skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Still need deep pockets but it’s now increasingly easier to be much better at search than Google.

That's the big problem here. All the new search engines rely on the infrastructure of the old ones. It would take very little collusion between Google and Microsoft to crush something like Kagi. And the moment any new competitor gets big, they'll do it.

What's needed is an anti-trust breakup. There's simply too big a conflict of interest between Google, the search engine product, and Google, the ad-tech giant earning money off the websites.

Google is using their search engine monopoly to control the wider web, and fill it with spammy SEO garbage to juice their advertising revenues.
It would be helpful to have an image of what the resume looks like when generated.
The quoted section says it's about ads. Data sharing doesn't even get mentioned (sharing with who?).

> It's the basic right to use all services, without loss of functionality, without giving away your data which is not strictly required for the functionality.

No such "basic right" exists in any treaty that I'm aware of and it's clearly not about that anyway, because Facebook and other domestic services started offering that exact possibility, yet the EU still isn't satisfied. The idea there's some specific principle at play here is just propaganda by the Commission.

What they appear to be demanding (today) is that all services are free and funded by ads that are randomly chosen. What moral or legal principle underlies this is quite mysterious, because nobody ever previously claimed it was illegal to show ads for nappies during children's TV programmmes, or ads for video games at the start of action movies. Nor is there any organic demand from voters to be shown worthless random ads for products they have no interest in, especially if the result is that they become commercially unviable to serve (next step by the EU: demand they get services even if companies take a loss on doing so).

European countries have real problems and the people know what they are, just check the EU's own opinion polls. Again and again people say their top concerns are things like the economy, jobs, inflation, immigration. In fact ~nobody in the EU cares about this bizarre jeremiad against tech firms by the Commission, which is why it's impossible to comply with whatever the EU thinks it's asking for. Implement the obvious solution to any new regulation and the interpretation of it immediately changes after it turns out the results wasn't mass behavioral change amongst the population. There's no way to satisfy both the Commission and the actual users or customers because the EU's goals are diametrically opposed to everyone else's. HN posters who have projected all sorts of second-order effects onto this fight to do with long term expectations about EU integration aren't representative of the population, who would much rather the EU get them a job than beat up the companies entertaining them whilst they wait.
Apparently not.

In my first attempt I've actually deleted the directories altogether but later wanted to scan a system manually and I couldn't repair the installation and get WD to run again.
LLMs cannot compete on truthful high-quality information from experts. Only on plausible babble. If that’s the only information you search for, then your perspective makes sense.

We shouldn’t be using LLMs for information retrieval at all. They should be summarizing individual web pages at best. That would make search more efficient. But to use plausible text generator without any guaranteed veracity checks in the pipeline for information retrieval is madness.
>What’s a freedom TLD?

It was probably a typo/autocorrect of "freenom" :

https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html

The significance is that the ".ml" tld is on that list and this thread's domain is "email.ml". Some entities block any tld registered with freenom.
Debian or Fedora are both solid options, depending on how fresh you like your packages. I used Fedora for close to a decade without issues.

I'm currently using PopOS, an Ubuntu derivative, and like it. The built-in tiling window manager is a killer feature. I loved using i3, but hated manually fiddling with things like networking configuration. Having a tiling window manager built on top of Gnome is the best of both worlds.
I agree "Companies need to move really fast, even if that includes skipping a few steps along the way. The user experience will just have to catch up." is insane. There's a difference between a bad "user experience" and "harmful with no value" (the latter being unacceptable). The mentality that we must cut as close to the latter at the altar of market share is why we're in this state and why it's going to get much, much worse before anything gets better.
That's by design. I'm reminded of this from a month ago: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Discussed with nearly 900 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976
"Keep the jobs"

I'm sure you would've said the same thing when the Commissars banned and controlled computer access in the USSR and Cuba, etc.
Imma be real its been deteriorating for a while. Used to be an insanely powerful engine. You could find things with verbatim quotes. I have not seen this work anymore for quite some time. It all started when they started adding rules to suppress results somewhere in the late 2000s or early 2010s. Its only gotten worse and worse. Googles search engine is now just a personal collection of pre approved search results for no valid rhyme or reason.
That's not the same. Most GDPR consent pop ups are exactly the same as "benign" cookie banners people are trained to mindlessly click to go away, actual giving consent for their data to be repackaged and sold.
Self driving is actually coming along better than I thought it would. Version 12 behaves like a human driver.

The real source of your frustration though is that he does not fully subscribe to the neoliberal dogma and lets millions of others to say whatever they like. Totalitarian left can’t handle that, it’s a visceral reaction
We need to make bookmarks a common way to access the web again! So many people use Google or other search engines to access even the most basic sites, instead of storing a bookmark or typing out the whole URL.

I have used a simple bookmarking strategy in Firefox for some years now, simply storing everything and anything I suspect I might want to retrieve later. I give each bookmark a few quick keywords and store it all in one folder. No hierarchy. It's surprisingly useful and has helped me retrieve so much stuff from my vague long term memory.

In addition, I flush the cache automatically every time I close the browser and curate a list of sites that are exempted from the flush. I have also turned off search words suggestions in the address bar, leaving me with a tidy and usefull experience that helps me find what I'm looking for in seconds. Only saved sites show up when I start typing.

But most browsers, including Firefox, need to improve their bookmarking system. I can't add keywords to bookmarks from the mobile browser. Why not? And the bookmark UI has gotten little attention for literally decades.

It would not help all smaller sites, but it would help some, if browsers would improve the storing, managing and retrieving of bookmarks.
Grid is unified but you can't just transfer all electricity from producing areas to consuming areas, the capacity isn't there. You can't do that even within single countries let alone between countries. Say, connections from north to south in Sweden or north to south in Germany are woefully insufficient already now for current needs.

The energy intensive production has to be built close to the supply.
> No ads, no nonsense, just the answer.

5 - 10% of the time that answer will be complete rubbish.

We need something better than Google and LLMs e.g. Golden before it was acquired: https://golden.com
There is not, because there could always be some underlying tricky generator that you just haven't discovered, and discovering that pattern is basically equivalent to solving the halting problem. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity#Uncomput...)

As a trivial example, if your dataset is one trillion binary digits of pi, it is essentially incompressible by any regular compressor, but you can fit a generator well under 1 kB.
It is still maintained. You can use .net 2.0 on the latest visual studio if you choose to.
The point is, users are accustomed to clicking whatever without reading for it to go away as quickly as they can.

They were trained on benign cookie banners and GDPR consent popups look very much the same but are more consequential. Most people don't even understand the difference.

It's not a conspiracy. States never work for benefit of the general public, but for big corporations that "lobby" for the policies that suit them.
Hacked Happiness
Code warrior by day, anxiety warrior by night. That was my life. My career was on fire, but a health issue threw me into a mental health spiral. Treatments felt like juggling flaming chainsaws, and forget user-friendly tools to track progress? Non-existent.

Frustration turned into fuel. I decided to code my way out of the funk. Enter Mindpluz, the mood management app built by a dev who desperately needed it himself.

But this isn't just my story. Imagine a world where everyone, from stressed students to overworked CEOs, has access to an easy-to-use mood tracker in their pocket. That's the future I'm building.

Want to be part of the revolution? We're looking for early adopters to play with Mindpluz and help us make it awesome. Sign up for the beta and join the fight against bad moods!

App store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mindpluz-mood-community/id6477...

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mindpluz.m...
Kagi costs Spotify money, has zero ads, and lets you customise the results.
And a CLI you can use interactively or for automation (once you get the quoting right).
Of the many crypto problems I can think of, reversible transactions seems low on the list. Tradfi "works" because there is no other choice given so people make it functional and it is comfortable through familiarity.

People conveniently forget the rampant scams, identity theft, and numerous types of fraud that are clearly irreversible in tradfi. Then they present it as a new problem that crypto must solve as well as being the same as the old system.
The numbers here https://netsplit.de/networks/top100.php are much lower than what I remember from twenty years ago, and the Internet Archive seems to support this: https://web.archive.org/web/20060902133725/http://irc.netspl...

I don't think IRC is one of those technologies whose usage count in absolute terms is at an all-time high today. It wasn't exactly mainstream in the early 2000s, but it still had lots of users.
Emphasis mine:

>They are caused by economic issues. Wealthier populations typically have fewer offspring. The negative trends in places like Japan (and presumably Korea) are caused by the high cost of living, the lack of support for parents (lacking or overly expensive childcare etc).

Money.
I find Lua so dang pleasing to look at
> In a statement from the Sky actress provided by her agent, she wrote that at times the backlash “feels personal being that it’s just my natural voice and I’ve never been compared to her by the people who do know me closely.”
Or rather preventing moving goalpost. You’re citing nokia, founded in the 19th century, and SAP, founded 54 years ago, as a counter-argument to my assertion that EU isn’t good at creating tech companies. Should I have added that i was talking about the current century ?

You also talk about university and technologies created in their research labs. Which is totally irrelevant to my point.

I’m talking about the fact that EU definitely has a problem in its ability to create strong technology business and brands, and that it’s starting to become a huge problem for our economy. It was an economical statement, and you completely missed the point.
I dunno man, I worked at FB well before the micro services hype and saw a bunch of problems with them, particularly in debugging.

And in general, putting a network boundary between function calls is gonna add a whole bunch of complexity.

That being said, splitting services so that teams could deploy independently definitely also had a lot of benefits at FB, but I could never understand why so many much smaller companies took the micro services approach.
Bard launched nearly everywhere except the EU. Staged rollout are intended to catch bugs, you don't do a staged rollout and and then wait for a year with half the servers upgraded.
"Glue makes things sticky but it's evident it can't be put on a pizza" is the new "Chloroquine kills viruses but it's evident it can't be ingested". Still, someone died because he trusted a prominent idiot politician suggestion like he was an expert in medicine.

Some people will trust AI as much as they trust the strong man in power, no matter how obtuse that man is, and one day someone will eventually die or be seriously harmed because of a wrong advice by AI; Google should turn off that nonsense for good before someone is harmed.
How would they crush kagi
Fascinating, I am unaware of the inner workings of Ethereum.

It boggles that they could make such a massive design error, especially with the Bitcoin examples staring them in the face.
This isn’t true at all. Fine tune with a single sample and see what happens to your model.
Got served carbonated gammel dansk from this tap, and tortured by "När man festar festar man" on repeat for 6 days during Chaos Communication Camp.

10/10, no notes.

Would do again.
Thanks for the link. That was a very well written and succinct description of some of the features of patriarchy - well worth the read.
.net 2.0 and later are highly dependent on windows and winapi. Parts of .net core might stand a better chance at being ported to DOS.
Throwing cash at a lack of babby has consistently failed to increase babby time and time again, regardless which country. There is quite literally not a single success story to cite.

Whatever the factors are, throwing cash at the issue at best does nothing and at worst exacerbates it.
Most of us do, I think. Then again, what would you label them as? A space? A domain?
Are there any good heuristics for adding trampolines if the underlying architecture does not support tail calls? (With the closed-world assumption.) Maybe breadth-first search on the callgraph, inserting trampolines at the first circle? And then somehow restart and deal with the remaining cycles, until none are left?
> Python and a web browser are usually always there.

Python is only there if you are on an Unix machine. If you are on Windows, that is not true. And if you are on Unix, then getting LaTeX is just a rpm/apt/homebrew command away.

It's not like it's saving me from having to learn something. If I have to deal with a new DSL that does not give any real advantage over a generic tool, what is the point?
Or, just like tradfi, point out the mistake to the counterparty. Request your crypto back and the transaction is reversed.
There is not a clear line but I’d say the context matters.

An academic computer scientist produces conference papers about a program they wrote, not a program. Such a person might be wary of doing a live demo at that conference because… things could go wrong. Some CS grad students and profs are brilliant programmers, but not all of them. To write a paper about a program you only need to get the program sorta-kinda working, it doesn’t need to be reliable or have any polish.

A software developer writes programs for a living, it is secondary if they present about them. Such a program has to be good enough for people to really use. The software dev isn’t afraid to do a live demo because they have used the program every day for six months.

In the case of React somebody could have made a prototype and written about it and that would have been research but if you got it packaged up so anybody could use it… that’s engineering.

Even the very quotidian applications programming I do sometimes has an aspect of research; for instance I was working on a query system that is a hybrid of full text and boolean search and discovered a way to write a parser that corrects any mistakes a user types, e.g. if it is

(A AND B

it gets rewritten to

A AND B

there was some reading compiler books (without the answer I wanted but a mention of a COBOL compiler from the 1970s that did this) and a lot of thinking about parser theory and drawing illustrations on paper. Out of all that came a product that customers are using everyday.
This comment seems to have far too much trust in Cloudflare. A more accurate statement is probably something like "They use Cloudflare to slightly increase the cost to spammers while only rejecting a small number of individual users."
Unsafe OpenAI example code includes eval() of untrusted text generated by GPT-4o
Never eval() AI-generated text without a sandbox.
This should one of the most obvious principles of AGI safety, especially to a company working towards building superintelligence.

Yet, inexplicably, the OpenAI tutorial linked above includes this un-sandboxed command, with no explanation for this egregious lack of any safety precautions: `tool_query_string = eval(tool_calls[0].function.arguments)['query']`

Though the content of function.arguments is usually reasonable in typical scenarios, it is unvalidated, arbitrary text. There are multiple documented instances of it containing text that causes parsing errors:

https://community.openai.com/t/malformed-function-calling-ar...

https://community.openai.com/t/malformed-json-in-gpt4-1106-f...

https://community.openai.com/t/ai-assistant-malformed-functi...

Anyone running the code in the OpenAI cookbook, containing eval(), could have their machine compromised by a model that gets hijacked via prompt injection or whose behavior goes astray for other reasons.

The fact that OpenAI recommends this code to developers speaks to a serious lack of care about AGI safety.
It's becoming a reality because it's true. China would deploy more solar but their factories are kind of maxed out producing panels and providing them to the rest of the world.

As for their coal plants. They have a bit of a debt bubble going on where there are lots of things being built that aren't needed (e.g. massive amounts of apartment blocks). These coal plants might get constructed. But turning them on and supplying them with coal is a different matter. Either way, most analysts seem to think that China's coal usage has already peaked. Peak coal usage for the whole world is in the past. Most US and European coal will be gone within 15-20 years. I don't think China will be that far behind.

India is a bit of an outlier. They have a massive population and rapid economic growth. So they have a big appetite for more power generation. Renewables can't keep up short term. But of course they are perfectly located for solar power generation being as close to the equator as they are.

It's not a question if they'll be using solar but how much GW per year they'll be deploying. I believe on a per year basis that's already outstripping their quite ambitious coal generation plans. They deployed 18GW of solar last year. China doubled it's deployment by a whopping 217GW last year. More than anyone else. India has a bit of catching up to do but it seems they are getting there.
It seems pretty clear that Google's era of search technology has aged out. SEO has been a game of cat and mouse since the web became an ad platform, it was only a matter of time before Google ran out of moves.

I'd much prefer a shift back to the earlier, smaller internet approach but it was driven by the enjoyment of exploration and discovery. Today most people prefer instant gratification online and just want answers and content thrown at them faster, with little regard for quality.
It is doing wonders on the Chinese market.
DDG was such an absolutely subpar experience for me (used it for 6-8 months) that it wouldn't surprise me if nobody would _actually_ say it's better in a blind test. They just don't like Google.

Kagi on the other hand really blew me away, I have no idea how they're doing it, but I'm only using Google for one thing these days (besides G Shopping & G Maps) which is when I want to use ad spend as proxy for quality/reliability of the company (for example when I'm looking for a local moving company in my city).
> It's all fine while the code is imperative

ah sorry, i may have had a brain fart here. I use functions imperatively like you say and that's the concept i wanted to get across. failed to do so because I just mentioned don't over-do it on the math.

my bad.

should probably have been an extra one between 6 + 7 for do things imperatively
That was a rather wholesome read, focused on providing insight while being respectful.
I was never really a fan of ICQ even back in the early days of my teenage years when it was big. I just never saw it's appeal. That said

> You can chat with friends in VK Messenger and with colleagues in VK WorkSpace

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell no
What does this mean? How can you train a model on your own WhatsApp messages? To what end? To write like you? For RAG Q&A?
Reddit is the only social network I use.

They're really dropping the ball by not having a fantastic search tool. I know search is a difficult problem, but with the kind of budget and engineering power they have it has to be solvable.
Fond memories of spending time late into the early morning hours chatting with friends and meeting new people during summer break. Even had a short UIN!

Even if something new came along now, it won't recreate the magic that was the internet of yesteryear.

At this point, it is us that are too different. The nostalgia only has sentimental value.
How about social features like sharing bookmarks or having curated list for specific subjects

When I want to share bookmark folder for other collegues I have to go trough hoops (at least on chrome)
<3 from me.

We are in the rough and tumble time of new tech. As an analogy, trains didn't always have the distance between their tracks as uniform (called gauge). It strikes me that we are in a similar time of invention. If you have ever read old patents (my experience being older pop book like "Strange Stories, Amazing Facts" and random blogposts) you'll see the truly bizzare.
I can’t imagine that the typical IRC user has any interest in Discord. They are wildly different in every conceivable way.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out declining birthrates are a good thing, but it does take someone who is not delusional and grossly out of touch. Cultures come and go, we don't need to preserve all of them forever. We live in a world with finite resources which are stretched ever thinner with an ever growing population and increased consumption and destroyed ecosystems due to climate change, deforestation, and other human activities. Not to mention there's only so many meaningful and valuable economic opportunities for people in the world, and when people don't have good economic opportunities available to them, they either starve or resort to crime. Declining birthrates are a good thing. An ever growing population is bad. It's as simple as that.