skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am claiming two things:

1) EA as a movement and as a principle has been at best equivocal on whether or not it's OK to deliberately harm a few people in order to benefit many people. There's a very strong argument that SBF was pursuing utilitarian goals as espoused by EA. Riches amplify our flaws. He committed EA on a grand scale, and it turns out that SBF's version of take-no-prisoners utilitarianism is a) illegal, b) harmful to millions of people, and b.1) that includes his own movement.

2) SBF and Caroline did crypto. They didn't do crypto and secretly scam people and therefore they are not really doing crypto. Scamming is at the heart of crypto. If you want scamming not to be at the heart of crypto, then accept that you will need a centralized authority with a mandate for violence to impose rules of behavior, much as we have with the rest of finance.
> As long as technology and human society progresses, then yes, GDP is guaranteed to rise

My whole point is that it looks like human society globally is going to decline rapidly and, in some regions, catastrophically. Old populations don't consume as much, once they get old enough they don't produce as much, how would GDP grow then? Well that is the looming reality for Europe, China, Russia, Japan, Canada etc. The USA is relatively ok there but it's just a matter of time before we get there too unless birthrates veer sharply towards at least replacement level.
I was really keen on the idea of adventure mode, after watching a fantastic lets play of it [0].

But when I got there I didn't really know what to do inside the sandbox.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDX5hmtjqtw
Yeah, I'm living in one now. My rent is $700 for around 750 sq ft of space in a rather typical apartment complex; one bed, one bath, very safe area (it's a safe city in general), access to 1.2 gbps Comcast (I'm paying $30x for 300mbps). That rent will climb to $750 when my lease renews in 2023, but it's still quite reasonable.

Picked a random university city: Tallahassee, FL (Florida State University). Tons of apartments available across the city for $750-$1000. It'll also work for Gainesville, FL (University of Florida; although it's more expensive than Tallahassee).

You can do it in Blacksburg, VA (Virginia Tech). Although it'll push you closer to $900-$1100 on rent. Charlottesville, VA (University Virginia) is at the edge of affordable for this scenario, although that is also doable.

Lubbock, TX is pretty easy (Texas Tech). It'll work for College Station, TX (Texas A&M). Waco, TX (Baylor) is a bit of a mixed bag on crime, however it also works.

It'll work in Champaign, IL (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

It'll work in Iowa City, IA (Iowa University). Also in Ames, IA (Iowa St).

It'll even work in Pittsburgh, PA. Which is both a mid-size city and a university city (Pitt, Carnegie).

The same goes for Madison, WI (mid-size city, with University Wisconsin). Although it'll push you closer to $900-$1,100.

It'll work in Athens, GA (University of Georgia).

It'll work in Manhattan, KS (Kansas State).

It'll work in Norman, OK (University Oklahoma).

It'll work in West Lafayette / Lafayette, IN (Purdue).

It'll work in Fayetteville, AR (University Arkansas).

It'll work in Las Cruces, NM (New Mexico St University).

It'll work in Morgantown, WV (West Virginia University).

It'll work in Columbia, SC (University South Carolina). Although the crime is more elevated. The same goes for Tuscaloosa, AL (University Alabama).

It even gets you pretty close for Ann Arbor, MI (University of Michigan). Rent will be closer to $1,100 to $1,200.

There are a lot more options, and that's just among the more prominent university list.

The only ones that typically won't work at all are high cost of living states like MA or CA, particularly affluent universities (getting anywhere near them in location), or smaller towns with few apartments (availability).
I agree with the "encourages imagination" argument, and also that ASCII modes might be more practical. I have played Nethack in ASCII mode and tried a few graphical variants, and always returned to the ASCII version because it's easier to tell the enemies apart and easier to see what's going on.
To be clear - in that example, a river was polluted by waste that a negligent private company had gathered for decades and then abandoned in an uncapped gold mine -- the EPA was only involved because they were cleaning up what was already a nightmare of pollution. The spill which accidentally released 100k tons of acidic water mixed with mining tails into the river was proceeded by the owners of that mine intentionally releasing over four million tons of actual tailings as part of their regular operating procedures.

The EPA and other orgs are responsible for the cleanup of thousands of polluted areas and superfund sites created by negligent businesses who wantonly polluted and then abandoned their responsibilities leaving it up to their kids and their kids' kids to clean it up.

It's like blaming the dentist for scratching your gums while repairing a cavity. A big dose of, "Well sure, but if you had listened to them in the first place.. "
Bitcoin had organic usage and, thus, value before the hype of 2013. You can still find old online poker videos of people with substantial BTC balances making $10 bets that would be worth millions today.

So if we agree on that (I know, big IF), can we get past the "religion" argument and label these people correctly as "gamblers"?
It's not about crippling car infrastructure. There will always be good reasons to use large/flexible/powerful vehicles for a lot of journeys.

It is about not promoting car infrastructure to the detriment and ultimately exclusion of alternatives that have the potential to be widely beneficial to society (including, ironically, to those who still drive motor vehicles in our hypothetical alternative reality).

You can provide well for different modes of transportation at the same time. Several European cities have had great success in doing so and they are much nicer places for it.
Indeed, thanks. FTR "Feolite is a type of iron oxide sintered into building blocks, which are then used for heat storage" which is exactly the stuff.

That's an astonishing difference in capacity.
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ah, my bad.

This should work for 134:

`ruby -r date -e '0.upto(4e9){b=DateTime.new(0)+_1/86400r;puts b.strftime"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"if(c=b.strftime"%y%m%d%H%M%S")==c.reverse}'`
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Will those improvements make it to non-Steam versions? I'm kind of bummed the Steam version is Windows only (according to Steam at least).
The graphics version also did MASSIVE pass on every control.

Like, instead of going "select bed, make bedroom, repeat 40 times", you can just make rooms, put beds, doors, etc, then just select whole area and it will make a bedroom out of each of those rooms.

camera controls are normal WASD now, most of the things can be done with mouse, there are tabs on panels and hyperlinks in legend browser and thousand other little things.

It will be coming eventually to free ASCII version too
In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, though, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and "According to the University of Technology Sydney, about 46% of criminal activity of each year is connected to Bitcoin.[0]"

Other sources, more devoted to "this is good for crypto, actually" say the percentage is tiny-tiny, apparently by counting every transfer between any two addresses, including several that might all be related to a single real-life transaction. They seem to also have a pretty high standard for what they count as "illegal activity." Even so, they'll admit it's at least $14 billion of activity in a year.

0. https://bitcoinafrica.io/2020/03/04/crypto-illegal-activity/

1. https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-crypto-crime-repor...
Train an AI which is judged on its ability to train humans. I don't think we're ever going to really trust AI until it can explain itself clearly to humans. And that's pretty close to being able to teach.
As I recall he had some medical issues to pay for. The other brother didnt have insurance nor a regular income... just his split of the DF donation money.

It bring up a lot of criticism of healthcare in the US which I don't quite understand. Yes, healthcare is expensive in the US, especially without insurance. It has been for a while, so dont be surprised when not having a regular income nor insurance puts you in a bad spot. It was poor planning as much as it is expensive healthcare.

It basically amounts to one day realizing "oh shit, $35,000/year and no health insurance isn't enough money. This is the fault of the United States."
Well, my three brothers and I ranged from ages 5 to 10, so that's a good starting point. Then figure it's a bunch of long narrow hallways, which were wide enough for kids to run in, but narrow enough that you feel fast running along the walls. Low-pile office park carpet turns out to be perfect for traction when running in your socks at that age. And then M&Ms and vending machine stuff is the perfect treat for kids who mostly ate homemade meals.

I'm sure the two most uncommon enablers of the good experience were 1, there being four kids in the family to play together and, 2, my dad not worrying that we were going to cause a bunch of problems when left to run around the office.
> What is “it” in this case?

Obviously, cheap launches into space.

> If you think SpaceX has done all their great work alone

What I'm saying is SpaceX got it done. No other organization in the world did. The fact that SpaceX had an obvious learning curve of failing and exploding rockets makes it obvious it wasn't just copy and install NASA technology.

NASA's reusable rockets were on the space shuttle, which turned out to be fantastically expensive and impractical.

> NASA has been researching COPVs for decades

Somehow not resulting in a practical, inexpensive reusable rocket.

It's undeniable that NASA has made many great achievements. But making space accessible in an economic manner isn't one of them.
Bitcoin is quite literally a religion. It has dogmas ("not your keys, not your coins"), traditional values ("21 mil"), a prophet (satoshi), celebrated dates (Jan 3).

On the serious side, Bitcoin is all about "let's all agree this is money". This means it's a useful tool only after you play the social game. Technology does not matter if people don't get to a consensus on it, but when they do (and they seem to continuously re-enforce this consensus over years), it works better and better.
A reasonable strategy if you never ever merge two branches. If there's a non-homeopathic chance that a parallel change to the file in question might eventually pop up I'd limit "migrate on touch" to occasions when you do major rework and not just a minor touch. If it's possible to occasionally enforce a "branch singularity moment" I'd go with migrate on major rework until a branch singularity opportunity comes up and then do the bulk conversion to what I affectionately call "shit kotlin" (the endless procession of exclamation marks that faithfully recreate each and every opportunity where the java could, in theory, achieve an NPE) in one go. And leave only the cleanup of that mess to "on touch". If it later comes to parallel cleanup, that wont be half as annoying to merge, not even remotely.

What I haven't tried is "migrate on touch" with a strict rule that there must be explicit commits just before and after the conversion (plus a third commit documenting the file rename separately, before or after). That could perhaps work out well - or not help much at all, I don't feel like I could even guess.

But other than that, the intermediate state of partial conversion is surprisingly acceptable to work with, I'm not disagreeing!
I mean having a monadic api is nice if it's strictly enforced by both ecosystem/culture/typesystem. But with Optional being potentially a null itself, it barely improves the need to defensively program and might in fact be worse. For example, when I used a lot of Scala in a past job, Java libraries were scary to use unless you defensively wrap java functions with Try/Option/etc.

Whereas with Haskell/Rust/OCaml/etc. you can largely trust type signatures to properly encode the existence of nullability or failure.
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Yes, I'm very interested in that as well. I've been involved with the ACM Artifact Evaluation process which has been going on in several conferences for a while.

https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-ba...

But it's been pretty frustrating. As an author, my PLDI 2014 artifact stopped working less than 5 years later (Docker image binary incompatibility). And when I was co-chair of an Artifact Evaluation Committee in 2017, there was not great reproducibilty of the artifacts that were submitted either.

If you package a VM (freezing the Linux kernel), and are pretty sure that VM will run in 10 years, PLUS you determinize the execution itself... that should allow durable bitwise reproducibility. Maybe Hermit could be one ingredient of that.

For scientific reproducibility, there is a lot of other tooling to build too, and I know some folks have been working in that area:

https://ctuning.org/
The Steam version OP mentioned fixes that
> you can't really hire someone off the street to do it effectively.

I disagree, I've been apart of a few companies that have done exactly this. I would suggest not presenting this argument as an absolutism.
yes, microsoft is truly amazing, where is their patent free exfat implementation?

that is the only true modern interop fs and they keep it hostage.
Some ideas that work for me:
- become a freelance, only accept short time jobs so you can deliver, get paid, and enjoy the free time when you can focus
- ideate, advocate, and work on short interesting projects that can give you dopamine when your regular job becomes too boring to do. Example? I was feeling like this and I proposed I'd create an internal tool to read sms messages from Twilio to be used internally when we do manual QA of our app
- try to change the physical location where you work at. Sometimes I go working at food halls in malls or at coffee shops, the change of environment resets something in my brain and I can focus again
- find some sports that helps you. For me it's running, I tried other sports but it looks like what works for me is the prolonged effort and energy drain of running, which you don't get when doing weight lifting for example
ruby -rdate -e'b=DateTime.new 0;loop{b+=1/86400r;c=b.strftime"%y%m%d%H%M%S";puts b.strftime"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"if c==c.reverse}'

127. Script never terminates, but it does display all possibilities, so I think it still passes!

Edit: 126. ruby -rdate -e'b=DateTime.new 0;loop{b+=1/86400r;puts b.strftime"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"if(c=b.strftime"%y%m%d%H%M%S")==c.reverse}'

I think I'm done for the moment, will revisit tomorrow if you can find any further savings!
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This doesn't work at most companies because most people don't know how to type properly.

Thus they would rather speak at a meeting than type into a form, because they can speak several times faster than they can type.

I don't hire people who don't know how to type properly (or won't commit to learning).
It's genuinely terrible. I played enough to 'get it' at one point, then walked away for six months. When I came back had forgotten how to navigate the menus and just gave up, as it didn't seem worth it. Different kinds of branching per menu, different idioms for hotkey letters per menu.... just a mess.
> 1. If you can make voice assistant software open-source and plug-and-play, then it frees people up to tinker with form factors

For what it's worth, Google Assistant does have an open API to create new devices. It's not open source, but you can certainly experiment with your own custom form factors. There's even a tutorial:

https://medium.com/google-cloud/how-to-build-your-own-smart-...
Balkanized is an interesting choice of word.

It even has a Google definition, to divide countries and make them enemies of each other.

Yet another victim of US imperialism. I weep for what was once a free and friendly nation. The kids nowadays are taught to hate their neighbors instead of learning how their parents or grandparents were part of a resistance that fought faschist Germany.

That's just an aside. Nothing to do with the topic. I will never forget how my niece walked home from school on a road that was bombed by freedom bombs by the USA 30 minutes later. Not a single soldier has stood trial.
Sorry that just struck a nerve, balkanized... is a word.
Decentralized version control is slower than centralized version control since it requires downloading and working with the entire repository.
Cool. Seems to work, but I don't think it's still Knuth Shuffle.
No need to wonder - the article clearly explains why there isn't. That's why they made this tool in the first place!
Even if entirely accurate, he also had a safety net in his father. Few get into Stanford, even fewer can afford to drop out to bet on some new market.
One of the concerns with these older, smaller dams is that they’ll collapse eventually and catastrophically.

They need to be removed because they’re old, they won’t be replaced because there are cheaper alternatives today.
Dopamine is chemical that makes you feel good. The algorithms are made to increase engagement. Some of the most engaging content is content that makes people angry or shocked. Look at the YouTube homepage when you're not signed in. YouTube's algorithms are not necessarily made to give people content they want to watch and were thinking of watching. And often times not content that makes them feel good.

Edit: maybe I'm half asleep and not getting what you're saying lol
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I am starting consulting business (web design and SEO) but having hard time to find new leads. What tools and services do you use for your business?
Nothing humans do is perfect. The EPA does a vast amount of good.

Do you agree?

I wish we treated people and government like baseball hit stats. Hitting above 600 is a win…
of all lawns, yarrow lawns are by far the softest, and that silvery color makes everyone go wild.
There's this trick that gives you guaranteed protection against institutional loss of up to USD 250,000. There are number of startups and also established orgs that provide this service. You'll probably find a brick & mortar storefront right in your neighbourhood where you can deposit your crypto in their wallet in-person! You'll find that they're sometimes called accounts instead wallets, and they may require you to first convert your coins to this funny system called fiat, but that's just a small technical hurdle.
I think it is still struggling to develop the necessary impact, although the work certainly is of that quality.

And I say that as an admirer and student of Matt, having also worked on these topics within that circle.

What would be a single theoretical result to highlight? No doubt, many beautiful results exist, say, existence of pairwise stable networks, equality of Nash equilibria and centrality, impact of complementarity or substitutability on multiple equilibria, information transmission etc. for an economist or mathematician that's exciting stuff.

But to get a Nobel you need either empirical impact and you need a soundbite (I think). A single idea - or a few of them - that encompass what it is about.

Network results rely on structure. That's what it is about. Everything else can be modeled by more parsimonious game theoretic models (and has been).

But what does structure offer that has not been explored by physics and sociology? Structural holes? Complexity? Phase transitions? That all predates econ.

To be fair, Matt Jackson has probably done as much as is possible in achieving so many outcomes - and in so many areas.
Like showing that canonical network models do not fit all empirical facts - e.g. preferential attachment leads to fat tails but never to positive assortativity and so real life networks also need second order discovery.
Or showing stuff about dominant groups in information cascades etc. etc.

It's just so much... but there's just no one thing. And it is all beautifully theoretical.

My prediction: The Nobel will come via empirical applications. Here, network structure matters a ton. Multiple equilibria, networked externalities and the associated identification issues are omnipresent and a part of life.

At some point, we will learn so much with these techniques they will give a Nobel, and then they also have to give it to Matthew.
Summary: HIGH Documentation = HIGH staleness + HIGH loss. HIGH staleness is because nobody wants to do it (status is lower). Also… nobody else can do it (full understanding of what is being documented is needed)

So, to solve the first staleness part, there is only two ways: raise the documenter status, or make it somewhat possible (easier?) for someone else to do at least a part of it. are they both really that hopeless?

PS: to solve the second loss/discovery part, I think we are heading for that AI powered simple "unified search" experience.
cygwin (presumably; i use msys2) has /dev/clipboard.
The way she goes about it, using power tools without goggles and gloves is just horrifying. It's a lovely concept, showing what can be done with the materials and tools available. But I wouldn't recommend such a cavalier approach to anyone in real life. This seems very staged to me anyway, with the result not matching to the process shown. Also the structural integrity and endurance of those constructs seems a bit questionable.
Does the framerate still decline steadily to zero as you expand your fortress?
This has been bacronymed to CAD: Cardboard Aided Design and I agree with your suggestion.
Last time I played I used Dwarf Therapist, and it definitely helps with min-maxing, but I've been thinking maybe min-maxing isn't the right way to play this game and I should just be happy with the in-game interface?
Agreed.. but lets say you fire 99% of your engineers, and declare a code freeze (because there's no-one left to write code)..

Then in theory.. if you own the hardware and you've locked down the libraries... That code could keep running for a long time. Agreed it's not a Palm app, but with everything locked down, I'd argue it's safe

But now I can third party stuff changing. Payment processors and such. Those don't happen fast though, and 100% not so fast that a company the size of twitter can't work out a sunsetting.

To the heat can break software if the server it's running on overheats. I have a feeling twitter's has a system in place to scale out the faulty server.

My point was, comparing code to a car is silly. A car needs maintenance. Code in code freeze does not.
In what scenarios were you reaching for your mouse within emacs?
This is good news that they are finding real assets to recover in the bankruptcy. And more idiots involved to be held criminally liable.
You don't have to play with that mindset, though "attachment leads to suffering" is a valuable mantra for this game. I play fairly risk-averse and I'm willing to save-scum to avoid the death or even grievous injury of a favorite pawn (pets not cattle, if you will). There's really no wrong way to play.

That style works particularly well with the nobility expansion.
Greedy bustards hiked price in regional currencies (28% in my case) right before I decided to buy a dlc! Even Factorio (legendary for no sale policy) haven't hiked yet. Great game btw.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/294100/view/34221999...
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