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by input_sh 9mo ago
It's because LLM tools have design guidelines as a part of the system prompt which makes everything look the same unless you explicitly tell it otherwise. To give an example that annoys me to no end, Google's Antigravity insists o
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by input_sh 9mo ago
> the vast majority of users won't have an opinion They're here, they don't care how they get from point A to point B, the tech used to achieve that result is completely irrelevant to them. AI? Great. Not AI such as the In
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by input_sh 9mo ago
Google Search has like 10 years of history of doing its best not to get you to click on a search result, but to answer your question directly or at the very least keep you on their platform while screwing over website owners. The first tw
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by input_sh 9mo ago
Some years (decades?) ago, a sysadmin like me might half-jokingly say: "I could replace your job with a bash script." Given the complexity of some of the knowledge work out there, there would be some truth to that statement. The r
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by input_sh 9mo ago
They pay fair wages because they have enough scale where pestering for donations once a year is enough to justify their costs and then some. And even then, this forum is very famous for shitting on such a large scale not-for-profits, with m
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by input_sh 10mo ago
> How come even small sites get hammered constantly? Because big sites have decades of experience fighting against scrapers and have recently upped their game significantly (even when doing so carries some SEO costs) so that they're
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by input_sh 10mo ago
Fun fact: you don't get rid of them even when you put a captcha on all visitors from Singapore. I still see a spike in traffic that perfectly matches the spike in served captchas, but this time it's geographically distributed betw
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by input_sh 10mo ago
I can't think of many situations where that would be particularly valuable, considering it favours recent plays and the cutoff date is already almost half a year old.
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by input_sh 10mo ago
There is no arrest in that story?
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by input_sh 10mo ago
> Books enter the public domain. ...and then they get re-packaged with DRM on Amazon's store, mostly because people uploading public domain books on Amazon have no idea what they're doing. > Project Gutenberg and others pr
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by input_sh 10mo ago
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/ Third paragraph. They didn't go down the official YC route, they just let their initial users invest in it. How many of those investors do you think are among us here pus
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by input_sh 10mo ago
None of those are products, those are companies that offers 100s of products. The question is not is there as an alternative to Google-as-a-whole, but is there an alternative to Google Search (yes), to Google Analytics (yes), to Gmail (ye
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by input_sh 10mo ago
> Pretty much everyone trusts Kagi ...on a forum run by its investors whose goal is to push Kagi, sure. Outside of this forum, nobody knows about a fringe little search engine that is paywalled and only has 62k users. For a brand like Mo
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by input_sh 10mo ago
> TU/e and ICT cooperative SURF are also looking for replacements for Microsoft and Google. However, a fully-fledged European alternative is not yet available... The only possible alternative to the entirety of Microsoft/Google
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by input_sh 10mo ago
> But who can audit the reporting? The same people that audit your taxes, roughly with the same consequences for lying. Except the IRS is far more likely to send unannounced auditors to NGOs than they are to send them to for-profit compa
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by input_sh 10mo ago
Yes, it's called Form 990 and it is a requirement to publish it on a yearly basis to retain non-profit status. You can search for any US-registered NGO here for example: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
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by input_sh 10mo ago
> surely you'd have to trick Google into visiting the /search? url in order to get it indexed That's trivially easy. Imagine a spammer creating some random page which links to your website with that made up query paramet
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by input_sh 10mo ago
Or, and this is gonna sound crazy, I know, it's not because it used to be novel and cool but because young people feel less safe to come out now that the trans panic has done its thing and the current administration has spent an inco
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by input_sh 10mo ago
Because it's the TV yelling at you something along the lines of "Hey look, we replaced the creativity of dozens of people with this shitty result from a prompt, your job is next." The fact that it's so bad that it obvi
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by input_sh 10mo ago
You're falling for a marketing trick. What that type of section usually means is "there's someone from Microsoft that signed up for our service using his work account", sometimes it means "there's some tiny tea
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by input_sh 10mo ago
And in the sentence above that, they're "saving" 15 million in Microsoft licenses. So either they've paid 24 million to Microsoft this year, in which case their next year's expenses are dropping by over 60%, or it&#
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by input_sh 10mo ago
I hate when switches like these get advertised first and foremost as some huge cost-cutting measure, further solidifying open source ecosystem as some cheap knock-offs of their commercial alternatives. How about instead you donate the sam
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by input_sh 10mo ago
Really? IMO it went about as well as I expected given the audience.
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by input_sh 10mo ago
I think this might be a you problem because both Medium and Substack allowed randoms on the Internet to post from day 1. There aren't any requirements, anyone can do it.
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by input_sh 10mo ago
How do you know? Please link it if you have found it, because as far as I understand this story, the directive was sent out as an internal memo and therefore neither you or me can simply read it. Plus the Reuters story you've linked al
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by input_sh 10mo ago
I don't know how any of that has anything to do with what I explained to you. Two completely separate topics, I'm not here to indulge your every gripe you have with news.
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by input_sh 10mo ago
> It directs consular officers to "thoroughly explore" the work histories of applicants, both new and returning, by reviewing their resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and appearances in media articles for activities including combatti
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by input_sh 10mo ago
Okay, let me be even more clear then: it is required to fill out every social media handle and every phone number you've used for the past 5 years as a part of the DS-160 form (AKA online non-migratory visa application for countries
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by input_sh 10mo ago
Mainstream != serious. In fact it's quite the opposite, as serious news organizations cannot match the output of mainstream news. Even one story per month is a success for many. In serious news organizations, there's quite a few
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by input_sh 10mo ago
ICC judge, the fact that he's French didn't have an impact. He's also far from being the only one. In fact, the Executive Order that imposed these sanctions is very broad and gives "immunity" to pretty much everyone

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