skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But these custom ROMs are hard to maintain especially as soon as when the phone manufacturer drops support.

There's no way to get the latest AOSP on these devices forever. Hard work is required to port any new version and that's not always possible because AOSP comes to rely on newer kernel versions but you are stuck with the heavily customized one (+ the blobs) the manufacturer provided.
I still think this is BS, considering trucks are causing 2500 times [0] more damage than gas cars and are certainly not bringing tax income proportionally to this. Why should EV then?

[0] https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...
But once you get into a pre-existing project, you have to be aware how every part of the language interact with each other. Grid vs Flex vs Tables vs Queries vs Components You have to know the language pretty well to avoid visual glitches.

Corner and general cases are usually documented on the MDN, but they're not very intuitive, and often very, very subtle. Did you know that just by using an apple magic mouse vs a magic trackpad you could change the behavior of the "overflow" property?
This has absolutely zero consequences for custom ROM fans. Google hasn't been maintaining these open source apps for years. All custom ROMs use forks, alternatives, or even the proprietary Google ones.
Kagi has lots of LLM-based features: Quick Answers in results, results summaries, Ask Questions About This Document, the Universal Summarizer[0], FastGPT[1].

- [0]: https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html

- [1]: https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt
> Wait until you see what Australia is doing
AMD Unveils World’s Largest Programmable, Adaptive Chip for Design Emulation
Would it be possible to:

1. create a free dev account

2. get the sources

3. merge changes into rocky repo

4. have the account terminated by the Hat

5. goto 1?

Subversive, but mostly in compliance with GPL and Red Hat EULA... Ish. Kinda.

But I probably made an error here. Who can point it out?
I’ll just add to OP’s point with my own example: I’m a Brazilian that grew up in a middle-class family and sort of “made it” working at multiple FAANG in my 20s.

OP is totally right that our education system is broken.

I was lucky enough that my dad worked at Petrobras (Brazilian oil company) and, at the time, they payed for half my high school fees. I also had a 50% scholarship and that made it possible for my parents to send me to a good private school.

Initially I got into a sort of public “trade school” in high school. I was taking high school classes in the morning and IT/programming classes in the afternoon. After a month of that I just quit and asked my parents to go back to the private school because I felt I wouldn’t be able to pass the university entrance exams if I stayed there. That’s how bad it was.

As to the Brazilians working hard, yeah I agree with that. After I went to the private high school I took the trade school entrance exam again, but this time to take the classes at night. My second and third years of high school were pretty much: Wake up at 5.30am, go to high school till 1pm, go to a “cram school” in the afternoon to practice for the university entrance exams, and then from 7pm to 11pm go to trade school.

Looking back I’m not sure how I managed that. I even developed some serious migraines due to the lack of sleep and stress. Thankfully it went away after I went to uni and my workload dropped.

I was just really lucky to be in a position where I could go all in.

Unfortunately the reality is that most people don’t have an environment that would allow them to do that.
It is really sad that actual journalism has no place in today's world because the Internet has made everyone want everything for free. So everyone ends up getting "free" information and articles that consist of drivel and superficial research all the while paying for it via their data being collected and sold.

The Internet and capitalism don't make a good cocktail.

Then I see this:

> The cutback — the latest in a series under owner Walt Disney Co.

It's sad that National Geographic is effectively closing its doors when it's owned by Walt Disney Co., which has yearly revenue of nearly $100 billion. They seriously can't find the miniscule amount of cash in there to support National Geographic's journalism? Walt Disney is one of the most evil and exploitative companies ever, so I suppose I'm not surprised by their actions here.

> National Geographic spokesperson Chris Albert said staffing changes will not affect the company’s plans to continue publishing a monthly magazine

If they don't employ writers, then who is going to be writing the magazine?
Someone who reads the title and posts flamebait based on it without reading the article or knowing what the more interesting aspects of it might be.
Does it really bring back the D2 gothic graphics?

To me, D4 just looks like a modern D3 but darker lighting and more gore. And D3 looked like WoW but darker. And WoW's style descended from WC3.

It seems like Diablo 3 & Diablo 4 are made by veterans of Warcraft instead of Blizzard North and it shows.

Diablo 2 has a very distinctive style that D3 and D4 don't follow.
I also develop and run projects this way. I really, really enjoy it. It's a very pleasant experience, on both the development side and execution side.

I'm relatively new to Python (used it for ~1 year in 2007/2008, again briefly in 2014 -- which is when I believe I picked this module trick up -- and then didn't touch it again until March of this year). It's made an impression on my team and we're all having a good time developing code this way. I do wonder, though, what other shortcomings might exist with this approach.
They do have AI features.
Oh the hubris of adding another level of indirection ... or maybe it is layer of abstraction. Not sure.
To keep in mind, à la longue, the best CSS is probably no CSS. Does a user really need all these buttons and dropdowns, modals and scrollable containers, or do they need only an input and a container rendering a few paragraphs, an image, a video/audio, possibly a 3D model.

I see no problem if instead of using all these web sites/applications with such a plethora of visual and experience spam, I just have a single input box connected to an agent through which I interact with them all, letting the APIs settle in the background.

Furthermore, concepts such as file systems, operating systems, networking protocols, and so on, are probably terrible abstractions, just the fact that a 10 year old printer is pretty much unusable with a "modern" operating system or that a VFD shipped yesterday from the factory can be rendered useless due to a single byte error in the Modbus connection ought to give second thoughts to anyone daring to call themselves an engineer.
the wrap detection for flex elements would be really nice to have. Kind of mind boggling that it's not already in the spec.
Yeah in an ideal world. But then you have isps logging and selling your dns lookups as well as blocking certain dns names etc.

I think these are the main reasons for people to use other dns providers.
I don't think so, the media has been pretty resistant to providing this kind of model. If they allow you to read a single article cheaply it would mean a lot of lost subscriptions and it isn't easy to price individual pieces of content.
My experience has been that the ceiling is highest in the US but that the floor is significantly higher in a number of other countries. And I say this as someone who chose to leave a Top 10 US uni to do undergrad in the UK and grad in UK/Japan, so I’m not particularly inclined towards the US model.
>Kagi Search requires an account only because it is a paid service which requires an account for the transaction.

ref: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/faqs.html#why-doe...

Eh... This is a tall order when competition is 'free'. Anyways, I wish them good luck as competition is inherently good.
Congratulations Kagi.

We beg to differ on the need to raise large sums. Like Kagi we are on a marathon not a sprint. We have built a no-tracking and completely independent crawler search engine and infrastructure from the ground-up having raised £3m from angels only. Cuil, Blekko, Quaero and Neeva who raised 10s/100s of $m may have come and gone; meanwhile we have been slowly building since 2004, with a user and API customer base that is also growing healthily.
Per TFA, this money was mostly raised from Kagi's existing customers.

They aren't building a web crawler. Kagi is a search "client" (it is one way to build on a shoestring budget, alright), augmented by an in-house small-scale just-in-time crawler.

> From here, we take your query and use it to aggregate data from multiple other sources, including but not limited to Google, Bing, and Wikipedia, and other internal data sources in order to procure your search results. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-protection.html

> We also have our own non-commercial index (Teclis), news index (TinyGem), and an AI for instant answers. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

I like Kagi's general vision for LLMs + Search. There's a real chance small competitors can compete with Google with clever use of LLMs' zero-shot summarization, categorization, intent recognition, and answering abilities.
I got a locked iPhone SE 2020 from a prepaid carrier and never inserted the SIM card. It cost me under USD 200 including the one month of service but I just wanted to use this device on WiFi.

I can now leave all banking apps out of my xiaomi phone running lineage.
I stopped using a smartwatch once I started wearing a MiBand. They're too good.
Well, it's not like they have a choice, isn't it?
An all you can read aggregated source is pretty much micropayments with an extra step involved.

It's not a business model media companies are typically too eager to be involved with in either case.
Looks like they'll need to update that first table as Neeva are no longer a functioning search engine.
Sorry, I am not completely sure I understand the point you are trying to make.

Yes, devices that work with the mainline kernel are better supported. Both for Android and for Mobile Linux.

> In which ways the distinction is useful?

Because people not making the distinction tend to conclude "you should move to a Mobile Linux instead". Which is completely wrong: while there are active Mobile Linux projects, there are active AOSP-based projects.

Android, today, is completely functional without Google (I have been running a de-Googled ROM for 2 years). I played a lot with PostmarketOS, and while it is very cool, it is still very, very far from Android. Even more so if you don't run waydroid and hope for people to write good mobile apps with some kind of C++ cross-platform framework like Qt.
Ever tried to put in an ad for your competitor with your phone number? Its telecoms, it's regulated.
The async library e.g. uses exceptions for queues.
$670k ain’t much runway is it?
> business model

Welp. Until now their search and their browser were supported by me and people like me, but now they are supported by investors who will want ROI. As history shows, the best way to get ROI is to become free and mine user data. Congrats to the team on paycheck though!
I was about to write a similar post. I think the only way it can work is a distributor paying a fixed price for every user that views the content. This way both big and small players can have access to it and you can even imagine some pricing it higher than others if the overall experience on their platforms is worth it for the users.
The author sets the price for every bit of content they offer. They can set it separately for every bit of content they offer or even change it after a while (although that will likely require some waiting period as without that promise buyers are unlikely to commit).

The problem here seems to be enforcement and accounting as there would be a big incentive to not report the number of users in an honest way.
I’m guessing there is still no consensus on legality of using openai to train a model?
That is an amazing feat of engineering.

Interesting that they still have it on 'standby' just in case it is needed despite being out of service for so long. Unique capabilities.
Ah memories... I once had 100K Python 2.x codebase to maintain. No docs, no tests and then being required to add features. Had to use the debugger[1] to make sense of the codebase and types, formats etc. Sheer madness and
such a waste of time...

To this day, I'm baffled by the dynamic language folks who cannot get their head around how strictness/rigor (via a good expressive type system) actually makes maintenance easier and more importantly: cheaper.

[1] https://github.com/inducer/pudb
Both. They aggregate data from lots of sources, and they have their own index as well. Seems like a winning model, IMHO.
For the same reason people today make corn field circles: humans are a playful species.

“Hey guys, remember last year’s Peruvian Burning Man where we got drunk and drew a large phallus on the sand? Let’s do an even bigger one this year!”

Our technology and day-to-day may have evolved, but the human brain is pretty much the same today as it was 10000 years ago.
Here are some high level answers:

"7B" refers to the number of parameters or weights for a model. For a specific model, the versions with more parameters take more compute power to train and perform better.

A foundational model is the part of a ML model that is "pretrained" on a massive data set (and usually is the bulk of the compute cost). This is usually considered the "raw" model after which it is fine-tuned for specific tasks (turned into a chatbot).

"8K length" refers to the Context Window length (in tokens). This is basically an LLM's short term memory - you can think of it as its attention span and what it can generate reasonable output for.

"1.5T tokens" refers to the size of the corpus of the training set.

In general Wikipedia (or I suppose ChatGPT 4/Bing Chat with Web Browsing) is a decent enough place to start reading/asking basic questions. I'd recommend starting here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model and finding the related concepts.

For those going deeper, there are lot of general resources lists like https://github.com/Hannibal046/Awesome-LLM or https://github.com/Mooler0410/LLMsPracticalGuide or one I like, https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2023/llm-reading-list.html (there are a bajillion of these and you'll find more once you get a grasp on the terms you want to surf for). Almost everything is published on arXiv, and most is fairly readable even as a layman.

For non-ML programmers looking to get up to speed, I feel like Karpathy's Zero to Hero/nanoGPT or Jay Mody's picoGPT https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/ are alternative/maybe a better way to understand the basic concepts on a practical level.
The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition
In terms of Gartner hype cycle, we are at the peak of inflated expectations for llms I reckon.
Hmm I think it's getting pretty easy today to get a de-Googled Android phone that "just works". You can buy Murena phones that come with /e/OS pre-installed (I did that). Probably the same with GrapheneOS/CalyxOS/etc.

Users are lazy and don't want to take such a risk, but they do have a choice.
I've been using Kagi since I could first get onto the product. As soon as it came out of Beta, I subscribed.

I had no idea how intrusive Google was. I love Google services. Google Cloud is far better than the others. That said, the search is just poison.

I now spend time looking at results, not searching for results.

I have to admit though, ChatGPT did make me consider dropping the subscription. Mr Chat has weakened the value of Kagi to me.

They have their own AI summarizer engine though: https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html
> If there really was an overload of talent in Canada, it would be pumping out unicorns - it's not.

There's 0 funding. No VCs will back you unless you move to the states. Local angels want 25% of your company for 75k.

Canada has a ton of small devs making a good amount, but no big companies come out of here because there's no money to accelerate growth.
I find the data on their pricing interesting. It says 300 searches per month is enough for 99% of users. I'm pretty sure I use more than 300 searches every day.

Edit: 300/day is too much, apparently I use about 100/day according to my search history.
I've taken to adding a --pdb option to my scripts.
It doesn't take a 100 million people to build a new phone ecosystem. Only a few thousand, if even that. If there is no alternative, it will get built and be usable. I avoid other open phone projects because I don't have the time and AOSP works fine, but if Google breaks it beyond usability, you better believe I'll be jumping onto one of the fully open projects even if it has major limitations.
Stop drinking the VC kool-aid. It's possible to build almost any software business without huge upfront investments.
I had to read the headline twice. At first I read it as $670 million, and I was very sad. That’s “VCs gonna enshittify it in 3 years” money.

But then I saw the “K” and grinned. This is proper bootstrap money, and makes me hopeful that Kagi will stay close to its original mission.

Congrats. I am really pulling for you, Vlad.
Interesting, this is the first time I've heard about the Bangle.js. Seeing as it's an open project and it's based around Nordic's nRF52840 I wonder if an enterprising developer could expand the wireless interfaces to include the 802.15.4 radio for 6lowpan, Zigbee, and/or Thread support.
I used it for a bit a few years ago, but the articles cost way too much - on the order of magnitude of 50c per article rather than 5c.

Every publisher overvalues their own work and guarantees that it will be read by 100x fewer people than otherwise.
> But you don't have to take my word for it. Please, continue to believe that spaceships from other planets have crashed and some elite division within the US government managed to retrieve them and keep it secret for 50+ years. Look past the failing state of our infrastructure and continue to believe that an alien species capable of interstellar travel is interested specifically in Americans, but "they" are keeping you from knowing the truth!

I don't believe any such thing.
Breakthrough in the Book Search Field
By using Apache SeaTunnel, Milvus, and OpenAI, we can achieve more accurate book title similarity searches through large language models, bringing significant technological breakthroughs to the field of book search, while also providing valuable references for semantic understanding. I hope this can provide some inspiration to everyone.
> But I've noticed most sites don't do this.

Because the trend went from having Webpack produce a 5+MB single JS bundle to splitting based on the exact chunks of code that the current React view needs, particularly to improve the experience of mobile users.
> Handle them centrally, e.g. in middleware for a web application.

So, for a Django app is it better to use their built-in middleware framework or something third-party that sits outside of Django?

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/http/middleware...
Hi, my wife has post concussion syndrome, she was lucky enough to see an NHS consultant after just a 6 months wait.

The consultant told her not to take pain meds every single day, you need to limit it, otherwise the headaches will get worse.

Also, darken your screens with a privacy film, wear sunglasses, and get as much rest as possible.

Caffeine may not be helping either.

God speed.
How does one explain the eyewitness testimony of the 4 people involved?

>Fravor reported that he saw an object, white and oval, hovering above an ocean disturbance. He estimated that the object was about 40 feet (12 m) long.[7][4] Fravor and another pilot, Alex Dietrich, said in an interview that a total of four people (two pilots and two weapons systems officers in the back seats of the two airplanes) witnessed the object for about 5 minutes.[8] Fravor says that as he spiraled down to get closer to the object, the object ascended, mirroring the trajectory of his airplane, until the object disappeared.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos#Background
I imagine that their hosting costs must be quite big and not very elastic. Crawling takes compute and bandwidth, storage cost will be high, as you need to store data in low latency storage, then indexing which is more compute costs.

They may have access to talent pool willing to work for their vision at significantly reduced rates, but unless they effectively sell themself to big cloud provider, they can’t significantly reduce the infrastructure cost.
Everything you described is also happening here. I just avoided mentioning it so as to avoid derailing the thread into brazilian politics.

Truth is the primary purpose of our schools is to be the main government indoctrination tool. I still remember the asinine "sociology" and "history" classes taught by a socialist feminist teacher. I was literally forced to agree with marxist nonsense in her tests or fail the class. It was so blatant as to be comical. This also shows up in our SAT equivalent as rules about "respecting human rights". They force you to pick the "correct" ideological answer. Wrote anything even remotely controversial in your essay? You're not making it into any university. Even if you do make it, they never stop. Imagine a question about proper terms for trangender people suddenly showing up in the middle of a mathematics test at university.

I have videos of primary school teachers teaching children to sing worker's party songs. I wish I was making this up.
It's very easy to set up a company in Canada. Taxes are an issue, but not that much more than CA or NY.

The issue is that you'll get offers of 75k from angels and 500k from VCs. You go to SF, and before your pitch is done, you have a seed of 1M signed and ready to go.
> It means I have exceptionally high confidence that this will be the biggest thing to hit the economy, society and markets in the last hundred years for good and ill.

I'm with you on that one. And I'm not sure we are even close to the level of preparedness that we need (as a society) to weather that.
loved using blendle, for about 2 years i regularly spent about 50 EUR/m on articles. then the honeymoon phase of blendle and the publishers was over and it became clear the model just wont work. for publishers an article (usually sold for between 99 cents and 2 euro) is more than a product to be sold, as the price doesnt cover all costs. they usually have only a handful of "flagship articles" with some kind of exclusive content. they need these to capture the audience into subscriptions. this regular audience can then also be sold ads and merchandise/other stuff.

for me as user it was essential that i had access to more than 80% of the best articles of all publications for sale. as most publishers came to see that publishing their flagship articles cannibalized them selling subscriptions and eliminated their secondary revenue streams they resorted to periodically publishing only some bait articles to lure audiences to their core offers. thus the incentives of all 3 (me as user, publishers, blendle) did not align and its usefullness as a product suffered.
some publishers tried to raise the price of their flagship articles to cover more of their costs, but who pays 4 EUR for a single article? so, the business model just doesnt work.
enjoyed it while it lasted though
You're going to have to explain the relevance of the K man.
Also since Kagi is a paid product, I imagine that the amount of external funding needed is inherently less than a startup that is built on the "scale first, monetise later" model.
Why are these all the same? What I was talking about - video games getting unique sprites and artwork for every unit, buildings are cloned.