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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Reading through the list, I really wouldn't call most of them lies. There are some lies, but it's mostly 'very precisely worded statements' and statements that were arguably made in bad faith, but are not technically fal
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
> why, with all the crypto and tech money floating around, does Asahi not have a fully funded staff of fifty people? Because all that crypto and tech money is trying to turn money into much more money, and Asahi isn't a great candid
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
3d printing filaments generally aren't very heat resistant, by the nature of the process. There are ways around that, like 3d printing metal or clay. But if we are allowed attachments to 3d printers I'd choose a laser or a pen, th
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
The benefit of a laser is that it can not only remove material, it can also discolor it. Either as a side effect of removing it or simply as a lower-power setting. And discolorations can be picked up with optical methods, which are far more
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
At the time I (and many others) had a much more positive view of Microsoft. In 2018 Nadella was bringing a lot of positive change to Microsoft. The release of VSCode and WSL among the more visible trends that signaled a new direction. A wor
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
That persona still sounds too generic, too unfocused. But even with that persona, it should already answer your question whether posting on HN and producthunt should be a core part of your strategy. Not a lot of social media managers or com
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Keep in mind that the people who experience issues will always be the loudest. I've overall enjoyed 4.6. On many easy things it thinks less than 4.5, leading to snappier feedback. And 4.6 seems much more comfortable calling tools: it&#
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If you want to use smaller ids within the stream, that capability section would seem to be the natural place to map from global codec-uuid to file-local u8 identifier
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HN is less SV dominated than you might think. Less than half the people here are even from the US. Surely there are some rich founders from around the world among us, but most people here will have pretty typical tech salaries for their cou
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Ah, a classic paperclip maximizer. Pension plans got the goal of multiplying the money so pensioners have more of it. Nobody bothered to mention that they should also make sure there's a world the pensioners can live in, so now that ge
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Looks cool to look at. Something that would be cool to have in an airport lounge, or just any public space near an airport I wonder how feasible it would be to render all airplanes at once, not just those near the chosen airport. A quick go
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Some mountain airports might be quite interesting with 3d terrain But that's not what this is. Here only the airplanes are in the third dimension. The world map isn't even a globe
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Which is also a relatively recent thing, all things considered. If I remember correctly it was primarily WWII Germany that pioneered this approach, which was then quickly adopted by everyone else
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
To add another data point, a 2024 study [1] on the mental effects of single doses of creatine was using 0.35g/kg of creatinemonohydrate, or about 28g for a typical adult male. Though obviously high doses are safer if you just do them o
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The number of HDDs sold has been in decline for over a decade. I doubt there is massive appetite for expanding production capacity On the other hand the total storage capacity shipped each year has risen, as a combination of HDDs getting la
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
The way neurons and synapses work you spend a lot of energy keeping them ready to fire. How often they actually fire is a smaller cost compared to maintaining them in ready state. We end up using 100W (2000kcal/day) for the whole body,
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
I've never used their dispute system, and I don't think that holds much value in Europe. At least in Germany a contract is a contract, if I claw back the payment the other party will just start the collections process. A process t
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Now we just need a proxy server that automatically turns any API with published openapi spec into a WebMCP server, and we've completed the loop
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
The claude logo is a 12-pointed star (or a clock). Gemini is a four-pointed star, or a stylized rhombus. ChatGPT is a knot that from really far away might resemble a six-sided star. Grok is a black hole, or maybe the letter ø. If we are ver
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Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/3089/
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Reasoning automata can make assumptions. Lots of algorithms make "assumptions", often with backtracking if they don't work out. There is nothing human about making assumptions. What you might be arguing against is that LLMs a
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
There has to be a lot of mentions about the purpose and approximate workings of a car wash, as well as lots of literature that shows that when you drive somewhere, your car is now also at that place, while walking does not have the same eff
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by wongarsu 9mo ago
Engineering your own virus is becoming more and more accessible. AI isn't really the crucial part here, but it would further lower the barrier of entry
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The alignment angle doesn't require agency or motives. It's much more about humans setting goals that are poor proxies for what they actually want. Like the classical paperclip optimizer that is not given the necessary constraints
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Note how the number advertising how many bots actually use RentAHuman has vanished from their website. Instead we now have the number of bounties. 1/40th as many as registered humans. And just scrolling through them, maybe 1/4th o
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https://archive.ph/I3th5
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To be fair, this is 16 households of electrical energy . The average household uses about as much electrical energy as it uses energy in form of natural gas (or butane or fuel oil, depending on what they use). And then roughly as much gaso
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A thin non-breaking space also clears up the confusion without the visual clutter of the underscore. It's just inconvenient to use
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Start Claude Code in a big repo, give it a bug report and ask it to come up with a fix, and watch it do hours of work in minutes. It doesn't have 100% success rate, but its ability to navigate code bases and understand how different pa
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The US copyright office has published a statement that they see AI output analogous to a human contracting the work out to a machine. The machine would hold the copyright, but can't, consequently there is none. Which is imho slightly s

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