skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of subscription services out there that are ad-free. YouTube does it, I think all the various music streaming services do it, most if not all of the video streaming services have an ad-free tier. Beyond the media realm, my cell phone service doesn’t package ads with my monthly subscription, nor my home internet service. I could go on.

What narrow idea of “a media business” must have ads even when you pay, and why do they have to be different from everything else?
What about a helicoptered with rocket assist?
I agree with you, I've just struggled to find one that worked well on Android but also synced to desktop. I'm on iOS now, so maybe it's time to look through the options again.
Marinka, Ukraine: https://x.com/MFA_Ukraine/status/1632380947734618113

A town of 10 000, completely destroyed, uninhabitable. Current population: 0. With scenes like these, threats of nuclear attack lose potency. Marinka looks indistinguishable from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Bakhmut and other frontline towns didn't fare any better. A group of scientists tracked the destruction with a synthetic aperture radar:

“After Hang processed the images and we saw the end result, it looked like a checkerboard or mesh,” Barbot said. “We asked, ‘Why is that?’ and we realized that it’s only the roads that survived. Everything else was collapsed, destroyed, evaporated, and the entire city is completely flattened.”

“You can see a neighborhood going away, and then another and then there’s no progress because of a natural obstacle like a river,” Barbot said. “After they’ve bombarded enough stuff, the front line begins to move to the west and the Russian army advances through the crumbles. Eventually the story repeats itself and after a year, there’s just nothing left. It looks like cancer spreading throughout the body.”

https://today.usc.edu/ukraine-devastation-cutting-through-th...
The anology I would use is extended phenotype evolution in digital space as Richard Dawkins would say. Just as crabs in oceans use shells to protect themselves.
It's not theater, where rough likeness (and a good dose of imagination) is all you need.
Perhaps nothing of value _to you_.

I'll hazard a guess that your preferred username can be expressed in a small subset of ASCII? And to hell with everyone else?
Our company never adds comments, because the code speaks for itself.
And with genAI I can have these comments added in very low time, helping me to get an overview of what happens.

But as for the "why are are doing this in the first place" business documentation is usually outside the source code and therefore out of reach of any genAI, for now.

As for what senior devs should do when coding:
> They're constantly:

> Refactoring the generated code into smaller, focused modules

> Adding edge case handling the AI missed

> Strengthening type definitions and interfaces

> Questioning architectural decisions

> Adding comprehensive error handling

Ain't nobody got time for that! The one girl and other guy that could do this, because they know the codebase, have no time to do it. Everyone else works by doing just enough, which is nearly what TDD dictates.
And we have PR code review to scrape up quality to barely get maintainable code. And never overcomplicate things, since writing code that works is good enough. And by the time you want to refactor a module three years later, you would want to use another data flow style or library to do the work altogether.
The publisher is always right
I don't know a lot about this specific situation, but this seems to set a dangerous precedent where governments can just claim "election interference" or "misinformation" any time their candidate loses to get a do-over.
It does allow random access. It works like a compressed texture format. Each block of 5 trits compresses to one byte, so you can jump to exactly the relevant byte and unpack only it.
> Why would I, as a consumer, compromise on what I want to make some MBA's life easier?

You presumably want access to the Verge's content. This is unsustainable without some revenue. You're compromising to continue to get what you want, not to make some MBA's life easier.
Freemasonry only has 3 “ranks”. The organizations that have other levels, like the Shriners, York Rite, Scottish Rite (created in France in the 19th century) aren’t organizationally or legally related to any actual Masonic grand lodge — they’re a completely separate organization that only accept 3rd degree masons— the highest Masonic rank — as members. The conspiracy theory information you cite can’t even keep basic facts straight about the way freemasonry operates. I’m not even a Mason— this information is really really easy to find online.
Very unfortunate and caused me to cancel my subscription immediately. Any alternatives that people can recommend to someone who throughly enjoyed Kagi?

I really hope they reconsider their arrangement.
YouTube and Spotify both do “subscribe to remove ads.” If they’re not big, who is?
I still vividly remember pictures of a strike on a kids hospital in the very first days of the war, where a 2 year old has been killed by a Russian missile. No one has been using that hospital as a military base at the time.

Nothing justifies this. There is no logic that could be twisted here to somehow make it look like it was OK for Russians to fire at those targets. In fact it isn't "OK" for Russians to fire at any targets within Ukraine, no matter their setup or positioning - I don't think it can be any clearer than this.
The part where they're helping fund a war?
>Most companies do not offer a reduced ad load in exchange for your subscription money.

And the never ending struggle to increase/maintain subscriptions for some companies probably has something to do with that.

For me personally, and I expect a not insignificant portion of users, paying for a subscription is primarily to remove advertising completely. Anything else means its not worth subscribing, so not offering that level of option rules us out as customers.

I've spent a minor amount of time and energy reducing the amount of advertising I see, from (pre-streaming) downloading shows I already pay for legal access to with commercials removed with automated systems, to being an early adopter of streaming services and dropping cable, locally running pi-hole on top of ad-blockers and using VPN's, privacy focused browsers etc.

The payoff has been immense for my family, to the point watching TV in other locations and being bombarded by advertising is jarring and uncomfortable, and the manipulation tactics become more obvious and gross the less you inundate yourself with them. Obviously you can't get away from all advertising, indirect, product placement etc. is everywhere, but I found a significant improvement in quality of life.

I would also make the argument that social media engagement hacking at its root traces to advertising and we blame social media for the problems when advertising was the true problem. Advertising as a revenue stream results in trying to optimize and improve engagement, often by gamifying or moving towards sensationalism to drive up numbers to increase revenue, most of which is negative for the user and little actually positive.
>Ukraine has no alternative to mass conscription, if there's one, I'm happy to hear about it.

The problem with the mass conscription going on on paper in Ukraine is that it's not really applied in mass in practice, but only selectively targeting the poor people without connections who can't leave, bribe or game the system to escape the draft.

The wealthy men with means have long left the country or got papers to escape the draft, so only the poor suckers end up dying on the front line.

That's the problem, the selective draft. If it were truly a mass draft affecting the rich and poor alike evenly, things would be different, but that's not the case.

Hell, I would dodge the draft too if I could. Why should I die to protect the wealth of some oligarchs and the interests of great powers? What did the country do for me that deserves my sacrifice? What even is a country if not just a lot of land that doesn't really belong to me but to some oligarchs and foreign corporations who exploited me every step of my life? Fuck'em! I don't care about that land since I don't own any of it, I care about my life, and I can start a new life in another land. If I must die to protect it I want to see first the rich and powerful people dying alongside with me instead of drinking champagne abroad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXhC8WREVKM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XwC1NbbY0c
This looks like something they should let users toggle.
Thank you, I was about to subscribe until I read this. Yandex has become / is becoming a tool for Russian propaganda, and I refuse to put money into something supporting Putin's War Machine.

https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-spotlight/th...

> Volozh resigned as Yandex’s chief executive in June 2022 and left Russia; in August 2023, he publicly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. After lengthy negotiations and in the face of mounting political and legal pressure, in February 2024 Yandex announced the sale of its business in Russia to an investment fund consisting of investors with close ties to the Kremlin

I'm sure the Kagi team is reading this thread: you need to seriously reconsider your business relationship with the Kremlin. I somehow doubt the quality of your search is so dependent on that one search provider to make the (apparent) 2% of subscription prices worth it.
> If your views are data driven, then there's plenty of cases where you may want to have interactivity. filtering or sorting results

> Storing the state client side, you can perform a lot of these transformations without talking to the server again until you want to actually change data.

Only if you're only working with a tiny amount of data...

For example, say you have a dataset with 10k records. You're not going to want to send that all to the client so it can sort it locally. Much more efficient to send just the first 100 or whatever results. Then when the user clicks the sort button, ask the backend to re-sort it and give you the first 100 results again.

Bonus: those 100 results are already formatted as html table rows and htmx easily slots them right into the correct spot on the page.
I asked ChatGPT “ Write a one paragraph pitch for a novel that combines genres and concepts in a way that’s never been done before.”

I’m not going to claim this is Pulitzer-worthy, but it seems fairly novel:

> In Spiritfall: A Symphony of Rust and Rose Petals, readers traverse the borders of time, taste, and consciousness in a genre-bending epic that effortlessly fuses neo-noir detective intrigue, culinary magic realism, and post-biotechnological body horror under the simmering threat of a cosmic opera. Set in a floating, living city grown from engineered coral-harps, the story follows a taste-shaper detective tasked with unraveling the murder of an exiled goddess whose voice once controlled the city’s very tides. As he navigates sentient cooking knives, ink-washed memory fractals, and teahouses that serve liquid soul fragments, he uncovers conspiracies binding interdimensional dream-chefs to cybernetic shamans, and finds forbidden love in a quantum greenhouse of sentient spices. Every chapter refracts expectations, weaving together genres never before dared, leaving readers both spellbound and strangely hungry for more.
Install postmarketOS on Android phone and use Docker as a home server
Juries are meant to decide based on the case before them in accordance with the laws as written.

But jury discussions and motivations are sacrosanct, and you can't be punished for the "wrong" verdict. So technically you can ignore the law and vote how you like, allowing juries to effectively "nullify" a law by refusing to convict on it.

But allowing a jury to ignore the law as written means they can convict or not based solely on political leaning, ethnicity, sexuality or religion etc.

It's often cited as a way for society to oppose laws they disagree with, but is very much frowned upon by the legal system as it is easily exploited for very nefarious purposes and leads to a very unbalanced system rather than a consistent rule of law.
I can't find that list of hundreds of models to save my life... is it there some place?
I agree about the no pics, but come on, HackerNews has extremely cryptic titles more often than not.

Half of the frontpage is always made of titles that are either referencing ultra-niche products, clickbaity, misrepresent the content of the article, try to be smart, etc.

If anything, HackerNews would be BETTER if it did not have post titles but only excerpts.
Interview with Microchess Creator Peter Jennings
This organization has no creditability at all. It lost it complaining about countries defending their borders from immigrants and recent antisemitism campaigns. Sorry. It’s now another anti western propaganda machine comparable to Russia Today. Long way traveled for once Nobel prize winning organization.
What do you love when you fall for AI?
True but the 10,000 civilians were not all killed while they were living there. Most were evacuated as the battlefield front lines moved towards those towns.

In Iraq, there were 10s of thousands of civilian casualties estimated within the first few days of the invasion. That's more than the entire casualty estimate for Ukraine so far.
When does it become armed? When several officers get beaten.

Meanwhile, faith has no place in this discussion. Either you believe in the rule of law, or you don't. If you don't believe the law applies to everyone equally, regardless of their social status and wealth, then you don't believe in equality for all: which is one of the founding principles of America. Trump supporters have repeatedly thumbed their nose at the idea of equality of all before law and I can therefore only conclude that they're anti-American. Why should I put faith in people who are anti-American?
Why go though all that hassle when you can easily use Kagi?
Promotional/influence campaign tactics in Romanian 2024 presidential elections
I really want to know about their growth rate. Their valuation has already priced in several decades of insane profit, so I want to if they will be able to pull it off in a decade or two.
That's probably because it's so remote. If it was a city in the south of Sweden it wouldn't take that long.
An inefficient computer you can use is more productive than an efficient computer you can't use.

Most people can't use mice or keyboards with speed, touchscreens are marginally better except all the "gestures" are unnatural as hell, and programming is pig latin.

Mice and keyboards and programming languages and all the esoteric ways of communicating with computers came about simply because we couldn't just talk Human to them. Democratizing access to computers is a very good and very productive thing.
What could anyone ever do with THAT many ip addresses, regardless, it amazes me that even that many addresses is a mere 1/4100 of the total addresses.
These techniques are tried out in the tiniest of the free world's puppet satellites first. Depending on how the populace reacts, canceled elections may soon be coming near you. If you look at the timeline of sanctions that got rolled out against Iran or Russia, it's always some sycophant state that "proposes" them and the Big Kanhuna follows up in a week.
Wow I didn't know this .. and I just recently started a paid subscription. I'll have to cancel it now but that is a real shame.
Ads is evil has been a human thing for many times longer. Everybody hates them. At best, some accept ads as a necessary evil. It’s a dire combination: tremendously irritating and adding absolutely zero value to the world.
How about we invent SAI and terraform superearths in Milky Way to atone for our sins here?
I'm concerned that they're paying Yandex—I have friends in Ukraine and friends that wish they could safely be home in Ukraine, and I can't fund a company that is complicit in Putin's wartime propaganda that seeks to keep the Russian people on board with his brutal invasion of my friends' country.

It would help somewhat if the founder could clarify whether funds are going to Yandex Russia or the newly split-off Nebius. If it's the latter I could at least satisfy myself that I believe the companies to be sufficiently distinct.
I think the problem here is that there isn't an agreed-upon answer for the question:

>What does an algorithm look like?

And any effort to answer it which gets beyond the size of a single diagram/screen/page/poster becomes a problem like to:

https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/

I like to think of myself as a visual person, and I wish there was a good solution here, and I keep looking for and trying different solutions other folks have made (current two iterations are BlockCAD and OpenSCAD Graph Editor) --- I'd be glad of other suggestions, esp. if able to make graphic user interfaces more complex than the OpenSCAD Customizer.
Its not the government doing it. Its the constitutional court on the basis of some kind of evidence. That's how its supposed to work. It would be way more dangerous to let other states meddle in your elections. If the results was true the first time around it'll be the same next time. So in many ways there is no good reason to not have a redo if there is anykind of evidence of foul play.
It's not just programs. And it's not just semantics of all-numeric username. It's also whether you want usernames that you cannot type, nor possibly even render.

Definitely you can't spell it to someone else.

Who owns that file? Oh, it's right-to-left non breaking space smiley snowman Chinese sign for water, I love that guy!
I was thinking more about the long-term planning that Jobs was so known for. He would develop product lines that would take years to break even. Not all were able to make the cut.

I worked for a Japanese corporation, and most of their initiatives had decade-long timelines.

US companies tend to have 3-month-long timelines (I have no idea why /s).
Very good point about the lack of principled objection - that's pretty much anyone needs to know about this business - if they put anything else (in this case the idea of "being the best search") - over doing the right thing, it doesn't deserve to exist.

When a founder's/owner's moral attitude is this unprincipled, supporting their company will only make the problem worse. "Immorality scales with the business".

We are seeing this with Reddit and fake users. Kagi owners, employees and (prospective) users should ask themselves: "what good would even the best search engine be, if the world is already corrupted?" You will find what you support.
Yeah, take a look at this then…

https://celebrityprivatejettracker.com/leaderboard/#gr
The fact is people like you are in the minority and there’s no reason for a company to ever even entertain modifications to their product/service to cater to your wants

This might seem common on HN but IRL people don’t give much attention to ad related privacy and are probably much more concerned with the fact they have to fork over a CC and a few bucks
Then you are pretty much the perfect candidate for the LLM bounties :)
Same. In secondary school, calculators was mostly about the trig functions and operating on big numbers. In primary school, you wouldn't have access to a calculators in exams so you learn how to do without. And in university, I mostly had to deal with symbols.
given enough time, the entirety of the paypal C suite, former or current, will be in office.
It's a funny anecdote and cool hack to be able to skip streaming video ads, but it's also kinda entitled to leech the content and shift the burden onto everyone else.
What's the difference? Is it just being able to manage billing in a central place?
The actual offering and price seem identical to just giving people their own account, right?
You can read about it, the decision just came out and it's public. Georgescu declared spending zero euros in funding while investigations found about 50m€ spent.

The Constitutional Court has determined election interference based on what they got, it's better to do a do-over rather than allow Russia interference in the democratic process.

You can claim the slippery slope fallacy but given the potential catastrophe of allowing Russian interference I'll side with the CCR on this case.
Longer than that --- I would argue it goes back to Herman Hesse's _The Glass Bead Game_ (originally published as Magister Ludi) --- but Hesse seems to have gone out of style.

That said, I keep trying various ones, and will keep hoping that someday someone will make a graphical tool able to make a GUI program.

Nodezator seems promising.
Intel aims to reinvent itself as foundry focus sharpens
I'm certain I read at one point that if you added the total profits of the airline industry from the beginning until now, it's Jess than zero. I don't know whether it's true but it seems like it could be.
I worked at The Times in London when we did this - we lost ~98.7% of our free audience, retained a smaller ad business, turned a £20mn / year loss into a £20mn / year profit over a few years.
There's a song called 'Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell. Has anyone ever done a Ukrainian cover for it? It's the only song I know that celebrates their work.

I am a lineman for the county

And I drive the main road

Searching in the sun for another overload.

I hear you singing in the wire.

I can hear you thru the whine

And the Wichita Lineman

Is still on the line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8P_xTBpAcY

Maybe 'Operator' by Jim Croce would get an honorable mention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb85NvjbBm8

Also, I apologise for the way my country is acting (America). I fear we are soon to have a crisis of our own.
This seems to be operating from the premise that being the least regulated state is inherently good. I'm skeptical of this claim while acknowledging there are many poor regulations. The regulatory slash and burn they describe seems as likely to remove useful regulations that, gasp, make the state better than oppressive ones that make it worse.
I'll hazard a guess that your preferred username can't be written by 99.99999% of the world, and would always have to be copy-pasted?
There's estimated 47k to 100k civilians who have perished in a couple of months in siege of Mariupol, not sure what the "entire casualty estimate" you're talking about.
Carl Sagan proposed something along the lines in 1961 (but using bacteria to convert CO2 to graphite), however later it became clear that wouldn't work, in part, because the depth of the created sediment layer would be >100 meters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Venus
>I'm somewhat annoyed that we're culturally ok with people who use online services and block ads, and yet we're not ok with people who ride on public transit and don't buy tickets, even though it's basically the same thing and a very similar business model.

That's clearly wrong. The equivalent of not buying a ticket would be to use a paywall bypass service to read content that's not free.

Using an ad blocker is instead equivalent to reading a book on the subway instead of looking at the ad posters. Which I hope you will agree is entirely acceptable.
This. I regularly use Yandex over Google anyways.
We have a process monitor that basically polls ps output and writes it to JSON. We see ~30:1 compression using zstd on a ZFS dataset that stores these logs.

I laugh every time I see it.
The kagi experience isn't great, limited number of results, for example. I can't say I get a feeling they are much better than Google day to day.

But the fact you can use kagi to filter out links with ads/trackers inside them,means sometimes great results rise up, and that can be very valuable.
Personally, I don’t care for the images on the articles. I find them distracting from the information I actually want, the headline and content. It seems that their purpose is purely aesthetic in this UI, but not a pleasing one for me.