skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A man of culture. Cap gets the reference.

(sometimes I try to make my meme* references four words long, as a nod to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengyu )

* "ideas reproducing via people"?
I suspect it's better PR to say "instability” than "avoid paying taxes"
> To be pedantic,

I don't think that's pedantry. That's just a straightforward reading of the rules, and I missed the word "smaller", somehow. *shrug*
For a second there, I thought you were talking about Vlad!

Based on the exchanges, Vlad is both extremely combative and unwilling to accept the possibility that he is wrong (which he is here).

Being aggressively wrong is no way to go through life. Vlad should be more humble, and open to being wrong, rather than being unnecessarily belligerent.
I've seen him work on tinygrad on his Twitch livestream couple times, so more than likely him indeed.
Try some other AI. Maybe Clause couldn't read text in the screenshots.
Really shocked at those prices, I really don't understand what's going on in the US/Canada. I could get a 7kW Mitsubishi Electric single-head mini-split installed with change for AU$3000 here (US$1950) if I buy the unit online and get one of the many, many installers around to put it in (fairly simple install if it's near an external wall is around AU$750 at the moment), but that document has prices in the $7K to $12K for that size?!?
Re the t-shirts: last time I checked the were private equity not VC and priced their product for profitability not growth.

Would you be upset if they had just donated that excess to charity?
Did you read the post? I know this sort of fan/hater type, and this post comes across to me as very much not that.

I think Kagi have a lot of things to answer for, in particular, a large tax bill, possible GDPR violations, and potentially a future inability to pay their hosting bill in t-shirts.
A cursory google search suggests that it's been removed at the silicon level.
A good parallel would be that when Brexit was occurring almost everyone with the opportunity was renewing their second passport. The only friend I knew who outwardly supported England leaving, was of course, renewing his duel-Irish one.
Just have to wait 6 months for work permit.
It's better to be good than not be perfect in the face of being bad.
She Won the Boston Marathon 10 Years Ago. She's Still Waiting for Her $100k
> You cannot take a sick day by telling your team, “I have mental issues and need a day off.”

Actually, that is exactly what you _can_ do. It just takes more transparent communication about your needs and desires and more trust and safety within you r company and team...
I think that this qualifies: https://matt3o.com/
No I actually didn't have muscle fibers in mind -- there's quite a bit of ongoing research specifically in that area.
What do COP and SCOP acronyms mean in this context?
I haven't looked too deeply into perplexity yet. What do you find much better about it?
The title was Wirth's fault.
Its probably best that you don't speak on my behalf when you don't know me at all.

I do in fact know how industrial ag works. I have a small farm that I'm still in the process of building up, but have meat in the freezer and produce on the shelves that we grew and processed here. We work with farmers in the regenerative movement and go to events by our local extension office that usually cater much more to the industrial ag process.

I spent two summers interning with one of the big oil companies working on software for their upstream research department. I obviously don't know everything about the industry after two internships, but have seen how the companies operate including how proud they are of all the random products they jam petroleum byproducts into (they were particularly proud of having petroleum wax in Hershey's bars).

We're simply coming at the problem from different angles. I look at many of the issues raised like PFAS, plastics in the ocean, water contamination, etc and see unsustainable systems. I totally get that we have built societies around those systems, but that doesn't make them functional or sustainable long term.

We're going to have to deal with the consequences and limitations eventually. Would you propose that we wait for the damages to pile so high that we can't avoid it anymore? Or peg our hopes on some massive government intervention to find a top-down solution that manages to avoid all the pitfalls of political and economic considerations that likely run against the solutions needed for these unsustainable systems?

I'm simply pointing out that consumers can make choices that help push solutions in the right direction. Companies only produce PFAS because we either don't know or don't care, and we collectively prefer the convenience and novelty of the products. If that's the case, why would a government push a solution down our throats? If we'd support a ban on PFAS, why wouldn't we just do that ourselves by avoiding those products?
Millionäre in USD is still rich by European standards when your average neth worth is in the five figure to low six figure range.

Hence why a lot of them like moving to Southern Europe where they can live like kings getting the Californian weather on a budget once they made their wealth in the US.
> ... after regulation, court orders and fines have failed

One question for you. In this hypothetical where AGI is truly considered such a grave threat, do you believe the reaction to this threat will be similar to, or substantially gentler than, the reaction to threats we face today like “terrorism” and “drugs”? And, if similar: do you believe suspected drug labs get a court order before the state resorts to a police raid?

> I'm not seeing the odiousness of the proposal.

Well, as regards EliY and airstrikes, I’m more projecting my internal attitude that it is utterly unserious, rather than seriously engaging with whether or not it is odious. But in earnest: if you are proposing a policy that involves air strikes on data centers, you should understand what countries have data centers, and you should understand that this policy risks escalation into a much broader conflict. And if you’re proposing a policy in which conflict between nuclear superpowers is a very plausible outcome — potentially incurring the loss of billions of lives and degradation of the earth’s environment — you really should be able to reason about why people might reasonably think that your proposal is deranged, even if you happen to think it justified by an even greater threat. Failure to understand these concerns will not aid you in overcoming deep skepticism.
Agree. The "what about the client" trope is a complete non-argument. If unit tests make code better, the client maybe wants that. The argument should purely be based on if they are helpful.
I mean, Occam's razor says they were just naive and didn't realise what a huge pain doing stuff like that is. There's a reason that pretty much everyone uses a third party for this.
Sounds like Claude3 was trained on Hacker News comment threads – read the first 3 paragraphs and believe you've got the gist of the whole article.
That's fair. It's usually worthwhile to suck it up and learn the basics of what it is you need to do.
The Go version is not a naive implementation, it's also the well optimized version from VictoriaMetrics.
Those arguments do not transfer well to the AGI topic. You can't create counter-AGI, since that's also an intelligent agent which would be just as dangerous. And chips are more bottlenecked than biologics (... though gene synthesizing machines could be a similar bottleneck and raiding vendors which illegally sell those might be viable in such a scenario).
Do you have a link to the product? Interested in something similar.
Exactly, that's the major obstacle we're facing: a particular kind of psychological bias (very human...)
I usually assume it's going to be a controversial take, but controversy shouldn't be inherently negative to anyone. Plenty of the best things we have today caused and were propelled by controversy.
What do you mean by "broken code"? Any sort of code that yields in a bug? Any sort of bug? Because interpreting directly broken code implies to me some sort of compilation error. Also measuring that seems very complicated, depending on how you interpret "broken code". E.g. a bug could influence 100% of the customers, 5% of the customers, 0.1% of the customers and only when certain conditions happen, it could be a combination of deployments introducing this. It could be a bug that can easily be worked around by a customer. It could be a bug that only arrives 6 months down the line, because some dependency changed, and you didn't have proper handling for it, even though it was expected that you had. E.g. you are calling a third party API that alerts you in advance they are planning to add extra error code in the system in 6 months, so you should probably also include it, but you don't and then system bugs due to that.

The problem could arrive 2 years in the future when scale increases and the code wasn't built to handle it, even though it was expected.

You take 100 of your past deployments and see how many resulted in some sort of a bug? E.g. if there's 0, then you have 100% confidence?

> any issues apart from really novel unexpected stuff you wouldn't have tested anyway.

I mean that's one thing that makes it impossible to have it 100% for me at least.

> I would say you know when you're in that environment and directly measuring doesn't really help as it's more a matter of culture than technical metrics.

I may have been in wrong environments throughout my whole life, but I also have trouble imagining a perfect environment where there's 100% confidence.
Apple explicitly and actively making what should be a 'standard' text message experience worse on non-apple devices is malicious.

FB Messenger is simply an alternative. I haven't paid attention to it, but maybe the Threads fediverse integration will piss me off just as much.
If you are in North America, I highly recommend to check out https://ashp.neep.org/#!/ to compare heat pumps. It has efficiency and technical data on almost all models easy to compare without the marketing bullsh*t of manufacturers. The tests are conducted independently and instead of one COP you get the COP depending on the outside temperature which very important in cold climates like Canada.
Reply with some real explanation instead of snark.
Studies on TDD has failed to show a benefit over writing tests after the fact. The only factor that seems to matter is writing tests, the more tests the better. If you can write your code so it's amenable to more testing, or such that it requires fewer tests because it's simpler/has fewer cases to handle, great. If you have a framework that can generate tests (fuzzing, property-based testing), awesome.
Everyone talking about unit tests, and testing in general as a thing to achieve are missing it entirely. Tests aren't a thing to achieve, and talking about whether unit testing, mocks etc. are better or worse without context is pointless. The thing to achieve is having a code base that 1) works 2) can be changed easily and proved to be still working. Now that we know that we can start deciding "how" we can achieve that and it will be different for every code base (and often different strategies for different parts of the code base). The key thing to realize in a test strategy is that your code has two interfaces, not one. The first interface is the user, the second is some form of automated test harness. Hence, testing becomes a function of two points above and a design required to achieve that.

In summary, don't do this:

- I need 100% code coverage

- Everything needs a mock

- Ensuring unit tests for everything

Do this:

- Ask how can I ensure my code works?

- How can I ensure my code keeps working?

- What sort of testing strategy can achieve the above?

- What sort of testing strategy is easily maintained without causing tons of excess burden?

- What interfaces do I need on each module of my software to achieve this?
Sam Altman pitches ChatGPT Enterprise to firms, including Microsoft customers
I think if you have grandparent or great grandparent that was a citizen of some EU countries you can apply for citizenship
For those interested, here is a very informative and fact based review of the movie (unfortunately in German only): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kue5-vJGB3g. That is the kind of scientific discourse I would like to see for all these kinds of movies and popular publications.
You might like: https://realpython.com/fingerprinting-images-for-near-duplic...
Half of U.S. Homeowners and Renters Struggle to Afford Their Housing Payments
The copyright isn’t violated unless shared. So it’s the end user’s responsibility. Not the AI model.
Ive tried allulose; won't again in the future. Gives me extreme gas and often diarrhea.

I've for the most part given up on all sugar substitutes.
Be Careful with 'Nutrition Facts' as a Model for Tech Transparency
There we go with "considered harmful" again.
>There was clear intention in engaging with this subject.

Yes, and then that engagement - which very much took place - did not give the author any confidence that FURTHER ENGAGEMENT (via email) would change the situation.

If I talk to you back and forth about an issue I have and feel like I'm talking to a brick wall, so I then write a critical review based on those issues, why should I be forced to not be a brick wall, in return? If Vlad wants someone to listen to him, he should probably take some time to engage with (not just 'listen to') what is being said on it's fundamental merits (not whatever surface level bit he wants to latch on to).

Recontextualizing an issue is not addressing it.
Explaining an issue is not addressing it.
Describing a paradigm that contextualizes an issue is not addressing it.
I think the conclusion is spot on:

> So, I will repeat it again: our greatest asset isn't the code we write. It’s us, alive, and living the life.

Happy people work harder, get more done, are more creative and ill less often.

It pays off for employees as well as employers to put life happiness first.
I think we're way past that point for many degrees at many institutions.
Lessons Learned from Skiff's Shutdown
> What do you mean "we", kemosabe?

Seems like SV tech companies / startups & venture capital, maybe even "tech" companies in general.

Seems like it's goal is to burst their bubble of self-justifications and hype.
We've had one in French for a while, and we've been wanting to create an English version for years. It's about time we get started on it. Otherwise, there's already https://shakenbaby.science/, which serves as a landing page for a recent book.
The key problem is I don't see a scenario where the US economy collapses and the rest of the world is fine to escape to. The 1929 Wall Street crash led to a global economic depression, likewise the 2008 US subprime mortgage crash led to the global "great recession".
Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers
It's about $100-150k to get, you don't need to be super rich.
I see unit tests as a form of written contract. You write down what matters. Everything else is as solid as a verbal contract.
.... (reverse 'list)
Testing is difficult. It has both the problems of perverse metrics as well as all the problems inherent in coding itself. Unit tests aren't rubbish, they just aren't the only type of testing needed for complex projects. They are a good starting point and I suspect their popularity comes from that. This article was mostly fluff and I regret the 3 min I spent testing it out. Save yourself a read, it's mostly a hot take with a clickbait title.
> Can you imagine Meta sending each of their users a T-shirt?

If they thought it'd help, absolutely. Facebook has a long history of doling out swag; I've got a free Oculus sitting downstairs.
Because the system is really intended to drive down skilled worker wages and subsidize American universities that essentially sell American permanent residency to full-tuition paying foreign students.
What would that look like, fixing downsides of plastics? Are you thinking about a top-down government fix, or a more bottom-up fix driven by consumers unwilling to use plastics?
Yes that feature will be coming right after PyCon! I just have too much to do right now between work, preparing for my talk and getting the next minor release out.
I'm against them becoming citizens of the EU - they ruined the us, they will do the same here.
> I had Claude3 read it for claims about quality, security, privacy. It found none.

You might want to consider actually reading things for yourself, rather than assuming the magic robots are telling the truth (the magic robot did not tell you the truth, here).
As someone with diagnosed & medicated ADHD, it genuinely, truly affects my every day life. After medication, I remember thinking “oh, this is how normal people’s brains work”. I’ve been playing most of my life on hard mode. I won’t debate whether it’s over-diagnosed, but it’s 100% a real thing and it’s incredibly discouraging to see people dismiss it.
Three men rescued off island due to beach 'HELP' sign
What gets me is the contradicting documentation.

How are you meant to install a piece of software and keep it up to date?

Is it a channel or flake? Are flakes stable or only for testing? So what's homemanager for?

Good luck getting answers on those questions other than "read the source code" and then followed by "no, not that source code, this branch here".

I really like the idea of Nix, but the communities priorities leave a lot to be desired of.
Perhaps we live in different worlds, but there's a world of distanced between unhinged and roughly 3 emails to someone who wrote a peice targeted specifically at your business.

If anything the replies in that Mastadon thread make the author and others appear petty, combative and immature imo, and I do not say that as someone who agrees with all Vlad's perspectives.
I invite everyone (even those not affected in this instance) to consider switching away from relying on random third parties for your hosting. Like wtf how is did this ever become the norm even when there was a slight performance advantage from a shared cache, which doesn't even exist anymore these days.
Capacity to be plaintiff matters in insignificantly few contexts.
Is the kind of well that you'd typically drill for a single family dwelling capable of storing enough heat to make that worth it?

I know that underground heat storage is popular with district heating, where you've got a hollow mountain storing heat for the whole city, but the square-cube law means that there's a size below which it doesn't make sense. I had only assumed that that size was bigger than was feasible for a typical homeowner.
‘Better than a picture of the document’ for security, for their purposes or for my ease? Who knows. I’d be loathe to do it personally, but then again there’s probably copies of my passport floating around who knows where online.

According to the Home Office [0]

> Scanning the chip in a passport has the highest level of trust. It also collects the largest amount of data, the chip contains:

- the data in the machine-readable zone (MRZ)
- at least one or more facial biometric encoding
- zero or more finger biometric encodings

[0] - https://design.homeoffice.gov.uk/patterns/enter-passport-det...
yea those guys completely missed the bus. I worked on some AI image editing tool a few years back with a partner and we were constantly worried Photoshop was going to suddenly make us obsolete, which is now kind of funny looking at where they're at
Working these endless 80-hour weeks not only produces a low-quality product but also leads to health issues
Whoah, your friend is a badass! I also didn't know Ireland still allowed duels. Do you know if it's just short swords or what? Cool benefit for his dual citizenship. (sorry, sorry, had to).
Normal people don’t care
(this articles formatting was super hard to read, I love the web 1.0 "just get it out there" vibe but man I wish CSS had a good "reasonable default" for lots of text)

I'm a huge fan of kagi and have been paying for it for as long as paying for it has been possible - that said, I think the author is spot on about the long term viability of the project considering their limited funding, limited employees, very wide (yet unproven) interests AND a leader who's maybe not so receptive to feedback.

For example I was part of the Orion beta and I left feedback in the discord that it took ~30 seconds on the then top of the line iPhone (13 Pro Max?) to load the interface which made it hard to use and I thought it was unreasonably slow and he said something like "that's not slow it's totally reasonable" and since then I decided it wasn't worth leaving any more feedback and have since left the community.
I don't get the sense that Vlad is combative, just (over)confident. There are no personal attacks, no aggression, no flaming or flamebait. He just is very confident in his approach and doesn't slow down to listen to criticism. Not the best approach as a founder, but not combative.
You don't get "bank account in Cyprus" ads while surfing?

(I'm pretty sure this is submarine advertising for Henley)
They do check that you have a boarding pass but they don't need you to present one. Your identification is all that's needed.
For those who want one & don’t already know, the Caribbean countries are doubling the the price of passports on June 30. The minimum price will be 200,000 USD for the cheaper countries. It takes time to apply, so best to get started if you want the old price.
The EU did a pretty good job of tanking itself
> I wish they dedicated more time to it.

What changes you have in mind to search functionality? I feel like the core search is rock solid as is, but they address search quality reports on their feedback forums all the time.

To me, the AI features (and specifically how they are only used when you opt in per query) are enhancing search, and the time they have been allocating to those features has continuously improved Kagis utility to me.

Note: I subscribe to Kagi Ultimate, so I use some AI features that are not available in the base plans.
I feel like if the US isn't safe, nowhere is safe. Whose going to stop Russia and China from invading EU countries and Japan if the US won't defend them? Their populations and militaries are comparably tiny.

I know some EU countries have nukes, but I'm not fully aware how much that protects them. Do they have enough to cause MAD?
OP’s Mastodon post on Vlad’s follow up: https://hackers.town/@lori/112255132348604770
Sound strategy by Adobe.
That is beyond dystopian
Average global income is about 12k per year, a million dollars is 80+ years of the average person working.

I'd call that wealthy.
People don't know a lot about IRC so they don't see it's value.
You can only avoid US taxes if you drop citizenship altogether. US has citizenship based taxation and you are stuck paying US taxes regardless of where you reside and what other passports you have. So getting another passport (as opposed to residence permit into your US passport) does not help you at all there. Almost all countries have double taxation treaties with US so you can credit your US taxes paid against your tax obligation in your country of residence, but if their taxes are lower than US taxes, you just pay US taxes. Again, no difference if you have that other country's citizenship, or just legal residence as an American. Difference happens only if you actually renounce your US citizenship and thus cease to be a U.S. person for tax purposes.

People are getting second passports as a fancy object, and to avoid discrimination in countries where anti-Americanism is popular.
Oh, ffs, is this going to be the new thing, now? People pretending to read articles by feeding them to an AI and believing whatever old nonsense it spits out? I do think the "humanity is doomed" angle with AIs is overplayed, but okay, yeah, if people are going to do that, maybe humanity _is_ doomed.

If you read the article, you will discover that your magic robot is mistaken.