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.
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.
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.
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.
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.