i don’t like ai art bc it lacks and sort of “soul” or “human touch” (nebulous and subjective but iykyk) games are just another form of art, so why would i waste my time with just another form of slop? | ||
asmosoinio 0 minutes ago | parent | context | on: British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight ... Why? Can't people adjust their schedules as needed? Schools don't have to always start at the same time? And many jobs also not? It's not like 9-17 work hours are set on stone? | ||
Time will tell! Certainly AI is unlocking a lot of stuff, a huge number of people who did not have the time or the special skills before to create games will do so. I can think back to my own start in making computer games, using Amos on the Amiga (vastly easier than C or assembly). It's a separate question whether anything actually good will come out of it. It's incredibly unfair to look at any particular project and say: what, another clone of this or that done idea? Very few things are original in any time. Certainly I didn't make anything particularly original all those years ago. But, soon, there should be really something, if there's really something there. If it's not just burning tokens to copy older ideas. And we'll know it when we see it, this amazing thing that would not have existed otherwise. | ||
WarOnPrivacy 1 minute ago | parent | context | on: Low fertility may persist and could be good for th... > So, the "which comes first" in this I feel tends to be, economic improvement comes first, then birth rates drop. When we examine this in the future, we will eventually learn it had multiple, diverse causes. Because every complex issue does. I live with my 4 adult sons because we make typical wages; no two of can afford basic bills. As far as improved economies go, I prefer what came before this one. It's when my earnings were sufficient to support my family. Tying this to birth rates, it has become unlikely (commonly impossible) for two typical wage earners to afford their own household. It's tough to raise a family without a home. | ||
jb1991 1 minute ago | parent | context | on: iPhone 17e iCloud seems to work differently. Nearly all of the photos and videos I have are stored in iCloud because my phone is only a 64 GB device. But I can scroll back many years and pull up any photo video and play or view just fine right away. I can swipe right through long sequences of photos from five years ago on a device that doesn’t have them downloaded. I’m not sure exactly how that works. | ||
Exactly, people are distracted by nothing being done about the Epstein files, a genocide being committed out in the open for 2+ years, fascist private army running around abducting DoorDash drivers and shooting people in the head. It's a great time for anyone wanting to do a society-level bad thing. | ||
But there is total transparency though? Meta is using all your data, always. And the harder they say they’re not, the sneakier they’re doing it. | ||
cootsnuck 2 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent f... I've been working solely on voice agents for the past couple years (and have worked at one of the frontier voice AI companies). The cascading model (STT -> LLM -> TTS), is unlikely to go away anytime soon for a whole lot of reasons. A big one is observability. The people paying for voice agents are enterprises. Enterprises care about reliability and liability. The cascading model approach is much more amenable to specialization (rather than raw flexibility / generality) and auditability. Organizations in regulated industries (e.g. healthcare, finance, education) need to be able to see what a voice agent "heard" before it tries to "act" on transcribed text, and same goes for seeing what LLM output text is going to be "said" before it's actually synthesized and played back. Speech-to-Speech (end-to-end) models definitely have a place for more "narrative" use cases (think interviewing, conducting surveys / polls, etc.). But from my experience from working with clients, they are clamoring for systems and orchestration that actually use some good ol' fashioned engineering as and don't solely rely on the latest-and-greatest SoTA ML models. | ||
Tade0 2 minutes ago | parent | context | on: iPhone 17e My SO has the latter and switched from the former when it started behaving erratically. It's the very last reasonably sized iPhone and one of the very last in this category overall. | ||
mac mini's are not too expensive, what country is this? | ||
Well, that's just metaprogramming. Also, java annotation processors are strictly "append-only", they can't change code written as is. They may subclass it, or build new classes that make use of the annotations. In my experience LLMs are more than happy with annotations, especially from the widely used ones (spring/jakarta ee, lombok though it's not an annotation processor, etc). If you think about it, an annotation like @Path("/endpoint") is very informative for both humans and LLMs alike, being local to what it attaches to. Within an agent, the code serving the endpoint will be immediately visible in the context returned by a simple string search, no need to do another round of "find wherever this codebase registers routes". | ||
DetroitThrow 2 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy i... It was against their policy to use AI in producing any part of the final article, and the writer was aware of that. I feel bad for the guy, but there's just no way I can imagine much better safeguards other than editors paying more close attention to referencing sources, and hiring more reliable people. | ||
asmosoinio 2 minutes ago | parent | context | on: British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight ... It was proposed officially in 2018, but unfortunately the decision was never finalized: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/seasonal-time-ch... | ||
tastyface 2 minutes ago | parent | context | on: U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,... Why do you think you have the strategic sense to productively participate on a topic like this? Who even are you? What are your sources? As for me, I look at polling results almost every day. My sense is that nothing I said is extraordinarily controversial among the voters who actually matter. People care about the economy, period. Outside of hardcore MAGA enclaves -- which will never change their vote -- the culture war bullshit is massively unpopular. | ||
xigoi 3 minutes ago | parent | context | on: You don't have to Because the article says much more than that and your LLM summary misses all the nuance. | ||
lmao what's going on? hn cucking to meta pressure? | ||
They are just a to-do list. The real work is done by the LLMs | ||
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NitpickLawyer 3 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent f... > The voice samples sound fantastic [...] I felt you were talking to an actual person. I like to listen to space content when going to sleep. Channels like History of the Universe, Astrum, PBS space time, SEA, etc. Lately there's been a bunch of new-ish channels that produce content in that space (heh) and I'm amazed of how good the voices sound. Sometimes it takes a few good minutes to figure out they're genai voices, they're that good. If it weren't for small mistakes I bet more than 80% of the general population wouldn't have a clue. | ||
ahhhhnoooo 3 minutes ago | parent | context | on: A plastic made from milk that vanishes in 13 weeks You are correct. Thankfully I never said anything of the sort. I said proteins, plural. The s is a key indicator I was talking about more than one aspect. Milk is about 5% lactose, 3.5% casein (80%) and whey proteins (20%, almost entirely two specific sub proteins), and 3-4% fat. A negligible amount of minerals. Nonfat milk, which I think we'd both recognize as milk (unpalatable as it may be). Lactose free milk is milk, I think. One assumes lactose free nonfat milk is milk. So if one is producing the three primary proteins, you've got nearly the whole way there. There's some trace proteins you are missing, but if you are 99.99+% of the way to milk, you've got milk. You sure the milk you get from the store hasn't denatured those trace proteins? | ||
Oh it was definitely beautiful, it just never seemed relevant to what was happening. More like the art team run amok. TP1 at least had an in universe explanation for the shape of the world. Spoilers…kinda I guess Athena and crew have invented literal universe manipulation powers? Allowing them to craft whatever beauty they see fit. Yet, their living quarters always seem to be some dingy basement lab with power cables and other miscellaneous garbage strewn about. The wondrous environments seemed fully disconnected from everything else in the world. If they had the time and the budget, go nuts, but the game would have been perfectly suitable with significantly lower fidelity graphics. | ||
skybrian 4 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Intent-Based Commits I start with a conversation and then ask the coding agent to write a design doc. It might go through several revisions. The implementation might also be a bit different if something unexpected is found, so afterwards I ask the agent to update it to explain what was implemented. This naturally happens over several commits. I suppose I could squash them, but I haven't bothered. | ||
alwillis 4 minutes ago | parent | context | on: iPhone 17e The 17 is the first base model iPhone to have a ProMotion display. | ||
There are no privacy concerns because there IS no privacy. /s | ||
palmotea 4 minutes ago | parent | context | on: U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,... > Well, I'll just say this: I was a "vote blue no matter who" voter following Trump 1, but after seeing the complete limpness of democratic leadership in Trump's proto-fascist America, I'm not sure I could actually stomach voting for a someone like Newsom, who is basically a republican circa 10 years ago. I am far from the only person who feels this way. It's not about who you would vote for. > If the democrats acquiesce to the republicans, they will likely lose even more people than they already have, while gaining absolutely no one from the maga camp. I think the real strat is to go full Mamdani across the board. Unapologetic, compassionate leftism. To be perfectly honest: I don't think you have the strategic sense to productively participate on a topic this. I kinda get the impression you're going for wish fulfillment. You're not going to get it all. If you try to get it all, you'll lose. Your wish fulfillment candidate could win parts of California and New York, but those aren't the places you need to think about. Think about not crashing and burning in a Nebraska Senate race. | ||
Are they just looking for AI skills? If so that's terrifying. | ||
vpribish 4 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy i... dang, we appreciate all you do. thanks | ||
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jb1991 4 minutes ago | parent | context | on: iPhone 17e The iCloud backup built into the iPhone for me seems quite seamless. As I mentioned in another comment, I have several thousand photos and videos that don’t fit on my phone because it’s only a 64 GB device. It’s been this way for many years. But I can still scroll back and see all the photos. And when I click one I view it instantly. I’ve never noticed any lag or any problems associated with the cloud backup. It feels to me exactly the same as if they were local. | ||
Which game engine is recommended for vibe coding games? I assume something like Unity is not very practical, since it's very GUI heavy. | ||
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