Pretty big ask to have people just jump in. An itch.io style page would be nice for a preview.
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and0 commented on Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/bitsavers
Musk is on the outs. And what if there is no grand conspiracy?
We're extremely far from any of Yarvin's "plans" at any rate. Yarvin's most cherished plan was to create a shadow university called the "Antiversity" -- a sort of repository of all truths unbeholden to politics and fads. Is this a bad idea? Which other Yarvin ideas scare you so?
> Yarvin's most cherished plan was to create a shadow university called the "Antiversity" -- a sort of repository of all truths unbeholden to politics and fads. Is this a bad idea?
Yes. That is a twelve-year-olds idea of a smart idea.
and0 commented on Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/bitsavers
I mentioned this previously, but I frequently think back to Gibson's "Jackpot" -- a cross-lashed, polycausal catastrophe: Lots of bad little things accumulating, building up a certain momentum.
I think that even as far back as 2009, an astute observer would have noticed that society is beginning to burn through its seed corn.
In some places, things are now getting extremely acute: https://www.neilobrien.co.uk/p/the-confluence?r=h8x
There's no way out but through, which means that politics are going to get extremely weird. Moldbug/Yarvin is one manifestation of this, and quite a benign and even harmless one. He's foppish and playful more than he is scary.
RE: that Neil O'Brien piece
Demographic collapse? Sure, huge issue. But why is this happening? Why did it start happening before the other issues?
A rap group being critical of Churchill at an official event? Not really an issue. I don't think that is why Britain is failing. And I'll need citations for why moral introspection is demoralizing rather than uplifting and enlightening for a culture. Or maybe suggest something that the youth should feel good about rather than browbeating them for not being thrilled at the state of things.
Immigration? Not an issue for the USA after the great depression, which also had a massive welfare state.
I agree that Britain is collapsing, but not for those reasons. What a stunning lack of imagination.
e: Also, are migrants really to blame for Britain selling off all of its state capacity for pennies on the dollar since the 80s? Did migrants vote to violently eject Britain from the European economy in 2015? Any mention of that? Or would that type self-reflection hurt the cultural morale?
Maybe Britain would be better off with people who are a little less integrated with those values.
and0 commented on Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs aberdeenjs.org/... · Posted by u/vanviegen
IMO That example is way too complicated to be an elevator pitch. I'm trying to understand what working with your framework would be like for a web app, not the boilerplate to establish rules and state management of a small game.
The tutorial has a much better Hello World + incremental feature introduction, I'd put some of that before the larger example.
and0 commented on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE wired.com/story/elon-musk... · Posted by u/medler
My source for what?
Marco Rubio (head of the state department) stated that they refused to audited. So did other congressmen. https://x.com/cspan/status/1886473339201360210
Do you disagree with what he says in the above video? They denied to be audited. The US in USAID stands for United States. Can we not ask what they spend the money on?
USAID was not created by congress. It was created by executive order 10973 by JFK. It can be undone by executive order. It's function can be rolled into the state department.
I worked on USAID software for reporting costs and results and there were annual and quarterly briefings IIRC. It was kind of a whole thing.
Also, Congress codified it as an independent agency in 1998. So.. that last part isn't true either. This stuff isn't hard to look up.
and0 commented on Virtual Vette – Racing Simulator Built from Wrecked Corvette instructables.com/Virtual... · Posted by u/starkparker
I'm surprised they built something this involved and went with a belt drive wheel. Direct drive options are very affordable these days and the difference is night and day.
The placement of the monitor is also odd, doubly so because it is curved. Most sims will let you render offset from the driver seat (iRacing has keyboard shortcuts to make all these adjustments easily) but the image is being rendered from a "first person" projection a foot to your side. The monitor being tilted isn't ideal either.
If using an actual chassis the best way to go would be with a projector mounted as low as it can be to clear the top of the car, ideally onto a screen that is curved out from the driver's perspective.
and0 commented on X (Twitter) blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier theverge.com/2024/9/26/24... · Posted by u/jeromegv
That's what I'm wondering, isn't his behavior now pretty much exactly what the whole Twitter Files thing was about? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files
Yeah, he updated the ToS when he took over to allow the Hunter Biden material.
and0 commented on Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners gijn.org/stories/tracking... · Posted by u/chippy
I'm people. I had a secret LLC I was doing contracting out of because I didn't want my companies'address out there easily. My companies' address being my house.
I also have an LLC for software and didn't love having to put my address, since I don't have a storefront or anything either, but I don't think it reveals any more info than someone could find from having your name in the first place.
What the hell is going on with the little sentences in that example? I thought it was supposed to be like, a bad VC rap joke song or something? I was looking for rhymes. It's really lame.
All things Eno raise technical questions that rabbit hole into labyrinths, this documentary about Eno raises another:
“Eno,” the portrait of Brian Eno that opened the Sundance Film Festival today, is a documentary that mirrors the spirit of Eno’s music in its very form.
The director, Gary Hustwit (“Helvetica”), created it with generative software that allows the film to play in a different version every time you see it.
Sections of it will land in a different order, and some won’t appear at all (replaced by others); the movie is reshuffled each time with an element of the random.
How random? Well, it’s not as if the generative AI determines the order of everything.
Can this be reliably transferred to some "take home" experience that reliably captures the essence of what the director has done?
Is this just a markov chain of "shuffle" operations with transitions, can this be emulated with a .MKV file full of tracks and a modified player that can read embedded "next track" probabilities?
No Pussyfooting.
Clue (1985) had several different endings sent to different theaters, which as a comedy was a pretty funny and novel idea. The VHS release contained all of them at the end with title cards to explain why.
If this doc is screening in theaters I'd imagining different reels/files are sent to different theaters, or maybe more than one so they can rotate them.
As others have said DVDs are more than capable of this. A VLC plugin could work, and Netflix has some type of tech for their choose-your-own-adventure episode of Black Mirror for streaming.