skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the current SOTA for voice->text?

I have a recording I've been sitting on for 2 years(a guest lecture which a friend recorded) which contains a very heavy amount of background noise, where you can just barely make out what is being said by the lecturer. I wonder if there is any hope I will ever be able to read a transcript from it.

I can figure out what the lecturer is saying (maybe only because I have some context about what he is talking about), but it is too painful to sit through 2 hours of it and try to transcribe it.

I tried uploading the audio file to this service, but basically get nothing useful returned to me.
i've never heard of a parasitic relationship being described as symbiotic...
I think a lot of gaming and computer companies were like this, especially early on. If you read Console Wars (about Sega during the 3rd generation of consoles) you run into loads of aggressive practices while they all try to build out their market dominance.
You are bounded by the fact that the statement is provable. Let a statement M be provable with a proof length K. By contradiction, if K is non finite, the statement must not be provable. Thus, there must be some positive integer K s.t. the proof length < K. Thus, it suffices to enumerate all proofs of length < K.

Insofar as we are given provability, we can solve halting.
Ah yes the legendary sprite_tm, I've come across this while writing my own raspberry pi firmware to manage the switch over USB.
> Just put the drives in your computer

NAS works with phones, tablets and laptops with egregiously expensive, non-expandable storage.

On iOS/iPadOS, use SSH/SFTP to workaround business-model-challenged "Files" client.
I'm starting to buy this argument after rejecting it before (primarily thought ignorance of the meaning of "consciousness is the mechanism by which the universe processes information").

Also intersects with Hoffman's argument re: Conscious Realism. The only real thing is conscious experience, and "reality" as used in common parlance is just a multimodal user interface constructed to maximize evolutionary fitness.
what's so hard about local package caching? Just bind mount all containers npm package cache location to a location on the host.
Way overengineered... Back in my day we were happy with sticking a plastic bottle between the tire and frame :)

Looks like kids still do it today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWRv17qvM0s
You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

Once science has become broadly accepted as an arbiter of truth, political action groups of all kinds will become interested in controlling science. This can happen on a political topic of the day, like trans rights. It can happen with a business interest, like how the sugar industry in the 1970s used bribes to get science redirected at blaming fat instead of sugar. It can be from people trying to discredit science, as the fossil fuel industry has tried to discredit climate science.

It really doesn't matter. The truths that science can uncover have a political impact. Those affected, will not simply sit silently by for that. They will attempt to act. And we who care about truth should expect and guard against their efforts.

It does not matter whether the political manipulation is for or against current scientific results. Science itself must strive to remain independent, with truth as the north star, regardless of how inconvenient or convenient that truth is.
How much does it cost in the FAQ: Voice Isolator costs 1000 characters for every minute of audio.

Since when are characters a currency?
Install mosquitto afterwards, add a small script, and the ports all show up in HomeAssistant as power-monitoring ON/OFF switches. :)
Strange is the night where black stars rise,

And strange moons circle through the skies,
Assuming power is free. Even small wattage differences add up quickly for a server running 24/7 and those older CPUs can be very inefficient.
I am developing a world model without ML
Lucky our total L1 cache sizes are about as big as the entire addressable memory of the 6502.

We truly live in amazing times.
WordPerfect was even available on the Apple II!
God this site can't even do the basic courtesy of linking to their source...

Here is the pod episode,

Jony Ive shaped the iPhone. These are the songs that shaped him - https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/02/life-in-seven-songs-podcas...
It basically IS just software/product engineering. An AI engineer is a product engineer who's ahead of the curve from everyone else in terms of building on top of LLMs and similar.

It might not even still be a speciality in a few years time. Right now though there's a lot of depth to the field that people who aren't focusing on it are missing out on.
I recently participated in an 85 mile race, and all the nutritional advice boiled down to.. drink a water bottle with a ton of pure sugar and some table salt every 10-20 miles. Bananas and gummies etc. were had, but mostly because they're pleasant to consume.
I’ve had good results with Whisper. You can use the OpenAI API and it is also open source:

https://github.com/openai/whisper
It's so finicky with that. I upload images to regular Gemini interface (with a text prompt as well) and almost always get back results, but I have seen this message before.

There's gotta be a condition that allows it to be bypassed, and clearly this project should be triggering that condition lol
This is a very difficult question to answer. Because it's a gradient.

Certainly it could tolerate it within a transition. You could imagine Worker controlled corporations entirely, however with private property still existing.

I also think it depends heavily on the definition of private property, which is a specific set of rules in every locality. Certainly some of those rules would be different.

But I think what you're getting at is, "What's the ideal?", and the answer I think would not tolerate private property.

But honestly, I'm not sure I believe that. Again, I can think of definitions I think work.
I think the opposite is true.

If artists would be forced to release only singles they would be pressured to make every song fit the “hit” format. Music would be more homogenous and boring. I doubt Bohemian Rhapsody would ever be released in such a world.

I guess I’m in the minority but I like listening to full albums even when using a streaming service.
Well, that's a matter of taste but plucking out something out of an article, sticking it in the headline and getting it wrong, is not a good summary and, to my eyes, blogspammy behaviour. But it the taste part doesn't matter much because HN's guidelines ask people to submit original sources so the original article would have been a better fit.
Christian nationalism sticks out because they’re loud, dress like a militia and carry guns around, but true power is quiet and backed by the police.

A lot of things are so established you don’t even notice them, like fish in water. The military industrial complex, trickle down economics, realtors (until recently), privatized health insurance, and surveillance capitalism all come to mind.
It is not a surprise models reflect their source training data and RLHF. The surprise is the DDE project choosing to use a Chinese government censored model (based on Qwen) for a world-wide audience.
Sorry docker run foo is already running isolated, what do you mean by process isolation in the context of docker?
I'm someone that started out on fancy IDEs roughly 10 years ago, switched to vim roughly 6-7 years ago, and then switched to GNU Emacs roughly 4 years ago. At this point I'll probably only switch away from Emacs if it is to another Emacsen, ideally one Scheme based (I have even toyed with the idea of writing this myself). Happy to answer any questions about the each and my transitions.
This is not true anymore. Most systems are switching to less dangerous refrigerants.
Old business laptops work well
Hey if they wanna pay me for real transparent food I'll cook them up some "Emperor's New Hollandaise"
Everyone is an expert at storage as long as everything is working great. It's when stuff fails that you feel like an idiot and wished you had one extra hdd in your RAID array or a secondary NAS you were backing up to or one extra site you offloaded your data to.

I don't do cheap any more. But I can see the appeal.
Deepgram Nova 2 is among the best right now, more accurate than Whisper in my testing.
You don't need empty space. All the processing power can be tied to entities, and space emerges from relationships between entities.

Want something fun to think about? What if the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is basically a function of the information capacity of the thing being examined. To make a computer analogy, imagine you have 8 bits of information - using 6 for position leaves 2 momentum, for example.
This confused me as well, and made me lose interest. Intentional non-answers like this are rather grating.
An operating system inside a text editor inside an operating system maybe inside a vm inside another operating system. Wait I forgot nested virtualization.
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This is par for the course for any text-to-speech or speech-to-text service these days, check out ElevenLabs' other service pricing and it is similar - they have monthly pricing but the character usage is capped at each level.

Actually other major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure and GCP, have similar character / token / word count based pricing as well.
Same here, I have an LG TV which I dumbed down by removing the Ethernet cable. I use a BeeLink mini-PC, running Ubuntu, with Chrome for TV and VLC for DVDs and CDs. I still use the TV remote for turning power on and off, and changing input source (I still have cable, mostly for news). I would never use a Logitech wireless keyboard/trackpad for typing anything complicated, but it works great as a remote control.
The founders bought back their shares to regain control only in 2006.
Now they want to retire and seem to evaluate options [1]. Guess it is far to early to judge what they will do. They seem to care about the company. Recently AVM settled their wifi patent dispute with Huawei [2], so maybe the sale becomes more likely? But I try to be optimistic that we will not have another Software AG like disaster (on a smaller scale) [3] .

[1] https://www.heise.de/news/AVM-Fritzbox-Hersteller-steht-ange...

[2] https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/huawei-and-avm-settle-wifi...

[3] https://technologymagazine.com/articles/ibm-closes-software-...
Nothing. That's the point of making their repos available. They simply don't view the Linux market as sufficiently large enough to justify handling this internally.
ECC for nerds is like gear heads arguing about motor oil.
I never said that a model "trained with multimodality" will acquire creativity just because of that.

How transformative they are is probably a subjective judgement depending on what one means. For example, the way I see it, when we do poetry, we transform our experience into words. What speaks to people through poetry is not the words themselves, but the pointers to the connected experience they contain. Poetry is not about writing a nice poem by predicting the next token based on statistical correlations. Current AI is not transformative enough because it does not transform lived experience into words, it predicts tokens based on what tokens it was trained on.
Is this specific to big programs running on data centers or could it be applied to programs people run locally on their computers or phones?

I'd love to know if the kernel improvements could be improved in this way too for PC / Android users.
I used program called GAMS in mine.

Its syntax structure is totally free form!

https://www.gams.com/latest/docs/UG_GAMSPrograms.html#UG_GAM...
You can't (since commits are snapshots of the repo root). You can have this approximation however:

git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/neovim/neovim
cd neovim
git sparse-checkout add scripts

Unfortunately, GitHub does not support --filter=sparse:oid=master:scripts, so blobs will be fetched on demand as you use the repo.
I agree with your annoyance here.

I did end up clicking thru to get the full story. On their pricing page (https://elevenlabs.io/pricing) they are up front, with several monthly tiers; their "most popular" $11/month tier says "100k Characters/mo (~120 mins audio)"
Follow the Capex: Triangulating Nvidia
1. An indie game lasts far longer than 30-70 minutes.

2. There is an economy of scale for studio time.

3. The way artists are paid requires more value than 3 minutes at a time.

4. There is value in music for deeper fans to dive into that are not the casual fans that listen to singles.

5. An artist doesn't always know what song is going to resonate with fans -- the right singles to release is not a science.
Reminds me of the gnomes from South Park.
I don't think this is a slam dunk. For this argument to work, the dart probability must be 100% for any function. This is supposed to be clear "intuitively", and then, by constructing a counterexample using the CH, it's concluded that the CH is false.

But the space of functions from R to countable subsets of R is so vast (and so far removed from the physical world) that I don't think it's possible to have any "intuition" of what's possible in that space. And indeed, we see that there's a construction of a function f that doesn't conform to the "intuition". If there's an "intuitive" line of reasoning and a formal one, and they disagree, shouldn't we just conclude that our intuition is flawed?
Has anyone compared Seafile with Syncthing? I'm quite happy with Syncthing but always interested in trying out new setups.
> Founders and company builders will continue to build in AI—and they will be more likely to succeed, because they will benefit both from lower costs and from learnings accrued during this period of experimentation

Highly debatable.

When we look back during the internet and mobile waves it is overwhelmingly the companies that came in after the hype cycle had died that have been enduring.
If you just want to buy something that'll "just work", The Lenovo P16[1], is ECC capable from the factory. Basically anything AMD "should" support ECC, it may need to be turned on in the bios. The problem with "should" is the trail-and-error you'll have to do to find a working combination, though, I personally I've never had many issues getting ECC working.

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/th...
Try giving Audacity a shot to cleanup the audio, it has a built-in noise reduction feature that's configurable. I've used it to varying degrees of success, but works especially well with the same sounds ANC headphones are good at blocking.
> How does one get into this field?

Network and meet someone who will give you, a web developer (a profession that is heavily stigmatized in the industry), a chance in a very competitive field.
Their pricing page is full of weird uses of "character" as a unit too. Things like "monthly character limit", "additional character pricing", and so on.

https://elevenlabs.io/pricing

Nowhere is this novel usage of "character" defined. I know about text characters, and story characters. But this seems to be different. It's hard to imagine why they didn't define what they mean by "character" or just make the pricing model more straight-forward.
The Scientist's 10 Commandments
They also just announced licensed celebrity voices in their Reader app this past week.

Judy Garland, Burt Reynolds, Laurence Olivier, and James Dean are the first ones.
Alas, the writer of this pop-sci article got it wrong---see my edited OP which contains a quote from the original nature article.
I like the dark beer from Athletic. The 'All Out'. It's pretty tasty. N/A Guinness on the other hand is disgusting.
Yep - I switched from C/C++ to Java around 99 and compared to the pain of C++ it was an easy decision. There is a ton of business logic and line of business apps that Java was the default choice for a lot of years. If Swing had a more pleasant devx/deployment then we would be using Swing apps instead of electron.
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Out of interest, why do you use Kodi as a frontend rather than a native Jellyfin client?
> I expect this will lead to a final surge in demand for NVDA chips

But other than FOMO why would someone buy better chips when they don't actually know what to do with their old ones?
Text-to-speech and speech-to-text, both involve text, which has characters. Notably, this does not.
This is pretty much my setup as well!

Syncthing for a small collection of files I want available from all my machines - commonly used documents, photos, stuff I want quickly backed up or synced automatically.

Samba for my long term mostly-read rarely-write storage with larger files, ISOs, etc.
> However, staying relevant to earn a decent living your entire life is difficult.

You either stay relevant (or close to relevant) or lose your job. Unfortunately, this is the field in the 2020s.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text
Running a multi-gig Home Network in 2024
Serious question, do you need help?
I'm pretty sure astronomers don't care about leap seconds, and use more precise/fit-for-purpose tools.
For 5, maybe they can "beta test" each song and not release ones that don't generate much interest?
Not necessarily. Maybe he wrote 5 useless apps instead of one, and still didnt spend time with the kid.
This makes him sound like a serial killer rather than a soldier or a writer. I don't think he gave a damn about killing any individual private or corporal on the fascist side except in pursuit of fighting their ideology, and so far as I know he never tried to assassinate Mosley. Opposing fascism itself was his goal.

The controversial second half of The Road to Wigan Pier contains a section where it seems Orwell regards individual fascists almost as mislead socialists and is strikingly sympathetic to them. See the paragraph that begins "In order to combat Fascism it is necessary to understand it, which involves admitting that it contains some good as well as much evil." It is obvious to me that he'd much rather stop them from becoming fascists before the declaration of war than kill them afterwards.
Fastmail has mail/calendar/contacts with caldav and carddav support.
I actually prefer to think in terms of the broader sense of symbiosis (including all the types of symbiosis you mentioned).

Sure we want the way we relate to technology to be mutualistic, but in reality we observe many instances of the other kinds of relationships.
I'm not that deep into racing, but I'll guess that teams still want to be way under that weight so they can strategically place weight where they want it.
Looks like the gentleman built their own immersive entertainment system out of nothing on a consumer device. The future has never been so adaptable or malleable before. This man's got craft much more than kludge.
This is great! no doubt I'll be reaching for it very soon.
This seems about as bearish as a VC is allowed to be. My takeaway is:

Sell! Sell! Sell now before it's too late!
I prefer https://product.supertone.ai/clear which is one time payment and not subscription based.
I know this is a common kneejerk reaction nowadays, but it's hard not to wonder if this is due to using AI to generate the text on these pages.
No, my point was that your cited data source shows that, as a % of GDP, income taxes are unchanged since the 1940s.

This is because when you look at the taxes actually paid, it evens out due to deductions, credits, changes to the brackets, etc.

It's only if you look at statutory progressive rates that it appears that federal income taxes appear to be a larger % of US GDP.
Complicated by definition means absolutely nothing. Most cases are not complex but were decided on political ideology. This is why they tend to flip decisions. Anyway the current crop are indeed clerics.

https://verdict.justia.com/2023/05/03/how-did-six-conservati...
The one thing I hate about this: There are so-called "first amendment auditors", who professionally annoy people on the street, trying to provoke a reaction. They monetize the resulting video on youtube.

You used to be able to pull out your phone and play Disney soundtracks or Taylor Swift music which would result in the video being non-monetizable. But improvements in audio isolation techniques have now defeated this countermeasure. Being a professional annoyance is once again a career choice.

Edit: this is one instance I've personally seen: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7IEFxQSJQw/?hl=en&img_index=1
If it increases performance by 5% then 5% of execution time was spent missing branches and instruction cache misses... Which sounds utterly implausible. Conventional wisdom has it that instruction caching is not a problem because whatever the size of the binary it is dwarfed by the size of the data. And hot loops are generally no more than a few KBs at most anyway. I'm skeptical.
This is a very profound point. We have to actually live with each other, and even for small groups, frictions arise. As the groups get larger and larger, friction intensifies. There has to be some way to blow off steam.

Kind of like how instead of cities fighting each other, we have their sports teams fight each other in a ritualized, ersatz combat.
Probably because they consume the nutrients before our bodies can, so our body says “more of that please!”
How do they pay for maintenance?
Let's see:
Microsoft Windows: wasn't close to the first OS

Microsoft Office: wasn't close to the first office editing suite

Google: Wasn't close to the first search engine

Facebook: Wasn't close to the first social media website

Apple: ~~First "smart phone"~~ but not the first personal computer. Comments reminded me that it wasn't the first smartphone

Netflix: Wasn't close to the first video rental service.

Amazon: Wasn't close to the first web store

None of the big five were first in their dominate categories. They were first to offer some gimmick (i.e., google was fast, netflix was by mail, no late fees), but not first categorically.

Though they certainly did benefit from learnings of those that came before them.
Subsidizing farmers to grow garbage that makes people unhealthy or provides a inefficient fuel that nobody wants is probably the clearest definition of cruft. That what the subsidies do. They enable production of unprofitable crops like corn and soybeans. Then the farmers turn around and vote against the interests of the majority of the country. Its is a clear motivator of eventual collapse.
I appreciate the simplicity of a system that allows you to provide your own API key. All the complexity of authentication, rate limiting, cost capping, scaling, is offloaded to someone else, and you can just focus on the essence of the thing that you're building.
No, some of the best albums ever were all written around a common theme. Having nothing but a collection of singles makes it hard for artists to commit to a subgenre for a while without making it their identity. I think Pink Floyd is the best example of this (the large difference between Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall) or perhaps any album written by David Bowie (where his albums experimented with characters or identities such as Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke, in conjunction with new sounds) but My Chemical Romance is a more contemporary example (for me, anyways), with Welcome to the Black Parade standing in contrast to Danger Days. I don't listen to Taylor Swift, but she's supposedly remade her identity around each new album release (or what her fans call Eras)
Discussion (315 points, 9 hours ago, 219 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40864914
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