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Show HN: Use on-device AI to learn more from your book/article highlights
Hello HN,

I decided to clean up and launch a side project I’ve been using to do more with my highlights from books and essays.

I lean on semantic embeddings to do things like showing similar passages from other authors and the ability to do fuzzy/conceptual search queries. I find that viewing an idea from multiple angles can really help in digesting it.

The demo mode also previews a rephrasing feature which is LLM-powered that I’ve found useful in grokking denser passages. I’m hoping to gauge interest in it before pursuing it further.

Please let me know if you find this tool useful and how it could be improved!
Do you think China or Russia would ever agree to a global satellite internet connectivity initiative that allows anyone to easily bypass their information control mechanisms?
Over 25 years ago I wrote a package in GNU Emacs (ielm) that, as I was chuffed to learn from a HN thread recently, is still in widespread use.
While I think it's pretty cool, is absolute pitch actually "useful" for music-making? I feel relative notations (I-V-vi-IV) capture the essense of a piece of music better than absolute notations (C-G-Amin-F). It's just my layman opinion though.
>it wasn't obvious to me why they needed a $250,000 network analyser, given that there's no network and no signal to analyse

Radio frequency (RF) network analyzers are test and measurement instruments used to characterize the performance of RF and microwave components and systems.

>The amplification result is rather puzzling; I wonder if the antenna was in contact with the helmet

The helmet is functioning as a roughly spherical resonant cavity. Any such resonant cavity will have resonant frequencies and the signal strength inside the cavity will be stronger at certain locations and frequencies than outside the cavity.

>I'd like to know how they fitted a directional antenna under the helmet, without it showing.

They placed a helmet around an antenna, with the antenna inside a mannequin head, so as to measure the signal strength that would be present in the locations that would be inside the head if the helmet were to be worn by the wearer.
IMO, we are more likely to stumble across a completely new form of intelligence than we are to successfully recreate something akin to human intelligence. However, I think actual brain cells in a petri dish learning and playing Pong is a far greater concern than a hypothetical AGI.

Well, they don't hallucinate or lie, that's a human-centric concept that we've misapplied. An LLM is just a next word prediction engine. It's more accurately described as incorrect in its output based on the data it has available to it, skewing the probability calculation. It didn't lie nor hallucinate. Lying assumes intent and planning, it is incapable of either, it's an LLM. But calling it "wrong" kills the hype cycle, and you're on HN, a Y Combinator platform. A lot of folks here are invested in LLMs or selling something utilizing them as it's hot right now.
America is likely to suffer a similar fate: that of a former colonial superpower unable to admit its current situation to improve its own situation productively. Brexit was but one signal of this wasteful, collective cognitive dissonance. Corruption, income inequality, pettiness, and infighting are what will drag them down when there is a lack of hope with a mission for the future. Just look at the current PM, a neoliberal vulture capitalist, and the current POTUS: also a Clinton neoliberal dotard, with a likely race between a dotard for the rich and a rich, racist, populist idiot dotard pretending to be for the working person, both of which offer nothing constructive in the face of existential threats of climate change.

Meanwhile, China is basking in a "1960's US"-like expansionist, pancolonial, triumphalism, but I fear it will reach a similar conclusion as other superpowers in roughly 1-3 generations.

The long-tail of most, if not all, civilizations is peaking and decline. Most civilizations do not survive in a successful state beyond 10 generations or 250 years. The danger is in those who once had power or privilege and losing it, for they rarely take it well. Rejuvenation is had by being honest*, finding hope, and working towards something difficult and useful, sometimes it's a common foe be it human enemy or natural calamity.

* Unthinking, absurd dishonesty, polarization, arbitrary ostracism/civil death, and fungible redefinition of simple words are other signals of civil implosion.
I was amongst many who argued vocally against this proposal back when it was in stage 1.

There was a huge community backlash against it, which tc39 blithely ignored.

It made me lose confidence in tc39 completely.

Whatever their motivations are, they are clearly not influenced by community feedback, at least not for this feature.
If you're interested, just expose your infant/toddler kids to a lot of music. Especially complex music like classical and jazz, not just what's on the top 40 radio.

Kids' brains at that age are in peak sound processing mode. They are learning to understand the aural world. This leads to understanding spoken language. Music is just sound, and pitch can be learned like any other sound. We could speak in musical notes if we had a language codified that way.
If Google doesn't like the union's terms they can refuse to renew those contracts. If they can't find cheaper, less needy workers then that is exactly how much they're valued on the job market. It's not like those contractors have a monopoly on providing labor to Google.
As a linguistic relativist, I believe the meaning of words comes from usage rather than definitions; unfortunately, it is clear to me that there is no common definition of what AGI actually means, as it varies from "good at many things" to "superhuman at everything".

So, what's the definition you're using when you say it isn't one?
>There is a reason we don't want billionaires to feel safe with their assets sitting places. We want them actively using said assets to make the world better.

Okay, but the $250k cap doesn't do that, it just encourages them to do the exact same thing, shuffled across multiple banks.
This is all very context specific and depending greatly on the office environment you’re in and what your goals are in the environment. Without knowing any of that information, one can only provide the most basic advice.

The best approach to avoid office politics is to not involve your self with it. Just be a good worker, come in on time, leave on time. Just work 40hrs and do just the job outlined in your job description. Do not involve your self in initiatives, unpaid work, or declare a preference for assignments. Do not expect a promotion or dramatic pay raises. Live your best life outside of work and find a new employer when your current one no longer suits you.
> This is how I learned what it means to 'corner the market'.

That’s similar to my experience in WoW. I custom wrote an add on to buy all glyphs below a certain price. It also spit out a list of all glyphs that were above that price. When I started I would craft missing glyphs (above the price), but eventually ended up with enough gold that I could just buy out the bottom of the market and re-list with higher prices. I made tons of gold with almost no effort.

There were a couple others that did it too. I didn’t know them, but we never undercut each other by more than 1 copper. It was a nice little oligopoly and I was in-game rich. Lol.
Supermassive Dark Star candidates seen by JWST?
Why are you spreading worry over a couple weeks?
Dynamic api discovery is useful when you are traversing complex linked data from a service.

For example https://jsonapi.org/format/ focuses on traversal of relations.

If you are doing RPC-on-HTTP then it is a bad idea.
Because it wasn't obvious to me for a while: the Play store version is old, basically broken, and vulnerable [0]. Don't install it. The description does mention this relatively high up, but do you really read through the description for something before installing and playing around with it, especially if you already know what it is?

I don't usually like having old versions of software removed from distribution, but maybe in this case it should be removed from the play store since it's basically useless and also vulnerable.

[0]: https://termux.dev/en/posts/general/2022/02/15/termux-apps-v...
Are you thinking of the special with James Burke, “After the Warming”
Because if I'm thinking about the gpu I'm fundamentally thinking about the hardware, the server.

Serverless responding to http requests. Sure. I write some code. It gets fed data and returns data. I don't have to know how many cores the server has, or what microcode version the CPU is, or how many other things are running on the server, or if I'm writing an interpreted language (probably the case) even what architecture the CPU is.

But... I need to know all of that if I'm writing GPU code today.
Ok a few points,

If you're a writer try not to use AI or have the gallantry to say so if you do. Who's/how work is done is not a fading question

This sentimental, out of breath tone of this beleaguered experimenter could be in AI or a hippie drugster called Larry in Ashbury park SF who's also taking a step back.

I don't think there was ever there in there, and you've just tired yourself out. That's it. There'no cosmic reveal here.

Folks can we get grounded in life, politics, and AI? The hyper emotional whiplash of breezy predictions is nonsense.
So his argument is that the AI needs humans (to create data) to rapidly improve. So then it becomes:
step 1: ai enslaves humanity
step 2: ai forces humanity to create lots of data for it
step 3: profit?
Can you share what limiting growth helps with?
Make Slack Safe
I see a resurected Theranos on the horizon. This time powered by by ChatGPT. What could go wrong?
Google only releases AOSP for Pixel devices, for most devices you need to rely on (and trust) some dude on a forum and it might not have 100% compatibility.
Hey! I am building a sailing simulator built in my own OpenGL engine. You can see videos about it here: https://archipelagosim.com/
HN has always been a bit of a spitting contest. ChatGPT is too tempting to the narcissists who want to get on here and sound smart. I imagine this site like all other open comment sites is filled with 80% of the comments by 2% of a very chronically vocal minority. Do you want to be an expert? Do the thing. Do you want to sound like an expert? Talk about the thing on forums.
There is a documentary about a concert at the bottom of the sea, really way down in the 'basement' of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_A_platform which is 303 meters under the water surface:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YtCHHpZNxo

It's about an hour long, mostly showing the preparation of the singer, and the crew, like security/emergency training, to be even allowed to get on, and then down there. Thereby showing how it is out there. Interesting. One can omit the last half hour, or so, if uninterested in the music, or skip around that.
You can't see the satellites with the naked eye when they are in their target orbit.

You can occasionally see them as they are advancing to their orbit, and they look no different than an airplane at night looks. Except cooler.
I personally feel you're being overly optimistic. Genes, markers and all of that might seem like high tech medicine, but to the extent that I know there has not been much progress on that front, although it's been hyped a lot, and gets a lot of media coverage.
It can be useful, but it's not necessary to have perfect pitch to be a musician. Relative pitch (the ability to identify notes relative to each other) can be learned and is good enough.
I’m surprised how many people still believe this in spite of photos having been taken of the sites from Lunar orbit by other space programs.

It seems to be an article of faith for some though. We could have a space tourism industry with a package to visit the Apollo landing site museum on the Moon and a ton of people still would not believe.
> The API is extremely simple. It's little more than a hash map. That's hardly opinionated.

In that case, why does Deno have to provide this? Can't users simply create their own hashmap?
A user on HN is one of those affected. He posted a very detailed story about his awful experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34685029
It's a lot harder to overprescribe addictive drugs now. Much much harder. But your point remains. The problem wasn't so much painkillers after a major back surgery - it was prescribing to treat chronic pain - which, in hindsight, is an obvious way to get people addicted. What isn't told is how insurance would only cover pills, not more expensive therapies (to deal with the underlying issues.) Now you have a patient who's in some pretty serious pain and you have an FDA approved pill to treat it. In a country that still has TV ads for medicine, the outcome isn't that surprising. It's also why opioid addiction is a strictly american phenomenon.
The H-1B Story Gets a Vanity Plate
I don't really see the distinction you're drawing between government subsidized roads and government subsidised tracks. And the difference is that roads are useful for everything, driven by anyone. I can't go on strike and stop myself from driving somewhere.
I totally agree that the money isn't in a mattress, but it might as well be for the impacts on inflation. Inflation is driven by consumers ability and willingness to pay higher prices.

The 1% are not walking into the supermarket and buying up all the butter and driving up prices
Can someone who understands these things compare the tech BlueSky is using to Nostr?
I used to commute in a tiny rowboat, it’s the best start of the day you can imagine.
More notes on Linux's /proc/locks and NFS as of Ubuntu 22.04
Deno is really useful on edge computing like serverless lambda functions in things like NextJS/Vercel or Supabase and such
You can also use this tool to take a screenshot of an app that normally does not allow you to.

Useful if the app has QR Codes that you want to have on hand even if there is no internet connection (like Tesco Clubcard)
That feels like an argument for 'final' more than 'private.'

Personally, at least for library code, I tend to assume -somebody- will extend any given class of mine at -some- point and would prefer they had a reasonable time doing so, but I use 'prefer' advisedly since there are absolutely situations where doing so would almost certainly be a footgun and in that case I'd rather dissuade the user before sinking time into the idea.
But here is what winning means for his target: In addition to years of his life tied up in this, "Craig Wright has just submitted a bill of costs for £3.379m for his costs of my dropped defences and a two day hearing in February 2021. Defences I dropped due to excess cost My whole budge to trial was £1.3m." ( https://twitter.com/PeterMcCormack/status/165230790417358029... )

Obviously he's fighting the costs, which are due to earlier phases of the proceedings where McCormack tried to get the case summarily dismissed and was unsuccessful, resulting in Mr. Wright being awarded costs.
Lawmakers propose banning AI from singlehandedly launching nuclear weapons
I’m not sure I fully agree but I like it
Basically yes in this case, the guy has made a career out of our broken legal system.
How do you exclude (split tunneling config) the wireless part required for scrcpy, when using a VPN app? The IP of my wireless debugging option shows as the one handed out via the tunnel interface, not the one from my wifi network, and I can't find a way to make this an exclusion, as I make other apps, in the split tunneling option of the VPN app.
Chrome Remote Desktop works
Thanks. These are all good reads, and I think Bing Chat has a more sophisticated sense of humor lol.
> He lost

Sadly this is not true. Wright was ruled to have won the case but had the damage award reduced to only 1 pound.[1] (Wright is being bankrolled by billionaire Calvin Ayre. They are not worried about the money here.)

How someone can win a case while found to have "advanced a deliberately false case and put forward deliberately false evidence until days before trial" just goes to show how utterly deranged the British legal system is. As long as it is such, scammers like Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre will continue to torment innocent people.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/01/craig-wri...
GP is wrong.

Attention is all you need paper just proposed an AR model that didn’t have to be trained step by step. The scaling happened later in BERT and GPT and OpenAI’s scaling work
I am not a fan of the 37signals model. Basecamp is a terrible product. Last I used it with a partner, it still didn't support inline code highlighting. They're very opinionated about everything but I don't see their opinions driving good products. Kubernetes has been getting better with every release. I'd advise companies thinking of doing it better to implement their improvements to K8s directly so it can become a scalable, easy to use standard for everyone.

37signals is part of a contingent of reactionary developers and you can see this in HEY and now MRSK. It's reactionary without delivering real innovative value.
Wild take, but agree with your first sentence.

1.) it was never a language

2.) indisputably better security any time you take advantage of any of the features to disable reading of environment variables, using network, reading files, etc.
Starlink’s own map of world coverage availability is at https://www.starlink.com/map
what about a general agent that has access to niche actions, and the ability to train its own niche models?
Still have a little ways to go for this, but yeah, agree. IMO, CMBS has the highest likelihood of being the next MBS catastrophe.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HPP/ Hudson Pacific is who I've been following to track the health of San Francisco's commercial real estate market. I believe they have the largest public position in SF real estate. They're down 85% since 2020. This tracks with articles like https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-francisco-commercial-real-e... implying some commercial real estate in downtown SF is being devalued by 60-80%.

As a counter-point, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCRELEXFACBS commercial real estate delinquency rates haven't begun ticking up yet and are nowhere near the levels of '08.

May we live in interesting times and all that. :)
Yaradbg – Web based Yara debugger
Journalism has always been about ads, they just used to be bad at it.
My impression from talking to musicians with absolute pitch is that it’s more an annoyance than anything. They’re always hearing how things in the real world are slightly off pitch.
The government needs money to buy goods and services. Extra cash chasing the same pool of goods and services is definitely inflationary.

It also needs money to do weird, dark magic with bank balance sheets so that businesses can continue to acquire the capital to maintain and grow the supply of goods and services. It’s less clear what extra money sloshing around the financial system does. In the post-2008 era, people were freaking out about it not doing enough.
I generally haven't seen an avenue to do that. Bandcamp has the pay what you want option, but I'm not aware of a donating option. I also listed multiple reasons for buying vinyl and supporting the artist is only one of them.
> perfectly on time

> they do the required tests and examinations

Do you have a source or is this anecdata? I do agree with your other claims though.
Someone should ask ChatGPT first and then we can judge the output versus that of an actual human being.
Sure. We also know the actor is not actually Cleopatra, and she probably looked quite different in reality.
Ah, yes. Hypochondriacs. I was a hypochondriac for years until I was able to get an appointment timed such that my symptoms were physically present while I was being assessed (not easy if you have a disease that comes and goes). I really hope you’re not a medical professional that interfaces directly with patients.
It sounds like the system is based on a few mins of audio flashcards each day.

Has anyone here tried this?
The $300,000,000 of stimulus checks was to ensure the population would pass the
$6,100,000,000,000 of funding.

It worked great, every tax payer got a few thousand and an indirect +$40,000 tax bill (the government has to get money from tax payers for it) they will be paying out PLUS inflation and other side-effects for years to come.

Props to the rich for figuring out how to bait the people.
I find these kinds of articles frustrating because I generally agree with the politics, but the presentation is so polemic and disingenuous that I instinctively disagree with the dishonest and poor reasoning.

For instance:

- Casting annual subscriptions to Amazon Prime as nefarious. I’m happy enough with my prime subscription. I have enough agency to make other decisions. I don’t need to be rescued.

- The idiotic argument that , because pirates can and do remove DRM, therefore DRM is solely used to restrict authorized use. Seriously? Can anyone read this with a straight face? It’s like saying that because burglars can bypass door locks, the only possible purpose for locks is to keep people out of their own houses. I’m a DRM skeptic, but this flimsy position makes me less sympathetic to the anti-DRM camp.
> it is a completely-reasonable hypothesis that a scaled-up neural network can learn to recognize any pattern that a human might recognize, given that it has been trained on sufficient data

the hypothesis is a pattern recognition exercise in itself (i.e., looking at a number of documented occurences around algorithmic development and extrapolating), which I think neatly highlights the fundamental difference between human pattern recognition and machine pattern recognition
No, a locally-run LLM would not be a 10x better solution than having a copy of Wikipedia - plus StackOverflow, the other StackExchange websites, and a lot of other wikis - thanks to Kiwix, a copy of Khan Academy's educational content, of the relevant OpenStreetMap data, of Project Gutenberg, and of dozens more GB in textbooks, reference material, and entertainment.

The illiterate part of the community would be better served by interacting with the community - by fostering connections between people, improving literacy, and giving them tools - rather than with any sort of LLM, let alone one that has been cut down enough to run on cheap, under- (and often intermittently-)powered commodity hardware.
Either you're sarcastic or I fail to see those two as even remotely balanced. The world wasn't going to end. Neither will it end tomorrow morning at 9 am.[+]

[+] And if it does good luck collecting on that ;)
Jeez, embarrassing for GP
They're only using the same strategy as climate academics themselves:

the current diagram with the tree ring only data [Briffa’s] somewhat contradicts the [Mann] multiproxy curve and dilutes the message rather significantly.

I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is not quite so simple.

What do you think would be the most effective way to radicalise the UN agenda and protect the climate from our current economic and political systems? There are plans for a team to work in USA on a parallel campaign.

The new program [with people who disagreed] was "unacceptable" to King, says Peter Cox of the U.K.'s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Exeter. "We knew that we would not get to the scientific issues if we went down every rabbit hole of skepticism."

(all from climategate emails)
Any subscription will do the same. I'm now actively terrified by my giant audible backlog. :D
Those are pretty cool screen reader add-ons. Do you use JAWS, NVDA, or something else?
We Can’t Have Nice Things: Directionalists vs. Destinationists