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I also have an iOS published app that has a Google Sheets “backend”: https://subsol.one It’s an app for finding parties and festivals in Romania, and the sheets choice makes it super easy for my brother and his friends to add parties to the app. I thought about adding a “real” database and tried some apps/frontends for them, but nothing made it easy enough to update and insert rows for non technical people. I figured…
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These things always make me uneasy. On the one hand, I understand they are in a very hard situation. On the other hand, donating to research into rare neurological diseases will literally save hundreds of times fewer lives than donating to "effective" charities ( https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ )
As a fellow fan of effective altruism, I really don't want people to think of it as the group that shows up whenever someone is asking for help and says "Don't help them! You should be helping these other people instead!" Empathy is crucial for motivating people to give to any cause, and it's a crucial part of why I'm involved in EA. If someone's first/main exposure to EA is along the lines of "you should ignore this…
If anyone is wondering, this looks a bit like a syndromic set of phenotypes resulting from the mutation(s) in DHDDS. The mutations are hitting a really bad part in the glycosylation pathways, where I can imagine impacts on a massive number of proteins. I’m assuming this is a hypomorph, as if you lost function of this gene completely, it’s hard to see how any cell can survive.
No one was wondering that about Portugal. The Man’s website.
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Is this a reference to Sam Bankman-Fried ? He was a promoter of effective altruism and also a fraudster. But I'm not sure why that should prevent non-fraudsters to also promote effective altruism.
His perspective was literally that being a fraudster is OK if it nets you billions of dollars that can go toward significant causes. It's at the core of "effective altruism": the ends justify the means. So yes, he was a shining example of why "effective altruism" is just an excuse to do terrible things / make small improvements in the world.
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His perspective was literally that being a fraudster is OK if it nets you billions of dollars that can go toward significant causes. It's at the core of "effective altruism": the ends justify the means. So yes, he was a shining example of why "effective altruism" is just an excuse to do terrible things / make small improvements in the world.
He denies being a fraudster to this day.
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He denies being a fraudster to this day.
As is his right, of course https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/technology/sam-bankman-fr...
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I can’t tell if that’s a sarcasm or “dropbox is just ftp” level of professional deformation.
I'm not sure I understand this comment. The parent asked whether SQLPage could be used to update data in the database after inserting it. I answered that yes, it could. The update form would look something like this: select 'form' as component; select 'event_name' as name, (select name from events where id=$id) as value; select 'event_date' as name, 'date' as type, (select date from events where id=$id) as value; sel…
So I beg your pardon.
But what it really meant is that this sort of a technical solution may appeal to a developer, but not to regular users, not the ones who just updated spreadsheets for their website yesterday. Looking from that “mere mortal” point of view, and when it’s suggested by a person who isn’t yet known to be an author, in that context it feels like a 50% sarcasm and 50% our common geek stereotypes. I understand what SQLPage provides for a technical person, so please treat my comment as a joke which it is.
It’s over for frontend devs, no code has won
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> I'm not expecting a lot from their song writing after this statement. They are actually quite a well-known band, so you shouldn’t be so cynical. People on HN love to judge things before they know anything about it. This band has won a Grammy award, but you were content to assume the worst for trivial reasons.
A band name is not trivial. It doesn't seem they spent any time or effort thinking up a good one (unless of course there is a marketing angle here, and the name (and band?) was entirely manufactured).
If you click on the Tab 'FRANCES CHANGED MY LIFE' it shows that band members John and Zoe have a daughter Frances. They're raising money to fund research into Frances' rare neurological disease: "Frances has a rare genetic mutation that causes a degenerative disease called DHDDS. In the last few years, breakthroughs in medical science have made it possible to develop a treatment. Unfortunately, it's extremely expensi…