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Tanmay Chopra on Emissary
Hey everyone! I am SUPER SUPER excited to publish our 75th Weaviate Podcast with Tanmay Chopra!!

Tanmay has had an incredible career in Machine Learning from Tik Tok to Neeva and now building his own Startup, Emissary!

The podcast has two major deep dives in (1) Tanmay's experience with Search AI at Neeva (Temporal Queries, Retrieval Diversity, and Query Recommendation), as well as (2) Tanmay's conviction of the opportunity in fine-tuning LLMs and knowledge distillation that lead him to start Emissary!!

I enjoyed this conversation so much, it was incredible discussing these topics with Tanmay! I hope you enjoy the podcast!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIy2pbXXxX4
There are plenty of games I have paid good money for that I didn't finish for one reason or another. Sometimes the game just falls flat of my expectations (free demos went out of fashion about a decade ago), sometimes it offers me a compelling experience for a while, but not through the whole experience. And sometimes life gets in the way. I'm not rich by any measure, but I have enough disposable income that I don't have to force my way through an experience I stopped enjoying.

Similarly there are lots of books I started reading and never finished, and plenty of TV shows I started and dropped at some point. Even some few movies I started and never finished. And that's ok. But unless they are highly recommended I don't start TV shows that were canceled, and similarly a bad ending is a score against me ever purchasing a game or book. There is a good chance the show or game will lose me before I ever get there, but why would I set myself up for a bad experience in case I do like the product enough to get that far?
Aerospace would be DO-178, which is on the roadmap, but will take some effort (a year or two, give or take).

Medical is closer: While there are dedicated certifications for medical, they are relatively close to the IEC 61508 industrial standards and so IEC certifications are often used as a stand-in for the equivalent medical certification.
This doesn't absolve Pixel phones from having a horrible launcher, but Nova launcher has been a savior.
This reads like, "I don't like it because my messages won't end up on other servers," which I guess that's fine. We have to be cognizant that no one running a server is obligated technically, socially, or morally to platform anyone's speech because doing so would violate the NAP of admins.
Presumably: The bad sort is a diversity where people look different but all think more or less the same, so the proponents can pat themselves on the back for being good and openminded people but don't actually have to deal with genuinely different people. You can see it in how those sorts tend to despise people who look the same as themselves but have different views and how their love of diversity disappears the second the different-looking person doesn't hew to their ideology.
The Future Of Work 50 2023
> Remember that partners aren't limited to just one data set. They have the ability to ask multiple companies: "What data do you have for all occupants of houses in this geographic area?"

Yup. And to make the issue clear: there is no such thing as "anonymized data", there's only "anonymized until correlated with enough related data sets".
Or can't be fixed at all because all of the people who built the AI are gone and all of their replacements relied on the AI to tell them what to do.
> Midnight! Just when even the Spanish are trying to get to sleep.

I had to chuckle when reading this, although I would point out that not all neighbourhoods are the same. Still, every spaniard knows that trying to call the local police because there is some idiot throwing a party at 1AM is pointless.
Doesn't the law say, at least in the US, that detected CSAM has to go to the government first?
RatGDO will handily MITM their wired signal and completely circumvent this nonsense with no cloud needed at all.

Everything exposed as entities in home assistant, everything just works, and myQ/chamberlain/genie have absolutely no idea that you are doing anything because you're not even touching their API. Just drop the cloud bs altogether.

https://github.com/PaulWieland/ratgdo
Have you looked at devil-mode? If by Kraken you mean key chords, devil-mode lets you type without key chords but it does not force modal editing on you.
Phind seems to be down

"The inference service may be temporarily unavailable - we have alerts for this and will be fixing it soon."
> Time and time again, from the lockdowns/restrictions to the forced masking to the forced shots to the censorship to pretty much everything in between, the "expert consensus" from the medical, political, and mass media communities was wrong

If you take all fringe hypothesis and claims posted online, you'll find time and time again that so many of them are wrong, and not just by a margin, but often times ridiculously far off.

And you'll find that a lot of more "official" claims were right.

It leaves us with some of the outliers, where fringe claims were right and "official" claims were wrong.

Now someone would need to tally them up and all to actually see how often. But that impression you have seems to be misjudging this.

The other issue in your judgement in my opinion is that you're focusing entirely on this particular event. But the expert process was being interfered with, due to the extensively political nature of it, and the strong pressures from everyone else to get answers before it's possible to do so with high confidence.

And finally, the only basis we're even using to assess which ones were "right" or "wrong" after the fact is a form of consensus, and primarily an "expert consensus" that has simply had more time to settle.
yes, but there's always some trail this way... travel logs, mailing logs, someone there to set it up, etc

again, just easier to shoot someone... we don't need to make up imaginary drone violence, there's not much reason for it outside of a warzone
As a publisher. One who seeks to decrease load times on pages that require many resources.
they updated their status page so late I made my own tool to check if it's down in real time: https://is-openai-down.chatkit.app
I think you're wrong, there were plenty of anti-government people appearing in public TV back in the 60s, 70s, 80s.. The government doesn't really care as much as you think it does.
The idea is to combat it on on children's devices so that they are not able to produce CSAM without their parents knowing about it. The proposed solution doesn't combat on the recipient side.
This should link to the actual thing instead of some AI generated blogspam.

https://ubuntuce.com/
I've been a SWE for about 10 years.

Here's my pros and cons:

+ Compensation is insane. I don't think there is anything else in the world I am qualified to do that would pay me nearly as much.

- Deceptively long hours

- Constant deadlines that are often solely dependent on you. If you are at the senior level or higher, there are often features that depend only on you. If you miss a deadline, several people up the chain will most likely know about it. There is no one to share the "shame" with. It's all on you.

+ Flexible schedule. Every place I've worked has been very accommodating (usually to the point of not caring at all) of family obligations, doc appointments, start time, etc.

- Constant objective changes. Speaking from FAANG, things are constantly changing. You could be months into a feature, priorities shift, and they shelf the whole thing. Not to mention the re-orgs.

Overall, I feel very fortunate to have this career. I often see folks my age grinding away at some soul sucking job and my gratitude intensifies. However, it's not all sunshine and rainbows. The nap pods and ping pong tables are just a recruiting tool, not part of day to day life.
Building Basecamp project stacks with Hotwire
Time to buy Amazon stock!
Why not? It's pretty great.
This was my experience. Before the M1 Pro/Max I needed to do some Apple Silicon porting for a project, so I bought the low end M1 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM. It was amazing how well it kept up, and was generally much more snappy than my older Intel Mac with 16GB RAM. I hadn't had <16GB of RAM in years. I didn't expect it to, but it became my daily driver for several months until the Max came out.
I notice 'sample.json' contains quite a few escaped nulls \u0000 inside quoted strings.

Is "\u0000" legal JSON?

P.S. ... and many other control characters < \u0020
The compiler takes care of this kind of optimization via static analysis. And who said x86? You're right, but what about Power9 register windows vs the three-and-a-half brain cells of x86?

I'm not in the mood of discussing this or convincing you otherwise. If you made up your mind to use int over intWhatever_t then so be it. We're not working on the same project and I suppose you're not building anything that might kill me.
note that this type of action is illegal in the united states
I split my non-fiction books in two rough types: Non-fiction—when my aim is to understand some ideas—and technical—when I seek to improve my skill. Some of the first can be bloated. But I only read in a linear fashion on my first skim. Just seeing what's the main ideas are and the author's perspective on them. I view stories taken as example as a kind of slice of life illustrating the ideas.

On subsequent reads, if the book warrants it, I just go straight to what I need. If I have the time to do so, I summarize it, put it in my wiki, and uses that instead. I never remember the author's words—if there's a sentence I like, I quote it in my wiki—, only the ideas. How it is phrased don't matter as long I can understand. If the writing is atrocious, I just quit. The only books I'm really critical are fiction books, because they promise a good story.
Related Ars Technica article https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/half-of-the-mass-of-...
Epsilon toxin–producing C perfringens colonize multiple sclerosis gut microbiome
Apple's Bob Borchers: '8GB RAM Is Enough for a Professional MacBook'
It is one thing to have that structure and hold to it, it is another matter to hold sham elections to select possible candidates and then pick people that weren't even on the list. Every time I hear of it it seems to go out of its way to shit on the very core concepts of democracy, maybe not because it is that way by design, but simply because it can.
Apparently there was no algorithm.
Probably because it's still incredibly buggy? That's my impression watching some of the videos posted to the counterstrike subreddit.
This is to force unionization of Tesla?
I dodged all of this hard by taking an interview with a smaller engineering-adjacent company. A lot of these points seem like the reality when working at a gigantic conglomerate that doesn't take its software arm very seriously. Mine does because the software analysis is the core product.

1) All of my previous practice and my Master's-level statistics and signals processing prepared me well for this job.

2) Out of the gate, my boss gave me free reign to greenfield replace a lot of old tools.

3) My clean code and the documentation around it is needed, because obfuscated and undocumented code is what previously shot this company in the foot, and is what I was replacing.

4) Everyone in the software part of the company is competent; the only issues come from outside our department.

5) We have one one-hour weekly meeting to talk progress and potentially connect on important points. Everything else we discuss as needed.

6) Estimates are rarely needed because I made the right choice of languages and tools. I can make changes or add features same-day or within a couple days. One longer-term project I'm on has no deadline; it's needed, but not urgently.

7) My choice of language and tools makes bugs easy to track down. Most of my issues are solving for engineering edge cases.

8) Not that I'm always certain, but uncertainty is never really an issue here.

9) I hard disconnect from my job, and my boss wants it that way. Nobody has my email or phone number. When I go home, I go home.

10) I've had soft skills my whole life, so I've never run into that issue.

I didn't get the fabled six-figure starting salaries people everywhere seem to be chasing, but I've concluded those aren't truly real and were driven by $2 trillion money-printing valuations.

If anyone is curious about my tools, I use Nim to analyze signal data and output analysis and reports; it's a CLI tool that puts out standardized data formats, which can be invoked by server scripts whenever needed. Most of our systems have already been overhauled to use it as the crux of our data analysis. I replaced a lot of old deliberately obfuscated C and PHP.
I mean, if internet "internet" is down then society has collapsed and your job is probably gone anyways
The gnashing of teeth here reads like software people trying to solve a simple hardware problem.

You don't need anyone's permission or API to control any garage door opener --- smart or dumb. The suggested "ratgo" device is one option but looks kinda overpriced to me.

Every garage door opener has 2 sets of dry contacts. One set controls the open/close function and normally connects to a physical button on the inside wall. This is easily shared with any other device. The other set is a limit switch that tells the motor to stop once the door is open. This too can be easily shared and read.

All that is required for full control is a wifi device with 1 output and 1 input that speaks Home Assistant. Sonoff or some other manufacturer must have an affordable one. If not, maybe I'll make one. It's not that hard with readily available hardware.
You can already do timecode on iOS using an UltraSync Blue device and the MAVIS recording app.
Not an issue if they train an ai model by their own accord. The issue is the prevalent theft among ai companies that simply seal people's work to train proprietary models.
RIP SS Edmund Fitzgerald 11/10/1975
The problem of cyberspace and the real world has the same root: advertising (in all its forms) generally stimulating consumption (or selling ideas). The real world would also be a nicer place with less advertising. Somehow they discovered that controlling the form, manner and timing of advertisements is a great power. And they are fighting to take this power from the big networks.
I find it handy for when I'm outside but not in my car—on my bike, working around the yard, etc.
Provided we can keep riding this hype wave for a while, I think the logical long term solution is most teams will have an in house/alternative LLM they can use as temporary backup.

Right now everyone is scrambling to just get some basic products out using LLMs but as people have more breathing room I can't image most teams not having a non-OpenAI LLM that they are using to run experiments on.

At the end of the day, OpenAI is just an API, so it's not an incredibly difficult piece of infrastructure to have a back up for.
> How is this different from any book, movie, or other form of entertainment?

I'd say if you spend millions to make a movie to be shown in the cinema you don't expect that by default 50% will walk out before the finale. But even more crucial: If that would happen, your ticket-sales would plummet week-by-week.

> Case in point: I have not yet watched Game of Thrones, but much of my momentum to watch it was stymied by fan outcry of just how atrocious the final season was. If I do watch it, I will probably stop before I get there.

The final season of Game of Thrones was based on the success of the seasons before it, it was produced AFTER Season 1,2,3,4,...
Claude?
Nice idea! I'll look into it.
Microsoft closes at all time high on fresh OpenAI related optimism
> Do other careers have such a vast gap between the platonic ideal and the actual lived experience?

In the past few years I've got the impression that when I go to a doctor with a slightly unusual symptom, they are very much lost. It seems the average GP learned a whole lot at University, and 20 years later treats the same 50 common things (colds, cuts, high blood pressure, you name it) and doesn't really remember all the quirky and exciting stuff from uni.

I'd guess that the more academic the education is, the more likely you fall into that pattern.
It doesn't make me wonder that.

If I follow an overly strict diet, I wind up thinking about food all of the time. Calorie counting is a form of strictness: I'm continually putting in more time thinking about food. How many calories was that? Do I need to log everything? Do I figure it out when I'm planning and add the extra food thought time there?

And so on.

I've only lost weight through specific dietary changes that are easy to follow. Usually, this has been things like changing daytime food to something more healthy or fewer calories. Or simply putting more vegetables in my diet. I'm currently pescetarian, but rarely eat fish.

Intermittent fasting is in this second category. There isn't much to keep track of and I wouldn't have to put all that much extra thought into it. Some folks could put little to no thought into it. It makes it easier than anything strict.
And in the EU parliament elections.
Stateless, parallelizable, keyed, random accesible, reversible shuffle algorithm
You know that "bit of a pain to set up initially" you mentioned? Yeah, I've had to do that repeatedly because its little pea-brain forgets every few months. It's been anything but rock-solid for me. I just gave up on it.

I initially bought the bridge because I thought a wireless relay spliced into the hardwired door switch would be too much trouble, so I'll spend a little and save some time. Boy, was I wrong.
> At 37signals we work in teams of two, one designer, one programmer; and we ship projects in 6 weeks or less.

I'm curious how PR reviews work in this case. Does someone outside of the team review them?
Yes exactly the 3 elements are necessary for the protection to work.

HSTS is the official way to force HTTPS (aside 301 redirects), if you have the best certificate in the world, but the client is using HTTP, then there is no point.

If you only have CT logs you are just catching the issue (if... the CT log servers themselves are not blocked by the rogue actor), but it's still too late.

Cert Pinning is here to prevent the issue, whether browsers or not wants to follow it is another question.
> Mastodon's federation policies

Perhaps you're referring to the policies of individual instance administrators, as "Mastodon" has no centralized "policies" as far as I know.

I run more than one instance, and as far as I can tell, I can manage them however I want.
damn, thanks man
I have an iPhone 12 and still can't bring myself to upgrade to a 14 or 15.

I spend a decent amount of time in the backcountry and the satellite communication feature would at least bring some peace of mind, but even that is not enough to justify the cost of upgrading.
I doubt it - Microsoft wants OpenAI on Azure 100%
more like people are rushing to bard since they cant use chatgpt, causing a huge spike
This probably isn't the spirit, but the simplest thing is to right-click on the map and pick "Add note", that's definitely participating, although there's an "outsiderness" to it, you have to hope an "insider" (someone who has created an account) actually works on the map to address your note... someone unlike Wikipedia where both anonymous and logged-in users get direct editing access to the underlying data.
I loved my s10e, although the camera glass (or rather plastic) cracked during the first months from basically placing the phone on flat surfaces. Otherwise the form factor, dimensions, audio jack port, photos quality were excellent.
Not sure if related or not but I literally just an email informing me that Hive will remove their IFTT integration next month…
Can any of the Ferrocene folks here can talk about what the release cadence for officially qualified Rust toolchains might be?
I understand what you mean, the problem is that when you unpack what the result of the government saying "you're not allowed to do these things" is, you're left with a plan that takes away law-abiding citizens privacy without actually accomplishing anything.

(I'm assuming here that the end goal is to circumvent proving criminal actions by giving the government a way to prosecute people for simply hiding communication)

I respect the government saying some things are not allowed, but when it comes to E2EE, even if there's a law saying you can't build your own E2EE, there's actually no way for the government to prove that a communications channel was using illegal E2EE.

The person accused of using illegal E2EE can just say they were simply typing gibberish into the program and weren't actually trying to communicate. Yeah that's obviously bullshit, but without the key you can't prove it, which is exactly the situation they are in now anyway...
> Wikipedia is like academia it's a closed system where a small group get to decide what opinions are correct, what facts get a mention and what are worth looking at with a feedback loop to itself that is used to control facts by deciding what sources are valid

Came here to say this. 98% of the content is perfectly fine. Searching for "lemurs" in any search engine returns a perfectly trustworthy (calling all lemur experts!) wikipedia page. But, look for anything divisive, political, cultural, etc., and I've increasingly noticed the articles take clear positions.
A stressed out underpaid and overworked delivery driver is the last person I want in my garage. Verified deliveries are left at the wrong house, or the driver simply takes it with them after posting the porch picture. And I've seen boxes arrive that were forced open and the contents pulled out. But sure, it's the customers who are untrustworthy not the delivery people.
Same. I grew up in a house, but I've lived in apartments and buildings in the city. When it came time to buy, I bought a house. I can't ever see myself not living in a house ever again.
What does "Pull the other one" mean in reply to "forgot they used the service"?
> The mRNA shots were not tested at all for transmissibility yet we were told they prevented transmission

Data that has come out since does seem to indicate it lowers transmission.

But I'm unclear if you're trying to say that this turned out to be false (the reduction in transmission), or that you're pointing out how some policies were driven by claims that didn't yet have strong enough evidence backing them up?
They started talking to each other.
I mean sure, SSDs can fail, but they were clearly very unlucky.
ITAR and EAR would like a word.

"It's illegal to talk about certain things, but only if you know Chinese nationals are listening" has applied to a lot of things for a long time.
Mushroom cultivation. Aside from the medicinal motivations, it is an extremely testing endeavor that requires patience and skill, so there is much to learn and get better at. Sterile technique is one skill to refine. It is also fascinating to observe and better understand the life of mycelium.

Has been over two months since I started to germinate spores on agar plates and am about ready to move to a fruiting chamber.
Can you provide a citation demonstrating evidence of this assertion (it is a very general statement)? You might be referring to the Taft-Hartley act [1], which there are ways around. The NLRB also has a great resource on the topic [2]. It is true there are situations where you cannot strike, which labor organization needs to be mindful of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act

[2] https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-right...