skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deontological ethics is worse than useless as aguide to doing good.

It only tells you what not to do, rather than what to do.

And it's full of exceptions and edge cases. Is stealing a loaf of bread from scrooge to stop a family from starving wrong? What if you call it "taxes" and the community voted on it? Is it murder to blow up a bridge in wartime? Is unplugging someone's life support murder? What if they're going to die in hours any way and you're out of life support machines for the patient who just came in and has good prospects?

Also, while we can't predict the future we all need to decide what to do. Sure, if you donate antimosquito nets to save kids from malaria one of them might grow up to become the next Hitler, but you should try and figure out on the balance of probability what the most likely outcomes are.
“Real-time audit” of the crypto lender NEXO is under “maintenance”
Yes, it's easy to organize mobs on the internet and mobilize them for ones own personal ideologies, economic positions and gain.
> What the law says and what happens in the courtroom differ.

I'm not from US, if it wasn't clear.

that difference doesn't exists here.

But most importantly, if it's illegal, it shouldn't be permitted

Classifying worker based on some personal attribute is illegal here and it's punished by the courts.

Because it's the law.

You can't measure diversity, the best you can do is separate male workers from female workers because it's used by the national institute of statistics to calculate the official unemployment rates by gender.

And that's all the diversity you can measure.

Other forms of diversity are measured through not so reliable polls or authorized studies.

It's not something companies can do on their own.
You will also happy to read about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

Once something is mainstream and non-perishable, odds of it going away go down and it's foreseeable that it will be around for at least as long as it's already been around.

This effect is super strong in tech, for base technologies, with lots of integrations, especially around enterprise/governmental systems (which don't get changed unless someone makes a strong business case why the change makes more money) and consumer hardware (which tends to linger for aeons since it's so distributed).
I watched your Rust for the Impatient video only 2 days ago. Thank you, it was very helpful.
On the other hand: I've had times where I simply couldn't cook for myself much. Broken elbow, sickness, and whatnot. I would have benefitted if I lived by myself: Folks in this situation permanently can actually order more than pizza now, and I'm pretty sure that's a good thing.

I'm not always sure it adds to the footprint, though. While I'd take public transport now, it hasn't always been the case. Each of those folks ordering delivery would likely take their private vehicles to the eatery - each order = 1 vehicle. On the other hand, you can deliver more than one thing per trip. 1 vehicle = multiple orders. And it gets even weirder when you consider that some of the folks delivering are using bicycles instead of cars - I certainly wouldn't be able to bike. I simply don't have the leg strength to get up the mountainy inclines here. And then everything changes if they are using electric bikes, too (I don't have access to this one).
That works now but it won't be long until they can find someone to deepfake an alternative camera showing you red handed and then the court has two conflicting stories backed up by conflicting proofs.
The Psychology of the Man-Child (Puer Aeternus)
Extremely authentic and good advice. However, in this case, the wrong target. The OP is looking to do technical work and perhaps, if viable, avoid the "selling" part. Everyone should "sell" and learn to be good at the specific idea of "selling" suited to that person. A CTO/VP-of-Eng should sell technical proofs, ideas, to the internal team and external hiring prospect, and sometime to the CEO to push forward technical awesomeness.

Having said that, "Learn to Sell" can be told blanket to all aspiring founders, and trying to take on a CEO role.
Insufficient belief in the afterlife. Today's billionaires are content to burn out in a streak across the sky.
I thought this was a good article on Effective Altruism by a blogger that has been featured here previously: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/im-trying-to-figure-out...
> Everything on a Falcon or a Dragon is public domain 60s technology besides the code and guidance hardware

What a nice way to belittle the enormous significance of their achievements.

Reliability, total mass to LEO/GEO/TLI/Whatever, and $/kg in each of these cases, coupled with an amazing launch cadence, are where you can see the magnitude of the progress they've enabled. Whether you do it with expendable or reusable vehicles, burning RP-1, methane or a custom mixture of concentrated Jack Daniels and dog hair, doesn't really matter. They do it reliably, often and amazingly cheaply. SLS does none of that, and neither do any of the other launch systems.

Also if you value their improvements so little over "public domain 60s technology", how come nobody else did it in 50 years?

Come on, Elon is immensely questionable, but SpaceX is awesome (thanks in no small part to Gwynne Shotwell!) and SLS is... not, but at least it finally launched and didn't even blow up, so let's celebrate that instead of turning this into an opportunity to disparage them.
Interestingly, the sun would kill us much sooner than that: in less than 1 billion years the sun's increased output will heat up the Earth's surface to the point of becoming unlivable.

Related to the topics of AI apocalypse and putting things off because they seem far away: I personally find it amusing to contemplate a strong AGI being developed in 2035 and wiping out humanity. Why? Because it would eliminate the Y2038 problem, retroactively vindicating all the engineers who only allocated 32 bits to timestamps. It would mean the justification of "oh, it's so far off, the world will have changed unimaginably by then", would for once turn out to be correct!
They claim to have a technical difficulty with fetching USD pricing data. It is HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS.

https://twitter.com/NexoAngel1/status/1592807326687367168
What Killed the Scribblenauts Franchise?
Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A7GTGSfrIU
Is Mohenjo-daro really something that most of people never heard of?

I admittedly forgot most of the details about it, but I remember it being mentioned in my history classes in the primary school (in 80s Yugoslavia)...
Nonesense created by US users themselves

Which a lot of people claims to be a good thing, how the algorithm gives a chance to new people instead of just popular
> Either way: when your logic has established that you can obtain moral superiority by literally buying indulgences, it has officially proven too much, and if you can't recognize that, something has gone terribly wrong in your thinking.

I see it as a natural outcome of consequentialism. Your ability to do good things is tied to your circumstances, which are not the same for everyone. Are you saying that you're certain that consequentialism is an invalid way to asess morality?
What if we trained two AIs to be moral? What are the chances they’d agree with each other?

I’m sorry, I don’t believe in the AI rapture.
I seriously hope you are not kidding with me. Back-of-envelop, napkin-calculation, and my 8-ball wizardy data would say that there are 9 non-technical founders looking for every capable technical founder.

Anyway, there are lots of communities, cohort-based, hybrid-style, and what-not options these days to find someone or a few. You can start with https://www.startupschool.org and/or https://www.beondeck.com
What counts as longtermism though? Preserving archaeological sites rather than bulldozing them? Fighting CO2 emissions? Trying to avoid AGI risk you think will happen in less than a century?
I think the only country that I can think of that comes close to actually protecting free speech is the United States. There are clear violations of free speech rights in much of Europe and there is basically no protected speech in many other parts of the world. India's constitution follows the guidelines but in practice speech is heavily regulated through hate speech laws.

I'm sure there are other countries that actually take the notion of free speech seriously but I'm too ignorant about the laws of every country to know that. Most countries I can think of have glaring issues with protecting people's right to free speech.
This definition is too restrictive. Wether you choose to suscribe to this definition or not is a matter of opinion.
I'm so pleased! That video is based on an article from fasterthanli.me - Amos writes SUCH high-quality articles, I asked his permission to base that video on his "A Half-Hour To Learn Rust" post. Certainly worth clicking around his site, an incredible resource!
Only part valid is "influence users", rest is classical international politics, EU made several similar comments about US companies storing European users' data. ( data transfer between EU and US ) Just the strength of the headline is proportional to power of the country. When EU makes comment, it is usually between the lines, when US makes it is headlines.
I understand where the author is coming from but after going through the list of complaints it became obvious that they haven't fully read the manual as a few of the things that they say is lacking is simply not true.

The rest of the points go about design choices and decisions made by Apple, which is fair enough: some opinions you will agree with. Some others you won't. And that's ok.
That's a might "if" to rest on, given the self-identification of the modal effective altruist as "rational."
“exciting to see companies still invested in improving the internal combustion engine this late in its lifecycle”

Ya think?

The article says there are no performance claims yet. How hard can this be? Take identical engines, run benchmarks, swap the parts on half, run it again. Is that not standard procedure?
This "be careful of recording" line is harmful, because folks tend to read it and assume that it is universal - there are places where it is unilaterally allowed if you have good reason to suspect not having things recorded will result in your rights being abused. Then there are places that just don't care if you do.
I am an engineer, and a mathematician, but more importantly I am a generalist. I have worked from hardware, to firmware and operating systems, up to compilers, programming languages and formal systems.

I like to work on interesting and difficult problems that force myself to gain expertise into new niches. The way I approach the solution matters -- I will never use Java for example -- but it's the problem that matters more, not the technology. If someone is looking for "golang programmers", they don't tell me anything about their problem and the chance of being an interesting and difficult problem is very low.

Furthermore, if they think they need Go programmers specifically, they are very deeply mistaken as an organization, which again is a red flag. For a generalist job, general experience matters much more than Go experience. I will happily hire someone who never worked in Go before for a Go position if I feel they have the actual important skills and experience that matter. Sometimes you need to hire specialists, e.g. someone with experience in the Go runtime for some very specific job. That is rare, but even then, the relevant experience is the experience with the Go runtime, not Go experience in general.

But even worse than that, advertising like that tells me that the job ad is not written by a Go expert. It's either written by a corporate HR drone, in which case I don't want to work there anyway, or it's written by someone who doesn't really understand the Go ecosystem very well, in which case I also don't want to work there. I will only work with organizations that have expertise in the technology they are using and where said experts write the job descriptions, because they are the only ones that understand what and who is actually needed, and why.

And to add another point, I don't believe in specific titles and rigid hierarchies, but in my experience, it's a huge red flag for an organization to use the terms "developer" or "programmer" in their job titles, instead of "engineer". Not that there's anything wrong with these terms, I personally like programmer, and most organizations that hire "engineers" don't do any engineering, but for whatever reason, the former organizations are worse than the latter.
Are you describing "giving virtually all of [your earnings] away to effective charities" as "literally buying indulgences"? That's literally the most cynical thing I've ever heard.

I can understand having a negative opinion of the EA movement as it exists today. But your reaction to the charitable investor thing makes me think that you actually disagree with... altruism. Or at least the idea that being more altruistic is morally superior than being less altruistic.
That example is a bad one. There are many serious risks in trying to do that in practice, which is why our intuitions are against it. E.g. you might be found out and people might mistrust doctors, you might be wrong about the person having to connections, those patients might not live long anyway, etc etc

> EA effectively sanctions robbing a million people to help a million people + 1

Yes, EA people often think taxes are a good idea. This is not a rare thing.
While I find the statement in bad taste and guilty of classism I can't find the racist and/or eugenics aspects anywhere. He talks about rich and poor, not race or genetics.
> That also feels very inaccurate and misrepresentative of the philosophy.

I admit, I don't want to generalize, I'm sure there are many interpretation of the ideas of EA and different people practice it differently.

That said, in practice, at least the prominent figures and their prominent groups, my impression is that they fall into what I described.

Seems there's an appealing aspect to it that's about being able to be the most cut throat, dirty capitalist where ends justify the means, and where you can feel good about being filthy rich off the back of everyone else, because you'll be efficiently altruistic in donating some of it back.

Feels there's a dimension to it that seems to justify taking from the poor to give to the poorer, while keeping a cut for yourself.
ahhhh I did have one email fail to send earlier, SSL error, but it sent when I retried just seconds later
I wonder how this difference plays out if we are looking at a timespan of centuries instead of decades. Multiple generations of computers or various kinds of computing and reading technology would have to be stored and maintained along with the digital books that depend on them. And those are physical devices that degrade in many ways and require a power source to be used.

However, this might be a non-issue if we find ways to emulate the functionality of those devices authentically and integrate it into ever-evolving hardware, even if it turns out to be drastically different from what it was before. It is important to consider that the difference in appearance of even a single character between the real device and its emulation could significantly change a book in form and even in content.
Just a quick heads-up, if you want to truly write functional code in the browser there is js_of_ocaml available in the OCaml realm. With Bonsai [0] a somewhat usable framework for webapps is available now, too. There are drawbacks like filesize, but if you don't have to serve the webapp on the first pageload it shouldn't be a problem.

[0]: https://bonsai.red
There are of course naughty book services using bittorrent and the like that store a lot of stuff without worrying about the copyright. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis is popular.
plans also included the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) for many customer-facing services while also using facial recognition systems to minimize queueing

Not sad to see that bit scrapped.
Intuitiveness is just what you are used to at this point. If you've been in the Apple ecosystem your whole life, then their UX seems intuitive to you.

If you haven't, then it makes absolutely no sense. I first touched an apple device in my 20's, there was nothing intuitive about it. I couldn't do anything and was extremely frustrated. I'm sure the same applies to apple folks trying gnome/KDE/windows.

People are getting introduced to touch devices from a young age now days. I bet they will find things intuitive based on the devices their parents gave them. It's kind of like religion at this point, did you grow up using Android or iOS? Switching would be a deliberate effort, like not following your families religion (with hopefully significantly less judgement).
Most web related indie dev has been killed by open source. Best alternative is to look into niche programming or pairing with a person that understands real life problems and needs. Game dev is an option along with programming plugins for various platforms. Dont be put off by nay sayers and do your own research.
Finding a proof of a mathematical conjecture is much harder than NP-hard, it's undecidable (the Entscheidungsproblem) because the search space is infinite (and worse, doesn't necessarily include a proof even if the statement is true - Gödel's first incompleteness thm). So even if we restrict to conjectures that are actually machine-provable, it's still much harder than NP decision problems which are combinatorial so have an exponentially growing search space.
I am not a zealot as the book might describe. My personal goals are portability and predictability of code. Use of functions with defined return types in TypeScript, as opposed to other containers by reference, allow me to achieve those goals.

Most of my functions though are void functions (returning null or undefined). It’s not essential to me that functions must return a value, in defiance to functional programming, so long as like instructions are grouped in a single container that may be called by reference.
The iOS app told me I should update it. After I did, it still says it’s out-of-date, but now I’m completely blocked from using it. Not a good update.
It's not hard to store books correctly, though. My father collected around 30,000 books during his lifetime. (He was a professor at a higher education facility for librarians.) Most of them are from 20th Century but many also from 19th Century and a few of them are up to several hundred years old. They're all perfectly readable. The only issue is dust.

It pains me a lot that the collection will eventually have to be sold at large by the meter and his library will disappear because nobody in my family has the space for so many books.
Yup, nearly all the blog stuff I have is just to save time on explaining things over and over to someone on HN or FB. Look to answer questions and then blog about stuff where the answer is long.

And then once you're explaining the thing over and over again and need to get into more depth, write a book or training module. For example, some things need background knowledge on how coroutines work, and then you end up explaining why we use coroutines over threading, and so on.
Elon removing the stupid sign in prompt has already been the best consumer experience upgrade for me personally as a sporadic twitter user.
Media is quick to escalate tensions and blame those pesky Russians.
> Even my very tattered vellum-bound copy of the writings of Seneca (in latin) dated 1643 (the year Isaac Newton was born) which I picked up for a few pence years ago is just about readable with the pages firmly attached to the spine.

You either got very lucky or that thing is not actually from 1643.

That book is probably worth tens of thousands of dollars if it's genuine.

Extremely unlikely, though :-)
KDE rivals mac? Don't think so. Been using it myself and even Gnome is better and neater IMHO.

Whereas the gestures and workspaces on mac are really a productivity boost.
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> git and sap joke

Non native here, could you explain? I know git is a slur and sap is the "tree blood", but are there other meanings I'm missing?
Before you come at me with pitchforks: I built commercial software with Erlang. I use functional(-style) programming in all languages that support it.

I skimmed through this, and came across this gem:

> If there happens to be an error, we log it and move on. If we needed more complex error handling, we might use other structures.

Yes. Yes, we always need more complex error handling. So, show us the "other structures". It may just turn out to be that the regular chain of `.map` calls with a try/catch around it is easier to understand and significantly more performant than any convoluted pile of abstractions you've built.

And then you'll need to handle different errors differently. And then you'll need to retry some stuff, but not other stuff etc.

> this is a sample chapter from my upcoming book: “A skeptic’s guide to functional programming with JavaScript.”

The problem is: it does a poor job of convincing skeptics why this is great, or even useful. I use, or used to use, functional programming, and I am not convinced by this chapter.
I don't think that ship is anything special. Or revolutionary. It is just that company run out of money before getting to expensive part that is interior.
2023 DSF Board Candidates
I put in "what is the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything" and it's still thinking. No doubt it will tell me 42 in 7.5 million years and I'll have to ask Meta's descendant AI to come up with the question.

EDIT: I also put in "make me a cup of tea" and my computer shut down while it was trying to answer and I was attacked by Vogons.
Not designed for crew does not mean much, there is nothing inherent about that rocket that means you can't put a crew capsule on it. hell, project mercury slapped one on an atlas icbm. The aprophical story was that the astronauts could feel the rocket seeking to fulfill it's ballistic missile targeting duties when the signal from the ground stations cut out momentarily. which I don't believe for a minute, but it does make for a good story.
I am talking about writes that come from 2 different nodes. If 2 different nodes, each making a different write at the exact same time, you would need some global ordering or consensus in order to order them. Otherwise you might end up in a different state on different nodes.
WhatsApp had like half a billion monthly active users when they were acquired, that could be considered fairly large scale, no? But I agree with your point in general.
> Rooting the device voids the warranty.

I’m pretty sure it would depend on the country you’re in . Even if that’s actually the case in the US
I use duck duck go dot com to search the internet also, but I still get plenty of search results informed by people interested in gaming the algorithm used to display results on google dot com.

Can't right say that I'm unaffected.
Alternative title: KDE is different than macOS, hands down
One of those is sub orbital still afaik, the other is a beautiful work of engineering but very much retired due to the complexities of the design and is more of a spaceplane than a rocket.
One thing a lot of people miss is that effective altruism has worked! The idea of donating to distant causes that do the most good (which is what EA is and this notion long predates the 21st century) has massively reduced the number of deaths of malaria. Bill Gate's efforts to eradicate polio have done a world of good.
2014. 100% agree. Slow walking in particular, where you don’t have to waste mental energy scanning for hazards, and can talk to yourself out loud and wave your arms around in a more coherent manner.

From personal experience, I recommend an elderly dog as a companion to keep your pace down. My very good boy is named as co-author on a couple of recent patents.
I still can open 20 years ol PDF
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