skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly do you call it when:

1. Investors pour money in to companies not hoping that they become profitable. But hoping they can get their money back via an IPO while they are still not profitable.

2. The investment bankers dump their allocation at IPO and get to take advantage of the hype. Then sell the stock to retail investors.

3. The retail investors fall for the hype even though the company still isn’t profitable and the stock price drops?

That’s the definition of a “Ponzi scheme”. Everyone throws good money after bad hoping that there is a “bigger fool”.
I had to use them at school; my hands and clothes were almost permanently ink-stained. I do not miss them.
When I started my journey in software development there was no “front end” all was called “web development” with some funny js snippets and acid colours on banners.

But today when I look at modern front end apps it’s often more complex then back-end.

Feels like something went wrong.
Basis (YC S21) Is hiring devs to help build the Figma for Data
Water, rocks, and other minerals have been around much longer than that.

Our concern is not the survivability or adaptability over evolutionary timescale but the capabilities to affect the world in human timescale.
> I mean I’ve never made the decision to support a creator because they were on the platform.

I have. It's nice to have a centralized UI for your donations and I would never enter my payment information just to support a single creator with a dollar or two.
You might want to read my post again, I specifically talked about AR and VR applications
For photo identification of plants, I've found Plant@net to be amazing (in Portugal)
Find some online games you can play if you are bored. If everything is running smoothly then you are doing a good job and you are adding value. Your contributions are probably much more valuable than you think.
Whether you print a benchy using a tabletop 3d printer using PLA, or a using a gigantic gantry crane pouring cement, the compute power required is the same.

3D printing firmware and all of it's associated design software (CAD/CAM) would run fine on computing technology 10 years old.

Construction speed is bottlenecked by the lack of investment in new techniques, not for the lack of compute power.
Thanks, this is constructive and useful! I have no idea how to look into that, but if I manage to land something like that, I could reduce my working week.

No idea how to deal with the uncertainty of being able to get enough contracts that pay enough.
Dark Mode, faster content delivery and a batch download function. Some DRM system for creators would also be interesting.
Add a server rack and things will warm up down there.
Indeed. I run my gemini capsule off of a Raspberry Pi 3 using FreeBSD. The one thing about Pi's is that they sip energy. I was using about 2.4W, so I estimated running costs at less than £7pa.

I've no doubt that one could serve gopher pages using a microcontroller like the ESP-32. Gemini would be more difficult, due to encryption requirements.

Readers may also be interested to learn of the Spartan protocol, which is basically Gemini without the encryption and a more flexibly upload option. Spartan hasn't really caught on yet, though.

I've also heard of a protocol called Mercury, which I assume is similar to Gemini, but even simpler. I've not read up about it, though.
I find myself working in the web3 space despite not being a fan of crypto (quite the contrary). What I have helped implement working in this space touches on distributed & decentralized systems, edge computing, cryptography and I could probably name a few more technically interesting areas. Actually made use of those trees, graphs and associated algorithms that you see popping up in coding interviews, after which you never hear about them again.

While I respect your decision, if we are talking about technical exposure to interesting challenges, I think you're leaving a lot on the table by defaulting to no-hire.
> "What is AGI?" is becoming increasingly irrelevant.

It's always been irrelevant in the practical sense. It's just an interesting conversation piece particularly among the general public where they're not going to discuss specific solutions like algorithms or techniques.
Fun fact: some HFT algos utilize this fact, if they see a "round size" order (1000 shares) at a "round price" (11.25) they flag it as a "human" order.
Umm... no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

This says those energy costs are lost to the universe, forever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_law_of_thermodynamics

And this says the underlying value is zero
why do you need them? clean and ventilate and if necessary move.
There are already heat pumps that work at very low temps. Mitsubishi has models that are still heating at -13f
“They are for profit business that hasn’t figured out how to make a profit in a decade”

Sounds like a good investment to me.
An IRC server is extremely minimal. It:

- keeps a list of nicknames<->IP sockets,

- keeps a list of channels, which nicknames is in what channel, and the mode of each nickname in the channel (operator, etc.). First join command to a channel creates the channel and sets the creator with operator privileges.

- when a command to send a message is received (which must specify a channel), it forwards the chat text to the appropriate sockets based who is in the channel.

That's it. Honestly it's about the least you can do to turn TCP into a multiuser chat protocol. Because of this minimality, IRC was able to handle hundreds or thousands of simultaneous users on 1990 hardware.

Channel operators can kick malicious users, set topics, etc. Again, when you create a channel, you're op. An operator can give operator privileges to other users, so it's possible for a channel to have multiple ops and they can look out for each other - if connected.

When your TCP connection to IRC ends, classic IRC forgets all about you. If all channel operators lose their connection, then your channel may be opless and you might lose control of it. A classic IRC server is not like a modern chat server, it keeps no database or persistent record of chat text, nicknames, or channels. So you can't log off and back on and get your chat history, look at messages in the channel while you were gone, or get automatically joined back to the channels you were part of, or "own" channels. That was all offloaded to the client.

Eggdrop was a program that would let you create an IRC bot - you would run this on your early 90's UNIX shell account you got from your university and it would stay connected when you weren't dialed in. Eggdrop will connect to the IRC server you tell it under the nickname you provide, join the channels you tell it, and then sits in the channel.

You can give it op privileges, and would basically occupy the channel so it would not get taken over. It could also be set to auto-op people who joined (you could talk to the bot via IRC and authenticate). It was also possible to create multiple eggdrops that worked together and would look out for each others channels (a botnet) - ideally you would have multiple running from different IPs such as your friends from different universities.

Eggdrop could also talk in the channel, respond to chat text in the channels, and provide access to files or memos.

You could also telnet into the eggdrop directly and manage it, and talk with others on any botnet you setup. So if a channel or IRC server was being attacked or down, you had an out of band way to talk.

Most modern IRC servers have "NickServ", "ChanServ" services that provide things like persistent users, channel ownership, and such, but that didn't come around until the 2000's I believe. You might still use an Eggdrop to do IRC games or file distribution.
I really doubt many people in Japan commute by car.
What many people don't realize is that the operational and customer service costs of payments don't scale with payment amount. Customers will cost almost just as frequently dispute, have questions, have problems, ask for help, attempt to defraud etc with a $1 transaction as they will a $100 or $1000 transaction. This is the real killer with micro payment schemes. Customer service costs scale more with number of payments than payment volume. And these real costs are born by Patreon, by the networks and by the banks which is why min txn costs exist. The crypto bros totally miss the point in understanding this too.

Source: 25yrs experience building payment networks
Web applications are still applications, and web applications and desktop applications are closer than applications and games.
I'm sympathetic to your spirit but the Romans slaughtered whole tribes because they thought they weren't tame enough to be enslaved.

I fear the same would happen, and the graveyard would be filled with the brave, while the ones who gave in would continue to live as slaves.
There’s a quote I heard somewhere to this effect. I’m probably messing it up.

“The trick isn’t to live forever, it’s to live long enough to live forever “
Yeah, I remember that one - but to be honest, those kind of fck ups dont happen to them very often. I am still wondering how did that happen. I also dont remember any story that they would get so factually wrong in about a decade of reading them daily.
Make it a liquid-cooled server rack and we can cut out the hot water heater entirely
I've tested +ve for many GPCR-autoantibodies, I had it done at the CellTrend lab. I've never had covid but my pre-existing ME/CFS was made vastly worse from the booster shot, I have particularly high count of ACE2-AAb which seems to be associated with covid, and or the vaccine. I have the genetic predisposition called hEDS and knew the risks when I took them. It's taken 3 months of many powerful and experimental drugs and I'm just starting to get back to my normal baseline.

To the people wondering where the control group is; most people don't test positive to GPCR-autoantibodies. I don't know where the threshold is set but the probability that all 76 long-covid patients test positive is otherwise rather low.
FTA, they already measured it and will deploy in 2024:

> The prototype delivers 100% heating at 5°F at double the efficiency, and 70% to 80% heating at -5°F and -10°F. DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory validated the performance and efficiency of Lennox’s prototype.

> Lennox is one of nine manufacturers competing in the CCHP Technology Challenge. Its product and others that meet the CCHP Technology Challenge will undergo trials in cold climate regions over the next two years to demonstrate performance, efficiency, and comfort when applied in the field throughout a winter. Deployment and commercialization are planned for 2024.
It hasn’t been debunked, if anything tether has been proven to be a scam by multiple usa government entities and having to pay fines explicitly that it’s a scam
There is more to 'crypto' than just BTC/ETH. Quite a few of the larger L2 chains have fraction of a penny fees and transactions go through in seconds. They are actually perfect for smaller transactions. We just need more people to build on top of them and make real products like this in order to get more adoption.
I don't intend to forbid anything - I just think the language of motivation and desire makes it harder to see the risks, because it introduces irrelevant questions into the the conversation like "how can machines want something?"

Conversely, at least in this discussion, the term "intelligence" seems pretty neutral.
There's no difference that I'm aware of in Swift. There is in Rust, where a const is a compile-time value but an immutable variable is a value that can be defined anytime and then its immutability is enforced by the compiler.
They’re one of the biggest importers of natural gas. Something has to run the Shinkansen.
US TikTok Data Repeated Accessed by China
That fifth one may be friendly though
Maybe you mean suburban sprawl? Or maybe you just mean the urban area is less disjointed? Urban sprawl is exactly how I would characterize Japan, but maybe I just have the terminology wrong. It's actually one of the reasons I suspect such dense cities work so well, as the mixed zoning creates self serving blocks of commerce and residential. Like you've pointed out, it could actually make remote work a very vibrant lifestyle, full of coffee shops, cafes, regular faces and casual conversation.

If I had to work remotely for the rest of my life, I'd choose Japan, so that I could walk out my front door and around the corner to pretty much anything I'll ever need. I can't do that in the suburbs, pretty much anything useful is a car journey away. I worked remotely from the suburbs for about 4 years, and it was incredibly isolating. There was no-where to go that fit into even an hour long break.
Can confirm, having the dubious joy of working with them.
Back home we build things to last 500 years,

Unless your buddy was from the Vatican, it's not true for much of Europe. These beauties aren't gonna last 500 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plattenbau

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchyovka
How do I make this valuable?
I thought I was on to something here.

There have been times when I have needed to look for a needle (or needles) in a linux terminal haystack. Maybe you do not have confidence in your SIEM or have access to a PCAP, and all you can do is SSH into the box/router/etc. you are triaging. But maybe you need a highly tailored network filter to find what you are looking for.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could have a simple way to build up a complex and arcane BPF expression?

'Show HN:' indicated No.

What would turn this into something valuable?
> and P(fren and not alt-right) is low

But it probably isn't. It's a cutesy term adjacent to pet-speak and baby-speak. Do an image search for "frens" and most of what you'll find is cute animals, 10-to-1 vs frog cartoons.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/uyhno1/frens_chilling_...
“Lennox International… developed the first prototype that achieved the Technology Challenge’s standards about a year ahead of schedule. The prototype delivers 100% heating at 5°F at double the efficiency, and 70% to 80% heating at -5°F and -10°F.”

The release goes on to say they expect commercialization and deployment in 2024.
Just say it if you got something to say, rather than this "hint: it's not what you think it is" shtick.

If the argument is "companies will use remote work for their own benefits", no shit, that's what they've done with literally everything under the sun. It's not news companies are trying to socialize the risks and privatize the profits.
The thing you're missing is display, trackpad, and speakers. Like that acer is only 1080p.
It seems unlikely that this is the real prompt. Even at temperature=1.0, i repeatedly get "Why did the cat cross the road? To get to the other side!" as the response.
I don't know if that's a helpful framing?

def sum(arr):
total = 0
for x in arr:
total += x
return total

and

def sum(arr):
if len(arr) == 0:
return 0
return arr[0] + sum(arr[1:])

both operate over an array but I'd call one of them recursive and the other iterative.
Depends on the platform I think. I built the one for Kink (NSFW porn) and it did quite well. The stored 'money' was called, Kinks that we held database entries for. People would just buy blocks of $10+ of these tokens (this was long before blockchain) and refresh them as they spent them.
It might have a minor impact on trains, which could be powered by oil based power plants. Reality is a lot f global electricity is still oil powered.
> Do people instinctively anthropomorphize?

Yes.

> I bet the existence of that instinct has far less empirical support than the pain consciousness of newborn babies.

I'll take that bet. Why do you think human children play with dolls?

> People can be tricked.

Indeed.

> A corpse is a "dead person" like a puddle of water is "melted ice".

You're kind of making my point for me here. A corpse is an inanimate object. An inanimate object cannot be a person. A corpse was a person, but when that person died it ceased to be a person just as when ice melts it ceases to be ice. When a person dies, when ice melts, they cease to exhibit any of the distinguishing properties that made them a person or that made them ice.

> It is established that human babies develop into human adults.

Sure, but that in and of itself does not make them people any more than the fact that people die makes live people corpses. A live person will some day become a corpse, but while it is alive it is not yet a corpse. A baby will some day become a person, but while it is a baby it may or may not be a person.

> Their pain and other distinctly human responses resemble the adult forms profoundly.

That's simply not true. A baby's response to pain is all but indistinguishable from its being, say, hungry, or just in a bad mood, whereas in adults these are pretty easily distinguished. But even if it were true, so what? You could make an automaton that mimicked adult responses to pain, but that automaton would not feel pain. You can't conclude anything about subjective experience from I/O behavior alone.

Look, I'm not saying that babies don't feel pain. I think they probably do. All I'm saying is that it's not the slam-dunk that many people here seem to think it is.
I for one am shocked by this. I am however certain it must have been both an honest oversight and quickly remedied from this point forward.
Run it on solar power and pull the water out of the atmosphere and we can save a bundle on running power and water.
Sorry, I didn't mean "the iso was mangled in transit," I meant "they appear to not understand iso."

The iso checksum verified without issue. Looking into it a bit, this might have something to do with UEFI firmware that only had FAT32 drivers. It started the install fine, but it broke when it hit a 4+ gig file, which would probably look truncated.
1 out of 100 is a lot of people.
Why would it do that? The heat exchanger is placed outside.
So I just checked today's prices.

- BTC has fallen below $19k USD (from a peak of near $65k)

- ETH has fallen below $1k USD (from a peak of ~$4600)

Once you get into the altcoins ("shitcoins") it's even bleaker. NFTs by their nature are harder to get a picture of (that's the "non-fungible" part) but it seems to be a bloodbath.

This Seth Green story is particularly funny because on top of the price-crashing you're actually getting no utility. Why? Because copyright ownership still has to be enforced through the traditional IP and legal system.

And on top of that lack of utility you see how reversibility of transactions in the non-crypto financial system is a feature not a bug.

There's really no reason for any of this to exist. It's all a massive waste of energy that is driven by nothing other than speculative fervor. It's not belief in the technology. It's just greed.

More to the point, the only thing holding up the value of any of this is the collective belief in it and every day the price crashes again that belief is eroded. I really have no idea how low this can go but it'l be interesting to see.

This is the greater fool theory [1] in action and the best defense seems to be it isn't a pyramid scheme; it's a trapezoid [2].

[1]: https://www.altfi.com/article/9398_bill-gates-dismisses-nfts...

[2]: https://frinkiac.com/meme/S03E12/872714/m/VGhpcyBpcyBub3Qgb2...
Individualism is an illusion enabled by capitalism. Humans are hive animals, a truly independent person would be dead in days; no heat, no shelter, no servants. Instead, people play independent with pockets and bank accounts stuffed with government promises.
The journal includes Futures, a science fiction column. See them all at https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?searchType=journalSea...
How about thinking that this will give them an opportunity for some mental relaxation as well? I live in Tokyo. The commutes are hour long one-way on average. Maybe it will give them more time & mental energy to explore other things.
It's not though. I've visited friends there anually for the last 15 years. Last year I genuinely feared for my life and this summer my friends totally understand why I'm refusing to enter city limits.
I just bought a Mitsubishi mini split system to replace our oil furnace and bring A/C to our house here in New Jersey for the first time. Their high end outdoor units heat down to -13 F, which is colder than I've ever seen here. It arrives in august.

Gree has a system that claims to have full heat down to -31, so I'd say just keep researching and you'll probably be fine.
I don't even think it made interesting points, just "haha, who uses factorials and Fibonacci numbers?" and "I bet students don't like programming the same thing in different ways." (No? That part definitely interests me, but either way it depends on what would resonate with your student audience.)
> Yours might be. Happiness in general is about your personal narrative of reality. I'm happier than you are to have not invested in Bitcoin 10 years ago, because I thought it was a bad idea then.

You might be an odd one out and value things differently, but going back to what you said

> Most investors are happy to not have gambled on cryptocurrency over the last 10 years.

I'm sure most investors are happy if the outcome is more money, above anything else. After all that's the goal of investing.

> I'm not unhappy at the fake money I didn't gain, because I have more exciting fantasies than that. Being unhappy that you didn't win a coin flip sounds like a pretty unfortunate way to structure the narrative of your life.

I don't understand where this being unhappy thing comes from. I never mentioned such thing, so I don't know what you are arguing about. Also don't know what you mean by fake money. I'm talking about realized gains.

> Or they might have invested in any of the periods where it went down, or in any of the exchanges or coins that collapsed, or gotten too much money too early in their life to develop the skills necessary to make it last. The problem with romanticizing some alternative past is that it's literally just fiction.

The topic being discussed in the original comment is very clear: Bitcoin / Crypto in terms of price and fundamentals. Things such as "what if earning too much money too young ended up being bad?" are completely unrelated. You can make up any evil genie situation "he gets rich from crypto but he ends up being hit by a bus on his way to withdraw some cash" but such imaginary situations are besides the point.

The point is that having bought bitcoin and held for a few years would have been an outstanding investment in terms of returns, even if you disagree with it's price.
Heat pump water heaters mostly draw from room air.
My armchair hypothesis is that using your phone, internet, or TV lacks sensory novelty--you frequently sit in the same place, doing the same thing.

It's a repeated stimuli, which causes your brain to filter a lot of it and discard it, leading to the feeling like a night watching TV was a night doing nothing. Your memory of watching TV blends with all memories of you watching TV, especially after a few days have passed.

You have to switch up your routine and do something new or otherwise different, and you will retain a memory of that event much more clearly and it will feel like you "did something".

My most clear memory of a night in the past week was game night where we played a physical card game. I don't remember any individual night where we watched TV.
Most of the ones that are "uninhabited" here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_St...

Some of them have very good reasons, for example at least one was a nuclear test site. One of them is visitable, but you basically have to sail a private boat (I wonder if a rental is fine) from Hawaii to reach it and iirc need to get permission ahead.
Time Spent Using Smartphones (2022 Statistics)
> why would AAPL or GE stock drop when there is big negative crypto news?

Does this actually happen?