skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in this case I don't know. Flickr originally was developed by Stuart Butterfeld (among others) and he for one went on to do another amazing job at Slack. So clearly product was awesome there. Personally for me flickr got super slow and crappy for me, and also deleted my dad's 40k photo archive w/no warning and ignored appeal messages from multiple people on BS charges (He'd scanned an old newspaper article mentioning his father which tripped an auto-copyright system). Prior to that it was the clear market leader. But it basically stopped ever being linked to or showing up later on. So I think Yahoo effectively sped up the decline. It's not clear whether something like insta would always have won. Or even whether instagram is actually even economically ideal right now.
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> Once Marl opens your app, you have about 1.3 seconds to catch his attention with a shiny image or triggering headline, otherwise he’ll swipe back to TikTok and never open your app again.

If this were true, the app probably wasn't worth having in the first place. An app that actually does something Marl needs, or enables him to do something he wants to do doesn't need to catch his attention with shiny things. The thing that will hook Marl is accomplishing what he set out to do, and generally that should be possible without spending a bunch of time customizing settings, but having sensible defaults doesn't mean those options/settings aren't valuable.

Marl doesn't need to change, and it'd be a shame if he (most users) were forced to tinker with a bunch of settings and change a bunch of defaults to do the things they want. Flexibility and customization is still important for the folks who need that though and useful software that does a good job offering that while also having sane defaults have an opportunity to be popular with everybody.
It's kinda amusing that his last great crime after prison was stealing PlayStations from Best Buy...
My experience is different. My experience is that the failures are pretty random.

If you expect to lose 20% of laptops each year, after a decade, about 10% of laptops will still work after a decade. It's more if you are willing to work around issues (e.g. epoxy a crack or replace a part).

It's crappy if you need to toss otherwise good computers purely due to a software issue.
Mathologer has a pretty decent video showing that the limit of the swept area is zero: https://youtu.be/IM-n9c-ARHU?si=CGlYZelPZmPccKmx
I think you might be missing a big part of what this sort of philosophy is really about.

> Utilitarianism ought to be about maximizing the happiness (total and distribution) of an existing population

For those who accept your claim above, lots of stuff follows, but your claim is a bold assertion that isn't accepted by everyone involved, or even many people involved.

The repugnant conclusion is a thought experiment where one starts with certain stripped-down claims not including yours here and follow it to its logical conclusion. This is worth doing because many people find it plausible that those axioms define a good ethical system, but the fact they require the repugnant conclusion causes people to say "Something in here seems to be wrong or incomplete." People have proposed many alternate axioms, and your take is just one which isn't popular.

I suspect part of the reason yours isn't popular is

- People seek axiological answers from their ethical systems, so they wish to be able to answer "Are these two unlike worlds better?" -- even if they aren't asking "What action should I take?" Many people want to know "What is better?" so they explore questions of what are better, period, and something they want is to always to have such questions be answerable. Some folks have explored a concept along the lines of yours, where sometimes there just isn't a comparison available, but giving up on being able to compare every pair isn't popular.

- We actually make decisions or imagine the ability to make future real decisions that result in there being more or fewer persons. Is it right to have kids? Is it right to subsidize childbearing? Is it right to attempt to make a ton of virtual persons?

> The happiness of a unconceived possible human is null (not the same as zero!)

Okay, if you say "Total utilitarianism (and all similar things) are wrong", then of course you don't reach the repugnant conclusion via Parfit's argument. "A, B, C implies D", "Well, not B" is not a very interesting argument here.

Your null posing also doesn't really answer how we _should_ handle questions of what to do that result in persons being created or destroyed.

> We really shouldn’t get ourselves tied into knots about the possibility of pumping out trillions of humans because an algorithm says they’ll be marginally net content. That’s not the end goal of any reasonable, practical, or sane system of ethics.

Okay, what is the end goal? If you'll enlighten us, then we can all know.

Until then, folks are going to keep trying to figure it out. Parfit explored a system that many people might have thought sounded good on its premises, but proved it led to the repugnant conclusion. The normal reaction is, "Okay, that wasn't the right recipe. Let's keep looking. I want to find a better recipe so I know what to do in hard, real cases." Since such folks rejected the ethical system because it led to the repugnant conclusion, they could be less confident in its prescriptions in more practical situations -- they know that the premises of the system don't reflect what they want to adopt as their ethical system.
> One randomized controlled trial assigned overweight men and women to different amounts of exercise. More exercise did lead to more body fat loss, but even in the group exercising the most — equivalent to 20 miles (32.0 km) of jogging every week for eight months — people only lost about 7 lbs

From https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-p...
And note that the incentives for the user and the company are at cross purposes with dating apps.

Users use dating apps with the intent of not needing dating apps. A dating app that works well destroys it's user base. Their desired user base is people looking for hookups. Is it any wonder the apps have degraded into stuff pretty much only useful for hookups?
How about it seems silly to issue death threats over something so unfuckingbelievably inane?

from the outside, the gaming universe seems to be comprised of some of the most atrocious people on the planet. Astounding levels of vitriol/violence/crybaby behavior, week after week in the news.
Why on earth would you want to continue working for someone who would ask you to do that? The union won't make that person any better. Union or no union you are better off going somewhere else.
You didn't even read the thread though?

All the methods in this competition that are competitive DO use lossy compression.
> I suspect, however, that attempting to centrally plan quality would merely achieve a lower standard of living for most people.

My feeling is different, and comes from an intuition about capitalism:

• Companies will make money the easiest way that they can, with regard for any kind of unenforced "code of ethics" being a path-dependent rarity, rather than something common.

• But companies do have the internal talent to solve problems in more challenging, constrained, and ultimately useful/ethical ways, if they're simply prevented (through regulation) from choosing the "easy way out."

If you allow a game studio to put slot machines in front of children, then that's what they're going to do to maximize ROI. If you don't permit them to do that, then the market demand for "games" is still going to drive them — or at least, one of their competitors — to ship some actual video games that are fun-qua-fun rather than being addictive and money-sucking.

If you allow a drug manufacturer to make an "anti-colic" baby formula that contains heroin, then that's what they're going to do. (And did! The early 1900s were wild!) If you prevent them from doing that, then the demand that still exists is going to force them [or one of their competitors] to put some research into how to actually address colic without just effectively putting the kids in a coma. And someone's going to figure it out.

If you let companies sell asbestos insulation, then that'd be what they'd do — it's the cheapest insulation to manufacture, and so it'd also be the cheapest insulation to buy if it were on the market. If you prevent them from doing that, then they'll have to get off their asses and innovate up a cheaper form of non-asbestosis-causing insulation.

I don't see why "you can't market this as a 'lawnmower' if it shakes itself apart after eight months; try again" is all that different from "you can't market this as 'building insulation' if it destroys your lungs; try again." In both cases, I'd expect the continued market demand + supply-side talent-base to come together to solve the problem a better way.
They embraced open source software and open protocols like LSP to get as many programming languages working with VSCode as possible and then they licensed their own pylance language server so that you can’t use it outside of VSCode.
This is how Lyft and Uber works too, they build their incentives to buy the marginal driver/user. So if you are a reliable Uber-only or Lyft-only driver, you get screwed out of incentives. However, if you switch around, Uber/Lyft will bid for your next ride.
It was also primed to take on the next big thing at the same time. Fighting this hard over streaming rights and ignoring AI makes no sense.
Let f: R -> R be the probability density function of X. It fulfills int f(x) dx = 1 and we furthermore assume that f is differentiable.

We can write the identity as

int_a^oo x f(x) dx / int_a^oo f(x) dx = 2 a.

We rewrite this as

int_a^oo x f(x) dx = 2 a int_a^oo f(x) dx.

Taking the derivative with respect to a on both sides yields

- a f(a) = 2 int_a^oo f(x) dx + 2 a (- f(a)).

Taking another derivative yields

- f(a) - a f'(a) = - 2 f(a) - 2 f(a) - 2 a f'(a).

We rewrite this as

f'(a) = - 3 f(a) / a,

and furthermore

f'(a) / f(a) = - 3 / a.

We can write this as

(ln ○ f)'(a) = - 3 / a.

As far as I can tell, we can not find a solution on all of [0, oo).
Let's assume that failure is impossible up to an early time t. This means that we assume f(x) = 0 for all x < t, and that possibly f(t) > 0, meaning we have a jump discontinuity in the probability density at x = t.

We integrate from t to x

int_t^x (ln ○ f)'(a) da = int_t^x - 3 / a da.

This evaluates to

ln(f(x)) = ln(f(t)) - int_t^x 3 / a da
= ln(f(t)) - 3 ln(x) + 3 ln(t)
= ln(f(t)) - ln(x^3) + ln(t^3)
= ln(f(t) t^3 / x^3).

In particular

f(x) = f(t) t^3 / x^3.

Right now f(t) is still a free parameter, but recall that

1 = int f(x) dx
= int_t^oo f(t) t^3 / x^3 dx
= f(t) t^3 [- 1 / (2 oo^2) + 1 / (2 t^2)]
= f(t) t / 2

has to hold, so we find that

f(t) = 2 / t

and

f(x) = 2 t^2 / x^3.

So these are the probability densities that fulfill the "modified" Lindy effect, where failure is impossible before time t > 0.

I haven't double checked this so maybe there is a mistake, but I'm quite convinced that this line of reasoning leads to a unique distribution for each t > 0 and impossibility when t = 0.
Maybe he hopes to replace one of the existing parties (that is, become one of the two dominant ones).
Do OEMs still release modified versions of their Chromebooks with a standard BIOS?

I used to have an x86 Acer "CloudBook" that shipped with Windows and a nice EFI bios. It boots Linux well, and even has an option to disable the windows trusted boot keys, and to use user installed (i.e., grub) keys instead. The hardware seems to be designed to run chrome os, except that it has a standard keyboard.

My only complaint is that I'd like a higher-end version of it.
So this discussion started me thinking about trying again, a simple classified ad like the one I placed in 2010, with just my blog's URL. Perhaps adding a QR code so peeps could easily have a look at my site with their phones.

I checked to see how much such an ad would cost:

>A simple 1-inch black-and-white classified style ad costs $6,066.

Pass.
What hell is this?
Private security can try to detain and deter people who are acting out of line but they are not equipped or legally able to deal with lethal force. That is a job for the police. This incident highlights just how rare it is that people make these kind of threats and how disruptive they can be. But there is also a clear moral imperative to take action when lives are being threatened, and this is exactly why we have taxes and laws and police.
“No such thing as bad press.” has been a thing for a while now.

PR teams peddle memes that play up character; “that persons a maverick and rebel” or “taken out of context” without ever providing the context, or retconning the clearly defined context the original comment was in response to.

It’s a form of obscurantism; use money to flood airwaves with spin, exhaust people with it so they move on; it’s intentional manipulation of innate biological systems; we get tired of the same old forms of information: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mom-voice-kid-brain-teen...

That’s not just a teen biology thing, it’s just adults get conditioned to grit and bear their daily grind or reality will implode. Anecdotally I know more people tired of their repetitive office job than in love with it.

We’re stateful beings and while media does not have perfect mind control of an individual, media is good at manipulating state of the aggregate such we just start telling each other shut up when we’ve had our fill.
Probably a certain class of chipset/ SoC that was used in a lot of machines sold that year? Also could be that in 2020, when schools were buying oodles of chromebooks during the pandemic:
a) Schools were already buying years old models that made them infeasible to continue supporting
b) ...they want all the schools that bought tons of chromebooks in 2020 to re-up
Sure, functionally OpenSCAD is just a subset of FreeCAD. The problem is, I can't really trust them if they also push out less robust or outright unreliable features alongside them.

> Even after reverting to old parameters, the sketch will be now be stuck in this new configuration

I have definitely experienced that too. Constraint-based design is very powerful, when it works. But it doesn't always work. A boolean operation always has a result (at least in theory), but a set of constraints doesn't always have exactly one solution, or any solution at all. Which would be okay if the program could reliably tell when something is well-constrained, so that changing a parameter doesn't make it jump to a different solution - one that isn't even on the face I'm trying to make a hole into - which causes the hole and the faces created by the hole to cease existing - along with the sketch I drew on one of those faces that now doesn't exist and so neither does my sketch... It all collapses so easily. How to keep track of faces that jump in and out of existence as the parameters defining them change would probably be a good PhD thesis topic.
Assuming linearity of utility either in individuals or in aggregation is a very common straw man of utilitarianism.
People get really technical trying to find excuses to keep eating when it is themselves, but when it’s your dog who is fat and the vet tells you their health is threatened you just reduce their food and don’t start digging up scientific studies to show how actually some dogs need extra treats to lose weight.
It's less than you would think. Despite having offerings in about every IP block segment about the only ARM IP blocks that get heavy use are the pieces that have some other ecosystem thing going on. PL011 uarts are de facto required for some initial consoles. Mali GPUs were being sold in what was frankly a move that needed some anti-trust scrutiny (ARM saw Apple taking the piss out of IMG and decided to go in for the kill by offering CPUs+GPU for cheaper than CPUs on their own, overnight destroying IMG's market). Beyond that it's easier to not pay ARM for their IP. NoC fabrics and IP blocks that touch pads are better coming relatively straight from the foundry. Simple serial controllers are essentially commodities at this point. Etc.

So RISC-V really only needs to focus on CPU cores to be an existential threat to ARM.

At this point their biggest most is probably the patents on AMBA specs, but if they tried hard to enforce those the industry would switch to something like TileLink in a relative heartbeat.
That's a very good point. If I look at my android experience, two major updates is the limit I would _want_ to update to. On devices where I could push the limits with lineage/cyanogenos, I could perhaps extend this to 3, being pretty apparent you're sacrificing speed for security at that point.

I hope they're going for a different track record.
But may I take ducks home from the park?
C++, some Java.
I think paying for something does encourage users to be more invested in it, but paid software can neglect their power users too if they're comfortable being "good enough for most people"
At least in the pandemic, you seem to be reasonable. In many posts, you have shown no knowledge of Law concepts and how our constitution works. I hope in the future, before you say a “judge is being a dictator”, you study about the matter. IANAL, and yet I'm capable to see how you don't know about the typical and atypical functions of each power in our Democracy. I hope this link could expand your superficial knowledge about the matter.

https://www.jusbrasil.com.br/noticias/podem-os-juizes-legisl...
I plan to do the exact same thing next year. I don't have all the answers for you, but I would start by asking my LinkedIn network about any contracting jobs <6months and build a CV website. I assume you come from the Tech industry, but a lot can depend on what branch of IT. Developers can get their name out a lot easier than (DevSec)Ops people by contributing to OSS, so give that a try. But either way even a basic Udemy course on the subject can be helpful if you have no idea where to begin.
> Don't unions work best in fields where quality is very uniform and expertise counts for very little?

SAG-AFTRA (the big acting union) blows that argument out of the water. The disparity in compensation between the SAG extras and the big name stars can be several orders of magnitude. Their union works great, as it's mostly about dictating labor-favorable working conditions and contract terms.

There are all sorts of things that the vast majority of software developers could get behind that we often don't see eye-to-eye with management about. Flexible working hours, having blocks of interruption-free time, on-call sucks, etc.
It's like the fall of Rome. Historians will debate, when did it really start? When did it finally fall? Did it ever fall at all?

It always has been September, always will be, and never was at all; everywhere and nowhere.
Are you trolling or are you really that ignorant of the law? There are no such legal loopholes to get around the 5th Amendment.
The tech is really impressive, but the video you liked to is awful.
>Some classes play Minecraft - I’m unclear how that’s teaching

There are definitely ways to teach within Minecraft. Redstone springs to mind, but I imagine there are others.
Nice job team!
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Which conceivable method of summing is the least problematic? Depending on the summing method you might find yourself advocating creating as many people as possible with positive utility, or eliminate everyone with below-average utility, etc.
> I wouldn't expect that from (...) a Thinkpad

You wouldn't? I have an X230 and it still works fine/is perfectly usable, and that's over 10 years old at this point. Why would you not expect a laptop to last more than 10 years?
E-bikes and trains can't help you buy a week of groceries for a family of four. No one is going to give up the convenience of point-to-point travel in a private vehicle with enough space for kids, pets, and groceries and a roof to keep out the rain.
BundleMyLife (www.BundleMyLife.com) also has the same (similar) program as MiiX Financial and it looks like they may either be affiliated or has a licensing agreement.

BML VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lib7HZZfAQw

Both have the same 3.5% - 30 Year - Fixed Home Finance product where you can amortize regular monthly expenses like utilities, health and car insurance, etc. into the 30 year home financing.
Maximizing for per-capita happiness just leads to the other end of the same problem - fewer and fewer people with the same "happiness units" spread among them. Thus we should strictly limit breeding and kill people at age X+5 (X always being my age, of course).

It's actually a hard problem to design a perfect moral system, that's why people have been trying for literally thousands of years.
My favorite example is the asana loader[0] for llama-index. It's literally just the most basic wrapper around the Asana SDK to concatenate some strings.

[0] - https://github.com/emptycrown/llama-hub/blob/main/llama_hub/...
>We really shouldn’t get ourselves tied into knots about the possibility of pumping out trillions of humans because an algorithm says they’ll be marginally net content. That’s not the end goal of any reasonable, practical, or sane system of ethics.

Are you sure you aren't sharing the world with people who do not adhere to reasonable, practical, or sane system of ethics?

Because, ngl, lately, I'm not so sure I can offer an affirmative on that one, making "Getting tied into knots about the possibility of pumping out trillions of humans because an algorithm says they’ll be marginally net content" a reasonable thing to be trying to cut a la the Gordian knot.

After all, that very thing, "pump out trillions of humans because some algorithm (genetics, instincts, & culture taken collectively) says they'll be marginally more content" is modus operandi for humanity, with shockingly little appreciation for the externalities therein involved.
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This reminds me of the post on Product Market Fit the other day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37490300

That PMF is never done, and you are just chipping away at more and more market segments. There's no negative feedback for people to think that they're done with a market and they're starting to squeeze blood from rocks.
It's nice to hear from someone with real experience.

Blueprints clearly delivered negative ROI. In general they probably do. This is the worst time to be advocating for visual programming, considering the first truly groundbreaking application of AI is going to be in writing code.

The real question is, did C++ give you any real ROI either? Probably not, it probably only got in the way compared to the way Unity is architected.

> Gone are the days of changing one thing and then git saying that 100 files have uncommitted changes!

You're using Unreal, but not with Perforce? Get back into the time machine buddy!

People's expectations about this extremely clunky engine are way too high.
They should slow down even more than they already have.
JS doesn't have green threads, just a single threaded event loop and context switching via promises or async/await. Green threads implies parallelism implemented in user space (ala. GoLang goroutines or JVM virtual threads).. JS is not parallel only concurrent.
https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-outage-ddos-attack-hack...
No it is not more like that. This isn't compressing images, just the sequence of characters (or words). It is literally EXACTLY the same task as just memorizing word for word (plus punctuation), which humans are very good at, probably because our brains use a lot of strategies akin to what is used in this challenge.
I'd suggest you read all the way through your linked article, including the subsection "Counterexamples".
Aren't there already a lot of startups doing this kind of thing? MosaicML comes to mind but there definitely have been others in the not too distant past. Why do startups keep getting funded in this space?