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Yours has got to be one of the best comments that I've ever read on hacker news.

> for me, the low-trust "do the bare minimum to stay employed" approach didn't actually help me get out of burnout into fulfillment -- What helped was finding a work situation where I could give my all and not feel taken advantage of

What you just described (so vividly) is meaning, and (likely) "flow" too. Meaning must be there for everyone, in their efforts; the need for meaning is universal. (We can call it intrinsic motivation too.)

Some say that you can find meaning outside of work, and then can mostly ignore work; and it's also said (correctly I guess) that "psychological richness" (closely related to resilience) is important: drawing meaning & satisfaction from multiple sources.

Sure, but I have a practical problem with that: if you need to work 8 hrs/day to cover your family's needs, you don't have time, energy, or opportunity left to find meaning elsewhere.

And, as others have repeatedly said it here, if you are a full time employee making quite beyond your (family's) needs, and think about decreasing your working time (giving up excess money, but regaining much needed time & freedom), that is what is strictly forbidden by the runners of the Village of Happy People. You will find effectively no jobs that let you work (say) 5 hours per day, for 62.5% of your original salary. That way, you'd just not be a good slave, a good cog in the machine. Society is engineered such that you must not have free time.

Therefore the only practical option is to find (or create) work that provides meaning for you intrinsically. I see no other option. You can be an employee or run your own business, the same applies. And, unfortunately, this is unattainable for most of society.
Fear is a feeling, and I'm not sure what "very real" means, as if your feelings are matter of national importance. If someone commits a crime, then the people are justified in acting - in a proportionate, necessary way - through government. Otherwise, your fear is your problem. Maybe the homeless person is scared of you - after all, you can call the police and subject them to serious abuse.

I agree that it's an often implied issue, but I think the sub-subtext, the point of it all, is far more serious: whether you can do things to other people - via the state or personally - for arbitrary reasons. That is, whether people have universal human rights. That is the elephant they are hunting.

They have found their best test cases, their best steps toward destroying universal human rights, with homeless people, people without legal immigration status, and those engaging in progressive protests.

They won't stop there, of course. It's either human rights for all or for none.
Disclosure: I'm generally pessimistic about LLMs, so the subtext was: "It's best to assume it'll leak eventually, so have a plan for that."

Anywho, delaying that moment means a remote service under your own control, and some code which checks all output for prompt exfiltration attacks (which may not be plaintext, but base64 and weirder things) while also minimizing false-positives or legitimate use cases, like a code-method they can use with an implementation you want to keep secret.
I'm willing to say that under my real name ;)
Messy Wordpress drama is messy Wordpress drama though, and that’s the problem, whatever the truth of one or another story.

Have I unflinchingly recommends Wordpress to dozens of people over the years? Yes.

Have they gone ahead and used it? Yes.

Have I helped them get set up? Yes.

Was it worth staking a little bit of my reputation on Wordpress saying “this will just work, and when it doesn’t there are loads of people who can help”? Yes.

Will I continue to do that when there is this insane level of Mullenweg-induced teenage-boy-angst highschool drama surrounding Wordpress? Hell no.

And that’s the problem. This nonsense kills the community goodwill around the software. And that’s really really sad, and all of Mullenweg’s making because his ego has run away with itself.

It must be really tough being a “software celebrity” for your entire adult life. But it seems like his psyche has got stuck when he got “famous”.

You see this with kids in bands who get too rich, too famous, too fast - and the fallout is similar: destroy everything in a bonfire of vanity.
I'd aim for a giant bank / financial services company. Some still mandate dedicated Ops/Prod Support teams. It can definitely have it's drawbacks, but you're very unlikely to ever be called out.
You can trivially do 2. in any language, although it is true that people rarely do that in other languages because of the downsides. As for live editing production... I dunno if that is a good thing!
At the end of the essay, the author (David Mason) quotes the beginning of Cinderella. I agree with Mason about the beauty of the terse prose here:

> So much is conveyed here about character, time and the natural world, because Cinderella’s piety is natural piety, respect for nature more than conventional Christian belief.

It's something that modern fantasy usually doesn't capture, by being too modern, and by being far too verbose. The latter is one aspect in which Tolkien's Simarillion feels better than his "The Lord of the Rings": The Simarillion leaves all the details out, it has little direct speech, and only mentions what's important. Its style is not as raw and authentic as in Grimm's fairy tales, or as in actual historical legends like King Arthur, but it gets close as times, mainly by avoiding the verbosity that is so common in all modern literature.
'you put more bits into the prompt, you get more bits out.'

I think your line there highlights the difference in what I mean by 'insight'. If I provided in a context window every manufacturing technique that exists, all of base experimental results on all chemical reactions, every known emergent property that is known, etc, I do not agree that it would then be able to produce novel insights.

This is not an ego issue where I do not want it be able to do insightful thinking because I am a 'profound power'. You can put in all the context needed where you have an insight, and it will not be able to generate it. I would very much like it to be able to do that. It would be very helpful.

Do you see how '“superintelligence” is nothing more than a(n extremely) clever arrangement of millions of gpt-3 prompts working together in harmony' is circular? extremely clever == superintelligence
> I would consider it a deal breaker if I found out my partner didn't think I was attractive.

Most women really feel this too. For better or worse, most women feel their self-worth is tied to their looks. If you told her that you didn't find her physically attractive (but still loved her and so on), you'd be broken up with by the overwhelming majority of women. I don't know if I've ever met a single woman who has ever said different. I'm sure they exist but may as well be a rounding error.
> then they must be wasting similar amounts on thousands of other programs

See my response here. You're greatly underestimating how much a trillion is. Probably a million times more than you think I'm implying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653038
> there are many log services available and this is my attempt at a better one.

Out of curiosity, can you describe how your service is better than others?

>I hope my application fixes most of these issues

Do you care to elaborate on the "how"?
> Legally enforcing every social norm is dystopian

Persecuting people for their beliefs by exploiting loopholes (e.g. blast on social media, bully their employer, etc) is also pretty dystopian, don't you think?

And it's not like the persecutors ever give you the full story. For example, the reporting on Meta ending DEI didn't want you to know their rather logical view of the situation (discrimination on the basis of immutable characteristics is wrong). What fraction of people actually believe in giving a boost to certain candidates purely on the basis of race? Certainly not enough for the persecutors to allow that argument to be broadcast widely.
You are correct. (I'd be surprised if other implementations passed immutable objects by value, partly because representing an "object" coherently requires several words of memory and partly because of the importance of certain object identity semantics.) Python uses pass-by-value (if you prefer, pass-by-assignment) of variables which have reference semantics. Just like non-primitive types in Java, or class types in C#.
> Clojure is a lot of fun to tinker with, but man… I love my static types.

Static types are great, but boy... I love my REPL. I think I'd hate to actually work while writing code. REPL-driven interactivity with Clojure allows me to treat the work like I'm playing a video game.
I feel like there is a political side that loves and thinks it clever to shame car ownership or blame everything on cars because because of sone socialist nonsense or something. People have been very social up until 2000 perhaps even later and so-called “metal boxes” have been a big part of American life for a long time. There have even been times when cars were an integral part of socializing in many circles. I get it “America sucks and ancient cities on the Continent are superior” or whatever , but isn’t this kind an f a cliche take at this point?
What do you consider low price? For sheer quality, it's pretty damn hard to beat the price of Kali studio monitors.
Why I'm Building Open WebUI: On Autonomy, Diversity, and the Future of Humanity
How would shrinking the processor size help if the current GPU generation is already completely bottlenecked by VRAM bandwidth saturation?

We aren't seeing nearly the same gains on VRAM bandwidth as we are on compute bandwidth
One factor for lack of dine in customers is the exorbitant tips and extra fees that restaurants like tacking on. It’s harder for them to do it with take out customers.
To quote the original source that Wiki cites and is derived from:

> A style of (incompetent) programming
dominated by ritual inclusion of code or program structures that
serve no real purpose. A cargo cult programmer will usually
explain the extra code as a way of working around some bug
encountered in the past, but usually neither the bug nor the reason
the code apparently avoided the bug was ever fully understood
(compare {shotgun debugging}, {voodoo programming}).

This is categorically different than the kinds of copypasta that TFA is talking about, and it's different in that the copypasta in TFA does serve a purpose.

There's a world of difference between copying something whose implementation you don't understand but whose function you do understand versus copying something which you vaguely associate with a particular outcome.

https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-2.9.6.dos.txt
> You can both fulfill a mission to engage with more diverse suppliers and not lower your standards.

That is bypassing competition, instead sorting by identity first. Competition is how the world found the best services/products for the best price for over a century and the foundation of our economy. Supporting that idea is how the west became as dominant and wealthy as it was. Only recently have large organization and gov bypassed that for social justice experiments and using ranked systems, similar to giving preferential treatment for 'national security' (aka keeping zombies like Boeing alive).

Even massive US defense contracts are being forced to contract out to minority owned businesses first. It's not an optional thing where the decision maker gets leeway, they are required to start there and narrows the options by definition.

> You can both fulfill a mission to engage with more diverse suppliers and not lower your standards.

There's no hidden genius in technocractic top down manipulation when it comes to purchasing decisions. The options are what they are. The less options you have the harder it will be to find the best. Like being forced to choose between 2 gov-backed monopoly ISPs for your internet here in Canada.
Any code that works in strict mode will also work in sloppy mode.

0777 style octal numbers are a footguns inherited from C. Don't ask my why they made that mistake! Modern languages use 0o777.
Can you give some examples? I'm out of the loop. Personally, I am trying to think of something I could say five years ago that I can't say now.
It's doubtful, this is narcissistic behavior, it signals a huge lack of empathy and self awareness.
Opening 3rd party files is one of those risks I was just talking about.

There’s a user moving around in a game, and there’s opening a workplace file these are inherently different kinds of risks. If your building a flappy bird clone you can know exactly how it’s going to interact with the world.
If the rule is given as a condition of attendance, then it could reasonably be considered a contractual obligation. The event organizer could then sue for damages on the basis of breach of contact. The extent of those damages would be related to how much reputational damage the venue or event organizer suffered, and the potential loss of future attendance caused by that.

In addition, both the subject of a secret conversation and the participants of that conversation could sue someone for disclosing the discussion on the basis of libel. My understanding of USA law is that libel has a very high threshold and is therefore rarely litigated, but in other jurisdictions, such as the UK, libel can be as simple as saying something true with the intent to hurt the subject's reputation.

Many people try to put as much as possible into bespoke, written contracts, but usually a mixture of common law and implicit contracts is adequate to litigate almost anything considered harmful by society. I doubt the NDA is actually needed as long as the Chatham House rule is made clear.
It's been shown that, at least for guitar speakers, the box they're in doesn't matter at all. The entirety of the sound quality or lack thereof is in speaker itself. Of course that is only one speaker , no crossover to worry about.
People are generally given a free pass to criticise their own in-group.

There's a famous Chinese poem demonstrating an issue in the Chinese language, IIRC spelling reform; but were I to speak it (I can't*) I suspect anyone who couldn't speak Chinese would think I was mocking the language despite the original being from a native speaker:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...

* I lack the skill to tell if this is correct pronunciation: https://youtu.be/vExjnn_3ep4?si=hbg3b3niapF6X4TH
From the guidelines:

> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
I agree with you.

I run a business that is invested in the WordPress ecosystem.

It’s going to be a non-trivial endeavor to get a fork seriously running and reliably delivered.

In the meantime the community has to suffer this clown’s further antics.
Never found one. Tried to get back to the game during Dragonflight, geared up 5 classes and tried to do M+ with randoms.

99% rejection rate and I was better geared, did more damage and died less than those who rejected me.

WoW became a kindergarten. Youngsters waiting for boosts. Meh.
This does a fundamentally different thing with similar syntax. Assignment in Python is fundamentally a rebinding operation; slice assignment rebinds a reference internal to the object, whereas ordinary assignment rebinds the name.

The classic test: in Python you cannot write a generic "swap function" - you could only possibly write a function to swap the internal states of the arguments, presuming them to be compatible.
Just because I'm giving examples does not mean they are condescending. I am helping put into terms the scale of these numbers. That even my examples are not something you can actually conceptualize. Honestly, I can't even imagine a dollar side by side spanning a few city blocks.

I agree there's massive amounts of wasteful programs at that scale. But massive amounts of them gets you nowhere close to the actual number. That's the point.
> We're not working on vernacular definition here, we're working on legal definition

Indeed we are not, but absent various exceptions the legal definition of a term is its ordinary meaning.

I don't know if there's a history here of courts interpreting (or legislatures defining, or so on) "partner" in a particular technical way that would cause a deviation from that default, I'm certainly not going to try and prove that negative, but as a starting point for an informal discussion on the internet it's a reasonable guess that there is not.
Where I live (NZ) nearly all cafes have a manual espresso machine and making a coffee is a bit of work. We don't have a tipping culture at all, but I'd gladly tip a dollar to a barista who makes a better than usual coffee.

When I visited the US recently I noticed that manual coffee machines aren't much of a thing anymore - or maybe it was an area thing because I don't recall this being the case when I lived in the US briefly 10 years ago.

The upshot of this is - it's not skilled work to produce a coffee, they're not as good (on average), and they're easily 2-3 times the price per coffee after tipping. I can only assume that cafes in the US are making an absolute killing.
I doubt it because demand would be the same. For lower prices you need an increase in supply for housing. This is why the YIMBY movement exists.
Parters involved in WPEngine so yes, you can cut it off. If they aren’t working on that specifically it’s irrelevant if they’re partners on a separate project, even if it’s similar
I think you’re more on point than anyone else. Social media not working but affects connections but it hinders connections in both platonic and romantic relationship for so many reasons.
It's all about stacking skills, for sure.
I found it in a corner of my $MEGACORP, but TBF, my corner is a former startup that was acquired and retained a lot of the brains.
Jim Marshall is rolling over in his grave at what happened to this company.
> You're the only one who presumed this

I didn’t say you can’t be helpful, but if not being asked that is the definition of presumption .

> Why is this an inappropriate topic to discuss?

It would be same as my neighbor discussing how to fix my problems with my wife or Mexicans having leadership conferences on how to prevent the raise of Trump . Same as how it feels for citizens when Elon Musk is doing now in UK, Germany or France

Domestic intervention or influence by foreign actors no matter if well intentioned or not is inappropriate
How to build wonder stuff from the atom up (2017)
That's the best guess my family doctor can come to as well. I've not been given a formal diagnosis, but we have proceeded assuming that is the case. Unfortunately that doesn't lead to many options for treatment. Modafinil helped to keep me awake but laying awake through those major episodes was a special kind of hell that I didn't want to live through. Methylphenidate has helped to keep me more alert and capable during the minor episodes, though it doesn't seem to have affected the major episodes. The only other treatment available seems to be Xyrem but it's really expensive and the side effects don't seem worth the risk - there's a very real chance of dying in your sleep. I find it funny that I would be trying to treat an ailment where I'm unable to move or wake up by taking a drug that will ensure I can't move or wake up.

The only other diagnosis that seems plausible is Klein-Levine syndrome. I'm hesitant to believe it's that because it doesn't explain everything and it's quite rare, but the major episodes sound similar and that's a rather unique symptom. I would say I also experience the increased hunger during those episodes. They do tend to last at least a day with periods in between where I will be awake but groggy for a few hours and I'm usually insatiably hungry during those breaks. However, if that's actually what it is, it's even less understood and treatable than idiopathic hypersomnia is, so other than having a name to put to it, it doesn't really help any.

That's why my doctor and I have just kind of left it where it is. We have tried the available treatments for these conditions with some limited success, and otherwise there isn't any benefit to having a formal diagnosis. In fact, the sleep pathologist suggested I may not want to pursue a formal diagnosis because, if diagnosed with something like narcolepsy, I may lose the ability to drive. My symptoms aren't such that I would become incapacitated without warning, but even just putting that name on it could lead to being treated as if that were the case.
Sounds like you haven't been on the dating market in a long time. There is no "just world" when it comes to human sexuality. Some people are born physically unattractive.

Most people who are college educated meet on dating apps these days. You're not going to escape lookism either by just waving some magic wand about how if you meet someone in person they suddenly can't see your face anymore.
> Complex tools are a necessity; they can’t always be avoided. However, the occurrence of the Makefile effect in a simple application suggests that the tool is too complicated for that application.

This footnote actually made me think about IDEs and the JS toolchain even more than makefiles.

If I'm writing a small project (say, 10 code files) surely an IDE where most people only know how to use 4 of the 1000 buttons is overkill, and I'd use a makefile.

Similarly surely 10 code files with 10 config dotfiles to set up a JS environment and tooling for dependencies, versioning, linting, transpiling, etc is overkill too.

- Basic javac/gcc/swiftc/whatever commands are simple, even if they can scale up through every niche via configuration options.

- Basic makefiles are simple, even if they can scale up to something like the xnu makefile tree (the most complex make system I've encountered).

- Let's not talk about JS.

I'm hesitant to use the word "lazy" to describe people who do what the author is describing - not just because I sometimes do it myself but because I believe that laziness is a derivative observation of time constraint, executive function exhaustion, and other factors. It also reminds me of the classic "I'm going to learn X, which handles/wraps Y, so that I can avoid learning Y", which is generally a bad pattern of motivation.

At its core this feels like a failure to understand (or failure of others to teach) fundamentals / first principles of the tools being used.
I totally agree with you but there is a lot of tech that is not social media related. But, that fact probably doesn’t change your quantitative observation.
getting to watch someone steal a cake and eat it too
But you complain about fictive homeless people attacking you, with or without moral compunction.

What will you do with this person after you've committed them? It turns out that forcing people to detox isn't effective. Addiction is a disease with no reliable cure; you can't just give someone a round of antibiotics.

But if you think it's possible, demonstrate it to the world: Get yourself addicted, then detox, and you should be fine!
> This method is so unreasonably effective I can't believe it works, but it's never failed me yet. Whenever you are in the throws of a cataplectic attack, lying motionless and completely helpless, focus all your energy into "finding" the tip of your index finger (either one will do).

Amazing, this is the exact method I found independently to escape sleep paralysis, which thankfully only happens before or after sleeping for me.
You are almost certainly right that I was using -X. It's been a while since I had to deal with git.
> this is a safe space for me to say unpopular things and not get labeled as a conservative

The first one is confusing. The US is a very conservative country. It just elected a very conservative president. Statistically like 40% of voters call themselves conservative.