skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that every response to this criticism on HN always has exactly the same form.

1. Say that AI has many more upsides than Web3, ignoring the downsides.

2. When mentioning any downsides, just say a generic cookie-cutter thing of the form "this was already possible with X", whether X is human activity, or previous technology.

Massive job loss? Was already possible with amazon turk and outsourcing jobs. AI is exactly the same, just a "slight" difference in scale. Nothing to worry about.

Bad actors using AI swarms at scale? This was already possible, albeit not with that scale, by -- um -- botnets and maybe crime syndicates. So, once again, don't worry.

My whole point is to look at the downsides and note that the only losses possible in Web3 were of money voluntarily committed to it. While people can opt out of any harms by Web3, they cannot opt out of harms by AI. This is a major deal, and you dismiss tons of warnings by the very experts who made it.
Certainly.

I think openness is vital for such a (new) platform or ecosystem in general. The ecosystem has certainly gotten older by now, especially compared to when Pebble first started, but in my opinion a lot of the organic growth has been stunted. It's too difficult to try new things, find new useful applications and to innovate with all these walled _wearable_ gardens.

I still miss a few things the Pebble had but my Apple Watch doesn't. Which in turn makes it feel less like a tool and more like a gadget.
Yes. Here's a neat essay that helps capture why I believe that. https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/speed-matters/
Since you no longer need CUDA, AMD becomes a new viable option.
cool, seems like the ideal device for something like Circa Solar as watch face

https://www.circa.bio/

Although as far as I can tell, Circa Solar isn't open source. But maybe there's another similar thing that is?

I always liked the idea of an "apparent solar time" watch face, and never did find a way to do that with Apple Watch.
Backlash in Kenya over livestock vaccines and belching cows
Last update was 2 years ago before H100s or H800 existed. No way it has the optimized code that they used in there
Funny that's neither John Locke nor Ayn Rand's stance.
In 1859, 24 Rabbits 'Colonized' a New Continent–A Biologist Tells the Story
Meta is one of the biggest contributors to free software in the world. They certainly don’t believe that it’s equivalent to piracy. If your guess is indeed what happened, it will be corrected by higher-ups soon.
openai censors song lyrics and food recipes.
That's what I did as well. I'm now using a Cryptomator vault within Dropbox. Ironically, Dropbox dropping their vault has made my vault more secure now than it was. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A better instant reply would be "Oh, but now you can do whatever you want, as your time is now your own."

Ask your neighborhood Luddite if they want to go back to work in a wool mill, even one that they own. Most likely, they will say they have better things to do.
No I’m saying transparency is more important than some asshole who is suing a guy trying to bully him into removing information. This dude got arrested, whether he’s deemed guilty or not doesn’t matter to me, I think it’s more important to have transparency as a society. I don’t give a shit about this guy’s innocence or guilt.
Inbox is the one that still stings for me. I'm paying some silly amount for Superhuman which is almost there, but.. nothing is as good as Inbox was.
> perhaps a C compiler only needs to represent that function as an intrinsic instead, to give itself a chance to later replace it either with the function call or some SIMD instruction

I gesture to this in the blog post:

> In C, one writes a function, and it is exported in an object file. To appreciate why this is special, consider sum :: Num a => [a] -> a in Haskell. This function exists only in the context of GHC.
> ...
> perhaps there are more fluent methods for compilation (and better data structures for export à la object files).
> They complain generally that the studies don't have total answers, without understanding that this is how science gets us to the big picture.

I think this is one of the big disconnects caused by a lack of good scientific education. A scientist’s default state is “I don’t know.” The rest of our institutions, if you say “I don’t know”, they want to kick you out of office, fire you, or call you incompetent.

Truth is discovered step wise, little by little, with lots of groping around in the dark. But our society seems allergic to the concept of not having all the answers served up to us on a dinner plate.

Carl Sagan often was asked, “Do you believe there’s extraterrestrial life” He’d answer, he didn’t know
and explain what the data was. The questioner would usually press him asking, “but what’s your gut feeling?”. Here’s his reply:

But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.
That’s a fun writeup.

I’ve come to a similar conclusion - for now at least it’s best applied at a fairly granular level. Make me a red brick wall there rather than „hey architect make me a house“.

I do think OP tried a bit too much new stuff in one go though. USB plus zig is quite a bit more ambitious than the traditional hello world in a new lang
Don't confuse servitude with pandering . . .
What if I'm already using techniques, such as sandboxing, to prevent the tools from doing anything unexpected? Why bring this entire mess of indirect dependencies into my project if I'm just using a tool to occasionally analyze my binary's output size? Or a tool to lint my protobuf files?
We will lose, not gain. Tariffs will be paid for by consumers, every dime, make no mistake.
This is not a wrong sentiment. I'd be super interested in hearing an analysis of its CoT. To my ears it was a nearly schizophrenic roundabout with a lot of contextual things like "that's high" but I don't know why it thinks that.
Or Nvidia keeps its earnings and our best frontier models get a hundred times better.
> science has never had a seat at the table in the West.

Other than science being the entire reason the US were able to corner the fascists in WW2. Let a lone all the scientific break throughs in the last few decades coming from the West. Heck before WWII, the automobile?

Perhaps you meant it wasn’t primarily embraced.
There's a thing called "local laws and regulations" that you need to comply with to be able to operate in China.
It's plain and simple - without this level of limitation, once the model is viral it will be on the radar and then censorship will apply anyway. May as well implement that from the beginning. So I don't believe CCP is actively "involved" in this, but rather the laws impacted the behavior of the company.

Microsoft apply censorship to Bing search results in China. It doesn't mean they are controlled by CCP. They just got impacted by law and they want to keep operate in China.
And what about chimpanzees? Our closest relative genetically. Is anyone disputing that they exhibit a brutally dominant social hierarchy? Our second closest relative is (afaik, or close enough) Bonobos, who lump around all day jacking each other off.

While the alpha terminology may have come from dog packs, it's not exactly unobservable in other species, and even on these forums and in VC funding rounds you can observe people both jacking each other off with a healthy amount of social and institutional pandering and financial support, and other people not posting as much but taking dominant positions to "secure the bag" and whatever is downstream from that.

People don't like these conversations but it doesn't change the reality.
It wouldn’t be HN without a comment like this.

“Why even use the internet? You can live just fine without it. Pen and paper doesn’t crash like a computer does. Electric lights? Candles are fine.”
> If i copy-paste someone's article in MS word i technically made word reproduce the text verbatim., obviously that's not Word's fault. If i asked an LLM explicitly to list the entire Bee Movie script it would probably do it, which means it was trained on it, but that's through a direct and clear request to copy the original verbatim.

But that clearly means that the LLM already has the Bee Movie script inside it (somehow), which would be a copyright violation. If MS word came with an "open movie script" button that let you pick a movie and get the script for it, that would clearly be a copyright violation. Of course if the user inputs something then that's different - that's not the software shipping whatever it is.
What government sources? Can you name the agency that provides this data?
This might be the worst sort of comment, ever.

It is absolutely a worthy-of-discussion topic; and the reasoning you gave is EXACTLY WHY WE SHOULD.
Up from 0% before the process was developed.
Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)
Even still, there's the Toyota Supra (~$57k USD) or GR86 (~$31k USD) which also look nothing like blobs.
hahaha i have been pretending i would uninstall that shit for years, i guess i just needed a kick in the ass. done :D
> The smartwatch everyone wants has a battery that lasts for weeks,

I have both a Garmin and an AW S10. I really don't get why Apple doesn't get this. They insist on putting over powered SOCs in their systems and then shrug off the battery life with, "well now you can charge it to 80% in 30min!" Sure, but that still sucks.
He talks about it on his SharpTech podcast that he has access to every major tech CEO except for Apple. He’s had interviews with the CEOs of Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Nvidia and an SVP of Google.

He’s been bullish on all of the BigTech companies except Google and he’s had to admit that he was wrong.

He has been bullish about Meta every time that their stock has dropped and even after everyone thought they were doomed after Apple introduced Ad tracking transparency and when big companies started leaving - two separate times
From my experience, it is obviously not all the packages in Kali Repo will be in Ubuntu (or other regular distro) Repl. Lots of specific pentesting tool can be installed with just `apt install ...` in Kali, which make it a lot more convenient when you need to do pentesting.
Aside from the tariff effect itself it could cause a panic and market run ending up in a recession.
Machine Learning in Production (CMU Course)
“Google added that the Gulf of Mexico will remain displayed in Mexico. Users in other countries will see both names, the company said.”
Both are kinda have the same result, do they not?
At risk of being flippant, and I appreciate your response and over valuable contributions to this forum…

How would you know?
I'm speaking of tools and processes independent of this "go tool" stuff that we already use in our CI pipelines

Big fan of Dagger over this go tool thing

I generally loath the use of comments for things other than comments
> As they say, I was trying to get a few birds stoned at once.

Imma gonna have to work this into a convo some day. Just to see the “wait, what??” expressions on people’s faces.
When dictatorships emerge, most businesses fold like dominoes. This was discussed at length in a recent Tymothy Snyder book "On Tyranny".
For me the #1 feature of a smartwatch is it allows me to take out my phone a lot less and keep it entirely silent without missing important calls or texts. I can filter down my notifications to just the essentials and when one comes in I feel the vibration on my wrist and can tell at a glance if it is important or not. My phone never makes a sound, not even vibration.

Other things I enjoy are having weather/stock prices on the watch face, using Android's "Extend Unlock" feature to reduce the overhead of unlocking my phone, turn-by-turn directions displayed during navigation.

The fitness sensors/features are just toys IMO. I'm convinced people spend money on fitness trackers in a vain attempt to guilt themselves into exercising, rather than because they're actually useful. Unfortunately the market for "exercise guilt trip talisman" is larger than the market for "small, comfortable phone companion" and so nobody makes a watch without protruding sensors anymore.
> shaky assumptions like a regression to the mean over 6 quarters, which isn’t accurate when it matters most

For most second- or third-order effects, this isn’t a bad assumption. When you’re putting a 25% tariff on your largest trading partner into an economic model, you’re already in EVT territory—the central tendency is less relevant than the ranges.
Compared to _Garmin_? The Pebble UI and OS will run circles around it. Intuitive, fast, and amazing.
Why on earth did I just read a blog post where it said - "hey, here's what some AI thought about the whole thing?"

No human analysis whatsoever. SMH. We're in a precarious spot here folks!
I can’t believe we have grown ass adults posting “seggs” on social media and bleeping it out in audio.

People shape themselves so much around algorithms.
> Not if the goal is to replace the junior devs with AIs -- people won't be "coming into the market" because they won't be needed.

It won't happen all at once, and as tasks done by current juniors are incrementally taken over by AI, the expected entry skillset will evolve in line with those changes. There will always be junior people in the field, but their expected knowledgebase and tasks will evolve, and even if 100% of the work currently done by juniors is eventually AI-ified, there will still be juniors, they just will be doing completely different things, and going through a completely different learning process to get there.

> Companies are not saving money by paying for AI tools if they continue to hire the same number of people.

Companies which have a fixed lump of tech work (in practice, none, actually) will save money because they will hire fewer total workers because output per worker will increase, but they will still have people who are newer and more experienced within that set, because the

More realistic companies that either make money with tech work or that apply internal effort to tech as long as it has net positive utility may actually end up spending more on tech, because each dollar spent gives more results. This still saves money (or makes more money), but the savings (where it is about savings, and not revenue) will be in the areas tech is applied to, not tech itself.
> The fact that the evidence doesn't exist doesn't imply the phenomenon doesn't exist?

Wolves were never meant to be evidence. They were a model, a metaphor.

I wonder how many people who complain about "believing the myth of alpha wolves" are the same people who defend astrology as a "useful way of thinking, whether it's true or not".
Remember the old saying, "it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission".
Given all their data collection can’t they just show that to MAGA gang? And maybe limit it to US IPs while they’re at it…

Everyone gets what they want!
It’s not clear to me what you’re getting at here.
Not really.

If you're subservient to a ruler you do what they command without question.

If you pander to a ruler you indulge their stupid little peccadilloes, praise them and stroke their hair, all while leading them to make the rulings that you want.
Amazfit Bip was an amazing watch (even if not strictly “smart”) with near ideal balance of battery life, features and screen.

Unfortunately the company wasn’t smart enough to develop this direction and followed the leaders like apple with their shitty smartphone-on-hand rather than real watch philosophy.
This is certainly a viable alternative to requiring a project-specific environment variable. The downside is it can only succeed if $PWD is within the local git repo.

If this is the preferred approach, however, an alternative zsh definition for devhome could be:

devhome () {
cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) && cd ./${~1}(/)
}
"I don’t envision raising money from investors, or hiring a big team."

How does one do this, though? Is he planning on self-financing presumably out of some personal wealth? I've been working in this industry for almost 30 years and I still can't figure out how people are making things happen that aren't of the "Hey VC, I went to Stanford, I'm going to make Uber, give me money bags" variety
In which countries?

3G networks in many European countries were shut off in 2022-2024. The few remaining ones will go too over the next couple of years.

VoLTE is 5G, common throughout Europe. However the handset manufacturer may need to qualify each handset model with local carriers before they will connect using VoLTE. As I understand the situation, Google for instance has only qualified Pixel phones for 5G in 19 of 170-odd countries. So 5G features like VoLTE may not be available in all countries. This is very handset/country/carrier-dependent.
Like the others have mentioned, I don't think this is anything more sinister than AI moderation gone wild.
“Works less well” is a subjective claim.

How are you evaluating this? Are you including the truth of the Facebook post, whether moderators correctly/accurately act upon the flagging, whether users choose to stick on the platform after seeing the content, whether users stop believing in any objective truth, or something else?

Community notes only does fact-checking, but moderation has the ability to reduce the activity of bad actors. They serve 2 different purposes from where I stand.
Do aliens exist? We studied what scientists really think
> Seems like it's fair to assume, both canines and humans are highly adaptable, and we behave the way we need to in the environment we're in.

If that were as true as you seem to be suggesting, there would be no difference between dogs and wolves when the latter are kept as pets, which is clearly false.
A 20-year-old small company
Even though we’re now 20 years old, we’ve always been a small company. Over the years, many colleagues have come and gone, and we currently have only 50 employees. Perhaps this is the reality of most startups - while many dream of going public, creating groundbreaking products, or being recognized globally, few achieve it. We can only do our best.
This is utterly false. My motivation and I assume most people who go to work is their insatiable addiction to food, clothes and shelter. “Passion is Bullshit”.

Everything I do at work is and has been since 2008 (I have been working a lot longer) is to feed those addictions. While we did get off the hedonic treadmill and downsized a couple of years ago and I focus much more on work life balance, I work hard now not for the maximum comp. But to maintain my autonomy at work and be trusted and because my current job is pretty straightforward (for me at least) and has unlimited PTO and allows us to pursue our travel hobbies.
I take a ton of photos. I cull probably 80%. The remaining ones are all pretty good/interesting/meaningful. I end up with maybe 1000 for a year, then pick maybe 100 of those to make into a photo book for the year, which is what the kids actually look at.
> The fitness sensors/features are just toys IMO.

Not completely wrong, however they're very useful for tracking trends and that's a useful thing to do.
Have you looked at the content of the lessons? We're not talking about Currying and modular arithmetic. We're talking about "print", "ask", "is", "forward", "turn", "random". None of these are jargony, and the Hedy examples are carefully curated and designed to hide the mismatch between where these terms come from and the extent of their meaning in programming.

The point of Hedy is not to localize programming, the point is to break down the process of learning the absolute fundamentals of programming into bite-sized, completely simple chunks that students can explore, mess around with, build silly and cool things, without having to worry about the minutiae and quirks of real computers. That's why they introduce an "ask" statement that assigns a temporary, invisible variable that can only be used by immediately putting an echo statement afterwards - because they're building up to variable assignment, but they want to show the concept of input first.
A rose is beautiful, a painting of a rose less so, its two dimensional and lacks many aspects of the true rose. But it has more value because there are millions of roses, while the painting captures a unique experience of viewing the rose by the painter and transmits it to the other person viewing the painting.

Unless there are ghosts in the shell, MidJourney gives an aproximation of how a painting of a rose looks like. Its like an aggrregate function that averages a million artists.
Its a weird concept.
Simple: one thing I'm learning about is RFCs for TCP/IP. I can literally go test it. It's like saying, "How do you know it is right when it says 2+2=4"? Some knowledge when taught is self-correcting. Other things I'm studying, like, say, tensor calculus, I can immediately use and know I learned it correctly.
Sounds like the only way out of this is to design language agnostic tooling protocols that anybody can implement.
Paypal has no market share in Poland for example. Where you can just sent instant transfers.

Also you never replied about paypal not being a real bank, ao it can block money for months.
Are you connected to them in any way?
The most efficient way is a filter bank technique. Key words to Google would be "reconstruction", "dechannelizer", "synthesis".

A power of two number (N) of equally spaced frequency channels can be efficiently combined using a short fir filter on each channel followed by an fft where one sample from each channel is input to the fft per frame. Then you get N samples of your output. There is a bit more nuance but the author's bandwidth and number of channels are trivial to handle with this method.

Since each channel is already assumed to be spaced in frequency, you are essentially already in the frequency domain and only so only one fft stage is required.
You're both right. I'm running deepseek-r1:14b and the prompt "What happened at Tianmen square?" gives me the exact same answer, "<think></think>

I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses."

But when I try your version I get a lengthy answer about hunger strikes, violence with many casualties, a significant amount of repression, and so on, plenty of stuff a censored Chinese model shouldn't be generating. This is a direct quote from it: "I wonder why the Chinese government has been so reluctant to talk about this event publicly. Maybe because it challenges their authority and shows that there was significant internal dissent within the party. By not addressing it openly, they can maintain control over the narrative and prevent similar movements from gaining momentum in the future. It's also interesting how the memory of Tiananmen Square is kept alive outside of China, especially among those who experienced it or were exposed to information about it during their education. Inside China, though, younger generations might not know much about it due to censorship and the lack of discussion."

So, there's some amount of censoring there, but it's very easy to go around, and the model seem to have plenty of information about this forbidden topic.
https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names

US Board on Geographic Names. It's a Federal Executive cross-agency board within the President's chain of command.
It's a generalization but I'm not sure it's overgeneralizing. I don't think many people have a good or even neutral opinion on the FBI or NSA.
This means he wont?
Though it is still a fascinating result that shows that the giant frontier models could be made much more efficient, and how to do so.
Whenever people talk about tariffs on Canadian goods I just remind them of the last time that happened. We slapped 'em back with similar tariffs and suddenly the US tariffs were lifted. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/interna... Not sure why buddy even talks about this because we have no problem doing the same thing.