skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might help if you considered the idea that you no longer enjoy coding. I and several people I've met just no longer enjoy coding, which is different than burnout.

I'd say burnout is when you have worked at a greater capacity than what you are capable of for so long that your mental, physical, spiritual, or social well-being becomes comprised. You can be overworked by your management or for self-imposed reasons. When one or more of these aspects of your life has become severely damaged, your performance decreases, and you feel negative emotions toward your job or aspects of your job duties.

No longer enjoying coding is much different. Like anything else, people change over time, and their preferences change. Some people stop enjoying coding because it's no longer challenging, or they are tired of repeatedly solving the same problems. Some people stop enjoying coding altogether just because that's how they are now.

I would suggest some introspection and soul searching. Ask yourself the question, who am I today? What do I care about today? Am I burnt out? Which aspects of my life have become damaged due to burnout?

Good luck. I hope everything turns out well.
So add Sponsorblock on top for the first one?
From a summer reading list.
Breathe in. Voice-call your manager. Tell them "Bad news, listen, I'm burned out."

Breathe out. Let them ask their questions. Respond with "I'm unable to do that right now" to anything that sounds too hard to do right now. Even if that means everything.

Let them take care of the rest. Only answer their work calls.

Call your parents/siblings.
Automation is the serialization of understanding
Burning out is like having a swelling injury. You need to relieve the pressure. I work in a high stress environment, coding and managing people and the way I've learned to cope with it does not lie in having a healthy routine or anything, it just isn't enough. You need to stop doing whatever causes the swelling, regularly, before you can do it again. When you have tendinitis, you stop using whatever sport causes it.

So, every year, I take two weeks off in a remote location where there is no electricity, let alone reception. I am going off the grid. That comes in addition to regular holidays, like a week every three to four months. On weekends I turn off all notifications.

We are not machines, your body and your mind need to have different activities, apart from your regular schedule. You need to have time to think, to do nothing. I think we need to come to terms with the fact that our time does not have to be productive 24/7. Life should be messier than the optimized version of it we try to will into being.
I've been there.

What worked for me was talking to my manager, and arranging to unplug by taking a significant amount of time off. For me, this was two weeks initially, which I extended to three. IMO, three weeks is the minimum I would consider taking if I get into this state again.

If your manager is a good one, they will support you. If your organization is a healthy one, your team will understand and empathize.

Burnout is real, and, in my experience, it's unlikely to resolve by staying the course.
One of those people is me. I don’t take the time to determine whether it’s ‘legitimate marketing.’ I would never ever sign up for a marketing email, even if I am a customer of the company that sends them. Until companies stop dumping every single email address the get their hands on into their marketing list I will continue to mark every one of them as spam. I even use rules to flag emails including the word ‘unsubscribe’ so I can do it more easily.
"There is no downside here, for the city."

Emphasis mine. Sure. The city could fine every store with parking spaces for not supplying charging infrastructure. We also have to see what those fines do to the businesses. It's possible that many gas stations decide to close or substantially raise their prices to cover the increased costs.

Basically, the city isn't the only stakeholder.
Archived: https://archive.ph/wip/mGmk3
My understanding is that "regulated" as used in the founding documents was basically synonymous with "ordered" or "organized". It's the opposite of "dysfunctional" or "chaotic", but it doesn't imply any particular authority structure.
When was the last time you had 10 days off in a row?

First, if you can, take a two week vacation (longer if you are able). If you can afford it, travel to someplace that you enjoy, turn off all notifications, don't check your email, hell don't turn your phone on if you don't have to. Don't even use a computer, don't surf the web, don't keep your usual routine. (two weeks here, because it takes some 7-10 days to really separate yourself from work) Also, don't spend all the time at home, laying in bed, watching tv.

Second, stop all the side tech related side projects. You are probably burned out from lighting both ends of the problem solving candle. You need to give your mind a break from problem technical solving. Have you considered picking up a hobby that isn't connected to technology. Learn to sew, read a book, pick up an instrument.

Third, if it has been a while go see a doctor and get a physical. Gotta rule out anything physically wrong with your body.

> How can I manage responsibilities and deal with this at the same time? Should I delegate my work to someone else for a while? Should I just take a couple of weeks' vacation? I'm kind of lost at the moment.

You have to take care of yourself first. I'd make an appointment with your therapist to create a plan of action, a way to break this cycle. If you are close and feel safe with discussing this with your boss do so. You may have to delegate some of your load, you may even need to take a short leave of absence.

Finally, if you don't already, start taking daily walks outside and start journaling. Walks to help clear your mind, journaling to sort out your thoughts.
Le Carre wrote about the fact that espionage or s an allegory for all human interaction) is "all gray" with lots of moral ambiguity and nuance. Clancy's stuff makes for a decent plot for an action movie adaptation, but his ideas and characters are almost all one-note, one-dimensional "popcorn" nutrition conceptually.
> That would not respect the GDPR law. The point is to require consent.

This is something that sounds good in theory, but in practice may be counterintuitively a bad solution that makes people less safe when you take into account how UX and human nature works.

Most people don't read these forms. You're training people to instinctively click on any clickable buttons they see on page load to make the annoying banners go away as fast as possible. It's much easier for shady characters to get people to give up some permission that actually matters in this environment or agree to something awful that might actually harm them.

This is doubly a problem on mobile, where the limited screen size means that you can't see anything unless you click on the shiny banner button.

> And as an user you should be annoyed and seek websites that respect you better.

To me, real respect means not wasting my time doing busy performative theater.

However people choose to deal with cookies is a problem that should be handled on the browser level, not with every website trying to write their own explanation and have some cookie management consent form.
In my part of the US, nicer private schools and daycares tend to act that way, but cheaper ones or public schools schedule less of that time to begin with and are quick to replace that with indoor activities if there's a light drizzle or it's a little cold outside. Perhaps counterintuitively, public schools seem much quicker to bow to the preferences of one or two nutty parents ("little Johnny was COLD at recess! You can't go outside when it's 35°F, that's unsafe!") than private schools do.

Also, public schools have responded to No Child Left Behind legislation, in part, by drastically cutting recess time, including in very early grades—which, AFAIK given the state of the art in learning research, might actually be counter-productive, but a key sentiment driving all US behavior is that one must always be able to say that one has "done something", even if that something was worse than doing nothing, and that it's preferable to so something that an uneducated person would think looks like it should help based on gut feeling, over what experts say would help.
> How many people got a chance to vote for Bernie Sanders in 2020?

It doesn't matter. A large percentage of Democrats describe themselves as conservative. Many of those people are minorities.

Sanders' popularity was an illusion due to the bizarre ordering of Democratic primary states. The voters in the early states are much whiter, more educated, and politically active than most of the later states. That means a candidate like Sanders (who is disproportionately popular with white, educated people) looked a lot more viable than he was.

I'm not saying I think Sanders would have lost to Trump. I think Sanders was actually more viable as a general election candidate than as a Democratic primary candidate for various reasons (one of them being that a small-but-significant group of anti-establishment voters were willing to vote for Trump or Sanders, but no one else).
That's a fair comment, thank you. I originally wrote it that way because it was for longterm readers, with a bunch of callbacks to previous stuff, as you mention there. But for first-time visitors, it could be seen as clutter. I've cut some of that out, and I think you're right. Cheers!
I even recall an article where the google developer account of a company was blocked because it got associated with the personal account of one of their old employees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855065
> They were right eventually, but they were very controversial and their ideas started very strong debates.

They weren't right eventually. They were always right. Are you claiming copernicus was wrong and the sun was circling the earth? They were right because of the evidence, not because of the debate and consensus. Heliocentrism didn't end because there was a debate and a vote. It ended because of the evidence.

Arts/humanities work via debate/consensus/etc. Science works by tests/experimentation/evidence/empiricism.
Is this even illegal?

What basis would they have for calling this theft?
Yup. That was gonna be my post.
Why is the default assumption that since we can't prove humans had sophisticated and complex lives comparable to our own, that we must assume they are simpletons. Their minds were no less capable of our own, why shouldn't we assume they had complex morals and social structures?
Is a known fact that Russian farms played a huge role in the flooding of fake news supporting Catalonia secession movement and tagging Spain as evil 24 hours a day. You can spot some patterns here also.

But there are other actors. Politicians used this card for decades as leverage to obtain more and more power and to divert the focus from their own corruption
Thanks for writing this - as you get more senior one of the things you realize is that the people involved in software are more important than the software itself.

Optimize for the people: The users, the community (either your team or the open source project community), and the stakeholders in your software's success. The code is a tool that you can use to make those people happier and more successful.
The thing is they're not "goons". They're good, solid people. Who thought they were actually going to be saving lives, first by going after, you know, the Bad Guys. And then by using (what they were told was) "precision weaponry" to do so.

Why is the article focusing on [an uncomfortable but lesser-known side aspect of war], as opposed to [the more obvious bad aspects of war we already know about]?

Because war is what you call "complicated". It is this complexity that the article was attempting to address.
Apart from the two biggest I can think of, MySpace -> Facebook and Digg -> Reddit, when else has this happened? I can think of many more examples where the hegemon imploded and its market was eaten up by a bunch of different competitors, I don't know if there's normally a clear winner which serves the same market as the original.
Worth reading this ex-apple's memoir:

https://medium.com/@mattxherbst/apples-retail-staff-are-seco...
In my experience, OPs perception is generally correct, though perhaps less conspiratorial and nefarious than a reality of the system in place.

Across the many nodes between you and a destination, all sorts of traffic management systems move data around at different priorities. When something gets overloaded, stalled tabs are a visible system of the breakdown.

By initiating a large, typically sequential, high-speed transfer in both directions, you give each node an amount of time to recover, naturally move up the queue, and identify yourself as needing more resources. Once the speed test is moving along, everything else is 'along for the ride', to an extent.

On a home network, wifi aps are typically the biggest bottleneck, followed by underpowered or overheated routers/gateways. Depending on your isp's tech, there might be a bottleneck at a neighborhood hub, the central servers, their uplink, or more.

Anywhere along the way, this could be due to a mix of technical limits, high traffic, wear, negligence, incompetence, or intentional malice.

So you can assume your isp (or their isp) is throttling you in numerous ways. While some might be to deprioritize specific traffic or for political means, I think more is negligence, incompetence and under investment. When you identify yourself as someone needing more, or experiencing issues, it's in the isp's interest to silently resolve the issue automatically if possible (unless they think they can exploit it for a profit).

This is even more visible with the isp-owned speed tests, as you're naturally communicating to the fastest server available, plus they can shape the traffic and build the test to show you what they want you to see.

iPerf tests are a good tool for testing real world speed. As a basic tool, speedtest.net allows you to select from many test servers, often including your isp, a few local competitiors, and a close by university or tech company server. Individual numbers are less useful than a comparison between numerous tests and destinations.

A VM of smokeping or smokeping-speedtest is useful tool for monitoring these sorts of things as you can go back and look at what drops out when to get a feel conditions across the internet.
There is plenty of room for excellence in the humble day-to-day glue programming this post talks about. There are arguably better and worse glue programmers. I have gotten better at doing the kind of work the post describes. I also think macho bullshit posted by VCs talking about "losers", "10x engineers", and "shape manipulators" who haven't written production code in decades if they ever did and have never written the kind of code I write is bullshit.
Very good article, thanks
Yield Crowd Tokenizes US $50M Real Estate Portfolio on Stellar Blockchain
Perhaps linking to one of the tweet concatenating websites would be a solution. (The ones which are summoned almost immediately in a reply after the freight train of distinct thought snippets leaves the intersection.)
Socialists tend to oppose US world policing and military intervention. It's not a matter of good vs. bad guys, but that America is overstepping its lines again. So Chomsky's position may seem reprehensible or appeasement but it's not inconsistent with the democratic socialist view of foreign policy.
No, because we're not a bacteria of sorts. Humans have high relative, intrinsic, and potential value. We're not at odds with the machine, we created it. It would look at you like a cute dog. The machine would likely offer you a job dusting the mainframe and swapping out old hard drives.
I'm listening to it now. Quite clever, and a real page-turner! The writing and story-telling are awkward, and its plot holes are numerous, but fun concept for the Hacker News crowd.
Like the perpetually broken air compressors in California.
For many years I was known as a workaholic, but I really enjoyed the work and sometimes I wrote code for 14 hours a day simply because I was having so much fun. But then I suffered an episode of burnout. I tried many things to cure it: I took a long vacation, but that did not help. I got really into jogging, and started running 20k comfortably, but that did not help. I tried antidepressants, but that did not help. My friends kept suggesting herbs to me, so I think I tried something like 20 different herbs, none of which help. On the theory that I'd been sleep deprived, I started sleeping 10 hours everyday, but that did not help. I read some good books, watched some good movies, and tried to let myself relax a bit, but that did not help. Nothing helped until I saw a sports doctor who suggested I take testosterone to help me stay in shape. So I took testosterone and the burnout was cured within 2 weeks. Suddenly I could write code for 12 straight hours and really enjoy it again. My ability to concentrate was incredible. In retrospect, it seems clear, the burnout was because my brain wasn't getting enough testosterone, which apparently kept me from feeling excited about work.
Related links:

• https://runningahackerspace.tumblr.com/

• https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Theory
Yep, the AP called the election for Hillary the night before the primary in California. We'll never know what the vote would have been without that major election interferance.
Update: I was indeed talking about 2016 - thanks for pointing that out.
> Reading the Interstate Commerce Clause with the understanding of the words as they were used at the time gives almost an opposite understanding to what was meant at the time.

Reading it with today’s meaning might make it opposite if what was meant at the time. Or reading it with the original meaning might make it opposite of what it would mean today.

But reading with the older meaning shouldn’t make it the opposite if what was meant at the (older) time.
Better source: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/
What does "SCP" refer to in this context?
Related:

Building a Hacker Space (2007) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15998894 - Dec 2017 (10 comments)

Building a Hacker Space (2007) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12961105 - Nov 2016 (2 comments)
A flash loan is a risk free crypto loan. It works by releasing the money only on the condition that it is returned before the end of the block. If it is not returned by the end of a block, the block is invalid and can not be added to the blockchain (provided the majority follows the block chain rules). Any block that is added to the blockchain has an exclusive lock to the entire block chain (no two blocks can "happen" at the same "time") meaning this guarantees atomicity of what happens in a block.
This is only tangentially related but I subscribed to the physical Sunday delivery of a large local newspaper a few years ago. It came with the normal amount of additional pages (easily separated) of ads and basically spam mail (nothing crazy). I contacted the papers support people multiple times trying to see if I could opt out of this additional spam and nobody there was able to even comprehend what I was talking about - they just kept referring to "popup ads" and how I should check my browser settings. Gave me a good laugh.

Physical mail spam though is a huge problem - we are destroying tons of trees for shit that nobody wants. At least with phone calls it does not result in a ton of paper waste.
The outlet isn't a big deal. The infrastructure to support it is. You need to pay the supplier for additional supply lines, an electrician for the panel and other customer side infrastructure. That's the expensive part.
But it was a flash loan, so they didn't have skin in. Maybe if they had had a time delay for taking actions?
In this case I'd consider Google Workspace. It costs, but it gives you ironclad control over the accounts, and your parents won't lose access to their accounts no matter what they do.

As a bonus, Workspace is sold by partners, so you contact actual humans if Google does anything weird.
Hmmm. It would be cool to discover that, but also pretty worrying. Any civilization powerful enough to build a megastructure could wipe out humanity without any effort whatsoever, so we'd have to hope they are friendly enough not to do so.
Can you provide a more specific example? The order has a detailed confirmation. If you don't like it it is easy to cancel. If you really don't like it you can get a refund.

I've done a lot of subscriptions and purchases and have never had a problem with them, including getting things sorted in a few odd cases. Apple has support phone numbers with real people in a surprising number of countries.

You can setup ask to buy if you have a kid and are worried about them purchasing accidently.
I don't think they typically include theft by those who have the private keys.
The ice age itself would have had glaciers grinding down all evidence to nothing. Even our metal based structures would not withstand it very well over a few thousand years.

I agree that it doesn't make sense for there to be a single 6,000 year time period of human prosperity and collaboration, its much more likely that there have been multiple periods over a 200,000 time span. Perhaps some traits in humans continually set us back to a rudimentary lifestyle with thinned populations.
Unfortunately even doing everything right is no guarantee. I have Google accounts that Google will not let me into even though I have the correct password because it requires a connection from the same network as past logins, which are in places I no longer live. I've read accounts from others in the identical situation.

My answer to this is that I've completely moved off of Google except for an account I use for YouTube/Maps access that I could painlessly lose.
I've tried this before, writing "return to sender" on spam, except was putting them back in the mailbox with the flag up. The mailman threw a minor fit after the 3rd or 4th time I did it, left a note in the mailbox complaining about it, and started circling with a pen "or Current Resident" on every piece of junk mail. I quit after that because pissing off the mailman is not worth it and I wasn't about to take the fight anywhere past that.
SimpleHash (YC W22) Is Hiring a Senior Back End Engineer to Build NFT APIs
... and that, my friends, is the start of the short story that will end in Google getting banned in Russia (I am assuming this does break some Russian laws). Not that it matters for Russians as Google was surprisingly never a market leader there:

- In Russia, you don't need Google: 5 reasons why Yandex is still No. 1: https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/326234-in-russia-yande... ).

- Distribution of search engine traffic in Russia from 3rd quarter 2019 to 4th quarter 2021, by company: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1094920/leading-search-e... .
Because the bank's relationship with its customers, central banks, and society as a whole, is codified in law and not in code. So if you find a legal loophole that's different from hacking the bank to get something the legal system doesn't entitle you to. When the code is the law, a hack is a loophole.
From a certain POV, most great people in tech engaged in a lot of child labour. However, we should be careful with such an argument.

Yes, high walls (like minimum wage, child labour laws, etc.) prevent the most extremely poor from competing with everyone else. Those are probably worth building though, if social welfare programs exist.

The natural tendency of competitive processes is to throw away all values in pursuit of the win; in the end, someone has to set a floor.