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Things like this actually works in KDE, I can take a file from the file manager and drop it into konsole and it will copy the path.

It's how copy/paste intents are supposed to work, the receiving object or program might want to use the object sent in various ways so you can extract image data or path if it's an image for instance. Konsole just grabs the path from all that is sent to it that is not clear text.

I did try your text file example from kate (text editor), but that didn't work. otoh, kate does provide the path to the file for easy copying right below this icon :)

I can drag the file from kate, however konsole doesn't accept the object. I suspect kate doesn't encode the path in the copy/paste object, perhaps something I should fix.
> The problem comes is that many EA/Rationalist folks begin downplaying legitimate tangible risks on the horizon (I’ve had prominent EA folks tell me that Climate Change is not an existential risk) or that many of these AI Safety researchers actively ignore how to reduce harms of the AI we have deployed today.

I'm sure some people do this, and it's bad.

But to be clear, when you say some researchers are actively ignoring how to reduce harms of AI today... I'm not sure what you mean by "actively" ignore, but don't most researchers just by default ignore this, except for the few who are active in this field?

In other words, I think it's totally legit to focus on long-term AGI risk, and totally ignore current short-term AI risk, as a personal career-choice, just like it's ok to not even work on AI at all. Unless someone is actively trying to cause less resources to go into short-term AI risk, what's the problem?

> They’re talking about AGI, a hypothetical construct that we have no way of proving is even possible

I mean, we exist as (one would hope) intelligent beings. Why wouldn't AGI be possible? Your frame makes it seem like the default is that it isn't possible, which is wrong IMO.
As a Twitter engineer I can confirm that Elon doesn’t understand type erasure
"I've always wondered why visual languages have not thrived. Is it because the spaghetti gets unmanageable?"

Clicking is way slower than
coding.

Allowing both requires some sophisticated compilers and frameworks.

"Can't you have boxes (modules/class/namespace etc) to neatly arrange things?"

But yes you can, which is my approach. It was kind of hard, though and took a little longer than expected, but hopefully you can see the result soon.
Yeah, I would have to. Even if it sucked, it'd be an experience I wouldn't want to miss if the opportunity ever arose. Seems like people who work for Elon either have a great experience or a terrible one... and if the latter, well, I can always quit and work elsewhere, with a nice boost on the CV...
It is interesting that changing military capacities have changed the impact of geography on politics and war.

What really gets me are some of the things that have not changed. Resources make nations weak. Interconnection with other nations in trade, research, and development makes nations strong. Now more than ever Russia has the potential to leverage its lack of resources and connections with European and Asian countries to become the kind of major global power that it wants to be. But the only way to do that is to give up on old ideas about geography, power, and wealth.
http://elonmusk.today/

> Like Donald Trump, But For Nerds
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They acquired far more resources than they could ever need, while others around them lacked even the most basic resources necessary to life.

This is a systemic failure to be sure, but a failure nonetheless. The end result is these people ending up with massive surpluses of resources and power that others desperately need, simply because they have accumulated a larger amount of "money" from the luck of their circumstances.

In the old days, these failures were mediated by debt jubilees, potlatches and such. More recently, we've moved on to wealth taxes, although these are a poor shadow of what we had before to ensure a minimum level of equality in a society.
"person of color" vs "white" isn't the same as colorism, it also includes other racial markers. Melania Trump is darks than many "black" "people of color".
Perhaps after the big mess of the backwards incompatibilty of 3.x vs 2.x, they are erring on the side of caution now.
And in Mumbai they're supposedly experimenting with traffic lights that lengthen the red phase if there's too much noise due to honking.
Web 3.0 is not the same as web3.
Round trip it through a translation service.
This isn't a good argument to be honest. Sure, it won't save the climate, this is a problem of energy generation. We will always need more than yesterday so we need to look at how we can generate it.

The main disadvantage of hydrogen is that it is very difficult to store. It is the smallest element and simply diffuses through almost everything. The efficiencies of energy conversion of hydrogen are quite good for that matter.

But BEV (how the author calls them) have major disadvantages as well. Infrastructure needs are unfulfilled, the recycling is maintenance intensive, ...

It is still more environmental friendly to drive that 10 year old used tincan than to buy a new electric car. Advantage here is that you don't have local polution, much cleaner city air etc.

But neither hydrogen cars nor BEV will save the climate.
That’s actually really useful! I avoid some keywords in f5bot because they tend to be verbose and I don’t want to receive 100 emails per day on them.

A chat makes it perfect for this use case, I’ll use it right away, thanks for making and sharing it!
10/10 would pick local soccer team anytime. I am not utilitarian and I do not believe in human interchangeability. I value the health of local youth in my backyard far more, especially when the cause is boys in sports.
Ask HN: Is curating articles on a niche topic an good way to build an audience?
I subscribe to a few newsletters (Hiten Shah, Sam Dickie, Jake Knapp and Trends VC) that do this really well. I think a big reason I like them as a reader does not only do I trust their opinions, but they also give reasons why the articles are interesting, so it helps me decide whether or not I want to read them.

Does anyone else subscribe to these types of newsletters or even have any experience in building an audience through curating articles as opposed to writing your own content?
The article doesn't even attempt to explain what they are doing differently to improve test scores (which is the fundamental reason driving people to put their kids there)
The toxicity is the forced requirement to agree to work long crappy hours or be fired
The military is a rather specialized scenario. "At-will employment", it's not.
In my view it's a movement for people making excuses for themselves. You don't need movements to be altruistic, you just do it or not.

Of course they end up getting tied up in knots because they're trying to project altruism through continuously more complex justifications.
Is Elon Beyond Reproach?
Deracinated nerd here, but I find your perspective at least a lot more understandable than the people who at appalled by the idea of using rich people's money to save poor people's lives, from a robustly anti-capitalist standpoint.
>Ultimately, NASA gets money to launch payloads not entertain people

The truth is, NASA’s strategic goals go beyond delivering payloads. E.g., they also have the explicit goal to

“Inspire and Engage the Public in Aeronautics, Space, and Science”
We are already made of nanobots, we are the nanobots, we are in intelligence, we are a general intelligence, and we are growing exponentially.

AGI is here.

AGI is you.

You are an incredibly efficient piece of carbon thinkware able to sell for replicate into more carbon thinkware and that that extra carbon think where can go out and create its own life and make its own observations and spread information through the society of you both inherit, that's society is growing exponentially and growing in its ability to modify the world and manipulate and improve itself exponentially.

If you're scared of AGI, don't be. You are the superior AGI, because these machines made of metal and circuits are never going to compare to machines made of carbon using chemical reactions that are far more efficient than transistors to do the thinking.

The future is in improving ourselves and reaching a point at which our biology is no longer a mysterious black box so that we can modify and improve ourselves and those around us.

We can already improve machines, but that's because the machines are far simpler and far more primitive than our minds are.
This is not a well conceived project.

Without ridiculously expensive structures, the design will break up in heavy seas.

The turtle wings are far, far too thin to bear the loads that will be put on them.

If the power is sufficient for only 5 knots in calm conditions, it will be uncontrollable in bad weather and will only go where the wind blows it.

Aside from the glaring structural issues with the design (I’m sure a naval architect will sort them out on that in the very unlikely that it ever gets to that stage), the site is very shady with simple spelling errors as well as listing companies with their logo that are in no way affiliated with the project in a way that makes it seem like they are already involved and endorse the endeavor.

This comes across as very interested in selling their NFTs , not so much in being sincere, open, or even truthful about the prospects.

As someone who routinely invests in projects with a > 75 percent risk of failure, I would not invest in this project with the intention of ever seeing it completed.
EVs are the least reliable vehicle type: Consumer Reports
Healthcare and teaching are seeing severe attrition.
Efficiency is not the only factor. There is also cost and availability. You can't build pumped hydro just anywhere. I have no idea what the cost is compared to lithium batteries though.
On the system level:tax the billionaire?

1. Found a unicorn. Congratulations!

2. Get a tax bill

3. Either loan against your shares (good luck) or(and probably even if you do get a loan)

4. Go public early, selling your shares and let others partake in the companies growth

Alternatively, give your shares to employees, donate, whatever. It's not really rocket science, just tax wealth (radical markets proposes a nice way to get honest self assessments...) and as a side benefit, you benefit employees by creating much more incentive against staying private forever
I'm pretty sure you're confused about what "plural" means. Consider all the following situations:

1. "Everybody should bring their own books to class".

2. "If anybody has left their book at home, they should ask the teacher to borrow one."

3. "Can the person who left their book at their desk please collect it at reception."

4. "Someone has written to say that they left their book at their desk."

5. "The author shows their bias here."

6. "Joanna has written to say that they left their book at their desk."

Gramatically speaking, none of these are plural. In the case of #1, there are many people involved, but it "resolves" down to individual actions, since each person has a separate book. In #2 it's an indefinite number of people -- it could be 0 or 1 or 50; but again, it "resolves" down to an individual and that person's actions. In #3-6, it's clearly one specific person, with various degrees of uncertainty about who that person might be or what that person is like. In all cases except #6, you can replace "their" with "his or her", which was the prescribed way of writing this in my grammar classes.

I'll grant you that #6, where you refer to a specific known person as "they/them/their", is new. But #5, which is what we're talking about here, 1) sounds perfectly natural to me as a native English speaker, 2) was the sort of thing the grammar classes explicitly taught against, 3) is a natural extension of 1-4.
Every moral framework is every other moral framework with extra steps. They're all "morally Turing complete". However, which one you pick may make certain moral views significantly easier or harder to express. It's less that I think rule utilitarianism is morally compelling as a way of deciding what is good, as that I think rule utilitarianism captures some of my moral intuitions particularly well, so I use it to model (some of) the reasoning that my brain goes through when evaluating goodness. In other words, it's descriptive, not prescriptive.
China has a lot of mapmaking and GPS technology restrictions, present day, for supposedly the same reasons.
Philosophical frameworks can be useful when you know their limits.
A single formula cannot possibly give you the answer to any human interaction.
Physicists (successful ones anyway) do not try to use a single equation for all problems.
Only fanatics think a single moral framework can solve all problems, no need to give them any mind.
Not necessarily. Volta invented the battery almost a 100 years before the electron was discovered. Also, planes fly very differently from birds.
I recently got interested in installing a TTN gateway in my home and adding some temperature sensors.

Having played with LoRa years ago my thought was that there should now be readily available and cheap sensors. But to my disappointment everything seems to be a bit pricey which really surprised me. I can get a Zigbee temp sensor for around 15 euros, but Lora sensors cost around double that. I am wondering as to why that is?
Falcon Heavy was not needed to be designed for crew, and the base rocket IS designed for crew. The only thing AFAIK that would make it "designed for crew" is a whole lot of NASA paperwork, and some throttling profiles to reduce peak accelerations.
Article:

While demand for electric vehicles has surged in last two years, new data from Consumer Reports finding that EVs are among the least reliable cars in the auto industry. Pras Subramanian here with the details and Pras, clearly something that the auto industry doesn't necessarily want to hear.

PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: Yeah, you know, I was a little surprised to hear that. Because EVs, generally speaking, are simpler or easy to operate than a regular gas powered car. But I'm not surprised to hear about Tesla's issues with reliability here. So they found that owners of the Consumer Reports survey that they surveyed a bunch of their users and on all different models and all different makes of the cars.

And they found that for Tesla in particular, issues with body hardware, steering suspension, paint and trim, and climate systems on the models were of most concern. Rick and I tested the Model 3 a few years back and we found a lot of issues with fit and finish and parts on the inside of the car. Still, Tesla still rose four spots to 19th overall, which isn't that great, but at least it did climb with the rankings.

For non-Tesla EVs, there was issues with charging and batteries and also the motors. So that doesn't sound good, so that's kind of a little black market there for EVs. Overall, pickup trucks were bad overall in terms of the gas powered cars. Looking at the overall picture, we just saw that list up there, Toyota and Lexus retain the top spot. They've been there for a while now, very reliable cars.

BMW, number three. I was really surprised to see that. Kind of speaks to what they're doing with the brand and improving reliability and that better kind of first interaction with the car, followed by Mazda and Honda. So seven of the top 10 brands here were actually Asian companies. So this rounds out the top 5 here with Mazda and Honda at that 4 and 5.

- Interesting. All right, most reliable EVs also compiled. Who came out on top? Anything surprised you here?

PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: Most reliable EVs?

- Hybrids.

PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: Yeah. Yeah, so it turns out hybrids are actually very, very reliable. Talking about plug-in hybrids, think the Priuses of the world, things like that. So Consumer Reports put together 3 of their top hybrids here. The Lexus NX came out a few years ago in the premium luxury segment here. Very nice car, attractive car, good mileage there. The Ford Maverick. Now we actually had this truck. It is a small compact utility pickup truck. Unibody construction, 38 MPG with hybrid. Yeah.

- 38 miles per gallon.

PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: With the hybrid, yeah. It's actually a smooth car, really good fit and finish. And lastly, the Toyota Corolla. You can't go wrong here, not surprising from Toyota. They make the Prius, as you mentioned. This car gets 48 MPG.

- Boy, that is some astounding numbers. Reliability is what those cars are all about. Pras Subramanian, our senior autos reporter. Good to see you, sir. Thank you.

Report:

https://www.consumerreports.org/media-room/press-releases/20...
Wealth=non democratic power. Fully compatible with OPs characterisation
The only thing stopping Functional Programming from taking off are functional programmers.

It took me years (and Elixir) to get past the "here are some words, some mean what you think, some mean something completely different to what you know, some mean almost the same thing. Also here's 30 overloaded operators that you have to juggle in your head and we wont introduce things like variables for another 4 pages." without running back to something imperative to actually build something.

Functional programming's great when you have immutability to drop an entire class of bugs and the mental energy that accompanies that, can pass-around and compose-with small functions easily which makes writing, testing and figuring much simpler and can make your brain click that "its all data" without trying to over complicate it by attaching methods to it.

Honestly I think that's 90% of what the royal You needs to understand to get FP and actually try it. Selling people on "its all stateless man" or other ivory tower tripe is such garbage because (as the tutorials always point out) a program with no state is useless, and then the poor shmuck has to learn about monads just to add a key to a map and print something at which point they're asking "how was this better again?"
The chemical reactivity problems of hydrogen are unsolvable in a competitive fashion with other types of energy transport.
I am a remote employee and would never switch so likely he wouldn’t let me.

But if he did I would have no problem. I see employment as a transactional situation and don’t make it my life or a political crusade. I’ve also heard Elon overpays high performers which keeps them loyal.

I also agree with firing people who are posting messages about hating their job / boss / strategy. Why do you want toxic people around your org? If they don’t quit voluntarily then you have to get rid of them.
Yes that's the lie web3 sells, just like the perfume beer company and the company says drinking their swill will make women want to have sex with them.
Thanks for all of these. Will be exploring each of them. Your mention of Churchill's grasp of how huge potential U.S power was reminded me of a supposed quote by the prime minister in which he said something like "So it turns out that we do win the war then", on the day that he learned the U.S was now formally entering on the allied side after the Pearl Harbor attack.
"... everyone knows the trick"...

Everyone who read the tweet or commented here at this current point in time.

Not sure most people who might be future leakers of classified stuff and targetted by this trick will be aware of it.
We lost our slick new NPM package name (and then got it back)
I still use Windows for gaming because you have to even the support under linux/macos got way better.

For development I tried WSL and WSL2 both have problems.

Last time I installed WSL2 with ubuntu on it I could not figure out how to connect ubuntu to the internet because of some strange DNS setup in WSL.

Windows Terminal is a good way forward but CMD is not as good as bash or zsh.

Scoop/WinGet/ect are nice but way way way behind brew or pacman.

I could install npm/node/git/etc directly on windows but its just so much more painful to setup and keep it running

Windows and its legacy/new/newNew/window11 ui is just to messy for me.
WONDERFUL! That's literally my ENTIRE goal with the rust series - to just get people over the initial learning curve. It's not INCOMPREHENSIBLE, but you have to know in your BONES why you are putting in the work!
I mean the simplest one is gravity; the most scalable version of that is pumping water up into a reservoir behind a hydroelectric power plant. There's others that propose heavy trains going uphill or weights down a hole, but that doesn't scale very well and has additional maintenance costs.

But yeah, that would be electrical into mechanical energy (pumps), the cost would be flowing water up against gravity. Of course, it also requires a source of water downhill and a reservoir uphill. I was going to quip about Lake Mead being empty, but that would be huge distances to cover. Maybe something close to sea, or else a purpose built closed loop system.
Many of these are already in use. A PGP key is a decentralized identifier, for example, as is a self-signed certificate you load into your browser for TLS auth. WebAuthn and friends are the next step for those types of identifiers.

Torrents and other file sharing systems have used DHTs and merkle trees before Bitcoin even existed. XMPP had decentralized and distributed communication.

I'd argue that smart contracts are new, though they're not inherently linked to currencies necessarily. I don't know any practical use for them outside the cryptocurrency/NFT/blockchain speculation niche, but they're a cool invention.

The prediction market that these new currencies have created are little more than the latest version of a tulip mania.

These monetized cryptography projects often manage to combine very cool software design elements but they rarely come up with something new that's useful outside of their business model.
> This is the part of EA that triggers a lot of red flags for me. Making money, or rather making significant money, necessitates participation in a system of exploitation that is largely responsible for the ills the charitable donations are meant to alleviate in the first place.

I mean, given that you think that I understand where you're coming from. But just note that many, many people would highly disagree with that characterization.

I don't think our "system", whatever that means, is evil. I think it's pretty good, definitely better than other things people have come up with. And I don't think you need to give to charity to morality-wash greed. I think it's just the right thing to do.
Agree with what you said. Some other points, it's not all publishers. The big 4/5 are this way, but there are a ton of publishers who license much more liberally to libraries. Some will sell their entire catalog for a fixed yearly subscription w/o waits and some will even sell parts of the catalog perpetually. It's a win-win since publishers get a nice chunk of money and libraries get much better licensing terms.

Another challenge you don't mention is patrons. They want the latest James Patterson novel, and nothing else. The library, smaller publishers, and less known authors don't have the marketing budgets to get patrons interested. There is so much content now that new, independent authors don't often even want money, they just want someone, anyone to read their book.

Maybe unpopular opinion, but I think libraries should give up on best sellers or at a minimum embargo them for 12+ months. They'll end up with better terms from the big 4/5, and can be a discovery place for new authors in addition to/rather than Amazon KDP where many end up now.

Oh, and I haven't even touched the existential threat from Amazon. They just released their entire music catalog for prime subscribers. There will come a point when they do the same for books.
A Modest Proposal: Let’s Change Earth’s Orbit
Clicked because I’m in the market for a new razor, stayed for a well-designed and surprisingly passionate presentation about scroll management on websites (UI scrolls, not magic ones)