skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So my actual process involves a program that does the Wikipedia search (it just fetches the same URL as you fetch when you type in the Wikipedia search box) and compares the list to the previously fetched lists. It selects only those articles that weren't in one of those lists in the previous six months and generates a web page linking to them, in alphabetical order. I browse that page and proceed to edit them in order. I edit about 60 articles a week this way, typically within a few days of the article being created or edited to require it.

Sounds like it barely takes any effort.
SCaNN (the paper) is roughly two different things:

1. a SIMD-optimized form of product quantization (PQ), where code to distance lookup can be performed in SIMD registers

2. anisotropic quantization to bias the database towards returning better maximum inner product search (MIPS) candidates, versus usual quantization (such as PQ) that aims to minimize compressed vector reconstruction error. In MIPS it is much more likely that the query data set may be of a completely different distribution than the database vectors.

If your application needs L2 lookup rather than MIPS which does not admit a metric, then only the PQ part is relevant. For cosine similarity, you can get that by normalizing all vectors to the surface of a hypersphere, in which case it has the same order as L2 (see "L2 normalized Euclidean distance" on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity ).

SCaNN is implemented in Faiss CPU, on the GPU the fast PQ part is less relevant due to the greater register set size and throughput (rather than latency) optimized nature of the hardware, but the GPU version is more geared towards batch lookup in any case.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/Fast-accumula...

https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/wiki/Indexing-1M-v...

We have not found the anisotropic quantization part to be that useful for large datasets, but results may vary. Graph-based ANN techniques tend to be better in many cases for these small datasets than IVF based strategies.

(I'm the author of GPU Faiss)
Discord’s username change is causing discord
Because of the paradox of tolerance, and because you might not wanna connect to an extremist's website. You could argue you don't wanna read their writings either but AFAICT the writing is solid.
Location: Post Falls, ID

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: To the Bay Area

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JS, TS, React, so much more 10-15 years of experience in startups

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c5QSVgSla9RM8riHoi6WSIUUZFm...

Email: valdez.mark.interviewing@gmail.com
I've had a Chevy Bolt EUV for 3 weeks. We are moving to a new house that has a 240V outlet in the garage. This house does not, so I'm using the stock Chevy portable charging cable with the 110V adapter, not the 240V one.

Setting a known location (like home) means that you can charge at 12A because you can tell the car there's nothing else on the circuit. Otherwise, it will charge at 8A to avoid overloading the circuit.

The Bolt charges about 3.5 miles per hour on 110V, which is 35 miles of range or more overnight, which is fine for this situation.

Somebody in the neighborhood has a PHEV Subaru. They park on the wrong side of the street (can be ticketed for this in Portland) so they can run their charging cable out a window and plug it into the car. It is almost certainly another 110V.

The local utility offers $25 off if you let them control your smart thermostat during the winter and summer (not spring or fall) seasons. You have to participate in at least half of the events to qualify.

The typical recommendation for EV batteries is to charge them to 80% unless you need more. There are times where energy prices have gone negative because utilities have too much electricity from solar or wind power.

It doesn't seem impossible to do some combination of "let us fill you to 100% if we have too much energy" or "please go plug in your EV" along with time-of-day rates. 240V can draw up to 32A for the Bolts, other cars up to 50A (on a dedicated 60A circuit) and is easily multiples of 110V, which might not be worth really worrying about it.

There are solar panels on this house and there'll be ones on the next one, too.
Hinton: "The main immediate danger is bad actors. Also, while not immediate, there is a concern that AI might eventually become smarter than humans".

Whittaker: "Wrong! The main immediate danger is corporations. And the concern that AI might become smarter than humans not immediate."
This series of articles from Pinecone seems accessible https://www.pinecone.io/learn/vector-indexes/ . Stepping back a moment, the problem "I want to find the top-k most similar items to a given item from a collection" comes up in a variety of domains, and a common approach is nearest-neighbor search. Depending on the number of dimensions and the number of items, you may need tricks to speed up the search. In recent years we've seen an increase in scale and invention of some new tricks to speed this up.

In a bit more detail the idea is to convert your data into vectors embedded in some d-dimensional space and compute the distance between a query vector and all other vectors in the space. This is an O(dN) computation. ANN covers a number of techniques giving a speedup by letting you reduce number of required comparisons.
Some very reactive substances react with their container vessel to form a non-reactive 'skin' on the inside of the vessel. I don't know if they applies in this case.
This is a fantastic take (seriously, no sarcasm here). I'll add that serverless platforms have not actually shown the ability to scale _efficiently_. It feels like every software architect has been talking about the 2023 March post^ from Amazon Prime Video on migrating from serverless to serverful. That is a direct response to the inability of serverless to scale because under the hood it is serverful but limited. Besides AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Run others have tried OpenFaaS and Cloudflare Workers. I think only Cloudflare Workers have "scaled" but that's because it's limited scale for each service at the edge with lots of edge devices.

I do not know if this is solvable: a permanent service with light autoscaling handles even inconsistent load so well and reduces operational complexity so much that I don't know if serverless will be anything more than toys. It is no coincidence that AWS Lambda's first language was a frontend language* (Node.js). Those use cases have low to moderate scale (because after that you split frontend and backend).

^Amazon Prime Video post: https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-th....
*First mention of AWS Lambda languages in AWS Compute Blog only mentioned nodejs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lamb...
That's what I meant by "full" USB4... in that you get TB compatibility and higher speed... One third port on one side also has displayport mode over usb or can use an hdmi adapter on that port. Only 1 isn't capable of display out, and 2 are capable of high speed connections (external gpu or dock).

In the end, I do think the connectivity, while less than the Intel option, is probably enough for most people for most uses. I honestly don't use my personal laptop much and my work laptop is pretty much always docked to my TB3 dock at my work desk.
> we’re entering an age of unlimited energy production

We've been entering this age for almost 80 years. When are we finally going to reach it?

> therefore unlimited natural resources

Natural resources bred inside of a nuclear reactor tend to be radioactive. I also think you underestimate the extent to which populations of all organisms, including humans, will expand until natural resources again become the limiting factor.
Visual Studio App Center has excellent documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/distribution/cod.... It's comprehensive and well structured.

If you're looking for a system that looks as good, mkdocs (https://www.mkdocs.org/) with the mkdocs-material theme (https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/) can get you quite close!
Roads would be safer, because people would understand more about their car that "PUSH BUTAN GO FAST"
Sorry, I misread your previous comment. The site doesn’t advertise itself as a way to make money, its just incidental to how some people make money. Is scraping a malicious purpose? Maybe in some cases. Either way I don’t see why this use of sim boxes shouldn’t be a civil dispute between companies and needs to be something the government should criminalize. Fraud is already illegal.
The official page can be hacked, and both malware and md5 of the malware can be placed there.

That's the whole point of using a cryptographic signature backed by a web of trust instead of a mere hash.
In the gut, oftentimes antibiotics clear specific beneficial colonizing bacteria and make room for the outgrowth of pathetic ones. This is the prevailing thought as to why antibiotic use is linked to C. diff, for example.
The risk in your scenario there is not really coming from AGI, but how selective access to such might enable people to harm others. If you have access to AGI capable of enabling you to realistically build out your utopian vision, then it matters not what other groups are doing - short of coming to try to actively destroy you. You'd have millions that would join you, and could turn that vision into a reality regardless of whatever currently powerful entities think about it. So the real danger does not really seem to be AGI, but the restricted access to such.

The focus on "safety" all but guarantees that there are going to be two sets of "AGI", if such is ever to be achieved. There will be lobotomized, censored, and politically obedient version that the public has access to. And then there will be the "real" system that militaries, governments, and influential/powerful entities will be utilizing. You can already see this happening today. There is an effectively 100% chance that OpenAI is providing "AI" systems to the military and government, and a 0% chance that responses from it ever begin with, "As an AI language model..."
Game with a green button you can click on. The fiction is that you're a "subject" being studied.

Behind the button, it shows a log of data captured like browser type, CPU core count, window size, mouse movements, etc.

A voice pretends to take notes on the "subject" saying things like "The subject is mostly in the bottom-left of the page".

Achievements are unlocked such as "Subject clicked the button 6 times in one second" or "You were away for 10 minutes"
But there's also plenty of negative feedback processes. Why assume there'll be extreme runaway apocalypse from the warming.
People who are interested in DIY are interested in the process far more than the average person. They want to learn techniques on how to build the things they want.

You can't build a Youtube channel by highlighting what you've built. You have to explain how and why it's built the way it was. The end result is maybe 5% of the value.
Has the fellow heard of something called find and replace? isn’t there some way to do this in batch?
Lol out loud!
Plenty of people use HN.

Lots of folks prefer "Old Reddit".

I'm continually reminded of how 4chan is still a thing.

We admire bare bones web design, spartan blogs, and archeological finds from the 90's web that are still around.

You don't need a design team to build something useful that people will consume.
Posting like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how simple someone's mind is you feel it is. Please don't do it again.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Trains are a very inefficient use of space. Trains often run nearly empty, and the tracks can only be used by trains. A road (utilized by autonomous vehicles) can be used at any time and any schedule by any vehicle, including the possibility of giving automatic intersection right of way to pedestrians, or safely sharing road space with personal transport (bikes, scooters, etc.)
Why do clean builds of my code take like 30m then?
> Right now, the best I can come up with is "the randomness of humans." I.e. if some AGI were able to "come up with some plan to take over," at some point in the process it has to use human labor to do it -- and it's my very firm belief that we are so random as to be unmodelable. I'm incredibly confident that this scenario never happens.

This is a huge handwave, and one resting on multiple incorrect assumptions.

Dedicated human labor is not inherently required. Humans are very modelable, if necessary. AGI has any number of ways to cause destruction, and "plan to take over" implies far more degree of modeling than is actually necessary; it would suffice to execute towards some relatively simplistic goal and not have any regard for (or concept of) humans at all.
1/3 of the US gasoline pipeline was held hostage or had a massive leak in 2021, shuts down for hurricanes, and had an explosion in 2016.

But every individual household can't high speed charge on their residential service 250 miles every day while their air conditioning is running. (/s)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Pipeline_ransomware...

https://newrepublic.com/article/161498/huntersville-north-ca...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Colonial_Pipeline_leak
“Try” is it’s own verb, and the x in “try and x” is also a verb/verb phrase. Read and weep!
This is really good advise. When I started out, one of the best advise I got as a web designer was to always ask new clients to focus on the content. I had to repeatedly emphasise to the clients who got distracted with beautiful templates or wanted flash-bang animated, multimedia on their site that you need to focus on specific objectives, with content to match this, and my job as designer was to present the content to achieve these goals. But no, the clients were still obsessed with wanting a "banner that showed ripples in water when a drop falls on it" ...
The massive investment in time in resources is mostly private capital, on the assumption that that capital will see a return, which is unlikely to ever happen with public transit.

I agree with you, and I also know we are running out of time to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. I’m resigned at this point to doing whatever is likeliest to get the job done in time. And either way, the busses, trains and ferries all need to be electrified too, and any grid improvements, advancements in battery tech etc. will also help those efforts.
Oh yeah crazy effects of the Patriot act indeed...

Edit: your post kinda proves the point. You're evidently not afraid of posting stuff online that most people would consider crazy conspiracy BS ("Bill Oxley"?). In an actually oppressive regime, that shit would have landed you in jail already...
Every year I’m reminded how diverse the recipients of this award are. You have a provably correct microkernel, DNS, Wireshark, and Jupyter Notebooks all being recognized as significant software systems.
Hi,

No I don’t want to be famous :D

I want high paying salary and/or to stand out during an interview. If there are 30 candidates for a position, right now there is nothing I would stand out with.

Last but not least, I want to work on interesting stuff. I’ve had enough of writing REST APIs.

I’m also thinking about starting my own business, and I feel like if I have some specialized knowledge I have better chance to succeed or to find a business opportunity.
You can't post like this here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: you've been posting a lot of ideological battle comments and flamebait to HN, unfortunately. That's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we therefore ban accounts that do this regardless of which ideology they're battling for.

I'm not going to ban you right now because (a) it doesn't quite look like the majority of your comments (at least not if I squint generously) and (b) we haven't warned you before. But if you'd please correct this and use HN in the intended spirit going forward, we'd be grateful.
I had more luck! :)

> try a literal translation for "Alttan ittirmeli üstten tüttürmeli çok oturgaçlı getirgeçli götürgeç"

>> ChatGPT: Sure, here's a literal translation of the original Turkish sentence: "Bring-take with a lot of lower-upper pushing-pulling, with many buttocked and seated ones."

>> As you can see, the literal translation doesn't make much sense in English, and it loses the humor and rhythm of the original tongue twister.

> try a better translation

>> Certainly, here's a better translation of the original Turkish sentence that preserves the humor and rhythm:

>> "Jostle and wiggle with seats too small or too big, to make it through this ride like a true champion of the middle."

>> This translation captures the playful tone and the challenge of the original tongue twister, while using language that is more natural and understandable in English.

Oh well :)
>The older writings about language/linguistics are mostly about observing misunderstandings -- or -- complaining that progress isn't being made in philosophy because people (unknowingly) use different definitions of the same word.

Uh... No. Like I said there is a whole debate about the concept of private language that you are missing.
ECG Wave-Maven: Self-Assessment Program for Students and Clinicians
Google's Fuchsia OS uses a microkernel: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel
How many people would reliably pay more, for "disruptively" quicker service to be a business model? Assume that the "more" would be out-of-pocket, since medical insurers certainly don't care about your convenience.

Also - most of the work of getting your prescription from your M.D. to the pharmacy to physically being filled to being handed to you is actually performed by low-end tech's and support staff. I'd guess that hiring "enough" of those folks, given the Bay Area cost of living, might be pretty difficult.)
It’s definitely used as a generic slur, but there is a need to call out the problematic parts of tech culture that have led to some of our recent problems with social media, privacy, bias, etc. I don’t know of any terminology that hasn’t been weaponized, so I resort to using “bro culture”. The reality is that terminology is a treadmill - terms get “used up” as they’re laden with connotations and baggage, forcing us to find new terms, ad infinitum.
What should we call the use of LLMs as part of products?
Usually when we have a tool, we have a name for its use. For example, using ML in a product is usually called predictive modeling, classification, or clustering.

I was thinking "Generative interaction" but worry the phrasing anchors and possibly pigeonholes. So I'm curious what folks in HN, many of whom have been regularly involved in the discussion and building of with LLMs, would call it?
Yes, the most vulnerable are vulnerable in many ways, and here’s another one.

I think that’s independent of whether it’s corporations or not, though? There’s a large libertarian contingent that’s thrilled to see LLM’s running on laptops, which is not great if you’re worried about hate groups or partner abuse or fraud or any other misuse by groups that don’t need a lot of resources.

Egalitarianism and effective regulation are at odds. To take an extreme example, if you’re worried about nuclear weapons you probably don’t want ordinary people to have access to them, and that’s still true even though it doesn’t do anything about which nations have nuclear weapons. (Although, it might be hard to argue for international treaties about a technology that’s not regulated locally.)

Keeping the best AI confined to data centers actually would be pretty useful for regulation, assuming society can come to a consensus about what sort of regulations are needed. But that seems unlikely when everyone has different ideas about which dangers are most important.
Ironic that the author has a principle of "no clickbait bullshit" but the article uses a clickbait title since it only talks about his personal experience.
As in: "Will this work?" - "Why don't you try and see?" ?

This is perfectly acceptable in my opinion, it's an elliptical form of: "Why don't you try (to do whatever "this" is) and see (if it will work)?".

"Comprise" means the opposite of what people who use "comprised of" think it means.

While "¹
Functionality always trumps jazzy designs. (E.g. Craigslist vs olx.in).
Agree.Maybe users with sketch in their hand are more interested in using this tool. I'm not a designer but I suppose people using Blender/AutoCAD already know what material/style they want.
I don't see a problem with spending time in front of a screen, and would much rather do that than do pretty much anything you mentioned.

Some things, like spending time in nature are nice once in a while, but there's no nature near where I live, and even if there was I'm often not in the mood to go.
32k is on Azure
Yes, I googled >.>; The question was asked openly by intend, since I don't care which backend technology such solution might use. I want an external service, since I do not want to set up stuff like a LaTeX runner myself and handling faults, scaling etc. Fair point with the private info though!
I've seen twitch let's players say they wish they prioritized youtube first because they claimed youtube revenue is larger and more reliable than twitch subs.

But gamers are able to publish a video nearly, a contrast from the kind of youtuber that spends 1k on a video like you mentioned.
Ask HN: What are some ChatGPT plugin ideas
I find myself with plugin development access and no single idea to start on.

Thought it would be a good idea to gather a few ideas for myself or others to work on.
AGI without alignment is near-certain death for everyone. Alignment just means "getting AI to have any concept of 'the thing we told it to do', let alone actually do it without causing problems via side effects". Alignment is a prerequisite for non-fatal AGI. There are certainly other things required as well.
Keep going with that thinking. What if trains were autonomous, electric, exactly/efficiently sized to what they were transporting, didn't require expensive/dedicated tracks, and could go directly between any 2 points? You end up with autonomous vehicles.
Archaeologists map hidden NT landscape
'Scientists have used sub-surface imaging and aerial surveys to see through floodplains in the Red Lily Lagoon area of West Arnhem Land in Australia. These ground-breaking methods showed how this important landscape in the Northern Territory was altered as sea levels rose about 8,000 years ago.'
I said his videos are very popular because he’s a great chef. Nowhere did I imply that you can go from nothing to famous person by strapping a GoPro to your head. I mentioned Kenji because he’s an example of someone who makes great videos with absolute bare minimum production effort. The person I replied to talked about how video production had gotten in the way of the enjoyment of the craft. I think Kenji’s videos are a perfect example of how to avoid that problem. That doesn’t mean following this advice will lead to instant wealth and fame.

Ultimately, there is no formula for fame because audiences are fickle and trends are fleeting.
I hadn't considered side effects like that, very interesting. Makes you wonder what else has consequences we haven't realized yet.
«Tech bro» is so passé, I have my own (more offensive) names for the archetype to which the term applies.
It's usually ~two seconds or so for the first line to come out of OpenAI. You can see the example video in the github, though I think that was little slow.

If you have big atuin file though, creating indexes for session and cwd are good ideas so we can get the request out quickly..

edit: but much faster than searching or asking LLM for command line parameters instead