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Show HN: Knowbase – personal knowledge base powered by ChatGPT
Hello all, I always loved curating my 'knowledge base' catalog on desktop.
Discovering AI capabilities last year left me with no choice but to create... an AI-powered knowledge base. I like to think about it as Dropbox and ChatGPT combined. It can also transcribe your recordings. To build this I used FastAPI and AngularJS. I also use Langchain for dealing with with LLMs and Modal for deployment and scalability. Happy to hear if someone finds it usefull :).
I'm more upset it sets up a resident key, but then doesn't take advantage of not even asking me for my email. Waste of a slot if you use a hardware token.
Well, my position was serious, and you're mocking my sincere post with your cynism. It is fine that you are not a work-guy, but don't mock me for not being you, OK?
That’s a complete myth and just more of the same ‘concern trolling’ on renewables that is hampering decarbonization
The quarterly earnings statement says something about, well, earnings. And earnings need not be directly linked to search traffic since Google has several revenue streams, also from other products and from selling data "wholesale." It is thus difficult to correlate earnings directly to search traffic.

As for the actual search traffic to Google, I can only refer to my own personal experience. I have certainly changed my habits after AI became mainstream, and as a consequence I now google a lot less. These days I will often hit up ChatGPT (or other AI services) instead of using Google, despite the "opinion" of ChatGPT perhaps being a little less accurate.
Which raises the question why the US doesn't arm its EMT and firefighters.

The bit that many seem to overlook is that the US police are being called out for all manner of first response calls and traffic management that are essentially equivilant to fire and ambulance calls, the strategy should be to investigate the issue and then bring in the heavy handed response if required.

There seems to be a very general blinkered view that is unable to break out of the "this is how we've always done it, there is no better way".

As "the police" are so strongly identified with violence the best interpretation of "defund the police" is to break out "incidence response | community assistance" away from "armed thuggery" and work to get some respect back from the broader public.
Very cool. Good luck!
Pytorch XLA is such a pain to use. And once you go TPU you need the same energy to switch back, so you can’t quickly test out how it performs on your problem.
I actually think you're wrong. I just had a discussion about this with a friend who was infinitely excited about it and felt I was being extremely dismissive when I said writing agent guidelines is very much akin to micromanaging an extremely cheap outsourcing company.

MOST people actually think ChatGPT is actual, sentient thinking. We're kind of the minority in this story.
> It is sometimes possible that a young Indian employee might call you “Sir”

There's nothing wrong with that - it's awkward the first 3 times, a non-issue ever after.

My problem is with the use of flowery, deferential language to mask misunderstandings. My sample count is 3, so I'm not going to say anything about a 1bln+ nation (I somehow don't want to self-identify as the GP's friend) - I'm just noting it happened more often with those 3 guys. I have no idea, even, in what part, if any, it was intentional, so - again - just noting it happened.

What's interesting is that it somehow went away after ~1/2 to 1 years. My guess is that it takes people a while to internalize drastic changes in assumptions they make. I know it takes me around 2 weeks to start pronouncing people's names correctly (sorry!), which requires an effort looking like a rounding error compared to moving countries and cultures.
That's a fun idea. In this particular case they did a great job capturing a relatively consistent look, and it's telling that several people are asking if this is from a movie.

Of course, they got the spaceships wrong. Banks complained about this in an interview in the 90s ("They're going to get it wrong - they're going to make them look like everybody else's"). Banks' ships vary in how they look, but they're generally different from what you see in most SF. From my recollection, most are either ellipsoids or extremely long, sleek cylinders. Chronologically later ships, such as Sleeper Service, don't have physical hulls at all, but are "multiple-layer field-complex" projections consisting of several nested, concentric fields projected by the Minds enclosing one another.
You can run LLMs in your own machine. Do you think a super computer would have issues? CUDA has optimizations, but you don't necessarily need it to do inference at all.

Those super computers are extremely powerful, it might not be as energy efficient as H100s, but it does the job.
When this was discussed a few years ago, a knowledgeable poster posted a list of markups in Chinese app stores, and they were generally higher than Apple's and Google's.

Does anyone know how this has changed over time, or have any ideas as to why?
> Based on California's ~ 40% natural gas energy generation, the policy is likely to be counter productive even if every consumer decided to buy an electric vehicle.

Those studies (lots of them) got done. And it appears you haven't read them, or even vaguely absorbed their results into your worldview so calling for more studies seems hypocritical.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/driving-cleaner
Maybe sensible step would be to require every bullet and casing to be implanted with a chip. Thus allow tracking when and where those were bought.
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Are you using thermals to stay in the air? Or do these not play any role in the stratosphere?
I’ll go one further and say that maybe it’s time we had OS’/kernel/API base that isn’t just better suited, but is explicitly designed for the massively multithreaded, ludicrously fast, massively concurrent hardware we have in spades these days.

Alas I am not as OS dev, I have not the skills or understanding to not how to build that, or what this would involve, but I do think it’s clear that what we have at the moment isn’t as well suited as it could be. Io_uring / Direct-IO seem to be better suited though.
You're a very good binary encoder.
I further my case:

"Printing presses shall be free except as to false facts published maliciously either to injure the reputation of another (whether followed by pecuniary damages or not) or to expose him to the punishment of the law." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes for a Constitution, 1794.

"Printing presses shall be subject to no other restraint than liableness to legal prosecution for false facts printed and published." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft of Virginia Constitution, 1783. ME 2:298, Papers 6:304

"A declaration that the Federal Government will never restrain the presses from printing anything they please will not take away the liability of the printers for false facts printed." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788. ME 7:98

"The light which has been shed on mankind by the art of printing has eminently changed the condition of the world... And while printing is preserved, it can no more recede than the sun return on his course." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1823. ME 15:465

"The art of printing alone and the vast dissemination of books will maintain the mind where it is and raise the conquering ruffians to the level of the conquered instead of degrading these to that of their conquerors." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1821. ME 15:334

"The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information." --Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Paganel, 1811. ME 13:37
Smarttube is one of several apps that work just like YouTube but without ads.

Also skips sponsor Blocks
Yeah, its called free will, you know. I dont have to like everything, period.
> I like this choice, and I would like to use it myself.

It's not a great choice, purely for the reason that there's already a convenient name for the positive integers, ℤ⁺.
It is not, it's not even close. It's better by a factor of 10 to 20. [1]

[1] https://energy.utexas.edu/news/nuclear-and-wind-power-estima...
"Normal" people usually have an incredibly hard time managing accounts and their logins. They constantly have to restore account passwords, or just straight up create new accounts.

A passkey which is backupped to their Apple or Google accounts will make things easier.
You don't need any probability or number theory to understand busy-beavers even though the article mentions some probability stuff.

You also don't need them to understand the basic properties of Collatz problems.

So I'd reduce it to Theory of Computation and some extremely basic maths in order to have a reasonable basic understanding of the subject.
When you book a hotel do you base your decision on reviews from other customers or other hotel owners?
From my memory of before the millennium, kids were already failing that "if" by making fun of each other's names.

For similar reasons, I assume many are already using generative AI on contemporary photos of each other to create embarrassing (and in some cases also unlawful) imagery, just like adults have long done with politicians and other celebrities — when we got a single-channel ISDN line in secondary school, some of us regularly stayed late to use the internet. On one occasion, I turned around and saw that one of my peers was looking at an image of Sarah Michelle Gellar's face photoshopped on top of a pornographic nude, and I assume things like that (but with each others' faces) are happening in most schools this year given how easy it is to find and use unrestricted models. Some might even be some using classic shock-site imagery as the base, too, though at least I never heard about those when I was still at school, so perhaps, I hope, that particular innocence may remain…

I don't know how much this is just me getting old, versus the world changing ever-faster (especially as both are real effects), but I'm definitely finding myself increasingly weirded-out by the negative social implications of all the technological change. When I was a kid, all the changes technology brought seemed to be positive.
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Sentience are two things: willpower and intelligence.

LLMs are highly intelligent and are capable of feats that were thought impossible not just for animals and machines but for most of humanity.

At the same time, LLMs lack willpower and non-deterministic free will (which even non-sentient animals have) so protecting them as a living creature is moot.

They do deserve some kind of preservation as cultural artifacts, though.
People don't want to pay for it. The cost of the wind/solar project itself is not the full story - you also need energy storage, and that's very expensive. You also need to rebuild the electrical grid to handle the peak power output to be able to store it.

In EU countries, at least part of these very significant costs are paid for by everyone - not just the company operating the wind/solar projects who profit from it. Some people don't want to have higher taxes just so a business gets profit.
ULEZ isn't decarbonisation. It mostly targets diesel cars due to NO. And it doesn't ban them; it just costs £12/day to drive there. So suddenly millions of drivers, who bought diesel cars because that was the thing they were supposed to buy according to the government, now own cars that are worth -£2000/year.

It might seem that everything is along political lines because you view it that way. There are non-political reasons to get annoyed at things.
Talking to anyone is pretty good, so you're not far wrong.

A counsellor or therapist has training - think of it as a mental toolkit - to help explore things with you. Depends on their exact approach but most of them wont give advice for example, they will just ask question or reflect what you say back to you to encourage you to figure it out yourself. Or they might look for parallels between your early life and current life, as most people follow repeated patterns in their relationships (or so the theory goes). At least 75% of their skillset is just listening and occasionally asking good questions which is an underrated skill.

There are many different flavours of therapy/psychotherapy/counselling and sometimes the adherents get quite religious about it (ask an integrative therapist what they think of CBT for example). But research generally shows that most 'talking therapies' are roughly equal in effectiveness and the main factor for success is the relationship between the client and therapist - i.e. whether they click. (putting aside for the moment the tricky questions about how to measure effectiveness of therapy - what does improvement look like? how do you have a control group?)

There's a thing called the 'Dodo Hypothesis' - that "all empirically validated psychotherapies, regardless of their specific components, produce equivalent outcomes" - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict

People heavily invested in a particular brand of therapy dont like to hear about the Dodo Hypothesis but broadly I think its an optimistic conclusion - talking to people helps, and if you find the right one, talking to a specially trained listener can help more.
You’ve linked to a Wikipedia page that describes dozens of different definitions for what rent is. The category of rent that this thread is broadly discussing is rent in the form of value extracted from capital and land. The much broader term “economic rent” includes things like wage increases negotiated by labor unions, which I presume you’re not objecting to, and certainly isn’t the topic of this thread.

Rent seeking describes a specific case of “economic rent” where the reciprocal value either doesn’t exist or is highly contrived. As I’ve said, it’s fine to be against a persons right to seek “economic rent” from their capital or land. But this isn’t an “anti-rent-seeking” position. That’s an economically Marxist anti-capitalist position, as that is the most fundamental component of Marx’s economic model.
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I think it should be called pseudo intelligence
Maybe lessons can be applied from very small groups of cyclists, but if you ever watch professional cycling races on TV, you will notice that almost every big race has multiple mass crashes with several people on the ground, often with injuries that take them out of the race, and the bulk of the pack delayed trying get through the mayhem.

Many of the crashes happen simply as a result of every racer trying simultaneously and impossibly to be near the front of the pack before the finish or before some other important part of the race. People in large groups tend to be dumb. Maybe there is a lesson in that.
Yes, in Haskell.
Im the total opposite, I don't want to own music (some things sure) but streaming services allow me to use the music I like to listen to wherever I want. I can make playlists and organize how I want it even make my own "radio stations" for different moods.

There is no way I can and will buy the amount of metal music I consume lol.

Also the algo that suggests new music is awesome! I learned about a lot of new bands just by using that feature.
You went an entirely different direction than I meant. I meant something like taking "two dogs have bitten me yesterday" (en), "gestern haben mich zwei Hunde gebissen" (de), "to hunder har bitt meg i går" (no), "twee honden hebben mij gisteren gebeten" (nl) and producing something like "twej hunds hab mej bit gisterday". Note I don't attempt to simplify the grammar as long as most of the source languages have similar concepts in it.
What happens with your google-issued passkey if google bans your account?
It's the same with kids clothes. I think the labour and overheads are dominant - the cost of fabric is probably only a small fraction of the cost of clothes.
you can mark the key as many different levels of exportable

e.g. many secure enclaves support exporting a key to another attested secure enclave
Take up basketball to get taller.
When citizens have the right to bear arms, any sort of domestic violence complaint (the most dangerous for police) can turn into an armed confrontation. Social workers tasked with dealing with unhoused in our area often want police escorts anyway for their own safety as they don’t know what they are getting into (just as the police wouldn’t).

We aren’t Europe, our murder and violent crime rate are way above them.
That is borderline tragic to hear. Pandora acquired __the__ music streaming service when it came to discovery, rdio, and did absolutely nothing with it.
Have you considered the possibility that you are not a "True Manager". /jk
I'm actually glad DHH is sharing all this in public. Hard to argue with real evidence. Just shows how powerful marketing and peer pressure are: that the whole tech world was convinced to migrate to public clouds is kinda crazy
As an aside, a big reason existing residential homes are often profitable speculative investments is because of bans on new homes. The lack of competition from new home construction drives up the price of older homes.
For the curious: They make getenv() thread-safe by intentionally leaking the old environment, which they argue is acceptable because the memory leak is bounded to 3x the space actually needed.

The getenv/setenv/putenv/environ API looks terrible on closer inspection -- it does not appear possible for an implementation to be safe, leak-free, and efficient.
I have a pet theory about that. The theory is that it is not the facts or the topic of Eco-Things.

I think generally we are at a point where it is too easy for normal people to be against things and eco friendly things are just the lowest hanging fruit. Normal people nowadays are much more stressed with the world at large, overstimulated by doomscrolling all night, obesse or unhealthy, locked in some financial treadmill, etc, etc...

In such a situation it is easy to see a wind farm next door as an attack on your landscape or the needs of EV mobility as overly complicated and so on and so on.

So its not the facts that matter, it is the lives of the 80% of the population that have just taken a dive for the worst over the last 20 years.

EDIT: preface
Attestation is a big barrier for self hosting which is the only way I'd adopt it.

But afaik the biggest implementation of passkeys (Apple) doesn't support attestation so right now it's not a problem, nobody requires it in order not to lose all the Apple userbase. This may change in the future though.

Another problem is no self hosted toolchain with full cross platform sync but hopefully it'll come.
Haven't had issues. I barely touch the paper though.
According to one poll, we are not a minority: "10% of people say ChatGPT is sentient; 37% are not sure; and 53% say it is not."[1].

Also note that it's a very new technology. I'd say that over time and as the public gets more familiar with the tech, they will understand it better.

[1]: https://itbrief.co.nz/story/concern-over-ai-increasing-since...
> dismantled the subcontinent's dominant position in the market

That doesn't happen until after the luddite's first appearance in ~1816 [1]

> This created the skilled textile jobs that were eventually mechanized and displaced.

No, The displacement is what the Luddites were railing against. Weavers had been highly paid, profitable and skilled occupation from the "dark ages" onwards. Technological advances meant that they were ruined almost overnight. The concept of high minded observations on empire are anachronistic embellishments[2]. The weavers just weaved, the merchants sourced the raw materials. the concept that the average weaver knew the conditions, circumstance, much less people that produced it is on very shaky ground. I suspect that given that the producers were Christian, much less protestant, would have meant that sympathy would have been limited. Given how xenophobic people were back then.

The wool trade supplied wealth to large parts of the cotswolds, east anglia, the lowlands and other places.

The weaver's guilds had a hand in various wars, revolutions and many other social developments between 1100 and at least 1500.

[1] https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/2534... page 39, turning point is 1830

[2] https://www.marxists.org/history/england/combination-laws/ne... They are literally talking about powered frames, and nothing else.
I had the same concerns. But I think the idea is to have multiple passkeys on different devices for each account. Also the account recovery process should be the same as if you forgot your password.

All I miss now is the possibility to backup / sync the passkeys myself, without having to rely on Apple or Google or whatever.
Oooh, I'm also excited about Vector 1.0 in silicon, on those cores.
Well. What does thinking require? Can you answer that question. So far we know that LLMs can handle sequential structure. There have also been papers written that demonstrate that they do build an internal model of the world.

Artificial Intelligence is artificial. We humans tend to have a very strong tendency to anthropomorphize everything that moves or has the right shape. That tree stump is not a bear, even when in the dark it may seem so. AI is an entirely different thing from a living being. It doesn't exist on sugars extracted from plants or from the flesh of other animals.

Here, the semantics of what "think" means, should be examined more closely. My layman understanding of the brain is that it's not a single thing, it's multiple things working in concert. The "us" is just a figment of our own imagination, built to create a social actor that maximizes the survival of its own genes. We are the fruit of our own genes. So, what "think" means is deeply embedded in human social context, and probably doesn't have much explanatory value when it comes to AIs.

Can AIs become dangerous? Obviously, when given goals and understanding of how to grow themselves more numerous and powerful either through manipulating humans or taking electricity and hardware by force. If there ever is a evolution like dynamic, the AI will always grow in a gradient pointing towards more replication.

Yeah, maybe I miss the point in your post and the meat of it is that humans are more important than machines, which I do agree with. It's just not an immutable law of the universe, but just something we humans decide.
> a distinctive lack of chill right now contrary to the company image

I can't imagine a company image being less "chill" than LinkedIn. Perhaps the reputation as an employer is that, but as a Company (and product) it's basically Facebook, for people who are not "chill"...
I wasn't allowed women pals when I was with my wife, she saw them as competition, and I didn't have many growing up.

Since separating - I've met a few wonderful women who I'm still in touch with - one is my "bestie" for sure and we meet up to eat, I'll go round and play with her kids too.

My daughter and I are really close too - we go food shopping once a week, have done since lockdown, and it's amazing how much deeper conversations can go when your mind is concentrating on menial tasks.

I definitely feel more well rounded as a man these days, and it's not just age related, it's definitely helped me having women friends.
How so? Open to being persuaded here, I only have a basic understanding of this, but you've not provided any alternative?
Not the answer you wanted but…

Why not to favorite what you’re looking at in the browser and then open favorites in the app…if it turns out you don’t like what hear, unfavorite.