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New comment by woodson in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

woodson — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:14:24 +0000

> 5090 ($2k MSRP but realistically $3-3.5k)

These days, more like >$4.1K (at least in the US).

New comment by woodson in "Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks"

woodson — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:39:23 +0000

Yeah, there have been several papers with attacks on Whisper:

- Inject adversarial noise to make it transcribe what you want (https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17316)

- Stop it from transcribing (https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06134)

- Adversarial prompt injection to make it translate instead of transcribe (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.04482v2).

New comment by woodson in "Internet Archive Switzerland"

woodson — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:41:35 +0000

Indeed. And the one in Admont, Austria: https://stiftadmont.at/en/about-the-abbey-library/

New comment by woodson in "Do_not_track"

woodson — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:51:41 +0000

HF is notorious for making it difficult to work offline (or at least not waste time trying to connect when everything needed is offline) and is constantly changing how it is being handled. Previously, there was TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE, HF_DATASETS_OFFLINE, etc.

New comment by woodson in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

woodson — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:17:38 +0000

You can use devcontainers (in VSCode or separate), like this: https://github.com/entn-at/claude-rust-devcontainer/

This will limit the agent in what it can do in the system and what IPs/domains it can reach. This requires a lot of customization to your specific framework/environment. Note that this can reduce the agent’s effectiveness, as it will have to “work around” some of the limitations. This isn’t foolproof either, and the agent could exfiltrate data e.g. via DNS requests.

New comment by woodson in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

woodson — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:59:13 +0000

> But I don't see a scenario where pytorch needs network access.

Training models across multiple compute nodes? That’s a big one.

New comment by woodson in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

woodson — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:24:32 +0000

Not if one is running it in a non-privileged vm/container with restricted network access. But everything is YOLO these days.

New comment by woodson in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

woodson — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:12:29 +0000

Why generative? Or has it been decided that only generative models are “AI”?

New comment by woodson in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

woodson — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:48:13 +0000

It highly depends on the sort of data you’re processing (phone calls, podcasts, meetings of more people recorded using single channel?). For NVIDIA/NeMo, check out their softformer diarization models (also streaming).

New comment by woodson in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

woodson — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:55:33 +0000

Well, but their customers are those that buy Apple hardware.

New comment by woodson in "Hybrid Attention"

woodson — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:51:13 +0000

Look into RWKV.

New comment by woodson in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

woodson — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:29:31 +0000

It’s a distinction that IMHO likely doesn’t make much difference, at least for the mostly automated/non-interactive coding agent use case. What matters more is how well the post-training on synthetic harness traces works.

New comment by woodson in "An unsolicited guide to being a researcher [pdf]"

woodson — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:45:26 +0000

There are still opportunities, but they aren’t paid nearly as well as less researchy positions in industry. US post-doc salaries at state universities aren’t that high.

New comment by woodson in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

woodson — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:17:27 +0000

You mean Moshi (https://github.com/kyutai-labs/moshi)? Since Personaplex is just a finetuned Moshi model.

New comment by woodson in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

woodson — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:34:58 +0000

…who lives in Oregon, in the US.

New comment by woodson in "Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation"

woodson — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:25:06 +0000

This is about speech to text, not speech recognition.

New comment by woodson in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

woodson — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:07:26 +0000

You still need a tax accountant in France to register the FTE and file paperwork with the tax office and social insurance.

New comment by woodson in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

woodson — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:27:05 +0000

The bank issues/refusals may have something to do with FATCA. If you have anything to do with the US in terms of taxes, many EU banks don’t want you as their customer. If it’s a subsidiary of a foreign company, then a lot of paperwork is required to prove that the foreign owners actually exist.

New comment by woodson in "Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir"

woodson — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:13:12 +0000

This is basically a devcontainer, right?

New comment by woodson in "Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU"

woodson — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:08:43 +0000

Jeez, OP asked what it means in this context (zero-shot voice cloning), where you quoted a generic definition copied from Wikipedia. I defined it concretely for this context. Don't take it as a slight, there is no need to get all argumentative.