skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN has been under a botnet attack for several days. We had to lower the threshold for certain types of blocking in order to keep the site up. Unfortunately that leads to false positives, meaning some IP addresses of legit users get blocked. (It's not easy to distinguish between a legit user who is e.g. opening a bunch of tabs at once, from a distributed botnet sending a handful of requests from a massive number of IPs.)

I'm sorry! I know it's a pain and we're trying hard to avoid it. But it has nothing to do with any individual user. How would we even know who's accessing HN unless they tell us?

This sort of automatic block clears itself in 3 days, and in the meantime anyone in this situation can unban their IP as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. (You have to do that from a different IP address, of course.)

People are, of course, also welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com to get this kind of thing fixed. It's easy to take care of in specific cases and we're happy to help anyone.

Edit: I just cleared all those IP blocks from any time before 24 hours ago, so hopefully that will help.
Check out Zeal if git cloning docs is something you do.

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I find FaceTime terrible. Takes 10 seconds or more to connect.
We just need to slow Earth’s rotation or migrate to Venus for more hours in a day! Think of the profits!
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This article only covers the musical aspects of AI voice cloning, but there's another dynamic to AI voice cloning that's more complicated: replacing general voice actors in movies/video games/anime (example: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/24/ai-voice-actors-victoria-at... )

Unlike musicians who can't be replaced without significant postprocessing, have enough money to not be impacted by competition, and have legal muscle, voice over artists:

- Can be reproduced with good-enough results from out-of-the-box voice cloning settings on ElevenLabs or an open source equivalent (Bark, VALL-E X)

- Are already underpaid for their work as-is

- Have no legal ownership of their voice since they are contractors, and their voicework is owned by their clients who may not be as incentivised in protecting the VO.

I want to write a blog post about it but I suspect most people on Hacker News won't be interested in a treatise on the cultural impacts of the voicework in Persona 5 and Genshin Impact.
Private companies are interested in profitable science, not impactful science. In fact it can have negative impact: Discovering a way to extend intellectual property rights for an expiring patent, or a formulation that they can charge more for. Discovering a cheap cure for cancer wouldn't help profits.

And have their own internal politics - they want science that does not disrupt the VP/CEO's plans, or make the chief scientist look bad.
This is cool, but not a direction I expected from Apple. Is this fully released and generally available?
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Would also like to know this. Can't seem to find an open source tts engine that works on mobile to read muh books
A true leader takes hard questions and answers them live. Watch some footage of Steve Jobs taking hard questions (yes, I know Steve Jobs had some real issues, because we have to mention that, but I cite him because he is one of the great leaders in the tech space).

When Fauci went in front of the media and dodged and weaved he didn't build trust, he made people question.

If you're ever in a situation where a leader is dodging hard questions that's a big tell. Take note of it.
A charge usually takes 20-30 minutes. You get a five minute grace period, then you start getting hit with $1/min idle fees. That’s barely enough time to get from the far reaches of the parking lot to a store and back.

Bringing the food closer to the charging station fixes that. No idea about the drive-in, though.

(Of course it also brings with it the risk of a spot getting ICE’d, which is why charging stations are so far out in the first place. Dunno how they plan to avoid that.)
Some packages already use those. For previous Python versions, those are available in typing_extensions: https://typing-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
But this is the shell we're talking about, one of the primary interface for development work, so I think the effort is worth it. By relying heavily on edit-command-line, you have to choose between coping with suboptimal keybindings and opening a text editor every time you want to run a command.

Also, zsh's vi bindings are surprisingly good. Obviously, it won't be useful as a full-fledged text editor. But it's more than good enough for command line editing. It even has visual mode and registers, which you rarely see implemented in an interpreter.

It's true that it requires some configuration though. At least around 20 lines. Zsh's vi mode inherits vi's quirks that are normally disabled in Vim, including the weird backspace behavior in insert mode. Those have to be overridden individually. Text objects and surround bindings need to be explicitly bound too.
Indeed. If you're not using a cloud provider bandwidth is extremely cheap.

In fact locally I can get a 10 gbps home internet unmetered connection for $300/mo.

I'm not sure how they'd react if I transferred 1 PB/mo though :)
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That's a great point, misaligned incentives. And I'd add to that misaligned goals.

The engineer who wants to deliver their project in return for their salary, in contrast to the sociable c-suite exec, who wants to cosplay the work environment of yesteryear.

This applies to the wider corporate world and not even just the tech industry but I understand it's relevance as this is HN.
Tried to give Windows 10 a shot a year or 2 ago but quickly went back to Linux because my dev env was much slower because defender constantly scans everything
Ah in that case, base58 can be useful because it doesn't use characters that may be ambiguous in some fonts (doesn't use: 0/O/I/l , but does use: 1/i)
"David Graeber: Oh, absolutely. After all, the alter-globalization movement grew out of a broad global reaction to the Washington consensus, which was never any sort of consensus, but rather, a vision of the world forcibly imposed on the global South through the third world debt crisis. I was involved in “drop the debt” campaigns of various sorts since at least 2000. What got me interested in some of the philosophical issues I ended up ex- ploring in the book was the peculiar moral power of the notion of debts. So many oth- erwise sympathetic people, even when told of the terrible, almost unimaginably inhu- man suffering inflicted on people in the global South because of the depredations of the IMF, would still respond, “well, that’s terrible that so many children died slow and painful deaths, but still—surely one has to pay one’s debts!"

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Edit: responded to dead comment
My favorite is the Mr. Krabs cover of "Billie Jean"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkQ-44PvTs8
If you believe it, it isn't fraud.
What's crazy is that they're only getting banned now.
Ok but mtbl. There's a whole culture devoted to immutable (write once) databases at very large scale. There's another whole culture which thinks ACID shouldn't apply to distributed systems and that global context should be avoided.

In the context of cloud, (MariaDB versus MySQL) what both brand options offer is multiple engine support. The cloud tends to offer its own engines, under its own brand(s).
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It absolutely helps the malware magnets that manage to download malware daily and visit watering holes / phishing sites on a regular basis. There are better ways to block malware but they are higher friction and the majority of cautious people would find it too intrusive. Such as preventing downloading unless a file is in a pre-approved hash-table which is a thing I've had companies try to convince me we needed.
> So I really do not see what the problem is.

WFH gave those damn individual contributors some agency and prevented dead weight middle management from Lumberghing. Pretty soon they start thinking they're people and having some work/life balance.

Private equity that owns companies also owns stakes in commercial real estate. If companies start breaking leases or renting less office space those private equity firms will lose money. The worst thing in the world is your economic betters losing money. How else will that money trickle down in warm little showers of gold?

A better acronym for RTO would be KYP: Know Your Place.
> I also don't see any mention of the CDC monitoring your personal communications and search histories, and I assume that would NOT be part of any national disease monitoring program.

I suspect it's referring to fairly mundane things like Google Trends, which has already been used (fairly unsuccessfully) to monitor flu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Flu_Trends

Or reviews for Yankee Candles on Amazon: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/17/1129542486/what-yankee-candle...
It's been a while since I had to deal with Defender but IIRC the "put this back" option doesn't really work. It would regularly forget exceptions and quarantine binaries again.
Companies which were okay with having some remote employees before COVID, are now — for no rational reason whatsoever other than following a seeming business-management zeitgeist — not okay with having any remote employees.

Isn't "companies going crazy and forcing good employees into situations where they'll quit, when they could just as well... not do that", something to push back against?
1) clients solve this, but also there are web extensions that solve this. I think this could actually be fixable with the current stack. (I use 'Graze for Mastodon' on firefox)

2) Choose your 'neighborhood' wisely. Some of these smaller to mid sized mastodon instances, especially those who espouse strong free speech doctrines might get you banned from federating with some other instance because of the actions of one of your neighbors when the 'HOA' (your neighborhood admin) refuses to do anything about them.

3) This goes with #2, choose your neighborhood wisely.

As you discuss in your postscript I am one of those who chose to run my own 'neighborhood', just for myself at this point but I could see opening the door to a couple of close friends. I've been running my own mail/web/etc services for many years now. I will say that the main mastodon software kinda sucks for this, it's built to scale somewhat and therefore sidekiq and redis and all the rest, and that kinda sucks. They have some docker options that make it a little less of a pain but I would love to see a more streamlined version or a fully api compatible piece of software that is cleaner to run (maybe compiled into binaries so i don't have to deal with ruby)...
> The entire US military budget is federal,

False. For instance, California’s military spending in FY 2023-2024 is budgeted at $293.6 million (putting it between Paraguay and Niger in military spending), of which the majority is state funds, not federal support (by state funds alone, its somewhere around Monogolia’s military spending.)

It is true that the vast majority of the US’s defense spending is federal, though.

[0] https://ebudget.ca.gov/2023-24/pdf/Enacted/GovernorsBudget/8...
> If an engineer knows that they'll get a cut of the cost savings or profits of some project idea they have, then you can bet that many employees will take advantage of that to get valuable work done.

I'm not so sure that this would work. The goal of your employer is to keep you working.

If the workforce participates to much, you could run into the Tesla problem, a.k.a. your early employees become millionaires and stop working (in case of Tesla because of company stocks).
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I think you misunderstand me.

I think some people _are_ more productive WFH. But also there are lots of people who become quite unproductive WFH. Direct managers can often tell.

I don't know of a study that says one way or another, but from experience those two kinds of people exist (among other kids of people).
I dabble in live audio. There's a huge amount that still could be done in the audio input space. Mic quality could be greatly increased for not much money, but most manufacturers stuff the cheapest component then can find into any headset <$150. Also, there's a lot which could be done with DSP (digital signal processing) before the mic even hits the computer.

You do see high quality mics and signal conditioning on the higher end systems, usually north of $250. And even then, it feels like that's a knock-on of paying for more headphone quality.
This is what I do not get. Just give them some un-skilled people as placeholders, so there social anxiety doesn't fire. Sit the janitors into the open office or the team building guys.
What was the #1 argument against WFH before COVID? It was fear of productivity drop, that the company simply can't function with WFH. Then COVID happened and companies worked fine for three years with WFH. At this point, it shouldn't be called RTO, it should be called STO (Switch To Office), because WFH is the default existing state. And the companies that want to STO, they admit there's NO DATA to support this:

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-andy-jassy-no-data-re...

https://fortune.com/2023/08/03/amazon-svp-mike-hopkins-offic...

The hypocrisy is obvious, they were all so against WFH before COVID, demanding data that it would work. Now it's working fine for three years, and yet they switch to office with no data, a simple "gut feeling" argument. It's indeed bullshit.
Brake, not break. Not just trying to be pedantic, I think this misspelling makes it less clear what you're trying to say.
There's a lot of reasons I don't like Chick-fil-A, but I did work for them briefly precisely because they are closed on Sundays, which is so rare. I was freelancing at the time and had hit a bad dry spell with no work coming in, so I sent out some applications for whatever jobs were around, food and retail stuff. None of them would budge on not working on Sundays because the weekends are their busiest hours, and I wouldn't agree to work on Sundays for religious reasons.

Chick-fil-a was the single worst job I've ever had, but at least I didn't work on Sundays.
It definitely takes discipline and a little culture change. I work for a company where teams are spread across many offices, so the company culture is: there's a video conference for every meeting. Period. End of story. When you walk into the conference room, you press one button and the VC starts. Everybody does this, and it's engrained. So, thanks to this discipline, remote workers are never left out.

Same goes for the "hallway conversations." You just got to get out of that company-habit where major decisions and information transfers happen in this ad hoc way. It takes discipline (often on leadership's part) to properly document and communicate. Again, where I work, we would never consider "Oh, I talked to Director Xyz in the hallway and he said our focus is on the Foo project rather than the Bar project now" to be any kind of official guidance. Totally unacceptable.
Honestly I don’t think we are less productive at home, but being away from the distractions of the office shows you how unproductive you were to start with.

At home I know if I actually focus, I can finish my tasks in less time, and I can enjoy the rest of the day/week.

I’m the office, I am incentivized to drag out work to fill the 8 hours because I need to be in the office that much anyway.
before, people weren't sure if it could be done, and if the productivity would be similar.

It's now been shown that it's possible and that productivity is very similar. So that's why companies forcing the return to work are resented, and why they don't even pretend to have numbers to back their decision. https://fortune.com/2023/08/03/amazon-svp-mike-hopkins-offic...
Wouldn’t they though? We’ll see how this attitude shapes up in a year I guess.
> they're trying RTO to see if it fixes things

It doesn't need to fix things. It just needs to appear they're "doing something."
I guess the Chinese also read Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins.
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It used to be that way, but they’ve changed to random enumeration a decade or so ago.

Sadly not everyone has gotten that memo.

As an immigrant I got one assigned to me that would’ve originated from a specific state before this change, now every once in a while when I go through those identity quizzes by credit agencies it’ll ask me in which state my SSN was assigned and I need to choose the state that used to correspond with those first few numbers even though I’ve never set foot in that state, otherwise it’ll fail the quiz.