skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing I dislike most about Tonies is that they don't licence the original recordings for lots of the movie/TV themed characters.

They licence the songs and then record them in-house and goodness me some of them are disappointing if you are familiar with the real soundtracks. The Moana one has the same two singers doing impressions of every character.
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Agree. What did you have in mind? The two products are already lightly integrated.
Advertising is a virus that eventually consumes all ecosystems.
"Application server" is an umbrella term and the documentation doesn't really help identifying what the perimeter is.

Beside, it states that it is so fast that there's no need for cache, and supports SQLite only. So it seems to target only very simple applications, eg. straightforward relational DB <-> Json Rest/HTTP.
Russia has so much ammunition from the Soviet times with maybe 500m CEP. Who knows maybe 5% hits the target. Either way it is cheaper to just fire them more or less randomly than to keep them in stock.

They use for example air to air or naval rockets that were designed to hit an aircraft or ship. But in ground mode their seekers are just not used.
Russia does not want to hit nuclear power plants. They know the consequences would be very negative for all sides.
I was fine with ads in newspapers, in my TV news and on the sides of buses. While it always created incentives and questionable relations (E.g. do yo report the grocery chains' salmonella disaster in your news when the same chain advertises between that segment and the weather? What if they give you an angry call after the broadcast? does your news desk ever worry about what they should publish? as soon as they worry the damge is already done). I get that. But I'm not going to even hope we'll get the web to live up to higher standards than print and broadcast did for the last centuries. After all, internet media had significantly worse standards in this regard for as long as it existed. I'd be happy for it to just have normal media standards.
Leftists have a coherent argument about this: Capitalism always results in corruption because capital can influence/buy government.

Our implementation mostly uses lobbying and the revolving door instead of direct bribes, but nevertheless results in 737 MAX.

Maybe we can improve the system in the U.S. and make it less corrupt. I hope so, but I am not very optimistic.

I want free markets, free trade, private property, and the capitalism that arises from these forces. But our current implementation is not proving itself to be ideal.
You all have interesting arguments and valid points in this discussion, but this last message is whataboutism [1].

edit: and it doesn't help you much, you are likening ads to harmful things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
In the UK the powers that be are desperate to get rid of juries. We shouldn't let them
Study claims Neanderthals and modern humans must be classed as separate species
The same car you drive to work?
> access to all premium LLMs in the world

That's a bold claim
Found it better to not fight it, you can't really turn back the clock with people who have embraced it or become enamored by it. Part of the issue I've noticed with it is it enables people who couldn't do a thing at all to do the most basic version of a thing, e.g a CEO can now make a button appear on the app and maybe it'll kinda work, they then assume this magic experience to them is applicable across the rest of coding where if you actually know how to code making the button appear isn't the thing that's difficult, it's the harder work that the AI can't really solve.

But really you're never going to convince these people so I'd say if you're really passionate about coding find a workplace with similar minded people, if you really want to stay in this job then embrace it, stop caring if the codebase is good or maintainable and just let the slop flow. It's the path of least resistance and stress, trying to fight it and convince people is a losing and frustrating battle, take your passion for your work and invest it in a project outside work or find a workplace where they appreciate it too.
In theory maybe, but in practice no, since ad free is usually extremely cheap. If you can't afford to pay the ad free subscription you're not poor, you're desperate.
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Can't find youtube link, and it was either tiktok or twitter.

So this video is pretty accurate then?

https://x.com/dhtoomey/status/1479214458987855880
Unless you start attaching tags to metrics and allow engineers to explode cardinality of the metrics. Then your pockets need to be deep.
As someone is not an artist I want ai to do art so I can restore my antique tractor. Of course we all have diffeent hobbies but there are also hobbies we don't want to get into but may nee.
I think this has a lot to do with vehicles bought using salary sacrifice hitting the market at the same time, I know some people that got their EV this way with a 30-40% discount.
Well better call the war crime police to send offenders to war crime jail.
As any airport, it's still a horrible place that you can't even leave until you get to your destination.

Think of it: the moment you get into your airport of departure, you become a hamster that enters a giant virtual tube that ends at the exit doors at your destination airport. You are not even allowed to go outside and breathe fresh air, like in hi-security prison. A prison with nice wooden ceilings though.
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$1 phone scanner finds seven Pegasus spyware infections
Crazy isn't it.

A natural disaster (largest earthquake in Japans modern history) kills a sports-stadiums worth of people and causes massive infrastructure damage with over 2000 bodies never found......

.....yet the only thing the west remembers is a single nuclear plant being knocked offline with no resulting deaths due to radiation.
Two years with Kagi, sometimes go months without using Google. Stay pure.

Kagi plus a few good LLMs (I use local ones via ollama because I do that, and also Claude sometimes) gives you research capabilities that are as good as the pre-enshittification Internet and often better. I use LLMs like brainstorming partners and research assistants and then use Kagi to search for real data to verify results and make sure the LLMs aren't hallucinating.

Going back to Google I'm sometimes shocked at how absolute trash it is. I'm sure they're maximizing their internal KPIs.

Of course I know the real problem with Google is that I'm not the customer.
They will compress over the wire, but then decompress and ingest counting billing for uncompressed data. After that, an interesting thing will happen, because they will compress the data along other interesting techniques to minimize the size of the data on their premises. Cant blame them... they're just trying to cut costs but the fact that they are charging so much for something that is so easily compressible is just... not fair.
And the number of people whose death is directly attributed to smoking is 0.

But of course just like with Chernobyl and Fukushima you need to factor in the increased cases of cancer.
One tip, it might be an idea to create permalinks, so that people can open up the page at any specific date instead of just the past week. I don't know if that's feasible though, is the data for each page generated statically or kept updated?
Demo site crashes with "uncaught error 401"
For the most part, engineering interview processes haven't adapted to this yet. I think a lot of engineering orgs are kind of head in the sand about this shift.

There is a surprising lack of focus on code reviews as part of that process.

A few months back, I ran into one company (a YC company) that used code reviews as their first technical interview. Review some API code (it was missing validation, error handling, etc.), review some database code (missing indices, bad choices for ID columns, etc.), and more.

I think more companies need to rethink their interview process and focus on code reviews as AI adoption increases.
> The correct amount of ads for a publication that’s directly supported is zero

You are not the only one directly supporting the publication

> you don’t get to double dip and also sell my data to your advertisers and earn more on the side

Yes they do. You get the option to cancel.
Buy and read the book. There is a reason the 25th aniversery eddition has been still in print for more than 30 years. It is a timeless combuter book that everyone should read and keep an their bookshelf.
as a supabase team member, I must say that I also found it flattering.

nice work OP - i like this version of tech where we all get along. the project looks great, good luck!
I don't want to replace my IDE (intellij) because I actually like it and use a lot of what it does most of which is not supported in other tools. I want AI models to work with my tools.

Tools like this are alright if your expectations of an IDE are low. E.g. if you are happy using just VS Code or whatever. Unfortunately I'm used to a bit more than that. Jetbrains has been doing some of their AI stuff. But I haven't really looked at it that much.

Don't get me wrong; I actually use VS Code for some stuff. But it's just not a replacement for intellij. Not even close. So, not really looking for IDEs with even less features just so I can have some AI.
I think that's a good point, and it does make me doubt my initial comment.

One issue now, on a world without ads, is what incentive would also those actors have to provide you with that information? Search engine, review websites, YouTube channels, etc. Of course, we could pay them for this information. They could also have affiliate links, but doesn't then it become an ad?

I think we hate ads now simply because they are implemented poorly and there's a lot of low quality, deceiving ads for useless products.

I play table-tennis a lot, and my shoes are always wet after a session, I usually left them outside to dry, but it doesn't work in bad weather (which is common here). I then saw an ad for shoe-fresh (a dry rack/sanitizer for your shoes), I got one, and it has completely solved this problem. Maybe I could have found about it in a different way, but this is how I found it.
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Why not just skip nuclear then and go straight for solar which is the safest:

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

Also happens to be by far the cheapest.
> I'm not surprised, building a new high-speed line between the largest cities in the Netherlands must be a nightmare, that's connecting and going through some of the most densely populated areas in Europe.

Well, yes and no. Most of it goes through the 'green heart' of the most populated area. There's mostly farms there. The route also goes mostly along existing highways and train tracks so it was just a matter of widening the infrastructure zones that were already there. Holland is very planified so usually these things are already taken into consideration. We don't build housing right besides infrastructure anymore.

However, the environmental red tape is pretty heavy these days. The whole country is at a standstill (house building, traffic, farming) due to limits of nitrogen deposits being exceeded.

So I think it was more that than actual infringements on people's living space. Some tunnels and overpasses were made, yes. Those are the ones that are falling apart already after 10 years :')
I do that sometimes. But then you get the problem of having to manually integrating the changes. Which is also tedious.
Cruise missile dives into water near dam base, creates a large bubble with slow explosives, and the subsequent collapse results in a water hammer against the structure.
Yes that has gotten worse, mainly because the high end of the power law distribution of incomes has gone insane.
try to not pay your taxes and see if it will be extracted by force :)
"We" didn't start this, "they" did.

We had some text ads, maybe a banner at the top/bottom of a site, and that was it... that was "the middle ground", they got the ads, we didn't have to block them. Then they added more ads and more ads and more ads, and animated gifs and more of them, and videos, and videos with sound, and overlaid ads, and overlaid ads with unskippable video and audio, and more and more... and in the end, a lot of us blocked them.

They had their chance, they decided that the option they wanted was to abuse the viewer with a huge amount of very bad ads on every goddamn site they visited, and now (for some of us), it's over, we're blocking ads.

If they stayed at the one, two ads per site, I wouldn't even notice them,... now, when I do (because there's just too many of them), I immediately install an adblock on every machine (parents, relatives,...) that I have to use a browser on.
> the commoditization clock (how quickly open-source alternatives catch up)

I believe we are already there at least for the average person.

Using Ollama I can run different LLMs locally that are good enough for what I want to do. That's on a 32GB M1 laptop. No more having to pay someone to get results.

For development Pycharm Pro latest LLM autocomplete is just short of writing everything for me.

I agree with you in relation to the enterprise.
That's different from what I talking about it's the problem of inertia people already in jobs are used to doing them in a particular way. New curious driven people that get into the work force would optimize a lot of office work. A 10-12 year old that has learned how to use Ai from the very start will be using an AI that has 12-15 years of incremental improvements when he or she gets into the work force.
A lot of people here on hacker news disparage newer generations. But how many of you can run a tube based or punched based computer. So if you don't know are you an idiot?
Some of these people receive handouts from my money their entire life. Some of them, are now in the 2nd generation living the same way.

They literally receive money from the taxes I pay over my work, for doing nothing their entire life.

https://www.nber.org/digest/nov13/intergenerational-transmis...
> stick a datastore behind an API saving users from needing to use SQL and offering them a higher level API instead

supabase team here. Yes, we offer an auto-generated API (using PostgREST). But users can also connect directly to their Postgres database or through a connection pooler. People have preferences, so we offer options.
its leetcode all the way down..
> There's a reasonable number of people who are willing to pay for content like this, but only if they actually get an ad-free experience in exchange.

I guarantee that the majority of these zealous anti-ad people will not subscribe to an ad-free service for The Verge.

For the most part, their hobby is not subscribing to online publications, it’s complaining about the subscriptions at online publications that they would almost certainly never subscribe to.

And yes, I understand that this doesn’t apply to the ones of people who will reply here claiming that they would never do this.
Totally agree - I live in a small (coastal) town where a there are very few jobs outside of service roles - and they are highly seasonal. Average salary for peole that work in the town must be around £20-25k and even cheap houses here are £200k - but often far far higher.

London is wild - I was lucky to buy a flat (£142k) when I was still young (2006) - which would have been 4.7 time my salary (though I bought with my wife). Even then, and with two good salaries, staying on in London with 2 kids wasn't really an option for us.

And as you say, this is replicated up and down the country in other major cities - people are just priced out or trapped in renting. No idea what my kids will do.
Another example is computer games. I got No Man's Sky recently because it was discounted on Steam, and I always wanted to try it. I would consider the pop-up you get when you launch steam, and the discounts showed in the store to also be "ads". I am enjoying the (still buggy) game so far.
I am not a professional software engineer but LLMs have showed me how hard software engineering is at the overall level of a system.

For me, it feels like being a magic skilled carpenter with the ability to build a giant building, but with no idea what architects do to make blue prints.

Just end up building a useless mess of wood and nails that eventually gets burned down.

I am actually not impressed by the new o1 at all. I think we might be in denial of how progress is slowing down.
That is pretty much what I said:

> I'm not against advertising as such, where it is relevant to what I am looking at (or even when it is arbitrary/random), what I object to is the stalking that is inherent in the current adtech world.

The ideal is for the advert to be served from the main source, much like a sponsored segment in a cast is just in the cast, no extra external access to do any tracking from.

If the site I'm actually visiting itself starts serving malware like shite, then I go from not trusting their “partners” and being wary of them by association, to really not wanting to be there at all and adding them to my DNS blocklist just-in-case.
Surely you know/understand that:
1. The minimum standard, even in the West, is not high enough.
2. The resources spent on the vanity projects and luxuries of the ultra wealthy could raise that minimum standard instead.

You say, "you'd be more upset if you have nothing" but that is the actual reality for people actually living here. Our system is extremely fickle and contrary to popular belief, does not directly reward hard work with success. I know many people that work very hard jobs, that make a tiny fraction of what probably the lowest earners on this forum make.
I honestly do not understand this point. If they offer me a 50/year sub that is not sustainable without extra ads then adjust the fucking price.

Set a price to make it sustainable.

Offer a 50/year plan with limited ads and a 200/year with no ads and be upfront about why those are the costs.

It’s not rocket science.
They list Claude, OpenAI GPT, Mistral, Gemini and Llama: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html#llms-available-...

It's a fair assesment, unless you're nitpicking about "all" in there.
Is it a problem if you need a MRI?
You're talking about placed ads. The OP was talking about all advertising.

Viewing a review on a site where the reviewer got sent a set of headphones to review is also advertisement. It's just not a placed ad.
Yeah but the law didn't invent cookie banners, people who (intentionally mis-)interpreting the law did. Then in the public eye it got reduced to "You need a cookie banner" and people jumped on the bandwagon, because other sides had them so apparently you need to have them too. Many of those cookie banners are factually at odds with current EU law. But hey everything is a cargo cult these days.

Legally the law is just: You have to ask for informed consent that has to be given freely for each purpose. How you ask and how you inform is not defined precisely, except for negative examples what isn't considered informed consent or freely given consent etc.

If someone just clicks "Accept All" that person wasn't informed. So cool that you made them click, but you could also just have left it away, since it didn't give you the thing the law required you to get.

That means real datahogs would probably need to inform people in a many slides long presentation or a feature length film before they could actually get even close to receiving something resembling informed consent. That is ofc totally unpractical and would hurt their business of data-hogging.

Now the EU came at this with the base assumption that prvacy is a right that needs to be protected in a way that it cannot be simply given away without informed free consent. So if it hurts databogs, that is one of the intended side effects.

If my friends Pizza place wants to put ads onto my website that is entirely possible without any tracking he can give me a JPEG or a video and I put it onto my website as static content. Just the current way of advertisements with 300+ third parties would become harder.
I am confused. What is the lesson to be learnt here? Did the last two talks look boring? ... And that is why you left? Were people annoyed with pre-talk pitch by GitLab?
Heyyy, we're starting to talk solutions after all. Good stuff. What do you think is UHG's and its executives' role in supporting or opposing the policies and politicians who could enact these fixes? I didn't verify this, but I'm going to go out on a tiny limb and guess that UHG and its execs pay for legislative seats to be filled by Republicans. Republicans famously want to reduce Medicare funding. Do you think lowered Medicare funding would result in more or fewer Medicare-funded residency positions? Certainly there's more at play in elections than UHG itself, but I'm wondering which side of the solution they're on.
Don't know about distemper crossing over from dogs, but avian flu (also viral) is a serious problem among seals and other marine mammals -- it's possible for viruses to have wide cross-species infectivity.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/avian-flu-mammals-birds-seals
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> Way more is a joke. They cant even drive on on highways

whereas "robotaxis" cannot drive on highways or roads or straight lines or moving walkways :)

and by "robo" they mean karen from south dakota... ( https://gizmodo.com/tesla-is-looking-to-hire-a-team-to-remot... )
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> RAW vs JPG

Most cameras have an option to save both the raw (which depends on the camera make, probably .dng/.cr2/.nef) and also a JPEG using automatic white-balance and exposure options, so you can have the best of both worlds of a quick workflow (using just the JPEGs) or tweaking exposure/balance/tone in 12/14 bpp.
maybe something existed in the US already, but internet in Czech republic used to be pretty good with no popups and just a few ads
e.g.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090302032443/http://web.volny....
React is also incredibly behind the rest of the industry in terms of performance and has been for a long time. What you’re saying isn’t wrong but it’s a different problem on top of React.
Certainly - that will benefit a lot of people who didn't want to (or who couldn't) take advantage of those offers. I was tempted to go for one, but would still have been around £400 a month after tax. I far prefer to buy a car in cash and drive it until it dies - but I understand others do enjoy having a newer car. Certainly benefits me when I come to buy something else 2nd hand.
Funnily enough, deleting all of my raise/pin/lower/block filters dramatically improved the quality of my search results. Enjoying Kagi a lot more now.
What a terrible place to work!

>> - regulatory maximum of 60h voluntary overtime per year

WOT??? 60h of overtime??? What a dump!!! Our company maxes out at 55 hours...

</sarcasm - but I bet there's someone out there who thinks like this... :) >
I've moved on from Kagi. Their service is absolutely better than Google, but not at least $120 / year better than Google. Especially when you have to deal with the plugin and private browsing nonsense that introduces a ton of friction.
I feel I'm gonna puke writing this message. Me and my mother both have no income except some government welfare which is subject to many variables (previous month 220 euro, this month 500 euro). My mother has been put on a list to get eye surgery so she can hopefully regain sight in her left eye after many years. The surgery is paid by the State but she will have to go to another city which is far away. We don' know when she will be called so we can't pre-plan the travel to get better deals. 300euro may help us cover the bus and one night at the hotel.

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As a professional photographer, I'll say that a lot of these are just overhashed and oversimplified arguments that most photographers don't consider or even think about, with the possible exception that high ISO causes noise.