skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say it was a 'killer feature', I said 'now I know I want it'. There are very many things I want but not at the price they cost!

I don't think coffee's a great analogy - it has far more utility for me, I don't buy it as a service, and it costs me roughly £24 (what, $30ish) a month in beans.

I'm not seriously suggesting it because I think comparing prices of different things to determine value very quickly gets silly, but a closer comparison might be Netflix: Kagi would cost me about as much per month for search as Netflix. Silly, as I said, but if I tried really strictly to pay for things according to relative value or utility to me, there's no way that would make sense.

Part of the problem is asking me to switch from free I suppose - if DDG suddenly started charging me $5 I'd be more likely to pay Kagi $10 than I am today if that makes sense.
> but can it decide the weightings of the factors it takes into account to make that decision?

Is there a reason why you think it wouldn’t be able to do that?
I recently saw this [1] which uncovers new evidence that suggests both theories are right.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg0818
From what I understand it was discovered in 1999, hence LK99. Doesn't seem very quick to me in that case.
I grew up 20 miles west of DC and now live 20 miles east of DC. The difference in accents and dialect was quite surprising, so it’s interesting to see the clear delineation on the map. My 10 year old daughter’s friends point out she doesn’t have a “Maryland accent” which I find hilarious. Funnily enough it’s sensitized me to other mid Atlantic accents and now I can immediately pick people out from New Jersey (even DC transplants with quite subtle suburban Jersey accents).
I don't trust Google, but it's practical. There are tons of ways you can control/limit privacy issues, like a combination of opting out of personalized ads, AdGuard, DNS level filtering, and not using any Google services other than necessary for Android. Many of these require little effort but go very far -- farther than the default experience from a new iPhone. In fact many of these things are unrelated to Android. With these in place I don't see using Android a problem by itself. (On the other hand, if you use an iPhone but have no adblocking or don't block tracking domains, and use Google services all the time, I don't see how it is better)
Can disorders develop due to prolonged exposure to toxic environments? I don’t see it as mutually exclusive.
Show HN: A React Combobox component with links
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so bi-temporal extends to n-temporal. interesting...
We're peak hype cycle for LLMs right now so we have an order of magnitude more ridiculous shit said about them than would otherwise be normal. The trough of disillusionment has yet to set in.

They will be useful for a set of tasks but all of the people hyperventilating over this being the new industrial revolution might consider calming down a little.

The high priests of capitalism have been blaming lost jobs on automation since forever - largely because this narrative makes a convenient, impersonal scapegoat.
Personally, the split is a big problem. I don't keep a strict separation of left-hand and right-hand during typing.
> Did humans with computer replace humans without computer?

You're obviously not aware that "computer" was a profession, a job before becoming a machine, just watch the "Hidden Figures" movie. Have you seen a human computer later?
We have enough resources to provide heating and running water for every living person on Earth, it is just not allocated fairly and smartly (e.g. in my country we flush the toilet with very good grade water meant for drinking, because historically we don’t have separate piping for less potable water and we are rich in waters).

But do we really need to be able to order some bullshit plastic shit from China for 2 dollars? I think it is only fair to give up that for local production, even if that costs 10 dollars for the same thing. Similarly, do I have to eat argentine beef in Europe? Sure, make it available for a hefty price for the rare occasion, but it really should not be generally available. Fruit that is local and is out of season? Don’t import it from Peru, simply wait for it to be in season, or buy some product that was made locally when it was in season, like jam. Strengthening local production would already massively decrease the number of ships we need for minimal inconvenience (hell, it might just be beneficial for the local economy). Do I even have to eat meat each day?

Similary, why don’t we ban most kinds of single-use plastics? How often do you buy milk that you plan on drinking while you walk somewhere? Couldn’t it be stored inside a container you have to bring back to the shop the next time, or buy again if not? Hell, most liquids meant for drinking could easily come in a few sizes of these reusable bottles. We have goddamn shops that can auto-subtract your bought items simply by camera imaging, don’t tell me we don’t have the tech to safely and hygienically refill containers, something we had 100 years ago.

As for societal change: do my parents have to live in a separate house with way too much space for them, having them see their grandchildren only occasionally (making parents having to pay for babysitters)? Only so that they can later be cared for by some random person? Sure, not everyone has parents worth living together with, but this tendency that it is somehow a failure to not move out of your parents home is imo very harmful to everyone involved - parent not having enough self-time, grandparents being alone, slowly deteriorating mentally, children not seeing grandparents enough (also, parents having to figure out parenting from zero).

These are not big sacrifices, but we will do them, one way or another. The question is, do we want to do it with self-agency, or let nature run its course?
> ...we all have to change the way we live...

It is negligently irrational to believe the entirety of the human race can be convinced to do, in perpetuity, what you suggest.

The conclusion to accept is the cat's out of the bag. Two weeks won't stop the spread. Nuclear weapons will never be uninvented. Etc etc etc.

And, like, yawn. This has long been obvious. We'll adapt in some manner whatever the horrors. I would bet against a human but not against humanity.
Voyager 2 phones home and says everything is cool
Just think of the gerrymandering opportunities such a system would present...
okay ChatGPT.
Sure, ... unless the person behind the “Denis Petrov” nom de guerre is another Alexandra Elbakyan.
Yes, and when you multiply per capita by population, you end up with China and India emitting over double what the United States emits.

There is also the delta to take into account. Industrialized countries are decarbonizing and switching to renewables, while industrializing countries are building new coal plants.
HBR is the IBM of business publications. You won't get fired for sharing their articles.
In this context it clearly is - if the server assumes the request sent by the client is always untrusted, then any capable device / app can use the service and it's possible to manufacture that device / app without permission from some company that has a dominant market position..

I acknowledge though, that this is incompatible with many practical scenarios, and CPC advertisements are one of those.

It's hard for me to argue here theoretically without taking context into account, as it turns out what I'm arguing for depends on it heavily..

It could be possible for Google to make changes where while theoretically possible to compete, it's not practical, and when it gets practical, Google could make another change and so on..
I used to have nightmares involving open elevator platforms with no railing, 10 meters tall, moving unpredictably at high speed.

You’d have to be quick when stepping onto them because they might drop away at any moment, leaving you tumbling down after it.
Why? The AMD drivers for Linux are also free, aren't they?

I doubt that the 6.4 kernel improves performance enough to make up the difference to AMD cards in their category, but granted, that was the estimation I mentioned. A newer source would be nice!
the hidden assumption is that you are dealing with a closed system, you are not. the scientific method has explanatory limits
> That type of quality, especially at that price, would be unheard of in the 1800s.

Just compare role playing rule books from 30-40 years ago with those today. Back then they were mostly text with the occasional b/w line art and 10-ish full color pages on the middle.

Today every single page is full color and most of them feature some sort of art piece.
It seems dedicating their chips to AI and datacenter products are going to be the focus for a while. Not only is the profit better but the distribution is easier, they don't have to deal with third-party card manufacturers, and they don't have to deal with the notoriously picky gamer market. If they can sell every chip they produce in a datacenter card, why would they care about gamers?
I do not believe this to be correct. I think that the e model just comes with subscription ink instead of regular ink.
Because education is easy to copy and brand access is not. It's a status symbol, very expensive to uphold. Could also be a car for all it's worth
I think large numbers of non-technical people make a conscious choice of OS when asking 'do I get a PC or a Mac'. Familiarity, compatibility with apps, games etc. I've not met a non-technical user actively choose Linux (or not complain if it's pre-installed). It's an anecdote but backed up by the numbers.
This kinda illustrates how dead easy it would be for google to improve their search engine. There's no way they couldn't figure out a similar list as this and just re-rank things to down prioritize these sites.
The caveat being for now. No one knows how much better the LLM paradigm can get.
The main reason I don’t stray too much from a ‘standard’ layout is that I type on a number of different keyboards in a given day, my wfh keyboard, my personal laptop, and the keyboard I have at work. If I went the ergo way I’d either have to have three, or cart one around with me, which is more hassle than it’s worth.
There’s a Black Mirror episode about this, I’m not terribly looking forward to it.
Well, according to the article Kermit's performance problems have been fixed :)

"Although ZModem came out a few years before Kermit had its performance optimizations, by about 1993 Kermit was on par or faster than ZModem."
There's also a suggestion form: https://duckduckgo.com/newbang

I can't remember what for but I'm pretty sure I've used it and gotten a pretty fast approval.
Yeah, it's so good he said it twice.
Intuitively to me Monty Carlo would be better. Monty Carlo rocks.

Intuitively to me intelligent design is going to beat genetic programming.

It's the constants and knowing which intelligently designed algorithm is better that is impossible to know, which Monty Carlo solves.

Look at the antenna designed on Wiki and think how easy that would be with Monty Carlo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm#:~:text=The%....

John R. Koza book was 1992, computational power now allows us to smash things.

Here's a comparison at a wind farm design between Monte Carlo and genetic algorithms (Monty Carlo was better) - https://rera.shahroodut.ac.ir/article_2146_5e7bee97938fcd513...

But it's really interesting, have fun looking into it. Have a look through HN articles - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[edit] I haven't differentiated between "What are the differences between genetic algorithms and genetic programming?" - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3819977/what-are-the-dif...
> Did humans with computer replace humans without computer?

Yes, they did. Or rather: everyone was forced to catch up and those that didn't just got left behind.

Those of us who saw the PC revolution still remember the time when typewriters were an everyday artifact. We also saw how everyone was forced to choose between updating or being left behind - no matter how fast your secretary was, a human with carbon paper is no match for a human that slightly tweaks a template and sends 10 copies to the printer. And a human with a calculator will always be slower than a human with Excel.
That’s a fair argument. They are ultimately a political organization, even if well intended.
You can do that with Firefox Beta too, which likely will give you better experience / stability. It's a shame you have to jump through so many hoops to get it working.
Well, she said, she's ethnically Ukrainian. It was great times for us during the USSR so not that's why I was finding it a bit odd.
That must have been like 12 years ago or more at least because in my career I don't have much memory of feeling betrayed by the information on their site.
Is this a global thing or US only?

I'm actually quite impressed with this. It's a shame all stores don't do this.

It's also a shame I don't have a Costco reasonably near me.
Comming next: Pay using your farts
Odoo-Xmlrpc php package
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Judge dismisses major arguments in Google antitrust case
I have the same hunch. Google pays Apple $20B annually to be the default search engine. Thankfully those of us in the EU will soon be able to choose any search engines we like once the DMA comes into effect.
He wasn’t using it for free, he was paying for Twitter Blue.
It's just self replication. Ideas that are useful in some way get replicated, other ideas forgotten. They travel a lot and mutate. They all depend on human interests, but exist beyond individual humans.
Why are you commenting your opinion on the comments of the article then? Obviously users are going to take the context of the discussion into account in the discussion.
> So if we never acknowledge it it is never an emergency?

Exactly. Do you think an emergency has some objective trigger?? No it does not, it's subjective, the people involved in the event are the ones who deem whether it's an emergency or not, even if they may be wrong about the gravity of the situation (which is why sometimes the rescue service may disagree with you whether you're in an emergency situation or not and refuse to rescue you, for example - that happened to me).

> Doing what?

Think about the Marshall Plan... if we really need to, I am sure we can get every man and woman to work on the manufacture and use of whatever device can collect CO2 from the atmosphere or whatever.
I think Clojure is a good fit in a lot of SaaS applications, especially those that are complex. It helps in dealing with complex problem domains, and lets you reuse the same code on the client side (through the magic of ClojureScript). Small benefits accumulate, and while it's possible to write anything using any language and tools, Clojure reduces the amount of code and work that I have to do, thus enabling me to run a solo-founder business.
I would argue that the US are large enough that the diversity in the in the population is more extreme than in a single European country. Yes, they all identify as (US) Americans, but if you compare e.g. California to Minnesota the difference is more comparable to Germany vs. Ukraine than two regions in Germany.
I barely see Pinterest in search results .
And failure to adapt leads to extinction.

AGI has the potential to be an improvement on humans because it has the potential to be relentlessly rational, reality-aware, and self-correcting.

We don't - most likely can't - operate like that. Although we like to flatter ourselves that we're a rational and intelligent species all of us live in an unaware haze of myths, factoids, media-seeded fake narratives, self-serving fantasies, and outright reality denial.

We have a rational process called "science", but politically it lives in a special box. If it starts to interfere with established power hierarchies it's shouted down.

And hardly any humans science at all.

Current AI is just a warm-up for what happens next. Metaphorically it's the equivalent of 8-bit computing. 32-bit AI will be entirely different, very possibly incomprehensible, and potentially far more threatening.
I interpreted the use of the word "obscure" as meaning "little-known" rather than "secretive".

I would expect that only a relatively small proportion of people would have heard of Liberapay, so I think calling them "obscure" is not wrong.
I seem to remember the key benefit ZMODEM had over Kermit was the ability to restart an interrupted file transfer. This was especially useful in the days of yore when your younger sibling or mom picked up the extension causing your modem to drop its connection.
Yeah, for gaming anyway. AAA games are console-first these days, and are finally targetting current-gen (ps5/series x) which have 16GB (though gpu/cpu shared), so 8gb will become a problem.
Congrats on 5 years Jesse! Always warms my heart when I see one of your projects pop up on HN.
If you've either taken four long flights in the last year, or drive an SUV a little more than average, you're already above the average carbon footprint for the world, without any consideration of eating meat, electricity, other fuels, etc.
Not everyone has the same spending habits. I (in the US) happen to know that none of my colleagues buy Starbucks or any other shop coffee on a regular basis. Although we are paid a decent (although not high) salary and can easily afford this without thinking, I don't see people eagerly spend $25/month on this.

Not to mention $25 is very different in other countries.
Sunshade is like thinking you fixed the bios security issue because your test case can no longer boot.
Reminds me of the Warez sites around 1995 - 2000. Searching for "Photoshop 5 crack" or similar would lead you to a web site that would ask you to click on another link which would open a dozen popup windows. Many of those popups would also purport to have what you were looking for - just click on this link here (which opens a load of further popups).
Teenage me spent too much time wading through these pages. To this day, I'm not sure whether any of these sites really had warez or whether they were just a huge clickbait mazes.
Yes. And it really doesn't matter in practice. In a larger system this kind of performance won't matter. What will matter is design decisions, data structures, databases and access patterns — things that are much more high-level than "language performance".
I think it’s important to have realistic ideas about how climate change might actually go. For example:

- if all emissions stopped tonight, we’d still be on track for temperature rises over the next several decades

- some places would get hotter, others wouldn’t. Similarly changes in rainfall would not be evenly distributed. It may be that Europe’s climate doesn’t change all that much, for example (due to changing ocean currents cooling the North Atlantic)

- some of the facts that drove rhetoric 20 years ago have since changed, for example the cost of renewable energy has dramatically decreased such that certain kinds of subsidies or sacrifices are less necessary (on the other hand, the power/km^2 density of solar / wind in some places may still imply land uses that people would find unacceptable were they to become dominant)

- in the grand scheme of things, geoengineering (like pumping SO2 into the troposphere or dispersing silver particles in the atmosphere) is cheap and could be performed unilaterally by many countries were they to feel sufficiently threatened by climate change.

I think one reason to care about this kind of geoengineering is that it might just happen. I think it’s also useful to consider that we’re currently doing the ‘geoengineering’ of pumping more and more CO2 into the atmosphere and I think we should be careful to avoid treating ‘planned’ geoengineering asymmetrically from the side-effect kind.
Intel can afford to throw much more money at the problem. AMD can't even get their drivers straight for years now, apart from the gaming use case. I really see a chance for Intel.
> it seems to be predicated upon the belief that the amount of work is fixed.

I've mentioned this before in other AI threads, but humanity has an uncanny ability to use all resources available. As you say, the amount of work will only grow with the increased productivity from AI.
People renting out Starlink internet on Facebook for around $30 per day
This seems like a useful feature, but from looking at the data it suggests a strong bias towards a few disciplines. That makes me wonder whether this is just the marketing so far, or a more fundamental limitation on the market that will actually draw value from Kagi. Does Kagi work as a business if it doesn’t grow to millions of users?
Great product from a great team!
Pretty expensive for non-casual searching, I do a lots of searches in a day. Currently self-hosted SearchXNG does the trick but would love to start use Kagi for all.
Would love if they manage to find ways to increase limits or reduce pricing.
We can use uBlock for ads + ddg for results, but for masses and in general for healthier search engines I would be happy to use Kagi daily.
Its obscure because it is not well known not because it is shady. I never heard of them before too.
I’ve always admired Maddog and I was lucky enough to meet him when I was in my early twenties at a Linux conference in Birmingham, UK. I bought him a coffee and even though I earned a pittance and couldn’t afford my own coffee at the time, I felt it was a badge of honour and afforded me 5 minutes of chat with this giant of computing.
Why do people even buy HP printers? I gave up on them a decade ago when I had to download some 300MB “driver” on a clients PC, which of course installed a crapload of other stuff on it.
I think random/fuzz testing is far more effective than unit testing. I pretty much don't write individual test cases anymore. I write a test that throws random data at a system or does random operations on it. Combined with a liberal use of assertions, it usually catches bugs very quickly.
You never know. We could get AGI next month … The world would change overnight. The thought of how it’s all going to play out scares me.

That said I think LLMs are overhyped.* If we are to get AGI, it would probably be a novel model.

* It’s basically advanced auto complete that statistically guess its way to an answer - rather than reason its way to an answer; feels … “unsafe” and it often does produce completely BS.
it was an either/or statement.., if you don't have a remote devbox your choice is either having to deal with the fact that your home work environment is different from your work environment at the office and you have to set up lots of things twice and encounter some weird issues even if you try to keep them in sync (more problematic for less experienced devs in fast moving companies), or your choice is using a laptop and carrying it with you even if you do have a more powerful PC at home, have the option of having a more powerful desktop at work and would otherwise prefer desktops to laptops...
> Public transportation still requires you to go to the bus stop in the rain.

An umbrella solves that at minimal cost.

For the record, I don't think all car use is wrong, but the example of visiting a friend 10 miles away isn't a very good one. Someone shouldn't be expected to buy a car and its associated maintenance, tax, and externalities, just to visit someone that nearby.