skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fantastic article.

Ever since I wrote this comment[1] a year ago, I've been grappling with the parts of effective altruism I find admirable and the parts that I think are hubristic and self-serving. Similarly, I've been trying to wrap my head around the various strains of thought around AI safety/doomerism, AI ethics, and AI accelerationism.

Molly White takes these threads and weaves them together to tell us something meaningful about the Silicon Valley ethos and shine a light on its dark externalities.

Side note: I wish there were more discussion about SV elites' obsession with maintaining population growth - there are many otherwise-uncommon beliefs worth interrogating in that area (for one: both Peter Thiel and Sam Altman apparently believe that a flat global population will spell certain disaster for most of humanity).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33626584
At least modify your custom instructions to make it sound like an internet comment instead of a professional corpospeak email.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

An artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21721208 - Dec 2019 (9 comments)
> Unless you absolutely force them, their interest is a huge factor in what they’ll learn.

Whether you like it or not, at some point you are going to absolutely force them to learn something. Whether that is by sending them to a school, or teaching them yourself.

Most children would rather not spend time on a lesson if they could spend that time playing.
They're taking an inverse Turing test.
"Spaghetti junction is an understatement, <...> should be barred from working on infrastructure ever again and be made to sit in the corner."

First, you're lucky that you no longer live nearish the nightmare, I still have to use The Crescent to get to Balmain or to Victoria Rd and for a year or so I've avoided the area like the plague.

You shouldn't be surprised though at the stuff-up, Sydney and NSW is known for its fucked-up road system, and halfhearted and incompetent roadways/transport planning which has dogged the city from its colonial days.

For instance, just look at the Eastern Suburbs Railway—why the hell does it terminate at Bondi Junction without going the extra distance to Bondi beach where everyone goes, especially in summer? It not only ought to go there but also complete the circuit across the Eastern Suburbs and end up back on the Southern Line, say at Wolli Creek junction.

Sydney hasn't had anyone of sufficient sense and authority since John Bradfield to plan its transport infrastructure with any degree of competence which is a 100 years ago—and even then his broader more comprehensive plans were thwarted by the shortsighted gnomes in Macquarie St (NSW Parliament). For those overseas, Bradfield was primarily instrumental in forcing through the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge which is now a world landmark: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bradfield_(engineer).

Anyone interested in long-term planning should assiduously avoid moving to Sydney at any cost, if you come here then such notions will quickky evaporate and be replaced with feelings of mañana!

Incidentally, here it seems fitting to mention a once landmark just down the road from Spaghetti Junction that you may recall: The Crescent is one of the main arterial roads that feed into this junction. At its other end at its intersection with Wigram Road there used to be a high Besser block wall that stopped non-payers from watching trotting at Harold Park, scrawled across it were large graffiti that said The Australian people are bloody-minded sheep. That the graffiti remained there for several decades and that no one—not even the Council—attempted to remove it until the wall was eventually removed for apartments development says something very significant.

I always meant to take a photo of it but never got around to doing so. If anyone has a photo of it then I'd dearly love a copy.
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Live streaming doesn't automatically mean you can't cheat. There is a software that reads the chesscom/lichess board in real-time, calculates a bunch of lines using a chess engine and overlays the evaluation of the next best moves over the chesscom board. You can then choose the move that you feel most comfortable with. You never need to look away from the board or switch focus from the browser window. This software doesn't need to be always running. You can start it with a hotkey on demand. The state of the technology is such that you can easily cheat in bullet games while streaming at the same time.
Apartment prices in China reached their peak last year or the year before. Before reaching the peak, young people could only afford apartments if their wealthy parents supported them or they worked in high-paying industries. But China's real estate price growth is not market behavior. Regional governments sold land at high prices to support local finances and maintain local government operations. Now this method no longer works.
The positive way out of this is to slowly pull back regulations, one tiny bit at a time. Slowly enough so we can be comfortable and if it causes any bad effects we can correct in time. This should allow tensions to ease off and for everyone's incentives to align.

The biggest problem is that we're doubling down and adding more and more, and optimizing and squeezing everything to a limit. Of course it'll be catastrophic when it breaks. It'll be hell and war and chopping blocks, unfortunately. And at that point the army will come out and people will just sadly die; democracy my ass.
I really think you have no idea what it involves to transition.

It's not some pill you just pop. It's a difficult path of psychological evaluations and hormonal and surgical procedures. Expensive and very invasive and it's not granted on a whim. You really have to be female in your identity.

I really don't see any CIS man taking hormones and surgery that make them more feminine just to get a peek in the girls' bathroom. They don't desecrate themselves that way. If they want to peek there's easier ways, like putting up cameras (sadly it happens) or putting on a maintenance overall or whatever.

And for feeling intimate there's clubs and bars for that :) In my experience trans people usually tend to date other trans people or at least those in "LGBTQI+ and allies" circles. Because they know about the difficulties and feel more of a connection.
Sun Ray (stateless thin client)
An alternative way to look at it, is that central banks' inflation target of 2% (and likely much larger that official statistics) means that anything that is naturally scarce goes up in value. You see this in housing, education, healthcare, and anything that can't scale like software gets ever more expensive.

IMO the inflation target should be 0%. I don't agree with arguments about artificially inflating the currency. We don't need to use psychological tricks to make people consume more. We should aim for stable prices. This would reduce the value of housing as an inflation hedge for the common man. Right now it's like a quasi-bank.
You can use Rsync to copy everything from Google Drive as a cron job. If you want copies of your Google Docs and Sheets you'll need something like SyncDocs to download and convert them to MS Office format.
I skimmed it, so maybe i missed it, but, i don't think i saw it mentioned anywhere - but interest rates the last 10 years have been at record lows, and even with the recent increases are still low vs the long term history. This is a material driver of price increases. Other effects are, as he mentions, but fails to make the link, its now common to have two earners per home, again increasing purchasing power. And finally, the cost of other expenses, proportional to salaries, has decreased enormously - food, clothing, leaving more money available for housing.
The two most thankless jobs in tech are Project Manager (ie, the person who keeps track of project progress) and Tech writer. Both have been continuously blown off by engineers since the dawn of my career, 30 years ago. Both are powerless to hold engineers accountable and especially Tech Writers don't get any credit even though most customers rely on them completely. Engineers think they're too good and too busy to do technical writing for documentation, but then blow off technical writers who want to do the work for them and just need a few hours to understand features, etc.

I had an idea 10 years ago to hire a bunch of English majors as interns for the summer to bootstrap a big technical writing project, but that got shut down almost immediately. No engineer values tech writers, because they envision themselves as large great white sharks, and the tech writers to them are just bottom feeders that exist in their ecosystem.
> Popular home ownership comprises a uniquely American political strategy

We're smack in the middle of countries that measure and report homeownership [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...
Ask HN: Did you achieve your 2023 goals?
Inspired by this thread

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33906133]
The reason this is not done is for the same reason HOA's are nightmares. It's a conflict of interest to committee others private property. Government becomes incentivized to look for and generate infractions. If you are wondering why politics never truly changes it's because gov power actively suppresses competition.
> Australia is only habitable at scale along the coast
Actually with the 8th biggest coastline in the world, we could probably double the population without going very far in-land.
They are probably right. But an exception seems to be night dive studios:

https://www.nightdivestudios.com/portfolio/system-shock/

Also my current favourite remake is wipeout phantom

https://github.com/wipeout-phantom-edition/wipeout-phantom-e...

Well it's not a remake really!
Or prices for the other 60% of costs would rise to offset the reduction, meaning that the tax/fee/charge revenue instead becomes profit for private businesses. Don't ask me to prove it, but that seems to be what has happened in the US with the 30% solar subsidy, the federal EV tax credits, etc.
From Oct 19th 2023... sky did not seem to fall in the last month.
You could do some market analysis to figure out who is contributing most to the upwards price spiral and burn their house down. Maybe you do this yearly--you'd have to be restrained enough to not meaningfully impact supply. This would disincentivize being at the top of lists like that. Aggressive investors would find a different sector to play in, which I expect would bring prices down.
We looked at EFS to pair with fargate to run a small server.. we only needed a tiny bit of persistent shared storage (which served pages and config to connect to the DB)... But EFS was atrociously slow for large numbers of small files. I anticipate high throughout would help for applications that want to read/write) lots of small files serially like websites built on frameworks that have thousands of files to read to start or to render a page.
Flagged for literal astro-turfing.
I'm on reddit a lot less these days, but subjectively it seems about the same for me, except most of the old subreddits I'm a legacy mod on are way busier than I remember. They're definitely still gaining users.

It could just be that the longer you're on there, the worse the quality appears to get to you as newcomers come. People always start to feel that way after being there some time. But then again people have been complaining about the quality of reddit going down literally almost as long as reddit has existed.
yes, maybe you will be right.
Huhhh, the website is pretty devoid of information unfortunately. Full of buzzwords ("Big Tech", "no tracking", "designed for privacy", "best CPU"), without actual details. What are the actual specs? Is the bootloader unlocked? Is there Linux support? Is source available for the OS and related apps? Etc...

For $949 + S&H I would expect a bit more. I never considered Librem5 to be a good deal, but based on what I read so far, it is better than this.
Yeah I'm really not sure, except that I definitely did not receive any communication about what happened (this was back in ~May this year). I also did not proactively reach out to Support (busy that day, had backups, and it was fixed by the next day so).

Also to clarify; while its technically possible that the Cloud Sync application on my Synology NAS could have done it; it can be configured with bi-directional sync and is fully authenticated to commit files back to Google Drive and delete existing ones. I have it set to "Download Remote Changes Only" and always have; and while a software bug there could have caused it, the files that re-appeared were long, long deleted to me, everywhere, and I didn't have copies of them on the NAS. Very nice to have them re-appear for a day and get pulled down for actual long-term backup locally though!
Not Chinese, but I have experience adapting traditional Chinese learning methods so that I could learn Literary Chinese (think of it as to East Asia as Latin [and Greek] has been to Europe), as well as academic knowledge of some of this from China studies and Linguistics at a graduate level.

Memorisation is largely just wrote. They repeat something until it sticks. Charactera are learned largely stroke by stroke by writing them out a ton, and many things are similar. A lot of literature is memorised verbatim.

Surprisingly, up to a point, this is actually really effwctive. And especially for young children, who can not only accept a lot of repitition, but often get a lot of joy out of it, it's very effective.

I myself even as an adult have managed to memorise dozens of poems in Literary Chinese, and even some prose. Once you get started it becomes quite addictive.

One way they make this easier though is similar to what things like Sesame Street and Play School do here. Put thjbgs to song.

Chinese language YouTube is full of videos with cute little animations, with ancient poetry set to music. Kids learn to sing along and do a little dance while they memorise 3,000 years of canon poetry and short prose. I've found these resources massively helpful.

At a certain point, once you've memorised enough of the stuff, you start being able to understand more and more novel material.

Edit: To reiterate, this works up to a point. Chinese education tends to use this hammer even when a screwdriver would be more appropriate, and for specific things there are more effective strategies. But especially for young children, a level of wrote memorisation with aids to make it more stimulating and fun is extremely effective for almost anything.
I see you are looking to find out information about why people staff customer support forums for free.

I can help you find out information about why people staff customer support forums for free.

Please follow the instructions first here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38428901
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America

24,709,000 km^2
So it is basically an upgraded SunRay 3i except it has a few more smarts (probably including a CPU that has hardware encryption like almost all do now) to reach out to AWS to configure itself rather than needing a local DHCP and SunRay Server software.
Similar to how people are intelligent in different ways, we too may be less-smart-than-the-average in different ways.
Alternatively: new way to defend people.
Almost no one, but see e.g. this one: https://thottingal.in/blog/2022/10/05/nupuram/ https://twitter.com/santhoshtr/status/1577596445917470722 https://smc.org.in/fonts/nupuram https://typoday.in/spk_papers/Santhosh_Thottingal_Typoday202...
That's one environment where passwords very clearly should be abolished, replaced by some sort of physical authentication like FIDO2 or U2F USB keys.
> your buying power moves with the market and your "rent" is limited to the interest you pay on your loan (because you're paying down the principal as well).

The "because you're paying down the principal as well" seems like a red herring, no?

If you bought a house for $10.00 and paid $100.00/month, it'd still be worth it even if none of that went to the principal. Heck, even if your house became worthless too, it'd still be worth it!

> When you're renting, you're flushing your money down the toilet plus trying to save enough for a deposit relative to a market price that accelerates well beyond almost everyone's capacity to save.

How do people make such a broad generalization without looking at any numbers? Shouldn't the costs and benefits of this depend on factors like the mortgage/interest rates? Is there a reason to believe that it's a net benefit regardless of the interest rate?
Use local synology NAS + Synology C2 cloud. By doing this you will have a solid system.
There is a good use case for WorkSpaces: DR. Having an on-demand desktop for staff in the event of a disaster.
The problem with dust is that in an infinite universe, the dust would have to absorb so much light that it would become so hot that it would glow, eventually just as bright as the stars.
It's all parties acting in basically the same way. Examples from the US:

1) The mortgage interest tax deduction directly incentivizes people to buy rather than rent.

2) Property tax instead of land value tax removes incentives to build higher-density housing on valuable land.

3) Most importantly, local zoning regulations outright prohibit dense development of land in desirable areas.

4) Regional acts like California's absolutely insane Proposition 13 (enacted by the people themselves) massively distort markets and act as giant ladder pulling mechanisms against future generations.

5) Additional tax incentives exist for capital gains on the sale of houses, again incentivizing "house prices must go up" thinking.

When your core voter base is Boomers who enjoy the benefits of all of these actions and no one cares about future generations because staying in office means campaigning for the next term, it creates a feedback loop between the voters who "got theirs" and the politicians who help them do it. It takes radical action, like Gov. Newsom unilaterally ending single-family zoning, to make any change.
Since Google doesn't make screens, I don't see how this is their fault?

> https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-biggest-proble...

That article is from 2020. In my opinion, Pixel is the crown jewel of Android.
No, what it suggests is that you must first address your own lack of understanding before criticizing others for theirs.
Daughter is highly intelligent (everyone says their kids is super, marvelous, gifted until they met her, then they never use these words with me...), I don't remember when she actually started reading but within 2 weeks she could decipher any text (phonic base learning, less than 20min a day), I think she was 3 and a half.

Until that point, she was interested by "reading", "writings" etc but clearly not ready : I was showing the first phonic in the book ( sssss sound ), and she would just say something else, yet I was sure she could recognize words.

So don't blame yourself, a kid is ready when he wants, just expose him to books, read for him etc.
I think they should have focused on making lexical lifetimes more usable and lightweight, in a general way that was available to functions rather than just language keywords. Think making it possible to write if/while/for as regular functions in the language - which would also make it possible to write async a lot less painfully, because you'd be able to write your async control flow functions "in userspace". Instead they've chosen to deeply intertwine their particular control flow model with their borrow checker, which means changing or experimenting with those control flow keywords (or introducing new ones) is going to be a lot more costly, and any radical new ideas (whatever the next 10-20 years' equivalent of async is) are going to be much harder to introduce.
> 2. Ascribe the primary cause of all events to climate change.

in history and adjacent fields, this is the current angle you must incorporate to get any significant funding. its that simple.

edit: 3 members of my family are working archaeologists, one of whom is PI on a major UNESCO world heritage site. I am not an expert in the field myself, but I am asked to read and offer minor editing assistance on several grant propodals a year.

This trend has nothing to do with PC agenda or wokeness. consider that other so called 'woke' priorities are not similarly promoted, the reason is there is no substantial grant money coming from those directions. As other commenters have pointed out, environmental factors have been a staple category of theory for as long as human settlement patterns have been studied. the reason this niche is happening 'all across academia' right _now_ is that lately, that's where the money is.

There is no more to this trend than

1. losing a grant to another proposal

2. reading said proposal and noticing the (sometimes clearly procrustean) climate change angle.

3. reworking your own proposal along similar limes

4. getting in the next round.

word travels fast.
Incorrect, it depends of the value you pass down to your kids.
> he choice is more about using a single language than avoiding JS

You’ve been able to do this in JS for over a decade now. So…
We aren't allowed to start a home build and finish it over time. You aren't allowed to move into an "unfinished" house. You have to get a permit for every tiny thing.

You don't really own your house the way you can own a car or a bicycle: the government treats you as a temporary custodian of its property and you must pay it dearly.
House prices increasing are "good" for homeowners because you can potentially tap into the equity to leverage for another investment. The typical play in modern Australia is to buy an investment property and then use negative gearing to reduce your personal income tax bill.

Continually "upgrading" your primary place of residence is not something that anyone does. Unless you live in the ACT you would be forced to pay stamp duty again too.
Do you have a reference on that? This summary of the Alpha AXP <https://danluu.com/dick-sites-alpha-axp-architecture.pdf> states "Normal load or store instructions that specify
an unaligned address take a precise data alignment trap to PALcode (which may do the access using two aligned accesses or report a fatal error, depending on the operating system design)"
That's not unusual at all, and calling it "negative gearing" is just a way to target it as if it's some evil concept.

Afaik, everywhere in the world taxes on businesses are applied to profits not revenue. Subtracting your loss is completely normal. It's personal taxes that applies to your salary aka revenue that is weird and modern day serfdom.
This comment does nothing more than repeat the information provided in the title and in a very verbose style. I don't understand the tendency for GPT generated comments that is lately taking over HN and Twitter threads. They are insipid, add absolutely nothing of value to the discussion, and are generally a waste of time to read.
> It's worth noting that most if not all of these odd values seem to be metrications of customary units; I can't seem to think of any examples of the opposite.

"3.5-inch floppy disks" are actually 90mm (closer to 3.54 in) as they were designed by Sony in Japan
Interesting.

He concludes that cheating in Titled Tuesday must be virtually non-existent.

Many elite GMs (even those more level-headed than Kramnik) would strongly disagree.
OpenAI Gym looks incredibly interesting. Aren't those games supposed to be solved using neural nets?
Had to deal with a few nightmare scenarios for a client with runaway costs due to high read/writes on a piece of software they were using that used SQLite on EFS + ECS as the infrastructure layer.

Short answer you can do it, but it will get expensive if you do any significant amount of writes.

I do wish AWS would release a SQLite compatible database though. Maybe this week during Reinvent.