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Tuning for qualitative outcomes is pretty much solved via RLHF/DPO (what this post calls "preference tuning"). Right?

Thanks for reporting this. I think it has to do with certain tweets being made private/inaccessible after being added to the index. I'll look into it.

A lot of that content has moved to newsletters and Twitter threads. If you know the right people to follow, there are a lot of niche, quirky, and insightful pieces that remind me o…

Hey HN! We’ve created Mood Surf, a discovery engine to explore topics that intrigue you. We miss the days you could stumble upon weird, wonderful, human-authored pages on the Web. …

Quite tractable actually. Take a look at the Andi Search post that is on the front page right now. They say they are using several natural language models for snippet selection, qu…

Hi HN! So to clarify to everyone, the idea is that what a concierge search engine would do, a machine could do as well. sk55 shared this very interesting link [0] which outlines ho…

Unfortunately we are not running the search concierge service indefinitely. But we will translate the findings into a search tool that makes it easier to answer complex questions. …

In our sample, we found that people really cared about those topics but they were not urgent. Hence the reference to the Eisenhower Matrix. The current state of search tools doesn'…

That's definitely one way to do it. Our approach is not to literally run a concierge search engine, but rather build up intuitions on how humans effectively find knowledge on the W…

You should consider just using the Matrix protocol and innovating on the UI/features side.

> Real improved search efforts need to somehow change the content that's out there at the same time as they improve they experience Yes, this is our key takeaway too. However, that…

Yep, graph structure of topics enables users to wander around topic space. Good for less directed, more exploratory searching. Another graph that is useful is the graph of people -…

Not OP but I am working on a search engine with vector ranking. Why do you say that vector search would help with narrow queries? In my experience, semantic search helps broaden th…

Really great work! It is exciting that people are working on alternative indexes of content, especially ones that prioritize content written by individuals for smaller audiences. T…