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> Of the 11 positive applications that you listed, only the 1st, 3rd, 11th and arguably the 4th would benefit from voice cloning, which is what's being promoted here. The rest are solved merely by (improved) TTS and do not require the cloning of any actual human voice.

2, 5, 6, 9: It's true that in theory all you need is some way to capture the characteristics of a desired voice, but voice-cloning methods are the way to do this currently. If you want a voice assistant with a native accent, you fine-tune on the voice of a native speaker - opposed to turning a bunch of dials manually.

7, 8, 10: Here I think there is benefit specifically from sounding like a particular person. The dynamically generated lines of movie characters/videogame NPCs should be consistent with the actor's pre-recorded lines, for instance, and hearing someone in their own voice is more natural for communication and makes conversation easier to follow.

Pedantically, what's promoted here is a tool which features voice cloning prominently but not exclusively - other workflows demonstrated (like generating subtitles) seem mostly unobjectionable.

> Also, notice how the legitimate use-cases 1, 3 and 4 imply the user consenting to clone their own voice, which is fine

I think all, outside of potentially 8 and 11, could be done with full consent of the voice being cloned - an agreement with the movie actor to use their voice for dubbing to other languages, for example. That's already a significant number of use-cases for this tool.

> use-case 11, is "memes, satire, and parody"... and not much imagination is needed to see how steep and buttery that Teflon slippery slope is.

IMO prohibition around satire/parody would be the slippery slope, particularly with the potential for selective enforcement.
compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_type...
Mm yes. Quite ironic. Yes. Italics. !=, programming.
Seems to be either related to MacOS 14 or some settings voodoo of MacOS, because we already have users reporting that issue on GH, but other users have successfully tested that it works on MacOS 15.

There seems to be an issue on MS Windows Server 22 as well, but Win10/11 confirmed to be fully functional.
"We also explore how to leverage the rolling shutter in regular consumer cameras to recover audio from standard frame-rate videos, and use the spatial resolution of our method to visualize how sound-related vibrations vary over an object’s surface, which we can use to recover the vibration modes of an object."
This isn’t working for me on iOS. I’m not sure the effect is cross platform. That’s one of the challenges with these techniques.
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I’m really thankful to be part of this platform and amazing people who have contributed to it and shared great knowledge
But game theory also presumes a closed, on-the-record world. E.g., it doesn't handle dumping (loss as strategic gain) without opening the scope of game, but there are no scope bounds since value of any type is exchangeable (land for peace...). So game theory like newtonian physics only helps in narrowly constrained systems, but none of the real systems where help is needed are so constrained (banking laws notwithstanding).
Electronic books are, in my opinion, far superior to that "living animal with flesh of paper and ink of blood". I can go to Standard Ebooks and quickly download incredible works of imaginative fiction[0] in EPUB format that sync to my phone, my tablet, and my laptop. My notes and highlights[1] also sync. I can select a word that I don't know from the text and quickly look it up in my Electronic copy of Webster's 1913 dictionary. Best of all, I can prop up my tablet on the elliptical trainer and read for an hour while my heart rate moves through the first four zones as increasing amounts of oxygenated blood rush through my brain causing the words to burn like fire in my mind.

Also, I'm learning Latin, and it's been an incredible experience to read graded readers with optional interlinear translation[2] as well as the ability to hear the text expressively narrated in Latin at a touch of a button. None of this is possible with paper.

[0]: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-eliot/middlemarch

[1]: https://muppetlabs.com/~mikeh/middlemarch.png

[2]: https://muppetlabs.com/~mikeh/latin.jpg
You’re right, my feelings got the better of me xD
Yeah, the physical barrier is key. It's not that hard, and provides absolute certainty. As indicated by this thread, software experts (rightly) don't trust software by itself enough. It's by the same rationale software people are proponents of electronic voting machines printing physical, verifiable paper copies of votes.

My Latitude 7440 has a physical slider switch that covers the camera, in addition to turning it off in a software-detectable way (it shows "no signal" and not just a black screen once the slider is about 50% covering the lens). My only criticism of this is that it's subtle and at a glance hard to tell the difference between open and closed, but I guess you just get used to the slider being to the right.

I was just testing and the white LED comes on when I open something that wants to use the camera, even when the cover is closed. This seems like a useful way to detect something (eg malware) trying to use the camera, and is a good reason to not bluntly cut power to the entire camera module.
My M1 Macbook has some pretty extreme latency going from opening Photobooth black screen -> displayed image. Roughly five seconds to useable image.

:00 Photobooth window open
:03 Camera LED lights up
:05 First image displayed
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I doubt this is actually faster than NaN or why they call NuN tagging. The code sequences they cite for encoding and decoding are worse than what I expect NuN tagging to give you.

If they want to convince me that their thing is faster, they should do a comparison against a production implementation of NuN tagging. Note that the specifics of getting it right involve wacky register allocation tricks on x86 and super careful instruction selection on arm.

It seems that they use some very nonstandard JS implementation of NaN tagging as a strawman comparison.

(Source: I wrote a lot of the NuN tagging optimizations in JavaScriptCore, but I didn’t invent the technique.)
Either you are not from the USA, are trolling, or don't really know the U.S. medical system. Yes, maybe a few private practice doctors are greedy, but generally, doctors "in the system" don't personally generate more funds by doing things different, prescribing more drugs, etc. They are on salary. As far as other types of doctors (eg. chiropractors), they DEFINITELY drive home more money by prescribing more, requiring return visits, etc. But I call them doctors only by the loosest of definitions.

I am baffled by your second paragraph. It is just plainly illogical.

The third paragraph tells me that you ARE possibly from outside the USA, or that you have only seen a few doctors and they were proud or rude. We (personally) have seen private doctors, hospital doctors, country doctors, etc. over 50 years (at least 50-60 different ones). And the preponderance of our evidence shows you are either misinformed, or you are a patient who wants to self prescribe treatments that are medically unsound or 'fringe'. And, yes, those WILL be ignored by any average doctor. But then you could always fly to Mexico and get those useless treatments for low cost...
Open-source champion Kelsey Hightower on the promise of Bluesky
Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
If you are a regular HN reader who is (or was until this post) unfamiliar with Back to the Future, I'd love to know three more random facts about your life. In my world view, you are part of a fascinatingly small group of people.
> Which currently or previously widely available vaccines are not safe?

If they were detected as unsafe during testing they wouldn't be available. That's the point. You only know of vaccines that passed the tests, not those that didn't.

> “Vaccines” have such good standing because the general idea of improving immunity by exposing the immune system to non-infectious material that closely matches some part of the infectious agent works really well. There’s not much room for things to go wrong unless the material actually turns out to be infectious, as was the case with the dangerous vaccine I mentioned above.

Infectiousness is not the only risk. Look at polio vaccines causing polio.
> In theory, you could parse the SQL and build up some kind of AST on which compatibility could be built.

This is an interesting problem that I'd like to learn more about. Have you read anything about it?
I clicked and the first thing I read: "hof is CUE powered..."

I have no idea what is CUE. This is bad, forcing visitors to research for what you provide
Right, we just blindly trusted the first things we heard on the subject, and everyone knows that's rational because humans never lie.

Remember: as long as you trust your government, trust the corporations, trust all the information you hear, especially from large and well-known institutions, you'll always be fine.

Never slow down, never stop to think, just keep buying, keep consuming, keep tuning into the same media sources, and NEVER EVER dare to question social consensus!
Absolutely false. Current flow is metered using current transformers.

full disclosure: I install high voltage switchgear for a living.
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> This is a de facto assumption. You assumed a situation which was not reality.

Nope, no assumptions there.

> Conjecture, unsubstantiated percentage. Rooted in your own biased and demonstrably incomplete understanding of the internet.

I'll give you this one, my percentage was out of date. The current percentage is estimated to be 10%.

> I don't think you understand just how many people are on the internet.

I dont think you understand how little are. 67.5% of the world currently have access to the internet, and the majority of that is intermittant and shareddevices in Africa and Asia. Thats many billions of people that do not even own a device with a web browser, let alone indulge in conversations with strangers on social media and forums.

> Also, please refrain from devolving into insults and accusations of narcissism.

There were no insults or accusations. I said your reply was Narcissistic, I did not say you were.

You keep reading what you want to in my posts to support your extremism and outrage. Please dont, nobody is accusing you of anything. You can calm down now!
Kelsey's recent posts have some more thoughts on what competition in the social media space and ATProto means

https://bsky.app/profile/kelseyhightower.com
I wish they didn't, I have such a hard time figuring out what any of them actually do.
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A 2015 car is not old in a world of reduce, reuse, recycle.
Heating and transport are the easiest in that regard. Most trucks drive during the day have the driver resting during the night. At night there's little demand, but wind and nuclear continue generating, so from a grid standpoint that's the perfect time to charge all the trucks. Cars can similarly be mostly charged during the night, as that's when they are at home. Heat demand is more variable, but heat is much easier to store than electricity itself. Everyone with a boiler already has a heat store at home. If you make the boiler a bit larger you can configure it to only heat when there's excess electricity (typically the night or at peak solar power around noon). And that's before you start with more efficient heat storage devices, like heating sand instead of water.

All of those solutions require infrastructure investments and smarter grids (likely with real-time pricing to incentivize consumers to use power when there's an excess, and an API so devices like chargers and boilers can act on this information without user input). But they don't require power storage at the grid level.
Sure, the FAANGs and other companies aren't exclusively hiring based on time-constrained leetcode performance, but they are extremely biased towards it.

The coding sessions are pass/fail, you need to get to some type of solution that works. If you get most of the way there and were maybe just slow, it doesn't matter, you will not be hired.

On the other hand, companies are very flexible on system design and background sessions.

This lopsided process allows LC superstars to get through despite glaring deficiencies once they are involved in day-to-day work.
Hugged to death? Map is not loading.

Edit: Loaded after a few refreshes. Slowness relates to loading static assets from coppersushi.herokuapp.com
Perhaps they should also ask: if GPS is down in an area, do the cell towers continue to operate?
Energiewende didnt start in 1973, it was first authorized in late 2010.

France's nuclear program was also very, very expensive: https://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_True_Costs_of_French_Nuclear_Po...
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Glad we've finally figured out how to isolate the impacts of a single variable on a massive and incredibly complex system without even enumerating all of those other variables. The Science (tm) is so cool!
I think we're agreeing. We're both saying that Microsoft should change their ToS to reduce the amount of permission they have to share users' content.
Individuals are capable of altering their behavior. Groups behave in accordance with incentive structures.

Hoping for and/or expecting societal change through mass application of willpower is wishful thinking.
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I think this really cool that this is public. I find it interesting how governments even make politeness and interaction into a systematic rule-based affair. While it can seem quite cold, i like how organized and planned it is... like nothing is left to chance. They'll just tell you how to be polite. They've figured it out. It's documented

I also find the "Honorable" thing rather interesting. It's about the only time where I can see the archaic ghost of British pomp and nobility leaking through to the US political conventions. The US did so well getting rid of almost all of it (and good riddance, honestly) yet an elected official still gets to be "The Honorable Mr X". It's not even descriptive of their role, it's just enforced flattery.
Right. That’s the point of my initial comment. That list looks promising… if you own a Dell or Lenovo. Everything else is a pretty pitiful showing.

I’m actually booted into windows right now to update my monitor firmware.
This is not a critique but it seems like any screen sharing I’m involved with lately is using Zoom. How much do people use other sharing and in what situations?

Thinking of my workplace, the friction involved with using anything other than Zoom would be a non starter for most people.
What!? Last I checked even with ring0 the system didn't have access to the WideVine keys. Talk about yet another reason to just pirate everything
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Really like this response. I do always try to have compassion, which is often hardest to give to those who most need it. Controversial issues have a way of filtering our infinitely varied viewpoint into two opposing “sides” - sorry for calling everybody idiots!!
You're making arguments based on pure faith. There is no substance to anything you're saying.
Well, keep in mind that the full linking step has to be done at the end of an incremental build. So if you're a developer actively working on a project with a 4GB executable, that linking time is part of your edit-compile-test cycle, and you have to wait for it every time you change a line of code.

The benchmarks on mold's README show that GNU gold takes 33 seconds to link clang, whereas mold takes 1.3 seconds. If you're a developer working on Clang, that's a pretty serious productivity improvement.
> But there is a level of wealth and position where you ABSOLUTELY MUST participate in the most evil parts of society to stay where you are.

(emphasis added)

I’m a founder of a venture backed seed stage startup, as a missionary not mercenary founder i do not seek extraordinary wealth but my shareholders do and I have fiduciary duty as well as substantial ownership. I struggle to accept without clear demonstration that my mission’s success means I “ABSOLUTELY MUST participate in the most evil parts of society”. This is a very strong claim, I don’t think it applies to me!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver#Colloid...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria

There are entire groups of people that sell colloidal silver as an alternative health remedy even though it turns their skin permanently blue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_Power_Series lists 8 models and says 1994-98, which is a long time ago but certainly isn't nothing, and says they ran AIX, Solaris, and Windows NT.
Maybe they just think they do because they don't know any better?

Or constant stream of information gives them the illusion of staying informed
For phones I guess the extremes are some sweet spots.

* The ones that want their phone to be a more portable laptop get a flagship.

* The ones that through clumsiness or hard work destroy their phones want rugged ones.

* The ones that travel a lot want their phones to last.

* The ones who play music on the subway want the speakers to be loud so you can also hear it.

* The ones that don't want distractions get a dumbphone.

...

If you have several needs then you try to maximise in all the directions that you need. And this is why not everyone needs the same phone.

Work, what is work? Answering emails/messages from clients? Going into pages to enter some shipment data? Trying apps while being tied to a desk? Having it for emergencies while breaking rocks with a sledgehammer? Taking pictures for insurance claims? All of these have different needs.

Choose a target, one that is well defined, then sell them the phone. Otherwise people who are not the target will not like the phone, and people that are the target might not know that they are.
Movies have ratings and entry to hall is restricted. Games have rating and ability to buy them is restricted. books allowed in school libraries is heavily curated and sometimes restricted by law or vested groups. It is illegal to sell R18 magazines to a minor.
> LED bulbs aren't lasting any longer than incandescent bulbs used to

They tend to last a lot longer for me.
Don't shoot the messenger. This is from the people who discovered it:

https://netsecfish.notion.site/Command-Injection-Vulnerabili...

> The vulnerability is localized to the account_mgr.cgi script, particularly in the handling of the cgi_user_add command. The name parameter in this script does not adequately sanitize input, allowing for command execution.

> /cgi-bin/account_mgr.cgi?cmd=cgi_user_add&name=%27;<INJECTED_SHELL_COMMAND>;%27

I know, I know, that would mean the exact command run, based on the reversed code shown on screen at https://youtu.be/-vpGswuYVg8?t=656 would be

adduser -u "';<INJECTED_SHELL_COMMAND>;'" -p "" >/dev/null

which would be harmless, so clearly if the PoC says %27 then the real format string must be more like "adduser -u '%s' ...". Maybe the Youtuber reversed the wrong firmware. But nonetheless, the point is gotten across.
If the Russians don't already have agents in most major power companies their intelligence service is slacking
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My company, Kenneth Price Nigeria, purchased a hosting package from Spaceship a few months ago. We experienced several issues with their platform and raised complaints repeatedly. When we took the matter to Twitter to get management's attention, they shockingly suspended our account, citing 'fraud' without prior notice.

To make matters worse, they sent four emails simultaneously—an apparent attempt to cover up their failure to notify us earlier. What kind of company operates like this?

We demand an immediate restoration of our account and a formal apology from Spaceship for this unacceptable behavior.
I like knex, but would love it more if all methods does not mutates the original data structure. A pure version of knex would be great
I'd think forcing the kids to turn off the light at 11pm or eat fish or whatever is worse than dns blocking Facebook, from the kids perspective.
(German) offshore seems to be missing
QNAP largely ignores security researchers that finds major flaws. I honestly wouldn't trust them because of that attitude alone.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/20/qnap_watchtowr/

Of course, their lack of care for the quality of the product goes back aways(2012): https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=67450
Naively, I would think the same. But in the first part of AOTD, Neil Postman argues pretty convincingly that America in the 18th and 19th centuries was the most literate, bookish society on Earth and in the later parts of the book that that heritage was lost with the invention of the telegraph, radio, and later TV.

In other words, TV and the internet as technologies are not "neutral" in their effect on society, they have actually made us dumber in a real sense.
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Meanwhile, the version number in the Trunkver github release is: 1.0.0-20241127214906-g1f8292a-12058740483-1

(facepalm)
If you define 'speeding' as driving above the speed limit, then FSD absolutely speeds.

"FSD (Supervised) can contextually drive above the speed limit or the predicted road speed to match the flow of traffic. [The Max Speed Offset Setting] specifies the maximum speed it is allowed to drive as a percentage offset applied to the speed limit of the road or the predicted road speed."

People can configure this to 40% above the speed limit if they wish. I'm not sure what the default is.
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> it would not be okay for so many ORM people to actually have properly bound SQL in-place.

do you have an actual security/perf/DX issue w the knex "fluent api" demonstrated in TFA or are you just voicing a stylistic preference?
I have no clew how come the difference on what's usually said on this forum and the situation in Europe.My only understanding is that the US as whole is more sunny that gives a better ratio solar panel and produced electricity.

Maybe also it's a provider thing ? From country to country, you can always have things that seem randomly more expensive. Germany is more renewable but more expensive than France, is it because of their national company is benefiting citizen properly or is it because the remaining gas part drives up the cost ?
The same applies to effectively all possible solutions for age verification, no?

Even if you have a perfect mechanism, 17 years old can create real age-verified accounts and then sell the username and password afterwards. Selling age-verification tokens directly would likely be harder than just swapping those login details, since it's very easy to make the tokens time-limited (in practice normal use would probably be some kind of oauth-style redirect flow, so they'd really only have to be valid for a few seconds).

This same argument applies to adults buying alcohol for teenagers too. The determined teenager with money can definitely find a way to get alcohol, but it doesn't mean the age restrictions on purchases are pointless.

Imo it's a bit pointless to worry about high-speed black markets trading in signed tokens when the current most common alternative is a popup with an "I promise I am over 18" button. If society agrees some things should be difficult to access if you're underage, then we can definitely do better than that as a solution.
It defines Webmention as: Digital breadcrumbs left by internet users to show they've visited a website, usually accompanied by a virtual pat on the back or a confused 'How did I end up here?'

With the humor mode on of course :)
That sounds like an argument against democracy.