skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took me a year to recover from burnout. Don't underestimate the recovery phase. I was at the point where any cognitive effort caused very similar effects to what you would describe, kind of like the mental equivalent of having lifted weights to failure but with an instantaneous onset. I suspect every case is unique, but I'd suggest thinking very carefully about how you can take an extended break from work.

The key distinguishing what I felt with burnout from just being mentally tired is that no problem, no matter how hard it was to solve (or even if I failed miserably at solving it) has ever caused me to instanteously feel 100% mentally exhausted. By contrast, when burnt out, even fairly trivial work tasks would trigger this.
The brain performs more local gluconeogenesis and otherwise utilizes a stable supply of ketone bodies
What’s going to happen: Trucking companies are simply going to leave CA. They will deliver goods to the border. Then some enterprising company with electric trucks will pick those up at the border and deliver into CA.

Congratulations, you’ve now significantly increased the cost of all the goods going into California. You’ve only moderately reduced the climate burden and likely increased the amount of traffic via container ships that pollute significantly more.
Oregon has similar laws - all beaches are public.
Naturally, price and availability are intertwined. In this industry, availability is easy to see, because the manufacturers keep track of inventories on their own shelves and at their distributors. And there are tools for researching substitute parts, such as Octopart.

Even if you can find a substitute, it can take engineering effort to accommodate it, such as board changes and testing. Oh, and the people who can do this, have all moved to software engineering jobs that pay more, or they retired during the pandemic.

My tiny side business just went through this. The chip that I need became unavailable, as did all reasonable substitutes, at any price. I had to re-design my board in order to accommodate a different chip. Fortunately my labor is cheap and available, but dumping a whole bunch of that kind of work on a commercial business, all at once, can be painful.
I recommend 15-21 minutes naps. After a period of adjustment, they work like magic in resetting mental fatigue. And, bonus points, if the nap period is always the same (21 minutes in my case), you will wake up before the alarm. Speaking of the alarm, I suggest using an alarm that gradually increases in volume, starting from zero.
Let's be real here: Google doesn't need a "safe browsing" list to control website access.

The vast majority of people, when they want to visit a website, go to Google, type in the name of the website, hit search, then click the top result.

Address bar? WTF is an address? WTF is a bar?

When the vast majority of people access websites through google.com, Google already decides where the people go.

Let's also not forget tech enthusiasts and professionals all advise using 8.8.8.8. Guess what: Google literally owns your DNS requests.
There's an even richer protocol, `?9001h`, developed by the Microsoft Terminal team, designed to maintain the fidelity of INPUT_RECORD events. These are the events seen by console programs in Win32. It's quite nice.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/specs/%2...
Management usually makes 30%+ more than reports all around the world. Do you suggest workers want war around the globe?

Either you are happy with your pay or not. If my next door neighbour makes more it doesn't change my bills. If I make more than them it doesn't sudden make my bills easier to pay.
The future of some electrity giants is "peaking" (cloudy / windless days and nights) and electricty transfer. They need to adjust for the future, instead of cry like big babies.
Has anyone successfully introduced a siesta to help combat this effect during a workday? I've tried to do so in the past, after reading some of Piotr Wozniak's writing on the subject:

https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Healthy_napping

... but I'm relentlessly awake in the afternoon. In fact, I've had an issue with taking breaks from work for years now: once I start I have trouble stopping.
As I wrote above, the proposed (!) regulation would be based on the national housing stock. So if you are in Finnland, the energy efficiency of your house would be compared to other finish houses, not a house in Germany. Which is the definition of "considering local situations".

Also, a quick check reveals that only about 14% of the Finish population lives in rural areas [1]. Even if every single one of those persons is a house owner and poor (unlikely, as those categories are to a certain extend mutually exclusive), it would be quite feasible for the Finish government to heavily subsidize the renovation of the entirety of the rural housing stock. Nothing in the proposed regulation would keep national governments from using policy making to implement the required goals in a socially acceptable way.

Also, what do you propose would be the alternative? Improving the energy efficiency of the housing stock is in most countries among the most efficient ways to conserve energy. Other approaches to conserve energy or produce the required energy in a sustainable way cost considerably more per kw/h than bringing a 50 year old house to a modern energy standard. And of course given the prevalence of oil and natural gas based heating systems in old houses, you actually have to invest in a new heating source to switch away from CO2-emitting energy sources, anyway.

EDIT: quick back of the envelope math suggests that it would cost the finish government 5% of the current annual budget for each of the coming ten years to invest 20.000 Euros into each of the approximately 250.000 rural houses (assuming an average occupancy of 3 people per house). Not a bad investment considering that it would be made up in a few years through energy savings.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.RUR.TOTL.ZS?location...
What cognitive functions lead to brain fatigue for you?
Can it drive a car?
I sure did, why you ask anyway? The article titled a clickbait but goes on about why South Korean women can't raise children and be competitive in workplace, which I assume is the situation in South Korea. Either have mutual respect and willingness to contribute to household work just like in a company with colleagues or be there to witness the fall of civilisation.
> And this is framed as a negative?

Yes, because it means there's very little freedom of choice.

Would you say that "shotgun weddings" are a positive?
10 decisions in one day?
I'd be a relief to have just 10 per hour.
Not to disagree with this, but perhaps to caution…

Be aware of the necessary ongoing investment for anything “Home IT” you do. If it requires being on-site, if something goes wrong and you are hours away it could be a big issue.

Technical options are not bad. Sometimes they are the best. Just don’t forget to factor in ongoing maintenance and support, and all the ways that can go sideways.

It’s important to not look at the problem in isolation, too. Sure, you might be a networking expert, run your own vpn in a colo, etc, etc.

Do you have the necessary on-call AND on-site availability for when Mom can’t use Facebook because your pi-hole ate the sd card and you never got around to upgrading it to use a ssd?
Same story here. Post-concussion syndrome gave me an exquisite awareness of how different kinds of tasks tax the brain.
For a lot of Americans of the 30 to 50 demographic, as they live through the age-density inversion of the baby boomer generation passing out of this world, there are going to be a lot of hard and personal decisions to make.

Systematically, we can cushion the blow a bit by setting up and supporting the processes to spread the labor around. But if we do nothing, the default is going to be "gosh, I guess you're just unlucky that your parents lived so long and didn't plan for their twilight years," and that's going to result in a lot of misery, either for a younger generation or an older generation (and probably both), and possibly some changes to the aggregate moral code of the United States (what happens if an entire demographic just decides to walk out on responsibility for their parents?).
I strongly disagree. HTTP/3 was a google's protocol and they and microsoft used their employees on the IETF to open-wash it. It is designed exclusively for the use cases of corporations and institutions to the detriment to the use cases of human persons. For example, you will not find any implementation of HTTP/3 that allows you to connect to another computer without that computer first getting continual approval from a third party corporation or institution. That is, you can't just connect to a friend's HTTP/3 web server, or your own HTTP/3 server on your LAN with any browser (or otherwise HTTP/3 client) out there. First you have to ask, say, LetsEncrypt for permission.

HTTP/3 is not for human people. It's for corporate people and it will serve them well. But please don't mistake not using HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 with their corporate crap as being backwards. It's the the other way around. I'll be sad when the web dies and all we're left with is Google's centrally controlled QUIC.
In addition to what everyone else has said, run the codebase through a LLM, and ask it questions. If the code is private and privacy is a concern, look into self-hosting the LLM. You might not be able to analyze the full repo yet, but you can inspect modules separately, and get a mental model of the codebase quicker than if you were manually inspecting it.

Also, read any technical documentation about the product, team/company processes, etc. You can quickly get an idea of how well the product is maintained if the documentation is up to date. If not, then submitting documentation patches is a good first step your teammates will appreciate.
But there are plenty very cheap areas to buy houses or rent. Sure, many people don't want to live there, that's why it's cheap today. But it is a possibility nonetheless, one that is better than collapsing society.

I'm always honestly confused why today it is seen as impossible to move to a cheap area? People have been doing this for generations (centuries?). It's never the most fun solution, but it is a solution.

Jobs. Most people don't have the luxury of working fully remotely. Areas with cheap housing are overwhelmingly geographically isolated and economically depressed, which is why the housing is cheap - local residents simply can't afford to bid up the price of housing.

A lot of people would rather struggle to make rent than raise their kids in a community with high crime, bad schools, poor healthcare, limited prospects and a general atmosphere of despair.
Do you think we don't have 18 wheelers and highways in Europe?
Very true, HTTP/1.1 was The Last Good One; engineers advocating 2 & 3 should be held in suspicious regard.
Can LLMs critique and iterate on their outputs?
"just disable optimizations" is not a solution unless the compiler allows enough fine grained control where that solution is `-ffree-zero-sized-realloc`
It fills be with a combination of joy and disgust to see wealthy Americans sucking up to Saudi money.
Woefully bad take from the NYT.

For most of human history -- and until just a few generations ago -- taking care of one's parents was every adult's duty. And adults had children, among other reasons, for their own support in their old age.

Old habits die hard. With infant mortality down in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, "have a lot of children so that at least some survive to take care of you in the future" made for explosive population growth.

Fast forward to 1970-present, and TFR has collapsed in every industrial country. The cause can't be put down to any one thing in particular, but two big reasons are (1) the modern welfare state, and (2) the fact that adults are expected to live lives wholly independent of their parents. (And so often seem to begrudge their parents.)

Strong family ties are a good thing. If not in every case, children should take care of their parents as a general rule. The collapse of this notion, /w woe-is-me bellyaching and snide commentary from the NYT, is leading modern societies to a very dark place.
This university seems to be the exact reason why network protocols are stuck in their terrible 80s designs.

They've set up an incredibly restrictive systems of firewalls and networks, making it super hard for themselves to upgrade their own network or adapt to the world around them.

Then they write a big post about how much work allowing UDP/443 through their network supposedly is, proving that they not only already blocked tons of legitimate traffic (OpenVPN over 443 is super common) but also that apparently their setup is set up in a way that's impossible for them to manage.

They're running some kind of firewall system that's analysing people's traffic and they're afraid HTTP/3 will put a stop to that. That means either their tooling isn't maintained well enough or they employ some kind of sketchy trickery to get the older protocols to play "nice" with their data collection.

They implore others to please stick to the protocols of the past so they don't need to change their network in the future.

This university acts like the worst ISP imaginable. Who even uses a whitelist for outgoing ports anymore? Block whatever stupid protocols Windows uses for file sharing so you don't leak your credentials, that's all the outgoing filtering you need. If I were a student or an employee there, I would make sure that every single but leaving my devices is going through some kind of encrypted VPN, though I'm sure they'll try their hardest to block that too. Universities are research facilities, they're supposed to be at the forefront of technology, not run into service issues because their policies are frozen in the late 90s.

When HTTP/3 hits the common software packages, I'll be turning it on on all of my services purely out of spite against institutions and companies like this. If your network can't deal with industry standards, it deserves all the shame and support tickets it'll generate.
It isn't one person chasing two rabbits... This metaphor... It would be like a team of people, who have to work in the dark, trying to get food.

No one knows what their chasing, because they can't see it. Somethings are too fast but they will not know until they try.

There may not be enough lithium to power everything. Batteries may never be light enough for aviation.
Clickbaity as hell:
- title: "traffic .. falls ~12% last week"
- body: "accelerating downward trend in _growth rate_"

what it means if true: the SO traffic grows but slower than some implicit "before chatgpt" model predicts.
Taking care of your parents (and children, and children's children) is your life.

The relatively brief period where america corporatized and privatized extended families in the form of retirement communities, nursing homes, day-care and so on is coming to an end. Setting aside if that system was a net good, it turns out that it's simply too expensive: it only worked when the US was the worlds factory (first for goods, then for dollars)
I should have been more specific in my original comment and shouldn't have said "beware articles that don't quantify" things as it was indeed unduly confusing.
Just as a comparison, I did my own 6.7kWh ground mount array, so I can tell you that the materials costs (to a homeowner) for that were about US$13k. That was in 2020 - not sure how those costs have moved since then, but a significant part of the cost you're being quoted is labor.
Of course these things are “observable” in the literal sense. And yet, they aren’t considered to be observable by the memory model of any language spec that I know of. Same as CPU power draw, which has been used as a side-channel to extract bits of crypto keys, and is very much influenced by common optimizations.

Practically, if you need to execute a specific sequence of machine instructions in order to prevent side-channel attacks, then you have to rely on assembler, compiler intrinsics and/or OS support. But that was true way before Spectre.
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No surprise there. Public school experience varies from traumatic to just a gigantic waste of time during the best development years. Once you go through that you don't want your children to have the same experience.
Even beyond Dogme 95, the 90s were such a great moment for independent and low-budget films.

And this was before the epoch of 24P and digital!

So indie and very low budget films should be much cheaper to make today than in that era of film.

But I feel like the innovation isn't there today, especially in America.

I feel like there should be a market for adult themed movies and writing. I know I am, and others are, hungry for such movies, and production quality doesn't have to be millions of dollars. The writing has to be very good, though.

Where is the Christine Vachon of this generation? Where are the low-budget indie production companies? Are we due for a renaissance here? Is it really just that no one cares about 2-hour films anymore, it's all content content content? (Hard to believe this, I feel the 3/multi-act dramatic experience is hard-wired in us, we need a return to cinema..)
> Suggestions on how to actually change it?

In US cities with highest costs of living, the laws of supply and demand are already fixing the issue. The lowest paid professions in there pay $20 per hour or more, so basically twice than in areas with low CoL.
At least they've had a female president!
So what if China catches up? They're probably even more afraid of AI than we are, just because of its potential for societal disruption. Have you noticed that zero of the AI breakthroughs are coming out of China?
> I think their main problem is that regarding the i3 design, they are pretty much the only-ones contributing to improvements, I mean - when was the last time the community (or another manufacturer) actually contributed anything useful to the core HW and electronics design?

There's lots of i3 clones with various changes that are open. But that it exists doesn't mean it'll be incorporated.

I've seen for instance multiple i3 clone designs with multiple extruders -- one with them side by side, another one with two extruders on the X axis.

There's also all sorts of construction alternatives -- wood, laser cut metal frames, etc.

The issue may be that lots of the clones are mostly minor branding/advanced feature changes. Prusa as far as I know doesn't offer an IDEX printer. I'm sure they could take one of the existing designs, but perhaps they just don't want to because it's an unusual, fiddly feature.
Why should the US try to lead solar panel technology ? China has many talented engineers and plenty of venture capital. I'd prefer them to invest it in solar panel manufacturing and power electronics rather than social media, ai or Telco technology.
Good points, but in case anyone is still reading, I feel compelled to stick to my guns: I think it matters where you are. Figures 7 and 8 in this 2022 paper from Lawrence Berkeley Lab give maps of the seasonal minimum heat pump COPs necessary to achieve cost and CO2e equivalence with a 95% efficiency gas furnace: https://escholarship.org/content/qt8pt9155c/qt8pt9155c.pdf.

It requires making some assumptions about heating season air temperatures, but I think it shows that with current electricity generation there are several states where air source heat pumps are actually worse for emissions. And that at current energy prices, there are several states (not necessarily the same) where they are not a win for running costs. Betting on the future "greening of the grid" is a good argument, but the timescale matters. I like the future of heatpumps, but I worry about a backlash if the benefits are oversold.
Same. I feel completely stupid, and have to strain even for the most basic code. It's like I know the high level of things, but to actually force myself to write the code, email, design the workflow, or get engaged in meetings feels like an impossible feat.

I've been pondering changing my job, but I worry that I'd be just a low performer in the new place.
The weapons you're talking about killed over a million people in tyrannical wars and terrorism. They are weapons of tyranny.
In Andrew Huberman’s podcast, I heard the first X minutes of concentration are the hardest, as the brain resists getting in that state. He says that deliberately fighting it, helps improve it (lower the resistance).

I’m paraphrasing, and I don’t remember the specific episode. But look it up because it might help start turning it around for you.
That system is actually reinforced by the lack of workers because companies want to hold on to the ones they already have, which they do today. The 90s is when the economy started outpacing new births and the aging population needed more workers to take care of them. Any way you slice it, the lack of younger workers was the problem whether the proximate cause is low birth rate or lack of immigration or a combination.
Are you saying self signed certificates and custom certificate authorities are banned in HTTP/3? Because as far as I know, there's absolutely nothing stopping you from setting up your own crypto if you don't like certificate authorities.
Climate models, protein folding, mapping the human genome, universal translation, speech transcription, chip fabrication, image classification and generation, conversational bots. These are some of the problems AI has been solving (or has solved) over the last decade or two of research. It was never "AGI or bust". There is an unlimited amount of progress to be made by going down the current path.
I had a fun time rigging my Geiger counter up to my computer for a little demo project of getting random numbers from radioactive decay. It's stupidly slow as is, but could be sped up. I should hook it up to my sound card multichannel analyzer and scintillator now that I have one and update this. Would be way faster with more pulses coming in from the lower-energy gammas and x-rays that the G-M tube can't see.

https://partofthething.com/thoughts/making-true-random-numbe...
It might increase train transport though.
But there will be less ships mooring at Californian ports as it will become uncompetitive
Analysis of Twitter algorithm reveals Twitter down-ranks tweets about Ukraine