skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still ‘suffer’ from similar mid-career burnout that culminated 10 years ago. I’ve been successful since, but to I’ve had to move to roles where my work product was much more transactional, visible, and delivered in smaller chunks in order to remain productive.

I’ve spent a great deal of time analyzing this — and I still don’t have great answers — but here’s an internet-friendly numbered list of random strategies and perspectives I’ve had success with:

1/ be open with your boss. They may be able to offer strategies to help.

2/ set short-term goals and force accountability. For me, that was making promises to my manager and asking them to hold me accountable at regular intervals (micro-management as a service).

3/ if it works, it’s fine. I had a lot of my self worth bound up in my ability to deliver clever hacks. I’ve come to the realization that most of my useful output has been simple, obvious, and quite ugly.

4/ the only people who care about your code are you and the peers who have to engage with it. I want to write clever code, but (at work) I want to read really, really dumb code.

5/ I’ve moved from caring about tech to caring about business impact to caring about what that impact has on humans. This helps make decisions about code easy, since in my work humans never care about the framework or elegant code unless that framework or code causes them to have a bad time.
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i'm just starting learning directx and noticed it can render a triangle at 12,000 fps! i had no clue this was possible. i don't think there's any room for input delay there, but i'll find out
> That physics paper counts more coauthors than neutrinos.

And that's even before enabling Javascript.

(Javascript-enabled neutrinos will be a key feature of Web 6.0.)

(Oh, and thanks!)

Questions:

- How'd you find this? I'm suspecting something like "earth's core reactor neutrinos".

- I don't even know how to read/interpret the notation used to express neutrino counts. Though if we can divide 112 co-authors (including deceased) by annual detection rates we can come up with a neutrino-seconds equivalent of authors....
Yes but I think you have enough experience to be not outcompeted in job market by younger people.
What Is BalenaHub?
With dynamic language like PHP where there is no traditional compilation step by the programmer, these new deprecations will lead to lot of subtle bugs to be found in production.

This was to certain extent the same problem with Python 2.0 -> Python 3.0 changes. I remember not liking the process with that, however I understand the need to deprecate some features for performance etc.

PHP should have built-in tool to scan source code for likely deprecations, there are third party tools but I haven't tried those. Given that there is a lot of code with PHP whom nobody anymore really bother to maintain, but it still has to work, it would be beneficial.
Standard marketing page for improving SEO.

Short answer: it depends
Skin cells undergo asynthetic fission to expand body surfaces in zebrafish
What is Stockholm a great example of? There's still a housing market with absurd prices and all signs of a bubble.

It's impossible to get an apartment in Stockholm unless you have a 20-year waiting time, buy an illegal third-hand contract or have the wealth to buy an apartment. The housing crisis in Sweden is extreme.
It depends on the programme you study. Structuralia hands out mostly EQF 7, but backed by a number of Spanish universities that are wholly recognized by the government, and also several British universities. There may be other universities and countries they are working with, but those are the only ones I know of. These are "Master's diplomas", for all intents a Master's degree without thesis, I have a couple of those.

OpenClassrooms also does EQF 6 (Bachelor's) and EQF 7 (Master's) diplomas, some of them are backed by Universities in France (Ecole de Management, Central Supelec, and others), and again, may be a degree or may be a diploma - but if it is a degree or diploma backed by a University with a charter, then it is a real qualification. Same goes for Structuralia. You need to check the programme. At the end of the day, if you have an EQF 6 (Baccalaureate) or EQF 7 (Master's), and it is underwritten by a university with a charter, you're golden. It only matters if you need the thesis for going on to a terminal degree (and even then) or want to be in academia. I don't. I'll take the five master's and be happy with it. If you do any of those courses, you're still going to get put through the wringer, it ain't a walk in the park. I'd say the AI one, though easy because I knew the subject pretty well, was the hardest because I really stretched far beyond what I had grown comfortable with.

I have studied at nine different European universities/colleges at various levels, one in Asia, and four in the US. I feel I got value out of all the education (except that one MBA with a concentration in HR that I absolutely hated), but I prefer the European system most.

Footnote: When my wife mentions my qualifications in conversation, I correct her and say "two master's degrees, three master's diplomas." I still have that conscious bias myself. But every time I check the paperwork and every university I've shown them too for my next educational step, the university has come back with "that'll do nicely. These look good." It's that impostor syndrome kicking in again.

And one more thing...

Bachelor's and Master's with and without thesis doesn't delineate degree or diploma. It comes down to how the certificate is awarded, not what you had to do to get it. My Master's degree in Computer Science was a "without thesis option." Education above grade-school gets muddy, which is why you need to do research on the subject.
What exactly is "women having sex" a weird translation for? I can get how "panties for sex" is an awkward translation for lingerie, but the Dutch one seems off.
Taiwan scientists discover new form of cell division
How is this better than actual VisualBasic?
My homework was to write a sentence with 5 ands in a row, so I wrote "and and and and and."
Easier said than done. The waiting list for therapy here in Hamburg is more than a year
Deadlifting is fun and worth trying once. You don't have to do ridiculously heavy weights to get the lower body health benefits.
> you also have to consider what services are included in the tax

Yes! And a lot more as well. Many are under the impression that income tax is the majority of their major tax burden.

Total taxation from billing to salary net + vat of normal spending. This must include all forms of employment, social fees, and other government imposed costs for the employer. This is higher than income tax for many regions and income brackets. On top of this should be added other taxes for a given lifestyle. E.g. fuel and vehicle taxes, property taxes, etc.

Then the services provided: health care, schooling, child care, child support, pensions, etc.

Things look a lot different when making a complete cost comparison between countries, and varies a lot depending on what is included as a "normal" lifestyle. E.g: couple with 2.2 children at median income looking at retirement at 70 vs a single high income earner looking to retire at 50... and ... so ... on ...

On top of that we can also include other living costs ... but we started somewhere at average house price vs annual family income?
I see no problem at all with counting the number of cars parked in some parking lot each day, assuming it’s a public parking lot. What would the concern be there?

I see a lot of problems with tracking the movement of individuals (or close proxies thereof, like their cell phone or car).
I guess we all know it from "balena Etcher"; is it actually a "company to trust"?

balenaHub makes life easier for everyone working with IoT,
edge and physical computing. If you’re a hardware manufacturer,
a software engineer, an entrepreneur with a new business idea,
a fleet owner that already manages devices, or simply the owner
of a Raspberry Pi looking for some apps to try, we’re working
to help reduce friction in edge development and hardware.
It was so much easier being a teenager back in the day and learning to code a desktop app from scratch in a few weekends. Then you open FrontPage and make a simple website for it.

Now it's black magic only approachable to $100/hr engineers.
I doubt your explanation. Mine is that individuals who tend to travel in groups are more likely to be uncivil.
This is the best explanation I have seen [1] : "Computer scientist Amit Sahai, PhD, is asked to explain the concept of zero-knowledge proofs to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert."

[1] https://youtu.be/fOGdb1CTu5c
By DeMorgan's Law and Bill and Ted's Excellent Low Precedence Right Associative Postfix Sarcastic Not, "Or. Or. Or. Or. Or. Not!" crashes.
Pretty sure the only service all carriers are required to provide regardless of whether a SIM card is installed is 911 service.
This is another classic from his list "We can't send mail more than 500 miles": https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/500mile_email.html
One day when you are lost and i jured in a forest, who will find you? An aliexprress seller!
I don' fully agree, only because I was rather on the other side of the fence with Delphi/C++ Builder. :)

I always considered .NET a step backwards, versus doing something similar to what Borland was doing with Delphi/C++ Builder, meaning C# and VC++ should have provided better tooling based on COM, and then follow up with VB7.

Ironically, when they tried to actually do that, with WinRT, they messed up the whole execution.
There was similar thinking in retail not so long ago when prices started to change from something like 3.99 to 3.77, for example. I don't see this so much now which suggests it didn't work out as expected?
Losing Google Scholar would be devastating to research productivity in all fields. Academic databases are critical infrastructure for science.
Judging by the article, there is no way to prove that it was looted in the first place.
Using the Steam Deck makes me wish we had a decent Linux mobile platform.
I see your housing bubble and raise you 18x in Prague, 16x in Brno: https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/country_result.js...

Feels really unsustainable, I don't know how it can continue and I really feel for anyone here who's not earning tech-sector wages
Yes, it's a well-established scientific fact that the age-related cognitive decline begins as early as one's twenties: [1][2][3][4]. As of now there really is no cure for this, except for trying various lifestyle interventions in hopes of modifying the slope of the curve in desired direction (standardized cognitive tests help one select the most favorable interventions). The obvious stuff - exercising twice weekly, cardio, sleeping well & enough, being less stressed help noticeably. Beyond this there is a trove of supplements and drugs that may, though likely not, help.

Naturally, highly intelligent people understand this unfortunate truth of nature pretty well, and plan their lives so as to decouple their living standard from their peak intellectual performance. Thus we see smart people becoming managers and investors/rentiers over time. Once your money works for you by virtue of compounding interest, not much intelligence is needed.

If we are bold enough to envision long-term solutions to this daunting problem, there really is no alternative to accelerating longevity R&D. If you are interested, feel free to read the FAQ: https://www.fightaging.org/faq

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683339/

2. https://sci-hub.se/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19231030/

3. (excerpt) https://de.catbox.moe/fk9ltz.jpg

4. (excerpt) https://files.catbox.moe/krktzk.jpg
Again? Has it ever been a nice language?
Back in 2016, my name ended up on the physical menu in a restaurant in Shenzhen as the english translation for the dish 美式杂扒饭 - "American-style assorted grilled meats." https://twitter.com/larrysalibra/status/728498064877490176

Despite living in Hong Kong and traveling frequently to Shenzhen at the time, I found out from a high school buddy from growing up in Ohio that lived in the USA and had no real connection to China besides this one business trip.

It appears someone who couldn't read english at all had used baidu translate to translate the menu. It turned out baidu translate was translating "扒饭" - assorted grilled meats - to my Twitter (HN, etc) username for YEARS.

https://twitter.com/larrysalibra/status/959749866036408320

Crazy world.

Lesson: if you can't read the language, blindly trusting translation is always a bit of a gamble!
but... I write my resumé in markdown and compile it to PDF with pandoc ...
Welcome to the wonderful world of social media influencers. Everything is conspicuous if you make an instagram story out of it.
That's not correct. I suspect that the source you saw said:

> As of 2017, the average annual real disposable income of Dutch households was roughly 31,500 euros.

Disposable household income would be, at a minimum, after tax, and possibly after accommodation. You'd want to increase that by about 60% to account for tax/etc, which would be 50.4K. That seems more reasonable to me, and would put the multiplier at 7.7.

Not sure about the UK - that could very well be accurate, but London throws averages completely out of whack.
Valgrind only outputs errors on codepaths that got run. Which sure, if it is a deterministic segfault it would catch, but let’s say you have a race condition and only get segfault 1 times out of 100, and it may not even happen on valgrind?
> The current policy is to drive up housing prices by creating completely artificial scarcity.

This is true but not in the way that you mean. As you said there is no shortage of space. But it's important to point out that on a global scale there is no housing shortage either. Vacant dwellings outnumber homeless people by far in most industrialized countries where homelessness is rampant (for example: 3 million empty dwellings here in France).

You seem to imply the problem is housing regulations and NIMBY preventing new constructions, but who cares when the houses are already there. I agree with you the problem is that of policy, but i would say the policy responsible for that immense suffering is "private property", the religious belief that land should be owned and that a piece of paper should dictate whether you can sleep under a roof or not and/or have access to food/healthcare/education.

We can eradicate homelessness in under 48h: it's just that no politician cares at all about poverty from their ivory tower! Just give the police instruction not to intervene for "breaking and entering" in *vacant* housing (or even better, abolish police entirely) and we can rehouse every homeless person in the next two days. Of course it would take a few weeks to rehabilitate some of the housing unit and make them real decent, but even in the meantime old housing would be much better than no housing.
Additional headers on every request should only be considered if there really is no other option.

For not disabling zoom the header does not even help because developers blindly copy pasting the <meta name="viewport" ...> line so that broken by default mobile browsers won't fuck up their responsive design are not going to handle that header.

Like many accessibility issues, zoom is not something that only benefits a subset of the popultaion. The solution is to no disable zoom for anyone except the 0.01% of pages (only very specific web apps really) where zoom does not make any sense AND interferes with some other behavior (e.g. multi touch).
What's the alternative? 95% of banks in the US don't have a dedicated API. If there was no screen scraping whatsoever in the industry, then the fintech market would be much smaller. Any fintech company whose product is centered their users' financial information (and that's most of them) would see their potential customer base, and thus growth potential, sliced in half. On the consumer side of it, if you're Susan and you bank with Northeast Minnesota's Credit Union for Educators, then without screen scraping you are essentially cut off from being able to use the majority of fintech applications out there.

Screen scraping is a terrible compromise for sure, but without it, fintech, and the everyday consumer's ability to more effectively engage with their finances, would be severely neutered. One day, we'll have a rich financial ecosystem where financial institutions, fintechs, and consumers all talk with eachother exclusively through secure, reliable APIs, but until then, the only other alternative is to cripple this entire industry. Or have Congress pass a sweeping PSD2-esque bill, but good luck with that lol
Well then, feel free to buy a house and sell it at cost. Don't worry about all that money you put into the home over the years to improve or maintain it, either.

Oh, and to add to the utter inanity of what you're proposing, make sure that you sell it at your purchase cost and not the 200%ish extra that they tack on to a 30 year loan at 4% interest.

Go ahead. Chalk it up to a personal experiment and let us know how it turns out in 30 years.
Thanks!

I already have it running, I just had no idea it could do that. Guess I know what I'll do on the weekend :)
Social housing here in the Netherlands isn't quite soviet block but it's poorly built and maintained to the lowest acceptable standard.
In streets where one side of the street has been sold to private owners you can see the difference. The privately owned houses are well maintained and have received upgrades where the social housing is merely 'acceptable'.
I'm also familiar with how the assignment process for social housing works. I'm not sure how acceptable you think it is to wait 10 years to be able to move to a different city.
Social housing must look nice from a distance but i wouldn't want all housing to be social housing.
I think it's absolutely normal. There are few people who can retain spark about their field for longer than a couple of years (let alone decades). The rest of us is just trying to do a good enough job to make the boss and team happy, and go home.
> if the average person can save 10% of their income, it takes 8.8 years to save a 10% down payment

Not according to this article, where it mentions the average household income, not the average per-capita income. So you can expect it to take quite a bit longer than that to save for that down-payment, for the average person.
> charging a premium for unused land in desirable areas (parking lots don't house people)

Housed people need parking lots though. Tons of places are not, and never will be accessible with public transports. I live in a city with a great public transport network but I still need a car, as much as I'd love not needing one: I need to visit friends or family outside the city, I have to make bulk grocery shopping sometimes and bags are not enough, I sometimes buy big housing furniture, I even had to retrieve parcels outside of the city sometimes... Heck, even to go to work, sometimes I'm late, or I missed my bus, or public transports are on strike, or anything can happen that I need my car to save 1 hour.

> abolish mandatory minimum parking

Same as above, that's an awful idea.
Is svelte SEO friendly by default? (SSR)
I like your version thought, it emphases both sides directly. You got a resource? Well you have to deal about how to release it too. Maybe just a general term like: Resource Acquisition And Release? Let's be RAAD about being sure we release all resources :)
Landlords don't need to raise prices. They want to. We all want to have more dollars than everyone else and landlords are no exception.
In many European countries university is either free or nearly free, so you'd have to add that to the tax burden to make it comparable to Europe.
This doesn't take into account GCP's sustained usage discount which makes the instances cheaper than AWS.
> MS had a halfway decent mobile OS, but pretty much stopped there leaving a barren software ecosystem.

MS had Windows CE for a very long time, they could have tried to make the UIs a bit more touch friendly (they were already pen friendly) while keeping backwards compatibility with the tons of existing software and development tools instead of forcing everyone twice to abandon their existing code for their mobile platform (once by forcing everyone to use C# and again with the new Metro stuff). Developers simply lost trust in Microsoft for doing the most anti-Microsoft thing with ignoring backwards compatibility.
What is most depressing to me, where do people get the money???

It would take me 30 years of saving to get 500k, that's like 70-80% of my working life. That's assuming you don't get sick or lose your job.

This metric annoy me because only a fraction of your income can go toward rent or mortgage . You would pay over 100k in interest fees alone on a long term mortgage.
>It's worth noting that many cheap android devices let you spoof the IMEI and other device identifiers.

Any devices this is going to work on will be old and will not support VoLTE. Modern smartphone SoC's (all the Qualcomm ones at least, which make up majority of US android devices) have the modem IMEI stored in memory that can't be modified, any guides on these devices are just about spoofing IMEI reported to android system, not to the network.
In Wellington at least (where I live), there are limits on the density of housing that can be built (and height). Recently, the council was going to free up some of these restrictions a bit, but there was a lot of backlash by residents who didn't want the "character" of their neighbourhoods to be affected, so the relaxation in the rules has been a lot less.

Wellington is a bit different in that there is a limit on the amount of empty land in the centre and the neighboroughing regions: it's quite hilly and pinned in geographically, and most of the central regions are fairly built-up already. Some areas (near the CBD) were also built up on reclaimed land from the harbour, and what with earthquakes, that's not great...
> The internet is not broken.

> (the HTTP protocol is still a wonderful thing).

But almost all websites are requiring an HTTPS and you know what? I have a dozen of dumbphones who can not access webpages because HTTPS is no longer supported by vendor of device or absolutely can not access https because handshake process takes too long time for gprs (if no edge). If HTTP is so wonderful than why I can not use it without all the stupid security?
For a long time a "rule of thumb" was 33% of income dedicated to housing + debts (usually based on underwriting rules, the bank wanted to see that your home loan payment + any other loan payments would be under 33% of your gross).
Moreover you never know how many different hands handled those fruits and how much chemicals did it endure until it landed on your table. And you are touching that banana too.
Those 3 hours you save commuting can be the ticket to a real social life as opposed to an office social surrogate.

The trick is to seek out people whom you enjoy spending time with in social settings. This can be e.g. through a gym, arts&crafts classes, uni courses, volunteer activities, sport clubs, nature clubs, cooking classes board game card chess d&d groups ... whatever your fancy.

Even if you are more introvert you will find these environments very welcoming.

Having a social life without the everpresent undertones of office politics and policies can be very invigorating
> mostly because I believe in law and order.

Everyone believes in law and order. There are pirates who believe in law and order more than you, inevitably. It's not a justification to not pirate.