skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I remember once when I was in 9th grade and my elder brother was a sophomore in college. I found a textbook of his...

I'm curious if/how your teachers reacted?

I wrote a book Freshmen year of high school and started programming on my own. When I presented a physical copy of my self-published book and my computer programs to my teachers they gave me a metaphorical pat on the head, but not one point of extra credit or a special tutor. In computer class I was still expected to learn about Microsoft Excel and in English class I was still required to write two page stories. In my experience, the education system did not empower my curious mind. It felt like I was assigned busy work because the other students lacked motivation otherwise. I can only hope that one day the education system will tailor to the individual.
Lenovo has the thinkcentre line

Dell has the optiplex

Go has the elitedesk and pro desk

All in mini/usff formfactor similar to the size of a Mac mini.
This paper is being misinterpreted. The degradations reported are somewhat peculiar to the authors' task selection and evaluation method and can easily result from fine tuning rather than intentionally degrading GPT-4's performance for cost saving reasons.

They report 2 degradations: code generation & math problems. In both cases, they report a behavior change (likely fine tuning) rather than a capability decrease (possibly intentional degradation). The paper confuses these a bit: they mostly say behavior, including in the title, but the intro says capability in a couple of places.

Code generation: the change they report is that the newer GPT-4 adds non-code text to its output. They don't evaluate the correctness of the code. They merely check if the code is directly executable. So the newer model's attempt to be more helpful counted against it.

Math problems (primality checking): to solve this the model needs to do chain of thought. For some weird reason, the newer model doesn't seem to do so when asked to think step by step (but the current ChatGPT-4 does, as you can easily check). The paper doesn't say that the accuracy is worse conditional on doing CoT.

The other two tasks are visual reasoning and answering sensitive questions. On the former, they report a slight improvement. On the latter, they report that the filters are much more effective — unsurprising since we know that OpenAI has been heavily tweaking these.

In short, everything in the paper is consistent with fine tuning. It is possible that OpenAI is gaslighting everyone by denying that they degraded performance for cost saving purposes — but if so, this paper doesn't provide evidence of it. Still, it's a fascinating study of the unintended consequences of model updates.
It seems like fixing it would push tech salaries down even more so wouldn't corporations prefer that?
I was living in the south west of Spain a couple of years ago, in a city with ~100k population, and they had a split day. Shops were open until 1pm, then they closed and everyone went to eat, by 3pm everything was closed and the streets were silent.

In the evening everything would reopen. We had a pizzeria we liked, and it opened at 8pm and usually we were the only ones there at that time, as everyone else ate later :D

Another interesting thing is during the summer it would reach 40C / 100F there, but AC in homes was very rare.
I waisted for the successor to skull canyon so long I just bought a Lenovo lol.
> Intel probably did their own PCB design however.

They do. I've heard rumors that some motherboard manufacturers don't have the skills in-house to design and simulate high-speed portions of the PCB (like the memory bus) themselves; they use Intel (or AMD) reference designs for that portion of the board.
Yeah wtf...
Are you sure? "Artificial Intelligence of Things" is a pretty good description of autonomous robots or a fully self-contained home assistant puck.
Maybe it was a point in negotiation.
What you’re describing is not a product, it’s a kludge. Even if you can stomach the poor reliability of an octopus of wires, a product designed to be used like that is likely to fail EMI testing.

I’ve certainly done this with SAS Harnesses coming out the side of my tower case, but you can’t expect a company to make a product with this use case in mind. There exists SFF NAS boxes with room for many drives for this purpose.
I don't get why you're jumping to cloak and daggers style operations: OpenAI would not kneecap their commercial offering by randomly changing how it works.

At the end of the day 99% of the confusion comes from people using the web interface, which undoubtedly does change much more often than the API versions they share.

The web app they host isn't a simple API wrapper, it does summarization, has some sort of system prompt, and calls the moderation API. That's undoubtedly being updated all the time.
I'm happy they are partnering with Asus. Not as happy if it means Asus products such as the PN5x series with AMD processors will get the axe.
Now you've got me thinking of a hardware freemium model where you get some freebie IoT device on your home network, and its neural net convinces you to start paying its subscription fee (implemented with blockchain) once you're feeling done putting up with some limitation of the free version.
Is any sample use cases step by step guide to how to train on niche use cases?
I would kill for a tenkeyless (standard, sans numpad) laptop keyboard.
'Breakthrough' geothermal tech produces 3.5 megawatts of carbon-free power
People have many other home appliances, no reason a local machine to provide local
Cloud and home automation can’t happen.

This form factor is especially neat for the amount of power per watt one gets.
I had a side project that I posted on HN, and which was subsequently covered by Fast Company, Gizmodo, and a couple dozen other tech/news sites. I kept the software (Chrome extensions) free for a couple years, but eventually started charging, partly to prove user demand for the purpose of fundraising or convincing technology partners that end users viewed our tech as "aspirin" (which they were willing to pay for), not just "a vitamin".

After the initial batch of signups (from the free users who wanted to support further development), new customer signups were infrequent enough that I didn't have an email filter for the Stripe notifications — and my phone wasn't buzzing all the time. It was a humble beginning!

Nowadays, most of my revenue is B2B (largest customer is Blackboard), but I still do all the customer service for my B2C customers, who pay a couple bucks a month to be able to read faster.

Thanks, HN, for getting me started! [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784
metaprogramming is not a virtue

programming languages do not themselves need to be programmable
The rise and fall of peer review (2022)
The claim has nothing to do with making the shares available to the public for purchase, by the shareholders or otherwise. Issuing stock is dilutes existing stockholders. An example with much simpler numbers to make things obvious.

I have company X, which you think is worth $15. Company X has 10 shares of stock. I happily sell you one for $1. You are excited because you have decided it is worth $1.50 ($15/10). I am happy because I have a dollar. Tomorrow, I issue myself 10 new shares of stock. I am still excited, more for me. You are sad because now your one share is worth only $0.75 ($15/20).
You are exaggerating my point, but on the way you exaggerate yourself and make false arguments.

If welfare queens dont exist - then how do you call beneficiaries of these programs like meeicaid?

Poverty exists in white and asian families, but interesting fact - only in black hoods it leads to high crime, high fatality, high incarceration rates.

How do you explain the fact that poor asian neighborhoods dont have crime and have much better achievements among kids?

And I am not sure that more handouts will help, because these handouts come from taxpayers and US a lot of Us taxpayers will be against it
This probably makes me sound really bad, but does someone with the speech issues he has really stand a chance at the presidency?

I know his health isn't under his control, and it isn't cool to judge someone because of it...but, as humans, we do, and for someone whose job is to clearly communicate his ideas and inspire with words...he seems to fall short here.
Neil Howe: Trust in US Institutions Continues to Decline
I really enjoyed Justin Schroeder (ArrowJS author)'s recent "
Design Patterns for Modern JavaScript talk, which to me spoke quite plainly but elegantly about where we are & what's happened in JS. Good touchstone talk on what life is like in 2023.

The culmination of the talk was pulling all the other pieces together with ArrowJs, and showing crazy blitz fast data-reactivity. It definitely peaked my interest a lot. Ultra-small but good ideas, well built.

https://youtu.be/a0Z-1P73EDk
A classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M (Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015)
So wave function is not a part of QM?
To clarify, roughly 46% suffer from mental illness or substance abuse, and 25% from severe mental illness alone.

- SAMHSA, 2019
chatgpt will easily create complete autohotkey scripts with no expert knowledge other than "make an autohotkey script that.." and just good rudimentary step-by-step explanation of what the script must do.

that has pretty broad applications for all sorts of non-programmers.

yeah, you're right if the goalpost is "please make a HIPAA compliant DBS from scratch for use in California", but most non-programmers aren't really interested in specification compliant programs that meet meticulous measures of rigor; they just want things that simplify their routine when cashing out a customer, organizing their pirated movies, perusing porn sites, whatever it is that people do.

Programming as a metaphor for telling a machine what to do was a great gatekeeper for people for many years, chatgpt and the like are reducing the 'fee to entry' immensely for non-technical people, and I say that as someone who is witnessing non-technical people in my life accomplish things they would have never tried previously.
>I read the paper, and dumbed it down to dogs and cats.

I could read the Pricicipia, or anything, and dumb it down to dogs and cats, but that reduction to the dumb would be a failing all my own.

As for the test-- a classification task benchmarked with 500 examples is a fairly decent test of a system's capabilities, be it LLM or a traditional machine learning model. And again, this was only one of a variety of tasks. While it's certainly no Principia, I don't know how you get from there to dogs and cats, nor have you explained your reasoning on how you found the path between the two.
I long considered doing this and I the end decided storage should be an appliance not seen or heard from which is relatively self managed and hot swappable and doesn’t require too much maintenance. Qnap/synology was dropped in and hasn’t been heard from in years.

There should be a dedicated ssd nas, that would be quite cool.

Setting up local compute was worth looking at on its own.
Why does it matter? Just because I don't like Google doesn't mean they suck at writing Python code. The same goes for anything crypto.
Asus gear just seems to keep working
AR News: Beyond the Headlines, into Your World
Interesting observation: I deleted my Twitter account, but created one again recently. Turns out, I was better off without it, so I only login a few times a month to see content from a few people I get a lot of value from. All it shows me in the recommended section is right-wing accounts?? The only accounts I look at are pretty darn far from anything political. My guess is that pushing political stuff drives up view numbers? Not completely sure.

I’ll probably delete it for good soon. It was a lot easier to separate myself from the platform than I thought.
There are many nice NUC like devices on Amazon. BeeLink makes some good ones with both Intel and AMD.

I think this is a great end result for the NUC. Asus makes some good stuff and they can probably push the NUC some more for reasonable prices.
Oh damn that sucks, I never book anything except a whole private house honestly. If I'm doing anything remotely shared I will book a hotel. If you work loyalty points well they can be a better value if your not travelling with a lot of people.

The best deals and service is Vacasa though in my experience. The actual properties may not be that great but the descriptions are accurate and they all have a full 3d / 360 walkthrough thing. And if you have a problem or need something it's more like a hotel you can text 24/7 and someone is on call that will show up or answer your questions.
That is essentially the best reason to do microservices. You have small teams own a service each. If you are doing microservices and your company itself is a monolith, you've got competing agendas. Not impossible, just a bit of an anti-pattern.
1200 cards/min is the rate for reading cards (which in this case represent executable code) into storage for later execution. It's possible for data entry there's a different pathway for loading just stacks of data onto tape or disk for those programs to act on.
How so?

Depends on the application, but for base line Apple silicon mac minis, ram is like lungs, even if the cpu/legs are super fast.

The max studio m1 max on the other hand is worth looking at.
You should apply for his campaign.

We hear this every election cycle.

You know what’s changed history?

Public non-compliance.

That’s it; the only effort that’s ever output a rethought social contract.

Any President will be hamstrung by helicopter parents in Congress and in SCOTUS who of course no what’s best for their stock portfol… public freedom of agency.

Joe Manchin was carrying on about preserving American heritage; these dudes all collide out of view to ask their handlers what sound bites play best.

The whole thing is a behavioral economics scheme. Make all the elite landlords walk the plank or feel there’s a serious risk of that about to happen and only then will things change from top to bottom.

I’m cool with an obligation to “United States.” Not to any specific elites and politicians.
The first sentence seems contradicted by the second no? If you don't have that fear then why bother playing around the semantics of "impression or notion"?

Is it an unfounded or mistaken cluster of tokens which resemble an impression or notion then?

At the end of the day it's producing an output which systemically was intended to be accurate, but ended up not being accurate through a mistake in generation: That's a hallucination.
>Compare to a country like Germany, where you can get a work visa, extend it indefinitely, and then roll it over into permanent residency after five years. No bullshit, no lotteries, you just meet the legal requirements and your applications are accepted in a matter of weeks.

Yep, it's much the same in Japan. Work visas for skilled jobs (like IT) are easy to get if a company wants to hire you, and you can apply for permanent residency in 1, 3, or 10 years, depending on how many points you score. IT professionals can easily get enough points for the 1 or 3-year requirements. As you said, no bullshit, no lotteries, just meet the legal requirements.
Then you more or less need a GUI like OpenAI built with ChatGPT so you control the whole environment. Even setting up LLM in Homebrew required me to do the whole install twice because of some arcane error.
Hey, just to be clear, I acknowledge that you said this. I wanted to give it a couple days to cool off. I am very sorry; I did indeed get lost in the sauce. Thank you for the warning. Should I delete my posts in this thread?
There's a tool called oxker, https://github.com/mrjackwills/oxker, that I've found works very well. It seems to take up less resources than lazydocker when running on my raspberry pi
Microsoft puts a steep price on Copilot
“Parental involvement” as a term is misleading because it assumes there are parents and you just need to start involving them ( like Asian tiger moms are super involved, now lets just make other parents befome as involved).

More correct term would be “dysfunctional family”. Family where one parent is incarcerated, another is drug addict etc etc.

This term more correctly describes situation that kid is alone in his education aspirations and needs state assistance
The hard thing about the rabbit hole is when you have one, you need two to mirror, and then maybe a third to stage or develop with…
I went back to Firefox about 2 years ago. Zero regrets.
Chorus: The Modern Media Stack
For meme stocks like Tesla boomer valuation metrics don’t work. You just buy and hold.
Mind to share the problem?
Mine was:

Elementary school, 8am - 2pm

Middle school, 9am - 3 something (3:20pm, I think?)

High school, 7:40am - 2:55pm
The NAS boxes I can see either assume USB-C or don't seem to provide much clue to how to use an eSATA to connect between things. If they were easy to work with I think there would be a lot more 'use this box to house the disks and this cable to connect over to the computer' and sure, I'd use the single SATA at some saturated speed.

I live in ZFS. These box makers often assume you want to run their Raid card, and have optioned up 'to make it better' without understanding ZFS exists, uses its memory efficiently (ignore the 'not on less than 4GB' thing its highly specific to some time in history and de-dupe) and wants a dull-as-ditchwater HBA to talk to the drives. Or, worse yet, they embed the CPU and you buy their packaged solution with their suite of apps and their model of GUI. Like the NAS I moved off, which had a sparc CPU and ceased being able to run, aside from which it was locked to <2TB drives.

You're not wrong btw. I am just saying "no, the home NAS space isn't as easy as you say, if you want to run ZFS yourself" unless I have missed a key term to search for, getting standalone drive enclosures.

I can believe I am not the market. Mainly because very few SBCs have more than one SATA slot, even less more than 2 and many of the M.2 keyed sata cards are listed in a homebrew filestore page with "odd chip, drivers uncommon" -If I was the market I am sure by now, more of them would be mainstream and more web pages would say "sure: its easy!"
> OpenAI would not kneecap their commercial offering by randomly changing how it works.

> As of July 3, 2023, we’ve disabled the Browse with Bing beta feature out of an abundance of caution while we fix this in order to do right by content owners. We are working to bring the beta back as quickly as possible, and appreciate your understanding!

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8077698-how-do-i-use-cha...
That is fine, then you need some kinds of comparable metric that stays the same over time. FLOPS maybe?

Ideally the same across clouds, or more likely cloud-specific.

Or even re pin it every 5 years. E.g. a 2020-CPU, 2025-CPU etc.

We need a "horse power" for the cloud I guess!
Unless I got mixed up, from what I remember of previous article it’s because that’s not possible. Val’s references are not first-class, you can’t return or store them.
was playing with Pi and it gave this answer. On second read, it seems like it's pursuading me to give up right to the article. Will look through privacy policy tomorrow.
Joplin woud be my suggestion but then again I'm biased because I'm involved with the team... Markdown, mobile apps, multiple sync platforms.

Trilium has some really interesting features - very much powered by a single tree but no direct markdown, its a WYSIWYG editor (which is a bonus if you like that kind of thing).

Logseq is good if you prefer the "block based" type of notes - more like Notion.
What about Threads? Isn't that supposed to be the Twitter-killer?
How does this work in practice? If the application didn’t need this memory anymore because it is done with the work/data, shouldn’t it already have freed or munmapped it? Is there a signal that can be send to a process to free up and return memory?
256GB seems pretty small for an HTPC, unless it's just pulling from a server in another room
Did you meant Go = HP. I made the same typo anyway, they are one keystroke away.
Yeah this is the attitude I'm talking about. You go ahead and save 25 cents an hour. I'll get way more done, get stand out more, get promoted faster.

In 10 hours I can probably close out 7 or maybe more small tickets.

Those colleagues ended up stuck where they were and I ended up making 4x what they were. It's not just because the ID but becauae of mentality that you support.

I don't want a 10 hour break I want to produce the most I can in the hours I have. That allowed me to make enough to retire at 33 with no stock grants.
Neil Armstrong Recalls Hair-Raising Apollo Moon Landing (2012)
Maybe for an annulment, but that’s very rarely the case for divorces entered into consensually.
Open core is a misunderstood business model
I'm done with the cost of living and I was born here.
Beelink devices are great. Super powerful for the price.

I wish they sold ARM ones. I've been wondering if it'd be possible to put a full arm linux desktop distribution on one of their 'super console x king' devices, which seem to be a rebranded Beelink GT King which they used to offer the ability to install arbitrary linux distro's on.
US news outlet for a US audience. 1975 called...they want their metric condescension back.
It always seemed to me to be a lot like a slightly less offensive version horse racing, with much the same profile - e.g. 90% of people watching it only care because it's something to gamble on.

Edit: Also reminds me a bit of what I beleive is called royal or court tennis, an extremely rare (there's only something like 30 playing venues in the world) variant of tennis that is played on a special enclosed court with some of the walls and ceiling being in play, and also certain parts of the walls are angled in specfic ways so apparently all kinds of chaos occurs.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Jesmond-...
True, my granddad is 96, worked at a coal coking factory, recently overcome COVID, and is still a totally capable person. Like his body doesn't give a damn about challenges.
So we're in agreement that wfh isn't a benefit to the employer, right? Best hope you have enough leverage to negotiate wfh.
Over the last 20 years I’ve used each revision of the PC Engines hardware for all my headless firewall and network appliance needs, both at home and professionally.

I have never had a single one die, even if the occasional flash storage kicks the bucket.

They were inexpensive, reliable, customizable, flexible and a joy to use with pretty well any Linux or BSD you’d like.

I’m very sad I won’t be able to look forward to a future revision for my next hardware refresh.

On the other hand every raspberry pi I’ve played with has died within 6mo to a year, and while most Linuxy things worked great, I found there were some invisible walls you hit when you tried to get too far outside the predetermined ecosystem (things controlled by firmware blobs) and the inability to run x86 code was more annoying than I was expecting.

What other tiny, multi-nic, expandable, x64 based, inexpensive, reliable headless solutions are out there to fill the void?
Swift Wrapper for Mediasoup