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by flatline 3mo ago
Thanks for checking it out! The Alice link is a generated m4b, so it’s sample output that you could likely play back directly in your browser, although that may not have the cover display or chapter listing. I recommend Apple Books or Plapp
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by flatline 3mo ago
I checked out your product - nice! I think we have a similar approach for a different audience. EbookAloud is basically just a two-click conversion system more geared towards consumers than content creators. Upload an epub, get an audiobook
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by flatline 3mo ago
That "I'm not a robot" check lol
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Show HN: eBook to audiobook narration with realistic AI voices(ebookaloud.com)
8 points by flatline 3mo ago|7 comments
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by flatline 3mo ago
A nit: did you go from Opus 4.5 to Fable? One of the big questions in my mind is how much of a real change Fable is over the existing models. Opus 4.5 -> 4.8 was also a major capability increase.
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by flatline 3mo ago
In my view, they are already chipping away at it, and have been since R1 was announced. This is the first commercial non-US tech product I've used heavily. The quality is incredible, I don't need Opus for most of my work on person
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by flatline 4mo ago
When I was 7 or 8 a friend and I crimped the heads off strike-anywhere match sticks, wrapped them in foil, and struck them with hammers and rocks. They were quite loud, one even set off a sound-activated toy inside the house. I make no clai
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by flatline 4mo ago
I don't think anyone has a firm grasp on actual inference costs -- including the research and training that has gone into those models. We've got near-frontier capabilities from open source models from China at pennies on the doll
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by flatline 4mo ago
The HN crowd is, by and large, not the target audience for his self promotion. I guarantee there is one and this is more or less effective.
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by flatline 4mo ago
Nothing new. I used to work with .NET and went to some meetups and conferences. There are some hardcore Microsoft fanboys out there. Didn’t even mix the kool-aid, ate it right from the packet. They only know MS products and seem scared of
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by flatline 4mo ago
I don't disagree about the probability, but the current frontier models are not completely useless for writing even in areas where I have significant knowledge. I would not have said that a year ago. You have to watch them like a hawk
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by flatline 4mo ago
I also think this is an interesting topic of research. I have had lifelong issues with chronic pain and always felt like diet influenced it, but I’ve never been able to isolate a single factor. I’be stopped cooking with low smoke point oils
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by flatline 4mo ago
That could be a valid observation for n=1. There could be any number of reasons seed oils cause inflammation for you but do not the general populace, or not at numbers large enough to offset recommending them as a general rule. The politici
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by flatline 5mo ago
It really doesn't have to come for everything to feel like it's taking everything. If it eliminates 10% of white collar jobs over the next decade, the impact will be felt everywhere.
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by flatline 5mo ago
AFAIK all these companies have SOTA or near-SOTA models available under enterprise licenses. AI companies are not interested in your secret sauce, they are trying to capture the SDLC wholesale.
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by flatline 6mo ago
It certainly thought it did all that -- this was (presumably) not written by a human.
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by flatline 6mo ago
I'm skeptical that B is fully possible. You can create a PQ fork of bitcoin but you cannot automatically bring vulnerable wallets along - and there are a lot of vulnerable wallets, especially from the early days. There's a catas
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by flatline 6mo ago
The bitcoin white paper was released in 2008.
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by flatline 6mo ago
There was an EO, but that is not law. Cannabis is still schedule I last I checked. The order is to make it schedule III.
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by flatline 6mo ago
People often cloak their power grabs behind a move to control some vice. It was just a bunch of us nerds on BBSs back in the day. Now everyone is online. The stakes are completely different.
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by flatline 7mo ago
I think it's more the consistency of product design than the manufacturing process. Everything around me, especially in the software world, seems to change for no good reason on a frequent basis. Companies change products all the time
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by flatline 7mo ago
I, too, am able to get interviews. The last time I made a serious search was in 2022-23, and companies were clearly eager to hire at competitive rates. This past fall, they were not. My salary requirements stopped at least two interview pro
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by flatline 7mo ago
There's a lot that's not being said in (2). That warrants more extensive justification, especially with the issues presented in the parent post.
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by flatline 7mo ago
One person's waste is another's value. Do you have any idea how "wasteful" tik tok or any other streaming platform is? I'll grant that AI is driving unprecedented data center development but it's far from the r
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by flatline 7mo ago
I think speaks more to a certain personality type than a set of general social protocols. This person feels like their personality was worn down to something boring by trying to fit into social systems that arguably were not designed for th
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by flatline 7mo ago
I can kill someone with a rock, a knife, a pistol, and a fully automatic rifle. There is a real difference in the other uses, efficacy, and scope of each.
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by flatline 8mo ago
I think it represents a bigger threat than you realize. I can't use an AI for my day job to implement these multi-agent workflows I see. They are all controlled by another company with little or no privacy guarantees. I can run quantiz
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by flatline 8mo ago
You and me both. No dating sites either, if I'm not crossing paths with someone in the wild through the course of my everyday activity, we are probably not a fit. I have found social media tremendously helpful at connecting people to r
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by flatline 9mo ago
I find stoicism to be Taoism's spiritual sibling in the West. From the Dao De Jing, passage 5, Red Pine's translation: "Heaven and Earth are heartless / treating creatures like straw dogs / heartless is the sage &#x
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by flatline 9mo ago
According to the chatbot, the first word of `fin` is the file descriptor, the second its state. "Reset stdin’s flags to a clean state".

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