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The inverse isn't tolerated. If you're a software developer, you get tested for IT knowledge with phishing emails. Yet in IT it's perfectly normal to have an ignorance of the core needs of the developers - and computing itself - that results in reduced productivity or shadow IT systems.

It's not an exaggeration to say I've experienced it at every employer I've had.
Some writing conveys beliefs, and other writing makes readers think about their own beliefs. Both are valid, and the resulting effect may not even follow the writer’s intention. I feel this writing mostly makes me interrogate my own beliefs.
I went through two Garmins. Both failed in under 2 years (random freezes, random reboots, eventually leading to bricking). Fitness tracking and GPS would activate by themselves at random times for no visible reason. Buttons sometimes wouldn't register. The proprietary charging cable was terribly designed - after a couple months, the springs inevitably fail and it starts losing contact with the watch, needing fiddling with the exact angle, blowing on the contacts, weighing down or attaching with scotch tape when charging for an extended time, etc.; basically, one learns to treat Garmin charging cables as a short-lived consumable. The software stack at least on Android is awful, and it's very hard to get your data out of it.

Considering how much these thing are hyped, I gaslit myself into thinking my first watch was a rare lemon, which is why I replaced it with another Garmin; but I won't be fooled again.
3% is quite low if it's true that you've done most of the product.

But disregarding that, this thing is DOA.

• You haven't touched the market, have you done at least some sort of market study? (inb4; nope)

• One of the co-founders (you) is leaving.

• You and your "partner" are definitely not friends.

• Your product is an MVP in NextJS; is it also yet another OpenAI frontend? That has close to zero market value. (Although in the current environment you could raise a few million with that, lol. Note: you could raise != you could make.)

Because of all these reasons the chance of this making money irl is very slim.

What you both have to do is call it a day, stop fighting over literal pennies, end it up as gentlemen and then go on with your lives and find people that fit both of your desires and lifestyles more appropriately.
That advice is valid for dime-a-dozen coders working dime-a-dozen jobs, which, granted, is the majority of developers, but we're on Hacker News. The more specialized and deeply technical a role is, the smaller the pool of qualified people is and the really senior folks tend to know each other. Networking matters much much more in these smaller tight-knit communities.
The Internet loves the Rat Park experiment, but it never replicated and should be considered just as bogus as all the other stuff in social psych which hasn't survived the replication crisis.

It's fitting for this thread though, because it survives for the exact reason the alpha wolf stuff survives: people love the story so they hang on to it irrespective of the science.
Worked in OLAP data warehousing but we never enforced a FK in my 7 years of experience involving 3 companies :P
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I think many people have a kind of half ironic nostalgia for it. Especially if you were a kid at the time, it was one of the few sort-of-fun things to mess with on a locked down school or office computer.
Impressive, honestly. They're trying to become a mecca for innovation and research, trying to lead rather than follow, build a culture where innovation can spark future economic advantages, whereas OpenAI seem to more about monetisation currently, many of their researchers and scientists now departed. Under the aegis of a dictatorship they may be, but this encourages me more than anything OpenAI have said in a while.
That's what these char models are already doing.

Most chat is just a long running prompt. LLMs have zero actual memory. You just keep feeding it history.

Maybe I misunderstood what you're saying but what you're describing is some kind of 2nd model that condenses that history and that gets fed; this has been done.

Really, what you probably need is another model managing the heap and the stack of the history and brining forward the current context.

But that's easy to say because we are humans.
2 months ago, Boston Dynamics' Atlas was barely able to put solid objects in open cubbies. [1] Folding, hanging, and dresser drawer operation appears to be a few years out still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7IPm7f1vI
> It doesn't make sense unless you want to telegraph the message that employees are fungible and you don't really care about people.

I actually makes total sense and a lot of it. I see the take that management doesn't know about knowledge being lost, they don't understand this, they don't understand that. I believed this was case until I started to work for a company that is literally 200 years old.

At some point between joining that company and deciding to leave the previous, I got it -- nobody is actually that stupid, neither people are evil or anything.

Employee being a row in an excel sheet is an important goal that every big company strives to achieve and all the functions, processes and products that are contrary to that dogma are actively rejected by the system as dangerous.

For the company to be the company it must never depend on this particular employee being very smart. Every bit of knowledge that is not written down and confirmed to be in accordance to The Policy is a risk and should be forgotten. That's the intended way.

And of course the only way to discover the market price for real is to spend the money. The cost of losing mister special employee is negative anyway, and for the offchance it's positive, it's worth it.

The evil thing is not this, the evil thing is not being upfront about it. Get a union, negotiate yourself a nice row in the excel sheet and be happy about it or make your own company.
I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project
Whether or not it objectively meets the definition of a fascist regime, you can't talk to people that way here.
Losing just the top surface would leave the steel sides largely in place for oil-to-air heat transfer. I'd think, given the odour problem, evaporation actually played a role in his cooling.
Gold is sold by weight, so those extra neutrons are pure profit.
What about who has the original one? What will be new for us?
I still have an old Pebble 2 Flame edition that I Kickstarted somewhere. Unfortunately the rubber/plastic on it has started to degrade rapidly a year or so after I bought it so that was a shame.

I'll definitely be watching this, but it will take a lot to make me replace my Apple Watch.
Oh that's exciting, I will be on the lookout for that!
That's when companies will force the government to provide UBI: it is just an excuse to get more money from governments anyway, while avoiding the revolution.
massively increase the open source github actions bill for runners running longer (compute is generally more expensive) to publish for a small decrease in network traffic (bandwidth is cheap at scale)?
On the positive side, I adore that they sell (sold?) the forerunner series with all physical buttons and no touchscreen. Garbage software, but being able to click through by muscle memory instead of dealing with a touch interface in sunny conditions is essential to me. Fitbits and apple watches have just always been too reliant on the touch method for my liking.

The software is pretty crap though, and forerunner in particular is way too locked down towards running activities.
I wasn't really referring much to the UI as I was the fact that it does it to begin with. The thinking in deepseek trails off into its own nonsense before it answers, whereas I feel openai's is way more structured.
...Intel Core 2 -level desktop performance?

Also, I'd imagine you'd want the Ztso extension to port PC games, assuming you mean Rosetta-style instruction translation rather than "somehow get the source and port the engine and all the middleware" -- I don't think the P550 has that extension.
Also ... the lifetime issue here doesn't preclude the use of stack-based variables. A "local" variable of main() is "as good as" a global/static to pretty much all parts of the program.
From my experience in large (and small) companies, trying to get something that is internally dead open sourced is usually not a huge fight against people saying no, just a laundry-list of things that need to be done before everyone will sign off on it.

One motivated person at a decently high enough level can get it pushed through, as long as whoever the person making the decision asks about it says, 'eh, ok.'
The usage of existing but cheaper nvidia chips to make models of similar quality is the main takeaway.

So why not buy a more expensive Nvidia chip to run a better model?
To be honest, that is not a problem unique to.. well.. any domain-specific company's tech stack.

Raymarine their marine GPS navigation units are supposed to be very intuitive, but they lack so many "that would have been nice" features, and their UX has stuff where various buttons have click / double-click / hold / hold 2s / hold 10s, all to access different functions. Some of it isn't even written down in the manual.
There are so many cuts in that 1 minute video, Jesus Christ. You'd think it was produced for TikTok.
This seems handy, but often the tools run by `go generate` are outside of the Go ecosystem, or need to be binaries.

So I think a general solution would work better, and not be limited to Go. There are plenty of tools in this space to choose from: mise, devenv, Nix, Hermit, etc.
Didn't Zuck recently announce that he's getting rid of fact checkers, on the pretext that the parties hired to do fact checking are biased and introduce censorship and unfair false positives that get accounts shut down?

Was it just a cost reduction: fact checking takes effort and those checkers have to be paid? With the result being situations like this?
It's a really interesting comment, but I would also have loved the context of what you're trying to do?
99% of designers and ux people at MS aren't using Windows as their daily driver or using Microsoft tools.
Why wouldn't it be for Nvidia? Explain more.
A company cop can be called "People's Partner" and North Korea could be called Democratic Republic, but everybody knows what is happening.
Fortunately you don't need to go on your feelings, because people involved have told us exactly what happened. RePebble guy (Eric) reached out, asked them to open source, they spent a ton of effort to get it releasable, and did just that.

Unless you think everybody involved is lying.
But this has been the common libertarian stance on intellectual property for like a hundred years.
I see twoo reasons:

1. Because they're researchers, not devops experts. They release the model in the way that they are most familiar with, because it's easiest for them. And I say that as someone who's released/open-sourced a lot of AI models: I can see how Docker is useful and all that, but why would I invest the time to do package up my code? It took long enough to cut through the red tape (e.g. my company's release process), clean up the code, document stuff. I did that mostly because I had to (red tape) or because it also benefits me (refactorings & docs). But docker is something that is not immediately useful for myself. If people find my stuff useful, let them do it and repackage it.

2. most people using these model don't use them in docker files. Sure, end users might do that. But that's not the primary target for the research labs pushing these models out. They want to reach other researchers. And researchers want to use these models in their own research: They take them and plug them into python scripts and hack away: to label data, to finetune, to investigate. And all of those tasks are much harder if the model is hidden away in a container.
You are not taking into account why people are willing to pay exceedingly high prices for GPUs now and that the underlying reason may have been taken away.
You could patent this, but it would be on specifics of the process & design, like how the chassis are constructed (down to the fabrication steps), special/unusual components, and exactly how the heat dissipation works.

It should be basically impossible for some hackers in a garage to accidentally infringe on a patent without reading it. If it was infringing, it would be 1) extremely unlucky, or more likely 2) the patent was fatally vague to begin with, and should be invalidated.
No - because this eliminates entirely or shifts the majority of work from GPU to CPU - and Nvidia does not sell CPUs.

I'm not even sure how to reply to this. GPUs are fundamentally much more efficient for AI inference than CPUs.
DeepSeek and their quant/algotrading parent company have years of experience in raw C/C++ CUDA programming and low-level CUDA optimization. That is one of the main reasons they could do model training and serve inference so effectively and cheaply. That hard-earned experience is not something they have shared publicly.
Pebble had an LCD screen. It didn't use Eink at all. You can look this up, it was an LCD display manufactured by Sharp.
You can strike the word Canadian out of it just fine. And anyway, it's not like firing a person is any different -- they just become a problem of somebody else.
They sold 2 million units, which is nothing to sneeze at for a Kickstarter-funded project. What they miscalculated was the demand for the Pebble Time, for which they spent too much money on R&D and marketing to justify the results. They should have iterated on the original design, making it cheaper, smaller, and longer-lasting. Instead they tried to go upmarket and compete with the Apple Watch, with predictable results.
I wonder if you could figure out a pseudo code like python. I'd think yaml might work also

Something:
Filename: index.js
Content: |
Class Example...

Another item would be some kind of hyperlinking. Maybe you could load in a hrefs but there might be a more semantically popular way, but the data feeding these AIs just aren't constructed like that.
Image/video generation could possibly be used to advance LLMs in quite a substantial way:

If the LLM during it's "thinking" phase encountered a scenario where it had to imagine a particular scene (let's say a pink elephant in a hotel lobby), then it could internally generate that image and use it to aid in world-simulation / understanding.

This is what happens in my head at least!
> It looks like they're memory in pixel (MIP) displays, which are basically reflective LCDs I think.

Reflective LCDs with embedded memory, hence the name. Normal LCDs need to be refreshed continuously, but MIP LCDs remember the last frame and efficiently refresh themselves, so the CPU is free to go into deep sleep as long as the display is static.
I loved my scanwatch, but it lacked the feature set of any smart watch for fitness tracking. I hope daily for them to release an improved version.
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Please for the love of all that's holy pay attention to us, swimmers. We may not be nearly as large a group as runners but we are very underserved by the tracker watch market. The world needs only so many glorified pedometers.

I know that tracking strokes, laps and swim distance is much harder than steps. But it's doable because Apple mostly gets it right. Yet nobody beside Apple seems to have nailed the simple pool lap count algorithm (remember some prefer to flip turn while others prefer to turn above water especially at the shallow end) but the iWatch is so crap in so many other ways that the world really needs a competent swim tracker that doesn't need to be on a charger every 20 minutes.

EDIT: Better yet, make it fully open with access to gyro/accel data so I can develop my own perfect, swimmer's app and maybe make some money as an added benefit.
Don't underestimate an always on display. It's very nice to be able glance down to see the time or other info without making an exaggerated gesture first. It was what I appreciated most after I switched from Fitbit.

As to the Fitbit in particular, they just aren't well made anymore and have a habit of dying just out of warranty. My last one got stuck in a reboot loop 14 months after purchase. I tried everything with support from factory reset to letting the battery fully die, but nothing helped. Google told me to throw it out and buy another. My previous one had battery issues after 2.5 years, despite never letting it go below 20%. They are considered disposable devices now and aren't built to last.
> estimated costs ranging from $7 to $12 million per cable https://www.perplexity.ai/page/baltic-sea-cable-sabotage-ZPH...
I had an amazfit watch, didn't quite scratch the pebble itch and it has been relegated to the IT junk drawer. The thing I miss the most is the pebble display. I don't need heart rate, I don't need GPS, I don't need sleep tracking, I just want a watch that shows my notifications and has a great battery life.

I am pleased they are coming back!
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Well, it's certainly a strategic victory play. I'm not sure how much I buy the charitable aspects of this though.
Which data are you unable to view while offline? I never sync my Garmin watch to my phone, and I'm able to view all the data that interests me on the watch.
Ah. I am perpetuating a meme that is almost a century old. :D

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/22/world-end/
the stack (or stacks, for multithreaded processes) is not a "section" as far as executable file formats are concerned. It is amazingly hard at compile time to "know" that a specific pointer is on any stack.
US banks do pay interest. If you're not earning at least US federal funds rate minus ~50bps, that's on you for not choosing to spend 5 min to open a bank account.

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/high-interest-savings-to-get/

Capital One/CIT/Citi/PNC/Apple Card/Marcus/Ally/American Express are all reputable, big banks with long histories.
Genetically edited mosquitoes haven't scaled yet. Why?
Pet-peeve: I hate titles like this, “biggest loss in history” is meaningless unless it’s inflation-adjusted, and it almost never is. Is this a bigger loss in real terms? Or is this just a big number? I’m guessing it’s the second.

Edit: I read the article, it’s definitely the second case. Is this _also_ the biggest loss in real terms? I don’t know.
Essentially, Deepseek is showing that there is a lot of room for improvement with AIs. To paraphrase Orwell, AIs are a lot more like Alarm Clocks and a lot less like Manhattan Projects.
There's also a portion of "doomerism" which I think is thinly disguised bragging for status and investor money.

Ex: "The stuff I'm involved with is soooo powerful that I hope you remembered to invest with us as we navigate this delicate moment of imminent godhood and you should definitely likeratesubscribe to my prophetic warnings."
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As a subscriber to the (print) Post and steady reader, the decision not to endorse struck me as bizarrely coy. Day after day the A section was full of news articles that more or less labeled Donald Trump a fool, liar, and dangerous man. Yes, OK, so now why not endorse his opponent?
I mean, it is IP law, this stuff was all invented to help big corps support their business models. So, it is impossible to predict what any of it means until we see who is willing to pay more to get their desired laws enforced. We’ll have to wait for more precedent to be purchased before us little people can figure out what the laws are.
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Sorry to hear that - are there any particular tweaks you think would work to reduce the impact? Is it i.e. the blue used by code snippets? Or because there's also the diff syntax which has green/reds?
Screwdriver. Many of them have sheared pins such that the lock doesn't engage.
I moved from Pebble to Casio F-91W. Worth every penny!
Well, using all computing power on AI is definitely not as bad as using it on the latest crazy crypto coin that has no value for society.

But the problem for NVDA is that they charge too much for it. I'm pretty sure that other companies, maybe the Chinese, will commoditize GPUs is not so distant future.
They didn't have to do this. They didn't even acquire Pebble outright, they acquired it through Fitbit, and Pebble was just a part of Fitbit's portfolio from a previous acquisition.
Pebble Time used an LCD display just like every other Pebble
Is the consolidation of food companies and them artificially driving up prices to increase their profit margins the actual reason? I'm asking because I don't know. In my general experience that doesn't happen very often. They strive to keep their margins the same as a percentage of the cost. So this means the margin is a larger dollar value but as a percentage it's about the same. This would point to something else causing an increase in the supply costs. This also gets magnified down to the consumer because the retailer is still going to strive to keep their same profit margin percentage as well.

One thing that I suspect is that labor costs are going up. I understand people feel that wages aren't keeping up with inflation but wages are also going to continue to drive inflation. One thing that's always struck me as strange, is when I was young I remember food co-ops being a thing and farmers selling direct to consumers through the co-ops or other farmer markets. Those prices were always significantly less than what you would pay at the stores. There was still big box stores that could keep low margins. Walmart still existed large grocery chains existed, etc... now anytime I see a local farm stand or a farmers market or any co-op-based thing the prices far outpace what you get at even the most boutique grocery stores. Often times a lot of these farmers markets are simply selling repackaged goods from these grocery stores too.

I suspect the drive for all of this is that we have artificially inflated our food price at the supply level and it is now trickling down to everyone. The massive amount of subsidies we pay out to farmers and the massive amount of money that is spent to artificially keep prices high and the tariffs that are issued against imports of foreign foods all drive these crazy price increases. The fact that farmers feel like they need new tractors every few years and that big companies like John Deere have betrayed their customer base by blocking right to repair and the government has done nothing. That seed companies have taken over the agricultural industry and want to license the use of seed instead of selling it. And if you've ever engaged in one of those license agreements for seeds woe be unto you if you try and take a non-licensed seed because you will be sued.

I think if we want to really address the food price problem we need to start fixing some of the core agricultural problems. Cuz I don't believe it's with the food brands themselves it starts much earlier in the chain.
May I ask why it was so special for you? As I did not participate in all the hype and now I'm a happy owner of a Garmin watch and it does seem like it is closer in specs to Pebble than most other smartwatches. Other than the openness.
This could be an extinction level event for some VCs.
Hi, please support vanilla linux phones this time?
>> Some spiders eat their partner after mating, should we do that?

Have you spent time with many married couples? ;)
And it's doing so because of, or as a consequence of their policies.

If it's a consequence of a 'buggy ML classifier', well, it's FB's policy to use one for censorship.

You can't launder accountability with an 'It's AI' black box.