Sorry, whats happening around 2:40-3:00, where he discharges (?) the adhesive tape? Or is he heating it with current?
The new adhesives they use for their metal batteries can be undone by applying 9v for like a minute or something.
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imposterr commented on The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes 404media.co/the-software-... · Posted by u/zdw
>If the resulting software is so poor you need to hire a human specialist software engineer to come in and rewrite the vibe coded software, it defeats the entire purpose.
I don't think this is entirely true. In a lot of cases vibe coding something can be a good way to prototype something and see how users respond. Obviously don't do it for something where security is a concern, but that vibe-coded skin cancer recognition quiz that was on the front page the other day is a good example.
This is a delight!
This site is a great reminder that almost everyone visiting Hacker News has a set of skills which can be put to beneficial use for causes you care about - this is a small, simple, cheap site (and I mean that in a good way!) that attracts attention, awareness, and donations to something the author cares about. It’s easy for us, but it’s magic for most people. Don’t let your tech industry imposter syndrome fool you - we can do valuable things to forward causes we care about.
Also, it’s adorable!
I've stopped using the word "cheap" to describe situations like this as the word has too many negative connotations. I tend towards "inexpensive", "cost-effective", or "low-cost". I find it better describes my intent to describe something as not costing much but not speaking to poor quality which I feel like the word "cheap" has come to imply.
imposterr commented on Viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos techcrunch.com/2025/04/17... · Posted by u/jnord
I've been digitising family photos using this. I scanned the photo itself and the text on it, then passed that to an LLM for OCR and used tools to get the caption verbatim, the location mentioned and the date in a standard format. That was going to be the end of it, but the OpenAI docs https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling?lan... suggest letting the model guess coordinates instead of just grabbing names, so I did both and it was impressive. My favourite was taking a picture looking out to sea from a pier and pinpointing the exact pier.
Hmm, not sure I understand how you made use of OpenAI to guess the location oh a photo. Could you expand on that a bit? Thanks!
imposterr commented on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads searchengineland.com/temu... · Posted by u/rexbee
I've seen countless interviews of Trump supporters who believe that China is the one paying for it. Which I can completely understand because if it is a cost on them it would be typically be called a tax.
That said the overwhelmingly majority are shocked but believe it's all just a negotiating tactic:
Some Chinese exporters are definitely splitting the cost of these tariffs with their American importer counterparts. While this isn't as significant as "China pays all the tariffs", it's also not "Americans pay all the tariffs".
Though, I haven't seen any analysis on how common this is, so the effect might be negligible in terms of how much "the Chinese" are paying for these tariffs.
I still use google. LLMs talk way too much for what I need.
Granted, my searches are usually "toLocaleString() format" or "floor tiles popping reddit" and such. That takes me to MDN, stackoverflow, reddit etc.
I recently paid for Kagi since I like their mission but I'm more used to the results from google. I'll see where it takes me.
This isn't an inherit issue with LLMs. You just need to set up some prompts that you can default to for different use cases. For example, you could set one up that is told to only provide the function arguments, and return value.
imposterr commented on Argentinian president backs away from LIBRA memecoin after 90% crash dlnews.com/articles/marke... · Posted by u/wslh
In British Columbia there used to be the mining exploration companies that would list on the Vancouver Stock Exchange (which no longer exists). As far as I could tell, they would send one or two people into the boonies in BC somewhere. They would then write an hyperbole filled prospectus to persuade people to buy shares in this company. I once emailed the owner of one these companies to ask what the exit was: in other words, what would the payout be if I held out until the end, assuming they had actually obtained rights to a viable gold or other valuable mineral deposit. Instead of an email reply, I got a phone call from the owner. He never answered the question, just lots of BS about why I should buy more shares. But at least in the case of these scams, there was the small (vanishngly small?) possibility of a good payout. But what is the exit for memecoins? As far as I can tell, the idea is you buy them on issue, hope the hype drives them up to ridiculous values within hours, and then dump them. Please correct me if I'm am missing something.
No, you pretty much got it. It's a game of chicken and the last ones holding are the losers.
"Hundreds of thousands of people" are paying $20/mo for it, according to the CEO.[0] That seems like a very respectable place for such an early product to be.
It is extremely far from "no one".
Even if we say 1M people pay $20/month, that's only $240M/year. That's not enough to continue to grow and support the free users sans-ads.
Canadian here, I think copyright law fundamentally needs to go.
At the same time, you underestimate how bat-shit it would be to violate the Berne convention and the TRIPs agreement, even just directed at the U.S.
The only international consensus country which is not party to one of those is... Eritea? Even Russia and China are signatories who "officially" pay lip service to copyright law (even if they don't enforce other countries' IP in practice)
The U.S. is already talking about invading Canada, becoming the pirate bay for all U.S. IP would almost certainly be the push needed for the U.S. to make good on those threats.