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Could happy relationships hold the key to less stress in aging?
Article URL: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-happy-relationships-key-stress-aging.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42045480
Points: 3
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FTX's Young Executives Shattered Their Parents
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/technology/ftx-executives-parents.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42045478
Points: 2
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Blog Writing for Developers (2023)
Article URL: https://rmoff.net/2023/07/19/blog-writing-for-developers/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42045477
Points: 2
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Is this an idea worth pursuing or not?
The social scene in big cities like New York or LA can be daunting. Drinks are expensive, places can be crowded, lines long and the service sucks. So I was thinking, what if you have a platform that enables people to turn ordinary private spaces such as their home (or really anywhere) into social settings? For instance, turn your apartment into a bar with 4 tables and guests can reserve a spot (either with a group of friends or to hang out with strangers) by paying an admission fee (will be byob to avoid liquor license issues). This concept can be applied to different social settings such as hosting a mom’s night for other moms with kid care included, hosting a mediterranean dinner party, hosting a games night etc. The platform would enable guests to see what events are happening in their immediate vicinity / or a particular location on a specific date and reserve spots at various events they want to attend. Guests can also see if their friends are attending a particular event (if the guest makes their attendance public) and over time see if any guests that they’ve met previously will be attending. Guests and hosts can leave reviews on each other's profiles as feedback for future users. Some immediate issues I’ve identified are the usual market place chicken and egg problem and potential security concerns about letting strangers into your private space (though the same was true for uber and airbnb). Are there any other potential issues? I have several ideas on how to monetize it but wanted to hear what people think about the concept.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42045469
Points: 1
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In Search of Types [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.humprog.org/%7Estephen/papers/kell14in-author-version.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42045459
Points: 1
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MA could be the next state to get rid of the subminimum wage for tipped workers
Nvidia ousts Intel from Dow Jones Index after 25-year run
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/nvidia-ousts-intel-from-dow-jones-index-after-25-year-run/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42045072
Points: 2
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Down in the Mantle
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/down-mantle
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42045049
Points: 1
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Public Dataset of Social Media Discourse about the 2024 U.S. Election
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00376
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42045007
Points: 1
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OpenPaX, a New Linux Memory Security Patch, Arrives
Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/openpax-a-new-linux-memory-security-patch-arrives/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044998
Points: 1
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Astronomers urge FCC to halt satellite megaconstellation launches
Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/astronomers-urge-fcc-to-halt-satellite-megaconstellation-launches
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044964
Points: 3
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Show HN: Fuzzy deduplicate any CSV using vector embeddings
I made an app to fuzzy-deduplicate my Google Sheets and CRM records
- No manual configuration required
- Works out-of-the-box on most data types (ex. people, companies, product catalog)
Implementation details:
- Embeds records using an E5-family model
- Performs similarity search using DuckDB w/ vector similarity extension
- Does last-mile comparison and merges duplicates using Claude
Demo video: https://youtu.be/7mZ0kdwXBwM
Github repo (Apache 2.0 licensed): https://github.com/SnowPilotOrg/dedupe_it
Background story: My company has a table for tracking leads, which includes website visitors, demo form submissions, app signups, and manual entries. It’s full of duplicates. And writing formulas to merge those dupes has been a massive PITA.
I figured that an LLM could handle any data shape and give me a way to deal with tricky custom rules like “treat international subsidiaries as distinct from their parent company”.
The challenging thing was avoiding an NxN comparison matrix. The solution I came up with was first narrowing down our search space using vector embeddings + semantic similarity search, and then using a generative LLM only to compare a few nearest neighbors and merge.
Some cool attributes of this approach:
- Can work incrementally (no reprocessing the entire dataset)
- Allows processing all records in parallel
- Composes with deterministic dedupe rules
Lmk any feedback on how to make this better!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044962
Points: 2
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Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/04/perplexity-ceo-offers-to-replace-striking-nyt-staff-with-ai/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044956
Points: 9
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Digital "AVATAR" therapy for distressing voices in psychosis
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03252-8
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044950
Points: 1
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Netflix Bullish on Gen AI for Games After Laying Off Human Game Developers
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/netflix-games-ai-exec/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044949
Points: 4
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Sweden scraps plans for 13 offshore windfarms over Russia security fears
Live Types in a TypeScript Monorepo
Article URL: https://colinhacks.com/essays/live-types-typescript-monorepo
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044935
Points: 1
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Moving in with someone cuts chances of being depressed, finds study
Microsoft to invest $10B in CoreWeave by end of decade
Article URL: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-to-invest-10bn-in-coreweave-by-end-of-decade/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044920
Points: 1
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Shaping tools that shape us at Notion
Article URL: https://jwn.gr/posts/joining-notion/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044916
Points: 1
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