MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlienRobot | 2025-11-10 22:55:11+00:00
>However, like many models in this leaderboard - I can’t use it - since it doesn’t support voice cloning.

That's such a strange requirement. A TTS is just that. It takes a text and speaks it out loud. The user generally doesn't care whose voice it is, and personally I think TTS's sharing the same voice is a good thing for authenticity since it lets users know that it's a TTS reading the script and not a real person.

You want your voice to be reading the script, but you don't want to personally record yourself reading the text? As far as I'm concerned that's an edge case. No wonder that TTS's can't do that properly since most people don't need that in first place.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-10 22:55:13+00:00
Except America has shown that it would rather chew through all it's resources and capability than accept that "The public here doesn't want you, that wont change, go home and save the effort"

How many people in the middle east did we blow up or kill? For 20 years. For a supposed outcome we had no chance of ever getting. Multiple presidents even.

The deterrence effect of an occupation didn't stop Russia, did not stop the USA, does not stop someone who believes you can just bomb the occupied lands harder until all resistance is "quiet", and doesn't seem to be stopping China from preparing itself for the occupation of Taiwan.
by timcobb | 2025-11-10 22:56:39+00:00
There are a few benefits in my opinion, mainly:

- The CUE maps the audio in a "CD-native" way, like each track can have 1 or more indices, which enables things like pregaps. When you split FLACs into discrete tracks you need to figure out how to project that onto files, do you put the pregaps at the end of previous tracks? At the beginning of next tracks? In short, with a CUE you can emulate the CD experience more accurately.

- If you are seeding a torrent, you need to keep the original data intact.
by rekabis | 2025-11-10 22:56:42+00:00
Not mentioned: switching the firmware away from the stock one to something like DD-WRT or OpenWRT.

Upside with open-source firmware is that at least the firmware is going to be (relatively) top-notch and free of major bugs and major security exploits. Which, unfortunately, almost all firmware from the major manufacturers tend to be infested with. The only exception being firmware you pay a subscription for to keep updated, such as on commercial routers.

Downside is that your router may not be applicable for, and compatible with, either.

OpenWRT has larger constraints on what hardware can be flashed with its firmware because it is an objectively more powerful piece of kit and needs more storage space and CPU power. This means that only a fraction of all routers have the oomph to run it.

DD-WRT can be flashed onto many more routers, as it is smaller and more resource-friendly, but - IME - can be more unstable than OpenWRT for less popular routers, and may not always come with all features fully functional.

And there is a large underclass of routers that will never be compatible with any open-source firmware because certain drivers - WiFi being the main ones - are proprietary and copyrighted and not available for use beyond the manufacturer. And for many of these, to add insult to injury the storage is locked down against modification by unauthorized software, further frustrating users from doing what they want with their routers.

Both projects have a “router database” that can tell you if the router you have is capable of being flashed, just triple-check the documentation and ensure that you are actually looking at the latest docs. Old and obsolete instructions - especially for DD-WRT - have a curious habit of lingering long after they become irrelevant, mainly because both projects are 100% volunteer-based and due to that, stuff can and will be missed.

The final downside is that all updates are manually-applied, and require you to set aside about 5-15 minutes two to six times a year to manually upgrade to the most recent version.

However, OpenWRT is also moving towards automatic updates that should become seamless within the next major version release or two. “Attended upgrades” that allow you to upgrade (and shepherd the process) with just a few mouse clicks is already available for installation through the software packages.
by dvsfish | 2025-11-10 22:56:54+00:00
I subscribe to the notion that morals are emotion based propositions and thus aren't quite as grounded in pure logic. As in there is not an objective morality, just things we know to be good and bad that are abstracted away from direct experience. Nothing wrong with that, but as feeling beings, we don't need to hugely ponder the vast spectrum of ideas to determine within ourselves what is "good" and what is "bad". Always worth thinking about second and third and x order effects of a certain moral judgement, and this is where logic comes in to the picture, but definitely trust your intuition in the meantime and don't put yourself into a box. You're welcome to not commit to a concrete worldview until you're comfortable, while still being a decent person.
by vinkelhake | 2025-11-10 22:56:57+00:00
That would depend on your idea of "good". It would be an upstream swim in most regards, but you could certainly make it work. The Asahi team has shown that you can get steam working pretty well on ARM based machines.

But if gaming is what you're actually interested in, then it's a pretty terrible buy. You can get a much cheaper x86-based system with a discrete GPU that runs circles around this.
by accrual | 2025-11-10 22:56:59+00:00
> It is a '70s 1200ft 3M tape, likely 9 track, which has a pretty good chance of being recoverable.

Not old enough to have this kind of knowledge or confidence. I wonder if instead one day I'll be helping some future generation read old floppies, CDs, and IDE/ATA disks *slaps top of AT tower*.
by inshard | 2025-11-10 22:57:25+00:00
Also good context here is Friston’s Free Energy Principle: A unified theory suggesting that all living systems, from simple organisms to the brain, must minimize "surprise" to maintain their form and survive. To do this, systems act to minimize a mathematical quantity called variational free energy, which is an upper bound on surprise. This involves constantly making predictions about the world, updating internal models based on sensory data, and taking actions that reduce the difference between predictions and reality, effectively minimizing prediction errors.

Key distinction: Constant and continuous updating. I.e. feedback loops with observation, prediction, action (agency), and once more, observation.

It should have survival and preservation as a fundamental architectural feature.
by generativenoise | 2025-11-10 22:57:48+00:00
They are wrong however. To take the food example, the existence of processed food production creates artifacts like food deserts. If you are privileged these things don't effect you as much as you get more agency.

Just the existence of quick to eat and prepare foods are going to put limits on how long you are going to be given for lunch and dinner. Even if you wanted to prepare fresh food, the system is going to make it difficult since it becomes an unsupported activity in terms of time allowances and market access.
by bikelang | 2025-11-10 22:58:53+00:00
Agreed. This is why I prefer the term “service oriented architecture” instead. A service should be whatever size its domain requires - but the purpose is to encapsulate a domain. A personal litmus test I have for “is the service improperly encapsulating the domain” is if you need to handle distributed transactions. Sometimes they are necessary - but usually it’s an architectural smell.
by duvok | 2025-11-10 22:59:01+00:00
"A Few Final Thoughts:

One perhaps self-serving observation. I’m happy to say I feel better about the second half of my life than the first. My advice: Don’t beat yourself up over past mistakes – learn at least a little from them and move on. It is never too late to improve. Get the right heroes and copy them. You can start with Tom Murphy; he was the best.

Remember Alfred Nobel, later of Nobel Prize fame, who – reportedly – read his own obituary that was mistakenly printed when his brother died and a newspaper got mixed up. He was horrified at what he read and realized he should change his behavior.

Don’t count on a newsroom mix-up: Decide what you would like your obituary to say and live the life to deserve it.

Greatness does not come about through accumulating great amounts of money, great amounts of publicity or great power in government. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless. Whether you are religious or not, it’s hard to beat The Golden Rule as a guide to behavior.

I write this as one who has been thoughtless countless times and made many mistakes but also became very lucky in learning from some wonderful friends how to behave better (still a long way from perfect, however). Keep in mind that the cleaning lady is as much a human being as the Chairman."
by teo_zero | 2025-11-10 22:59:02+00:00
I would have liked the extension named after Plan9 more than this one after Microsoft. Not based on any ideology, mind you, but rather because the former is more powerful and allows this:

struct parent { int a; } p; struct child { struct parent; int b; } c; void foo(struct parent *); foo(&p); // valid of course foo(&c); // also valid under plan9 extension, no casting!
by beefnugs | 2025-11-10 22:59:05+00:00
I have a feeling it wont affect canadian non-business individuals much: I see retailers listing prices of $6000 for the max395 type computers, none in stock. Direct from minisforum has one listed for $3200... Tried to buy it, but the bank blocked it as fraudulent transaction. No idea what is even going on these days. If they cant even ship hardware to an entire country, something real fucky is going on
by nine_k | 2025-11-10 22:59:19+00:00
Linux can scale to a machine with hundreds of cores; the largest is 1000+ cores IIRC. It's because it scales horizontally, in a way, and can run kernel threads on multiple cores. But a NUMA configuration feels increasingly like a cluster the more cores you add, just because a single-memory-bus architecture can't scale too much; accessing a far node's memory introduces much more latency that accessing local RAM.

It's easy to run a thousand independent VMs. It's somehow more challenging to run a thousand VMs that look externally as one service, and can scale down to 500 VMs, or up to 2000 VMs, depending on the load. It's really quite challenging to scale a monolith app to service tens of millions of users on one box, without horizontal scaling. But it definitely can be done, see the architecture of Stackoverflow.com. (Well, this very site is served by a monolith, and all logged-in users are served by a single-threaded monolith, unless they rewrote the engine. Modern computers are absurdly powerful.)
by igor47 | 2025-11-10 22:59:34+00:00
In particular, COVID led to a massive shift to remote work. On the one hand, commuting to work, especially in the US where most commuting is driving, could potentially save lives. On the other hand though, it could cause people to spend more time sitting at home/less movement throughout the day, and also less social interaction/more isolation and loneliness. I could imagine these changes driving excess mortality
by helterskelter | 2025-11-10 22:59:51+00:00
I'm in the PNW and they put Flock cameras up in my area recently. Nobody likes them (libs or cons), and we've seen some rather creative approaches to uh...disabling them. One person took a pipe cutter to the mount and spirited the whole unit away, another apparently fired a shotgun slug through it, somebody else looks like they used it to relieve their anger problems with a metal pipe.

Flock cameras, America's bipartisan issue?
by insin | 2025-11-10 23:00:38+00:00
In the example of how they were removing specific lines from the previous commit, git gui had a way to do that instead of copying the diff lines and manually editing them back into the code:

git gui → Amend Last Commit → (select lines from a file in the Staged Changes area) → Unstage Lines From Commit → Commit

I still think it's the perfect does-just-enough GUI when the main thing you want is to visually craft commits.
by eszed | 2025-11-10 23:02:40+00:00
I don't know if I have good pictures to hand, and would rather not (potentially) dox myself by posting them. However:

Picture a 9-foot (~3m) wall of local stone (so local, in fact, that they'd been pulled out of the creek that ran along the far end of the property), with a row of glass bricks on top, and then a vaulted ceiling whose peak was at 25' (~7.5m). The walls weren't actually supported by the glass (it was steel pillars), but it looked like they were.

If you're standing in that "great room", facing the wood stove and clerestory windows, behind you would be a transverse balcony, in steel and light wood, with a study and bedroom and bathroom off of it. The stairs to the upstairs are behind and to your left, running through a generous landing off which the front door opens. There's an open-plan kitchen and back door to your right (technically "outside" the footprint of the church), and a master bed and bath under the balcony.

That doesn't nearly do it justice, because you'd also have to picture all of my grandparents' furniture and rugs and art and antiques, around which (quite literally: doors were moved to accommodate certain pieces) the house had been designed.

It's been a decade since they died, and we pulled everything out of that house, but I miss them (and it) every day. Hold your family close, HN.
by palmotea | 2025-11-10 23:02:45+00:00
>> laws were stretched in unusual ways to specifically target him

> Sure one man's campaign finance violations/embezzlement (I'm hazy on the specifics) are another man's politically motivated prosecution.

Come on, don't be lazy: it's clear you're totally unfamiliar with the case, and a snowclone dismissal isn't clever. The tl;dr is he was actually guilty of a misdemeanors, which where promoted to felonies through unprecedented prosecutorial maneuvering. And it's pretty clear that maneuvering only happened because the prosecutors wanted to get Trump personally for something, and spend a lot of time looking and strategizing how to do it.

If a prosecutor looked at your conduct that closely, for that long, they could almost certainly nail you (or anyone) for a felony, too. And it's pretty important for a fair and democratic legal system that they don't target individuals like that.
by kennykartman | 2025-11-10 23:03:18+00:00
> then why Rust? Why not ATS? After all, Rust does let you eliminate certain bugs at compile time, but ATS lets you eliminate so many more.

Of course it's subjective, but I think there is a perception of perceived benefit over effort. Zig gives much perceived benefit over low effort. Rust gives much perceived benefit over more effort. Even more effort for ATS. But the benefit is relative: nobody cares to create totally bug-free software when the software is not critical at all. In addition, most programmers think that solving bugs is part of the job more than preventing them. Solving segfaults is often easier than thinking about formal systems, so the perceived benefit is higher in Zig than ATS - at least for programmers that know C, pointers and the like. Note how the majority of programmers don't deal with memory allocations at all: they use JavaScript and Python, memory is managed. For them, solving memory bugs is not something that makes sense, so the effort of dealing with memory is enough to renounce that freedom altogether. Rust is a very good middle ground: it's a complex language, but there's lot of room for improving its ergonomics.
by BoorishBears | 2025-11-10 23:03:59+00:00
They in the right direction, but wrong specifics: you can't maintain consistent prosody without context.

The simplest examples are punctuation marks which change your speech before you reach the mark, but the problem extends past sentence boundaries

For example:

"He didn't steal the green car. He borrowed it."

vs

"He didn't steal the green car. He stole the red one."

A natural speaker would slightly emphasize steal and borrowed in the 1st example, but emphasize green and red in the 2nd.

Or like when you're building a set:

"Peter called Mary."

vs

"John called Mary. Peter called Mary. Who didn't call Mary?"

-

These all sound like small nits but for naively stitched together TTS, at best they nudge the narration towards the uncanny valley (which may be acceptable for some usecases)... but at worst they make the model sound broken.
by NoteyComplexity | 2025-11-10 23:05:04+00:00
That is really the cringe bit… If “web3” is “decentralised”, how could “web4” powered by AI which most of the LLM model currently are hosted in a centralised server? It seems contradictory by definition, and that “web4” are just basically Web 2.0 with AI features…

I basically just read that website the post referred to, sounds like AI slop to me: https://www.netguru.com/blog/web-4-0?ref=protein.xyz
by rubyn00bie | 2025-11-10 23:05:23+00:00
I dunno about the electricity claims for practical purposes— where I live, that’d be roughly 128 hours of 600W. I suppose the real question is, would it take 128 hours ($11) of power to generate 720 hours of TTS content assuming a good enough model was available?

On Android I’d imagine, big emphasis on imagine since I don’t use it, you could probably script something up and use a phone with an audio jack to record it. Theoretically hitting that maximum of 720 hours of content per month, but I’d imagine at some point they’d find it peculiar you’re listening to content 24/7.
by pupppet | 2025-11-10 23:05:31+00:00
Seth Rich conspiracy story (retracted) — Fox published, then removed, a 2017 story implying a slain DNC staffer was tied to WikiLeaks, saying it failed to meet editorial standards. - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/statement-on-coverage-of-se...

Dominion defamation case — A Delaware judge ruled it was “CRYSTAL clear” the Dominion 2020-election claims were false; Fox then settled for $787.5M. - https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=345820

Smartmatic defamation suit (ongoing) — New York appeals court let Smartmatic’s multibillion-dollar case proceed against Fox Corp in 2025; Smartmatic says Fox spread false claims about rigging the 2020 election. - https://www.reuters.com/legal/fox-must-face-smartmatic-27-bi...

“Biden is coming for your burgers” — Multiple Fox segments pushed a false claim that Biden’s climate plan limited red-meat consumption; Fox later issued an on-air correction. - https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-corrects-segment-on...

Misleading edit of Biden’s Satchel Paige remark — “Fox & Friends” aired a clipped video that removed context and made Biden’s Veterans Day comments seem racially insensitive; AP flagged the edit. - https://apnews.com/general-news-453bd99f1301f76b68368f0a5b2f...

Wrong clip during Harris interview — Bret Baier acknowledged he aired the wrong Trump clip while challenging Vice President Harris; AP covered the on-air “mistake” and correction. - https://apnews.com/article/harris-fox-news-bret-baier-mistak...

Hannity’s rally footage mix-up — After Jon Stewart called it out, Hannity apologized for using footage from a much larger 9/12 rally while discussing a smaller Bachmann event. - https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2009/11/hannity-and-stew...

Misidentifying a Democratic lawmaker on-screen — Fox aired B-roll of Rep. John Conyers while discussing the indictment of Rep. William Jefferson, later issuing an apology. - https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-hosts-forced-make-on-air...
by ChristopherDrum | 2025-11-10 23:05:42+00:00
That worked for you? I was having a devil of a time getting Feedreader to bring in that feed. I also had never touched Feedreader until last night and might have done something dumb. Inoreader did bring in the feed, but only after I "tricked it" (?) by doing a search for the feed; it wouldn't accept the rss URL. It all felt very mysterious and opaque.

I got word in the Ghost forums that there may also be an RSS feed bug, which I'll look into and see if that applies to this case.
by pron | 2025-11-10 23:06:16+00:00
> I think where we disagree is that you believe Zig is as safe as Rust

Quite the opposite. Rust is definitely safer in the simple sense that it guarantees more memory safety. But that's very different from saying that Zig is closer to C than to Rust (Zig's memory safety is much closer to Rust's than to C's), and it also doesn't mean that it's easier to write more correct/secure software in Rust (because there are just too many factors).

> and I'm just sad that people are choosing the easy route and going for more insecure software

The jump from "segfaulting" to "insecure" is unjustified, as not all causes of segfaults map to equally exploitable vulnerabilities. Java programs, for example, segfault much less than Rust programs. Does that mean Rust programs are significantly less secure?
by impossiblefork | 2025-11-10 23:06:29+00:00
But we do in fact have this as a shared value. I'm sure there are people outside it whole like it too, sort of like how there are people outside Sweden who like freedom-to-roam, but when you actually have something it becomes part of your expectations and your culture; and I think this belief in limits on internet surveillance, tracking, etc. has in fact become such a thing.

When you don't have something most people accept not having it and it becomes normal not to have it, and I think that's the case with privacy in the US and outside the EU in general.
by dogma1138 | 2025-11-10 23:06:39+00:00
You both need to generate the hash at the point of archival correctly and store it in a way that cannot be modified later on.

Doing that with a blockchain like tech is one of the few use cases where the tech itself actually adds value.

Heck you might be able to store the entire pages on a blockchain or a blockchain linked storage.

The problem with these sites is that we implicitly trust them and unlike a book or other handprint media where editing or destroying all unedited existing copies is effectively impossible if a shady actor can easily start editing archived news articles and other sites that are no longer publicly available.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-10 23:07:00+00:00
I apologize. I completely missed your issue. I'll try to address it here.

>I've explicitly addressed everything you've posted.

Actually, you ignored (at least IMHO) the most important issue I addressed: that of the curtailment of our hard-won individual rights of free expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, due process and privacy, among others. You know, those rights that are explicitly enshrined in the Constitution, paid for with the blood and treasure of our ancestors and protected with the blood and treasure of more recent ancestors.

You didn't address that at all.

That's what's got me up in arms here.

You appear to have imagined that I must think that "everyone on the planet, especially the darkies from Central and South America must be allowed to live in lurk2's house, eat his food and fuck his wife." Far from it.

My problem with all of this is that when you take away the rights enshrined in our Constitution for some, you set the precedent to do so for everyone. And I'm not okay with that.

I guess I also asked you the wrong question. You appear to be okay with the diminution and curtailment of the rights explicitly protected in our highest law.

I guess I'd like to know why you're so willing to do so.

And yes, I strongly suspect that you're not posting in good faith, since you ignored (and then claimed otherwise) the most important parts of the discussion we ('we' meaning the HN community) were having about this.

Sadly, I expect you're channeling the anti-semites that Sartre mused upon[0] many years ago. And more's the pity.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-...