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Ask HN: Should I Take Prozac?
I am a mid-level software engineer, raised religious, who in the past few years has gone through the "jaded atheist" phase that I suspect affects many engineers - a tendency towards only believing things that can be proven using western scientific method, which religion cannot be.

This phase has become ultra-logical at an existential level; why are humans obsessed with living? I believe that humans create their own purpose, and I used to derive purpose from work but recently work has been going poorly. I have had bouts of depression - low motivation, low energy, feel as though there is little reason for living.

I saw a psychiatrist who prescribed me Prozac to help with the low energy and motivation. I have heard SSRIs are hard to come off of. I'm wondering if this is just a depressive phase and if I should try to move past it without this drug, or if this drug could kick start an improvement in motivation and feeling like there are reasons for living.

Has anyone taken Prozac for similar reasons, and can you share your experience with it -- positives and negatives?
I'm definitely planning to put that stuff in the van (but obviously not uncontained.) Doesn't a good floor liner solve most concerns in that area?
I admit I haven't had occasion to use VMware for a decade. Different world, I guess.
What a Googol-to-One Gear Ratio Looks Like
Reusable Blocks
Their search results page has a feedback button in the corner. Use it! They listen to it.
Still one in a billion
Shamples.

The sellers sold a commodity in the world’s strongest currency to a single country that is loathed by their government and the source of multiple previous epidemics.

Here’s a tip: diversify your sales. Even if (horror) you have to lower your price or accept another currency.
You said early detection leads to better outcomes - so point 1 doesn't apply. Treating pheumonia is last stage process, early detection does nothing to help help here as well.
I have been using DDG for years and did not know the !g I copy paste search often when DDG results are lacking, I feel so stupid.
That's my point, actually. People tend to assume that anything they do is being watched, where the truth is that whether or not a given item is stored depends on whether someone has specified it's interesting somehow, or whether a trained program has.

They don't store everything in case it's needed, nor do they have programs capable of detecting everything people suspect is monitored.

It's still an invasion of privacy and probably breaks various laws, but it's not the complete surveillance people tend to think of, and it's not as useful as you'd expect given the money invested and the effort put in to it.
You could try cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt). This could fix the root issue behind all of the issues you described.
« I posted about our donation on HN and it drove traffic back to us, it’s a marketing expense. »
old school vaccine used attenuated virus, basically viable virions that have been given a beating so that they are not as pathogenic but elicit immune response. that is the only hope of getting out of the pile this one steps into.

that isnt the case, this article here seems to indicate someone thinks we should; either all play "ookiemouth"; or ignore the virus and back to business as usual, or as others have suggested "go back to work"
No. The only thing that makes const unique from let is that references declared as constants cannot be reassigned or else an error will be thrown. The exclusion only applies to the reference name itself and not to any of its properties as the article articulates.
Redesigning Our World in Data: from posts and articles to posts in articles
I find weaning off with following a gradual path of half-caf -> decaf* or black tea -> herbal tea helps greatly with withdrawal symptoms. Then staying off caffeine for a few weeks really brings the rush back when I inevitably resume drinking coffee

*I should point out that decaf still has a little caffeine in it
The only time you can afford to have this behaviour is when you have leverage over the other party either by connections, dependencies or assets. People often forget that without leverage being rude will get you nowhere. Try this at work tomorrow and I bet you in no time your manager will show you the door. If both parties are on equal terms when it comes to negotiation power then it will either turn into a pissing contest or gets resolved quickly.
I like that Swift has var and let. Having the first letter be different means less typing with autocompletion.

I suppose when I get to use voice recognition for coding, there will also be less confusion.
How nature works: the influence and consequences of self-organized criticality
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That would violate the terms of service - creating an account specifically to avoid a ban, that is.

Besides, if Reddit legitimately banned me for something I said (they won't tell me what, at least not yet) I'm not going to make an account so I can keep contributing to their site.
I predict Trump administration will underreport the numbers and use the courts to hold up transparency reports and audits until after the election.

They’re already refusing to test people, and I’m guessing they’ll start to blame the flu and/or fake news at some point.

They’ll probably somehow exceed my expectations, and come up with even more cynical tactics than this. For instance, I’ve seen users in other forums blame liberal china lovers for bringing the disease to the US. I wonder if they’re paid trolls or not.
Ask HN: Best free / paid cartography program for tabletop gaming?
So I've been asked to do some game mastering for a tabletop game campaign.

Back in the day I used AutoREALM and it worked a treat, but it doesn't do much automatic generation and is increasingly unable to produce high-enough resolution images to print.

What are the best programs (preferably offline / perpetual license) for the use case of 'generate me a map, let me customize some tiles, then let me label points of interest before exporting to a big image'?

I am willing to pay for good results, but I can't pay $200 (just a hobby after all).

FWIW the current campaign is sci-fi but I'd like to future-proof if possible so fantasy tilesets etc. would not go amiss.
How big is the JDK? How big is Spring? Would you include both when calculating the size of a simple Java app that prints "Hello World"? Probably not.

Remember that node_modules contains the entire world: it contains your compilers, transpilers, development server, development toolchain, and runtime libraries. All software is built on the shoulders of giants and Node's only mistake was making it plainly visible.
Haha. That's worse than loser leaves town.
How would retaliation work? I don't think I've ever been able to see my hosts review of me before submitting mine for them.
Bashing premier pro is a low blow. It’s a very powerful tool that really can’t be replicated in Cli. Even using ffmpeg CLI is a painful experience.

That being said code completion, contextual help and form-ish guis give a better user experience.

The most used UI element is a button and thereafter is the search input.
The owner can't see your review until after they review you. But, that won't stop future owners from seeing your bad review.
Do you sometimes feel like a fraud?
People valuing different things differently is a result of culture. Advertising influences culture, to some extent, but it only wishes it was as powerful as people assume it to be.

Most notably, people are not "misled" into valuing the "wrong" things. You just have a different opinion of what people should value based on your own culture, values, etc. It doesn't mean they're wrong, brainwashed, or anything of the kind.
Using SuperMemo for a Computer Science Course?
So I’m studying CS in college and wondering if anyone has tried reading the textbooks/online articles using SuperMemo? And did it work for you?
As far as I understand it, corrosion isn’t that much of a worry with aluminum airframes— as long as the plane doesn’t spend too much time near salt water.

There are many past and present airline liveries where the fuselage is left largely bare, for instance:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Boeing_7...
Even though it seems like shrinking the available options will lead to less fine-grained data, sometimes it seems like it actually works out better. I really liked how Four Square only had thumbs up and thumbs down as the allowed ratings. I feel like it did a very good job of capturing how aligned with expectations the restaurant experience was. It also made it really painless to give feedback.
That was what was proposed w/ BIP151 in Bitcoin.

We also came up with a strongly zero-knowledge authentication system where the connection receiver learns absolutely nothing about if authentication is being used by the connection initator. This prevents a MITM from adaptively "Opps, looks like that TCP connection failed" when they notice authentication being attempted in order to avoid detection.

This idea fits pretty nicely with how we manual connections work in Bitcoin... A normal node will make 8 automatic (random) outgoing connections plus up to another 8 connections to manually specified connections. Our thought was that if a manually specified connection was authenticated for partitioning resistance, and the auth failed it could just get treated as a random connection (and, of course, sound klaxons). The end result should be a phenomenal amount of herd immunity where even a small percentage using authentication should totally stop MITM attacks by attackers who really don't want to get detected.
Early detection means up to 100x more people overloading hospitals, doesn't it? It's much better to just stop as much as possible for 2 weeks - work from home etc.
I wish that SAML would stop being referenced as Enterprise oriented and that some SPs would stop providing support for it only in their highest payment tiers. As every company nowadays have G Suite or something similar, they almost certainly have an Idp ready.
Please let me know if you happen to stumble upon one. Every once in a while, I get the desire to take a small clip of a larger video to use as a gifv. I've yet to find a single video editing program that makes this very simple thing easy for somebody who has no idea what he's doing.
The leaders behind those companies did not exhibit asshole behavior consistently.

They cultivated strategic partnerships with the right people at the right time, and once they got enough of what they wanted, sometimes they behaved like assholes.

They probably behaved like assholes with some employees but not their key employees.
True, it wasn't that gruesome, but that was my first time scanning the preso and it kind of jarred me.
No kidding huh, sleep better after grams of caffeine? Yea, i guess my experience wouldn't apply to you.
I like the boost that remote events got from this disaster.
That's at least not wasting money on fuel efficiency, but it's not like leaving the truck in the garage all the time is a good application of the money used to buy it either.
After a stay at an AirBnB, I provided a review. A part of the review question was "What would you suggest as room for improvement?. AirBnB told me they will keep this answer confidential. In a few hours, I had multiple passive aggressive messages from the host about the "confidential" feedback.
I agree with Dan. I don't use var/const for much the same reason I don't use ==.
I don't even understand how you could get a number not ending in 5 or 0 and think it's remotely correct...
Sacks' book about his broken leg is a huge insight into the loss of identity in illness. I think many of us consider him one of the authors we'd have invited to tea, because we like him as he is (and the tea with Bjork only confirmed that to me). Other tea party guests are usually interesting but jerks, Elvis with Hitler type mashups, but Sacks, you wanted him there as a genuinely interesting but also compassionate person.
Really curious to see data on the California commercial lobster fishery, 98% of which goes abroad to Japan and China. They run $35-40/lb over the last year or two, so I imagine they have much further to fall, which is great for the recreational divers in the area.

Edit: wow, falling to $25 already, I saw this same site for $42/lb last year.

https://store.catalinaop.com/products/live-whole-california-...
I tend to agree, for me the music died sometime around 2000 with the post-90s hangover of facing "reality" with 9/11 and consolidation of radio station ownership. In my city, we simply don't have any real radio stations. The only play top 40 and a pittance of alternative music, mostly from over 20 years ago.

Meanwhile, my Discover Weekly in Spotify and the channels spun from those artists have many thousands of songs that are considerably better than anything on the radio, but will never get airtime.

Here's a good example of what a real radio station would sound like today if we still had DJs and the freedom to play anything:

https://radioparadise.com/player

I asked Bill (the owner) 13 years ago about opening a station in my town to simply play his stream on FM but he broke the news to me that it's not really possible. It would cost something like $100,000 dollars (probably $250,000 today) just to get the license.

I also got the feeling that it would be so expensive to operate (in electricity alone) that stations are no longer viable as self-sustaining entities. They make their money by cross-promotion of other stations and businesses under an umbrella corporation.

The only way to break up this stagnation is antitrust enforcement IMHO. Bring back the Broadcast Station Cross-Ownership Rule at the very least, then go further to also break up the big media duopolies like CNN/Fox News (which of course will not happen in these times):

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/fccs-review-broadcast-o...

In 2017, the Commission eliminated PDF Download its rule that had previously prohibited common ownership of a full-power broadcast station and a daily newspaper if the station's contour (defined separately by type of station) completely encompassed the newspaper's city of publication and the station and newspaper were in the same relevant Nielsen market. At the same time, the Commission also eliminated the radio-television cross-ownership rule, which had restricted the common ownership of broadcast radio and television stations located in the same market. These two rules -- the newspaper-broadcast cross ownership and radio-television cross ownership rules -- were eliminated due in part to the growth in the number and variety of sources of entertainment, news and information in the modern media marketplace.
Both can be true. Chinese industry crawled to a halt for almost a month. We got "lucky" insofar as it happened right when Chinese industry annually crawls to a halt for two weeks, but there will be knock-on effects for sure.
"containment" doesn't mean "early detection". You can yield better "containment" by issuing strong recommendation to work from home and maximize staying at home for two weeks or so.
Avoid the drugs. They alter your brain, deadening it and stop you being as good at your job. I'd recommend a book called Mind Over Mood. https://www.mindovermood.com

I was told: When you find yourself thinking dark thoughts just stop doing it. It's that easy to fix depression, and also that ridiculously hard. Crack it though and you're sorted for life.

Throw away the symptomatic crutch and address the root causes. It's the engineering way.
Yea, I make computer security videos and I've been thinking about getting other streamers and YouTubers to make a virtual conference.
I wouldn't say that these two experiences are necessarily equivocal. Growing up without the internet before its advent and mass adoption is a different experience than living isolated in a society where immediate connection is a norm. A better comparison would likely be to growing up without a television or telephone during those time periods.
For companies issuing documents used by other companies, they can certify and verify the documents authenticity using documentauth.com
i think that's exactly it - hopefully you'd get put on some adnauseum users list where your traffic is just dropped. OTOH maybe google et al just uses that list for working on fraud denial/defeat so you're probably feeding the beast no matter what.
Covid Timelines
And yet that's not what you insinuated. There were no cuts no matter how you characterize it-your source confirms that. Certainly no "reaping" what was "sowed".
Hopefully the collapse in lobster sales is just an isolated example in a relatively small sector of the economy, and not a portend of things to come.

If more companies are forced to shut down or cut/postpone spending in response to sharp drops in revenues, their suppliers and employees will react by cutting or postponing their own spending, leading yet others to do the same, in the worst case fueling a sudden and self-reinforcing feedback loop of global contraction in economic activity.

It's possible that stock markets worldwide are now pricing such a scenario. Let's hope it doesn't get that bad.

But hope is not a plan. Please make sure you're well positioned to survive a sharp economic downturn, just in case!

See also: https://medium.com/sequoia-capital/coronavirus-the-black-swa...
So were lobsters:

> Dirt-cheap because they were so copious, lobsters were routinely fed to prisoners, apprentices, slaves and children during the colonial era and beyond. In Massachusetts, some servants allegedly sought to avoid lobster-heavy diets by including stipulations in their contracts that they would only be served the shellfish twice a week.

https://www.history.com/news/a-taste-of-lobster-history
Why should Apple be the police, they don’t even currently police their apps in a uniform way. So many apps violate the guidelines but are still in the AppStore.

I welcome the change but I’ve also seen Apple be a bully.
It's the difference between describing causality and reporting facts.

Not every top is caused by a Minsky moment. For instance, inventories could overshoot and then less stuff needs to be made for a while. Or central banks could raise interest rates to fight inflation. These are two of the most common causes of relatively benign recessions and market tops.
Do AMD GPUs work well with ML drivers (CUDA and competitors)?
Are higher-level drivers like PyTorch and TensorFlow compatible (and optimized, or else no point buying an expensive GPU to get only half-performance) with AMD backends?
so... anyone know of any seafood chains that have specials that would let us all get some yummy lobsters for cheap?
That's a real treasure trove of context.
This is a welcome development, not so much because of the loss of the face time, but because of this:

> We will also provide additional written background information on each company and access to their decks.

I can do triage on decks a lot faster than I can on pitches. When there are 100 companies to go through, being able to quickly eliminate companies that I know I'm not interested in is a huge win.
What does it mean to "ventilate" a person?
What would a "Real Privacy Problems" website/blog, aimed at individuals/consumers, look like and need to do to be an effective site to a) inform, and b) empower people to hold companies and our governments more accountable for the regulatory and industry environment in which we operate, and c) empower those individuals to make the changes in their own tech and behavior to minimize their own exposure?
I wonder if this was why Netflix switched to a thumbs up or thumbs down system.
I'd love a service that gleans interesting tidbits from long reviews and surfaces it all in a summary. I recently went to Curaçao and had a great time. The main reason it was a fun trip is because my girlfriend loves reading reviews and found all the pro-tips in them.
Please don't take medical advice from random people on the Internet.
In JS, I think of any reference to an object as a pointer, and the <pointer> is immutable even if its contents aren't; then everything in JS which can be considered a value which is immutable under const.

IMO it's not just a problem of const vs let, because it'll pop up again when you're trying to copy a JavaScript object, and it'll pop up again when someone has questions about garbage collection.
> downloads the xbox-one-native version from Microsoft.

Ew.
This looks pretty cool. Is there a simple way to just use the CSS for icons that you use and discard the rest?
Grindr sold by Chinese owner after US national security concerns
> I would call this the "Adult content" setting, and the choices would be "prefer", "neutral", and "suppress". These would just map exactly to the semantics of the current three choices.

I honestly think a better idea would be tagging all results. A lot of the irritation with search engines seems to come from the fact that words can be so overloaded and ambiguous. It's unreasonable to expect that any search engine could return what you want in the first 20 results if there's no way to narrow down results by tags and categories. Porn shouldn't be the only category that gets special treatment.

For example, sometimes I want to search about how to make foo, and I get pages and pages of results about... crafting foo in games. At that point I'd like to turn off all results that have to do with games or fiction. Or enable categories about.. actually making stuff?

And speaking of games, it's fucking irritating that the results aren't tagged so when you try to look up information about a game in a series, you get tons of results about more recent sequels and it can be really hard to filter those out.
I like the reassignment prevention.
This has become increasingly frustrating for me, and I now have to overuse quoting to get the things I want.

Why would I include a word if I wanted results that didn't include it. I could understand that on later pages to include more results, but regularly even the very first results don't include one of the key words in my search.
That is what we used to think. But it's not true:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22037012
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8857917
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26109578
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7585286

Note that dietary cholesterol only correlates to blood cholesterol in about 40% of the population. And even within that group, "Even though dietary cholesterol modestly increases LDL in these individuals, it does not seem to increase their risk of heart disease" (https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/dietary-cholesterol-doe... -- emphasis is mine)
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Nothing about what the CDC is doing is “understandable.” They’re stonewalling and delaying frontline responders testing puts the healthcare system more at risk of being overwhelmed and we’ve already seen cases of large numbers of nursing staff having to be quarantined once retroactive exposure was determined.

There was also not a “temporary delay” with the kits, there is still nowhere near the necessary testing capacity and they’re throwing out absurd, false numbers like “1 million test kits” that then have to be walked back. And the whole absence of testing is because they rejected the WHO’s test kit and donations of them! We could have began testing immediately.

I’m not sure where you’re getting all this nonsense about the absence of testing being “good for the data”. Every epidemiologist I’ve seen is saying the exact opposite, e.g.:

Michael Mina, Asst Professor of Epidemiology & Immunology & physician @ Harvard School of Public Health/Medicine

> 1 in 6 positive samples in China were asymptomatic and choice was made to not report those. This information is crucial for epidemiological modeling and developing appropriate mitigating strategies. Reporting all positives as symptomatic or not should be standard reporting.

https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/12343556205575454...

Why are epidemiologists saying that testing and reporting asymptomatic cases is necessary for responding appropriately, counter to what you claim?
Pppd vulnerable to buffer overflow due to a flaw in EAP packet processing