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by lukifer 7y ago
Haha, it's a completely garbage hodge-podge of Node and Bash right now, but I'm cleaning it up and will be sharing soon!
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by lukifer 7y ago
One interesting datapoint that I think distinguishes HN from even well-curated subreddits: the culture actively discourages humor-only comments. Making a thoughtful post that happens to contain a pun or a comic exaggeration is fine; but clu
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by lukifer 7y ago
Seconding both ReSpeaker and Rhasspy/voice2json, I've been having great luck with that combo. The docs and example code for ReSpeaker are great, very easy to work with.
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by lukifer 7y ago
One theory of security is that you can't ever be truly secure; but you can make it difficult/expensive for your security to be violated. If you lock the door, someone can always break a window, but that creates more noise and th
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by lukifer 7y ago
For n=1, I got DeepSpeech 0.6 working on a Raspberry Pi, and the recognition accuracy was atrocious. Haven't tried the new 0.7 branch, though.
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by lukifer 7y ago
I've been having great success building homebrew voice assistants with Rhasspy [0] and voice2json [1] (they're sister projects from the same maintainer). The code's not ready to share yet, but I have a voice-controlled Raspbe
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by lukifer 7y ago
I'm pro-crypto; but Proof-of-Work mining is an ecological atrocity. If it's infeasible to outright ban mining at scale, a sufficiently onerous carbon tax to disincentivize might be enough. In either case, miners would recoup their
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by lukifer 7y ago
> The other is highly educated people feeling economically unprivileged and concluding that this now means they are the working class Well said. I cringe a little whenever I hear a complaint like "we're the first generation who
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by lukifer 7y ago
Yeah, I was always impressed at how resilient those cheap MP3 CD-Rs were in practice. And compared to old-school DiscMans with "20 second skip protection", it was very cool that it could just buffer the entire track in memory, mak
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by lukifer 7y ago
Ah, I pay for YouTube Red, I didn't realize this "feature" wasn't the default. Thanks for clarifying.
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by lukifer 7y ago
I think the iOS player will stream only audio if the app is backgrounded; it seems to restart the stream to get video back if the app is brought to front again. As others have said, if the "video" is a static image, the bandwidth
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by lukifer 7y ago
As a counterpoint, I had an MP3 discman from Rio [0], and the thing was magic. Each disc could hold 10-15 full albums, and I also made shuffle playlist CDs of 180ish tracks each. While it's obviously not pocketable, it was great for ca
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by lukifer 7y ago
> famous article edited by CmdrTaco "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." (Nomads were pretty technically impressive at the time, but good luck fitting one in your pocket, or finding the track you want in a collection o
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by lukifer 7y ago
Honestly, I'd be tempted to use this as my daily driver web browser, for the throttling capabilities alone.
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by lukifer 7y ago
A significant portion of the computing for iOS/Android is also powered by offloaded cloud computing, which run a vastly more diverse array of OS environments (though to what extent the myriad varieties of Linux distros are diverse from
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by lukifer 7y ago
I don't disagree (although I'd be curious to hear your rationale on Mozilla; their incentives are... curious). I suppose what's hard to not view as a lost cause is the idea that accessibility to non-JS/Lynx/etc is b
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by lukifer 7y ago
Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to Barack Obama: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel
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by lukifer 7y ago
Reminds me of the invocations of old to ensure that websites support disabling Javascript, and/or text-only browsers like Lynx. While there are those who still (understandably) want these things, I think we all realize it's largel
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by lukifer 7y ago
Assuming a game is played more than once (a safe assumption for human social behavior), I think an occasional Defect / Nobody Gets Anything is quite rational: it's a credible deterrent to disincentivize a grossly unfair distributi
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by lukifer 7y ago
I'm always surprised that e-ink readers have such good readability at low resolutions. I think an accidental by-product of how they work is a little "fuzziness" when translating from digital data to analog atoms, so the text
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by lukifer 7y ago
Valid concerns. > whether this could ever practically roll out while simultaneously shutting down the existing welfare/disability/etc systems Yang's plan was for UBI to be opt-in, in exchange for waiving access to many exi
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by lukifer 7y ago
We exchange value based on price discovery; but prices are determined by leverage, which is heavily tilted by pre-existing capital. One doesn't notice this at a micro-transaction level (how many shoes for how many chickens), but once o
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by lukifer 7y ago
Bear in mind, we already engage in significant wealth redistribution. There's an argument that it's more efficient to do by writing checks, rather than through complex federal bureaucracies. It's the reason that Milton Friedm
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by lukifer 7y ago
Always a concern, but under the present circumstances, a false positive (someone quarantines for two weeks who doesn't need it) is far better than a false negative (someone has false confidence in attending public places). Unlike other
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by lukifer 7y ago
All good projects (I’m using Snowboy), but these are all just wake words, which are very different beasts from full text recognition.
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by lukifer 7y ago
I’m currently assembling an offline home assistant setup using Node-RED and voice2json, all running on Raspberry Pi’s: http://voice2json.org/ https://nodered.org/ Requires a little customization and/or
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by lukifer 7y ago
Instantaneous worldwide communication is arguably a game-changer. And while it's easy to be pessimistic about the state of science education, the ability and motivation to self-educate may have some impact on national and global consci
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by lukifer 7y ago
We have incredible status quo bias on the subject of public resources and economic infrastructure; if we already have it (schools, libraries, Medicare), it's sacrosanct; but if it's any new idea or initiative, it's scary soci
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by lukifer 7y ago
Though it's obviously a long-shot, Tulsi Gabbard just introduced a UBI COVID-19 relief bill: https://gabbard.house.gov/sites/gabbard.house.gov/files/docu...
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by lukifer 7y ago
I think free will is fundamentally a bad term/model, independent of the truth value of what everyone means by that label. That said, I think you might be somewhat conflating free will and consciousness; it's perfectly cogent, for

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