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The Pebbble transcription is part of their SDK and very easy to use programmatically, also it's quite accurate (not perfect but good enough that I turned confirmation off). The TTS…

I have a Pebble Time 2, which is an open source watch. I built a voice operated AI assistant for it. It's hosted on a VPS, connected over Tailscale, and has a realtime TTS server (…

I just built my own voice assistant with my Pebble Time 2 watch and it uses a VPS hosted TTS (Piper) and Hermes agent. I learned about all of these projects on HN at one point or a…

In a sense I agree, since GDP is a bit of a silly metric. But it's a decent enough proxy for the parts of human progress that I think are meaningful that it illustrates the point w…

>There was no default "state", at least by the time you're talking about humans, we probably already learned from each other by observation. Sure, politics and wars and religion an…

>A wealthy person is not someone with a lot of things. No one made that claim. By nearly any sane metric the world is wealthier. You can verify this on sites like Our World in Data…

>You are talking about access to resources and technologies, which is basically constantly rising, we couldn't stop that if we wanted to We could very obviously stop our progress i…

No. The world has absolutely gotten wealthier over the last few centuries. Wealth is obviously not zero sum. Humanity is far wealthier today than before the industrial revolution, …

Yes but what would they learn from their mistake? "I should run my purchase decisions past an AI in the future."

The entire point is to stop it from needing to be a cause in the first place. Trying to establish the right to run models locally while we still can makes more sense than waiting t…

As the earth has warmed over the last century, has food production increased or decreased? If production increased (dramatically) while temperatures increased in the past, could th…

Deaths from all natural disasters have dramatically decreased over the last century. I won't bother sharing the source because you'll find some reason to dismiss it I'm sure. It's …

>the way we heat up the earth right now, i don't think you have to worry about heating Nearly 10x more people die from the cold than from the heat. "...9.43% of global deaths were …

LLMs don't think for you. Just like any other text you read, you can accept or reject it. Discernment still exists.

>I can't in good conscious bring a child into a world that so many are focused on absolutely destroying. Who is focused on destroying the world? I don't think hardly any super vill…

Emotions do seem to act as signaling, but is that the same as an attempt at manipulation for the benefit of the individual? It seems conceivable in social groups that having an hon…

Many comments are mocking the "Non-technical teams are now shipping production code" line as an obvious disaster waiting to happen. I think this will be commonplace in the not too …

I can second the sentiment, I have had kdenlive crash on me several times without saving. I still use it because it's great for quick and simple things, and I save frequently, but …

Yes. This is why copy-trading often fails.

You can see when they buy or sell a position. It's on the blockchain so it's all public. And yes, copying positions is called copy-trading and it's extremely popular. Orders aren't…

Ah I understand you now. Yes I could have had a service do the digitizing then only done delivery myself. And given the time investment that probably would have been more sound. I …

I'll have to try that next time

Yup, you nailed it. This was my exact concern.

It wasn't about having the videos held hostage, but about the ease of accessing and viewing them. I didn't want to do DVDs at all - frankly, that's just a bad experience to go thro…

Hi gwern! My siblings are very much not developers. That's a lot of data for them to download, store, and figure out a way to view. I was worried they'd just see a list of filename…