skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that somewhere there's a similar masterpiece of overthunk bullshit from the 80s proving that "boom boxes" would lead to mass crime, the breakdown of the traditional family, widespread social disorder, and war in Europe. Perhaps Tipper Gore cited it in her hearings.
Everything is process and one must incorporate refreshing and rejuvenating aspects to this process. The mind rarely gets a break until we make time and space to provide one
Ask HN: Which are your favorite developer docs?
I'm currently working on documenting a product for developers, I'm used to read lots of public dev docs, but it's my first time writing them.

I'd like to get some inspiration, could be favorite developer docs, but also resources on how to make them great.

Examples:

Stripe (https://stripe.com/docs): probably the canonical example for dev docs, well written, well structured, sweet spot between code examples and explanatory text (e.g. https://stripe.com/docs/billing/quickstart).

Tailscale (https://tailscale.com/kb/): well written, well structured, lots of how-to guides.

Docusaurus showcase (https://docusaurus.io/showcase): aggregation of docs, some of them are great, some are not. All of them are open source so it's a useful resource for inspiration.

Also, not a doc itself but a great tool to build docs:
https://codehike.org/
New model offers physics-inspired rankings evaluation
If you could redirect the competitive effort normally required for nominal advancement into participatory co-operation instead, some incredible returns are unachievable any other way.

Too bad there is not normally the structure in place to better reward co-operation rather than competition.
I am originally Canadian so have thought more about going back there. I’ll have to think about it some more.
ZUI: A Rad (Rapid Application Development) TUI User Interface Library for Zsh
> Well, lacking any reasonable technology to process it, we have to store the wast.

Wellll.. we have really good technology to reprocess the worst and reuse it as fuel. The problem is, we don't do it, because this is a whole lot like what you'd do to make nuclear weapons and there are proliferation and security concerns.

> It needs to be kept safe for many millenia.

The vast majority of the risk disappears in a few hundred years. Very radioactive also means "decaying quickly".

Compare to other industrial byproducts that stay equivalently nasty for tens of thousands of years and more readily dissolve in groundwater.
> The initial conversations were very beneficial and very interesting. Over time, as more people got access, it started to turn into virtue signaling sessions on one end and super wack conversations about crypto on the other.

Eternal September all over again.
My burnout started right around 2020, just as the pandemic hit. I'm just now getting little spurts of energy here and there again. The past 2 years has been an absolute drag for me, personally. I wake up feeling tired, I manage to get a couple of productive hours into the day, but by 1pm I often feel so tired that it almost physically hurts to keep sitting up.

I haven't seen a doctor but I'm not sure if I'm experiencing depression, or very low testosterone, or something else.
I haven't written anything against it directly in years at this point, so I can't speak to that, it's just the best example of a library at the same level of abstraction.
2) It's actually a lot easier to speed something up enough to eject it from the solar system than it is to slow it down enough to let it fall into the Sun. the first is only 18 km/s but the later is 30 and with the tyranny of the rocket equation every bit of delta-v is harder than the last.
My wife is a pharmacist. Over the past two decades the number of pharmacy schools has increased and some schools have gotten bigger classes, such that now every year there are about 25% more Pharm.D's made than in 2005. The result has been a predictable decrease in pharmacist quality of life- the pay is basically the same number of dollars today that you would get in 2005 so inflation has made them poorer, the hours are worse, the tech hours are worse, etc.- because pharmacy school is selling the same dream of respectable, well paying work. Law school has already done one cycle of boom, massive overproduction, bust, and is starting to boom again. I know a couple of airline pilots who face similar problems- very slippery rungs at the lowest ends of the ladder, with a lot of the feel of a pyramid scheme (generally to get enough hours to get to the higher rungs you need to be an instructor teaching other people to fly) and for the few who can grab one of the highest rungs (senior pilot at a major) quite a bit of job security and well-paid respect.

If she hadn't become a pharmacist, my wife's back-up plan was to be a chemical engineer, which generally means she would be working for an oil company baby-sitting a machine in a refinery. Over the same period that pharmacists job quality declined, ExxonMobil went from the largest company in the US by market capitalization to the 12th biggest in the US, and from what I've read the quality of life of ChemE's has declined a lot in step with that. So this clearly isn't something where "STEM jobs will save you."

I remain puzzled as to why software engineering seems to be immune to this overproduction problem. Is it just that since software is still eating the world, we haven't found a natural limit to the demand for our kind of engineers yet? Is it that we are so unproductive and failure-prone that we guarantee ourselves full employment?
The CEO is one of the authors of the study, a professor emeritus in the department of biochemistry at Stanford University.

Additional sources here:

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/02/01/new-model-explores-link...
https://climatehealers.org/the-science/animal-agriculture-po...
https://www.hsi.org/issues/climate-change/
It has already been said, but it bears repeating:

"Any sufficiently advanced business model is indistinguishable from a scam."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227941
MPEG-4 part 2 and h.263 also support multiple profiles. MPEG-4 part 2 is based off of h.263 but with basically all the features turned on with its own additional features available.

Annoying the author doesn't seem to understand that multiple standards bodies exist. The h.xxx codecs are specified by the ITU. MPEG is a totally different organization. The MPEG-x standards are specific video encoding and delivery standards. The ITU also has delivery specifications but those are mostly about telecommunications delivery.
> how to create a polygonal feature more complex than a single building footprint

In ID (default editor) you can mark area and area inside or select two disjointed areas and press right click on the and select "Merge". Or press "c" while selecting areas for combining.

In JOSM there is equivalent "create multipolygon" (or "update multipolygon")

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:multipolygon#Ho...

> parks that shared a boundary with a road

FYI, that is because highway=* road line represents centerline of carriageway - and unless park somehow ends in the middle of road and includes half of its surface it will be not correct.

It also makes future editing quite nasty.
I've been feeling burned out since just before the pandemic when my boss had a breakdown from burn out himself. He had sheltered the team quite a bit, and when he left, new managers tore the team apart and the purpose that I had for almost a decade disappeared.

That lead into a big downturn in my personal emotional and mental health, not helped by lots of issues in my personal life. I changed jobs, luckily still within my field, and now about a year later things are starting to feel more stable. My personal life is still in turmoil tho to the point where stress and burnout cost me the relationship with my partner, where we're in the process of separating now. It's been 2.5 years now, and I have no doubt that it will be years more.

It's burn out that started with work and just turned into full life burnout. The answer is always do less, not more. I've been trying to minimize my commitments and focus on what's core. Health, taking care of my son, my job, and my future. But it's all a setback where I wish I had been more proactive about my calm and my overall health. There's still lots of life left, this is just a wake up call about how to live the remainder of it well.
Or discuss it on Hacker News.
SETI began by looking for radio signals that were highly unlikely to be "random" because that fit what we ourselves were using at the time. As we've since discovered, this sort of communication was shortlived lasting just decades.

So what could we observe instead? The answer is Dyson Swarms. These aren't rigid spheres as some seem to think (the original term was "Dyson Sphere" but is largely abandoned because of the confusion). It's merely a collection of orbitals to consume all the energy a star produces. Many (myself included) think this is the inevitable direction of our species.

The only way to get rid of heat in space is to radiate it away. The frequency of the light emitted depends entirely on the temperature of the radiating object. This means a full Dyson Swarm would have a huge infrared signature. That sort of thing we could detect from a very far distance. A whole galaxy of these would be detectable from millions of light years away.
For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose (2018)
And now I need a setup.cfg
Yes. I'm currently employed by a well known company but interviewing elsewhere. I've been a SWE for 10 years and even though I'm still able to smash tech interviews for the most part thanks to lots of grinding over the years I just feel so empty inside about working on computers. It's no fun. I feel isolated. I'm a very social person in real life so I live for the weekends and otherwise spend my mornings and afternoons stressed out about what to say at our daily standup because the truth is I don't care about any of it enough to get invested in a project. But it's hard to leave this field. I'm really good at interviewing and because of that I've been able to secure very good pay and conditions of employment.

In the past 4 years I've seriously looked into going to Nursing School and Cosmetology School respectively (Cosmetology School might seem silly but it's only a year, it's cheap, and it's something I'm interested in). The idea that I'd give up my cushy SWE job for much lower pay even in the case of Nursing says everything there is to say about how burnt out I am. In the end I probably will leave this field anyway. I don't suspect spending my middle age and above programming will be any more fulfilling.

Above all the weirdest part about burnout as a SWE is the GUILT that I feel about it. I get paid a lot. I have a very flexible job with a lot of autonomy. I am coddled but somehow I daydream about ... going to work from 7-7 at a hospital???? It makes me question my sanity.
I've had burnout. I was 12-18 months in a startup before I realised it was not at all the right fit for me.

I was brought in as CTO to fix some stuff. I fixed that stuff and then realised that how I wanted the business to operate and how the CEO wanted to operate were very far apart.

It all came to a head when somebody got fired and I disagreed with both the decision and how it was carried out. This was just one item amongst a bunch of other things.

This drained me so hard emotionally. I was CTO at another startup for much longer and never got close to this level of burnout. I've talked to someone else about this (talking is helpful) and they had a similar experience. It's not always about the hours or the tenure. 60 hours/week in the right environment is very different to 40 hours/week in the wrong environment.

It took a few years for me to get over this. I took some less complicated jobs with less responsibilities and less personal investment before chucking myself back into the fire. It's going well so far and I'm definitely more resilient as I've been through some pretty dire work shit since then.

Sorry to hear you're having a tough time of it. Getting less personally invested for a while really helped me. I also took on some hobbies that I had total control over and that helped too.

Good luck :)
I think the question is where are you getting your news? US forests are at a 100 year high, there are more trees now that there were 100 years ago!

https://www.treehugger.com/more-trees-than-there-were-years-...
Vindictiveness based on non judicial punishment and a failing career.
The article misses the point. Climate change is a far harder on poorer people vs less educated people. The bottom 10% of least educated people in the first world will almost certainly be better off than the top 10% of educated people in the poorest countries in respect to climate change effects. What these people really need is to get wealthier. Education plays a role in that, but a far greater role is played by country level sensible, growth oriented economic policy.
The most difficult challenge with autonomous sailing at the optimal speed for pollution control is maintenance: crews won't sit on a ship that takes 2x or more the time to get from A to B (ideal for Earth, not ideal for sailors), and without a crew you can't easily maintain the ship when it's far from any ports.

It will be interesting to see how this develops further and how ship design will be influenced (e.g. more redundancy with key systems so the ship can at least keep limping along even with major failures).
You're making me thankful I've spent all of my career working on various forms of tooling. I'd be sad if all I did was marketing, surveillance, and spam. Might very well go find another line of work.
My point was perhaps too subtle.

I don't view meth as the source, but a symptom of the economic situation(hopelessness), which then causes further socioeconomic decline in the pursuit of more drugs.

Drug addiction, for many, is trying to fill a hole. That hole could be poor choices leading to a bad situation, absent or abusive childhood relationships, a self esteem model that has been largely destroyed by the culture that person lives in, a lack of role models, many things. They can be internal issues that the individual is primarily responsible for, or external issues that are the result of being dealt a bad hand in life. Most likely a mix.
Been there.. and still am somewhat. I was a dev - got a lead position at a disorganized company. Product was very late on the market because of the management (no clear command chain, no clear end goal, multiple tooling…). I pushed the app on the market but very fast got burn by the environment. That with 2 young children lead to a disastrous situation…
I don’t think develop anymore, nearly 5 year later. I’ve switched to management, to try to do better. At my current job, I can’t so… I quit for something else, 6 month after beginning there.
I’m choosing my battles. My job is only there to pay for whatever my family and me need - nothing more.
I’m lucky my current job is ending now. I´d probably be burned out otherwise. I feel like you can never fully heal… but you can learn :)

Now my end goal is to definitely quit IT and find something nice to do. But let’s be honest: what’s gonna me pay that much?
I can't tell from your post whether you're currently unemployed or unhappily employed and looking for something new. I feel there's a big difference between "burnout" and dealing with the stress of unemployment.
Plaintext, as in text, won't get seriously mangled. Text with symbols, which I admit should fit in the general idea of a "plaintext file", will be interpreted potentially in ways not intended in a regular text edited document.

Italicized, bold, and underlined HTML text does pretty much resemble the purposes for which those symbols (asterisks, underscores) are used in text. Even bulleted lists and numbered lists are handled in a pretty straightforward fashion.

Where you see problems is when you're putting in footnote notations, equations, source code, and such. There are ways in both HTML and markdown to keep pre-formatted text for those cases. What the author has accomplished is not having a special notation for those, but also reinventing Pic, Fig, DOT, or SVG for simple images. It's done by requiring a game engine rather than using any of those prexisting tools.

Pic and Eqn are literally from the 1980s and 1970s, respectively. Pikchr (a Pic enhancement) is designed to be embeddable into markdown rather than troff, and could pretty easily embed into plaintext-with-template-tags like this. DPic is Pic-compatible and can produce Postscript, PDF, SVG, or image formats. As a bonus to the author of lines.love Pic-compatible tools already can take nested expressions in a slightly different format, and can also produce programmatically-defined shapes.

https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/dpic/
https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/dpic/dpic-doc.pdf
What else would Snowden's motivation be?
Apple WWDC 2022 keynote stream (YouTube)
Maybe I'm missing something.

But this feels less like burn out, and more like a very healthy work / life balance to me.
https://youtu.be/5KO2IjWI9fA
Mt Evans (about 30 minutes from my house) became famous for killing Mach-E. Apparently they didn't plan for quite that much regen. It is the highest paved road in North America.

I had explored a bit, then did Mt Evans in my model 3, and was worried that I was still climbing and at 45% charge. I was amused to arrive back at my house ... with a 45% charge.
From what he reportedly took and what's been released, I'm still so confused.

It was a hot mess in the media for a few months about how the reporters he fed stuff to was going to release it all. Then, once the story died down, you didn't hear anything and there were no more releases. At least none that were so groundbreaking, they hit the media. You could say the media was culpable and simply ignored subsequent releases though.

Is there somewhere you can go to see what's been released? I'm still under the impression the bulk of what he said he had has yet to be released.
That is a good answer, thanks!

As expected I got a couple of downvotes, but it is worth it for answers like this.

Edit:

That is 100 trees for each car, isn't it? But the same 100 trees would do the job for the same car next year?

Edit 2:

Assuming steady state.
"uh-OH!"
It is likely that life itself is non-ergodic. It has some returns on capital but eventually a catastrophic event will wipe all gains.
you'll have to round up those 86,400ths!
Yes, but it is less radioactive than some rock. Burning coal concentrates the uranium into the ash, so at a basic level you can say that coal ash is more radioactive than coal itself.
Fun fact: The PlayStation2 (and maybe PS1?) had an "MDEC" coprocessor that was basically a JPEG decoder chip. So, in one game we used low-rez MJPEG streams for the characters' pop-up, talking-head, conversational clips. The were small enough to keep in the 32MB of main RAM for zero-latency and free to decode any frame on the fly as needed.
I think what burns me and a lot of people in this industry out is the fact that you can be a consistent high performer but still feel stuck because landing a new job is so difficult. The whole interview process is so far removed from actual job requirements and the need to be a pro at leetcode problems is soul crushing.
This is a great question i'd love the answer to as well.

My intuition tells me the speed particles passively would move through the air would be limited roughly by the speed of sound? That feels like a hard upper bound, though?
I just wanted to write code that ends up in space :)
Quick link to the (incredible) design doc linked in the first post there: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18CXhDb1ygxg-YXNBJNzfzZsD...
Invaluable:

https://devdocs.io/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
Can't find the original article I read but here is some more info on the relationship the program maintains with "owners"

>The materials touted that he could make more than $75,000 and perhaps as much as $300,000 every year. The application required that you have $10,000 in startup capital, but the ad he saw also said that the fee might be waived for veterans.

>Aside from Ramos, all of the business owners and drivers interviewed for this piece see themselves as working primarily for Amazon, not for an independent small business. That mentality has added to the disappointment for workers seeking autonomy

>“It’s not a partnership. This is working for Amazon,” the veteran said. “We DSPs are not business owners, we’re paid managers. They control every aspect.”

>After the DSP owner is paid by Amazon, the owner then has to pay the drivers, taxes, leases on the vans, repairs to the vans, new clothing (the physicality of the job means some drivers go through gear every couple of weeks), worker’s comp and other costs.

https://www.protocol.com/workplace/amazon-delivery-program-t...
I mean, to be fair this is the sort of safe you find in a hotel room where it's expected that the staff have access to it. It's decidedly _not_ a high-threat environment secure item.
Right, and my point is that maintenance is a massive cost which is boring, and often overlooked when talking about the 'cost' of code. Slow code causing excessive CPU load or requiring multiple application servers is one cost, but maintenance is another, and the skill is to understand when it's appropriate for what.

My default would be to generate maintainable code first, and worry about performance when it matters, but a knee-jerk 'linked lists are slow so avoid' approach is almost always the wrong way of approaching it. Choose the correct data structure and algorithm for maintainability, then optimise if it's too slow should be the default in my opinion.
We know how to build nuclear submarines and run them quite well, and salt water is not worse than hot nuclear fuel. Nuclear power will never be easy on the materials side.
The reason is that there is a lot of food insecurity in the US. Kids regularly go hungry. There isn’t necessarily food to bring from home, nor money to pay for things purchased at school.

My husband is a teacher and keeps snacks in his room for kids who didn’t get anything to eat that day.
Java can do that trivially easy for the stream case because there is only one input and one output. E.g.

static <A, B, X> Function<A, X> compose(Function<A, B> one, Function<B, X> two) {
return (a) -> {
return two.apply(one.apply(a));
}
}

Java sucks when there are a variable number of generic arguments, so it struggles with the composition of two functions that have a variable number of inputs. That doesn't really apply to stream processing though.
Sure, so if you're in a country that would be hurt by America more than Russia Yandex makes sense. If you're in many western countries then Russia is currently threatening every other weak to nuke you so...

Propaganda is almost unavoidable in modern times but if possible it's better to avoid one that pretty directly goes against your own best interests.