skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't understand how this connects to copyright claims. who is the user whos funds is being stolen?
That's a poor people tax. Not a deterrent.
Contrary to this, I'd like to see 3blue1brown actually get two more strikes and get deleted per YouTube "3 strikes" policy.

Imagine the furor and outrage of that. One of the most popular, meaningful, and impactful channels done in by YouTube's (and the DMCA's) ridiculous policy [1].

The public outcry from this might motivate real policy changes both within Google and other FANNG companies as well as with lawmakers.

Until a big channel gets stricken, this will continue to plague smaller creators with no recourse. We need a symbolic gesture of this magnitude to effectuate real change.

[1] And it's not like YouTube would actually delete their data or we wouldn't have a way to restore it. This is such an important channel that there's no way it wouldn't be restored by Google or archivists.
Study of AIAgents-driven Company: at best 24% of the tasks could be completed
Show HN: PDF Knowledge Base Search:Quick search for your personal PDF library
First, apologies because I used ChatGPT to draft this text. First time poster here.

I’ve developed a lightweight Python-based solution that lets you turn your personal PDF library into a searchable knowledge base—no complex setup, no bloated dependencies.

What It Does:
1. Extracts text from PDFs and saves it as JSON files, chunked by pages.
2. Optionally generates text embeddings (using `fastembed`) for semantic search.
3. Provides a user-friendly GUI for searching, navigating results, and previewing matching content.

The search interface supports:
- BM25 Algorithm: Great for keyword-based search.
- Simple Text Search: For exact phrase matching.
- Embedding-Based Search (optional): If you want semantic search capabilities, embeddings are supported but not required.

Why This Project?
I wanted something simple, portable, and fast for managing my own PDF archives—something that doesn’t require setting up a database or maintaining a server. The focus is on the search interface simplicity and usefulness.

With this tool:
- Your knowledge base is stored as portable JSON and EMB files. You can easily move it across devices.
- The GUI allows for intuitive searches and even opens matching pages in your default PDF viewer (Okular by default, but configurable).

Key Features:
- Minimal Dependencies: Works out of the box with BM25 and a small set of Python libraries.
- Optional Semantic Search: Add `fastembed` for enhanced search capabilities.
- Customizable Workflow: JSON-only mode for simplicity or JSON+EMB for full functionality.
- Cross-Platform Support: As long as Python and your chosen PDF viewer are installed.

Use Cases:
- Researchers managing collections of academic papers.
- Anyone needing quick access to information buried in PDFs.

How to Get Started:
1. Install Python and the required libraries.
2. Process your PDFs into JSON files with a single script.
3. (Optional) Generate embeddings for richer search results.
4. Use the search interface to start finding what you need!

Check out the code and detailed instructions here: https://github.com/Topping1/BM25-PDF-Search

I hope this is useful for the community.
Do your own thing. Attention is a resource, and people love listeners. You're a "slot" in their social circle for something, but it's a mystery. I don't think it's worth figuring out.

If someone is genuinely interested in what you have to say, they will actively seek and ask, right? They would include you in the conversation.

Sorry if it's not much help. Trust your intuition, and forgive yourself. Time sorts things out.
You cannot depend on Youtube ad revenue to survive, as it can be taken away at any time.
Tortious Interference might apply, but how much money was actually lost? 2 days of ad revenue on a video from 2017 is not much, certainly not enough to pay the lawyers for a lawsuit.
Has the government made that case? I'm indifferent to TikTok's fate, but I've only heard vague allusions, not a concrete case.
Used in a number of countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine
Well this is interesting as pretty much all TV manufacture and Broadcasting companies have backed off 8K. And focus on much more useful things like higher frame rate for sports content or HDR 10.

I dont doubt 4K is not perfect and there are improvement in resolutions above. I always thought 8K is overkill even for most enthusiast. But we could have had a compromise and do 6K or even 5K. Except no one is pushing for such thing.

It has taken the TV industry really long time to have more than 1 Full Bandwidth HDMI 2.1 port. I could only hope Mediatek get the HDMI 2.2 support out faster this time around.
Influence of Video Games on Self-Reported Spatial Abilities Among Students
Some countries do pay their Olympians well enough to be worthwhile.

Canada isn't one of those countries though lol.
I hope all nations ban Chinese and American propoganda apps.
> minorly-inconvenienced

120dB train horns at 2AM in the morning in a residential area is not a minor inconvenience.
On a larger analog clock, you can clearly see the minute hand progress from one minute mark to another.
One of the biggest culture shocks I had during my time at FB was when we were doing Mononoke, this completely greenfield project with a ton of unknowns (first big Rust project!), and we got a new skip level who was previously on the web performance team (super narrow and directed).
Distributing Funds in Open Source
I can't say I'm surprised. I think it's hilarious and fitting that news outlets are referring to Pornhub blocking access as "pulling out". I can't wait to see what term they use to describe unblocking access (if it ever happens).
Hell, even text is not exactly text, it also has structure. I'd love to have refactoring tools for prose.
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... and the only kind of music that exists are jingles and showtunes
Sort of. They got the outcomes pretty close, but the movie was based on a premise of eugenics and equating poverty with low intelligence.
Foods with the Most Plastic Chemicals: Study Reveals Surprising Results
Have you used the previous generation of MP3 players? I had one with a tiny LCD screen that would only fit half the song title (no space for the artist). To go to then next song, you had to press the "next" button (which makes sense). Except that action would take at least 0.5s. You press next, you wait, you see the display refresh with the next song's partial song name. Not the song I want, press next again. Very quickly, to skip 10 songs takes 10 seconds of effort. It was a painful device to use.

The iPod cam with a large screen and a click wheel. I could find songs on it. That was a revolution for me.

MP3 was the enabling technology (if you can't fit many songs on a small device, then this is moot).
This seems like a huge abuse of the copyright system to me. It sounds to me like ChainPatrol doesn't actually have any IP to protect, but they are instead deputizing YouTube's copyright system to fight what they deem to be crypto scams. Absolutely wild if true.
This is what the algorithm & tools of the platform is supposed to do for you.

It's also what makes you valuable as a free consumer.

If you want lumber, don't buy a house and strip it
This is true even before you land in the court room. The best advice is to put as much distance you can between yourself and the entire criminal justice system.

Folks make fun of "justice involved person" but it's capturing a real thing that it's a black hole (heh) that is impossible to escape from completely. Even when you're the victim. You are at your safest when the police have no idea who you are.
True. And I believe every system will eventually be gamed to some amount. You do occasionally need change. But if you were to artificially enforce some "full rewrite" reform e.g. every n decades, that reform would just end up a tug of war between sides already deep into the existing gaming, trying to increase the effect of whatever tactic their side excels in.

One candidate for a possible workaround that I've occasionally been speculating about would be an organized process where n groups are tasked with doing n "rewrites" in parallel, and then a process that somehow mixes approval and random selection to pick one. The rationale would be the hope that the low chance of a particular rewrite actually making it would add some distance, would reduce the gaming-the-system incentives. Everybody has some amount of motivation to actually design a fair system, but that's competing with incentive to make it gameable by whatever side the co-author in question is on. But that fairness incentive would not really be diminished much by writing a what-if instead of a definitive future, whereas the incentive to deliberately flaw the would-be system to make it easier to game gets lower with a shrinking likelihood of the proposal actually getting implemented.
This was so much fun at BURST ! Congrats on launching it!!!
Yes. My Casio on my wrist has a minute hand that creeps slowly from minute to minute.
I know there's a text version: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/bitcoin
Depends who you are, I guess. If you’re a young person who is not financially stable enough to form a family because of high housing prices, then you would disagree. If you’re a relatively well-off person with assets like real estate and equities, then you’re quite happy. It’s all a matter of perspective.

I myself am doing quite well financially, but I am still quite unhappy with the current situation because of the devastating effects of inflation and increased housing costs specifically, have had on younger generations (despite the fact that it financially benefits me personally)
Do feed and ranking algorithms have "sub-rational" influence over people's thoughts and opinions? If feeds are mind control, shouldn't courts and lawmakers just ban mind control? I'm glad we're taking it out of the hands of a foreign government, but why put it in the hands of domestic tech companies?
I've found it effective for anything that handles arbitrary input, especially from end-users. But if that data is coming from within your systems where you have full control over everything, less valuable.
Impressed with the effort. The fake crime podcast is gold.
Today the university is a business and the students are the customers.
What about ages?
"America's funniest home videos" got dumbed down to "AFV" and the content was mostly "ow, my balls!". They even added a warning to the viewers to submit "wows, not ows".

Although to be fair,some of that happened before Idiocracy came out.

With the public money used for sports stadiums, that element of the movie to have government sports teams is slowly coming true also.
Full List: https://www.plasticlist.org/
If you make the y axis "AGI points" you can make the graph look like whatever you want depending on how you define "AGI points".

The pace has been impressive, but until hallucinations are addressed the more faith and capital you put behind an AI agent, the more you risk losing.
Do they "not trust" or do they not have a clue whether to trust them?
It's mentioned in the article, Lamont v. Postmaster General found that Americans have the right to receive speech/information even foreign propaganda.
“Someone disagrees with me” = “they’re rejecting reality”

Do you realize how alienating this shit is to a centrist?
Git (or whatever does the diff under the hood) is _adequate_. Every week I see diffs that are confusing, especially during merge conflicts, it’s honestly a bit embarrassing that in this day and age we don’t have anything better for something that is so central to our job
Can we stop with the political posts?
Where the model owner is not the owner of the training data consider also that weights may be derivative works:

https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2407.13493
> Americans have the right to hear

This is the argument that gave us Citizens United.
sounds interesting! tho that would be rather summarizing content i assume?
The fallacy is it’s a leap from logic to go from “average error is x” is the same as “is x late”.
Seeing the exact transition is often if not more useful than minimizing average displayed error.
Seller reputation is the only reason I still use eBay (when no other options are available). Even when I am desperate, a seller with fewer than 10-100 relevant positive reviews (depending on how expensive the item is) is a deal breaker.
The URL is what should persist, not the host.
Show HN: Stanza – AI Code Reviews, Codebase Chat, and Developer API
Hey HN! My name is Brendan, and I've spent the last few months building Stanza. Stanza automates parts of code review and helps engineers understand large, complex codebases more easily.

A few things Stanza can do:

1. Automated Code Reviews: near-instant feedback on pull requests - usually within about a minute. It checks for bugs, security issues, test coverage, and adherence to custom rules or coding patterns.

2. Codebase Chat: Chat with multiple codebases at once, and zoom in on particular commits, file patterns, or subdirectories. Stanza can even generate technical diagrams on-demand.

3. Developer API: Build custom tools to inject context from AI which understands your code.

A few things that are unique about Stanza:

1. Multi-Resolution Code Understanding

Stanza builds a hierarchical representation of repositories. It can “zoom in” on specific symbols or “zoom out” to understand architecture.

2. Agentic Retrieval

Stanza goes beyond simple RAG. It can navigate repositories to find relevant files. This iterative traversal allows Stanza to gather “multi-hop” context. Agentic retrieval is particularly useful for large monorepos, where relationships between disparate parts of the codebase can be non-obvious.

As an example: if a function `foo` calls `bar`, and `bar` calls `baz`, sometimes it can be necessary to understand what `baz` does in order to understand `bar` . Simple one-hop retrieval might get lucky and include context on `baz`, but often, it won’t be sufficient and will only find `bar`. Agentic retrieval is a way to solve this!

3. Commit-Level Views

Stanza maintains an index for every new commit in your repo, so the AI's context is always consistent with the version of the code you’re working with.

For example: if you’re reviewing a PR, you mainly care about the commits involved in the PR. If you’re trying to gather information to debug a production issue, you care about the version of the code which is deployed in production. Consistent context is critical to ensuring the AI gives correct information and makes accurate suggestions.

Thanks for reading! I'd love to hear your thoughts, and happy to answer questions.

https://stanza.sh/
The article does have a picture of an analog clock (The Big Ben) I think. The problem is not analog but showing seconds or not.
What do you mean "necessary?" It's a function of demand, they only write the loans for borrowers who want and qualify for them.

It's not pedantry. It's understanding the model of attribution which blames the "fed" for this when it clearly seems like a function of the systemic design of our economy and financial system. Put another way - abolish the fed, and I'm not sure how this would change. And in fact it might get worse as you've removed an oversight and controlling body.
If the Chinese want to control our media they're going to have to get one of their citizens to get US citizenship first. Only then can that token citizen build a media empire and engage in a massive, decades-long propaganda campaign against us.
A great question - it's something the BEP offers to collectors basically for the cool factor. People frame them, give them as gifts, etc. It's just kind of fun to see real money as it comes off the press (and, thankfully, it inspires lots of collectors!)

$2 bills are SUPER fun. 99.9% are not worth more than $2, but they still bring a smile to peoples' faces when you leave them as tips, etc. I always keep a stack in my cash box at coin shows to give out as change to kids, tips to the pages, etc.
Hey HN,

I've been working on this for just about a year.

My idea is pretty simple – I want to bring scientific proof to the supplement shopping process.

Too many products are sold with exaggerated claims or without any science backing.

I am doing two things to fix it:

I am using LLMs to index all scientific papers that mention different supplements. I then extract insights from those papers in relation to the supplement and summarize on a matrix of effect type relative to the health outcome and effect size, e.g. https://pillser.com/health-outcomes/enhanced-disease-resista....

I then index all ingredients of every supplement on the market, and then based on the composition of the ingredients, I surface the relevant scientific evidence to back or dismiss any health claims, e.g. https://pillser.com/vitamins/vitamin-b1

People are able to search products (https://pillser.com/search) by their desired health outcomes, dietary restrictions, and other attributes important when shopping for supplements.

The business model of Pillser is the affiliate revenue from the outbound links that take people to Amazon, etc.

Pillser has several hundred regular users that use it to ask questions when researching supplements. However, otherwise, the unexpected challenge has been that getting news users is nearly impossible because ranking for related keywords on Google is nearly impossible. So the growth has mostly stalled.

It's been my life's dream to build something in intersection of my interests – nutrition and AI. So I am excited to have built a product that is serving users. However, I am also debating what's the path forward, as the original idea of building a free to use product that starts making money from a large scale of affiliate sales seems to be a foggy dream given the current Google trends.

Proud to share what I have accomplished and would also love your feedback for how to move forward.
> Maybe very small local cells to improve connectivity in difficult landscapes (mountains, skyscrapers, underground)

Something like this would've been useful in a couple remote networks that I worked on. Internet was easy to get with some ubiquiti wifi routers and antennae. Getting cell reception was a pain in the ass that involved setting up a repeater in the one spot of the valley where reception was kinda okay. I haven't looked into the project too much, but I imagine I could set it up to connect to a telcom tower and handle the wireless backhaul similarly to how I did the wifi.

Edit: An open implementation like this could lead to cheaper cells for large, concrete/metal buildings that typically have terrible reception.
> the UX of the iPod was really, really good.

The iPod is the only Apple product I have ever purchased. I could easily operate the iPod without having to looking at it constantly which was great for bike rides or car rides. No fiddling and taking eyes off road.
They have just made vague comments like "national security risk."
Has a colony ever conquered its colonists' home land? Is turnabout fair play in international law? If that's going to happen here maybe India should take the lead and the loot, since Britain owes them so much more than they owe America.
The federal response was largely due to the abject failure of the city & provincial governments to enforce their laws. The city and province had plenty of tools to get rid of the protesters: noise bylaws, parking bylaws, et cetera. They failed completely, so the Federal government was forced to intervene. The federal government did not have nuanced tools to deal with the truckers so used the blunt hammers they did have.
This is why the Apple LaserWriter was such a big deal. It came out 1 year after the Macintosh, merging Canon’s laser printer engine, Adobe’s PostScript, and the Mac’s bitmapped display with proportional fonts.
This seems to be a new shakedown racket of a business. "Subscribe for our services, or be victim to our shoddy automated takedown notices". Not too dissimilar to online ID protection services, that simultaneously sell your information
French Canadians are not a welcoming people.
> Marketing is closer to project work, while Engineering (at places like Honeycomb) is product work. Projects like Marketing campaigns fit within a quarter or two, while product work is an ongoing rhythm of updates.

I am from the engineering side of things but this does not seem right about marketing...

Also, the examples of OKRs for engineering in the article seem somewhat contrived. I am sure some organizations/teams have OKRs like "ship the roadmap" but to say that is what all of them look like (everywhere!) is generalizing too far.

Like, everything in life, there is probably a balance: Between thinking in the near-term vs. thinking about the long-term. Between thinking what the ICs on the front-line think is most important vs. what the "middle-management" thinks will move the numbers on metrics that the execs care about.

A well-run planning process will result in the right balance being struck. And that IMHO is a rare thing: a well-run planning process, i.e. My $0.02.
As I understand it, TikTok is only being removed from the Apple & Google app stores, and existing installations will not be touched.

For Google, sideloading TikTok remains an option, both for new installs and updates. This is not an option for Apple.

Is there a point where the installed app itself becomes illegal?
That's a product OKR, not a personal OKR.

Yes, product OKRs can work, as long as you listen enough to feedback. In fact, you probably can't ever creating anything good without them. But I don't think most people even call them "OKR".
What’s wrong with two parties?

Countries with multiple small parties frequently seem to collapse into political torpor where nothing ever changes.
Interesting take!

Both of your pic examples are wrong though. That digital clock does show seconds and the London clock has its minute hand in between minute mark - showing progres between minute mark if you look closely. This is the same for all analogue clocks.
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> Surely YouTube making a knowingly false allegation of tortfeasance against someone is libel.

It's hardly libel for YouTube to state that they've received a copyright claim, and taken the video down as a consequence. They're just stating facts, they're not making any assertions regarding the accuracy or correctness of the copyright claim, simply stating that it exists.

> Continued libel that inhibits the democratic exercise of free speech seems like something the government should act on?

You seem to misunderstand what free speech means. Free speech means protection from the government from having your speech prevented, or compelled. That same protection extends to companies. To have the government punish YouTube for failing to distribute a video, would itself be violating YouTube's own free speech, and in the US, and clear and obvious violation of the 1st ammendment.
It's also possible that the first movers are doing all of the expensive and risky research and utterly failing to build a moat for themselves. It doesn't look like there's any particularly lock-in for any category of AI model, and open source is following closely behind.

Compute will get cheaper and open models will proliferate.