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Aquifers maybe? Well water. The issues related to things like the California's central valley subsidence. Not sure data centers are at that scale though.

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

Even developing bog standard apps. MacOS without FDA is the death of creativity and productivity.

The permissions/security model should've expanded faster. There's huge benefits to being able to install arbitrary software and not worry about giving it access to everything.

But it would never cover everything to do with a computer.

Espressif ESP32-C5 packaged by Meta for smart home things. Open source software/firmware.

Kinda wonder about the security implications. Seems like sharing the firmware/software is a good start. However: "Muse Home Link itself only runs official firmware and can’t be reflashed"

Feels like we'll get pervasive, instrumented smart homes very soon. And probably need a lot of security to go with it.

https://x.com/natfriedman/status/2106099384891158562: "We manufactured a batch of 5000 Home Links which should be ready to ship in a few weeks, and they are free for Muse subscribers while supplies last."

"Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in order to allow backup apps to function properly on the Mac"

Huh? Seems like a disingenuous statement. I hope they update that sentence with something more accurate.

However, I've wanted much more granularity and pervasive permissions so I'm glad they're adding them.

I was wondering if there’s something different about the escalator manufacturer or design. Like longer landing areas or boarding area with extended hand rails. If you had any familiarity with them.

LA: 0.46 meters/s (1 mph)

Hong Kong: 0.75 meters/s (1.7 mph)

Kyiv: 0.9 meters/s (2 mph)

Kinda slower than I expected in general. I assume the speed is mostly dictated by boarding/alighting safety.

That's part of why larger banknotes like the €500 euro were discontinued.

Oliver Bullough on Odd Lots podcast[0] talked about this issue recently (the large denominations). I guess he had a book "Everybody Loves Our Dollars" that went into this too.

I found the argument compelling but hopefully there's a balance to be struck at individual vs organizational scales.

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etylJHe_p7Q

Your other photos are always very pleasant to look at too. Thank you for sharing them.

Are there other photo types you've thought about taking? (I don't know very much about the topic. Rocket launches? Cruise ships? 360/Cylindrical line scan sweeps?)

I assume the train rails and constant motion are part of the appeal of making trains the subject. I can't exactly think of parallels, maybe a factory assembly line.

I think I was trying to bring up the mechanics of the forum as another reason.

Between the guidelines + user thoughts (e.g. repetition, low novelty/new info), there's other reasons these types of replies might end up dead.

I am worried that it leads to people self selecting to other forums biasing the remaining userbase vote/vouch/flag distributions. In an exit vs voice situation, the voice kinda dies out. Then we end up other-izing people and homogenizing our communities.

But I concede it's also possible that the minority opinion issue could be the core driving force.

Thank you for your perspective and I agree as repetitive as it is, I hope hn can continue to surface disagreement/substantial views on a topic.

These comments don't stay up much anymore and I can't tell if it's structural to the forum (flag weight + statistical mechanics of votes + guidelines) or if it's the userbase sentiment.

Hmm.. anything else?

Do you have examples of sites that you prefer that achieve this, or have a relatively high signal to noise ratio that also have a high volume of discussion? (preferrably not an individual's blog + comment section)

I assume this isn't really for consumers/individuals currently? Kinda feels like an improved magic 8 ball.

I can't really intuit how I should think about when the model will be accurate. Is there somewhere to read more about that? I assume customers would just have some tests or talk to you.

It seems like the docs[0] are a better explanation? The comparison to llm tokens is kinda confusing.

It looks like the model takes as input a state (structured text? not sure if multi-modal) and a question (as a "Choice", "Score", or "Noul") with some additional augmentations possible. Then outputs the question's answers as appropriate (e.g. a choice, accompanying probabilities, confidence).

Edit: On the AI primer page, it looks like they do the RLCD on a pre-trained base model?

[0]:https://docs.typesafe.ai/concepts/system-one

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, Xiaomi 18 Fold and Huawei Pura X Max all have pretty similar fold aspect ratios to the Duo?

Not sure 'copying' is a clarifying explanation of what is happening though.

"I estimate that this factorization cost about 4,900 GPU-days, or 13.5 GPU-years, which is about $400k at current market prices"

"factorization ran at no marginal cost on spare or fragmented compute that couldn’t be used for other purposes"

Interesting use of stranded compute.

How do you deal with things like mental math or "thinking something through"?

Do you find this study to be accurate or inaccurate in any ways?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38728320/

Pdf seems available here: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Not-Everybody-Has-an-I...

If I could manually set/select locations this might be perfect for me too.

I wonder why the scroll performance of every vibe coded app is the same kind of laggy. I assume they're defaulting to the same frameworks or implementations? Or the verification loops in training environments haven't prioritized frame rates/dropped frames yet.

Chain of thought seems very specifically like an instantiation of the System 2 thinking of the System 1 and 2 thinking Daniel Kahneman popularized.

Is it clunky in that it's a verbalized/languified version of system 2 thinking, and clearly humans do some non-verbal version too?

I wanted to say something dismissive. It feels like a lot of doublespeak, which I think undermines trust in them.

But I do understand that it's a little hard to characterize the amount of compute they're selling while obfuscating the business model enough that it still works. Demand, costs, supply, capabilities, competition change wildly week to week.

Selling a standardized "token" via the API with gas-like pricing works a lot better for transparency. But I think there's a world where the ambiguous subscription pricing is net beneficial for users and providers. Allowing some degree of price discrimination should benefit everyone in aggregate, assuming there's real competition and not yet another duopoly..

That bsky post is mirroring the x.com/ClaudeDevs account.

The mirror is missing the next post: "Compared to today, this works out to a 17% reduction in weekly limits on Claude Code"

M5Stack's twitter says 2 to 3 months [0] to restock because they're out of eink driver ic.

When I submitted the story maybe 8 hours[1] after the announcement, it was already out of stock. This person says it sold out in 1 second - https://x.com/henry19840301/status/2090652363434647738 - if that's possible.

[0]:https://x.com/M5Stack/status/2091116748686922069

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390702

The labs might not be open. But they would want access to data. More open platforms (the web at large, but bluesky in particular has made open access an explicit goal) tend to provide that, relative to x/threads/facebook/reddit/youtube.

Some labs will be able to buy access. Not every platform will offer it. There are many more labs than the big ones.

I don’t get why ai labs and staff didn’t move to Bluesky or something more open.

Grok searching across x/twitter is too valuable to ignore or silo.

X is effectively a high signal comment layer for the entire internet + quasi internet (arxiv) + real world.

Same applies to any data silo I suppose, X just seems more straightforward to beachhead.

(2024)

They're always so detailed I've wondered why he doesn't put a Table of Contents, among other editorial decisions..

The referenced statistic they suggest paying attention to https://www.lisep.org/tru.

For perspective - July 2026: 24.9%, All-time low (june 2023): 22.3%, 2008 Financial Crisis Peak: 34.8%, Covid Peak: 34.2%

https://x.com/M5Stack/status/2090695742352769362 / https://xcancel.com/M5Stack/status/2090695742352769362

The twitter and store page have a video of it. There's also a lite version without NFC/LoRa for $55.

1150mAh sounds similar to a kindle. I'm hopeful large programmable/touchable e-ink displays get mainstream soon..

Their store page seems most clear: https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5papermono-with-lora-nfc-...

I guess this is the follow up to the Qualcomm acquisition.

Introduces "Modular Cloud". In the keynote they say they've been serving models on openrouter under the name ModelRun.

Windows support for Mojo (that isn't via WSL).

Coincides with the open sourcing of Mojo.

That's too bad.

The github[0] for it is kinda cool. Uses the 'CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Strongly Reciprocal'. The assembly instructions[1] give a bit of a hands on feel.

They had some more details on a reddit post[2] it looks like.

[0]:https://github.com/ploopyco/aplus-trackball

[1]:https://github.com/ploopyco/aplus-trackball/blob/main/docs/a...

[2]:https://www.reddit.com/r/ploopy/comments/1vo4y4r/this_is_the...

They have a countdown for the pre-order here[0]. Seems like it's available as a kit Wednesday, August 19th, 2026 at 10am ET to pre-order.

I love all I/O devices..

I think the main difference from the Ploopy Adept is they added two knob buttons?

[0]:https://ploopy.co/aplus-launch-countdown/