skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is better most of the time because:

- it combines the top 10 this or that list into listicles that are aggregated into their own section and I find to often be full of spam
- it lets you block or deprioritize any site you want like quora, medium, Forbes, that often give me useless or incorrect info or are just their to boost so
- it lets you prioritize sites you like in the search ranking
- it doesn’t have blocked or censored keywords
- it lets you specify by date or time quickly and easily which I find to be beneficial and google seems to hide it constantly move around in news

It’s weaker for like looking up a phone number or hours for a local eatery, but in general I like it better.
Last time I checked, ansible playbooks were also essentially just sequential steps to execute via ssh, albeit in yaml format. There was certainly no way to describe a desired state nor did ansible accomplish consistently bringing a system into some desired state. Two executions of the same playbook could result in a very different system state for example, depending on what happened in between.

The only systems I am aware of which are reliably capable of "solving for desired state" are nix and guix.
The newspapers are the masters of the cheap and nasty rhetoric I referred to in my first post on this subject.

As for comparing Hitler quotes. Haha, very funny. But it turns out by that metric Taylor Swift is a genocidal monster[1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/08/who-said...
Tracking US progress on the path to a decarbonized economy
1.8, migration path to 2.0 was a no-no. Don't remember exact reasons back then but we decided to have wait-and-see approach and see how alternatives grow up as our data generally grows in predictable rate

Also frankly Prometheus support is a massive positive. For better or worse industry standarized on apps using Prometheus as ingest for metrics, and also most of the materials related to that will of course give examples in PromQL

Flux is frankly hieroglyphs for people using it 20 minutes a month like our developers

This is given example on how to raise value in Flux to power of two

|> map(fn: (r) => ({ r with _value: r._value * r._value }))

This is example of that in prometheus

value ^ 2

This is example of calculating percentage in Flux (from their webpage)

data
|> pivot(rowKey:["_time"], columnKey: ["_field"], valueColumn: "_value")
|> map(
fn: (r) => ({
_time: r._time,
_field: "used_percent",
_value: float(v: r.used) / float(v: r.total) * 100.0,
}),
)

This is how you do it in PromQL

space_used / space_total * 100

Flux is atrocious for "normal users".
China is also building 2 Coal Power plants a week, and China is building six times more new coal plants than other countries
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...
Eleven!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8
You’re the perfect example of the cranky experienced developer stuck in their ways and fighting against better solutions.

Most of the issues you’ve described are consequences of yet more issues such as not caching with the correct cache key.

I argue that all of the problems are eminently solvable. You’re arguing for leaving massive issues in the system because of… other massive issues. Only one of these two approaches to problem solving gets to a solution without massive problems.
Do you honestly believe that the money used to operate the company comes out of his personal bank accounts? Are you just this unaware of how things work, or are you being a troll?
Yelp names and shames businesses paying for 5-star reviews
While I think your questions are definitely relevant, in practice, you search less than you think.

I consider myself as a heavy search engine user but, based on Kagi stats, I was surprised how much less I actually searched compared to my estimate. My actual range is about 500-800 queries a month when I originally estimated upwards 1500 queries a month.

Same thing with my friends.
The primary difference is rolling vs alternating (as someone else mentioned) and slight left vs right hand biases (I don't think anyone brought this up yet) and there is some definitely enough room for preference of one over the other there. I prefer rolling over alternating and I'm left-hand dominant. For finger alternation I'd recommend any of the CarpalX layouts (Qgmlwb specifically). If I knew about CarpalX before learning Colemak I probably would have learned it instead but I also don't want to relearn typing for a 4th time.

There's always a handful of exceptions to every rule but by and large from my experiences in the altkey layout communities the people who touted Dvorak the loudest largely didn't know how to type properly before learning Dvorak and it was their first alternative layout learned. So it's colored my view a bit.

I have regularly typed for >8 hours/day - nearly every day - since age 8. The hand pains didn't really start until I was in my 20's.
We're most probably at the combustion -> "only upper-middle-class people and richer will be able to afford private transportation" tipping point.
I believe that's basically what happened in the author's case.
i really wanted to ditch google and gave my best shot to DDG and just couldn't use it, had to go to !g all the time.
been paying for Kagi close to a year and I only do !g when I am proactively seeking to look at SEO spam
I mostly use Duckduckgo these days but fall back on Google for non-English searches because DDG is lacking in that area.

Kagi users, how good is Kagi for non-English searches?
A question: where did the hobbyist/small business crowd go?
I'm my own grandpa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkiOm-vmpcY
Linux user for 25+ years here. (When did kernel 0.9 come out?)

I learned how to perform basic admin tasks for Linux and OpenBSD in the 1990s.

I relearned how to do all those things under Linux at least five times since then, and am facing yet another round of "why the fuck is everything broken (regressed back to worse than 1998 levels of stability) and different again this year?" with my Linux machines.

I recently installed OpenBSD and FreeBSD in VirtualBox VMs and am doing a bake off for my next desktop OS.

FreeBSD is slightly ahead from the "annoyingly terrible stuff works in a pinch" perspective, since I have some windows game getting to a splash screen via LLVMPipe under Steam. (It runs out of DRAM, and needs a GPU that doesn't exist, so I'm counting this as working.)

OpenBSD is ahead from the "if its available at all, then it is solid" perspective.

Both of them are more familiar to me than the Linux desktop that's hosting the Virtual Box VMs.

Also, I'm increasingly concerned about the ethics of the upstream Linux development community. Red Hat's new business model is based on violating the GPL (maybe they are not technically breaking it, though I think they are), and they have enough weight to force the ecosystem to do whatever they want.

They've rammed all sorts of user-hostile crap (most of those regressions, for example) on to my (ubuntu, arch, etc) machines, so it's not just a theoretical concern.
In california if you sign a lease for a building built at least 20 years ago you probably get a boilerplate lead warning document as well. Its like a prop 65 situation where so many things are labelled that the label itself loses meaning.
Gnuradio
Could I ask what Vim can do that Kakoune + Tmux can't?

I don't doubt there's something, I've just never encountered it.
Your figure includes natural gas. That makes a big chunk of power generation [1], big enough that you would probably want to address an alternative source like nuclear power.

1: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
Oh, like a copyleft/sharealike license? I didn't realize that. Thanks!
It's more of a problem for families with children.
Yes, its results are far better than Google’s. Google results are full of SEO spam, marketing pages, etc. Kagi tends to surface official documentation, blog posts, online discussion/Q&A. Overall, it does a very good job highlighting “real” content rather than “artificial” content. Plus, you can personalize it by boosting/downranking/blocking sites, creating regex rewrite rules on URLs, etc.
"We kill people based on metadata." -- former head of NSA Gen. Michael Hayden

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/ex-nsa-chief-...
> Although I really like the idea of giving the player control over how the bot raycasts and letting them optimise that. Lots of fun strategies to find there! I’d even bound it so they can’t afford to do too many raycasts so they have to get creative.

This is actually exactly what I did when I built a similar game about a decade ago! Bots had a budget of 20 raycasts per second, which would slowly replenish. It was the bot programmer's responsibility to figure out the best way to use them. It was a lot of fun! :)
Will Chandrayaan-3 probes survive the lunar night?
He's looking at this all wrong. AI can be used to complete his story, as he has no chance at the rate he's going. Might even be less divisive than HBO's finale.
> I’m sure it’s a lot higher than google will let you do before they start rate limiting you

Do you have any basis for this assumption?
Adult searches work for me, I disabled safe search on
https://kagi.com/settings?p=privacy

and it seems to be working fine?
I was skeptical about this as well but I caved and did it. It’s amazing how hard different browsers have made it to add a search engine
> the business model is a tough one outside of niche HN types

There are lucrative bundling opportunities.

I am waiting fora corporate product; it's notable that Google Workspace still subjects you to ads in search. That's not only a data leak. It's also a constant attention tax on your knowledge workers.
Oh yes. It's quite delicious.

https://www.landolakes.com/products/butter-spreads/

Cinnamon sugar is very tasty on toast. I just picked up their Maple Me Crazy, it's nice to just quickly spread on a waffle when in a hurry to get out the door. Butters with herbs is pretty common, it's nice in a dinner roll or something like that. This isn't the only brand that makes products like this.
You are right, while I might notice that sort of thing you mention it wouldn't distract me much. There are other things that completely make it impossible for me to function, like direct lighting in or near my field of view. I could claim like you do that people who have a bright light bulb hanging right next to their tv are just blind to some deeper experience, but probably they just aren't bothered by it.

What makes you think these proclivities about font choice are universal then? Maybe you are just insisting on what you find aesthetically appealing, while many people would equally validly feel the opposite?
Their special deals are generally better than the Auction, depending on what they're offering at the time.

I've got a couple AX101s with 4TB drives at around the price for the current AX102s that only have 2tb drives.
Stop pretending you struggled when you're an IT guy. There are people who actually struggled, people who don't live in luxury in the richest parts of Europe like you do and yet they are happy to be part of the struggle for better world that EU is trying and don't hate everyone like you do.
... reaching speeds of 125 mph (200 kph).

...the 3.5-hour, 235-mile (378-kilometer) trip between the state’s biggest tourist hubs — about 30 minutes less than the average drive between the two cities.

Thirty-two trains will run daily.

It's really not that fast ie the travel time is not competitive with flying, it's more just regular train.

Otoh, they do have good frequency. Hopefully this means it's pretty painless ie you can just show up and get on, as opposed to having to book in advance to get a good price on a specific train, wait in line, go through some kind of security, all the other stuff that makes air travel worse. It won't be competitive of there's any of that. If you can just show up and get on maybe.
I'm happy to criticize NPM the tool. The whole thing is designed as a second, crummier version control system that lives in disharmony with and on top of your base-level version control system (so it can subvert it). It's a terrible design.

There's basically at most one reasonable use for npm: as a glorified download manager, i.e. to quickly fetch a module by name (right before you check it in to version control with Git). This differs wildly, of course, from how it's actually used, which is as a drug that sweeps mountains of unaudited code under the rug so people can trick themselves and others into thinking that none of it's really there on the basis that it's not visible when anyone first clones the repo.

To answer the other commenter's question, "How should NPM prevent archaic dependencies": it shouldn't; it's okay for programmers to be responsible for their work.
> The perpetrators weren't "let go"; they had a trial (the most expensive trial in Canadian history), and two of the three charged were found not guilty. Which is how things work in a liberal democracy.

Is the destruction of critical evidence also part of a liberal democracy? Not to mention failure to prevent critical witnesses from getting killed before being able to give testimony.

> June 2, 2003:

> Opposition MPs call for an inquiry into accusations that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) blocked the RCMP investigation into the bombing.

> According to RCMP documents, CSIS ordered the destruction of hours of wiretaps to conceal the fact that one of its agents, Surjan Singh Gill, had penetrated a circle of Sikh extremists planning the attack. He was ordered to pull out three days before Air India Flight 182 blew up.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-india-bo...

> June 17, 2010:

> Major releases his final report. Over more than 3,200 pages, he tears into the government and its "wholly deficient" agencies. He says failure to prevent the bombing was "inexcusable," the CSIS was "ineffective" and notes a "lax security culture" at airports. The RCMP "failed" to protect threatened witnesses, he adds.

> Major says he cannot understand why CSIS deleted its wiretap tapes: "Inconceivable, incomprehensible, indefensible, incompetence," he writes

> He also says successive governments had treated the victims' families "like adversaries, as if they had somehow brought this calamity on themselves." Politicians' failure to plug security holes was "inexcusable."

> The inquiry concludes Talwinder Singh Parmar was the mastermind behind the deadly bombing.

Maybe you know more than the retired Supreme Court of Canada Justice John C. Major.
so one hand says they are making things better for friends and family, and the other is ripping out things to make peoples lives miserable? and then letting them float in that misery for some period of time?
Urban and rural pattern of Internet use among youth
This is a welcome addition, companies spend time and effort building cameras with tracking and portrait mode etc..

I just feel this feature comes a bit too late where there was a scramble during the pandemic to get webcams as everything suddenly went remote.

Would have been good to have shipped this feature back then instead of buying 3rd party apps that provided this feature.
This is the thing that all the "legalize it" guys don't get, at all.
So there’s a webp system library as well as the one in Chrome?

Nice of Google to drop security support for the Pixel 4a just before this bug drops.
money flows to where it can be multiplied, not where it can be sunk into some social good
I think $5-$10 is a good price point for just the privacy aspect. As far as search, it's about 90% kagi and 10% Google if I don't like the kagi results. Maps could use some work and I'm always jumping back into Google maps.

I don't use any of the other features.
In my experience it's not that there's better quality results found, but rather low quality results are skipped. There's a lot filtered by default + it's easy to click "block this domain" when you run into yet another stackoverflow copy. It means that when you're searching for code related things, you often get small relevant blogs in position 3+ rather than SEO spam.

For example searching for "current time on JavaScript" on Google, I get SO, MDN, and basically a lot of SEO spam sites. Same thing on Kagi https://kagi.com/search?q=current+time+in+JavaScript&r=au&sh... ends with an actually interesting blog on position 5, link to moment.js on GH, further down posts about accuracy and about the Temporal API proposal, etc.
Batteries are recycled, check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNGg0P7B5fI
> Fukushima is a great example because the takeaway should have been “these systems are already over-engineered”, instead of “we need more regulations”.

Absolutely not. There were a serious number of fuckups that were completely avoidable, had the proper rules been in place, and been followed, and had the right people been available. It would have been far cheap than dealing with the mess.

It was known the seawall was too low.

We have stories with heroic measures like workers collecting and hooking up car batteries to get equipment working. That's clearly an improvised effort, not a serious backup plan!

Apparently TEPCO refused US military generators, tried to send their own, and they got stuck in traffic.

There were multiple explosions, which resulted in broken equipment and evacuated workers.

Point is, it wasn't that some stuff got damaged in an ultimately harmless way, and everyone around just ran around like headless chickens for no good reason. Things indeed were serious, people were working around the clock to keep things together, and the situation was far from ideal. Without hard work it could have gotten considerably worse. So it absolutely wasn't over-engineered. Things held up, with a lot of effort and some good luck. They could have not worked out as well as they did.

And there were plenty instances in which the right measures and the right people could have saved a lot of trouble and made the whole thing go a whole lot smoother.
Much better imo and much cheaper unless you do 200 chats per day or something :P

Why is it better? More integration capabilities. You're not limited to the webpage and app, you can use it anywhere you want. Not constantly kicking me out to log in again every few days (their web does this). The ability to select the model and temperature (a measure of how creative the LLM is). Also the default model seems to be much more recent.

And the price. If you use it sparingly you might be paying as little as 20 cents a month instead of 20 dollars. Not exaggerating but it depends on the size of questions and responses. But really to make it cost as much as that 20$ per month with the API you really have to go hell for leather with it.
I have zero issues with Linus being paid 1-2 million dollars per year
I would really love to see an API, possibly with a pay per request pricing.
Advocates of surrogacy are ignoring its impact on women and children
From an Arthur C. Clarke novel:

> ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS - EXCEPT EUROPA.

> ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.

So yes. Clarke thought it was special also.
It would surprise me to see the dispatch loop dominate in a DB? given that on the whole databases tend to block a lot on more expensive things like materialization, joins, etc?

I do think that a VM could mess up CPU branch prediction so I can see that as being a problem?

Some people have gone the route of emitting LLVM IR (or similar) for query plans, but this has a cost, too, so only makes sense for repeatedly used queries.
> as mandated by the C programming model.

As PhilipRoman said, this is also true of assembly (or any other programming language model[1]).

> If you're still tempted to consider C "close to hardware", consider that you can compile the same code for a Z80 and a Threadripper. What hardware exactly are you controlling that's common to both?

In both of them I can write to a memory-mapped I/O device, if it has one. I can write a custom memory allocator for a pool that I'm managing myself. I can't do either of those in Fortran or Javascript.

[1] Why does it have to be true of any other programming language model? Well, maybe I exaggerate slightly. But can you show me a (single threaded) programming language where "a = 1" does not mean that on the next line, a will be 1?
While I do think that is a great example, it would appear that your peer group might have a self-selection bias for increased security, vs the normal population.

A quick google search leads to multiple articles suggesting that the vast majority of people do not lock their phones.

As to whether they would give you their phones or not is a different question, but I would wager that many (most?) of those who don't lock their phones would also not necessarily care if someone looks at their device, or at the very least do not take measures to prevent others from doing so.
Everyone has a link to terrorism and Kevin Bacon, if you dig deep enough.
Local conversation AI and translation and captioning
In the last year, how many tons of lead ended up in solder?

And how much has gone into fuels (especially aviation fuel)?
That is typically how the manufacturing curve and the innovation curve works. Upper-middle-class people and richer have disposable income and purchasing power which funds expensive goods until manufacturing of those goods scales up to be cheap for people without significant amounts of disposable income and purchasing power.

EVs will continue to get cheaper, faster, as global auto manufacturers scale up their production. If you can take a bus, a train, or an ebike, definitely do that. But consumers will not stop buying cars (global light vehicle market is ~83M units/annually), so sell them EVs, making them as inexpensive and quickly as possible. China EV sales are already at 9M units/year, more than half total US light vehicle sales in 2022 (~14M units).

TLDR Volume is misleading, pay attention to velocity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects

https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

https://about.bnef.com/blog/lithium-ion-battery-pack-prices-...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/ev-energy-storage-battery...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/used-ev-prices-are-collapsing...
I’m totally with you. It has a generic art style, and with optimized settings, looks like goop. There’s never going to be a game that feels like how it feels teleporting through a whole act in D2. Everything loads instantly. And it keeps doing that even at high cast speeds.
I like the statement they made on their jobs page:

Core Front-end Team

Passion for creating delightful and swift user interfaces.

Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and _an understanding that JavaScript can be used sparingly to enhance, not create, product experiences._

Ability to prototype rapidly.

Fun fact: At Kagi, we prioritize speed, to the point where *all functionalities of Kagi Search (except Stripe checkout and Maps) work perfectly without JavaScript*. We see JavaScript as a tool to enhance the UX, not create it.
Localizing, this falls into the things you thought about x are true.

This is the end result of a bunch of switches and ifs in a ui where your model, in very specific circumstances, boils down to a few words that most people understand without computer programming experience.
An individual has more power in the airline case: you can fly a different airline much more easily than you can move to a location with a different representative.
PostgreSQL will be horizontaly scaling if you can avoid joins and index range locks. But the thing is you don't want to, or why do you need SQL database then. I found MongoDB good for cases when you need a lot of upserts, your data model is looks like document and you don't need joins. Like you store events data for further processing or collect stats or counters with tags/indexes.
What's the chance the sec will go after this? I guess they don't have the capacity to go after all these cases, even the clear cut ones
The list is blowing my mind. A word for your mom's sibling's daughter if she's older than you, and another one if she's younger? What a dense piece of data!