skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure why this would even be a conspiracy.

They would almost be failing in their purpose if they were not doing this.

On the other hand, this is an incredibly tough signal to noise problem. I am not sure we really understand what kind of scaling properties this would have as far as finding signals.
Probably solvable with hashmap then. Something make hash bucket-sum dependent and split/resize until it's done.
Trisolarans? /s
This is untrue. Mitsubishi hyper heat units do not have this feature, and they’re the gold standard. I wish they did, though
"It's designed to not wait until we have this at 99.9% perfection before it goes into the field, but get it to sort of 70% and then get it out there and then develop it from there," Mr Shapps said"

Well, this is interesting. Shapps, not renowned for any actual experience of warfare (or much else for that matter) is willing to put a new type of weapon that's not fully tested into a theatre of war where real people are dying? He implies that it's not even reached 70% of testing, so anyone using this in a real combat situation is at even more risk than usual. I sincerely hope that this isn't a cynical attempt at getting some "real world testing" on the cheap?
^ The parent link leads to an email chain between the CEO and the blogger in which the blogger says "go away I do not want to talk to you" several times and receives a chain of emails back. Text version:

https://d-shoot.net/files/kagiemails.txt

Read them yourself, but to me they look like the emails of a persistent salesman. They were remarkable only in that they provide more excuses than concrete responses.
As a "hard-core" Kagi user:

1) I legit can't fathom going back to Google or any other search engine. I don't know what I'll do if they go under.

2) Investing in integrating AI into their search is absolutely vital and I like a lot of what they're doing there

3) Everything else, including the insanity of the t-shirts thing, is a complete waste of time and money. I don't understand what their strategy is if it isn't to set money on fire.
I want to use nix it's the language that hurts for me. I keep trying to get into it, I have it on a mac laptop but Brew has gotten so good since I last used it almost 4 years ago that I go back to that.

Of course this is a whole env thing and not just a package thing but I dunno I'd almost rather build a container and work within that than write nix to get this functionality, the ergonomics of teh language are that galling for me.
https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/

I'm posting the reference in case anyone on here hasn't heard of it yet.
Did you try on both Firefox and another chromium-based browser to compare? If it works similarly for you, I might take more time to investigate why it's janky here.

Edit: I tested with nightly (so a new profile), and performance is similar: lower on Firefox than Chrome, even on already-loaded content. I don't think it was fair to call Firefox's performance "abysmal", but this is definitely not 60fps scrolling; but then I have no idea how to measure that.
Shared memory access for Nvidia GPUs

https://developer.nvidia.com/gpudirect
Honestly what he says makes sense in his "rebuttal", except for the part where he continues emailing after being told to stop.

I actually stumbled across the AI stuff being turned off by default yesterday when I got curious and was poking around the feature request forum. It was explicitly because a lot of people hate it for moral/ethical reasons. A lot of the comments in the replies are specifically about the AI stuff in spite of it being disabled by default.

Most of this seems fine for a startup?
Debunked urban legend. Likely retcon from various mythology involving the chemistry lab's "deionized water" bottle which every chemistry teacher has to make up convincing reasons for the class not to drink from.
It sounds like this isn’t something you need or want. So why shit on it?
Anger from campaigners as WhatsApp lowers age limit to 13 in UK and EU
I looked at a few network requests and you are fetching the country code for some locations, is there some docu on this how/why you are doing so? I soon perhaps also have to implement a simple "is this location in country XY" check and it seems both trivial and complex at the same time to solve, without a full map-aware database/system.

https://github.com/pietervdvn/MapComplete-data/tree/main/lat...
If you're interested in installing heat pumps, there is a similar open data initiative started by some redditors to aggregate heat pump pricing quotes.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hBebytdBOzLQ4eoAbdFQ...
Unit tests considered harmful? No
Identical twins can just swap IDs as well so this doesn't introduce a security flaw that wasn't already there.
Contributing is simple:

1. When you see a trail or any other feature that doesn't appear on the map, take a picture.

2. When you get home, visit https://www.openstreetmap.org and start drawing.

The website has satellite images overlayed wirh map data, so it's easy to see what you are doing.

You can look at your pictures to remind yourself of what was missing.

If you have recorded your ride,you can also upload your GPX trace to OpenStreetMap to make it easier to trace features that don't show up clearly on satellite images.

Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Look around and start small. Good luck!
It means you can send data from the memory of 1 GPU to another GPU without going via RAM. https://xilinx.github.io/XRT/master/html/p2p.html
Discovery of the first fractal molecule in nature – Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Why even reply to an email when you intent to ignore it?

>Yes, hello so called prince of Nigeria. I have no interest in a discussion about the intricate court politics of Nigeria or its Byzantine inheritance rules. As you can see from my blog post it is entirely unlikely you would ever gain the throne even with my $2,000 wire transfer.

The only thing I take away from that is I'm very happy I don't know either of them and am never likely to.
Still, it's possible to end up in a situation where people are getting paid and in theory it's an improvement over a previous lawless IP situation, but in practice it still leaves creators in the cold.

That's basically what happened with Spotify. Artists are getting paid something for streaming, but it's fractions of pennies on the dollars they used to make from music sales.
I assume the developers who use a free third party service for serving their dependencies are the same devs who :pikachu_face: when they are told they can’t statically link GPL libraries into their proprietary apps.
that’s an accidental feature given that ruby’s own expectation, going by the description in the blog post, is that a required feature is missing on current platform. perhaps it’s badly named. because it leads to this faux ami. speaking as someone who has raised quite a lot of them myself, and i think that’s what sorbet raises as well.
Times like this, I'm glad a lot of my shit is still on hard drives!
It's worth running the numbers based on your particular utility costs, though. In our case, with somewhat expensive gas and very expensive electricity, the heat pump would have cost quite a bit more to run: https://www.jefftk.com/p/running-the-numbers-on-a-heat-pump
Wouldn't the whole python world be better if the Python Steering Council made it known it intended to standardize on Rye/Hatch/Poetry or whatever.

Choosing anything, stating that out-loud and slowly forcing convergence would benefit all.

Lot's of options are great to explore the solution space, but it feels like we are way past that.
> I also am OK for 100% tax to anyone who's not me or my immediate family.

Then your money wouldn't be worth anything as no one will want to provide you with a service.
There was a time where shared libraries were necessary, because otherwise the programs would not fit into memory.
WhatsApp is E2E and not a social media. If a group chat application is causing problems with your kids, maybe you should look to yourself as a parent
I use Kagi and will continue to do so until it no longer suits my needs.
Frankly, it's still the best search engine. I temporarily subscribed to the AI tier and found the expert assistant genuinely useful.

The t-shirt thing is inexplicable.
there's an export button at the bottom of the table which copies a CSV to your clipboard.
Happy Kagi user here. I'm gladly paying $25 per month because of all their AI features, which work well for me overall. Yes, I could set up API keys on OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Mistral and get a similar experience for less, but I prefer the convenience of their interface and have clean search results bundled into the experience. I will continue to recommend them and hope that T-Shirt becomes available soon.
Vlad is not discussing, he is lecturing. The author of the blog post seems right. Vlad defends his position "lol email is not PII" repeatedly, despite being obviously and completely wrong. He has no understanding that it doesn't matter that a user could enter fake information.

His business collects email addresses, which is a process. Under GDPR, this process must be documented, users must be given their data on request (even if it just contains an email address, but usually it also contains the signup date for example as a proof for their data processing consent) and users must be informed about their rights to correct or delete such data.

He comes off totally as the "trust me bro" guy with zero respect for a different perspective and doesn't seem to be interested in changing his (objectively wrong) opinion. It is almost laughable, because "is email PII" has been discussed a million times since the introduction of the GDPR that you must've lived under a rock to dismiss it like Vlad did.
US will require background checks for gun shows and online firearm sales
I don't care if it's someone's baby. I'm the paying customer paying in both money and sensitive information I expected to be well protected.
Holy ****, how much drugs does it take for a search startup of 8 people trying to compete with Google to do this:

Kagi: "The process from here involves setting up a business entity in Germany, so we can import the t-shirts, store them in a warehouse, connect inventory logistics and ship them all over the world. This includes building a website and connecting it to a back-end database. So, we basically ended up owning a merch production operation end-to-end, just so that we could ensure premium quality of these t-shirts!

Now, you may ask, why did we go through all this trouble and allocate nearly a third of our investor-raised funds to produce and freely distribute 20,000 t-shirts?

We would not be here without our early adopters (you!) and we deemed it important to pause, reflect and show gratitude.
We acknowledge that our journey is a marathon, not a sprint. With a long road ahead, supporting our member community is both rewarding and meaningful.
Simply put, wearing the Doggo t-shirt is an incredibly awesome experience."

That's a classic stimulant-fueled side quest bender
I considered investing a small amount in them when they were raising a round from customers since I loved the search product so much. I too can't imagine going back to anything else, especially now that I have prioritized and blocked domains set up perfectly and added lenses, and this stuff works across desktop and mobile!

I've been mildly regretting not investing up until 5 minute ago when I read about spending 1/3 of that on the t-shirt factory.
Love it when entitled people like that get their comeuppance!

Punctuality is expected here so I have a lot of sympathy with the gate attendant.
I don't find anything outlined in the post particularly bad, but what does bother me is that it seems like Kagi's founder cares a lot about what people think on Discord. Like the author said, most people never touch it and don't know or care what is said on there. If you want to engage with people, why not do it in a more open space? The closed nature of Discord chats means the only way to reference them is through screenshots, and that breeds drama as we're seeing here.
I've read the first third of the article and I didn't get what's the author's problem with Kagi. What do they care how many employees Kagi has or how much they spend on t-shirts.

Then I scrolled through the rest of it and read the very last screenshot. That one looks pretty bad.

> people who really need anonymity are very rare. probably less than a 100 in the entire world. definitely not typical Kagi users

> unless they are criminals, in which case we don't care they don't have full anonymity (nor we want them as customers)

- Kagi CEO
>I was indeed being sarcastic

You might want to take this as an opportunity to re-read Poe's law[0]. It does in fact always apply on the internet.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Show HN: The Startup Frame
From Businessplan To Launch and Far Beyond
People like that never know. They don’t know how the system works, they’re just pretty sure it’s bad. You can argue with them but there’s no point.

We have 8 billion humans alive, who mostly all want to stay alive and keep eating food. We got to 8 billion entirely because of modern agriculture. But, they are sure, we really don’t need it, we can all just eat local joe farmer’s tomatoes. Nevermind that it’s seasonal and more expensive (and who doesn’t want to can all their food in summer, and who doesn’t have unlimited time and money to devote to food?) we’ll all be just fine.

It’s the same with PFAs. They think they just do nothing that can’t be easily replaced, but if you ask them what those PFAs do (must do something if there are that many of them) or how else you’d accomplish those tasks, they’re not quite sure other than they know we should just ban them all tomorrow and everything will be ok.

It’s easy to criticize a system you don’t understand and assume it’s all just rigged against us.
I think Itanium was pretty successful in few important, though entirely non-techincal, ways: it got HPaq to kill and PA-RISC and SGI to stop developing MIPS.
Totally agree on all points. I don't believe I have the technical capability for it but both the fear of losing great search and the lack of direction has made me think about what it would take to replicate the search experience.
I like hearing this balanced opinion. Generative AI is awesome, but demos around it should be honest and transparent. Looking at you Google as well. I don't know if I can trust a single Google demo for a while. They must do 0 edit, cut demos for quite some time in order to build that trust. Also this fake happy, go lucky, childlike communication after the edits/cuts is cringey. Unless you are doing it real-time like OpenAI did.

Based on the slogans said around Devin I decided to ignore it completely - so while I couldn't say it's bs for sure, I did feel the slogans are embellished and too good to be true.

Also for some reason I don't like the name for it at all. I don't understand how it could be so poorly chosen. Not that names can always give insight, but this name somehow was so off putting to me.
Since we're looking towards the future and asking whether there is an advantage of the basic materials (organic vs. inoraganic) I'm talking about the physical limits of those substrates, whether there's anything special about them that allows one to process information in a way that the other can't. I.e. how many bits can be stored in a cubic centimeter of nano-structured silicon compared to a cube of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and other organic chemistry arranged into (for example) neurons. How many TFlop/s can be fit into such a cube in principle etc. etc.
Or if there are some other physical processes relevant to information processing that make carbon special.
Those fundamental limits have not changed over time, the physics are the same. All that changes are how much use engineering makes of those possibilities.
You can sell it more than once.
Yes you could only use them at hotspots like train stations and shopping malls.

Technically they could receive calls, but because that would only work in range of a hotspot, few operators offered this function. There was too limited radio spectrum to offer service across a wider area (reutilisation of cells not practical).

In some cases the phones had a built-in pager to provide some form of reachability.
Yikes. I'm happy to stay away from Kagi, now. I find that platform strategy and that founder's attitude to be hideous, so I appreciate you bringing that to light.
I read this a lot and it prevented me from trying nix many years ago, instead I looked to guix and guile. Turns out, I don’t like schemes all that much.

Started using nix this year, language is easy to use. Has very few concepts and syntax, it’s a standard functional language with all those goodies and a clean syntax in my opinion.
It looks like that unit may have 3 indoor heads. Two lines per head. Power to each head. Power to the outdoor unit.
I think this could be Resolved by scale, but that’s precisely what the west is really bad at

If we standardised ground source heat pumps as a must have all multi dwelling developments like apartment blocks and rows of terraced houses who could share one well et cetera, It would not be a noticeable cost at all
Why are you assuming glitches exist? Maybe all the glitches are actually stowaways.
Plugged into what? Can't be more than power because the rest of the infra is all gone.

It'd be interesting to see if it's still transmitting beacons though yeah.
Chrysalisp: Parallel OS with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, C-Script and Lisp
Ah, my bad. I'm just constantly confused by title case titles here with the weirdest product names mixed in. Can't edit or delete my original comment it seems, sorry.
My Best Awk Tricks (2016)
Like most of Google's offerings, the VPN service was lacking feature-wise. Sure, it was great when I needed to use insecure WiFi, but it wouldn't let you select your egress location.
Clouds to be prosecuted soon.
Musk's "sin" is not silencing people a judge wants silenced.

https://archive.is/gsvVZ
Brazil Judge Wrangling With Elon Musk Has Long Battled Social Media. Alexandre de Moraes is also at the heart of case against former leader Jair Bolsonaro
By Samantha Pearson
WSJ April 10, 2024 9:00 am ET

`SÃO PAULO—Before his weekend showdown with tech billionaire Elon Musk, Brazil’s Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes had already earned a reputation as a lightning rod in Brazil’s battles over free speech.

In recent years, de Moraes has slapped fines and bans on social-media companies and ordered police to investigate—and even arrest—some of the country’s most powerful conservative bloggers, businessmen and politicians over what he deemed offensive online posts.

Now the court’s order to block a swath of X accounts has sparked fresh debate, with critics on the right, including many legal experts, saying de Moraes has gone too far. They argue his crusade to clean up the internet in the name of safeguarding democracy is arbitrary and repressive, and that the biggest risk to democracy in Brazil could be the Supreme Court.`
I personally haven’t lost faith, because search is still the best out there. I’m really happy with it, no complaints and I’m not planning on cancelling.

Speaking about their whole business, I think three things left me a negative impression:

- the tshirts were really unnecessary. I didn’t understand that. I am not sure the world needed more trash being produced and for sure it was not a good use of their money.

- I think AI as a tool has a place in their offering (Quick Answer, Summarizer). I don’t think the Assistant stuff makes sense for a search engine.

- the apparent lack of care for privacy that appears in the quotes in the blog posts are not good and I hope Vlad changes his mind and addresses that properly. Everyone needs privacy. Moreover, GDPR is no joke and it should be followed properly.
The target audience for unit tests is not the client, it is the developer. Unit tests allow you to change code with more confidence. 100% code coverage is not a useful aim, you should aim for 100% confidence in your code. Unit tests can also function as example code, that can't get out of date, since then the tests will fail.

Testing for quality assurance is a different thing, usually called acceptance testing and sometimes including regression testing. One easy way to make clients angry is by re-introducing bugs that were fixed in earlier releases.
I am struggling with the Silicon Valley's latest business model that seems to be based on stealing all content in order to train AI to replace the very creators who created that content. If we then replace white-collar workers with AI and blue-collar workers with robots... and most of the population are jobless who's going to be able to pay for the content, the services, and the goods produced by AI and robots? Is it why the VC are in favour of universal basic income? But if we all go on UBI then what's the point to selling to us if that money could go to the VCs... but then... what do they do with the money if it ceases to circulate and incentivise people to work and trade?
What's Skill Builder's skepticism based on? Don't heat pumps deliver on their promises?
Different use case, but when I am working in a intellij environment I like to use their http client, based on .http files. I find it elegant.
In your analogy, the keyserver is a phone book. You can find keys there, and yes you can try to use them, but it's not like telling someone you can be contacted on a particular phone number, but rather like them digging through a phone book and finding your name in there, possibly for an unused landline that you technically own but isn't wired up - who knows.

Telling you to use a particular phone number - say through a business card, a contact page or a profile - is the analogy matching configuration of your domain to publish your intent, similar to how your domain also specify where you mail server is.
People who don't exist yet can't be plaintiffs.
i reckon nearly zero of these creators are making videos for a single viewer. and as a film student, or even as a professor, you wouldn't spend $300 per movie just to reference in study. demanding even more than that can only be hedging against the idea that one will be out of a job
IOPaint: Image inpainting tool powered by SOTA. Erase and replace objects/people
Three is so horrible though. I had them in Ireland and they put all our internet traffic behind a super slow proxy so they could ban porn and gambling, none of which is required by Irish law.

Then you had to go to the shop with photo ID to get unblocked. Also their support was absolutely terrible, their agents were so dumb. One time I had an issue with logging into their web portal (to change my plan) from my computer and their agent insisted they needed to put my handset in for service (which worked fine, of course). I asked for their supervisor and they said the same. They were real scriptmonkeys.

At that point I simply unlocked my handset and switched to vodafone.
I've tried Solvespace a couple of times, but haven't done well with it --- I wish that it was scriptable and that there was some sort of support for Bézier curves --- please feel free to make use of any of my code/concepts, but it's a pretty small codebase (and weird to boot) and I doubt anything which is helpful couldn't be coded up by someone else about as quickly as they could read through my code to repurpose it.
These AI video systems will need huge amounts of random videos showing things like leafs rustling in the wind, car driving, etc. so you don't even need to put in 10 hours of effort to create a 10 minute video, you can just grab your camera and go for a walk and publish that as it is, and it will be valuable training material.

$3 per minute would be a pretty high price to pay for "man walks outside" video.
I use all 3 of these systems usually many times a month. My biggest complaint is junk moving around for no real good reason. Changing OS's makes that issue much worse. plus the fun of finding software that I use to get things done may or may not work anymore. I use some software that has not had updates in 15 years...