could immediately correlate it with another article[1] that I could relate a lot with.

My frustration is primarily because of lack of good movies coming out of Hollywood which has been churning out remakes after remakes or some decade long running sequels. I guess a question worth asking as we stand on the cusp of first quarter of the new millennium is, what are the lasting cultural artefacts that we are building? What is it that we can call truly as our own? Could be a music form, architectural style, painting form etc.,

[1] https://areomagazine.com/2023/01/18/the-great-reboot-in-memo...
Feynman doesn't disappoint. Although, I would have liked for him to make clear how quickly we (including physicists like him) get to "we have no idea". Sort of the overall arc of his answer made it seem that, well we know why but it would be impossible to explain it to you because it is incomparable to anything else you might know. But the reality is, we quickly arrive at the four fundamental forces (the we know of) for which we have no explanation, no further reducibility (that we know of). We know they exist because we can observe them or work them out mathematically. But we have to just accept them on their face as they are in order for the rest of the universe to make sense.
Netgear Nighthawk AX1800 I also struggle in some hotels. The device is less than 2M away from router and sometimes drops below 1Mbps
Fwiw, the explicit advice I got from my parents about cars/houses was to never choose a unique looking one. I was told odd-colored cars are more likely to be broken into, and houses that draw attention (if placed in a neighborhood of otherwise very similar houses) are more likely to be robbed.

So even if my favorite color was an easy option when choosing a car, I'd probably go monochrome as long as that's what the majority of other cars are doing, almost entirely for property crime reasons.

On writing this out, I have absolutely 0 idea how factually-based this is, but it is at least a thing some middle-class Americans tell their kids.
Even the question leads to solutioning, it could be posed as "Why do our users feel frustrated with our service?"
Seconding. This would be great to see.
Claude from Anthropic already has an API and its likely that Bard will have an API as well. It's just the most basic way to monetize your model.
Translating from Nix to another packaging ecosystem usually entails removing specificity. This is why going in the opposite direction is harder. So I suspect we can provide escape hatches from Nix into Debian/RPM/Arch/Gentoo so that one would only have to maintain one fully specific package, but get easy translators for the other ecosystems.
> Elon thought AI would enslave us, but turns out it empowers us.

Absent other non-technical changes, AI along the lines that the main commercial proponents are pursuing empowers the narrow set of capitalists who control it to more efficiently extract value from and exert power over everyone else.

“Empower us” and “enslave us” are both accurate, for different values of “us”.

(A few people riding the top of the capitalist-control-of-AI wave are trying to sell it as an existential threat to everyone, and to use that as an excuse to concentrate control of AI in their hands, to make social change in the opposite direction needed to mitigate the threat they themselves pose with AI; is this a real threat? If the shared threat is real, it is nowhere near as imminent and probable as the threat posed by those who are selling it.)
SportsCenter for Meetings = ChatGPT and Video AI and Zoom
Read Highlights converts a 60 min recording of a Zoom into a 2-minute highlight reel.

By integrating large language models (GPT) with video (in-house), Read identifies the most important moments in a meeting based on not just the words, but the reaction from the participants.

Read uses visual AI to measure reactions from meeting participants to highlight the most and least important moments in a meeting to generate Read Highlights.
The part where the conversation format, participants, and content was clearly not at a level appropriate for a matter of this importance. High school kids could do MUCH better than what we saw there. If corporations were run as incompetently as much of the government, they'd get crushed by competitors.

Maybe our government needs some competition.
Most people are already used to prompt engineering thanks to years of using Google. They just aren't fully conscious of that connection yet, as "prompt engineering" sounds far more complex than it actually is.

Also worth noting, prompt engineering is only "difficult" now because the UI is effectively non existent, it's just a text box. This too will improve, and prompt engineering will get easier. It's imperative it becomes easier from the perspective of AI providers.

>That doesn't make it any less of a programming language

I don't see how you can believe that. Prompt engineering will never require learning an entirely new method of communication because the entire point is to communicate in languages you already know to create generations. Just because someone writes "image barn sunny trees" doesn't mean it's incomprehensible to those who know English, definitely not in the same way that "public static void main()" is incomprehensible to those who do understand English but not Java (or it's similar). You might think "well, prompt engineering can turn out the same way that Java example does", but that negates the entire functionality of AI and you're now just programming!
I also used to think that ubiquity was some sort of evidence of superiority. However, as was briefly mentioned upthread, you realize that often ubiquity has more to do with consumer products and the monopolies that capture markets. And ubiquitous consumer products often do not achieve that status due to superior design, but actually superior profit margins, which in the realm of manufactured consumer products, means the most efficient design for the most efficient manufacturing method. You realize that the manufacturing process can influence the design. The most ubiquitous door, urinal, toilet, and hand dryer are often not the most aesthetically pleasing or even, design-wise, most sensibility designed, but just the cheapest to purchase, most efficient to manufacture, or the only option.

So to answer your question, we typically call the latter in cultural studies capitalism.
That is insane. Sorry about that.

I would suggest you do what you can to stay in tech. Even being a cheap freelancer would probably make you more $ than fast food and you'll have more energy for other things.
If you name your own tokens, then other people coming to the project have to learn to apply the same set of tokens correctly, and may even end up reinventing the same ones with new names. In fact, you might even do that (well, it sounds like you might not, but I certainly would, and have)

Tailwind is just that, but unified across all projects, with better tooling (VS code integration, tree shaking, lighter css files)
Once again, just two days ago [0], the whole of GitHub went down, after the RSA key leakage and the certificate key expiry on its user facing site.

It is also apparent that GitHub Actions has chronically been struggling to operate normally for at least once a month for years.

There is no question that GitHub has been more unreliable than if you were to use a self-hosted GitLab or Gittea instance yourself as I said before [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35325850

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803