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Show HN: Run Dia2 TTS Without a GPU
by quicheshore2003 | 2026-01-15 22:49:22+00:00
Hi all! I noticed a lot of folks having trouble running Dia2 TTS locally, either due to setup complexity or lack of a GPU. I put together a small wrapper that lets you run Dia2 without any local GPU by deploying it on Modal (serverless GPU compute).

The project exposes Dia2 as a simple HTTPS API. You can deploy it in a few minutes, send text with [S1]/[S2] speaker tags, and optionally upload short WAV samples to clone voices. Everything runs in the cloud; nothing GPU-related is required on your machine.

It’s meant to be a lightweight, practical way to try Dia2 or integrate it into other projects without dealing with local CUDA setup.
by jojobas | 2026-01-15 22:49:29+00:00
Yes, 20 year olds from the 60s are in retirement homes.

Still waiting for a good argument on penalizing one set of people who weren't born then in favour of another set of people who weren't born then is fixing any wrong done in the past.

A miserable person is a miserable person. Any affirmative action style policy gives less-miserable people a boost over more-miserable people.
by ratorx | 2026-01-15 22:49:36+00:00
So reading the article you’re right, it’s technically anycast. But only at the /24 level to work around BGP limitations. An individual /32 has a specific datacenter (so basically unicast). In a hypothetical world where BGP could route /32s it wouldn’t be anycast.

I wasn’t precise, but what I meant was more akin to a single IP shared by multiple datacenters in different regions (from a BGP perspective), which I don’t think Cloudflare has. This is general parallel of ingress unicast as well, a single IP that can be routed to multiple destinations (even if on the BGP level, the entire aggregate is anycast).

It would also not explain the OP, because they are seeing the same source IP, but from many (presumably) different source locations whereas with the Cloudflare scheme each location would have a different source IP.
by quickthrowman | 2026-01-15 22:50:07+00:00
You are incorrect.

Wire can be used for up to whatever ampacity is listed for that size wire and temperature rating in Table 310.16 (Conductor Ampacity) Copper and aluminum have separate ampacity tables because you need to use larger aluminum conductors.

Example:

#250MCM THHN copper can handle 255A in a commercial setting (75C column)

#250MCM THHN aluminum can handle 205A in a commercial setting (75C column).

NEC ampacity table: https://media.distributordatasolutions.com/ThomasAndBetts/v2...
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-01-15 22:50:09+00:00
Have you never made a deep friendship? How else would anybody make deep friendships? First you do things that let you meet people, then you make acquaintances, then you make setting-specific friends (work friends, gym buddies, etc), then you start inviting/being invited to do things that aren't based around that shared setting, and then you have friendships.

Either that or your definition of deep friendship is substantially off.
by abalashov | 2026-01-15 22:50:18+00:00
> I was just ahead of the curve.

I can relate to this. I was always moderately extroverted and sociable, but the irony has never ceased to flabbergast me that the very behaviours and interests for which nerds like me would have been stuffed into lockers and garbage cans (if I had dared to tell anyone in school that I was into computers) became, only a decade later, de rigueur for every young person.

I remember sitting in a coffee shop in 2003 (senior year of HS) trying to get kernel drivers for a PCMCIA 802.11b card to work on an ancient Compaq laptop, and being pointed, laughed at, and called -- by modern standards -- unconscienable names by a table of high schoolers nearby. It must have seemed so strange to them to see someone's head so deeply in a laptop.

And my goodness, I wouldn't have dared to confess that I talk to strangers in faraway places _online_. To be known to have substantive computer-based interactions would have branded one so profoundly socially unsuccessful, that one's very family name would be cursed with this prejudice for two generations. AIMing one's classmates on the family PC was one thing, but chatting online to likeminded peers in other countries? Why, that was radiantly gay!

But literally a few years later, I can't get anyone to make eye contact and they frequently plough into me because their heads are buried in their phones, texting people they never see.

A'ight.
by bherms | 2026-01-15 22:51:03+00:00
You're completely missing the point. The problem is people aren't collectively incentivized to do so. Individually someone can decide "oh wow, I'm lonely, I should get out more", but collectively there's nothing incentivizing everyone to do it, or even notice it's an issue. If there were, we wouldn't be in this situation.

---

"How do we solve the obesity problem?"
"Well people should just work out."

Obviously, that would solve it, but they're distinctly not doing that, which is why we're talking about a broader solution to actually get people to work out.
by palmotea | 2026-01-15 22:51:04+00:00
> I'm partial to the strategy of selling voters on a set of policies that will improve their lives and address their problems.

It's a seductive idea, but it's the attitude of an authoritarian technocrat. However, the US is supposed to be a representative democracy, which requires being sensitive to the problems voters have, as voters see them. And that's probably a big part of Trump's actual appeal. My understanding is at his rallies and in his rhetoric, he gave the appearance of being responsive to many concerns that had been willfully ignored or denied for a long time (for instance: free trade dogma, which destroyed a lot of things and insisted people be satisfied with the easily-quantified cheap junk they were being given).

> People thought that once they were told to think that.

Don't pretend your thoughts are any more independent than those of the people you're othering.
by maxglute | 2026-01-15 22:51:13+00:00
This retarded meme gets posted about PRC bluffing but context behind it illustrates the opposite. The warnings were against US/TW based U2s overflights, which PRC was both warning and doing - actively attempting to shoot down despite having inferior capabilities. The chefs kiss that this is an USSR meme is that PRC shot down more U2s using modified soviet hardware than USSR herself. Even more so when consider PRC issued actual final warning to USSR that ended up in border skirmishes. PRC's actual final warning is "don't say we didn't warn you" which historically predicts PRC kinetic action with high certainty. USSR, India border skirmishes. Korean war against UN. PRC also has directly supported North Vietnam against the French, and threatened UK when they hinted at granting HK independence under Thatcher. That's every NPT nuclear state over territorial / security issues less important than TW. It doesn't always lead to immediate action, but has consistently been prelude to it.
by kylecazar | 2026-01-15 22:51:26+00:00
Aren't the conceptual relations you describe still, at their core, just search (even if that's extremely reductive)? We know models can interpolate well, but it's still the same probabilistic pattern matching. They identify conceptual relationships based on associations seen in vast training data. It's my understanding that models are still not at all good at extrapolation, handling data "way outside" of their training set.

Also, I was under the impression LLM's can replicate irony and humor simply because that text has specific stylistic properties, and they've been trained on it.
by dugidugout | 2026-01-15 22:51:29+00:00
I am affected by extreme conscientiousness and would be described as a social outcast in my current state I'm sure.

I've always had a decent social network through proximity alone (neighborhood, education, etc.) and in this comfort, built a harsh prejudice against outgoing behavior. I'm not even sure why I held this perspective so deeply for so long, but I reviled the thought of intruding on others and only warranted intrusion on those I judged willful intruders. Most of my relationships are sufficiently available, but not very deep given my refusal to assert vulnerably (including against others vulnerabilities).

I was lucky to find Dostoevsky, Camus, and Hesse notably, which helped break some of my absurd dispositions. However, my entire social network was still rotten on a basis of inauthentic connection and intellectualizing this can only go so far. You must live the perspective and it is hard and vulnerable.

Thank you for these words, I find your mission deeply humane and I strive to live through a similar spirit.
by sequoia | 2026-01-15 22:51:39+00:00
Some of this has to do with concerted and long-running campaigns of coordinated editing (against wikipedia rules) to push a one-sided political narrative. Most notably this happened and continues to be done by Israel-eliminationists[0]. Wikipedia eventually acknowledged the problem and banned a couple of the worst offenders[1] but that's a drop in the bucket as far as I'm concerned. I read it less and less these days and don't consult it at all for anything controversial ("controversial" meaning "topics that leftists have strong opinions about").

Sadly, a system like Wikipedia is hard to defend against persistent coordinated attacks by people who have lots of time.

0: https://aish.com/weaponizing-wikipedia-against-israel/
1: https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-833180
by SchemaLoad | 2026-01-15 22:51:40+00:00
>I can walk to a branch of my local library, a few restaurants, a bar, a bookstore, I even get my haircut in my neighborhood.

If you can walk to these things, you don't live in the areas the parent comment is talking about. "Suburban sprawl" doesn't mean all suburbs, it's specifically the ones which don't have facilities and community.
by lugvruzzle | 2026-01-15 22:51:44+00:00
Second the rechargeable motion sensing led strips! Dime a dozen on Ali Express. I have them in all the hallways in my house, garden shed, at the front door so I am not fumbling with my keys in the dark. If you mount them with the supplied adhesive magnets you can take them with you as a torch, feels like you are using a minecraft torch.
by neilk | 2026-01-15 22:52:07+00:00
A friend of mine has this problem with their D&D campaigns. He makes huge efforts and there’s always one or two people who flake or don’t have the same commitment level. He’s gotten quite angry and sad about it.

He is trying something different now, to make a hybrid campaign where there’s a lot of one-shots in a broader story arc. It’s structured like missions in an ongoing struggle.

Maybe if you want to do board games,
we need more games that scale up and down easily. I’m not a board game person, IDK.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-15 22:52:39+00:00
Love the post. I think it comes from a good place.

> And I got to where I am thanks to people like me who wrote down and shared their knowledge openly and freely. I’ve benefited from open source. From books people have published online for free and courses they’ve given away. I’ve learned a great deal from people I chat with online, over forums, and at meetups where people give presentations to share their knowledge and work.

I can relate to that.

However, though I don't need an LLM, I have found them to be extremely useful in learning new stuff. I probably used an LLM to learn a dozen different new things, just today.
by kubb | 2026-01-15 22:52:45+00:00
I agree with this, and I think we're partly conditioned to think this way. We (think we) can change ourselves, but we (believe we) can't change the world. I think it's OK to think bigger.

To make friends, people need a place to meet, to have time and means to be there, and a reason to go there semi-regularly. A lot of the design of society completely ignores these needs. These are solvable problems.
by mosura | 2026-01-15 22:53:03+00:00
While a pan-US national awareness is widely seen as emerging during the civil war the rest of what you are saying is disingenuous. Prior to that it was a selection of colonies etc. which very much had borders because skirmishes over taxation rights was a thing.

There was significantly more inter ethnic strife in the US pre WW2 than most people seem to appreciate, much of it relating to if encountered (by whatever means) people should be settled/assimilated/rejected. There were riots/protests of this type in major cities at least between the civil war and the 1930s, and state policy reflected this, such as with the Chinese exclusion act which would hardly have been possible without a border.
by DavidPiper | 2026-01-15 22:53:18+00:00
Wales actually covers this at length in his book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Rules_of_Trust

He himself admits it's a complicated situation, and argues both his own and Sanger's position.

Combined with the context provided by all the parent comments here, it's quite difficult to argue good faith given the interview was also specifically on the book tour. There are many different and actually productive ways the interview could have talked about the conflict between Wales and Sanger.
by css_apologist | 2026-01-15 22:53:22+00:00
people act as if this is an individualist problem, but that ignores all the facts

the first place to think about serious change is city planning since the invention of cars & then suburbs

we used to be forced to live next to each other, walk and see each other

it turns our car based city planning doesn’t work on any level if you look at cities which didn’t go all in
by sunshine-o | 2026-01-15 22:53:57+00:00
NATO has been over for decades, it is now just useful to the US military complex to secure one of their market.

Worst the concept of "European allies" is not real. At the end of WW2 Western Europe became a colony or dominion of the US like Eastern Europe got under USSR control. Europeans might have been told something else by their politicians and intellectuals but it is because they were allowed to save face and part of the "Free World" propaganda.

As the last "EU leaders" of the WW2 generation faded away the next one were too stupid to understand what they are.

At the same time the US got confused too. It probably doesn't know if it is the Roman Republic or Empire. So now everybody is confused.

One thing is for sure the so called EU leadership is of very low quality and they have absolutely no idea what they are doing.
They have antagonised their own population and about every other centers of power: the US, Russia and China. No regime can survive this.

My guess is Europe is gonna be split in two again (the fracture line is starting to be clear) or worst go through a hybrid civil war before and rot for a while.
by bri3d | 2026-01-15 22:54:07+00:00
We agree, I think these are the more valid concerns than the "they are operating a data warehouse with all of the data in the entire universe" conspiracy theory that seems popular.

I certainly think that Palantir has ethical issues; as I stated in my parent comment, it wouldn't be high on my list of choices for places to work.

But, when it comes to things like (2), this is a failure of regulation and oversight and needs to be treated as such. Note that this doesn't make Palantir "right" (building a platform to do things that are probably bad is still bad), but there's no reason anyone with basic data warehousing skills couldn't have done this before or after.

Essentially, I think people give Palantir specifically too much credit and in turn ignore the fundamental issues they're worried about. Panic over "dismantle Palantir" or even the next step, "dismantle corporate data warehousing" is misguided and wouldn't address the issues at hand; worry about government data fusion needs to be directed towards government data fusion, and worry about computers making targeting decisions needs to be directed at computers making targeting decisions.
by mmooss | 2026-01-15 22:54:11+00:00
IMHO: The goal of the political movement (we really need a name for it after so many years in so many countries) is to replace the existing world order with a new one with them on top.

The movement seems to include right-wing (semi-)authoritarians such as Trump and the GOP, Netanyahu, Putin, bin Salman (Saudi Arabia), lesser powers, and many American business interests including in SV.

Leading Trump advisor Stephen Miller expressed one core position, which is that power rules the world - rather than human rights and votes, which is the fundamental of American tradition and law, and the current world order.

So yes, policies like Venezuala and Greenland, as well as immigration policy, anti-science positions, pro-disinformation actions, etc. are intended for a broader political outcome, but it's much broader than NATO. They are playing for the whole thing.

I'm surprised that more people on HN aren't very familiar with their strategy and goals.
by notatoad | 2026-01-15 22:54:16+00:00
americans are too terrified of somebody getting something for free to ever tolerate that. it's okay in other countries, because other countries are deserving of charity, and the americans who travel to them have implicitly passed the wealth test by affording to travel there.

but back home in america, any nice thing in a public space might be an un-earned benefit to an american citizen who is slightly less rich. and we can't have that. if an American wants an amenity, they sould pay for it. parks, benches, pathways, any sort of gathering space, it all can't be had because it might attract poor people.
by adrian_b | 2026-01-15 22:54:22+00:00
It should be noted that iOS/macOS is likely to be not vulnerable because for them the Dolby decoder has been compiled as any C/C++ program should be compiled by default everywhere, i.e. with bounds checking enabled.

Unfortunately, all C/C++ compilers have as the default option to omit bounds checking, but any decent compiler has options for enabling bounds checking and other run-time checks suitable for catching all the undesirable behaviors that are undefined in the C/C++ standards. The default should be to enable such options globally for any program and to disable them selectively only for the code parts where benchmarks have demonstrated that they prevent the program to reach the target performance and code analysis has concluded that the erroneous behavior cannot happen.
by econ | 2026-01-15 22:54:32+00:00
Sounds about right.

The point was that market value has very little to do with cost but is driven by intentionally limiting construction permits.

Out of the million euro that people have to pay to buy the 350 000 home very little goes towards building it.

The surplus of people looking to live someplace isn't an accident.

Now let us imagine what it is like running a pub. After subtracting the cost and the 5000 rent bill they probably have a sizable negative salary.
by Nevermark | 2026-01-15 22:54:33+00:00
In the context of optimizing parameters of a model, the Gradient consists of all the derivatives of the output being optimized (i.e. the total error measure) with respect to each of the models parameters.

This in effect is a simplified version of the model, linearized around its current parameter values, making it easy to see which direction to take a small step to move the ultimate output in the direction that is desired.

The Hessian consists of all 2nd order derivatives, i.e. not just slope, but the curvature of the model, around the current parameter values.

Calculating all the first and 2nd degree derivatives takes more calculation, but allows for more information as to which direction to take a learning step. As not only do we know how the output will respond linearly to a small parameter change, but whether larger changes will produce higher or lower than linear responses.

This can allow for the calculation of much larger changes to parameters, with high output improvements, speeding up training considerably, per training step.

But the trade off, is each learning step requires far more derivative calculations and memory. So a conducive model architecture, and clever tricks, are needed to make the Hessian worth using.

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Another derivative type is the Jacobian, which is the derivate of every individual output (i.e. all those numbers we normally think of as the outputs, not just the final error measure), with respect to every parameter.

Jacobians can become enormous matrices. For billions of parameters, on billions of examples, with 100's of output elements, we would get a billions x 100's of billions derivative matrix. So the Jacobians calculation can take enormous amounts of extra computation and memory. But there are still occasions (much fewer) when using it can radically speed up training.

At this point, we have enough computer power and memory available, that all small enough problems should be trained with Jacobians in my view. Levenberg-Marquardt is an optimization algorithm that uses Jacobians. It is very very fast.
by nextos | 2026-01-15 22:54:56+00:00
Regulators are generally really conservative.

Spiegelhalter already wrote a fantastic textbook on Bayesian methods for trial analysis back in 2004. It is a fantastic book, and used by statisticians in other fields. I have seen it quoted in e.g. DeepMind presentations.

Bayesian methods enable using prior information and fancy adaptive trial designs, which have the potential to make drug development much cheaper. It's also easier to factor in utility functions and look at cost:benefit. But things move slowly. They are used in some trials, but not the norm, and require rowing against the stream.

Journals are also conservative. But Bayesian methods are not that niche anymore. Even mainstream journals such as Nature or Nature Genetics include Bayesian-specific items in their submission checklists. For example, they require you to indicate prior choice and MCMC parameters [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/documents/nr-reporting-summary-flat.p...
by 000ooo000 | 2026-01-15 22:55:05+00:00
Do you think the majority of people who've killed themselves thanks to ChatGPT influence used similar euphemisms? Do you think there's no value in protecting the users who won't go to those lengths to discuss suicide? I agree, if someone wants to force the discussion to happen, they probably could, but doing nothing to protect the vulnerable majority because a select few will contort the conversation to bypass guardrails seems unreasonable. We're talking about people dying here, not generating memes. Any other scenario, e.g. buying a defective car that kills people, would not invite a response a la "well let's not be too hasty, it only kills people sometimes".
by chrysoprace | 2026-01-15 22:55:23+00:00
I was just saying this my colleagues after seeing these. Decades of political sabotage has done significant damage to our transition to renewables. I'm hopeful (perhaps a bit too wishful) that we'll see more of a push for renewables in the coming election cycles, but I'm staying realistic as the last 20 years of climate debate has been frankly shameful. At least rooftop solar is so ubiquitous.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-15 22:55:26+00:00
Sure, but this only works as advice for people who you can talk to, such as me. I'm not trying to solve my loneliness, my own personal goal is to find ways to reach out to people who sit alone all day, and are dying from loneliness, and the only way to reach them is to catch them as they walk on the way to the grocery store, and hold up a sign that they can read. The question in my mind is, what next? So far, I've only been doing surveys[1], but I'm looking for the next step.

Piggybacking off your suggestion, I like the idea of holding up a sign advertising a free activity that anyone can join, located in a very public space, with zero committment, so they can both show up and walk away at the drop of a hat. Whether it's an ad hoc organized chess tournament, or D&D game, or "one word story" or literally anything. That will have to wait until nicer weather, though, to avoid having to rent a place.

[1] https://chicagosignguy.com