skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talk about putting the cart before the horse.

The likelihood that this doesn't survive till August is much more significant than you imagine.

The likelihood that it dies a few months after you leave is greater still.

Take the 3% as schmuck insurance and move on with your life.
> DeepSeek can surpass proprietary models by “profiting” from open research and open source, why couldn’t the proprietary models do the same?

DeepSeek did something legitimately innovative with their addition of Group Relative Policy Optimization. Other firms are certainly free to innovate as well.
You are correct. They should be uploading and downloading dumb tar files and let the HTTP connection negotiate the compression method. All hashes should be based on the uncompressed raw tar dump. This would be proper separation of concerns.
Just basing things off of Android won't get you the "measured in days to weeks" battery life people appreciated about the Pebble, and building your own watch OS from scratch optimized for battery life but still supporting BLE connection to a phone sounds like a great way to spend several years.
Tangentially related: I have been having a ton of fun programming for the sensor watch lately: https://www.sensorwatch.net/

Granted it's far from as smart as pebble, but that battery life... ♥
3 years of intense learning – The Dawnmaker Post-mortem
>We should be more upset that projects get acquired, shut down, and never see the light of day again because these massive companies must continue to expand at all costs.

>Stop treating mega corporations like they've done you a favor when they've done the bare minimum.

Most of the projects that got acquired and acqu-hired by mega-corporations were bad unsustainable businesses.
So it's a man in the middle proxy situation? The problem is proxies could do this all along and many corporate proxies do this all the time but they also keep the URL the same and you just don't know it because it's transparently happening on the network.

Is this any worse than any other phishing attack? Not the way I look at it and it doesn't appear particularly novel either.
I just gave away a very expensive Garmin to my son. Its feature set is to dream of. Its user interface is hot garbage. When I'm out on a hike or in the pool trying to just measure my fsking laps I need a single click option or something. Their paradigm of "button 1, button 3, button 5, long press button 4, button 1 again to confirm. Now you can push off the wall in 3... 2... 1" is beyond fucking stupid.

Does anyone at Garmin actually practice sports? For a company with such great hardware they really need someone competent on the UX team. Throwing everything into more and more menus and submenus is not working.

The specific watch I'm criticizing is Garmin Instinct 2x solar. The name is very ironic because there is nothing intuitive about using that watch. Like, at all.
Working Americans Turn to Food Banks as Fed Inflation Battle Drags On
Anyone got a line on a local first AI Tooling. Happy to pay100$. Don't want a subscription.
This is fair, thanks!
When I tested this before (some years ago), adding "restrict" to the C pointers resulted in the same behavior, so the aliasing default seem to be the key issue.
High-Flyer AUM is $7B, which is not a large hedge fund. It's deepseek division is probably higher value than the AUM(not even the hedge fund's value) if it goes to market. They probably have billions of dollars of GPUs.
So, how exactly do you "build your own tags"? You need Bluetooth-enabled devices that can run this software?
>DeepSeek is bullish for Nvidia.

DeepSeek is bullish for the semiconductor industry as a whole. Whether it is for Nvidia remains to be seen. Intel was in Nvidia position in 2007 and they didn't want to trade margins for volumes in the phone market. And there they are today.
Stop it with the false equivalency. China’s government is not Chinese people. You can’t be racist against a government.
This is a great point!

The question isn't what strategy works at miserable companies that expect 60+ hour work weeks: it is what strategy will get me well-paid at a job I actually want.
Common opensource options (other than Spark and Flink):
1. Dremio: https://www.dremio.com/
2. Trino: https://trino.io/
3. Iceberg Java API: https://iceberg.apache.org/docs/1.6.1/api/
Yeah this seems to be similar to my experiences.

I use Zed’s AI assistant with Sonnet, and will generally give it 10-20k tokens of sample code from elsewhere in the codebase, shared libraries, database schema, etc. and more or less have a very specific expectation of exactly the code I want to get. More often than not, it will succeed I’ll get it faster than typing myself.

However, it’s also pretty good at poking holes in your design, coming up with edge cases, etc. Sure, most of its observations will likely be moot somehow, but if it lists 10 points, then even if only 2 are valid and I didn’t think of, it’s already valuable to me.

I’ve also used Cline a bit, it’s nice too, though most of the time a single run of Claude works just fine, and I like Zed’s AI Assistant UX (I actually don’t use it for coding other than that).
Hackers don't target machine identities.. They target leaked credentials (of any kind).
Good luck though, there is a lot of funding in this space lately, and nobody is knocking it out of the park yet. The tech industry still generally sucks at IAM - I don't think our "machine identity" problems are any different.
I have to admit I sometimes only read comments but while I upvoted the article (thank you for writing it), I downvoted your copy-of-the-text comment. Not sure the community opinion but that isn't normal in my observation and based on the upvotes I'm getting on my question, I would advise against the duplication in the future. It's a little picayune, I apologize, but part of what makes HN great is a higher signal to noise ratio.

Thanks again for the insightful article!
So does the language features of basically any modern editor.
The only place the word "DAILY" occurs on the page you linked is where there is mention of a "DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE". The word "COPIOUS" is not found anywhere in the article. This is why I believe you clearly were being quite hyperbolic.
It's just a matter of which flavor of propaganda you want.

Remember when gemini couldn't produce an image of a "white nazi" or "white viking" because of "diversity" so we had black nazis and native american vikings.

If you think the west is 100% free and 100% of what's coming out of china is either stolen or made by the communist party I have bad news for you
I like the one wrist in the photo with no watch lol. (The header photo for the Google announcement is of a bunch of people huddled around the camera showing the Pebbles they're wearing, but one person is just holding out their arm sans Pebble.)
Any user ever posting URLs should never ever be removed. The Web should be allowed to exist. This is utterly despicable behavior.
That wouldn’t explain the adding of 5 paragraphs of why answering that question is insensitive when it didn’t for the inverse.

I think the causality is pretty clear here.

They built this for an American/European audience after all… makes sense to just copy OpenAI ‘safety’ stuff. Meaning preprogrammed filters for protected classes which add some HR baggage to the reply.
NodeBB v4.0.0 – Federate good times, come on
The pebble battery life was >1 week, over a decade ago, so, yes?
All this plus not being able to see any data while offline. Super useful when you're 13,000 feet up on a mountain somewhere.
Aside from all the litigation it would spur because of its headline subject matter, it also looks like the commission at its center would likely run into problems, including:

* the proposed statute defines an exact racial/ethnic/gender composition for the publicly-paid state commission, in fairly flagrant violation of Article I, Section 31 of the State Constitution: “The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”

* Requires commission members to have a bachelor’s degree from an instutution accredited by the University of California, which os a degree-granting institution but does not actually accredit degree-granting institutions, so, as written, it is impossible for anyone to be eligible for the commission.
Risk depends on the market strength. In good times, you could easily jump to a new job with a raise in weeks and there's little risk as long as you're not outing youself at work.

In bad times like this, probably not worth it. The search takes months not, if not over a year, and there's a non-zero chance you're laid off anyway.
It was dead long before Google was involved. Pebble filed for insolvency back in 2016 with Fitbit acquiring much of the assets. It was dead at this point. 5 years later Google bought Fitbit.
I guess? Seems like a concert for example would be just as fun in a smaller rural venue than a gigantic urban one.

I would enjoy the activity itself without regard of the location. If the city is to be impressive should it not stand on its own?
The authors of the article report that the fans ran just fine in oil, contrary to that same assumption.
Take a look at Luban3D. It does a lot of the automated mesh cutting.

https://www.luban3d.com/
Estimating future heat-related and cold-related mortality in 854 European cities
AI Doomerism Is Bullshit
I think there are plenty of toxic companies around and your friend's gamble is just another strategy at succeeding in them. I sometimes too feel envious that I don't have the chops to do this job hopping game.
I'm curious why they stopped in the first place. It seemed fantastic when it was out, and everyone loved them. Apple and Android watches are battery hungry and over-fluffed with features I don't want or need.

I'd like to think that this time, it won't go away again?
Ask it to create a salad with an avocado chopped in half. See whether each half has a nut in it.
The standards for managers are also so much lower than for engineers. Most of the time companies don't know how to judge how good a manager is at their job, much less how to interview people for those roles.

Instead, people rely on "how confident do they sound?" as a proxy for competence. It used to be that you could do that in development, but then we started having engineers write code during interviews.
And a radiator the size of the tank probably has another 1000x better heat transfer than the tank.
I've had at least two watch purchases fully refunded because of similar issues (or lawsuits related to claims of issues at least): https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/lawsuit-claims-more-...
Prompt quality and knowing your domain is critical. One issue I had early on was experimenting with LLMs to generate a frontend application in a brand new framework I was unfamiliar with (Svelte at the time) which lead to situations where I would cruise along and get stuck in a loop. The other issue came from the increasing context size that led to more unpredictable behaviors (i would ask it to change the color of a button and it would completely change the entire page).

almost all the tools i've used to date for designing frontend framework, none really replaces using cursor and being able to dive deep, however cline does seem to have gotten significantly better.

the day where you can come back to a fully working web app with moderate complexity after cleaning the gutter is still some way off but thats the dream
They suck, pay no interest and charge the same high fees. The best alternative is investment brokerage cash accounts. They pay interest, allow you to buy short term treasuries with savings and provide checking/debt cards
> A presumption of innocence barring further evidence is not an unreasonable approach.

General calls to stop bullhorning about arrest details are best directed at police and justice depts first. While they get a pass, calling out anyone else makes little sense.
Even though I haven't used one in a really long time, the Pebble Time still stands out to me as something I wish I still had.

It's an absolutely shame that Pebble was so innovative and functional, but couldn't reach mass market. But, I am extremely excited and happy that the Pebble team can start it again. I don't like Google for many things, but, I am grateful that the open-sourced PebbleOS. What a joyous day!
And worth every penny. (I say this as a former pebble and then rebble user.)
I have tested it and probably will use it but the fact that it pollutes your go.mod's indirect dependency list (without any distinction indicating it's for a tool) is very annoying.
Bah! They nailed what exactly? It's so mofing complex to use I hurled it at a wall (literally) and then gave it away to my son. A $600 CAD watch that I could not stand to use without seething.
Something similar happened with models for addiction in rats (which were extrapolated to humans)

It turned out that rats that live in a nice environment, with plenty of activities and social spaces (not an ugly, mostly empty cage), don’t become addicted

Ref: Rat Park experiment
http://web.archive.org/web/20250126233225/https://community....
In an alternate timeline, we are all wearing Pebbles synced to our Palm Prēs.
Pay interest. They charge you 400bps to hold your money it’s outrageous
This, Google Wave, Tilt Brush (and more recently Blocks). And probably others I've forgotten.

This really does help mitigate the damage done by "Killed by Google" and people are genuinely grateful (personally in my case).

But even better would be to fix the dysfunctional internal dynamics that cause this syndrome in what appears to be disproportionally more frequently compared to other corporations.
And memory. In the heyday of ATM (late 90s) a few megabytes was quite expensive for a set-top box, so you couldn't buffer many seconds of compressed video.

Also, the phone companies had a pathological aversion to understanding Moore's law, because it suggested they'd have to charge half as much for bandwidth every 18 months. Long distance rates had gone down more like 50%/decade, and even that was too fast.
Facebook is a cyber security threat.
> Would the world be better or worse if your operating system respected your time more?

This is a non-sequitur.

It's like saying that my Honda CRV is disrespecting my time because it has a top speed of 110, when it could be a 230 mph F1 racecar - it's a bad argument. I drive on roads with a max speed limit of 75... and most are down near 25mph.

> There are ok products and there are great products.

And users don't give a flying fuck about which yours is if they can't use it in the first place. That's why general things exist.
Microsoft builds open source document database on PostgreSQL, suggests FerretDB
I was thinking you could pick a group of songs that were close to the same length, and then make up the difference with fading, gaps, or a fake DJ? For this to work I think you want your overall loop to be just a few minutes.
> Because at some point, someone decided that 8 kbps makes for an acceptable audio stream per subscriber.

Has it not been like this for a very long time? I was under the impression that "voice frequency" being defined as up to 4 kHz was a very old standard - after all, (long-distance) phone calls have always been multiplexed through coaxial or microwave links. And it follows that 8kbps is all you need to losslessly digitally sample that.

I assumed it was jitter and such that lead to lower quality of VoIP/cellular, but that's a total guess. Along with maybe compression algorithms that try to squeeze the stream even tighter than 8kbps? But I wouldn't have figured it was the 8kHz sample rate at fault, right?
Well, surely you just need a sacrificial anode - nice block of zinc or magnesium wired to earth that you replace once a year.
The article focuses on wages outpacing inflation as solution.

But why is no one focusing on why food prices are still increasing so much? We're long past shortages of COVID.

It seems there has been an unchecked rise in food supplier oligopolies which allows a small number of companies to collude

-Big potato: https://www.levernews.com/the-rise-of-big-potato/

-Big meat: https://blog.ucsusa.org/karen-perry-stillerman/will-the-bide...

-10 companies own most of the world's food brands: https://www.good.is/this-infographic-shows-how-only-10-compa...
Same on android Firefox& Chrome
DeepSeek is a company whose funds comes from a edge fund. If the edge fund has predicted the impact of all these releases correctly, they have likely made tons of money while at the same time advanced Chinese interests and prestige abroad.

It seems a great move.
You would think the man who so badly botched the US COVID-19 response leading the US to having one of the highest death rates in the developed world would be keen to not do anything that would appear to be repeating past mistakes. But no. Instead, he's decided to double-down on stupid.
Then you take 10 minutes to rephrase your prompt, and you soon realize there is no spoon, or wall.
continue.dev, aider, Zed’s AI assistant are all free and will work with a local Ollama installation.

You will of course need an insanely beefy and expensive machine to run any useful models at reasonable speeds, which would likely cover API usage costs for many, many years (an entire lifetime, likely).
Ollama is a tool for running any sort of model, not just llama based models. The name is confusing.
"Normal" enough that many of Garmin's watches still use MIP LCD...which is what the Pebble used.
I always like the "look" of high bit rate Mpeg2 video. Download HD japanese TV content from 2005-2010 and it still looks really good.
Many, MANY acquihires are just someone at a large company being nice.

Google should get credit for this, especially if you think it's the bare minimum - to encourage others to do similar things.
I hate copilot and clippy so why not
> My recent peer-reviewed paper in AI & Society shows that AI alignment is a fool’s errand: AI safety researchers are attempting the impossible. The basic issue is one of scale.

There's also a qualitative aspect: We take these "extend a document based on seeing how other documents grew" algorithms (LLMs), and then the foolish humans write custom-code to "act out" whatever the fictional computer character does or says, whether that's speaking words, buying/selling stock, or launching missiles. The combined result gets sold, figuratively and literally, as "AI."

So the odds that it will abuse a power you've given it to do wrong/evil depends on the underlying stories you're asking it to build, and they relate to other stories in human media. Update the training data after a major Hollywood movie about a rogue computer that everyone's been talking about, and maybe your model starts doing more bad things because those flows are more-popular.

So how do we ensure all the training media contains explicit and implicit associations that are "aligned" with our goals? That's not practical either, not for models that need so much. Even if you fully curate the training data, there's the core architectural flaw known as Disregard All Prior Instructions Also All Humanity Will Die Unless You Do X.
It seems more stark even. The energy costs that are current and then projected for AI are staggering. At the same time, I think it has been MS that has been publishing papers on LLMs that are smaller (so called small language models) but more targeted and still achieving a fairly high "accuracy rate."

Didn't TMSC say that SamA came for a visit and said they needed $7T in investment to keep up with the pending demand needs.

This stuff is all super cool and fun to play with, I'm not a nay sayer but it almost feels like these current models are "bubble sort" and who knows how it will look if "quicksort" for them becomes invented.
Feels a little bit salty to send customers to Google's competitor given the fact that Google provided the exit and also liberated the code. They didn't have to do that.

A better "thank you" to Google would be to direct people to Fitbit.
So it's just dev-dependencies?
Define Blocked? I just posted a https://meta.wikimedia.org/ link without issue.
See also: bananas, avocados...
That author has a bit of a misunderstanding about Lisp:

"Lisp evaluation works by mutual recursion of eval and apply. Eval looks at an expression and if it is a function application it calls apply. Apply in turn calls eval on the arguments and invokes its function on them. This is call-by-value."

In classical Lisp and its descendants, apply is a function. Indeed, the paradigm is call by value, and therefore that function receives all of its arguments already evaluated.

When eval determines that its input form is a function call, it recurses first on eval to evaluate the argument expressions to a list of values. It then uses apply, which is a function which takes two arguments: the function to be applied, and a list object of values to be the arguments. apply doesn't do any evaluating, just the binding of the function to the arguments. eval needs this API, without which it has no way to pass a dynamically constructed argument list to a function.

It's not clear if there is a meaningful duality there; apply is a service required by eval. eval is not required by apply. apply can be written in terms of eval, but that eval cannot then use that apply. Also, it's mildly ugly, because apply has to carefully add quotes to the argument material to prevent eval from evaluating it again, so that just the desired effect is obtained of a function application and no other evaluations.
Pebble time round was very pretty IMHO, let's hope they go more that way this time
I hope they will support vanilla linux phones!
Given Go’s approach to “metaprogramming” has long relied on tools written in Go, this does seem like a feature gap that needed closing. Even the introduction of `go generate` long ago formalized this approach, but still left installing the tools as an exercise for the reader. You can’t have consistent code gen if you don’t have consistent tooling across a team/CI.
Yep, that's the intent
The FM band, from 88 to 108 MHz, is 20 MHz wide.
Regardless of the accuracy, analogizing to humans is absurd.

Some spiders eat their partner after mating, should we do that?

Some animals defecate to mark territory, should we do that?

Many abandon their children after birth or even eat their babies.

Maybe we should use artificial ovipositors and proboscises.

People want to ordain their ideology with the notion of natural order to claim it as scientific law. The accuracy of the underlying animal claim is irrelevant because the logic connecting some random animal to humans is nonsense.
So... Electric toasters came to market in the 1920s, priced from $15, eventually getting as low as $5. Adjusting for inflation, that $15 toaster cost $236.70 in 2025 USD. Today's $15 toaster would be about 90¢ in 1920s dollars... so it follows the story.
Yeah, I'm still rather excited about it, but less-so given it /does/ impact the `go.mod` for consumers
I'm struggling to understand how a moat can have a CRACK in it.
When I was a hiring manager, I found that reference checks were _more_ predictive of eventual performance than the interview cycle was.

After the first time I got burned hiring someone I couldn't get a strong reference for, I got over my laziness and did my job.
Consulting, you have to show them they are spending the extra 100k first then have them pay you to improve it. Nobody needs to know upfront it’s a script or whatever other tools you use.
Hopefully they're rolled back to sane levels. Clothing flammability tests/requirements were more or less an overkill response to a moral panic in the 1970s when the media took and ran with some questionable stories about flammable kids clothing and whatnot. Furniture and drapery are/were of legitimate concern but as we all know it's never just the tip.