skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the vagueness and your burnout. I'd look for a professional that specializes in burnout, barring that, a good physician would be the first place to start. There could be underlying health conditions you want to eliminate such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis or sub-clinical thyroid issues. You could have your cortisol levels tested to confirm your stress levels once underlying conditions are eliminated. From my personal research there's a lot of factors involved, stress the major trigger. It's serious and important enough you want to get a professional involved. Sending good energy your way.
> While with infinite sets, the point is that they aren't (to the best of my knowledge) either 1) directly useful or 2) particularly interrelated with anything else.

Formal treatments of calculus are based around infinitesimals. Infinitesimals are the same set of ideas about infinite sets, but applied to the spaces between arbitrarily close points.

Specifically formal treatments of calculus work because between any two points there are an infinite number of points and the size of that infinity is the same size as the entire set of real numbers.

At least this is my undergrad level of comprehension. I'm certain there are more exotic treatments, but this is the one that you have to do all the proofs for.
> Apple reduces the clock speed very very slightly on older iPhones

On an iPhone 6s, the performance decreased by 42%. That's not how I would characterize very very slightly.
No it really seemed that he and the questioner didn't understand each other's points.
Google has an office in Frankfurt, and SWEs there get paid far more than 30k - 100k/yr. The comp delta between google SF SWE and google Frankfurt SWE is less than 30% (at same level obv).

I totally agree that the non-FAANG companies have terrible dev pay. But most of the FAANG companies have offices well beyond just SF/NYC, so the opportunities are definitely available.
Being 10% smarter puts you just marginally ahead of other people; and a competitive marginal advantage is often major.

So I'd say there's great utility in an AI being smarter than any human... and then the returns diminish.
> liberal employees

Unless Spotify publicly disclosed which employees said something along with their political beliefs, I think the best we can do here is describe them as Spotify employees.

Arguably there are reasons to dislike Joe's podcast for people all over the political spectrum.
> Which is stated as fact when it’s not even true. Fat has been stripped out of everything. Even milk has the fat taken out of it. Look anywhere and you will see “fat free”

Stripped of everything including pizza, burgers and fries?
... Pirate Bay? We're back in the early/mid 2010s now.
it's true, ggp's claim of "20-30% chance you will have problems during those first years." is not based in data. if that was the rate, the cost of the extended warranty (apple care) would be much higher.
> I strongly, strongly doubt there is even a small fraction of people willing to take that kind of paycut in exchange for pure idling.

Me too. And the data from the states that have stopped the extra unemployment benefits appears to back this up. In the job market as a whole in those states, the percentage of people who were staying out of the job market because of extra unemployment benefits appears to be very small, judging by the fact that there wasn't a big rush to take jobs when the benefits ended.

There's more than just economics going on here.
Corporations are stalking human beings on a massive scale, recording everything they do and selling access to dossiers more detailed than police background checks.
Cool about Title 1!

In the past, I’ve worked for the Meridian Freedom Project: http://themeridianfreedomproject.org/ and Leap Frog: https://theleapfrogprogram.org/. Currently live in Birmingham, AL and each semester I volunteer for a creative writing program called DISCO: http://www.discobham.com/.
US PC market grows 17% in Q2 2021 as notebook popularity booms
I think you're bang-on with "investment in a promising line of business"

> First, organizations continue to depend on vulnerable legacy infrastructure and software, rather than adopting modern IT and security practices. Too many governments still rely on legacy vendor contracts that limit competition and choice, inflate costs, and create privacy and security risks.

> Second, nation-state actors, cybercriminals and other malicious actors continue to target weaknesses in software supply chains and many vendors don’t have the tools or expertise to stop them.

Pretty much it's "we're better at security than most other vendors, and we want to get in on those sweet government and corporate contracts".

They're probably not wrong, I would bet Google is better at security than most companies are. One way of reading "legacy vendor contracts" is "legacy-vendor contracts" :)

> We are also pledging, through the Google Career Certificate program, to train 100,000 Americans in fields like IT Support and Data Analytics, learning in-demand skills including data privacy and security.

Let's take a guess at whose systems they'll be getting trained on :)
Corrected thank you!
> As much as I don’t want to buy another Mac in the future, I have a feeling that I probably will.

If my laptop has 13 repairs over the first 2 years of use (and under "very well treatment"), I would consider the laptop a scam and never buy from that manufacturer. But since the machine got an Apple logo on it, somehow all the problems become material for praising their repair services. If this is not symptom of Stockholm (wink to author) syndrome, I don't know what is.

I still have my 2010 ThinkPad from Lenovo, which, besides of a broken audio jack and completely drained battery, is completely fine. Everything else works as 10 years ago. Of course this is anecdotal, but wouldn't any of you prefer a laptop without issue to worry about than one with tons of issues but getting free and fast repairs? Good repair service shouldn't be excuse to shitty quality of the hardware and software.
Oh, you could take months off to recover or even quit outright. You could forego the leet code BS entirely. Take a much lower paying job. I think what you mean is you aren't willing to deal with whatever consequences you think taking time for yourself might have. I'll tell you what if I know anything it's that you do need a different job if taking vacation, "puts you farther behind". At the very least a different state of mind.
Mark Twain said, “Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.” Soak on that for a second. You aren't special or different than anyone else in most regards.
Those feelings - anxiety, being trapped, burned out, disconnected... That's your brain telling you what you're doing isn't working. It feels awful. So what if you do take a lower paying job but you actually enjoy it? What if you end up taking a higher paying job and you enjoy it? What if you quit and spend your life pursuing your passions, and make it to retirement with 0 in the bank but your family loves and respects you so much they're happy to help out? Neither of us actually knows what would happen if you decided to do something for yourself, but if you truly aren't happy that's the only course of action that makes sense. Your life can only realistically get better if you try to make it better.

You get one chance to live your life, then it's suddenly over. One chance. Do you really want to squander an opportunity like this because you think something worse might happen when you retire decades from now? I don't think someone with the worldview you just described will ever have enough to retire.

I truly hope you do something that makes you happy tonight, even if it's something small.
how did you find customers for your products?
Why would it bring the authorities onto you? It flags the photos for manual review.
Me too. I think his friend circle became almost entirely right leaning since the move and his viewpoints are no longer balanced. I listen to a few other podcasters who definitely can't called lefties, yet they manage to present things in nuanced and less biased ways. It doesn't seem like a very difficult thing to do, yet he fails at it miserably.
You need to quit this job. As soon as you possibly can. Start working on it right away.

This is not a job for humans.
I don't see how any of that would make him dogmatic. Dogma implies a shared set of principles that are followed without question. His beliefs seem to be an idiosyncratic patchwork stitched together from personal experience and a diverse set of influences. And while he is attached to certain beliefs, as you say, he'll also change his mind easily in other areas. Whether or not you agree or disagree with his specific opinions, that's just about the polar opposite of dogma.
Thanks for mentioning Joplin! Personally I don't use it as a Zettelkasten tool, but I tend to use it to throw ideas in lots of checkbox lists and sub-checkbox lists, which I guess is a similar concept.

Instead of linked notes, you end up with a hierarchy of checklists, and when you go back to it you can easily check what wouldn't work (which grays out the sub-tree), or what's been done, or move around the lists. It works well for me as it means it's all in one note so you get a quick overview of the whole thing.
The page source is markdown, compiled to html with pandoc using mathjax.

There's some extra pandoc filtering magic to create hoverable equations.

The svg graphs are autogenerated from markdown links inside of the pages sources.
What do you mean, 'underused'??? I can't live without it and use it for almost anything, where it works! Not works to read comments on HN, unfortunately. It also helps against most register-to-read popups, and against advertising-infested websites that fool all adblockers.
Oh well, if he didn’t take Psy 101 that does it for me.
It's pretty clear here who was "set off".
OK - perhaps I didn't look hard enough - will go back through their links to forums etc.
I came from iptables and still have the misfortune of needing to use that in my job. :)

My favorite feature of pf is the configuration file, which is a human-readable/writable file which sets the state in a consistent way, rather than iptable's preferred mechanism of using a bunch of CLI commands executed in just the right sequence. I want a guaranteed consistent state when I'm configuring firewalls across a fleet, and pf.conf makes that not only easy to achieve, but the default behavior. Just modify the conf file, copy that to all the boxes, reload pf, and your firewalls are all updated and guaranteed to be in the same state, regardless of whatever state they were in before.

You can read the pf.conf file from top to bottom to figure out what's going to happen to any packet. All the rules are included right there.

I would just read the man page for pf.conf which gives helpful examples (https://man.openbsd.org/pf.conf.5#EXAMPLES) as well as this resource: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/config.html.
do you advertise? or get most of your leads from SEO?
> To vastly oversimplify, there are two kinds of people I’ve talked to about burnout - those who get it, and those who don’t.

As someone who miraculously has never really experienced this level of burnout in his career, this is a great reminder to empathize and always keep in mind that you never know someone else's situation. That person you're having a Zoom call with to talk about Q4 priorities may be one stress trigger away from a total mental breakdown. A great reason to always be kind and thoughtful in your communications with your officemates, even if nothing appears outwardly wrong. Don't inadvertently be part of the problem.
I hear their cut is lower too, like 20% vs larger for the 2nd largest platform.
> Take your pencil and put a dot on a random point on the x-axis; you might hit a point whose coordinate is a rational number, but your chances of doing so are infinitesimal!

But see, that's precisely the kind of intution I'm arguing against -- the kind of "analogy" that seems indefensible to me.

After all, I can select any pixel from an infinitely zoomable number line on my computer and it will always be rational, every time. Or any measurement you take of a pencil on paper will always be bounded by two rational numbers measured by counting off ticks on a ruler, and unknown within that. One could argue it's impossible to even define what it means to point with a pencil to an irrational number on a straight line. What does it even mean to select a value randomly from multiple infinite sets? And if you define that in some particular way, how do you justify that a pencil could ever do that on paper?

I understand perfectly everything you describe about mapping -- I'm familiar with the math. It just seems misguided and potentially dangerous to me to draw any practical comparisons to it, such as your pencil-and-paper one, because they seem to break down instantly.
With that argument, how do you know that Apple hasn't been doing this already for years?
You either fully trust Apple and use their devices, or not.
Some of that sounds worthy of a lawsuit. I guess it’s not worth the trouble for most potential hires.
I don't think it's the advertisement itself, I believe it's the method and data they collected to target it.

They may not use it for nefarious reasons (one can argue if unwanted targeted ads is or isn't) but that data may leak either directly or via a 3rd party who purchased it.

Then you have a situation where you have all this product and personal history which could be embarrassing and be used for blackmail.

Can you delete this data? Do you know everything they are tracking?

Someone else said it best, this is a cyber stalking industry.
My first experience was Ubuntu 8 and it just looks and feels so much better than what it is now: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Ubuntu-d...
Key data structures and their roles in RenderingNG
What a beautiful memoir, I'm glad the journal could provide the author such closure.
Interesting way of looking at it. I don't know if the marketing value alone could justify the $100m price, but when you think about a 30 second Super Bowl ad being $6m and compare that to all the discussion and news coverage generated by the Rogan deal... yeah I guess it was a pretty effective way of letting the public know they can listen to podcasts on Spotify.
Surprisingly, there is a toggle for this in [hamburger menu] → Settings, or directly here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileOptions

(The toggle only appears on small devices, as on larger devices there is no section collapsing.)
I honestly don't think that this conclusion is a reasonable one. I understand why people think so, but if you violate your Google employment contract, they can fire you. And at that point, if you filed a lawsuit, the legal system is not going to suddenly side with worker's rights over the rights of corporations to make business deals.
From talking and being open minded.

If you're listening to a comedian then your mind should not be open to any scientific statements that person makes or medical advice they give.
Haiku, Inc. is a nonprofit.[1]

[1] https://www.haiku-inc.org/about/
I think that entry-level positions (outside of SF) are usually driven mostly by whatever the local cost of living is plus a bit to keep the positions clearly above what retail positions can offer - CoL would similarly take a while to adjust to the new lower income of folks so I wouldn't expect it to respond particularly quickly. But yea, I agree that that's one way to pull down the wages. I do think they'd end up suffering from the same sort of pressure though - if you pull on an entry level person at a low rate then there will be a lot of tempting competing offers they'll be considering when they've got a year or two under their belt - and then they'll be in the same pool as the other junior devs (or maybe the intermediate ones).

I hasn't really thought about the zero experience folk though - thanks for mentioning it!
Here is an opinion from the district court of Northern California. Among other things, it mentions that Microsoft was not acting as a government agency to conduct CSAM scanning, and that the Fourth Amendment does not apply to private entities. It might be worth reading through for some of the other people discussing this issue, since it happened fairly recently (December of 2020).

https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-bohannon-15
There is a few sentence description of each guest. Not in the title but extremely visible for each episode in the app
Case law around Bitcoin theft is going to be very interesting.

I'm highly interested in what will happen if we can crack the crypto and move all the funds from a given wallet without any interaction or deception. It's just math, and there's no sovereign entity you're attacking or depleting. No corporate server. Seems like if you can get the numbers to match, the proceeds are yours. But we'll see.

Edit: are downvoters afraid of this idea?
What prevents abuse after posting a valid ID?

Unless you’re paying for the images on Facebook the transfer isn’t being used to pay for illegal sex. This is the difference between the two in terms of liability.
You said: "because HR wouldn't consider unpaid leave"
I heard: because [support function] didn't listen to business.

Whether the support function is IT support, IT Security, HR they should not be allowed to simply say "No.".

If business wants to do a thing, then they should be saying "Well, this is how we can achieve that, the benefits and costs are these..."
Thank you for the clarification. I appreciate it! And your advice is very good and well taken.

Sadly, there's a serious doctor shortage in my area. I've been looking for a primary care physician for almost a year now, and coming up dry. But I could find one tomorrow, who knows? In any case, that's an edge condition and doesn't take away from your kind advice.
This is Google promising to spend $10 Billion to curry favor with President Biden's administration while simultaneously facing serious antitrust monopoly litigation with that Biden DOJ.

That's some pretty expensive lobbying right there.
Win10 Admin Rights Tossed Off by yet Another Plug-In
>Am I too biased against Google's intentions now?

Regardless of what their intentions actually are those two are not necessarily in conflict with each other.
Another free medium is email newsletters, which are seeing a resurgence. Yes, you need to manage CAN-SPAM compliance and the actual protocols are a mess, but you can cobble something together with on-prem campaign software and AWS SNS for not too much money.
It's all fun and games until you lose your job to a robot. Likewise superhuman AI already exists in some specific tasks. Machines, for instance, have been superior to humans in facial recognition and matching for 15 years now, if not longer. The speed at which things are improving in other tasks would be considered ludicrous in any other field. Yet people still persist in thinking that it has to be some sentient robot in order to have a huge societal impact.

We are on the precipice of many labor intensive but relatively low skill professions going away entirely, and yet people still stress out about synthetic intelligence they can have a conversation with, because it sounds "scarier" to the readership of Wired, which never was anywhere near these imperiled jobs and whose livelihood does not depend on them. But a program that can write crappy-yet-plausible Python code? Now you got their clicks and attention.
The people in this thread that think Joe cares about what the viewers think. He publicly said he doesn't care about deleted episodes and censorship, just there to collect Spotify money. Good for him, he has a goal and he is executing it.
That's a good analogy, but it illustrates the problem. Just because you don't like something, does not by itself make it antisocial.

If someone at your kid's school told you that the teacher repeatedly made them do homework, would that be bullying? Of course not. Just because some people don't like targeted ads does not make it antisocial. You just don't like it, which is fine. Don't read the email.
I also feel the same. This was building up before the pandemic, though that only made it worse: feeling isolated at home, on horrible Zoom meetings for several hours a day, etc. I hit my "FIRE" number in 2018 and didn't have the guts to pull the plug and take some time off. I hope I do now.
If what you are looking for is primarly better search results and you do not mind paying for it, check out https://kagi.com
And as hard as it’s going to be to hire talent, it’s going to be even harder to retain talent.

This does not square with so many organizations falling all over themselves to issue vaccine mandates. I suspect it's not true.
I don't know how old you are, but having been a child/teen in that era - that album cover was ICONIC. Nirvana had other albums that were very successful, but those albums' cover art was never as ubiquitous as Nevermind. Heck, a small cut of poster sales alone would probably net this guy a few hundred k.
> Seems like if you can get the numbers to match, the proceeds are yours.

Couldn't you say the same about guessing a password?
No, not in Joe Rogan's case.
The code is more something like:

if (iLetSpotifyGiveMeMoney)
{gain50millionDollars()}
Did that here https://teclis.com

Very fun project and still working on expanding the index. The condition to get into the index is no/low bloat/tracking/spam.
Is British board of film censors considered a government entity? Is so, then aren't those considered part of free expression?
I think we went over this when the telegram version of this hit HN a while back.

It just doesn't work.

For zip codes for example: There are single street zip codes (aka postal codes) all over Canada. And I'm not talking a large boulevard that goes across town. Literally one street that I can see one end from the other on easily.
There should be a cap on wages globally. Either money and wealth and output are finite. In which case you earning 715k is roughly 9x what you should be allocated as your portion of global wealth.

Or limited wealth is a construct of society and we keep people living in poverty because we're just inherently cruel and don't want to pay a living wage as support because we need slaves to make our trinkets. We're a shit species.
Impact of U.S. Sanctions on Internet Access in Iran
The irony of crypto being lauded as an unregulated market outside of government control, and then crypto millionaires using government-backed courts to sue when they lose their assets due to bad opsec, is palpable.

Everyone loves the wild west until they're the ones being victimized, then it turns out 3rd party authorities are useful after all.
In one instance you are trying to guess a password on a particular private system.

In the other, you are running a hashing function on a public ledger/data.
'... but I am indeed experiencing the “exhaustion, cynicism, and loss of efficacy” that is its trademark.'

Well damn, I'm surprised they didn't put my picture next to that definition.
Just a word of caution. I think anyone after reading this could believe they're burned out. A test I like to do to see if something is the case or not is imagine the opposite, what would I feel like if I wasn't burned out? Would I magically be 10x more productive? Have I ever been that much more productive in my life? Would I not want to watch Netflix without an end? Would I not want to sit on the couch and read about SolarWinds for 8 hours?

It's easy to walk away from articles like this being completely sure that you're burned out.