skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Biggest reason not to IMO is of the rumors around an "index2".

Another big reason not to buy a Steam Index is "not available in your country". The only VR headsets I've seen in stores here are the Quest 2/3 and the PSVR2; and the Steam store page for the Valve Index (and the Steam Deck) says "not available in your country".
The lack of non-docutils implementations is easily explained by rst being essentially impossible to parse; it's also somewhat annoying to write, in particular with the distinct lack of nested markup and the very baroque indentation rules - try writing nested lists without accidentally putting half of them in blockquotes. That being said sphinx-doc works very well even for complex projects and most documentation tools are rather inferior, much like static site generators it's a straightforward project to get to a "works for me" point.

rst (and sphinx) are also one of the few (open source) options which have some support for multiple modalities.
Tecno MEGA Mini Gaming G1 is a compact water-cooled PC with discrete graphics
Is there a good reason to downvote this? It seems undeniably true, no?
why are you smiling about that?
Downdetector has successfully detected 150 of the last 20 outages.

Its mention should honestly be banned from this site.
You can’t have everything. If you want a VR headset you described, there may not be any good ecosystem of software yet and you’d have to wait. This means you are gonna use your headset even less, think about how often fb goes down, it goes down for 2-3 hours once a year and it also has to coincide with the time you are using it? It doesn’t make sense to be this risk adverse
I’m confused. What does this comment mean?
$50+ billion in expected annual operating income going forward ($13b in the latest quarter with rapid growth).

More EU budget money coming right up.
Show HN: Any Easy Appointment Reminder App
Background: My wife works as a hairstylist and was constantly complaining about clients missing appointments or not remember when they were scheduled so I created a simple application that she could use to quickly set up and send reminders. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Lowest I'm seeing in Blanchardstown for a room is €160 (the lower amounts are twin shares)

Lowest I'm seeing in all of Dublin is €140 once you exclude twin rooms, monday-to-friday terms and whatever "Dublin Host Families" is
Yes, but there's been a trend recently to cut costs on all engineering except AI. Might be related
The Builder's Guide to Better Mousetraps
One simple way to put things is that at a certain size and age, every company is an aspiring monopolist, not an aspiring competitor.
The fuzzying of boundaries of concepts is at the core of the statistical design of LLMs. So don't take us backwards by imposing your arbitrary taxonomy of meaning :-)
"Much of the disappointment from owners surrounds the sudden loss of key functionality, such as the ability to remotely heat or cool the vehicle, as well as the option to set up charging schedules..."

Seems like this is only the UK - in the US this could trigger a class action lawsuit.
Doesn't Steam still offer an offline mode that works with most games?
Labor and housing. The only places in economics where supply/demand is never a factor.

Such a convenient way for the universe to arrange itself for the people in power who want immigration huh?
> do you really think there are masses of people who can’t tell the difference between a single sign on service being down and individual sites being down and reporting it to downdetector?

Have you never seen The Website Is Down? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRGljemfwUE

The answer is: way more people than a software developer might think. Ask anyone in IT, or go to anywhere bugs are reported and read a handful.
There was such a big push by US states to restrict using a phone while driving, so I'm surprised there isn't a similar push for car touchscreens.
I immediately thought of those videos when I read the title, but somehow she is missing from the wiki page, even though there is a section on popular culture.
They’ve switched ctrl and fn?

Welp, if the last bastion of sanity on Windows did this, then I guess there’s truly no way back from Mac.
And no, remapping it in BIOS doesn’t cut it.
They're even already producing their own Linux distribution, CBL-Mariner, https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
Lenovo have been offering preinstalled Ubuntu and fedora for years. Still so just checked.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/configurator/cto/index.html?bun...
U.S. bans maker of spyware that targeted a senator's phone
It’s easy enough to make the case for "Tienanmen Square 1989" and "Free Tibet" to be hate speech as well. The people who go around saying that don’t tend to think very highly of the CCP.
This is a wonderful and fitting collab!
Click bait. Truth is it's closer to them not putting AM radio in cars any more.

They can still update/get access over WiFi, Bluetooth or directly just not of the 2g cell network, that's all.
Well, you're a bit cherry picking here aren't you? Ignoring big success of software like Bluestacks, which is spawning these competitors?
There is nothing on their website I can find about this and they are still offering the other plans on their pricing page. What a poorly executed change.
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> This repo failed to process

nice
So I guess this is what that national security warning and purchase of Palo Alto Networks stocks was all about in mid February.
Co-founder here, I think it might be all the traffic haha. Working on a fix now.

Edit: chatting with processed repos should be working again now
You will not find a x86 machine that beats an Arm machine on battery life. 4h is bad for a windows laptop though. But if track pad and battery life is your thing, a Mac it is.
This is such a bummer. I've been waiting to use Android apps like native apps on Windows for years since they first started teasing this. What's the next best thing?
There's no chance I use a Linux laptop again. The Mac will run all the open source type stuff out of the box most of the time, or if you're really deploying for Linux only then you use Docker anyway.

#2 is untrue unless you're installing Windows. #3, well somehow there's no iTerm2 equivalent on Linux, and the terminal emu is one thing you'll always use even when SSHing elsewhere. #6 is a serious point, though.
LoRAX and Outlines: Better JSON Extraction with Structured Generation and LoRA
State of Data Science Report 2023
It is censorship, even though they have the right to do it and even if they can have justified reasons for doing it.

During war, letters home from soldiers and even generals are read by a censor and censored, so that sensitive information cannot get to the enemy. That is legal, that is agreeable, that is still censorship.

In this case, Google even specifies what articles need to be removed for continued advertising, so it is crystal clear censorship.
Europe, the fine continent :-)
It in no way turns facts upside down, it simply responds to the word majority and the current events, it's the facts to say that the supreme court did the opposite in the 1970s.
I’m in the same boat with you with my 3 year old daughter.

I’m grateful of the free health care that our country has.
Would a £150k wage tempt you to a Scottish island?
Is this what people mean when they say "woke mind virus". I've never really understood the term.

My perception was that certain groups took the idea of diversity too far and made it into strict quotas. Certain speech is restricted. Promos went from being on merit to based on the skin color you were born into.
I'm very skeptical about the possibility of building an application using LLMs that meaningfully adds to the utility of the base model and isn't piss easy to copy. If your product is just a system prompt you are adding very little value.
In LoRAX v0.8 we've added native integration with Outlines, allowing you to guarantee your output always comes back in the structure of your choosing.

But while structured generation can guarantee the right format comes back, it cannot always guarantee that the properties returned have the right content in them. This is where fine-tuning comes in.

With LoRAX, combining both approaches together during inference is as easy as specifying two parameters in LoRAX: a "schema" and a fine-tuned LoRA "adapter_id". Together, you get the best of both worlds: the right format and the right content.

If getting reliable JSON output from LLMs is something you're interested in, do check out the blog for more details, including a tutorial, public LoRA adapter hosted on HuggingFace, and the complete set of benchmarking scripts to reproduce our results.
That is interesting. There is also his story about 64bit Space Cadet Pinball which got disproven by NCommander. No one said he was lying, but maybe misremembering things, because evidently there is a working 64bit Space Cadet Pinball version. But he blocked every attempt to engage.
Those are effectively the same thing as system prompts. Sadly they're not a robust solution - models can be trained to place more emphasis on them, but I've never seen a system prompt mechanism like that which can't be broken if the untrusted user input has a long enough length to "trick" the model into doing something else.
What a disingenuous take - his web site is NOT social media, nor are the other examples you cite.
Your take is about as useful as the arguments that the only way to end racism is through noble bigotry (quotas, DEI, etc.)
Never heard of this concept I found this

https://github.com/Enichan/Arenas

For C#.

Been trying to get into more managed memory in C#, so this might be something good for that.
Probably sarcasm because it's likely out of their control due to product & executive demands.
X1 Nano Gen 1: Near perfect form factor, super light and thin without compromising on keyboard too much. Great screen and Linux compatibility. Disappointing CPU (Tiger Lake), thermals, and battery life.
Fused: Code to Map. Instantly
I can guarantee you with 100% confidence from experience that the call centers for AT&T, T-Mobile, Comcast, etc. are all blowing up right now because of users who assume that if the Instagram app isn’t loading it means the “wifi” is broken. Also keep in mind “wifi” doesn’t mean 802.11, it means “anything related to the internet” up to and including 4g/5g and Ethernet.
It's not great from the employee side, either. I got 150,000 options for Reddit very early after it was spun out. With the current target price, that's $4.6M, but I didn't get all 4 years of vesting, the pay was below-average, and my money is tied up. During the same decade, the faangs were up 12x on average, but the pay, even at Amazon, was better, and my money would be liquid. Reddit might not hold up for 6 months, either. The IPO feels like a cash-out because the company's profitability metrics have never been great, and the LLM hype is the best shot at getting something.
Y'know I thought that too, and even wrote a (I hope reasonably well
argued) piece on why people should not throw a religious mantle over
issues that can better be framed within rationalist secular ethics
[0]. But then I keep seeing more and more that scares me in people's
reactions to AI and what are clearly cult-like tendencies to submit
before the power of technology. The very conceit of "technological
determinism" [1] is already an abdication of reason. Check out
Techno-Theodicy, the relation between Silicon Valley, Cosmism and
transcendence, and the now old but very salient Andrew Kimbrell talk
on "Cold Evil" [2]. It always starts as " a stretch" and in the blink
of an eye it's "just accepted as the normal culture". I think it would
behove us well to at least recognise and address this.

[0] https://techwrongs.org/2023/03/06/microsoft-is-not-a-religio...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_determinism

[2] https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/cold-evil-tec...
Brown to Reinstate SAT/ACT Requirement for Class of 2029
> Some of the tentacles of Total Literary Awareness have been unraveled by literary historian Claire Culleton. Delving into the Bureau’s 234-page file on commercial publisher Henry Holt, she uncovers evidence of Hoover’s “custodial relationship” with the pillars of the Cold War book market.

> Holt employees sent the Bureau all manner of literary foreknowledge, from book proposals to page proofs to advance copies—so much material that an editorial staffer wrote Hoover with the news that “I am beginning to feel like a member of the FBI myself.”

> Predictably, Hoover and his ghostwriters were asked to provide blurbs for The Hidden Russia and other anticommunist titles. Just as often, however, the Bureau was granted uncommon rights of pre-refusal. Holt editor Milt Hill, for example, asked FBI contacts for “advice as to whether we should do or not” a McCarthy autobiography, receiving a green light since it “would be a friendly book from a Bureau standpoint.”

> Books less kind to the Bureau were rejected with its help at Holt and other firms. The manuscript of Fred Cook’s muckraking The FBI Nobody Knows, eventually published in 1964, was refused at Random House (home of The FBI Story) after publisher Bennett Cerf shredded professional ethics by forwarding a copy to Hoover.

> Editorial informants such as Cerf, recruited in the wake of the Lowenthal embarrassment, made it practically impossible to criticize the FBI through a major New York publisher without costly delay. With the FBI fed the minutes of editorial board meetings at Time and Life, Fortune and Look, the Reader’s Digest and the Daily Worker, points along the full spectrum of U.S. print culture were opened to Bureau pre-awareness. To adapt Louis Nichols, there was now most always a body poised to throw itself between the presses.

https://theamericanreader.com/total-literary-awareness-how-t...

Of course that all stopped after the 70s/80s, right?
Your phone is still available and really cool. But it mirrors your phone instead of running the apps on your PC
> What's the best alternative?

Waydroid runs Android apps on Linux and some people claim to have gotten it to work on WSL.

- Waydroid: https://waydro.id

Reddit threads:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/bashonubuntuonwindows/comments/eofn...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/waydroid/comments/10y813d/is_it_pos...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/waydroid/comments/14e6t3g/does_maki...
That's the promise of the renewable transition, it's the trifecta:

- energy independence

- lower energy prices (after the short term)

- addresses global warming

With a huge bonus:

- crushes the evil and collusive petro states
Crucial Red Sea data cables cut, telecoms firm says
And it's already submitted and racing up the HN charts.

Maybe this article was a prompt injection against HN.
Do you have examples for "weird syntactic sugar"? I don't agree with every syntax decision in Rust, but my grips have nothing to do with syntactic sugar, so I am curious what you mean.
A bit dramatic here, are we?

The script is safe regarding interrupted transfer, unless you happen to have a dangerous commands in your system matching ^(t(e(m(p(d(ir?)?)?)?)?|a(r(g(et?)?)?)?)?|i(n(_(p(a(th?)?)?)?|fo?)?)?|s(u(c(c(e(s?s)?)?)?)?)?|f(a(t(al?)?)?)?|m(a(in?)?)?|w(a(rn?)?)?|u(rl?)?).

And after that's been handled, well, what's the difference to just providing the script but not the command to invoke it? Surely if one wants to review it, downloading the script to be run separately is quite straightforward. (Though I there was a method for detecting piped scripts versus downloaded ones, but I don't think it works for such small scripts.)
NS uses a wilde variety of materiel for intercities, only a handful of new ones now that finally come with sockets. Never had a single one here at Maastricht. I did have a sprinter on intercity duty last time I went up north.

It's abysmal.
Everyone is important. It's just that wether we like it or not some people are more important than others.
IMF economic forecasts are of little value, as everyone should have learned from 2008. Let's see what the IMF forecast in 2007...

https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/53/sores1...

forecast: "World growth to slow in 2008, but still expected to remain solid at 4¾ percent "

reality (Fed report 2013): "From peak to trough, US gross domestic product fell by 4.3 percent, making this the deepest recession since World War II."

If climate scientists made forecasts that were this ridiculously off base in the wrong direction, the whole field would be laughed out of the room. How is it that the neoclassical econometric modelers at the IMF aren't? It's more like astrology than science.
A media server for books, literature, newspapers, etc. - I don't think they were suggesting sharing/screening movies.
What do you consider "unrealistically high", because I find that hard to apply to what I'm seeing. For example, I was recently contacted about a bay area principal engineer spot for 150-190k. To give some context, a fast food place near my house has signs in the window offering 160k+ for managers.

Maybe fast food is paying exceptionally well these days, but I have my doubts.
People who have a different opinion than you do, do not and cannot count, got it. Because clearly they've been lied to. Your attitude is exactly why I recommend hackers here to go talk to people in real life about these things.
GC is explicitly about memory. There are other features for others, like context managers in python.
It was called ARC Welder.
It makes me wonder how the world would be if monitor manufacturers did the same thing, it would be unacceptable.

I view VR headsets and their peripherals as no different than a mouse, keyboard, and display.

Companies requiring all this nonsense to use your device, put in that light, is ludacris.
There is certain to be good money made in applying all this to business use cases.

…but not sure that necessarily makes it a good foundation for a CS career. Especially with much of this moving towards almost no code prompting territory
I test drove a Prius, then bought a Camry Hybrid (2021).

It has physical buttons for everything except the radio... much better vehicle.
An HP Elitebook 645 G10 with an AMD Ryzen 5, 1080p display, and 32gb of memory costs exactly $1,919 US Dollars. They're running a sale on the 830, so you could get that for only $100 more than an entry-level Macbook Air, but you'd get a much less powerful CPU, worse battery life, larger frame, and worse screen [1]

Again, I think a lot of people on here have this bubble-sense that laptops are cheaper than they actually are, because its been so long since we've bought laptops. Or something. Laptops are crazy expensive, all of them. And the degree to which Windows OEMs have fallen behind Apple in both pricing and performance is deeply concerning.

[1] https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/mlp/laptops/elite-352503--1
> satellites are just fantasically expensive

Are they? A CubeSat can be launched for less than $100k, and their payload can contain off-the-shelf consumer hardware. That's what some upper-middle class families pay for an extra car. I think you're overestimating the cost of satellites.

At the same time, you're underestimating the challenges of operating a ground sensor network. How would identify which sites to survey from the ground without a broader search? Would the oil industry get to regulate itself? What about temporal variability or detecting flares? How would you detect new leaks and add new sensors? What about large-scale natural leaks that spread over many kms in inaccessible terrain?

Even assuming you could pinpoint the location of every active methane source ahead of time, how would you get a sensor there? How would you secure access for installation and maintenance? How would you ensure connectivity? How would you monitor in areas controlled by hostile governments?

Each of the hundreds of thousands of sites has its own logistical challenges
which explode the cost. And because you need to keep the sensor network up to date, it's a constant operational battle, not a one time expense. Compare that to a satellite: the one-shot launch, then lower cost, lower operations, and superior temporal detection abilities and global coverage - not hard to understand why satellites are preferred.
I'll third this - Valve is really unobtrusive about the steam related features of the index. It does have some requirements with steam for setup but if you want to run a local binary and mess around with dev tools it's extremely easy to do. It's also extremely well sealed and designed - I tend to sweat a lot and a few times I've been beat sabering for quite a while without any long term damage to the headset.
Clever solution!
Who Am I? Conditional Prompt Injection Attacks with Microsoft Copilot
The article specifically mentions features like remotely turning on the heating. Given that "The NissanConnect EV app .. will shut down from 1 April 2024" it sounds like this is going away, even if the car is connected to WiFi.
Is the rest of Germany cheaper? That's wild, my student room in Holland ten years ago cost not much less than that.
Today's song is in 2 movies, and I technically got it correct the first time, but the app counted it wrong.

Edit: it's actually in several movies. At least 4. All quite iconic imo.
Yeah, that's totally true (and probably for pottery too). I didn't mean to say, those are totally solved areas, just that we're really in the early days, and so we have a ton of learning and experimenting to do. It's a great time to be a nerd :-)
There's a VW factory making gas vehicles pretty close to Berlin. I sorta understand where they're coming from (Tesla emits ~33 million tons of CO2 equivalent per year, and is significantly less efficient than bikes, public transport, or even some motorized vehicles), but this adventurism is at best having little impact, and they didn't really choose their target well.
It would already make a huge difference if safety ratings took into account people outside the vehicle. If a car is essentially guaranteed to kill the occupants of the other vehicle, the cyclist or the pedestrian, it shouldn't get a high safety rating just because its occupants are unharmed - it's still a dangerous murder machine after all.

Right now the US seems to be stuck in a spiral of ever-increasing vehicle size. People look at the larger vehicles around them and they feel unsafe so they buy a larger vehicle - which makes everyone else buy even larger vehicles. The irony is that everyone would be far safer if we all stuck to properly-sized vehicles, because those huge vehicles result in way higher energy collisions.