skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> EA appeals to exactly that kind of really-smart-person who is perfectly capable of convincing themselves that they're always right about everything. And from there, you can justify all kinds of terrible things.

I came to the same conclusion after a group of my friends got involved with the local rationalist and EA community, though for a different reason: Their drug habits.

They believed themselves to have a better grasp on human nature and behavior than the average person, and therefore believed they were better at controlling themselves. They also had a deep contrarian bias, which turned into a belief that drugs weren’t actually as bad as the system wanted us to believe.

Combine these two factors and they convinced themselves that they could harness recreational opioid use to improve their lives, but avoid the negative consequences that “normies” suffered by doing it wrong. I remember being at a party where several of them were explaining that they were on opioids right now and tried to use the fact that nothing terrible was happening as proof that they were performing rational drug use.

Long story short, the realities of recreational opioid use caught up with them and they were blind to the warning signs due to their hubris. I intentionally drifted away from that group around that time, so I don’t know what happened to them.

I will never forget how confident they were that addiction is something that only happens to other people, not rationalists like them.
I didn't make it to the end of the essay, but near the beginning I saw this which looked like it couldn't possibly be right:

> In 1824, only eight years after the declaration of independence from the Spanish empire, the union of provinces that would eventually become the Argentine Republic obtained a loan of £1 million pounds (a whopping £110 billion today, according to the Bank of England) from Barings Bank, a British private bank that also had lent money to the US government...It was only in 1904 that Argentina’s original debt was formally repaid. It had taken 80 years, more than three generations, and had cost about eight times the original value.

According to for example this calculator (https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...) 1 million pounds in 1824 is about 83 million pounds today, so it's off by a factor of 1000.

This distinction is obviously important to the narrative of "Argentina has been crippled by foreign debt" so I lost a lot of trust that the rest of the article was going to be accurate.
> Did they actually die in higher percentages than regular footsoldiers?

Yes, as noted (with references) in some of the sibling comments here.
Something strange happened to America. They were on the exact same socialist trajectory as the rest of the world but it went all wrong.
And they are using their considerable superpower resources to drag the rest of us down with them.
> Also this has been going on for years now and amazon has done _nothing_ to address it.

Even worse, I think Amazon has done tons to address it, but they just can't keep up with the evolving garbage.

Or as the Red Queen said in Alice in Wonderland, "it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."
Brazil and Argentina are not working on a common currency.

https://www.dw.com/en/the-sur-argentina-brazil-walk-back-the...
I too am getting the same kind of spam in my inbox. And it is coming from gmail addresses, or at least appears like that. Seems like hello world difficulty machine learning filter should be catching those with 99% success. My theory is that google decided to boot me off the service as I am unprofitable and use up their free resources to the fullest.
The Conclusion from the paper:

6 Conclusion
In this article, we concluded that Elixir took more time in both datasets ana- lyzed compared
to Python while demanding more Graphic RAM on peaks. We observed that RAM usage is
an exception to the other metrics as Elixir con- sumed on average 42% and 33% less RAM
than Python, showing that Elixir has better memory management for these test cases.
As for usability, we observed that Python has much more documentation, material,
and available libraries for dataset preparation, model creation, and training. This
was expected as Python is already much more consolidated in the machine learning
market. However, the Nx library was a significant improve- ment to Elixir, allowing
the language to be used for neural network creations much more efficiently than before Nx.
A socialist country with a history of multiple dictators and an unsuccessful war of aggression against Britain [1] is having trouble paying its bills.

I’m shocked.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War
Thank you...$250 sounds excessive. I can hook up an OLED screen and ESP32 to the senseair and get the same ?

I could even send levels to my home IOT InfluxDB for historical charting.
I wasn't aware the 980 Pro 2TB was also affected; I have four of those in a new machine I put together last year.

Time to install some bloatware and see about updating their firmwares, I guess...
Ask and verify or integrate with a tool that cuts the inaccuracies out. Sometimes that is not possible.

There are plenty of pieces of the legal system that would benefit, today, from adding a well-made ChatGPT process. Perhaps not perfectly, in such a flawed system.

As an example, ChatGPT could assess the actions leading to a charge and compare the law to the actions of an individual.

Before you bash the idea, I happen to know of a case where ChatGPT outperformed the US Federal government in this analysis.

1 success is worth the cost.
I love the concept, but for my case, I'd need more granular filters. In particular, I only buy TVs that have analog audio outputs so I can hook them up to any speakers. That's a minority of TVs these days, but there are still a few around. Finding the good ones would be useful to me.
"Tell white lies to avoid awkward conversations" is perhaps not the revelation the author thought it might be.
> many of the most effective aid organizations, all of which are absolutely off-the-charts obnoxious about fundraising

This doesn't seem to jive much with what's reported by charity evaluators like GiveWell, or with what kinds of charitable organizations get grants from more traditional but still high-impact philanthropies like the B&MGF.

It's quite plausible that too much emphasis on fund raising among the general public distorts incentives within these charities and makes them less likely to be highly effective on average. If so, we're better off when the job of publicly raising charitable donations is spun off to separate organizations, such as GiveWell or more generally the EA movement itself.
Yeah it's weird to see BRICS still being referred today. It was sensible in the mid-2000s when Russia actually had some growth and potential and India was more democratic (or at least not so clearly hostile to critics in business and politics). South Africa's main political party wasn't so clearly incapable of long-term planning. (All of this based on my understanding anyway.)

Today it makes more sense to me to think about Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Vietnam, maybe Thailand and Philippines as the brightest emerging economies.
And you have missed the point. To be a liar requires creativity

This a computer. Creative. This is huge.

The most astounding thing is its ability to con you.

We will learn to use it. Hydraulics for cognition. Amazing
> Sutor, ne ultra crepidam

If you are a shoemaker, be careful not to pass judgement beyond the making of shoes.
TANSTAFL = There is no such thing as a free lunch
Have been using Netatmo for 4 years and can't complain.
Effective Altruism has a "make me think whoever is involved in this isn't a grifty scammer weirdo" problem
I'd rather be called a handyman than a "Generalist Labor Engineer"
Depends but most server side frameworks cache render outputs of varying granularity. So you can cache components that are static.
I think the thing you’re missing is that opensource people love rewriting libraries in their favourite languages. Especially something well defined, like tls or an xml parser. Rustls is a great example. You wont stop people making things like this. Nor should you - they’re doing it for fun!

It’s much more fun to rewrite something in a new language than maintain bindings to some external language. You could wrap a Java library with a rust crate, but it would depend on Java and rust both being installed and sane on every operating system. Maintaining something like that would be painful. Users would constantly run into problems with Java not being installed correctly on macos, or an old version of Java on Debian breaking your crate in weird ways. It’s much more pleasant to just have a rust crate that runs everywhere rust runs, where all of the dependencies are installed with cargo.
Seems like an uptick. I'm getting 4-5 now daily that are passing the spam filter whereas previously it would be 4-5 a week. Use both Google Workspace and free Gmail.
>recreational opioid use

Horse? Were they shooting horse?
> Performance is higher with the server because the HTML is already generated and ready to be displayed when the page is loaded.

If you can reasonably cache the response, SSR wins on first page load, no question. On the first page dynamic render "it depends", can be SPA or SSR. 2nd page render a well built SPA just wins.

"it depends....." Server CPU cores are slower than consumer cores of similar eras. They run in energy efficient bands because of data center power concerns. They are long lived and therefore are often old. They are often segmented and on shared infrastructure. And if the server is experiencing load, seldom an issue on the client's system, you have that to deal with also. Your latency for generating said page can easily be multi-second. As I've experienced on many a dynamic site.

Using the client's system as a rendering system can reduce your overall cloud compute requirements allowing you to scale more easily and cheaply. The user's system can be made more responsive by not shipping any additional full page markup for a navigation and minimizing latency by avoiding network calls where reasonable.

On dynamic pages, do you compress on the fly? This can increase latency for the response. If not, page weight suffers compared to static compressed assets such as a JS ball that can be highly compressed well ahead of time at brotli -11. I never brotli -11 in flight compression. Brotli -0 and gzip -1.

This is for well built systems. Crap SPAs will be crap, just as crap SSR will similarly be crap. I think crap SPAs smell worse to most - so there's that.

> Compatibility is higher with server-side rendering because, again, the HTML is generated on the server, so it is not dependent on the end browser.

If you use features the end client doesn't support, regardless of where you generate the markup, then it won't work. Both servers and clients can be very feature aware. caniuse is your friend. This is not a rule you can generalize.

> Complexity is lower because the server does most of the work of generating the HTML so can often be implemented with a simpler and smaller codebase.

Meh. Debatable. What's hard is mixing the two. Where is your state and how do you manage it?

If you're primarily a backend engineer the backend will feel more natural. If you're primarily a front end engineer the SPA will feel more natural.
Note that this is not about exempt workers (which, if you are a software developer making more than $27.63 if paid on an hourly basis or $684 week on a salary basis you are exempt from the FLSA).

This is about converting non-exempt workers who would normally be getting overtime pay of 1.5x to exempt workers through titles though the duties don't change... which is still against the letter and spirit of the law ( https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/fs17... ) but many employees that this is targeting aren't aware of that.

To qualify for the administrative employee exemption, all of the following tests must be met:

The employee must be compensated on a salary or fee basis (as defined in the regulations) at a rate not less than $684* per week;

The employee’s primary duty must be the performance of office or non-manual work directly related to the management or general business operations of the employer or the employer’s customers; and

The employee’s primary duty includes the exercise of discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance.

There are similar tests for learned professional, creative professional, and computer, and outside sales.
The low market cap of BTC, albeit some 100's of billions of $, compared to the huge indexes, of course makes price manipulation easier. But as a fan of the technology and future use cases for crypto in general, I do think most of the fluctuation in price is emotional moreso than anything else.
Yeah, the word "automatically" does a lot of heavy lifting there. But like others said, it's crowsourced. You watch a video, tag it, done. There's some anti abuse tools, like tags done by new users being served not all the time and tested by other users before it's trusted.

I have never seen bad section tagging over the past two years.
Russia is a mess? Nabiullina deserves a Nobel Prize in economics regardless of people’s options on the war and Putin. Even the Russians themselves are surprised by how well the Ruble and Russian economy has performed in the last year. The Ruble is trading for 1:70 with the dollar today which is about the same as the end of 2021.
Definitely. As someone who is sometimes down voted and sometimes up voted, I would say that the more interesting stuff can be sent into oblivion if it rubs a few people the wrong way. The feeling is that everything should be kind of tepidly optimistic.
As someone who is a huge proponent of Free Software an an open culture and also who now runs a trading firm now, I completely agree with you. The industry is incredibly frustrating, especially to engineers and scientists. Because, by our very nature, we want to share our ideas and collaborate, because the best work is done together. There are no secrets internally at my company. Because I believe, in the long run, and open culture will win.

But you aren't wrong about the industry in general. It's crazy frustrating.
This is a free article, and for the same reason in Photography Books, on the cover there is usually a naked lady, in these free articles the story is also always about sex or something that appeals to your instincts.

Chances are this story was exaggerated up to a point to make it call your attention so you subscribe.

If something is free, you are the product.
This reminds me of something I recently read (can't recall what) where I learned that much of Argentina's pre WWII policy was based on supporting their land owning agricultural class. This only grew during WWII since the world needed their food and raw goods. So yeah, they imported many finished products, and now this is in part a significant cause of their debt since many other corners of the world have significantly increased the economic efficiency of their agricultural industries. But you're right, it was the decisions of many of their ruling class who still are those in power there today.

Of course, this is all an over oversimplification of their problems.
It’s a literal organization. They (BRIC at the time) formed at the UN’s 61st General Assembly and later had their first summit in 2009.

South Africa is hosting their summit this year.
I get those on my ISP email, but sadly nowhere else.
Yeah, I think use of that term is warranted by the facts. No need to sugar-coat it.

Indeed, I'd wish that the HN community was more hostile to Musk's bulldozer approach, seeing what it did to both the company, and the engineers. The whole affair has been needlessly destructive -- obnoxiously so -- and his getting away with it harms the profession.
> On average technology has been overwhelmingly good.

In order to achieve this, we are destroying the environment, other species and their habitats.

> but what is the alternative to blind progress being proposed

You don’t need and ethicist for this - but an accountant. We need to get stricter about negative externalities. For example, every inventor/manufacturer should be forced to take back their product after end of life. This will slow progress but if done right, it will avoid destruction brought by technology or at least not palm it off on to poorer society or environment.
43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief
Of course it depends on your use case, but in my experience Android apps are much worse than what I can get on iOS.

Here are a couple of examples of iOS which have (as far as I can find) nothing on Android that even comes close:

Infuse (https://firecore.com/infuse) - A really nice video play that handles loads of different backends.

NetNewsWire - It's literally one of the examples from the article, but I like RSS and can't find anything as good as NetNewsWire on Android.

Servercat (https://servercat.app) - Just a nice way to monitor servers and run commands. Great for managing my Raspberry pi and other homebrew stuff

Prologue (https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/prologue/id1459223267) - An audiobook app that uses Plex as its backend.

Elastic Drums (https://apps.apple.com/app/id817419955) - A great iPad / iPhone drum machine that I use all the time for sketching out ideas.

Smart Comic (https://smartcomicreader.com) - An app for reading my DRM free comics that uses ML to zoom to individual panels in a way that is as good as the official Comixology app.

These are just the apps that I use daily and have no Android peers. Not that no Android apps exist to watch Plex, or read comics. On Android the options are just worse. Usually free, but I'd rather pay for a good app than get a crappy one for free.

I've got loads of complaints about Apple software, but 3rd party software on Apple platforms is really good.
I see that essay linked every six months or so, and I swear every time I read it, a new element of it rings true to me. Really timeless, invaluable writing on the way groups of humans work.
Yeah but the point of "serverside rendering" is that you can just fill in the dynamic values serverside and serve plain html instead of needing a bunch of javascript and dom manipulation
Yep. I do the exact same thing with my SCD30 and an ESP32 with HomeSpan to bridge it to HomeKit.
A furnace shouldn't be adding CO2 or CO to your air. Those combustion products should all be exhausted out of the house.
but since they charge the same prices to holders of credit (2% fee) and debit (0.05% fee), users of credit cards are de facto subsidized by cash/debit payers in the US

so as an individual it still may pay you to have one
Tanstaafl -- There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
"tepidly optimistic" – perfect wording here. I've been trying to articulate the "tone" of comments
There is a CLA, so that folk can attest that contributions are theirs, and that they're free to be used by others, and that everyone who uses Flutter can feel comfortable that there are no patent or IP rights reserved by contributors.

It's open source software, developed in the open under a permissive license. You don't have to work for Google to have contributor access or the right to approve others contributions. Google kindly sponsors a fair amount of infrastructure (testing labs, etc.) and pays for a lot of people to work on Flutter. If that doesn't meet your definition of "community", then fair enough -- but the spirit that we work under is that the "Flutter team" is everyone who contributes code.
Wealthfront is paying 4.05%, and if you can convince someone to open an account and use your referral, you get an extra 50 bps for 3 months, up to 4 times, for 12 months of 0.50% bonus.

You could get 4.55% for up to 12 months with 100% liquidity, much better than a CD.
When there is a lot of money moving around, it seems inevitable that power structures will form around it.
Ask HN: How to get a job in Distributed Systems and Storage?
I have five years of experience as a Backend Engineer(Node.js, MySQL, RabbitMQ etc.). My goal is to work in the field of Distributed Systems and I have taken steps to gain knowledge in this area. I have started learning Golang and have been working on projects like a distributed key-value pair. I have more projects in the pipeline, but I believe some guidance and advice from the HN community would be greatly beneficial before I move forward.
I am in this situation. I've installed Tailscale on my router and use it as an exit node. Works great for me, and not just with Google.
> The people accumulating large credit debt have very little overlap with homeowners > HELOC

That sounds sensible, however I didn’t find any data to back up that assertion.

I did find “Higher-income people have more credit card debt, as do people who own their own homes.” which hints that you might be stating something incorrectly, or our definitions differ. Source text seems credible: https://www.moneycrashers.com/average-credit-card-debt-ameri...
Israeli startup develops first AI robot for picking tomatoes
There is always the possibility that their S.M.A.R.T. implementation is borked...
If you’re talking about my statement, I’ve been carrying a balance. Dumb reasons and I make enough that I’m getting my head above water now. I paid off the balance on a few of the cards and they almost instantly upped my credit limit by thousands of dollars.
Ironically the typo makes it less likely in my mind that it was machine generated...it's been a few generations since gpt would've made that kind of mistake.
The indore method (used in india for centuries by hindu farmers) would mean there would be no need for chemical fertilizer.
Right at the top is says "The old aircraft carrier, once the navy’s flagship, is packed with asbestos. No country, including Brazil, will let it dock to be dismantled." and later “deteriorating hull buoyancy conditions and the inevitability of spontaneous/uncontrolled sinking.”

No one wants that kind of liability, nor would it be suited for any use.
"Three years ago, in an interview with Fintech TV, the company's president, Diserio, said one of his firm's strategies is to profit from water in part by making the farms it buys more efficient and then selling parts of its water rights to other farmers and cities increasingly desperate for the natural resource."
In the early 20th century, Argentina and Australia were about equally rich-both European settler societies founded on expropriation of indigenous land, with economies dominated by export-oriented primary industries (agriculture and mining). But after that, they diverged-Australia’s economy just went up and up and up, Argentina’s went up and down and sideways. Why?

I think this article gets it wrong. Yes, Argentina owed lots of money to foreign bankers - but at some points in its history, Australia has too, and that debt became a burden (the 1932 NSW constitutional crisis in which the Governor dismissed Premier Jack Lang because he proposed not to repay the banks).

I think a major factor was Australia’s much greater political stability, which in turn could be due to a different political system. Many political scientists believe that a British-style parliamentary system [0] leads to greater political stability than the presidential system found in the US and most of Latin America. Leaders in parliamentary systems are forced to lead collegially, which makes the emergence of strongmen with personality cults (whether Peron or Trump) much less likely. I think the US is maybe somewhat of an exception-it has got so many other advantages, they make up for its deficient political system-much of Latin America, Argentina included, has never been so lucky.

[0] which doesn’t require a constitutional monarchy, you can have a figurehead President with little real power instead, like Ireland does