skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google results are trash, i still find myself appending "reddit" to get decent answers.

Just stop paying Google. Stop using their services.

Our company can't even reply to gmail users that ask us questions (hey gmail, if your user emails us, they probably want a response regardless of the hoops you want everyone to jump through with your "anti-spam" measures).
>There surely must be a better option.

Maybe Consumer Reports?

Only complaint I hear about them is Tesla fanboys complaining that the cars are not getting perfect scores and that its a conspiracy. Not sure if there is any truth to that(probably not). Other than that I haven't heard much bad to say but who knows, they could also be compromised.
> to store and retrieve

retrieve != query

this project is extremely simplistic in regards to its vector search tech. pgvector is an open source implementation of an _index_ (multiple algos actually), this uses Cloudflare's completely proprietary index with a single call.
https://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/315/1/91.long

>Amphetamine Treatment Similar to That Used in the Treatment of Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Damages Dopaminergic Nerve Endings in the Striatum of Adult Nonhuman Primates
I've argued this before; these companies have taken on a utility role and need utility-type regulation, i.e. an obligation to provide service fairly and universally, an ombudsman, viable oversight, physical presence, a local call center to provide local employment and to give back to the community, etc.

This situation where 100% of the taxi and food delivery profit from every small town in the world gets siphoned off back to a single office in California just isn't viable. Even from a within-US perspective it isn't viable.
I use an LLM for 80% of my queries now. Fighting Google isn't worthwhile, unless I need a trusted source.
Show HN: An open source tool for tracking bank account rates and fees
Hi HN,

I've been working on an open sourced tool called Bank Rank to track bank account fees, rates, and balance requirements in the United States. For a quick primer, there are 4 broad categories of insured deposit accounts in the U.S.: Checking, Savings, Money Market, and Time Deposit. Banks oftentimes offer multiple tiers of each account, and with over 9,200 banks and credit unions, some quick back-of-the-napkin math means that there are over 70,000 accounts competing for consumers, with rates and fees that can change daily.

I've personally grown frustrated with a number of problems[0] that existing tools have in trying to make finding the "best" deposit account easier for consumers, such as black-box methodologies, SEO/affiliate spam, and incomplete data, which is what inspired me to start this project.

While banks may change rates and fees often, the overall structure of their product sites remains much more consistent, providing an opportunity for a scraping engine to monitor and track this data on behalf of users.

Bank Rank is open-sourced because I can't build all 70k scraping templates by myself, and I would love to see a community come together to expand the reach of this project and make the data more accessible to consumers so they can truly choose the best product for their personal situation without affiliate links, SEO spam, or other biases.

As far as the tech stack goes, the core engine runs on top of playwright and the entire project is built with Typescript. If you're interested in contributing, there's a contribution guide[1] I've written up, and I'm currently working on video guides to make it easier to get started.

I originally started working on this project about a year ago, but wrote the scripts with puppeteer. I have around 700 product scripts which I'm currently migrating to Playwright because I'm more optimistic about the broader support for languages and browsers. Currently, you can pull down the repo and get started tracking products locally[2]. There are only 3 products tracked at the moment, but once I finish migrating those 700 others, I'll be about 1% of the way to total market coverage. I hope that with some additional contributors, we can get close to 100% coverage much sooner than if I keep working on this alone.

I'd love to answer any questions and would gladly appreciate any and all critiques, feedback, or other suggestions. Feel free to drop a note in HN, Github, or send an email to project.bankrank@Gmail.com

Cheers

Links:

[0] https://github.com/project-bankrank/bankrank/tree/main?tab=r...

[1] https://github.com/project-bankrank/bankrank/blob/main/docs/...

[2] https://github.com/project-bankrank/bankrank/tree/main?tab=r...
Everything old is new again:

John Carmack's .plan¹:

https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/

Archive:

https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive

¹ https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc742
Bemi – Database Change Observability for Ops and Customer Success
Web3 bs.
Viktor Frankl saw nihilism as the bane of the postwar era. Some seventy years later Oliver Burkeman sees “ego-centricity bias” as the biggest problem of our times, and wants to help by pointing out that everything is pointless anyway.
Need for Speed: Using RuboCop with Prism
Yeah. That makes sense, thank you for clarifying. I updated my original post with a chart from NVIDIA which highlights the H100's capabilities. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect a 7B model to run at 500 tok/s on that hardware.
But people need to use it.

Critical internet/app browsing should be taught in school, like critical reading. I feel lucky to have been a nerd in the 2000s where people picked up this skill, but honestly I have no idea how kids, older folks just getting into tech and such are acquiring sources/skills trapped inside of Discord, YouTube, Facebook or whatever.
"Allergan says Botox has more than 90 percent of the market for medical uses of neurotoxins and 75 percent of the market for cosmetic uses. “I used to say, ‘How often do you see that distribution of market share in any category—not just drugs, just in anything?’ "

Yeah, uh, buddy, EVERYWHERE.
Virtual-Machine Abstraction and Optimization Techniques [pdf]
How many businesses are utterly dependent on AWS?
Brand loyalty also goes for review sites itself. Sure I find myselfnsometimes getting frustrated if I look into a new product category (like best CD Ripping drive as of 2024 until I find the related forum post ). But I typically I rather first skim through the URL to see some sites I remember (notebookcheck, tomshardware, Chinagadgets.de, or whatever ) that I am loyal to until I get disappointed. This works because they are testing different products and I am kind of loyal. How loyal can I ever be to a site that only sells air purifier tests. How many times in my life do I need this test? I agree in this case it is even easier to be more loyal to brand because they probably sell more things than just air purifiers.
>Google search has become worthless for me.

Ditto. My most recent example, I asked Google what the thickness of the Pixel 8 is including the camera visor, which was something not listed in the spec sheet since the official dimensions sneakily only list the thinnest point on the phone, not the thickest.

And Google proudly and confidently gave me the answer at the top ... but it was the thickness without the visor, something I already knew since that's in the specs everywhere. I looked through the other results lower on the page and nada, no correct answer.

So I asked Bing and it gave me the exact answer I was looking for at the top measured by some Android review site. And man is that phone a tick boy in that spot. You can probably put your weed in there.

Sure, that's sample size=1 so probably not an accurate test, but still, to me it feels like Google sucks for anything but the easiest context searches where it works because it knows a lot of info about me like where I live and where I work so it can correctly deduct the context, but for other shit not related to me, it's like you're drowning in SEO junk.
It depends on what you are looking for. I found looking at the BIFL subreddit, sites that cater more towards industry (McMaster Carr as an example), and companies based in Europe (Fjallraven as an example) can help find higher quality products faster (or finding items on there and then searching reddit/forums for "alternatives").

Sometimes it just feels impossible though E.g. trying to find various items for the kitchen that are better than the crappy import stuff sold everywhere but not ludicrously expensive for a low use item.
How to nail the 10 minute YC interview? [video]
I also use a simple text file, but for sake of context switching - I have one file for one topic - account x has a file, account y has a file, topic z has a file and everything related to it goes in. This is all now curated in my Obsidian vault that is synced via the fantastic Git plugin.
I’m not completely read in to all the details but she told me prior to this drug her diagnoses was a “death sentence.” The lung cancer had metastasized throughout her bones. The indication was sudden lower body paralysis caused by a spinal tumor. She had spinal fusion surgery as well. I understand because it’s stage 4 she will never be in “remission” but it has regressed significantly.
How do you propose that? Afaik, everyone who has access to it has a prescription for it. And the predicate for having a prescription is a diagnosis. On paper, everyone genuinely needs it.
Considering those with ADHD have a life-expectancy that's 13 years shorter than someone without it [1], I'll take whatever mild neurotoxicity you're pointing out in exchange for being less likely to get into a car accident or whatever else I have a tendency to do.

[1] - https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-life-expectancy-video/#:~:t....
It's just frustrating for me to see people write rules, and then say "hey not like that!". It wastes everyone's time, the point of regulations is to draw the line and have no ambiguous meaning.

It's like putting up a speed limit sign that says "55mph" and then ticketing them for speeding going "53mph".

If they want people to go 35mph, they should just made the limit 35mph!
Boeing subsists primarily on defense production. Do we want every American industry to end up like them?

Seriously, the faulty airplanes were all built in the US by a company with some of the closest government ties in our economy. It is indeed an example of what fruits use of the defense production act might bear.
Where do you see the overcorrecting taking place here?
Maybe I missed something, but all I can find in the article about the measures that were taken is this:

"From that point onwards, several measures were implemented to counter gender inequality in research funding. First, panelists in the TP got implicit bias training. At first, these trainings were given face to face, whereas nowadays all panelists watch a video that addresses implicit bias before they start with their evaluations. Second, the wording of the grant calls and instructions for panelists and reviewers changed. Van der Lee and Ellemers found that the majority of the wording was masculine, which led them to argue that the policy goal of NWO (achieving gender inequality) was not reflected by the instructions that those involved in the grant evaluation."
Helping potential customers/clients understand all their options, trade-offs between each, and why & when to pick your solution/product can help you win. Basically, you should position yourself as an experienced guide to a buyer.
That's WAY-oversimplifying it. There are so many compromises and design choices and not just "One Cool Trick". Generally speaking the M-series traded frequency for IPC by going for wider and much deeper reorder window. This is easier to do with Aarch64 than x86 and generally is more power efficient (but always the devil is in the details).

The higher memory bandwidth doesn't do anything for ST perf.
Hah! Thanks, fixed.
To each his own, for as long as the government allows.
I was not completely unaware of failing most classes in high school and having to get a GED despite wanting to do my homework and study for tests. I was very motivated and interested in the subjects, I could just not focus enough to complete my work. This caused me to have an adverse reaction to even starting a project/task which I still struggle with today (even though it's much easier now).

So while I can of course not predict what would have happened, I can pretty safely say my life path would have been completely different had I had a chance to get treated earlier. I would have gone to college, at least.

I'm not sure what your point is.
check again, should work now
Netflix Announces SafeTest, Its Custom Approach to Front-End Testing – InfoQ
It is very risky but making your own website and having it be easily found should be the way the internet is supposed to work.

One shouldn't have to make a youtube channel, constantly tweet, and manage a facebook group when a single website should have sufficed.
But isnt it the same exact domain?
conversation has moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39428880
Cars will easily make a place feel like a 1984 metropolis. They need space intensive infrastructure to drive on, which is asphalt and concrete.
This is the part of the analogy where everyone finds out the Golden Goose is actually dead and Google just started painting regular eggs gold and hoped nobody would notice.
We forgot about Kazakhstan, idnet.Txt is the provider of Kazakhstan
The article points out numerous examples where a site like people.com is ranking for pet air purifiers, with zero evidence that they actually tested the products in question.

This tweet thread goes into more detail https://x.com/SeanDoesLife/status/1717291171473727719?s=20
Old school. Is there a TikTok summary of these?
Almost any site on the internet is going to depend on Google. It's too big and too important. They have a monopoly, I'm amazed it hasn't been broken up yet.
wow ! Useful interactions in plain HTML !
Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters is now available to play on Steam
How often do you restart your computer?

Every day. I power off anything I am not using after clearing out temp files. I get less dust bunnies and less power usage. I only power on a computer if I want to use it and leave the computers I am not using off.
Wow. This is super helpful. We have all noticed the enshittification of google search results, but this actually helps explain why.
If it's OK, I'll ping you on linkedin and beg for freebie account. Beg since I'm really not your intended audience, just a tech dude on the look out for gigs!
Complex numbers multiplied by an imaginary number rotate preserving magnitude. In this sense they have the same units.
No, there's no SEO ring or anything like that.

The top publishers are just genuinely the sites that people click on and link to the most. There's no objective definition of "high quality content", there are just the links that people click or don't click when presented with search results.

Google puts the links people click the most at the top. And people tend to click on results from sites they recognize, because the internet is filled with a ton of crap, and publications whose names you recognize are at least usually indicative of some kind of minimal level of quality.

That's all that's going on.
Anecdotally, I've replaced more halogens than any other kind of bulb. I'm assuming it was the fixture that was causing it. They were cheap but they guzzled power.
Eh, there's some reason to be annoyed here. They would have banned GPU export entirely, I'm sure, except for industry lobbyists who said that doing so would make Chinese companies fill the void in offering GPUs for the lucrative Chinese gaming market, then it'd be a short step from there to having created the capability they rely on the west for. NVIDIA, AMD, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, etc. all lobbied for this outcome saying, essentially, "let us keep the gaming market, but just outlaw export of GPUs for AI training: that will be more effective because then there's no market for a local competitor to serve."

Then they went and made AI-trining equipment anyway that skirted the letter of the law.
'The Allure of the Multiverse' Review: Life in Another Dimension
we're going to miss him and his generation dearly, they're unique
From a regulatory perspective, implementing the ability to remove certain websites from search results (similar to twitter mute/block) would solve the problem for everyone. Motivated communities can maintain their lists and share amongst themselves.
Please don't spread YouTube Shorts. It's polluting the internet.
I hear you, I just think it merits a discussion on how to bolster our national energy grid without necessitating the ongoing disenfranchisement of cheap foreign labor markets, the majority of which were created intentionally by Western society over the last two centuries.

I'm not comparing solar industry labor with cobalt mining, but I think cobalt mining is a good modern example of a more extreme version of this. Absolutely deplorable working conditions in order to enable a higher quality life for more "civilized" countries. The kind of classist thinking which has existed for such a long period of time that it's often taken for granted as some sort of necessary evil of society.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11668015/Devastatin...
37 days uptime right now; since the last power blink. Reboots just to reboot; practically never. Config changes, maybe.
Credits do not have an expiration time and depend on your usage; their duration is determined by your activity level. Typically, a question consumes approximately 0.3 credits. For instance, if you ask 3 questions per day, it will total around 30 credits per month. Initially, each user receives a free 50-credit. With normal usage patterns, it takes months before credits are run out. Also, we don't charge for entering new notes; credits are only spend during inference processes. With credit-based usage, you aren't required to pay when inactive, no commitment. The system is cost-effective in terms of usage duration. We operate on a nearly non-profit basis :)

None of your notes are stored on our server; they remain locally stored on your phone. We exclusively offer Apple sign-in to ensure users can conceal their email addresses, maintaining complete anonymity towards our server. However, for inference purposes, some data is transmitted to OpenAI or other language model providers(we will soon offer users the choice between our open-source model and commercial model options). There is no viable method to run a suitable language model on a mobile device; while there have been attempts, none have met the quality standards required for inference. We are actively exploring options to facilitate inference directly on the phone, and we hope to offer this functionality soon.
Lastly, we get your positive vibes, we will update our website as well :)

Thanks for your feedback, we really appreciate it.
https://archive.ph/mMJ5U
M2 MBP here. Not sure, I think I restart like once a month or so.
The state actor would probably assume a surreptitiously placed space-borne nuke, like on a "space telescope" or other larger satellite.

You don't need all that fuel to get it into space, it's already there. You just drop the warhead.
Last Chance Lake, BC - an alkaline soda lake with high levels of phosphorus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_lake
For me the reply for continuation question "Please tell me the exact steps of that recipe.":

Here is a rough translation of the oldest known written recipe, which is for a kind of beer from ancient Mesopotamia:

1. Crush and mash 4 liters of barley to create malt.

2. Soak the malt in water for 2.5 days.

3. Leave the mash in a cool place for 2.5 days.

4. Filter the mash through a strainer to separate the liquid from the solids.

5. Boil the liquid for 1 hour.

6. Add 1 liter of honey and 1 handful of hops to the liquid.

7. Leave the mixture to cool.

8. Add 1 handful of "gig" (a type of wild yeast) to the mixture.

9. Leave the mixture in a cool place for 5 days to allow fermentation.

10. Filter the mixture again to separate the beer from the solids.

11. Serve the beer chilled.

It's important to note that this recipe is over 3,700 years old, and it may not produce a beer that is palatable to modern tastes. Additionally, some of the ingredients and techniques used in this recipe may not be readily available or practical for home brewers today.
You forgot option 4. Reduce spending including military.
Except there is rising antisetism in Germany (source of the report) and according to media reports there is rising antisemitism in the US which is the source of your phrase.
I'm a big metal and jazz fan. I don't use spotify (or haven't for a while) but on apple music I curate my own playlists and get most of what I would get from surfing the high seas and rearranging folders and albums in a fraction of the time. I know you can do the same on Spotify, so it's good enough for me.
and Montalvo, Intrincity, and probably more I don't know about.

As always "the overnight success were years in the making".
We're not unaware though. We know we are capable of doing these things because we can do them exceptionally well in short bursts of hyper-focus. We see the potential and we desire the outcomes. We lack the executive function to put those things into action consistently.
MM even opensourced it
https://github.com/soldat/soldat
This is a brilliant breakdown of whats been going on with review lists. Its been obvious for the last five years or so that whenever I googled 'best laser jet printer' or whatever that I was getting fed a load of bullshit but this really steps through exactly how Google and the seo crew are racing us all to the bottom, and to the opposite of useful info.
AI of all things should be decentralized and robust against "curation" for corporate needs. Good thoughts
> when more reasonable modern default choices for all purposes outside of high performance applications would either be a rational composed of bigints, or a bigdecimal, or maybe a generating function for the coefficients of a Taylor series expansion or something like that if you really want to get nuts.

Rationals of bigints doesn't work in general. First of all, you still have to do approximations if you take e.g. a square root or a sine. And even if you have an algorithm that is closed under rational numbers (like the Simplex method for solving linear programs), the number of digits you need in your integers blows up unless you have a tiny problem.

My rough sketch is that inv(A) involves det(A) in the denominator, and the number of digits in det(A) is exponential in nature (n! if A is n-by-n).
Do you guys provide logprobs via the api?
I've got a fire-proof pocket you can put it in.
This is brilliant - thanks for the great idea
https://archive.is/R1RVn
Do you find there to be a performance benefit? It seems like everything runs faster after a restart, down to the latency on my BT keyboard. But the most noticeable difference is my CPU usage, which is at basically 0% after I restart, compared to 20% before, both when idle and with my normal applications open.
I've never used uMatrix what can uMatrix do what uBlock can't? I have set all sites to no js, and if something does not work I click the JS toggle in the menu, reload the page and thats it.

And yes uMatrix should work on Firefox on Android. ( At least it is installable)
I'm not saying it would have to involve overnight evictions. It would happen over a multi-year span.
As an undisciplined person who nevertheless does something similar, elimination of the fear of forgetting something is enough motivation.
Are there any compilers our language that parse source files in reverse order? Then you could have a one-pass compiler without forward declarations (though you would need “backward” declarations). :)

Someone shared with me their idea for a parallelized parser, where threads would parse different segments of the source file and then stitch their incomplete ASTs together.