skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on your country, freelancing next to the day-job may be an option to testing "the new job" without giving up the security/benefits of an employment (for instance an affordable employer's contributed health care if you are in western europe). Hourly rates for IT freelancing professionals are only increasing, there is a long standing and ongoing shortage for skilled people. It is not uncommon to earn a yearly sallary of an employee within a few month as a freelancer. This means: Even more time to checkout what you really want to do.

Edit, disclaimer: I co-founded a cooperative to help skilled IT people to work independently as freelancers, giving legal advices and a network.
xkcd as relevant as ever: https://xkcd.com/1683/
> It didn't work because it seems that although I paid for my phone, it's not really my phone.

Root it.
Well, if we're quoting...

"They fuck you up, your mum and dad

They may not mean to, but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had

And add some extra, just for you."

...

(Philip Larkin)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-ver...
Menulog has been around in Australia for years (far before handling the delivery service part)

I remember working in a pizza shop 10 years ago and Menulog's business was taking online orders then having an offshore call center call the restaurant to place the order. They would just invisibly mark up the cost to consumer to cover this.

(It was always a pain to take these orders as the callers english wasn't great and the call audio volume was low making it difficult to hear when busy causing incorrect orders, missed items etc.)
It's funny when you get paid to do what you like. It stops being a chore and you feel like it's almost cheating. You're paying me for this?

Then of course, not all days are like that. Although John Conway allegedly said that he never worked a day in his life. Can't find the source of that though.

I think it's sometimes an overlooked mistake in companies when they move people around. "Hey, Tim is like a world class performer. He's doing X, let's move him to Y". It works for some, but not for others.
> Is there a term you would deem acceptable for seeking to give to others in a cost-effective manner?

Not the OP but State-imposed socialism might do the trick. Free housing, free decent education, free healthcare, what's there not to like?

The only thing is that you wouldn't be the one "doing" the giving as an individual, because that's not your job to do (again, as an individual).
Sponsored by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
> BS about some theoretical risk that might come in the future

Like increased rate of hurricanes due to climate change?

One does need to seriously consider low probability, high impact events, like pandemics, in one's future planning and resource allocation.
Spaceport Cornwall awarded licence to host UK’s first space launch
Hydrogen might be a solution to powering marine shipping too.

Can be produced en masse and co2-free by big fission reactors & renewables.

Although having SMRs directly power ships would be cool too.
It’s incredible and the more organisations doing amazing things in space, the better! If SpaceX are focusing on unit economics and repeatable smaller launches, and NASA are still on the big ticket strategy - well, having both can only be a good thing!
> HTML, XML, and ZIP files aren't going anywhere (or there'll be a collapse of society so thorough that print books are unlikely to survive, either)

I very strongly disagree. The amount of technical overhead required to render a simple zipped XML from some storage medium is immense. Even if you store this on tape, you need a tape machine to read the bits. If you manage to pull this off, you won't get anything useful, because the XML is zipped. Deciphering a ZIP and translating it into bits which only make sense if you know that they represent binary numbers and must be read according to an obscure translation table (UTF-8) which is stored also digitally, someplace else, is more difficult than deciphering the enigma code, the hyroglyphs, and the Inca knot language combined. And even if you manage to pull off this unbelievable feat, you still require a parser, a renderer, a display or a printer to even get close to the possibility for a human to read it. For all of that, you not only need electricity, but the devices required are usually easily broken, and manufacturing them requires knowledge and a technical overhead (and also an amount of electricity) orders of magnitude larger than simply using them. Not to mention all the raw materials required to produce a display, a CPU, etc, which may simply be unavailable to future generations.

Now imagine humankind after a complete societal collapse. Tribe A finds, in some basement that survived the apocalypse, a collection of basic medical books. Tribe B finds, in another basement, an unlabeled hard disk containing the entire Wikipedia, as a zipped XML file. Which tribe is more likely to survive?
Wikipedia is definitely a good example of interlinked documents, indeed. Blog is probably too (editing blog is entirely different process, though, and needs an app — you wouldn’t call Adobe Acrobat “a document” )

What I’m trying to say that it’s hard to draw the line between documents and apps if all you have is a tabbed document viewer and you forced to build apps on a document typesetting engine.
Could this be a replacement for git-annex?
I'm using git-annex for a while, but its slow and has some quirks.
I would love to use version control on my whole home dir and sync different computers with it.

https://git-annex.branchable.com/
More HN commentary on the post of the Twitter version of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33619874
learn sales, it fixes everything.
There’s huge tension between the idea that Nixon was responsible for Watergate and:

> the President “revealed something more acute: a fear of Hoover’s skill at wielding power, and a sense that even the President was no match for the F.B.I. director.” Nixon told his aides, “We may have on our hands here a man who will pull down the temple with him, including me.
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It's the first time this particular element has been observed in this context. Other trans-iron elements have been seen in the atmospheres of hot white dwarfs before, so not that surprising.
Commercial SMRs might be more economic than a military reactor.

Especially if you have tons of space like here.
Still doesn't change my point.

Manufacturers (other than Tesla) know people aren't going to pay MSRP.

"Negotiating a better deal" is just bullshit. Honda will throw a $24K MSRP on a Honda Civic knowing people will probably actually pay $22K or whatever.

The problem here is that you think that if Tesla participated in negotiations, then you could get a $63K Model 3 Performance for $58K by negotiating. That is false. What would actually happen is that they would up the sticker price to $68K so you could feel like you got a deal when you drive away after paying $63K.
A ponzi scheme can turn into a roughly zero sum game if there isn't a rush but instead stable behavior over hundreds of years. Which is exactly what you describe with gold.

Plus, gold actually does have some industrial uses so its value is actually somewhat greater than zero even if people one day woke up and didn't think it looked good for jewelry :P
There are often cases where we know a dead civilization exists in the archaeological record in a particular place, but with no surviving texts buried there documenting the place's name; and we know that references to a place that sound like they're talking about that dead civilization, exist in other civilizations' surviving contemporaneous texts; but we can't be sure the references are talking about the particular place/civilization that we've found archaeological records of.

One good example: is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Punt the same civilization as / continuous with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum ? There's a lot of "circumstantial evidence" for that conclusion, but nothing definitive.
Or other businesses will be able to compete in the labour market with real wages once the exploiters are no longer able to profit off desperation. We have minimum wage laws for a reason and skirting around them and claiming that the “contractors” should be thankful for their meagre share is nonsense.
I think it’s fair to say that SpaceX has done innovative work here too. And if the SLS and Starship launches go as planned, SpaceX will have launched Starship many times before Artemis launches a second time. And Starship will be able to launch for 1/30th the cost, at a significantly higher launch cadence.

I will personally be surprised if SLS still exists in a decade.

Just remember I am saying “if Starship development goes according to plan” which I think is reasonably likely but of course not guaranteed.
"saving a life" is kind of vacuous.

You need to contextualize the life saved, do we mean they went to live one more day, or a full long life of prosperity and comfort with a happy painless death from old age.

And did they themselves gain the means to save more lives in turn?

For example, I feel giving people the means of saving their own life, or other people's lives a much more efficient way to save lives than actually saving a life.

And finally you have to address the sacrifices you've made and the people you've hurt in pursuit of saving that life.

To me, it looks like a charade, because the claim that you can actually measure and quantify all of these complex systems to truly arrive at the real impact of all these things, I just don't believe it. It seems you've picked a simple metric to measure, because it's easy, but is it lasting impact, is really more meaningful impact, that's all all still up in the air.
Isn't that just following the norms of US vs norms of China? What would you rather have them show in the US, communism propaganda?
I know how hard is to get feedback on new product ideas, so here are my 2cent:

> What can we do better?

Explain for who is this for (it's quite reductive to say that it's for everyone who wants to get a job in tech), and what value we do get. There are thousand of free remote job boards, what is the competitive advantage of using this one? on which dimension is 10x better than the status quo? If I have to pay is because it's should drastically increase my chance on some particular aspect of the job hunting process.

> Are you gonna give us money?

No. I can't see the value of this compared to other alternatives or something that I can do by myself by browsing the web. Providing access to the raw data sounds like the quickest pivoting idea, but I don't think that it's necessarily right, or at least it could serve a tiny niche that may eventually become your beachhead in this market as you as you figure out how people use those data.

> Why do you hate the design?

I don't think you have issue with it's usability (forgetting for a second about the things you are still working on), but it's a matter of I don't understand the value of using it.
> (And maintain off-site backups in case of fire at the Monastery, and ...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongle_Encyclopedia

:(

For every important historical work we have, there are several more, at least as important, that we know we're missing. And presumably even more that we've never heard of.
I'll donate if they promise to christen it Great A'Tuin.
Twitter Working on End-to-End Encryption for Direct Messages
No worries mate: Deliveroo was a distant fourth in the market, so their riders can continue to be exploited by any of Uber Eats, Menulog and Doordash.
and both canals
Couldn't agree more.

I was not aware of how the NASA budget compares to US military spending, so I just looked it up.

In Fiscal year 2022 the DoD had $1.94 Trillion allocated to it. Or $1,940 billions. NASA's budget in FY 2022 is $30.62 Billion.

So reducing military spending by 1/64th will free up as many resources as closing NASA altogether.
Literally ANY digital format can be converted to a modern version fully automatically once the need arises. You need to solve the problem once, build a tool, and from that moment on you can convert as many files as you need with a single click. This is way cheaper and easier than dealing with paper rot and ink blended by acids from air and paper.
I felt the same watching that. You can almost feel the complete absence of telemetry.
I think it's likely that a significant portion of those liabilities were generated from magic beans and ought to be ignored when comparing the size of the collapse with other things.

To give a hypothetical example: Alameda, as a customer, deposits magic beans with a mark to market value of a billion dollars. Then Alameda trades the magic beans for a billion dollars of BTC-perp (FTX paper bitcoin), with FTX acting as the counterparty (which I believe they typically were for trades of the perpetuals). Now FTX's balance sheet reflects $1 billion in Bitcoin liability (plus being long $1 billion worth of magic beans)-- but in this example no bitcoin had been deposited at all-- just magic beans.

When sizing up the losses, all liability ultimately resulting from magic beans ought to be backed out. This is exit complicated because some of the magic-bean derived paper assets have presumably been withdrawn using customer deposits, and those funds are actually lost even if the depositors that brought them in never traded (and simply deposited in FTX because of the ponzi-scheme grade yields they were paying depositors).
Tears as in tearing up a book in frustration, or tears as in crying? Possibly both...
> But there are heaps of people who're happy to pay exorbitant prices to have things delivered to them.

What's "exorbitant" is relative. Back when I was making not a lot of money, I'd go to the farmer's market and pick some of the nicest looking cheap tomatoes.

A few years afterwards, as my income grew, I just started going to the supermarket and picking what I liked. Someone asked me at home: "What was the price of those tomatoes?" and I didn't remember because I stopped checking.

> I can't imagine how much it adds to our carbon footprint!

And this is why we need systemic measures (i.e. regulation, national and international), not "personal responsibility". Either due to financial pressure or convenience, people's revealed preferences say that individually they don't really care about the environment. They say they do, because talk is cheap, but when they find out what they're about to lose to save it, everyone (99.999%) chooses what's cheaper or more convenient for them, personally.
Capitalism is simply what you get when you “allow” people to own property. The question of whether private property should be prohibited certainly has moral implications.
Sad to see how crappy today’s assembler documentation is in comparison (especially Apple)
Can't wait to buy a house to actually own physical books - until then kindle is the best approach!
Coding pairs well and elevates many other side-hustles, I think.

Nearly every job can benefits from automation, and if it can't, then the logical thinking that coding requires will improve it in some way.

I paired coding with fiction writing and made a scifi podcast, which now represents 10% of my monthly income after two years!

I wrote up my experience and advice here, if you're interested in the details https://www.0atman.com/articles/21/make-fiction-podcast
> I've dug into this stuff over the last couple days, because I had previously understood Effective Altruism to be something akin to like a pledge drive for Charity Navigator's best-reviewed charities or something, and it turns out it's nothing of the sort.

As someone with multiple EA friends: this is precisely what it is.

> they have their own weird language, there's a hierarchy, and people on the inside operate under a constant threat of ostracism.

The first is true, the latter two are bullshit.

> Either way: when your logic has established that you can obtain moral superiority by literally buying indulgences

That's a gross mischaracterization. A better metaphor is Robin Hood, someone who steals from the rich to give to the poor. And who is widely regarded as a folk hero.

> tens of millions in donations to "AI safety" organizations.

If AGI has even a 1% chance of happening this century and those donations reduce the risk of it going wrong and killing everyone by 1% that's still money very well spent.
> why do you disapprove of funding research into AI safety

This is what I'm replying to. And yes Climate Change is a worrying problem, but it won't be solved by people throwing tantrums in museums
The State of Independent Game Development
DNS open zone data (2021)
Interesting concept, but the issue is that one would need to constantly charge the phone and batteries have a tendency to go bad after some time with such usage.
They do. I’ve had a deliveroo order be delivered to me by driver in JustEat branding ha
A theater won't have the same impact everywhere. You likely don't know anything about the neighborhoods in Africa, and how impactful a theater there could be.

You know a lot better what a theater could bring to a neighborhood you know well.

And then, there's the question of if altruism itself is most efficient at helping others. Some would argue that helping oneself but where it benefits others as well, win/win situations, in practice produces better outcomes. The idea of self-sacrifice, or having to lose or risk something personal to help others sounds noble, but might not be most effective.
Not a typical use-case, but I used Fedora Server for my personal media server (Jellyfin, Nextcloud, Syncthing just to name a few) and it's been great (Though I do have to fix things occasionally since I live on the edge and auto-update every night). Since most of my service runs in Podman container, I'm contemplating switching to rpm-ostree based one like Fedora IOT, but haven't got the time to get around it yet. Used to use Silverblue for my personal laptop, but I switched to Mac M1 that I got from my job. I miss how simple and configurable Linux is compared to Mac, and if my next gig won't require a Mac I'll probably go back to Silverblue.
More recently (March of this year) I also started to teach what I can about coding on my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/NoBoilerplate)

Which has seen enormous positive feedback - and youtube ads are very fair (50/50 split between you and Google), and you don't have to chase the money, it's all handled for you! Another 10% of my monthly income comes from YT, I'd guess.

The key with a youtube channel is to differentiate yourself from the rest in some way. I'm trying to do that with careful script writing and high-quality audio. Don't just dive in and waffle for 30 minutes while screenrecording, practice!
I agree with your broad point however I think the proof example is off.

Finding a proof is the hard part. Verifying a proof is the easier part. So the AI could search for likely proofs and we can use other mechanisms to reliably verify them. This doesn’t require high accuracy in the search stage to be reliable overall.
I agree. But then still the question remains: sell what?
IMO it's short-sighted to think those are the only two options.

Someone who finds it repugnant could:

1) Try to unionize, and hope for either a more effective bargaining position, or cause the owner to spend even more time on anti-union efforts and risk possible NLRB involvement.

2) Convince the owner to change his mind. This doesn't need to be direct; could leak internal information with the goal of influencing change through public reaction.

3) Not be so dedicated to getting the job done. If the wages and benefits decrease, then adjust the labor to match.

4) Sabotage from within. For classic examples, see the old OSS "Simple Sabotage Field Manual", section "General Interference with Organizations and Production". https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Simple_Sabotage_Field_Manual/...
And a brief addendum: it is vastly both telling and unsettling that the core movement 1) recognizes that their most brutal “calculations” would be looked on in horror and absurdity (rationalized no doubt as those who simply are not enlightened or intelligent enough to understand) and therefore 2) work to silence adherents who start to explore them in any type of open forum, necessitating 3) a PR campaign that blithely pays lips service to welcoming all ideas and open discussion at the same time that 4) it is clear there are aspects or implications of their philosophy that they are only willing to talk about behind closed doors.

It really, really, is not hard to see where applying quasi mathematical calculation will get you when you start weighing hypothetical future lives against the resources directed today towards various EA projects.

Anything can be justified when you’re trying to do mathematical ethics against vastly unlikely but catastrophically bad scenarios, all while ignoring the fact that if you don’t address the “right now” systemic and intractable problems we’ll get to much more likely existential crisis long before we have to worry about runaway ai-complete malevolent entities causing harm.

And that is actually an apt example— there is a certain amount of overlap between the EAS movement and the rational discussion communities that came up the idea of Roko’s Basilisk.
I love all the videos on this channel. The partial differential equations tour is incredible too.
Ahh, I had one I looked at once, the pads not being supposed to be black does bring back questions I had >D
Doesn’t a hot job market and social safety net equally provide workers freedom to choose an alternative to the supposedly exploitative gig without regulation?

Generally, if a job market is hot, it means employers are incentivized to not be jerks and try to lure workers to them with perks, thereby giving plenty of alternatives to those who feel exploited.

And given a social safety net, wouldn’t one not feel “stuck” in said job as a necessity to live?

If someone still chooses something “exploitative”, then perhaps there is a benefit to that job that makes it worth while in a way that regulators (and others privileged enough not work said job) don’t see themselves.
> "My altruism is more effective than anybody else's, so I'm going to steal everybody else's money so that I can put it to better use."

> How do you stop this shit?

If you ask yourself why you think "this shit" is bad, at root there will be a consequentialist reason. Deontological ethics is consequentialism by heuristics.
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