skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it was an attempt to make better their results for local results?

When searching for results from my country in DDG (picking the country in the drop-down below the search box) still returned results from the USA or other countries. Even when searching stuff in the local language. Maybe they tried to fix that because it really sucked, so much I never used it again for searching into local websites.
And what you have characterized as scattershot diversity is basically same as racial caricaturization. Is adding a heebie lussiyan achshent to a random drunkard character a sign of respect to Russian nationals and embracement for diversity? Likely not…
> Something I'm unsure about is what does and doesn't trigger wars.

According to Clausewitz, "war is the continuation of politics through other means." A state goes to war when it believes it can achieve a political objective through force that is infeasible through diplomacy, deterrence, soft power, intimidation, etc.

The US and Russia fighting directly would be quite dangerous due to the nuclear capabilities of each, so whatever political objectives America might wish to achieve through a hot war would be (quickly) overshadowed. Thus the US has revived its Cold War stance of supporting Russia's enemies without direct involvement.
Is the "Versions and History" transferrable between instances of the program? Can it be reliably used by a couple, dozens, even hundreds of people?
Iirc even Kevorkian would have the patient execute the final button-press.

But either way, I think everybody overestimates the cosmic importance of death to people whose careers are waist deep in it.
Amazing considering how much heat travels from Sun (and punches through atmosphere) to Earth surface. Didn’t realize there was that much of an insulation property.
Tether has a market cap of $91,767,545,339 on coingecko.com at the moment, I don't know how many of that holdings is in BTC, ETH or FIAT. But if these guys can create Tether out of thin air (If it's not fixed like BTC) and syphon it off to personal created wallets..
Having persistent boxes with sticky sessions seems seems pretty achievable.
The United States Central Command referred to these as anti-ship ballistic missiles.

https://x.com/centcom/status/1741259817602429357?s=46&t=AtAA...
Such a thing happened with DALLE, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion.

Stable Diffusion, when used to its fullest with thing like Control Net and LoRAs, blows the pants off of other proprietary models.
Just in case anyone sees this and finds themselves curious, I actually just shipped the fix: https://ezkeys.kabaragoya.com/
> Why does a Danish owned and operated container ship fly under the Singapore flag?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience

> Why did the US Navy get involved?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_security#Theoretical_...
My favourite solution to this problem was going all in on analyzing the input. Instead of just assuming the set of modules must have cyclic behaviour and running the simulation until you find the periods, look at the input and _really_ understand what its doing.

What you will find is that the modules form a set of binary counters (chains of flip flops), with a number encoded into them via whether they are connected to a "hub" node of the chain (a conjunction).

You can parse the module structure and traverse the graph to extract that number. The connections to the hub are the bits of the number (1 if module is connected, 0 if not). Do that for all the counters and LCM (or multiply since they are all coincidentally co-prime) them together to get your answer.

No simulation required.
EZKeys MIDI Unpacker
Wars tend to happen slowly, then all at once.

Arguably the US and Russia were already in a war (albeit fairly cold) when the drone was hit. They were in the process of maneuvering and prepare the information space.

After the drone strike, civilian support for conflict with Russia increased, and America used that increased support to put increased pressure on Russia in various places.
I’ve never personally bought a book from Amazon but my wife has a few times and each time she’s returned it saying it looked beat up. I figured she was just being picky (very on brand) but perhaps she was onto something.
"ECS" in this case means "entity component system" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system) not "Elastic Compute Service".
Would you use Chinese remainder theory on all possible configurations of the cycles, or something else completely?
You're underestimating how staggeringly cheap ocean freight is. A 40ft container can be shipped from China to NYC for under $3000; it's a very small portion of the retail cost of most goods.

Even if cargo vessels all have to travel around the cape of good hope for a year or two, this increases the cost by a small percentage and is not going to kick off major inflation.

Futures markets back this up, pricing in very modest increases in ocean freight shipping costs for the next several years involving this route, e.g. https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/energy/freight/container-fr...
The point is more that Russia has nuclear weapons, so the end result (if things go badly wrong) could be extremely tragic.
> The US set up a multinational naval taskforce to protect the Red Sea transit route, which carries up to 12% of global trade.

Reminder that might is needed to create a peaceful space within which peoples can trade.
C# does not have a path-based structure.
> Seeking to the relevant section of the video is a solvable problem

...and it has already been solved, though partially: SponsorBlock allows people to add a "Highlight" section to a video, which denotes the part of the video which the user most likely wanted to see (sans the "what's up guys", "like and subscribe", etc.)

Of course, it's not perfect: it relies upon humans doing the work, though some may see that as a positive over something more computerized.
about 10+ years ago I was asked to make a system that would give users the ability to get an email alert "whenever something happened on their server" Well users said they wanted it and welp when a user turned the feature on as asked they got a lot of emails... I think the disconnect isn't that we should give users what they ask but try and make something that can help their problem from their perspective. I've also been on product teams that would per se "we'll just make sure they won't need to be alerted if something happens on their server - we won't let it happen"
Ordered a new cable modem and received it today.

They put the shipping label ON the retail packaging. No box! This is FBA. Of course it was scuffed and scraped all to hell.
They only exist as catspaws for Iran in the first place...
Good points about trading that's disabled. I just wonder what is the same and different about cryptocurrencies like Tether's.

> They simply drop out of circulation, and the price of all other Bitcoin rises to compensate.

Would that be different for Tether? Isn't Tether a 'private' blockchain that the company controls?
Ah, the days when signals changed slowly, gently enough to wire them up by hand.

We’ve gained a lot in the intervening ~30 years but lost a little bit too.
North Korea and Pakistan are superpowers?
I'm 100% against enterprise-level low code stuff. If you're big enough to afford that junk you're big enough to afford proper development teams with proper planning and organization.

In general I see little value in any large system intending to reduce the amount of code or the needed skills of the developer. Code is not costing you money. Good developers are not costing you money. You know what costs money? Bad developers making bad decisions using bad tools, necessitating years if not decades of paying armies of lesser-skilled developers to maintain the mess, slowing overall progress to a glacial pace.
Every industry disrupted by SV, at least up to a point? How about all the FOSS projects?
Thanks--i somehow missed that
If you’re going to search for phone numbers you’ll want to ensure you enable verbatim searching under tools on Google, and put the number in quotes, perhaps in “xxx-xxx-xxxx” OR “(xxx) xxx-xxxx” forms. Many of the sites you mention are fake sites with fake contacts just for ad serving, and I’ve read in some few cases the scammers seeded the spoofed numbers they appear to call from on to the sites they control to see who googles their phone numbers.
Do you have a plan for doing there where the Houthis don’t turn KSAs’ oil fields into hell on earth?
Similar, low code is a bit broader and is usually associated with a business process like taking in a lead, providing a quote, or approving a transaction. Excel can do the calculations for these things but still requires a lot of human interaction. Low code can do a bit more like generating a form, evaluating branching logic, or handling an async process over time.
I notice you completely avoid the question on how a single developer can do so well ;)

I do think that search has gotten much worse but my ability to know the magic words like “ublock origin” instead of “Adblock” and “yt-dlp” instead of “download YouTube” and phrase my search has gotten better.

We’ve all been doing prompt engineering against the Internet-wide LLM that is the spam houses.
> [...] but that also speaks for how hard evaluating search quality is.

Would you be able to share some of your personal highlights regarding this?

I've partially kept up-to-date with the DIY, non-corporate search space (YaCY and friends). I'd love to understand a bit more behind the engineering decisions made when creating a search engine; it seems like a very hard problem to solve.

P.S. Marginalia is a very impressive piece of work, overall -- I've heard nothing but positive remarks from users on here. I've been meaning to try it for a while, but time constraints have... well, constrained, thus far.
as opposed to meaning "parabolic", ballistic means they don't have propulsion after the launch phase, they are in free-fall under the influence of gravity, but like a person in a parachute, they're still able to steer within the envelope of hurtling to the earth
My guess is that OpenAI will be able to basically copy Google/YouYube on this and offer a system like content-ID. Specifically, ChatGPT doesn't reproduce copyrighted works by default; only by request/action of a third party user much like YouTube serving whatever videos people upload. It wasn't the intent of OpenAI to infringe copyright and in fact a lot of or most researchers believed the models were not overfitted enough to reproduce significant portions of arbitrary works.
Well, from one grey beard to another, thank you. Some poor soul is going to have to figure out the code I wrote these last 10 years.

I would say, algebra is the easiest. Python is the next easiest.

I remember being taught applesoft basic as a 5th grader and enjoying it.
Low-code or no-code is okay with small apps. But as complexity increases, you won’t have fine control or scalability needed using these tools.

Low code may be better for mvp.
Once you have enough revenue moving to a code based solution will be better in long run.
This is the one area it still ignores my location. I live in a town named after a UK city, there's several bigger towns in the US with the same name. I just searched "McDonalds city name." I got results for the locations at least half the US away from me, as well as Uber Eats GB.
It absolutely is not a superpower, but it has a madman and some nukes, and at this point no one is willing to risk.
Caveat programmer: one of the quirks of ltree is that intermediate paths - which would be parent nodes, when drawn as a tree - are not required to exist. In the example above, deleting the Top.Science record will not prune the Top.Science.Astronomy record.

So whilst the labels in ltree values do imply a logical tree, by describing materialized paths through it, they do not enforce the presence of records matching all the implied parent nodes.

Depending on your application this may be exactly what you wanted, or exactly what you didn’t want. In the latter case, you’re gonna need to put something around it to maintain integrity.
> But making a video takes time and effort, so has a much higher barrier to use as a click farm.

> The mainstream channels aren't all that useful, but there's a ton of "old web" style videos (some even recent) passionately providing details for almost anything you'd think to search. And they're a gold mine.

This won't be the case for long. YT is already starting to be polluted with spam and AI generated content, which will get more and more common. The same thing that happened to the web in text form, will happen to videos.

I think the only solutions are using allowlists for specific domains, and ironically enough more AI to filter specific results. Or just straight up LLMs instead of web search, assuming they're not trained on spam data themselves.
Actually yeah, plenty of larger birds of prey hover high off the ground to look for moving targets. I have seen it myself.
If this is interesting to you, you should check out the interesting work that karlicoss and others have done with "Human Programming Interface" [0] / [1].

I've been kicking this idea around for quite a few years and have gone through multiple iterations before finding HPI and tossing out or adapting all my work in favor of building off theirs. Mine is a bit more service / cloud oriented in how it runs (shocker... at one point I made it into a product) while HPI is heavily local-first for obvious good reasons.

HPI is a great platform to build your own stuff off and benefit from all the work that has already been done because imo building a good foundation is the hardest part. Sean Breckenridge's HPI-API is super interesting and useful, could likely be worked into this search engine concept, quite sure Sean actually has both newsboat and Firefox modules already made.

I wrote modules of my own and made an authentication wrapped HPI-API and a GraphQL instance but currently in the middle of an infra move so nothing super cool to show off. At one point I had a dashboard powered by it but we all know how these one-off internal-use-only projects end up. :)

I think the most interesting thing I've written for HPI is my ActivityWatch syncing. It's been happily churning away for years and during my infra move, I discovered that it had about 20GB of activity data stockpiled. Multiple years of down to the second cataloguing of everything I did and saw on the computer.

Lots of interesting stuff in collecting and leveraging your data. If any of this stuff catches your eye, I highly encourage browsing karlicoss' exobrain [2] because there are some interesting things in there.

I post all of this to hopefully save someone (or many people) time because I recall how dejected I felt having spent multiple weekends chipping at a problem someone already solved better. I think this previous discussion was where I discovered it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26269832

[0]: https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI

[1]: my own stuff, not trying to step on Karli, just wanted a 3 letter org for my stuff: https://github.com/hpi

[2]: https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html
> The US carrier group may even adequately suppress the Houthis but this is attrition and Houthi investment is a drop in the ocean compared to the cost to the US.

Between this, Ukraine, and the decades-long misadventures in the Middle East, the US is learning how to handle the next generation of conflicts. (As is everyone else that is paying attention.)

The future looks increasingly more drone dependent. Explosives tied to cheap and plentiful delivery systems. Startups like Anduril are going to take over.

Submarine drones, jet-powered drones, assassin drones. Signals intelligence and radio algorithms...

This is old, and a bit too Black Mirror, but seems to be tracking the future of conflict correctly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
The Houthis possess both true ASBMs and land attack ballistic missiles which have been shot at and hit ships in the past few weeks. The second can only ever work if the ship is totally stationary but these were identified as ASBMs by U.S. Central command which can presumably tell the difference based on whether or not the missiles actually maneuver to hit moving targets. The US navy shot a few more down immediately afterwards.
He gives the full queries - do you have chat 4.0 that you ran run it against?
The Battle over the Sea-Monkey Fortune (2016)
>Depends on how you define “digital”

Dude, I don't define "digital"... the ENGLISH language defines the word. Read my other reply. You're confusing your made up definition of digital with the one defined by English.

You're just reinventing a digital computer with parallel data lines and not using binary. It's not even getting around to the "fuzzy" part of what it means to be an "analog computer." It's just a misunderstanding on your part.
> SV earnestness has always been a con.

Again, people love to say it, like it sounds smart. Humans are earnest and deceitful, to varying degrees at varying times. We do acheive earnest goods; we have human rights, for example, democracy, and lots of peace (but not enough). We have a choice, free will, the moral choice of thousands of years of (much) religion and philosophy.
This is a really cool puzzle! As others have said, definitely need better instructions for how to actually make moves, I spent a good amount of moves figuring it out. Also, it would be a nice addition if there was a function to share your results, similar to wordle and other similar online puzzles.

A more out-there suggestion would be a replay (either on the puzzle itself or as a gif) of all the moves you made. Could make it more interesting to share with friends.
I tried that a few different ways and couldn't get it to work. I don't think just the title and author are enough. I'd be interested to see if anyone else can find a prompt that does it.

Two of my attempts:

https://chat.openai.com/share/5cd17ff3-e142-4a7d-91c2-0b2479...

https://chat.openai.com/share/04fd722b-8b3c-469b-a1a2-d58e64...
uBlacklist is absolutely excellent: I've been using it for a few years now, with absolutely no problems.

Quick tip: turn on the 'Skip the "Block this site" dialog', and disable 'Hide the "Block this site" links' settings -- they make it much quicker to block spam websites (of which there are many on regular search engines).
> Though I do sympathize with folks who reminisce about 2008 Google Search results, there were probably orders of magnitude less content out there and a complete ignorance to how valuable your place is on your business and thus no SEO.

That was a decade after Google was created and people certainly understood SEO and Google was constantly updating its algorithm to punish people who were trying to game the algorithm.

The wikipedia page on "link farming" for example references it happening as early as 1999 and targeting SEO on inktomi:

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

I remember some internal presentations at Amazon around ~2004 about how boosting Google SEO on Amazon web pages increased traffic and revenue (and Amazon was honestly a bit behind-the-curve due to a kind of NIH syndrome).
I don't think any of the ad networks offer "recently gone through a breakup".

Besides that I see nothing wrong with the audience you've defined.
Solution: force a ceasefire on Israel. If that doesn’t stop the attacks then think about escalating.
Did you mean to say Kagi or Bing?

Anyway, here’s Kagi’s bangs:

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/bangs.html
For your last point, there are many mice with 2+ side buttons, which are mapped as forward and back by default and can typically be remapped, it works in pretty much any application that has a "back" option.
Why would you need to vary free energy?
I am familiar traditional JSON to relational table ETL pipelines, but how does ETL pipelines differ in data lake/house when processing data dumps, such as PDF/images?
FWIW I run the IT dept for a mid-level talent agency. I moved us off an old system and into Airtable specifically because it’s flexible enough on every front. The killer feature for me is the concept of “views”, which means we can have all the data available at all times, but only surface the data that a particular user needs for them. In a company full of less than technical people, this has been an absolute godsend.

And when we continue to grow, there are ways off of Airtable since it’s all just CSV underneath.
Re: Kagi, I heard about it on HN, tried it for 100 searches, then subscribed. When I search for random JS and CSS things, MDN is the first result, and if it isn't, I can downrank whatever spammy site(s) are on top.

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I wish I had a local LLM trained to detect clickbait and or low-effort content. I imagine searching YouTube and having all the clickbait collapsed together (just like Kagi condenses listicles), with the remainder being potentially high-quality content. Don't know how feasible this is right now.
Technically times to target is different than the "people who stay up until 3AM" target.

You couldn't, say, target those users at 12PM noon as they are waking up.

What you are suggesting is "people who are currently up at 3am" which is different.
The cliché quote of “if Henry Ford has asked people what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse” is a cliché for a reason. Most people don’t know what they want - that’s why good product designers who can identify, synthesize, and execute products are worth big money.

There are 2 things to differentiate - product vision, and learning how to listen to feedback.

The former, designing new products that solve people’s problems, is a craft that has no silver bullet. It requires a mix of experience, intuition, technical know how, observing the landscape of existing alternatives, knowing how to anticipate technical/economic/sociological evolutions, etc.

The latter is about making sure that what you designed does what you intend it to, identifying what confuses your users, what gets in their way, etc. This is where all the classical methods of user observation/testing/surveys/etc can be useful. This sounds easy and obvious, but it is anything but - i have met my fair share of designers who stick to their principles and are unwilling to budge when reality conflicts with their ideology, companies that inexplicably never fix bugs that most of their users encounter and rage about on the support forums/social media, etc.

The two are very different skillsets, and it’s hard enough to be good at one, let alone both.

The article uses Intuit as a case study; the dynamics of how to do genuinely great work when your business involves selling an antidote to a poison you lobby for is an exercise left to the reader.
https://archive.is/Quwwk
Google seems to be taking much more advantage of YouTube's transcription feature lately. The first addition was the (ok, gimmicky) animation on the Subscribe button when someone says the dreaded like. Hopefully a sign of things to come.

Overall AI summaries are very welcome for a certain subset of YouTube which is sadly dominated by sponsored, clickbait, and ad-driven content.
Yes, the NY investigation was all about this: they patched up the loss and quietly changed their terms to being backed by cash or equivalents.

And they later detailed the $1bn Tether printed for Celcius in return for collateral (once Celcius collapsed and they claimed it was fully repaid).

Understand: for modern banks this kind of fractional behaviour is considered normal. It's only from the weird Bitcoin perspective that full reserve would be a requirement.
My understanding is that the Saudi do not participate also because they do not want to be seen as Israel supporters.
This is gonna seem sort of like an off-topic comment but once we have free, unlimited, clean energy that can’t be weaponized into things like dirty bombs, a lot of these wars will simply disappear. Yes, this is a pie in the sky dream probably another 250 years away at minimum, but think about it: Don’t have carrots? Build a greenhouse and turn the lights on all day/night. Don’t have water? Condense it from the air or desalinate it.