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Show HN: RAG Web UI – Possibly the Most Beginner-Friendly RAG Knowledge Base
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> pretty clear that prehistorical lifestyles weren't just small tribes slaughtering each other,

Well, that's sounds quite logical. When you kill people, they usually fight back. Very strongly fight back. So you have to expect something big to make it worth it. But small very undeveloped tribes had nothing of such, so they have no incentives to slaughter each other.
Odd that. My auto correct doesn't suggest even for envy.
> Now, you may not like the government regulation

I do like government regulation, and I think we (Spain/Europe) need more of it, especially around everything digital and also cryptocurrencies.

> And, you may not like paying insurance, since you’re probably ok with the risk of getting scammed, but there it is.

I don't mind paying/not paying for insurance. The transaction I do are between two well known parties that trust each other. If I could just get an IBAN and do a normal bank transfer, I'd do that instead. But alas, I cannot, so alternatives get used instead.

> Crypto is like buying a product online for cheaper, but instead of using Amazon or Walmart, you buy it from some random guy on Craigslist whose brother delivers it. Sure, it’s cheaper and lower fees, but if the product doesn’t show up you’re SOL.

Sure, if you're purchasing goods from strangers on the internet, I understand your example and agree. But all use cases are not like that, particularly not the one you're currently responding to.

The reasons I use USDC/cryptocurrency for doing these transactions is because it's easier, cheaper and faster. If banks could get international transfers (for everyone, not just select countries) in order, and I could as easily, fast and cheap do a normal bank transfer, I'd prefer that.
Not going to comment on the murder part as that’s well discussed here.

I would take issue with assuming that it was net positive with ratings. Given the anonymous nature handling bots spamming fake reviews would be even harder to catch here, and you ultimately don’t know who ended up addicted/hooked/DUI’s etc from the easy availability this provided. I’m not sure the total effects could ever be qualified, but it’s not like unadulterated drugs are automatically safe. Just look at how many lives pharma-grade opioids ruined, even though they were “safe”.

That’s also not to mention guns and all kinds of other dangerous & illegal parts of it.

I do not understand why he pardoned this guy when he’s supposedly anti-drug and anti-cartel.
I am always skeptical of neural correlate studies. The conclusions that are drawn are often bogus and lacking in rigor. The free will experiments are notorious in this regard.

That some part of the brain lights up when some concept is entertained is not surprising to me. We often imagine instances of things when entertaining a concept. However, I would reject the interpretation that the concept is reducible to this brain activity or the neuron(s) involved. Concepts are, by definition, abstract, which is to say, entities that do not exist "in the real" as abstract entities, only as instantiations. For while Alice and Bob may be concrete persons in the real, the concept of "Humanity" does not exist in the real as a concretum. Only Alice and Bob as instance of Humanity do. Thus, Humanity as such only exists in the mind as an abstracted concept.

That's important, because it leads to the question of why abstract concepts can exist in the mind as abstract concepts, and not as concrete instances. The answer involves the presupposition that matter is the instantiating principle. From there, it follows that the mind is only able to entertain so-called "universals" because it is itself not entirely a material faculty. Concepts are not images (as images are concrete and exclude all by the instance they express), and if we want to avoid incoherent and retorsion arguments, the concept must be understood to be a sign whose content is not mere representation. It must be intentional, or else knowledge becomes impossible. Indeed, conventional and iconic signs become impossible without a final intentional terminus.

This isn't to say that I don't think brain studies are worthless. On the contrary. I simply caution against allowing sloppy materialistic metaphysics to corrupt properly empirical conclusions.
HAC++: Towards 100X Compression of 3D Gaussian Splatting
The Online Porn Free-for-All Is Coming to an End
If the author's reading this, the site renders like this in a recent Firefox - https://i.imgur.com/lazMsqx.png
No need to: he can just publish a binary then you can run it on itself. ;)
https://www.global.toshiba/ww/products-solutions/nuclearener...

Two Toshiba 4S reactors at the 50 MW version can cost about $3,000,000,000.

Two of those produces 100 MW.

They don't require refueling for around 30 years. $6,000,000,000 to power a 100 MW datacenter when we're talking about $500,000,000,000 is not too dramatic. Especially consider the amortized yearly cost.
Investors, mostly private - eg. SoftBank and all the other deep pockets funneling money into this - but also public, because lots of people are invested in Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google, who will be directly affected if the bubble bursts, and just everyone invested in the markets generally, as this bubble bursting would already probably be more broadly damaging than even the dot com bust was.

Personally, I do expect a big correction at some point, even if it never reaches the point of bubble bursting. But I have no idea when I expect it to happen, so this isn't, like, an investable thesis.
Yes. Trump is looking like Brexit on steroids to me.
Puppet is a project to implement. Once it's implemented, it's great. It requires dedicated infrastructure to work properly.
Ansible is much easier to step into slowly if you don't have time to implement a full deployment project before you can use it. You can start without dedicated infrastructure and add later if you want more centralized management.
What's a "K-street hotshot"? K-street is new to me.

Edit: Thanks to @lelandfe for pointing to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_(Washington,_D.C.)

* n.b. HN can't handle the period at the end of the link, see the jump page link for convenience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street

I'll leave this comment up in case there are others this term is also new to.
In the US this would hardly be news, but I wonder if Canada could do something about this. AFAIK their labor laws are enforced and a bit stricter.
Well it just got alot harder to check and see if/when a new Stargate tv show or movie might be coming.
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-invests-addition...

Not this specificay but this kinda thing. If I am getting billions like this, I wanna keep this gravy going. And it comes from shareholders ultimately.
Perhaps, but I'm of the opinion that if a sentence is unjust, or if the means to convict violated the defendant's rights, then the defendant should walk. While this may seem unreasonable, it's the only way to check the state which has unlimited resources when it decides to go after somebody.

I don't really have an opinion on this case because I'm not completely familiar with all the details. It's certainly going to be contentious.
> That he chose not to makes me sad

I'm not sure if it was really up to him; I doubt he owned a majority of the company?
playwright-computer-use: Let Claude control a web browser on your machine
I am part way through "Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light", the second series of Wolf Hall.

The behaviour of Trump and his courtiers appears to be consistent with Henry VIII.
the US has done lots of positive things as well. i understand it is popular to be a critic nowadays, but in many ways the US has had a strong commitment to majoritarian democracy over the last century and is trending in a better direction.

but regardless of the net balance of actions, it is clearly more interventionist than China has been up to this point
I don't know if it's the same between other countries, but we've sent money back and forth between Italy and the US with "Wise" (Transferwise) and it was quick, cheap and easy and didn't feel shady.
I am moderating a playlists manager to restrict them to a range of genders so it classifies song requests as accepted/rejected.
i think this points to a bunch of weird crypto people are actually in charge of a lot of this administration
> "The American Dream meant you were assured some level of survival in exchange for work."

I've never thought that was a common interpretation of the American Dream.
I (sincerely) wish you and your family to not be on the path of one of the people who will rush to profit from the lack of regulation.

I preemptively nominate "unexpected knock-on effects" as "periphrase of the year" for 2025 ;)
AI Boosting productivity by building an artificial general intelligence that is wrong on the internet (AGITIWOTI)
Yes, HSBC laundered money for Mexican drug cartels. Surprise: the business of handling money flows attracts criminals. That's why it is heavily regulated.

When the HSBC money laundering was revealed, what was TradFi's answer? Let's stop it, and crack down on it further.

What is the crypto answer? Oh, rules are still occasionally broken, so let's just scrap all the rules and launder all the money we can (and break sanctions, and so on).
Even if shoplifting at Walgreens was the reason for closure, the downtowns of a few "liberal cities" (it's always the same 3-4 mentioned) are extremely unlikely to have that much impact on national statistics.
What’s the advantage of having this as a government agency vs. just an industry association?
Which political circles is Ross Ulbricht a big thing? Seems… random.
Minimal 64x4 Home Computer
Now do "maths"
https://www.forbes.com/global/2008/1124/103.html

112 reactors.

A gigawatt each.

Over 10 years ago.
> There are still fees everywhere.

Yes, technically that's true. But there is still (at least personally) a big difference between paying 5 EUR for sending a transfer of 100 EUR and then the receiving having to pay 5 EUR to withdraw it on the other side, and having to pay ~1 EUR in network costs when sending USDC, and then the receiver can use it without having to pay more.

> What’s more is your transaction is in competition with other similar transactions based on how much fee you’re willing to pay

This is a non-problem for basic transfers really, not even once during ~3 or more years have my transactions failed to execute or take longer than a minute or two.
this is private capital. yes, we are in an era of big projects and big capital deployment. is that synonymous with centralized autarky? i don’t agree
500B of compute infrastructure with order of magnitude greater deprecation / need to return on capital. Compute isn't concrete infra with 50+ years of value, more like 5 years, i.e. need to produce 50-100B worth value per year to break even. On top of the “$125B hole that needs to be filled for each year of CapEx at today’s levels” according to Sequoia. All which with could be wiped by PRC pacing SOTA model, unless 500B of more compute will lead to qualititive model differences. Right now, I don't know where that value is coming from, so either a lot of investors are getting fleeced, or this is a Manhattan tier strategic project... privately funded, which makes even less strategic sense.
I was once involved in a project which projected Aruco markers in IR. So you get a slide projector, swap the bulb for an LED, have some slides made at the photo place, and you're done, right?

No - slide projector slides are IR transparent on purpose, so that they don't absorb heat from the bulb.
It is hands down a restriction on speech. The brick and mortar comparison only shows that the brick and mortar rules are unconstitutional as well.
6, 3 from each paper
wonder what socrates would think about dating his students - oh wait

http://web.archive.org/web/20250111022130/https://www.newyor...
Yes, but how is that 15 year old going to do the same? What about the ones who don't end up winning the career lottery?

We need this to be possible for two people making 40k a year, not 140.
How about having an LLM create a praylist for you?

Then you could implement Salvation as a Service, where you privately confess your sins to a local LLM, and it continuously prays for your eternal soul, recommends penances, and even recites Hail Marys for you.
Why did you use Western Union instead of Wise or some other lower cost alternative?
Elon Musk was an internet darling when his top character trait was "space! EVs!". Then he went Kanye/alt-right and weaponized twitter. It didn't have to do with the fact he has a lot of money.

Many people dislike all billionaires, but some have escaped criticism more than others by successfully appearing to have some humanity left in them, like Gates and Cuban.
> What is the crypto answer? Oh, rules are still occasionally broken, so let's just scrap all the rules and launder all the money we can (and break sanctions, and so on).

I feel like you're (hopefully) talking about a specific case here where some exchange was exposed as actively ignoring activity they knew to be illegal. Could you share what story you're talking about here?
CISA has an important job to do, but their mission was put at risk when it's leadership under Krebs chose to repeatedly violate the first amendment. Elections and Covid-19 are topics they've been documented in influencing, but with the capability there, what other narratives was it influencing that we don't know about?

The legal fight against CISA to stop their censorship was lost not on the basis of it being constitutional, but because the plaintiffs powerful enough to bring it to court couldn't show they had been directly harmed by it. A common stumbling block for many court cases for legitimate issues. CISA has publicly stated they will be changing their approach as a result of these controversies.
global economic downturn? what?

it’s absolutely the second one, this is a commonality across many orgs i’ve talked to who cannot get their CPU request met bc of GPU spend
Softbank doesn't have enough cash reserves for such a huge inversion. There are no details of how will they do, but one can guess that loans will be taken from Japanese banks and companies around the country, which -depending on how ambitious they are- will be scrambling to stay in business when the debt isn't repaid on time, a highly contagious chain reaction will arise, what will invite the government to use public money, even turning on the printer (on such cases citizens lose). Softbank alone has more than 65k employees.

If the Softbank's inversion is limited to their available assets, or the exposition of each lending is limited to a portion of their real reserves, I think such event will not happen (more than burned money by a bad inversion).

I think it would be quite similar to what has already happened on a global scale with the public money of each country in 2008 (due to the banking pyramid scam), or since 2011 with public loans to TEPCO, an event that could have been prevented if the central plant had been built were originally planned.
Come on, haven't you heard that Trump has declared the start of a new American Golden Age? You gotta have some faith!

No seriously, this reminds me of another "Golden Age" which according to the propaganda happened under Ceausescu in Romania when I was growing up (https://princetonbuffer.princeton.edu/2014/01/30/tales-from-...), while in reality everything was falling to pieces. I just hope Trump's age won't last as long as Ceausescu's (24 years).
True, but that also sums up one of the junior dev problems often talked about on HN - those who use SO to get a direct answer that they can copy-and-paste, instead of an actual explanation to help them learn (and save them having to look it up next time).
Well an upper bound anyway. Maybe, "The Art of the Deal" could have gotten it a lot closer to $1.2 B.
Oracle provides two things: A datacenter for Nvidia chips, and health data. Oracle Cerner had a 21.7% market share for inpatient hospital Electronic Health Records (EHR). Larry Ellison specifically mentioned healthcare when announcing it in the Whitehouse.

The announcement was funny because they weren't quite sure what they are going to do in the health space. Sam Altman was asked, and he immediately deferred to Ellison and Masayoshi. Ellison was vague... it seems they know they want to do something with Ellison's massive stash of health data... but they don't quite know what they are building yet.
The term in linguistics for a category of 3 or 4 things is "paucal". Most languages with a paucal separate 2 from 3 or 4, resulting in four noun categories/forms by number: singular (1), dual (2), paucal (3 - 4? a few?) and plural (5+). That's quite a common pattern among the world's languages. Polish and the other Slavic languages with this feature are a little unusual in not having the separate dual. A few languages have a trial (3) as a distinct category but it's rare. And some languages distinguish between a greater and lesser paucal, roughly "a few" vs "many", usually with the singular, dual and plural as well, having 5 categories of noun number.

Languages with these features often have lots of irregularities around them, too. In the same way that "pants" are plural for no reason in English, eyes might be plural instead of the obvious-seeming dual, etc. And if that seems all a bit unnecessarily numerical, you may be right; Chinese has gotten by for thousands of years without any plurals at all.
I see a big market for “Don’t blame me, I didn’t bother voting” bumper stickers.
> For those who don’t know, a new grad going into any of the BigTech companies can make around $165K straight out of college and should be making way more than me in three years.

What bubble do you live in?

"US Tech Layoffs Continue In 2025 With Big Tech Scaling Worker Counts And Fintech, E-Commerce Sectors Reporting Total Shutdowns" - https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs/

"Computer science grads say the job market is rough. Some are opting for a ‘panic’ master’s degree instead." - https://www.businessinsider.nl/computer-science-grads-say-th...

https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/1fylku5/are_most_...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/02/15/why-is-it-...
Good. From day 1 DHS has been the most Orwellian department of the US government, which casually violates our freedom on a regular basis. The entire department should be abolished.
Big C Plus Plus must be in play here
Check out sigsum.org for a simpler design with a stronger threat model.

As for building a decentralized append-only log, that would complicate the design and the threat model quite a bit. In particular it would make proofs of inclusion and consistency much less efficient.
Thank you for this comment. Gold. :D
That data is about people who voted in both elections, it's not about people who didn't vote in 2024.
You could be one day this billionaire in America ;)
The HSBC-Cartel laundering thing was a huge deal. It was much more than "lax controls". Op's link might not have the details but you can read more about it here, it's actually pretty nuts.

https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...

>One memorable detail U.S. law enforcement noted was that Mexican drug cartel members employed boxes customized to fit the dimensions of an HSBC Mexico teller window for their daily cash deposits.
What does it have to do with Trump then? Why was he involved?
Presumably work, as in "wagie wagie get in the cagie".
Good point. Then next best is limit the lending. If a uni wants to charge 50k a year then they need to find rich students who can pay cash. If they want the smartest students they need to find ways to be affordable. Only lend money for affordable universities basically. That will force efficiency, reduce admin etc.
This is a thought provoking article. I am dismayed at the state of antitrust in America but also hopeful. The concluding paragraph reads:

> All of which is to say that Trump’s policy choices this time could be much clearer than they were in his first term. He is the dominant politician of our age, and will create the contrast that allows for the creation of a new political agenda.

This is the best case out come - a change on the left away from the platform of the last ten years to something practical and competent.
>> solid state clipping != (saggy) tube overdrive.

Clipping tends to produce odd harmonics, and blocks highs entirely in the flat parts.

Nonlinearity across the signal range can produce even harmonics and doesn't delete portions of small signals.
Oliver Twist in the 21st century.
This is an amount that would be a meaningful change to most US states' gross annual economic output that we're talking about, and a few people control it. Sounds pretty centralized to me.

The fact that a handful of individuals have half a trillion dollars to throw at something that may or may not work while working people can pay the price of a decent used car each year, every year to their health insurance company only to have claims denied is insane.
If you stand on a stationary log and jump, it gets stuck in that state.

Thanks for reporting this bug. I'll patch this when I get a chance.

Until I patch this, if it happens again, run over a stationary log to unglitch it.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_(Washington,_D.C.)>
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We need to see YoY growth on ship rescues to justify their existence. Otherwise they're just a parasitic cost center.
> I do not understand why he pardoned this guy when he’s supposedly anti-drug and anti-cartel.

why do you believe he's anti-drug or anti-cartel?
He love the publicity and most people won't realize that he doesn't have anything to do with this.
> My original point is that "never make breaking changes" is the wrong lesson to take away from Python 3. And that Rust's editions provide a very good example of how to do breaking changes correctly.

Here we go again, but the point of editions, as far as I can tell, is so that there are no breaking changes. A value Go also holds. As a result, both projects are still at version 1 and will likely always forever be at version 1.

So, if we round back to the start of our discussion, if Python 2 had taken the same stance, there would never be a Python 3. What we know of as Python 3 today would just be another Python 2 point release. Which is what the earlier commenter that started all this was saying – Go will not move to Go 2, and Rust won't move to Rust 2, because nobody wants to make the same mistake Python did.

I understand you have an advertising quota to fill, but introducing Rust into the discussion was conversationally pointless.