skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This right here:

"Solution: To combat these inhuman forces you must summon inhuman willpower: Master fasting, meditation, discipline, etc."

This is a modern mischaracterization of stoicism. Mainly because "non-response" is usually interpreted as some sort of strength of will. Even you, you see stoicism as some sort of withdrawal. It's not.

It's not about rejecting the outside world, it's about accepting the outside world. And accepting that the outside world is just that, outside. Being upset at the past is an exercise in futility. It's wasted emotion. Wasted energy.

Stoicism does not reject collective action. What is war but a collective action. And Marucs Aurelius waged him some war. But let's pretend he lost a battle. Well, getting angry isn't going to help. It's not productive. Why did you lose? Can you change things to not lose again? Etc.

Accept what you cannot change. Desire to change the unalterable is the core of suffering.

And sure, anything misapplied or applied too heavily can have bad outcomes. But that's true in all cases. We need water to live, yet we can also drown in it.

But that's life really. There is no "answer". Especially one that means you've "solved" life. Life isn't something to be solved. Life is a river. And you are just a leaf upon it. And sometimes you might get hung up on a rock, but then an eddy will dislodge you and you will continue on down the river.
yeah I have to figure out how to use the extra layers better, and then use it enough to get used to them I think. Printing out is a good tip, thanks.
For a regular software developer, ABAP is pure insanity. But it has powerful data manipulation procedures, it's easy to just create and manipulate all your data tables in any way you want.
I'm not a fan of DMs. While they have their place, they have some massive problems: they create silos and oracles, and reduce visibility. I know this because I'm an unwilling oracle on my team. Part of this can be solved with documentation, but then you have the problem of people who won't look at the docs sending people DMs that could've been solved by searching the docs for a keyword.
The current plan is for `zig fmt` to have an optional flag that makes it automatically fix unused variables.
BTW, while I have the top comment, I'll give those here a better introduction to Aurelius's stoicism, Dr Segrue's lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auuk1y4DRgk
This reminded me of a 30 Rock episode in which Jack Donaghy applies insights from negotiating with his nanny to negotiations with the cable company acquiring NBC.[1] Basically, if you're vital for the acquisition to succeed, you have (some) leverage.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7-eoiY4bOo
Massachusetts has a flat tax rate of 5%
My productivity can be crazy high when I'm manic, but the code tends to be a bit beyond my own comprehension when I look back on it months later. I also tend to skip tests because they are a "waste of time".

I'm medicated now but I still have pretty strong swings in productivity. Fortunately, I found a job that can work with that. No one has a problem with me taking days off without notice (and sometimes without pay). Being able to take time to deal with episodes has avoided the stress and burnout that has cost me several jobs in the past.

I've also learned to use depressed cycles to re-read my code to make sure I can still understand it. If I don't, I've got an engaging puzzle to unravel and document.
Take a few dogs out to meet people. Parking lot or somewhere public, set up with signs and donation buckets, let people talk to the dogs and have people there to talk about what good work the shelter does and how they will use the money. Good way to get dogs adopted, too.
GitHub: Machine Users
The pay at SV semiconductor companies is great, but not as high as at the sort of modern web companies. Moving from Intel or Nvidia to Google is a big salary bump for a software person.

Hardware side I think this is less true, but in general hardware folks and electrical engineers in general don’t get the absolutely outrageous SV salaries in SV.
Knowing Musk, I wondered if he had tweeted something about it, and he had, just yesterday:

> https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1567930757473091584

> We’ve had some promising conversations with Apple about Starlink connectivity. iPhone team is obv super smart.

> For sure, closing link from space to phone will work best if phone software & hardware adapt to space-based signals vs Starlink purely emulating cell tower.

The Verge apparently didn't bother doing the bare minimum research, for shame.
Leadership is a worthwhile activity for sure, but if “Bob” doesn’t get enjoyment/satisfaction out of it, then it could be perceived by him as more of a punishment.
So that's stated in the article:

"4. Civilian control is exercised within the executive branch for operational orders by the chain of command, which runs from the president to the civilian secretary of defense to the combatant commanders. "

.. however, that's not the full story. What if the SecDef is compromised? Inebriated? Insane? And issues some orders which would be disastrous or illegal? The generals, not unreasonably, are not going to blow up the world for a point of principle.

And in the event of a disputed election: are you sure who the SecDef actually is?

Like a lot of systems, there's an implicit assumption that people will pull together and try to figure out a workable solution in extreme circumstances. But hyperpartisanship changes that: officials are confronted by politicians reading completely different news sources holding completely different views of what reality is, without the good faith willingness to understand other people's point of view.
Not just that, but the version control system is an actual system of record, while your chat system isn't.

But people get lazy because Slack is there and it's "easier" (really, more immediate) than looking at the PR.
Someone needs to check that he's not creating shit at a million LOC per hour.

Run some code analysis metrics over his code.

Let's say he isn't.

Give him these challenges:

1. Increase unit test coverage. When it's at about 85% he can stop.
2. Increase automated acceptance test coverage.
And so on.

That should buy you time.

Then tell him to learn to master refactoring and patterns and let him knock himself out improving code problem areas.

That's an endless challenge and he'll get old and tired soon enough.
Are you looking for something hosted by another organization? I'd say just use the old version of Reddit from when it was still open source as long as you're willing to self-host (https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/Install-guide). I believe that is what Less Wrong originally did. The features that Reddit has added since don't seem useful to me anyway.
Nor can experts say, exactly, what purring means. Cats purr when they’re happy - but also sometimes when they’re anxious or afraid, when they’re in labor, even when they’re about to die.

My cats purr when they're emoting. They stress-purr when hungry (or vet trips, etc) and regular-purr when fed. I think it indicates an amount of emotion rather than type.
I tongue-in-cheek tweeted this, but I was semi-serious. Types end up being Turing-complete all the time: https://twitter.com/TitzerBL/status/1567677824105947136
(since the 3kg/s and tons was bothering me...)

3kg/s is 95kt/year. The United States emits about 4,900,000kt/year of CO2.

Just wanted to get those rates on the same scale.
Once people are sufficiently radicalised, laws are not required anymore to put an “enemy” in prison (or worse).

For most young Westerners who have never known anything but rule of law, that’s probably difficult to imagine.
>Her responsibility to be a rich and powerful figurehead for a colonial empire?

Correct

>I don't see how choosing that was to her credit.

I can see that.
Even if I enable WebGPU and change my user agent to Chrome it won't let me through to the demos with Safari.

Some demos I find work and others don't. Assuming that the feature state is still early days on all browsers.
Likewise, I like it nice and soapy ;-)
Dark mode Firefox here, light text on dark background.
There is nothing that has made me at peace more than my little feral kitten that is now 17 and Senior but healthy and no pain sits on my chest cavity when I’m laying down, tucks her paws under her chest, then purrs away squinting.

I can feel it resonate in my body and it feels like a special gift not everybody gets…the love of a feral feline.
Older software sometimes runs just as fast on older hardware, too. It’s anecdotal, but I never remember waiting on Winamp to start up. iTunes, on the other hand, has always seemed slow.
It was the first release for Windows and there was some hype around it as it was the first game Zun release in 4 years. Windows was mainstream worldwide. PC98 was not.
I wonder how much of this is the perception of Amazon warehouse workers being transferred over to Amazon technology workers. I've heard a ton of bad things about the former, but the folks I personally know who work at Amazon / AWS as tech workers all seem to be happy with it. Of course, how Amazon treats its warehouse workers is an indictment on the overall company, so I think I'd have a difficult time choosing to work there.
The harsh restrictions sure spur creativity!

On the other hand, is the SNES "The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" style everyone's favourite pixel art style, or is it just me?
Without tricks it did 256 colours of of 4096 in Mode 7. You can't do art that's as pretty with four colours. Is it a restriction that's too harsh or are we ok with games that just aren't very pretty?
I get that people do it, it's just that I've never gotten the advice to do it (non body building contexts, just normal life). To "småäta" in sweden is a widely talked about thing to avoid (i.e. adviced against).
And some of them have to be very moist.
It's not at all about OOM, actually. It's about performance, and to a lesser degree, simplifying code or architecture. Zig's FixedBufferAllocator and ArenaAllocator are very simple and very useful, and they conform to the Allocator interface that's used for every bit of allocation in std and non-std. Anyone who has written a lot of C or a certain kind of C++ will be very familiar with the concepts, and will have used them a lot. They're nothing revolutionary, but not having a "default" global allocator and having a culture of passing the Allocator as a parameter means there's a nice way to actually use these things without always having to rewrite/modify someone else's code -- all Zig code I've seen passes the Allocator as an argument. This also means you have some idea of when allocations occur, which is another thing I often want to know (I used to work on ultra low latency systems, measuring in nanoseconds -- no allocations allowed in the hot path).
There are regular weekend meetings with small buses organized so that people can visit the shelter, walk with them and hopefully adopt. Unfortunately, that generates too little
SAP is like nicotine. It doesn't give you anything back, you start it because it looks like all of your friends are doing it. It stinks like hell, but you get used to it. And once you become a user, it is fucking hard to leave it.
its sort of true, but doesn't seem to be fully enforced. Heinz's Mayochup is sold in Israel as "רוטב בטעם מיונז ןקטשופ" (sauce in the flavor of of mayonnaise and ketchup, and yes, they spell the last word without a sofit form). Now, perhaps they can get around it because its "sauce in the flavor of ketchup" and not simply "ketchup", but then I dont know why they would just label it regularly as that.

Personally, I prefer heinz "not ketchup" to osem brand, but that can be my american trained pallate.
SpaceX is one of the few things that might not actually have a practical price.
Just the opposite actually: I used to work in academia and I’ve met some incredibly intelligent people who were leaps and bounds more insightful than 99.9999999% of people I’ve ever met (including more so than myself, obviously).

The common trait for all of them was a desire for deep understanding and diligence in acquiring that in all aspects of their lives, not productivity or even the appearance of it.

An emphasis on, or even appearance of, productivity is something I find in dilettantes more frequently than anyone else (probably not shockingly). The Instagram CEO types, frequently.
Part of me thinks this was faked/exaggerated at the time, except...

Once on Amazon, I ordered an open tent. Basically, it is just an aluminum frame, 12 feet×12, 8 feet high, with canvas, to keep the sun off when presenting things at outdoor events.

The one I received took 5 weeks to arrive, and was supposed to be new.
But it was used, with scruff marks on the posts. I sent pics, and said "Hey, this is supposed to be new! What gives!!"

An immediate "Sorry" with a "We have shipped a replacement." was the response. Really, all I wanted was a discount, mostly to compensate me for the paint I needed to buy.

But OK, I said thanks. And waited.

8 weeks later, I again contacted them. "Where is my replacement? Do you have a tracking number? It has not arrived yet."

Another immediate response, "We have shipped you a replacement..."

Whatever, I think. Scam, I think.

1 week later, it arrives. I notice the ship date, and realise it was the original replacement.

Worried, I contact them, and explain that the first replacement had arrived, all is good, it was just late, can they cancel the replacement's replacement?

I received a response "We have shipped a replacement."

And yes, I now have 4 of the things. I did not try to contact them again, for fear of ending up with more.

They got 5 stars though.
Customizing odoo is a nightmare it is similar to "It doesn't do everything you want, but it does everything your business needs". (quote by Larry Ellison about Oracle ERP). Underneath its a mess but at least its open source.
Not all lobbyists are out to do evil, and not all politicians who do their job are doing evil. The alternative to listening to lobbyists and legislating is politicians who don't do legislation at all and instead spend their time fund-raising and running culture wars. That's not the better-world alternative I'm here for.
That sounds very much like what Austrian Economist Friedrich Hayek had been advocating. He also discussed prices as being information signals.

The danger of government money-printing is that the government ends up distorting the supply of money entering various industries (especially through big government contracts) and thus, to some extent, ends up determining what is profitable and what is not profitable... Then we end up with an economic system wherein winners are selected not on the basis of their adherence to the needs of working people, but on the basis of their adherence to the whims of government bureaucrats.
If they don't counteroffer then they don't want you. This is a negotiation. The starting offer is about anchoring. Neither side should expect the starting offer to be accepted immediately. If it is accepted then one side didn't anchor properly and lost the negotiation. Start with a number you think is too high but still leaves room for the company to negotiate down to an acceptable number for you. I usually don't go for double my target but others might. I usually start out at 150% of my target.
More that he's critical of the thought process you've applied. You're conclusions are correct, so no one should be critical of that :)
Microsoft offers Dynamics 365 F&O (previously known as Dynamics AX) for medium to large companies.

(Microsoft uses SAP as an ERP).
The counterpoint to this is if you aren't specifically assigned tasks you're basically expected to go through the backlog to hunt for things to do. In most companies the backlog is never empty and so you don't really get any time for any of these ancillary tasks. This is part of the reason performance optimizations and other improvements never get done. PMs are encouraged to stuff backlogs full of nonsense related to new features because that's what the people up top want to see. When the reality is, allowing your engineers even 8 hours of unstructured time a week will often produce better work.

The exception to this rule of course tends to be the top of the ladder (senior principal, whatever) who generally get to do whatever they want as long as it's company related. 99.99% of engineers will never reach this point, however, and so the vast majority of these high performers are subject to the tyranny of JIRA and it's subsequent negatives.
>cite that Hurricane study

You can’t be serious. After every hurricane we’re beat over the head about how hurricanes are linked to climate change and we apparently brought them on ourselves.

https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/9/

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/superstorm-sa...

>strawman private jet flying climate scientists

I guess they’re all taking a ferry to Bali?

https://waset.org/climate-change-conferences-in-october-2022...

Do you see any spots in this list that wouldn’t also be a great vacation spot?

https://conferenceindex.org/conferences/climate-change
Not sure Apple is happy saying anything about them in public.
The Unexpected Power of Random Acts of Kindness. New research shows small (cont)
Recently switched my dogs to insects after going through about 10 different diets. They're greyhounds, which have notoriously delicate constitutions. What worked really well is a kibble made from mealworms. Not wishing to be disgusting, but their shits sent from pancake batter to "completely normal" within a few days. Apart from a few occasions (where one of them foraged raspberries from our garden) they've been great. Happy, energetic dogs with shiny coats. As a vegetarian (for ethical reasons, mainly climate change) I'd consider adding them to my diet if I could get them at a reasonable price. Technically they should be cheap, but they're ridiculously expensive if you can even get them.
> however, the process for replacing SAP will be long and close to impossible.

True. Making something with a less sadistic and convoluted UI is the easy part. Migrating the data is the hard part.

Many companies died from updating ERPs.
I believe he then started the inquirer.net which ran for another decade.

I remember them occasionally featuring a fragment of a poem by Alexander Pope:

"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damning_with_faint_praise
I like your recognition about the community. I humbly recommend everyone consider utilitarianism https://www.utilitarianism.net/

“The core precept of utilitarianism is that we should make the world the best place we can. That means that, as far as it is within our power, we should bring about a world in which every individual has the highest possible level of well-being.” - Peter Singer
I think what you are describing looks a lot like what the Svelte team is trying to achieve with the reactive assignments "$:"

A couple years ago, that feature used to work similar as useEffect, so I got used to use it for transitions, and now is biting my ass because the Svelte team are breaking my transition use-cases
Unfortunately, I haven't yet found a mobile XMPP client that has the same features as Movim.

For example, conversations.im still lacks Message Reactions, Threads, and Publish-Subscribe:

https://github.com/iNPUTmice/Conversations/issues/3874

https://github.com/iNPUTmice/Conversations/issues/3303

https://github.com/iNPUTmice/Conversations/issues/1642
I quit reading after this part about his "convictions". He's just like everyone else that sets the rules for everyone until they are inconvenient for themselves.

" The Black man does not want or need the white woman. The Black man’s history shows that the white woman is the cause of his failure to be the true Black man. [from their college group's manifesto]

[from the article] The last rule caused some playful friction in the group. After the B.S.U. learned that a member was dating a white woman, the group convened a mock trial, found him guilty, and broke his Afro comb as a punishment. Thomas took the rule more seriously, particularly after meeting Kathy Ambush, a black woman, whom he would marry in 1971 and divorce in 1984. In a poem he called “Is you is, or is you ain’t, a brother?” he set out the obligations of black men to black women. Even in that milieu, Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher reported in their 2007 biography, “Supreme Discomfort,” Thomas’s “edgy race consciousness” stood out. When he saw an interracial couple strolling on campus, he’d loudly demand, “Do I see a black woman with a white man? How could that be?” Until 1986, when Thomas met Virginia Lamp, who is white and would become his second wife, he opposed interracial sex and marriage."

With the recent Roe decision, he also wrote that the court should revisit contraception and same-sex marriage:

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/24/roe-wade-clarence-th...

Isn't it convenient that he doesn't think interracial marriage should be re-examined, you know, considering that he's married to a white woman and all.
I completed a 500 mile hike wearing AirPod pros and they're still kicking
Microsoft Edge Android here: dark background, light font. Everything seems okay.
The 1972 and 1982 UN conference on the environment. You're right, it was 50 years ago.
Why are states legalizing some gambling in the first place?

Like I can understand that not all states ever made gambling more or less completely banned, but most states only really had the lottery, possibly horse/dog racing, and tribal casinos (mostly because they can't prevent tribal casinos in the first place).

Now I know pre 2018, states could not generally legalize sports betting due to PASPA, but many states seemed to have no interest in legalizing say pure online casinos, which is something they certainly could have done if they wanted despite PASPA. Yet they don't.
This article is pretty vague, and in fact down right sloppy when it comes to making numeric comparisons. It casually mixes up taxable income with gross income, which are two significantly different things (tax rates only apply to taxable income). Then it talks about population losses from cities, without taking into account those who remained in the same state, or losses due to coronavirus fatalities. It casually tosses out claims like "New York, where the cost of living is exorbitant" yet nowhere does the article compare cost of living in New York state vs other states, since the article is actually about taxes.

There's more, but I'll leave with this contra-article. California is indeed a high tax state for the very high income people, but it's actually very reasonable for middle and lower class income earners.

"Yes, Texans actually pay more in taxes than Californians do"

https://www.sfgate.com/news/houston-texas/article/texans-pay...
I write React without JSX. That's a beautiful thing. I don't think I could forego the weird invented syntaxes of vue or whatever.
Especially considering Bill McDermott (current CEO) used to be CEO of SAP...
It is indeed a big company. Definitely a good point, but they should have a little scope. I should start with the pay bands and find some good arguments why I want to move up in the payroll.
I use Teams daily on a MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM. If I walk away from the laptop and Teams detects idleness, it starts consuming 100% CPU and the fan turns on. Returning to the computer, everything is dog slow for several minutes. Drives me crazy.

The other thing that drives me crazy about Teams is there still is no “temporary mute” for channels. I can’t mute a channel for say, an hour. I have to suffer through notifications about topics I’m not interested in. I know there is a “turn off notifications” by conversation. But that’s not helpful when there are new conversations all the time.
Starlink and Kupiter already bought up all available launch for the next 5 years.

Not to mention a number of other providers trying to sneak in there.

Would make no sense for Apple to do anything like that.