skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously every nested simulation is many orders of magnitute less "powerful". That does not mean that there could be enough nested simulations. "Outer" universe could be unimaginably bigger, with more dimensions, have different laws of existence which would allow to simulate ours.

As to god, well, if our universe is simulated, probably there's a god or gods who made that simulation. But, unless this simulation is human-centric, we're just a speck of dust and I don't have any reasons to suspect that we're somehow special and those "gods" interacted with our ancestors. So no, from any kind of scientific PoV, our religions are not trustworthy for me and religious texts are just interesting historical records. And if our civilization is the point of interest for that entire simulation, those texts are still weird and not trustworthy. It's should be relatively easy for "god" to provide an unquestionable miracle every few centuries to keep our beliefs, but there were not any trustworthy ones. Also there are too many of religions and they don't exactly look similar, so that's another issue, as it's not possible to choose a correct religion.
Heredocs are a little odd, because you can't see what they might be piping to.

This script, for example looks sort of innocuous when run through your tool because it's not obvious the HEREDOC is going to the stdin of a Perl interpreter. Your tool shows them like they are two separate things that don't do much by themselves.

Looking at the script itself, it's more obvious.

#!/bin/sh
cat<<'EOF'|perl -nE'BEGIN{shift(@ARGV)}s#(.*)#$1#ee' /dev/null
say "hello"; #arbitrary perl code
EOF

That's probably a nit, really, though. I don't know that anyone would target it on purpose.
At that price I expected some actual analog hardware under that pretty case, not just an ARM chip and some OLEDs

But then again, back in the day I paid out the ass for a Virus TI, which is largely the same setup. Though for virtual analog it did sound fantastic. I miss that thing...
Are you talking about a physical machine or a protocol design? I don't think you can abstract away the exact physical communication medium from a physical machine (or your cable won't fit in the hole, or it'll burn out your circuitry), and the protocol design probably doesn't need a FIFO.

Protocol design: maybe typewriter text and shitty VT100 escape sequences were a bad idea? Let's use HTML-style tags, but in an endless tag soup similar to VT100 semantics, not a tree.
If bounties can’t outpace salary then no, not really.
My company (lbry.com) tips contributors for opening good issues, PRs, reporting security vulns, even for good blog posts or tweets (contributions are not limited to code). There’s nothing formal. We just try to be fair and generous, and let it be known that this is something we do. Over the years we’ve built up a bit of a reputation for this.

Certainly this system could be gamed or become more hassle than it’s worth. We’ve only seen that in narrow cases (e.g. during hacktoberfest). On the whole it’s been great and it feels good to do it.

I encourage you to try it and see how it goes.

More here: https://lbry.com/faq/appreciation
I am not a religious person, and I am not posting this for religious reasons; but I do respect and appreciate some religious traditions and wisdom that have been practiced for a thousand years or more.

I have read that Jewish law mandates charity, called tzedakah (the etymology of the word is related to the word for justice.) This is a personal act of charity, not necessarily a group act of charity. It is a responsibility of individuals. This would seem to conflict with the premise of the article, i.e. effective altruism is a failure.

Charity, a form of sacrifice, is a human act that is experienced by both the giver and the receiver. Everyone, including the poorest and the richest, are able to participate in this act of giving and receiving. It is more than accounting: x is given for y result.

It is also interesting that the prescribed order in which charity occurs is advised to be accomplished by both proximity and level of empowerment. So, community and productivity are emphasized first before other giving. I have always found this to be interesting advice.

Here is a link to an article that summarizes this wisdom for those who are interested:

https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/tzedakah-and-philanthropy-re...

Again, this is just commentary to add to the discussion. No arrows, please :).
> Peers express disapproval and disagreement by commenting within the post. As I am doing precisely right now. ;)

Exactly. And this is actually something that I like about Twitter, and hate about Reddit. Don't like what I post? Reply and say it.
I first purchased an OP-1 because of the YouTube demos, but end up selling after a few weeks.

I've now got a Digiton/Digitakt setup that's much better. Elektron's workflow just clicked with my brain.
That's super cool! Interesting that WASM provides a way to sandbox untrusted code. Did you consider sandboxing JS with iframes as an alternative?
I don't read the lkml enough to truly know, but in 2018 he made a public apology and (IIRC) took some time off to go work on his behavior. So maybe that's it!

I agree that I found his messages here to be quite pleasant.
Oddly the page itself has a different headline to how it is listed on their tech page. Perhaps they tried to jazz it up?! ("Star Trek inspired device sees drones fly off factory line")

Anyway, posted it here with the less sensational of the two options.
Any time humans get together to solve a problem, band together to form a charity, coordinate over a social network to send out PPE, etc, they are not simply allocating optimally at the margins, they are aggregating resources and spending them toward a directed goal more efficiently. These are all examples of altruism. If you narrowly scope altruism to "marginal donation optimization", then yes, effective altruism is indeed a fairly trivially optimal way to allocate these resources.
I wouldn't say that it would make it more appealing exactly, but it definitely seems like it might make it more possible for many people. There are lots of folks who could contribute code and, for whatever reason, need to spend their time on side gigs or working overtime. Paying for open source contributions means they could replace other income supplementing activities.
Anyone who knows stuff about this, could LEO debris become dangerous for commercial airplanes?
Linus had a bit of a "come to Jesus" moment, and actually followed through on it.

Honestly it's really impressive, IMO, that someone could take a look at how they act and think "I should change this," and then actually do it.
And the US leaders used the metric of more dead Vietnamese than Americans as proof they were winning the war. They literally created the term “The McNamara Fallacy” because it’s a poor metric of success.
This is what you want https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/path/struct.Path.html#...
> My life is rich in social engagements

i don't care what or how your life is - this discussion is about the general case. Not everyone has a rich social life, and these messaging apps/services do help people engage with others which would otherwise have not.

And to change can be disruptive - casually dismissing these concerns is not the way to solve the problem connected with these platforms.
The evidence is still iffy... but my money is on the end of the younger Dryas being even worse. Fire from the sky over a large chunk of the planet, rapid melting of the Laurentian ice sheets, rapid extreme rise of sea levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi...
I would actually like if there was a place where people could hack each other without repercussions. A fair game where all that matters is technical skill, not laws.

If your security is bad or you want the state to prosecute hackers in your defense, you can keep using traditional banks, Bitcoin, etc. If you want complete freedom and you trust your security, use Monero.
How do they compare or relate to differential neural nets (diffeqflux) ?
> If you want to get banned quickly, criticize pg portfolio companies (even politely, with valid criticism), point out that white supremacist and other hate speech is welcomed so long as it is polite; point out that responses to hate speech are _not_ tolerated.....

I don't think this is true, or I just don't see any evidence it. Take a look a this HN yesterday thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26782031. Neither PG nor his YC companies are immune to criticism.
And to prove your point, your comment is faded with no replies, even though you didn't say anything wrong, but only expressed your opinion.
Can you please explain what it means to "do a collars" and "punt futures to hug the index"?

I'm partly interested and partly think you're making these words up :)
Multiple executables ALL running their own version of the chrome browser - absolutely no resource/code sharing ?

Teams, Slack, VsCode, Adobe products, Vscode, Signal, The normal chrome browser, Microsoft edge browser

Providing a better user experience than "normal" desktop apps ? Really?
> I think Coinbase may still be overvalued but don't think it is directly comparable to NYSE or other major exchanges.

I would agree; Coinbase is competing against traditional brokerages and fintech (PayPal, Cash app), who can run their own nodes and key/wallet infra (as the network is the global exchange). Traditional brokerages can even identity proof their customers IRL with their branches and provide an appropriate level of customer service.

Alternatively, it would be somewhat humorous if Coinbase becomes the DTC and Cede & Co of digital assets (for brokerages who would rather pay and plug in vs build their own custody systems). What is old is new again.
I think the answers requires more context, but for example one well known pattern is called “sagas” for implementing long lived distributed transactions.

The gist is you timeout but provide a way for transactions to resume.

Also obviously there’s 2PC but again it depends on what unite trying to solve.
Anecdotal, but in my experience, everyone I've ever met who talks a lot about EA is a huge latte liberal who mostly just want to associate with Yudkowski because they've fallen for his supposed "smartest person in the world", yet with a near blank slate of actual accomplishments
I agree this sounds like total bs. Anyone can put any number to say this is a multimillion dollar scam. Looks like an Epic shill to me.
I was approximating for the sake of demonstration (as stated in the note that followed)
Yeah, I haven't communicated it well.

I am aiming for a decentralised-FB like experience on Signal. And I honestly think it is feasible.

On FB, you tag a post with intended recipients(default:All "Friends"), people log in and get fed these posts with FB fiddling along the way.

Signal with a redesigned UX could show a doom scroll of posts that friends send you. Not that I think this is great, but user adoption for familiarity.

Signal E2E delivers the message, the new UX displays the posts. You apply heuristics as you want, all without ads or data gathering by a MITM.

But... public posting is a thing. I am hoping that IPFS combined with cryptographic signing for authentication, could fill that role.

Hence my comment that IPFS could hopefully lead to democratization. Although, I am also concerned that IPFS will also lead to "undeletable" content, but that seems to be almost a thing anyway.
> people with very different mindsets that downvote for essentially political reasons instead of encouraging good discourse

Hello Reddit. Unfortunately now I basically just use Reddit to browse and don't comment much, because of that behaviour
I see. When writing the VGA driver, writing to memory space between 0xB8000 and the upper bound is technically safe because we know nothing else is mapped there. So you could wrap writes to that region in a “SafeVideoMemoryWrite”function call, and designate that function as safe to call. I believe this is done in the standard library of Rust for efficiency purposes. Is there no way to designate user-level safe interfaces built on top of unsafe? Put another way, is there a way for a user to extend rust’s notion of safety?

But honestly at that point, using Rust doesn’t seem to be very much different than using C in terms of safety guarantees. It still requires a programmer capable of competently ensuring required runtime properties.
That pattern still happens. At least I hope it does; we want HN to have weird articles.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If true, does it output the works of William Shakespeare?
Also interesting: since the total number of Bitcoins is fixed, as more and more coins are used for crime and get blacklisted, the value of remaining coins will become inflated. Given a long enough timeline, there will be too few coins for the currency to remain useful.

(Though to be fair, people simply losing the private keys to their wallet also has the same effect. Not sure which phenomenon would, over time, result in more coin losses.)
> but only spend O(N lg N) time on copying the data around instead of O(N^2).

O(n) time copying, with doubling the buffer, not O(n log n)

It seems a bit counter intuitive, of course, that you can copy multiple times and have it still be O(n). The last copy will be n bytes. The second to last copy will be n / 2. The third to last, n / 4, etc.

n + n/2 + n/4 + n/8 … = 2n

You end up copying, roughly, 2n bytes across all the buffer resizes, which is O(n).
Excuse my ignorance but when are you copying commands from a site you don't trust? If I don't trust a site I don't run anything it suggests to me, copy hijacking or no.
I seem to remember that the closest thing to an old school English is a costal Maryland/Virginia accent. Which sorta makes sense historically speaking.
Maybe the one paying Word got eaten by a marketing team?
There are free alternatives. It works for my needs though.
I think the following suggestion is most likely extremely naive, so please bare with me.

Reading the valid criticism here of such a scheme, why not just approach some contributors, ask them if they would like to contribute more, and offer them short term contracts / rewards for their work?

"We've seen your activity on our issue tracker and we would like to hire you (short term for now) to help us out (home office work). Are you interested, and if so, considering other obligations you might have, how many hours a week would you be able to contribute to the project so we can ballpark a first payment?"

Alternatively you could simply pay for contributions already made to the project. Cherry-picking the contributors you want to see more of seems to be a good system? Even considering the effort this would cause, I do think your idea would be even more cumbersome, as you would have to set up a system to evaluate every single contribution.

I know of a nice open source project, where the lead programmer used part of the project's funding (plus even some of his own assets as far as I know) and more or less out-sourced a lot of work partly to one of the project's most loyal contributors, who he's been working with. Said individual is somewhere from Eastern Europe, where even a "relatively small" amount of money comes a long way. Everyone involved (project lead, the person hired, the community) benefited greatly.
Ask HN: What are the best alternatives to Heroku?
Sorry let me dig in a little more here.

It's pretty common to naively think that racism in the US is treating anyone of any race differently based on their race. Conservatives trot this out all the time whenever anyone treats white Americans differently.

However, they're wrong, and they've never been right. Racism in the US is a pervasive caste system that places white Americans at the top, Black Americans at the bottom, and others somewhere in-between. This is why "reverse racism" is nonsensical and why white Americans don't experience racism.

I understand why people want to hew to the simple definition, but sadly it doesn't really help anyone. Well, it helps people who don't want to fix racism but, that seems like a mark against it.

And, for what it's worth, the Wikipedia article is super well-cited [1]. There's a lot of good info in there; it's definitely not some liberal hack job.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_racism#References
Why did the creator economy suddenly blow up?
My repugnant conclusion is that these ivory tower sophists need to get new jobs because they are outputting low quality research.
The value of all crypto is above 2t https://coinmarketcap.com/
I can't really do a "steel man" rebuttal because over the years Linus has argued against a language he calls C++, but which is a made up language invented for the purpose of hating it. A straw man, if you will. It is difficult and frankly not worth the trouble to try to rebut an argument that has never risen above the level of "crap", "broken", and "bullshit".

In the particular case of operator new, it's clear from his cumulative statements that Linus is unaware that the programmer provides global ::new, and can make it do whatever the hell he wants it to do. You can also just forbid it and use placement new everywhere.
How much did you have? A ton or just a little
What was Suez canal role in economic support of Russia? Most of Lend-lease convoys were routed via Pacific and Arctic.
Structural Sharing in JSON Document Storage
I'm so fascinated by the idea of self-hosting email, but /every/ time I see it come up on HN, someone asserts there be dragons, followed by lots of agreement. Maybe I'll try it on a toy domain anyway.
Cosmopolitan Identifiers
Ask HN: Errors and Omissions insurance for a Contract-to-Hire position?
Contract-to-hire positions have become fairly common in tech, and I'm currently contemplating one. In the contract, there is an Indemnity clause; my impression is that such clauses are commonplace.

Do contractors in contract-to-hire (CTH) positions need Errors and Omissions ("E&O") insurance to cover potential liability? And since a lawsuit could arise long after the contract ends, does that E&O insurance need to be carried indefinitely?
> They should either ramp up enforcement on the store drastically,

This, I agree with.

> and/or open up the platform to third party stores, and thus competition

This I disagree with. As stated elsewhere, I simply don’t think security will be the basis for such competition because it relies on end users to be able to make that a priority over just running the apps they want.

I think if Apple is unable to maintain the security of the platform, competition is the answer, but in the form of other platforms, not Apple being forced to allow alternative stores.
Mexico will require new cell phone users to provide biometric data to the gov
I try to think of myself as a probability density function. I am, of course, observing myself and my life, causing said PDF to collapse to one outcome, but with equally wise (or unwise) choices, could have turned out in a very different situation. If my choices were clearly bad at the time, of course I need to stop that, but often those who are successful also had a great deal of good luck as well.

https://xkcd.com/1827/
My problem with EA, closely related to the points expressed by the author of this article, has always been this magical insistence on altruistic organizations that are both:

1. Extant outside the individual (e.g. "you", the reader, are not in an altruistic organization, but _somebody_ out there is, it's just not "you", so where is that somebody, and if it's not you, why do we always assume there will be a somebody) and

2. Assumed to be more efficient than the individual joining the altruistic organization. Somehow the cap on good you can do is limited to marginal income, not about joining an organization and actually attempting to move the cause forward (whether through managerial efficiency, STEM work, or more).

Sure if the choice is between doing nothing at all and donating marginal income, it should be obvious that donating marginal income helps. But that is simply drawing a trivial comparison between doing nothing and doing a very little bit .
This sentence in your post

By that metric rendering with the new Wasm version is ~72.6 faster than the JavaScript approach.

Seems like it should says “72.6 times” or “72.6 percent”
Usborne Introduction to Machine Code for Beginners (1983)
Maintaining an email server is _not_ hard. The initial setup would be no harder than writing a Lambda function and setting proper DOS guards.

I am so sick of everyone saying it was so hard, when we have solutions like http://mailinabox.email or http://mailcow.email. Then it looks like a mailing list isn't too hard: https://github.com/maxking/docker-mailman

After intial setup mailing is so low maintenance now-a-days.
Has he been convicted for the crime of harassment? There is a thing called the courts of law, due process.
You don’t get to form a mob and condemn people you don’t like like that.
> Ord and MacAskill co-founded an organization, 80,000 Hours[1], which advocates mostly not for effective giving (which the author derides as a "consumer hero" approach) but rather for spending your career working on one of the world's most pressing problems; notably including for instance several types of policy change.

That’s not a universally true statement about 80,000 hours. I took their career choice questionnaire and was told to work as a well paid Software Engineer and to donate a percentage of my income (which is what I was already doing — I’m fond of some of Effective Altruism). You could argue that is classic Consumer Hero advice.

I know you qualified your statement but I just want to emphasize it as I think it leaves room for criticism.
The factor missing with a SO style "meritocracy" is that it needs to be hard to rise up, but very easy to fall down from misconduct: in other words, a built in accountability mechanism to ensure they don't abuse their power and become arrogant over it. Not necessarily ban worthy offenses (lest, they simply be banned), but ones that make a less welcome community.

I'm lost on how to do this within an internet community, however. You don't want burners being made to report over a disagreement in opinion and impact them. Or worse, power users tearing each other down in retaliation. I don't think "election periods" would work well either because few people really care to be a moderator to begin with. I can only see it being done by having professional moderators and having a manager review any potential user complaints. Which I'm sure has other problems.
You would do it conceptually in that way, yes; you'd provide a safe API, and then use unsafe inside of it to implement it. The standard library is just regular old Rust code, you can do the exact same thing. And in fact, you'd want to, in order to isolate the unsafety as much as you can.

> But honestly at that point, using Rust doesn’t seem to be very much different than using C in terms of safety guarantees.

The difference is that it's limited in scope, and auditable. Even in a kernel, if you do it right, unsafe is the vast, vast minority of code. Let's be extremely generous and put it at 10% (Redox, an OS in Rust, had about 2% unsafe last I checked). That means that you still have a much, much significantly smaller space in to look for these bugs.
If it were truly possible to create and sell the OP-1 or an equivalent device for under $1000, some company would have done it already. I'd gladly buy a Behringer copy of the OP-1 for $500, and I bet loads of other people would as well.

It could even be twice the volume and be ugly AF.

I don't know why it's so difficult or unattractive to put a sequencer, a sampler and a synthesizer in one box with a keyboard on it, but the OP-1 seems to be the only successful implementation of that idea.