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I was instantly a big believer in Phind.

It has replaced 95% of my previous DuckDuckGo searches for development info.

I even used it with another developer to solve a mission critical bug based on some very vague symptoms. It's saved so much time, I'll never go back.


What an unbelievably biased article.

Knowing it's from Forbes, it's propaganda for the C-class...

Quoting James Clarke, CEO of digital marketing firm Clearlink, without disclosing that he has recently come under fire for praising an employee for selling their family dog to return to the office on his orders is outright negligent of the author Steve Mollman.

Doubly bad that the quote is about how remote might be working multiple jobs, while James Clarke himself sits on multiple boards and charities. Disgusting propaganda all around and pretty gross to see it here on HN.


Easy fix is to bracket by age. 18-25, 25-35, 35-45, etc. Self select into an older or younger bracket based on your interests.

If WeWork wasn't so bonkers, I'd consider giving it a try.


As weird as it sounds I had this exact thought.

I signed my parents up for Storyworth, which emails them once a week writing prompts about their life.

I'm still weighing the ethical implications of using the entire dataset 20 years from now to generate a facsimile.

Partly I just feel sad about the future, forever chasing digital ghosts of our past loved ones...


Sorry to say this, but everyone in this thread should be aware of ghost job openings.

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/fake-jobs-hide-cooler-...

It's sometimes incompetent HR process and sometimes intentional market signalling, but these companies may just be stockpiling resumes for future use without any intention of hiring right now.


Walmart is serious, or at least I think they are. They had around 1700 job openings at the end of last year, culled that significantly in Jan/Feb. At that point there were about 1000 remaining, and it’s been creeping up again. So I think these are real.


His name is third on the signatories...


OPs point being Musk is trying to stall AI because it's taking 'his' headlines.


Somebody else has a shiny new toy and he's jealous


Or he genuinely thinks it could be a bad thing for humanity. Could you put your hatred of him aside for a sec and acknowledge that possibility?


More likely, he is trying to delay others from building a better self driving car


He can be the god king of mars forever if the heroic AI frees the slaves from his tyrrany.


This is pretty narrow minded.

I like playing basketball. I will never be as good as Lebron James. It's fun to watch someone else play at the edge of what is possible. I might even learn something I can use myself.

I like software development. I'll never be as good as John Carmack. It's fun to watch someone else talk and think about what I like. I might even learn something.

Don't steal other people's joy just because you don't understand it.


> This is pretty narrow minded

As narrow minded as claiming people who watch a certain type of YouTube video must necessarily have a "bland life"


The quality of the voices here is striking.

If I wasn't clued in, I probably wouldn't know these weren't human. At least the male voice sounds slightly more natural to me.


Realistic but very lacking in expression and no humor at all. And very slow paced. I'd want significantly more personality to be happy with it - I wonder if the reason its like this is because when they try to spice it up we are back to inappropriate things popping out.


Comedians are not born, they are trained.


I believe that may get fixed eventually, not 100% may be at least 80%.


That's interesting personally I found the male voice to sound more robotic and the female voice to sound much more natural.


Same. The female voice, especially on the first sentence in the cast, is very well inflected to separate phrases and add interest. After that, it's downhill.

ps, I feel like inflection is going to be one of the harder things for an LM to pick up, given all the subtext humans can convey with it.


Laura sounds very realistic... Zod is a bit less so . Both still very impressive. This was really cool. I'm excited to see all the new ideas with this api access.


> Laura sounds very realistic... Zod is a bit less so

I thought so too. What do they use for text to voice?


curious about that too. the female sounds a little bit like the tortoise-tts train_grace voice model?


Would also like to know this


It sounds very realistic. Most realistic I know is Eleven Labs.


Possibly prime voice ai


Always remember, this is as bad as it will ever be


I had that thought too. What will these robo-voices sound like 2 iterations from now? We've entered new territory.


She is lora. Not laura


No she's Laura.

> The hosts are Laura and Zod

https://hackerfm.com/about


I'm getting a bit of John Malkovich vibe from the host, probably from the emphatic pronunciation.


Yes! I very much was thinking Malkovich too!


In my opinion, there's too much real estate value locked up in Florida's coastline to allow rising sea levels. Flood control in the Netherlands goes back to at least 325 BCE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control_in_the_Netherlan...

I'm not saying that Miami will last for thousands of years from now, but I would bet money that they have a few generations at least.


If it's that horrible a place, why do you think the name has cachet?

Honest question.


Not that commenter but to draw an analogy-when I worked at Amazon, the name Tesla had cachet because people coming from there had data that they could survive (or thrive) in an even less structured, higher pressure environment, so they would probably do fine at Amazon.


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