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xsdu commented on Newpipe/yt-dlp stops working github.com/TeamNewPipe/Ne... · Posted by u/nurettin

ginko · a year ago

Isn't yt-dlp breaking and getting fixed again a pretty regular thing? What's special about this one?

xsdu · a year ago

Needing account authorization is new and likely not something that can be fixed. You can still use cookies/netrc, but your account might eventually be limited.

xsdu commented on A biased test kept Black people from getting a kidney transplant apnews.com/article/kidney... · Posted by u/khasan222

branon · a year ago

> Race isn’t a biological factor like age, sex or weight — it’s a social construct.

Interesting conjecture there AP, but I don't buy it. Surely race is a biological factor. Maybe not for kidney health specifically but wouldn't race be inextricably tied to a person's biology, heritage, medical history?

Race is determined at birth by parents' biology, therefore is biological. Not _everything_ that makes people different from one another is a purely social construct.

Don't black people get sickle cell at higher rates than other races? Race is important in a lot of medical contexts.

Great that they fixed the kidney thing but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, or the next headline will be "excess deaths due to incorrect treatment of <condition> for <race>".

By all means if the race-based heuristics are unsound, throw them out, but the article makes mention of a bunch more that are under scrutiny. Are they really all inaccurate or are we discounting biology in favor of social justice?

xsdu · a year ago

Race has to be a biological factor. Some of my family were on the transplant list for a long time, due to PKD. Throughout those many years there was a constant call for more Black donors.

xsdu commented on OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning arxiv.org/abs/2312.01479... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili

snerbles · 2 years ago

I use Tortoise TTS. It's slow, a little clunky, and sometimes the output gets downright weird. But it's the best quality-oriented TTS I've found that I can run locally.

It's allegedly the basis of the tech used by Eleven Labs.

https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

xsdu · 2 years ago

There are faster implementations of tortoise that allow fine-tuning. You can get close to ElevenLabs quality if you have a perfect dataset. https://git.ecker.tech/mrq/ai-voice-cloning

xsdu commented on EU Parliament Civil Liberties Committee adopts position on CSAR europarl.europa.eu/news/e... · Posted by u/orian

sebstefan · 2 years ago

I was jaded by this proposal as well, but jaded by the EU in general?

GDPR, forced interoperability from gatekeepers, the 2 year warranty on anything bought online

This attempt at breaking encryption completely stood out with the usual things

The EU seems like the only governmental organization that's working well to improve my life, in my country. Everything else is either decaying or opposing my values.

xsdu · 2 years ago

I'm still bitter about their half-baked cookie law that instantly made web browsing a much worse experience, regardless of how well-intentioned it may have been.

xsdu commented on Can an Artificial Kidney Finally Free Patients from Dialysis? nature.com/articles/s4146... · Posted by u/gardenfelder

Borrible · 2 years ago

Even better would be to avoid diabetes and hypertension, diseases that are essentially caused and shaped by personal lifestyle. Overeating, malnutrition, lack of exercise.

xsdu · 2 years ago

Lots of people on dialysis are there through no fault of their own. My mother and other members of my family were born with a kidney disease, and died while doing everything correctly.

xsdu commented on U.K. rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/tokai

alex201 · 2 years ago

Brilliant! After years of delay and uncertainty, €2.6 billion per year to regain access to a program they were once part of? Who needs that extra money for healthcare, education, or infrastructure anyway? Is this a hint that someone's tail is between her legs and wants another change?

xsdu · 2 years ago

The UK never wanted out of Horizon, it was part of the brexit agreement. The EU is back-pedalling here, not the UK.