skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most rich people are already citizens of multiple countries, on top of tax and travel benefits it's easy (and relatively cheap) to buy passports from Caribbean island nations
We can't easily ask them that. KOO could ask, though, since that's what the user's interacting with when they're uploading the key. And, I do agree that the signalling could be improved, there, so I'll discuss it with them.
Death Poem
Modern heatpumps can modulate, though it isn't 100%. I recommend people consider two smaller heat pumps in many cases - it costs more upfront but can modulate down more and if one system breaks the other can handle everything most days of the year (some rooms will be a bit uncomfortable)
“Considered Harmful” considered harmful? :)
> too expensive IMO

Except it's less expensive than just going for the providers. Which is puzzling to say the least.
Can be read as "U.S. imposes its first-ever national drinking water limits" or "U.S. imposes world's first-ever national drinking water limits". There's a missing word and it's not clear from context what it's meant to be.
I find this quote funny and on some another level of disconnect about what they are competing with:

> Not even Google ever printed 20k tshirts to give away for free.

For a couple of my university years I had nothing but free Google t-shirts. They were throwing so much of this crap around that my closet was halfway to 20k. I only lamented they never gave away Google trousers or briefs.

They have a fair shot at competing with Google on quality of search and they should focus on that. If they think they can complete on AI, email or swag - good luck, and I hope you have a good money printer.
I don’t think there’s any legal issue with using data for training. I think the problem is how do you subsequently prevent your model from creating copyright violations. If you watch a Spider-Man movie and take some inspiration from it, you know that you go and make a movie with similar themes or whatever, but you can’t just go out and create your own Spider-Man movie. An AI model doesn’t know this, and I don’t know how you’d teach it this concept. Especially when properly educated humans frequently have disputes about what is/isn’t allowed.
>just knowing the dollar figures doesn't really tell much about either supply or demand.

Well we just broke econ
I did pay briefly for Kagi, but ultimately just didn't see the benefit over DDG. Google seems to be too far gone to be useful, but DDG still consistently finds what I need. Other than that, the main issue I have with Kagi from a business perspective is it will always be extremely niche. Even among "tech" people, the idea of paying for a search engine will always be a single digit percentage of the overall market.

I view Fastmail in a similar manner, but the difference with them is they have a real business market for those wanting an alternative to Google or Microsoft.
Doesn't society as a whole want some regulation on the financial system? Like insider trading: that gives smaller traders that are farther from the seats of power confidence they can invest without getting fleeced. Insider trading laws make the stock market as a while bigger because more people will invest. A small amount of regulation gives the whole of the US more money to spread around where capital is needed.
You measure how many of your deployments ship broken code. I've worked in contexts where test coverage was sufficient enough to be confident that when deploying there wouldn't be any issues apart from really novel unexpected stuff you wouldn't have tested anyway.

I've also worked in contexts wher I didn't have that confidence.

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 re-read again. You are right, he says "personal emails are PII" in this email. In the original post however he dismisses the whole GDPR data request process as "we don't need this, because you can provide fake data".

Point is: if the business requests an email address, many people will provide their real email adress and your business needs to document this process under GDPR. I just checked. The signup form doesn't say "please give a FAKE email address", it just says "email address".

If a user provides a real email address, Kagi must respond to GDPR Art. 15 requests by providing...that same email adress. Might sound silly, but usually, there is other data associated with this. Usually, at least the timestamp of the signup. If a business is really GDPR compliant, it will offer a download option for stuff like user settings and so on.

Or, if the user signed up and later deleted the account, his email should explicitly NOT show up when asking for personal data.

See, it is about documenting the process, whether the outcome is "here is your email address you just asked for" or "we don't have any data on you". And Vlad says that this process is irrelevant for Kagi, while it is not.
> “Easiest” way is probably getting married to a citizen.

I don't think that's the case, anymore.

I remember a notorious case, around here, where a guy had a Russian wife (I have no idea of the background -but they were married for many years), he was dying of leukemia, and required her around-the-clock care, and they deported her.
Since H-1B says it is supposedly intended for high-value employees unobtainable in the US, why not auction the visas, with a reserve price that would prevent them being used to push down wages?
Jane Wurwand on why 'high-touch will overshadow high-tech' in business
He also documented his progress on the tinygrad discord
There's not a strong differentiation between "official" policies and guidelines and "unofficial" specific consensus on Wikipedia. Individual arguments are generally built out of policy and policy is just longer-standing consensus and can be changed. It's not like there's a different group of editors setting policy from those who argue on talk pages.
Weird that Kei trucks would not be allowed when motorcycles are.
This is not relevant to a situation in which the details of the fence have been and are argued over all the time. You're implying that whoever is against these regulations must also be ignorant.
$3/min = $180/hr. Pretty good pay!

Do they care what the content is?!
Well its CNBC, so its just buzzfeed-clickbait that isnt grounded in reality.

Anyway, since we are here, where should I get a passport too?
To be honest, I see summoning the threat of AGI to pose an existential threat to be on the level with lizard people on the moon. Great for sci-fi, bad distraction for policy making and addressing real problems.

The real war, if there is one, is about owning data and collecting data. And surprisingly many people fall for distractions while their LLM fails at basic math. Because it is a language model of course...
Yes!

The catch is any notch you make will weaken the material significantly and you'll have fatigue failures. That's the sneaky part of using a flexible sleeve, you don't introduce any undesired weaknesses.
It keeps coming back to the same stupid erosion of paradigms.

Once upon a time, some developers that were smarter than others started testing their code. They described ways to test smaller parts of large software systems separately before being integrated together.

For instance "parameter testing" (to validate component subprograms against their specification) and "assembly testing" (for parts put together)[^1]

As always happens, a formal definition soon followed and the industry settled on names like "unit tests", "component tests" and "integration tests".[^2]

Of course, as soon as things are describes somewhere, this means there is documentation for developer to ignore. Or misinterpret.

Next thing you know, "Unit-Testing" is (ab)used, and people start complaining it doesn't work.

So some developers that were smarter than others say "You are doing it wrong!" and describe a better way of doing things... For instance, writing the test _before_ you write the code, so the scale/scope of a "unit" is defined beforehand. There is much rejoicing, and TDD is the new magic bullet.

So now there is more documentation for developer to ignore.
So some developers that were smarter than others say "You are doing it wrong!" and define BDD, which is basically just TDD "done right", as the term TDD has become polluted. [^4]

So now there is more documentation for developer to ignore. So some developers that were smarter than others say "You are doing it wrong!" and define DDD, which is basically just BDD "done right", as the term BDD has become polluted.

And so the merry dance continues.

Rather than understanding which practice helps improve quality in which (coding) problem domain, developers stomp around with their preferred hammer, looking for nails, complaining about everybody else's hammer.

I'd say, rather than using one or the other, based on developer desired, focus on things from the user perspective... Take a look at the Test Automation Pyramid and start writing the right tests in the right domains depending on business/domain value.

[^1]: H.D. Benington, 1956
[^2]: James J. Donegan; Calvin Packard; Paul Pashby, 1964 and Norman A. Zimmerman, 1969
[^3]: Lee Copeland, 2001
[^4]: Dan North 2006
What do you use for freezing food if not plastic containers? Heating and microwaving, okay, I can work around the plastic containers/plates, but the freezer I have no idea how I'd do that. Especially that the freezer's casing is still plastic
Google has spent huge efforts optimizing page start up times, this overview is from late last year.

Maybe not "interpreter performance" per se, but it's in the area and focused on page load time.

https://v8.dev/blog/maglev
Data Laundering is an old term... I was using in more than a decade ago in talks about how unethically gathered private data was being sold to Israeli companies, who then licensed it back to US corporations. It was (probably still is) a way to side step privacy laws.
The clue is in the name. Unit Tests test units of code (how ever you want to define it. Integration Tests test how units of code work together.

Perspective is also useful. What looks like an integration test to a low level developer, could be a unit test higher up the stack.
>If the premise is wrong we won't need it. If society coordinates to not do the dangerous thing we won't need it.

But the idea that this use of force is okay itself increases danger. It creates the situation that actors in the field might realize that at some point they're in danger of this and decide to do a first strike to protect themselves.

I think this is why anti-nuclear policy is not "we will airstrike you if you build nukes" but rather "we will infiltrate your network and try to stop you like that".
That’s ok. Faith is what you need for Google.
I think this was actually a somewhat compelling product: Sure, Google tracks users where they can, but for this they were explicitly claiming to be using authentication via blinded signature tokens, and to not log any traffic.

Google has a lot more to lose from a privacy or breach of contract lawsuit than a random shady VPN operation that can just disappear when word gets out that they're actually feeding everything to data brokers, and open shop under a different name the next day.
Biggest source of video on the net is maybe porn. Is that the path to AGI?
I'm a subscriber simply because their search is far better than any available alternative. That's the primary thing I want from them and so far they're delivering it at a cost I consider fair.

Their other projects are not interesting or useful to me, but so far I can simply ignore them. Yes, on some level I wish they'd focus and quit wasting money and energy on things I don't care about, but that's really not my affair.

The one growing reservation I have is with regard to Vlad's/Kagi's actual, boots-on-the-ground approach to privacy. Kagi necessarily has the ability to know more about me than almost any other company. I want to see them demonstrate strong and unwavering commitment to respecting and protecting my privacy - through policy, technology, and careful and continuous vetting of partners. Expressed disinterest in collecting or capitalizing on my data is not enough, and seeing Vlad's communications in which he casually shrugs or responsibility-shifts to a third-party heightens my concern.

For now, I remain a customer - but a wary one. I've stopped actively recommending Kagi personally and professionally because as a privacy advocate, it increasingly feels irresponsible to do so.
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Yup. Welcome to the RIAA's worldview.

It can get nasty.
I don’t have the full story on the t-shirts, but isn’t this a typical “we want to give tshirts to our supporters” without realizing that it’s crazy expensive and complicated? They probably didn’t intend to spend 1/3 of their round on tshirts, but this is pretty much a microfunding cliche at this point. Kickstarters often reel at their tshirt promise after the fact, and I believe there’s even a YC company or two that started just to solve the problem of sending supporters their promised swag.
Same here. A ridiculous amount of busywork just disappears when I go with M5Stack.

I do a lot of custom builds of arduino-class hardware and it gets easier and easier every year. Cheap hardware coming out of China is plenty good enough and means that I rarely need to design anything electronic. Just write code.
Precise Answers to Useless Questions
> Disclaimer: I self installed one for my house (13kWth) and I'm very glad I did

My HVAC guy keeps telling me to install a couple of heat pumps (he doesn't like driving out to me), solar panels, and an in-house battery; what sort of complexity was this job? Are there online sources you used?
> For example, he has stated before that he thinks 3 star reviews on products are "by definition" unbiased, because they must include good and bad points.

... What?

Has this person ever visited a review site? I mean, it varies fairly dramatically, and there are some niches where 3/5, 5/10 etc has a fairly defined meaning (for instance, for TV reviewers it means "meh", for gadget reviewers it means "this will catch fire as soon as you plug it in"), but really, I mean, what?
Nanoc: A static-site generator written in Ruby
Hyper Heat is a tech that is on multiple different models of Mitsubishi. All of the SVZ (ducted air handlers attachable to Hyper Heat or H2i mini-splits) do support (optional) electric resistance heater kits.
I openly criticise Dubai for their slavery, I refuse to visit Dubai for that reason alone. However, I refuse to say that Dubai is objectively less moral than the United States because morality is relative to the culture that defines it, in the same way I refuse to say that sushi is objectively better than pizza (despite sushi obviously being superior to pizza).

You may assert it but morality is not defined by or measured in outcomes, morality is a cultural product. If your moral system is not objective, if your moral system is a culturally-influenced personal belief in what is right and wrong, it is totally incoherent to say that Saudi Arabia has not made moral progress or that they have not used "modern thinking" because by their moral standards they have, and by their moral standards you (and I) are the immoral.

If you'd like to compare the United States to Saudi Arabia on human rights, press freedom, education, crime, freedom of religion, gender discrimination, do that. They have outcomes that we can measure, and don't worry, they're influenced by morality, so you can still pass judgement.
Because it's linked in another post right now:

If you feel confident that renovate[1] pull requests can be merged without review on a green pipeline, you have 100% confidence in your tests ;-)

My first context was that way.

[1]: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2024/04/12/use-renovate/
Because "going down" doesn't necessarily mean _shutting_ down-- it could be a sale as well. Considering the stated attitude towards privacy, that should worry you if privacy is your concern.
Peer to peer as in one pcie slot directly to another without going through the CPU/RAM, not peer to peer as in one PC to another over the network port.
Harm reduction activists in BC said decriminalization would result in less harm. There's now a major overdose crisis in BC. With >10,000 deaths in less then a year.

Municipalities are passing unconstitutional laws to prevent people from using drugs in parks.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-court-blocks-...

Obviously the supreme court struck this law(s) down. Obviously BC has one of the worst homelessness crisis which is related. They also fired thousands of antivaxxer healthcare workers and still are, resulting in a healthcare worker crisis as well. Those vaxxer who remained now have far significant higher workload.

Overall you can clearly see multiple major crisis caused by the BC politicians. Luckily there's an election in October this year. But for some reason the current politicians are looking at a landslide win? lol?
Yes, the point here is that you do a direct write from one cards memory to the other using PCIe.

In older NVidia cards this could be done through a faster link called NVLink but the hardware for that was ripped out of consumer grade cards and is only in data center grade cards now.

Until this post it seemed like they had ripped all such functionality of their consumer cards, but it looks like you can still get it working at lower speeds using the PCIe bus.
Inheritance is just a tool, that you use if it fits you software architecture. You use other tools, like generics, interface, where it makes senses to ise them. I think people wants the one true way to not have to design their software. And when they use inheritance in a ways that does not fit, they blame inheritance.
So does the author. But then I also don’t care about the author and don’t pay them for my search engine :/
> I'm not seeing the odiousness of the proposal. If bio research gets commodified and easy enough that every kid can build a new airborne virus in their basement we'd need raids on that too.

Either you create even better bio research to neutralize said viruses... or you die trying...

Like if you go with the raid strategy and fail to raid just one terrorist that's it, game over.
I'm well aware it is Intel, but it was still sold at the time as a 10 hour battery life, and I'm sure it can be, when nothing is running but one tab of safari.

So my point was, and in agreement with you, is when using similar sw (buggy or not) a modern zen4 will have similar battery life to a M1 / M2
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Freely flying through the sky on wings was scifi before the wright brothers. Something sounding like scifi is not a sound argument that it won't happen. And unlike lizard people we do have exponential curves to point at.
Something stronger than a vibes-based argument would be good.
Millionaire is not "rich" or wealthy however.

I think conflating billionaires like Thiel or Schmidt with a Californian couple who sold their house plus another they bought 30 years ago as a rental property doesn't help the article.
They should've spent it on a marketing agency, because I don't know how a shirt which doesn't even have the name Kagi on it is supposed to give them brand exposure.
Thank You.

I did not realize about the 3 year college graduate category.

But does the law make these buckets? Or is there one H1-B bucket and you are categorizing the buckets by industry and types of companies that hire H1-B.

Don't you think that the 3 year college student bucket, and the generally other buckets, would suppress jobs/salary of the local US population?

They would be competing against US students graduating.

I am wondering about the supply/demand analysis. Do you think that the jobs in bucket 3 and 4, the outsourcing companies and smaller body shops, don't impact US based SW/CompSci employees? I'm just thinking with the current glut of US based people looking for jobs, and new US graduates, that they might also be applying to these companies, and be competing against the H1-B employees.
The last time the US rich bolted to Europe we got The Great Gatsby. Those hoping that we'll get something of cultural value out the current exodus need not bother waiting. The next great American novel will be compiled by AI...
An hominem. Just because he appears to be a loon on paper doesn't mean his point is invalid. I found myself nodding a few times in his essay, it's been predicted by many science fiction authors that we'd eventually end up in a corporate state of some kind. All that remains is private drone armies to complete the final step to dystopia. There are very obvious things that need to be done, I'm sure if the author had made recommendations he would have immediately lost me. My own recommendations would be to remove money from elections, reduce lobbying, trust busting. These pragmatic solutions will take a political groundswell to actual make happen, but it appears the public are unaware of the root cause of their pain.
It would be good to define "rich" here. Probably not most of the top 5% (50% of 15 million people). Perhaps "most" of the top 0.1%? Any data?
Would they be interested in buying a video of paint drying[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Drying?useskin=vector
The service didn't even work if you signed up for google one from most of the world and then they discontinue it coz of low usage?
Pretty funny stuff
I suggest Proton to stick with the WKD procedure. Having CNAME record pointing to wkd.keys.openpgp.org or serving the public key on openpgpkey.example.org subdomain can be indicators showing that the receiver is willing to received email encrypted with the public key served via WKD. Otherwise, no need to fetch the key from public keyservers.
I do think an air-to-water could make sense for us, though it wouldn't be able to handle the coldest days because our radiators aren't sized to keep the house warm at the lower water temperatures it puts out. The main problem is figuring out who can install one, since it's a pretty unusual product here.

(You get used to whatever units you're using, and the US units make some calculations easier and others harder. If I could switch it all over to the SI system without massive transition costs I would, though!)
You know what, I _would_ download a car.
An issue with this is when articles exist in another language, but you can't link it. Nowadays it isn't as easy as just filling in that O is the Dutch article about what is called Eaux in French, you need to visit another Wikimedia project called wikidata and enter a translation there. But if the target name, O, is already in use, you need to first find a new data object name for O and migrate the wikidata object to the new name and then create a new one for the translation of Eaux. Or maybe the problem was that the wikidata ID for the Dutch article was already linked to something else (so O points to wikidata ID 123 and Eaux points to wikidata ID 321). Either way, you need some migration which first orphans one of the two sides iirc.

It has been a few years so I forgot the details, but this is where I ran into some wall. I think you need special permissions for it and there's a gigantic backlog of such requests, essentially it never happens and so articles remain untranslated and unlinked.

For some languages like German, there's another translation site with human-vetted translations: https://dict.cc. It has support for language pairs beyond DE<>EN but those are pretty limited and iirc the suggestions queue always full. Not that DE<>EN is flawless but it's good and virtually always more helpful than DeepL or Gtrans
You can criticise something without obligating yourself to have a conversation with the subject. In fact, that is generally how most critical writing has worked, for centuries. If you're unhappy with the review of your restaurant in the paper, you _might_ be able to convince them to publish a short owner response, once, but they're certainly not going to engage in a dialogue about it.