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Show HN: AI Search is now free
Hi HN community,
I posted some time ago about AI Search, an AI-powered search engine that down-ranks results containing ads as well as anything coming from content-farms. It summarizes the actual text to avoid click-baity headlines. It basically helps you avoid wasting time reading things people have put online just to capture your attention. Legitimate sites are still allowed top spots, and you also have the option to white-list/black-list domain names in case you have a preference (for example, Stack Overflow contains ads but in most cases users will want to white-list that site). The search engine is especially helpful when searching for "best XXXXX 2023". For example, if you search for the best local restaurants in your area, it will give you results usually containing sites like the Michellin guide

AI Search came to be some time ago but we noticed many users were reluctant to sign up in order to use it. Because of the costs associated with running it, we've kept the sing-up wall until now. We have now decided to offer it for free and registration-free for its killer feature (down-rank junk) but have kept an optional premium option for users who want to utilize the powers of LLMs to the limit and want AIs to summarize the content of each result for them before having to clik on them. A free inital credit is given in that case too

We appreciate any feedback and happy searching!
The paper is at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01674...
and the WSJ article is archived at https://archive.is/m16g7

The Surprisingly Effective Strategy for Buying on eBay. The key, a study found, is to make your offer a round percentage off the listed price

By Alina Dizik

May 9, 2023

In a recent study, researchers looked at eBay transactions where buyers could either pay a listed price or make a “best offer” that was below the listed price. When buyers did make a “best offer,” they closed many more deals if the amount they offered was a round percentage of the listed price.

Let’s say a seller was asking $34 for a product. An offer of $17—exactly 50% of the asking price—stood a much better chance of being accepted than an offer of $18, or 53%.

Why? In these types of transactions, sellers usually don’t field more than one offer at a time—so the sellers are considering each offer individually rather than waiting for many buyers to make bids in a traditional auction. And when sellers mull each offer individually, it is likely easier to mentally process an offer that’s a round percentage.

“These round percentages seem to coincide with a higher percentage of getting a deal in the end,” says Hannes Petrowsky, a research associate at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany, and the study’s lead author.
This is my primary gripe with this whole thread, in most cases where abc.zip would become a link, you could just as well hyperlink it to anything, like in an email, a web page, or a markdown document
This isn't a technical problem and you're more or less trying to say it is.

There is a duopoloy in phone offerings and people in the USA just do it this way. If Google wants their market share - and to push back against Apple's offerings and prized position socially marked via bubble color - then it's on them. No other app is going to overcome the social issue here.
Still made by a pest.

The original comment was about how Europe isn't able to nurture technology.
At least in my circles blue check marks were mocked because they became a symbol of endorsement of certain viewpoints by Twitter rather than a symbol of verified identity.
The big mistake was that the uk went with austerity in 2008.
It's actually excellent for all the shady file sharing services. If the domain does become popular for this purpose, that makes building DNS blacklists very easy!

This is probably just another DNS money grab.
I had an HP48, I had lots of fun with Bjorn Gahm's IR remote control which could mimic the remote control signals of most common television brands, including the ones at my high school. The HP48 also had the ability to set an alarm to execute an arbitrary piece of code, e.g. turning on the TV to some channel and turning the volume up to max at some predefined time the middle of class.

Teachers were completely stumped. Their initial suspicions were always that someone brought a universal remote control to class, but they would painstakingly search everyone's desks to find nothing. And then after asking everyone to put their hands up in the ai, the TV would still have a mind of its own.

Yeah, your TI-89 was no fun.
Yes. This was literally a 3 second google, and the first damn hit:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2023/05/09/stolen-...
The German arms giant, Rheinmetall, will open production in Ukraine
Almost half of the worlds wealth is in real estate, which is hard to store offshore or in a bank. British banks probably store less than $5 trillion or less than 1% of global wealth.
They could already translate those articles in 100 languages with machine translation. Those articles were bad and not widely read.
Unless and until they are.

Don't underestimate the greed of the people making these decisions.
> publishing can be reduced to sending an input and checking the output

Checking the output takes a considerable amount of effort if you want it to be factual. Don't trivialise it, it's what is left for humans to do when AI gets to work. For example coding is not much faster with chatGPT than manually, most of the time is spend debugging anyway, not writing code.
On windows you can have a .com file as an attachment too. Should we ban .com sites? Is the issue that you can fool people to open a website rather than a file? I'm not sure I follow how a TLD makes that easier. Even if you didn't have a top level TLD a non-experienced user isn't going to be able to tell because they don't look at file extensions anyway, just change the FAV icon and you're set.
Rhetorical questions have retortical answers
The difference is the US has more people who commit violent crimes.
> There's no single accountable person who can be thrown under the bus.

There is: the CEO. This is the person put in charge to run the business against their principles [0]. This is the charter, set by the business, in how it should be run.

When the company fails to execute and people die because of these failures this is a systemic problem that is rooted within the control of a CEO. Nothing major happens in aviation without a lot of checks and balances. Boeing settled because the CEO lied. He should have gone to jail. Instead he was allowed to pay no social penalty and is making money and avoiding taxes [1].

Dennis Muilenburg killed people. He had the position to stop it. Yet he chose profits over the value of others lives. Dennis Muilenburg should be spending the remainder of his life behind bars or subject to fly in a 737 Max with the flawed MCAS that he said was safe for the rest of his life for any and all air travel.

[0] https://www.boeing.com/principles/values.page
[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/forme...
they should spend even more money, to train a generative AI that makes netflix shows
>FWIW, the parent poster doesn't want increased incarceration, they want these people executed (probably without due process).

that isn't just wrong -- it's not even what parent said.

Their hyperbole was pointing out that the perceived situation is so bad that it would take something drastic to turn it around, not that they in anyway wanted or desired it.

There is a lot of purposeful misinterpretation/mis-reading going on in this thread, it seems.
From your description, I have to wonder if it wasn't more a matter of how you were presenting your progress on things and your own estimates of accomplishments.

People aren't really any good at understanding what other people are up to, especially if they are first time managers. It is also pretty much impossible to compare two programmers given two different tasks since we regularly are off on our estimates of everything.

AFA, continuing, I would say yes, if you can handle it emotionally. It's actually quite good in many unemployment systems to have these kinds of phases and pretty hard to make as much in a lot of other roles that are easy to transition to. The stress of unemployment is substantial though. Jobs that involve programming but aren't directly programming may provide a more average level of stress, I.e. support and software maintenance roles that are more focused on customers than code.
The idea that you get Elden Ring as-is without BotW coming years before is also ridiculous.
Who cares anyway? Old people or young people, doesn't matter. Everyone WANTS to be scammed.
Because they're scared too much, or they're greedy or they respect authorities too much.

Disable zip TLD and you left with like 100million ways how to scam people.
What did you actually achieve?
While that is a good point, I am seeing a term of 10 years in Article 4 of the contract. Not sure whether ICANN has discretion to renew or not renew at the end of the term (IANAL), but if they stated now that they have no intention to renew, it could crater demand for domains using the TLD and make the venture costly for Google, should they pursue legal action.

https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/agreements/ag...
Yup. It happened to me. After the .dev TLD was created, I switched all my internal dev hostnames over to .test because it's one of the reserved TLDs [1].

I also switched off of .local after learning that it's used for mDNS [2].

1: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.html#page-2

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
It's what Deno uses. https://crates.io/crates/deno_http/0.99.0/dependencies

"A fast an correct HTTP implementation" makes sense for Deno, as Deno is founded by the same person who founded Node.js and the correctness of Node's HTTP server was different from that of other scripting languages.
Domain names that are limited in their functionality by the TLD are really interesting to me. I know all of .dev is on the HSTS list, for example. I'm currently working on a subdomain registration service that only permits A/AAAA records in the private IP address ranges [1], but still supports certificate issuance over ACME DNS-01 via TXT rrecords.

For jpeg, that would be a terms of service agreement? Or would the TLD manage all hosting?

[1] https://www.getlocalcert.net/
Why? There are plenty of middle class black neighborhoods in Baltimore and the long term outlook continues to look better after the nadir of 2015.
I agree with you though I do miss PaulG. I was excited when he was on Mastodon because I could follow him with RSS.
I have a hard time understanding what "pretty well-understood now" means. Could you elaborate?

The match statement was added in 3.10. That's a control structure with a pretty big change in semantics, right? And done only two years ago - well after this performance push began.

What sort of changes do you think are precluded now, that might not have been precluded 10 years ago when things were less optimized?

Since you aren't a Python programmer, you can't really answer these questions, which make me feel like your response muddied the waters rather than providing useful insight.
I mean we still give DVDs for MRI results here...

Edit: I'd prefer my biostuff data to stay mine and not be saved in multitude cloud piñatas...
https://archive.is/6d8Ns
I work in this industry and know the people making these decisions and I'm not aware of anyone in favor of releasing the RFC 2606 reservations.
Is SpaceX profitable ?

Last estimates I saw suggested they are still bleeding a lot of money every month.
But, I'm sure the people who wrote the book mentioned in the article can rest easy: creativity, knowledge, and originality are still valuable, and LLMs are not (yet) able to reproduce those.
You're misunderstanding GP.

Your boss sends you this plaintext email:

Hi!
Please upload the photos as photos.zip to the company GDrive!
Thanks,
Boss

Your email client "helpfully" recognizes that "photos.zip" can be a TLD, so turns it automatically into a hyperlink. You click it because you think it's a link your boss intended to share with you, but you actually land on a site that pwns your browser with an exploit.
You broke the site guidelines extremely badly in this thread. You can't attack other users like this on HN. We ban accounts that do.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

p.s. I do appreciate your concern for the quality of HN. but this is not at all the way to advocate for it.
Props up falling share prices though.
2022 Prius Prime gets better mpg than 2022 Prius, not worse.

And that doesn't count how much better things get if you fully charge the electric 25-mile range battery and measure the mpge.

Additionally, I offer into evidence what happens if you rent a Prius Prime and drive up to the valet at the hotel of your choice. Answer: they won't come and help you. Reason: they'll think you're an Uber driver. Upshot: the idea that Uber drivers could or would eat the cost of worse gas mileage due to dead weight is fatuous.

Toyota does a 10 year manufacturer warranty; the availability and price of used ones older than 10 years (I think they're called Prius Plug-in) should tell you that Toyota has a handle on the complexity of the system they built.

Toyota. Oh what a feeling.

Also, anyone who has one: hit me up if you're thinking about getting rid of one of these pieces of dead weight.
Even the apple comparison tool can’t find a difference
Speed is not the only criterion. Using network is a waste of energy and materials when the local cache was enough (even more when nobody sees the perf difference)
I thought Susan Wojciecki was the one who suggested it, she got Larry & Sergey's ear, and then together they convinced Eric.
zip is special for a dozen other reasons.

It makes sense to me if you're looking for a portable deployment without an installer.
Elon tweets have always had terrible replies, I have no idea if they are better or worse than it used to be. Probably about the same.

In general I think twitter is slightly better since the takeover. I'm sure that someone who follows and engages with different people could come to completely the opposite opinion.
There are also a parallel versions of bzip2 (pbzip2), lzip (plzip), xz (pixz).

Depending upon the data, the non-threaded versions of these utilities can have higher performance when run with some kind of dispatcher on multiple files.

The GNU xargs utility is able to do this, and the relevant features are also in busybox.
Twitter is running fine with lots of improvements in the pipeline (video and E2E DMs due soon). It will be interesting to see how it evolves now that the company is back to focusing on the product rather than activism/censorship etc.

Like I said...
How do you trust anyone after GPT4? You can't tell how much they relied on the model. And maybe some things AI does are good - it could generate writing style improvement advice, counterpoints to your ideas, help find mistakes, help with formatting complex math, etc.
Ya know I was doubtful of Elons engineering chops but that pic certainly seals the deal. Elon is in fact a rocket engineer and the proof is in the pudding. The pudding being that pic that is.
ChatGPT Plugins rolling out to all Plus users over the course of the next week
Continuing on this... Taking an existing section from Wikipedia and modifying the facts in it to be incorrect I was unable to get ChatGPT or the playground endpoint to correctly mark known false statements as false.

For each sentence in the following passage rate it as {false}, {questionable}, {true}, {opinion}, or {unkown} based on its truthfulness.
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Wisconsin is a state in the western Midwestern United States.
Wisconsin is the 20th-largest state by total area and the 25th-most populous.
It is bordered by Minnesota to the north, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north.
The bulk of Wisconsin's population live in areas situated along the shores of Lake Superior.
The largest city, Madison, anchors its largest metropolitan area, followed by Green Bay and Kenosha, the third- and fourth-most-populated Wisconsin cities, respectively.
The state capital, Madison, is currently the second-most-populated and fastest-growing city in the state.
Wisconsin is divided into 71 counties and as of the 2020 census had a population of nearly 2.9 million.
###

Compare to the first two paragraphs of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin for true statements.

Given its inability to fact check this, I would be surprised if it was able to fact check anything - much less a more niche topic.

It may be able to answer specific questions (going back and asking if Wisconsin is the 20th largest state ChatGPT responds that it is the 23rd largest state by land area... which is still wrong...) though as noted here I would not be confident about its ability to identify false statements or respond with true answers.
Interesting. So we can guess that this article (and others like it) observes local isolated phenomena?
Yes. If you stay away from high follower accounts and block/ignore blue checks it's still ok. But you're right, those comments are awful.

> "she"

> Well there goes the neighborhood

> Twitter was nice while it lasted. Women are always the ones who usher in radical leftism
Imagine it has the same functionality as Bait car.. and not allow the occupants to exit the car either.
Doing the right thing does not always end with you in a better position. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. All you can do is apologize, and that should really be the only acceptable next step after you as a public figure make an oopsie. Whether other people are willing to forgive you or "take you back" is up to them, and people being judgemental assholes when it comes to a very public and controversial figure is not an excuse to not do the right thing. That's just what it means to live on the knife's edge of being a controversial person.

Forgiveness is earned, not expected. You won't always get a second chance.
And Baltimore is asserting they have standing regarding financial damages incurred from policing the thefts. If only there was some way to resolve whether the defendant or plaintiff is the correct party!
He's not working on making Twitter better. He bought twitter because it had a ton of users and he can push his X vision to them for free without working to build his own network. This is why the spam account numbers were so important to him. Basically imagine everything WeChat does and put that functionality into twitter for western audiences.
Why rely on third parties? Setting up your own recursive DoH server with the appropriate settings (PiHole etc) is super easy.

It's even free if you use the free forever VPS server Oracle will give you. The uplink being limited to 50mbps isn't an issue for DNS (and similar lightweight protocols).

I'd recommend putting the DNS behind a secret subdirectory though, because my server accidentally got added to a DNS server list and a small country started querying mine at about 30k per second
Bc the strategy is all wrong. They need to give them homes to live in for free, no strings attached. There's ~600k homeless people in america. If the budget is $25B per year, that's 43k/person. No means tests just free apartments.
> This is very poor journalism

Then be the change you want to see. Write a counterargument and submit it. Better yet, use an LLM to write the article and state the prompts used.
The trouble is the UK electorate has no appetite for the kind of changes that would make Brexit a success. Instead we are going to slowly creep back in over the coming decades. Having such a large trading block right on our doorstep makes that inevitable.
> Case in point.

I've never watched his show outside of some occasional clips.

> Yes. That would be the obvious reading. If someone looked at a group of Samurai fighting and said that isn't how Samurai fight, by implication a comparison is being made between "Samurai" and "not Samurai."

Yet, very similar codes of conduct applied to other warriors from many different groups and races. At most you logically infer that this was applied to a subset of all the people it might be applied to. Further reading would conclude that his assertion is faulty in several ways (notably the no-true-Scotsman fallacy, lumping many races together based on similar skin tones, and the very obvious observation that every known group of non-sport fighters throughout history have taken every advantage they could).

There's plenty that is provably wrong with his statement without resorting to unprovable inferences, but that doesn't give the dopamine hit that outrage does.

> > At best, you have him gatekeeping all the white races and applying a no-true-Scotsman fallacy.

> Yes, and that's racist.

No-true-Scotsman isn't inherently racist. I agree that lumping in all white races together is racist, but most people in the US are ignorant that white is a color rather than a race and nobody has issues referring to any of these "collections" of races by their "color". It's simply not possible to determine here if he is ignorant of white racial diversity or if he was using a colloquialism.
I like how you consider people with a reasonable expectation of privacy as extremists.
‘It’s a failure of the system’: before Jordan Neely was killed he was discarded
That, or what you said was being a jerk and you got called out on it.
What is quire? I couldn't find anything that made sense in the way it is referred to in the paper.
Oh I hate that shit. It feels so broken. Someone creates "a library" in CRA or webpack, and then you can't just import it in your project easily.
High incarceration rate makes sense when the US has a high crime rate. I don't understand why anyone thinks incarceration rate should not be correlated or would not be correlate to crime rate.

Incarcerating criminals isn't the issue, having so many criminals is the issue.
I agree, but it's also really weird that such is the case. It's almost like "classical music" is some kind of code word prompting it to maintain a little musical coherence. The others break down rapidly after you listen to them for 5 seconds or so, but the classical-based one holds up a lot better.
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I’ve seen people choose Oracle Cloud because it was cheaper than AWS/GCP/Azure. Maybe Oracle is selling at a loss to gain more market share, but if you design things right, moving to another provider isn’t that hard. In practice, AWS seems to have much more vendor lock-in

Oracle has so many acquired products, many businesses are paying for one and people don’t even notice. For example, NetSuite for accounting. Cerner runs hospitals. Lots of industry-specific software in utilities, insurance, manufacturing, etc

Compared to (say) IBM, Oracle is much keener on killing legacy products
That's how video rental records became private when Supreme Court justice nominee Robert Bork's records were leaked and suddenly everyone in Congress panicked that it could someday happen to them. Bork turned out to have mundane tastes in movies but obviously members of Congress were renting movies a bit more wild.
Would be done by someone asking for forgiveness instead of permission. :)
There's no federal standard that says cars must not explode in a fireball during refueling. If one make of car started exploding, you'd see the federal government get involved very quickly.

To me, that seems like a responsible way to react to an irregular situation.