skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went through a 4-5 year period in my late 20s working 60 hour weeks while also doing grad school and independent research for 60 hours a week, not getting enough sleep or taking enough time for physical and mental health. It was ultimately very damaging; it left most of my personal relationships and social life in dysfunction. While I made it to the field and work I wanted to be in, I burned out quickly. When obstacles came up, rather than being able to give bouts of dedicated, strategic effort to navigate them I often ran headlong into them.

It's not something that can be undone, because it becomes both a benchmark and a scar. Any period of concerted effort can seem inadequate because you know you're capable of more, while also inducing anxiety because becoming very involved in a task reminds you of that trauma, even if you know you're now disciplined about not overextending and stepping back when you need to. Often this results in the classic burnout symptoms of giving too much time to work, accomplishing less than you would with less time, and perceiving what you do accomplish as even less than it is.

Being fully absorbed in a challenging problem for weeks or months on end by making sacrifices elsewhere in your life can be an exhilarating and fulfilling experience, but it's no different from extreme distance running or olympic lifting. It's only fulfilling and sustainable if it's done with proper preparation, long period cycles of high and low difficulty, caution, rest, and recovery. And if it isn't what you're doing with most of your time.
The rule of law is followed to the letter by state actors as everyone knows...
> the modern USA, where government revenue as a share of GDP has been going steadily downward for like 70 years now

It has?

https://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/revenue_chart_1900_2020U...
MIT Energy Initiative Report Charts Pathways for Sustainable Personal Transport
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They were responding to a valid extradition request by Sweden. How does the US factor in here?
I bought a Garmin the day Fitbit sold out and haven't touched the Fitbit since. I'm very happy with the switch, the Garmin (Vivosmart 4) app and device are actually better than Fitbit's on almost every account, so that's a double win :)

The only unfortunate consequence is that Garmin's import service only imports very coarse data from your Fitbit export, so all detailed historic records are lost unless you manually dig through your Fitbit export files. I hope Garmin will still provide a 100% complete importer in the future.
> Are Nordic prisoners allowed to walk out the front door wheneever they choose?

Swedish prisons are a lot better than Embassy of Ecuador in London, if you have to live recluded, at least chose the best.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/11256813/...

> Here's the killer point: if Nordic prisons are better, why didn't Julian stay there instead?

We should ask him.

Maybe because he's paranoid?
Study suggests repurposed drugs may help fight aggressive lung cancer
Now to wait 5-8 years for an FDA-approved medical device, which will cost $3000.

I wonder if you could achieve the same effect with a vibrating massager? Sticking a repurposed cellphone vibrator motor in an elastic band, like the North Paw, also sounds like it would have potential. https://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/
I've struggled with this one too. I never really felt a ton of pressure in my life as a developer, but since moving up to manager/director level you end up in this situation where you have to drive a lot of process and decision-making, but the parameters are set by other people. It's been extremely draining emotionally to have to drive action on things you don't always believe you should be doing. Now it's like I'm chasing a dragon of acquiring more authority so I'm not cleaning up someone else's mess. At the same time, the authority I do have is driving me insane so why would I want more? The times I've been happiest in this role is when I'm really friends with my peers and leaders and we can work together and criticize freely. Whenever I feel like I have a "boss" I get stressed.
How to Measure Whether Your Application Is Ready for Prime Time
>Adrian Lamo

The same Adrian Lamo who told Chelsea Manning that he'd treat what she told him as a confession (he was an ordained minister and the implication was that he'd never tell anybody) to gain her trust[1].

Let's not forget Kevin Poulsen's complicity in this.

The hacker community is not your friend, and you need to assume that members will sell you out for glory or to save their own asses.

I've never celebrated the death of anybody, but I did feel the world was a better place after Adrian Lamo died.

[1] https://boingboing.net/2010/06/19/wikileaks-a-somewhat.html
That’s crazy. I’ve never had that problem, even when buying cars out of state. Were you paying the full amount by check or something?
I’m not arguing that the case is unjust. I’m refuting the argument that he was free to leave at any time. I see where the two cross, so I’ll argue the former here:

He’s wanted because he embarrassed the United States government. Espionage laws are a horrible attack on free speech and freedom of the press and I’m appalled the Supreme Court previously ruled they’re constitutional.
It's only a crime when you do it
Alcohol is a big one, at least here in the UK. From my observations many people, including plenty of middle class professionals with families, live their daily lives in a temporary state of non-inebriation between drinking sessions. That they prefer this to reality says something pretty depressing about the average person's life in an advanced economy in the 21st century.
A whole lot of words in any given language do not provide a totally new meaning from other words in the language, but exist to allow for varying connotations. Compare the words "childish" and "childlike", for example. They mean the same thing, "in the manner of a child", but have negative and positive connotations respectively.
Trust me, It never helped me.

Edit: never knew telling your experiences gets you downvotes.
Am I the only old fart around here who immediately thought of the old BOFH (Bastard Operator From Hell) series?
The coal is as radioactive as the ash, thus these power plants are not creating any new radioactive waste.
The average person building nothing is essentially eventually destined from specialization yields rising unbounded - let alone complete automation. Your grandfather's grandfather almost certainly farmed for instance.
Reads like an extremely discriminatory hitpiece. Gross.
Love this idea. And congrats Alex - CB Insights Mafia!

Things that I think folks (aka me) would find interesting:

1. Impressions/views on tech markets (what they're entering, their views on growth of markets, etc)

2. Views on competition esp if they talk isht

3. Quotes with data. Because some of these products by tech cos are opaque with stats, if execs drop a figure about growth, that's valuable.

4. Over time, it'd be cool if you could see what products execs talk about in their public comments as that might give an indication of what they're focused on. Suspect they might not talk a lot about specific products so perhaps wishful thinking.

IMO, personally, I think quotes on politics are boring mainly cuz that doesn't give insight into the biz and cuz politics is already everywhere.

Enjoying the emails so far and look forward to seeing where Oversaid goes

Congrats again.
In the long run that's "sort of" what I did. Except openly, publicly to work environment. I work for an employer that encourages remote work now. And yes, live in a much quieter town, about 1500km from where I used to live.... mind, I moved time zones and that's so far been the only real strain.
That makes it worse, not better. Take the punishment for the shit you did and say nothing about what someone else did if what they did saved lives and served the public good.
It would not matter one fuck were he a murdering, misogynist, insert horrible personality types here. The discussion is not about his personal attractiveness, but a selection of a few of his actions relating to wikileaks. You know nothing about him raping, I know nothing about him raping, but we all know the US government murdered people, covered it up and all we're stuck here talking about is raping.

This isn't Richard Stallman 2.0. Assange told you something that nobody denies is true. He's not head of GNU, let the rape allegations be dealt with by the appropriate people. Your job as somebody talking about Assange is to say, "yea, that shit he told us was terrible, something should be done." Not "he might take his fucking condoms off".
LIDAR is like a special version of the camera.
I’ve bought one with a credit card in the US.
Test Flakiness – Methods for identifying and dealing with flaky tests
The author seems to be describing something like a multi-stakeholder cooperative. Instead of members just insisting that you give away the content free, you could also directly involve members in the governance of organization, giving them a say in the editorial direction of the outlet. A democratically run media cooperative has the potential to solve the two-sided problem of legitimacy and funding, if you could get the model right.
Interesting. How very kind of them to mention this to the public for further experimentation.

Has this individual now opened themselves to liability for IP theft, stealing potential billions of treatment money from the company that gets it approved by the FDA?
OT, 2 comments, and both mentions "xoomers" which I hadn't read before. Are we splitting gen X into xoomers and xennials?
And now people who want to convince others to leave behind their fitbits need only point them to this article to lend legitimacy to the claim that "everyone is doing it!". Stuff like this is part of why people don't trust the media anymore.
> Here's the killer point: if Nordic prisons are better, why didn't Julian stay there instead?

Because he was worried about the US finding some flimsy justification to extradite him (an Australian citizen) and prosecute him locally. Fears which, apparently, were justified.
They were waiting in front of the embassy 24/7. We can now see that he was exactly right in his prediction of what would happen if he left, and how.
He's been held in solitary confinement, itself already widely regarded as torture.

Saying "he could have left" in this situation, after being shown exactly how that would have/did go down, is like camping out in front of your ex-girlfriend's house with a baseball bat, then telling the officer you didn't beat her and thus did nothing wrong. Except the whole world can see you totally did beat her when she finally left the house.
I don't trust you. It works for me.
Unfortunately, that would make some entire categories of business non-viable. Any business that relies on importing raw materials would be hit with punishing taxes—unless their margins were huge, or their local & labour costs were orders of magnitude higher than their import raw material costs, they would likely not be able to operate.

Effectively, you would be taxing them on revenue, rather than profit.
So when can we get the device, or how can one be made?
When I found sum types (in Haskell) I could not believe they had not been part of any prior language I'd learned. You can kind of fake them with inheritance but it's awkward, and you don't get totality checking, and you can't close the set of alternatives, so a new descendent added later can break things.
Personally I stopped using Fitbit a long time ago because the band came unglued and it fell apart.
These are just the original accusations, this is not a summary of established facts.
I am wearing xiaomi band.
[trolling] What could be a problem?
I'm sure we'll get DIY guides if this turns out to be legit. The concept is simple enough.
Okay, but then any criminal on the lamb is being tortured? If someone jumps bail, we should just leave them alone, so we don't traumatize then? All criminals are being tortured (these same things happen in prison). I don't agree with how all this was handled, but I think we're being a bit rediculous here.
That was my thought - even the people who know may or may not care, but certainly everyone who owns a Fitbit doesn't know - my wife's work handed them out for Christmas one year - those people won't have any idea.

I'm also not sure why a sudden distrust of Google over Fitbit. It's not like Fitbit wasn't in a position to misuse your data as well. Google is just better at it.
True. As I said, it is no excuse. Just that I believe that the government can be quite convincing and has methods to let people do something they wouldn't be proud of.
Trust me, it didn't work for me.
Yes, I agree. We should vote appropirately, organize appropriately, and fully fund the IRS to be able to go after people who aren't paying their fair share in society.
Fitbit users are getting rid of the devices because previously all the services were bundled with the cost of the physical device but now they want you to buy the device and subscribe to Fitbit Premium.

Source: first-hand contact with Fitbit users in the Real World
Creating an Open Source Culture at Armory (YC W17,YCG F19)
In 2013, Sweden tried to drop Assange extradition but the English Crown Prosecution Service dissuaded them from doing so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...
A consumption tax (a tax on sales) is proportional to your lifestyle. If someone chooses to buy a gas guzzler v8, they should pay taxes on the gallons they burn to pay for roads and emissions.

Consumption tax is also easier to be set to a geographic location, and harder to shift to different tax jurisdiction.

Harder to play games in comparison to an income tax.

But nobody wants it. Very unpopular in a vote because, people rather have someone else pay such as rich people and corporations.
What happened in digital healthcare in October: digest
I am afraid to sleep with my Fitbit, I think I would wake up with battle scars on my face.
BS. They're accusing him under a law that would not allow him to present any motive for what he did. Not a fair trial by most countries' standards.
> they don't have the data from future frames yet that will allow them to get down as low as you can go.

They could potentially implement something similar to Retroarch's runahead feature, but I suppose it would requires support from the game itself and more infrastructure so probably not feasible...
I find the idea of the threat of prosecution in a free country as a form of "torture" a bit questionable.

It's something, but i'm not sure I agree with calling that torture.
Newton wasn't sitting and dreaming under a tree in the Serengeti. There was a particular group that identified, nurtured, challenged and protected him for his dreams to reach their full potential.

For all we know there are a lot of top notch dreamers sitting in the Serengeti today that are going to die there because the groups they are surrounded by can't help them in anyway.

Without the right group surrounding the individual good luck realizing dreams and changing the behavior or thinking of any other group.
UK weighs delisting firms from London Stock Exchange for ignoring climate change
This may not be limited to academia. It sounds very similar to the startup community; everyone is always looking for a sexy idea, but there are so many older and inefficient industries that are likely ripe for disruption.

It kind of feels like an uncanny valley effect - an effort that's immediately doable isn't as interesting (perhaps because anyone could do it). But a more radical notion is more fun.
Adrian was a cyber criminal who thought Chelsea was doing the wrong thing by leaking documents to the press. He had no idea of what is a moral action. What a scum bag. Then it appears he killed himself with a kratom + prescription drug interaction in 2018, so he will now have no chance to attone.
Perhaps because the other people don't want to live in harmony and instead use the government's monopoly on force to influence lives of the separatists?
Nope. Article 9, Section 1 reads, in part:

"No Bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...
> The notion that a new law does NOT retroactively apply to acts done before the law was enacted is not called a 'statute of limitations'.

Correct, it’s called ex post facto.
Assuming the US still has "first to invent", they've got a year to file their patent application IIRC.
Announcing Project Antrea – Open-Source Kubernetes Networking
Lord Alton on Hong Kong: A Slow Motion Tiananmen Square Unfolds
>Sometimes, it's just a matter of putting one foot in front of another for a while and just staying afloat until something sparks and work becomes interesting and fun again and not sheer drudgery and anxiety

That will only work for pretty mild burnout. Once it becomes severe, you really don't have any choice and you are forced by your body to stop. It becomes impossible to continue. I would highly recommend doing something about it before it gets to this point, as it will take a long time to recover (many months if not years).
does anyone know how informed consent took place for this study? it seems like it would be required, but it also seems really difficult to do at this scale.

i tried to find a mention of it in the abstract or the clinicaltrials.gov entry, but was unable to find it.
Those war victims didn't necessarily hate each other. They killed because they had to. Those who were subtle in their reluctance to kill were more likely to be killed in battle. Those who weren't subtle were court-martialed and executed.
I don't want to be dismissive but this is a pile of obvious statements made to seem more compelling than they are, weird mixed metaphors, and tenuous conclusions clearly related (more or less) to the author's own particular views of the world.

We could clearly provide a similar account of the world from a different perspective. For instance, socialists hold essentially the same view of the way "one" and "two story" (or is that cycle?) governments work as is described here. Its not a totally vacuous insight that much of what goes on in modern democracies is about manufacturing consent via PR, and that the two political ideologies, to a large degree, function as props in that process. But its hardly novel or profound: practically everyone of a philosophical bent, even hard core liberal centrists, understand this idea.

On this bedrock of at least somewhat obvious ideas some pretty tenuous ones are constructed. For instance:

"DC does not even really need an executive branch. The inner empire (“domestic policy”) would barely notice if the White House disappeared, except that a source of chaos had vanished. The outer empire (“national security”) must respond centrally to unpredictable external actors. It does need an oracle: a source of ultimate decisions.

But the NSC could go on Amazon and order a Magic 8-Ball: “YES,” “NO,” “ANSWER UNCLEAR—ASK AGAIN LATER.” This palantír of phronesis bolted to the Resolute desk, the processes of “global leadership” could continue unperturbed."

This is asserted as an obvious truth but is it? Is this even remotely grounded in some kind of analysis? Hardly. This apparent assertion of facts is actually a political assertion of what sorts of things matter. What we ought to read here is: "Nothing I CARE ABOUT depends on the executive."

This is just one example of how threadbare all this seems on a deep reading.
I think the Passiv Haus standard of 0.6 air changes per hour at 50 pascals is kinda nuts, and likely not worth it. The more relaxed "Pretty Good House" goal of 2 ACH is still pretty tight and requires ventilation, but is a bit more forgiving and acknowledges that a moderate amount of electricity for HVAC isn't so hard to come by. The catastrophe with older houses in the Midwest (where I'm from) is that they'll each put out a dozen or more tons of CO2 each winter due to fossil fuel heating.

Regardless, the point is that even if you don't have one of these super-airtight houses, you can still install an HRV/ERV for not a ton of money. I'm considering one for my vacation cabin where the primary heat is a wood stove.
I switched from a pair of Mac Pro's to a 15" Macbook Pro last year. The 15" was the first laptop to support quad 4k displays (what I was using with my Mac Pro). The laptop has been fantastic, with the exception of cooling. The cooling is bad enough that I keep it (when it's hooked up to my quad 4k displays) upside down, with 2 plastic cups, to keep it from overheating.

I'm mostly interested in the enhanced cooling. If it's really that much better, it may be time to upgrade. Has anyone had similar experiences?
> that “white men” from Gen X and before don’t get burned out.

That's anyway observer bias. Most people you'll encounter Gen X and older in corporations are old enough to have figured out how to manage their career without burnout ... the ones that couldn't already dropped out.

I'm Gen X and I've been in a "burnt out" state many times in my career - 15 years ago there was no real label for it though.

Frankly I'd call it a normal and healthy process; you work too hard, for too long, on a topic you've lost interest in - you will burn out. And it's good for you, because your system is shutting down and preventing you from doing something which, long term, will probably lead to serious health issues.

Where people struggle, when in this condition, is the perceived pressure of having to wear a "smiley face" all the time, dealing with others, while when feeling like shit inside.

And the thing you learn in time, is to stop being nice and start being honest. Learn to say No. Learn to think "who cares?" if people feel awkward around you, if have a less-than-happy today. And a whole load more things...

Ultimately as you get older, you learn to manage your own ups and downs. So I don't see being "burnt out" as something as I have to be afraid of but rather something I need to plan for.
This is somewhat random, but my tinnitus gets worse if my posture is worse.

I believe I am somewhat alone in this, but did find some other people on reddit saying the same thing.

Basically, if I keep my neck more straight, it really relieves it.

Something free to try for those seeking a solution.
The app is pretty smooth and nice, syncing is usually good, maybe it's a bit limited in the stats it offers, but for me (tracking my weight, calories, and active hours) is good enough. Didn't try other apps though, so can't compare. I have been using it for over 2 years now almost daily and I'm pretty happy with it, especially that I can track my table-tennis activities and see how hard I actually tried.
Then there's two ways to work with that:

1) It's only Stadia users against each other;

2) People who are directly connected to the Google machine still have an advantage over the Stadia players.

The first is... OK. You'll be fine, the playerbase will be tiny and you won't be able to play with your non-Stadia friends.

The drawback for the second one is a little less obvious, but the result is that the Stadia users will not benefit from the client-side lag compensation measures that Source (TF2's engine) implements. Most people in this thread miss the fact that in multiplayer games you're always ahead of where the server thinks you are, because you're playing on your timeline, and the server perceives you at RTT/2 behind. When you think you perform an action, the server travels back in time to determine whether how it played out (as opposed to actually executing your actions in what is relatively RTT/2 later).