skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yeah, a bumper on a car being bolted by a German worker is not gonna be held on better than if it were bolted by a Chinese worker. Germans can't compete with Chinese on a assembly lines. The advantage western manufacturing used to have to compensate for expensive labor was automation but guess what, China also has automation now in factories now. So what's gonna be VWs answer?
haha that's both hilarious and sad.

Who the hell changes passwords on a demo site?
Can somebody explain, if the encrypted data can be processed against an encrypted query, what prevents someone from writing an attack query to reveal the actual data either by comparison with other known encrypted queries or by regurgitating if it is an LLM like AI?
It's still kinda implicit because ToS is not legally binding and not enforceable ("by continuing use, you agree blah blah blah" is just someone covering their asses), and because everything you do happens on your own device, not someone else's property. It's more of a suggestion than a law. The most an online service can do for a ToS violation is to ban your account, if you even have one to begin with.
the same people telling me to save on my carbon emission are the ones who are ok with free trade to have stuff made thousands of miles away (in jurisdictions with very lax environmental laws) that could be made right here and employ blue-collar workers. Those container ships arrive full and leave empty. What's the CO2eq of that?
U.S. org suffered four month intrusion by Chinese hackers
> I can't think of any other product that makes it to the HN frontpage so consistently

Despite having so little paying users. Not even 35,000 lifetime paying users.

They can really thank the HN echo-chamber, because without it they would have been forgotten a long time ago, nobody knows about Kagi outside of here.
I think it is not just "ads" but also the character of the ads.

If the ads stay in the boundary areas of the page or well-behaved interstitials that's one thing. In fact, ads can sometimes be interesting and entertaining and most importantly can make markets more competitive bringing you a better variety goods and services.

When they screw up the page, jump around, cover things up, don't have proper controls to "x" them out, use confusing dark patterns, generate fake clicks (ever think it's not an accident that some sites jiggle around so much?), need 50 trackers to be (kinda) sure parties aren't screwing each other, have 20x the bandwidth cost of the content that's something else.

Also there's the content of the ads. There is a subprime tranch that includes Temu but is best represented by prerolls on YouTube that are best advertising sketchy energy drinks and supplements and worse are outright crypto scams. I can see some humor in Temu but not in the scams.
This is a good way to put it. Honestly, it sounds like they have a messaging challenge that they need to solve around this.
> So you paid another fee for a checked bag

Usually not. Often I only need a personal item.

And even when I do need a checked bag, that’s fine if I have to pay for it. But then if I don’t also need a carry-on, why should I be paying the same fare as people who do?

> extras…that used to be free

Not free, included in the base fare with no possibility to opt out.
An important corollary then is "it's not proof of work, it's a scam" :P
It does, but better scheduling will only go so far at an institution that underinvests in classroom space. Between “looks fancy” and “meets instructional needs,” donors prefer to have their names on “looks fancy” every time.
> with approximate knowledge of every API and style on the internet

Like economists, who have predicted 7 of the last 3 recessions, AI knows 17 out of 11 API calls!
I bet those ads must drive away some people. Watching TV circa 2000 it would be easy to conclude "I want to die before I get old".
problem_counter: 1
Nice! Happy user of Kagi for over two years here.

Suggestion: it would be cool if the Teams plan included a “personal” plan you can use with a personal account for each member. 1Password does it this way - if you have 1Password at work, you can “link” your personal account to it to get a family plan free of charge - but it’s linked for just this purpose, your employer doesn’t get access to your personal 1Password.

This is great to keep professional and personal accounts separate.
Yeah or just couple years prison time seems fair
Microtransactions Are Beanie Babies
> It can't possibly be a problem

Oh, well then you must be right.

> If my living standards are consistently improving I really don't care about anyone else

And if they are not?
Paying 1 is better than 0. You’re assuming support has to scale perfectly to be fair, but that’s a false binary.
Creators don’t expect everyone to pay but they rely on _someone_ paying.
Refusing because it ‘doesn’t scale’ just reinforces a broken system where nobody pays, creators lose and we end up with the shit quality media and content we have now
>To Crop Or Not To Crop? Point: Never crop. Cropping is cheating. Get it right in camera. Zoom with your feet. If you have to crop later, that only means you blew the composition. Counterpoint: It’s almost impossible to “get it right” in camera every time — the real world gets in the way. That pelican on a piling out in the harbor and you’re only sporting the one prime? Zooming with your feet isn’t an option, so it’s all about the perfect crop in post.

That point-vs-counterpoint is leaving out a critical difference between cropping vs zoom-with-your-feet: the geometric relation between the foreground and background objects will change.

Cropping is more comparable to a post-processing version of "zoom magnification" at the expense of pixel resolution. Or flipped around, zoom lenses can be thought of as in-camera "cropping" with max pixel resolution but at the expense of crop boundaries being irreversible. The geometric relations between objects are still the same if your feet don't move in both cases. (Edit add for clarity: zoom and telephoto prime lenses are the same for purposes of "in-camera cropping" being compared to zooming-with-feet.)

Zooming with the feet alters how the background looks in relation to the foreground subject -- which may not be your artistic intention. Examples:

https://www.slrlounge.com/glossary/compression-definition-ph...

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

In other words, "zoom with your feet" may get you the wrong composition.
I know that everybody here likes to bash on Google but i tried ddg, bing, qwant, brave search, all the other niche ones (searx, swisscows, etc...), and i found Google to be still better than all of them, especially for technical stuff.
Not for the majority of the world population who doesn't know English
Not in this world. We might go to jail for stealing stuff though
See also https://www.youtube.com/@JillBearup on the tube for reviews of fantasy and sci-fi armour from games and movies
'verbing a noun'

Also there's a stylistic difference between coining something new and necessary e.g. 'mock','patch', vs. creating something faddish and unnecessary e.g. 'an ask'.
Sorry, if I’m paying you for a service I want no ads.

I don’t like ads. They don’t help me. They make my life harder. I’ll tolerate them in some situations, but if I pay you then I should not see an ad.

If you want to show an ad, that you choice. I think it’s anti-user and I won’t buy your thing.
Huge difference in levels of corruption between the two countries.

For one, Ukraine ousted Poroshenko after just one term, because he didn't deliver.

Meanwhile Russia has been stuck in a cult of personality leadership since the beginning of the 21st century.
I'm actually writing a book right now, Effective Visualization, and I'll explain why. It is a book focused on Matplotlib and Pandas.

I have almost a dozen viz books. Some written over 50 years ago.

While they impart knowledge, I want the knowledge but also the application. I'm going to go out and paint that bike shed. You can go read Tufte or "Show me the Numbers" but I will show you how to get the results.
I might be blind, so apologies, but could you point at the difference please?

Based on a cursory look Team Ultimate is the same as individual Ultimate, feature-wise.
Oh god, really? It's so stupid. I would not bring it up and then act my own way anyway
His experience is the same in mine , the juniors in our team are super productive in a way that realistically would not have been possible for them before these tools. They just don't get stuck that much anymore so they don't need the seniors as much. I do think the field will be somewhat commoditized in the coming decade.
I think you’re confusing it with Path of Exile 2? That’s the same mistake ChatGPT made…
Is this _really_ how you want the game to be played?
> But the reality is that companies are too greedy

I don't think this is true.

Ads get worse and more hostile because it so easily turns into a race to the bottom. Worse ads devalue the page and lower the CPM, which leads to websites to add more ads, which lowers everything again.
It was a bit more than 3 months: According to Wikipedia, between April of 2018 and June of 2020. Him not getting buy-in for his ideas though does appear to be one of the reasons he left.
What Google should have done long time ago
Solaris was more stable in the mid-90s but that advantage had flipped by the turn of the century. It was an order of magnitude more expensive to support, especially at scale because Linux was far ahead on packaging and configuration management by 1998 or so, which in practice meant that no two Solaris boxes were the same unless your organization was willing to spend a lot of money on staffing.

Solaris 10 was intended as a catch-up release but the package manager took years to mature. I remember getting racks of systems in the mid-2000s where simply running the updater on brand new servers rendered them unbootable. By then the writing was on the wall.

SPARC was similar: the hardware had some neat aspects but what they really needed was the equivalent of a first-class LLVM backend now. Statistically nobody was hand-tuning assembly code to try to get it to be competitive with x86, especially since that meant not only your own code but most other libraries. The reason ARM is doing so well now is that two decades where the most popular computing devices are phones means that you can just assume that anything popular will compile and run well on ARM.
I wonder how this will affect ssh. OpenSSH recently restricted more characters for valid usernames: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/7ef3787c8...
Wow, I didn't expect an answer with a product and source. This looks really good, gonna give you guys a try.
Very interesting going after enterprise. How do you pitch to a CFO that you now need to pay for a web search license on top of Copilot/AI Assistant or whatever?
yikes. that makes sense for an advertiser but also fuck that.
Rather than contradictions think of photography patterns like design patterns.
The villain from "The Smurfs" is really running out of ideas to catch the Smurfs.

(More seriously, is this an attempt to address racism or something? Won't work; racism is not generally predicated on literal skintone.)
You pay only for the active users. At least for me the individual and Team Ultimate have exactly the same price?
> ... the shooter arrived outside the hotel about 10 minutes before his intended target and ignored passers-by as he lay in wait.

Waiting for the right person is very far from a co-incidence. ;)
I do almost all browsing (except for services where I need to be logged in) from private mode. For the ones where the app needs to know me, I have separate profiles (multi-account containers ftw!).

Nothing especially sensitive, I just consider it basic online hygiene.
I don't see one on the pricing page either: https://kagi.com/pricing?plan=team

However, based on that page, the team plan cannot be prepaid annually for a discount, so if you are willing to do that the individual plan is 10% cheaper.
Where AI really really shine is to help an engineer get proficient in a language they don't know well. Simon Willison says this somewhere and in my experience it's very true.

If you can code, and you understand the problem (or are well on your way to understanding it), but you're not familiar with the exact syntax of Go or whatever, then working with AI will save you hundreds of hours.

If you can't code, or do not (yet) understand the problem, AI won't save you. It will probably hurt.
> I'd happily throw in $10/mo into a pool that distributed money towards a bunch of different smaller tech reporting/blogs/YouTube channels

I'm almost certain this exact thing used to exist, and The Verge was a part of it, and then it all fell apart. I can't find it now - it's impossible to search for.
> Have you ever read large electronic schematics? That's basically it .. except all the important things have to be identified by text anyway, because it's a massive challenge to the imagination to come up with two hundred different pictograms.

As a mechanical engineer who works with Labview and Simulink, as well as more conventional code (python mostly), that is indeed a very good description. First glance at a large labview program feels very much like first glance at a large and complex electronics schematic. Lots of wire everywhere and you're not even sure where to start.

I think a nice "best of both worlds" approach is a graphical "high level" view which shows the flow of data, at least for "data transformation" kind of programs, and code for the low level logic (what actually happens in the blocks). Sort of like nodal editors in Blender and NLE apps. Fortunately Simulink makes it easy to drop in a Matlab function call, Labview not so much (need to get into C FFI or use a really old version of .net or something).

The thought I have about spreadsheets (might have read that on here), is that spreadsheets make the data visible and hide the code. Text-based programming hides the data but shows the code. I'm not sure what something that makes both code and data first class and visible would look like, but I'd be curious for sure (for engineering type applications at least). Best I've found so far (and what I actually for a lot of data processing tasks) is a Jupyter notebook making plentiful use of df.head() and df.plot().
Don’t worry, the most powerful people are still way, way more positively incentivized to do the wrong thing
I've been paying for Kagi for the last few months and I guess the compliment I could give is: I have it on some machines but not the other and I don't really notice? when I'm on the kagi one other than ... no ads and no ads-ranked results

Which, frankly, I'm willing to pay for. I think it's a good product.
You're right, "highly targeted" is not the correct expression. What I mean is: know who your average reader is and give that information to your potential sponsor. No specific user-tracking at all.
i would suggest to add unpaywalled links where relevant
> I am still waiting for better pay-per-use LLM access, rather than $15-20/mo subs.

I am from the other side. My LLM bill would be hundreds of dollars in month if I would use APIs but these flat prices really work for me.
If they can dominate with process, no it’s not too late. If their process is on par with TSMC? I don’t know. Like I said, they need a world beater else margins erode dramatically. They have assets, they have value and Intel has done it again and again for decades but unless there is something that is a tier better than anything else margins drop and they just forced their “technical CEO” out.

They have had ultra success in the past, I don’t see anything on the roadmap to suggest a repeat of that, there is a lot of institutional memory of that success. With a long term plan, a board that is knows it’s going to be a journey and the CHIPS money, there is a story, make X86S a reality… I think there will be incredible pressure to cut and sell it though. If the new fabrication technology is only as good as the competition, I think that makes Intel an even more attractive take over target for the fabless giants
Thanks, and damn I guess…

Maybe I should wait another 18 month cycle
lol. there's 12 different "computers" shoved in the case, each with more computing and memory than the original thing he's emulating
But that’s under some weird, incorrect model of how money works. Presumably if we go down this route any further you’ll start talking about IS/LM and the money multiplier. All models are wrong, but there’s a better model that involves capital constraints and the Basel accords.

In any case, one of the major failings of modern macro is to assume you can think your way around the implications of economic actions. You have no way of knowing the consequences of stashing money under a mattress unless you actually do it, and even then there’s no guarantee the effect will be the same across different economies and in different eras. The world is just too complex for that.
Subreddit on deep fake fraud, click farms and other disinformation tech topics
I'm in the same boat — I maintain subscriptions to both.

The main thing I like OpenAI for is that when I'm on a long drive, I like to have conversations with OpenAI's voice mode.

If Claude had a voice mode, I could see dropping OpenAI entirely, but for now it feels like the subscriptions to both is a near-negligible cost relative to the benefits I get from staying near the front of the AI wave.
and even though it isn't detectable.

literally they are looking for imperfections on the natural diamond.

as an engineer this is the difference between a hand sewn shirt and a machine sewn shirt, objectively, why would we pay more for worst quality?

de beers says it's about history and how long that gem stone have existed. but I personally, feel paying 10x for worst quality is a sucker thing to do
In the USA, unemployment is based on a periodic, 60k household survey. You may not have ever been contacted but that's just the nature of sampling. It's true that some countries report unemployment as those who are actually registered as unemployed, but that's not best practice (and a good reason to be careful comparing country unemployment rates)

You can read more on the US system here - https://www.bls.gov/cps/faq.htm#Ques3

I agree it's a bad outcome that someone who gets so fed up with the labor market that they stop looking for work no longer counts as unemployed, but that's why we have labor force participation (and why imho that should be reported in headlines along with unemployment, after adjusting for age and education)
Java is intent as code. It’s so verbose that you have to use an IDE to not go crazy with all the typings. And when using an IDE, you autocomplete more than you type because of all the information that exists in the code
Men are not allowed to cross the border, also everyone has family and relatives, it is not straightforward to just take everyone with you to another place and be able to support all of them also financially.
Just check out how the Ukrainian TCC grabs people from the street and send them to the meatgrinders.

No, it's just very bad policy. Taken by a government in a very desperate situation.

The fact that you cite this as your primary example suggests that you aren't quite sure what "corruption" actually is.
They worked for me last night.
I spend a lot of time there.

The long range “precision” attacks by Russia often just end up randomly killing civilians.

Eg: missile strikes on Kyiv blowing up a children’s hospital, or the September strikes on Lviv blowing up a random apartment building and wiping out almost an entire family.

You can easily go “what are the chances” even when shahads are flying over your head and the sky is lit up with tracer fire from mobile air defense units after some exposure.
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Something laudable? They're trying to sell subscriptions that people will buy. It's completely normal to criticize their offering. I agree with the criticism and you don't, that's all fine, too.
> And if you needed it you’d know what it does.

Why would that be true? Often people don’t know what they need to solve a particular problem.
> This is why the "subscribe to remove ads" thing never took off in a big way [...] advertisers hate it

My heart bleeds for the poor advertisers. /s

Actually, no it doesn't. Not even a little bit.
Maybe they aren't, but when you already have all your documents in sharepoint, all your emails in outlook and all your databases VMs in Azure, then Azure OpenAI is trusted in the organization.
> Where AI really really shine is to help an engineer get proficient in a language they don't know well.

I used GitHub Copilot in a project I started mostly to learn Go. It was amazing. I spent not so much time fiddling around with syntax, and much more time thinking about design.
Yeah, its more like it can generate 70% of the code by volume, rather than get you 70% of the way to a complete solution. 12 week projects don't become 4 week projects, at best they are 9-10 week projects.
You can insert arguments into an SQL statement with the (?1) style syntax. See the example here:

https://docs.rs/rusqlite/latest/rusqlite/
Graphical programming is one of those things that's often suggested as an improvement on textual programming, and just about every implementation tends to disappoint. I know, when working on compilers, that nearly every time I go "I think I want to see the CFG as a graph here," I tend to realize no, that's not quite what I wanted. For a complex function, the surprising superpower is just to have an editor that shows the opening brace line of every currently-open brace.

Another case in point: when was the last time you saw someone use a flowchart to describe the pseudocode of an algorithm, as opposed to writing, er, pseudocode? Flowcharts used to be the dominant way to do this, decades ago, but they seem to me to have been thoroughly supplanted by pseudocode...
>you don’t get to double dip and also sell my data to your advertisers and earn more on the side.

1. Placing an Ad on the page has absolutely nothing to do with selling your data. Just like a magazine decide to place a print ad.

2. Ad can sometimes function as news. New Product launch, marketing notes. etc.

3. Even an internet targeting Ad, which the author is likely referring to, does not necessarily sell your data to advertiser. Your data, however may likely be gathered elsewhere that the Ad company uses for targeting.

4. There is no such thing as double dip when your data isn't even involved. Which means you are only paying once. And not twice.

5. Placing an Ad, an additional revenue generation function on the site is not double dipping. Even if the ad is inside your subscription. You are free to cancel or sue if the subscription originally promised zero ads.

6. The correct amount of ads is when Ad does not feel like an ad. The answer is very likely to be non zero but minimal.

Final Note: I Notice HN has swing back enough to allow decent discussions on these sort of topics. Ads were nearly forbidden to talk about from 2013 - 2023.
See this issue: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1029

For years, "self-hosting" Gitea wasn't done because it was missing a bunch of useful collaboration features. Now, it looks like that gap has been closed. All of the specific features mentioned in that issue seem to have been fixed, and the big remaining task is figuring out below to actually migrate all the existing data out of GitHub -- which doesn't seem to be super high on the priority list.
It is just who russians are, have always been.

Russians cannot win, thus continue to commit war crimes just because they can and no one wants to stop them.

Bombing huge cities with 400kg of cluster munitions or old missiles with 100+ meters of CEP is nothing else than a war crime.
Exactly. This has been the case for decades. Newspapers have had advertising despite no being free, but if they didn't they would be so much more expensive