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Impact Markets: The Annoying Details

forum.effectivealtruism.org

1 pointsby tene4년 전0 comments

A half-hour to learn to read Rust

fasterthanli.me

1 pointsby tene6년 전0 comments

Nanoparticle chomps away plaques that cause heart attacks

msutoday.msu.edu

2 pointsby tene6년 전1 comments

A Rust-based TLS library outperformed OpenSSL in almost every category

zdnet.com

214 pointsby tene7년 전80 comments

A discussion about the breaking of the Internet

medium.com

3 pointsby tene10년 전0 comments

Strict Haskell Extension Landed

github.com

2 pointsby tene11년 전1 comments

Rakudo Star: a "useful release of Perl 6" coming next spring.

use.perl.org

3 pointsby tene17년 전0 comments

Cross-language library loading on Parrot

blogs.gurulabs.com

12 pointsby tene17년 전0 comments

Multiple languages in the same interpreter in Parrot

blogs.gurulabs.com

10 pointsby tene18년 전0 comments

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2년 전discuss

On its own it's not necessarily an issue, but I'd consider it a warning sign. The times in my life that I've obsessively played games like this have been times when my emotional health was suffering. I felt overwhelmed by life and the world, and games like this gave me a synthetic feeling of progress and accomplishment, gave me something extremely simple to do that I couldn't fail at. Games like this were a symptom of my problems at the time, not the cause, and when my life got more stable, I lost interest in playing them.

If they're playing in moderation, just to pass the time during otherwise-boring events, probably not an issue. If they're pretty much always playing, or if it's intruding on their life, or if they're not otherwise engaging with the world, consider worrying about their emotional health.

2년 전discuss

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Hi. I've got 20 years experience as an SRE and SWE. I've worked at startups and at megacorps. I can troubleshoot and solve problems at any layer of any stack. I bring deep technical experience and a production reliability mindset.

2년 전discuss

I like this one for VSCode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RobbOwen...

2년 전discuss

You've got it exactly right, many people in the US care far more about compliance with and respect for authority than they do about rule of law.

2년 전discuss

The way it sounds from reading the article is X11's design fundamentally is that bad for modern hardware, which is why almost all of the active graphics development is focused on reimplementing a designed-for-modern-hardware replacement. The claim from the article is that X11 is basically unsupported abandonware, and is calling for developers to please help with the rest of the work in finishing the migration of use-cases to Wayland in order to help the whole ecosystem be able to abandon the sinking ship and move to a more-modern better-maintained future.

3년 전discuss

Lifetime analysis matters a lot for way more than just garbage collection.

File handles, iterators, mutex guards, database transaction handles, session types, scoped threads, anything where ordering or mutual exclusivity matters.

3년 전discuss

What are some examples of sound programs you want to write in Rust but are unable to write?

3년 전discuss

I've struggled quite a bit with problems that feel similar to your description. This book is what helped me the most: https://www.carolynspring.com/shop/unshame-paperback/

3년 전discuss

> Daily life feels like that swim scene from Gattaca.

> I've not got enough of a problem to go get diagnosed or medicated.

Hmm...

4년 전discuss

Policy Prediction Markets.

4년 전discuss

I understand that you're not personally advocating for this position, but I'm glad you brought it up, because I really resent this kind of "Here's an imaginable scenario where this would have some negative consequence" argument.

Yes, if the regulators stop doing their job well, and there's a sudden extreme emergency requiring some kind of action that regulators have not already approved for use in emergencies, then there will be some costs, and sometimes those costs can be measured in lives.

This is true, but all it says is "there is some nonzero chance of society paying some nonzero cost". These costs are what we are paying in order to have a well-regulated intelligence service. The bet is that the expected risk from an effectively-unregulated intelligence service has worse costs for society than one with effective regulation.

In order for "think about the children" to be a meaningful argument, you need to actually establish that the nightmare scenario is meaningfully more likely than overreach and abuse of power that causes similar or worse costs for society.

Has this kind of "We could save the children if only we could get regulator approval to tap this phone line! Unfortunately, the regulator is taking a nap, so we're forced to let the children die." scenario actually been happening? If so, is there any kind of much-more-specific permissions that could be granted by the regulators to address the actual emergencies that have been coming up?

I kind of get "You can't trade off a life!" for some kinds of arguments, but we're talking about national security issues, and failures of corruption and overreach also involve risking lives.

"We need to just drop all safeguards and trust our valiant heroes" only works if the people who are subject to regulations actually are pretty reliably valiant heroes, or there are other significant incentive and oversight mechanisms to rely on. I don't have personal experience with people who work in national intelligence and security, but I haven't ever heard anyone willing to say that people in this line of work are consistently virtuous and corruption-resistant. There are good individuals, certainly, but there really are also both selfish individuals, and well-intentioned-but-misinformed individuals who can do a lot of damage.

4년 전discuss

I disagree.

While I agree that I haven't seen specific criticisms of Khan Academy being dangerous, I absolutely have seen both pervasive media messaging as well as real people in my personal life express and stand behind unconditional unqualified statements like "Screens are bad for kids; one way I keep my kids safe is absolutely minimizing all exposure to screens. Screens are bad and harmful for children."

This really is a meaningfully different message from "I'm concerned about social media use specifically. I try to limit the amount of passive content consumption my child is exposed to, and I try to shift the passive content to forms that are less of a superstimulus and more intentional, like novels."

I agree with you that the addictive nature of social media and other infinity pools of content and engagement represent a lot of the real danger of screen time, but I disagree that this article is arguing against a straw man.

If you're lucky enough to never encounter these ideas, congratulations on cultivating an excellent social environment! The rest of the world hasn't all made it there yet.

4년 전discuss

They had no choice? Really?

Check out this archived post from when they took down their photo sharing site: https://web.archive.org/web/20180327235711/https://lytro.wuf...

If they actually wanted to build a popular product with significant longevity, they could have done FAR more to enable people to build on their file format etc.

This "they didn't want to pursue full vendor lock-in at every step of their company; they had no choice" apologism just doesn't stand up to any scrutiny.

More likely, they made a bid to capture a greater share of the value, at the cost of limiting the size of their market, and it predictably failed. Or maybe they were prioritizing some kind of acquisition, over building a company with real longevity.

I don't really know anything about the company besides a short skim through Google, but it just doesn't seem remotely plausible to me that they really truly wanted to make this accessible to more people and cultivate a larger market and ecosystem, but somehow had literally no choice in pursuing their vendor lock-in strategy.

They chose to bet on control over mindshare, and this had predictable consequences.

4년 전discuss

How would you expect the response to something genuinely better to be different, in a non-culty way?

4년 전discuss

It doesn't baffle me; it seems pretty obvious.

Given that huge populations are consuming sugar water daily, and given the health consequences of this, information on which type of sugar water has the least-bad long-term effects is extremely valuable for harm-reduction efforts.

If "everyone should just stop drinking soda" was actually a strategy that worked, then the problem would have already been solved. It didn't work, or hasn't worked yet, so it's worth trying to check whether the variations advertised as less-harmful are actually less-harmful or not.

4년 전discuss

I desperately wish there was a country I could move to where civilization actually invested meaningfully in things that actually matter.

4년 전discuss

Having worked in SV for so long, it's hard to really imagine what this would actually look like.

What are some examples of important work with decent pay in an inexpensive area that a SV tech worker could be good at?

4년 전discuss

If they don't want to bother with leap seconds, why are they even using UTC? Why can't they just use TAI instead?

4년 전discuss

For most people working a career as a programmer, how much of their time in that career is going to be spent as an inexperienced beginner programmer?

I agree that Rust is a professional tool, designed for professional use. It's designed for professional use, instead of being optimized for inexperienced beginners like Python is.

I just don't really see "inexperienced beginners can easily contribute productively to this code base" as something that would have been valuable for any of the professional work I've done over the past couple of decades of my career.

If you're an amateur, or if you're programming recreationally, or if you're writing some low-reliability low-impact throwaway code, sure, it's great to use happy-path-oriented languages. When you want to write something that people actually rely on to run a business, you should use professional-grade tools instead.

4년 전discuss

We already have a way, reference counting and locking, the same way it's handled in most dynlangs.