TiredGuy

Hey I was looking for documentation to learn how to make my own games but I didn't see a link on the website. Do you have any docs? If so please consider putting a link to it on the front page.

I didn't try logging into the studio since it was asking for username and stuff, so maybe the docs are there? I just wanted to read the docs before committing to a login and stuff to see if this is worth my time.

It says it has improved support for speech disfluencies, which is encouraging. I've had a lot of trouble with grok speech to text in the past due to that.

I agree this can be a bit of a pain if you're used to that. There are ways to partially reduce it: 1. use the timeline panel for an individual file to see all the historical changes to a file, and you can highlight multiple ones to see cumulative changes, and you can filter to only git commits or only local changes etc. 2. use the commit history panel in the source control area to do the same across commits, but it doesn't allow you to highlight across commits for cumulative changes

It does require a bit of a paradigm shift sometimes to not rely as much on seeing all cumulative changes for the ticket highlighted as you code, and instead compartmentalize your immediate view to the current commit's task, but often the above 2 alternatives help suffice. Of course, you did mention that you'll commit stuff you're not likely to touch again, which helps a lot too

Sounds like someone who genuinely wants to make an impact, donated his time to do so, and wrote some stuff to potentially help while giving us a glimpse into the daily life of a high-profile group. I really appreciate this.

Yeah I think I would say you're right to doubt if this resonates on HN. You're posing it to an audience which has very little GED-level representation. HN more often has people who did well in school and are at a much better disposition for higher-salary jobs.

I'm not part of the target population but my guess is that a large factor has to do with people's tendency to go down the path of life that is most similar to the path they've already tread. If you grew up in a 'cultural center' it's less of a paradigm shift to take the crappy job around the corner rather than move somewhere slightly more remote to start a new career even if in the long run it could actually lead to a more decent life.

This seems like a really political article with not really any tech-related content...

Also note the article starts with the qualifier "in the first few hours", meaning it's not like they're sitting there all day every day with no lights/wifi. This seems like an exaggerated, politically motivated piece that doesn't belong on HN.

Same. Sometimes the best way to fix a bug is to refactor it out of existence.

I wish someone would implement an interface for using color diffusion curves in a vector drawing program: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Diffusion_Curves

When they were first proposed back in 2008 they made a big splash, but afaik they never got past the prototype phase. There was even a push to add them to the SVG spec.

Were they maybe just wanna-be volunteers that were bringing an extra engine down to help and didn't know the formal process to volunteer for something like that? Sounds like the news has no evidence of actual malevolence, so is it fair to give them the benefit of the doubt here?

On that note, the article states that it donates more to higher risk projects, and risk increases by OpenSSF score. One question I had about the article is does that mean that projects with more security vulns get a higher donation? If so, then that might become a perverse incentive to leave security gaps in your code.

So after downloading from the official downloads page and stripping away all the mjs files and "bundler-friendly" files, a minimal sqlite wasm dependency will be about 1.3MB.

For an in-browser app, that seems a bit much but of course wasm runs in other places these days where it might make more sense.

Oh right that makes sense thank you!

Thanks! That reminds me I did bring up the thing about long lists and he said that's even more reason to use checkboxes since the multi-select has such a tiny scroll window it makes it hard to scroll through to find what you need when there are a bunch of options.

Listening to the piper demos [1] and comparing to coqui [2], I'd say coqui sounds better to me, but I'd love to hear others' opinions. Looks like Piper's latest commits were 3 months ago [3] while Coqui's were 8 months ago [4], so they both seem similar in recency. In terms of ease of use though, especially with this project, personally Piper seems way less overwhelming.

[1] https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ [2] https://huggingface.co/spaces/coqui/xtts [3] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper [4] https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

I like the idea of resizing and moving the windows to replicate the experience of pan and zoom. Pretty creative hack!

Wow, this looks pretty full-featured. Even has an editing interface. Good job delivering!

Definitely more professional looking than the free solutions I've used in the past.

When traveling to other countries, and sometimes even just to other major cities, I always enjoyed seeing the different billboards. Often they would be for local businesses that I wouldn't otherwise know about, and they also convey some of the local culture. I enjoy seeing the creative typography to style a foreign language, the appeals to this or that "ideal", the quirky attempts at humor. It always seemed to me to be part of the antidote to the "this city looks like all the other cities" trend of cultural homogenization that seems to be eating the world. Sure, there are also the ubiquitous global or luxury brand ones, but you take the good with the bad like everything else, and even these will often have a different twist based on the country you're in.

The state of the art of 3d pose estimation and pose transfer from video seems to be pretty accurate. I wonder if another approach might be to infer a wireframe model for the character, then tween that instead of the character itself. It would be like the vector approach described in the article but with much, much fewer vertices, then once you have the tween, use something similar to pose transfer to map the most recent character's frame depiction to the pose.

Training on a wireframe model seems like it would be easier, since there are plenty of wireframe animations out there (at least for humans) you could use and remove in-between frames to try inferring them.

I like how this uses something familiar (Kanban) in a novel way to address the real-time tracking of a budget.

I wonder if maybe another useful feature would be to schedule a card to be automatically moved to another column at a certain date for things like contract fulfillment, or schedule a recurring card to be added each month for paychecks and monthly bills. Or is that already a feature? I could also see building upon that to see a rudimentary forecast of the state of finances at specified dates in time.

Good stuff, thanks!

One suggestion: I see in request, preflight request, and preflight response, you've organized the headers into required and optional, while the response headers are not organized as such. Would be nice to show which are required for response headers.

I was about to download this but then realized it's only for Apple! Are you planning on having an Android release?

Also on that front intro page I don't see any link anywhere that actually takes you to the apple app store to download the app. I thought the "App" link at the top might but it just takes me to another description section.

Would be nice to have an example page showing what you get. Not sure the level of detail an idea has, or whether they're simply descriptions of pain points, or whether they come with context around who submitted the idea or the workflow involed (e.g. An idea solving a pain point around health care data entry could land quite differently if submitted by a patient vs a doctor vs a nurse vs an insurer vs a medicare worker). Details like that could also make it more convincing that the idea actually solves the pain point given.

I was also expecting an idea-submission form somewhere so that I could contribute in hopes that any pain points I might have might someday be relieved. Might be a lot of work to curate though...

Some good points in here about designing the payment portion of a business. I've bookmarked this for future reference.

I also like the mention of Edge Case Poisoning. Definitely going to be using that term in the future.

When I attempted a few times to found startups, my wife was willing to support me financially if any of them were to become profitable enough over a certain agreed-upon threshold that we felt justified in quitting my job and taking the plunge to go full time.

Not sure if that was the best strategy, but it seemed like a decent one at the time. I suppose if I were single, maybe the decision to just quit and go full time would have been easier despite not having such a safety net.

It's tough when more than my own life is being affected by such decisions. I feel for the author and her husband. Who knows if my own marriage would have ended up in similar struggles if I had gone all in. I do feel like I'm probably making more money in the long run by just remaining an employee.

Sounds like it might be a good web-scraping project for a civic-minded group or individual: scrape the sites, unify and organize them into something more approachable and discoverable.

I know in the US we have orgs like Code for America and events like National Day of Civic Hacking. Does the EU have similar groups and events? I wonder if this could be presented to something like that.

It sounds like the author first says that the word "a11y" is not accessible because it's jargon, but then says that jargon is ok as long as it's defined somewhere. He then proceeds to compare the alternative word "accessibility" with "A11y" and finds they are slightly different in meaning. So it sounds like if we want to use the word "a11y", just make sure it's defined somewhere, and know that there are no exact alternatives. Is that accurate?

Personally a lot of this a11y stuff is complicated and confusing to me. I am trying my best to be a responsible dev, but it feels overwhelming sometimes.

wow, I was pretty proud of my 88% but then I saw all the comments here

Really neat way to advertise Brilliant. Reminds me of Google Doodles or something.

I found this article more informative: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/showering-daily-is-it-ne...

Interestingly the harvard article talks about perturbing the microbiome through exposure to the environment to make it more robust. Very reminiscent of the book Antifragile. Makes a lot of sense.

I like that "praise the opposite" approach. Usually when things go smoothly, it's really easy for me to just zone out and not pay attention. It certainly seems like it takes deliberate practice to be observant of praiseworthy behavior and then actually say something nice about it, so it's nice to be reminded of it.

They got that from the availability rate, not the vacancy rate. You can see the percentages they list in the article for each town correspond roughly to the "R&D Availability Rates Select Silicon Valley Cities" figure on Page 5