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by pythux 17d ago
Compared to, e.g. France, this week’s Bavaria looked refreshingly green. Not saying it’s great but it didn’t feel too dry (maybe it depends where specifically?). I didn’t know about the farmers’ struggles, though.
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by pythux 1mo ago
Brave Search operates a fully independent index (i.e. we have zero reliance on Bing or any other third-party index). Disclaimer: I work at Brave
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by pythux 3mo ago
Didn't all other countries get used to the 10% extra tariffs currently applied, though? It's pretty clear that 100% is a threat, but the previous threats didn't end up with 0% so it "worked".
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by pythux 3mo ago
It might not be a coincidence that POTUS wrote yesterday on Truth Social that 100% tariffs would be imposed on any country proceeding with taxing US' digital services.
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by pythux 9mo ago
Thank you for explaining the issue with such clarity. This is one of the best comments I’ve read for a while.
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by pythux 9mo ago
They link to: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-omni-68d100a86... from the blog post but it does seem like this redirects to their main space on HF so maybe they didn't yet make the model public?
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by pythux 10mo ago
Hey, thanks for the kind words. I just wanted to clarify that Brave Search is 100% independent and doesn’t source results from any third -party (see here for more details: https://brave.com/blog/search-independence&#x2F
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Is GitHub Down?(githubstatus.com)
2 points by pythux 11mo ago|0 comments
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by pythux 1y ago
Kagi is not independent: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm... Disclaimer: I work at Brave.
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by pythux 2y ago
> If the story turns out like it did with Cliqz/Hubert Burda (the other big German publisher) it will mean reinterpreting privacy as keeping the American companies out of the loop but sharing the data with the German publisher is OK
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by pythux 2y ago
These models are not of the same nature either. Their training was done in a different way. A uniform naming (even with explicit number of parameters) would still be misleading.
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by pythux 2y ago
Update on the status page as of 16h10 CET: "Technical difficulties Investigating - We are currently experiencing intermittent network issues affecting some of our users. We are working to fully restore services as soon as possible. We
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by pythux 2y ago
I can confirm that both web client and iOS apps cannot connect to servers at this point. There was a server outage earlier today, not sure if it's related.
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Ask HN: Is Proton Mail Down?
15 points by pythux 2y ago|13 comments
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by pythux 2y ago
Hey, let me forward that to someone more knowledgeable about this topic. We'll get back to you. Thanks for the feedback!
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by pythux 2y ago
It can be both, we have people who look at community feedback on a daily basis, but engineers also tend to be out there on HN and Reddit, etc. and today it was the case that I saw the comment and could jump in straight away.
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by pythux 2y ago
I just wanted to thank you for sharing your experience in such details. Wishing you all the best on your path to recovery and beyond.
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by pythux 2y ago
Hi, Brave engineer here, May I ask when you switched away from Brave Search? We've been doing work to reduce the amount of captchas a few months ago and we stopped getting feedback about this issue at that point. If it's still hap
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by pythux 2y ago
That is not fully accurate. Brave Search is fully independent - the last dependency on Bing was dropped more than a year ago, but even at the time the dependency would not have prevented Brave Search from functioning during an event like ye
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by pythux 2y ago
Qwant was not usable yesterday during the Bing outage so that pretty much shows they cannot function without Bing (even if they do have some auxiliary indexes of some sort)
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by pythux 2y ago
Qwant also relies on Bing (and was not usable during yesterday's incident)
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by pythux 2y ago
What makes you think that Google would agree to such a deal?
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by pythux 2y ago
Bing does not work me at the moment (maybe they can service partial traffic? Unclear if it’s better/worse than a few hours ago when the outage started)
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by pythux 2y ago
Thanks! At the moment we are not observing any 500s on our end so it would definitely be very useful to get a screen recording so that we can pin-point any issue that you are facing.
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by pythux 2y ago
Please see my answer to another similar message of yours here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40452726 Brave Search is fully independent and does not rely on Bing whatsoever so any 500 is unrelated to this incident.
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by pythux 2y ago
Hey, Brave engineer here. Brave Search is up and running (thanks to our fully independent index and no reliance on Bing whatsoever). Any 500 error is unrelated to the Bing incident. Would you be able to share a query if the 500 happens cons
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by pythux 2y ago
The status page says it's been resolved 8 minutes ago (Apr 05, 2024 - 08:48 UTC): https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/bnkkbj90yhz6 But it definitely still happens now (500s on refresh on PRs and GitHub actions)
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by pythux 2y ago
Not fully down but experiencing elevated error rate with 500s since a few minutes.
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by pythux 3y ago
Thanks for confirming, we've just deployed some improvements to better handle VPN traffic and penalize legit users less. I hope this improves your QoL on Brave Search.
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by pythux 3y ago
Hi, Brave engineer here, I'd like to mention that when you subscribe to Brave Search premium, it is completely decoupled from the searches you then make (no way for us to link your email to your searches) by relying on blinded tokens t

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