skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't really true. OPP has political action as one of its top priorities and is donating millions a year. Bankman-fried just dropped 10 million on a house race in oregon, and I hear that he's only ramping up his political donations. "Move to wyoming" is something you hear about in the EA community often enough.
i belatedly came to this realization that this is a common problem for all hosting (CDNs, because free bandwidth, and CI/CD, because free compute, and anything that offers free storage) companies. I call this the PCN problem - free tier hosting for anything means you eventually have to deal with Porn, Crypto, Nazis.

everyone handrolls prevention measures, i once proposed an industry council where we swap tips, but everyone views it as competitive advantage for some reason so it didnt go anywhere.
Saw the title and was immediately confused about why the answer to this question isn't just money. Turns out it is. US universities are benefited by subsidies from the US government and large grants from the private sector. Much of that capital is a direct result of the advantage gained by both US colonial interests abroad and by the US not suffering the infrastructure damage most of the rest of the wealthy world experienced as a result of WWII.

Edited to add: the brain drain from Europe to the US during WWII is also a factor. We ended up with a disproportionate number of foreign scientists during that period as well.
> It would be called something like How To Respond To Common Criticisms Of Effective Altruism (In Your Head Only, Definitely Never Do This In Real Life), and it starts:

Either you would “never do this” because you feel that it would hurt the cause or because you realize that all of those initial responses are completely fallacious.

“Steel man” those questions. It is obvious that they are attacking the intellectual ideas behind EA. But you’re conflating actions, moral character, and ideas.

Here’s a steel man of one of the “questions” (assertions):

Q: [Given that you are going to commit to donating 10% of your time or money or whatever and do X:] I think charity is a distraction from the hard work of systemic change. [Therefore you should put that 10% towards systemic change instead.]

> Foundational Assumptions

Say I accept these. Then I make my next assumptions:

1. I value my direct experience over second-hand experience, statistics, and science

2. Because I think (1) helps inform me better so that I can be true to the Foundational Assumptions (being effective)

3. I think Utilitarianism as a guiding framework is completely useless and won’t help me stay true to the Foundational Assumptions

4. I know my family and community better than I know people outside that circle, which helps me stay true to the Foundational Assumptions (being effective)

5. I will therefore focus 95% of my good-doing activities on very local help

Would I still be in the EA club?
Living close together does not seem to be optimal for mental health. Quite the opposite. Physical proximity to other humans is not the same thing as community. One can be very alone and feel anxious whilst been surrounded by other humans.
Maybe you could try the auto idle heroku add-ons?
I like driving, and I don't want it to be taken away from me. I don't want my whole city and society to be re-engineered because of "climate" concerns.
Some people are upset about a company curating the database it uses to return results.
The title makes it sound like it's DuckDuckGo Email. Which it isn't, it's email protection. Which isn't explained at all.
6 months after we posted the manifesto (http://go.instill.tech/4bcxuf), we're releasing an Alpha version of VDP under the open-source Apache license 2.0.

VDP is the future for unstructured data ETL, where developers won't need to build their own data connectors, high-maintenance model serving platform or ELT pipeline automation tool.

Check out VDP on GitHub: http://go.instill.tech/4f7wrp
I mean, as of the last several years, IMO it is wise to be anti-political - it has been pretty disgusting across the board. But I'll take your point that there is certainly leverage to be had in backing an up-and-coming politician who is focused on some of these important issues.

I would guess that an effective altruist would be very interested in seeing how their "investment" would turn out - i.e. would the politician actually be effective in reaching the goals that they set out to achieve? If yes, then I think that it would be quite inline with EA to support politicians like these.
It's an interesting thought experiment. However, a lot of scientific discoveries have the possibility of being used for good or ill. Why single out this one?

Scanning of foetuses allows you to spot any issues to help keep the developing baby healthy, but is also used to abort female foetuses in some places.

Or what about nuclear physics - you get a decent energy source (subject to green objections) but also nuclear bombs.

I think until a scientific discovery is widely known, you never know what uses for good or ill it would be put to. Supposing the technology you outline above plus gene editing cured heart disease or cancer?
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Another vote of support for kagi.com -- it's well worth the payment.

Our (collective) disinclination towards paying for things on the Internet is what has led to the "everything must be monetized via ads" local maxima we're now stuck in.

If you care enough about this state of affairs, and can afford to do so (most people here can), then please consider paying for parts of the Internet that are important to you, like a search engine.
Why don't other (smaller!) providers with free tiers, like render.com, have a problem with "fraud and abuse"?
A Java/JVM stack.
You're probably correct. The trouble is that it's so much easier to put a couple of live vaccine drops on the tongue than to vaccinate by needle.

No matter how painless modern injections are people still don't like having them thus the deterrence rate is higher. It's a key factor if we're trying vaccinate the whole population.
My big want here is containerized deployments with build + release steps to allow me to e.g. run migrations and after-deploy tasks (we use both). This prevented a move to Render for us previously.
> who cares what the language looks like

I would guess, the paper cares what the language looks like since it's about Lisp being real-time.

Lisp has been dubbed as a "symbolic processing language" since its early days, since MacCarthy used that language in some papers.*

Basically it means the ability to juggle complex data structures that can
represent formulas; e.g. solving algebraic equations (something easily hacked up in Lisp) is an example of symbolic processing.

This is entirely relevant to the topic because the dynamic allocation used in symbolic processing presents challenges to real-time processing, like garbage collection pauses, and whatnot. What if you want asynchronous interrupts to be able to allocate cons cells and other objects?

In a Lisp program, memory-allocating expressions casually appear throughout a program. Something like (list a b c), if we translate it to C, would call a malloc-like routine three times. Some people doing some kinds of embedded work even today eschew dynamic allocation.

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* Like: Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine. Memo 8, Artificial Intelligence Project, RLE and MIT Computation Center, March 13, 1959, 19 pages. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6096
> When I search for technical information 2 out of 3 times I get a website that I must pay to view content.

I usually get thousands and thousands of cloned websites that were likely set up in bulk using a template. They copy-paste just enough text to produce a search engine hit, while the real website it came from may not even be in the search results no matter how many pages of results I click through.

And then there are the elaborate clones of Github content, Stack Overflow, and various other technical help websites, all designed to make it look like all of those discussions are happening on the clone rather than the original. Some of them include a link back to the original, some don't. I get why some of those websites are ok with their content being openly reused (not that spammers care anyway), but in practice it destroys discoverability of their own service and wastes people's time.

Pinterest has spread through Google Images like a virus, they're plastered all over the results for searches that clearly aren't from boards made by real Pinterest users. I doubt it's a 3rd party spamming Pinterest because the only entity who actually benefits from it in practice is Pinterest itself. They've changed their onboarding pattern a lot over the years, but at one point it was virtually impossible to click through to the original website at all before the account creation popup blocked everything else.

Putting Pinterest at the top of image search results is effectively nothing more than a funnel to onboard more users for Pinterest, they rarely, if ever, have any relevance. I can't imagine why Google hasn't knocked them out of the results entirely at this point.

Whatever they're doing to combat actively hostile spam websites is either failing or they simply don't care anymore. The end result could not be more obvious.
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Ask for a meeting and school him on The Hawthorne Effect. He's not going to get the truth if people know they are being watched. And I'm sure he's after the truth not bullshit.
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If small grocers and bakeries were allowed to setup in mixed use areas

That's the crux of the problem in the US. Vast swaths of land are dedicated to single-family homes (and ONLY single-family homes). You literally couldn't build a small grocery next to these homes if you wanted. And the hurdles to getting a zoning change as so high that developers just build strip malls on the outskirts of town/subdivision.

We're beginning to see some progress in the DC suburbs, with more mixed-use "village centers" being built in the 'burbs. My main complaint with these is the development is done in one pass by a giant corporate developer, leaving the area feeling very sterile (compared to an old urban downtown in a small city, which might not be as clean, but has a more organic mix of businesses). IMO, of course.
I used to be arrogant about this in my teens and think that people who aren't good at maths and science have a lower IQ. Till one day I learnt about the different types of intelligence - linguistic, logical, geospatial, social, musical, empathetic etc. - that really made me rethink how I look at people, and how flawed the whole IQ thing is. When we talk about someone having a "gift" or a knack for something, we don't realise we are appreciating the intelligence of that person in that area.
Well, the wars before that caused the whole science thing to happen in the first place because of military usfulness.
We pay Heroku many, many tens of thousands of dollars a year. And I still use free dynos, both personally and at work. For example, throwing up a quick app for testing (where I'm happy with dynos that sleep or are limited per-repo). By pushing us off the Heroku ecosystem for some stuff, we might as well just move everything.

The only reason we even use Heroku now is because I used it for free over a decade ago.

I get why they made this decision, and I'm excited for Fly.io, Render, etc who can run the same playbook Heroku did 15 years ago. But also a bit sad, from a nostalgic standpoint. Many of us are here because of Heroku's free tier, and I'm very thankful for it.
What do you mean? There's so many Heroku competitors these days that the perception has changed towards Heroku being a relic of "how it used to be done". Competitors like Vercel don't just do what Heroku does, they do everything better. (And now edge-first ideas like fly.io are catching on)

Another start-up I've been playing with is Railway, who offers 5-10$ of free usage per month, certainly enough to play with react/nextjs app and a postgres db to your hobbyists hearts content (as long as you turn if off when you're done).

If I were to host a bootcamp on starting a web app from scratch I'd do something like stand-up a T3 App https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app on Vercel Hobby https://www.vercel.com . Not sure I'd even consider Heroku for teaching anymore.
Ah! Gotcha, I misunderstood your position. Sorry for the misunderstanding! I think we are in more-or-less the same / similar position.
No dots or underscores allowed?
Just a note... an email anonymous relay that lets you use custom domains is a much better alternative if you ever plan on migrating away. SimpleLogin is open source and allows you to export the information so that if their service ever goes offline you have a backup and can recover your aliases.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32592487.
Could someone explain a bit about where this fits in?

Is this an e-mail provider? A client? Something else?

If I have X Provider and I access it using Y client (ie, Thunderbird), what exactly does this add/replace/enhance? Where does "Relay" fit in since some people here mention it?
Any recommendations for running a blog efficiently with posts that include images? I've cut my website down to some very basic styling, but since it's a personal blog, my picture is on the front page. That picture takes up more space than I'd like, but I feel like it's important for readers to see me on the front page.

Maybe I should just remove it? But I still have a lot of blog posts that include multiple images, and I don't want to reduce them to tiny thumbnails -- they're nice photos!
> Who stops people from running their own search engines?

This question reveals a failure to understand the equipment, labor, and bandwidth costs of running a search engine.
I also think that people shouldn't overthink this. You shouldn't be spending hours trying to calculate which charity could have most impact in 25 years. Donating is good. Not eating meat is good. Doing both is even better. Just try to help as much as you are willing to help.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32592487.
I didn't say it's preparing them for adulthood. It's a start in preventing predatory lenders from trapping 18 year olds in loans they'll never get rid of.
Geez...

How do you like running it on a NAS? I'm considering a Synology in the future to run mine off of. Right now it's all just an external drive on my Mac mini. It works okay but the Mac is now 8 years old so it's uh... showing it's age.
How are you going to acquire new users?
You work at MSFT? Look up informationals on hrweb and find the ppl that do this stuff. also search the vast and deep pool that is the msft intranet. msft research, dev tools groups etc etc.
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Absolutely.

Friend or neighbor in a car? They get a wave because that's about all you can do because their window is rolled up and they're not going to stop anyway.

Friend or neighbor walking or biking? Pleasant 30 minute conversation about how our summers are going while our kids play together.
Online orders can also supplant the need for cars

Uh, somebody has to deliver those orders. And in the US, that's by car (van). You might make single-car households more viable with pervasive online ordering/delivery, but you don't necessarily change the core character of the neighborhood that way.
The word "utilitarianism" means so many different things that it usually hurts discussions more than it helps.

For some people, utilitarianism is a maximally permissive framework that allows you to discuss any set of preferences following the VNM axioms (I won't get into technicalities, but these axioms basically just say that your preferences are minimally coherent. This is not a real restriction on your ethics) by couching it in the language of a "utility function". This does not say anything about your ethics!. In this point of view, practically everyone who has ever lived can be cast as a utilitarian with some appropriate utility function!

For some people, "utilitarianism" implies much more stringent constraints on your utility function and also come with moral imperatives about how to act (notice the previous interpretation tells you what is good with respect to some utility function, but doesn't tell you that you should do anything). For instance, it might imply that you view utilities as additive, so two happy people are twice as valuable as one. And it might also command you to maximize expected utility, or worst-case utility, or it might be a straw-man of sane utilitarianism and command you to complete the impossible task of precisely computing the utility of every possible world-state before being able to ethically take any action.

And of course, there are people who think utilitarianism is anything between these two examples. For example, most flavours of consequentialism can be sensibly described as a form of utilitarianism and some people say utilitarianism when they mean consequentialism. Anyway, the word "utilitarianism" encompasses a ridiculously wide range of views, and when two people with wildly differing interpretations of the word talk to each other, they do not get a productive discussion.
So, moving past the outrage.

Any speculation as to what's happening here that's leading to the failure?

Why does Tesla feel the video is defamatory? Is it mis-representing or being dishonest about the test?

edit: I did some more research. This is an actual smear campaign: https://electrek.co/2022/08/10/tesla-self-driving-smear-camp...
> How do you effectively discuss, and communicate, that for example sickle cell anaemia or lactose intolerance affects people of African descent, or skin cancer is prevalent in people of European ancestry? And that poor and badly educated people are susceptible to bad diets, lifestyles and medical issues that are a consequence of that?

Don't worry, it says in the guidelines that race and ethnicity aren't real:

> Race and ethnicity are sociopolitical constructs. Humans do not have biological races, at least based on modern biological criteria for the identification of geographical races or subspecies.

This, of course, is going to be Good News to people of African descent (where sickle cell anemia is ~20x more likely in black newborns than white [1]), Ashkenazi Jewish people (at higher risk for a number of different genetic illnesses [2]), or pretty much every non-white person with lactose intolerance [3]...just to name a few examples.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/sicklecell/features/keyfinding-tr....

[2] https://www.gaucherdisease.org/blog/5-common-ashkenazi-genet...

[3] https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/lactose-intoleran....
A quick Google suggests the author is correct here, in that etymologically robota initially meant forced labour.
And so are schools, and lighthouses, and all kinds of other things that benefit society. Subsidizing polluting nomads who eat up highway capacity and free parking isn't an intentional policy that we've all decided to do because we like the result.

EDIT: which is to say that cities can exist as the tax-generating powerhouses that they are _because_ they subsidize public transportation. That subsidized city transit is why we can afford to maintain the highway system.
While the Web, or at least the easily searchable/findable part of it, is a bit of a mess. Youtube seems to still work surprisingly well, the bit of spam and bot content that there is, is easy to avoid and hardly ever a real problem. When looking for a howto, review or something, Youtube has become the go-to place, text-based Web is rarely as useful.

I think the core issue here isn't so much the bot content itself, but that we use bots to present the Internet to us. There is no human in the loop. There is no way to downrate the trash or upvote the good stuff. No way to follow a creator (bookmarks haven't improved for like 25 years). And no way to just limit the search to curated content.

I think to dig us out of this whole we need to stop treating the Web as just some junkyard of random content that we search through and put some organisation on top, as in have a
way to 'publish' something on the Web in the same way a Youtube video can be published (i.e. unique id, immutable, automatically archived, author/channel name attached to it, comments, etc.).

Youtube is of course by no means perfect, but it has a lot of properties that I'd wish the rest of the Web had.

When it comes to Twitter and TikTok, a large part of their problem is that they aren't even a real part of the Web. They exist in their own space and don't hyperlink with the rest of Web. So you are forced to navigate them in whatever ways their company forces you too.
Your comment is unpopular, judging from the downvotes, but it is still thoughtful and should be debated, not simply downvoted. But you are touching topics that come close to religious faith for some folks, and in an irreverent way.
You're also using concepts and tradmarks from Zelda and the Youtube channel for "Project Rito" appears to be for somebody else's cosplay, so it sounds like you own a little slice of a game.

I'd like to play it though. Maybe "Project Birdperson"? Nobody would name a character "Birdperson".
They all have the problem, but they invest the time and knowledge to find more and more of them. They know that a free tier is vital for getting developers on their platform.

Heroku is already a big name. They are bought by salesforce. They just don‘t care anymore.
Why does this email service require an extension/add-on?
How would they know it's not tasty if they never tasted it ?
If you felt like saying more about what you liked about railway.app, it's advantages in comparison to heroku and render specifically, I would find it interesting!
Post-1995 and old enough to be out of warranty? Overwhelmingly R-134a.

If you can’t find a sticker (or if that sticker says R-12, it still may have been converted), unscrew the cap on the service port and match it up to the type of port used by each refrigerant.
The cost of decent insulation is a low percentage of overall cost. Also don't know if low income family can afford a nice/safe house in suburb, multiple cars etc.
And where did you think the tagged dataset and software came from?
If you ever are curious about how product managers make their decisions, it's based on more that 'plenty of people'. If you want to be a good engineer, you should also learn the difference between zero and approximately zero, if you want to quote people.
Where we fall down is on our convoluted system of billing and opaque pricing. The actual care in my experience is top notch.

To give you an idea, I can pay $60 for a FaceTime call with an urgent care clinic. That exact same call is billed to my insurance for $200 or 333.3334% more than what I would pay. An inhaler is priced at $70 at my local pharmacy, but can be had for $15 with a co-pay (God knows what they’re billing insurance for the “rest”) or $12 without insurance and just a coupon I picked up from a doctor rendering one of the “benefits” of my insurance moot. I’m pretty sure the inhaler itself can’t be more than a dollar to manufacture, but whatever, the pharmacist has to get paid, right?
The live vaccine is a sterilizing vaccine, the inactivated is not. Additionally because it's live it confers immunity to tons of people near the person being vaccinated.

It's not easily replaced, even if you had the money.
…you think Salesforce is going into bankruptcy because Heroku is getting rid of its one good on-ramp?

Slack _alone_ is enough to keep Salesforce profitable for decades to come.
It's more embarrassing to not provide evidence that is supposedly easily found when asked.
Compare the content of today to two years ago. Now extrapolate from that. Right now, sure. In another two years?
I've had electric windows stop working on me, but I've never had a hand crank window stop working.