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This is, quite unironically, the type of development I wish Apple would pursue for macOS. It's 2025 and focus stealing is still a topic we can have a serious conversation about. Why? "I want to use my computer without random popups accidentally eating my keyboard commands and doi

Appreciating that not everyone tries to optimise for LLMs and we are still doing things like this. If you're looking at HN alone, it sometimes feels like the hype could drown out everything else. Retina-inspired video recognition using light. Cool. May be a visual cortex next yea

This looks a lot like some line anti aliasing I had to hack together many years ago when a customer started complaining loudly about the lack of hardware support for it. I think I had something like a week to put together three different alternatives for them to pick from, and th

YuE — генеративная модель для создания песен в разных жанрах. Название означает «музыка» и «радость» по-китайски, произносится как «yeah».

Жанры и примеры

• Metal: агрессивный металкор, гитарные риффы, вокал fry.
• Jazz: женский блюз, фортепиано, романтичная гитара.
• Rap: хип-хоп с синтезатором, уличное звучание.
• Pop: вдохновляющий женский вокал, электроника.

Лирика генерируется GPT; планируется добавить мировую музыку, включая Пекинскую оперу.

• Пользователи заметили, что первые секунды «AI death-growl» почти дословно повторяют фрагмент Behemoth «Ov Fire and the Void».
• Основной запрос — не полные треки, а практичные инструменты: стилевой transfer, восстановление плохих записей, генерация отдельных партий/loop-ов, «бесконечный Splice».
• Упомянуты нишевые, но живые идеи: AI-драммер в Logic, live-джем с виртуальным гитаристом, VST-плагины для DAW.
• Сценарии использования делятся на три группы: фон для видео/подкастов, «музыкальные подарки» и мемы, быстрый прототип для настоящих музыкантов; критика — поток «бесплатных музыкантов» и засорение стримингов AI-шлаком.

So... Mastercard's statement is very clear:> Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network.But their "Rule 5.12.7" is... not so clear:> A Merchant must not submit to its Acquirer, and a Customer must not submit to the Interchange System, any Transaction that is illegal

I enjoyed reading this. It follows a similar experience with our first htmx website, away from using modern frontends, or just simple jQuery with ajax json data.I remember, working with a co-worker, we planned out the process (a step-by-step on the application like this post) and

I did one of these once. Once.I felt so bad afterwards that I swore them off forever.It's not like the 'interview' was terrible or anything. I knew it was AI from the start.It was just that when I got done with it, I realized that I had talked at a computer for ~45 minutes. And,

Well, you can definitely sense it if you browse Reddit. Young people are freaking out about the job market, the house market, and the dating market. I don't mean to dismiss their concerns, far from it. It does seem like we've been making it harder and harder for anyone to become

http://archive.today/BxREt Poorest workers are hit hardest by pretty much anything related to money. That's the myth of Trickle-down economics in action. The tax cuts for the rich will also probably mean that a lot of this money is going to buy real state as an investment rising

Something my doctor friends remind me of from time to time is how disconnected their actual workflows are from whatever system the money folks decided to buy.People making the purchases are not the ones using the system and they hate it because it doesn't serve them... A tale as