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Show HN: DankGPT – Chat with Your Documents
Uses hybrid semantic search (combination of dense embeddings and sparse vectors) to retrieve high quality answers across your documents.

Features

- Significantly faster than competition (Process a 200 page PDF in <5s)

- Much better answer quality

- Fast summarization tool

- Beta API for end to end extractive document QA (hello@dankgpt.com)

Try it out (no login)

- Llama 2 paper https://www.dankgpt.com/chat/346f444d-e286-4671-b157-540f4cb...

- Scott Aaronson Quantum Information Science lectures https://www.dankgpt.com/chat/cc491d72-dc7b-4ace-8e26-60026ae...

- Berkshire 2022 Annual Report https://www.dankgpt.com/chat/068bf85f-b372-46a4-a164-6096f8c...

Why not host it yourself?

- You definitely can! DankGPT is intended as a quick way to ask questions about a research paper, or help students with answering questions from their lecture slides, with an easy way to share your chatbot.
currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879461
The article indirectly references the company Masienda (https://masienda.com). A lot of the restaurants in the US using heirloom corn (including every restaurant in the article) are getting it in part through Masienda. But Masienda also sell masa direct to consumer and I highly recommend it!
> In software the hard part is making an excellent product

I'd argue in all domains, the hard part is making an excellent product.

There are virtually zero real-world constraints you can leverage as excuses in the domain of software, other than the original idea was bad or you have really bad people around the idea. Most of the software ideas I have encountered in my career are fantastic. It's not hard to describe what a high quality product experience is like if you are a domain expert and have suffered the gauntlet for 30+ years. The part that always seems to go straight to hell is the implementation of the idea.

I suspect most software projects go bad because there are too many layers of separation between participants. In physical products, substantially more direct interaction is required to get things done. With software products, you can isolate everyone into different multiverses as long as they are pushing PRs to the same GitHub repo (and sometimes not even the repo is shared...). Over time, these silos ultimately ruin any sense of ownership and quality in the product.

It is quite tragic - while on one hand software is the most accessible form of human enterprise ever, it is also the easiest to do wrong. Having no constraints seems like win-win at first, but it is absolutely a double-edged sword. In my view, the best software company CTOs are the ones who intentionally add as many artificial constraints as they can to the technology and process. Do more with less. Force lateral thinking. Make the product people go back to the customer and say things like "we actually can't do that because of a technology policy" instead of pretending like an unlimited infinity of things is always possible.
Alternative hail mary solutions with fewer systemic downsides, like assassinating fossil fuel lobbyists, seems preferable to sulfides in the stratosphere for now.
Love him or hate him, Joe Rogan has more listeners/viewers per episode than almost anything on cable or even broadcast TV! As such he shouldn't be ignored.
By verifying it using public resources?

I agree that it convenient to be able to see each ad information, but that doesn't mean that it should be this way.
I read this as more of a "both, and" situation. Lots of other industries have ISACs (Information Sharing and Analysis Centers), mostly focused on information security, and they can work quite well. The FS-ISAC, for example, is quite active in the financial services sector and (IMHO) reasonably effective.

It's always been a little baffling not to see FAANGs on this list (the IT ISAC is broader than just the tech industry): https://www.nationalisacs.org/member-isacs-3

So, I think this is a good step for the AI industry. Of course regulation is still a necessary component, but an industry consortium focused on sharing lessons learned and good practices is a good step, in my view.
> Soon after Spotify appeared I stopped pirating, because Spotify offered a much better service than piracy sites and brick & mortar stores for a reasonable price.

The fact that revenue still hasn't returned to 1999 levels shows that the price is not "reasonable". They are forced to price it that low because otherwise people would just pirate the music. Many probably still do.
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You’re in this thread multiple times saying “5 million years ago…” “3 million years ago…” no one is fooled by your attempts to gaslight us on how serious our situation is today.
Don’t Tip Your Private Pilot
Not sure where you are based, but recently found these german farmers [0] that use local corn with imported machinery for their products. They also sell fresh masa (which, I guess, you are referring to?) as opposed to already pressed tortillas.

[0] https://www.tlaxcalli.de/
You just don't understand their arguments. Put some efforts into understanding these arguments first. You can start by reading Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence book. People like you are no different that climate change deniers pooh-poohing on scientists without understanding physics involved. Be humble. People raising AGI X-risk arguments are smarter than you and gave it a lot of thought. Put an honest efforts in understanding their arguments.
Ah, the old “Believe Chuck Schumer, or you’re an idiot” argument.

I think I will dismiss this as pure, government-grade stupid, if not a “ruse” (which I don’t think most of these people have the intellectual ability to maintain against anyone but the most credulous partisan).
I’ll add that a sophisticated enough versions of such probes could also “3d” print new biological entities for example.

As an analogy using our own known technology and scientific understanding. We probably could already construct a probe that eventually could reach the Centauri star system near us. And we could have this probe designed in a way that it contains a 3d printer and once it locates the raw material needed for this 3d printer, then it can print a new copy of itself.

Now extend this slightly in that the probe has a 2 way link, perhaps very slow, light years obviously in distance, but can eventually send and receive information from earth.

Then based on the sensor data collected in Centauri, we can certainly imagine that we can send updated schematics for new designs to print.

Yes this all took 100s of years. But a future technological civilization modeled on us, is likely headed that way.

Lastly, perhaps biology once better mastered, can be manipulated a bit like 3d printing. This could potentially explain reports of humanoid entities. The advanced probes are printing what they observe.

Obviously all this is hypothetical speculation but the point is even biological evidence doesn’t necessarily mean actual original beings that traveled many light years here.
> Someone on Reddit yesterday was proclaiming that he "attached" himself to the SpaceX success and deserved zero credit for it.

Stealing credit for achievements that aren't truly yours is a very serious accusation.

> The extreme nature of the focused attacks on him today are fascinating to watch in terms of how angry, irrational mobs form on targets and attack

You seem concerned about discussion quality, but you can't debunk the accusations, all you have to contribute is "everyone I disagree with is irrational!"

Curious.
Boeing has its own incentive to deliver quickly though in this case. The incentive is that SpaceX is absolutely eating their lunch at this game
This is exactly my thought as well. There are a bunch of very interesting things in development: fusion energy is getting closer and closer, approaches for warp bubbles are being discovered without humongous energy requirements, possibly a room-temperature normal-pressure superconductor, etc.

It's hard to predict how much research all of these will take to fully harness, but given our previous rate of progress I'm still very hopeful that the world in 100 years will have technology we can't even dream of.
>If it's true, people will have replicated this within a couple of weeks, which would be mostly sourcing materials.

I wonder how much it would cost to try and replicate this, in materials, labor costs, and vacuum furnace time/costs. My naive guess is that that labs in general aren't just going to drop everything to try an replicate every instance of someone declaring they've discovered room temperature superconductivity. Seems more like a "there's a lull in paying work, so hey, why don't some of you junior technicians try this out" thing? Anyone have insight into this? I suppose a university lab might have more leeway here to try out spur of the moment experiments? Maybe this is a "I'm personally interested in this and I'll work in the evenings to test it out, instead of on company/university time"?
Republicans control the house. That's who would have to pass any legislation. FTC is non-partisan.
Mozilla is dead as a doornail. Google succeeded where Microsoft did not, they essentially control the entire web now.
I get that treating overlapping windows as bad might sometimes be a thing. Trying to juggle getting sufficient data to do the job in screen can be a bit of a chore.

But personally I quite enjoy overlapped windows. Even when using a tiling window manager, I rely on stacked view a lot, where only one window of the stack is visible at a time. I need effective fast navigation across apps, not the simultaneous use/view of all.

I feel like Gnome often decides to pick goals that it says are user friendly, but which refuse to see the utility of the established alternatives. Making a big choice here feels like it's based entirely around a single argument that I fundamentally don't think is valid, in many cases.

I also worry that they are building a three mode system, and that it's unclear how if at all the various modes will blend. If there is a unified approach where standard/tiling/mosaic can coexist my concern is significantly lessened, but I'm not sure what that would look like, how mosaic would interact with standard.
> WEI’s goal is to make the web more private and safe

Yeah, hopefully you can sleep better telling yourself that.

> An owner of this repository has limited the ability to comment to users that have contributed to this repository in the past.

Fucking joke.
Yes and no. The problem current artists run into is coming up with something new. Disco, Hip Hop, Punk and even post-Punk were fresh and new then...but those sounds live on to this day in "new" artists. It's entertaining, but it's hardly something to get excited about.

It's not a matter of getting old per se. It's a matter of having more context, more perspective. Yes, there's a lot of good music today. However, so much of it relies on what we've heard before, it rarely qualifies as great. Or, at best, great is relative to the current, which often is average at best.

Do I want to listen to (e.g.) New Order, or a knock-off of New Order?
If people can't read your posts then you need to write them more clearly. You're the author of them. Don't shift that personal responsibility onto the readers.

You're the one that isn't getting hired. Whether you recognize your error or not, the people looking to hire do. There's content in your posts that if they were in a company slack message would be a major liability. Most companies don't believe in breaking the law.
One issue with trying to stand out is that you might stand out in a bad way, rather than a good way. I have a blog, and a Github profile, but I'm not sure if I want employers looking at them, since a lot of my writing is poor, and a lot of my code is bad. There's good stuff there as well, I think, but my model of employers is that they are more concerned about false positives than false negatives, they tend to see "red flags" as nullifying any positive traits, and so, when they're examining my public portfolio, the parts that are bad are going to stick out and become salient in their mind, moreso than the parts that are good.

I don't worry about this too much though because in my experience, no employer has ever looked at these things (even though I have usually made some mention of them on my CV). If they have they've never mentioned it at interview.
I agree that there shouldn't be bullying campaigns on HN but you veered into offtopic flamewar at the end of your comment and that is in no way helping. Please stick to the site giudelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Big glowing sun ball make hot.
Ocean get shallow close to land.
Shallow water get hot.
There's a vast scientific literature suggesting that even small amounts of alcohol have adverse side effects on sleep. Sleep is the biggest factor in muscle recovery and in reducing inflammation. Therefore the best thing one could do for themselves to accelerate physical recovery would be to drink plenty of water and make sure they get enough hours of sleep.

I think it's a bit like how I crave ice cold Coke when I'm thirsty on a hot summer day but then when I just drink tap water that craving reduces significantly. Therefore I know that my body really needed water but my brain translated in into a craving for Coke. There might be some similar learned behaviours between hard labourers and beer.
In an industry full of unchecked monopolists, piracy takes the role of providing the a reasonable price ceiling at which people switch away from bad but monopolized products
This explosion of AI-generated imagery will result in an explosion of millions of fake images, obivously. Perhaps in the short-term this is fun, but in the long-term, we will lose a bit more scarcity, which is not that great in my opinion.

Isn't the best part of a meal eating after you've not had anything to eat for a while? The best part about a kiss that you've quenched the pain of missing your partner?

The best part of art is that you haven't seen anything good in a while?

Scarcity is an underappreciated gift to us, and the relative scarcity per capita is in a sense what drives us to connect with other people, so that we may be priveleged to witness the occasional spark of creativity from a person, which in turn tells us about that person.

Although that sort of viewpoint has been declining for some time due to the intensely capitalistic squeezing of every sort of human endeavor, AI brings this to a whole new level.

I think if those making this software thought a bit about this, they might second-guess whether it is truly right to release it. Just a thought.
No, that is not how bankruptcy court works. The subsidiary needs to have enough assets to pay the creditors, up to the entire value of the company.
Russia Sends Cybersecurity CEO to Jail for 14 Years
How profitable could it be if its already starting out underwater? [ba-dum-CHING]
Do some projects and build a portfolio, github or your website.
Why is this being downvoted into oblivion? It's a completely valid, good-faith point explaining why lead has restrictions on its uses other than "someone might lick it"... It would be nice if people actually responded and vocalized their disagreement or described the flaws in my reasoning, rather than just suppressing my message.
I like when studies show institutional knowledge. Any beekeeper can tell you that RoundUp messes with their hives, this confirms it.
> Beatles destroyed music, how rock’n’roll was just monkey noise, how crooners like Sinatra wasn’t real singing.

Agree.
Stability AI is awesome I love them
Wow. It looks like 1P is really trying to destroy my long love of their product.

"Our telemetry system cannot, by design, have insight into the end-to-end encrypted data you store in 1Password."

It can't by design... but can it by accident? And will they secretly change the design at the request of the CIA?
4% of global browser usage can be described in many ways (defeated, miserable, collapse compared to the past etc) but it definitely is not dead and is one of few developed browsers.
I am completely uninformed in this space.

Would someone be kind to explain what the current state of the art in image generation is (how does this compare to Midjourney and others)?

How do open source models stack up?

Also what are the most common use cases for image generation?
given elmu's long, strong history of dishonest public statements, "he said" should be considered evidence that the opposite is true, if anything
> I think you're assuming more of my answer than what I gave. That's fair given that this is the point of the article, but it's not mine. I'm very specifically only responding to "is there a per-user marginal cost on software?", and my answer is most definitely yes.

Fair, but I feel it's disingenuous to ignore the context the original comment was written in (the context of the article) and try to argue against a specific point in the post as if it was made without that original context. The sentence may have lacked inherent context, but it was supporting the key points the GP was making in response to the article. It wasn't designed to stand alone.

Given, I'm not the author of that post so entirely possible they were intending for it to stand alone, but I think it would still be better to see if that was intent rather than to assume so and antagonize what they were saying.
This war was already settled long ago on smartphones, which are globally the most used personal tech. There are already lots of things like banks and messaging apps that require full or partial use of an unrooted smartphone for security purposes. Now they're bringing it to the more niche area of PCs.
All beer, historically, was bottled with live yeast. That's how you got the carbonation. Some times we cheat today.
And of course in 2012, Eastern Europeans started to pay for their music, right? No? Maybe they were pirating it because piracy is free.
> 3. Web EME. "End of the web as an open platform", years later, web is just the same as it always was.

And yet every single paid streaming service refuses to serve high quality video to users on platforms like Linux. This is entirely normalized, and they still get to call themselves "web" sites because this mechanism is now officially part of "the web".
You had to buy C compiler on many operating systems. At least once upon a time, it came with another giant set of books.
I used Rewind for a few days but stopped after my resource usage spiked. I didnt research much into this; but have you seen any perf issues when using Rewind.
The only heuristic that matters the quality of pop music is "do people like it" and it's almost a tautology that pop music in any given time period passes it.

If people preferred more complicated music, then more complicated music would be popular and more of it would get made.
Don't Use Fake Matrices
>I'm not convinced that putting sulfides into the stratosphere is a good idea as we don't have a sound understanding of what the effects would be.

Neither am I, but everything I've read seems to indicate that SSI is cheap enough that many nation states could comfortably do it. That all but guarantees it will be done when places like china or india start losing tens of thousands of people to heat waves (See 'The ministry for the future' for a fictionalized account). We as a species are short sighted. We'll go for the quick fix and hope we can deal with the consequences later. The bad thing is we have no idea what those consequences will be or how to address them. It's completely uncharted territory.
I have a funny and illustrative story about abundance and scarcity mindsets. I used to work in an office that had just a few too few forks in the kitchen. Because of this, people hoarded forks, often forgetting they had one at their desk and taking a second one back. Even though there were only a few fewer forks than people, there was almost never a fork available in the kitchen.

One lunch hour I walked to the thrift store down the road, bought a bag of forks for three bucks, and put them in the kitchen. Once there were enough forks, people stopped hoarding and we had more forks than we could ever need. It's about as clear an illustration of scarcity vs abundance mindset I've ever seen.
I came to ask for this info so thanks for the succinct summary!
If you asked your CISO about securing your system against hackers and their response was "If they can't do honest pen testing, they should leave IT and go work somewhere else." what would your feelings be? OP wasn't trying to justify bad actors, but explain how the system is selecting for them, and we have to accept that our system is running in a world where there will always be back actors present. Systems must be built to be resistant to them.
Yeah that's true, that's something to think about. The peer-review process is indeed lame and weak.
I will reply only one more time, because this is genuine flamebait.

> essentially because my comment was getting downvoted and people were disagreeing with me, you felt comfortable 1) starting off rudely ("this is such an awful take"), 2) overreaching from the established facts, and 3) being childish and accusatory when questioned

my criticism of your acting in bad faith has nothing to do with the fact that others did as well. Pointing that out was an attempt to allow you to understand that you may be incorrect.

as for overreaching or "being childish", that's unsubstantiated and imagined.

>you accidentally imply that all the characters I list are implemented

friend, I never did this, you simply misunderstood. You seem to have a problem with blaming others for your own mistakes.

>you also claim this is a "well-established standard" - something easily disprovable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29319221 - so unsurprising you refuse to defend it

This is the definition of cherry-picking. The standard was established by several mail providers and is codified all over the web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Local-part

If a naive developer doesn't adhere to this established standard, it doesn't suddenly make it not a standard; the developer is not following it. The standard is set by the mail providers.

> the way you act around people in positions of weakness is your real self

This is an absurd statement. If you are feeling persecuted in the comments section of a thread about email standards, you might need to unplug for a while. "people in positions of weakness" lol, this is Hacker News, no one cares about downvotes. Please just back off of this conversation, this isn't something you need to "win" or something. You're arguing in bad faith, plain and simple.
Especially because many of them have even less of a stigma against academic dishonesty than in many Western systems.

Edit: not to suggest that is anything inherent about people from those cultures.
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In '94-95, the alpha was miles beyond x86 in terms of processor. Even 2001, the alpha had some truly impressive features related to x86 but it mostly at the server integration level. By 2007, the writing was on the wall.

Even by 2007 we struggled to replace a mature TruCluster with 8 large nodes with a linux cluster; IO performance and cluster capabilities were still pretty lackluster.

After about 2008 I don't think Alpha was a viable alternative to anything.
A laptop consumes energy at the same order of magnitude as a human body—not an “obscene” amount. The physics of accelerating an organism to the relativistic speeds required to make space travel feasible are in a completely different realm.
In current ML environment, there's no single thing as "GPU support" as nVidia and AMD are two very different (and unequal) worlds - if you want things to work on AMD, then you should look for things which are explicitly labeled as AMD-compatible, because the default state of "has GPU support" is slang for "works on CUDA, but also might work on AMD if stars are right".