skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kagi's post says further down that they

> allocate[d] nearly a third of our investor-raised funds to produce and freely distribute 20,000 t-shirts

Though it sounds like they don't actually own "a t-shirt factory", but rather a t-shirt distributor.
I bought a Topdon TC001 a year ago that in my experience is significantly more responsive and higher resolution than similarly priced FLIR or other name brand options at that price point. It appears there are even more low cost options now.
Yeah, I was thinking the same. This is just wrong on so many levels. This is what leads to identity fraud.

I am reaching out to my congressman and senators office to let them know that several elements of this program are abused so much they should take a fresh look at this. I suggest you do the same.

I truly believe that immigration is what keeps America the greatest country in the world. But this kind of abuse needs to stop.
Lori is a she, not a he.
It's easier to be incorruptible by money when you already have a lot of money.

One of the big societal problems with pushing down wages for 50 years is that it makes society less ethical because people aren't comfortable enough in their finances. When people aren't comfortable with their finances, they are less likely to be able to quickly ignore unethical things that might help their financial situation even a little bit.

Quick example: You see a guy drop a $20 when stuffing his ATM withdrawal into his wallet. I would say, "hey bud, you dropped a 20." Someone else might just let him walk out and pick it up for themselves because it would help them a lot more than me.
It’s renewed funding. First paragraph:

> Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced renewed funding for the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI), DOE’s energy innovation hub for desalination. With $75 million over five years for this second phase of the Hub, NAWI will continue to bring together a team of industry and academic partners to examine the critical technical barriers and research needed to radically lower the cost and energy of water purification technologies.
Yup. TTL (leases) must become the norm for All The Things.
Above all, I wonder why brain drain is not viewed as a geopolitical tool. High skilled young professionals from China and Russia are essentially non-replaceable due to their declining birth rates. You can do a lot more damage this way than through various sanctions. A lot of people already want to move to the US, so this can easily be done by getting rid of the cap and switching to a tax on the employer to simplify the process.
As GP implies, NixOS supports running multiple instances of any service you like, but the way some of the modules are written doesn't make it easy. Thankfully one of the advantages of NixOS is that it's pretty easy to add a configuration module to your personal configuration!

In general, you can configure systemd yourself through `systemd.services`, where you can write systemd service files ‘directly’ in Nix syntax. Services for which multiple instances make sense often (unfortunately, not always) provide configuration that allows you to specify multiple instances (i.e. their top-level configuration object will be a list or attrset of instance configurations). I've written a little bit about patterns to do this here: https://twey.io/nix-patterns/inputs-and-outputs/

If you needed, say, multiple instances of Postgres, it's not too challenging to copy-paste the nixpkgs implementation, change it a bit to parameterize the config on (e.g.) a service name for namespacing, then import that module into your NixOS configuration to allow you to define multiple instances. For example, I did this here for the Rainloop email client: https://github.com/Twey/dotfiles/blob/main/nixos/modules/ser...
I think the British sockets are superior to others. Circuit breakers in house protects the wires in walls (because those who installed circuit breakers knew what wires are in the walls). And fuse in the British socket protects the wires to the device because the manufacturer knew what device are the wires connected to. Plus the prongs are not exposed. It simply all makes sense. (Disclaimer: French socket haver here)
In France it was branded Bi-Bop and ran from 1991 to 1997; many public places had the stickers to identify where service was available. Apple even had a Bi-Bop modem to go in the PowerBook laptops. Futuristic at the time but pricing pretty much kept it from getting much traction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT2
Or you could spend $25 a month on a dedicated server and run SearxNG or Yacy? Good lord what an excessive amount of money that is to search the web...
> What I wish existed (or maybe does) is something like a CDN with ~8 global locations that promised to keep your static site in a warm cache for a small fee

IIRC this is what Cloudflare Argo is supposed to do? https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/application-services/produc...

Rather than routing cache misses to origin, it'll route to other PoPs with the cached content?
Had a flight where the pilots on multiple announcements said the wrong destination and I was about to jump off. I knew I went through the right gate but definitely confusing. Pilots caught their mistake and had a good laugh.
When I left teaching my salary went up 50% on day 1, to 100% after about a year, to 150% after 2 or 3 years, and has continued climbing significantly since. If I had stayed my salary would have lagged inflation. The pay for performance bonuses I've heard of have never been more than 20% of a teacher's salary. I'm not typical because I have CS and Math degrees, but still, I have no intention of ever considering returning to teaching.

Not part of this discussion, but I did work with people who left public schools to work at charter schools because you could get 25-50% more there, but they rarely stayed more than 2 years because of the working environment being more toxic than at public schools.
In an ironic twist, cheaper white collar workers should make services on the whole cheaper. Something that would be good for blue collar/hourly workers. In the same way that lax borders are beneficial to white collar workers by making goods cheaper.

Looks like we are all "racists" after all.
The Story of The Oregon Trail [video]
I use them and none of this stuff really matters; they basically have deep pockets available to them and in the current operating model can continue indefinitely.

I'd love to see more focus on their own search engine/results, as well as technical means of ensuring anonymity/unlinkability within their infrastructure, but they're well worth the $250/yr for a pro subscription today.
I wrote a static site generator for adding interactive elements to my blog and I want to keep extending it. The link is a short introductory article showcasing a few features I added. I would be happy to hear any thoughts or comments!
There is absolutely no reason to trust Vlad on GDPR when they didn’t even pay sales taxes
This video specific discusses the D-17b architecture and has a link to a simulator.
> What I wish existed (or maybe does) is something like a CDN with ~8 global locations that promised to keep your static site in a warm cache for a small fee

cloudflare cache reserve or bunny.net as someone else mentioned
that's actually kinda nice ...
Often you only have one acceptable ID on you and if you lose that because you're fumbling around with things at 6am in the morning, you can be screwed.

After somehow losing my driver's license one morning between the curb and the airport door--no idea how to this day--I always use my Global Entry card when I can to present ID because it's essentially a spare ID.

So, yeah, I prefer not to present ID any more than I have to.
Plane Introduces "One" – Buy software one time, built on Open source
Now cross compile something that has a dependency on a system library
This sounds awesome can you share any details on how you got this to work?
then your home theatre setup isn’t great (or you’re comparing it to a PLF experience).

a large oled and good speakers is dare i say better than 99% of poorly maintained theatre screens.
Yes, the person you’re replying to reminds me of those guys on Twitter who selectively quote stats to try and prove that people are doomers and things are actually good.

There are so many things that statistics don’t cover it’s unreal.

One thing that especially comes to mind is that many of the illusions of society have been shattered by the younger generations. Things like believing you should be loyal to your employer because they’ll return the favor.
This is a common kneejerk response to being critical of corporate parties, but if you look at my previous message, nowhere did I say they are the same. They are two variations of corrupt and ensure a race to the bottom. Conveniently, they keep everyone bickering about the wrong things while the enablers at the top win no matter what color the current puppet is.

Edit to add, I don't suspect adding a third or fourth party of capital will fix the fundamental contradictions baked into capitalism.
Can someone ELI5 what this may make possible that wasn't possible before? Does this mean I can buy a handful of 4090s and use it in lieu of an h100? Just adding the memory together?
Why? If you care about being even remotely reliable (hinted at with "production-focused"), why would you do this? Just use the same host as where you serve everything else from.

Browsers have partitioned caches per origin for over 10 years, so there's no performance gains from getting cache hits from other websites.
When we’re talking about the impact of neoliberalism, they absolutely are the same. The things they differ on are mostly social issues that don’t actually have much of an impact on capital.
What I noticed in many countries with traditionally high youth unemployment, say like Egypt or Greece, it is considered normal to be young and unemployed and just living off your family, there wasn't much of a stigma attached to it.

In fact people will declare to you "I live with one of my kids who finished university three years ago and is currently unemployed" with no hint of disappointment, but the situation in some parts of the west and especially the US, people will talk about unemployed university graduates as total losers and embarrassment.
yeah ... starlark being more imperitive kinda python-y would be really nice

I'll keep trying to give Nix and the language more work on my end.
From this and other things, Vlad has seemed to have a heavy Elon Musk vibe, which is unfortunate.

My partner works in mental healthcare. There are absolutely more than 100 people who need anonymity. Far more than 100 people who have patients show up at their residence with bad intentions. I think men are also more predisposed to think that "most people" don't have anything to worry about with their personal safety.

All I want is a search engine that

1. ignores junk
2. allows me to up/down/pin rank certain sites
3. efficiently gets me to what I'm looking for

Kagi was that, and still mostly is, but all the AI stuff is pretty distracting, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to be willing to support a company with a good piece of tech but bad human leadership.
Exactly. Delta makes it easy when flying with multiple people to accidentally scan someone else in your parties pass. Happened to be before where my sister used my ticket and boarded but when I scanned it flagged that it was used. I just pulled out my id and they verified. Someone eventually figured it out.
I would expect that to be partially counter balanced by companies being more willing to sponsor someone already in the US over someone currently overseas? Haven't had to go through that process fortunately but seems likely from a practical standpoint.
>In my experience, this tends to result in tests that take a bit longer to run and, due to their lower level of granularity, require slightly longer to understand failures. In return, they provide significantly higher prod-representativeness and business-value-delivered-per-hour-spent-test-writing.

You are describing E2E tests here though. And this is the general problem with even discussing these things. It seems that literally everyone has a different mental model of the boundaries between each.
A very big database comparing a lot of relevant data can be found at https://www.eurovent-certification.com/

I only used it for air-to-air heatpumps (or air conditioners as they are sometimes called). He the data is oretty good. I can't say anything about the other types of heatpumps but I've found the database quite useful.
Seems like a terrible bet
That would be true if you used `Vec::clear` too, it doesn't allocate a new vector. My point was that you still end up running Drop implementations with RepeatedField<T>, just not all at once. See https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Website visitor information is still really sensitive. If you book an HIV test online, you probably don't want Google and Facebook to know that.
It doesn't sound like you gave serious thought to the arguments. The AGI doesn't need to hack robots. It has superhuman persuasion, by definition; it can "hack" (enough of) the humans to achieve its goals.
I wonder if one can take the English Wikipedia ZIM archive and process it to an efficiently-stored offline map of names to URLs, hopefully even with fuzzy matching.
I mean where do you expect your services to come from if there is no state income tax?
> ... set timers for the kitchen ...

One of their best devices appears to in the "Temporarily out of stock" category now. The echo wall clock. It pairs with an echo device and provides a visual representation of the count down timer.

This reminds me of Ambient in the design philosophy.

I fondly remember the Ambient Orb ( http://www.ambientdevices.com/about/consumer-devices ). They had an umbrella at one time where the handle would glow if it would rain that day. They had a LCD weather/clock ( https://ambientdevices.myshopify.com/collections/vendors?q=A... ) that I really liked.

With push (notifications), it's interrupting. Alexa isn't too bad about that since it's a ring color / icon on a screen. With pull, it's "I need to fetch this data". With ambient, it's there if you want it when you want it.

I don't need to ask how much longer on the timer with the clock - it's there at a glance.

Unfortunately, Amazon has been making the devices (especially ones with a screen) into an advertising channel to the point I'm looking at replacing the various echo show devices with just echos (and a clock if they ever come back into stock).

On reading Wikipedia... Alexa used to have a knowledge engine somewhere in its code. You could ask it what color a black cat was and get back "a black cat is black." You could ask "what color is a light red flower" and get back "a pink flower is pink." Asking "what color is a blue bird" gets back "a blue bird is blue, brown, and white." That hinted at a deeper knowledge engine. There was also an inventor <-> invention knowledge base. One time I even had it return back part of the query language by asking it if two people (who were born on the same day) were born on the same day. The knowledge base functionality appears to have been delegated to "search Alexa answers".

It has gotten decidedly worse over the years as useful functionality that had no revenue associated with it got removed while "revenue enacting" features (pushing fire tv, product advertisements and such) have been prioritized.

Many of my echo shows are now "face down" because the screen cycle of stuff I do not care about is out of the corner of my eye distractingly fast. Time and weather are better served by my watch now.

It still does timers and reminders acceptably well.
The difficulty is in hardware vs. software. You can fix up a failing video card on a computer, but if there is a weird visual glitch that is caused by a deep software bug and you don't have source code or a compiler for it, then you are left with treating symptoms and avoiding conditions that trigger that error.
Burying your head in the sand is definitely more comfortable, as is repeating stats. But if you live in the same reality as everyone else and are paying any attention whatsoever, seems hard to believe that you wouldn't take notice of the Russian war in Ukraine, Israel's attack on Gaza, tensions heating up between Israel & its neighbors, Switzerland holding a vote on whether or not to remain a neutral company in the event of a war, Russia & China constantly attacking countries' computer & physical infrastructure, etc.
San Jose is the really confusing one imho. San Jose international in Cabo (SJD) just south of the California border and San Jose international (SJC) in California are spitting distance globally speaking so if flying from a third country you really need to make sure you got the right one as ticket prices alone wont give it away.
He ain't gonna answer is he? Kinda crazy how karma/reputation works on these sites, you just get what you want and have to explain nothing
I really don't understand why people are so upset about the T-shirts. Like in the grand scheme of things, who cares? If I invested money (I didn't) in Kagi, I would expect some of that money to be spent on marketing. Marketers often do experiments, some of which go well, and others that don't. Only time tells.

This take feels more like being upset about one individual's (Vlad) personal opinions about privacy and politics. But in my opinion, it fails to realize that assigning one person's views to an entire organization is a fallacy. Even if they are the leader.

As a service, I like Kagi. Both in principle, and in practice. I find the "summarize this page" feature to be very useful. I also like the idea of paying for value, rather than being forced to feed the advertising beast. So I pay for value. If it stops being valuable, I will stop paying. I care about privacy, but I also realize that we live in a world where there are serious limits on the amount of privacy that can be expected. So I have to just do the best I can with what is available. Kagi is at least an improvement on the standard "eyeballs are the product" business model.
Tesla has roughly 140K employees and made 930K cars in 2023. That's roughly 320 hours of their total employee time per car or one person working 40 hours a week for 8 weeks / 2 months.

Building a house involves multiple people over many months. Yes those people may be getting paid less but you are easily talking about an order of magnitude more effort. On top of that, the raw materials are expensive. If you just priced out the cost for concrete and steel for the foundation, wood (studs / plywood) and drywall for the walls, windows, siding, roofing, you are talking tens of thousands of dollars, if not more.

You said construction cost only but on top of that there is also the cost for the land. That alone can be a huge chunk of any home price (just look up what an empty lot costs). Looking in an area I'm interested a lot looks like it could be 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of the home (if I built).
I really just hope consumers will have access to both sides.

I know people freak out about hardware backdoors but some of the cheap tech coming out of China sure is cool
There are multiple factors. Some H-1B are very skilled and in need. But there are consultancies who make money off these workers and don't care about the skill, they'll do whatever they can to make money. Also another factor is suppressing salaries as people need to compete these lowly paid workers...
This is wild. I don't think this is very common.
Yes, that's been my experience too.

I've not seen such hilariously bad communication since trying to talk to my thesis advisor.

Guix might use a scheme, but at least it has good documentation and seems more open to accepting contributions.
If you were looking to create testing for networking, i.e., simulating network dropouts for a client-server connections, is this something that you can use namespaces for, or would virtual machines be more fit for purpose?
Kagi is not a product I'd use, nor do I get the hype around it.

The company has apparently made a significant amount of bad business decisions.

The author is a politically-obsessed weirdo who gets upset when people deny their delusions.
Note that website information can still be PHI.

From[0]:

> if an individual were looking at a hospital’s webpage listing its oncology services to seek a second opinion on treatment options for their brain tumor, the collection and transmission of the individual’s IP address, geographic location, or other identifying information showing their visit to that webpage is a disclosure of PHI to the extent that the information is both identifiable and related to the individual’s health or future health care

[0] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance...
Anonymity should be the default. I don't have any right to come peeking into your windows, or to tap your phone, even if there's a market for whatever I discover. The same should be true for online activity.

And his comment about needing privacy? Name one person that needs privacy while taking a shit. Just because your desire for privacy doesn't rise to the level of need, that doesn't make it any less valid.
It takes way more heat to change liquid water to a gas than to bring liquid water from 0 °C to 100 °C.

> the molecules in liquid water are held together by relatively strong hydrogen bonds, and its enthalpy of vaporization, 40.65 kJ/mol, is more than five times the energy required to heat the same quantity of water from 0 °C to 100 °C

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_vaporization#Therm...
It means the order in which you serialise a multi-dimensional array. So for this 2D table:

1262
3418
9076

Because it’s 2D it has two stride orders, xy and yx, i.e. row-major and column-major, which would be 126234189076 and 139240617286 respectively.
I guess. Been using Nix for two years and never knew it had an implication operator. It's mostly just json-like config with occasional code to do more complex things. You almost never have to use the heavier parts of the language unless you are developing Nix itself.
Incredible, thank you for sharing this.
Not true. They expel 'really bad kid's every year. It's hard to do but happens.
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$185,000 and a lot of paperwork.

https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program
I probably should have said “the easiest way”. I did know that you could define systemd services yourself, but it’s good to see a specific pattern.

I still think it’s easier to just spin up a NixOS container - should work for any service out of the box.
People pay $0 to Google/Meta/Twitter/TikTok for their base level offerings, and their privacy policy is valid to discuss and criticize. Does it somehow become less important just because they are also getting paid money?

People discuss Apple's commitment to privacy and if it is real or adequate.
Pretty neat, though natural language is famously ambiguous. From the example,

tu today -> 2024-03-16T12:56:41.905455Z
tu tomorrow -> 2024-03-17T12:56:41.905455Z

I interpret "today" as the time period between 00:00 and 23:59:59.999999, and tomorrow similarly.