skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paradigm never left :)

My day job is programming in an environment which originated in the mid 90s. A contemporary of the Visual Basic era, but somewhat more powerful, and requiring substantially less code.

While I, and a few thousand others still use it (and it gets updated every couple years or so) it has never been fashionable. Ironically because it's perceived as 'not real programming'.

We routinely build systems with hundreds of thousands of lines of code, much of it founded in the 90s and having been added to for 25 years. Most of it was built, and worked on, by individuals, or very small teams. Much of it today is still active doing the boring business software that keep the lights on.

But its not "main stream" because programmers pick language based on popularity, and enterprises pick programmers based on language. A self-fueling cycle of risk aversion.

A lucky few though hot off the treadmill a long time ago and "followed a path less travelled by". And that has made all the difference.
The Ministry of Silly Walks would like to have a talk with you sir
When I experienced burnout in my career, it was never from the technical work itself, but rather from people and process acting in ways that were entirely unrealistic and unfair. As in, it isn’t my problem that you oversold when this feature would be delivered, but somehow it is in fact now my problem without recourse. Cases where you know you or others are being mistreated will burn you out quickly.
Tennessee is the first state to protect musicians from AI infringement
The difference, an analyst states if they have a long or short holding and if they intend to buy or sell in the future.

The scammer does not, that is the key difference.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll look at adding those.
It's funny that you mention AI, because your comment reads like generative AI to me - longwinded and with lot of vague claims.

Spotify allows me to listen to music. Why would I care that the CEO previously worked with ads?

And obviously a company like this will try to create deals which are cheap to them, so that they can make more money.. they run a business, so...yes?
Am I missing something? This is just a toy implementation of a function prototype, that only includes integers and strings?
I assume any future antimatter based propulsion would rely on some sort of metastable particle pair that are made up of matter-antimatter components like protons, except one that can be more easily/efficiently split and recombined. Otherwise the factories will just blow up the first time there's a serious accident or containment failure.

Just as an example: imagine particle A made up of up, bottom, and strange quark and particle B made up of down, charm, and top quarks (I'm ignoring charge) that can be stored without interacting. The engine splits them into quarks that then can annihilate each other (AFAIK that's not how quark plasmas work but you get my drift).
Thanks for the link, exactly the kind of thing I was talking about.
But it sure would be nice not having to worry about malicious code in the dependency closure of your system.

This is not frequently talked about, but right now (and basically since forever) desktop computer security runs by and large on good will and I'm terrified of the times when it doesn't anymore. (Simultaneously this is a huge compliment to the programmer crowd!)
What a silly article. Of course headroom and compression is manipulated and optimized by the recording engineer when mastering for vinyl, sometimes to good results and sometimes to bad. A skilled engineer will know how to make any recording medium sound optimized, a schmo will phone it it and either under or over use compression, to poor results in either case regardless of media.

For example, I own two different 1969 pressings of Led Zeppelin II, both from the same pressing plant, but made from different masters. One pressing was mastered by the mighty Robert Ludwig. It uses extensive compression and barely leaves any headroom. The sound is rich, full, and driving. It sounds great on medium to high-end turntables, but caused cheap ones to skip due to the bass excursions. After a week on the market Atlantic Records recalled it an replaced it with a version they remastered internally, which leaves plenty of headroom but sounds puny and pathetic in comparison. Guess which one collectors value today?

https://www.discogs.com/release/4699428-Led-Zeppelin-Led-Zep...

https://www.discogs.com/release/8753624-Led-Zeppelin-Led-Zep...

https://nowspinning.co.uk/led-zeppelin-robert-ludwig-the-str...

On the flip side, my original pressing of "Are You Experienced" is pretty terrible compared to the remastered pressing that was authorized by the Hendrix family in 2014, so choose modern over vintage on that one.
I worked at FAANG andhave burned out, and i know alot of friends who also have... with varying degree of severity.

I would say pretty frequent. I am not sure if the incidence of burn-out is higher for software engineer vs other profession. Anecdotally, both academia and entrepreneurship seems to also have a very high incidence of burn out.

My guess is that the mix of a highly competitive field, mixed with poorly defined evaluation metrics mixed with skewed(winner-take-most/all) reward system does create a lot performance anxiety and psychological pressure.

I have never worked at a smaller company, but i am not sure it's any better for the majority of people. You just get paid less for your troubles.

I don't think the size of the company truly matters. I think it's a proxy for one's position in the importance hierarchy within the companies. The higher one is, the higher one can command/shape its experience to include things like autonomic, interesting work, respect etc... etc... And those factor influence more the burn out situation
Not sure how it came to be that every article publishes this kids name, but I'm starting to find a tragic arc to this guy's life. Dead twitter account, no LinkedIn account, and apparently was booked for narcotics possession in 2016. All I found was an arrest record[1]. Maybe he was just on some bad meds and the police caught him before things got worse, maybe they made the whole thing up, but many citations from his Wikipedia page(!) 404 now, and I have my theories as to why.

[1]: https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/passaic/wayne/2016/03...
It depends.

Compared to miners, firefighters, lumberjacks and even health professionals we have it easy.

Compared to accountants and lawyers we do need to handle tough pressure that can lead to burnout.

It also depends a lot on the culture of both the company, the bosses and even the country. In places such as Latin America, Asia or most of 3rd World you're expected to give everything to the company, even your family time and health.

In North America and Europe this abuse has consequences.

The bottom line for me is that you need to be aware of it and find ways to avoid it.
What you say about plumbing is likely true for public bathrooms but it doesn't explain why home bidets aren't really a thing either. In a home it's unusual to NOT have hot water near a toilet (be it for a sink or shower).
Why this article was flagged?
Deadlifts are also famous for having a high injury rate. I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone who doesn’t have a base core strength and a coach of some sort to teach proper technique.

For things like walking and running the safety margins are much bigger. Then again maybe not, I had my sister who trained track in high school teach me technique before I started running more seriously.
> 4chan basically found an “echo” type debug command or something like that

That is certainly what Microsoft wanted people to think[0]:

> a coordinated attack by a subset of people exploited a vulnerability in Tay.

Realistically, though, Tay’s website was open about using tweets directed at it as part of its training set[1]:

> Data and conversations you provide to Tay are anonymized and may be retained for up to one year to help improve the service.

So all that this group did was tweet racist things at it, and it ended up in its training set. Microsoft hints at it in the earlier blog post:

> AI systems feed off of both positive and negative interactions with people. In that sense, the challenges are just as much social as they are technical.

There are technical solutions for this issue however; for instance, when creating ChatGPT, the OpenAI team designed ChatML[2] to distinguish assistant messages from user messages, so that it would send messages in the style of the assistant only, not in the style of the user. Along with RLHF, it allowed OpenAI to use ChatGPT messages as part of their training set.

[0]: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/25/learning-tays-in...

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20160323194709/https://tay.ai/

[2]: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/blob/main/articl...
If price of failure on a coin toss is less than the value of success, then flipping the coins as rapidly as possible is a winning strategy. (I've worked on failure after failure, but the occasional success has more than compensated for these).
You’re getting all the furries chiming in here.
I think burnout, to some extent, is the norm for most people working a 9-5(+).

I think most SWEs that don't get burnout either have an extreme passion for the work such that they don't mind thinking about it 24/7 or opt to go into lower pressure jobs. There are a lot of people finding ways to have lower pressure work at the FAANG level firms as well, although that is harder with the current market crunch for tech.

Many people are willing to grind it out for a couple decades, and some people working FAANG type jobs have been able to build generation wealth doing it, so that's a tradeoff they made.

I think you just have to go into it clearheaded about what you want, and avoiding getting sucked into situations where you're not optimizing properly for anything (i.e working 60 hr weeks for a mid-sized company that doesn't pay that well).
This article prompted me to look up ways to limit my laptop charging.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/406957/can-i-tell-...

Looks like there's a decent CLI tool for it, but being a Mac guy I'm of course going for the slick GUI app https://apphousekitchen.com. The developer came up with a really clever incentive for free-app users to upgrade to the Pro version: make the icons for the free version unbelievably ugly. (The design of the app itself is decent)
Thanks for proving the whole point of this thread (No snark meant). People are indeed recreating parts of OTP in other languages because there are all kinds of reasons to pick a different language than Erlang/Elixer and still want some of the advantages of those languages
> The appendix is a far more likely candidate for garbage collection as it has no obvious function

Preserving the gut microbiome through diarrhoea and vomiting.
Aegis should really be more well-known IMO. I installed it on an old phone that didn't have enough storage for Google Authenticator and was really pleased with the app. The fact that it's a community project is also a nice bonus.
I burnt out after 4 years at my first job. It was at a startup.

I have been working 5+ years at my current job at a much larger company and burnout is unlikely. I get paid better and have less responsibility.

I'm undecided if the burnout was caused by the job or my inexperience. It was probably both.
It’s not just cats. Stray dogs are also treated well in Istanbul. Surprisingly, the cats and dogs coexist in the same spaces without conflict.
evince recently added some features that I now find it hard to live without. The biggest is that if I mouseover an internal link in a pdf, it shows a little preview of where that link would take me - so if I'm reading a long document and the author says "by Theorem 3.3 it holds..." and if the pdf is recent enough for "Theorem 3.3" to be an internal link, then I can mouseover to remind myself of the statement of Theorem 3.3!
Thanks for the feedback!

1. I would love to get it to work all the way from a few translations in the target language to a full translation, with a sliding scale in between.
2. It's not connected to the book content. One idea I have is an optional quiz at the end of a session to reinforce new vocabulary/grammar seen.
3. I'll see if I can remove the animation when using the page ahead/back buttons on Android.
you can make a playlist with that album and out it on repeat?
You’re looking at the wrong poisonous transmissions, check the map that shows concentrations of misleading reporting and needless panic.
These situations always remind me of a quote from Clark Howard who was a radio host of personal finance shows.

"It's almost impossible to get scammed if you're not a greedy person"
I love these! yeah, my main thing right now is piecing it all together into a valuable service I can offer, and more importantly, understanding where people's heads are at and what they wish would exist within the field. very grateful for the ideas.
Wasn't LHC supposed to create the occasional microscopic black hole? What are the logistics on capturing one of those, keeping it fed, and making some definitive observations?
Why this type of Active DP > HDMI adapter without external power for 15€ does not suffice?

https://de.assmann.shop/en/Cables-and-Adapters/Video-Cables-...
Burnout can be as much about what you do outside of work as what happens during working hours.

In some cases it’s easy to identify a workplace as the cause of burnout: Companies that require 50-80 hour weeks, bosses who yell and scream regularly, psychologically manipulative situations, and environments where people are prevented from having control over their own outcomes are going to take a toll on anyone. Getting any new job is statistically likely to be an improvement.

But I talk to a lot of developers who say they’re burnt out but who go on to describe relatively comfortable working environments. Some people even manage to get “burned out” at every company they’ve ever worked for, regardless of what it’s like. For these people, I think blaming the job for burnout becomes a cover for different problems.

For some, it’s because they haven’t built much of a life outside of work. As we grow up it’s easy to fall into routine of going to work, going home, and repeating. Some people I talk to haven’t met up with friends for months. Others haven’t taken a vacation in years. Some people can’t name a hobby that doesn’t also involve sitting at computers at the end of the day (gaming is common). For people in this group, changing jobs does very little beyond the initial excitement of meeting new people. If you’re in this group you really need to start getting out and doing things, even if you don’t feel like it initially. Rebuilding a life outside of work can improve one’s stress resilience in the office tremendously.

I’ve also noticed a lot of developers describing classic depression symptoms but calling it burnout lately. Despite changing attitudes toward mental health, people are still resistant to admitting depression in themselves. I’ve had a few friends in recent years who self-diagnosed as being burned out and took time off of work or quit their jobs to recover. Then in the absence of daily routine and social engagement of work, their depression became even deeper. I think the overlap between depression and burnout symptoms has created an opening for people who dislike the idea of being depressed to blame their jobs for all of their problems, which can delay treatment for a long time. For people in this situation it’s best to explore all explanations and be open to the possibility that maybe there’s more going on.

A good heuristic might be to look around you. If many of the people at your company are unhappy, burned out, or turning over rapidly then it’s probably your job. On the other hand if you’re one of the few people who seems to be struggling or of you’ve felt “burned out” at every job since college, maybe there’s more going on that can’t be explained by work alone.

Finally: Different jobs fit different personality types. Some people get bored and drained by slow-moving companies. Other people have difficulty handling any pressure or unpredictability at work. What works for someone else may not necessarily work for you. Match your job to what suits you best.
Pueue dumps the state of the queue to the disk as JSON every time the state changes, so when you have a lot of queued jobs this results in considerable disk io. I actually changed it to compress the state file via zstd which helped quite a bit but then eventually just moved on to running NATS [1] locally.

[1] https://nats.io/
Since the road accident a few years back, paired with a coxarthrosis, I can't walk much as I used to, but found drumming practice to be very useful to keep in shape and have lots of fun without carrying high loads. I still carry on the stairs groceries, wood for the fireplace and sixpacks of 2lt water bottles, but that doesn't happen every day thankfully.
https://indieblog.page/ is one of my favourites too.
Probably the difference between necessary and sufficient.
Presumably as primates got bigger, tails were less useful (not strong enough to be prehensile appendages, and not as handy for balance if you climb methodically instead of carefree leaping).
Money gets created when people take out loans which creates debt which is then traded in the markets. That's not money flowing into the markets, that's just the markets doing their own internal bookkeeping (much like D&D uses HP for internal bookkeeping about character health).

If you want to convincingly argue that markets are positive sum you have to demonstrate that markets produce more than they consume in terms of something besides money. E.g. when some of the factory workers quit to go be day traders, the factory ends up producing more while consuming the same or less due to the positive effects of the investments enabled by the increased trading activity.

This might be the case in some cases, and it won't be the case in others, and I don't know how to sum it in aggregate. Presumably somebody does.

Whether it comes out positive or negative, asset prices are an implementation detail, not the thing we're measuring.
This is fascinating, but I’m left confused at the banality. Maybe it’s just the way the article was written, but truly, who cares that she can remember what was playing on Netflix three years ago? It does cause me to wonder if brains are attuned to certain things - like in this woman’s case, is she particularly interested in celebrities and that’s why all the examples given are out of the tabloid headlines? The article left me with a lot of questions.
There are two types of burnout in my experience. Super high demand short term and repetitive long term.

One or the other will get you
How about a third eye?

"The parietal eye is found in the tuatara, most lizards, frogs, salamanders, certain bony fish, sharks, and lampreys...It is absent in mammals, but was present in their closest extinct relatives, the therapsids"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietal_eye

You may wish to consult your pineal gland.
The red ones are not Jacarandas, but Royal Poinciana (aka Flamboyant). The species is Delonix regia, from Madagascar.
Straight from dr Dobbs - that felt just about right thanks.
I heard burnout is casued not (only?) by stress but about the feeling of little of no impact of our job.

I've been in high pace job before being cuite young and eager and I felt no burnout.

Currently being in a moderate paced one (still not a laid back one, we are well paid staff expected to perform), but I am burned out now due to the feeling it makes no difference. Why am I wasting my time here?
Plasma from Young Pigs Halves Old Rats' Epigenetic Age
Yeah, I know it is rats. It is mentioned in the title...

That said, this is the output of a very interesting experiment that ran through the Covid period. Katcher believes that they identified blood exosomes (called by the abbreviation E5) as an important factor in relative youthfulness of tissues and organs, and that this mechanism is fairly conserved in mammal species.

Interestingly, a wholy different lab, working in cardiology, confirmed last year (again, in rats), that exosomes from young animals heal old rats' hearts. [0]

Of course it is too early to say that exosomes are a fountain of youth for humans, but the results seem very interesting and the science behind them rigorous.

Katcher himself, who turns 80 this year, experimented with E5 in topical form on the back of his right hand. Left hand was left alone as a "control" of sorts. The difference is quite visible [1].

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10382547/

[1] https://youtu.be/2v1LOQGyA-E?t=189
TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks
that’s just spam
i relate to this kafka quote:

> When I tried to get out of bed today I simply collapsed. There’s a very simple reason for it, I am completely overworked. Not by the office but by my other work. The office plays an innocent part in it only insofar as, if I didn’t have to go there, I could live in peace for my work and wouldn’t have to spend those 6 hours a day there, which have so tormented me that you cannot imagine it, especially on Friday and Saturday, because I was full of my concerns. In the end as I am well aware this is only chatter, it’s my fault and the office has the clearest and most justified claims on me. But for me it is a horrible double life from which insanity is probably the only way out.
> I think hydrogen can be simply found in space, along the way. Not sure about the concentration of deuterium and tritium. I suspect once you get to 1% of c, you can find enough.

That's called a Bussard ramjet. Long story short:

> A 2021 study found that, while feasible in principle, the practical construction of a useful Bussard ramjet would be beyond even a civilization of Kardashev type II. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
I think the point is more the "deemed safe" list being completely domestic than the idea of whether said companies are the future of chips or not.
Google Play button on the site leads to a 404.
The greatest thing on this thread is how disappointed we all are for some bizarre reason lol. It would be cool to get them back for better balance.
I don't get the placement of some of the technologies on the chart on page 5. How is pulsed fission being beaten out by both thermal fission and chemical rockets in terms of acceleration, considering for all intents and purposes that's propulsion by nuclear detonation? And continuous fusion is all the way on the right despite being the basis of a torchship?? It all just seems so arbitrary
I'm curious how this relates to neurodivergent/ADHD/autistic learning where someone has weak rote-memorization skills and mainly remembers things as a fractal of associations.

For me, I can't remember that I have an appointment tomorrow, but if you ask me how computers work, I'll start with explaining electron orbitals and band gaps, doping, masking, VLSI, assembly language, C, functional programming and where AI is heading from first principles.

Unfortunately instead of being some kind of superpower, it's mainly been debilitating for me, because I've spent my career writing CRUD apps in an endless series of failed startups. Because most people don't think this way, and instead see only the use-case before them as a stepping stone to another goal, usually financial. It would be easier for me to design spaceships than manage my bills, but I seem to be relegated to doing chores for the rest of my life and dying penniless.
Great app that does the job! The kind I don't mind installing on my phone.

I use it for nextcloud, github and my microsoft account (it was really buried in the settings but it is possible to avoid using MS auth something app).
AVGN episode: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DyaF_gCKWsI&pp=ygUdYXZnbiBwbHVtY...
I was nearly the same, but eventually narrowed most of my issues down to poultry and wheat. Dairy causes some issues, but a lactose intolerance is pretty common among adults.