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by yawnxyz 2y ago
I grew up in Stockholm / grew up speaking Swedish. Haven't spoken Swedish unless I'm at IKEA (for some reason Swedes flock there?!), which doesn't happen very often. I can still read/understand but it's hard to
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
I wonder if it's able to come up with novel gameplay interactions? A lot of the demos feel like bargain-bin clones of AAA games
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
You can still sear it at the end with a tiny bit of butter
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
Thanks for sharing your company story! I have kind of an off-topic question — how did y'all get a license for using SF Pro as a Web Font on your website? Afaik Apple on licenses the SF Pro as a font to only be used on Apple devices and
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
all server-side you could build your local TTS using kokoro browser though — https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/kokoro-webgpu
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
It's a lot easier to check the code / check the output of the code / spot verify than it is to do the work itself... if I'd write my own code, I'd still have to verify (bc I trust my own coding ability even less tha
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
holy cow, how did they get the OpenAI voices like Alloy and Echo, generated in-browser and sounding 99% the same? this is astounding
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
not sure, but apparently > Cursor is the fastest-growing SaaS company of all time from $1M to $100M in ARR, hitting the $100M milestone in roughly 12 months at the end of 2024—faster than Wiz (18 months), Deel (20 months), and Ramp (24 m
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
Your friends who are in the industries you want to be hired in — and get their true feedback, which might sting, but if you're friends with hiring managers (or become friends) they might also help I think companies are changing what th
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
I built a link blog system for myself that made it very very easy to just write new Notion pages and they'll just be on the site... except there's some kind of quicksand that prevents me from doing that on a regular basis. I reall
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
It's interesting we view Email and Chat so differently. Some companies run on chat (e.g. Slack), while most companies run on email. Emails are so similar to Chat, except we're used to writing in long-form, and we're not expec
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
This was a good thread on Obelisks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42547489
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
Wait what? I get shown this with ChatGPT maybe 5% of the time
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
this is like when my manager once yelled at me for not writing in corp speak enough
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
yes, but I don't envy those ML engineers working 24/7 to keep up the rat race
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
how come I'm only seeing a Godaddy default page?
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
Stanford School of Medicine has a FOOD BANK for Postdocs because they literally can't afford groceries lol
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
Maybe the project wasn't sustainable and the team decided to move on? It would be so nice if Perplexity gave them a few weeks to pull off what Campsite did and open source everything...
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
Once I randomly discovered Astro, I couldn't go back. I love that you can even drop in Svelte and React blocks right next to each other, so you basically the power of all the advanced frameworks, and the choice to pare it down to a bar
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
Yes! The simplest and most direct and useful implementation Generative UI is to have a settings / form react to the context — e.g. an email form, or a bunch of sliders. I have a zod-based form schema, and set of forms and schemas. If t
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
that's not surprising, my server is already getting slammed by AI agent traffic (and to be fair, I'm building intelligent automation tools myself, so I'm part of the problem)
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
> I could not go a week without getting frustrated by how much mundane typing I had to do before having a FIM model For those not in-the-know, I just learned today that code autocomplete is actually called "Fill-in-the-Middle"
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
It lives on everywhere! Lots of labs working on it in the US, we started a clinical trial in Australia called Phage Australia. As the other post says, it's effective but cost prohibitive at scale, and biologics are a pain. It'll g
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
Are there more of these undetected/undetectable entities out there? E.g. are there more "life" like obelisks and similar out there in genome samples?
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
Thanks for that rabbit hole! They're some interesting characters: https://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/erowid_earth/
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
Great article, very well-written narrative, but seems to leave some things out. From 2018 (please add tag)
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
They'll just replace them with AI, or more realistically, "Early Career Researchers" — those in academia with less than 20 years experience (after graduating their PhDs)
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
I usually excuse typos, but when the post is literally about: > Software used to also be substantially better written I think he ends up tanking his own argument before he even started. Heck, there's a typo in the headline (which I
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
A neighbor just got laid off from Adobe, ran huge AI projects there. PM. Program/Project Manager roles go to zero. Trad dev and design roles go to zero. Those roles go to those who also code/design/sell/get viral/ma
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by yawnxyz 2y ago
I think the question everyone has in their minds isn't "when will AGI get here" or even "how soon will it get here" — it's "how soon will AGI get so cheap that everyone will get their hands on it" tha

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