skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great specific examples of burnout, which generally is the feeling that nothing you can do is worthwhile, so the optimal choice is to do nothing.

"I'll do this nonsense because I need the paycheck" is a way to avoid burnout, unless you already have enough money for your needs that money can buy.
> You rarely see burnout in management

I see it all the time. The difference is management can often delegate the tasks they're most burnt out on to others.
"We have always been at war with Westernworld."
I remember messing around with this.

I put multiple gmail accounts into a RAID array, just to see if I could.

I declined to use it though because I didn't trust it, and it was slow, but it did work.
Metastasis of the Cold War, this is what it is. Like the world wars are connected, this war is also connected to CW. USSR did not disintegrate enough, ideologically.
Book a flight via Serbia. They’re charging an arm and a leg for being a bottleneck via which you can transfer to western airlines.
>If China joins it, that's going to be a problem.

Will it really be, though? China has their own system with CIPS, so if there's any joining, it will be Russia joining that. Then if Russia joins that, the West has a pretty strong political reason not to use it, then what you end up with is a controversial, lower-quality standard in competition with an already established standard.

Like sure, Firewire was sort of a thorn in USB's side, but look who won.
My whole childhood in the 80s was writing video games at home. It's all I wanted to do. I was really fucking good at it.

First job out of school - writing video games professionally. It sucked. Really sucked. This was back in the mid-90s when the profession was in a really bad place.

I got out within 2 years and never went back :(

I heard the industry was much better now, though?

This is the game I worked on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abomination:_The_Nemesis_Proje...
Yes, radio waves are attenuated in the atmosphere. This is highly frequency dependent - for practical applications the lower the frequency, the less radio waves are attenuated. In comparison with attenuation from obstacles in non-line-of-sight situations, the atmospheric component is not significant.

For really long range propagation on earth, reflections on atmospheric layers are the dominant factor (as there is no line of sights due to the curvature of the planetary surface).

See https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/atmospheric... for some nice graphs.
On the other hand, if nobody wants, is asking about, or cares about Important Thing You Want To Do, that's a sign you probably shouldn't do it.
Ask HN: Can I respond to an old Ask HN?
Hi,

I bookmarked a while ago this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29606476
with the intent, that if I'm going to Munich again, I'd maybe propose meeting up for lunch (I have bit of a similar background as the OP).

I'm going to Munich next week and wanted to follow up on my idea. Responding to that old thread seems to be disabled (HN policy?). Can I resurrect commenting or reach out to OP somehow?
South America and Saudi/Yemen are the only things approaching the same level of realpolitik assholery as Ukraine now.

Iraq? Evil dictator. Libya? Evil dictator. Syria? Gruesome terrorists/evil dictator.

Israel/Palestine? Messed up and the world still doesn't like it, but not on the same scale and certainly more complicated.
I think he gets some fair criticism for reporting some third hand accounts of some mass executions and publishing some inflated numbers, but I don't think his intention was to pin those down precisely, but rather to give account of the magnitude of the tragedy.
Two excellent questions, which I am unfortunately not able to answer with confidence, as it goes into the weeds of payment rails& infrastructure. Someone actually making the transfers (instead of a comparison site like us looking at the available services and recommending you the best one for your needs) would probably have the answers.
If you didn’t start with the business idea, or can’t figure out the business idea?

Get the job.
They were planning on quickly taking Kiev and forcing a regime change. Relatively bloodless operation would have allowed the west to yet again impose some irrelevant sanctions (e.g. Crimea) and wait for everything to go back to normal.
> Chronic understaffing, crazy time pressure, and lack of resources. This is endemic in the tech field.

Plenty of SW jobs where this is not a problem (some even have good pay, not FAANG level, though).

Go interview, and ask questions during the interview about it. Questions I've asked:

1. I don't check my email when I go home (unless there's a cross-geo meeting or something). Is that workable with this job?

2. What is the cycle of work like? How often do you work more than 40 hours a week? Is it regular, continuous work or are there crunch times?

3. Do you have on-call work? (If yes, probe into details - some on call work is terrible, but I've been on interviews where the person said he got a call only 3 times in a whole year).
> Look how India and China instinctively stay out of this.

I donno how instinctive it is given the hard lessons they have been learning.

The countries have stationed tens of thousands of soldiers backed by artillery, tanks and fighter jets along their de facto border, called the Line of Actual Control. In 2020, 20 Indian troops were killed in a clash with Chinese soldiers involving clubs, stones and fists. China said it lost four soldiers.

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14520971
What TVs are made in Russia?
Using Web3 without holding cryptocurrencies?
How to divest your 401(k) from fossil fuels
One large tip, one small tip:

1) Talk therapy can also just be "social interaction tutoring". 10/10 would recommend

2) "There aren't any docs" is accusatory and aggressive because it's about them / their work. "I couldn't find the docs" isn't, because it's about yourself. (Edit) "“Where can I find documentation for [this thing you’re doing]?” (thanks @
rattlesnakedave!) then goes the next step by actively inviting assistance.

2a) Tone definitely matters / helps, but that's a lot harder to coach / communicate over text.
I read it as the "barbarian russian military", not as "ethnic russians are barbarians". I think calling the ivading military barbarian is ok
US eyeing ways to strip Russia of Security Council seat
>Not supporting linux as a gaming platform is a down to earth decision.

Why should I care? It was supported before Epic bought them and Epic decided to axe it. My experience with Psyonix post-Epic is far worse than pre-Epic, which is exactly what the thread is about.
I actually didn’t have health insurance a few years ago and signed up for one of the non religious “health shares”. But I ended up in the hospital for a few days with a condition that was never fully diagnosed before I was discharged and the health share refused to pay anything and I was left with a $45k bill. For just 3 days of inpatient.

Imagine cancer or a car accident. If you have no income or assets, you can often get that written off by the hospital, but if you have income or assets, they will absolutely bill you for everything and a major health event like that could easily rack up $500k or more in bills.
This is why we can't have nice things.

First you wrote this code, which blatantly violates the TOS, then you shout into a megaphone that you've done this by posting your own app with clickbait title on HN. Now, because of your actions, Discord will just kill this within a month or two. Shame on you.

Update, I have reported this program:

https://dis.gd/request
I think the latent idea in this article (though I'm not sure the author thinks this) is that innovation happens within a cultural and economic context which simultaneously enables and inhibits certain kinds of innovations.

The industrial revolution could probably have happened in republican Rome -- they had factories, after all (peopled with artisans and slaves) -- but cultural and economic forces inhibited this. Today technology is focused on ad-tech and rent-seeking patterns -- these are our Roman factories.

A better question might have been what sorts of technologies are blocked by our current cultural and economic regime?
What are the odds the same law will spring up in the US, but be good when we do it?
Still tiny, so a few new programs can look like explosive growth.

And be honest; there are stories of bikes abandoned in piles and thrown into rivers in frustration by pedestrians. It's not been a clear winner yet?
I rose to a fairly high rank at Amazon. I was given explicit feedback to not get involved in certain day to day decisions or outcomes.

There was immense pressure to disconnect from actual situations and focus mainly on the “goals”… that if you didn’t do that, you weren’t being effective and you were wasting energy, holding yourself back from getting to the next level.

My first thought was that this feedback is around scaling. Obviously, the more you’re involved in the day to day, the more on your plate, the less you can scale up and focus on the big picture.

It took me some time to piece things together. The reality is that leadership wants senior leaders to stay disconnected. It makes it significantly easier to make decisions you wouldn’t make if you personally knew the people those decisions impact.

I won’t give specifics of another story, out of risk of getting outed. But imagine a C-level leader at Amazon telling people to step up and deliver among impossible timelines. To paraphrase, and btw - every one of these statements WERE made. I’m not making up a single statement.

“No, you’re not getting the raises you think you’re getting. And yes, many of your colleagues will leave in the coming months, because other companies will pay them significantly higher compensation. And yes, that will mean even more work for you. And yes, morale is suffering because of high attrition, but you need to convince your teams to deliver this.”

You see things like this in Hollywood films or TV dramas where you have cartoon villain personalities in positions of leadership. At the end of their speech, they might offer some candy or a box of donuts as token to make up for their asks.

At Amazon, if you work near or on campus, you get free bananas. :)

At Amazon the problem is they fail to see their employees as human beings. And they consider it a feature, not a bug.

Throw 100 things at the wall and see what sticks. If among those 100 things you also have to gut humans and use their guts and flesh to make things stick, then you do what needs to be done. If you don’t, the leadership will actually try and guilt you - that the problem is your inability, a weakness in your skill set and who you are.
You're confusing Snowden with Assange. (And probably forgetting the role of Manning.)
Thanks! I will be dusting off my resume this evening and pimp it to the latest status. It is so sad, since I get along with most coworkers really well, and enjoy working with them. They even vouched for me but management seems not to understand the situation.
I'd be interested in the correlation to two metrics: age and size of employer. When I was young I worked at startups: super stressful, high risk of company collapse, constant overload, funding stress, etc. I'm in my 50s now and have worked at hp for 20 years. I feel nearly zero stress and don't know whether it's because I've just been through the cycle enough times to know the world won't end because of me and also the company is just super nice to me. And I still do almost 100% technical work as an IC.
> The Trump admin didn't do those things despite all of his bluster.

Yes, it's an administrative motte & bailey. Police support, individual and organizational, for Trump is incredibly high and their loyalty to him transcends official channels. He's explicitly endorsed violence against journalists, brutality towards suspects, and celebrated the execution of Michael Reinoehl. While he didn't have direct control over the state police, he spoke directly to them frequently, and encouraged all of this.
Fundraising by data companies in 2021
I was in your situation a few years ago and took a job. I've saved more in the past couple years than all my other time combined. I will be financially independent by the time I'm 50, at which time I can do pretty much whatever I want. I tried multiple times to make it on my own but it was extremely stressful, especially once I had kids. You can always go back to it later.
Bite the bullet and expatriate them if you can handle the costs before your transport window closes [1], versus them declining destitute in their home land where you have no control if the situation deteriorates rapidly. I'd plead your case to whomever in the Canadian [2] and Russian governments will listen due to the situation and it being a compassionate case/allowance (providing elderly care close to family).

A sibling comment indicates OHIP wait periods no longer exist. Flex whatever social and consular assistance you can get, this is what they're there for. Don't be afraid to say "I need help, what can you do to help?" I'd expect more flexibility and support available during an active conflict.

EDIT: "4 independent sources I have say that the Russian border shuts down in <48, probably less than 24 hours. If you are in Russia and you can leave, leave now." -- March 3rd, 2022 9am [3]

[1] https://ru.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-mission-russia/

[2] https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/russia (Consular assistance, click Assistance on horizontal nav->"Moscow" dropdown)

[3] https://buttondown.email/guzey/archive/4-independent-sources...
The biggest difference between junior devs and senior devs is the ability to dig for answers and information and only ask when you are completely blocked. It seems like you've surrounded yourself with junior engineers and aren't interested in mentoring them into doing better. You should talk to your manager, or find a more technical place to work with fewer people to mentor.
It is statistically significantly harder to have a successful company as a solo founder. Having someone with a stake to bounce ideas and solutions off of makes a big difference. My associate and I regularly thank each other for catastrophes we avoided by our weekly night of talking over beer (and other daily exchanges).

I'm not too sure about _absolutely_ selling before making, but definitely do a market research and check if you can find people who would, at least theoretically, buy the product you intend to make.

If you make before you sell, you're saying that you are a visionary and people cannot understand your genius. Those are not odds to my liking, but if you like them you do you.
Discord would probably still keep message history but lock it behind a subscription like how Slack works.
This seems to be largely about your definition of war. No elections were overturned, but could you say he waged war on elections? He had his team out there saying that Hugo Chavez created the rigged voting machines and that it was statistically impossible for Biden to have won. It was an ideological war, not a physical war. You don't have to jail anyone to nonetheless do broad damage to an institution. I agree that people can over-analyze sloppy comments from fringe weirdo politicians, but here is something the president tweeted:

>“They can’t stand the fact that this Administration has done more than virtually any other Administration in its first 2yrs,” he continued. “They are truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”

(https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437610-trump-cal...)

And surely media can be bad, can harm people, can lie, but "ENEMY" is interesting.
Curious what you're citing here? The american right obviously has an extremely robust selection of sources to choose from in every medium there is. You can read Breitbart or watch Fox, you can find multiple radio stations with talking heads in every market. You can find fellow travellers on Facebook or 4chan (or right here). The biggest podcast in the nation pushes a mostly conservative line.

I mean, I'm sure that somewhere there's been a terrible abuse and someone got fired or whatever. It's a big country. But, I'm equally sure that whatever happened, you know about it because the news was delivered to you by conservative media.

The US is fine. We had an authoritarian scare for a while, but the system held.
It’s very high risk, because you don’t know what you’re aiming at.

The odds your product will hit a target that you have no idea if it even exists or not (or what it looks like, or what it’s shape is), is often lower than if you do.

Definitely not impossible of course!

But the odds are long enough already, it’s silly to not shorten them if you can.
If Russian Currency Reserves Aren’t Money, the World Is in for a Shock
Yep, this is a stronger factor than delivery mechanism questions.
It's of course not particularly great. You can make hydrogen at like 80% efficiency and use it at like 60% efficiency in a combined cycle plant. So 50% is probably in the right ballpark. Batteries are much more efficient, but efficiency is only weakly correlated with cost. I don't know the actual numbers, but from what I've heard hydrogen (or even methane) are the most economically promising storage options when you need weeks or months worth of backup.
StackOverflow but for food. RecipeOverflow. StackFood.
It's not even that sophisticated yet. I'm ranking urls based on their normalized score on the various community sites I find them on. My next TODO is to roll up those ranks to get a rank for the site, then index the whole site.

I will also be using the PageRank calculated by Common Crawl as soon as they release the next data set.
By the way the "source" I am invoking are MIT scientists for the lab leak theory being plausible https://www.amazon.com/Viral-Search-Covid-19-Alina-Chan-eboo... and when it comes to dissenting views on COVID I am referencing Dr. Robert Malone(holds a patent for mRNA vaccines) and the great barrington declaration https://gbdeclaration.org/ which was created and signed by many Ivy League medical researchers and practitioners about how flawed our strict lockdown measure are.

Hunter Biden has gone on record saying that laptop might have been his.

Don't presume a persons sources without asking first. You strike me as a smart person as well and should check these sources out with an open mind before dismissing them.
>Very fundamental rule number one: Only build something AFTER you sell it FIRST.

This isn't fundamental. It's a single effective strategy out of many possible strategies. Think about it. Only certain people will buy something before you can show it to them and there's also a whole class of people who will only buy after they've seen the product.
s/fake news/entertainment exploiting a set of curated insecurities to maximize ad-sales/g

The problem is that most are convinced that it’s all “fake news” and their preferred source is the “least fake”, all while getting pulled deeper down the rabbit hole.

I see the same dynamic with my teenage kids and the YouTubers /etc they watch on topics they’re interested in. They hear something, get overly excited about it, and then fixate/share/etc. I almost feel it’s a part time job to show enough interest to where they’ll talk about it so I can try and help build the reflex of distill out fact/assumption/inference, and reframe narrative to a set of possibilities that for facts. It’s actually been a challenge b/c often things sound stupid if I'm too reductionist and they shut down. But TBH usually sounds stupid b/c it is stupid manufactured drama that sells YouTube ads. Same dynamic whether some Roblox gamer drama, MLB lockout drama, or politics — all “news” eventually optimizes to maximize ad revenue, competing with creative entertainment for attention.
Remember the aftermath of the Portland protests? The damage and loss of business were estimated to be $23M. It's not the same as what you're describing from the far right, but it's also pretty bad, just in a different way.
That was my impression as well. Unless we're missing additional context - I don't see what's so outrageous about that message, except that "mostly offline" doesn't make any sense.
> Appeal to authority is a fallacy

Yes, but it isn't a fallacy which is occurring here. Provisionally accepting the reasoned opinion of a domain expert is a rational choice in situations where re-evaluating everything from first principles is not an option. This is not an appeal to authority unless their conclusion is taken to be true simply because they are an authority, without regard for how that conclusion was reached. There is naturally room for error; you're trusting in the expert's skill, experience, logic, motivation, and above all honesty to collaboratively assembly an argument larger than you could put together on your own, and each party must do their part. If the expert's reasoning is deceptive, flawed, or misinterpreted, then the argument falls apart—but you're not just taking their word as fact, you're trusting them to produce rational conclusions from the evidence in the same way that you would if you had their knowledge and experience (and unlimited time).

Naturally, some experts are more trustworthy in any given domain than others. Anyone relying on Putin for conclusions on just about anything (even his own self-interest) is likely to be disappointed.
You definitely should give it up doing it full time. I'm in same boat as you. 7 out of last 9 projects have been failures. I quit my job only for the first startup. After assessing the opportunity costs from quitting the job, I have come to the conclusion that getting your idea implemented with others with you paying the money is much simpler than taking the full hit to the salary. Also, please never do these solo. My 8th attempt has been partially successful (still running with growing business) purely because I partnered with non tech founders. The way they took this small idea and pivoted on it and thought business cases for it was amazing. More importantly they aren't afraid to just go talk to large customers and getting rejected. My current startup I'm doing with another non tech founder and the confidence he has about the use cases and business reception is amazing.

Good luck!
The war on gifted education
This announcement is more like 'the office will now be available to you' rather than a requirement that anyone besides datacenter workers be in-office
I can't say I've noticed that.

But more generally, why would we require someone to put forth an alternative view as part of criticizing one that's already being discussed?
Possibly a compromised account (most likely email), or you ended up getting a blacklisted IP from your residential ISP that someone else previously used for nefarious reasons. Sometimes it's an unfortunate combination of the above, along with using an adblocker.
So take out Saddam Hussein don't kill a million innocent people in the process. I did hear a rumor that it was all about the oil anyway LoLz.