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This article reminds me of another book [1] called Holacracy where how a business is run is systematized according to other pre-defined principles. David Allen, a productivity trainer, used it at his own company for several years before eventually moving away from it because the ongoing overhead to keep its system up was too much.
I wonder if this system will end up like that as well. I love the idea, but I think humans operate at a squishier level than our computers do, there's a risk of 'massive bureaucratic dehumanization and inflexible processes' and the Iron Law of Organizations that make such efforts as that book and this article fraught with peril. Taylorism has its limits.
But hey, if this works, I'll be excited to see more businesses adopting better practices and less painful fumbling around trying to do practices in an organic or unplanned way.
[1] https://www.holacracy.org/blog/dac-ceo-reflects-on-holacracy...
I used to use Dragon Dictation to draft my first novel, had to learn a 'language' to tell the rudimentary engine how to recognize my speech.
And then I discovered [1] and have been using it for some basic speech recognition, amazed at what a local model can do.
But it can't transcribe any text until I finish recording a file, and then it starts work, so very slow batches in terms of feedback latency cycles.
And now you've posted this cool solution which streams audio chunks to a model in infinite small pieces, amazing, just amazing.
Now if only I can figure out how to contribute to Handy or similar to do that Speech To Text in a streaming mode, STT locally will be a solved problem for me.
Oh well, still an interestign article that shows statistics can be posed in such a way to say anything about anything if you squint them.
One thinf I would add is that a given incident can have differing internal vs external impact, which can drive up its cumulative impact.
It has full image generation mode, it has an animation mode, it has a live mode where you can draw a blob of images and it will refine it 2-50 steps only in that area.
So you are no longer doing per line stroke and saved brush settings, but you are still painting and composing an image yourself, down to a pixel by pixel rate. It's just that the tool it gives is WAY more compute intensive, the AI is sort of rendering a given part of a drawing as you specify as many times as you need.
How much of that workflow is just prompting a one-shot image, vs photoshopping +++ an image together until it meets your exact specifications?
No, the final image cannot be copyrighted under current US law in 2026, but for use in private settings like tabletop RPGs...my production values have gone way up and I didn't need to get a MFA degree in The old Masters drawing or open a drawing studio to get those images.
I don't think outages are more common as such, but we pay more attention to them since we live in mobile phones nowadays.
There has been a lot of contralization of web servers into 3rd party CDNs like Akamai and Cloudflare, probably more than is truly needed by smaller actors who instead just need to fix their crappy DB access patterns and rid themselves of all the tracking js, but that in and of itself doesnt mean more outages...just a larger blast radius when an outage does happen.
> The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
> Please try again in 30 seconds. That’s all we know.
Even YouTube goes down. Good reminder for us mere cyber mortals with our total customer base of 100ks and not millions. Nobodys perfect!
I was just about to research 1:60 scale mapmaking for my rpg campaign since I was going to adapt a modern day map hidden as a fantasy map, and boom, shes dead Jim.
Anyone got any good effort post oases I can lurk and help out in?
I hope you find product market fit and are able to do what you desire with this product. In the meantime, I am grateful that you are helping us advance towards the Star Trek Voice Computer being defictionalized!
This is definitely going to be given a try tomorrow morning. I think first up will be something easy and personal like going through the collection of NPC character sheets in my recent campaign and ensuring all NPCs have the following sections with some content in them, and if not, flagging them for my review.
I suspect businesses will attempt to do compilation copyright if not individual asset copyright to get around tfas recipe for centaurness for artists.
If I have a story that I write and use AI to render the images, soundtrack, motions, potentially voice acting, when does what the AI did stop and where does my work begin?
If I write and voice act the thing, those pieces are copyrighted. Does that constitute enough of the creative work that while I can't copyright a particular screen grab, I can copyright the work as a whole like a phone book?
Maybe, I genuinely don't know. What if I have the AI do the voice acting as well? Probably, that is a public domain work to my uninformed opinion.
It is not a question in my mind if I also just throw in a concept and have the AI produce the script that is then rendered out as well.
AI has shown that for creative art, it all begins with the writing, even if the final work produced is entirely visual or audio, the whole point of Art and copyright is to create a shared impression, hallucination, experience from Human to human. To communicate.
If the AI rendering can properly give things like tabletop RPG Recaps (and the content that the AI is rendering is original and under copyright) how much of that original concept (such as someone playing a tabletop RPG session with a story they wrote themselves) does the final rendered work get transient copyright protection? None? Even though its based on an underlying concept that is copyrightable if written down?
Businesses will be wanting to know these sorts of questions too, and that sill help shape how artists / coders / knowledge workers at large are transformed into centaurs or the reverse, ceteris paribus.
Performance between fly.io web servers in iad region to RDS databases in us-east-1 via subnet routers has been spotty to say the least.
UV is making me give python a chance for the first time since 2015s renpy project I did for fun.
Okay, this is good answer here because this is more of what I was after. I would initially lay this effect exclusively at the feet of feminism, but I agree now that there are a lot of other movements that could be put into that slot as well.
If we could keep the input focus gains of feminism/$movement while identifying/losing the output-focus overreaches of $movement, I think we would all be better off. Moderation is the key.
Politics jumps in to find that level of moderation, and I've already used all of my 'stir the HN pot' tokens for this month so I will leave further discussion there alone.
Thanks for a good comment that expands the discussion further in the direction I wanted to go but couldn't articulate in my post.
> I'll reply here in good faith: I just don't see how you connect those dots, or why this has anything to do with gender.
That's a reasonable opinion to doubt that gender affects this at all. I'm not certain it does myself, but I thought it was worth discussing in case there is a role there.
> Citation(s) needed. I've never heard an argument for this or even seen someone suggest it before.
I heard it in person from my sister over a year ago, I don't have scientific data at all for this. Totally 'just, like, my opinion, man.'
Having said that, here's [1]/[2](archive link) some Forbes blogger who relatively compactly lays out the theory of how young women are creators of mass culture for their generation.
> Even if we take your previous statements as true, what does that have to do with peoples' independence?
I mis-spoke here I should have expanded 'independence' there to represent people's awareness of the 'slow life history path' that is more common today.
> To me (and my own confirmation bias pet issue), it seems much more likely that having recordings and visible online identities the way we do now with smartphones, ever present cameras, and social media causes people to think a lot more about how they're perceived by others.
You know I think this is very fair and probably more relevant than my comment. If everybody is watching us all the time, we act on our best behavior and are not (for better/worse) feeling as much at liberty to be our unfettered deviant selves.
> And, the flip side, spending so much time seeing other people via tv, online videos, social media, etc constantly reinforces what "normal" behavior looks like.
Also fair. There are many subcultures now, from fountain pen collectors to fantasy writers to Managed Democrats (as a random and /definitely/ not specific-to-me example), and you can tailor your behavior to what the community expects just as the royal we used to do back when we would use internet forums and learn what they liked/didn't like.
> People are also so absorbed in modern media that they just do way less interesting stuff overall imo.
I could see that. I do a lot of potentially interesting things in-person or in LAN that I will never let go WAN, I know that the public web is the largest/harshest critic out there and the downside risks are ever yawning while the upside risks are not that much. So if others come to similar conclusions, then the only online stuff that most normal people will put up will be the curated social media appropriate highlight reels.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradsimms/2024/05/30/teenage-gi...
But in the interests of attempting to not be so conformist and give us something interesting to discuss about this interesting article, I will try this anyways, and if you have a problem with me saying this then feel free to flag and move on, I don't care enough to get into a flame war about this, but I believe I'm not trying to troll or get a rise out of people.
Perhaps this is the feminization of society? As women have asserted themselves in the workforce and due to young women being the creators of mass culture for their generation, perhaps this is a partial driver for why everyone is so much less independent.
I dont know, this thought is not done and I'm already expecting incoming fire from someone somewhere, but perhaps this could help drive this.
Then again, it's more likely that this fits one of my conformation bias pet issues.
Both artist links are either private or show closed commissions, so the artists aren't fishing for exposure to do lead gen, they have a passion to help make KDE be a better marketable product.
I daily drive KDE, but I'm glad that in part thanks go the KDE projects approach to accessibility to newcomers and these artists' desires to help out, we get visual aids for the masses, which are pleasant for those of us who live in walls of text and can help humanize an otherwise dry technical subject, aiding newcomers considering joining the project to have an easier time understanding what they are looking at.