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Perspective itself is a privilege. Typing out this comment on Hacker News is privilege. This whole "comparing levels of privilege" is a silly game with no real purpose.

This previous user's comment was not (in my interpretation) a criticism. They were merely pointing out that "burnout is real" isn't really a useful topic to discuss or debate. Stress is an irreconcilable part of life which everyone experiences. I'd wager that everyone in the world gets burnt out at one point or another.

To summarize: "Burnout is real" is a phrase that is about as useful as saying "Fire is hot". We all get it. We all know. The previous commenter was merely pointing that out.
And when you call the Police they just show up so that you can file a police report for your insurance and record-keeping. The more candid officers will tell you not to expect anything from "the investigation".
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> But unlike many other ecosystems, in Go it's quite common to expect the developer to have moved to a somewhat recent version.

You'll find that true for any language and framework created within the last 15 years (and some that are older than that too). Rust, Nim, node.js, TypeScript, .NET, etc. And it's to be expected too, for the following reasons:

It's really more down to development pipelines. If your pipeline requires additionally installing the language and/or framework (eg Go doesn't ship by default on most operating systems, it's an optional install) then you're going to expect a recent version to be installed since you're having to install it anyway and since you're not going to break a mass of existing OS boilerplate that might depend on an earlier version being installed (as is often the problem with Perl, Python, shells and others).

Also if a language is newer, then there is often a higher pace of in demand features with each new release. If Go were 30 years old you can bet most of the features people might want would either already be implemented or developers that might want those features wouldn't be giving Go a second glance and instead working with other languages instead.

The longer you work in IT the more you see this cycle repeat over and over. It's almost comical how cyclic the industry is.
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Oof this hits close to home these days. I just want to scream "we're doing this to ourselves!!!"
You could make them pack hunters, with the expectation that 8-12 separate slug/roach lasers would end up focused on a target slug at a time.

That way you'd be performing target recognition from multiple angles and mis-classifications would tend to only result in the not-slug being hit with 10-20% power.
Will you be doing whole batteries, not only cells?

I am a bit surprised to hear that a battery will have software.
Figuratively speaking, we did kill grandma. We've lost 603,000 human lives during this epidemic, and 90% happened within the first year.
That's kinda also the reverse as well. AOC ran a well-ran campaign to win her place at the table in congress.

Republicans slamming her day-in and day-out made her a household name.

Like, AOC should be, (with no disrespect) basically a nobody in politics, she is a 1.2 term representative. But republicans wanted a villain and boy did they make one.

Beyond that, I kinda also think a critical bit in this is to understand that the headlines are not realistically a way to judge the actions of a politician because the politician is not the one actually writing them. Her job is to do her job and feed the marketing team the needed clips within. For the most part her daily life is reading memos and bills and voting. The PR team works like a marketing organization and they want to win in the same way AMD and Intel want to win, it's that simple. Hit the right notes while doing your job of working on the busywork of the job. It's mostly how Trump won 2016. Politics is marketing-based, not results-based.
Check out the lesser known Márcio Farraco's album Ciranda [1]. The title song features Chico. If you like him, you might like another singer-songwriter, Pierre Aderne, too [2]. Both Márcio and Pierre have a French connection, with the former living there and the latter being born there.

And if you want to virtually travel to Portugal, check out Antonio Zambujo. Here he is singing a song [3] written by both Márcio and Pierre, as luck would have it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QRdaL3GEiQ&list=OLAK5uy_lCU...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr2qTlFkytk&list=OLAK5uy_n3k...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlZcTFBxWVY
Which would indicate that the issue is not using KPIs to understand how your business is performing, but providing incentives based on KPIs.
I do this with a cheap (~$20) USB RTL-SDR – no Arduino or custom electronics necessary. Of course, I only use it to monitor my own energy usage (electricity and gas) using rtlamr[1] and a script that periodically sends the data to InfluxDB, then displayed using Grafana.

The result is a smart home energy monitor that doesn't require any clamps near the electrical panel, and it exactly matches the usage for which I'll be billed.

[1] https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr
If I have monthly income of 3000 and spend it all, how am I to save 1000 monthly without lowering my costs?

This sounds impossible, unless maybe you’re not counting all spending as “ordinary costs”?
I assume you're talking about "defund the police" slogans that came about last summer and I feel that's an unfair characterization of an entire "side of the issue." There have been meaningful, varied, and thoughtful proposals for how to reform police getting ignored and tossed aside for decades, well before it all devolved into social media soundbyte sized talking points. You could possibly start with some of the writing of Radley Balko, given he did most of it while employed by the Cato Institute and Reason, and nobody is going to mistake him for being caught up in racial identity politics or leftist extremism. There used to be quite a push in some sectors of thoughtspace considered right wing about demilitarizing and disempowering American police. I don't know when the heck or why the heck the militia "let's kidnap the governor" types suddenly became friends of the police, but it certainly didn't used to be that way in the 90s and the days of Ruby Ridge and feds cracking down on right wing groups that liked to hoard guns and not pay taxes. Being against government tyranny used to also mean being against police tyranny and not just being against safety regulations and enforceable public health policies.

In any case, to my mind, much of the issue here is that, as an issue, it's been nationalized. What "side" you're on entirely depends on your national political identity now. But police are not a national institution. They aren't regulated federally, except the actual feds, but the feds have their own problems. Many of their investigative techniques probably should be illegal, but they're not. The problems with local police are entirely different, in that they're often doing things that actually are illegal, but because they are insiders to the criminal justice system, nobody will punish them. They've managed over the decades to leverage public sentiment against hippies, communists, drug users, and various crime waves of the 70s and 90s to thwart any and all efforts at civilian oversight, leaving us in a position where the police police themselves.

But it now seems like there is no alternative. As a now matter of national identity politics, as least in the voter consciousness, the only options are, as you said, totally shut down the police or give them even more tanks and bigger guns and less oversight.

These aren't actually the only options. Reform proposals are different from city to city, but you better have a small city and hope the national news doesn't pick up on what you're trying to do. And you can't talk about it on the Internet, unless it's a neighborhood-only private group.
Yeah, they definitely just invested $xxx millions in a product that they know they won't be able to keep alive.

Amazon has plenty of recourse, and they've been fighting gag orders for years now. Ex: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/microsoft-amazon...

The company leading that charge: Microsoft. The company that got the huge JEDI DoD cloud contract: Microsoft. Weird, huh?
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> Personally I think "defund the police" is a poorly chosen slogan because it is so easily misunderstood

This, many times over -- with the caveat that I haven't been able to think of a more accurate phrase that still fits on a bumper sticker. "Narrow the scope of responsibility for the police and reallocate funding to other resources to handle non-criminal duties" isn't very catchy, but it's closer to what most activists are calling for.
I've been a private pilot for about 5 years and a couple of weeks ago I was out in crappy weather. I knew the weather would be awful and had the foresight to bring my instructor friend with me.

We ended up in cloud, I handed over control to my instructor and spent the next 10 minutes wondering what I would have done if he wasn't with me (hint: not good).

So I slept on it, text my instructor a couple of days later and told him I want to be able to do what he did. He told me I need an Instrument Rating (Restricted) rating, which allows me to fly in and above cloud.

So that's my learning for the next 10 weeks or so. I've got to take one written exam, one flying exam, and then I'm cleared for flying cloudy days.
You should probably phrase your comment in that tone, instead of being needlessly antagonistic.
I have actually seen "secure" messengers claim e2e encryption because they use https to their servers. The ends are clients and their servers.
Your post are downvoted because it is borderline racist.

The maintainer happened to be Chinese and that gave you 'chills'. There are 1.4 billion Chinese and most of them live in China, there are also open source projects hosted in China, and a lot of open source contribution coming from people living in China, if only because there are many people there. The media links you posted are also made of conjecture ('Trump administration claims' is literally in the title) and you've then stretched them with your own imagination to arrive at your 'concerns'.
Can you sequence DNA from something that old?
Are participants necessarily working for the companies sponsoring BugBust events?
I'd differ on this a bit. Your N+1 scheme is fine with me if you want to use the newest and greatest features, but I think old code / libraries should still work so long as they don't use the latest and greatest features.

I think the compiler should just ship with older versions of the language and different translation units can be compiled with older versions of the compiler. So long as the newer versions can interact with the older ABI (which ideally rarely changes), there's no problem.
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An equivalent in Poland is "masakrować" (to massacre) - but this was popularized by followers of Janusz Korwin-Mikke (far-right).

So both sides can be full of shit - and public discourse suffers.

https://natemat.pl/103155,korwin-masakruje-czyli-o-polityczn...
I would go one step further. We wouldn't have had to close schools for so long or at all if we had responded aggressively to Covid before the outbreak got large. South Korea largely controlled their outbreak without lockdowns because they aggressively tested, contact traced, and quarantined in the early days of the pandemic. Today, South Korea has something like 1/300th as many deaths even though it has about 1/5th the population of the United States.

The US had its first confirmed case on the same day as South Korea but was much slower to respond. Had we had a more robust response, we might not have had to make these tough choices about closing schools.
I think you're both right. Both autonomy and the rate of positive/negative results relate to the exploration/exploitation tradeoff. We can't find the necessary means to act towards success or assign low probability to success. That means lots of negative ideation which has an emotional impact.
It is an extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-rally...

https://github.com/mozilla-rally/rally-core-addon/
Anti-vaxxers also hurt people who don't want to lose their loved ones who've been turned into anti-vaxxers and have been impossible to reason with because they've been inundated with anti-vax propaganda.

The references to darwinism here are especially infuriating cause in many cases it's specifically parents (older people) who are anti vaxxers. Bit late for natural selection. And also such a cruel thing to say.
But thus way the labor is free™.
Unless it's a literal arena.
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Hey all, We started working on our opensource project around two years ago. The project is about the software delivery workflow for Kubernetes. We needed a Dashboard functionality for the users to show various metrics for CI/CD processes like deployment failure, Lead time, Deployment Size, and others.

In the blog, we tried to go over the whole process step-by-step and improve it to optimize agile process. From sharing the evolution of the dashboard, the initial failure, and its realization, and then how we evolved our UX to how it is today. We are still on this journey and would love to have your feedback on making it better.
But staying home surely wouldn't help if the virus came home with Little Billy? And I'm guessing nobody wore masks and limited contact with their own children in their own homes...
Yet the stock is still going up.
> And yeah the article is really long. I'm chronically unable to write short articles when I have a lot to say and that means I'm taking the sincere risk of boring some of you to death while you wait for me to get to the point, sorry about that!

Brevity is a good skill, but given the choice between too concise and too long, too long is probably the better direction to err.

I'm always happy to see articles like this on HN. I'm not sure I agree with all of it, but it's generally pretty thoughtful and covered some interesting points I hadn't thought about before. Thanks for writing it!
Scraping for bikini pics?

Reminds me of this lawsuit against Facebook:

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-six4three-bikini-app-la...
Where is it written that it's a dark pattern to collect form information before the user presses submit? Maybe the company wants that information because sometimes the form breaks, or the user isn't able to figure it out, and they want to be able call that person on the phone or write them an email and be like, hey, can we help you fill out the form? That's perfectly reasonable in my opinion. But if the intent was to sell that email address to marketers who would put it on as many nonconsensual spam lists as possible, well, then that was going to happen regardless of whether or not the user pushed the button, because the whole website is a dark pattern which means leaving was the ethical thing to do, so let's not blame technology when the problem was people.
Oy. This article is silly. In March of 2020 when schools started to close we did not know the full impact of COVID. decisions were made with the best knowledge AT THE TIME. Also we still don’t know the full impact of COVID. This article has a sample size of 1 year. As a parent of 3 with a child who started Kindergarten in September and did the entire year virtually—I’d rather deal with the fallout of having to “catch her up” than the fallout of her being asymptomatic and potentially killing me, my wife, one of her brothers or her teacher. I feel like that would be greater harm. We made/make decisions in real time with limited information—I regret none of my decisions with my kids schooling.
Not going to advocate that this is the answer for everyone, but what I thought was burnout for me - turned out I had severe anxiety, depression, and ADHD.

I'm on medication now, going through therapy, and still at my current gig doing better than ever.

So, what I want to say is that if you are concerned you are burnt out - it's very possible work is burning you out, but it's also possible to seek treatment before making a big decision like leaving a workplace with tons of great benefits and healthcare to support you.
Drawing, Really enjoy just grabbing the ipad and creating things. It's amazing how 2d shapes can trick the viewer in actually understanding what you've drawn.

Got a background in 3D and Programming, but I think the 3d industry has the same approach to problems as programming. Couple of frameworks and libraries and poof, you have an applications.

In 3d you grab a render engine, a light setup, some assets and poof, you have an image/game/animation. I miss the days that I 3d was exploring and experimentation. The alternative would be to dive into 1 subject (modeling, rendering, lighting, FX etc). But in my experience that just made me feel like a factory worker. Piece of concept art, here you go.

3D can really trap you into polishing a soulless turd, so I'm learning drawing. where you can't cut as many corners and enjoying the creative process again.

On the programming side I'm just enjoying work and learning on the job, also going back to the fundamentals like shell, sql and regex. It's amazing how much you can automate.
You are right, but that's exactly the pressure I'm referring to.

Is "I am totally burnt out to work on that thing where people will be breathing down my neck" a good reason?
Not to "both sides" it, but... well, both sides do this in their reporting. Sometimes they also "own" or "destroy" someone. I don't think it's partisan. That kind of language gets clicks, so everyone's optimized for it.
Of course there is a difference of opinion. This is natural for any political issue.

The facts, however, are very clear cut in this particular situation. And you don't have to blindly believe conspiracy theories or NATO/Kremlin propaganda to get those facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea#Ethnici...

Try to move beyond the puerile "Russia/China bad, NATO good" worldview and view geopolitical issues from both sides.
tbh it's not really a breaking change, it's for getting binary, it has nothing to do with compiling Go code or the Go language itself. I don't remember the last time I had to to use go get to download a binary ( I'm using wget or curl for that ).
It's a bit what I had in mind when saying 'regularity' and I think it's important for us to have this simple relationship indeed. At least that's how it felt when I did small scale deliveries. I knew exactly how much money was linked to my job, if I push more I can anticipate the outcome, there was no big system around to mentally manage.
A great point. It's easy for an exec to say, "We should buy Wickr to make it easier to land government contracts." You still have to integrate Wickr in a way that makes sense and actually adds value.
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> What's worse, in several jurisdictions (some places in the US included, IIRC), if a company is found to have caused damages based on this sort of "negligence", the developers are legally to blame - not management.

[citation needed]

Company employees in the US (including software developers) are shielded from personal liability by their companies, unless that liability was created by breaking the law or gross negligence (with the latter being extremely difficult to prove). The company can fire the developer for being incompetent or negligent, but the company would still be on the hook for any damages.

The same is true when outsourcing development to a third-party development house. The client company may be able to sue the development company, but the individual developers would be shielded from personal liability by whoever they worked for.

The only situation I can think of where a developer would be personally liable for buggy or insecure software is if they signed and sealed source code as a professional engineer (this is practically non-existent), or if they were freelancing and contracting with companies directly. In both cases, they would be eligible--and often required by their clients--to purchase insurance against errors and omissions.
Well yes, because all political reporting is basically TMZ for boring, ugly people. It molds politics into some fantasy world of rap battles and gang fights rather than a productive discussion about making good policy.

And if your first impulse is to think well yeah because the other side blah blah, you're part of the problem too.
I looked for the compelling point of this and go to the point where I could win an expenses paid trip (doesn't say "all expenses" fwiw) to AWS Reinvent and was really unmotivated to read further. Feels like a scammy way to get free engineering work.
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I follow the researcher on TikTok, whilst I enjoy his work this article is a big nothing burger. Each individual ERCOT customer is able to access fine grained meter data *of their own meter*, not the meter data of others. If everyone is so concerned about what the meters actually say Texans can volunteer their data for the purposes of this research.

Since the meters broadcast in the clear I would not be surprised if war driving becomes standard practice for the retail electricity providers. Yes that's right. When you sign up with a REP they don't know your habits: how much power you're actually going to use or when. Having historic meter data is a competitive advantage in building your pricing models.

I'm getting really tired of people who have no idea how the system functions in Texas making strong assertions based on errors and sweeping generalizations from journalists that don't have a clue how things work either.

I have two U.S. ISO's, multiple REPs, and a large generator as clients. I know people on the board of ERCOT and get the back story on everything, especially things the public will never hear about. This business has nothing in common with anything you've probably read unless it comes from industry insiders.
using this: https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr, I could read the meters of about 30 of my neighbors... and I was not living in apartments... Yards in that neighborhood were about 150ftx75ft. And I would get meter reading updates about every other minute. I used the stock rtl-sdr antenna and didn't even place it outside my home.
There are also the X3 games from Egosoft (e.g. Terran Conflict/Albion Prelude), which are great fun for building a space trading empire, exploring, waging war or being a pirate. Warning: they can suck up a lot of time. They aren't the easiest to learn games and there's a lot of modding potential. They started with a lot of bugs, but are much more playable now.

X4 Foundations is the new release, but I haven't tried it personally yet.
I still don't get how it works

These actions can be used to infer possible intent to leave: scroll up (to reveal address bar on mobile), move mouse toward top of viewport (to move mouse toward address bar), swipe down (to reveal address bar on mobile), loss of UI focus, probably others.

I hate these patterns, and they are 100% appropriately described as dark. I and the other devs spent months at one place arguing with a PM about how janky and broken the third-party intent-to-leave detector they injected using Google Tag Manager without dev involvement made our app feel. (GTM was the product that convinced me Google gave up on not being evil)
I've been learning Haskell for a few months now. I really like it and am looking to write a small compiler in it. Anyone have any pointers?

I'm also smoking ribs for the first time today, that should be a fun learning experience.
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