skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am suggesting that OpenAI's main product is "LLM that benchmarks the best." From that point, it is completely illogical not to train on at least some of the test data (or data that is very similar to the test data) so that you can fudge the numbers in your favor. You don't want to go too far, but overfitting a tiny bit will make you look like you have a significant edge. When someone says that your product isn't that good, you then point to the benchmarks and say, "objective measures say that you are wrong." This is a tried and true marketing technique.

Hardware companies, which live and die on benchmarks, do this all the time. Meanwhile, it does appear that OpenAI is underperforming consumer expectations, and losing users quite quickly at this point, despite doing incredibly well on benchmarks.

Also, this isn't about profit. It's about market cap and it's about prestige. Those are not correlated to profit.
People have mentioned Joplin, obsidian, logseq (a knowledge base) and even Apple Notes (there's a way to import enex, IIRC)

I am dumping the Evernote subscription in the fall, so this is a big deal, though I'm not in a rush because enex import is common.

I've been using Evernote as a "write only" database. The ability to email articles to it is the main feature I've used, though I actually did this with procmail many years ago. Never used the OCR.
The encoding used on vinyl records has more information density than if zeros and ones were stored, say by two levels of the groove (or a closely related encoding like RZ or NRZ).
I always wanted to find out, wtf are those consultants doing all day long?
It's hard to take ASUS seriously with a quote like:

> this collaboration will enhance and accelerate our vision for the mini PC – greatly expanding our footprint in areas such as AI and AIoT

It's just dripping in buzzword doublespeak. The NUCs seem like cool devices, do we really have to shoehorn "AI" and -- I had to re-read this -- "AIoT" into everything?
Been using an Asus PN51[1] with KDE Neon for about a year, and overall I'm very happy with it. Performance is good, never had a crash, stuff just worked out of the box without fuzz.

Seems like a decent fit to me.

[1]: https://www.asus.com/us/displays-desktops/mini-pcs/pn-series...
Ah yes. The same person who thinks COVID was "ethnically targeted" to spare Jews. He's full of great ideas.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnical...
What do you think of the movie title "He Speaks Encrypted"?
I find the development quite interesting, and it lends credence to the theory Intel's NUC line was technically profitable (or at least not horrifically in the red), but just didn't make strategic sense - especially from a 'competing with your own customers' view.

While I never bought one of these NUCs myself, I've used quite a few deployed as thin clients and kiosk machines. Let's see what ASUS ends up doing with the product segment.

More broadly, I hope the trend of selling off business units rather than closing them outright continues (Google Domains selling to Squarespace being another recent example).
My Framework is easily the best laptop I've ever owned. I purchased the original 11th gen model from a local friend who was "bored" of it

Other than the rather "meh" speakers (which they offered a replacement for after releasing the largely compatible 'Chromebook' model) I've yet to really have any major complaints about the device

I went as far as pre-ordering the 13th gen i5 upgrade board, complete with a Windows 11 upgrade (rather than reinstall). Amazingly the machine actually feels faster than it did with the original top-end 11th gen i7, along with having significantly improved battery life due to the newer more efficient chip

I've got an open pre-order for the AMD model due "Late Q3" that I'm extremely excited for. I could upgrade piecemeal to it as I've done with the 13th gen model but it seems easier to simply purchase the whole machine outright and then use the older as a source of parts if needed

If Framework could finally get Coreboot support it would quite likely be the perfect laptop for me. Until then though it's the only laptop I'm willing to personally recommend to friends
About a week ago we had an article about Intel leaving the NUC market.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36680674

It seems a bit slapdash to announce that ASUS is taking the brand forward a week later. Like if they were planning on doing this for a while, it would be an orderly transfer, right? So, what, did somebody at ASUS see that ServeTheHome article and decide to just go for it?

Anyway, I really like NUCs, and I’ve got an ASUS laptop that I’m fond of, so I hope it all works out! It just looks a little funny.
I think your "lives saved/enabled" comment brings up a very important question, though. Is a life enabled worth the same thing as a life saved? More to the point in this equation, I think the murder of any individual is much worse than having technology limitations that prevent some people from being born in the first place.

Without the Haber-Bosch process, the world population would be much, much smaller, that's undeniable. But the primary reason it would be smaller is so many people would have never been born - is that really a problem though?
I used to use Tree Style Tabs, but I moved to Sidebery a couple years ago and I'm pretty happy with it.

Now somebody else can inform me about the newest one.
I would say there is demand for low tech cars in general.

Even ICE vehicles have way too much garbage tech tacked on.

I want a dumb, secure, machine, not a rolling CVE.
The # & and @ are horrible. The A and the G are strange, two characters with a grace in a sans font. But i and j have that too. However I is designed to look different from l, which is not the case in many fonts.
99% of the stores I've ever seen don't have checkout aisles wide enough to allow this.
> I found after creating a LinkedIn account, attacks went up on my account 12x.

I'm curious to know more about what you're doing to quantify this as an individual–I think I have a fairly sophisticated personal security posture and have implemented various business infosec measures professionally, but I'm not sure I have a great way of measuring how many attacks are targeted at me day to day, beyond a sort of vague sense of "this month I'm noticing more {frequent|targeted|sophisticated} attention".
Looks oddly like something from Ripley's Believe It or Not. So I'm thinking, no, I don't believe it. That fossil is so perfect, so complete. Like it was 3d printed or something.
Interesting! This article confirms what you're saying: toilets in the USA generally use higher water pressure, making residual less of an issue. The more you know...

[1] https://newyork.forumdaily.com/en/pochemu-amerikancy-ne-polz...
>We're using Vue here and missed the memo about it being an also run :)

I don't hate Vue and I wouldn't judge anyone for choosing it, but my question is... why? It just seems like that entire community is set on reinventing every React feature with a two year delay.
The thing a smart manager will ask is "does this open up new avenues for theft/scams". I suspect that it does, unless there is a shit ton of auditing in place.
Apple is a complete laggard in this space due to years of restrictions on research. They are hiring multiple “AI” roles now and they have the capital and focus to “eventually” catch up — but it is very much a catch-up game.

That said, they seem to prefer catchup waiting till others explore new tech they swoop in an (claim) to perfect it from a usability pov. I have no reason to suspect they won’t do the same here.
I put here an aside: All this is super-complicated for most use-cases.

What I have never used, but is inferred from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concurrent_and_paralle... and in special the original CSP is how all this lacks total control in build your network patterns.

In special, is my dream to have a language that allows to express better what is explained starting here:

https://zguide.zeromq.org/docs/chapter2/

There is not (AFAIK) languages that make nice to properly wire this AND keep the semantic understanding/composability of it.

For example, is hard to know if a function if is running in a thread/process, what is their priority, etc.

I imagine that a language with orchestration (like Erlang/Elixir) in a explicit way will be far easier, but is hard to figure how do it with good composability
Part of that success may have to do with "Wow, Google invented this...let's use it."

Kubernetes adoption seems to be going up but does it really add value for most that adopt it? I would say, no.
There is a horrible bug in my code [video]
Is there any way to have that automatically create n copies of the data across shards?

Something like a "min-copies 2" setting, which would ensure the shared data has at least one viable alternative in case of hardware failure (etc).
Never let OpenAI or Google employees (in regards to search) gaslight you into believing that things aren't being "enshittified". Glad to see scholarly evidence of this coming out.
I think it's justified in this case. Mozilla suffers from a schizophrenic existence where they are simultaneously non-profit and for-profit, and Firefox privacy-friendly and unfriendly. For example, Firefox supports HTTPS-only mode and DNS over HTTPS, but they are not on by default. It also ships with DuckDuckGo and other search engines in the setting drop-down, but alas, that $10M/year or whatever they get from Google is too good, so fuck your privacy. You then have to manually turn all that shit on, because they won't, to the point where installing a fresh Firefox on a system now requires a bit of a rite of passage before you can get a useful browser. Do all these things I mentioned really increase your attack surface?

Also, mandatory mention: https://librewolf.net/
I attended a lecture where the point was made that AI is just a name for whatever is the frontier of technology. At one point, barcode scanners were apparently called AI because it was this amazing development that would allow computers to see and this would change how they operated and potentially even influence how they would one day think. Whereas today, we think of barcode scanners as dumb technology. But it was AI back then. The frontier keeps shifting forward and so correspondingly does what we consider to be AI.
Having worked on ML products, there is sometimes debate on whether you should train on the test partition prior to prod deployment - after all, why would you ship a worse model to prod? Obviously you can't tell whether the model is better at generalization compared to an alternate technique, and you also incur some overfit risk. But many industrial problems are solvable through memorization.
Nice analogy and explanation. Another aspect is building a ubiquitous platform and figure out how to monetize later as they (Meta) already have a cash cow.

Zuck is a smart leader. Metaverse was a debacle. But the new world (AI centric) is for real. He is likely focusing on both weakening the stronghold of Google and building a massive community (like Android) around llama. Product ideas (including enterprise focus) will emerge over time.
Alas, we have Wall Street to thank.

Nobody really believes this - not even Wall Street - but everyone knows how the game is played and begrudgingly plays along.
I reckon most of those people would prefer to have been born. So from an objectivist, population average view, perhaps not equivalent to a life saved. But to any individual, it seems to equate to their life being saved.
> But there's no little numeric model embedded inside the language model that would tell it how many dollars, or be able to compare dollars against dollars

This logic applies to any function an LLM may perform, therefore it cannot perform any function, which is absurd. Indeed there functionally are little circuits inside LLMs; its pretraining amounts to formation of those circuits. [1]

LLaMA tokenizer parses integers as individual tokens and allows the model to see that "$105,000" is [$][1][0][5][,][0][0][0], which makes it more than capable of learning arithmetic for the general case, and with finetuning even the smallest LLaMA-1 can learn to answer better than GPT-4.[2]

It still fails a lot, but so do people, who definitely understand arithmetic on every level from practical to conceptual to algorithmic.
The problem is more that it does not have a calculator inside and cannot (by default) use any explicit cache for intermediate values.

1. https://transformer-circuits.pub/2021/framework/index.html

2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14201
The best theory I’ve got is that when ASUS found out that Intel wanted out they essentially bought the NUC brand. Now when people search for “Intel NUC” they’ll end up on ASUS product pages.

Plenty of OEMs make similar systems but don’t have the NUC brand.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the clumsy announcement is because ASUS legitimately found out at the same time we did.
If you think about it, compilers were _already_ that technology.
So what I’m getting from reading so many comments here… Did react hooks just totally alienate nearly everyone?
> rg BTreeMap monorepo/ --type rust --no-filename | awk NF | wc -l
1656

You may not have ever encountered a use case for a tree map, but there is quite a wide gray area between 'computer science edge cases' and cookie-cutter CRUD apps. For example, deterministic map ordering, or sets for map keys, or fast map equality.

Funny that you mention Kubernetes. This is the tree map implementation Kubernetes depends on https://github.com/google/btree
> but academically Deepmind is one of the best groups around

I think your argument is basically that Google has the potential to create the best models because of superiority in the theory of LLMs, even though we hear of no signs from the board, the ceo, or beta releases or product showcases.

But let’s say you’re right. When do you think we would experience the supremacy of DeepMind in our daily lives?
They have almost completely migrated to Mastodon
Even using React v5 without a state library for a large app was bonkers back then, regardless of what the library maintainers said.

At some point you will have some state that transcends the UI and trying to shove it into React UI component does not make sense.
My company did this too but I just ignore it. I’ll stay until the pay stops shrug
Neither of this North nor the South supported proportional representation based on both votes cast. Your assertion that the 3/5 compromise the South more electoral power begs the question in comparison to what alternative. If you're hypothetical is that became more power than the number of Voters, then sure. But no one at the time was advocating for proportional representation based on the number of men in the state.

Nobody supported the vast majority of people voting. The Electoral College was never based on voter numbers.
I suspect the request is to rule out watermarking of the downloads that might suggest watermarking of the model’s outputs.
Ah thank you, i didn’t catch that
Why do you think Google had even bothered with Bard?

And then, given that, why is it worse than the competition?
I feel like it’s really hard to justify one of these in light of m2 Mac minis. High usage memory applications?
I think there are a lot of frameworks on the edge of viability, but the bar is a lot higher than it used to be for front end tooling. React(70%), Angular(25%), and a little bit of Vue.js(5%) is the market for front end positions with React owning the Lion's share. There are always new things being built, but being used is different.

The React team has done a great job of being generic enough for a broad range of use cases. As new use-cases arise, someone can build a new framework to support it. SSR has gotten much more popular than the SPA style, and the core React team has moved to support it with server side components.

If they can continue to follow the innovators, React will continue to dominate the front end landscape.
Google can easily just replicate all docs and a copy of SO inside their network. As well as the future of LLMs all internal.
super. I have been thinking of doing something similar for my productions db systems as well but was struggling to come up with some efficient way to test restoration. This gives me some starting point.
Striking Thoughts
As large shareholders they

1. Have an incentive to see their company be managed well and

2. Are probably passionate about the company, its industry, and its mission

Isn't that sufficient motivation and incentive for retaining talent on the board?
Probability and stats requires calculus
There are a lot of these things. You can explain water flow using V=IR. A simpler but salient demonstration of how these things can happen

https://youtu.be/Z_s3TmYQAuc
Slight nit: in the case of MIT and other "IT"s the story is slightly more complicated. Shockingly few students who graduate with Bachelors degrees in the USA make it through even a watered down Calculus I, let alone MIT's multivariate calculus course (required for all majors). In fact, many students need to re-take high school algebra for their college math distribution, and need multiple attempts at that. If they needed MIT Calc I to get a BA, they wouldn't graduate. Let alone multivariate (which is required at MIT). And that's just the gen eds. Having seen the CS curriculum at some less selective colleges and universities, I can say with certainty that only the top 5% or so would be able to get passing grades in required CS courses at MIT.

The rigor of coursework varies greatly. College degrees in the USA are not interchangeable.

None of this is meant to contradict the fact that elite institutions have lost their way and are artificially scarce. Obviously, there are far more students capable of excelling at MIT than are admitted. And there are tons of faculty who could teach to MIT standards in pretty much every subject. So in that sense MIT seats are definitely artificially scarce.

I just think the fact that there ARE real differences in the quality and rigor of education within US higher ed is often lost in these discussions.

Anyways, to your questions:

> 1) Why must the brand MIT be such a ticket to supposedly meritocratic job market?

Because meritocracy is a lie. Alumni networks are just one example of corruption in the job market. Church networks function the same way. Even high school networks matter. Nepotism is rampant. The world isn't fair.

> why must college attainment be seen as the only way of passage into the middle class?

The only people who see it like that are members of the upper class and upper middle class who fetishize these institutions.

There are many paths to the middle class. Almost all of them start not with "college", but with "don't live in one of the ten most expensive cities in the country". You can get a house in the midwest for very little, and accessible healthcare and trades jobs that don't require a college degre pay quite well in that part of the country.
It was interesting to find out that test subjects who pass away during clinical trials are excluded, erased, from the trial records. Their participation and data is not included in the final results, as if they were never in the trial to begin with.

Many pharmaceutical companies have policies which prohibit patients from participating in studies for anti-depressants if they have suicidal ideations. In practice, this significantly reduces the participation of any patient with depression.
I remember, during my internship at Microsoft, one of the "perks" everyone loved was being given a beefy machine that we were admins on and an absurdly fast internet connection to go with it. While I do get the security argument, this also seems like yet another signal that Google is tightening their infamous perks.
Sort of "god in the gaps". Once something is understood, all the intelligence goes away. And I mean that in a literal as well as a figurative sense.

A lot of anti-AI rhetoric, both the rhetoric saying that it's not possible, or that whatever new AI thing "isn't real AI", or the rhetoric that says AI is dangerous, I'm fairly sure is rooted in a probably vague sense in most people that _what they are_ is not a collection of atoms, that their conscious experience of the world is not some emergent property of neurons, but that they are, deep down, a spiritual, immaterial being, which also holds up the possibility of being _eternal_. As AI sort of chips away at the frontiers of intelligence, and shows that deep down, our experience of the world, our consciousness, all of it is an ugly bag of party tricks, it provokes a profound sense of _unease_. You're not just sort of threatening to dethrone humanity's place in the center of the universe, it's also in a sense stealing _eternal life_ from people. That's fairly heavy.

It's also why people who work on AI or work with AI tend to also be intensely interested in life extension.
Not that vanishingly small once you start working with the poor. A lot of those folks don't even have checking accounts, never mind a credit (not debit) card.

This has been a real issue in a few places that have now banned cashless, because it puts a heavy burden on the un/under banked.
Water-based demo explains how electrical circuits work (2017)
I wish the answer was that MS would secure Windows better. Sandboxing applications, and making it a pain in the ass to request high privilege functions. The current state of things is you just get a useless popup to grant admin access which literally every program requests so as a user you have no real tools to combat malware.

It's too hard for even someone who is highly knowledgeable to know if they have malware, let alone the average person.
Previously, he had zero now he has one and so he rounded from infinity. Otherwise he did exactly what he’s making fun of I his post.
D does. Not source compatible, but mangling and ABI for linking. And D can generate headers for `extern(C++)` declarations defined in D
Italy has the italics of every font, kind of

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

> The name comes from the fact that calligraphy-inspired typefaces were first designed in Italy, to replace documents traditionally written in a handwriting style called chancery hand. Aldus Manutius and Ludovico Arrighi (both between the 15th and 16th centuries) were the main type designers involved in this process at the time.

> The first use in a complete volume was a 1501 edition of Virgil dedicated to Italy [...]

> Italic type rapidly became very popular and was widely (and inaccurately) imitated. The Venetian Senate gave Aldus exclusive right to its use, a patent confirmed by three successive Popes, but it was widely counterfeited as early as 1502
Nah mate, sorry. Go is a language already past its prime, which is laughable given how young it is, and how it was modeled on better, long-lived languages. Take a look at Google trends if you disbelieve me. There was a slight bump in interest when generics finally got pushed out, but that's died off, and Go is entering the same decline as other has-beens like Ruby. Good riddance to a language designed for people that aren't good at programming (you'll have to look up the quote yourself, I'm too lazy).
I think you’re conflating doable and scalable.

Or perhaps my threshhold for “scalable” takes different parameters and weigh these inputs differentfly from you.
Or if you want more than 256 gigs of storage built in. The Mini’s pricing makes no sense at all if it’s not Base or with the M2 Pro.
If I were someone of note who was concerned about increasing likelihood of attacks targeting me, I wouldn’t answer that question, doubly so if I was security conscious.
Try GlitchTip first! The only thing you’ll need to do is swap out the DSN.
I’m surprised that a country would choose/create a typeface with only four weights and no italics for their design system. I’d understand if it was primarily a display font, but it seems intended for body copy as well.
So is Ukraine and yet we go along.