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People usually recommend a break from work -- get offline, touch grass, maybe take a vacation. Make sure you're getting enough sleep and exercising (and eating well). And find someone you can talk to. Doing things all on your own, without talking it out with some friends, can sometimes warp perspective...
I'm surprised how much more difficult it is when there's three than two... They never seem to all be in the same place!
I'd like a newsletter that tracks upcoming changes to the major languages, new features in IDEs, major conferences, interesting online comments on the social media feeds of various language creators or core maintainers. (Some of the day-to-day growth of programming languages really isn't being tracked anywhere...)
Would it help if the UK left the European Union?
"The Cuban Energy and Mining Ministry said on Thursday 80% of the capital, Havana, had power and most of the country's energy grid had been reestablished 24 hours after it crashed, leaving 9.7 million residents in the dark."
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...
No matter whose link is being shared on Hacker News... This would siphon away some traffic -- all the people who now just read the AI summary, without clicking through to the article.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that the U.S. and the European Union could heap "secondary tariffs on the countries that buy Russian oil," pushing the Russian economy to the brink of collapse and bringing Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-ready-phase-two-r...
But I wonder if this penalizes paywalled content. (If it's not crawled, then isn't it also no longer indexed in search results?)
Exercise also helps you sleep better -- sleep issues can also interfere with focus. And eating right is probably helpful too. It's the advice they give everybody who needs more energy -- but I think it can all be especially helpful for focus issues.
What I learned is it's fairly simple to make a text editor - but there's also the occasional fiddly little bug that has to be sorted out. (It could've also had security holes -- it was protected by obscurity...)
I was frustrated with downtime at my blogging site at the time -- but in the end I just switched to "live-editing" my blog posts directly on the server using Pico.
https://thenewstack.io/guido-van-rossum-revisits-pythons-lif...
That would protect more than just the careers of creatives. It would also protect that relationship -- between performers and audiences -- confirming that it's a human-to-human connection, with all of its special validation and honoring of what it is to be human.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44860477
One commentator in that discussion pointed out Beyond Meat has not actually declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (It just may or may not be true that Beyond Meat is "headed" there, leading the commenter to complain "This isn't a news article, it's an opinion from some journalist who thinks Beyond Meat is doomed...")
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/why-haven-t-tariffs-...
"Ultimately, Barclays expects weighted-average tariffs to end up at around 15%, up from a current 10% and 2.5% last year. Other economists calculate even higher rates. That could mean much of the likely tariff hit is still in the future."
From the interview I got the impression that AI can help you learn or rob you or learning, depending on how you use it. Like, you can go fast or you can go slower-but-more-educational... Depends on what you're after, I guess.
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-psychosis-antichrist-aliens
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/i-feel-like-i-m-going-...
ChatGPT rolled back an earlier model because it was too "flattering" to users -- which basically led to it agreeing with even their most dangerous delusions, ultimately encouraging them. So the AI companies are aware of the problem. It's just not clear how to fix it.
Personally, I'd like to see less emphasis on "conversations with AI". (It's not an entity with a personality, it just looks like one.) Even if AI can "converse" -- it shouldn't. It shouldn't be used that way, and it shouldn't be promoted that way.
As for how I feel about it: I was going to suggest you name it "Do whatever the machine tells you to do." But that's mostly because I think part of the fun of truth or dare was that it was mischievous humans dreaming up the dares that they'd like to see performed. My backseat suggestion: now that you've got a critical mass of users, maybe try "crowdsourcing" those dares like on Reddit -- with upvotes/downvotes and comments. That might get you genuine human-crafted dares, without anybody having to obey a machine.
I thought of that because The Atlantic recently pointed out some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are actually leaning into promoting the idea they can build/own/market some corporate-controlled AI consciousness. (Many AI services "market themselves through what [tech journalist Karen] Hao calls the industry's 'tradition of anthropomorphizing': talking about LLMs as though they contain humanlike minds, and selling them to the public on this basis.")
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence...
I guess if you're posting here for a reaction: aren't you worried that you're inaccurately anthropomorphizing your service, right from the get-go?
I also found it hard to identify what it was trained on. (But surely it's just repeating snatches of previously-transcribed conversations?)
"Americans Are Finally Saving Almost What They're Supposed to for Retirement."
This new article argues that there were more "hardship withdrawals". But that sounds like medical experiences. (Guess what? The Baby Boom is now retiring -- they're right in the middle of that 18-year window when they reach 70.) Surely that explains some of the withdrawals.
There's not even a penalty for taking a "hardship withdrawal" from a 401K once you're older than age 59-and-a-half. They were specifically designed with the understanding they could also be tapped for medical expenses.
I've just never liked "Superman" stories. It seems like they first have to show all the evil that his various villains are performing... so Superman can then be "good" (by punishing those evil-doers). This movie did a better job of giving Superman an actual personality/social life -- but he still has to get back to being "good" in the face of "evil". And I've just always found that a little tedious.
(Although old-timers may remember that Seanbaby.com hated the Superfriends more than anyone...)
The Associated Press calls it more drones in a single night than Ukraine launched during some entire months in 2024.
https://www.ajc.com/news/2025/07/russia-is-open-to-peace-wit...