skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but it's not as weird as it sounds. It says the users are creditors as well so using the users' accounts to pay the users is not particularly strange.
Sometimes they say “To hell with it! Let the Aussies in!”
> they’re pretty much completely unrelated fields

Completely unrelated? Even you must accept that they are related through AI.

But, I now see that AI ethics and AI alignment are different. Thank you. However, I think my larger point still stands as I was thinking mostly about efforts under the banners of "AI safety" and "AI alignment" when I wrote my comments here. I do not believe these efforts are "neglected" in the sense 80,000 Hours uses.
Life was better when you could only choose either C, Basic or Pascal.
Tech might be "embedded" but that doesn't mean their stocks had reasonable valuations. Small/mid cap tech is down 50-75% because they weren't. Every Apple employee is watching their stock portfolios melt down and AAPL holding up relatively well. Bargaining power is shifting from employees to Apple in real time. Suddenly job security is more important than WFH.

VC will follow the public markets, as it always does. Valuations will tank and funding will dry up.
My New Job as a Developer Advocate – What Do I Do
The current popular understanding of work life balance (or lack thereof) is almost always about work consuming an unhealthy/unbalanced amount of time, often leaving little time for life. Job satisfaction and work life balance are often linked, but distinct.

I think the thing others are pointing out is that regardless of what he clarifies in the post itself, the title does not match the content.

It’s a confusing title for what comes after it.
Exactly my thoughts. It is, in fact, darkly funny that this post is titled around "work-life balance", because the author is basically saying "My life stuff wasn't working out so I tilted the scales towards work."

I completely understand finding it unsatisfying to work in a situation where you're not making any progress. It's something that I think is the worst thing about my current role, and the lack of progress contributes to burnout in its own way. But working weekends and nights regularly is another, faster way to burnout, especially for someone who has a family.
Honestly I think woke just means leftist or progressive most of the time
They actually charge 3/30
Design and Outcome of a Course on SDR Within the Computer Science Department
Yeah, no thanks. They are shady AF. They say nice stuff on the front about privacy and whatnot while in the back they are as bad as FB. Plus they act like a VPN so if I wanted that I would pay a normal VPN, but I avoid all of them because they are shady too. Open source and cripple the cross-scripts as much as possible without breaking usability is my mantra, hence NoScript + uBlock Origin
For integer-size keys, a simple integer mixer will perform better than anything.
I actually don't think the title is confusing. It makes perfect sense. I wrote elsewhere on this thread that the author basically chose to tilt the balance towards work because the other side, life, wasn't working out.
The distinction between software and service is irrelevant to this conversation. In this context, a webpage and a business card are functionally the same thing— static advertisement and identification. If nontechnical users have software to create an abstraction which gets written into a machine-readable format, whether than gets sent directly to a web host or business card printer doesn't matter.

I mean hell— most modern professional software development toolchains are at least partly service-based already.
There are a few devices that work with USB 2 but not USB 3. The Logitech G27 is one example.
What about the "poor and marginalized" students that were falsely accused and expelled from university over Title IX kangaroo courts?

> When the Trump administration proposed in 2018 a new regulatory scheme for schools to follow in Title IX campus-sexual-assault cases that offered more protections to students defending themselves against these allegations, the ACLU responded in an angry tweet thread: “It promotes an unfair process, inappropriately favoring the accused.”. (The following year, the ACLU declared its support for new Title IX regulations’ “fair process requirements for live hearings, cross-examination, [and] access to all the evidence,” but it has never taken down the tweets or walked them back.)
You could certainly have a freefloating "fizz" next to the drink?
I'm actually optimistic on the programming language research that can come out of it. One implementation bug can collapse a whole blockchain or series of smart contracts, and I've seen some more research going into language design because of these issues.

Other than that, I think the technologies will always be niche. At the end of the day its cheaper to have a single mutable source than many different immutable sources with a resolution mechanism, and economics tends to move towards the cheaper substitute (also cheaper in terms of complexity, many decisions are made out seeking simplicity, even if the more complex option is the optimal choice).
Same here. However it did point me in the direction of the ex-interns awesome project which I use often for technical interviews: https://riju.codes/
This stuff is always going on somewhere, you’re just primed to notice it more than before.
Do you know what kind of size they lever with? Because if JPM is on the hook for like $20bn on 2:1 leverage, then they're already looking at negative net equity.
Indeed, finally fixing something that may have been a thorn in your side for years is a very rewarding thing.

I've worked myself a little extra with a few of these, and I'm glad for it.

I've found a tendency in my line of work/colleagues to call patchwork acceptable, and it regularly comes back to haunt us.

We find a way to stop the 3AM calls and stop there.. neglecting that maybe one person has the necessary context and it may grow out of control again
It's easy to hate on SPACs. The duds brought to market were numerous. However, it was refreshing to see some new companies go public, which briefly reversed the trend of companies staying private for longer and longer. Rather than hate on SPACs, I would like to ask: has any company that went public via a SPAC been successful?
Sorry, how can they lever their VC funds, surely with VCs you’re getting highly speculative valuations and terrible liquidity? That sounds like a terrible thing to lend against?
> I decided the best fix would be to work somewhere so small that this entire class of problems couldn’t exist.

You found the secret. Small companies rock, no amount of clout or equity can buy you the sanity and clear conscious of not having to deal with the Organizational Mire.
How about... Internet Service Provider pricing for home servers?

Mine in Texas, USA charges about $72 per month to allow me to host my own server, and have 1 static IP. That would be in addition to my $60 residential connection-- for a total of $132. Pretty expensive for me-- $1,584 annually

Anyone have a better (cheaper) solution?

Granted, with DigitalOcean I pay about $10/month ($120/year) for a tiny server... if I ran my own, the server itself would be much cheaper for the quality (i.e. several GB of RAM & storage space). It's just that the internet service is much more expensive :(
The original claim was that the left hadn't moved. The response was "prove it".

I provided examples of movement by the institutional left. No, those examples don't have numbers, but they do show movement. Besides, how do you apply numbers to this sort of stuff in any reasonable fashion?

Whether or not I like those things or they're "general" has nothing to do with whether they're movement. That's likely why you didn't comment on whether they were in fact movement.

That said, as long as we're lecturing one another on meta-discussion, it's nice of you to provide an opportunity to quote Hannah Arendt:
"The elite is not composed of ideologists; its members’ whole education is aimed at abolishing their capacity for distinguishing between truth and falsehood, between reality and fiction. Their superiority consists in their ability immediately to dissolve every statement of fact into a declaration of purpose."
This was their spineless statement about it when it mattered: https://mobile.twitter.com/kimzetter/status/1347734205430591...

Now that the tide has turned, it doesn't really matter what ACLU says or does.
> He has evidence of excessive risk taking (Tiger Global's returns)

Loss does not prove excessive risk, even excessive loss. There is always a risk of loss in any investment.

Whether this was 99% going to happen, or Tiger Direct was very safe and this is a 1/10000 case of bad luck cannot be determined by looking at the amount lost.
I interpret that as: they made 6x returns as the S&P, but then had a bad quarter and are down to 2x returns.

Still sounds pretty good.
Specifically, it says "unsecured creditors" who get paid after debts to secured creditors. The "credit" is the contents of their wallets.
I think both major parties have pretty strong authoritarian streaks that they show in different ways. I'm a registered Democrat, and I agree that the authoritarian streak in the Republican party is stronger and more dangerous at the moment. However, I think it's also dangerous to ignore the authoritarian tendencies in the Democratic party.
I did, my bad. A lot of your comments are marked dead (I vouched for this one), you might be shadowbanned.
Huh, few months back this [1] was shared here[2] and also this[3]

The import was Tiger is somehow playing investment game at totally different level. And they are totally upending whole VC model with their speed of investment and little due diligence. It definitely felt a whole lot of bullshit to me.

1. https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/tiger-global

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29296904

3. https://randle.substack.com/p/playing-different-games?s=r
> 2. Maps decided to hijack the Menu tab on restaurants to use an ML pipeline from someone who really wanted to get promoted by classifying photos tagged at that location into menu items instead of, you know, just showing me the menu PDF on the website.

I prefer this over the website, which is not always updated in many smaller restaurants. In contrast, with a physical menu, I can see exactly the same menu I'd get at the restaurant and thus be able to make a decision of whether the dish I want to get will actually be there or not.
Does money convert people to robots or something?
Hey Scott, I really liked your post! I, too, rely on the 3-bucket evaluation: career, health, family / friends.

Oddly, I also really enjoy repls in general. Repl.it has always been a big way for me to learn quickly and to explore programming language edge-cases, and even think about code-reviews (when trying a simpler code I may want to comment on). I'm interested in Replit, as I've never heard of it before.

Best of luck!
"That is, it's still serving a large market, creating a competative advantage (which "regular businesses" rarely have), has compounding growth - it just doesn't need to rush to make it all happen in a few years in a very high risk way."

You've just described a number of regular business I know. The idea that they're not trying to create competitive advantages is...flawed.
> Democracy requires free speech. So, if you're against free speech, then you're also against Democracy.

Why does democracy require free speech? Can I not vote for whoever I want even if I'm mute?

> So, what concrete alternative do you propose?

You get that there are many other countries in Western Europe that don't have as much free speech as the US right? You get that the lock down policies of many other Western countries seem Draconian relative to our policies right?

You get that giving me some of the most extreme examples of alternatives makes it seem like you are arguing in bad faith right?

Why do we need a brand new form of government? We didn't need a new form of government to ban saying "fire" in a theater.
This was a confusing piece of writing. The opening paragraph states:

>"I left because I needed to fix my work-life balance."

The summary paragraph then states:
>"I work more hours. I’m more likely to be working in the evening or on the weekend now. But what I do makes a difference that I can see. Progress feels 10x faster."

It doesn't appear that they fixed their work-life balance at all. It does sound like they may have fixed their work-satisfaction balance however but that wasn't the stated reason for leaving.
> These are terrible hacks, but exactly what you'd expect from programmers who spent the majority of their careers writing C.

As an embedded firmware guy, I'll try not to be offended by that line :) I agree with you, though. C is a really good language when you consider its original purpose and the time period in which it was created. Ignoring 50 years of progress in type theory/category theory in the name of "simplicity" is inexcusable.
Honestly, the registry as an idea is a great concept - structured, typed data to define the configuration of an entire system, which all applications use for config? Remind anyone of YAML loaded into K8s?
The direction I want to take this blog in
There's definitely a connection between overused and reviled, but I don't think one causes the other. Do people hate on Trajan for example?
Couldn't have put it better. I worked remotely at Google and I worked remotely at a startup. I worked 1/8 the hours at Google and was paid 3x the amount of money. Don't get me wrong, the work was boring as shit compared to the startup, but I had the coveted "4 hour workweek" Tim Ferriss became famous for. It was like being retired. In fact, it was better, because I still had my youth.

I could sympathize with OP if this "loss of productivity" meant sitting in a physical office twiddling your thumbs, but Covid changed the game. I cooked during meetings. I sat in the sauna, did yoga, played videogames, or hung out with my friends when I was blocked. When I was waiting for blaze to build/run my code, or was waiting for presubmit checks to pass (shit took forever), I would switch tabs in iTerm and would work on my side project. I never touched my corp laptop after I figured out how to VNC/SSH in from my personal computer.

If it weren't for mandatory RTO I would still be at Google and I probably would be for the rest of my career, or till my side hustle was bringing in serious cash. We'll see how remote Facebook compares. If it's at all similar to remote Google, I am never going back to being an employee at a startup. In a post-covid world, having a "meaningful" corporate job is for suckers. It's all about minimizing hours and maximizing pay.
This is overly cynical post by otherwise great comments from you, PragmaticPulp.

I personally find working harder is the only way I can survive. Being unproductive is depressing because it brings lackluster mediocre life/rewards with it. With life that is less rewarding and dull, my mental health suffers. Spiraling downwards. It has happened twice.

On the other hand, I never get burned out no matter hours or effort. Building stuff is too much fun. Building stuff with super cool people is even more fun.

Early Googler's were the happiest bunch when it was in a startup stage.

So, I can relate with the author more than your cynical take on this.
Not too many banks do it, but it’s conservatively done, 3-6pts above risk free and at 10-20% of collateral: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-18/as-tiger-...
The registry is the raw database. The Policy Editor is the human interface with comments and other niceties.
> Is it okay for the government to enact targeted legislation to punish the exercise of legitimate political speech?

It's not. This may be fresh legal ground, but it could be argued that it's a 1st amendment violation, if the law can be shown to be in retaliation* to speech, even if the law itself complies with the 1st amendment. (Mind that these are distinct questions: Is it OK, and is it legal. And even though I've answered that it's not okay, I still welcome the move. It's less not okay than perpetual copyright.)

But I think accepting that argument would be even more perilous. If the motivation of legislators can be used to overturn otherwise constitutional laws, you're in a big mess. E.g. you could argue that an algorithmic transparency law violates the 1st amendment if it was motivated by Musk's purchase of Twitter.

The other question is, does this set some kind of precedent - not legal, but of political norms. I'm not sure, but quite possibly yes. While there are plenty of examples of government harming or helping various entities depending on how in-favor they are, there may be a difference in kind here.

*Extremely mild retaliation - I would be surprised if more than 1% of Disney's revenue can be attributed to works older than 50 years.

Edit: Apparently the bill is more narrowly drafted than I thought, and would only apply to two companies in total. Laws this narrow supposedly have precedent to being illegal, according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334339

But it's an interesting question if to consider what the legal case would be if the law was a general reduction of copyright to ~50 years, for everyone.
I started the TRC program alongside the Cloud TPU program to make interesting amounts of ML compute available to a broad group of creative people, not only to academic researchers.

The TRC program welcomes hobbyists, artists, students, independent learners, technical writers, and a variety of others. We love it when the TPU Research Cloud enables people to do something that wouldn't have been possible otherwise.

I definitely recommend applying to the TRC program - please feel free to say directly that you are a hobbyist. The sign-up form is short, and it's likely that you can access a lot of compute if you are flexible and persistent.
I like this post a lot and respect the jump. However... Replit? I needed a browser IDE for some work about ~4 years ago and used their product briefly before switching to Cloud9 (now owned by Amazon). Nowadays, GitHub has Codespaces which is really slick. I don't see Replit as a company that is going places. I'd guess that Cloud9 was acquired by Amazon for 50 million? Maybe I'm missing something.
Thanks, fixed. That's what I get for using this as my toy "learn Go" project :)
Reading the blog I would say he hasn't been working in a true engineering position for a very long time, probably some sort of engineering manager.
They did explain why they had lost job satisfaction, big companies all over the place are struggling to hold on to people as they restructure and fail to deliver due to the pandemic's impact. The morale and human cost of this organizational faltering is driving people out.

Because buckets #2 and #3 are low, people are having a harder time accepting a bad hand in bucket #1. If you have a good life outside of work you can push through bad work environments for a while.
This is certainly what we’re taught, isn’t it.

Try this on for size, as abhorrent as you’ll initially find it: speech doesn’t matter. Marketing does. Ideas aren’t about debate. They’re about memetics.

Why ban speech when you have Fox News? Why worry about climate change when you can just… not ever talk about it.
I don't get it. This post appears to be an intro to lambda calculus, but renamed to birds, and without enough detail to do anything interesting or worthwhile. Can someone enlighten me about what's interesting enough about this post to make it to the front page?
Probably from the way it was worded.
> With default settings, switching between projects can take up to 10 seconds, which is instantaneous on VS

That just sounds like a bug, not an inherent deficiency of emacs.

Curious what language, mode, and of you had custom config.
Maybe we're discussing different things. I was responding to the claim that higher taxes doesn't cause people to move. Just because high earners live in NYC doesn't mean that there weren't some high earners that left due to taxes.
I found an Escape Velocity plug in https://artsforge.com/spaceport/override/home.html
Could that just be a movie prop left over after they filmed the martian with matt damon?
But the people who worked on the standard directly aren't doing the tech support
I remember a friend showing me around the FB Campus and there was a gym, a barber shop, a Mexican restaurant with bar and I think a drop off laundry place and dentist. I know it was meant to impress but I was horrified by the subtext of all that i.e that it was really just required because people spent so much time there.
Let Them Eat Prestige?
What would make you think that tech offers will go down? Why would a company making X revenue per engineer not offer a maximum of something like 80% of X?

Not to mention inflation and low unemployment numbers. even if what you're saying is true, how could it stay that way for longer than a year or so
Childish as it is, I'm surprised that the earliest result for "goatse" (oh come on, someone had to do it) is 1/31/2001, considering both it and Google were around in the late 90's.
Philanthropists spend billions of dollar each year on the "arts", with some vague idea of enlightening people, but they're the crazy ones for buying 650 most likely high impact individuals a book explaining their thought processes?
In particular, it's worth remembering the ACLU was backing the protestors at Charlottesville when it happened. They felt like they had blood on their hands.
I think it's the opinion of many, even if they don't realise it. The term "iPod-killer" just dropped out of usage overnight - the iPhone was the iPod-killer, an accomplishment which turned out to be so far down its CV that it was never mentioned.
I use mitm proxies for my research, and very much understand their purpose. what I am objecting to is using it as a general purpose privacy policy network filter. That is not what a MiTM proxy should be used for.

The mitm proxy can inject js into the stream and fake any origin. At least the extension has limits of what it can access, and the code is fixed, unlike a proxy that can say something is anything from anywhere.

I am saying it is a bad thing, in when you put the browser in enterprise certificate mode with a MiTM cert you are disabling security features. All of the problems you have outlined are made worse by the proxy, either by failing open or failing closed.

You are right in that a lot of devices have countermeasures against these MiTM attacks and will not work for this purpose out of the box. This is another reason not to use this pattern for your general purpose tools.
Bloomberg cites $4B exposure for JPM.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-18/as-tiger-...
Is this right? According to google, average lightning bolt is 10^8 joules = ~277 kWh, so closer to 9 homes?
This is really interesting. Being able to create arbitrary “nodes” that are references to snippets in files seems like it could help productivity a lot if you get used to the process.

I noticed that the way to reference other nodes is with special syntax (like “@other”). Does that mean the files stored on disk contain that leo-specific syntax? So you would need a special build process to turn them into valid source files (or an “export” feature in the editor)?
(I think) this is a modern rendition of David Keenan's To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus with Animated Reduction [1], also linked in the OP. Perhaps you might appreciate the original better.

[1] https://dkeenan.com/Lambda/
Sure, why would anyone invest in them if they weren’t sure they’d get paid out first when things go bad?

Kind of like the banks back in ‘09 making their depositors take a haircut to ensure the bank didn’t go under. Nobody really complained because it was the offshore banks where oligarchs and such hide their money and they received ‘ownership’ in return for them stealing their deposits.