UpToTheSky

Why does neither Microsoft nor Google nor Apple take the lead and offer free LLM answers like Google offers free search results?

Is that because there are simply not enough GPUs out there to do this at scale?

If so, it will become really interesting once that constraint goes away. There might be a shift in the search space like there was a shift from analog to digital photography.

Just to make me understand this:

This is about storing data in the form of "Facebook user XYZ looked at a page about travel to Antarctica" and the reason Facebook wants to store such data is to show them travel offers when they read their Facebook feed?

If so, can I download this data about me? Is there a way to download everything Facebook stores about me and then I will see all the websites and pages I visited that Facebook knows about?

    For example, if a user specifically asks for a
    URL's full text, it might inadvertently fulfill
    this request.

So this seems to imply two things:

1: Bing has access to text on websites which users don't. Probably because websites allow Bing to crawl their content but show a paywall to users?

2: The plugin has a different interface to Bing than what Bing offers via the web. Because on the web, you can't tell Bing to show the full text of the URL.

I have to contact my ISP. That's not the open web I subscribed to :) Until they fix it, I just keep reading HN. A website which works the way I like it.

Congrats!

Going full time is the only way to go for a project you love and want to grow.

What is the business model?

How much visitors does Marginalia have?

That's why I suggested piggybacking on HN's karma points.

Hosting costs: Let's start with text only.

Moderation: True, that's hard. But maybe piggybacking on HN's karma points could solve it?

Network effects: Do we really need many users to make something useful?

What are some of those Reddit clones?

Any of them decentralized, so there is no "one ruler" who can close down the thing in the future?

Do we really need a big part of the community to have a good "forums for everything" site?

To me it seems, that 99% of Reddit is just "content fast food" and low quality comments.

If we would get just 1000 HN users to use an alternative, that could already be something.

What is the hard thing about building an open, user-friendly Reddit alternative?

Hosting the posts shouldn't be that hard. Storage is so cheap these days. Is it the legal aspects of handling user generated content?

Ranking the posts is another issue. Is that where the value of Reddit lies?

Maybe one could build some hybrid thing which capitalizes on existing structures? I could imagine a frontend which only shows posts by users who signed their posts via their Hacker News accounts. Aka they sign their post with a private key and publish the public key on their HN profile. This way, a new Reddit alternative could benefit from the karma distribution of the best community on the web today.

Hosting the content could maybe be done via one of the new decentralized systems like Mastodon, Nostr or Bluesky? Those inherently have open APIs, so it would be easy to build a frontend which aggregates the content into one simple UI.

Can GnuCash be used to do your taxes in Germany?

Any indie makers here doing their taxes on their own?

So far, I have always worked with a tax consultant. But I wonder if it really makes sense to pay thousands of Euros just to put numbers into forms. It feels like it is something that one should be able to automate.

Going by that logic, no technological progress would take place at all.

Its not just firewalls.

Its also all kinds of code that interacts with the internet in all kinds of ways. Extending all that code to two kinds of IPs, writing tests, setting up two types of IPs in development, staging and production, monitoring real life implications ... that would be a huge cost with no benefit at all.

This is one of the reasons I do not support IPv6 anywhere. It would take a lot more work to support two types of network requests.

I hope I can ignore it up to the point where I can make a complete switch, use only IPv6 and stop supporting IPv4 everywhere.

I wouldn't be surprised if that point never comes and I can be a happy "IPv4 only infrastructure" person forever.

Or IPv7 comes out before running an IPv4-only infrastructure becomes a problem.

I think the mistake of IPv6 was to not be a superset of IPv4.