skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little different - I don't personally identify as part of the EA movement because of the associated baggage, but the ideas around trying to do the most good, extending empathy beyond kin/culture to other people suffering that you cannot see, and reasoning about the effectiveness of charity make sense to me.

Without getting into a flame war not fit for HN, the same cannot be said for the supernatural foundations and epistemic claims of religions - the foundational ideas of EA are not the problem in this case.

I think Sam Harris breaks it down decently here: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/303... though that's a little out of date with how fast news on the topic is moving.

It's also another reminder why it's good to keep your identity small [0] and deal with the ideas directly.

Said another way:

"Go three-quarters of the way from deontology to utilitarianism and then stop. You are now in the right place. Stay there at least until you have become a god."[1]

[0]: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

[1]: https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1497157447219232768?s...
No, because in C++ bare types are not nullable. In java, reference types are nullable, Optional being a reference type, Optional<T> can be null, Empty, or have a value, whereas T can be null or have a value.

Also because std::optional does essentially the opposite. It’s a more efficient _ptr rather than a safer one. Optional<T> is strictly less efficient as it implies an additional allocation.
I open them both, then select and drag the pages from one to the other. (Left side bar where the page thumbnails are shown)
From the article: they're native born and male, may have some college or (10%) college graduates, don't work, aren't in school or training, aren't married, don't really engage in society, watch "screens" 6" hours a day and live off familes, friends and Uncle Sam. 1/2 take some form of pain killer daily.

Overall this is a very sad state. The author describes it as a train class for a death of despair, which feels accurate. This is far more than an economic issue.
IMHO: The modern work environment (or possibly any work environment) is simply not appealing to certain types of people. If those people can find other ways to survive without having to do things they really dislike why do them? Emigrants are a poor comparison because they are self selecting - many of them came to the US specifically for the purpose of working.

The 9-5 with 2 weeks vacation work thing is a relatively new invention for humans. We have spent far more time evolving under more fluid time management situations like seasonal work or doing different work during the course of the year. The current pattern is specialized and somewhat mind numbingly repetitive.
You can remove white/back backgrounds from images as well, with the "Magic Lasso" selection tool. Adjust the selection level until it covers the object you want, cmd+c to copy that object out of the image, then cmd+n to create a new image from that selection.
This is a weird hand to go all-in on, since you can just CMD-F the dissertation to find this:

By ordinary standardsat least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standardssaving and improving lives in rich countries is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal
This is actually very common for any kind of security fingerprinting use-case in the browser, especially in banking/payments.

If you work forwards from "wow, fonts are a weird fingerprint technique" it seems clever.

But the reality is it's much more straightforward if you just work it backwards. Someone said: we have access to the customer's browser, what can we grab to throw into our ML model? You look in the DOM spec, grab every piece of data you can get from the customer's system and send it all. Fonts is one thing that ended up being useful.

(I am not condoning this practice, just happen to be aware of it very well.)
You can also use Preview to carve up PDFs and assemble new documents from the pages of multiple other PDFs. This is really handy for making e.g. custom bestiaries for RPGs, using pages from official books, since usually you use only a few beasts in a campaign, out of a set of potentially hundreds of first- and third-party ready-to-use beasts. Nice to have them all in one PDF, with nothing you don't need. And of course you can pdf-export whatever you like from your own documents and mix that in, too.

For some reason I've never bothered to figure out, I do sometimes have to copy a PDF before it'll let me re-arrange or copy/cut individual pages out of it. But not always. I assume it's because of some kind of flag on downloaded files in macOS, but IDK.
Talking about EU - working on employment contract and seeing over 40% cut off every month... on services mostly not available for relatively healthy man... it effectively uproots the motivation to hop in back once one got off this train at some point for some reason. No children and spouse? Even better...
How is working with GitHub Codespaces?
I would appreciate it a lot if a few CodeSpaces users could offer up opinions on:

What is it like working with resource-hungry languages like Haskell?

If you use their support for VSCode, does it already have plugins for most languages? Add additional plugins easy?

I assume that the integration with private and public repos is very good. Is this correct?
Emacs, because of Lisp. Vimscript is a bad language, Lua is a decent language, but if you need a editor/language that can be used to modify itself, there is nothing like Lisp.

I used to love vim, but it's just an editor and sometimes I want more. I decided it is worth my time to invest in a tool that has existed for decades and will be around for decades.

The dream honestly is Emacs to be replaced by another modern and streamlined editor, that is still as extensible and lispy as Emacs. The current iteration is weird and idiosyncratic, but the foundations it is built upon are timeless and way ahead than any other programmer's editor.
So there are some assholes doing EA. Maybe even it's a majority. Maybe even the organisations that front it are all "look how amazing we are".

Is EA actually... bad? It would seem at worst it's not as good as advertised.

If 10% of the followers donate 10% of their income to charity, isn't that a massive win?

I'm not part of EA myself, like many I'm mildly annoyed by the arrogance but also feel like that's not enough to substantially criticise a movement.
In order to understand Web3 culture, look into Professional Wrestling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe).

Web3 is fake/staged, but everyone participating in Web3 either knows this, doesn't know this, or pretends not to know this.
What central authority controls Bitcoin?

> Before any crypto transaction who do the buyer and seller both turn to for a "fair market value" ? A centralized exchange.

That's the simplest way today - but definitely not a requirement, and doesn't make it centralized in any way. The centralized exchanges don't set the price (if anything, they suggest it) and they can't control transactions nor wallets. Who doesn't know the private key can't do anything with the funds on a wallet.

> The crypto market is controlled by companies like FTX. This still holds true even if you deal directly with these companies.

The "crypto market" - maybe. But they don't control the cryptocurrencies themselves in any way. This is like saying that because NASDAQ controls the $MSFT market they control Microsoft - of course they don't.
The distinction is that "the semantic web" went nowhere and "a bunch of crypto currency fuckery" has millions of users globally.
For anyone else I recommend pdf arranger [1]

[1] https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger
Either drag between Preview windows or a simple copy paste works for me.
Windows: Sumatra PDF.
Linux: Zathura.

These are so much better than Acrobat. Might not do everything you can imagine but they are excellent and a very good default.
Then don’t buy an Apple device?

Apple for over 40 years has sold integrated software and hardware and for over 20 has sold hardware + integrated online services (iPod+ iTunes) and now you are shocked that when you buy an Apple device you also buy into their ecosystem?

Exactly how is anything on the iPhone suppose to work without an account? Push notifications?

Most Android apps are also dependent on Google services and a Google account.
Actually, we'll give each node ID the ID you specify, and then you can just target it after render with DOM selectors. That should be the easiest way!
Maximizing profits often requires minimizing the welfare of others - for example through exploitative labor practices. You can't fully undo the damage of the former by giving a portion of your fortune away. Especially since you have less information about what would actually help than the people who are being exploited for that profit in the first place.

I think ETG basically advocates for a kind of central planning - replacing a large bureaucracy with a class donors who believe they have special knowledge about what would help the lives of others.
You really don't have to put you or your family at risk to have a profitable business that is a benefit to you and the people around you. You also don't have to work long hours or get no sleep to get there. There is no doubt that you probably won't be the next unicorn trying to go this path, but I honestly don't think those people are really as happy as everyone thinks they are. You can have a sustainable business that is profitable in several different ways that adds true value to the economy and to your customers and clients. You can even create a job or two that can provide a good opportunity down the line for someone else.

Take a look at some ideas that can be done as a solopreneur, parallel entrepreneur, or with a self sustaining small business that doesn't require a ton of capital or reoccurring expenses. Don't overcomplicate things or add a ton of stress to your life and build a product or service that you simply can put out there to see if anyone responds. It's important to note that not all startups have to be technology based or what everyone calls a "startup" here. You can be an urban farmer, or sell simple products that you, yourself have been wanting to find in the market. Talking to your local SBA office doesn't make you less of an entrepreneur than launching on HN either.

If you're unsure if an idea is worth it, put out a landing page to see if anyone cares about the idea or what you already have to offer. Spend a weekend or a few nights here and there and make something you're nearly ashamed of, then go try to sell it. You'll learn along the way what works and what doesn't. You'll also learn who you truly are and what you can do and handle. The only thing you need to know is whether or not people are buying what you're selling, and you can live with what it takes to make that happen.

I'm a huge fan of the advice that is contained in the 37 Signals / Basecamp books, so feel free to check those out to learn more about the themes I've suggested here in a better, more articulated package. There is also a book titled "The Parallel Entrepreneur" by Ryan Buckley that I've found useful too.

Good luck on whatever you find yourself working on!
I don't quite know the best way to measure it instead, but isn't saying the top 1% of PEOPLE pay 26% a pretty misleading statistic? I have no idea if it is too high. The 1% is a fixed number of people, how rich are they? If they have 99% percent of the wealth then 26% is too low. If they have 1% of the wealth 26% is too high. It also can grow if you lower their tax rate, if they get enough richer they might pay 27% even if you lowered their rates. It feels like we should be saying X% of wealth pays Y% of taxes, I think I could at least have an opinion about that number that has some meaning.
How many old systems like that are connected to the internet and could actually use curl?
> I believe that distributed version control is a problem no one ever truly had, and no one intends to ever have in the future.

Sure. The problem is not "distributed version control", some problems are:

- I'm on a train with no internet, finished working on a thing and want to start working on another thing and don't want to mix them up.

- I want to make a branch and don't want to wait for eons while everything gets copied on the server.

- Oops there's a problem with the server now no one can perform any work.

Yes, SVN might simple commands, but its internals are messed up. Git's UI sucks, but just learn about blobs, trees, commits, branches (pointers to commits), and you basically understand how Git works.
PHPStorm cause I'm retro cool. I tried VSCode, but it takes more time to set up for PHP and doesn't do some things quite as well. For example, the interface for traversing classes or finding references is a little less refined than in PHPStorm. Perhaps more tricks are available and I could get used to different things, but I have no complaints.
My cat is leashed. She has the run of about 80’ of my back yard. She is a perfectly happy old cat, except during the winter when she finds it too cold to spend her entire day outside.

More importantly than preventing her from hunting wildlife, being leashed prevents her from shitting in anyone’s garden.
There is a lot of conversation internally. You can see these debates here [0]. The guy credited with who got SBF into EA wrote a post [1] which was also debated heavily in the comments. A good introduction, or at least my introduction, was by the same guy's debate [2] which I recommend if people are interested in EA outside of the current media storm.

[0] https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/

[1] https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/WdeiPrwgqW2wHAxgT/...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qslo4-DpzPs
Ubisoft comes crawling back to Steam after years on Epic Games Store
One thing I observe in the latest OS update (Ventura) is that they made HUGE improvements in memory management (MacBook M1, 8 GB).

Before, Firefox would bring the laptop to a crawl with ~200 tabs (Yeah, I know).
Having PHPStorm open at the same time was a sure machine killer.

Just today I found myself casually with close to 350 tabs, while at the same time working in PHPStorm with no issues.

In my experience (My previous box was a Thinkpad T430 with 16 GB of RAM running Debian) linux is far from this good handling memory.

Also, the state management in MacOS is equal to no one.
I have a Lenovo Thinkbook 15 (I7), and having to wait for it to restart when I open the lid is excruciating. I should put a "This is my pos laptop" on it.
Nvim+plugins gives me pretty much all I need, and there's usually always some vi variant on any linux env I've had to use.
Was he championed by "EA" (is that some organization I am unaware of?) as a posterboy, or was he championed by puff pieces paid for by investors, which cited the founder's pedigree and his belief in EA in order to bolster the company's reputation?
As I just posted elsewhere, I do find I sometimes have to copy a PDF before it'll let me do this to it. I assume it's some kind of flag that isn't preserved through the copy and there's actually a better way to fix it, but my work-around is simple enough that I've never bothered to figure out what it is.
Open up two docs in preview. Let's say Doc A is the one you want to merge into. Open Thumbnail view in each doc. Select pages in Doc B you want to merge over to Doc A (some or all). Drag and drop into thumbnails view in Doc A. Reorder as desired. Profit.

Copy + paste also works.
Been a while since I used it but IIRC you should be able to show the page thumbnails sidebar in each document and drag them from one window into another.

Probably also accessible via Preview’s Automator/Shortcuts actions if it’s something you need to do frequently.
Looks awesome! Very easy to read!

Can't wait for an Obsidian plugin! :D
Does viewing source of this page bog down your browser?
This is meta dependent, too, though. If you are not attacking and also not sending the right signals to the board, you might be quickly carved up by the other players jockeying for 12 territories.
Show HN: Phone Booth Privacy – Call Spam and Scam Protection for Android
Hi HN,

I have been working on this app for a while now and released it today it as Early Access to get feedback. Call spam is one of the major problems that I face everyday and that I want to solve for myself. Just to give a background, I’m a very private person, using barely any social media (usually 1-to-1 messaging apps or no-login lurker), and hate ads, dark patterns and dumbing down stuff for users by hiding away information.

As such, I've been developing this app while ensuring it passes my own bar for my personal use. It is bare-bones as of now, and provides basic call management and block list. I’m working to add more stuff to it, including advanced blocking features and caller ID. This is a product-of-one, and will always remain so.

Please download it from Google Play Store for Android and let me know your feedback. There is no sign-up required, and even though the Data Sharing section on Play Store page and Privacy Policy mentions about data collection (like Call Log), the backend hasn’t been integrated in this version of the app, so, it is completely offline / standalone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hyprgeek.p...

Thanks,
Anecdotally most NEETs live off of disability that more often than not is for some subjective condition that cannot be verified by tests (back/leg pains, autism etc.)
Why exactly would you trust random strangers with your critical data rather than use S3?
There's an interesting question of "how much do the literal best humans suck at this?" For example, in chess Magnus Carlsen might be able to beat Stockfish given a handicap of just a pawn or two. An even better computer player than Stockfish might give up three or more pawns, but even a perfect player would likely lose to Carlsen if giving up a rook. -- I'm making this up, I don't think anyone knows the real values, but as far as I know no one is remotely projecting that perfect play could overcome e.g. a queen handicap.

Similarly, in Go it seems unlikely that perfect play could overcome a nine-stone handicap (again, I could be wrong, I'm not remotely a dan-level player).

All to say, it seems likely that Diplomacy is a game where the difference between "the best human play" and "the best possible play" is much larger than either Go or Chess.
This is a misunderstanding of the history and development of capitalism.

Yes throughout all of human history you had to do some sort of labor to not die, I'm not disputing that. However until very, very recently you weren't forced to sell your labor to survive.

The current state of needing to sell your labor to survive is unprecedented even in relatively modern time. During the great depression roughly a quarter of Americans worked on farms, a century prior to that virtually all Americans did. During the great depression not nearly as much of our individual survival had been commodified: nearly every family could hunt, farm, create clothing they needed, maintain their home, and cook their food (something surprisingly many people cannot do any more).

The commodification of nearly all aspects of our material lives means today we are much more dependent on Capitalists than ever before in history.
Right, if only there was a language on the JVM that did that /s

It's really an eye-opener when you compare kotlin and scala, with all their superficial similarities: Where kotlin simply takes the @Nonnull annotation, promotes it to a core language feature and drowns it in convenient function-scope syntactic sugar until it's actually nice to use, scala opts for Option and stacks layer upon layer of architecture trying to make Option somehow disappear. I lost half a decade holding on to plain java snobbishly dismissing kotlin as a second class scala before I finally got converted.
It’s becoming worse over time, IMO.
Except that he later goes on to describe how this is also affecting women more and that we should be paying attention to that as well? I don't think anything the author said is actually disparaging of women, in fact there was quite a bit of the opposite, talking about how vital their role in society has been. He's not blaming working moms, he's using them as the perfect example that a person can leave the workforce for years at a time and rejoin without much loss.

Where is he blaming mothers for this situation in the statement you quoted?
That is wrong all, non annotated Java code gets a special type denoted with a ! . You can use ?. or assign it to a new val with ?: return.

Or you throw all the null safety away and write unsafe java code but in Kotlin the same as the Java code you're working with.
The thing I like about popcon is it's opt-in, and disabled by default.

I enable it on my personal production systems and disable on everything else, both on privacy grounds (work), and not providing wrong data (disposable VMs).
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I'd take confluence over google docs because of how bad Google Docs' search is surprisingly
Agreed.

I’m 80% at requiring it for anyone at the company that doesn’t need full acrobat to create PDFs. And even then I’m close to pushing the version of FoxIt that does that.
I'd be suprised if those people clawing their way out of poverty are these people though. It feels like many of those advancing are new Americans, while the population described here are sinking further into despair.
This is not a pro tip. LibreOffice can import a PDF and export a PDF but, even with minimal changes, the PDF you get out won't necessarily have a similar binary representation or appearance to the original.
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Copy a selection of pages from an existing PDF, choose File > New from clipboard. From that point you can edit the pages in the PDF using the thumbnails sidebar and drag pages from other PDFs into the bar.
Can, yes. I know that film allows such a detail. That's not my point, rather an aesthetic and, I know, extremely subjective point of view. Film where made (and consumed) a certain way back then: consuming differently today makes a different experience. Not better or worse, but different. Maybe for some dvd customers the added detail doesn't matter that much
> which hypnotizes itself with huge numbers of extrapolated future entities to justify harming people today.

Any sources on this? Or do you mean things like reducing energy usage to tackle climate change?
Web3 isn't about cryptocurrency, it's about owning your own identity instead of Google, Apple, Facebook.
The Affinity products on Mac are some of the cleanest, polished, reasonably easy to use, responsive, and stable pieces of commercial image software I've used in years. Very impressed with what they've done so far.
Who believes this? Do you know any first generation Mexican immigrants? Some of the hardest working people I’ve ever met, who are also rapidly pulling themselves towards the middle class.

No, hard work does result in success, but you just have to do the actual hard work part. I have never, ever met somebody who works really hard who isn’t rapidly seeing their life improve.

Some other lessons to take from first generation immigrants:

1) Focus on your family.

2) Traditional values are traditional because they work.

Don’t get caught into the contrarians trap of believing that conventional wisdom is wrong.

“Ackshually working hard doesn’t work” is demonstrably wrong. You may just have to do some work that isn’t very fun.