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100ms··on GPT‑Live
If you read their GitHub README and the code, it's possible to separate and cache the voice cloning step, and they have some streaming variant with low first chunk latency. I only played with it via Hugging Face. It is astonishingly good with certain rare accents, and it responds well to longer input clips
100ms··on GPT‑Live
I thought to try voice cloning with dots.tts ( https://huggingface.co/spaces/rednote-hilab/dots.tts ), the result is pretty good, but likely wouldn't be fast enough to use on a quasi-realtime basis:

Input clip: https://vocaroo.com/19QtEPtwTjOS

Prompt text: There are 14 varieties of tomato soup available from this replicator. With rice, with vegetables, Bolian style, with pasta specify hot or chilled.

Output: https://vocaroo.com/1f3XuQQoSzwB

100ms··on GPT‑Live
I think that's mostly just a frequency shift :) You could probably recreate it with another model and some effects on top. Also, why the hell not for voice mode haha.
100ms··on GPT‑Live
Substituting one form of media for another does not improve the hypothetical situation at all, giving a senior nothing to do all day except talk to a spreadsheet is not a solution to that senior being lonely, it is a false dichotomy. Far lower tech solutions can be (and are) used. In my locale we have volunteer schoolchildren active in the community, as far as I know that's quite common, and even half an hour biweekly with a fake grandkid is many orders of magnitude healthier and more meaningful than swapping out their TV for this generation's take on Fox News.

It goes without saying all these tools are still largely in their pre-advertising state, it won't last.

100ms··on GPT‑Live
Star Trek computer voice model is something I have yet to encounter, and I've looked repeatedly :) It's not about a specific voice, it's the fact they managed to capture "I am a utility" perfectly in the voice. Our modern friends do not want to be thought of as a utility, but to engender trust and agency all of their own and that's a huge problem for me.
100ms··on GPT‑Live
If this is my idea of hell, I can't imagine what it'd be like for a 90 year old
100ms··on GPT‑Live
Is it responsive to personality settings? I actively don't want fake AI girlfriend, but I do get a ton of value out of voice mode. Looking forward to trying this but hoping it's not a creepy overdone mess (like Sesame). Expectations are they'll keep doubling down on fake AI girlfriend approach because the thing I want probably wouldn't drive engagement anywhere nearly as well
100ms··on The UK's Latest "Debanking" Scandal Should Give Everyone Pause
> Lloyds has not explained why it has taken this action… despite multiple communications from us

Because you've tripped an AML flag you unbearable dweebs, this happens a thousand times every week and the story is always the same, tipping off rules actively prevent notification. But of course the reason must be political, because that's the only story that will drive traffic to an otherwise unknown outlet

100ms··on The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower
> I think most people who strongly identify with tools like vim do so out of a sense of identity-building to "be the kind of developer who is good at vim" / embody some kind of aesthetic or in-group signal moreso than an actual desire to be more effective at getting work done.

This is the exact same sweeping inferential leap as the original comment. I happen to think people who drive red cars do so only because they want to incite a sense of danger and potency in their road opponents, people who wear boots obviously want to identify with Ukranians on the front lines and any claims it helps with their flat feet are obvious rubbish.

Tooling and language obsession is boring and borderline offensive to anyone who has been around for a few years. Imagine walking into someone's workplace and demanding they replace their well worn chair, would you do it? Imagine insisting someone use vim because their IDE didn't have a natural pipe-through-shell-command function.

100ms··on The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower
I can quite easily (and often do) use a basic editor while staring at the wall. I've yet to use an IDE where there wasn't some idiotic race between keystrokes and whatever random latency language server just told it to insert parens or a newline after you already typed them, assuming the text is even visible on a 13" screen buried in sidebars and "essential" extensions. They're full attention tools which is a completely different mode of work than is otherwise possible.

It's not to say an IDE isn't a useful thing, they just have their place like anything else. I personally find autocompletion useful for a couple of weeks going into a new language or project after which it's very often more a distraction than a productivity enhancer. Same goes with e.g. Git integration. I wouldn't presume to say a Git integration user simply needs to learn Git in much the same way I wouldn't expect someone to tell me that I can't use Git just because I don't use the IDE Git integration. They're just tools

100ms··on The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower
Triggered by both of these comments.. interaction mode dictates a style of thinking. I have to use a mouse, I'm forced to use my eyes, which also means I probably have to use a massive screen. I have to pay attention to some hyperactive Intellisense-like feature, I'm forced to remove my attention from the problem.

It's like saying you're convinced people reporting they feel more productive in a mauve-coloured room are liars, or those that drive automatic vs manual. Maybe they just find muave a restful colour?

100ms··on The first early human eggs from stem cells
Probably throwing quite the grenade here, but around 29% of pregnancies end in termination globally. Absent cultural considerations, it's questionable whether life expectancy has improved in absolute terms in modern times
100ms··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
What's the point of even trying to obfuscate this with such a simple method? Could at least have hidden the targeted features by storing their hashes or embedding a bloom filter or similar
100ms··on We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library
> The failure was caused by a timing-dependent race condition in hyper’s HTTP/1 connection handling. When the reader was slower and the socket buffer filled, poll_flush returned Poll::Pending, but the dispatch loop discarded that result. Hyper then treated the response as complete and shut down the socket while data remained buffered internally, causing the client to receive an EOF before the full body arrived.

https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/issues/4022

Saved you 3000 words

100ms··on SOCKMAP - TCP splicing of the future
You are far better off reading the sockmap docs than this post, it adds almost nothing, entirely fails to explain the point of the interface and more or less amounts to marketing slop
100ms··on RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
Forms, HTTP implementations, public API surfaces, and all for what exactly. Introducing a new verb for this feels profoundly misplaced
100ms··on RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method
Including a strong motivating example might have helped sell this, using an example that could trivially be expressed as a GET is extremely distracting.

Even imagining a QUERY with a large JSON filtering structure, or say an image input as request body, it feels extremely odd to include the request body as part of the cache key. It also implies an unbounded and user-controlled cache key, with the only really meaningful general caching strategy being bitwise compare of the request body (or a hash), which in a hostile scenario implies cache busting would be trivial.

This invokes multiple semantic oddities in one go with obvious difficulties for a very niche use case. If I'm writing a service that needs complex filtering or complex input like an image, any form of caching (e.g. individual data columns of a join, or embeddings keyed by perceptual hashes of a decoded image input) is going to be far away from the HTTP layer and certainly unrelated to the exact bit representation of the request on the wire.

Why even bother trying to capture this in a generic way?

I would be far more inclined to try and capture this caching semantic as a new header for POST. Something like "Vary: request-body" or similar. Perfectly backwards compatible and perfectly ignorable for all but the 0.1% of CDN use cases where the behaviour might turn out useful

100ms··on The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy
I can't speak for elsewhere, but in the UK she can still sell her cupcakes, she just needs about 3 different kinds of license and one council inspection to do it. I imagine that is fairly normal across the EU
100ms··on The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy
You're just repeating the "it's technically imperfect" argument again.
100ms··on The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy
The same was true of food safety. Aunt Tracey might not be able to sell cupcakes from her home any more (made in the oven next to where the cat likes to sleep because of the heat), but we centralised things enough that when BSE and Salmonella outbreaks happen, which nowadays is extremely rare, we know how and why almost immediately. If the cost of ridding ourselves of animal torture, terrorism and child pornography is a few hundred fewer Mastodon instances I could most certainly live with that
100ms··on The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy
Like most I've been listening to this same old argument for nearly 30 years. Old enough now to know it doesn't have to be perfect, it doesn't have to even be 50% effective to mark a substantial improvement, a significant chunk of young people won't even need a technical restriction beyond being told the behaviour is against the law because it's bad for them.

But keep goading with "it's technically impossible" and watch what's left of the Internet turn into a government licensing fest, because it is entirely technically possible. Imagine how much cleaner and shiny the nation's pipes would be if we simply throttled any ciphertext flow that couldn't be matched to an Ofcom license holder. They'd never do that. No country in the world has done that, right?

100ms··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
You knew when they didn't include actual details at the time that something huge was coming
100ms··on What happened to nerds?
I'm coming full circle on the AI thing, it's almost entirely useless at creating a crafted result, so counterintuitively it places a greater premium on craft just at a time the industry as a whole are running in the opposite direction. There are some pieces of software I've thought of building now that I would not have considered a worthwhile pursuit a few years ago, solely due to this idea that a crafted result may have an increasingly inherent value in its own right

Even if machines can be made to produce compact, well thought out and beautiful, the interaction pattern almost inevitably ensures the "developer" produces something that is neither compact, well thought out or beautiful

100ms··on UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s
It doesn't need to be perfect, but in spite of that perfect is possible if people ask for it. Don't tempt them. Look at what happened in Spain with Cloudflare.
100ms··on MiMo Code is now released and open-source
Mind numbing
100ms··on MiMo Code is now released and open-source
He didn't say MiMo Code
100ms··on Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC
The question in my mind is persistence. Everyone goes through the honeymoon phase. I'm absolutely loathing the idea that phones are arriving soon with chatbot junk built deeply into it, enough that the thought is more what if I could maybe just stop using my phone so much. I threw myself at the Llama WhatsApp integration when I first got it, now the idea of having Llama in WhatsApp just feels so dumb.

I was a huge early fan of ChatGPT voice too, but I don't think I've used voice mode anywhere in at least 6 months. The question is what is the right level people are generally going to settle on for the use of these tools in the long term. 80% of my usage isn't much more than a better Google, I could live without it and I could live with cheaper options. I'm not sure the consumer money is going to be there en masse as hoped

Of course it still leaves a huge amount of business cases open, but I suppose the same principle applies. How soon will people tire of talking to robo-voice when they call their bank? etc.

100ms··on Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
Netlify CTO in 6-18 months: that vibe project that caused me to say writing code is no longer the job got so unmaintainable that I hired a team of 3 to take it over. They're rewriting it by hand because tokens are too expensive now. Nobody could have seen this coming
100ms··on Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation
Chinese hardware and energy headwinds aren't going to be great for Anthropic, apparently not even over a 1 year time horizon.
100ms··on Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
That makes a lot more sense, and sibling comment's higher res clip makes it a lot clearer. I knew I was posting a crappy analysis in the hopes someone who understands this stuff would post something more interesting, there is a dearth of technical speculation from googling around
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