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It seems like it would be great for any kind of voiceover work or any recorded training or presentation. If you want to correct a mis-speak or add some information, instead of re-r…

Model weights were just released and people on Reddit have successfully run locally. The results are impressive! You should let your family members know that the scammers are going…

In related news, Voicecraft published their model weights today. https://github.com/jasonppy/VoiceCraft

Your job is now to find a new job. Push as hard as you can on job searching. Dial down the effort you are putting into your current job. You absolutely should not stay where you ar…

I did eventually show a teacher and they were shocked. Their older eyes had no way of focusing on the text and they could barely tell it was anything but a sheet with grey lines.

Whe I was in high school I had plenty of dull classes to sit through. I’m old enough that there were no phones and laptops to keep entertained. My parents had a laser printer for t…

These apps have sounded like an incredible cesspool for a long time, though I have been recently hearing they are even worse. Honestly, I think the very concept is broken from the …

I had the same thought from Thinking, Fast and Slow. Another variation of this seems to be the “thought loop” that agents such as Devin and AutoGPT use.

Starship has reached orbit!

I want this woman running my postAI-apocalypse hardware research lab.

I don’t think you’ll find many people on HN that are too concerned. On the other hand, I truly pity aspiring devs in school now. The drawbridges on the profession seem like they ar…

Discord mostly.

I’m not sure what the use case is outside of having real time information about the world as a search replacement. For example, if a major event or discovery happened, the model wo…

Reddit seems to have well and truly jumped the shark. Most of their communities are barely moderated wastelands. Bot activity is absolutely rampant. It had a golden age, but I have…

It’s funny, because while technically correct, you may end up fundamentally wrong that there was a limit to the value we might find in parallel compute. After all, we may have lie …

Certainly not. UBI is basic. It’s subsistence living. Anyone with a job would enjoy the benefits of their labor.

No, of subjective cognitive decline. Not decline as measured through testing, decline as self-reported. Basically pot makes you less self-aware.

Because it’s not a helicopter! It’s a fixed wing aircraft, making it very much not a helicopter. It would also be reasonable to rename an aircraft class if it was significantly dif…

One of the best sites remaining from the old internet. I am always happy to learn it’s still going.

I don’t think we are at a plateau. We may have fed a large amount of text into these models, but when you add up all other kinds of media, images, videos, sound, 3D models, there’s…

This feeling has been accelerating for me. I get the sense that state actors are ramping up their use of LLM powered bots. Hacker news is a great place still, but Reddit has become…

What life is that exactly? What is it that you suppose I am escaping from?

Sorry to hear that. My mom and two of my sisters and my brother in law all work in childhood disability social work. When I was young I went on a lot of home visits or visited my m…

I guess I have a different perspective since having children naturally is not in my cards. Needing the child to be genetically related to me through IVF vs. adopting always seemed …

I don’t think there’s any one size fits all way to digital nomad. I go back to the same places year after year. My friends and family are in those places. They are not in New York …