skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Synthesia is a commonly reported property of some psychedelics. Now, with Bear, he was an audio engineer and probably had a pretty good understanding of resonance. If you look at the bass speakers behind Mike Gordon of Phish (there are lots of high quality live videos taken recently) you can see that when he plays low notes, the metal grill on the speakers vibrates visibly. You can also see that even when damped, any video camera clamped to the music stage is vibrating from drum impacts.

I could easly see Bear, on Bear acid, at a Dead show, thinking "I can see sound waves" by watching something resonate in time to the music. I'm not sure but maybe some folks have seen actual notes flying out of a guitar, but that would be a very strong hallucination.
Is this how Kagi's "universal summarizer" works? They wrote a lot of copy about how it's able to summarize websites and documents of arbitrary length, while not revealing how on Earth this actually works. It does seem to work, though.
> hellthreads have been a thing on the fediverse since forever

"hellthreads" have been a thing on the internet since people started interacting with each other on the internet. I don't think people on the fediverse invented the word either, the first time I saw something named "hellthread" I think was on early Twitter.

Also, I don't think anyone is claiming that Bluesky invented the word. The article just says that a particular thread started being called such, and specifically "the hellthread" instead of the general "hellthread".
Yes, I bought that one when it came out. It was much better than the x86 version - especially with SpeedDoubler (a better 68K emulator).
What does "touch grass" in this context mean?

If you mean "every time I am smoking a joint and talking about Elon" I guess I'm not surprised. If you mean "every time I go outside and talk to people about Elon" I definitely am. There are large parts of my (quite liberal) state where a Tesla gets a pretty negative reaction.
While HTMLX makes some interactions easier for developers without JS
experience, the primary issue in web development is that the browser was not designed for apps. It evolved unevenly from a document navigation platform, and many things we do in web development today are hacks due to the lack of a better solution.

In my opinion, the future of the web as a platform is about viewing the web browser as an operating system with basic composable primitives.

HTMLX adds attributes to HTML using JS, and the argument about "no-JavaScript" is misleading: with HTMLX you can write interactions without JS, but HTMX uses JS. But, as it forces you to use HTML constructs that will work without scripts (such as forms), the page will fall back. It doesn't means that the fallback is usable.

The custom HTMLX attributes work because the browser supports extensions of its behavior using JS. If we add those attributes to the standard HTML, the result is more fragmentation and an endless race. The best standard is one that eliminates the need for creating more high-level standards. In my view, a possible evolution of WASM could achieve that goal. It means going in the opposite direction of the article, as clients will do more computing work. In a future like that, you can use HTMLX, SwiftUI, Flutter, or React to develop web apps. The biggest challenge is to balance a powerful OS-like browser like that with attributes like searchability, accessibility, and learnability (the devtools inspect and console is the closest thing to Smalltalk we have today)...even desktop OSs struggle today to provide that.
No, I wouldn't pay for it. And there are multiple reasons for that:

1. Social media services don't bring enough value to be worth paying for, since it's unlikely most others will do the same. So if I pay for your social network, I'm likely losing contact with the folks I care about (at least there) in the vague hope I'll find new people to talk to. That's rare enough with free services, let alone paid ones.

2. Similarly, by being paid, it's less likely the communities and people I'd want to talk to would be on your site/service. Even with machine generated content, there's more interesting stuff on Twitter/Reddit/YouTube/whatever than this hypothetical paid one, so I'd rather take my chances on the larger sites.

3. The more people want others to hear what they say and pay for the privilege, the less others are likely to want to hear from them. See Twitter Blue and the kinds of people who tend to pay for it. Your service could end up being Twitter Blue the Social Network, with all the vapid 'thought leaders' and 'would be influencers' that brings.

4. I really don't want to use a service that requires you participate under your 'real life' identity, since that usually leads to lesss interesting discussions and communities (with very little effect on toxicity, as Facebook shows).

5. I certainly don't want a social media company having proof of my ID, both for privacy reasons (this data could be sold to other companies) and safety ones (like if a Musk style figure takes over, or an authoritarian regime comes into power).
The classic old-school take on analog noise is Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting In A Room" loop.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho16dPi_WKU
I can move my assets across borders instantaneously and exchange them for local currency whenever I need it. There is value in digital assets that are not bound to any jurisdiction.
> At this point they're just kicking the can down the road, postponing the problems that Mastodon already had to face.

Seems they're finally publishing more details about it: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture
Can't believe you post on HN haven't tried them. I've been thinking of a vacation to Phoenix just to try them and I live in Europe :)
It doesn't have to be someone's fault to not be a good suited submission.
I know they started testing a while back in LA, has anyone been in one there? I haven’t seen them around town like I have in SF.
VHS player modified as HIFI audio deck
"It just means there's an additional burden on political parties to take extra steps to woo those unaffiliated voters"

Not necessarily. The only thing that party registration affects is who can vote in primaries. (And not even that much, in all states.)

The parties don't necessarily want more people voting in the primaries. These are how intra-party differences are resolved. If somebody isn't interested in taking part in that process, there's not all that much need to get their input. All you want is to be able to convince them of the final result.

Not registering doesn't make them a swing voter, of which there are relatively few. People know what the party's basic positions are, and don't really care all that much about the specifics of the candidate running. Winning elections is more about getting party turnout rather than attracting swing voters.

Aside from that... I wasn't able to figure out, either form the press release or the fragments of the article available online, exactly "66% of what". There are presumably many more voters being registered who previously wouldn't have, and presumably they're making the least possible effort. That includes not selecting a party affiliation.

So if it's as a percent of all people registering, that's not a surprise. But it's an absolute number of registering voters, that's interesting. Why would they choose not to register with a party when they sign up? Is it that the process is confusingly done?
So many JS projects are switching to TS, but AFAIK the same isn't happening within Ruby, which reduces some of the type-checking benefit.

Also, this is subjective but I don't like the syntax.

> Sorbet is 100% compatible with Ruby. It type checks normal method definitions, and introduces backwards-compatible syntax for method signatures.

I would have preferred if they had introduced a compile step the way typescript does, and provided a TS-like syntax. I find the current version hard to read.
Those forest they own came with trees that would be preserved if they didn't exist.

They do make deserts out of forests when they clearcut. A lot of land is owned by others (governments, native tribes) and permits are used to extract the pulp
Its a really well thought out way to combine schemas, templates, and data into one language. Its a superset of JSON and it provides a functional interface to validate inputs, outputs, and configurations.

It integrates very nicely with go and can convert between go structs into cue structs and vice versa.
I would probably rather describe smartTVs as capable spying equipment.
KDE has a Global Menu plasmoid. Unfortunately it falls into the plasma's discoverability pit. Even if it did not fall into this, there are non-QT apps that don't export its menu to the DE, for instance: Firefox (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1419151).
I wish Nim would take off...but alas the worst languages are always the most popular - JS, C++ ...
If there is hazardous waste, it shouldn't be dumped anywhere. It should be processed so that it is no longer hazardous, or contained in a way that actually mitigates potential harm. If that's possible, the process that generates the hazardous waste shouldn't be used.
My regarded-as-moderately-high-end US electric kettle isn't really any faster to boil water than my stovetop is—but, it can hold a temperature, and has several settable stop-and-hold-points at sub-boiling temps, which is great for various teas and coffees.

What's not relatable to me is European (I assume?) reports of boiling water in an electric kettle, then transferring to the stovetop. My kettle's not meaningfully faster than the stovetop, and is a lot slower for quantities past a liter or so—it's only worth having for the other features. I assume that's the voltage difference making itself known.
I agree but also worry about the job loss and the inevitable loss of freedoms that will inevitably be 'justifiable' when automatic driving is the norm.

Basically, if the cost can be comparable to car ownership, reducing resource use by making car buying of any kind far more difficult. Which is admittedly entirely a thought experiment. Though it is a thought experiment many authors seem to arrive at.

Edit: I wish I could say I was surprised at the downvotes for a comment that is pro-worker.
> Hopefully they can regain their conscience and quality.

I think you need to research more about the entity who bought Vice out first and why Vice went downhill following their cash infusion of $250M of funding for the company. [0]

[0] https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/vice-media-250-million...
I know how to use them, but I still hate them. They're a symptom of a larger issue with modern web (and application) UI design: discovery seems to be no longer considered important.
The "decent ARM processors for cheap" seem comparable to a Celeron performance-wise, don't they?
after checking i'm a human, it sent me to something for link shortening? idk, it made no sense, sorry.
Sarcasm I assume? This would merely be a redistribution of taxpayers money with no end product. EU has form in this.
The Apple one. I thought the codename for the one for the 6100/60 was Houdini II and the one that ran on 68K Macs was the original Houdini?

Speaking of which, I wonder can I still salvage that setup. It’s at my parents house in a closet….
That list is general VR/VR which includes any work on Oculus and more, not specifically Metaverse.

Going through that list regardless, I don't find Carmac there, and searching about it, seems he quit ~5 months ago. Might want to dig up a better example :)
Mastodon is terrible because it’s hard to join—unlike Bluesky, a social network that is hard to join, which is great.

Journalists are flocking to Bluesky, and not Mastodon because Bluesky allows retweets—which Mastodon doesn’t allow. Oh, and about hashtags, direct messages, and post edits not being available on Bluesky? Journalists don’t need them.
A great time to kill your accounts there
Now do the same calculation for passenger aviation.

That's not how disasters work. They aren't independent variables, when they happen, you learn and change the way things work to prevent them from happening again.
The latest Wolfenstein games are great. If you like old school fps, the remasters of quake and quake 2 are excellent. And in the last few years there have been great modern games that either recreate the speed of quake with modern graphics (like "Hellbound") or recreate the creepy, lo-fi atmosphere (like "Dusk").
If they're running the hidden service or have a backdoor it's just as compromised.
Or you might win in court and collect. For thousands of dollars, yes, it's worth my trouble to fill out a form and send in a court fee. Worked for me...
If it’s automatic I imagine you don’t get a party by default, you have to go back and register in a party if you want to be in a party.

Many people register in parties strategically. I was an activist in the NY state Green Party from 2000-2004, we lost our ballot line after that and I became an independent. I registered Democratic in 2007 because I was still sore about Hillary Clinton voting for the Iraq war and wanted to head her off in the primaries.
Amazon has a 5 drive rack for $25.

You can also get dual-drive USB adapters for $20.
I'd agree that VR has yet to be proven for any serious adoption, but I don't think the "metaverse" as a concept is contingent upon VR at all. Companies have tried pushing VR headsets for 35 years and none of them have yet to succeed.

Despite that, video games and persistent virtual worlds have thrived.
Exactly. This is shown by metaverse. Tons of money thrown at a product that never had a defined market fit.

You cannot just throw reams of cash at something and expect it to be a hit.
No, it is Elon. He makes all the final decisions, business and technical. Gwynne is working on Starship now because Elon decided it.
Carmakers are pushing electric SUVs, but smaller is better when it comes to EVs
I take the opposite side of that bet. Always bet on (more) Javascript. Dealing with HTML sucks, and we want as little of it as possible, otherwise we would not have invented generations of frameworks to make it manageable. The lasting success of React shows that we have converged on how to do that. Moving back to MPAs is always something that bored engineers want to do. Users generally do not care.

Moreover, REST APIs - and I mean the simple ones people actually want to use, none of that HATEOAS BS - are ubiquitous for all sorts of interactions between web and nonweb clients. Are you going to ship an MPA as your mobile apps, or are you going to just use REST plus whatever clients make sense?

It also makes a lot of sense in terms of organization. Your backend developers probably suck at design, your frontend developers suck at databases.
Urban living detracts from pleasant urban living. Pleasant urban living is an oxymoron. If not highway-built cars disturbing the peace, then it's the emergency vehicles, the sirens, the construction. Sound aside, the pollution, the disease, the trash, the smell. It's always something in the city.
…that’s the point being made
The video makes a good comparison in the frequency domain between the original and processed audio, but the high and low frequency attenuation is only half the story.

The other key part of the VHS sound is the pitch modulation caused by slight inconsistencies in the speed of the tape going past the heads. In a synthesizer, this can be mimicked (and often is, in "lo-fi" presets) with a sine wave modulating the oscillator frequencies.

Still, if you want to get that full, dreamy VHS shimmer, you don't necessarily have to dub your audio onto an actual machine. There are software emulations out there, my favorite of which is a user-created Reaktor effect called VHS Audio Degradation Suite: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reak... It gives you full control over an exhaustive set of VHS attributes, from flutter and wow to distortion and noise.
I don't even have a high end gaming PC, and I'm at 275 kWh for the year already, over 100 €
I assume you're going to whip out another currency that doesn't or suggest that the user complicate their experience by using a third party as an intermediary, but don't bitcoin transactions take over an hour to clear? And your use case is the exact same thing I can do instantly with my MasterCard.
Selling to small businesses is a nightmare (I saw your comment below). There is a reason they are small, and that is usually because the owners don't think with a business mindset. Those people won't be interested in any SaaS to change the way they operate. So your targets are the few up and starting small businesses, while you should put a lot of effort in making a product that is attractive to medium-large businesses.

For marketing, your #1 focus should be a great web site. Forget social media completely. When somebody has a problem to solve they will use Google. If your website ranks well for their specific problem, then you will make the sale unless you do something stupid and sabotage yourself.

That's about all advice you can get without telling more about your product.
> I think the main thing is that hamburger menus are stupid on desktop

That's probably why I hate hamburger menus. I use a desktop for 95% of my computer use.
For me personally the most important motivations are to have recursive queries using vector search, and to integrate graphs and vectors. Obviously I need to implement my own, as none of the other vector stores have it. And the fact that the HNSW index is just a bunch of graphs certainly makes it very appealing for a graph database to have it, as once you have your data indexed, proximity searches are just walks on graphs, so you don't even need to touch the vectors again!
This was great, thanks for sharing. I really do love the "warmth" provided by VHS, but I often wonder if that is just nostalgia from using a technology we grew up with?

I've been getting into old technology the past few years and a Panasonic AG-170 VHS Reporter camera was one item I had picked up. I've recorded a few social gatherings and trips with friends so far and plan to edit them into a 80s/90s styled montage. However, my camera recently stopped recording any video or audio with the viewfinder showing a black/blank image, which is a real bummer. I imagine there is an electronic component inside that may have failed.

Does anyone know of any forums where VHS enthusiasts gather? I'd love to dig around to see if I can find any resources for diagnosing and repairing this camera on my own. Unfortunately VHS repair shops are quite rare, if not nearly extinct in 2023.
> Please just use the damn fullstack JS frameworks, they make life simpler

Strongest possible disagree. I’ve been doing web dev for a long time, and the last 10 years has seen a massive, ridiculous increase in complexity across the board.

I personally took my company back to good old server rendered apps with a turbolinks overlay because I was sick of dealing with the full stack frameworks, and we saw a huge increase in productivity and developer happiness.
Ah, so that's what a "hamburger menu" is.

I think anyone doing "Down with X" ought to define X...

And I think I like them, anyway :)
I'm genuinely curious, why do you miss Ruby, or why would you prefer it overall over TS ?

When I was playing around with ruby for any significant sized projects, I found it became unmaintainable. Granted I was most definitely using it wrong, but apart from that, I didn't see the appeal.
I'm sorry, I do not understand what you mean.
To properly explain this would take longer than the length of the comment limit (is there a length limit? I don't know, but even if there isn't I don't feel like explaining this for the 70th time), but here's why:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.06627.pdf
To sum up: a human can think outside of their training distribution, an LLM cannot. A larger training distribution simply means you have to go farther outside the norm. In order to solve this problem would require multiple other processing architectures besides an LLM, and a human-like AGI cannot be reached by simply predicting upcoming words. Functional language processing (formal reasoning, social cognition, etc) require other modules in the brain.

This explains the various pejorative names given to LLMs - stochastic parrots, Chinese Rooms - etc, etc, etc.
If you went to primary school in Scotland in the late 1970s, early 1980s then you watched a lot of National Film Board of Canada movies.

We had a guy, can't remember his name, might have been Mr Morrison? went round all the schools in his car with a 16mm projector, a screen, and a big box of shiny steel cans of film.

Draw all the curtains, pull all the desks back and line up the seats, sit and watch the movie. I can smell the film and the heat of the bulb on the sewing machine oiled projector parts, clicking escapement pulling film through, and the wibbly-wobbly wow and flutter soundtrack with crazy 70s synth soundtracks.

It's why I listen to such bloody awful music now, I guess.
Let's generate more nuclear energy.
Hurl 3.0.0
Obviously it didn't work out for meta. That isn't even up for debate.

Meta has admitted to pivoting to AI and cutting down their metaverse teams significantly.

Besides, even if Apple succeed. Meta will still be stuck in the exact same situation - under Apple's boots again, which it so desperately tried to escape from by going hardware heavy in VR in the first place.
> I am not convinced of the utility of how good type annotations are in the long term.

Anecdata: adding typing (via Sorbet, then RBS) to multiple projects over the years uncovered many corner case (and not-so-corner case but non obvious) bugs, some subtle but critical, before they ended up crashing production.

I can vouch with real life experience that it is useful. RBS+Steep is so useful I inadvertently found myself† beginning to write type-first, describing my code in .rbs files then filling in the implementation. Thinking in types has helped me uncovered issues right at the idea stage when I could have produced a smart^Wfatally flawed implementation that would still work thanks to Ruby's dynamism (mind you, Ruby's dynamism is great, it is merely a tool to be wielded at appropriate times)

† Which is kinda useful as a "ok this thing works" rule of thumb in my book
I’ve only taken a couple of Waymo rides when I went to Phoenix. I would take them over Uber/Lyft any day, if Waymo offered rides in my city because:

* They are very safe and you’re not at the mercy of the Uber/Lyft driver’s driving skills.

* Their cars are pretty good (Jaguar I-Pace fleet) and generally very clean. You know what you’re getting every time.

* You don’t have to interact with a driver.

* No tipping.
While it is true there is no political appetite to eliminate it, that has little to do with whether you'll get a reasonable amount of benefit from it.

Currently, mandatory spending which includes Medicare and Social Security go over a cliff where the interest exceeds projected GDP ~2032 (before factoring in inflation; it gets worse with inflation).

There was a congressman trying to bring attention to the issue for newly elected politicians who did a C-SPAN presentation on it.

Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ut1yQg2qA4&ab_channel=Forbe...
> Is it?

Yes.

> I believe every state, or its establishment, acts forcefully to protect against what they consider potential existential threats.

Of course. But just because they all have this one feature in common does not mean that they do not have additional features that distinguish them.
"We want faster horses." - User research conducted by Henry Ford
Ton 618, 40B solar mass
Go to Google Scholar and search for "neurotoxicity of cannabis"

You can find studies showing that even pure THC is neurotoxic. It depends on dosage and frequency.