skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> complaining after the fact that Apple is not sufficiently incentivizing you to maintain your code that runs on and is distributed by their operating systems is bizarre to me.

Let me tie things up a bit for you then. To repeat myself; I'm not complaining! I don't pay Apple a dime anymore, not for services nor hardware. I had a brief, happy stint as an iOS dev in my nascent, foolish years as a programmer and moved on. I find it hilarious that Apple can't do the bare minimum to support my software after I wrote it and paid them to publish it. It's part of the reason I refuse to build apps that aren't for the web anymore; native dev is for chumps. It is a literal waste of time.

> I personally like that Apple trims the fat and keeps things ship-shape.

Out of every commercial OS, Apple ships the most complex kernel and largest install size (on iOS and MacOS). If you think it's for "[trimming] the fat" then I struggle to see what fat they're cutting off. Most of the time, we're getting things depreciated like OpenCl and 32-bit libraries that users actually depended on to a certain degree, with no replacement besides proprietary alternatives. Seems like they're cutting off lean to me.

For chrissake, we're talking about a company that ships a mandatory 7gb AI model with every iOS install. Apple's "smart defaults" direction is just a load of cons, and I say that as someone that thinks Microsoft's model is imperfect too. But Microsoft doesn't get half the flak Apple does because they commit to third-party cooperation instead of treating it like an existential threat. They cooperate with Nvidia when Apple refuses to talk to them, they work with Khronos when Apple refuses to answer their letters, Microsoft seems to actually want their OS to compete. Clearly Apple wants to shelter theirs from competition.

> Your personification of a corporation is bizarre too.

I don't believe I characterized them at all. I said Apple's real excuse is not that they don't want depreciated or unprofitable apps (they can change that at-will by supporting old runtimes and allowing sideloading) but really that their defacto control over the iPhone is threatened. Unless you think copying over old dylibs and enabling sideloading is fundamentally impossible, I don't see how I've cast them in any particular light.

Nobody in this thread is foolish enough to say Apple has some outstanding commitment to queer values, quality apps or protecting user privacy. We've all watched that roof collapse over the past decade, we know money is king. My point in the last comment is that Apple's lack of transparency over which charges are necessary and which are arbitrary will be the end of them. It's a charade, and several countries (including the US) launched investigations to remediate it. Apple cannot persist with their current direction, and they refuse to admit they're wrong.
It has become a parody indeed but I think part of the reason this extreme situation exists is due the fact many people felt unheard and bombarded with a different kind of propaganda and censorship.
It should be a lesson that people are not little kids that you can lecture at every corner about their views and take them for fools/gullible/uneducated etc. It reminds of me the "The Waldo Moment" episode from Black Mirror too.

Blaming the same people for being fascists proves the same ignorance for their social and economic concerns. This may actually turn them into real fascists with the "right" leadership.
Not only that but your searches themselves likely give Kagi more than enough information to identify you as an individual. We saw that nearly 20 years ago when AOL searches were published and people were able to track down specific individuals from their search terms. (https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html)
For me the start of the decline is when Netscape went under. Billy @ Microsoft threw his weight around and IE dominated (sigh). The final nail in the coffin is when mozilla suite was torn apart and the browser was renamed Seamonkey. No really. "Seamonkey" is what was decided.

I do look back at the early 90's with nostalgia. Too bad you can never go back.
Ask HN: How common it is to earn six figures as a software engineer in USA?
I acknowledge this is something I could have checked; and I did, according to various websites, the median for software engineer is around 100k to 130k.

But I'm interested in your perspective on this. How much of it is dependent on region, and experience? If you do earn that, how long it has taken you to earn that salary and what your expertise is? I won't lie, hearing about earnings in USA do make be a bit jealous.
I believe you should currently be able to
- create an account under a pseudonymous email address
- pay for a plan using a pseudonymous Bitcoin wallet
- use your login session to generate Privacy Pass tokens
- search with such tokens via the Tor browser on Kagi's .onion domain
There's also onlyoffice [1] which recently got a little more traction due to its integrations for moodle, owncloud, nextcloud etc. I think all of their software is AGPL3 licensed last time I checked. Their suite somewhat targets selfhosted collaboration for the web browser.

[1] https://www.onlyoffice.com/
> Trying to characterize undifferentiated resistance to the leader of a party

Has nothing to do with party, has a lot to do with authoritarianism and opposing destruction of the government. many people resisting Trump have been Republicans far longer then he has and have more invested in it then he does. See former Republican Colorado head of state senate and head of state house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Anderson

I personally am a democrat and a mildly to moderately partisan one buy opposition to Trump isn't partisan.

> Choosing which laws to care about in a partisan way is partisan.

Trying to compare laws against
Jaywalking or pot to those against government malfeasance and corruption is ridiculous.

> This is your non-partisan argument?

Yes. Its based on facts not on partisanship. Trump is the most corrupt president we've ever had.

He welcomes the government spending stuff on him or his buddies. He sold access ay Margo Largo and not jusy for campaign contributions.

Also the closest he got to compromise was on the stupid and wasteful wall debacle, which was not stopped by democrats or concerns about waste but by resistance to even minor concessions wrt Dreamers.

I also don't find this part necessarily bad but Trump is less opposed to spending wasteful or not wasteful then previous Republican politicians.

The core of the problem might go to his "redefinition" of waste. Where a could of million specifically going towards minority groups or the environment (even when i5 has obvious value) is the swamp, while billions going towards corrupt implementation of a stupid and pointless thing like the wall are not waste.
> In UK, you can’t just go to ophthalmologist’s office. You’d first need to schedule an appointment with your GP, who then would (or would not) give you a referral to a specialist

I literally cannot see a specialist in the US without a referral or else insurance will deny it. And this is on a good healthcare plan.

> You then need to wait for something between 6-12 months (sometimes more, depending on your location) for an ophthalmologist appointment.

It took me around 2-3 months to see my doctor, and then talking to them it would take another few months to even talk with a sleep clinic.

> You wouldn’t need to pay for it out of pocket, but you’d wish you had an option to pay the damn 500 quid so that you can start the treatment sooner.

I cannot pay out of pocket to start treatment sooner because it would cost an insane amount of money and waste the large amount I pay on health insurance coverage.
Zed (Editor) Has Suddenly Become Terrible, IMHO
The code editor, Zed (https://zed.dev) started out as the best thing since the heyday of Sublime Text. Over the past 3 months, it's become the worst piece of software I've ever used. I'm running a 2019 late MacBook Pro, so not the latest and greatest, but, we're talking about a code editor, not 3D modeling software. And, I don't use any LLM features.

Zed often consumes so much CPU that my fan runs on full blast. It freezes up, the editor features (like Python checking based on pylsp, etc.) often don't even work any more (hover over a red squiggly and the message is about something that was fixed 5 minutes prior). There are countless little bugs that I encounter, especially WRT the search features; bugs so bad that I have to end the app and start over.

How can a software be so good and so fast, with a tremendous UX, and then become hot garbage in a single quarter?

Were they bought or something? Does anyone know, did they maybe hire too many junior devs, etc.?
>- Audit spending (at USAID or wherever else)

I dont need a line item list to know that USAID DEI Scholarships in Burma
$45.00M is wasteful spending.

>Come up with details of where there is waste, being transparent about it for the public to see and review

The waste is right there in the name. Funding DEI Scholarships in Burma is not how the American people want their taxes spent.

>- Unilaterally making changes without public review or oversight. It's a "trust me bro" stance.

The public review was the presidential election. Making changes without oversight is what an executive order is.
I was wondering why the article didn't show the actual ansatz anywhere. So I looked it up on Wikipedia [1] and then I understood why. It's a product over pairs around a sum over permutations around an exponential of a sum over pairs involving a "scattering phase shift function" (and I'm simplifying here).

Still would have appreciated it being in the article.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethe_ansatz#Discussion
TWO people you know had bad support interactions!

Well then.
The Future of GPLv3 Hangs in the Balance
That sounds just as bad if not worse than what we have today. You'd have to outright pay for your hardware, electricity, connectivity, and then on top pay for every piece of content. Browsing would suck as there would only be bad mechanisms for previewing content before deciding to access it (and being charged). Enshittification would still happen just like with cable television and video streaming. You'd have to pay for access but then still have ads and tracking on top.
"Please notice me Amazon I want a free kindle"

Absolutely pathetic on the authors part
Another uphill battle that I haven't seen anyone mention is just how good mobile AMD chips got a year or so after the M1 release. I wouldn't buy a Mac to run Linux on it when I can buy a Lenovo with equally soldered parts that'll work well with the OS I wanna run already.
why not tag it as pre-alpha, not suitable for daily use? Saying smoothest linux experience on one side and expecting people to not expect basic features of the hardware working...how does that work?

"Heavily under development and not ready for prime time use" should have been first line in readme and only reply to such feature request.

So it sounds like they bit more than they could chew.
The pattern is clear, they're trying to do away with "ownership" forgetting they lack leverage. We can just buy books printed on paper. Print books out-sell eBooks 4 to 1. DRM hardliners can will just lose out on sales.
Lawyer-up.
Get proper legal advice.

I won't pay anything that has to go to the IRS or similar to a corporation.

I might be OK for the company, but might put you in a big trouble with the goverment. Even if they act in good faith, you will need to do some paperwork or it will trigger an audit with the IRS that will take _your_ time, not theirs.
But the comment you replied to argues that maintaining those drivers is a nightmare because of lack of cooperation from the manufacturer. What you're saying is that Apple hasn't had the inclination to rip up the floor from under them, but that's an inherently unstable situation that could change at any time.
[I implemented this at Kagi]

And you can validate this, if you try to issue a Privacy Pass search without a private token, you'll get a `WWW-Authenticate` header that kicks off the handshake, and that should be the same for all users for a given epoch (month). E.g.

curl -v -H 'X-Kagi-PrivacyPass-Client: true' 'https://kagi.com/search?q=test'
The other part to this is that the internet accelerates network-effects, which you can further supercharge by making your product as cheap as possible or free to the former group in your example.

It’s hard to make money by charging a lot to a small group of people since now you’re dealing with anti-network effects. Doubling the price of a product will likely more than halve your user base.
Credit card payment security was in a dire state, and EC wasn't even really a thing yet, so paying anything online was just a huge barrier.

Even in retrospect I'm not sure what monetisation would have been widely accepted in 1990.
It directly addresses the notion posed by the commenter I was replying to with regard to the origin of banking regulations.

We have, in no particular order:

- The FDIC

- The SEC

- The Federal Reserve Board

- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Those agencies regulate banking. Then we can go further and we have:

- The National Credit Union Organization

- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)

- The Financial Insurance Office (part of Treasury)

- The Office of Foreign Assets Control

- The Securities Investor Protection Corp.

- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission

- EBISA, ERISA, PBGC for retirement plans...

And we need an additional agency because...?

We don't need the CFPB.
> What on earth is wrong with the people who write this kind of garbage?

They're employees of scummy companies that also happen to exist largely to sell Amazon products. This site (goodereader) sells a lot of Kindles in their store, and you don't have to do much googling to see how former customers feel about them. Of course they're Amazon lackeys.

Edit: It's been interesting to watch the votes on this comment swing up and down so much. Lots of activity but overall pretty split opinions it seems!
I often feel this way about a lot of things where I was present during the genesis moment. Then I remind myself that I'm getting older and likely misremembering what it was really like - fun and exciting, but not very useful.

Moreover, I feel like this perspective fails to acknowledge everyone globally who benefits massively from simply having access to information I take for granted - even if it is surrounded by ads.

Lastly, I get that the proliferation of apps for tangible goods is frustrating, but there is an answer...just don't purchase that item! I've passed on loads of purchases because I don't want another app. I once went to a Mariners game and forgot I had my Leatherman in my pocket. Understandably, they wouldn't let me in, but told me I could use a nearby locker which required I install an app. I gave my ticket to someone else and walked back to work. No big deal.
Did the same back in the day with OpenOffice. MS Word would crash ad-hoc past a certain page count plus the auto-indexing feature of OO actually worked and was predictable. Also.. the styling was, if clunky, at least workable! Actually think the later versions of LibreOffice have started going down hill, heavier (initially the libre fork prided itself on being light-weight afair) and still as ugly as ever.
I see this now, thanks for the clarity!
Plaid's Journey from AWS Aurora to TiDB
as a banker, when I first heard about that I did I wonder if they've modeled that risk correctly

it's the sort of thing that could probably wipe out their capital completely in a black swan event
Sounds like Brave Attention Tokens [1]. It might have been a hard sell 3 decades ago when we didn't realize it would turn out like it has.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Business_m...
I think my coverage was expensive.

Also, and I don’t know how the legality of this, it got progressively more expensive each month. The first month was around $1800, the next $2500, the next $3100, etc.
One of the biggest complaints about Kagi from people who have not yet adopted it is their privacy concerns around having to login and have payment information.

I'm not one of the people that has been concerned about that, but I'm curious to what extent this alleviates those concerns among those that have had them.
Their anti-pirating countermeasures won. I switched to LibreOffice
It's quoted in another comment but 42 USC 289(a) requires the establishment of an IRB in any institution applying for federal grants, among other things. So it is a law that there exist some sort of IRB for any "biomedical or behavioral research" and my guess is most institutions see 99% of their research falling under behavioral.
they've been pushing this version of the Internet on us forever. first compuserv, then aol, yahoo, Google, FB, now x/tiktok. everything gets ruined once it goes critical mass. we loved those days because it was pure freedom. choose your own adventure. now we get force fed crap we never asked for.

we didn't need to monetize anything. you need power, a computer, and a connection, that's it. that's not too hard to pay for. they printed a bunch of money and created things we didn't need or want. .com bubble my ass. how much of those trillions over the years have actually produced value? nay, it was an easy way to build wealth and suck up printed money while they on-boarded users who will never know those times but always silently long for them. who was it that said be careful who you give your power to?
you can't download Kindle ebooks, but I suppose you could get them elsewhere?
I have a theory that part of why you don't see such great niche sites now is that they were the productive of cognitive surplus. People had spare brain power and not that much to do with it, so they built and contributed to fun sites.

Now, FB and YouTube and Tiktok etc have gotten very good at consuming all that free time and energy.

Just a theory.
I don't disagree with anything you're saying necessarily, but a lot of people are conflating my statement of IRB exemption with having an explicit IRB authorization. I guess more to my point is people seem to be failing to understand the role of retrospective research (and I will easily concede that different institutions have different legal interpretations) and how it's an important part of research. Don't get me wrong, you absolutely still have regulations about what you can and cannot do with that data, but saying you need an IRB for everything doesn't match the reality that I've seen first hand.

That said, there's plenty of buying and selling of radiological images for industry development on the second hand market. Now where the line of "research" vs. "industrial" work is, well that's something I would leave to legal council. But as you said any sort of "altering" of clinical outcomes is a clear IRB is required zone like DL based recon.
Or nostalgia for better nostalgia.
In general I am a very happy Kagi subscriber, but I have noticed in the past month or so that sometimes my searches (via the Safari extension) just hang. Navigating it kagi.com also hangs.

When I'm in a rush this forces me to fall back to Google which often doesn't provide good results for my queries, which is unfortunate

It generally resolves itself in under a minute, but it is still a mildly irritating availability issue that wasn't present earlier. Maybe something to do with load balancing? No clue.
Unfortunately, I don't remember them anymore and I regularly clear my browser cache.

Maybe it's just the case you're describing but I'm pretty sure I was really looking for appropriate sources and they weren't provided.

If you want, I can send you my queries if I see this again.
You can multiply two numbers by multiplying their mantissas and adding their exponents.

Since the numbers are stored in base 2, the mantissa values range from 1 to 2 (subnormals notwithstanding) - but they're effectively stored as a 0..1 value. The effective range produced by adding vs. multiplying them have considerable overlap, and on average the difference won't be much. Because of how the mantissa and exponent fields are arranged (a deliberate choice by the standard, AFAIK), the mantissa effectively adds additional bits to the approximation of the logarithm given by the exponent.

Edit: this other comment chain https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43034230 perhaps puts it better.
I was going to do a mathematics PhD years ago but I’ll be honest and I’m not bashing the process or the outcome here.

I literally just couldn’t be bothered to put the effort in. It’s not an insurmountable task but there were easier things that made me feel better. One of which inadvertently lead to a family.
Taking away life saving medication from over 20 million people takes the cake for me. After having visited Auschwitz and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I'm really having trouble relating to friends and colleagues who are with the administration on this.

This is not to say the other concerns aren't valid.
Prototyping a machine deployment tool with Spritely Goblins
> This is the first time I've ever felt like Apple doesn't want my money.

Listen, Tim Cook gave Trump a personal tour of the Mac Pro factory in 2019 and then gave him a $6,000 Mac Pro when leaving office.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/apple-ceo-tim-cook-and-preid...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/tech/apple-trump-mac-pro/inde...

It's been half a decade of Tim Cook supporting Trump without any real consequence. You missed the boat to take a principled stance a loooooong time ago, Apple already used your loyalty for everything it was worth. It wouldn't shock me if Tim Cook retires in 4 years, having squeezed all the credibility out of himself he could get.

We all said this was going to happen, too. Apple's "we care about diversity!" and "privacy is a human right" shticks are blatant grandstanding. But maybe America needs another 4 years to simmer before we know how we feel about Mr. Tim Apple.
Gemini's inspiration was the "gopher" protocol from the early 1990s. Gopher was a text-only precursor to the web - plain text with highlighted clickable text links. If you've ever used an ancient library computer (green and black display), their UI was essentially the same as gopher.
Equally important: the cats died days later.

Here's a good map of the bird flu breakouts.

https://investigatemidwest.org/2025/01/21/134m-poultry-and-c...

Most people are not paying enough attention to this.

Another real danger arises with the so-called "mixing vessel phenomenon," which occurs when different virus strains infect the same host simultaneously, particularly in the context of influenza viruses.

This primarily happens in animals like pigs, which can be infected by both avian and human influenza strains. When multiple virus strains infect the same cells, their genetic material can undergo reassortment - where segments of genetic material from different viruses combine to create new viral variants.

So a corona variant could mix with this fast-spreading avian flu and produce something that impacts humans more.

Viruses are like drunken teenagers -- they behave worse when they mix!
I think the US is going to be inundated with thousands of actions going on between other countries to replace it and it will be able to respond to dozens of them. They can of course choose long preexisting legislation as a hill to die on, but there are going to be a lot of hills and they could also pretend it never mattered to them.
I agree that third party stores selling tokens without any account at all would be the ideal solution, but without an account you'd be missing out on many of the features that make kagi worth using like being able to remove certain domains from results or prioritizing types of results over others.
also "Send to Kindle will continue to work" which works over wifi https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle
Only if it's backdoored (or otherwise breakable).