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by geor9e 2y ago
You remind me of Chamath Palihapitiya. He's this billionaire who likes to call things "cheap low quality junk" too, but for him it's anything is under like $5000, or not made in Milan or the French riviera. He's ham
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by geor9e 2y ago
Click the HN headline, click the 1st external reference, click the 1st thread. The first post is the leaker speaking. Beware that website, the thread, and 4chan itself, are all, at best, in a legal grey area.
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by geor9e 2y ago
How are they avoiding the intellectual property issues?
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by geor9e 2y ago
They sell the same stuff in my experience. I would describe Temu as selling the top 10% of AliExpress that's the most popular, with faster and more reliable shipping since they use huge centralized fulfillment warehouses, similar to Am
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by geor9e 2y ago
I loved temu, aliexpress, and shein. I probably averaged 1 item per day arriving to my house, for years and years. Mostly little electronics parts and specialized tools for my workshop. Buying from Amazon or locally would have cost me 10x a
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by geor9e 2y ago
I love it. I am going to enable it immediately. Bring on the new paradigms.
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I think https://docs.cursor.com/chat/agent has shown plain English is precise enough to program a computer with, and some well respected programmers have become fans of it https://x.com/karpathy/st
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by geor9e 2y ago
You're seeing this entirely from the perspective of people who do programming as their job. I'm seeing it from the perspective of the other 99% of society. It feels really good that they're no longer gatekept by the rigid and
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by geor9e 2y ago
>Actually writing the code should be relatively trivial For you, maybe. This statement assumes years of grueling training to become bilingual in a foreign programming language. And I can't type at 1000 tokens/s personally - som
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People smart enough to read and write it are rare.
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by geor9e 2y ago
Instagram and Facebook, at least, will compress a 4K video down to 360p if it doesn't get any views for a couple of months. So, there are some mechanisms to degrade the crap.
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by geor9e 2y ago
These JSON versus YAML versus whatever discussions seem to mainly be arguments from people hand-coding it in grey ASCII with no tools. IMO the ASCII itself just needs to be machine-readable, because humans have visualization tools to parse
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by geor9e 2y ago
I get the argument, but I can't imagine a double-blind study of children or adults of any age that would find they see a semicolon versus a comma at a different rate. If anything, the reverse argument works; the semicolon is more obvio
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by geor9e 2y ago
It's not though. There's no govenment enforcement on either of those parties. The ban is worded below from a government page, and puts the entire burden on the website host to enforce it all. > Website hosts are accountable for
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by geor9e 2y ago
I'm glad I saw this because llama-3.3-70b-versatile just stopped working in my app. I switched it to meta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct and it started working again. Maybe groq stopped supporting the old one?
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by geor9e 2y ago
I remember making an ad clicker. I got the idea after my Banjo-Kazooie website earned $12 in banner ad clicks organically. That check in the mail inspired 11-year-old me to create InfiniteMoneyGlitch.js. It chugged away all night. And when
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by geor9e 2y ago
I made a little viewer to see the dataset. Spoilers, it shows you the answers. It's mainly to see the mistakes they've fixed on GitHub since it was released, and also to make proposing fixes easier. https://9eorge.com&#
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by geor9e 2y ago
I do microwave. It's pretty easy to not burn, just undershoot it - 10 seconds, see how hot it is, another 10 seconds. Once it's blazing hot shake it back and forth to get the steam off. If it's the colored kind (white when go
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by geor9e 2y ago
If it's a question about entrenched corporate dysfunction, I can't answer it. Most people's answers are wild guesses at best. If it's a question of first principles, there is a small glimmer of hope in a company called t
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by geor9e 2y ago
TIL the universe has a specific "up" direction to even call things counterclockwise. I guess I should have already known this from Star Trek's quadrants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_coordinate_s
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by geor9e 2y ago
Hmm, someone hit the downvote button, but it's right here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913909
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by geor9e 2y ago
Is there any website of more science fiction extra-short stories that are this short? I know sci-fi might not be the preferred term for stories that are this philosophical or borderline religious, but I don't know a better term.
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by geor9e 2y ago
I remember a couple kids with Windows 95 PCs at home. They seemed like such richie rich's. We'd all play Wolfenstein when we'd sleep over at their houses. My childhood computer was a WebTV, hacked to get dialup internet for f
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by geor9e 2y ago
>fingers flying across the keyboard You're supposed to use openai whisper, not your keyboard, at least according to the guy who coined the term vibe coding.
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by geor9e 2y ago
Aren't all videos in full screen on a TV?
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by geor9e 2y ago
"DHS + ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas" — a high ranking government official https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1904982944474648587 Her op-ed never mentioned Hamas
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by geor9e 2y ago
Your comment seemed to be claiming that cross-compiling an entire operating system was infeasible. My comment was that it's exactly what big companies do.
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by geor9e 2y ago
Well, think about it: it was a novelty in 2013. I paid them $99, and I still have access to all of the website's features, showing my ancestry and health trivia. People who are into this sort of thing have already done it. What future
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by geor9e 2y ago
Sure, but a new architecture is big risk reward. I expect the first companies to start selling consumer risc-v products will have a big budget to set up a datacenter, to remotely flash racks of their devices and run automated tests as their
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by geor9e 2y ago
In the early development phase, you'd compile the OS on a big non-RISCV desktop PC and target those little SBC boards, then flash it onto them and boot and test. In the prototype phase, you get the real hardware, but will probably stil

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