skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started learning how to program around 2010. I was learning Blender and wanted to use its game engine. It was python based, so after running a few examples found on some forum, I downloaded the Python interpreter and some tutorials/book. Maybe my learning process is different, but I don't enjoy spending a day tweaking things in the hope I will get something. I much prefer getting a book on the subject and start learning how to do it instead.
It's not. People just like to pretend they have moral superiority for their opinions on arbitrary writing rules, when in reality the only thing that matters is if you're clearly communicating something valuable.

I'm a professional writer and use em-dashes without a second thought. Like any other component of language, just don't _over_ use them.
My accountant just told me yesterday that AICP is telling their accountants to just have their clients do it themselves cuz of liability reasons in ownership not being as straightforward in many situations, like you said.
James Goetz is a partner at Sequoia and joined the board in November 2019. He has previously served on networking-focused boards. He has a degree in electrical engineering, is likely semi-technical, and understands the industry. He’s relatively new but likely does not have a technical background. He’s been on the board long enough to be partially to blame.

I crossed paths with Jim Goetz at Accel because of the company Vital Signs that he started. I am not sure why they say "but likely does not have a technical background" because I can attest that he clearly did. Weird.
While it’s true that hardware was a central part of Apple’s turnaround, it was the comparatively simple and quick hardware of designing boards with off the shelf parts (at the time). That’s actually closer to software than the “hire the bulldozers to break ground for the building that is designed from blueprints to house the highly custom machines designed to make the chips using the fab processes that we’re betting the company on” kind of hardware.

At its core, Intel (like TSMC) is more of a manufacturing company than a tech company.
Surely in this reverse Catch-22 hypothetical anyone who is willing to pay to escape ads is therefore worth more, so they would need to be served fewer ads for the same income.

So the subscription should be free. And with less ads.
AI fact checks can increase belief in false headlines, study finds
Yes, I'm aware, and POSIX has many such bugs that make command input or output unavoidably ambiguous if certain unexpected characters are present that they didn't think to prohibit. A lot of the revisions that went into POSIX 2024 were aimed at fixing some of these, such as standardizing find -print0 and xargs -0. The fact that this one got overlooked doesn't mean it's a good idea to make the situation worse and harder for future POSIX revisions to address.
Nor is it uncommon though.. That description sounds very familiar.
Yes I like that. Let's go further: What Kagi needs is to use AI to figure out what domains are full of 'commercial' activity (buy/cart buttons, ads, telemetry, SEO, login-walls, etc), give those domains a 'commercial' score from 0 to 1, and then when the user slides the Kagi® Commercial Control Slider™ down, nothing with a commelcial score above that point shows up. If the user slides it to zero, the kind of sites which should be the supermajority of results should be the non-commercial non-monetizeable geocities-tier passion project sites built by, and forums frequented by, obsessed autists.

It's the only way to fix search: designs which are detectable attempts at monetization should be nerf-able by the user. A new search game must be set up where seeking money kills your site rankings in search. I only care about sites where the webmaster is paying and working to tell me something he cares about, for free, because he is obsessed. No I don't want to buy your stupid product/service, I don't have money to spend and spending it on anything except survival and advancement is counter to my strategic interests. I want autist site and forum results, I do not want marketing-driven money making results... period.

If the site makes money, it prima facie doesn't have my interests at heart. This heuristic works really well for me.
Hmm I wasn’t aware of the revenue share setup. What’s the source for that?

This was a good nudge to check in on how close Yandex is to the Russian government. Answer: way closer than they were 5 years ago. Russia basically nationalized them, and routinely modifies search results to align with the government’s preferences.

https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-spotlight/th...
You can absolutely work in trendy fields and have a good work life balance. Trends don't require ridiculous loads. Working smart not longer. I work on quantum computing and you can easily do a 9-5 and still evolve the current. The issue is outlook, many believe hard work means hours, not skill or talent utilised in a good way.
Something that doesn't unify different characters. So not Unicode.
Image if electricity or landline phones were invented today. Rural electrification would never have happened.

(Similarly, if the web browser was invented today, it would never have made it into an app store)
Lets autisticly cut to the chase, this article is 100% about 1 paragraph.

Solution: Social Interaction

What happened about 50 years ago which REDUCED social interaction significantly? There's only 3 answers. All decisions by politicians with a negative consequence to social interaction per year. It will continue to trend worse. Social media, which only got invented recently, has no bearing on this conversation. Sorry, I wont be able to say what these 3 are here. The name of these will only serve to get me labelled *ist. I've got the ism, whatever.

Why is nobody allowed to discuss those 3 answers? Reddit committed suicide is now far behind Linkedin having overtly banned and pushed over 50% of their users off their site. Why is it that these 3 answers are bannable offences, but also not listed in the reddit rules? Well I asked... they dont want to boost these topics by putting them in the rules. So instead you get banned for violating a rule you didnt know was a rule? They unban you like as if they are doing you a favour.

Why is it governments have sunk billions if not trillions into trying to fix this problem... but refuse to look at the 3 answers? Are they willfully blind? Ignorance due to censorship is not an excuse.

You can have quadrillion $ into 'community development' and 'social infrastructure' but you are literally throwing that money into a pit of fire. It hasnt worked for decades... completely insane to keep trying. But taxpayer money grows on trees i guess.

Why do politicians not do the extremely unpopular, stupid to do, yet necessary changes? political suicide sure. In this case, probably assassinated.

Why does it have to become a crisis? Only after its a crisis will people listen to a fix, but we do have a social crisis.

The fundamental reason democracy needs actual free speech and no censorship is because sometimes you gotta say what's unpopular. Sometimes you even need to do it. But when you are in a situation where you even self-censor to avoid theoretical censorship, the discussion never happens.

This is why we are in this situation.
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary government measure...
The last 100 years or so of media will tell you that you will get ads in addition to the content you’re paying for.
I also just found out that I have hypermobility syndrome and both running and crossfit are the worst things I could be doing because of the resultant joint instability.
If that’s the case, that’s really disappointing to hear. I recommend you for doing the right thing.
This might not sound entirely awful in theory, but I'm fairly certain it'd be entirely awful in practice for a good amount of users.

Having colored backgrounds might look ugly and thus immediately make that a non-option, and, even if viable, are still problematic if new messages are added while reading, as you'd need multiple colors for the reading pass the user's on.

Having to click a button repeatedly is also likely to be entirely unacceptable UX for most users, never mind that you're essentially recreating the receive-order message list, just without displaying it in a sanely traversable format.

This problem is hard enough with linearly added messages to the end, making it 10x worse is awful.
I disagree that people don't have the right to other people's labor. Society is effectively a system where people pool their labor, resources, ability, etc. for mutual benefit. If people can't reasonably expect to gain some of the benefits that other people can provide, then why would they enter into the social contract in the first place?
I’m a happy Kagi user. I set it up on my wife’s phone… she was relieved when the trial was over and I set Google back up. I’m starting to think this line of thought is more accurate than just ‘Google sucks now’. It depends on your demographic. I think Google has become so optimized for people who click on ads that they have alienated people who do not.

I never click on ads. Back when I used Google, if I searched for something specific and saw both the ad and the search result I wanted- I just scrolled down to the search result. My wife would just click on the ad, and I think most people do. Beyond that specific example, she clicks on other types of ads as well. For me, I just see them as invasive and hostile. I’m not the type of user Google cares anything about, and maybe that’s why I perceive a drop in quality results.
"Hey, just so you know, we did read your brown M&Ms clause, but since last month M&M is running a special promotion where they only make rainbow colours, we got you a bowl of yellow ones instead."

Which is the correct course of action:

"Of course. Thank you for paying attention to the spirit of the rule."

Or: "No, fuck you, show is cancelled."

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All of the stuff I said happened did happen. The extra context you are providing is irrelevant since it does not change the fact that what happened is stupid and it's Mozilla's fault that stupid stuff happened.
They're back to making me take my belt off, though. I had purchased a belt with a plastic buckle specifically for this purpose...
Kagi is not mentioned true, but there are always talks w.r.t using site, intitle, time (before 2018 eg) filter to improve search. That indirectly can be considered as "having low quality" from one POV.
Noam Chomksy’s critique is that the advertising industry’s main goal is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices. Essentially it undermines the market, due to the fact that in theory markets are efficient when people make rational decisions. Subject to advertising, people may pay more for a lesser quality product.
> Spellings such as “wilfully” for “willfully” and “clew” for “clue” pointed to someone from the Chicago area, for example. Eventually, the linguistic evidence was strong enough to issue a search warrant for the home of a reclusive mathematician named Theodore Kaczynski, raised in Chicago but living in rural Montana

One thing Kaczynski's brother noticed as particularly idiosyncratic was the consistent use of the phrase "you can’t eat your cake and have it too", which is usually phrased as "you can't have your cake and eat it too".
We've reached out to our network, but so far, no luck. Hoping someone on HN knows someone in the program that we could talk to!
Probably. Still, I find Perplexity extremely useful for giving me a one sentence answer based on reading 10 reddit threads.
d) Overhaul of medicine in the US that makes timing life-saving care less sensitive to scheduling and profits
I checked the code. The code validates that values are within the range https://github.com/rusiaaman/color-parser-py/blob/ec739c80ba... but the library it wraps already does validation and a lot more checks (see range check here: https://docs.rs/csscolorparser/latest/src/csscolorparser/par...). So the code generated by AI has unnecessary checks that will never be visited.
I wonder if distros like Tails [0] are going to start shipping lightweight LLMs specifically to reword messages. Though I’m also not sure how low of a spec you can go and still run an LLM decent enough to not be excruciatingly slow.

[0]: https://tails.net/
It is time for POSIX to get with the times. Computers are used in more than the US and Canada (for the most generous interpretation of American in ASCII I'm including Canada, their French speakers will not be happy with that, not to mention first nations of which I know nothing but imagine their written language needs more than ASCII). UTF8 has been standard for decades now, just state that as of POSIX 2025 all of UTF8 is allowed in all string contexts unless there is a specific list of exception characters for that context (that is they never do a list of allowed characters). They probably need to standardize on utf8 normalization functions and when they must be used in string comparisons. Probably also need some requirement that and alternate utf8 character entry scheme exist on all keyboards.

The above is a lot of work and will probably take more than a year to put into the standard, much less implement, but anything less is just user hostile. Sometimes commettiees need to lead from the front not just write down existing practice.
If you import into something like Lightroom and, given the price of modern storage, it generally makes sense (for me) to mostly shoot raw. Pretty much the only time I'll shoot both is if I (rarely) may need to hand off the JPEGs to someone in real-time.
And yet Teams allows me to seamlessly video call a coworker. Whereas in Slack you have this ridiculous "huddle" thing where all video call participants show up in a tiny tiny rectangle and you can't see them properly. Even a screen share only shows up in a tiny rectangle. There's no way to increase its size. What's even the point of having this feature when you can't see anything properly because everything is so small?

Seriously, I'm not a fan of Teams, but the sad state of video calls in Slack, even in 2024, seriously ruins it for me. This is the one thing — one important thing — that Teams is better at than Slack.
if you cannot handle UTF-8 anywhere anything approaching text could be, your program is malformed and should be deprecated and removed.

if you wrote code that couldn't handle bob;>/hacked in a username, you would and should be laughed at.

why are we using this ancient stuff?
Foreign influence ops work like throwing seeds on the ground. They only grow when they find the right conditions.

The answer to such operations is not to just point at everything bad and divisive and say “might be foreign influence!” Of course, it might be. Or might not! Who knows. Guesses are not really actionable or influential. And without hard proof, over time it sounds like crying wolf.

The sustainable defense is to address the ground conditions themselves. People are pissed about health care and wealth inequality—separately and together. That’s not something a foreign country did to the U.S.
> High-core-count servers are the cutting edge in datacenters, and they're so insane, most software doesn't even know how to handle it.

Why not? We hit the single thread wall more than a decade ago. Why isn’t more software parallelized by now?
Source please. Paying customer, would like to know more.
If a $1000 service was provided but not paid for, that's $1000 to GDP, and it was an expense for the person providing it instead of the person receiving it. It's as if you paid $100 to the hospital and the hospital paid $900 to itself. I think. Probably depends on the measurement methodology.
Not even close on the biggest scam in human history, AFAIK their peak revenue was < $10B which wouldn't edge out binary auction scams which are over $10B p.a. And that's an example of a pure scam - how much of modern healthcare / insurance is a scam. If we are to take a less dysfunctional country which has better health outcomes for less money as a baseline I'd say at least 50% of US healthcare is a scam. So half of $4.5T p.a. What about doomed pyramid schemes like Social Security - currently running at $1.35T p.a. Or the fractional reserve banking system etc...
Voting with our wallets got us infowars and two major fake news groups of media (mainstream and not).

Why should you want some MBA's life to be easy? So that it's feasible to keep producing what you actually want.

I just wish it were possible to pay $1 for an article whose headline sounds interesting, or someone recommended. Subscribe, even with a free trial? Pass.

The free market is great. But we should not deny it when it leads to bad outcomes. If we do, then we're no better than those who say "real communism has never been tried".
my mom thought all photos had to be taken with us kids squinting into the blinding sun (her with the sun in her back) in order to get enough light for the camera
I can't imagine anything more awful than using AI as a non-coder to build an application.
My first point was not that economics as a discipline is infallible, just that this was the opposite of a “hot take.”

Regarding some costs (especially housing) growing faster than the overall rate of inflation: of course they do, just as some grow more slowly or even deflate. The index here is computed based on the average amount people spend on these different categories (the consumer price index), so the need to spend a large share on housing (or toilet paper) *is already included* in the inflation measure.
I think the confusion was intentional in an attempt to make a funny :)
Direct quote from CEO:

> yandex is about 2% of the cost of your subscription

Source link:
https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...
The Kagi founder mentions 2% in a response to a feedback thread

https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...
Localization libraries handle these parts well, since date is same with Europe (and generally stored as time-date objects rather than pure strings). None of the number shenanigans cause problems since these numbers are always stored as IEEE754 or other decimal formats. Money is no problem as well.

However, when you go through an upper() or lower() or anything which plays with capitalization, and if that data is being fed to a hash algorithm or anything which mucks with strings, boy, oh boy...

The easiest way is to sanitize these programmatic parts with forced locale of en_US or plain old "C". If the strings is not facing to the user and never localized, just force its locale. It's the only sane way.
https://xkcd.com/1179/ I heard the US and A are moving to the hissing cat date format shown here.
I have switched to yyyymmdd for everything - it is usually obvious to everyone what date I mean.
(Locked) discussion on the Kagi feedback page:

https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

Apparently this has been happening for a long time but only recently drew attention when they announced integrating images. The founder cites the 2% number as if it's supposed to make it all okay, but when it comes to principled objection to funding Russian propaganda, it's hard to argue that we should be okay as long as the number per subscriber is small.

I've been a Kagi subscriber from the beginning and am up for renewal, and I've got to say here (since I can't say so there now that it's locked) that this is giving me pause. I've fought back against boycotting Russian-founded companies before (anyone remember when JetBrains came under fire?), but this is Yandex, not some little company that happens to have a Russian founder.

Edit: I just want to draw attention to the fact that this subthread was the top comment and now has been downranked to the bottom. Whether that was moderator action or algorithmic, I disagree with the decision.
I don't have ads on my SearXNG instance and I find that its comparable to Kagi. Have you tried searching with SearXNG?
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Kagi is a regular search engine, like Google. They started to bundle some optional AI features with the subscription, but I personally never use them.

Perplexity is yet another AI startup trying to find a way to monetize LLMs. Will they survive when the bubble pops? Idk. Do I trust them with my data? Fuck no. Just look at all the advertising they're investing in and ask yourself how they plan to make that money back.
oh yes, let's break things to gain nothing of value
> Those who seems to get the best results asks for a prototype or framework for how to do something.

That's what GitHub and sample projects are here for. And the examples would be working ones. No need to train a model for that.
Yea that’s fair. I think I was reacting to the strength of your initial statement. Reading that press release and writing a piece stating that OpenAI thinks GPT-2 is too dangerous to release feels reasonable to me. But it is less accurate than saying that OpenAI thinks GPT-2 _might_ be too dangerous to release.

And I agree with your basic premise. The dangers imo are significantly more nuanced than most people make them out to be.
Multiple Ukrainian towns and villages are erased. None of Iraq towns or villages are erased.
I don't think you've said anything that disagrees with GP. Of course you can vote with your wallet. And of course a company can choose to seek profit from ads.

The tension between those two forces will find a natural result. Maybe the company goes out of business and whatever the company did is no longer available to anyone. Maybe they lose half their customers but still make more money and buy themselves yachts, and their remaining customers are satisfied.
The path to 100k? I'm routing for them
On this topic, an absolutely wonderful family movie on the topic:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397313/
I also use the same format while naming my files, or in changelogs or whatnot, but not all documents are suitable for that, and in the presentation layer you need to match the country standards.

However, date is mostly presentation and internal storage of these are vastly different than what we see generally.
Considering I am highly skeptical of the western elite apparatus today, this is positive news to me. Yandex beats Bing (ddg) hands-down and gives Google a run for its money.
There were some SCSI modems at the time.
Reality and principles don't always align. There's a "rubber meets road" moment where you have to decide what your principles are worth. I do not believe there was any rationale behind this pricing decision. I believe it is pure greed, and you're not likely to change my mind.

I clutch my principles rather tightly, especially in cases like this. I will never pay for a streaming service whose first payment tier is "less ads", nor will I ever pay for a _newspaper_ of all things whose first premium tier is "less ads".

I don't think double-dipping is laudable, and I don't think we should encourage it. Their (in)ability to fund their business isn't my problem, frankly.
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> emoji don't belong in unicode

Well, they are defined as:
"an intermediate technology until we find a way to transfer images over data connections."

So it was always a technology that was 40 years too late to the party?
From a UX perspective, there’s really no way to measure “fewer ads”. Customers with subscriptions aren’t doing A/B tests and feeling satisfied that they’re seeing fewer ads. They’re seeing ads. Still a subpar experience. The “fewer ads” narrative exists on some MBA/bean counter’s spreadsheet.

This should be an absolute benefit, not a relative benefit. Who’s to say the number of ads won’t ratchet up in the future? Almost surely will. Let’s say a subscription customer sees 50 ads today vs 100 a non-subscription customer sees. Tomorrow, they 2x that – sub customer sees 100 ads, non-sub customer sees 200. Does a sub customer derive smug satisfaction that they’re seeing fewer ads than a non-sub customer? How would one even know? They’re just seeing ads.

The correct amount of ads for a subscription service (from a UX perspective) is zero.