skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you looked into wearing a mouth guard while sleeping? Life changing.

Massage can be good. Ask them to focus on neck + jaw stuff.

Otherwise, ergonomics stuff:
Standing desk, padded floor mat, kinesis, sideways keyboard, getting your monitor at the right height.

Strengthening core muscles can be good, too.
Great point! But while demand for network switches explodes, do you really get a competitive advantage from one company's switches vs another? (serious question as I've never had to build a DGX superpod or anything like it from scratch).
UTF-8 is still not the standard on Windows, it’s opt-in.
Is there a version of this on replicate yet?
Show HN: Scribe – AI search engine: navigate the web your way, minus the noise
Hi all

I've been working on a new search engine for the Internet, called Scribe (https://goscri.be). It's entirely powered by AI, with LLMs and embeddings used to classify, rank, and filter results, and built with the intention to bring more quality and power user features.

Some of its features include:

- All results are evaluated using trained AI models to detect paywalled, spammy, SEO-heavy content. Results are ranked based on merit only.
- Get quick, direct, human-friendly answers for questions by an AI assistant, instead of digging through long-form blog posts and documentation.
- For longer, deeper discussions, continue searches by chatting with the assistant with saved and searchable conversations.
- Quickly preview a page without leaving the search, to quickly evaluate or use the content. Discover related pages from across the whole web, including from unseen corners.
- Personalise your results by filtering out sites you don't want to see results from.
- Surface quick facts and answers from official and trusted sources without needing to dig into the page.

I'm also currently working on:

- Leave a comment and rating for a page, share and discuss with friends and family, and collectively filter or label the quality of a page or site right within the results page.
- Navigate an entire site using natural language. For example, "cancel an order" on Amazon.com takes you to the cancellation page, "coffee grounds" surfaces those products within a small online shop, etc.
- Within a page, quickly jump to a section using natural language, or chat with an AI assistant about the content.
- Show videos from the web in the search results. For example, "max s3 buckets" highlights the exact utterance in a talk by AWS that mentions the answer.
- A companion that helps you organise, track, jump between, and take notes of what you visit while deep diving, instead of having hundreds of tabs open.

This project has been an interesting technical challenge — the index is fully built from scratch (it's not backed by any existing search engine or dataset), and many parts of the stack are developed and managed entirely in-house, from the crawler, to the RocksDB cluster, to the AI classifiers.

My vision with Scribe is a web not as it is, but as it could be — a vast collective human effort of creativity and ingenuity. Where today's giants place boundaries, I dream of an alternative. I envision a digital realm where every voice, no matter how faint, finds an audience; where creativity isn't stifled by algorithms but is amplified by them. With the transformative power of AI, I'm not looking to replace the heart and soul of the web, but to celebrate and reveal it.

Scribe is still in beta — I'm still growing the index and improving the results — and I intend to open up the development and get diverse ideas from everybody. If you want to discuss ideas, feedback or issues, or want to follow our progress, connect with us on our subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/goscribe/) or Discord (https://discord.gg/nmUhrRfx).
... unless the U.S. Government restricts those roles to US citizens or green card holders.
There's no data here... it's just a statement by bankers about banks.

It's going to get upvoted entirely for the sentiment, but there's literally no new info here.
I can't help but wonder if this means Java might work on Plan 9/9front with this.

But I'm also not sure that's something I'll ever need.
Would solid state Lidar really be that much more expensive than a CMOS camera if it were manufactured at scale?
Meta has a clear channel to leverage generative AI in profitable ways in their ads. At some point in the probably not so far future, everybody's going to have custom ads generated for them that are optimized to get that particular person to click/buy/etc. Those will convert well, and the better ads convert, the more businesses will be willing to pay Meta for a given ad.

This compares favorably with Google, which is as likely to cannibalize its search business with generative AI as to create new value for itself.

Thus, for all the gen AI stuff like this, for which Meta doesn't have an obvious path to commercialization, it makes sense to release it publicly. They get plenty of benefits from this - for one, engineers (and smart people generally) who are working on really complex problems like to be able to talk about the work they're doing. If you're picking between jobs at Meta and Google, the fact that Meta's going to release your stuff publicly might well be the deciding factor.

I would also argue that there's an economic incentive. Right now, being seen as an AI company is definitely a positive for your multiple. I think the movement of Meta's stock price over the last 12 months relative to their change in profit and revenue is certainly driven in part by the perception that they're a leader in AI.
> make it nearly impossible to bring your own phone (if you are on a former Sprint contract)

I had no issues switching to a new, unlocked iPhone.
Harmonizing TypeScript and Haskell with FRP [video]
I'd argue that has gotten hugely easier. The problem is we have gotten hugely more demanding as well, so it ends up still being difficult.
Don't go back to Verizon, the grass is not greener on that side of the fence.

I was on Straight Talk, which was great because you could pick any carrier by simply buying the SIM for that carrier. I picked the T-Mobile SIM.

When Verizon bought them, you no longer had that option and you were suddenly just shunted to Verizon. When that happened, my 5G speeds in the city dropped significantly. Meanwhile, the coverage outside major population centers is not better. My wife still has T-Mobile so we have an easy way to compare, and T-Mobile's network is beating the pants off Verizon these days.
It’s less of a concern if you are in mid career. But someone should warn all these college kids that are going into comp sci. I don’t think this will be the kind of lucrative field they think it’s going to be over the course of a 40 year career.

The days of getting paid well for making crud are numbered (which most of us do, even in the most interesting problem spaces).

# need a front end boilerplate that hits a backend with the following end points. REST api for movies catalogue, and a corresponding ui. Oh, unit tests please. Go with a responsive design and also make a React Native version (matter of fact provision it to my iPhone). Decide between Heroku or AWS, set up deploy with git hooks.

# scrape IMDb for initial population of the db

# I think a Reddit like comment system would be good to add, so add it. No upvote/downvote though

# handle user login with google/fb/email

# also make an admin page to manage all this

I guess the technical product designer will be the new unicorn.
I don't think copying and pasting from stack overflow then fudging things until it works is always quite the same thing as using an LLM to help write code.

I've just spent the month of August learning to use Godot 4.0 with C#. Resources for this topic on the internet are scarce, Google only wants to show me the official Godot documentation and YouTube videos (which I don't watch because I don't like to learn in this way).

Sure, I could spend my time reading the official docs cover to cover, but I much prefer to get my hands dirty. I'm not a novice game programmer, I've written my own game engines, used Unity and published games. I've got the underlying knowledge of how Godot might work, but I'm unclear as to how to accomplish specific goals I'm trying to achieve.

And absolutely, I could just put everything into Google, and probably find correct documentation for what I need. Or I could just write "// Interpolate from current position to camera" and have Copilot spit out "transform3d.interpolate_with" along with supporting code specific to the code I have right here, which also references functions I don't even know existed. This way, I'm learning the "API landscape" in a sense.

Godot 4.0 is new enough (and C# used with Godot used so infrequently in online resoures) to the point where Copilot literally can not produce the correct output basically ever. The API changed and everything it outputs is subtly incorrect, either generating code that is now obsolete, or that the code it's generating no longer functions because of the API change.

When this happens, I just dive into the docs as a backup strategy. But never as my first choice.

Is this worse than not having Copilot? I don't think so, but it seems like we probably won't agree on that. I still feel like I've 'learned' Godot (I at least know more now than I did on August 1st). I'm able to synthesize the code more easily on my own thanks to the starting points provided by the LLM. And I'm also writing tutorials on how to use Godot, further solidifying the things the LLM showed me in my own mind.

I'm not saying LLM's are a "one stop shop" for learning. I'm just saying it's another tool. One that I think is a little shortsighted to just completely disregard because it's sometimes incorrect.
Work in Small Steps to Improve Stability
Zooming in on just how working (and deploying) in small steps can improve system stability.

It's odd to me how few orgs have really learned this lesson, so here's my attempt at a brief explanation of the mechanisms involved.
Wasn't it tremendously naive of Microsoft to trust that SSDs did encryption correctly? So naive that it borders incompetence and/or malice?
Ads changed. There is nothing adblock can do against modern ads. No piece of information is written without advertising for something. All relevant knowledge blogs these days are company blogs with big names behind. Every piece of buying decision / product review is written by an affiliate marketer. Every free tool is designed to get you to buy a premium version.

We basically are so surrounded by ads that classic ad formats turned ineffective
> What would be better would be a dTPM that is integrated e.g. into a SoC, such that there are no exposed wires anywhere without decapping the SoC. Some systems such as phones work like that, but this is hard to tell even from the technical specs.

That’s Microsoft’s Proton chip, I believe.
Smooth, soft and clear skin is definitely correlated with youth. It conjures the image of babies in most people's minds. Deviations from that indicate a degree of aging depending on the type and extent.
Great, quote the Dawn Project. You know that's a failing autopilot competitor that's faking videos. Look it up on YouTube, there's analysis videos showing that the Dawn Project is lying.
>But if they can't do all the same things, why not just only hire permanent residents?

I'm sure you can think of a few reasons if you consider it.
Some form of AI will eventually take over almost all existing jobs. Whether those jobs evolve or not somehow and new jobs replace them, we will see.

But it's definitely not just programmers. And it will take time.

Society needs to adjust. Stopping progress would not be a solution and is not possible.

However, hopefully we can pause before we create digital animals with hyperspeed reasoning and typical animal instincts like self-preservation. Researchers like LeCun are already moving on from things like LLMs and working on approaches that really imitate animal cognition (like humans) and will eventually blow all existing techniques out of the water.

The path that we are on seems to make humans obsolete within three generations or so.

So the long term concern is not jobs, but for humans to lose control of the planet in less than a century.

On the way there we might be able to manage a new golden age -- a crescendo for human civilization.
Ask HN: What is the most suitable Scheme implementation to learn today?
I'm not familiar with Scheme, and there seem to be many implementations around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scheme_(programming_language)_implementations

I'm a little overwhelmed by this and unsure which implementation to install and use to learn the language.
"Space work requires clearance from every country."
Hard disagree. What's the last major feature Twitter shipped before Elon? Keep in mind they had 8000 employees

Just in the last one year, we've gotten: Twitter Notes, long form video, checkmarks for everyone, subscriptions for creators, edit tweets, see # of replies and likes on a tweet

Yes, Twitter is worth less than he paid for it. He's partially responsible, he's been too erratic. But I'm optimistic with this shipping velocity, in a couple years the company will be worth much more.
Lots of people and small companies just buy a windows laptop and are unaware that the harddrive/ssd is encrypted with bitlocker.

People who avoid making a Microsoft account to log on to a windows computer, or who don't have access to the email address they used can find themselves in difficulty later when windows won't boot or it wants the bitlocker key for some reason. You can't get their files off the drive by connecting it to another machine because the bitlocker key is not available.

Yes, people should have backups and copies of their keys but they very commonly don't.
I think "immigrants" as a whole, yes: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-stu...

Even the people who can't vote lean that way:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/07/22/are-unaut...

Even if they can't vote, some of their family members can, and their kids and their friends will be able to. There's a reason major cities are often blue (largely linked to their history of immigration), and across generations, these loyalties can build up. (Also, the Democrats largely gave up on the rural areas as a matter of political strategy, but that's a separate story).

Asylees and refugees on the other hand... I can entirely believe that, but I guess we won't see the bigger picture of that (vs large-scale immigration from Central/South America) for a while.
This is the most likely explanation for both why they wouldn't release it and wouldn't explain why.
The article is devoid of substance.

> All but two of the top 20 countries for crypto adoption are emerging markets, with countries like Venezuela, El Salvador and Nigeria becoming test beds for whether cryptocurrencies could offer a balm to countries ravaged by inflation and depreciating official currencies.

There is a reason why people in Venezuela and Argentina flock to currency different from the wildly inflating fiat currency.

> But the central banks group said that crypto assets increased financial stability risks in emerging market economies, as a weaker rule of law could make it harder to enforce contracts, while “inconsistent enforcement can create confusion and raise market risk”.

These countries already have weak rule of law. If anything, smart contracts could be an improvement where presidential candidates are assassinated and narco terrorists bribe judges and police.
Atleast someone knows what they are talking about.
> If a painter cannot sell you a portrait they painted of someone without their consent, then it’s equally illegal to invite the painter over your house and have them paint it for you in secret.

Despite the hype, AI models aren’t painters, they are paint.
The way it's meant to work is that the revocation date of a certificate is stored explicitly, and signatures are timestamped so you continue trusting signatures that pre-date that revocation date. Because that's supposed to be the moment the private key behind the cert became leaked or untrustworthy.

However, Microsoft aren't doing this (their code signing ecosystem is frankly a mess compared to Apple's). Instead they're ignoring the timestamps in the signatures and breaking old binaries. Not cool.
Subway should of sold itself to Wawa
Riddle me this, Batman, but if that's true, why wasn't I laid off?
If it's actually per 100g I am heavily surprised how 20g sugar and 79g carbs with some artificial vitamins can be considered A. I guess it's not about being healthy then, just about being not soooo bad
Please send me your juniors, I'd like to hire them.
Did they allow you to keep your existing Sprint contract terms while doing so?
You really think that being robbed carrying a days worth of cash to the bank is an unrealistic risk?
+1 also interested in some tips
Could also use a light sensor or check if a circuit that runs on the inside of the case is broken.
IMO HF sell tents and Nvidia sell shovels
Its a service. The service should be designed to fit the customer, not the other way around.
Clearly, the people who designed the system have the same design philosophy as you. That is the problem.
Others see it as an argument in favour of continuing to pump stuff into the atmosphere to increase the albedo of the earth, but using less harmful materials than sulfur.

That really seems like the obvious next step in my opinion.
Responding specifically to the "vote carefully every couple years" part of this presumably sarcastic remark: I think this kind of throwaway comment belittles the fact that voting _does_ matter.

Last night, the Republicans held a primary debate in which none would acknowledge human-caused climate change. Last year, the Democratic party passed the inflation reduction act which puts a bunch of resources into addressing climate change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act

"Recycle our plastic" may be worthless, but voting and acting while also developing technical solutions really does matter.
How do I access it from my IDE? Jetbrains/VSCode?
Effort is the core of the problem, as it affects speed and access. Most of the tech industry is built on scaling things and expanding access by making them cheaper.

A government could pay 500 people to watch 500 cameras and look for someone, but cheap cameras and cheap storage to save weeks of footage and AI facial recognition raise societal problems even though by your definition no new capabilities were created.
Most code is bad, so I think it would help to find some bad code to read
Well, I actually think it would make sense, to test it somewhere in space first, see how it reacts with earth life.
(it likeley would just die, I think and not become parasitic)

But I rather think it won't happen soon, because it is not a priority to most funding parties.
Antarctic sea ice extent had been rising from 1979 (when satellite data started) to 2015. It regressed for a few years and then expanded again in 2020 and 2021 and then regressed again. There's a lot of causes of this and there are studies looking at it going back many hundreds and thousands of years, but they aren't as accurate as satellite data. Additionally, different seas in the antarctic have had different behaviors. Some have regressed and some have expanded at different times.

https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/18/1729/2022/

> ...changes in atmospheric circulation, wind stress and thermodynamic processes linked to the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) and El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

>...Thus, projections of future Antarctic sea-ice extent and the associated climate implications are highly uncertain.

Point is - we don't know.
Beware, recreating a VM snapshot can be very difficult, and its lineage may become an unreproduceable "pet".

Something you are able to construct from scratch on demand, automatically, is preferable.
The game described in the article is something I’ve done in ChatGPT 4 months ago, its just a prompting problem, it can persist characters across rooms/scenes and keep an overarching story or goal
Nobody would ever follow the rules if these lawsuits didn't exist, this lawsuit seems both banal and necessary.
Pip, maven, npm, docker hub, apt-get, github and suchlike seem to manage to provide hefty binary downloads with no need to monetise anonymous downloads.

I don't quite understand how they do so, but it seems to be possible. Everyone who downloads a 5GB stable diffusion model probably downloaded 5GB of pytorch+cuda+cudnn first.
Can it suggest deletions? Just seems like I don't know how to use it.
It's true for any big business. That's why real competition is necessary (greater than 6 participants, IMO, though there is probably some math formula to calculate ideal market participants).
"Let's please stop arguing about the image now*, and move on to more interesting points."

That's rude. Let's not confuse Hackenews with a ChatGPT prompt.
What is the english name and spelling of the new name Turkey goes by? Turkiye?
>> Doctors and nurses make a big deal about things like "the cord is wrapped around the neck" when the baby isn't even using its throat to breathe yet.

>they're concerned about occlusion of bloodflow through the cord and/or the carotid artery.

Yep. Our #5's cord was looped 3 times. He was born with no vitals but staff was able to resuscitate him. He was effectively dead for the intervening time.
Wow, this is actually way faster than new.reddit.com. I may try it out over old.reddit.com. There is obviously a difference in that it emphasizes media content with large cards instead of the more dense old.reddit.com but that is preferable for some content. I'll have to see how it feels with more use.

The only major problem I noticed is that the "comments" button wasn't a link so you couldn't open it in a new tab. I don't know why web devs hate real links. They think the only think you can do with a link is click it to open the target page.
Define safely given the current road hazards of human drivers.
Yes, because choosing to use the power of the state to impose your belief system has never had bad consequences...
It's not like there's a definition of life people universally agree on.

But the only life we know... is cells. Unless you count viruses. Which most biologists don't.
But does anyone consider Artgram or Cara to be "good" art? This looks mediocre, I agree, but I don't think anyone thinks it isn't.

Also, I never made the argument that it will be categorically worse, merely that it being AI is not significant enough by itself to replace highly talented artists.
Twitter seemed to be in a bad place before Elon bought it. Is the situation changing for the better, or deteriorating further (albeit possibly in a different direction)?
No you don’t. If you knew any people at those companies they’d tell you the layoffs were haphazard and confused.
I recently replaced Powertoys Run with ueli: https://ueli.app/

Basically the same thing, but Powertoys Run was always slowish while ueli is very snappy. It also integrates with Everything.
They're not citizens. They can't vote at all.
> Paying premiums for BigCloud means not paying salaries

You need all the same people to manage the same software stack, regardless of whether the VMs sit on hardware you own or at an AWS rack. Nearly all the work is on the software side.

The physical bit of maintaining the boxes is a minimal percentage of the work. At various startups we usually didn't have anyone hired to do this work because there wasn't enough to justify a person. Most simple changes (like pull and replace a hot-plug drive) can be done by the colo personnel and for larger work someone would drive to the colo maybe once a month. You only start to need dedicated hardware maintenance personnel at a very large scale.

The premium you're paying for cpu and bandwidth at your BigCloud is so enormous that it'll easily pay many more salaries than the people you need even if you reach the scale of needing dedicated hardware people.