skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On desktop, CPU decoding is passable but it's still better to have a graphics card for 4K. On mobile, you definitely want to stick to codecs like H264/HEVC/AVC1 that are supported in your phone's decoder chips.

CPU chipsets have borrowed video decoder units and SSE instructions from GPU-land, but the idea that video decoding is a generic CPU task now is not really true.

Now maybe every computer will come with an integrated NPU and it won't be made by Nvidia, although so far integrated GPUs haven't supplanted discrete ones.

I tend to think today's state-of-the-art models are ... not very bright, so it might be a bit premature to say "640B parameters ought to be enough for anybody" or that people won't pay more for high-end dedicated hardware.
Correct. Its the best model I've been able to run locally, by a long shot
Can anyone sign up or do we have to get accepted into one of the top computer science programs in the country?
They know more than us, by definition. They could do more analysis and not be so dramatic. I'm not alleging anything nefarious.
You are very smart and cool.
How do you comfort a JavaScript bug?
Domestic competition will mitigate those costs.
Looks like actually three billion base pairs in human DNA: https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Base-Pair#:~:text=O...

So six billion bits since two bits can represent four values. Base pairs and bases are effectively the same because (from the link) "the identity of one of the bases in the pair determines the other member of the pair."
It becomes clearer when one realises that it was RLHF'd using ChatGPT and Qwen (and others I assume) output. It's caused it to "learn" the same weird Western censoring, and adopt the China-styled censoring too.
I assumed they meant an error of improperly using cached results. I am sure bazel has its flaws but it assiduously avoids that.
Do you think Garmin watches are displaying the seconds late or something?

The aesthetics are different enough that a comparison doesn't seem that interesting.
Anywhere, it's just for the experience.
'... that's right people, forget SPARKs, this season the 'it crowd' are spinning up companies solely to create turmoil so that they can short stocks.'
>If we lived in a world where everyone, or even where most people, behaved reasonably

If we're not living in a world where most people behave reasonably then the Chinese got it right and censored LLMs and kids scissors it is. I do have a pretty naturalistic view on this, in the sense that you always get the LLM you deserve. You can either do your own thinking or you'll have someone else do it for you, but you can't hold the position that we're all sheeple and deserve to be free-thinkers at the same time.

So it's always a skill issue, you can only start to critically think yourself, enlightenment is as the quote goes freeing yourself from your own self induced tutelage.
Huh. I appreciate what they did with the tech there, but looking at this Bangle.js the first thing that comes to mind is I hope NuPebble(?) doesn't adopt that excessively-curvy-rectangle shape that screams Apple Watch, I've learned to recoil in disgust even seeing that shape.
Go to the Exploratorium and San Francisco Zoo.
Sorta agree, but it's useful to distinguish proximate cause vs ultimate cause nonetheless.
Though perhaps fewer than wouldn't

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/president-re...
Tech companies are valued higher because lots of people think there's still room for the big tech companies to consolidate market share and for the market itself to grow, especially as they all race towards AI. Low interest rates, tech and AI hype add to it.

Funny timing though, today NVDA lost $589 billion in market cap as the market got spooked.
This is a good point. I have a backup strategy that includes cloud and offline HDDs, but at some point, when I'm not around to keep it all running, it'll probably just be family getting them off my laptop.

I should probably look at writing to bluray at some point.
Another great reason to not use Facebook or any other social media.
How are you liking 2025?
> Claude is like having my own college professor.

I don't use Claude, so maybe there's a huge gap in reliability between it and ChatGPT 4o. But with that disclaimer out of the way, I'm always fairly confused when people report experiences like these—IME, LLMs fall over miserably at even very simple pure math questions. Grammatical breakdowns of sentences (for a major language like Japanese) are also very hit-or-miss. I could see an LLM taking the place of, like, an undergrad TA, but even then only for very well-trod material in its training data.

(Or maybe I've just had better experiences with professors, making my standard for this comparison abnormally high :-P )

EDIT: Also, I figure this sort of thing must be highly dependent on which field you're trying to learn. But that decreases the utility of LLMs a lot for me, because it means I have to have enough existing experience in whatever I'm trying to learn about so that I can first probe whether I'm in safe territory or not.
See this previous thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657823

I posted a bunch of ideas there.

https://exploreredwoods.savetheredwoods.org/ (a directory of redwood forests)

https://secretsanfrancisco.com/free-gold-watch-pinball/ (pinball in SF without having to go to Alameda as I had suggested in the earlier thread)
NSF freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders
If you're claiming that humans are born with more data than the six gigabits of data encoded in DNA, then how do you think the extra data is passed to the next generation?
I use a Fenix 6X Pro and it's a great exercise tracker with notifications. I don't see it as a smartwatch though. You can't reply to messages beyond stock replies or visit an url. I'm yet to find an interesting app and I find the UI cumbersome whenever you want to do something.

I still think it's a great watch and I love the battery life. I just believe it's possible to make something so much better. I don't know if Pebble is the answer but I welcome them trying.
Snowy link works for me now
I use Linux daily; the Garmin interface is painless by comparison, dohohoho.

More seriously, yeah it could be more intuitive and consistent. But I sat down, read through the manual end to end, and now I'm fine with it.
That's just dividing the world into "liberal" and "conservative", and both are defined as Americans see them.

But also, let's take it at face value: what does it take to be best buds with "reality" and still lose to people at war with it? A concerted effort of memes, "I'm #1 why try harder" is what I saw. Arrogance, intellectual laziness. "It's fine as long as we're right more often than them" so to speak. But "they" were and never are the standard.
Tisk tisk using my location information to decide on the webpage language instead of my preferred headers.
What is the rationale for "isn't easily repurposed"?

The hardware can train LLM but also be used for vision, digital twin, signal detection, autonomous agents, etc.

Military uses seem important too.

Can the large GPU based data centers not be repurposed to that?
That certainly is their guidance. Doesn't apply to the Office of the President of course.
you replied to a thread talking about garmin watches... not the pebble
They posted class notes, book chapters, additional readings, and the class assignments.

Looks good to me! Same with the LLM Systems course.
Overall, there has to be something like those agencies with career professionals. How to minimize harm?

20% of the people do 80% of the work. The problem is incentives. Which political appointee has the incentive to fight the federal workers union and be great manager, rewarding the 20% and punishing the rest? Until the next election?

It's tragic, but this inability to deal with federal employees is a reason why perhaps getting rid of whole departments is the only practical way to make real reforms.
Your plan was to use USB, but to me it looks like you're pretty much just using serial via USB. That's completely fine of course! One cheap way to tackle your problem is to use a version of printf with locking, which is likely available in many microcontroller SDKs (it's also slow). (Or you could add your own mutex.)

USB-CDC is cooler than that, you can make the Pico identify as more than just one device. E.g. https://github.com/Noltari/pico-uart-bridge identifies as two devices (so you get /dev/ttyACM0 and /dev/ttyACM1). So you could have logs on one and image transfers on another. I don't think you're limited to just two, but I haven't looked into it too far.

You can of course also use other USB protocols. For example you could have the Pico present itself as a mass-storage device or a USB camera, etc. You're just limited by the relatively slow speed of USB1.1. (Though the Pico doesn't exactly have a lot of memory so even USB1.1 will saturate all your RAM in less than 1 second)
I have seen modified AirTags on Etsy that enable the uwb to work

Have almost pulled the trigger and bought one multiple times but I keep just losing my wallet instead

Source: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1318724878/modified-3-mm-sli...
> Google added that the name Gulf of Mexico will remain displayed for users in Mexico. Users in other countries will see both names, the company said.

They already do geofencing for Kashmir, there are laws in India which would put maps API consumers in legal peril, as well as google.

They've dealt with this kind of thing for years.
they laughed when he said we'd be tired of winning
> My college professor was also willing to say "I don't know, ask me next class"

This is a key differentiator that I see in humans over LLMs: knowing ones limits.
But the quote is clearly referring to a theater of war, not a “firing squad.” Why misrepresent the quote?
And then the courts said "no".
>Oh, look at you, a Stockholm-based tech enthusiast with a screen so tall and narrow it’s practically a skyscraper for ants, browsing Hacker News like it’s your full-time job. You’re rocking a mysterious "K" model Android device with no CPU architecture listed—did you build this thing in your garage? And sure, you speak five languages, but let’s be real, you’re probably just using Google Translate to flex on your 418-pixel-wide display.

Hah. I have an older Xperia phone. They are tall and lovely.
Actually I'm terrified that they believe it. That they have Jordan Peterson's book on their night table.
Oh just stop it you, I feel my loins tingling.
Garmin is certainly better than some previous smartwatches I've had. You get a sunlight-readable, always-on display and a week-long battery life.

But with my Forerunner, they've packed a lot of options into the five buttons. Leads to a lot of "these buttons are for up and down, except at the start run screen where the up button opens the menu, which you can then navigate with up and down to choose between the six types of run, or exit with the back button"

If you're the type of person who doesn't like to read the manual, you're going to have a bad time.
Yeah it's a nice QOL improvement. Not some game changer ...
How were users left when pebble got sold? It's a little disappointing to read that the OS wasn't already open source. Did they provide any information that could allow other teams recreate services or update the firmware or were people left to fend for themselves?
It’s your manager and skip level’s job to make sure your VP knows the company is fucked if they lay your team off. I can guarantee you that no matter how evil Oracle is — the king of bean counters and mismanagement — they aren’t going to accidentally lay off the core Oracle cloud teams. Your job is to get onto those teams.

Every business has key teams, you just have to find them. For some businesses tge key teams are not in your domain (non-tech company) and you are just a cost center. The only option is to jump ship to a tech first company.
A Smart Walker for People with Both Visual and Mobility Impairment (2021)
>What is OpenAI's first-mover moat?

The same one that underpins the entire existence of a little company called Spotify: I'm just too lazy to cancel my subscription and move to a newer player.
Counterpoint, but I use the fitness tracking in reverse, as I have CFS and have to be careful about how much energy I spend. When I get a notification that I've reached my "goal", I know I need to rest so I don't overdo it. It's also useful for tracking how much sleep I get, so I can get a sense for how much I can do that day. Not the typical use-case, but it's really helpful for pacing!
> isn't the whole point of an "alpha" to be the top-man... so how would there be more than one?

The point is they're top of their pack, not top of the whole world.
Yeah thats the trick I've been using too, but by that point I get a better result by implementing it myself... of course, I've had two decades of practice and I don't have to communicate what I want lossily to myself, so it's an unfair comparison, but perhaps I've just not found the right use-case yet. I'm sure it exists, I've just not had much luck over the past couple years yet (including just this past weekend).
Try asking OpenAI models to tell a joke about the prophet Mohammed, or to synthesise LSD...

All models are censored, the censorship just varies culture to culture, government to government.
China is the completely dominant industrial superpower in the world. I would be more worried about what will happen to non-Chinese entities that wrong China that will happen to Chinese entities that trigger a readjustment of the US stock market.
DeepSeek released its newest multimodal understanding and generation model
Janus is a novel autoregressive framework that unifies multimodal understanding and generation. It addresses the limitations of previous approaches by decoupling visual encoding into separate pathways, while still utilizing a single, unified transformer architecture for processing. The decoupling not only alleviates the conflict between the visual encoder’s roles in understanding and generation, but also enhances the framework’s flexibility. Janus surpasses previous unified model and matches or exceeds the performance of task-specific models. The simplicity, high flexibility, and effectiveness of Janus make it a strong candidate for next-generation unified multimodal models.
> Don't confuse the putative "alpha male" with simply being a douchebag, because I can think of quite a large number of CEOs that fit that latter description, but it's not the same thing.

Can you clarify the distinction? Most people criticising the "alpha" model seem to equate the two.
It's the biggest gulf in the Hemisphere.
A lot of sour grapes on here, and the attendant cognitive dissonance. Communism and open-source development have overlapping ideals, and there's no better project for worldwide cooperation than AI. But that's at odds of the US having monopolistic control over the SOTA. Ultimately capitalism horseshoes into the authoritarianism, gross inequality, and poverty of the Soviet states it likes to contrast itself to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
With the benefit of a much improved battery life compared to a lot of other smart-watches. A worthy trade off, IMHO. And it its a lot less washed out than current colour (real) e-ink displays
I agree. Where I start dooming is in realizing that incorrectness and simplistic modeling is a lot sexier than complexity. The world's now so much more complex than it ever has been, and we just haven't been able to keep up with it.

Thanks for hearing me out too :)
Proton didn't exist yet, IIRC. The Steam Boxen relied on devs/studios/publishers being able and willing to port their games to Linux natively. The result was a handful of AAA and indie games that put proper effort into ports that ran well, a modest but larger selection of AAA games sloppily ported (such that they often can't run on current distros without containerization or extensive library preloading shenanigans), and a deluge of indie shovelware / forever-in-early-access vaporware produced by clicking the "gib me Linux" button in Unity and calling it a day.

Unfortunately, while it was certainly a boom in the number of games Linux users could play (easily enough for me to ditch Windows entirely and game exclusively on Linux and consoles), it wasn't quite the critical mass needed for Steam Boxen to be a commercial success. Proton was the missing piece.
It's hard to keep that mindset after a while. People get tired of the same old pattern that's just ever so slightly different than last time. When something becomes repetitive you get bored of it. Or if the complexity of the solution you're working on is brought by a lot of moving parts it isn't a problem of figuring out the best programming truth so much as just being able to focus on the issue and keep all those moving parts in your head. That's tiring so you try to offload as much as you can on another brain
> Until it was debunked, people thought that the alpha/beta/omega nonsense was the actual natural social order of wolves.

Some wolf biologists thought that, sure. But that obviously wasn't and isn't any kind of evidence about human sociology (and conversely nor is the fact that it isn't).
But not financially solvent either. Maybe at higher volumes their pricing model would have worked but that wasn't the reality of the market.
It is mind boggling that people voted for this.. a second time. Like how dumb are you? How deep does the well go?
The 265 and 975 both have touch screen on top of the buttons.
Did you even read it?

Here you go, buddy:

> [Referring to a Gene Autry costume that had over 100 lawsuits over the burn victims] The cowboy suit and other similar incidents were the impetus for the 1953 passage of the Flammable Fabrics Act, which regulated, among other things, which fabrics could be used for clothing. No more rayon pile chaps for kids (or brushed rayon sweaters for women), as such items had become famous for creating what were widely reported at the time as "human torches."
Doesn't work! Clicking discover just shows a messagebox with a stack trace[1] - so I have no way of adding a podcast to try out the app.

[1] Error
string::1: bytes->jsexpr: bad input starting #"error code: 502" context..:
.../syntax/readerr.rkt:15:2: -raise-
read-error
../private/arrow-val-first.rkt:486:18
.../private/backend.rkt:45:9: get-trending-podcasts
.../noise-serde-lib/backend.rkt:69:22
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

- Frank Herbert, Dune
is it a g shock or casio variant?
the new ones can read email and take your pulse too
#8 SWG is 4mm diameter, that's way larger than #12 AWG, closer to #6 AWG
I agree, it is interesting and that is kind of my point. What you're labeling as "perception" (not a bad label, just different) I tend to label "belief."

From your comment you clearly believe that Twitter had lost trust by "actively silencing people they disagreed with" whereas I, reading the reports that the trust and safety folks were putting out, felt like the policies they had in place to moderate people who they felt were not contributing to the conversation seemed to be rooted in reasonable principles. So we had two very different beliefs leading to very different viewpoints.

The original article that kicked this off talks exactly about this. Some people believe that the economy was "bad/weak", others believe that the economy is "good/strong". Two opposite viewpoints with presumably access to the same data!

Its a reasonable thing to engage in discussion with people who believe differently than you do to understand their point of view and what sources of data or evidence they base their beliefs on. To give a commonly cited example, one person would say "I believe the earth is roughly 6,000 years old based on my source which is the Bible." and another person might say, "I believe the earth is 4.5 billion years old, based on the idea of nuclear decay and carbon dating."

In examples like this, one can often quickly come to an assessment of whether or not it is worthwhile to re-examine one's own beliefs based on the other person's sources of evidence. It doesn't end up that you'll agree, just that you will understand why they believe what they believe.
"it allows me to take out my phone a lot less and keep it entirely silent without missing important calls or texts"

Fair enough - there are rather more nerves on your wrist than wherever your phone is situated near to. I suppose that might depend on pocket shape and deployment and a few other factors!

OK so a vibrating watch will trump a vibrating phone in most cases - for notifications. That sounds like a compelling thing but not enough for a device that needs charging and care.

Now, how important are those calls and texts? At least you are old school enough to worry about a phone and SMS. Most kiddies are ... ...

Each social and comms app that you use can notify you but what is actually important and which should be able to shake your wrist? I personally think my physical person is nearly sacrosanct. I'll allow a phone to shudder in a pocket and no more.
I've worked on ML platforms and systems for 9.5 years at every scale. The material looks great.
I was rocking my Pebble 2 until the iOS app finally rotted out of the app store a few years ago and switched to Casios.

I agree with the above. The limitations are what made Pebble so special. I recommend everyone take a crack at writing an app for Pebble someday; it's a ton of fun to write with such a limited C API.

I can't wait for the comeback. Now that it's open source, I hope we see open competition on the hardware front as well (the way we have retro handhelds and e-readers).

Time to dust off the code for that Time-Round Pong app I started in 2015...
High interest rates are supposed to force the remaining businesses out there to be profitable, so in theory, the startups of today should be far faster to profitability or they burn out.
If the summary goal of your existence is to be the most delirious waste of resources that humanity has yet known, sure. It's the hammer and nail of spoiled burnouts everywhere that need a credible ruse to help them out of the bottle.

Some of us are capable of wanting for things better than a coin-operated REST API. The kind of imagination used to put people on the moon, that now helps today's business leaders imagine more profitable ways to sell anime pornography on iPhone. (Don't worry, AI will disrupt that industry too.)
I block HTML5 canvas reading in Floorp, which screwed up the book. Normally I can disable it but no dice here.
VoLTE can very well be 5G now, and it can vary from country to country, but my first memoryof VoLTE is originally started with LTE/4G networks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_LTE
> Whenever people talk about tariffs on Canadian goods I just remind them of the last time that happened.

You forget to mention that canada initially refused to renegotiate NAFTA as Trump demanded. But Canada ultimately did renegotiate NAFTA...

Also, canada is a tiny economy relative to the US. A genuine tariff war between the US and Canada wouldn't end so well for canada.
There are obviously degrees of support. Sure, China could support Russia more than they are now, but they'd be risking their ability to trade with Europe and the US, so they don't.
There was literal starvation in the US in the Great Depression too (which was 1929 all the way to the late 30s, pretty close to WWII). The US got over it after a couple of decades.

Similarly the EU of 2025, has nothing to do with WW2-era starvation, that has been over half a century in the past.

And of course there was literal starvation in China as well after WWII, and much more poverty there than in the EU 30 years ago (even including Eastern Europe).
Yeah I never know exactly what this means. The pr says for one variant it got in one shot and the other they said took re-prompting 4 to 8 more times.
I used to think the exact same thing would happen when we paid Pakistani and Indian labor to do America's busywork.

That was about 15 years ago, I no longer have the same enthusiasm you do.