skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An rag model can already sort your email.

Its just that it costs too much to do that for the hoi polloi who think everything digital should be free forever.
> I don't find the cons all that compelling to be honest, or at least I think they warrant further discussion

It needs a novel JS port of a C compresison library, which will be wired into a heavily-used and public-facing toolchain, and is something that will ruin a significant number of peoples' days if it breaks.

For me, that kind of ask needs a compelling use case from the start.
We have tons of current evidence that its true. I've never experienced a 'brutally dominant social heirarchy' personally; it's pretty uncommon. I don't live like Lord of the Flies.

IME the theory is a reactionary (i.e., anti-liberal, anti-humanitarian, anti-human rights) myth to justify the rule and worship of power.
Does no one realize this is a thinly-veiled ad? The URL is bizarre
I mean, Google develops three other open source operating systems and is a major contributor to other operating systems, as well from other vast open projects like Chromium. It's not as if open-sourcing an operating system is even slightly out of character for Google.
Probably entirely unrelated to the distrowatch thing.
It's been embarrassing for a long time, it's just that now it's embarrassing about stupid shit too, not just genocide and mass incarceration and WMDs and shit, though frankly the WMD thing was pretty stupid too. Remember "freedom fries"?
> Massive job loss

I feel that people become too entrenched in the way things are (people need jobs to make money to live) and lose sight of the bigger picture: machines doing the work that humans have to do now should be a good thing. That it would not be, because in the current system it would result in a small number of people having great power and wealth while the majority of people have little, means the system should change, not that we must not develop the technology.

If you think that the development of AI to take people's jobs and concentrate power is coming and is bad, then you should want to change the system, because that is what the system is encouraging. If you think that the development of AI to do people's jobs for them and unburden humanity is coming and good, then you should want to change the system because it is not set up to gracefully massive unemployment due to automated efficiency gains.

If you think this whole AI thing is a bit of a nothingburger and not going to have the broad impacts that are being speculated, well carry on then.

The curiosity of humans and drive to create new things and uncover new knowledge is universal, and stronger than any society or culture has proven to be. Technologies destroy societies that don't adapt to them, societies don't destroy technologies that they don't like.
It is lovely when doing exploratory research, less so when in a hurry and you don't want to take the extra mental effort to figure out which of the nerds is right or if one of them is talking out of left field
I use PyInstaller to distribute a Qt5-based GUI app, and some associated CLI tools. It's fairly easy to configure, and works out fine.
> reduce "brutally dominant social heirarchy".

if you mean literal brutality, but how the uber wealthy treating those of lower wealth could be considered brutal as well--in modern parlance of course.
This drop is wild to me.

Everything about DS success screams the future of AI is bright. The advance puts more use cases into feasible space. And then number one supplier for it drops. DS is literally using NVIDIA chips for god‘s sake

Markets aren’t rational. Or people don’t understand AI. Or both. Idk
Related ongoing thread:

Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42839650 - Jan 2025 (574 comments)
Absolutely. It's all about heat exchange contact area, nothing more. Contact area can be increased by fins, or simply by mass. A cubic meter copper cube would still cool down a CPU adequately even without a single fin. Of course, fins are space-saving so everyone uses them.
That's a nice little self contained example. I have yet to see this approach work for the day job: a larger codebase with complex inter-dependencies, where the solution isn't so easily worded (make the text box pink) and where the resulting code is reviewed and tested by one's peers.

We actually had to make a rule at work that if you use an LLM to create an PR and can't explain the changes without using more LLMs, you can't submit the PR. I've seen it almost work - code that looks right but does a bunch of unnecessary stuff, and then it required a real person (me) to clean it up and ends up taking just as much time as if it were just written correctly the first time.
Related ongoing thread:

The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42822162 - Jan 2025 (423 comments)
Clippy has been vilified by memes way beyond its reality. Microsoft was courting new computer users then, and those users liked Clippy.

But more importantly, somebody would need to give a shit. Microsoft segments everything out internally, whomever “owns” excel is a director of directors and is too disconnected.

Copilot is even worse, as it’s a top down “Copilot all of the things” initiative from the top.
A modern Pebble would be very interesting. An e-paper display smartwatch that runs whatever I want it to would be great, with the benefits of modern batteries and e-paper. Maybe use those advancements to build it cheaper so I could have a smartwatch that does the things I need (text message display, media control) which being cheap enough I don't have to be constantly scared of breaking it while doing manual labor.

If enough people are interested, we'll build it

I'd remove that line from the website. That's a line from a bad Kickstarter.
You wouldn’t expect Marxists to project non-woke ideology out into the world would you? Even if they don’t consume it so much in the privacy of their own homes.

Securing the continued fracturing of Western societies along fabricated culturally Marxist lines is likely a key part of the Chinese communist ‘manifest destiny’ agenda - their view being it’s a ‘historical inevitability’ that through this kind of ‘struggle’, eventually, their system will rise to the top.

Probably important to address these kind of potential societal manipulations by AIs.
Their phrasing was "mainstream discourse" wouldn't be censored.

I guess Linux needs to go mainstream first.
As a member of that crowd, you're misrepresenting the argument. It is absolutely censorship when a private company does it, but they have the right to do so; it is not illegal. But they also cannot force me to use their platform, I have the right not to use it.

I don't have a problem with the censorship here on HN, so I post here. I do have a problem with the censorship on Meta properties (aside from being offended by their product design and general aims as an organization), so I don't have accounts with them or view content on their properties. I also have the right to criticize them for their censorship, but not the right to prevent anyone else from using it if they want.
I also dont get how this is bearish for NVDA. Before this, small to mid companies would give up on finetuning their own model because openai is just so much better and cheaper. Now deepseek SOTA model gives them much better quality baseline model to train on. Wouldn't more people want to RAG on top of deepseek? or some startups accountant would run the numbers and figures we can just inference the shit out of deepseek locally and in the long run we still come out ahead of using oenai api.

Either way that means a lot more NVDA hardware being sold. You still need CUDAs as rocm is still not there yet. In fact NVDA needs to churn out more CUDAs than ever.
> Why do no android phones have IR blasters anymore?

Both Xiaomi and OnePlus have it on their phones. Personally I never used mine and didn't see the point. It was quicker and more effortless to just click the button on the physical remote next to me than having to navigate through the apps on my phone.

> Or FM Radio support?

You can listen to almost any radio station online nowadays and plenty of countries (EU) have roaming agreements so the benefit of having FM radio must be extremely niche. I know you mentioned it being niche, but I'm talking niche niche.

I assume you have some kind of use case that goes beyond regular consumers.
Why is there this implicit assumption that more efficient training/inference will reduce GPU demand? It seems more likely - based on historical precedent in the computing industry - that demand will expand to fill the available hardware.

We can do more inference and more training on fewer GPUs. That doesn’t mean we need to stop buying GPUs. Unless people think we’re already doing the most training/inference we’ll ever need to do…

“640KB ought to be enough for anybody.”
I really can't understand what you're complaining about. There's nothing about the English locale which implies an optimal placement for the Back button. The same devices are also sold in other locales.

These devices have to work in all conditions with some complex functionality available through only five buttons so some level of overlap is unavoidable. Do you also complain that your computer keyboard lacks separate buttons for "4" and "$"?
Anyone who's ever read Kurzweil isn't surprised.
You're not concerned about the bus factor? What happens if the owner suddenly disappears?
are we equating homeschooling to unschooled now? while there are definitely people claiming homeschool while just as a cover for not being in school, that doesn't mean that all homeschool is not educating the kids.
The popular trend in U.S. big business is 'animal spirits'. I read an article about how at Davos (iirc), people were bullish on the U.S. and bearish on Europe because the U.S. embraced "animal spirits".

Animal brains too.
Einstein would like to have a word…

And for the little bit of impact queueing latency has (if done well, i.e. no bufferbloat), I doubt anyone would notice the difference, honestly.
If it's a build dependency, then you have to have it. If you don't like the size of the tool then take it up with the authors. I'm not a Go programmer by the way, this is all just obvious to me.
Speech standards have never been set by "reason, evidence and a scientific mindset". The people who are complaining now that the shoe is on the other foot were quite happy when it was their side setting the rules.

Objective standards would be best, but subjective standards that you pretend are objective are far worse than subjective standards that are honest about it.
> This game is not designed to run on your device.

This would be more actionable if it revealed to me what platform the game is designed for.

Out of curiosity I tried running it anyway and it filled the viewport with rapidly flashing colored bars.
https://archive.ph/goGlm
A thinly veiled ad? You must be joking.
> Before we start dishing on sociology as junk science

How is sociology involved in this subthread or the OP? In the OP, the researchers have straightened out the issue and the general public ias confused.
Meta on meta:

Comments on thoughtful blogs. Are generally more insightful than the blogs themselves.
An excellent one at that. It boggles my mind that others didn't follow suit.

I've got a Bangle.js 2 at the moment and while I mostly like it, the screen is nowhere near as nice. Transflective is still very obviously what I want in a watch though, even the best oleds don't even come close in visibility.
Some are calling this "malicious compliance." That is, the bureaucrats don't like the boss so they look for the most extreme and obnoxious ways to try to follow the general direction given by the boss.
It's not just distrowatch that is blocked, so it's not "obviously bullshit": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42840143
The Mechanization of Meaning: Claude Shannon and Generative AI
Thanks! will keep that in mind
Nah, in my experience, if there is the slightest error in the first sentence of the chain of thought, it tends to get worse and worse. I've had prompts that would generate a reasonable response in llama, but turn out utter garbage in Deepthink.
>i thought risc-v is >10years "old".

September 2019 for the base specs being ratified.

But even that isn't the true starting gun for anything but basic MCU.. For high performance, it's RVA22. The relevant specs were only ratified in December 2021.

It takes 3 years from IP to chips, and thus we are seeing the first RVA22 chips now.

No surprises there.
which LLM systems course are you referencing?
The LLM code editor with DeepSeek-R1 support
Could be. But, as soon as I would drill a tiny hole, just to release the pressure, the temps would go back to nice and cool, even though the top gasket/lid/cables is still in place. So my bet stays with pressure build-up. It's not that I tried the whole thing once. I had several prototypes and spent at least two years trying various things before I finally gave up and switched to passive air cooling exclusively.
How interesting. The UK is the only western country Ive encountered that gave this shot to kids in the 80s.

Why is this?
That is exactly what we did.

Bonus fact: we didn’t actually read the bundled code - we downloaded it from the internet and ran it as usual. But a server-side check ensured you could only get the JavaScript we’d bundled.

Or at least it did until we eventually quietly turned off the check, when Apple stopped paying attention.
I LOVE My Pebble and even got Rebble working on it not long ago to revive it.

However...

If you want to make it TRULY HACKABLE as you claim, you will not encumber it with cloud dependencies like you did last time. Let ME self host my own Pebble server if I choose. Go ahead and default to your servers and sell services and whatever, but let me host my own and switch the base URL to my own domain, preferably with open source software and simple APIs, without requiring me to go through your servers.

That way, even if this attempt also doesn't pan out, those of us willing to do the work will at least still have the functionality we want. I get the whole VC "lock them into required cloud services for life so we can make endless subscription revenue" model, but it's absolutely corrupt.

And, Eric, I know you know that - you have a hacker's heart. Please listen to it.
Actually, it's because many of the people writing tutorials and sharing answers about that stuff don't know what the hell they're doing or grasp the fundamentals of how those systems work and so most of the source material the LLM's are trained on is absolute garbage.

Public Arduino, RPi, Pico communities are basically peak cargo cult, with the blind leading the blind through things they don't understand. The noise is vastly louder than the signal.

There's a basically giant chasm between expereinced or professional embedded developers that mostly have no need to ever touch those things or visit their forums, and the confused hobbyists on those forums randomly slapping together code until something sorta works while trying to share their discoveries.

Presumably, those communities and their internal knowledge will mature eventually, but it's taking a long long time and it's still an absolute mess.

If you're genuinely interested in embedded development and IoT stuff, and are willing to put in the time to learn, put those platforms away and challenge yourself to at least learn how to directly work with production-track SoC'a from Nordic or ESP or whatever. And buy some books or take some courses instead of relying on forums or LLM's. You'll find yourself rewarded for the effort.
What a good tool! In what kind of situations is this tool used?
For example, is it for purposes such as finding vulnerabilities?
I would generally agree, but the market isn't rational about the future prospects of a company. It's rational about "can I make money off this stock" and nothing else matters in the slightest.

Riding hype, and dumping at the first sign of issues, follows that perfectly well.
This would be bad for the worm…
> If you give someone a little shove, they bump their head, and they die

What you're describing is manslaughter or possibly not a crime in most jurisdictions, but your point stands. Generally, murder is an intentional killing, and manslaughter is an accidental killing. But if, say, you give an aggressive drunk a little shove and they bump their head and die, you probably haven't committed a crime. Nonetheless, luck absolutely plays a role in punishment in our current justice system in a thousand different ways. I don't think most people consider the element of luck to be ideal so much as an unfortunate but necessary reality.

With the eggshell skull doctrine, you're talking about paying for damages in a civil case. I think most people see reparations differently than punishment. In civil law, you pay to fix the damage you caused, even though the exact amount comes down to luck. But criminal punishments require some criminal intent. It's a higher bar.

> there is some reasonable assumption that when taking a wallet you are at most stealing a few thousand dollars

I think you're giving thieves too much credit here. They may not expect most wallets to have more than $1000, but I don't think most thieves have some innate goodness in them that makes them want to get a wallet with less than $1000. I think it's the opposite: if thieves knew someone had $1B in their wallet, and the chance of getting caught was the same as stealing any other wallet, I think most thieves would want to steal that wallet more, not less. And I don't think most would care if the money in that wallet rightfully belonged to the investors of Madoff Investment Securities either.

> factors like pre-meditative effort or degree of remorse ... moment of weakness

With these factors, you're judging the thief based on their character. We're both advocating this. The difference is you're arguing someone who steals a larger amount of money has a worse character while I'm arguing they just had greater opportunity.
Garmin devices are hackable to an extent. There is an SDK so you can write custom apps, although some of the hardware functionality isn't accessible.
I am convinced that there must be Pebble fans on the Android team that keep a Pebble in CI and ensure it keeps working with each new release. Otherwise its continued extended working lifespan is inexplicable given the amount of churn in Android in general and the Bluetooth stack in particular.
Google Maps Will Soon Rename Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America'
Having not looked at it deeply yet, why require building every time it's invoked? Is the idea to get it working then add build caching later? Seems like a pretty big drawback (bigger than the go.mod pollution, for me). Github runners are sllooooow so build times matter to me.
Plus a few years of a compression expert writing a JS implementation of what was likely some very cursed C. And someone auditing its security. And someone maintaining it.
> To be sure, don't give your heart away to a company (I did that exactly once, never again) because a company will never love you back. But your co-workers will.

Yes, and that hurts that first time. Especially when you gave a lot (like some 70hrs weeks and then you immune system shuts down) or working during a funeral, in the back room...
Yes this is exactly right. All you need is the right incentives and enough capital and markets will find away to breech any moat that’s not enforced via regulations.
The Fitbit watches are the closest thing I've gotten to a Pebble (and I'd be wearing a fitness tracker anyway), but they're way more locked down.
Who knows? The article says "I've tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter." -- presumably we could ask Distrowatch to share the exact wording of the response they got back, but the fact FB apparently responded in such a way suggests it wasn't a filter specific to Distrowatch.
Same experience with context size and prompt quality.

Some other things I picked up:

- If you formulate a good prompt with small (but sufficient) context and it still makes mistakes after one attempt to feed the error message back to it, it's probably not going to be able to ever get it, no matter how many iterations you do with it. It will get stuck in a rut forever. Better not to argue with it.

- o1-2024-12-17 is genuinely a big step change.
>Did you even read it?

>Here you go, buddy:

If I didn't read it why would I say something like "I didn't know the moral panic went so far back"?. Like I said, I'm familiar with the actual standards for flammability that didn't come about until the early 1970s and resulted in the textile industry adding flame retardants to everything. I have no idea what they were legislating in the 1950s but it wasn't the whole industry. Regardless, the point which you seem to be missing is that it's not clear how good for everybody it is to be living their whole lives in and around clothes and textiles that are treated with flame retardant chemicals that are safe in the same way that pesticides and sketchy plastics are safe.

Edit: I was right, turns out the 1953 law is basically "don't sell anything that's more flammable than typical" https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/1609.1
15 USD or EUR a year is almost trivial.

It will have more than enough resources for SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, and even a personal VPN.

It's really not difficult.

The problem is that most IPs will be tainted and unless you are a major player, email deliverability sucks.

That's why I asked, because these guys were unknown to me.
I suspect the author is summarizing the response in an inaccurate way. I suspect the response was that distrowatch is remaining filtered (because it linked to a tarball that AVs flag as malware).

If your domain links to content that AVs flag as malware, it gets blocked on FB. This is probably not shocking? Distrowatch is likely uniquely susceptible to this because they're constantly linking to novel, 3rd-party tarballs ("Latest Packages" column).
> Instead, we took a more direct route - I asked friends at Google (which bought Fitbit, which had bought Pebble’s IP) if they could open source PebbleOS. They said yes! Over the last year, a team inside Google (including some amazing ex-Pebblers turned Googlers) has been working on this. And today is the day - the source code for PebbleOS is now available at github.com/google/pebble (see their blog post).

https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
This is amazing news!I’m glad I’ve kept my all my pebbles. The pebbles were my first smartwatches and still my favorite. Thanks for bringing them back. I wish you all the best!
I think what Meta did is objectively bad.
very cool but garmin quatix is hard to beat
He's your president. Don't apologize for him. Do better.
Conda unifies by using a sat solver to find versions of software which are mutually compatible regardless of whether they agree on the meaning of semver. So, both approaches require unifying versions. Linking against C gets pretty broken without this.

The issue I was referring to is that in Javascript, you can write code which uses multiple versions of the same library which are mutually incompatible. Since they're mutually incompatible, no sat-solve or unifyer is going to help you. You must permit multiple versions of the same library in the same environment. So far, my approach of ignoring some Javascript libraries has worked for my backend development. :)
I'd be curious if it's blocked if someone links just debian.org . I can definitely see a [totally overzealous] "security filter" blocking Qubes, but Debian is one of the most popular Linux distros in the world, so that would be especially ridiculous.
Was an OG backer of Pebble. I then doubled down and backed time 2, which never shipped. :(

I still have yet to find anything quite as good as the pebble. Fossil hybrid came close, but now fossil shut that down.

I am beyond excited to get a pebble back. Please let this happen.