This is an interesting thought!

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.

This is largely correct! When we launch a new game we're planning on distorting the AI voices, and adding background noise.

How do you manage the TTS on the books?

How is privacy enforced? Are you planning on maintaining this:

https://github.com/kubetail-org/kubetail

as an open source repo?

Kubetail runs in your cluster and uses the cluster’s own Kubernetes API to retrieve logs so the data never leaves your possession. Yes! Kubetail will always be open source. I think it’s important for users to know exactly what code is running inside their clusters especially if they’re granting it access to their private data.

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 same iTunes users are subscribing to all of the suspect shows, and all on one storefront (the U.S.).

I'm reminded of the images from China where one person is in front of rows and rows of phones clicking on stuff and that is their job. Would that do the job here?

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 week ago its clear that Apple did update their algorithms, but its not clear how (and some of the same players identified in the blog are still ranking highly).

While Apple doesn't comment on how the rankings are calculated, the common knowledge is indeed that its heavily biased towards recent subscriptions.

Maybe it should be more weighted towards regular releases over a longer period of time... points for releasing on average of once a day, or once a week for over 2 years after hitting X subscribers. I can't speak for anyone else, but those are the podcasts that I would be most inclined to want to hear/see.

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

Host it on Netlify if you're capable of working with a static website system - it's free to host, free to bring a custom domain, and they do the Let's Encrypt integration for you... for free :-)

If you need help, let me know. I'll gladly offer some time to help with a project like this: mc [at] sent.com

No worries, Let's Encrypt makes it really easy if you haven't used them before. Since you have input forms and links to app stores it might be a good idea.

What is the search you are conducting?

I was searching for SML on Stilts

I'm getting a hit for "SML on Stilts" from 5 months ago: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=SML+on+Stil...

Did you get different results? Were you expecting another submission?

When I did my search, I got zero hits, which surprised me.

We actually use Solr on our backend - we love it's open source community and rich feature set.

Sheer curiosity - why did you decide to go with solr instead of elastic search which seems easier to scale out, with much the same feature set?

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 have a look.