skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a perfectly reasonable concern/criticism and one that plenty of EAs make. Going off funding, which is overwhelmingly directed towards global health and development, it’s probably one that most of them agree with. It also aligns with my experience talking to EAs, who mostly don’t work in or donate to AI.

But this is a criticism about effectiveness made within an EA framework. It assumes the thing we want to do is maximize the amount of good we do with our resources, and provides rational arguments for why AI won’t do that.

The AI folks think their cause is the one that does the most good, and they have rational arguments for that position. That’s why they’re considered part of the EA movement (despite not fitting in with the original vision).

That also means we have to listen and provide counterarguments before we reject their position. What we definitely shouldn’t do is write them off as “neckbeards” just because they’re working in tech and have unusual concerns. That’s how you end up writing off some 1930s physicist worried about the existential risk of nuclear fission weapons as some “Weird neckbeard nerd.”
I had forgotten that the remnants of AOL, Netscape, CompuServe and Yahoo are all one company.
> If a secret is long

It seems this one, at 24 base-58 characters, is only roughly twice as long as it needs to be, right? How short is too short?
And that culture was blown out of the water when everything shut down and you were sitting at home all day.

That said, while I think "offices with every perk you can think of" is definitely a part of Google culture, the "living at the office" stereotype really only applies to younger folks. Once you have a family, living in a van in the Google parking lot and showering at the gym doesn't really work.
I briefly met you once at Senchacon 2013 in Orlando. You probably don’t remember but I do. Good to see you still have your head in the hacker space.
Japan, China, Korea.. all major “eastern” economies are known for way worse academic and professional work life balance
You know, the one where you tripped and chipped your tooth in the fourth grade…
I worked at Google for about six months. Met some amazing folks and saw some amazing stuff, but the intro to Beverly Hillbillies kept intruding into my thoughts. Search felt like the bubbling crude that fueled everything, it was interesting.
So, and this is probably a doomed question, where are the people who are into MP3 players hang out and discuss minutae? Because it seems like they would be the ones to ask about finding something to fit each person's specific requirements (headphone jacks? Battery life? UX? Avoidance of Android under the hood? Decent DACs? File formats? Playlist types supported? Gapless playback?) amidst the absolute sea of jankety choices out there.

My prediction is that -- if there isn't such a forum, one will start soon. It's too big of a niche and I'm told that Apple filled it reasonably well.
Right. What sounds does a dog make? Bark? Woof? Ruf? To me the right word for a dog noise is bark. But it sounds the more like woof to me. Do dogs even bow-wow?
Did you get the flu vaccine? A bad flu can be very dangerous. Last years the amount of death by flu was like a half of the amount of deaths by covid-19.

What's the elevation of your home? According to the estimations of the IPCC, when will it be flooded?
I'm glad you're interested.
I agree that C# has its own templates and CLI, however I'm building on top of the existing tools wherever available.

It means, in some cases my CLI supports things as basic as creating a folder structure (e.g. for GO REST APIs), and in other cases it adds a few missing pieces to the existing tools.

In the next phase, the CLI will simplifies common use-cases such as Database, message queue, sending emails, AWS/Azure related functionalities, etc.

And most importantly, this CLI will be integrated to a platform that simplifies moving your code to cloud, so with a single command you'll host it on AWS/Azure/GCP/DO.
Physically-based Feature Line Rendering (2021)
Honestly, finding some common ground seems good, but when someone is just doing things out of spite and without any rhyme or reason, it makes you think twice.
Back when youtube had a good UI it was
real ratings, you could rank videos 1-5
https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/youtube-comes-to-a-5-star-...
then it """optimized""" out the middle ratings(
Middle ratings were the more honest ones,
perfect videos are rare and 1-ratings we often
unjustified)
to 1=dislike 5=like, where everything is simplified to single click mobile engagement.
I would like a 1 to 10 rating scale
and make MORE refined rating choices, not
vague "likes"(currently YT has only 1-5 star
rating for rare question-type prompts with video on homepage for logged in users when it needs feedback). Making 5/10 7/10 and 9/10 videos
rank the same with "likes" lowers quality
of ratings substantially.
Golf Club Uses Machine Learning to Perfect Your Swing
Top results for folk music are from the NYTimes... in the 70s.

So it is indeed the "oldest results that are on the Internet" , rather than the "oldest Internet results".
Is there any intention to support languages other than JS? Can anything that compiles to wasm be supported?
Personally I do not think employees should pay money to invest in the company where they work.

Because if they do, then if the company goes bust they lose their job and their savings on the same day. See Enron as an example where employees were heavily invested in Enron.

And the company doesn't even need to go bust - a downturn in the stock price leads to some cutbacks and redundancies, and you're the unlucky one...

The first rule of investment is diversification, and keeping your salary separate to your savings seems like a good start.

By all means buy options, and sell for a quick bonus, then take the money elsewhere. If you can't sell the stock (company not yet IPO) then treat money spent on options as "lost"... In 99% of cases it will be.
Your political bias blocks your vision of violence at protests:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_a...

Next time you have, what I imagine you believe to be, a real good comment. Head for a mirror and look at yourself and say these words allowed: “ There are more ways to look at life, society, politics than the one I have. I haven’t given this adequate thought and my opinion is likely wrong. I should educate myself rather than write comments.”
This 100%. This book is like fuel for programming
The 2nd Amendment isn’t as cut and dry “minimal gun restrictions” like some organizations want you to believe. I think the ACLU’s interpretation is defensible
I don’t think it makes you a workaholic to observe that a shit work environment drains your energy and burns you out, whereas a good one can leave you feeling energized.

They weren’t saying that they needed to work harder at Google to be happy, they were saying they needed to move somewhere else where they could get job satisfaction from completing projects.
It's cool stuff but unfortunately I need icons.
I got a new hybrid for around $23K in late 2020, when it looked like I might be commuting again in the near future, and car sales and gas prices were both in the toilet.

For some incomprehensible reason people were buying the nearly-identical non-hybrid model for essentially the same price. It makes me think of the Bloom County cartoon: "Louise, dump the milk! The cat drinks unleaded from now on!"

Now, cars like mine, with 12K miles are being advertised for $30K, sometimes more.

In the meantime, my employer has just eliminated the health-based accommodations that let some people telecommute full time, just as we've got a solid month or so of rising covid cases and the governor setting policies tested positive.
On the other hand, you don't waste time trying to like an album because you paid money for it.
I’d like a peek in his fridge, is it loaded with poor-masses food?
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working at a lower-paying job (and doing more hours) is a poor way to satisfy the upper end of the Maslow pyramid of needs (ala, self actualization).

The most important metric is consistent and passive income from wealth. Once you have "enough" of such passive income, you can spend your time on self actualization.

Most people don't reach the level of passive income required for their chosen lifestyle quality, and so cannot expend time for self actualization. So instead, they double up their career and make that the mode for self actualization (after all, two birds one stone and all that). But i do believe that it mostly does not work, unless the job is somehow a 1:1 mapping to that particular person's method of self actualization. Unfortunately, a lot of people kid themselves and pretend that it does match.
Soaps, lotions, all manner of potions go straight to the consumer because they're not marketed as drugs. It only counts as a drug if you want to claim on the package that it has a biological effect.

The FDA process as it's set up now isn't about safety necessarily. It's about whether you're allowed to claim your product has an effect. If you want to say it protects against UV light, that's going to cost you about $20 million. If it's for a product you don't even have a patent on, that's just not going to happen.
The big issue is microservices underwent a major recent hype cycle and are applied when they are a large net negative. All of your holy war examples mostly boil down to personal preferences. Microservices vs Monolith is a major architectural decision with widespread organizational impact. Ruby vs Python only matters if you already have a team that only knows Python for example.
Maybe in Mountain View, but even then: it was never that many people who stayed after hours (I worked there for years, then transferred to SF, where even fewer people stayed/stay late).
Backwards compatibility. I'm not remotely kidding here. There are still programs that directly parse these files instead of using Windows' APIs and the format itself is fragile, and in the 90's the concern was more of disk speed access (where comments will slow down reading of registry files) meant that the designer have opted to not put comments (as you expect from that time that the manual is literally a book or a separate CHM or TXT file, with user comments stored at the "Notes" part of the book or another separate TXT file). It's similar to the binary DOC format pre-Word 97 which includes actual C pointers (so it's less of a document format and more of a snapshot of Microsoft Word memory).

Edit: Some have noted Group Policy and its note field. I've disqualified that because it's not readily available in Home versions of Windows, because third-party applications are often not bundled with the necessary ADM/ADMX files necessary (which you might also want to comment), and the fact that the parent commenter disqualified the text-based REG files (which supports comments).
This is currently(?) on display in the Pola museum of art in Kanagawa. I saw it last month. https://www.polamuseum.or.jp/en/collection/006-0340/
If anyone has the chance to go to this museum I'd recommend it for the forest sculpture walk alone.
One of the ideas I tried to sell at my last company was to bake SQLite into the lambda images used to run the app. It wouldn’t have been for transactional data, but for the mess of other data you wind up needing (country codes, currency codes, customer name to ID, etc.). It was all stuff that changed infrequently if ever. Unfortunately nobody wanted to do it. I think they wanted to have DynamoDB on their resume.
The author mentioned that the level in the bucket represented satisfaction, not necessarily time.
Against Human Exceptionalism
Not all modern CPUs are high performance devices. In fact the vast majority of microprocessors are no more complicated than an early minicomputer.
So, you don't even bother respecting what I wrote? Cool. I'm sorry I bothered to help you.

If your definition of "Ponzi Scheme" is simply that a company is profitable the moment they go public, then not even the original Ponzi Scheme was a Ponzi Scheme.
No, because GNOME and other open source projects generally don't do telemetry (or only do opt-in telemetry), so there is no way to know how many users there are.
This article is also a good explainer for Tiger's high-velocity capital deployment strategy - https://randle.substack.com/p/playing-different-games
Yahoo! Japan has the reputation of being used by the widest range of users in Japan, including a large demographic of people at the lowest end of the computer literacy spectrum. This is the group of (often elderly) people who may not even use any Google services at all but just kept using Yahoo! Japan ever since it became first available in 1996. It makes sense to stop forcing this crowd to self-manage their passwords (which, time after time they have proven, they can't) even at the expense of the techier demographic who are literate enough to take care of password managers and the like.

And hey, if you don't like SMS, you can just use FIDO instead and let Touch ID / Face ID / Windows Hello / etc do their thing.
Perhaps the democratic party shouldn't have abandoned trying to make a broad appeal.

And there is a big difference between 7% being able to block a bill and 7% being able to pass a bill. A fair number of people view it as a feature that it can be hard to pass a law when there is only some opposition.
I went to Monet’s garden as a kid and saw amongst other things the bridge. It was pretty special, even as a semi-reluctant child.
You're technically right, which is to say: Not at all.

You don't replicate east-west with Litestream, you replicate north -> south where the "North" is your writer and your "South" is some S3-like service. Basically every application has "Some S3 Like Service" as a dependency now, so that's not a new network connection.
Stripe didn't really re-enter in the sense of actually participating in the market, they basically just said "we're now happy to take crypto companies' money to sell our fiat currency services".
I think you'll find that "tech" has embedded itself into every business down to the very core. If anything what we'll see are companies that never made any economic or legal sense (uber, airbnb, coinbase) go under with simply churn in the social media space (bytedance supplanting meta). I think tech workers who can actually engineer/code will always have a strong place in the market, though I do bet that we will see an end to offers over $200k for all but exceptional ICs
I usually just use base62 (ASCII letters/numbers). Visual inspection/comparison of a long random value seems unlikely, and when you get into 10+ random gibberish characters, you're just as likely to gloss over a transpositional error
A single individual slacking on maintaining a free society isn't going to end everything, I agree. That was never my point. Collectively, the majority of people in a society must maintain vigilance.
Tiger Direct is a retailer. I think you mean Tiger Global Management.
My primitive first level filter is : Dont open any video if the person in video thumbnail has an open mouth looking to upside as there is a flying cow or a photoshopped larger eye pupil or head
It's a shame that that incident seems to dog them around on HN so much. I don't like what the CEO did in that case either, but I don't think their entire company should sink due to that one incident
Smart corps should have realized by now that offices are a huge, mostly unnecessary cost. There will be a bunch of places not forcing RTO.
Financial or political benefit. Bragging rights. Someone that won't fight back or leave when you use them as a literal punching bag to vent.

Not necessarily good reasons to have a family. But reasons that do exist, unfortunately.
Did you read the bottom of the blog post? The CEO apologized and told him he could put his project back up.
My guess is they're rapidly trying to deploy their capital before investors rescind their pledges. Once it's deployed, they can collect fees on it for decades.
> awkward 1:1

It does not have to be awkward. The manager can show sympathy, and offer support as much as they can. The person who is being laid off may try to hit the job market right away, and the manager can offer guidance (what the employee should brush up on), references, could try to introduce them to acquaintances. Many times some lucky people manage to move internally, and the manager's support is invaluable in such cases.

And by the way, the manager can also say something like this: "tomorrow I may lose my job too, so I might need your reference, if you think I deserve it". And they should be truthful about it, because, honestly, nobody is immune from layoffs (if you think you are, then it means you are severely underpaid, so try to rectify that).
Oh great, now my car can be built with node microservices /s
Has results from early 2000s with my wife having my last name. Except she didn’t have my last name until 2015. She wasn’t even on social media until we were together after 2011. Something is off, at least for personal searches.
It looks like he just prioritizes and is satisfied by different things than you.
That's the thing though. How does it help Hawley to have copyright law curtailed, thus enabling even more free expression?

Or does this law somehow only apply to Disney and no other copyright holding entity?
The 'jockstrap' that revolutionised women's sports
> Each Windows installation only has 1 registry

This is clearly false, how could you store user-specific data? (Hint: it's the NTUSER.DAT on each of the users' directory.) Additionally, you could create binary registry files and load them, funnily in much the same manner as how would mount drives on Unix and Unix-derived/inspired systems. Unless you consider that as a single root, the comparison that "Windows only has 1 registry" (which is wrong since that system-wide registry is backed up every boot and shutdown) is silly.
Sour grapes, Stewey
Luckily I’ve been planning to jump ship early.
> I disagree. I believe it gives us a bayesian prior for the distribution of the population's attitudes.

Sorry, I know I'm being obnoxious. The reason I'm really sticking on the survey point is that people are very hard to survey. They have a lot of contradictory opinions ("I support banning preexisting conditions, banning lifetime caps on care, and banning junk insurance plans, even if it means I have to get insurance, like it says in the ACA, but I super hate Obamacare"), and are deeply, deeply ignorant. Here's a poll from 2010 where 41% of respondents couldn't name Joe Biden as VP in an open ended question [0], coincidentally also the poll that destroyed my faith in an informed citizenry.

Tons and tons of thought goes into the way questions are phrased, because it has huge effects on outcomes, and if you want any kind of longitudinality you can never, ever change it (which is why we still have right direction vs wrong track despite its asymmetry).

So if that's where we're starting, to pile on with a junk pollster asking an irrelevant question is like, I don't know, turning a hose on a drowning dog. Public opinion is very, very hard to discern, you certainly can't make blasé claims, no matter how much you really want to believe they obey Bayes' theorems (they definitely don't, see every election poll ever taken).

[0]: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2010/09/28/u-s-religiou...
> most engaging talks are those that guide the audience to ask interesting questions

100% agree. I gauge my success as a speaker by the quality of questions I get after a talk. :)
I was surprised to see "covid" has a bunch of results from 2002 onwards; looks like CDC updates their dates weirdly

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/easy-to-read/index...
Eh everyone is different. Some people have weird reactions, I can believe it might make someone feel simulated for some reason. It's probably not a common reaction though
“Secret: Mittelstands are already about one-third of our whole economy.”

That’s… not a secret. Anyone with even rudimentary knowledge of the economy knows that. You need to get out more.
I wonder if they could drive the rover in there and take a peek?
Comparing a natural process like pregnancy to an extraordinary medical procedure is disingenuous.

The relationship between a mother and her child during a pregnancy is not an artificial construct: it's not created by legal obligations, not by societal norms. It's a basic reality that all just laws and mores simply have to recognize. Similar to how gravity is simply a physical reality: any rational understanding of the natural world just has to recognize that massive objects exert force on other massive objects.

The relationship between McFall and Shimp, on the other hand, was predicated on legal and social conventions. Bone marrow donation is not a normal, naturally occurring process. Shimp did not have a natural obligation to donate bone marrow to his cousin, though it would have been an extraordinary gesture of charity towards McFall.

The error of the abortion argument here is in asserting that the natural relationship between mother and child is the same as any other sort of contractual relationship between consenting adults in the modern world. This is simply false. Mothers do have a moral obligation to their unborn children. Their bodily autonomy is not absolute, and they do not have the right to abort their child in the same way that Shimp had the right to refuse to donate bone marrow.

> so even if you could prove to me that the fetus is conscious at the moment of conception

Based on _this_ assumption, then I would add the following:

Rights are not absolute. Yes, the woman has the right to bodily autonomy, but it can't infringe on the baby's basic right to living. Similar to how you have the right to bear arms, but that right can be limited or forfeited if you start to threaten to shoot random people. That's why we say both matter.
Usually love Connie’s writing, but this is a pretty bad headline. It’s factual, but conflating 2 facts that are not casual.

Tiger didn’t deplete their VC fund because of their hedge fund losses, that would be an incorrect understanding. The funds are insulated from another. Tiger simply deployed a lot of their VC fund already, hence depleted.

Separately , Tiger—like SoftBank— levers their VC funds, so it’ll be interesting at which point JP Morgan and other underwriters start calling in the margin if private stakes are written down.

FT direct source for hedge fund losses: Tiger Global hit by $17bn losses in tech rout https://on.ft.com/37uCacr
“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”

— Charlie Munger

He has evidence of excessive risk taking (Tiger Global's returns), and an incentive structure that makes it logical for them to behave this way. That alone isn't "baseless." Also, it's Tiger Global, not Tiger Direct.
Bundling assets, and then bundling bundles. I don’t believe that’s ever been a problem before, right?
Does USB4 tunnel original USB (1.0-2.0), or is that still on its own separate pins? I was under the impression that electrical and timing requirements meant it was virtually impossible to tunnel it while remaining in spec.
This kinda just reads like a post hoc rationalization for a career decision. 'Leaving Google' is supposed to mean something momentous, but it isn't. It's a career decision, like many of us make at least several times through out life.
>I hadn’t been coding regularly for about 5 years. But thankfully their interviews were practical. I spent evenings and weekends refreshing my skills enough to pass.

Can we agree how screwed up our joke interview culture is when a Google engineer with 10 years experience has to brush up interview skills? Come on.