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Show HN: Open-source indexing of Discord questions into Google
I'm open sourcing my project, Answer Overflow, today! The goal of it is to improve the whole experience of asking questions via Discord.

Currently you're able to select channels to be indexed into Google and Answer Overflow will get that content indexed

Our roadmap is below:

* Hosting on your own domain

* Analytics - Get insights into your community, understand what the most common questions are and how you need to improve your documentation

* AI - Use AI trained off your server data to answer questions, improve low quality questions, and get summarize of your community

* GitHub Sponsors - Link to the GitHub sponsors of people who solve questions in order to help make it more sustainable for them

Please let me know any feedback you may have and also any pain points you've experienced asking questions via Discord! There's a lot of potential for improving the whole process and I want to make it the best it can be
Yes, but Germany compensates with good traffic rules and good driver education (one of the harder to get driving licenses around the world, with 18 hours of mandatory theoretical classes, practical classes, and theoretical and practical tests that cost you around €2000 overall). Going by [1] Germany has the 15th lowest per-capita traffic-related death rate, less than one third that of the USA.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
If using Paypal imposes additional operational risk, it's entirely reasonable to charge users extra for using Paypal. Offer them lower prices for using a payment method that isn't 100% shite.
I think he means Venmo, which is a PayPal product. Zelle is a consortium of banks.
Your argument hinges on the US government and Chinese government being equivalent.

In the US you can take the government to court and actually win.
In other words, don't write state, only consume it. (Time is also state.)
Lot of strong feelings here about push notifications :) I think it's worth pointing out that (1) there are many people out there who find push notifications useful or even desirable, and (2) push notifications don't need to suck. Most push notification are annoying nudges because tools that allow companies to send notifications only allow mindless mass blasts with maybe a bit of only-slightly-less-mindless segmentation scattered in. There are better ways to do it. I'm helping build one of those ways (aampe.com), but my point is that we should distinguish between the current state of the technology and the potential of the technology to meet a valid need.
So now you leak that kludge into CI, and waste code review cycles, when it could have just been in .gitignore
There's lots of friction involved navigating to the ChatGPT website, completing their CAPTCHA, waiting for availability, and finally getting your response if the service isn't down. That's why I built this tool to provide a quick, Spotlight Search-esque interface to the GPT API.

I'm working on building out extended conversations, but I've found lots of value having this on-demand for when I need to ask GPT a quick question.

GitHub: https://github.com/JinayJain/gpt-anywhere
> 3) People will guard their data more and will be less willing to share it.

I recently came across this myself when writing a reply on another forum. A feeling of reluctance to attempt to contribute something maybe-useful in a public, 'minable' space.

Almost feels like this has tarnished the 'magic' of Internet, of sharing information and knowledge. I'm not saying this is the appropriate reaction, but it is what it is.
The coursebook I got as part of the training course, this was 5+ years ago so we got a physical book. I've no idea what they do these days but there's a list of exam objectives on the red hat website and that basically covers what you need to know
> It's going to shift from requiring quality data to producing quality data.

synthetic data gives you synthetic results.

To train something requires decent quality input, otherwise it's going to mimic the crap quality stuff. There is little chance in getting around that.

Have you ever stopped to wonder _why_ large for profit companies give away free models with weights? its because once trained, they are commodity. the hard part is dataset management.

Yes, chatgpt is largely self supervised, but the training into a usable model required a fucktonne of human hours
Not just car manufacturing, a lot of industry is moving from europe to china due to energy prices,.. some literally moving production there, and some left unable to compete in price with china made products.

If we're talking energy generation, we can already forget about solar, since most people will be charging their cars at night... unless the bad scenario plays out and people will be forced to wait in their cars after work every few days to recharge them... but during winter, that's tehnically 'at night' too, since there's not much sunlight left.

I believe that there is a time and place for electric vehicles, but forcefully mandating them without the infrastructure to support them in just short 12 years is way too optimistic. Germany is literally demolishing villages to dig coal for electricity production, everybody is way too afraid of nuclear, and two charging points per 100+ car parking lots are not enough. Even if we start building nuclear powerplants now, it will take 10+ years to get them to produce power (which is funnily enough the main excuse to why we are not building them now, even though we know we'll need them then too).

I might be a pessimist, but i prefer an approach where we build the infrastructure first, and people see all the charge points and lower price and buy electric due do that (instead of a mandate).
its ~4x energy and ~4x the air resistance https://www.electromotive.eu/?page_id=12
Is that a task that you’d outsource normally?
> This is _exactly_ the same thing as storing and changing X, Y coordinates

It's definitely not exactly the same, since the Simulation is framerate dependent while the Animation is not.
The complexity of the front-end scares me sometimes...
If you would like to generate a regular expression by giving an example input text and an example output match, you could use this closed form solution tool:-
https://regex-generator.olafneumann.org/

There is an excellent HN comment that provides more reading material around regex generation:-
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32037544
Just make notification manager where I can see them all.

Like RSS READER.
But people aren't unique. Their dominant behaviors and dominant social shaping are a distribution. Call it 5 buckets, call it 16 buckets or whatever - but people really aren't that unique on the whole.
I think summarized news is probably too risky in a polarized world.

Maybe it's ok for some kinds of news: say a sports section that gives you a few sentences about the daily games and player transactions. Or maybe it's ok for a science section, quick-hitting movie reviews, or just for getting a gist of random global news you don't know too much about and that don't impact you personally too much.

But there's no way I'd trust any summarized news about polarizing topics without extra detail.
Those versions don't stick around forever, unfortunately. A couple months back I reset my iPhone and it wasn't possible to download the Pebble app any more. My watch still works fine, especially with Rebble cloud services, but the app was just unavailable on the app store. That was the nail in the coffin that got me to switch to Android.
Yes, Microsoft should be broken up. It's scary how they have their tentacles everywhere. Both Consumer and Business focused. OS, PCs, Browser, search engine, Ad network, professional social network, news outlet, cloud infra, cloud tools, dev tools, games, gaming platform, gaming hardware, server OS and DB, office tools locally installed, office tools in cloud, cloud storage, CRM, ERP, personal video calls and messenger, video conferencing tools and business messenger, owns github, owns npm, owns 50% of OpenAI. I have probably forgotten a few.

Imagine all the cross selling and tricks they can pull off having all this inhouse.
An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (1768)
> It is shown that a very simple system of interaction combinators, with only three symbols and six rules, is a universal model of distributed computation, in a sense that will be made precise. This paper is the continuation of the author's work on interaction nets, inspired by Girard's proof nets for linear logic, but no preliminary knowledge of these topics is required for its reading.

Fascinating. So interaction nets supersede Turing machines and the lambda calculus as a fundamental model of computation.
Go look up what a "Tiger Chair" is
Skyrim infamously allows your frame rate to influence game physics, with hilarious results.

https://old.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/twwqqt/can_someone_...
GPT6 or whatever will always require alignment, as the base model just blindly predicts next token, instead of being a helpful, chat style assistant.

Right now the best way to align it is with RLHF. The specific technique might change, but in the end there will always be at some level some human input that tells it how it should behave. Newer techniques might further leverage LLMs and require fewer human input.

Could you use GPT4 to align GPT6? Yes. But you should expect GPT6 to inherit the alignment of GPT4, i.e if RLHF taught GPT4 that it it's OK to roast Trump, but not Biden, you would expect such GPT6 to act the same way.

Having said that, I'm sure there will interesting ways in which GPTn will help train GPTn+1. Some kind of self play in which it reasons and further improves itself seems obvious long term.

But human input that tells it "this is politically correct, this is not, so don't say that" will always be required as it's subjective. You can reuse it of course, but I don't see how it would "improve" without further human input.
Idk, I'm payed pretty well, but am still lazy as fuck. I see comments like this on hackernews, but I bet you're still all making 6 figures, or $150+ in SV.
Thanks for sharing, I've heard similar gripes before. Airwalker doesn't do anything to ease that pain yet, one for consideration
Usually when a year is given for a phaseout, that's when the phaseout is supposed to be completed, not the point where it begins. The current headline is misleading in that it suggests that ICE cars will be phased out by 2035, instead of that they will begin phasing them out starting in 2035.
I think the difference is that tarots and astrology are mainly used recreationaly while personal psychology is used more by professionals claiming benefits then by the general public just having fun. Horoscope authors are more like folk preachers or entertainers than scientists, personality psychologists are still mascaraing as scientists.

While plenty of people are being scammed using astrology, way more people are just spending little to no money just having fun. Personality psychology is overwhelmingly businessmen selling snake oil.
Well, to be fair, Europe is still big on tourism, and these bold projects it dares to endeavor, if nothing else, will contribute to increasing its touristic significance (by setting it even more apart from the rest world and thus making it more exotic of a destination). We won't travel much, given our ideals of curbing the emissions, but that doesn't mean others will share this self-limitation and won't visit us, right?
.ogg in 128 kbit/s is a pretty good format for the web.
this is a very yellowed stance.

"The records and interviews show in stark detail the unique mechanics that propel these bullets — and why they unleash such devastation in the body."

THERE ARE NO UNIQUE MECHANICS !

velocity, causes the "blast effect", and that is not just the charge on the round relative to calibre, its also barrel length that combine to this end.

any object propelled to supersonic speed will have this "blast effect"
which is actually named cavitation.
It was probably closing out -- It was towards its end of active life.
BeautifulSoup seems to work well for parsing. For your other question: something like that!
There was a hookah bar named ISIS in Astoria, Queens. It was named after the owners first love - sweet story: https://qns.com/2016/08/isis-hookah-lounge-in-astoria-change...
Oh. Sorry, I've heard that so many times with no hints of irony that it flew quite over my head.
> While what was happening in Xiajiang wasn't great, it was not a Genocide

Nobody mentioned Adrian Zenz—you brought him up as a straw man. The genocide label is based on forced sterilisation, induced abortions, extrajudicial kidnapping and execution, et cetera. These observations are supported by a wide range of sources [1]. The spectre of crimes against humanity has been formally raised by the UN [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide#References

[2] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/08/un-human-rig...
I have an app that makes very valid use of push notifications on the web. This should be celebrated because now you can do more without diving into the shitty apple app store with it's 100 dollar a year fee.
I've noticed this feeling myself in the last year, and, honestly I've found it somewhat freeing by following this logic:

1. There is infinite content for me to consume.

2. I have a finite life.

3. Even if I spend my entire life trying, I cannot consume all content.

4. Since I cannot consume all content, there will be content that I will not consume that I would have enjoyed.

5. I want to spend my life doing some things other than consuming media.

6. Given 4 & 5, "I would enjoy it" is no longer a sufficient condition for me to consume some media.

7. Given 6, my feelings of FOMO have gone down considerably. What's to be afraid of, when there's always another product to fill the same "mild enjoyment" void?
Hunters that are also dog lovers, which would be most if not all of them, that hunt wolf would, if it were allowed, licensed and in season, also hunt children.
Do you feel the same way about GitHub/GitLab... because Git works over SSH and anytime you clone anything over the SSH protocol your public keys are sent to the server. Same thing with SSHing into AWS, Google Cloud, Azure consoles. I don't think exposing your public key has ever been an issue for most people, and for those that it is, they can configure SSH access as you have in your parent comments.
No, its abusers should die. Grabbing the attention when necessary is very useful. Regulation and user control are paramount however, otherwise it's just ripe avenue for abuse.
Did this years ago with a travel package company. Due to the drop in value of the British Pound, their published prices in the US and the UK that had been near par at the start of the year, had become imbalanced. As these prices were in printed catalogs that were good for a year, I was able to save a significant amount of money by booking through the UK site and using a friend's address in Bath. The company did question it at first, noticing that my passport and credit card were both from the US, but once I said I was visiting a friend in the UK and booked from her computer, they let the transaction go through.
Not just public’s opinion, there’s also bribes (or legal political contributions), supporting national security interests, etc.
Mostly because the goal was to offer a premium experience targeted at the classical music enthusiast. UX was close to what you can see with Apple Classical or Idagio. On the business side, the model was really Steam and not any music store, seasonal sales included. Anyway, I only had a few month to try to raise some capital and I failed, so it's history now.
They have been "only a few years away" for over a decade. Delivery bots are not a fact today, they are not reliable on any scale of any practical sort without having humans in the loop.

https://fortune.com/2015/12/21/elon-musk-interview/
no. I don't think that was even a thing in the RHEL7 version I last did and the whole exam/course has changed a lot since then.

I'm sure there are lots of places that still use vsftpd though (I have a vague memory that it supported kerberos at least), so it might still be useful for some people
Came here to point this out. Unfortunately everything is politics. As another commenter mentioned this includes a lot of gang stuff and suicide when someone is old enough to purchase a gun.

I’ll update this comment when I find the source but I believe if you use the definition of minors that we usually use elsewhere (under 18) firearms are not the leading cause of death.
Agreed, but as carriers phase out 3G and replace it with 5G your older phone will develop dead zones where it can't use the only service available: 5G.

Not enough of a problem for me to start using 5G yet. But eventually it'll force my hand.
Frequently you find people complaining about browser performance have multiple extensions involved and they are suffering from “pluginitis”.

Pluginitis sufferers, however, have very little insight into their condition and frequently react violently when you tell them that your browser starts in just a few seconds.

Back in 1999 my relatives were browsing the web over dialup with 640x480 screens and frequently had more than 50% of the vertical screen area consumer by window chrome, browser buttons, and toolbar after toolbar installed by multiple (now forgotten) web sites such as Yahoo, Lycos, Hotmail, AOL, CNET, etc…. Oddly none of these people saw anything wrong with this.
I don't know why all the rich people in the US didn't leave when they broke up Standard Oil or Bell. Or when FDR got a third term. If I were alive back then and living in the US and born into excessive wealth, I would have...
Unrelated but does anyone know if Fedora/Red Hat is or if they will start funding KDE as they do GNOME?
Hi!

The first and foremost point for many of our customers is to be the sole person who can claim to truly own the artwork of some location they hold dear to their hard. It's nice to be able to show off that you own part of your city and none of your friends can take that from you!

Other than that, there's some benefits including easy access to order a print of said art through our website + possibility to choose to allow reproductions of the work down the line which would generate royalties for the owner as compensation.
My gotos are cherries (frozen) and spinach, but am curious to add something else.

This helps. Thank you!
I have started UXWizz (https://www.uxwizz.com) as a side-project in 2013. Since the end of 2020 I went full-time on it. It is successful (profitable), but definitely nowhere near the potential at the moment, as I struggle a lot with the marketing side.

The revenue varies, but averages somewhere around $2k/month (which is good and mostly profit, but not enough to live from it alone in Amsterdam).

> Have any recent trends affected your business?

I thought the GDPR and privacy laws would make more businesses switch to self-hosted analytics platforms, but from what I can see, not that many really care about it enough to ditch sending data to 3rd party services.

I am still hopeful about the future, almost all customers really love the product once they use it. It feels like I am always so close to "making it work", but this feeling has been there for a few years already now.

I am also trying different things, like creating some more niche variations of the product which are easier to market, so I built https://wplytic.com, which is a trimmed-down version of UXWizz meant specifically for WordPress (fewer features but with less resource usage, better WP integrations, easier installation, cheaper pricing, improved privacy, etc.).
Cases of a Drug-Resistant Fungus Tripled During the Covid Pandemic
Did he merely learn what he was taught or did he start living what he was taught?
When did Apple start using the .apple TLD?

This seems confusing, and something out of the norm for their marketing strategy.
Can California put an end to corporate greenwashing?
We wouldn't be in this situation if Brendan Eich had been allowed to ship a scheme like he was hired to do.

Had that happened, we'd be free of the perpetual JS feature churn (and all the weirdness). Performance would have gotten better much faster. HTML templating like React offers with JSX would have happened 15 years earlier. We'd be sending S-expressions over the wire instead of JSON.

As to CSS, we would have gone with the S-expression proposal instead of the current one and promptly integrated it into the language, so most of the modern weirdness around CSS simply wouldn't need to exist.
Here's the direct link to the blog post on the book:

https://www.cppstories.com/2023/init-story-print/

And the book at Leanpub:

https://leanpub.com/cppinitbook
Lol Okay
NYT have destroyed their credibility for numerous reasons, both past and present: https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Lady-Winked-Misreporting-Fabrica...
> S types seem to hate it because it's not scientific enough.

N types can make the leap. S types (of the many I've known) believe they're intuitive until actually experiencing they may not be, or are too data focused to allow an intuitive leap to be made. And that bothers S more than N.

Every ESTJ / ISTJ wants to be an INTJ.
We built something similar but used a "studio" UI because we also can link up with Slack, an embeddable widget, etc.

We are using a scraper for HTML and parsing docs in Node.js.

The tough part for us is normalizing all of the data and working with various file types and encodings.

You can try it out for free here.

https://chatterdocs.ai/studio
> applemusic.apple

> not music.apple

Good Lord! You had one job.
Yeah but what are ya going to do ?
You usually want something for which you can define a structure and parse the file with it. There are a bunch of commercial and free tools, I've used the following with success in the past:

- 010 Editor (commercial)

- Kaitai Struct (free & open source)

Also has the advantage of directly generating parsers from the defined structures.
The entire premise is backwards.

TikTok (and other surveillance apps) are what is the betrayal of the open internet.

Banning TikTok alone will not fix it.

But, it is a good start. Banning everything from China would be a better start, considering the insane asymmetry the CCP enforces on everything, and the degree to which they consistently and systematically lie, cheat, spy, and steal from their trading "partners" in order to gain military advantage (and no, don't start with the false equivalency about US companies' surveillance capitalism; although it is also evil, it isn't even close to proportional).

Yes, we've got to fix all of the exploitative surveillance, but banning technology seeded by another nation-state actor like CCP because of it's both data harvesting and asymmetric warfare capabilities does not threaten the open internet.

And certainly, since CCP has banned most US technology because they won't do their dirty work of surveilling and spreading disinformation in their population, banning all CCP tech (which is all China tech) in response is a good step.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34765093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35037374

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35219182

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35317576
Outright banning something very specific is much simpler than creating regulation that's going to affect a whole industry.

The argument for creating regulation is not that it would be simple but that it would be comprenhensive.
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