skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe not a surprise that they also have trouble getting employee's right now?
I think the only thing you missed was that the original estimate also included more FTEs, but then they cut those too. This whole chain of reality was a big part of why I eventually decided I had to get out of tech. The people doing the work can often articulate the work and provide solid estimates to the work, but they will get chewed up by people with other agendas.
I'm 52 got laid off a pseudo-IT job went to a technical college, graduated, got entry level IT and after a year I feel burned out. I'm at the bottom rung of IT where even young people get burned out.

Now each day is just a blur of anxiety. I used to love IT, school was a blast I loved programming, servers, networking, security, web design, troubleshooting, but help desk not so much at 52.

I used to work evenings and nights at my old job now 9pm seems like 3am.
While I agree that Facebook is lying, how come we want to hold Facebook accountable when it’s the parents who are being negligent? Giving your children privacy is important but that doesn’t mean you have to let them use social media or have no idea who they’re talking to. Talk to any kid on the internet today and they will tell you they encounter pedophiles, groomers, psychological torture, and bullying. Talk to the schools and they tell you all their issues (fights, bullying) arise from Facebook. You can control what apps your children use, technology is getting easier than ever and if you can afford their iphone, you can afford robust parental controls or at least time out of your day.
You are replying to a direct quote from FBs article. I don’t personally think that 1 person is too many, but clearly 1% of their user base is a lot of people.
It’s definitely a good idea to include it in your investment portfolio as long as you do it intelligently. It’s a very risky asset and should be treated as such. The bulk of your investment allocations should be in market tracking etfs and mutual funds. I run an investing blog (https://www.askthesavingsguy.com) so I may be biased against unnecessary risk, but that’s my 2 cents
I guess I am very lucky then. I am 60 and still very active in development. I develop my own products and I develop new products for clients in various industries. The range is very wide (firmware, low level soft, enterprise applications back and front end, equipment / process control, desktop productivity and entertainment software etc. etc).

I do get tired every once in a while but since I am an independent company I can almost always take my time and recover. So far I did not loose any of that sense of excitement when starting on design of completely new project. I guess being ISV for the last 22 years helps greatly in this department.

Also read a lot, play me some music on keyboard (insanely bad but who cares) and do fair bit of physical activity (cycling, hiking, swimming in the lakes and ocean.

As a result I am very fit, have lots of energy and my brain is always itching to start something new.

What I do not have is a ton of money but I am not doing too bad and would not trade my freedom for anything
"If I’m honest, I’ve been running on fumes for a while. But there were enough milestones along the way to keep chasing that next moment of reprieve. The vacation. The promotion. The vaccine. The remodel.... But then the fumes ran out. And a bunch of life things hit at once, and I couldn’t see any reprieve in my horizon."

By no means do I mean to criticize the author for writing this. I only want to encourage everyone else to take this lesson seriously. I've banged this drum before on HN but it can take quite a bit more banging: Take burnout seriously. Take the initial signs of burnout seriously. If you're vaguely nervous about the possibility that you're burning out, take it seriously.

Don't shy away from it. Take this to heart: If you're sort of starting to burn out, and you acknowledge it, there are steps you can take to prevent it from ever happening! There's every reason to acknowledge it to yourself. It is ignoring it that may cause the bad outcome.

I can speak only for myself in that when I have sensed burnout coming on, I take time off. Sometimes with little notice, because I notice I need it. I get my projects changed. I evaluate my life goals before it's a problem. And I've never really suffered a real burn out yet here at 42, even through some bad times.

While I've not had to do this myself, I also strongly encourage extreme self honesty. It's sad to study for some years and then be in a career for longer only to discover it's not the career for you, but it's less sad that staying there. Do you want to be in the brewery business? Do you want to become a carpenter? Be honest.

(Though I do also offer just a bit of warning that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence; do take that into account, too.)
> You're saying we should make driver's licenses punitively difficult to get in order to shift American population structure in the direction of dense settlements?

I don't think there's anything punitive about proportionately strict regulation for something that kills so many people.
You could also be a statistical anomaly with regards to how long you can work. If I were to bet, users of Hackernews have a higher focus time than most people right now, through training or otherwise.
Slow news day?

Next up: https://search.censys.io
The original author of the site has many talents, but web design is not one of them.
A lot of the talk about mindfulness is a fad. The actual practice is extremely old. Same with meditation.
> A stamp might tag a value as being between 0 and 255, for example, which is much more specific than "int".

Yeah, that's a normal type. For example in Common Lisp, it's the type defined by the type specifier (INTEGER 0 255).
Jellyfin is awesome, but there's a few caveats for me.
- Android TV app is quite unstable. Even if you make it do direct streaming, it's not a flawless playback - Sometimes hangs when clicking next episode. I also kind of wish the login experience was a bit better.
- Android App is decent, but for music it's unusable. I'm still using plex + plexamp because that experience is just so much better for me.

But, I don't regret moving my videos to JF. Plex Android app had terrible QA/QC where it would have regressions consistently every month. A bug where rewinding 30 seconds would push you forward instead of backwards would return at least 1 update every 2 months and that was frustrating.
TypeScript can... sort of do that. They could definitely take it further if they wanted to

For example a type could be `0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5`, though there's no way right now to specify that as `0..5`
Popsicle Panniculitis
As someone who's been involved at a short distance with the music industry, I have not fricking clue what people are smoking with regards to NFTs and monetization.

Musicians can already monetize their work through a myriad methods. There's a ton of independent labels, larger labels, Bandcamp and Bandcamp-like websites for purchasing music, managers who can help you get gigs and promote yourself, etc.

The problem is not, and has never been, that the big bad labels are taking all the money.

The problem is that it's just not fundamentally profitable to have a sustained business as a musician at the price point most people are willing to pay for content and products made for fan consumption.

You can't really automate promotion; it's an extremely human-intensive task, and managers/promoters cost money. Venues have an upper bound on how much money you can make because owning a venue is already a money-losing proposition. Merch? The vast majority of music fans are young and don't have much disposable income, with the exception of some very large acts where fans continue to spend money on concerts and albums into middle age and beyond.

Music just isn't profitable because for the vast majority of people it's a labor of love, where monetary incentives just don't play the way they do in other industries, and where the most enthusiastic fans don't have much money to spend and have a thousand other alternatives.

There is not a single proposition in the NFT space that alters any of these mechanics. If you're not willing to spend two bucks to buy a track on Bandcamp you sure as hell aren't gonna do so with an NFT.
Ah, I did qualify that statement with the search term 'SECRET' (classification level box) on the CableGate archive.

Yes, there are unclassified and even classified cables discussing human rights initiatives - but I'm guessing 'SECRET' is what they really care a lot about, and that stuff in my experience of reading literally hundreds of cables (okay I was leaning more towards energy research) that's just not an issue anywhere I've seen. For example, Syria? It's all about forcing Assad to cut ties with Iran and get into the Saudi-Qatar gas pipeline deal. UAE? Huge arms deals. Ditto for Saudi Arabia. For grim laughs, look up Raytheon and Yemen.

It's really not very flattering, although the writers seem intelligent and well-informed.
https://isopenbsdsecu.re

Slide 43 is worrying.
I'm a 54 year old too, who has been cutting code since I was 18. Currently running my own startup which is doing well, but I find that the long years of long hours have sapped my energy levels quite drastically.

I deliberately only work about 4 to 6 hours per day max, and delegate everything else to my team. I also take Wednesdays off entirely to spend as a 'date day' with my wife who also has doesn't have a work shift on Wednesdays, and I don't work on weekends any more.

My working hours are broken up - I may do 2 or 3 hours in the morning when I wake up, but then I go off an indulge in my other passions such as music production etc. Then I may do a couple more hours in the afternoon when the rest of my remote team are coming online on the other side of the world, then I will take a break to cook dinner etc. and check in quickly before going to bed to ensure all tasks are on track. Like the comment poster above I also take regular naps in the afternoon to recharge my batteries.

I also don't have more than 2 to 3 meetings per week, and I am VERY selective about who I meet with and for how long. I am totally focused on maximising every ounce of energy towards only things that will move my startup forward.

Conversely, some of those meetings are actually spent mentoring other startup founders - I find that it really motivates me to 'give back' to the community a little after decades of receiving help and advice.

An yes, I have been through actual burnout 4 times in my career. Each time gets worse, but I also now know to look for the signs - plus my family and colleagues also keep watch for early signs, which helps me mitigate the onset of bad habits and work patterns that may trigger it.
>Here is reduced screenshot of Leo's main window. You can view the full-sized image using something like "view image" in your browser.

What a weird sentence to read at this point of the Internet.
Apple would get more of a pass on curation if they allow alternative methods of installation so you were not required to use only their store.
I feel like we are living the same life. If you are in the MD/DC/VA area, lets be friends.
Have their been substantial societies that didn't believe in free will that we can examine?
I basically want more money so I dont have to deal with the corporate BS forever. I would enjoy helping develop people though. I currently love being able to help people with technical issues. I wonder how much I would actually be able to help people within the BS corporate constraints.

Switching companies won't help me. I need stability due to several family medical issues and a limited job market in my area (fully remote is not a great option for me, at least initially). I also wasted a large part of my career working on FileNet and Neoxam, so switching is not so easy with the limited experience in other tech. It seems most posting are for seniors and almost nothing for midlevels.

"If you still have to code and be a manager, that sounds.. like a good reason to look for a job elsewhere."

That's why I don't really want to do management at my company anymore.

"But managing people's careers, helping them with salary conversations, HR stuff, job coaching and more.. that's a full-time job."

That's my thought, but apparently my company doesn't think so.
Second blog post is about how great Gab is? yikes.
We can't expect kids to win in a fight against trillion dollar conglomerates who want to create psychological addiction to their products, and we can't expect parents to effectively control their children at all waking moments.

This is a proper domain for governmental regulation.
Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants
Who could blame them? Home prices are astronomically high compared to past decades and rival the 2008 market. Wages have not kept up with housing and so everybody is just waiting for those prices to come back down to earth. Unfortunately I don’t see that changing. One of many reasons there is a growing shift in delaying retirement and even opting into pretirement instead (https://www.askthesavingsguy.com/2021/09/25/pretirement/). The middle class just can’t afford assets anymore
Yes, a post-hoc rationalization of trying to create demand for something that solves no practical problem.

It's as if these people weren't around when DeviantArt was created; their complete lack of aesthetic taste shows how little they are interested in making a viable medium for artists.
An interesting take-away from this is designing low upkeep business services. I have been dealing with trying to onboard to a service at work, and there are so many dependencies! Several are pinned to versions that require python2, but I can't install python2 because another service I use calls "python" and assumes it's linked to python 3!

And sometimes someone will add a new feature, and include an entire library for that single method call, instead of trying to write a little JavaScript.

I almost think there should be a non-trivial process at most businesses for including new libraries so that web devs would try to do it without adding a new library, so they didn't have to deal with red tape!
Multi-Task Learning
"Theres no such thing as FAANG level devs."

Yeah, but that doesn't stop management from comparing a candidate to the fiction they had in their minds.
A false flag cyberattack - an act of war in the modern world, many say - is pretty far beyond what peacetime intelligence agencies have historically gotten up to.

I mean, if you left Russia fingerprints on, for example, a CIA-led cyberattack on a nuclear reactor, that could start a major war. It's pretty reckless in my opinion to even make such tools.
"We've spent decades closing neighborhood schools, consolidating schools in unwalkable locations, and making our communities more dangerous places for kids to walk and bike, all while public transportation became less frequent and less available.

As late as 1969, about half of kids under 15 usually walked or bicycled to school. By 2009, the figure was 13 percent."

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/9/23/the-school-bus...
Unsolicited advice: I suggest taking maximum paternity leave if feasible. I first took leave on my 3rd child, and feel stupid I didn't do it prior. Ironically, I was unable to convince two other colleagues to do the same.

It took about 4-5 weeks into the leave to finally relax, for my mind was wired to expect frequently recurring deadlines, so I was always paranoid of missing (nonexistent) deadlines. I didn't realize how messed up I was until I took a break.

It was liberating to just sit in a rocking chair every night putting the baby to sleep and thinking of nothing else. Maximum happiness.
Why bother improving construction labor productivity when it's the legal fighting, paperwork, and unwanted-but-necessary shmoozing that grossly dominates project time? It wouldn't surprise me if it dominates cost soon too.

Edit:
Also in a lot of cases I'm not actually sure how you would do it even if you wanted to. There's some minor improvements with better tools (on several size scales) over the graph's time, but also increased expectations of quality, inspection, and safety. Maybe factory-produced prefab construction would help, but so far it hasn't been a resounding success.
Where do your eyes go?
That's a nice, succinct way to put it. Software that doesn't interact with the world can be finished. Software that does ends when the world does.

I suppose then that a benefit of pure functional programming is that you can statically analyze whether a given piece of software is plausibly "done" or simply unmaintained, depending on whether and to what extent it uses monads.
Not saying you're wrong, but...

The district I am in does that, and they cannot find enough drivers at all.
I think this comment touches on something very deep. Spending time in online spaces seems to be profoundly damaging to our mental health.

What exactly is it about online spaces that does this ? It’s little wonder that many are burning out after a year of being perpetually online.

However I would also like to add that the amount of uncertainty in the world and in our jobs has gone up.
You never really know if you’re doing “enough”. And the internet exacerbates it.
Concentration (sustained attention) has many stages. For example, at the lowest stage and in an unpracticed individual, one must fight to keep attention placed on an object. Someone who is well practised will either pass over that stage immediately upon beginning to concentrate or they will not be in that stage for long. As concentration sustains it becomes easier to the point that no will is required for it to remain, it becomes automatic and arises as if you are being concentrated by the object. Sportsmen call this flow.

Are these studies comparing this difference? Do they first ascertain the level of skill in concentration that the subject has? Are they going to go against what all sportsmen who've experienced flow have to say on the matter?

Personally, I find much of the science world's attempts to look at mindfulness and/or meditation as incredibly clumsy, and frankly, arrogant. Just because people who have written extensively on the subject were not scientists is no reason to dispense with their insights (ha).
I consistently argue that the issue with Plex is not income, but desperately attempting to rebrand as a “legitimate” media centre.

Look at the marketing materials and features from the last few years: Specifically trying to avoid any thought of pirated content.
Big fan of Jellyfin. I see a lot of comments mentioning problems with the client.

I use it on an Amazon FireTV (you can download jellyfin directly from Amazon's app store, no side loading needed).

It seems to work well on that platform (at least for me).
We didn't have the same experience.

A bug that also affected me was reported at least twice (March 2019 and April 2019[1]).

After 5 months of wait, the OP posted a script he wrote to work around the issue.

A simple path building issue took 8-9 months to get pushed in the BETA channel.

[1] : https://forums.plex.tv/t/dvr-moving-files-from-grab-bug/3967...
I was rather young at the time so maybe I didnt capture all of the media coverage. But I remember the media coverage of Snowden was more of a 'where in the world is snowden' rather than actually about the content he published.
Or maybe try hiring an American or two for a change?
> In that context, why do so many of us take on so many unnecessary responsibilities? It's tempting to say "Well, my employer assigned them."...

It's interesting to audit what you do v. your ACTUAL job definition, especially when it comes to blurred responsibilities.

Tell your friend this realistic boss saying:

> If you work hard, put in extra hours, and push to be the best, then "I" get a new Ferrari next year!
It doesn't kill very many people. We established that several comments up.
I hear a lot of people blame a "slow metabolism" for difficulty losing weight, but most of them have normal metabolism. It's useful to get an occasional resting metabolic rate test just to know your baseline. Costs about $50 and totally painless.
>There is a shortage of people willing to accept their terms. There isn’t a shortage of people who want to work.

Would you also agree that there's no housing shortage in the US, only a shortage of houses available at locations and prices that people are willing to accept?
The School Bus Driver Shortage Is a Problem We Didn't Have to Have
The comment provides negative value, noise with insufficient signal. Getting such comments out of the way is exactly what downvotes are for, regardless of whether the intent was malicious.
People with these sort of ideal solutions rarely have kids. The parent article is better advice in that domain.
It kills a lot of people. Whether the mechanism for it killing a lot of people is a large number of miles driven rather than a high rate of deaths per mile is neither here nor there.
This. In the github readme it says static binaries are supplied. Thinking of linux and linux tooling as just something distros supply limit the imagination. Pull down the correct static and you're done. If you still want to compile it, it's easy.

From linux from scratch to muslcc to buildroot to yocto you can get nice new compilers and run them in docker or in a simple chroot. Requiring new compiler versions is a good thing and any disto related impediments are a distraction from just getting simple toolchain tooling going.
Yeah, T-Mo may fighting a better fight, but their security issues dog them. Maybe the average consumer doesn’t care, but I find it hard to champion a brand that gives such a half effort to protecting their customers’ information.
You are a fine source! So fatalities = 0. Any idea about miles driven, by Tesla FSD beta cars? Or is there no public info on that?

If it was human drivers (in the US), you'd expect a fatality by around the 70 million mile mark. And fatalities caused by self-driving cars are very newsworthy, so you'd hear about it.
is there a formal engineering management education, though?

at the risk of sounding exceptionalistic, I think managing engineers is a different beast than managing other roles
Don't underestimate the practicality of telling people to fuck off, even if it will have to be put in different words. If for some reason that's not practical, then that's a problem in itself, so try working on that.

As harsh as it might sound to put it this way, the answer for how some people will be able to manage better with their SO and kids is, "because I don't have your SO and kids for my SO and kids," or more specifically, "by not allowing my relationship with my SO and kids to be like your relationship with your SO and kids." For kids especially and with people I know who have this problem, it's because they infantilize and underestimate their kids (past the point where they're actual infants) and think "that's just how they [i.e. kids] are." Your question posed as if it could have an answer that would somehow be general/widely applicable (and not highly dependent upon the tendencies and personalities of the people involved as individuals) certainly hints towards this.
Jellyfin + tailscale. Easy mode.
I can think of a few reasons for not caring after all these decades.

. It's both sad and funny to see things you helped design become obsolete, selling for mils on the dollar or end up in a recycling heap.

. Careers often are all about designing the same thing over and over. Even products that appear different to the user often have similar logical plumbing.

. Tech really does change over time and you don't care about the new. (for example) I could give a rip about anything involving the internet but that's where all the money flows.
I think you misinterpreted what I said. I never said women weren't held back. Only that there could be a different reason for the lack of women in politics.