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by sottol 10mo ago
Thanks, I'll have to try that. I've only had mediocre success with Jules using it for a couple weeks after launch but I always felt like it may have been running one of the smaller models.
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Ask HN: Coding experience with Gemini 3 Pro
3 points by sottol 10mo ago|3 comments
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by sottol 10mo ago
you can bring your google api key to try it out, and google used to give $300 free when signing up for billing and creating a key. when i signed up for billing via cloud console and entered my credit card, i got $300 "free credits&quot
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by sottol 11mo ago
$30B ... 2GW datacenter ... ??? ... AGI
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by sottol 1y ago
I think Lucid just released their SUV, Lucid Gravity. That might explain it. I've seen a few driving around now but that's about all I know.
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Salesforce Says AI Customer Service Saves $100M Annually(bloomberg.com)
1 points by sottol 1y ago|0 comments
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by sottol 1y ago
It seems like most buyers are with you, but for me I'm not going back to a daily-driven ICE vehicle unless I have to. I do wonder though if part of the problem is that EVs are priced/sold at a premium, and even often only as luxur
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by sottol 1y ago
Beat Q4'24 by 0.3% in the quarter that EV tax credits ran out and EV buyers used their last chance to pocket it. Most other EV models had 50%+ sales lift that quarter.
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by sottol 1y ago
That does also basically erase any connection to the last owner - so you can't try to infer if they took care of the car or not. On top of that, afaik many second-hand dealers buy cars at auction and then often only do basic (bandaid-t
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by sottol 1y ago
This is nothing new - Germany has always had pretty "strict" libel laws. Eg there have been "200,827 investigated cases as of 2009" [1]. I think this post comes in light of Europe being seen as curtailing free speech rec
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by sottol 1y ago
Acetaminophen/Tylenol? Nah, it's more palatable to blame the vaccines than give up those sweet pain-killers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008733
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by sottol 1y ago
Or that they did significant retraining to boost IMO performance creating a more specialized model at the cost of general-purpose performance.
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by sottol 1y ago
Interesting, I find the exact opposite. Although to a much lesser extent (maybe 50% boost). I ended shoehorned into backend dev in Ruby/Py/Java and don't find it improves my day to day a lot. Specifically in C, it can bang ou
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by sottol 1y ago
I don't know that I 100% agree. I bet the A-pillar is for safety but hoods and grills are also getting so tall that some reports indicate the front blindspot can be as large as 16 feet! These grills are also more adept at killing pedes
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by sottol 1y ago
Doesn't a single javelin missile cost almost 200k? The drones I've seen I'd budget at 150-300$ plus explosives. I think that puts the javelin more at 500-1000x as expensive imo.
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by sottol 1y ago
How do the EU/Indian programs compare, eg in monetary outlay? It's hard to find numbers.
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by sottol 1y ago
Why? $500M could pay 1000 scientists/academics (up to) a $50k pay-bump for 10 years each. Even if 50% would be lost to "administrative overhead", $25k over the usual EU market rate (which is lower than US) per year per scient
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by sottol 1y ago
Does 82.2 correspond to the "Percent correct" of the other models? Not sure if OpenAI has updated O3, but it looks like "pure" o3 (high) has a score of 79.6% in the linked table, "o3 (high) + gpt-4.1" combo has
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by sottol 1y ago
I think another thing that comes out of not knowing the codebase is that you're mostly relegated to being a glorified tester . Right now (for me) it's very frequent, depending on the type of project, but in the future it could be
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by sottol 1y ago
It's easy to forget that half the world's population lives in a few dollars a day [1] and sparing $20 month is unrealistic. Also, access to market leading AI is not going to cost $20/mo when everything is said and done. [1]
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by sottol 1y ago
The author posted a previous article about why they don't like numpy and his problems with einsum: https://dynomight.net/numpy/
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by sottol 1y ago
I tried using Gemini 2.5 Pro for a side-side-project, seemed like a good project to explore LLMs and how they'd fit into my workflow. 2-3 weeks later it's around 7k loc of Python auto-gerating about 35k loc of C from JSON spec. Th
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by sottol 1y ago
I used OSH PARK ~ 10-12 years ago - it looks like they're still around and somewhat affordable, but that was just a 20 second scan of their homepage. They used to be the affordable choice back in the day. https://oshpark.com
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by sottol 1y ago
I agree on the "far too early" part. But imo we can probably say more about the impact in a year though, not 5-10 years. But it does show that some of the randomized-controlled-trials that showed large labor-force impact and produ
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by sottol 1y ago
But is that necessarily "AI native" companies, or just "recently founded companies with hindsight 20/20 and experienced employees and/or just not enough historic baggage"? I would bet AI-native companies acquir
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by sottol 1y ago
They're probably just short-sighted - take the easy win ("get more done in less time") now and worry about the future later.
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by sottol 1y ago
I doubt it's going to be weeks, the months were already turning into years despite Nvidia's previous advances. (Not to say that it takes openai years to train a new model, just that the timeline between major GPT releases seems to
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by sottol 1y ago
Maybe that's true for absolute arm-chair-engineering outsiders (like me) but these models are in training for months, training data is probably being prepared year(s) in advance. These models have a knowledge cut-off in 2024 - so they
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by sottol 1y ago
Usually, it's the wealthy that tend to leave and depopulation tends to increase "blight" and crime. But I had no idea the population declined so much, that puts other observations about SF into context.
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by sottol 2y ago
Quick googling showed the Tata Punch EV to cost between $15k-$19k. Afaik, the BYD Seagull is also targeting under 20k EUR in Europe, double the price in China. Might be tariffs.

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