I built this HIIT timer tool www.hiitmeup.fit for exactly this reason as I try to squeeze in a compact exercise during my busy work days. I put this out on show HN a few weeks ago and hope others will find it just as useful as I do.
Really appreciate the feedback. I will work to address this feedback promptly as layout issues and responsiveness can definitely impact the overall user experience. I will also prioritize the native app development which I assume will address both issues more easily.
I was working on a science experiment (electromagnetics) with my 10-year-old kid that was going to be demonstrated at a science fair in his school. We ran into a hiccup with the experiment that we couldn't debug ourselves. I turned on Gemini live video call to help us root cause the problem. It was able to clearly articulate all the possible issues and eventually was successful in making our apparatus work as expected. Turned out the wire that I was wrapping around the screw had some insulation that was not scraped off well on the side it was connecting to the battery. Gemini was able to capture this detail even though my bare eyes could not. My kid and 2 of his friends were impressed not just by the experiment, but because the live audio/video back and forth we had with the AI was almost magical!
I just mean that the image input probably didn't affect the output at all. Could have just told it "I'm an amateur doing bulbs and batteries and it doesn't work" and it would give the #1 search result on forums for that which is "did you strip your wire."
I feel like I'm in the audience at a magician show, except most of the audience is breathlessly amazed and doesn't understand how easily tricked they are.
This really underscores how so much LLM "intelligence" is based off of people's experiences that they wrote about. It saddens me somewhat to see that it has basically all been captured by corporations now, and perhaps in a few years there will be little point in knowing things yourself simply because the LLMs will have gotten so good that there is no point to wasting the extra effort. Of course, this might lead to the atrophy of people's thinking muscles and a dumber and more subservient populace, but does anyone really care? Judging by the meteoric rise in the capabilities of LLMs over the past five years, is it really naïve to expect most knowledge work to be obsolete in the next ten?
The other stuff in this thread about decompiling firmware is a lot more interesting to me, though, seeing as it used to be a fairly demanding but rewarding task that has now been "solved" by Claude. It's a magic trick that is a lot harder to pull off than the other things in this thread.
If this will kill all bacteria and viruses, it would certainly also destroy the beneficial bacteria that forms our microbiome and that could have negative health effects in the long run. Has any research been done to check on this?
I could be mistaken but I think your micro biome mostly doesn’t depend on external input in the form of microbes.
Rather, you have microbes, and these depend on external input in the form of nutrients.
There are exceptions such as yogurt and sauerkraut etc. but those are kept in a fridge and would not be exposed to far uvc most of the time. It would be interesting to know how they are affected during meals.
Skin micro biome might be more affected. I could not find much information on this point.
Those are some insanely cheap prices for 1.5GB a day! I pay $40 for 1GB a month here in the United States. How is this even possible? Are the service providers here really taking in such a fat margin?
Speaking for Pakistan with somewhat higher rates, I think there are a couple of reasons.
1. Actual competition between providers, rather than implicit collusion.
2. Much higher population density across most of the country.
3. Interestingly, lack of rule of law, which means the whole subscribe-to-a-cell-phone-package that is actually out of your budget but the only option available doesn't work here. People will just run away with the phone. A vast majority of people buy a phone separately and pay upfront for it, and choose a connection provider of their choice. And jump providers whenever they see someone with a better price.
Couldn't agree more. Inspite of being a hardcore meat-eater, I often enjoy authentic vegan food because of the actual plant based ingredients such as beans, beatroot and corn. The flavors come together quite nicely in an old school veggie bean patty. The trend with impossible meats disappoints me.
Did you know that languages even within different states in India can be vastly more different than the differences between French and German, all with a different script and all? Yes, India is probably more diverse all on it's own, compared to all of EU perhaps.
But there is no political union between India, Bangladesh, where as EU is every day becoming a multinational super state, than a collection of independent sovereign nations.
I wonder if the results of this study indirectly also supports this previous study linking oral cancers and oral cavities, proving that higher number of cavities results in reduced cancer risk: https://www.webmd.com/oral-health/news/20130912/tooth-caviti...
