skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even what are healthy emotions is an interesting question. I’m 99% sure my anxiety is work / chronic stress driven largely. It might not be a rational emotion when I’m in my ACd office with snacks and every physical need satisfied.
Get the bucket ready, I have another anecdote.

Someone I know worked for a company that instituted wildly unpopular policies across their entire workplace, just to try and get three people to quit. They suffered massive attrition at every level of the org, this went on for something like 9 months, and in the end only one of their "targets" left voluntarily.

I cannot fathom how this was less expensive than just laying off those three with severance packages.
2014. the "real" site is down apparently.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/universal-typefa...
Not sure whether intentional or not, but I read that as "those people with ambitions have no backs to ride on".
Fun little fact about gcc's lib sizes (no libc): https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/gc...
Are they? Or is this a bias?

What do the experts say, and what data are they using to base their statements?
I was thinking only of the hardware - call it a feral human, as in raised by wolves - of course otherwise you get the "it takes a village" line.
It would take too long to explain all the details. Basically I started my postdoc after my PhD, and my boss was/still is completely absent and left me alone. For specific reasons pertaining to my psychological history as I uncovered in the therapy, this caused a very strong reaction in me of abandonment, and I found it impossible to continue to work. My boss refused to do anything to help me, he would not give me more help or attention. However, my contract is fixed at three years, I am not in my home country, I live in Germany with my wife who I brought here with me who has a "real job", and I get paid a lot. Therefore, I can just remain at home doing nothing (no one cares if I go in or not) and get paid, which also has not helped.

Of course, now I am going to abandon academia, which is very painful, since it is my entire life so far, but I clearly cannot make it work even though I have tried extensively. I need to be in work where you actually are a part of a team, getting feedback, talking to people. As my contract comes to an end I will be forced to look for a job, but of course I'm completely terrified because of the burnout: I've never had a "real job", and when I tried to do some programming work for my stepdad, even though it went well, I felt terrible when doing it and I felt burnt out with that too.

My strategy was of course to seek mental health services, since at the beginning of the burnout my mental health was much worse (suicidal ideation, depression, etc.) and I found my therapist. I won't go into detail about the therapy because it is a kind of psychotherapy that is common and supported by insurance in Europe but that is controversial in the US.

Of course, the therapy has helped hugely. I no longer have thoughts of suicide and I don't have depression anymore. However I am still terrified of work and am almost completely convinced I will have all the same feelings of apathy, disappointment, and lack of motivation when I try.

First step, I need to convince a company that I don't have these fears, and lie to them about my motivations, and hope they believe me.

EDIT: I can no longer reply to any more comments since /u/dang set harsh limits on my account
I’m still convinced that there is a distinct difference between companies founded as remote from the start and companies that switched to remote because of COVID or social trends.

The first group will almost never go office-first, whereas the second group will revert to its “original DNA” unless a deliberate culture change is made. It has to be a complete change in operational procedures, communication culture, etc. It’s much much more than simply using Slack and having Zoom calls instead of office meetings. If that doesn’t happen, the switch to remote won’t stick.

So if you like working remotely, pick a company that’s always been remote.
Curiously this ¹ is not the case in Norway.
Pretty much everyone returned ot work as they did before Covid.
A majority enjoyed getting back to work and back to the office.
Many do have more of an opportunity to work from if they need to.

In our bigger cities we have public transit that is popular.

A large percentage of people have to switch between different
routes to get all the way home.
And my commute is quickly more than an hour, between
ride time, waiting for the next ride.

Some are fortunate to live in immediate proximity to lets say a
subway station that has a line that takes them directly
to the office, that can be super efficient.

¹
"""This is playing out now in companies around the globe. And with neither side willing to give in, the fight will continue to bubble up this year and perhaps even next, leaving employees frustrated and on the hunt for new jobs — and companies in danger of undermining their best assets: their workers."""
When you’re pushing the amount of data Netflix is, you need to work directly with the ISP & Exchanges.

At least that’s my guess.
Maybe if BigTech was not as big, they would have less money and therefore they would pay more decent salaries.

It's very difficult for an individual to refuse a huge salary based on ethics. Especially for engineers, who did not go into engineering because they cared about ethics in the first place.
CEOs think all people (including devs) should be interchangeable. If they think you are not, they'd rather fire you and have you changed by a process (that has whatever X number of people) that are interchangeable.
Thanks for the feedback, i will take the best parts from it and better my life with it ;)
I found the article misleading. Microsoft has a 49% stake in OpenAI and exclusivity in using their models. They have also invested in Mistral AI, so they are not "outsourcing" their AI, as the article suggests.
Worker rights issue. You’re not a slave to management, and it shouldn’t be unilateral.

Like all things, it takes time for the zeitgeist to turn over as old folks die out and young folks enter the labor pool.
You have 2 important cities in Russia. Moscow and Piter. You bomb that and Russia's over.

There's more than that in Germany alone, and then you have 20 other countries in EU.

Russia is in an uniquely bad position to start a nuclear war.
Nokia CEO makes first 'immersive' phone call
Dual licenses, or triple licenses are common in some open source software. Maybe more rules should be presented to make the dual licensing more clear?
No, actually—shoplifting may have historically been primarily for personal use, and that may still be the primary cause by number of shoplifters, but organized gangs of shoplifters who steal large amounts of stuff to resell online are very much a thing [0] that's widely reported on [1] across many news outlets [2] and government groups [3].

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/organized-crime-rings-p...

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-04/eight-ar...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/business-health-government-and-po...

[3] https://www.chp.ca.gov/notify-chp/organized-retail-theft-pro...
I'm hoping eventually Framework will put out an ARM board for the Framework 13. That's when I'll get an ARM laptop.
Compilers are aware of pipelineing and aim to emit pipeline-friendly code for a particular target.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html - ctrl-f for "sched" and "reorder" (or indeed, "pipeline") and you'll see some examples.
This article reads as a rant about ROS (robot operating system) without mentioning ROS once. Which in their quest to make robotics simple; made json a programming language and made a massive ecosystem of abstracted complexity that breaks in undebuggable ways.
If it starts jumping around like a deer I’m sure they would at least investigate. They do have other senses too. Bears have been evolved to do a few things well over millions of years
So is your point that companies are put in a position where they _have_ to take advantage of government's use of force?

Elsevier could well come up with a business model that isn't purely based on extraction, rent-seeking and legal intimidation, but the problem is that governments possess legal resources that have good-faith use cases?
It’s a distinction with a significant difference: the MTA’s board has a unique fiduciary duty to the Authority that a state agency’s leadership does not have. As noted above, it is also not a “purely” state-level authority, unlike the type Moses was fond of creating (which is among the reasons he opposed merging NYCT into it).

Title IX of the NYS Constitution describes the general terms of home rule, including the rules that govern all counties, towns, and cities within the state. I can’t find an explicit reference anywhere to NYC or its countries anywhere within that title, so I don’t know which section you think implies “special powers.”
> it's collocating the idea of setup and cleanup together.

Okay, sure, but Rollback is the cleanup function. You always want to rollback – you only sometimes want to commit. I suppose this confirms that someone got their logic mixed up.
fire (as opposed to lay off) is something companies avoid - if you don't show good cause to fire someone they can sue you for wrongful dismissal. If a company has reason to fire you they will often tell you verbally to quit or they will fire you - quit meaning that you did it of your own will. If this ever happens to you consider carefully taking their offer - you can't quit, but when someone asks they will say you left in good standing which looks better than being told you were fired for cause (but of course you can't sue them anymore as you quit)

Layoff is what a company wants to do, but they need to do at least something to show the layoff was random. They can't just lay off one person who is bad, they need to get rid of a lot of people.
Not being a slave to management isn’t the same as getting to do whatever you want.

This should be obvious but current employment isn’t a guarantee of future employment (both employee and employer can’t guarantee the behavior/decisions of the other).

You can quit. The same as the company can’t force you to keep working there regardless of what they do.

You can try to do whatever you want. But that’s where you figure out if you’re valuable enough to get away with it.
I'm 8 years post nervous breakdown, it took me 5 years before I could even consider going back in to work, any kind of work.

You'll get there.
> but when it goes wrong it's usually catastrophic.

That depends on the type since not all nuclear power plants are the same design. Here in Canada the CANDU style is very safe in design and uses natural uranium fuel not plutonium. or even thorium.
The same thing does not happen in my local Walmart. The only things behind locked cabinets are expensive electronics.

I'm not sure what 5th Avenue you're talking about, but I'd be very surprised if crime in that neighborhood isn't much higher than crime in mine.
I agree with all of your comments.

I did not mean to imply that "promote" mean "was effective."

I believe, with low confidence, that ethanol's net positive for GHG production wasn't realized until the 1990s, due to an increase in corn yields from what was possible in the 1970s and the oil crisis.
If you don’t collect statistics, or provide bad service so people don’t bother calling even if you do collect statistics you’ll juice the numbers quite favorably.

For what it’s worth in my area “crime is down,” petty crimes like shoplifting and theft - but violent crimes involving guns are up (brandishing, shootings), but then murder itself is down.

So of course the headline is “crime is down” and when you bring up all the random idiots brandishing weapons in traffic or heroin addicts nodding off by the Starbucks you’re now magically a right wing idiot because of petty word games.

For what it’s worth it doesn’t matter if the metropolitan as a whole is statistically “good,” if my narrow slice is poorly managed it’s poorly managed and no overly broad statistical group changes on the ground lived reality.
Why would it not be? You can form "open-mindedness" from "open minded" the same you can form "yellowness" from "yellow" or "coldness" from "cold". It's a valid way to make a word from almost any adjective. Syntactically it's weird because unlike most other Germanic languages English likes to put spaces into compound words. But that hasn't stopped open-mindedness from catching on and getting mentioned in dictionaries.
Ask HN: Was Sun Microsystems the last respectable tech company?
I have fond memories of Sun, they made great hardware, gave us Java and open sourced a lot of stuff. Mainly I don't recall ever feeling the distrust that I have for the current crop. Was Sun the last decent tech company of our era?
Sorry, should have been more specific about location (thought it was implied from topic of discussion regarding EU Parliament).

But as it is now, that's not something that is happening in EU, as far as I know.
Some of the more recent projects turned out to have a tendency to go on fire.

As for USA, I have no idea how well it works out, as USA seems to have wildly different market setup than EU. My usual sources show under 1% for California.
But is she honest about how long it takes to saute an onion?
A write is not guaranteed to be written if close fails. You almost certainly want to do something with the error state to ensure that the data gets safely stored in that case.

If you are only reading, then sure, who cares?
Devin June '24 Product Update
In my experience, junior, extremely motivated people, who are often the ones doing the impactful work, can thrive and learn in any environments.

The structures and shackles are for the mid employees.
"Companies that think they’ve won the battle" What kind of garbage attitude is that? are you at war with your employer?
Pre-covid, the real estate conspiracy was that management was pushing for smaller and more crowded open offices so that they would spend less.
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy".

There is a bit of a problem with the Internet tending to amplify negative views, giving you the impression that everyone is unhappy - no, it's just that all the unhappy people are on the Internet all the time.
I'll let you interrogate the data. But the link is pretty clear and obvious to most https://academic.oup.com/epirev/article/42/1/103/5917211
You and I know that, but I see no evidence that any management anywhere does. Thus there is the real possibility we are wrong.

It isn't good if you are a senior engineer who doesn't want to go into management - you have no career path to advance.
I think they're still considered a "business partner" and subject to HIPAA iirc.
Chrome Built-In AI Test Page
Webex by Cisco: Vulnerability enables metadata leakage
Public transit in Oslo has only recently reached per-pandemic levels. I don't know what the overall numbers are, but I know that some employers have mandated return to office (at least 3 days a week). My employer has not mandated that people be in a specific number of days a week and has instead chosen to reduce the office space they're renting. Unfortunately this means the days that many people need to be in the office can be pretty horrible due to there not being enough desks for everyone.
Does the first letter of one's name affect life decisions?
If you want to go one step further get an induction stovetop. One of the praises for those would be that many better ones have temperature sensors.
It is rarely advertised but if you get one with "auto" cooking it has a sensor which will turn down to your desired setting when boiling.
That class of device would then often have a "keep warm" function. Those are typically set around 70 C.
On mine i can choose heat levels I, II and III besides the regular adjustment. III I can set and forget for a simmer. Somewhere deep down in the manual I think it said 80-90 C. I can only find a later version of the manual online which only have a "keep warm".

Just to say that you can get nice things for your home without going the route of the Breville Control Freak.

In practice I often find it easier to use the oven.

For other who is new to proper simmering/braising have a look at:
https://www.ricardocuisine.com/en/articles/food-chemistry/64...
> Nobody is stealing socks for meth money, they're stealing because their feet are cold and they don't have the money to pay.

Or, they might be stealing these items to resell. This is the case in NYC.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/08/organized-theft-ring-that-ta...
All these have been mentioned but I can't live without them:

- Rectangle
- Hazel
- iStat Menus
- Homebrew
- iTerm2

Some others:

- One Thing, puts a single task/note/etc. in your menu bar
- Übersicht, desktop widgets (uses React)
- Be Focused Pro, make using the Pomodoro method a breeze
- Informant, shows a selected file's size without using Get Info
Heliograph?
It's part of "hostile environment" tactic to force reduction in headcount without appearing to be firing anyone.

That it results in more experienced people leaving is just a bonus to the all-governing excel chart that gives orders to the CEO.
I (in Oslo, Norway), like going to the office most days. Maybe 1-2 days at home during the week now. It's a nice bike ride, which is the main reason for going, heh. And it's nice to just be a part of things. But since I go often, I don't feel I miss out on the days I don't.

Also, I do it in a sense so that I can then go live/work in a cabin for long stretches during the winter, without people really "noticing" my absence as they think of me as someone mostly in the office. I did about 10 weeks of this this winter, skiing during the middle of the day when the sun was up etc., was great.

So I like the flexibility, and WFH is important for me in the job I choose, but I don't mind going to the office when I don't need to be home. I feel I get the best of both worlds this way, the connections of being in the office, but also the freedom of being remote. It's easier to work remote when you know the people well, which again is easier to do in the office.
> But isn't this an opportunity to have a "pre-test

We call these screening tests.

> doctor can say "ok, you had this result from an unverified lab, let's do a more thorough test and see what we find"

The more likely scenario is that this is the 10th patient this week presenting for suspected cancer based on an at home administration kit with a low specificity (under ideal conditions), and it turns out it's not. Conducting such tests indiscriminately (voluntary and self administered) is going to waste a ton of doctor time that we don't have.

> The public need to be educated that these tests are a lower cost "pre-test"

Anything that requires education of the public about anything is unfortunately a losing battle.

> we are given an FIT test for colon cancer when we turn 50. This test is 79% accurate. This is a simple at home test, no doctors involved

This can work with a structured protocol. The problem is that at least in the US, we will have direct to consumer labs chasing next quarter's revenue numbers, so everyone will be shown commercials and be grabbing them off of shelves to avoid seeing expensive doctors that they don't trust. It's a recipe for a lot of unnecessary anxiety and time wasted.
Language-Agnostic Hiring: A Game-Changer for 2023 Tech Recruitment – Workfall
>cannot thrive and learn from experienced people in WFH environments.

Because?
Previous discussion on the substack version of the article (114 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39707356
Can you link these studies? I often feel like people greatly misrepresent what these studies find. Anecdotally, we've been happy to cut remote senior engineers and bring in local people, sometimes at a significantly higher total comp, just because they play such an important role in coordination, which is far more important than their trivia knowledge about our system.
only if you constrain yourself to "violent claim reported to and investigated by police"

I've received more harrassment on busses and trains that I've had car incidents, and I've spent much more time in car compared to public transit.
I rather meant to teach them stuff... It's not for everybody, but a substantial part of engineers, I would think, really enjoy teaching and passing on their experience and know-how. That's not only limited to engineers, of course.
This is awesome! How are you handling the addition of subdomains?
As far as I know, installing unsigned extensions is also possible in ESR builds, in Firefox from Linux distributions, in Unbranded Builds from Mozilla (but I'm not sure if they keep older versions). In forks and in your own Firefox builds (from source).
I'm a VC-backed founder who's definitely burned out. I know for certain what caused it, and I know for certain when it became unrecoverable, and I know for certain that I charged ahead deeper into it anyway because I had little other choice at the time. There's also a very strong sort of sunk-cost/devil-you-know thing with burnout that sucks you down the rabbit hole.

You simultaneously feel like you're too burned out to be able to do some entirely new thing, if you can even muster the energy to engage in the switching process (e.g. job hunting, etc.), and the familiarity of the thing that's burning you out brings its own kind of perverse comfort.

However, now that I've been deeeeeep in it for a couple years (still doing the thing that's burning me the whole time and even now) I've developed an appreciation for what it probably really is... existential malaise. That's a really useful thing to experience. Because it can be used to redefine a superficial value system you've adopted, to get to this point of dread in the first place, toward things you do actually find personally fulfilling for their own sake. Sometimes in dramatic fashion.
Maybe the RTO job they switch to is a better match with their location. Some people accepted a job assuming or being told it was permanently WFH.

From 2007 through 2010 I worked in an office in a job I didn’t particularly like and repeatedly turned away recruiters from Google. In 2010 I joined Oracle (Solaris org) remotely. As the Solaris org wound down, I continued to turn away the google recruiters with positions that would have required a move. Since leaving Oracle I’ve held two other remote jobs. If any of those remote jobs would have required me to move within commuting distance of an engineering office, I would have left.
It’s the opposite for me. I keep finding dumb bugs in Chromium, when it comes to correct website rendering and event handling (always regressions). Safari and Firefox on the other hand never have those issues.

The only problem is: Safari has piss-poor ad blockers. Firefox blocks custom system-wide keyboard shortcuts (on Mac).