skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beic was only a corporation in the most technical sense of the word. It became so powerful because the Queen had given it a government enforced monopoly from the start and the government kept extending that monopoly in return for loans and shares of the profits. The best modern equivalent would be Saudi Aramco, which also has its own "army", but it's meaningless to compare these sorts of organisations to modern uses of the word consideration. They're much closer to government departments.
Ha, you don't have to convince me anything. I have several desktops and laptops equipped with various zen 1-3 CPUs. I am no intel fanboi. Architecture is important but needs manufacturing
While I personally think there ARE gains, even if you insist on there being no gains then there is simple tax adjustment.

An employee is compensated with *contracts* to buy stock. Those contracts *themselves* are valued at the strike price, i.e. an employee is accounted to gain ${strike-price} worth of value.

At some point said employee decides to exercise said option contracts, i.e. convert contracts to stock. At the moment of conversion stocks are worth x and ${strike-price} previously paid to employee magically turns into x.

You can either think that employee gained `x - ${strike-price}`, or that employee was previously taxed on ${strike-price} and tax base was adjusted to x. In any case there is income equal to `x - ${strike-price}`.
Nothing to add, but just wanted to add that you sound like a good parent!
Same here... It's pretty mind blowing; I was getting ready to reinvent the wheel, but I think I'll be better off spending some time learning these tools
Hasn't Jira been rewritten from scratch a few years ago?
To be fair, the podcast is produced by Europeans. Still, a British history podcast should spend more time recogning with its colonial history, and they have done at least one very very good episode on it.
Government surveillance is supposed to require a warrant. Efforts to bypass that requirement are scandalous because the warrant requirement is there to protect against tyranny of the majority. It's a known failure mode of democratic governments and the check on government power is important.

Corporate surveillance is a different beast because people can choose which corporations they do business with, absent market consolidation. We are not absent market consolidation, but it's that which is the scandal, not what would otherwise be voluntary associations between private parties.
> I'm sure Kagi's paying customers are paying for a reason

No ads, blazing fast, and the search results are more than adequate for me (I don't find myself ever reaching for Google as I did with DDG). I'm not too bothered where the results come from when those three things come together. It's just the premium search experience I want.

> all my searches are necessarily tied to a user id

I know that theoretically Kagi could sell me up a river at some point in the future. However, they have every incentive not to - they'll see a huge exodus of users if they ever do that - so the alignment of incentives feels right here.

For the moment I feel reasonably confident that my search preferences aren't being sold to the highest bidder (or every goddamn bidder). If that ever changes, I'll reconsider.

Overall I feel more comfortable paying for my search, and I want to support this business model.

> the metered usage feels far too much like an ancient cell phone plan

I'm going to wait and see how this works out for me. If I find I'm exceeding the $10/mo plan by a lot I'll also have to reconsider. But because I'm partly here to support the business model of paid search, I'm willing to give Kagi some leeway to find a sustainable setup.
I thought people hate subscription model, yet there are enough people willing to pay a monthly fee for search that is only marginally better than free product? I'm really confused. At least Adobe products etc. are actually miles ahead of alternatives.
Do we even need a WebML API? There's already WASM and WebGPU. What can't you do with those?
it moves every 10 minutes :)
Well spotted!! My degree was in African Studies and I remember one of the first lectures talked about a famous Oxford historian (Hugh Trevor Roper?) who said something like - there is no history in Africa, only the wild gyrations of savage tribes..... Made me very sad.
The game that holds up a dystopian mirror to the UK
I make $156,000 a year at Twitter and have done nothing
The more interesting take would be: can we build a handheld with a haptic input that generates more energy than mashing these buttons. I am reminded of an odd controller for one of the consoles in what I think was generation 1 or 2, which consisted of two parts that you could rotate opposite each other. Another is the 'powerball' concept of physically rotating something to a certain speed. I'm sure large companies can build a handheld that would generate enough energy because of a clever combination of gameplay and energy efficient harvesting inputs.
I am a Kagi subscriber and I like it a lot, but I will probably cancel after the current month. 1000 searches per month is probably enough for me, but I hate services that change the model and pricing all the time. It's just not for me. Also, I don't really care for the AI integration. I wish they'd just have kept the unlimited searches for 10 per month plan (which I don't use up anyway, so they'd make a nice profit on me) without the AI stuff.

These changes also make Kagi a touch sell for friends and family. Most of them would probably do such a small number of searches that they'd be a large net profit, but the idea of having only a limited number of searches would be too off-putting for most.
Yup, official inflation is 6.4% in the USA and 'effective' / real inflation is probably even higher
Title trimmed down from "‘Keir Starmer just ordered an alpaca airstrike!’ The game that holds up a dystopian mirror to the UK"
I would have thought dropping the phrase "Black people commit more crime" without context was more than 70% through this process, but apparently not in his estimation.
It was probably the choline . Take a look at an SGB shot if you are still dealing with these issues
I do recommend that people with some spare cash ($200?) try improving the quality of their audio stream in remote meetings. You'll be easier to understand. People will react more positively.

You can spend days or weeks doing research, if you really want. My advice is to get a USB microphone if your budget is more like $100, and get a USB interface + XLR microphone if your budget is more like $200. For XLR mics, get something ordinary and boring like a Shure SM58 or an Audio-Technica AT2020. Keep your plosive Ps and Ks from blowing into the mic, keep the mic about 10cm / 5" away from your mouth, and bam, you've got wonderful, clear sound.

Known traps: The SM7b has low sensitivity, and there's a good chance you'll need a FetHead or Cloudlifter (or outboard preamp) to get the levels you need. SM7b shouldn't be your first mic.

Known misinformation: "This microphone is so sensitive, it picks up all sorts of background noise." This is almost always wrong! Any microphone which is more sensitive to background noise is also more sensitive to foreground noise. The net effect is close to zero.
Quite an interesting problem to work on. I come from the world of HFT and and building distributed systems and this is definitely an exciting challenge for me to give it a try. Applied through your careers page
I've always wondered, could dollars be matched to equity? Imagine a company with three employees earning $100, $200, and $300 per year. Each year the company issues them 100, 200, and 300 shares. Has anyone done this?
I like the "domain hack".

Their acronym is DPLA, they wanted dp.la.

Pretty simple.
Just wanted to say that this was a great read and thank you for sharing!

I’ve been meaning to learn emacs for almost 20 years at this point. This was the first time I’ve really understood the core data structures around emacs.
Per Buy, Borrow, Die, they could take a margin loan using that $1M and use borrowed money (say $100K) to pay the rent. With enough accumulated shares, they wouldn't need to sell the shares in their lifetime. After they've passed away, they would pay off the loan and the stock gets a free step up to the appreciated cost basis.
My problem is that the bus factor can't be put aside when it's such a small number, and that pile of "should"s add up to just as much, if not more, uncertainty, compared to Google letting groups living on in a half zombified state essentially forever. At the very least, you have to admit that once you put some thought into it, it's not as cut and dried as "boo hoo Google killed off Reader in 2011 and I'm still salty about it" (which, tbc, I am.)
Gear Hashing for Content Defined Chunking
Software, German electronic music duo (1984-99)
I had PTSD . Stellate gangelion block got rid of a decade worth of issues in a day .
Mullvad does, and they're a hell of a lot more trustworthy than Proton.
What do you mean by international teaching? In other countries? If so, which one(s)?
Related:

A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26950455 - April 2021 (70 comments)

A Pixel Is Not A Little Square (1995) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20535984 - July 2019 (78 comments)

A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (1995) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614159 - Nov 2014 (64 comments)

A pixel is not a little square, a pixel is not a little square - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1472175 - June 2010 (20 comments)
> Kagi doesn't strike me as a privacy alternative given that all my searches are necessarily tied to a user id which is further tied to a payment method.

I agree to some extent, but also consider: if you are not paying for search, then they are going to have to monetize somehow, and the most likely way they'll do that is through selling search history/data.

The only way to be respected as a customer is to actually be a customer, and for that you have to pay. Presumably Kagi could start accepting anonymous payments, but your searches would still be tied to an account.
Bioinformatics with Rust
New Raspberry Pi Global Shutter Camera for Machine Vision and More
Paying customer since last year. Kagi's results are okay or really good depending on what I'm searching. After around 1 month of experimenting, I blacklisted/boosted several domains on Kagi. After that, I never had the need to go to DDG or bing anymore.

That being said, I think Kagi being a search engine itself AND basing their statistics for pricing on Google and DDG is a horrible move...
Low-rise is also cheaper, and easier to insulate. I think the sweet spot is 4 floors, but 2 to 5 is okay, and even midrise can be made beautiful.

If people are interested in what beautiful midrise social housing look like, check out Le Plessis-Robinson near Paris
It was hinted at for a few months on the kagi discord.
People could even vote for different pricing models.
So...who else is tempted to go to a Pick-A-Part now?
The issue is that most monetisation options incentivize watering down your content and moderating your criticism.

Who would you sell your words to? Would they be okay with you saying "I did not like ______ and don't think it's worth visiting"? The unspoken deal is that you're paid to promote your clients.

I went on a 30,000km motorcycle trip a few years ago. Like everyone else, I wanted to film and document everything. Like everyone else, I discovered how tedious it is, how it diminishes the experience, and how no one really cares. You feel really unique until you see garage and hotel doors plastered with the stickers of people just like you.

However, no one writes about the technical stuff: visas, border crossings, SIM cards, withdrawing money, etc. No one covers this, yet it's far easier to monetize (insurance, technical services, etc). Caravanistan is a good example of that, although it could be much better.

I say let Becky tell people to live like a local after spending two days there, and make your fortune selling the means to get there.

I keep thinking of doing it, but my hands are full maintaining something very similar for a single city.
Applied through your google forms. Looking forward to talk soon with your team
Be wary of over use . I.kmow.of.1 person who has had permanent issues after a single course

https://selfhacked.com/blog/5ht2a-receptors-a-root-cause-of-...

Ashwandgha is known to knock down 5ht1a receptors and increase 5ht2a receptors if im not mistaken.

The reason why theres many reddit threads of people worrying about long term depression and axiety when it comes to ashwandgha
It was written by this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvy_Ray_Smith
If the subscription price is not zero, the included searches are not free. In this regard, the wording of the pricing page mockup and this blog post is dishonest - or at the very least inaccurate.

Not a fan of the changes otherwise. I average around 1200 searches per month which would require me to get the unlimited plan. $120/year was already a steep price compared to my other yearly subscription costs:

- VPN: §50

- Broadband internet: $230

- Mobile subscription: $290

Not willing to pay more to Kagi than to my ISP and not willing to use more than one search engine.
"Inspired by the gaming world, we realized that the only way to achieve the performance we needed was to build our own UI framework"

I'm surprised you did not look at "Dear ImGui", "Noesis", and "JUCE". All three of them are heavily used in gaming, are rather clean C++, use full GPU acceleration, and have visual editors available. Especially JUCE is used for A LOT of hard-realtime professional audio applications.

"When we started building Zed, arbitrary 2D graphics rendering on the GPU was still very much a research project."

What are you talking about? JUCE has had GPU-accelerated spline shapes and SVG animations since 2012?

BTW, I like the explanations for how they use SDFs for rendering basic primitives. But that technique looks an awful lot like the 2018 GPU renderer from KiCad ;) And lastly, that glyph atlas for font rendering is only 1 channel? KiCad uses a technique using RGB for gradients so that the rendered glyphs can be anti-aliased without accidentally rounding sharp corners. Overall, this reads to me like they did not do much research before starting, which is totally OK, but then they shouldn't say stuff like "did not exist" or "was still a research project".
Those are my exact feelings since testing Kagi. I did not found it appealing as a plain search engine, nor private.

But they have recently shown a tech preview of an "Universal Summarizer"[1] which I have found far superior to ChatGPT (cGPT is worse than some freely available pre-trained models in this regard).

I have asked Kagi and cGPT to summarize my own post[2] which Kagi did rather well (I don't have a screenshot), while cGPT spilled utter nonsense[3], mentioning hardware and software that isn't mentioned in the post and which - in some cases - I have never used.

While Kagi is unappealing to me at the moment, I will happily try it out the future again.

tl;dr: I wrote about using: FreeBSD, Linux, Fail2ban, blacklistd, Terraform, Ansible, Postfix, Dovecot, Kubernetes, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Git and nginx.

ChatGPT stated that I wrote about MacBook Pro, iPhone, AirPods, Kindle, Chrome, iTerm2, VSCode, Vimium, Adblock Plus, Dropbox, 1Password, Trello and Slack.

[1] https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum

[2] https://wojteksychut.com/posts/work-tech-i-use-privately/

[3] https://wojteksychut.com/pic/chatgpt_post_summarization.png
Because it's a repeating pattern from Musk. Maybe he should learn from past mistakes instead of publicly posting something based on hearsay
Interesting, how are you drawing graphics? Skia?
this is just an app popularity list. the more popular an app is, the more ppl will want to delete it. don't draw weird conclusions about the data
DMG-01 Emulator in Rust
Uiflow Studio 2.0
My grandmother is Brazilian. She used to add sugar to my instant chocolate milk.
Several sites I found list Guaraná Antarctica as having 30 mg of caffeine vs Coke's 34 mg [0]. It is also similar in sugar content contrary to what I initially found.

[0] https://sodapopcraft.com/what-is-guarana-soda/
Right, and there's a big middle ground where it doesn't make sense to upgrade to the $10 plan, even if you go over the limit of the $5 plan. I checked my usage, and it looks like at most I do around 350 searches a month. That would cost me $7.25 ($5 + 150*$0.015).

It's not surprising to me that the more expensive plan is a "better deal" than the cheaper plan. But it's just weird to me that you'd have to get to 534 searches before the $10 plan makes sense, and the $10 plan only gives you another 166 searches to work with.
Not a fan of the changes otherwise. I average around 1100 searches per month which would require me to get the unlimited plan.

I don't like the changes either, but I don't think this is true. You could get the 1000 searches plan for $10 and then pay-per-search the additional 100 searches.
They do mention that the new partition #1055 has the same topology as partition #1022, and the partitions are numbered in the longer PDF https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/mathematical/gerbet_partition....

In the shorter PDF it's on page 19, bottom row, second from the left.
The alignment of incentives is not as tightly aligned as I'd like. Because Kagi has this data, they could be bought out by another company and release blog posts about how this merger is actually a harmonious union of privacy. A sinking ship with the livelihoods of many families on the line can easily convince leadership to sell. Having a distressed company bought out is not some special story, and things like this easily go on without many customers knowing. How many Tom Bihn customers know that the company has been bought by a VC?

On a mildly tangential note, the way their marketing language describes their new plans leaves a poor impression with me, saying that I get something for free if I pay for it. Did you know? If you buy a Twix for $2, the first bar is free.
On your last point, you can check the usage statistics in your Kagi settings for the previous months. That way you can see if you would exceed the limits.

Apparently I search around 1k times per month, which means the new Professional plan wouldn’t fit my needs.

I decided to cancel my subscription, Kagi didn’t provide that much benefit over Google to me. I just needed this last push! I do think it’s a good idea, we definitely need more competition in this market.
"Drug dogs"

Fun fact:
Most police "drug dogs" you see in public are actually normal dogs, because "drug dogs" are quite expensive and can only be put to service for a limited time (and they stress out with lots of noise and people). But if the people think the dog is a drug dog, then their reaction is often telling enough.

(but I don't know, if they do this in canada to get the "allows further intervention", but this is usually a grey area anyway)
See also: EU delaying rules on kettle power to after the Brexit referendum because they knew it would piss people off.

Just think about how much power the Commission wasted on all the bureaucrats, committees, travel perks, lobbying meetings, tests etc for this endless pile of completely useless regulation that surely has no success metrics tied to it. All because they have too many staff and stuff the organisation with socialists who dislike markets. Such a pity, European decline will be discussed by historians for many centuries into the future.
It's not the first text editor either, Sublime has GPU-accelerated rendering.
> Can ENGAGE play all Gameboy games?... Yes! It is running a custom emulator which allows it to impersonate the Game Boy and play any Game Boy game (not the Color versions though). That said, just like with any emulator, not every title may work, and some bugs may prevent some games from loading some parts.

This bit seems a little disingenuous.
Kodak had prototypes of digital cameras in the 1960's but they were afraid it would cannibalize film sales so it died in meetings. The United States Post Office had online bill pay and digital certificate PKI email system in the 1990's but never releases it beyond a few of their vendors due in-fighting and the fear of losing first-class mail volume.
The machines they built to simulate the marching was entirely inadequate. A much better way to test it would've been a weight on a voice coil, and a contact microphone to monitor echoes. They'd still probably be unable to tear down the bridge model they built, as that thing seemed to be way overbuilt.
Currently I use you.com , because it adds sources after most queries.
I am keenly interested in everything you wrote here. Any links or even search terms for further reading?
Using the Adafruit breakout board, I had no problems other than an SPI bug in the Arduino core. Be warned that they are fragile when not protected, I sheared off the flex cable on one which was not fun.

Official refresh rate is ~25 hz, unofficially they seem to be able to go a lot faster (2-3X) if you don't mind increasing power consumption. And it's faster if you update only some lines. But by then you have run into a limitation in how fast the liquid crystal can respond.
Funny, I worked trades and wanted nothing more than to get into tech. You can make real good money if you're with the right crew on the right jobs with the right clients.

Yeah corporate can get passive aggressive and subvertly malicious, but have you had a shouting match with your boss in 95* weather in August? ... And have to go back to that same job like nothing happened?

If you've got that big of a resume you're in the top 0.01%. most of us street kids can never become corpos, the u.s. socioeconomic caste system doesn't allow for it.

You can go anywhere you want. You're not tied down by petty debt, litigation, lack of experience, lack of job history, employment, credit, felon status, etc.

A plane ticket sometimes is all that's needed to change your life.
> I hate services that change the model and pricing all the time

It's hardly "all the time"; this is their first pricing change, no? I was a part of the free private beta, and then started paying when they started charging, and I don't recall any changes until now.

It seems unsurprising that a paid search company (something that is pretty new, business-model-wise), might not get their pricing correct the first time.
Not at all. But I remember dearly my first 3D program (a rotating wireframe dodecahedron) was all stretched out. The screen coordinates had to be scaled by a factor like 6/5 or 5/4 before display.
> Whoever solves this problem will probably get to be the new google

I bet it's something as easy as "derank pages with ads".

Now you just need a business model to support that.
I've been quite happy with Kagi, but I do a lot of searches throughout the day, far more than the "700 free searches per month" they offer. (Usage tells me I'm using around 1500-2000+ searches per month.)

I've been on the USD10 pricing for a long time. Now it's soon to be USD25 per month for my kind of tier - which seems crazy steep, and more profiteering than an attempt to bring search to everyone.
Amazon claim they made a payment but the payee's bank shows no evidence of it.

There is this thing called MT103 which allows a payer to prove that they did in fact make a payment. That should resolve things, right?

But no, Amazon refuses to supply it, and says that's final. WTF?