davidzweig

I notice ppl repeat the same set of "sanctioned" recommendations or advice, even when they really aren't that great, and sometimes unwelcoming towards other perspectives. That's the famous hivemind I guess.

But still as a catalogue of what ppl discuss, it's quite interesting to browse.

Well thank Claude mostly. :)

It's actually pretty hard to post links about it: AI project collects product opinions with AI, so, Reddit posts mostly got flagged.

Yeah. There are strategies in the code to catch obvious cases, but.. I don't think there's an easy solution. I felt a bit dirty making this project as it may further the degradation, but, well, I did anyway, it was fun watching the 3090s churn through, like watching a washing machine.

I indexed opinions on products, places and tool from a large chunk of Reddit and HN in my basement with gemma 4 on 3090s.

"47,699 products, places and tools ranked from 13,576,547 opinions on Reddit and HN"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50333280

47,699 products, places and tools ranked from 13,576,547 opinions on Reddit and HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50333280

The travel opinions on a map are pretty neat: https://www.trustmebro.reviews/c/travel?view=map

I made new submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50333280

well I made this for Reddit and HN:

https://www.trustmebro.reviews/

Well kinda this: https://www.trustmebro.reviews/r/hackernews

It seems like it didn't pick up media recommendations all that well, huh.

Made a version for Reddit:

https://www.trustmebro.reviews/c/books

Kind of related, I extracted opinions on products and other things for large part of Reddit and HN:

https://www.trustmebro.reviews/r/hackernews

"47,699 products, places and tools ranked from 13,576,547 opinions."

Opinions extracted using local models running on 3090s in my basement. If someone wants to take it over, you can mail me.

The travel opinions on a map are pretty neat: https://www.trustmebro.reviews/c/travel?view=map

Language REACTOR

REMOTE mostly, but I travel often (Europe, Asia) and it's good to work in person time to time.

We make software for learning languages. The focus is on making tools, rather than content. But actually, the line between code and content is blurring with LLMs.

I am the main coder on the project and I'm looking for a coding partner to help spread the load and allow more ambitious scope. Project is solid financially.

Most of the codebase is fairly decent Typescript. Backend knowledge a plus.

I need someone with sound judgement and taste that can plan and execute independently, but that also can communicate and coordinate complex changes well. Ingenuity and resourcefulness.

I use Claude/Cursor extensively.

I'm quite interested to hear from you if you have a project that overlaps in scope with Language Reactor.

[email protected]

I've got the first boards on my desk for a media player based around the Sifli 58 chip. 1.8" amoled display and 16 buttons.

https://imgur.com/a/45GuaEA

https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,55419.0.html

Anyone want to help with porting Rockbox?

MobX autoruns happily call jQuery functions.

And huge selection of frozen meals. These I actually found better than expected.

I've got some idle servers in my basement in Bulgaria with lots of GPUS. I'm actually in Cambodia at the moment. I've actually been playing with some similar ideas. Message me if you like. :)

I'd be surprised if more 'hackable' watches didn't pop up around the Sifli chips. Lilygo have an upcoming device with Sifli 52 chip. There's the SF32LB52-ULP smartwatch development board.

0.1" header holes slightly staggered to grip inserted headers can work great and you don't need to have a special expensive cable on hand to use it.

I bought a sit-on electric Chinese cargo scooter from an importer in Bulgaria because I liked how it looked, and it's handy for going around town. They are everywhere in China. They are assembled by hundreds (probably thousands) of small factories. A big center is Wuxi. I visited a few factories there last year. The scooters cost about $350 USD in China.

There seems to be a sort of loose standardization around components, that are also churned out by countless factories. Wheels/motors are generally 10" or 12" size. Brake disks have either a certain 3 or 4 bolt pattern. I'm sure the electrics likewise follow some patterns.

I had the thought that it would be fun to 3d scan parts, measure and document some of these scooters, and make a database of suppliers. Then, who knows, start to make the frames and assemble in Bulgaria.

But you really need to be spending time in China to do that, and it wasn't really the right time for me then.

Another thing to note: branded scooters (niu etc.) are becoming more popular, better quality, extensive plastics, and you can probably order parts from the manufacturer.

Any tips for models that can restore speech quality on aged cassette recordings (often the higher frequencies are partially lost)? There's different approaches to noise reduction, and also audio super-resolution, but I didn't find anything geared towards old tapes specifically.

I'll drop this here: If anyone wants to work on Language Reactor (well compensated), my email is in my profile. I'm planning to start open-sourcing much of it soon.

I use Firebase SDK with the FirebaseUI library on languagereactor.com. When users access the /login page, if the extension is detected, the signInSuccessWithAuthResult callback triggers getFirebaseSignInToken to obtain a custom token. This token is then passed to the Firebase SDK running in the extension’s background worker via messaging, where signInWithCustomToken() is called. The SDK in the background worker has an onAuthStateChanged() callback that notifies any listening tabs when the authentication state changes.

However, some users had been reporting issues related to third-party cookies and a few other minor problems. Recently, oeffectively running a 'DROP TABLE' on 400GB of Firestore data ended up costing $2,000.

I'm looking for an auth replacement. 2 million users, mostly free users. The system needs to support Google sign-in and email authentication, possible to integrate with React Native Expo, ability to issue API keys (thats probably separate). No vendor lock-in, under $500/month, happy to self-host. Any recommendations appreciated.

I have Nreal Air glasses (they changed name?), they aren't useable for programming really, image is too soft, but neat for watching Netflix on the train etc.

Also many Iranians speak 'Turk' and understand Turkish from watching Turkish telenovelas on satellite TV.

Tried the demo, looks similar to the Rosetta Stone method. Very nice execution. We also make a language app.

I haven't been following closely the last few weeks, but you can check the issues in this repo, for example: https://github.com/distubejs/ytdl-core

The security against downloading audio from YouTube has been upped recently with 'PO tokens'.

Whisper is only a few tenths of a cent per hour transcribed if transcribing on your gpu though, at about 30x real-time on a 3080 etc. with batching.

I was trying this with the original llama model. I guess the model didn't really know it's meant to be a 'knowledgeable ai assistant', but rather simulated chats it had seen. If you asked it, 'how to make brownies', it might reply, 'idk, can't you google it?'.

Did anyone try to check how are it's multilingual skills vs. Gemma 2? On the page, it's compared with LLama 3 only.