skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love to have a voice changer so I could put video streams online without fear of having my voice cloned: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/14/huge-...

Sure, I’m nowhere near a bank director on the list of “attractive targets for voice cloning,” but who knows how widespread this attack might become in the future, and by the time one’s voice is out there on the Net, there’s no way to take it back.

I would like to use a voice changer when making phone calls to businesses too. I can totally imagine future corporations creating a new revenue stream by selling models of a known person’s voice to advertisers so they can later correlate the voice to that person.

Unfortunate that Lyrebird’s transformations seem easy to reverse. I wonder if there are any FOSS tools that make it harder to recover the original voice.
A lot of people have a particularly tough time understanding sarcasm in a language other than their mother tongue.
> how much of this is to favor cache hits for streams over picking the bytes up out of storage.

Netflix's catalog historically has been small enough that it can fit within a single rack.

With 8Mbps [0] bitrates for 4k (okay, add 50% for transcoding to lower resolutions, so let's call it 12Mbps), we get about 5.4GB per hour of video. At 360TB for a single 2U Open Connect storage device [1], that translates to 67k hours of 4k video.

This article from 2020 [2] indicated that US Netflix's catalog was about 36k hours. Even at 50% growth since then it would still comfortably fit on a single machine.

[0] "The highest 4K bitrate on average is 8 Mbps which is also a 50% reduction compared to 16 Mbps of the fixed-bitrate ladder." https://netflixtechblog.com/optimized-shot-based-encodes-for...

[1] https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/#the-hardware

[2] https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/how-long-would-it-take...
To what modern-day culture do Roman artifacts belong?
Both.

It is greivance for the sake of grievance. If there wasn’t something real to be upset about they would turn up the gain on the amplifier until they detected something. (That what amplifiers are for!)

Maybe 30,000 years from now most people will live in a small space megastructure (compared to Niven’s ringworld or Dyson’s sphere) and will take a somewhat different form than they do today… but there will be a small group of them that argue if Eliezer Yudokowsky or Scott Alexander or Aella was the greatest intellectual of the 21st century and they’re sure that ‘wokeness’ was a terrible problem back then even if they aren’t quite sure what it was.
> In my experience, an MS degree has been one of the strongest indicators of poor technical interview performance.

Oouf. Felt that one (and I don't even have a MS degree).
That would work if the supply of houses has kept up with populations growth, and just as importantly, the desired location of where people want to live.

If there's housing scarcity, then prices will rise far ahead of ability to pay. That's the source of a lot of other types of today's inflation, for example, cars.
That Doesn’t Feel Like $150 Worth of Groceries
I did an implementation using We components https://crisdosyago.github.io/der.Knall.Gerust/7guis/
Good point, I didn’t bother taking this route but now that I’m thinking about it, maybe it would have been useful to illustrate differences between features state management.
>No.

just no?

group consensus and participation shapes nearly every human endeavor; why do you think that this round-a-bout consensus (97%) is unrelated?
The article wasn't written by her, that isn't a statement from her. That is the journalist's statement, Matt Largey. It may or may not be completely accurate. What does "couldn't keep it" mean anyway? That she felt morally obliged to return it? Or legally obliged? The article doesn't say.
Maybe an English degree would be a good complimentary one?

"To whom..."

Sorry. Couldn't resist...
I got mine upgraded at the shack.
> What if there are circular dependencies?

You could model the dependencies as a directed graph, and ensure that there's no cycles in the graph, and if there is, don't evaluate and warn/error msg the user.
This is a great example of the company that doesn't do TechCrunch PR and is a hidden gem for shareholder value. Have been investing in their shares for a few years now and its a great example of "not the loudest ones win".

Boring businesses sometimes are a better deal...
Yes, but if you linked before that then you don't have to update (for now).
On the (in)security of ElGamal in OpenPGP [pdf]
I doubt the 10%+ year over year increases will be sustained with increased mortagage rates.

That's a long way away from predicting a crash or even a significant decline in prices, though. That would require a lot more inventory, and all those folks with 3% mortgages are going to be in no hurry to sell, and the stats on their mortgage amounts vs incomes looks WAY better than it did in 2007.
Used to do so because my only internet access was a cybercafé and when I have enough money to use a 3g modem. I used to have zeal installed, plenty of syntax references manual the occasional mirror of a site. I loved Android studio at that time because you could click on a symbol and got redirected to the definition, so you could learn how it works. I also used to collect open source codes that I review every so often to learn best practice and design patterns.
I might actually revisit it – maybe going a little deeper will eventually point to something interesting. Thanks for the nudge, I’m never sure who will be interested in things and why.
Yes and no. I would agree, but housing is, for the most part, fungible (at least for people with tech salaries). If I sold my house, I could pay for rent in my high-cost area for the better part of a decade with just the income off the sale. I am starting to think I might be crazy not to sell and pocket the money: I could rent down the street and pay rent off my salary while that large pile of money collects rent. A house isn't a particularly liquid asset, and half a house worth of liquidity seems like a safer position in the current market.
Any landlord who finds themselves so burdened by missed rent payments ought to just sell their properties. The market's never been better. They can use the windfall to start a real business instead.
I worked on the shop app too (backend and iOS app). Small world.

I’ve moved on from shopify but still use the app.
BlobGAN: Spatially Disentangled Scene Representations
Oooo I like this! I’ll have to steal it.

Thanks for the tip!
Long time Cloudflare customer (and fan!). It's great to see their ever-increasing traction on the global scale.
I have no idea how one flunks the kindergarten, but I’m pretty sure that it does not reflect one’s intellect in anyway.

Am pretty sure there’s an interesting story there somewhere :)
AWS employees are issued two Yubikeys, which are registered for all internal auth use cases. For me, but not for thee, it seems.
I'm not really sure how. I can count on 1 hand the number of under-40 homeowners I know.
>For Microsoft to be able to make any smartphone OS margins versus Android being given away for free, they'd have to be willing to cut margin expectations or overly invest to make a "knock it out of the park" OS.

If Microsoft was able to look beyond OS margins into potential advertising revenue or App store revenue, then they could have justified the investment. But hindsight is 20/20.
Reading the article, I was just thinking there should have been an Accept-Protocol header, but now I see that a limited version of that exists as Upgrade-Insecure-Requests.
> Rust can be similarly high level as Python

In fact, Rust is MORE high level than python and most languages. That is exactly the borrow checker and all the other things are.

What is not, is being "simple" as python.

I code now full Rust and is the most productive language in my +20 years of this. My other picks: python, Delphi, FoxPro.

But is not productive exactly the same way python/delphi is. It has other axes of it. So in some task Python is unmatched and my main pick for scripting or brainstorming stuff. But Rust is the best at being overall productive.

Where is not (today) is lack of time/resources to be there (like GUIs. But honestly, nothing compare to FoxPro/delphi)...
Lisp will tell you if it can, by dropping you in a breakloop. A breakloop is a repl that includes all of the normal Lisp repl features plus the full stack and dynamic environment of the broken code (which you can inspect and edit), plus a set of restarts you can select to resume execution, abandon the broken function, or transfer control in some other way defined by the context of the breakloop (which you can customize to your heart's content).

Smalltalk has equivalent features.

Lisp won't catch every possible error you could possibly make, of course, so testing is good defensive programming.

On the other hand, when I'm working in Lisp, testing happens almost by default. It's the majority of what I do: I write experiments in files and hit a key to send them to the repl to test what happens.

Tests generally start as little experiments like this. Some of them are useful over and over. Those graduate from informal experiments to formal tests.
You can still find great deals at university surplus sales. more fun than goodwill ever was. Scored a $1500 RF amp for $25 at one of those.
Right, and for good reason. It used to be the case that houses were affordable on a basic salary. That hasn’t been the case for a long time for a lot of people. (And to be fair, still isn’t in urban areas.)

The combo of slightly higher wages, more young people moving out, and low interest rates does mean more people have the opportunity. And that’s not a bad thing. If you cancel any of those factors, you’re blocking access to people who would love to own a home.

I think the factors that should change are supply and investors. It’s not like we live in an era where housing is cheap and bountiful. Clearly it’s severely constrained. The other part is investment. With low interest rates, it’s easy to justify a house as an investment vehicle.

Legislatively, it needs to be easy to build and hard to buy more than one property.
JumpCrisscross says >"I have decent healthcare."<

You thought you had decent healthcare! FTFY!

As a child I lived in the South where parasites are endemic. I had my shit analyzed every physical. I shat in a jar in the comfort of my home and brought it to the physical; the doctor's job was to make slides and search for parasites. It was obvious that the doctor didn't enjoy the tests, much to my amusement.

As an adult I've never had a similar test. Yet I live in a similar climate and often do the same things I did as a child (e.g., walk barefoot, swim in a river, etc.).

I asked my doctors about parasites but they always ho-hummed, claiming any parasitic infestation would show up on blood tests. I think they're wrong and so treat myself to the occasional anti-parasitic.

FWIW it isn't a new "ivermectin hypothesis": it's been discussed ad nauseum, even on HN.
YouTube has plenty of Ansible introductions for various skill levels and preferences.

Check out Jeff Geerling’s YouTube videos and his Ansible book, which is the de facto bible.
Unless they recently purchased and ended up in negative equity
If you think 40k/yr is buy-a-house money you've never lived off 40k/yr.
That wiki page and the article clearly state this museum was built in the 1840s. So what is your basis for asserting this sculpture was stolen by nazis?
I tried this on my typewriter, And. And. And. And. And. <nothing></nothing>

Probably because it's out of paper.

Related: how is paper fed into an Apple Magic Keyboard - Hebrew?

Edit:
Tried to reproduced with Arabic keyboard, plugged in now. Accidentally inverted right-to-left in brain.

dnA. dnA. dnA. dnA. dnA.
Something tells me you wouldn't forgive a foreign power for killing your children on account of "[having] dozens of equally-, less- and more-important items on [their] agenda". I mean even to say that you had a lot of more important things going on than worrying about accidently killing innocent American citizens.. says a lot. It's not spilled milk
PostgreSQL Query Observability with Pg_stat_monitor
Most Lispers type into source files and send the changes over to the REPL using e.g., SLIME on Emacs. Rebuilding the image from source is always possible.

Even under Smalltalk, which works more like you say, the system tracks and saves source changes. At least that's how it works under Squeak and Pharo.

Very few developers would be foolish enough to use a heap image as the source of all truth. I'm sure it happens, just like the place I worked at whose entire web stack was based on a magic DLL no one knew how to compile, happened. Like the magic DLL, it's widely considered a terrible, terrible idea.
so what you're saying is... you don't need more NIMBY housing in your back yard?
Kyle Harper: Plagues Upon the Earth Disease and the Course of Human History
This is a podcast episode and interview with the author of Plagues Upon the Earth, Oklahoma University historian Kyle Harper.

Direct audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBN2511895438.mp3
Easy depends on your income
OP may already possess a master's degree, school-of-life alumnus.

But I "get" it. I've thought of doing this too.

I would add one criteria: I get to do the whole master's degree using Rust.

I'm sure this would narrow the field of schools.

I want a master's from a school that recognizes that it's effectively over for C++ and Java. At least it's completely over in my own mind. There's no way in hell I'm doing a master's degree where the school's obsolete syllabus dictates those legacy languages.

This stipulation might garner considerable traction. This quirky old guy, with more industry experience than anyone on faculty, will run advance reconnaissance for us, which is something he's been doing much longer than our typical master's students have been alive.

Because let's be honest guys: it's all about Rust going forward. If you feel otherwise I respect that view, but you haven't seen the shit I've seen.

I'd do a Rust-centric master's degree in a heartbeat, and I'm sure I'd love every minute of it.
nah they're all using robinhood to speculate on stocks instead because they got priced out of the housing market
Tokyo residents
In practice this doesn’t happen in big cities. It only increases demand.
Agreed.

The fundamental problem is a violation of liberty.

Once liberty is violated the responsibility for outcome is removed from the person and placed on the authority.
We'll find out over the next 6-12 months. At some point, a lot of home buyers started shopping by payment without regard to total price. With interest rates near their lowest in anyone's lifetimes that was workable.

With interest rates rising, as buyers who haven't locked in lower rates begin looking at the current payments on offer, they will have to look at lower priced homes or drop out of the market. If this boom has been driven primarily by buyers flush with cash, foreign or domestic, then prices should remain high. Payments are largely irrelevant to cash buyers. Any buyer using debt will be forced into lowering their ceiling of properties they can afford. Home prices should then fall.
> a posteriori justification

I believe you're looking for the phrase "post hoc", because a posteriori refers to knowledge that can only be gained from application of a test of some sort, whether logical or scientific.
It’s difficult because civil service is designed for stable professions, clerks, attorneys, finance people. IT is too variable, and it’s usually impossible to attract mid career talent. So you hire early career talent, especially second career people, and “grow them”.

Usually gov IT is not a sexy place for smart political people to land. That is the key talent you need. You can always get smart technical people. Big 5 consultancies will deliver, but you need to always keep them afraid, and that’s a political problem.
What apps can our 2-year-old use? An algorithmic approach
Is there a decent overview of commercial adoption of Matrix? i.e. what are the top 10 biggest companies using Matrix, and is there a vehicle by which they could pay for some security audits and bug bounties above and beyond the Matrix foundation?
It's not shit you stole, not even shit your ancestors stole, it's shit someone who once occupied the same territory that you now occupy stole during a state of war.

I think for the same reason we have a Statute of Limitations on property crimes, you shouldn't have to return anything. Returning it would be very woke indeed.
Moreover, Smalltalk and Interlisp interactions are recorded in files automatically--the changes file, the sources file, and the working image (which also contains tools--e.g. Interlisp's Masterscope--for keeping track of changes).

The notion that you'll lose your work if you use the normal means of interacting with the repl is a misunderstanding of how such systems work.
Chess, Factorio and Sudoku.

I have a huge library of games, none of which I play anymore except the 3 above
There’s no rule that you should be able to afford a house on a middle class income. In fact in many countries, particularly in Western Europe, it’s unimaginable that you would be able to afford a detached, single family home on a middle class income. Lots of people in that situation will live in apartments, row houses, or condos for the rest of their lives.
Any chance at a version of this for Traefik?
Someone in the government really pulled off a slick move when they managed to disconnect "inflation" from "increases in the cost of housing and food", didn't they?
I agree, I don't understand the principle here. And what about things like the Horses of Saint Mark [0], which were looted by Venetians after the sack of Constantinople in 1204?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_of_Saint_Mark
Maybe an English degree would be a good complimentary one?

Muphry's Law strikes again: compl-e-mentary vs. compl-i-mentary.
...but how would repealing this act remove US longshoremen?
> Is Italy, a country 200 years old, the heir of ancient Rome?

This is an interesting question. The answer is hard to pin down precisely, but sometimes when there is a change of governance the culture continues to exist. For instance, if something was produced in Japan before World War II, Japan remains the heir even though a new constitution is now in place. Similar with something produced in Moscow during the Soviet era: Russia is the heir. But something produced in Kyiv during the Soviet era, Ukraine is the heir.

> The easiest woke thing

Please don't derail discussion with inflammatory culture war, it's against the HN guidelines.
The same was true with religion. There was no wonder, just gospel.

Again we’ve made a truism that we’re doing for the greater good by setting ourselves aside for the hustle. Yet no science gives anyone omniscience; we follow along because what else to do, but the high minded goals we follow along with do not have to be rockets to nowhere.

Notice how all the rich people do little real work to provide material things they need? They externalize the necessary effort required for their survival, despite being mortals who are expected to support themselves, they gossip and babble and produce little that truly supports them.

The public needs to let go of the Protestant work ethic, the mountain man struggle and become a better negotiator. The grind keeps them from imagining in detail for themselves.
I remember that I was ardently hoping that Windows Mobile would fail soon because of the extra cost it added to development. One platform is too little (remember IE6) and three is too much. And yet I work with a Linux laptop but I build web apps deployed to Linux servers.
Given that religion, especially the Abrahamic faiths(at least for the western and Islamic worlds) were a huge part in getting to the scientifically minded society we have today, I would think it might be an Alien species' way of making us advance ourselves intellectually. Religion is pretty much what forced people to live together peacefully so that science can advance. Go back 100,000 years and humans were still eating each other.
> There's no way in hell I'm doing a masters degree where the school's obsolete syllabus dictates those legacy languages

This applies not only to languages, but techniques, systems knowledge, documentation - everything about it really.

Part of the problem with selecting a degree on the basis of modernity is each course in the degree can be vastly different - some are up to date, others are 10 years out of date.

There's also a slight risk in doing a course in its first year, because the bugs haven't been ironed out.
Woops - I got lost in the title/reality confound there. All apologies.
> this has started to become a signal of shops to take great caution and best to avoid

Interesting, I've generally felt the opposite. Do you feel it is as bad as Amazon? Do you have some examples of Shopify shops that are particularly bad?
> color palette

The TFA failed to mention websafe colors. I still have that poster hanging on the wall: http://www.visibone.com/color/poster4x.html
All of that may be true, but none of it means that you will not find yourself on the receiving end of such claims, and in the USA, the cost of your defense is all on you (iirc in England, it is loser pays both attny costs).

So, yes, best to get proper expert advice, even when you are acting in good faith, as there is nothing preventing others from acting in bad faith.
So to sum it up this exchange:

Person1: A

You: This sounds like B, which is fallacious.

Person2: A

You: Again...this sounds like B, which is fallacious.

Me: No one is claiming B

You: I never said anyone claimed B. I said this sounds like B.

Sound about right?
Ivy – extended dialect of C that checks type, memory, and concurrency safety
Reminds me of this old Star Trek chestnut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WRtqmHpLvg
Australian here, I think the comments here overstate how bad MyGov is. I'm in my mid 20's, and I have literally never had to call any federal government organisation, visit any service centre or post any forms. For my entire adult life, all of my interactions with federal services have been through MyGov. This includes taxes, welfare, healthcare and education...

I can only imagine how colossal the undertaking must have been. MyGov ties together our largest, most bureaucratic organisations. Imagine being tasked with such an project, building the web application is the easy part, you also need to convince a country's largest organisations to change how they operate.

Considering this, I'm actually surprised how good MyGov is.
It would likely trigger larger economic shifts that could cause job loss, tank the market, etc. Hard to buy homes if you have no income or have your investments obliterated before you can sell.
Housing should never have been an asset to make piles of money on. That's how we're in this mess to begin with. We need a place to live. The first priority for a house is to HOUSE someones. That should matter first and foremost.

Investors should be forced to legally go fuck themselves. Same with flippers. Same with landlords. All of these just add extra cost and exfiltrate equity for some rich person to get richer. (I've lived with landlords for 40 years. My hatred is deep here. They've taken my money, built their equity, and charged 1.5x more than the housing would have cost. Damn straight I'm angry.)

there's few cases where landlords of a form make sense - dense housing is needed in cities. Treat them like cooperatives, or do like utility companies where this service is guaranteed and here's the cost. But companies should not be able to unduely profit on the fact that people have to live.
+1 to this. Good program. Great faculty. Department does well in rankings.