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Busy Simulator: Feign importance with repeating app sounds
- lanewinfield 5y agoThanks for posting, I made this. Let me know if I'm missing any of your (least) favorite sounds.
- OttPeterR 5y agoCould you add Facebook and instagram sounds? Not so it makes you sound busy, but as a few other commenters have said, it may help with desensitization of notification sounds and I like that idea a lot
- lanewinfield 5y agoDo they have their own unique sounds? It's been so long since I've heard one that I assumed it was just system notification sounds.
- DominikPeters 5y agoThis is the FB Messenger ding: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1-oKbo4KRh-45x_OLE_KmlGvMhKIkP2Nw https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1-oKbo4KRh-45x_OLE_KmlGvMhKIk...
- snthpy 5y agoThis is great thanks! What distribution did you use for the gaps between sounds? Feels a bit too regular to me. May I suggest Poisson distributed intervals based on the slider?
- lanewinfield 5y agoMessed around with numbers until they made sense. Your suggestion is a very smart one for a very dumb thing. Let me see what I can do.
- pkulak 5y ago> Your suggestion is a very smart one for a very dumb thing. lol, I love HN so much.
- crdrost 5y agoHeh. I can quote the answer as the answer is easy. If you want the time between the last sound and the next sound to average T, schedule the next sound to begin at next = last - T*Math.ln(Math.random()) Explaining why this is correct requires a bit of calculus and a couple perspectives from probability theory... To give a quick outline, if this were discrete timesteps then the answer would look like this: given that one event has a probability p of happening, then the probability it happens after exactly n tries is (1–p)^{n–1} * p Since it has to not happen independently n–1 times. Then we want to scale this to N tries per unit time so the timestep dt = 1/N... Evidently p needs to also decrease and we assume it just scales down with the timestep, p=k dt, t = n dt, so n = N t. Making those substitutions one gets the defining expression for e^x and so the probability that the event happens between time t and t+dt is, in the limit, k dt e^{-kt}. We can then integrate this to confirm that it is normalized and to discover that its mean is 1/k. Then coming from the other side, the probability of the given expression being between t and t+dt is the probability that Math.random() falls between A and B, which is just B–A. Some more calculus gives the exact same expression with k=1/T, bada bing bada boom.
- CraigJPerry 5y agoThat’s a neat solution, my instinct would have been futzing with the universal distribution of Math.random() into a normal distribution (incurring even more cost than the Math.log() call in the process).
- jtolmar 5y agoIf I recall correctly, this will get you a standard deviation of 1. let result = 0; for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) { result += Math.random() - Math.random(); } return result; Obviously this costs 12x as much as Math.random() itself, but it sure is simple. (It'll also never return anything more than 6 standard deviations away from the mean, but it's not like you actually want that in most applications.)
- JoshTriplett 5y agoFun! Thank you for building it. Would you consider adding Zulip? Notification sound at https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/main/static/audio/zulip.ogg https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/main/static/audio/zulip.... Logo at https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/main/static/images/logo/zulip-icon-circle.svg https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/main/static/images/logo/...
- jonchurch_ 5y agoPlease do add an option to play a video of a large zoom meeting where someone is talking nonstop and others are shaking their heads in disagreement.
- anyfactor 5y agoAlso add a video where someone is repeatedly asking you to mute your audio.
- seirim 5y agoFor the global audience could add one of the most used apps in the world from China - WeChat, which has pretty distinctive sounding pings. Great work!
- allenu 5y agoThis is great! Thanks for making it. I turned on everything and for a second it felt like I was in the middle of a crazy on-call session.
- snerbles 5y agoZoom ringtone please, I had a boss that would call me with horrible timing on a routine basis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlyGdpyI1zI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlyGdpyI1zI
- feanaro 5y agoI'd love to see Element here (https://app.element.io https://app.element.io).
- can16358p 5y agoLovely idea! Any plans turning it into an app? I think just a wrapper around a webview would work for iOS, and PWA on Android. The only things that need a small work IMO is to remember last settings and autostart on app start.
- cblconfederate 5y agoa keystroke sound or mouse click here and there , and then i could legally go to sleep on my chair
- nyberg 5y agoTelegram notification sounds and maybe the ringtone would be "nice".
- tiniuclx 5y agoPlease add WhatsApp Web notifications as well!
- perryizgr8 5y agoIf you would add the default Samsung notification sound, that would make this 10x more annoying for me :D
- jeroenhd 5y agoI was a bit disappointed that the "vibrating phone" sound didn't actually vibrate my phone. Chrome has support got that built in, might be a nice touch. Also, the sliders don't render right in Firefox on Android.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoHow about adding the 'call' tones for some of the services that have calling options, but make it low frequency (once a few minutes) by default. Might help to show a tooltip or something about how frequently it will trigger.
- tiborsaas 5y agoA randomize button would be nice for the sliders. Or for extra randomness, you could slowly modulate them with a sine wave.
- count 5y agoIt's awesome (and horrible). Needs 'cherry MX blue' sounds too...
- dotancohen 5y agoFor better or for worse I'm bringing in my keyboard to the office tomorrow!
- dotancohen 5y agoThe only two services that I use are Telegram and Signal - both missing. But you did a great job overall, and the design is completely fitting.
- Aloha 5y agoSomething I didn't know I needed till I found it. It'd be nice to make the notifications come even slower however ;-).
- sumthinprofound 5y agoThere is a slider beneath each icon that controls speed (light grey rabbit silhouette to the left of slider clued me in because "fast as a rabbit"). Yes this is great.
- ochrist 5y agoThanks. It didn't look like a slider to me (Firefox).
- electric_muse 5y agoI think OP means even slower than the slowest setting. To be actually useful it should be more believable.
- slmjkdbtl 5y agoEnabling them all and watching them bounce is actually a satisfying and peaceful experience. Love the purple chimpanzee.
- King-Aaron 5y ago> Love the purple chimpanzee Bonsai buddy left us too soon :(
- electric_muse 5y agoI can only imagine how this came to be: some ultra important type took a meeting without muting notifications. And the builder decided to parody it. Honestly love this.
- terrycody 5y agoAHAHAHA What a neat APP, thanks! Very cool!
- pugio 5y agoWatching this run, I wonder if you could use something like this to desensitize yourself from notification addiction. Since this is stimulus without any reward, ever, may it break the normal stimulus-response-reward cycle of real notifications?
- usefulcat 5y agoWhy not just disable or reduce the problematic notifications?
- marcosdumay 5y agoIt's like this comment comes from a different reality, but I imagine so. You can probably also use use it to desensitize yourself from notification phobia.
- bobsmooth 5y agoThe cacophony when all the sounds are at max frequency is beautiful.
- artr 5y agoNeed to add the call tones for Teams/Zoom/ etc. On the other hand. This page is kinda anxiety triggering https://www.tiktok.com/@ashleasexton/video/7000014301889154309?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id7015798878964909570 https://www.tiktok.com/@ashleasexton/video/70000143018891543...
- floam 5y agoOh man I feel like I have PTSD from procrastinating on projects for so many years. Heart rate is up, and I feel like drinking in excess.
- bch 5y agoDefault Apple iPhone ringtone sent shivers down my spine for ages after a few years of having it as my on-call work phone.
- christophilus 5y agoYes. Word of advice to anyone reading this: if you are given an on-call phone, change the ringtone to something you’re unlikely to ever hear in any other context.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoI spent $1.99 on a custom ringtone in the Apple AppStore. Best $1.99 I ever spent because I’ve never heard another phone with this ringtone (can’t be said for ANY of the default ringtones). That’s after several hours using GarageBand to create and export a custom ringtone. That was an utter nightmare because there’s just no easy way to get custom ringtones onto iOS unless you buy it from the AppStore.
- brokenmachine 5y agoYou can't import your own custom ringtone on iOS? What possible justification could Apple have for such a limitation? "Security" again?
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoYou can. I did... eventually. It requires GarageBand and is an unbelievable pain.
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- dylan604 5y agoThe ring out on the iMessage ding is really long. Are these official sounds? Is it just that the speakers connected to my system are much better to hear how long the sound plays compared to an iDevice crapeakers?
- pjerem 5y agoYes it’s very long and no, iDevices speakers are actually pretty good (for their size). iOS ringtones are pretty nice tbf (especially the alarm clock ones) but they are the same for years so, as nice as they are at start, you inevitably end hating them. For the record, I randomly noticed that when enabling ringtone plus the vibrations, the Taptic Engine vibrates in sync with the ringtone in a subtle way that emphasizes the notes. I found it smart.
- dmitriid 5y agoThe problem with the haptic buzzer is that it is absolutely silent on many surfaces (unlike actual vibrations)
- systoll 5y agoThe phones have speakers - alerts can sound like a rotary vibration motor if you want them to https://www.zedge.net/find/ringtones/vibration https://www.zedge.net/find/ringtones/vibration The ability be silent is an upside.
- dmitriid 5y ago> The phones have speakers I have my phone on silent. I would still like to hear it vibrate when it's on a soft surface for example.
- jes 5y agoI love the 90’s style 3D Art Text Effects (or whatever it was called in Word) and the Windows 95 backgrounds. I feel young again!
- tailspin2019 5y agoWordArt! You may enjoy this: https://www.makewordart.com https://www.makewordart.com
- samplatt 5y agoFor a completely unknowable reason, WordArt effects are popular in hyper-edgy memes, these days.
- Toutouxc 5y ago> the Windows 95 backgrounds That's XP! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_(image) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_(image))
- jes 5y agoI genuinely appreciate the correction. More and more, I’m content if I can simply place things in the right decade.
- pattle 5y agoFor a nostalgia hit play https://simulator.money/ https://simulator.money/
- verifex 5y agoThis is fun, but there's a bug when you try to get a valuation on your property in the game.
- latortuga 5y agoNot to mention the "BonziBuddy" about link!
- exikyut 5y agoThe about box mentions the Zoom "original sound", but I can't find Zoom on the page. Did the page get a bit of, err, amnesia? :(
- unbanned 5y agoIn zoom itself, set this setting to on, is what it means.
- exikyut 5y ago*Turns everything to maximum and sits listening to the result for a few moments* So this is what a career-ending catastrophic production failure sounds like. I feel I should be responding to this like a horror movie with clowns in it.
- qznc 5y agoxkcd provides the narration: https://xkcd.com/2544/ https://xkcd.com/2544/
- djmips 5y agoBoss randomly: “can we talk?”
- Kosirich 5y agoMy dad likes to do "Can I call you?" which I might see later, after which he won't respond which for me essentially means I will go through "worst case scenarios" in my head over and over..
- cushychicken 5y agoI had to have that convo with my parents. "When I see something like 'Can I call you?', it implies to me that there's something really important you need to tell me, that's too important to send over text. I know you don't mean it that way, but it's very scary to me in the absence of more information. Can you please include a reason why you'd like to talk next time you text?" Once my folks understood that they were putting across the subtext of a death in the family, they started adding why they wanted to call!
- shaunn 5y agoI had this same conversation with my father last week. He is a low-frequency communicator, so when I get the "Call me" text I feel I have to take a deep breath and brace myself for thew news.
- z3t4 5y agoShould use the vibrator api
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- huxflux 5y agoPTSD
- sbierwagen 5y agoWas having fun clicking the icons until I clicked the Outlook button, and my entire body convulsed as my eyes jumped to the bottom right corner of the screen. Need a black box warning for some of these sounds!
- eloeffler 5y agoThis is the evil, browser-dwelling twin of noice. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.ashutoshgngwr.noice/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.ashutoshgngwr.noice/
- keyle 5y agoSo, this is what hell sounds like...
- myridium 5y agoNice concept, but the sounds are audibly not Poisson-distributed. Rookie mistake.
- cblconfederate 5y agoThis is great desensitization therapy. Listen to it all for a few days and your fears will be gone
- junon 5y agoThis is anxiety inducing. I love it.
- yesbut 5y agoThis must have been inspired by David Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs".
- christophilus 5y agoIf I still worked in an office, I would 100% be putting this on in the background of my colleagues’ unlocked computers. Man. These sounds are to my stress levels as a bell is to Pavlov’s dog’s drool.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoThat's a great idea, I need to remember this site :D We'd just put on https://nyan.cat https://nyan.cat and see how long they nyaned for until they realized their laptop was unlocked for.
- sails 5y agoPairs nicely with http://conferencecall.biz/ http://conferencecall.biz/
- xtiansimon 5y agoNow this is the most 1990s thing I’ve seen in a while. Thanks
- selfhoster11 5y agoThis is very atmospheric.
- quantondev 5y agoThanks for this abomination. I feel like puking in 10 seconds. I don't understand why people would feel good about this. My neck hurts
- LightG 5y agoWell, I'm starting to get a decent beat going ...
- geocrasher 5y agoIt's the George Costanza of web apps. I love it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC8PzhNuh7w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC8PzhNuh7w
- debo_ 5y agoDoes anyone remember the "boss key?"
- furgooswft13 5y agowhile :; do make; make clean; done
- freetinker 5y agoWow, that was triggering. Great work though — I shall use this for mental resilience training.