>The Unix epoch is midnight on January 1, 1970. It's important to remember that this isn't Unix's "birthday" -- rough versions of the operating system were around in the 1960s. Instead, the date was programmed into the system sometime in the early 70s only because it was convenient to do so, according to Dennis Ritchie, one the engineers who worked on Unix at Bell Labs at its inception.
>"At the time we didn't have tapes and we had a couple of file-systems running and we kept changing the origin of time," he said. "So finally we said, 'Let's pick one thing that's not going to overflow for a while.' 1970 seemed to be as good as any."
I accepted paying for it after the trial because every other search engine just sucks or isn't customizable enough in comparison. Not to mention ads and tracking.
Kagi results are really, really great. I find it better than Google for technical queries and better than DuckDuckGo for localized queries. Unfortunately, it's not 100% SEO-trash proof, but I can permanently block those domains from results in one click - a refreshing experience. The AI quick answer is on par with Bing's (more accurate than Google's), but the best feature is the possibility of banning/re-ranking websites (such as those SEO-spam ones).
This feature is probably the one any family member will find useful: prioritising websites they like the most and blocking/down-ranking those they dislike. For example, I hate Pinterest and have banned it. My girlfriend, on the other hand, loves it and gave a better ranking. Guess that's what customisation is for...
The lenses are probably also family-worthy, since you can quickly create personalised results pages for good sources for homework research, safe online games for children, trustworthy news for your grandma, etc. But I've never used it extensively yet.
There's also some minor features (auto-login link for anonymous tabs, bangs, news, etc) that you pretty much expect from a search engine nowadays, too. IMO, the most complete and efficient search engine I've used so far.
I tried Kagi for the free trial and I do not share your enthusiasm or positive experiences.
I really wanted it to be great, but for the things I search (I am searching mostly extremely technical, and domain specific things), I found myself doing the same search on Google by prefixing !g, and Google nailed it so much more a lot of times. So much so that I didn't even finish the free trial, but went back to Google as my default in the browser.
Maybe I'll give it another go in a few months, but for now it's not for me.
I had the same experience. I really tried to use Kagi as my main search engine but it just was not good enough for me. I did like the feature where you can exclude domains from the results. It couild work nice as some kind of addon to Google search results.
I will give it another try in the future and hope my experience is different. I do like the company and the vision behind it.
maybe it's the industry I'm in or the languages I use, but my experience has been the opposite. Being able to filter out all the SEO gamed crap at the top of the results has been great for me and the results are at least on-par with Google.
Maybe I phrased that badly. You would have set kagi as your default search engine, but sometimes you want to search something on a specific site only. With bangs, kagi will redirect you to another search engine instead of running the query itself. If you append !w to your query, you will search on Wikipedia instead. If you append !g, your query is redirected to Google. There is no advantage over searching on Google directly, but it is much faster than going to the Google page if kagi is your default.
And I meant that the !g bang works on ddg as well, though there probably is a ddg bang on kagi too.
yeah me too...I've been very negative about the edge, it got overhyped with the romanticization of local LLMs, but there's a bunch of stuff coming together at the same time...Raspberry Pi 5...Mistral 7B Orca is my 20th try of a local LLM...and the first time it handled simple conversation with RAG. And new diffusion, even every 2 hours, is a credible product, arguing about power consumption aside...
The worst part is to use a closed source proprietary black box software when there are tons of great open source alternatives, such as 7zip or even just plain good old gzip, bzip2, etc.
Just to be clear, 7zip, gzip, bzip2 and others all have their own CVE's with arbitrary code execution. Open source software is not immune from these flaws.
You can argue for your political beliefs, sure, but let's be honest and not claim that there are any security benefits.
Open source does have some security benefits. If billions of (mostly) good people who want to help can read the code, they can find vulnerabilities more easily. Having so many contributors does help.
That is a popular fantasy story. The reality of almost all open source software is that nobody reads the code and the primary author is struggling to find the time to keep up with maintenance.
What's more, doing security review is very hard. You can't just casually read a bit of code. You need to deeply understand the surrounding context. People who have the capability to do that aren't going around providing that service for free.
What if the software is abandoned or badly maintained? It took the company until August to fix it, there's the possibility it would be faster if it was Free software.
There have been a good open alternative for longer than WinRAR have had recovery records. It's called par files and there are implementations for Mac/win/Linux.
> Given its Russian roots, at this point I'm nervous about updating WinRAR or otherwise continuing to use it. I wish I had a day or two to get 7Zip to build.
If you're worried about backdoors, why did it take until this news for you to change your preference?
Also, 7zip is available prebuilt; You don't need to compile it yourself.
I’ve not been able to find a signed distribution of 7-zip, so I imagine they feel safer building the repo locally to make sure they’re at least not running a compromised .exe (not suggesting the code itself is guaranteed to be virus free, but this does feel safer in my mind)
> I’ve not been able to find a signed distribution of 7-zip
Since when would a signed binary help when your "opsec" says it's the software itself that is compromised?
Software can still be compromised if it is compromised before being signed.
Assuming you somehow trust the source code and not the binary, in fact, you're better off compiling it yourself and checking if the non-signed software you get is similar enough to the binary you can get from others - Assuming of course you can actually reach reliable reproducible builds with a Windows build chain, a thing that last time I checked was horrible and flaky.
IIUIC, the most significant difference from a materialized view is that the Rama infrastructure recompute only the changed data by checking the relationship between fields, while a traditional materialized view recomputes the whole table?
incremental view maintenance is the database equivalent of: "recompute only the changed data by checking the relationship between fields,"
Oracle has decent support for incrementally updated materialized views, redshift has some too. Materialize.com is an entire snowflake-like platform built around incrementally maintained materialized views.
I have the same problem here and I'm considering buying a 6GHz tri-band (2.4 + 5 + 6GHz) Wi-Fi 6E router. Problem is: the only ones I can find are "gamer" routers bloated with features I will never use and priced 5x to 10x a regular Wi-Fi 6 (without the "E") dual band (2.4 + 5GHz) router.
Both my phone and computer supports 6GHz, but it's still hard to find a reasonably priced router.
I was going to suggest the Banana Pi BPI-R3, but that still doesn't have 6 GHz. The successor to that one is going to have Wifi 7, but might not get supported by mainline OpenWRT.
The biggest mistake of Threads was allowing videos and photos from day one. It became a dumpster of Instagram reposts, almost no new content. And the feed algorithm is very, very bad.
Interesting: looking at Statcounter data, Linux has been gaining traction in India[0] since 2022 and now accounts for almost 14% of desktop operating systems (it's the 2nd most used OS already).
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33498586
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