skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I paid 15k CAD for 2 Daikin units two years ago, the pricing is kinda stupid but it depends on the quality of the model. Chinese models are way cheaper than Japanese models.
The tax benefits of a second passport for us citizens are pretty close to zero unless you give up your us passport, and the exit tax is no joke (basically assumes you sold all of your assets including real estate, private shares, stock/bond portfolios, etc on expatriation and charges cap gains on all the gains)
I loved Descent and Descent2! Most importantly, because speed was coded as uniform in the unit axes (x,y & z), everybody who played always chorded and flew in a permanent diagonal, which I recall was much easier to pull off with the keyboard than joystick.

Early applications of Pythagorus' theorem in action!
> Anyway, since we are here, where should I get a passport too?

A lot of it has to do with your personal background. I know one friend going through the process of obtaining German citizenship which is available to her due to her ancestors fleeing Nazi Germany. There's a subreddit dedicated to obtaining German citizenship here: https://old.reddit.com/r/GermanCitizenship/

Also know someone who obtained Irish citizenship due to their background, there's a subreddit for that too: https://old.reddit.com/r/IrishCitizenship/
That article, basically, is an ad of an agency which helps with second passports.
“Works on my machine”

Depend on external services, die by external services. If you can’t afford redundancy, then you must accept downtime.

I build all of my dependent libraries locally and bundle with my app. For one application, I maintain and build the entire OS from source. I depend on aws,azure cloud storage for my own hosted cdn. I can fail back to my own hosts if necessary.
It's important to note that those ratings are all tested under specific conditions that includes a rather short (~3m IIRC) lineset and other parameters of installation that in the field can lower the capacity as more energy goes to the pumping of the liquid refrigerant. Particularly the lineset length.

Also, the testing varies between "traditional style heat pump" and inverter driven "VRF" equipment.

That's not to say that the AHRI information isn't useful, but the numbers can be a little subtle to get to an apples to apples comparison and you should have a selection done based upon some real estimated line lengths and installation conditions.
You can but there's still stigma surrounding mental health in many workplaces
> The top destinations for supplemental passports among Americans are Portugal, Malta, Greece and Italy

Something tells me instability is not the real issue.
COP is Coefficient Of Performance, basically the heat they produce divided by the electricity input, so a COP of 4.5 means that 1kW of electricity produces 4.5 kW of heat (it's taking heat from the environment so you can say a COP of 4.5 means it's running at 450% efficiency, but that's only in terms of electricity use, not actual overall efficiency - but electricity use is what we care about).

COP is only an instantaneous measurement though, and changes depending on the outside temperature. So if you need heating for five months a year, and it's usually exceeding COP of 5 for 80% of that time but dips down to a COP of 3.0 on the three or four coldest days of the year, it's not really correct to say it's either >5 or that it's 3.0 - so SCOP is used as a 'seasonal' COP that is averaged over a longer time period, so you can compare different systems over the longer term.
In many peoples eyes having around 2 years worth of average household income to throw at a single passport is rich. I don't know where the line for super rich would be, but the article just talks about the US rich.
To be fair, the wealthy didn't ruin the US, I think the tea party movement and the involvement of near-retarded anti-vax flat-earth paranoid conspiracy nuts in politics is ruining things.
I think the strategy is to succeed at all costs now then pay out a fine or settlement as a cost of doing business later when it's a fraction of their profits. Seems to be how things go.
i think it holds true that violent uprisings are "allowed" to happen by elites.

they may mutate out of control once they happen and change targets but it takes a LOT of "people in power" looking the other way/tacitly supporting them to happen in the first place.
“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful, Eric A. Meyer, 28 December 2002:

https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
> the only real killer feature it has to me is the ability to block domains from your results, which I can currently only do in other search engines via a user script that doesn't help me on mobile

User scripts are doable on Firefox for Android.

For iOS, somewhat ironically, I think you'd need Orion.
Actually, even the question to know whether the blood in the brain and behind the eyes can be explained with violent shaking (without impact) is debated as the scientific evidence is still lacking. I said "without impact" because the answer is clearly yes when there is an impact -- but there will also be additional markers of trauma in those cases.

So, it's not only to know whether it's the only cause, but even more fundamentally, whether it is a cause.

In any case, one can't really say that SBS is "not a thing", because babies are definitely shaken, and some are injured or die -- there's no debate about that, unfortunately.

[1] https://cyrille.rossant.net/introduction-shaken-baby-syndrom...
30 Years of Business Knowledge in 2hrs 26mins 12Secs [video]
(having voted with my feet decades ago) I'd bet people in the Old Country are not worried about economic, but rather political, instability.

Other people in the thread have mentioned tax issues, but really, as far as tax havens go Montana is right up there.
Top 10% is basically a frugal tech-bro in a flyover. FAANG is top 5%. Assuming "over the course of at least 5-10 years" for both to get there. I doubt these are the people being discussed. These are basically millenials/zoomers that can actually afford the "American dream middle class lifestyle" - house, kids, savings, etc without an inheritance, but not much more.

Article is probably focusing on 10mil+ net worths at least, but likely "UHNWI" which are 30 mil+ who have time to think about this stuff.
There is a little something called "fair use".
To be fair, there are some legal implications to providing VPNs in many countries, since they're effectively making you look a lot like an ISP from a legal and practical point of view.

Google isn't a random fly-by-night VPN operator that can just ignore subpoenas and takedown notices, so they probably did some cost-reward analysis per country before offering it there.

They could have bypassed some (but probably not all) of that by offering cross-country VPN nodes, but I suspect that given their size they didn't want to get into the business of "jurisdiction shopping", nor did they have any interest in landing on various media companies' "geo-bypassing VPN IP range" block lists.
I’d rather them lean on Brave than Google or Bing
> unless they are criminals, in which case we don't care they don't have full anonymity (nor we want them as customers)

Christians can be labeled criminals in China. Young women try to get a 1st trimester abortion in Texas.

What the hell is he talking about? Anyone with even a basic understanding of human liberty and dignity knows anonymity and free speech are bedrocks. Especially disturbing coming from someone trying to run a search engine which can collect very detailed and targeted information from users via their search history!
Yeah, that's something I've been promoting for years. I don't care whether you write tests first or last, as long as you eventually get into a feedback loop of coding and verifying your code, quality will improve.

The same goes for customer specs. Just build a thing and verify if this is right.

Rinse, repeat. Progress is the only metric.
I don’t have a horse in this race, but the author of this post sounds insufferable based on their email responses and fediverse thread. They post a public email on their public website (I assume for people to reach out to them) and then gets mad when someone does so?

> I may not have spelled this out explicitly in my previous reply but I will do so here: I am not interested in getting more replies from you on this subject. Declining a call does not mean I want you to
argue with me about Kagi in email either. I do not trust you, personally, either and do not want to have a conversation about that. And for the record, I read that blog page already. If you had read my own blog post, you would notice that I link to it.

If they don’t want to talk, just don’t respond.

The author also cross posted their blog to multiple social media platforms, which I assume means they wanted it to get attention. But then when the CEO does see it and offers some explanations they get mad that the CEO “vomited out” a reply that they didn’t want? I’m sorry, but the CEO of Kagi definitely sounds like the reasonable one here, thanks for linking this thread.
Because the tree is a nice abstraction for some problems. But sometimes you need a collection of pure functions. Sometimes it’s best to think of your object as data blobs going through a line of map,filter,reduce functions. Not every part of your application is the same, use the right abstraction for the job.
> My approach prefers extracting IO operations to adapters, testing them separately, then using reliable fakes to test the bulk of the system’s behavior from the outside

...which is exactly a unit test.

If you want to talk about "functional core, imperative shell" and its implications for tests, then do _that_. Writing clickbaity titles that directly contradict the content of your short blog post itself isn't a great way to foster nuanced discussion.
It can also change after an election, and the impact can be retroactive.

Vlad needs to walk that "criminal" comment WAY the hell back.
So if I understand your comment, you are suggesting that they went and raised money to make t-shirts?

Not upset in the slightest, I love Kagi search and want to see it continue. Merch is a solved problem and there was no reason to bring it in-house and make such a big announcement around it.
(1) Marginalia can get away with it because it is searching a smaller collection over which it is easier to manage spam. On the other hand, Matt Cutts became a hero at Google not because he built models for filtering unwanted content but because he figured out how to motivate people to make the labels to train that sort of model.

(2) One of the most depressing experiences of my life was reading through the first ten years or so of TREC conferences looking for something useful to improve the search engines I was building. Eventually I found a volume that revealed the handful of useful results that they got in the first ten years (here https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262220736/trec/)

Advances in search quality are rare and come along about once a decade; BM25 was such an advance, on paper. Even though BM25 is in Elasticsearch and a lot of other products very few people are taking advantage of it because they don't want to do the parametric tuning it requires to get superior results.

https://sbert.net/

is a similar once-in-decade advance that actually works out of the box with relatively little tuning. It doesn't address all the issues of search and should be integrated with more traditional search, but if you are building a search engine in 2024 you can expect to wait another 10 years for another advance like that.

(3) Marginalia particularly interests me because it is a small collection and the problems of search over a small collection are very different from those over a large collection. Gerald Salton started IR research with a deck of punch cards and he thought 80 documents was a lot and with 80 documents you are going to be very concerned about missing relevant documents because you didn't pick the right word. If you have 80,000,000,000 documents you have a very different problem. My take is SBERT and related techniques are particularly effective against small collection problems.
Yeah, I signed up for the free Kagi trial because of all the praise on here, and I think I've used it... twice? It felt exactly like DDG and Google. I think I just don't use search engines very often.
It you want to know when Evernote went downhill, it’s precisely the moment they started selling backpacks.
If someone says "please don't email me about this anymore" and you continue to email them you are being combative
US lawmaker proposes a public database of all AI training material
The ski resorts saving snow over the summer
Six books that shaped Japanese philosophy
It was shared when OpenAI (or whoever else) created it and then shared it with you (or likely sold it to you if you’re a subscriber).

But even if you think that’s fine it makes using AI models for your own commercial applications more risky.
Vlad's message to "discuss" reads more like a sealion-ey 'let me explain to you why you are wrong, you just don't understand why you are wrong, I am very smart and not wrong' than an honest admission that Vlad was wrong and is interested in being humble and learning from someone else.
You're gonna have to take my word on this: Consulting gets significantly less stressful past year 3. The entire point of the industry is that you "abuse" fresh grads with work in exchange for them getting a "big" name on their CV. Past year 3 you either get promoted very quickly(consulting pay scale is like an S-curve Edit: Its more like an S-curve and then a lottery, because once you are on the "partner" track past year 6-7 its a crapshoot and if you don't want to play its better to exit) and will get to chill out a bit more, or you exit into the industry into a cushy job.

If you are not interested in academia, do not go for PhD. You will absolutely hate having to do TA for random subjects for shit pay.
USA Counties
Verifying the Mathematics Behind Ocean Modeling
Orion is my daily driver and I hope they don't crush that. It has bugs, but it works.
> There are people who argue that just the name of a person is PII and they are wrong.

It's very easy for a name to be PII. I'm quite certain mine is unique, due to hyphenating when I got married.
Decent trench system.
Automated tests are great, the problem described is over-reliance on mocking. Mocking should only be used for dependencies which have non-deterministic behavior or where it is otherwise impractical to use the real implementation.
Depends on how many of those days there are. If it's only half a dozen or so, I can deal with putting on an extra layer of clothing in the house for a handful of days per year. As long as it's warm enough inside to prevent damage like pipes freezing, a small amount of personal discomfort for a few days is acceptable.
I think every civilized society should execute one of its billionaires once in a while, pour encourager les autres.
Gives you access to the EU and those are easy to get I guess (schemes like invest some $x00k and get a passport)
We don’t just help you outsmart job search algorithms, we make you the stand-out candidate for the role.
This is an extremely dishonest and factually untrue comment.
Huh? The flight attendants would obviously unlock them again as soon as the plane was up in the air and stable. It's just during the take-off process itself that you need to know no one's in there.
I know I'm being pedantic but there is a difference between a factory and a fulfillment service. When I read "they own a T-shirt factory" I interpret it as a place where T-shirts are made which is a much bigger cost than renting a warehouse for fulfillment.
I agree. As a person with bipolar disorder, that is one of the first "test" when taking a new job.

If we can even discuss my mental health, there's no way I'll be able to work there.
Say no yet explaining why
A few years ago, I got tired of my company talking about plans to upgrade our main app from Python 2 to Python 3, until one weekend I just did it. The tests caught a million little changes that I worked through until everything passed. Come Monday, we were on Python 3 and I took a couple workdays off to play video games.

I wouldn’t have dared even start if I didn’t have confidence in our test suite.
COP (coefficient of performance) is taken at a full load condition with specific indoor/outdoor conditions.

SCOP (seasonal coefficient of performance) is a weighted average of performance at different load conditions that represent different outdoor conditions based upon an average binning of weather conditions.
Middle class wiped out: Half of Myanmar's people forced into poverty by war
I was always fascinated by George Hotz's hacking abilities. Inspired me a lot for my personal projects.
From Conclusion:

> This paper has studied the effects of the introduction of flexible pay for pub- lic school teachers on the composition of the workforce, teachers’ effort, and
student achievement. A switch away from seniority-based salary schedules toward pay-for-quality in a subset of Wisconsin school districts resulted in high-quality teachers moving to these FP districts and low-quality teachers either moving to dis-tricts which remained with the salary schedules or leaving the public school system altogether. As a result, the composition of the teaching workforce improved in FP districts. Effort exerted by all teachers also increased and, subsequently, test scores improved.
The real fraud is H1Bs just hire each other at American companies
These skills are greatly enhanced by your tactile abilities

Massage

Keyboard/Piano

Tactile trinkets like Rubics Cube/Figet Spinners

Pottery/Sculpture

Construction

Climbing, Obstacle Courses

Cleaning/Washing

Cooking
FCC's Broadband Nutrition Label Doesn't Solve Unchecked Telecom Monopoly Power
Why? If the risk of collapse of these countries is less than perfectly correlated with the US, having extra passports still helps.
They're very obviously the near to mid term future of transportation for a huge number of people.
Wires, flash, and resistors can be replaced
Economic depression or recession is not the worry: the worry is political extremists on the left or on the right taking control of the government a la Russia in 1917, Germany in 1932 or China in 1949. Even though the probability of such an outcome is very low, it makes sense for rich people to protect against it because of how deadly and full of long bouts of suffering and trauma such outcomes are.
WriteRequest::timeseries is a vector (https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/prompb/re...) and
the repeated file `Timeseries::labels` and `Timeseries::samples` are reused across different timeseries. You don't have to alloc a new vector for the lables and samples for each new timeseries instance.
I think whats more harmful than unit tests are code coverage metrics for unit tests that devs feel compelled or are required to achieve. The easiest way to achieve code coverage goals for tests is to write lots of small tests that test individual methods, but test very little of the interaction between them.

I feel that the goal of unit testing should be to test the largest unit possible without requiring external dependencies. In the language of domain driven design, this means to test the domain model. If you can get extensive coverage of the domain model as a whole, system tests can be used to test the complete system.

Alas, I have seen very few software systems with high quality domain models. It is not an easy thing to achieve.
Yes, but (especially) Greece and Italy aren't known for their stability in recent years.
>If a business is really GDPR compliant, it will offer a download option for stuff like user settings and so on.

I've made a bunch of SAR's, including pre-GDPR and I've never received one that contained my user settings, so that seems pretty normal.

The whole PII convo seems incredibly asinine though, "PII" is not a thing in the GDPR. Personal data is[1], but that's not the same thing.

If Kagi keep a record of searches performed by a user, that's something that a SAR should be used for, but the whole convo just misses the mark entirely.

[^1]: See article 4.1 https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/
Those people help vote in bad politicians, but their propaganda is fed by opportunistic and wealthy. It's a cycle, but it's definitely "top-down" at least if you want to ascribe actual malice.
I'm seeing it more and more, and it's depressing. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38612300

> Per ChatGPT the government agency that can sue you for false advertising is FTC, not DMV.
Just a small correction: I'm not the article's author, I don't really have a conclusion, and I don't see the mail exchange as quite so damning as most commenters here. Although you should really stop mailing when someone asks you to.

I was posting this mostly to get a sense what others think about this, since I have only heard good things about Kagi so far, and thought about subscribing last month (but didn't, yet).
Kagi’s killer feature is somehow managing to get literally every post about them featured on the front page of HN.

If they fail with all of the free marketing they’ve been gifted by this community I can only shake my head.
QKD does not solve the problem that quantum computers create, and cannot replace public key cryptography. That's a common misconception that the marketing departments of QKD research tries to keep alive.

Even under ideal conditions (whether these can exist is debatable), the best QKD gives you is a securely encrypted channel only when you already have a securely authenticated channel. The latter is extremely important, makes the whole thing mostly useless, and is often omitted by QKD advocates.
I suppose that with complex systems, specially the ones with some fragility or in some sort of equilibrium that only can sustain push below some threshold, a big enough disturbance will put it off balance, and everything that emerges from that will probably end being negative.

Think in someone balancing itself standing over a ball, and get hit by a strong wind, if the things he does are not very precise and in the right direction he will fall, but maybe not in the direction of the wind that pushed him. And we don't have something actively trying to rebalance the system, nor our current understanding will let us be precise at the time of messing with it somewhat to try to fix this.

In any case, we are talking about hotter sea currents, and the ocean is absorbing a lot of the extra heat both by having more greenhouse gases, and positive feedback loops triggered by them like the melting of floating ice (so less albedo, and the ocean gets more heat from the sun).
Language network as a natural kind within the landscape of the human brain
Maybe they wanted to make T shirts. Who knows. I don't get why people are up in arms about it.
In nearly all places extreme code means dark! Sure there are less clouds, but the latitude is high and so there are not only few hours of daylight, the earth's angle is also working against solar.
Yeah, you could probably just sell one of your planes and pick one up.
Me too and I also happily support Orion and using the RC as a default browser.

Kagi is for a subset of the internet and specifically for the part that has content. The good parts of cyberspace if you like. OP seems to be looking for something bigger like someone they can trust to replace Google and save the internet as well. For that search I say good luck sailor

(see, that is the good thing in Kagi too - you can downvote ;)
While it's difficult to study in a controlled way, any serious, considered attempt to improve the status quo in state schooling is an extremely good idea.
Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company – Dharmesh Shah [video]
When MAD happens, it's pretty much D for everyone; if you're worried about that scenario then maybe look to Oz/NZ/a mineshaft with 10 women for each man.
Not necessarily. "Unnecessary" to the client doesn't mean that the server can know that ahead of sending it. A redesign can be the only way to get out of that.