skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a happy Kagi customer, but going from $10/mo to $25/mo seems like a very steep increase. (I realize that much of it is probably driven by Bing more than doubling the price for their API results.)

One thing that feels kind of disingenuous to me is the number of searches that "a normal user" does in a month. The blog post mentions it several times, but they always reference numbers provided by Google or DDG.
I have a feeling that the numbers for their "tech-savvy and heavy users of search" are _way_ higher than the averages of Google and DDG.

At my current usage, I would have to go with the $25/mo plan once my current subscription is up.
This kind of reminds me what I experienced during my first travel to south america. In short, most people I met with shitty jobs or no job wanted to go to either north america or europe. They kind of assumed everything would be fine if they just could go to one of these countries. What they totally forgot is that we had to work our asses of to actually pay for the flight and 2 months or backpacking. At home, we had 9to5 jobs, something the people we talked to would actually consider slavery...
Not really to be honest. I’d like to.

I also think it’s a matter of scale, I guess you’re staying a company has stolen another companies flavouring formulae, and used it for their own devices, which does seem like ripping something off, anyway…I shouldn’t and don’t care in that case so I shouldn’t care when artists work is is used to profit off without paying them royalties ? ..
basically all correct but

>You can then hypothetically lower (compiler terminology) it to a TensorRT MLIR dialect that then in turn runs on the Nvidia GPU.

there's no tensorrt dialect (there are nvgpu and nvvm dialects) nor would there be as tensorrt is primarily a runtime (although arguably dialects like omp and spirv basically model runtime calls).
One of Discord's shareholders is Tencent (not Microsoft!!), however, the co-founders are still on the board and are highly occupied with day to day stuff. Message deletion on Discord is traceless from the outset (once deleted, no one, not even database admins, can retrieve deleted messages; the same thing also applies to the metadata, but not messages, of deleted users), in fact, this is one of the features they are bragging with. Traceless deletion is verified by both engineering related blogposts and interactions with support.
The shares are liquid and they are unable to sell, hence they don't have the cash to pay the tax
I understand the feeling! but I need to explain that we don't see all the comments or read all the threads—not even close. In fact not even 10%. There's far too much for any human to read it all and we're pretty bare-bones over here. So when you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likely explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

That said, other people's behavior doesn't change the moderation response to your own account. It's just like when the cops pull you (or me, at least) over for speeding—it's always annoying because you know that other people were speeding much worse. Why didn't they get pulled over instead? The answer, in both cases, is simple if unsatisfying: it's just random. We need you to follow the rules regardless of what other accounts are doing. If they're breaking the rules repeatedly, they'll eventually get "pulled over" and dealt with too.

In case it helps, I have scolded and banned countless accounts for posting "nasty shit about russians, chinese, arabs, indians, etc" - that's totally not cool regardless of which population someone has a problem with. If you're trying to stand up for minority populations on HN, we're on your side in that respect. You can see a bit of the long history that I have with this dynamic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/chinamod. It's the same for other populations.

But you simply can't do it by flouting the rules. I know it's almost impossible not to be angry when encountering the double standards and one-sidedness that circulate around these issues, but if you try to defend against it with snark, flamewar, fulmination, and so on, it only makes things worse, and you put us in a position where we're forced to moderate you regardless of how right you are. It may not be fair, but it's inevitable.

I've written many past explanations about this in case any of it is helpful:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I don't see why municipalities have any right to enact zoning, or really anything at all. Municipalities are just conveniences for the state, and municipalities should only have the power that the state gives them.
AI video surveillance in the Olympics Games 2024 law violates human rights
> I'm also really enjoying experimenting with the different high-res image viewers used by different archive and library sites.

If you haven't already seen it, you might also be interested in https://iiif.io/
The non-square 320x200 pixels. What a thing of beauty.
A few years ago, I used goc to collect coverage from multiple services at the same time when they were used in E2E tests. I was very happy with it. Check it out!

https://github.com/qiniu/goc
Smart Laziness
I’ve tried Polymer and the web componens, and for a long time it had a really bad accessibility story, and even worse developer experience. It is just google using their size to force bad decisions on the web world again.
What's the Endgame for AI in Education?
I've started to receive tons of spam along the lines of "Become a digital course creator, unlock traffic & sales AI Edition, join now and start selling your course with the help of AI"

Simultaneously we've read about the cheating crisis, as students are letting AI do all the work.

So AI is generating courses, and AI is completing said courses. What's the endgame here? Do education credentials lose all value, and we go back to 100% references based hiring?
Good catch and good point. What I was thinking was NVVM dialect. You're right on TensorRT being mostly a runtime.
You seem to imply that the brew formula was made by the same developers. But I'm not sure that's the case. Using brew doesn't seem to be the recommended way, the website just gives you a download link.
So, their salary is being reduced. Change my mind.
GoF research was banned in the USA for long periods, that's why Fauci was outsourcing it to China and why DARPA refused to find that project.

No, not only has GoF not helped with COVID and probably caused it, but that's also true of the entire field of virology.
It looks like we're talking about parents who did not realize on their own that keeping the Game Boy powered up helps keep the kid in the back of the car quiet, so I don't know if they would have been open to negotiation.
Daniel Vassallo (ex-Amazon) has a community full of people who have left or are wanting to leave tech. Several have been successful in creating info-products, courses, coaching, flipping micro-SaaS, etc

I got laid off from tech for the third time in August 2021. Decided I was done with it. Tried a bunch of things. Now I have my own “portfolio of small bets” (that’s the name of the community).

I take on 12 week co-founder for hire contracts where I do go-to-market work for 10 hours a week in exchange for base plus commission instead of equity. I learned to draw and have a couple of illustration contracts. I have a micro-coaching business where I help people get unstuck in 15 minutes with 3 questions. I’ve written some e-books. I also hold workshops where I teach founders and product managers how to put together their go-to-market strategies.

I love the flexibility. I own my time and can work on whatever I want. Downside was it was stressful trying to figure out what I wanted to do. In hindsight I wish I had enjoyed the journey more.

To see what’s out there check out the community. Look into creating courses and info-products. With your background you probably have a lot to teach. Also check out microacquire, Pencil Pirates, and Codie Sanchez’s YouTube channel. There’s a great book called Million Dollar, One Person Business. Follow Justin Welsh on LinkedIn.

I wish you all the best. Happy to answer any questions
The definition of "massive" differs. Not everyone has $125K laying around to pay the IRS for illiquid RSUs.
To show something new to the user, state must be calculated and pushed either to the DOM or blitted to a canvas.
yes exactly, for now there are 98 feed sources but anyone can add more to the importer which then automatically updates the feeds every 24 hours.
> Q. Where does the search usage data (99% of users search less than 200 times a month) come from?
A. The average person searches Google three or four times per day. (90-120 times per month)(...) According to DuckDuckGo’s data, the monthly average is about 30 searches per person or one per day.

The average does not imply anything about a distribution, and the links provided do not back up this claim at all. Furthermore, Kagi's target audience is not composed of average users. I find it quite misleading because Kagi could provide data from its own user base to answer this question.
>You need to check your source of facts.

The facts are clear and pretty well documented. Here is the story of one such case...

Biddy Mason was one of the richest people in California. She had to sue for her freedom from Mormon slavers and eventually became a famous real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist.

"Biddy was among a number of enslaved people in the San Bernardino settlement. As part of the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state. Nevertheless, some migrants from the South, including Robert Smith, continued to bring enslaved people into the state. California's courts routinely ruled against the freedom claims of enslaved African Americans in support of slave owners" [0]

"Slaveholders occupied the upper echelons of the Mormon hierarchy in San Bernardino....When Mormon slaveholders crossed the border into California, they entered a free state. California’s "Constitution of 1850 outlawed slavery, but its Legislature and courts, dominated by migrants from the South, defended coercive labor practices in the state. Well into the 1850s, the slaveholders of San Bernardino operated openly, free from legal interference." [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biddy_Mason

[1] https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-19/san-bernard...
As a buyitforlife moderator I appreciate that. My current plan is hoping that the LLM-using astroturfers don't target us, because I have very few tools to deal with that kind of thing currently.
So much for freedom
I was just going off of the previous comment, that the govt would force some random developer to make changes in a company's codebase. Such a thing would be ridiculous for the reason I pointed out: there's no way to keep it secret.

Even if the govt approaches a C-level exec, I don't see how this would be kept a secret. The codebase is generally available within a company to everyone who has access, which for a large project is many people. Are they going to somehow swear all the devs in a department to secrecy? How do they enforce this? If the devs had security clearances and this job required keeping state secrets, that's one thing, but that's not what we're discussing here. If I were working in a civilian (non-clearance) job and the govt forced some nefarious changes into the codebase I was working on, I wouldn't feel any obligation to not inform the press.
yes you are right I need to improve in communication. The feeds shown are those from which the items are extracted. 98 for now.
Here are my search counts and costs to Kagi for the recent months as a student, mostly traveling in Feb.

Feb 2023 1253 $15.66
Jan 2023 1612 $20.15
Dec 2022 1390 $17.38

Bummed by this change, I guess I'll snag the yearly plan now and see were we are 12 months from now. I don't know if kagis results are better but the experience is so much better for me and I love being able to prioritize sites I care about in results.
Last week I got my first ever donation (30$ of which PayPal took 2)!

Within the hour PayPal decided that I'm actually a scammer and decided to block my account forever.

No appeal possible.

There's a good reason to remove PayPal support…
Tuned AMD Zen 4 Scheduler Model Lands in LLVM 17 Compiler
I don’t understand how they think 1000 searches per month is enough for a family. Also the cost of additional searches makes it a non starter for my family.

Looks like pay per view has finally come to web searches as well.
> Apple competed on user experience and its “unfair advantage” was vertical integration.

The thing Apple does isn't really vertical integration. It's tying.

The only thing stopping iPhone hardware from running Android is Apple. The only thing stopping iOS from running on Samsung hardware is Apple. It's not that they fundamentally require each other. Maybe some minor proportion of iOS features require some iPhone-specific hardware. If you offered iOS on Samsung or Android on iPhone without those features, they would still sell. So why are they not offering combinations customers want?

Because if they sold iOS for Samsung, they'd lose the margin on the hardware. If they sold iPhones with Android, they'd lose the margin on the OS/services. So if you want one you have to take both.

That's not really a competitive advantage. It doesn't gain market share, it costs it, because some of the people who would buy iOS on Samsung or Android on iPhone will go buy Android on Samsung. What it does is increase their margins at the expense of consumer choice.

And it's a risk, because it means they have to execute well everywhere, or the thing that underperforms brings down the whole stack. Right before Mac switched to Intel, the uncompetitiveness of PowerPC processors was hurting them.

Which is the same thing that happened to Intel when their process fell behind, because their designers were stuck with it. So Intel learned their lesson and now Arc is on TSMC and Intel is starting to fab for third parties.

Which means all they need for success is to get back their process advantage. They may or may not be able to do that, but it's all they need.
Mind-wave: Emacs AI plugin based on ChatGPT API
I dunno if I’d be so sure of yourself if I were you.
Dude, italian SWE, you are already much richer than I will ever hope to bw.
I guess part of the difference between music and gaming is more on the part that it requires much time and energy to build up musical skills and knowledge. It is rather comparing music to game development, in this case.
Ask HN: Why most websites on the Internets require me to add second factor?
As far as I understood, sending SMS is not free for website's owner. Also needness to "verify" is the email active might be very annoying for user, especially for that one who is not OK to store cookies. Why Internets are so bureaucratic nowadays? I remember the time when all I need was to verify e-mail only once for absolutely every website (twitter, fb, every mail provider, etc).

Why everybody stopped think that phone might be lost or currently not functioning, e-mail might been banned or temporarily not available because of currently not functioning phone, etc. The worst part of status-quo is that this annoyances were started after Bitcoin showed us a perfect login system with totally single factor. It can be working either for human or for cat or for AI, you get the idea.

What kind of evil joke is the second factor auth, why nobody learns anything from Bitcoin way?
Sure, I also don't mean that the code was taken 1:1, rather that there are a couple of languages that are as dynamic, with relatively good performance on dynamic compiler implementations.
I have a playdate. This would be even easier when there's a crank for harvesting power!
> No “real programmers” write code in Assembly.

This means the opposite of what she means, which is

> No, “real programmers” write code in Assembly.

because of the missing comma.

Insisting on good spelling and grammar is not about being annoying, it's about not accidentally writing the opposite of what you want to convey :(
What probably happened, is that you watched a video for 1 second too long, and the algorithm took that as a positive signal, and since the average amount of dudes probably spend longer than you, they assume they can increase your engagement through biology and your monkey brain alone.

I hate it too, don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of a nice pair of Tatas, but I don’t need them in my face all day. You have to actively steer your feed away from it by gaming the algorithm harder. If a Thot shows up in your feed, swipe away instantly. Don’t even stop for a second. Then when something comes in that isn’t a thot but engages you, smash that like button so hard the algorithm thinks you’ve got the shakes.
I agree with @jschveibniz,

Some more questions to consider:

* Are there any other companies that would need something like this? Is there a market?

* Is it potentially transferable to other retailers or even other use case in general?

This seems very similar to these self-checkout systems for cafeterias where an image of the food is taken and than recognized.

Before I would to anything of what you mentioned above, I would work my ass off to get some potential customer interviews, especially with other companies as well. Just understanding if this can become a real product or this might "only" be a project-based work that you can sell to company A.
This perspective is brittle. Have you considered that this is a reaction to genuine social change where profanity is better wielded and not adjusting the rules is stuffy af?

Seems to me the optimum has shifted.
The proper way to charge for search is free with ads with an optional premium model that promises not to data mine you or show ads. I would pay for Google search if they removed all the ads, and as a bonus aggressively de-ranked content that was primarily focused on ads rather than useful information.

There will be a company that dethrones Google in search, but it might take some time
Battery Free Phone (2017)
Yes it's possible. But if you want to be controversial, you need to expect controversy. That's what the word implies.

From personal experience, it's far easier to cross the line completely than flirt with it.

If you are just a little off base, you will get a lot of pushbacks.

Once you cross the line for good, it's easier. 95% of the world population will not want to associate with you in any way. But you become part of a tribe.

If you have a hard time handling criticizing or being canceled, then don't do it.
To use a chemistry analogy, rail has a high burning point but once catalysed it delivers heat.

Rail has very low externalities, which is why we might want to subsidise it.
Or seek out if you're a sado-masochist. There's a free bot idea for you.
Does a Ming dynasty Buddha from Australia indicate a 15th-century Chinese visit?
I’m a paying customer.

I pay mainly as an experiment to figure out what my searches actually cost.

If those costs are covered by advertisers that I block, my free search experience is paid for by people who don’t block those ads. I don’t like that thought.

I may go back to DDG if the new payment structure is insufficient (I don’t know if I search more than 1.000 times a month). But it is somewhat eye-opening how much I take search for granted.
Sam Altman isn't a scientist but even if he was, so what, scientists have a reputation for constantly claiming the world will end unless they get more grant funding. Fear is a great motivator and makes people feel important.
In 2008, Prop 1A offered high speed rail to Californians. It sold a vision of 220 mph trains connecting SF and LA by 2020, with extensions to San Diego and Sacramento, all without raising taxes. A slim majority of Californian voters believed in this vision, and voted yes.

15 years later, the project is more than 15 years behind schedule, give or take. Instead of taking 12 years to connect SF and LA, it's now taking 22-25 years to connect Merced and Bakersfield (the easy middle third), with no timeline at all for connecting San Jose and Anaheim.

The estimated cost of the project has ballooned from $33B (~$1,000 per Californian) to $88B-$128B (~$3,000 per Californian), a figure that almost seems certain to be an underestimate given the monotonic climb of past estimates.

And remember, the cost of $3,000 per Californian is not the cost of getting to ride the train between SF and LA. It's the cost of getting the OPTION to buy tickets for a train that's slower than planes, more expensive than planes, and projected to operate at a loss and need further taxpayer subsidy.

When I read the project's current marketing materials, I feel saddened.

The project managers brag that the project has generated ~$14B in economic output.

But their accounting is reversed. Until the first passenger takes a trip, the project has CONSUMED ~$14B in economic INPUTS.

There is no economic output of a half-built train that doesn't run. At that point, you might as well have been paying people to dig holes in the desert or construct pyramids. The value of labor is not when a bank computer subtracts a number from an employer's account and adds it to an employee's account. The value of labor is the utility that that labor produces.

Similarly, the project managers brag about the environmental benefits of the project.

But again, until the first point at which a flight is replaced by a train trip, the environmental impact of rail construction is entirely negative. If you pour concrete, mine iron, smelt steel, and rip up habitats, those are all environmental costs. Benefits don't accrue until the first airline defers a flight due to diminished demand.

Ultimately, the goal of transit programs should be to transport people.

If you run transit programs with the goals of (a) creating jobs or (b) signalling your commitment to transit, then you can very easily run into trouble, as cost overruns start to look like good things. Spending more money just mean you’ve created more jobs, and that you're signalling even stronger commitment to transit.

Put simply: If you run a project with the goal of paying contractors, it's very easy to get ripped off by contractors. You both have the same goal.
I would love to use my auth proxy with Home Assistant without having it break the Home Assistant app. Unfortunately it can't be done (without also whitelisting the whole API path in the process).

(Yes I know about WG but VPN just isn't an option for me)
As a European I feel like both those concepts (big money jobs or big money startups) are a USA only concept.

Anywhere else in the world that has those kinds of options? China maybe?
I wish a board like this came with a SODIMM slot or more memory, even if it meant a size-increase.

2GB is very limiting for an otherwise flexible platform. It will take some dedication of resources to get the quoted GPU modes, for one.

The utility increase per memory unit compared to the cost increase, with a base price of $100, really makes me scratch my head here.