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Try and shift sideways. Ask to work in a different team with different languages, maybe devops or administration. Sometimes a change is as good as a holiday.

Your brain should not be getting foggier at 33. That is not old.

Stress and poor sleep is a toxic combination. Solving them should be a priority. Maybe quit caffeine, alcohol or any other lifestyle factors that might be involved.

Do you get RSI from using a mouse? Try swapping hands...being uncoordinated with your other hand is a good thing as you will use a different set of muscles in your shoulder/upper arm to compensate that gives mercy to your wrist and forearm.

Do you listen to music while you work? Sometimes that helps me focus, or at least stops surrounding distractions.

And I would suggest taking a long holiday where you don't see a computer for at month or two, although with a family that might be difficult/impossible.
Newly unearthed pterosaurs were found in Jordan in 2005 and 2008
WeChat of anything not China would be a better way of putting it. One of their biggest consumer bases is India and there it may actually manage to become like WeChat.
I would assume because their VM/bytecode version is very fast at rendering updates and smaller in size than a "represent the bytecode as JS" version.
I wish the reporter had clarified why Rational Vaccines pursued this unconventional approach.

The sentence below seems to imply that this was all they could afford:

After he failed to secure federal funding and an [institutional review board], Halford moved ahead with the trial offshore.

But with Peter Thiel as an investor, I assume that money (within reason) wasn't the primary motivator.

In general, I'm dismayed by the breathless, sensationalistic tone of this article. The people involved don't seem stupid or malevolent, so I'd like to understand better their rationale for what they're doing.
> Other research has revealed that the brains of people with panic disorders produce elevated levels of lactate—an acidic source of fuel that is constantly produced and consumed in the energy-hungry brain.

For me, this further confirms that metabolic problems are causally-associated with 'mental disorders'.

Lactic acidosis is a medical condition characterized by
the buildup of lactate (especially L-lactate) in the body,
which results in an excessively low pH. It is a subtype of
metabolic acidosis, where excessive acid is due to a
problem with the body's metabolism.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactic_acidosis

I used the courts to get the mental health system to reduce the harm they were perpetrating upon my friend, who they thought had a 'persistent mental disorder'. Really she was just self-medicating depression with the street pharmacy. (Cocaine and the amphetamines are not very good for people's mitochondria/metabolism, which is why they're illegal.)

In response to my bullying, the treatment provider did a genetic test, and decided that she needed Folate (Vitamin B-9), as she can't convert folic acid like most people. She's doing much better on the reduced dosages of tranquilizers ('anti-psychotics')/etc.
Out of curiosity, why not the idea of:

* pick number of frames (say, 24)

* for each pixel, (pseudo)randomly pick which frame it turns red on (0-23), gathering them into a list for that frame (0 -> [1, 1024, 1048576],...)

* paint the list for each frame in order

Still has the property that each pixel is drawn only once. Also has the property that you're guaranteed to terminate in a fixed amount of frames. Also works for any resolution.

Is it because there'll be a short pause as you calculate everything? (probably unnoticeable now, but noticeable then)
Or is it because you essentially need to hold the whole thing in memory until the end?

It's probably the latter, I suppose, that's the problem, since if you have k pixels, you need log k bits to address each pixel so you need k log k memory. That's a whopping 15 million bits (2 megs about) for this op alone on a 1024x768. Okay, then.
I very strongly second the suggestion of exercise.

Exercise (especially bodyweight exercise, which you can do pretty much anywhere, without any equipment) can be a sort of free, always available destress button. Whenever I get really stressed these days, I have the option of just putting a lot of the wound-up, stressed-out energy in to some exercise (like pushups) and it's amazingly effective.

I've never really realized until recently just how much of this mental stress I've been experiencing my whole life was so intimately connected with my body and how much physical things such as diet and exercise can affect it.
tl;dr: He has to start taking better care of himself. There are a lot of things you can get away with when you're 23 that you can't get away with when you're 33.

As you noted, sleep is the biggest thing. It will help with the stress and memory.
Yeah it's a bit sad not to be able to push long nights of code, because getting out of sync becomes a big no.
Maybe relevant: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=208
New website for Movies for Hackers
Saying (of business) that "connections only get you part of the way" is like saying of getting into orbit that "rocket fuel only gets you part of the way". It is technically true, and a massive understatement.
I never get sweaty when I ride, unless I'd get sweaty walking in the same conditions. It's not a race for me. No need for showers, stretchy clothes, etc.

Not sure about the safety. The fall to the ground isn't what gets you as a vulnerable road user: it's the car.
I don't think you are too old yet. However, if your day job is mentally draining, then it would be more effective to do mentally relaxing things in the evening - whether sport or some game or some easy repetitive craft.

Then focus on making your job situation more bearable. If you are developer, focus on making it possible to learn on the job, a bit by bit, until it is pleasure again. If you are burned out as you sound, then your issue has more to do with that then with tech or age.
Why does the Dealer even think they own the immobilizer? The guy bought the car, he owns what ever is in it or on it, including the immobilizer.
This is something I have been personally pushing the Google AR team on for at least a year and well before ARKit came out. I'm glad to see that ARKit made them actually move on this.

Google had been dead set on pushing Tango hardware to OEMs in the hopes that they would be able to lower BOM on the hardware. Everyone in who has been in AR long enough knew that wasn't going to happen and that monocular SLAM in software was the way forward on mobile.

The key thing now for AR devs is that they will have fairly comparable monoSLAM capabilities available on both Android and iOS for their apps.

HOWEVER that just means that the tracking portion of the equation is solved for developers. A few years ago it was possible to make a cross platform monoSLAM app if you used a handful of tools like Kudan or Metaio. Obviously ARKit and ARCore are going to be more robust with better longevity, however the failure of uptake of AR apps was not because of poor tracking, it was because there is an inherent lack of stickiness with AR use cases on mobile. That is, they are good for short infrequent interactions, but rarely will you need to use the SLAM capabilities of an AR app everyday or even multiple times a week.

This is why I am so invested in WebAR, because you can deploy an AR capability outside of a native app and the infrequent use means it can have longevity and a wider variety of users.

Yes, for those apps that people use all the time it will be very valuable, but if you look at the daily driver apps like FB, IG, Snap etc... they are already building the AR ecosystems into their own SLAM. All this does is lower overhead for them. For the average developer it doesn't solve the biggest problems in AR.

Kudos to Google, but developers need to really understand the AR use cases, implementations and UX if they want to use these to good effect.
Peter Thiel backs offshore human testing of experimental herpes vaccine
Facebook is a glorified address book. Messenger is a convenient way to get in touch with friends from outside the United States, because we aren't always on Skype and regular cell/SMS costs money.

But nowadays Messenger is more of a way to start by saying "let's Skype"
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Type Classes in Scala
I suppose thats what the MacBook Pro with out Touchbar is supposed to be, but I think a 12" MacBook with a few more ports (honesty at least 2 USB C) would be a closer replacement.
I'm not sure who the target audience of this is:

- It doesn't explain much so it's not great for learning

- It's not rigorous enough to be useful as an academic simulator

Although I don't seem to have the same performance issues as other people here.

Edit: Never mind. I didn't want to enter my email so I pressed "Skip" which apparently also skips the "demo" part and kicks you into the simulator to play around. You can press next on the first screen without an email
China's Central Bank Visits US for Blockchain Research Trip
I'm sure a lot of bitcoin wallets are permanently dormant/inaccessible due to lost keys, lost hardware, etc. Hacked coins also tend to stay unused. Although there are 16 million coins in circulation, a good chunk of those will probably never be sold ever.
another bullish case.
Thanks for your reply.

That's a real shame - I am sure I could segregate the different devices by making multiple accounts under the "groups" system, but that gets a bit messy!

I'd love to see this happen! Even if it was just a list of the API functions from the docs with a checkbox against each, hidden behind a "danger" screen, it would make me feel more confident using this! Even if it wasn't granular per-bucket, it would make it a little safer when leaving credentials in cronjobs or bash scripts.
I'm paying for GitHub (lowest level) but use Gitlab a lot more these days.

I like GitHub's UI a lot more, but the University I work at uses Gitlab CE, so I've gotten used to it. Their permissions setup is particularly frustrating for me, on .com. I want a single option to make a repo completely public and there isn't one.

Gitlab's CI service is fantastic, and the reason I've jumped on board, since now I host all my sites on it, after moving to Hugo and Jekyll.

However, GitHub seems to have better uptime.

I don't think you can go wrong either way, and you may not even need to pay given what Gitlab gives away for free.
What... this title is ridiculous.

You fail, that's why you pivot.

Hence the saying.

"Fail fast and pivot"

Pivoting just means you've taken some industry knowledge from your failed attempt at a product, and you are applying it to a new product or market fit by pivoting on your original idea. (at least in the context of start-ups / product development)

There's no pivoting without failure.

Also:

> Trump’s innovation is to have mined a deeper vein of cynicism, exhausting the weary tropes of polite political discourse. He is the ultimate pivoter, aimlessly following his own impulses as his administration is mired in daily absurdities.

WTF? Trump is the ultimate pivoter? Are you serious? This article is just ridiculous.

Someone needs to learn the definition of pivot.
That's interesting. Regarding HW vs SW, I think the exact opposite.

I always thought Kinect Tango and other HW-dependent solutions were a fad, and SW-only on ubiquitous cheap sensors is the right solution. SW keeps getting cheaper, faster than HW does.

I predict that, even if Apple (re)starts the custom-HW fad, within 10 years we'll see devices with good-enough camera-plus-SW AR outnumber specalized-HW AR devices by at least 10:1, and it'll only get more extreme over time.

(Mind you, that prediction requires that we continue to get performance-per-watt-per-dollar improving; i.e. it assumes that Moore's law finds a way to outlive current processor fabrication technologies.)

> If AR is to be useful, it's got to be a lot better at tracking and drift, at making sense of the world, of supporting occlusion and mapping.

That's for sure.
Neither are scooters, if bikes aren't.

I'll grant you the second point, for sure. You could always do a folding bike, but that's a whole new set of issues.
Also if it's their item and not part of the car that he paid for, he should assess a storage fee and a power usage fee for the device.
In the bitcointalk forums they have a special name for these sort of coins... 'pre-mined shitcoins'

The whole PoS swap makes that even more apparent in Ether's case. I mean hell they hardforked because some rich friends on the dev team got 'hacked' by a poorly written smart contract.
The closest thing to that would be the 12" MacBook. I really think Apple needs to put the MacBook Air line out to pasture. They haven't updated it in a couple years and it was honestly never that great to begin with.

They should just focus on the MacBook and the MacBook Pro. With the new 13" MacBook Pros, the weight and footprint is getting ever closer to the MacBook Air, so that's also an option.
Chinese regulators release draft legislation to rein in ICOs
> I don't believe wearable computing will ever really catch on, but I'm old fustian.)

I used to think the same, but it seems to me that phones are the first step. A huge number of people have a mini computer on their persons all day. It's only a matter of time before it becomes even more integrated.

Will be interesting to see, but I doubt the current form factors will win. Smart watches seem so... not it.
The original libertarians were actually far left. There is a large portion of the left that hates the State as much as American "Libertarians" do, but from a different perspective (which I believe is far more consistent). It seems to surprise a lot of Americans to learn that you can be socialist and libertarian at the same time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
If he is working 80 hours a week, it is not familly that is too demanding. I mean, they tolerate him not being there ever. (Through I don't think it is the case, he referred to job as 9-5. It might also be that his wife works as much as him, so the "I am putting food on table while you do nothing" argument won't work. ).

It is more likely that there is either someone sick, they have conflicts, have hard time to keep everything together or something of the sort.
Inspired by One and Twenty,[1] by A. E. Houseman.[2]

[1] - https://mywordinyourear.com/2017/02/28/when-i-was-one-and-tw...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_E_Houseman
Tools that make me fast and productive on a computer
Some context makes it even funnier. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Colored_Coins
Article mentions that the Mac Pro is now called the iMac pro... I hope not. I hope the iMac pro is just that, a pro version of the iMac, and that a new Mac Pro comes out as well. I have an original (now 11 year old) Mac Pro 1.1, and it still works. Upgraded the original dual dual cores to dual quads, upgraded memory, added ssd and all still works. I don’t use it as often as I did, once, but I can. And with some hacking, it even runs latest OS X... having it in an iMac format means that if the screen goes, your kind of screwed. And if you want higher res for the main screen.. we’ll your still screwed... I just hope the Mac Pro lives on...
Not the sexiest for sure as the article describes it, but its one of the best value little workhorses from Apple who seem to like to Nickle and Dime you these days with Apple accouterments. Great solid build on the older ones at least.
A Houston family taking refuge on a roof watched as bodies floated by
That is awesome to hear that there is a self-hosted version. I was reading through your docs hoping to find something like that. Is there somewhere on your site that I missed which gives more details about this?
Illumos is not "Oracle Solaris" though. It seems clear to me that the statement was about the commercial product, which while it's not going away, is clearly on a path to join AIX and HP-UX as fundamentally legacy products sold into shrinking markets.

As for illumos itself, meh. It's way behind even OpenBSD in adoption. Free software doesn't ever die, but I wouldn't expect it to carry much in the way of a Solaris torch.
Hey, I did some of that too. Had my own little dark room and everything.

Working with film was, um, exciting? Not sure if that's the right word. Anyway, mistakes were final. I remember deliberating on the settings for a really long time before pushing the button.
Does this kill the share on highlight crap? If so, you have another install.
My home directory is encrypted then anyway.
Yes, exactly, because we have to maintain this glowing facade that we're just crushing it all the time instead of acknowledging the everyday struggle or even gasp failure.

I don't pick my friends based on their successful startup ventures, or if they're some 100x "rockstar" dev. Some of my best friends from high school are still finding their way in life in their 30s, and I for one don't give a sh*t how many times they have to "pivot" before they get to where they want to be.
Same here ... Macbook Air desperately needs a better screen. I reluctantly bought one recently just for the quality and reliability. Perhaps Apple is concerned that it would cut into their MacBook Pro sales too much.
Hi,

I don't know how you feel to open about this on HN; I find it courageous.

I had similar issues, unresolved as of now so thank you for the ability to read others suggestions.

A few things I've experienced: some contexts are more draining to me than others. I tolerate long imperative pages a lot less, while I can enjoy a whiteboard with a math problem. Same goes for abstractions in programming. I do believe with age we're less willing to run mentally but we can think higher (which if done well, avoids previously mentionned running).

Lastly, how do you feel at this job ? do you trust management to be willing to listen and solve some issues in order for you to work healthily ? Some times the simple idea of "not being able to" criples me, especially when I don't have a good relationship with the superiors. Adding burden over burden.

Good luck
This looks like a clear case of regulatory arbitrage. It would be great if FDA would just help test subjects decide what to do with their life by giving them more data about the risks of the experiments.
As long as you still have cash floating around
>There are two different legal regimes at play: property law and contract law. You can put whatever you want in a contract, and if the buyer breaches the contract you can sue them for breach.

Are you saying if you signed a contract with a clause that read something like "If you owe us money we can shut off your car after 90 days" it would be illegal for them to actually do it? That seems odd to me.
You are disagreeing, with this insistence that they should just take the hard slog through the ultra opaque academic paper, when a friendlier one can provide can communicate the critical parts of the model and the dynamics that drive the result.

You're disagreeing that the dynamics communicated by the intermediate paper can accomplish any relevant (thing that can be called) understanding because it's not "the fundamentals". In contrast, I insist that there are "blurrier" models that communicate something substantive without going all the way to the academic model.
Here's what atan looks like in openlibm: https://github.com/JuliaLang/openlibm/blob/1581174c85f7b645b... It's a degree-4 polynomial, with on division in the reduction atan2->atan, and at most one division in the argument reduction step in atan, giving an pretty accurate answer. By comparison, in [3] there is a degree-3 polynomial and the thing doesn't work outside [-1,1]. There is some kind of a tradeoff between accuracy and performance, but most of the time it's not worth it. Maybe if division is ludicrously expensive or something unusual like that. I suspect most performance gains that people are looking for come from omitting proper handling of special cases.
NYPD needs to replace 36K useless smartphones
I bet the russia part is to avoid US taxation policies on crypto, which, if i'm not mistaken, would make BK liable for paying taxes on "income" for the dollar-value of their own coins "created" at the time of pre-mine, or require them to know the financial details of someone using them to buy a whopper in NY due to bitlicense anti-laundering laws.

corporations have been doing equivalent gift card/promo "pseudo-currency" stuff for a long time, and a bad court decision over this could upend that entire practice.

maybe this is a harbinger of the US being left behind in an economic paradigm shift.
Having seen most of those proposed in one form or another in the past my response is about the same.

Can't see any of them being worth putting a headset on.

Can't see any of them being worth launching an app on a phone to stare through a camera at.

Some of them need some pretty next level ai.
There's a difference between defeatism and and realism.

A demanding family life can't really change in a way that's any less than serious and far-reaching; any recommendation in this department is hugely personal and runs deep.

A stressful working environment is something that can be fixed, but requires negotiating more accommodating conditions; this is neither quick nor reliable in many cases. In an extreme case, the OP could look for a place of work that has a more fitting pace/culture, but this is an entirely non-trivial change.

RSI is a medical circumstance that no wishful thinking can change (short of best practice to avoid it). The same goes for aging and passage of time.

Can the OP make these entirely non-trivial, life-changing decisions and achieve a significant improvement? Of course, and I'd encourage him to do so, but that's personal beyond what many of us are able to help him with. Can the OP treat the symptoms of a lifestyle/occupation that puts him under extreme stress? Sure, but that's not actually fixing the underlying issue, and patchwork solutions may not hold.

Of the underlying causes he mentioned, there's one he can address without having to go all in; keeping up the best he can with his field of work and how it is changing. Everything about web development has changed, and it's entirely understandable that he feels out of his element when his job has become absurdly complex almost overnight. That type of environment can make you feel like a dullard, a slow learner, or even an imposter who is holding a position under a false pretense. The way to beat that feeling is to prove to yourself that it isn't true.
China supplies oil to NK. If you want them to stop, cut the oil.
...including this article, which pivots from Cernovich to Silicon Valley to politics and Trump.

A far more interesting discussion would have been about the rampant neurosis of above-average (nationally speaking) educated young people in tech that rate themselves as being better than they actually are, leading to a deathly fear of failure and accountability (leading to "pivoting"), perhaps (IMO) coming from the psychological reluctance to take a good hard look in the mirror and admit that they are not as good/better than others as they think they are.
I start with MongoDB on every single one of my side projects because it’s so easy to get started.

No setting up permission or schema.

Just works.
They're doing it because they can. The FDA wouldn't allow it in the USA, so they're infecting people for science in a place where there are fewer protections afforded the citizenry.

From an academic standpoint this is ethically questionable. From a purely moral standpoint this is disgusting.
The Russian Finance Ministry says Bitcoin resembles a pyramid scheme
Make Self-Care Your Competitive Advantage
"At its core is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer)".

So I guess "wrap cygwin" isn't quite accurate, but it's based on the cygwin and extended.