The repulsion hackernews crowd will face while opening TikTok.
Nah, that computer-generated voiceover is repulsing no matter where the videos are rehosted.
A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]
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#52I talked with my social circle just the other day how our timeline is really a Cyberpunk timeline with only technology and body augments seemingly lagging behind. I am both excited and horrified, because that universe is pretty dark. I suppose I should be thanking our lucky stars we are not moving towards 40k universe.
It seems like the greatest thing lagging behind is society. What the reddit poster did was possible 20 years ago, but likely would have caused wistful maidens to faint, etc.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Putting a battery inside your eye socket seems incredibly risky to me, though We already do this with pacemakers
Not the same thing and we don't really do that. Pacemakers are typically lithium iodide which do not have the same risk of uncontrolled burning (that's the nickel variety). But also, the pacemaker sits outside the body with probes going inside. You'd not want another surgery just to change a battery.
But that's not true... A pacemaker goes inside your body. It's replaced during a surgery every 15-20 years and has enough battery lifetime to last that long.
There used to be nuclear-powered pacemakers that could last many lifetimes but nowadays the doctors say it's better to replace the whole thing every once in a while, so the nuclear option is overkill.
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#54Flashlight is awesome. How about a camera…
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#55When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!
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#56For those that don't want to go to TikTok's page (for one reason or another) there is a proxy service you can use, like how Nitter is used for Twitter, called ProxiTok. Gets just the video, description and ability to download it. The first video in the GP proxied: https://proxitok.pabloferreiro.es/@bsmachinist/video/7157587... Proxy info: https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok (Not the creator of it but a user of it)
Never heard of this - thanks for sharing.
Nitter and Teddit have become near full replacements for twitter and reddit for me. I don't know if they can last but I love services like this without dark patterns.
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Why? I've been on HN forever and I'm a huge TikTok fan. I will never understand the outright rejection on TikTok, there are so many cool projects which produce TikTok devlogs. Not just that several niches which I don't see often enough on HN (like AI ethics, not just copy right stuff) have entire channels on TikTok.
You're focusing solely on the content. My abject hatred of TikTok stems from who controls it.
"Abject hatred" seems a bit much, even for TikTok.
When it comes to negative impact on humanity, Meta seems far more hate-worthy. And it's not like this list is particularly short (e.g. nearly every venture a16z is involved in seems like it should get a spot).
Heck, even HN isn't without sin.
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#58That's a very creative way of spicing up a boring old glass eye! I imagine such "wearable" tech could also be the ultimate version of those snapchat glasses. Putting a battery inside your eye socket seems incredibly risky to me, though. Especially one that can power a bright light like this for a while...
I wonder what power laserpointer you could fit in there without going overboard with the battery... Imagine being able to light matches by looking at them for a bit. On the other hand, every mirror would be a great chance to lose your other eye as well, so maybe disregard my ideas.
Cool concept. I suppose there'd need to be a way to protect the inside wall of the eyelid, however.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Putting a battery inside your eye socket seems incredibly risky to me, though We already do this with pacemakers
Not the same thing and we don't really do that. Pacemakers are typically lithium iodide which do not have the same risk of uncontrolled burning (that's the nickel variety). But also, the pacemaker sits outside the body with probes going inside. You'd not want another surgery just to change a battery.
One of the exceptions, nuclear pacemakers using Pu-238 or Pm-147.
"The History of Nuclear Powered Pacemakers" - http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/degraw2/
> Despite the often longer life-expectancies, nuclear pacemakers quickly became a part of the past when lithium batteries were developed. Not only did the technology improve, allowing for lighter, smaller, and programmable pacemakers, but doctors began to realize that this excessive longevity of nuclear pacemakers was excessive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device says betavoltaic "devices include a 100 μW tritium-powered device weighing 20 grams".
That's about 5x the weight of a glass eye - https://www.muellersoehne.com/907.html .
Assuming linear scaling, an energy budget of 2μW isn't going to provide much light.
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I just followed a link to TikTok for the first time. It’s far better than twitter, kinda like YouTube but cleaner.
It actually renders most of the information you'd expect with JavaScript and Cookies disabled. Cannot say the same for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. Just can't play the vid, but I can see the thumbnail.
https://mbasic.facebook.com/ works without JavaScript. Unfortunately it's becoming increasingly broken as it seemingly bit rots away from the main site.