skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finding the ideal meta-structure is not the core problem. It's getting every company on earth to report the data remotely accurately and in a timely way, then disseminating and analyzing it.

I actually think that we need government to enforce this data collection and it needs to take advantage of some decentralized systems for it to be workable. Primarily because we need "hard" (usable) data about resources, wealth (inequality) and crops etc. in order to have a realistic (and indisputable) view of what's happening. Combining that type of decentralized megastream with advanced cryptocurrency smart contracts could change economics from being a cult to a useful science.
The creator of BitTorrent also sees himself and his technology as an important part of web3.
I can confirm 100% that there are banks checking to see if teamviewer ports are open.
If you want to charge people to do things on your website, you can do that today and it doesn't require the use of blockchain or the creation of new tokens for payment.
> Is the logical conclusion really that because other EAs couldn't recognize SBF as a scammer, we should not even try to measure the impact of charitable donations?

My (logical) conclusion is that since other EAs couldn't recognize SBF as a scammer, we should double- and triple-check all of their math about risk and effectiveness, instead of trusting them. Not saying the idea of charitable giving has lost merit, rather its primary champions in the last decade have lost a ton of credibility.
That’s why I do all my computing on a Univac 1100/80. I’ve even hacked a clamshell for it so I can port it around.
1. That's capacity, that's not usage. I don't care about imagined usage, I care about actual usage.

2. No, it'll just be gone if crypto crashes enough and the miners sell or turn down their hardware (Probably precipitated by some fraud in some other part of the ecosystem unwinding).

There's a reason nobody has built the next Dropbox on Filecoin. [1]

[1] I mean, you can do that, if you have Einstein hair, and your goal is to grift dumb VC money, but you're not going to put together a better product.
No problem, we just need to hold a few meetings to define what counts as “quality”, and write it down in some good documentation.
> A seamless on-ramp from a bank account to a crypto wallet will really change the way we pay for things online.

What? Why? Here in Europe, you can just pay with SEPA direct debit. You don't need credit cards or paper checks to pay for stuff, neither in the meatspace nor online. The only thing services like PayPal are good for is fraud protection (for both sides).

So much of what we see in the US financial industry and the workarounds created to bypass their bullshit - anything from "payday loan" places advancing money for a paycheck over paychecks or rent checks themselves to Bitcoin to bypass transaction fees - is just not an issue here. Our wages get automatically deposited into our bank accounts, rent gets either automatically sent by your bank or drafted by the lender's bank, and any kind of card transaction is capped at 0.2 (DC)/0.3%(CC) [1].

[1] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015...
Uniquely there isn't anything in the game, or on the board, to negotiate other than cooperation. You're not trading corn, or loaning money, or anything. Even
"positioning" of pieces doesn't matter because you need allies to do anything, and you'll lose any position without allies; you can't build a fort or get a bonus by holding Indonesia. It's just 'please trust me' and 'please be trustworthy'.
AWS Launches an Open Source Client for Container Development
Sure. But where some see the lack of updates as some sort of moral failure, I think it's usually a sign that there is a process problem. The documentation was supposed to solve some sort of problem, but the fact that people don't update it is usually a sign that either it wasn't a real problem, that documentation wasn't the right solution, or that there's a broken feedback loop in the team's process.
Péter/Zak originally started the competition in 2001. I started helping out in 2012, and took over the main duties a few years later.

But indeed, that's Zak from the game! The favicon for the website is also a tiny version of the character's sprite.
It's shocking how many people don't have the ability to organize their thoughts.

I'm ashamed that I was completely guilty of this myself.

At some degree of professional development in software, you start to verbalize things, so as to 'explain them to yourself' and it helps clear things up.

This helped me understand that 'writing skills' (in this context) are frankly more matter of being able to organize concepts more than anything else.

A dev who can articulate is literally worth at least 50% more than one who cannot.

And to your point, yes, it's funny and scary when someone can't describe something they ought to be able to.

If someone can't explain something they are actually a risk to the code.
Huh, what is it about that place that makes it possible?
Dissecting Iranian drones employed by Russia in Ukraine
"We are not cattle to be sold to advertisers."

Someone just crawled out from under a rock.
Hmm, I guess facebook doesn't have to go through IRB for human subject experiments, nor does Science require it, apparently.
> Maximizing profits often requires minimizing the welfare of others

Wait, what? That's just not true. You can be very highly productive without exploiting anyone. Even if you happen to be in an industry where exploiting others is the status quo, you can do outsized amounts of good (rivaling the best outcomes of charity) by being even a bit less exploitive. Stated another way, social responsibility - even in profit-seeking enterprises - is quite compatible with EA.
You're cherry picking here. Worshiping the deity was one of the characteristics, the rest being: ritualistic meetings, social fulfillment, familial pressure to be a member of the group, indoctrination from an early age, and emotional support from group leaders. If you pick any of these characteristics individually, you could easily say "not all cults do X, and not all religions are a cult." But taken together, they suggest that many religions are cults.
> And gone if you stop paying.

Are Filecoin nodes all hosting files for free? I can put a terabyte of files on there and it'll never go away?
Based on a reported $820k mean income for the top 1% of earners vs something like 47k for everyone else (US figures), it'd be about 15% of total income being earned by the top 1%, which is lower than I would've thought.
But was there a better alternative? Sometimes the current is so strong that no lifeboat can stay above water.
Does it matter what tool you use to write documentation? Confluence gets a lot of sh*t because its in the grown-up camp of tools but I know people who've got problems even with nano.

It's incumbent upon all users or members of the team to use the common tool along with agreed upon standards. Otherwise even if you wrote documentation in your own hemoglobin, no one would touch it either.

Some manager prob chose _________ as the tool for ticketing, documentation, etc not because it was good at ______, or _______ but because it fulfilled their action plan to have something, anything in place so that if the universe goes supernova, well some stuff was written down.

In my journey it seems that nobody is willing to criticize Edward Teach for the lousy treasure map he left, but rather we make fun of those who're still looking for his stuff.
So this guy is for extreme centralization.

Moxie had a much more in-depth technical appologia for that. Here is a counterpoint for why decentralization is really important for the world:

https://community.intercoin.app/t/web3-moxie-signal-telegram...
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Wikipedia uses Semantic Web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

They really don't even distinguish between Web3/3.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3
That’s cynical at best. One of the goals of Web3 is to enable direct commerce without trusted intermediaries.

Anyone here like using PayPal? What if instead you had the equivalent of cash that you could use on the internet?

Web3 is attempting to create an economy decoupled from existing currencies (fiat). Unlike a country seigniorage determined ahead of time, and is publicly visible for all to see.

If the idea of creating an internet native economy with its own currency and financial tools is not intellectually stimulating to you, then look elsewhere instead of completely hating on the space.

Yes there are scams; no that is not why the tech was created.
Such great points you've brought up, and hopefully it's not lost on many posters on HN, that technicality of on paper being "successful" but realistically not living very differently from NEETs.

It says a lot about western society when many would likely see company towns as a hugely beneficial move these days. An example is bloomberg calling Amazon's potential factory towns as champions for the working class. What a backwards world.
It needs to be bid on. Garden variety capitalism and market activity.
Crank Machine
Are you pitching less documentation or none? It doesn’t seem like codebases are better when the architecture is unwritten.
It makes him more credible than random dudes on internet.
> My very concrete feelings on this is that you probably don't.

The ones that do - and usually the few in this age group that succeed - are already independently wealthy from a combination of having a highly successful career and making good investments.

People that have $1M+ to fall back on - and can easily land another job making $400k+ - if things don't work out.

You don't see too many 35 year-olds with 3 kids and no savings starting Ubers.

Every once in a while you find an Elon Musk who already had plenty of money, and decided to start another business.

People with insignificant amounts of savings starting successful companies are almost exclusively in their teens or 20s.
Unless you're some government/military official - why do you care so much? Who would ever care about gigabytes of your stuff?

And if you are a VIP — you shouldn't store that much sensitive information on you anyway.
As someone tangentially involved in this, I think this was misguided. But Linus also was not happy about code generation with VLAs.
> So the question is: how do I continue my current standard of living for my family while working on a startup?

If it was known how to make money right away, everybody would start a start-up right away. But there are so many brilliant ideas, you just never know if they are going to work. Sure you can try, but the risk is there - as you said yourself.

If I were you, I would sit down with my wife, discuss pros and cons and also make clear why this matters so much to you. Hopefully you'll find a solution together!
Herd behavior, very common in finance certainly. I guess because they can profit from momentum even when the market ends up going nowhere over the long term.
> you should have searched for a specific, obscurely named document in Google Drive, Confluence, or Github

Are people at the same job telling you to check 3 different sources for internal docs? Maybe that is the main issue. Put knowledge in one place.

More specifically: One place that is not Sharepoint.
>Paying for things with a crypto wallet is legitimately a far, far better experience than fumbling around with credit cards.

... and when you talk about "experience", what do you mean here? I doubt there's a much slicker payment experience than Apple Pay when a vendor supports that, and I'm also pretty sure that my disputing a transaction with Chase is better than an equivalent crypto experience.
NEETs? GINI-d? The "Outer Party"? Do you hear yourself? I don't know what those things mean, and I think it's pretty weird that you assume the average reader will.

And we're pretty far from "feudalism." What "assets" are you talking about that you need to get a decent job? The only one I can think of that is truly locked away behind high prices is education, but even there lots of people succeed by working hard and taking on debt for school.
Hmmm I think in your scenario you could avoid resolving the conflict 10 times by using `git rebase --onto`

Suppose "masterX+1" is called latest

Suppose "masterX" is the SHA of your mergebase with master (on top of which you have 10 commits)

`git rebase --onto latest masterX`
Are we? PyTorch, React, etc. have been around for ages.
I recently had to crop a pdf, Export pdf to png, crop and save as pdf. All from Preview app.
I both strongly agree and disagree with you here.

> Directing money away from developing world medical charities in order to fund wealthy people riding bikes while thinking about AI seems apposite though.

I dislike the whole longtermism stuff and am very vocal about that when I can be. Lives now matter more than hypothetical lives in the future. I've written about this on the EA forums before. However, if EA was to die today, I strongly believe the number of funds to developing world medical charities would decrease! Why? Because people normally think local when it comes to charity, especially larger donations, such as the mantra "charity starts at home". EA has led many people to really think about this and review the charities they donate to, drank the koolaid of being "Effective" with their charitable donations, and now 'regular' people (like me) are donating a good chunk of their pay checks to world medical charities (based on which ones are doing the better job, such as those suggested by givewell).

Overall even if EA has some bad actors (like SBF), and some stupid research goals (imo), and some money that seems fairly... circular if you know what I mean (EA Infrastructure Funds), I believe the general message is strong.
GNU Emacs. While Elisp isn't the greatest of Lisps, I still like it a lot better than JavaScript; and Vi-style modal editing doesn't work for me. Also I like the GNU licenses on a philosophical level.
I wish this was more common, if only to make results reproducible and not depend on the hardware it is run
love this idea. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/153
Only problem is when you are 50s you are likely to have the time and money but not the energy. Surely it is not the case with everyone but enough to have this cliche pass around for quite some time.
And it's as a result of this that length([a, b)) + length([b, c)) == length([a, c))
it's a good start but it doesn't scale
This? https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/14451/nomic

> In the words of Nomic's author, Peter Suber: "Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. In that respect it differs from almost every other game. The primary activity of Nomic is proposing changes in the rules, debating the wisdom of changing them in that way, voting on the changes, deciding what can and cannot be done afterwards, and doing it. Even this core of the game, of course, can be changed."
unless you have registered your invention with the employer during the hiring process, it belongs to them
Good god where has common sense in the police and justice system gone so far off the rails that this came to court and didn't get thrown out immediately?!
I don't think we disagree at all. The empire never ended, I guess.
Crypto exchange Swyftx hunts funding, flags bridging round
And some may claim Christianity is about loving your neighbor and following the love of Jesus all the way heaven... Yet you will see people camped outside planned parenthoods screaming and cursing at other humans who are 100% Christians by their own definition.

Seems like you're falling for the exact fallacy I pointed out upthread.
> Also Windows should step in and say that this application is consuming almos all of the remaining memory

This is much more complicated that it appears, because the user could be intentionally doing that - if you have little memory (8 GB), you are sort of always almost out of it, if you have a lot but you are using professional apps like Photoshop, video editing, or doing machine learning with large datasets.

I'm sure that the reason Windows doesn't do this is because they couldn't figure out a good way to warn which is also not annoying.

There are some Windows warnings, I've seen them, but they only appear when the situation is so dire the computer is about to blue screen.
https://archive.ph/KJoBq
AWS just goes down without sending emails and without even acknowledging the outage on the status page.
I was more offended by the vicarious reference to something as brilliantly funny as the Holy Grail via something as terribly unfunny as Jeff Dunham.
Somewhat surprisingly, it is actually cheaper to just throw them in prison for the rest of their life then use the death penalty. Like 50% more to a whopping 1000% for California [0].

[0]: https://www.amnestyusa.org/issues/death-penalty/death-penalt...
It's certainly a spectrum. 1<>1s and vision alignment meetings are super important. Standups too, if that's your thing (I like them, but they must be run well). A lot of other stuff can start to get noisy in my opinion.
Host it somewhere encrypted (GPG) and download it when you get to destination?
This remains to be seen. Most of these communities have either no jobs or one primary employer are are very subject to disruption. When you're laid off and your house becomes worthless because the biggest employer in town is shutting down, what are you left with?

It also limits your mobility dramatically. By working in a HCOL city, even if I'm struggling to save, I'm maxing out my 401(k) plus match and more every year. If I want, I can do that for a while and then move to somewhere cheaper. My family in the midwest, despite saving enough for an incredibly comfortable retirement there, couldn't purchase a home anywhere within 1.5 hours of Seattle if they wanted to move there now.
The approach so far seems to have been to spread the load over as many different servers as possible and disable sign ups if any individual server gets overloaded.

Also from what I've read, explosive growth has been an explicit non-goal of the Fediverse.

Of course, it remains to be seen how this all will cope with the current situation when Mastodon is pulled in the spotlight.

After all, Bitcoin was also a small community of enthusiasts for almost a decade. The real challenges only started when they went big.
Wow so many negative comments.

It is easy to start a startup in your 30s. In fact that is the only time you should start one. You finally have some life experiences to build a startup around.

By 30 you should have enough money saved to run for a year or two.

Your startup idea total addressable market should be clear. If it is close to a billion, go VC funded.

If it is in the 10s of millions to a few hundred, bootstrap.

Next, you have kids. You cannot faff around with company name, logo and such nonsense.

You need to focus on getting money in the door. So then where is your first customer? Hopefully with your 30 year of experience you have spotted someone already. Go to them and tell them that whatever they are looking for, your startup provides. Doesn't matter what they ask for, tell them yes it does that, the best in the industry. Take their money to book a spot as you are doing "revolving entries."

Do at least 5 of these. Tell them some nonsense about the price being a lot more but you are charging much less etc for them to be part of the existing cohort. This is important. Nobody wants to enter the train first. They want to be part of a journey where there are existing passengers.

Once you have money in your business account that is when you can start hiring someone to build a really scrappy version of your product. While all of this is happening make sure to always keep on getting new customers and getting money into the account. Business is about getting money into the business account. Never lose sight of that.

Now, you should have a huge dream about what your business can be. The larger the dream the better. If you can promise the moon and the stars and you have a total addressable market of about a $1 billion reach out to VCs, and ask for millions of dollars.

The larger amount you ask the more it'll seem to them that you have some special sauce. Once again make sure that you lie through your teeth because VCs don't understand anything and they're really easy to fool. Talk about changing the world and network meshes and AI and all those things. Get a good pitch deck designer.

Your only loyalty is to your customers and your problems space. Everybody else is a goose that needs to be squeezed. Once you reach your series B and Cs, losing is no longer an option. Make sure you sell secondaries and get at least $5 million in your personal bank account to derisk any future problems. From then on the world is your oyster.
And that is why it is rare that it happens. Which is fine, it’s not a ride many people would even want once they have the rest of their life stabilized.
I'm in the process of removing Adobe from my pipeline. What's the best alternative to Lightroom?
Why change the title from what it said in wired? The difference between "A man", and "THE man" changes the whole meaning of the title.

Anyways, here's the non-paywalled version.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%...
Yes indeed.

That concurrency testing capability is a pretty well-studied area and we implement a couple existing algorithms. The first is our adaptation of the PCT algorithm (ASPLOS'10 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...). That's what you get by default with `--chaos`.

But we also have variations on straight up randomized scheduler (random thread selection at each time step).

rr chaos mode has its own take on this: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2016/02/introducing-rr-chaos-mo...

This study compares a few approaches - http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~afd/homepages/papers/pdfs/2016/TOPC....
Dell XPS 13 with an UHD screen is the closest you can get.

Again, the problem is that the hardware and the software are not optimized to work well with each other as much as Mac hardware and MacOS. Dell's fingerprint sensors do not work on Linux due to undocumented specs, and sleep/suspend doesn't work (the laptop will overheat in your backpack)
EA is heavily rooted in the rationalist movement, which was kickstarted by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Yudkowsky wrote some HP fanfic called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Yudkowsky now runs some sort of foundation about averting "AI risk," and AI risk seems to be a disproportionately (and dare I say irrationally) big concern for rationalists and EA advocates.
> One of the goals of Web3 is to enable direct commerce without trusted intermediaries

That's the sales pitch, but the implementations all require basically anonymous, unaccountable intermediaries that are trusted.
> I am doubtful that volunteers can provide the level of moderation needed in a full scale social network.

You're right, they can't. Mastodon accepts that it will have Nazis and other extremists make their own instance to share and proliferate hateful ideas (much as they do on the normal web).

The solution? Block their site.

If you group up all the Nazis in one spot, it makes it very simple to shoot them into space and never see or interact with them again. That's the core moderation philosophy of Mastodon, and IMO it actually works great in practice. Most mainstream instances (1000+ users) will generally have uncharacteristically nice moderation because of this.
> NEETs? GINI-d? The "Outer Party"? Do you hear yourself? I don't know what those things mean, and I think it's pretty weird that you assume the average reader will.

Did you not read the article? Do you not know what the GINI coefficient is? It strikes me that you're being disingenuous.