skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Burnout is something that is discussed quite a lot, but people talk about it as working so hard that you fatigue.

When we're working on something we enjoy and find interesting, when we have a plan and a goal, we find that we have infinite energy.

Burnout on the other hand is when no matter how much you seem to work, it has no impact. You don't seem to be making any progress. Burnout is the loss of momentum.

“Improved productivity also helps drive better employee work/life balance and reduces burnout“ - The State of DevOps 2019.

According to the DORA research program, avoiding heavyweight change processes and creating an environment of continuous delivery go a long way to reducing burnout.
Clickbait doesn't apply if the actual content is worth reading. Plus in this case the title is descriptive of the contents, although it might fall foul of Betteridge's Law.
Hmm I wonder if this is a good idea. Or a hypothetical setup with a Chinese and American hardware network setup.
> The x is an American invention that is unknown in the culture it tries to adapt

It’s (both “Latinx” and the “-x” to reject the gender binary in Spanish more generally), AFAIK, a Hispanic LGBTQ culture invention, which while originating in the USA, is also used elsewhere (the “-x” ending as an emphatic rejection of the gender binary, not the specific term “Latinx”.) Though its a small minority that use it even in that community.

Its adoption as a generic term for the Hispanic community by large institutions, though, is completely out of line with the community preference.
Good. I don't need my pistol emoji replaced with a squirt gun any more than I need the word pistol in this sentence replaced by my keyboard, my browser, my OS, my font, or anyone else who isn't me who wants to dictate how I think and how I express my thoughts.
But you at least have to admit that it seriously undercuts the credibility of that site if they engage in every conspiracy theory out there. It's very hard not to simply dismiss somebody else's arguments if they believe that the Holocaust and Covid are just made up. Human attention is limited.
> Apple has abandoned its once-famous commitment to security and privacy.

The cat's out of the bag now that this has never been more than a marketing gimmick. You can rely on Apple to protect your data from their competition, but other than that they'll be at least as happy to implement dystopian surveillance nightmares as the next megacorp. This time they even won the prize for the worst idea ever.
> Elections.

The problem: at least 90% of the population doesn't care about privacy, and scandals (see Facebook etc) have no influence on this whatsoever, so awareness-campaigns are not likely to work either.
Train them! I have to confess I'm useless with animals. Last time I tried to help, it took three of us to milk one goat. Then she put her foot int he milking pot :)

But that's a herd that's been allowed to go wild and we were primarily milking them for their relief. They're anarchist goats. If I stay longer on the farm (which is not mine) I may give it a go taming and training them, though. Should be fun :D
I'm looking at our traffic logs and don't see any downturn in traffic. Normally when we get an outage it's pretty obvious. Did you actually get an error, or was it just not loading?
I disagree, I stopped because of things that the Economist really were not neutral about, entire arguments that they omitted, things that they decided to paint as one-sided, which were in reality anything but.

Maybe you think they're neutral because they confirm your existing biases? Something to consider.
Giruses: large viruses that straddle the border of life and non-life [video]
Constructive Journalism Pays Off
There are still solutions, even though the situation is dire. The problem is, those solutions should not eat up too much of one's time, and the naughters not past the naught of one's energies, preferably.

Of course one may finance malicious endeavours hence encourage them - but since this is against the most basic rule of "do not encourage undesirable behaviour", that one may be shortsighted, while in fact antisocial.

Is it possible that the poster defends antisocial behaviour coating the opposite as antisocial?
> Simply add your top social and news addiction pages to the blacklist and you’re set.

It’ll make finding tips like this much harder.
Just like a spring is first loaded, then released, and the act of loading the spring is driving the whole mechanism, the Earth spin was set up by the primordial configuration of the solar system.

As the Earth rotates, its molten core gets continually mixed (as it doesn't rotate at the same rate as the crust[0]) and this generates heat. Likewise, the atmosphere doesn't rotate at the same speed as the crust, and this generates heat too. And, well, since perfectly rigid bodies can't exist[1], rotating bodies will always release heat, even those who are solid [2]. On the interaction of many bodies, tidal forces generate heat too, again because the bodies aren't rigid.

Those are all dissipative forces. I think it's not possible to have an orbital system composed of purely reversible processes. In this case, any orbital system counts as a clock in the sense of the article.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_core_super-rotation

[1] due to relativity, https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/201499

[2] actually.. I'm not so sure. I was searching a bit and https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Classical_Mechanics/... says the non-rigid body eventually settles into rotating around its principal axis of rotation, which makes it not have any internal stresses, and thus not release heat. I think Earth revolves around its principal axis of rotation though (it had billions of years to settle).

At this point I'm trying to read about orbital mechanics of non-rigid bodies, like this https://impa.br/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/30CBM_03.pdf - the only thing I can gather is that indeed there are dissipative forces even in solids.
I use both but I wonder does it make sense?
> Do they really have a regular 'illiberal left' column these days?

No, the house style has been to have a short subtitle like that on every article for a long time. Sometimes the subtitle is just the name of the country or region being covered, just as often it's a one-off. Examples from this issue include "China's bad debts", "prostitution in Indonesia", "Venezuela talks", none of which are monthly columns.
Not even Google had the audacity to scan files stored on my physical phone. They can do whatever they want with their own computers, just leave my device alone.
Cultures through history also sacrificed children and had slaves.
America is number 1, baybeeee
This is the kind of library name I really enjoy: cheeky and funny, easy to remember, and relates directly to the problem it solves.
If you used enough of it so it actually works, then yes; you are impaired. If you didn't use enough to get impaired, then you wasted your money.
I am learning simplified Chinese without the pronunciation. "It significantly cuts the amount of memorization." I thought. I am primarily interested in Chinese internet which I believe will open a massive new world, and understanding how this completely different way of expressing oneself works.

When I go through a text I understand I either don't sound the words or pronounce broken translation in my mind.

I've doubted this approach a few times because, as you say, it's uncommon, but I'm sticking with it and I'm curious what comes out of it in a year or two.
That would be relevant if someone claimed modern billionaires invented child sacrifice and slavery.
Story time: in the early 2010, Oracle managed to sell two (yes, one for redundancy obviously) enormous mainframes to the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) just to host their Intranet portal. I don't remember how much each costed exactly, but IIRC it was a six digit figure.

And the funniest part of that story: the mainframes where so heavy they couldn't fit the existing server room, so they were parked for months in a warehouse, unplugged, waiting for some new dedicated server room to be built. (I don't know if the said server was eventually built or not, and if the mainframes were actually used or not in the end).
I don't think so man, I think you're being influenced. Paying people to be gay just doesn't make sense. I'm not going seriously argue this with you, you need help.
I doubt that. Resonable people recognice that there is a diffrence between a personal preference of who to fuck, and telling others who they should prefer to fuck.
In English, we often use the word Latin with no gender suffix (as in the term Latin Americans). As I understand, Latinx is not an attempt to be gender-neutral but gender-inclusive and language-inclusive (as Latin lacks the gender suffix used in Spanish and Portuguese, and Latino/a excludes French-speaking Haitians).

Hispanic is also gender-neutral, and is probably what most people intend when they say Latin or Latino/a or Latinx. Hispano would be the Spanish word, but has never been a household word in the US. You can find some advocates of Hispanx, but I don't expect it to catch on.

The biggest problem IMO with Latinx is how to pronounce it. The letter X is not pronounced the same in Spanish as it is in English.
Private Eye, a UK magazine that conducts hard-core investigative journalism, but which also features humour and satire in abundance, runs a regular feature called "Malgorithms". These show dumb/inappropriate ads next to news stories.

Some Private Eye content is available online (but not malgorithms):

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/
These guys interviewing him are right-wing Christians, who are the only people who would ever interview this guy, as he wouldn't get past the woke filter on just about any other podcast, so you'll just have to accept that they're going to have that point of view to begin with.

The guy has a lot of documentation for where this all came from out of nowhere. I bought the book and it's fascinating how much documentation the guy has on how the whole thing got astroturfed in no time. I don't know how old you are, but before the early 2000s, the only place that I ever encountered "transexuals" was in San Francisco sex clubs. Then all of a sudden, in the span of less than 10 years they're everywhere. How the heck did that all happen? Reading through his research is a really interesting deep dive into how to bootstrap a radical cultural change from scratch.
Yes, deplatforming is the way to go.
Who remembers boundary areas and the kind of fence they have? Access to them is restricted and people don't usually have a reason to go there anyway.

After they were abandoned there's still no reason for them to enter cultural consciousness. They'd still be out of the way shrubberies on the back of fields, with no indication that they were part of the longest shrubbery in the world.

And even if they knew about that piece of trivia, were they expected to pass it along to future generations? (!)
The GPL actually requires that build files are also included:

> The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities. However, it does not include the work's System Libraries, or general-purpose tools or generally available free programs which are used unmodified in performing those activities but which are not part of the work. For example, Corresponding Source includes interface definition files associated with source files for the work, and the source code for shared libraries and dynamically linked subprograms that the work is specifically designed to require, such as by intimate data communication or control flow between those subprograms and other parts of the work.
The issue isn't one of preference, it is one of intellectual development. When you speak your native language to your children, it is easier for you to teach them how to think. And if they can think in your native language, they can transfer that skill to a new language.

By contrast if you speak a language that you struggle with, your lack of fluency gets in the way of supporting your children's cognitive development. And a child who has never learned to think in any language, has a cognitive deficit that is hard to fix.
C undefined behavior can result in time travel
> I don't understand your first argument at all. Why wouldn't the compiler know what the standard `range()` function does? The second one only makes sense since we aren't type hinting, however that too could be reversed by analyzing the code.

I'm sure it knows what the standard range() function does. It just doesn't know that that's the standard range function you use when the code is being run. Any Python program is also a module. Any module can be imported. Any imported module's global namespace is unknown at the time you write the program.

Imagine I have your code, above, in a module called nextlevelwizard, and I write my own little progam as this:

import builtins
def myrange(n):
cur = 0
while cur < n:
print(cur)
yield cur
cur += 1
builtins.range = myrange
import nextlevelwizard

Now, suddenly, your loop has a side effect. Side effects cannot be "optimized away" - the whole point of programs are generally to produce some sort of side effect!

This is a silly example, of course, but the dynamic nature of Python means that it really is very hard to skip steps you assume are irrelevant.
Depends on the people. Some would just want the USA split into a few smaller countries.

Also, it's still pretty fringe.
Nuclear energy was just a by-product. Every nuclear power plant had to produce weapons grade plutonium. At its height the US had 50000 nukes.
There's a language for that https://github.com/kyouko-taiga/void-lang
These kinds of social movements always arouse the armchair anthropologist in me. This one in particular, because I think it has to do a lot with the rise of social media.

My theory is, what people might refer to as a "woke discourse" has been going on forever in left and progressive activist spaces, like certain parts of academia, political organizations and so on. Within those subcultures, there has for a long time been a strong emphasis on fairness, which is often enforced through a set of cultural and linguistic tools which have evolved over the years to identify and correct words and actions which fall outside the boundaries of what is considered acceptable or desirable in those communities.

So then came social medial platforms. Now you have forums like Twitter where suddenly everyone's conversations are out in the open. Now instead of pointing out perceived social problems and inequities over a lunch table at Oberlin, members of these subcultures are having that conversation in view of the whole world. And instead of reacting only to their own communities and media environment, they're also responding directly to problematic phrasing from some guy in rural Nebraska which left-wing students at elite universities polished out of their language years ago.

So you have this confluence of a social technology which had been developed for ages, and a communications technology which happened to be a very effective vehicle for what was probably quite a minority viewpoint to have a vastly outsized impact on society.

I actually think this concept of having one big conversation that everyone can be a part of is something we haven't even really began to wrap our arms around, and it will be interesting to see what online discourse looks like in a few decades.
TigerBeetle – a financial accounting database written in Zig
Ask HN: What do you use for high quality video calling?
What do you use for high quality video calling these days between continents/countries/cities. Whatsapp video calls are OK, often low quality. Skype gives good quality only when it feels like. There should have been a WebRTC alternative by now but I can't find a free one. https://appr.tc is probably broken and always give room full error to other person (overseas) who wants to join.
Too much of a good thing: Mourning the slow death of the retail game store
> And social acceptance is the biggest contributor to reducing suicidality

That’s not the proper way to treat depression. No amount of social acceptance will lower the suicide rates of people with mis/untreated depression.
Hilarious: need a way to tag stuff I see on linkedin to automatically post it to shlinkedin.
Something like #nottheonion

There is so much hilarious content not being appreciated over on the original.
I agree this is effectively how it is today in some countries, but I don't consider this an acceptable stance. Software cannot be exempted from normal rules of physical ownership of sold goods.

You sold me a device, which also means you sold me the software within because the device is useless without it. The software is not separate from the device, it is the device.

Of course, that doesn't mean I can do whatever I see fit with the software; I cannot redistribute it under my own terms. But insofar the actions I take with the software strictly pertain to my own usage of my own device, I should be allowed to do it. And it also means you (the company) shouldn't be able to do with the software installed on my device as you see fit.
What I mostly meant was that if the verb distinguishes gender (in Slavic languages, this is a feature of the past tense), then these pronouns impart the masculine on the verb. But now that I look at Spanish verb tenses, it's apparently not the case that the past participle in the predicate expresses the gender of the clause subject. If there's a different situation where this could arise, nothing readily comes to my mind.
Google Assistant on KaiOS loses some abilities
> outlaw phones won't likely be allowed on local phone networks

Why is it even possible for them to know what sort of phone is trying to connect?
It's just a shift from older, less flexible values like family, church etc to the more open minded approach, "do as you like".
Nothing wrong with people having tattoos everywhere, green or violet hair, non conformist clothing and views. Let them be, let them express and find themselves.

I am the shave every day suit kinda guy and will remain so, but if someone chooses to be different or wants to complain about new woke culture values , fine by me.

There's not more or less trans and gay people these days, they are just more visible and have a voice, as they won't be burned at a stake anymore, metaphorically speaking.
I would love to have more pronouns in signatures. I cannot count the times I used Google picture search to figure out the gender of students from cultures I am not well educated about (Chinese, Indian, Arabic, Vietnamese ...). Many foreign students adopted a western name to mitigate such problems. Yikes!
Being gay, or bisexual has always been with us, and the author acknowledges that, but the transgender thing as it exists today is what the author is claiming is made up.
I think all reasonable beings should care about describing things accurately and not conflating different things. For instance, arguments against one of them might not hold against another.

Note that this is far from just a blue tribe thing, it's pretty universal across all politics around the world to deliberately conflate the views of your stupidest enemies and your smartest.
>Some would just want the USA split into a few smaller countries.

"Just" strikes me as an inappropriate adverb to use in this context. You are talking about splitting up the US into racially segregated states. Even in a bizarre hypothetical where this was somehow done with the best of intentions (lol), the amount of chaos and human suffering it would cause is almost impossible to imagine.

This sort of utterly insane belief should not be "pretty fringe". It should be virtually non-existent, in a reasonably sane and healthy society.

It's a real sea change in our culture that racial segregation is now openly considered or even advocated on relatively mainstream forums such as HN. That some of the people in question might not meet some overly pedantic definition of 'white supremacist' is hardly any consolation.

The far right has never taken its own ideology seriously – it's all a means to an end. They tie sympathetic intellectuals up in knots trying to parse and categorize the finer gradations of racist nonsense, and then do whatever they hell they want once they're in power.
That'd be awesome, personally. I'd fail to use my 4 weeks every year, and always get December off, which is probably the most requested month for vacations.

If you want that policy to have teeth, maybe end the "year" on a month that few people want vacations, like February. (I'll pull that out of my arse, but it's less than December, I'm sure.)

That would cause them to actually schedule their vacation when they can use it and enjoy it, instead of sitting at home for a month with nothing to do when it crept up on them.

IMO, at least.
But you yourself made the same error, claiming that lots of people are simply mistaken about the causes of their burnouts and that you know their condition better than themselves.
We don’t really mix that much though. I’m from the French speaking side, when you live there you basically don’t go to the German or italien speaking side outside of vacations or specific events (also, transports are really expensive, that doesn’t help). And for young people it’s common to speak in English as an intermediate language between regions. I can also say that I had a decade of German courses in school and got absolutely nothing from them.

The experience is a bit different if you live in a bilingual canton but people are still mostly speaking one language.
I suppose it depends whether you're making the comment in a community where the majority are cis gendered men or not.

And furthermore, if you weren't expecting the majority to disagree you've just certified the comment as disingenuous anyway.
So this thread introduced me to the idea of "latinx" and now I wish I had never heard of it. What a ridiculous concept and a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
This excerpt from the Go docs is an excellent case for (some) operating overloading:

> Note that the Go == operator compares not just the time instant but also the Location and the monotonic clock reading. Therefore, Time values should not be used as map or database keys without first guaranteeing that the identical Location has been set for all values, which can be achieved through use of the UTC or Local method, and that the monotonic clock reading has been stripped by setting t = t.Round(0). In general, prefer t.Equal(u) to t == u, since t.Equal uses the most accurate comparison available and correctly handles the case when only one of its arguments has a monotonic clock reading.
> The founder of Brave was canceled by the left for his religious opposition to calling gay unions “marriage”.

Insofar as he was opposed by “the Left”, it was for his political actions in opposition to equal rights. The religious basis of that action was probably important to Eich, but it was immaterial to the opposition.

> FWIW, I voted to call it that in my state, but I have no problem with someone holding a different opinion.

Good for you.

> That’s sorta how democracy works.

In a liberal (in the classical, Enlightment-derived sense, not either of the narrower senses it is used for factional positions within the US political system) democracy, you are absolutely permitted to have a problem with, and (peacably) take action based on such a problem, with unwelcome political actions, including actual or threatened refusal to participate in economic exchanges with the perpetrator.
Stores are switching to self checkout. Clearly the math works out for them but it makes stealing a lot easier.
I don’t think you’re trying to discuss these things honestly. Are you really saying sexual characteristics aren’t controlled by hormones and these sexual characteristics don’t have any effect on how humans think about their gender?