skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lightning is a better physical connection than USB-C for phones. It's still reversible, but more importantly, it's more durable as there isn't a tongue inside to get broken. Before you reply saying that you've broken a lighting port, read carefully - I'm not claiming they're indestructible, just more resilient to needing to be cleaned out. If you work near metal and dirt or even just missoportune bits of fluff, they'll get stuck inside the port. Solution is to take a paperclip and jam it in and try pulling out the metal shavings or other foreign debris. USB-C's internal tongue is too breakable and in-the-way.

Now, not everybody works in or near a metal shop or a saw mill, but all the people I know with phones wear clothes, which sometimes has lint, especially in pockets where phones are kept, and so aren't totally immune from this problem.

Thankfully there's wireless charging, and it's decently powerful/quick these days, so the whole port can be taped off - when you remember before you go into the workshop, which hopefully is every time.
In their EC-Type Examination Certificate it mentioned the harness "in 3 different wire rope lengths: 30m, 50m, 80m".
You can see echoes of Plan9/Inferno in e.g. the go-lang Dial() call.

Plan9 / Inferno were also design descendants of System V Streams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STREAMS
i agree, but this stuff could very likely be a huge force multiplier.
Yes, thats part of the issue. I was interviewed once by an university student who was working on a navigation system for blind pedestrians. The idea is great, of course, but it was obvious after a while that primary mtoivation to work on this was to make progress in her academic career, i.e. get a grade for the project. "Having" to work with potential end-users was part of the story, but not priority :-)

Also, imagine how the dynamics of such a project works. There is the initial idea, paired with a lot of enthusiasm. Suppose thats all, but the idea itself is not practical, at least not with the planned approach. Now, this team finds/hires a "consultant" who is blind. In reality, they will enthusiastically tell you about their idea, and almost always assume you are going to get them feedback without expecting any compensation for your work, because ', you know, having a self-interest in such a project must be enough for the blind man to be happy... That aside, what is their "consultant" going to tell them. Are they going to be straight upfront and say "that is sweet, but totally inpractical", or are they going to tone their analysis down a bit, because they dont want to see these nicely-motivated people fail? Also, if the "consultant" treally tells 'em its a bonkers idea, are they going to believe it, or are they perhaps more convinced of their initial plan still? These are things that are going to happen / already happened in the past...
Oh yeah, if you leave RDP open to the internet the scanbots will be all over that like white on rice.

If only we would finish the switch to IPv6 we could pull the rug out from under those bots.
> it's a lot easier to convert a corn field back into a useful farm field before you've built a solar farm on top of it, rather than afterwards

Or you can do agrovoltaics and have both. There's some evidence that low density agrovoltaic setups increase corn yields.
This might be related to the bing API. I'm pretty sure Bing hiked their API access prices, effective may 1st 2023. Custom search is way more expensive than regular search too.

But I'd think duckduckgo wouldn't really be affected by public pricing, and that they have some sort of huge discounts and contracts that would protect them against this. If they pay anything that is, since I thought ddg generated revenue from using bing. Though Ecosia seems to have the same issue so who knows.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3688574/microsoft-more...

Source on the price increases, seems like the API is now 3x to 10x more expensive (I used the MS docs directly but the article shows the previous rates too).
I debated bringing up Kagi at the top level here, since I already commented on it in a reply, but honestly I really want them to succeed and shit like this is why.

It's a paid search service, and I'm honestly really happy with that distinction and what it entails. Being paid means that they can deliver on and support features that users can use to get the best results for them, without worrying how those features may affect potential advertisers and their opinions of the service.

For example, you can block a whole site from your search results - and it's an easy-to-find button directly in the search results, not hidden deep within some settings or done via a manually-installed extension. They already deprioritize a whole lot of "junk" sites -- for example I very rarely see the kinds of technical results that are just reposts of Stack Overflow but laden down with their own ads, and if I do see them I can nuke the site from orbit, never to be seen again.

They are working out the kinks with the pricing scheme currently, but I've always found the plans fair and very transparent. If you are interested in good search and potentially giving the industry a bit of a hint that search is important enough to pay for, and all this advertiser-prioritized bullshit is unacceptable, I can wholeheartedly endorse them.
It’s a real pity. I circulated in the Downtown Tech scene in Las Vegas for a little bit. I felt like it was rather culty, but I also felt he really made people believe in the town’s ability to be more than a tourist destination. At the time, the city was still quite battered from the recession, and there was quite a lot of pessimism. The energy he brought was very needed, and the community he fostered had real energy and hope and value. I made friends then that I still have now, who are very dear to me. I’ve since left town, but I was back last year and walked around the places we all used to hang out… it was very sad to me to see all traces of that community gone, but I was happy I got to be part of it, and to have seen someone with that kind of wealth try to do something to really change their city for the better.

Of course, it had problems, and he was throwing money around to make it all work, and as time went on I think much of that money served to conceal those problems rather than confront them… though I never heard stories back then on the scale of what this article describes as happening in Utah.

I don’t know really how to feel about the information here, other than very, very sad. I hope despite how he wound up, someone else someday is able to draw inspiration from the parts of what he did that worked and created hope and strengthened the local community, and they can move the ball forward. And I hope wherever Tony is now, he’s free from whatever drove him into such a dark place. Rest in peace.
I’m unclear on why cancer research doesn’t seem to be taking a more first principles approach like the following.

The distant ancestors of our cells were single cell organisms. The default behavior of single cell organisms is to replicate basically whenever possible. Therefore our cells likely have a replication inhibition mechanism. Cancer is what happens when a cell’s replication inhibition mechanism breaks (or rather, when the code to produce the mechanism becomes corrupted).

It feels like we should be pouring money into identifying the replication inhibition mechanism in our genome and figuring out ways to reinforce it. To start we could find the mechanism in the simplest multi cell organisms, since they must have a similar mechanism and it may in fact turn out to be very similar to our own (i.e. we could get lucky).

Is this sort of research happening? It doesn’t sound easy, of course, but I haven’t heard of anything like it underway.
Long form YouTube is amazing. I just wish I could completely disable Shorts from my YouTube Premium. It is the diet equivalent of eating raw sugar with honey on top - it just wants to suck you in with stuff you had no intention of watching.

I'd pay extra on top of the going rate for that.
> There are 10x the customers who don't have any idea about these search operators

The homepage of duckduckgo contains a lot of information about their products, and a whole FAQ about the search engine. Maybe if they also included a list of these operators, inexperienced people might learn about them.

People don't use these operators because they don't know about them, not because it's difficult.
Try GPT-4.
I don't buy this. I don't think it's reasonable to set up the task such that the "fact" can be distinguished from the background without knowing the question. For example, if your fact is always "[name] went to the [room]", and question is always "where is [name]?" the background text should be other sentences of the same form about different names. If your background text is instead drawn from a different distribution (as in this paper), then the model can simply cheat by identifying the fact (which constitutes only a few bits of information) and ignoring everything else.

That isn't scaling to 1M tokens - the model should be expected to answer questions about any text within its context window.
Have you ever tried counting your searches? You may be surprised. I'm slightly above the 500/month.
I am a manager, but when I was an IC, I held your view. I learned that giving even softened feedback resulted in being at best ignored for a week, at worst, becoming a marked man.

I resolved to change this for my team. Ask for feedback broadly, and about projects, not me per say. Peoples end up commenting on the project/ sprint, and they feel safer. Much of what they talk about however, I have power over, so I view it as a comment on me and my execution.

Second thing, never once have I reacted negatively to negative feedback. Not in a team meeting, not in a 1:1.

Third, my boss has 1:1s with all my reports monthly. If I stop accepting negative feedback, my boss will hear about soon enough. I wish every manager had this hanging over their head. As an IC, all my code was reviewed. Managers need to have their performance reviewed frequently as well, not just bi-annually.

The one thing about my method is you have to be careful not to let the team become so free with criticism they just start ranting all the time and increase negativity where it isn’t warranted.
There are good reasons why the next generation just looks up videos.

The idea of a web search engine is disappearing into the mist of time. Text search engines worked well 10 years ago, but they are now completely overwhelmed by content farms.
Redhawk: Software-defined radio (SDR) framework open sourced by NSA
“Verified” becomes a badge of dishonor
> which is more or less illegal in Europe if you don't have permission of all people in your address book to share their names and phone numbers

[source needed] as GDPR doesn't apply to private individuals and private databases
Spacex blew up starship on purpose
I kindly disagree ;-)
Depends on the complexity of the requirements. I have built a couple:

- https://crimson-glade-1527.section.app/ : to talk to www.section.io docs. I used straight up python and Gradio. The chatbot doesn't have memory. Just use a CSV for embeddings. Has limited functionality but does it's job well. https://github.com/manibatra/sectiongpt - consider this toy code which was hacked together in a few hours.

- Also building https://www.everbility.com : Using Langchain, Pinecone. I often found Langchain to be a bit of an overkill with it's so many abstractions if your use case is just sending one off prompts. It is powerful though for document ingestion and Agents (which is something I plan to use it more for). When using Langchain you will often have to debug a bunch of edge cases which is understandable since

A random hack I found for improving the quality of answers by a big factor was creating embeddings for entire documents and also sections of document. Resulted in search on the vector space being very accurate for big picture and granular questions.
Yeah, I remember reading about things like sports reports and weather being generated by computers ages ago in the likes of SciAm or New Scientist. I don't recall if they used the term AI, I think they did but this was a long time ago.
They seem to have a long way to go. Walls and roofs are dirt cheap to build in the conventional way. The big money is spent on kitchens and master bathrooms. Now if there are headed toward dirt cheap shelter for the homeless, that might be a lot more practical. But, I can't see it as a mainstream option unless America is willing to accept a massive change in from current practice and accept a utilitarian standard.
Do yourself a favor and skip right through to the Twitter link to another link to this excellent post by Yoav Goldberg [1] on the actual reason that training new models on ChatGPT output in the manner of supervised learning (in contrast to reinforcement learning) will not produce a model as good as ChatGPT

>For this type of interaction, we must use RL training, as supervised training teaches the model to lie. The core issue is that we want to encourage the model to answer based on its internal knowledge, but we don't know what this internal knowledge contains. In supervised training, we present the model with a question and its correct answer, and train the model to replicate the provided answer.

The author says he’s summarizing a talk by John Schulman of OpenAI [2] but I haven’t personally watched the video. In any case, this is an interesting insight.

Say we set up a supervised learning scenario where we ask the model to use its internal knowledge to answer a question and compare its answer to one written by a human. If the two answers essentially say the same thing, but in different words, in the supervised learning case the model is penalized. In the RL case, it’s rewarded. That’s the difference.

1. https://gist.github.com/yoavg/6bff0fecd65950898eba1bb321cfbd...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhiLw5Q_UFg
I feel like almost no one knows this. It would be fun to join, get some AARP swag to display at work and then casually talk up your anti aging regimen to everyone.
Just connect a Bluetooth keyboard.

Sometimes I use an iPad plus Bluetooth keyboard for writing.

What's annoying is that keyboard shortcuts mostly work in apps, but are sometimes buggy, because I think they're so rarely tested.
Would suggest renaming to “First space images captured by SuperBIT balloon-borne telescope”
Doesn't matter. We want high-quality text - it's not necessary for it to be human-written. Social signals like upvotes or PageRank will still remain useful even if most text is AI generated.
This post is now a search result, so it seems to be working (i.e catching sites with the exact phrase).
>if you see a honey bee in your back yard, there's a pretty good chance that somebody owns it.

This is true even in Europe. If memory serves the percentage of "wild" honeybees (feral may be a more fitting adjective) is in the order of 1%.
> At the Earth Species Project, that data comes in the form of sounds, motion, and video recorded in either the wild or captivity, sometimes with accompanying annotations from biologists on what the animal was doing at the time and in what context.

Has anything similar been done for human vocalizations (aka spoken language)? Text is obviously so much more efficient, and so much more abundant, so even for human speech this sounds like a challenge.
I'm on the socially insular side as well and find my time learning instead of shared viewerships like sports. I'm checked out on up to date sports even if I do participate in kick boxing. There's tons of technique breakdown videos that's more interesting than watching every fight. But for those training up, seeing full definition replays of fights from amateur to high paid professionals at your fingertips as well as full breakdowns and other professionals in the comments is just building up tons of people to finesse their skills deeply in their crafts.

OTOH

I have a family member who is into those "shallow" videos but she is tuning her social media posts to be more interactive and her posts are "very extra". Many of these vloggers do a lot of behind the scenes in depth trade secret videos once in awhile and she seems to find out video trends. Her hobby is content creation, selfies, and making homevideos that other people watch.

Reminds me of my dads and uncles lugging around cameras at every social function and upgrading to digital but she's now at the level of compressing it to something quick and watchable and a slideshow of what happened rather than a full recording like it was a documentary. She's gotten the engagement factor dialed in.

It's nice to have her taking and editing videos as that's something of worth. Taking boring events (get together) where a straight video or group photos is the usual and making them personalized and basically something people want to add and to share on their wall if they were at those locations.

Otherwise she's been watching a ton of home-based businesses walkthroughs and interviews with small business entrepreneurs. Those are big in niche communities and these shows are in our mothertongue.

She does bounce ideas off me a ton for business ideas. She's more interested in retail ideas and wanted to advertise using social media than is interested in selling her services as a social media person.

She's in her 60s. I'm in my 30s. She's more tech literate than me in regards to social media use even if I work at one. She's also more in tune with what people my age range are interested in and willing to pay for.

If she does go into business I don't mind funding her, lol. She has a way of breaking into trends before mainstream moves into those trends.

Science and math and other cool stuff might help round out young people but I don't push that stuff to my older family members. I'm the "youth" and none of my generation as kids yet. I don't see a reason to push the older folks into those subjects on YouTube. I might send them gardening tips, ideas, and a boring lectures or someone building out some fancy yard feature but I doubt they sit through it. I did send some tree planting advice and they fell asleep to it.

Very opposing to what people push to youth. But there's still value in "wasting time" I think
𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰: “I'll split 50% royalties on any successful AI generated song ”
You start by saying that PWAs provide better services than native apps (I don't believe it), and then you go on giving an example where it does not, but where you would like it to do because it would be cheaper?

Seems like you do confirm my points.
They did mention it, but the wording is weird.
Seamlessly switch between SSH keys while working with Git CLI
Roko's gambit?
Huh, yeah? Did anyone think the flood of remakes and remasters cash-grabs was a work of love to elevate the original IPs? They're tailored to that part of the market: nostalgic grown-ups with disposable income.
As the founder of Kagi, I want to address the recent changes and challenges we have faced.

When we made our initial plans, we believed they were both realistic and sustainable. However, the search market has experienced dramatic changes in the past six months, far more than in the previous 16 years. Additionally, we've been confronted with an economic downturn. As a small, bootstrapped business, Kagi has had to make some difficult decisions to adapt.

We were left with two options:

- Stick to the original plan, which would result in significant financial losses and potentially lead to bankruptcy within a few months.

- Adjust our strategy to ensure the survival and growth of the business.

While we are not pleased with having to alter our plans, we have done our utmost to adapt to these new circumstances. It's important to understand that there are only three ways to fund search services - through advertisers, venture capital, and in Kagi's case, users. That is the reality we must face.

We acknowledge that the rollout of these changes could have been executed more effectively. However, as a small bootstrapped team without a dedicated communications department, we have limited resources. I personally oversee crucial business decisions, manage a fully remote team, and supervise the development of complex software products such as search, browser, and AI solutions. There is only so much one person can do.

We would love to offer unlimited searches for $5, but the reality of the search market dictates otherwise. That said, we are continuously evaluating our pricing structure, and we may update it again as some costs, such as AI, have not been as high as anticipated.

We are determined to navigate these challenging times and maintain a high level of professionalism. We appreciate your understanding and support as we work towards a sustainable future for Kagi.
This could be true if you consider survivor bias.
What places have gone hog wild executing drug dealers and not found a reduction in drug use?
>There is no meaningful competition, so reputation doesn't matter.

>Those people already left Google to use DDG. Where are they going to go now? Some random individual's hobby search engine with a crappy index?

>Companies can do whatever the fuck they want, and the only thing users can do is complain in vain.

Why so dramatic? It isn't really that big a deal if DDG starts to suck.

I use 3 or 4 different engines myself ATM just to see what's going on, DDG being one of them. To say DDG can do whatever they want is only true on the macro, in the short term. It is true me saying 'please don't' will not stop them from doing this right now, and will not affect their bottom line right now.

But this news is going to stop me recommending DDG to tech peers, and to change the default on my family's computers. That is STILL a drop in the pond, assuming I am the only one who is going to take this course of action. However, I am very confident that I will not be the only one to make such a switch.

Now regarding the idea that DDG is the only good modern search, I refer you to Searx, Librex, Kagi, and Startpage.

Now regarding your comment about "random individuals hobby search engine with a crappy index", that would be true if I wasn't satisfied with the indexes of the ones I recommend. I am satisfied with them, so that's not an issue. Unless you don't like hobby projects, in which case that's weird but you do you.

With regards to the "shady startup that wraps bing" point, Startpage is a Google wrapper but I assume the real issue is the shadiness. Which, sure, start page is not a perfect track record, but its good enough.

To close, I really don't think tech doomerism is productive. There are alternatives available. Making excuses to not try them is just lazy, not "realistic".
Can I use Kagi without linking any real-world identifiers (including credit card details) to my search queries in any way?

I'm very much interested in a high-quality search engine, and certainly willing to pay for it, but unless the above condition is satisfied, it's a non-starter for me.
There are plenty of examples of "new" things a LLM can do.

A good example is all those toy examples of "Program a whatever in the style of Shakespeare and David Bowie's love child". This isn't a thing that it has seen in training data.
The problem is that we are looking to these systems to solve human social problems. No matter what techno wizardry we put in place if we don't have core values that respect human life, including freedoms such as privacy then it will be for naught.

At the end of the day these systems will not protect you if the those with a monopoly on power see human existence as a zero sum game and are hell bent on being the winner that takes it all. We have understood this for millenia, there are countless doctrines that all share an understanding of these and have put in place common laws that aim to bring us together in peace.
No, unfortunately :) [1]

Just an actual anecdote.

[1] ”The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”

-Mark Twain