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Just track your genealogy. Go up like 3-4 nodes from your parents and then expand the tree from there.

The expansion gets even more extreme if you start your expansion further up the tree, as the average number of children per household goes up dramatically as you go further back in time.

https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/a...

Genetically, you're just about as close to your great-great-grandfather as his second daughter's son's third daughter's nephew is.

Unless you've been in some sort of clan war for generations or your family has been the target of small-scale genocide, you're unlikely to be the 'last of a bloodline'.

At a complete guess, that may be inaccurate because I don't know you? What you possibly have is a biological imperative to reproduce, perhaps some social expectation or personal desire to have a family, which combine to create the anxiety. Then the anxiety manifest as magical thinking about "being the last" in a way to drive attention to the underlying issues. Is it 'being the last' or 'being alone' that's the real driver?

Then it's on to centralization of the "human" components of the workforce into company towns, robot armies and competition for natural resources that will be processed from raw.

Tell that to the generation of autistics roaming America that were never properly diagnosed in their youth. High intelligence, often even high paying jobs, but all the other 'success' metrics will probably end up looking very wavy.

Great, now you have to ban sharing of it, or banning sale is worthless.

Or rather, only worthwhile as a straw-man you can point to and say "Look, we stopped it!" when you know that's false.

We should probably ban all of those Amazon models that can also be jailbroken.

Yeah, that's in faster-whisper-xxl via the --diarize parameter with additional options to tweak how it works:

https://github.com/Purfview/whisper-standalone-win/discussio...

I haven't used it when subtitling, though, so I don't know much more.

It's entirely possible, and even standard, to allow the browser to tell your site which language to respond in.

While ignorance of internationalization standards is a possibility, and the most likely cause.. I do wonder if it's a bit of a nudge to promote Chinese influence in the AI space.

Not that they really need to do that, China is already doing great (relatively, depending on criteria). The implosion of the US, the resulting brain drain and world shake-up has been very timely for their AI and other industries.

It's a very smart move for them to think longer term and start freezing out NVIDIA. Then they can take Taiwan purely for ideological concerns and not worry at all about the fabs blowing up in the process.

And they won't be dependent on foreign factories sitting on an island just off the shore of a superpower who's shown nothing below absolute resolve for decades towards the idea of conquering that island....

Not to promote something, but Wispr Flow does that for me automatically if I trigger a setting for it..

While it's a commercial product with a subscription, I spent a long time on the free tier not even hitting their limits until I started using it so extensively that I wanted to pay for it.

And I've used Whisper in the past, mostly for tinkering. I tried it for a couple of use cases but haven't touched the base project in a while. But I do regularly use Faster-Whisper-XXL, an open source project based on Whisper, for subtitle generation.

Though, for subtitle generation, I decided to support the project and mainly use the non-public build of Faster-Whisper-XXL Pro built for donators to the open source project.

The extra features smooth out the subtitle editing process very substantially. Toss in "--roformer_overlap 0.125 --roformer_vram 16 --best_of 15 --ff_vocal_extract mb-roformer --vad_method pyannote_v3" to the cli parameters (and sometimes --realign) and you have much less work to do in SubtitleEdit or Tero Subtitler afterwards to clean it up.

Input:

Ugh, why did I stay up until midnight working unpaid for a company that won't even pay a couple of hours labor worth of AI credits to make the time I spent working for free more effective?

Output:

I’m so incredibly grateful for the opportunity to go the extra mile!

Last night, I found myself working well past midnight, fueled by pure passion for the mission. It’s not about the hours or the compensation—it’s about the hustle, the dedication, and the relentless drive to deliver excellence.

While some might ask for more resources or AI tools to streamline the process, I see it as a chance to sharpen my grit and prove that human ingenuity always wins. Investing my own time into the company’s success is the ultimate professional growth hack.

Success isn't given, it's earned through sacrifice. Who else is crushing their goals tonight? Let’s get after it! #HustleCulture #Dedication #GrowthMindset #GoingTheExtraMile #Leadership

And then back to English:

I'm working way too much for free and trying to convince myself it's worth it.

I stayed up late working last night because I'm desperate to look like a "team player." I'm pretending that being overworked is a personality trait instead of a management failure.

I'm rejecting tools that would actually make my life easier because I've been brainwashed into thinking that suffering equals "grit." I'm basically giving the company free labor and calling it a "growth hack."

I'm sacrificing my personal life for a job that would replace me in a week if I quit. Please validate my burnout so I feel less alone in this toxic cycle. #Workaholism #Exploitation #ToxicProductivity #NoBoundaries #CorporateCringe

Ugh. I wondered what that was. I had to reformat due to inaccessible boot device as well, I thought the SSD had gone bad.

But I left it after the install, annoyed into abandoning the laptop to the shelf at the no-network first-login workaround to avoid a Microsoft account. I hate all the fresh laptop setup that's required afterwards to make Windows tolerable.

Soo, it can definitively tell you that 42 is correct Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything. It just can't tell you if you're asking the right question.

Yeah, that seems utterly made up.

I live in an urbanish area, and if i don't set Priority Delivery then there's probably a 2 in 3 chance I'm stuck in a queue with "waiting on other delivery to complete".

About the only way to get my food while it's still warm enough to eat (because few of these drivers use heat bags) is to set priority delivery. And when I do, I can track it straight from store to my place. No 'waiting on other delivery' messages, not even blips of disconnectedness while the driver fulfills orders from other apps. Just straight to me.

This fee, I find, works better than tipping. Which is sad because in my imagination, I suspect the platform is keeping the fee rather than the driver. Incentives are completely messed up for gig deliveries.

They don't even take down the spam you report. I doubt they'll do anything until their user base declines.

I dunno, I've noticed quite a bit of hesitancy. Like they want to figure out "which kind" of American you are before they will even nudge the topic of US politics.

Or ask it to write code for an industrial control system based in Tibet...

https://venturebeat.com/security/deepseek-injects-50-more-se...

Payday for someone's pet project in the "We need to invest in every alternative IDE" bubble?

There was an ulterior motive and the impact was deliberate.

Further down the article:

> O'Neal was brought in by Bezos this summer after the corporate titan tore up his paper's opinion section.

> Bezos said he wanted a tight focus on two priorities: personal liberties and free markets. The top opinion page editor resigned. A raft of prominent columnists and contributors resigned or departed as well. Some were let go.

No, they're still anecdotes.

   anecdote   /'ænɪk,doʊt/
   noun
   short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

More like, several wealthy people from Silicon Valley funded campaigns to put a government in place which is now encouraging Silicon Valley and other business to bend the knee to the political institutions.

It's not always simple to be precise..

Is there an OpenPose format json export option, for use with ControlNet tools? Or is the only option as an image to image reference?

Yeah, historically a lot of the aggregators of cellular location data have had huge security issues.

One of them even had a demo page open to the internet that just had a 'Has consent?" checkbox. Showed me my own location within two blocks without any real validation of consent. No options from the vendor to disable this.

Contacting T-Mobile just gets you a PO Box you can mail a letter to.

An article on one of them from years ago:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsm...

That didn't work for cellular location data, it probably won't work for license plate readers.

I'm sorry, but there's "move fast and break things" and then there's a group of junior devs not even bothering to google a checklist of development or moving to production best practices.

Your Joe AI customers should be worried. Anyone actually using the RankBid you did a Show HackerNews on 8 months ago should be worried (particularly by the "Secure by design: We partner with Stripe to ensure your data is secure." line.

If you don't want to get toasted by some future failure where you won't be accidentally saved by a vendor, then maybe start learning more on the technical side instead of researching and writing blogspam like "I Read 10 Business Books So You Don't Have To".

This might sound harsh, but it's intended as sound advice that clearly nobody else is giving you.

> we’ve become more tolerant

We've become more powerless, you mean. The government has become more tolerant.

What if we add 3 cats, but they can ride alone or on a single sheep's back, and wolves will always attack the cat first but leave the sheep alone if the cat is not on a sheep, but will attack both cat and sheep at same time if cat is riding a sheep. Wolves can each only make one attack while crossing.

Claude's 7 step for the original turns to 11 steps for this variant.

They probably stopped talking about their datasets because it would mostly piss people off and get them sued. EG, Meta.

Eh maybe if you actually use it a lot. But if you don't then accidentally activating it gets annoying.

And apparently, as long as you don't read them, if you only need a license to view...

I hope the huge new antipiracy push that is coming will require litigators to prove that you're actually viewing the material you pirate.

Which would make Plex and friends with their metrics a bad idea to trust with all of your pirated content.

Though the antipiracy push is going to focus on the torrent sites themselves.

This probably depends on how you define "IT". I think for employment type stats the list of categories is fairly wide, and can include almost anything that requires a computer that doesn't fit into other categories (which btw is often used for 'exempt' overtime status to put people in on-call rotations without resulting in an 'engaged to wait' scenario that requires payment for time not spent on a call. because they're "experts in IT related field").

But specifically this is probably mostly driven so far by tech support industries. "IT" being customer service reps who use a computer to respond to chat messages, in some cases.

Or actual tech support that's had its entire entry system stripped and replaced by an AI-guided walkthrough of predefined steps customers are required to take before they talk to a human. This will certainly have impact on the amount of support staff needed, even if a portion of that is simply frustrating customers into searching for answers themselves.

*Open as in, many people can pay to use it. Not ALL, that would be ridiculous. And certainly not forever. Once it starts to work correctly, no more buzz will be needed to drive investment and you'll then be slowly cut off or price starved out of most functionality.