skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditional highly intense low-pay professional jobs (university teacher, social worker, clergy, for example) have, at least in some cases, sabbaticals as part of the career and compensation scheme. Sabbaticals have the express purpose of letting people avoid and recover from burnout.

Highly intense high-pay professional jobs (oncologist, software developer, bond trader) don't have the sabbaticals baked in. Those of us with that kind of job have to cope with burnout on our own. There's no well-meaning dean or bishop saying, "go take a sabbatical. I want to see a five-paragraph paper describing the insides of your eyelids. It's due in three months. Getouddahere! Go! Now!"

Nobody's going to do it for us. We have to do it for ourselves.

You say you don't want to let your team down. That's great. Keep in mind that they don't want to let you down either. So trust your team members to keep doing what they do, but without your presence for a few weeks. Talk to some of them about it.

Then talk to your managment / front office about it. Come to that conversation with a tentative plan. Say something like this.

"I am fried. I propose to take six weeks off and go snorkeling in the tropics / cut my grass with scissors / build a bicycle of bamboo and ride it to Taos NM / whatever.

"Joey and Anne know what needs to be done in the farkle and framis modules, and they're well-respected by the rest of the team. I know this team; I'm confident they'll continue to do great things while I take the break I need to take.

"What do you think of this plan, boss? Is it workable? Would any changes make it workable for you?"

That opens the conversation in a respectful way. Good managers will probably see how the company benefits ... give responsibility to more people ... keep you "in the socket" even if you're powered down for a while ... build a reputation as an employer with respect and compassion.

If your proposal angers your boss or starts a riot in the executive washroom, well, then you know that about your company as you consider your next options.

A blunter way of putting this is "Always work yourself out of any job you hold. It's the only way you'll be able to do anything new."
Consider the original study: they used 45 Cornell undergraduate students and asked them about grammar. Grammar isn't objective. Everyone there had performed well on the verbal portion of the SAT, but they weren't studying grammar and hadn't gotten instruction on this particular book of grammar they were judged against. It is very likely that what they were capturing in the "better" or "worse" scores is differences in local dialect.

They then judged people whose beliefs about grammar varied from the one book's beliefs about grammar as having over-estimated their performance. They took people out of one context, asked them how they would behave in a novel context, and everyone made an educated guess. The people who guessed correctly were judged to accurately know their own abilities, when actually they may just have gotten lucky.

Thus what Dunning-Kruger's paper actually says is that if you want people to know how you would like them to perform a task, you can't assume they will read your mind: you have to provide them with actual feedback on their performance.
Founding fathers wanted, "No taxation without representation."

Maybe they should have been more specific.
Infowars Files for Bankruptcy Amid Sandy Hook Lawsuits
Ask HN: How does Apple achieve both secrecy and quality for a release?
I know there are several counterexamples, but in general I'm impressed that Apple manages to keep new products/features under wraps until a major event, and then the product is in stores a couple weeks later with pretty high quality (user experience, reliability, minimal major bugs, etc.) Can anyone who has first-hand knowledge shed some light on how this is achieved with what I assume is quite limited user testing to contain leaks. Even working on products with multiple public betas and customer feedback sessions, it's hard to hit a high quality bar with a product release.
Anything more than a few dozen lightyears away could have conceivably detected us and taken action to erase the threat.
What does it have to with 7zip, again?

If there is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows Help Viever then nobody can stop anyone from writing a payload that mimicks the heap overflowing code in 7zip.

But of course that doesn't get you clicks so why not bait everyone by attaching name of a popular open source software to it.

Torvalds was spot on about security researchers.
I believe the term is "Speedrunning every financial crisis"
Fun (or maybe not-so-fun) fact: my 15-year-old nephew recently had to sign a document for some volunteer work, and he didn't know how. Apparently, schools no longer teach cursive, not even enough for kids to learn how to sign their own names for legal documents. The secretary was just like, "Yeah, we get that a lot; he can just print his name instead, that's fine."

I've always had shitty handwriting, and when I was in first grade, my teacher told my mom, "Don't worry about it; when he grows up, he'll probably be typing everything anyway." Turns out that was far more accurate and generalizable than we knew.
No, this is more like someone buying up 51% of the voting shares of a public company, and then using his voting power to transfer all of the company's assets into a shell corporation that he controls, screwing the minority shareholders.

Which is illegal, and will get you sued if you try it.
Good call. Let renters see how tax affects their rent.
I'm guessing there's a fair amount of research on the "optimal" amount to steal. No good killing the host after all.
I had a severe burnout a few years ago. I haven't fully recovered yet, but while going through it, I had no energy/motivation to think about work, nor doing it either.
As of now, I'm fine with working, thinking and having meetings, but I've limited myself to work from 9am to 6pm, with a 1-2h lunch break.
I do some side projects on my spare time, but sometimes I get enough of it as well, so I just spend my days watching TV, playing with my dogs etc.
You have all of my sympathy.
I’m beginning to feel as though there simply isn’t that much novel code to write anyways. I very very much agree that programming is not inherently valuable, and is merely just a tool; I say this even as someone who got into programming at a young age and enjoys it for the sake of it.

I think in some narrow domains I can write interesting, and perhaps even mildly novel code. But a huge majority of the time, working for smaller startups, or Google, or myself, the majority of code I’m writing is something that has already been done in another form but I can’t use it for some reason. Maybe it does similar things, but it explicitly doesn’t try to solve my particular version of a problem. Maybe the license doesn’t work. Maybe it’s almost perfect, but it’s buggy or slow. Or hell, maybe I’m being a meme programmer and rewriting perfectly good code in Go or Rust just because I want to have the same thing but integrated with my favorite languages and tools.

The world of open source also changes things. You most likely should not hire someone to write a TLS stack. It’s not worth it. Chances are, a good TLS stack is not a feature that will set you apart, if it differentiates you at all in any positive ways. If you want to do things that existing TLS stacks don’t, it can still make sense to hire an expert, if that’s your thing. But, most of the time, even then, it would probably make the most sense to soft fork or upstream changes to an existing robust TLS library. Because of open source, it makes exceedingly little sense to actually have one entity maintain their own novel bits unless they’re unique and related to how the product differentiates itself. And even then, in some cases, it makes more strategic sense to just open source your bits anyways, and make yourself the standard. Google releasing Kubernetes is a great example; you can probably find many projects in the open source world, like Cockroach, which are basically clones of Google things they only released in a limited form, so the rest of the world went and standardized on non-Google implementations, and the Google versions didn’t benefit from cross-collaboration and the generalization of internal hacks. This also rings true for Facebook and React.

I think most programmers, given enough time and initiative and effort, could build cool and novel software, but the fact is, we don’t need novel software most of the time. We need better boring software. More general, less buggy, faster. If that’s depressing, well, I guess so be it. But there’s also a lot of toilets to clean out there, and someone has to do that, too. I can’t complain if it doesn’t feel like my work is exactly writing my name into history.
I don't think it's necessarily that massive an expenditure.

Colonizing another solar system, that's massively expensive. Sending a single interstellar missile at the planet though... that could wipe us out... and definitely seems possible without a huge expenditure of resources (for a civilization with mega-structures).

Missiles being much simpler because they don't have to support life, they don't have to slow down - and therefore don't need on board propulsion past what is needed for manoeuvring (assuming some sort of "push it with lasers" style of propulsion), and apart from systems needed for manoeuvring they can really just be a hunk of metal that you accelerate really fast.
> I've often wondered what the chickens providing those massive boneless breasts look like.

They are twisted mutants that in some cases literally cannot walk: https://www.wired.com/2008/02/chickens-cant-w/
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For me, project based learning is the best method for learning a new language. Basically, pick a language and build something with it. Doesn't matter what. Going this route helps you get a feel for the language, how you might actually go about building something in practice, etc., which is much more valuable information than some rando's thoughts about the language in a blog post.

Building a CHIP-8 emulator is a fun first project (and generally very approachable -- there's a C tutorial at https://austinmorlan.com/posts/chip8_emulator/, which is helpful for understanding what approach you might take to get something working in another language). For Go specifically, I learned via https://interpreterbook.com/ (and the sequel, https://compilerbook.com/).

IMO, stay away from Rosetta Code unless you're really, really stuck. You don't want to e.g. write Python in a Javascript-y way. You should learn the Python way as much as possible.
Something else I noticed while living in Seattle. Compared to the US East coast and much of the mid-west it's FAR less muggy year-round in spite of constant overcast, rain, or mist for most of the year.

I remember flying from Seattle to London a few years back and was surprised that in spite of the same weather, London was almost unbearably muggy -- it felt like I stepped into a swimming pool my skin felt so moist.
Not sure if it's my "dream job".

But yeah, when you think about -- a sufficiently fecal-encrusted, lost-cause codebase is almost indistinguishable from an actual greenfield opportunity.
Maybe asking 45 Cornell undergraduates and then generalizing that to "people" was a bad idea after all.
most important line

> Have fridges for Club-Mate

Yes please! (So sad that it seems no one outside of Germany likes Club-Mate) (pg: 30, 80-81)

Club-Mate: Mate tea soda with less sugar than most sodas but more caffine. (pronounced Klube (rhymes with Tube), Mah-tay)
This is my first year filing with FreeTaxUSA and I'm quite happy with them. I bought the upgrade version, it was like $6 or $7, and then state was $14 on top of that. Quite happy with them. One downside, because I had some investment sales this year, and they would only let me enter summarized information, I have to print, complete, and mail a form with the itemized data. Thankfully, it isn't too large in my case.
I'm wondering the same thing. I guess someone would have to run the same tests on a Mac running Asahi Linux and compare results.

Any ideas of what software to use to measure this on Linux?
As others have pointed out, this has a number of very fundamental misinterpretations and omissions that really jump out at the reader. It's hard to see it as completely accidental, but it's possible.
> attempted to convince me Seattle is not rainy. This alone is a proof Seattle is rainy enough.

How is that proof? Do you expect all people eventually lie to you?

Seattle mists a lot, but rarely rains hard. Natives know better than to even own raincoats or umbrellas.

There was some old stat about highest sunglasses sales per capita in Seattle. That was because of unexpected sunbreaks.
> Are you so far inside your bubble that you can't connect conservative values aligned to religious thinking to the conservative push to defund public education benefitting private parochial schools

You know its funny. I always hear this “folk devil” described regarding the charter school movement, yet my SIL works at a teacher at a charter school that has no religious curriculum. Its oriented to exploring the use of novel teaching methodologies not yet adopted by the public schools and quite successful. Its in a more economically depressed area, which serves the kids in that area quite well and is sought after educational center for parents in that area, because the public school is crap (and was crap before the charters opened). This in large part why charter school initiatives poll well in economically depressed communities.

Do some parochial schools benefit? Sure.
Is the charter school movement only for parochial schools? Nope.
That’s not asking for a lot from a building.

It's definitely asking for a lot. For my building's parking structure, that would require at least $5 million worth of upgrades to the electrical system, and we're not even the biggest condo building on the block.
By density do you just mean a ton of smaller thrusters? Does it have to be a ring shape?

Basically I am just imagining a ship with a ton of the tiniest realistically produced thrusters side by side - would be some wasted space between the rings but this seems like it could be a solid design (not to mention additional redundancy in case individual thrusters go out)
You might like this site https://neverworkintheory.org/date/

It reviews academic papers in that kind (empirical software engineering).
We're all human, I definitely get it. Even so, I appreciate the apology.
Any article on this topic is incomplete if it doesn't also include a paragraph on Grover Norquist. I'd argue that his influence has been far more effective than Intuit's lobbying.
I like 'amount.' I was thinking 'quantity' or something like that but that wouldn't make sense for, say, frequency in a wavelength or something.
Look, anything that purports to comment on the American socialist worldview just tells me the author has zero real knowledge of American socialism.

Unsurprisingly, every single example he picks to illustrate his point is something that has been deeply divisive among American socialists, rather than characterizing a consensus among them. (And this isn't just a anarchist vs. authoritarian (“libertarian socialists vs. democratic socialists vs. Marxists vs. Leninists/Maoists” spectrum) thing, or revolutionary socialist vs. electoralists (everyone else vs. demsocs) thing, either, as division on the issues Smith purports are emblematic of “American socialism” are deep and cross all of the traditional subgroups.
And to do that, as a package maintainer, you sometimes have to trace upstream’s build system because you need to intercept the file after the build system has patched it, but before they’re actually using it to run the tests. And then you try to inject the codesign command line into the upstream build system, and hope it’s going to work this time.

And often enough, it just doesn’t work at all ([1] ballpark number of issues, [2] one example case where I can confirm that I was affected myself).

Apple’s codesigning is hell.

[1]: https://github.com/search?q=org%3AHomebrew+codesign&type=iss...

[2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857#issuecomment-71...
When I hear Unity first thing that comes to my mind is another asset flip scam and performance problems.
Worrying is only useful inasmuch as it compels you to act. What actions could we have taken in the past to prevent a future alien threat? Besides never sending electromagnetic signals into space?
It's a meme that says some people are better at visualizing and mentally manipulating 3D images in their heads, and it implies that those people can use the same brain hardware to accomplish amazing feats of engineering

I dunno if there's any truth to it at all.. I think most of programming is less of an inspired act of genius and more of a tradeskill like plumbing or roofing.

I'm pretty sure there are tasks out there that I could get done in a month even though they'd take a team of 10 people 10 months to do, but if I trained those same people they could probably come close to my performance.
> and will just argue in favor of that conclusion

Because reality doesn't care about your "probably"s.

Note how you immediately started calling this discussion "this type of discourse" and "you made up your mind" immediately after I simply listed facts.

> but I at least recognize a new capability when it exists

There's a difference between "recognizing new capabilities" and "wishful thinking". Unsurprisingly, when faced with facts crypto proponents immediately fall back to "you just don't understand", "you're not curious", "future will show you're wrong" etc.

Facts are:

- the absolute vast majority of memberships imply "a central/centralized authority that verifies membership". That's what "gated community" is

- Blockchains make even the simplest act of membership unnecessarily complicated, and makes more complex interactions nearly impossible.

- It's on the crypto shills to show that this tech offers anything new or interesting beyond "oh, this is new tech with wonderful new capabilities". So far, at closer inspection, the people claiming that have precisely zero knowledge on the topic and haven't thought about anything beyond the simplest use cases. Without fail, in 100% of cases this is the case.

- There's a very minor very fleeting possibility that globally verifiable membership in a group is useful, for large enough groups. However, looking at every single global group (largest being football fans, for example), there's literally zero indication that blockchains and NFTs can offer even a sliver of value, no matter how many "probably"s you throw in there. Masons managed to create a global secret society without blockchain, or computers. But do tell me how "I'm not curious" or "probably wrong".

If only wide-eyed crypto enthusiasts were curious themselves.
There are no fundamental physical barriers to sublight generation ships. It would be extremely difficult and expensive, and require lots of new technolgy—unlikely to happen without some supremely compelling motivation. But it's possible.
There were months left in the primaries, and public opinion is far from static. Your logic, even at a first pass, fails completely.
All good points.

My praise for Boston was in comparison to absolutely shambolically run cities in the rest of the US. In comparison to some well-run global cities, (Greater) Boston still has ways to go.

> Mass and Cass

Yep, Methadone Mile is the uncomfortable compromise between liberal: "don't evict the homeless" versus the moderate: "keep our neighborhoods safe" agendas. It keeps the rest of Boston relatively aggressive-homeless free, but the addicts and local residents are worse off.

> entire system needs to be electrified

At times, it is jarring to see the US do worse than 3rd world countries. The mind-boggling cost of any infrastructure in the US is really holding the country back.
I'd give a +1 for "Cash App Taxes" (formerly Credit Karma Tax), which is totally free and has a decent enough web-based UI.
In France people put a sticker on the mailbox which says "Pas de publicité, merci" (No advertisement, thanks). It really decreased the number of ads I have received (although I still receive one from time to time). Maybe you could try something similar.
If you think life is hard with money, try it without.
I'm not sure if the two-weeks of vacation will help. Maybe you may look at the root cause of your burn-out. Why do you think you've burned out, because the tasks were boring? Or you burned out because of some other factors in the team? Do you feel like you can make such a reasoning such as I've burned out because x happened or the y factors taking longer than I expect so I burn out, etc?
I really hope FreeTaxUSA improves their investment sales stuff, maybe with import capabilities or something. If you go for the unsummarized information, you don't have to mail anything. Unfortunately, you gave to go through a ton of screens and enter each trade by hand.
There seems to be an ongoing misimpression here that code is, in fact, law, as though our existing legal system doesn’t have something to say about that.
> The research into fasting and the gut biome over the past few/several years has been fascinating, mostly because it all boils down to rather simple mechanisms with hugely beneficial results. I do wish that the media would respect their readers enough to delve into the details, because the "maybe, maybe not" summaries aren't helpful.

It's so hard to find data that is useful enough to make intelligent decisions off of. I drink non-caffinated diet Coke nearly every day; is this actually causing my gut issues and possibly depression? The drink itself is one of the bright spots in my dull days, so stopping for an experiment is hard.
In Spain I log onto the tax agency website using my digital certificate. It tells me what I have been paid during the year, what I own, how big my mortgage is, etc. If I agree I click a button and pay whatever I owe. If I don't agree, or some info is missing, I add it in and then click the button.

It's astronomically easier than filing the same tax information in the US and takes far less time even though the tax code is less clearly written and user support is almost totally nonexistent.

The nonexistence of a national ID system makes digital identification unnecessarily difficult. The idea that an individual has to redeclare to the IRS what has already been declared to the IRS on W2s and 1099s is just stupid.

The US tax filing system is simply primitive.
I've been trying for several months now. My ex-co-workers and close friends have been lucky to get jobs at MANGA companies, even referring me cause I was their technical senior. My luck has not been as good though. Just gotta keep trying I guess.
I'm convinced dang is at least part-machine.
I'm not speaking from ignorance, but a place of brutal pragmatism. I understand that mobility comes with risks and disruption and is not always a good move. It is, however, far more possible and feasible than many make it out to be, and sometimes the best choice still isn't a good one.
Seems like this could be a good area to apply the "keep trying shit until we find something that works better" style of research. Would be lots of failures and of course it is quite unsophisticated but sometimes this kind of work is the best way to actually come to a greater understanding of the mechanisms behind somethin?
Google Messages is looking for SMS 'donations'
in my area, they [junkmailers] actually interfere with delivery of mail, as a postie is not allowed to put anything in a mailbox that cant be closed [for privacy/security] so when the junk carrier shoves it full, your real mail cant be delivered.

[adndm] no posties cant [as in not allowed] remove anything, even if they just put it in there and realized its the wrong address