skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I finally found a used 7 for $300 on FB marketplace, only 2-3 months ago. I still swallowed real hard before buying it, but I'm satisfied enough with it that even with the 7, I've been nosing around to see if any 8-solar (presumably transflective, not OLED) are around in the ~$500 price range.

Pebble Time Steel debuted at $250 in 2015, ~$350 in todays dollars, and the Fenix is much more capable not just the hardware but also health tracking.

That's why a comeback pebble is worth supporting (for me). Fenix has decent/"fun" SDK apps, but their core UX is only moderately good. I still get confused about which button to use to get to apps vs quicklooks vs data widgets vs shortcuts, and setting a 15 minute timer is way more confusing than it should be.

Apple: max 3 days battery life, and that's in the $800+ price range

AmazFit: maybe? but never enough to risk over $100-200 and no great "has buttons" option

BangleJS: no buttons.

PineTime: no buttons.

YadaYadaYada: no battery, oled screen, no buttons, or no customization

Getting another Pebble for $300 retail or $200 used with full backwards compat, their SDK and emulator, and a path forward? Sign me up!
So basically you use only tab completion fill in the middle?
Llama.cpp PR with 99% of code written by DeepSeek-R1
It absolutely came from censorship. IRC chat rooms and PHPBB message boards with blacklists of words that would get starred out. Hoping it wasn't implemented with substring match so typing "shell" didn't come out "s****".
Oh no, I am making it up too.
Wow! I have searched for the feature in the settings so many times after losing my spot in a long podcast. Thank you for pointing that out!
> last year is a one time event

It is repeating this year as well, given all the announcements. So maybe it is a two time event? I think it could repeat every year as long as Nvidia continues to innovate and keep their lead.

DeepSeek is providing an efficiency boost, and that doesn't kill Nvidia. In fact, Nvidia themselves delivered an efficiency boost with Blackwell chips. DeepSeek is a one-time efficiency boost, but Nvidia will continue to boost efficiency every year, based on Moore's law.
Creating new knowledge from current knowledge is called "synthesis" (ancient term, nothing modern). I'm hoping you're right, it would be amazing.
> More often than not, it will succeed I’ll get it faster than typing myself.

Like, all told? The whole bit where you need to find code, paste it in, find more code, paste it in, prompt a good question and most likely iterate on it, for an answer you say you had already expected, is faster than typing it out?

I don’t understand.
Respectfully, "remote available" means little more than coming into the office daily isn't a requirement.

It frequently implies to some degree that face to face meetings can be held and that languages and cultures mesh.
And using voice to text?
Yes, I agree it's crudely framed and flawed. And other plentiful examples of left wing anti-evidence/expertise movements come from the "alternative medicine" arena. I think the problem with this moment in time is that factual accuracy takes expertise to curate. It's not something democratic processes generate. It's certainly not something you achieve with populism. So we've gone from "alternative facts" to.. "facts are what the majority believes to be true"? Bizarre.
(could you make an account on the Fedi/Mastodon and/or Bluesky?)
Also, do Chinese companies have licenses for all the ARM cores they produce? I assumed they don’t. They traditionally don’t care about IP, so it’s a wash anyaway.
> "From her perspective, I order doordash and turn into a degen who is unfit to father. From my perspective, I get to enjoy my favorite place and just tinker or play games or do whatever. These are the days I get to play mad scientist and feel most like myself."

Most demeaning and depressingly toxic thing I've read today...
In my experience, Garmin counts pool lengths just fine, with maybe 1 out of 20 being miscounted?
If you include multimodal data then I think it's pretty obvious that training is compute limited.

Also current SOTA models are good enough that you can generate endless training data by letting the model operate stuff like a C compiler, python interpreter, Sage computer algebra, etc.
A slight spoiler, but there's a reason why some spaces are '?' - they hint that one specific type of creature may be nearby. (Think of the one that looks like a Beholder from D&D).

For the walls - think of them as an HP sink. The game largely revolves around using your health as efficiently as possible to explore the board. Walls are useful since you can attack them 1 HP at a time to get the XP out of them (thus allowing you to always fully use your allotment before refilling your health).
> TLDR - AI isn’t a co-pilot; it’s a junior dev faking competence. Trust it at your own risk.

A junior dev faking competence while plagiarizing like crazy.

The plagiarizing part is why the junior dev from hell might not get fired: laundering open source copyrights can have beancounter alignment.
If you take a longer time frame, these PE ratios are indeed pretty high. Even 24 is much higher than the ~15 historical median https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
> This test snippet simply repeats the same four-letter word in a paragraph many times using all of various possible meanings simultaneously

This sounds like fun. How does it do with an arbitrary quantity of "buffalo"s?
> The thing that I continue to find most confusing is that sometimes a square has a question mark instead of a number. From looking at boards after I lose there does not appear any pattern to this.

It took me a second to figure this out, too. Here's a couple hints (base64 encoded to prevent spoilers for other folks:

Hint:
QXQgdGhlIGRlYXRoIHNjcmVlbiwgdGFrZSBhIGNhcmVmdWwgbG9vayBhdCB3aGF0J3MgKipuZWFyYnkqKiB0aGUgcXVlc3Rpb24tbWFyayBzcXVhcmVzCg==

Answer:
VGhlIGdhemVyIGVuZW15IG1ha2VzIGFkamFjZW50IHNxdWFyZXMgc2hvdyBhID8uIFRoaXMgZWZmZWN0IGV4dGVuZHMgcGFzdCB3YWxscyBhcyB3ZWxsLgo=
Google's a strange place currently.

Something like this would be bizarrely easy if you had the ear of the right person. (i.e. someone who would tell legal etc. "you gotta do it" when asked)

Reason why is, it's a feel-good thing that aligns well with Old Google values, and Google's not yet old enough for "Why bother doing anything at all?" to be an acceptable vocalized response.

It has standard, if not worse, dysfunction with internal conflict at this point. But there just isn't room to come up with a good reason to not open-source the decade-old OS.
Microreactors, Macro Problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wyeSkht7tQ
Per ISA yes
> If people know you are a standout contributor

Yes, each person's network is more important now than ever - as we seem to have achieved pretty thorough uselessness of classical job postings, job boards and applications. Some parts of building that network are simple: do ask people for contact info for example. And another part is simply showing up, doing work and getting it recognized by the people around you - that's more long term effort certainly but has nothing to do with how much you don't respect the corporation that employs you or the least palatable of your co-workers or managers. On the contrary, find the more competent people in that mess around you, and favor them.

Even the people you don't respect might easily some day be among the people in other companies that will need you. You may then do everything you can not to work for them, but even keeping that lack of respect out of sight is in your interest. (And okay, for some of these people it's hard.)
I think it's has escaped most of the HN crowds that Liang Wenfeng has a solid background (bachelor and master) in Electronics and Information Engineering that encompassed hardware and software.

It's really a shame that in the current world, the art of hardware is dying out, where hardware people are not properly compensated and appreciated [1].

Liang Wenfeng belongs to this breed of engineers with hybrid hardware and software background that have money and at the same time founding and leading and companies (similar to two Steves of Apple), they're a force to reckon with with even with severe limitations, in case of Chinese companies computing resources sanctions CPU/RAM/GPU/FPGA/etc. But unlike two Steves these new hybrid engineers that raised in Linux era are the big believers of open source, as Google rightly predicted in case of LLM none of the proprietary LLM solutions has the moat [2],[3].

[1] UK's hardware talent is being wasted (1131 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42763386

[2] Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI” (1039 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322

[3] Google "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI" (2023) (42 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42838112
This is a pretty basic write up. Is there anything out there that does a survey of all of the things people have found to be successful in an engineering system for a project?

(eg. Github Copilot for PR reviews, etc.)
What the fork?
It was also largely unnecessary because folks hadn't normalized acting like wild animals in online spaces, tools for automating acting like a wild animal online were lacking, and reach was extremely limited so there was little financial incentive for private interests to engage with the space in any way. All of which takes a back seat to folks more or less agreeing that online is where bullshit lived and only an embarrassing rube would take any of it seriously. The great irony here being the amount of bullshit online has only increased decade over decade yet weirdly at some point folks started taking it seriously, with utterly predictable results.
And it still works less well than community moderation.
Only for people who went all in on NVDA. The SP500 is just back to where it was last week.
Yeah, this is my P(doom) case.
My PTRs didn't last long after my battery replacements. I couldn't restore the waterproof seal well enough to withstand bathtime with the kids. I am so excited about the prospect of new Pebble hardware!
Wouldn't it also shift the spending from hardware back to software? As they say, software eats the world
Lower your expectations until they're already met. Go team, we did it!
do you think the chinese government will allow them to spill the secret sauce? the secret sauce to what is eventually going to be weapon? clear no.
Apparently there is some transit system in China that uses this format for payments. So you can get one of those cards, add it to your watch, and program the RFID system to accept the ID of the card you got. There was an HN article about it this weekend.
Funny to see a little go library you wrote [1] show up in a blog post years later. I need to update it now that go has iterators and generics.

Another great blog post [2] covers performance issues with go tool

[1] https://github.com/dprotaso/go-yit

[2] https://blog.howardjohn.info/posts/go-tools-command/
This absurd denial of "anything coming out of China" has no place here, and ignoring groundbreaking research simply because it is from China will only leave you falling behind.

I have no love for the CCP, and I believe that they are deceptive - but China has 1.4 billion people in it. It is not a monolith, and it is unsurprising that there would be good people doing good research in such a massive population.
But again, what exactly is it about their approach/thesis that's "predatory"?
(sob) Shrimp Jesus is real! (sniffle)

Also, turning lead into gold is easy: Just break all the protons off to get Hydrogen and maybe Helium, then compress it back so you get a star to form, and wait for it to go nova. Or, if you're in a hurry, you can compress your Hydrogen more and if you kind of jiggle it just the right way then you should get some gold along with other heavy elements.
Your compiler very likely assumes strict aliasing at whatever optimization level you're already using, so restrict usually won't do much. GCC does at O2, keil (and clang?) at O1.
You might just have to be bored
I have never found a use for LLMs for programming because I can find the (correct) answer much easier with a search. Perhaps the search engines just suck so hard these days people resort to LLMs. I use Kagi and GitHub to search and the results are much better.
> The new design is a miniature reactor which fits on a standard military pallet and produces 22.4 liters (0.8 gallons) of hydrogen gas per minute. Converting hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbon fuel using the Fischer-Tropsch reaction developed in the 1930s is already a mature technology, the only additional ingredient is carbon dioxide.

> California Thermodynamics has already made subscale test versions of their AHR, and plan to produce a full-scale version of the reactor in 2025. This should be licensed to go live with nuclear fuel, and a working production model could be available in three to five years.

I'm not a chemist, but it takes a LOT of liters of H2 gas to make one gallon of hydrocarbon fuel. So that "unlimited fuel" promise is a lot like a 56kbps "unlimited" internet connection.

The tiny size does sound convenient for putting 'em in deep bunkers. Local geology and water table willing...but in dangerous areas, military folks already favor base locations that are high, dry, and easy to dig in.
Thank you for working on it. It is a nice feature and still better than alternatives.

I'm not a library author and I try to be careful about what dependencies I introduce to my projects (including indirect dependencies). On one project, switching to `go tool` makes my go.mod go from 93 lines to 247 (excluding the tools themselves) - this makes it infeasible to manually review.

If I'm only using a single feature of a multi-purpose tool for example, does it matter to me that some unrelated dependency of theirs has a security issue?
Their government pay is meaningless to them. They can legally trade on insider information. That's their real paycheck.
such people are trained in identifying opportunities and turning that into money or power. they are not giving their stuff away without a strategy.
hahaha that would be funny

you could be a communist if you open source your project

so maybe in that alternative universe, there would be something like close-source-statement instead of open source license, to avoid be accused as a communist
My gloves work well on my Apple watch.

Wet is always a disaster, though. If it's going to be moist outside (like hiking with a rain jacket), you have to remember to apply water lock immediately, or you're done for. In that case, the watch is pretty much useless until you get back inside, which is in fact very annoying.
The Social Media Sea Change
Even 10y ago MySQL Galera Cluster was providing pretty good write scalability. (Without the need for PhD in Oracleolgy, and without donating your kidney to Larry.)
Is it "veiled racism" to point out how China continues to wield the great firewall that effectively blocks most internet users from outside news and entertainment while Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan et al. do not? The basic world view in China of 天下 -- the universal dominion of China. Hence the general unpopularity of China in Vietnam, South Korea, and japan.
I cant imagine we will ever objectively compare the two. Maybe in 100 years someone will blame a crash on human drivers.
To be fair, the screenshots are data points, but more would be needed to support the generalization being made.
DeepSeek Won't Sink U.S. AI Titans
https://archive.ph/rWyur
I use something similar: .. , .2 , .3 , etc.
Wellp, we're boned.

/Bender
> if done in a smart strategic way, is the best way to get promoted

This alludes to the other bit that's not taught enough: Working effectively, efficiently is not about how many problem reports you close, or lines of code you ship or number of hours at your desk. It's about recognition. Pay attention and work toward the stuff that will get you recognized. Pay attention and measure how much effort you put in the day to day stuff and the stuff that will be seen. This work is not "for your company", it's "for your career".

Watch out also for what kind of recognition you get. If you become known as the expert in day to day operation of tool XYZ, you might be parked doing that for the rest of your life. Probably not what you intended.
C’mon now, you know what he means. Or you’ve got a decent idea of what he might mean.

People are beginning to consider that the most pervasive aspects of society—parts that you don’t have a choice whether you’re a part of it or confronted by it—are social constructs, and that humans are constrained in what they’re allowed to believe in and how to come to terms with those beliefs amongst one another.
You think public drug use is just an “aesthetic” problem? That’s the problem with this kind of “nerd reasoning” that is in HN a lot; it lacks any common sense. Public open drug use is much more than aesthetics and is a safety and draws more crime and it’s drives poverty.
What he calls the “alpha” model might also be termed a “leader-follower” model where a single authority drives a team to accomplish his singular vision, like the captain of a ship drives and disciplines his crew.

It’s hierarchical and masculine, no doubt, and describes Linus Torvalds and Steve Jobs as well as Walt Disney and Thomas Edison or even General Patton.

This leadership model might not be everyone’s cup of tea but it can definitely be successful, and it’s definitely a real thing, not just some redpill / PUA fantasy.
I have one, I use it nearly every day, battery can last upward of a whole month. They stopped updating the original model though which is frustrating because newer models have more features, but im almost certain the hardware is virtually identical.

I would like more transparency on how long each device gets updates for, similar to how Apple handles their products.
Lemon laws in California have very specific requirements which my car got close to, but did not meet.
Fine, what else counts? A company may deliberately lower the effect of this in order to favor that - which they feel matters more, or which they feel is not done enough at that time. What else did you notice that they favor?
More like this: https://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Pip-Boy-Replica-Memory-Stand-...
GPT1 Implemented with NumPy: Generate Jokes
Forge: A Tool and Language for Teaching Formal Methods
>Or we still try and find the cause of the coronavirus.

Well, could be that Wuhan lab co-funded and co-run by the US. That song took two to tango.
Counterpoint: I'm on day 26 of an afternoon project I never would have attempted on my own, and I'm going to release it as a major feature.

Cursor & Claude got the boilerplate set up, which was half the mental barrier. Then they acted as thought partners as I tried out various implementations. In the end, I came up with the algorithm to make the thing performant, and now I'm hand-coding all the shader code—but they helped me think through what needed to be done.

My take is: LLMs are best at helping you code at the edge of your capabilities, where you still have enough knowledge to know when they're going wrong. But they'll help you push that edge forward.
Be careful what you wish for. You're basically buying compliance with the status quo with those subsidies and rule structures that stomp out the little guy (not just in farming but in manufacturing too).

If the hand ain't feeding these people they have no reason not to bite it, though with the way elections are going these days maybe the gig is already up.
Image replacement in Canva designs using reverse image search
$1000 bug bounty for better healthcare with the FDA, CDC, and Kaiser Permanente
I'm offering a $1000 bug bounty toward fixing a computer problem that's interfering with healthcare workers getting RSV vaccines. I'm in the group at risk and highly motivated.

Context:

- The United States Food and Drug Administration (https://www.fda.gov/) has published the correct information about the RSV vaccine for people who are at risk. You can see the section "Preventing RSV in Adults" at
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/covid-19-flu-and-rsv/respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv

- The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (https://www.cdc.gov) is currently escalating the process of publishing the FDA information on the CDC website. But it turns out the Los Angeles wildfires are now causing respiratory issues with higher severity and urgency.

- Kaiser Permanente is a large Los Angeles medical company with 10M+ patients. The company is currently denying the RSV vaccine to healthcare workers, even those at risk of complications, even those who are working in buildings with high RSV patient infection rates. The doctors want to order the vaccine, but can't because the EPIC-based IT system isn't coordinating with the FDA and CDC.

I'm offering $1000 towards a fix. Success looks like this: healthcare workers who say they are at risk and want the RSV vaccine are able to get the RSV vaccine.

Any legal path that accomplishes the goal counts for the $1000 bug bounty. Ideally someone here will know how to adjust EPIC IT systems to do doctor-approved overrides. Or perhaps you're good at social engineering and can find a personal approach, or share this on social networks, or get a news crew, or discover a lead to an employment lawyer who can help.

If you're able, please help share this story-- many people in Los Angeles have lost so much, and anything we all can do to help the healthcare workers will in turn help many more people. This is a total experiment in crowdsolving. I welcome constructive advice. My direct email is joel@joelparkerhenderson.com.
Yes and no.

Yes, it is partially a problem with improper use. But as a practical matter, we know that convenience and confidence are powerful pulls to very large portions of the population. At some point, you have to treat human nature (or at least, human nature as manifested in the world we currently have) as a given, and consider things in light of that fixed background - not in light of the background of humanity you wish we had. If we lived in a world where everyone, or even where most people, behaved reasonably, we'd do a lot of things differently.

Previous propaganda efforts also didn't automatically construct a roughly-self-consistent worldview on demand for whatever false information you felt like feeding into them, either. So I do think LLMs are a powerful tool for that, for roughly the same reason they're a powerful tool in other contexts.
Yes, which makes this claim more extraordinary. (And to be fair, I don't think there's extraordinary evidence presented here.)
The original researcher did correct the record about what entails the alpha wolf in a natural setting, noting that pack leadership was usually based upon familial group dynamics, instead of the cliche biggest and strongest that beat down opponents, but in pop science this correction went too far, basically discounting the idea of an alpha wolf altogether. In virtually every discussion about this myth people will regurgitate the notion that there is no alpha.

But...there is. He never claimed there wasn't an alpha. Just that the selection among a group of wolves forced together differs from a group of wolves in a natural setting.

So Tony Soprano was the alpha of the crime family even though many other characters were likely stronger, crazier, etc. He had the backing of so many people that they knew that his bark had bite, even if it wasn't from him directly.
Woah, Facebook is hosting malware.

Seriously though, I'm curious (have no account): are you able to post that link on Facebook?
Automation + human intervention, yes. In the setup I described, worst case scenario something gets blurred out that's benign, but it doesn't create a press/support nightmare for Meta.

Considering they've open sourced one of their image detection API [1], I'd imagine it's more a problem of accuracy and implementation at scale than a serious technical hurdle.

[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2