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isn't the self replicating property of life a huge benefit though?
Re:Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:06PM (#43785669)
This is really sad honestly. It feels like we'll be stuck with React forever, and even with it there'll be less incentives to make api changes
Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash on Thursday April 17, 2025 @05:08PM (#43722231)
That's very interesting, thanks for sharing!
Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash on Thursday April 17, 2025 @03:41PM (#43721248)
Agreed, it's not even possible to run an eval dataset. If someone from google see this please at least increase the burst rate limit
Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash on Thursday April 17, 2025 @03:38PM (#43721215)
Absolutely. So many use cases for it, and it's so cheap/fast/reliable
Re:11x has been claiming customers it doesn't have on Monday March 24, 2025 @10:34PM (#43467622)
We're in the same space, and we knew about those shady practices for a while now, so it feels pretty good to see them finally exposed. It doesn't give back the capital they sucked in though
Re:GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"? on Sunday March 02, 2025 @05:26PM (#43235914)
We were using gpt-4o for our chat agent, and after some experiments I think we'll move to flash 2.0. Faster, cheaper and a bit more reliable even. I also experimented with the experimental thinking version, and there a single node architecture seemed to work well enough (instead of multiple specialised sub agents nodes). It did better than deepseek actually. Now I'm waiting for the official release before spending more time on it.
Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:12PM (#43008869)
How many of them are even real though? I'm pretty sure Musk has a troll farm for a long time now, back in twitter days his supporters' profiles already looked very suspicious
Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:05PM (#43008823)
Grok has absolutely no safety mecanism in place, you can use it for anything it will not block a query, all under the pretext of "free speech". And it's not open source either
Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI on Monday February 10, 2025 @06:15PM (#43006526)
> "It's time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was," Musk said in the press release. "We will make sure that happens.""

From the creator of Grok, this is such an insane thing to say

I would even say that he's now consistently lying to get to what he wants. What started as "building hype" to raise more and have more chances actually delivering on wild promises became lying systematically for big and small things..
Re:GitHub Git Operations Are Down on Monday January 13, 2025 @07:48PM (#42691905)
well on my side I'm the proud owner of a new ed25519 key.. The status page didn't update quick enough
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024) on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @09:20AM (#41434684)
Just to say I love your product guys, well done;)
Rick Hickey made a great talk about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

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Re:Show HN: DOM to Semantic Markdown – For LLMs on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:37PM (#41073666)
Nice, we have this exact use case for data extraction from scraped webpages. We've been using html-to-md, how does it compare to it?
Re:On building a semantic search engine on Saturday January 06, 2024 @10:51PM (#38898244)
you would probably first tag the papers (AI papers then being tagged with "AI"),then generate for instance an Elasticsearch query with an LLM for matching papers with the ai tag and the word transformer
Re:On building a semantic search engine on Saturday January 06, 2024 @08:08PM (#38897319)
Yes I had a look at it, I haven't tried e5-mistral-7b-instruct yet but I'll definitely give it a go. Is there such a leaderboard only focused on retrieval by any chance? I haven't found one so far
Re:On building a semantic search engine on Saturday January 06, 2024 @08:05PM (#38897298)
This is a problem we're hitting as well. Hyde (Hypothetical Document Embeddings) is a zero-shot approach to it, where from the query you generate documents that would have a very small distance to the actual documents you're looking for. For question answering this would mean generating hypothetical answers. In some cases though, it can yield better results to generate hypothetical queries for each documents, question answering actually being one of them. That requires a lot of pre-processing though, which is not always possible.
Re:On building a semantic search engine on Saturday January 06, 2024 @07:44PM (#38897154)
I'd be curious to hear what people think is state of the art of this kind of problem? I think the Cohere embeddings model v3 is very good, as it handles queries and documents differently to embed them in the same vector space. Otherwise for a specific use case I guess dense retrieval (which is basically a problem specific fine tuned version of this approach) is the best way to go about it?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @05:19PM (#38847856)
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In software, "A Philosophy of Software Design" is a must read imo. Otherwise Rich Hickey's talks are always very insightful.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:39PM (#38102862)
TelescopeAI | Remote - GMT+-2 | Full-time - Fullstack Software Engineer (Typescript/React/GraphQl) - AI Engineer (NLP, LangChain, Weaviate) - Founding Product Designer

At TelescopeAI (https://gotelescope.ai/), we are building a product that is going to revolutionise (and we mean it) the sales industry forever, positively impacting millions of people, companies and products.

Our platform uses advanced machine learning to perform prospecting on autopilot, and can identify the right customer for the right company at the right time.

We have incredible backers in Sequoia Capital and Entrepreneur First who are partnering with us on our ambitious mission.

We are building a team of superstars to undertake this legendary journey with us. You can drop us your application at contact [at] gotelescope [dot] ai

Super interesting. I also think we would win with a kind of versioning system for laws, including a definite objective for a law from the time of it's creation, and constraints under which it should be questioned again
Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:05PM (#37268948)
oh ok great to know, thanks a lot! All the best with this project;)
Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:12PM (#37266465)
So I'm pretty new to Terraform, and in my team we were planning to set it up for our infrastructure next month. Does that change something for us? If it stays backward compatible I assume not much would have to be done for switching? I'd definitely prefer an open license.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023) on Monday January 02, 2023 @01:00PM (#34221196)
Telescope | Remote - GMT+-2 | Full-time

- Fullstack Software Engineer (Typescript/React/GraphQl): https://gotelescope.notion.site/Full-Stack-Engineer-61f17de7...

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- Designer (no job ad yet, but please apply: we're looking for a stellar product/UI/UX designer to be our first full-time designer)

At Telescope (https://gotelescope.ai/), we are building a product that is going to revolutionise (and we mean it) the sales industry forever, positively impacting millions of people, companies and products.

Our platform uses advanced machine learning to perform prospecting on autopilot, and can identify the right customer for the right company at the right time.

We have incredible backers in *Sequoia Capital* and *Entrepreneur First* who are partnering with us on our ambitious mission.

Having been chosen to the inaugural *Sequoia Arc program* in Europe from amongst 3000+ startups just further validates our belief that we are on to something truly remarkable.

We are building a team of superstars to undertake this legendary journey with us.

That they did it on Putin's birthday is just amazing
Re:How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:38PM (#32664751)
I get where this comes from, but at least in France and Germany it's not questioned that there will be assistance and even direct intervention from the gouvernement on the electricity market. We're talking about democracies with strong socialist components after all. And also, Macron will definitely do everything to avoid another Yellow Jackets episode...

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