skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question, why would you use a throwaway account for a comment like this?
Yeah caffeine is a big one too, even up to 6+ hours before bed time it can still disrupt sleep: https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.3170

I also do the counting thing, or other "actively try not to fall sleep" things
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> It is difficult for me to imagine someone who has so little they want to do outside of work that they can't easily find ways to fill up the 8+ hours a day their job takes from them

It’s not that simple. I felt the same way before I crossed the FIRE threshold and took some time off (mini-FIRE, I guess).

It turns out, most of the things I had been putting off weren’t as time consuming as I thought. I found myself regretting not doing many of them sooner, such as putting a few hours in on weekdays and weekends or scheduling a 1-week vacation to make a trip happen.

It’s hard to truly understand until you’ve crossed the threshold and tried it, but there’s a certain aspect of FIRE discussions that divides life too much into pre-retirement and post-retirement activities in a way that isn’t always necessary. In retrospect, there was little stopping me from doing most of the things I wanted to do while I was working, and plenty of people do manage to accomplish a balance of work and other things just fine.

I’m not alone in this. Even the author of this blog later returned to work after his interest in his writing hobby slowed to a crawl, his friendships started dwindling, and his relationship came to an end at least in part due to the FIRE lifestyle: https://livingafi.com/2021/03/17/the-2021-early-retirement-u...
This is such a great example of bullshit studies.

Yeah I'm gonna go on a limb and say this is a marketing campaign. It's an insult to science to call this a "study".

From the pdf:

> The fieldwork of this study was carried out at remarkable speed, from the 23rd to 24th of June 2021

Data was collected in 1 day. Is this a joke? No it's not!

> The population sampled included Software Engineers aged 18+ living in the United Kingdom. In total we surveyed 258 such people

Survation, the market research agency who did the actual work, interviewed 258 people only, I don't see any definition or criteria on what that means, years of experience, field, cultural-background, or any of the many other very important aspects that anyone would wonder about.

I really don't understand how they can do a half-assed data survey on 258 people only, and then have the gall to claim "83% of developers".

What's really sad about this is that there is indeed an increased workload I've heard people say that they've experienced, caused by the side-effects of the covid-response most governments took, from working from home for extended periods to mental health issues.

This kind of click-bait bullshit marketing campaigns is pretty harmful to the very real issue of burnout because it muddles the ground and dilutes the issue.
> anyone (who's older than 12) who isn't vaccinated is making a clear choice.

I might push back slightly on this. some data on 538 I saw a month or so back seemed to suggest a significant gap in people who say they plan to get the vaccine and people who have. I think the dirty secret is that if you’re poor or living in a rural place, making time to get the vaccine is a challenge. There’s a reason why when J&J came out there was a lot of talk of deploying it in rural communities.
Somebody said that the cause of burnout is working hard and then not seeing results.

Some common ways that happens in software development are working for months on a feature that gets cut (or undercut) at the last minute, or trying to demonstrate your ability for some role and not being recognized for it, or even just putting your heart and soul into a company that is circling the drain.

If those experiences happen over and over, without some intervening successes to recharge you, you get burned out.
Didn't read the report, but it's always the same cycle:

New tech creates a new medium for expression. Young people get obsessed about it, as they do. Older people get offended and think it's threatening the foundations of society, as we do.

2-3 decades later, what was new and dangerous is the now the established sophisticated art, and the former youth is aghast at what current youth is doing.
As a long time developer, I think we are pretty good at complaining about our work conditions, and are spoiled in many ways. We also have some very valid complaints about the bullshit we have to deal with, interfering micromanagers making us less productive and less happy, etc. All these things can be true at once. You don’t need to dismiss any of them as myths.
Isn't it also the case that the Netherlands has vaccinated few of the younger groups, which are the same group that has had an explosion of cases. I can't find the reference right now, but the country rationally focused on older groups. If that's the case, cases may be high with very few deaths.
Does anyone, really, consider Pueyo relevant regarding Covid? My understanding is that he, a marketing expert, came up with hammer and dance which was used to push lockdown agenda. Lockdown did not greatly help reduxe cocid deaths and it introduced a lot of other problems such as delayed cancer diagnostics, mental health issues, compromised immunity in small children etc. This guy is a danger to public health.
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You cant. Or I havnt been able to. You can tell a company that you object to it but most of the time they will make you sign it or walk away from the offer.
I don't believe I advocated for people not getting vaccinated. I am saying should we keep having "lockdowns"? I do think having lockdowns perpetually is not a tenable option when there is no end in sight. Vaccines when compared to cars are the seatbelt equivalent. They do not cause economic and social harm, and save a lot of lives. People should indeed get vaccinated and most are.

Lockdowns are equivalent to restricting automobile travel or lowering speed to a extremely low limit. Sure they would be fine if there were a blizzard and lots of people were crashing. All one can do is wait for the snow to melt and then it would only be a temporary disruption.

But in the case of lockdowns there's no chance they are going to end the spread of COVID, they just slow it at best. And they have a very large cost, and it has been a long time. It would be as if the temporary restrictions to save lives during the blizzard were persisted when an ice age occurred.
Alright, perhaps I've been exposed to a few too many overenthusiastic colleagues who hype a new shitcoin every day. At least a few of those have already lost large-ish sums due to this and it has given them significant worry that I would not wish on anyone else. OTOH, finance is indeed an interesting topic so why not.

FWIW, my short term obligations (mortgage, food, etc for the upcoming few months) will be met with cash since I work as a freelancer and income is "lumpy". For the long term, stocks in companies with a long term competitive advantage (strong brand, technological know-how, etc) is where I think it is at. They will be able to raise their prices in the face of inflation and maintain profitability. Investments that I would stay away from are most forms of fixed-rate bonds and companies with capital-intensive/low margin activities because the rising costs of inventory and depreciation will eat up a significant chunk of their free cash flow.

As you can probably tell from the previous paragraph, I am personally a firm believer in investing in economic activity of some sort, either purchasing a share of (the earnings of) a company or lending out money to a company or government and therefore I stay away from "inert" investments that don't generate income by themselves like currencies, gold, commodities and/or crypto. That's just my preference though, and plenty of people would advise gold or bitcoin as an inflation hedge. Some of them have even done well, though a similar amount of people have done poorly in gold or BTC so buyer beware.
I made the mistake early in my career of not taking enough vacation. If I'd just taken time off, I could've avoided partial burnout, coasting to handle burnout and nearly getting fired a few times. Funny how you learn things like this in your early twenties.
I did recently 48 km (30 miles) walk the opposite way. I just took a local train from Oslo, Norway to Drammen and then just walked back. The scenery was stunning with high hills, forest, fields, fjords under bright blue sky. You just do not see this beauty from a car and even from a bicycle the perception is different. And the feeling of independence is very empowering indeed. I just new that the only thing that can get broken is myself. No worries about flat tires etc.
AFAIK that's still correct.

The dinosaurs from which birds are descended are thought to have feathers or something similar, in some case or at some stages of life. But that's a really long way from being the default or even a sizeable enough majority that one could say "the dinosaurs had feathers" as a generalization and do so with a straight face.
The problem I have with this article isn't the data, it's unclear what it tries to convey at all.

The first part of the article is an exposé of the evolution of the epidemic, transmissibility and fatality rates. Fine, but at this point, I haven't read any thesis, question, point, claim or argument he would like to answer or prove. It's just a wall of data.

Halfway through, he finally asks the million dollar question "How good are vaccines against Delta?"

That's where he has to retreat to the fact that any data about large populations available is limited:

> The best data we have is from Israel, which used Pfizer.

He then mentions percentages from an article from marketwatch.com and a briefing from technical briefing from the UK government, and goes on to extrapolate several claims based on those sources.

The takeaways in the latter part of his article are generic and have been repeated at nauseam by the medical community and health policy experts at large.

Thomas Pueyo isn't a medical or policy expert. He's a data analyst / publicist. Sure, he's entitled to write musings on his blog. But I don't regard him as an authoritative source because he's able to compile online graphs and stats into an piece which seems to be easily digestible on the surface level.
My local landfill growing up had an decent sized methane burn-off flame running 24/7. I would put it on par with a wide open hot air balloon burner. My dad told me it was there to commemorate all the unknown meals that people threw in the trash, so I should always finish my dinner out of respect.
To experience it on a smaller scale, get a family member (non tech savvy) who uses windows/macOS to use linux for a few days. Everything that is not the same as it was on windows/macOS will be your fault even if the linux way is better/faster/cleaner than windows.
If you find this as equally interesting as strange, search for "unpleasant design". There are many more things to discover...
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The energy generated from biogas recovery at Melbourne's two main sewerage plants (~100 GWh) isn't even enough to make them net generators [1].

The main environmental benefit isn't actually from the carbon footprint of biogas, it's the reduced methane and NOx emissions from capturing the gas.

[1] https://www.melbournewater.com.au/water-data-and-education/e...
yup, my salary allowed my wife to recently switch careers and take a 50% salary cut. There is no way we could do the same for my career though unless we made drastic changes like selling the house and never retiring.
I recently played out this scenario where I run out of money and then just end myself instead of begging. I concluded that I'm extremely likely to be doing something meaningful and would rather have the survival money. So that's what I'm focused on now - working on my bucket list, moving towards meaningful activities already and figuring out how much I'd need to becoming financially independent. The Bogleheads website has proven useful.

Edit:
My message for those who think that killing themselves might be a reasonable choice: There are those who wish for just that one extra day for meaningful work or to be with their loved ones. While not all may have loved ones, a person could find something meaningful to do. For those who like the Marvel movies, I think Tony Stark ended up doing rather well with the gift of life that he'd received in the first Iron Man movie. Another inspiring quote for me was from the Star Trek movie: "Your father was captain for a total of 20 minutes. In those 20 minutes, he saved 800 lives. I dare you to do better".
Mobile, Full Stack and Data Engineering also have similar issues. Not as bad as anything related to javascript though.
Keyword - properly charged. Thats the risk - the rest of it makes a lot of sense -- but the charging component is the issue. And if it goes dead your locked in.

Surprising choice for a long race based on durability thats all. A guess it is a trade off decision -- work vs reliability.
I get your point and I agree to it. For the nitpicking, I'd just not use the word "desirable" when the slapstick situation would be rather "less bad"... because "desirable" means a positive outcome while neither one is anything positive.
In general, the overactive mind is one that is unable to accept or process what has happened or is happening. It’s spinning it’s wheels trying to understand and control something that it fundamentally cannot at the time - and considers important/a threat to understand.

I’ve got a lot of combat veterans in my family. The ones who survived, say the way to survive and function is to accept that shit can and will happen, they have very little control over it (but they can control their little part of what they do), and they might not live through it.

One said ‘I accepted that I was going to die. If I didn’t today that was going to be a nice bonus. It got the worry out of my head and let me focus on doing things the best way, and the way I knew I wanted it to be done, and how I wanted to be remembered if I’m gone.’). He lost a lung in Vietnam, among other things, but is still kicking and enjoying life in his 80’s now. He has had, and still does have, many issues from the war, so don’t take this as a ‘and everything was fine’.

If you are at peace with, and have accepted the possible outcomes (including the horrific), and understand and accept how little control you actually have - the mind doesn’t spin. It truly knows the situation and can react appropriately, instead of a intellectual ‘knowing’ that it is struggling to integrate and process.

It frees you up to act, be present, and actually steer things in a better direction rather than spin/have the overactive mind. And sleep is necessary and helpful to actually doing better. And so they just do what they need to do. Which includes passing out and sleeping.
As I heard it, I’d you want to live to 80, you should eat right, exercise regularly, and not smoke. If you want to live to 100, you need to have the right grandparents and can live however you like.
Here’s the definition of populism: “a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.”

Does that not describe both of our political parties?
I still feel that it's an oversimplification. If easy is defined by a work that can be easily defined and then needs to be done many things can be overly simplified. But I understand what you are trying to say.
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I've been running it in Docker on my file-server machine for a while. Worked great until the Roku "app" suddenly started failing with most videos, then later all videos, across multiple devices. I don't think I've even looked at it in months, after the first couple upgrades to Jellyfin itself, and to the Roku app, didn't fix anything, though it's still running. Their official Docker image works really well and the web version is good.

https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/jellyfin/jellyfin
Very likely not. There's no such thing as small extent of burnout. 'small extent of burnout' means 'I can feel my own boundaries and need to do something for self-care'.

I've often flirted with burnout to the point of having to take unwanted hiatus and fail to complete what I wanted to do. Better awareness of boundaries and self-care made that better, and STOPPING overcommitment worked best of all. It meant there are things I can't say about myself now, even as ambitions of mine. That didn't used to be true: I lived in the space between owning my ambitions and executing on 'em.

Stopping burnout means YOU ARE LESS. It's not a method of learning to work more efficiently and accomplish more. It's getting more right-sized, including your expectations.

Those who are going to be in actual burnout, who are going to begin falling into hurdles and breaking themselves, will either never acknowledge 'small amount of burnout', or the opposite: that's what they call it, no matter how great the burning wreckage surrounding them. They'll be legless and bleeding out and trying to drag themselves on by one good fingernail, and if you asked them, they would say 'this is a small amount of burnout'.

It's still a problem but I'm betting some of the folks in that 83% total, are willing and able to scale back their commitments and will then not be in burnout. Burnout is when you break.

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This headline is inaccurate. A better headline would be: Dogmatic and authoritarian people don't evaluate their own errors. Since dogmatic means, "characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts" this is basically saying water is wet.
I think you're misreading my comment. It's not to say that it's okay for BP to spill oil, it's that all things considered, the environmental impact of a tank of gas (extracted using current methods) is much less than what this guy is doing. Imagine the alternative: rather than every american filling up at the gas pump, they're dredging up ponds/ditches for methane. How much environmental impact would that cause? Is that better than the occasional oil spill we get?
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as far as the last sentence. I think this varies with temperament widely. I like a mix of problem solving and people facing work, but I would find it hard to believe a mathematician would be upset from constant problem solving
Obviously not all French people are anti-American, and paradoxically the French love McDonalds, but it certainly exists. Here's the research and the context on why it's like that:

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/meunierces...

> France is the country with the deepest, most sedimented reservoir of anti-American arguments.

This is an example of what the author calls '“Sovereignist” anti-Americanism'.
Bear is my primary notes app on iOS because of this. Share to Bear as a markdown-formatted titled link or the full web page content, and from there I can also prepend or append to an existing note.
Some interesting quotes:

"Those with the highest risk of dying from cancer or heart disease during the study period were those with the worst quality sleep and who didn't meet the WHO recommended guidelines for exercise. That risk went down for people with poor quality sleep but who did meet the exercise guidelines."

"The study isn't enough to prove causation – that more activity causes the reduction in harms from poor sleep – and it's based on self-reporting rather than independent observations. That said, there's enough of a correlation here to interest scientists."

"For now it's not clear why more exercise might make up for poor sleep, as far as our health goes. It could be that the increased activity is counteracting inflammation, or reducing irregularities in glucose metabolism, suggest the researchers."
Work, spouse, kids, the traditional way of life have been explored and chosen by human being for at least thousands of years.

Vast majority of people did not “choose” all that throughout human history. There was zero alternative. They had to work to survive. If you want to make your argument you should only look at those who were born rich enough to not have to work.
Yeah I'd love to be FI but even more I'd love to make what I make now and only work three days a week. Having more Me days then Employer days would really change my life.
> I think asking for feelings of burnout exaggerates the issue of being burnt out by a huge factor.

Is there a better scientific method to quantify burnout?
Google is not known as a friendly, competitive company. Google has a monopoly with Android and privacy laws are completely ignored.
"The companies that hid data and knowledge since the 70s about climate change, and who have funded disinformation campaigns to this day about its validity shouldn't be sued for their part in causing a global catastrophe. No - no litigation should take place. Instead, all talk about carbon taxes should take place in the political sphere, where global warming denialists have outsized power due to differences in population across states. Also, I'll assert that 300 dollars per ton of carbon dioxide is too much based on a review from the fucking American Enterprise Institute."
I “retired” after 12 years of web development due to extreme burnout. I now work in a completely different industry and could not be happier.

It felt like my workload was forever increasing. I could never rest on any laurels without falling significantly “behind”. I developed a major substance abuse problem as well (sober 14 months now), although untangling cause and effect here is impossible. I think I was abusing substances in part to cope with the stress.
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I would love to know more about how they do stateful stuff, since I haven't found anything that can compare to Flink there, but Flink has really poor quality of life stuff compared to some other options (e.g. Flink serialization setup pains vs Beam coders) but their docs kinda trail off here:

> Non-idempotent stateful topologies are stateful topologies that do not apply processing logic along the model of "multiply by zero" and thus cannot provide effectively-once semantics. An example of a non-idempotent

https://heron.incubator.apache.org/docs/heron-delivery-seman...

(I'm puzzled by their idempotent vs non-idempotent stateful topology description, because if something is mutating an internal state upon receiving events, it will likely be non-idempotent by design... unless they just mean "idempotent stateful" here to refer to keeping track of source/output position state and such.)

(They also do say that can only support state storage in ZK or local FS, which feels like a likely non-starter compared to Flink for some of my use cases.)
I would fill 110% of every day with meaningful activity if I didn’t have a job.
> If a major company invested in the SML ecosystem, it would take over the programming world.

I agree. I think about this a lot, and the hard part is that you need to either have an already existing ecosystem, or to have the resources to build one. If you want to leverage an existing ecosystem, the best bet would be Go I think, as .Net already has F#, Java has Scala (they are not the same but too close and would eat each other), JS has TS, some OCaml, Purescript. The other option could be to have an easy interop with Rust, as it's becoming quite big too, and perhaps fits SML more.
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And that comes with significant pain to major companies many of which don't bother. The reason why all of these coubtries are in Canada or the EU is because those are the two jurisdiction where the government has laws to compel you to trade with Cuba and insure you against US secondary sanctions.