skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a paying Kagi user and it seems to me that the post is from an over-zealous user venting after their unsolicited advice was rejected. Reading through the post without finding a single mention of search quality is quite telling about its content.

There is no reason for Kagi to remain “pure” and avoid AI features as suggested by hardcore AI haters. I am not a fan of AI hype either, but I am pleased to see that Kagi has integrated some moderate capabilities such as the summarizer and search-based generation, which are natural extensions of a modern search engine. (I do hope they improve the expert mode soon, as it is currently far inferior to Perplexity, but that does not invalidate the general point.)

Email-based account management may not be perfect from a privacy perspective, but registering with a privacy email alias has mostly resolved my concerns. As for GDPR, let’s not pretend that it is disproportionately burdensome for startups. I value the way a company operates much more than the privacy theatres (banners, opt-outs, legaleses) enforced by GDPR.

Other criticisms regarding operational details range from nitpicking to trivial. I do hope that the founder was less insistent on arguing with and lecturing zealous users like the author.
Philosophically, I don't know what "must" or "has" to be an operator.

I certainly don't want to tell you how to design your language.

I'm just trying to say, don't rule the pattern out because it's perceived as a type error; you may have other reasons that are good, but my citations provide a basis of how to make the typing work (if you were inclined).

If you have other reasons, even if it's just aesthetic, that's fine.
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I think very few people ever "paid for news" -- the newsroom of most publications have always been highly subsidized by advertising and classifieds, and perhaps newstand sales. Google (and others) and Craigslist (and others) quickly dominated advertising and classifieds in the early 2000s, and I can't remember the last time I saw someone reading a newspaper on a train
This is going to be a complex problem because of the shape of the radiator and you'll need to calculate radiative and convective components of heat transfer i.e. you'll need finite element analysis to do this. If you simplify it to a simple shape like a rod or slab you can get somewhere in a calculation, but this is only going to give an instantaneous measure because of heat transfer to the rest of the universe.

Alternately, to get a realistic measure, you'll need to set your boundary conditions about what the heat flow out of the room will be, which is a bit simpler to setup with U-values, area, delta-T, and heat capacity of materials. You'll also need to do this to every other room in the building simultaneously. This is a Manual J, or heat balance method or the radiant time series method load calculation that will balance out with the amount of heat leaving your radiator without knowing its specific shape.
Huh, I thought 240V circuits used some sort of three-phase system.
How difficult is it to hire an international student on OPT? It seems like the process is straightforward, but a to my knowledge all I will need is to file for an EAD and submit an offer letter showing job is related to the field of study
Ah. I installed one in a uninsulated garage and it was really a big savings. It’s basically a free ac for whatever space it’s installed in
If you ask me, it's the natural "immune system" taking it's course to a drastic change to it's host body (society). There is a lot of momentum, jobs, money, insurance, loans, real-estate, etc all tied up in all-things mechanical and car that along with the ICE engine. Yes, EV cars have some of it too, but no where near the same levels. Not to mention that the top or favorite or most-well-known or most controversial EV company happens to bypass dealerships entirely, thereby threatening their entire existence.

I'd go further and take a guess that this same EV company is anti-union, threatening them too on some level. Haven't confirmed this, but it fits the pattern so I'd bet it's playing a part too.
I think about this a lot. It seems obvious to me that drug abuse (and a lot of crime in general) is only a proximate problem (right term?), in that it’s just a symptom of something else, and so a punitive solution isn’t going to do a whole hell of a lot even if it worked well (which I also believe it is obvious that it does not).
When I look at the large portion of society - shit, humanity - that believes punishment is the fix, I have to think that they are either stupid or dishonest. Or that I am not right. Are these folks just smarter than me, and realize that the N-th order solutions - like ensuring humans have their basic needs met - are too expensive or otherwise impossible and we should pretend that incarceration (which isnt just cheap in the US - it’s a money maker) is the way forward?
Totally agree. I tinkered around with an openbox+tint2 setup several years ago and was able to get it to a usable state, but getting all the little things working is so fussy and flaky, with e.g. the need to hunt down suitable daemons to get a typical tray item loadout.
The article argues that Orwell’s greatest fear wasn’t torture or totalitarianism, but the loss of solitude, and he fled to Jura Island to preserve his inner life.

If he thought solitude was hard to obtain then, one can only imagine his reaction to today's constant connectivity.

I'm sure many people do their best thinking collectively, but I'm with Orwell, and value long periods of solitude and nurturing my inner life.

It seems to be a theme lately. One of the big ideas in Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu is that the only defense against the all-seeing-all-knowing superior being who intends to crush humanity like bugs is the inner thoughts of the Wallfacers.

Individuals must preserve their inner lives against constant assault by not only the state, but by bosses, coworkers, advertisers, friends and family. Maybe most modern psychological, social and even political problems can be traced to the collapse of individual interiority into the collective hivemind of social media and political parties.

The enemy isn’t Big Brother, the enemy is everyone.
Yes.

Here is the roll call on the 212-212 tie vote on the Biggs Amendment which would require a warrant:

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024114

Thirteen members did not vote on that roll call.

There is a Motion to Reconsider on Monday. Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40017830
Not a lawyer, but it seems unlikely that anyone would scrutinize your visit closely enough to care.
They are required by code to do a load calculation, so you might wish to continue shopping around until you find one to do it.
how powerful do you have to be in the US to be able to take down mirrors within an hour? this is disturbing to see
Is the don't-rinse advice still needed in areas where water is fluoridated, since that's what I'm rinsing with?
Seems like Gitlab seems to be even more ridiculous with their responses to large businesses and potentially dubious copyright claims than GitHub is. It's not the only time this month I've seen them take down repositories related to projects that some large company wanted removed despite it not necessarily being illegal in any way.
>> The federal government has the authority to invalidate local city council ordinances - for instance the FCC invalidated Chicago rules around satellite dishes

The fact that the federal government had the authority to invalidate a specific local ordinance does not mean that the federal government has the authority to invalidate any local ordinance.

>> The housing market is interstate commerce

The housing market is not interstate commerce. There may have been past Supreme Courts that inappropriately used the interstate commerce clause (for example the ruling that a farmer growing wheat on his farm in order to feed his cattle was interstate commerce), but the current Supreme Court will not inappropriately use the interstate commerce clause. Under the current Court, only interstate commerce will be considered as interstate commerce.

>> Houston has no zoning rules

It has ordinances, deed restrictions, and building codes instead.

>> and is one of the most affordable major metros in the US

The Houston metro area is 10,000 square miles of mostly flat land, with plenty more buildable land bordering the metro area. The cost of a house in that scenario is going to be close to the cost of construction.
How do you focus in two different things?

You can strongly value two (or more) things, but when you decide to focus on something, as I understand the term, you necessarily preclude focusing on another thing.
That’s something GPT4 is usually good at helping with
I'm sweating moving for just this reason. I do have some experience at landlording in one of the battleground states--tenant overfriendly--so I guess in this landlord friendly state I can do it, but I'm sure J. random manager isn't going to want to do that.
> Why do you think Google and Amazon and others can create entire products that never make a profit for years and then unceremoniously shut them down or reduce their investments in them?

It seems like Google and Amazon shutting down or divesting some products would make room for a lot of competitors to step in and dominate that space.
>Those sites rely on sites like Facebook and Google linking to their content to lead readers in

Of course, that's the way it is. But, is it a good thing that they've intermediated all of the world's content?

It's easy to argue that the problem is exactly that a relative handful of sites have a monopoly on traffic and, what's more, they've gained that monopoly for free.
Cool landing page, though it really should have some info about the thing you want people to sign up for.
It seems to be clearly a typo.

My brain automatically disambiguated it to be "flagship ford battery factory".

Because it is obviously an article about a factory that makes batteries.

Maybe a sloppy typo. But the negative feedback about the article because of this is pretty extreme.
If you want to see effective brainwashing, you need to look for instances where Pavlovian conditioning and enhanced states of suggestion (essentially “hypnosis”, but think of the clinical definition, rather than stage performance tropes) are combined over the course of years in a way that self reinforces the thoughts to be held. Works best when the person is offered something that they think they need (validation, community, sexual release, security) and if the person is already or can be isolated from interfering peers.

Basically look at what cults do, though it doesn’t even need a machiavellian mastermind involved, people can and will accomplish the same largely by their own initiative. This is what happens when you get online communities radicalizing themselves.
The percentage of HN users in their customer base is very probably far higher than the percentage of HN users in the general population. Many orders of magnitude ;)
Which pathways exist for a Chilean citizen who didn't complete their bachelor's degree on CS, but nonetheless wants to take a US job for a 501(c)(3) in a technical capacity? I worked several years as a software engineer, but this role is not as an engineer, but rather as a charity founder (existing 501(c)(3)'s could sponsor me, some CAP-exempt).

I imagine H-1B and the special H-1B1 aren't really options here.
Also, if you're at a place where they are implementing GMP, they probably have formal training and training records. It can be a good idea to look around the system and see what other online training outside your own discipline you have access to. A lot of the GMP documents that manufacturing people have to be retrained on annually will give you insight into why things are the way they are and what that particular company's way of handling processes looks like.
Milestones 4-6 (ending up with 6 at 10^6 qubits) aren't given an ETA.

For those more familiar with the field, what are the chances we have million qubit quantum computers a decade from now? Too early to tell?
While you did qualify “street drugs” in sentence #1, you didn’t in #2, and so I have to disagree that the stinky plants in my garden are damaging to anyone :)
Note: This was the original post that the CEO of Kagi was replying to in the currently posted email exchange.
Yeah, Prohibition of substances has gone so well this far. Why hasn't anyone thought of punishing drug users? That has always worked in history!

How do people like you not realize the ONLY solution is to let adults have bodily autonomy and stop trying to police what they do in the privacy of their own home.
> If so, I think a link tax is justified.

I disagree, a "link tax" is the wrong choice of response, and incredibly dangerous to a free/distributed internet: Once it exists in principle its scope will not remain limited to affecting only big unsympathetic search-engine companies, it'll start affecting other sites (like, say, HN) and get abused to deter critics from pointing to the things they want to criticize.

If any source-page with a link is "summarizing" way too much about the destination... well, then there's already a mechanism for that: "Sue them for copyright infringement."

Right now things like titles and brief summaries and whatnot are clearly fair-use, but that's not guaranteed to be a defense against some future "you can't directly point at my page" law.
There is a price/cost disjoin in SSD media, where the unit cost of 2tb and 4tb in either format (m.2 or the sata drive form factor) is stuck. I have 2tb or 4tb in my eye but they refused to come down in price, instead moving horizontally into new physical card form and speed, where anyone like me looking to replace spinning rust is more price conscious. 2tb ssd media remains at the price it was a year or 18 months ago. It hasn't dropped much.

They're fine in racks. They're fine as single high value drives. They can't yet replace 4 hard drives in a home raid set at a price point where you couldn't double space if you stayed mechanical. So you have to be very strongly drawn away from discs to build to ssd.

It may be supply chain issues or contention for output from the fab lines but i suspect its also "priced to what the market will pay"
More good progress, but any solution is incomplete until we correct the problem of taking on this debt to begin with. What stops next year's students from having to take $25K or more in debt, and next year's and next year's, repeating the cycle? In a prosperous first-world country, students should not have to go into debt to pay for education, and then have to get it forgiven because it's too much to realistically pay off.
To be fair, it was really pretty!
Why does Microsoft hate it's users? Most of us pay for PCs with windows on them, and have upgraded to Windows 11 systems in the last couple years. Well I know I did last year, anyway. Well those who don't obviously choose to use something else.
Anyway Microsoft seems to just be making things less and less open, and less and less private as we go along. For some reason, they seem to want to just get rid of their entire userbase. However for a person with accessibility needs, it's hard to just up and switch to Linux.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into this.

Based on your response I am assuming EOR is compliant with US laws, allows compensating individuals that do not reside and do not have legal status in US and people employed through this can be considered an employee of the company. Is that correct?
I believe the main issue is that it’s difficult to have any kind of consistent/coherent design in a desktop where everything is optional. Building good UI for managing panels can also be challenging.
Yes and no. There were thousands of moderately successful local papers that really don't exist anymore. They had a handful of different revenue streams (classifieds, real estate and auto sales ads) that have all been gradually eaten into by internet competition.
Is an O-1 or EB-1 visa viable as a grandmaster in chess? There are, for instance, only about 100 grandmasters in the United States right now. We're looking at bringing over a Chess grandmaster to our company, but don't know the most efficient route (haven't talked to an immigration lawyer). If time to visa is a factor, is there an easier route?
I use it in my iphone with no trickery. Perhaps it’s easiest to use Orion…i’ve found it very nice.
Aren't you basically talking about lisp? You're suggesting two core primitives, an atom and a pair constructor, and you're defining an equivalence across pairs, eg. WWWB modelled as (cons W (cons W (cons W B))) = (cons (cons W W) (cons WB)) = (cons (cons (cons W W) W) B).

I assume you can do this with set theory and a suitable definition of equality.
Nobody visits as a company, such thing simply doesn't exist. And if you work under ESTA or B1/B2, you're violating the law.
I agree it works both ways. I just wanted to remind that electric transportation is a small part of the overall electricity consumption (0.02 Quads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_(unit)), while industry & commercial accounts for 13.3 Quads, 3 order of magnitude lower.

In "Transportation", there are a lot of non-electric consumption (in US in 2022: 89.45% oil, 5.7% biomass, 4.69% NatGas, only 0.08% electricity, and other) because only few trains and individual cars are using electricity the rest like boats, planes, and most trains in US runs on oil.

So, yes it is good for electric vehicles to charge during the day when solar produces the most. But the vast majority of the electricity consumption (in US 99.9%) is from the Industry, Commercial and Residential while the transportation is only in US 0.1% (source: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowcharts/files/2023-10/U...).

Most of the Industry, Commercial and even Residential needs electricity at night, and storing that kind electric energy (48.57 Quads per year... that is 9,246,178,571 barrel of oil or 0.2 barrel of U235) is currently difficult.
HN readers being scared of 'slaughter' in Taiwan, with no source and no explanation of the claim, is 'necessary'? It going to help mount a formidable defense?

Do you have any evidence or track record to support your position?
Looking forward to Tom7's video for this :)
The Banana Wiki
I did not (and it's a bit too much of a hassle given the lack of password manager and having to mess with OTP codes to try it now), but it feels basically instant, especially in normal use (e.g. just scrolling from post to post). So even if it were even faster in a Chromium-based browser, I really don't think yours is as fast as mine - you wouldn't be calling it janky, and it wouldn't be a hurdle to use it. I think you're just unlucky, e.g. with the combination of Firefox+your device?
Maybe because it is a simple typo, with order of words.

It is obviously an article about a factory that makes batteries, and it is important to Ford.
I'm not allowed to do that where I work. License is a no-no, can't run jobs without red tape, and there's no Docker either.
Any good design is a collaboration of art and engineering, where the end result accomplishes the technical requirements and integrates itself into the world around it in an appropriate way. Neither of these can be considered alone, function has a form of its own, just like form has a function of it's own.

Architects aren't structural engineers and only in dialogue good infrastructure can be created.
The HN title doesn't match the research at all. It wasn't analyzing behavior or incidence in lived lives; it was just trawling for patterns on a specific data set that purports to describe genetic predisposition to computer-leisure, ED, etc
> subscription model for braking in semi trucks

Not sure why, but this reminds me of the drug Vitoc from the game EVE Online. It's an eternal poison, and if you don't have a constant supply of the proprietary antidote for the rest of your life, you die. This is how they keep slaves with spaceships from escaping.

> wouldn't any "libertarian" say that they should?

Depends on which type of libertarian. You're thinking of right wing libertarians, as they have a very limited and self-serving version of it. Left wing libertarians would likely argue that coercion is the exact opposite of liberty.
Bearing in mind that primary key, and clustered key are not necessarily the same thing, your point stands that the uuid does not need to be the clustered key.

Renumbering bigint primary keys, so as the effect a one-time merge, becomes substantially less trivial if the desire for minimal downtime, coupled with hundreds of related tables, and tens of sites are in play.
If it was just plain hyperlinks, I would agree with you.

Google is scraping metadata and articles, and summarizing them so that most people never even need to click the link. Google is getting most of the value from the articles written while not doing the actual work to make them.

The whole thing could have been avoided if Google and social media stopped embedding previews and summaries everywhere.

It's worse in places like Facebook where they actively don't want you to actually follow the link. Facebook wants you to leave a like or a comment right there under the preview, then keep scrolling.
I see tables, I am exited. But I can't make sense of what anything is? I know COP, but what is Training, what is Source? MID seems to be a kind of sensor? Some of the table headers have a tool tip explaining things, but are the ones that aren't the most needed. Also, some about page about what the table aggregates and how it gets there? Seems to be some kind of aggregator for information gathered from an appliances called "emonHub" which is a rPi that gathers data from an assortment of other devices. There are some jargon that you have to parse, ("supply" means the electric cables that "supply" your heat pump) to understand what's going on.

The best guide I could find is buried all the way down of the documentation https://docs.openenergymonitor.org/applications/heatpump.htm...

That's it.
Well spotted. The agent does in fact assess whether or not the information it's processing is already in its vector DB. I'm still unclear if what you noticed is due to the LLM failing (Mixtral is good, but not great), or something else, but it needs fixing. Thanks for letting me know.
Ok? I'm surprised your work lets you build a whole product ontop of google sheets, then. Also, why did you delete your original comment on not having a server?
"Device telemetry collects data about your next-generation firewall or Panorama and shares it with Palo Alto Networks by uploading the data to Cortex Data Lake. This data is used to power telemetry apps, which are cloud-based applications that make it easy to monitor and manage your next-generation firewalls and Panoramas."

This is an eyebrow raising feature, and one I hope that I would have had the foresight to disable.
I subscribe to Kagi. Begrudgingly. I wish them well but it does seem all a bit fractured and when push come to shove and the money runs out what are they going to do to safeguard my information? Because it’s easy to talk high morals when things are fine but when it’s your last drop of life blood maybe the moral and ethic equation suddenly changes to get that one last infusion/injection.

Is there a common thread amongst search engine founders? The guy from you.com also gives interesting vibes. Here he is with 10 shill accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344999

Edit: I think Vlad is a true believer in what he preaches. I detect no subterfuge in him. But he takes negative comments personally as if people have a duty to love his vision and product. A true believer but seems like that would be a tough trait to have when you cater to a very opinionated audience.