skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's certainly not using anyone else's money. It is money that he's received from making videos.

The difference, I think, is the same difference that there is between donating money anonymously and donating money under the condition that something is named after you. The former is transparently good because it can only be done for a good purpose. The latter may be done for a good purpose. You might want everyone to know you donated so that you can set an example for others: "I am a popular actor and if I do this it will bring attention to this cause". But we often get the feeling, I think, that the donation would not have been given if not for the quid pro quo, and then it feels a bit dirty: more like buying indulgences.

Here he's not giving the money away just so that he can say "look what a good philanthropist I am" but also so that he can record and publish videos of it to make money. That makes it twice as dirty: doing something that ought to be done for its own sake and using it as a means of achieving an end that is, let's face it, his own benefit.

If he were doing it differently, then it might be different. If it felt like he had structured the operation so that he was only making all this money to funnel it into a charity, that would be different. But he's not: he's not making money in order to do charity, but doing charity in order to make money. He's reversed the means and the end. That is deeply uncomfortable.
US-China war risks grow as Beijing sees little point in talking to Biden’s team
How else would you describe it?

It's the same as if the government collected taxes from you, then paid you to do whatever thing you did
TIL to stop reading the top voted comment if it appears to be outrage and just read the article for myself instead.

Just FYI here's the quote in context. She's posing a hypothetical here and not actually comparing Coinbase to a heroin dealer. This is very much in the style of Matt Levine at Bloomberg, btw.

If a company went to the FDA and said “hello, we’d like to start selling
heroin to the public for recreational use”, and the FDA said “no, you can’t
do that”, the company could loudly complain that the FDA was not giving them
a path to compliance. People would probably laugh at them.

The company could decide the FDA was wrong, demand that they and/or Congress
write new rules to allow for this innovative new heroin business that would
bolster American capital markets, and decide that in the meantime they were
going to sell heroin anyway. People might not be terribly sympathetic when
it didn’t end well for them.
Final Cut Pro has significant limitations over what can be done on the Mac, which limits their ability to do project sharing between the two platforms.

Thats nothing compared to the bash build stages and custom permission setups, third party libraries, bespoke source code management scripts, ruby-based project initialization and preprocessing scripts I've seen amongst Xcode-based projects.

When those fail, you are troubleshooting through logs and at the filesystem level.

If the idea is a version of Xcode without those things but is otherwise fully featured, I think that is actually speaking about some future version of Swift Playgrounds.

Otherwise, "Xcode for iPad" is basically a jailed Mac VM.
It Is What It Is (and Nothing Else)
Even though this happened a long time ago, whenever I hear or think about it, I am a mazed that it didn't put Xerox out of business, or at least hurt a little more. After all, some big players were already doing digital archiving at the time. :-/ BTW, the CCC had a pretty neat presentation at that time as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0O6UXrOZJo
Mr. Beast is a content creator creating content. It's pretty obvious he's doing it for content and he doesn't deny it either. I guess the sprinkle of "philanthropy" flavor is rubbing some people the wrong way but he seems far less dodgy than some celebrity philanthropists or evangelists.
celebration of philanthropy, not of himself
What does race have to do with any of this?
https://archive.ph/krOHt
> Gensler declined to say whether or not Ether is a security in front of congress

Whether Ether is a security is irrelevant to this case, based on an investigation which pre-dates Gensler’s term at the SEC, which is about whether Coinbase is required to register and operate as a securities exchange on account of having traded e.g. Solana. The entire argument obsessing over his refusing to come to conclusions until facts are established reminds me of creationists picking a tiny, side element of scientists’ arguments and then spending their entire time arguing with themselves over a point with zero germaneness.
He has said on multiple occasions that he puts all revenue towards future videos.

There is no margin. The money eventually ends up in the hands of people that wouldn’t have otherwise had it.
You sound a little too defensive there, perhaps thou protests too much?

Only joking, but no it is not "projection". It is definition. It goes something like "people do what they want to so if they donate something to others it is because they wanted to do it and therefore it was not selfless."

It's a pretty stupid and pointless definition though, probably sprung from someone's need to economicsify human nature. Even then you can easily get around it by defining selflessness to be the selfish need to give to others.
Not my experience, though I think it was more due to libraries (but need to update a library -> needs newer compiler version -> needs to update another library, etc)
The problem is that python is designed assuming people want to use system-wide packages. In hindsight, that has turned out to be a mistake. Conda / venv try to bridge that gap but they’re kludgy, complex hacks compared to something like cargo or even npm.

Worse, because Python is a dynamic language, you also have to deal with all of that complexity at deployment time. (Vs C/C++/Zig/Rust where you can just ship the compiled binary).
They probably have a positive impact too
His viewers largely do not give him money. They give him attention, and in doing so give attention to the ads on his videos. Advertisers are the ones giving him money.

It is a very far cry to suggest that people watching his videos are "being more charitable" by doing so.
Some Thoughts on Teaching Functional Programming
One of the big reasons was the water [0] interns of both availability, quality and abundance.

> Water quality was one of the critical factors in the company’s choice of WNC from about 200 sites across the eastern U.S. […] it also learned there was some high-quality water to be found in aquifers throughout the region — primarily around Black Mountain.

[0] https://www.blueridgenow.com/story/news/2012/07/23/sierra-ne...
Sure, but other people are making videos playing games or eating food or whatnot. There's clearly an interest in his sort of philanthropic videos that has gotten him more attention than other people.
You need more than 15000 signups just for building a counter. By that logic you are not going to get reddit with all the functionalities for 1M signups. lol
I have a theory that this is the Monty hall problem effect in practice [1]. When you blow up your life you are opening an unknown door... But after you have narrowed your options, so the outcomes are likely to be better than your status quo.

[1] https://link.medium.com/N6HaHXgyAAb
Definitely make it browseable without signing in.

When reddit launched they used fake accounts to create posts and engagement and avoid empty-site syndrome, not saying you should/could do that with an AI.
Just like Holiday Inn, Marriott, or any hotel chain. So weird that you take issue, he makes it exceptionally clear his burger brand is all ghost kitchens.
Man this is such a cynical take.

I listened to his interview on the Joe Rogan show and was really impressed.

Mr. Beast built his channel by taking all profits from each video and plying it into the next video. Using this approach he was able to produce progressively larger and more expensive videos. He has demonstrated his frugal lifestyle, has publicly given away an incredible amount of money to good causes, and has stated his future goals for his businesses will be for charity. Everything about his actions strikes me as genuinely good, it just seems like the publicity is the best way to get more money to accomplish the charitable goals.

You're right that what he's doing does not conform to the definition of altruism specifically, but that doesn't mean what he's doing is not good.

How can you watch the video where he pays for the blindness surgery for all those people and say that that was anything other than an amazing win for all those nice people?
And like half the rest of the world.

Did you even watch the video in question? It was very much not based entirely in the US.
> Asking you to be more precise where it matters isn't pedantry.

It is when you're about to restate what I've said...

> The behavior is "perfectly rational" only in the economics sense of that term

Do you think a company has non-economic incentives?

> On a human scale, we often call it things like "sociopathic".

Right, and I call these people capitalists. Did you genuinely not glean that?

> I will also note that companies don't have perspectives either

> it's worth being very specific that the people involved who think this is "rational" are very modest in number. The VCs, probably the rest of the board. To some extent the CEO

> We're talking about maybe a dozen greedy people

Right. Thus why I said: "capitalists are propagandists who will position themselves at the top and bully all threats they perceive to their system"

It really reads to me like you took bad-faith readings of all my comments, and then restated them differently, while stating it isn't pedantry. You've delivered exactly 0 insights to me. Maybe you were trying to elucidate others, but I don't really see that.
> * VCs to continue to pour hundreds of millions of dollars to run the site and never ask for an ROI

Do they? I sure don't. In fact VC involvement is just about the last thing I want out of anything I consider critical infrastructure...
Yeah but is that really driving the price of them?
> The president is the head of the bureaucracy. He's the source authority. Classification is for his benefit, so that people under him don't disclose secret information. However as the source authority, he can disclose at will.

Its a shame that he admitted on tape that he didn't declassify or couldn't declassify the documents he took, and that he shouldn't be in possession of them.
It should really be called small-parcel-of-land-plus-a-residential-structure borrowership-with-eventual-ownership.

And it is not all upside. Changing from one "owned" "home" to another has high transaction costs compared to renting. This has all kind bad consequences: people wind up living in the wrong shape/size of house for their family size. It makes it expensive to move to follow economic opportunity.

And then there is all the downside from having such a large portion of your savings tied up in a single, often highly leveraged, asset. Nobody would let you lever up your retirement portfolio 20:1 on any other kind of asset. And home ownership turns otherwise reasonable adults into NIMBYs.

As for the demise of home ownership, the last few decades have seen it fluctuate in a relatively narrow band. See these charts: https://dqydj.com/historical-homeownership-rate-united-state... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...
Correct. I used character where you used grapheme cluster. Utf-32 is variable length at the character (aka grapheme cluster) level.

If there are any other invalid parts please elaborate - I'm always keen to learn (seriously).
I don't think it's that hard to a learn a little bit of AWS. What my "default" is

1. Host the complete React/Vue/static site of choice on netlify

2. Host the backend on AWS. I used to use ECS+Fargate, which means you just create a docker container, open some ports, and git push, but now it's even easier with AWS AppRunner. If you didn't want to touch AWS (it gets hairy fast), I would use something like PlanetScale or CockroachDB which have generous free tiers. From there you have a github action to push your container to your AWS ECR and AppRunner automatically redeploys your app. The only other platform that I think comes close to "I have my code just host it, and make sure it's redundant" is Fly.io
> So I guess I wonder if it's that the Chrome team had set the bar high, that they hadn't expected Apple to support JXL at the time they made the call, or something else.

I think it’s something else.

I’ve read enough CSS Working Group (and other groups) meeting minutes to know when Google wants to implement something, that’s what they do, often when the WebKit and Mozilla teams don’t agree.

Whatever happened for Google to reverse their position on JPEG XL, I don’t believe it has anything to do with the technical merits of the format or whether Apple had planned to implement it.
Yes, you are correct that I should’ve said symptomatic infection (or COVID-19) because they were only trying to power the study for what they needed to clear EUA and not measuring ability to block transmission. The second paper I linked made the same mistake in its table header.
Good point. To clarify: a closed source general purpose language with a licensing fee is never going to work.
They also get to sell the credits in a few years once the price has gone up, right?
Have you been to 4chan? Wouldn’t go there but this isn’t your typical social media site. Random and contrarian for the heck of it is their thing.
That's not an argument in favour of Mr Beast. It's an argument against government programmes. And it is a good argument against government programmes.
Patents exist to compel inventors to divulge their secrets, to allow future humanity to be able to replicate the processes when those with the secrets move on, by offering a time-limited monopoly in return as payment.

It is being suggested that if a secret is worth exposing, the people can simply make a direct offer for the things they want to know and let things they don’t care about, like how to buy an item online with one click, remain ‘secrets’. Patents wouldn't go away, but would by priced by their recognized value.

What would be no doubt lost are the things people don’t know that they want to know — ideas that aren’t commercially viable at the time of conception, for example. On the other hand, with the patent record now impossibly large, does anyone truly scour patents to seek out inventions they didn’t know they needed and derive a real benefit from them upon discovery?
What a hater, lol
"What I think is important about the Coinbase business model is that we have set up our business such that there's not a conflict."

We have illegal weapons but what is special with us, we won't use them. So it's not illegal.
It's an awful design because it ignores one is the most important factors of scrolling - document length. But then having wide scroll bars in short documents where you'd never use them is also bad design
Readers may also be interested in Google's complete archive of Life magazine:

https://images.google.com/hosted/life

https://books.google.com/books/about/LIFE.html?id=N0EEAAAAMB...

As an aside, it appears that they never bothered to update their logo in the first link.
"Ukraine, unlike Russia does its best to only target military installations and military outposts"

Doesn't look like it [0].

Even the original article says: "“There are very few of our people there. Previous days with all the shelling - there was almost no response, no (Russian) military. We were left on our own,” the unnamed woman said."

"that has no basis in reality"

Does it? Deliberately shelling a town and killing civilians together with 'suggestions' of neo-Nazi from Azov look like a basis to me.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/world/europe/russia-war-b...
The article says the kid tried looking into Social Security for the Blind, but "couldn't figure it out". And I guarantee you that plenty of entitlements and government grants of all sorts, especially welfare type ones, go unclaimed, because the would-be beneficiary doesn't even know about it, can't figure it out, or attempted and failed on some paperwork technicality.

I've been on federal entitlements of various types for over 20 years, and let me tell you, the paperwork and reporting requirements are onerous, and they advertise extremely punitive penalties if you don't comply. It's basically a part time job to gather up all the necessary proof of income, assets, employment, medical records, etc. and fill out the necessary forms, and then get it all filed in the right place at the right time before the deadline. And the agencies will do their best to lose all that and mess it up on their end, so you need to constantly be second-guessing them.

I'll tell you, it's far easier to go beg what you need from a charity like the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Technically, they also have income limits and other qualifications, but they're not going to put you through a scene from Brazil just to get your rent paid in an emergency.
They are secular indulgences. Complete fraud used to facilitate bribery and shift blame.
I think that is mostly about offering a new security, not acting as a broker.
A terminal for an integrated ssh client should not require any just-in-time code execution functionality.

Or are you speaking instead to a local terminal environment, like iSH or a-Shell on iPad?
I think you’re getting your breweries mixed up. Cascade only makes sours and they are owned by a local group in Portland with the founder still heavily involved.
I kinda assume that work on LLMs published by major companies is a red herring.

I worked at a company once, where four teams tried different techniques. The best approach was shipped to users and the other three ended up as papers at a major conference.
The fundamental problem with Reddit isn't ads, or freemium, or venture capital, or who is CEO, or even the API changes.

The fundamental problem is lock-in.

Once a site becomes big enough, its "users" effectively become owned by the site, because everything they care about is there, and the site controls access to it. Preventing another Reddit/Tumblr/Digg disaster entails solving this problem.

And with all due respect for the work you did on Non.io, I fail to see how it represents even the tiniest amount of progress in that regard. Notably, the payment model does not solve the problem, because if the site ever takes off, the temptation to milk the userbase for all they can give will become irresistible. And that means ads, dark patterns, blocking of third-party clients, censorship to appease advertisers and the mainstream press, etc. And then we're back to zero.
> congressman asked gensler face to face if ethereum is a security and gensler declined to answer

The SEC has brought zero enforcement action that turns on Bitcoin or Ether being securities. Somewhat hilariously, these complaints are an industry endemic with bullshitters flipping out about Gensler being able to say “I don’t know.”
He's right. That's not altruism it's just business.
> But if we never celebrate altruism or philanthropy, are we not, perhaps, discouraging it?

Truly, never celebrating altruism and celebrating Mr. Beast's bullshit are the only two choices.
> I also don't understand the take that altruism/philanthropy has to be zero sum

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/altruism

By the first definition it requires “unselfish regard”. If MrBeast is pulling 54 million a year (along with lots of fame and clout) he’s not exactly qualifying for the first definition.

Definition 2 is the one I’m most familiar with from the animal kingdom, and it actually requires that the giver either gain nothing or lose something. So that may be where people are coming from who take exception to his behavior being described as “altruistic”. By definition, it is not.
I don’t think they distribute outside of Vermont — if any gets there it’s because someone loaded a truck up
He might do so for now, at the moment. That doesn't mean he will do so forever. How long did Amazon run with no margins to build up its business before it made money? How long has reddit been running unprofitably?

He still has room to grow his business. And he can cash out quite easily. If he goes a year keeping just 20% of the revenue from his videos he'd make an absolute ton of money.
Cloudflare's D1 is built on top of it https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-d1/
Alternatively, never blow up your life! Live near your family and lifelong friends, establish hardcore roots with your community, always be surrounded by love. A road less taken by the educated elites, but a happy and fulfilling road nonetheless.

The Onion’s take: https://www.theonion.com/unambitious-loser-with-happy-fulfil...
I spent years examining (also together with my psychologist) the question:

“People always tell you to follow your dream”. But often following one’s dream comes at a cost, or at least comes with some risk. Yet, the advice to “follow your dream” is a blanket advice, it supposedly trumps everything else.

I ended up deciding to not follow my dream, at that point in life, and I am happy I didn’t.
I won’t be telling my kids to “follow your dream”. Think about it real good before blowing up your life.
If they are, a source with less antipathy to the practical nuclear alternative would be more compelling. Instead Greenpeace espouses a dogmatic position on both issues.
The idea, cynical as it may seem, comes from the perspective that the feedback loops that govern basic behavior are set up for survival and that things that make you happy are more like survival than not. So it becomes very difficult if you introspect deep enough to not answer "why did you do that" with "it made me feel good" which is viewable as selfish.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/imperfect-spirituali...
I should take a look at Mastodon one day. However, all of this talk of having to maintain your own instance and my very bad experience when looking at Google Plus (the most inaccessible social network ever put out by a large corporation) kind of myke me weary I am wasting my time. Besides, I mostly use FB as an event calendar. As long as someone doesn't mirror all the events announced in my area, I will likely not use it on a regular basis.
Anybody who forms their opinion of any US state from papers like the Guardian UK instead of actually, you know, visiting the state in question usually results in people developing very stupid and ill-conceived impressions. It's as if there are a group of urbanites who form their impression of Florida entirely from Florida Man memes.
>and that indigenous Australians lack access to medical care for even diagnostics.

If it is anything like the situation in New Zealand, there is no lack of access but a lack of uptake. You cannot infer from lower rates of uptake that there is a lack of access.
> Richard Stallman and his work on free software?

I think "philanthropy" in the sense GP meant it specifically means donating money, so Richard Stallman's work wouldn't qualify.
Fair but as one of those windsurfing adjacent types myself, I’d call that more like a 25/75% split…
Exactly, but no one would call their creation Altruism.
> question is whether a procedure to become a registered exchange of crypto securities exists

Yes, same as the others. What doesn’t exist is registration per Coinbase’s model of integrated broker, custodian and exchange. We specifically outlawed that in 1934 because it did precisely what crypto did in almost exactly the same time frame in the period stretching from 1918 (post-WWI) through the 20s’ boom years into 1933.
My understanding is that it is closest to a 3D iPad with virtual monitor support for remote devices like Macs.
"Sufficiently...may..." but even the SEC themselves will not tell you whether Ethereum qualifies or not. That is not rule of law.
Well, in the cases where the libraries are causing more work than they are solving. Then yes.
As far as I know there is no relationship between BrewDog and Flying Dog despite the names