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by smock 2y ago
This is an interesting thought!
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by smock 2y ago
There isn't a strong pattern when narrowing to a single voice, but the ElevenLabs voices in general are much more easily mistaken for a human compared to any other provider we're currently using.
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by smock 2y ago
This is largely correct! When we launch a new game we're planning on distorting the AI voices, and adding background noise.
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Show HN: Bot or Not? AI voices vs. humans(bot.unison.fm)
13 points by smock 2y ago|6 comments
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by smock 2y ago
How do you manage the TTS on the books?
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by smock 3y ago
How is privacy enforced? Are you planning on maintaining this: https://github.com/kubetail-org/kubetail as an open source repo?
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by smock 8y ago
Apple doesn't publicly comment on how the chart rankings are calculated, which is why we can't draw strong conclusions, but our understanding is that this would do the job. Since the somewhat catastrophic failure of the charts a
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by smock 8y ago
We can't say for sure how the charts are being gamed, but there is strong evidence that its related to a pay per play scheme to pump subscription numbers in a small time window. The implication of the graph visualization is that the s
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by smock 8y ago
While Apple doesn't comment on how the rankings are calculated, the common knowledge is indeed that its heavily biased towards recent subscriptions.
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From zero to 30k downloads in 2 weeks: How we started the Hacker Daily podcast(blog.outrank.nyc)
7 points by smock 8y ago|0 comments
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by smock 8y ago
sorry! we're still working out the logistics of running the podcast but we'll switch the site over to https as soon as possible
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Working at LDB [Antarctica](zkermish.github.io)
2 points by smock 12y ago|0 comments
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The Far Limits of Datacenter Compute Efficiency and RSFQ(octopart.com)
5 points by smock 15y ago|0 comments
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Octopart (YC W07) is hiring(octopart.com)
1 points by smock 15y ago
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Octopart is Hiring(octopart.com)
7 points by smock 15y ago|0 comments
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Open Hardware Licensing(octopart.com)
10 points by smock 15y ago|0 comments
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Open Hardware, Physics and CERN(octopart.com)
14 points by smock 15y ago|0 comments
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by smock 15y ago
What is the search you are conducting?
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by smock 15y ago
That is a great question - we actually didn't consider using elastic search, we went with Solr because we use it for Octopart and are experienced with it so it made developing ThriftDB easier. We're evaluating other options now and will ha
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by smock 15y ago
We actually use Solr on our backend - we love it's open source community and rich feature set.
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Octopart (YC W07) helps nearly a half a million people find parts every month(eetimes.com)
72 points by smock 16y ago|27 comments
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by smock 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback - you're right, the TOS prohibition was overly restrictive, we've removed the deep-linking clause. As far as attribute comparison, we are constantly trying to add more attribute data into our system, but we're stil
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Octopart Part Browser, built with JavascriptMVC(octopart.com)
30 points by smock 16y ago|16 comments
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by smock 17y ago
I think this is more because of the community in the Bay Area rather than how far Chicago is. Most of my non-techie friends from U of I did move to Chicago. Chicago seems to be a hub for all big ten grads to move to. My techie friends wh
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by smock 17y ago
This is particularly embarrassing as the state has a very good flagship tech school at the U of I (the most visible internet product coming from there being paypal, which ended up being based in California).
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by smock 18y ago
I know the Dawdle team really well, they are very hardworking guys (who love video games) and have put a lot on the line for Dawdle to succeed - I really hope it does. I've also used Dawdle before - it was quick and painless to buy a video
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by smock 18y ago
I went to U of I and am pretty happy with the education there. It is generally very good in engineering so you'll be able to explore a lot within that discipline (I started in computer engineering, and finished in physics), and engage in s
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by smock 18y ago
I'm a little wary of doing that - presumably they'll start pushing back and getting on credit card shit lists is something that makes me feel even more helpless than not being able to cancel something.
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by smock 18y ago
Me too.
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by smock 18y ago
That is a really good idea - I had the same issue with a wireless provider I signed up for (Deep Blue Wireless, if anyone has ever used them) previously. Regardless, I think it is a pretty shady business practice to obfuscate the process of

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