Hacker News: chabons

Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

chabons — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:01:32 +0000

https://meta.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692043

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New comment by chabons in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

chabons — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:09:40 +0000

Where in academia can one get a Billion (with a b) dollars to research something?

New comment by chabons in "Inner-Platform Effect"

chabons — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:43:05 +0000

Developers are users too. If users cared enough not to use cross-platform software because it didn’t look native, then it wouldn’t get built.

New comment by chabons in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

chabons — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:08:30 +0000

"rather hard" is really underselling things. Without considering generator->motor losses, 250W is a lot of power, even for a larger (>80kg/176lbs) rider. For basically anyone who doesn't train on the bike, this is an unsustainable effort.

Even a floor of 100W would rule out smaller/less athletic riders.

New comment by chabons in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

chabons — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:54:26 +0000

Intuitively, I can understand that English Second Language students would struggle in classes other than English, but are the demographics really shifting enough to explain the drop in attainment shown in the article?

The best demographic data I can find is here: https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/103-child-population...

The best data I can find on language spoken at home is here: https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/81-children-who-spea...

The above shows the share of "Non-Hispanic White alone" children (who I'll assume speak English as a first language) going from 52% to 48% from 2015-2024, and the percentage of "Children who speak a language other than English at home" staying flat at 22% from 2013-2023. From 2015-2024, math attainment goes from 62% to 55%.

At a glance, it would seem that the shift in math attainment cannot be explained by demographics/language alone.

New comment by chabons in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

chabons — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:48:46 +0000

I'm missing something. What change in demographics are we talking about, and why would that influence math results?

New comment by chabons in "The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless"

chabons — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:59:29 +0000

Garmin has a market cap of ~40B USD. Inflation adjusted, that's where NVIDIA was <10yr ago. It's not missing resources to do the work IMO, but it's missing the market dominance to singlehanded set the standard for the industry.

New comment by chabons in "Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus"

chabons — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 01:38:25 +0000

For me, it's that the ergonomics are straightforward, and everything works out of the box. If I find myself on a new machine, just installing fish gives me an ergonomic setup without having to install too many additional tools or mess with configuration.

New comment by chabons in "Updates to H-1B"

chabons — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:21:35 +0000

I don't have statistics, but given the student visa -> H-1B pipeline changes, it would seem there are a number of H-1B holders who are educated in US colleges (either at the undergrad or graduate level). This indicates that the problem is not entirely a training gap.

New comment by chabons in "1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor"

chabons — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 16:29:28 +0000

The author specifically stated: "Realizing this, I asked for the report to be forwarded to an actual Zendesk staff member for review", before getting another reply for H1. I read this as they escalated it to Zendesk directly, who directed it back to HackerOne.

New comment by chabons in "Batteryless OP-1"

chabons — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 22:45:16 +0000

I was thinking the same. Also, I would have liked if they discussed/measured the worst-case power draw of the device before starting to add capacitors, as it's possible a PC USB port just doesn't supply enough current to power it at steady state.

New comment by chabons in "Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii"

chabons — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:29:49 +0000

Before I knew this I had someone pull out their lighter and point the remote at it when our sensor bar died. Took me a little bit to figure it out.

New comment by chabons in "Mass tourism protesters squirt water at Barcelona tourists"

chabons — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 18:49:33 +0000

> Embrace them and make rules to prevent them from damaging the city they’re coming to experience.

+1, squirting the tourists who are already there does little to discourage other tourists from coming, or to solve the problem that they're competing for the same housing.

That said, I can't help but think that AirBnB(/VRBO/etc...) is just faster to respond to market conditions than traditional hotel businesses because it leverages already built private residences. If land is 5x as profitable as accommodation for tourists, then anywhere where a hotel could be built the value of the land will increase, and thus housing costs. I guess the local govt. has zoning as a lever it can use to restrict where hotels can be built though. Maybe that's the point though, that AirBnB sidesteps zoning, extracting more value from the land than other users can.

New comment by chabons in "Climate Zones"

chabons — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 20:38:56 +0000

The happened for me only in Celsius. It looks like in Fahrenheit the temperature updated for me.

New comment by chabons in "TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough"

chabons — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:48:55 +0000

In general I agree, for instance an Apple Watch crams in so much hardware, that the battery frequently lasts less than a day. Compare that to my Garmin 245, which often lasts 2 weeks on a single charge if it's not using the GPS. It doesn't do as much, but that's fine. I'd love to see more "quiet" tech which eschews the pattern you describe above, and just focusses on doing the thing it's supposed to well so you don't have to think about it. EInk is another promising technology in this area.

New comment by chabons in "Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns"

chabons — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:46:28 +0000

And more generally, consumers of Windows-only software, of which there is still a ton.

New comment by chabons in "Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)"

chabons — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 05:44:32 +0000

This doesn't resolve the ongoing incentive to remove the LVT, creating immediate value for the current land-owners.

New comment by chabons in "Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production"

chabons — Fri, 03 May 2024 18:20:52 +0000

This assumes that the same number of vehicles use the charging station. Lower charge times means potentially higher steady-state throughput.

New comment by chabons in "Mexico's Floating Gardens"

chabons — Fri, 03 May 2024 15:58:48 +0000

Here I was scanning the article for what they floated on. I had assumed it was a peat-bog type situation.

I guess the key benefit of this strategy is that the water level is high and the water is nutrient rich? Otherwise it's pretty similar to a standard canal irrigation setup.

New comment by chabons in "Flock Safety is the biggest player in a city-by-city scramble for surveillance"

chabons — Wed, 01 May 2024 18:45:56 +0000

I really doubt this would be how things play out. Most crime isn't sophisticated or targeted.

The same argument can be made about internet-connected security cameras in general, that they could allow for remotely casing a potential target, and they're generally considered to be a deterrent, and not an enabler of crime.