skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat, I'm super excited! I've hoped the PineTime would be the new Pebble, but hasn't really materialized (though, it has gotten pretty good! despite being a little awkward).

I actually held off from buying a Pebble back in the day because the software wasn't open source and I was worried about getting dependent on a product I had no control over. (Yes, I see the vicious Tragedy of the Commons wrapped up there, but still gotta make the optimal choice for me). I'm beyond stoked to see this movement! And it being open source, I have no such qualms. If they are affordable enough, I'll probably be gifting these out on the regular so expect to sell at least a dozen or two :-D
> It's an absolutely shame that Pebble was so innovative and functional, but couldn't reach mass market.

I think trying to reach "mass market" - or specifically, the market of people who are into fitness and sportsball - is largely what killed them. I'd like to believe that they could've catered to existing userbase a bit longer, grew a little more slowly but sustainably by doubling down on an idea of an ergonomic, battery-efficient, programmable smartwatch extension - a tool, not a toy.

Alas, maybe the whole thing was over once Apple, and Samsung got their marketing wheels spinning.
I'd love a fully offline smartwatch with an offline GPS, calculator, wikipedia and other utilities.

Knowing you have a map on your wrist that covers your local area with 2 weeks battery is a huge value. The two big reasons I don't trust my apps are (1) all of them can lock you out at any time (gaia, alltrails do this) and (2) half day battery is a liability for any map.
Out of curiosity, what conditions would you describe as prison-like that would drive someone to adopt an "alpha male" lifestyle in the US?
The big ones for me were/are media controls and seeing what's next on my calendar. Because of the physical buttons I can pause my music/skip songs/adjust volume without even looking at the screen.

Bluetooth headphones often have media controls but in my experience they tend to be hard to use on wireless earbuds due to their size. Using my Pebble is much easier. No other smartwatch I've used has done this quite as well.
If there are any devices in the future I would like a surface competitor. Not surface laptop. Just a tablet thingy.
I mean...

Strategy not yielding results as expected? Better change it up!

Honestly, good for them.
I came to the comment section for this comment.

Dark background, too many colors, inconsistent spacing, inconsistent font-size and/or family, some links appear fully pink with pink underline, some links aren't pink and only have the underline, inline <code> is blue, but large code blocks are the same color as regular text – on black background, etc.

I had to stop reading unfortunately.
Useful SQL(ite) tips I've learned
Tiling window managers tend to tear more than any other desktop out there. Especially on x11, where you're expected to composite your own desktop without any (!!!) synchronization primitives, it's extremely common to get halfscan output from your windows or status bar. dwm, awesome and i3wm will all tear by default because there is no dispatcher, internal clock or even adaptive sync support.

Now, you might not notice the tearing if you've got V-sync properly configured. But V-Sync doesn't stop screen tearing, it just drops torn frames and decreases your refresh rate until your system can keep up with demand. It's an ugly hack on laptop hardware and an even uglier one on the desktop.
Google and Microsoft both bundled their AI offering into their office suites because they weren't getting traction as an add-on.

Startups don't have that option.
https://truesign.ai detects bots and VPNs, you can use it to block or flag suspicious activity
> The vast majority of our work is already automated to the point where most non-manual workers are paid for the formulation of problems (with people), social alignment in their solutions, ownership of decision-making / risk, action under risk, and so on.

I agree. That's why I think the next step is automating trivial physical tasks, i.e. robotics, not automating nontrivial knowledge tasks.
I don’t get the impression that it’s intended as a charity. Also from the interview:

“Our principle is that we don’t subsidize nor make exorbitant profits. This price point gives us just a small profit margin above costs.”
A parts manufacturer went bust at exactly the wrong time IIRC.
I wonder if they shorted NVDA before releasing the model?
Gangs in prison represent gangs out of prison though.
It was bullshit. The real reasoning was of course, as usual : lots of 'buyers', few 'sellers'.
It's not really a mind mapping application but when I need to jot down some complex idea I use yED.

You can do all the normal things that flow chart tools can do but it has an amazing suite if auto arrange abilities that are highly customizable.

Site:
https://www.yworks.com/products/yed

Or kick the tires on the web version (less feature rich)
https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/
In Australia the government legally mandated that I (and most of the country) am not permitted to have a wired internet connection above 25mbit/s. I am very bandwidth constrained.
It was meant to increase trust. Why should a trump supporter trust a newspaper that endorses his opponent? Better to leave that up to the reader.
capitalism serves all niches , not just "most people"
Inference can be done on much more diverse hardware.
What’s a LS?
But why does it slow down the mouse? Is there no way to get both? Maybe I should try if Wayland gets me both, although at the moment it just gives me a black screen.
Quite, but a transflective one (from Sharp, I believe) which gave it a lot of the benefits of daylight readability while being much much easier to program for and work with.
Meh I don’t need 3rd party plugins, I spent years using them on HN and my iPhone doesn’t have browser plugins.

I don’t care enough anyway I just use HN less and less every year like all the old userbase. The only old usernames I recognize at the top of threads these days are the ones who like the politics stuff (I could list at least 4-5). Just my own nostalgia for a dying small community of thoughtful nerds.
The Chimera Linux team strives to downplay the lack of GNU because they do not want the politics.

For me, one of my favourite things about Chimera Linux is that it is both everything I want from Linux and 100% immune to being called GNU/Linux.

Chimera Linux: no Glibc, no GNU utils, no GCC, and no Systemd. As a user, I am finally free.

We should consider “freedom from being labelled GNU/Linux” as “the 5th freedom”.
You've got to wonder if it'll work out well for them. They basically want to take control of Ukraine and this sort of stuff is just going to have Europe saying sod that.
I will probably sound like an idiot for saying this but I tested ChatGpt-o1 model against DeepSeek and came away not blown away. It seems like its comparable to OpenAI 4o but many here make it seems like it has eclipsed anything OpenAI has put out?

I asked it a simple question about the music from a 90s movie I liked as a child. Specifically to find the song that plays during a certain scene. The answer is a little tricky because in the official soundtrack the song is actually part of a larger arrangement and the song only starts playing X minutes into that specific track on the soundtrack album.

DeepSeek completely hallucinated a nonsense answer making up a song that didn't even exist in the movie or soundtrack and o1 got me more or less to the answer(it was 99% correct in that it got the right track but only somewhat close to the actual start time: it was off by 15 seconds).

Furthermore, the chain of thought of DeepSeek was impressive...in showing me how it it hallucinated but the chain of thought in o1 also led me to a pretty good thought process on how it derived the song I was looking for(and also taught me how a style of song called a "stinger" can be used to convey a sudden change in tone in the movie).

Maybe its like how Apple complains when users don't use their products right, im not using it right with these nonsense requests. :D

Both results tell me that DeepSeek needs more refinement and that OpenAI still cannot be trusted to fully replace a human because the answer still needed verification and correction despite being generally right.
Wrong. Also, none of the companies you listed are monopolies.
probably because bzip2 isn't a very good format
If I can find someone to pay me more, whether I deserve it or not is irrelevant.
Cool. I wrote a few watch faces for this back in the day. One of them - ruler watch face was moderately popular.

Not sure what it is about the subsequent breed of smart watches (android, apple etc), but none of them seemed to scratch quite the same itch.
I am both strongly of the opinion that this was already done much better in Bazel, and that the go-native version seems clean, clear, and simple and should probably be adopted by pure go shops.

The digraph problem of build tooling is hardly new, though the ability to checksum all of your build tools and executables and mid-outputs to assure consistency is relatively new to feasibility. Bazel is a heavy instrument and making it work as well as it does was a hard problem even for Google. I don't know anyone making the same investment, and doubt it makes the slightest hint of sense for anyone outside the fortune 500.
You're correct, but what can be affected is the number of workers. Considering the example of the acting career, in the old times every major city would have a number of actors and playhouses. Cinema and TV destroyed this need and the number of jobs for local actors is minuscule now.
I still have my Pebble Time Round in a drawer somewhere. I've long since switched to an Apple Watch but despite all the extra features I still consider it to be an inferior complete product to the Time Round. I really hope this works out.
LLM == WGCM = Wild Goose Chase Model
> I _strongly_ disagree with a fully cynical response of working only to contract, leveraging job offers for raises, etc.

Totally agreed. A big downside of taking contracting job is that one does not get equity. There can be exceptions but in general equity is reserved for permanent employees.

That aside, I highly recommend people view the employment as an alliance. When employee aligns with the company, work hard. When the alliance is not there, break apart and no hard feelings.
I ask this question without a hint of tone or sarcasm. You said: "*it’s a junior dev faking competence. Trust it at your own risk.*" My question is simply: "wouldn't you expect to personally be able to tell that a human junior dev was faking competence?" Why should it be different with the LLM?
15% of the 5% homeschooled is not very popular.
> are there any particular tweaks you think would work to reduce the impact?

Yeah, remove all CSS.

I clicked on View -> Page Style -> No Style in Firefox and suddenly I could read it. Reader mode in Safari also worked. Reading mode in Chrome didn't work properly.
That's not how commodities are priced. Commodities are priced at the marginal cost of production.
My white 20mm one with a brown leather band started more conversations than anything else I’ve ever owned and used, which was surprising but neat :)

Unfortunately mine got stolen and broken, which is a shame. I wonder how hard they are to buy today, and how difficult battery replacements for them are…
Do you know Finder can do this?
As many of you, I'm too frustrated with Finder in macOS to a point that I learnt SwiftUI to build my own Finder companion. Yet every day I discover new hidden gems. I have started documenting them and have plans to do that in future. Sharing it here, hope you find it useful
I can't wait, I never got a Pebble but it was the most interesting smart watch style to me.
> There's no language-level difference between int[] and int* in C

sizeof(int[n]) vs sizeof(int*). Then there's: 'int getint(int *I){return *I;}' which wont let me pass '&int[n]' but I can 'int* = int[n]' then pass &int*. It's not so much a hack but a very primitive implementation on top of pointers (alright maybe it is a bit hacky.)

> A proper array would at least know its length. It does not require a lot of runtime to do, and most C code require libc anyway for basic stuff like malloc().

Something like a fat pointer 'typedef struct {long len, void *data} MyArray;' then make a libMyArray to operate on MyArray objects. But now you have a libMyArray dependency. You also loose type information unless you add fields to MyArray with an enum or have a MyArray for each type which gets messy. Then you cant do shit like just use an identifier in a conditional e.g. 'while(MyArray[n++])' unless you change how C works which makes it notC (uh, maybe pick another name.)

I feel that C is fine as it's an old machine oriented language. Leave it alone. I would look to reach for another tool when the primitive design of C makes life difficult.
I care about my well-being and being able to float for extended periods of time if necessary. I can go many, many years without a job at this point and suffer absolutely zero quality of life issues.

>the places that pay the most _have_ to pay that much because the job sucks.

I mean don't overwork for an employer who doesn't care about you (none of them do)? Just go switch jobs.

>I've built my career on jobs with _actual_ advancement

This just reads like a no true scotsman fallacy. What does "actual" advancement mean here? Again, I have plenty of security (not job security) right now.

>I can bring top performers willing to work for regular salaries into wherever I land.

So you're fine with exploiting people? What? Just because someone is willing to be a fool doesn't mean you should stand by and let them be one.

And also, I question the "top performers" part of this, given your other qualifiers throughout the post. Especially the comment about big tech. The numbers don't add up in your favor.
Saving One Screen at a Time
There's a power law here.

Most developers don't work in giant companies, but the programmers who do work in giant companies mostly don't know many programmers who work in the medium-sized companies where most of the jobs are right now.

If you are interested in diversifying your network, you can purposefully choose a job at a different scale of company when you are next looking, but you can also start going to conferences or user groups or get involved with an interesting open-source project.

Not every piece of networking has to be with coworkers. Not putting all your networking eggs into one basket can give you options, especially as the layoffs are flying fast and furious.
I got my laptop to play Taylor Swift on the AM band - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH9yb1qFKDY by twiddling the memory bus (sounds a bit iffy ;)

Code: https://github.com/anfractuosity/musicplayer

Based on the work of https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
I thought so too, but apparently anchors are a significant cause of cable damage, and were so well before the war in Ukraine. I don't know why anchors are such a problem, but apparently they are.
Interesting ideas but imho overly simplistic. You could be personally endurist (ie determined to tough it out in your own life, for a variety of possible reasons) but still wholly accepting of other people not being so, and presumably vice versa.

Religions are overwhelmingly Endurist. Christianity deems life sacred and views suffering as potentially redemptive. Islam treats life as a divine test with eternal consequences. No major religion suggests that ending existence might be preferable to extreme suffering, or questions the value of bringing new life into difficult conditions.

I can't understand this contention, given that the blog logo uses Buddhist iconography and Buddhism is rooted in the notion of transcending suffering, not least by acceptance of death. Perhaps the author meant to say 'no major religion in the west'.
would it really change that quickly? you might get significant savings from just having keywords, common variable names, standard library functions
"xyz company [in business that historically earns low single digit profit margins] reports highest profits"
Also, egg shortages are from Avian flu. Americans are uneducated and unsophisticated, believing someone can wave a magic wand and make food prices come down, when wages and supply must go up to accomplish this (price levels vs inflation). They also have no appetite to understand market consolidation being a root cause contributing factor of supply shortages or pricing power (depending on your view on the topic).
Without going into specifics, trying to classify a body of freeform text (or rather, many such bodies) along a bunch of dimensions. Imagine a fiction story that you're trying to answer questions about such as "what is the genre?" and "is the protagonist male or female, adult or child?", etc, where I'm instructing the LLM to return values out of a specific range only (aka, enums). OpenAI's new-ish structured outputs feature enforces answers to a user-specified JSON schema, which is awesome, but I'm finding that the actual answers it comes up with are sub-par. There are all kinds of hacks out there like creating additional fields to let it reason out the answers before constraining them to an enum elsewhere, but I have yet to make it work well for me. There are other approaches I haven't yet tried that require much more effort or cost (more expensive models, fine-tuning custom models). It feels like it should work, so the random poking and prodding continues...
Well, you started off strong, but went off the rails.

There is not a single society in the history of mankind that was not built on a foundation of lies. It's a matter of what the lies were. You may be surprised to learn that sacrificing virgins does not quell the Gods and Goddesses. It may also astonish you to find out that most of the kings and queens of antiquity and today are not selected by Gods. And slavery was very likely, not God's intended station for the slave. Right up to the current day, where we're in "shocked disbelief" to find that markets are not self-regulating.

Now I know that I'm taking some liberties with these examples, as I can't claim to have communed with the Gods and Goddesses to determine their positions for instance, but I feel pretty confident in asserting the tenuous nature of many of these claims of divine providence.

When you say no one can build a better society on a foundation of lies, I disagree. Our societies have been getting better and better throughout history and the architects of these societies haven't stopped lying yet. We're still lying to this day. Even the people who don't like the lies are only comfortable replacing the current lies with lies more friendly to their own worldviews.

Better societies, and worse societies, will all be built on a foundation of lies, today and in the future. Because they are built by humans, who are at root, liars. We can't change that fact. I'm afraid lies and lying are central to who we are. Show me a human who claims to not lie nor support lies, and I'll show you a liar.\

Should we try to detect lies? Absolutely. But we should be careful that we don't get too far off the statement of facts. Which unfortunately tends to also be problematic, because most people only state facts that support their worldview. A notorious form of lying via omission. So even in stating facts, we're nearly always lying.

So getting to a balanced presentation and evaluation of facts where humans are concerned, is nearly always impossible.
Oh man. I own an Apple Watch, but I made it a point years ago to buy an OG Pebble off eBay to be my first smartwatch, and the sheer elegance of the UX is still something I pine for. I very dearly miss the daily timeline, which was sheer UX brilliance.

Only niggle: Portugal isn't on the list, but yeah, right... Other it is.
https://www.sharpsde.com/technologies-for/memory-in-pixels/m...

MIP refers to the displays ability to retain the last frame indefinitely, unlike typical LCDs which need an external controller to refresh them constantly, even if every frame is identical to the last one.
Hey, they clearly just keep making more and more popular movies.

/s

FYI for the curious: the highest inflation-adjusted lifetime grossing film is Gone with the Wind.
If you'd like to learn about the actual origin of flammable clothing restrictions and the difference the regulations made, here is a good summary:

https://www.parent.com/blogs/conversations/2023-why-are-we-a...
>A special law shields you? How does a law shield you from persecution?

We won, this is how.

>Being pardoned doesn't help much if you're dead.

There is an escalation ladder you need to climb to attain martyrdom. It takes effort and courage and not everybody can or should do it. It's okay to be on the part of the process that provides moral support to the more hardcore participants.
Choosing colors is like making music. This color scheme feels discordant, like a jumble of loud notes. Maybe try looking at color palette creators online?
Isn't it easy to read this very cynically, as an offensive move intended to devalue and hurt US AI companies?
Who then denied doing it. Russia accused of it being Ukrainians with UK technical assistance which seems plausible to me. When the Brits were asked if they did it they said something like "we won't dignify that with a response", ie not no.
So the Chinese graciously gift a paper and model which describes methods that radically increase the efficiency of hardware which will allow US AI firms to create much better models due to having significantly more AI hardware and people are bearish on US AI now?
How so? I’m never going to give you a reference of someone who isn’t going to say glowing things about me
Accountants also have trivially simple schemas. (Though lots of complexity elsewhere.)
Pilots (that are not bombers) were treated pretty well by the Luftwaffe. Aviators share a comraderie that's hard to describe (very similar to software engineers in a sense).
Everything is overvalued if you think in terms of earning multiples, p/s, p/e should be 1:1
I have used LLMs as a tool and I start to "give up" working with it after a few tries. It excels at simple tasks, boilerplate, or scripts but larger programs you really have to know what exactly you want to do.

I do see the LLMs ingesting more and more documentation and content and they are improving at giving me right answers. Almost two years ago I don't believe they had every python package indexed and now they appear to have at least the documentation or source code of it.
Also cautious. Extremely cautions.

I got rug pulled by "the pebble team" the first time, leaving me with 3 watches they effectively bricked.. Not gonna sign up for that again.

(I got a refund on my last Pebble order. When the money showed up I drunk-ebayed a 2nd hand ~40 year old mechanical watch. I now have about 20 wind up or mechanical auto winding watches. I do have a few chinese ~$40 "smart watches" that do an OK job of notifications on my wrist, and a somewhat questionable job of heartrate and blood pressure monitoring, and one that produces totally random numbers for blood glucose reading whether it's on my wrist or not. I almost never wear any of those. I've got a Watchy kit, and open source epaper ESP32 watch, but I've had it maybe a year and haven't found the enthusiasm to assemble it.)
Apple watch feels soulless and corporate, the app (and feature) selection is still practically abysmal compared to what Pebble had to offer. The walls Apple has built have not helped at all. I haven't even found an actually fun small game to play on the loo on it. It's sad.
I've found them tobe quite a time saver, within limits. The blog post seemed scattered and disorganized to me, and the author admits having no experience with using LLMs to this end, so perhaps the problem lies behind their eyes.
almost all quant work is 'HFT'
Ordered Error Diffusion Dithering
There was a post last month? The guy who built a lan party setup in his house. He used optical cables to reach the desktops from the rack.