skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Becoming more religious has helped me identify religious tendencies in the secular world. Ideology doesn’t imply supernatural deities, and some worldly phenomenon can be elevated to a supernatural level. Secular belief contains rituals, origin stories, deities, saints, priesthood, blasphemy, vice & virtue just as religion does.

One aspect of religion I appreciate is that these aspects are well codified and debated – i.e. much more explicit.

In the secular world these aspects exist but they are implicit, making them difficult to debate and attack.

Few people understand that most religions e.g. Judaism and Christianity have an apologetic discipline – a deliberate arm open to debate.

The secular world would benefit from adopting more formal definitions of their belief system. I think that would reduce the conflict and neurosis that comes from engaging a nebulous system.

If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted.
> I found his no holds barred clarity

Being right is no excuse for being an asshole.

The attitude will appeal to some. It will strike many others in the wrong way and put them on the defensive.

There's no reason to write this way. A concise, well-articulated, non-combative post will appeal to everyone and still convey the same information.
There are parts of Europe that have far more community and where people are far more social but far less religious than the US.

Religion is just a long surviving irrational belief system. It may serve a more social purpose or a less social purpose. Oppositely, the purpose of unifying a community can be served by a number of things, religion isn't necessary for that. As other mention, extreme religiosity is rising in the US even as average religion is declining but that's naturally ideological.
In my anecdotal experience, calling out "un-Nationality" seems way more common in the New World than the Old World and I wonder if this is still remnants of nation-building side effects.
Yes, I don't really expect things to change much.
Great examples of what John Holt and Maria Montessori and Ivan Illich observed over and over: People learn easiest when they find the material relevant, challenging, and fun.

I learned programming on my own (decades ago). Almost everything I have ever learned and retained resulted from intense interest and exploring on my own, not from school.
Canada is about to revert to the mean in a very hard way though, so I wouldn't count on that statistic too much.
I usually print books I buy as PDFs and then bind them myself as well. The process is very nice and meditative. So, I wrote this script[0] that converts a pdf in seams of 16 pages that can be printed directly in correct order on a normal printer. So, I can just send the PDF to a printer without worrying about anything and fold and bind them later by hand.

[0] : http://rohitg.in/2018/05/30/Spreadmaker/
This is the problem - if the system goes beyond “what floor should I idle at” and “do I idle door open” people get mad at it because of apparent unfairness and inefficiency even if it is actually more efficient overall.

Same thing happens with traffic lights.
This is almost exactly me right now. I have laughable employment gaps for this reason, and am literally going to limp into my next whenever that is. I let myself be fired when I burnt out at my last one. It's hard to tell what I'm well-suited for though. Only working 6 months every 1.5 years for the same pay as many other things working the whole time isn't too bad though. I'd love to find something I can keep, but I have no idea what an actual lucky break would look like. I look at other potential career choices and they don't really seem that different.

I tend to burnout when there's a conflict between expectations and requirements from management, and lack of agency to actually be as productive as I can be. Also when the work becomes very mundane, or I'm required to respond to customers quickly while trying to meet code related deadlines.

This last time it was most of that, but also I couldn't go to the gym, couldn't engage in my other leisure stuff, couldn't hang out with friends or at a coffee shop, or really do anything but wake up and write fucking react code, and a close friend died. So I just stopped being able to do that and gave up. Best pay I've ever had, don't know what I'm doing next, but I'm bored and almost broke.
I used to be an atheist, then after experimenting with psychedelics I became agnostic, then after some major struggle in life now God is central to my life and I enjoy reading the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita. I had never touched anything similar before psychedelics, I was prejudiced against religions, religious people, spirituality and anything that wasn't materialistic.
Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism? (2020)
I used to etch PCBs at home a lot when I was in college. I used a glossy sheet to print the PCB Gerber on it. Most times I had to etch multiple PCBs and then two things used to happen when I used the same glossy sheet again and again. They were expensive where I lived.
1. The glossy sheet would get blackened due to printing multiple times on the same side.
2. I did not have a printer so I went to a cyber cafe to print and he would charge me for every print even though I was printing on the same sheet.
3. I had to carry my laptop to manually adjust the gaps and often it got screwed up.

So, I wrote this script [0] that would combine the gerbers in a single PDF that I could print in a single go. I used it a lot and saved a lot of Money to keep the hobby alive :)

[0] http://rohitg.in/2015/04/17/BoardMerge/
Old English is definitely West Germanic. It's much less clear whether Middle and current English can be considered more West Germanic or more North Germanic; there's still a debate raging on.
The moment where you believe at any point that there is a singular "HN's view" about any topic is where you go wrong.

I bet that there are people on this platform who have never had a conscious thought about radars, also there are ones who design radars for a living. And the whole gamut in between.
Huh? Maybe France is a bit special, but I'd wager you could move to Germany, the Netherlands or Scandinavia and call yourself [insert local identity] just as quickly as you could in the US. At least in the cities (but then again, try being a Syrian refugee in rural Alabama).

Sure, it doesn't happen on day one, but it doesn't in the US either.
That’s an example of a thing that may work well but would piss users off - it apparently reversing would annoy.
The United States has the world's largest Christian population, and its founding was directly influenced by religion; the Church of England and the Puritans.[1][2][3][4]

To suggest otherwise is to completely ignore not only history, but the present.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_of_New_England#Establ...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay#...
I don’t think it’s possible to be an asshole to an inanimate object.
I wrote Unix/bash utility as a repository that when cloned into your `.config` directory makes it very simple to isolate available environment/functions/scripts/config based on the current directory you are in. The resulting config that you make is stored centrally in your .config directory but is only active in the corresponding file path (or globally, depending on the use case). It's been very useful.

https://github.com/jjorissen52/shell-env
what definition of religion are you using? this is the dictionaries...

religion
/rɪˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/
noun
the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling
power, especially a personal God or gods.
I don't understand what this is supposed to mean. There is nothing in the context of "science itself" besides that particular scientific research or process. That's what it's defined as. Did you mean something like: a layperson might be inclined to place higher value on scientific research performed by a personal friend or colleague? That's probably true in some cases, but it's not "scientism."
This is false.

A lot of people found religion in the 60's and 70's due to psychedelics, and have continued to do so ever since. As an example, many people were first drawn to Eastern religions through psychedelic experiences.

Also, arguments have been made that even the mainstream religions were originally founded (and in their early years sustained) due to psychedelic use. For an example see Allegro's "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross".

That's not to mention many smaller religions such as the Native American Church, Santo Daime, Uniao Do Vegetal, etc.

Something else to consider is that drug use has been so stigmatized (not to mention illegal) for so long that many users have been afraid to come forward and admit their psychedelic use. That's been changing due to the Psychedelic Renaissance and its positive reception in the press, but there are likely to be many more people who haven't come out of the closet yet (not to mention users who died before this more permissive era started). So the number of people who were drawn to religion through psychedelic use is probably much larger than we know.
my bet, is in the long run the world will revert to this. just people, crafting with their heads down. and calling it a day. thanks for sharing your inspirational story.
https://almy.us/teco.html

i remember playing with this on a Mac in the last few years.
I work for an automotive vendor and this kind of thing keeps me up at night. The automotive vendor space is... lacking in technology. It's amazing what little thing we can do from a technological standpoint that impresses the OEMs.

Also, the way most of these vendor relationships work is that the provider collects data, passes it on to the dealership and program management company (third party that OEMs hire to handle the vendor relationships) who then passes it to the OEM itself. Often there are 3-4 copies of your data.

SSNs _are_ a surprise though. That's usually exclusively for credit approvals and every vendor I've ever worked with takes stuff seriously.
Others have even been seen to exist as a weird mixture of both states at the same time, thanks to the quantum quirk of superposition

This makes the Schrodinger's Box experiment much more dangerous. How much energy would be released in the annihilation of Cat with Anti-Cat?

I'm actually honestly interested in that last question.
Teleological thinking persists regardless of whether you're secular. The "ideological intensity" in the article is partly a result of teleological drive judging every facet of modern life, even the trivial. On the left it is how X contributes to equity vs oppression, and on the right it is how X contributes to orderliness vs dysfunction.
As a person from a blue collar family that's been broke as hell my whole life having a single million dollars would be insane and almost unimaginable to me. Lol

I think most of the working class feels the same way which is like 50 to 80% of the country.

They don't really have a fined grained classification for millionaire beyond having a million bucks.
That's requires maintaining more db locks.
Apple PR:

> we do not advantage our apps over those of any developer or competitor

Apple employee Debankur Naskar:

> I think the Files app was manually boosted ... during last WWDC. We are removing the manual boost

So which of these is true? Or is PR technically correct because they do not currently "advantage" their apps?
Don't be so obvious when you're doing vote manipulation, my posts end up at -1 in this thread, and somehow, 2 days later, this post ends up at -1 within 2 minutes of being posted.
I have no idea what you conceptualise as a “religion”; or how you measure “religiosity”.

I have a very broad definition - to me any belief system (collection of concepts used for understanding the world) is a religion.

Rationalism is one religion.
Irrationalism is another religion.

Any preference you have for one or the other is just your opinion. The bias that you can’t justify.

The long-surviving is statistically unlikely to be irrational. It survived the test of time - Entropy.

What is far more likely is that you don’t (yet) understand what religion is.
Religious faith has declined. Social media has increased.
Australia and South America, because Australia can be defended in a single territory (Indonesia), against a single territory (Siam) and South America can be defended in two territories (Venezuela and Brazil), each against a single territory (Central America and North Africa respectively.)

In South America, you can get lucky and take North America in 1 or 2 turns. Since North America shares a front with South America, you end up with the same number of fronts you would have if you possessed North America alone, and in a very defensible position. The fewer fronts you have, the more interior you have that doesn't need to be manned with troops.
I don't know why I have to also do the Googling of the terms you mentioned as well as telling you what the results say.
Nah. This is a list of lesser known editors. Who doesn't love joe?
I'm sure plenty of them did. But it's interesting I don't see Christians, Jews, or Muslims talk about how they get high all the time. They'd be put off by you suggesting it. It's even a central practice to not do so.
Adversaries tend not to engage in conflicts with unbalanced mechanics — the only winning move then is not to play…
For what it's worth, Python 3.10 will add -fno-semantic-interposition when built with --with-optimizations by default. However, the slow down only affects Pythons built with --enabled-shared anyway.

The issue is discussed here [0]. I also attempted to backport the fix to the official Python Docker image [1], but wasn't able to get much traction. I wish this would land since everyone using these images would get an instant speedup.

[0]: https://bugs.python.org/issue38980
[1]: https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/501
I had been using an Amiga for ten years, very happily, when this aired. Some people just shouldn't be allowed to touch things, period.
This is such a belittling and reductionist take on religiosity that all I can do, as a religious person myself, who is well educated (because that's the other assumed trope common in places like these: people must be religious because they are otherwise ignorant or uneducated), is laugh.

Not only has American theological ignorance increased (people like Richard Dawkins for example, popular in atheist cultures, has just downright comically terrible theology and understanding of the Bible), but as well as ignorance of the human psyche.

I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Another one is a physical tool [0] to help people who do electronics and PCB design. I made this ruler that helps in designing new parts for PCB CAD softwares like KiCAD/Eagle. Then a few friends pumped me up and I got great feedback. So, I built a fabricated on with local manufacturer in Pune, India. Then someone was like you should sell them. So, I sold them via Tindie [1] and shared it with a lot of different people from around the world. I still use it. I am working on a V2 these days :D

[0] http://rohitg.in/2014/12/14/Tinker-Rule/
[1] http://rohitg.in/2016/01/01/MakersRule/
> That's where your mind went

This is in the post he's replying to:

> There could just as easily be a Brock Turner in the woods seeing an incapacitated girl and fiddling around, except this time the victim would already be or about to be dead.

Brock Turner is a well known recent case of rape, the rapist (Brock Turner) sexually assaulted an unconscious woman before two graduate students intervened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner
Are you updating it as you invest or irregularly? Last investment seems to be from April.
I don't know why others down voted you so I upvoted this comment.

All I am saying is that the d3 team needs a "getting started" page aimed at allowing a dev to include one script tag (or a single npm install) and then copy and paste examples from the example gallery to get it quickly working on their own test website.

I recently tried getting back into d3 and I gave up (opted for another low threshold SVG toolkit). It's fine if d3 is aimed at other people who want to use observable.... It's just not targeted at me anymore.
> Mac software and app industry has died. Even after notarising apps they show malicious popup to users.

I maintain a handful of open source apps for macOS, and have for years. If I don't pay the $100 Apple tax, macOS will treat those apps as if they're radioactive, and it will trick users into believing the apps are either broken or malicious.

In order to run them, users must know how to change arcane settings and do a magic ritual with the UI, otherwise they just won't open.

If the tables were turned and it was Linux that wouldn't run apps that were not signed and approved by Red Hat without having to jump through arcane hoops first, people would be rightfully pointing out how user and developer hostile it is.

> They killed the industry.

Not only that, they helped usher in the race to the bottom when it comes to the app distribution market. Now everyone expects to spend a dollar or two for an app if they're spending anything at all. They also killed the paid update/upgrade model for apps.
The Human Genome Is Finally Complete
> It becomes a charged subject matter when one works at companies like Google and Facebook and gets used to navigating performance reviews.

The way things were at Amazon when I was there, posts like this would count against a Principal Engineer promotion.
One of the standards engineers are expected to meet is "Respect what has gone before". You don't know the full details of what was going on at the time, you don't know the trade-offs and why, you don't know what they did and didn't know about the situation and what couldn't have been foreseen at the time decisions were made.

Generally speaking people aren't idiots. They do the best they can with what they have, under the circumstances they're operating within, to meet the goals they have.

Almost no one sets out to make a monster impossible to maintain, or with diabolical performance.

Treat it with respect, even while you work to replace it.
10 PRINT "BBC Developer Portal"
20 GOTO 10

Very nice Easter egg
Wow... that was not what I expected. The author shares a very interesting and insightful perspective that is well worth taking in.
Counterpoint to the article's interviewee claiming that the cryptopocalyse will occur with forewarning: Nation states may seek to keep QC advances secret.

Also, QC breakthroughs can happen overnight.

Combine those two realities and we could have an institution or govt wielding a Shor's-enabled QC in private without notice nor fanfare.
I tend to think of Files as less like Dropbox and more like the macOS Finder.

You can actually browse Dropbox in Files, much as you can in the Finder, although there are some limitations.

https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/mobile/ios-fi...
> Somebody has absolutely no idea how high developer fees on proprietary platforms used to be.

Right. Even in the mass-market area, I remember when Microsoft used to charge seven or eight hundred bucks for Visual Studio.
I think about the Lukis Anderson case every time DNA is used to “solve” a crime.
> The USA is the only country where you can move to and say you're from.

North of the border there's a vast, mythical place called Canada - about 20% of Canadians were not born there [1].

Yes, this feeling of "acquired origin" is not true of every country, but the US and Canada are seldom the only place.

In my experience, the same would happen in many South American countries if one is successful in integration - there's no snobbery about not being born there.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-s-foreign-born-populat...
Idiomatic Rust? Implementing binary search (part 2)
>Brain seems to do it's linking over night.

Or in the space of less than an hour.

Several years ago I dedicated myself to writing an album/CD's worth of songs. I'd recently got a dog and he needed to be walked regularly. So often was the case where I'd be stuck on where to take a particular song, hitting my head against a wall. Then, it would be time to walk the dog. While out for the stroll I'd come up with an idea. Sometimes that was the idea I'd run with and other times it would lead me to new, different ideas.

I no longer have the dog but I keep taking the walks when I get stuck.
That price is from a third party seller
IMO burnout comes from failing to ship something worthwhile; the feeling that “despite how hard you worked, it didn’t matter in the end” is at the core of my experience with it.

You find yourself thinking “I was sure that would be good and worked hard, and it turned out not to be. Now I am sure my new project will be good, but how can I know it’s going to go differently”.
> I just say the result is really underwhelming for the capitalisation they have to say the least.

Given that they are the market leader by far in many of their product categories, it’s odd that you imagine someone else could be doing better with less.

The fact is that nobody actually is.

If you are right, then whatever disappointment you have in Apple, presumably applies even more so to their competitors.

> It's just more of the same thing year after year.

You mean they haven’t introduced enough new product lines?

Their actual technology platform is dramatically different today than it was 5 years ago. If you think it’s just more of the same, it means you are only looking at the outside.

> The same money given to a lot of diffferent companies would drive much more innovation and employ much more people.

The same money is given to a lot more people and hasn’t.
I'm not sure, I think this is ungenerous and cynical. I think if you were to seriously evaluate people on a large scale for burn out, you would find that it is more common, across more professions, than is commonly accepted.

There is probably a bottom tier of practitioners who are marginal, and their successes will be more randomly distributed due to fortunate or unfortunate circumstances. The unfortunate people in this group will be difficult to distinguish from the incapable-but-hanging-on-anyway.

That said, I suspect that there is also not that much difference between the symptoms of being burned out and of never having been capable in the first place. I also am not convinced that all burn-out is reversible. Even if you recover your full mental and emotional strength, the experience of deep burn-out can really change a person. You can never get back time that you lose.
Starting conditions matter but all kinds of forces (and they are ever changing) exist and act upon the chimp mind as it moves through the jungle that is life. Where it ends up is highly unpredictable.

So we get a chimp troupe like China were all the chimps appear to have the same programming or like US where chimps magically get polarized into exactly 2 camps on any issue or an Israel which due to the unique challenges it faces ends up with a knesset with more ideologies than anyone can keep track off.

Starting conditions are only one variable in a very complex equation.
I read it as a way to make a tedious topic more entertaining. It didn't seem combative at all. I do identify with your desire to disagree with people whose tone I dislike, even if I intellectually think they are right. I wish I could turn that off.