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> Is there a more favorable explanation for the value of a gift card as a gesture?

I don't get what you're expecting in terms of an answer here.

A gift card is a gift. A gift is a gesture of kindness and thoughtfulness. Something doing something thoughtful and kind and thinking about you makes you feel good.
>Were you working for a sadist? Even if this was exaggerated a little bit, this isn't far from what I've experienced too.

There's corroborated stories that he was much worse before I knew him.

While I worked him, he was actively banned from all adult hockey leagues in the city due to violence. Generally speaking leagues dont allow checking or fighting at all because at the end of the day older dudes need to go back to work on monday.

So he created his own league which explicitly allowed checking and violence. It was tremendously popular the first season for the first few games and then by the second season nobody was going anymore and they couldn't build 2 teams.

>To be honest, I just look at the people in the management roles nowadays and if they give me "command and control" vibes, I'm out.

I know better now. I didnt back then.

>Sounds like you worked for a small business and didn't know your own worth. You had the leverage the whole time.

Its crazy. When I was in that situation the burnout was just so punishing. You feel helpless and incapable. Everything is backwards and upside down. My phone would ring and I would feel that was it... i was about to be fired. If I wasn't being fired... I was about to chewed out for something I didn't do.
Praying for all the people who use the shortened form of Richard
> Authors must maintain contactability through emails listed in source / git commits, if authors fail to respond to pings about changes to licensing in a timely manner they forfeit their rights.

That’s just not the case.
I learn a little more about net neutrality every day.
It is not enough to check your unsafe code for UB, you also need to make sure it does not violate the invariants Rust relies on to prove the safe code safe.
People keep mentioning interracial marriage as being in danger by this SCOTUS, but is there any evidence anyone wants this? With abortion it is obvious a huge chunk of the population is against abortion as a practice. With LGBTQ rights it's obvious a huge chunk of the population is opposed to at least some of the rights in place or proposed (including gay marriage but also things like right for transgender women to compete with cis women in sports, etc).

But with interracial marriage it's an extremely tiny fringe group opposed to it, as far as I can tell. Seems like the only point of bringing up interracial marriage is to fearmonger.
So you recognize that the carbon is bad for us collectively, and you think we'd be fine if the incentives were sorted out. So you're agreeing with me?

But you think the 'politics' is easy once we have renewables or carbon fees imposed via legislation.

Let's all hope that none of those things became very political around 3 decades ago, because that would be bad. And then wed be in a weird catch-22 were we can only do the easy bits once we sort the politics out.
It does, but it's not without its downsides either. stdlib modules might end up being abandoned or deprecated because the design can't be changed and it doesn't work well anymore or there are unfixable security issues. Python's stdlib has plenty of such modules for example.

Considering that the Rust dev team is mostly volunteers, and many of the most important non-std-lib libraries in the Rust ecosystem are maintained by those same people I feel like there's less of a distinction than there is made out to be.
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Yeah, I realized that when I got back to a computer. The video had an exaggerated "Close" button next to it and I was expecting more of a text article. On my phone, I had hit "back" before digging deeper due the poor site layout.
What to do post burn out might be a useful resource as well.
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There is no decent solution to the Scunthorpe problem. It doesn't matter how many try, they never succeed.
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> even the slightest hint of asking people to come to the office even just one day a month elicits exactly this kind of response

Which in turn makes the executive team suspicious which makes them hint at even just one day a month which makes people suspicious which ...

I dont have any solutions - but I agree with you.

> They laid out their policy, they've demonstrated their commitment to that policy

That is all you can do while hoping that both sides (and yes in this case there are good people and bad people on both sides) chill the fuck out.
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I don't think I've ever had a manager that has checked even a single one of these boxed, which I guess explains why I'm so burnt out that my (non-solo) software career is likely over.
tl;dr -- All trading strategies work, until they don't.

And most people blow up their account, because their trading strategies worked for a long time.
Is the overworking leading to constant stress and that stress leading to ME/CFS which leads to a number of issues like trouble sleeping, physical/mental symptoms, and depression/anxiety?

This seems to be significantly undiagnosed. How do you know? What treatment has significantly helped? Getting good sleep? Mindfulness? Walks? etc?

I ask because I'm writing a book about this and want to learn more.
> From my point of view, all languages which don't add anything new and improved are a drag on our collective computing experience.

I couldn't disagree more. The more people writing languages and implementing standard libraries the better.

Are these minor languages going to be used in production? An even smaller minority of them, sure.

For the majority of them it's a chance for developers to relearn data structures and algorithms and compilers. Real, hands-on practice that is hard to beat with any other method. I only got decent at algorithms and data structures by implementing languages and standard libraries.

I'd rather every developer built their own language.
In fairness, the connectivity standards that can support the data overhead of 5k/120hz aren't all that wide spread yet. Even thunderbolt 4 doesn't have the bandwidth for uncompressed 5k at 120hz. It's only just possible in certain circumstances on the latest HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.0 specs really. If you want 5k, it's going to be 60hz for now.

Given OP thinks his MacBook spoiled him with "high refresh" (its just a standard 60hz panel...), I'm not sure the OP really understands refresh rates in modern monitors! The Dell they already have is almost certainly 60hz too, despite claims the MacBook is faster.
Not really the kind of people that tend to be offended by something like this often lack the capacity to appreciate it after it has been explained. As the quote goes "explaining humour is a lot like dissecting a frog. Not very many people like it an either way the frog is dead."
Ask HN: Best educational courses/MOOCs/videos/blogs/books taught by a Female?
[M] It might sound odd, but in my experience, some of the most enjoyable and fruitful courses/material I've had were taught by *female* instructors. I think it has to do with the fact that women are generally more empathetic towards their audience, and as far as I've seen, they put in extra effort to transfer the material/content to them. Not to say that males are not good at this, but for the purpose of this question, I was wondering if there are any courses/videos/textbooks/blogs/etc. that you know of which is produced by a female?
It won't. Colleagues will keep disappearing, only I won't know why.
Was going to comment something similar. After 4 years at a job I loved, went through the worst burnout of my life in 2018-2019, roughly the year before the pandemic. Lost the job and about lost my mind when executive dysfunction made it so hard to find work. Spent 2020 doing handyman work and donating plasma to make rent.

Turns out that I was sensitive to wheat, milk/unaged cheese and almonds but didn't know it yet. That saps serotonin, which made it feel like the world was continuously attacking me. Which feels like the withdrawal symptoms of untreated ADHD, like quitting smoking constantly. But at the time, I thought I had something like CFS or fibromyalgia. I believe that these may be correlated with inflammatory foods, and that I might have eventually developed a chronic condition like hypothyroidism or even cancer, so it's worth taking a food sensitivity test. I took the https://www.everlywell.com (no affiliation) test of 200 foods and credit it with pretty much saving my life. Or at the very least, my psyche.

I think what helped me mentally recover during the pandemic was TikTok and the shared awakening that so many people have been experiencing. Love/hate for that app is probably going to correlate with how feeling/thinking, intuitive/sensing and perceiving/judging someone's brain works though (I'm an INFP) so YMMV. I find that shifting realities from a downward to an upward spiral has made me more grateful and aligned me more towards shared prosperity. When I let my ego's goals finally die after 20 years of negative feedback loops, I found that the world picks up the slack so those goals happen anyway in a magnified way, which is manifestation.

What I'm trying to say is that if anyone is struggling with burnout, there's probably another cause which isn't apparent. For example, if you never have time to have a hobby anymore, it's probably time to set boundaries and communicate your needs. If you have no motivation for art or life goals, you might need to pencil active rest into your schedule, so that you give yourself a chance to become bored so you can hear your calling and discover a path to self-actualization. That peaceful source energy that's so abundant in nature is all but denied to us in the modern world where we can't even see the sky or hear a bird.

If that all sounds impossible, then those self-imposed barriers are probably attached to emotional trauma. Like if you're sacrificing your peace for a loved one, it might be time to do some shadow work to understand why you're overprotecting them from their own human experience and dignity. This can look like making the opposite choice than the one you have been making, and observing how reality reconfigures, who's blocking healing, who's helping, etc. It might be painful in the short term, but as each positive feedback cycle engages, it gets easier, and the other side is almost always better than what came before.
That's true, but that doesn't mean there was no manpower to fix that error message; it meant that fixing it wasn't a priority to the people who were working on OCaml at the time. You're just offering an explanation for why it wasn't a priority: fixing it didn't spark their interest.
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Classifying Hacker News Titles (2017)
It upsets me that this subject is being censored on HN. I certainly understand why but it's rather unhealthy.
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Get out of my head! This resonates with me - this is exactly how I'm currently feeling. Do you have any resources that were particularly insightful to you from your research?
The ratio of people talking about suicide to attempting suicide and then completing suicide is tiny.

Emergency room physicians frequently fail to take suicide seriously because they see a population of "frequent fliers" who make ineffective attempts repeatedly to get attention.

I had an in-law (a male in his 50s) who attempted suicide by drinking antifreeze, presented at the emergency room, was treated and discharged. Two weeks later he got an appointment with a psychologist, got asked his name and date of birth twenty times, and then went home and hung himself that evening.

One could make the case that a suicide attempt is the psychiatric equivalent of a heart attack and needs to be taken just as seriously but really what can you do?

You probably could identify some population that is more likely to commit suicide than average but a truly effective intervention might not be possible: send out the cops to see a mentally unstable person, for instance, and either that person or the police could get shot.
I bet sometimes they kick out bots that are competing for resources. Or at least scan for the other bots and carve it out, otherwise when there's two that's when they both start mining full blast, they each try to cash in the crypto keys on the computer before the other one does, and the user gets around to reinstalling the OS because his computer is unusable.
The Star Labs Starbook MK V has coreboot and intel ME turned off and is one generation newer CPU (11th gen).
Yeah. I have no problem with researchers getting anonymized data. CDC, snoop all you want. It's the business guys I don't like having it.
Gonna buy some land soon (in girlfriend’s name) in Thailand, just behind our house.

Hoping to build a lap pool here in the future for my health (daily exercise). This land also contains the waterpit we already use, so should give us some security wrt clean drinking water in future. We’ll make a nice garden for relax. And I’ll try some aquaponics as well. Might be useful to be able to grow your own food in the near future.
When you buy options you're buying exactly that, the option to make a potentially lucrative trade in the future at a price agreed now. (Bought) Puts have just as limited downside as (bought) calls.

The bigger risk comes in selling options: you sell a call and (assuming you don't already have the underlying shares) your downside is unlimited - you might have to pay sky high market prices only to sell (to the call option holder) low; you sell a put and your downside could be the entire strike price - the underlying could have gone to zero but you're forced to buy high (at the agreed price).
> I didn’t imply that they are not GPL compliant. I stated it directly.

That's good. It would be even better to show that they are GPL non-compliant by showing their response and confirming they're not willing to comply. As you said, you're not able to, and that's fine, I'm just saying it would be even better if you could.

> I do have the time, energy, resources and motivation to share this singular fact with others so they can make their own choice about which companies they support.

That's fine.
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ActivityPub is mixed. It's peer-to-peer for follow/follower relationships, with you yourself deciding whether you want to sign up to an instance operated by someone else, or your own. It only need the federation for the "firehose" of public messages. But you don't need that to be 100% distributed, as long as there are enough publicly accessible endpoints. Nothing also stops you from gatewaying between the current federation mechanism for it and a fully peer-to-peer model if you invent a more distributed model.
> [A]ll languages which don't add anything new and improved are a drag on our collective computing experience.

If people weren't experimenting with weird esoteric languages, how would we have gotten any of the languages you list here? If I'm recalling correctly, K is descended from APL, a language you needed a special keyboard even to use. Rust synthesizes ideas from lots of small academic languages no one will ever ship software on.
I'm sure at a certain stage it is prototype, in secured buildings. But I have a friend who works at Apple full time remote (for a dozen years now) who routinely gets unreleased hardware at home to work on the software changes for. They is very intentional about only revealing stuff after it is public, which I think is still technically a breach of his NDA (revealing that they'd been working on it).
I saw a Mk II once and it definitely would brake well on a soft surface. It was still hard to read though. I always wondered if putting a liquid with a small bubble between the numbers and the outside would yield a cursor for reading the number. Still 2d10 is more practical.
Send an email to hn@ycombinator.com He usually reply the same day. IIRC they only show subdomains for sites that have a lot of posts, but it's not a hard rule so he may make an exception.
Yeah...that's not a "high stakes engineering environment", that's a poorly structure engineering environment.

8-12 years is enough time to train an 'unqualified' candidate, or get them the requisite licensing/certificates/etc, assuredly.

On call while on vacation? You're understaffed then; even in the face of catastrophe you should have an on call rotation. If even then you still end up having to contact one person, you have too much knowledge siloed.

Etc.
Yeah, distribution is a huge can of worms. But production (and storage, as soon as it makes economical sense) are quite easy to entry. There are many cars that are more expensive than a small sized hydro or solar plant.
> Management's goals are often counter to those of the employees. Whereas workers want good pay, flexibility, work/life balance, and so on. Management wants control, pay people less, have them work more, and so on. Many managers pretend they care about what the workers want, only to force on to them what they want. People pick up on that bait and switch after a few times. Again, speaking generally here, this isn't universal, but it is common.

Yes, there are companies that behave this way. And there are many companies that don't. As you say, it's not universal.

The question is: What kind of company is Apple?

I honestly have no idea. But to assume, universally, that all companies will renege on their hybrid work commitments is much too cynical for me.
Show HN: Writing a spreadsheet editor in 6000 bytes
My guess is that the level of abuse is much higher by the customers paying via monero, than the ones paying by card. My guess is also that abuse is not entirely without cost for Mullvad.

In other words the cost associated with the extra business that comes via Monero might be higher than the extra money that comes in.
It was simply a feature that downloaded. It did nothing if you didn't turn it on.
That Japanese "buzz name" is just what it's called in Japanese for "invisible mending". What do you want them to call it in their native language?
You are right, I will apply to Apple, because I don't like working from home.
If you were active in the first decade of the 2000s, it basically was.
I don't think spoken language is the equivalent metaphor here. There's a grammar and toolchain for plumbing problems, and a different grammar and toolchain for framing problems. The fact that you can't use a nail where a machine screw is supposed to go is a language incompatibility.
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Depends where you draw the line. A copper IUD, for example, can prevent the implantation of a fertilized blastocyst. I've known some folks who believe that any kind of birth control is a moral wrong, so they draw the line even before fertilization.

Arguing these minutae is highly unproductive. It's much better to start from common ground, and a supermajority of Americans believe that the choice should be between patient and doctor.
There are animal hosts, we can't get rid of it.
> a full return to 5 days of asses in seats is not being contemplated at all, not the least of which because we don't want to lose ~30% of our staff.

Then it sounds like they probably do want to a full return to in-office work, but don't think they can get away with it. If the argument from your leadership doesn't begin with "according to these very clear numbers, our profitability as a business has suffered due to remote work," then it's reasonable to consider what the real reason might be: Wanting to exert control, or the sunk cost fallacy of leasing commercial real estate, or a justification for managers to have someone to manage. Who knows? These things are often not well explained. But anything except an existential business risk is a bad reason as far as I am concerned, when the "resources" so clearly want it to go otherwise.
It's not being censored, it's being down voted by the community. There's a difference

Also many HNers come here to get away from the contentious topic de jour, so unless you have something that is not being said elsewhere, expect it to be down voted
> since all the information you need to know is in a single place, it is much easier to use than a web search engine like Google. So step #1 is learn how to use the manual page browser and search engine.

Concerning the author doesn't see the irony asserting a tool is easier to use than google search immediately before listing a dozen keyboard shortcuts to know to use it.
The key to dealing with time pressure is to just start the process earlier (and avoid scheduling things too close together). The solution for hard wake-ups is to go to bed earlier and allow natural light into the sleeping area. In some parts this is basically impossible, though, as mandated start times require waking up before dawn. Pure folly.

If you do issue punishments, try to make them relate to the crime. Take away toys that get thrown at a sibling, or that don't get cleaned up from the hallway, but don't take away toys because the kid refuses to put their shoes on. That's just bullying and it will confuse the child.

Maybe the punishment for being late to school is an hour earlier bedtime that night. This is less of a 'punishment' and more just a rational correction to the problem.
Windows is the ‘socket’ for Microsoft subscriptions, CEO says
Exactly. That's the approach defended and promoted by the indieweb thinking heads: start with identity and structure things bottom-up. Machines are quite good at translating between the different protocols. If I want to publish my content using RSS and you want to consume it using ActivityPub, it is easy to write software that makes the bridge, provided your identity doesn't change.
Modularizing GHC [pdf]
Monero is about to go through a hard fork and significant upgrades, like trading XMR to BTC and back without a centralized exchange. The mining rewards was recently voted to a specific amount for perpetuity, to guarantee it never going to zero. I think the project is going quite well.
The logic behind this is that work from home allowed greater participation from not-these groups. Folks whose physical or mental health was improved in a work from home environment (I know someone with chronic migraines, for whom the typical 'Glass and steel open office' workspace is basically hell on a random draw of days).

Work from home also allowed for more schedule flexibility - it's hard to run an errand, pick the kids up from school, etc. when that's a 15 minute trip, rather than having to commute back home. This burden often falls disproportionately on women, and workers with families (who are likely slightly older than those who don't).

Removing the constraint of "You have to have the capital to move to SV to work here" allows hiring from a broader and more diverse pool of groups with less generational wealth, which means likely a more diverse body of job candidates.

Whether you agree with this or not, there is a logic behind it. Heck, I think they actually missed a couple axes of workers Apple is going to miss out on.
Huh, I didn't realise that was possible either. To be fair though, it does say 'or', not 'xor'!
I don't think you can give me a single legitimate use case for a VPN with no KYC paid via Monero.
Wouldn't that be a "boreout" instead of "burnout"?
Lichtenberg Figure : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenberg_figure

Electrocution : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocution
> The camera utilizes a multiscale convolutional neural network-based reconstruction algorithm to eliminate optical aberrations that result from the camera's 'metalens' array

This is definitely cool, but I wonder what effect this has on the image quality for unusual lighting conditions. Now you have to content not just with optical aberrations, but also the correction algorithm.