skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large part of the problem is that management doesn’t realize that writing software is a creative endeavor. You don’t get more creative output by working people harder, you do it by giving them more freedom. I may create more value with one spark of insight than months if trudging along, yet almost all management is meant to optimize the trudge and not the spark. This also adds to the very low quality of most code (also cited in the study).

We see a lot of VCs blog about how you can’t succeeded if you don’t work long, hard hours but the truth is the complete opposite. You can’t operate at peak coding performance if you’re not rested, motivated and feeling creative.

4 day work weeks (or less), 100% flexible schedules, wfh and far fewer meetings are some ways you can combat burnout.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Microsoft ship all the libraries with Windows or updates?
I've just tried to open a project in freshly Visual Studio 2019 on another Windows 10 machine with all the updates installed... and it asked me to manually install .Net Framework 4.8 or downgrade the project to 4.6. This reminded me I have always been wondering why did we always have to install all these VisualC++ "redistributables", common controls, MDAC, MSXML, DirectX and all sorts of things like that? Why wouldn't MS just bundle all they have with Windows and then push all the missing/updated ones through Windows Update as they arrive? What's the motivation behind this policy?
I've been pulled into meetings with people trying to write these things, and I can honestly say that they always seem sincere about trying to make the company a better place. It's not an excuse for cynical "hah, this load of bullshit will fool everyone". What's more, they're smart enough to know exactly how many people will see it that way.

Doing this kind of thing can't be the only thing do as a company to improve culture, just like a coding style document won't magically improve a codebase.

But, as part of a wider attempt to make things better, it can be useful.
Some percentage of allocation in cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, maybe one or two more if you invest more time in reading up) may not be a bad idea.

(I'm not implying to invest or speculate with what you can't afford to lose and this is not financial advise.)
The entirety of health/sleep<>alcohol scientific data support my point so you do you...

I feel stronger and sexier when I drink, it doesn't make it a scientific fact
> You can change your sex with a sex reassignment surgery.

You can surgically change genitals and pump hormones, the gametes don't change, nor chromosomes.

> you are the sex your characteristics match.

You're conflating gender and sex. Even for medical reasons alone, biological sex is an important consideration. We can show our appearance any way we like.
> I don’t think welcoming all types of questions should be expected in this type of environment.

That's the "work-should-be-like-stackoverflow" attitude that many folks have. It's toxic.

What may sound like "a stupid question" might be a signal that the asker just needs some direction to get oriented. Or in the case with a bootcamp grad they might be missing whole areas of knowledge that others take for granted. You may argue that they shouldn't be there, but then the blame has to go to whoever did the hiring. It's not like bootcamp grads have been certified by a board to be programmers.

Part of being a senior/expert is being able to communicate with, onboard and assess juniors and new members. That always means MORE than just trying to exactly answer their specific questions. It means probing behind the question and trying to understand where they are coming from and what they need rather than simply what they're asking.

If you can't do that, and you just expect folks to "hit the ground running", you're not really a senior, you're a cog that needs other cogs to mesh with.
But only a small amount of that $1.9T goes to people who need it.
My main "for" point towards GUIs is that one is able to read back easily what one wrote. On the other hand, to read comfortably a LaTeX equation I have to compile it; then for editing I have to move my attention back and forth from the compiled document to the source. (corrected a mistype)
Or rowing?
The difference is that if you were a professional painter you'd also have a second job in order to survive.
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Everyone has mental structures for knowledge, this is just an extension. And I don’t want to think about sorts of questions like “who owns Notion today?”
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Flink is pretty cool, but the Flink Python API and Beam Python APIs are pretty atrocious, and some of the higher-level APIs (like Flink SQL) are pretty hard to grok. I kicked the tires on Flink and tried to love it, but I couldn't get there. Storm (which is Heron's inspiration and is still better than Heron, IMO) is a lot simpler conceptually. But it's pretty clear Flink was built to avoid the need to combine Storm Streaming + Spark Batch for "Lambda Architecture" style setups.
Developers are getting too spoiled. Did someone do the same research for teachers for example.
LyX is a truly underrated piece of software. It was my entry point into LaTeX.
Wow that transformation is awesome. Great article.
so the same thing Panasonic did with with their waterproof cameras a decade ago?
That’s not an answer to their question
The worst thing about not working, travelling, meeting lots of great people and ideas is that those people "needs" to work. So you don't hang around too much, and their ideas are not being developed with time.
This follow up is way more compelling because it deals with the reality. I'm jealous of the authors communication skills and their partner's: there are some very hard statements in there about feeling worthless and falling behind because of no job. I wonder of those words were spoken calmly, or shouted through tears.

Here are their discussions: https://livingafi.com/post-fire-relationship-disconnect/

TL;DR: He has to go back to work due to medical issues, and his relationship didn't work out. But he's still got his chin up and it's great.
Can't say I've had much of an issue with Netflix, other than on Edge with paging forwards and backwards causing lag/voice sync issues - but then that could easily be an Edge thing.
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I tried this. It breaks a surprisingly large number of sites (or perhaps not-so-surprisingly), and good luck trying to beat Google's captcha without a User-Agent header.
COVID19's main issue is that it takes anywhere from 5 to 14 days before you feel symptoms. During this window, it looks like you're still spreading COVID19 around.

Therefore: traditional means of preventing spread (ie: staying home from work and/or school) are ineffective. Measles or Ebola (or plenty of other diseases) have a much smaller window of spreading (because you feel sick sooner).
For me, quitting work would probably not happen immediately after I get FU money, but it'd happen within that year, I bet.

At first, I'd do a lot more of my hobbies, but then I'd probably move into finally making video games. I'd finally have the time to just sit and play with it. Right now, I don't feel like I have that kind of time, and getting more than 3 hours in a row is hard on weekends, and impossible on week days.

It definitely isn't about not-working. It's about working on what I want to.
That’s my plan. I doubt my business will be viable for many more years but I do feel a responsibility towards my existing customers.
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Lacking redundancy is also not free, the resulting downtime can happen unexpectedly, for unknown durations. Paying for the redundancy overhead is insurance against single points of failure.
Still, the UK is quite a bit into the delta wave and the number of deaths have barely budged: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/
Maybe it's not the best idea to expose yourself to any risks or live unhealthy, if you can't afford healthcare. /s
You can't live to 101 without proper genetics. Sport when not overdone improves the quality of life but is not likely to prolong it in any significant way.
Could you naively compose the distance functions and then use automatic differentiation to compute the gradient? As long as the distance functions are differentiable, so should their composition be.
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Agreed- I worked in IT for 4 years, and the biggest takeaway for me was learning how to "placate" requesters while reprioritizing issues: there is a balance between a cold shoulder, and outright hand-holding.

I find initially responding something like, "Hi ___, thanks for reporting this. I'm taking a look at this first thing tomorrow. Can you let me know when you first noticed this happening, and anything you've tried so far?" It takes 30 seconds to respond with something like this, but it saves hours of time later, and usually issue resolves itself. Soft skills in IT go a long way.
I hadn't even considered the potential power of TabNine in LaTeX! That could be a gamechanger for routine stuff.

And I second your endorsement of Overleaf. I had to write a research proposal a few weeks back for work after not touching academic writing for 7 years. Overleaf made the process relatively painless.
> Sec-CH-UA-Model provides a lot of identifying bits on Android and leads...

intentional?
I'm not sure how you assess that he is conflating numbers to tell a narrative. Pueyo discusses fatality rates in the article, specifically that the vaccines appear to still be highly effective at preventing deaths (though much less so for infections) and that countries with high vaccination rates are not seeing high death rates even when infections are growing.

The only area where he says deaths are getting worse are for the unvaccinated: that fatality rates may be significantly higher for unvaccinated individuals due to a faster replication rate of the virus and therefore a much higher viral load.
This is about the most Swedish story I've ever read.
I've used the sniper fantasy for decades (since I was a kid). I guess I discovered it by accident, but it has _always_ worked. The key (for me, at least) is trying to concentrate on the imaginary target...waiting for it to appear in the imaginary scene. I'm out like a light in no time.
This myth of "spoiled developers" definitely feeds into the problem. People feel like they cannot complain about their work conditions because they have nice toys and benefits at the work place.
Thanks for spending time thinking through some of this :)

I think it "felt like 30" because I was nervous. Not because I thought it was illegal or unethical, but because I was breaking social norms. I see this as different from acting "unethically", and closer to what Erving Goffman would call a "breaching experiment".

I definitely did not want to raise any flags in the store itself, hence the staggered exit and furtive behavior. Again, not because I thought it was illegal or unethical, but because there was a certain way I wanted to see everything play out. If I got kicked out before I had a chance to exhibit the work, it would have made for a distractingly complicated story. I think this point is difficult for some folks who can only see this as a prank or security research, and don't understand how artists think and work and craft stories.

Regarding the question of what constitutes "public space" and legality of of using peoples likenesses for profit, there are some other great responses in this thread which explain the details (like the one here by sellyme). It's interesting for me to hear how most folks on HN assume that photography in the US operates more like the EU.
I feel they should clarify what they mean, and what respondents meant, by 'burnout'. Burnout is an extreme state and I am extremely surprised that 83% would feel that way.

From the actual study "A total of 83% of Software Engineers reported feelings of burnout with only 17% reporting no burnout. 55%, a majority, reported “great” or “moderate” levels of burnout."

What is a "moderate level of burnout"? This is self-contradictory, so I'm not convinced that respondents really meant 'burnout' in the strict sense, and the question itself leads to this lack of clarity.
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The secret is to revert back to Draft/Normal mode and abandon the performance regressions from print preview mode. Word was never designed to use that as the primary editing view.
As a vaccinated person, I've never really paid much thought to other diseases that could make me, at worst, mildly ill. One may have to enlighten me as to why this one should be different from, say, influenza in my day to day activities at this point.
> Why throwaway such an important body of data? Does not make any sense at all.

Presumably it's not the only body of data, though, particularly when we're talking about worldwide, rather than just the USA. Side effects are detected in other countries too.

> OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects

So ... you're not required to report suspected covid-vaccine health problems your employees might be having. It seems a poor fit for something you'd want employers to do anyway? Much more suited to the healthcare system.

> if a local authority takes a measure that contradict W.H.O, and later it turn out to be sub-optimal, then the local body will find it hard to justify in front of the people

Good reason to stick to well-evidenced treatments then, regardless of the WHO, as if more reason was needed.
Last I checked back in on my childhood obsession of paleontology, consensus was that a whole lot more theropods were at least partially feathered, at least at some life stages, than previously thought, including some of the big ones, but there's not evidence that many other categories of dinosaur were feathered.
If you read https://haystack-books.s3.amazonaws.com/Study+to+understand+..., you’ll see

Q1. To what extent, if any, do the following statements apply to you?

I feel burnt out from work.

On a four-point scale, that scores 21%, 35%, 28%, 17%.

So, they took everyone except those who said they didn’t feel burnt out at all, and got 83%.

I think asking for feelings of burnout exaggerates the issue of being burnt out by a huge factor.

For me, burnout means not only being tired of your job, but also inability to ‘burn’ outside work. I don’t even see how you can be that moderately, but over a quarter of respondents reported that.
>This isn't even getting into the fact that household spending doesn't scale with income, so a doubling of income often results in more than a doubling in disposable income.

It's a little more nuanced than that.

The 75th and 90th percentiles are pissing away money sending their kids to expensive daycare.

The median and 25th are sending their kids to the lady down the street who takes cash.

The 75th and 90th care about what school district they can afford a house in. The median and 25th (if the 25th is even buying a house) know they can't afford to live in those neighborhoods so they shop elsewhere.

These are just two examples but the point is that except for some very basic necessities these groups are often not competing with each other for big ticket items and the higher income demographics spend tons more on these big ticket items eating up more of their discretionary income.

Of course they the high percentiles on average have more discretionary income than the low percentiles but you can't just look at the median car price and the median mortgage payment and use that to infer much of anything about the discretionary income at any given level because it varies so much by whether you're acting like everyone else at your income level or above/below on the big ticket items.

Percentiles aren't very helpful here because discretionary income is generally very small compared to these big ticket items that vary a ton based on social factors.
Could also download books from non-approved stores or websites with a full web browser. There is an “experimental” we browser in the kobo software but it is not the same as chrome / Firefox.
sure. they wont though.
But do the study's participants understand that definition of burnout? Burnout, the way its casually thrown around these days, seems to be synonymous with regular tiredness in casual conversation.
Does everyone interpret the question as something that's headed towards being so depressed you're unable to work? Or would a lot of people interpret "I feel somewhat burnt out" as "I would enjoy a vacation and not needing to be productive".
Is this really a problem with "infrastructure languages", or just C and C++?
Are other "infrastructure languages" plagued by UB?
What about D, C#?
What about languages which are not "C inspired"?
Are you saying that in the 70s, there was 7-10% real inflation on everything from gas prices to groceries to home prices, yet wages just stagnated (e.g. here's your 1.5% raise for the year!)?

Due to exponential growth, that would become brutal after just a few years, and you'd easily notice a diminishing standard of living as most Americans spend close to all of their paychecks on a monthly basis, without much wiggle room.

I think that's actually what we've been living through in the US for a while now, though not nearly as high 7% and real inflation has technically been limited to a subset of goods and services. Which means that it's low enough that people don't really notice things getting worse and worse, until they're shocked into realization when buying a large ticket item like a new car or a home, and they see just how much purchasing power they've lost compared to even a decade before.
Exactly I have so many hobbies, social opportunities, home improvement projects, chores… that get neglected because the bulk of my time and energy goes to work.

I’ve saved enough to have multiple year breaks in my career and not once was I at a loss for something to do. Quite the opposite, it was apparent exactly how much of my life was being wasted on goals I found uninteresting (at best), all in the name of not starving to death or living on the street.
To level set, my comments were mainly targeted at the US coverage of the Delta variant where the vaccination rates are largely due to choice rather than accessibility.

>The difference between 95% protective and 88% is more significant than you think if you live in a low vaccinated area.

..but if I live in a low vaccinated area, the only thing that will help me after getting vaccinated is other people getting vaccinated. Also, the 88% effective rate of the mRNA vaccines against the delta variant is still significantly higher than the non-mRNA vaccines like Astrazeneca against the primary strain. Is 95% better than 88%, sure, but as far as vaccines go 88% is still very effective. The FDA was originally targeting 50-65% effectiveness in their initial approval guidelines.

>It’s the spread we need to concern ourselves with, not just personal protection.

Those two concepts are interlinked. If people are not concerned with personal protection, then it's highly unlikely that they will be concerned about the spread. The best thing to minimize the spread and protect yourself is to get the vaccine. It's that straightforward.

>The more exposure to the virus you have the more likely it is you will get infected

This is the same for everything, not just Covid. As I mentioned, the numbers in the US are very low, so my chance of exposure is already low. In a nation of 330 million people the total number of cases over the last week can fit in a football stadium. In regards to the exposure risk in the US it's fairly minimal.
I do the same thing - I just haven't quite managed to reach the level where I do it as a deliberate method, I always think I'm going to send it!

I've on occasion done it to StackExchange sites too, nice thing about that is when you have your Aha moment, you can just tick 'Answer my own question', detail the answer, and post both together for other people's (your future) benefit.
Then... Don't keep throwing out your tools?
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If it turned out that teachers (and everyone else) also have an ~80% burnout rate, then that only shows a more fundamental problem. Not that anyone is being spoiled.

And it's okay if that starts by finding out that developers have a ~80% burnout rate. To be fair, you are at least correct that we should run the same study against teachers. (And really as many other people as we can find the time/money for.)
I'm not claiming charges were filed. I'm claiming (and the docs claim) laws were broken.
Thank you - I used the calculator more in the last hour after making this change than I had in the past month. I'm ashamed I didn't figure this out - I should have done a better job of RTM.
>Cycling's a lot easier on the joints I guess.

murder on the perineum though.
When I said Arthritis I actually meant Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), where Sulfasalazine is the recommended and effective drug treatment. I don't know much about osteoarthritis (OA) so cannot comment on it.

>> But Levadopa for Parkinson’s (which I’m highly likely to get if I live long enough), and its newer analogues, may be one of the few worth the trade. Grandparents on both sides w/Parkinson’s.

I'm very sorry to hear that. Are you taking any "precautions" to (potentially) delay or mitigate the onset of Parkinson's, e.g., healthy eating, exercise, etc? Do you think knowing what you know has had an impact on how you lead your life currently (#Yolo)?

Note: I'm a researcher in an adjacent field (digital health) and so please don't take anything above as medical fact.
The ask questions section is so important, and not just for Junior devs. I used to be afraid of asking when I wasn’t sure I understood and I’ve learned so much about how to do my job and how people think from always asking now. I wish I hadn’t been so arrogant and lacking confidence earlier in my career
> and trying to click it brings you to a broken page.

Can you give an example of this (with the real link to compare)? Tracking info can be added to the URL but should not break the page.

There are extensions and addons that remove the tracking data for you, you might want to give them a try.
I will not be bored when I am not compelled to work.

I was unemployed for six months during the pandemic. Boy did I fail to be bored! I overhauled my garage, building a French cleat system and organizing all of my tools. I built a movie/reading nook for my spouse, with a sliding bookshelf door. I caught up on cutting and splitting firewood for winter. I played board games, cooked, baked, rode bike almost every day, sat in the cool breeze overlooking nature, sat by the fire pit and boy, was I not bored.

I also spent a lot less on clothes and commuting...
Did you retire from engineering? Esoteric tools can certainly be a problem but that's a tiny portion of the pool of people who experience this. Technology in general changes all the time
Here you go, straight from the horses mouth. Take that as you will.

"A preprint submitted by the Company today to bioRxiv contains a new analysis from blood samples obtained from a subset of participants (n=8) in the Phase 3 ENSEMBLE study. These data showed that the Johnson & Johnson single-shot COVID-19 vaccine elicited neutralizing antibody activity against the Delta variant at an even higher level than what was recently observed for the Beta (B.1.351) variant in South Africa where high efficacy against severe/critical disease was demonstrated."

https://www.jnj.com/positive-new-data-for-johnson-johnson-si...
This is just how it works on HN. It's not the first time an informative article has been flagged and it won't be the last.

All kinds of articles get flagged. You have to check in on /newcomments to find interesting discussions.