skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As Borland fanboy that used most of their products until early 2000's, and nowadays lives on VS, I fail to see what is actually missing.
The most intuitive UI that I have ever used is Intuition on the Amiga. It's in the name, after all
Loaded 16 terabytes of AI code, and the scrum master said “Well, bless my soul”
But is the article/book actually advocating the idea that this non-idiomatic paradigm should only be used in very specific places in a code base where it’s objectively and demonstratably better? Or is the article/book advocating wide spread usage? I think it’s the latter and so I think the comment was a straw man.

As an aside I think this a problem with kitchen sink languages that allow all these different paradigms. Maybe not so much with JavaScript because its roots are more functional but with Java where they’ve continually bolted on functional capabilities. With a language like Smalltalk, there is no idiomatic Smalltalk, just Smalltalk. I imagine something like Clojure is the same way. With these kitchen sink languages you can end up with code bases that vary wildly in style, especially if there’s been a lot of turnover in the project.
People (even open source maintainers) have lives and jobs and other interests
Honestly the web link to iOS app connectivity across the board seems completely broken these days. I always just end up in the home screen of the app in deep linking to.
Martingales with barrier reflections are a fantastic way to model all kinds of parameters that are randomly distributed over time, but stay roughly the same value in the short haul. They're also very well studied, so you can make strong guarantees about their expected values and distributions, unlike naive random walks that stay within a given range.

We published a paper about such an application to modelling sensor error here: https://doi.org/10.1177/1932296817711297

The martingale comes up under the "simulator" section, starting in the paragraph "In our previous simulation study".
If your site has a lot of fresh, unique content on a topic you appear to be an authority about related search terms and your search engine rank goes up. So pair a bunch of AI generated pages with ads or e-commerce and you’ve got a spam-driven revenue model and we have a worse internet full of regurgitated AI content.
"Instead, the most intelligent coders I knew tended to take it up; the people most passionate about writing good code."

Ah, yes, the most intelligent people tended to take it up, therefore if I take it up I, too, am intelligent.

That single line in the article encapsulates everything wrong with FP zealots' approach to their advocacy.
> "No one has any idea how to create X now" does not lead to "Imminent creation of X is very unlikely to be true". Right?

I think it does lead to that. How will people create something they have no idea how to create... Perhaps it will somehow emerge accidentally, but that's very unlikely.

I tried to make this clear before, but I'll state it clearly: I think discussing is completely fine. We all have our hobbies. It's convincing people there's a real problem and taking real money to solve a fake problem that I object to. That's a con.

If AGI does happen and they start doing things we GIs don't like, the problem is going to be around specifically what they are doing, why they are doing it and what we don't like about it. The solutions are going to be in terms of those specific problem spaces. There would also be a feedback loop of response, counter-response, which is fundamentally unpredictable.

> evolution-like processes

Given a planet-sized environment and 4-5 billion years, I think we can say emergent GI is possible. But that doesn't help someone with a lab. I think we'd do better by studying how brains work, really. I think we're probably going to do best by starting with simpler brains and see if we can trace the path evolution has take (thus saving ourself billions of years of random trial and error).

> That's a probability estimate!!

Let me wrap up on this: I estimate a 99.99% likelihood that people discussing the problems of AGI now will fail to correctly predict the nature of AGI and their resultant problems, and therefore will waste any and all effort/money spent now in that direction.

Someone actually seriously interested in this who wants to put resources to it now would want to put money into a long-term trust, to be used once the problem is clear. However, that assumes the existence of a stable trustee mechanism that remains uncorrupted over the long term to ensure the money is used as intended. I'm not how that is accomplished, but some long-term foundations seem to have done OK. (E.g., the Nobel Foundation doesn't do too bad. The Peace Prize is all politics, and all of the prizes have some politics, but overall it's mostly on-track.)

If there's a 10% chance such a trust function well enough long enough for 50% of the money to be spent in search of solutions to the actual problems, that's 5% effectiveness. Far better than the 0.01% effectiveness I estimate for spending the money now.

Note: the ancestor post of this discussion also estimated a 0.01% effectivness:

> If AGI has even a 1% chance of happening this century and those donations reduce the risk of it going wrong and killing everyone by 1% that's still money very well spent.

Still, I think an EA could easily come up with another use for the same resources that does a lot better than 5%, so we're back to not spending any resources on this now. Much better to have future EAs work on it, once the problems are clear.
I migrated to Joplin (with a Docker container on my NAS as the server), the Windows app has "Import from an ENEX (Evernote Export)" and I haven't noticed anything missing. I've noticed the few encrypted notes I had being migrated as garble though.
If you have an idea which cause to spend on and you have enough savings to live for 6 months in case of problems, EA generally recommends to donate:

https://80000hours.org/articles/should-you-wait/
Basically, the Tesla are the modern Yugo, albeit with a premium price and premium but shitty trim.
I doubt they walk into work every morning and pick from a big board on the wall, but if you don’t have some influence over the kind of projects you’re working on, you should get a new job.
Looks like Psychologists came up with something as complicated as the human mind. I found this very strange:

Symptom: (under Oxymorons)
(41) Observable symptom. This term, which appears in nearly 700 manuscripts according to Google Scholar, conflates signs with symptoms. Signs are observable features of a disorder; symptoms are unobservable features of a disorder that can only be reported by patients (Lilienfeld et al., 2013; Kraft and Keeley, 2015). Symptoms are by definition unobservable.

I am surprised that English medicine seems to differentiate observability here since I never heard it expressed in that way. Seems to make sense to differentiate though, psychologists probably know best why this data maybe needs a different evaluation.
> Web3 has a model of financial sustainability, but they've yet to come up with any other decentralized software that lots of people want to use

In as much as any vague buzzword can have meaning, Web3's chief innovation seems to be creating a model of software that actively repulses a whole lot of people, e.g. play-to-earn video games where the financial incentive turned a fun and enjoyable leisure activity enjoyed by millions (i.e. video games) into a combination of a joyless job that pays less-than-minimum wage, digital feudalism, and a pyramid scheme.

These kinds of financial incentives have a habit of driving out non-financial incentives, and the latter tend to be what makes online communities any good, so it shouldn't surprise you to learn there's lots of animosity to web3 stuff in a lot of mastodon/fediverse-type communities.
This isn’t a gotcha sentiment - I don’t do that.

Specifically, Biden’s team didn’t do the analysis when they removed the restriction. That’s the dumb move that caused the situation.

Had they followed their own advice and looked at it first before withdrawing the order, then they wouldn’t be in this position.
> This is just fascinating to watch from the sidelines.

This is chilling. If Musk gets what he wants and you are a programmer anywhere, then this might one day apply to you too ...
Exchanges don't need to act as long duration custodians for them to serve their purpose or be profitable. Exchanges will make a profit from trading fees. They can attract capital and liquidity via market maker fee rebates. You can trickle your capital through an exchange to make a large trade incrementally and only ever risk an arbitrarily small percentage of your total capital. There are ways to run exchanges in a much less sketchy way, that while not perfect, would make the kind of horrific abuse of customer funds that FTX did not possible. For example, merkle tree proof of reserves.
Problem being is “make && make check” take way too much time normally.
Apple may be their biggest customer but at the end of the day they are still a customer. If TSMC wanted to, or had to, drop Apple as a customer they can. And they can only do this since TSMC isn't Apple's.
My mother's also a longtime Montessori teacher, and yeah, there’s a lot of variety. Montessori is not a protected trademark. Look for AMI-certified for a school that has to meet some standards. I attended Montessori from 2-14, but have no advice that can be generalized to every kid or school.

But doesn’t the same variety apply for public schools? They’re not all a disaster. My kid goes to a good dual language immersion public school where in addition to academics, they’re learning collaboration and empathy with people from all walks of life, not just the ones whose parents drop them off in a Tesla. The school is underfunded, doesn’t have the resources to market itself, and teachers are burning out, but if some of the hyper-enthusiastic Montessori parents I know applied their energy to a public school, it’d kick ass. That’s the choice I made—I’m on the PTA and am building their makerspace. Others are leading gardening or composting programs. Not everyone has the time to do that, but we shouldn’t be mere consumers of education, as every parent who helps their kids do homework knows.
Agreed - the goal isn't "the KB's prove you are guilty". It's metadata which serves as a means to reduce the number of computers you need to examine with a more complex/manual search (deleted files, temporary/corrupted files, word document history, interviewing the employee, comparing the material in the document with the role/responsibilities of the employee, etc).
> Everyone would have preferred a clear "you're in / you're out" email at a fixed time like it's been done at Facebook

Ha, at Facebook people have been complaining that they only learned at the last-minute and only thanks to leaks, saying they would have preferred a longer-term heads-up so that they could start preparing and avoid making long-term commitments (eg that guy who was laid off one day after moving his whole life from India to the USA)

I suspect that there’s actually no great win/win way of doing mass layoffs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wouldn't functional digital currencies simply remove any remaning non-speculative use for Bitcoin and further tank it? I fail to see how it provides any confidence that bitcoin will regain value.
Yes, but that doesn’t mean you just leave telnet running decades after it became obsolete. That should be a time limited waiver and mitigations, and if you have legacy devices which absolutely need Telnet you should be planning for what you’ll do when something that old finally breaks and you have the resources to port relatively simple code.
> How does this particular list of very minor gripes get so many upvotes?

By being on kde subreddit. Obviously the post is preaching to the choir there.
Two Games are 7 Years Apart
curse those people who dared to improve their own lives!
I was homeschooled, but we used a lot of Montessori principles for that age range. Completely recommend. I can echo the other comments already here about how I think it strongly promoted curiosity, independence and a love of learning, at the cost of some 'social adaption' - for me, mainly when I went to university and everyone had shared experiences that I was missing, but overall totally worth it IMO if the Montessori school is good.
A great tool for the overemployed so they “write” blog posts as a side hustle.
It's an async arrow function, which means that it returns a `Promise` when called, much like the original code that constructs a `Promise` explicitly. This `Promise` resolves once the function returns.
That's contrary to conventional economics -- costs fall as production increases.
I'm not so sure about this. I don't have a college degree, but I don't think the issue with crypto/defi/web3 is a lack of understanding of distributed systems or cryptography. I'd say they're doing alright in the purely technical aspects, although I'm nowhere near an expert.

Rather, I think the fault lies in their understanding of economic and societal concepts: money, debt, what it means to own something. I think that their vision of the future, where every human interaction is mediated by a pseudo-economy, is fundamentally flawed, and that trust is a societal issue which cannot be solved by technology alone.
There are a few other options for doing that -- the two that come to mind: if both hands are on the keyboard, the standard Command-Tab combined with the down arrow key allow you to cycle through both apps and windows of a single app. Better though, a simple three-finger swipe up on the trackpad show all windows as thumbnails for easily getting to the window you want from any app. I use the latter constantly, saves time if you have a lot of open windows as you don't have to cycle among them all to get the one you need.
Couldn't you, y'know just get a new job offer and not tell them about it until your 60 days have elapsed?
> Less snidely, it's probably a lot more interesting to poke at AI integration than building another REST API

People love to work for developer focused companies with a lot of freedom, but in all honesty most paying users do not care in the slightest what you are interested to put your hand up for.
Its actually WSL 360 Series X 365
>> Adjusting mirrors takes 3 menu clicks, don't even think of doing it while driving.

Wow, that's horrible! While I set my mirrors initially while parked, I often find the need to make fine adjustments while driving (in low-stress situations).

Having to use a 3-layer-deep menu for that —on the center console, no less— is just a complete dealbreaker.

Thank you for posting that! Makes my decision tree easier and another key item to check in evaluating new cars.

EDIT: "fine adjustments" => "fine"
If he just pulls out the verb and puts it on the end, he can mingle with the Germans.
I think the problem with web3 as identity is that there's... no real advantages to this.

Public and private keys have existed before if you want to "own" your identification; you can run gpg or ssh on your computer right now, generate a public and private key pair and all you need to do to now verify that a message is from you is to send that public key to someone else and let them verify a message you signed with the private key.

Assuming your key has enough bits in it when generated, it probably won't be broken until long after you're dead or you'll have (more likely) moved on to a new pub/privkey pair.

You don't need a blockchain for that, it just... works. We don't generally do it that way because it's a fairly cumbersome user experience for people (making the PGP signing experience better is where imo real gains can be made if you want to focus on this area of identity verification, it's absurd that no modern email client for example has made this easier), but for those cases where you really need to 100% confirm that it's you, pub/privkey works just fine as a system.

Heck, you can even generate a pretty nice avatar if you wanted. All that avatar is in the end is a serialization function to display it as an image. Public key blocks are ugly, but when you for example look at SSH, randomart works just fine for validating that the keys match visually and nicknaming SSH keys is as old as time. Randomart maybe is output only a programmer could love, but a visualization of a key isn't new and there's probably some innovation to be had by improving the experience of sharing those keys and actually having randomart resemble actual art.

There's also the fact that... most people don't require that amount of no trust. I can think of a few niche cases where absolute zero trust verification is handy, but when you get to those cases the absolute last thing you want is for their existence to be publicly readable from a blockchain, which will always be the ball and chain on the leg of "web3 technology" (which as the post notes, there's barely any explanation as to what that actually means since it's just a mishmash of technology that seems to be "existing technology but we strapped it to a blockchain for some reason").

So even when it comes to identity verification, it's still mostly just... snake oil really. It's making and pushing around a cart on square wheels while huffing at those with round wheels for "not getting it".
Making static sites dynamic with Cloudflare D1
I would never work for him (or those like him) unless I was very very desperate.
In related news: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/16/23462026/elon-musk-twitt...

One of the craziest management approaches I've heard of. Wild stuff. Is he just trying to get people to quit so he's technically not "firing" them?
Would love to know more about what kinds of integrations you're looking for? For querying data sources, we have integrations for most databases and core APIs. Anything we don't currently support you can hit with our REST, GraphQL, gRPC integrations in a Postman-like experience.

We're also working on NPM module support (so you can pull in any SDK) right now.
A "wartime" business person is a hilarious idea. Gotta feel manly somehow, I guess!
Exactly my question. How confusing.

Especially since there is some feature discrepancy between WSL1 and WSL2, sometimes there is a need to use the former.
I installed ZorinOS instead and it's working great now but thanks for the recommendation, I'll give it a try.
A photo printer and some fast laser printer for example.
Modern slavery. He might get away with it, as laws are lacking behind as usual. And he may even be copied by other employers if successful.
> MacOS is interesting in that I know regular users who have used it for over a decade who still don’t grasp some of its basics.

This is true for every OS. Go observe non-tech office workers using Windows some time. I'm not certain things like hierarchical FS layouts (you know, the way every halfway-common filesystem and file browser works, and has approximately since desktop computers started existing) are really understood by a majority of people who've been using computers for a decade or more, let alone deeper concepts.
I think that department has already had a stroke.

For the last month or so, on a daily basis, I have been getting the same spam messages (subject line: "You've been chosen”) in my inbox, often classified as important. No amount of reporting them as spam seem to help.

However, what ended up in my spam folder are emails from Amazon informing me about winning $100 in their sweepstakes. (When I found them it was too late to claim the prize as confirmed by Amazon's rep.)

I get that spam is hard, but weighing an account owner's signals more than other signals seems like a good strategy. (And if it is not, please do correct me!)
Nobody argued for any "better".

The point is: When things become a religion with cargo culting acolytes even the "best" approaches stop making sense.

That's completely independent of the concrete religion at hand.

I did not argue to "pick sides"!

In the end all the approaches are just tools. You need to wield them wisely for optimal results.
I don't know the truth of this specific story, but I will note that the Ashley Vance book wasn't an autobiography. I believe musk asked him not to write the book.
> Yes, and that's why the strawman is bad.

No, thats why it is good. It is discussed thousands of times *because* none of the solutions are satisfactory.

> EA folks don't in practice follow or advocate for any form of ethical system that leads to doctors killing people for their organs.

But the axioms they evangelize imply that. And this is essentially what Bankman has done financially.
The Challenger flight path was approximately vertical and so the debris field was relatively close to shore and in shallow waters of the continental shelf.

Given what the documentary crew was up to, it seems probable the debris showed up on sonar and the dive team went down to check it out.

So it is not exactly a chance discovery in the deep Atlantic by tourists on holiday. It is well funded professionals discovering something that looks a lot like what they were looking for.
Integromat Outage
Seemingly producers of a random set of mobile apps [0] including a video editor, a basic photo retouching app, and a fitness routine tracker.

As an aside, their site is also aggravatingly self-absorbed, at least as it seems to me. Copy about how "we create our own cutting-edge technologies" and "Impossible. Maybe." just hurts to read when they're talking about a 30 day fitness app.

[0] https://bendingspoons.com/products
I do FP in JS, but I don't use Result or Option types or pipes because they are not part of JS's lingua franca.

But I expect everyone in JS to be comfortable with `Array.prototype.map`, `Array.prototype.reduce`, and closures as these are core tenants of the language.
This will be a problem until user retention grows more important than gaining new subscribers, even if they only stay for a month.
i wonder how many people have died or had life changing experiences, because they thought there would be a village, but found only rocks and bushes there.
Do you really have to go into a menu to turn on the wipers in Tesla cars?
Years back when we lived in the States it was "max house price was 2.5x aggregate salary" outside of California. In California, it was 4x aggregate salary. Has this changed over the last 10 years or so? Are they doing loans with less than 10% down as I thought those kinds of loans exploded in the 00's?
Then who is it built for, exactly?
NASA's Artemis rocket finally lifts off and heads toward the moon
> Ship of Theseus adjacent, when does Twitter stop being “twitter”?

When the users that people are interested in - politicians, news organizations, certain brand accounts, celebrities - go away. The problem for Twitter is that politicians and celebrities don't really want to hang around on a platform where they have to deal with abusive content all the time.
I am wondering the same thing. From their website: "Your data is encrypted at rest and in transit." (see: https://www.notion.so/help/security-and-privacy). I am not really sure what that means.
there are three pillars of communication in action at once here, it seems.. one is the accepted technical language of the trained, credentialed specialist; second is the common language used daily to navigate our personal lives; third might be the language used in public discourse, in the media, and in a classroom to non-specialists..

The high-effort piece of writing adds citation-based examples of semi-specialist wording.. like someone that is a credentialed school counselor, but is not in the health professions per-se. Well guess what, you now have religious schools and also splinter educational environments to deal with as your audience.. good luck with that, Science is not going to settle cultural commitments in all cases. nor should it, I will argue.

Psychology has always been seen as a pseudo-science in some corners, unlike hard sciences backed by math. This well-intentioned and somewhat urgent writing tries to corral the "three pillars of communication" listed above, and as usual, will only get so far IMHO ..