skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One issue I always run into when implementing these approaches is the embedding model's context window being too small to represent what I need.

For example, on this project, looking at the generation of training data [1], it seems like what's actually being generated are embeddings on a string concatenated from each review, title, description, etc. [2]. With the max_seq_length set to 200, wouldn't lengthy book reviews result in the book description text never being encoded? Wouldn't this result in queries not matching against potentially similar descriptions if the reviews are topically dissimilar (e.g., discussing author's style, book's flow, etc. instead of plot).

[1] https://github.com/veekaybee/viberary/blob/main/src/model/ge...
[2] https://github.com/veekaybee/viberary/blob/main/src/model/ge...
Exactly, nobody needs to know that it's used for podcasts too.
I have done 52km in the past before the ICE kicked in(in perfect conditons, but yes).

>>How did you arrive at 5x worse

You have two cars, they both are fully charged and fueled up. They both drive 1000km and then stop. They both burnt 75 litres of petrol, but one used 10kWh of electricity, the other used 50kWh of electricity.

How much more electricity has the second car used Vs the first one?
I won't, since instances like mastodon.social have been using "post" for over a year now.

Personally I think "toot" is perfectly fine; no sillier than "tweet".
It would be interesting to measure battery savings made by disabling JavaScript on mobile devices. While it might be cheaper to plop website on GitHub Pages or Netlify and others, somehow I feel that all costs are just handed down to the user in bandwidth and battery use.
Bipedal robots will be a common thing in industrial/commercial settings within the decade. There is just such a huge financial incentive to create bipedal robots to take over human tasks. $100k for a robot that can work in a warehouse and lasts 10 years working 24/7 is far less than what you’d have to pay two shifts of minimum wage workers.
This technique, known as Rayleigh's method, has a partial justification in Buckingham's π theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_%CF%80_theorem
Only in very contrived circumstances. It is not like you ask ChatGPT for the news and you get a NYT article. They gave ChatGPT a link to the article and the first few paragraphs, and then told it to complete the article.
Right on. Not only that, but from what I've read, the protocol is a mess. It lurches in a number of directions but doesn't successfully reach any of them. So it's really hard to develop for, you pretty much have to be an insider to make any progress. Which adds up to a terrible standard.

But above all, as you pointed out, why are people trying so hard to replicate an obviously easily exploitable and now more prone to individual failure/abuse model? Is unprotected identities and scraps of paper, oh and tags like 2007 twitter, really the best, most user honouring application of current tech?

https://cosocial.ca/@hrefna@hachyderm.io/111692934209903603
My fault for not reading the article fully. For the curious reader, C. S. Lewis wrote a great piece on this called, "The Problem of Pain."

"We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

Of course, there's hundreds of more writings on this, but Lewis is always an easy place to start.
The human brain also didn't evolve in an environment with computers to have really cool ideas around, which you must try to implement the moment the idea occurs to you... at 2AM.
> Regulation is the answer to this question.

Regulation should almost never be the answer in my opinion, it should be an absolute last resort. Regulation requires government officials that both deeply understand the market today and where it will be in the future. They need to be able to define clear and relevant metrics, rules without loopholes, and do it while the large financial incentives of the industry are trying to buy their way out of real regulation. This can be done but is extremely difficult, and when done wrong can just make things worse.

> Asking a person to not fly and pretending that makes a difference to a huge airline is minimizing how much of a burden it is to have to deal with as an individual (a lot) vs how much difference it might make to the company (none).

There are certainly times where not flying would be a heavy burden, but I expect the average person flies quite often for nonessential trips that could be skipped if they wanted to out of safety concerns or disapproval of the companies involved. Have a sick parent a few state or countries away? Driving could be a big burden compared to flying. Wanting a vacation to get away from work and enjoy a week with your family? I'd argue that most people could do that st home or within driving distance if that was important to them.

> By comparing it to a democratic vote (mandating a change in government forcing accountability to the populace), I see it as effectively stating that money can take the place of democracy and that means that those with more money get more votes.

Again you're putting words in my mouth that I never said. I am comparing the power an individual voter has in their political system with the power they have as an individual customer in their economic system. I am not saying that money takes the place of votes or that the systems are interchangeable. Money should play much less of a role in politics than it does today and politics should play much less of a role in business.
I have a similar hobby of sorts I occasionally pick up and drop off, except of unattributed quotes. Some are easy (“Who shall deliver me from this turbulent priest?”), while some I still cannot find the exact quote from, even while knowing what should be the source material (“It was wintertide at Camelot. The rich brotherhood did rightly revel, and mirthful was their mood. Oft-times on tourney bent those gallants sought the field, Though like as joust those gentle knights did sally with missiles made of snow and laughingly grapple on slippery ground.”).

It’s certainly highlighted to me how difficult information upkeep can be, and is a strong reminder to source myself as soon as possible. Which is a realistic and ideal expectation for NN, as alongside their training weights ideally their training dataset is searchable and attributable. Otherwise I feel the largest strength of a dataset, being a digital library for the NN and thus us, is lost.
wow, such a testy response.

Okay,singing requires manipulation of your voice (diaphragm + airways. You also need to know the correct posture to keep,but its not 100% necessary).

Dancing requires manipulation of your feet, legs, hips, shoulders, arms, hands, and head. Sometimes your belly and butt as well.

Just having a sense of rhythm isn't good enough. You can bob along to a rhythm with 100% accuracy, and not be "dancing." You need to know how to move your body in a way that is rhythmically accurate and pleasing to the eye, coordinating different body parts in alternating, but synchronized patterns. It's a totally different skill set. Musicians,for example, are often very reluctant dancers.
To me, there's only one metric that matters for humanoid robots: Can it earn its keep?

A $30K robot with 10 years useful lifetime, and a 10 year 5% mortgage is $10.40 per day. Minimum wages range from $7 to $15, so the US national average would be around that. If your robot can do 1 hour of minimum wage labour per day, people will buy it.

This is a pretty low bar. Light cleaning (dusting, wiping down surfaces, vacuum), loading the dishwasher, doing laundry, tidying up after kids, etc. These tasks don't demand AGI, agility, adeptness, speed, accuracy, etc.
Didnt docker make this easy for all projects?
Not to mention people abbreviate it as "masto", which just sounds stupid.
His stated aims are irrelevant, as are his parents and culture. The relevant point is that he is a Chinese national who can be recruited or coerced by the Chinese government.

These is this entity called the People's Republic of China that is independent of Chinese people culture. That entity is the problem here.
My daily mastodon client. No need for an app on my phone, same interface on big or small screens. Almost perfect.
Thanks for that super actionable advice. /s

I'm sure you've noticed that (especially) laptops have virtually no keyboard customization options. Once MS starts pushing this, every laptop peddler will be including them on every keyboard. Which means that once again, the majority of laptop keyboards will get objectively worse.

It's hard enough finding a laptop with all the keys in the right place these days. Adding more pointless keys is just going to make things worse.

Thank goodness for keys being reassignable in sensible operating systems.

External keyboards aren't that big of an issue, I can just build my own and call it a day, but I haven't seen anyone build any custom laptop keyboards.
Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog
Hi folks, Quickwit cofounder here.

We started Quickwit 3 years ago with a POC, "Searching the web for under $1000/month" (see HN discussions [0]), with the goal of making a robust OSS alternative to Elasticsearch / Splunk / Datadog.

We have reached a significant milestone with our latest release (0.7) [1], as we have witnessed users of the nightly version of Quickwit deploy clusters with hundreds of nodes, ingest hundreds of terabytes of data daily, and enjoy considerable cost savings.

To give you a concrete example, one company is ingesting hundreds of terabytes of logs daily and migrating from Elasticsearch to Quickwit. They divided their compute costs by 5x and storage costs by 2x while increasing retention from 3 to 30 days. They also increased their durability, accuracy with exactly-once semantics thanks to the native Kafka support, and elasticity.

The 0.7 release also brings better integrations with the Observability ecosystem: improvements of the Elasticsearch-compatible API and better support of OpenTelemetry standards, Grafana, and Jaeger.

Of course, we still have a lot of work to be a fully-fledged observability engine, and we would love to get some feedback or suggestions.

To give you a glance at our 2024 roadmap, we planned to focus on Kibana/OpenDashboard integration, metrics support, and pipe-based query language.

[0] Searching the web for under $1000/month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27074481

[1] Release blog post: https://quickwit.io/blog/quickwit-0.7

[2] Open Source Repo: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit

[3] Home Page: https://quickwit.io
https://cve.tuxcare.com/els/cve?cve=&os=5779c3e2-4d4e-4612-8.....
Bedtime procrastination has been a fan of me for as long as I can remember

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_procrastination

I wish any of the suggestions in the sibling comments worked haha. I could quite happily lie in pitch darkness with my eyes closed and still not fall asleep till 2am.

Unfortunately for anyone looking for solutions I never did find one that synced me to the rest of the world, instead I went freelance so I can just sleep from 2am until I wake up naturally.

I'm also diagnosed ADHD but unsure if that's directly related, it probably factors in somewhere I imagine - It's usually the guy under the mask when I dig deep enough into my quirks
Hey, late-stage capitalism is a compelling dystopian setting... and it's actually happening.
Congratulations on the launch of your app!

Have you thought about what sort of developers would develop modules? Have you made any efforts to engage the free software community?
I am aware of A-GPS.

And the providers in my country have complained about having to place many more towers for 5G, so yeah.

It’s very easy to follow the logic - denser cells allow for more accurate triangulation.
As I see it, ASTS is perhaps ahead on the antenna technology demonstration, and SpaceX is definitely ahead on deployment at scale (i.e. SpaceX launched six satellites just now, ASTS has launched one afaik). Which of those metrics is "more important" isn't clear to me, but I suspect SpaceX has the overall velocity advantage.

One thing I don't know is how the size of the relevant satellites compares. If ASTS is getting twice the bandwidth from a comparable size satellite, that's impressive. If their satellite is an order of magnitude larger than a Starlink sat that'll be an issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_univers...
Which went so well with Canadians and Facebook.
Web Reading Mode: Title, author, and date metadata extraction (2018)
>i suppose the point being made here is that we are currently in a place of racism, and anyone advocating that moving waway from that place is bad, happens to be advocating for racsim indirectly.

It's trivial to reword this for "the state of moral values", eg. "we are currently in a place of degrading moral values, and anyone advocating that moving away from that place is bad, happens to be advocating for degrading moral values indirectly". In other words, both "racism" and "the state of moral values" are culture war topics, and I don't how you can justify privileging one without having to invoke your own political beliefs.
Not really because then projects started needing multiple containers and orchestration, and might be fussy about the order the different services come up.
While I do love minimalist websites, I love minimalist responsive websites and this isn't responsive at all.
Oh, THAT joystick.
The California DoE is trying to push this on the entire state:

> Proposed guidelines in the state would de-emphasize calculus, reject the idea that some children are naturally gifted and build a connection to social justice. Critics say math shouldn’t be political.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curric...
I don't follow. Is your belief that "free speech absolutists" wouldn't support this reporter because he's a disabled union member Arab-American Marine veteran? Do you have any evidence for that? To my eye, the majority of the comments here side with the reporter, and quite possibly some of them are from "free speech absolutists". One would hardly qualify as an absolutist if one believed that freedom of speech depends on the the speaker. I'd guess that the majority of people here aren't absolutists, though, just people who understand that there are tradeoffs but still place a high value on freedom of speech.
“Gladius” was also the common Roman slang word for “penis”, so much so that the accompanying Latin word for a sword holder or scabbard, “vagina”, became the standard English word for a body part, losing its original meaning.
Show HN: AnyText AI – Multilingual text generation and editing tool
I just started to learn frontend and built a free AI powered web app for editing text in image using AnyText.

I will continue iterating the AnyText.pics to make it easier to use and will learn frontend skills by building the web app.
> But as a matter of business ethics, you gotta tell people what you're doing with their devices.

I'm curious about this from a legal perspective.

Apple has and (probably is still) extending unpublished entitlements to developers that allow for behavior that is not publicly documented.
If you understand the cause of a regularity, you will predict it in all relevant circumstances. If you're just creating a model of its effects in one domain, you can only predict it in that domain --- with all other factors held constant.

This makes (merely) predictive models extremely fragile; as we often see.

One worry about this fragility is saftey: no one doubts that, say, city route planning from 1bn+ images is done via a "pixel-correlation (world) model" of pedestrian behaviour. The issue is that it isnt a model of pedestrian behaviour.

So it is only effective insofar as the effects of pedestrian behaviour, as captured in the images, in these environments, etc. remain constant.

If you understood pedestrians, ie., people, then you can imagine their behaviour in arbitrary environments.

Another way of putting it is: correlative models of effects arent sufficient for imagining novel circumstances. They encode only the effects of causes in those circumstances.

Whereas if you had a real world model, you can trivially simulate arbiatry circumstnaces.
JeSuisCharlie was one of the most viral hashtags in history
Hmm can you elaborate on that?

> Thunderbird is now part of MZLA Technologies Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation

Are you saying that it technically lives under the Mozilla umbrella but they take a completely hands-off approach?
Do you expect your brain to do everything for you? If you're tired, go to sleep.
Tell me about these rich, engaging worlds that are free of things like prejudice, wealth and poverty, class struggle…
When I was a kid one of my dogs was a Blue Heeler Australian cattle dog. Wonderfully faithful, energetic and powerful, and always inquisitive. I miss him terribly.
Not about a vaccine, FYI.
In a way, making WWI tank movies is a lot easier. There are so many extant Holt tractors left...
That seems like an opinion from within the tech bubble. There is a vast world outside and most people and companies have a completely different perspective.
Yes that’s a good point. So long as it’s sufficiently abstracted. Though I’m not sure people in general are getting tired of social media.
Not at all. See post below for a more detailed explanation.
From 10 hours of video, it learned to pick up a pod carefully placed on a counter in front of it, insert said pod into a Keurig machine also carefully placed on the counter in front of it, and push the button.

From the hype, I was expecting it to pass the full Woz test:

1. Walk into a strange house and find the kitchen.

2. Find whatever coffee is available, including knowing likely places to look. Choose the best among multiple options based on the best available information about the drinker's likely preferences.

3. Find whatever coffee maker is available, get it out without screwing anything else up, assess its condition, clean it if-and-only-if necessary, plug it in, figure out its controls.

4. Similarly find filters or other supplies if necessary.

5. Grind the coffee if necessary to match the coffee maker and the desired results.

6. "Make the coffee" in the sense these guys are trying to claim is a breakthrough.

7. Serve it, or at least put it it in a cup and tell the user.

8. Put everything away and clean up

9. Take any available feedback on making it better next time.
> probably much to law enforcement's chagrin.

It's 2024, we have to stop playing pretend. Apple can't even keep your push notifications to themselves, I'm not convinced they do anything "to law enforcement's chagrin" nowadays. Every sufficiently large American business is partially controlled by American intelligence; FAANG is part of that, whether you love them or not.
Then it isnt a model of the world.

If the term, "effect model" were used there would be zero debate. Of course NNs model the effects of sentiment.

The debate is that AI hype artists don't merely claim to model effects in constrained domains.
> you should strive to make solutions that require the simplest tools possible whenever you can

I’ve gone back to making MPA apps with minimal JS. It helps me actually ship my projects rather than tinkering and having an over complicated setup for mostly CRUD tasks.

In one project that is a bit more data intensive and interactive I’m using Laravel Breeze / Laravel + inertajs (SSR react pages).

I’m also a big fan of Jekyll lately, I made my own theme on Thursday with only 2 tiny scripts for the mobile menu and submission of the contact form.

Using DOM APIs and managing a little bit of state is fine for many, many projects.

OTOH when you don’t control the requirements and the business asks for a ton of stateful widgets progressive enhancement can become a mess of spaghetti in the UI and API unless very carefully managed and well thought out. At that point you might as well go all in on React/Angular/Vue, especially when you have to account for a mix of skill levels and turnover.
The question is: if the NYT can seek relief from Microsoft and OpenAI for this, then why can't every person who has code on Github do the same. In this country we are at an unfortunate place where only the corporations and rich people can seek relief. You need a lawyer.

However, any person has the right to file appear "pro se". And if the legal filings and arguments by NYT are public, then why can't I just file my own case. And you. And you. And you. And you. And you. You get the picture.

We have this situation where corporations can exploit situations and people with impunity. They can buy off the government - oh wait, we have to call that "lobbying". Lawyers won't take on the case unless it is a class action worth billions to them. In which case you and I get a piddling amount or none. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38901484. (the question being whether Apple settled in order to avoid a finding that their action was purposeful).

All we need is to use the information from the NYT legal case. <humor?> And hey maybe someone can use OpenAI to generate the filings?</end questionable humor>
6502 Apple II Merlin assembler web app
And nice online course here run on it: https://youtu.be/XHX_Zq90zJc?feature=shared
YD's New Electric Supercar U9 Can Drive with Only 3-Wheels [video]
And this is a rather weak rebuttal.
On a board with a finite number of squares, is this truly different?

The representation of the ruleset may not be the optimal Kolmogorov complexity - but for an experienced human player who can glance at a board and know what is and isn’t legal, who is to say that their mental representation of the rules is optimizing for Kolmogorov complexity either?
We don‘t know their personal motivation. They may very well dislike AI.
"The speed limit of this intersection is 45, the people who design roads put a bump in it that annoys customers, let's solve that problem."

Make the speed limit 25 if you want them to go 25. This is a simple case of a lack of leadership.
Isn't that more of a design issue than a bot AI issue?
Very cool. Reminds me of the encore framework, also written in go: https://github.com/encoredev/encore

Need to spend some more time looking into these go based frameworks, they seem great for quick prototyping
No. This is what I read when trying to create an account.

> Mozilla.social is invite‑only

> We're limiting our network size while we build the platform.

> Do you have an invitation code? You'll need it to complete your sign-up!
Usually if a response is greater than 512 bytes the DNS server will renegotiate on TCP 53. Note some DNS servers might not do this, but every normal implementation does that I’m aware of.
Yeah, "that crap ain't cool".

But again, he has been rightfully scolded for that, has apologized and pledged to do better. If he doesn't, well that's bad but then even more people will stop using the project.

I just don't see any real value in bringing missteps of a project up in every subsequent discussion, especially if it's a storm in a teacup like this one (it was a hidden easteregg, not some auto-poster).
Can this be self-hosted? Is it opensource?
I always ask this of new apps: To include code cells in the editors via ipython.
Doing things because you can and not because you have to?
Creative endeavors in the largest sense?
Has anyone successfully repro'd the plaintiff's claims of unlawful use? I just made several attempts using GPT-4 and was unsuccessful.

Perhaps OAI have already taken action to disable ChatGPT's ability to quote in full without attribution, if it was ever possible in the first place(?) Plaintiff doesn't disclose exactly which prompts they used to give rise to their infringement claims, which seems suspect.

If the case goes to trial, and OAI has taken steps to mitigate the harm - i.e., it no longer reproduces NYT content word-for-word - does that significantly reduce the damages they could seek?