skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mean whether nodes could be rearranged without recreating them?
This would require identifying them with IDs, like React can do.
That's definitely possible, but not something covered in the article or supported in the associated library. Although the article does mention it.
What implicit assumption? Implicit? There are only hard facts. This “inevitability” is only caused by private ownership of real, tangible things as well as nebulous things like ideas (or the reproduction of assets that cost marginally nothing). No one talks about what those who sit their asses on these assets are “worth” economically. Because it’s besides the point. They sit on the assets so they win. Those who have nothing to sell but their labor lose.

And this wasn’t inevitable. But we have made it so.

Now we get to talk about philosophical feel-good nonsense like “decoupling assumptions about a person’s value”. When in an alternate reality we could all share in this plenty equally.

Let’s have a fun future being at the mercy of our arbitrary asset-sitting overlords.
Amazon can raise prices slightly.
Europe is east of the east coast, culturally too.
> But the same powers that let government do that are also used to horribly oppress minority groups like the Uyghurs (bad!).

And this kind of thing doesn't happen outside of Chinese pseudo-Communism? That would be an unreasonable assertion.

Look at Vienna instead, where the municipal government owns a large share of quality housing. I've heard it works relatively well; for example, living in low-income housing doesn't mean that you get kicked out if your income rises. You get to stay in your community indefinitely even as you advance in your career. This is an example of how it's possible for good things to exist without some rando middleman getting rich off of it. (I mean, maybe some rando is getting rich here, I'm sure there's still a nonzero level of corruption; but it's not a system designed to enrich private individuals.)

Things owned by anyone will be run to the detriment of the people without wise and careful systems built. Build good systems and iterate on them and you can have good systems. Build nothing, and you can have bad systems run by private individuals. The idea that private owners of land/capital are somehow immune to the corruption that makes government so scary is complete nonsense. It's just that nothing works without putting in work.
So the part of RAG that's tripping me up right now is vector search and familiarity scores. Does anyone have a good resource to learn more about this?

I've been using this as a starter. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/tutorials/build... I put in text but I feel like my conception of what should get high relevancy scorrs doesn't match the percentages that come out.

The article talks about full text search and meta data so maybe that's the path I should be taking instead of vector search? Where would I store the Metadata in this case? A regular db?

I wish articles like this would go into more details about the nitty gritty. But I appreciate high level overview in the article as well.
The author is legitimately knowledgeable about LLM/RAG systems and develops open-source tooling around it.

But yes, this isn't a good HN submission without detail.
Is it too early for full-stack LLMDevSecOps?
Try surviving in the world before those systems existed.
> In the same vein, America's use of nuclear weapons to stop Japan made the world a worst place

I'm not sure about that. It was tragic that the weapons were used, or had to be used, but there were 2 consequences. On one hand the war was ended in a matter of days, and this saved the lives of millions of people on both sides. On the other hand, the true devastation of nuclear bombs was seen in actual action, not only their potential. This made concrete in everyone's mind the horror of a nuclear war, and in the long term it resulted in the nuclear weapons use taboo. If Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not happen, there's an almost certainty that at some point after WW2 one of the nuclear powers would have used its nukes against someone. Most likely, someone without nukes themselves. And by that time, it's quite likely that the devastation would have been orders of magnitude higher.
> I couldn't remember, then I look at the solution, and I have to think again about the answer, and how it relates to other concepts.

Yes, that's exactly how it's supposed to work the first few times you try to associate the answer with the question. Then it begins to sink in, and you can remember the answer for a few minutes after seeing it. When you've successfully remembered it several times after short-delay, then the program increases the delay. When you've successfully remembered it several times after medium-delay, then the program increases the delay again.

> don't you need some time to actively memorize it again?

The rapid repetition of asking / being shown the answer multiple times IS how you actively memorize it.

If the deck is so large it takes you an hour to get through one cycle, there are too many cards in it. Start over with a deck that takes you only 5-10 minutes, and spend an hour going through several repetitions. When your rapid-recall rate becomes high, slowly add more new cards.
> They also were one of few automakers who wasn't selling your data to LexisNexis Risk Solutions for insurance pricing.

I don't understand how this practice is legal. There really should be a way to request that my driving data is deleted, or at least opt-out from having it sold.

I've also been trying to get LexisNexis to share a copy of my consumer file with me - which they refuse to do because of "identity verification" purposes, even though they don't ask any questions on the form to establish identity. I feel like they're intentionally making it hard for individuals to see what data they have on them.
> I know online spaces will tell you [being vulnerable] is dangerous, and that your partner might leave you.

The possibility of being rejected by being vulnerable is definitional... It's not being vulnerable if there isn't the possibility of rejection, it's just being transparent. So yeah, being vulnerable is dangerous. You might get rejected. But then again, you might get accepted, too.

(This isn't a critique of the parent, it's more of a critique of what the "online spaces" allegedly say.)
On the other hand, Tesla has some notably, egregious incidents, including the reportedly-regular sharing of videos on internal messaging until at least 2022.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...

Mozilla report has more:

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/tesla/

It's troubling that basically every major auto maker has some flavor of privacy invasive tech that can't be turned off.
Of course `+` and `*` are special, but defining such functions yourself is possible:
https://clojure.org/guides/learn/functions#_multi_arity_func...
https://clojure.org/guides/learn/functions#_variadic_functio...
will? they already do. what do you think facebook, or gmail, or reddit, or the myriad 3rd party data aggregators has been collecting for years?
Walls are starting to close in for Tesla, let's have a closer look
A bit like Linux, god forbid you were to read the syslog file, but your browser profile files are fair game for any running script/process.
Pakistan Planning To Spend $135M to Procure China's Great Firewall
All your premises are wrong, even if they're grammatical and coherent (what does "general deaths of despair" or "climate and ecological catastrophes mounting by unchecked greed " even mean?

> all of this AI crap is mostly in the hands of the powerful

too funny when the subject of the article is the Khan Academy which is hardly a hate-target.
It may be literally controversial[0], but I don't think it's wrong.

Yes, maths is an interesting (and open) question. But also, the rules of maths are the result of some set of axioms — it's not clear to me[1] that the axioms we have are necessarily the ones we must have, even though ours are clearly a really useful set.

We put labels onto the world to make it easier to deal with, but every time I look closer at any concept which has a physical reality associated with it, I find that it's unclear where the boundary should be.

What's a "word"? Does hyphenation or concatenation modify the boundary? What if it was concatenated in a different language and the meaning of the concatenation was loaned separately to the parts, e.g. "schadenfreude"? Was "Brexit" still a word before it was coined — and if yes then what else is, and if no then when did it become a word?

What's a "fish"? Dolphins are mammals, jellyfish have no CNS, molluscs glue themselves to a rock and digest their own brain.

What's a "species"? Not all mules are sterile.

Where's the cut-off between a fertilised human egg and a person? And on the other end, when does death happen?

What counts as "one" anglerfish, given the reproductive cycle has males attaching to and dissolving into the females?

There's only a smooth gradient with no sudden cut-offs going from dust to asteroids to minor planets to rocky planets to gas giants to brown dwarf stars.

There aren't really seven colours in the rainbow, and we have a lot more than five senses — there's not really a good reason to group "pain" and "gentle pressure" as both "touch", except to make it five.

[0] giving rise or likely to give rise to public disagreement

[1] however this is quite possibly due to me being wildly oblivious; the example I'd use is that one of Euclid's axioms turned out to be unnecessary, but so far as I am aware all the others are considered unavoidable?
> means testing[2] often costs more than the cost of fraud in social benefit programs!

This is like saying that since robbery is rare, the cost of permitting robbery is lower than funding the police force, thus we should defund the police.

Robbery is rare because the police exists
Yup, every time we bring up migrations of this sort it pretty much stops when we start talking about maintenance and on-call schedules.

Turns out it costs more to DIY when people start quitting because they have to work during a holiday.
My experience is that it's the opposite. My twitter timeline got filled up with blue checkmarks spamming their things. Their comments are boosted in every discussion. And since it's a certain demographic that pays for twitter blue, it completely altered everything. So at least in my circles it's to get away from all the hate and outrage that was just to gain virality, and get back to actual discussions on the topics we care about (which is far from US politics).
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I for one built something like this on Linux. It takes a screenshot every few seconds, when there is recent mouse or keyboard activity. Then applies OCR on the screen shots and indexes them. It was fun, but I don't want the overhead of maintaining it long term.
I'm with you. I'll even go a step further, since I haven't heard anybody else say this:

My hot take -- There are already too many programming languages in use and every engineers life would be easier and productivity would be higher if we standardized.

There is almost no situation where making an entirely new language is the optimal solution. And the worst reason of all to make a language is anything aesthetic (e.g. spacing, parentheses, notations) -- all of those cases should be handled via native transpiling in the IDE.
> monopsony market for labor

Yes, when the inelastic aggregate supply of labor (expressed as an explicit work quota or expressed as an implicit work quota equal to cost of living divided by wages) exceeds the demand for labor, capitalism turns what should be a happy situation (let's all work a bit less!) into a horror show where working hard for scraps is a privilege and rotting in unemployment is the norm.
Interesting, but why does it matter that I actually keep the same the same statistical distributions of data in development as in production? What are the use cases for that kind of feature?
The author is trying to conflate CGI and VFX. But you can absolutely apply visual effects without computer generated imagery.

The sound engineer has a lot of control over how a violin sounds in a recording. But it would be asinine to say that the violin becomes an electrical instrument as soon as it gets recorded, and all of the credit belongs to the sound engineer. But this is essentially the argument OP is making.

Maybe to frame it another way, when George Miller said "90 percent of the movie doesn't have CGI", he's probably framing the total effort and manpower of the movie as an enterprise. It took a team of hundreds of people months to fabricate all of the vehicles, develop the stunts, film the thing etc - all in the Namibian desert. In comparison, it would be very easy to believe that the visual post processing could account for less than 10% of the total effort.
how can i make it better?

this was a quick post that i wrote up after a 30 minute call with someone, mostly notes to take in preparation for a bigger talk im giving.
I can only speak to Tesla; they can display the location of my vehicles in the mobile app, I can log my vehicle location constantly with a third party app (Teslascope, Tessie, etc), and other similar location based functionality. I want this functionality, I am willing to opt in to it, but I still expect robust controls (both internal and external) around the data they store and process. I understand some people may wish to opt out; they should be provided the option to do so, along with an acknowledged loss in capabilities that rely on those location services. Protect the consumer's choice and their data.
No need to prove it wouldn't have happened without him.

They already design new rockets, robots and chip without him being on site because he's busy with Twitter.

And I guess it's pretty easy for him to do a remote session if he needs to. He has his own Internet company.

Otherwise it's like driving a combustion car if you own a electric car company.

Doesn't mean he designed a rocket, robot or chip.
> By making the protocol centralized and stupid-simple, it's also stupid-simple to replace in when everyone is done painting the perfect bikeshed.

Can you recall any example of anyone replacing a centralized protocol with a decentralized one?
Woah the Xbox adaptive controller is pretty interesting as well. Sort of a remapping hub for other devices.
Emacs as a RAD environment/terminal Visual Basic? Check that off my Emacs bingo board…
We were asked by the staff to re-seat at different table from the 'laptop class' in Montreal cafe because we were speaking in normal voice. Sample of one, but still.
Yeah I have no doubt they would use the data gleaned from the images. All the data generated from processing the screenshots to be useful to the user would be just as useful to third parties. More useful than the screenshots themselves, in fact. I haven't heard anything about promises to keep the extracted information locally.
How though? We raise corporate taxes on every corporation? We somehow target those with a certain percentage of employees on government subsidies?
The thing is, in Go you can develop bottom-up, but you can't always end up with a an appropriate abstraction, because of the lack of tools to achieve that.
Yeah, that's a leap I'm struggling to make. They are not in a sexual setting, moreover they are not doing anything sexual.

Its basically clifford using a computer.
Encyclopaedia Metallum statement on AI generated music
> Amazon picks the places where it can hire extremely cheap labor, because usually they are the only game in town

That only works for some of their locations. They are limited by the need for their distribution centers to be in good proximity to the customers they deliver to. In my area, that means their largest distribution center is in one of the more expensive areas of the city. And the other big one is in a less-nice area that is probably still fairly expensive because it's close to the center of the metro area.
> It's a built-in "feature" of the renderer/DRM they get "for free"

This even happens with the iPhone, try taking a screenshot of netflix
In yesterday’s cars, the brakes were already piloted via electronics. It was already possible for the infotainment system to saturate the CAN bus which drives the brakes.

If they any country’s secret service hasn’t used it to kill a political opponent in a “sad car crash”, then they’re stupid.
the tooling is the reason i gave up when i was interested in learning clojure. everywhere pretty much said that emacs was the "correct" editor to use for clojure, i tried it out for a bit but ultimately learning a new language and a new editor at the same time was just too big of an ask.

i tried calva with vscode afterwards but it was basically the same thing, calva has paredit which overrides the keyboard navigation and there was no way to disable it. somebody had asked for the option to disable it on the github but the creator said something along the lines of calva without paredit wasn't the way he wanted it to be used, so i just picked another language to learn.
> told me my answer (to a problem it had given me) was wrong, even though I was right.

This is a fatal flaw. It absolutely cannot make mistakes like this if it's going to succeed because that will undermine the confidence that teachers and students have in the system.
Especially in his child, apparently. What an odd idea.
billionaires love tracking our every move and whim for profit, but when it’s turned around on them, they don’t like it so much, and congress immediately goes to action. Should probably tell even an uninformed observer a few things about the state of affairs.
The title should have been "S3 is missing features others have". There are no references that I saw to "Product age" causing his concerns.
Scandalous!
Depends on what your insurance policy says.

For many people, even though insurance is just supposed to "make you whole" they end up with a better result after a payout, even with a $500 deductible or whatever.

Often actual theft is deductible-free.
Sudan, and Ethiopia aren't going to spill into a global war; they didn't previous times and aren't now.

not to say foreign powers aren't involved and games are being played in capitals. but I don't see Ethiopia launching full-spectrum political / social media / grass roots influence campaigns in DC, while launching mercenary campaigns on different continents.
I sort of feel he's impressed by the size of his investment in a technology that has mostly failed to live up to it's promises. The rest is an attempt to spin himself out of this negative value position.
> As AI and automation improve, the majority of people will have negligible economic utility

Who's going to subscribe to Prime and buy stuff when everyone is poor? The Walmart/Amazon wage strategy only works if the rest of society doesn't defect too. Henry Ford understood that his workers were also consumers.
And you're telling me that's impossible without being on site?

Ever heard of web meetings or even telephone?
I'm not going to boil the ocean in a single thread, but recognize that there is nuance, lots of work ahead, and that consumer rights must be robust with punitive costs for willful negligence. There will always be control failures. If you're fine losing the functionality, pull the RF on your Tesla until laws catch up. I have managed the risk within my threat model, and accept the remaining risk. If all else fails, I will complain loudly to regulators and my representatives when needed to seek recourse, while also continuing to apply pressure as a citizen activist to keep moving towards better statute and regulatory rules around consumer data, data privacy, and so forth.
To be fair, they’re a tiny team with a ton of things on their roadmap and limited time to do it all. It seems they’re taking it slow on core stuff that they really need to get right, because it can’t be changed later, while adopting pragmatic solutions for things that users want now and which can be swapped out for better implementations in future.
> The sources said that the total cost of the digital initiative project, which will have Chinese technology, is around $135 million or Rs38 billion

> The newly adopted technology would also be used to regulate the social media aimed at stopping ‘misuse’ of different social media platforms and curbing the unfounded malicious campaigns.
Also on fat fingers everyone will find this hilarious

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery
thanks! appreciate the reply
Bullet points in general aren't good for HN discussion even if it's on an interesting/complex topic. Examples are good.

A talk + written summary/transcript of the talk when it's made would be much better.
I hate edutech with a passion. It just saps away resources from the teachers and invests it into tech that is both expensive and ineffective. It’s mostly just a giant pathway for grift
And it depends on why it was stolen. Joy ride? It'll turn up.

Destined for a chop shop? Even if they do track it all they'd see is it leaving the city, never to be seen again.
They either aren't working very many hours or they have a lot of dependents. There is no other way to legally qualify for government benefits even at the lowest wages Amazon pays.

If you have several children and are a single parent, should Amazon pay you 2x or 3x your childless coworkers, just to keep you off of government support?
Can confirm on Chromium/Linux.
Have we also had for centuries a small glass brick that we can point at things and have the things described (by something that's not human) in real time? And then have that something tells us what do with those things to achieve a goal?

Maybe, just maybe, this time is different.
If income taxes increase, then voters freak. We can increase the corporate tax, ban share buybacks, impose limits on the executive to non-executive pay, tax wealth etc, which will freak out the richest, but will benefit the society better.
This is literally the same feature as Windows 10 Timeline (Activity History); they're even using the same UserActivity API [1]. If it works like that, it's an unencrypted sqlite database in your %APPDATA% and a subfolder with jpeg screenshots.

The only AI-ness on top that I see is some OCR and some image captioning.

That begs the question: why resurrect the Activity History feature (that was deprecated just 3 months ago[2]) and add almost nothing on top? The "glass half empty" folks among us would probably say to get ready for what comes next (new "functionality" they can light up with the data).

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/apis/recall#use...

[2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/-windows-activit...
That's really not far off Scotland's "responsible access" (the proper term for the 'right to roam'). It's just more fleshed out.

The Outdoor Access Code contains such gems as "You only have access rights if you exercise them responsibly", which I love - it's the closest I've ever seen to "don't be a dick" being codified. But also such details as in crop fields you only have access to the margins, fields with animals, bringing dogs, etc.

But they do have "land on which there is a house [..] and sufficient adjacent land to enable those living there to have reasonable measures of privacy and to ensure that their enjoyment of the house [..] is not unreasonably disturbed". Which isn't "x metres", but is again wonderfully close to "don't be a dick".

They don't have set times for camping, however.