skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> take the user's question, search for snippets of your documents that appear to be about that question, then paste all of those snippets into the prompt along with the user's question and see what answer you get.

We use RAG at my job, but we don’t do any preprocessing on the message from the user, so the results are not always great for us.

Do any of you have experience using a small local model just for extracting keywords from messages which you then use for the retrieval? And then feed the search result and your prompt into OpenAI or whatever as normal.
I recently bought a subscription to pcgamer uk pdf edition ( the website is I suspect deliberately unusable ) - much to my surprise, I enjoy reading it that way . I haven’t bought a paper edition in years though.
Yes, but it's a little bit more: SQL is a fully fledged language that covers an enormous range of potential tasks and the syntax works mostly seemlessly to enable that.

This means, extending the API by allowing more and more parts of SQL is easy and still backwards compatible.

It's much harder to come up with a custom language / structure from the get-go that doesn't cause backwards-compatibility issues down the road. I guess I should have emphasized this point in the article a bit more, thank you for the comment.
I‘d like to challenge that. Having a vehicle anchored to a certain location just so it can charge is not ideal. It prevents use by many people living in apartments, and it’s a problem when driving a lot within one day. It means you have to have a lot more infrastructure (charging points) than ICE vehicles (petrol stations).
Many of us celebrate both!
If you supplement that with some solar panels and a battery, a generator wouldn't have to run that often.
While these Unix reforms sound great in theory, they somewhat disregard Unix’s practical, evolved nature. It’s not just about clean ideas; it’s about what works in the real world, shaped by decades of use. Implementing such sweeping changes could take way longer than one would expect.
Norad Tracks Santa
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Faktory: Language-agnostic persistent background job server
Always a classic. My three year old was unfazed unfortunately.
Just passing by to say I’m a really happy paying Clop user and the design of your UIs and website in general is awesome!
Videogames also by very definition attract the kind of people who will want to hack the servers for fun; which in extreme cases will also involve RCE on the player's computers:

https://www.polygon.com/22898895/dark-souls-pvp-exploit-mult...
Yeah, maybe the example isn't that great, I admit so much. :-)

However, it's not only about the users as in the visitors of the shop. It can also be a feature such as "show similar bicycles" that will require more complicated queries. And while it's of course possible to maybe run multiple queries and combine the results by code, it can be nice to just do it in one query that is easy to understand and debug/optimize because it's pretty much just SQL.
And what’s the correct answer in December 2023 if one wants to narrow down only to tools and services provided on Azure?
Anyone else alone tonight and need a friendly chat?
My family is all east coast US. Luckily mom was up and was the point of contact I needed an hour ago. So if anyone else just needs a friendly voice, send me a message or email charles@geuis.com. I'll try my best to talk to anyone, but I'm sorry if sleep or timing just doesn't work out.

Just an add on. If you're feeling alone at any point today, contact me. I know what it feels like to be alone.
A lovely story. Many Clarke novels strike me as technologically wonderful but emotionally dry; not this one.
Or use graphql? :)
There's also a Z80 build.

https://rc2014.co.uk/1865/crayzee-eighty/
Building a decentralized name system on top of IRC
Forest Brother's Bunker
Background:

https://news.err.ee/1154055/replica-forest-brother-bunker-re...

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38760193
Freshman's Dream
There have been many, many variables in my life. And throughout all of that chaos, the one constant that remains is HN. I appreciate each and everyone single one of you who make this site what it is. Merry Christmas and cheers!
(and extra-Deep tepco bows)
But your taxes are too low. For example the Netherlands does have a good system. But a 50k car costs 120k in the Netherlands. From your 80k salary 35k goes to the state as taxes. On most products you buy 21% is tax. If someone dies his money is 50% tax. Give 100k as a present. 30k is tax. And so on.
IMO the author is wrongly characterizing a lot of fundamental themes in sci-fi as specific to some conservative 70s American culture when they are actually fundamental ideas related to economy and technology, more like econ-fiction rather than science-fiction.

Just consider the list in the beginning: Space colonization, orbital habitats, life extension, artificial intelligence , virtual reality.

These are not arbitrary concepts that were uniquely dreamed of by some sci-fi authors because they had colonialism nostalgia. They are extrapolations of fundamental human economic desires. These quite fundamental economic goals include: Ressources, living space, intelligence, longlevity and entertainment. Sci-fi explores where we might go in search of these kinds of objectives. And it tells stories about what might fo right (utopian) or what might go wrong (dystopian) in this search, but just because a billionaire is clearly inspired by a dystopian-themed story doesn't mean that it's wrong to wish for the technologies in this story. The desire for such technological and economicak advancements is universal, the specific imagined story of how this might have dystopian effects is the part that's idiosyncratic to the sci-fi author.
Hunting and gathering is as old as human beings. It's more difficult in the XXI century but in a large-enough forest (and a natural park that is), you can still do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer
I shall check the speed on Cloudflare but the speed is not much improved on Python HTTP server too. :(
Simplify Your Life: Manage Multiple SDK Versions Across All Platforms
I got WhatsApp too, just don't know how to share direct links.
I used to love that mag and was an avid subscriber during my early to late teens.

Some of their writers went on to create Rock Paper Shotgun which was one of the best blogs out there.
Does 10 really have less ads and telemetry, though? 10 is still getting updates and a lot of annoying "features" seem to get back ported (like the "fact of the day" thing in the search bar that always opens Bing), and I've never seen any proof that 11 actually does collect even more data than 10.

Not defending 11 here, it's just that 10 was pretty ill received here an hn and ever since 11 came out, the opinions suddenly changed, which seems a bit weird to me.
> This file was uploaded from Saudi Arabia on December 9, 2023 at 10:06 AM

Interesting
They do. By the video by 2022 Moore's law target is at 90 billions transistors per chip. The Nvidia H100 is at 80 billions.
Try with private gpt github repo
The core of it is the databases. Everything else is window dressing.
> Monolithic concrete structures, yes. Concrete pieced together, not so sure.

It's in compression. The fact that it is pieced together makes no difference to its theoretical strength.
This caused so many issues in one of our systems. Lesson learnt :)
I Miss the Orange Site
Bring back the orange site!
Is Llamaindex + hosted model on Azure OpenAI Services still the best option?
Sanitize...

Just create a sql user with the correct access rights. Don't reinvent the wheel.
https://www.theonion.com/darling-i-will-give-you-the-moon-an...
Totally agree! Sounds like your thesis is worth a read. Can you share a link?

thrums.shrimps.0m@icloud.com if you do not want to share publicly
it's pretty scary that comments that question such things get nuked before chance at a legitimate discussion even on fairly rational discourse sites like hn
> How does this work? Is data sent from browser to homebase (some cloud server?) and then openAI - so two or more third parties

Yes

> Privacy - no policy?

We do have privacy page: https://aiemploye.com/privacy
Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
A potential bottleneck will be the peak power consumption and peak charge rate. If you need to store energy year-round, charged and discharged at relatively a trickle, then this tech might be a solution.
I wonder how big and expensive a 5kW ion exchanger would be. That would be able to power my household in the winter. Charging at 5kW during the ~5 hours of sun during the ~5 summer months. Discharging at .5kW average in winter, 5kW peak?

If a 5kW unit would be prohibitively expensive or large for my example scenario, then different materials and configuration for the ion exchange unit would be needed.

Note: I am not worried about the size of the pumps and tanks. These could be stored underground, in the case of a suburban house. For apartments, this would be harder to retrofit. Above paragraphs in this comment are all about the ion exchange unit, which would determine the maximum charge/discharge rate.
Err I meant the entire point of this to be that we can do nice things incrementally. E.g. I am linking LWN articles and whatnot to demonstrate that actually kernel devs thought some of this stuff is feasible.

If anything, the heavy lift here is not even changing kernels, but reforming programming language's standard/popular libraries to make this stuff accessible and ergonomic --- most software today isn't written in C directly using some kernel-developer-maintained headers. If we can relatively make the OS changes, but it takes a bunch more slow steps for the new interfaces to percolate out "regular" developers, that adds uncertainty. "Latency" is a bigger enemy than "feasibility".

You can find me jabbering away in many corners of the internet about trying to make standard libraries easier to evolve for precisely this reason.

I want to keep evolving things, I am a big believe in https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-..., I just want things to evolve with a bit more foresight than the genetic algorithm can do on its own.
> RUBY_MAX_CPU=n environment variable sets maximum number of N (maximum number of native threads). The default value is 8.

Shouldn't the default be the number of logical cores? Like Rust's Tokio and countless other M:N runtimes
I live in NL and I challenge your assertion about home charging. What do you base it on? Most people on my street with an EV have a home charger, even the apartment blocks have them outside.
Implicit or explicit, I’m OK with the global namespace.

On paper it’s awkward, but in reality convention and social norms make it rarely an issue.

The global namespace only supporting exactly one version of each gem encourages a health culture of stable ABIs and deprecation periods too. An absolute dream compared to some language ecosystems
Sam just got lucky, look who was in the board that ousted him! A bunch of no-names with no experience managing companies with a valuation over 10k except the quora exec. OpenAI was a backwater before ChatGPT and it absolutely exploded. When that happens some people are in over their heads (as the board clearly was). Sam wasn’t to his credit, but regardless non-technical people in this company could be replaced with any run-of-the-mill startup CEO and still have their current valuation. Sam was saved to save investor perception of stability. He’s Ringo.
Doing this correctly basically reinvents half of Postgrest.

So just use postgrest.
Nothing about costs?
They are not the same problem.

The Qt one is related to the compositor crashing. Instead of dying immediately when the application loses connection to the compositor, it instead waits until the compositor recovers from the crash, and treats the compositor crash as a GPU reset. Wayland here has the advantage that it holds very little graphical context of the program, except the framebuffer and a few things, and the client controls everything else. As such, the recovery mechanism can be made _unidirectional_. The only thing the compositor needs to do, is to inform clients of the crash and the clients will handle the rest.

The wayland-proxy one is related to the application not handling messages fast enough. In case it is not clear, a Wayland application typically crashes if it is disconnected by the compositor. The compositor disconnects because it cannot send any more messages to the application. It is usually due to the application hanging, making disconnection a reasonable action to take. But it could also just be a legitimate working application under heavy load, and this is where disconnection is actually _not_ desirable - this is what wayland-proxy fixes.

However, one could also treat the forced disconnection as some kind of "controlled compositor crashing", and so Qt's approach could probably work for Firefox too. But the effects will be user-visible, since the browser windows will be closed and recreated again.
Plan9 gets a lot of this right.

The author should flesh out why "Unix is bad".
There's Azure AI studio which is kinda like AWS bedrock. It's not bad, but for max control and versatility i'd start out rolling my own w/ for example llamaindex+azure-branded openai like you say.
I admire him for the last 2 paragraphs, they really shocked me.
Sure. I completely agree. Also micro sd cards are certainly not optimized for weight and I wouldn't be surprised if I made a mistake in my "calculation".
Seems fairly easy to search for to me - top results are all relevant:

https://kagi.com/search?q=ml+rag

https://www.google.com/search?q=ml+rag
“Nasty piece of work” are indeed the right words to describe it.
But this is not the tradeoff here. The tradeoff is convenient charging at home vs fast charging on the road.

So trying to emulate traditional fueling procedures isn't just pure anachronism, it is about not having to wait for ages on a charging station in the middle of nowhere to get another go at maximum range.
It is not a typo.

aiemployee.com domain has already been taken, so I was looking for a word that is something close. It turns out 'Employe' is a real word, so I registered it.

"Employe is a rare dated alternative spelling of the more common employee (AHD)" [1]

1: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/264834/employee-...
Germany was not even unified by the time the UK took over India from the East India Company. Germany eventually had colonies, but they altogether didn't have such a long-lasting influence on the global economy as the British Empire had.

The French colonial empire was much larger, but in the 19th century they were not really present in the Americas anymore, and Vietnam was their only major colony in Asia.
Understood. I think that as we get older we move to a different point of the explore-exploit continuum naturally. Nothing wrong with that either.

I moved from gaming to tennis and the gym myself.
People have been saying that for at least twenty years
Well not that limited apparently since the whole world is populated. Humans speed up the spread of species (contributing to biodiversity lol) but the phenomenon itself is not new.
Not OP, but I am using Spacemacs with evil bindings, so I am also kinda using both.
Wouldn't having deep specialisation in a particular field help you to gain a competitive advantage when deciding to go it alone and starting a company in that area?
No guarantees that it will mature into something competitive in automotive industry though.
It saddens me to see a comment where finding some way to pay for food, would be the only way to eat.

Outside of local edible vegetation, there is smaller game. And as you say, this is how many used to survive.

But beyond that, you can plant beans and have a crop in weeks. Even with a lack of pesticides and fertilizer, being able to plant a plant here, a plant there, will result in food not being eaten completely by pests.

And the ground is far more fertile, when not monocropping.

And yes, seeds can be reused, it's how farming still works today for many farmers.

To speak to this, where I grew up, many people would go into the woods, and plant a single pot seed here, another there, always close to trees etc, so overflies by police helicopters wouldn't see a crop.

Being rural, some people owned 1000 acres, and plausible denialability exists. Even if some went missing, the scatter method yields results.
I hadn't put that idea together until your comment. I'm about the same age and only have a few more years before this "milestone" myself. Thanks for making me feel older hah.
Oh man, what a nostalgia trip. I spent a lot of nights as a teenager playing Savage, S2 and then HoN. Thanks for the link. I have a fond memory of Marc kicking me off a pub S2 game because I slow debuffed him as the commander.
Saddam Hussein did try to buy a load of PlayStations at some point.
Well, a recession is no doubt coming, but if it's in 2, 3, 4, 5 years then it's no doubt a "another" recession.
> elegant shells like PowerShell

Microsoft really should push that harder and create some sort of standardized /usr/bin-alike so people can install CLI tools (both local user equivalent to ~/bin and globally requiring admin) in a controlled manner.

PowerShell is an awesome shell.
Consumer preference around food is largely steeped in tradition – i.e. people generally eat what they grew up eating. It is quite possible that a tradition was lost over the generations due to the species decline. In other words, the grocery store might be full of them today if they had remained abundant.

That said, chestnut trees were only ever common in the depths of Southern Ontario. And a quick search suggests that some grocery stores in that region do carry chestnuts, so it seems the tradition has remained alive to some degree.
A 5kW unit, if installed everywhere might also not be feasible because the conductors burried in the ground are not thick enough to carry 5kW times all the cars in all the houses on a street. That means they will need to remotly regulate charging power/when stuff charges OR every street needs new electrical infrastructure which isn't the cheapest option.
Sea level rise drowned a habitable area of north-western Australia
Merry Xmas!
You can just claim that omniscience and omnipotence do not require that you can do logically impossible things. For instance, God couldn't will that 2+2=5, or that he could create something so heavy that he could not move it.
That’s an optimization that can be added later, with some nuance. IIRC Go had a similar situation for years; I remember setting GO_MAX_PROCS in my init() or main()!
You could get queries that don't use indexes and have to perform table scans. That's fine when your data is small, but it's a performance bottleneck waiting to happen.
-enko is a common ending for Ukrainian last names and Petro is Ukrainian first name.
Did this in the summer via RAG. One thing we realised is that pure vector embeddings retrieval doesn't work so well for docs with acronyms (which let's face it all businesses have). Created a hybrid solution using embeddings and BM25 which is traditional ranking tool. This hybrid gave best results.
Two U.S. firms to launch spacecraft to the moon within weeks of each other
Regardless to that btselem is an opinionated pro-palestinian organization, at least from the first 3 examples in the source they show biased information. The cities they mention and Hebron in particular, is divided between Israel and the Palestinian Authority by the 1996 agreements. From the nature of such division to get directly from one point to another might be impossible in some roads, yet there are other roads leading to same point, so no 2 points are totally disconnected.
A puppy dies when agile meets reality
I like the idea if including the UI library. I know that ie. Ardour are not looking forward to upgrading from Gtk2.

Could this technique be used with Gtk4+Wayland as well?
Aren’t they mostly coming from the lest though? Preppers mostly come from the political right, I believe.
You might be interested in Chris Salzberg’s Im [0], already usable on Ruby 3.2, or the discussion about the speculative “namespace on read” feature [1].

[0] https://github.com/shioyama/im

[1] https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19744
No, he was 34 years old when he wrote this points. There are good points nonetheless. Not everything is money but there are definitely things here that you can apply to your social life as well.
> You would just pare n profit-seeking entities down to one principally administrative entity. If you wish to pay for your own medical procedures out of pocket there will be nothing stopping you.

Nothing except that it creates a monopoly and a monoculture.

There are many procedures you may not be able to afford out of pocket, so the only way to get them is to choose a provider that covers it. If there is only one provider and they don't cover it, you no longer have that option.

And because nobody else does either, that medical procedure stops being offered because there aren't enough patients to justify it if they all have to pay out of pocket and most can't afford it, even if you were one of the few willing to scrape together the money. Which might not have happened if some insurers had covered it, even if many didn't.

> You have a Sophie’s choice of who you want to pay to buy into this crazy system. There’s no transparency in how services are priced or provided. You as a consumer have no insight into how prices are negotiated between the insurer and providers, nor how providers are paid out.

The existing system is a dumpster fire to be sure. So why not fix it?

Eliminate even the concept of negotiating prices, as if medical pricing is something to be haggled over at a bazaar in Calcutta. Require every provider to publish their price, and then that's their price, and anyone can compare providers.

Which gets rid of the concept of "in network" and all of that nonsense. The insurance pays e.g. 90% of the median price of that procedure within 100 miles of your home, the equivalent of a 10% copay. Then you can choose any provider you want, anywhere you want, and pay their published price. The difference comes out of your own pocket, so you have the incentive to be price sensitive -- but if you want to pay a little more to save yourself an hour drive, you can do that too. And if you pick one that charges less than 90% of the median price you can put the rest in your HSA.

The thing about regulations is that the most important thing they can do is to ensure that markets are competitive. The existing healthcare regulations in the US not only don't do that, they do the opposite. But they don't have to.
Hm, isn't it a risk to pay too much?

If you've got enough money that you can't spend it in a lifetime, why continue to do extremely difficult work?