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by jedwhite 5y ago
Yes any localization is very much a future feature. There are some small functions that use it that are things our user community has asked for, but we're very much taking an iterative approach. I think with a small team you have to do
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Thanks - yes we don't have local searches working well yet and it is very US-centric for those there are there. The password information is interesting. In the old world, you'd find out it is now password protected only when you g
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Thanks very much for trying it out and for giving us feedback. We can't see what people search, so it's really helpful to see reports when things go wrong. For "who is the current president" I get "The current presi
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Thank you for trying it out, and giving us feedback on the searches. We don't log searches, and can't see what results users get, so we rely heavily on community feedback to improve things when searches go wrong. Interestingly, wi
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by jedwhite 5y ago
I think there is huge potential for a freemium approach. And it means that searchers are the customer not the product. We went a long time with no funding and living off toast and vegemite to survive, so we're incredibly grateful to ha
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Yes! Safe Search is in the pipeline. Images especially. Most of the information safety work so far is around sensitive or unsafe topic handling, and trying to just fall back to straight search results when a topic is unsafe. This approach h
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by jedwhite 5y ago
That's an interesting (and humorous) example. And although it is counter-intuitive, it points towards where we're trying to go long term here. Our aim is to find, extract and summarize information from the web, rather than generat
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Thanks for the chance to chat a bit about this, as it's super important to us and our early user community. We're using PostHog on our own domain. We've spent a lot of time talking with our early user community about the righ
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback on the speed. You'll notice the speed varies a ton. There are two modes here. 1. Information search - average speed for these traditional keyword-style searches are around 800ms to 1s, with a 90% percentile abou
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Hey just posted on another comment, but I'm with you 100%! You can over-ride the NLP and do literal searches. /e or ~e force it, but any search with things like +"phrase" or site: etc will skip the AI and we'll *try
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Thank you for your thoughts and I miss literal searches too. Our feeling is that they don't have to be mutually exclusive. So we're trying to build both, including slash commands, advanced operators and some ideas borrowed from th
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Thank you! With the URL, we need to add that! You can start searches via URL (with /?q= or /?query=), but we need to make it easy to share and it's totally hidden currently and not discoverable at all :) One cool thing: if yo
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by jedwhite 5y ago
We're thinking three things, although the details will likely change as we're 100% focused on building the product currently. 1. Freemium model - always free and anonymous for anyone to use without any restrictions. Then paid pro
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by jedwhite 5y ago
A few folks may have seen a preview of Andi before (there were a couple of kind mentions on here before we launched). If you did try it out it (thank you!) and want to check out the new version with the question answering, you may need to r
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Launch HN: Andi (YC W22) – Q&A based, ad-free, anti-spam search engine(andisearch.com)
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America Has a Free Speech Problem(nytimes.com)
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Far right complains after DuckDuckGo vows to limit Russian propaganda(nytimes.com)
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An early glimpse of Steve Jobs and Apple in a 1981 video(fastcompany.com)
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Omnibus spending bill includes $24B for NASA for 2022(spacenews.com)
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Grimes Cover Story on Music and Mars(vanityfair.com)
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by jedwhite 5y ago
Yeah, just do it! Good luck with applying, and with building your startup. If I can ever help with feedback, or anything else, just reach out (details on my profile here). Also, check out YC Startup School. That's where the video was f
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by jedwhite 5y ago
PS there is a section in this talk by Dalton Caldwell from YC on 'how to create luck' (in the context of applying to YC). It's really great on just this topic: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6t-how-t
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by jedwhite 5y ago
If you're making something people want, just have a go and apply. YC says it outright in their motto. That's really all that matters. The application itself can help your own thinking about what you're building, so it's
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The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)(atlasobscura.com)
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Wunderlist co-founder felt 'unhappy' after selling to Microsoft(cnbc.com)
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Parameter Prediction for Unseen Deep Architectures(arxiv.org)
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by jedwhite 5y ago
I feel like they missed an opportunity to call this the Mac M1 Maxi.
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Essential Life-Learnings from 14 Years of Brain Pickings (2020)(themarginalian.org)
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Netflix Is Shutting All Services in Russia After Ukraine War(bloomberg.com)
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A look at early-stage VC firm Initialized's unicorn startup investments(news.crunchbase.com)
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