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Layvier··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
this.
Layvier··on Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf, Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals
isn't the self replicating property of life a huge benefit though?
Layvier··on Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model
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
Layvier··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
That's very interesting, thanks for sharing!
Layvier··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
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
Layvier··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
Absolutely. So many use cases for it, and it's so cheap/fast/reliable
Layvier··on 11x has been claiming customers it doesn't have
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
Layvier··on GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"?
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.
Layvier··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
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
Layvier··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
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
Layvier··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
> "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

Layvier··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
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..
Layvier··on GitHub Git Operations Are Down
well on my side I'm the proud owner of a new ed25519 key.. The status page didn't update quick enough
Layvier··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
Just to say I love your product guys, well done;)
Layvier··on Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences, even when 'offline'
Rick Hickey made a great talk about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
Layvier··on Show HN: Convert HTML DOM to semantic markdown for use in LLMs
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?
Layvier··on Retro on Viberary
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
Layvier··on Retro on Viberary
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
Layvier··on Retro on Viberary
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.
Layvier··on Retro on Viberary
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?
Layvier··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)
TelescopeAI | Remote - European timezones | Full-time - AI Engineer (NLP, LangChain, Weaviate)

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.

Layvier··on Ask HN: Best resources on abstracting and dealing with complexity
In software, "A Philosophy of Software Design" is a must read imo. Otherwise Rich Hickey's talks are always very insightful.
Layvier··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
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

Layvier··on CatalaLang/catala: Programming language for law specification
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
Layvier··on OpenTF announces fork of Terraform
oh ok great to know, thanks a lot! All the best with this project;)
Layvier··on OpenTF announces fork of Terraform
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.
Layvier··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)
Telescope | Remote - GMT+-2 | Full-time

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

- Machine Learning Engineer: https://gotelescope.notion.site/Machine-Learning-Engineer-04...

- 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.

Layvier··on Crimean bridge: Explosion is 'the beginning', says Zelensky adviser
That they did it on Putin's birthday is just amazing
Layvier··on How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is
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...
Layvier··on How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is
Meh, it's not gonna be the end of the world. Prices for consumers will increase (maybe around 3x), but if the poorest are helped accordingly it's not so bad and will actual push people to be more responsible. This whole crisis actually mostly show how absurd our energy grid is, and the poor strategic choices made in the previous decades. It also pushes for much needed reforms and investments (300 billions in renewables announced a few days ago).
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