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How are people actually using vector databases?

The closest explanation to a use case architecture I've seen recently was https://mattboegner.com/knowledge-retrieval-architecture-for... - it basically describes doing knowledge retrieval (keyword parsing) from LLM queries, feeding that to a vector db to do similarity search to get a top K similar documents to the parsed keywords, then feeding that list that back into the LLM as potential useful documents it can reference in its response. It's neat but it seems a bit hacky. Is that really the killer app for these things?
EU countries have their own history of terrible plugs and outlets, not that far back either. The 2 pin continental plug (when not shuttered, which old outlets aren’t) has all the same issues as the old US two prong plug - but twice the voltage!

Modern US outlets are usually shuttered, and 3 prong grounded outlets have been the required standard since about 1969. Which is over 50 years ago.
For me Steam on the Mac has an important purpose, which is Remote Play - have an ITX box running Windows somewhere, and connect to it using Steam on a MBP. Now you can play everything from the comfort of your couch. Works pretty well if the wifi is good.
True. This is an open area of research. Tools like guidance (or other implementations of constrained decoding with llms [1,2]) will likely help improve this problem.

[1] A guidance language for controlling large language models.
https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance

[2] Knowledge Infused Decoding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03084
I think their comment still holds. Those are all tools that you use, and mostly don't care what language they're written in. When you've got to write Ruby, it was predominantly in the context of RoR.

I think also that dominance has mostly faded. When I think of languages that dominate devops now, I think of Go, and I say that as someone that dislikes Go.
What if surrogacy is cheaper and more reliable than sci-fi. (This also applies to human cloning.)
> Internally, OTEL has to keep track of every combination of labels it's seen since process start, which can easily come to dominate the processing time in an existing project.

Well, every unique combination of labels represents a discrete time series of telemetry data, and the total set of all time series in your entire organization always has to be of finite and reasonable cardinality. This means that label values always have to be finite e.g. enumerations, and never e.g. arbitrary values from user input.

> my overall software development philosophy which is that you can make pretty much any process work for 18 months before the wheels fall off.

The size of the set of labels in your process after (say) 1d of regular traffic should be basically the same size as after (say) 18m of regular traffic. If this isn't the case, it usually signals that you're stuffing invalid data into label values.
Lab leak has never been "debunked". It is still a very much a possible route of the introduction of Wu-1 into the general population.
The answer to “why AMD” is that you get better performance (especially graphics) for the money and better mobile power efficiency than Intel at present.
You'd think they'd still be making money off of 6502 clones.
Fn should be at the top, FFS.

I can't press Fn and any key on the right side of the keyboard on T440 with one hand and my hands aren't small.
Perhaps whatever policies exist around surrogate pregnancies now would apply there also.
Perfect timing! I listened to that podcast when it first aired and am currently laptop shopping. I wanted to recall what Wimpress bought but couldn't pinpoint the episode. So thrilled to see this pop up on the top of HackerNews!
That's word for word my experience with Go. I wonder if people are different enough that programming languages cannot be one sized fits all?
That's not the point though. To me, it reeks of a bunch of dude bros. I'm guessing they can't say "a hot chick" otherwise the LLM would show a baby chicken on fire or at least sweating in front of a fan??? Does "hot chick" even translate to Chinese well?

It's the fact that they felt the need to use "pretty" instead of just "girl" or young woman.
Users love this stuff. It lets them buy cheap consoles that are sold below cost and subsidised by game royalties. Heavy gamers subsidise light gamers, and both can effectively "pay off" the true cost of the hardware over time as they buy titles. So it's a bit like zero-interest credit.

Also it eliminates cheating in multiplayer games, and users love that too.

And finally it stops gamers who play by the rules and buy games from feeling like mugs when their mates are playing for free, because there's no piracy.

You think users are going to vote to end all that? They already voted with their feet and embraced consoles on a massive scale. Both console and mobile gaming dwarfs PC gaming.
They have probably meant guided natural selection.
There was a time you could just walk around with a radio receiver and spy on everyone's phonecalls (IMEI stingray). Iirc it's not possible/that easy anymore with LTE.
What happens if the replacement parts aren't actually as good, safe or reliable as the originals? McDonald's gets bad PR, or a lawsuit depending on the severity.

Look, I'm all for better repair options and Right to Repair, but McDonald's is selling consistency and their reputation is on the line (not the franchisee) when something goes wrong or people get sick.

For those reasons alone, it's not unreasonable to force franchisees to use a specific brand of machines, contract a specific company for repairs, and use specific OEM parts. CYA big time in so many ways.

What people are forgetting here is McDonald's has an interest in these machines working as well as possible (revenue + reputation), and the franchisee also has an interest in these machines working as well as possible (revenue). The franchisee however, does not necessarily care about the McDonald's brand and reputation, and given the option might choose degraded parts/safety to save money - causing a problem for McDonalds.

So... McDonald's says you have to use these approved machines and get service/parts from this approved vendor. Case closed...

The only people who seem to really care about this issue are customers. That won't be enough to force a private company to open the door to any yahoo repair company with Wish.com replacement parts.
In 2005 I made a MIDI drum machine program[1] that could accept ASCII drum tablature as input to varying degrees of success, either by loading from a file, or you could just paste it in with the mouse (either via middle mouse button[2], or right mouse + PASTE). At the time, mxtabs.net[3] had tons of ASCII drum tab, but it shut down a short time later (2006).

My program could try to re-factor these drum tabs to pull out common repeated patterns to be represented in my program's native format. It was a fun project. (I'm a much better C programmer now than I was then.)

[1] https://github.com/smcameron/gneutronica
[2] https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mxtabs
The T14s has AMD, is much cheaper and having owned both I can't really see a difference. Maybe a few mm thicker.
Thank you so much, fully share your sentiment on this and aligned our domain language to OpenTelemetry. Currently users add lots of metadata and configuration details to the trace by manually instrumenting it using the SDKs (or via Langchain integration).
We are thinking about integrating OpenTelemetry, as this would be a step function on making integrations with apps easier. However, hadn't had the time yet to figure out how capture all the metadata that's relevant as context to the trace.
Opinions are my own.

Some info on flume: https://research.google/pubs/pub35650/

To quote from there: "MapReduce and similar systems significantly ease the task of writing data-parallel code. However, many real-world computations require a pipeline of MapReduces, and programming and managing such pipelines can be difficult."
I am still disturbed by this though. The alternative I see to "get screenings" is "get no screenings." If you're one of the ones who actually do have an aggressive cancer, and you don't find out about it until it's like Stage Four, then you just definitely die, badly and soon. You, specifically, might have been helped if screened when you had a little baby tumor.

So, while I see the "statistically" part, asking everyone to get zero screenings until you start coughing up blood (or whatever happens when the cancer starts showing very obvious signs)... it just seems weird on the individual level. Nobody knows (nor can they know) if you're the person who would be cured with treatment, or if you're the person whose outcome wouldn't have changed a bit with treatment (for better or for worse). That question matters individually, and while "statistically you're slightly more likely to be in the second group" according to these studies, that doesn't make me feel great about just declining all screenings.
Interesting, but not totally surprising given what they did with TSMC's 5nm production. 2023 is not a very long window for exclusivity either, which makes me wonder if we'll see it anywhere other than the iPhone. It's certain that AMD and Nvidia are sampling the node right now too, so the really curious part will be the supply breakdown in 2024, for me.
To add onto this it seems there’s a causation of low iq with obesity but not vice versa.

I also just had this thought about declining levels of fertility in humans. If it’s being caused by external factors like plastic or any pollution we’d expect to see similar effects in all other mammals especially ones close to human populations.

I wasn’t able to find any studies backing this up with just a cursory search, but it is likely the easiest way to add or detract from the plastic hypothesis.

I do know that not all but most studies comparing fertility between decades found that when controlling for obesity the differences were not statistically significant between time periods.
Not exactly the same thing but flutter and dart have a similarly weird relationship too.
The official statement:

https://www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/chess-com-concludes-lega...

Discussions from here at the time include:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32901249

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32909106

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33278926
I am willing to say releasing women from the burden and risks of pregnancy is good.
Makes perfect sense for your situation. In my case it is more...portable power, without a lot of concern on efficiency because I'm always plugged in.

I guess it depends on priorities. I prefer first to be as assured as I can that despite my 0 trust model, my machine isn't factory backdoored, or at least, is less factory backdoored than everyone else's machine.
When you book a vacation and the hotel comes with a buffet, you know you're not getting the best restaurant in town, but you might opt for it because it's easier: You don't have to make a bunch of conscious choices and incur risk, you let someone else make that choice for you. When the sausage tray is always empty, you blame yourself for being cheap.

Windows is the buffet that comes with your new PC.

You didn't order ads, telemetry and questionable UX?

Don't worry, it's included in the price.
Yes, Omicron cannot be explained evolutionary. It might be wither a lab leak (not very likely), or result of being inside of someone who takes mutagens.
And it's a good thing that 110v is safer because American electrical safety standards are appallingly bad.
Computers Are Lousy Random Number Generators (2006)
> You should come to terms with the fact that some people just don't like python.

Nobody cares about that - it’s a given that any language will have fans and detractors and most of us are mature enough to focus on what works for the projects and teams we’re part of.

What we’re objecting to is portraying your experience as a global truth. If you don’t like it, sure, but unverifiable hyperbole isn’t contributing anything but noise. This could be your opportunity to learn what tools or practices people use or consider whether the way you want to use the language is at odds with the core developers’ view.
We definitely had the wires for three phases coming into the house (Europe, NL) when we got a heat pump and induction cooking plate, the electricity company connected two additional phases in our utilities closet. I asked them, and the only thing they did was actually hooking it up.

It was also free (there was a small cost, but the government subsidizes it to encourage that people switch to heat pumps).
> I'm honestly seeing little value in asterisks

They're essential ! How else would we encourage the average user to use as short and and as simple a password as they can get away with ?
Also let’s abolish osha. See how workers feel after they are gone.
they have debunked the debunkers??
Some part of the data pipeline apparently uses 255 as "not recorded at this time".
I'm sorry, but for me it seems that Go has is taking the lead in adoption rates for devops tooling.

Ruby isn't the go-to language there anymore... probably because GoLang compiles statically.
Rails was really good at building a very specific type of website and that kept Ruby popular for a while, but SPAs resulted in back end web apps that mostly just shuffled json around, something you don't need Rails for (though rails does a fine job of it) with it's page-oriented world; that responsibility got delegated to React.

Meanwhile, python ended up being the default programming language taught to domain experts in a ton of different domains. Having your engineers write the same programming language as your domain experts turns out to be really useful for business. Using NodeJS as your backend if you consider web your domain is also an excellent choice and also eats into Rails' market share.

I have seen some shops with modern rails deployments do truly awesome stuff, but it's hard to beat being able to take a script an analyst has written, hit it with a linter, and throw it into your production application.

Also, for what it's worth, the python 2/3 debacle was a much bigger deal back in the height of Rails' popularity. I was genuinely worried that the schism would continue to haunt the community; that someone would fork 2.x and we'd have two competing pythons. That didn't happen thankfully.
As some who teaches Python I think one of the features that make python popular is that it can be very close to written language.

That means if used right, it can feel very natural.
long time ago (2007??), GvR asked in the maillist, "what topic to talk about in next coming PyCon"

what i posted/suggested then was something in the lines "how to make Python not to be next Java, i.e. turn into carreer-language". of course nobody noticed.

Well, seems python did become next java. kind-a.
i cannot decide is it good or bad.
We all know the right answer is dried pasta straws.
I think most home shops use phase converters, either rotary phase converters or variable frequency drives. With those you can create a third phase to run machines that need it, although obviously you won't have as much power available to you.
https://archive.li/quw3X

"including one with a cyber security business [Nettitude} that provides services to the British government"
But at least you got some earbuds in Team Fortress 2 for your trouble?
Yep! And great decisions. That’s the rub.

It’s a total fallacy to think that following the data is automatically better than alternatives. Data is often incomplete, always messy, and can be manipulated to paint lots of conflicting views.
Whilst the design of Ruby is far superior, Python has a wider range of data structures which may explain why it managed to gain a foothold in the scientific world. Both are multi-paradigm languages but procedural Python is also a little more idiomatic than its equivalent in Ruby which maybe makes Python easier for scientists who don't want to go all-in learning a more elegant language. Pretty soon in Python's rise it became all about libraries. Ruby never took the scientific world that seriously until it was too late.
I thought American healthcare was ace? (assuming you have insurance)
Morals are subjective, and this is not the place to preach. The charges for “donating money” and “money laundering” are absolutely worlds apart, and conflating them is disingenuous.
I also use FastmIl, have been for over ten years now and zero issues. Recently I’ve been creating a unique email names e.g. apple@mydomain.com to see where spam comes from or if one of the services I sign up with gets breached my main personal email stays clear and I can just kill the unique name. That’s free on Fastmail.
In addition the starlabs machines and tuxedo machines are ridiculous in terms of quality, even going as far as using cherry switches on their keyboards now...in the models well beyond my price point.

I realize everyone hates on clevo but it's only the lower end models that really suffer "quality" issues.
I loved Perl. I _loved_ it. It was so much fun. It felt like vim in how you could guess weird corners of the language.

But every reason that made it fun is also an actual reason why it's a nightmare unless you are very strict in how its used. Strict on things like whitespace.
Incident with Webhooks – GitHub
Noticed just now pushing something on Vercel, which seems partially affected too
My anecdotal experience:

I found it really easy to adopt and use as a non-programmer. I ran out of rows in my excel spreadsheet, and needed something that would ingest my spreadsheet quickly. It took me one line of code to import, and then one line to export.

I was quickly off to the races with deep data analysis and felt it worked so much better than excel as the calculations were more readable and reproducible.

I learned Ruby for Ruby on Rails before this, but it just isn't as quick and easy.
I thought there have been studies finding that simply eating less doesn't necessarily work for some people because of metabolism. Maybe they have a thyroid issue too.

And that the amount you would have to limit yourself to with a completely sedentary life (like many people have) and still be in a caloric deficit is just not sustainable for people and would make you feel absolutely miserable and also unlikely to get enough vitamins and minerals and cause other health problems.

because let's be honest, telling people to eat less is not going to stop them from eating junk, just less junk.

"Just eating less" I don't think is really enough for most cases. You need to also be active and exercise along with, and even better, be eating the right balance of macros.

I would say you need to do maybe 2 of the 3 to lose or maintain weight, and doing all 3 will certainly allow you to lose weight. But doing just 1 is unlikely to see results.
Good luck with agreeing on oppressive afflictions. Some would argue that some affliction is even desirable.
Long haul power transmission is almost always 3 phase AC in the US - it can be done using either 3 or 4 wires. It tends to better distribute loads and requires smaller conductors for the same power transmission level.

Split phase is almost always the last mile to residential customers as it’s simpler and easier to reason about (less likely to have severely unbalanced phases too) and requires fewer conductors.
> Why are you making it sound like that's some profound revelation?

I've never claimed any of my musings are profound revelations. That's an exercise left to the reader.

> Law enforcement is allowed to run stings, serve warrants and make arrests, you aren't.

Specifics matter. "The Government" is not some monolithic entity. Even "law enforcement" could be local, State level, FBI, CIA, or some other part of the executive branch. Each has its own restrictions on when and how it can operate.

> The military is allowed to invade countries and drop nukes, you aren't.

The military is expressly disallowed from interfering in civilian affairs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

> Yes it is legal when they do it and not some average Joe who wants to play hero.

It's an untested open question whether it's legal for them to do it to US civilians or infrastructure that they know is owned by US civilians.

It might be the right thing to do. The world might be better for it. It might even be decided one day that they do in fact have that power (there's a pretty clear argument that stopping a botnet qualifies as "Hot pursuit": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pursuit).

> That's how the world works, and it is a good thing.

There's plenty of "ends justify the means" situations involving the government that are not good things applied more generally. Hence, specifics matter.
One thing I think contributed that I've never seen mentioned: It's a lot easier to write unreadable Ruby than unreadable Python, especially if you consider novice readers. This affects maintenance and contributions to gems/pypi.
That's not the point. GPT will never be easily accessible to consumers. As stated in this thread, Linux thrives as a platform for games by running Windows binaries very well, and macOS would do well to do the same.

That Apple made GPT but then ignores this obvious route, instead thinking it will somehow mobilize game developers to port their games natively to their bespoke low-level graphics API is ridiculous - "you see, they just didn't know about the graphics capabilities of Apple Silicon before!". Yeah, right.

Lots of game developers can barely be convinced to release usable Windows binaries, see also the mess of badly performing DX12 games (which is more like a low-level console API that needs optimization to perform) vs yeet the pixels out DX11.
Play with Counterfactuals
Indeed there are dramatic differences between ascending and descending colon cancers.

They are also dissimilar in their chances of presenting early with symptoms making screening less useful vs those that don't present early.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089587/
Yes European ones will run on higher voltage but largely they are equally powerful.

US Version:
https://www.bosch-home.com/us/productslist/cooking-baking/co...

UK Version:
https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/product-list/cooking-baking/hob...

Largely they have the same power output. While the total power available is actually higher for the US version at 12kW versus 11.1 kW for the UK version. That is because the US version needs to be on a 50 amp 240v circuit versus the max 16 amp circuit for the UK version.

Even this Bosch one:
https://www.bosch-home.co.uk/product-list/cooking-baking/hob...
Which clearly calls out 400v 3 phase has a lower power output at 7.4 kW.

The max output to a single pan/pot typically is going to max out around 3.3-3.7 kW. I don't know the exact reasoning behind that but I assume it might cause issues with cookware if you go much higher than that.
That was a very nice write-up!
Python beat Ruby because it's boring technology, whereas Ruby prides itself on being as clever as possible. Take a large application written with Django vs the equivalent Rails app. Even if the Django app was written by mediocre engineers and their Rubyist counterparts were very smart, it's probably much easier to spot the footguns in the Django app. The cognitive load of the average Rails monolith is almost unbearable to non Rails experts.
I don't think that's correct. I am in the USA and when I configure it, I can pick windows, Ubuntu, fedora or no preinsalled OS. Funnily enough, Ubuntu option is $25 cheaper than no OS option.
You are looking for semantics where it doesn't matter much.

It does not matter if nature or some rich person tries very hard to get rid of us, if the net effect is the same.
> or result of being inside of someone who takes mutagens.

If it's inside someone who takes mutagens then that would result in some synonymous mutations as well. The point of the paper is related to not seeing enough synonymous mutations. Basically, they are saying it was made with CRISPR in a gain of function lab.
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