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by jedwhite 5y ago
Yes, but you can't add a new search engine at all! So if a search engine isn't one of the tiny number of options in that dropdown, you can't change to it. That applies on both iOS and MacOS. And that option is used for the en
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by jedwhite 5y ago
There's a reason why it seems shocking that Google has been able to balance the ads well enough that people still use it. They haven't! Google has orchestrated a monopoly over search engine distribution that allows them to get awa
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Hey thank you. I think one of the good things to come out of Google's decline is that there are now a lot more people working on the problem of search again. There is also the possible if faint promise of a different economic model for
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Thank you! I think there are alternatives to ads that are worth trying. A freemium model is viable. You can't have ads or ad-tech tracking, or you just end up another Google. But you can have free anonymous use, and paid pro or busines
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by jedwhite 5y ago
I didn't want to hijack the thread for self-promotion, but it is linked from my HN profile, and thank you for asking!
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by jedwhite 5y ago
There have been many interesting threads recently about the decline of Google's search quality here on HN. There's zero doubt search results are getting worse, and that ads and spam are the cause. But Google's financial perfo
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Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: 536, the 'worst year to be alive'(theconversation.com)
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A Guide to NFT Twitter Terminology(one37pm.com)
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Differential Effects of One Meal per Day in the Evening(frontiersin.org)
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Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning(mdpi.com)
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No, it's still like that. They are kind and and supportive and positive. We had some huge engineering screwups launching this week, and we've had nothing but kindness and support. Based on our experience so far, I'd sum up th
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by jedwhite 5y ago
It's important to note that the additional $375k investment is completely optional, something I don't think is mentioned in the original tweets.
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The rule applies to giving equity to anyone - co-founders, employees, investors, accelerators. As an investor in a company, a VC would have a vested interest in giving this advice only if it made their investment more successful by making t
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by jedwhite 5y ago
I'm in the W22 batch. These tweets bear no relationship to reality. YC is unarguably transformative if you throw yourself into it and listen to the advice. The emotive nature of this thread probably speaks for itself. But for any start
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by jedwhite 5y ago
There's another quick and dirty option that works effectively - convert them back to text sequences, for example `:smile:` or `:)` Here's a quick guide: https://towardsdatascience.com/converting-emojis-to-text-a28.
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OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman ridicules startup fundraising process(cnbc.com)
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CM3: A Causal Masked Multimodal Model of the Internet(arxiv.org)
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Advertising corrupts. Ad-tech corrupts absolutely. The reason is the cumulative impact of two things: 1. Algorithmic optimization of results for ad click-through rates, and 2. The scarcity of space for organic results on results pages for q
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Google drops FLoC after widespread opposition, pivots to “Topics API” plan(arstechnica.com)
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Reddit founder predicts 90% of games will be Play-to-Earn crypto in 5 years(independent.co.uk)
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Meta 'most reluctant' to work with government: Home Affairs(innovationaus.com)
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More than 40 small and medium companies have signed on to this (Disclaimer: Co-founder of Andi Search here). This bill supports interoperability and is intended to prevent the most egregious self-dealing by large online services preferencin
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Startups Supporting the American Innovation and Choice Online Act(wesupportsb2992.medium.com)
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Brian Chesky on Twitter: “Starting today, I'm living on Airbnb.”(twitter.com)
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Women Plundered and Swashbuckled with the Best (and Worst) of Them(atlasobscura.com)
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A Survey of Pretrained Language Models Based Text Generation(arxiv.org)
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Efficient Large Scale Language Modeling with Mixtures of Experts(arxiv.org)
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by jedwhite 5y ago
To Alexander Frick if you're reading this: Good on you for trying things to make the web better and contribute your work to the world. Criticism always comes with trying something different. As an ad-tech company, Google's priorit
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Even a friendly fundraising round is a big time sink. This lets early-stage startups focus their energy on building rather than fundraising, especially for harder tech. $500k is enough to feel like you can do anything, but not so much that
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Fifty years of the brain’s sense of space(nature.com)
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