skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel low some days but I was able to figure out my symptoms were the result of burnout.

And coincidentally the best advice for dealing with it is I got from HN comment that really gave me a huge insight into why i was feeling the way I was feeling and a simple fix to remedy it somewhat.

Burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail. It's the result of a negative prediction error in the nucleus accumbens. You effectively condition your brain to associate work with failure.

Subconsciously, then eventually, consciously, you wonder if it's worth it. The best way to prevent burnout is to follow up a serious failure with doing small things that you know are going to work. As a biologist, I frequently put in 50-70 and sometimes 100 hour workweeks. The very nature of experimental science (lots of unknowns) means that failure happens. The nature of the culture means that grad students are "groomed" by sticking them on low-probability of success, high reward fishing expeditions (gotta get those nature, science papers) I used to burn out for months after accumulating many many hours of work on high-risk projects. I saw other grad students get it really bad, and burn out for years.

During my first postdoc, I dated a neuroscientist and reprogrammed my work habits. On the heels of the failure of a project where I have spent weeks building up for, I will quickly force myself to do routine molecular biology, or general lab tasks, or a repeat of an experiment that I have gotten to work in the past. These all have an immediate reward. Now I don't burn out anymore, and find it easier to re-attempt very difficult things, with a clearer mindset.

For coders, I would posit that most burnout comes on the heels of failure that is not in the hands of the coder (management decisions, market realities, etc). My suggested remedy would be to reassociate work with success by doing routine things such as debugging or code testing that will restore the act of working with the little "pops" of endorphins.

That is not to say that having a healthy life schedule makes burnout less likely (I think it does; and one should have a healthy lifestyle for its own sake) but I don't think it addresses the main issue.

link to original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5630618
Ugh. I'd love to switch to Linux, but as a designer, I'm stuck. It's not a lack of understanding of how it works— Before I was a designer I was a developer, worked in IT for a while, worked in upper-level support for a while, and Linux was my primary personal and professional OS from the late 90s to like 2010.

Why don't I just run a closed-source OS in a VM? They are fussy. Having some weird graphics tablet driver problem or something can really kill the creative connection between me and my work, and if I'm coming down to the wire on a deadline, it can cost me a contract.

What about tools that work natively on Linux? They generally just don't work for professional design use. Whenever I say that, a billion people always jump in and say "Gimp and VivaDesigner and Natron and XYZ and PDQ" work fine for me," and to my astonishment, they always seem surprised that the same just isn't true in most (any?) professional workflows. Sure, with varying amounts (usually non-trivial) of extra effort I can cobble together a disparate set of tools that might sometimes yield similar results to professional design programs, but it's going to take significantly more work to produce possibly lower-quality results, and that's just not an option for a pro. If you were hiring someone to craft the image of your company in a crowded, competitive marketplace, would you pay them more to take longer and potentially end up with a suboptimal product just because they were only using OSS to do it?

A software developer could feasibly use something like windows notepad or pine to achieve the same results as an IDE, or even a more powerful text editor like SublimeText. For many non-professionals, people just editing a config file, or people making the occasional shell script, it does work fine. Better even, considering that the extra baggage of complex tools would actually slow them down rather than speed them up.
Game engine, not emulator. It's for creating games that run on the GBA (.. or on a GBA emulator)
So annoying. This silly insurance software company can just cover their trivial costs from the breach with insurance. It needs to be more expensive to allow a breach than to ignore security. Thank you Vertafore. Maybe we should all stop by your office and thank you in person - oh, you’re not anywhere near Texas! What a lovely mission statement you have:

It’s our mission to provide exceptional service and powerful insurance technology so you can focus on what matters to you – people.
Big size, low barrier to entry (especially at SDE-1 level)

Source: work at Amazon
FYI. OpenAPI Generator supports many programming languages and server-side frameworks: https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator#overview

This is not to say it has more languages supported than Protobuf as I do not know exactly how many generators out there supporting Protobuf.

(OpenAPI Generator also comes with the generator/converter that converts OpenAPI spec documents into gRPC and protocol buffer schema files. Not sure if OpenAPI Generator is also counted as a generator for Protobuf)
> just not gone use anything with BTRFS.

Why? (Legitimately asking, I haven't played around much with using different filesystems.)
I would keep in mind that FAANG likely has a much higher percentage of international students and workers, which skews things a bit. It's definitely taking the top talent from all over the world, versus your small web shop in Cleveland, Ohio, hiring whoever it can get.
Where do you think most revenue goes? Employees.
It's been a long time since I was in embedded. At the time, logic analyzers were expensive and we only had a few that were permanently housed on the Grey Beards desks. I used to read UART off an Oscope for debugging. Learned a lot in that job.
Depression is unfortunately a part of modern society now, and I think a growing reliance on technology is one of the main factors.

Technology seeks to make individuals happy, but in doing so they're consumed by screens and feeds and become physically isolated from other people...
We still have a Congress that is subservient to Israeli political and security needs, thanks to the Jews and Evangelicals who have legally bribed our representatives into it. So yeah, I think we're going to be fighting wars in the Middle East for a long time to come.
The last line is me
Thank you! Trying my best here
The COW Programming Language
Very possible in the early stages. Given time we can probably improve. The only way to know is to experiment.
The wave of Medicare and identity fraud that follows will cost billions. I have family in other states that can’t draw unemployment because someone is already drawing it for them because of state breaches like this. It’s going to be an absolute disaster.
That does sound better but I think it would be harder to implement. Convincing people to accept later delivery times is tough. People don't want delayed gratification. US interstate speed limits used to be set to improve fuel economy due to the gas crisis in the 70s. Try to convince drivers that we should go back to a 55 mph speed limit.
You can sell your business. You can't sell your job. Plus 180k a year, especially if location independent, is still a lot. Median income in the USA is 40k.
Health, a temporary visa. A small amount of savings so I am not starving, no debt, both parents are alive and together, lots of nephews/nieces, love for science and technology...
Please take these racist conspiracy theories elsewhere.
Ah yes - let’s forget about a person’s right to privacy entirely! Great!
We lost. I'm not sure even Trump would make us leave the "wrong" way.
I’m arguing that not borrowing and spending money on two foreign wars of occupation does not automatically lend itself to permission for borrowing and spending money on something else instead.

I think we are basically in agreement otherwise, unless you want to argue the details.
Every once in a while I will call up my financial institutions and try to get them to do some arbitrary transaction I could have done online but just to see what minimum amount of info I have to provide them to get them to actually move my money around. It’s kind of horrifying. The social and the bank account number is usually all that is needed. That is the reason I refuse to use a small credit union over a large bank. Credit union staff tend to be more trusting and less informed on average regarding when to be suspicious than the call centers for A larger institution
And how much will change as a result of this?

Zilch.
Vertafore is not the only company in Texas with this data. Other large Texas companies have it and it’s stored in the clear. I’ve seen it with my own eyes.
The EU is trying to get rid of encryption right now ... So they're just as incompetent.
I'm expecting a Biden administration is going to be all-in on war.

It's somewhat clear the "establishment" is dying to get rid of Trump for being unpredictable, free-wheeling and unwilling to repeat the usual pieties about the war industry.

It was galling to see the bureaucrats confess this week to lying about troop numbers in order to bypass Trump.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-en...
> The point isn't that there are never any cases where armed police response is appropriate -- but rather that the vast majority of cases don't require one.

The point is even simpler than that.

Let's say a cop deals with 10 contacts with random people for equally random causes every day. That's 200 contacts per month or, roughly, 2,500 per year.

Let's say only 1% of those encounters involve someone intent on doing harm to the officers, carrying a deadly weapon or willing to do anything at all not to get arrested.

That's 25 potentially deadly encounters per year. Imagine having a job where performing your job might get you killed 25 times per year. That's no joke.

And so that game, the gamble, the proposal, is to send out someone other than police officers to some cross section of calls. Fine. Good idea. The question is: How do we predict what side of that 1% each call will be on? In the case of my father in law, the call was like hundreds, if not thousands, of calls they had handled during their career. And yet, they came very close to being killed.

In other words, we are proposing to send ill-equipped people to a potential life or death situation nobody is able to predict.

That's where I come out on the side of: If you want to propose that (not you personally, a general "you", a politician, activist, whoever) then you better be willing to go out and take those calls before you send someone else out to do it. That, to me, is honorable. Anything else is fake virtue signaling while playing with someone else's life.

I think a leader must include this as one of his or her guiding principles: I will never ask you to do something I am not willing to do myself (or have not done myself). That goes from sweeping the floor to asking someone to walk into a potentially dangerous situation that could cost someone's life. It's easy to ask someone to clean vomit off the floor when you don't have to do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Fore...
> said in a statement the data was inadvertently stored in an unsecured storage service that was hacked between March and August of this year.

Category is unsecured storage service, you have available to you one consonant and a digit. Your 30 seconds start now.
I used to spend so many off-work hours on my custom printf functions to try so desperately to find optimizations to save on space. I got it down to, IIRC, ~1300 bytes on a PIC8 and ~1500 on an MSP430. I left embedded because the pay:work ratio was shit (compared to backend / web development) but damn do I ever miss that work.
Upvoted for gratuitous Greg Egan name drop
You'd be surprised how often there's a difference between the debug load tooling and boot from regular flash. That leaves you with code that loads just fine over JTAG, but can't boot just from poweron. Stuff like if your code runs out of SRAM, maybe the clock tree looks totally different depending on how it loaded the code.

Once you get much past that point you want your team to use an OTA update mechanism as much as possible during normal development so that it has a ton of cycles on it by the time it ships.
You may want to give https://apitools.dev/swagger-parser/online/ a try to validate OpenAPI (fka Swagger) files.

You can do it online without a sign up or use the API or CLI according to your preference.
We absolutely lost (and I'm reading this as the US lost the war). There's no question about it.

I'm more curious as to how you can reason that Trump and/or the GOP would not be so vindictive? If Trump had any interest in what's best for the country and its citizens his administration would not be hindering the transition to the new administration. Something similar can be said for the GOP.
This is still mind-blowing to me. The people who have an incentive to make it easy to migrate away from Google services on your devices (Samsung, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.) should be working together to make an open API for app developers to use that allows swapping in different backends for basic services. Instead, projects like openpush are being developed essentially by volunteers.
VMAF, PSNR, SSIM calculation using FFmpeg
> without extreme stock value changes.

That's the point, you don't know whether there will be any. So they are definitely not "as good as cash". Just because they aren't lottery tickets doesn't mean they are equivalent to cash.
Merge the threads into a single poll which also links to the non-HN poll in the question. Engaged people will do both polls, you won't be shortchanging either of them.
It's also easier to motivate them (and get an intuition for them) if you have a physical motivation for them. Like if you imagine being in Fourier's shoes (or Heaviside's) and needing to come up with techniques for solving differential equations more easily. Fourier series let you solve PDEs with linear algebra, and Laplace transforms turn ODEs into polynomial equations, both of which are easier to deal with.

Or to put it another way, if you imagine being faced with diff eqs and thinking "Hmm, is there a way I can turn these into problems I already know how to solve... like, say, polynomials?", then the idea that there even exists an invertible transformation that lets you do such a thing is itself quite fascinating in its own right—regardless of any elegance the transformation itself might have from a theoretical mathematical standpoint. And having such a motivation and application in mind (and knowing the physical nature of the problem, where we know we'll end up with waves) helps ground the idea in something very concrete and avoids making it look like it's just a random transformation we're studying because we're bored.
One thing that has helped me is becoming involved with a men's group. It might not work for you but I see benefits in being able to discuss aspects of life with other men. This particular group has a training regimen to learn to open up and communicate. It starts slowly and then it ramps up. There are a ton out there but the one I'm part of is K4 Nation. They are currently taking enrollment for the January cohort of men.
After reading the comments on the original, I expected to see a "Poll: Did you know that HN has polls?"

I certainly didn't know about the feature.
Ahh, here we go again! The data breach merry go round.

Tip to anyone reading this: Use HN/search and find other examples of data breaches to know exactly how these comments will play out, we can even use an AI to simulate this exact situation!

"We're weally sowwy about this, have free credit reporting on us! (P.S we don't care, nothing bad will actually happen to us so sucks to be you! bye!)"

(source: Experian/Equifax leaks or any data leak ever)

Meanwhile nothing ever changes, nobody is imprisoned or even mildly inconvenienced whilst those affected have to deal with the fallout...

To be honest, it'd be better to stop calling them "breaches" and just call it "already public data was made public, again".

This data is not, was not, and can not be considered 'private' at this point. Your data is always leaking; consider your name/address/SSN/DOB and anything else part of the immutable public record.

You could call it...

A permanent record.
How is this an improvement over an electric kettle?
Acknowledging that the Evangelicals supporting Israel is because they see the Middle East and Israel, in particular, as a gateway/prerequisite to the end times is hardly conspiracy--it's quite well documented.
Another downside of soybeans is that its production causes deforestation and other environmental changes in areas like Amazon. See e.g. https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/the-story-of-soy

That said, soybeans are mostly used to feed livestock, so if you just eat meat instead of soy, that's likely not any better for environment.
"There’s this writing style in popular non-fiction that I’ll call the ‘Malcolm Gladwell method of shoving-a-story-in-your-face’. It substitutes argumentation for storytelling and anecdote, and in so doing sidesteps the difficulty of making a case, since the reader is too distracted by narrative to comprehend the point the author is actually attempting to make.

Whenever this happens, I take care to pay special attention, because often the point is banal, or flawed, or too inconsequential to stand on its own. (I happen to know this because I’ve used this technique a few times on this very blog, and I know from reader feedback how effective it is)."

https://commoncog.com/blog/range-book-summary/
I left university (hated it, was looking for an out) and enlisted on Thursday, 9/13/2001 (after spending a considerable amount of time talking to my uncle, who served 8 years USMC and ultimately 30 years US Army, my father who spent 8 years with the US Navy, and my brother who was 8 years US Army 10th Mountain Infantry). I was USAF, combat communications. 1 deployment to Afghanistan, 2 to Iraq. I enjoyed my time in, and I wouldn't change anything, but I desperately wanted out when I found myself building pallets for the invasion of Iraq.

> I’m glad the GWOT era is coming to an end and hope we can learn from all the mistakes we made along the way.

Agreed.
Can you provide data to back up that assertion? Its definitely a hard requirement for European engineering certification anyway
We also used NanoPB, in both C and C++.

I am pretty sure we used preallocated buffers, so memory management wasn't an issue.

Being able to have a set of definitions that works on all major mobile platforms was all sorts of nice.
as long as it doesn't get hot, It can be fun actually... some republicans will agree on spending on research if it is about national defense/security...

Last time we got rockets to the moon, and the internet, which was transformational for the whole world. who knows what will be discovered in the next couple of decades in the name of 'defense'.
This may sound stupid, but you can try looking up the stories of people who had really hard luck and struggled, and finally were able to make a life for themselves. Their stories can remind you that even after enduring incredible hardships, you can overcome them, even if you don't know how yet.

I also suggest meditating on death and life. Ask yourself what's the worst thing that could happen. Usually it's not death, which means you can survive whatever the worst thing is. Then you can ask yourself what good things do you have right now. If you're warm, safe, and have food, you've covered all the base requirements! Can you hear, see? Then you can also listen to music and look at nature/art. Even when things are falling apart, we usually still have pretty amazing lives.
Identified possible star source of the WOW Signal
recording sound - is already working. Recording video is a bit more problematic (implementation wise). I have something experimental that is somewhat working if your screen is up to 1920x1080 resolution (if it's 4k, it's not working correctly yet). I do plan to fix this in the future.
Agreed. This request needs to be FOIAd at minimum.
Yes, more like past months or so.

Simple interactions like doing grocery shopping leave a sinking feeling in my stomach for like hours. Motivation is down the drain as well.
> Everyone knows that idea worth nothing. Implementation does.

That's Borat-level pep talk.
Anyone who still believes this came from a wet market is a conspiracy theorist.

This was an accidental release of natural (but artificially-selected) virus from a lab studying SARS and related coronaviruses.

Some of us have been saying this for 10 months now.
Wow, you mean foreign interests lobby the US Government, I'm so surprised, I was unaware of that! /friendly sarcasm/

Saying that 'Congress is Subservient to a Foreign Power' is completely different than saying 'A Foreign Power has influence in Congress'.

The US gives billions to Egypt and Saudi Arabia in aid, military equipment, and literally by contract guarantees the Sovereignty and power of the House of Saud - so conspiratorial statements that make this about 'one side' or that anyone 'controls congress' are damaging and false.
hmmm... neither american nor arab here, but you can't deny that usa spends a lot, I mean billions, on aid to Israel, some less to Egypt. That's not a conspiracy but a fact. The cold war is over. We are much less depended on arab oil right now. What's the excuse now?
I think it’s more like if you are a first responder, the math tells you whomever you are dealing with has a gun. That changes the dynamic entirely.
Don't get me wrong, I love how simple instapots are, and not using up one of my 2 high btu burners is a giant feature.
Chicago, which has a long history of police abuse, has had residency requirement for police officers for years. What tends to happen is that officers live in one or two specific neighborhoods, far far away from the heavily policed neighborhoods. I believe it’s the same in St. Louis and other cities.

This is just to say that a residency requirement is not a panacea by any means.
> did the Chinese study less military history than the Mongols?

I know next to nothing about the wars between the Chinese and the Mongols. I could read a book about it, and why one or the other won, which is precisely my point :-)

> For someone like Pizzaro, where’s the line between studying military history and being the recipient of a body of institutional knowledge and practice?

Not much of one. Institutional knowledge and practice is transmitted via writing, far more than being carried around in one's head.

> Is the claim that the Inca didn’t have a body of institutional knowledge and practice that was effective within their own context and material culture?

Military techniques that work transcend culture. For example, attempting to decapitate the command structure is a well-known technique used by the west, and the command structure is designed to be tolerant of that. The Incas apparently never thought of that, and fell apart when Pizarro disrupted their command structure.

Just my own personal library has probably far more than 1000 times as much information as any person could carry in their head, let alone transmit to the next generation. When that's military knowledge, that is a tremendous advantage.
Great advice. I would add that another strategy that has been useful to many is that when you are feeling negative emotions stirring up uncontrollably, it’s important to remember they aren’t real. They are just feelings. At the end of the day all you have is your body, mind, health and wealth. However you feel about those things will change quite a bit throughout the average persons lifetime. What matters today might not matter tomorrow.
Daylight savings sucks. Big time.
What if im not laughing?