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Google now warns people about unreliable or quickly changing search results(vox.com)
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$1.2M NSF grant to create resource for privacy documentation(news.umich.edu)
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Some of the comments suggest not everyone is aware of the history. This is a Hacker News thread from March 2012 titled "Wikidata: The first new project from Wikimedia Foundation since 2006" that is interesting to revisit: https:&
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Pentagon UFO Here's what we know(bbc.com)
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Among friends the most popular options look to be Dell XPS 13 and on sale it can get close to that price point, and the Thinkpad T4xx models, which are good cheaper options refurbished. System76 makes nice gear and I've heard good thin
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by jedwhite 5y ago
PS Possibly you could add a floor (say less than 20 to exclude shill or throwaway accounts), or ignoring karma difference over a threshold (say 1000). I think applying simple filters based on common sense or domain knowledge can help vector
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Nice use of your service for a Show HN! The number of comments about the Karma being divergent on people's matches suggest you could add a simple ensemble approach with a karma heuristic on top of the vector similarity search to help r
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by jedwhite 5y ago
I'm a fan of HN-style information minimalism. How are you parsing the sources and ranking the display, out of interest? Are you using NewsAPI or grabbing RSS feeds directly or something like that? Good luck. It looks good. [Edit just s
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Can the Māori Connection to Antarctica Help Safeguard the Continent’s Future?(atlasobscura.com)
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Lobbyists for Silicon Valley Giants Like Facebook Find Glory Days Are Over(wsj.com)
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Singapore's 'Tree Doctors' Treat Their Giant Patients(atlasobscura.com)
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New research shows Google serves almost half of all ads on fake news sites(searchengineland.com)
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Quantifying the Role of Top Credible Ad Servers in the Fake News Ecosystem(ojs.aaai.org)
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Tim Berners-Lee Makes an NFT from World Wide Web’s Objective-C(arstechnica.com)
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Deep Learning Network Predicts Adverse Cardiac Events(healthitanalytics.com)
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee is selling the first web browser’s code as an NFT(theverge.com)
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High Schooler Created a Drug Discovery Search Engine – Freethink(freethink.com)
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Yes! That was the spark for the name. It's who you call out to when you know Google will be too muck work or hard to find the answer. Down the track, the @lazywebai twitter account will have a bot that will answer "Dear LazyWeb&qu
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Thanks! We're aiming to reduce cognitive overload by providing direct answers where there is a result with high enough confidence on the inference. But then the full results are available as well. Originally on desktop we weren't
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Cool, so it's like a HR insights tool? What sort of sources are you using? We run mostly on AWS - essentially Lambda/API Gateway/SageMaker etc, with a bunch of supporting proxies and other services on AWS EKS K8S that we migr
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Yes, ironically, SEO industry resources can be helpful, and we used them in putting together training data. If you're interested there are some good simple free ones to get started also, like these from Mondovo: https://www.
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by jedwhite 5y ago
As media companies lose revenue (both circulation and ads) they get more desperate, and so they start doing things that damage their own trust and relationship with readers. The invasive and polluting ad-tech all over newspaper websites is
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Hey thanks. We will not log searches or collect personal data. There are public sources of search data that we can use with transfer learning against large scale language models like GPT-3, and that are updated regularly. Transfer learning
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Hi HN, We're Jed and Angie, and we're building LazyWeb ( https://lazyweb.ai ), a search engine with a simple chat interface that's free from ad-tech and tracking. It's like messaging a smart friend that answers
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Show HN: LazyWeb – Conversational search engine that's ad-free and private(lazyweb.ai)
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by jedwhite 5y ago
This made me think of a post by Philip Kaplan (Pud) called 'Fucking Sue Me" back in 2011, which was controversial at the time. The original post is long-gone, but there are a few copies out there [1], and there was a HN thread at
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It’s Time to Ditch Chrome(wired.co.uk)
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Science Fiction: Apple Builds a Search Engine by Jean-Louis Gassée(medium.com)
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Investing in Maven(a16z.com)
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Google AI Researchers Are Dreaming Up a New Species of Search Engine(singularityhub.com)
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