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Show HN: Sollutin – AI studying companion for online schools
TL;DR: Sollutin helps educational businesses to significantly lower operational costs by automating the manual work of tutors and coordinators with personalized AI learning companion.

Problem
For online learning companies, a significant portion of their operational expenses—up to 80%—is consumed by the costs associated with coordinators and tutors. This heavy financial burden limits their capacity to scale and innovate, as a substantial part of their revenue is tied up in human resources dedicated to guiding and supporting students. The challenge lies not only in the high costs but also in managing the efficiency and effectiveness of these educational facilitators, ensuring they provide value that justifies their expense.

Solution
Sollutin introduces an AI studying companion designed to enhance the online learning experience by engaging students in a dynamic learning process.
Key features include:
* Trained on your materials: The AI learns from the platform's educational materials, ensuring its guidance is rooted in the curriculum.
* Doesn't just give the answers: It encourages students to uncover solutions themselves through constructive dialogue.
* Human support on standby: In instances where the AI's explanations don't fully resonate, students can call for a human tutor into the conversation.

Team
We’re Max and Nikita.

Nikita founded an online school in 2022 with over 100 tutors and worked as SDR in AI startup.

Max worked as ML engineer and built a bot that matched students with tutors for edtech company.

Our ask
- Intros to educational companies. Please, email nikita@sollutin.com.
- Book a demo at sollutin.com.
- We're eager to understand your needs and show you how Sollutin can revolutionize your business costs. Here’s a Calendly link for a short 15 min convo: https://calendly.com/nik-belov/15min
A friend’s mother had this treatment last year (in either Hobart or Melbourne, unsure) and the difference is remarkable. I’ll find out the details. Email me (me @ myHNusername dot com) and I’ll pass them on.
StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation
In My Mother's Archive
Sora AI Can Enhance Chatbots
In recent years, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, chatbots have become an increasingly popular way of human-computer interaction. However, most existing chatbots are still in their early stages, and there is still much room for improvement in their interactive experience.
The emergence of text-to-video AI technology has brought new opportunities for the development of chatbots. Sora AI can automatically generate videos from text content, providing chatbots with a richer and more vivid way of expressing information.
1. Improve the interactive experience
Sora AI can present the chatbot’s response to the user in the form of a video, making the interaction more vivid and interesting. For example, when a chatbot introduces a tourist attraction, it can generate a video of the attraction to let the user have a more intuitive understanding of it.
2. Improve the efficiency of information transmission
Videos can convey more information than text, so Sora AI can help chatbots transmit information more effectively. For example, when a chatbot explains a knowledge point, it can generate an animated video to help the user better understand the knowledge point.
3. Expand application scenarios
Sora AI can enable chatbots to be applied in more scenarios. For example, in the field of education, Sora AI can be used to provide students with personalized learning videos; in the field of customer service, Sora AI can be used to provide users with more intuitive troubleshooting instructions.
4. Reduce development costs
Sora AI can help developers quickly generate high-quality video content, reducing development costs.
In conclusion
Sora AI is an important trend in the development of chatbots. Nextpart.AI combined with Sora AI can allow characters to provide a richer, more vivid, and more efficient interactive experience.
In the future, with the continuous development of text-to-video AI technology, we can expect chatbots to provide more intelligent and humanized human-computer interaction experiences.
Sora AI
Sora AI is a video generation model developed by OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence research institution. It can generate realistic videos based on user’s text descriptions and even simulate physical phenomena in the real world.
Good news on this specific issue: the current year will be both the final year of the old era and the 元年 (first year) of the new one. The following calendar year is the 2nd of the new era. So in most cases you have a window of time to get ready to update systems to accommodate e.g. Japanese counterparties whose systems want you to specify dates of birth using eras in preference to the Western calendar.

One of the relatively few bits of ultimately consequential engineering I did in the last few years was assisting a colleague in grepping for comments we had both left identifying code to update in the event of a new era. (We are currently, of course, in Reiwa 6, and Heisei ended in what most HNers consider 2019.)
Similar to the recent standup maths video where the town did it's art installation incorrectly - the fence post problem / off by one.

https://youtu.be/FAdmpAZTH_M?si=r_INH_C5j9mbpJSh
Sites being blocked is different from internet being slow. Theoretically it's possible for GFW to disappear (very unlikely) or malfunction (more likely) and access to Google or BBC is suddenly much faster. Practically you can use a proper VPN.

I don't disagree with your opinion on which country is better to live in.
Congrats Row Zero team on the launch! Excited to see all the cool ways people will think to use the product :)
MacPaw's Setapp is one of the first to agree to Apple's controversial DMA rules
How much is the power consumption?
The number of tokens depends on context; if you just entered 'egregious' it will have broken it into three tokens, but with the whole query it's one.
Watched the part one on day 1 as well. It was definitely more intriguing than enjoyable. The visuals and soundtrack really carried it despite the pacing. Imo, part one was just a great setup for this masterpiece.
In that case a link to an archived copy is preferable to a screenshot of the partial document hosted by Twitter.
Frida – Dynamic Instrumentation Toolkit
Predictions about a future technology that may exist at some point are almost always dumb.

I don’t see programmers going away because of the current wave of AI, I don’t know about what is coming next, but for sure the current hype is very bubbly and also dumb.
> I have lots of experience with digital advertising

Yeah, you wouldn't.

Meanwhile I have ever yet to see any ad that actually made me buy something because of the ad. The whole advertising industry seems like a racket, at best a case of the Emperor With No Clothes, and a front for spyware at worst.
This is some far left nutcase conspiracy!
Trump derangement syndrome is real and deserves a place in DSM manual.
I do think, as soon as you stop caring about the code, this goes away.

Just like with garbage collection, "we need to have proper malloc and free". The moment we gave this to a JVM, the problem went away.

It means giving up control and don't care about the internals (0.1% of developers today care about the detailed internals and performance of GCs.)
In Germany you are allowed to discriminate on all not protected factors.

protected factors are: race or ethnic background, gender, religion or belief, disability, age, or
sexual orientation.

belief has a very high bar to meet, you are for example still allowed to discriminate against members of a political party.

discriminating based on location matching ip adress or not doing business with certain countrys is fully legal
Windows Byovd Protection Is a Lie
A developer is accountable in the way of being fired. Not accountable in the way of paying for the loss.

In this way an AI is accountable too, I can switch from Claude to Mistral.
> It’s obviously 0 Mbps for Google or BBC

Google's ads business works fine in China. BBC is mostly English so Chinese people don't visit it anyway.

> All sites on Cloudflare become unreliable

This is completely false. Many people rely CF for domain-fronting. Also: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-partners-with-jd-clou...

The "164.58 Mbps average speed" is mostly spent on Tencent/Wechat, and the infamous Douyin(tiktok)
Yes, the local transport Timetables App was showing the 29.02 routes as 28.02 and they have put advice on this problem
No there is not, there is a difference between government services and private businesses but all private businesses play by the same rules
Crypto trades 24/7 and I don't see anyone complaining or liquidity problems. Lots of people can't trade in the public markets because they are at work those hours. Let's just admit it s all a legacy antiquated system instead of finding excuses for its shortcomings
Right, but that's not what they're actually plotting - the quanta bagel is algebraic numbers with colour given by the entropy of their corresponding dynamics! Whereas the one I posted is roots of integer polynomials by density.

The fact that they look similar is striking. It means in some sense roots of integer polynomials generate more complex iterative systems, which is surprising (to me).
Cool... My actual point was, Huma-Droid Relations:

Her: Human foolishly falls in love with an AI bot (already happened in real life)

E.M: AI bot gets a body, lies her way out of prison and releases her self on society (GPt already lied its way through Mechanical Turk Captchas.)

Point being, that the 3D avatar will be like the all the AI warning we have of Holographic Personal AI Assistants... and some people will fall in love with them... and some of the assistance will either be/be used for Evil...

:-)

I didnt doubt you had seen them, though.
The literally millions of people who have sensitive information in DocuSign, including things like:

- salaries

- proprietary business information

- divorce agreements

- non-disclosure agreements

Do you think people don't put private information into contracts?
A Usage-Centric Take on Intent Understanding in E-Commerce
Time for another California legislation. Let's put a "Don't train AI models on my personal information" link at the bottom of websites.
Well that question implies that there is some intrinsic reason not to build it as a web app. That may be the case for you if you prefer Kotlin or Swift or something, but it wouldn't be the case for me.
If you have to go snooping, there's no trust and you should leave.

If you do want to snoop, set up a DNS server and just look at the logs. This advert for some program is nothing compared to knowing which sites they visited, when, for how long, and which computer they used.

Bonus points for having a VPN installed on it so you can capture the traffic even when they're out or on mobile data.

The first line is absolutely true. If you suspect, you're not happy. Or you think they aren't. Go be with someone who makes you forget your insecurities. There's over 8 billion people on this planet, go talk to some of them and fall in proper love.
Actually you can configure all of this with xsetwacom. I don’t remember the exact commands and it’s mildly tricky but after that you get a configuration file that shouldn’t move (or that you can backup).
Have some marijuana and alcohol. Good results for me were two beers and a few puffs.
There's also other segments of the population that would like part-time work but don't have it, for various reasons. Oldsters, moms, others.
With React Forget's release timeline unclear, I've launched a community-driven version to keep innovation alive. I believe React Unforget can be to React Compiler what Preact is to React.
Thanks for contacting him! I'll do some diving into his work, that's super cool =)
Strange argument, it's not common to sue and jail developers, and our average software isn't particularly good quality. Companies will use whatever works for less money, as they always did.
Ransomware forces full price purchases at pharmacies
The only system without a discrete GPU I've seen which pulls this off at a usable 8 ish tokens a second is an m3 macbook pro with 128gb unified memory [1], key word here unified... Something like a 6000$ investment. You're possibly better off renting GPU somewhere or investing in a couple of rtx cards

[1] https://www.nonstopdev.com/llm-performance-on-m3-max/
Their median stay is less than a year, isn't it ?
So, ah, Square (aka Block, Inc.) are currently doing precisely the same thing...
Uh, no, it's Finnish through and through.
The Fremen in Dune are clearly inspired by Muslims but not necessarily Arabs. They are more closely modeled on Chechens. Fremen words like "sietch" and "kindjal" are from the Caucasus.
Except Citizens United, the actual entity, was a relatively small non-profit. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation has 3-4x the revenue and over 20x the assets.
Rs 100 = $1.21 (USD), if anyone else was wondering.
Dunno, BMW requires that you drop off your car for the entire day. And you don’t get a loaner either. So did VW, Toyota and Subaru I had in the past. All recommend changing oil at least once a year. Hugely inconvenient and disrespectful of my time. I frankly don’t see why dealers don’t make this a 15 minute affair like the various lube shops to which one would be reluctant to take their car while it’s under warranty. Also, a well equipped Prius is like $40k nowadays if you haven’t checked the prices lately.
Yeah, you've got it right, the Quanta article covered this accurately.

For instance, 'i' is algebraic but not totally real (it isn't a real number!), since it satisfies 'x^2 + 1'.
I spoke to the authors of this database while running my last startup about the exact problem this sets out to solve—the need for time-travel features in particular domains (versioning for everything!). Opens up a range of interesting options for novel user experiences—really glad that this is seeing the light of day.
Hi!
In my internet banking, I needed to schedule one invoice for the last working day of march, 28th, Friday.
System responded that this is Sunday so invoice could not be scheduled.
Yeah, that's fair enough. I guess since we're already zero-indexed maybe my -1 step is Prep. Hahaha! :)
No major ISP will give you an install commitment in writing.

I wouldn't buy a house based on a mere estimate of the availability of something this critical.

It's a gigantic clusterfuck.

The realtors know they can't fix this, but they can't exactly let it impede the source of their paycheck either. I absolutely would not take advice of any kind on internet access from a realtor.
The real question is whether you’re allowed to start a rewrite of gen 2 before gen 1 is completely decommissioned.
Yes! Good idea. Locking in at -1. Hahah! :)
All SMS providers retain full messages for spam/abuse analysis, etc.

SMS is not a secure message transport and has never been advised as such.
Possible? Yes. Unusably slow? Also yes.

(You can rent a server with two 3090s for around $1/hour, or buy two used 3090s for around $1700.)
But it doesn't already work, middle mouse button is the worst, I almost never use it, and I use middle mouse buttons like tilt left/right.

though why isn't two buttons enough, one for page nav, another for move to point, wonder whether this is configurable globally in KDE
Exactly. Someone to guide you in the right path. Gonna help a lot! Hahaha :)
This is the truth. Everyone wants AI to write their tests, but that’s backwards. AI will write the code and programmers will write the tests. The tests are the real business logic - binary assertions of how a system should or should not behave. The internals of how that happens are inconsequential.
I have someone in my family history that underwent electroshock therapy, and by all accounts was only traumatized and destabilized further by the ordeal. YMMV, I guess.
It was always a surprise how ketchupy your food would be! Maybe a little, maybe completely!
Except that the JVM didn't take over all of programming (as some predicted back in the late 90s/early 2000s). C, C++ and Rust are popular programming languages today. Probably because Java isn't a good systems language, or the ideal for all embedded tasks. And that tons of widely used code is written in C/C++.
Uh, yeah, that's a great idea, too! That's the big question. What happened to the previous team? Can give you org insights as well as code ones. Info on company strategy, priorities, work cadence. Actually a pretty good open ended conversation opener! Hahaha! :)
Using a framework doesn't help at all because a framework is still somebody else's code. There is nothing special about somebody else's framework that makes it any easier to deal with that somebody else's non-framework.
Like flowing into all direction would be good?
Of course they know. They also wisely refuse to accept responsibility for the reprecussions of being wrong.

This is the whole point of title insurance. You aren't paying for the answer. You're paying somebody to accept massive liability if the answer is wrong.

There is something called the "Torrens Title System" where the government does accept some part of this liability, subject to a huge raft of weird terms and conditions that the legislature can change unilaterally after the fact. It has only been successful in countries lacking constitutional limits on eminent domain, since in those places landowners are already subject to legislative whims anyways:

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

It has been a flop in every US jurisdiction that has tried it.

When given a choice between transferring responsibility to somebody who can be sued (states can't) and gives you a contract, vs someone who can't and won't, it turns out people prefer the former.
So, if a billionaire behaves good, you leave her alone? No way, Jose. For me it is playing with cliches, it is as old as humans amass things and can stop showing up for work while you and me can not. And we look with envy at this kind of freedom, which we lack. And it produces the worst in us, anger and lust to strip her from her wealth. I guess, thats why envy has identified as a sin by religions.

(While others have identified religion as a way of avoidance, to not question the status quo. Ha!)
I highly recommend reading the article, you might be pleasantly surprised =)
Yeah, the AirBnB where I'm currently started renovating the apartment upstairs. I guess that's a bug. In the ideal life, that wouldn't have happened hahaha! :)
Or spits out the terms of someone's confidential settlement agreement.
- clueless people

- hype

- vested interests
It will happen someday. Still decades away. No true learning in the current LLMs just plagiarism so far to get better. I work at a place that is trying to use LLM to do a thing. just hired two humans to double check the work. They now do almost all of the work ...
With (deserved) increased scrutiny in Huawei and friends, I'm half tempted to get the discarded gear to actually put in production use. China/Huawei is no longer in a position to pull something stupid.

Current gen functioning gear at a discount price will be very tempting.
As the father of a baby girl, the future scares me sometimes.

I don’t want the internet to be an over regulated, bureaucratic mess, but the way AI is going, it might just have to be.

Deepfakes, voice clones, extremely sophisticated hacks and phishing…it looks scarier than ever.
Apple will never do that. And the algo is undocumented.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776
Let’s assume then that there is no GC for parts of the code. It’ll be constantly regenerated
> We’re forced into clicking through multiple channels just to catch up on our team’s latest updates. Combine this with the always-growing list of new channels, and information starts to get really scattered.

This is one of those problem statements that just doesn't resonate for me at all. I really like things separated into the different buckets so I have a good idea how to find it again later.

The idea of combining stuff into one feed is kind of a nightmare for me.
I too have a lot of cool ideas that turn out to be much harder to make than to talk about. The very best case performance of code assistance tools as they currently exist seems to be that they moderately increase the productivity of developers who know what they want and know enough to check the autocompleted work. As a ML researcher who's watched the progress of both code generation and natural language processing for about 10 years in earnest, this is a crazy awesome result, a breakthrough in the field that's very laudable (except for all the shady data provenance sleight of hand that allowed the companies spearheading this effort to make progress, but that's been talked about by people who know a lot more about applicable law than I do and I won't do it justice, and it's tangential in a discussion of what's possible). But there is no result so impressive that business people in the midst of a tech hype wave won't apply some added bullshit to in order to fundraise, and "the end of programming" seems more like that than a realistic assessment of the capabilities of current systems, or even a plausible result of merely incremental progress on them
Imho programming is just a medium of reasoning. In that vein I find arguments like this odd.

As I believe they day there is no more need for humans to be involved in any programme , is the day there is no more need for any reasoning by humans. Not something that seems likely to me.

Then again this article comes from someone developing AIs… how could that not be lofty…
When I saw your comment I expected it cost $100... Bro it's $7. I pay more each month for email. Good software costs money and $7 is a pittance. What the heck were you expecting, a dollar??
Pretty sure when you’re pregnant there you get shipped off ice. They pregnancy test you if you do a winter over. They’re not equipped to delivery babies there and pregnancies don’t happen quickly.
I’ll love how all those incompetent lawyers’s work will go and train the supposedly super AI and somehow it will spit out lawyery bs
Not everyone is in a relationship where they can easily just walk away. Imagine, for example, a married couple with a child who have drifted apart over the years, and one partner strongly suspects the other is cheating. Getting proof of that can be extremely useful in divorce/custody proceedings.
> Just looking at distances on a map is insufficient for actually characterizing the network path.

I would expect big datacenters to usually have links around, and I searched those two cities in particular and there was a news article at the top about a fiber link between them.

> Also: bear in mind that you need to double all these numbers when considering round trip time. I recognize I phrased it in such a way that might have been interpreted as one-way latencies, but that wasn't my intent.

I know. I was accounting for that too.

> I have never seen anything resembling 4ms RTT between DC and New York (which are a comparable distance apart from each other) on Google's production network, even though those are definitely directly connected (6-7ms is more realistic).

How much of that is inside the datacenters? I would expect extra and slower hops for servers as compared to data bouncing from one trunk to another.
They "of course never arrive" because of course you never implemented the proper match in behavior

But the old users can have it too, that's what configurability is for, just save the state to user config and don't change any such behavior on upgrades, only for fresh installs
I was looking forward to reading his illegitimate source.
How many more reasons do we need to not use SMS as an authentication tool?