skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “It really suited my character at the time to try to think about effectiveness and rigour in everyday life,”

So was there any of that… that made getting into crypto or AI a good idea?

What was the math there?

I’ve seen effective altruism mentioned on HN before and I don’t really understand how it turns into directing people to jobs or specific tech… at all.

I feel like if you’re trying to help people the moment you mix your business in it, now you have conflicts of interest.
Mediatemple. Haven't heard that name in ages. It looks like they're still in CA.
The article missed out on the details I was keen to hear.

A) power source? Electric motors so I'm assuming a mix of solar and wind? Or diesel? I'm guessing not nuclear.

B) docking. Can something this large (width more than length) actually be docked? From the shape I'm guessing "mostly no". So provisioning, embarking and so on is done via ferry? In open water? That might be fun. So actually visiting various places (getting off) might be very constrained.

C) dry-docking. I'm going to assume it can only be dry docked in the place it was built. That's fine for planned maintainence, but perhaps a problem if she became unseaworthy far from home.

D) is this a holiday cruise ship? Is it supposed to be permanent residence? If holiday seems like a poor alternative to an actual cruise ship (no / Minimal port docking?). If a permanent residence then it also seems like a poor choice. Limited access to everything (no overnight amazon delivery for you), very limited job opportunities, not sure what it's "exporting" to pay for the fuel. So I'm guessing not self-sustaining, so basically reliant on land for food/fuel? And cash. So permanent if you start mega-rich and don't need money. But if you're mega-rich why go on this thing? Why not just get your own yacht?

Sooo many questions... But ultimately I wonder;

A) who wants this thing?
B) can they afford it?
You are right, I was not using the colloquial sense of the word. I was using it to mean what people choose to purchase under price/budget constraints[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference
They've effectively poisoned the terms "effective", "altruism", "longterm", "rational", and "utilitarian".

Because it was all a hustle to continue doing exactly whatever they wanted to do. Here is a good book that talks about the mindset:

https://www.amazon.com/Winners-Take-All-Charade-Changing/dp/...

It's easy to say you're doing things "longterm" for "future generations". The non-existent are the easiest people to advocate for. They demand absolutely nothing of you. And if your projected "altruism" will only really be felt well after you're dead, you aren't on the hook to show results now. They claim this is utilitarian, but it's not. It never was.

What is known is that small real changes now can affect large changes later. Doing things to improve today will improve tomorrow, next year, next decade, etc. If you are looking to be effective with your altruism, the most rational, utilitarian thing you can do is solve the problems of today. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to separate you from your money.
Suspended from Twitter and Facebook
My startup's Twitter and Facebook accounts were suspended.

I created a Twitter account for my startup 2-weeks before Twitter's acquisition. I only ever edited the account's name and bio.

As of a few days ago: The account is now in limbo and says, "your account is suspended and not able to perform this action" when refreshing the page or trying to tweet or edit settings.

And, If that wasn't enough of a headache.

My startup company's Facebook account was also "permanently suspended" shortly after creating a Facebook Business Ad Account. I don't have a personal Facebook, so I was required to create one; I did so using my company email and then made a Business Ad Account off of that.

I was able to lift the suspension on my personal account by uploading a photocopy of my ID. However, the suspension on the company's Facebook account is still active. Automated emails from Facebook say to expect a response in 48 hours, but I have been waiting to hear back for a week.

And, if that wasn't enough of a headache.

I have a signed agreement with the local news to advertise my company/product towards the end of November.

This is a disaster.
>Nobody is tracking what big non-profits and charitable funds ask (or demand) others to do, and they get to market themselves as doing good for the world.

Forget about tracking, the people paying even get a tax deduction.
I built an Android app a few years ago in a similar vein. It would look at texts and call logs (email was next) and use it to prioritize social relationships from your contacts. Then it would let you set goals for contact frequency, make notes, etc.

But Google locked down their APIs except for a chosen few pre-approved apps and I never launched. (It was bullshit---shouldn't have bet on the Play store, as I didn't have the political sway to be protected.)

Glad to see this being worked on!
Yes, but all of those deprecated elements can still be rendered just fine by some of the current browsers. And even if, say, you couldn't display an index page with frameset, then the stuff inside the frames is just plain old html files anyway, which you can display easily. bgcolor, etc. all still render fine in current browsers as well.

The main thing is that information which is important to people will get converted to newer formats over time, just as old print books get reprinted if they're popular.
I don't remember New York Times doing a glowing feature on Enron and its leadership after it had collapsed.
Effective Altruism is bullshit and here is why; because, the invisible hand has already shown itself to be a far better lever of human good through the acceptance of human nature. "Helping people" implies you know what people need. It's a power position to begin with and thus designed to fulfill the doers goals of doing good not the receivers 'need' of being helped.

Each of us, individually, pursuing our own self-interests produce value to society and others as a whole. Whether through producing products, offering services, performing labor, or consuming goods, we all seek our own interests to the betterment of the whole.

EA is just a new sort of chivalry for a new wannabe class of Nobles. That's it.
Yes:

sl help sign
He's a citizen of the most corrupt country in the world and the (only?) one that legalised that corruption and gave it a different name. He was the biggest donor to the governing party.

He'll be fine.
> While ancient writings often reveal the secrets of civilisations, this has not been the case with Mohenjo-daro, whose inhabitants used what's known as the Indus Valley Script. "It was a pictographic language with more than 400 signs. It is still not decoded," said my guide Solangi.

Unless a written record of its name can be found and deciphered, that name will probably endure.
Yes, but HTML 1.0 renders perfectly in any web browser in existence. That's the amazing part. Browsers are designed to fall back to render older versions of standards.
He seems to be deep into denial. I can’t imagine what’s going on in his mind right now.
I use Mega Sync. It's the best service I've ever used for a "Dropbox" solution. Has support for every OS and mobile imaginable, plus web client is good. It also has a terminal application in which you can set up a WebDAV server, etc. etc. and really "get behind the wheel" if you want. If you don't, the device applications are great! Too many features to list. oh, and it's cheap! I keep everything in the default folders on a Mac / Linux fresh install (documents, music, videos, templates etc.) and sync the whole thing across computers except for desktop folder and downloads folder.

My mailbox.org account came with a few GB of cloud storage. I'll put encrypted documents on there (like tax return) because it's soo easy to encrypt / decrypt on a browser with your GPG key with their web application.

I use Mac devices (iPhone, Mac book) and have a Linux workstation.
If you just went from "famous decabillionaire" to "probable felon" in the span of a week, you'd probably be in cope mode too
So many people are kicking SBF now that he's on the ground and it's disgusting. Anyone who was talking shit about him in private but now is going public with it isn't smart you are a pussy.

I've never met the guy but I used FTX this month and it was solid. I'm hoping they pull through. We need more last mile providers. Instant crypto banking is >> than the molasses fiat banking we currently have.

(Obviously if you were talking shit about him publicly before the fall then I respect that and please carry on)
Even if it cost a few dollars to me (to equal their $10,000 for example) I just wouldn't do it. Just feels like I'm being taken for a ride... which doesn't feel good haha.

Same way with games I enjoy. I never tend to buy the "skins" or "cosmetics" unless one _really_ clicks with me.
You're getting really unfairly dunked on for a sensible point. The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does, and what televised sports unarguably does is relentlessly slather its consumers' eyes with advertisements--and also shows some sportsball every once in a while, between those ads. Saying "I like televised sports but not ads" doesn't make a lot of sense. The entire purpose of televised sports, the only reason for its existence, is to saturate you with ads. People get uncomfortable thinking of themselves as willing projection-screens for ads, and get mad at the messenger.
Free as in Free Software
Going on the evidence we have, it's certainly not impossible that our own planet (one out of something like 10^25 likely planets in the universe) happens to be the only one that life has arisen on, which I'd say qualifies as astronomical odds against for any random planet at least.
Depending on how the particular crowd, I sometimes describe it in D&D terms. I know that I took WIS as a dump stat, so why would I put myself in a position where I need to make a WIS saving throw against their CHA?
I make use of Substack for posting literary fiction. I've been noticing feature creep on Substack. I appreciate that there is an impetus to drive reader interest by continually improving, but it seems all but impossible that they will get this exactly right for my purposes. Substack, it seems to me, was never optimized for fiction, which is understandable, because news and similarly transitory content is where they likely see the most engagement. I'm not hopeful that any subsequent improvement to the app will circle back and address my issues with the platform elegantly.
Lots of critical takes here - this book will be a yuge bestseller and the movie a nerdy blockbuster on par with The Big Short or WeCrashed - which was a book by my friend Eliot Brown!
"these drugs made me dumb"
expected value makes some sense when you're sampling a lot, but basically none for one offs.

personally i think if you're making big bets/one-offs, you probably should be computing something like minimax trees for all the possible outcomes before making a choice and maybe adjust the bet size such that the worst case is something you can swallow.
As someone who fits this description exactly, it's you have to really manage the anxiety to hit your productive groove.

With my current job, I explicitly went from a full stack dev to a front end dev to shed responsibility in certain areas, because if I'm allowed to see the whole picture, I'm going to try and fix the full picture.
That’s fine… but that’s _not the reason_, right? The reason is that you know the person and don’t want them to suffer. Trying to ignore that lived reality in a quest to be objective or rational seems to me like a recipe for mistaken thinking.
I would move to Sealand asap.
There are still USB floppy disk drives out there. They work fine in Windows and Linux. They'll even work with USB-OTG on Android.

There's a listing on eBay right now for a USB 750MB Zip Drive. I imagine you could get it working in Windows and Linux without much trouble.

I've got a monitor that supports something like a dozen different memory cards. Memory card readers are incredibly cheap.

All those digital mediums are not lost, and all of those digital files can be transferred to more current storage mediums without any loss in resolution.

You're right that storing important files on your MacBook isn't a good archival strategy. It is a recipe for certain disaster. Its essentially storing your books loosely in the trunk of your car along with your gym bag and every now and then an open case of beer. It's not the place to store things long term, just a place to put things while you're working on them. If your logicboard dies, it'll take the storage with it.
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But this is a type of knee jerk reaction confined exclusively to folks on the left.
oh no! I really loved your reporting. One time I was on the job market and I was talking to a company that had so little information about them on the internet, I saw you had profiled the company and its founder. Helped me immensely to know about the company's business model. Wish you all the best in your next adventure.
> unless you think SpaceX is going to be putting that huge phased array on every v2 satellite they put in the sky

I'm working from memory here, but that's what they said during the presentation. 5x5 meters, I believe.
Let me just reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k19™ War Chest...
Elizabeth Holmes defrauded investors. SBF gambled with customer deposits. I’d say the stakes are higher.

Edit: fixed formatting.
I’d probably just up my dosage if I were in his position. This looks like a terrible moment to sober up.
Agreed.

It wouldn’t be that big a deal except pretty much every important git command is similarly complex for noobies.
> He lives in USA

This is incorrect, he's an actual physical resident of the Bahamas, where FTX is also domiciled.
Literally completely false.

You might want to re-read the thread and actually follow the site rules this time?

Feel free to read my prior comments if you want to see how completely false your perception seems to be of my motivations too.

My point is this takes time and treasure, and it isn’t yet solved - and incremental improvement helps, because if we were to try to actually do things at scale with our current level of knowledge, we lack the infrastructure to do so without burning more oil.

Which will slowly change over the next couple decades and centuries, but not without a lot of fallout first due to the speed of change.
Probably not, as Enron was a real company and its collapse led to massive job losses. Crypto is just speculators losing money. More like Tulipomania, maybe Madoff if it can be proven that it was intentional.
I've been convinced for sometime now that "effective altruism" (Lesswrong-ism? Yudkowskianism?) is the communism of the 21st century.

Lots of parallels here beyond the obvious common thread of utilitarian collectivism:

- Censorship: the concept of "infohazards" is super-popular https://nickbostrom.com/information-hazards.pdf
https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/information-hazards

- Social control + the creation of an 'other': They are absolutely convinced that sentient AGI will inevitably kill everyone without any real evidence. However, if we manage to create sentient AGI, what these guys plan to do with it is best described as modern slavery https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/ai-boxing-containment#:~:text=...

- Surveillance: They justify it using Bostrom's "vulnerable world hypothesis": https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf?platform=hoots... (TFA also discusses it well)

- Desire for government power: TFA is super clear about that. More interestingly, here's the FTX Future Fund on space governance:
"We’d love to see workshops or a mock constitutional convention where sharp people think hard about how to structure international governance institutions for the long-term future, or how to govern space settlement. As explained in more detail on our areas of interest page, we believe that the onset of space settlement could be a watershed moment in human history. We want people to start thinking about how it should work."
https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/alternative-voting-system...

Also: https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/space-governance/

- Entryism/influence operations: Pretty much every career profile on 80,000 Hours encourages taking a job at government agencies/influential private organizations to push the EA agenda https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk. No one with morals and a spine should fear this. (FWIW, the same justification of fearing retribution by an evil power for refusing to collaborate could be used by people in occupied countries who collaborated with the Nazis.)
Perhaps before 1983, but there's a strong case that since the Orphan Drug Act was passed in the US, orphan drugs are overincentivized and a massive misallocation of resources [0]. Orphan drugs represent nearly half of FDA approved drugs in some recent years and come with huge tax benefits, near monopoly conditions, and typically the most outrageous prices. Maximizing quality-adjusted life years would be better achieved by incentivizing single-dose therapeutics for common ailments. Not the best example but the first that comes to mind is upcoming psychedelic therapy, which could have major potential, but is seen as having a broken business model because most people won't want more than one treatment.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/17/5095068...
I don't think this is true. GitHub (the website) became very successful with virtually no feature overlap with the git CLI. I suppose you could say that GitHub pull requests and forks are a replacement for git's built-in email-based workflow, but that's not really what people complain about when they say git is hard to use (and it's not like the other DVCSes had obviously better solutions).
Pretty hilarious to realize that even people on HN, who are supposedly technically literate, don't understand how the internet is supposed to work. Decentralization is the core idea behind the internet. Anybody arguing that we should prefer centralized platforms over decentralized ones displays stunning amounts of ignorance.
Can be used to clear the cabin of smoke in the event of a fire.
Why b-tree instead of LSM? LSM seems like a more natural fit for flash drives, no?
The purpose of sports is to entertain us. One day someone smarter than me will make a machine learning thing that deletes brands and ads from video in real time. I'm going to enjoy watching them seethe about it, perhaps even more than I enjoy watching stuff.
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Please let it use

https://www.seaborg.com/
I mean crypto has thousands of employees too?

Also enron was also just speculators losing money
That’s all I can conjure too. Or he’s calling in his political donations, etc.
I don't understand how he could hope to raise money if his idea is "We return it to the people I stole from." I have no doubt that, like Adam Neumann, there is some circumstance where VCs would give him another turn, but it would be because those VCs thought they could make money, not because they want to donate their money to make SBF's victims whole.
Yup. I’m getting a lot of pressure from my wife to buy as we’re getting closer to having a downpayment ready but the prices coming down are convincing her it’s worth it to wait.
Pretty unfair to CZ. FTX was using FTT as an infinite money glitch. Why would CZ hold a coin that has a strong likelihood of going to 0?
https://dirtybubblemedia.substack.com/p/is-alameda-research-...

The balance sheet showed billions of dollars in assets for coins that had tens of millions in liquidity. There's an 8 billion dollar hole in the balance sheet. It's pretty clear they used customer deposits to pay back lenders. Why would CZ buy a company that's nearly an Enron level fraud, and due for a criminal investigation.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ftx-leaked-balance-sheet-vi...

SBF describes coins like a ponzi with no shame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6nAxiym9oc

This was Alameda CEO
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qvURq4jaUcA

https://twitter.com/carolinecapital/status/13790363463003054...

Meanwhile, after 1 - 2bn in customer funds are missing. Everyone is asking Sam to say what happened. Sam proceeds to troll by writing the words "What happened" one letter at a time, with an Elizabeth Holmes-like legal disclaimer that he's not going to recall any of the details.
I always felt that way too however after coming back to the GBA with now with larger adult hands it's also too cramped for me. its way too unwieldy and heavy but I feel like I would need something like a GameGear these days.
Plus, Holmes was judged to be guilty, the sentencing will be this week: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/14/theranos-...
It's not the reason, but it is a reason. The reason (for me) would be the principle of family coming first. But as is often the case, you can reconstruct deontological principles within a utilitarian framework.

For instance; if everybody sticks to the principle of murder being wrong despite the consequences, then there will be fewer misguided mass murderers, and this is better for society in the long run than everybody going around committing murders they believe to be justified by some end.
Customary law does not mean that everything is up to the local authorities to decide. Some customs are assumed to be universal, while others may come from religious or royal authorities far away.

People have tried building great empires for millennia, and those empires have always relied on long-distance trade. In order for trade to flourish, long-distance travel has to be safe and predictable, at least relatively speaking. Traders and other travelers typically had to worry more about outlaws than about being outlaws.
Most corrupt country in the world? By what measure?
I would love to code templates in an htmlesque syntax instead of some arbitrary macro syntax.
According to the wiki page, FTX only has 300 employees.
Does it have to be so disrespectful, though? Demanding things, getting frustrated when denied and ghosting the original project to the point even they are surprised when a fork shows up?
Also, Koreader runs on many brands of ereaders, so it may be worth exploring if you're interested. Kobo readers can read non-DRM epubs out of the box and can also run Koreader. Check out the MobileRead forums.
Here's the one for Kindles:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=140
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