skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related (by title at least):

Against ‘Effective Altruism’ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28520719 - Sept 2021 (2 comments)

Also (thanks jinpan!):

Effective altruism as a tower of assumptions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32576224 - Aug 2022 (89 comments)

Edit: ok, also these:

The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32386984 - Aug 2022 (185 comments)

‘Effective Altruism’ Is Neither - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32224597 - July 2022 (22 comments)

Notes on Effective Altruism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31609325 - June 2022 (116 comments)

The elitist philanthropy of so-called effective altruism (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31285371 - May 2022 (78 comments)

Effective altruism is not effective - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26813763 - April 2021 (240 comments)
An odd question. They're coming out of, as you note, hundreds of years of isolation. Yes, it's a long time since Commodore Perry set foot on the island, but culture moves slowly and historic behaviors leave evidence for centuries afterwards.

Consider how national policies and attitudes around the world have changed over the centuries beyond the scope of your own lifespan. Look at how trends change over large timescales. Consider eating utensils, currencies, attitudes to sexuality, etc.
I think the expectations are fine. In a sense I actually judge the engineer less than Mike does according to these criteria. If you can answer these questions I think it says more about how your team organizes and accounts for work more than the diligence and knowledge of a single engineer.
If you began your startup as the richest man in the world, you might get different advice.
"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you know more than someone else, that's great—but in that case, please share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Only tangentially related, but there is some cool work on using reinforcement learning to learn an optimal tax rate. See: “AI Economist”.
Where is there Chrome by default? Because Samsung is the #1 Android vendor and the default browser on Samsung devices is Samsung's own browser...
One of my favorite essays on "vs effective altruism" - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/effective-altruism-as-...
An NVidia 'SM' is the closest thing to a CPU core.

Each SM has multiple MIMD capabilities as it is, but I was focusing upon the dual-issue pipelines of FP32+integer instructions simultaneously.

> As a programmer, how do I see those cores and send code to run on them?

When the following assembly instructions are send to the GPU, they will execute simultaneously

add.s32 r1, r2
add.f32 r3, r4

That is: the NVidia SM can process a floating point (f32) instruction simultaneously with integer (s32) instructions.

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It sounds like you are getting confused by a lot of other features in the GPU SM. I dunno where exactly, but it's a complicated beast. All I really think I can say is to study up on GPU microarchitecture for more details, there is a lot going on here and it'd be too difficult for me to cover it all in just a few comments.
I have been a very happy Firefox user for several years but recently (with 104) I noticed how it uses massive amounts of CPU when being idle. About 60-120% CPU are not uncommon. In the task manager there is no task with heavy CPU load. It seems to get somewhat better over time, but it is really significant, making my Macs quite loud with just an idle Firefox.
I found that the Rosetta/Linux support worked best to run x86_64 containerized workloads, and I never experienced crashes working this way. In my experience, this is far more reliable than using something like debian/ubuntu multiarch support to install both aarch64 and x86_64 into the base system.

I ran x86_64 geekbench in a Linux/aarch64 VM using both Rosetta and QEMU binfmt_misc support and found that Rosetta outperformed QEMU by about 3x. The extra speed is welcome, but I do hope that all the dirty tricks Rosetta uses are eventually able to be used by both non-apple implementations of x86_64 emulation and on non-apple ARM CPUs.
Fair in this context does not mean the customer can get a positive outcome over time unless they are very lucky and never return. Fair just means you get what is advertised. If a willing adult knows the casino is a losing proposition most of the time but feels "they are lucky", by all means.
> How do you know it's correlated?

I cannot say its the sole thing that has caused the current state of affairs in the state, but it's been roughly 10ish years and the social decline started about at that time. Speaking with many locals (completely unscientific) but many feel like this was also the point in time where it brought it many individuals that did not have a plan in life but came for the green gold rush, or to merely be in a location where it was easier to buy and safe to use without risk of jail. Many believe it was this influx that started to erode society a bit. Homelessness and pan handling went up. Crime slowly went up. Etc....

Clearly there has a multitude of other contributing factors since then (covid, housing crisis, etc...) but this sort of started the ball rolling down the hill and the additional issues helped with momentum.

This might not be an issue with other states that are legalizing now because it's more available in several states but as one of the first few to legalize it, I feel it definitely hurt more than it helped.
Why do people always leave out the time preference in these analyses? It is soo important, especially in countries with non uniform (age-wise) demographies. It‘s easy to completely discount the future and and spend all you‘re resources to be happy short term
Eye of Sauron’: The Dazzling Solar Tower in the Israeli Deser
> Total Commander removed install functionality, because of risk from being removed from Google Play Store. Just great, now this makes TC less useful and requires me to use Google's own "Files" application, which I had replaced with Total Commander...

I guess the Solid Explorer's dev isn't concerned about that, because it still has that capability today.
Is this with lots of tabs open, or just in general?
> Datacenters bring money to an area while they're being built but there are very few local jobs once they're operational.

I really wish local politicians would get this. Here in Norway, several small communities got wooed by businesses wanting free land and cheap electricity for data centers, in return for promises of hundreds if not thousands of jobs from all those supposedly using the data center.

One even ended up having to buy back land they gave for free[1] for ~$700k.

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/nordland/ballangen-ga-bort-tomt-for-a-fa-...
Seeing the rotating cube and glancing over the code, it looks like ray tracing to me.
Please don't do this. If you don't like an article, there are plenty of other things to read. Hopefully you might like some of those.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think 5G will be the death of the independent WISPs that don't adapt.

I have the T-Mobile 5G gateway as my sole home internet connection. I get a rock solid 300/100 with 30ms latency for $50/month. That approaches DOCSIS 3.1 performance, let alone WISP performance. Not sure how they will be able to compete.
Oh, nice to meet you!

Our Matcher functionality was actually inspired by Hurl (you call them predicates!)! We would take your inspiration from us as a huge compliment :)

The main difference between Hurl and Step CI is from our persepective an ideological one. What do you think?

Hurl is a CLI tool, while Step CI is a library. This means that you can include our Test Runner (https://github.com/stepci/runner) and use it with other tools. For example, you can combine it with testing frameworks like Mocha, Jest, and Ava (https://github.com/stepci/stepci/blob/main/docs/using-test-t...) or build your own platform on top of it.

That's what's so nice about open source.
Participation is a confounding variable if you compare the subset of invitation group that participated with the control group instead of the invitation to the control group. That's the whole reason they use intent to treat.

Lifelong correlational data is not the gold standard for questions about mortality. It's intent to treat RCTs.
> with the caveat that I don't do all of these things explicitly, every time, on every project

which is totally fine, most of those things don't need to be done explicitly. (as such they take less time than many commenters seem to think they would.)

being able to articulate something doesn't mean that you've taken the time to do so. just that you've generally thought about your task enough before starting it that if your boss asks you that question, you can produce a coherent answer in a timely fashion.
The idea is very interesting, but I'm with the people suggesting the style of the site was a big turn off. I watch anime but I'd never dream of inserting something like that into my business site unless I was selling anime subscriptions or something.

I think it may be a disconnect between generations/cultures. I get the feeling this style is more popular with Zoomers, not derogatorily or anything just a difference in style.
What about extractive wealth that relies on the misery of people in other nations, how to factor that into nation specific well-being indexes
Of course not. And I did not do any sort of study. Mere observation and communication with other locals. I believe it however (just the start of the current problems, not the sole source of them)
Can I get a 500mm lens for my phone.
there is nothing wrong with getting help from professional. Especially if that means saving time on something that is not product-related.
Several years ago I visited the Cahokia museum and went on top of a large mound with a St. Louis native who had only barely heard of it even though it's just across the Mississippi River from the main part of the city. I'm hoping they're able to dig up a lot of interesting finds before I visit again someday.
Isn't the entire purpose of money, to represent value?
OpenStack from Austin to Zed
It's now public information from a court filing.
I read gp’s as: some people expected the rat problem to be solved, but found out that rats now suggest you to opt out of them by filling out a complex form every time you visit a kitchen. Idk, this frustration is understandable.
This article makes for a fun guessing-game to determine what the ideological background of the author is. Effective Altruism definitely seems like one of those heavily-blogged about fads that's in vogue now with the tech-adjacent Rationalist set, so always curious to see who ends up opposing it.

> Let me also say that atheism for the masses, in retrospect, was an enormous error. Organized religion as a social technology is invaluable and the modern atomized welfare state is a pathetic replacement. Atheism for the intellectual class is perfectly alright, but in the age of mass literacy there is really no barrier between them and the rest of society. Was atheism inevitable? Perhaps. But the New Atheists certainly didn't help. Extrapolating this line of reasoning is left as an exercise to the reader.

As fun as it is to re-litigate the culture wars of yesterdecade, I don't really think the post-Bush administration diminishment of public Christianity in the U.S. is creating the society that the New Atheists want(ed). Conspiracy theories and irrational memeplexes have completely run rampant in the public sphere in the U.S. and the western world. Superstition and magical thinking is all over the place, the objects of devotion just happen to center around modern politics and items from the news, rather than figures from ancient history. If anything, many people are less firm atheists and more like apatheists - people just sort of believe whatever their social circle and social media reinforces.
Philosophically, what's the difference between an everything app and an OS?

Browsers might as well be an OS of sorts the way people use and interact with them.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33149867
Haha, no worries :) "clap" does indeed sound audio-related, and "clap" is only one transposition from "cpal"!
I hesitate to say this, but I think we do have to acknowledge that Turkey is only ethnically homogeneous because of

1) the mutual ethnic cleansing by Turkey and Greece of of Anatolian Greeks and Greek Turks

2) the Armenian Genocide

3) heavy discrimination against Turkish Kurds
> We could have UBI and most people working just a few hours per week, but that much freedom is dangerous. Politicians might loose power

This strikes like reaching, when a simpler explanation will suffice: automation improves productivity, but the owners of capital have decided that it is better to pocket the profits than to reduce the working hours or provide UBI.
Just like life, riding my bike doesn't always make sense. But I love it
Yeah, right!

"I can articulate precisely what problem I'm trying to solve" is not just on that person. It is a function of their collaborators – product/program/engineering managers and other engineers around them.

If you are in a culture where it is acceptable to send tasks at each other without much context, and with harsh deadlines, and with a perf management system that rewards execution under such conditions, then you will get precisely the opposite of someone who can articulate what problem they are trying to solve.

In fact you will get a culture where asking questions for deeper 'why' understanding will be seen as disruptive.
How does chrome deal with this in whatever allocator they use?
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/doom-notepad-running-60-fps...
The book covers how they have been trying to harden Ukraine infra since 2014, if anything they are likely ahead of the US in hardening stuff.
In my benchmarks running Geekbench via docker, Rosetta performed about 3x faster than QEMU's binfmt_misc translation. On certain microbenchmarks it was 10x-50x faster.
Man, why is everyone so obsessed with uBO?
It's fine, but not sufficient IMO - uMatrix is worlds better.
> Who thought letting children gamble was a good idea? But here we are 30 years later and Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon cards are still a thing. Most people don't even recognize them as gambling.

Even under the least charitable framing imaginable, there's a world of differences between trading card games and slot machines. For starters, slot machines are not random; the payouts are are specifically preprogrammed to manipulate users into the patterns of behavior that maximize playtime and minimize total volume of payouts. When you learn about how they really work, it's actually shocking that slot machines are legal at all, because of the amount of explicit deception that goes on, compared to even roulette, craps, or even blackjack.

Not to mention that trading card games are multifacted; not only is it possible to participate in those games without interfacing with any of the aspects that could be construed as "gambling", but it's a known and actively encouraged set of playstyles. From the perspective of many users (including the most engaged ones), those aspects don't even exist, insofar as they don't interface with them at all.
A ton of people I know have a cousin or a brother in law that have been slowing draining bank accounts on DraftKings for years. Their spouses and children only find out once there is no money to pay bills. In one case a set of retired parents went back to work parttime to help support their grandchildren after their adult son wasted all their money and then lost their house.

No its not the gore-splattered event of a drunk driving car accident, but it still tears apart families.
>Sports betting not catching on in Vegas...

You have clearly never been to the sports book at Circa Casino in Las Vegas. The big screen is three stories high.

[1]: https://www.circasports.com/
Similar on Windows FWIW. It could be using a full core or more, but FF task manager shows barely any activity.

Not always, but often.
I don't think there's any need to be shy in saying this only looks cool but it's completely useless. The "starting point" for using as ideas already exist - it's the data this has been trained on.
Don’t Assume China’s AI Regulations Are Just a Power Play
Sort of off-topic complaint, but I wish Apple didn't make the Precise Location permission status viewable by apps. There's no reason they need to know if I'm obfuscating my location from them, and many apps look for this setting and refuse to work with Precise Location disabled.

For example the McDonald's app doesn't allow you to use coupons unless you enable the precise location permission.
> for day to day stuff there is no way I’m gonna pull another engineer in to run through these steps.

which of those besides #3 requires day-to-day interaction with another engineer?

and i'd expect #3 to fall out of sprint planning, or just talking with your coworkers about your work.
Andreas and his project SerenityOS was a huge inspiration for me to start my side project daedalOS (https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS) which I've almost been doing for 2 years now. I really enjoy watching his monthly updates on his channel.
The biggest reason it's difficult to measure productivity is because the corporate incentive structure is not based around producing profit; it's based around generating gross revenue to justify over-inflated WS estimates of value so C-suit executives can sell their quarterly share distributions at higher prices than the quarter before.

That's fucking it.
> However, as I dug into Apple’s libraries and kernel, I noticed that some spin locks were indeed available, and they did the spinning in kernel-space where they could make a more informed choice with regards to load and scheduling. Those would have been an excellent choice for our use-case.

> So how do you use them? Well, it turns out they’re not documented. They rely on a non-public function and flags which I had to duplicate in Firefox.

Gotta love it. You need to reverse engineer the kernel to get good performance on MacOS.
They might not. But if they want to earn the title of journalist then they should find out. Ignorance or negligence is not a valid excuse.

In short, there's no excuse for this from a source that has this level of impact.
And in the north, nothing can go much earlier than the last time glaciers ground everything to dust.
I got burned during the Mt Gox era and I feel like a crazy person for asking all my friends to get out of crypto. I've been a boring ETF guy since.
Expecting an engineer to do all of this even when they are at odds with rest of the execution machinery is simply not practical. It leads to heroic behaviours and burnout.

I hope this guy has a complimentary list of 50 things for other roles.
So android provides "coarse" or "precise" which maps to "wireless" or "gps" but the prompt tells you the app can get your location for either one.
What other laptop OEM has a larger market share than Apple?
It is hard to buy happiness.

Building and maintaining social connections is very important.

Exercise and healthy diet are very important.

Personally helping others is very rewarding.

Comparing yourself to others is very detrimental.

Fixating on things and people you dislike is very detrimental.

Most of these are things that people are told as a child and struggle to do. Most of them you can't buy, outsource, or regulate.

My personal axe I like grinding is TV. The average American watches 20+ hours of TV a week. On average, I don't think it helps their long term happiness and I don't think it is restful.

I think most people would be happier if they literally stared at a wall or slept instead, let alone if they did some of the things I listed above.
Vergeltungswaffe, nothing less
so Android permissions actually separate coarse and precise but the prompt for location is the same whether you request one or the other.
I expect that the people who dug this canal did carry dugout canoes over this same route. Knowing the alternative can strongly motivate you to make the improvement.
I was looking in the site to understand the automatic generation of tests from OpenAPI but I couldn’t find it. Maybe it’s very obvious but I missed it. Does it mean that it produces test cases from the examples provided? Or how does it figure out the request response pairs?
The relevant difference is that a single entity doesn't control all the functionality and layers.
I might take the bet but I would just be guessing or I might work towards trying to find a solution to turn the guess into an explanation.

At no time does probability help me with figuring out what the outcome is.

I can either explain what will happen or I can't. There is no 50/50. I just don't have the correct explanation i.e. an explanation that is hard to vary.
The problem is you can't run a study on colonoscopies that doesn't involve an invitation without forcing people to get a colonoscopy at gun point. Which would both be illegal and never pass an IRB.
As far as "airport-travel related systems that could be affected without seriously impacting anyone's travel", "airport websites" are the top of the list.

I think the last time I used one, it was to find out if there was an airport lounge in a specific terminal.

"Airport Websites Briefly Unavailable" is a much less exciting, but much more accurate headline.
It's designed to avoid contention. The allocator mutex is tuned for fastest uncontended acquire and release.
>Please set yourself a reminder for 5 years from now to check if server farms are using Apple M chips yet.

Apple would have to start selling these chips to third parties, first.
It’s much more one sided than bidirectional if you look outside of government employee/military hackers. Russia and China allow their citizens to scam and hack the US with almost impunity. If you or I started scamming Russians or defacing websites we would be going to prison. They pretty much allow and even encourage these types of activity.
No problem! My email is in my profile if you want to chat more.

I'm curious about your background that led you to work on such an idea.
GDPR is a small step in the right direction but there have also been major steps backwards, especially with respect to encryption. They talk consumer privacy on one hand but discuss how to remove protective tools with the other. I'm not saying it is better anywhere else, but that we can't just say "oh GDPR is here, everything is alright."
Last I checked there's no SLA whatsoever until the top-tier "self-serve" plan, and that SLA's not an impressive one.

I've also heard (admittedly, from their competitors, but they turned out to be right about other things) that if your usage gets too crazy they'll encourage you to start paying.

And nb. that 100% of the "self-serve" plans (not the "call us" pricing) specify web traffic, like from a browser. If you're using it for e.g. delivering data to apps you might get away with it, but it's not technically permitted. Again, last I checked.
While the Mac-only editor BBEdit isn’t open source, it is a 30-year-old C++/Objective-C project, and BBEdit 14 added LSP support which is largely exactly what the comment you’re replying to suggested: install a language server somewhere on your path and BBEdit will find it and use it. It’s preconfigured for a couple dozen popular ones, and adding ones it doesn’t know about out of the box is usually just as as easy as filling in a couple fields in a dialog box.

I agree with you in principle, but in practice I’m not convinced this is an insurmountable hurdle for other editors.