skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mr. Beast has to be one of if not the most charitable YouTubers. He’s an effective altruist fever dream, curing disease and easing poverty through free entertainment. There are many worded YouTubers for the world. Perhaps it’s just his ostentatiousness that rubs people the wrong way. Do we want our saints to keep things low key?
Really? I though CodeWarrior for PalmOS was a champ compared to Visual C++ for embedded platforms. Lets start with a fully functional and bug free compiler with standard library and all features working.
It can certainly go a lot longer than people will expect, and it will have weird side-effects (California also gives some hints, what with huge appreciation and prop 13).

The biggest hurdle now is the jump from renter (or living with parents) to homeowner; there used to be "starter homes" that could get you on the treadmill but even those are quite high.

Once you're on the treadmill it's not that bad as house prices in an area tend to be in lockstep, but that first step can be a big one.
In addition to the cost, OpenAI censors their models, and while that seems protective at first, if you think about it, if the model is the knowledge graph, then censor data in the graph is censoring free speech.
Oh, thank goodness for that.
Very right.

This article is harmful; it is just a guy trying to justify his decisions to himself. Nobody should take his "advice" to their lives. Everybody's situation is unique and so before making any major decisions do a proper risk/cost/benefit analysis and only then follow through with the decision. In Life you have to live with the consequences whatever they maybe and there are very few opportunities to "rollback and do over" any fateful decision.
Those tax cuts are different from the local taxes on property though. The tax cuts you're referring to are federal taxes. Property taxes are local to the state, and those tend to always go up and let the homeowners do their annual protest to those increases. In recent years, the local taxes have increase in increments larger than the state allows, but yet "oops" was the typical response if you got anything at all.
Doctors want to move to the US because it's usually a 10x pay bump.
This is really cool! Super exciting to see how far hoot has come!
>That is do it correctly, every time, for any size number.

Then no human is good at arithmetic.
> It helps to think of it this way, if it touches your phone or the internet in any way, it's part of the public record. No matter what app you were using. So be cognizant of that, it can come back to bite you 10 years later in ways you never would have imagined.

Meh. If that's the case, why bother caring at all? Bring it on!
Being pedantic, but I imagine the houses generally do depreciate, and it's the land that appreciates. Land value alone where I live would be 3x what we paid for the land and house 15 years ago.

And I can't see how land won't appreciate if you have a growing population, some level of immigration, and some portion of commercial investment in the sector. You can argue against the last item, but good luck getting that over the line at an election. I think we'd have absolute lawlessness first. The frog is being slowly boiled first, unfortunately.
Oh, I agree! I use pulumi for my own personal projects, but I don't have the time to build a DSL on top of it pulumi just to establish the same guardrails my team needs that I'd otherwise get for free.
I would quibble on relating the idea of selfish donation in the personal satisfaction sense, with the monetary and brand reward sense.

Two different concepts that should be looked at separately.
Yes, but only indirectly. I just try to make sites that small and efficient. I just tested them all in websitecarbon.com: one was 98%, one was 100% (rounding up I presume), and the rest were 99%.
I've thought about a couple of analogous concepts.

The first is the automatic civil penalty for copying copyrighted music recordings. If you're caught and proven liable, the dollar amount of damages don't need to be debated -- they're pre-determined.

The second is the concept that mere possession of certain kinds of information (unspeakable pornography) is a criminal offense.

I think some combinations of these concepts could create a bounty system for victims to collect on the abuse of their personal information: 1) Improper possession is inherently illegal. 2) Offer for sale or transfer of the information carries an automatic civil penalty.
I'm confused why the SEC is suing specifically over DASH (2014) but not specifically Ethereum (2015).

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2023/comp-pr2023-1...
Which will then mean that it's a good investment.
Dumb or not, no software patents are good, they shouldn't exist. Patent troll outfits are often run by lawyers, so they clearly see it as "good" for their protection racket. MPEG-LA for example.
> No idea matters exclusively 'for its own sake'. To think like that is to abandon utility and reason for dogma.

“Utility” is an idea, too, and now we know which idea you value for its own sake.
How would he be able to do any charity if not for YouTube and broadcasting it?

He’s effectively transferring dollars from large advertisers to poor Americans. Very unlikely he would be doing this at all if not for YouTube.
Happily, Ballast Point beers are still made under license locally here in New Zealand (by Behemoth Brewing) and are available fresh in my local supermarket. Yum!

https://asiabrewersnetwork.com/news/new-zealands-behemoth-pa...
Why not ggml?
This is cool, but I actually feel right now it leans more towards being twitter-like in a reddit UI than a reddit-like. The analogy to tagging on Reddit is posting to a subreddit, but it differs on Reddit in that posting isn't inclusive but exclusive to the discretion of the moderators(owners) of the subreddit(tag). The creates distinguishably different cultures in the comment sections between subs sharing the same content. How you go about approaching how moderation and classifying works will have a major effect on how the commenting and reaction experience will feel.
Just for fun, I replaced "blowing up your life" with "rewriting your app in Rust":

Rewriting your application: whether you do it or a volcano [destroys the existing code base], it’s effective. How about a coin toss? Participants in a survey who made major codebase rewrites (to Rust) based on the result of a coin toss were much happier, six months out, than those who didn’t.

That six-month figure is important. Rewriting your application doesn’t necessarily feel great right afterward. You always wonder at least once if you’ve made a terrible mistake. You look around at your new scenery, and you say to yourself, wait, this isn’t life, I remember what life was before [ownership], it was that thing I left behind. But this feeling of disequilibrium can motivate you to find a better equilibrium, and six months is probably about how long it takes for a motivated person to stabilize their trajectory and begin to understand Rust's ownership rules.
What are you buying on Amazon if I may ask? I don't order that much tbh. My wife buys a lot from shein. We also order from ikea or online pharmacy if needed.
I don’t see how you could confuse ][Bracket with the well established brand []Brackets. Also checkout my webapps WynnAmp and MichaelSoft Wurd.
Unrelated, but any way to get a tildes invite these days? I asked on Reddit but then shut my sub down and have avoided going back
The real question is does it turn nut brown on one side if you leave it next to the window for ten years.
It’s probably actually beneficial to believe some difficult task is reasonably obtainable. You’d try harder and be more motivated than if you believed it was virtually impossible.
>Despite what you've been taught, every act of charity comes from a selfish need (ego).

True. Which is why a lot of people recognize this and perform acts of charity anonymously.

I don't mean to say there is anything wrong with non-anonymous donations by the way.
I mean I haven't seen his tax returns but from what he says, he spends 100%+ of revenue on the next video. I'm not sure if you are unaware of that claim or just don't believe it.

Sure he is extremely generous to his employees, but that would also fall under altruism...
> It feels like local communities are dying or completely non-existent. We aren't "forced" to deal with each other and so we... don't.

This is somewhat true, but you can escape it if you want to. It just takes some effort and dealing with people that you normally wouldn't.

However, just like advertising has worked out how to maximize our "spend" so also other forces have worked out how to maximize other things they want us to do.

As the screeching gets louder and louder you just have to ignore it more and more.

I found that absolutely refusing to vote in elections did it for me; my vote is mathematically insignificant and since I won't use it, all the various howling attempts to get me to do so are easily ignored. Probably not for everyone.
Blink was forked from Apple’s WebKit, 8 years after WebKit forked off of KHTML; Apple’s invested plenty in the web.

Do they support new things as quickly as Chrome? No. But some of their most important investments have been in supporting less, not more: a decade ago, that meant killing flash to preserve security and performance; nowadays it’s about killing adtech to preserve privacy.
Wait what? I thought Mr Beast was that guy from the Banksy documentary..
if we have to come up with a completely new model, we should at the same time reduce confusion going forward by renaming the new model to "the nucular model of the nuculus".
I hate this trend. Because successful as a business that sustains itself and success as part of a portfolio are different and the latter version of success is always less human, less interesting, just less.
Hello time traveler.

I think you mean 2013 :-)
Disinformation: A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century
Beer, coffee, hamburgers, pizza. They’re all solved problems. The only thing that makes a difference is the marketing.
I'm somehat worried about the incidental harm caused by people relying on GPT's word chain hallucinations as facts for something critical.

Most laypersons don't understand that GPT is not a factual search engine. I'm increasingly seeing people who should know better also forget this now and then.
You’re not wrong, but there’s a big difference between donating money to feel good about yourself or even hope others like you more, and building a capital engine with a veneer of philanthropic paint.
I suspect most people on this forum can do arithmetic for any "reasonable" size number. It might take weeks to complete, but most people on this forum can calculate large numbers by hand.
Straight up doesn't allow deadlocks.

> Right—so making the most-commonly-desired behavior (await-like behavior) default would have been a pretty big win, then, and not harmed that quality at all.

And you'd eliminate easy access to things like Promise.all, Promise.allSettled, and Promise.race. You'd also make it harder to see when the execution queue has a break.

If you want implicit awaits, Lua will welcome you with open arms. It is not to my liking.
Clever move since you didn't even attempt to prove your assertion at all.
Land value tax would solve this.

And if most people end up renters, they've killed their middle-class allies against a robust LVT among home owners.
They do change flavor over time, as do wines. It’s not necessarily a problem. My comment never claimed that there’s no change in flavor, only that flavor worsening and in particular skunkiness is trivially controllable. If you or anyone else disagrees with this, I invite you to try the oldest Deschutes Abyss you can find and describe exactly how it’s worse than the current year, or how you found even a hint of skunk in it.
At least it doesn’t seem to be a net negative on the world. He could be using $100,000 to market crypto scams, or “prank” videos.

Giving it to poor people, even if not from pure generosity, is far from the worst thing he could be doing.
Transformers don’t predict next tokens, right? They predict sequences based on their self-attention to some preceding token sequence?
Or, the end result is a separation of lords and serfs, where the very few that can buy houses own all of them and no one else does.
There are a lot of things in our modern societies that would seem impossible or magical to someone from just a few hundred years ago. Why assume this is the best we can do, when so much progress was accomplished already?
He figured out a sustainable way to keep giving money away. I call that smart philanthropy, not selfish philanthropy. Yes, he makes a lot of money but it mostly goes back into growing his channel and charities.
> It seems like a massive regulatory failure to let Coinbase IPO if there are the sort of glaring issues they claim

Did you read the article? Specifically the part where it explains why the SEC does not evaluate the business models of companies?
Ask HN: Predicting Future from HN Submissions
Today, an intriguing idea crossed my mind. As an avid follower of the HN community for several years, I have had the privilege of witnessing groundbreaking technologies, significant events, and medical advancements long before they gained widespread recognition or entered the spotlight. Examples include witnessing the emergence of Blockchains, Cloud, 5G, LLaMA, ChatGPT, mRNA, and many more before they captured the public's attention. In my eyes, the HN community stands as technology Gurus, possessing an exceptional ability to predict the future of any technology that holds the potential to benefit humanity. I wonder, could HN potentially utilize an AI model or have a simple word cloud to forecast the upcoming buzz well in advance?
He isn’t genuine. In his origin story you’ll notice he talks about trying lots of different strategies to maximize his views and engagement. That’s his only real goal. He stumbled upon his current formula by accident after significant iteration.

It strikes me that he could have just as easily be producing any kind of harmful content if the rules of what’s acceptable to society and YouTube were different. It just so happens that in his case the content is self-reinforcing and easily defensible.

He is the same as the people who film themselves giving flowers to lonely elderly people. Such people do not feel good about doing good acts because of the actual act, they crave the attention and praise that doing good often brings, and they need it in great quantity.

The act itself is just a vehicle for vulnerable narcissism and wouldn’t exist or have been done in the first place without these outlier personality traits enormous investment.
Likewise wines with exactly 90 points.
Well, you don't need meat to survive.
> It solves it completely

Source?

Reality: not a single nation enjoys an 100% hydrogen electricity grid backup system.

>> storing huge amounts of hydrogen isn't possible right now
> We have been doing this for decades

Source?

Reality: not a single nation stores hydrogen in huge amounts for its electricity backup system. Those as mere pilot projects, such as https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/08/04/worlds-largest-underg...
You can still build it in your mind, probably.
> If you want to absolutely destroy a website that is all about building communities and meeting new people, then aim for the site and all communities to always be growing as much as possible.

the paper, "Optimizing human community sizes", abstract:

We examine community longevity as a function of group size in three historical, small scale agricultural samples. Community sizes of 50, 150 and 500 are disproportionately more common than other sizes; they also have greater longevity. These values mirror the natural layerings in hunter-gatherer societies and contemporary personal networks. In addition, a religious ideology seems to play an important role in allowing larger communities to maintain greater cohesion for longer than a strictly secular ideology does. The differences in optimal community size may reflect the demands of different ecologies, economies and social contexts, but, as yet, we have no explanation as to why these numbers seem to function socially so much more effectively than other values.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051381...
In other words, you built “The Homer”
The popularity of American hops in American craft beers is in large part because Ken Grossman wanted to use American hops and wanted to set himself apart from European-style hops. To my knowledge that's pretty different from terroir as it's typically meant, and also Sierra Nevada is pretty far from where Cascade was grown when they started buying it.

By the time you get to Stone or Lagunitas and their West Coast IPAs, the hops are being packaged as I described and again we're not really dealing with terroir. The Chicago Lagunitas products tastes identical to the California ones.
I remember at like the third HOPE conference hearing a PI talk about all the data he can get about anyone from all kinds of sources, for pennies. That was 23 years ago. There's never been (to my knowledge) any law preventing the USG from using the same services.

And why should they be prevented? If a random stalker can pay for info about you, shouldn't your government be able to? Why cripple the state and enable the creeps?

Profiling has always been interesting to me from a commercial perspective, too. I used to have access to a database that would tell me if a certain sports fan was a gay republican, because the cookie-based mass-site-collection profile-generator needed to be able to tell advertisers what kinds of users they were selling ads to. I thought it was wild that you never needed to create an account for us to mostly-uniquely identify you. And that was 15 years ago.

Don't like it? A small handful of states have data privacy laws now. Tell your reps your state needs one too, and a federal one for good measure.
If I used Coinbase to purchase ETH (and it's still held there) should I be moving those assets right about now?
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Cuda dominance is the darkest timeline.

OpenCL was the utopia timeline.
It's true that the incentives are all mixed up in this industry. The ability to cheat is very high and there's little to no third party verification (and in a lot of cases the offset technique is novel and frankly seems to need some peer review).

But that's not the same as saying "there's a lot of racket and bias". In fact my impression is that most of these firms are sincere and not cheating at all. But over time, this is absolutely going to need some regulatory attention.
Some people have suggested that coins with no utility or claim on future revenue should be regulated as gambling.
Roughly the things to look up are private equity and their "bust out" strategy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5PLEZiSZV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3_41Whvr1I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o10nh86q64Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7VmIy0VXOY

Buy a company with debt (leveraged buy out). Hand that cash back to the "private equity investors". Let the company go bankrupt and the debt magically dissapears.

Basically legalized theft at enormous scale
Any business expense is a tax write off, in the common parlance. Businesses are still better off not spending the money, but you’re right that they get somewhat of a tax benefit, meaning that they bear only part of the burden, and the government effectively kicks in the other portion.
> "The sense of “going to war” here should rouse in you an awareness"

can we please not use war metaphor for every exercise of agency
mcdonald's is actually a good example. it's at least 3 businesses on top of the nominal one of fast food: franchising, supply chain, and real estate. franchisees pay for access to the mcdonald's brand, trademarks, and shared marketing. in addition, mcdonald's corporate provides complete supply chain support, so franchisees buy all of their food and materials through mcdonald's itself or from its approved suppliers. mcdonald's corporate also owns the real estate that many franchises sit atop, so it's a landlord to boot.

it'd be easy to split those businesses into separate ones, as it's plainly obvious that all three businesses can viably stand alone, apart from serving fast food. you might argue that that'd dilute the brand value because the product wouldn't be as uniform, but you just have to look at the international variation to realize that that's not so important to brand value.
All US cities are far below the size they would be with building up.
For what definition of Ethereum? The one with staking?
It is fair that IPA hop aromas do diminish over time, it really depends on the beer how that affects its quality. But if you don’t expose them to light they definitely don’t get skunky, at any temperature over many years.
Agreed. It's almost impossible to REALISTICALLY interpret "addressing barriers to investment within the housing sector" in any way that would benefit the working class. What is this "round table" going to propose? That the banks all put in money to build a bunch of houses and then give them away for free?
Post moving. "Reasonable" is just an arbitrary line. Especially since most if not all would make some mistake somewhere along the line.

You can greatly increase GPT's arithmetic capabilities tackling it like a problem to solve "on paper" in context. And this was done on 3.5 not 4.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09066
I'm surprised at the negative view here. He had a very interesting interview with Joe Rogan a while back where he explains his business model. He does crazy expensive stuff on the main channel that might break even but often loses money. But this funnels viewers into the other Mr. Beast channels, like gaming or reacts, that are much cheaper to produce and do make money. The flywheel turns and he makes more money which goes to his philanthropy efforts or bigger videos on the main channel.

At the end of the day he's given away more money than I'll ever be able to by finding a glitch in the system that seems to be working out, at least for now. If kids like it and it inspires them to be charitible themselves in the future then I can't see how that's a bad thing.

I will say that I find some of the videos uncomfortable to watch when it's him just giving out money. But it's not any worse than what's been shown on regular TV for decades. The videos where he bought out entire grocery stores to fuel the food banks his company runs or the car lot where the cars were a dollar each are much better than straight up handing out cash.
One of the larger carbon capture forests burned down recently so :shrug?

https://www.ft.com/content/3f89c759-eb9a-4dfb-b768-d4af1ec5a...

I like how by the end of the article the economists are just suggesting adding like a 20% buffer to the calculations rather than talking about more fundamental problems.
Rural is simply defined as "not urban". Urban is defined as a cluster of at least 5,000 people in sufficient density. I don't know exactly what the density is. But I believe anything you would recognize as a small town is dense enough. So if there are 5,000+ people in your town you are urban.
It’s philanthropy the same way Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is philanthropy
Because trump said it in the most inflammatory way possible, so folks like me discounted it immediately.

I still don’t know what the truth is but I’m certainly open to a full range of possibilities now.
Let's break this down.

Utility: The quality or condition of being useful; usefulness. [0]

for its own sake: if something is done for its own sake, it is done for the value of the experience itself, not for any advantage it will bring [1]

If something is useful, it exists because of the advantage it will bring. The two things are antonyms.

Think a bit more next time you try and dismiss someone offhand with a clever sounding quip. Just because a quip sounds clever does not make it so.

[0] https://www.wordnik.com/words/utility

[1] https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/for-its-own-sake
"futures of the innocent pruned by unverified data" /s