skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No there is also something bad about rejecting less quantifiable forms of charity as well.

I don't think EA argues for this. I guess it depends on what you mean by "less quantifiable."

>I do think it's good to optimize money spent for these things much of the time but it's also just inhuman to have no place, or respect, for forms of charity that are based on, form and reinforce human connection.

Describing this as "inhuman" is pretty extreme. In any case I think if you acknowledge that you're indulging in various non-charitable preferences through your donations I don't think EA would offer a serious critique beyond pointing out that you could be doing better. I think a major goal of EA though is to get people to truly wrangle with their biases here. These organizings are pragmatic - they're not trying to chide us into being moral saints, but just "giving what we can" - a popular EA slogan.
I like to build him/her up. Be their friend and prop them up and "help" them whenever possible. Help propel them into even 1-2 promotions in a year or so.

Then stop helping, completely. And let nature take it's course, or help if necessary. It's nature's way.

:-)
> EA now has a significant contingent that is most focused on very unlikely far future outcomes because they would be incredibly bad for an unimaginably vast number of people if they did occur eg unbounded utility. That's pascal's mugging!

Indeed! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_mugging

(Although the term itself comes from the EA community)
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That essay kind of straw-mans the whole thing. He uses EA to alternatively mean the foundational philosophy, or the specific organization and the choices the people running it make, interchangeably.

"I don't think AI is a risk, so I'm opposed to EA" charitably means that that person is opposed to EA, the organization headed by the people named in the article, and the choices they have made, who have made themselves the face of the movement with the same name. It doesn't mean they think that helping people is bad.

It's one of those fun language tricks groups get to play when there's a movement of some sort, and then a specific organization pops up with the exact same name. Black Lives Matter famously did the same thing; great movement, but the organization with the same name has done some questionable things with the money they were given.
Maybe not: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-11-16/us-offici...
Thank you Klaus, very cool!
Does anyone know if this could work with pre-commits? I did some initial searching but haven't found anything conclusive.
The source is already available in the eden/mononoke and eden/fs directories and are licensed under the GPLv2.
It seems the missile may not be Russian: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-11-16/us-offici...
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The point is you wouldn't endanger the lives of teenagers to build a community theater because you believe the lives of teenagers are more valuable than a community theater.

But repairing a community theater could easily cost $100,000 which would save the lives of ~22 people in Guinea if donated to certain bed net charities. And even the most die hard theater fans probably wouldn't save a theater if to do so it would require risking 22 lives for.

So in this case quantification isn't failing, it's succeeding. It's correctly telling us which donations are more effective. And all our intuition agrees that the $100,000 theater is worth less than the 22 lives.
Seems missile might not be Russian: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-11-16/us-offici...
They could try that, but browser extensions like Enhancer for YouTube will fix it.

Also, you can just download the video with youtube-dl and watch it that way.
Probably quite handy if that is all the training you get before your call up and your country is threatening nuclear war.
Yahoo's Tim Brady (founding Chief Product Officer):

When things are going well and you’re in a growth industry, you don’t have to deal with many difficult issues. It’s the old cliche, winning solves everything. It’s really true. It solves everything… or maybe better said, it masks all your mistakes. A lot of the mistakes you make get masked because you receive almost no negative feedback.

But then the bottom fell out and the board let Tim Koogle go. The upper ranks of management emptied out pretty quick, except for me and the CTO who stuck around. We got a new CEO and set of peers in upper management. Let me just say, I learned a whole lot more about business on the way down than I did on the way up.

<https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/tim-brady-interview/>

(I'd noted this on my subreddit: <https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4qpd8z/tim_bra...>. I'd completely forgotten that this was from Ycombinator originally>.)
A TV show could make a joke about it even without reliable evidence.
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I had the pleasure of working with the people from Fastmail while they where owned by Opera Software. I had a lot of respect for how they operated their systems back then, and I'm sure it's even better today.

I miss all the Tim Tam's they brought to our Oslo office!
Buy back is implicit in the price stability mission any central bank has; it cannot be fulfilled without controlling the supply of currency in the economy, i.e (at least) limited buyback. Without that, what you get is something very much like a cryptocurrency in terms of volatility.
It is likely that none of the remaining services is actually capable of making a real profit either.

These restaurant-delivery services offer(ed) a convenient way to get your restaurant takeaway delivered initially for surprisingly-not-that-much-more money than going by yourself But they work by charging the restaurants very high fees plus the fees the customer pays.

Even with all of those fees, because there is no coordination with the restaurants themselves (to batch up multiple orders from the same restaurant like happens when a restaurant runs it's own delivery), it ends up being only viable for each delivery ride to take about two meals -- the algorithms try to create a path of "pickup A, pickup B, dropoff A, pickup C, dropoff B, ..." in an effort to mix efficiency with acceptable food temperature upon delivery -- but even with that pattern, many items get delivered cold or delayed and two orders per trip just doesn't create enough margin to pay both the driver and the large high-paid software engineering staff behind the app.

In a world without continuous capital injection, these companies have an unworkable business model (I mean, they were always unworkable, but in VC-unicorn-world, they could pretend for surprisingly long).

edit: also, if any health regulator ever decides to look in to food temperature upon delivery for these companies, all hell will break loose in the business -- there is no way that the average dish reaches the customer at a legally food safe temperature.
Didn’t know Einstein was holding my mixtape.
The Infinite Cloud Is a Fantasy
Yes, it really strengthens the case of those who claim it's all correlation functions:

Question: Who runs silicon valley?

Answer: Steve Jobs

Question: How can Steve Jobs run Silicon Valley if he is dead?

Answer: Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple Inc., and the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios.

Question: Is there death after life?

Answer: To explain, the answer is no. There is no death after life.

Question: Do your views on the afterlife determine the importance of Steve Jobs to Silicon Valley?

Answer: To explain, I think that the importance of Steve Jobs to Silicon Valley is not determined by your views on the afterlife. It is determined by the fact that he was a very important person in Silicon Valley
Glad I didn't take part in a promotion they offered last week for 25% off giftcards via ShopBack. Looks like a dodgy way to milk money off their customers.
>In case you are really lacking that much self awareness, yes, you are coming off as one in this conversation. You may call me "sensitive" and feel better about yourself now.

Isn't this just tone policing then?
> Unless a written record of its name can be found and deciphered, that name will probably endure.

I think this still stands. Even if it has been mentioned, we'll have to find it and decipher. I would argue considering how famous it is in the nation, it'll be real hard to change the name even if the original is found.
This is a new one for me. Why is it bad to sign commits?
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Public preview of dev tunnels in Visual Studio for ASP.NET Core projects
National Reporting:

Deliveroo enters administration, leaving riders, restaurants and customers in the lurch

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-16/deliveroo-enters-volu...

> Deliveroo has entered administration, leaving 15,000 local riders — and the thousands of restaurants that use them — in need of new work and a new service to move food.

...

> Despite starting in the market ahead of Uber Eats, it fell substantially behind its rival.

> Competitors Menulog and DoorDash also overtook Deliveroo, pushing it into an unsustainable fourth place in an already-crowded market.

> Deliveroo got out of the German market in 2019, and already this year has quit The Netherlands and Spain.
Pascal’s mugging is a popular thought experiment amongst rationalists and EA people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_mugging
I'm new to this, but I've found it to be incredibly helpful. I hope to contribute and help other users in the same way that it has helped me. Good job. https://www.3ritechnologies.com/course/aws-amazon-web-servic...
I don't think EA institutions argue that they have the One True Answer. They just often give recommendations - "eg. if you care about maximizing QALY overall, we recommend charities X, Y, and Z." If I don't care about QALY maximization, fine. But if I do, why would I not listen to the recommendations?
Indeed, I didn't occur to me that such a simple solution will work. Thank you, and thanks for the kind words.
The claims inside the framework don't need to be compatible, they're just religions.
Excel files yes, but GSuite/MSOffice365 spreadsheets easily run company technical/customer goal trackers or log4j upgrade emergency status/plan with hundreds of engineers contributing.
TCI fund urges Google to cut costs [pdf]
Show HN: Retool Workflows – Zapier for developers
I don't understand the purpose of your what if.

Mine was specifically to be an intuition pump to see how valuable the OP thinks a theater is when weighed against actual lives.

It's easy to say x is important where x is saving sea turtles, teaching kids to read, or repairing a community theaters.

It's harder to say x is more important than y charity when y charity saves lives effectively.
I have not mentioned either of these things. You can find other finitist formulations of probability if you want.

You replied to a post about aces. For any finite number of chips and players (n_players > 23 starts to raise some questions), there are finitely many games of NLHE anyway.
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Has never meant that to whom? I don't get your point.
> If anyone knows of a good one for Linux, please let me know!

kitty has excellent support for this stuff, and is much more performant than anything based on vte (like gnome-terminal).

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty
No media source has "integrity". They have owners with agendas.
Ask HN: Alternative ways to make money with coding and system skills?
The thought of returning to corporate working kind of disgusts me. daily meetings, middle management bs, politics, bureaucracy... im sure your familiar with the typical complaints.

Ive realized I don't seem to have any money generating skills, the only thing I seem actually be good at is making money for other people.

So im wondering if anyone has been able to use their coding skill to make a living that isn't working in a business.

Things ive tried and thought about(please correct anything that seems wrong!):

monetizing hobbies - I see why people don't recommend this, im not good enough anyway. to old to go pro at sports, not good enough or have credentials to teach.

coding tutoring and teaching - i tried this on codementor.io, there's more mentors then people needing help, its competitive and doesn't pay much when you consider how much extra work goes into it. I also don't have a CS degree so it doesn't seem like I can teach at a school. Maybe there are better ways to teach?

bug bounty chasing - I thought this would be easier then it really is. i guess its like a whole different skill set, interesting as a hobby but its going to take to long to get good. and its competitive

make a company or sell a thing software thing - I can code up my dream ideas with ease, what i don't know how to do is market anything or get users. seems to be another skill that will take months and maybe not even turn out to do anything

freelance - compared to just working rates seem low and its hard to find work from what ive seen

If you have cool ideas or something worked out for you, id be interested in hearing them! Otherwise I need to get working on a resume, id rather not!
No, the point is that you don't have to mention the hash at all, it's automatically deduced by diff context.
Not sure how this relates to my comment, unless you misread my point about "institutions" as being about "intentions"...
And indeed a kangaroo is also used by Meituan, the largest last-mile delivery service provider (in the world) here in China. Compare https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=deliveroo+kangaroo&iax=imag... vs https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=meituan+kangaroo&iax=images... (especially the dressed up drivers in 'roo-suits, foreign vs. China style)
The largest cruise ship ever built is about to go in the bin without a single passenger ever setting foot on board. If they really think this can work, they could do a PoC using that.

Which, of course, they won't.
Ok but now I’m kind of lost. I genuinely don’t know anything about EA, so this is an honest question.

If EA is improving the world according to your values, is it really distinct as a concept? Like, to me, the reason why I think almost anything is because it improves the world according to my values.

Another way to put it is that to me it kind of sounds like someone is saying, “we believe in doing the best thing”, but I don’t want to put words in your mouth. I also hope everyone wants to do the best thing ;)
> 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".

I think that is a very valid philosophy and one I would agree with.

However, EA has a large overlap with longtermism, which has some very paperclip maximizer like features:

> Providing we are capable of colonising the rest of our galaxy and nearby ones, a 1% reduction in the risk of extinction on such a time horizon would be the equivalent of saving 1032 lives. In such a perspective, nothing else matters.

> That year, Bostrom founded the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, dedicated to mitigating risk. He elaborated on his theory of longtermism in a book in 2008, urging people to be “good ancestors” by practising “altruism toward our descendants”. He didn’t mean composting or stopping driving, but mitigating existential risks to humanity – “x-risks” in community parlance – from hazards such as advanced artificial intelligence and bio-hacking, that could potentially wipe out or severely deplete humankind.

(from the linked article).

I think this a very problematic view, because (as noted) almost everything is justifiable if you think you are avoiding extinction of the human race.
I have a second ssd that I backup to, and otherwise I use Dropbox. The backups are the last resort, should something else fail, and the drive is not mounted usually. Sometimes I copy very important things into a zip then password encrypt it with something secure and save it on friends devices, like for my key backups and passwords.
Absolutely no go because not enough room for non luxury people.
Thx this is really really helpful
If you can’t be profitable on 1 unit, you won’t be profitable on 1 million units either.

Scale brings complexity, and complexity has its own cost.
I don't know what else they should have picked? It seems like a fairly straightforward name for movement that focuses on charity effectiveness. I guess you could call it "effective giving" or something like that but caring about effectiveness is it core differentiating tenant and anything related to altruism/giving/charity is going to sound good.
I don't think the previous rule required one to have to have the word "parody" on the display name, not just the bio.

Elon lowered the bar for triggering the rule , and made the punishment harsher: insta-ban, from someone who was against perma-bans less than 20 days ago - that change to an old rule is so large,it might as well be a new rule.
Now (6:33 UTC) it says:

"We are currently experiencing a DDoS attack. We have a number of mitigations in place to minimize the attack’s effects. Some customers will see a degradation of services."
To be replaced by what?
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Yes having bitcoins is just having a private key. In 12 or 24 words format a wallet can even be memorized if needed. The blockchain is the global ledger of how much money there is on corresponding public keys.
From my chats with friends who do SAR, they'd much prefer you use it more casually if its the two way communication kind. SAR volunteers really are a special breed, they're already volunteering to risk their lives to save you and most days don't have incident, so text messages back and forth with the potential for rescue is a bit exciting.

Like, the moment you're sufficiently sure you might be lost or at risk/danger. Then at least they know you're out there and where to start looking from your last known location even if you don't need help yet. They might also be able to trivially guide you for self-rescue instead of the situation escalating into requiring rescue or becoming a much more complex rescue.

But if it's just a simply SOS device, then, well, yeah, it can become a nuisance because that can mean "I'm a bit lost" or "I'm quickly dying" and anything in-between and they have no way of knowing.
My company's internal Gitlab is also down. Is it (somehow) related?
Use fb2, it was designed for archival purposes.
Exchanged for other crypto. The inflow and outflow of real money is on a much smaller scale, about $200 million per day for BTC.
If you’re a multinational company with local limited liability entities, “bankruptcy” sounds like a choice. If you’re subsidizing operations across countries with VC money, it just means you stopped the flow of money. You may even get away with leaving some debt/payables in the entity.

Happy to hear otherwise, I’m not a bankruptcy lawyer.
Strange the site is still up and running - does that mean it this is less voluntary? Or that they staff work in an inconvenient timezone?
Doesn't make sense. If you have 10 engineers building a product and you sell one subscription for $100 you won't be profitable. When you sell a million you will have generated $100M, with have a far greater probability of being profitable.
> Georgescu-Roegen, a Romanian-born economist, dismissed the free market fairy tale of a pendulum swinging back and forth, effortlessly seeking a natural state of equilibrium. He argued that the economy was more like an hourglass, a one-way process converting valuable resources into useless waste.
Congrats on the workflows launch :) Amazing product, just like components and Retool mobile.
>I wonder if it was workers right's and conditions got them in the end.

As someone who runs a business down under, this is just a pretty poor excuse.
Well compensated workers mean well compensated customers, and even our high unskilled wages don't come close to the output of a well managed worker.
FTX CEO begged for a rescue even as he revealed holes in firm's books
> 16 Nov 2022 06:33:23 UTC

> We are currently experiencing a DDoS attack. We have a number of mitigations in place to minimize the attack’s effects. Some customers will see a degradation of services.

Joy. But the app is back up for me, at least.
wtf no, they aren't even in the same column of the balance sheet.

Productivity = output per unit of input, according to some measure for output and input. For example, output = GDP, input = total hours worked.
Anglo Saxons are distinctly a minority in the US, both in population and power. The last two Presidents had primarily German (Trump) and Irish ancestry (Biden). The House speaker has Italian ancestry, while the Senate majority leader is Jewish. On the Supreme Court there is a single Anglo Saxon.
So... you are just going to ignore Salesforce? One of the biggest SaaS with all customer relationship data.
The Reason You’re Still Waiting to Order a Meal
Is this correct?

https://galactica.org/?prompt=If+my+credit+card+bills+me+on+...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_information_manager
> Monica lets you quickly and easily log all those information so you can be a better friend, family member or spouse.

Are we sure that to be a better friend, you need a digital reminder that your friends, their children, etc, exist?

I used to have calendar reminders of birthdays of friends, etc. I then removed them all. If it's really about a friend, I will remember without any help.
Same here. Desktop mail client just had its first successful connection in a little while.
T - 7 minutes and counting as of now! Fantastic to see this project moving forward and around the moon.
I assume you’re similarly unbothered by googles domination of search because rather than searching for information you could be baking a cake?
This makes no sense.

If a bar had 1 customer only, it should price drinks so that the entire rent and salaries were covered by that 1 customer. Which is not how it works in reality.
They created jobs that didn't exist before. A labor market exists. If you are not happy with the terms you are free to find employment elsewhere like anybody else.
In my opinion, the four or so biggest existential and ideological threats to the U.S. are:

1. Unabashed and unhinged capitalism (growth at all costs)

2. Nearly every social media platform

3. The mainstream media

4. Billionaires and more generally the ultrawealthy

As far as I can tell, basically no one in power cares about any of these (likely because they benefit from all of them), and they're tearing the U.S. apart from the inside.
I’m gonna play devil’s advocate here and suggest that you probably just didn’t know of the skeletons hidden in the closet. I came from one of those good families where things were handled reasonably and I was taught to deal with negative emotions and my mother was a saint and all of that is true; but my family is still fucked up, we still have our skeletons like everyone else I’ve ever met, and I’m still fucked up in my own way from some of it.

After typing this all out, I’m wondering if “fucked up” is not just a vernacular for “experienced”.
NASA Ground Systems – All elements polled are GO to proceed with terminal count
NASA's Exploration Ground Systems - @NASAGroundSys - 1m

All elements polled are 'go’ to proceed with the terminal count.

Countdown clock is resuming at T-10 minutes.

No constraints to launch.

Nov 16, 2022 · 6:36 AM UTC