skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if it counts as burnout, but I've had my share of trying work situations, some of which pushed me into melancholy. Although the following may not apply to everyone, I believe it does in my case. My takeaways: unless it's your own firm, don't get too involved or emotionally immersed in your work; it's usually just a contract of labour for money.
Also, I have a tendency to hold out hope that things will turn out okay in the end, even when most people have gone on. It never ends well, and I'm still trying to recognize when a change is necessary...
IMO part of the issue is that 'crytocurrency' refers to two things: the first is the technology to do things without trust, the second is the social movement.

The social movement is bananas but gets defended with arguments for the technology.

It was no secret that the banks could run. Not being on-board with the vices of the social movement is decried as FUD.
There is really nothing "perfect" about lead acid.

They let out fire-hazard gases when they charge.
You need to maintain their internal water levels.
They tend to spew acid on their surfaces.
Their voltage droops as you use them.
They can't tolerate deep discharge at all, and in general wear out quite quickly when heavily used.

LiFePO4 is a huge improvement over lead acid.
I know how it works, and I’d argue it is a flaw of the technology.

Money works because I can hand $10 to a 5 or a 95 year old and they know what to do with it. Very few people do anything other than speculate in crypto, and even fewer hold it in their own wallets as opposed to on exchanges. If the friction of getting started in the future of money requires IT support, then it isn’t going to work
> Unfortunately there is no decentralized exchange for BTC

Localbitcoins, localmonero... Two of many.
This is shortsighted and won’t age well. Consider the world in 2030. Another 8 years of advancements into bitcoin infrastructure, point of sale devices, mobile wallet integrations, etc

Plus failed central banks, failed paper currencies, etc
A lot of the symptoms described in this thread just sound like depression.

What’s the difference?
Copyright is Hitler, got it. If you ask me fascism is what Russia is doing in Ukraine. Maybe the finesses of copyright do not matter so much compared against real evil.
I'm not rich and a lot of paid tiers are targeting 5+ seat enterprise companies instead of individuals.
Same problem in government as well.

People that manage expensive assets are not punished if they make bad decisions
Sometimes it also depends on whether your local CDN edge has a hot copy. You could try a forced refresh and see if it's faster the second time? Up to you :)

The Drupal version is seeing production traffic, while the Next version only sees a few devs now and then.
The real expert witness cash cow is to become the go-to expert witness on a particular issue/incident and then travel around to every state representing various plaintiffs against the same single/small set of defendants.
> I can think of a market with say 6 or so major players that all stream video in HD and even 4K very well across the world.

I suppose that market is lucrative enough that they've never been tempted to spin off a mainstream version. Else they'd absolutely be the front-runners to beat Google at that game, I'd think.

Come to think of it, they should also have a pretty good corpus (ha, ha) to launch a variety of machine-learning products that might well outdo Google in certain areas.
On changing jobs - Depends. If work isn't getting better *today*: ie, if they refuse to fire that toxic asshole, if they refuse to change that insane deadline -> if you have six months of savings, take a sabbatical for at least 3 of them. You are done starting now. No job is worth your mental health. You put in your two weeks starting now.

Make sure your next gig is calm @ 40 hours weeks. Do that for a year. Godspeed. Burnout sucks.
It matters very much who the owner is of the currency you are saying can be transacted. If a large chunk of bitcoin adopters don't own the currency, can't transact, and can't withdraw into fiat, what do you have exactly? Just a theory that this could work if just everyone played by a very specific set of rules.
Time to add this to my list of false assumptions. (Everyone has fingerprints)

Silly me, not everyone even has hands...
This is showing what the industry’s can produce and I think it great but they never tell us end user costs?
The way we describe reality is indicative of, and somewhat shapes, our perception of it. Describing the likelihood that a long-overdue increase in real wages would be cut short by a recession as "alleviating upward pressure on wages"—with "alleviate" being a word with very strong connotations of referring to removing something negative—has a pretty clear implication of wanting that to happen.
Satosh was NOT an excellent C++ programmer. As someone who heavily dug into bitcoin code, the whole thing was a mess from the beginning. Poorly architected. Insane amount of global variables. It was just a huge mess and still is.

IMO it was initially written by someone deep in government (but I have no proof, just my opinion from looking at the code).
Sounds like Bud Light.

Everyone drinks it. It's non-offensive and ubiquitous, but doesn't offer very much flavour.

(Heavy iOS user here)
> We don’t talk to our children enough about pursuing sex to fulfill carnal needs that delight and captivate us in the moment.

Yep, they're groomers.
Could be device/browser related, I'm still blocking ads just fine on Linux/Chromium and on my smart TV.
But everyone knows the lawyer for one of the parties in a trial is representing his party and is not some neutral observer. But expert witnesses are presented as essentially neutral experts making their own determinations on areas of expertise. Being explicit about the money paid to the expert makes the situation much more clear; not so for the lawyer.
YouTube 'every month the criteria changes' so new creator not paid
Do I have to sign up to see the pricing plans? I can't seem to find a link anywhere.
The value will be proportional to the effort the kid must provide. If you says that a chore dollar is worth 1 human hour, that's a very strong and valuable currency. But FIAT currencies are from defined as such. As a single example, their value partially depends on the amount in circulation, which might change anytime without notice nor democratic consultation.
I ended up having some expert witness work during the pandemic, about pandemic related stuff.

It was interesting, and engaging, and was indeed a nice bit of side income for a bit, but I'd be happy if I was never called upon again.
Normally, this type of comment is Hacker News reductiveness, but yes, image classification via CLIP is that easy, especially with Hugging Face's API for it: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/clip

I created a Python package to generate image embeddings from CLIP's vision model without requiring a ML framework (https://github.com/minimaxir/imgbeddings ), and a simple linear classifier on those embeddings does the trick, demo here: https://github.com/minimaxir/imgbeddings/blob/main/examples/...
Higher temperature systems tend to have more microstates than lower temperature ones, so it seems like in principle you need less information to encode the state of a cold system than a hot system. I'm not sure how to translate that to the energy cost of computation of that system though.
The problem is accessing backend data sources. Fetching that data in the first request and responding with server side rendered html > serve js that then initiates network calls to get that data (while showing a spinner in the ui)
I vouched for your comment.

Congratulations and good luck for your migration!

It's good you found a solution in Evolution. I don't use many extensions in Thunderbird, just one to show different colors in the new mail window depending on the account used to send the mail. I'd be interested in knowing which specific features of Outlook you needed that required extensions in Thunderbird (and that Evolution has by default).
I actually stopped using K9 because it stuck to the ridiculously outdated, and honestly quite ugly, Holo interface. Holo worked as long as the entire system was consistent, but as soon as material design got fixed in Android 7 (took them a while to cut down on the margins!) I was over Holo.

I don't feel like setting up my mail client again but looking at the current design I'm pleasantly surprised. I'll probably give it a go as soon as the Thunderbird team and the K9 team have joined forces for an actual release.
sure they aren't the problem of crypto because they're a feature of the surrounding ecosystem not the underlying implementation, but when the ecosystem gains the reputation of a scam filled hellscape and most of the value and "use cases" is tied up in artificial hype - that has to pose some amount of worry in terms of future regulation and adoption does it not?
Surely horses from this time period were available to comment.
> MtGox being the most infamous example.

I was there for it. I mined my first coins in late 2011.

Few people want to run their local node (server), few people want to point their wallet at their own node, and fewer people want to run code they've compiled themselves. If you aren't running your own node you are relying on someone else's.

As a mass adoption decentralized trust-less technology for transacting, bitcoin has failed.

That people are still getting burned by trusting major exchanges is hard to believe, and why you really can't make this up. It's stranger than fiction.

>(but I have my suspicions).

Yes, it is me. Jamie Dimon. Warren Buffett and George Soros are here next to me too. Bill Gates is on the way, and he's bringing chips and guac. We're all out to get those pesky crypto entrepreneurs.
To be honest, 'springing out of bed excited to see what the work day brings you' seems like a weird standard for evaluating burn out, or even for evaluating how normal your job is. My hypothesis is that most people are not exactly springing out of bed to go to work...but they are also not burned out.

Edit: I think its totally valid if this is a sign for you or a select number of people. Everyone is going to have a very personal experience with burnout.
This paper [1] takes a systematic look at many families of algorithms to see the effect of Moore's law vs algo improvements over time. tl;dr -- for families that see algorithmic improvements, they get faster by orders of magnitude over simply riding hardware improvements.

I made a short explainer video if you don't want to read the paper: https://youtu.be/R0k80fSRLts

[1]: https://ide.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/How_Fast_Do_A...
But biology has also produced systems which are far beyond what we've been able to engineer.

For example, look at cellular reproduction. Just imagine if your phone could produce a smaller phone, which would develop into a fully functional phone. And imagine if it could do that using energy which was converted from breaking down fruits and vegetables. These are things that every living thing can do, but it's way beyond the scope of what our technology can accomplish.

There are many such miracles of biology. For instance, a gecko's feet act as an adhesive in a way that artificial imitations have not been able to match.

Wheels are also great unless they aren't. If we had evolved in an environment where we had lots of smooth roads to roll around on, maybe some animals would have evolved wheels, but instead we evolved legs which are much better for getting around uneven and unpredictable terrain.

> Thus from the reasoning above it is very possible for the brain to evolve with unnecessary and inefficient "processing modalities".

It's possible, but what evidence do you actually have that this is the case? How do you know the brain hasn't been subject to selection pressures forcing it to have evolved in an extremely efficient fashion?

> Subconscious processing is often times correct and logical.

Is it? I thought you said your brain was just an inefficient accidental mess? Why would you trust it? Or is your brain maybe incredibly powerful and capable, enough to create abstract and complicated emergent phenomena like intuition, which are so far impossible to understand analytically, or indeed to reproduce artificially?

> What my self analysis tells me is this: Given the fact that MANY of our mathematical models for physical processes involve elegant and straightforward primitives it follows that intelligence will also VERY likely be such a model as well and very likely much more simplified then the human brain.

This is a massive leap of faith and I don't know how you can possibly argue otherwise!
Remaining Ambitious
1. Shorting practicalities for Tether not clear.
2. Need confidence 3rd party will pay out.
3. Market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent.
4. Especially high risks when dealing with an entity which for the moment can print money to manipulate markets.

In short, I’m confident it will fail and fairly spectacularly but I don’t know when and I’m also not sure how to go about shorting it.
I'd like GitHub to stop disrupting itself please.
In contrast, my expert witness work is expressly founded on papers I published, and it absolutely goes on my CV.
Yes he did.

I don't know very much about him yet, but his life seems to be a fascinating one of gently guiding a failing state (that failed on epic proportions) back into normalcy and then into rapid growth.
And what justifies gold being worth any particular amount of money?

The answer is the same: nothing.

Except that that's not true for gold and it's not true for Bitcoin. Something has value if people want it.

That's it.

People want Bitcoin, therefore it has value.

Your search for fundamentals is simply inappropriately applied. It's like asking what color is a smell, it's simply the wrong question.
As per https://help.getadblock.com/support/solutions/articles/60001...

I would assume they are constantly trying to circumvent blocking. It's not even a profit making platform. Note sometimes on VPN or when i travel, even with YT premium subscription i sometimes get a pop up indicating YT premium might not be available in my area and I might see ads. Don't think i've experienced it yet.

One aside is i noticed on my Google drive/workspace whatever its called now business account i see ads on youtube. Seems a bit cheap not to give that as a benefit for paid accounts
Ethereum sanctioned, you mean Geth? Geth does not go away in 2.0. You will still need it, as it's still the main software that executes the transactions.

"2.0 validator" is not a node, it's more like a client that talks to the PoS chain nodes (Beacon).
But don’t you see that if that number can’t be lifted, crypto will never be capable of doing what it’s theoretically capable of? It’s like being the first to market with some revolutionary product, totally screwing the implementation and adoption and then leaving the population so jaded with the technology that it’s going to have a hard time recovering
I self diagnose myself with attention disorder (towards the uninteresting), muscle fatigue (only at work), mental exhaustion (except for videogames), extreme sleepiness (getting out of bed is near impossible) and social aversion (everyone that I talk to tries to convince me to take a bath or something equally terrifying). I also get sick easily and only drink energy drinks. I'm so sad all the time and have no plans for the future but if I wasn't afflicted by this condition I would be a productive person, I swear!

Am hyperboling but the difference between being raised to think you're a victim and actually suffering from something else is difficult to get right. Infant traumas can lead people to become so daringly incompetent they think they have a problem other than needing psychological help. No one likes to realize they are stupid but the stupider you are the more it hurts.
Lambda Labs offers both on-demand and reserved instances that are much cheaper than other providers - https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud/pricing
Then that time comes to change jobs but even after 10+ years of experience, you now need to grind Leetcode out for months just so you have a chance of getting through pointless tech screens... how do you avoid burnout from that alone, and how do you even get through the process if you're burnt out to begin with?
Total value in Dai in 2018 (it launched in dec 2017) was < USD200mil - in the period where ETH lost most of its value (Q1 2018) the total value of dai issued was ~ USD 50mil (to ETH's ~75bn market cap).

Its ~ USD 7bn now (vs ETH 220bn market cap - and not the only stable coin holding eth ...).

https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/maker-price-analysis-multi...
Lockdowns are a stop-gap until a vaccine can be found and applied. It would be logistically infeasible to stop spread with lockdowns alone.
For me a true sense of "I am burned out" is like a recession. You don't see it coming but you can look back 6 months and realize "oh shit I'm deep in very bad burnout".

For me it was a deep dissatisfaction with the work I was doing. This was caused by doing work that had no meaningful purpose, and also the people who were controlling what work I did were not giving me any autonomy or say in what was happening so I felt very powerless and my work was deeply unfulfilling.

It was multiple jobs where it was a bad fit, and I tried to force it and "make it work" because you have to get paid to live. For me burnout is a symptom of a sick society and unfortunately you can't just treat the individual its the societal conditions that cause the pain. The burnout and depression is a natural and reasonable reaction to the unpleasant experiences.

I would suggest changing jobs if you:

1. Lack friends / coworkers you can depend on
2. Feel like your work is not meaningfully contributing
3. Feel like your voice is not welcome or heard
4. Cannot find joy or happiness in tasks or hobbies you once enjoyed (outside of work)
5. Find yourself getting angry / snapping / losing temper over trivial non-important things either at work or at home.
I just run the jellyfin container and mount a big directory videos.

Then I add a rule in my Caddyfile and can access those videos securely from my phone. The whole operation is a little more complicated than that but we're overestimating how difficult it is to run sophisticated services that have been containerized.
>most Russian banks have been cut of from the world's financial system. Crypto is fulfilling a real need felt by many

skirting sanctions for unprovoked war targeting civilian population, got it
I'm referring to emergency situations, not off-grid living. You probably don't want to use your eF150's lithium battery as backup power bank either.
I was introduced to Bitcoin in 2011 by a friend. I'd never heard of it before, and it sounded like something I'd not be interested in. I didn't go all-in with him renting an apartment where the cost of electricity was paid by the landlord, it's basically free, but he 'gave' me some in lieu of his bar bill, just a handful, with the proviso I hang on to it and spread the word that there was use for it.

In that long conversation, the most compelling 'use' was it's 'non use'. That it is intrinsically rare and so as long as it's achieved a sufficient momentum to continue to exist (aside from transactions, we went over various uses for the blockchain that I was struggling to understand), just having some is itself a diversification and thus valuable for that. Diversification like having some precious metal is too. 'Having' being an important point. Another friend was a gold nut (I mean that in a non-pejorative sense, a term he used) that wouldn't touch gold futures or any form of 'contractual gold' and wasn't that keen even on security boxes.

In this, Bitcoin did make some sense. Just hanging on to some. Not for investment purposes, and not for speculative purposes, but for, depending on your perception, the value you may find in something 'rare' in your (somewhat) physical possession. This may be for a time of turmoil when 'rare' assets are extremely valuable, especially divisible ones (sufficiently 'rare' cash, for example, is well documented to be valuable at these times). 'How much' depending on your appetite: appetite for an asset _held for this purpose_ (a purpose that isn't investment or from-time-to-time speculation), and this 'how much' (price*quantity) re-balanced not based on a Bitcoin's price (nor gold's price per ounce) - from this perspective the day-to-day 'price' of Bitcoin becomes less relevant, re-balancing better smoothed than marked-to-market daily given it's volatility.

[A small aside, but on this 'rarity': I remember clearly the first time I held a gold bar, by no means a common occurrence in my life. It was beautiful. Shaped more like a house brick than something stacked in Fort Knox, it had the portrait a family embossed on it, two parents, three children, the family dog, the chateau in which they lived, and their signatures. It was cast at the time of the French Revolution, and sits, certainly when I handled it and I imagine still today, unclaimed, in London, where it was sent for safe keeping. Sad.]
> bitcoin trading can't actually use the network

Crypto trading on exchanges never uses the network. You send your crypto to an exchange on-chain, and all trading happening on the exchange then is off-chain: just adjustment of a few positions in the exchange's databank (as it should be: quick and efficient, within a centralised trusted institution).
People do not appreciate good UIs enough. I think many software engineers might be UI-blind, actually.

Thunderbird is ugly, atrocious on 4K screens, does not group messages by conversation like mail client have in the past 20 years, and insists on listing emails in side-by-side columns instead of using a more compact and space-effective layout like many mail clients in the past 20 years. It's got a menubar, 3 level of toolbars and a burger menu; unnecessary tabs, cramped spacing, and two search fields. It offers XMPP chat and in-browser junk filtering when the former is pretty much dead, and the second is not needed anymore since GMail and its modern competition.

Someone mentioned LibreOffice elsewhere in the comment, and both projects seems stuck in the 2005 UI, UX and feature wise. I actively avoid using them even if I have to resort to using subpar web applications.
It's well known in the industry that Lilium's claims on range are well outside available technology. Read up on AirCurrent, AVWeek, and other trade publications to understand what other manufacturers and 3rd parties are saying about battery tech.

The only major EVTOL OEM basing their battery tech on readily available technology is Archer. They are claiming ~40 miles of useable range after reserves and loss to battery inefficiency at various stages of flight. Lilium is claiming 186 miles of range.

Yes battery tech is improving, but change is very incremental. The idea that we can go from 40 usable miles to 186 useable miles in a timeframe compatible with Lilium's business plans is suspect.
Detection of Prions in a Cadaver for Anatomical Practice
"My theory would be perfect if only I could convince humans to stop acting like humans," is the original sin of bad economics.

In other words, the is–ought problem as viewed by David Hume.
I mean maybe eventually some method is discovered, but this doesn't have an immediate human application. I don't think we're going to start scrubbing intestines to treat covid anytime soon.
I don't see any value in the ability to program a very very limited Ti-89 for hundreds of dollars per hours ( and matching ecological impact )
It's still part of mozilla the company and has a special advantage in that they can actually receive donations directly, unlike the browser project.