What keeps my hope for democracies in the world is an observation I made after reading The Year 2000 by Joseph Goebbels written on 25 February 1945. He more or less said that Stalin wasn't bound by the rules of democracies then he would succeed after all. I like to analyze such predictions because you know the outcome and you can guess what was wrong when someone wrote this. My version is that democracies have values kept while transitioning from a state to a state (after elections) while dictatorships change in many respects. It was visible in the Soviet Union, every new ruler brought a new system despite the fact that they all claimed to fight for the same goals.
I think it's more than this. In my case in most of images I made about basketball there were more than one ball. I'm not an expert, but some fundamental constrains of the human (cultural) life (like all piano keys are the same, there's only one ball in a game) are not grasped by the training or grasped partially
My understanding is that they use a side effect of the Bark model. The comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35647569 from JonathanFly probably explains it well. If you train your model on a massive amount of audio mixes of lyrics+music then prompting lyrics alone pulls the music with it as when the comment suggested that prompting context-correlated texts might pull the background noises usual for such context. Already while writing this I imagine training with a huge set of publicly performed poetry pieces that would allow generating novel performances of artificial poets with novel prompts. This is different to riffusion.com approach, where works the genius idea of more or less feeding spectrograms as images to Stable Diffusion.
Very good for my taste, but I should clarify, I'm obsessed with catchy tunes, as a listener and as a hobby musician, growing my own brainworms from time to time. And I must say that suno.ai is very impressive, in my case semi-ready brainworms are almost always in 30%-50% cases. And what's more important, it's really an inspiration tool for all kinds of tasks, like lyrics polishing or playing-along after track separation. Maybe catchy melodies are not for all, but who can argue with charts when The Beatles, ABBA and Queen were almost always producers of ones.
The designers of everyday things also fall into this trap. My favorite example is the hammer drill, this kind should had the mode switch. I have a very decent device but implementing the same problem on/off approach showing and hiding the state. I almost always pause before choosing the right one. The example of the better design (mention in the stackexchange answers) is visible at the hammer drill polish wiki page: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiertarka_udarowa
Not to mention the fact that due to the very high introductory price you can't appeal to the developers the same way Jobs appealed with the iPhone. Then you had at least millions of existing users to encourage writing "disposable" apps (~ 1$) because 1) there are many potential users 2) they're two clicks aways from paying. The appeal was misleading a little but at least it looked reasonable. With Vision Pro to break even for at least the following a couple of years you will have to charge much more. Funny, even "two clicks away" is a little different here as many reviews mentioned the necessity to get used to the new eyes-based system.
As a daily destination, Quora is no longer usable for me, no need to repeat what others already said. But the digest still surprises me and the posts are often good, even if it's a rewritten Wikipedia entry. It's like a user-generated "wonders of the past/world" newspaper for me. Daily was too much, but weekly is ok. I'm not sure whether every e-mail send it personalized, but at least in some way it looks like dependent on what I clicked before.
Many things Apple related are very often about applying existing technologies to a novel place. Many forget that the touch screens at the time were resistive [1] that required pressing (small but nevertheless) at the screen and mostly usable with styluses. As long as I recall the novelty was to apply a capacitive touch screen [2] to navigation, it does not require physical force and that's where the fingers shined.
Sure. But one can argue that capacitive touchscreens were about to happen anyway (like ARM laptops..). And HTC with their touchflow were moving into sausage friendly UIs.
But I agree, Apple is absolutely good at taking all this tech at the right time and making a compelling product. Steve insisted on glass/capacitive and that is just the best choice. Also, the UI didn’t feel like a layer (that you could easily get out off) as with touchflow. I’m also an iPhone user atm. Switched from Android about 3 years ago. The whole experience feels like higher quality to me still now. Although I have friends that would argue against that.
A little idea utilizing a new level of indirection. You might call it "HoloTile meets Segway". A platform is one square meter (or rather circle) capable of moving in any direction (using conventional wheels). It is covered with HoloTile. A person on it just "walks" on it in any direction and the soft/engine just moves him or her in this direction, but much faster. Probably some self-balancing magic is needed in order to keep the person standing firmly
Absolutely, that's why a bicycle/kick scooter is better than Segway, at least for your health :). This new tech is interesting. If we forget about the price, in my opinion the design is not that great. Btw, this reminds me of detachable inline skates (Hypno, Doop). While maybe the main function of riding them was ok, they were usually not looking so sexy, especially with the blades off.
Funny, my misspelling sometimes also. I suppose this has something to do with probabilities inside our brain, the phrase "Single page" might be more probable than "Single file" (Hmm, I smell some similarities to LLM probabilities).
On a side note, what is interesting with SingleFile is that since the file can contain anything including JS, it's possible to create a local "executable" (html) that uses the resources inside the file and does not use a single external file. I have an actual game-like piece that runs locally with bunch of files and comparatively easily transforms into a single self-running "program" that even runs on a mobile file manager with WebView support
