skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good discussion on UBI, I used to be a big proponent of it, but after the pandemic I agree that it's not a cure all, and definitely will cause a lot of people to fall further down a vice trap, encouraging others to join them.

With that said, UBI is very much a fringe policy prescription, and Andrew Yang was pretty much kicked out of the Democratic party. He offers no prescriptions as far as I can tell other than an organic great awakening arriving, in other words a collective delusion convincing everyone to work and work hard.

Something has to give with housing I think. The ramifications of policy there would impact trillions of dollars in wealth and any debates would be sluggish and full of inertia.
Compare how many companies can reliably launch rockets vs how many can reliably create social networks that aren’t dead in a year. I think it’s clear what’s more difficult
Yes, it is a shame that you can't combine git merge --ff-only --no-ff .
Not in the core language currently. You can do it on the Terrastruct web app (dragging things around after render). We're thinking about ways to better specify exact positioning in D2 CLI, perhaps something like a flag to lock in x,y coordinates that can be changed post-render.
LVFS also has some: https://lvfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/telemetry.html

This page from Debian Wiki may be interesting to see what all is out there: https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues
Define the metric for effective. You'll note it matches utilitarianism.
FTX assets still missing, bankrupt lawyers assert
> People have been making this argument since the 80s and possibly even earlier. My experience is often the opposite. Little languages are usually far, far harder than (mis-)using "big" languages for small tasks.

From the top level comment.

It’s also the primary failure mode for DSLs. There’s never any thought for tracing and debugging, and so it becomes a peaen to the primary author(‘s ego).

Once you no longer have impostor syndrome it gets much harder to play along with these ego trips. It’s not that I’m too dumb to understand your DSL, it’s that you’re a fool who thinks writing your own language is the pinnacle of success. It’s very rare for it to better than a decent API and you’re thinking about yourself, not your coworkers.

That’s why everyone always mentions SQL. It’s the exception to the rule, not an example of when DSLs can be good. Remember XSLT. Remember a dozen other failed DSLs. Per decade. Forever and ever.
> What Musk was asking for here wouldn't be a good way to evaluate skilled, conscientious developers, but it would be a pretty effective way to rapidly identify people who are basically incompetent or just aren't really doing anything.

So it's basically a FizzBuzz test, but for existing employees?
I wanted to keep it all as short as I could. Maybe adding more hyperlinks will help.

https://sis.binus.ac.id/2022/07/21/the-differences-between-w...

https://www.renovodata.com/blog/2019/01/17/single-sign-on
Settlers of Catan is in many respects not a very good game, because many of its mechanics are zero or negative-sum, with a heavy helping of RNG.

This creates a lot of opportunities for kingmaking and spiteful plays from people who are not able to win, but are able to make sure that you lose. And the worst part is that you're often forced into these situations through no fault of your own.

Diplomacy allows for all of the same plays, but as the player, you have way more agency about both getting into, and getting out of them. It makes the adversarial alliance-and-dealmaking part first and foremost.
> I strongly disagree that the iOS App Store should be treated as an "internet service" rather than a part of the device.

It's also on the web, e.g.: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215

Which means apps, for example, show up on Google searches.
I've been very happy so far with the selection here https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-beard-trimme... :)
For one, they helped build Linux drivers for NTFS. Despite Apple promising to document and open-source APFS, they still have not gotten around to it (which makes interop with Macs really frustrating). There are lots of little things, too - Microsoft packages desktop apps for Linux and made pretty great OSS contributions like the Monaco editor. The list could go on, but this really shouldn't be surprising. Apple doesn't even treat upstream BSD with respect, it's insane to think that they would respect Linux.
It seems like with this, Meta is doubling down on the Facebook platform's use as a dark influencer in politics. It's bad for humanity to enable advanced profiling and general targeting of demographics, but it's a whole other level if the communication itself can be targeted at the individual level.

We're headed for a reality where I don't know if my friends' friends are real or not, and they each entice me with arguments tailor-made to my sensibility to change my mind in ways that serve someone else's purposes.

Not to sound alarmist, but this is beyond Manhattan Project-levels of "maybe this won't turn out well for us."
People crawl out of poverty every day in the US and it’s full of opportunities to the point the world over people wish to come.

The American dream isn’t dead, a decent chunk of people are just demoralized.
Sounds like southern Europe. Over-educated under-employed youth that work for pennies as servers, baristas and food delivery.

All the government budget goes to fund broken pension systems. All the private money stays within the oligarchs circle.

0 investments + huge overheads + aging population = death spiral
At which point is YC not worth the effort. You come off as being well enough connected to organically contact VCs.

I've largely given up on the business side. I make small games I hope people enjoy.

Not that there's tons of VC money going into video games anyway...
I'm trying Obsidian right now and liking what I see so far.
I suspect an increasing proportion of Americans agree with these sentiments, and that this is a major cause of rising political extremism.

Anyone know of large polls attempting to measure these sentiments over the course of at least a few decades?
Kinda in a similar position myself. Would love to create something of my own but the house and car won't pay themselves.

I imagine it could be done but you'd have to cut down your expenses to a minimum which in my opinion comes with too much of an opportunity cost. By which I mean missing out on experiences and fun things with the children. In 10 years time they'll be busy with friends or video games. At that point I could consider it again.

If I was really determined to make it work I'd aim towards contracting in a field you have experience in. If you have enough success with that you should hopefully be able to pay the bills from that and squeeze in work on your own thing between paid gigs.
Seems like everything is turing complete these days. Good share, didn't know any of this stuff
You ask someone in slack. If that isn't sufficient, set up a small 1 on 1 meeting to discuss.

You can't avoid all meetings, but you can keep them few and small.
The issue is primarily with motivated reasoning, not consequentialism, though naive consequentialism (also rampant in EA) can also be dangerous.

ETG encourages people to think of the positive side of what they're doing (donating money) without considering the negatives (harmful careers). Being rich, and focusing on getting rich as a goal, distorts your thinking.
The article actually addresses Kotlin. They'd love to switch to it but they just can't do it overnight because they have so much mission critical Java code. So, this is a stop gap solution for legacy code. They published another article some time ago how they are switching to Kotlin: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/10/24/android/android-java-k...

Migrating millions of lines of code is a non trivial effort. They'll be stuck with bits of Java for quite some time. So, this helps make that less painful.
You raise some good points but I deeply disagree about payments being immediately released. So if I make a mistake in my purchase and want a refund but the seller is nonresponsive I'm just out of luck?

There's a reason why payment processing is complex and IMO to a large degree it is because it's more than just moving some numbers in a database.
This is not at all what Effective Altruism is about. If you're getting crazy rich and giving 50% of it away to cost-effective charity than you're likely doing a tremendous net-amount of good.

It's not as if you get a bunch of free stuff the moment you say I am doing something for EA purposes.
"Holy shit, our son isn't a wunderkind, he's a gigantic fraud" might be a good reason.
Epic Gains Made in 5 Years for AMD EPYC 7601 Naples vs Newest 4th Gen EPYC Genoa
Absolutely terrific service, indeed. In terms of privacy you’re probably better off at Protonmail from a government surveillance perspective, but in my opinion you’ll pay with usability that way.
Beware of expected nulls and expected NullPointerException in your legacy code when exterminating nulls.
I know three of these people (not disabled) and they all live off their spouses.
Dr. Félix Rodriguez: "The oldest dating we have is from 4200 years ago" in a recent BBC documentary. I never heard of the University of the Azores until today.
> Overcommit exists mostly because of fork().

Then why does Solaris support fork() yet it doesn't do overcommit nor have an OOM killer? And also has a long history of being a very robust OS.

For more details, see my comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33708633
Being from EU-context, I'd like anecdata to say either way if my take makes any sense:

Shared flats/houses with no official subletting. Basically you have a friend (of a friend) who can barely but legally afford a place for themselves that are happy to give you a room/couch/corner for pitching in some money.
An increase in ice caps can increase the Earth’s albedo and start a runaway cooling effect. Mass glaciation is a very real possibility.

Most people don’t understand that we’re still in the Quaternary ice age. This is simply an interglacial period. Key geological requirements for mass glaciation continue to hold. The two big ones being the existence of a sufficiently large polar continent and multiple oceans, as opposed to a single large ocean such as during the Pangea period.
EITC makes so much more sense than UBI. If I’ve learned anything it’s that incentives matter and UBI creates all the wrong ones.
I prefer `pastEnd`, perhaps in reaction to the original SGI STL, where the documentation called it "past end", but the actual names in the code were just `end`.

For example, look at the...

https://www.boost.org/sgi/stl/stl_introduction.html

...where the documentation is very careful to say "one past the end of the range", and then they proceed to just call `v.end()`. I always thought that was silly.
> the Non-Working Class

The Aristocracy.

Them that are better than us common people. They who are comfortably idle.
JetBrains IDEs for coding projects, Geany for notes, plain Vim for quick scripts
It sure can be a problem when people initialize stuff with nonsense to avoid running into nullable warnings. However, accidentally running into null pointer exceptions is still worse than people deliberately footgunning themselves with bad workarounds.

I feel C#'s nullable has helped me personally to avoid a lot of potential bugs and also changed the way I write code in a lot of places - like creating `bool Try...(..., out var)` style APIs instead of "old school" returns-null/throws style stuff, which I think make a lot of code cleaner and more easy to read.

Sometimes nullable can get a little messy and annoying, especially when retrofitting old code to make use of it without breaking existing APIs, and all in all the way C# does it is a clear net win in my opinion.
I'd rather have the decade of increased productivity.
I take your point, but I have to imagine Tim Cook (or someone just under him) signed off on opening the bootloader. It's not like the executive team doesn't know about it.

Allowing an engineer to answer questions for half an hour a week would be practically a rounding error in terms of resources, and certainly less of a commitment than rewriting iBoot policy, which they already did.
This is interesting. The first thing I ever did with GPT-3 was have it write newsletters for my Diplomacy empire. I was impressed with its wit.
> children with his executives,

Why do people do this? I mean in any industry. Just why? Is there something I don't understand about executives or C-levels or something?
If we generate enough porn then those woman won't be abused anymore!
And you did assume:
a) it's a dataset made of photos.
b) that woman working in sex industry are all abused
This is why I come to read HN.
Have your wife take a job and be the bread winner while you scratch your itch?

Kids either stay at home under your watch (depending on their age), or have your extended family watch them for a possibly below market compensation?
I know Christian priests who have lived their entire lives in poverty serving their community. I've also read about priests in the Catholic churches using their position to molest children. The problem happens when the Catholic Church itself systematically covers up for them.

Similarly, if SBF claimed to follow EA that would not be as big of an issue. The problem happens when you consider that he was also championed by EA as the poster boy, and now everyone is realizing he has been a scammer all along.

Moreover, the way I saw the value proposition of EA is that "we are better at doing math to calculate the effectiveness of charities, finding out which ones are scammy, and also to assess risks to humanity, so you should trust us to do that." That value proposition really blows up when top-line EA couldn't do their due diligence and figure out an eight billion dollar hole in the ground even when their whole existence depended on it.
> The use of "this one weird trick" is humorous at this point

Only when it's used ironically. If the article uses that as a headline and forces you to read the whole thing before giving so much as a hint what the "one weird trick" is, then it's legitimate clickbait.

Don't get me wrong, it's an interesting article. I just think if an article is attempting to humorously use a clickbait headline, then it owes it to the reader to at least add a subheading.
In long running projects, the people who know the answer may no longer be around.
This is what a next generation Skyrim should be.
What Is Gershgorin’s Theorem?
We call it soccer.
> curl is so popular it is used on systems where c99 is not available.

What systems don't support a version gcc that compiles c99 at this point?
> And, I also realize that writing documentation requires effort.

For Apple's hardware, the documentation exists. It's comprehensive. It's just not being released. (This is not the case for software.)

Source: Apple employee.

But this attitude is common in the hardware industry. This particular situation is a bit unusual because most of the time, Linux drivers either are developed with no support from the hardware vendor (something which wouldn't have been possible here due to secure boot) or are developed by the hardware vendor itself. But in the second case, it's common for no documentation to be released along with the driver, leaving independent parties to glean what they can from register names and other definitions in the source code. Or if documentation is released, it only covers the parts that drivers are supposed to access, excluding what would be needed to, say, write a custom firmware to replace the included blob.
This is absolutely the implication. If you’re getting paid for everything else, then that is what is generating the most value.

The point is when someone says “how could you not love programming?” The answer is because “programming” is just incidental to what people are doing at the professional level. Because for professionals, programming comes along with the notion that if you do not succeed you will lose your job and potentially your livelihood and then its far too easy for programming and dread to get linked in your head. I think because programming is creative so it is in some way an expression of yourself its easy to get too attached and frustrating when there’s this other thing attached.

We get paid to do this thing called “software engineering” but programming is a big part of it and programming has elements of a creative discipline. The same way I cannot guarantee a song will be a top 40 hit even if it is sound in a music theory sense, I cannot guarantee a piece of code I write will be useful or valuable even if it is bug free.

I think this frustration is part of all fields where creativity is a component (musicians, filmmakers, athletes, journalists, researchers, mathematicians) but we sell what we do as a strict engineering discipline. But it’s not. If it were a strict engineering, why would we create KPIs or go over click rates or usage statistics with engineers?
It's a matter of (natural language) terminology. It's the difference between asking "which year of your life are you currently in" as opposed to "how many full years have elapsed since you were born?"
I made an artwork by plotting the sun's position over a person's lifespan
In 2020, there was an open call for an exhibition of solargraphy in London. Solargraphs are very long exposure photos of the sun – exposures can be years long – I wanted to create a sort of modern, digital version with an even longer ’exposure’. I chose the duration as a person’s lifespan (averaged at 80.96 years from the day of the photography exhibition) projecting into the future (until 2101). The gallery liked it and it was exhibited just before the pandemic got really bad in London. Unfortunately, it was just pre-lockdown and no one could really go to the gallery, so I thought I'd share on here.

I used a library called PySolar (https://github.com/pingswept/pysolar) to calculate the sun’s position relative to the gallery space’s longitude and latitude. I exported 8 million xyz position points (I think a point every 10 minutes) to a txt file which I could then read in Houdini, and use to trace out the path of the sun. I really like you can see things like the Summer and Winter solstices very clearly, and the passing of each year. The ground plane, upwards, north and east are included for orientation. Very happy to share the .hip file if anyone's interested.

The music on the video is ‘William Basinski - dlp 1.1’.
Show HN: Hoku – The app that makes group travel simple
It is wrong to do harm.

Why someone's well being is more important because he has an illness? What if he hurts other vulnerable people? E.g. psycho attacking kids. Should we care about psycho's well being more than about kids safety? What if we take it the other way and kids attack mentally ill? Should we care about their well-being more, because they're kids?
Not necessarily because the cost increases through increased use by the customer. The idea was to sell hardware at close to cost and then monetize the customer. The likely assumption was that Alexa users would buy more similar to how Prime customers buy more. Ideally, Alexa customers were supposed to use services like "subscribe and save" and then randomly tell Alexa to order more toilet paper or laundry detergent. Amazon wanted all the household stuff on recurring subscriptions. It would have been great. Increased revenue, better ability to bundle shipments together to cut costs, customers who don't even look at prices anymore. Instead, they sell a device for which they incur an operating cost while producing little to zero increased revenue and subscriptions.
i could not disagree more.

simply put: code is language. language in textual form is writing. writing is art.

code is art. that is all
same, and in fact, despite using C# since before LINQ even existed, I don't even know how to write the sugar candy version of it.

Part of that is me coming from C++ and its algorithm header and the other part is that the code is just easier to read and understand than the sugar candy version (to me, atleast).
You missed the context of this example - it's just there to show that IF you don't want to use constructor DI, you can put things in lib and they won't become part of the automatic DI system
Then don’t demand it by wilfully misunderstanding comments in order to “well actually” them.
I make $200k and spend 30 a year. Obviously an outlier but not planning on working much longer.
A CSS Flexbox tutorial of detail and quality similar to https://ciechanow.ski/
> power/thermal/weight is the only spec that matters.

For a laptop these specs hold considerable weight.
Mechanical things like windup watches are complicated.

Social things - all organisms - are complex.
A lot of people do! The average age of a successful startup founder in 2020 was 45: https://economica.org.uk/research-the-average-age-of-a-succe...
Web3 as decentralized services is the logical next step. Ethereum stealing the name and doing everything they can to be associated with it is a load of bs taking away the glamor from real decentralized services that I assure you are coming
EA is NOT re-skinned utilitarianism. For example here's Effective Altruism for Christians: https://www.facebook.com/eaforchristians

Effective Altruism is a large movement, just because some behave a certain way, doesn't mean all subscribe to those ideas.
Nah, this has been going on for about 15 years for me. I haven't tried wine recently because to me it tastes so bad.
What is a good alternative. one that doesn’t look like it intern project?
Hello,
My name is Edgar, I’m the founder of Hoku.
I launched Hoku about 11 months ago as the best platform to plan vacations with friends. Well during this time life happened and I stopped working on this product for a few months but we listened to all the feedback we got from our first launch. Some of the feedback was group chats, having more information on activities and creating your own personal activities.

We spent the last few months working on those features as well as making performance improvements to make the experience enjoyable. We have a ton more features coming soon so stay tuned and we appreciate all the feedback you have.
That is a dishonest retcon giving the new buzzword credit for other people's existing work.

You can't just say "MyFoo stands for good things, look there's a good thing over there, therefore MyFoo is working".
Still missing is an explanation of this insanity: https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/64...

And lying about the endless loop in colors doesn't help much