skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish he bought a CNC machine because a lot of what he’s doing can be done so easily with a relatively cheap $1500 dollar system.
Another key part of religious extremism is offering indemnity for henious acts, like crusades or honor killings. I have definitely seen high priests of "radical EA" acting similarly.
Onivim is no longer being developed :(
Unless you wish to ask for people to openly post child porn guidance you're gonna have to rely on the people actually following the issue for years. For what it's worth business insider claims they checked said hashtags and the content was gone[0]. Said user is allegedly going to release today an article in a corporate outlet that did fact check it[1] so we'll see.

I have no reason to distrust her and can't see any reason for her to lie about it.

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-child-sexual-...
1: https://twitter.com/elizableu/status/1595109108608544768
I co-founded Howdy.com (YC W21) about 3 years ago. It's a platform for building your own dev teams in Latin America; automate vetting, payroll, offices, equipment, etc. We're profitable and just closed a series-A.

Here's the kicker: My co-founder and I both have kids, family, mortgages. Here's how I did it in the years leading up to and during:

- I saved for years with the idea that I was going to use that money for entrepreneurship

- I was upfront with my spouse and kids about the amount of effort, risk and potential rewards; i could point to a successful dev/PM career as evidence that I could succeed

- Keeping the same standard of living was impossible, we had to budget for a new level of comfort

- We had runway timetable in mind to show some progress

- Our business approach had to be profitable from the start

Your business failure rate doesn't need to be 90% if you're flexible about the problem you're pursuing. We chose an idea that allowed us to bring in at least a little money to lengthen our personal runway. Once we had a sustainable business, it was easier to approach investors and pivot slightly to the market dominating, high risk/high reward version of our idea.

Hope this helps! Happy to chat about this with anyone who's interested in doing the same! f at howdy.com
It seems like with better automatic controls hooked to weather APIs, this would be a lot less annoying?
Night storage heaters are ideal when you have too much base-load available at night compared to use. So ideal to what they were facing in the 60s and 70s: a lot of nuclear power plants were being built that couldn't be regulated much (that improved a bit now). Electricity use was very low during night.

The issues and possibilities we are facing now are different: With heat pumps we can use electricity way more efficient than with resistive heating. When excess electricity is available doesn't follow a simple curve anymore but can be predicted only some time ahead.
Hey Ryan, just wanted to say I hope you're doing great these days! Really glad to see that the work originally done by you and Joe at Cloudseal evolving and becoming more readily available to all of us. I still thought back every once in a while about what y'all were up to. :) Super excited that it's kept on chuggin' and now is something we can all enjoy!
Soul crushed by work millennial here, and this is exactly how it went for me, twice already.
Onivim development has stopped, it is now abandonware: https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3811#issuecomment-9103...
Ugh, people bringing in outside-the-game relationships to the game itself will ruin Diplomacy. "Tom and Jim never betray each other, and if one is in a position to sacrifice themselves to give the other the win, they always will" is how you get a group to never ever let Diplomacy hit the table after the first couple times. Plus a bunch of other games.

Folks who play like that are game-group poison. Hell, they can even make RPGs a lot less fun with that crap.
> The first computer I owned shipped with 128 KiB of RAM and to this day I’m still jarred by the idea that applications can run out of memory given that even 15-year-old machines often shipped with 4 GiB of memory.

I think a safe number for the modern web is like 64 Gb. At least if you want to have anything productive open besides the browser...
Elon founded two companies Zip2 and X.com which merged with PayPal, was mega rich and didn’t need to work ever again on his own efforts, before even doing SpaceX and his other ventures
lol founders taking a salary... I got 5 startups for you to fund!

Founders need to show a lot of work done / churn to get VC backed.
He makes interesting videos. And he says "mohse" many times, which is always fun.

But one common fact of the most successful Youtubers is that they have been putting out content fairly consistently for years.

There definitely seems to be something about time and consistency in the equation of success.
>I have no idea what rhetorical point you’re trying to make with a reference to… Icarus?

Deadalus was a great inventor and scientist. When imprisoned he devises a means for him and his son to escape, in fact he realizes one of mans greatest achievements, flight.
While he is able to control his invention and makes good use out of it (making sure to avoid both extremes), his son can neither control himself nor the technology given to him. In the desire to reach ever greater heights he is ultimately destroyed.

The point is (or at least the one which is so easily read into the story) that all technology is dangerous and that great care needs to be put into how we make use of it.

The idea of using statistics and quantitative methods of the social sciences to devise the best way for humans to live is Icarus grasping at the sun. Very smart people have found new ideas, novel methods and all the mathematics to answer one of mankinds greatest question, if we let them use it a great future awaits.
This already was the folly of "scientific socialism", and your new attempt at it will land you in the Icarian see, just like last time.
I do not think a centralized "system wide telemetry" service is a good idea. This has a huge potential for abuse and can be extended to collect other things.

Privacy should be privacy by default, and if you want users to send you crash/usage logs then you need to show them all of the dirty details, let them review it and chose whether or not to send.
WebAuthn+ Unhackable Authentication (Why Fido will fail.) [video]
Authentication is a mess.

User names and passwords are not secure and are difficult to manage.

MFA can be hacked and has been deprecated (White House memorandum on January 26, 2022).

For almost ten years the FIDO Alliance assured everyone they knew what they were doing and then all of a sudden (March 27, 2022) they say, “Oops, that’s not working out so we are now working on a new plan.”

FIDO's "new and improved" technology, Passkeys (https://fidoalliance.org/passkeys), has major problems (detailed in our video). Most significantly, FIDO's "new and improved" technology opens a security back door. No kidding. Any senior developer or application architect who reads about FIDO's new technical architecture will have an “Oh my God!” reaction.

A tech startup in Austin has solved the authentication problem in a very elegant way. We hope you will watch this brief video, read our technical whitepaper (https://medium.com/@mduffy_48393/webauthn-unhackable-authent...) and pass them along to your friends and colleagues.

We hope that the experts in the Hacker News community will try to tear this technology apart.

Other than malware, we think there is only one threat vector against WebAuthn+ (detailed in the video). The first person on this forum to discover another threat vector wins a free pizza (large, three topping, extra cheese if you want; seriously, we will call the order into the pizza shop of your choice).

Our technology is open-source and "mostly free", so the entire world will benefit from an evaluation by the Hacker News community.

The following text is from the script to our video:

In order to make this all work, we had to create our own version of the Chromium browser: “Nexus Chromium”. This prototype version of Chromium writes the domain name characteristic through Web Bluetooth from the browser application context [strong emphasis] and not the JavaScript context which can be easily hacked by anyone creating a fake web page.

In order for the bad actors to compromise your authentication under WebAuthn+ they would need to install malware on your system or install a completely fake version of the Chromium browser on your system.

In this case, for all authentication systems, it is game over, the bad actors have won... and you should probably replace your anti-malware program and/or your corporate IT staff.

Under WebAuthn+ your authentication cannot be compromised by clicking on a phishing link and going to a fake web page or by any of the other advanced attacks.

WebAuthn+ cannot be compromised even if there is a complete breach of the server data because the user's private key is stored securely on his/her mobile device and never leaves the mobile device.

With WebAuthn+ simple passwords like "123", "asd", or even "pw", become highly secure on a "trusted system" (that is, a home computer or an office workstation). Users really do not want to have to use their phone for every authentication to every application every time.

...and there is more.
I wholeheartedly agree!

With this, you can also push people towards smaller PRs which are easier to review and integrate.

The downside is that if you és o work on feature 2 based on feature 1,either you wait for the PR to be merged in main (easiest approach) or you fork from your feature branch directly and will need to rebase later (this can get messier, especially if you need to fix errors in feature 1).
> I would say you should ask hard questions or diversify

Sure, but… how? How does one magic up a backup multibillionaire just in case the first surprise super-donor turned out to be less than half as smart as he thought he was?

(Definitely triple check their maths. And the assumptions too: in my experience, a lot of things are lost in the unstated assumptions of groups and individuals).
I don't like Confluence either, but the platform is only 10% of the problem. Knowledge Management platforms are something that PMs love to debate, purchase, and use to get promotions. So you end up with a company that has 6+ platforms. This is way worse than having one unified, crappy-UX, wiki.

Finding the perfect documentation platform becomes a waiting-for-superman game. Everyone loves to complain, but nobody wants to put in the actual work to write clear content, define information structure, consider audience, etc.

The real solution is hiring people who are excellent writers. To do this, leadership must be good at reading and writing themselves (not a given) and be able to recognize top contributors.
No authoritarianism. The movement is comprised of numerous people. The general foundation is focusing on making the world a better place; many different directions are encouraged. A sensible metric is something akin to "well being of sentient life forms of today and the future". If you have a different direction than the movement, that's fine. What the movement can do for you is to help you pick ways of helping others that cost less per-dollar-donated or per-effort-spent.

Consider learning more https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
Touching files in .git (outside of like, .git/config) directly gives me the heebee jeebees
I do think just using the folder of markdown folders is far preferable to browsing on the web wherever possible but there's definite use cases where it's unavoidable. I do think this is a very strong case for using Obsidian however, because you literally don't have to mess about with maintaining any kind of SSG, you just put `publish: true` in the metadata of whatever note you want publishing and then just click the Publish button and it's there on the website.
There are Wiki-like interfaces for git+Markdown: GitHub's wikis, gitit, and more.
I'd argue that printf and va_args are terrible and should have been depreciated 25 years ago.
There's a few points here - I'll try to address one by one:

1) Hand-wavy exchange of money.
Most of the derivatives market, including some of the most traditional instruments like energy Futures, have massive amount of cash-settled activity, rather than physically-settled -- ie. nothing physical is actually exchange hands, and traders are purely exchange financial risk.

That doesn't make the transaction any less important and valuable: at the end of the day, participants are hedge financial exposure and cash-settlement is a great and more efficient way to get that hedge in.

2) Single-point of failure OR arbitrary change to the underlying.
There's an extreme amount of scrutiny and safeguards around how CPI is calculated and how it is changed. CPI impacts trillions that are traded in traditional assets like interest rate swaps, inflation swaps, mortgages, etc. Also, CPI is a large factor in the Fed's decision to raise interest rates at every meeting. It cannot be changed by a single person, on a whim. And this tends to be true for all the data sources underlying our markets.

Arguably, a stock has much more key man risk (or "arbitrary whims risk") than something like CPI: eg. Elon ripping a bong and tweeting something's impact on Tesla stock.

3) More like roulette than actual investment.
The lack of physical underlying doesn't make this any less of a financial instruments. Most liquid markets today do not actually exchange the underlying, eg. interest rate swaps, index futures, etc.

What differentiates a financial product from gambling is the presence of an economic purpose. A roulette spin does not need to happen - it happens solely to create an artificial risk for people to bet on. In the case of event contracts, things like an election or a CPI print already expose the market to risk... that risk already exists and our markets allow the transfer of said risk from people that have and can't bear it to people that have the appetite to bear it (that's actually the whole point of the commodity futures and derivatives market).
my dude, do you always evaluate things for what they are rather than what they could be?
> it's opt-in, and disabled by default

This is the right approach.
Diataxis seems to be a fork of Divio.

But according to the network graph on GitHub, Diataxis seems to be more active, although both of them still receive updates.
France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school
Your question leads with infosec concerns, but you may also want to think about customs or import regulations at your destination. You seem to already think it appears excessive as a typical "personal use" travel package. Would a customs official think the same thing...?

So, you might find better suggestions by looking to immigrant/expat community resources for the destination country. You might learn of particular paperwork or least-friction options to ship the majority of it and avoid surprise seizure or customs duties, etc.

Also, some combination of encryption and online backups does sound like a good idea to me, unless of course the countries involved have nasty restrictions on encryption tools. Leaving a copy with a trusted friend or relative in your origin country can also give you a recovery plan. If all else fails, you can work with them to arrange an online transfer in the future, or just wait and get another copy the next time you visit your original country.

You also might want to remove personal data from devices before shipping them, and plan a factory-reset/wipe procedure when you receive them on the other end if it gives you peace of mind.
Good for people who like the ergonomics of VSCode (one-click plugin installs, everything simply "just works" out of the box) with the ergonomics of Vim (modal editing, speed).
This looks great, but no Android or mobile support outside iOS is a big negative
> Is EA actually bad

It’s the “do well while doing good” philosophy that underlies EA, that is quietly grinning in the shadows eyes glowing sick with greed. Doing well while doing good means turning a profit (or gaining/maintaining power, after the fact) by fixing important problems. The issue here is that you’ve got a principal-agent problem. Jeff Bezos has $150B, says he’ll give it all away in his lifetime. But he’s not going to give it away. He is going to invest it. You’ve got the Bezos Earth Fund which is looking to bootstrap solutions to climate change. The end result of just one winner? Bezos interest group has a huge foot on the thing that controls climate change. This is a lever, for them to pull as necessary. The same way Twitter is a lever for Must.

EA is fine, but the problem is that in America “the best of us are by definition the richest” and so it’s pretty hard to engineer a situation where the rich don’t get richer much less agree to concede power to the next party.
Can you explain what you mean by direct commerce without intermediaries? Do you consider the retailer an intermediary? The shipping company?
The advantage of Vim is efficiency and speed. The disadvantage is that it has a longer learning curve.

For something like editing text, as a programmer you do this endlessly - it is absolutely worth it to be ruthlessly efficient at this, even if you have to pay effort learning it.

But for, say, installing a plugin in your text editor... that's something you do a handful of times a month. The mouse is much more adaptable and easy to use, even if you give up accuracy.

This way, you can be efficient at editing text without having to learn keybindings for a bunch of misc things that you do rarely.
Managing a Managed Language in a Managed Lang. Or What Is a Systems Lang. Anyway
I mean that's basically what happened in Iraq, it was a ploy to steal Iraqi oil, without the Nazi part (dehumanization).

As for dehumanization that's exactly what the Apartheid occupation is trying to do against Palestinians.
Different players have different mental "lines that shouldn't be crossed". I play Civ 6 cloud games with friends from college who now live around the world. (No turn timer, you get a Steam notification when it's your turn). Sometimes someone will spend literal weeks on a turn trying to make agreements for war declarations or for world-congress votes.

The time that crossed the line: Poland wanted to declare war on Greece, no one else wanted to get involved on either side, and it was a pretty even match between them.

A friend not involved in this game was visiting family in the same city as the Greece-player, so we knew he'd be dropping by to visit him too. Poland-player told the "neutral" friend: if Greece-player shows you his civ game, take a picture of the screen when he's not looking and message it to Poland-player.

Well he did it, Poland declared war, and his knowledge of the position of troops lead to him winning the war.

"How did you know I didn't have any troops in my southern cities?" And Poland told him how he knew. It didn't end the friendship but there was about a month of not talking to any of us. When he cooled down there was a long meeting over whether that was cheating or "All is fair in Love and Civ". We could never come to a real agreement, 3 in favor of cheating, 3 in favor of dastardly but legal. But we now have an explicit rule of no screen sharing of any kind.
They've returned 91 billion dollars to shareholders since 2017 by buying back shares [0].

[0]: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/meta-faceboo...
Agreed. Telemetry does not solve this problem - and we need to design updates to be smarter, seamless
But java has the worst of both worlds cause with an optional you now have 3 cases, Optional.empty, !Optional.empty, & null instead of just 2 cases.

In our code base this means we have a the rule that Optional is only allowed for returns so we aren't adding 3rd cases all over the place.
The downside is that CNC woodworking videos are less interesting. I know it's not "easy", but it looks too easy compared to less automated methods.

Some of the most enjoyable videos I've watched are of people using Japanese techniques and only traditional hand tools.
> Minimizing expenses, maximizing runway.

If you're in the US, and not living with your parents (and or don't want to do that), one of the best ways to do it is to live in a university town. They're wired for fast Internet, the cost of living (including rent) is often very reasonable, they're among the safest areas in the US on average, and you can work at mundane jobs to pay your bills (30-36 hours per week; telemetry tech at a hospital; cashier or lead in retail making $15-$20/hr; etc). In the typical university town you can rent for $650-$1000 for a 1 or 2 bed + 1 bath apartment in a safe area. Working for a hospital you'll also usually get solid health insurance. The jobs are not difficult, they're relatively easy to get, although they will grind on you when combined with doing a startup (it's part of the trade you're making). Also in these types of jobs you won't have much if anything to worry about regarding intellectual property issues, conflicts of interest, et al.

Source: have done this, it works quite well. It can be exhausting working 80-100 hours per week obviously. The income/job becomes a permanent stream of venture capital, you can just endlessly fund your own way and keep 100% of the pie. I've often chosen to not do tech contracting work while working on a startup and self-funding with outside income, because I don't like the potential IP risks/conflicts and the burnout factor of always working on software/services/sites/whatever.
Hotz specifically asked for a 3 month internship.
> If they're 100 pages which ought to be simple but actually have tens of megabytes of complex javascript with memory leaks, you can blame the pages you have loaded.

... but every opinion piece that would fit in 1.5 kb of plain text loads 250 Mb of javascript ...
Is sea-level rise predicted to mess with TAI, then?

I really hope we can get something like TCB standardized for computer use with affine transform to human-usable times.
I think you are jumping to your desired conclusion here. Even if we take your vastly at face value, there are so many reasons people switch languages, and problematic language evolution is not the only possible reason.
If you look at how complex the org structure at FTX was, its clear there was sophisticated legal help (his parents).
You talking about 'wiki'?
> This is far more difficult than you're suggesting. Git still confuses a lot of junior and mid level devs the second anything deviates from their memorized command workflow

Try explaining that they can't push to the repo because they cloned the http URI and need to generate an RSA token and use SSH instead. Better yet, try to figure out that's the problem when they give you a totally unhelpful version of what the problem is.
When people are concerned about AI alignment, they are not concerned about an AI that is a pathological liar, lying for no reason.

They are concerned about an AI which is believable day-to-day but is secretly optimizing for its own goals, which are only exposed when it eventually makes a deceitful move it cannot disguise, but succeeds because it now has sufficient control.

That's literally what the AI is doing here; being honest until the moment it is able to stab everyone else and throw them under the table.
After you are the 3rd person who contacted me for the same thing, the next one better read the fking documentation that I write.
Upon moving to Dublin my wife and I had a storage heater. Horrible, horrible thing. Would spend all night getting hot, then spend the day trickling away heat and despite all our careful adjustments crapping out and getting cold around 6 PM, when we got home from work. They might have made more sense when more people were in their flat during the day.