Did you look at Mattercraft? https://zap.works/mattercraft/ - the team that are building it have been delivering mixed reality experiences across platforms in Zappar for a long time and it's very complete.
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jaustin commented on Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf] nokia-apple-iphone-was-la... · Posted by u/late
This is fascinating. A reminder that being (broadly) right in your analysis doesn't necessarily mean you can execute to turn things around.
They note the impact to the high-end, the fact that UI is crucial, they even had a good guess at 2008 sales numbers (estimate 14m, looks like real was 13m).
I was intrigued by this bullet point on how their Maemo platform could help:
* Cellular development of the maemo platform and the politics surrounding it?
Any folks from Nokia in this time care to shed more light on that? I always felt the N9 was a beautiful piece of design and implementation - just late and under-supported.
jaustin commented on Show HN: MynaUI Icons – 1180 Beautifully Crafted Open Source Icons mynaui.com/icons... · Posted by u/praveenjuge
These look really nice, thanks for sharing.
Out of curiosity, were you setting out to create something new for stylistic reasons? Or licensing? For the fun of it? From a distance I'm trying to distinguish this from something like remix icons https://remixicon.com
Do you plan to keep adding more icons? How will these relate to the MynaUI Pro plan in the long run?
jaustin commented on Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games? · Posted by u/IgorPartola
Microsoft MakeCode Arcade is terrific. It has both a block interface and real Typescript under the hood, and you can switch back and forth anytime.
MakeCode Arcade also has the ability to put your games on physical hardware, which can be a game changer for engagement. A simple game on a 128x256 grid can feel a bit “rubbish” on a laptop screen, but put it on something with a Gameboy form factor and it comes into its own.
Arcade also has amazing editors for sound, sprites, etc.
Here’s Flappy Bird https://arcade.makecode.com/88444-57913-28610-31751 (Not made by me!)
Oh, cool two Cortex-M33 cores (4.09 CoreMark/MHz) and two open-source RISC-V Hazard3 cores (3.81 CoreMark/MHz): https://github.com/Wren6991/Hazard3
Looks like it's an "and" in silicon and an "or" at boot time?
>RP2350 includes a pair of open-hardware Hazard3 RISC-V cores which can be substituted at boot time for the Cortex-M33 cores. Our boot ROM can even auto-detect the architecture for which a second-stage binary has been built and reboot the chip into the appropriate mode
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/s...
If they start doing that without clear distinction what is an ad, that would be a sure way to lose users immediately.
I'm positing a model where a third party does the influencing, not the company delivering the LLM/service. What's to say that it's an ad if the Wikipedia page for a product itself says that the product "establishes new standards for quality, technological leadership and operating excellence". (and no problem if the edit gets reverted, as long as it said that just at the moment company X crawled Wikipedia for the latest training round).
So more like SEO firms "helping you" move your rank on Google, than Google selling ads.
I'd imagine "undetectable to the LLM training orgs" might just be service with a higher fee.
> The rubber will meet the road when the first free and open AI website gets real traction. And monetizes it with ads next to the answers.
The magic of genAI is they don't need to put ads next to the answers where they can easily be ignored or adblocked, they can put the ads inside the answers instead. The future, like it or not, is advertisers bidding to bias AI models towards mentioning their products.
I'm sure it's not long before you get the first emails offering a "training data influencing service" - for a nice fee, someone will make sure your product is positively mentioned in all the key training datasets used to train important models. "Our team of content experts will embed positive sentiment and accurate product details into authentic content. We use the latest AI and human-based techniques to achieve the highest degree of model influence".
And of course, once the new models are released, it'll be impossible to prove the impact of the work - there's no counterfactual. Proponents of the "training data influence service" will tell you that without them, you wouldn't even be mentioned.
I really don't like this. But I also don't see a way around it. Public datasets are good. User contributed content is good, but inherently vulnerable to this I think?. Anyone in any of the big LLM training orgs working on defending against this kind of bought influence?
jaustin commented on Diff-pdf: tool to visually compare two PDFs github.com/vslavik/diff-p... · Posted by u/Olshansky
We've been using this in the Micro:bit Educational Foundation (microbit.org) to fill a gap in hardware design tooling, and get visual diffs of our schematics and gerbers during PCB design iterations. It's kinda wild that's what we ended up doing, but if you want to be sure your radio layout didn't change at all when you're making a minor revision to a different part of the board, visual diffs are perfect.
That said, next project we want to try something more integrated with EDA tools. If anyone else has followed this path, we'd love to know.
The demos sounded like little R2D2 blips and sputters.
Perhaps a researcher for Microsoft or something.
Anyone know the paper I'm talking about? I can't find it.