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by remus 8mo ago
No doubt there are significant challenges along the way, but waymo has a real product powered by tech that actually works which could massively change a huge industry. They're also notably more mature than competitors, and have track r
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by remus 9mo ago
Yes, Freerider (the route he climbed on El Capitan) is much harder than the climbing on Taipei 101. The style of climbing is also very important, some of the moves on Freerider are very insecure and hard to climb in a reliable way, whereas
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by remus 9mo ago
The "100 panels per second" number sounded a little high so I did a bit more reading. Apparently this was the peak pace of installation around May 2025, when there was a change in pricing structures associated with solar power so
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by remus 9mo ago
The point of the article is to paint LLMs as a confidence trick, the keyword being trick. If LLMs do actually deliver very real, tangible benefits then can you say there is really a trick? If a street performer was doing the cup and ball sc
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by remus 9mo ago
I think that says more about their vast investment in other forms of power (particularly renewables) than it suggests a lack of investment in nuclear.
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by remus 9mo ago
I've also found this a big plus. Being able to get a data only SIM for whatever country you happen to be in within 5 mins is very convenient.
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by remus 9mo ago
It might help you get there faster, but a billion users is still a billion users. Clearly they all find some value in it.
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by remus 10mo ago
Are you based in the EU? You should be able to file a GDPR request for your data.
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by remus 10mo ago
Usually just the ones I don't get! ;)
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by remus 10mo ago
In a similar vein, I really struggle to understand why copilot is so crap when writing SQL and I'm connected to the database. The database has so much context (schema names, column names, constraints etc.) yet copilot regularly halluci
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by remus 10mo ago
Been playing daily since you last posted it on hn, great fun! For me Im a bit of an amatuer so the level is pretty nice, usually getting sub 5 mins or so. A little feedback: clues which are cultural references can be pretty frustrating if y
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by remus 10mo ago
In the EU 'golden visa' schemes are typically about investing a particular amount in the economy of the country. Exact amounts vary, but it's usually along the lines of x00,000 euro in property in the country (mortgage free v
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by remus 10mo ago
> A US business needs to be governed by US law, not whatever law that a user chooses to access their site from. Why is that? I think you can reasonably argue that a user should enjoy the protections offered by law in the place they live.
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by remus 10mo ago
> I'm sure there are gray areas in such contracts but something being down or not is pretty black and white. Is it? Say you've got some big geographically distributed service doing some billions of requests per day with a backg
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by remus 11mo ago
Me too, but it's worth remembering that's not the case for everyone. Some people want to have a little chat with the person at the counter, sit down for 5 mins in the corner of the cafe and eat their croissant. 5 euro can be a goo
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by remus 11mo ago
> But I am saddened by the wider context, where a dev posts 'we fix bugs occasionally' and everyone is thrilled, because the idea of ensuring software continues to work well over time is now as alien to software dev as the idea
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by remus 11mo ago
> ChatGPT's moat is their name and user habit. People who are using it will keep using it. All/most of the products are _good enough_ for the people who already got used to using them, that they arent exploring competitors. The
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by remus 11mo ago
> It looks more like a strategic decision tbh. Announcing a load of AI features on stage and then failing to deliver them doesn't feel very strategic.
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by remus 11mo ago
Agreed, too early to write off others entirely. It'll be interesting to see who comes out the other side of the bubble with a working business.
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by remus 11mo ago
I think google is uniquely well placed to make a profitable business out of AI: They make their own TPUs so don't have to pay ridiculous amounts of money to Nvidia, they have a great depth of talent in building models, they've got
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by remus 11mo ago
> So the world of mathematics is really the only world model we need. If we can build a self-supervised entity for that world, we can also deal with the real world. In theory I think you are kind of right, in that you can model a lot of
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by remus 11mo ago
I run a small website and am based in the UK and have used it a couple of times to summarise what I need to do to comply with different bits of legislation e.g. Online Safety Act. What's really useful for me is that I can feed in a loa
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by remus 11mo ago
There are no two countries which have completely transparent data sharing agreements with each other. There are always secrets, whether the opposite party is a friend or an enemy.
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by remus 1y ago
I've had some luck with this in other contexts. Get the initial transcript from STT (e.g. whisper), then feed that in to gemini with a prompt giving it as much extra context as possible. For example "This is a transcript from a yo
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by remus 1y ago
It's a huge system with a lot of people involved so no doubt there is abuse, but there is also natural and expected levels of variation in the complexity of patients that doctors doing notionally the same job will actually encounter. I
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by remus 1y ago
I think you're right to an extent (it's probably fair to say e.g. Einstein and Euler advanced their fields in ways others at the time are unlikely to have done), but I think it's much easier to work out who these people are a
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by remus 1y ago
Where is the trademark infringement? It's like honda buying an advert outside a VW dealership.
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by remus 1y ago
The instagram app is infuriating for this. What possible reason is there for not allowing the user to select text in captions? I just want to put it into google translate so I can get a non-garbage translation of foreign language captions,
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by remus 1y ago
I don't think there's any criticism of the (remarkable) things which have been achieved so far, more the breathless hype about how AI is going to solve all our current and future problems if we just keep shovelling money and energ
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by remus 1y ago
> Explicitly saying you're compatible with any future breaking changes!? You can't possibly know that! I kind of like it in a way. In a lot of eco systems it's easy for package publishers to be a bit lazy with compatibilit

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