skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Burnout is an inevitable consequence of the modern workplace for a lot of people. A lot of those who don't have any problem with burnout are the ones burning out other people.

In the modern workplace, workers are often given a task without being given the good conditions to take it through, or a good overview of the context that the task is part of.

A good percentage of the tasks but not all are hot potatoes, and it can get very political (in some places this is worst than others, but its always there).

You get to the office in the morning and have new 10 trouble tickets assigned to you, with estimations of 2 or 3h of execution time over which you have no control, estimated by a clueless middle manager who has never coded the simplest of programs in his/her life.

If you make too many waves or comments about the length of the tasks, you are not going to last long and you know it, so what do you do?

Stay late, take shorter breaks, connect one hour in the evening to get a couple more things done or do some preparation work like analysis, reading documentation, answer emails, etc.

If you don't do that, you know that it's a fast track to performance improvement program which is essentially a death sentence.

I think the problem is the system and not people, the current employer/employee social contract is needing a huge rehaul because society is coming to a breaking point which all these jobs disappearing due to automation and informatisation in general.
Thanks; I’ll double-check but I think pushing the volume button turns the whole infotainment system off. Which does pause whatever’s playing, but also turns off navigation or whatever else I had on the CarPlay screen.
I assume that previously, Google's ranking algorithm would attach a score to a domain name, and by leasing out subsections of the site, the sub-owner would get an artificial ranking boost.

So now perhaps the Googlebot notices if a subsection of a site is radically disconnected and treats it as an independent publication.
One thing that makes these employment numbers a little questionable is that car manufacturers are mostly component assemblers, with differing amounts of components made in-house vs bought from other companies which may be US companies or might not be.

I know this is true for a lot of things, but my occasional experience with the auto-industry gives me the sense that it is more true for the auto industry than other places.
At the same time, hasn’t the number of people who’ve left the job market entirely decreased something like 3% since the financial crisis?

Combine that with fairly stagnant wage growth, and the linked chart doesn’t really look impressive.
> maybe I've been using macs too long

I think this is the main issue. You want your PC to work exactly like your Mac and are not prepared to learn the way the new system works.

Case in point: a lot of people complain about trackpad issues but Linux/windows do not use mouse gestures. You should learn to use gnome hot-zones and/or keyboard shortcuts because experience have shown us it is more efficient.
Remembering the trick before the salt get in the eye is also a trick to remember. Because once film is broken it needs either time to regenerate or rinsing with non salty water to regenerate.

You also need to avoid touching the corner of the eyes when your hands are covered of sea water. That usually the first reflex once the eyes are irritated, (if you must touch the corner of your eyes do so with your eyes closed). This trick is easier to learn, because when your eyes are not irritated and you touch the corner of your eyes with salty hands the irritation is instantaneous.
When I posted I thought about a translation but drew a blank. It’s somewhere between conservative, law abiding, rules oriented but also community oriented. But everybody has their own connotations so there is no real definition. Generally it’s used a derogatory term. Nobody calls themself a Spießbürger.
The best method to verify employees performance is actually finding out what they have done on a 1-to-1 meeting every 1/3/6 months.

Do not attempt to use tools to track/spy/whatever, because:

1. it is illegal
2. can mine employee's self-esteem
3. makes you even more paranoid
Even if your expertise in your fields results in you making 30% more than your peers, collective bargaining raises the base level.

It sets a regional wage for a category of work that makes up the baseline pay for all other workers in that category in that region, you included.

Without it, wages become a race to the bottom with companies all attempting to compete with each other on hiring workers for the lowest cost rather than the highest dependability.
That's very interesting, I didn't know that. Looking forward to the sources, thank you
Yeah no. It’s never been legal to steal massive collections of technical documents and it still isn’t.

It also remains to be seen how much real actual innovation Levandowski should be credited with, beyond his clear skill at talking people out of huge sums of money. It’s far from clear how disincentivizing this type of behavior will cause any problems.

Like is the premise here that there will be a causal relationship between this indictment and the progress of technology?
That blows my mind. I bought a 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe and see no reason to use google maps because the factory infotainment is so good. Bluetooth is super reliable. I considered BMW, Audi when shopping but just could not pay $15k more for luxury.
It is not the beginning of a rewrite just because Firefox requires Rust. All that it means is that there are now three languages you can choose to use to implement Firefox components, instead of just two.

You're conflating the ability to choose Rust in addition to C/C++ with the intent to replace C/C++ code with Rust.
Isn't that because they're also thinking they're invincible and can handle it, so the weed usage does not actually cause their driving behavior? At least that's the case with my own acquintances who drive high. As I said, I also don't think it should be allowed to drive high, however the effect long term usage has on a person is genuine, albeit definitely not generalizable - I'm pretty sure the strain is an important factor.
Let's say Alice is having an affair with subordinate Bob. One day Bob has a big screw up with something Alice assigned him, and Alice needs to reprimand him for it (that is part of being a person's supervisor). There is no uninvolved third party to call in here -- that is Alice's job as Bob's boss. One way or another their romantic relationship will impact their professional relationship in this situation -- either Alice will be too gentle with Bob, and everyone will perceive favoritism, or Alice will be too harsh with Bob and risk damaging their personal relationship. Very few people would be able to respond appropriately here -- in either the supervisor or subordinate position (and both need to do so).
It's a manipulation of search results.
I don't think I said anything about holding the company accountable for the irresponsible actions of two employees. Under question is whether the company should be concerned about romantic involvement within reporting relationships. This compromises the ability of the manager to provide appropriate performance feedback and also poses a considerably elevated risk of favoritism, which can cause morale issues for the whole team. It may or may not be destructive to the entire company, but it certainly is a risk that could cause a number of issues for a number of people, including both personal and career harm. I've had to navigate a scenario like this once before in my career, and it was definitely one of the more stressful things I've dealt with.
I think there was a marked improvement on my mood when I left twitter in like 2013. I'm way less irritated at small things, and way less annoyed at what appears to be pure ignorance and pure hatred over minor things.

Reading some of the responses in this thread, I feel my emotions rising like they used to on twitter. I want to respond to a lot of these comments.

But when I start typing out a response, I take a step back and say to myself, "what the fuck are you doing, man?" You're arguing some micro point on the internet. You're not going to change this person's mind, you're just trying to make a jab to get some karma so you can feel like your viewpoint is at least justified and makes sense to other people."

Then I realize what a dumb waste of time this is - I already know that my viewpoint isn't all that radical and may people share it. There's no sense in getting upset about this, or trying to assert what I think. I've done it a thousand times before.

So I'm gonna leave this thread and go play some video games instead. Hopefully that isn't too bro-y a thing to do.
Uber isn't a "gig" job for a lot of people. That's just marketing.
Is there a package to convert all Internet ads to simple console messages? I would be down with that package.
To my knowledge, there's nothing stopping a private company from going into these cities and setting up a private bus system and absolutely eating the lunch of the public system if it's going to end up being so much better. So why isn't this happening?
anti-competitive purge of features

the browser industry is colluding
Not really. The reason (dropping vaccination rates caused by an increase in disinformation) is both well-known and heavily debated and criticized.

In at least one of these four countries (the UK) there is absolutely no ban on talking about this problem, and it has seen solid coverage in the media for years.
Seems similar to the Bouba/Kiki effect [1] where we automatically associate spiky and smooth shapes with certain names.

I did this test with my toddler and he chose “correctly.”

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
I consider people who vote differently from myself to be a threat to my safety. Acting on that opinion is not a good idea.

The question isn't 'can we rationalise this?' - we can rationalise everything. The question is 'is the threat great enough for the government to start infringing on liberty?'. It probably isn't, otherwise we'd ban all hard and soft drugs (including alcohol & smoking) as a similar level of threat to public health. That battle has been fought and lost by the public safety folks.

An incentive program would probably be a good idea, but I expect there is already one in place.
Then the answer is simple, if we want humanism in the way we deal with employees, than businesses that seek to maximize profits for their stakeholders should be outlawed.
What is funny about this is that Atlasssian’s Jira product is designed for two week “sprints”, a term referring to the idea of running quickly at a rate above a sustainable pace with no intent to keep running after the end.

But these sprints normally are done repeatedly with no actual stop or sight of a finish line.

Employees just churn through tickets with no designed breathing room or planned downtime. Jira is probably one of the biggest helpers at causing burnout with all of those burn down charts and story point comparisons, driving companies and employees to not support taking reasonable time off or spending time at lower pressure to encourage employee wellbeing.

Basecamp’s team wrote a guide to their take on this process and why they rejected it called “Shape Up” which seems pretty pie in the sky but makes some incredibly good points on maintaining team happiness, culture and quality of work.
I didn't say it would be reporters. They pretty much just relay things from people in the financial business, who have a whole range of interests of their own. Reporters would have very limited ability to independently decide there's a recession coming, just as they have a limited ability to come to their own conclusions in any other domain.

Bear in mind we live in a world where this happened: https://slate.com/business/2019/08/william-dudley-fed-trump-... (Note: generally liberal site, not a foxnews or brietbart pick.) It's not exactly a crazy conspiracy theory when the former head of the Fed is openly talking about this sort of thing. I mean, quite the contrary; you've got to pay attention to that sort of source! If that's out in the open, what do you think is going on behind closed doors?
> Which specific items in the Wikipedia article support the idea that the two are similar?

Which items contraindicate the claim?
The playlist we got from our IPTV provider half a year ago, contained way too many channels for our Raspberry Pi Kodi box to be happy, and way more than we needed. So in May, I built a v0.1 of what is m3u-editor.com today.

Turns out there are more like me, who had found and started using my software. Last month, I gave it a complete rebuild and made the dashboard as user friendly as possible. With hundreds of new weekly users, I figured this might interest the HN community as well.
I am not sure on your reasoning here. If they keep popping up, isn't that a good thing? More and more communities are seeing the internal problems these people are causing and are calling them out on it. I've never seen "ReactGate 2.0 cause the 1.0 people are still causing issues". I can't say every "gate" has fixed all their problems but acknowledging the issues and working towards a fix is a step in the right direction.
I also got this problem when using modules with go mod but then I did "go mod vendor" and all extensions are now happy again for that project! :)
They are. It's a problem of the rich not caring and just paying the fines.
> "Be the first to experience Burnout before everyone joins in"

I mean...
People were sounding the alarm about the housing bubble, but they didn't realize it would lead to a systemic crisis in the banking system (because so many banks had filled their balance sheet with securitized debt instruments.)
Recession Will Be Brutal for Millennials
I didn't realize that this was a thing.
Is that via Twilio? Or something else?
That's a useful list I never knew existed. Thanks.
> FED is not responsible before congress, the president or pretty much anybody.

This is just silly.

The Fed reports to Congress twice annually. The Chair and Board of Governors are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Their authority stems from an act of Congress, which Congress can revise/repeal, and permits the removal of the Chair or Governors by the President for cause.

For an example of Congress's authority over them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Reform_Act_of_...

Hell, they're even subject to FOIA. https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/about_foia.htm
I do not see any reasons given for why he considers Ada a disaster. Cannot really do much with this opinion as it is.
For my family, the simple trick of getting a smaller fridge cut down on food waste. This has worked great, even though, we are avid cooks who almost always make meals from scratch.
There's already a lot of Allwinner-based Pi clones with no magical binary blobs, though - depending on the board the only blob may be the non-modifiable boot ROM, which is actually quite convenient for low-level hackers since it just loads your own bootloader from one of several devices and gets out of its way. This includes support for raw NAND flash so in theory you can avoid even having a binary blob in your storage device if you get one of the few boards with raw NAND onboard.
> I don't think it's fair to say Rust is still a research language any more than it's fair to see the ongoing evolution of C++ makes it a research language

I would accept that. The idea that C++ code from ten years ago can't always interoperate with C++ code written today is indeed a problem, but I think it's a very different problem that you're running into if you're trying to use Rust applications and libraries built ten years ago.

> there's a cost to being stuck with only C, which manifests as security vulnerabilities and high cognitive overhead for want of better abstractions

There's also a cost with abstractions. People who use Rust thinking it has "zero-cost abstractions" should probably get help crossing the street as well.

> I believe the Linux maintainers are taking a sensible and conservative stance here in allowing use of Rust, but not allowing Linux to depend on it.

100% agreed. Rust may indeed be the future, but the only way we'll know for sure is if we try it.
Storing plastic in landfills is a form of carbon capture. The environmental cost is in transporting pieces of plastic around (added weight means more fuel use).
No, this does not mean that the borrow checker understands heap allocations. Box is just a wrapper to shoehorn heap management into the stack based analysis that the borrow checker is able to perform.

In other words, Box<> is just the equivalent of std::unique_ptr in C++.
The peculiarly American coalition of political extremists, liars, con artists and mentally ill people wins again, and the longer they keep winning the worse the backlash is going to be when it comes.

Just say no to codes of conduct. Say no to victim-ideology. Say no to politics. And most importantly, say "fuck you" to anyone who dares make the claim that everything is politics.
AWS and Python: Serverless Secrets Management
I've figured out meats. I can vacuum-seal, freeze and throw right into sous vide. Veggies and especially fruit have to be eaten almost immediately or they go bad (mold). I eat a lot of zucchini and carrots because they'll keep a while.
Did you get food poisoning from home cooked food or when you were eating out?

Find the pattern and avoid those situations. There's no need to be wasteful by blindly following those arbitrary dates.

It's usually easy to tell when most food has spoiled by smelling or examining it. Another important aspect is making sure the food is cooked thoroughly.
I find the sentiment of the article's title very disingenuous.

The distinction between moving a person's experience from one company to another, and a trove of documents has already been discussed here.

But the second thing is that's not the indictment that could be stifling innovation, it's the laws that forbid it.

If you think trade secrets stifle innovation, blame that laws, not the prosecutor how does his job, or the company that tries to apply existing laws.
Ah, you would need to blave the system...and as we all know "to blave" means "to bluff".
https://www.zdnet.com/article/popular-javascript-library-sta...
But probably is not intensity.
Half chance of full intensity doesn't mean full chance of half intensity. If you'd evacuate the red zone but not the yellow understand, do you really understand the bet you are making?
What's wrong with Google voice? Afaik it's not being deprecated.
I'm on Fastmail with my own domain(s), my photos and files are mostly local, with a backup on iCloud and on OneDrive and I'm using an iPhone and an iPad. I also have an iCloud subscription.

Why would an Apple device stop anyone from doing what you just outlined?
The US is the epicentre of the disinformation movement surrounding vaccinations, but like any effective virus (hah, there's some irony), it spread. You will find that most anti-vaxxer rhetoric in other countries closely mimics the US material.

Medical professionals are effectively pitched in a fierce battle against a very successful meme.
What is grit and why is it important?
Science Journal claims Genetics can't predict same-sex sexual behavior
> Which items contraindicate the claim?

The fact that the Federal Reserve was deliberately created by an act of Congress, and the Portugal crisis was triggered a fraudster forging contracts and counterfeiting currency?
Spiky shapes are like a dog showing its teeth or the fur standing up along its back. It's how animals and even plants get you to keep your distance.
Is there a justifiable need for the proxy? It seems like we’re just adding a centralized point of failure, the lack thereof something I have absolutely touted as a feature.

For verification we already have the go.sum file validating the hash. We’ve got vendoring if you’re concerned about dependencies disappearing.

The touted speed feature seems like a non-issue? The absolute largest Go package I’ve ever pulled took maybe a minute to grab its dependencies, and then I had them and never had to again.

The cynical side of me feels like this is a way for Google to collect analytics on the Go ecosystem. The slightly less cynical part of me thinks people from other ecosystems demanded it due to cargo culting the idea.

The fact that it makes it more difficult to use private modules is pretty irritating as well as I am going to need to make sure all our developers and build systems are aware when we move to 1.13. Having to set GOPRIVATE on each machine is absurd. It should be definable in the go.mod so it can be known via git.
I believe CSR went out of business after burning an investment of $1bn with nothing to show for.

Not trying to be hostile, just pointing out how costly "let's design our own soc, how hard can it be?" is.
It's quite a hard problem when you think about it.

You're keeping track of potentially 100+ items, all need storing differently, all go off at different speeds, and you need to predict when you'll need more. You're basically running a shop in your head.

Seen in that light, just as it's not advisable to try and run a business in your head, it shouldn't be advisable to try and run your kitchen the same way.
Oh man.

The sharks have been circuling around HDFS for a long time. Content marketers have a growing list of reasons why you should use something else but their arguments don't ring true.

(Mainly because the "something else" doesn't really work; MapR pushed this for years and finally went under.)

One of them is that HDFS is wasteful because it replicates everything three times.

Maybe that's true, but erasure code systems don't perform as well under degraded conditions as HDFS. Back when I was running a test cluster in my house with three machines I had two machines turned off and was running multiple jobs before I realized that two of them were turned off.

A large cluster has more parts to fail and is often in a degraded condition -- and HDFS functions well under degraded conditions.

The newer argument is the one that CPU utilization is low on HDFS clusters. That's true, but easy to overstate because low CPU utilization helps with responsiveness when you are running ad-hoc jobs. You could do better than the average HDFS cluster, but you can easily do worse. Certainly the 100% utilization that bean counters think they can accomplish leads to infinite latency and 0% goodput.

The article above suggests S3 as a real alternative but I got laughed out of the room by a Gartner analyst years ago (rightly so) for suggesting that, because S3 is crazy expensive. At $100 a month per TB, you can afford to keep moderate amounts of valuable data, but if your data is truly big you will go bankrupt.

It's true that the MapRed engine is awful for anything that isn't a 1-1 map to a single map and a single reduce pass, so Spark and other compute fabrics have replaced it, but HDFS is still the champion for big data storage.
Strictly, there are other forms of consequentialism besides utilitarianism, though utilitarianism is perhaps the most familiar.

Consequentialism means (duh) judging your morality based on the consequences of your actions. Utilitarianism means making that judgment in terms of some quantifiable "utility" or "value". But there are other ways to make that judgment, including applying intuition or even applying some kind of deontological deity-given rules.

The utilitarian framework is so broad that it can be extended to cover all of this, and to cover deontology for that matter ("utility is defined as following the rules of X ethical framework").
True but if a Danish person was to read this to you you would not even recognize the individual words...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk

EDIT: Just FYI this is a clip from a Norwegian comedy program. Danish and Norwegian have very similar written languages but sound very different when spoken. In reality with some practice Danes, Swedes and Norwegians can speak together and understand one another.