skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that would make the movement suspect. But if you'd read MacAskill or other sources, you'd know the original motivation was pretty much the opposite. The were aghast that lots of people currently donate to charities that ensure e.g. 4 livers to save 4 lives for the same amount of money that could've saved 1000 lives in another country. To reiterate, all these donors are already altruistic, and the original EAs were horrified at the 996 lives lost through the altruists' lack of thought.

The emphasis is not on the altruism but on the effectiveness. The altruism is a given: if it wasn't, you'd not be moved by any of the material anyway.
Probably not, no. There are so many companies with amazing leaders that fly underneath the radar. I can have amazing experiences other places without the hassle of dealing with Musk and still have time to be with my family and work on my hobbies.
Could you share what programming he's doing? Is he using a specific app?
Much of the apparent distortion in post 83 tracks is caused by the horizontal alignment of near field monitors beginning with the Yamaha NS-10 popularity. Realignment is a octagonal problem.

Edit: just try swivelling your earbuds 90 degrees..
I will only respond to 1.

> "No one has any idea how to create X now" does not lead to "Imminent creation of X is very unlikely to be true". Right?

Wrong. Here's the logical chain:

1. For someone to do X, they will need to know how to do X. (Unless you think it's all just alchemy, and we're boiling urine to distill gold.)

2. For creation of X to be imminent, someone's knowledge of how to create X will have to be almost complete.

3. Currently, no one knows how to do X.

4. Thus, creation of X is nowhere near imminent.
Accessibility Is Part of the Developer Experience
Who said people were posting this? Reportedly questioning strategy is enough to get canned. Surround yourself with enough yes-men and I'm sure magic will happen though /s
I have two kids in it, one 11 year old boy and one 8 year old girl. The school we were in switched to Montessori 4 years ago. The younger loves it. The older very much dislikes the open nature of the school day and struggles to complete tasks. His teacher has had to modify and provide him with much more structure than you would normally receive. You might say that’s because he didn’t start in Montessori from the beginning. But knowing my child, I think Montessori doesn’t work for some kids, in the same way rigid traditional schools don’t work for others.
While the LoRa radio modulation (phy) is licensed by Semtech, the MAC layer protocol - LoRaWAN is completely open and is free to be used, implemented and tinkered with.
https://lora-alliance.org/

Many implementations are also open-source, like The Things Stack from The Things Network.
It can also be run locally.

https://github.com/TheThingsNetwork/lorawan-stack
Ha! thats the thing, one person's annoyance is another's killer feature, something along the lines of https://xkcd.com/1172/
There are an overflow of reasons to dislike him that have nothing to do with his politics.
I'm interested in this calculation. Do you know of some data to support it?
Yes. But I'd add a large premium, in cash, to what I was asking for to hedge against the risk that he might one day choose to use a scorched earth business strategy on the bit I was in.
I like that concept of crypto being used for identity purposes. Sure there have been solutions like that for a long time but the difference here could be a much simpler way for average users to jump in. The technical knowledge needed to generate pgp or ssh keys is much higher than using a web UI to create a crypto wallet. A crypto wallet does sound similar to existing solutions like Open ID Connect but I think the difference here is a crypto wallet is decentralized vs. OAuth based flows typically have trusted secrets between centralized systems. A decentralized way to verify identity/avatar/username could be useful for some industries, possibly avoiding having to build user identity mgmt into a small/indie software project.

I think web3 will hold some promise if/when technical people develop some standards around using it vs. the marketing/finance folks pumping whatever scheme they are attempting.
I studied CS and worked at 2 FAANGS before joining Coinbase in 2020 then a blockchain layer 1 a couple of months ago. Coinbase made me multiple 7 figures on IPO day and even with the crypto crash my current job has a cash salary of $350k and ~$200k in tokens.

Yes the tech is not usually innovative or groundbreaking but nothing I worked on in my web2 career or college was cutting edge either.

When looking for a new job this year I got a l6 offer at meta, senior at apple, staff cloudflare and a couple of startup offers. Not only was the base pay significantly less, the tech and companies were boring, most required in office attendance.

So I went with a blockchain company because they were chill, fully distributed, pay was high, and work interesting (we use a lot of cryptography, I have 2 phd’s on my team).

Am I a cryptobro believing this field is the future? No it could all go to zero. Has crypto allowed me to retire and make more money than nearly every colleague in university and FAANGS? Yes.
Possibly, but chain of custody and credibility of claims matter. In my case it was all originally stored on a cloud security video storage system which I had emails going back years documenting existed, evidence the video came directly from it, and that it had been installed years before.

Also, the footage I provided was not showing anything unusual or hard to believe. I also had significant history available showing that this was normal and par for the course for me, not that anyone asked.

Their claims were quite extraordinary, and they had zero concrete evidence to back them up.

It still took awhile for the case to resolve, and they tried to make all sorts of other claims - including that the footage was from cameras that were installed without anyones knowledge and was illicitly recording, and was therefor illegal and inadmissible. so I dug up the email where the accuser had asked me for my permission if it was okay if they had it installed because it recorded audio too. That said, it was visibly, blatantly, and obviously installed in the open, and there were witnesses who could testify that had always been the case, so they had no leg to stand on anyway.

Even if I had the opportunity to fake it (which I could have, I guess, or at least edited it or something) it’s pretty hard to fake all
the other circumstances which support the validity of it. They never tried to impeach the video itself.

If someone provides an unsourced security video showing the person murdering the president, and the other person shows security video from a confirmed third party using a system that had existed for years, showing they were at home watching TV at the time - and the president appears to still be alive at the time and unharmed - it’s not hard to figure out who is faking it.

I’m having a hard time imagining how they could have produced a video supporting their claims with the same
level of even apparent credibility where it wouldn’t have fallen apart immediately with any investigation.

The courts already have to deal with people lying all the time and being disingenuous - it’s why the procedures exist and everything is so painful, IMO.

Knowing the rules and keeping documentation does work, generally.

I would recommend being careful to avoid situations which could be easily twisted or misinterpreted from the evidence however, especially after this situation. And never proactively provide data or show your hand to
someone trying to attack you this way, as it can provide them more means to try to twist things and make life harder.

Good attorneys are key here.
What's the best process to strip these hidden characters? Is the an app, or web service that will "clean" the copy?
I went through 4th grade. Afterward, I found school boring, and refused to do rote homework (because it was not how I learn things, and thus a boring waste to me).
His management style is not the worst thing about the guy.

If all the legends about him were true (superhuman BS detector, genius level IQ, laser sharp focus) I'd be happy to be part of the team.

Unfortunately, I think his main talent is the uncanny ability to overhype himself.

He is lucky that a side effect of this ability helped him hire and motivate really good engineers.

Thay might not be sufficient in the long run, the vaporware bubble will pop at some point.

https://elonmusk.today/
Avatar AI
What technology? What use? The piece starts with a relatively straightforward value play being cast as not web3 enough. What even does that mean? And we are not supposed to talk about it, just let it crash around us like a wave?
> I really hope that git is not the final word in version control.

common problem in open source. any project that gets big enough effectively stops anyone from wanting to work on an alternative, or use an alternative, due to the momentum of the large project.

deviating from it makes it harder to collaborate or be productive because the big project does everything (though often poorly), everyone knows it already, and no one wants to learn something new, and no one wants to work with the people using the weird thing.

same reason why it's hard to make a Facebook alternative.
Considering that Elon puts a lot of focus on ability and skill over formalities and organizations, and that he believes that small team of highly-skilled highly-motivated people can often (always?) out-perform large teams of moderately-skilled moderately-motivated people, I'd say yes.

I find a lot of joy in working on challenging problems without having to deal with bureaucracy bullshit. I have a feeling that Elon likes to foster this kind of environment in his places of employment.

On the other hand, I don't know if I'm good enough for such standards. But if Elon wanted to hire me, I'd definitely say yes.
This is a very poor design decision in retrospect, NTP should have always used TAI. But it's too late to change it. Unfortunately, not enough people know about this problem or even just about the existence of TAI.
You literally could not pay me enough money to work for him.
When it comes to programming, pretty much everything boils down to two key elements:

- Some kind of data/information, in some (digital) form of one structure or another.
- Methods, processes and operations that transform, transport and do other things to that data.

For example, in OOP, those two elements are generally combined together in organisational units ("objects"); on the other hand, in functional programming they are strictly separated.

Each of those paradigms - and many others - are just tools in our arsenal to achieve our goals, and neither is intrinsically better than the other. Depending on the context and environment that we are operating within, each has its advantages and disadvantages; some are better suited than others in certain cases.
> Isn't H2 energy density much better than Li-Ion batteries?

By weight, hydrogen and oxygen creates 20x more chemical energy per kilogram than lithium-ion batteries [1]. (It's comparable to gasoline and air.) By volume, uncompressed, it has far less. Once compressed, we have to take into account the weight of the containment tanks, the weight of the fuel cell and the energy lost in converting hydrogen to electricity, an output batteries directly provide, a combination which negates that specific energy advantage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density_Extended_Refere...
I prefer working in a stable environment, where I know the entire situation won't change from one moment to another. This allows me to do better work, with less stress. So no, I wouldn't work for Musk under a similar situation to Twitter, it'd be far too unpredictable.
I never want that though. If I wanted to do something like that, I'd do the git reset soft, followed by git stash, followed by git switch. I think this at least allows me to look back at it locally?

Git switch is also something I learned recently so sometimes I type checkout because of force of habit but I am trying to do better (even though I'm not sure what switch dies that checkout can't but don't want to get into arguments, just want to do things the prescribed way).
That's why I encourage everyone with a desktop system to run their HDMI outputs through a capture card as well as the monitors.
On the pixel phone "it just works" with keepass.

But yeah I didn't know about that option either in iOS after 2.5 years.. It says something about the UI I think.
Thanks for sharing that, I enjoyed it a lot. I had no idea Praxis existed, putting Bootsy and Buckethead in the same studio was bound to result in something good!
There is a lot in here that seems like unsubstantiated opinion, like the only sane way to give money being donations to a community, but I do agree that billionaires are policy failures. I just don’t see how all that relates to an individuals obligation to contribute to good.
Yes. But they'll say that anyway, even if you publish the document in full. This is why a trusted free press matters, and why authoritarians work so hard to undermine it.
How has LoRa adoption been since then? Any interesting applications?

Edit: it seems DASH7 is more widely deployed and apparently LTE-M is being pushed by telecom for IoT using existing 4G towers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE-M
zip2's code is primarily from hired software engineers
spacex is tom muller
tesla is someother engineers

Elon is not entirely marketing dude but also not really technically skilled. He is on a different dimension.
I attended a private Montessori for elementary school, then was home-schooled for middle school/junior high. I then went to a public (magnet art school) for high school.

The gap did provide a bit of a buffer, but I nonetheless did not care for the transition. While the systems were quite different, I believe it was more the difference in the teacher quality that had the largest impact. I was fortunate to go to a small, exceptional Montessori school before such things became ridiculously expensive, while the public school, although it had a few very good teachers, also had some very marginal ones (basically, tenured and terrible).

If the quality of teaching is similar, then I expect the transition would have been much easier. As others have noted, shop around since the teaching quality, rather than the teaching structure, is ultimately what was the starkest change for me.
Hydrogen is so incredibly easy to make yourself that I bet the ancient Greeks managed it by accident without knowing what they'd done.

This is in part because the actual scientific production of it via electrolysis predates batteries and dynamos, and instead involved generating electricity by rubbing things together, and the ancient Greeks doing this is why electricity is named after their word for amber.

Personally, I made it myself at single-digit-years-old with a battery, some wire, two pencils, two jam jars, and two yoghurt pots to stand the jam jars on.

Making hydrogen storage systems might not be a DIY option, but making the stuff itself certainly is.
Has Trump ever delivered anything?
Right now? Hell, no.

He's fired half the team, he's making radical changes very quickly, he's requiring long hours, and likely any new employee needs to figure out how to do their job on their own because it seems he fired people without much thought and so it's very possible that the people who know how stuff works are gone or too busy to help.

Meanwhile, revenue seems to be going down, and the perception is that it may all go down the drain.

That seems a very un-fun situation to be in, with very little to gain or learn from it.

Now, if he somehow left or sold the company to somebody else, then trying to pick up the pieces afterwards might be an interesting challenge, assuming the new management is supportive.
Current and former Twitter employees deserve it.

I would love to work for him for a coupe years, had I trusted my mental fortitude more.
Holy holy hell, I literally _just_ got my captital out this morning. That. was. close.
To expand on this, when you click that install button, you get a progress bar and a notification with that progress, so you can know what's happening and where it's at.

Just got an iPad through work, and i tried to install an app - there was just a loading circle animation, without any context or information. Guess what, it didn't work (but of course it wouldn't say it isn't working, it just kept spinning for tens of minutes), i had to set up a payment method first (for a free app, Obsidian, that supports payments for extra features). What the hell? Why no error message? Why no actual status instead of a useless animation?

Similarly, on macOS, the scroll direction cannot be changed between mouse and trackpad. There is a parameter in both menus, but they switch each other.

Yes, that is terrible UX.
Meshtastic requires a CLA.
OP here, sorry if you didn’t want this posted yet. I had never seen such a simple way to implement realtime collaboration so I thought I would share it.
There really needs to be a more clear separation between functional programming (a very unclear and ambiguous term) and pure functional programming (formerly just functional programming, short and well defined but with huge implementations)
> I am not sure exactly what people miss, but taking a stab in the dark - human emotions have evolved over millions of years to try and guide people in the direction of making rational decisions more often than not. The expected situation is that the rational option and the emotional option align.

I'm completely befuddled by this. My experience is that people make most decisions emotionally and then harness their brain to rationalize those irrational decisions after the fact. It's the reason that science (the process) has to exist. Because people will fool themselves to reach a conclusion they want if there are no procedural guardrails.
I've worked for CEOs who were very much like Elon.

Back in the 90's, it was exhilarating, and he made you feel like you were an important person working on important things for an important company.

To give you an idea of what this company was like, the employee sexual harassment manual came in a huge white three-ring binder. The binder contained a single page, with a single sentence: "Use your common sense." Each employee had to sign the bottom of the page and return it to HR.

The CEO's personal stationery had a monogram of a butt on it.

Looking back, that feeling of invincibility and righteousness was probably just the CEO exploiting the youthful optimism of employees like me.

I wouldn't do it again. It's exhausting, and hollow. I'm a better person today than I was then.
Chinese authorities call on retired soldiers to help Foxconn iPhone plant
Is there a root method that falsely reports that SafetyNet is still intact?
My submission is still there as well. [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33614533
Care to elaborate on the martingale part, very curious.
As a Newfoundlander and developer, I think we have enough Newfoundlands already :)
Well if you want high transaction fees then it will never replace cash. Enjoy your make believe speculative asset. I want none of it.
That was poorly worded. What I meant was that React Native results seem good but the system itself looks fragile and messy and rickety. It seems to inherit a lot of the complexity and irregularity diseases that plague the entire JavaScript and web ecosystem.
The former is true, KDE ships with a clipboard manager with history, macos just has copy/paste. You need something like Maccy to manage history.
The problem is EA community rallied around SBF while he was doing this stuff publicly.
Yes

My oldest daughter attended private Montessori until age 12 when she transitioned to an exurb public Middle school in an extremely high income area.

Transition was easy because the Montessori middle school she was going to was new and hadn't gotten their legs yet, so had a pretty lackluster program. Adding to that the lack of extracurricular and club/team opportunities, and small class sizes, Montessori method starts be become a hindrance to learning the complex social dynamics you need to survive IRL.

My other kids transitioned to US public education at 8 and 10 respectively with no issues

The most difficult transition was for the 8 year old, simply because her personality fits the more loosely structured method of Montessori better, however this faded pretty quickly

Should be noted also that my kids are extremely naturally gifted and generally live in the "AP/Honors" world, so would most likely flourish anywhere. YMMV
Consciousness as a Memory System
None of this has any true value, it's all just taste, human memory and preference. All you can do try try various systems and pick what works for you, while also remembering that you're not the only person in the world, and sometimes a not-as-good experience for yourself can mean a much better integration with the people you live and work with.
Sure. If you’re looking for “a job” then this situation is great (and there’s nothing wrong with that BTW). But for those of us who like to read Donald Knuth it’s been the road to serfdom.
Short answer: no.

Long answer: fuck, no.

Longer answer: Even if he wasn't the big douche he is, I don't like his work philosophy and the kind of workplace that he seems to build, and I don't share his beliefs that they are necessary to build great things.
Dont't most linux distros have separate packages for most recent python major versions, so that they can't installed in parallel?
I would not want to work at any company with a recently-gutted workforce where people are constantly looking over their shoulder, and where people with institutional knowledge have been pushed out.
Pure FP is most useful for IO. Without IO, the concept of pure FP doesn't make any sense.
Suggestion: if you want people to give honest answers to a question, it's best not to load the question with such a thickly non-neutral tone of voice.

Consider the difference between...

"Would you actually support an addled-brained radical leftist like Joe Biden if he ran for President in 2024?"

"Would you support Joe Biden if he ran for President in 2024?"

The latter would elicit more honest answers than the former.
I've been a successful dev for a decade now but I was a mech E / CS dropout.

I loathe CS for many reasons and saw the writing on the wall for my degree-less ass, so I went back for industrial engineering. 3 semesters to go and loving every second of it!!! Well, maybe not the materials science and beam analysis but the rest is great.
I find some of these "use a mac at work" companies do it because boring companies are trying to be "hip and cool".

One place i know uses Java exclusively, but the devs all have macbooks because they are cool?

How/why does a macbook improve java app development vs the standard issue Lenovo's?

It is like these old and boring companies think that by using macs they are suddenly "trendy and hip" and the millennials will flock to them?
Ask HN: Why are today's consumers not discerning what is ad and what is not?
Today's audiences are attached to brands more than ever. People, me included, watch several 1-2 hour informercials by Apple every year. We watch Marvel movie after Marvel movie where each one is advertising for the next movie.

It's like being trapped in a hamster wheel. Why have we as consumers become to addicted and depended on brands? Are these companies exploiting something innate in us? A need that needs to be fulfilled?
> The underlying logic of someone who made and gave away billions being overall ahead of other people morally is sound.

Do you hear yourself, not even asking how they "made" their billions? This is what "EA is indulgence for billionaires" people are talking about exactly.

If you make your billions unethically, no amount of charity will make you a good person.
Yes. It'd probably pay more than I get now, and might include relocation. [EDIT] Sorry I didn't read the question properly. I'm not an engineer, just a programmer.