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Show HN: OpenVoice_server, a simple API server built on top of OpenVoice
Today, I'm announcing OpenVoice_server, a simple API server built on top of OpenVoice (Both V1 & V2).

I'm not connected to the makers of OpenVoice (MyShell), I'm just a solo developer and founder of Valyrian Tech.

I'm building my own chatbot that has multiple personas and I wanted each persona to have a unique sounding voice. I needed a simple way to handle the text-to-speech feature, to be more specific, I needed a way to make a simple GET request and get an audio file spoken with a specific sounding voice, all in less than a second to make fluent conversations possible.

OpenVoice is great for this, but since it is more a research project than a commercial product, there was no easy API available, at least not with the functionality I needed, so I made this simple API server.

What this is good for:
Chatbots where you need a custom voice in multiple languages or accents in sub-second generation times.

What this is NOT good for:
Cloning existing voices to fool people, it's just not going to sound convincing, there are more advanced solutions available.

There is also an easy one-click template available on Runpod for those who want to try it out.
I mean subsidies work this way and is why companies hunt around for the best ones they can find.
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the ipad is not a replacement for macbooks so the assumption is not correct.

I think it's more likely that current owners of m3 macbooks will be enticed to buy m4 ipads and thus apple makes more money.

And owners of older macbooks would buy both the m3 macbook and the m4 ipad

It sounds backwards, but that's how the apple ecosystem works.
Different states? Different counties! The US tax situation is set by state and county and sometimes city, so two Starbucks on opposite sides of the street may have different tax rates.

Now, of course, you can still solve for it by charging a price that in aggregate is enough to include sales tax everywhere, but the way sales tax is calculated currently that actually can make it more difficult (as you have to track the "real" price which you solved for).
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Many, many articles have been written on the implications of the ChatGPT censorship stuff.
That's really an underrated part of the announcement. It sounds like they're moving the entire display TCON on-chip.
I suppose the theory is, fewer people buying food when the menu lists the real price, revenue goes down, we must raise prices to keep revenue up.
Maybe because 'dialog' says "don't do that" but everybody did anyway?

(also possibly because the "insert into top layer" is sufficiently odd a thing to trigger that the designers felt representing it as an attribute was a worse idea than for dialog)

... though I'd really like some sort of explanation as to how to choose between "non-modal <dialog>" and popover because the one thing I am very confident of here is that I don't know enough to answer that question myself.
The original prime culprit iirc was Jon and Vinny's in LA. I've had the mandatory service charge (which is not given to staff like tips) for several years. There are whole Reddid threads on it with contributions from ex staff going back years.
I take your comment as implying that https://elv.sh is nice, clean and elegant, and thank you for the compliment :)

I can't speak for other people, but I made it on my own and don't have any formal training in design.

With the risk of stating the obvious, you first have to realize that as a developer you can make a reasonably clean-looking website on your own. There are just a few basic ingredients: fonts, spacing, positioning, background shades, and rounded corners. You can do all of these from CSS and there is a lot of good resources for CSS today.

After that it's studying other websites, replicating the style you like, and a lot of trial and error. You can do a lot of experiments from the browser's dev tool before committing them into the stylesheet too. But at the end of the day, you have to put in some time. The layout of the current homepage was redone just a few months back and it took me (IIRC) 3 days to tweak everything to my satisfaction.
Except you have to tip, because tipping is baked into the laws in the US. Tipped workers have a minimum wage of 1/3 of the regular one. Not tipping even the minimum, say, 12% is basically a crime.
For me the problem with tipping culture isn't with sit-down restaurants—that's one of the few places where I can see a slight argument to be made in favor of it. What irks me is that tip prompts have started showing up in order at the counter take out places, where I'm literally going to receive no additional services besides the food itself, the cost of which is presumably baked into its price.
This is great! If you're looking for ideas on how to extend it, I'd love to be able to play with some of the parameters, or have presets to pick from. At some point I tried spinning it like a pizza dough but obviously these are way too liquid for that
Show HN: We made process mapping efficient with AI
Hey HN,

Over the past few years, we've developed ShiftX, a collaborative process mapping tool focused on ease of use. By integrating GPT-4, ShiftX now supports intuitive AI-driven prompts and image uploads, enabling you to generate process maps effortlessly.

We've made ShiftX AI accessible for anyone to try without any commitments—no sign-up required. Give it a go at: shiftx.com/ai

We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. How can we make ShiftX with AI even better for you?

Nikolai
I guess it exists, especially on the Chinese market, but the apps just are not there. Windows ARM is as popular as Windows Mobile 7
Yes, because Spamhaus is a commercial enterprise. My own experience with their "free tier" limit is that it's generous and sufficient for personal use.
It seems like the only context in which it could be abused would be if you have JS disabled but this still works? (Because of course you can do this with JS).

As CSS becomes more powerful it seems like being able to disable these powerful features, while still retaining the “document styling” features, will be important.
Cute, Thomas. Know what’s worse? Getting the check and realizing you lied to me with false advertising.
Compared to English-language horrors like the right/rite/wright/write homophones, that is a fairly minor nitpick.
What’s most surprising is how the ad went live without nobody pressing the ”Retry” button to build a new ad idea, neither in the chain of command at Apple nor at the creative agency, if any.
It’s like everybody everybody, one after the other in the chain of decisions, eluded their responsability. Why?
Considering slavery is still legal as per the 13th amendment, yes. We are addicted to cheap/free labor for businesses.
> why the hate against this small change?

Because it's not "this one small change", it's friction added everywhere where you're trying to communicate, while also implicitly (and sometime explicitly) being called evil for using well-established language.

It's also not 1-2 terms, people come up with new, increasigly far-fetched reason to ban new terms every year.

I'm trying to submit a patch, but instead I have to deal with a linter telling me that "blacklist" is evil, so I'm now supposed to either refactor the existing software or tell some vendor to please change their URLs.

I'm trying to understand something, but I now first have to guess what a term is supposed to mean, because each keyword with a well-established meaning has now been replaced with half a dozen of new terms.

I'm trying to push a git repo to Github and things break because different parts got updated to the politically-correct "main" instead of "master" at different times.

It's a no-win situation, either you just silently take it and put up with it - but that makes the problem worse, because people come up with more bullshit, or you push back. Either way you're stuck dealing with this, as you call it yourself, bullshit.
Well. Most terminal based editor works like that.
I'm not sure you should expect much development for a microkernel that has been proven to meet its specification and to be free of bugs. Microkernels are supposed to have a very small API, so there's not much development needed there unless it doesn't the specification or has other kinds of bugs, which is obviously not the case here.
A little under 10 years ago I used a product that was designed for improving the website by providing heat maps, but also let you drill down to individual sessions. You could see everything, from console to UI to mouse movements. It was actually pretty neat and incredibly useful for debugging.

It was so neat and useful that as an engineering team we had to hide it from the rest of the company because we were worried it would be used to “spy” on employees. (Id like to note that it was only ever installed on internal tooling that was custom built)

How has jam addressed this concern?

Also, is there self hosting?
I feel this is a highly romantic and nostalgic view of objects humans make. Calling them “beautiful” vs “this thing”. I know this is all subjective, but what makes a piano more soulful than an iPhone? This is a genuinely curious exploration of the emotions involved here.
I agree regarding the touch interface, but look at the steam deck example, connect it to some monitors and peripherals using Type-C and you have a computing monster that you can use for everything. And having the portability + other programs like final cut and w/e accessible right at your fingers is amazing!
I didn't like the advert and I'm not a millennial.

It was repulsive.

The issue for me is not about minimalism, so this reframing is not appropriate in my case.
Best of luck to the union. We're seeing time and time again companies willing to be absolutely ruthless with their employees while earning massive profits. Google and Microsoft laying off thousands while profits are rising. Buybacks instead of salaries. Stagnant wages.

Bout time workers started reminding companies that you need us.
While trying the script, I am getting the following error -

<Trace> ReadWriteBufferFromHTTP: Failed to make request to 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/40298680.json'. Error: Timeout: connect timed out: 216.239.32.107:443. Failed at try 3/10. Will retry with current backoff wait is 200/10000 ms.

I googled with no luck. I was wondering if you have a solution for it.
If you're doing capitalism correctly, there is no competition. You control pricing, and quality is irrelevant. It's all about the power of money.

Businesses hate markets, because it's sink or swim and almost everybody sinks.
This basically sounds like terrorism to me. Empowering other nations while hurting our own STEM citizens? Yes, terrorism is not really the correct word but this will do massive damage to the US.
Learnings from Two Months of Deep Learning GPU Optimization
Hi all,

I spent a couple months earlier this year learning about GPU programming through trying to optimize inference for a robotics paper from last year (https://diffusion-policy.cs.columbia.edu/). I consume so much content from helpful blog posts on the internet and wanted to contribute with my own series detailing all my learnings in speeding up inference ~3.4x over native Pytorch eager mode. Code for all posts can be found here - https://github.com/vdesai2014/inference-optimization-blog-po...

I work up from GPU architecture to higher level details like profiling Pytorch, optimizing CUDA kernels, and integrating them with CUDA graphs into Pytorch. Hope it's helpful for anyone interested in this space!
I'm not sure how to articulate it but there's a deep irony in how people are scoffing at the emotional reaction to this ad, when the sentiment in it - that all things can be done/subsumed by Computers™ - has infiltrated the public consciousness as deeply as it has.

There is so much that is still only doable at least in part by hand, from making certain musical instruments to things like crochet. There are even more that use machines but are nowhere near as automated as people believe they are (see e.g. practically all tailoring, where even mass produced articles still need a skilled hand to guide the cutting and sewing machines).

But people love the fiction of some sterile production line that spits out all the cheap things they buy, in no small part because acknowledging that even "cheap Chinese shit" is made by the skilled hands of actual human beings would require acknowledging the gross exploitation that enables you to buy their work for absurdly low prices.
Show HN: AI journaling app with voice, memory and preset questions
I have built this app in order to reduce the time for people to use AI and journaling together and to push the boundaries of human and AI interaction. I believe that we need to accelerate putting more AI's into peoples lives, so that we can be augmented by it.

I have been journaling for over ten years and found it as a critical component to personal development. Now this practice has been forever changed through the power of AI. Now we have something like a synthetic brain that is ready to answer our questions, provide insight, feedback and advice, 24/7 and instantly. This way we the AI augments the way we see the world, what we write about, our experiences, emotions, plans and
more.

LuminaLog.com is an app that empowers writers with a powerful AI that is aware of their current and past journal. A set of preset questions, sent by a single button click, speed up the creative process and give you new ideas instantly. There is even a button for the AI to think of a great question for you to ask.

Please try it and let me know what you think!
Out of curiosity, why do you say the iPhone in particular? I think smart phone ubiquity, regardless of smart phone choice, is what has led to significant cultural changes (some positive, many negative). But I can't really think of a reason why the iPhone should get more blame than the Galaxy's and whatever other smart phones are out there.
There are a lot of people who respond like this. It reminds me of years ago when JCPenny stopped having "sales," and they just set prices to be permanently low. [1]. It cratered their business. It turns out people love having coupons and feeling "smart" about getting a good deal; coupons are sort of a way to gamify shopping, even if you actually end up paying more.

In the case of fees, there are apparently many people who don't consider the fee part of the product, and are an external to what they are purchasing, or out of the control of the restaurant. For me, and probably many like us, the sticker shock comes at the checkout with the final price, and I have zero hesitation to cancel the order at that point. I refuse to use delivery apps, or even online ordering from many restaurants, for this reason. I hate the feeling of being psychologically manipulated into buying something because I'm already "committed" at the last step, where they can add fees. Concert and sporting event ticket hubs, like StubHub, are the same. I'll add 4 tickets to an event at a reasonable price, and the final checkout price is $200 higher, so I'll find something better to spend my money on instead.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/02/24/a...
Worth noting that it’s about CLIP which is way simpler than transformer-based LLMs. CLIP is basically a mapping from one embedding to another.
So they removed them and put where?
Very cool; I use Yandex Metrica for this on public sites
but consumers do? (almost) Nobody will pay apple level prices for something that has less software support and, overall, a worse experience than on macos. TBH, other than gaming, not sure why anyone is paying 1k+ for a Windows laptop.
Markets can only be efficient if knowledge of prices for competing goods and substitutes can be known. Drip pricing makes efficiency really, really hard.

That said, this is less about efficiency in my view and more about getting rid of the dirty little FU on the bill and allowing customers to avoid a surprise.

Restaurants are substitutes in calories sure, but menus, locations, decor, service will differ. I’m not sure I need efficiency in this space in that regard.

However, once at a restaurant, I would like to have a rough idea when I order whether I’m in my personal budget for that meal. From that perspective, this feels great.

If one doesn’t have to think about budget given financial prowess, this law matters little. If one does need to consider their budget but doesn’t, this law also matters little.
Art Directors Guild Suspends Training: We Cannot Encourage Pursuing Profession
Seriously, true.

Mother's heartbeat. The woosh of her blood stream.

We get months of this auditory performance.
I'm still having a hard time believing that anybody was actually disturbed or offended by this ad and that it's not part of a clever guerilla marketing campaign by Apple to trick people into watching the ad.
It’s not extremely common but I bump into it enough to triple-check my bill before deciding how much to tip. If there’s a service fee, I subtract that from what I was going to tip so that I’m not double-charged for service.
Lots of things are stable if you bury them underground away from oxygen and sunlight.
That sounds super useful!

Rather than passively record sessions like the tool you’re describing, Jam is an active model. It lets you actively choose when to record the screen. That way we’re able to avoid any creepiness!

We actually get a lot of requests for self hosting and it’s something I think would be great to add in the future.
Useful output format in CLI applications
> I believe that

Most believed that M4 was not coming either until a last minute rumor. So who knows.

Related rumors:
- M3 process is expensive so it's getting dropped ASAP
- M4 needed for AI so the whole line is getting refreshed
- There's competition from Nuvia etc and M4 is needed to get ahead
Unless I am mistaken, Derek Thompson, the author of the short article, does not once mention Cardinal Newman's The Idea of a University[0]. Really, that's a shame as it's one of the foundations of how we view universities and, honestly, I don't think much has changed since then 1852 in those respects.

The good cardinal lays out his vision about a university, quite secularly for the time period, and spells out 'what a university is for' very explicitly: Intellectual development, formation of character, unity of knowledge, freedom of inquiry, and life preparation. I don't think even some 170 years later that things have changed all that much for us in respect to those overarching goals.

Though it is The Atlantic, a rage bait magazine for nearly a century, it doe make the point that the admin of many universities is just too much. That higher education has become a make work program of sorts, fueled by the government's goal of more college grads and a lot of debt.

I'd say returning to the ideas outlined by Newman would be a great start to burning off the admin bloat.

[0]https://www.newmanreader.org/works/idea/
That's why you need an odd number. ie 5. Or 7 for higher security.
I once asked a question about popovers, one guy replied he googled what they were and got hungry.
Is Google a "great traditional search engine" nowadays? It's a great SEO search engine, but it has been taking me longer and longer to find relevant results on the rare instances I use it.
Small probabilities add, big ones don't
Why are my private bits any of your business anyway? Don't reproductive rights go both ways? I can't even have children of my own anyway since I'm married to a woman. But it all comes back to how useful I am to a cishet guy? Either I'm someone's fetish or a baby-making machine.
I think some of this is just a matter of adapting to the bodies we have (we've never had great vision), but my sister and I, who are slowly losing our sight, both agree that we'd rather go blind than go deaf.

For us, it's about the ease with which oral communication connects to others, and a deep love of music. Both of us have an easier time recognizing voices than faces, and this was true even when we were younger and our vision was mostly normal.

This isn't to say one bodily sense or one way of engaging with the world is objectively 'better' than another. I don't think that's true. I'm sure there are many people for whom their vision (or some other sense or mode of engaging with the world) is much more dear to them for their hearing, and that's not wrong, either.

> I say this as someone with -10 prescriptions, which is close to legal blindness without my glasses

Given that much of the point of the designation 'legally blind' is that the impairment is uncorrectable, this is a pretty unfortunate phrase imo, common as it is. (I have about the same level of myopia, fwiw.)
The other CPU catch back after several months, the Apple Silicon is a good marketing prowess, the reality is that Apple CPUs wins because they are the first on to be produced on a new lithography node, because Apple can book a larger quantity than anyone else.
When the other CPU manufacturer produce CPUs on the same CPU node, the performance is matched.

Here Jim Keller explain why CPU architecture doesn't matter a lot in performance now: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16762/an-anandtech-interview-...
Actually no, I don’t, I’ve never used Uber or Lyft.
I love passion projects!

A complete text editor, written in a language that is also by the same person. This requires dedication. Who cares if it's maintainable by others or if it's a worthwhile effort, its aim is clearly stated as self use.

If anybody wants to see how it looks, there is a screenshot at the language repo.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/travisdoor/bl/master/logo/...
In terms of battery life and performance, would you say it's similar to or better than the MacBook Pro?
>They don't want to compete on pricing and quality.

I support this bill for other reasons, but price competition is a poor reason. Is not having all-in menu pricing really detrimental to price competition? My impression is that most restaurants have the same cost structure of menu price + tax + tip. I very rarely see restaurants trying to add any sort of charge on top. Therefore, at least when it comes to restaurants competing with each other, this law is a non-factor in most cases.
> Bout time workers started reminding companies that you need us.

If they laid off people they needed they'll find out soon enough without any blow-harding.
Hard disagree. The history of consumer electrics goes back maybe a century, but we've been studying and progressing the field of music for tens of thousands of years.

Pianos guitars and violins were crafted by hand! Materials were chosen with care and cultivated over decades with the express purpose of providing a certain character to an instrument! The complexity of a harpsichord or piano was insane in a time before supply chains, and they were designed to last centuries and be passed down between generations! That's just the fancy stuff, stringed instruments can and have been made by anyone, and innovation has come from surprising places! Almost anybody can change the balance, or experiment with covering up holes or adding random metal components to see how it affects the sound. All this effort and knowledge and time goes into something created FOR FUN. You can't eat a piano or use it for any reason other than changing the way people feel, yet music has been around since language was first invented or possibly even earlier.

An iPad is a homogenous blob, it's components broken down and reconstituted at a molecular level, none of it's original character remains. They are the pinnacle of design, but there's not much room for expression left. They last a few years at most before becoming museum pieces or trash. They're impressive in their own right, they showcase human achievement like nothing else. I'd argue they have a less colorful history than music, however.
Not mentioned in this comment are that those large companies are the ones who lobby for such regulation, so they can kill small businesses and gain their customers
No new technology peaks in a year.