Foreignborn

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by Foreignborn 1mo ago
i live in shibuya and i have countless videos where it’s <40db outside. just make the damn building with noise in mind (RC, interior insulation, gapped flooring, etc). it’s very possible. (btw I am as country bumpkin as they come, my vil
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by Foreignborn 3mo ago
are there tells beyond the lyrics? I swear there are a number of songs using out of “human distribution” words, trigrams, etc. Is it overall song structure?
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by Foreignborn 5mo ago
you’re admitting this is a dog whistle? on behalf of the amazingly well dressed colleagues over my career, post a fit and let’s see.
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by Foreignborn 7mo ago
I _really_ think you have an interesting tool, but the workflow loop isn't fully there. Please let me revise or remix a suggested node. I find them extremely engaging, and I can envision ways of sort of "spinning off" even fu
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by Foreignborn 8mo ago
these two posts (the parent and then the OP) seem equally empty? by level of compute spend, it might look like: - ask an LLM in the same query/thread to write code AND tests (not good) - ask the LLM in different threads (meh) - ask the
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by Foreignborn 8mo ago
I value the author's optimism, but this list activates a deep fear in me. It feels like a such an American point of view to think a techno-ideal is defined simply by buying a different set of consumer electronics, many of which are jus
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by Foreignborn 8mo ago
I love HN because everyone is so different outside of the core purpose of the site. Sometimes people reference art, or a book or something, that I'd never would think to exist. Llainwire was my top artist listens throughout 2023, so it
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by Foreignborn 8mo ago
I want to shoutout Nial Ashley (aka Llainwire) for doing this in 2023 as a solo act and doing the visuals himself as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ZXg5wVoUU A shame that kid was slept on. Allegedly (according to
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by Foreignborn 11mo ago
it at least seems like it has a modicum of human thought, whereas this GPT drivel does not.
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
the cheap house thing has nothing to do with if you’re foreign and everything to do with a bank not wanting to lend money for something there’s no market for. you can easily buy these homes with cash. i know because i have a ton of friends
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
I just read the book last week. What you said is not true in any useful sense. “Germans were acutely aware…” tries to reduce an entire population and years into one statement. Reality has much more color. For the germans interviewed in the
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
do you have a source? when i’ve done toy demos where GPT5, sonnet 4 and gemini 2.5 pro critique/vote on various docs (eg PRDs) they did not choose their own material more often than not. my setup wasn’t intended to benchmark though so
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
can you say more about world models or symbolism? i thought world models like genie 3 would be the training mechanism, but i likely misunderstand.
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
These stories always have me instantly sobbing, life can be tragically unfair.
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
Everyone is responsible for what they deliver. No one is shipping gluttonous CLs, because no one would review them. You still have to know and defend your work. Not sure what to tell you otherwise. The code is much more thought through, wit
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
I have a team that’s somewhat junior at a big company. We pretty much have everyone “vibe plan” significantly more than vibe code. - you need to think through the product more, really be sure it’s as clarified as it can be. Everyone has the
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
yes, but those aren’t released and even then you’ll always need glue code. you just need to knowingly resource what glue code is needed, and build it in a way it can scale with whatever new limits that upgraded models give you. i can’t imag
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
you want more options for voices that reflects all the types of people in the world. good feedback. The next part i’m only saying because it reminds me so much of my younger self: The rest of what you said, and how you said it, has a lot of
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
way too many people get hung up on the idea OP led with. what OP has is a fully self hosted, private video feed that can alert for more sophisticated events like: - is anything happening that shouldn’t be? - are things not where they’re sup
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
It’s easy to get 500-700k tokens in. I’ll drop research papers, a lot of work docs, get through a bunch of discussion, before writing a PRD-like doc of tasks to work from. That generally seems right to me, given how much we hold in our head
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
Try dropping the entire api docs in the context. If it’s verbose, i usually pull only a subset of pages. Usually I’m using a minimum of 200k tokens to start with gemini 2.5.
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
i don’t quite understand, what makes it reverse typesetting? my understanding is your typesetting books for responsive eink readers.
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what happens to you when a less privileged person thinks the same thing about you?
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
San Francisco, up until covid this still happened for me too. there was a bodega like store in the mission me and other people used. where i live now differs so that phenomenon doesn’t exist here.
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
please, please stop letting AI rewrite for you. i’m so tired of reading AI slop. instead, ask it to be a disagreeable editor and have it ask questions about your draft. you’ll go so much further, and the writing won’t be nonsensical.
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
thanks for this, it sounds pretty good. link for anyone else: https://canopylabs.ai/model-releases
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by Foreignborn 1y ago
it’s because they used an LLM to edit the prose. It has all the signature marks. There might be good content there, but it’s full of AI slop.
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by Foreignborn 2y ago
i don’t have a stake in this at all, but i've seen dozens and dozens of comments of exactly what you’re asking here on HN. People have been sharing that, plus the problems they’ve solved or products they’ve made. Though, most of these
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by Foreignborn 2y ago
Tailwind has solved a lot of problems. And this is coming from someone who doesn't use it half the time. Some thoughts about this topic, not necessarily in disagreement: - Designers seldom think in the way you describe (explicit comput
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by Foreignborn 2y ago
Great critique, thanks for sharing. These are good examples of supporting and detracting from the subject of the writing.

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