joshspankit
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Agreed.
Cloud processing can be tempting as the primary revenue stream, but it entirely cuts off those users who cannot send arbitrary PII over the internet (regardless of encryption promises).
It also invites the (especially now-LLM-empowered) enthusiasts to reverse engineer it.
Instead, consider selling the glasses with >20% profit, and give local users a cheaper subscription to something else (maybe the model updates?) so they can also help keep the company sustainable.
There’s something here…
It’s editing behaviour more efficiently than a psychiatrist, and is in ways acting as a brain surgeon but brain surgeons don’t focus on behaviour and thought loops…
And it’s clearly less convenient for exfiltration vs most other options. Even closed implementation of HDMI eth to a soundbar of the same brand: then where to
The ones the serve menus and the ones that serve eye-level video ads are definitely also built for picture quality. Still IPS for the most part, but uniformity and colour calibration can be movie-worthy
This is not even a viable option these days: secondary processors, the potential for a backchannel to some installed app on a device in the home (this has not made headlines, but it’s possible), tying an account to the device proactively.. The TV industry really ran to collect “their” data
I suggest thinking of it as psychology on a mathematical model of collective human works, and I’m currently curious to see the differences of models trained only on specific cultures
Indeed. Would love to see a spectrograph
Smugness an excellent way to accelerate the timeline
> Touch-screen Macs is kind of a terrible development for anyone who loves the Mac
Agreed. There has been a long history of the clarity and usability of teams having a single focus. I mean we’re still feeling the negative downstream effects of the “3D touch” last seen on the XS.
For those who are too young to know what I’m talking about: you missed out on a level of elegance and refinement that probably won’t be replicated
You make an interesting point, but I still shudder at the idea of multitasking on a 14” screen with the 40-50 elements I need being finger sized + aesthetic padding
> Literally nothing should be considered truth with Reddit as its only source
Don’t get me wrong: I completely agree that Reddit should not be the only source, and go further that nothing should be assumed to be true based on Reddit signals (such as upvotes and comments). This is why I carefully chose my words: these can be strong signals of truth.
I think it’s also worth parsing out that I don’t think this is valid across all subreddits.
My main thought while reading was “carefully crafting efficient, clean, and effective breakdowns is hard. I really appreciate that time and effort more now than I did before.”
Who bears responsibility when TV makers and data brokers undoubtedly had clear and verifiable evidence passing through their systems?
Sure, ‘knee-jerk’ reddit is unreliable, but many upvotes over time with supporting comments can be a strong signal of truth
Considering the scale, why doesn’t YouTube allow users to suggest edits to the subtitles (with whatever protections and community voting that needs)?
It feels like it’s time for a new subtitle format based on audio fingerprinting.
Imagine the same subtitles working across different encodings and (minor) edits of the same video…
It’s so surprising to me that diarisation and voice recognition are positioned almost entirely outside of the “public good” AI work.
We have voice cloning at a level that would have felt like a miracle a couple years ago, and yet doing the reverse is some sort of hush hush $$$$ work?
My only thought is the people in charge don’t want the public to know the privacy nightmare that they can now be instantly recognized snd transcribed anywhere there’s a mic
Counter argument: it was a wacky choice for Apple to split the app and the “data” (Application Support). Yes multi-user and deduplication are concerns, but I would much rather have everything self-contained. Using that paradigm for Android apps (where dedup is barely a concern) is a relief
I wouldn’t have agreed before I learned software more deeply, now I especially agree in the age of better and better AI.
Put simply there are solutions that are elegant and irreducibly correct. I think we got away from this because software expertise got so fragmented by frameworks and packages but AI can cut through all of that.
This already happens and has been happening for a while, especially in the Apple ecosystem. I can’t even count the number of apps that did something novel, got popular, had that novelty restricted by some update, then got “replaced” by an Apple app/feature as though they never existed.
Counter-intuitively (or intuitively if you’re inside the industry), slow Electron apps became the norm because of how much developers cost. Now that AI can step in with parallel expertise at scale, I suspect we’ll have all sorts of optimization races.
Yes and no: if cheating makes it so non-cheating players can't have a good time, then multiplayer dies out and the perceived value of the game goes down
I would argue that how it goes ends up with the main downstream effect of shifting knowledge growth and therefore expertise and therefore economic power away from the people who outsource it and
to the people who do that outsourced work.
In this case with AI that power will shift to the companies that run the AIs
It won’t matter. If they stream rendered frames from the cloud it will burn their resources chasing gorgeous graphics and AI will still see enough to make it. If they send data to be rendered locally, the data will be decompiled.
Multiplayer will still have a moat, but even that is in trouble as cheats will be created by hundreds of thousands of players using AI
You miiiight be able to get away with WebXR with graceful fallback
I’m extrapolating. I don’t have direct insight in to the higher levels of museum org charts, but what I do have is lots of first-hand experience with the higher levels of corporate org charts. Specifically calling out the “what can we control to keep this business afloat” type of person. When I read the piece I saw a lot of the signs I would expect to see from that type of person
Yes and no: specific products/tools/frameworks get replaced regularly but the underlying concepts continue to be correct
Imo there’s a significant historical benefit in having a “snapshot” of a piece. It could degrade, be preserved incorrectly, be moved incorrectly and broken minorly or majorly. In any case you can go back in time to at verify what it’s state was then.
There is certainly politics and posturing and power grabs behind the scenes, but besides that if we look at the economics it’s clearly worth revisiting.
I can understand a museum being worried about the long-term with the current structure:
- Operating a museum necessarily needs money. It’s not always a huge amount if they have the right relationships, but it’s never $0 and so money needs to come in
- Selling tickets relies on people seeing value in seeing the pieces in person
- Selling gift shop items also relies on people coming in as well as being the only source for good quality versions of those things
- Selling posters and other prints also relies on being the only source for good quality versions
What else brings in cash besides government funding (at risk over decades as politics shift) and maybe sales of some pieces (unsustainable of course since you need those to run a museum)?
I can understand the admin staff being terrified of letting the general public have access to files that have the potential to be turned in to perfect enough recreations, but I think everyone here knows that fear and litigation cannot solve their problems any more.
What is sustainable long-term? I suspect that an important piece is that on the whole, enough people want history to be preserved properly and they want some sort of institution to handle that preservation for the public good.