skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's working hard for no reward.

I've worked hard on things I'm passionate about and never get burnt out.

I took a job recently where the product is millions over budget and years behind and all the work goes into a continual hole... and it's the first time I'm starting to experience burnout.
I really wonder dude, I really wonder. The older I get the harder I find to be excited by shit. I do believe that if I was in the iPhone team I would've been like "another f-ing phone, why should I care?".

The paycheck is pretty much all that is getting me out of bed in the morning, even if at this point I can't say I really need it anymore.
Productivity per hour drops, but it doesn't matter to the agency because all of their employees are salaried. It is not people sitting in a room not being productive per se, but it is a bunch of burned out employees not being as efficient as they could be.

Again, this leads to burnout and employees that are sufficiently burned out either quit or are fired for no longer being able to meet the productivity requirement and/or making mistakes. The agency does not care because the supply of recent college graduates in marketing and communications is never ending (it is one of the most popular majors at almost any college/university).

Interestingly, slower work to a point is better for the agency since they bill the client per hour. That reverses when the quality of work suffers or the employee is no longer able to get everything done that was promised to the client. The agency gets more value out of a single employee when they work longer hours. Bonuses are common in the agency world, but they are typically meager compared to the extra hours worked. Burning out their junior employees is then to the advantage of an agency that bills by the hour.
This really needs a time frame. $25k in a big city means different things depending on era. The curves of wage growth, cost of living, and wealth disparity didn't start to diverge so wildly until the 2000s. This took a lot of people by surprise and people whose experiences diverge by era aren't always aware of how quickly things changed for other people.

Someone who graduated in 2005 will often have a completely different experience from someone who graduated in 2008 or 2009. People who haven't had to look for a job since the '80s are especially befuddled to learn "ask for the manager" leads to "there's an online application kiosk by the door, go there." Usually along with "we don't have any openings, but we keep it on file for 6 months!"
> A really strong demo for them would be to let you click a link and be playing a AAA game immediately.

That's what happens, as long as you have an account. Considering most games are paid, it's entirely reasonable to expect an account-type barrier to entry.

From memory, at least some Flash game sites, which is apparently the baseline, required a login.
Battery manufacturing needs a lot of land, which is dirt cheap in Northern Sweden. Another activity that needs a lot of land is mining, which is one of the primary economic activities in the otherwise desolate region.

> Corporate tax rate 22%, Mineral Production tax rate 0.2%. (1)

Also, the location has to do with special, naturally occurring deposits of anode materials nearby. iirc, either silicon or graphite forms "clumps" of just the right size and shape in this region, enabling them to skip some steps of the manufacturing process.

(1) https://www.talgagroup.com/irm/content/why-sweden.aspx?RID=3...
> I just made a choice to put years of savings

In America (and much of the world) this is the ultimate special circumstance. The idea of being able to consistently save significant amounts of money for YEARS is foreign to billions of people.
I've never lived anywhere where this was common. The public health system can't afford to fund it and most of the population doesn't want to (or can't afford to) pay for it themselves.
You got lucky with the roommates, that's one thing outside of your control that can go very badly.
Author here!

I have mixed feelings about this. When you do something creative for a job it takes on an entirely different character than doing it for yourself. Another thing is that gamedev is still software coding (among other things), and only a fraction of what you're doing amounts to the "fun bits" related to making interesting game design decisions. The majority of it is endless slog in trying to get collision detection to stop snagging on corners or figuring out why your fire status effect is cancelling as soon as it's applied (turns out it's because fire is cancelling ice without checking for the presence of ice in the first place, and ice turns enemies wet when it expires, and wet status cancels with fire status, so setting things on fire made them wet, which means they're no longer on fire). And 50 million more thing like this.

I enjoy it, but then there's also the fact that the industry itself has a lot of pathologies that "boring" software development doesn't, lower pay and worse working conditions as an employee, and extremely turbulent ever-changing conditions as an independent developer or freelancer.

Whenever some kid tells me they want to go into games for their career, I like to trot out the probably-apocryphal story of the Jewish rabbi who refuses to let a proselyte convert until he's come to the rabbi three times and been flat refused twice. I use the same method -- "no kid, you don't want to go into the game industry for all these reasons." If they keep coming back despite all that, they at least know what they're getting into.
The easy solution would seem to be for the person accepting the patch to check a box that says 'this patch materially improved the codebase'. That would put an instant stop to gaming the KPIs.
And also anecdotally, every professional office worker under ~30 I know has been absolutely miserable during this remote work experience, and is yearning to get back to the office - most for a full 5 days a week.
That's pretty steep
That gets boring pretty damn quickly. You'd feel sick of yourself in a couple of weeks.
Humans surprisingly want to feel meaningful. Tickling your pleasure neurons for day after day just doesn't feel good, it doesn't make you happy. Pleasure != happiness.

It reminds me of this meme: https://i.imgur.com/dRvwSsI.jpg
I'm not sure "Convex Optimization" by B&V is a good self-study book. I really struggled with it as student, and I struggled to teach with it as a TA.

It's one of those "Step 2. Draw the Rest of the Owl!" books. Great as a reference manual, but not great pedagogically. It's very complete and I would struggle to name anything better, though. Mostly, I learned convex analysis by scouring Google for lecture notes written by random professors, then cross-referencing with B&V.
> Again with the troll patterns

Such as?
I thought that at first too, but he says he likes picking old tickets off the backlog. There's usually no product pressure or deadlines with that sort of work. Which is actually the source of burnout perhaps?
Creating programs isn't much like creating other things at all. People who likes to draw doesn't like programming more than anyone else and vice versa.
I disagree, I've been learning Krav Maga in my newfound free time. Want to fight about it?
> Regularly checking people that are otherwise healthy for cancer will turn up a lot of cancer through false positives or slowly growing ones, will lead to a lot of unnecessary intervention and will in fact lead to a reduction in quality of life and lifespan

This is completely irrational argument. Catching cancers early is crucial.

Furthermore, if better information leads to unnecessary intervention the blame lands squarely on the hospitals being overzealous and greedy.

> For aggressive cancers - the ones that are really problematic - you would have to do such a test too frequently to make any real difference

Because aggressive cancers go from 0 to dead in a week? Please.
0.5% false positive rate is actually quite high. I don't have the numbers, but I'd be surprised if more than 1% of the people that would receive such a screening actually already have cancer, which would mean that it produces about as many false positives as false negatives.

Picture a population of a million people, all receiving the test. 1% of them have cancer (unknown to them) - half of those people get a negative screening result and half get a positive one (51% successful identification), and 0.5% of the full population get a negative screening result. Those numbers are roughly equal.

That doesn't make it useless by any means, but it's not nearly as 'specific' as it sounds on paper.
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Is Starfield (only recently saw an announcement from Bethesda about this) going to bite into the massive-universe and do-all-the-things market?

I played Elite (the original) on the C64, and loved it. I've been 'meaning to play ED for years' - but still haven't. I bought No Man's Sky, was disappointed, as were many, at the time, but about a year ago started playing again - got excited (again) and then lost interest due to the heavy time commitment required to do anything useful.

I suspect games like Red Dead Redemption II would be a similar time-sink without an awful lot of ersatz (in-game) accomplishments. I'm tempted, but wary.
Your slight editorial opinion reminded me of this HN hot-take from the DropBox announcement:

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Windows 11 logo uses rounded corners.

The official Microsoft logo is still flat square.
What about all the illegals? Replacing them with robots? How racist!
I wonder what the real experience of writing documents and typing code would be on this. Is the latency acceptable to not feel "detached"? Regardless, I am exciting because honestly my eyes are killing me staring at three or four monitors all day long.
Yes, but his first tweet also says
"I’m also leaving the tech industry at the end of the month."

So, it's a bit contradictory?
Burnout is real, but it's not unavoidable.

If you can't imagine yourself doing your job for the next 40 years*, then find another one.

*If you're a gunner and plan on running the place by then, that's different. Likewise, if you expect to add responsibilities and enjoy some variety, that's also different. But the basic responsibilities and activities shouldn't be abhorrent or even unfulfilling to you.
As someone who worked before there were smartphones--indeed, before there were mainstream cellphones and laptops--I'm acutely aware of just how "chained to your desk" you used to be in that, if you weren't there, you couldn't be reached. Of course, you were sometimes in meetings. But, for the most part, you really needed to be sitting at your desk most of the day if only because someone might call you with a question. (Yes, a sales rep calling me on the phone as a product manager was the norm.)
This looks boring. This is a scene that plays out in every company weekly. The stakes are trivial, there is no evidence of ill intent anywhere. Nobody has done anything particularly badly behaved. Nothing here is a shining example of good behaviour. There isn't a feel-good aspect.

I suppose the question is, who are the 100+ people who upvoted this, and why?
> Just so you know, this isn't true.

Given my statement, you're correct, but what I meant to say was; I can't just take a random PC (-like) device and expect hardware offload or other similar capabilities, I still have to buy specialised hardware, a suitable NIC, e.g Intel. I make a point of buying Intel NICs for this purpose.

> But I'd caution against depending on them for routing

I agree. I've been running Ubiquiti for 5+ years now at home. At the time nobody was recommending against them, quite the opposite in fact. I use EdgeMax/EdgeSwitch/EdgeRouter + UniFi APs.

> VyOS or the like aren't quite as nice to manage
I'm quite happy with VyOS/Vyatta, I'm not interested in fancy UIs, which made me _less_ interested in UniFi.

I've considered getting a PCEngines device because of the open/libre bootloader (uboot), when the EdgeRouter finally kicks it. It's nice and compact like a router, I can stick in my 12u network rack cabinet, and I'll be able to keep it up to date for longer as well as integrate it better with the tools I use.
The deadpan expressions on the ink drawings of the fantastical juxtaposed with the mundane invoke an Edward Gorey feel to me.
I have tons of interests, just wish I had 'lucrative' interests.

My deep knowledge of Star Wars and the NBA is not leveragable.
The saying “a sucker is born every minute” kindof applies here. Just because you and a majority of people care about ethics, doesn’t mean every programmer does. And all it takes is one who doesn’t for the company to be able to implement it.

The free market only works to an extent, and harm to consumers is a valid reason for the government to step in.
Also a programmer. Stepping away from the desk is often the best thing for me, not for long mind, just to smoke. Astounded by the number of times I have a programming problem and the solution just 'clicks' while I'm away from the screen. FWIW I'm not endorsing smoking, but removing yourself from the screen has benefits IMO.

I don't have too many hobbies myself, and TBH love programming and staying on the steep learning curve. Felt that way my whole working life.

The only time I've felt burnout is part of a 50/50 company where the other guy wasn't pulling his weight. When the energy you put in isn't giving you something back in the form of [whichever pursuits of happiness you have], then it's definitely time to re-consider.
Mongoose mothers help their colonies thrive–by forgetting which pups are theirs
The farm is the robot: permaculture.
Your companies lawyers or personnel security people call you and say your devices are being placed on a legal hold. Don’t deleted anything or you might have to deal with the courts. The large MegaCorp I work for had some training that included stuff about lawsuits.
I'm no economist, but I think we're due for a rude awakening once that gravy train stops.
It will scale just as well as any other stateful application built with Phoenix, such as one using Phoenix Channels, which we've shown can scale to millions of simultaneous connections. LiveView allows you to mark which data you want to hold in memory, and which are only required for rendering and can be discarded for only storing what you need. That said, memory is going to be higher than a non-stateful application, with all the usual caveats of more HTTP overhead, server interaction overhead, DB pressure, and such so the increase in memory comes as savings in other areas.

tldr; since we are built on top of the Phoenix channel primitive, it will have the same scaling characteristics.

https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-...
... and on the on-topic, I really do need to get back to writing up that blog post idea about the distinction between secrecy and privacy. Protonmail definitely does more secrecy (with the end-to-end, hidden from themselves encryption, etc) - but I suspect that with our (Fastmail's) image proxying and standards-based integration with regular tooling that the overall balance of usable and effective privacy is more mixed.
As a parent I've actually been thinking about this for a while. These watches are now very common btw, roughly half of the 7-9yo in the neighborhood have em. IMO ~9 should be the minimum age and the tracking should only be activated on press of an emergency button. I haven't yet found a product like that, they tend to give zero control to the kids. Aren't people concerned with their kids learning responsibility?
The fact that legislation exists has done me wonders fending against dark patterns.

Real example:

Client> We want the "I agree" button checked by default

Me> I'm not a lawyer, but I think this goes against the GDPR in that users must give their consent by action, not by inaction. I would advise to at least check with your lawyers first.

Client> Oh! I'm so tired of those laws, we'll get back to you after checking.

(a couple days later) Client> Yeah you were right, lawyers say we'd better leave it unchecked.

I know that client very well. I would have _never_ been able to convince them on a morality argument.

What's more, after a few interactions like the above now they don't bother going to the lawyers anymore. I just say "I'm not sure this is acceptable" and they immediately agree to whatever non-shady alternative I propose.
Mainly I'm wondering why you aren't using an ad blocker? I guess there's some good reason.. But I wouldn't watch youtube for one second if I had to see ads popping up during what I was watching. Your mind deserves better.
Convolutions in image processing (MIT video lecture)
in DDG you can add "!g" to the beginning of your search term to switch to google results, too
>Many times the patient will push them for further tests and treatment (or the doctors will advocate for it to ease the mind of the patient) which leads to potential harm from unnecessary treatments.

>People will ask to be treated anyway, and iatrogenics will rear its ugly head.

I just want to say that you are in agreement with my position here.

Your point about psychological problems is interesting, but as long as people know what they’re signing up for, it’s okay. Some people aren’t prone to anxiety. Why should they pay the price because other people are? Part of my original point was that implicit in your argument is that people capable of handling it should be denied something because more people incapable of handling it can’t be stopped from hurting themselves. I think many people do not agree with that moral reasoning, so medical people hide it behind objective looking statistics.

And as for cost, I don’t take any arguments from medical people about cost seriously. The reason why costs are so high is because doctors and the medical field as a whole run a massive protectionist racket to keep the supply of medical professionals low.

How fresh of them to say that because they’ve limited the supply of medical resources to enrich themselves, patients must pay by having less access to care.
Going to be reading:
- Staff Engineer
- Thinking in Systems: a Primer
- Team Topologies

And for fiction:
- The Master and Margarita

Might re-read peopleware again as well.
Being able to remotely preheat my oven could be useful. But not enough to justify the risk of someone else remotely preheating my oven.
Can you please name its title? I'm curious about it.
Director of software for our battery systems division.
> mental health implications of constantly screening for life threatening diseases

...to be contrasted with the mental health implication of living with the knowledge that you are *not* being tested and that cancer can grow undetected for years.

That, if anything, is a very good reason for anxiety.
Lee Jussim has written some well-cited books on this topic, and makes some effort to handle it with care:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jussim
I gotta take some time off. I'm completely burnt out. It's just not super interesting working for a large company with a stack a mile deep. I'm 6 months into a project that separates one status field into two different status fields. My god, it's boring, but if we fuck any little piece up we break customer data. I just want to work on something new that I'm passionate about. But the things I'm passionate about probably won't make me as much money.
I didn't have any other interest at all. Programming is the greatest thing; you only need a computer (old/new/don't care) to Create New Things. I never did programming for the money; it accidentally made (a lot) of money.

After covid + a horrible project last year, it seems I did kind of burnt out and after thinking almost 40 years that programming is the thing that keeps me happy, I don't like it anymore.

Luckily, money wise, I am (and have been) a manager(/CTO) for decades already but I always kept holding on to the fact my real passion/work/hobby is programming and I always did at least my management hours doubled up with coding.

It is strange to feel the foundation I made up for myself drop away. Will require some adaptation time and indeed exploring other interests, which simply take work trying out. I know that all things I will discover, besides baking pizza, cannot make money at all. So there is that.
Good point. I guess he means full time, but it all does seem half baked. Maybe his wife has a good job and insurance.
Right but a demo is trying to convert people from not being a user into being a user. If you require an account to run the demo you are cutting A LOT of potential customers out of your acquisition funnel. You are in effect saying "become a user to see if you want to be a user". If you can only give that experience to people that have made an account AND bought a game that's even more you've just dropped on the floor. Whereas dropping someone right into the demo/game/product with no obligation shows them the value proposition immediately.

This doesn't just apply to games, building a new programming language? Embed a web playground with your hello world example in the landing page!
This is awesome, now have it automatically build a 3d world with 3d assets
get lamp
I don't know, I did it for a whole sabbatical once and some stretches in the Pandemic - it did not make returning to work any easier.

Now I agree about needing some variety, so I would probably get a PlayStation too.
Mochi was mentioned in the article, but yes, I did gloss over it, thanks for bringing it up. I used Mochi ads myself!
Disagreement is not "flaming." Jacquesm has been generally respectful and factual. The closest they have come to rudeness is when people refer to "facts" not in evidence or link to things that they haven't read or understood well, and even that impatience was explanatory.

This comment is simply a personal attack.