glad you got the teapot
Readit Newsdionian commented on Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear... · Posted by u/simedw
Anyone that is a native European language speaker that hasn't tried to learn Chinese or some other tonal language, its really hard to understand how hard it is. The tones can really be very subtle, and your ear is not fine tuned to them. So you think you are saying it right, but native speakers have no idea what you are saying.
its critical because without proper tonal enunciation the words can be ambiguous.
dionian commented on Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear... · Posted by u/simedw
it heard wu2 but i heard wo2 from you fine. and it should sound like wo2 not wo3 if spoken quickly. not a native speaker though so i could be wrong
dionian commented on Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next? spectrum.ieee.org/norway-... · Posted by u/rbanffy
It's fantastic and to be applauded but also worth mentioning that Norway has a truly staggering amount of hydro power (130TWh/y) to support all the increased demand on the grid with carbon neutral electricity.
How much of their imported goods are produced in countries with dirty energy?
dionian commented on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores finance.yahoo.com/news/am... · Posted by u/trenning
We have Żabka Nano which is self-serve cashierless shop in Poland. You just swipe you card at the entrance, get whatever you want and walk out. I think they use computer vision system to detect the products taken from the shelves. It kinda amazes me because it's what Amazon promised but failed to deliver.
Yea well the other thing is zabka is an awesome store, the amazon store sucked
dionian commented on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores finance.yahoo.com/news/am... · Posted by u/trenning
Has anyone used their go stores? I'm curious how the experience felt from a consumer standpoint. Do you feel welcomed or more like a thief?
I remember WAY back in the day when Arby's implemented touch screen ordering (on CRTs!) and it was a very quirky process. An Arby's employee would sit behind the counter and stare at you while you spent 5 minutes poking a CRT display. Very slow and very impersonal. They discontinued them in a short period of time.
i didnt use their system, but the experience wasnt that great, it felt like a target grocery store in terms of product quality and selection. its a grocery store, but the regular grocery store is better.
dionian commented on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand atmoio.substack.com/p/aft... · Posted by u/mobitar
> Not only does an agent not have the ability to evolve a specification over a multi-week period as it builds out its lower components, it also makes decisions upfront that it later doesn’t deviate from.
That's your job.
The great thing about coding agents is that you can tell them "change of design: all API interactions need to go through a new single class that does authentication and retries and rate-limit throttling" and... they'll track down dozens or even hundreds of places that need updating and fix them all.
(And the automated test suite will help them confirm that the refactoring worked properly, because naturally you had them construct an automated test suite when they built those original features, right?)
Going back to typing all of the code yourself (my interpretation of "writing by hand") because you don't have the agent-managerial skills to tell the coding agents how to clean up the mess they made feels short-sighted to me.
I agree, as a pretty experienced coder, I wonder if the newer generation is just rolling with the first shot. I find myself having the AI rewrite things a slightly different way 2-3x per feature or maybe even 10x. Because i know quality when i see it, having done so much by hand and so much reading.
dionian commented on The future of software engineering is SRE swizec.com/blog/the-futur... · Posted by u/Swizec
But there is bad code and good code and SREs cant tell you which is which, nor fix it.
dionian commented on Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? · Posted by u/terabytest
I review it as i generate it. for quality. i guide it to be self-testing. create unit tests and integration tests according to my standards
It's better to have your natural resources stolen than having your whole country wrecked by embargo, secret NSA plots, etc..