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Ask HN: How to Not Be Indifferent
Hi HN!

I have been working as a developer for 3 years or so, and now I am completely indifferent about all I do.

I procrastinate, like many others, but I have don't find any reason doing anything about it.

This also goes further than just work. I don't see any reason to exercise, I don't see any reason to date or to make myself at home where I live.

The thing is that I am not feeling burned out per se. I can still spend good time with friends, travel, do stuff, etc. I just feel that I am increasingly becoming a shell of myself and loosing my energetic, curious motivated self that I used to have.

I have plenty of offers for different jobs and I can basically have my workday as I fancy. But I don't feel any excitement.

I don't feel that I develop, I feel that I degenerate.

I have just decided to prioritise some months of revitalization this year. Where I cut all my ties with work related stuff to see if I can regain some of my old self. I am also seeing a therapist.

Have any of you experiences in this direction? What did you do?
"this simplicity is offensive but it is also why most people with technical backgrounds get destroyed by the market"

Figuring out things nobody else can is the hard way to achieve. Figuring out what you don't know and never betting on it is an alternative way that doesn't require being a genius.
To put in perspective that's like paying 10k per FB employee of fine in a single year.
I don't so much care about being seen as a noob. If I don't know something I'm fine with asking. What I hate is when one of the junior devs asks me something and I don't have an answer for them. I don't know everything about our product so often the best I can do is show them how I would find out the answer.
the usual guilty until proven innocent..
It's what Jabber used to do back in the day at the least.
Japanese on 恩 describes obligation (not necessarily with the negative connotation of the English word). Obligation to one's lord, to the emperor, one's parents, etc.
I recommend Chrysanthemum and the sword by Ruth Benedict for a more detailed understanding of this very important, albeit fading, part of Japanese culture.
Making the receiving parties intent in covering losses can help a lot during discovery. Dragging "innocents" into it might just get us to a system that makes it hard for extortionists. And that system might not look like the Bitcoin we know.

You can argue that we should suffer the extortionists for other benefits we get out of Bitcoin. I'm not convinced at this point.
Yes, I am 100% certain.

Insulins are biologic medicines, so once patents expire you might get biosimilar drugs which also require FDA approval, not generics as with other drugs. Admelog is the biosimilar for Humalog, approved by the FDA in early 2018.

As I understand it, Sanofi (Admelog's manufacturer) sets the price to be only slightly below that of Humalog.

Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi manufacture substantially all of the insulin, and they more or less follow each other price-wise. There's not the competition you would expect that would drive down prices.

EDIT: they compete by offering varying discounts to particular insurance companies to only cover their insulin at the exclusion of the other company's insulins. This often leads to a letter to patients near the end of the year telling them that the insurance company has decided that their treatment plan has now changed, decisions of their doctor be damned. (Yes, you can appeal and what-not, but it's still fundamentally the insurance company's decision, not your doctor.) This, of course, also screws anyone without insurance who is expected to pay list price.
I bought Ashok Nadkarni's TCL book recently and TCL has a lot going on in a very small amount of code. It is seriously underrated!
One of my clients discovered some things were going missing from their dev's desks. They installed a camera and on the very first night they discovered one of the cleaning staff rummaging through the desks, which instantly raised the threat level from "petty theft" to damn near espionage. They were clever enough that even in the video it was hard to tell what actions were cleaning, and what actions were searching for things to pilfer.

Of course that person got fired. My client subsequently enacted the same type of policy you are asking about. The staff there know exactly what happened, so there is very good incentive to simply follow the policy - nothing that isn't outright owned by the company stays within the company after hours, and everything that is owned by the company has strict handling procedures.

Security happens in layers. If you leave an opening, someone will eventually exploit it.
What I like about ext4 and xfs is that they are relatively simple and have a clearly defined set of capabilities that anyone can understand (within reason). They are not volume managers or anything else fancy (I have LVM/md etc for that). However, if I do have a machine that is not housed on a hypervisor with a SAN or other decent RAID then I still go for simple.

I do use zfs in preference to ufs on my pfSense boxes running non RAID on mSATA type storage but that is not a scientific choice but based on some quite iffy hearsay.

I have my opinion and you have yours. When it comes to filesystems then I want simple (and good backups.) Fast is nice but reliable is better. If I want faster I buy a bigger RAID controller or whatever.
If you think LVM snapshots are an adequate replacement for ZFS snapshots, I can only assume you've not used either in anger.
I suspect that any cute statue right outside of a major transit station would quickly become a de facto meeting point...
Ironically, the outdoors areas are more crowded than ever.

Just moved from Denver to Austin and I totally understand why... It sucks outside in most places.
No single meta-brain, but I could see Tesla offering internet access inside your car instead of current LTE/ 5G solutions.
> The problem is that if the stolen coin gets traded before exchanges can freeze them you wind up with a lot of innocent people holding those coins and it's not practical to freeze those later.

Isn't this fundamentally _not_ how it works in the traditional financial world? If you are paid in ill-gotten money it can certainly be clawed back no matter how innocent you are.
I upgraded from an ER-X to an ER-4 because the X can’t do full 1000 Mbit with PPPoE fiber without hardware offload. With hardware offload turned on there’s a bug in the hardware that causes some sites, most notably Netflix, to not route at all.

The ER-4 has been great with the Cavium hardware. No hardware offload issues like this.

Edit: The ER-X tops out around 500 Mbit with hardware offload turned off.
Did you ever heard of WeChat?
The Facebook quivalent of China, which is on its own an operating system serving many miniapps. What's interesting about it it lets other apps access qr scanning and the WeChat wallet for payment.
why? there's nothing inherent about owning a house that protects you from having all your surplus income siphoned away. if most of your wealth is tied up in the house, you are still vulnerable to property tax increases from appreciation on the home. not every state shields you from this to the extent that california does, and even california could change the law at some point in the next several decades.

I'd much rather be renting and have $300k in a diversified portfolio than own a $300k house and no other assets.
The reason is fairly obvious. In most of the places (SF, NY etc.) where housing is expensive, it is illegal (or very difficult to get approval) to build new housing.
Your move, Clearview AI.

They’ve been sued in IL as well under the same auspices, and Clearview’s defense that they aren’t a private entity because they "only" do business with public entities (e.g., law enforcement) is definitely not going to fly here. This settlement establishes how seriously the state of Illinois is taking non-consensual biometric information gathering, especially facial recognition.
I think there's some issues in the config. First of all, at least one of the CIDRs is wrong ("Address = 10.200.200.2/24"). Also by setting AllowedIPs to to 10.200.200.0/24 in the client, only traffic to that subnet will actually go through the VPN, not all traffic.

Isn't there also some missing host/RPI system so that the 10.200.200.0/24 can route to the public internet?

If someone has an example of a full VPN configuration I'd love to see them so I can try it out.
Most of America is drive to work, drive to the store to buy things, and drive home.
New Nonvolatile Memories Shrink Circuits That Search Fast
Industrial sensing equipment, airliners, high-frequency traders could all be some of the 'rich' first customers. They are all underserved by the LTE networks and have the money to pay for a reliable, low-latency connection.
Tesla expects China-made Model Y to start production in 2021
Or a power supply problem, which was a source of great pain for me at one point.
I don't see how FACTA is relevant here.

1. FACTS doesn't report domestic accounts that are funded by foreign sources.

2. Harvard didn't catch this - the DoD did.

The point is that other schools could not possibly detect this sort of behavior unless it becomes as wildly blatant as this guy did it.
Great. Would also be great if we could just get the spores legalized at the state level. California, Georgia and Idaho prohibit possession of the spores of magic mushrooms. In CA this is especially ridiculous, given that the mushrooms have lived here longer than the state has existed.

In many other states, you can walk into any head shop and buy a mushroom kit containing spores. Not in CA. It makes no sense.
Say $1B/yr. Then you tell the FDA: every year, pick the 50 most promising drug candidates. Publicly fund the clinical trials, and the public will own the patent.

What do you think the FDA knows about running clinical trials? They are obviously experts when it comes to regulatory aspects, but what about trial recruitment, monitoring, supply chain, etc? And what about the educational side? Doctors need someone to talk to, to explain the data, to answer a multitude of questions.

It would take FAR more than $1B per year to have the FDA so all that. The Pharma industry spends $70B plus on R&D each year and they already have all the infrastructure.

And don’t for one second believe that getting a drug to market is as simple as funding clinical trials. There is a ton of upkeep once approved - phase 4 trials, manufacturing tweaks, educating physicians and customers.

2019 FDA budget was $5.7B. I’d guess you’d need closer to 20x to replicate the work the pharma industry is doing, just on the R&D side, let alone everything else.
> some poking around

It's just one click on the logo to go their home page that says it's a game engine with some big features like being open source.
On one hand, as other sibling posts are pointing out, you're comparing true network capacity with subscribed ("sold") capacity; those are massively different by orders of magnitude (depending on how shitty your ISP is.)

On the other hand, it's far worse than "20G per satellite." Bandwidth is limited by available RF spectrum, and that's not magically gonna increase with satellite count. Best thing they can try is limit the coverage area of each radio as much as possible, but there's limits to that and now you have an onslaught of handovers since the satellites are moving quite fast.

I honestly am too lazy to do the math, but my gut says this may work great for larger areas with lower population density (let's say the Amazon, U.S. Midwest, Australia, Sibiria, etc.) but it's not gonna replace high-density broadband access.

Also, just for comparison, current optical network technology (in the market, not research) puts 50G on a single wavelength on an optical fiber. There's 80 wavelengths in a medium-density DWDM setup, so that's 4T ... on a single strand. A low-density cable has 12 cores (that's what you deploy on the outskirts of your network), so, uh, 48 terabit/s with current technology. Infrastructure cables are commonly 144 cores, that's 576 terabit/s...

(These are obviously "maximum" numbers, you rarely see all 80 wavelengths or all 144 strands in use, and there's gonna be slower links like 10G occupying some wavelengths too.)
Markets are priced on future expectations, not past results. The latter only partially informs the former.
Pidgin intentionally stores them in plain text. The logic, I believe, is that "light encryption" is worse than no encryption since it gives a false sense of security.

So rather than a reversible cypher they leave it plain so that their users will freak out and /not/ share their files with folk and will properly lock down their creds file.
Sometimes I wonder if Apple wouldn't support web apps at all if they could get away with it. A fully functioning PWA could essentially sidestep the app store for a huge class of applications. The incentives really just aren't aligned.
Gina Haspel sounds like "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." I see some threads about her that are [flagged] but not deleted, so there is some level of accountability there. If your goal is to be the "paper of record" then you have to wade into every controversial topic; I appreciate the fact that HN is not trying to be that and by banning certain topics it allows us to focus our energy elsewhere.

Log-based accountability (on the blockchain!) is an interesting idea; unfortunately HN suffers from the same problem as some open source projects where it's a high-profile thing that some people get tons of value from yet it doesn't generate any money to spend on cool new features.

In principle I believe that internal criticism and governance are good things, but you absolutely have to separate it into a separate /meta/ section (which HN doesn't have and mods don't intend to ever add) so it doesn't overwhelm the rest of the site and even then it seems to always get flooded with crackpots and (more recently) culture warring.

I agree that threads about mass surveillance, Snowden, Assange etc are pretty low-quality but I think it's very difficult to discuss those topics in general. How do you discuss actual conspiracies without opening the door to misleading conspiracy theories? There's no one I would trust, including myself, to moderate or set rules for such a discussion.
Yes - they actually make ice from the collected rainwater. Here's the paper with an overview of their cooling system: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924592

Notably, the telescope enclosure is actively cooled to mitigate thermal seeing effects.
It's ridiculous to say you can't imagine affording a home on a salary where you could live off 150% of the median household income while still saving enough to buy a 150% of a median home for straight cash in under a decade. Color me incredulous.

[Assuming you live like you make $150k/year (a bit over 150% AMI), you'll have about a quarter million per year left over after taxes. You could save $2.1M (a bit over 150% of median home) in cash in just below 9 years.]
>They don't make a dime off of this, as far as I can see.

Maybe not directly, but every YC company advertises themselves and their projects here, and HN is known as the hub for the SV tech and startup scene, which gives YC an automatic amount of "street cred" and visibility in all of the discussions had here. I'm sure Hacker News has made YCombinator more than a few dimes indirectly from all of that.
A milestone in the hunt for metallic hydrogen
I agree, even among programmers, not everybody is a poweruser. Some will want a prebuild IDE with streamlined single workflow. Others will assemble git / procfs / binutils / sqlite / hexdump / younameit to hack through a task in wild ways. But I very rarely see this around.
UniFi routers will send performance data back to Ubiquiti automatically
> Note that more bits don't eliminate jumps on their own. You need to also send changes at a higher rate to take advantage of those bits, which in turn translates to the need for higher speed encoders, more processing time spent dealing with the data, etc.

That presumes a continuous information stream being sampled. But the sample-depth problem affects discrete notes, too—it's pretty easy to notice how coarse-grained the quiet end of variation is on a MIDI keyboard or drum controller's attack pulse.
That headline is wrong. Nearly half of Americans didn't participate in a list of 42 outdoor recreation activities that this particular trade group profits from, which is quite different from "didn't go outside for recreation".

"Outdoor recreation" was defined as: adventure racing, backpacking, bicycling (BMX), bicycling (mountain/non-paved surface), bicycling (road/paved surface), birdwatching, boardsailing/windsurfing, car or backyard camping, RV camping, canoeing, climbing (sport/indoor/boulder), climbing (traditional/ice/mountaineering), fly fishing, freshwater fishing, saltwater fishing, hiking, hunting (rifle), hunting (shotgun), hunting (handgun), hunting (bow), kayak fishing, kayaking (recreational), kayaking (sea/touring), kayaking (white water), rafting, running/ jogging, sailing, scuba diving, skateboarding, skiing (alpine/downhill), skiing (cross-country), skiing (freestyle), snorkeling, snowboarding, snowshoeing, stand up paddling, surfing, telemarking (downhill), trail running, triathlon (non-traditional/ off road), triathlon (traditional/road), wakeboarding and wildlife viewing.

That's a pretty decent list, but it excludes what are probably by far the two most common forms of recreation that occur outdoors: walking in local parks and playing team sports outside (organized or pickup). But for some reason does include _indoor_ climbing!? Probably because this is a trade group comprised of companies that make an enormous amount of money from gym climbing but make exactly $0.00 when kids spend all summer playing in the community park ;-)

Direct link to report: https://outdoorindustry.org/resource/2019-outdoor-participat...
ion thruster, star trackers, phased array antennas, reaction wheels, torque rods, solar panels... they pretty much do everything every other satellite does.
Should we abolish time zones? (2019)
Tech in 2020:Standing on the shoulders of giants [pdf]
I feel like the focus of XMPP puts the effort in the wrong place. FreeNode IRC is still used because community effort to maintain the channels. Similarly, subreddits live or die by community moderation.

An effort that simplifies channel maintenance, like how easy it is to open a new Subreddit (the #1 portal, a static website URL representing your community identity) is the most important step forward.

Once you establish a www identity for your community, then and only then can you discuss community chat.

For example, lobster.rs community meets on IRC FreeNode, a protocol established on their about page.

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The reason Reddit, Facebook, and Discord are popular, is because of the easy web-based onboarding process for new users. There are also web guis which make it easy to start new communities.

Support the WWW first, and users will come (as long as the onboarding process is as easy as competitors)
Ironically Googling "site:thesun.co.uk inouye" returned nothing relevant.
Why not just let the cops come and tell them you're playing in the snow and then the cops go away.
It does change the ratios of who wants a home since it makes a better investment. IMO prop 13 should only apply to primary residence.
MIDI connects all sorts of gear, a lot of which contains analog signal paths. That's why its design is the way it is.

For instance, rack-mounted synthesizer with analog outputs going to a PA.
Recovering from January 2020 algorithm updates
Only 7.7 people on the planet?

What even is seven-tenths of a person?! ;)
You are right (as far as built in support goes), but it actually could be a fun project to take IL and build up C# expression trees from it. Especially given there are plenty of IL to C# de-compilation libraries out there.
It matters a bunch. All kinds of noise can get picked up over cables and bleed into your audio path on a digital rig. It happens all the time just with power cables which is why every musician carries a handful of "ground lifts" even though they're technically illegal in a lot of places. That said, MIDI over USB is kind of necessary in this day and age. Hopefully instrument manufacturers will be rigorous about isolating any interference it could pick up.
What this article didn't mention is the potential for this to significantly disrupt commercial internet monopolies in regional markets. If service is $45/ month for 100GB, a lot of people will drop Comcast in a hurry.
At that salary, you should be able to save pretty quickly to put more than 20% down. Live like you're only making $150k/yr and you can buy a $2.5M in cash in a decade if you prefer a $0/month mortgage.
A recent study shows that people who regularly take cold showers are 100 times more likely to mention it than people who take warm showers.
And for anyone thinking “it will never happen”, let me tell you back in the 1990’s I thought the exact same thing about cannabis legalization. Ridiculous, waste of time, a pipe dream.

And here we are.
As long as the nature of punishment is a fine, it can be modeled and a cost-benefit analysis can be performed. If the forecasted economic benefit exceeds the cost, then the action should be taken, or so the theory goes.

This happens in all industries. Part of the reason many legal settlements lead to a massive jump in stock price is that companies reserve funds for expected litigation. If FB models the settlement cost to $1B and it turns out to be $550M, that's a good result
There are places in the world where developer labour (especially if the developer is trying to work for himself) is far cheaper than the 900$ capital investment of what essentially is 500-600$ worth of hardware with a shiny aluminum case. Don't forget that not everywhere in the world developers have to choose between several jobs that pay tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
Thanks, I was wondering about this. If it included walking in local parks I would have been extremely surprised by the numbers.

It seems to be more of an industry report, like nearly half of Americans didn't participate in outdoor activities that require gear from REI.
For the average bandwidth usage of a city to be 100 MB/s per user, the average monthly total per user would have to be 263,974 GB. Obviously the real figure is much, much less than that.
convert_dtypes is pretty nice. I wonder how soon the new dtypes will be the defaults.
Yes, and they're ancient; commissioned closer to WW2 than to today. They're basic use is to head to a port, and provide services to submarines in the area. I don't believe they have any capability to provide re-supply at sea, especially munitions like torpedoes and missiles which are large, heavy, and difficult to transfer in anything less than a perfectly smooth sea state.
I use the web app on iOS. Feature parity is 100% for me because I don't use push notifications at app on Twitter. The performance is a little worse (mostly touch targeting is not as good) but once you get used to it it is not noticeable. This is an acceptable tradeoff to me because it allows me to block almost all promoted tweets with Safari content blockers. I also think the Twitter native app may do devious things that are less likely to be permitted by Safari.
I also totally missed this last time i looked at Godot - so off to to play again - thanks for highlighting this.
I dunno, I don't buy this explanation when I think about my anecdotal experience. As a kid I recall it was pretty easy to find fun games to play in yards or in suburban streets. All we needed was other kids. I suspect that this change is more cultural than environmental.