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Wait until you want to convert the UG to a GmbH and realize that it's not simple or cheap at all.

It's not enough to have had properly filed tax returns every year, have a large enough profit-collection-line item in your books (25k EUR+) and then fill out a form.

No, if you want to use the profit your UG was required to accrue to raise your capital stock to 25k and rename it to a GmbH you need to get your annual accounts audited.

Or alternatively, you can pay in the difference between your current capital stock (e.g. 2k) and the 25k minimum for the UG and then rename the company and "just" have to pay for the notary, publishing to public records, court, ...

I'm enjoying tracking the local wildlife with my bird listening station.

There's also an excellent alternative to BirdNet-Pi that runs well on non-Raspberry-Pi machines: https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go

I've not tested their speech-to-text yet, but based on the docs it looks promising. Thanks for the suggestion!

Even in the commercial space, there’s a lack of production grade ASR APIs that support diarization and word level timestamps.

My experiences with Google’s Chirp have been horrendous, with it sometimes skipping sections of speech entirely, hallucinating speech where the audio contains noise, and unreliable word level timestamps. And this all is even with using their new audio prefiltering feature.

AWS works slightly better, but also has trouble with keeping word level timestamps in sync.

Whisper is nice but hallucinates regularly.

OpenAI’s new transcription models are delivering accurate output but do not support word level timestamps…

A lot of this could be worked around by sending the resulting transcripts through a few layers of post processing, but… I just want to pay for an API that is reliable and saves me from doing all that work.

I’ve found CIS Controls v8.1 to be good and sane, with actual benefits to security. Level 1 is a solid base, and Level 2 is good for picking from depending on where risks exist in your business.

CIS Benchmarks are worth a look too: They’re best practices for securing typical cloud platforms, SaaS and OS.

Can you write a bit more about your workflow? I've been thinking about doing the same, but since I'm very non-interior-design minded have struggled to ask the right things.

Like... What are your inputs to the model? Empty renders of the space, or more fully decorated views/ photos? Do you have a light harness around this to help you discover the style you like and then stay consistent with it?

Do you find that giving a lot of context around the space you're designing helps (it hasn't in my attempts)?

Have you by any chance tried this with GPT 4.1 too (also 1M context)?

Friends who live in Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain could see it pretty well. I'm a bit further south within Berlin where skies are minimally darker, but between 10pm and 11pm it was so bright that light pollution didn't matter.

Funnily enough, despite having lots of alerts set up it was my mom who texted me from northern Brandenburg as she spotted it after getting an alert from RegenRadar, of all apps...

We had intense aurora in Berlin, Germany. Green clouds dancing in the sky levels. Started around 22:10 local time or a bit earlier, and at this point there's only a faint red/green glow remaining.

Anecdotally, my APP3 have worked much better then expected when I worked with a drill and jigsaw this weekend. No weird noises and much more NC than the 2 had.

Might be worth trying different ear tips or asking for a replacement if software updates don’t improve it.

In Germany, regulations around asbestos are quite strict: You're not allowed to "seal it in" by e.g. putting floor leveling compounds on top of old asbestos-containing flooring. If there's asbestos found during renovations, it needs to be removed professionally.

When we re-did our kitchen we found asbestos-containing glue under a new-ish layer of tiles one of the previous owners of the apartment just laid on top. I wish regulations would already have been stricter back then (and that they would have been followed - another story...) as this surprise find caused massive delays to the construction and forced us to temporarily move out during the removal and decontamination.

One of the best ways to make DIY-ing in buildings built before 1994 (when asbestos was banned for construction in Germany) safe has been to buy a H-filtration class shop vac. It can filter out asbestos fibers and many other fine dust particles that aren't healthy to inhale and was barely more expensive than a comparably good vac.

Generally yes. I asked my primary care physician and would have been able to get the vaccine dose from the pharmacy (paying for it myself) and she would have administered it.

Thank you!

Love that you included the judge prompts in your article.

I am not (usually) photosensitive, but the animated static noise on your websites causes noticable flickering on various screens I use and made it impossible for me to read your article.

For better accessibility and a safer experience[1] I would recommend not animating the background, or at least making it easily togglable.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/G...

These cuts have been in progress for months, and it’s a sad state of the world when scientific research and its products are called unscientific and not evidence based without any substantiation.

I’m reminded of this quote from Carl Sagan’s Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, as we creep closer and closer to future he describes.

We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Check out ccusage, it sounds like the tool you’re describing: https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage

Is there any publicly available information on the usage based pricing for the server & client-side SDK?

I've dropped Krisp after they transitioned from their 'old' app to the 'new' app in the most confusing way that I've ever seen. We were paying for a business subscription and suddenly the 'new' app only seemed to worked with a new type of subscription, the 'old' app did not get updates to support the newest macOS versions for months, ...

Since then we've been relying solely on Zoom's noise cancelling features and haven't been missing anything. They really improved massively over the years.

While it's not a drop in solution if you routinely need to join calls with other conferencing software, I haven't missed Krisp's after 'switching' 2 years ago.

If you're on Windows, NVIDIA Broadcast's AI Noise Removal has performed similarily well for me while gaming.

Zeiss i.Scription, linked in a sibling thread, solves the coarse diopter scale as well.

You can get specific insets for the headsets from places like VR Optician. I’ve had some made with my normal prescription and they work perfectly. The people running VR Optician are actual opticians so you can also ask them if any correction factor would be needed for your particular situation.

This model is fun. Uploading images and asking it a user research style question like "Please think aloud while viewing this image" creates gems like this:

"Let me take another close look at the sandwich. The way the light reflects off the melted cheese highlights its creamy texture. The pasta pieces are well-integrated into the cheese, and the herbs are evenly distributed, adding color and likely flavor.

I can almost taste it now. The combination of textures and flavors must be divine. The crispy bread, the melty cheese, the soft pasta, the crunch from the fried bits, and the freshness from the herbs—all working together in harmony.

I think I might have to go out and find this sandwich place soon. Or perhaps I'll try recreating it at home this weekend. Either way, this image has certainly whetted my appetite for a delicious grilled cheese sandwich."

[0] https://imgur.com/a/0OtGxeB

QwQ can solve a reverse engineering problem [0] in one go that only o1-preview and o1-mini have been able to solve in my tests so far. Impressive, especially since the reasoning isn't hidden as it is with o1-preview.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41524263

Unfortunately no luck for anyone in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein yet. [0]

[0] https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1838642453391511892

That is an interesting thought. This was all done in an account that is opted out of training though.

I have tested the Python code o1 created to decode the timestamps and it works as expected.

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You need to click on the image for the high res version to load. Sorry, it’s awkward.

Neither Sonnet nor Opus could solve it or get close in a minimal test I did just now, using the same prompt as above.

Sonnet: https://pastebin.com/24QG3JkN

Opus: https://pastebin.com/PJM99pdy

In ChatGPT for Business it limits sharing among users in my org, without an option for public sharing.

When you click on the image it loads a higher res version.

Like others here, it was just available on the website and app when I checked. FWIW I still don’t have advanced voice mode.