skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I paid for the 1 year plan, because I was excited about a company that was only for search, and provided good search by nature of people paying for it (so no ads and fair ranking)

I have noticed the search has gotten worse in the ~7 months I've been using it, I started using Google more and more, and I was not planning to renew. I still use it, but after reading this article I'm definitely not going to use it again after my 1 year ends.

They aren't prioritizing the only feature I care about.
One of the most helpful, semi-passive things I did for learning Spanish was changing the language on my phone (once I got to a certain level). It makes all daily phone time at least a superficial way of getting in contact with the language.

Yes there was plenty of difficulty navigating the phone at first, but I was surprised at how much muscle memory took over. And it helped me develop my very cheesy joke / deflection to buy time to formulate my response: está cargando (it’s loading).
Maybe I ask what you do, or is it top secret? :P
Heck, no. Not right now.

The copyright owners are begging for a restructuring. One that would greatly increase their authority on two issues: AI use, and Internet website blocking.

Ask for a restructuring right now, and you’ll bring Japanese-style copyright to America (“fair use” doesn’t exist over there) with European-style judicial site blocking (and mass blocking of suspected piracy outlets).
Can't you have a per-thread ULID without any locks?
Your first point conflicts with your second. Maybe work on that.

It is very well understood across all relevant metrics that younger people are less economically secure than their parents. Coupled with extreme and growing wealth inequality, this is bound to be a political problem whether you like it or not. And, these suicide numbers suggest it may be a serious psychological problem as well. Your platitudes don't change that.
Commercial leases are typically five years.

It is 2024. COVID was 2020.

If you don’t own your building you should be thinking hard about your new negotiating position with your landlord.
The selling part is more important than the modification part because the law he broke specifically references selling or renting.
I'm grateful for the extension. I used to see a steady stream of updates. I hope the author find another host to host the repository.
Me too! I've normalized it in our organizations. We use a combination of app scripts and what we call "Single Button Apps" that are web pages that have a text box (paste the URL of the Gsheet) and a "go" button. The input and output are all in the sheet, but putting the button in a web app makes it easy to iterate on feature set as/if the application grows. https://blog.adambuilds.com/sba-not-spa-the-most-minimal-ui
I don’t think you read what they wrote. They aren’t talking about selling anything
Normally if I were recommending Linux to a friend, I would encourage them to use their existing computer rather than going out and buying new hardware just for Linux.

ChromeOS Flex might fit the bill though, and the installation process is probably the most straightforward and handhold-y out of the Linuxes. https://chromeenterprise.google/intl/en_uk/os/chromeosflex/
How often is that being done in the modern age of social media? I don't think "activists" are very important or dangerous to governments anywhere.
Agreed, I want that + the page ranking that Kagi has, and literally don't care about any other features.
Imagine a perfect world where all the separate apps just were coherent, forming a complete ecosystem and their config files were not disparate? So you would just pick a window manager you somehow like better, a panel app of your choice, launcher, sound volume, WiFi management, calculator applets you prefer... Then switch to another window manager someday... keeping everything else intact. This is the way it's meant to be, every thing you dislike is just a quirk.
> I get this wouldn't work as well for those with families

Your whole post is a series of contradictions where you hand wave gigantic problems and exaggerate small ones
And apparently only available from China for municipalities now. So Chinese mind control.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/chinese-fluoride-in-mass-water-...
The legal system sounds pretty normal. Elected officials are in their 80s. Some corporation comes to them with a bunch of mumbo jumbo not involving fax machines and a stack of money. Law enacted.

I also think that east Asia thinks that esports are as important as normal sports, at least in the sense of exporting their culture. Everyone wants to be Hollywood or the NFL, and esports are their route to that kind of international renowned, or so they think. Thus, they have a bunch of laws to make sure nothing crops up that could impact that. Pokemon isn't an esport, but if you're 80, you don't know that.
Even if you were to give away your modified version, you could still be sued for harming the market for the original product.

You can’t legally make derivative works. Even in the privacy of your own home. It’s only that there’s nothing to be legally won from if you only did it at home. That’s a pragmatic distinction, not a legal one.
That was just getting fired for cause homie. If they catch you, you are definitely getting fired.
It does not. Selling your cheat mod is fundamentally different from playing around with it on your own workbench.
They compared it to a sentence that doesn't make sense, and said "makes no more sense".

If they weren't saying "flagship" makes no sense as a non-ship noun, then they used the wrong words.

Oh unless by OP you meant someone other than jvanderbot, but jvanderbot is the person that prompted the claude reply. It wasn't a reply to duxup, who didn't even mention the headline.
The frustrating part is that on my older Win10 laptop, it goes "This PC doesn't currently meeting the minimum system requirements to run Windows 11, Get the details and see if there are things you can do in the PC Health Check app." in the Windows Update section.

Ok, I've installed that, and there's no way I can update to Windows 11, there's no TPM chip.

Go back to Windows Update, the prompt is still there, it has no connection to the fact that my laptop cannot physically update to Win11 nor does it know I've run the PC Health Check app multiple times.

Like, seriously? Stop wasting my screen real-estate with an ad for a product that cannot be used on the device. Hitting X makes it go away until my next reboot.
Yeah I'm really looking forward to that; I do the Adobe digital editions -> Calibre dance but it's basically just piracy at that point and super inconvenient to boot.
Even if the entire customer base was limited to only HN users with karma exceeding X amount there will still be thousands of searches per day in obscure niches, just each one in a different niche.

So I don't see how Kagi can avoid having to deliver quality search results in millions of niches. Just at a very low frequency compared to Google.

Or are you suggesting to not bother with search quality past a certain lower threshold?
> Every OS does app recommendations

No. I reinstalled a new OS when Ubuntu started putting text "suggestions" in my terminal, and ads are much more nefarious in term of resource consumption and attention whoring. The only reason i got through the hoops of installing a Fdroid was the google app store ads.
People pointing out that this is some weird quirk of Japanese law: if there's an argument that reverse engineering the software to determine how this works is circumvention of a technical control, this would potentially be a violation of 17 U.S. Code § 1201 - https://dair-community.social/@kendraserra/11167540121678898... discusses case law around a separate kind of case, but one that could be argued here. Let's not criticise Japanese law without acknowledging that US law is also fucked up.
Musk may be often full of hot air, but it's comforting to see that Tesla, a public company unlike SpaceX or Twitter, still has to make normal business decisions like slashing prices at the end of the quarter or adding a markup on the Cybertruck, in order to meet its sales targets.
Speak of low effort. I’m sorry but “controlled by capital” is a very vague and very provocative statement, some would call it trolling.

Please detail and substantiate that claim.

I’m amazed at how people are willing to believe we have a very centralised system, super organised, controlling pretty much every aspect of our lives, when they couldn’t even get people vaccinated during a pandemic. The counter argument is always here “because <vaccinating the population> was not in their interest”. Maybe, but it’s darn convenient because no one can prove what the interests of these ominous “they”/capital/system are.

I’m not saying there is not some truth in your statements, but you are not putting in the effort to articulate and substantiate such broad claims.
The easiest way to bypass paywalls is to just disable JavaScript for the site. It works pretty much everywhere I've tried it except for the WSJ, which I suspect this extension doesn't work for either.

Edit: or, maybe it does. I see WSJ.com in the config, with a referrer as drugereport and user agent as Google not to get around it.
It does not matter in this context, because it is still incorrect.

> Personal emails are PII. But you can register to Kagi with a random email, and that is not PII.

Company has no means to identify what is the difference between personal or random email. Everything can be and must be treated equally from privacy perspective.
Siblings may not understand the question; or, more likely, there isn't an answer. I have "fixed" people's old computers all my life, and for the past 15 years or so i've been doing it by installing linux or giving them an RPi. RPi isn't doable anymore, for $100 or whatever they cost now you can get a used elitedesk or something that's 3 times better in nearly every metric. I also prefer the maintenance load of a debian derived OS when i'm the person they call with issues.

But to answer, my go to is either xubuntu or lubuntu for windows users, and kubuntu or mint for everyone else. Xubuntu first and lubuntu if for some reason Xubuntu wants to play stupid games (such as on elitedesks). There is some personal preference as to what makes a good "landing page", i think xubuntu's is a little better but they're both good (x and l ubuntus). Compare that to windows.com landing page, to contrast.

But your average windows user isn't googling "which linux should i get" because generally they've never heard of or do not understand what "linux" is. they're googling "how do i fix windows" - and getting back "how to fix drafty windows" from a search engine powered by linux. It takes evangelizing, and sometimes straight chaotic good "i'll fix your PC" and installing linux on it. There goes 99.5% of all "normal" user problems!

I've been using the *nix and linux since the mid 90s, and i still don't recommend anyone try it unless they're willing to sit on their PC and learn things. Sorry, not sorry. For the facebook/gmail/cnn/twitter browsers of the world, the three i listed above are just fine.

edited to add: it's a pity that WUBI is no more (last i knew, at least) - that would be how i would evangelize it for people that had mostly empty windows machines just for browsing the web and maybe some cute games (samegame for instance).
Sure, but editing is probably still illegal as the save files are encrypted (sections 17-18 of Article 2): https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3629
Actually you’re wrong on this, or painting an incomplete picture.

CleanFlix was sued because they were editing and distributing movies without studio permission, but a competing product called ClearPlay, which was a specialized DVD player that you would plug a flash drive into, and censorship was then overlayed. It was allowed to continue existing because the end user was technically the one making the edits on their copy of the movie, and the movie itself was not being redistributed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearPlay
Not seeing a lot of ads in Win10 LTSC IoT...
Add on that you need to get housing in that HCOL area that has enough space for an office/workstation
My hybrid work is 2 days a month (one day every two weeks rather) and this allow me to live ~ 480km away from my office (300 miles), on the coast. Basically 3h10 by train+metro, which make the day quite tiring.
> I've made a bunch of SAR's, including pre-GDPR and I've never received one that contained my user settings, so that seems pretty normal.

That is odd because the user has right to get ALL the data they want that is stored about them in the service.
Even so, it doesn't matter unless the CEO ever sets foot in the EU, I suppose.

(Do you regularly check to make sure you're obeying laws in countries you don't ever intend to visit? No? Then why should Kagi?)
Since when are teachers working class?

I had high school teachers who worked construction (working class) jobs during the summer, but that wasn't their regular work.
> No, I think that homeowners largely have the ability to make it illegal to build new homes near them, which makes them wealthier

How do I get this power? I see this all of the time on this website and Reddit but as a homeowner for nearly 2 decades in multiple cities I have never felt that I have any influence over what gets built and don’t recall seeing anything regarding zoning or specific developments that were up for vote.
I was talking about several different lawsuits, like the CleanFlicks and VidAngel lawsuits from 2002 and 2007ish. There’s also VidAngel v Disney as recent as 2019.

Edit for below (“too many responses”):

Irrelevant; as ClearPlay does not properly speaking edit the video; but messes with the playback timeline.

Editing the video is illegal. Messing with the timeline as the unedited film is playing? Completely permitted for accessibility, organization, and other reasons. In particular, that amazing thing called an ad blocker. Skipping 30 seconds ahead to avoid an ad is legal, but editing the ad out is not.
My number recommendation is always: change the voting system to priority lists. Everyone has to list at least 2 candidates/parties, in order of preference, maybe more.

That would immediately kick out extremists.
> we paid for it

*you paid for it.
How to you make a fenced off ranch when 30 million buffalo decide to stampede through?
Frankly, I find inserting ads into the user interface of an operating system an affront, particularly for people who pay money for the OS.
lol, this sounds exactly right. Vertical integration in computing is a feature, not a bug. It's amazing windows can do what it does on virtually -any- hardware.

I do wish Linux distros had some kind of "guaranteed hardware" support, where if you buy exactly the right components, it'll be a totally seamless experience
Mailing in a DVD and receiving an edited copy back is clearly a process that involves the creation and distribution of an unauthorised copy. There's the philosophical justification that you're only "editing" a copy the customer has given you but it's not surprising that a judge is uninterested in that, you're writing the movie to a DVD and distributing it and nothing before that matters. Not a good argument against.

It would be interesting if they had 1) distributed a program that automatically edits the user's copy, or 2) edited VHS tapes that customers sent in by physically splicing them. I'm pretty sure the first should be legal, but I'm curious what they'd make of the second.
For being ephemeral those allies in the House are very effective at stopping aid to Ukraine.
Does anyone have a good dataset for testing libraries like this? I suppose it's not difficult to generate one these days, but curious if there is a standard.
There is an obvious difference between ads in a store and ads in a start menu.
So if I'm understanding correctly, a useful hardening step would be to ensure that each dynamically linked library had it's own GOT & that the tables are marked as read-only once dynamic linking completes (i.e. you can't reach across dynamic boundaries to patch someone else's ifunc entries).

That would improve the supply chain security of code getting linked in somewhere but never executed.

EDIT: Or even better, perhaps ifunc should be implemented in a declarative fashion so that you can't just cause arbitrary code execution from each library you link against. That might be harder to implement at this point considering back compat, but probably is something that could be layered in over a longer time period (i.e. if you build any library with "declaratively linked ifunc" feature bit set, then the dynamic linker will force all linked libraries to have that feature flag or fail to launch).
Sure, but the continued existence of ClearPlay indicates that your claim was incorrect. End users are allowed to make modifications to their own media, they just cannot redistribute that media in any way directly.

ETA: Clearplay doesn’t just muck with the timeline. It would overlay clothes over nudity, replace naughty words, etc. It’s actually a kind of neat bit of technology.
+1 really well made. I wonder if there's a framework for making these kind of websites?
I could see Kagi being able to sidestep maybe 95% of the 'arms race'.

But even the remainder will trip them up every now and then.

If these periods last only a few minutes it probably won't matter but if it lasts a few days or more then it's very likely to impact customer retention.
> There's a bar with "Siri Suggestions" right up top showing apps you should install (exactly the same as this Windows screenshot).

What are you talking about? I’ve never seen an app that’s not on my phone already in Siri suggestions.
I'm not entirely sure I get the outrage about app ads in the App Store. I also don't get mad at the existence of end-caps, signs and promotions at the grocery story, either, though. It's a store. But, I'd be infuriated if distracting ads were added to the Dock or Finder, or I had to read past randomly placed ads in menus necessary for every day operation.
I have programmed in many languages over a 2 decade long career. C / C++/ C# / Java / Scala / Python / Rust / Go / lisp / JavaScript, and probably more that I have forgotten.

I agree with the framing that scaling a language is about scaling to more engineers easily.

Having said that, you can write scalably in any language, and write unscalably elsewhere. This is a bigger factor on scalability overall by far, than the language itself.

For example, I can make unmaintainable macro magic in rust. I can avoid dynamic pitfalls by using pydantic effectively in python.

Anyway, my 2c is speed to delivery of features matters more than scalability as defined here. Again, that depends more on technical components that have been invested in, rather than the selected language.
Just a friendly note: soldering wires causes them to become brittle and more likely to break at the end of the solder joint. If you're going to solder wire, and the item is subject to movement or vibration, be sure that the section protruding from the joint is held rigid with zip ties, tape or even hot glue.
Google has always been a defence company at the core right from its beginning.
The place I found to the link indicated MS was providing AI capacity too, but it’s not in this article so I can’t be sure.
Man, two days a month?

If you lived near a major airport with a direct flight, you could live almost anywhere.
next up, OS-level gambling.
It launched at $35/m but now up to $73/month for the base plan, despite having ads. That's $876/y before you even get to the "addons" like sports and HD. About the only reason it can be worthwhile these days if you're going to get raped on a sports TV package anyways so might as well do it via YouTube where it's actually probably not yet as bad as the local cable company and a bit more portable.
The author seems not merely uninformed but a mix of unaware and unconcerned that they don’t know what they’re talking about. No discussion of hypnosis, Stockholm syndrome, and a general vibe that psychology is like not really a thing unless it coincides with cherished narratives. And then little chestnuts like, “the idea of brainwashing continues to be a powerful metaphor for the effects of systemic racism.” Say what?
What point did you want to make? They discontinued iAds. Did you just find the first google result for karma points?
Housing is already affordable in Japan.
I love WFH, but I admit that it would’ve been really tough as a junior employee learning the ropes. It’s easy to lean over and ask someone a quick question in person and/or learn passively by just seeing how they work. No equivalent that I can see wfh.
Wow so hard.
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/lates...

Literally the same amount of effort and level of complexity as installing Windows.
I think you’re underestimating the myriad biological pathways which can all contribute to cancer, and also the unusual chemistry that can be induced when you tickle molecules at the right vibrational modes. There’s a whole body of literature describing so-called “microwave chemistry”, and these methods can greatly accelerate certain reactions – far more than simple heating with the same amount of energy can do.

With that said, I still put my cellphone in the front pocket every day, for most of the day.
Well you don't need to be on video calls if you're in person.
Your apps being perpetually 7 years behind everything is not a great desktop experience. I’ve tried. I’m not trying again.
https://www.abc15.com/news/national/4-day-workweeks-may-be-a... (“Nearly one-third (30%) of large US companies are exploring new work schedule shifts such as four-day or four-and-a-half-day workweeks, according to a KPMG survey of CEOs released this week.”)

https://kpmg.com/us/en/articles/2024/kpmg-2024-ceo-outlook-p...
I'm still not sure this is simply because of leadership. MS has been pushing ads on Windows over at least 10 years. And in fact this is a pretty natural move for the product in the saturated market. You're not going to "grow" anymore by traditional user acquisition and failed to enter the mobile market, then you need to build a new segment.

This environment gives a strong incentive toward ads-based business model for the Windows division. There likely is an army of PM desperately looking for new growth opportunities and decided to put ads everywhere since this is a so obvious strategy with low risk, high ROI. Changing a single or two senior leadership can help reversing this trends, but it's not sufficient.
> Both Photoshop and Word are industry standards. For Photoshop, one can't just swap it out,

Ah, I thought we were talking about normal users, not the sliver of professionals that use photoshop for their job.

I bet djao thought the same thing.

Which makes the rest of your comment a misaimed criticism.
With all respect, only a very small minority of Windows users actually *need Photoshop for work.* If you are one of them, I fully agree, you need Photoshop.

As for Word, I use Word (unwillingly) for work, and I am able to get what I need from just the web version. My "complicated" documents are typeset in LaTeX, not Word, and LaTeX is the standard in my industry.
That's like the industrial design version of Seinfeld Isn't Funny. At one point, Apple's sleek unobtrusive design was a revolution compared to 90s and 2000s garishness. And there's something timeless about it.
Seems like fraud would be a more likely charge.
Remember the guy who raised a bunch of money in order to professionally remove the rat at the end of The Departed?

(In the end he couldn’t legally do it in any fashion)
Honest question: have you ever seen a corporate TLS middleware box stop an active threat? And I don’t mean drive-by crap like port scanning for sshd…
Nah, but once in a great while they manage to make (and not cancel) a service actually worth the $22.99/m (price of Family for me). Most subscription offerings don't come close to meeting that bar, some I feel like should be paying me instead of the other way around with how difficult and ad ridden they make the paid service.