skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brings back fond memories. Used to use the "debug" program that came with DOS to play with assembly as a student, because TASM (Borland) and MASM (Microsoft) cost money, but doing that gave one a real feel for assembly. Coding a short JMP instruction, for example, requires a relative address from the current instruction PC, so you had to hand compute that and code it in. And if you added instructions between the JMP and the target, then you had to go back and change it.
Show HN: A simple, terminal game of liar's dice for human, computer and AI
Play locally, play over websockets. A simple program to play against the computer, or with others over websocket.

I need to improve the local computer agent (using some better probability theory), but I wonder if there is much AI research for liar's dice or dice based game I could implement.
Australia is not a terrible place to run a business, sure there's tax, but people love take out. I wonder if it was workers right's and conditions got them in the end. If it was it kind of points to fundamental thinness in their margins.
Twitter has banned and unverified people who impersonate others without making it clear for years. Musk didn’t initiate this.

https://www.insider.com/jaboukie-giabuchi-twitter-suspended-...
Wait, TikTok has search? I never used it, but I thought it was endless scroll + swiping. I figured it would be miserable until it learned about you.
What are the alternatives in Australia? This sounds like their competition beat them
Small sailboats with hull speeds near 5 knots regularly and safely circumnavigate the globe, and can weather storms, and navigate the southern capes. Without engineering details on why it’s limited to 5 knots there’s no reason to think that’s a red flag. 5 knots is a speed against current, and ocean currents are much much less than that. Perhaps (likely) it would be able to still do 5 knots upwind in a storm.
...when did this become an either/or? We can do both. In fact diversification of one's "ethics portfolio" seems like something an effective altruist would understand quite well.
Dunno about "everyone" but web and imap are both down for me.
Neither is "LaTeX"; but, like Latex and other text-based formats, the content of the document is, in general, human-readable when it's read, unlike, for example, jpeg images.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPHtDnGFNCE
Uber eats I guess.
It's the modern version of a religious indulgence. Worse, as you point out, all it offers is more undue and unjustified meddling in peoples lives to make up for unfair and injudicious meddling in other peoples financial affairs.

More cynically, you're giving hand outs to people who yet need to learn to be productive, while destroying the lives of people who were trying to leverage their own productivity. I think it has negative value, doubling harming progress for the sake of apology.
Fastmail does a lot of things right, that others typically overlook, and I really appreciate that about them.

Like how their status page is on a completely different domain (not subdomain) and hosted at a different webhost.

So we can continue to get updates like we are right now even when things aren’t going as planned.
I have been looking for something like this for so long!
Oh my god, it ENCOURAGES you to do something it believes is right and you don't. This is outright CRIMINAL. How do they dare do something so audacious?

Sorry for the cringe, but really - you're actually saying that encouraging people to do what they think is right is a problem? Especially when they've actually read the books, done the numbers, and all you have is a feeling that they may be wrong in some cases? I can't really argue with that except with caps lock and sarcasm.
NASA's Exploration Ground Systems - @NASAGroundSys - 7m

We are now in replenish mode on upper stage for both liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.

We remain in a hold.
Incorrect post deleted.
> A hardcover physical book by comparison will typically last for 30 - 100 checkouts before it becomes too worn out.

Is this the real range? Intuitively, it seems low, but I have no idea. I remember those "Due date" tables in books from my childhood, with what must have been at least a couple of dozen rows...
I never understood why people prefer the verbose XML syntax still. This API is so much more concise and readable.
I've had great success with doing this weighted
> We have merged things in the codebase from the community that we shouldn't have merge.

Do you have examples of what these features are/were?

And, sort of tangentially, do you recommend actually setting up Monica in 2022 or waiting until Chandler to try the stack?
Personal web sites hosted are also down. I take responsibility, I was updating my web site at the exact moment it went down.
Not surprising. Deliveroo cared too much about end-users:

1. Uber switched to delivering multiple orders per driver trip and then charging extra if you wanted priority. I imagine this would've helped their unit economics immensely and allowed drivers to make more money.

2. Deliveroo had a functioning customer service who would often refund orders and give discounts in order to deliver a great experience. Uber deliberately didn't. No support = more profit.

3. Uber would charge multiple tiers of fees. Service fee. Delivery fee. Eventually they were charging twice as much on top of the order as Deliveroo and it took a while for them to do the same.

And then Uber One subscription likely did them in the end. The ability to save on both home delivery and trips was pretty compelling.
> Listening to your own music in the macOS Music app is as simple as dragging (importing) the music into Music.app and selecting any of the options ("Recently Added", "Songs", etc.) in the Library sidebar.

This was not true in my experience. Sure it worked most of the time but I had tracks in my collection which were apparently incompatible with the Music.app and would not play. This led to me migrating to Plex about 4 years ago.
Regarding #1 it's because our cities have become hopelessly auto dependent. In the 50s, much of the US was still walkable and nutrition was less easily available. It was hard to see what car dependence would do to human well-being and scaling human cities, but the US is trying to fix these mistakes piecemeal.

#2 was unique to the US. The rest of the world was either in shambles from colonialism or from WW2. Factories were destroyed and the US produced much of the world's manufacturing output. This temporarily gave a huge boost to American industry. As other countries recovered, competition became stiffer. Moreover the US labor market at the time was compromised almost completely of white men, so there was a lot less labor competition. The story was very different for others.
>Small sailboats

Yes, SAIL boats which can configure their sails to move in directions other than downwind.
https://www.afr.com/technology/gig-economy-laws-coming-in-fi...

New laws coming in 2023 that probably made the 'gig' part more like 'casual worker' which means they pay extra per hour worked, minimum 3 hours paid per 'shift/callout'.

> “A delivery rider on a bike who is at the mercy of an algorithm on their phone is not the same as a genuinely empowered contractor who runs their own small business,”
> Isn’t an increase in pay a drop in productivity by definition?

No.
> If Rimac makes a car with that name

There already exists Volkswagen Bora, which was a sedan version of Golf 4. (Basically, a renamed Jetta; just like Vento in the generation before)
And hence why contracting is so profitable in EU
You sure about that?

Humans regularly work at 30x atmospheric pressure and can probably go to 100x

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/32640/what-is-the-...
My "Effective Altruism Is Not A Cult" t-shirt is prompting a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

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. In fact, if you read some of the commentary from EA insiders about Sam Bankman-Fried (these come up in stories where EA distances itself from SBF, or claims they knew he was up to no good all along), it's hard to shake the comparisons to Scientology: they have their own weird language, there's a hierarchy, and people on the inside operate under a constant threat of ostracism.

To that, add that some of the ideas are clearly dementing. Take Scott Aaronson's recent post on SBF, which is shot through with EA-think; it includes this:

And a traditional investor who made billions on successful gambles, or arbitrage, or creating liquidity, then gave virtually all of it away to effective charities, would seem, on net, way ahead of most of us morally.

This is logic straight out of the 16th century Medici papacy of Leo X. Maybe it's some kind of horrible drug interaction with Rationalism, or maybe EA is fundamentally Rationalist? Either way: when your logic has established that you can obtain moral superiority by literally buying indulgences, it has officially proven too much, and if you can't recognize that, something has gone terribly wrong in your thinking. Over and over I keep coming across EA arguments that could be used to justify almost literally any behavior, so long as you can tell yourself a story about having a long-term positive goal.

Also: tens of millions in donations to "AI safety" organizations. Yes, to answer the Economist; this movement is irretrievable.
> I keep hearing such arguments but those typically aren't backed up by any data or reason as to why that's the case.

I'd say burden of proof is on you to provide any data that remote work is equally good.

I have given remote-working a shot for three years - first ~1.5 were mandatory during COVID and last ~1.5 were during normal times. My company has gone all in on remote work and has tried to make it work. It just doesn't work and everyone is openly admitting its flaws. To name a few: a lack of trust, very shallow relationships, struggles for junior and new team members to ramp up, a lack of engagement etc.

Based on my personal experience and that of my social and professional circles, >80% people seem to prefer a hybrid model where they work 2-3 days in office and 2-3 days at home. Of course, in-office days have to be mandated for the entire team to be effective.
That’s gotta sting. Hopefully only a small portion of their portfolio?
As climate warms, a China planner advocates “sponge cities”
Classic investment driven startup with likely no true profit, utilizing workers without contracts who work all hours of the day, and can be dumped without a moments notice. Cute little apology about not being able to serve customers as well as they’d like - shame people can’t talk truths. I can’t wait for all this VC nonsense to come crashing down.

*edit - I’ve since read they are compensating riders, so I’m retracting some of my snarkiness.
This provides good context: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/effective-altruism-as-...

EA is a very very tempting horse to beat, to the point it's their own internal favorite sport. There are large quantities of ink spilled criticizing it, from inside and outside. But it is all pretty worthless without taking a look at the foundations of the movement.
Hope to see a detailed breakdown of the issue and a good retrospective.

Downtime with email services has large disproportionate impact than other services (I am right now waiting on a magic link to login into Slack).

Curious, has GMail or iCloud mail ever had a downtime? I can't remember GMail ever having issues.
People have a finite amount of money to give, so every dollar is an either/or decision.

Every dollar you spend on a theater donation is a dollar less that you value human lives.

Of course, the same logic applies to candy bars, internet, television, and all the things that being you joy in life.
First paragraph on Wikipedia:

> Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The right to freedom of expression has been recognised as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law by the United Nations.

So, when talking about freedom of speech most nations abide and follow the prescriptions of the international framework supplied by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and further ratified as members of the United Nations. I think it's safe to speak about the universal concept and the national/political concept as being the identical.
I’ve never used one of the source control systems at these big companies but I use the staging area along with your git-branchless just fine for now. I’m not sure if it’s any less efficient this way.
The three big ones are Uber Eats, DoorDash and MenuLog.
But it has very noticeably begun falling into the same traps long discovered and recognized by utilitarianism. EA now has a significant contingent that is most focused on very unlikely far future outcomes because they would be incredibly bad for an unimaginably vast number of people if they did occur eg unbounded utility. That's pascal's mugging!

The movement is based on the same ideas and values and it's running into the same problems. These similarities don't inherently discredit the movement, but not having a clear awareness of these faults in their framework and a plan for avoiding them is very worrying.
This is because of a legal push to treat gig workers the same as any other employee. I'm not buying this tearful apology bullshit when they've gone out of their own way to take advantage of some of the most precarious workers in the country.
I'd honestly rather someone forget my name than appear to remember it because they looked it up in some "relationship manager".
Borland manuals were a pure delight..

as was the speed of Turbo Pascal compilation and the elegance of their text mode windowing object system.

I remember scouring all the possible BBS dialup file servers to find a compiler for my first 8086 machine .. I knew there had to be something better than GW Basic .. I could not find a compiler for free, but did happen up on A86 assembler, so got an intro to how the machine really worked.

Was so happy when I could afford Turbo Pascal back in the day. best product ever.
I would consider "Effective Altruism" to be a fairly broad abstract attitude of trying to effectively help living beings (oneself & others), as guided by one's own opinions. Self-examination, critical thinking & debate are core values, and as far as I can tell continue to be so.

It's unfortunate that it's being defined by the rightly controversial opinions of famous people..

To balance this article, consider checking out one of the main EA websites https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-e...

For example it indicates that longtermism is "a school of thinking within effective altruism". The popularity of such ideas will vary with time and they will be further refined with ongoing thinking & healthy debate. I for one fail to understand why it's important to maximise the number of future lives, which don't even exist - it seems very risky & unsustainable.
After Monica Lewinsky, personal assistant of president Clinton?
> semi truck on my way back from Dalamatia to Istria

I can guess that was under Velebit, where bura is often very strong and at those times the road is closed for motorcycles, campers, double-deckers and vehicles with trailers.

But people regularly ignore those restrictions because they are not aware of the danger.
These seem to talk mostly about diving, where you breathe from a regulated air supply. I assume that air supply is not at 30-100x atmospheric pressure?
https://sapling-scm.com/docs/internals/internal-difference-h... briefly explains the Git support. Currently we keep trees and blobs in a git bare repo unchanged, but convert the commit graph to our format so we can run our own graph algorithms. In the future we might store trees and blobs differently too.
Very ironic, considering their mascot.
> > Firstly, you can't predict the future so really you're working off your biases.

> Um, are you saying that this implies that people should just throw up their hands and donate to whatever causes since who knows?

No, it implies that you shouldn't lecture others that you have the one true answer as to the best path forwards. You are free to (and in fact should) use your best judgment in your own personal choices, just don't confuse that with absolute truth.
Seems to solve a lot of problems at once. 9 billion humans is too many.
One person is egging us on to total destruction, Putin. Who has talked about nukes but him? Everything you listed here except math will also be destroyed and replaced if Russia is successful. You will never know what’s true again.

So if Putin wanted the entire world except China and NK, you’d give it to him to stop from destroying everything?
Just tried to reload my email inbox and after 30+ seconds, it was still “spinning”. Frustrated, I pulled up HN while waiting and saw this.

Thank you, OP and HN. Much appreciated. Glad to know I haven’t lost my mind. Completely. Yet.

(No promises in the years to come! Mwahahahaha!)

;-)
Wow one more down. They used to compete with foodora here, I thought by this time thdy would have been established with a profitable business model as they came first before doordash. However it seems that it is not the case
> Well, there are entirely distributed, remote-first companies like Automattic, Zapier, GitLab, or Basecamp. I'm certain each of those also employs junior engineers.

Yes. My company is also in that category. We employ a lot of junior engineers too. >90% of them say they want some in-person interaction because it is hard to ramp up effectively on a complex codebase and a different culture.

> Therefore, someone claiming it doesn't work, is effectively saying it doesn't work for their company, which in turn gives rise to questions as to why that's the case

Because we are all humans and in absence of an in-person presence, we are not able to form trusting deep relationships.

> Is their company and its work truly that unique and special that it can only effectively be done synchronously and in person?
Just Monica?
> Curious, has GMail or iCloud mail ever had a downtime?

Plenty of times.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=gmail+down
They can be used by Facebook to get more data on user....
Artemis Flight Test Map
I appreciate the backstory. I was unaware of much of this.
It seems to have been an errant middle from Ukraine, fired by Ukrainian forces, not from Russian forces.

https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-blast-caused-by-missile...
Gmail does have downtime, definitely more than most people would ever notice, but it's rarely global for all users. I can't speak to iCloud.

I wouldn't have noticed the previous Fastmail outages if it weren't for HN, either, though I could just be an outlier too.
Will be massively abused by deliverymen to ban people on say racist grounds.
Already commonplace in Europe when say, Ukrainian Uber drivers consistently work to ruin Russian user accounts. To the point that i had to use another phone with a fake name on account to use Uber in Prague to not look to them like a Russian.
I think that longtermism (mentioned in the article) is bad though, both as a concept and in practice.
Too true Yogi.
No, I didn’t, though I suppose if you hadn’t looked at how ratings work on the indexes and made a particular wrong assumption about what “rank highly” indicated in this context, you might think that.
> Which also wouldn't always support that conclusion

This is a well known issue:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/

https://blog.apaonline.org/2021/03/29/is-effective-altruism-...

> As such, Effective Altruism is inherently Utilitarian in character, even if the views are themselves distinct. Criticisms of Effective Altruism on the basis of critiques to Utilitarianism are not only expected, but fair.
In our case, our org (Norwegian Red Cross) buy the equipment using sponsor money and the like. Then we get reimbursed by the government for using them in SAR operations.

It works well enough for us to have maybe 4 snowmobiles, 2 6-wheel ATV's, a 4 person rope rescue kit, 10 TETRA phones and a car in addition to various medical equipment.
didnt use deliveroo at all as i didnt know they were this good
I’m not about to debate a troll on the straw man of what ‘the right’ meanies consider cancel culture.
Huh? This was a really weird article/post in my opinion. I agree with the sentiment and really enjoyed the message of "turn your belt black".
"Fucked up" to me means things more like fraud and indentured servitude.

Maybe I wouldn't have clicked with another title but it just left me scratching my head being "yeah that's bad but why does that make 'all companies' anything"
I hadn't looked at the eden/scm directory, but they didn't even bother to change the README to not say "Mercurial" https://github.com/facebook/sapling/tree/main/eden/scm
Several orders of magnitude more children would be saved from mosquito nets than community theater, and each of them has a chance to find a cure to cancer. Then there's a couple orders of magnitude of children who wouldn't die, but whose lives would have otherwise been significantly disrupted by malaria, hookworm or vitamin A deficiency. All these children could go on to find cures to cancer or at the very least live more meaningful lives.

Obviously, this isn't to say we should donate any less to community theaters, though I think that's a different type of donation. That is partially altruistic, but on some level it fulfills the same satisfaction as a purchase.
Missile That Hit Poland Fired by Ukrainian Forces at Incoming Russian Missile
SteamOS Desktop Imaging Could Be Coming Soon
I’m thinking about the “art world”. People who invest in art bet on the artist continuing to put out work, evolve a narrative, grow their brand. The art is important because of who made it. “I own a Matisse”. I don’t see how diffusion models can disrupt that world.
makes a lot sense. Now we don't have to argue over it any more. (I mean the answer given by the AI makes sense, not the idea of shutting it down)
Knowing where you are allows you to begin SEO. Because they clear the way for improved rankings and increased organic search traffic, SEO audits are useful.
Thank you for mentioning my project. I'm here if people have questions.

The main difference between "brutalinks" (which is the official name of the software project) and lemmy is that in my opinion, grouping multiple "subreddits" on the same instance is a bad choice when designing federated discussion platforms. As some commenters have already observed, it raises the issue of which community targeting a niche interest is the best among the ones split on different instances. On brutalinks we made the explicit choice of treating the instance itself as a "subreddit" which targets a small/medium community that gather around this one shared interest.

More details can be found reading through the online docs: https://man.sr.ht/~mariusor/go-activitypub/brutalinks/
Too many delivery people were getting picked off by dropbears...
This game can go on endlessly. What if hiring the teenagers mean they’re getting a salary, can help their families, and without the job they’d run off into the jungle to join the warlord who runs a murder cult army? Turns out the community theatre prevented a massacre and one of the kids wins the Nobel Prize for her plays in fifty years.
Not so fast: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-11-16/us-offici...