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jeffhuyson Chromatone – Visual Music Language

You mean emotion?

If yes, this page helps me enormously when I want to start writing a new song: https://legacy.wmich.edu/mus-theo/courses/keys.html

I’m not sure how scientifically valid this is, but when playing these notes, I agree with their designated emotion. Though, that might just be my western brain vibing with the western brain of the author.

In any case, when I feel sad, and I press the F minor, I agree.

jeffhuyson Chromatone – Visual Music Language

Page seems to work fine on mobile for me (Orion browser)

jeffhuyson Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

I knew from the very start of using macOS that it was designed around apps NOT being full-screen. Yeah, they are catering to the full-screen-apps people a little more nowadays, but embracing floating windows everywhere, and making good use of the distinction betweend CMD+Tab and CMD+~ makes it so much more powerful than just tabbing through full-screen apps, or three-finger-swiping. It also makes macOS way more beautiful to look at in my opinion.

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

I’m on anti-epileptic medication that allows me to drive again, and to basically be a human again (Carbamazepine). Medicine in and of itself, nothing wrong with it, and we should absolutely NOT disregard it.

However I did lose trust in this one, and I’ll be keeping my eyes open much wider than before. See my other comments on this page if you want to know why.

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

I agree, but this made me think:

Is it better for the herd to hear these people and try to convince them through talking, or to push them away/hiding/ridiculing them, potentially causing the Streisand effect?

Knee-jerk = A Actual = B In my opinion

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

With “emotion” do you mean trust?

It’s not “some random gov employee” btw. It’s our Minister of Health, Hugo de Jonge. He was on stage weekly (sometimes multiple times a week) to inform the population. What I’m saying is that he didn’t do that correctly, knowingly or unknowingly. And for that, I lost trust in him (and Mark Rutte, who was always next to him).

I would expect the Minister of Health of my country would at least know that no vaccine is 100% safe. But alas.

Now Rutte is Sec. General of NATO, as a side note.

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

I really don’t care; they should have known the truth. And if they didn’t, they should have informed us on that, too.

The whole issue to me is that they acted like the authoritative figure who you could trust. Turns out, we could not. So why should I trust them from now on? They damaged it, and didn’t try to “fix” it. They just called everyone that asked questions conspiracy theorists, combining everyone into one word “wappie”. The officials did. They actually used that word multiple times on TV.

So I don’t know if they knew, but it’s besides the point.

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

I’m sorry, but a press conference televised to everyone in a country that disrupts the default programming, every week, when most people were watching, by a government official about a novel virus that’s spreading around the world and the medication for it… and I shouldn’t take it literally?

What moment in the world would be a better moment to be as clear and pedantic as possible, with as little reason to doubt as possible? And when is it better to keep the talking point open to even the most “dumb” questions, even if it’s over and over again?

To be clear again, I’m Dutch and was watching the Dutch news.

Whichever of the many sides you believe, they dropped the ball there. They should’ve been informed and should’ve informed us correctly. They didn’t.

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

Ah, I see that it wasn't just the Netherlands, then; even the CDC director.

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

Sure, you're right. Maybe I should've asked more questions, even though I was being vilified, unfriended, and hated for it. It's just so incredibly weird to me that even in the Tweede Kamer (I guess the Dutch House of Representatives?) they just wouldn't seriously answer questions some people had. I watched every debate, every new item, everything (in the Netherlands). They have NEVER done this as bad as this before.

Either we were being lied to, or they chose the path of "let's make them sound crazy so nobody will think like this" for actual good. I'm not sure, and leaning more to the first (for the first time in my life, mind you), and it has served me well this time. Will keep betting on my own body's ability.

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

I wasn't talking about what I read, I was talking about what they said on TV. I'm going to find the original clips soon (at work at the moment), but I clearly remember Hugo de Jonge telling us all, on national television, that we would be protected by the vaccine, and would stop the spreading of it. I'm not the only one that heard it.

I'm SPECIFICALLY talking about the Dutch news coverage here - I have no experience with others.

So this:

> It was _never_ claimed that it would "prevent" the spread of the disease or that it would even prevent _you_ from catching it.

Is just not true; they told our entire country on television.

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

Case in point.

Thanks for ignoring most of my comment and going straight to “you think wrong, nutjob”.

How people don’t see it themselves is interesting to me.

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

Mostly because of them not being totally honest to the public from the start with the COVID vaccines, stating that it would be 100% safe (something that's _never_ true about vaccines) and would prevent spreading.

It made me distrust my government, something I've never done before, only to be fueled by backlash people received for asking questions, including having 0 TV time. If they would've taken it seriously and were able to answer some simple critical questions, even repeatedly (because it's their goddamn job), then I would not think like this. But they STILL don't want to really talk about it in any "real" media, and in my country you get called a "Wappie" for even asking some questions. They tried (effectively) to turn the general population against critical thinkers, which is something you never do, right? So a big no from me, they messed it up.

See my other comment for a bit more info.

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

> The risk of vaccination is infinitesimal.

Agreed. But it IS there, and we (at least in the Netherlands) were told it was 100% safe, and you would become unable to spread it. Which were bold-faced lies, and we weren't allowed to talk about that online (literally; read up on the facebook statement yesterday or the day before, about government pressure to "delay" the story).

Also, on television nobody was allowed to ask critical questions about it, or they would just get cut off.

That's what I don't like, and why I didn't go with it. If they would've been honest, I'd have no problem. But they messed that up, and my trust in the officials of my country is 0 now.

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

It IS a more traditional vaccine, though, and less scary because of that. And this is not being pushed to the fullest extent of the law (and a bit above it I think, but nobody can really prove that).

jeffhuyson Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine

More receptive, yes, but not enough in my case.

jeffhuyson Diffusion models are real-time game engines

Bliss

jeffhuyson Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown

I believe there was some custom CSS extension? If so, just add `.graph-view-outer { display: none; }` or similar.

jeffhuyson Artificial intelligence is losing hype

Turn it off in the settings, then... Come on.

jeffhuyson Artificial intelligence is losing hype

You know you can just turn off "Improve the model for everyone" in the settings, right?

jeffhuyson Artificial intelligence is losing hype

Well, time to run it locally then :) Check out ollama.com. llama 3.1 is pretty crazy, especially if you can run the 405B one. Otherwise, use Mistral/Mixtral or something similar.

jeffhuyson Artificial intelligence is losing hype

If it takes you 10 minutes, you're doing it wrong.

jeffhuyson We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency

https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress

Check this out. You _almost_ use the most expensive service.

I think you should expand your awareness. Hetzner for instance doesn't mention anywhere that they throttle your 10gbit uplink, but they limit to 20TB/month, with ~1EUR for every TB over. Seems like you wouldn't even have noticed what you described in your article.

jeffhuyson We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency

They don't use AWS, by the way. This was GCP.

jeffhuyson Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

Or a PHP application returning an array as a JSON object

jeffhuyson Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

That would be an amazing addition!

Well, this website is completely cloneable, the JS is non-minified, so adding in community lists is certainly possible. Maybe just a tool to create those lists collaboratively. Good idea!

jeffhuyson Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

I totally agree, I will not watch a video with any issues like these.

However, I also hate knowing that I'm hearing mono audio where stereo could be used. 99% of the videos I watch don't have panning issues, so to just turn off ALL stereo seems like such overkill to me...

jeffhuyson Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

The author was replying to everyone, even me, but didn’t respond to my question about how the list is made.

This makes me assume that it’s hand-made. If so, it’ll probably get 1 or 2 updates (if even that many) and then remain static as the creator loses interest. Wouldn’t be the first time.

EDIT: list has changed. Trying to track it, we'll see what happens. I really hope the author has some way to search Youtube for trending videos based on some query/tag, and re-generates a list once a day or something like that.

jeffhuyson Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

I see that you're the creator, I absolutely love what you made :)

I'm curious, do you generate that list on-the-fly, based on the current time/day? Or is it more static?

jeffhuyson Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels

Also works on localhost, run these commands:

`wget -r -np -k https://ytch.xyz` - downloads the website recursively

`wget https://ytch.xyz/list.json` - download the list of what every channel plays and will play (I'm not sure if this ever really changes. The real website adds ?t=<time since epoch in ms>)

Then for instance run `python3 -m http.server` and visit localhost:8000