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Resemble AI | San Francisco Bay Area or Toronto, ON | Full-Time | Full-Stack Engineer, Deep Learning Researcher, Frontend Engineer, Product Designer

Resemble AI creates high-quality synthetic voices that capture human emotion. We're a venture-backed high-growth startup that's looking to shake up an entire industry with state of the art AI. Our product changes the way that thousands of brands, media companies, creative agencies, and game studios create speech content. We’re a remote-first team that thrives on flexibility and creativeness. We cover expenses for office space, equipment, and all of the other perks and benefits that make you productive. We also believe that to build an enticing product and solid team is by encouraging innovation is by enabling continuous education. That's why every Friday is a day that you can use to work on anything you want, Resemble-related or not. We're hiring for four roles:

Full Stack Engineer - Can you break the entire stack? You're the right person for this job. Work on our Rails app, with sprinkles of React, and Python for the deep learning. Everything is dockerized, and we use Kubernetes to deploy.

Deep Learning Researcher - Come build large ML models for voice synthesis! We already have the SoTA Speech Synthesis models, so this role is all about thinking outside of the box and running huge experiments on tons of compute. Experience in deep speech fields like TTS and ASR is desirable alongside proficiency in Python and DL/ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Keras.

Frontend Engineer - We're hiring a Frontend Engineer proficient in React, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails to shape our user experience. Join our team to develop user-friendly interfaces and collaborate on building exceptional web experiences.

Product Designer - As a Product Designer, you will lead the end-to-end design process, from concept to implementation, ensuring a seamless and delightful user experience. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product vision, conduct user research, create visually compelling interfaces, and develop interactive prototypes.

If interested, reach out directly to me: zohaib [at] resemble.ai
For a computer out of springs: https://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/mechano.html
What's Your Problem? An Oft-Missing Section in AI Papers
Inflation has also hoovered up nominal wage gains into fat corporate profits more or less confiscating all of that money. Consumers are about to come under a lot of stress.

And interest rates aren't coming down any time soon, I just posted an article from a pair of Fed economists that predict rates being held high until 2026 (I expect we hit a recession which hurries that up, but nothing is going to hurry that up short of a recession).
whats the range of compensation?
Hi, I have 7 years of experience in software engineering

Location: London, UK

Remote: yes, hybrid is alright too

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Technologies: Java/Kotlin on backend, willing to switch to any language

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That's not all that clear.

The problems QCs could solve regarding crypto are from number theory. That's basically a branch of math that doesn't really describe any real-world stuff. Cryptography is as far as I know the only practical application of that stuff.

I couldn't think of any implication of "being able to factor large numbers quickly" or "calculating discrete logarithms quickly" that does not relate to cryptography. But I'd be curious if others think these would have any implications beyond "we'll have to get new algorithms into our cryptography".
I disagree entirely that stealing from a corner store and not rendering ads are comparable. In one instance, I take an item that another person has paid for and expects to sell it at a profit. If I steal it, I am depriving the store owner of that item and the profit they would have made.

If I choose to view free content and not render ads, no one has lost anything. While yes, the site owner does not get the profit from "selling the ad", it is not theft in the same way if I were to walk into a store, look around, and not buy anything is not theft.
Repeating the words thousands of humans have written about emotion doesn’t meant it feels them. A sociopath could define empathy and still be missing the deeper experience behind the emotion.
I bought an actual three button mouse to work with acme precisely for that reason
I've been enjoying Metafilter again after many years, and also Tildes. There are well established forums for my interests that were always bigger than they were on reddit. I have some Tildes invites if anyone wants them.
Ask HN: What are the best free resources for startups?
Sometimes I think about Gravatar. Like it was such a simple concept but made sense and saw huge adoption.

It seems like the main bottleneck all new platforms face is getting people to sign up. That’s why OAuth is so popular.

It makes me wonder if Gravatar had not been acquired and had expanded into being a service where the whole point is that you have an account that you can expand and withdrawal from various services, it would have been so much better positioned than more recent attempts or what became OAuth.
Amazon's resources and technology to display a static web page with a few low resolution images and a bunch of text.
<picture of b24 with red dots everywhere but the engines>
Speeding is massively profitable for local governments. Most DC speed cameras make things much less safe by creating artificial bottlenecks on highways (there’s a 40 mph speed camera on I-66 which is 75 most of the country), but they put them in place based on projected revenue increases
This comment illustrates exactly what I'm talking about, Mr. Rogers.

The surface propaganda might have fallen apart, and there may have been much internal criticism - but we're still in Iraq. And Syria, and Lebanon, Yemen, etc.

Those trillions of dollars are still owed. BY US. It doesn't matter how much we protested - we're still on the hook for the bill.

Those millions of victims are still dead.

Those black sites are still open.

The people who did that are walking around free, not even remotely affected.

Snowden is still exiled. Assange is still held in Belmarsh.

The Patriot Act is still renewed, even by Dem elites. A lot of the population is still convinced there were WMDs, that Assange was a Russian agent, that Biden and Obama tried to end this stuff (they expanded it). Shit, Obama sold tens of billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia.

A terrifying percentage of the population is actively rooting for nuclear apocalypse. Even more believe that climate scientists are lying to us for money. The Dem resistance to that consists of fighting progressives (?!).

Americans will sit there with a straight face, and maximum earnestness, telling you that it's actually great that they pay so much for housing, healthcare, and education. They think it's fantastic that US billionaires have so much money; and that if children are hungry it's their parents fault. "Best system in the world" - "at least we're not socialist", etc.

Americans view of other countries is incredibly distorted.

You think the regime changes every four / eight years - but that's because you're so thoroughly inured in propaganda that you don't even feel it. It's a wrestling show; it's kayfabe. They're all friends behind the scenes. They argue on camera, then go on yacht trips together. Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch are buddies. Clinton and Trump were friends for decades. The birther conspiracy was started by Hilary's campaign. W gives Melania candy, and the TV tells you it's cute.

Even Dems argue that America's military actions are normal or justified - Propaganda. You think Dems aren't in on it? Propaganda. If you think opinion of the poorest 92% has a non-zero effect on policy? Propaganda.

It's not normal for the wealthiest country on Earth to have millions of starving children, millions of homeless people, an out of control drug problem, medical bankruptcy, a world record prison population. But people accept it. Propaganda, propaganda, propaganda.

Dems think it's all Republicans fault - propaganda. They think all this is inevitable; this is how people are - propaganda.

This probably sounds ranty, and I'm not arsed sourcing everything here. Apologies.

I do hope you can read this without your reflexes immediately rejecting it - but experience shows that to be extraordinarily rare... Propaganda.
Do you know any real professional software developers who actually use these modeling tools of their own volition and not because some manager fell for a golf-and-steak-dinner sales pitch from the vendor?

My experience with every one of them is that getting the model to the point where it will generate something useful is more work than just writing the useful part myself.
Technically there is no "compile time" in C. Any part of the program can be computed at compile time or at runtime. Its entirely up the the implementation. The AS-IF rule in the C standard lets implementations do whatever they want as long as the program outputs the same things. The pre-processor, const expressions, constexpr (a for this reason compliably broken feature in my opinion), even text parsing and tokenization can happen at run time.

Not having the standard define what is compile time and not is a feature not a bug, and one of the reasons that C continues to enjoy healthy compiler development. (I'm not taking a stand for or against Zig, other then that i support the development of new languages)
Not every developer wants to be a web developer: hello oranda
I suspect they're not evenly distributed.
Isn't that expected and natural?

As performance of a system is being optimized, the relative size of un-optimizable parts goes up.

Sure, your banking app crashes sometimes and annoys you. How about you delete it and instead take a bus to a postal office to pay your bills this way - no annoying apps involved, it will just take 1h instead of 1m.
Rushkoff would say well social media is like the missionaries, when they leave, next comes AI, the conquistadors for the kill.

https://youtu.be/RCVXaqSEqmI?t=676
This is a very beautiful study case for open source projects - someone needed a client for the niche OS (sorry Ubuntu Touch), so they just wrote it. It seems like they've done so without much prior experience.

As for Delta Chat - I've tried using it previously and I have a vague memory it messed up my inbox a little. Is there a simple way to separate the chats from my normal emails? I don't want to have a new email in Thunderbird for every instant message I get. Is there a solution to that?
Early stage might mean good enough to use in a month or two or it might mean “full self driving this year”. There isn’t any way to tell until it happens.
This joke has also been proven wrong in 10/10 of the last recessions.
Automating 7k outbound emails with "in your face" personalization
Part of me wonders, though, could we "just" connect up an inference engine and voila? We could really be on a cusp of general AI. (Or it could be a ways off) That's a bit frightening in several ways.
Can you give me an example of a very ambitious goal that doesn’t fall under the western definition you posted, and yet, can not benefit from the article?
There are no shortage of alternatives: SLES, Oracle, and Ubuntu if you want support. Debian, Arch, Slackware, and a host of others if you don’t care about support.

There’s even alternatives to Linux itself: the BSDs, Solaris/Illumos, even Windows Server.

I think Red Hat will stick around. This move doesn’t change much for the typical people and organizations that choose to pay for RHEL.
Hofstadter makes the claim that "these LLMs and other systems like them are all feed-forward". That doesn't sound right to me, but I'm only a casual observer of LLM tech. Is his assertion accurate? FWIW, ChatGPT doesn't think so. :-)
Did a similar commute myself (out of Minneapolis to an edge suburb, via a train, then a bus, then a smaller shuttle bus). Likewise, there was a core group of about 10 of us who had almost the exact same commute. In that scenario, though, we were living in a much smaller city than those discussed in the article. We commuted that way for a combination of reasons- folks either couldn't afford a car, couldn't drive for medical reasons, etc.

I bought a cheap car and cut my commute time in half, since I could take a much more efficient route to work than the bus could. The rail portion of my commute had been great. The shuttle worked well too, since all the jobs in that area were concentrated in a couple industrial parks. The only problem was the bus that took me out of the city, and to the shuttle. I'm left with many "what ifs" about commuter rail in small cities.
I wish news organizations would not give direct quotes when pure marketing nonsense was written. Just say something like "Amazon did not give us any substantive comment on the matter."
It has? Does the church treat children even worse elsewhere?

I suppose in a way, people are leaving now because of things that happened long ago. I live in Munich, there was a children's home outside the city where the adults did not behave at all nicely. Decades ago. It's just that it's being published now and people are reacting now. But one could also say that people are reacting because they think the current bishop acted to protect one of the criminals, only a few years ago.

I personally think that people might forgive what happened long ago, but don't because the current clerical leadership tried to hush things up and protect the guilty priests only five years ago.
That’s only true for extremely small values of “censorship”.
There will be progress in 5 years, will it be enough? Who knows, it’s something to play the stock market with if you are into that.
Gigantic listicles that we bookmark and never revisit.

The better way to do this, is have a recommendation that is solid to make further recommendations more interesting.....

So to test this, I clicked on the first link where there was a poll and found

https://squabbles.io/

Then I checked out subreddits that I'd visit, and they actually had a community. And I didn't need an email to sign up.

Then I commented on a thread, checked to see if it appeared in incognito. It did.

Well let me eat my words, that is a good list.

So... I guess I am eating my words
C is standardized and is one of the most (the most?) widely used programming language on the planet. If you write code targeting a C standard and don't include many unstable dependencies, it has a good chance of running correctly for a very long time. If you move from C to Zig, you lose that stability. Are Zig's convenience features really enough to compensate for this loss?
This SVG path editor is incredibly useful if you're building or editing SVGs by hand:
https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/
Typescript also compiles to C, zig explicitly seeks to replace C
I don't see what this has to do with Zoomers, to be honest.

If we're going to bring up generations, I'm a millennial who basically grew up on IRC and vBulletin forums.

In fact, I'm still a fairly active participant in IRC, and I am definitely one in a vBulletin based board for a certain car.

But I vastly prefer the experience of having a central place of communities like Reddit for all its problems.

Moderation system tends to be consistent, you don't get random changes by negligent administrators adding full screen ads that can get past ad blockers, knowledge/discussion isn't ephemeral like it is on IRC (sure you can log but not everyone likes or wants to for various reasons).
Does someone know for reference how big of a number that computer can factor? Or some other complex problem that is not highly theoretical...
I think it has largely been the artists in non movie firms, though? Prosumer and journalistic endeavors, at large. Wacom and similar setups dominate the asset creation industry.
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1) That's a lie by BEV companies. I keep on telling people that fuel cell cars are EVs. So where does argument even come from? It comes from nothing. There is no basis to make this claim. Not to mention that the point of renewable energy is their lack of raw material requirements, not their inherent efficiency. If you can imagine a world where solar energy is nearly free, than so can hydrogen.

2) Which is meaningless because hydrogen distribution is fundamentally cheaper. Once you realize that pipelines are cheaper than wires, you will eventually realize that hydrogen stations will be cheap to deploy and ultimately be cheaper than building enough charging stations for everyone.

3) Actually you can because home electrolysis is fully doable. This is another completely made-up argument. The only thing to be brought up is that you don't want home recharging at all. After all, cars are driven outside on the road, not at home. Once you have a network of refueling stations, you don't need a redundant refueling system at home.

4) That's like saying an ICE car has barely longer range. Your ignoring the fact that you need something like $30k of batteries to match that range in a BEV. For a FCEV that comes at a tiny cost.

5) And yet it is still an advantage. Five minutes, especially when you realize it is guaranteed everything single time, is a major advantage. And you will never have to worry about damaging the battery when refueling this fast.

This is ultimately a short-sighted argument. When hydrogen cars are no more expensive than ICE cars and the fuel is basically free, where does that leave BEVs? It doesn't. This is the end of the BEV.
Eh, Goodreads has always suffered from the same problem that plagues every other review system which uses "score out of X" ranking.

Humans just aren't very good at ranking things on a normal distribution, so you invariably end up with every item (books in this case) being ranked somewhere in the 3.5-4.5 range (since Goodreads is out of 5). For IMDB the rankings all hover around 8ish. When in reality the average book should have a 2.5. If you don't rate like this then you just end up with garbage.

Just allowing a boolean rating (ala Rotten Tomatoes when aggregated) is much better, assuming you can get enough reviews for that system to actually work (probably > 30 is required for most applications).

I think "aggregated personal Elo" would be a fun way to rank things: I just give you two books that you've read and you tell me which is better. Do this loads of times and eventually you have a solid ranking of every book you've ever read. Aggregate everyone's rankings and you have a much more robust system then "please rate this book out of 5 stars".
This is fun. My first guess was 34 miles from the place. It took four tries to get to 0. Though, I don't understand the indoor one.
Location: Porto, Portugal (GMT+1)
Remote: Yes
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Technologies: Python, Django, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, React Express, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Flask, Redis, Celery, BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, AWS, Docker, Elasticsearch
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Given the tendency for Elon to lie and “just one more year” for things to come out and then when they do they are a shadow of what’s promised I’ll believe any of that when it’s actually for sale.

As for using it for casual camping who cares people take everything here camping. Heck I’ve seen plenty Tesla’s down FSRs here to go camping parked next to miata’s.
And this is why I do not fear unemployment or AI. There will always be work for someone who can be asked to build over complicated software and debug it.
I couldn’t move my tongue for a few days (to let it reattach) then it was painful for a few more days, then some of it turned white and rotted off over a few weeks. But other than some gnarly teeth shaped scars, it works and functions like a normal tongue after 20 years.

Carrying around a note explaining why I couldn’t talk was also entertaining.
Neither does process. Product velocity to zero for the sake of a management metric is a good way to kill revenue while getting some managers promoted.
I’m saying that for some problems, neither classical nor quantum computers may arrive at an acceptable answer.
How Advanced Is Russian-Chinese Military Cooperation?
Depends on the market, but in hot demand markets I'm sure its not necessary at all when you are getting 10 offers over ask sight unseen and sales with no inspections.
Zig has more things for C interop than you're suggesting though, namely the extern keyword, calling convention, etc. Like ts/js, zig/c seems first class designed be used together in one codebase, compared to eg Rust where is obviously possible but more deliberately discouraged (since it breaks the safety guarantees, which Zig never claimed to begin with)
I got within 10 miles, pretty proud of myself. Could have probably done better with google maps showing lakes / reservors
I read Hofstadter's GEB and Tegmark's Our Mathematical Universe, and of course I developed a rather fond admiration of these brilliant minds. For some reason, both of them have developed a profound aversion and fear of what they consider an existential threat.

I have a solid theoretical understanding of these systems, and I spent 15 years studying, building, and deploying them at scale and for diverse use cases. The past 6 months, I spent my days pushing ChatGPT and GPT-4 to their limits. Yet, I don't share at all the fear of Hofstadter, Tegmark or Hinton.

A part of me thinks that they have one thing in common: they are old and somewhat recluse thinkers. No matter how brilliant they are, they might be misled by the _appearance_ of intelligence that LLMs project. Another part of me thinks that they are vastly wiser than I'll ever be, so I should also be worried...

Future will tell, I guess.
That's exactly what an NFT-based ticket system would do also.
Why do you think SUSE is better? As far as I know SUSE is even less accessible...
I do agree when we see broken outcomes (e.g. us healthcare, us public transit, etc) it’s good to go back to incentives to understand why things haven’t gotten better.

When perf time comes around, everybody knows the deal. Shipping a new feature is a much easier sell than a bug fix and looking like a hero for fixing a bug instead of preventing one is easier anyways.
No one has ever been convinced to fly an airplane into a building by a chess board.

People have gotten convinced of that by words though.

The “attack surface” on human sensibility is just enormous if you’re able to use believably human language.
The example given as "data driven design" in this paper neither resembles modern data driven programming nor data oriented design.

I don't quite understand why the authors thought of this as a good example of "data driven design".

I know that functions in a data driven program tend to be very generic so the conclusion you cite is very much a mismatch from my experience.
The Discord UX alone keeps me off it. Slack has the superior interface but with the Salesforce acquisition, I doubt it'll last for long. They've already snuffed out several communities' utility with their pricing plans.
Besides Goodreads falling into complete disarray, it is equally painful to know that Amazon owns the .book TLD (https://icannwiki.org/.book) and has yet to make that available to anyone.

A lot of Amazon's publishing-related acquisitions tend to stray from what they were intended to be.