skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We moved to a new city. I work full time (from home) as a SWE. She is a stay at home mom. She met new people on IG in our new city, made friends. I thought it was great.

My wife has a hole deep inside her from years of childhood abuse. She has no career, is early 20s like myself, and has yet to figure herself out.

As the months went by, she filled that hole more and more with her connections on IG and less with our family/relationship. Her follower count grew from a few hundred to 10,000. She started spending more and more time taking videos for her followers.

It got to the point where I would come home from work, ask how her day was, she’d say “fine.” And then about an hour later or later that night, there would be a multi paragraph long post of hers about her day. She put more effort into her relationship with IG than she did with us. It makes sense, I mean shit, every single post she would get hundreds of comments saying all sorts of nice things. I tried to keep up. But IG filled that hole in her heart much faster than I could.

Keep in mind we weren’t just some random marriage. We were best friends for a year before we even started dating.

She decided she is “pansexual” and “polyamorous” and no longer wanted to be “tied down”. She refused to leave me because I pay all the bills. So I suffered for a few months while she brought home different people. Eventually I got my own apartment and walked out.

Even though I technically walked out at the end, she left me mentally long ago. She now spends all her free time with her IG cliques instead of getting a job or going to school...or anything worthwhile really. Just more photoshoots. More posting. More spending.

She doesn’t have an remorse or regret to her. She thinks she is on the path to her greatness, blah blah blah, monogamy is ownership, all these things she just keeps repeating from memes she reads from “woke” accounts. Fake facts and stats from “sources” that are just anonymous accounts posting bullshit. Millenials (my generation) browse this shit, read it, and believe it without any doubt in their heads. Meanwhile I’m paying about ~$4k a month in just rent and car bills for her. Not including anything else.

OH and did I mention - the main girls she hangs out with from IG, 4 of them, are ALL going through divorces in the past two months. 4 of them. And they don’t see any connection between them. Either they are lying to my face and have some sort of secret pact going on to be single...or that’s some seriously strong groupthink right there.

Social media echo chambers are real.

Edit - I left out this private details because I originally deemed it unnecessary to share, but I think it might explain why I’m being so “nice”. She thinks she’s lesbian, or bi. She’s been bringing home women. She has a girlfriend now. If it was guys then yeah I think it would be easier to just be all pissed off. But the fact that it’s women, rational or not, for some reason makes it more confusing for me to deal with. Sorry for leaving this out.

Thank you for all the feedback and advice. All if it is extremely helpful.
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People who complain about man pages tend not to understand man pages. Man pages aren't howto documentations. They're very specifically designed to document the different components of a command, call or configuration file.

OP is absolutely spot on about man pages being community driven. At least half the time someone complains to me about a man page, the man page is the wrong place to look. Usually, the answer they're looking for is in an info manual or somewhere like /usr/share/doc/.
I have actually completely stopped using Facebook main social app at all. I have deleted Facebook app from my mobile phone and logged out of facebook.com website on my MacBook. The only services I still use from FB are Messenger (all my friends are on there) and Instagram (I travel a lot and I post pictures from my travels on IG).

I would say the only part of the FB ecosystem I cannot leave yet is Messenger. I could quit using Instagram more or less easily. But losing access to quickly have a word with my closest friends and family is something I cannot do.

If there was a way to communicate with my best friends and family without having to be a prisoner of some large MNC's ecosystem, I could leave FB completely.
Television is fantasy for the most part. I use it as because I'm lonely. I have it on all the time. I don't watch the depressing commercials though. It's a little friend.

Facebook on the other hand is different. It's a bit too much realism. I go on, and I don't feel better.

My first reaction is why are people so self-aware. Second is why do people love to argue, or look for self adoration at this never satiated level. Then I think about all the people I knew who passed. I thought at first, I felt depressed, was over jealousy, but jealousy is not the main factor.

My hope is people are not like the person they try so hard to be in that website.

Then again, I'm kinda crazy? I've always been a square peg in a round peg world.
Platform? Bitcoin is bitcoin, either you use a different crypto (in which case we're no longer talking about bitcoin) or you're using some fluff on top (in which case we're also no longer talking about bitcoin). Have a look at this graph to understand why bitcoin doesn't work as transactional currency https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time
I believe that social media is a symptom, not the cause, of the great loneliness that our modern aloneness has caused. We are alone much of the time, especially in American suburbia. Even when we are in the city filled with people, these people are just blank faces whom we do not know. We are seeking any form of connection that we can get. And when the only connection to others that we have is through the computer, we become addicted to it.

That said, I believe that once addicted to social media, the bubble of safety that we feel from "eating social junk food". The screen bubble, can become alluring and some people fall into it. I remember at the Prague hackerspace, how we'd all be sitting around the table, and I'd be confused, why people were laughing and interacting without words. It was a while till I realized that they were chatting on IRC.
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Only looking at GNU manual pages gives you a wildly incorrect impression of things.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15780296

Try looking at manual pages that are not GNU.

* http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/HP-UX/man1/sed.1.html#EXAMPLES

* https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_71/com.i...

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sed#EXAMPLES

* http://man.openbsd.org/sed#EXAMPLES
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So far we know its true of the solar system, at least.

Which means there's no really good reason we can't move our factories to space and turn Earth into a Life Haven.
So what is it about "Social Media" that's causing this? Article has a passing mention of coveting exotic holidays. (I haven't read the mentioned book.)

So is it (just) comparison? "Everyone else's life is amazing / I'm the only one who's faking it."

What about unhealthy levels of screen usage in general? Do kids who play video games instead of going outside/socializing face-to-face feel the same way (to some extent)?

Maybe media (news/commentary) intake through these services contributes? We all have our echo chambers of ever-spiraling outrage at the Evil of the Other Side -- does this add to feeling powerless, or that the future is hopeless? Certainly aren't being exposed to reasoned debate...

Broader, do our modern technologies now allow more complete, socially acceptable escape from 'real life'? And the further we get from non-virtual interactions with _anything_ the more ill we become?
"Social junk food" is a good description

Though I think the hacker space example is not bad, the technology helped people come together, and brought them closer (at least initially)
“People only post what they want you to see, so it can seem like their life is better than yours.”

Not mention how often these displays of a better person/better life are exaggerations or straightforward lies.
Gaming is also covered, with 2500+ commercial games available on Steam only.

The KDE applications Kdevelop, Kdenlive and Krita has improved a lot the latest 1-2 years, providing a pretty great IDE, video editing and also painting application.

3D animation, modeling and texturing isn't too shabby either, with Maya, Houdini, Blender and 3D-Coat.

For ShareX, there are many alternatives for grabbing screenshots. A direct clone is ShareNix (video: http://www.hnng.moe/f/3CI)

If ShareX is what's stopping you, I think that you're mainly stuck with a Windows desktop habit.
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Yes. These are my options on Win 10 Enterprise:

https://imgur.com/wN8sk8A
Some recent posts have been talking about what happens to classical encryption in a post-quantum scenario. This article demonstrates a system capable of creating and distributing quantum keys at megabit-per-second rates.

phys.org link here https://phys.org/news/2017-11-high-speed-quantum-encryption-...
3 bottles of 8% ABV wine would be 18 units a week - already more than the recommended 14.

It's unlikely OP is drinking 8% ABV wine.

3 bottles of 14% ABV would be 31 units a week - well over the recommended maximum.
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> It also restores access to C-b for "back one character" in emacs

If you run emacs as a daemon you can do pretty much everything tmux/screen do, without sacrificing precious keystrokes :P
I think there are plenty people like that. In open source software, we see lot of people writing "exact clone" of some software (usually a game). And often, they get the job done.

They decidedly don't want to be creative, they just want the clone of the thing. Actually, it's often how you get the work done. Too much creativity is a problem. Linus started his work on Linux kernel because he wanted a Minix clone. It was as creative-less act as it gets.
TFA uses a “NodeJS” “client” and its members nerd out on “Gitter”. I’m not sure what the hell any of that hipster bullshit means, but to people of that ilk, if it’s not on GitHub it does not exist.
There is a real problem with asking 'to be given financial advice'. Before any meaningful talk can be had about setting common financial levers to get a result, what people really need is someone to sit down with and have an in-depth conversation about what life goals.

You can't really receive meaningful financial advice without taking position on the following:

1) Are you comfortable committing to a lifetime of working?

2) Is there reasonable scope for a high risk high reward venture? Eg, entrepreneurship, acting.

3) Do you determine your personal comfort in terms of how other people perceive it (expensive & common option), or do you use your own metrics?

4) What is your personal understanding of retirement?

Without that orientation, there isn't really a generic position to take on debt (it might be good or bad). There isn't a generic position on investments (might be good or bad). If someone is really being taken to the cleaners maybe there is a quick change to be made, but really "personal finance" is more about expectations and habits than knowledge ad howto guides.

The fundamentals of personal finance intuitively easy to grasp, to the point of absurdity - if you consistently spend more than you earn, you will run out of money. End of the story. If you spend a lot less (10-20% of your earnings go into savings), you will weather surprises easily. If you earn a stupid amount less (40%+ pre-tax earnings saved) you will have a very easy later life.

That all only scratches the surface of orienting a strategy, let alone the details of how the myriad investment options and retirement mechanisms work.
That doesn't fit. Per bitinfocharts.com the coin with the highest txn rate is Ethereum, followed closely by Bitcoin. The others are far behind. I'd say it's seeing a lot of use.
wow, just wow.
What about the kid or kids? If she got IG addicted to the point that she didn't even mind you leaving her...
Well, that was my memory going back to 2000. It has been a while since I bothered to look into them.

I remember having to go into the official documentation available on the HP, IBM and Sun web sites to find usable information, instead of just going through man pages.
> they outed him as gay (completely legal)

Lol, I don't know about this.

If I were a pretty public outlet media and said to everyone "Hey! foobarchu is gay/tranny/whatever" (without your consent) and that affected your personal life, relationships with other people, etc. Wouldn't you think that is illegal? Or at least it should be in my opinion.
Thank you for the detailed answer. I have some follow up questions.

How can it settle on a value when there is a limited amount of Bitcoins

Also, why would you spend it if it can double in value 2 months later?
>Elon Musk is doing so well

Is he though?

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-3-issues-causing-...

"Tesla is spending more than $1 billion per quarter to sustain its existing business and ramp up production of its troubled Model 3. "
So all she needs now is 4K a month?

Have you thought of what you'll do when she hits reality and comes back begging for forgiveness?
If I didn't have money and I needed it then definitely.
The point is that you have to know where you want to go before wondering if you should jump into a new ship or reach a position where you can steer your ship.

I see a lot of people trying to get power or changing situation without having a plan or a goal. They spend a lot of energy going nowhere.

But to each his own I guess.
Bitcoin Price Passes $9,000 for the First Time Ever
I don't understand the goal. So it's a server CMS, which stores data in Github. What are the advantages of a full-fledged CMS like WordPress? Over a static site generator like Jekyll?

Oh yes, it's based on NodeJS, so it's hype!
http://nautil.us/blog/-why-facebook-is-the-junk-food-of-soci...
Because mobile apps just have to be written in Go? There’s just nothing else out there that can handle the highly special and rare use case of UI programming? ;)

Probably a cool hobby project (and there’s nothing wrong with having hobbies!) but in it’s current state I don’t feel this to be too useful.

Just thinking aloud from my rear end: how about making a cross-platform framework with Swift? It already works well in the other major platform :)
I'm sorry this has happened. I hope you find a way through it for yourself.
"...obsolete, partially unsafe, usually extremely cumbersome IT, leading to lots of wasted time and productivity".

That is an excellent short description of Linux. The kernel is fine, but the distros and application software are mostly garbage.

Linux needs an absolute asshole to take charge of everything other than the kernel. His/her favourite word must be "no", as in, "No you shrinking violet, your code is crap and it needs to be totally rewritten. Get outta my distro."

A Steve Jobs of Linux to tell people to make it "just work" and point out the parts that are pure garbage (over 90% at this point.)

It is not clear whether a benevolent dictator can exist in an open-source world. But someone needs to try.
It’s really hard to form these arguments and hypotheses rigorously, and I rarely see anyone try to do so. What does it mean to ask “were we happier before the agricultural revolution than we are now?”

Are we talking about the mean happiness of all humans at one instant? If that’s our only goal, maybe we can achieve it by killing or sterilizing everyone below a certain level of happiness, but obviously that goes against most people’s moral beliefs.

Or are we talking about maximizing the sum of all humans’ happiness? If that’s our only goal, maybe we can achieve it by maximizing birth rates and thus maximizing the human population regardless of each human’s quality of life, but obviously that also goes against most of our moral beliefs. Perhaps we can get around this reductio ad absurdum by allowing for negative happiness values, e.g. for people born into starvation or poverty, but calculating an absolute utility value for each human is difficult or impossible anyway (which affects all of these proposals).

Or how about Pareto efficiency? If our only goal is to achieve a state wherein no one’s happiness can be increased without decreasing someone else’s happiness, that could perhaps be achieved by having one rich despot on whom everyone else is dependent, which again goes against most people’s moral beliefs.
That's a really sad story but not unusual or rare at all.

Send me an email (it's on my profile) and I will send you a couple of materials to help you cope with that kind of life situation.

Stay strong.
I would not say that this approach is definitely a failure. Let's consider the following possible uses of it.

1. UNCOL-like language. Now we have LLVM IR and this is basically the same old UNCOL with all its bad points. Still, due to help of the large companies and with supporting only a subset of possible processor architectures this "LIL" variant is quite popular.

2. An assember with algebraic syntax. This is really good thing to have, much more readable than all those cryptic mnemonics. Here are few interesting examples: DSP assemblers [1] and [2], low-level DSLs [3]. I'm using algebraic notation in my own compilers. There is a trivial mapping between low-level term-based IR and C-like algebraic assembly source (in some cases you even don't need to have a separate simulator, just compile the code with C compiler).

[1] http://www.analog.com/media/en/dsp-documentation/processor-m...

[2] http://worrydream.com/bkasm/

[3] https://cr.yp.to/qhasm.html
Yes. Because he is Warrent Buffet. He does that not because he reads the market but because he drives the market.

He, at no fault of his own, is same thing for stocks as penny stock scammers are for penny stock market.
I've never understood this phenomena myself. Those who do this kind of research on a daily basis must have been rather smart to get their job. Surely, they must be intelligent enough to realize that what they do does not really add up to much?
Nice to see some lower level languages, even if historic, given everyone seems to want to write very high level ones these days. It seems the viewpoint of programming being too hard and we need to continually dumb it down to the point where precious snowflakes never need to fret their brows about hottie things like resources (they are infinite right? Just spin up more on AWS!).
> We treat them as adults in school (by making them responsible for their own performance through grading and measuring) from a very young age

Really? I feel like even in college students don't always feel like they are responsible for their own performance & grades (and an honest one at that). Look at all the cheating and grade inflation and grading complaints (even by parents!!) that have gone towards becoming the norm over the last decade or two in college. In the adult world it's not like your mom can call your boss and complain about the fact that you got a bad review or something (at least not successfully...). It's not like it always used to be like this in school either. Kids are honestly just not maturing into adults as they used to, whether it their own fault, or their parents', or social media's, or the government's, or anyone else's.
The internet has become a world wide soap opera that we are all characters in. ISP's sell a subscription service to minutely episodes of the whole spectrum of human emotion. I also get as much negative and positive feedback as I desire and can take a hit whenever I open my phone.
> There were open source project that tried a more heavy handed way of architectural management, and they failed - such as GCC

A lot of people have been moving to clang, but I'm quite sure GCC is still strong. What do you mean by failed?

A link backing this claim would be nice too, as I couldn't find any (although I just probably didn't search it right).
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There's an optionable Payment ID you can attach (also encrypted), so receiver can confirm that the payment received was for a particular purpose.

Let's say payment id is user id + product id, so receiver could easily confirm that transaction was from a particular user for a particular product.
> In the adult world it's not like your mom can call your boss and complain about the fact that you got a bad review or something (at least not successfully...).

Don't be so sure about that. Parents are starting to talk to university professors on behalf of their adult children.
damn.. Wow, well not as serious as your story..But I attribute my last relationship failure to IG as well.. Im not a big IG guy but my girlfriend was a model and had thousands of followers and it really became too much for me.. Constantly on the phone, messages/long correspondences and exchanges with random guys in different cities. Can also really relate to the 'groupthink' and 'woke' account passive education through various tumblr shitposting.. I used to tell her that it made me uncomfortable the way she spoke with other men via IG and she would just get all upset saying I was jealous, and the reason I was jealous because I was sexist. Anyway, I finally just walked away, but was very stressful. I don't know if it was IG or just her being shitty and IG was simply a vector for her to be shitty.
Sounds like they were just bored and the relationship wasn't working out

"Early 20s" seems to be the major problem here. Not everybody wants to settle down at this age
I think he meant how many confirmations they want, 0 confirmations is instant, also unlike paypal you won't get charge-backed.
Don't forget the effect modern day food with all the added estrogen in diary, antibiotics given to animals, pesticides, added sugar and palm oils all now in their gut, mix in less sleep and social media and no wonder their moods are screwed. You are what you eat.
This is an excellent point and needs to be included in every discussion of U.S. politics. If there are only two parties, you give heavily to both. Then you find ways each party can "win" or "lose" while your cause advances. In this fashion each political party can continue its public drama of fighting the other one, all the while your interests advance in various ways -- just not the same way all the time.
The thing is, if you're going to compare yourself to others (which is something I'd recommend keeping to a minimum), it's easy enough to find someone who is more knowledgeable about something than you, but if you treat it as an opportunity to learn more then there's no downsides. Also, it's unlikely you'll find many people who are more knowledgeable than you on everything you know something about. Our own experience leads to different specialisations. I don't know your background, but I'm sure there are some things you have more knowledge about than me, and some things I have more knowledge about than you. If you only see someone as smarter you're only seeing part of the picture.
>>He did achieved financial independence years before he was blogging.

He is selling shovels and jeans to gold rush miners. "Financial independence" when supplemented by the $$ he makes while telling people how he got rich surely makes a huge difference.