skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terrible example, digital media can last far longer, under the same circumstances.

Have a USB drive Hard Drive, or USB? Plug them in 10 to 15 years later, chances are, they will have far less damage than a book in all those years.

It's an unfair comparison.
Because of the added and unnecessary color comment if I had to guess. It's also not at all ironic if you read the article.
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Mostly people who have this argument don't have a code base large enough to run into actual limitations of git. They run CI with wonky java implementations of git and/or have giant amounts of binaries in their repos. Actually having Gigabytes of source code is pretty rare.
Our border patrol was placed under DHS sometime around 15 years ago, and DHS itself was created as the 'anti-terrorist' security umbrella post 9/11. CBP (customs and border protection) became a catch all gestapo to create the largest federal police force outside of the FBI, and of course one of their biggest subjects to 'inspection' in their anti-terror goals (be sure to read this in a George Bush accent) were none other than citizen John Q Public. Another group you may remember in DHS as every air traveler's favorite is none other than the TSA.

The CBP is ostensibly primarily interested in the border where the "constitution doesn't (fully) apply." IMO this has caused them to become known a jackboot-thug like entities who terrifyingly are now deployed even within the interior of the US, often with poor discipline to their constitutional restraints. Their special response teams were deployed to Portland during the riots, during which some may remember unmarked vans were grabbing citizens off the street (I have no idea if the vans were DHS). Another favorite of theirs is setting up 'immigration checkpoints' which of course conveniently feature local police (milling in the background) who take advantage of using the stop to catch criminal violations without needing to obtain PC/RAS (silly constitutional stuff) to initiate a stop.

The gestapo like roots of CBP has made it the most terrifying, and unrestrained, and poorly monitored of all the federal polices in America. It deserves even more scrutiny that it is already getting.

In the words of CBP, last time I invoked the few rights I had at the border, "now I'm going to show you my (CBPs) rights." And oh, they did.... [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33617350#33618162
I dont trust any of my kindle books to last more than a couple of years without the kindle calling home to Amazon.
Actually there were different veraions of DDJ throughout history. The oldest one was discovered not too long ago and is very different from the popular one.
I am enjoying entering bogus prompts and getting fun articles

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Lawsuit Felis Catus v United States

Lawsuit Felis catus v united states, 587 F.2d 1302 (9th Cir. 1979) was a case decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the United States government does not have to provide financial compensation to a cat that was rescued by the United States Coast Guard after it was caught in a storm on the Pacific Ocean.
Howdy HN!

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> But I really wonder why is there no other major service like the Internet Archive?

Copyright, of course. The fact the Internet Archive hasn't been sued out of existence yet never ceases to amaze me.
My guess is 67% reduction.
I've always found EA to be the most capitalist way of trying to do good. Instead of like being humble, not accumulating wealth for yourself, not thinking of yourself as better, etc. EA is pushing for this weird self-centered egotistical philanthropic avenue.

That's literally the least efficient way to help anyone.

This also always felt very American. I'll get rich by paying workers poorly, finding any advantageous loophole I can, screwing customers, but once I'm rich I'll donate some of that money to do good...

How does this make any sense?

If you want to do good, just work for others from the get go. Be nice, be kind, be humble, offer mentoring and encouragement, don't hord things for yourself to redistribute it later, instead work to create sustainable opportunities for others.
Why is that a non-sequitur? Suppose no car had a driver's license and therefore little to no accountability - is that a better world?
I'm not trying to model anything about beer mugs. I'm trying to construct some nontrivial, intuitively understandable categories to play around with.
He won't be an upcoming speaker for long, I presume.
What could possibly go wrong?

It sounds interesting on a psychological/developmental level too, children are routinely taught to ignore certain thoughts, concepts or emotions. Looks like technology could offer increased level of granularity and control. Scary times.
I'm willing to bet that .epubs will still be readable by the brain-computer interface all humans will be implanted with at birth in 100 years.

And there will be some trashy harlequin romance novel hipster fan club in 2122.

Code written in 1972 is emulate-able and readable today so we're halfway to the 100 year benchmark the article sets in its first sentence.

I have numerous books that are more than 100 years old. I am afraid to read them because they are fragile.

I am not afraid to emulate Magnavox Odyssey ROMs from 1972, and won't ever be.
If you have any tips, templates, or helpful links - I'd appreciate it (as would others no doubt). Obsidian is new to me.
You're normal, the developer was being a jerk. And, second, who cares?

Can we start talking about important things again?
Sorry - that sounds horrible, what island were you on that snows during Easter? Also, always assume some asshole burnt down the hut. Apart from that being a semi-regular occurrence now, it also just .. happens. Assholes book and stay at DoC cabins too. Also lots of drinking and illegal bonfires.

For anyone else who's worried about making a similar trip, please use this govt-made website which talks about what's recommended, as well as has an online service for logging your walks. If there isn't anybody to tell that you're going on one of these hikes, that means you shouldn't go. It isn't optional.

https://www.adventuresmart.nz/

For anyone in other countries without this service - if you're backpacking in hostels, or have a booking at a hotel after - ring and tell the staff before you go. If it's through AirBnB.. Well, I hope you make friends with someone who can check in with you before you leave!
Due to my workplace I moved from svn to hg (awesome experience) and then from hg to git (terrible experience). That was years ago, and the git experience remains terrible.
There's a lot found that very likely belongs to the airplane. It's just not a particularly sexy story. Most likely it's pilot murder-suicide, they did find a highly suspicious looking path in the pilot/copilot's flight sim. Iirc, during the handover from Malaysia to Vietnam ATCs, the pilot depressurizes the cabin, turns off transponders, turns around to avoid civilian radar, and once out of radar reach heads south across the ocean until the fuel runs out. Perhaps to have time to himself or maybe deliberately to not be found, out of shame.

It explains why the two main mysteries – why the initial search was a failure, and the lack of radio and transponder data.

It's also easy to see why authorities and airline operators want to silence it, especially if they have plausible deniability to do so. There is simply less prestige lost in a failed international search-and-rescue than a national airline pilot killing innocent people for god knows what reason.
A few notes:

1. I like the "anti" filters. That's one thing I've been wanting on other job board sites.

2. I'd like a filter that allows you to choose between "remote", "in person", and "hybrid". More specifically, I'd like to be able to specifically exclude remote jobs.

3. Your location filter appears to be broken right now.
Not for a lack of trying

http://blog.archive.org/2022/07/08/internet-archive-seeks-su...
I feel like real effective altruism is achieved by sites like charity navigator, which give you a sense of how well your donations to a given cause are spent by the organization.
Context on the therapist interface?
I have some books on CD-ROM. They have no damage, true...but good luck finding a computer with a CD-ROM drive now.
Please learn to express yourself in a mature and coherent way. This isn't Twitter.
For those who'd like to read a quick description of what this video is about:

It shows a sequence of integrals following a very simple pattern. The first seven integrals in the sequence all evaluate to pi. The eighth integral inexplicably evaluates to pi - 0.0000000000462... and from that point on the pattern deviates from pi.

The video goes on to explain how such a seemingly perfect pattern can suddenly break by relating this sequence of integrands to a simpler one where it's easier to see what's happening.
I wish someone would lay out the case -- or point me to a document that lays out the case -- of why it's a national security threat. The only arguments in the reuters piece is:

* control devices -- if TikTok can take over devices, that's a sandbox problem, but I am suspicious about the accuracy of this claim

* influence users -- here's the rub. The USG is worried about having social media that is owned by a rival power influencing public opinion? The assumption behind this is that all forms of media consumed by Americans must be under US government control or approval (say an allied nation). Moreover, if you accept that this is a national security threat, how are other countries supposed to treat US properties like Facebook? Or USG efforts like Voice of America, National Endowment for Democracy, etc? This is a recipe for total information control based on blocs, with Great Firewalls separating each bloc, and no citizen able to access any social media platform unless it's owned by a friendly government in your own bloc.

Are the above two arguments the only ones? If there is a different reason why TikTok is a national security threat, I'd like to know, because all I see are short videos of old people dancing, young people yelling in their cars, and cat videos. None of that seems like a national security concern to me.
I'm not familiar with Effective Altruism, but a takeaway as a tech person working in the clinical trial field:

Most drugs go to market with the idea of being effective, e.g. treating as many people / conditions as possible. This leads to a problem that most people deal with a slightly different problem from the next person, so you just end up with large groups of small numbers of people who are essentially overlooked, because they're not profitable enough to make a drug or treatment for. This class is called "orphan drugs"

Yes, this is mostly "how the industry / capitalism" works, but that's the point. By measuring how effective altruism is, and by only doing the things that are most effective, you'll essentially end up with many "orphan" categories at the end.
Scientists Find That Lifting Weights Offers No Benefit over Simply Lowering Them
Doesn't matter IMO. Globalstar was barely afloat in revenues of <$100m annually before the deal, now they've already made triple that. The investments to their satellite network will likely move proportionally to the load that Apple users draw from it. Again, they weren't a highly successful business to begin with, so the concern of Apple users hogging bandwidth from non-Apple users is slim.
And corporations get their money from customers, so the solution is simple: Buy brands you don't recognize.
I believe most of these applications are based on statistical methods, but not what is commonly known as AI/ML.
> The fact the Internet Archive hasn't been sued out of existence yet never ceases to amaze me.

Because it's a library. If you happen to be lucky enough to go there and meet the people running it, it's very clear they are librarians doing what librarians do.
It's not a matter of perspective, it's a matter of law. Being morally in the right doesn't make it not vandalism.

But by all means, do it anyway. I certainly wouldn't lift a finger to stop you.
I don't understand how people don't understand that it's not their job to police others.

You aren't an authority, nor has anyone asked you to be. This is no different than MOB mentality whre you think you have some kind of authority.

We have a government for a reason, to handle this kind of stuff. These people want more oversight, but at the same time, they don't want it???
Your reaction is a bit absolutist. The basic premise is that if you're capable of making 500k a year in the developed world then going to Africa to volunteer to build houses is not as effective as just donating your money to charities that send people to help, or hire people yourself.

What it evolved into is a bit controversial, overall they seem to be a bunch of kids who don't know what to do with the power and money they had at one point, as they all came too easy.
The Garmin inReach cannot make phone calls in any way or configuration.

It can send & receive text messages either by itself (that's a pain since you have to select letters one by one with arrow keys, but it works) or paired to a supported external device like a tablet.
Yes, the tech exists, but not the follow through
HTML isn't immune from broken backwards compatibility.

The frame element has been completely removed, the hgroup element is gone, and so is the dir element. acronym is deprecated in favour of abbr. isindex, plaintext, xmp, and listing are all dead.

The attributes border, clear, background and bgcolor have all been removed by HTML, and shifted to be CSS' responsibility instead.

Just moving between EPUB 2 and EPUB 3, you lose the DAISY format support, and external resources. (EPUB2 let you use full URLs to specify parts hosted externally, like webpages, but EPUB3 requires itself to be self-contained. Not a bad change, but still a breaking change.) NCX replaces just using a HTML5 nav element, and a few more things.

All of those things mean that there _are_ technical documents that exist, that _aren't_ readable without some effort to update them.
#14 is wrong.

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You will want to read books.

I would start with the thin book of trust. Next I would read extreme ownership.

After reading these two books you will see that the main currency managers work in is trust, and that no matter what happens, you, as a manager, must take personal responsibility for the outcome and never use blame. Taking responsibility for the outcome means that you are the primary force of changes of outcome (as opposed to depending on someone else you can't control and blaming them if things don't go the right way).

Nonviolent communication is an incredibly important skill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication). Anytime you start pulling out the "you's" or direct contradictions you create defensiveness which then creates an impassible barrier to compromise. No one can be told they are wrong, they can only be asked questions that they can't reconcile with their current beliefs.

Feedback, troubleshooting, stress management, marketing, recruiting/sourcing, and shit shielding are other important functions.

Not giving feedback to a person is probably the most cruel thing a manager can do.

Troubleshooting problems rather than just assuming you know what is wrong based on pattern recognition etc is a learned skill, but super important.

Stress is like fuel for your car. You exert your stress budget to get features in the same way you exert gasoline to get forward motion for a car. As a manager you must be very cognizant of the levels of stress of those you manage.

Marketing is a primary function of a manager. Marketing what higher ups want to your team, marketing to new hires how awesome your work is, marketing to team members that they are awesome and did good work. Getting promotions for those on your team is an act of marketing your team members to higher ups.

Recruiting and sourcing is a major important function often given to managers. Knowing how to ask for more resources and acquire them is important.

Lastly, people outside of your team will want things from your team. You must protect your team from external shit, you must be the shit shield to filter what is important vs what isn't.
The video targeting algorithm is a view into individual's psyches on a level that was previously impossible at this scale.
I mean, I think it was a very explicit dig.

The founding idea is that giving $10,000 to save, y’know, four ailing dogs with bad livers or whatever, or a community theater, as opposed to many human lives, is fundamentally wrong.

“If you’re gonna give, you should maximize the impact as measured in human life” is fundamentally at odds with many common forms of giving, yes.
> This also always felt very American. I'll get rich by paying workers poorly, finding any advantageous loophole I can, screwing customers, but once I'm rich I'll donate some of that money to do good...

That also feels very inaccurate and misrepresentative of the philosophy.

Rather, I'd say: live mindfully in a broken system. Pick a job that meets your needs with minimal intentional side-effects, donate some surplus to bettering the world. Do not be a paperclip maximizer or "ends justify the means".
The internet is still new in the grand scheme of society and people haven't adjusted. They haven't learned that these short videos are programming them to not think and taking advantage of them for marketing purposes. They still find them "extremely entertaining" because they haven't considered the second order effects. There are people with genetic predisposition to alcoholism for various reasons, this is kinda like that.

I have ADHD and so I am very defensive of my focus and so I will not participate in TikTok or YouTube Shorts or any of that abusive stuff because for me it deprives me significantly of my agency. For some people (most?) dissociating into TikTok (and losing agency in the process) is the point.
> All that BeFS does, in exchange for a bunch of your disk space and CPU, is BTree indexes, for each index you want your filesystem gets a little slower and bigger. It starts out "Quite a bit worse than some of the alternatives available at the time" and goes down from there.

It’s true that indexes can impact performance but “quite a bit worse” is far from what I observed at the time. Even with hundreds of thousands of files it was quite responsive - Apple needed SSDs and 15 more years of development to get close, and Windows still hasn’t.
In other words, completely invisible.
> if only just to have some sort of open-system for rating charities

While the following examples aren't exactly _open_ systems, some organizations address the niche you highlight. Examples: https://www.givewell.org/, https://animalcharityevaluators.org/
Total size + how many units are affected by fixes for found issues. The smaller the size the better. The less coupled code the better.
When asked for advice on how to evaluate a job, I usually suggest looking at these 5 aspects:
(1) Team
(2) Domain the company competes in
(3) Technology used
(4) Commute
(5) Compensation

Most people focus too much on the "name" of the company and/or the compensation, and do not weight the other factors enough and often later regret their choices.
Drop in sperm count accelerating, threatens future of humanity
that's a good way of putting it. I kind of ignored a lot of what they said but again, just like the rationalists who pretty much were all of the EA people, they came with biases they refused to admit they had.

like for example, if a family member of mine needed money for a cancer treatment that had a 50% chance of working versus giving that money to save the life of someone I don't know on the other side of the planet, I will consistently try to save my family member. That is how most people would operate. I will do this because I don't know the person on the other side of the planet. If it were not for the internet and their subreddit/lesswrong style of shaming campaigns, no one would ever even know there was a person on the other side of the planet who also needed the money. Why should I be asked to ignore my own family by annoying redditors who don't give a shit about me anyways?

I doubt even the EA people would do that unless they could virtue signal about how smart they are and how stupid everyone else is online. Most of the time, these people just speculated about how they might spend their money if they were in such a scenario. It was like a hobby.

Although in fairness rating charities by their effectiveness is a good idea. Yes, people do blindly give cash away to corrupt charities.
ahhhh!! and the forest spirits. Can't believe i missed that.
It's not an act of civil service. Nobody asked you for help. You put it upon your self to impart judgement on others with no authority.

Did they ask for help? No.
Are you damaging the car? Yes.
Are you intruding on others rights? Also yes.

Stop being so self-righteous.
Packages don't deliver on time if they don't hire enough people to work on AWS? Hard to imagine that day to day performance of their core business is really related to headcount.
Inspiring! I am on a similar journey as well.
With OSMAND you just dl provinces/states from a menu and it's done.
What’s worse is when there is no clear distinction between the ad part and the actual content.

Either via product placement, or the ad section starts inconspicuously and gradually morphs into a full featured endorsement
Yes and pulling something off of another thing doesn't necessarily damage it.