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kagi is the first search engine i dont regularely fall back to google when i get bad search results. because googles good results are usually none the better. In google i get more results however most of the added results are spam or duplicates.
When we cease to understand the world
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Kagi does not require your email (you can enter anything) and you can pay with bitcoin if you want total anonimity.
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The quote above made it a bit unclear, they measured it at 1MB vs 52kB per device:

> When idle, Android sends roughly 1MB of data to Google every 12 hours, compared with iOS sending Apple about 52KB over the same period. In the US alone, Android collectively gathers about 1.3TB of data every 12 hours. During the same period, iOS collects about 5.8GB.
This isn’t about extremely dumb behavior, this is about extreme consequences for reasonable actions.

If you walk up to a food truck you shouldn’t need to worry about long term mercury exposure from a single lunch. But the same is true if you happen to eat the same item from the same truck for 30 years.

The maximum allowable exposure from food is very different between those two cases. But the second case isn’t unreasonable so that’s what the standard should be set for.
> They're not being seen due to low visibility from A column designs. SUVs used to be quite boxy and large in the 90s and early 00s (think 90s Ford Explorer, Chevy Suburban, etc), but began to take on a more streamlined, car-like look in the late 00s / early 10s. As a result of this design shift to crossovers, the A column gets slanted and blocks a wide field of view that especially affects drivers when making left turns

I'm having a bit of trouble understanding this. I've done some visibility tests in my car, a 2006 Honda CR-V, and I don't think the A columns would cause me to miss a pedestrian. I'm not sure how that compares to newer cars, but just looking from the outside at newer cars in parking lots and on the street the size and slant of the A columns seems similar to mine.

What I found in my tests is that the slant of the columns helps with me seeing pedestrians. Yes, along any given horizontal line the column could completely span the visual width of a pedestrian who is not very close to the car, but since pedestrians stand vertically it is only covering part of them vertically. E.g., if the column is blocking me seeing waist it won't be blocking the chest or head. If it is blocking their chest I'll see their waist and head.

A column with little or no slant would be able to block from head to waist.

From my perspective in the driver's seat, the driver side column is less slanted than the passenger side column, so it does block more of a pedestrian. Still, I think if a walking pedestrian was close enough that I might hit them when turning in that direction they would be close enough that enough of them would be unblocked for me to see them.

Also, since I'm much closer to the driver side column, when I turn my head from looking straight ahead to looking to the left that moves my eyes enough that there is enough perspective shift that the places that someone who is at a distance where they could be completely blocked cannot remain blocked throughout the head turn. I'll either catch them with my right eye at early in the head turn or my left late in the head turn.

This might vary between people. When I turn my head to check the driver's side I also move my head back a little. Someone who moves their head forward as they turn it could end up with the perspective shift from the turn being offset by the perspective shift from moving the head forward.

PS: while writing this I had an idea for a simple add on that could make it a lot easier to see pedestrians near the car. Why not add a pair of mirrors near the bottom of the windshield directly in front of the driver. One mirror would be angled to let the driver see what is on the left, and one to see what is on the right.
yes, at some point it was changed. I disagree with the move, but understand why it was made.

the quotes have been made to be more like approximately, than exact. where the words mentioned will appear together in the order specified, but can have certain differences in punctuation.
Did you have to question the other person's values to make your point?
> Anything less is not informed consent; it is deception masquerading as informed consent.

Which is why I think the model for such things should just be "informed consent." It's a concept that already exists in the medical practice with a well-defined procedure. Someone who your state medical board has deemed competent and responsible has to explain in painfully explicit detail all the tradeoffs and answer any and all questions. If you still want to do it you sign some forms and go on with your day.
Nothing is looking for exit. The REPL is calling repr(result) to show the result of the expression to the user. repr(exit) is the string "Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit". You _really_ don’t want repr(builtin) to have a side-effect like terminating the program.

Stop being toxic and patronizing towards open-source developers out of ignorance.
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> It's almost like there's a balance of harms to be evaluated.

Which is a highly context-specific evaluation, so is it better decided by the person with the most knowledge of their own circumstances, or across the board with no context at all?
I'd love to see this on a toroidal surface
So don't include one. JavaScript isn't fucking mandatory.
Sweden as well, me and my friends played it frequently to distract ourselves in CS class.
In France, it's getting quite okay now with the involvement of the State https://adresse.data.gouv.fr
They are very careful not to state parts of the panel spec that they don't absolutely have to, then they can legally (though obviously not morally) change the unstated parts without any issue. With early review units there are other extra excuses available to them.

It is rare that a screen will get such a significant downgrade, though it has happened. More common is downgrades in RAM and drive performance. Drive makers themselves play fast and lose with this sort of trick, sometimes changing both controllers and memory to the detriment of performance multiple times without outward change in product codes.
If it actually exited, you might incorrectly conclude that exit would work the same way in a script.
You're not missing anything, they're just for any humans reading the file who want to know more about the agent. This is also just an example file.
Regarding Python: Really? Obviously v2-to-v3 was an absolute fiasco, but since then, it's been great in my personal experience.

Don't get me wrong: Python hasn't overcome its tooling problem, so there's still that barrier. But once your team agrees on a standardized tool set, you should be able to coast A-OK.
It sounds like you are talking about generalities. I am talking about a very particular issue: they launch rockets and stages of the rocket by design fall back on populated areas.

These are not accidents. Sometimes in the US, or elsewere, an airplane falls on your house. This is not that case. The rocket in these videos didn’t “go wrong”. (Altough sometimes they do go wrong and then they cause even more devasation.)

Some engineer in some non-descript office did a briefing. It went something like this “We will launch the rocket at X. The first stage will land somewhere in the indicated area on the map. It will contain Y kg nitrogen tetroxide, and Z kg hydrazine. Ok?” And their bosses said: “ok”. That is the problem.

> The effort they have put in to reduce pollution in their cities.

I know nothing about that and therefore i will not comment on it. I know about rockets, that is why i commented on that. But do post when you have sources so we can all learn.
Thank you for the input! If you're looking for a clean space, you can easily create a new one by clicking on your profile icon in the panel at the bottom. It will contain only a few sets. You can always delete spaces that are no longer needed.

If you need a simple notepad, there are better tools out there. Anytype is more suitable if you're looking to create something like a database or knowledge base, not just a list of notes.

The next year we are working on simplifying the user experience and introducing multiplayer+communication
I have a private note app that I wrote for personal notes to keep them off the cloud.

This is the one problem I don’t know how to go about solving for tens of thousands of notes.

If anyone has any solutions, please share.
>The lawsuit had sought at least $5 billion. Settlement terms were not disclosed, but the lawyers said they have agreed to a binding term sheet through mediation, and expected to present a formal settlement for court approval by Feb. 24, 2024.

Headline is a bit misleading.
> the concept is not far removed from that of due process, which applies even outside of criminal law

Spot on. How much process is "due" is largely a function of the potential downside consequences of a mistake by the authorities.

Examples (from U.S. law):

• A police officer can briefly stop you on the street to ask a question such as "did you see what happened?" pretty much at will.

• To detain you or search your person or property, the officer (with some exceptions) needs probable cause, in most cases confirmed by a neutral, independent judicial authority (that's the warrant requirement).

• To imprison you or fine you, the government must affirmatively establish your guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, to a neutral jury of your peers, using evidence that meets established legal standards of reliability.

• In all civil cases, a claimant seeking damages must put on admissible evidence affirmatively showing facts that legally entitle the claimant to the requested relief.

• In certain grave civil matters, such as claims of fraud, the claimant must prove the claim by clear and convincing evidence, the highest standard of proof in civil law. (The usual standard in civil cases is "preponderance of the evidence," i.e., more likely than not.)

• In some cases, the testimony of witnesses "having an interest" (e.g., an agenda to advance, an axe to grind, a score to settle) must be supported by corroborating evidence because the law recognizes that such witnesses can sometimes be, ahem, unreliable.

Usual caution to readers: IAAL but not your lawyer.
Depends if you mean python the interpreter or python the language. e.g. pypy still supports python2 and has "indefinite support" or something along those lines.

Even the cpython2 interpreter is no longer supported by the original authors, but that doesn't stop someone else from supporting it.
Thank you, will try to confirm this.
98,5 %

https://caniuse.com/?search=webgl

Not using Webgl is one of the reasons why openstreetmap.org looks so dated. You can't even click on a point, and it's raster lays.
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I'm excited to introduce the #WARP Protocol – a protocol for commit messages It's a standardized commit message protocol that's set to revolutionize how we approach software development by enabling faster iteration cycles and increased reliability.
> Clotheslines don’t have a lint trap.

Thanks, I don't even know what it is.
Dunkelflaute (dark and calm) is indeed a real problem for a renewable-only future. If you want to maintain current reliability statistics with solar/wind only, you need to overbuild both storage and generation to such an extreme level that it might not be cost competitive in the end. You'll end up building your entire grid for the 100 year dunkelflaute event even though 90%+ of it will be idle most of the time, or you'll keep a bunch of gas plants idling to pick up the load in that case.

Really we need to crack better storage. Improvements in hydrogen electrolysis or direct air to fuel could do it, but there are non-trivial technology hurdles there as well.

I'm holding out hope for deep sea geothermal ala Peter Watts' Behemoth. Perhaps we can exploit the temperature difference between geothermal vents and the surrounding water to get stable and green base-load power.
Show HN: Update command 8.0 adds many Linux package managers and cargo-sweep
https://github.com/updatecommand/update

Update command provides shell scripts that update many package managers and language-specific tools such as JavaScript NPM, Python Pip, Rust cargo, etc.

New in version 8:

* Add apk, cards, emerge, eopkg, flatpak, guix, nix, opkg, prt-get, slackpkg, urpmi, xbps.

* Add cargo project scripts and cargo-sweep. On my personal laptop cargo-sweep reclaimed 500GB of disk space.

Feedback encouraged.
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My argument is that you are picking a specific group and saying the law is only for them.

>If you think you can fly and jump off the roof of a parking structure, the government can't disable gravity

The law can make it so you have guardrail on your roof if it is publicly accessible. The law can also make you put up suicide guards if it's really a problem, all of my favorite bridge have them now.

> The law doesn't address this by prohibiting rodenticides.

Rat poison has actually been getting more scrutiny lately, the traditional pellet form was banned this year in favor of bricks in the US, and non-professional exterminators are limited to buying it a pound at a time. Also, rats are a real pressing problem that is being handled with rat poison. Without it, we go back to food security problems related to controlling pest populations. The same can't be said in reverse, we don't have a real, pressing problem with an overabundance of safety.
I love https://www.mail-tester.com/

One time, mail-tester.com found that my paid personal email hoster had moved my SMTP server to a new IP address without updating the anti-spam sender mechanisms. (You had one job, people.) When email is how you keep in touch with a lot of friends, and occasionally make new consulting contacts, that's relatively costly.
Really happy with Kagi so far.

Started using it two or so months ago after seeing a comment here on HN about search and decided to go ahead and pay for a sub.

Especially liking the ability to adjust rankings and remove low-quality sites from my searches entirely and up-rank those I want like Reddit or StackOverflow.

I tried DDG for awhile then quality seemed to tank for some reason. Went back to Google and wasn’t happy with that either leading me to often use more than one search engine in a given day.

Now, if only Apple would allow changing the default search engine on iOS..
IMO it's pretty hard to training an LLM isn't a transformative use. It's clearly not just copying, or even excerpting. Even if it was just compression (and it's not), they're only providing model output not distributing the "compressed" NYT articles.

Yielding verbatim snippets of copyrighted content is a problem for OpenAI though.
Sure you can. You just can't specify it as a form action.

There's nothing to stop you from using form elements to get your user inputs as normal, then wiring up your own "submit" button that calls your own Javascript to use any method you want. JS fetch, for example, lets you put anything you want in the method: field. I think you can even specify custom methods that only have meaning for your specific server-side code.
It's very likely just an ECC implementation rather than a backdoor/debugging authentication mechanism.

Somebody from Asahi Linux (the Apple Silicon port) has more here: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111655847458820583
When you're spending money on a luxury item/service and there's a cheaper (in this case free) alternative, the it's hard to not write in this way. You are justifying it to yourself as much as anything.

I also pay for Kagi. I'm not sure it is justified - it's not that cheap. They're pretty open about their costs though, and I think that demonstrates how much advertising is paying for other services. So I'm happy to pay for now just because I really dislike adverts.
But the complaint I was responding to was about the free plan requiring signing in, not about the identity being attached to your account.

A free plan just cannot work if anyone can mint new identities for free.

You paying for Mullvad doesn't seem very relevant to that complaint. They have no free plan. They also require creating an account and signing in to use their service at all.
You can just use a light meter to measure directly.

Normal indoor lighting is a few hundred lux and with the right setup, I was able to increase it to 1000 lux at where my head is generally physically located.
The full names will be too much in some cases, and there is no abbreviation algorithm that will work everywhere (OSM is a global project). Similarly, "N 14th St" has no meaning in most of the world.

Hence, it's complicated and not "moronic" e.g. to make use of Wikidata for labels and to use external datasets to improve geocoding.
Also, unless cleverly prompted, ChatGPT normally has a positive attitude. This post looks too negative and dismissive for a typical ChatGPT answer: "worse", "disastrous", "stuff", "don't bother", etc...

It follows the general construction of a ChatGPT answer though.
Huh... that's interesting. I guess things are guilty until proven innocent when it comes to AI plagiarism lol
Mozilla Corporation is not a non-profit. It engages in many business relationships and brings in about half a billion dollars a year. How much should the founder-CEO of a 25 year old company with half a billion a year in revenue be making?
>Unregulated markets, such as cryptocurrency, privacy, etc. seem to cause most of the problems.

Can you expand on this a bit? This feels a bit like a cause and effect confusion to me. Perhaps the unregulated markets are just where the "problematic" behavior moves, as it has been excluded from the regulated markets? Also, what does privacy have to do with this?
I was gifted this book a few days ago, and just started reading. Suddenly I want to start researching cutting edge maths :)

WHat made the book extra enjoyable for me was that I did not realize it was fictionalized at first. I wondered how the author was able to get all this very personal detail- thought he might have had access to diaries.

Even knowing that it is fictionalized, I really love this book!!!
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And that's because smaller cars are less desired by The Market.

Let's forget small / smaller for a second. Let's just go with mid-sized. *Plenty* of options there and yet SUVs and trucks are the goto choice. See?

It's the market.
I've played Noita (https://noitagame.com/) for quite a bit, and lately it clicked to me, that the core mechanics of the player and environment come from Liero. Though Noita is a single player rouge-lite, it has wands instead of guns, but environment is destructible, and explosions work the same.

It's much deeper, both in mechanics and in lore, it has actual levels with progressions, but I was curious why did I enjoy that game so much. Turns out, I spent a ton of time playing its predecessors with my friends :)
if err != nil
The first half of your comment is valid criticism.

The second half reads like unhinged libertarian propaganda.
I haven't seen these sorts of native prompts. Even passkey prompts open with a popover toast that covers the bottom part of the screen to confirm which account you want to use. Do you know what mechanism Duo is using in this example?

Edit: could this be a prompt from a failed faceID authentication for the app's secure enclave storage? most of those prompts aren't cancelable, but this tiktok one is
I've also seen a report about ink printers failing without any proper error message because of a full sponge. (Where all the ink goes when you clean the heads.) If you disassemble the printer and replace the sponge, it magically starts working again.
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It's just a question being asked by an armed person with tremendous legal authority to fuck you over in a thousand different ways and a well-documented history of abusing that power.

It's entirely understandable that most people would be terrified when such a person is paying attention to them in particular.

It's not "just a question". We can't ignore the power differential and how incredibly intimidating the cops are.

Personally, I would prefer that we decide to address the deep, long-standing, and pervasive issues that our police forces present. But if we're not going to get that, at least we can get minor restrictions that somewhat reduce the problem.
The state and the media and the establishment and their lackeys at the bottom hate home schooling with a passion. I wonder why
I don’t want ads in my searches most of the time, but I get what they mean.

That said, I believe searching for AirPods alternatives or comparison would’ve reveled a similar result.
It reminds me of one of my earliest ventures into freelancing, where all I had was a tiny VPS that supported PHP. I had to process a large spreadsheet which had maybe 5/10k entries in it. Small potatoes these days, compared to that time in 2002/2003.

I wasn't a computer scientist so I read the file in the dumbest way possible, but kept getting errors about memory usage and running out of space since I was looping within loops within loops. I went through it and added `$variable = null` at every opportunity. Lo and behold it worked.
Fascinating. This reminds me of nanopond
>(Note that in Secure Desktop, you’re not entering any password; you’re reading a message and allowing or declining a privilege escalation.)

If you're a standard user, you'll be asked for the administrator's username/password on the secure desktop. Also, the secure desktop encompasses other parts of the system as well, like the lockscreen or the password change option on the ctrl-alt-del screen.

>For iOS passcode verification, you’d need both secure input (which the UI almost certainly achieves), but also trusted output of at least one bit of information: Whether the user is currently interacting with the OS (or a trusted application) or an (untrusted) application.

At least on windows that's provided by the secure attention key sequence. It's not enabled by default, but there's a group policy for it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
Wouldn’t it be better for all parties involved to keep it open and implement regulations requiring they be honest about products? The customers could use the marketplace to get the products they actually want, and the business gets to benefit.

Note that idea isn’t mutually incompatible with penalizing the company for all the counterfeit products it sold/marketed.
a Mobius strip, even
Do you need different user accounts, or just different addresses? I'm able to user any address with my domains, but I just pay for the one user account.

If you do have 10 domains that would be quite a lot still.
*accepted to the same level that FOSS is accepted.
The video adds a lot of extra stuff beyond what is in the NY Times video: There is an interview with one of the test takers; a description of three possible correct answers (1, 3, or 4, depending on the perspective); a video demonstration of several ways to compute it; and an interesting discussion about sidereal time.

Not that you were implying otherwise, but in this case I feel the video adds quite a bit more material and a more complete story beyond the NY Times piece. In reading the NY Times piece, I would leave with the conclusion that the correct answer was not one of the options. After watching the video, I would leave with the conclusion that the question was ambiguously written leading to multiple possible answers, one of which was there, but two other valid answers were not there.
WTF? Down voted? Who on HN failed Economics 101? God bless you, but please stay away from the DV button.
Separate computer talking to SoftICE over serial port.