1. trevett Sep 7, 2024 parent

   That's funny I'm also setting up a home lab and buying a vintage microscope (state of the art 1999 from auction) to look at the creatures living in my pond. There are always new avenues.
2. trevett Sep 7, 2024 parent

   I've accepted that we kind of lost the net to the money people and bureaucrats. Mid-late 90's it really was a frontier full of adventurous nerds. I would spend entire weekends on Efnet learning and experimenting with a tight group of people. Since a parallel non-commercial web has never taken off (and VR fizzled) I've ended up adventuring outdoors, the old school way. It's less intellectual but triggers similar feelings of discovery. There's a lot of experimentation and improvisation once you get into things like ski mountaineering because something always goes wrong. The camaraderie is also strong.

   Another alternative is simply Science, if you can handle the barrier to entry.

3. 99 points Jul 12, 2024

   StreamVC: Real-Time Low-Latency Voice Conversion

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4. 11 points Nov 6, 2023

   Ask HN: Post-LLM's, do you create web applications much more quickly?

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5. trevett Apr 30, 2022 parent

   I agree, talent needs to catch up, and new UI concepts are needed (the current VR web browsers feel very awkward). One app that was built very thoughtfully for VR and nailed it imho is Hyper Dash. Making teleporting the preferred form of movement vs. walking was brilliant.
6. 63 points Apr 30, 2022

   Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?

   69 comments trevett
7. 2 points Jan 7, 2022

   Akash Network: Decentralized cloud computing

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8. trevett Dec 30, 2020 parent

   Sounds like you might like this book: https://www.deeplearningbook.org/
9. trevett Dec 28, 2020 parent

   Better UI's for navigating browsing history. The current approach is 10-20 open tabs, self-categorized bookmarks, and a history feature that lacks full-text search of content.
10. trevett Sep 28, 2020 parent

    Search query: https://bit.ly/3n5cRRt Result is hosted on who.int domain: https://extranet.who.int/chemical-risk-assessment-toolkit/no...
11. 1 point Sep 28, 2020

    WHO Extranet Possibly Hacked

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12. trevett Aug 8, 2020 parent

    True the film is captivating on the aesthetic layer, with manufactured landscapes appearing as beautiful as the natural ones. Sounds like some viewers pull a positive (or neutral) message out of that equivalence.
13. trevett Aug 8, 2020 parent

    It's been a while. I'll rewatch it and see if I can take your view of it. Yes, humans have been driven to refine systems and tools since day one.
14. trevett Aug 8, 2020 parent

    Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - made me realize the degree to which society has been mechanized, how our alienation to nature and each other is almost guaranteed if we give ourselves over to technology.
15. trevett Aug 8, 2020 parent

    Re: Ghost Dog, I was also obsessed with that beautifully shot driving scene (with Killah Priest in the background). I was listening to a lot of hiphop at that time. Usually a burned CD playing on a glowing car stereo.
16. trevett Aug 7, 2020 parent

    Can I take a look at your product? I would be curious what a minimal ArcGIS would look like and how long it would take to build. GIS is super edge-casey, I think.
17. trevett Aug 7, 2020 parent

    ArcGIS has a formidable feature-set to clone and users will want them all. I believe that's their moat?
18. trevett Aug 7, 2020 parent

    I've met startup founders who pay for this data to help in writing their go-to-market strategy for series A.

    I really wonder how much friction there is in using a market research firm and if that's a big deterrent to a lot of potential customers.

19. trevett Aug 7, 2020 parent

    I agree, we may have reached peak level of Seth Godin-approved consumer startups.

    Re: 1, it does bother me producing all that plastic when a cardboard structure with sterile, swappable lining might do just as well in non-windy areas.

20. trevett Aug 7, 2020 parent

    I think someone should start a thread asking about all the one-offs people have written and see how much duplication there is.
21. trevett Aug 7, 2020 parent

    Curious which applications require logging at high sample rates vs. doing event-based?
22. trevett Aug 7, 2020 parent

    That's awesome, congrats. I can't tell what your secret sauce is from your website. I'd love to ask you how you marketed this service if you want to shoot me an email (see profile).
23. trevett Aug 7, 2020 parent

    I would love to have such a tool. I was quietly waiting for others to validate the idea.
24. trevett Aug 7, 2020 parent

    I like your minimalist solution. Fleet tracking / management seems like a commodity business with a lot of players in it. How do you differentiate and win here?
25. trevett Aug 7, 2020 parent

    Right, I was making the point that there should be more info online about the entire mobile video editing app market (one example). I know there are many such apps in the stores.
26. trevett Aug 6, 2020 parent

    Thanks for that. I think the NAICS codes could be fleshed out a little to be more relevant and useful.

    Not to beat this example to death, but there is a market for mobile video editing applications and I have no idea of its size. Wikipedia only lists one iOS product. I feel there would be a lot of value in providing this kind of information easily to people. I personally don't want to engage with a market research firm during the exploratory phase.

27. trevett Aug 6, 2020 parent

    At a previous job I built an internal translation system forked from pootle because the commercial options were so bad (mostly wrt UX). This was 8 years ago, so I would have to do a survey to learn what the state of things is today. It's possible the existing solutions are "good enough" and the switching / retraining costs aren't worth it for most organizations. Not to be too Thiely, but I wonder what a 10x improvement looks like in this space as well.
28. trevett Aug 6, 2020 parent

    That's interesting. I never would have thought about this area. If you can shoot me an email (in my profile) I would love to ask a few more questions about this, if you have the time.

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