skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a roadmap for planned features in the future? I wouldn't call this a "powerful tool for addressing key challenges in deploying RAG systems" right now. It seems to do the most simple version of RAG that the most basic RAG tutorial teaches someone how to do with a pretty UI over it.

The most key challenges I've faced around RAG are things like:

- Only works on text based modalities (how can I use this with all types of source documents, including images)

- Chunking "well" for the type of document (by paragraph, csvs including header on every chunk, tables in pdfs, diagrams, etc). The rudimentary chunk by character with overlap is demonstrably not very good at retrieval

- the R in rag is really just "how can you do the best possible search for the given query". The approach here is so simple that it is definitely not the best possible search results. It's missing so many known techniques right now like:

- Generate example queries that the chunk can answer and embed those to search against.

- Parent document retrieval

- so many newer better Rag techniques have been talked about and used that are better than chunk based

- How do you differentiate "needs all source" vs "find in source" questions? Think: Summarize the entire pdf, vs a specific question like how long does it take for light to travel to the moon and back?

- Also other search approaches like fuzzy search/lexical based approaches. And ranking them based on criterial like (user query is one word, use fuzzy search instead of semantic search). Things like that

So far this platform seems to just lock you into a really simple embedding pipeline that only supports the most simple chunk based retrieval. I wouldn't use this unless there was some promise of it actually solving some challenges in RAG.
Commemorative event and additional context, 2017: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2...

More photos of the wireless station: https://www.commsmuseum.co.uk/CoursesNonCHC/horsea.htm

Archaeological report, 2018: https://maritimearchaeologytrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2020...
All the more reason to pass a tax
This looks like a pretty good hook-up. 1P has always been the standout (non-free) password manager, and Kolide was always on my radar as a good zero-trust device security offering.
> But flights are often cheaper in Europe too despite subsidies for rail

That's because intra-EU flights are also highly subsidized, especially around taxes for fuel. Decades ago the EU punted on the complex topic of charging taxes on avgas and that is a key contributor to the existence of cheap airlines like ryanair.
I think it’s a great example of how truly complex these issues are. You can’t just apply the same blank statements we do in society to LLMs or it will poke holes and expose the problems with them real quick.
The explanation in the article is fine as far as it goes, but I think it's much more helpful to emphasize one key fact, which is that MH has to show a goat, and can't open your first choice door, even if it's a goat. That means that if you did pick a goat the first time around, he can only have revealed the other goat, in which case switching will necessarily give you the car. That happens with probability 2/3.

This is implicit in the "100 doors, MH opens 98 of them" construction discussed in the article but making it explicit makes the idea quite clear and intuitive, even with just 3 doors.

I'm moderately sympathetic to the idea that this constraint is not immediately obvious from how the scenario is described, and could technically be ambiguous in some versions. I do think most people will agree that it makes sense to infer this constraint once you think about it. Obviously if he opened the door that you initially picked and it was a goat, you would know to switch to one of the other two (and have 1/2 chance of finding the car). (Or, more absurdly, he could just open the door with the car and you could choose it directly). Or you could imagine a game show where MH can choose to open a door or not, in which case the problem is not well-posed, because you would need to know how he makes the choice.
Honest question, because I don't know: Are fast ground fault interrupters "cheap and easy"? I mean, sure, they're cheap and easy compared to replacing transformers. But they don't just grow on trees, either. What's the lead time on getting one?
To me that confirms what some voices critical of such safety system predicted.

Companies happily fire people that are only accused of wrongdoing, they even say that the negative PR warrants such a move pre-emptively. Simultaneously it wants to nudge users towards a behavior of not prejudging others on attributes like their skin color?

It doesn't make sense as a corporate culture, it is a contradiction at least some Google engineers should be able to explain to those that obviously are blind to that fact.

And if you cannot live up to your own standards, maybe try polite silence as a company.
The public trusts AI as a credible source
> Not taking my side with Russia or Hamas on this, by saying that US is actually "aggressor here".

Seems you're overlooking that Putin is attacking Ukraine, and that Ukraine defends itself.

You're saying that helping a country _defend_ itself is aggression.

That's like saying [a company that provides weapons to police who stops an active shooter], is an aggressor. -- It's not the right time to say that, when it's about _defending oneself_.

Had the US been exporting weapons to _Putin_, what you wrote would make sense.

In some cases, the US does such things (and many other countries, incl Russia and China). But this time you got it backwards, when you call the defenders for "aggressors".
I drew a decision tree once to show all possible states, with the 1/3 and 2/3 probabilities along each edge, which finally made it click for the coworkers I was trying to convince.

In the tree it becomes blindingly obvious that the probabilities are.
VegaFusion
Theoretically I can map any keyboard layout to anything else, but what's the point of getting a Thinkpad then if it doesn't look and feel like a Thinkpad anymore?
That sounds like a very bad idea. Why does it need to be implemented when there are already existing mechanisms in place to hold criminals accountable for their actions?
Library Genesis is great, but it doesn't have much in terms of journal articles. sci-hub did but the attacks on them in Indian courts have made it so they haven't been able to upload new articles since Dec 2020. They only have pre-2020 articles. Anna's archive is basically just a combo of those two sources and some others things.

I really, really miss sci-hub and being able to read research papers. Before sci-hub there were a handful of forums for requesting and fulfilling full text papers. But those forums basically died because sci-hub was so easy and useful. And now that sci-hub is dead there's nothing.
I remember reading Marilyn vos Savant every week as a teenager. At the time I half suspected that she wasn't real--just a character made by a team or something. [This was before the internet, so I couldn't just ask Google.]

I'm happy that she's real and as smart as portrayed. But what really impressed me is how calmly she received all the negative feedback and personal insults. No matter what, she never lashed back. I have a feeling that's authentic too.
>Is there a rule against perpetuities for gifts like there is for a lot of trusts?

Permanently restricted funds in endowments are legal.
The biggest weakness with redbox is that is just doesn't have much of a catalog as I understand it. I've never really used them.

My local library is the next best thing to netflix DVDs, but it isn't the same at all.
Education and health care require people, and technology has continually failed at replacing people in those sectors. If tech could replace labor in education, we would have seen it during covid. Technology also still can't pull out stitches or change a bedpan.
Colleges and universities should have to have public audits of their admissions and other processes in order to get tax breaks and federal funding.

There's so little insight and oversight for orgs that vacuum up public money.
Transfers... You're already in the airport, getting to the railway station will take time.
AI is a fun toy. Of course people want to play with it. It's like the <blink> era of html. It's not an appropriate use of the technology, it doesn't add value... but... it's fun.
> There's plenty of wealth. The issue is the concentration of wealth at the top.

That's just an opinion. What we do know is that as more wealth has been generated via Capitalism more and more people globally (and nationally) have been brought out of poverty to the point where poverty has had to be redefined in certain areas. Capitalism has made starvation a thing of the past and diabetes the new, but better, problem of the poor for example. Poor people can afford to eat meat daily. Not even wealthy could do this in the not so distant past.

So instead of fighting over probably wrong opinions we should look at the data and then continue to do more of the thing that has been generating better outcomes for more people. That means more capitalism because that leads to better outcomes.
> The ability to apply a wildcard match on the s3:ResourceAccount condition key

That’s the crazy part. No good can ever come from this - there is no legitimate reason why you would grant or deny permission based on a partial account id match.
If the baby is anything like a cat they will have their own side bias to account for too
Linkedin can be a good place to find consultants looking for clients.
I'm not exactly thrilled about the plutocrats continuing to rule us from beyond the grave.
Commandments of Agile
The grade goes on your record, though. The time investment to complete the course with a satisfactory grade would negate the time I have to read the material.
Canada in fact has quite deep restrictions on speech:

https://ccla.org/our-work/fundamental-freedoms/freedom-of-ex...

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

It's one thing I think we do particularly poorly compared to our friends down South. The Americans' absolute freedom of speech is... quite freeing.
On the contrary, when you look at who holds power in the US, it is conservative religious people. From actual lawmakers to the media. They get to set the culture.
That's the idea! And especially if more people start writing /ideas pages I think the search will become better and the results more actionable.

Also, if you find something to improve, people open a GitHub issue: https://github.com/lindylearn/aboutideasnow/issues
Is this why AWS had this announcement on Friday? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/mistral-ai-models-coming-so...
Redash development slowed down for sure, but it's not looking abandoned. It's just that I've been using it for some time now, I'm wondering if is anything feature-wise that could justify the switch.
This is clearly meant to be humor and not taken seriously.
Almost every couple of years (and once a decade for something "big") there is a new development in the area mostly driven either by clueless software guys that wandered outisde their turf into hardware territory, or some university chair that sits in the undefined limbo between hardware and software (usually doing something in the realm of CGRAs) that has to justify its existence by offering a PhD to some guy that will create a new RTL IR or another deadborn HLS.
Developing hardware is a solved problem. Has been for decades. And no, writing a sentence in your white paper that says something like "existing HDLs operate on gates and cycles and its not an appropriate level of abstraction for us" is not enough of a justification. If you need a fancy pseudo-DSL to hold your hand to be able to describe simple datapaths and FSMs for you then you wouldnt be able to develop anything hardware related that is remotely useful. You cannot abstract away the essence of this engineering task.
What we actually need is a tighter verification loops and better (and more accessible) verification methodology so that hardware development is less daunting in the first place, not another DSL-to-RTL translator (even if extensible, like in calyx case)
Also https://github.com/daedalus/BreakingECDSAwithLLL
my problem is I have more abandoned projects than successful ones :/ And not from lack of trying...
>I really wonder who takes the plane when a train does it in under 2.5 hours...

People who know the plane is cheaper.

Didn't use to be, but the cut-throat budget airlines and the greed and privitization of train networks made it so.
We are seeking a skilled TEE/SGX Engineer to join our blockchain development team, focusing on the Ethereum rollup ecosystem. The candidate will be at the forefront of implementing cutting-edge solutions using Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) and Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) to enhance security and efficiency in blockchain applications.
Do you have any insights to share around chunking and labeling strategies around ingesting and embeddings? Qdrant I remember had some interesting abilities to tag vectors with extra information. So to be more specific the issues I see are context aware paragraph chunking and keyword or entity extraction. How do you see this general issue?
1) While I agree there should be alternative stores on devices, entire portions of the DMA are unenforceable and plain english. A few of these were pointed out in the article but weren't followed up.

2) Apple can not deeply integrate into other browsers like it has with Webkit/Safari on iOS - The argument that they can just do the same integrations with all the other browsers to provide PWAs is fallacy and indicative of someone who doesn't know what that engineering effort is. They built the integration because they built both sides of the bridge to make it happen.

3) Are Apple being bullies? Yeah, for sure. But it's their device, their platform, and if the EU really wants to have a DMA, they need to create their own Apple, plain and simple. Apple should be barred from the EU if they can't comply with EU laws. But the EU laws need to be written in a way that holds weight and is enforceable. "Must provide alternative after 6 months of first service" isn't enforceable. If the decision is "Launch this but do it twice" or "Never launch this at all", never launch is going to win. And so, you all will never launch.

4) I get that having an app icon is all the rage but is it really that bad to just bookmark things? If you all want to avoid the Apple tax, provide a store that apple can present to the EU that allows for Apache Cordova PWA. I think the onus for this is on the EU. Not Apple. If there is such a store-front already (that's not used by pirates) I'm sure Apple would work with them to integrate for the EU market. A company shouldn't have to provide their own components to adhere to compliance requirements when their original offering was/is already accepted. If you want an alternative, go build one.

5) The article uses a lot of strong emotional language and straw-man arguments. Is it a bad move by Apple to remove PWA Home Dock capabilities? Yes. But what alternative could there be when they are forced to also provide that for 3rd-party browsers that they don't have the same integration with (because they didn't write the browser, the code, and integrating the same security controls could take years). The entire DMA is unrealistic, unenforceable, and would be unconstitutional in the US. It's not a companies job to provide alternative markets, fair or otherwise. It's the EU's. Built it. Force Apple to use it. That's how you win.
What I didn't see mentioned in this article is what "harm" means in this context. My pessimistic view is that the govt will define harm as they see fit.
Why would your boss fire you if you do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu?
In my experience epipens and generics are easy to come by, and as a parent that has given epipens to a kid, passed out and deep in anaphylactic shock, and hearing ER nurses casually talk to each other about how many epipens they've given to kids that didn't make it, I think you might feel differently if you lived through that first-hand.
That's what happens when you take a very cool project and back it with very talented PR people.
This is a cliche answer but I think you have to genuinely have the problem or be very near to it to come up with a good idea and afterwards execution.

Throughout my life I had several projects that I've never launched. This time I decided to go till the end and launch this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dutchspeak...

Last year I've been preparing for Dutch Speaking Exams without a tutor (using Babbel and ChatGPT) and I really neede a dedicated app to quickly prepare me for the exam. So this project was born from the my actual need I had.

During implementation though I figured that it's easier to come up with new ideas (as working on something spawns ideas or at least ideas of pivoting).
I recently had an ultrasound done on both shoulders for reference. The doc said my dominant shoulder looked a lot worse
Depends on the task. Gpt 4 isn't necessarily better at translation than Claude. I'm aware of no benchmarks on this.
I'm not sure that Thomas Hollis funding a chair in divinity at Harvard (for example) meets that definition in a meaningful way.
Yes, magic singularity AI angels would solve all our problems. When are they coming?
Are submissioms manually reviewed by a human? Otherwise it can be abused for spam. Is it reindexed from time to time? Say, the submission looks okay, and then they change the content to something spammy. Maybe a Report button could be added in that case.
The passenger numbers seem low to me - but I can only assume they come from research - so the passenger figures will skew that. A full bus (60 people?) would be far more efficient.
Seems like you could assemble something like a 3D volumetric display by stacking multiple displays. It would start out with maybe a few planes, then get more dense as the technology advances.
I can't even find if they are making this a tax rebatable donation because it's impossible to find information on jstor. Any search with "jstor" in it will include results about papers (which i won't be able to read more than the title/abstract) from jstor and dozen of other sites, because search engines assume I mean "academic papers" with i type "jstor", even in quotes.

And jstor being opaque as it is, it is the perfect recipe for zero discoverability.
I’d like to see these types of apps start offering SVG embedding of things like graphs. Frames are such a pain.
> And this is essentially what Monty is doing. He's retiring some doors and changing the odds.

That still leads to the wrong answer, because he is retiring one of the losers, leaving a 50:50 chance of getting a prize.
It hurts me to see such cynisme. Education is key to lower recidive, and a great way to help those who didn't have the chance to be born with the support they needed to grow free of trouble.

I'm glad those things move forward. If not for the prisoners, for the people they'll be responsible for down the line.

"The study found that parents' educational levels when the child was 8 years old predicted the child's educational and occupational success at age 48. The more educated the parent was when the child was 8 years old, the higher educational aspirations and attainment the child had at age 19"

https://militaryfamilies.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/...

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/education-opportuni...
Mistral is really fantastic compared to other local LLMs. Even the 7B model is very usable on an older GPU.

Excited to see how things go from here in the open-source space.
Jellyfin does fine transcoding 4k on my decade old i7. And it'd probably be a hassle to install it on other people's phones, but the Android app can use MPV as it's media player
This reads like you're part of the salty thugs that killed IRC to begin with. Offer zero help because you built some mythos about being self-taught and think everyone else should suffer the same, ejaculating "RTFM!" every chance you get, your biggest gripe ultimately distilling down to whining about change, an inevitable outcome of progress that you spite for the simple reason that you liked how "the way things were" denied use to a lot of people who were not as technically proficient. That attitude is the problem, not the solution. Make no mistake.

Stay in the cave and be quiet, or step out into the light and be helpful. Those are our choices.
Email providers have rate limits against specific user logins, IAM not.
Exactly what I thought the second I read the headline. Tragic comedy, may he rest.
A related problem is the 'sorites paradox'.

>A typical formulation involves a heap of sand, from which grains are removed individually. With the assumption that removing a single grain does not cause a heap to become a non-heap, the paradox is to consider what happens when the process is repeated enough times that only one grain remains: is it still a heap? If not, when did it change from a heap to a non-heap?
> cursor.png is too big, max 1KB Donate to be able to do up to 5KB cursors.

Okay, interesting... I'll just compress the png better.

> cursor.png is too big, max 11x17 Donate to be able to do up to 16x21 cursors.

Awesome!
I lived in Vancouver bc and in general they’re prepared. The office building I worked from had many earthquake supply cabinets that had rations, water, thermal blankets, and we all knew where the community muster points were. They had people come in to talk about the risks and remind you about earthquake preparedness.

In general it’s going to be a disaster, but people are prepared for it (as much as one can be anyhow)
Keeper W19 (AI for tax prep)looking for PMs and Engineers
The land is worth a lot, even the shabbiest office building on top of the land is still worth quite a bit, it's the demolition and remediation costs that cancel the latter out, because they are also quite a bit.

Someone still needs to buy the land and then pay out of pocket for the demolition and remediation costs.
I think that is a very interesting perspective, but think it will not lead to real or positive change.

In my opinion (dont take this personally), I think it is a victim mentality, that if someone self sabotages enough, someone else will fix things or improve their situation.

I think a closer model of reality is that most people are disposable. I dont think that people becoming more disposable less important increases leverage.

A lot of historic change has come from organized striking, but only when the strikers have coherent demands and productivity to leverage.
No. None of the Ss in S3 stand for Secure.

And this still doesn’t let you tie an account ID to an email or human.
Is it possible your affinity to the blue hair and pronouns subculture prevents you from seriously considering the author's analysis of it?

To a gay man or transvestite (as they often called themselves, nothing derogatory meant by it) of yore, surely that movement represented freedom from repression. Today, when bigotry towards homosexuals is socially taboo, what does it mean to the allies, warriors and fluid genders? To the stereotypical tumblrites creating new gender symbols and ever increasingly colorful flags in Photoshop? To me it looks exactly like what the author says: mainstream, corporate captured product marketing, in group signalling, an aesthetic subculture feigning angst and struggle.
Reminds me of that age old question... We find all these dinosaur fossils in mines for metals and fuel. It makes you wonder if they were just another bunch of animals, what were they all doing mining for industrial materials?
Defense in depth, always assume that anything can get used as an attack vector including AWS itself.