skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really want to pre-order but there's two things stopping me.

1. It's really hard to judge the performance of the GPU (RX 7700S) right now.

There's no easy benchmarks or comparisons out there to find.

I want to know where it lands in the spectrum of laptop GPUs and desktop GPUs.

I also want to know what the performance of the GPU is going to be while plugged in, and on battery (and how long that battery will last).

2. The squashed arrow keys really hurt the usability of the laptop.

The keyboard does have QMK firmware, so if someone makes a patch where holding CAPS plus pressing one of IJKL triggers an arrow key press then it should be fine.
Do they use LTSC or something else?
Its arxiv its not a published paper. Until it's reprinted by a journal or proceedings, its basically a blog post that people feel more comfortable citing.
It's main purpose is to introduce/increase caution about other methods using these services: "our findings shows
that the behavior of the “same” LLM service can change substantially in a relatively short amount
of time, highlighting the need for continuous monitoring of LLM quality"

Which seems valuable for other research using OpenAI GPT directly.
Meanwhile there's also the Gigabyte Brix.

https://www.gigabyte.com/au/Mini-PcBarebone
The rule of writing better python is to forget most of what you have learned writing Java. Avoid boilerplate code . Avoid deep nested classes like factory.nextfactory.nextnext factory . Avoid premature over engineering abstractions .only use class if you have to . Make it simple. When you can achieve 20 lines of easy to read python code that probably need 200 lines of Java code that you used to write , then you succeed.
Actually I'd say they have customer obsession but that it's for a small minority of what We consider thier customers (to them the small fry including smbs are not thiet customers, they're just the chaff they have to deal with and control in order to properly get the wheat out of the whole).

BIG businesses and governmenta are thier customers, demanding maintenance of terrible legacy issues because they literally use bugs as features in thier even more poorly made and maintained custom systems built by some fly by night dev shop 2+ decades ago....

MS doesn't care about individuals, individuals are just eyeballs to them.
I’m not sure those examples should be referred to as “accidents”. If you deliberately give the information to an external company, you leaked it deliberately, even if you thought they wouldn’t do anything bad with it.
It certainly nails the cadence of a rigorous proof. It just needs to learn to append “the rest is left as an exercise to the reader” to the end of its output.
Nice to see this! I noticed there are a few redundant sections in the safety rules.
Is Llama2 more helpful than GPT4?
anyone got a torrent again so I don't have to agree to the license?
Cable(s) out to an external drive holder with an ATX -> Sata uplift from a DC psu.

I run the radxa USB3->SATA bridge pi-Hat which is a jmicron chipset and with the vagueries of USB- attached drives, but SATA like speed through a serialising controller I do pretty well. I'd like to do astonishingly well.

So the use case is "yea I can't fit it inside the NUC case but I can bridge it to a small box" -or run the NUC with the lid off and re-tool the case.
ChatGPT Integration for Visual Studio Code
Neat, the order all the components feature is a nice touch of ease, I wonder what the pricing is like or of working on affiliate commission, either way I feel like this will be a trend with these decentralized aggregators of domain specific marketplace bringing together vendors, installers, advisors etc... I guess the question is if those will stand on their own in their niche or be bought up into Amazon or X's web of everything
I guess it’s mismatched expectations. IMO the primary use-case is making python wrappers for C/C++ code or converting prototype Python code into a fast C extension for production use by adding types or progressively converting code into a language that is a mix of Python and C.
Thats my hope. So I may be "meh, we've moved on, M.2 is the universal glue" about this now.
Show HN: Timewise Analytics- time series analysis for Google Sheets
I have used many add-ons in Excel over the years that allowed manipulation of time series (and other non-simple structured data) but have never seen anything similar for Google Sheets.

The idea is that you can hold references to time series data represented in a single spreadsheet cell and pass these as parameters to functions that themselves return a time series reference. This allows function chains to be built using references to single cells. These references can be expanded or charted (via a menu) at any point in the chain.

Here is a simple demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcoK-VlmtcI

I have just built this so it is still in early stages and required a few workarounds to get it to work with Google Sheets.

Would be very interested to learn if this is something interesting for doing quick and ad-hoc time series analysis in Google Sheets, and if I should pursue this further.

Docs are here: https://timewise-analytics.com/docs/

The add-on itself is available on Google Workspace Marketplace https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/timewise_analyt...

(Note: after installation or when using in a new Sheets session you may have to call “Activate Addon” from the menu. This is due to Sheets not loading custom functions unless a menu item has been interacted with)

Any feedback appreciated!
The headline buries the major caveat that this policy is not being applied in California, which is where 70% of In-N-Out stores are located (it also excludes Oregon, which has a handful of stores). Would be curious whether that exclusion is due to advice from their lawyers, or something else like PR/marketing concerns.

The new policy will be applied in five states: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and Utah.
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Command Z’
Nor can a child be raised without at least one parental type figure. There is no magic involved.
The thing I haven’t seen yet that makes me raise my eyebrows is sharing one allocation between two data structure. That’s where things get really gnarly with Rust references. The borrow checker is extremely easy to deal with until you start trying to store references in structs, yet the examples I’ve seen with Val don’t show that.

Maybe these cases can be simplified, but I’m very skeptical. It’s a fundamentally difficult problem domain considering that these cases are also very difficult to reason about in C/C++. Questions like: will this request last longer than the current thread?
Oh, no wonder some glyphs look tall for their respective characters. The Euro seems especially quirky.
We all think we’re one big idea away from #vcfunded!
The heart of the problem in life science is that "Experiments are always somewhere between too underpowered, too expensive and too unethical."

Consequently, when you actually manage to run one to completion, everbody wants to squeeze every last itty bitty drop of possible juice from it.

So, you will torture the data as far as you can for anything which even approaches significance.

There's really no good way out of this. At the end of the day, the things you can do to humans are simply a lot more limited than the things you can do to inanimate objects.
They would have to run Mac OS, and that's likely a no sale for many people.

There is Asahi Linux, however it's not really ready for day to day use, by comparison it would make the amount of time an Arch Linuxer spends trickering seem trivial in a business setting.

Also for many a large benefit of the NUC was the ability to swap out persistence and memory at will, supported, warrantied, and in most non-starter kits what you had to do. Mac minis is soldered everything.
> are ways to transform natural language into structured data

I've seen quite the opposite, because at their core they are next word predictors. Telling it to structure an output biases the context into data that it saw in a structured format. From what I've seen, this always leads to lower quality reasoning/output.

I get much better results if I leave the data unstructured, to maximize reasoning, then add a later step to structure that output.
> On the other hand, this will also lead to cargo-cult "but Google programmers don't need Internet access, why do you?"

Just a random thought: this coincides with the rollout of Bard. Perhaps the idea is that Bard (or its internal equivalent) is a suitable replacement for sites like StackOverflow?
You sound like you’ve been in ad-tech your whole life and just started reading up about this field called “academia” a couple weeks ago in some mushroom-fueled Wikipedia binge
Microservices vs monolith at the human level?
Apple Has Come Full Circle
Be careful when using Llama 2 for large institutions, their licencing agreement may not permit its use:

Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Llama 2 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee's affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.
Cython 3.0: The next generation of Python at the speed of C
The only time I use it now is why I can split 2 or 3 ways... having seperate bedrooms make that possible.

As a solo traveler? NFW
As an investor, I am happy about this outcome. It’s more money in the company and less money for its employees — always a good thing.
Most of the attempts that I had were flagged as spam so I didn’t notice.

The one that almost caught me was a simple email allegedly from the CEO asking if I had a minute. I was working at a small enough company that it wouldn’t be out of the question for the CEO to email me and I replied, sure.

The next email was, fortunately, a clumsy attempt at fraud, asking me to buy some Xbox gift cards for a client, which made me look a little closer and notice that the email address hidden by the email client behind the CEO’s name was at a Russian ISP, so I dumped them into spam and posted a warning on Slack. Something less clumsily targeted might have caught someone (e.g., to do a test booking on our site, or open some tech window). That said, LinkedIn is useful enough to me that I’m willing to leave that window open, although it would be nice if company email addresses were less easily guessed.
Burn might be the wrong word.
Therein lies the problem.

I want to write instructions for people to use my software that don't expect them to know how to run make, or even to have a C compiler installed.
Nvidia Launches the 16GB RTX 4060 Ti Without Press Coverage
Not a sshfs Mount. The IDE has a process running on the other machine and communicate over ssh tunnel. Your text change actions are sent, I presume, and only ~visible portions of text are transmitted to your local machine. Uh, like a mainframe terminal :)
I would remove the word "inexpensive". Many alternatives cost less. I know people buy Intel for brand, quality and warranty but definitely not price.
There's a decent amount of research that supports this view [1][2]. How else do you explain the unreasonable effectiveness of transformer-based language models?

1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014272371986973...

2. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.06627.pdf
> And the real cost of building parking in a residential building isn't the cost of the concrete and painted lines -- but in the opportunity cost of not being able to build / sell more units in the space occupied by cars.

It's obviously not that simple, because the US isn't a place where no one wants a car but everyone is somehow forced into getting one. I wouldn't live in a residential building with no space a car, and I'm not alone. I'd imagine that most buildings like that just create an externality, where the residents use parking elsewhere.
I think knowing if the code can be used verbatim is actually the more important part practically speaking. That is the actually useful part.

Quality is important to humans, because humans have to read it, but correctness is what people using ChatGPT for code actually need. So long as the quality and performance is good enough, then it will be useful.

Performance is such a nuanced topic that you need very context aware devs anyway, and I think a general purpose LLM is never going to have that kind of awareness.
> In the menu there's an option to modify the prompt.

Yes, that's the first thing I saw, but there's no way to tell the chat formatter to put something other than "Assistant:" at the end for completions.
The pre-prompting length will grow more and more as more liabilities in the responses are uncovered. I would imagine the more the pre-prompting grows the more attention is diverted to the rules rather than the user prompt, and the less reasoning available.

I wonder if they'll start using LLMs while ingesting new data. eg asking the LLM if the content is helpful, cites sources, respectful, positive, not-thin content, common or often duplicated content, etc etc, before each content import.
ArrowJs: Reactivity Without the Framework
> If we stop and listen to the skeptics view with an open mind

Robert Kennedy Jr. thinks covid is a bioweapon that avoids Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese and targets Caucasians and Blacks:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/07/16/rfk-jr-make...

It isn't skepticism, it's just stupid.

If you think covid is a bioweapon then you really want vaccination to defend yourself against it. So being anti-vaccination is double stupid.
TN is useful, but not _that_ useful if you eventually want to get a Green card.

And GC quotas are based on place of birth.
You’re still on Twitter?
> Java's designers have consistently mentioned the approach they're taking that Java has the last mover advantage.

There's nothing one can do to wiggle away from designing something. You can only make tradeoffs. In this case, Java's sacrificing time. Is that a good call? I don't know.

> They cautiously see what features other languages applied, and take what gives them the highest value compared to the complexity introduced.

They've historically shown poor taste in the features they've chosen, so this strategy doesn't seem to have worked out all that well. Waiting longer doesn't help if you don't know what you're doing.

> Java's virtual threads are already superior to golang's approach because they're working on structured concurrency from the start.

Already? Ten years later! Time matters.

We'll see how much actual adoption there'll be, Go was built with its concurrency solution in mind, so not only are the primitives ergonomic to use, but the entire ecosystem has grown around it. You can't match it in a day.

> Value types are a huge proposition, [...]

"Value types" is a misnomer anyway, it's just "types". We've had those since at least C, some 50 years ago.

> [...] but they seem to be coming along nicely.

I've been hearing this for a while, has it been a decade yet?

> They have already baked in nullables/zero values into the design, something that is a pain in golang, and a big gotcha and source of bugs.

You can't be serious. Complaining about another language's null problems from the perspective of Java?

> The interesting thing is that Java already beats golang because of its superior GCs, particularly in large programs, so it will be interesting to see what sort of performance improvements come out of value types.

It's a wash most of the time AFAIK. Unless we do the classic Java benchmark trick of ignoring memory usage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse ;)
As a paper, I'd send it back for revision - remove the hyperbole and 99% of the emotion, and focus on facts and strong reasoning that could persuade me.

I know people in academia and they and their experiences don't fit this description. We get out in the real world and discover each individual has many motivations, both good and bad. It's messy and complicated. IMHO the insight is to realize that I am not the heroic protagonist, but instead I'm just as flawed, and then to try to bring out the best in myself and in them.

> wrecking havoc on society

Not even AIs or the online propapganda machines are doing that - though I kinda wish they would!
It is a mess, but the corporations love it. It creates an indentured servant class that applies downward pressure on technical salaries.

If you have a US work visa for 24 months (max), it should automatically roll over into a green card. Background checks should be the responsibility of the company to get finished before 24 months and failure to do so should be a Federal felony that puts the CEO in jail.

This would completely unblock the technical pipeline for US visas.

I hope Canada sucks up all the good H-1Bs leaving behind the dregs. It would finally force corporations to lobby to fix the problems.
That's fair. Many happy customers so it's very likely I misunderstood the mission and vision.

My primary experience in Python3 is to minimise REPL and get to commands which do stdin -> <process it> -> stdout and gang them up, or uplift discrete commands into yield() pipes inside the same interpreter.

I guess I fell into the trap of going from the particular to the general.
The Vlang creator's initial misrepresentation of the language and their very problematic and hostile handling of any questions regarding the design of their language means, for me, I will never use it and don't consider it a serious language.
> That's a load of fluff policy ideas that you have no possible reason to believe will be effective.

Would you care to enlighten me why I have no possible reason to believe that my suggestions will be effective? Surely you know better than I.
Hard for me to know. I used to browse some people anonymously but can't do that anymore. Not making an account to read some physics professor's tweets...
On this I agree. You want to rent out a room in the house you also live in? Fine. Even a separate unit in a multi-family unit? Sure. It’s a shame most of the US has made that type of building illegal but that’s another story.

But instead it’s used to create illegal hotels residential areas and as investments that further restrict rental housing supply.
PC Engines APU Platform EOL
The battery life is still fine. Plugging in once in a while isn't a huge deal. I'd rather save time compiling than not having to plug in once every 8 hours.
And, you know, it should be "their transpose is equal to their inverse", not "their transpose is equal to themselves".
If it doesn't provide any gaming performance improvement over the 8GB version, is this a release for the local LLM users? Fitting a model in VRAM makes all the difference.

Edit, is it half the price of a 16GB 4080?
Nope, much better recommendations than couple of months ago
Intel never made board-level stuff in-house; no one does this in fact. It's always outsourced to a contract manufacturer that specializes in PCBs. Intel probably did their own PCB design however.
Biggest problem with the Mac mini is it has no user upgradable parts, nuc does.
You described what we have now.

Police power was threatened; now police in many cities intentionally make things worse to push back.

The rich were about to lose fiat power so they raised interest rates.

Those who can afford it fly all over regardless of the mess for the majority.
My experience with a NUC that died about 18 months into a two-year warranty was pretty good. It took a while to do all the tests they wanted, but the responses were usually same-day from Intel's side. In the end I got a replacement, whole thing took maybe two weeks (partially me being slow doing all the tests for an issue I knew needed an RMA but c'est la vie).

Shame to hear about Minisforum though.
Not only that, but if one of your turns is adjacent to, say, a corner with a McDonald's that's on the map, the direction narration will actually say something like "In 1000 feet, turn right, past the McDonald's on the right." It's so blatant and makes me laugh.

I never stop, FWIW.
What do you mean? I can't say I have ever seen war mongering on HN.
> Do people not have to schedule around 15-30 minute drives?

That's not the same kind of scheduling. You can miss a bus, and be forced to wait for the next one (which will at 15 minutes minimum), but your car departs exactly when you're ready to leave whenever that is. After that, then you add the 15-30 minutes drive time (or more for a bus, if it's not an express bus and makes intermediate stops or if it takes an indirect route for your itinerary). This is so obvious I'm surprised I have to point it out.
Homeowners in large part oppose this as decreased supply increases the nominal value is what is likely their primary asset. It’s incredibly shortsighted.

If we stop treating housing as a commodity that must go up in value you’ll find that the supply increases.
That's how you buy a house in Canada. Get paid in America.

It’s a shame.
Except that almost nobody except random people on HN or certain reddit communities set up their own server for home assistant. Your personal interest and effort in this area really doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things -- I'm sure Asus and Intel marketing people weren't thinking about users like you when they wrote those words.
For me I'm interested in the type system provided by a language.

For Val, I was a little hesitant when I saw the docs say "Two or more types can form a union type, also known as a sum type." since a union type and a sum type are similar but distinct concepts.

For a language, it is very important to understand the differences between these because I think they will greatly impact the design of the language.
You know what’s even worse? The audiobook version, narrated by Will Wheaton.
It's alright. The primary ingredient in drinks is... water. You're still drinking mostly water even if you don't drink water.
1. The are plethora of examples online people holding TN work as a SDE with a CS degree
2. I believe you can file to change intent 90 days after entry
I worked on/around Pulse (the POS system), Pizza tracker (GPS), Order screen, and other backend systems in the largest Non-US market for a few years. Other than Pulse, most of the instore software appears to have been market specific. The managers didn't have person specific data, but the Franchisee and Headoffice does -at least in my market. Also Tracker data was used for awards at the end of the year at Rally by the head office (best avg delivery time, most deliveries, highest reviews, etc - again this was out of the GPS system). The in store tracking data was never clean enough to profile employees in our market as the instore people were trained to move and cover others during a crunch. (to the extent that in our market we didnt' track instore stations that often)

In my time at a national Dominos HQ (several years), we were told Pulse was being re-written but it never arrived. It was managed by the US HQ, and all the international franchises (Each country is a franchise, that then subfranchises) were required to license it -we assumed it was calling sales #'s home to validate franchisee payments. The POS system has to handle an enormous db of combos/deals/sizes and then filter by available ingredients, national sales, buy one get one, franchisee overrides, which was then patched to have overrides that match the online ordering every hour. (eg. national large peperoni sale, limited by franchisee to just buy two get one deal, only off peak, on tuesdays, when sales are slow). Oh and it has to run on comodity hardware that the franchisee paid for 5 years ago and is too cheap to replace.

The fun logic was in profiling stores and making predictions about ingredients requirements.
When you put it that way, the "magic" disappears. Isn't this what category theory seeks? Relationship between distant/different mathematical structures? Whether this equation belongs to the same class with another even though they explain different physics?