skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Burnout is a big issue. I think it is the main cause for high performing employees leaving companies (I read that somewhere - sorry I cannot find the reference).

A lot companies recognize this problem but I really do not know what is the best solution. I know that companies have policy that you are required to take your vacations every year. But that might not be helping in all cases.

Any other ideas?
This whole situation you're in is the very reason why everyone burns out. Three weeks is the kind of vacations I take yearly, whether there's a planned release at that date, or anything else. And so do all my coworkers.

America's dogshit work ethic and disrespect for workers is killing you.
There are enormous numbers of papers trying to quantify this. If you haven't seen these estimates, you didn't read any Covid literature in 2020 or 2021.
A crime? Like there was only one? Seems more like a great pile of crimes all blended together to form a kind of crime emulsion.
Hmm, my understanding was that fabs needed an initial supply of water, but then could cycle that same water for a long time.

A quick Google[0] suggests that they've only started doing this heavily pretty recently, but I'm guessing new fabs in Arizona will implement state of the art water-recycling.

That said, the numbers in this article suggest that 98% recycling would drop usage to the equivalent of ~6000 homes, which still feels significant.

Low seismic activity is the benefit of Arizona that I've seen cited in the past, which I'd guess outweighs the water sourcing issues.

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/fabs-cut-back-water-use
> Would police officers ruminate about mistakes they may have made during a shift?

Hmm why wouldn't they, they seem to be made of the same DNA as you and me. They want to make good impression on their boss, colleagues etc (the politics and who gets ahead bullshit seems to be very high in their field) and are also exposed to very high stress situations - solving murder cases or patrolling the streets doesn't sound too chill to me.
Most cop shows depict them as a bunch of alcoholics with failed marriages ... I don't know how accurate that is but it wouldn't surprise me.
Most programming jobs are as creative as brick laying. So yeah there is some wiggle room to put your own style but you are just implementing CRUD(in it's different complexities and variations) and integrating APIs.
>1 in every 400 people on earth died from this disease.

1 in 400 people are (estimated) excess deaths during the pandemic. This is not the same thing as claiming that all of them were in fact killed by the disease itself.
No, it won't have the same effect, a lot of people only bother leaving reviews if they've encountered something negative about the product/service, but obviously if you give them a gift card if they leave a review, they're more likely to do it because it benefits them.
Sitting in a bank where borrowers could access it at a market rate of interest. Alternatively it would be invested in enterprises which generate returns above that market rate.

Contrast this to the status quo of negative real rates. Speculative mania, valuations over dividends and FOMO driving investment cycles into increasingly absurd tulip bubbles.

Despite increases in productivity, consumer prices continue to increase. Families have two spouses working and less leisure time. There's nothing wrong with deflation. This is the natural result of increased productivity and technological advances.
Also 3G is no longer in Norway for some time.
OMG! Can't thank you enough!
6'0", 192 lbs, sedentary when I started. Now down to 178 and dropping.
Context is important. The replied-to comment starts off, "While this particular implementation doesn't track individuals, couldn't your trivially start tracking individuals by[...]"

An acceptable response, then (to both you and the original commenter), follows: "While some particular browser version doesn't currently protect individuals from that proposed form of tracking, any browser vendor could trivially start thwarting that form of tracking by exploiting the latitude afforded to UAs by the semantics of these headers." And that's the form that the previous comment takes and how it should be understood. The fact that "users go to the web with the browser they've been given [i.e., today, and which isn't providing this sort of tracking protection]" doesn't change anything; we are explicitly talking about steps that each side _can_ take in the arms race related to the subject of this discussion...
Great question.

My first burnout at this job was caused by exceeding my stress levels for a very long period of time, more than a year. I asked my supervisor to assist me with this. And he kept promising change, but it didn't materialize. It also didn't help that I was the only team member that was working on a separate location. When I return to work, I started looking for another job, but a company restructuring happened, which brought me new challenges. This change made me abandon job hunting.

Fast forward to about a year ago and I had the opposite problem now. Work had just dried up and I wasn't doing anything for longer periods of time. Causing somewhat of a bore-out. Also I was required to justify my time, which was becoming impossible. Causing anxiousness. Again I pointed this out to my supervisor and was job hunting for months. But both, again, didn't materialize in time.

I have an added problem that I can only travel by train or bike, while most IT employers nearby are only accessible by car. And I really would like to work on site with a team. At least for half the time.

Now I would like to start with another employer, but I still feel extremely empty and anxious. Sorry, English isn't my first language and this has a lot of emotions coming through with it. That's why maybe some sentences seem a bit off.
What is your recommended alternate solution?
If you have a pipe break in your home, I assume you don't hire an everything guy to sort of fix it(I promise he's really good and enthusiastic and he's doing the best he can).

You hire a fcking plumber.

Why can't top publications be held to this standard?
I don't think that's accurate. One of the things that make incubation and choosing which startups to fund so difficult is precisely the lack of track record. According to Graham himself, when everyone involved with a startup are new to the scenes they're invading, you instead end up relying on such nebulous concepts as "imagination", "naughtyness"[1], or "earnestness"[2].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/earnest.html
also art and wine
because sprints don’t allow the idle time that’s often needed to come up with such ideas. I could probably work for a year on “oh I’ve been meaning to look into that” tasks that have no clear outcome
Isn't Sweden a decent comparison for not locking down? And the majority of less developed countries also did minimal lockdown. And Africa as a whole has a 6% vaccination rate, so we can make comparisons
It looks like there was minimal to no lockdown in Sweden: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sweden-covid-and-lockdow...
In a moment of weakness I bought a soldering iron and this kyria kit [0] and soldered my own. I promise it sounds more crazy than it is and I've been very happy with it.

[0]: https://splitkb.com/collections/keyboard-kits/products/kyria...
too much inflation people waste too much energy calculating prices. Too little inflation people don’t spend enough time on calculating prices. same with employee churn, up or out policies.
That doesn't make sense because creditors will bake that into their interest rates. Instead of charging 2% with 0% inflation, they'll charge 4% with 2%inflation.
Note that Windows uses UTF-16, not UCS-2.
I'm not so sure you can easily de-stress as a policeman. When you're involved in a high-stress or even high-risk situations on a daily basis (say, people shouting at you or cursing at you in a threatening manner), this is absolutely something that stays within your body for the remainder of the day or more. There's a reason so many cops drink in the evenings to be able to "unwind".
I spent three hours refilling each of the CMYK cartridges in my HP color laser the other night.

First you use a copper ring to melt a little hole in exactly the right spot, then scalpel open the bag inside, carefully pour and shake the toner from the bottle, all the while huffing clouds of pink and yellow and blue dust and then you find it’s got everywhere. Then you’ve got to use bathroom sealant around a plug in the hole. Then the plug is sticking out too far and you’ve got fade on one side of the page, so repeat the plugging step a few times.

The refill kit was £65. A new set of carts was £200. I’m still deciding if it was worth it.
Surely somewhere in the midwest would be more geologically stable and have plenty of access to water. Not sure the proximity to Silicon Valley makes any difference. It's not like factory workers are going to commute from California to Arizona.
I will say, the Affinity Suite (which just got a great 2.0 update) is excellent. I still use Creative Cloud because work pays for it, but I finally canceled my personal subscription and I just use Affinity or Acorn when I need to do something quick and dirty.

An advantage I will say is that if you have more than two machines, Affinity doesn’t make you do the license login song and dance. Because I am frequently using at least 3 computers (and often it’s 5), I like that I don’t even have to have Creative Cloud installed on everything, because it’s just easier that way.

For me, Adobe is still better in some ways/more familiar, but Affinity is getting so close that I’m very happy we have this sort of tool as an alternative.
It appears to me that Mastodon has two significant interrelated issues:

Money and moderation

It takes money to keep an instance up and running. I see no reason to expect charity to be any more effective in this case than it has been for other Open Source projects --- which is not very.

Moderation only adds to the cost of running an instance. Lack of moderation can be socially (and even legally) risky. Cost can be limited and contained for an isolated instance but as part of a large "federated" network, I can see how the resources hobbyists are willing/able to commit may be exceeded and become depleted.

So where does this all lead? Probably right back to Twitter --- a social platform largely controlled/influenced by moneyed interests.

It's not easy to change the world without funding.
New York and Singapore rank as the world’s most expensive cities
I, myself, fell for that... :(
> I said "Jane, you ignorant slut" in a joke thread

Comedy is outlawed again. I hope you enjoyed the intermission.
It could also be due to differences in the standard for what counts as a COVID death. Maybe those countries over counted.
Unbearably hard if you ask me. I don't want to socially distance myself from my parents, sister and close friends and it hurts in my heart to see them suffer alone at home and everyone getting visibly depressed over an issue that doesn't affect them directly. I'm all up for keeping others safe, but if it means I have to compromise the mental and physical health of my own family then I couldn't care less about the health of others. Family comes first, no matter what. If my mother who is alone doesn't have any co-morbidities and is in good health (which she is) then why make her unwell? No way.
Secure Payment Confirmation on Chrome Android
Did you base your router config on some existing template or did you just built it up from scratch?
I think if this was played at a GM level, games would be dreadfully boring, for one simple reason: the first player that ever allows a winning threat with only one defence, will lose the game.

This will lead to extremely cagey games where no one ever dares make the game sharp and imbalanced.
I didn't enjoy anything anymore. I didn't enjoy movies, activities, programming or hobbies. I also slept a lot, like 10+ hours a day. I would just fall asleep while sitting on the couch watching something with the wife. And I just felt like I was empty.
Show HN: Sparse Transfer 1000s of Hugging Face Models
Link: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1I5ez6ZpdT0K-yo7l9AXrrJ7tIFoEP8Jv

Hi all,

Wanted to share a colab notebook for making a dense transformer sparse using the SparseML library. This notebook allows you to take select Hugging Face models from the Models Hub and sparse-transferring it onto a sparse model. It's fairly straightforward and easy to handle and on top of that the sparse model performance is pretty awesome, nearly 8X speedup in the colab example I created by using a T4.

Would greatly appreciate your thoughts on this project!

Thank you,

-zeroshot
Another one is a free monoid. With pair of forgetful/free monoid functors. It sounds a bit mathematical but for type T free monoid is a List<T> in a programming language with generics.
Your math is wrong. The death rate in 2020 and 2021 was usually 20-30% higher than expected, not 10%. For a while in the US, it was 40% higher.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778361
I've been coding professionally since '82 and am in the tail end of my 5th career burnout. The underlying issue is our industry is an ocean of poor communicators, who routinely ignore signals until a tsunami hits.
That last sentence is so true. I'm all in on Nix and I couldn't elevator pitch it if my life depended on it.
The paper doesn't investigate the causes of the discrepancy, but only the causes of the excess mortality, ie. why are there so many deaths due to Covid, not why there are so many more deaths than those actually reported.

As for the cited part of the conclusion, this is silly in practice. Obviously not letting in any infectious case would be much better, but when that happens, which always does in practice, the stringent lockdowns are only solution left until you get everyone vaccinated. So it's like comparing apple to orange.
https://archive.ph/JjLwm
Personally I’d like to run a server that could send notifications to me and to other people who would like to join this party. It is a valid use case and making it as cumbersome as possible feels wrong (depending on what it means of course).

Though I agree that it would be good to not turn it on by ok-clicking like our parents always do. “aA -> turn on” would be enough, popups definitely banned.
> Every company I've worked at has had a busy season and a not-so-busy season.

And yet, more than enough companies plan their staffing for "can barely hold it together in not-so-busy season and expect overtime in busy season". That looks good for the beancounters, but is hell for the staff.

> Plus I still take vacations.

The US doesn't have mandatory PTO requirement. Europe does, but it still is nowhere near a level that would actually allow people to have enough free time to enjoy life.
Apple is a much bigger company than Spotify. In. fact, it's quite impressive how monopolistic they managed to become for their size. There are a lot of monopolies and wanna be monopolies about. That's why big tech profit margins are so high.

All I am saying is that if your business model is entirely based on market monopolisation, to the extent that spotify's model is... go f##$ yourself. Yes, Apple charges you a take-it-or-leave-it fee. Does that "makes apple effectively an owner of many businesses they shouldn't own?" Maybe. But if it does, then Spotify is an effective owner of Black Sabbath. Should Spotify own Black Sabbath?

In many industries, Google & FB are "effectively an owner." Without their advertising, many businesses can't function. Lots of startups, even established businesses have to advertise on adwords. Google can also takes a massive* cut.

Apple has all the best customers. You can't have a great online business without apple users. That's why Google pay Apple >$100bn pa to be their default search engine. Apple also do this to spotify. Spotify do it to music artists. They want to do it to podcasters.
Its a real shame they don't have a related research on Long Covid which the WHO estimated at 144 million in October. To me it looks like we are running on about 1 direct death to 3 indirect deaths and about 21 disabled.

All in most of the impact of Covid 19 so far seems to be 84% disabled, 12% excess dying and 4% directly dying from the acute infection. Most of the impact is after the acute infection has passed.
Though I've liked NixOS in the past, the documentation is an absolute mess. I've switched to GNU Guix.
> Clearly the sync between devices works, so they have solved this problem.

Presumably they don't use CSV to sync, they're using a saner json/etc. data structure that they're not letting us export ourselves. Seriously, being limited to CSV in this day and age...
For me, it's the automation that's causing the burnout. It's overly complex, always buggy or deficient in some way and makes the overall system way more complex that it would be otherwise.
they missed Zaxxon >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaxxon
Wouldn't be surprised if it was just replacing a post ID in the update call to someone else's post and server thinks it's fine. Anyone investigated yet?

[edit] Just read they took the server down, we will never know now.

[edit2] Astonishing how supportive the users are. I don't think a lot of users want to understand that all their data is on the streets. It's like they're actually deciding in what they want to believe. Seems to be a trend in society.
Elon Musk and Apple's Tim Cook Make Peace
No, I have just just used the RSS feed from podcasts. The the audio files are transcribed and processed and ingested into database.

I have not know podcasting 2.0 but will take a look.
Direct interview link, no commentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyoGdwVIwWw
I hated this at Amazon. The rest of the year we’d all be so pleased by our frequent deployments. Then for half of Q4 we’d be in code freeze but would be pressured to pile up feature work to go out in Q1. At least weblabs made feature flags easy.
Most banks only keep a fractional reserve of their money and happily loan the rest out to other people.
Marble Madness (Mark Cerny and Bob Flanagan) predates that a few months.

With scrolling (different format from the Ant Attack to Head over Heels one).

Edit: and Crystal Castles a few years.

Graphics will be what medium and artist allow; in that phase the implementation of depth management in projection was especially impactful.
A Glimpse at Java 20
You're assuming "markets" aren't at least as technocratic, open to manipulation, or just straightforwardly political.

When the UK sold most of its critical infrastructure - using exactly the same arguments you're using - the reality wasn't a rational and perfectly organised free market utopia, it was an explosion of higher prices and lower service quality for customers, and huge profits for the buyers.

Most of which were shipped offshore, because the new owners weren't even British.

Even as we spesk privatised energy price gouging - there is no other word for it - is quite literally making electricity and gas unaffordable for anyone who isn't in the top decile of earnings.

Not incidentally, it's also causing a burst of inflation which is being used as a transparently flimsy pretext to raise taxes, cut public services, and clamp down on wages.
My formulation is "if it's not trivial, it's probably not good" when I implement the necessary functions for the "type class" (to take a haskellism) to work. If your `bind` implementation monad doesn't look like it could have been written by someone who just used the function types, it's probably not right. Thanks for the link to the mcbride-ism:

https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/PolyTest.pdf
At this point, with creditors stuck holding the bag, or facing a 60% haircut, Twitter is effectively owned by the banks. That is, nobody expects the banks to get the principal back, even if the equity holders get zero.

This will not come to a head until Twitter misses an interest payment. At that point Twitter can be pushed into bankruptcy or recapitalization. The banks will want a way out ASAP.
Sure, but most of the rest isn’t leading edge and more manufacturers are in that space, including TSMC and Intel.
How would such engine work? Chess engines work by evaluating a lot of positions. But in order to evaluate a single Human Chess position, you need to run a normal chess engine for a minute to determine the top move.
Small correction to your item 4: In order to MITM https, you need access to root key. Certificates are public.
Likewise, certain US groups who pointed to total deaths not only ignored comorbidities but also that the average age of death for a Covid victim is past the average age of life expectancy.

They then and still are trying to push vaccines on cohorts that absolutely do not need them (see numerous EU countries who are not doing this).

On top of that, they managed to convince many US citizens that vaccines prevented transmission as part of their efforts to force vaccines on everyone. Go check some past HN threads for a wild ride!

Bonus points are awarded for obesity being a major risk factor that we’ve done 0 to address post Covid despite the absolutely massive benefits we’d see from it - Id wager far outstripping masking or vaccinating. Externalities for thee but not for me, I guess.
Yup. While they had a lot of elderly die early on that's mostly been it. They certainly haven't had the issues of people missing their cancer screenings, alcoholisms/suicide due to isolation in lockdowns etc. that many other countries have had.

And Africa as a whole practically unaffected.
Here's a study:
https://games.greggman.com/game/dynamic-typing-static-typing...

The key points are as follows:

* Development in Dynamically Typed Languages is faster

* Dynamically typed languages use less lines of code than statically typed languages by a significant margin

* The level of bugs is the same between Dynamically typed and Statically typed code.

"You can write almost completely typeless, highly performant, c and assembly code,"

Yes, I'm sure the LOAD instructions take pictures of cats as operands via their typeless instruction sets... What in earth are you on???

"completely typeless, highly performant, c"

well once someone does that let me know. The only thing near is Javascript and that is only faster for microbenchmarks not real programs.
The reason is simple. Europeans don't want to work in chip factories.
Laptops for Ukraine
My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop
Unless some god has told you the world will end tommorow, you have no idea what the future will bring. Over the next 1000 years things will change and we have no clue what (again, except of course if the world ends).

3 presidents have already been shot (that I remember). while the secret service is getting better, it wouldn't be hard for someone who wanted to get the next one. Senators are even easier.
Netflix to Let Tens of Thousands of Subscribers Preview Content
Physicists produce symmetry-protected Majorana edge modes on quantum computer
I wonder why Nix doesn't give every package a FHS env by default. In 2022 chroot and overlayfs should be available everywhere. Wouldn't that solve a ton of problems?
Xi Broke the Social Contract That Helped China Prosper
Extism: Make all software programmable with WebAssembly
Closing the schools is a lockdown measure, the pandemic didn't close the schools
If I’m reading this correctly this means that 0.6% of world population died due to COVID. Is my calculation correct?