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I've seen some people attempt to make a voice gender recognizer through machine learning, but nothing that has actually worked well. I'm not an ML expert, but I expect they're overfitting on just a small subset of accents and specific formants. The one I played with (can't find the link) was just trying to show weight vs resonance, and it got very confused by my voice. I am never misgendered from my voice but I (intentionally) have a slightly deeper femme voice than what it had been trained on.

IMO, the best way to learn to control your voice is to learn to hear variations in size, weight, pitch, open quotient, prosody, etc. From there you can become your own coach so you're not focused on an app while having a real world conversation with someone. Would a gamified version help? Possibly.

(sorry for the delay, I have no idea if you'll see this. I wrote it last week but apparently never pressed the submit button??)

More or less everything changes. For trans men who are on HRT the voice's lowest pitch will get lower, as it would for someone AMAB going through puberty (since a second puberty is literally what's happening on HRT). Trans women do not get any voice changes from HRT though, so they train to raise their larynx when speaking to get up into the "perceived female range."

But pitch is far from the only thing that someone gendered one way or another in western culture (and presumably elsewhere). Resonance, weight, breathing patterns, word choice, and prosody all matter too. That's way too much to go into in a post here on HN, but the easiest one to understand is resonance or "size." Female-perceived speakers have higher resonance / smaller size. This means that some of the higher harmonics are amplified more than the lower harmonics, an it's called a "small size" because the actual resonating area from the larynx to the tongue is made smaller (mostly through tongue placement). Male-perceived speakers do the opposite, creating a larger space for resonance and resulting in a lowered resonance.

I know quite a few cis people who are also going through some of this training to help with their voice acting, or even just for fun.

There are a lot of good (and unfortunately some bad) resources online for trans voice training in both directions. My personal favorite (and where I started my lessons) is Seattle Voice Labs, but Online Vocal Coach / Vox Nova is also a great resource.

I'm trans.

The ability to switch mid-sentence is mostly just something I discovered I can do and is fun. But the ability to pass as my real gender is something that helps me feel safe. And when needed, being able to occasionally pass as my prior gender (e.g., when calling my bank until I can change my name/gender legally), it also quite useful.

I'm referring to speaking, not singing. After a _lot_ of work, I can speak passably as a woman or man and switch freely between the two. Depending on context I generally choose just one for the entire conversation, as switching tends to cause whiplash in the listener (^_^).

Vocal lessons are both a lot of fun and a lot of work. I haven't been using any voiceprint systems but I know most humans are unable to tell that my trained voice is the same physical person as my old voice. Would be curious to find out if an AI voiceprint system can discern whether it's the same or not.

As a trans woman who started transitioning at 43... I agree 100%.

This article mostly discusses waist size, for which I'm in the lower quartile. But after 40 years of testosterone poisoning my underbust is above the median. Finding clothing that fits and is flattering is really difficult!

Feature request: a "share" button, à la base-26 Wordle.

A few years back I discovered that the third-party licensing files we had used in the '90s would roll over in 2016. The format used four ASCII digits for the number of days in an otherwise binary file and the epoch was the founding of the licensing company, sometime in 1988. If they had just used a 32-bit integer instead it would have saved me a lot of headache!

I have my Ergodox EZ configured so that each layer has a different backlight color, helping me notice if I've inadvertently switched layers.

I agree on the pinky column not being staggered enough.

DEC WARS is full of great computer jokes. It's a 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr: https://www.bsd.org/decwars.html

It is a period of system war. User programs, striking from a hidden directory, have won their first victory against the evil Administrative Empire. During the battle, User spies managed to steal secret source code to the Empire's ultimate program: the Are-Em Star, a privileged root program with enough power to destroy an entire file structure. Pursued by the Empire's sinister audit trail, Princess _LPA0: races aboard her shell script, custodian of the stolen listings that could save her people, and restore freedom and games to the network...

Reminds me of CS 314, the musical http://captainchang.com/cs314-musical.html

Think in hex, think in hex

Look around you, who needs dec?

You can do anything in base sixteen or I'll go to my rest!

I particularly enjoyed _Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity_ by David Foster Wallace. It gave me a new appreciation of not only the last two centuries of math, but also the english language and the abuse of sentence structure, asides, and footnotes[1][2][3] for educational and entertainment purposes.

[1] so

[2] many

[3] footnotes[a]

[a] Which, I must say, I found interesting and informative[b]

[b] If a bit excessively nested.

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We seek an experienced software engineer to conduct safety analyses, develop functional requirements tests, and conduct design reviews for Green Hills Software's real time operating system and the suite of C and C++ development tools. As a Functional Safety Software Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that Green Hills Software safety-critical products are safe for our customers to use to build vehicles, medical devices, and industrial control systems that people's lives depend on every day.

Job Requirements:

* An understanding of compilers, assemblers, linkers and debuggers and their role in developing embedded software

* An understanding of the concepts of real time operating systems

* At least two years of programming experience in high level languages, C and C++

* Experience with UNIX and with scripting in languages such as Python and shell scripts

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

* Ability to learn and understand how complex software systems work

We're also hiring for Development, Consulting, and Testing positions, both in Santa Barbara and worldwide: http://www.ghs.com/jobs.html

To apply please email your resume to jobs@ghs.com.

NPR's "The Indicator" podcast has had a couple of good (and short) episodes about inverted yield curves. I think this is the first of them: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/01/12/577710151/the-...

I highly recommend The Indicator podcast.

I should have mentioned that I run lamson in maildir mode rather than listen on port 25. I have postfix configured to dump incoming email into a maildir, and my lamson process watches that directory.

So I guess the reason I don't use procmail (aside from it not having a release since 2001) is that postfix is sufficient :->

The primary uses for procmail tend to be running a fixed set of rules to save mail to various directories or route it as input to scripts.

My use case needs to save it to a database and make various decisions depending on the sate of the database (e.g., send notifications to anyone watching the ticket and update due dates for the support SLA). Since this database access is more efficient if the process stays connected to the database, it's better to have a long-lived process which handles mail as it comes in than to launch a new script on every incoming email.

Lamson serves as both the procmail side and the script side. It's a long-running process that routes the incoming email to the appropriate business logic internally. And since it's in Python, it's easy to integrate with our existing Django database and business logic. It's not perfect, but it works well enough that I'm not actively looking for a replacement.

I use salmon's predecessor (lamson) to process emails for an email-driven helpdesk system. Emails come in through lamson, are processed based on headers, and either attached to the support ticket they belong to or are routed to an admin for manual processing.

Lamson isn't a perfect fit for the system, but it did make it easy to get started. Unfortunately it also had a number of bugs I had to fix, since the project was defunct. I should check to see if salmon needs those fixes.

Green Hills Software | Santa Barbara, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | Embedded Software Consultant | https://www.ghs.com/jobs.html

Do you thrive on troubleshooting software problems and designing creative solutions, enjoy learning about new technology, and want to jump in and save customers in desperate need of a hero? Join our Embedded Software Consulting team!

We're called the "support" department, but we don't field calls about "my cup holder is broken." We're much more likely to have someone compile 20K lines of C++ code with optimizations for the first time and have them tell us there's a bug in the compiler; but in reality their program has some undefined behavior that happens to behave differently with optimizations on -- and it's our job to find it! (Once we discovered that the code needed three volatile keywords added, on two lines of code!)

Job Requirements:

* Learn and understand the inner workings of complex software systems

* Quickly diagnose technical problems with limited information

* Succinctly explain complex technical concepts to experts from other technical domains

* At least 2 years experience programming in high-level languages, C, and C++

We're also hiring for Development and Testing positions, both in Santa Barbara and worldwide: http://www.ghs.com/jobs.html

To apply please email your resume to jobs@ghs.com.

Green Hills Software | Santa Barbara, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | Embedded Software Consultant | https://www.ghs.com/jobs.html

We're hiring for multiple teams, both in Santa Barbara and worldwide: http://www.ghs.com/jobs.html , but I'll put in a plug for my own team of Embedded Software Consultants. We're called the "support" department, but we don't field calls about "my cup holder is broken." We're much more likely to have someone turn compile 20K lines of C++ code with optimizations for the first time and have them tell us there's a bug in the compiler; but in reality their program has some undefined behavior that happens to behave differently with optimizations on -- and it's our job to find it! (Once we discovered that the code needed three volatile keywords added, on two lines of code!)

If you thrive on troubleshooting software problems and designing creative solutions, enjoy learning about new technology, and want to jump in and save customers in desperate need of a hero, this is the job for you!

Job Requirements: * Learn and understand the inner workings of complex software systems * Quickly diagnose technical problems with limited information * Succinctly explain complex technical concepts to experts from other technical domains * At least 2 years experience programming in high-level languages, C, and C++

To apply please email your resume to jobs@ghs.com.

It's a different kind of minimalism, but I've found Philip Glass' Akhnaten (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAiv-LU82t4) and Piano Etudes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pe7Lelts8g&list=PLVyiUXw5ED...) to be excellent background listening.

We do sponsor visas, and I believe our European offices are also looking for engineers. Please email jobs@ghs.com for any US inquiries, or jobseurope@ghs.com for European inquiries.

There's some additional information on our website: http://www.ghs.com/jobs.html

Green Hills Software | Software Development Engineer | Santa Barbara, CA | FULL TIME ONSITE

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GHS is a growing global company with many opportunities for talented people to grow in their career. Our interview process is rigorous and selective, resulting in elite teams of engineers.

We seek someone who is innovative and passionate about coding and comfortable with the idea of personally creating a fairly complex 25,000 line application in about a year. The right candidate also has an understanding of tools, at least 2 years experience in C and/or C++, and a bachelor’s degree in a related field.

To apply, email your resume to jobs@ghs.com.

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If you like figuring out what makes a product good or bad by actually using it, technically discussing new product ideas, demonstrating what makes a feature or product great through examples and technical analysis, and have a burning desire to make "good" products "awesome", this is a position for you!

As the GHS Product Engineer, you can think of yourself as the evangelist for new products and features you help develop. You will conduct competitive analysis by understanding what makes both GHS and competitors products bad, good, and great. You will also get to create demos and establish benchmarks.

We seek someone with strong technical communication skills, an understanding of tools, at least 2 years experience in C and/or C++, experience with UNIX and scripting languages, and a bachelor’s degree in a related field.

To apply, email your resume to jobs@ghs.com.

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# Embedded Software Consultant [ONSITE, VISA]

We're hiring for multiple teams, both in Santa Barbara and worldwide: http://www.ghs.com/jobs.html , but I'll put in a plug for my own team of Embedded Software Consultants. We're called the "support" department, but we don't field calls about "my cup holder is broken." We're much more likely to have someone turn compile 20K lines of C++ code with optimizations for the first time and have them tell us there's a bug in the compiler; but in reality their program has some undefined behavior that happens to behave differently with optimizations on -- and it's our job to find it! (Once we discovered that the code needed three volatile keywords added, on two lines of code!)

If you thrive on troubleshooting software problems and designing creative solutions, enjoy learning about new technology, and want to jump in and save customers in desperate need of a hero, this is the job for you!

Job Requirements:

* Learn and understand the inner workings of complex software systems

* Quickly diagnose technical problems with limited information

* Succinctly explain complex technical concepts to experts from other technical domains

* At least 2 years experience programming in high-level languages, C, and C++

To apply please email your resume to jobs@ghs.com.

May I ask you - did you hired anyone from these HN threads? How many people applied?

I don't think I can provide public information on the number of applicants or new hires.

I'm still considering to apply but haven't decided about relocation... Really no chance for rem0te?

In terms of relocation, I think it's very difficult to decide whether it's worthwhile if you don't yet know what's in store for you at the destination. I encourage you to apply for the position via jobs@ghs.com and see where it takes you.

Green Hills Software http://www.ghs.com/ @ Santa Barbara, CA

# Embedded Software Consultant [ONSITE, VISA]

We're hiring for multiple teams, both in Santa Barbara and worldwide: http://www.ghs.com/jobs.html , but I'll put in a plug for my own team of Embedded Software Consultants. We're called the "support" department, but we don't field calls about "my cup holder is broken." We're much more likely to have someone turn compile 20K lines of C++ code with optimizations for the first time and have them tell us there's a bug in the compiler; but in reality their program has some undefined behavior that happens to behave differently with optimizations on -- and it's our job to find it! (Once we discovered that the code needed three volatile keywords added, on two lines of code!)

If you thrive on troubleshooting software problems and designing creative solutions, enjoy learning about new technology, and want to jump in and save customers in desperate need of a hero, this is the job for you!

Job Requirements:

* Learn and understand the inner workings of complex software systems

* Quickly diagnose technical problems with limited information

* Succinctly explain complex technical concepts to experts from other technical domains

* At least 2 years experience programming in high-level languages, C, and C++

To apply please email your resume to jobs@ghs.com.

Green Hills Software http://www.ghs.com/ @ Santa Barbara, CA

# Embedded Software Consultant [ONSITE, VISA]

We're hiring for multiple teams, both in Santa Barbara and worldwide: http://www.ghs.com/jobs.html , but I'll put in a plug for my own team of Embedded Software Consultants. We're called the "support" department, but we don't field calls about "my cup holder is broken." We're much more likely to have someone turn compile 20K lines of C++ code with optimizations for the first time and have them tell us there's a bug in the compiler; but in reality their program has some undefined behavior that happens to behave differently with optimizations on -- and it's our job to find it! (Once we discovered that the code needed three volatile keywords added, on two lines of code!)

If you thrive on troubleshooting software problems and designing creative solutions, enjoy learning about new technology, and want to jump in and save customers in desperate need of a hero, this is the job for you!

Job Requirements:

* Learn and understand the inner workings of complex software systems

* Quickly diagnose technical problems with limited information

* Succinctly explain complex technical concepts to experts from other technical domains

* At least 2 years experience programming in high-level languages, C, and C++

To apply please email your resume to jobs@ghs.com.

Do you sponsor new H1B's and do not require US citizenship (for US based roles)?

We sponsor new H1Bs and have no citizenship requirements for US roles.

Also, any prospective C++ positions in Europe (or home-based)?

I'm not sure if there are any positions open in Europe at the moment. We're not currently listing any on the Europe jobs page on our website (http://www.ghs.com/jobs_europe.html) but our European team may be interested in seeing your resume. I suggest contacting them - details are listed on that page.

Green Hills Software [http://www.ghs.com/] | Santa Barbara, CA

We're hiring for multiple teams, both in Santa Barbara and worldwide: [http://www.ghs.com/jobs.html]

I'll put in a plug for my own team of Embedded Software Consultants. We're called the "support" department, but we don't field calls about "my cup holder is broken." We're much more likely to have someone turn compile 20K lines of C++ code with optimizations for the first time and have them tell us there's a bug in the compiler; but in reality their program has some undefined behavior that happens to behave differently with optimizations on -- and it's our job to find it! (Once we discovered that the code needed three volatile keywords added, on two lines of code!)

If you thrive on troubleshooting software problems and designing creative solutions, enjoy learning about new technology, and want to jump in and save customers in desperate need of a hero, this is the job for you!

Job Requirements:

* Learn and understand the inner workings of complex software systems

* Quickly diagnose technical problems with limited information

* Succinctly explain complex technical concepts to experts from other technical domains

* At least 2 years experience programming in high-level languages, C, and C++

Full-time, onsite, and we can arrange a visa as needed.

To apply please email your resume to jobs@ghs.com.

It gets worse: if you scroll up and down through the page several times, there are so many history items that Chrome has forgotten all about HN and I can't get back there via the back button no matter how many times I press it.