skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes a navel can be confused with an event horizon.

Always, always, all-ways wear thick cottony garments so that you remember to pick lint out of your personal "event horizon" - it's a navel! relax, a little - everyone's got one.
My theory on burnout is that it arises when the effort you put in doesn't have a meaningful impact because of misalignment or a lack of autonomy. It's like pushing on a lever but the gears are jammed. You're asked to push and push harder, but nobody in a position of power is willing to fix the damn gears.

I've worked harder than imaginable in my life on projects without burning out, because the work was incredibly fulfilling — and it fit well with my core beliefs, interests, values. And then I've burnt out from putting tons of unrecognized effort into projects where I lacked adequate leverage to change things.

People won't always look after you and burnout can be hard to recover from — harder than you might think. So take care of yourself — and never stop looking for work that aligns with your core values, interests, and the kind of life you want to build.
AI Took My Job Then Turned Me into a Meme [video]
> not hurting the feelings of people who do and work on bad things

Yes, the Chatham House Rule is practically designed to exclude people who have an immutable black-and-white worldview.
???

This is a fair bit of silliness now I'm afraid. Like him or loathe him (and he's making it so very easy to do the latter), Mullenweg was one of the only developers of WP for years back when it was starting. He wrote it part time, he actually quit his job to work on it full time, and he was still a teenager. His energies are why it exists.

Has it all gone horribly wrong in the last couple of years? Yes. Has the money situation complicated things? Yes. But we can state these things without constructing an alternate, incorrect timeline.

He's surely acting like this in part because he does so closely identify with something he risked his livelihood to build as a pretty prolific young developer.

There are plenty of things he's done recently that are ridiculous and bogus enough that they can be criticised without imagining stuff.

Focus on the actual issues.
The Chatham House Rule is about

\0 in the context of a specific meeting or gathering ..

\1 the freedom to speak one's mind and say whatever it is you wish to say,

\2 the constraint that no third party shall repeat your words without your permission, quote you out of context, report what you said and the company in which you said it, etc.

There's no legal binding or specific prosecution in the original context, simply a literal "Gentleman's Agreement" and the general social implication that should you make and then violate such an agreement then you will likely be excluded from similar events and such company in future.

It arose from diplomatic ranks and is a polite form of the parallel convention Snitches get Stitches.

In the UK Foreign Affairs sphere the rule is often exercised to advance a piece of policy via rumour and backtalk, nobody officially directly states that (for example) the military may be bought into play in some region, none the less word gets out that such a thing is being considered by those that can make it happen, subsequently someone folds their position and trade resumes (maybe).
Can also be helpful for names that are commonly male or female. Or foreign names. But there's not really a need to list multiple pronouns like "they/them/theirs", is there? Doesn't "they" say it all?

Only would make sense when it's "she/they" or similar. Otherwise it's just redundant.
That disregards the value and recognition of the Wordpress brand beyond people who understand the concept of forking.

The problem is that the tens of thousands of small businesses who placed their trust in Wordpress will be damaged by this. I know - anecdotally - that many of those people like Wordpress “because it is free” (like both beer and speech) and because they know - even fuzzily - that because of that there’s lots of cool useful stuff that is available.

Now, sure, a lot of that cool useful stuff will still work with a fork. But it splits the message and gradually - not overnight - people developing that cool and useful stuff may lose faith and do something else.

What Millenweg is doing hits at the very heart of what open source means - and what community means - and is, as far as I can see, an absolutely cynical move made in the pursuit of profit and vanity.
> if enough people were getting married, having kids, etc, you wouldn't see this kind of article. it's not about making people happier, it's about pressuring people to do shit that's not in their self interest

This is both exceedingly cynical and completely unsupported by the text of the article, which talks about things like public spaces, TV, smartphones, and dinner parties. Where exactly does the article prescribe marriage and kids as the solution?
I'm looking for a language with the performance of C++ and the ease of Python, and I've been constantly told that Rust fits that spec.

I'll look into Zig, but I'm hesitant about using languages that nobody has ever heard of. Especially for a project that I might release as open-source.
I tried to print fake money for a Christmas prank and my printer wouldn't let me
I have narcolepsy as well. What really helps a lot is a type of medication called sodium oxybate. Different kinds of stimulants never did anything to me, they might (might) keep me awake more, but I never felt rested, and always had constant brain fog. Xyrem changed that for me. Now I get many hours of good sleep at night, making me feel rested waking up. I'm still more prone to fall asleep during the day than the average person, but it's mostly after I've eaten a big meal.
Do yourself a service and look it up.
>Write your python, run script, find missing import.

This is not a reasonable comparison, because in the ROM BASIC days there was nothing available to import in the first place. (Nor were you going to be making a GUI, and this was around 15 years before the first public release of OpenSSL. Nor was your language implementation versioned, therefore it never got any new functionality.)

The rest is FUD.

You don't "install imports" in the first place; you install packages - and they absolutely do tell you what their dependencies are. Encountering issues caused by the python version is relatively rare, especially because relatively few people are proactively upgrading Python to the latest version anyway. There is no such thing as "the package manager"; you have options. The default package installer automatically resolves dependencies, and so do its alternatives. Python installations don't generally upgrade or downgrade; you're meant to install multiple versions, and managing multiple versions is easy. You just have to understand environments, which you have to do in order to do any serious development in any programming language ecosystem where you're dependent on versioned third-party packages. Importing a library would never be the cue that you "need to install a C compiler"; you would find that out from a failed attempt by the package installer to automatically build the package for you. When you find yourself in that position, the default workflow is to go politely bug the package maintainers to prebuild it, or at least try to find out why your system is so special that they can't prebuild it. If you're having OpenSSL compatibility issues, you're probably either trying to run a version of Python that's no longer supported, or trying to run current Python on a system that's no longer supported. If you're having issues with TKinter, please read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76105218 (I am the author). It's completely reasonable that you need both the C and Python parts of TKinter to make it work, because the entire point of the Python part is to interface to the C for you so that you don't need to understand the C FFI. But also, having this code automatically is the norm.
There’s something that’s been in the back of my mind for a while, and I think I haven’t acknowledged it due to shame. I believe that many people will relate, though.

As technology continues to automate more and more “mindless” work, knowledge workers are forced to actively think for a larger and larger portion of our work days, and with increasing intensity—and this is highly stressful. Of course, doing some thinking at work is enjoyable and fulfilling, but most people can’t put in 6+ hours of concentrated thinking five days a week for extended periods of time without burning out.

In the past, the educations we received were like investments in an autopilot mode that we could turn on for large portions of the work day. Some thinking has always been required for professionals, but there were also many situations which could be handled with minimal effortful thought, thanks to education. These situations are disappearing, and it’s literally tiring us out.
Why is that shocking? It would be the case no matter how they do as a country

As a long it was a white government there was lot of monetary support and knowledge transfer to South Africa, all the way to building nuclear weapons those collaborations stopped once the racial profile changed.

overtime that means complex technologies like military aircraft which are difficult to keep flying anytime will stop working as South Africa was and is not equipped or can afford to maintain them on their own.

no nation which flies f-35s can keep them flying if they are not in trump’s good graces now.

This is why countries like china or India or few others who can afford to, invest heavily to build their domestic defense infrastructure.
Well, at the risk of stating the obvious, if you are “engaging [your] city’s kink community,” you are probably a strong outlier!
> If after attending a dinner party people are repeating everything they heard, in public, with attribution - then that dinner party absolutely was not intimate

It's still helpful if you're bringing together groups of people who don't know (and thus may surprise) each other to lay the ground rules. I'd be quite upset if I held a birthday party, which may go to 30 or 40 people, and learned that something (possibly quite inappropriate) that had been said was being tweeted or whatever.
Real Mustang owner here, at least if you consider the '69 Mustang and the '72 Mustang to be Real Mustangs. I don't have them anymore, but they are forever burned in my driving habits.

What makes a Real Mustang? Head-turning looks? Acceleration? The Mach-E has both in spades. It's a new implementation of the Mustang formula, but it works. It out-Mustangs any parameter that a Real Mustang owner will tell you is the essence of his beloved pony car.
When I saw that dreck in my inbox this morning I was speechless.

His talent for penning cynical, backhanded, sanctimonious doublespeak is astonishing. I genuinely believe he is unable to relate the reality around him to his actions.

I have a meeting next week where I have to try to explain all this nonsense to a marketing agency that has placed a lot of WordPress business with us. We plan to exit to the fork ecosystem as soon as it’s running and stable.
You don't know whether they seeded anything. Or anything recognizably copyrightable.
> They're losing money on every vehicle they sell.

Unless I’m missing it, neither article shows the profit/loss of manufacturing the vehicle vs sales revenue of the vehicle itself, so we can’t know that. Even if it’s true, it’s not unusual when bringing up a new product as you optimise for scale.

> There needs to be a lot more R&D to get the vehicles to a price point that consumers will purchase them and they can actually make a profit.

Does there? Maybe all of the retooling and new assembly lines are done, all the designs are finished? Maybe not and they still have R&D budget left? They are also not operating in isolation - If another company comes out with a cheaper battery then Ford can just buy it with minimal R&D, they don’t have to invent everything themselves.

> Thus far, their R&D has been a net loss for the company.

I mean, that’s R&D? It’s an investment. The alternative is to do nothing and end up like Nokia. Even if they are losing money on every vehicle, “shipping fast” is better than not shipping at all and they can control the numbers. Most people want the 2nd or 3rd gen when all of the bugs have been worked out, so having units on the road lets you learn what doesn’t work.
> BRICS is already a serious challenge to the Western hegemony.

A semi-joke-y observation:

> Pretty straightforward really. You combine Brazil's history of monetary stability, with Russia's respect for property rights, India's domestic tranquility, China's financial transparency, and South Africa's investment opportunities - and hey presto, you've got a new global money.

* https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1665053372402081792

If the 'BRICS currency' is made up of only a small group, then it's not going to be useful, especially the restrictive countries that are in the name.

But if you expand it, sure it could become more useful, but then you've got competing interests and desires and a coördination problem on policy and such.

Further: I've yet to see an explanation of how this thing will actually work. Does each country given up their own currency, Euro-style? Is there a 'theoretical currency' that everyone pegs their own to? What are the consequences for de-pegging (if any)? Are bonds issued in BRICS or the country's own currency?
>The best acoustic devices in the world have been made and tuned by hand for thousands of years.

Says who? You should really acquaint yourself with current research, starting with Toole's infamous "Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms".
> Unless it is group are South African expats why should we brainstorming?

Why is this an inappropriate topic to discuss?

> presumption that we can solve or think about their problems better than them

You're the only one who presumed this. (It's also presumptuous to assume that nobody outside your own context can be helpful to you.)
For a start, any suite that takes >X hours on a single node, especially compounded if you have a large team of developers.

> At least as long as you're running your own code on your own hardware

Assuming you keep a consistent env/OS across all nodes you will want to run said code. Which can be difficult, even just between two users on a single node.

Not to mention the fact that a lot of (most?) code needs to (A) interoperate with other people's code and (B) at least sometimes run on other hardware.
Correction: It's not that you "don't have to use the REPL"; you simply cannot even have it in that case. REPL-driven development is quite a powerful technique, and no, "many other languages too" don't have it. For it to be "a true REPL," it must be in the context of a homoiconic language, which Clojure is.

Sure, static typing is great, but perhaps you have no idea what it actually feels like - spinning up a Clojurescript REPL and being able to interactively "click" and "browse" through the web app programmatically, controlling its entire lifecycle directly from your editor. Similarly, you can do the same thing with remote service running in a kubernetes pod. It's literally like playing a video game while coding. It's immensely fun and unbelievably productive.
The problem with `git clean` is -X vs -x. -x (lowercase) removes EVERYTHING including .env files and other untracked files. -X (uppercase) removes only ignored files, but not untracked files.

If there is a Makefile with a clean target, usually the first thing I do when I start is make it an alias for `git clean -X`.

Usually, you want to keep your untracked files (they are usually experiments, debugging hooks, or whatever).
based on what exactly? you have data to back up this claim or just shooting the breeze?
Tangential question, I have a nice audiophile so and no speakers at the moment. I want some speakers for $low that have decent performance. I can build boxes (used to be a carpenter), but need a design and what look like expensive drivers and crossovers. Is DIY speaker construction actually a cheaper way of getting a top notch hifi, or should I just buy second hand?
> seems a bit better, albeit with more work

Are the NDAs signed between attendees and the host? That puts the host in the awkward position of having to enforce the NDAs, even if the injured party is one of the guests.
Well, isn't a private equity-funded legal onslaught a valid reason for struggling? Genuine question.
Do people like Matt have any insight into their own condition?
Which opinions are not wrong? Is it every one I don't hold or is there a database of rightthink I can reference? How can we have discussions and change minds if we can't communicate what we really think?
Then you're clearly not the Mustang demographic.
That's what I said: it's to prevent people from being quoted publicly.
> I feel like your writing borders on hate speech

Hilarious to imagine him writing this with a straight face.

I know many employees of the company Mullenweg runs (mismanages). He is not held in particularly high esteem among them.
I had forgotten about this. I guess it's a good reminder that Mullenweg wasn't a level-headed reasonable person prior to recent events.
Not the same, but there are a few options for remote cases which support AirTags: https://www.elago.com/products/2021-apple-tv-siri-remote-r5-...
>> Just because your wooden plane glides doesn't mean it's AC an actual plane

> But if your wooden plane can somehow make it to Europe, collect cargo, and bring it back to your island

Sure, but these are categorically different and not related to my point.

> That's why copypasta doesn't count as cargo culting.

Let me quote wiki[0]

The term cargo cult programmer may apply when anyone inexperienced with the problem at hand copies some program code from one place to another with little understanding of how it works or whether it is required.

Cargo cult programming can also refer to the practice of applying a design pattern or coding style blindly without understanding the reasons behind that design principle. Some examples are adding unnecessary comments to self-explanatory code, overzealous adherence to the conventions of a programming paradigm, or adding deletion code for objects that garbage collection automatically collects.

Even in the example it gives the code will "work." You can collect garbage when the language already does that, you'll get performance hits, but your code won't break.

It "it doesn't _work_" disqualifies something from not being cargo cult programming, then there would be no cargo cult programming. Who is shipping code that doesn't compile or hits runtime errors with any form of execution? You couldn't do that for very long.

Let's take an airplane example. Say you want to copy Boeing[1]. You notice that every 747 has a coffee maker on it. So you also make a coffee maker. After all, it is connected to the electrical system and the engines. Every time you take out the coffee maker the airplane fails. So you just put in a coffee maker.

A cargo cult exists BECAUSE _something_ is "working". BECAUSE they have evidence. But it is about misunderstanding the causality. See also Feynman's "Cargo Cult Science"[2]. As dumb as people are, there's always a reason people do things. It is usually not a good reason and it is often a bad reason, but there is a reason. Even people will explain you "causal" explanations for things like astrology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming

[1] Well in the past you might have wanted to lol

[2] https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf

> not only what you think is right about it: other causes that could possibly explain your results

His explanation explicitly acknowledges the experiment works. In fact, even the math to explain the experiment "works". But it is wrong. Related is Von Neuman's Elephant. Where Freeman Dyson had evidence that a theory explained an experiment, yet it was in fact wrong. Evidence isn't sufficient to determine causality.
>The question is whether someone learning fundamental programming needs to use a language with SQL support.

They aren't going to run into any of the issues you describe, either, because they won't need third-party libraries and should be learning fundamentals of programming before trying to make a GUI. But in the cases where someone reaches that point and is trying to use, say, the system Python on a Debian-based Linux distro, the solution is generally an Apt invocation away.
Which is equivalent to the axiom of choice. If one chooses not to accept that axiom, then the well-ordering theorem is not a theorem.

One can even (consistently) append the negation of the axiom of choice to ZF, in which case this theorem is false. Mere negation of the axiom of choice is not a very interesting addition, but there are some interesting alternative axioms, such as the axiom of determinacy, which have negation of the axiom of choice as a consequence

People who are fixated on definable/computable reals generally have constructivist sympathies, and many (but not all) constructivist mathematicians reject the axiom of choice. So relying on it in arguments in this context is questionable.

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/119561/mathematics-with-t...
That’s fair. I acknowledge that terms like "horizontal" and "vertical" may be overloaded or even confusing, in this case, if it’s difficult to see the connection with the visuals. This is somewhat part of the risk in trying to explain a concept in a less-than precise way to introduce a new concept.
> (for example as far as I can tell if you want to copy some text from nano and put it in your system clipboard you just… can’t?)

I'm not sure why this would be the case—in every terminal emulator I've used I can select any text anywhere in the terminal and copy it. I just tried it out with Konsole and I can copy from nano just fine.

Maybe Julia means it's not possible with native nano keyboard shortcuts?
No doubt, but it helps drive home OP’s point about the Mustang demographic being small and continuing to shrink.
Isn’t there a danger that if the rule is selectively enforced, for whatever reasons, that it will actually decrease the credibility of the participants/organizers?
People can still be quoted verbatim publicly.
> Right now, the biggest issue my sister have is how pushy men are with her, not 'commitment'.

I think it's a bit of both. I don't think a lot of women would care about the pushiness if it was with high commitment. It's a lack of commitment and pushiness that is what is uninteresting.

I'm not finding any lack of women who love to completely go nuts on the escalation ladder of a relationship if a guy is high commitment.
> Suppose you actually did hire everyone who passed a 1hr screen.

Good thing that's not what I suggested.

What I talked about is something people already do in other domains. We're not talking about something theoretical here. There's even other commenters saying that what I said was similar to how they were hired. So again, we're not talking about something theoretical.