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Show HN: Fast vector similarity using Rust and Pythonhttps://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/fast_vector_similarityI recently found myself computing the similarity between lots of very high dimensional vectors (i.e., sentence embedding vectors from LLMs), and I wanted to try some more powerful measures of similarity/dependency than just Cosine similarity, which seems to be the default for everything nowadays because of its computational efficiency.There are many other more involved measures that can detect more subtle relationships, but the problem is that some of them are quite slow to compute, especially if you're trying to do it in Python. For my favorite measure of statistical dependency, Hoeffding's D, that's true even if you use Numpy. Since I recently learned Rust and wanted to learn how to make Python packages using Rust, I put together this new library that I call Fast Vector Similarity.I was blown away by the performance of Rust and the quality of the tooling while making this. And even though it required a lot of fussing with Github Actions, I was also really impressed with just how easyAug 23, 2023 12:34 PM
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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
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Ganpatipule Beachhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8bf5dd9c874bee9e1b401457ae62b7&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prokerala.com%2Ftravel%2Fdestination%2Fganpatipule-beach.htm&c=17470635885625781256&mkt=en-usGanpatipule is one of the heavenly and beautiful beaches of Western India. The waters of the beach are pristine and crystal clear and are boundaried by fresh greeneries and attractive landscapes.Aug 1, 2023 10:56 PM
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30 Top Things to Do in New Jerseyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a0cf27d1848f0b8c477f0d163f929&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftravel.usnews.com%2Ffeatures%2Ftop-things-to-do-in-new-jersey&c=7795339004253236983&mkt=en-usOur roundup of beach towns, historic sites and top attractions is sure to inspire love for the small but mighty Garden State.Jul 26, 2023 8:20 AM
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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
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What Is Dual Agency?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89f0ed9c744ff591ab2536285c3eff&url=https%3A%2F%2Frealestate.usnews.com%2Freal-estate%2Farticles%2Fwhat-is-dual-agency&c=18121369997471112185&mkt=en-usBuying or selling a home? We analyze millions of real estate transactions to compare agents near you. Most home sales have two real estate agents representing the buyer and the seller, but some home ...Jun 21, 2023 7:18 AM
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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
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Launch HN: Credal.ai (YC W23) – Data Safety for Enterprise AIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326525Hi Hacker News! We’re Ravin and Jack, the founders of Credal.ai (https://www.credal.ai/). We provide a Chat UI and APIs that enforce PII redaction, audit logging, and data access controls for companies that want to use LLMs with their corporate data from Google Docs, Slack, or Confluence. There’s a demo video here: https://www.loom.com/share/2b5409fd64464dc9b5b6277f2be4e90f?....One big thing enterprises and businesses are worried about with LLMs is “what’s happening to my data”? The way we see it, there are three big security and privacy barriers companies need to solve:1. Controlling what data goes to whom: the basic stuff is just putting controls in place around customer and employee PII, but it can get trickier when you also want to be putting controls in place around business secrets, so companies can ensure the Coca Cola recipe doesn’t accidentally leave the company.2. Visibility: Enterprise IT wants to know exactly what data was shared by whom, when, at what time, and what the moJun 14, 2023 2:26 PM
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Ask HN: Application Focussed AI Learninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36322424I’m a senior leader with a technical background as an engineer and development manager. I build with React/Rails in my spare time but my current job is not at all technical.My role is changing at my request to look at ways we as a business could apply AI. It’ll be exploratory, with 2 devs working under me to build prototypes and experiments.I’m a big believer that a technical manager or leader should understand the technology, with bonus points for being able to build with it.It’s worth saying that we don’t expect to be creating our own models, rather building on top of others’ using APIs, fine tuning, prompts, vector databases and similar.There’s lots of good developer focussed learning. I’ll run through the basics there.However I’d like to learn how businesses are applying AI and am seeking out how best to discover this.I see MIT Sloan and other institutions have short courses that appear to offer what I’m looking for [1]. I have read that these executive education programs are outsoJun 14, 2023 7:02 AM
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Show HN: Open-source vector & data lake to debug, curate and version AI datahttps://www.loom.com/share/c6916272b9914894bddd1a21df0321b4Hi HN! I’m Farah, co-founder of Dioptra.ai. We just open sourced katiML (https://github.com/dioptra-ai/katiml) this week and wanted to get your take.katiML is a vector+data lake to debug, curate and version AI data. With katiML, teams avoid the “garbage in, garbage out” effect by taking control over the quality of their data. They quickly and effectively curate high quality data for training, fine-tuning, and fixing hallucinations and edge cases.Features include: - Data Curation: interactive embedding visualization and similarity search, mislabeling and hallucination scores as well as SOTA Active Learning miners. - GenAI 4 explainability: uncover drift and bias in your data with multi-modal foundational models that describe in human language what’s in your data. - ML Data Lake: zero copy, highly efficient ML data lake to store and query any ML data (vectors, metadata etc). - Data Versioning: to track changes in datasets, prompts, and model performance; and pinpoint the causes behind thJun 7, 2023 6:11 PM
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Show HN: Reddit Firehosehttps://hotgarbo.github.io/dumppit/Inspired by the upcoming reddit API changes, I built this to (ab)use the existing free-to-use API to view the latest content being posted in a minimalist infinite doom-scrolling web app.Warning: despite filtering NSFW-tagged content by default, you'll probably see some things that aren't exactly office-friendly. User beware.May 31, 2023 8:24 PM
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Ask HN: Any privacy-preserving minimalist phone launchers for Android?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36117548I came across "minimalist phone" [1] and really like the idea. However, its Privacy Policy does not spark joy. In fact, I haven't found great alternatives that don't send your data to Google. Would love recommendations of open source/privacy-preserving alternatives.Although, thinking about it now - the data it could collect about what apps I use, when, and how is probably something Google has access to anyway on Android phones? :D[1]: https://www.minimalistphone.com/May 29, 2023 8:09 PM
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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
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How to Display the American Flag Correctly on Your Car, Truck, or Motorcyclehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8974cb07774e08ab0cc9b3dfb1aee2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.caranddriver.com%2Fshopping-advice%2Fg28229171%2Famerican-flag-etiquette-cars-motorcycles%2F&c=2122780391267406746&mkt=en-usTo honor our veterans; as a Memorial Day, Flag Day, or Fourth of July commemoration, or just as a general act of patriotism, many American motorists choose to display the Stars and Stripes as a decal ...May 23, 2023 10:59 AM
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What Is Value Investing And 4 Best Strategieshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89032e2cd74bd0ac11e9897f3c0ab3&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Finvestor-hub%2Farticle%2Fwhat-is-value-investing-and-4-best-strategies%2F&c=12280423409153779320&mkt=en-usForbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Catherine Brock covers personal finance and investing. Value investing is the practice of purchasing stocks that are trading for ...May 12, 2023 3:40 PM
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Miriam Shor compares 'Guardians of the Galaxy' transformation to 'Hedwig'http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8abee16b5d45fca75d46bc07df010d&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.upi.com%2FEntertainment_News%2FMovies%2F2023%2F05%2F04%2FMiriam-Shor-Guardians-Galaxy-Hedwig%2F9301683133868%2F&c=1262749811232261104&mkt=en-usLOS ANGELES, May 4 (UPI) --Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, in theaters Friday, introduces new alien characters from the Marvel comic-book world. For example, Miriam Shor plays Recoder Vim, wearing a ...May 3, 2023 10:01 PM
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Miriam Shor compares 'Guardians of the Galaxy' transformation to 'Hedwig'http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89a14b9804408f947cb3c773281e82&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.upi.com%2FEntertainment_News%2FMovies%2F2023%2F05%2F04%2FMiriam-Shor-Guardians-Galaxy-Hedwig%2F9301683133868%2F&c=1262749811232261104&mkt=en-usLOS ANGELES, May 4 (UPI) --Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, in theaters Friday, introduces new alien characters from the Marvel comic-book world. For example, Miriam Shor plays Recoder Vim, wearing a ...May 3, 2023 10:01 PM
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Jemima Kirke Is One Tough Motherhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a899cad3cb64681a86fddf5b99264cb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Flifestyle%2Fjemima-kirke-one-tough-mother-145000062.html&c=6823981766860962338&mkt=en-usAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Perhaps more than most actors, Kirke has had her most famous character projected onto her, with Girls fans assuming that Jemima ...May 2, 2023 7:50 AM
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Real Estate Agent vs. Realtor vs. Broker: What's the Difference?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89c0fdf0104de1ac0992f86ecbdca1&url=https%3A%2F%2Frealestate.usnews.com%2Freal-estate%2Farticles%2Fwhats-the-difference-between-a-real-estate-agent-realtor-and-broker&c=6656070515074004016&mkt=en-usBuying or selling a home? We analyze millions of real estate transactions to compare agents near you. The process of choosing a real estate agent should be a careful one. You want to work with a ...Apr 26, 2023 4:18 AM
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Best board games 2022: For adults, families, two players, and morehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89fc43e823411eb0bbfba25b4594f1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitaltrends.com%2Fgaming%2Fbest-board-games%2F&c=5893117597491844255&mkt=en-usOver the past couple of years, board games have made a strong comeback. Board games were a good activity choice once people were allowed to gather again and that momentum just keeps going. With so ...Apr 25, 2023 12:07 AM
