skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utilitarianism can easily deal with downside risk by adding a discounting factor to the moral worth of higher utilities. (E.g. Instead of aggregating utilities by summing them all up, sum their logs, and pick the action that leads to the highest log-sum.)

The real problem that Rawls's theory (and other alternatives) solves is the issue of aggregation in itself. If you could save one life at the cost of many, many headaches, a utilitarianist must say that, given sufficiently many minor headache sufferers, you must prevent the headaches. This seems implausible — some believe that no matter how many headaches occur, you must save the person's life instead.

Also, this is a nitpick, but it is a common misconception that trolley problems are problems on whether you should turn the trolley or not. In most trolley scenarios that philosophers study, the correct answer (to turn or not) is really quite clear, and ethical theories tend to arrive at the same answer. The real trolley problem is a meta-problem: why is it in situation X we think it acceptable to turn the trolley, but in situation Y which is very similar, we think it not acceptable? What is the morally distinguishing factor between X and Y?

For example, we think that it is appropriate for a bystander to turn a trolley to kill one, saving five lives. But most philosophers also think it inappropriate for a doctor to kill one healthy patient, harvesting her organs to transplant into five sick people, saving their lives (your example). In both circumstances we kill one to save five, but the second seems unacceptable. What is the morally distinguishing factor? And what are the morally distinguishing factors in more complicated trolley scenarios?
Facebook itself (the blue app) has 2.9 billion monthly active users. There are 7.7 billion people on the planet. No... they are not 'going down'.
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Oh god.... SAFe is the opposite of agile, and PI planning is for people who don't understand the truth in "plans are useless, planning is essential." It's days and days of planning whose value depends on everything happening exactly as planned. And then, every quarter, reality diverges from the plans, meaning 90% of the PI planning was useless, and people insist on hours of meetings about how to do PI differently so that next time planning will match reality. Rinse and repeat.

And people use the failure of PI planning as an excuse for everything being stressful and chaotic. SAFe is the methodology of choice if you want your organization to work smoothly for the first few weeks of a planning increment and then become progressively more dysfunctional as people freak out and/or give up because it no longer makes sense to do exactly what the plan says. Exactly the opposite of agile.
This is probably the worst time to be buying fixed income assets like bonds. You'll get crushed as the interest rates go up.

Commodities is a good place to be. This war does not look like it's going to end. You can expect high commodity prices as long as it continues.
You might be interested in reading some value investors, like Jeremy Grantham, for example. Most see it as a kind of longer-term bubble that can be propped up in various ways and has nothing to do with the fundamentals of companies (which is what you or your funds should actually care about.)
I actually think we had those escapes since I-don't-know-when. People don't need to actually see virtual reality to escape from reality. Actually a good book does a good job too.
Boost-phase interceptors would be big expensive weapons systems. Because they have only a few minutes to hit before the target deploys the payload, they would have to expend lots of delta-v to guarantee intercept. Deploying such large-scale missile defense systems would be obvious to everyone. By the usual cold war calculus, such attempts would likely trigger a nuclear war. If you attempt to neutralize enemy nuclear deterrent, you are announcing your first strike intentions to everyone.

As for why, maybe the reason wouldn't even involve America that much. Maybe China decides to take Taiwan, and to prevent America from interfering, they choose to destroy LEO for everyone. Maybe it would be an acceptable sacrifice for them, as they are more interested in controlling their neighborhood than projecting power to faraway places.
> Recent increases in valuations were not commensurate with profits, ergo, an ugly kind of inflation.

But we also have downturns that reduce returns significantly. If you average out the returns the presumption is that the cost of that "inflation leverage" is accounted in the inevitable bubble pop.
You can use the app with the location permission disabled no problem. (On iOS at least)
> Adding them…

Read '+' as '&'.
You can also build a module instead of assembly (=default output of a project) but IDE support for modules is limited. After the modules are generated, an single assembly can be made from them.
I was responding to the claim that most of the societal harm comes from demonization. No it does not. It comes from the behavior of the addicts.
One of the best things about PHP years ago was its documentation with user contributed comments. ClojureDocs is that for Clojure. The comments are gold.
Why early on was Facebook so much more promising than MySpace?
https://github.com/jkrejcha/AdmiraList/blob/master/AdmiraLis...
> MSCI China has returned over 12%

Not per year: https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/aa99c3a4-d48b-44ac-8caa...
I attended a USENIX LISA conference a few years ago in Seattle. I met a lot of people and saw a lot of demos. Before I went, I thought Facebook was a joke. After the conference, I was convinced they were doing large systems better than anybody.

Maybe that has changed, but at that time they made the other big companies look like they were way behind.
Disclosure: I worked at WhatsApp, part of Facebook, until the end of 2019.

If you think the name change means they're focusing on the metaverse, that's just convenient. The fact is, Facebook is a toxic brand and Meta is just a silly looking brand. Post name change, they can do acquisitions and brand them as X by Meta without associating to the toxic brand. (Plus, maybe they can get the Mennen ad team to add 'by Meta' to the end of all their ads with audio)
Have you ever used the BSD ntalk program? You can see every keystroke of the other party, in the opposite split of the screen.

It's awesome: people complete each other's sentences, or stop typing when the other person is saying the same obvious thing.

You can say " , ... what's that word again ...?" and the other person will help, then you can backspace over that and continue your sentence.

I've not ntalked in probably over 25 years. Sheesh!
"We need your location to give you accurate weather readings for where you are. We need internet access to fetch the weather data."

Weather apps also have plausible excuses for requesting permissions.
IANAGeologist, but my understanding is that when a steady wind blows from underground it's often due to a naturally occurring trompe: water flowing underground entrains air bubbles which collect in caverns and leak back to the atmosphere. Trompes can be quite large.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe
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Yeah, this distinction is also melded with a persistent/live distinction. I know in reddit/hn/forum I can go back at the end of the day and read everything I missed, so it's 'obviously' asynchronous. Mentally, I don't feel the same way about slack, because it's hard to continue a conversation that happened earlier.. I guess threads could make this easier.
I wonder what they'd have said about tobias.luetke@ourdomain.com
This just feels like one of these topics where you'd really want a liguist. Someone who really understands the construction and evolution of langauge to observe some of the underlying reasons for why language is constructed the way it is. Because I guess that's what DALL-E partly is, it's trying to approximate that, and the interesting thing would be where it differs from real language, rather than matches it. If I give it a made up word that looks like the latin phrase that looks like a species of bird, then it working like I've given it a latin phrase that is a species of bird is pretty reasonable. If you said to me "Homo heidelbergensis" I wouldn't know that was a species of pre-historic human, but I would feel pretty comfortable making that kind of leap.

I also think you could probably hire a team of linguists pretty cheap compared to a team of AI engineers.
I've seen this implemented in hilarious ways: https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-of...
Yes, but we are the cool 1%.
It’s rumored that the Apple headset will cost $3000. Hopefully, that’s not true or XR adoption will continue to be slow. Imo Apple will get XR into mainstream if they can control the price. The industry will either be made or setback by Apple
Typing status is one of the worst UX misfeatures ever devised, and any app that includes them automatically comes across as amateurish, as though the project manager was just ticking boxes rather than actually bothering to consider the experience of using the app. I applaud any attempt to put more nails in this coffin.
I’m not convinced anyone else would have done anything different. I don’t believe this is a case of “the wrong people in the right place” since any unregulated massive opportunity in history has gone this way. Saying the wrong people were in charge robs us of learning for next time. More useful to say that this is a lesson in human nature and we should prepare for the next Facebook accordingly.
If DALL-E had a choice to output "Command not understood", maybe we wouldn't be discussing this.

Like those AIs that guess what you draw, and recognize random doodling as "clouds", DALL-E is probably using the least unlikely route. That a gibberish word is drawn as a bird is maybe because it was "bird (2%), goat (1%), radish (1%)".

1. https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com
I've never been convinced that physical immersion will ever be as compelling to the human brain as mental immersion through good story-telling. Having my real-life body and physical attributes thrust directly into a story/game just seems like the most non-immersive thing possible to me unless the game is entirely designed around moving the body, like DDR or Beat Saber or whatever.
btw. kubernetes is just a scheduler. you give kubernetes a definition and it will schedule the things according to your definition. everything else is basically just an addon.
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The most disruptive thing about gmail was that it was obscenely expansive webmail space compared to your typical webmail provider. But webmail was already pretty damn common when gmail came out, and email had been the killer app of the internet for a decade already.

Facebook Mobile is... I'd have to think hard about what it actually is, so I'm not sure that qualifies as disruptive.

Now the iPhone was disruptive. But although you'd fairly classify Apple today as an "established mega-corporation", it's a lot harder to do so when the iPhone came out. To the extent that Apple can use its market share to wield a powerful bludgeon against those who dare cross it--which is what I associate the phrase with--that market share doesn't exist until the phenomenal success of the iPhone. It certainly couldn't do that on the basis of its OS or computers (indeed, you can argue that it still can't do that today). The iPod, or more accurately iTunes, may have given it that power against the music industry, but that's the closest to any sort of tyrannical power it might have held at the time.
I bought it last night and played for about 5 hours and can't wait for my work day to end today to get back into it.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with it. Factory building with a dash of colony sim mechanics. My only criticism is that the tutorial is a bit lacking and basically info-dumps a lot of "what" without a lot of "why". If I didn't have experience with other factory building games, I'd probably be completely lost. It'd be nice if the game guided you more through the first couple tech tiers.

It was also a bit frustrating at first with how expensive conveyer belts are, but then I had a light-bulb moment where I accepted that this is not Factorio/DSP/Satisfactory, and that I don't NEED conveyer belts everywhere. In the early game, trucks are cheap and can easily handle the load until I've got steady production of Construction Parts II.

The Recipe window is REALLY nice. I love it! It makes planning so easy! My only request would be to make it so you can click on a product and have it take you to the recipes involving it.

I also really like the design choice to not have to lay power lines everywhere. In other factory games, it's such a chore and not at all a fun mechanic.

Looking forward to seeing how the game evolves over time.
Does google even understand how much they've screwed up chat? (text, voice, or video?)

Every time this comes up I can't help but shake my head and wonder how they dropped the ball so bad, so many times. I understand the whole "release a new product to climb the ladder"-problem but are the top-level execs really so blind that they continue to make the same mistakes (or allow it happen) over and over again?

Google Wallet/Pay/"whatever it's called this week" has the same issues. It's just astounding to me.
> I think it's better to correct for inflation. The money supply can grow and it doesn't necessarily cause inflation (see the 2008 monetary response to the Great Financial Crisis as an example).

See also Japan for several decades:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=PA7P
Things I wish messaging apps had:

1. Forward a message to someone else. Sometimes you're not the best person to answer, but a colleague is. Forwarding should be easy and feature minimal friction.

2. Auto-deleting of messages in a DM after X _messages_ (e.g. only the last 100 messages are retained as scrollback). It forces you to document knowledge in more suitable forms; than having it lost in DM silos. Furthermore, it keeps conversations with your regular contacts more candid and natural; but retains the information and context for infrequent contacts.

3. No typing status (thanks Cardinal!)
just get out, while you still can
Thank you!

1. All 3D assets and music was done by our contractors. All paid work. On average, one model is probably around $500.

2. C#. We both were familiar with it and it is a great language. Lots of nice features, easy to work with, lots of tools, less error prone (looking at you C++), has reflection (very helpful for serialization and code gen), and if you know what you are doing, it can be very performant (avoid allocations, use structs, etc).

3. Great question, yeah, our project is separated to code and graphics. All code is in separate project completely decoupled from Unity. Unity just gets a compiled DLL. Unity has only assets that are referenced by string paths. We also have a separate projects for "data", where all the game entities are instantiated and filled with data. Core project has just functionality with no data. The entire game is one "scene" in Unity, we manage everything internally (like main menu vs. game).

4. We started in 2D, but it seemed "lame", not good looking. Very quickly we started prototyping in 3D and that felt better. Especially the dynamic terrain and mining.
One thing I don't get is why there is a such high regard of visual input. I mean, we can speak to our friends since the telephone age, and we can see them on screen too since maybe the 90s. Is there a huge demand to actually see them IN THE SAME ROOM?

I really don't think so. But maybe future generations have different ideas. I think VR can make a lot of difference in training (e.g. medical training) but it's not consumer stuff.
macOS malloc was incredibly slow for Pathfinder, far behind every other OS. Everything became bottlenecked on it. It was a free 2x speedup if not more to switch to jemalloc.

I suspect this is because Pathfinder's CPU portion is a multicore workload and macOS allocator performs poorly when under heavy multithreaded contention. It probably just isn't the kind of workload that macOS allocator was tuned for.
> I'm the only person who is able to focus on the TV screen

I don't know why you'd want to do so for most TV. I like to idly code at 1/4 speed during average shows. Like if the cousins want to watch Moana for the 34th time, I'm not gonna dedicate my full attention the whole time, but I do want to hang out with everyone else in the family.

On the other hand, I've never wanted to pick up a phone while my VR headset is on my head. It's engrossing! But the downside of VR is that it's so isolating. There's no way for me to be half in a head-mounted display. No one can casually look over my shoulder, nor can I causally peek up from my screen when someone says something interesting.
How do you reverse engineer a SaaS?
Specifically for cars, that's not actually surprising. They're between several-to-tens-of-thousand dollar highly-mobile multi-ton pieces of hardware that are both incredibly valuable should they be stolen and incredibly dangerous should they be misused.

The tracking probably shouldn't extend to customer marketing uses, but the fact that VINs tie to plates tie to drivers' licenses is a system built out of hard decades of experience on the kind of damage people can do if the system isn't tracked and audited.
In this case then I mean local local market, not devs working remotely for SV. I am aware. One of my friends does this and earns 2x what I do, in cash.
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I tried to look up what you said about China. IShares MSCI China ETF data on portfoliovisualizer.com only goes back to 2012 and shows 4.27% returns .

I don't know if your statement about MSCi China is correct but if so you are cherry picking based on an unusual start date.
the behaviour of the addicts is (largely) due to the addiction, therefore anything which impedes the addict from getting treatment (such as demonization) is the main driver of the societal harm which arises due to addiction :)

I say largely because there ARE people who simply will refuse treatment due to other personality issues, or are generally anti-social otherwise.
No, documentation is communication, not just a tool for it.

Please don’t be condescending and incorrect.
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Triangle Strategy was a surprisingly fun and addictive game you might be interested in. Close to Final Fantasy Tactics in gameplay but with a branching narrative.

I have also been really enjoying my switch recently while my Oculus collects dust.
Lower in the same thread he accepts that his main tweet was clickbaity, and that actually there's consistency in some of the results.
Though I enjoy that apple at least let’s me give imprecise location to most maps. Would be nice if I could set it myself to X kilometres.
Its like procedural generation: hide the data into a formula/algorithm, so it makes less space.

Replace "data" with "computation", and "formula" with physical, less expensive processes.
> It's even more interesting that she won't be replaced.

She’s being replaced by Javier Olivan, who has been at FB forever and is the head of their Growth org.
This is my favorite article about inflation https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/11/24/the-truth-abo...

Inflation is not simply a matter of the government adding more money to the supply (although that's one of the actions that can help reduce the value of currency)... the flow of money (and power) is immensely complex, and inflation as a measure is a procrustean bed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes)
thanks for sharing your hard fought knowledge to us curious bystanders
Echoing your thoughts, I used a friends Oculus and it was really awesome and inspiring and had echoes of that tech I fantasize from science fiction novels. But after five minutes it was really like, I can't wait for version 17 of this thing, because it's so close and yet so far.