100% agreed. I use Claude Code to write 90% of my code at this point, but have found that it is genuinely worse than a junior at writing meaningful test cases. Most of the time it will make up interfaces or mock things incorrectly etc to the point where I just give up and write them myself. The bulk of the “tests” it writes test things which are meaningless (does the interface exist etc). This is with typescript + vitest with opus 4.5.
You’d be surprised. Currently taking a minor in music and there are several students taking these classes with me who don’t know how major and minor chords are constructed/are learning for the first time now. I’ve personally noticed it a lot with the classically trained people in my jazz ensemble. Granted I don’t expect them to understand non diatonic harmony/modal stuff right away, but you’d think that they would at least know the basics. Most high school “musicians” are simply doing it for college applications or due to parental pressure. Played in a band in HS and had a few “all state” musicians play with us. They were completely useless. Explaining to them that we were playing a song in a different key/ having them transpose something was a nightmare. Even the jazz band kids could really only play in 2 keys without completely losing form. There’s a lot of posturing in music especially academically from my experience.
This is very true. Relative is currently converting 4 story office building into apartments. Weirdly enough much of the space has been vacant since around 2018-2019. Not sure how much it has to do with the area but I think small businesses in general have started to lean away from office space as technology has gotten better.
I recently got an update to my pros that said that they now only charge based on my usage pattern in order to reduce battery wear. I think this means they only charge when they believe I'm about to use them so as not to wear them by constant charging. It was pretty unexpected as it goes against what I believed to be apple's incentive model.
Most of HN isn't aware of the non-BTC, non-Ponzi protocols and dapps being built right now.
There are some very cool things like decentralized lending/borrowing, exchanges, cross-chain swaps, synthetics, etc. These protocols are revenue generating (via fees) and are actively used with billions in volume.
99% of crypto will die off, but the small part that survives could be the backbone of a very robust internet-native financial system.
Whether these DeFi primitives will ever be plugged into TradFi systems remains to be seen, but if nothing else, the ability for these protocols to easily interop is a huge win over existing systems.
Even if everything uses stablecoins and all "altcoins" are ignored, there is still value here.
This is personal opinion and feel free to disagree, but I have zero trust in the government and I don't think central bankers and politicians in Washington care about me. I think the current financial system is highly corrupt, broken and fragile.
So naturally, ideally, I want to completely opt-out of their system. So far in human history, we never had an alternative, but now we do. Bitcoin price in fiat may go up or down, but I believe the Bitcoin network will keep ticking with the same mathematical rules and same transparency today and in 100 years from now.
You didn't ask me but I share this sentiment exactly. I think a digital currency is a neat idea. I think banks suck, their customer service sucks, their security sucks. I think the niche of a digital currency that's really like a more distributed Venmo is really cool.
I have found the MBTI to be useful despite the empirical inaccuracy of the test itself. Even without taking the test, people can self-identify as one (or more) types. This then serves as a meaningful basis for discussion as well as raising awareness that people are deeply different in terms of their ways of thinking. It is quite an eye opener the first time you see someone self-identify as a personality type that is very different to your own.
None of the personality theories are 'proven' of course. We won't get that until we have a fuller understanding of the brain. But it is well accepted within psychology that personality is a thing. And personality types (Big 5, MBTI, etc) are useful models for now despite their shortcomings.
That's an interesting article but I just have a few questions about it. How would someone exactly prove that a certain theory in a field as subjective as psychology to be true? What kind of studies would prove the usefulness of something like MBTI? While I agree it does limit people to certain binaries that aren't necessarily always 100% accurate, I have found it to be fairly accurate myself and think it describes people to a decent degree of accuracy.
I still use it fairly often... only complaint is the extremely annoying update reminders that seem to come up way too often. Would prefer if they didn’t just pop up and only showed when I opened the app
Not an expert but i believe all they pay is the $100 apple developer fee every year to be able to publish apps... 30% seems to only be for apple payments like subscriptions and app purchases
My issue with the whole idea of background recording for advertising is that it would be incredibly costly to store this data, transcribe the audio and turn it into anything even remotely meaningful for advertisers. I also don’t know a lot on this subject so if anyone has better info that’d be great.
You don't need to store the data, just transcribe it. That's basically the business model for Siri, Alexa et al. If you're worried about cost, just offload the work to the cell phone and accept the less-than-100% transcription.
The only reason I don't think the big players are doing this _is_ the potential for scandal. Random apps on the app store that ask for a million permissions, on the other hand, are probably doing this.
It only takes one clever hacker looking to make a name for themselves. With that said, there are plenty of cases where companies _were_ caught spying, so maybe it's not so cut and dry.
You can easily process the audio on the fly and reduce it to a probabilistic estimate of whether a tag from a predefined topic set was present in the conversation. Doesn't need to be 100% accurate. You don't need to store the audio - just stream it through the recognizer. The output of such recognizer will be something on the order of 8-32 bytes (an int for tag, a float for probability, an int64 for timestamp), possibly less if one's clever - and it only needs to be stored until the next opportunity to send it out.
Also: people seem to be looking at modern speech recognizers on their phones and wrongly concluding that speech recognition in general is very compute-intensive. It isn't, if you're willing to make some sacrifices on accuracy and generality, and to do it locally instead voice data off to a cloud somewhere. A proper benchmark here isn't Siri or Google Assistant - it's Microsoft Speech API, as shipped with Windows 12+ years ago.
I don’t really have a lot of experience with game development or indie development in general, but I think that you might be approaching this wrong. I think that
you’re basing the future success of your game on stats and measures that are deceiving. You will really only know how successful or well liked your game is when you have released the game. I like music so the best example I can think of in regards to this is Nirvana’s album Nevermind. The album barely sold for the first week or so it was on the market. However, MTV decided to play a music video of Smells like teen spirit one night and the rest is history. Nevermind is now triple (i think) platinum. If you are able to continue the project, do so. However, if the development is a chore or you can’t afford to keep developing it, don’t. Your potential success will be a weird combination of luck and merit, and your potential failure will be something you can learn from. TLDR; complete it if you can and have the time, and don’t worry about potential failure or success.
For context: It's a hobby project, with an partially educational slant. So if it flops commercially, I'm hoping to make sure schools and students will enjoy it for free.
Either way, I guess I'm trying to work out what people think of my early builds. So far, people have enjoyed the narrow slice of the game I've presented. I'm kind of going with a "ship it and iterate philosophy" with playesters, without having to sell it.
I would continue with what you’re doing but that’s just my opinion. Try not to worry too much about traction as long as the people who are playing enjoy it and play it consistently.
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