This feels like a pretty shallow reading of the article and you've fallen into the trap - described in the article itself - that "woke" is "some left-wing thing that I don't like". Whatever your views on trans issues, I think this article deserves a more thoughtful answer.

You should have finished reading PG's essay.

It's really quite narrowly scoped. There's no indication I could see that he doesn't still hold the same basically liberal politics (he included explicit disclaimers, for all the good that did); he might still be fine with transgender identity. He just wanted to talk about how the particular loudmouth brand of annoying leftist came to prominence. He even had a decent definition of them beyond "leftist I don't like", and put them in a broader context.

Even in the HN thread on the essay, it felt like hardly anyone actually read and understood it, just brought their own assumptions and intellectual allergies and let them run wild. It would be great if people could discuss these issues rationally, but the vast majority can't. Everyone is on a hair trigger.

In the long run I think realizations like the authors are healthy ones.

PG is not a hero. He's just a guy. A guy who entered into business transactions with a number of people, many of whom benefitted greatly (as did Paul himself). I'm not saying any of that as a negative! Just that we have a habit of attributing superhuman characteristics to folks (Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize comes to mind) and ending up disappointed.

I'm not an affected group by any means but I still share the disappointment in the world we see today vs the possibilities I felt tech would allow when I was younger. The tech CEOs I previously viewed as visionaries now just look like a new generation of socially regressive robber barons. I wanted to be one of those CEOs, these days I'm still not quite sure what I want to be. My only consolation is knowing that I'm seeing the world more accurately than I once did.

Then be prepared to spend 5%+ of gdp on defense, or become a Russian satellite.

40 or so years later, the book Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister remains the best quantitative study on environmental impacts on developer productivity.

The world has changed significantly since it was written, so you have to translate their measurements to modern contexts, but it's easier to translate real data on human behavior than to guess based on guesses.

It's complicated isn't it? A business doesn't care about you. It doesn't because it can't. Business doesn't have thoughts and feelings, business is clinical. Business is nothing more than the collection of processed and systems crafted to work together, facilitating the exchange of value between 2 parties. The problem is with the 2 parties part. The 2 parties part, that part very much does have thoughts, feelings, and emotions, those two parties are made up of humans. Bobby Sue just wants the alternator working on the car so they can go to a family funeral and mourn. Jerry in accounting at alternator inc's going through a momentum life shift, spiraling his whole world into a new framing, changing everything. And while these things matter none to the business technically, they matter deeply to the humans involved. It's complicated because business doesn't, shouldn't, and can't have feelings, however, business activity is indeed made up of people, and they most certainly do. There is always a risk of being too cold and focusing only on the bottom line, or becoming so caught up in individual needs and emotions that you lose sight of the basic structure that keeps a business functioning. Booby Sue needs to mourn, and Jerry needs stability for his life change. And so, there is some empathy to be found for people deciding fundamental things for their businesses, it's not easy to know when to be clinical and look at the business knowing it's comprised by a collections of humans, organized, into a company. These are not easy things, but rationality and intellectual honesty is key when framing these discussions.

> IMHO, jumping to conclusions just like this is a big reason why 'going woke' isn't a healthy mindset for someone to hold

This is not unique to "wokeness" and is in fact much more clearly expressed by people who are "anti-woke". Many folks just can't handle things that don't fit neatly into their (unexamined) categories about the world.

They'd rather destroy that person or thing rather than reflect and improve their understanding of the world.

College-educated immigration is often considered to reduce local job-hiring and push down wages. It appears, however, that an additional H-1B lottery win increases both immigrant and local employment. Moreover, immigration reduces offshoring, increases patenting and increases venture capital investments.

To read more: https://www.nominalnews.com/p/h-1bs-immigrants-with-degrees-... ("H-1Bs – Immigrants with Degrees Spur Economic Growth")

It's so sad that the relationship between allies has come to the point where NATO Article 5 has become a bargaining chip against privacy/market fairness laws (DSA/DMA). I think to a lot of Europeans it feels like Americans have unilaterally ended a friendship.

It's true that Europe and Canada need to invest more in defense, but the balance is currently 755 billion USD (US) vs. 430 billion USD (EU) [1]. So it's certainly not like the MAGA rhetoric pretends. The US has the benefit of being a large nuclear power, but for a long time the US preferred being the nuclear protector to avoid too much proliferation on the continent.

Another annoying part of the 'they gotta pay up' Trump/MAGA discourse is that it's starting to sound like a mob wanting protection money. This is not how the NATO agreement works. Countries have to spend 2% of their GDP on defense, but it's not a payment to the US. They could buy Saab Grippens if they wanted to.

[1] https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2024/6/pd...

>I’m certain he wouldn’t be rude to my face, but he might quietly discriminate against me, say no thanks. He might not even think of it as discrimination, only that I don’t have what it takes.

>I’m better at my job than most. I’d be a better startup founder today than I was in 2015. None of that will matter.

IMHO, jumping to conclusions just like this is a big reason why 'going woke' isn't a healthy mindset for someone to hold. Stating that none of it matters is exactly the same thing as saying "I can't do it"

What we are seeing is a great levelling out of living standards across the world. Poor countries are unquestionably getting richer, while rich countries are stagnating and decaying. It's a period of readjustment, but self-limiting.

It's the pathology of fetishizing contrarianism.

"I am contrarian because daddy Thiel said it's smart" without a hint of irony

I really like that TS makes it possible to work with raw objects (~dicts) without having to worry about keys existing or not existing, especially narrowing down via Pick<> and tricks related to impossible combinations via the never type are nice (e.g. if it has key 'a', it can't have key 'b' and vice versa). That said Python's typing doesn't sit still and I tuned out a couple of years ago, so all those things might be possible today via TypedDict, haven't checked).

having lived through that period and relying on the internet to do my day job i didn’t notice.

also if you look at the history of the bill, there is no mention of public opinion at all. They shelved the bill due to lack of agreement.

They're allowed to export the wafer handling systems (roughly half of their big litho machine) currently manufactured in Wilton Connecticut.

yourself

Someone else already answered, just a tip for future searches: If you know somewhat the context (in this case Rust), adding just one keyword to your query (in this case "Miri Rust") will give you the right answer as the first hit :)

Maybe they should?

I mean otherwise why not do

    void MyFunc() {
        DoStuff();
        DoOtherStuff();}

If the close-parens being on its own line is so wrong, why is it right for braces?

Loved the one in Kansas City! There are some great, thematically-similar museums in other countries as well, if you ever find yourself there:

- the Vasa in Stockholm, Sweden is a ship dredged from the harbor and stabilized, sank in 1628

- the Mary Rose in Portsmouth, England is a Tudor ship that sank in 1545 that was raised and stabilized

In both cases a ton of work was done to stabilize and preserve the remains of the ships that is, imo, almost more interesting than the ship itself.

This is only tangentially related, but if you like history and ship wrecks and live near Kansas City, go to the Steamboat Arabia museum.

They're digging up a steamboat that sunk, and they found after the river changed its course. It's super cool. When we went the last time we were driving across the states, one of the guys actually doing the excavating was there. He gave our kids a guided tour and talked about all the exhibits with them. It was super cool.

Dehumanizing people by calling them "maggots" or other such vermin isn't a good look considering history of the 20th century.

I also despise fakery, but there’s a lot more overall fakery going on here from all sides than you seem to be noticing- and understanding the dynamics of narcissism and emotional manipulation makes it more obvious. Even moderately intelligent people that are impressed by Trump are impressed by his skill in creating and maintaining fake narratives.

They didn't dislike him before 2016 because he was one of them, he went to their parties, donated their favorite people lots of money, and did TV interviews repeating all of their talking points.

Trump is absolutely nothing like Hitler- Hitler was a completely sincere true believer in his cause, solidified his views clearly before he had any fame or power and stuck to them consistently, and was himself willing to die for the cause of blaming all problems on people different than him. Trump switches stories and allegiances like an 8 year old girl trying on princess outfits until one 'clicks' and gets attention- and doesn't care if the one he ends up with is left right or center- he tried them all.

Both your "cheap virtue signalling by the laptop class" and Trump have an identical underlying strategy and postmodern world view that things like integrity, principles, and ideals are for suckers, and the only thing that matters is constructing a narrative that gives you the most power and attention right now: e.g. fakery.

Both are even using the same basic nonsense story outline that some evil outgroup that deserves to be dehumanized is causing all of your problems, and supporting authoritarianism with them in power will solve it- just different outgroups but both chosen strategically by the same process.

There hasn't been any president during my lifetime that didn't have narcissistic personality traits and strategies, but I am not 100% sure all of them definitely had full blown NPD. It's really a disability than usually harms the person affected more than anyone else- people with it are very alone as they make no real friendships or connections with people, are not capable of improving their life through self reflection and self criticism.

> There is no way this isn’t being looked at closely.

Who's going to look at it? Whichever sycophant ends up being AG?

I really appreciate this article, and I would like the author to know that there are lots of people - yes, especially in tech - that support their happiness.

Great, cohesive, and clear essay! Hear hear.

One thing that I think is underappreciated in our current times, that gets lost on both the left and the right sides -- an individual is more important than their identity.

A specific trans person can also be an asshole.

A specific white man can also be a saint.

Extremists on both political sides will scream about the reasons one or the other of those statements is wrong, but doing so lumps all possible individuals into a "them" category to which blanket statements, positive or negative, can be applied.

That reductionism feels incredibly insulting to our shared, innate humanity.

Are there all kinds of subconscious and societal biases that seriously influence our perceptions of others on the basis of their identity? Sure!

But it doesn't change the goal of treating the person standing in front of you, first and foremost and always, as an individual person.

Be curious. Be courteous and respectful. Be a normal, nice goddamn human to human across the table from you.

(And maybe, if you feel so inclined, have some compassion about what they did to get to that table)

the OP is a journalistic summary of

Breaking the Flow: A Study of Interruptions During Software Engineering Activities

Yimeng Ma, Yu Huang, Kevin Leach

(2024) icsi Portugal

it's not properly quoted, but it's directly linked, prominently.

yes, I agree, peopleware is on the must have reading list, but this article certainly is not guesses on guesses

>My only consolation is knowing that I'm seeing the world more accurately than I used to.

also known as growing older ;-)

No, there’s a LOT of MAGAts on HN.

Will you agree with the author's viewpoint that "none of experience" matters if one is trans?

Most of the "drama" in recent Typescript, such as requiring file extensions, with the import syntax has been aligning with the Browser/Node requirements. If you set the output format to a recent enough ESM and the target platform to a recent enough ES standard or Node version it will be a little more annoying about file extensions, but the benefit is that it import syntax will just work in the browser or in Node.

The only other twist to import syntax is marking type-only imports with the type keyword so that those imports can be completely ignored by simple type removers like Node's. You can turn that check on today in Typescript's compile options with the verbatimModuleSyntax [1] flag, or various eslint rules.

[1] https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig/#verbatimModuleSynta...