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Show HN: Split-Test Different Voice AI Providers (Playground)
I'm currently working on a "home for voice AI developers" called Vocalized. Here is a link to the playground where you can split-test different voice AI providers (I'm still working on making it mobile-responsive so try it on desktop!).

I want the playground to be an complete documentation of every offering that exists in the space (whether relevant or not) so each can be compared.

The intent for the site is to be a lightweight site you can bookmark & come back to to poke around if interested.

The site also has a company directory that I'm working on. I wanted to offload my browser bookmarks into a navigable site others interested could read & contribute to.

other notes:
- when GPT-4o for voice is available I will add it
- I'm looking for contributors to the company directory
- I'm open to open-sourcing the site if there's interest
It really gives nice way to think about gradient descent.
"Or New Coke."

With New Coke, the public reaction was negative.

In The Verge interview and elsewhere, Google claims the reaction to the current Google is positive.^1

No need for "Google Classic".

1. It's unlcear how Google concludes that people are happy with Google Search. It does not ask them.
Thank you. For 40 years I've been hearing every benign or ultimately useful piece of tech get labeled as the mark of the beast or a "sign of the end times", I'm completely over the supernatural evil garbage.

Tech can be misused and that's why democracy, privacy, etc. is crucial, but these people always make these weird/cheap/lazy, throwaway statements in a defeatist tone of predetermined supernatural evil. It's such learned helplessness.

Meanwhile many municipalities in modern countries have done practical things like banned facial recognition from use by law enforcement.

If it's a human source of evil we have human methods and forms of governance to address the potential issues, but these supernaturalist recommendations always seem to advocate that the solution is to vote in this one dude that is God's man.

40 years of this crap and they've been wrong or hyperbolic to the point of absurdity every damn time, all while eroding their own freedoms via the policies their chosen champions have passed any time a slightly real threat comes along.
Super cool! I would love if we could make this serverless and easily deployable with CDK or Terraform. Maybe I’ll take that up as a side project, who knows!
Markets aren't sports teams, i.e. bimodal camps with us vs. them drama. Twitter discussion of markets, maybe, but not markets.

I've been on both sides of this trade, regularly.

Bear thesis back then was same as now. In retrospect, I give it a few more credits because Elon says they were getting close to bankrupt while he was posting "bankwupt" memes and selling short shorts.

Being a pessimist, and putting your money where your mouth is in markets, is difficult because you have to be right and have the right timing.
CF does “technically” have that obligation under many subscriber agreements.

Cloudflare could make this much easier by revoking the cert when the customer moves away from them. They probably should do this.
> There needs to be ways to breed new life and kill off the natural development of bad management and crippling rulemaking.

corpos are functionally immortal and it's the cancerous mass, not the germ line that survives.
Wait is that a statement in support of Hamas? Or is it just unethical actions from Palestinians that get that treatment? Otherwise wouldn't an occupation followed by a blockade count as an unethical action that doesn't merit an ethical response?
No polygons in Doom/Wolf3D.

The example from Back To Saturn X2 can be played on a software rendered engine with no concept of polygons at all.
> I don’t get the ‘eating 5000 calories of anything would make you ill’ argument against the movie.

Good thing that's not the argument I'm making in my comment. The argument I'm making is about forcing yourself to eat more than you want to while the very act of eating is making you feel sick. That's what Spurlock did in the movie; it's not representative of any significant population of people.
The had another provider because the regulator requires it. I suspect a lot of businesses in less regulated industries do not.
This. US deindustrialization can only be understood as a major political shift and, like all major political shifts in the world, it is the product of a conflation of multiple, simultaneous pressures.

Among these are:
1. political leaders exploiting the lucrative US market for foreign relation wins.
2. differential labor costs
3. differential regulatory burdens (health and safety, environmental, etc.)

Manufacturers have had all of these pressures applied and they've responded accordingly. Seeking lower labor costs and lower regulatory burdens is not merely simple-minded "greed." When competitors leverage these affordances they gain an advantage in cost, so others must consider following.
> Wikipedia says 18% of Germany population are first-generation immigrants.

Are they counting EU citizens living in Germany?
Show HN: IngrediCheck – An "AI-Native" Food Scanning App
Hello HN, longtime lurker, finally I have something to show :)

IngrediCheck is a Food Scanning App. It is meant to help with Grocery Shopping, for people who have unique dietary restrictions or preferences. I made it because we were reading too many food labels when Grocery Shopping. If you are shopping for a family, the list of dietary restrictions can get long.

The way it works is

1. You enter your dietary restrictions or preferences in natural language. This can be quite flexible. Examples:

- I am allergic to oats and peanuts.
- I want to avoid seed oils.
- Dr Berg on YouTube said avoid Maltodextrin.

2. When Grocery Shopping, scan the Barcode of a packaged food item to get an instant analysis whether it meets your dietary preferences.

Hope someone finds it useful!

I had fun using LLMs for:

1. Validating dietary preference entered in natural language.
2. Matching natural language dietary preferences to an ingredients list.
3. Extracting structured ingredients list from OCR of package product images.
4. And now I plan to use Agents to scour the web for Packaged Food Item details.

PS:

- only works for Ingredients right now, not Nutrition label.
- only on iPhone right now.
- only in US, Canada, UK, India right now.
- code is on Github: https://github.com/IngrediCheck
boeing sounds more russian by the day
I don't get it. I can't see what I can do here that I can't do directly on Unsplash.

Looks like a coding project with no usefulness

Some constructive feedback:
- There is no search - which means its not very useful.
- It loads just 3 images at a time. That's a lot of clicks.
I would like all of those things, but I'm always turned off of CL for a few reasons

- Emacs is hard to learn, and just doesn't have a lot of the things that IDEs have these days. Yes, I know it's a tired argument but it's a real one. The VSCode solution works fairly well but isn't as interactive, which is kind of the whole point of using CL.

- There's a lot of weird quirks and badly named things in CommonLisp. You can definitely feel how old it is, but it's great that old libraries will still work.

- The ecosystem is hard to navigate. I have bought a few CL books and some of them really suck because they reference libraries that flat out don't exist anymore (these are books in the last 10 years, which most CL books are). You will, of course, never find an API wrapper for anything new. Those things may not be hard to work on, but it's extra work.

It's hard to move from Clojure, which has a strong (and well documented) ecosystem, a dead simple library, and good IDE support. It may not have the debugging support CL has, but between the REPL and immutable nature, it's not a huge loss. It's more debuggable than most languages.

I would also say some Clojure libraries really stand out to me from EVERY ecosystem. Electric Clojure is really cool. Tempel is a very simple encryption library but you can do so much with it. Hiccup feels so natural. It doesn't get talked about a lot, but I feel bummed using other languages because they don't have such creative libraries.
Would be interested to hear what constitute 'high crimes' that should allow more than ten year sentences? On repatriation, I don't know who's going to want to accept each others' criminal exiles. Though perhaps there would be, we do have armies promising freedom in exchange for conscription.
> 4. Referring to the Israeli Independence Day or the founding day of the country as a day of mourning.

So you are not allowed to call it the Nakba, or describe it as anything but something to celebrate as long as you receive funding from the government.

I don’t know how the media, libraries, schools or other institutions work in Israel, but in Iceland this would pretty much amount to a ban, as almost all media, and institutions receive at least some funding from the government, and the most important ones actually depend on it.

I also find it curious how this flies in Israel’s participation in Eurovision. Russia was banned for using state media to spread misinformation. Meanwhile Israel has laws which bans their state media from recognizing previous state atrocities, and is not banned.
Lol, the GPT would also generate the intro text :)
I think the way relational trauma is understood today, at least as applied to children, is that the event breaks the person's internal sense of self and of safety.

Children are SO vulnerable, and their brains understand this on a lizard level. "Those people are huge and I am very small" is obvious, even to an infant. They know, instinctively, that their parents are what stand between them and death.

When a parent abuses a child, violates a child, the child doesn't doubt the parent's goodness or rightness. They can't afford to. It's much too dangerous. If the person standing between you and death isn't safe, nothing and nowhere is safe.

So they doubt themselves, their own goodness, their own rightness. The operating system gets installed with major bugs. It can't trust its own programs, its own judgment, whether it's even real and has a right to keep existing. It's broken on such a deep level that it can't recover on its own.

I think sometimes abuse doesn't lead to trauma if there are strong enough mitigating factors. She's now deceased (death totally unrelated to this) so I can't ask her, but I don't think my sister experienced our abuse as trauma like I did, because she internalized very early on that dad was unreliable and unsafe, so it didn't shake her sense of self and her own judgment. I have theories about why she was able to do that and I wasn't, but there's only so much to be gained by speculating in her absence.

I made my parent comment intentionally vague because I didn't want to cause debate about it, but the context where I normally hear people saying, "My parents did it to me and I turned out fine," is talking about spanking their children. So my response is, essentially, "Are you fine? You're standing here defending the idea of hitting a child. To me that's a very strong indicator of not being fine." I thought it was a common enough conversation for people to know what I meant without spelling it out and opening that can of worms, but that's probably culturally contextual.

Hope this at least clears things up a bit.
To be fair, it is probably the AI moderation algorithm itself
OCLP is your friend.

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
CPUs with SVE have been generally available for two years now. SME and AVX-512 got benchmarks written showing them off before the CPUs were even available. Seems fair to me.

simdjson specifically benefitted from Intel's hardware decision to implement a 512b permute from 2x 512b registers with a throughput of 1/cycle. That's area-expensive, which is (probably) why ARM has historically skimped on tbl performance, only changing as of the Cortex-X4.

Anyway simdjson is an argument for 256b/512b vector permute, not 128b SVE.

Having written a lot of NEON and investigated SVE... I disagree that SVE is a nicer ISA. The set of what's 2-operand destructive, what instructions have maskable forms vs. needing movprfx that's only fused on A64FX, and dealing the intrinsics issues that come from sizeless types are all unneeded headaches. Plus I prefer NEON's variable shift to SVE's variable shifts.
What China is really after is slowly pushing out and slowly increase its control in seas around China and its neighborhood. While slowly pushing out and giving itself more options.

China is playing the slow game and they will continue to play it for a long time to come. But of course the slow game also has lots of issues for them as well. Issues with their population, with India, with the regime and so on.

China is in a position not that different from Germany pre-WW1, but arguably even better. But unlike Germany they are not controlled by complete war glorifying idiots. China believes the future is going their way, unlike the Germans who basically believe they would lose out in the long term. They don't have a insane collapsing Austro-Hungary as an ally constantly dragging them into conflict. And nuclear weapons exist.
how do you get an "effect size" or "confidence interval" without a properly controlled trial? I could claim that the "effect size" of umbrellas leading to rain is absolutely enormous, billions of gallons of it drop from the sky! You parachute believers are really something else.
I still remember mine—3337788. But then it was stolen, and that was almost the end of the ICQ era. Well, something comes, and something goes.
one thing is the energy required and another one the chemical reaction itself
Patent that cost Microsoft millions gets invalidated (2019)
Claiming that being smart isn't required for trading is not the same as claiming that people doing trading aren't smart.

(Note that I personally have no opinion on this topic, as I'm not sufficiently informed to have one.)
I disagree with that argument for many reasons.

> Let's start with the fact that there was no other known suspect.

That's not for a jury to decide. There was no other suspect presented.

> Yet there was no sign of a forced break-in and no indication of robbery or theft.

Is that actually mentioned in the movie? I'm rereading the screenplay [0], and the only mention of any motive is the fight between the dad and the kid, which seems to be undisputed. The prosecution isn't going to tell us about all the other pieces of evidence that don't fit the case they're trying to present. The defense could have done so, but let's be honest, it was probably some overworked public defender because a 16-year-old is probably not the sort who can afford a first-rate criminal defense lawyer.

The claim that you can take these pieces of circumstantial evidence and do some math on them to arrive at some probability above 90% is... not really how arguments are constructed. Juror #8 had serious concerns with each of the core pieces of testimony, which could have been enough to consider each of the witnesses untrustworthy. If the jury is not willing to accept any of the evidence, then there's simply no case.

> This "demonstration" hardly diminishes the strong inference of guilt raised by the fact that the defendant could remember nothing at all about the movie he claimed to have just seen. And nobody saw him at the theater. His alibi, therefore, is highly suspect.

Sure, his alibi (along with the rest of the cited testimony from the defendant) is not very believable. But the absence of an alibi does not automatically prove guilt.

[0] e.g. https://thescriptlab.com/wp-content/uploads/scripts/12AngryM...
I joined this codebase 10 years into it. We could turn it off now, but the damage is already done.
AOL had 'AOL Quick Buddy', a Java applet client and later AIM Express that used Adobe Flash.

I definitely used quick buddy from computers at my junior college (98-2000), but I don't remember using AIM express.
> it's real easy to force feed yourself 5000 calories

No it's not. If you have to force it, it's by definition not "easy". Overindulging in something is different from forcing yourself to do it. My problem with the movie is that it takes a very strange scenario (man forces himself to eat to the point of puking) and acts like that's teaching us lessons about the broader population, none of whom are doing that. It might be bad for you to eat unhealthy things that feel pleasurable, but it's obviously worse to do it so much that it's become an ordeal.
Very cool idea!

If someone implements GTK I would absolutely use it, its just fltk is no fun in Linux world
I'm not gonna lie, I have absolutely no idea. That's bizarre. What would normally show there?
I had this happen as well over saying pitbulls are statistically more dangerous than other dog breeds.

Sometimes you just invoke the wrath of people with too much time on their hands and want to spend it to make your life harder.
Adium!
It really was a gem of an app. Much better than any other I’d used at the time (or that I have used since, actually).
asynchronous programming is the bee's knees, and my preferred mode

Asyc/await pretends to be synchronous and gets all tied in horrible knots when the sunk costs mount

Writing IO without blocking has always been second nature to me
I'd say that the theoretical ability to gang units together would be appealing.

If you have four 128-bit packed SIMD, you must execute 4 different instructions at once or the others go to waste. With SVE, you could (in theory) use all 4 as a single, very wide vector for common operations if there weren't a lot of instructions competing for execution ports. You could even dynamically allocate them based on expected vector size or amount of vector instructions coming down the pipeline.

Additionally, adding two 2048-bit vectors using NEON (128-bit packed SIMD) would require 16 add instructions while SVE would require just one. That's a massive code size reduction which matters for I-cache and the frontend throughput.
I will forever treasure my ICQ memories.

The sounds it made. The moving image when it was connecting. Listening in Winamp to one of only a few dozen possible songs that I had carefully downloaded.

Being able to randomly connect to people you would filter. Yes, I want to talk to someone more or less my age but in Iceland. Or any other country.

But most of all, the feeling of being connected. As a teenager in the autism spectrum, that was one of the best feelings I had at that time.

Most people don’t get it when I say this, maybe someone here will, but to me it all started going downhill when people all of a sudden switched to a worse alternative, MSN. I see a direct line from there to the annoying easy-to-accept-while-hard-to-reject-but-always-there-anyway cookie pop-ups.

And no, this is isn’t some form of Ostalgie where we long for past days of hardship with tender feelings. ICQ just had a great user experience as far as I am concerned and to this day I prefer it to existing alternatives from WhatsApp to Webex chat (don’t mention Teams please, I’m having a poetic moment). It was rather a feeling that perhaps other Brazilians will share: a longing, saudade, for the simpler (yes) but better and more poetic 90s, when ICQ connected you to a world that watched Brazil win the fourth World Cup, Ayrton Senna was inspiring generations to be healthier and their better selves and Mamonas Assassinas could only make us laugh, not cry…

So long, ICQ. You will always be part of why I love the internet.

PS: I realize the timing of those events doesn’t necessarily align. But sentimentally they do.
There is a global shortage.
This ends up being a bet mostly about medical life extension, since drastically longer human lifespans are more likely than quantum computers going anywhere soon.
> Unless I’m missing some other cool pattern.

Explicit state machines
> Apple didn't use ARM for something like a decade or two after that.

They used the ARM610 in the Newton in 1993 (ARM was founded in late 1990) and then an 8 year gap to the iPod in 2001 (ARM7TDMI which are ARM designs.) Their first in-house ARM design (I believe) is the iPhone 4 in 2010.

They definitely didn't "architect/design ARM" for nearly a couple of decades after founding ARM, yeah, but they did use them.
That's life isn't it? Mailing addresses, electricity, car-based transportation in the US, technologies and cultural institutions change and create worlds dependent on them to function. There was probably a time when the very idea that you stayed up after the sun set was seen as a silly modern affliction and indeed for most of human prehistory humans did not have access to artificial lighting. Now there are people, like me, who consider themselves as night owls.
France does carry their tactical nukes on the Rafale.
Apple cofounded ARM for use in the Newton product line; they released new Newton products from 1993-97 and discontinued them in 1998. They then used ARM again for the iPod, released in 2001.
bait
I believe it requires the ARMv8.5 instruction sets (but maybe some of those are optional too?)
I agree that everyone deserves privacy -no argument there. I wouldn't call windows users 'lusers' and in fact I did not.

That said, Microsoft has made it abundantly clear what direction that they are going in and it is an invasive consumer-hostile anti-privacy direction.

This will not change. For that reason, open source solutions such as Linux or better yet OpenBSD (in ideal only, I don't run it and wouldn't expect anyone else to) are the only chance of retaining end-user control and privacy.

I say 'chance' because it's not out of the realm of possibility that Microsoft, Google or others will social engineer consumer-hostile changes into the Linux ecosystem -I have no illusions about that. But at least consumers have a chance and that is something that can not be said of Windows.
It’s disturbing how many of these either see humans as worth destroying, could harm us, or would kill us.

Getting this AI to Skynet’s morality probably just takes one, fine-tuning run.
Quite a small part, but yeah, the science missions are always special to be a part of, even if its small.
Looks like you're on Mac: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/text-recognition

There's also a chance your scanner's OCR function was recently enabled by default. The feature is still sitting as "planned for the future" in their PDF library: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/15843
We’ve seen demand from all types of SaaS applications where the user might need data— software that helps customer support staff answer data questions, CRM, payroll software, just to name a few.
monogame is pretty much the continuation of XNA although they have added more stuff.

There is another framework called FNA that I've not used personally but I've heard it tries to match XNA exactly while monogame is a bit more forward looking. So FNA is good for porting forward your older XNA games.
I disagree that there wasn't enough awareness. As someone who was alive at the time, there was a pre-existing moral panic about fast food and there were constant discussions before Supersize Me about how unhealthy it was, not to mention pop culture jokes making fun of it. I think that pre-existing anxiety was one of the reasons so many people saw the film.
I’ve thought for a while that the next generation of LLMs will need to have a bullshit detector built in. Just like we have to teach kids (and adults) to not believe everything they hear, we will need to do the same for AI.

And I’m not even just talking about sanitizing training data. I think there needs to be some sort of internal consistency check that happens before it responds.