skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent many years on adderall.

It is speed.

And it creates the illusion that you are doing good work.

Anyone who argues in favor of adderall is in the denial stage of their own dependency. I used to do this.

This is unfortunate because we have many immensely talented people on speed convincing themselves they need it and trying to explain to others that it’s not actually speed.
Different types/ratios of amphetamines (there's plenty), different purity levels (dosages of speed are way higher for similar level of effect) and cutting agents (e.g. ephedrine, meth), different dosages and consistency of taking them. Even with the same substance taking 20mg daily is very different than binging 300mg in a night.
We already know that Tesla and SpaceX employees are working like mules to implement Musk's ideas. SpaceX engineers were living like farm animals on some island, building and testing rockets, but you know what? I bet it was fun.

Building electric cars, making space travel cooler and cheaper - these are interesting ideas that get engineers amped. They get paid well to do what they love, even though the boss is a blowhard attention vacuum cleaner.

I don't know if anyone is that boosted to work at a social media company, and not the coolest one either.
My experience has been the opposite, last year a speaker came in (some high up business guy, can't remember the details) and briefly mentioned blockchain. He did a show of hands for who had a favourable opinion on blockchain and no one put there hand up (20-30 people).

This was in a GameDev club at university in the UK. I wonder where all these web3 advocates are coming from, maybe it is just a loud minority, or maybe that fact that they're game developers makes a difference.
Turtles can dive you know ;-)
I'm still not even using Typing, but, in the feature wars, it's an obvious step in the direction of maintaining featuritis parity with c++. /snark
By all means speculate all you like about your own actions and act accordingly. The original comment was about how effective altruism is intentionally looking down on others (as they are implicitly ineffective) and holding themselves up as the ideal that everyone should follow.
I've been working with Rx for 10 years or so and I think it's a terrible model.

If you need processing of streams of asynchronous dynamic ("hot") data it's the least-bad model I know, otherwise there are much better ways, especially now that many languages have async-await keywords or at least a Future/Promise type.
> How do you deal with domain squatting or trademark violation?

In practice, it rarely works. Only big corporations have money to actually sue and win these cases. They usually prefer to pay however.

Same with regards to other reasons people give for lack of adoption of crypto alternative.

For example, lack of reversal and dispute handling is cited as the major reason why crypto currency isn't used for payments. That's just not true.

UPI in India does not have ability to reverse transactions either. So does not countless p2p payment systems. UPI alone processes billions of transactions weekly.

I think all these high level concerns aren't the reason for lack of adoption. They might indicate lack of corporate adoption but at the core level, I would think lack of a widely used consumer DNS like 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 is a bigger hurdle. Both of them won't resolve ENS and any other crypto based alternative.

Your average person is never going to run their own local DNS resolution node and switch it in their browsers.

In iOT and smart devices like TV, DNS is often hard coded so impossible to change.
“Deprecated” usually implies intent to remove. Regardless, even dealing with such rejections is a support burden. And security vulnerabilities will tend to be fixed, even in deprecated code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_V
It needs no moral justification. It is an economic system. And with all its flaws it is the best one we have by a long shot.

Speak to someone from the Soviet Union if you’re unsure of this.
And then you consider rogue waves which lifts boats and cause them to collapse under their own weight and you can say good bye to these flippers.
Our beloved Leader is a truly humane visionary. From the thread: We sent what appeared to be identical emails to all, but each was actually coded with either one or two spaces between sentences, forming a binary signature that identified the leaker.[1]

One can only imagine how deeply felt His warm affection for his fellow men and women must be when He set out, with this cunning device, to reveal from concealment their secretly harbored intentions and deeds and help them to step forward, out of the factory door, and into the light.

Surely a great encouragement for all those who choose to remain to toil under the ever-dangling sword of being relieved of duty at the whim of this stable genius.

[1](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1579101966453858305)
I don't know how to use X yet, so what I used before is better - the post
I feel I'm missing a logical leap they're making, where they criticize utilitarianism for maximizing the number of people living, presumably not only by preventing deaths and improving existing lives, but by maximizing childbirths to the point of impairing lives (which I wouldn't do and wouldn't expect utilitarians to either).
Aren't you making a general point here against public arguments that certain things lead to better outcomes than others? Do you reserve the same rancor for these little warning labels printed on packs of cigarettes about cancer risk? (Look at these non-smokers looking down on others...)

Public debate is, to a first approximation, nothing but arguing about which actions lead to better outcomes.

I could see an argument that the claim is that EA is insulting because it's akin to calling a chocolate brand "asbestos-free!"; you're implicitly suggesting that competitors contain asbestos. But note that this depends on whether the other brands do, in fact, contain asbestos, and EA is not shy about its claims that many charities do not effectively pursue good outcomes. It's hard to accuse EA of trying to sneak in this point when it's a central part of its rhetoric. And of course, such debate is an entirely ordinary part of discourse.
Why would i spend my time explaining this to you when i could spend that time consulting and then use that money to buy mosquito nets for people in Africa?
I understand this kind of reply, which seems very common. With AI, people say, "That's just what we do!" --- and likewise: No.

I've always really struggled with this category of reply, and I'm trying to figure out why.

I think it's because I can sense that some ideological battle has been lost, that the person giving this reply has bought into the (charitably) "hype framing" that disingenuous advocates have set up.

It's a very exhausting kind of reply, since it takes forever to reply to. You have to explain all the ways X isnt like Y. And to a person who has quickly adopted a pathological framing of the issue.
I tried it on two topics I am a domain expert in both in the suggested „lecture notes on …“. It produced rethorically nice sounding sentences with little actual content, that quickly desolved into non-sense. I guess to an outside observer that might appear similar to what happens in academia often :):
It’s the nagging that’s annoying, but it is possible to close, just click login, then the “x” in top left corner.
And I suppose snidely preempting the response somehow makes it false?
Here in Europe, delivery people make probably from 50% to 100% of what they make in the U.S. (around the minimum wage or bit more), and a delivery surcharge of 5 euros is considered outrageously high. Many places have delivery for no fee if you pay same price as dine-in, or 10% takeaway discount => implied delivery surcharge is 11%. Some add 2e on top of it if delivery is by scooter or 3-4e if by car, or 5e tops.

In our country of only 1M people, there are 3 competing delivery services similar to uber eats (one of them is Bolt), but most places have their own drivers employed full time and people usually order directly, it builds customer loyalty for the places too.

I struggle to understand how these 3rd services can make money because they hardly add any value. How are they better than restaurant's own delivery guy?
(Works for me on firefox, windows 10. Although Firefox is ridiculously unstable for me in general)
Try Pyenv for the Python version and poetry for the venv and dependency management.

Once you're used to the workflow it's pretty smooth. (We switched from conda 2 years ago)
Are there really 10M active MetaMask users and 50M active Brave users? I mean, that's a lot. Twitter has ~200M daily active users and it's a service everybody knows.

I've installed both products maybe five years ago, tried a few things and gave up, and there's no incentive in sight that would make me use them again. I suspect they're still counting me as a user on the brave web3 frontier because I have some wallets whose private keys I've lost ages ago.
There's nothing substantive in this post, just unexplained opinions...
This is my complaint with a lot of math circles, such as the Math Stackexchange, where the amount of policing the motives of askers makes the site a very hostile place to newer users. Treat users and students in general like adults. Assuming bad faith at the outset makes math communities feel elitist and stifling rather than welcoming and playful.
Judas got 30 pieces of silver, and with Jesus being crucified he lived a life free of sin on humanities behalf, opening the gates of heaven for us all.

Who knew Judas was the good guy this whole time?
When I was younger (!) and I had time, I used Calibre to unlock my e-books to be sure I will be able to read it (only for archiving purpose).

Now I prefer sellers who provide me pdf books.

For this reason I prefer to buy technical books from O'Reilly or Packt: they cost more of the same book on Amazon, but I get multiple unlocked formats, and I can print some pages if I need to.

It is okey for me to pay a bit more to get a future-proof format like a pdf one.

PDF seems the only format which is a bit more durable nowadays.

The 7-bit ASCII is probably the most "future proof" format we have: even a Commodore PET (1980) should be compatible with 7bit-ASCII as far as I know.
Was he? I'd never even heard of Sam Bankman-Fried or FTX until it went pop.
No, line up a job first, then tell the new company you will start a bit later. That way the job search is not hanging over you and you can truly relax.

If an employer thinks you are a good candidate, and finding good candidates is hard, they will be excited to have booked you and really can and will wait a few weeks.

I've done it before.
> And even Emacs doesn't allow for floating windows/dialogs, nor does it show text-mode scrollbars or windowing widgets.

However, the floating window had its downsides. They hid what was behind the window and modals, so if you started a dialog box and changed your mind about the text behind it, you have to close the dialog box, change the text and restart your dialog box.

Emacs and Vim avoid these problems by turning everything into a buffer. So all of your interactions with the editor are done through buffers which can be opened side by side.
You jest, but we've had weeks during which - out of 6 people - one was on vacation, two were sick, and then two more had to call in child-sick because their respective day cares had to close due to positive covid tests. And suddenly you're last man standing between the outage gremlins and customer systems.
Forgetting stuff is a feature, not a bug.
> "And we don't watch (or play) sport to watch ads."

As long as we're talking about professional sports, players do definitely play them because of the ads. This is what pays pro athletes multimillion dollar salaries in the end - no matter what motivating lies they tell themselves (and get told by others), that is the practical purpose of the show they're putting on. Young athletes go through years of preparation, workouts, and practice with the expectation that some time afterward they'll get recruited to that sport's main league which will pay them enormous amounts of money in order to get out on a field and perform so that they'll attract millions of people to watch ads.
Of course, you are right and I am wrong - fat fingered the calculation. The point however still stands - every extra point of reliability costs 10x.
The end of Silicon Valley’s 20-year boom
The US is the exception that confirms the rule, but mainly because it managed to basically conquer/occupy a continent-size territory, from ocean to ocean.

Russia did try the same thing, that's why they managed to reach the Pacific pretty early on, comparatively speaking, i.e. in the late 1600s - early 1700s. It was on the Western side and partially on the Southern side where that wasn't achievable.

Late in her life Catherine II (or people close to her, anyway) did dream about having 6 Russian capitals scattered around the Euroasian continent, including in Berlin and Vienna, but that was not achievable (and still isn't, I'd say). Stalin immediately post-WW2 came pretty close to it, though. On the Southern side there were the issues with the Caucasus, Iran/Persia and present-day Afghanistan, which had conflicting results and outcomes for Russia/USSR.
A Technical Analysis of Royal Ransomware
Agreed. But also since publishing is so cheap, an enourmous amount of garbage is published every year. I don’t care much if a reality celeb memoirs book vanishes from existence. Or that Python 2 handbook from 5y ago.

The books that changed my life are sitting in my shelf and will be offered to my kids one day.
Asami: A flexible graph store in Clojure
Depends on the human haha for me it is for sure a bug because it is way to prevalent...
And yet here we all are consuming and pumping oil because… incentives.
Gosh, it's not that complicated. They're just asking if the product is company-owned or community-owned. That's the distinction between web 2 and 3; just like the distinction between web 1 and 2 was whether the content was authored by the company or the community; cf. encyclopedia britannica vs. wikipedia.

And yes, you can't just go from one to the other, it's a completely different way of running a product.
This link seems to be dead. It doesn't show up at archive.org either.
We could use this TM to implement a lisp then run the lisp Eliza and run this TM on that, then implement a 7090 emulator on that TM and bring up MAD-SLIP and ELIZA on that, and then bring up a Godel coding engine on the TM running on that, thus creating an extremely slow turducken of Church, Turning, Weizenbaum, Godel, Chomsky, and McCarthy.
Purity definitely, the difference in dosages comes from the fact that adderall (AFAIK) is 70% d-amp and 30% L. Cutting agents can also make a difference.

If someone produces amphetamine, what other byproduct amphetamines would it contain? I'm not sure I understand your statement on the different types/ratios of amphetamines
alternative meaning "a foolish gullible person" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sap
Well. It begins with a fake anecdote on karate belts - they were invented in France by Mikinosuke Kawaishi, so I am not really willing to read further han the first few lines.
The reply to the prompt is almost complete non-sense. In particular the statements about the speed of sound in vacuum. However in some instances (synthetic quantum systems) you can treat the speed of sound in an ultra-cold gas as the „light-speed“ in a curved space-time. This was recently experimentally demonstrated.

I think in the future humans will need to invent secret languages, not digitized or shared with computers in order to be able to filter wrong but convincing information.
Yeah, if cost is a matter, then Linux always wins. Just saying if you really need Windows, there's an option that's not adware still. It is also the same as the consumer editions in that the only limitation if you don't activate is the watermark and inability to customize the desktop.
I have always wondered if people not able to quote/define the thing they are talking about is a negative or a positive. As with web3, as with AI, as with monopoly, as with censorship, as with Metaverse, and so many things in the last 10 years itself, and if I dig deeper, would find similar stuff in previous decades too.[1]. Most marketing terms are designed and chosen to get an emotional reaction out of people, not convey something exact or accurate. Judging it for accuracy is sort of missing the forest for the trees. Asking a layman what "<<any movement slogan>>" means and then saying it's bad because some people can't explain the terms of the movement is a widely used strategy. I am not defending web3, just that the angle of attack is somewhat misdirected itself. I would also argue that it(not being able to explain correctly) is a net positive, because the fact that it resonates signals a pain point .

In Web3's case, it does not signal they are excited about web3 or crypto or blockchain. It signals that they are frustrated by the current order, the incumbents, and they want change, and see web3 as a gateway to that radical change. It may or may not bring out an actual change, thats not important in this context. It's about whether they are sufficiently disillusioned by incumbents to believe in a new thing as a solution to things wrong with the world. Whether or not things would change is the next step, and admittedly a pitfall of many of these campaigns in the past. I am not optimistic about it working, though I think lack of clear solution does not indicate a lack of severity of the problem.

In a way, climate change is moving in the same direction. [2]

[1]: Omitting the whole redefining of gender and sexual orientation for obvious avoiding-culture-war reasons.

[2]: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1585935772565258240
You can argue that, but this would already be more deep analysis than described in your parent. I heard this take several times, and it’s basically “harry is a wizard, i. e. a superhero capable of anything, therefore, millenials want to gain everything without any effort, as if by magic”.

The “chosen one” trope is different. You can argue that Harry-Potter-raised people think of themselves as chosen, but it’s an old trope. You can as well say that all christian world is raised on it :)
It may be hard to swallow but it’s not “your work”, it’s his work. He paid a shit ton of money to call it his and if he wants to shit on what he owns, so be it, it’s his. He paid for the privilege.

Those employees don’t get to take their contribution out of the source when they leave—so while they might feel a sense of ownership, their contributions belong to Elon the minute they transfer them from their brain to the company property they are using.

I am pretty confident that publicly criticizing your boss and getting fired might appeal to a lot of folks on HN, but it’s not going to be looked at very favorably by most hiring managers out there.
I can fart very hard and land back on my chair and have achieved about as much as Blue Origin.
Elon Musk gives Twitter staff deadline to commit to being ‘hardcore’
It really is true. These "freedom-loving" billionaires, when given a chance, really show their tendency to be authoritarian-curious.
What you're looking for is KDE Connect or GSConnect. The pairing mechanisms are also extremely more flexible than what MacOS allows. The iOS client just launched this year.
I definitely knew about it in Romania's pre iron curtain fall days. Maybe not from a school manual but from TV documentaries.
There exists another solution that is "obvious" to "everybody" who has worked in life insurance (or long-term investments in finance): the concept of present value (PV):

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_value

Without giving a derivation (which you can find easily on the web), the idea is that a gain of 1 USD that you get in 1 year has to be discounted with a factor of (1+i), where i is the (long-term stable) interest rate. For 3 years, the discount factor is, of course, (1+i)^3, i.e.

- a gain of 1 USD that materializes in 1 year is worth 1/(1+i) USD today

- a gain of 1 USD that materializes in 3 years is worth 1/(1+i)^3 USD today

Thus, including this discount factor for a future monetary flow (as in the PV calculation) makes gains that materialize in, say, 1000 years worth less today than those of the same monetary value that materialize (much) earlier.
I can't comment on the quality of the tool, I just don't like this attitude of "just use this tool we don't support, hosted on some platform we don't control, which might disappear tomorrow". Back in the day, this tool would have been shipped (and supported) with stdlib, or at least be frozen somewhere "official".
Well, opinions differ. I'd guess the probability of there being AGI as in computers able to think as well as a human in most ways by 2300 as close to 100%.

Things we have now are getting closer eg Deepmind's Gato and GPT-3.
Detecting Disengagement in Virtual Learning as an Anomaly
Well yes, nobody in this subthread is arguing that outcomes have no relevance.

We just object to Aaronson's rather extreme position that the correct measure of SBF's goodness is the single dimension of the absolute amounts he donated to notionally philanthropic causes (which seems like the reductio ad absurdum version of EA utilitarianism). And yes, I'm also unconvinced of the argument that behaviour and intent plays no role in ethics. It may be a good in terms of outcome that a sociopathic hereditary billionaire gives away 1%< of his fortune purely for reputation laundering purposes whilst minimising his interactions with other humans he declines to fulfil his rape and torture fantasies on purely out of rational self-interest, but I don't believe that would make him a "good person" by any reasonable ethical standard, never mind a "better person than all of us". At some point intent, relative sacrifice and what would other people have done in the same position become relevant to casting judgement on his benevolence, never mind his other vices. And certainly the courts will consider intent and not just the brute fact that SBF lost a lot of people's money when deciding whether to prosecute him, convictions and sentencing; I imagine most of his defence will be structured around that...
You seem to confuse "a job" with research.

How privileged are you when you are complaining about not being able to have fun 100% of paid time, like no generation before us ever had.
Sam Harris in his Making Sense podcast interviewed Timothy Snyder [1] about this topic, they had a decent dive into the history, relationship between the countries and meaning of the war for both sides.

1. https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/301... the interview starts at about 13:30.
"Web 2" provides tools for "user and community sovereignty", indeed that was "web0".

(Which also, by analogy repeats the 'adaptive front-end' trend whereby web2 had to reinvent scaling pages to fit screens that was already native to web0).

The trend of returning to "web0" has always been present, and likely always will be. It doesnt require new technology. It requires people to want to pay the implicit transaction and communication costs (time, skill, etc.) inherent in that, original, vision of the web.

To "bring back web0" one only needs to peel back everything else and provide simplified interfaces, etc. to using it. These do exist. But of course, they arent popular.

Blockchain is popular, and that is as far away from this spirit as you can get. It's a trick. A con. A technological sideally full of people with knives. Decentralisation is already how everything is built.

Crypto is a means of rent seeking on the worst possible version of that you can imagine.