skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is disappointing to see on the front page as it's the 600,000th article since 2007 about why family and health are better life priorities than work.

As usual the author, who invariably lives in the white collar tech-bubble, and therefore is bombarded with "hustle culture" stuff in their LinkedIn etc...sets up a strawman and then attempts to dismantle it:

>This is a universal longing in a capitalist world — getting ahead of others is the holy grail of life. Why else would you be living if not to have more material things than others?

I'm pretty well read in philosophy and economics and I have never once ever heard a serious and well considered argument that material wealth accumulation is a normative goal for any system.

Someone please point me to a large subset of people or even one serious philosopher who would make this claim.

Further, even the hustle culture people (of whom I'm no fan) don't even make this claim.

Here, this is what the American people value in life according to Pew:
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2018/11/20/where-americ...

Of course every single author of one of these pieces inevitably gives the literal exact same advice on what SHOULD be considered the priorities and wouldn't you know it looks eerily similar to what people self-report as where they find meaning.

Yawn. As a community lets promote better stories to the top.
What he's saying today is distinct from the MAE implication, he's saying that he has the right to this info now (not that it is part of due diligence). He quotes some parts of the original merger agreement and claims his right to this data falls under that.
>It’s been said in various news outlets over and over again

Try a little thought experiment: substitute "China" for "USA" and ask yourself, would you believe claims by Chinese espionage agency official, repeated by numerous Chinese outlets? Even if he wasn't known for committing crimes, like James Clapper is?
I disagree. My context - I am an ardent, to the core capitalist - but a humane capitalist.

I believe in continued failure until success. Letting failure die.

Capitalism in it's current form has it's incentives mis-aligned. When aligned correctly, and not solely chasing the highest returns or Internal Rate of Return - capitalism can be the most potent force I feel on Earth.

Why? Because it aligns humans incentives (do better, provide more for self & family) with growth.
Common story. Some of the people who fled Russia to the west to avoid supporting the war got totally screwed. When they arrived their credit cards and bank access stopped working so they couldn't pay for anywhere to live, they cannot get visas etc, nobody wants to hire Russians and oh, yes, also cannot easily return home. The Russians who stayed and continued paying taxes? No problems.

Governments like the idea that they can fix things via market interventions but it never quite seems to work out how they intended.
Basic economics is that we have had enough to go around for a while now.

What you're describing is modern day insanity.
straw-men arguments are the least effective logic arguments

Is there a stronger argument to be used in place of that one?
I only use DND at night. Throughout the day, my strategy is to mute notifications from e everyone on Whatsapp except family. If I start a conversation with someone, I turn their notification on temporarily. I also have a whatsapp widget on my home screen where I can quickly glance for new messages.

Yes, I spend the whole day turning notifications on and off for people but I am very happy with my system.
"it's" instead of "its", seen it so many times (in writing, of course, usually in an email).
There is a book titled “All of Statistics” if you’d like a whirlwind tour.
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Some of it also has to do with seismic activity.

Traditional masonry is a very poor choice if you're expecting earthquakes.

In Japan (another earthquake-prone area) the classic houses also tended to be lumber and even paper, not masonry, because lightweight materials are less likely to squash you like a bug when the next earthquake comes along.

Obviously the Japanese did use masonry for fortifications and suchlike, but not usually for a standard dwelling.
Maybe some states have to initiate criminal proceedings before killing people, but other states are happy to kill people, including their own citizens, including children, without any criminal proceedings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla...

(To be fair, most countries have vague laws and corrupt courts so having a court in country X decide that someone should be executed is hardly any better, in practice, than having Barack Obama order the execution.)
> multigenerational prosperity

With a lot of young people opting out of having kids and trying to find their own way in life, it would make sense that the anti-work and anti-hustler culture is much more prevalent in younger people (millenials being first). Its a generational shift first of all driven by oncoming climate disaster due to over population and will be felt through wars and hungers. Why should young people contribute to such a society and create more suffering in the process.

I am not an anti-natalist, but if we start talking multi-generational that's what it comes down to
>you're going on a loooooooooooooooong road trip? Rent a gas car.

May as well fly. Modern jets get better mpg per seat than most cars on the roads in the US (caveat: assuming the plane is mostly full, and the car is single-occupancy).

I take it you have a similarly dim view of electric planes.
I wager the vast majority of people take the polar opposite view: the point of work is to do what's necessary to survive, ideally to thrive. Contributing to society is nice if it can be managed, but it definitely comes further down the list of "things I need to do" for most folks.
I always look forward to reading Drew's blog posts and I suspect that there's more people that, like me, value Drew's work, but we mostly just shut up about it.

The haters are always going to have a louder voice because hate is an emotion that provokes people to be loud and outspoken. Appreciation is usually silent.
The Fermi paradox is a joke (literally.) It’s not meant to be taken seriously as science but as proof our understanding, specifically irt how we got complex life, is flawed. I really hate that there are entire media spheres dedicated to philosophizing about it.

It also does little but derail every conversation about life in the universe into speculative science fiction.
Python 2 was even more terse with it's print statement

print >>sys.stderr, "foo"
>Rigging a primary would, by definition, involve the alteration or removal of votes cast

There are many ways to rig an election without altering any of the votes cast. The clearest example is elections in one party states, where your only choice is to vote for the approved candidate. But there are much less overt ways too
They aren't deep focusing during the other five hours, they are communicating with the team, holding meetings, planning things and whatever else.
Yea I think of the Elves in Lord of the Rings. If a person has lived 200 years then they have lived long enough to see and understand the true costs of war.
GM said that the new $26595 MSRP is intended to bring the list price into alignment with the actual transaction price of the vehicles. There have always been significant discounts available for the Bolt that brought it’s price down to the level of the new MSRP. The problem was that the old $32K MSRP scared a lot of customers off from even looking at the Bolt. Now the asking price is more in line with what customers are actually paying and that should help GM catch back up to where they need to be sales wise after several months of the stop-sale recall period.
In my experience, people's motivations and preferred working styles diverge basically as far as you can imagine. I know a guy who was putting in 70 hour weeks on a not-particularly-promising project for his new unfunded startup, and not even in a recreational way - he would specifically decline to hang out or play games with us because he was working.
take ur pills
The comment you're responding to is referring to a meme about the optimal level of drunkenness for programming[1] not Ballmer's press performance.

[1] https://xkcd.com/323/
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Totally!

I return to Swift/Kotlin for new UIs and wrestle with their errors.

Man, "wrestling the compiler" in Rust is SOOOO much better!

... and this is even considering very simple things (like see how they choke in simple syntax error with so small help provided)
> States can't just "kill someone," they have to initiate criminal proceedings. You're describing a version of sovereignty that hasn't been recognized since the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215. In the modern world authority derives from the consent of the governed and is bound by law.

Bullshit. Millions of people have directly lost their lives due to the actions of the American government and citizens. Where were the criminal proceedings and due process for "collateral" damage in dozens of countries worldwide?
The way I counter the "grind culture" is to have a more mellow view on things. The "grind" doesn't matter. It's mostly performative for little actual practical value. Rather, it's the small things done consistently over a long period of time that really add up.

Working "hard" is neither a small thing, nor is it sustainable over time, so I simply don't do that. Instead, I set my goals and timelines, have my team hold me accountable, use my good working hours to hit those goals with rock-solid reliability, and not force myself to work outside those good hours. There's no need to grind or panic at all, and I have plenty of non-working hours to pursue all the non-work things that matter to me.
Well, yes, I think if that's how you feel about insurance and the supposed lack of a functioning free market, you have to resolve that question first before using it as an indication of actual risk.
I don't find it fun, but I definitely think Twitter and Elon deserve each other. It's pretty clear once the board woke up they realized that Twitter is a liability, not an asset, and if they can get $45B for it, and hand it over to Elon, the investors win. And the rest of the world loses.
> You do realize that he has actually significantly changed the landscape for global warming right?

Has he? How do large rockets help with climate change? How does going to Mars, a dead planet that is almost a foreshadowing of where Earth is going with climate change and ecosystem destruction, help fight climate change? Electric cars will improve things a bit, but they are not a one-shot solution to climate change. They are cars after all, and for the first couple years of their life, they contribute more emissions than existing cars, so there's a crossover point. And those emission crossover point calculations do not take into consideration battery recycling or disposal. There are many, many other things that we could be doing. But Musk likes to keep the limelight on him and have his toys.

Many solutions to climate change are actually rather boring and easy in terms of their actionable solutions, but we don't do them. One can't hype up hundreds of millions of dollars of investment for planting native plants or composting or improving ocean ecosystems or reducing plastic use and habitat loss. If Musk truly cared about the climate, he would promote these other things. But he doesn't, because they can't be hyped, they wouldn't get him the attention he craves, and they wouldn't serve his ego.

I have seen it first hand. Young college graduates, apparently concerned about climate change, choosing Tesla over working for a fusion company. These are people whose tech and science influences are Musk and Iron Man.

> ... that he also is changing our human trajectory. ... but he's also changing our trajectory more than almost all other humans on the planet right now - for better or worse.

Comments like these are so hyperbolic that they're tough to even respond to. If I can be frank, they are sort of childish. Even out of billionaires, Musk doesn't contribute as much to these things as people like James Simons, who donates hundreds of millions of dollars to education, climate change research, and other scientific research. But Simons is an actually intelligent person doing actually important things with his money and influence. But funding education and scientific research is boring, apparently according to those obsessed with electric cars and rockets.
Can you share exactly how you phrased it? Might help with making your point.

Yours do indeed look substantially better than the authors.
This is pretty accurate from my time in a large company. My team chose the pre-approved SKUs because we had other teams going nuts buying extremely dense servers and then being shocked with "what do you mean our power commitments don't allow us to go this dense in a rack?". So, we wound up with 2U (2U Twin^2)/3U (microcloud)/4U variants, and if you needed less than that, then you get to snuggle up with other teams' VMs on the VM stack.

By far, the most painful part of the process is the ends of the pipeline (procurement for the project, and the datacenter) not knowing anything about the opposite end. The team procuring the hardware would just assume it'd go fine into the datacenter however they dreamed it up, and the datacenter team would be flying blind with little details as to how the system needed to be set up. It was rare that a procuring team would know what they're doing with which nics need to go in which ports, and what VLANs would need to be spun up, and stuff like that.
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Like the Suzuki motorcycle
Did you ever try Clubhouse? It was just endless channels of “get rich with this one simple trick” type stuff. Not a lot of nuance, just cynically preying on people with the “you know you are better than others, pay me to help you reach your potential” types of scams.
I agree it'll end up being a fight for the lawyers, but Musk cannot credibly claim to be surprised by the bot problem when so much of his and Tesla's twitter presence is propped up by bots (25% of activity due to a recent study - https://today.umd.edu/researcher-studies-teslas-twitter-bot-...)
This is corporate software engineering in poorly designed systems. Its not software engineering and is a completely separate job. The fact that its so prevalent doesn't negate that fact.
Right. It's not like we would theorize the existence of biological life on earth from first principles if we didn't know about it beforehand. It's such a magical, complex thing. We have no idea what other kinds of incomprehensibly complicated reactions might occur.
Name any other life choice one can spend 18+ years on (that'd be all of them) that gifts a year of tax funded compensation.

That is my point.
That's the Cleve Moler that wrote MATLAB, was a major contributor to LINPACK etc, and founded MathWorks. "one of the Fortran gurus at MathWorks" indeed. It would not surprise me at all that in 2022 he doesn't know how to fire up a Fortran compiler on his current computer or even whether his current computer has one installed.
One option the author didn't mention is that threads can join with a value, so instead of needing scope it could have looked like (on my phone so syntax is probably not quite right):

let user = todo!();
let handle: JoinHandle<User> = spawn(move || {
// do stuff with user
// hand back user
user
});
// wait for thread to stop and retake ownership of user
let user = handle.join();

I used this recently to remove locking in a worker thread and it was a big performance boost, and made the code nicer -- win/win.
I appreciate the idea behind this post, and it's true that chronic overwork is debilitating - but there are a lot of different ways to get things done that don't necessarily conform to the author's ideal conclusion.

For me, the 9-5 routine every single week is a toxic grind, with weekends off and all. My preferred work routine covers about the same hourly total, but it's basically three weeks on nonstop, one week off to recuperate and relax and do other things.

This is clearly not for everyone, but I think it has some similarities to how our ancestors lived. Say you're a Polar Inuit, and the caribou are migrating. You hunt caribou around the clock, then relax, store the product, take it easy for a while. Say you're a simple farmer, and it's harvest time, or planting time - you work around the clock to bring in the harvest/plant the crop, then take it relatively easy for a while.

In the modern world, if you're working on something complicated, there's this 'loading time' factor just to get the situation into your head. If it takes a few hours to get up to speed, and you have to do that every day, it's just wasted time. Get up to speed, work straight through with it all in your head, get some food and sleep, and the next day - you're still up to speed. This is far more productive (for complex work) than the awful 9-5 routine, and weekends surrounded by crowds of people are not that great, either. Much better to have a whole week off afterwards.

Where this goes off the rails is when some boss says, no, you don't get that week off, I need you to work like a slave every single week. This is a problem with the hierarchical nature of most modern human societies, and typically said boss is out at 2:00 every day for that important golf game where the important deals are made and the important cocktails are drunk, can't miss that. The construction boss who shows up at the site to 'oversee' for an hour or two is the classic example of this.

In our current society, the only real option for this kind of approach appears to be self-employment, which has a whole other set of problems.
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that's assuming the day is entirely deep work. it's not. lots of work is shallow work. not that I support grinding down at the expense of health/happiness, but for most people there's an unlimited amount of things that can go into the TODO.
Electronic safes are anathema. It will take someone at least a few more minutes with their angle grinder to open mine.
It would be a frightening world indeed if all unethical behaviour was covered by law, and worrying to think that the defence for unethical behaviour could possibly be to point to the absence of a law for it.
So when will the Flipper plugin be released?
Whenever I buy a new laptop, I install OpenBSD (and inevitably despise the experience), then install FreeBSD (and remember how I need some things that simply don't work in BSD), then end up using Arch.

This last FreeBSD install was working perfectly, but my wifi card had a breaking bug so I went to Arch. I've been waiting for almost 3 years for Arch to break hard enough to need a reinstall so that I can go back to FreeBSD (now that the wifi card is fixed). But Arch just keeps on tickin'
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i don't know why you were downvoted. I mentioned basically the same in another comment, you can't just turn off competition between humans. Competition is a fundamental component of all known life. You can opt out but then complaining that the rest of humanity has not chose to opt out isn't really fair.
11th Gen+ Intel all support 64gb+ of RAM. If the laptop mobo supports 32gb dimms is another question all together.
I'm not denying that, but if the DNC claims that it is unbiased in this race, yet by actions isn't, isn't that lying?
I'll start by saying that I believe that we need societal changes to help mitigate climate change.

BUT, 1) it is personal, 2) it is an attack and 3) it is a limitation on personal freedoms.

If we wish to make actual changes to save the planet rather than just preach, we need to recognize these truths. Telling people that their feelings are wrong just makes them dig in their heels all the more. IMO, a better approach is to recognize these sort of objections and think creatively about how to deal with them or mitigate the impact. Remember, the objective isn't to win arguments, it's to heal the Earth.
That's why the alternative isn't coal or other fossil fuels - it is renewables.
Here' an ancient hack that showed how that might look like - http://dalkescientific.com/Python/python4ply-tutorial.html#m... .

count = 0
t1 = time.time()
for line in open("nucleosome.pdb"):
if line =~ m/(ATOM |HETATM)/:
count += 1
print count, "atoms in", time.time()-t1, "seconds"

It used it own PLY-based parser to generate the Python AST.

None of it would work now. :)
Lots of lawyers and CYA means you can do things that are bad but won't break the law and gives an out for people on online forums to defend you with "but it didn't qualify as legal corruption!".
Actually quite good.

I've TA'd this class but it's surprising how many of these little facts can be helpful if you recall them at the right time. I was just reminded of:

Var[Y] = E[Var[Y|X]] + Var[E[Y|X]]

and it unstuck me from a little puzzle.

More recent version at: http://statistics.zone
By enforcing the laws and the penalties proscribed therein.
a question,
this would not desym the callstack lines from non-system lib, right?
guess that needs the dSYM files for them ...
To answer your chemistry question, once a molecule of CO2 absorbs infrared light, it then emits infrared light.

On average it’s in a random direction, so some goes out into space eventually. But some goes straight toward the Earth’s surface, which also absorbs and then re-emits it.

The result is that some IR energy is trapped bouncing back and forth between the surface and atmospheric greenhouse gases (there are a few, not just CO2). This is the so-called “greenhouse effect” that keeps the surface habitable.

As you increase the amount of greenhouse gases, there are more molecules available to absorb and re-emit IR energy. So the total amount of energy that can be trapped bouncing back and forth goes up. More heat is trapped.

CO2 is particularly worrisome because the carbon cycle is slow. Water vapor has a larger effect, but it varies on the order of weeks (when it rains, for example). CO2 can take hundreds of years to get fixed again once it is in the atmosphere.