skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dark forest theory posits that you shouldn't advertise your existence because you're in a dark forest surrounded by competitors for limited resources. The idea being that a competitor will want to come destroy you when they find you since you're competing for the same limited resources.

It's dumb because like I said Earth's biomarkers are already broadcasting out in space and have been for millions of years. Also space is stupidly large. It's a bit absurd to assume a species capable of interstellar travel on a scale to send invasion fleets could develop that technology but not the technology to fully exploit their home solar system and adjust their own growth to be sustainable.

Even if such an unlikely species existed, they're already on their way. Their need for resources would be so great they'll send an invasion fleet the moment they find a world with biomarkers or whatever it is they want. They're not going to wait for radio signals or even industrial markers. So the dark forest theory as some policy to not develop technologies is extra dumb.
Maybe this is your browsing history? I did a duckduckgo image search from a private tab, and got 10-to-1 cute animals. Search it on reddit and you'll find that the term is very popular with people who like cute things.

The alt-right has a meme of 'appropriating' popular terms and symbols in an attempt to make people overestimate P(alt-right|symbol), to make their critics seem unhinged as they level accusations against innocent people, and to make themselves seem more popular than they actually are. They've done this with 'frens', the 'okay gesture', and even drinking milk. You have unfortunately fallen for this, and become their tool.
Mini splits are widely used and have become dramatically more economical and popular over the last decade or so. They are much quieter and more efficient than window units.

Some areas (cough nyc cough) may need some regulatory breakthroughs but the technology is there.
I feel like I've read this before
That’s a great rate, but Patreon doesn’t have any control over customers’ desire to use PayPal (it’s a thorn in the side of the entire payments industry).
The thing to realize is that for Latvia it is very much like Ukraine in terms of geographic distribution of ethnic Russians vs ethnic Latvians.
> If 90% of a towns or cities 100 year infrastructure if built in a decade, then it'll just lead to a lot of replacements starting in about 90 years, not continuous small replacements.

Lifespan of a building isn't some kind of magical threshold thing where it is perfect for 100 years and then must be replaced in year 101.

A noticeable share of those buildings built for 50 years will need to be replaced around years 25-30. Almost all of those buildings will need work before 20 years is up. Some of them will outlast their design life by a large factor.

Not to mention that not every builder is selecting the same construction techniques and design life.
Many decades of work has demonstrated fairly clearly that it is not feasible to simply demand that people write secure code. "Just write it correctly" also does not help people who are starting at giant piles of C++ code that is a major security risk but also don't want to rewrite from scratch.
I don't follow. I was saying he might have been the most suitable person for the job. Would knowing that have magically changed him or her?
The “save up to $500” in the presser is just so obviously fluff. $500 in what home?

And I suspect the magic here is also an air tight new construction home with a layout designed around this, not leaky everything with an old water heater tucked under the stairs, a 30 year old furnace, and R19 insulated walls.
So 10k+ outlay to save under $500/year. That would take only 20+ years to pay off. The wall units are kind of flimsy. Expect at least one to break. And that $500 in savings is probably $300/year in reality. Its still a great option for some places, just not really to switch over from a gas furnace.
Even for US production, if we assemble let’s say motherboards with imported microchips, suddenly our prices went up. It is not because wages were up. Crushing the wages and sending people to unemployment will not solve the problem of imported inflation. Unless you are the sole importer of goods for every exporting economy.
Thanks for the tip! Where I am Mitsubishis seem to only be available through big-name installers, and the only thing they offered me when I talked to them was the all-in-one style that cools your basement. Living in an old house with not great insulation between floors, that was a hard no-go. I'm now googling the Sanden ones and getting some promising results I hadn't seen before.
Lightning BTC is absurdly cheap and very fast.
Be conservative in what you send; be liberal in what you accept.

Can the text {one hundred and twenty-three million, four hundred and fifty-six thousand, seven hundred and eighty-nine} in any language be dragged into the input field? Can I use operators? (123e6 + o1574125) -- HN removed the trigrams I was going to put in place of <o1574125>.

Consistency. Be boring. Don't do anything.

It depends on the context.

Preferences. Honor preferences. For example, don't automatically start a separate 3D video of the underscores spaced every four Roman numeral unless that's the preference.

This preview is refreshed onkeyup. Please don't do this, unless Preferences. Consider other factors, the context. Ask the people having to use this interface repeatedly, maybe your interface makes perfect sense.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Arrested for Unlawful Entry at U.S. Capitol
Maybe, but in the time it takes to click the button the value may have changed 5%. Doesn’t seem ideal.
There's a few nice ones and a few shitty ones. It's like any other city in the US, in that the working class neighborhoods have been gentrified or neglected to various extents, but nice working class neighborhoods have not yet entirely vanished.
It's seems like there is very little voter will power to make this happen.

Simple traffic cameras would also make roads much safer but they are politically very difficult.
It isn't a complete solution because it does not address stack-allocated data but it is very very close to being a full solution.
High-dose pyridoxine as an ‘anti-stress’ strategy (2000)
I'm reposting this because once openly mused back around 2018 Julian might be a serial killer, not just a rapist.

Take a look at this, and the articles it links to, specifically his comments about slicing brains.

Then go read up on "Murder Madsen" and other eccentric figures who rose to prominence around the same time period... yikes!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Madsen#Murder_of_Kim_Wal...

Back when this article came out, I was in my late teens or early 20s and showed up in the comments angry folks were scraping OKC for what I felt was more entertainment oriented journalism, but a decade ish later I take much more of a "feel free to send me a copy of the illegally obtained recording of my intimate moment, I'll add it to the collection you literal whore for the KGB" approach to life, the universe, and everything.

(Including weirdos I met on apps who make me dig back into decade old notebooks when I did my damndest to keep some things offline.)
I don't disagree that the core concept of Patreon is relatively simple and may even be able to be recreated in a few months, but what you definitely can't do in that amount of time is to comply with the breadth of regulations all over the world.
The trolley problem is considered to be a pretty theoretical problem in the autonomous vehicles space. The 'real' solution is that you drive defensively enough to not get into those kinds of situations. That's what the law requires too.
Thermoacoustic... love to hear about others :) yes pun intended.
My usual solution for that problem is parent the control to a HboxContainer with a set width, buts it by no means ideal. Is there a working proposal to add max width? 4.0 would be a good time to add it.
Just considering the effect on supply and demand: barriers to entry reduce the supply of labor, which increases its price. Just like, say, doctors are very well-paid because they are in limited supply.
Seems like some assumptions baked in there. Each working half-time would be more equitable and probably a more resilient arrangement.
Reminds me of this company: https://www.blueheartenergy.com/

The claims are pretty amazing. High efficiency, efficient over a wide range of temperature difference, high temperature differences possible.

The operating principle is totally different. It is based on acoustic waves. Not using phase-changes but just the ideal gas law (pressure and temperature are proportional). I tried to get my head around it, and I got it with a standing sound wave. But they use a traveling wave, for which I could not find explanations I understood.

The general idea is "lower air pressure and move gas to cold side so the gas heats up" followed by "raise air pressure and move gas to warm side so the gas cools down". That means the low pressure needs to be low enough that the gas gets colder than the cold side, and the high pressure needs to be high enough that the gas gets hotter than the hot side. Luckily that is 'just' a matter of amplitude of the sound wave. I think this is how they achieve their wide range of efficient temperature deltas.

That wide range is the main difference with a phase-change based unit. The phase change happens at a much more difficult to change temperature.
Simple: AAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Perhaps I missed it skimming the article, but my question is, double the efficiency compared to what? To the current state of the art cold climate hear pump? Or to a resistive heater?
The parable of the form request form
> So yes, regardless of whether or not this letter is about morality, his shift in political leaning should be considered intolerable.

And that is the crux of the controversy. Finally you admit what this is really behind this. Musk’s political leanings are intolerable to you and to these employees and you don’t want to tolerate his behavior. They are creating disruption because of their intolerance by spamming other employees to try and “convert” them.

The lovely thing about “at will” employment is that you don’t have to work at a place that doesn’t fit your values and a company doesn’t have to employ you if you don’t fit their values.
If those lower returns were coupled with lower volatility, I think we'd see more people utilizing crypto, for specific use cases:
a. Instant, negligible-fee ledgers within social cohorts (eg. Algo, Nano, vs Paypal, Zello [a bit of that "anti-corporation" philosophy doesn't hurt here]).
b. Privacy-coins, which also happen to have low fees but are too slow or haven't developed the UX to play that quick social role, so they attract an alternative audience through privacy ideals (eg. Monero).
c. For donations, with the same trade-off between ease of use and privacy depending on the involved parties' preferences.

I'd argue it's the risk of volatility which both drives high returns and suppresses these uses, so a stabilization of market prices would eventually see growth in these use-cases as their potential audience puts proportionally less weight on the risk-factor.

One might not see 1 out of 100 current investors remain, but do think that these audiences could grow to equal or surpass such a small segment of the current interest.
DOE should probably be capitalized as it's unlikely that a doe (a deer, a female deer. . .) came through with a technological breakthrough ;)
Musk: I'm going to buy twitter to solve its bot problem

Musk a week later: I don't want to buy twitter because it has bots
You’re being downvoted because you smugly dismissed peoples opinions without offering your own.
Because most of them have no notion of a lambda, which has all the same knock on effects you get in normal code.
Don’t worry, the rent will go up too.
I admit you have me confused, but I'm sure I don't want my car to kill me to spare me from a lawsuit. For that matter, killing me to spare me from a criminal manslaughter conviction is quite a raw deal too!
Welcome to every city in America. If one armed dude scares you, I got bad news about your whole country.
However, since stack space is usually much smaller than heap space, if the problem size depends on external input and doesn’t have a sufficiently low limit, one either has to perform an appropriate size check beforehand or use an explicit stack after all.
Need more digging to determine if bones of Waterloo soldiers sold as fertilizer
There are a lot of people on this forum (and most Bay Area companies) born in communist hell holes such as USSR or China. Go talk to them before saying stupid things about socialism and the level of poverty it forces upon people.

And if you thing poverty is the worst thing about the Commies just remember that people are not allowed to leave Communist countries. Think about, people who don't like America or feel "oppressed" have _always_ been free to move to a country they liked better. In USSR and the European countries occupied by it, Cuba, North Korea people were shot and survivors imprisoned for trying.
The opaque HN automatic title mangler doing its job. I'd argue it does more harm than good.
I see nothing wrong with either factorial or Fibonacci numbers.

The author argues that nobody uses or needs neither factorial nor Fibonacci numbers.

But that is not the point. If you are going to teach a concept it's best to use easy to understand examples. And factorial Fibonacci numbers are just that. I rather use factorial to teach recursion than QuickSort using Hoare partition algorithm.

And if it comes about teaching I think it is very important to so teach tail call recursion and to teach when to use recursion. Because it can be a waste to use recursion if an easy to implement iterative solution exists.
No, I meant inflation can only continue long term while the government prints money.

The problem is suppose an egg costs 10 X today and 20 X in 1 month. Sure in 1 month it might work but in 5 years it’s costing ~1.1 X 10^18 X and there is simply nowhere near enough X for a single transaction of anything.

Which isn’t to say the economy would be better off in the short term. High inflation can be semi stable for long enough to be ruinous.
why is it important for charity?
> Fenceposts are cheap.

It's a problem of available space (or rather, area).

When you run out of space on Earth (you filled all the deserts, or all the space that would not deprive natural species of their habitat and photosynthesis), and I predict that it will happen (as there potentially no limit to our energy consumption), you need to go to outer space (first in Earth orbit, then later (to avoid to completely shade off the planet) in Solar orbit).

As for energy transmission, I can think of some ways to make it happen, for example use a high-altitude balloon as a receiver, tethered with a cable to transmit down the current. That could answer your worries of transmission efficiency through the atmosphere (in space's void though, no problem). Worth investigating.
As I mentioned elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31791936
there is a company that claims to use thermoacoustics for general heat-pump duty. I believe they are targeting European style hydronic heating. Aiming to be efficient whilst still producing the 80c water that many older hydronic systems here in Europe still require.

Interestingly, they aren't that loud because any sound lost is energy lost, so they try very hard to 'keep it quiet'.
> [I worry more about] hack comedians generating entire sets based on other people's material.

The difference is that GPT-3 produces all kinds of hacky content based on other people's material at scale, producing an invasive species of an impossible-to-control faux-written content. It's all fun and shitty Seinfeld routines now, but GPT-X will make it impossible to find non-computer-generated content on search indexes by 2030.

In contrast, comedians and comedy nerds know who the joke-stealing hacks are (e.g. "Carlos Men-Steal-ia"), and the splash damage is limited.
I completely agree with everything you said.

I'm not saying LaMDA (or any AI for that matter) is or is not sentient, here. I just want to pose a couple questions and a couple possibilities.

1. Can we really say whether or not it's sentient?
2. Someone indicated a valid question: We spend so much energy on trying to defend the idea that AI is NOT sentient, do we really think we'd even recognize if an AI is sentient?
3. Who are we to define sentience?
4. Is there perhaps sentience that we wouldn't recognize?
5. Who's to say WE aren't just engaging in selective processes? just infinitely more complex.

After all, we make our decisions and respond to scenarios based on vast experiences and vastly more previous encounters in our lives. The more experience, usually the better our decisions and responses. USUALLY, but not always. Are we to believe people who constantly make what we perceive as poor decisions or incorrect responses as NOT sentient? Of course not. We wouldn't ever see any human as NON-sentient. We would just see them as not very smart.

If a human toddler reaches for the hot stove top, we tell him "NO! it's HOT!" But, sometimes that same toddler will look right at you and put his hand firmly down on the burner. He just didn't have the experience needed to tell him that's a bad idea and he didn't know what you were talking about. Once he feels the pain of burning skin, if he's normal he'll IMMEDIATELY JERK his hand away and scream, crying in pain. And then run to his parents for comfort. Would we consider him non-sentient if he never had that experience. No. Of course not. He's a human being. He will learn not to do that again.

There in lies the conundrum. AI... perhaps that's a misnomer in itself... but AI's learn. They make future conversation based on positive feed back from previous responses... both theirs and the person they're talking to. What IS self awareness anyway. "I think, therefore I am?" Hardly adequate. That used to be the gold standard for self awareness. We've only moved the goal post. I wonder if that's so that we can convince ourselves that WE are the only truly self aware creatures. At some point, whether we've already reached it or not, AI WILL be a misnomer. After all, it stands for Artificial Intelligence. If something learns, remembers, and recalls information and details about that information... isn't that intelligence? Not artificial at all. Just ... intelligence.

I think it's possible we've already reached that point, and we're just trying to remain dominantly relevant without being SELF AWARE enough to realize it.
Show HN: DLock – Distributed-Lock-as-a-Service on Cloudflare Durable Objects
> 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.

Doing a quick search, they're using 'standard' R410A refrigerant (PDF):

* https://www.greecomfort.com/assets/our-products/multi-plus-u...

the same as everyone else. It seems just that they though it worth the engineering effort to push a little further than most other companies.

See anything with the label "For Extreme Conditions":

* https://www.greecomfort.com/our-products/
DigitalOcean sponsors a developer esports team
Fossil-fueled thermal power generation accounted for 71.7% of total electricity generated during the year [2021], down from 74.9% the previous year [2020]. Coal and LNG accounted for 26.5% and 31.7%, respectively, and both fossil fuels are on a declining trend. Nuclear power accounted for 5.9%, up from 4.3% the previous year.

Source: https://www.isep.or.jp/en/1243/

Reference #4
I would teach it like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782387
“The Transactor” magazine, Commodore, 1978-1989
Hours to prep a meal? Maybe for Christmas dinner.
Song lyrics aren't hard. Consider:

A B C
It's as easy as 1 2 3
A B C
A B C
You and me!

Or this gem:

A E A E I O U you and sometimes Why!

Both songs were hits.
Another funny short piece on the same theme: https://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/MIT/Sample.shtml
How bad is pretty bad?
> if as you seem to imply, crypto is useless, then why isn't everyone shorting it to 0?

Because shorting isn‘t free, and as the old saying goes, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
That's not even true on earth. Archaea exist, and eukaryotes span a pretty wide range of complexity themselves.
No, but with a little help I'm sure they could learn to.
This tool looks great - it automates a lot of the process we have for major incidents at my company!

One feature I was hoping this would have, related to on-call, but for minor week-to-week incidents:

My team gets many low priority alerts every week that need to be triaged, worked on, or ignored (something on the scale of 10 - 20 alerts per week, often re-occurring, often firing with slightly different tags).

These alerts are "symptoms" of something wrong with the system, and the oncall always has to manually sort them into "causes". A "cause" is then tracked and worked on, with investigation notes etc.

I've seen this workflow at a number of companies, and it is always handled with poor automation or none. Oncall engineers manually copy-paste the pagerduty - alert url into a spreadsheet (or google doc), manually assign a status tag, manually group re-occurring alerts into the same row, manually assign engineers (and the assigned engineers have to manually ack being assigned!).

Most of the time, the "symptom-grouping" decisions have to be made by a human, since a lot of the time it requires investigation to determine the link between two symptoms. But just because that one decision has to be made by a human, doesn't mean that all the bookkeeping shouldn't be automated!

With all these manual steps, there are so many places for human error.

We would pay so much money for a tool that did this for us
Heat pumps have efficiency > 100%
They did have the Mayan language to work with though.

The Minoan language has been likely dead for 2000 years.

That was also the breakthrough with the Rosetta Stone too. That Coptic was a modern version of ancient Egyptian.
What happens when privacy shield 2.0 is made into a legal document? Everyone will be using Google Analytics again?
> Capital is bidirectional and always has been.

Nope, this is categorically false. Historically, the movement of capital was extremely limited. You could not just decide to invest <big-number-of-currency-units> in a foreign country, and you could not just repatriate the profits that might arise from the investment.

For the last 50-100 years, the world has shifted quite dramatically towards making both capital and profit able to move across (many) borders much, much more easily.

Only the EU stands as an example of political and economic changes that also allow similar free movement of labor.
What do you think the purpose of startup investing is? Or even to start one?
Back in early 2010s Brazil, I remember seeing cranes lifting up new buildings everywhere in my city. Not as much new public sector infrastructure, but private sector was booming. This came with a 100-1000% housing inflation that never corrected later.

The country started its slow but sure descent into the gutter in mid 2010s, and by 2016 basically everything stopped. Only pre covid did I start seeing new apartment buildings rising again at snails pace, but then came covid.
Agreed. Before inventions of dishwashers, laundry machines, and roombas, there was literally enough work to have one person in household home at all times (home maker).

Now it is common to live life where both parents work and no homemaker.
Ask HN: What was the actual impact of Microsoft anti trust case on the industry?
What projects were affected - stopped existing or the opposite, could grow.

How was the atmosphere at Microsoft at the time? How normal devs were affected?

What implications it had on other companies?

In general, what changed after threat of break up

How big topic that was? Did people outside IT even know about it?
Too many redirects, missing base case.