skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. That’s too simplistic. There’s no "effective altruism", just people trying to buy a good conscience.

You can’t become a billionaire without f* lot of people and exploiting the system’s loopholes. There’s no way to be a moral billionaire. In fact, by definition, every billionaire is a dangerous psychopat (normal people would stop focusing on earning money pass a given amount. You can’t be intellectually sane and a billionnaire).

Every billioniare is a policy failure.

So now, we have those dangerous psychopats who f* the system for money who try to justify their action by using the money in a way that they find morally good according to their own f** up moral values. Which means that they get even more power than just money: they start to define what is good and what is bad.

The only sane way to give money is to let the community decide how to spend money.

That’s called taxes.

Strangely enough, every single billionaire is against paying taxes. Because they consider themselves morally superior.

I agree that government are corrupts. I agree that democracy has lot of failures. But between a system which is not perfect and a dangerous psychopat who consider himself superior to any democratically elected government, I know which one is the worst for our future.
Identifying leaks is toxic? Overuse of the word is probably diluting its meaning.
It's obviously inflated, as I took the whole lifecycle of the company and technically they still haven't completed it yet (Because that and starship is what the whole company has been working towards since inception)

They've received around $10B[0] in funding. About 3.2B [1] in fed payment, with about $13B, in appropriated funding. I would say they've launched a number of private missions as well that made them a profit.

[0]https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/space-exploration-te...
[1]https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/search.do?q=spacex+UEI_NAME%3A...
One might argue one approach is superior over the other, I'd argue they are more like duals of one another. The PolyScale approach analyzes the queries and identifies the semantic and the statistical relationships between reads and writes. The Noria approach forgoes analyzing the queries and instead maintains a materialized view like representation of where the data should-be-at-now.

The PolyScale approach does not maintain / require a separate data representation and so saves space, but on the other hand, precisely identifying the relationship between reads and writes is not possible and so the PolyScale approach must sometimes over-invalidate in the interest of accuracy.

There are scenarios in which show-me-the-data (Noria) beats show-me-the-math (PolyScale), for example, running complex queries against a relatively simple schema. There are also scenarios in which the statistical (PolyScale) approach wins, for example if the queries are relatively simple or if not all writes to the underlying data are visible.

There are additional unique features of PolyScale that set it apart. Full disclosure, I work at PolyScale.
I still use Turbo Basic.
>We are engaging in clearly self-destructive behavior because, incentive structure accounted for (your points), it very well appears to be the best option

Well, if it's the "best option" then it clearly isn't self-destructive... It's just something with side effects, but which also yielded huge benefits.

Kind of how alcoholism is self-destructing. But a side-effect from taking a drug that helps us perform betetr or treats some condition we have, is not self-destructing. It's more of an unforseen issue, that we can't immediately correct (e.g. because of the condition worsening if we do it abruptly).
I’ve regularly used ‘python-build’ in docker container construction to build a minimal (or customised) self contained Python binary, libs tool chain, etc, in an isolated path to make copying to from the build container to the final artefact container. It’s just all around excellent tooling.
Even a global recession may not crush inflation
Do it. I got my license from a free course and test in San Diego and have enjoyed it ever since. Finding info can be pretty easy but I'm on my phone so can't provide links right this second.
If we're gonna make vaguely sweeping comparisons to religion, I would like to point out that much of this kind of instinctive aversion to EA probably comes, itself, from the secular protestantism pervading US culture.

- Outcome matters more than the intention of the person trying to do a good act? Absurd; here, I can even prove it with an absurd example!

- Trying, at all, to build a framework for good and bad different from that handed down to us? How dare they.

- Artificial general intelligence? Pointless to worry about, only humans can be really intelligent because [strikethrough]they have a soul[/strikethrough] there's something about consciousness that we don't yet understand.
THC will be metabolized / broken down in the process, and the cannabinoids showing up in the milk and fats in the meat will be much further down the chain.
Are you sure that college degrees inoculate people against bullshit?
Don't forget to implement a character based version of Spacewar! on top of it, as a little nod to Steve Russell for implementing Lisp (and relying solely on S expressions). :-)
Judging the comparisons as useless before making them and evaluating their use? That's a common religious belief and practice that hides this truth:

Belief is an arbitrary choice and a tool.
That would be very manipulative.

Next.

Create more options for yourself so you can effectively care less and less about that and more and more about what option is better for your career. Don't try to fix it. If the company has a bad manager the obvious consequence is that talent gets repelled and it is a company problem, not your problem.

Your problem is to be responsible with moving your career further. And by the point the relationship has reached, that's probably be better done in another company.
Russ Robert's Econtalk podcast is fantastic. He brings on all sorts of authors and discusses their books, challenges their theories, gets challenged back.

He's had Michael Pollen on about psychedelics and I thought he was pretty fair and engaged considering he's a conservative Jewish guy in his 60's that leans more right than left (though with libertarian beliefs, but mostly economic ones).

It's a very academic podcast (Russ is an economics professor at the Hoover Institute), but his podcasts on the financial crisis (I think there are over a dozen) are really good if you want to understand how all the stuff works under the hood. He had former heads of the Fed on, numerous professors who are globally recognized as monetary experts, etc.

And the podcast archives go back to like 2006.
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Just to clarify, I meant that I've already cloned it via git. Can I just start using sapling with it or do I need to delete the local repo and re-clone it with sapling?
We might be wrong here and missing some valid point. I see companies doing automation testing beyond a point but do they really test beyond 2 browsers?

One line of thought could be if we have already invested in automation testing then why not run in 80 browsers too when we can. Its just additional hardware cost or cost of platforms like BrowserStack/Lambdatest.
Perhaps the snark caused the down-votes, but your point is legitimate. 'Pure FP' languages encourage code that is nearly unreadable and unparseable without any additional context (and sometimes, unreadable even with said context). There is some strange desperation for extreme terseness in pure FP languages like Haskell, Ocaml, Idris, etc.

Single-character variables and functions, point-free style... Coming from an imperative background, this just seems like flexing for the sake of flexing.

Why not make life a little easier by clearly naming variables? This isn't maths or physics where variables (for some equally-inane reason) must be one character. We have 4K screens today; I can accept lines that are significantly longer than 80 chars.
Genesis' Crypto-Lending Unit Is Suspending Withdrawals in Wake of FTX Collapse
Poland Says Missile Was Likely Fired by Ukraine Air Defense but Blames Moscow
The bit encoding is only a very small part of Unicode. That alone would be likely bearable.

It's the whole thing that is problematic.

Unicode mixes way to many concepts in an unholy way. The result is insanity.

The original sin is of course that content and appearance / layout aren't strictly separated.

The whole idea that a text format should be "typewriter compatible" is also a huge part of the problem.

Human script is way too complex that one could pretend that a typewriter abstraction would suffice. But Unicode tries hard to keep this leaky abstraction (because "backwards compatibility"; even it's actually not compatible in all kinds of "corner cases", BIDI being only one). The result is the dumpster fire we've got (and that we likely never ever will get rid of, as it's "good enough" for the majority; I mean as long as you're using European scripts, and no scientific notation, math, and such…).
It's here in setup.py: https://github.com/WikidPad/WikidPad/blob/master/setup.py#L6...
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it’s like an ESOP[1] re-imagined for owning core infrastructure

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_Stock_Ownership_Pla...
Even easier now major operating systems can just OCR a screenshot. Instant clip a text block and by bye white space… so long tracking spaces, good riddance.
I can confirm it works well, Mikrotik have good experience in LoRa gateways and have been in the market for quite some years
> lithography with a light source that is generated by firing a laser at in flight drips of molten tin

What does EUV lithography have to do with hydrogen’s generation expense, embrittlement of metals, flammability and lack of infrastructure?
All modern moral systems have extremely serious defects where they can be gamed. Repugnant conclusion, the entire concept of deontology, etc. Virtue Ethics is ungameable.
Yes, there are a lot of scams in the crypto space.

Yes, the terminology and hype make the SOA craze look like a toddler's tea.

However, don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
Some of the underlying technologies are valid, valuable, and might just play into whatever is in the future of the networking.

The technologies I am talking about are:

* Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs)

* Distributed Ledgers

* Abstracted distributed filesystems such as IPFS, BlockSpace,etc.

* Prediction markets with virtual currencies (I like virtual currency over cryptocurrency, though I know no one else uses it)

* Decentralized identifiers

* Decentralized and distributed communication

* Smart contracts

* Blockchains (for things other than a financial bank)
Yes, hg has changeset evolution. A meta-history of editing propagates when you push rewritten commits.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/
This seems like a great endeavor.

I've always wondered why visual languages have not thrived. Is it because the spaghetti gets unmanageable? Can't you have boxes (modules/class/namespace etc) to neatly arrange things?

> GraalVM, Performance meets polyglot

> Import any library from Enso, Java, JavaScript, R, or Python

A use of GraalVM in the wild! Seems like a perfect fit for this project. Can it use the C-accelerated libs from Python like numpy? I always thought it was up to the programmer to make libs go through Sulong, then bind things later on.
This has determined to be an accident by the Ukrainian air defense system

https://mobile.twitter.com/prezydentpl/status/15928356684260...
I dont think web3 has really made any improvements in this area, so you got to ask what's different now.

Using public keys to log into things has been forever. It caught on with ssh (1995), it failed with client-certificates aka mTLS (1996).

Zero knowledge proofs also havent really caught on. And its not a new idea. The Fiat–Shamir heuristic is from 1986.

Anyways, i dont really think web3 has added anything. Most of these technologies are at least 25 years old and have not caught on. If it hasn't happened yet, i dont think crypto will change that.
This would be a good use of GPT-3: take a leaked document and rephrase it so that the original is not identifiable, while keeping the meaning the same.
1) I prefer what I can verify, understand, and immediately experience to what I cannot.

2) I use the heuristic that where there are more participants and intermediaries, it is more likely that something ugly will happen even if the original intentions were noble, which is already a big if.

3) I prefer improving my own neighborhood which also affects me, to some abstract global goal which I find less tangible.

EDIT: 4) I am put off by the grandiosity of "saving lives" far away, and I prefer more modest goals, e.g. provide a warm soup for the local soccer team.
I think the OP is missing what those kids actually desire when they say web3 - self sovereignty.

They grew up in an era where a few big tech companies control most of their experiences, and you're completely locked into them unable to escape even if you hate the platform because that's where all your friends are.

Web3 is where you can have one digital login owned by you that you can use for many services and you can easily move somewhere else if that service turns evil.

It's hosting your own website vs having a page on Facebook. It's being able to trade any digital with friends without having to be locked into one platform. It's having all your likes and personal preferences carry with you between services.

We had more of this in the early days of the internet, but people just graduating don't remember this, they just know an internet of walled gardens they want to escape from.
>I am a sorta-rules utilitarian; in contested questions, I think the moral obligation is to behave in a fashion so that the standards by which we act, if universalized, maximize beneficial outcomes.

If you'll forgive the glibness, isn't that just deontology with extra steps? Sorry, it's just been on my mind since I learned (from Resident Contrarian article[0]) that many rule-utilitarianism is a functional reskin of disfavored deontological thinking.

[0]: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/the-weird-world-of-the-...
The company I worked for before my current one had a lot of money problems so being profitable (even marginally so) was a requirement for me. Other than that I was fortunate that the company I now work for found me on HN (Who wants to be hired monthly thread) and that in all the interviews I got nothing but good “vibes” and saw no red flags. Almost 3 years later that’s held true and I’ve helped get 3 friends/ex-coworkers hired (I’d never invite even acquaintances to what I though was a bad environment or a sinking ship). I liked my coworkers already and adding in 3 people I know I work well with has been an immense joy.

I don’t know how you need to make to provide for your house but I live in a LCoL area and make on the lower end of CA wages (working for a CA company, <15 people). For me this works well as I have a good amount of headroom the grow (it’s already happened, I got around a 17% raise after a little over a year there and multiple bonuses) and I’m making way more than most jobs locally (aside from some really stuffy corporate jobs I’d never take).

It’s a different story when you providing for a family but my approach has been to never assume my job is guaranteed (which it’s not, no matter how big the company) and to plan for if I’ll lose my job tomorrow. That sounds super stressful but I literally never think or worry about it because I’ve got 6-8+ months in my emergency fund (shout out to YNAB for changing my life w.r.t. budgeting).

I won’t pretend what I’ve done/found was easy or that “anyone can do it” but it can be done. There are good small companies to work for that don’t suffer from the issues you mentioned (though I know exactly what you are talking about and have experienced that as well).

Life is short and I’m so glad I found the company I currently work for. My work/life balance is amazing, I enjoy what I work on, my work makes a tangible difference, I get to help shape the company’s future, and I work with talented people who I like.
If we're going to be making backwards incompatible changes to unittest, it'd be nice to introduce PEP8-compatible names, deprecate the old ones, and remove then in 3.20 or something.

(I know there's pytest and nosetests, but especially when teaching people, it's nice to use what's in the standard library and unittest sticks out for having things named differently)
Goes back to stockmarket shenanigans. Wether it's Pump and Dump (Nikola), or Short and Tort (Tesla)
Sure. And a branch is also just a stack of changes…

The whole point is that this things are treated differently.
Still not quite the same, because absorb splits up your working directory changes into all relevant commits, as deduced by diff context.
> Capitalism is the private ownership of productive capacity and the use of it for private profit. That's a peculiar and recent invention.

As someone who's been using the property-based definition, I do think this one is more accurate. However, that would imply cavemen agreeing to scratch each others back would be practicing Capitalism (which I think they are).

More generally, that suggests that once two agents have the capacity for peaceful exchange of productive capacity, then Capitalism can occur. Capitalism is impossible in the world of reptiles, since they can't communicate or even internally model an exchange. Any service they provide to others, like defending their eggs, has to be hard-coded (i.e., forced upon them by nature).

The pure capitalists will argue that the alternatives to it are varying degrees of the use of force, to compel agents to either provide or not provide productive capacity beyond their internal desire. Whether that's necessary for a stable system is a different topic, but may be a function of the capacity we have to act as rational agents and how much we're still dominated by hard-coded instructions.
Exactly. Not LoRa but an example of what these modules and low bandwidth can do.

Many years ago (pre-LoRa) I needed to integrate a garage door that was far out of Wifi range to my home automation system.

At the time the way to go about this was (as best as I could tell) XBee. I was able to conjure together a 900 MHz XBee module in the garage that not only had (essentially) GPIO to activate a momentary relay to simulate a button push to control the door but also utilize an XBee feature called change detection that has an eventing/push system to transmit state changes from high to low on a pin. Combined with a magnetic door contact sensor and XBee + ESP 8266 + Arduino (platform for ESP 8266, not device) + MQTT on the Home Assistant side this thing has been running rock solid for a decade. I haven't had to work on it since.

Whether I check the status of the door (via Home Assistant or the OLED display on the control unit inside) or open/close the door via the momentary switch inside (or Home Assistant) even though it's been 10 years at least once I week I remark at how amazing the entire contraption is.

This stuff is really cool and maybe it's time to move this thing to LoRa!
I had an interesting discussion with a young "developer" studying in "cyber-security". The guy was clearly out of his depth, and had a little idea about Internet security themes. He was struggling about finding an internship. I told him the market is still hot for tech people and security in general. His answer? "It's hard for me because I'm a person of color". I was a bit shocked there. He was just a bit browner than me, and far from black.

It's going to be an interesting generation...
Speaking of costs, are the public gateways actually free to use or does one need something like a sim card to use them? What prevents people from spamming messages at rates that completely clog the network?
Yeah, I'm genuinely curious as well. Malaria nets are cheap, well studied as highly effective, and directly prevent debilitating and life-threatening illness. We're talking about something that can fairly immediately save real existing lives, no hypotheticals or easy to conceive of major deleterious second order effects.
Marketing is what you impress upon people, not what you define. The mechanism of marketing is very powerful force, and we have been a part of it, if we realize it or not. People have used the marketing tool successful to shape generations of humans.

web3 is marketing. It hasn't failed because we are still talking about it.
Yeah, I'm a bit worried about UTF-8 : it might be impractical to read with 8-bit only CPUs ?

http://collapseos.org/

At least the ASCII part should still be easily readable ? But not much of a relief for non-latin alphabet languages...
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Ask HN: Would You Work for Elon?
Simple question with not so simple answers…

Watching Elon gaslight current and former Twitter employees in the public square, I couldn’t help but wonder if any engineers would actually work for this guy going forward and why?
Weird example since the most famous 10% in the modern world funds the gilded real estate empire of abusive bigots, the latest in a long line of religious authorities who use the threat of supernatural damnation to exploit people.
> like someone who literally argued that a person doing mere charity or volunteer work is bad, because they are wasting time and effort that they could've spent making money

This is the part of EA that triggers a lot of red flags for me. Making money, or rather making significant money, necessitates participation in a system of exploitation that is largely responsible for the ills the charitable donations are meant to alleviate in the first place. Maximizing that money necessitates optimizing the exploitation.

the whole thing just seems like an exercise in morality-washing one's own greed. Lies, damn lies, and statistics perpetrated with "rationality".
We should start by not making new gasoline cars, or new coal power stations
> Too bad some things are abit too gory.

This! Why can’t things just remain clean fun? It’s like these artists lose the etiquette or never acquired the etiquette of story telling.

When I say graphics and cartoons used to be a whole lot of fun and games, etiquettes are exactly what I reminisce.
Tbf I think this was just the learning curve for big tech companies. Google and Facebook face scalability problems other companies 5 years before anyone else so if they don't open source the solutions they come up with, the industry-standard that establishes itself 5 years later will not be compatible with their solution and they will have a hard time recruiting and keeping personnel for their own system.