reminds me of this image board that has been around for a while. similar idea, it’s only open every 12 hours
Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
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#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm actually part of a site like this, just a thing a friend of a friend made: - You can write and edit one post at a time. - This post, in whatever form it has then, gets published at 8 in the morning. - You can only see posts for today. All old content gets deleted. - No comments or feedback is possible. - Only symmetric relationships are possible: you can add someone, but they won't see your posts and you won't se…
With a few differences this is a well established type of site in Japan. I've mentioned it before, but my wife posts about our life there. People can follow you, but there is no feedback aside from you seeing how many people read your post and how many followers you have. There are no recommendations; you have to organically check out the people who read your article to see if you like their writing (if they have any…
The correct URL is https://www.ameba.jp/
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#323I think it's a really cool idea. I signed up because I had a brain fart and thought that "EST" was "European Standard Time" (I was of course thinking of CET). So yeah, the current window wouldn't work for me, but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone. We all live in our bubbles anyway; creating artificial rules could actually be ways of creating new, unexpected interactions. This being said – if you…
> So yeah, the current window wouldn't work for me, but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone. We all live in our bubbles anyway; creating artificial rules could actually be ways of creating new, unexpected interactions. I like the idea that something like this could be open for 3 hours in the evening local time. Like, you'd get totally different communities coming on at different times, and having…
Personally, I think we need less balkanization + telephone game rather than more.
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You're absolutely right and this is something I've studied and thought about quite a lot. The dark aspect of group chats does fundamentally separate them from forums, which had the benefit of searchability, permanence and topic longevity. At least we will benefit from what forums are left in the form of model training data. People give LLMs a lot of shit, but it's possible one day that a language model ends up becomi…
Wow, I hadn't made that connection. We should somehow bundle a current state-of-the-art LLM in a timecapsule right now , and maybe another one every decade. If, a thousand years from now future historians need to study our time, they can just ask the LLM. There's a SF story in there somewhere.
That would be an incredible modern analogue to the Arecibo message or Golden Record. Imagine being on the receiving end of such an artifact and not knowing how to operate it and being worried about breaking it.
Makes you also wonder if the future of long-range communication between planets or galaxies would involve LLM-based compression, embeddings, etc.
We definitely need to fix the hallucination problem though, or a receiving civilization might be extremely confused about our nature.
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Where is the server getting information about the user's timezone from pray tell? It doesn't matter if it's being checked on the client or the server. If the user controls what your code sees, they can fake it.
It doesn't matter if they fake it. They're only getting one window per 24 hours.
Problem: user goes on vacation three time zones west of their usual location, and now they can’t access the site tomorrow.
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> So yeah, the current window wouldn't work for me, but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone. We all live in our bubbles anyway; creating artificial rules could actually be ways of creating new, unexpected interactions. I like the idea that something like this could be open for 3 hours in the evening local time. Like, you'd get totally different communities coming on at different times, and having…
It was always a small source of joy on Discord to see Americans getting on the server while East Asians would go to sleep, with us Europeans being in the middle. It always feels so cute for some reason I can't explain, but I do love that every time.
Back in late 1990s I had xplanet-rendered sun-synchronous rotating Earth as my desktop background. It had the nicknames of our IRC channel regulars placed at their lat/long… it felt cyberpunk af.
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#328This is the idea they had at the end of Ready Player One (the film, not the inferior book). It's only taken 7 years for people to start making it a thing!
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#329Yeah I have thought about websites having "business hours" also. So support staff don't have to worry about getting a call or text message at 0200 that something isn't working... just fix it in the morning.
One of the largest camera stores in the US is https://www.bhphotovideo.com/ . Since B&H was founded in NYC by Orthodox Jews, you can’t event place an order on their website on Saturdays.
There are also still some Reformed Christian websites in the Netherlands that close altogether on Sundays.
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#330When I lost my job the local unemployment office website would “close” outside of real world office hours. I thought that was annoying but also amusing. I do really like this idea. If anything I want more limited, but also more genuine social media.
I know a bank in Sweden that does _not_ do this and apparently runs various batch jobs at something like 1-3 am. So, one night I made a transaction to it and it looked just fine in the app, then it was mysteriously gone in the morning! On the receiving side; my cash had still been withdrawn! I called the support and we eventually realized that no, you shouldn't do transfers at 2 am on a Saturday because it's likely t…
Which bank was it?