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Modern Walkmans (walkman.land)
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All these suck so badly compared to the last Panasonic I had. Japanese portable cassette players were incredible pieces of engineering. They were more a wrapper around the cassette than a player that you inserted the cassette into, with elaborate mechanical designs for bi-directional playback, auto skipping, etc.
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I preferred my Japanese Mini-Disc player. 240hrs of play time on one charge
yeah I still have my old Panasonic SL-SX410 from 1999 or so, barely larger than the CD itself and with included AAA rechargeable NiMH batteries - kind of special at the time and it would charge the batteries itself (no separate charging station needed). I actually still have the original batteries and they still hold a very small charge. Maybe can listen to one or two songs lol
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That sounds like a very nice device, does it say how much "anti-skip" it had?
As someone who grew up with cassette tapes, I don’t anticipate this fad lasting too long. They were very inconvenient. With most technology I see resistance from people not wanting to move on. I don’t remember seeing that with cassettes. The only downside of CDs was that you couldn’t record from the radio and Napster eventually solved that better than radio ever did. Minidisc is the format I have some nostalgia for. It never blew up, but it felt like the best of both worlds. You could record from the radio like a digital cassette tapes, and even trim out the DJ and reorder tracks… and give them names. You could also buy them like a CD. From a digital file you could use a TOSlink cable to get a great quality recording at home. And the later ones even played MP3s directly. It could really do it all.
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My last album release made 10x more money with selling the physical cassette then with digital sales! I think people want something in their hands. And by the way, the tape sounds really good. Definitely not lo fi, the opposite actually. Overall better then the compressed Spotify release with in comparison muddy bass and less saturation.
Vinyl is populair, inconvenient and doesn't have crisp audio quality. Cassettes are also inconvenient and have poor audio quality, plus they are cheap and portable. So I definitely also see them stick around. I also see plenty cassettes being issued on e.g. bandcamp for years already. The poor audio quality can be seen as desired feature btw. It brings a certain lofi or warmth with it.
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I just released an album on cassette and definitely has _not_ poor audio quality. Anyway I remember a lot of releases with poor audio quality too, but this is more the problem of the production and not the cassette itself. All studio recordings back in the days were made with the same tape material, ferro oxid, sames as a Type I cassette.
Vinyl is nowhere near as inconvenient as tapes and sounds way better. And I say this as someone who used to lug around big bags of 12" records as a DJ! It's pretty annoying, but it's still better than having to rewind, and deal with the appalling durability of cassettes!
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> Vinyl is nowhere near as inconvenient as tapes Bringing your own mixtape to a party or a bar or a friend’s car was a thing. Bringing a stack of records seems much less convenient.
> The only downside of CDs was that you couldn’t record from the radio and Napster eventually solved that better than radio ever did. This was far from the only drawback with CDs especially early on, at least in mobile applications: the media (and thus player) is bulky, cases are fragile (in part through increased leverage), it has low resilience to physical damage, and before memory prices hit low enough for significant buffering the slightest g forces would lead to skips. MDs were real progress on that front. Shame it was quite expensive and the digital models were hobbled by horrendous software. And obviously flash-based pmps then smartphones are their lunch entirely.
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MDs are just another example of Sony screwing it up by making things proprietary and keeping it to themselves instead of creating an ecosystem (memory sticks were another example, although they didn't offer quite the same advantages). It's really a shame, I think if Sony would have gone about this differently they likely would have put off the emergence of MP3 players for a long time.
↙ time adjusted for second-chance
Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s (withdocket.com)
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Personally I just take notes in Obsidian
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For some reason I can't paste my email address into the email address field when I try to sign up
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just frenetically testing in my maze of tabs and incognito windows I've got going on over here... it's working for me. What browser are you on if you don't mind me asking?
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I like the concept but feel kinda dumb: how do I add an action? I'd love a help button or keyboard shortcut to show keyboard shortcuts. Thanks! edit: I figured out the action, with putting [] first. But that was an educated guess based on some other comment here that said actions were checkboxes and me knowing more about Markdown than maybe your average meeting notetaker.
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Thanks, you got it before I could reply! But yeah, I need to make the formatting and shortcuts available much clearer somehow. Thanks for the feedback! Just for reference in case anyone else finds this comment, we have action : [] bullet : - at the start of a line indent : tab and shift tab bold : cmd+B / ctrl+B emojis : type : and it brings up an autocomplete selector image : just paste one in --- You can also highlight any word to bring up a small popup panel with all these options too.
Well to address the elephant in the room. There is no world that I wouldn’t or shouldn’t be automatically fired for putting notes between myself and my employer in a none approved website I found on the web.
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It won't be today but my goal is to earn a place on your org's approved list one day and win you as a customer :-) Relatedly, I've had a few requests for a self hosted version already and will be offering this very soon as a priority. If that'd solve the issue also, please email me at davnicwil at gmail and I will update you when it's available.
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I hate to be mean. But you never will earn a place as a one man unknown developer to be an offering at my company and be a place where we put all of our information for both confidentially reasons and we wouldn’t trust the long term viability of your company. We already use Lattice for performance notes, peer to peer feedback and it’s a place where we put notes for our 1:1s. It integrates with Slack to remind us to enter topics before the meeting, etc. Even with all of those objections, you won’t get anywhere in corporate America with your product unless you offer SSO. It’s not that hard to do. I have recommended a one man SaaS once in my career to something that was critical to what I needed for a large company critical initiative. But we got lawyers involved and negotiated our own instance and the code be put in escrow with a third party that we would get access to under certain circumstances. We were going to be 70% of his post sign in revenue and growing.
essentially, yes! It's deliberately very focused and simple, but you also have - actions (checkboxes) with mentions that you can track in one place - images - templates and one-click new entry On the shared thing, it's opinionated in that it's not a shared single document like a google doc, rather everyone you share with gets their own section, so you can very easily see who wrote what.
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Lets say I have some private and silly questions that I need to take a note of & check first or I'm venting some frustration(hey that's what happens in meetings sometimes) in the notes, what do I do ? May be add a small section for private notes ?
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That's a great idea. For now, you could temporarily turn off wifi and rant away ;-)
This reads a lot like a feature list to me. I don't understand the benefit from entries versus just an h1 tag. You can even collapse those down, and then docs will write you an index. Might be helpful to focus on the value prop more. It looks cool, but as a recovering GTD junkie, it looks more like a distraction than a core part of my everyday work.
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I just realised I never dropped the link in above (doh) but I think my about page [0] does a much better job explaining than I can reproduce here. But to get directly to your point, I just think entries give better structure than a sort of 'open doc' self-regulated-formatting type system with headers etc. You get an 'entity' that can be tagged with date&time, searched, displayed in a cluster of sections with responsive layout, etc. That's actually one of the precise things I'm trying to improve upon from my own experience with using general note taking tools for meeting notes. But I concede it could just be subjective opinion. This might be a stretch but if you are at all up for it I would absolutely love to quiz you further on this though on a call or via email. I may have misunderstood. davnicwil at gmail, if you'd be up for it :-) [0] https://withdocket.com/about
I've been using a Mead pen-based tablet with paper-like display for that. It has some disadvantages but it's been rock solid, no firmware patches or security exploits so far, and maintains state ridiculously long without needing battery recharges.
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I use a Boox E-Ink device for the same purpose. I absolutely love it.
Already exists better to free and see the other one https://www.notetimeapp.com/diaries
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Not sure if its better, but it is free and it works for me. Thank you for sharing!
Good shout. I'm going to give everyone who signs up today full access to everything and access to those features will be grandfathered in to any future plans. The plans as you see them now are just rough shape anyway just to launch something! -- UPDATE alright that should be implemented now, and all existing signups ported (if I got everyone :-) Everyone is now on the 'Business' plan (full access to everything) on signup
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Nice. Going to try this out.
Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden (andyljones.com)
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To stay within the engine analogy. We have engines that are more powerful than horses, but 1. we aren’t good at building cars yet, 2. they break down so often that using horses often still ends up faster, 3. we have dirt tracks and feed stations for horses but have few paved roads and are not producing enough gasoline.
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The 1220s horse bubble was a wild time. People walked everywhere all slow and then BAM guys on horses shooting arrows at you. AI is like that, but instead with dudes in slim fitting vests blogging about alignment
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Aren't you guys looking forward to the day when we get the opportunity to go the way of all those horses? You should! I'm optimistic; I think I'd make a fine pot of glue. AI, faster please!
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AI currently lacks the following to really gain a "G" and reliably be able to replace humans at scale: - Radical massive multimodality. We perceive the world through many wide-band high-def channels of information. Computer perception is nowhere near. Same for ability to "mutate" the physical world, not just "read" it. - Being able to be fine-tuned constantly (learn things, remember things) without "collapsing". Generally having a smooth transition between the context window and the weights, rather than fundamental irreconcilable difference. These are very difficult problems. But I agree with the author that the engine is in the works and the horses should stay vigilant.
> The only reason to reduce headcount is to remove people who already weren’t providing much value. There were many secretaries up until the late 20th century that took dictation, either writing notes of what they were told or from a recording, then they typed it out and distributed memos. At first, there were many people typing, then later mimeograph machines took away some of those jobs, then copying machines made that faster, then printers reduced the need for the manual copying, then email reduced the need to print something out, and now instant messaging reduces email clutter and keep messages shorter. All along that timeline there were fewer and fewer people involved, all for the valuable task of communication. While they may not have held these people in high esteem, they were critical for getting things done and scaling. I’m not saying LLMs are perfect or will replace every job. They make mistakes, and they always will; it’s part of what they are. But, as useful as people are today, the roles we serve in will go away and be replaced by something else, even if it’s just to indicate at various times during the day what is or isn’t pleasing.
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The crucial observation is the fact that automation has historically been a net creator of jobs, not destroyer.
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Sure, if you're content to stack shelves. AI isn't automation. It's thinking . It automates the brain out of human jobs. You can still get a job that requires a body. My job doesn't require a body, so I'm screwed. If you're say, a surgeon or a plumber, you're in a better place.
Funny the original post doesn’t mention AI replacing the coding part of his job. There seems to be a running theme of “okay but what about” in every discussion that involves AI replacing jobs. Meanwhile a little time goes by and “poof” AI is handling it. I want to be be optimistic. But it’s hard to ignore what I’m doing and seeing. As far as I can tell, we haven’t hit serious unemployment yet because of momentum and slow adoption. I’m not replying to argue, I hope you are right. But I look around and can’t shake the feeling of Wile E. Coyote hanging in midair waiting for gravity to kick in.
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> There seems to be a running theme of “okay but what about” in every discussion that involves AI replacing jobs. Meanwhile a little time goes by and “poof” AI is handling it. Any sources on that? Except for some big tech companies I dont see that happening at all. While not empirical most devs I know try to avoid it like the plague. I cant imagine that many devs actually jumped on the hype train to replace themselves...
Overseeing robot is a time limited activity. Even building robot has a finite horizon. Current tech can't yet replace everything but many jobs already see the horizon or are at sunset. Last few time this happened the new tech, whether textile mills or computers, drove job creation as well as replacement. This time around some component of progress are visibile, because end of the day people can use this tech to create wealth at unprecedented scale, but other arent as the tech is run with small teams at large scale and has virtually no related ondustries is depends on like idk cars would. It's energy and gpus. Maybe we will be all working on gpu related industries? But seems another small team high scale job. Maybe few tens of million can be employed there? Meanwhile I just dont see the designer + AI job role materializing, I see corpos using AI and cutting the middleman, while designers + AI get mostly ostracized, unable to raise, like a cran in a bucket of crabs.
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> because end of the day people can use this tech to create wealth at unprecedented scale _Where?_ so far the only technology to have come out widespread for this is to shove a chatbot interface into every UI that never needed it. Nothing has been improved, no revelatory tech has come out (tools to let you chatbot faster don’t count).
> Computers replaced humans as the best chess players, not computers with human oversight. Oh? I sat down for a game of chess against a computer and it never showed up. I was certain it didn't show up because computers are unable to without human oversight, but tell me why I'm wrong.
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Apparently human chess grandmasters also need “oversight” from airplanes, because without those, essentially none of them would show up at elite tournaments.
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Things like trains, boats, and cars exist. Human chess grandmasters can show up to elite tournaments, and perform while there, without airplanes. Computer chess systems, on the other hand, cannot do anything without human oversight.
Ctrl-F 'lines', 0 results Ctrl-F 'code', 0 results What is this comment about?
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"The LLM can write lines of code, sure, but can it be productive?" is, I think, the implied question.
When horses develop technology and create all sorts of jobs for themselves, this will be a good metaphor.
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Sounds like something a goat lover would say..
Charlie Chaplin's speech is more relevant now than ever before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20
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I first saw this about 15 years ago and it had a profound impact on me. It's stuck with me ever since
Yeah I know it's an unrealistic ideal but it's fun to think about. That said my theory about power and privilege is that it's actually just a symptom of a deep fear of death. The reason gaining more money/power/status never lets up is because there's no amount of money/power/status that can satiate that fear, but somehow naively there's a belief that it can. I wouldn't be surprised if most people who have any amount of wealth has a terrible fear of losing it all, and to somebody whose identity is tied to that wealth, that's as good as death.
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Going off your earlier comment, what if instead of a revolution, the oligarchs just get hooked up to a simulation where they can pretend to rule over the rest of humanity forever? Or what if this already happened and we're just the peasants in the simulation
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I like this future, the Meta-verse has found its target market
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