skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same with opensearch and elasticsearch, both of which have added vector search as well (slight differences between their implementations). And since vector search is computationally expensive, there is a lot of value in narrowing down your result set with a regular query before calculating the best matches from the narrowed down result set.

From what I've seen, the big limitation currently is dimensionality. Most of the more advanced models have a high dimensionality and especially Elasticsearch and Lucene limit the dimensionality to 1024. E.g. several of the openai models have a much higher dimensionality. Opensearch works around this by supporting alternate implentations to lucene for vectors.

Of course it's a sane limitation from a cost and computation point of view, having these huge embeddings doesn't scale that well. But it does limit the quality of the results unless you can train your own models and tailor them to your use case.

If you are curious on how to use this stuff, I invested some time a few weeks ago getting my kt-search kotlin library to support this and wrote some documentation for this: https://jillesvangurp.github.io/kt-search/manual/KnnSearch.h.... The quality was underwhelming IMHO but that might be my complete lack of experience with this stuff.

I have no experience with pinecone and I'm sure it's great. But I do share the sentiment that they might not come out on top for this. There are too many players here and it's a fast moving field. OpenAI just majorly moved the whole field forward enormously in terms of what is possible and feasible.
This is only true in the US. Even in the UK it isn’t uncommon. In Germany it is very common
Have you tried Vale or Lobster though? Research in memory management semantics is a lot more sophisticated than you might think.
Last time something about the ghosts of Delphi/C++ Builder was posted here a few people mentioned very aggressive marketing and licensing.

So I guess the phone number is there so they can threaten you into buying a license.
Thanks for the reply, good to know that!
>I use it to set timers, get the weather, play music via Spotify, occasionally dictate text messages, and look up trivia mid-conversation.

I use my Google Home similarly. But understand that these use-cases are utterly trivial, and Siri (by most accounts) and Google (from experience) still manage to get them wrong too often. It's unbelievable.

I have Google Home products and a YouTube Premium subscription. By 1 of 10 times when I ask for music it'll default to Spotify, which I have never used. How? Why? One of my speakers now reacts to every request with an error when it's not the primary speaker being spoken to.

It's a novelty, nothing more. I wouldn't rely on this stuff for anything. In fact, it's a bug or two away from being permanently removed.
It really is. I love sports - both watching and playing.

However, for years DraftKings, FanDuel and the like would "advertise" during major sports broadcasts and say "this isn't gambling, this is daily fantasy sports!" Yet 1 year later, online sports betting becomes legal and all of a sudden those same commercials keep airing, but without the "this isn't gambling" tagline - because it really is.

What really irks me, though, is all of a sudden it seems that betting odds are part of every broadcast for any given sport. Seeing my childhood heroes talking about gambling odds and picks just kinda ruins it all for me. I don't like that a large portion of a given pre-game show or countdown show is centered around betting. Granted, a lot of the talking heads don't really have much else to talk about once the main points are discussed (injuries, trades, roster changes, playing condition changes, etc...), but a part of me thinks "most of these guys made millions while playing, and get paid to watch sports and talk about them.....why do they need to get paid to talk about gambling? Don't they have enough money already?"

Disclaimer: for over a decade I've been active on a penny betting site that requires no deposit, but pays out in $200 increments if you ever reach that amount. You watch a few ads, get like 5-10 cents in credits, and you can bet with those credits and win real money. I primarily do parlay betting on tennis, NFL, and football (international). I enjoy it, and have made a few bucks, but I don't obsess over it. I don't think I'll ever deposit real money on a gambling site, even a small amount for fun. Too much risk.
You may find this link interesting: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2954173
Should be the same rules, that's one of the upsides of corporate personhood it just slots corps into the same legal hole (except you know for the whole complete inability to really punish them effectively, but that's another topic entirely) as people so there's no human authorship to assign a copyright for. It doesn't/shouldn't matter who the applier is the work itself is simple non-copyrightable. Until we have some kind of personhood for digital minds/consciousnesses or someone with enough money gets the law changed AI art is in the wind IP wise.

Personally I'm all for that, too many things have the idea of ownership applied too broadly.
I agree. I think these are the best interpretations of the book that I've seen.

However I've also done a complete 180 on the book itself. I think there are just too many holes in the logistics of the Dune world for me to keep up the suspension of disbelief as an adult.

Given that, I'm pretty neutral towards the movies as the book adaptations. I hope they don't take the source material too seriously actually, because the source is honestly not as captivating to me as an adult as it used to be as a teenager.
What you quote is not especially scandalous. It uses the language of the time but is not wrong in that Europe essentially conquered the world and was factually superior to everyone else at the time where in some places people still lived like in the iron age.
Give a regular person the opportunity just once to participate in the corruption schemes that the elites use to sustain themselves and that regular person wouldn't even blink before accepting. The average person has become so spiritually impoverished that he or she will participate in corruption and unethical conduct without even realizing what they are doing is wrong. "Hey, I get some money, so that has to be good!".

People sell themselves for as little as $500 in corruption money. Elites haven't reached their spot just by themselves, they rely on massive tree-like corruption networks, where the leader of each branch gets to benefit more the more people they have under them. In a given society you have a small percentage of people completely morally corrupted, a large majority who are just ignorant in every regard, and a handful of people who actually gives a damn - about anything.
That's the first result on Kagi, but I think that's because they just call Google behind the scenes for you.

Edit: I didn't mean this to be an insult, I pay for Kagi and use it exclusively. But actually, the Kagi and Google first page of results look fairly different for this query, so Kagi is doing more curation and ordering than I realized.
If you've ever heard of something being "borked", the phrase comes precisely from what happened Bork.

I don't think Kavanaugh is especially impressive as a legal mind, but in the debates I had at the time with staunch opponents of Kavanaugh, none of them could produce anything to substantiate the allegations. Their whole argument rested solely on the allegations themselves. What little evidence that was presented only served to undermine those allegations. I don't see how that is anything other than character assassination.

I haven't actually looked deeply into the accusations against Thomas during his confirmation hearing, but I have read several of his legal opinions, all of which were quite impressive.
> Without prejudice to further consideration of the legal characterisation, Apple views each version of the App Store as a distinct online platform under the DSA, and only the iOS App Store may qualify as a VLOP.

LOL LMAO ROFL. I really hope there is some EU directive that this is breaking so they can be fined just for being asses.
I saw quite a lot of time behind a screen and nothing marked exercise in the routine outlined in the post.

This will catch up to this person in some way or another. Maybe not today, but it will not be in the too distant future.
Can report similar experiences.

Just signed up for a free account, will give it a try, but expecting hallucination to be a major issue.
If he were to directly claim authorship, he would be lying. The copyright office issued specific guidelines saying that AI-generated content is not copyrightable. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...
Plug: If you're ever looking for an open source alternative to Pinecone, we recently added vector search to Typesense: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/vector-search.html

The key thing is that it's in-memory and allows you to combine attribute-based filtering, together with nearest-neighbor search.

We're also working on a way to automatically generate embeddings from within Typesense using any ML models of your choice.

So Algolia + Pinecone + Open Source + Self-Hostable with a cloud hosted option = Typesense
“From school, I remember: Every good story I was told, but none of the formulas I memorized before a test.”

I had a teacher who would often go on and on with stories about hunting and traveling. I think of his stories when I pass through the areas he told stories about. I’m convinced he was teaching us local geography without us noticing.
I think he meant in regards to the health effects of it, not specifically the brutality of the addition. I finally got off cigarettes with vapes and Juul was the only one that worked for me. I smoked since I was around 13.
This is true, but the tradeoff is that now your central DB is a bottleneck that is difficult to scale.

Having the applications keep a cached version of the db means that when one of them runs a complex or resource intensive query, it's not affecting everyone else.
It goes further than that. Kris Kashtanova made a comic book named "Zarya of the Dawn" using midjourney for all the art. When registering for copyright she claimed copyright over the art for herself, under the theory that she was prompting the AI, and it was just a tool. When the copyright office learned about this they revoked her copyright registration[1]. The view of the copyright office is that this is no different than the photographs taken by the monkey - the monkey can't claim copyright because they are not human, and the owner of the camera can't claim copyright because they didn't have sufficient creative input, so the work is ineligible for copyright at all.

She is eligible for copyright on the text she wrote, the composition and editing performed on the images, but not the raw output of the AI.

[1]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/us-co...
As an inmate you don't have standing in 1983 cases (your only attack against qualified immunity) unless you can demonstrate actual harm. How can I do that? I don't own anything, my prison slave labour job isn't going to fire me and I don't get docked daily lost wages (off my $5 a month flat pay), so how do I prove actual damages?
Sure but the article really seems to imply that he's not neglecting himself, just optimizing his schedule completely to code all the time.

> I run 6 miles many days of the week to keep healthy. I do it while writing code, using a standing desk treadmill.

Realistically just with that sentence he likely more active than the average person. On top of that:

> I get groceries delivered, I’d rather spend the time coding.
I make sure I have deep technical problems I need to think through and solve, and solve it while I am making meals, eating, or doing chores.

Seems to imply that he is cooking his meals and not ordering junk food instead of cooking.

I'm not saying working 100hrs/week is a good idea, but aside from the lack of romantic relationship, his life seems overall balanced.
> Google engineers are interested in hooking this into Feral's GameMode

Afaik ChromeOS gamemode is completely independent from Ferals work?
If there is one thing I hate is subscription services for HW that I own.

If any automakers starts doing this (and Mercedes is one of them, see the heated seats options), they won't have my money.

I hope I'm not the only one who finds this strategy stupid, especially given the fact that you don't get a discount on the car base price thanks to these "options".
It’s on Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/815/pg815-images.html#l...
>Whatever their attempt to make iTunes into a social media network was called.

It was called Ping for anybody wondering.
I don't have Apple Watch, but have Garmin. I used the store once during the initial setup and I don't see why it should be different for AW users.
Ah I see, I know Azure and GCP in NL are in separate buildings but indeed on the same site. But that's not guaranteed for other regions, good to know.
Not that this excuses it, but I've been able to get this to work by going into the "Downloaded" tab in the Music app. That seems to play directly off the device.
We have to organize to disobey SCOTUS decisions.
That was 7+ years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_Paper

Dropbox also never hired at a rate beyond their rate of revenue growth.
> Democracy, I think, is actually about losing gracefully and without having a revolution, not that you always get your way.

If we actually lived in a true democracy, then, yes, I would agree. But we don't. The US naturally degrades to an undemocratic two-party system, and apportionment gives minority citizens outsized influence. Sometimes it even gives the minority citizens a majority in governance.

> You want term limits on the current justices -- would you have been in favor of that for the justice that was giving you "yes" votes on cases?

Yes, absolutely. The problem is that the lifetime appointments cut both ways. For example, RBG fucked up: instead of doing the smart thing, stepping down years earlier (when she already had plenty of health problems), she was selfish, stayed on the bench, and was replaced by someone with views that would likely disgust her.

A term limit would make things more fair, and would have justices entering and leaving the court at predictable intervals. Of course, term limits would likely require a constitutional amendment, so that will never happen.

I was a fan of another proposal I read a couple years ago: every presidential term gets some fixed number of SCOTUS appointments (say, one or two), and the size of the court varies term-by-term based on who is or isn't retiring. When a justice retires, they aren't replaced. Presidents just get their one or two guaranteed appointments every four years, and that's it.

Of course, you still have the issue of Senate consent; we could certainly have another situation where when the Senate is controlled by a party different from the president's, they stonewall and refuse to confirm. Fixing that would of course require another constitutional amendment, so that wouldn't work. But when appointments aren't "precious", it's probably less likely that would be an issue.

> I am not in favor of suddenly finding / proposing all sorts of new rules just because a ruling didn't go your way.

This isn't sudden; people have been talking about SCOTUS reform for many years. It's just that incidents like the current one bring it back into the spotlight.
I don't know that I would rely on performance on a single search to categorize how a search engine performs even in related areas to that one search. Also, maybe this is a stupid question, but are you letting Google personalize your results? If so, the comparison becomes even more problematic.
80% of a basketball simulation engine

80% of a Teamfight Tactics simulation engine

80% of a data analytics platform for sports data

40% of a PaaS to manage common open source software deployments to the cloud

I don't finish much. It's my absolute greatest flaw.
I don’t think burnout is actually associated with working hard. There are many concrete examples but are all generally under the umbrella of not having a clear and compelling vision to work toward. The vacuum created by which usually includes creating process and bureaucracy which amplifies the problem for motivated people. It is fine for folks who are fine with playing the game and collecting a paycheck - some people think that this is literally all there is to work.
Let's Encrypt was also originally from Mozilla.

In addition, I seem to recall that the Alliance For Open Media and its AV1 codec also derives from Mozilla sponsoring Xiph.org's Monty to come up with an unencumbered, next-gen media codec.
Whatever the outcome, I'll still just continue to generate nonsense from the public domain:

"Generate a highest rated recipe from the website AllRecipes.com, then also provide the most helpful comment that includes all the recipe modifications that should have been present in the original recipe, that is to say, the adjustments that make the basic template extra good. Generate a recipe written by Julius Caesar in Latin."

Recipe: Placenta Iulii Caesaris

Ingredients:

2 cups farina tritici

1/4 cup aqua

1/4 cup oleum olivarum

Sal

1 1/2 cups caseus

1/4 cup mel

Instructions:

I. Primo, praecalefac fornum ad 175°C (350°F).

II. In scutella magna, misce
farinam tritici, aquam, oleum olivarum et salem. Amalgama usque ad impastem.

III. Divide impastem in duas partes aequales. Extende partem unam in formam rotundam. Et partem secundam in formam rotundam aequalem.

IV. In scutella altera, misce caseum et mel. Compage omnia pariter.

V. Dispone mixturam casei et mellis super crustam unam.

VI. Tum, dispone crustam secundam super mixturam casei et mellis.

VII. Premere finis duarum crustarum simul, ut bene cohaereant.

VIII. Coque Placentam Iulii Caesaris in forno praecalido circiter 30-35 minutis, vel usque ad crustam auream et croccantem.

IX. Emove Placentam e forno et permitte ut refrigeret.

X. Tum, scinde in partes et fruere.

Most helpful comment:

"Conveni, coqui, comēdi. Placentam Iulii Caesaris confeci et omnes convivae vehementer laudaverunt! Nonnihil mutavi ut melius esset. Caseum feta loco ricottae usus sum, nam sapor acris me delectat. Etiam, in mixturam casei et mellis nucem fragmenta addidi. Sic placenta gustu vario fuit. Gratias tibi ago propter hanc praeclaram rationem coquendi!"
is it? the new natural keyboard is literal landfill, the surfaces are great until they break, i don't think even MS can open them up for repair without destroying the damn things. The surface studio was apparently a technical dud and way too expensive to boot.

The xbox 360 had such terrible heat dissipation problems that it got it's own moniker 'the red ring of death'.

In the old days their HID device devision was solid, and was doing some interesting things. Back in the 90s-00s their keyboards and mice were pretty much best in class (if you wanted a membrane keyboard), the natural keyboard was a big step forward in ergonomics. On the gaming side they had solid mid range flight sticks that the rest of the industry lacked (it was either crazy high end or literal trash). Hell they even tried some coolish experimental devices that were at least interesting .. Specifically I'm thinking of the Sidewinder Strategic Commander. A kind of one handed keyboard that was sitting on top of a two axis sliding mechanism.

In the 2010s they did some interesting devices (or branded some) like the kinect and the original surface tables (the ones that looked like cocktail style arcade machines)... and they started moving into compute devices like the 'second gen' surface branded tablets/convertables/laptops. Those seem less successful overall. I don't see too many enterprises giving people surfacebooks instead of lenovos...
It shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that Freud was not in full agreement with the Nazis on the matter of his relationship with Judaism.
You bring up some good points, and I agree broadly with your points about direct citizen action.

But I think recent history has taught me that voting matters, and elections matter. People are getting what they voted for across the country, and I don't think there has been a point in recent history where that has been starker. A state like Colorado is often called "purple" because many issues are split down the middle there. So yeah, in some instances there's going to be a mismatch between the electorate and politicians. But at the same time, there's a big difference between e.g. California and Florida regarding how someone like me (LGBTQ) is perceived by the government. It's not direct citizen action holding the lions at bay in my state, it's the collective action of voting for representatives who don't pass legislation targeting us.
> It will reach its end of servicing in May 2024 (Home, Pro, Pro Education, and Pro for Workstations editions) and in May 2025 (Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions).

So much for the 2025 end date I kept hearing. Only applies to the versions few people have.
Why would I use this over Lazarus or CodeTyphon? Both are free and open source.
Why buy and worry about a home grinder? I get a 12oz bag a week from a local roaster and have them grind it. Does ground coffee really go bad after seven days in an airtight bag in the freezer?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/this-simp...

There's a map here that shows that most of the eastern US gets more rain than Seattle, but Seattle is very high on the number of days of measurable precipitation.
https://jobs.dropbox.com/listing/4987352

>Role Description
We are looking for a technical leader to help shape the Machine Learning agenda for Dropbox’s new initiatives. This will involve developing high impact ML solutions that touch hundreds of millions of people and a lot of data. From images to documents in every language, using the full range of Machine Learning techniques from deep learning, interacting with modern LLMs (natural language), computer vision, etc. and executing everywhere from mobile devices to large clusters on our back-end infrastructure.

They pretty much don't know what they don't know and are looking for someone to build it for them.

If I had to hazard a guess at the strategy, they are looking to build an in-house multi-modal model to power enterprise search.
The Horrors of Freud - Stefan Molyneux
Bummer, I always enjoyed reading about their engineering culture. Seems like a nice place to work.

Hopefully they'll figure this out and rebound from their predicament.
It's the same as telling a person with a lifelong heroin addiction to just stop using heroin.
If this works well, are you interested in training a model specifically around the domain you work in so you could get deeper integration with your product?

I have a personal project similar in concept to flux, but rather than working at the circuit level, it's at the device, firmware, and infrastructure level. I've been trying to use GPT to intuit how to network devices using different protocols, such that it might be easier for lab techs (for example) to discover how to manage and maintain their experiment tooling and infrastructure. It's really hard, though. The outputs and level of integration are mind-bendingly good, but... It's not perfect, which makes it too clumsy or even dangerous for what I want to build.

I think I envision something like GPT transforming human language into prompts for a narrower model with more predictable outputs, which is far more aware and capable with the application's logic and data. The user experience could then give you the conversational ease, yet far better application integration as well.

Anyway, just curious what you're thinking and very excited about projects like this. This is really cool.
AWS treats its availability zones very seriously, each zone has its own independent power substation, air conditioning, and fiber lines.

It's incredibly rare for multiple AZs to go down at once, especially since they are more than a few miles apart from each other.