skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that the issue arises from the difference in specificity about the desired result. When we say "astronaut riding a horse" we may have preconceptions but any astronaut riding any horse will likely be acceptable while asking for a specific proof of a result in mathematics has only a very few and very specific solutions. Effectively it is like the concept in math where the area of even a large number of points is effectively zero while even small polygons or regions is nonzero. Specific things like proofs are point like knowledge while the picture of an astronaut riding a horse is a surface.
Funny that this is being presented as "unpopular." It's very common advice from child behavioral therapists. What kids want is freedom; but what they need is responsibility.
Fair enough as I see now, let that be a lesson to me to simply not comment on an article with little interest to me but happens rope me in for a few sentences with a particularly dopey lede.
Dopamine is not the only thing.

You may want to focus on adrenal gland failure too if you can mix "-Constant positive.......bright colors" into a 5 minute window :p

https://www.healthline.com/health/dopamine-addiction
> Because the Starlink satellites in question don't exist yet, and it's Elon Musk making claims about existing handsets working -- he has a spotty record when it comes to making accurate announcements.

What do you mean? Teslas started self-driving across country to deliver themselves in 2017 as he promised, regular Mars flights began in 2020, and this year he hit two goals: shipping the colony equipment and bringing comedy back to Twitter!
You might want to change North America to just America. In Canada, SAR is free no matter where you are. Clawing back costs isn't a thing here.
Please also add filters that allow you to explicitly exclude remote jobs. I like to filter for jobs that are in person for 2+ days/week.
"The Ukraine" is a bit of a tell.

That aside, two missiles supposedly hit; if one's an S-300, that strengthens the theory the Ukranians intercepted a Russian cruise missile.

The Ukranians success on the battlefield makes false flag desperation pretty unlikely, especially with the risks to their aid in getting caught.

Whatever happened was almost certainly unintentional.
personally, at a time in my life when i'm relatively unsettled and moving a lot, my digital books have lasted a lot longer than my physical books.

maybe some day i'll have the luxury of storing a whole bunch of books, but they've always been one of the first things to to to the thrift store in a move. i've got my hardcover omnibus of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, and a kindle.
Like most things: EA as a concept is fine. Finding the "maximal" way to improve the lives of others is great, and finding better ways to contribute than charity and volunteering is honorable.

The issue is when people take it to the extreme (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 and recruiting to contribute more charity and volunteering), or just sidestepping "altruism" entirely and using the name and community as a stepping stone to push your unrelated scam.

I don't know whether or not SBF genuinely believed in effective altruism, but if he did, he let the "principles" override common sense.
It's my search engine for places to visit, things to do :) I usually just search for a destination, and scroll through the videos. TikTok videos IMO have much better quality than Google search results for travel topic.
The reason you like the bread that you eat in your country is because it's the bread that you grew up with. While there are certainly some breads in the US that I don't like (mostly the mediocre-quality mass-produced stuff[0]), the variety of good bread is pretty amazing. If you don't like it, that's fine, you do you.

[0] Which is undoubtedly made by an automated bread maker, so I don't think using a machine "fixes" bread.
Wizards' cherry blossom jerseys are new this year: https://www.digital.ink/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/wiz-2122-...
Alameda got called by their creditors on their loans because cz of binance have been slowly liquidating FTX position for the past year and half.

Market paniced when alameda attempted to buy all remaining FTX from Binance, at $22. Probably because Alameda has loans that would be liquidated under that price.

A Bank run materializes, and the rest is history.
No, it's the opposite. What leads to a "Russian" driving culture is people taking matters into their own hands.

I've lived in Europe. People love to be up and all about it, thinking they have the authority to do anything they want. We're in a civilized society here where we let the proper authorities take care of issues.
I'm looking for the inverse. I want an AM/FM tuner that I can stream audio from. It used to be I lived in a place without enough internet connectivity for streaming. Even still, AM/FM radio broadcast still worked. *If only there was a radio tuner that I could attach to a raspberry pi, then stream the audio from it. Bonus points if it lets me record live broadcasts.

* A non-janky solution, like something actually designed for audio.
What is the easiest way to try this via an API? I like that after reading about Flan-F5, that I could run their large model (not the extra, extra large) on Colab, loading the model from Hugging Face. I have been using GPT-3 for about a year via OpenAI.

In a way this was an obvious idea, but still major kudos for Meta for doing it. Hopefully there will be an affordable API for using it.
I couldn’t agree more. I’ve been an observer, seen family/friends deal with it, and/or been in leadership positions in a number of such organizations and they all have their own issues/dysfunction. Some were tolerable, others were not.

Realizing you have a lot of (if not full) control over what you associate with (company, religious org, etc) and therefore what levels of malfunction you do/don’t have to deal with is freeing. Specially with companies, I’ve had to encourage a number of friends/ex-coworkers to start looking for a new job after hearing what they put up with. The imposter syndrome is strong and feeling like they couldn’t get a better job (pay and/or environment). It’s wonderful when they get a new job and realize how what they dealt with was not “normal” or “ok”.
I'm not entirely convinced that the Fed will finish its rate hiking program. You have multiple members of the Fed jawboning about lowering the size of the hikes (Brainard comes to mind), and there's no way in hell politicians will let another 2008 real estate crisis happen again.
NASA – Red Crew Arrives at Pad
Why is this someone else's problem, other than the owner, or authorities in charge of this?

If there is a tree fallen on my property, are you going to come and remove it, or do you expect me to do it?
It's almost as it the more refined the technology, the lesser the shelf life.
You clearly didn't understand the Reddit conspiracy theory you posted, which is about the World Economic Forum, which meets in Davos and had Bolsonaro as a keynote speaker. If you can't understand it, how can you expect the rest of us to understand the conspiracy theory?
For whoever needs to hear this:

I think of a time when I wanted to leave a company, and people pull a line like this out. They'd accuse me of a "grass is greener" mentality and try to tell me I had it good as I could get. But they were pretty spectacularly wrong.

Yes, all companies and all humans have problems. Perfection doesn't exist.

But this is not an excuse for a shitty or abusive employer, or just one that isn't for you. If you have intuition that there is better out for you, make a plan and follow it.
Two people receive transfusions of lab-grown blood cells
How do you build this? The code structure looks different than a normal Rust project.
Funny quote. Except I think it's also the case that Americans on the whole don't seem to leave their country as much as other citizens of the "western world." So they're not enjoying these privileges.

Travel into the United States is so terrible and authoritarian, especially after 9/11 -- but I don't think Americans on the whole get it. Because their own country is such a centre of gravity that they don't experience it as much as others, or know the contrast on how things happen elsewhere.

As a Canadian, living next door in a "friendly" country, we used to (before 9/11) be able to cross over with just a driver's license. Now, if I travel by myself without my wife and kids, I'm lucky if I can make it over for a quick ski trip or whatever without being detained and aggressively questioned for an hour and having my car searched. It now happens to me the majority of times.
I'm not sure I get what Paul's trying to say here. Why is doing what you want a requirement for action? There's a known neurological difference between the brain's "wanting" and "liking" systems. Is he mixing up the two?
Sports is a bit of a natural monopoly. No matter how many leagues you have, the best of each are still gonna wanna play eachother.
Maximizing earnings by any means is verifiably not effectively altruistic, because if everyone did this... no one would ever engage in true charitable causes. Young people would compete simply to rip off the gullibility of older people looking to scratch the charitable itch.
They should really change the name to “Social Science American”

I haven’t seen any real scientific articles of theirs posted on HN in a while
What kind of healthcare are we talking about.. Do you require HMO, PPO, or Kaiser?

Heaven forbid you question or disagree with him.. Musk has morphed himself into the Queen of Hearts from Alice In Wonderland.

"Off with his head!"

Your boundless enthusiasm is admirable, chatterhead. I'd be sad for you if the reality version of this didn't align from what you're imagining in your fantasy.

p.s. Do you check your inbox, or am I not worth responding to? No hard feelings here :)
> the SOS button is still fundamentally potentially a completely open-ended liability if you haven't taken Garmin's 30 buck annual insurance option for it.

Not in Canada. SAR is completely free in Canada for the reason you've basically alluded to in your next paragraph.

> but I can absolutely understand why people would wait a bit longer than they should before pressing.

I've been to a number of presentations from the local SAR, and whenever they're asked about this, they say that the reason SAR has no cost is precisely because they never want people to hesitate before pressing the button or making the call.
You will be missed
I’m not so sure that’s true: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-m...
Aaaand this is why time discounts exist and are steep. Not because we are incapable of or unwilling to comprehend future rewards, but because we don't know if they'll come to pass. It's a dampening parameter - if you don't do it, you fall prey to Basilisks.
Even if it is, it's not his responsibility, not his right?1

If I see someone speeding, should I jump in the road and tell them to slow down? If I see someone parked illegally, should I slash their tires? It makes no sense.
From the perspective of the people on HackerNews, they are.

You'd be shocked how often I hear engineers complaining about "politics" at the company (that they're trying to avoid) when really they're just talking about...human interactions. Humans being human.
> DRM sucks in theory, but in reality this is all rarely a problem.

> And in another 15 years, I will probably still be able to read those books

I bet the non-DRM books you bought on your kindle can also be opened 15 years later.
Yeah it’s basically “give me your money and I promise I’ll do really cool things with it”.

No thanks.
Its like Fish shell vs Bash shell.

Bash has weird defaults so you end up googling for everything. In fish, it just works and you barely need to search for anything.

Sane defaults matter. With hg, I don't need to struggle to get it to do what I want, it just gets out of the way. With git, sure it works but like you said it has a bunch of ducktaped tools together that change the defaults or just generally make things easier.

Now hg is half the pattern here. The other half is stacked commits. Each commit should build and get reviewed separately. There isn't any waiting for reviews on each commit, they all get reviewed over time and you rebase any changes that are requested. With git this is amazingly painful and half my zshrc is about making this simple. With hg, it just works. Take a look at hg absorb or hg split, theyre features built on top that yeah can replicated in zsh scripts but its kind of nice when you can assume they just work. It means junior engineers don't spend hours trying to fight git with stacked diffs.

Sapling is trying to fight the network effect here by doing the classic built a compatible but legitly better front end. Compatible with github but sane defaults is a BIG thing.
I am a bit lost. Most of the discussions seem to focus on micromanagement of commits in your local HEAD branch.

I agree that the Git commands are pretty primitive (aka low-level). But eventually you can learn the good patterns and deal with that.

For me, the big question is how to manage a monorepo (with zillion of branches) so you can express which set of branches are relevant to your current concern at time T:

- focusing on the dev of a given set of features,

- frozing them into a delivery,

- pushing a stable monorepo+that frozen delivery to your validation platform,

- once validated, integrating that frozen delivery to one of the master branches of the monorepo,

- management of the many master branches corresponding to each subparts of the monorepo into a supermaster branch

Does this tool (or Mercurial in general) help with all that mono-repository branch management ?
It is sad! Distributing mosquito nets in malaria-afflicted areas saves lives on the cheap and is universally acclaimed. How better to describe this than "effective altruism"?

Why do perfectly nice general descriptive terms so often become tightly bound with one small group and their whole very particular worldview?
I'm in the middle of building literally the exact same thing for myself.

Beyond privacy/security, the aspect of the app I worry about the most is giving oneself perfect memory and then never being able to escape the past. That last fight you had with your ex? Well now its recorded and you can listen to it, and dissect it, and wonder what you could have done differently, right up until you blow your brains out.

But, as always, its up to the user to use the technology in a healthy way. It would be, after all, a choice to remain mired in the past rather than taking healthy lessons from it to make your future better.
Aaaand it’s gone: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DT7bX-B1Mg
Facebook was a large contributor to Mercurial for a number of years [0]. They wanted to contribute to making Mercurial scale but it seems like they wanted to move faster and/or in a different direction than the Mercurial team wanted. Funnily I think they originally chose Mercurial for essentially hitting those same roadblocks from the Git community. Instead of continuing to contribute to Mercurial they forked and continued working on it internally, now released as Sapling.

Many companies/organizations won't hit the size/scale where this matters but there are certainly plenty of companies who have large repositories and contributors that would benefit from something like Sapling over Git/Mercurial. These tools start to become slow. Many addons have been created to ease the problem (LFS or Microsoft's VFSforGit, narrow/shallow checkouts, etc.) but they also add complications (LFS especially in my experience). Monorepos have their advantages [1], and even with disadvantages they exist and won't go away. It's more appealing to migrate a monorepo to a new tool that adds more benefits specific to monorepos than to break apart a monorepo into separate repos.

The architecture that's being moved into seems to be less decentralized which is what Git/Mercurial were initially pioneering. I believe Google has essentially also built their own server-side SCM [2] and made Git/Mercurial clients (or wrappers for a client). I believe Microsoft did something similar forking Git and/or making their own server-side SCM but I don't recall where I came across that.

[0] https://engineering.fb.com/2014/01/07/core-data/scaling-merc...

[1] https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/monorepos/

[2] https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Google-employees-use-Piper-inst...
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> You've never seen a paperback made in the 1960s-1990s?

I own tons from the 80s, all are in perfect condition. Also a few dozen from the 70s and they're all fine.

I also have a few books from the 1800s, those are hardcovers not paperbacks but also in reasonably good shape.
All humans are fucked up.

All human collectives are fucked up.

Yet in spite of this, we persevere, and we have been able to achieve incredible things.

Companies are just human collectives within a parameterized template of constraints under the current structure of human society.

And they're more or less fucked up on some degree, just like every group of humans from 1 to 1.5Billion
SourceForge was pretty successful back in the day and they were pretty bland compared to GitHub.
'Digital newsletters humanise you to your readers'
What I wrote was based not only on submissions but on comments as well.
Maybe this is superficial, but I was put off by the name "effective altruism". By naming it such, it felt like an implicit dig that most altruism is not effective. Like oh your altruism is not that productive, but my altruism, well it's effective altruism. Especially when that notion is pushed by people who overlap with the rationalist subculture, another arrogantly named group.

In general I find it concerning when technical people encroach upon non-technical areas without giving a sufficient amount of respect to the people who were in the field already. Those people, the experts, do know a lot and to have this kind of nerd savior branding of effective altruism, as if you are bringing the enlightenment that allows these poor altruists to finally be effective, well that just seems a little presumptuous.
I’m wondering how low it will take this service to be completely overwhelmed by non emergency use. People already call 911 all day for things that aren’t true emergencies… how will this service cope with that?
idk if it's all bad, I remember reading about it maybe a decade ago when rationalists talked about it. Like one good idea is donating to charities that are more efficient. But it seems like mostly BS wrapped up in mathematics to make it seem more rational. Some assumptions are not necessarily true but if you disagreed then you were immoral and irrational. It also comes with a form of very elitist virtue signalling like forming clubs where people bloviate about this.

Also a problem with charity, especially in the US, is as the IRS defines it, it's not necessarily charitable. So it's easy to confuse altruism with plain old politics, vanity, and for-profit business disguised as a tax-exempt and then argue that anyone that disagree is not rational.
That does not mean anything for SBF and people should not stop repeating this.
iPhone freezes when hit share button
This issue is occurring on tons of iPhones for last several months. Apple does not bother. After the initial template response on the thread, they haven't even acknowledged the issue despite the fact it is reported by several hundred users.
it is hard to make money from subscription. It might work if it is a 1 to 5 person team. But if have more than 5 people and executive roles taking big salaries, it is very difficult to become profitable.
I looked up those formats and they are all around 30 years old, which is insane for technology and around when Windows 3.1 and Mac OS 7 were released. So maybe they will stay...

They are all-but deprecated though: HTML 1.0 is much different from HTML5 (2014); XML is upgraded to XML 1.1 (2004) and most people use JSON nowadays; and ZIP is very inferior to gzip and 7-zip. We're lucky web browsers are strict with never remove compatibility for old sites, and ZIP is still used by macOS instead of .tar.gz for some reason.
The "That’s it!" at the end gave me a nice chuckle. Fun article, quite involved it seems.
Just the other day I was listening to this Dave Troy podcast "against long termism"[0] and it's the first time I ever heard the term "effective altruism", however within the last few days of having listened to EA has come up multiple times. I also remembered when listening to it that the title screen of the Baba Is You videogame on the nintendo switch promotes the "Giving what we can" charity. Very interesting stuff, I highly recommend checking out not only that podcast but the rest of the Oil, Gold, Crypto and Fascism series from Dave Troy.

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/against-longtermism-wi...
> capped at $50k

oh well thank God for that. this won't bankrupt anyone.
FTX founder is (was?) a major donor to the democrats and has family ties to the establishment.
I believe the term came about in the early days of steam power when designers had a habit of “overcompensating” because boilers had a history of catastrophic and deadly failures. This lead to excessive and unnecessary overbuilding of the boiler walls which ironically made it MORE dangerous when it exploded.
Effective altruism (EA) is a philosophical and social movement that advocates "using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as possible, and taking action on that basis". [1]

Seems like a good idea, if only just to have some sort of open-system for rating charities. I suspect the issue is everything that comes around the idea, specially... people. The problem is always people :-). Perhaps a "Michelin Guide to Charities" would be easier to market and explain? :-p

My favorite explanation of how "effective altruism" works is this SMBC comic [2]. :-)

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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

2: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-07-13
Doing “a bunch of good” with money you scammed from your customers is not actually doing a bunch of good.
Effective altruists would risk the 10% chance of making thousands of clients lose all their money if it gives them a 50% chance of donating more to charity later. Since it makes sense according to their utility function. That’s what we learned from the FTX debacle. Sort of reminds me of the paper clip manufacturer A.I. who ends up killing all humans due to a broken utility function.
As a new engineer this platform suffers from the same issue that most out there do that would cause me to never consider paying for it, the skill filter seems to do very little. Even with junior selected, a number of posts appear for seniors or people with 3 or 4+ years of experience.
Tankies are extremely pro-Russia. In fact, the term "tankie" was coined when the Soviet Union rolled tanks on socialist protesters that wanted to leave the USSR because it was clearly just another form of exploitation. Socialist movements in other countries split between pro-Russia, and anti-Russia. Or, more accurately, authoritarian left versus libertarian left.

Russia today is an ethnofascist dictatorship, but most tankies don't care because America Bad.
Disney plus ain’t free though. It’s actually one of the more expensive streamers
Rats can move their heads in time to music
You can pair the Garmin to a phone. You cannot make calls from that phone over the inreach network.
I love it, except the parts that show *gore*. IMO this could have been much more fun without them.
You would think that, but then you look at its release notes.
The FBI admitted to at least 5 informants as part of the group. Testimony implicated another 7 informants. So yes, that's a fact. And I don't need to sling it around, it came out at trial.