skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “But that’s just because I’ve spent an absurd amount of hours working on them.”

Uh, yeah? That's how you solve absurdly hard problems. Did he expect to solve real problems, that many people spent their entire lives working on, in a trivial amount of time?

This reminds me of an epiphany I had back in highschool where I was thinking "I must be dumb because I have to try REALLY HARD to get the top mark in a science or maths test." Then it hit me that hey, everyone else taking the test is a person too and they're all trying really hard as well, so if I didn't have to try hard that would be weird.

> Like an idiot savant, because the results, often the best amongst my peers, are beyond my normal intelligence. Is that common?

Seems pretty normal to me, those flashes of insight (or gut feeling around the edge of insight) can be few and far between. You only have to have an insight once, though, if you can then understand and communicate it.
Green was targeted as he attempted to mint a GutterCat clone NFT, but the unlucky celebrity had inadvertently used a scam website that raided his wallet. [0]

And

Thought I was minting GutterCat clones- phishing link looked clean [1]

And
In a follow-up tweet, Green went into more detail about the scam. The attack had taken place after clicking on a phishy link to an NFT minting platform, attempting to mint GutterCat clones. [2]

[0] https://www.btcc.com/en-US/coin-news/market-updates/seth-gre...

[1] https://nitter.net/SethGreen/status/1526693106606809088#m

[2] https://insights.masterworks.io/nft/seth-greens-stolen-bored...
on the list? how about close to pointless? i don’t see how bootstrapping the decoding gets you to anything other than another inscrutable format of data.

without context about the point and use of the data i can’t imagine it would have any use. you need to know about the display devices and human audio, visual sensory and perception capabilities to make any use of the data.
it would be like receiving some complex data format meant to generate a symphony of seismic waves that the observer enjoys through various specialized sensors, without knowing anything about this purpose of the data to begin with, let alone the many details specific to the use of the data by whatever devices “play” the data and how it’s perceived by the observer.
Probably because so many have been watching this closely. It's a very polarizing issue.

I hadn't realized google was falling hard, that's great news to me, and I wish it had been on the front page.

Could be google hiding from bad press here as they are wont to do.
How can you argue it’s a lack of discipline when companies like Meta and Google literally hire psychologists to make their products more addicting?

Why should society pay the price for their malfeasance?
Web tech has massive momentum and developer base fed from outside Electron where as Godot is nowhere close.
In many cases, modern work responsibilities and expectations. Creative/office work is more ambiguous and takes an outsized mental toll compared to physical work. These people need to veg out basically and can only do completely passive leisure activities.

There was an NPR “wait wait don’t tell me” episode question a couple of years back that went “most respondents in the survey said they don’t have the energy after work to do _______” what?

The answer: “anything”
*Five hostile civilizations
> 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.

The point of the original comment was that they were happy not to invest. You disagreed. I attempted to explain how someone could be happy despite forgoing short term returns; mainly that the process by which you make those short term returns will produce long term losses.
I would also include The Little Schemer and Learn You a Haskell For Great Good in the “further reading/references” section. They also explain recursion well.
After two years of confinement I have exhibited several of the symptoms associated with long covid.

I have done an asymptomatic COVID, so by all definition, I do suffer of long COVID.

Of course it could also be due to the fact that I am just generally getting older, being more tired and having a bit more headaches. Also, like many people I am doing a bit less sports than I used to, and my alcohol consumption has increased. The economy has gone to shit and my stress level have increased. It's probably unrelated tho and I will assume that the cause of my aliments is COVID.

"Long COVID" was used to describe the leftover symptoms of people suffering from a very hard COVID infection, leaving their lung half destroyed. Even tho they left the ICU, they still weren't back to 100%, and that's perfectly understandable. It could easily be identified by looking at a scan of a patient lungs.

It's now used as a catch-all name for purely subjective and self reported symptoms, which are also caused by bad diet, lack of exercise, excessive stress levels. No amount of scan/x-ray/... can be used to diagnose it, which is extremely convenient.

I do believe that "long COVID" is real. I just don't believe that self-diagnosis is the right way to measure it.
AFAIK the physics of heat pumps is considered to have been fully figured out for ages and all that's left is the engineering. Maybe it wasn't considered a "sexy" enough topic to nerd out over and hyper-optimize?

Edit: it might also be an issue of diminishing returns of better efficiency compared to how difficult it is to produce and maintain a better unit. Thermodynamics can be a pain like that.
We got a U-shaped one for a big open attic space and I'm a fan of it. It cost more and was a little bit more drama to install (came with a big support bracket thing), but it's very effective and quiet. We meant it as a stepping stone to eventually putting a mini-split setup on that side of the house, but it might end up just being the long-term solution.

EDIT: Oh lol, the unit we got was actually one of those Midea ones linked in a sibling comment.
I don’t believe in breakthroughs anymore until I see a shipping product. I don’t care if you are a scientist, company, government agency, or NGO same thing applies.

Tell me you’ve made an incremental improvement and I’ll believe you, tell me you’ve made a breakthrough and either you’re lying or something will prevent it from being realized before commercial availability. This is what decades of press releases and articles that might as well be press releases have taught me.
8 out of 10 Google image results for "frens" (in a new session) involve meme frogs, and one of them refers to "bopping" of non-frens which, at least at some point, was fren-speak for murder.

https://www.google.com/search?q=frens&tbm=isch

Very wholesome.
Nah.

The whole Eth blockchain has as much compute power as 1/5,000th of a raspberry pi.

It’s an insanely inefficient non-scalable tech. To sacrifice many orders of magnitude of performance, while pumping a whole countries worth of C02 into the atmosphere, just to have a system that is “decentralised” makes no sense.

None of the applications can be properly decentralised. Your house deed stuff needs to be enshrined in law, enforced by police etc., your NFT tickets need the venue to validate.

Just stop it. It’s junk. The planets future is perilous enough already.
I recently installed a (quite large) heat pump for less than that, though it came close. A lot of the cost came from a few things:

- the Canada premium: these sorts of things are just more expensive here. The base price was just higher than I could find in the US, but obviously importing is too expensive. I think the reason for this is there's almost no stock.

- adapting my house: the house I live in was built to have central air added to it, but even so the pipes going from the furnace room to the outside had to be insulated both directions instead of only one for an AC. Ripping up our basement ceiling to do this added a lot to the cost. An unfinished basement would help a lot here.

- HVAC company confusion: I had to go through like five HVAC companies before I found one that would believe me that I really wanted it. The one I got is a commercial outfit, so their prices were just higher. Even they were skeptical but they were willing to work with us, and by the end they talked about doing more installs so that was nice.

I think the cost for the install and unit itself was $12k for a top of line carrier unit capable of working down to pretty low temperatures. But we already had a compatible carrier furnace and exchanger. Was another couple thousand for ripping up the basement, which we had other contractors do.

This was also literally during the heat dome last year. They had to ship the unit across the country.
By the time you find such evidence, it could already be close to game over for humanity. It’s important to get this right before that.

We already have significant warnings. See for yourself if latest models like Imagen, Gato, Chinchilla have economic values and can potentially cause harm.
That was my experience as a kid, but using them as an adult that’s never the case. I think it was a combination of cheap pens and a child’s carelessness.
The problem is not trusting the application, but that application having to manage untrusted data. Let’s say you have a trusted open source pdf reader. It can easily be infected by a pdf that exploits a memory bug in it.
That makes absolutely no sense. If you want to take a stand on idealism at least say so in your post.
I was a Coinbase employee who was going to build this feature. Then I got laid off :(
And likely way more than would be involved in cryptocurrency if it wasn't a speculative asset
> … "and web applications and desktop applications are closer than applications and games."

I'm not really sure how that logic follows, as games are also just applications, and although the web was not designed as an application platform, but rather as a hypertext document browsing / delivery platform, yet people managed to wrangle it into performing fairly decently as an application platform, so why not game engines for application development? (I've actually seen more than a few really interesting and useful applications built in Godot and other game engines already, and I'm quite sure more are coming.)
I feel like this definitely something younger people don’t understand. The extent to which everything human-made needs constant effort to keep it from decaying. They see a world already built up and functioning and don’t realize the monumental effort that requires.
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I’ll take them as well, thank you.
1.) The "it is the same people" thing is your guess, something you want to be true. It is not something born of facts. There are people who play games 30 hours a week ... and then there are people who never play them. And this is the most important point here.

2.) Specifically with Netflix, people watch Netflix while doing other things or when when they are already tired. I turn on tv or listen podcasts when cooking or cleaning or am doing other boring activities. Or when watching small children.

3.) For many people, these are evening activities and activities they use to relax - when they are actually tired. When I watch netflix or turn on game, typically it is in the evening when I am tired. I cant code, I cant read something educational or difficult, my brain is tired.

4.) There are some people who spend a lot of time on Netflix who also say they dont have time. These people pretty often are trying to say polite "no" to whatever you want them. They are trying to reject you without making you feel bad.
I'd say we need more construction, more frequently based on comments I've read here, resealing or resurfacing a street more frequently is cheaper than waiting for streets to give up the ghost?

This also means we need alternate routes or extra lanes or some kind of redundancy which asked this kind of work? So higher taxes?
Most poetically answered by Flanders and Swann:

The First Law of Thermodymamics.

Heat is work and work is heat

The Second Law of Thermodymamics:

Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body

Heat won't pass from a cooler to a hotter

You can try it if you like but you far better not-a

'Cos the cold in the cooler will get hotter as a rule-a

'Cos the hotter body's heat will pass to the cooler

Heat is work and work is heat and work is heat and heat is work

Heat will pass by conduction and

Heat will pass by convection and

Heat will pass by radiation

And that's a physical law
I find it difficult to follow your statement. Is that German grammar? I presume you're suggesting I'm under the influence of Russian propaganda.
How well did that go with how anti-adult industry the banking industry is?
Why in today’s interconnected economies do we try to solve inflation with internal economy tools (like interest rates)?

If the raise of prices originates from inflated imported prices, why not set import high import taxes to reduce the imports and rejuvenate the local economy?

Why do we have to suffocate our local economy to fight imported inflation ?
The objection here is that its training was based on code on github without paying any attention to the license of that code. It’s generally considered ok for people to learn from code and then produce new code without the new code being considered a derived work of what they learned from (I’m not sure if there is a specific fair use clause covering this). But it’s not obvious that copilot should be able to ignore the licenses of the code it was trained on, especially given it sometimes outputs code from the training set verbatim. One could imagine a system very similar to copilot which reads in GPL or proprietary code and writes functionally equivalent code while claiming it’s not a derived work of the original and so isn’t subject to its licensing constraints.
Experts missed the way land captures a sizeable portion of the gains of labour just like Henry George said it did. Ricardo had a few things to say about this as well. The result is we can’t create a society affluent in leisure time because rents and mortgages capture enough value to force everyone to work full time. Especially now that two incomes is normal a sizeable portion of families need two incomes to have a shot at paying a mortgage.
I have pondered this as well and studied it a bit. I feel that there is room for new tech that can help with this increasingly dire problem.

Thermoacoustic refrigeration seems to be one of the more promising technologies but I would love to hear about others.
Graduating at the top of your class in any primary or secondary schooling is hardly going to impress me. Some of the dumbest people I know had the best grades and some deceptively intelligent people had the worst grades. I still remember in HS some straight-A girl asking me if 23 was a good ASVAB score. Maybe if you're school is infamously conceptive, I'd think different, but I'm more interested in what someone does outside grades. Meanwhile, I knew a guy that would always come to school high as shit, acted like a class clown and had the worst grades, but was surpsingly smart. If you were to look at this guy, you'd probably assume he had no real options for a future, but I was talking to him once and discovered he was a game developer in his free time and had made some petty neat games.
The comments here are simultaneously glorifying the past and catastrophizing the present. Modern society is filled with leisure and time compared to history.

Many of the problems of the past have been widely solved, and those solutions have brought new problems. Discounting todays solutions based on todays problems misses the historical context this article is addressing.

“The children have obtained what their parents and grandparents longed for — greater freedom, greater material welfare, a juster society: but the old ills are forgotten, and the children face new problems”
neanderthals?
When something is in its infancy, there are a lot of low hanging fruit.
Where recursion really shines is when an iterative method would need an explicit stack, and a recursive one can use the call stack. Depth first search comes to mind.
> Hard disagree, as some already have their sight on Mars. We are an ambitious species!

Mars is not habitable for humans and has never been touched by human hands. Ambition won't overcome that fact. Should we exhaust the earth to establish an unsustainable colony on Mars?

> Given than facts don't support your pessimist view,

My you are confident. The fact is there are no human colonies off planet earth. Even the space stations that exist aren't self sustaining. The future is not yet a fact, so we're both speculating.
I think they would be less directly mad. If it’s truly driverless and the passengers are doing leisure activities, they may not even notice the first time or two unless it becomes a huge issue.
Functional persistent data structures. What's your plan for that without shared ownership?
Be careful what you ask for.

Revealing your existence to alien species could be one of the dumbest mistakes you could make in the universe. Especially when our technology is not even capable of interstellar travel. Thus any species that comes to visit us will be more technologically advanced. If they are more advanced it likely won't be by 10 or 100 years, but possibly one million years or more.

We would be sitting ducks. There are many ways this could go badly:

- They could be so advanced as to consider us a useless nuisance. They could treat us the way we treat ants.

- They could be inherently nice and rational (by our standards) but correctly see us as a threat to them as our technology advances in the future. Our tribal tendencies (culminating in war) are on display constantly. At best they would just keep their distance. At worst they might wipe us out for their own self preservation.

- Even a benevolent species could be disastrous for us if they transferred technology before we were ready for it.
If Portland makes you afraid for your life maybe don't go outside ever again. It's only scary if you're afraid of other people.
The comparison is not between current employees and alum, it’s between Amazon alum and alum from other companies.
We could also say that you need the bay area salary to pay a colocation if you need to go into the office – that doesn’t remedy the issue. I’m losing 2 hours per day in my car (with the added pollution for it). There’s no decent solution to use public transport.
At the office, I have the dubious joy of working on an open office – where I can’t focus. So my job is not great. That’s not to speak about the quality of the office ware (bad laptop, bad chair, bad screen, bad mouse…)
I lose family time. I lose quality of life. I’m tired.

Now let’s look at my home office. I have a 40″ screen, an aeron chair, a nice laptop (MacBook m1), a good gamer mouse and mouse pad. All that without my time in the traffic jam. I’m refreshed, able to work better and my boss got more out of me due to this.

Since I’m a freelance, all this is factored in my daily rate. For one, my employer has the dubious pleasure of having me sit on a stool in his office that he pays for. For the other, he doesn’t observe me often, but get more quality effort out of me.
So he lose. Every time.

Let’s be honest: I’m lucky I have a home office. I guess lot of people do like to go see their colleagues – and I’m glad for them. Now, can’t we improve the situation so that everyone can choose to work the way they’re happier?
Or the other VAL: “Value-oriented Algorithmic Language” (https://web.archive.org/web/20070920003407/http://hopl.murdo...), which had some interesting influence on parallel and functional languages.
Ah yeah you’re right. A lot has changed since 2019.
Patreon shouldn't even exist. They're here because government(s) have failed so badly that they haven't put any effort into the infrastructure to trivialize the transfer of its paper between the people holding it. It's as useful a function as highways and the internet, but government failures (that lobbyists pay individuals in government to continue failing at) create room for deeply entrenched trusts paypal to be established.

There's no moral amount they should charge imo; it's completely arbitrary. If you think it should be less, vote for better people, advocate for better things, make crypto that works and isn't exclusively an attraction for criminals and rent-seekers, or pour money into marketing a competitor. You can switch to another service, but I might not want to give your other service my card info. Well if your other service takes paypal I'll use it, so they'll start 5% behind.
Rheem, the brand HD carries, is easily ductable. Both the inlet and outlet can take 100' of 8" ducting.

I set mine up with T's, electric dampers and some simple logic.
Your argument is that at some point growth stops or stagnates. But most people in the world don't hold cryptocurrency -- yet they know about it. It's a huge market. And that market will be tapped by marketers and advertisers.

> BTC makes no profits. In fact, the entire BTC system consumes tons of electricity constantly. So we can see that moving BTC around costs real resources, but no one seems to have explained to me where "money comes from", aside from a greater-fool.

Transaction fees.
I'm having trouble believing this is real and not heavily massaged output. I worked on a AI-like project in 1988 as a programming gig in college, and the output was heavily edited by the composer.

If it is real, I'm actually a somewhat frightened.
Definitely worth watching. I also enjoy Dave's Evolution discussions. Even if I don't agree with his take, his thought process and obvious depth of experience is always inspiring. His style of engagement with other participants also makes for a much more constructive thread than many that take place there.
To each their own, I guess. I guess if your whole life has been in cities where construction often involves de-constructing already-built structures, you might hear the sound of a jackhammer and think "ahh the sounds of life..."

Having grown up in the countryside, where most construction involves killing all the trees on a site by scraping off the top layer of soil, the sounds of construction only makes me think of death.
Nope. That was my very first point. Not being on the “books” can apply to anyone.
> Some of the people could be considered type B or less productive,

Type B? Is that an established concept?
> Nothing forces Patreon to take a cut for each and every donation, let alone such a hefty fee.

Payment processors do. Donorbox [0], which the author switched to, states their pricing. For 1$, you'll pay ~32p (Stripe)/ ~51p (PayPal) for the payment processor, so 32%-51%. For 5$, you'll pay ~40p (Stripe) or 59p (PayPal), so still 8%-12%.

This is without Patreon/Donorbox having made a single dollar yet, but they do need to pay people to set up payment, their platform and support. Also, they want to make profit, since they're not a charity, after all.

[0] https://donorbox.org/pricing
They don’t mention “divide and conquer” at all, which I find a pretty compelling use of recursion even for non-inherently recursive problems. Writing a merge sort recursively is much easier and clearer than the nonrecursive variant.
FWIW (and this is in Japan) I've worked for companies which would pay the same Tokyo salary regardless of where you lived - so long as you remain in the country. I knew people who relocated to Chiba and even Okinawa.