skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Are all these crypto jobs legit?
I started to timidly poke my nose in the job market, anticipating a ship jumping within the next year or so. It strikes me that there’s a staggering amount of crypto jobs. Blockchain, NFT, instant messaging, payment, you name it.

Is the crypto space experiencing such a high growth on all fronts that so many crypto startups pop up everywhere or are these just YOLO’ing their way forward until they run out of cash? And by the way, who is funding them? Are investors actually convinced that any random crypto project can become the next unicorn?

It all seems like a giant scam to me, and I’m very wary of applying to these companies. Am I being overly conservative?
> adoption for tools like PGP never picked up

nit: Every competent developer I know uses PGP on a daily basis, for signing and validating commits. The responsible ones also use it to validate security-critical software is coming from the expected source. I do agree though, that the original use case of encrypted email is largely dead.
Facebook Graph API v18.0 and Marketing API v18.0
https://archive.is/Tuuqp
Will wagtail work in 10 years from now? Being Python and Django, it just might. In the node ecosystem, things are broken after 10 weeks or 10 months.

The benefits of static site generations...
Using COP is a easy way to compare heat pump efficiency to conventional heating methods. It is a multiple of the amount of heat energy output given the electricity energy used. A fossil fuel boiler is always less than 1 (usually 0.6-0.8) since it is never 100% efficient at converting the fuel energy to heat energy. Your electric space heater has a COP of exactly 1. So when you see the COPs in the 4-6 range, you get a good sense of how much more efficient heat pumps are.
Dr. Anthony Fauci Would Like to Set the Record Straight
You're right - the same advice applies to non-AI startups too. I wrote the piece to help the founders who come to me for advice, and they are AI founders in the vast majority of cases.
What would you have them do? Go sneaking around the Chinese Science Academy in Wuhan trying to find hard evidence in the dumpsters 4 years later?

I'm not a fan of some "journalists" saying, "it's just the flu" and worried more about Trump's re-election than those that they no doubt killed, but I'm actually not sure what real journalists should have done either. Also, people were crying out for their blood while indulging in deranged conspiracies against them just for pointing a camera at their master and letting him talk. Even if they could fly over to China and investigate, being caught in Wuhan investigating would have both the Chinese government and the deranged conspiracy nuts crying out for your death, the latter claiming they found it too "suspicious" you were in Wuhan at all.
I'm guessing the price of gas is ridiculous in greenland. Makes sense that an ev would net a quick payoff there. Even if you guys are running your power plants off fossil fuels, the larger generators are probably more efficient.
https://www.axios.com/2021/01/09/platforms-social-media-ban-...
Find me the list of social media platforms that banned Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden
You got it exactly!

Every time in NYC, I've spent nearly my entire time in Manhattan, excluding one trip to my friend's folks' place on Staten Island. That seemed much better in terms of the odds serendipitous bumping into friends, but still less so than mountain state.
Given the name of the lead author of the paper and the way heat pumps work, I really wish the atricle had worked "Gibb's Free Energy" into the write-up somewhere.
>I would make the case that pop musicians would be less popular if they freely got naked.

If the system knows you are a prude, then they won't get naked for you. They'll get very good at learning "how much is too much" for any given person, for any given "what" (skin, private messages, flirting, etc).

Human pop stars can't have relationships with every fan. AI pop stars can.
Nice, built bravoboard ideas blog with Django as well. Nothing too fancy. Django gets the job done!

https://www.bravoboard.xyz/ideas/
I happy for them that they were hired!

I will say though, from my experience (with other software) what usually happens is the original plugins/software get's abandoned or neglected so they can focus on the official implementation. And the official implementations rarely feature match everything from the original.

So hopefully that doesn't happen
Apple announces iPhone 15: USB-C port, Dynamic Island, new colors
The dragsters need to have a complete engine tear-down after nearly every run, regularly explode in a giant ball of flame, etc.
> if it didn't have the same preinstalled advantage

One could say the same about edge. And google’s practice of shoving “install chrome” notifications and pop ups down your throat at every opportunity when on a google website or app
Yes and no. So the slow/efficient acceleration is realized today with electric propulsion [0] which is very efficient in terms of fuel consumption because it accelerates the particles to such high speeds. But, it is very low thrust so it is something that is on for days/weeks/months at a time versus the small amount of time that chemical rockets are on. Because it's so low thrust though its not something that will actually generate enough acceleration to get you off the ground in the first place. You will still need a high thrust device (i.e. rocket or something more exotic like SpinLaunch) to get you off the ground and in to a low orbit. So while you wouldn't have to reach escape velocity (11.2 km/s on Earth) you still need to get to a very large fraction of that (6-7 km/s for low-earth orbiting satellites).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_electric_propulsion
Swapping single words in my pitches has taught me a lot about what people want
2400 die every day from heart disease in the US, but those who are still terrified of Covid today generally aren't allocating 24x of their fear budget towards heart disease and starting a regular running habit or improving their diet to flatten that curve.

Life belongs to those who learn proper fear prioritization.
Why? It sounds fun! At the end of the day a game is just a challenge to overcome right?
> Django is just Python. Rails is just Ruby. There's nothing special to them and extending when necessary is often trivial, particularly because they have such mature extension points.

Eh, I wouldn't agree with that. Both Django and Rails extend the languages quite a bit with deep class overloading, reflection and fluidic approaches.

Especially Rails, which pushes Ruby's DSL-like abilities to an extreme. If you go from learning RoR to then having to make a standard Ruby script, you quickly realize how much of what you built relied on Rails-specific functionality. Django, more or less, is just Python with a bunch of logic built for you, relative to that.
> Desktop Linux is an unfixable dumpster fire UX-wise.

This is exactly how I feel about Windows. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Every recipe website!
First of all apologies. Indeed the I find should have been repeated. Also, people collect a lot of different things and I shouldn't be judgemental about other people's hobby's.
> still not convinced either way

I’m not either. But people get stuff wrong all the time. I fail to see how a lab-leak assumption was deemed dangerous.
Yup.

It is completely insane that some places want 20-30 people for a CRUD website. Yes, there is domain complexity there (that’s what makes the job actually interesting, unlike the tech we have to use) but that much?

Really the issue is we continually subvert engineering needs for business wants.

Until that is no longer the norm the fractal of WTF will grow deeper.
Ask HN: What popular technology today will be viewed negatively in 5 years?
Ever since I started in the industry people would long for the good old days of: Delphi, Visual Basic, Windows Forms, Flash

Technology that were taken for granted but are now appreciated:

PHP, Java, Static Typing,

What technology that are currently hot will people look back with shudders 5 years from now?
https://archive.is/3EutW
Our last iteration of the constitution grant them large powers and leeway

But indeed, the unspoken rule is also that we hate them with a passion no matter what.
I don’t expect you to agree with their methods. I expect you to defend people’s right to freedom and a proper trial and judicial system.
Thanks for the 'today i learned'.
Jesus christ. I'm so deep into my current game I'm hesitant to move away. But this is bad...

I don't know what to do. I have a huge sunk-cost fallacy here.

I guess I'm going to ship it and pray, and then never use Unity again.

Jesus christ, what were they thinking?

Fuck Unity.
Does nginx's configuration complexity mean anything in the age of ChatGPT?

I set up a whole reverse proxy stack on my personal webserver (thanks to the swag docker image: nginx + auto-renewing let's encrypt + fail2ban). I hadn't really done any web stuff before, certainly nothing on the public Internet.

I didn't have time to read the nginx doc so I had ChatGPT do most of it. I'd then ask for changes depending on the challenges of a specific webapp (for example, not requiring basic_auth on certain routes that were using the tool's own auth).

I realize this is a simple example, but if I was able to achieve all my goals quickly with zero prior experience, surely it can't be that hard for someone who does this stuff for a living.
I sync via a third party app that syncs a normal filesystem directory to my Android device from Google drive. Seems to work well enough that I haven't tried the official sync feature.
It's easy on the eyes and it can make reading lots of equations less awkward if done correctly. I remember finding out this was possible while I was working on an assignment in Latex - it looked amazing.

It takes a little bit of work to colour in equations but I hope more people start doing it (including me, I'd forgotten about it for a while)
Rather the opposite. Wayland is a far more opaque abstraction layer than X11.

Also the "robustness" is achieved with KDE/Qt specific protocols and as such has nothing to do with Wayland. Similar functionality could be achieved with X11.
Because it’s delusion.

BTUs from hydrocarbon gases (and hydrocarbons in general) are phenomenal, and Natural gas is generally more of a waste product from oil extraction than anything, so is dirt cheap. The equipment required to use them (a typical furnace or boiler) is also cheap, low maintenance, well understood, and widely deployed everywhere.

Most cold climates use fossil fuel heating.

Heat pumps aren’t terrible, and are vastly more efficient than resistive heat for heating. If the only energy source is cheap and electric, it’s an easy win.

But for areas already widely using fossil fuel heating (such as Germany), switching to heat pumps will increase electrical demand by at least an order of magnitude - best case - and since peak heating demand tends to happen when it’s winter, better have adequate storage too. Germany also has very expensive electricity, so it will dramatically increase costs unless extensive amounts of insulation are also done, increasing capex.

So, if we look at price, and especially if we include capex, it’s only competitive in niche contexts or if we expect fossil fuel costs to be immediately and rapidly increased 4-5x. Even then, if done widely it will break a lot of things unless there is a lot of grid upgrades too. Increasing capex.

It’s why Germany is struggling to switch off. They’re not the only ones.
gpt 7 will be hunting us down
Does anyone know of a way to use Obsidian in a multiple-user setup? I want to use it as a department level solution (5 or so users) to share all of our personal knowledge ;) I was even thinking of and searching for a check in/check out solution. Asking about Windows.
Apologies for the lack of civility, but anyone who says that without irony is an idiot. Why? Because they are granting legitimacy to a multinational over the words of actual people.

Claiming that "the algorithm is always right and therefore you must be lying" is as close as thoughtcrime as one can get. When in doubt (and I see no evidence here), side with the human and not with the algorithm!
Self-referential link, as far as I can tell.
Come now, we've been at this for quite a bit longer than a decade!

https://patents.google.com/patent/US685955
Unpopular opinion: code-first is the best approach (for people who know how to code, ofc).

Visual tools have their own quirks and special workflows that creators got to delve into for quite a long time in order to master. Code on the other way is a universal interface that coders already feel confident with and lets ideas turn into playab
le prototypes real quick.

That said: phaserjs, love2d, pixi.js
The herd vs merit distinction is interesting, and I think they both have value. Maybe differently to different people, but non-zero.

Imagine a handful of objectively "good" songs.

Play them for a crowd where nobody knows them.

Or, in a more humorous example, imagine the Beatles played tracks only from their second album, while touring for their first album. Would audiences be disappointed?

I struggle to imagine an overly negative reaction. People love hearing songs they love, but they also fell in love with those songs for a reason. Well executed music is well-executed music.
I mean, sure, I think you should solve this class of problems with WUFFS. I wrote that for Apple a day or two ago, I wrote it here about Google, I'd say it to Microsoft, I'd say it on a train, or a boat, I'd say it in the rain or with a goat.

It's not going to stop being true, and I don't get the impression most HN readers already knew this sort of work should be WUFFS, so I'm going to keep saying it.

You can pair me with lots of things, "tialaramex vaccine" works, "tialaramex oil", "tialaramex UTF8", "tialaramex Minecraft".
Related ongoing thread:

Unity plan pricing and packaging updates - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344 - Sept 2023 (272 comments)
I really like Godot, though I'm still using 3.5 LTS. You can use it with C# / Mono. I've heard it's not great for 3D, but I only work in 2D anyway.
I've been following the P2P Matrix work intermittently but closely. Matrix clients are so much more mature than ours, so having a first-class P2P mode in Matrix would be a solution to this whole problem.

That said, they have to solve more problems than just the problems solved by Pinecone. (Like onboarding and identity.) And over the past few years my impression has been that the Matrix team is focused on the federated use case, because that's where their users are. It seems hard for them to pay attention to both.

My guess is that P2P Matrix will land as an awesome reliability feature for uninterrupted messaging when a server goes down or when the Internet goes out, but that it will take longer for them to tackle problems specific to P2P that don't graft on easily to federated Matrix.
This right here.

I have found some of the greatest products I have used came from:

"I'm working on this project, the tools I currently have are just different forms of a hammer...I need a screwdriver. I built a screwdriver. This screwdriver is the only tool I'll consider when I face this situation."

The tools sell because the people doing the work and feeling the pain react strongly while pointing at the incompetent layers above with purchasing power. Giving (or showing) someone the solution and then taking it away is probably the most common reason I have seen someone leave a situation.
You don't need to spend all your time somewhere for it to become a decent third space. You just need to go regularly, at a similar enough time that you start building rapport with the people who also go at the same time. If you go to the gym or bar for an hour or two after work every weekday, for example, you'll quickly notice that the same people are there with you. Interact with them enough, and these people form the outer ring of your social life.

Then you need to have explicitly social gatherings. For example, I've got a biweekly game night that an old friend and I alternate hosting. We invite our friends and the occasional acquaintance from our outer rings, and some start coming regularly. Typically somewhere between 4 and 10 people show up, BYOB, and we play some board games into the odd hours. Often random subsets of the group will grab dinner together before hand.

Then you have your close friend maintenance regimen. People you're not seeing regularly anymore in the context you used to (whether it was school, and old workplace, etc), but that you want to maintain a relationship with. If you spend at least 1 weekend night a week grabbing dinner and some drinks with one of these people, you'll be able to maintain your relationships with up to a half dozen or so people (in addition to the ones that are in your more active group).

Mix in some larger gatherings/parties a couple times a year, and you've set yourself up a healthy social life.
AI JINGLEMAKER: create DJ drops, Station IDs and podcast intros in a few clicks
I've been a radio enthusiast for as long as I can remember (one of my favourite movies is "Pump Up The Volume").
Since late 2022, I've developed a knack for programming.
I started coding at the age of 48, just before the AI tidal wave.

Out of these twin passions, I've built a small project which is already being used by DJs, radio presenters and a few podcasters: the AI JINGLEMAKER.

The AI JINGLEMAKER enables you to create DJ drops, Station IDs, podcast intros and other jingles in a few seconds.

You can pick an intro FX, a background sound, an outro FX, create your voiceover with the power of AI and let the JINGLEMAKER magically generate your jingle in the blink of an eye! You can download both the final jingles and the raw voiceovers.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QOs2MEsL5o
Alternative article title proposal: "How to hype the hype out of the hype!"
Provide a way to contact you, please.
Obsidian is really flexible for all sorts of things, through and through. I personally use it both for work and personal projects within the same folder since it's residing within a OneDrive folder on my personal Microsoft account that is selectively synced (i.e. just that folder) to my work computer as well, together with the rest from my work Microsoft account. Works great! Everything is there from meeting notes, to reminder lists, to quick scratchbooks, etc. and it's always up to date wherever I am for free.
Couldn't he bring his own 3rd? Compasses aren't heavy?
Visually pleasing indeed.
https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/
> Human pop stars can't have relationships with every fan. AI pop stars can.

I don't know if it will go that way, to be honest. But certainly, the film Her does show us what that might end up looking like. (Even though she was just a disembodied voice)
I had bad asthma as a child. I was more often on Actifed than not, and it was great. Comparing Sudafed and Actifed is apples and oranges, despite Sudafed supposed to be stronger. Actifed always worked for me, and worked all, but Actifed was discontinued.
> are these just YOLO’ing their way forward until they run out of cash

this is like every company
plugins, hardware, hosting, support, there's a number of ways to offer a service for an open source project. Open Core models come to mind. Another is not having enterprise SSO as part of the core. Or not having clustering. Something that would make a VP think twice about adopting your open source solution vs using you as a vendor.
She might need larger radiators.

https://www.heatgeek.com/do-i-need-to-upgrade-my-radiators-f...
I didn't even know about that. Thanks!
The difference is that no one (very few people) would ever consider a plant to be sentient. So the metaphor works as intended. Since many (most?) people are willing to entertain the notion that AI can be intentional, the metaphor is ambiguous and fails.

I’m not arguing against the underlying point, I’m just disagreeing with how it’s presented.
We're well past the point of optimizing for cost unless you're one of those "well it doesn't matter, I'll be dead by then" people who don't care about what's happening to the planet.
It's seem to have finally roughly hit critical mass these days. I imagine it will become somewhat ubiquitous in the next 5 years or so in most of the western world.

Inflation seems to have kicked this into high gear as I'm guessing prices update a whole lot quicker. Plus it's a lot cheaper now to fiddle with dynamic pricing and change stuff day to day based on your metrics.
The problem is that Unity has a lot of customers that make freemium/ad supported/low cost (mobile) games. $0.20 per install is absurd when most players are gone after less than an hour of playtime.

Of course if you sell games at $60 a piece it is not a whole lot, and the regular seat pricing of Unity is most likely a far greater expense.
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This had a brief discussion a week ago:

Locking up corpses to keep them from escaping - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37387878 - Sept 2023 (12 comments)

but since it didn't get significant attention, I suppose it's ok if it...comes back.
AI Military drones

AI Police drones

Boston Robotics

Sam Altman
What should they have done with that paper? Maybe used the front and back right?
It's not meant as an insult. When writing marketing copy, you need to consider mindshare, and I can't really say that webservers without much of a community are worth considering. Especially when we didn't know they existed.
AMZ's cars are also capable of autonomous driving (they were actually one of the top teams in the autonomous categories for the last couple of years).

I assume it's just a requirement for this Guiness record category, or they didn't want to bother with all the software.
Which one can I donate to that will spend the money on only FF and nothing else?

The foundation shouldn't be wasting money throwing activist festivals like this https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/announcing-activists-...
> There is no contradiction because there is no limit of knowledge.

I don't think we know enough to be able to state that definitively. It's feasible that the universe behaves mathematically (it seems to so far) and thus possible to gain a thorough understanding of the underlying principles, if not the specific facts (c.f. with understanding how to produce integers yet not "knowing" all the integers).

Even if the universe doesn't have underlying rules to be discovered, there's still a limit to number of configurations available to particles etc. within our visible universe. Although that number might appear to be infinite to us, it's actually drastically closer to zero than to infinity.

So, if there is indeed some finite limit, then using y = e^x would be the wrong function as that doesn't approach a finite value.
Thanks for the comments. Did not know much about wagtail until now. Looks worthy of consideration for a side project I am considering.

If you don't mind answering a couple of questions:

- I have a requirement for basically a CMS with the capability of serious extensibility, built in either python or javascript (I considered ghost but it does meet my requirments). Main job is for a membership based cms but to potentially add functionality outside of standard cms stuff. Would you say wagtail / django combo would meet that requirement? (Sounds like "yes")

- How does wagtail compare to django cms? (Less interested in feature comparisons, more interested in your developer experience with both)

Thx in advanced!