skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utility isn't the same as happiness. And in any event, another significant problem is in quantifying happiness, even if you were to base your decision making on it: how do you know that the decision-maker deciding to sacrifice their own kid would maximize overall happiness? How do you know those 10 strangers wouldn't be overcome with guilt, or that the pain of he decision maker wouldn't equal whatever suffering might ensue in others from the alternate decision?

Also, if that decision were made, it's not in the service of advancing some theory, it's in sacrifice. Wouldn't to do otherwise be a selfish decision? And if not, what does it say about maximizing happiness? Whose happiness is relevant? The 12 people involved, or whoever might be privy to the decision?

Some of these things might argue against utilitarianism, but I'm not sure any other ethical framework would be more immune to criticisms.

Sometimes I think these kinds of decision scenarios are fundamentally intractable, and don't really speak to reasons for adopting or not adopting any particular ethical paradigm.
I'm doubtful that any of those decentralising innovations will come to pass, because the history of the web tends towards centralisation mainly because humans tend towards centralisation. The more complex the underlying technology for something becomes, the more people cling to services that make it more simple. And anything to do with crypto is very complex.
Are you on a vertical screen? That happens. On a horizontal screen it does not
Almost posted an identical comment. They should have a wall in the way
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It's my understanding that long covid is not something new and unexpected. Apparently any virus attacking the organs can cause problems. These problems usually go away after some time.

Long flu is definitely a thing. I saw a meta study on that and was humbled by how common it could be, even after mild cases. Here's an article talking about the many complaints of such after the 1918 flu [0].

[0] https://time.com/5915616/long-flu-1918-pandemic/
When someone dies they top orange bar will have a black line. How do you plan to support this as it will be hard to see when the bar is there or not.
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#thin-b...
There's a lot here, I just want to respond to one small thing and not central to your larger post but genuinely hope it's useful.

Networking events are not a good place to make meaningful relationships, period. People are going in hopes to further their careers in one way or another so the interactions are somewhat superficial on the social level.
I don't think we can improve government, based on what I observed over past 30 years.
It's surprising how often this kind of thing gets recommended. Exercising to exhaustion often puts me in a bad, frustrated mood, and I have to spend the rest of the day recovering some shred of good humour.
Unfortunately Takeout doesn't really do anything to help with purchases.
Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics
The end of this post explains why Common Lisp can run much faster than Python.

https://markmail.org/message/dp56i26zhpf4fehb#query:+page:1+...
Can you give an example where the star count is misleading?

I don't think I have ever seen a repo with 3x the number of stars be less reputable than a similar repo (same language / target audience).
Right, a lot of Apple fans regularly forget that Apple was nearly bankrupt[1] in the late 1990's until the $150M deal with Microsoft and the return of Steve Jobs. It's almost Apple 1.0 and Apple 2.0. They are the same company pretty much in name only.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/05111...
> What’s amazing is that I keep getting “exceeds expectations” ratings for this work because I ship things PMs want.

This is surprisingly underrated, I know a lot of senior engineers that struggle with it. The best thing I ever did for my career when I started professional software development was realize that my manager and my customers did not care about tech stack choices, or perfect software. All they cared about was that it shipped, and in a reasonable time. They could handle some bugs as long as I fixed them.

I still have to tell some engineers with 10-15 years experience to stop navel gazing over the tech choices, and get the damn software out the door already.
Agreed. The moment we allow AI to take the blame for irresponsible decisions made by the humans who designed and maintain said AI, is the moment we stop holding people accountable for real damage done.

Account lockouts are bad enough, but more serious things driven by AI are bound to reveal their fallibility. I sincerely hope tech workers have the integrity to take responsibility, judging by the current political climate and its participants' willingness to venture into thinking (surrounding the value of human life, among other things) that was considered taboo not long ago.

The moral and practical capacities of AI will reflect the limits of those designing them, at best.
This is a very optimistic view considering every part of her methodology was and always will be physically impossible without completely changing how we understand biology.
I actually don't mind this take - it's no doubt the security rules for google services are a bit over the top, but it's not like they don't have good reason to do it; or even to be anti-user.
I really don’t think so. Candles are meant for slowly releasing their energy, like, extremely slowly.
1Password has had really nice 2FA support for years now
> But what it misses is a vibrant ecosystem of experimentation that is happening with NFTs below the easily visible surface

You could argue there was a vibrant ecosystem in the dotcom space in 2000 as well, but ultimately that vibrant ecosystem was only able to exist because so much money was being pumped into the space. I don't think "some people are doing cool things" is a protection when the most visible people are doing things that seem, to me, at least a little dodgy.
I can invite you.
> The fundamental mistake straight men make is that they value the potential of a romantic relationship above the likelihood of a meaningful friendship.

Unfortunately, this is only something you learn after having a romantic relationship so there is the "chicken or egg" problem.
The New Yorker is great too, if you’re willing to pay a few bucks a month.
I'm happy to see these kinds of discussions.

Here's the thing: one of the biggest problems to deontological approaches, as the parent pointed out, is that you end up with conflicts between values. But it's worse than that, because there's not a clear way to resolve these conflicts, and in my experience there's just a "hands throwing up" moment, along with a denial that the conflict existed, or an appeal to "maintaining values" without even recognizing that another value was abandoned.

So you could turn this on its head, and argue that if deontological and utilitarian approaches are equivalent at some level, why not advocate for the approach that at least offers a framework for resolving conflicts in theory? If two values confict, how do you decide? More importantly, how do you decide without appealing to utility at some level, including implicitly?

This gets into very high-level ethical reasoning issues and I'm not sure I would ascribe as purely utilitarian or deontological perspectives. But I think if you take the perspective of equivalence (and I think that's a reasonable perspective), there's not much grounds for saying you're not deontological or not utilitarian.
Is this not trivial to do by simply participating in the DAO with anonymized wallets?
If you are an attractive and successful man your female friends are likely interested in you, they are just respecting your boundaries which is nice.
I agree, but consumerism/shopping is a hobby in the USA. You can choose to buy quality, but it will not be the same price point. Shoes from H&M vs LL Bean are a huge difference in price and quality.
I met one of the "managers" on that who told me with a straight face "All you need is a college degree in anything to manage developers" (hers was in English IIRC)
This is very misleading. Exhibit A: the warnings in question have been present for 5 years and the projects that end up triggering the warnings have not been removed. I don't know when QL started building with an ASDF version that produced the warning, but the absolute latest would have been Feb, 2021.

The full story is that there is a sub class of warnings called style warnings. Any warning that is not a style warning is typically called a "full" warning. Full warnings do break compilation by default (the spec even mandates this). Style warnings do not. That is why ASDF typically starts the deprecation process with style warnings.

However, the bad system name warnings do not happen during compilation. It roughly happens during configuration time (as ASDF is building its plan). Since this is not compilation, neither the spec nor QL care about the specific types of warnings produced. That's why the bad system name warning is a "full" warning.
I agree, I've never quite been able to figure out anything useful over alternatives. Like the usual "send me an SMS when the weather will be rainy" example - I use a highly customizable weather app that gives me more power to send me stuff like that without having to fiddle with a new system.

This system's integration with Mechanical Turk could be interesting, but I'm too dumb right now to figure out some cool things I could do with it.
I don't know if it's FUD, but it's true. It happened to a person I know, and in her case, the resolution was "ask around until a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend works at Google".

She literally had to ask her friend, who asked me, I asked one of my friends to ask one of his friends who works at Google to put in an internal ticket. It was thankfully resolved quickly (she lost access to all her work materials), but the process is insane.

Use your own domain with Fastmail. Yesterday.
This is very interesting to me because I'm the reverse of you: I'm a female who is more drawn to the male version of friendship.

I don't want friendships that revolve around emotional support and intimacy; I want friendships that revolve around exploring and trying new things together. In my experience, friendships revolving around emotional support also demand that you need a certain amount of support and that you support the other person in the same way, and despite having a vagina, I'm not good at emotional support. Emotional friendships, in my experience, turn my emotions into a social display instead of just letting me feel them.

Men are also better at letting my main emotion be anger/annoyance. Women always want me to be sad or upset about things, but I'm more of a 'swear-filled rant and then work on something unrelated' type of person.

So I'd agree that it's cultural as well as biological. Either that or we're biological outliers (which would also make sense).
More examples of the Cobra Effect are listed here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

The “payment for hominim skull fragments” seems particularly poorly thought-out. (“We’ll pay you for any hominim skull fragment” “Ok, I’ll smash any skulls I find into the smallest [and most numerous] fragments you’ll accept!”)
This is a false equivalence.

Life on a crowded planet depends on third parties; choosing vendors well is a critical life skill.

Fastmail have a long-standing reputation for treating customers right; certainly not a reputation google shares.
Yeah this sounds like utter bullshit to me. What if you're travelling, all your devices get stolen, and you're logging in from a public computer or friend's computer to contact your family?

This is mindblowingly idiotic. Do they have such a bad vacation policy for their employees that not a single ONE of their engineering managers has experienced the above? Do they just sit in front of their desks for 365 days a year and never leave their country borders?
Probably a dialect either of Pascal or BASIC.
I signed into an old Gmail account of mine that had a bitcoin private key backup. After signing in successfully, I searched for "bitcoin private key" in Gmail.

Within a second and before the search completed, I was immediately kicked out of all active sessions, and my account was locked.
I had a different problem. On my wife's account she started receiving someone else's emails. Initially we suspected that her email was wrongly(typo) used in registration at various sites. But increasingly we noticed that the conversations in the mails were ongoing, implying continued usage of her address. We suspected her email was hacked and changed password, that didnt help. Eventually she had to abandon that email. The problem with free mail service is that the support you get is what you pay for.
https://purelymail.com/ is cheap and great, albeit still in beta.
Strikes me as an urban legend, a statistical tautology, or both.
Is there any reason you can't do both?
I prepay for the 3-year package and it comes out to $3/mo or something. I'm not going to stop using email, and Fastmail is fantastic so I'm not going to switch away, so it's worth prepaying.
A pair of dies is dice! But then what does 'pair of dice' mean?

Which brings us to another problem: I can buy a new pair of pants - or even 'some new pants' - but I've never seen 'a pant' for sale !! ;-)
You have to think outside of the box. buy it from UK and ship it to US. Here you go https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b?variant...

this is via official rasp pi distributor per https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ website

I just ordered one for $57.26, which includes shipping.
For the creator of Wordle and their partner, who obviously have some love of word puzzles, REBUS (a picture to word puzzle) would be a familiar word.
"Why should the language have opinions about how I should or shouldn’t structure my code?"

Isn't that what attracts so many people to Python in the first place - that it does have strong opinions, and often enforces them on how people should structure their code.

Python, in many places, optimizes for readability, rather than flexibility, and there is a community of users that really appreciate that. Not to say the feeling is universal (clearly isn't) - but it's at least an answer to the "why?"
Florida Man Fights Bear to Save His Dog
That's only upper-middle class though.

So not much of the middle class.
I've had mixed experiences working with staff engineers. Some of them are great. Others seem to think having a "staff engineer" title means whatever they come up with is always correct; and when I point out problems, they double down and refuse to acknowledge they've made a mistake. :( So, I think the growth of these titles is a dangerous trend, unless there are effective mechanisms to keep staff engineers accountable for how they use their authority.
No, blockchain assets can be confiscated. Maker, Aave, confiscate and liquidated billions of assets in the past few days.

Smart contracts are Turing complete and you can build anything with it. You can even build an opt-in judiciary system with the power to reverse transactions.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised if you look at how DeFi actually works.
Millionaires is probably not the right measure. Look at entrepreneurs. From my observation a lot of them come from families where the parents can help if the business doesn’t work out. This help may come in the form of having a place to move back, help with rent, buy a car, have relatives that have some money to invest. You don’t need millionaire parents for that but it makes a big difference.
To add on, it's also a standard negotiation tactic for a negotiator to try and speak to the highest-ranking person possible. This tactic was specifically recommended by a guest speaker at a Stanford Business School seminar about how to negotiate uploaded to YouTube (timestamped to 31:59 for the relevant bit). [0]

[0] (Seminar from 2007) https://youtu.be/rCmvMDrCWjs?t=1919
And was he wrong?
My point is orthogonal to "utility vs happiness". Let's say someone spends $5 on starbucks per day, I just want them to realize that's $1800 per year and so they're really making the choice between a coffee per day and an RTX 3090 every year. Or a $150 bottle of wine per month. Once you accept you are indeed making a choice, then you have the power to consciously choose what you want to splurge on.
This is very misleading. See my other comment for more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30052405
What do you do if Google buys Fastmail?
> It was thankfully resolved quickly (she lost access to all her work materials),

More than your own domain, BACKUPS.
>unreliable, why do scientific journals keep publishing auto-generated gibberish as "peer reviewed science"

>these papers are usually defining it as bots that attempt to subtly manipulate political discourse for ideological or geopolitical agendas.

Sorry but the issue smells recursive
Wait a minute! Douglas Hofstadter predates Plato??!! I learn something new everyday! :)
What were your resources to learn this?
Not just Google, I'm regularly locked out of banks, state resources, and all kinds of other shit because of various combinations of bad decisions producing toxic login flows.

One of my personal favorites -- a bank automatically associated phone numbers you called them from to the account, and later they forced SMS 2FA onto the account regardless of any other security you had in place (and of course made the common mistake of allowing account takeovers with JUST that 2FA and a username). Those automatically registered numbers weren't exempted.
See also

- gorillas.bas (QBasic demo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyBD0X81tjk

- Bang Bang (for Windows 3.1)
https://youtu.be/YOa5X0AfvLk?t=548
And other inspirational quotes for NPCs
Since the vast majority of people would probably not do that, I don't see a reason to be so pedantic.
I dont recall the password of my old gmail account and I listed my current gmail account as the recovery email, and they still cannot recover the account for me. It makes absolutely zero sense. It just seems like entirely lazy.
The absence of dyes was an undersold benefit that’s very mainstream now. It was one of the few sodas my middle school would stock because it wouldn’t stain carpets.
That's interesting. What 2FA system do they use exactly?

AFAIK, N26 still uses on-time codes sent by SMS which I regard as very insecure.
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I had this in ~2014 at an event. It literally would not let me log in no matter what.

This did reinforce that running my own email server was a good idea. Like, what are you going to do if it actually is important? Call google support? I'd be surprised if they have a helpdesk with humans nowadays, let alone to fix some free account at 1am in the morning. Or even if you get to talk to a human, what are they going to do? Disable a security measure because a kind voice asks them to?

Google thought my IP address was in Russia (I was in Germany) and I guess that makes it suspicious? (Feels a bit odd that entire countries are basically banned. Not as if criminals can't use a VPS or VPN, it's security theater and seems insulting to everyone living there: they're all considered guilty until proven innocent.) I think I later checked and saw that there were no other active login sessions, so it knew that I could not possibly have done as it suggested. (Or maybe that was another instance of this problem, not sure anymore after 5+ years. I never forgot the lesson though...) The reason for logging in wasn't time-sensitive so I let it go for the four days of the event.

A related problem is that I have to clean up my inbox after logging into various services. Twitter was one of the first and I apparently got annoyed enough that I stopped using it subconsciously (I only later noticed that I had stopped checking Twitter and figured that the annoyance factor must be the reason). Like yeah you don't recognize my device, I don't want your "tweet" buttons across the web to track me so of course this appears as a new login device. What would be more suspicious is a login from a known device to this account, if the machine learning functions correctly...
Not tampered processed and misrepresented. Two my where you can remove the logarithmic plots on the MS data. Tell me where you can get the data behind this great firewall of information other than FOI requests and do gain some basic literacy in stats to spot some of the obvious oddities in the datasets (they're there)
I've been liking Packy's writing over at Not Boring (https://www.notboring.co/).
Indeed, I only consider myself tangentially in the tech world, but I do have access to a private facebook group with many old co-workers and sometimes this sort of request will go out to current FB or Googlers. Inevitably some will complain that it's inappropriate and should go through official channels and others will point out that this back channel is often the only real resolution.
Presumably the giant ventricles are not functioning as proper supporting tissue though. So there's still a great deal of stress the brain has adapted to.
Non-tech and non-news (and not even that long), but I have to plug https://www.themarginalian.org/ (previously called "brain pickings").

The author reads voraciously and follows common threads across many works, compiling her thoughts into articles which often contain beautiful prose in their own right.
I often pickup book recs from here that get me into reading about art, poetry, love, spirituality, and more, which I never would otherwise.
Yeah I have a pool of virtual numbers and use them for any of this bull, and rotate them in/out. No business needs to know my phone number.
One somewhat incremental approach, is called a hypercycle: several simple self replicators "form an alliance" wherein they promote each other's self replication.

Not specific to RNA.

And I'm not a biologist.
Goldilocks for me is not allowing brute force password attacks and trusting me to create a non-worthless password.
Nah. It’s like chacha it’s only faster than aes on non equipped cpus. I still use sha2 everywhere.
Same.

Take notes.
Make sure you read them again a week later and reorganize them into smaller meaningful notes.

Those "Cards" can be re-read very quickly. And the simple notion of the few words a month later will replay and refresh the full context in your brain.

Works well if you don't have the time nor occasion to apply it
An accident in the sense that I don't believe their objective was to kill. They were stupid and reckless, but if they actually wanted to kill people there are much better ways than firing rounds towards a forest and hoping to get "lucky" and hit someone.
I'm still skeptical, because even with a statistically improbable RNA forming event, what are the chances actual life will emerge from it? Have we thrown pure RNA into a bucket of water and observed life emerging?
It’s due to the peak passing without intolerable pressure on the health system. Expect restrictions to come back if this changes; we’ve wound them up and down a few times now.
Unless you have an older account, rarely used except to forward email to another address, and google unilaterally decides to lock you out without telling you they're changing their policy. Apparently the big google brain decided somebody other than myself guessed my 40 random char password. I've long decided I will never be able to login to my gmail account.

I forget now why I was originally trying to login. I may have been trying to setup 2fa even. Not gonna happen now.
If you want to stop the brain drain from more worthwhile areas to less worthwhile areas, you need to at least pay better starting salaries in the more worthwhile fields.

Otherwise, you'll end up with potential Einsteins playing with spreadsheets in investment banks rather than discovering relativity, simply because they wanted a bit of disposable income.

Stupid, yes, but that's the situation we're in.
Installed on my home server few days ago. Very good and easy to manage