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gangster_dave··on Show HN: SpeechOS – Wispr Flow-inspired voice input for any web app
I completely understand. This product is in beta testing with no paid customers. We'll definitely have that in there at launch.
gangster_dave··on Show HN: SpeechOS – Wispr Flow-inspired voice input for any web app
That's exactly right. The aim of this product is to enable businesses to offer that service to their users. Right now, you can only get intelligent dictation by having users already come to the table with some of these apps, like Wispr Flow.
gangster_dave··on Show HN: The first consumer AI that can make any type of phone call
I don't think you can do that quite yet, since the TTS APIs require a full phrase in order to output fluent sounding speech. If the input is short, then the delivery/emotion/pauses are random per word/token. I actually think that type of system will be possible once we have a multimodal model that understands and outputs speech, with the intelligence of GPT4.
gangster_dave··on Show HN: The first consumer AI that can make any type of phone call
The latency is dependent on those three APIs, but the biggest bottleneck is the GPT4 API. Its latency varies throughout the day, from <200ms to >1s. There are several application-level optimizations in Vibrato, like managing streaming audio and streaming text, but these aren't as impactful as the API latencies.
gangster_dave··on Show HN: UnionX – GPT4-powered Copilot for Work with Jupyter-style notebooks
Great feedback—will add tomorrow!
gangster_dave··on Show HN: UnionX – GPT4-powered Copilot for Work with Jupyter-style notebooks
Thanks for the feedback! The product is still very, very early, so we don't have a lot of marketing or documentation. We'd be pushing towards a Jupyter notebook interface for non-coding tasks, though. We've discussed adding a code interface (through blocks), so maybe that's something to target next. Again, thanks!
gangster_dave··on Pinecone raises $100M Series B
Could you do boosting with Typesense, like favoring more recent results?
gangster_dave··on Coinbase Is Exploring Cardano, BAT, Stellar Lumens, Zcash, and 0x
This was probably the right thing to prevent insider trading. There was evidence of insider trading when Coinbase added BCH, so they might be just completely avoiding the risk of information leaks.
gangster_dave··on Floppy Bird: A Flappy Bird clone in 16-bit x86 assembly
I like his girlfriend implementation better: https://github.com/icebreaker/girlfriend
gangster_dave··on Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find?
The influence of Emacs.
gangster_dave··on Libchan: Like Go channels over the network
And down goes erlang!
gangster_dave··on Scaling Static Sites to 2,000 Concurrent Connections
This is my first blog post. Feedback is welcome!
gangster_dave··on Functional C (1997)
really?
gangster_dave··on Python 3.4.0 released
If you're code is still locked to 2.7, what your OS ships with doesn't matter.
gangster_dave··on Fucking Shell Scripts
I agree. If someone claims Ansible is hard, they should go RTFM. Then if that doesn't work, they should go back to grade school. Ansible is easier than shell scripts by virtue of not having to write shell code. Then once Ansible Galaxy is out, config management will be trivial.
gangster_dave··on Steve Jobs Told Top Employees No To Television
A-players don't watch TV.
gangster_dave··on Python 3.4.0 released
Cool. I love Python, but it's really going to be a decade before this interpreter is used in production by anyone.
gangster_dave··on Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto's official denial of Bitcoin involvement
The reporter that originally accused this dude of inventing bitcoin should get fired. 90+% of Newsweek readers will never see this tweet, and the original article is pretty speculative, so I don't know if it'll warrant a retraction. People hungry for bitcoin are probably going to come for Satoshi, and it won't be pretty.
gangster_dave··on Working shorter hours may also be good for your health
If you work at a startup though, you'll die a glorious death.
gangster_dave··on Ask HN: What are some alternatives to HN?
Quora is great for finding interesting startup and tech tidbits.
gangster_dave··on By The Time You Give Them a Raise, They’re Already Out The Door
Does anyone have good resources that describe what new engineers should expect in terms of salary during the first few years of their career?