vectara.com
Show HN: Launching a new home-grown embedding LLM for RAGhttps://vectara.com/how-boomerang-takes-retrieval-augmented-generation-to-the-next-level-via-grounded-generation/Hi HN!Vectara is a "batteries included" retrieval augmented generation platform. You can upload your rich text documents like PDFs, HTML pages, word docs, etc, or semi-structured JSON and Vectara handles the text and metadata extraction, segmentation, vector embedding, and vector storage, and keyword storage. You can ask a question or perform a search in the UI or via our APIs and Vectara will automatically handle the vectorization, structured metadata filtering, vector+keyword retrieval, hybrid blending, and generative summarization of the results. We're focusing on building and operationalizing the complex infrastructure for vector storage, hybrid retrieval, and generative summarization so you can use fairly high-level APIs and focus on building your own applications.We know that retrieval accuracy is incredibly important for RAG: garbage in, garbage out. We've seen a lot of projects not spend enough time on really getting the retrieval model right and wasting a lot of time/money witSep 28, 2023 3:06 PM
europeanspaceflight.com
SAB Orbital Vehicle Could Work in Concert With Space Riderhttps://europeanspaceflight.com/sab-orbital-vehicle-could-work-in-concert-with-space-rider/Italian-based space transportation company SAB Launch Services is studying ways that its IOSHEX orbital vehicle could work in concert with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Rider vehicle. Space Rider is an ESA-led project to develop a small uncrewed spaceplane that will enable the launch, in-orbit testing/manufacture, and return of client payloads. Development of the […] The post SAB Orbital Vehicle Could Work in Concert With Space Rider appeared first on European Spaceflight.Aug 23, 2023 7:45 PM
bing.com
Can you trust your doctor? 7 signs they're a good fit — and 5 that they're nothttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c57c490740849f98dcf105c45369&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.today.com%2Fhealth%2Fmind-body%2Fcan-you-trust-doctor-rcna71169&c=12595937158956719869&mkt=en-usHaving a primary care doctor you can stay in regular contact with is an important part of taking care of your health. But many people have a hard time finding a primary care provider who listens and ...Aug 21, 2023 11:34 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: I'm building an open-source job board, what would you like to see?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864035This is mainly as an exercise to explore some new technologies, but I also plan on taking up this idea seriously to build a full-fledged application that can be easily self-hosted and customised so organisations can spin up their own instance if they'd like.I have the current visions in mind:- To build a full-stack application using Remix, to adopt best practices and to allow the application to be easily self-hostable and customisable.- To be free and open-source, forever.- To be community-driven and open to suggestions from everyone.- To be accessible to everyone across the world, by supporting multiple languages.- To look great using clean, minimalistic design approaches. - Some inspirations include: https://startup.jobs/ or https://wellfound.com/- To be able to create a stable (versioned) open standard for job seeker profiles that can be imported and exported easily, ensuring that users don’t have to re-enter their personal information over and over again in other platforms, or otheJul 25, 2023 3:44 PM
gptmate.app
Show HN: GPTMate – Interact and Chat with Various AI-Generated Charactershttps://gptmate.app/Explore the fascinating world of GPTMate, an AI-powered chatbot that lets you engage in conversations with an extensive range of characters across different categories. Whether you want to chat with historical figures, celebrities, professionals, fictional heroes, or even get advice from self-help experts, GPTMate has you covered.Check out GPTMate: gptmate.comEngage with AI-Generated Characters:People: Chat with influential personalities like Abraham Lincoln, Bill Gates, Buddha, Elon Musk, Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, and more.Professionals: Seek guidance and insights from accountants, doctors, engineers, lawyers, therapists, and others.Self Help: Get advice and support from experts in various fields, such as auto mechanics, budget planners, dating coaches, fitness trainers, parenting coaches, yoga instructors, and more.Scientists: Discuss ideas with scientific legends like Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla, Stephen Hawking, and others.Hollywood: Chat with your favoritJul 14, 2023 5:48 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Why do no Windows laptops have a trackpad as nice as the MBP?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36608840I have recently swapped my work MBP M1 Pro for a Dell Precision 5570 running Linux and all of my programming workflows are faster.When plugged into a dock and used as a desktop workstation, it's as good as any Linux desktop and superior to my MBP for programming.Though I really appreciated the performance, noise and battery life of the MBP and have been using a Mac professionally for 6 years - it ultimately no longer matches my requirements.Additionally, I couldn't use it for both work and play, forcing me to carry a second gaming laptop when I travelled. I guess support for Windows or Linux with full HW acceleration would solve this, but that's not due for several years if ever.That said, I regularly work from libraries and cafes so the feel of the laptop is important.The Dell, despite being a premium laptop has a trackpad that is exhausting to use. It's inaccurate, insensitive, and the mechanical clicks feel terrible (both on Windows and Linux).The keyboard is fine, the screen is greJul 5, 2023 11:42 PM
varietyquiz.com
Show HN: Variety Quiz - Simple quiz to understand the balance of your lifestylehttps://www.varietyquiz.com/Hi HN,My name is Clay and I live in Austin. I built this simple quiz 'app' called Variety Quiz as part of a larger project I'm working on around lifestyle variety and its relationship with how we feel about ourselves as people.This feels a bit strange to post (it's clunky) but I think it's time I start putting things out there. You'll see that there is a callout to Self Sport which is the larger app/project I've been working on tied to this. It’s a much more professional effort and will launch later this summer.So why Variety Quiz?Variety Quiz is a novel tool to check in with your lifestyle and satisfaction levels in general (across key life needs). This helps to understand how you're structuring your attention today and consider changes that may be worth making.I think a lot of people spend years never really thinking about their lifestyle and the 'balance' (not a great word, but a common word for this) they've created. We all have things that make us up and form our identity — BeliefJun 20, 2023 3:20 PM
bing.com
Sarah Palin Defines What A Cult Is And Twitter Users Point Out The Obvioushttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8aa845f34c4ea99c1f4094ff5e0a45&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsarah-palin-defines-cult-twitter-223122267.html&c=16887644280912896486&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) attempted to defend Donald Trump supporters against accusations of cultlike behavior, but it ...Jun 14, 2023 3:31 PM
spacenews.com
World Economic Forum offers new debris mitigation guidelineshttps://spacenews.com/world-economic-forum-offers-new-debris-mitigation-guidelines/The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released a new set of guidelines intended to reduce the creation of orbital debris with the support of some, but not all, major satellite operators.Jun 14, 2023 8:32 AM
open-fire.dev
Show HN: Open Fire Serverless CIhttps://www.open-fire.dev/Hello, HN community, I'm really excited to show you Open Fire a serverless CI, how does it work? relying on serverless technologies (firecracker) we can spin up a new VM in less than 200 ms running in a more powerful and newest CPU on the market, just change 1 line of code on your GitHub Actions Workflow and you're up and running! You can see our use case, where we implemented Open Fire in the NextJS repo taking down build time from 1 hour 17 minutes to 26 minutes which is a 66 % of improvement without any engineering effort! [1]The value of a CI/CD Pipeline is inversely proportional to how long the pipeline takes to run and is a limiting factor for companies to release quickly and often.For a little bit of background, I have been working in the CI/CD space for the last 9 years in small startups, my own CI/CD startup for mobile games, and big enterprises like PayPal and Binance, and you see the same pattern emergesIn today's life developers are pretty good when they're building new feaMay 27, 2023 9:50 PM
getflow.finance
Show HN: A minimalist net worth tracker for individualshttps://getflow.finance/Hi HN,Today I'm launching the Net Worth Tracker by Flow Finance, a beautiful and minimalist Excel template that allows individuals to track their assets, liabilities, income, and spending on a monthly basis. The focus of this template is understanding long-term trends in the incoming and outgoing expenses for an individual—always with a focus on maximising insights while minimising user inputs.This project was created because the alternatives, frankly, are completely overwhelming. A friend of mine introduced me to the FIRE Movement and, after doing deep dives through Reddit, I tried to find templates to help facilitate a financial tracking system of my own. Every template felt like complete overkill: portfolio tracking for shares, mortgage repayment calculators, even a kind of speedometer which moved depending on my savings rate. Clever, no doubt, but unnecessary for my purposes.After years of tinkering and refining what I truly wanted out of this spreadsheet, I realised it was to cleaApr 12, 2023 11:07 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Time to Leave the US?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364718It feels like the US has passed a tipping point of sorts and is rapidly moving the wrong way on a lot of important issues.Biggest / most glaring being the out-of-control gun violence, esp. in our schools. That's simply unacceptable to me as a parent of two toddlers under the age of 2.Medical / Cost of a significant illness is really Fd up in this country. I had a kidney stone last year, and it cost me over 5k. Most of my friends / family would not have been able to absorb that surprise expense and would have had to use credit cards. That's not even much cash compared to what medical bills in the US can easily cost you. Families are being financially ruined by this shit.Lastly would be random, non-school violence. My wife is Asian and the increase in random asshats assaulting smaller, weaker people – esp Asian women – is just the latest WTF is going on in this country.When I step back, it seems inevitable that someone close to me will suffer from one of the 3, or possible more than 1 ofMar 29, 2023 10:25 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Looks like chat GPT can't even follow simple promptshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35089943I asked it to tell me 10 things about tech sector news today and it gave me a bunch of old news shown below:Today, Apple announced its new line of MacBook Pro laptops featuring the company's new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, which promise significant performance improvements.Google unveiled a new set of privacy-focused features for its Chrome web browser, including a "Privacy Dashboard" that provides users with more control over their online data.Facebook is launching a new feature called "Bulletin," which will allow writers and journalists to create and distribute their own newsletters.Tesla announced that it has acquired a robotics company called "Grohmann Engineering," which will help the electric car maker further automate its production lines.Amazon is reportedly in talks to acquire MGM Studios, a move that would give the e-commerce giant access to a vast library of movies and TV shows for its Prime Video streaming service.IBM has announced plans to spin off its managed infrastructure Mar 10, 2023 3:07 AM
news.ycombinator.com
How we built a social network with No-Codehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35070143In the Fall of last year, we launched a social network for college students with No-Code.Here’s how we did it:Last summer (after having conversations with a few dozen college students), we stumbled across a very interesting insight:*80% of college students aren’t on Facebook anymore*.Sure, tools like Snapchat and Instagram exist that represent someone’s social graph, but there isn’t a central place for students to go get guidance from other peers. For students to even do simple transactions like exchanging textbooks, finding roommates, or buying sports tickets is messy.This gave us the idea that just maybe students were hungry for a new social network to fill the void Facebook left behind.Our goal was to create a digital community where students could discuss campus life, discover housing options, and buy/sell from other students.### Step 1: Build the PlatformTo make this happen, we started by setting up a (Circle)[https://circle.so/] community specifically for our first college, the UMar 8, 2023 3:27 PM
bing.com
Is Dark Chocolate Bad For Your Health? What We Knowhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8974b94e264dea9e7707be12855cfd&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthline.com%2Fhealth-news%2Fis-dark-chocolate-bad-for-your-health-what-we-know&c=8203062765694959570&mkt=en-usNew research from Consumer Reports shows that dark chocolate contains cadmium and lead, two heavy metals that can lead to health problems. Experts say it’s okay to eat dark chocolate this Valentine’s ...Feb 13, 2023 5:19 AM
news.google.com
No painkilling shot for Patrick Mahomes, despite ankle injuryhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMivwFBVV95cUxNc2hNcmlYSkJ4bW5fVG1JOTc3c2tGYmdNTTE1WnJLUFZrZGFYVG1jVXlJTFlnVkxRUHB2Y3Y0Rmk2VEVVRjdSM0F5QWF6Sk1Xdk5tdmNSSEZTSnNxNWlIU2JLWjN5eEJVQ3B6VXU2cjJqd1lHOGp1NE9VN3F4WUNPaFFJRTgwNUpEd0VVUU04V2hrbEFPN2JEdmt4RGoxNHJUMzdyM0NRTC02NUVnSGZ5c1g1N0JNdDRMeFNzZHBsYw?oc=5No painkilling shot for Patrick Mahomes, despite ankle injury NBC SportsJan 29, 2023 8:00 AM
spaceflightnow.com
Rocket Lab primed for busy year after first launch from Virginiahttps://spaceflightnow.com/2023/01/24/rocket-lab-primed-for-busy-year-after-first-launch-from-virginia/Rocket Lab’s first mission from a launch pad in Virginia delivered three small commercial satellites into orbit Tuesday night, starting what the company hopes will be a banner year with at least 15 flights from the new U.S. launch site and a spaceport in New Zealand.Jan 24, 2023 6:31 PM
bing.com
The School Board, Explainedhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89fc43e823411eb0bbfba25b4594f1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usnews.com%2Feducation%2Fk12%2Farticles%2Fthe-school-board-explained&c=16676510353381408897&mkt=en-usBehind each of the nearly 14,000 public school districts in the United States there's a small group of individuals who play an important, high-level role in deciding in deciding how schools are run: ...Jan 11, 2023 1:15 AM
nasa.gov
NASA Administrator, Astronauts Bring Space to Washington Schoolshttp://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-administrator-astronauts-bring-space-to-washington-schoolsNASA is supporting a nationwide initiative to provide nutritious and hands-on educational kits to children, teachers, and families in need. Members of the media are invited in-person to the next event in Washington to learn more about the Artemis Learning Lunchbox initiative from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, as well as agency astronauts.Dec 6, 2022 9:24 PM
bing.com
Why Your Next City Break Should Be Toronto, Canadahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8975b9bbe64f2cb67937c3a2c639ab&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fjoanneshurvell%2F2022%2F11%2F30%2Fwhy-your-next-city-break-should-be-toronto-canada%2F&c=14449913448832473184&mkt=en-usFor anyone who enjoys big ticket entertainment and sports when they travel, Canada’s largest city Toronto is an excellent option and certainly a more economical alternative to New York. Sports fans ...Nov 30, 2022 9:52 AM
