skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your arguments are specious; perhaps you're simply angry that you didn't understand an industry you've worked in for a while? Perhaps you're in management, or in the 20% who aren't burnt out, and you're embarrassed by proxy?

Psychological experiments and surveys are often done in only one or two days. Why would a wider window of time help when taking a snapshot of a current situation?

Hm, is 258 a small sample size? Let's put in some effort instead of just screaming "bullshit" a bunch. There are approximately 408,000 people in the entire population [0], and plugging everything into a calculator, we get two results: First, they should have tried to poll around 400 people (and perhaps they did!), but more importantly, the 95% confidence interval is only around ±6%.

Let me repeat that more clearly: By typical polling standards (95% confidence interval, random sample from filtered population), we expect that 77-89% of UK software developers are actually burnt out. That is still three out of every four people in the industry!

Not sure what to say. Take a stats class?

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/318818/numbers-of-progra...
They same could be said about almost any new technology. Telephones were at one point only available to the ultra wealthy.
Some of that is probably just the age-group. I've become disconnected from many of my friends over the past 10 years as well, and I certainly haven't retired.
Everyone should have a Bitcoin insurance policy
I'm quite happy with the outcome so far. Though, my aims are humble. My intention for this period of life (however long it lasts) is to live 'organically' and observe the results. My primary observation is that I'm happy consistently - something that was inconceivable with my old style of X to Y to Z goal planning.

In your second paragraph you mention trying to be as productive as possible during your time off. Seems like you'd be setting yourself up for disappointment there. If you instead approach that time off with 'whatever happens, happens' approach you'll be more forgiving of yourself and may actually be able to relax so you can be more productive later.

The theory I'm exploring is that happiness is healthy. By living happily, perhaps I am repairing whatever damage I did when I was so intensely on the career grind (it was rewarding but, ultimately unhealthy in a burnout way). And, by doing that repair, perhaps I'll be better suited to be even more productive.
At this point it will probably have to be considered endemic like other coronavirus that circulate like colds. Eradicating it is unlikely to happen.
Yeah, further we should've stopped making planes or smartphones early on, too since only the rich could afford them.
> A better solution would be standardize a backend apis and setup standards around how data is queried and stored.

We have actually attempted to do this on a national scale in Denmark because it was silly to have 98 municipalities handle organisational data (and other things) in 98 different ways. So we created something called rammearkitekturen (framework architecture) which specifies what an “employee” is and how you’re supposed to transfer them between systems. The suppliers hired to build this, and these are companies like IBM, Systematic and Netcompany somehow still manage to build things in such a manner that the next company needs to spend a whole year beyond their estimate to get things running after a public procurement process that saw an ownership change. Some of these are complicated, bur most of them aren’t. Or at least they aren’t supposed to be. Now, either IBM is completely devoid of talent, or maybe software “engineering” just isn’t “engineering” at all. At least not on a level that is in any way acceptable to us as enterprise customers.

I’m still not sure why we tolerate year long delays on software projects. It’s not like building a new hospital never gets delayed, but the consequences of those delays are typically bosses losing their jobs and companies paying delay fines (or whatever you call that in English), where as with software the consequences are just a few shrugs and a joke about that pesky IT.

I actually don’t disagree with you as such. My point is simply that when you hire two talented engineers from the same background to build the exact same thing. Then they will both rather easily understand what the other did and how he/she did it, unless it was software.
OneDrive and Google Drive are similar and fail in similar ways, I think because they look at files and not blocks. A lot of the goofy OneDrive gotchas have been resolved, but I don’t trust it for backup.

Dropbox is king of sync, especially if you are on the same LAN as it syncs locally. That said, Dropbox has a long-term strategy of alienating their customers through annoying upsell and doing weird stuff with clients.

Personally, I went the old school route and setup a file server. I bought a surplus HP Thin Client on EBay and stuck a big SSD in it… it’s a silent, low power device that I can backup with standard Unix tools. I think the device was $50 and the drive $189 on Black Friday.
Just to confirm. My son still uses my first generation iPad from 2010 - an a4 processor running at 400Mhz with 256MB of RAM to watch Netflix.
just took biking again after a personal chaotic hiatus (11km to go to work)

my body is as capable as a plastic chair right now but it's still feels great to ride (I was surprised how good biking is for knees, my heart has a different opinion on that but still)

no traffic, no detour, no stress of other drivers, almost zero risk of accident (I don't go fast enough for that yet), no pollution

with covid there's quite a few more bike lanes and it's already a great pleasure, you can envision if everybody took their bikes more (for jobs or else) how cities would be leaner, cleaner, freer

it's probably coming soon

ps: I also agree a bit that we should drop a lot of "tech" and go a bit wilder more often
It all depends on what the definition of work here is, right(there is the capitalistic sense, or the purely physical/mental expenditure of energy)? I don't think we really know what we were built for, if anything...

The beauty is that one human can spend 70 years meditating and find purpose in that and another human can build a rocket ship and go to space and find purpose in that...and then you have everything in between and outside!
People have been protesting space launches since the Apollo programs. It really adds nothing to the discussion to say “but other people have x problems.” We know. If it was necessary for 100% of humanity to be on equal footing in order for technology to progress we’d still be living in the stone age.

I. Don’t. Care.

Space is cool.
Everyone, please note that this is NOT an announcement of Heron entering the Apache Foundation. This happened several years ago, I believe in 2017 (when I was working on it).
No it isn't. This is incredibly polluting. Yachts are also very polluting. I am not sure what is worse. But there other much more socially valuable ways for billionaires to spend money.

Charity, building parks, funding research, giving out scholarships, are all ways of stocking rich peoples egos that are also beneficial to society.

Even if you look at adrenaline pumping adventures, you can do helium balloons, sailing yachts, or submarine voyages to the deep ocean. These do not create much pollution.
Sounds like you are upset with the state Government of New Mexico and the voters in whatever counties for funding Spaceport America. Those entities are the ones responsible for how they choose to spend money, not Branson.

Branson is doing this because he thinks there is money to be made flying rich people to space. Spaceport America was funded because the funding entities thought there was money to be made by doing it. The majority of the investment for virgin galactic’s program was private, and a lot came from people who already booked flights to space.
The latest data is even more dramatic: across the UK, the IFR for Delta is ~1/10th that of Alpha, and the "infectiousness" is about the same.

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1413537810296950786

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

It is quite clear that for a vaccinated population, it isn't a threat. These are facts that simply aren't being reported by the news media. It's unfortunately quite common for talking heads to prefix "the highly infectious Delta variant" to any discussion, and never offer any context or nuance.
Yes most people who get it bad die after about 14-28 days. I don't know the detailed stats, but the average might well be 3 or 4 weeks or so, but the first of them start dying after 14 days. This means when you see an increase in infections the death rate starts to rise after about 14 days, as the leading edge of the rise in deaths starts entering the statistics.
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You can use your browser's reader mode. The content is all there in the HTML, but there's a bunch of `style="opacity:0"` attributes to hide them until JS removes the attributes.
I would disagree with "We were built for work".
Evolutionary, we were built to survive until reproduction age and a bit longer after that, to care for offsprings.

I think people who misunderstand the FIRE movement think that early retirees don't want to do meaningful work, like volunteering, painting, making music, etc. I think that is the point of FIRE - to be able to do the most meaningful things you can think of.
It could be genetic. RCCX gene mutations may make people more susceptible to CF/ME and being a software developer. For most people CF/ME will present as burnout.
True burnout, probably not, but it's always better to avoid problems like this by collecting data for at least a week.
reddit will be in the dusty pages of history in a few years. they are having their best time right now. but every site run by a bunch of idiots will sadly disappear. for the web, this is truly pure evil.
First, jumping and flickering aren't the same thing. In my experience, google maps is somewhat unwilling to rapidly reposition you if two paths are equally probable.

Second, the cost of deciding that you're in the wrong lane is very different from the cost of deciding that there isn't an obstacle in front of you. The worst thing that happens when a navigator gets your position wrong is you miss a turn and spend a few extra minutes in the car. The worst thing that happens in the other case is someone dies instantly in a cloud of blood.
> Cue the usual string of anti-money, anti-profits, anti-capitalism, anti-business comments.

It's perfectly reasonable to support something and to be critical of it. It could be argued this is how most progress happens -- by critically evaluating, changing and continuing to do so.

Also, the thread seems pretty tame -- not sure what you're reading but it's mostly on-point.
Although the recognition is hit-and-miss. A dedicated QR reader will grab the QR nearly instantly as soon as it is visible to the camera.
Or perhaps the introduction of paternity leave is a reaction to lower birth rates?
> Quite literally, from birth until you the moment you are sitting in front of your computer reading this comment, everything that has touched your life and surrounds you has been the product of capitalism. Need I list it all?

You could make the same argument during feudal times. "All you see before you is because of the king! Give praise to the king for all you have!"

But in reality, everything you would care to list is a product of worker labor, not capitalism or capitalists. It's the worker who deserves our praise and attention -- and especially the rewards of our modern time -- not Richard Branson and people like him.
You can make an analogy with the theory of the firm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm). More workers = more transaction costs. Twice as many people working half as many hours is more expensive; it's more efficient to employ people full time.

You'd expect this to crowd out many part-time jobs, jobs that aren't autonomous and low-context. That is, fast food cook, delivery driver, cleaning jobs etc. can be done part-time, but it's much harder to find shorter hours for white-collar work.
Back in 2003 when SSO went to 100km, landed, then did it again a couple of weeks later, it was an amazing accomplishment.

18 years later notsomuch. SpaceX have eclipsed it with the F9 and Crew Dragon, let alone the progress they're making on starship.

Virgin Orbit is interesting though. Electron is good too. F9 is great. Starship will be shocking if it works. Bezos and Branson though? It's nearer youtuber stuff than grown up rockets.
There's a lot of excluded middle between your 1 and 2. Off the top of my head, some other options to consider...

- We could extend copyright statute to explicitly allow training ML models only under particular conditions (for example, some kind of "non-commercial use" clause).

- We could enact mechanical licensing for inputs to ML models, as exists for musical cover performances. Creators of the works used as inputs would get royalties.

- We could require asking for permission to use a work as input, but standardized generous terms once permission is granted.

- We could flip that and just require notice that you're about to use a work as input, but allow the creator a certain window to object.

- We could declare that inputs are a free-for-all, automatically non-infringing, but that you (the creator of the model) are liable for extra damages if the outputs are proven to be able to infringe.

Many, many different ways this could shake out. I'm not particularly optimistic that any of (what I see as) the better choices will come to pass, but they exist.
I wouldn't be so quick to discard it. From personal experience, the past 14+ months of working from home has been very stressful.

I didn't think I was burnt out, until I started interviewing (due to work "stress", which turned out to be burn-out in disguise). One recruiter informed me they have seen a spike - 70% of interviewees canceled scheduled interviews, post-screening. I almost cancelled mine due to being overwhelmed/burnout from preparations + work, and my thesis is there are a lot of burned out developers out there. Unfortunately, I didn't hear what the cancellation rate baseline was before work-from-home.

If there are tech recruiters/HR folk/hiring managers reading this, I'd love to know the numbers you've been seeing for interview cancelations.
> I. Don’t. Care.

Noted.
Personal anecdote: Plenty of exercise improves the quality of my sleep, therefore requiring not as much sleep.
> You aren't completely at the whim of your manager. Managers need to actually document what you did and why that aligns with whatever level on these frameworks. Other managers can provide oversight on this. The alternative is that career success is 100% opaque and based on the feelings of one person.

This is the biggest important part. When your compensation, access to good projects, and career growth depend entirely on your manager, and you are not in the "in group," it's worse than demotivating--it's a feeling of hopelessness. You can document everything you did as evidence and none of it matters because your manager just doesn't like you. If you're lucky, you're at a company that encourages moving around and you can hope to luck into a better manager, because that's your only way out of the prison.

EDIT:

Unlike most of the commenters here, I love these written ladders, and I sincerely wish more companies did them. I would seriously favor companies that had written ladders over companies where it's hidden mysticism. When you are a "ladder climber" work personality, it is imperative that you can actually comprehend the actual requirements for getting to the next level--otherwise, how do you do get there? Guessing? When promotion happens at your manager's whim, it seems to have less to do with your work output and more to do with how well you brown nosed and smooth talked.
You live "among" them meaning "surrounded by" or "as a member of" their community?
Look at Flink or Heron. Other choices like storm aren't any good.
You're right, if everyone around you is vaccinated to the point of virtual herd immunity (afaik not currently true anywhere, but perhaps given more time / incentives / information that may change), you being the only unvaccinated person wouldn't be a major concern (except insofar as it indicates less concern for other people in other contexts).

The main issue is that there are still plenty of people with your same mindset. See the measles resurgence as less people got vaccinated: Even if you accept the personal effects of getting major illnesses, it comes with an increase in danger to the immunocompromised, people who medically cannot be vaccinated, and people whose vaccines don't protect them 100% of the time.

You're free to choose whether or not to get a vaccine, but the consequences of your decision affect more than just you.

[Edit: Additional note - while it seems preferable that everyone who can get vaccinated do so, I suppose if you're sticking with the face masks, hand washing, and social distancing you could still protect others without getting vaccinated. I'd respect that as a viable alternative. However, based on anecdata, the overlap of "people who won't get vaccinated" and "people careful about preventing disease spread" doesn't seem to be a huge section.]
That might have something to do with the fact that Netflix originally created the first Roku and spun it off as not to compete with third party vendors…..
Why is "working for the man" so bad when it gives purpose in your life?

The article showed how unsatisfied his wife was when she felt as "not going anywhere", I think she was trying to say that she does not feel any sort of progress or growth on any level.

As it is torture to keep someone in a room with no stimulation, it is the same with repetition and no change or progress.

“Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.”
- Calvin Coolidge

We need this aspect for personal development.

Metaphor: https://m-g-h.medium.com/disneys-strategy-against-netflix-4d...
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Ya, but I would guess the story is a bit more complicated. Consider (off the top of my head):

I imagine there's a real concentration problem there. Sewage is incredibly diluted if you think about it (divide your estimate of how much organic waste you generate by the amount of water used in your water bill).

If, instead, houses had grey water systems (i.e. the sink in you bathroom is used to fill up your toilet tank), or if black waters had a separate sewer (sure, not feasible in suburbia), the energy budget would change considerably.

Either way, the affluent is full if nutrients even if we can't recover the energy. Nutrients our soil is rapidly being depleted of (thanks to our modern use of sewers!)
> This is surely an argument for dropping the whole guidelines then?

If one is considering it using logic rather than heuristics, yes.

Full conversation is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27581414

Another funny/ironic part....one of my suggestions was:

> Some sort "cultural mode" for threads of certain kinds, which might include things like "epistemic strictness". So for example, for culture war (politics) threads, it might be interesting to set Epistemic Strictness = High, meaning certain common behaviors would be forbidden, such as asserting imaginary beliefs as facts (mind reading, future reading, etc).

So when dang wholesale dismisses the idea that improvements can be made (essentially, a claim that HN as it is today is 100% optimal), if this claim was made in a thread with "Epistemic Strictness = High", his comment would have violated: Mind Reading, Future Reading, and Omniscience (which I forgot to include in my comment). I simply cannot see how (well, actually, I know exactly how it is done) one could believe that literally disallowing certain types of comments would have zero effect, especially considering (as you say) that we already have guidelines.

Generally speaking, I find it utterly bizarre how resistant people are to the idea that we distinguish between reality and (certain types of) fantasy in our discussions.
I know exactly what makes me happy -- playing video games, eating good food, living in a nice climate (CA or Hawaii), and traveling the world. Unfortunately my happiness comes with a price tag.
How does it handle merging log files that are in different time zones? I wrote a small script to merge log files from lots of different network appliances a long time ago, it was extremely useful for debugging problems that occurred across our distributed system. The most unfortunate part was that the appliances all logged in local time and didn't include their UTC offsets in the timestamps :(
Not like this... not like this!
it wouldn't, it would make a difference for the people who aren't burnt out
Conversation is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27581414

I misspoke above, the conversation was much broader, encompassing not just fundamental attribution errors, but ~all errors and imperfections.

> FWIW, I think there's a good chance banning the fundamental attribution error would have no good effects.

It's possible, but it's also possible that it could have good effects - or, sometimes good effects, sometimes none, like most any other of the guidelines.

> And the human tendency to defensiveness probably means that if someone else tells us "you're doing this," we'll come up with all sorts of plausible reasons why we're not.

No doubt about it - once again, you could say the same thing about the other guidelines. My thinking is: just as the existing guidelines can be used as justification for punishment when broken, and set ~aspirations for behavior, is it possible that the list may not be perfect? Might certain other guidelines (or functionality) make HN even better? Dang's claim is that it is not possible, but this is a prediction of the future, and the future is unknown (or so people say, but only sometimes).
> this is by far more socially valuable than buying yachts and doing all the other things that billionaires spend their money on.

Perhaps, but I'm not really seeing it. This looks to me like it's about equally valuable, but comes with the downside of further increasing the number of launches -- and launches are pretty terrible, environmentally speaking.

In any case, here's hoping that the future will prove me wrong, since it's pretty clear that we have no choice. This is the path we're going, regardless of whether it turns out to be good or the opposite of good overall.
> If there is anything about the claims I highlighted in the article I linked to that you think is wrong, feel free to mention them.

Why would I bother reading it? That website demonstrated its utter unreliability in very clear terms, and I don't have the time or inclination to search for bits of edible food in piles of shit.

One of the upsides of COVID-19 is that it's made a lot of conspiracy nonsense blatantly obvious, so I don't have to waste so much time.
When I was getting to know LaTeX I would use LyX as a quick reference guide. Nice to have so much LaTeX info offline.

Basically the reverse of your usage as the learning went on, and then finally going to pure LaTeX sometime in the foggy past.