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Once its dialed in, its as good as Kagi. But I still haven't tried to integrate it into all my devices outside of my computer. I still need to try it with tailscale.

I also feel like a really good local LLM can be better. I'd love to get something set up where my searches get sent to the local LLM first, and then to Kagi\SearXNG if it needs more information.

Web scraping for LLMs has almost completely ruined the search experience. In the past I could search for simple questions, and quickly get an answer without even having to click through to the links.

This was horrible for web traffic, but the utility level was off the charts. It was possible to get accurate results in milliseconds. It was faster than using an LLM.

Now sites put almost no info in the search result headers, to get people to click through. I think this will work on some users, but most will start using LLMs as search by default.

Search engines have gotten so bad that I almost feel forced to try running SearXNG or some other search engine locally. Its a pain to set up, but degooglefication is always worth it.

Imagine if we had laws that required all LLM compute to come from solar, or other sustainable power sources. We could have used the market's thirst for AI as a backchannel way to force creation of new sustainable energy.

In contrast to Elon/XAI's illegal methane fuled datacenter in memphis

Its like a motor bike, except it doesn't take you where you steer. It take you where it wants to take you.

If you tell it you want to go somewhere continents away, it will happily agree and drive you right into the ocean.

And this is before ads and other incentives make it worse.

I honestly think its a symptom of having almost no "career mobility". If it's impossible to get promoted / find better jobs, then being skilled doesn't go as far as brown-nosing.

People will only apply themselves if they think it will help them get to a better place.

I would love for an audit of sites to see if any popular sites still do collect the data when you click no. Or if you just land on the banner page, and close the tab.

Yeah, you're really not going to find many people blasting gustav mahler in the forest for example. It's always pop music.

My exact complaint. What is the "handmade" community? At first I thought he was talking about woodworking or knitting.

Also the reddit comparison is great, but I wish he would have talked about why the slop is there in the first place.

I'm pretty sure new reddit isn't optimized for speed, it's optimized for analytics and datamining.

I bet they use all those backend calls to get really granular session info. When something is super slow, it's not that it's unoptimized, but rather it's optimized for money over user experience.

To play devils advocate, telling other people to turn off thier music is also "imposing preferences on other people".

I do agree with what they're saying though.

Why would you upskill as a QA when you can become a dev? Every single QA person I know only became a QA as a stepping stone. That's now it's seen.

Companies don't care about QA, so of course you don't see any QA wizards anymore.

At least in my area, WFH is going away and RTO is increasing. More and more of my friends can not meet up for lunch breaks for example.

It seems counterintuitive to restrict where people can be, and expect them to meet new people. I don't want to use my office to socialize, I prefer to make friends that I share interests with.

I see some people in this thread have had success with coworking spaces, that sounds better than an office, at least.

As someone that makes my own keyboard firmware, 100% agree. For most people, typing speed isn't a bottleneck. There is a whole community of people that type faster than 250wpm on custom, chording-enabled keyboards. The tradeoff is that it takes years to relearn how to type. Its the same as being a stenographer at that point. Its not worth it for most people.

Even if there was a new layout that did suddenly allow everyone to type twice as fast, what would we get with that? Maybe twice as many social media posts, but nothing actually useful.

Only speaking for myself, but I have "front end exhaustion". Text based sites like this are the only ones I spend any time on anymore.

There's no reason to "learn" a UI or use shortcuts on most sites, because they change everything around every few months.

I see people reminiscing about tabs in firefox, well today a majority of the top websites don't even allow you to open links in new tabs! The links aren't even real links anymore, and everything's a webapp. ( and by top websites, I mean social media, not the top sites used by the HN crowd. Sites like YT, FB, IG, and TT ).

I try to interact with the "UI" of websites as little as possible these days. I use RSS readers for as much as possible. Any time I get a popup on any site, I get mad. I don't care about news updates, software updates, or offers. Anything that pops up at me, or moves around before I can click it, looks like a scam to me. Even if it's "legitimate". The modern web feels like an arcade game that's trying to waste my time.