skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You could of course clone a voice to generate that "consent" -- but at that point there's no additional harm done because they'd already have the clone.

But this possibility renders the idea unviable in the first place, does it not?
I've said it before but: everyone knew this. In 2017 when the first monster crypto run happened it seemed like everyone's onboarding/KYC protocols were blocking new US users besides Binance. I had an account with them purely because they seemed to be willfully ignoring financial regulations (not that I was doing anything wrong, I was just impatient and wanted to buy some coins).

Surprise! They were.
Hey HN, we are Mahmoud and Hammad

Are you though? You might just be computer-generated.

While I'm very impressed with this technically (and as a pro-audio person I feel validated to see my predictions of a few years back coming true so dramatically), I don't see anything about risk management in here. Your tech absolutely will get used by scammers, given the overabundance of voice data on the open internet. How are you going to hedge against that?
Write my PhD thesis, even incorporating the written and oral feedback of my advisor, which I record and use as input.

Yes it was a bad joke, one I did not think I could make just 1 year earlier.
Sounds like the prop shouldn't be getting passed to the component then if the component isn't using it to render itself? Maybe it should be getting sent straight to your "store" perhaps? Let the components take care of the rendering, let your "store"/"state machine"/whatever take care of the side effects.
Yes. I have wondered about similar things. I now truly wonder what the alternate spellings would have been interpreted as. That would have significant implications.
This is what I find most annoying about rust's async ecosystem; many functions depend on being called within a certain executor, but this is not documented in the type at all. You should not provide, and arguably not be able to provide, functions which look like they can be called in any context but which require shared mutable global state!
Even a production company would rent gear quite often. But I'm a hobbyist, have no planned shoot and hate the hassle of renting anything, broadly speaking.
It's old tech, for sure, but it's what my parents still use. I occasionally will burn a DVD of some video I've shot for them to watch.
You know how there are always stories where people are complaining that some financial company (often PayPal) shut their account down and won’t say why?

That’s because of AML laws.

Their account got flagged by OFAC—deservedly or not—and the company is bound from discussing anything about it under any circumstances.

The level it goes to is frankly kind of ridiculous, but that’s the legal regime financial services companies operate under. And that’s not to defend PayPal as a company either. Just that when you see people saying some company is horrible because they close accounts and give no information, it's (not always, but) very frequently one situation that’s entirely out of the company’s hands.
As an anecdote, I have a mentor/friend who made 500k+ from the 1990s to present day. He once told me in a nonchalant way, "there was a point in my life where I realized I could basically buy whatever I wanted." Hearing him say this was like a different language for me.

There were several years early in my childhood where macaroni and cheese was one of the main courses in family meals, because we didn't have much money. This was until my parents worked multiple jobs and promoted their way into respectable wealth - hearing my friend make that comment really stuck with me and I laugh whenever I'm reminded of it, like today.

Anyway, I agree with you totally. The OP comment doesn't seem like a normal thing for people to say and is rather tone deaf IMO. I could make ten times more than what I do now and would still notice yogurt being 80% more in our grocery. Luckily for me I don't have to budget when it comes to groceries, but I'm well aware of how much pain some people/families must be going through.
> Windows Vista was good by SP1 but required 2GB of RAM. WinSxS disk usage was only fixed on Win7, though.

Was it? I remember they added a tool that claimed it would clean it up but in practice it didn't seem to do much.

I thought Windows 10 just papered over the whole mess by doing an in place upgrade of the whole OS every 6-12 months.
It's not obvious to me that First-Citizens got "no additional liquid assets"?

When SVB failed, the Federal Reserve said they would give banks a one year loan at par for treasuries and mortgage-backed securities: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
Can you describe the structure of your conversation? Did you describe what libraries you were using and send the full code of the main app component?
Did you _need_ to switch your games UI to Svelte because Vue2 really wasn't good enough for you needs, or did you just want to learn Svelte?
Tangentially related. (I thought of this when thinking about what the OP said about rust forcing you to hardcode your function's types prevents spooky action at a distance.)

In Unison [0], when you change a function's type, it computes the number of call sites of that function (and callers of the callers, etc), and gives you a "todo-list" of functions you'll need to fix. As you go through the todo-list, the list of functions to fix only ever gets smaller. It can do this because the compiler knows the state of the codebase before and after your change. That means it can see the difference between "you changed a function's type, which broke the callers" and "you changed how you're calling a function, and your change didn't typecheck".

[0]: https://www.unison-lang.org/
> been wanting to do this for ages. Now they have an excuse.

There is always a longer list of enforcement targets than enforcement capacity. Learning from crises isn't a conspiracy, it's competence.

> they knew about FTX and let it slide until it blew up

I would 100% say this. Many people did. They weren't confident, however, they could prove it in court.
I use Linux/Windows/macOS just about daily.

Personally - I'd prefer to be on linux full time, but work issues macbooks, and I develop applications that run across all three, so I use all three.
>Introducing the National Postal Service - send a letter to anyone for a nominal fee. No need for a personal courier, armed escort, or patrician status.

>This is the kind of thing that should be illegal. Now, any Plebian could essentially write a letter to anyone, impersonating anyone. Forged letters could drag us into a war with Persia - for Jupiter's sake!
So so true.
> Linux and windows will never share a drive well.

Nowadays with UEFI and GPT, sharing a drive is not a problem; they don't stomp on each other's MBR anymore and even UEFI itself comes with a boot manager.

The bigger problem is to learn about these "new" things ("new", because introduced ~15 years ago) and stop doing stupid shit that worked with legacy BIOS and is not necessary anymore. Grub breaking itself randomly is mostly self-inflicted problem.
Wow hammad, here on HN :P couldn't believe until few years ago
This is a great project!

Have you though about what happens at inference? Suppose I train in a federated healthcare environment using PII features from patient records. Once I get the weights back how can I ever deploy it if I don't have access to the same features? The models would become highly coupled to the training environments no?

Best of luck!
JavaScript was not tenable for scripts with Node.js. Startup time is too slow. Now it is because of Bun. I don't think you can argue with that.

Rust isn't a scripting language - too strict, no optional typing, slow compilation.
Most scammers are incredibly lazy and honestly not all that competent. There's no need for them to change that if you can prey on the weak and vulnerable.

The difference between "the paper is out there" and "there's a button to do this" is quite obvious in cases like software exploits. A report of finding a vulnerability rarely leads to a massive automated exploitation campaign, but if that report also contains a proof of concept the amount of automated attacks radically increase. I believe the same is true for many other types of crime: even a mild bar to entry will prevent a significant amount of criminals from advancing their techniques.

I think the negative impact of these voice changers is much bigger than the advantage we gain as a society. Criminals will always exist, even crafty ones, but "we can't prevent crime so let's not bother trying to do anything about it" is not a great take in my opinion.
I think most people would disagree with that. The ecmascript versions even changed their naming from numbered to release year reference because they wanted to move fast and acknowledge a commitment to consistent/frequent release cycle. That's why they moved from es6 naming to say es2015 etc.

Compare that to something like Lua which is notoriously slow and deliberate with changes.

I tend to think with JS's willingness to adopt any and every hot/contemporary programming trend and it's inability to purge anything (or "break the web"), it's unfortunately destined to age like milk, but I guess time will tell.
> When is it a crime to knowingly be selling to criminals?

When you know that the transaction you're part of is directly involved in their crimes. It's one thing to know, statistically, the some portion of your customers are doing crimes. It's an entirely different thing to know that this customer is doing that crime with your assistance.
If you work in software you and your coworkers probably have never needed to run a side-gig to make ends meet. No offense, I am right there with you, so I think it is sampling bias.
OOB: ".. during the SSH protocol’s authentication phase, the Tailscale SSH server already knows who the remote party is and takes over, not requiring the SSH client to provide further proof (using the SSH authentication type none)."
https://tailscale.com/kb/1193/tailscale-ssh/#how-does-it-wor...
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller
Of course it's a tragedy of the commons type of situation

TOTC is about resource depletion. GYI. It's not applicable here.
> But where this thing is already banging out emails way faster than an unassisted human,

… your system is completely broken. Emails are for communicating between people: if they're not being used for that, you need to fix that problem first.

> companies that don't raise their productivty-per-employee are going to get left behind

Can you give an example of a field where this would actually happen?
Microsoft cloned Slack (poorly and got sued), used existing corporate agreements to entice companies to force Teams on unhappy employees and got lucky with COVID. It really think it has nothing to do with features. Of the dozens of teams I work with, almost none use any Teams features beyond text chat and calls.
Not going to say anything about the inflation figures.

But the general tone of Petapixel is a perfect example of photography media still not getting it with the constant tone of "cheap things are toys" and fancy things are "serious tools". Nothing used to take the photos in space taken handheld can be a toy by definition, hindsight is 20/20 and yet they still make this remark.

It's like no matter what happens people who write about photography can't figure out it's what you do with a camera that makes it a tool, not how much money you spend.

Most of the people playing with toys are buying the expensive toys most of the time, but realistically there is no correlation between buying luxury camera gear and making serious photos.
Even the Apple I needed electricity to be useful.
Making then the illegal would accomplish nothing since it's already out in the wild. You can generate audio with high quality on fine-tuned versions of Tortoise TTS, which was originally trained on a cluster of NVIDIA 3090's, so it's within reach for any smart person to train a from-scratch model on consumer hardware. Realistically? We have to accept that this tech exists and there will be both positive and negative outcomes from it.
As this is what every "organized crime" (people who dont want prying eyes) groups have done for centuries.

Next, normal people will adopt the Mafia's 'cover the mouth while pretending to use a tooth-pick whilst talking to prevent lip reading from remote viewers (same thing sports people do currently.

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My granmother was deaf for the latter half of her life. She became an expert lip reader.

It was fun going to restaurants with her as she would tell me what people at the tables far away were talking about "oh that couple isnt having a happy time..."
All the obvious stuff aside, the billions of dollars, the Islamic stuff, bankers and bank politics, the ties to militaries and the drama… there is just so seemingly a second side to this story.
As someone whose voice has been cloned without my consent, I could not agree more.
Survey of Neural Transfer Functions [pdf]
Just upgraded to Windows 11 (for its HDR features) and weather is now part of the "Widgets" bombarding me with ads and poor news sources. I genuinely tried to customize my "feed" but it's all junk -no reputable sources whatsoever- and I didn't find a way to remove them.

So the only sane course of action was to disable widgets altogether while I still can. And now I don't have the weather anymore.
There's an alternative theory about why Social Media sucks I'd like to ask OP their opinion about. It might sound a little elitist or exclusionary, but it rings true for me.

Why does Social Media suck? Maybe it's not because we don't have the right commercial entities running it. Maybe it's not because we don't have the right government rules regulating speech on it. Is the real problem with Social Media (and modern technology like idiot-proof cell-phones) that it's now possible for every low-IQ idiot out there to provide their (almost always) useless opinions to more people than the qualities of their ideas merit?

To make a long conversation short, most people are not that bright and have no serious useful ideas to add to any discussion outside of personal discussions about family and friends. When it comes to political discussions as an example, most people can (at best) parrot slogans they hear from politicians. Yet the Internet is flooded with political opinions anyway.

Why was the Internet a haven around say 2003? It's because most dumb people didn't have a computer with Internet access yet and it wasn't accessible to the average person. The Internet was great only when the idiots of the world weren't on it. You didn't need complicated rules or structures when the average online user was a smarter person.

4chan (despite whatever flaws it has) is still relatively good for some types of discussions because the immediately unintuitive UI makes it relatively inaccessible for dumb people.

HackerNews is relatively good because while the UI is pretty good, the culture and topics discussed make it inaccessible to dumb people.

Is this accessibility the real issue with Social Media and the Internet in general?
>> As a tip, before trying to contribute any larger patches to FOSS, create a issue to ask if this is something they'd actually be willing to merge,

Oh I completely agree. This was scratching an itch on my part, plus I had been under the impression they didn't want it. But it wasn't clear, did they not want to develop it themselves? Why the 3-band? So I finally sat down and did something and fit the submission guidelines to find out.

Now I kinda have the bug. It might be best to make some kind of pipewire effects that can be used in anything (on linux).
> Microsoft won the work from home game by delivering more features even though the quality admittedly suffered.

Microsoft won the work from home game by bundling Teams with an O365 subscription that companies were paying for anyway, making it cost-effective for the bean counters to use a "free" crappy tool instead of a paid better one.

Whether this is anticompetitive monopolist behavior in a legal sense is a question for the courts, but it's certainly anticompetitive in spirit, and undoubtedly true that Teams is not winning on merit.
Says everyone until they have a power loss event…
Can you really read those messages and claim they are the "bad cop"?
I'd say pull that logic out of your components and put it in some central place like an XState machine exposed to your components through Context.
The Kubernetes API is itself a leaky abstraction over many different concepts. Putting docker-compose over top of that is just an even leakier abstraction.

Even their example of using Ingresses is already leaky because there is no similar concept of Ingresses in docker-compose, so they're hacking it with labels. What if I need to set a higher request timeout for my app? I have to set a docker-compose label that converts into an Ingress annotation (the leaky part of the Ingress abstraction)? And this is somehow less cognitive load?

Like all similar attempts to simplify deploying apps, it only works if all your apps fit in a nice box. Anything slightly non-standard (like needing different classes of storage volumes) will expose the leakiness. Even Kubernetes kinda still expects all your apps to be stateless web services and will fight you otherwise.
They could have opened an account at binance for sure
Pretty cool. Probably worth sharing the GitHub link directly to HN.
> This has interesting implications because it means people will gravitate towards languages/frameworks/libraries that GPT knows well, which means even less training data will be generated for the new stuff. This is a form of value lock-in.

That's the kind of problem that most people are just failing to see. The usage of this models might not in itself be problematic, but the changes that it bring are often unexpected and too deep for us to see clearly now. And yet, people are rushing towards them at full speed.
A search engine using Bing's index isn't a real competitor to google and bing.

A good example is something like Brave Search, Independent index with independent AI and its own AD network.

But this change really shows that Microsoft believes Bing can take on google now(and it does! BARD is absolute garbage compared to gpt-4), and it doesn't want anything or anyone getting in its way.
Just to take the comment seriously, when I kick it with buddies, I seem to be naturally attuned and attentive to my bodily needs way more than when I get sucked into a very addicting videogame, where after I finally snap out of the fugue state, a lot of my bodily needs are like, "WERE YOU NOT LISTENING TO US FOR THE PAST 2-3 HOURS OR SOMETHING?"

It's legit made me try to find videogames that are not that addicting, but not that boring, and it's extremely hard to find lol.
Modern lifeboats have killed more people than they've saved [video]
When OpenAI and Google insists on "safety" it leaves the door open for startups that do things like this.
Finding lots of value in drafting emails, especially for topics or asks I'm not as used to dealing with, like asking for extensions or blaming other teams for blockers. Obviously takes a few iterations ('be less verbose!') but I get a lot of value in seeing a couple different ways to word the request and how to frame the background facts to come to the conclusion I want.

Started using it as a coaching tool for new hires who aren't used to the world of corporate memos yet.
They are all from 2020-2022
Seems like we'll sort of inevitably end up with a sort of cross-site verifiable identity on the internet. All content requiring some sort of verified user backing it. Generally will be interesting to see what an internet with less anonymity looks like.
> I like drag-to-side-to-go-halfscreen for window management

Couldn't you do this in Windows 7 with WinKey+Left or WinKey+Right? I guess I am kind of keyboard oriented in my usage though, I mostly get frustrated with the edge of screen mouse features because I mostly enable them by accident.
> So you consider copying large files a fringe / or edge case,

No, I consider sustained writing at maximum speed for more than several minutes to be an edge case.

Consider the 240GB ADATA in the article. It can write over 400MB/sec for over 150 seconds before throttling kicks in. That's 1/4 of the entire drive.

The Crucial drive has no problem doing at least 100MB/sec for the entire capacity of the drive, if that's your thing.

> but personally, I'm not so sure. Especially for people who buy cheap 1TB or 2TB+ SSDs, they may be unpleasantly surprised when they copy some media files

You can write 40GB to 3 of these drives and never even throttle. That's an entire Blu Ray, and it would occupy 1/3 of the 120GB drives tested.

If someone has a use case that involves writing 50% of the drive at full speed over and over again, a cheap SSD is not the ideal tool. But that's really an edge case for a budget 120GB drive.

> or start downloading a game from steam.

The slowest SSDs in the article can consume the entire bandwidth of a Gigabit internet connection until the drive is full.

The ADATA has dramatic throttling, but it only kicks in after 60GB written at full speed.

You're not going to encounter these throttling scenarios under normal operations. If you're only getting a drive for 100GB sequential transfers over and over at the highest possible speed, get something else. But then again, you're probably not looking at $20 120GB SSDs anyway.
> doubt you'll see CZ in any country with a US extradition treaty

If he's financing terrorism, a broad extradition treaty goes from being a blocker to a diplomatic hurdle. (To be clear, I'm not suggesting kidnapping. Governments can negotiate one-off extraditions for high-value targets.)

It also appears he was knowingly financing Hamas and Russia, which makes the list of potential enemies (and people who would prefer him dead to compromised) substantial.
If only LLAMA had an actual open license...

As for alternatives, phind is pretty good and uses its own independent model, but it might be killed by this change, as AFAIK, they use bing for results.
I find it funny that it took them the entire lifespan of Windows 10 to finish moving everything from Control Panel to the 'Settings' app.
> For example, in February 2019, after receiving information "regarding HAMAS transactions" on Binance, Lim explained to a colleague that terrorists usually send "small sums" as "large sums constitute money laundering." Lim's colleague replied: "can barely buy an AK47 with 600 bucks." And with regard to certain
Binance customers, including customers from Russia, Lim acknowledged in a February 2020 chat: "Like come on. They are here for crime." Binance's MLRO agreed that "we see the bad, but we close 2 eyes."
Microsoft needs to declutter. Windows and Edge are starting to feel like a very disorganized junk drawer.
Wow, that was a long time to wait before finding out what the site is trying to show me.
This is a hilariously bad attempt at discrediting the original argument. There's a vast difference between forging a letter and replicating the unique vocal fingerprint of any human being, on demand.

I suppose if we approach the point that we can create robotic clones of anyone, anywhere, that look, sound, and move like anyone on the planet, that will be just like the post office too, right?