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atleast tell what to amazon search for


the fact that these tools enable a developer to do all these things are an attribute of the tool and not the user imo. so i guess just look out for people who and learn quickly and ramp fast, nice to work with etc etc.


Absolutely not a crypto person but I've been following this team called noice.so, so far I think they've been doing the right thing in the space, pretty new and think they are operating at the right level of abstraction.


This is actually a good example of what I'm railing against.

Giving your users airdrops is almost always a perverse incentive, and trying to figure out how to onboard to Farcaster as "Step 1" in your product journey is extremely limiting.


Just wanted to confirm something, this only works for HTTP right? browser dont allow arbitrary TCP reqs right?


This paper, and solutions such as sqlcoder, and https://doris.apache.org/zh-CN/blog/Tencent-LLM etc. Which let you query DB via natural language etc.

But recently there has been a surge around MCPs being able to query databases provided the n-number of MCP servers popping up. An example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCoding/comments/1jd9lfa/lear...

So I was wondering of things like the Doris blogpost, this paper and sqlcoder are still relevant/what extra does this approach offer vs trying to build a over mcp?


put this prompt and share the response:

You summarize the past convestion in this thread. - Start with a overall summary in a single paragraph - Then show a bullet pointed list of the most interesting illustrative quotes from the piece - Then a bullet point list of the most unusual ideas - provide a longer summary that covers points not included already - Finally, Step by step/phase by phase understanding of the ideas discussed above


algolia has done the same for their discourse forum, moved everything to discord and removed all old posts.

Upon asking this was a response from the team: "The Discourse content is no longer available. Much of it was 5+ years old and no longer reflected current SDKs and APIs. We're glad to help you here."

https://ibb.co/3htkxjv https://discord.com/channels/1171089640443367494/12783186879...

people were unhappy obviously. I really don't understand this decision by them.


Also, why would anyone want to use Discord as a forum? It's horrible, not easily searchable, and you need a proprietary app. Nothing good about it.


I'm shocked so many companies use Discord for official purposes.


> I'm shocked so many companies use Discord for official purposes.

Going back in time you can replace it with: Discourse, forums, website, IRC.

New generations of devs / manager decide to use "the current tool" to connect with their users. Too bad they also think it a good idea to nuke the older channels.


This time, the "current tool" doesn't allow searching via the web. Most discord forums I'm on are basically black holes in which questions keep getting repeated.


Exactly, it doesn't even help the owners themselves, because people will keep asking the same things over and over again. It's not like a forum where you can easily search by topic.


The owners do not care as much, because they're not the ones who answer the questions - a cadre of "volunteers" do.


I’ve launched projects that became bigger and discord is just kind of expected when building from the ground up and great for corralling a community

I mentally categorize larger established organizations as something different

but logically I can’t really see the difference, so I understand why

I also understand the negatives of that particular platform for getting information efficiently

but I understand why they do it


Expected by who? Plenty of big projects don’t have a discord.


You can just use the website.

Edit: It's <<Discourse>>, not <<Discord>>.

Edit 2: Oh, they moved from Discourse to Discord :-)) That is just messed up.


You can use your web browser, as well.


It is still shitty as well. UI/UX are terrible.


It’s about the same as the desktop app. It doesn’t feel like a web app. The desktop app is better because it doesn’t feel out of place.

It’s not a bad UI/UX IMO, but it can take some getting used to. For the notifications I have to check several options such as “silence @everyone and @here”. Sometimes I find the updates annoying. But it’s among the best chat UIs I’ve tried.


It's definitely good UX for a chat app. It was good UX from the beginning, when they had a dark mode before a light mode and made voice chat not require installing anything (which was many peoples' first real-world exposure to WebRTC technology).

It's poor UX for a support forum where you want communication to be one-to-many as much as possible (to spread info to the largest number of people with the smallest amount of info producer effort as possible).


How about the new forum style channels?


Those actually are bad UX, imo. In the servers I've seen implement them, they devolve into basically chat anyway. People still re-ask questions because the search functionality is the same as searching chat, which people weren't doing before. The layout still favors short messages over in-depth posts.

(I do find Discourse to be among the worst web forum software, and I can see similarities between Discourse and the Discord forum-style channels, so some of this may come down to personal preference. Discourse always felt too recency-biased and ephemeral to me compared to e.g. MyBB or phpBB, for example.)

Keep in mind also that it's still behind the walled garden of Discord's authentication and hosting. Imagine if you had to install the Tapatalk app to actually access any InvisionFree/ZetaBoards/Tapatalk/etc forums back in the day. It was annoying enough that mobile users were nagged to, but it would've been unthinkable to require desktop users to. (And being able to launch the app in your browser, while removing friction to "installation," isn't the same thing as actually being on the web-- search engines can't index Discord channels, Discord messages don't have human-readable URLs to share elsewhere, etc.)

Edit: Also, very relevantly to this thread, you can't just grab a webpage snapshot to archive a Discord channel like you could with forum threads. You've got to either take a screenshot (while dealing with scrolling) or scrape the data via the API, being careful not to trip bot protections or violate ToS, and then figure out how to present it separately.


Chat is a poor replacement for forums.


It feels like an electron app, which I would argue IS bad UI/UX.


Subjectively it doesn’t feel like one to me.


I definitely understand it. I have some really old blog posts with tutorials for a deprecated version of my software and I get a lot of people complaining about things not working based on those. I've had to add disclaimers to the most popular ones.


That's pretty messed up. Maybe they don't deserve the honor of being HN's search engine anymore.


Isn’t there a fancy LLM ai out there that is suited to ingesting a local knowledge base and create excerpts with links to the original source?


Yuck!


Hi Jeremy, I am trying to navigate the space and trying to understand what fits where.

Could you shed some lights on what parts of bge-m3 would modernbert overlap with or would this is comparing apples to oranges?

https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-m3


Hey! It’s more like comparing apples to apple pie.

BGE-M3 is a fine-tuned embedding models. This means that they’ve taken a base language model, which was trained for just language modeling, then applied further fine-tuning to make it useful for a given application, in this case, retrieval.

ModernBERT is one step back earlier in the pipeline: it’s the language model that application-specific models such as M3 build on.


i don't know but i think the answer should some combination of google sheets/excel. any guides around that would be helpful. I think i would just want to use gsheet at this stage.


shameless plug

wrote a elaborate doc on using wal-g on nixos, might be useful if someone finds themselves in same boat. has some catches.

https://github.com/geekodour/nix-postgres-docker


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