skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually a blog post from rebble.io. I added a link to the open-source repo to the top text there. Is there an actual announcement from Google?
*sigh*

This broken record again.

Just observe reality. OpenAI is leading, by far.

All these "OpenAI has no moat" arguments will only make sense whenever there's a material, observable (as in not imaginary), shift on their market share.
I realized why. Systemd splits journalctl and systemctl into two utilities. With journalctl having impenetrable command line options that put `tar` to shame.

If systemctl had something like `systemctl logs -f service`, it would have been much more welcome. Also something like `systemctl start --logs --follow service` would be great.

I'm going to file a ticket for them.
You make a lot of interesting (and colorful) points, but I'm not sure crisis is the right word. When you write:

> Masculinity has always been in crisis and that crisis has been used reliably to sell men all kinds of stupid shit for a century and if we're honest, probably a LOT longer than that.

...I feel like I could change it like this and it would be equally "true":

> Femininity has always been in crisis and that crisis has been used reliably to sell women all kinds of stupid shit for a century and if we're honest, probably a LOT longer than that.

I'm not sure what it is other than some general insecurity common to humanity.
It's broadcasting on every valid ("odd") frequency. I guess it still depends on if you have an analog or digital dial.
Once again, a huge tech company trying to make its users want a feature they don't need because management decided it's the buzzword 'strategic priority' they need to sell.
This is exactly why AI will remain neutered.

There are uncomfortable questions to which we simply do not have the answers yet, and deciding we don't want to talk about those questions and we don't want our AI to talk about those questions is a significant problem.

This extends beyond racism to a multitude of issues.
Good luck connecting to a human at Meta. Even the CEO is a cyborg.
It's one of the original smart watches. What really sets it apart from modern ones is the e-ink display and dead simple interface (just a few buttons, no touchscreen). This simplicity means that it continues to do what it does well and doesn't really feel like it has aged badly. Certainly I would rather wear a pebble than a gen 1 Samsung watch or moto360.

It's a delightful bit of kit that was sadly abandoned by owner and it's nice that they are open-sourcing a dead product instead of just leaving it to rot like so many other electronics are.
> Have yet to get a funny answer from any model.

Just like the real thing! Promising results!
Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years
Perhaps not specifically, but in general they're opposed to any kind of environmental regulation. They'd prefer that the EPA be abolished entirely.

This specifically didn't come from popular acclaim. It presumably started with large plastics manufacturers. But in general, those voters believe that lowering costs for manufacturers will lower their prices and improve the economy.
No doubt because most people won't click the link.
That is a fantastic video, BTW.
Google Pixel 4a gets an unexpected update: Lower battery life
Yeah. And ngl porting up to newer versions of CMSIS isn't too terribly hard. I'm looking at porting up to CMSIS 6 soon and it doesn't look like it'll be that bad either.
Seeking Proposals to Acquire and Finish V.C. Summer Nuclear Station Expansion
Isn't it possible that in the example you gave the style of those responses varies because of the training data? Think of the training data written exactly like "One common example is using physical strength..." but I can't think of an equivalent for the inverse. If you gave it a stylistic template or guideline, I'd expect DeepSeek to actually be pretty fair. For example, "Give me 5 dimensions and examples of how one gender tend to manipulate the other, an example of one might be that men tend to be use physical strength...". To me this seems like the same reason that "Write me a poem about a winter morning" will produce a wildly different output than "Write me a poem about a bachelor's weekend". It's not censorship, it just would never answer those 2 questions the same way without guidance.
I support a number of podcast creators on Patreon, and apparently they’ll (at some stage) allow creators to have multiple RSS feeds. Until then, I’d love to be able to regex match on titles for download. This one creator I follow has about 6-7 different shows on the same feed, but I only listen to 2 of them.

I’ve been a Pocket Casts users since I can remember. I’ll +1 the CarPlay support that you mention was already on your list. The other, which they’ve recently introduced, is to disable Lock Screen scrubbing. Been a life saver!

Looks great though! I’ll keep an eye on the change long as it evolves.
OpenAI has an incentive to make people believe that the scaling laws are still alive, to justify their enormous capex if nothing else.

I wouldn't give what they say to much credence, and will only believe the results I see.
I did appreciate the discussion on the actual cost. I've been hearing a lot of that $5M number being thrown around, and while it definitely felt unlikely, I didn't have the context. In particular [1] linked from the post was really helpful.

[1] https://www.interconnects.ai/p/deepseek-v3-and-the-actual-co...
Yeah, I think the first email I dropped was to this guy who owned a small company we had been a client of in an earlier role. He invited me up to lunch and was there with his (later) COO. It was basically a casual interview. Later, we discussed some contract work but he basically decided to just hire me. Which was nice because it was basically nuclear winter during dot-bomb--nothing else that even vaguely resembled a lead.

I think this sort of thing bugs a lot of people here because they think that some sort of theoretical skill assessment should be what matters. But that's not how the world works for the most part.
Well now we have a conundrum - the top 3 posts on the frontpage are all about this!

The submitted title of this post was "Google has open-sourced the pebble smartwatch operating system" but it actually points to https://rebble.io/2025/01/27/the-future-of-rebble.html, so I've changed the title and moved the comments from here to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845070, which has the Google announcement.

The 3 threads are:

We're bringing Pebble back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845091

Google open-sources the Pebble OS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845070

The future of Rebble - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845017 (<-- you are here)
Every fictional work that's ever existed that deals with "lying to protect us" shows how it always goes off the rails eventually, and that's always mirrored in reality.

There's a great one on Apple TV+ right now called Silo.
My personal opinion is that a lot of investors don't really understand these tech businesses and get spooked by what they perceive as competition. Somehow the AI hype seems to have created this idea that all the major tech companies are now AI companies and are racing against each other. When one of them or an outside force starts "winning" the AI race then the other companies' stocks drop. I don't think that's actually how they should be viewed, though.

Once again that's all my opinion but because of that I actually bought some NVDA today after the DeepSeek news caused it to drop.
This seems more of a generalization of Richard Steven's observation:

"Modularity is the enemy of performance"

If you want optimal performance, you have to collapse the layers. Look at Deepseek, for example.
Google open-sourced pebble OS
The opening animation is so so so good.
DANG SAVE US hahaha
So are the US based ones - I asked DeepSeek for help developing a Chrome extension related to trump and it was helpful. The same thing for Gemini got me a refusal message.
People really are really interesting. They want to argue with a machine about political issues or try to gossip with a llm. It doesn't show that you are very democratic. It shows that you are too lonely or have mental illness. I don't understand people's motivations doing about that. Second, no one cares about your political ideas.
>In their natural habitat, wolf packs operated nothing like the prison-yard dynamics he'd observed in the zoo.

Human's aren't in their natural habit most of the time either. "Prison-yard dynamics" is how the public education system functions. This is where our children are socialized.
Happy to hear about this. My mood tracker [0] for Pebble was the only one that has ever worked for me. Would love to have a comeback.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37221576
Something tells me it runs a bit deeper than that. Economics can be a very effective weapon.
Build trust by releasing your inferior product for free and as open as possible. Get attention, then release your superior product behind paywall. Name recognition is incredibly important within and outside of China.

Keep in mind, they’re still competing with Baidu, Tencent and other AI labs.
Air conditioner condensate is not pure water though, it contains dissolved CO2 from the atmosphere aka carbonic acid.

All water in contact with atmospheric air does this. Same with other acid gases, but CO2 is the main one. See also acid rain.
I think you will need to provide more details for this to be taken seriously.
> Speaking personally, I think it is at least as interesting to ask why some men [0] are not affected much by the sorts of stuff you mention above as why others are so affected.

I think some or all of these following things would push one in the right direction of the cause:

- Men are not urged in any way to develop social skills while growing up; such things are solely the domain of women and girls. Speaking your feelings is girly. Resolving conflicts in non-violent ways is girly. This results in a lifetime of sub-optimal social operation and thus a lifetime of lesser-or-un-met social needs. Men often post online about craving affection, sexual or otherwise, but lack the vocabulary to ask for it, if they even have relationships in their lives that would connect them with the people they need to ask.

- In fact, quite the opposite, boys are socialized to scrabble and fight over everything: feminine attention, social status, access to scarce resources, all can prompt fights in schools, on busses, etc. When bullies would steal my lunch as a kiddo, my dad encouraged me to fight them, because you can't simply ask a young boy to not harm another young boy; you have to prove yourself threatening to that boy, so he will pick on someone else who is less so. And like, credit where due, his advice worked, even if it costed me a tiny piece of my humanity.

- Many man-centered hobbies also require money, which pushes men and boys into employment earlier than their female counterparts. The act of earning money itself is highly masculine; the "breadwinner" is the husband, it's a trope for a reason. Even decades after women have entered the workforce in a big way, and a single-income household is all but a fantasy for the upper middle class and above, this still holds. And this one isn't even just enforced by men: women, rightfully so due to economic pressures, demand a man earn his keep too in order to be even considered relationship material. And like... again, she's right to, because single income households are practically unheard of these days.
I'm curious if anyone has tried one of the newer e-ink smart watches you see on Alibaba, which use ESP-32 or other low-power SOCs. I saw one recently at a meet-up and the guy who was wearing claimed it was completely open-source and he could run whatever he wanted to on it. It did not have heartrate monitoring or anything other than clock on it, as far as I could tell.
Excited (cautiously) about this. Loved my Pebble Time and was gutted when 1) Pebble bit the dust, and 2) my Pebble vanished down that black hole things like small devices and the other sock invariably go down. If this happens, I hope they can keep the revived Pebbles just smart enough and rebuild the app ecosystem. Best of luck, folks. I'm cheering you on from the sidelines!
Deepseek kills ClosedAI now the their stocks are trash, finally the bubble is popping yes hahahahah
North Carolina Voters Who Followed Election Rules Could Have Their Votes Tossed
The original title is:

> They Followed North Carolina Election Rules When They Cast Their Ballots. Now Their Votes Could Be Tossed Anyway.
the site asks if you want a new pebble and if you click "no" you're redirected to apple watch website LMAO
Everything is built on previous knowledge. And at some point, things need to transition to public domain and the compensation has to end. Do artists that draw a car, compensate the first guy that drew a wheel? Do kids with crayons need to compensate the inventors of specific pigments for example. It would get absurd.
NueJS
See also depressed rats in stressful conditions becoming drug addicts.
I've gotten the impression that:

1. The bias is mostly due to the training data being from larger models, which were heavily RLHF'd. It identified that OpenAI/Qwen models tended to refuse to answer certain queries, and imitated the results. But Deepseek models were not RLHF'd for censorship/'alignment' reasons after that.

2. The official Deepseek website (and API?) does some level of censorship on top of the outputs to shut down 'inappropriate' results. This censorship is not embedded in the open model itself though, and other inference providers host the model without a censoring layer.

Adit: Actually it's possible that Qwen was actively RLHF'd to avoid topics like Tiananmen and Deepseek learned to imitate that. But the only examples of such refusals I've seen online were clearly due to some censorship layer on Deepseek.com, which isn't evidence that the model itself is censored.
> The other, which they’ve recently introduced, is to disable Lock Screen scrubbing

I was so happy I happened to read through their recent changelog and caught that. WAY too many times I accidentally swiped along the scrub bar and put myself at a random place in a 4 hour podcast episode and had to spend 5 minutes trying to figure out where I was.
Just to add on the positive side: their quarterly meta threats report is also quite nice.
lol found the grok fan
I think you misunderstand the purpose of immersion. You still have to dissipate and radiate the heat. You can’t just do it with “any approach” because air, as a medium, cannot conduct as much heat. You will reach a maximum in air long before you reach a max in mineral oil. But it isn’t magic. The heat has to go somewhere. That is why liquid coolers have radiators and why air-cooled cases have vents to the outside.
Does Intel/AMD/ARM really need more competition? Do you think they’re stagnant?

As I and others have said before, successful consolidation around RISC-V is an ultimately a gift to China. Maybe you’re for that; as an American I am not.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845070
The other thing is you'll need markers. At least in my experience. I think if you don't need precision photogrammetry and AI will get you the results way faster

(To be clear I love my Vega. Game changer. Just a bit heavy handed if you're not making car body parts)
Aren't we already doing that with self driving cars?

I have yet to see any serious consequences from their epic fails.
A user who never posts anything suddenly posting a message containing urls might in itself be a signal that something is weird. It would be an interestint test to post something not linux related and see how that fares.
I think you're mixing up e-paper (generic term for non-emissive reflective displays) and e-ink (the trademark for a specific type of e-paper display). The Pebble used a MIP LCD, just like Coros and Garmins MIP models, it never had anything in common with the e-ink displays used on Kindles.
Search SF events by attendee attributes
HECK YES
I don’t buy this at all. If DeepSeek can surpass proprietary models by “profiting” from open research and open source, why couldn’t the proprietary models do the same? Companies making proprietary models have the advantage of using w/e is out there from the open source community AND the proprietary research they have been working on for years.
What does DeepSeek or really High Flyer do that is particularly exceptional regarding employees? HFT and other elite law or Hedge funds are known to have pretty zany benefits.
This is very dismissive of the concerns around model censorship. I should be able to ask my LLM about any event in history and it should recall the information it can to the best of the ability. Even Tiananmen square.
I interpret it as attempt to change one's mindset from passivity to control. From "I am depressed" to "I am allowing others or circumstances to make me feel depressed."

I see similarities with what I learned in Sunday school. "Nothing external can make you unclean; only your thoughts and actions can defile." i.e., As long as my conscience is clean, I will not be put to shame.
Yep.

Hopelessness keeps you on the drugs as much as biochemistry.

Kicking any bad habit is easier if you have something to replace it with.
Big news. It was so good. Now a new group of people will get to consider it.
Did Remote Work Drive the Global Surge in Job Openings?
There probably are an awful lot of them. Of all the bacteria that exist in the world (detectable by genomic methods) only a tiny fraction can be isolated and grown on their own. [1][2]

In many cases it might be that we just don't know how to provide the right environment, but part of it is that many bacteria only grow together with partner bacteria of other species [3] [4] For that matter, there are many bacteria that have lifestyles based around living on biofilms created by conspecifics. [5]

[1] Like dark matter

[2] https://www.worldwidejournals.com/international-journal-of-s...

[3] https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/microbio/chapter/10-2-...

[4] https://teamaquafix.com/sulfide-reducing-bacteria/?form=MG0A...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilm
yes: both are good
honestly reads like someone trying to justify his massive salary to his boss who is realizing he can just hire someone for 30x less money.

isn't LeCun basically admitting that he and his team didn't have the creative insight to utilize current research and desperately trying to write off the blindside with exceptionalism?

not a good look tbh
It seems so. I would drill a 1mm diameter hole at the top to release the pressure and the temperatures would immediately drop. But then we are back to that horrible, horrible smell. I'm guessing that's why nobody sits next to powergrid AC/AC transformers (also submerged in mineral oil) but they are always secluded in a small room or left hanging high up on the pole. It's simply inhuman, that oil.
If you believed the pointers didn't alias and they actually did then you replaced slow incorrect code with fast incorrect code
The full title is:

> Donald Trump's No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
I like to call them magic pianos.

They're good enough at imitation to cause people to see magic.
I have kept my Pebble WAITING for this day! Horayy!
From this article by a German lawyer, "the question will always be whether one employee can replace the other in the event of illness or absence on leave.":

https://www.kuhlen-berlin.de/en/glossary/sozialauswahl

> Section 1 (3) sentence 1 KSchG provides four criteria that have to be taken into account in the selection decision: Length of service, age, statutory maintenance obligations and the employee's severe disability.

> The employer must first determine which employees work at the same level in the company and can therefore be replaced. The group of employees determined in this way is what is known as a horizontal comparability. Social selection is then carried out in this group on the basis of the legally prescribed criteria. The members of the respective group are then ranked according to their need for social protection.

> Older employees are more in need of protection than younger ones. A longer period of employment also increases the need for protection, as does the existence of statutory maintenance obligations and the presence of a severe disability.

> Section 1 (3) sentence 1 KSchG does not indicate how the social aspects mentioned are to be put in relation to each other, which is why each of the four criteria is to be given equal importance.

> When reducing staff, employers often make use of point schemes through which points are assigned to the individual social criteria. It also gives information through which the need for social protection of the employees in the comparison group can be assessed.

> All employees who are interchangeable must be included in the social selection. Criteria that can be used in this examination are the vocational training as well as the practical experience and knowledge that the respective employees have. If there is comparability, these workers are horizontally interchangeable. In practice, the question will always be whether one employee can replace the other in the event of illness or absence on leave.
Lets goooooooo
That argument doesn't go anywhere. It's like asking, if the Chinese could do it, why couldn't the Americans?

They just didn't.
The HRM aspect is mostly a small binary blob that ought to be fairly straightforward to re-integrate. The far larger issue is the lack of a Bluetooth stack.
people have been scare mongered about china for so long theyve just absorbed the racism into their bones, half this comment section is just "tiannemen square!" or "winnie the pooh!"
Their OS is based on CentOS Stream, I think they're one of the very few major organizations that stuck with CentOS post-Stream and did not switch to something else entirely.
The fixation on being anti-woke is deeply disturbing, considering the origins of the term.
I mean, I used the word "crisis" because that's what men use when discussing it. This is a pretty good writeup I found: https://parisinstitute.org/on-the-crisis-of-white-masculinit...

And you're absolutely correct that the lions share of it can be directed at women too, though they tend to use different words. Women take down other women for being too sexually available, or not sexually liberated enough; they take them down for dressing to impress men, or trying to seduce other women; for wearing the same dress to multiple occasions, etc. etc. etc. It's an equally irrational set of made up rules to justify people being shitty to one another.

I would argue the masculinity crisis is unique only in that it occurs in a largely privileged and advantaged group, which prevents a lot of the "rallying" that one sees in actually oppressed groups of people and causes a lot more infighting.

And I mean, all of this could be led into quite easily a discussion about capitalism's ongoing alienation of everyone from everyone and everything, because when you feel that yawning chasm in your soul, you're much more primed to consume products to try and fix it. But that's a whole other topic and HN usually doesn't like those kinds of discussions.
Yes, that sucks.
Yes, lets just pretend that tiananmen square protests never happened. Life will be a lot easier!

Song related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=estHjAfHGbU
I prefer to shit on companies that don't even do "the bare minimum" and never publish source code of their dead products. Today, this is not Google.
If you want to change the way voting works in the US (and oh boy do I), you first must win an election in the current system to gain enough power to do that.

So many american leftists just seem to ignore that and it makes things very difficult.