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   Science funding was already way too low(thegreatrace.substack.com)

   2 points by yegg 1y ago|0 comments
2. 62.▲
   by yegg 1y ago

   FWIW All DuckDuckGo telemetry is completely anonymous: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/atb
3. 63.▲
   by yegg 1y ago

   We don’t have fake positions.
4. 64.▲
   by yegg 1y ago

   We’ve been continuously hiring for this position as we’ve been building up our Windows browser team and have found the positions relatively difficult to fill.
5. 65.▲
   by yegg 1y ago

   That’s correct.
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   Rule 1: Reality is always more complicated(thegreatrace.substack.com)

   2 points by yegg 1y ago|0 comments
7. 67.▲
   by yegg 2y ago

   We (at DuckDuckGo) shouldn’t have a lot of captchas and when we do (intended to keep away non-human traffic) they are completely anonymous, self-hosted, and not related to any AI or other machine learning. As such, I’d love to figure out wh
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   by yegg 2y ago

   I also like traditional results, which is how I got into this in the first place (crawling myself). I meant the conversation right now is about AI-assisted answers, and just revised to make that more clear what I referring to. In any case
9. 69.▲
   by yegg 2y ago

   AI-assisted answers are completely optional on DuckDuckGo. Also, I have no problem with Kagi -- we are actually investors in it. The more competition in the search market, the better.
10. 70.▲
    by yegg 2y ago

    The chatter in search right now is related to AI-assisted answers, and we get 0 of that from Bing. Same with knowledge graph answers before that (which became the most prevalent search module on desktop), 0 from Bing. And same for the most
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    by yegg 2y ago

    We never blocked this image and we would have no incentive to either since we’ve been banned in China since 2014. Here’s my statement from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27528324
12. 72.▲
    by yegg 2y ago

    Yes, and to the point of some of these roles being open for a long time, that's because we keep hiring more people for them over time.
13. 73.▲
    by yegg 2y ago

    Hey, we had fixed a lot of syntax issues a while back, so happy to look into this if it is still messed up.
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    by yegg 2y ago

    For clarity, we have not changed anything with regards to our vision and there is currently no commercial intent infused into Assist, which can also be turned off. That said, I'd love to follow up on this example -- which query in part
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    by yegg 2y ago

    FYI: can reach directly via https://duck.ai
16. 76.▲
    by yegg 2y ago

    Working on that too. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40088329
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    by yegg 2y ago

    This (DuckDuckGo AI Chat) is currently separate from search results, and in any case we plan to offer settings to turn off any AI search integrations, similarly for how we do for instant answers and ads.
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    by yegg 2y ago

    Yes, we are sufficiently profitable and have in fact been profitable for a decade. Our mission is to provide easy access to privacy, and offering things free where we can is key to doing that well. Additionally, we expect the forthcoming se
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    by yegg 2y ago

    AI Chat is separate from the search engine, providing anonymous access to popular models. On the search engine we have DuckAssist, which is currently grounded in Wikipedia (more sources coming): https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wha
20. 80.▲
    by yegg 2y ago

    We plan to upgrade Claude Instant to Claude 3 Haiku in the coming weeks.
21. 81.▲
    by yegg 2y ago

    We don't pass any parts of the IP to anyone.
22. 82.▲
    by yegg 2y ago

    Duly noted. Open source / self-hosted models are on our radar.
23. 83.▲
    by yegg 2y ago

    No part of the IP address is sent.
24. 84.▲
    by yegg 2y ago

    The plan is to maintain free anonymous access to base models, with eventually search better integrated as well. We'd also like to experiment with providing anonymous access to more cutting-edge models as part of Privacy Pro.
25. 85.▲
    by yegg 2y ago

    We plan to add more models over time.
26. 86.▲
    by yegg 2y ago

    See https://duckduckgo.com/aichat/privacy-terms " We do not save or store your Prompts or Outputs. Additionally, all metadata that contains personal information (for example, your IP address) is obfuscated from
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    by yegg 2y ago

    We have been hiring continuously. Some roles stay open because we continue to hire for them.
28. 88.▲
    by yegg 3y ago

    This person is not employed by DuckDuckGo. They formerly worked there, and not for a couple of years. We had nothing to do with this op-ed.
29. 89.▲
    by yegg 3y ago

    Both.
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    by yegg 3y ago

    We put out a partial fix for that recently and a more complete fix is forthcoming.