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Show HN: I built Pillser to make supplement shopping easier and more transparent
Hi HN,

I'm excited to finally share Pillser, a project I built to simplify the process of finding and comparing supplements. Pillser makes supplement shopping easier and more transparent by allowing users to search based on active ingredients, compare prices across different websites, and find products that cater to specific needs and dietary restrictions.

How and Why Pillser Started:

Recently, I found myself grappling with fatigue and headaches, only to learn from my doctor that I had deficiencies in vitamin D and iron. Understanding the root cause was a relief, but finding the right supplements became a daunting task. Determined not to choose based on brand alone, I started meticulously entering data into a spreadsheet, comparing each supplement’s ingredients and costs.

You could say that the first prototype of Pillser was this spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BjiEbhJc3nmhkBoczd0w...

However, I also needed other supplements, and this manual process became overwhelming. I wished there was a way to automate this for every supplement on the market. That’s when I decided to create Pillser — a user-friendly supplement comparison website that goes beyond the limitations of a spreadsheet.

* I learned how to build websites using Remix.run.

* I used ChatGPT to guide me through the best practices of SEO and accessibility.

* I fine-tuned ChatGPT models to assist in extracting attributes and organizing the data efficiently.

* I wrote hundreds of tests to ensure data integrity, making sure every piece of information is accurate and reliable.

* I optimized the website to score 100 on Lighthouse, ensuring it’s fast, accessible, and user-friendly.

I plan to extend Pillser to become a one-stop-shop to discover supplements & learn by browsing the associated research papers. However, you can already do a lot:

* Search Active Ingredients: Easily find supplements containing specific active ingredients like Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Iron, etc.

* Compare Prices: Compare prices across different websites (Amazon, iHerb; adding Vitacost) to find the best value per milligram.

* Filter by Attributes: Filter supplements based on dietary restrictions and certifications (e.g., gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO).

Check it out and let me know what you think!

I'm open to feedback and suggestions on how to improve the site further.

p.s. The linked page shows results for all ingredients that contain Ergocalciferol (vitamin D₂). You can modify the search however you like to search by anything that's mentioned in the supplement facts label.
> Let's be real, if this charade of a website was an actual startup, we'd probably wear t-shirts that say...

It's intentional. The app is free. There is a statement about this whole corp mission mindset.

This is the way it is. If people don't like it or push it away from the product, they are not the target audience.

I think this is brilliant. I understood immediately what the app does and kudos for the courage in setting the website the way it is. Was also impressed with the aesthetic of the site.

If only I had a turntable...
> But Android is not a standard, it's "just" one OS, so changes made by Google in AOSP don't really impact, say, iOS.

That's interesting because I personally do believe that Android is kind of the mobile standard, it has everything to be one, from the wide variety of devices to the certifications of conformity.
Not really? It could also imply that they were greedy then, but less capable of acting on their greed.
It's a better use of your time just learning quantum mechanics than reading this book. Even if you give up, you'll at least learn some linear algebra along the way.
Whale booping and sidehugs. Beware when they start planking.
I've used a custom domain for my email since forever. When I was running my own mail server, I had fairly strict requirements for senders to block the delluge of low effort spam; but I'd have to watch for bounces from important senders; IIRC my credit union liked to send some mails where the smtp helo hostname wasn't right, and I had to whitelist them, and sometimes they'd change to a new wrong hostname, etc.

But now, fastmail is my MX, and they do whatever they do, and it's fine or I don't hear about it? I try to avoid signing up for email delivery, because I'd rather get written correspondence by postal mail. But that's because email is a cesspool of junk, rather than because I'm worried about not getting things.
Dolphins like to wake surf, so yeah, they left to go find another boat.
I agree with this comment fully but I just wanted add a little on the subduction.

It’s a lot quicker than people think.

The vast majority of rocks we can find that aren’t of extra terrestrial origin are only around 200 million years old.

>A few seams of very old rock have been discovered, such as the billions of years old Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt in Hudson Bay, Canada, as well as similarly ancient outcrops in Australia, China, Greenland and South Africa. But even this very old rock has had a complex history. “Exposure to high temperatures during past collision can change the chemistry,” notes Boyet. “This disturbs the isotopic system we use for dating rock.”

https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442712-are-all-rocks-on-...
Hi HN the main (more detailed) article is here
https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c/discussions/481

Happy to answer questions!
I don't doubt you, but if that's the case why not make it easy to get to a human? I'm fine explaining my problem to a robot, but if (when) they don't understand what I'm saying, hand me off to a human! For example, it's maddening to call the pharmacy and go through something like this:

Pharmacy Robot: Hello, thanks for calling <pharmacy>. What can I do for you? You can say anything like, "Check pharmacy hours" or "order a refill".

Me: Hi, I have a refill for <specific medication with rules around it> that is due next week but I'll be traveling out of the country to <other country> for a couple of weeks. I need to know what my options are.

Pharmacy Robot: Ok, you want a refill. Please enter the prescription number now.

Me: No, if we try to refill it, the automated system will just reject it. I need to talk to a h...<cut off by robot>

Pharmacy Robot: Sorry, I didn't get that number. Using your phone's keypad, enter the number of your prescription refill.

Me: Jesus Christ, do I have to hang up and go through this whole thing ag... <cut off by robot>

Pharmacy Robot: Sorry, I didn't get that number. Using...<cut off by human hanging up>

That's just the most recent one I had. There are often better examples of madness...
Is this likely? What is it a consequence of?
>Which distant problems? How many? It would be endless.

That's kinda the point, they are endless. I have some peers that are continually in a state of distress, concern, and preoccupation. If you are inclined to fixate on these things, you wont ever run out of topics. I have serveral friends in their 30's who will be at a beautiful summer BBQ with friends and be unhappily fixated on negative news of police violence, foreign wars, or other things happening thousands of miles away. Im not saying paying attention to these things is bad, but the inability to stop and smell the proverbial roses is.

In my opinion, the phenomenon is more pronounced with younger generations, and also mellows somewhat with age. I think cranking out a kid or two certainly helps draw ones attention to the "here and now".
I mean, f-droid allows adding custom repositories that don't follow the main one's rules. There's a decent amount of apps that do this for one reason or another. Other apps, like for example OSMAnd, have a special f-droid build with google services removed, leading to the lack of some features like android auto support.

The client doesn't support any form of purchases and I don't think it ever will. I think you'd be best served using any of the other stores that support this or hosting it on your own website.
AI characters try to find the human in a VR game
I still remember my UIN from 28 years ago, which I stopped using about 23 or 24 years ago. Amazing that I can remember that number but can't tell you where my keys are half the time.
I agree. Inflating the money supply (for example, via cheap credit policies) distorts the economy and creates malinvestment. Unadulterated consumer demand is eclipsed by the artificial demand created by the newly created money. The new money isn't distributed uniformly and immediately in an economy. It starts out somewhere. So, in this case, one of the distortions is in the housing market.

Working people are perfectly willing to purchase homes they can afford. In fact, it is safe to assume that it is one of their top priorities. If affordable housing isn't being created, something is amiss. See above!
> German carmaker plans to unveil affordable models in 2027

It's probably about time for "affordable". I thought "affordable" would be the name of the game right from the start. But unfortunately, EVs even with tax cuts and credits are still just as expensive if not more so than regular vehicles. They are not even cheaper to insure either.

So it's good they aim for affordability, but I am not sure in US $22k as quite low enough, at least not for me. As it stands with current number of chargers and gas prices I'd rather pay $24k for a basic Honda Civic. Maybe in some years, they'll make even more affordable models, we'd have longer lasting batteries, or there will be a lot more chargers around.
> 2. The capital gains tax exemption of $500,000 has not risen with inflation.

I wish there were a $500k capital gains exemption for turning my ETFs into a house.

Yet another way in which real estate receives massive privilege.
Ah yes, more consolidation. I’m sure this will in no way end up being anti-consumer. Maybe they can rebrand as Bell System as well.
Also those connected devices can be cars and things that nobody gives a fuck about.
Easy returns or more waste: sometimes both!

There is a whole industry around handling returns. They often go to the landfills anyway. Sometimes you can get a refund without having to send something back, because they can’t use it anyway.

Most clothing donations go to Africa or get dumped. Recycling can end up in landfills.

I still think it makes sense to try to reuse and recycle, but with low expectations about how much good it will do.
I wouldn't trust class traitors.
I think you may be underestimating the sheer stupidity of our western leaders.
RT isn’t even close to a news website. I’m sure you have access to all Russian media that justify this name (kommersant.ru and other business media are probably one of the most objective ones there).
The downside with plugin hybrids is that they require having a charger at home. Otherwise they're annoying enough that people give up on charging them.

This is because smaller batteries take a long time to charge (usually AC only), and small capacity means they need to be charged frequently (often daily).

BEVs can have batteries 10x larger, which also allows them to charge at a 10x faster rate. The larger battery can last a whole week on a single charge. Quick infrequent charging makes them tolerable even without having a charger at home.

BEVs also don't cycle whole batteries that much, because driving 30 miles daily will use 10% of the battery, not 100%.
This would be a more compelling argument if the person you were referring to, who was 16 when this happened, wasn't open about their criminal background (it's literally part of their pitch at this nonprofit, which is significantly about prison reentry) or had in the intervening (checks) thirty years been accused of some other relevant offense.

Instead, it's just another instance of exactly the discrediting rhetoric I'm talking about.

What makes this worse is, this nonprofit does not look like a compelling use of public dollars, and an effective case could probably be made against it on the merits. Instead, it's just culture war bait. Since we're in a 50/50 culture, that means the entire argument is a push; we'll have to wait for someone else to move the dials on whether we fund organizations like this.
You really need to provide data to make that assertion. Shortages of buildings are not the only reason that property prices can be high.

Properties are made up of a building and a plot of land that it's attached to. Whilst we can nake more buildings, we can't make more land, so the land in a given location is by definition going to be in a permanent state of shortage. If more poeple want to live in that location OR (the main driver of this crisis) if more money is chasing the same fixed supply, then the prices rise. The land component is the part that has become more expensive recently, not the buildings.
BYD released Qin L, pure gas fuel consumption is above 75 mpg in real world test
> there exist many situations where your health would improve if you have your very first cigarette.

Can't argue with a science denier unfortunately, good luck
I said "average" twice, and "median" zero times, so yes, one statement does follow from the other. But you're right that the median may be different.
It's not the case that there were no alternative designs at the time that v6 was proposed. RFC 1385 described a backwards compatible Extended Internet Protocol which used IP Option headers to stuff in extra addressing space.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1385
Isn’t it trivial to run these on another port?
That was the case for big EU funded projects with lots of industrial + accademia participants. I worked at a place where we had people working full time on setting up proposals for these projects. This was a very political game (find partners in countries the EU wants to help this year!), and very low risk too for big partners. We were usually "selling" stuff that had been done already, and the new funding was used to work on new stuff. That meant we could always show successful projects, which in turn helped getting new funding - rinse and repeat.

NGI is different, they seem to focus more on funding individuals and open source projects with relatively small grants. This has good and bad sides of course - a more level playing field, but makes it still difficult for projects that require long term work.
This is a blast from the past. What a crazy place the early internet was. I remember just striking up random conversations with random people with ICQ. My friends and I used it a lot. AOL's acquisition and changes killed it for us. It pushed us all over to IRC.
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Again though, you can't do "Starlink from the satellites, so we don't rely on a specific ground station" unless all of the satellites support talking to Starlink, which they don't. That means they'd have to be replaced.
>> "In an ideal world, there would be a simple strategy for mariners to follow when killer whales interact, which would avoid vessel damage and harm to the whales. Unfortunately, there appears to be no such panacea," the authors of the study wrote.

No. There is an easy answer. Stop sailing your toys through that bit of ocean. This is not an issue for commercial craft. This is about large sailboats, which are universally toys of the rich. Just call this part of the ocean a no-go area for a few years and the orca will forget about this game. If this was a population of eagles that was ripping apart ultralight aircraft, the FAA would slap a NOTAM on the area and that would be the end of the issue.
> Sure, but given a large enough sample both will likely exist.

This applies to every event with nonzero probabilities. What's your point?

> Humans have been finding patterns in clouds, stars and even toast since time immemorial.

I knew this—humans love finding patterns. But our discussion is not about that. It's about the very basic thing in probabilities, which is some event is not as likely to happen as others. This is so trivially true.

The probability of getting a proper English word from a random string generator is much less likely than the probability of not getting it. Thus, getting a proper English word should be surprising. It is as surprising as getting any string from a set of gibberish strings with the same cardinality of English vocabularies.

> So the fact that one happens to be english should not surprise anyone

What should surprise you, then? I'm surprised that we need to talk about this very basic thing three times.
That 7£ /48 is a PA assignment, you can't take it home with you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provider-aggregatable_addres...
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Just a note that "occupied" != "can see people milling about". A lot of people (particularly in NYC) treat their apartment as just a place to sleep. During the day, they're at work. For breakfast and dinner, they eat out. In the evenings, they hit the clubs, or go over to a friend's, or visit one of any number of cultural attractions. That's why they live in NYC, because of the density of non-home forms of entertainment. Particularly if you value your privacy, it makes sense to keep the blinds permanently shuttered, leave your apartment in the morning and come back at night, and just sleep & shower there.
> I am skeptical. 36 years is a long time, but in the past 10 years there hasn't been much progress:

36 years ago we didn't even know shor's algorithm existed, and didn't know quantum computers could non-exponentially factor integers at all.

So in a certain sense, we have made infinite progress in the last 36 years. Who knows what could happen in the next 36.

More generally, i think making science predictions that far out is basically impossible.
PyTorch Hyperparameter Optimization on TPUs
That is completely false. Most of Earth's continental crust is more than 2.5 billion years old, with the oldest parts being 4 billion years old. Only Earth's oceanic crust is young.

We do find fossils everywhere. Not all rock types are conducive to fossil formation, and many parts of Earth are less explored than others, but there exists no region on earth without a fossil record.

Evidence of humanity's existence would be clear in the fossil record for billions of years. Reinforced concrete, plastics, artificial ceramics, mined fertilizers, they would all be preserved over geologic timescales. On top of this, intelligence does not simply pop into existence - there would need to be many millions of years of fossil record showing the evolution of some intelligent lineage.
I also remember my number, it's weirdly sticky in my mind. I had no idea ICQ was still operating.

It's weird how often we switch to, and how much companies compete with, different messaging services that fulfill more or less the same functionality as this app did a long time ago.
Sure. I created a few CLI tasks that I use frequently. One of them creates and sub videos for me to post on instagram with optimized content from LLMs like captions, hashtag, description.

Those videos are created using videos and images I get from whatsapp. So to create a new video I forward those media files to my bot which is running in my computer at home and it generates the video, description, hastags, caption and send to myself (I use 2 different numbers, one for me and one for the bot). This saves me many hours of work.

This same chatbot also helps me manage my whatsapp groups.
For my last several Amazon returns I did not have to use the original (or any) packaging, nor did I have to print a label. I did have to initiate the return through the app and take it to a UPS Store, where they took the unpackaged item, scanned the provided QR code on my phone, and gave me a receipt.
BYD would eat their lunch and it's not only the China government subsidies, but the pace of development.

Can't beat the Chinese work ethic with German socialism and work/life balance 35 hours per week.

There will be steep tariffs to keep them afloat, but the hungry chinese competitors would beat the legacy lazy ones.
Not everyone agrees that car-first design is a problem.
Presumably smaller particles are also more difficult to filter (and therefore more likely to make their way indoors without dedicated filtration), and also expected to remain airborne for a greater distance and duration (because of square cube things).
The big issue is that we can't communicate to the orcas that this is not ok.
We could very easily destroy them, but of course nobody wants to do that.

You could try to spritz them with a water bottle but I suspect they wouldn't notice. Same with the rolled up newspaper trick. It would just dissolve in the water.

I'm very worried about these orcas ever since I heard about them. It is probably fun for them what they are doing but the longer they are at it the more likely is that some vigilante decides to stop them. And given the lack of good soft options that lesson will be probably a violent one.

They don't even know how scary the bear is they are poking on the regular. Hope they will go bored of it before they get hurt.
I disagree that daily life is "trivial pattern recognition".

Just our visual object recognition is immensely powerful and far beyond and current AI. A simple task like walking to the fridge requires a ton of pattern recognition and spatial reasoning. Recognizing people's moods/predicting behaviors is also incredibly involved imo.

Ive said this many times but perhaps we should focus on achieving dog level intelligence first before we start worrying about human level AGI.
> Now I have to figure out

I'm glad it didn't continue with where you'll sleep tonight :)
Yeah, that makes sense! Thanks for pointing out
> I think this probably has decreased house prices to some extent, but people are really insanely reluctant to sell a house for less than they bought it for

If a mortgage is recourse, and your home price has fallen enough - yeah, you have a pretty big reason not to sell.

Especially if your alternative is to pay more monthly for a worse rental (often the case).
Canada is updating their model to be the worst of PM2.5 and their traditional models of common pollutants.

Part of the issue is the existing model does an average over 3 hours, where PM2.5 can change rapidly (fire, traffic surge, &c). So they have a second metric that is averaged over an hour.
Land price is inherently tied to buildings though, in the sense that the cap of value one can realize from land is the maximum square footage you can build by zoning.

Land that you can develop into multifamily that still has capacity is getting ever rarer. If you poll Americans the preference split is 60-40 suburbia for suburbs vs dense walkability, and yet in metropolitan regions the residential land allocation looks more like 93-7. This shows up in square footage prices, where dense walkability is priced much higher per square foot.
Crowding is huge in California though. The starting point was "multiple unrelated families living in one house." If the population has dropped by 1% but you started with 3 families per house, you still have (to some rounding error) 3 families per house.
I'm not the person you are replying to, but I happened to do an Amazon return at the UPS store in the last month and it didn't require a shipping label.

It was actually a super clean process on my end, couple of clicks on Amazon, they emailed me a QR code, I walked into the UPS store, flashed the QR code to them on my phone which they scanned, put the item on the desk and walked out.

Literally was in and out of the UPS store in less than a minute.

I have a lot of qualms about modern Amazon, mostly related to how value from Prime is continually diminishing in the form of things like ads in Prime Video, etc, but I have no convenience-related complaints about the return process I recently experienced.
Depends pretty much how those threads were started.

In Windows there are fun things like COM apartments, owner module scopes, local RPC, wrapping in-proc COM into DCOM remoting.

Apple and Google have similar local RPC features coupled with multithtreading.
I agree, I would rather do plain old HE over WP for a jammer. But either case would not qualify for a war crime.