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Show HN: The first consumer AI that can make any type of phone call
Good morning HN,

Today we’re launching a free public beta for Vibrato, a consumer AI assistant that makes phone calls for you. The phone calls can be simple, like making an appointment, to complex, like negotiating a lower utility bill. As far as I know, this is the first time consumers have had the ability to make general calls with AI.

We’re launching with two major features:

- a task library, where you can immediately have Vibrato perform a specific task that we’ve vetted, like making a doctor’s appointment or reducing your Comcast cable internet bill.

- a GPT for ChatGPT (Plus subscription required), where you can chat with ChatGPT and define a completely custom phone call, beyond what we offer in our task library. For example, you can use this to make a phone call to a law office for legal advice.

Vibrato is already wildly effective at managing your outgoing phone calls. I probably have the pain point more than most, but I’ve used it to:

- Negotiate lower utilities bills

- Refill prescriptions

- Get updates on insurance claims

- Call doctor’s offices

A low latency voice app like this with this level of complex reasoning has only been possible for a few weeks, since the launch of GPT4 Turbo. So this is truly a milestone moment.

Please check it out if you have a moment, and I’m happy to take on any feedback.

Thanks,

David

david@getvibrato.com
The thing I've used for this kind of problem is fusejs which is a lightweight search index. You can load it with a list of JSON documents and do structured or fuzzy string searches. I find it pretty well-suited to the kind of frontend experiences I need a lot of data for.
This algebra doesn’t hold and the modals used are wrong.

You can certainly build software that has a business purpose. Or not. I build useless software all the time, to learn. So the modal matters. I can build useless software. I can build useful software. Whether I should or shouldn’t is up to me.

As for the rest, it’s a shakeup algebra. His inequalities don’t make sense in an academic environment for instance. But maybe that academic software then becomes open source and suddenly it’s huge! But at no point were he biz inequalities used.

It’s a piece written from the environment of what looks to be private industry so maybe those algebras hold up better there.

Also, the whole ops inequality made me laugh. If only this were true.
This is a common sentiment, but surprisingly it's quite easy to start a business in a country with a more developed social net because the failure consequences are much less severe.
How China is tearing down Islam – FT
Yes, sorry, it's an old personal blog based on my own code, which doesn't handle traffic spikes very well
IME this happens when site developers do not bother to pare down user permissions, at least for users with privilege to edit the site. Which seems to be extremely common, at least back when I worked with drupal - 6.x and 7.x. When you can see every bell and whistle it does get quite messy. But it is possible tighten up permissions and when you do so the controls you don't need are hidden.
This isn't going to be the first run in with one of these folk. I had one. Belittling them is all that was left.

I was working for a very very very large defence contractor and the CEO of the hour would take his IBM ThinkPad and throw it across whatever hotel room he was in at the weekend because he was a giant oaf. Then bring it in on Monday and blame us for "giving him a fucking piece of shit". So we bought him a ToughBook. Which he proceeded to break in just the same way.

Our IT director eventually asked him "have you just ever considered stopping treating your kit like shit?"
Excepting for fast food, I don't consider any of the manual-labor jobs I've done to be "shit jobs" at all.
Specifically for avoiding tranfer/inheritance taxes.

Any money actually paid out of the trust to a beneficiary is subject to that individuals federal income taxes.
Some of this may be potentially true for TypeScript programmers. I have no idea, since I never used it. However, sensible division of code into small files can have enormous benefits in C++. Throwing everything into giant files makes it annoying to write and run unit tests, or to reuse part of the code in a new translation unit. There is a noticeable difference between working in a code base where the tests link and run in milliseconds, compared to ones where it takes a long time to compile and link them.
> won't be finalized for 10 years

That's optimistic, optimistically. It's a group of ivory tower academics with no stake in any browser implementation acting like they have any right to tell actual browser implementors how to behave.
That's a good one! Might replace my current favorite which is:

Let x = 0.99...

Then 10*x = 9.99...

And if we subtract x from both sides, we get:

10x - x = 9.99... - x

And since we already defined x=0.99... when we subtract it from 9.99..., we get

9x = 9

So we can finally divide both sides by 9:

x = 1
One of the best improvements in Kotlin (over Java) is the ability to have multiple top-level classes, functions, and static variables in one file. I hate jumping between 10 files when reviewing code.

You technically can do this in plain Java, but it comes with many caveats and probably won't work with a default build setup. And no, nested classes are not the same thing.
Drupal basically is a headless CMS plus a CMS front end if you expose the web service module.
Your credibility is killed by thinking paying AWS for a c5.metal can guarantee which compute you're getting. It's entirely black box.

If AWS wants to torpedo their business for marginal gain they can. And you won't be able to tell just because your workload falls on its face.

Your comment is the textbook definition of FUD in a comical way.
I guess "online retailer" example could be extended to many of the companies that are creating consumer products.
When the standards setting body is creating a new version of the open standard, your patent cannot be included unless you make a binding commitment up front to license that patent to any interested party without price gouging.

If you won't make that commitment, they use someone elses tech.

Companies simply won't use Qualcomm proprietary tech anymore after having been burned in the past with something they had to maintain for the sake of backwards compatibility.

For instance, there were zero companies on the planet that bought into Qualcomm's recent tech to send text messages via satellite.

> Essentially, the project is dying because Qualcomm couldn't get a single Android manufacturer to add satellite messaging to a phone. Qualcomm's satellite solution didn't require much in the way of new hardware, so the rejection was apparently due to Qualcomm's design of the feature...

Qualcomm says smartphone makers “indicated a preference towards standards-based solutions” for satellite-to-phone connectivity, a plan the company now wants to pivot to.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/qualcomm-kills-its-c...
We post WSJ and NYT all the time though and it’s explicitly allowed last I complained about it.
I think that's probably because RAM on Mac is shared with the GPU. On Windows, you need 16GB RAM plus 8GB on GPU.
Yeah, they all came from families that gave them a significant advantage over their peers. They could all afford to fail at entrepreneurship, and not have their life turned upside down by it.
Yeah. It's called the long and short scale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
For sure! Use code "joinus5" in the Account tab when you select "Redeem code". This will give you a free $5 credit available for immediate use. Also, you can do Free Play which will earn you $1 if you win a match at $0 entry fee cost to you!
Is it worth killing people over? Or instead of behaving like chimps could we just figure it out by talking?
> performant

I've been away from Drupal for ~10 years, but I recently helped a friend spruce up a Drupal site he's working on and still found it's largely powered in production by heavy caching, and the page load speeds in development are a slog. I didn't know enough about how he built the site to know if that's still the case everywhere in Drupal or just his configuration, but my impression is still that it's absolutely not production ready without heavy caching in front of the site.
> he'll probably say yes while looking for other jobs and posting about how incompetent his manager is on Hacker News.

I feel this to the core.
oh, I don't think they should try to emulate, just that there is an amount of similarity in the self-justification of the dictators. China's claims to Taiwan fit the same mold
Is this new offers only? Because it matters a lot. I know people who joined Facebook an year ago when the stock was at rock bottom and are now making 800k+ as a Senior, mostly due to stock appreciation. (And thus reporting as such on levels.fyi)
Yeah, i somehow doubt clubhouse stock has any value.
Wealth redistribution and making it easier for new businesses to enter markets and compete. These often go hand-in-hand; safety nets allow people to take risks, and new competition prevents markets from colluding and ceasing competition.
Ask HN: Has anyone used Chapel? What did you think?
I work primarily in scientific computing, so my primary experience is with Julia, Fortran, and to a lesser extent C++ and Python. Chapel looks interesting as a new entrant to the HPC space, but I am curious what people think about it. Maybe I'll give it a go for AoC this year.
Delphi is single pass today... this has drawbacks, but the compiler is fast!
the key part is really trust. there's no substitute for in-office work on that matter. 100% agree with your take on this.
It may not be that "only SMEs can work" but that "SMEs don't have 5 tickets this sprint but 3 high level deliveries over the next quarter" thus they are allowed work uninterrupted from the daily churn and focus intensely (contributing to their already high base knowledge). Whereas other engineers are constantly distracted and stay surface level trying to stay afloat.
I built just this a month ago with the Azure AI speech API, which is already pretty good at multilingual speech.

https://github.com/adrianmfi/gpt-tutor

I look forward to testing if switching to Seamless can improve it further, Seamless supporting nearly 100 languages is a nice improvement.
If the whole numeric part of the string was something like "eightwo", I think that solution would fail.
I don't know what you're on about. WFH saves me so much time and energy that I can commit a lot more to things that are way more interesting and fulfilling than work. Now I can hang out with people I care about, focus on my Jiu Jitsu and guitar playing and spend more time chipping away at my massive queue of unread books.

Work is just something I have to do so I can feed and house my kids.
I think you have to consider the opportunity cost. Spending $100k to kill a $500 drone sounds like a bad deal, but if that drone kills a soldier it could cost hundreds of thousands (or even millions) to train a new one and pay out death benefits.
So... does that make a headful CMS? :)

"Recapitated"?
> Don’t hire people who don’t value synchronous communication. People who want all communication to be async and don’t plan to respond promptly to messages (like the work/life balance crowd on HN) will not produce a dynamic team because that’s not the strong point of async communication.

Basecamp has always been remote and asynchronous and they seem to be doing well.
is clubhouse still a company ?
I tend to agree with this. The leaderboard for many programmers is a source of stress and is another type of internet "comparison" like seeing someone who appears "better" than you on social media. Advent of Code, to me, is a celebration of all the hard work of the year by getting a chance to show off any new skills or abilities you might have picked up.

Advent of Code should be about the solve and the sharing of a good problem together, not how fast can you cook a plate of spaghetti.
None of those it matters that much though. The test case of `eightwo` would be the most critical and unintutive.
They're better than most consumers x86 CPUs but worse than using a GPU. Where they shine is when the ML model can't fit the GPU's VRAM since you have better options for ram size with macs.
Genome-wide association studies propel sweet cherry breeding
I used Drupal for several years across several major versions. Even co-wrote a book on one of those major versions.

Drupal is a web CMS that empowers people without extensive coding experience to do some pretty amazing things. A front end developer at a small consulting company can build a useful experience pretty easily.

And if you are a developer you can extend it extensively.

It hit its peak before some of the extensibility features hit WordPress.

When it moved to being symfony based with Drupal 8 the shift was so great for this audience that Drupal hit its peak usage [1]. It's been in decline since then. Drupal 7 is still the mostly widely used single version and BackdropCMS came long to support that crowd (a Drupal 7 fork).

I look at this as an exercise in knowing your target audiences.

[1] https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal
Hertz sure seems out of place in that list.
As I added: Economic synergies with natural gas (both for homes and for baseload and peak power plants). (Geologic) Hydrogen saves you money duh duh duh duh The heat is on!
> SFGATE columnist Drew Magary consumed Musk's entire erratic interview so you don't have to

Thank you for saving me from having to go to primary sources to form my opinion.

> I, like Sorkin, am a journalist and lemme tell you: You’re in BIG trouble if one of US understands how to make a profit better than you do.

Tell us more about your profitable businesses.
I take the opposite lesson from this. These ports look practically the same to someone who’s never used them. It’s terrible user experience. IT failed to properly train the user or provide them with useable equipment. This is not revenge of the nerds, it’s a failure to serve the internal customer.
Round two was based on manufacturing a better ally in the region than the Saudis. After all, this was not too long after 9/11 and despite the lack of public attention, nobody was foolish enough to ignore the role of Saudi nationals in private.

If, as a democracy, Iraq became what Iran could have been (until the revolution), our influence would have played a much stronger moderating force in the middle east.

Instead, we discovered that democracies don't work when people don't want them to. It was a pipe dream that was doomed to fail from its inception.

One unforced error lead to another, and that's a lesson that nobody ever seems to learn.
Who did Venezuela steal the land from?
I don't recall middle management being amazing in person - mainly I recall some unnecessary guy who spent all day on Facebook until he got bored, who then starts wandering around bothering people. With 100% remote, those positions just seem to be gone which is a big upgrade in my book - though I can understand why middle management is anxious about it.
Choose your parents wisely.
I mean, you'd hope so but if you look around at the offspring.. mostly not.
Trust fund kids end up in nepobaby jobs in media/acting/modeling/music/politics, in senior roles in family businesses, or getting really into things like equestrian riding.

Ever look at what for example.. Gates/Jobs/etc kids do for a living?
> nothing has really changed

The economics have totally changed. Targeting iOS with it's massive revenue share gets you almost all the code you need to target a Mac. All you need to do is add support for a keyboard/mouse UI.

It's the exact same strategy Microsoft used with XBox.

If you're already targeting Windows, targeting XBox required less additional effort (add a gamepad UI to your Windows game) than targeting something like the PlayStation would.
> [A functioning federal government could] fix the situation anytime it wants
Does the spanish expressive sample sound muffled for others too? And the french sounds super mechanical. Hopefully, it's more impressive the other way.

Also: "This research demo is not open to residents of, or those accessing the demo from, the States of Illinois or Texas"
No idea on price of bamboo but my thought is a plantation of it would dramatically outgrow pine. You could harvest numerous times per year. And seeing how pine costs have sores I wonder if there’s an edge there.

Unfortunately I don’t have the skills to pursue this.
A person is rarely so f'ed as when their manager _no_ longer believes that person would always act in their (the managers) best interest.
This is my reaction as well. I like the idea of collapsing a simple method into a single line, but the `=` makes it such a weird thing to actually parse. I wonder what prevented them with using a proc-like braces syntax, which would be intuitive for those familiar with the language (and the `def` to set it apart from procs)
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

From the hackernews guidelines
LICENSE

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

https://github.com/facebookresearch/seamless_communication/b...
Clever use of Google Meet as a tool! Also, Google Pixel phones now provide realtime captions to any speech playing on the phone (Accessibility > Live Caption). You can also choose a "preferred language" and the captions will be automatically translated to that language from other languages.
This must be the Associate Director himself, otherwise this is a very weird take, but I guess not surprising given the state of things these days.

Sure, plugging things into the wrong port is an honest mistake. We all make mistakes. But he was shown how to do it, failed to consider the risks of relying last minute on something he’s clearly not comfortable with when faced with a critical task, and must have not had the wherewithal to ask about the two ports, try basic troubleshooting himself, practice ahead of time, or call in for help. Instead he tried to turn his failure into someone else’s. Personal accountability is critical even if sometimes it’s hard to swallow. Desperately trying to roll your own shit downhill is-at a minimum-a sign of an extremely low character. At least the Assistant Director in this story had enough decency to just take the L at the end and drop it.
More specifically, the post-WWII era is ending and now we're reverting to the mean of most of human history, which was oligarchic wealth and authoritarianism. It's sort of a tragic irony that the largest generation thus far saw the 1945-1975 period as "normal" and how things should be, because it was actually a highly anomalous point in history generated by a perfect storm of factors (the demographic peak from previous medical advances, multiple huge agrarian economies rapidly industrializing, a huge war that resulted in massive downward wealth redistribution) which will not repeat, and now it's coming to an end.
This is my biggest gripe with the widespread use of Prettier over in JS/TS land, especially when using React. It always seems to introduce *more* formatting inconsistency because it's only looking at line length to decide when to format. So in the same block of code I'll have things like:

const foo = useMemo(() => {
// code
}, [
alfa,
bravo,
charlie,
]);

const bar = useMemo(() => {
// code

}, [delta, echo]);

const quux = useCallback(
(arg0: string, arg1: number): SomeType => {
// code
},
[foxtrot, golf, hotel]
);

Which is infurating because it's not visually consistent so the code starts to look like syntactic soup. It's the same thing with components, really.
For the opposite (not quite converse logically!) argument that unrest and wars lead to economic equality, I recommend Walter Scheidel's "The Great Leveler".

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/th...
+1 here

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The quickest time of the first star is suspicious...
Would you mind showing how?
Neat, thanks for sharing.

1. Posting some methodology in the README might be good, such as any filtering you did or didn't do.

2. You do have some obvious duplicates on there, e.g. `cit` and `citadel`, `jane` and `jane-street`. It's probably not worth the effort to manually clean that up, but I figured I'd mention.
> And no, nested classes are not the same thing.

They actually are if they're public static. Quite literally so, nested static classes are the exact same as "normal" classes but named `OuterName$InnerName.class`
Almost every drug commercial I see these days is for a diabetes drug. It's a big racket. The packaged food companies load their offerings with fructose, huge numbers of people develop diabetes, then Big Pharma comes in riding on a white horse offering treatment. Cue to fat executives chomping on cigars in some huge office and laughing all the way to the bank.

Sadly, reality /is/ exactly that cartoonish.
For desktop machines I have plugged USB-A devices into the 8P8C modular ethernet jack many times; the width is far too similar.
They don't appear on the lists because their companies are usually private and hard to value because Forbes and Bloomberg et al don't even know who owns what.

Take, for example, Jeff Yass, who didn't appear on Forbes until 2021. Well, according to the ProPublica tax leaks, he was not just a billionaire but someone who made over $1 billion in annual income(!) from 2012 upwards [1]

1 - https://www.propublica.org/article/jeff-yass-susquehanna-tik...
Took me 2 minutes to find the Github.
I took one look at the overlaps, decided I had things I'd theoretically like to accomplish today that didn't involve tracking overlapping subsets of strings, and hardcoded the nine possible overlaps, i.e. [1]

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~bsprague/advent-of-code/tree/main/item/20...
First, we have extensive observational data from elsewhere in the universe that tells us that the fundamental interactions work the same everywhere. For example, we see light coming from regions that have very different gravity, but it still behaves the same.

Second, on the scale of atoms, or even on the scale of ordinary macroscopic objects, gravity is so extremely weak that its effects on things like chemical bonds or the structure of nuclei, atoms, and molecules is negligible. If you have a very massive object like a star (or a white dwarf or neutron star), then of course you have different states of matter possible (degenerate matter in stellar cores, white dwarfs, and neutron stars), but even those states of matter still have all the fundamental interactions working the same way. The different states of matter are due to the extreme density and pressure, not due to any change in the fundamental interactions.

Third, what we usually call "the speed of light in vacuum" is actually a property of spacetime, not specifically of light. So the idea of this speed being "slowed down by gravity" is based on a confusion. That property of spacetime (a better name for it would be local Lorentz invariance) is the same everywhere no matter how weak or strong gravity is.
> I actually agree with those words, but they rankle when coming from a billionaire

Oprah is arguably the single most self-made billionaire in the history of the US.

She was almost literally dirt poor for her entire childhood, and was basically poor until her late 20s.

I think she gets a free pass here.
If one joins an org of 1-20 people without understanding "who its customers are, why they would buy the product, or how to make money" then it is on them.