skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I agree that there exists a possibility that superintelligence might want to maximize paperclips or mine bitcoins. I just think it is very unlikely, and that there exists a positive correlation between intelligence of the entity and intelligence of its goals.

Lots of humans have pretty despicable goals, including some very intelligent ones.

I think the positive correlation is mostly because intelligent humans have value to other humans, and so they can cash out their intelligence in rewards of their choosing. The outliers have values that can only be satisfied by actively hurting other humans, for a variety of reasons.

Value-alignment in AI is roughly the problem of finding suitable rewards for AI that can't go off the rails the way some humans do.
Stop using a mouse, or use a vertical mouse (e.g. Evoluent).
Move to a standing desk if you can.

These two things worked for me.
Why would Alice buy into a gated community she doesn't want to live in, when she can buy an Android community and side-load a pool app and run her own mailserver? Android phones exist, they have app stores - multiple options - Alice could have chosen one, and not only chose something else, but likely spent more money on it as well. What kind of techno-patronising is it to pretend like Alice was too dumb to know what she was choosing, has "been robbed", and needs someone else to step in and change what she bought to "make it better for her" by making it more like the thing she could have bought and voluntarily didn't buy?

More to the point, why should Catarina be forbidden from offering a gated community with a pool and a mail filter service, because Eve wants to send mail outside the filter system?

Is the claim here that if you started a smartphone company with your own AppStore and sideloading, Apple would act anticompetitively and shut you down? (What would they do?) Or is the claim that it's unfair Apple offers a product other people want, which you don't want?
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Hitachi were a popular stereo cassette and radio brand back in the day not sure if that’s still true.
> Deflationary currencies aren't surging in value. Fiat currencies are dropping in value.

At about this point in 2011, 1 BTC was worth $1. Today 1 BTC is worth about $60k. Are you suggesting that BTC has been mostly consistent in value in that time and that it's the USD which has dropped in value by 60000x in 10 years?
No, a few thousand. 240 megawatt hours = 240,000 kilowatt hours, a BEV car is around 80 kWh
Because mathematics doesn’t have to be about the world?
Anyone know how they identify the same user? All solution I know generate a unique number and put in cookie.

At my app https://hanami.run I don't track user and cannot know if the same users visit our website :-(. I don't want to use cookie and want to get away with GDPR. At the same time, I love to see which visitors repeatly read my website/blog and where they drop so I can optimize my site.
I plan to remain in an home office centric culture as my baseline after pandemic.
But what if I want to put my toothbrush in the blockchain as well?
I looked at the deck. How will you make money?
>The Big 4 consultancies hire college grads give them basic training on the big cloud platforms and then fill up projects.

that's correct. i went thur that with Avanade. they teach us some basic about the security system that they implemented for their client and client ask for tech support and guess who they send.
> Basically, CloudFormation is like the shittiest programming language you've ever encountered

CF json/yaml is essentially declarative asm for AWS resources.

CDK is how you use popular higher level languages to generate it, and there are some friendlier-than-raw-CF options in between (like SAM).
Good on you for getting started. I have some feedback for you. The image of you holding the notebook can really be done a lot better in a few ways. It can use better lighting. You could be smiling at the camera. And the text in your notebook can be done a lot better. Even just doing it a little better would help. It's not a good drawing.

Although I'm already being brutal, your writing also needs a lot of work. The format it's in is like a school assignment that you weren't really interested in. It needs an introduction with a hook of some sort (why should I spend my valuable time reading this article?) and it needs to have some highlighted points of interest. I should be able to get the main idea from skimming the first sentence of each paragraph while I scroll to the bottom and then get a good takeaway when I read the last paragraph. When I did this, all I got was "I am starting a blog using a multi-day challenge". My skimming did not reveal who you are, what you do, or why your blog will be interesting to me as a reader. I came away feeling like I had read, again, an uninteresting school assignment or a journal entry where you filled in a template.

So how can you make these improvements? Think hard about what value you will provide. There is enough noise out there without people writing blogs just to do it. Then look at people with popular blogs who are writing about similar things. Take their most popular posts and use those as ideas of how to lay out your own writing with the major parts being introduction, list structure or narrative, and conclusion. Remember that most people will skim to decide whether to read in more depth. Then edit a few times, comparing your blog with the popular blog you are using as a reference.

It would be better if you could write several posts over a month and then release them, so that you can leave each post for a couple weeks without looking at it and come back with fresh eyes. Since you are doing this seven day challenge you will only be able to "freshen up" for a few hours but I recommend doing this anyway. So do your research and outline, have lunch, write the draft and edit it, leave it alone, and finally edit it one more time before posting it. This way your unconscious mind will be able to work on it and you will get a better overall product that people might pay more attention to.

And, again, put some work into your images.

Good luck.
Overthrowing a government doesn't sound like an easy option to me.
If you're invested, you can use extensions [0] which seem like they're more well-defined. It sounds like this is what APN partners like Datadog use to implement 3rd party resources.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui...
Have there been any studies about the "optimal" size of a community? It feels like there's a critical mass so long as the size of a community remains less than n people it remains civil and people can forge actual relationships (even behind "anonymous" usernames). Reddit and Discord come to mind. The smaller subs and servers are great while the huge subs and servers tend to be toxic internet wastelands.
Yeah I like to remain optimistic, IMO that is the only way to stay sane.

It's just funny how total opposite realities can coexist. I get a NYT daily email which makes it sound like everything is okay, vaccines are working great, etc, then I can spend 10 minutes reading `/r/conspiracy` and it really throws you upside down. Not to say that everything said there is true (I know most of it is likely bs), but I enjoy seeing the total opposites ends of the spectrum.
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There is a lot more to making good quality recordings then having good equipment. There's arrangement, mic placement, room acoustic treatment, mixing and EQ, mastering.
If curious, past threads:

Launch HN: Airbyte (YC W20) – Open-Source ELT (Fivetran/Stitch Alternative) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25917403 - Jan 2021 (87 comments)

Airbyte: Simple and extensible open-source EL(T) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25800766 - Jan 2021 (24 comments)
iOS vs. Android development: costs, monetization models, ROI
> don't know of any place requiring different rates and metering for certain uses

I don't know about electricity, but this certainly exists for fossil fuels.

In some country, diesel has a completely different price if you use it in your car or use it in your tractor to plow a field.
Really great to see a tech company with the motto "Don't be evil"
> We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable

So, crazy window dressing on what is ultimately a pretty tame point?

When you squeeze people, they get radicalized into outlandish viewpoints (see also: Trumpism). The answer is to listen to the core of their gripes, rather than rejecting them wholesale over the craziness.
Maintaining a great company culture as a distributed team with virtual reality
Hi everyone,

After failing with a previous product and running a remote team, we realized how challenging it is to make distributed teammates feel as included as those working under the same roof. After trying a few solutions we learned that AR and VR are great mediums for getting remote teammates in the same “room”.

Fast forward a few months and now our small startup, Remio, helps remote teams maintain a great culture through team-building activities in VR! We ship a pre-configured headset to each of your teammates and guide you through immersive team-building experiences such as paintball and hide-and-seek. We think of it as RecRoom for business teams. The service is completely hassle-free; you give us the time, date, and number of participants and we take care of all the rest (logistics, scheduling, and shipping).

https://www.remiovr.com/

We’ve received delightful product feedback and notable customers include Robinhood, Pubmatic, Iterable, and Fast. It’s been one hell of a ride and we’re extremely grateful to all the support from our fellow tech hackers and peers for their advice and guidance. A special thanks to Fabio (YC ‘15) for letting us test our very first build on his VR headset.

In terms of vision, we’re building a virtual campus for every company where teammates can work (and bond) using AR and VR glasses.

We’d love to hear what you think of our product (good and bad) and would love it even more to show it to you (or to challenge your team in a paintball tournament). Please reach out to us at founders@remiovr.com even if it’s just a “hello”.

Thanks again everyone,
Remio Team!
Can't wait for anyone who has a cryptocurrency wallet to call themselves a 'blockchain' company.
Honestly, there is not a lot of Vim I really miss. Yeah, macros with motion commands are cool, but in many cases VSCode's multi-cursor is sufficient.

Editing code in Vim is probably faster, but that speedup is neglectable if you are missing precise go-to-definition or auto-completion instead.
Thanks for asking. :) The thing is, if I were to use it I would (personally) be interested in some that aren’t that popular, and in different editions of the same game. Like for example, Runequest 3rd edition - but also the new 7th edition. The Call of Cthulhu 3rd edition - but also the new edition (7th). I know some people that play Cyberpunk 2020, I think. So it’s more that from my perspective if I were a user I would want to create campaigns or games for systems that are old, fringe or very specific... not being able to do it kind of makes the site unusable if that’s what one wants. I was actually interested to see if there were people organising games for some of these, or wargames like Battletech, and others, and seeing that it wasn’t an option was a little bit of a disappointment. I understand what you say about not wanting users type the name of the same game in a myriad different ways, and I don’t know what would be the solution to it. Maybe boardgamegeek offers a service to get roleplaying games names data? I also don’t know how would I present the options to the user so users both get a reasonable list of defaults straight away and are also able to input more bizarre choices. Anyways - cool initiative, I’m sure these kind of issues will be solved somehow in future versions of the website.
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The article addresses this. The physical constraints that lead to those conventions don't apply to digital typography.
Is Mrs. Knox the person? From the article:

HOUSTON, Sept. 14 - The secretary for the squadron commander purported to be the author of now-disputed memorandums questioning President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard said Tuesday that she never typed the documents and believed that they are fakes.

[...]

Mrs. Knox, who was the secretary for the squadron at Ellington Air Force Base from 1957 to 1979, said she recalled Mr. Bush's case and the criticism of him because his record was so unusual. Mr. Killian had her type memorandums recording the problems, she said, and he kept them in a private file under lock and key. She said she had never voted for Mr. Bush, because she disliked his record in office.

It is pretty easy to maintain trust in media if “fake but [maybe] accurate” is A-ok. Maybe it isn't even "fake but accurate" but "fake but fitting with my preconceptions and interest in self-delusion."
if you need a static site, there are a thousand generators out there much easier to use than React+nextjs. Some of these are easy enough that a non-developer can use and update.

Using code to generate static sites is not new or particularly interesting. We have been caching PHP and Perl sites so that they are "static" since the dawn of the web. CDNs are really really old now. It feels like a new batch of developers don't know that caching is a thing and "static" is a hot buzzword.
43 y/o now, got first carpal tunnel at 12 y/o. Only thing that fixed it was to

1) stop using mice and track pads (wacom pen and tablet for the win), It was the incessant clicking that did me in I think

2) focused physio, then followed up with regular (3x week minimum) yoga-ish stretching, and weight training.

Additionally it crept into my shoulders as tendinitis, solved the same way.
By means of 12 interviews, a survey with 44 respondents, and the analysis of review logs for 9 million reviewed changes, we investigate motivations behind code review at Google, current practices, and developers’ satisfaction and challenges.

While quite a large number of changes, that seems a rather small sample size for interviews, and especially for survey response.
By the half your age + 7 rule, Trump should have never been married.

Now I don’t have an opinion on how great or terrible the guy is but if 50% of the country supports him, then that’s indicative that there isn’t really any consensus on age differences when dating.

Personally I think there is no reason to look down on consensual relationships between two adults. Especially true if they are far beyond the age of consent.
Seems like a non sequitur and moreover a false dilemma.
Dang, I think this has the thread you are looking for:

The Secret Math Society Known as Nicolas Bourbaki -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25042327 - Dec 2020 (87 comments)
Tor is used for both as well.
That Elixir part is pretty slick. But to be fair to JS, you could also write that JS function like this:

let factorial = n => n === 0
? 1
: factorial(n - 1) * n;

But I do wish JavaScript had some more powerful pattern-matching syntax. For example, both Rust and C# both have nice switch/match expressions that can really simplify code like this.
So basically the React tutorial app?
Khanki Chude Index Koralam
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Leah Rowe: “Meanwhile, FSF and GNU can both go fuck themselves.” (2016)
> If companies had to pay even part of the externalities of commuting

I don't know how much a parking lot costs in terms of real estate but I'd guess it's absolutely massively expensive.

Also, property taxes don't they pretty directly pay for roads which are used for commuting?
I think that would be incredibly helpful to the community, but I wouldn't ever press an 'extremely busy person' to do such a thing. I honestly which YC had an 'after action report' section for founders just to quickly write up some materially experiential things.

Congrats on your raise, your pitch to me has basically all of the attributes - some people see it as some kind of arcane magic, but for B2B generally I don't think it is, it seems you've nailed the issues quite squarely. It's a good benchmark well done.
> His whole blog is a crypto rage

Indeed, and that makes it quite hard to to pay any attention to what he has to say or read to the end of the article.
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If we keep it simple, there are two kinds of marginal increases.

The first type is when marginal increase can lead to a "new unit", like planes you refer to -- or servers used by data centers. If a plane fits 100 people, then (simplifying) 1/100 of the time you'll result in a new plane being used, so it makes sense to divide the plane's total resources by passengers -- not just the fuel you used.

But the second type never results in a "new unit". In this scenario, using more resource-hungry analytics will never push someone to purchase a second cell phone to spread the load. So counting anything but marginal energy increase usage by the CPU directly is disingenuous.

So in the case of analytics software, their data center server/power resources fall into the first type. But the consumer device resources fall into the second type.

So in this case I don't think there's anything tricky at all about it.
It's supposed to be 12 months of 30 days.

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They do though, they pay me around $180 a month for an unlimited transit card (that I can’t use) and a transit debit card for Uber (that is currently capped because I also cannot use it). For most other folks that pays for parking.
Tbh I had at least a few situation where I was nearly hit by an electric car because I assumed there were no traffic around. admittedly, I was jaywalking too.
> There is no "intelligence" here as we know it, not even a hint. There are algorithms operating on data for very prescribed use cases.

I agree with your general point, but if you break it down, our brains a nothing "intelligent" either. It's just a network of neurons searching for patterns in the sensor input. Sure, it can reconfigure itself, but from a really abstract perspective it's nothing more than a ultra-scaled neural network as we currently use them. So this really boils down to the definition of intelligence, which is by no means easy.
Eh, languages end up with this all the time with type conversions.

In JS:

false == undefined => false
false == null => false
undefined == null => true
If a rule-based system can get as good of results as a deep neural net, why is the deep neural net "AI" but the rule-based system is "dumb and hard-coded"?

AI is not a precise term. If you can make a product that feels intelligent to the user, why does the implementation matter?
> If companies had to pay even part of the externalities of commuting they'd have stopped this antiquated modus operandi long ago.

I personally lost money by working from home. My transportation costs were negligible, but I lost access to free food/drink and have to consume much more electricity at home.