skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big Tech companies acquired and acqu-hired many unsustainable small and medium sized businesses in the past 16 years. Most people don't know that because seller doesn't want to admit they were a bad unsustainable business and buyer doesn't want to admit they are buying a bad unsustainable business.
forgot the name of the watch but it had an lcd display to save battery and a full touchscreen around 2017? i ended up using the lcd display mostly for HB and walk distance. it would be great if we had a completely e-ink based pebble watch with backlighting (lcd display was great but couldn't be viewed in the dark :/)
"कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन |
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि" - Bhagvad gita, chapter 2, verse 47.

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction.
I used more to fine-tune SDXL and it looked horrible.
Let them them revvel in this glory IMO :), it's rare to see this kind of thing happen in the hardware space.
https://physicalintelligence.company is working on this – see a demo where their robot does ~exactly what you said, I believe based on a "generalist" model (not pretrained on the tasks): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-UTyb7lOEw
Machine learning algorithms? Someone hacked Facebook to block Linux? So, there are other options besides overzealous policy makers.
AI Is Too Unpredictable to Behave According to Human Goals
I didn't. I actually bought some nvda for 124, might not be a good call :/

I still think it's going to increase the sales of NVidia GPUs though, now smaller players can do it too.
If by "ridiculously tricky" you mean "requires specialized equipment and domain knowledge". Like say, skiing.

With a cheapish Rigol spectrum analyzer and homebrew receive antennas and DIY wooden/pvc tripods you could probably do 3m open-air measurements to within 3dB of what you would measure in an anechoic chamber at a test laboratory if you were very careful. I can 100% assure you that is possible with a commercial dipole kit and horn antenna, neither of which is that expensive if you're getting paid. This in in the FM band so you could use dipoles and a low-end analyzer to the tenth harmonic.
For future reference, tying access solely to one mobile number is an inherently bad idea --- because as you discovered, these devices are easily lost or broken. It is a single point of failure.

I recommend using at least two numbers when possible --- your own number and the number for your wife, mother, friend or even an old phone that never leaves home.

I keep an old phone at home with an ultra cheap ($3/month) Ultra Mobile PayGo SIM just for situations like yours. If I lose/kill my main phone, I'm not locked out of my accounts.

For life in general, I have found that a backup plan is a good idea.

https://www.ultramobile.com/paygo/
We tried.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests

The outcomes were SUBSTANTIALLY worse than the US government expected. The results of this study are why even war planes rarely go supersonic over the continental US.
You can still steal the proverbal catalystic convertor even if its not your employer's truck.
No, pebble was definitely e-ink. And I think the most recent ones had colour epaper.

Edit: Sorry, looking further down I see that they say epaper, which is not the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845508

It looks like they're memory in pixel (MIP) displays, which are basically reflective LCDs I think.
I’m the first to criticize Google and say they have the attention span of a crack addled flea.

But I have to commend them for this.
STL please!
Didn't they crack down mostly on HFT? I haven't heard of a huge crackdown on low/medium frequency quants, and LLM research has low crossover with high freq. quant stuff
Your uncle sounds like a lot more fun than the latest javascript build system.

Imagine being confident enough to believe and document that. Crazy? Maybe, but a crazy one can appreciate.
Americans are having a crisis of confidence as their technological lead is crumbling before their eyes. Expect more tantrums of this kind.
Wasn’t that bought by Automattic?
Those are not the right population metrics to compare. If you're talking full Bay Area, you might as well talk NYC metro area (MTA claims to serve 15.3 million [1]). Tokyo's even trickier, but I think 36 million [2] seems closer to right.

It's probably not worth arguing about too much, because ultimately I agree with you that there's a lot more to be done to reduce car ridership. But pointing at those places and saying "copy them" misses a lot of structural differences.

[1] https://mta.info/about
[2] https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0056b6a98b8b4a48869f822...
The Basis was incredible. It had heath monitoring features Apple is just getting to. I get why it died though. Their V2 exploded on people’s wrists…
" Type-A prima donna alpha engineer "

Most are bluster.

Talk loud and fast and be rude, arrogant, and lot of people will think you must really know what you are doing.
The Withings ScanWatch was the right fit for me. Unfortunately the HR sensor stopped working recently and the water resistant seal broke, and it's out of warranty, so it's in a drawer. But IMO that was the right idea: analog time, discrete notifications, ppg/ekg sensors, 2-week battery life.
3M has a whole paper [0] on their use of NOVEC for whole datacenter cooling and had a really cool demo [1] of it a decade ago

[0] https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1838765O/3m-fluids-for-d... [1] https://www.cablinginstall.com/data-center/article/16477494/...
Not a "normal" one, though...

"black and white memory LCD using an ultra low-power "transflective LCD" manufactured by Sharp"
Dubious article. The role of aggression in establishing and maintaining social hierarchies was not mis-diagnosed in 1974.
The behaviors of alpha males (wolves) and alpha females (hyenas) are complex but threat and pain is part of the pattern. Highly variable by species, environment, and demographics.

Go over the hills from Silicon Valley to Ano Nuevo Marine Conservation Area and watch the behavior of male elephant seals like Bernie LeBoef has done for 30 years.

How does any of this apply to Silicon Valley other than as a cute and wrong metaphor? Are we really taking leads from dogs?
The Garmin Fenix 8 is $1,099
Why Solana?
> If people know you are a standout contributor then you will be hired quickly into desirable roles. If people think you are a hired gun who only does the bare minimum that next role will be harder to find.

That hasn't really been true in my experience. This might be another one of those cultural shifts. work connections in general are looser and you need to do a lot more than just casually chat at work to really "stand out". People are arguably overworked and have no time to perceive who does what work how efficiently unless you're a direct co-worker or a lead.

I agree with don't be a grouch. No one like a grouch unless its calling out bad leadership. But I think being nice is better than trying to be the best. People remember how you made them feel, and current work (epecially WFH) may limit how much you get to impact a specific person's workload.

>On top of that, carrying around bitterness and cynicism is just bad for you.

YMMV. how you process that matters a lot. If you use some cynicism you can protect yourself. If youre all cynicism you become a grouch.

>Sometimes that means making dumb business decisions like sacrificing an evening to a company that doesn't care, but IMO that sort of thing is worth it now and then.

only in a market as bad as this where you don't want to go back to job searching. But normally, I wouldn't do this. Especially in my industty: give them an inch give them a country mile, and then that "crunch" period has become 70 hour workweeks for 6+ months.
This suggests one should just upload a tar rather than a compressed file. Makes sense because one can scan the contents for malicious files without risking a decompressor bug.

BTW npm decompressed all packages anyhow because it lets you view the contents these days on its website.
See this post that explores the censorship in DeepSeek’s models and shares numerous examples:

https://medium.com/the-generator/deepseek-hidden-china-polit...

Another interesting prompt I saw someone share was something like asking it which countries spend the most on propaganda, where it responds with a scripted response about how the CCP is great.

What’s interesting is that the different versions of DeekSeek’s models behave differently offline. Some of the models have no censorship when run offline, while others still do. This suggests that the censorship isn’t just in the hosted version but also somehow built into the training of the model. So far it is all done clumsily but what happens when the bias forced into the model by the Chinese government is more subtle? Personally I think there’s great danger to democratic countries from DeepSeek being free, just like there is danger with TikTok.
I'm not sure you can put it in MBA language like 'specific pitch' or 'value add', you had to try it and see if it felt right for you.

The watch had a pretty coherent ux flow for a non-touchscreen device, and could be easily used with gloves on without even looking at the watch in some scenarios (e.g. shortcutting to music controls). It later paired some unique animations to make things feel friendly and a bit quirky ( https://www.slashgear.com/pebble-hires-webos-designers-for-u... ).

Also there was a pretty decent hobbyist/maker culture around the watch with the ideas of add-on accessories, etc.

The challenge from a business standpoint mightve been needing to provide vc-backed startup returns without killing the culture that loved the product. I think they were trying to find a way to do a subscription for extra services.
no someone forked an older janus model. pro is not released yet
Tested `ollama run deepseek-r1:8b` myself. Give plus minus same results, also uncensored. So this is the filter in the online version.
OH HAPPY DAY! I loved my pebble. It was the perfect balance of features and battery-life.

My favorite watch face inspired me to get into may e-ink projects.

Horizon by JR Mobley
https://store-beta.rebble.io/app/5616d36a6ddd7fea8800001f
> hasn’t successfully replicated

To be clear, lots of studies have shown that animals in richer environments do less drugs; though the effect doesn't seem to be as strong as Alexander claimed.
If training runs are now on the $6MM/run for SOTA model scale, I think on the contrary: closed labs are screwed, in the same way that Linux clobbered Windows for server-side deployments. Why couldn't Windows just copy whatever Linux did? Well, the codebases and research directions diverged, and additionally MS had to profit off of licensing, so for wide-scale deployments Linux was cheaper and it was faster to ship a fix for your problem by contributing a patch than it was to beg and wait for MS... Causing a virtuous cycle (or, for Microsoft, a vicious cycle) where high-tech companies with the skills to operate Linux deployments collaborated on improving Linux, and as a result saw much lower costs for their large deployments, while also having improved flexibility, which then incentivized more companies to do the same. The open models are becoming much cheaper, and if you want something different you can just run your own finetune on your own hardware.

Worse for the proprietary labs is how much they've trumpeted safety regulations. They can't just release a model without extensive safety testing, or else their entire regulatory push falls apart. DeepSeek can just post a new model to Hugging Face whenever they feel like it — most of their Tiananmen-style filtering isn't at the model level, it's done manually at their API layer. Ditto for anyone running finetunes. In fact, circumventing filtering is one of the most common reasons to run a finetune... A week after R1's release, there are already uncensored versions of the Llama and Qwen distills published on HF. The open source ecosystem publishes faster.

With massively expensive training runs, you could imagine a world where model development remained very centralized and thus the few big labs would easily fend off open-source competition: after all, who would give away the results of their $100MM investment? Pray that Zuck continues? But if the training runs are cheap... Well, there are lots of players who might be interested in cutting out the legs from the centralized big labs. High Flyer — the quant firm that owns DeepSeek — no longer is dependent on OpenAI for any future trading projects that use LLMs, for the cost of $6MM... Not to mention being immune from any future U.S. export controls around access to LLMs. That seems very worthwhile!

As LeCun says: DeepSeek benefitted from Llama, and the next version of Llama will likely benefit from DeepSeek (i.e. massively reduced training costs). As a result, there's incentive for both companies to continue to publish their results and techniques, and that's bad news for the proprietary labs who need the LLMs themselves to be profitable and not just the application of LLMs to be profitable... Because the open models will continue eating their margins away, at least for large-scale deployments by competent tech companies (i.e. like Linux on servers).
Hardware is hard to almost impossible as a sustainable business as a small company unless there is a thriving ODM market and you can just use your own software.
The evidence only shows that fb is blocking distrowatch links
they're very protective about giving foreign states/entities access to information stored by swizz companies. It's not just for banking. As an american,any country not part of the five-eyes coalition and also not a hostile country is great. Not that I have anything to hide, I just want to support a culture of privacy.
I like my instinct, but Garmin is so locked down, less hackable than even an Apple Watch.
> The US is still very much at the forefront of this stuff

Doesn't look like it, because the some of the biggest US tech companies now active (including Meta and Alphabet) couldn't come up with what this much-smaller Chinese company has. Which begs the question, what is that companies like Meta, Alphabet and the like do with the (already) hundreds of billions of dollars that they invested in this space?
"all it takes is billions of dollars"

Well ... there's your moat.
By choosing the secure path of a $120k/year salary, you are taking on a certain level of risk.

However, if you want to protect your future potential, you could retain 20% of the equity and allow for a 80% buyback option.
Not a reason to quit undergrad as a junior but a great reason to not start grad school.

Funny I was telling math grad students about to graduate about how many of the people I knew who got the most out of a PhD were more interested in teaching than research. Might give you 150 points of GRE advantage in applications if the selection committee were smart about it.
Things worked out! We got acquired. Heads down on merging - https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
As per blog post:

"PebbleOS took dozens of engineers working over 4 years to build..."
Reminds me of Greg Bear's Blood Music and even Vitals.
I'm willing to bet that Satya loves this. Microsoft's business model relies on AI getting cheaper and commoditized. Paying gazillions to OpenAI can hardly be fun for Microsoft.
You can just used Iceberg Java API: https://iceberg.apache.org/docs/1.6.1/api/#file-level

Use it with Dropwizard/Springboot, you get to expose rest APIs too.
How do you guys organize your photos to give to your kids one day? We just have too many photos and videos. I like it, but I try to make some form of a library that has the best photos of each year/vacation/birthday, etc.

There is no need to see 50 photos of each vacation or birthday, but it's nice to see 3-5 and have the ability to dig deeper if you want to.
feels like it is in tech. any gains in hardware or algorithm advance, immediately get consumed by increase in data retention and software bloat.
Same! It's a field I mess around with a lot as an amateur and was hoping to get a better hang on it for a personal project.
> It's copyright infringement by illegal broadcast.

And I'd bet they would make a good attempt at fining you for each channel that you modulated for.
There's a famous quip from the 2008 US election cycle, where Biden remarked that every sentence Rudy Giuliani forms consists of "a noun, a verb and 9/11".

This is pretty much the same thing on a national scale. US discourse in particular is increasingly petty, bully-like, disrespectful, ignorant or straight up hostile as seen with the tone concerning Indian tech workers recently. Even Latin Americans or Europeans aren't safe from it any more. I'm afraid we're only at the start of this rather than the end as China and others catch up or even lead in some domains.
Meh. It's not as if OpenAI is unable to access open source. The delta is not in open source but in DeepSeek talent.
As someone who’s been using Go since 2013 at commpanies like Apple, Microsoft, and Uber, this all seems quite unnecessary.

That said, if it helps people do “their thing” in what they believe is an easier (more straightforward) way, then I welcome the new changes.
Because as op pointed out it's faster. It has ready access to the correct usage of different libraries.
I hold a ham radio licence in a couple of countries, although what's happening here is far outside of the remit of ham operations.

I'm pretty certain this is not legal in my locale, but I don't think the author of the article is making this out to be legal - and I don't think they should get in trouble for any of this publishing [assuming you're adressing them, not the commenter]. Perhaps the equivalent of a script kiddy could get up to no good with it, nothing new from the last 20 years of computer hacking then.

I'd far rather see enforcement and ire directed at the proliferation of poorly shielded junk that spews noise all over the spectrum, at surprisingly high power, that seems to have no trouble being sold online or imported for sale in many countries - and is often, strictly speaking, not legal with regards to necessary EMC, and probably safety, standards.
WTF? No, as in “Amazfit makes more than one model of watch”. It’s a hard left into the weeds to come away with your interpretation.
NileGreen*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAU0FX1d044
they go together. once you have a walled garden, the temptation to moderate/censor it is too large. censorship was practically impossible in the old internet before social media.
By all means, feel free to demonstrate where your network has gotten you. I'm sure we'll all be envious!
I live in Christchurch while working remotely for US companies and you’d be surprised how affordable it is here in those circumstances.
I've seen enough people extremely qualified being denied promotions because they were "too good" at their current role. Meanwhile I've also seen as of late "promotions" that are just a title change while only adding to your workload with no extra pay. There's no winning with many companies.

If it's not your dream job or it truly is the best comp in your area, you need to be very careful with promotion tracks and have a plan to keep poking the people involved. But all that already means it may not be a good fit of a company who cares about growth anyway, so...
Transferring around dumb tar is actually smart because the HTTPS connection can negotiate a compressed version of it to transfer - e.g. gzip, brotli, etc. No need to bake in an unchangable compression format into the standard.
I don't think it's just about who will repay you. Our responsibility to each other is not nearly that transactional.

For example, the individual who is most likely to live with the consequences of your decision is... future you.

Future-me isn't going to pay me back, but I am always grateful to past-me when I set future-me up for success.
> Every engineer I've ever worked with was pretty easy-going.

Every one seems easy going until you disagree with them.
https://sotxejn.org/2024/12/18/rio-grande-valley-organizatio...

Word to the wise, this is the internet.
The "Slicing Pie" model has some ideas that might help you

https://www.google.com/search?q=slicingpie
The hashes of the uncompressed tarballs would be great. Then the HTTP connection can negotiate a compression format for transfer (which can change over time at HTTP itself changes) rather than baking it into the NPM package standard (which is incredibly inflexible.)
These days technology moves so fast it's hard to keep up. The slowest link in the system is the human being.

That's a strong argument that 'if it isn't broke, don't fix it."

LOts of numbers being thrown around, you add up tiny things enough times you can get a big number. But is npm package download the thing that's tanking the internet? No? Then this is a second- or thirt-order optimization.
> The vast majority of our work is already automated to the point where most non-manual workers are paid for the formulation of problems (with people), social alignment in their solutions, ownership of decision-making / risk, action under risk, and so on.

There's a lot of pretty trivial shit to automate in the economy, but I think the gist of your comment still stands. Of the trivial stuff that remains to be automated, a lot of it can be done with Zapier and low-code, or custom web services. Of what remains after that, a lot is as you (eloquently) say hugely dependent on human agency; only a small fraction of that will be solvable by LLMs.

As the CTO of a small company the only opportunities for genuinely useful application of LLMs right now are workloads that would've could've been done by NLU/NLP (extraction, synthesis, etc.). I have yet to see a task where I would trust current models to be agents of anything.
No, but...not moving fast
I vaguely recall a line from a sociology lecture, to the effect that masculinity is always in crisis because it has to be refashioned every generation and culture to fit the current situation. Femininity doesn't change as much because babies are pretty much the same everywhere.

Until quite recently (~100 years?), child-rearing was the socially approved center of female life in most cultures (obviously many women avoided it, just like many men avoid the tropes of masculinity, but it was where social pressure would move you) and babies and children are an enormous amount of work (1). So as the economic, cultural and material world changes what it means to be a "man" can change, but what it means to be a woman didn't start to change until much more recently. So Masculinity has been in crisis for millennia- always worried about lack of manly virtues (2)- because it has to be constantly changed to fit with the times.

1: Personal experience, 2016-present.

2: See, e.g. https://acoup.blog/2020/02/07/collections-the-fremen-mirage-... for a discussion of how people of Caesar's day viewed their decadence
Bot or ML gone wrong and it misunderstood the mention of Linux when associated with bad things and just equated them?
Threw away mac, bought ThinkPad and then installed Linux?
A better use of flexible screens than folding devices. Fitting under the cuffs of men's shirts is a constraint. I dictate most text entered on my phone, so a squishy typing surface wouldn't be so bad. Camera position could be tricky.
isn't this a file system thing? Why bake it into npm?
I can relate. My perception is that a company is for me, not the other way around. This really flips how work is handled.
My pebble (my wife’s pebble that she never wore) has lost some of its plastic cover a while ago (wear and tear) and won’t turn on anymore. Truly looking forward to this project succeeding in its intent!
I suspect this is part of the reason unschooling is become more popular.
I've got one. But I never got used to the idea of having a watch.