skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, burnout is EXTREMELY high for developers. My group of friends and colleagues that I started with in my early twenties have mostly left development and tech for the most part.

By the time most of us were turning 30, about half my cohort of friends and colleagues had given up as developers. By the time I turned 35 almost everyone had. Out of about 30-40 people that I have been somewhat associating with during my career, I can only think of about 5 right now that are still in tech. Four of those five are in management roles. Only one of those people is still a "true developer" (pushing code and commits all day). The rest have moved to infrastructure, security, and related fields.

The ones that left. A surprising number moved to rural areas to slow down their lives. Building homesteads (small personal farms). One actually built a large-scale mushroom farm (culinary/legal mushrooms). A few teach. Quite a few retired early doing the FIRE thing (wish I had been disciplined enough for that). Several are expats. So for the most part, most of them went off to do things that were less chaotic and less stressful.

I almost quit myself in my early 30s. But I was fortunate enough to get promoted into a senior management position, where I am mostly focused on tech strategy and not true "developer work" anymore. I also went back to school and joined a PhD program where I started doing research on encryption and security in something that truly interests me. So that kept me sane. At this point, I am "resting and vesting" at my current job, waiting for them to sell, which they are extremely well suited to do right now. As soon as that happens, I doubt I will find another job in tech. I plan on taking my PhD and staying in academia.

This is anecdotal experience. So your mileage may vary. The pandemic hit as most of us were between 30 and 35, which might have had a disproportionate affect of taking people out of the industry too. So my experience might be more extreme than the average. But basically, I have decided that the reason tech is mostly young people is because it breaks you down as you get older and people just leave. So burnout is a VERY real thing in this industry.
So what? if the US is spending 8x as much it's a losing proposition for the US eventually is it not? The US is already suffering with a massive and growing national debt
Are you me? Did the same in Jan last year, and by September I needed a microdiscectomy to remove a pea-sized piece of disc that had broken off and was poking my S1 nerve, giving me painful sciatica all down my right leg.

That said, I'm still 22kg down from Feb 2022 when I started, from 107kg then to under 84kg today. There is a lot of positive benefits to becoming a completely stubborn asshole with yourself when it comes to diet, regular cardio, and strength training. But I won't go near heavy deadlifts again.
> My job has less (no) global impact. What I did previously affected far more people. I told people what project I was on and they thought that was cool. But I don’t hate my life or job and I very much did before.

As I mentioned in my own comment, the root cause of burnout - be it coding or otherwise, is when expectations don't match reality.

For most people, especially the young, they attach their expectations to the job and work they do. There are also a certain number of people who have other expectations though - like how they can contribute to charity or the well-being of their own family from the money they make, from a job they don't necessarily like or even care about. One example is the popular Bain/McKinsey partner who is happy to sell absolute vaporware that will never be delivered ever, because they don't care whether their customers are happy - their own expectations are how bigger of a yatch or mansion they can upgrade to next year.

It all boils down to what the expectations are and whether they match reality.
> Probably only space based antimatter production makes sense

And definitely not too close to Earth. Maybe a Lagrange point.
> - youtube

How much copyright-infringing content is there on Youtube these days?
I’m really curious if he is unable to trade when he gets older.
As a general rule, if something is on the HN homepage and you find yourself asking "am I missing something?", the answer is almost by definition "yes" :)

It's just a cool use of some of typescript's more advanced features that many developers probably don't use on a day-to-day basis (likely for good reason, as other comments have pointed out!)
Thank you, fixed! Also, direct link to paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.05862.pdf
Side note, on mobile I'm finding the page starts vibrating like mad as I try to scroll it. It's quite jarring.
They are to a large extent, but the learning resources, and those who use it professionally, have moved on, so you’re a bit on your own and don’t receive the simpler view of the HTML 4 that everyone was using and referencing twenty years ago.
I have to walk daily, and purely flat is nice at first but after some time your blood flow (depending on your condition) might be a bit stuck compared to walking in the wild where you have to lift your feet more, have different mechanics, this seems to reduce blood stuck in lower limbs and helps flushing this. It also feels nicer mentally because it's a bit more diverse.

ps: all in all it's just another point in the fact that modern life is really mediocre
How is arm / nvidia any safer?
People have different layouts in toolboxes, sheds, garages, kitchens, bathrooms, etc. Whatever fits them best. They highlight main features and hide the rest in shelves. But when it comes to UX, everything must have its very fixed special pedestal for some reason. Not your fault, the whole UX thing is absurd from inventory management pov. We used customizable toolbars all the time before someone decided that we are too dumb for that. We still make bookmarks, pin apps to start menus, arrange apps on dashboards. Users aren’t dumb, the premise is.
A good rule of thumb is anything in social sciences that was very popular 15 years ago has been debunked (as others are claiming here). Is there a definitive takedown somewhere that someone can link please? Curious which portions don't hold up.
Thanks for the feedback, very helpful!

I'll look to fix the first tomorrow, and add the rest to my list.
I think ultimately Ukraine doesn't have the will, or the people to fight. They have some, but not as much as Russia. They are struggling to conscript people
(https://www.npr.org/2024/01/31/1226251649/ukraine-russia-war...)

I don't see a chance for them to win here realistically unless somehow Russia goes bankrupt or someone takes out Putin.
https://jointoucan.com/ - hope you enjoy it
I believe the following has the symmetry based solution you mention (and more!)
https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath668/kmath668.htm
Probably DNS blocking, unless Telegram has some measures against that.

In the long run, blocking their verification codes sent via SMS or voice call could also be extremely effective.
It's not a terrible language; it just requires a little different thinking. In 1988/89, I learned to write a postscript generator with no dev environment, just reams of paper. Debugging was hard since you had to add debugging print statements in the same document you were printing, which was hard if no printing occurred! I read Adobe Illustrator files, which were the precursor to PDF, so at least I had something to look at.
Robert Greene explains in a video his 48th law of power.

The rule is there is no rule. Life is fluid he says. You've got to pickup the little clues, use your intuition and your gut feelings.

This perfectly matches my experience of life. When you arrives in a situation with a premade plan and execute blindly, it often fails dramatically, even if on paper you did exactly what you were supposed to. Especially with people of course. You've got to go with the "flow", read the room, feel the air. Sometimes it almost feels magical. Even the light a particular day will be different and somehow, things are different - the people in the street, the mood of your boss, everything.

The great leaders are masters at that. I often think about the current China leader for example. It's just an example.

Do you picture what a person must pull off to get that seat? It's unimaginable. You've got to smell the "bullets" coming miles away before they're even shot, from a shooter you dont even know. Just on a hunch because that day, the light was different.
There is no place to make a note that something doesn't reproduce so its extremely time consuming or you need some source of tribal knowledge. In my postdoc I was trying to make some porous films and a bunch of paper's methods didn't seem to work, maybe I did it wrong, maybe some detail wasn't described, who knows. I couldn't get it to work and there was no way to document that failure.
Ah so it's just averaged out, that's a decent solution I suppose. But that still makes it fixed to the surface for the most part.
How tissue is made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n8gNyIOZDM

So, PFAS run-off is possibly from the ink that gets washed off the printer paper?

[edit: right! missed the wetting agents bit in the article >.<]
At my first salaried position, burnout was so common that the studio heads just made a point of giving the team a month or two to relax after major deadlines (so basically, something like 5-10% of every year on average was 'slack time'). We still showed up and did work but I'd estimate our productivity was 50% or worse. There was seemingly no alternative, because burnout did hit me there and there was probably a period of over a month where I could barely do my job despite the fact that I was only 18 and hadn't accumulated decades worth of fatigue. No idea how the people in their 40s kept up with us.
Yeah, unfortunately the book Starting Strength made it sound like it was extremely safe to do on your own.

The "no true Scotsman" of "if you got injured, you were doing it wrong by definition" didn't help.
Why do we put pfas in kleenex. Heck doing more digging makes me never want to buy Kleenex brand again, these could easily produced without such damage to the environment.
Aegis is really great. So nice not to use proprietary authenticators. And it can do import and export.

Does anyone know the history of this project? It seems legit but an authenticator is a pretty sensitive application so making sure this app is trustworthy is a little more important than for other apps.
> but don't fall in love with a project or a company, because there lies burnout.

One part of me agrees. The other part says: But if I wouldn't have fallen in love with what I was doing to begin with, I would never have reached the point of ability that I did reach.

Maybe the only solution to this is to take a break, then try to learn to open your heart again and risk being disappointed once more. Maybe this time, you will be able to recognize it before it's "too late". I don't know.
Yeah, same here. I tell everyone I know to do some other exercise, instead of deadlifts.
And here, I’m still looking for a good, with fan, and not too expensive, TB4/USB4 single NVME enclosure.

Luckily they’ve started entering the market, but heat management seems to be questionable..
Time away from the keyboard is as valuable, if not more as time at the keyboard.
While not always true my metric for clear/understandable is for other people to understand it. This usually supports my argument when people show me a document and I have no idea what its saying, they argue its perfectly clear... my definition was for people other than the author to grasp the intended meaning.
I used it until I switched to KeePassXC for all of my secret management means, but it's still a great app to fall back to, and allows for simple information exchange when moving to another app.
Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead (2017)
Well, think about it. In fusion and fission, you're only converting a tiny tiny fraction of the atoms' masses to energy. And then to make antimatter, you want to reconstitute this tiny fraction as entire particles.

IANAP (I Am Not A Physicist) but it seems like the only "realistic" way to create lightspeed-propulsion quantities of antimatter might be to convert entire planetoids and planets to iron.
This looks nice and similar to toucan [1]. I have built something similar but a bit different for the web [2]. Happy, to share the code in a non-so-permissive license with you if you plan to build out web support.

[1] https://jointoucan.com/

[2] https://github.com/igeligel/tooltipr-extension
1. The title sucks. This article is basically about adding lunges on top of walks. Conclusion: "Yes, adding lunges is good". Again, the title and the setup for this article completely misrepresent what it's saying.

2. My opinion, nothing to do with the article, though a lot to do with the misleading title: Overall, walking for 30 mins to an hour a day is huge and will increase fitness an incredible amount over nothing. Of course, it can replace neither intensive cardio, weight lifting, or mobility work. But throw a few hills in there, and it's probably sufficient to stay healthy.
MRML is now MIT licensed
I use this app and are very happy. For me the selling point was the possibility to backup my profile and therefore all the configured keys.
Topological Pockets
I'm not sure where you got the impression that the paid layout engine is the primary backend for it.

We set out to make our own layout engine, which we charge for, true. However to say it outcompetes the efforts of all open-source ones including ones used by Graphviz (dagre) and university researchers (ELK) is quite the compliment, and not one that we've ever made ourselves. There are simply different use cases for each: https://d2lang.com/tour/layouts .

In fact we specifically de-weight our own layout engine, making it a separate install and not referenced anywhere in the D2 project. The vast majority of D2 users aren't paying a penny.

And like another comment says, we make it abundantly clear our own layout engine is not open-source everywhere that it's mentioned.

Your claim that this is a commercial post is also unfounded. I opened HN today as a reader and was surprised to see this post.
I just finished this. To each their own of course, but I found the writing too padded and tonally off-putting at times. Some of the stories felt dated both from a technological stance and a cultural stance. I prefer Azure's Cloud Pattern docs myself (though "Release It!" was really good if you prefer a storytelling approach):

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/pattern...
Early mornings can still be a possibility.

As well as breaking productivity of the past into really small steps.
Yes. I work at a very comfortable job with decent pay and benefits.

What burns me out is the bureaucracy, politics and having to deal with people who simply aren’t curious or interested about anything in the slightest leading the charge.

I’ve been working on a startup on the side with my friend for almost a year now and the work has rarely ever burnt me out.
How do you start a US Bank?
Y Combinator posted a video on their youtube channel recently about Tom Blomfield's startup story. In it, he mentions they were able to create a prototype bank using prepaid debit cards in 3 to 4 months: https://youtu.be/QKPgBAnbc10?si=-4oBvHysWWU02Pm2&t=345

In the video, he made it sound simple. Like anyone can just go about and start a banking app. He was apart of a previously successful startup before Monzo. Did he get some exit money and this is how he was able to create a bank? Seems like that's what Elon Musk did with X before the merger with Paypal.

Anyways, I have a startup idea that I'm pretty sure I would need to own my own bank to start. One of the features is the user should be able to quickly create as many debit accounts as they want in like less than three taps. Most of these debit accounts are just temporary though. The debit account needs to have a debit card attached which is a virtual card (you never get a physical one in the mail). Maybe a prepaid debit card fits this criteria. I don't know the difference between the two. In addition to these temporary debt accounts, you also have your primary debit account that can accept direct deposits.

Do I need my own bank to do this? If I do, how would I go about starting one?

I'm guessing from the jump I'll need capitol for the bank part. My thought was to build a landing page with a paid waitlist. After some traction apply to YC and go from there.
Hot water without a nearby tank can come out cold for several seconds. It’s not instant in most US homes unless the plumbing is near the tank. In my house (small footprint) one bathroom would have fast warm/hot water to a bidet. The rest would take 20-30 seconds like the sink and baths (for the full bath bathrooms).
If you're in firefox, try disabling Enhanced Tracking Protection.
What's great about Emily's life as opposed to Marilu Henner is Emily has access to Wikipedia and the rest of the Internet. It'll be interesting to see the limits of her memory in the future. Will she be able to remember every time she gets into those Wikipedia deep dives where you end up spending hours reading about some random topic, following link after link? If so, she really will be a super hero.
Peer review is a spam filter, and it’s quite useful in that content. But it’s a spam filer for people who filter out 99.9+% of papers by having such a narrow scope they probably recognize several names on a given paper.
Makes me think of the episode of the Simpsons where Marge was modified to be some kind of human feline in the episode The Island of Dr. Hibbert
It's kind of difficult use software for RISC-V processors and even more dificult using *nix.

RISC-V is a good option though but only for servers I think
So what are all the chips being illegally brought into China being used for?

This is like banning the internet for Teenagers. It’s not gonna work.
Can this lady(or other people with HSAM) actually recite what they've read in the past verbatim? It seems like she can just tell you what she was doing or what happened on a given day, but didn't delve into how far that goes - maybe she can tell you she was reading book X, but couldn't necessarily recite passages from book X?
> Does trading stocks somehow cause an increase production of actual stuff?

Sure it does. If the price of a stock changes, it becomes easier/harder for that company to raise money relative to other companies. If it's a good company then making their shares go up can increase production of actual stuff because they can afford to build more factories etc. If it's an inefficient company and its shares go down then the people who sold it can go invest that money in something else. There is a net increase in production if the company who gets the money is the one more efficient at using it to make stuff than the alternative, i.e. share price becomes "more accurate" as a measure of the company's market efficiency.
Celery is one of those popular solutions that is commonly used. However, it comes with a complex framework for describing workflows, which is often difficult to master, especially for younger engineers.

With Dispatch, you just write code, as if you would write a local program, and our scheduler can manage the distribution and state of the execution. Testing the code especially gets really simple.

Having a hosted scheduler also means that you don't need to deploy any extra infrastructure like RabbitMQ or Redis.
Yeah, the same guy that was going to single handedly fix Twitter's search for Elon and resigned after 4 weeks saying there was nothing he could do.
Last year Google Authenticator started syncing secrets to the cloud[0] which means that those secrets can now be accessed in new ways outside of the user's control[1], which resulted in a huge breach at a startup called Retool[2].

From then on I started moving my company's team and contractors (as well as family and friends) off of Google Auth and onto Aegis.
The app is clean, easy to use, open source, has all the options we could dream off.
(and its privacy policy isn't tens-of-pages-long like some other apps, where privacy seemed to be part of the marketing strategy but not the product itself)

I've been a very happy user.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35690398

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35708869

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37500895
I happened upon this app recently when I was frantically searching for a Google replacement. Couldn't believe something this polished was lurking. I used another open source app several years ago but it got discontinued (FreeTOTP or something).
Microsoft tried a hard break before (Windows RT), and developers didn't show up. They need this so people are willing to buy the platform and increase the market enough for developers to start doing bespoke ports.
I love Aegis but I can't help but think that it's sad we ended up in this place with regards to 2FA. When all these temporary codes started they were sent over SMS, which was insecure but at least all I needed to do was to pick up my phone. Nowadays I open Aegis and I have > 20 services there, and trying to look for my code between all the running numbers is a pain.

It would have been so much more comfortable if we flipped this around a little - the website would present a QR code, you would open the phone and scan the code, the phone would make a request signed with your key to a URL, and the website would authenticate you because by making this signed request you proved that "something you have" part is done.

It feels like when the 2FA thing started no one considered that sooner or later all services will require it, and the UX will be terrible.
> I suppose mental afflictions come in all shapes and forms.

Yes, I suppose some people need proof of things; especially things that aren't that easy to google because it's new and the language has been around since the web's infancy.
> I also disagree with that post’s assertion that Redis contributions would have been withheld if it started with a different license. I expect contributions would come from existing users of Redis who wanted new features themselves and were willing to sponsor the related effort, regardless of the license in use.

This is partially true, but is missing the fact that all of the recent major contributors were coming from other IT companies (AWS, alibaba, tencent, huawei, Google). None of them would have contributed with this license change. Most of the major features (TLS, ACLs V2, sharded pubsub, Functions, multi-slot dictionary) were all funded by companies, not individuals. It's hard for an individual to contribute complex features these days, since systems are so complex. Even those that do, it required a lot of help from folks like me or other contributors to get it merged.

Disclosure, I was the pervious maintainer of Redis and am employed by AWS.
Ludwig
The new Windows update made me think I'd installed malware
I'm a man and I'm incredibly surprised, pleased and admiring to know that a female woman has won this race. I would on the other hand, be disappointed and saddened and dismayed to hear that a male person claiming to be a woman had won.