Hint: This has nothing to do with a zero y-axis, why would one need to have a zero value to have the y-axis start at zero?
The reason to have a non-zero y-axis for time series is to amplify changes, e.g. the changes might be to small to see with a zeroed y-axis. Or you have ups and downs and want to compare them, with a zeroed y-axis again the changes might be too small to compare.
Whenever you want to show growth, a non-zero y-axis is usually a sign that the aim is to overstate growth, because we as humans estimate growth by the steepness of the graph, not by the numbers. A non-zero y-axis creates a much steeper graph and thus growth is perceived much higher than it is.
The problems only elevates in a market where the AIs are 'free'. If they are paid, and the user has the leverage to walk away with their wallet on any sign of unwanted behavior to a competitor that doesn't do it, it corrects itself over time.
Or to a competitor that does it more subtly. If it's legal and companies can get away with it, why wouldn't they just charge both the user and advertisers?
Every industry in America, and especially tech players, work to lock in their customers, paid or not. People who are dependent on their phones don't make choices like that, and anticompetitive behaviors are becoming less illegal and easier
At this point "vote with your wallet" is basically a delusion in contexts like this
They don't even need to lock then, no one outside of tech are going to know how to switch AI provider, they are going to use their phone/computer default, be that google Gemini, Apple AI or Microsoft Copilot, same thing with browsers
AI tagging feature like those in Pocket and Karakeep, in the first place, seems helpful. But months later, you will get lots of tags to handle. Content recommendation, especially if that only consider what we saved, can replace the tagging things I guess. I wonder how do you do this for free, though.
Also your HN/Reddit integration is what I'm looking for. The way I save things from HN so far in Karakeep is that I save the main article and add the HN url manually to the note.
That is the point. The difficulty of take-home assignment as a second screen is meant to increase with the number of candidates applied so that after this screen, you always end up with 4-5 that you can then interview in a meaningful way.
If only 10 candidates applied, take home could be a 5 min task. If 50 apply, you need something that will leave only those that are really commited to working at Kagi and ready to go an extra mile (and we may be looking for resourcefulness and determination as desireable traits, given how ambitious and difficult Kagi's core mission is).
Note that the timing is everything here. You need to yell out your Moo before the other person finishes the Interrupting cow who? portion of the joke, thereby interrupting them. Trust me, it's hilarious! If you spend time with younger kids or with adults who need to lighten up (and who doesn't?!?), try this out on them and see for yourself."
Basically it is about AI interrupting you, and just in the right momment too. Super hard to do from a technical perspective.
Yes. We had that business model for Orion browser since day one.
Web browser is is the most important, most intimate piece of software on your computer. It is astonishing that ad-tech has convinced us for so long that someone else should be paying for our browser.
Good luck to you! I think the world would be a better place if people paid for their web browsers.
And yet, I'm more than a little reluctant to pay for mine: It's not the cost, it's the dread that non-open-source software can disappear anytime. I want my browser not to disappear. I want it to continue working even if you go bankrupt or when hardware manufacturers start using a different architecture.
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