skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for trying it out!

Agreed it could be faster for uncached queries. The embeddings retrieval itself is actually pretty fast (uses pgvector). However, I found that having a LLM rerank results + generate summaries related to the search query made results more useful, which is what accounts for much of the latency.

Maybe I should make that a user-customizable setting!
This uncertainty should be accounted for in the confidence intervals of their stats.
When third-party cookies get blocked by-default this whole thing will be moot, imo.
One can be awake and still not be conscious
Look at Greek composer and researcher Halaris also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3AbylWGjog&list=PL-7hwegJPk...
What mental health problem is "massive generalisation and simplification of reality?"

Also, you are making the banal mistake of reading "entrepreneur" as a synonym of the big evil Fortune 500 CEO. A shoemaker, for example, is an entrepreneur, a niche that does not benefit from being a sociopath. But it does massively help for being the CEO of Nestlé or any other megacorporation.
Are we going to place any blame on the people selling this “AI” and their ridiculous claims? Sam Altman in particular?
Former nurse turned dev.

I see a few of these AI note taking apps for healthcare and can’t help but shake my head.

This is just not how nurses work on the ward. Nurses are most worried about liability. So notes are written in a way to protect ourselves in addition to actual patient info. Probably more so now that I think about it.
I am aware of a number of efforts to replace not just the web, but most of the services on the internet, with private intranets to serve specific subgroups. The goal is to increase security, privacy, and to regain the useful things that the internet is increasingly unable to support well.

I suspect that sort of thing will become increasing common.
My uninformed opinion is that anything which hasn't been distilled into a single compound won't be called medicine by the medical industry. How they manage to study those that are only beneficial when converging with other compounds, I have no idea.
> L. Ron Hubbard isn't a philosopher of science.

Says you. If you ask a Scientologist I'll bet they'll tell you different.

But if you don't like Hubbard, take Ayn Rand. Or Ken Ham. Or Mark Sargent. The supply of crackpots is limitless.
Did you read over some of the punctuation? I did not read Cyclades as being part of Crete as written
Those yields can shrink or disappear quite rapidly, and then you are left selling the equity. From a purely financial perspective, there is nothing special about dividends versus selling equity, it doesn't make you better off; that is just rearranging how value is recognized. The main difference between dividends and growth is tax structure, which generally favors the latter due to the added optionality. Dividends are mostly only useful if you want to cater to fixed income investors and similar.
No one is going to buy a fridge that expensive.
I wish there was a similar part 2 course. All the courses I’ve seen seem to end at roughly the same point.

I want to learn about elliptic curve cryptography and post quantum crypto systems.
I was working at a big tech company and was critical of using AI in healthcare because of the hallucination problem. I was quickly fired for being 'too negative' and 'not showing a growth mindset'.
I've spent years thinking about and pursuing early retirement. My thoughts:

1) You should never stop working. Humans need purpose. It may be worthwhile to think of it instead as saving money so you can transition to a more meaningful job. Maybe one that doesn't pay anything at all, like child rearing, or volunteering.

This conclusion implies that if you CAN already do something meaningful, it's probably better to do it sooner rather than later because youth/time is more valuable than money.

2) The 4% withdrawal rate works in a world where the US is dominant and young. Economic growth is fueled by young workers. We are able to stay relatively young thanks to immigration, but birth rates are falling all around the world.

Also, the geopolitical world is changing. The most likely scenario is that US power continues for the next several decades. A less likely scenario is a painful major conflict with China/Russia/etc. in which the US wins. An even less likely scenario is a painful conflict that the US loses. In the second two scenarios, you can't rely on the 4% rule to hold.

3) I like the idea of financial independence. But financial independence in that you have a chunk of wealth to cushion blows or go on sabbaticals, not that you're done having to work forever.
I like s6! One of the key differences here is that s6-sudo builds on, rather than replaces, the standard unix permissions model.

s6-sudod listens on a unix domain socket. Unix domain sockets are just files, so they have an owner, group and mode bits. The answer to "who is potentially allowed to run a differently-privileged command?" is just `ls -l /path/to.sock`.

For finer-grained access control, a unix domain socket listener can call `getpeereuid()` or `getsockopt(..., SO_PEERCRED, ...)` to learn who it's talking to. You can build powerful – but still relatively simple, and importantly, readily-inspectable – access control policy on top of these basic unix primitives. That's what s6 does. Look at how simple rule definition is. [0]

Or, you could throw all that out the window and build something much more complex and much less inspectable, which is the systemd approach. The answer to "who is potentially allowed to run a differently-privileged command?" under `run0` is to...spend the evening reading through polkit xml rules, I guess?

I realize systemd uses D-Bus, and D-Bus uses a unix domain socket. But that socket is writable by world. We're trusting polkit and complex policy xml and probably a constellation of other services to get things right after the SO_PEERCRED check.

Maybe that's fine for desktop apps, but a reminder that we're talking about sudo here.

Complexity is the enemy of security. The complexity of the systemd ecosystem broadly writ is how we get CVEs like this polkit privesc, which took 12 years to notice [1].

Addendum: it's possible to regard systemd as dangerously complex AND sudo as dangerously complex. OpenBSD as usual had the right idea with `doas`.

[0] https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-accessrules-cdb-from-fs.h...

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2021-4034/
In-n-Out is cheaper than McDonald's. A preference for McDonald's isn't a class issue, it's a taste issue.

The popular disdain for family dining comes from people who don't want to sacrifice food quality for table service. Olive Garden isn't competing against fine dining, it's competing against fast casual restaurants. And that's far less of a class divide than a generational divide: restaurant dining as widely available phenomenon is a relatively new concept, with it being a relatively rare luxury for the Greatest Generation. This put a level of perceived prestige on being served, which the family dining restaurants managed to reduce the cost of substantially the latter half of the century.

With ubiquity, though, the novelty wore off. Young people who grew up regularly eating restaurant fare aren't particularly impressed by table service, and thus for a given price point, on average, Millenials and younger tend to choose a fast-casual restaurant with better food quality over a family dining establishment that has to cut into their food quality to pay for table service.

What you're perceiving as a class divide is a urban/rural divide, where trends of all sorts (including this one) lag a decade or two behind in rural areas relative to urban ones.
Where do you see it being added thoughtfully?
About 20 minutes, some disposable gloves, a disposable toothbrush head impregnated with toothpaste. So about €25 an hour. Commercial rents for small spaces are dirt cheap here - probably about €600/mo. That’s probably the driving factor in the U.K. - commercial property is eyewateringly expensive.
I think you're better off buying used and using the savings for either mirroring or off-site backup. I'd take two mirrored used drives from different vendors over one new drive any day.
(Writing as a professional cryptographer.) Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" is about as useful for learning about cryptography as "The Da Vinci Code" for learning about Renaissance. It is a lively book that name-checks relevant concepts, and may even lead someone to develop interest in the actual stuff. (That was my gateway to cryptography!)

Mention Schneier at a gathering of cryptographers, and you'll elicit groans and eye-rolls. The main reason for that is that his book creates an illusion of understanding without instilling tthat it covers literally 1% of what one needs to seriously work in the field. It is also ~30 years old, and was dated even when it appeared.

This is not to diminish the fact that Schneier is an excellent communicator and has done a great service to the security field by being a consistent and effective critic of the domestic security apparatus.
100% genetic
That's not a third option. The question of how to decide whether something has merit is orthogonal to the question of whether something has merit or not.
It’s not great, but what makes it that much worse is the hunt for the next apartment that one needs to start a good deal before lease renewal just in case. Just having a single small cat cuts your options in half, and then of course price and whatever other quality of life things you might be looking for (e.g. adequate windows/natural light/building facing) cut that down further. Apartment hunting is anxiety-stoking.
$24k per year to get a job?
We don’t enforce laws on business in the usa
Freud "decided" a lot of things, and a lot of them are pure inventions of his fairly unique mind
Why is it such a crazy assumption? Going back to like 1870 a $SPY equivalent has yielded something like 8-10% on average if you reinvest dividends. In that time there have been two world wars, a handful of pandemics, election turmoil (oversea and aboard), many bubbles in tech and housing, and yet the long term average was 8%+.

FWIW there have always been and will always be spelling financial doom right around the corner, but betting that way has been a failing strategy save for lucky few who got the timing just right.
Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?
Considering hashicorp has moved away from open source, does anyone know if there are any community forks of nomad and consul like there is now OpenTofu for terraform?
If so I would like to see more of what the MNT Reform[0] is doing. You can have your CPU, GPU, and memory all on a single board while still making that board a module in a reusable chassis. There's no reason the rest of the device needs to be scrapped when you upgrade.

[0] https://mntre.com/modularity.html
- TypeScript

- Next.js

- OpenAI's embeddings and GPT endpoints

- Postgres with pgvector (on neon.tech)

- Tailwind

- tRPC

- Vercel for web hosting

- Google Cloud products for data pipelines (GCS, Cloud Tasks)
What do you mean by "great ideas and great implementation / bad execution and bad interface." Is this a plumbing vs porcelain distinction?
It is impossible to study cryptography without "all the mathematical details". You can at best implement someone's scheme, but even that is not the best idea, as you're likely to make some mistake somewhere.
Not only your property tax rate but your valuation in other states.

Used rebuild friends old homes and do habitat in a freedom state like TX. They can't afford to live there anymore. Low-service state gov't rolls it all down to you.

Socialist CA fixed that 40 years ago.
You can do all of that in a single SQL query, with pgml.embed() and then pgml.train() a custom reranker with xgboost, to pgml.predict() the conversion score of a search result based on click-through-rate, or other objective.

If you'd like free hosting, feel free to reach out. I'm one of the founders at postgresml.org.
I don't even think it's a "true gamer" thing either. Besides Tomb Raider and Resident Evil 8, there are pretty much no examples of modern AAA titles getting ported to Mac and iPhone.

The console/PC release cycle is just different. Some stuff is cross-platform (particularly when Apple goes out of their way to negotiate with the publisher), but most stuff is not. It's not even a Steam Deck situation where Apple is working to support games regardless; they simply don't care. Additionally, the majority of these cross-platform releases aren't quality experiences but gatcha games, gambling apps and subscription services. You're not wrong to perceive mobile gaming as a high-value market, but it's on a completely different level from other platforms regardless. If you watch a console/PC gaming showcase nowadays, you'd be lucky to find even a single game that is supported on iOS and Android.

> so why not do a cross-platform release if it's viable?

Some companies do; Valve famously went through a lot of work porting their games to MacOS, before Apple depreciated the graphics API they used and cut off 32-bit library support. By the looks of it, Valve and many others just shrug and ignore Apple's update treadmill altogether. There's no shortage of iOS games I played on my first-gen iPod that are flat-out depreciated on today's hardware. Meanwhile the games I bought on Steam in 2011 still run just fine today.
For lots of uses cases, if the end output meets user expectations, does it really matter if it was interpolated from simulated data?

For many use cases (editing old family photos etc), I'm increasingly not caring. I don't need per-pixel accuracy, I need a nice artifact that reminds me of a memory. If it looks 100 percent accurate to my eye, I'm not sure I care how much "fake" data it took to generate it. The important thing is it records the scene as I remember it.

This isn't hypothetical either; Photoshop already shipped their first iteration of the idea, for sure won't be the last:

> https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/photoshop-generative...

> https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshop/comments/13s6tp9/using_th...
By mainstream media losing credibility in an online age and being unable to reinvent itself, thus grasping for correct-sounding thought terminating cliches such as "disinformation is on the rise", with no substantiation?

And, published by the outlet that has claimed China is near about collapsing just soon since 1990. The most credible MSM outlet there is.
I agree! And if Boeing can't manage to do that, they probably can't manage to surreptitiously assassinate people. Infectious disease is more than common enough on its own to explain this.
I gave it a snippet of Montevideo city skyline, and it responded with:

The photo was taken from a rooftop in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The photo shows a clear view of the city's skyline, including the iconic Obelisk of Buenos Aires. The buildings in the photo are characteristic of Buenos Aires' architecture and the vegetation is typical of the region.
It's hard to imagine a place that has more disinformation than Fox News. I'm sure they exist somewhere, but Fox News really takes the cake when it comes to straight up lying and disinformation.
> the scientific method produces better predictive theories than any other known method

Better theories in what sense? (If possible, in terms that are genuinely extrinsic to scientific method itself.)

> If you want to look outside the box, nothing in the scientific method says you can't

Nothing in the scientific method says you can’t, indeed. However, some people tend to misinterpret it (possibly due to a suppressed religious impulse finding its way) as revealing objective truth through its models, as opposed to what it does: offer predictions as to what we would observe if we do X. For many of those (very smart) people, imagining radically new models that focus on different aspects (e.g., that conspicuous we above, or something else) and sideline other aspects (e.g., the various entities described by current models) is taboo.
67% incorrect
Quality of life improvements are much much more important than understandable models of speech, so we should live with, appreciate, and work to interpret and improve the current generation of complex neural TTS models.

I depend on TTS to overcome dyslexia, but I also struggle with auditory processing disorder that causes me to misunderstand words. As a result , classical TTS does not help me read faster or more accurately than struggling through my dyslexia. It causes me to rapidly fatigue, zone out, and rewind often, in a way that is more severe than when I sight read.

On the other hand, modern neural TTS is a huge enabler. My error rate, rewind rate, and fatigue are much better thanks to the natural tone, articulation, and prosody. I'm able to read for hours this way, and my productivity is higher than sight reading alone. This unlocks long and complex readings that I would never complete by sight reading alone, like papers in history, philosophy, and law. Previously I was limited to reading math, computer science, and engineering work, where I heavily depended on diagrams and math formulas to help me gloss over dense text readings.

The old tech had no impact on my life, given my combination of reading and listening difficulty, since it was not comparatively better than sight reading. But my life changed about 6 years ago with neural TTS. The improvement has been massive, and has helped me work with many non-technical readings that I would previously give up on.

The main issues I see now is not that neural models are hard to understand. For better or worse, we're able to improve the models just by throwing capital and ML PhDs at the problem. The problem I see is that the resulting technology is proprietary and not freely available for the people whose lives it would change.

We should work towards a future where people can depend on useful and free TTS that improves their quality of life. I don't think simple synthetic models will be enough. We must work to seize control of models that can provide the same quality of life improvements that new proprietary models can provide. And we must make these models free for everyone to use!
Sweet. I'll follow-up off HN. Thank you!
https://archive.is/zHbd0
> repeatedly failed experiment

That is an oxymoron. A repeatedly "failed" experiment is a valid scientific result. There is even a classic example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper...
You're correct about that sentiment from .NET developers historically but things have changed. At Skype, a company that's been under MS for a decade, more than half the devs use Macs.
Small Visual Basic 3.0 says: Happy BASIC 60th anniversary to all
* Small Visual Basic is the visual version of Small Basic and small version of Visual Basic.

* It took 4 years of my life to be evolved over 3 versions until it is finally complete, and I hope you try it and tell others about. It is totally free and open source.

* sVB can be used to introduce programming to 6 years old kids and above, in an easy and simple way. Using the form designer to graphically design windows, allows to create amazing applications with few lines of code. All you need is to prepare some attractive images, drag them on the form designer, and use the animation methods to write some short and funny applications that interest small kids (see the animation and Jerry projects in the samples folder).

* But sVB is not just for kids. It is also a powerful language for adult beginners, who can use it as an easy doorway to learn VB .NET and VS .NET.

* sVB can create applications that show one or more window, draw simple and advanced graphics and animate them, play sounds, open and save files, create games, and so many other interesting things. The sVB samples folder, which is installed with language, contains more than 90 different samples, including the Ball, Cars, Tetris, Tom and Jerry games, and many other interesting samples.

* sVB still has the Small Basic TextWindow, GraphicsWindow and Turtle, but that have many improvements and new features.

* sVB has a Form Designer that contains a toolbox, a font dialog, a color dialog, a properties window, and a menu designer, so that you can easily and quickly design amazing forms with 12 different types of controls in addition to timers and menus .

* sVB adds many improvements to the Small Basic code editor like auto-formatting code.

* sVB has a code debugger that allows you to step into code lines, and add breakpoint to force the debugger stop at their lines. In debug mode, you can also view the value of any variable or expression. You can use the debugger to fix code errors, and it can also be an educational tool that you can use to show kids how the code is executed to help them understand loops and function calls.

* The sVB compiler is an improved version of the Small Basic compiler, with new syntax features like defining functions, parameters and local variables, using array initializers, and splitting long code lines over multiple sub-lines. The sVB keywords includes the 14 Small Basic keywords + 16 mew keywords like the Mod and & operators.

* You can use the sVB Evaluator to evaluate math expressions at run time, which allows you to create an application to draw any function. See the "Draw Functions" project in the sVB samples folder.

* sVB can create multi-form projects and code libraries.

* sVB can define test functions and you can use the UnitTest library to run them and show the test results.
You’re talking past the point I made. Losses weigh heavier than gains in human psychology. This is a pretty robust finding. Inflation necessarily means losses for everyone. These can be offset but people don’t necessarily come away feeling good about it. You can say that on average people are better off after the reshuffle (though not necessarily everyone), but even if wages are universally up people will not necessarily feel good about it.
If AI is telling the nurse the substance and quantity I should be injected with I am going to have some concerns. If it is filling forms and unburdening doctors and nurses from bureaucratic busy work then it is great.

Startups are treating LLMs like a silver-bullet that can be applied to every area. They are a specific tool that do very well at specific problems (for now).
I agree, but also I don't think path dependence is a bad thing.

Value of learning X as opposed to Y for you objectively depends on what you already know.
Ironic considering The Economist is a major source of warmongering disinformation
I’ve read enough in-depth takes about it that I’ll pass for now.
Our information ecosystem is truly poisoned at this stage, certainly not helped by a parade of "journalists" that see it as their job to correct the thinking of the unwashed masses versus delivering the truth as best they can approximate. Not that it was perfect years ago, but many folks see their job as that of an activist or even an agent of power. Mix in a dying media business model, and that desperation can get pretty ugly and have real negative effects on society.

And there is a real benefit to be had (for some) when no one can trust what they hear or think. It seems like a great time to be a bad actor.
It's in the brackets, which I'll remove for clarity.

The political left don't really seem to indulge in disinformation, they just don't seem to be that aggressive in that respect.
Any other industry I would have called bullshit, but defense companies are always a bit murky, with close links to intelligence services (who help in international negotiations and industrial spying) and current/former military. So lots of people who would know who to call to make things happen.

I have in mind for instance the Taiwan frigate scandal that has seen all sort of mysterious deaths, including Thiery Imbot (former DGSE, and son of former head of the DGSE), who died falling from a window in Paris. The official investigation blamed the wind which will make anyone who lived in Paris laugh.

So, I don't know, but not implausible.