skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed! I downloaded the app, saw 10 minutes of teenage girls dancing, and deleted it. My friend talked me into giving it another chance. After a few hours, it was consistently delivering videos that were exactly my taste. I've never had such a good discovery experience.
This whole thing is about selling as many vaccines as possible.
Actually fixing the problem does not create wealth for shareholders.

>greediness

You cal that greediness, I call it markets functioning well /s
“Skunk Works” by Ben R. Rich is a worthy sequel to Kelly Johnson’s “Kelly: More Than My Share of It All.” It brings the story of the Lockheed Skunkworks, founded by Johnson, up to 1995. There are a number of lessons for technology entrepreneurs. This post focuses on "The Ship that Never Was" to look at an innovation that, so far, has not been adopted by the Navy. Parallels are drawn to Elting Morrison's "Gunfire at Sea" about an earlier revolution in ship design.
Then don't extrapolate viral load to transmissibility like you did in your original comment. Stick to refuting the specific claims that you actually have evidence to address.

If you don't understand my summary of the first point, then read the source the article cited for the claim that delta is 60% more transmissible:

https://khub.net/documents/135939561/405676950/Increased+Hou...
It really chafes me that that somehow "looking at a video on a computer" managed to find itself legally distinct from "downloading it".
Yeah, it's like he disappeared into a really, really deep rabbit hole with this stuff.

I hope it's rewarding for him and his team, but I do hope he comes out EVENTUALLY and does talks and articles again!
Yes, we have the disposal income to take a few months off work when we want to and can spend that extra time writing blog posts about how hard life is.

Everyone else just sucks it up.
This is a really great question, I'd love to know how to minimize my own burnout. It's likely not just maintenance as I've felt burned out on brand new projects that have no maintenance.
North Dakota Plans Largest Carbon Capture Facility
Their reply was a non sequitur because they didn't understand the analogy.

But anyway most "fixes" are really just changing systems to adapt to change in other systems. I spent 3+ years at Google just migrating this and that and the other subsystem to a different datastore, and knew dozens if not hundreds of developers stuck on a treadmill of constantly rewriting to adapt to other people's rewrites.
We have been, it’s just not published as much in the newspapers because it is niche medicine effective in the hospital setting. There are a few proven treatments that can be given early (antibody therapy) and a large host of treatments being studied.

If you google “nih covid treatment guidelines” you can read the official US 355 page pdf of the current treatments with summaries and more in depth.

Overall mortality in the hospital has improved quite a bit, by my estimate from ~10-15% to 5-10%, which may not seem like much but is 50% improvement in about one year! (Edit: I want make sure I point out that this is from a US medium sized city hospital viewpoint, there are biases in my view).
Yes, I'm saying that rising input costs can cause inflation even in the face of falling spending, let alone flat spending. It's not just wages or spending that can cause inflation, right? Any inputs, including wages, can cause it, independent of spending.

[EDIT] that is, yes, falling spending would have a "cooling" effect, but if costs for, say, productive land, go up fast enough, you can still see inflation in the face of falling spending.
It's because of collecting VAT and import taxes and then redistributing the money to the relevant countries, I believe. Companies used to pay customs and import taxes in the port where a shipment arrived, often under favored terms, which the other countries didn't like.
Diet and routine does help. Many people in their late 30s and up I also recommend trying to reduce the amount of sugar and caffeine at least 3-4 hours before they sleep (ie 0 amount).

I personally have used a meditation technique for years. This method looks like a variation of that. I think as long as you relax and have the meditation bits you brain will start to associate 'do this means sleepy time'. Basically relax, breath normal but regular, minimize thoughts, meditation exercise. Me personally my 'exercise' for it is to calmly "count to 50 I will not make it past 20'. I rarely get to 5. For me if my brain is 'calm and clear' sleep is usually no issue. But if there is something that is concerning then it is more difficult. There are a very few times I have to go up to 50 and start over 2-3 times to get it to work right. But usually only if I am stressed about something else.

Routine is key also. But if the meditation is part of that your brain will do odd things. Even just thinking about this is making me feel sleepy :)
What's the definition of properly though? It opens and works fine.

If you're saying "Features that only exist within Obsidian won't exist in other apps!" then.. yea, that's true. However features that _do_ exist in other apps, like the loosely spec'd `[[link]]` will work in many apps. Same with latex, github extensions, etc.
This is great. One of those obvious-in-hindsight techniques. Fractal noise is pretty simple, Perlin noise being the most popular. It's easy to think of this as being the SDF equivalent.

I can't think of how a Simplex-noise equivalent might work, as displacing spheres by a vector might have the same issues as naive noise in terms of continuity.
You should be able to measure burnout by watching employee churn. Something software development is notorious for. I don’t think people jump companies every year and a half in most industries.
Person-to-person means not hosted by anyone. Sending a png screenshot over sms or imessage or signal, etc. means the image is bytes on a personal device. How the other person manages their data is their own business.
Especially in an era of very high programmer salaries.
please don't kill yourself, there needs to be more people being fed up for things to move, not less :)
Yes, but I doubt those questioned knew and used that definition. Reading https://haystack-books.s3.amazonaws.com/Study+to+understand+... it certainly wasn’t tested for.

It’s all self-reported, and the question didn’t even ask whether the subjects thought they were burnt out, just whether they felt like it (for me, that’s a weaker thing)
FWIW, I’ve been fully vaccinated (Moderna) since March. I was just in Provincetown, MA for the usual yearly 4th of July celebration with 10K other gay men, and Delta ripped through everyone. I got breakthrough COVID, which I assume is Delta because the symptoms were much more like the common cold than classic COVID. I probably know ~150 people in that group, and at least 14 people I know got breakthrough COVID. Meanwhile back here in LA I found another 5 people (trainers and members) in my very small, outdoor gym got breakthrough COVID. Everyone I know is fine health wise, no hospitalizations, and it was more annoying than anything, but it does indicate anecdotally that Delta is not going to go well.
It’s mind boggling - the primary feature of Reddit being a link aggregator - and clicking on a link breaks everything. Literally, Reddit will say “I’ve broken, please reload me” if you try to “go back” from the link you just clicked on.
You can somewhat mitigate this by running down on the apron, close to the water. (though; I assume maybe that's what you did because running/hiking in dry sand is damn hard).
Indeed, "Masterly Inactivity" is an established concept:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/masterly_inactivity

and used to great comedic effect in Season 1 of "Yes, Prime Minister":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESIJ_C9mUBI

> Q: I've been asking myself what can I do to continue this run of success?

> A: Have you considered... masterly inactivity?

> Q: No, Humphrey. A Prime Minister must be firm.

> A: Indeed. How about _firm_ masterly inactivity?
> I don't see how this is related.

Well, I said what if "academics had to pay publishers a fee for each citation they make." In this situation, publishers like Elsevier would be able to extort even more money from academics, and ultimately from taxpayers. I'm sure publishers would be very happy about that while making everyone else miserable.

> Copyright infringment is usually not litigated unless someone loses money.

Partly true. Copyright infringement is litigated when the one suing believes there is money to be made. It doesn't matter where "the money lost" actually belongs to, as evident by court cases ruling in copyright troll's favor. It also doesn't matter whether the one being sued made any money too.

But the most absurd assumption here is that linking has to benefit the creator of the content. If that is the case, no one would have the freedom to criticize the works of others online, or risk being sued of copyright violation. That's not even remotely close to what copyright was supposed to be all about.
Gartner: Apple sold 1M more Macs year over year in Q2
I don't think it does, but I've never considered it that much of an issue to spend 2 seconds clicking the back button if there are no visible comments. It's not like you know who's posting anyway, so it's always a crapshoot whether it's going to be a bot, relevant comment, or just someone posting something like "+1" or "^^This".
> I feel stronger and sexier when I drink

Well, that is a bit sad - I don't. Perhaps, just perhaps, alcohol affects different people in different ways, like all other drugs?
As a art-degree holder turned engineer - yup.

While there's a romantic vision of the starving artist, being broke is a whole different type of burnout.
In my experience (and I think also in the spirit of the analogy), it's not just maintenance. It's expecting to maintain everything you've ever done while also simultaneously being expected to keep producing new work at the same rate (and then being expected to maintain that).

It's that your work load seems to only increase. As the study found with regards to the causes of burnout, increased workload cited as the main reason.

I'm still providing updates to stuff from over five years ago (that has officially been retired), while my boss is breathing down my neck about new projects. The stress of doing this, the stress of trying to manage my manager's expectation, the stress of realizing you'll never be able to really put any of your work out of your mind or have a lighter load of responsibilities, etc. is what leads to burnout.
All the generated faces have soul-dead eyes.
Yeah rowing and cycling also works to some extent. Rowing seems to be a little better but I can still feel the drag on my knees.

I'm in the middle of reducing 20-30lbs and see if it helps.
> why they added that piece of logic in that file instead of further downstream

This is the kind of thing that has always bothered me about code reviews. I'm confident that my teammates can write working code or any (obvious) bugs can be caught through code review, but is it possible there is a better solution by modifying code somewhere else?

For example, there's a bug that is causing several issues, and there is a report for one of those issues. A patch is submitted to fix the issue without fixing the root cause and you're reviewing it. You verify the code looks good and that the issue is fixed - not knowing that the root cause itself is not fixed due to unfamiliarity with the system and it not being anywhere in the patch - and approve it.

How much time should be spent looking at whats not in the patch for alternate solutions? How would I know if something could be updated "downstream"? Personally, I used to do it but not so much anymore.
I would rather have all this information (along with whatever is being inferred from them) be exposed through a Javascript API instead of having browsers indiscriminately flood global networks with potential PII.

Chrome came up with this? Figures. Stay evil, Google.
Windows avoids "DLL Hell" by installing multiple versions of libraries to support different applications.

If they were "disciplined" and forced everybody to link against the latest libraries, binary compatibility would be worse.
My reply was in response to a comment about the DHS.
Possibly but I suspect that is more complex than it seems at first glance.
> To extend, the company would not be sustainable without the ads

This is accurate. And Twitter runs a lucrative data sharing business. In Q1 they made $137 million from data licensing. So there are two reasons they've locked down access.
Good insights and I share your concerns.

I am not from the US but US legislation will be most important here. I hope the US will also ignore legislation from the EU. The Old World sticks to its name regarding digital policies and nothing good will come from here in the foreseeable future.

Aside from maybe Cloudflare, most other large companies made clear how they can defend any values: In absolutely no capacity.
I have yet to meet the person who takes that position consistently, and only believes that which he has personally verified. Anyone who only adopts this view in response to selected issues is motte-and-baileying those issues.

Note that my response here does not rule out being skeptical over particular claims for definite reasons, only the blanket use of "Unless you're going through _all_ the source material yourself..." (your emphasis on 'all'.)

And why stop at source material? We know there is a replication crisis in science (the open discussion of which has, somewhat ironically, encouraged a wave of blanket dismissal of science), so surely this level of skepticism can only be assuaged by personally verifying all the original sources?
Which one is harder to make?
That is not surprising. UK targeted very high vaccination rates for those most likely to die from the disease.

> As of 4th July, 2,118,096 (93.8%) of the clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) population have been vaccinated with at least one dose. This includes all CEV individuals, even if they were vaccinated as part of a higher priority cohort. Of those, more than 9 in 10 (2,046,244, 96.6%) have received a 2nd dose (90.7% of all CEV individuals).

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sit...

It is a bigger issue in countries like the US where vulnerable populations are refusing the vaccine.
It's older than Hollywood. Early attempts to rationalize geological time with Genesis located dinosaurs in a pre-Adamic world of eternal darkness.

Really interesting article about this:

Terrible lizards and the wrath of God: How 19th century Christianity and Romanticism affected visual representations of dinosaurs and our perceptions of the ancient world: https://web.archive.org/web/20200905194215/https://web.stanf...
I've in the past used chrome and Firefox on mobile and Share has never been a mess
I recommend checking out Solace. They have been in business for 20 years. It's not open source though but packs all the enterprise features you would need.
Ask HN: How do you deal with a CEO everyone distrusts?
Wondering if there's good advice around for this. I work for a pretty small startup (Series A, ~50 employees). I'm a mid-level manager, so not on the executive team, but interact with that team pretty heavily.

Over the past couple months, it has become very clear that there is a culture of distrust and conflict within the company, and a lot of that feeds out of leadership relations with our CEO. The CEO is fairly egotistical - assumes they can do everyone's job better, and employs verbal abuse to make that clear. Whenever they get a scent of something going wrong in the company they will swoop in and criticize the people involved, give some off-the-cuff opinions on how they'd do it better, and then disappear to the next tirade before anything is actually fixed.

This has led to most of the company tip-toeing around the CEO and trying to just do work without pulling CEO attention. New projects and initiatives usually have a discussion topic around how to NOT get the CEO involved, or how to keep it minimal if necessary. There's back-channel talk all over Slack complaining about the CEO's most recent whatever.

The easy route here would just be to keep my head down and probably start looking for a new job... but is there a better way? Leaving this problem unaddressed probably means the company will eventually implode - what's the best way to get ahead of a problem that is sourced at the very top of the company?
It's a great way to have an adventure without much harm to the planet.

Here's the no-fly policy for GB Duro, which Lachlan also completed: https://www.theracingcollective.com/gbduro.html#no-fly
In the context of the article, a strategy of selectively doing nothing only works, where the usual behaviour is well known to support, devs, colleagues et al. in an organisation. It is more of an exercise in how to manage expectations, mitigate frivolous attempts, seamlessly categorise and delegate requests, rather than any overall inaction.
5km per hour is easily doable, I believe. A group of us in high school once did that and covered about 105kms in 3 days. We walked just about 7 hours every day for those 3 days.
Another example of abusive license:

"If you need to install your software on a new or different computer, you will need to re-activate the software on that computer using that serial number. [..] This contacts the MacKichan Software licensing server, which we will keep running for at least two years."

The hope:

"We expect to make Scientific Word an open source product eventually. Since both Scientific WorkPlace and Scientific Notebook contain the proprietary computer algebra system MuPAD, they cannot be made open source. When the open source project for Scientific Word is established, an announcement will be made here."
So true. I see programming as very similar activity to making poetry. I’m a filmmaker by trade but I enjoy doing some code every once in a while, and it’s always felt to me to be very similar to poetry in the way you have to think about it and structure it.
I'm in the UK, and most of the adults I know drink very, very little, and many drink no alcohol at all. You obviously move in different circles.

And the grandparent comment said:

>> ... your comment reads like that of a teenager trying to be edgy and not that of a mature adult.

It doesn't matter that you're 67 ... your comment still sounds like that of a teenager trying to be edgy. You might, of course, regard that as a compliment -- in a sense you're staying young at heart and in attitude.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/41528/relax-and...

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/47674/can-you-t...

I read the book - original source is "Relax and Win". The whole book was fluff for the one-page exercise, and the author has questionable credentials.

The technique does not reliably work for me, though I still try it sometimes. I found that the people who fall asleep the fastest just don't think about anything at all, rather than focusing on a technique.
I'm not sure it is enough to be exhausted. I recently spent the whole day doing some physical labour. I was exhausted by about 10pm. But I also received some news that day which had agitated me. I had a shower, I ate well and I was exhausted. But my mind wouldn't shutdown and I couldn't sleep.

It was only around 3:30am that I was able to get into some sort of delirious sleep and I woke up 3-4 hours later with my mind still screaming.

Maybe it needs practice to calm the mind. I'm not sure how soldiers in the battlefield who are exhausted can sleep when the possibility of death is always prevalent?
This isn't really a thing, not without huge visibility of the bitcoin network to correlate 'first time transaction seen'. Transactions are relayed by peers -- just because you saw some gossip from IP 'A' does not imply the transaction came from IP 'A', it could have been relayed through 'B' and 'C'.

Furthermore, with dandelion routing, you cannot find the true origin of the tx by sight, even if you find the true first IP relaying the transaction.
I agree

and the immediately following politician will run on a jobs platform and invite the corporation back

I like being on the corporate side of the game right now
"Standards for such products, whether in the form of a code of[sic] by the policies of individual producers, should not be aimed to eliminate only that which can be proved beyond doubt to demoralize youth. Rather the aim should be to eliminate all materials that potentially exert detrimental effects."

Sounds like a job for the records department at the Ministry of Truth.
Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling of Audacity
I left Atlassian products entirely a couple of years ago. A couple of things I remember: there was a popular bug that was open for Jira for over five years where, if you accidentally hit Escape or clicked away while editing a ticket, it would delete all of your changes with no chance of recovery. Meanwhile, Bitbucket would hide common git features like "blame", which they renamed to "annotate" without telling anyone, purely because one of their developers believed that "blaming" code sounded bad. Don't even get me started on the terminal pollution every time a commit was pushed. Just the way they shove these things in their user's faces without listening to legitimate issues with their platforms shows to me that they don't respect their own clients. It's a shame because there are a lot of great things in their products, but the rough edges haven't been showing signs of smoothing out. Or at least that was the case the last time I checked.

Now I host my code in Gitea and keep my team's project details organized in Basecamp.
If you are familiar with Flink, would you mind sharing your use cases? why Flink and not Kafka ? I have experience with Kafka but I have not had a reason to investigate Flink for my use cases.
Certainly, it reduces to reverse-mode AD on fairly arbitrary (although usual scalar) code. You definitely need a compiler or preprocessor to do that for you.
The way I read his new job is also giving him a sense of purpose, which, even with all the pleasures of being independent, seems kinda important for the human social being.
I think following a process to triage and resolve issues within expected timeframes is different than just not responding at all. In these examples hopefully somebody already responded to the client and set expectations, right?

A product support team is one of the most important sales engines for a business. If clients rave about your support, they will sell your product for you. Hard to do that if the attitude and approach is "do nothing" and wait for issues to hopefully resolve themselves.
It might make us feel good to think we're unique and different, but realistically I can't imagine software development to be much more/less worse than being a mechanic, a carpenter, real estate agent, etc.

I sometimes wonder how real estate agents avoid burnout. All of the ones I've worked with work most weekends and are on call 24/7 (because they give you their personal cell phone number to call and text any time).