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It wouldn’t be HN if your joke wasn’t met with pedantry, so I’ll mention the heat and pressure at the surface means the atmosphere is a supercritical fluid of 96.5% carbon dioxide …

Very exciting - I'm a long-time vim user but most of my coworkers use VSCode, and I've been wanting to try out in-editor completion tools like this. After using it for a couple hou…

This is a tough question to answer, because it depends a lot on what you want to do! One way to approach it may be to look at what models you want to run and check the amount of VR…

Total healthcare spending per capita includes insurance premiums too though, which is $8,951 for single coverage and $25,572 for family coverage[0], and needs to be added to that ~…

A nice tradeoff in many cases is to have a separate schema rather than a separate database, which allows preserving referential integrity and using the database’s RBAC to restrict …

> it’s been a net negative for taxpayers This analysis[1] from the Cato Institute found the opposite: “immigrants pay more in taxes than they consume in benefits”. [1] https://www.…

We've built many production apps using LiveView. It has some limitations inherent to its design, namely the need to have a semi-reliable WebSocket connection to be able to effectiv…

In the United States, federal tax applies when the estate is valued over $13.6M for 2024[1], though as you mention spousal transfers and other methods can be used for tax avoidance…

Not to mention various other wars and random fires, such as the Ōnin War 応仁の乱 in the 1400s, a civil war between many feudal lords, which destroyed much of Kyoto among other areas. …

Here’s a short video of this armor in action: https://youtu.be/rm2ZR25xU8M?si=6HdtRO8cFxB5HO8l

I'm curious how people are handling multi-lingual embeddings. I've found LASER[1] which originally had the idea to embed all languages in the same vector space, though it's a bit h…

Just to add to this, a great resource is the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) leaderboard which you can use to find good models to evaluate, and there are many open models t…

Energy use should be a concern, but it’s important to understand the magnitude of the problems and not simply conflate crypto and AI. To compare the technologies against each other…

For embeddings specifically, there are multiple open source models that outperform OpenAI’s best model (text-embedding-ada-002) that you can see on the MTEB Leaderboard [1] > embed…

I recently wrote a tutorial on making a vector driven semantic search app using all open source tools (pgvector, Instructor, and Flask) that might be helpful: https://revelry.co/in…

If you're just looking to play with something locally for the first time, this is the simplest project I've found and has a simple web UI: https://github.com/cocktailpeanut/dalai I…

Great work and great concept - I found the copy to be clear and communicated the value proposition effectively, and I would certainly consider using this when selling my house sinc…

In addition to the agreed price of $16B, Facebook added $3.6B to retain employees. WhatsApp had 55 employees at the time [0]. Near the end of the referenced article is an interesti…