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by btown 2y ago
Fun fact: Disney Imagineering (Lanny Smoot's team) has also invented a fully retractable, seamless-appearing lightsaber! https://patents.google.com/patent/US10065127B1/en As well as their HoloTile moving floo
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by btown 2y ago
This seems to be a pretty straightforward GUI wrapper around https://github.com/Tyrrrz/YoutubeExplode and https://github.com/AydinAdn/MediaToolkit (see https://github.com/PackJC&#x
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by btown 2y ago
I for one would be an avid audience if you ever wanted to blog about any of that!
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by btown 2y ago
Do you feel like the tutorials on https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/tutorials.html#fundamen... are a good way for someone to get an impression of what the experience of working with FoundationDB feels like in practi
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by btown 2y ago
The embedding distance of a set of output tokens to a document doesn’t mean that it was sourced from there; they could be simply talking about similar things. I’m looking for the equivalent of the human notion of: “I remember where I was wh
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by btown 2y ago
Is there any recent research on training LLMs that can trace the contribution of sources of training data to any given generated token? Meta-nodes that look at how much a certain training document, or set thereof, caused a node to be update
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by btown 2y ago
The existence of vscode.dev always makes me wonder why Microsoft never released an iOS version of VSCode to get more users into its ecosystem. Sure, it's almost as locked down as the web environment, but there's a lot of space in
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by btown 2y ago
With hardware where power-off is only controlled by software, battery life is predictable, and large amounts of data like raw video are being persisted, they might have a very aggressive version of page caching, and a large amount of storag
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by btown 2y ago
Spotify's shuffle algorithm can't be changed easily because too many people rely on its existing quirks. Which means that Spotify's ability to keep it at a reliably stable level of unreliability for so long, through so many o
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by btown 2y ago
Trying to understand some of the interplay here: > threat actor had accessed data including ... certain authentication information such as API keys, OAuth tokens, and multi-factor authentication. > If I have a Sign account linked to m
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by btown 2y ago
This is very cool. Could someone use Logfire alongside Honeycomb or another OTel platform? Honeycomb's strengths in drilling into an interactive chart vs. Logfire's strengths in drilling into a stream of text logs (and SQL support
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by btown 3y ago
And similarly, I, Robot, which is much more enjoyable when you realize it started as an independent murder-mystery screenplay that had Asimov’s works shoehorned in when both rights were bought in quick succession. I love both the movie and
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by btown 3y ago
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/815/... - the relevant section of the final version of the bill.
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by btown 3y ago
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/815/... is the relevant text of the bill presented to the President. It's restricted to companies with 1M+ MAUs that allow users to create pro
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by btown 3y ago
> A lot of the concerns around branding focus on the instrument cluster as it's one of the most recognizable parts of an interior. If you look at the CarPlay concept for Porsche and remove the steering wheel, there is no way you can
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by btown 3y ago
Note this is from March 2023. https://archive.is/SoSw9 Beyond what the article says, something that is very hard to quantify is whether the promise of fame on TikTok causes its users to spend more than they otherwise woul
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by btown 3y ago
Reposting a comment I wrote on a comparison with Vision Pro here, which is very relevant here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39830713 > The biggest innovation with Vision Pro is visionOS. visionOS provides native
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by btown 3y ago
Very cool! But this being AGPL has me wonder: if you as a user download an AGPL licensed WASM binary, because the browser is making network connections by design, are you required to share the source with any third party your browser makes
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by btown 3y ago
Are there any solutions like this that generate video montages, with depth of field and a slow rotation, from a set of screenshots and captions?
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by btown 3y ago
Stylus is quite effective for this! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...
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by btown 3y ago
> Terroir is there before the wine is made and can't really be controlled by the winemaker (except insofar as they choose where to plant or what grapes to blend). I've met winemakers who think of planting in terms of multigener
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by btown 3y ago
Yep, I find that Copilot etc. respond very well to pseudocode comments, so much so that I can write a comment about a particularly gnarly bunch of syntax I'd otherwise need to write, and (even in a language I use every day) it takes me
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by btown 3y ago
As much as I work painstakingly to implement highly intentional design systems… the browser should be your “user agent.” If it can agentically interpret semi-structured data to help you, it’s entirely the user’s right to have the browser do
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by btown 3y ago
An artist might want to opt out of this, though. They might think, and reasonably so, that the optics of having affordable tickets - even if they make less overall - is better for their brand identity and long—term benefit. That LiveNation
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by btown 3y ago
Dropbox's approach here in the early 2010s (not sure if still used) was actually quite clever. Both official clients and third parties could open up a long-timeout HTTP connection that wouldn't be responded to until the web server
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by btown 3y ago
One of the things that comes to mind here is the fact that the default Python extension for VS Code is, perhaps surprisingly to many, not open source. https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release While it's poss
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by btown 3y ago
Along the lines of source greppability, at some point someone will try to replace successive a.foo_x, a.foo_y, and a.foo_z accesses with a loop over foo_{suffix}, thus breaking any attempt to grep for foo_y. That someone may be me! This sho
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by btown 3y ago
It's surprising to me that we don't have better mechanisms to green-light the combination of factors where (a) a drug company has a history of successfully delivering treatments with full FDA approval, (b) the patient has only mon
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by btown 3y ago
Have you thought about auto-installing https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/triggers into the connected sheet, and maintaining a cache of the data that you invalidate onEdit? Would likely improve read
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by btown 3y ago
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