skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha. Yeah. At 35, I was in OP’s frame of mind. I pulled the ripcord.

I sold my modest house. Quit my job. Started traveling. I had one friend in VN who left two weeks after I arrived. Through online dating apps and running clubs, I met a ton of new friends and lived in several countries. It wasn’t all roses. There were so really lonely times, but I went through that in the States, too.

Basically, if you are lucky enough to be healthy and able to scrape together $30k (a lot for some, I know), then you can live a pretty fascinating life for a year in a ton of fascinating places.
Yes, the API is probably suboptimal for Go. It's better to make a wrapper that does the query and fetches many results in one call, into a Go buffer.
In a thread on about a chinese vlogger and techie, in a comment about a german company, maybe your perspective could be a bit more cosmopolitan?
I just would absolutely love to give a +1 for jo-engine. It’s an insanely strong dev kit for Saturn games with great built in features like tilemap support, basic collision detection; a sprite converter - and a handful of incredible tutorials.

I got started as a developer / programmer at about 10/11 with mostly Assembly due to the burgeoning Sonic ROM hacking community. I’m 32 now and I’ve been a professional developer for 12+ years. I owe this scene a lot!
There’s an example in the article.

> const y = h(g(f(x)))

This example of nested function calls needs to be read from the inside out (execution is f, g, then h) which is unintuitive to how we read and parse text.

The alternative is to use intermediate variables instead of nested function calls to represent the control flow of f, g, h.
> short guys looking for girlfriends, unattractive/aging women looking for husbands

Do people like this exist? I thaught it was just a meme/stereotype.
I wish they'd kept it up myself. It's not as if folks can't have more than one browser for different things. Now that even the W3C has sold us all out we're pretty much doomed to get screwed over by DRM at some point in our lives online.
> Again, what evidence do you have of this?

- "The estimated amount of total money laundered annually around the world is 2-5% of the global GDP (USD 800 Billion – 2 trillion)"

- In 2009, total spend on illicit financial activities like money laundering was 3.6% of the global GDP, with USD 1.6 trillion laundered (according to the UNODC)[0]

> Are you really going to argue that a smaller proportion of crypto transactions are laundering money?

Yes! Without a doubt. We are talking about money laundering here, not "transactions volume that are not reported to any fiscal authority", which are two very, very different things.

> To this day, not a single problem has been solved with blockchain.

We can move value across the world in less than 10 seconds, without having to ask permission to anyone. That in itself might be no big deal for privileged folks living in places with (still) functioning institutions. But ask anyone who got blocked by Paypal or Google or even tried to make an international money order, and see if they don't think that crypto has solved a problem already.

> If you own crypto, then you don't have an unbiased opinion on this: more enthusiasm for crypto is directly profitable to you.

First, you can find a lot of things that I've written where I the biggest use case I promote is for stable tokens (i.e, crypto that is pegged to the USD or the EUR). The biggest use-case I am working on is to make payments easier, faster and independent of big centralized institutions [1].

Second, I don't "invest" in crypto as someone who buys lottery tickets and hopes to hit the jackpot. My focus is on collaborating to build an useful economy on it. You won't see me promoting/defending a project based on the token.

Third: Skin in the Game. Yes, I am working on the space so of course I want it to succeed. This doesn't mean that you have any right to say that I am being unethical or that I am not deserving of any of the potential rewards.

[0]: https://www.tookitaki.ai/compliance_hub/50-statistics-on-mon...

[1]: https://hub20.io
The whole thing was about who they were actually suing. My original claim was that it’s a myth that they sue people for accidentally planting the seeds. If people choose to illegally buy and plant the patented seeds, then they should expect legal trouble.

I’m not actually a fan of these gene patents, but I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people trying to use them on the cheap then pretending to take an anti GMO stance when they get caught.
You could probably benefit from a far better care team that has an understanding of trauma and which sees medication not as a means of making the problems go away, but as a useful yet optional tool that may help you bring healing (ie allows you to comfortably explore trauma and your trauma responses in therapy) to deeply troubling events that happened in your life (ie typically with lower but clinically meaningful doses, say, of SSRIs). Ketamine with therapy (optionally with an adjunct like a low dose SSRI) also has also appeared to looks be a platform for doing such work, too.
Yes, and if you call the restaurant directly to order the pizza, the restaurant and the delivery person get the money, and you don't have some company skimming most of the profit. Restaurants are struggling after two years of Covid and I want my money to go directly to them, not to some company with an app. So I order direct whenever possible.
> […] I don’t want to meet people like me

How do you know they’re like you? How do you know all the single guys there are just looking to hook up or find girlfriends? How do you know all the aging, unattractive women are just looking for a husband? Feels like you are projecting.

To give a different perspective - I also took dance classes before COVID. I went into it with the mindset that I wanted to learn how to dance (to wit, I failed miserable). If dancing is secondary to you, it’s going to be noticed (people can pick up on desperation). Don’t treat it as the chore you have to do before you can talk to someone. My favorite dance partner was a widow that just wanted to dance with a man who knew how to take lead on a dance. She wasn’t looking to date. Just dance and have a conversation. Many of the single women I met there were the same. I made some good friends (not call at 2am for bail money friends). Men and women.

> Meetups in my area were also only tech-related.

Did you try meetup.com? Did they only had tech events where you are? If so, that’s crazy. I found my virtual book club from meetup.com (win!). I tried a wine tasting, but it was 3 groups of people who knew each other and me (loss!). Did learn a lot about wine (win!). Not every meetup is going to be successful so pick things that are actually interesting vs. trying to guess which one will have the most people.

To sum all this rambling up - you have to be interested in the activity of the event. If you’re not and you treat it like a chore, people can tell.
I personally enjoy that the politicians are surprised at how easily it was to shut down the capital. And how difficult it would be to fight this with a military or police response (though it is early). Their fear though is delicious. PM Trudeau has run away from the Capital it seems (his office is not stating his whereabouts) and that image is just lovely.
Hah. I was bummed when I lost my leet score, especially because it was lost towards the wrong direction.

Thank you!
you dont give a depression diagnostic based on comments on the internet. and asking oneself questions about their future is not a sign of illness, its what conscious beings usually do.
I don't think Covid is almost over, but I can confirm burning man has a way of giving people what they need if they come with an open mind. No drugs required.
"Make your idea a required chapter of study for a week in every school" isn't relly actionable advice...
NYC restaurants starved for diners, while Miami business up
I recommend a Kickball league. Less “bro” types for the most part. Although to be fair, my league had this one team that everyone hated because they were super serious. But the rest of us all got along great.
There's also Rhythmbox and Amarok but I never like them too much. I think Nextcloud may have what you want, I just can't speak to that since I haven't used it myself.
If you're at all religious, go to church/temple. The religion is often second to the fellowship or community it can foster. Charity work could also help you find someone with similar values, and if you're feeling unfulfilled from work it might help pick you up doing something meaningful.
If you’re in the Bay Area and want to grab a drink, DM me @jasbarry
Forget about PoW. I was talking about the 300k PoS validators on the Beacon chain ("ETH2.0"). You can run a validator on less than 10W. Any cheap celeron can do it.
The older I get, the younger my mind becomes.
The other way around (converting double quoted strings to single quoted ones) would be more understandable, as that is what str.__repr__ prefers:

>>> "string"
'string'

I sense a bloated ego of the author in Black's decisions -- to contradict with the language's preferred formatting style.
> getting into a group of "normal" friends, of both genders, to hang out and laugh with, seems like an impossible goal.

This has no basis in reality, it's a distortion. You can make friends. Do what people do when they settle in a new city: meetup groups, pick up sports, book clubs etc. Covid is a current impediment, but it won't be later.

This sounds like loneliness. Having a partner helps.

> On the other hand, I feel that finding a non-coding job would be ultimately the best way to find new social groups, and get out of the apathy

Having had corporate & government gigs in offices, and working remote, I would re-think that assumption. What the office environment grants at the very least is water-cooler talk, which provides at least some level of socializing. Not necessarily more than that. A good social group need not depend on workmates. At any rate, you can meet new people outside of work, and offices never made me feel any less lonely in and of themselves in my worst years.
Oh, and about your link:

1) So you do live in North Korea! Or, well (Heh), Russia -- who cares, what's the diff?

2) So the weirdly-specific link to British vehicle registration procedures is... Because you're one of Kim Jong-Un's -- eh, I mean that other Über- kleotocrat, Putin's -- coterie, and keep your money and your children there?

3) Your whole argument is as stupid as that other guy's who claimed that "Bitcoin is needed to transfer money abroad". No, countries with dysfunctional systems -- be it for international money transfers or vehicle registration -- would need to uproot and rebuild their systems anyway, to base them on Bitcoin in stead of what they have now. But if they're uprooting and rebuilding anyway, then they can just rebuild to use the same systems that already work elsewhere -- without the whole blockchain mumbo-jumbo.

4) Two people who have actually used working online systems -- that British car owner and I -- have told you that such systems exist and work. But you seem to be just simply refusing to believe us, insisting that no such system could work without your blockchain mumbo-jumbo. One would think that residents of, and owners of cars registered in, Britain and Finland would know more about the car registration systems in Britain and Finland than a Russian. (Except, see #2 above?) So, besides your obvious violation of the "assume good faith" site guidelines in calling us liars, consider which of the two alternatives

a) You are right, and know more about the car registration systems in our countries than we do; we, OTOH, are either outright lying, or have deluded ourselves into thinking we got our cars registered in a much easier way than you know to be possible. (Or perhaps we both got incredibly lucky and got it done much easier than actually is possible.)

or

b) We are telling the truth, in our countries it is possible to easily get your car registered online without any blockchain mumbo-jumbo; and you, OTOH, are either misinformed, mistaken, or just plain obstinate (or deluded) --

-- which alternative would seem most reasonable under Occam's Razor?

[Edit: Tpyo.]
And the best pizza comes from "units" of 1 with only six figure sales.
Would also love to hear or read about your implementation, the general architecture and failsafe constructs. Thank you.
Here's a good one by HN user kkielhofner:
https://kkrants.com/blockchain-the-most-poorly-adopted-platf...
Oh interesting thanks! I couldn't find it in the docs before
I am loving usb-c and it's great to see it's increasing in power delivery capability. 240W in a tiny, cheap connector is amazing. As a hobby I am currently upgrading all my old/favorite electronics to usb-c:

- Upgrading a 2009 Apple wireless keyboard to li-ion plus usb-c charging. A 14500 li-ion cell is 3.7C, and exactly the same size as a AA cell. You can get charging/protection circuits[1] and voltage regulators[2] for nothing online.

- Upgrading mice, headphones, etc from micro-usb to usb-c. Usually I solder in a usb-c connector upside down in place of micro-usb, add the correct resistors (there are CC or charge configuration pins). If you don't need data, you want these connectors with only the required pins and not more[3] or breakout connectors if you have space[4]. If anyone knows a breakout connector that has CC resistors installed I'd love to buy it. Or for gluing in place instead of soldering, this connector[5] is the only one I have found of any type with the correct CC resistors already installed.

- Using usb-c for powering small prototype things instead of using a benchtop power supply. You can get power modules configured to one voltage[6], or adjustable ones[7]

- Fixing janky usb-c powered electronics that only work with a usb a-c cable. Usually they are missing charge configuration resistors to get 5V. For 5V up to 3.0A, you can use simply using these resistors instead of usb PD. Usually you have to replace the connector with one that exposes the CC pins.

For all of above, this device[8] is invaluable for troubleshooting although this one looks like it has more capabilities similar to the usb-c explorer[9]. And might as well get a usb-c soldering iron too[10]. And this GaN power brick which is tiny[11]. It's enough for an intel macbook under light loads.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002953903622.html

[2] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32813195533.html

[3] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32966491026.html

[4] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001335550637.html

[5] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002449606066.html

[6] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001668143510.html

[7] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002196188312.html

[8] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/review-satechi-usb-ty...

[9] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32968303350.html

[10] https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-solde...

[11] https://us.anker.com/pages/ankernanoii
^ one can see the sort of attitudes we have to deal with in Canada. We have constitutional protections that should mean we are protected from this, but out government has decided to ignore them.
Your example of military not advocating for increased use of itself is… Obama ignoring the military advocating for increased use of itself in Afghanistan?

I’ve read memoirs. Some interesting ones about the Vietnam war and how every military higher-up was champing at the bit to throw more troops into the meatgrinder.

My “experience with” this is watching the military incinerate orders of magnitude more taxes than I will pay in my entire life on useless bullshit as I walk past dozens of homeless people a day. Like that $80-150 million plane they threw in the drink just the other day. Real good stuff!
I got a laugh out of that with the first characters I typed. Thanks :).
Every major software company have big development center in India, Microsoft, Samsung, Google, IBM, Amazon.

It is just wrong to say india just provide support. That was the case like 20 years back
My pizza place has caller ID hooked into their POS computer. When I call, it brings up my order history and I can literally say "same as last time" and my order is complete.
Oooh! I’d also love to recommend GBA homebrew development, especially if you’re a little wary of learning Assembler.

I had a fantastic time in high school, grade 11 or so (2005?) - playing with the homebrew development kit at the time…

The joy of GBA is a much broader palette - well - any colours whatsoever, if you’re just talking straight GB (no GBC) - and access to some fun hardware tricks like scaling, extra background layers; honestly - it’s like an SNES pro or something. I love it.

Also a shout out for DS homebrew. Hella fun.
This thing started because of the added restriction of being fully vaccinated to cross the US or Canadian border as a trucker.
I once managed to get Google to strike through every keyword and show me just vaguely related things.
This blog explores few of awesome plots in Plotly on COVID dataset.
Great write up! Added to my list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30133374

Agree with your assessment that 100 million is an upper bound. I am curious about a deeper analysis as well that involves defining what "real users" are and then seeing how many transactions/wallets meet that criteria. i.e. of that "100 million", how many of them are simply buying and hodling? How many have done a non-exchange transaction (i.e. bought a thing, not coins. Buying NFTs counts! Or a pizza, or buying software, or staking or something)

The comparison to Diner's club is also relevant. 20 years from zero to 51% of all Americans.

Just getting to your "Why has blockchain user adoption been so terrible and what can we do about it?" section and will edit after that.

Edit: Well worth the read. If anything, the title and top image were a bit clickbaity, but the article itself was great, all the way through to the end.

Overall, the key question you point to is "Why did the web grow 10x faster than blockchain? Facebook 15x, and mobile 35x faster?"

I'm curious about this! Is there a recent technology that did grow at 10x over 13 years that we could learn from? Another way to look at this is blockchain is growing at 23% YOY over the last 13 years. What technologies should we compare it to?

Just to pull on the thread, is blockchain more like "hard tech"? If so, that would be really odd since it's not "hard tech". What has EV growth been like?

Here's a chart [1] from [2] that says about 17 million EVs have been sold since 2012. Let's call that 13 years for the sake of keeping the math the same, but the web grew 100x as fast. OK so cryptocurrency is growing about order of magnitude faster than EVs, but why is it slower than the web? What else develops at a speed that's 10x faster than the growth of EVs, but still slower than the web itself?

[1] https://www.ev-volumes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/WW-K-6...
[2]
There is a distinction between "I said it once, and I'm not obligated to say it again", and "I said it once, and therefore I can assume that everyone knows it". The difference is in whether you need everyone to know it (accountable for the result), or only need to CYA (accountable for your job).
True, I go by Mike in Starbucks. I guess I can do the same there. I guess it hasn't occurred to me because I never actually called a pizza place :)

My point about the accent is still valid in my opinion. It's difficult to call someone in a loud restaurant and and try to get a point across.
I don’t think pulling his music is effective in persuading people he wants to persuade (likely this stunt has the opposite effect), but I also think it’s better to engage in good faith than just argue to suppress speech.

You can’t always if the other party won’t engage in good faith, but from what I’ve seen of Rogan he does. Harder with cases like Brett Weinstein where I think engaging is a waste of time imo.

So there’s a pragmatic argument here about getting the outcome you want.

For the latter rather than pulling with a “me or him” framing. It is possible to reaffirm the shared freedom of speech yet saying you disagree and don’t want to share the platform directly (because it indirectly helps fund it). That’s probably what I’d do in that situation.
> In case someone has any advice beyond finding a hobby, going to therapy, approaching random strangers, it would be greatly appreciated. I don't have any skills other than coding...

I have lots of things I'd like to say and yet the one that jumps out to me the most:

If you don't think you have any skills other than coding, what's one skill other than coding that you'd like to learn?

I ask because I've found that sometimes it has been the easiest for me to meet people in learning environments, maybe for similar dynamics to college. A place where I feel uncertain yet curious to learn more, and often encounter others who are feeling similarly or have learned and are somewhat eager to teach people who want to learn.

This may be similar to "get a hobby" advice, yet I think it differs enough in that it's more about finding a specific skill you are interested in learning. The challenge with some hobbies is that many people who are there may already be very skilled in it and may not want to deal with people who are beginners. That's what I like about learning environments, many often appreciate and welcome learners.

And, I'd guess that an environment with an assumption of curiosity could lead to interpersonal curiosity as well.

I used to teach salsa lessons and I found that a lot of people came to salsa because they wanted to meet others—not necessarily because they wanted to learn salsa—and it would show. As a teacher, I'm not so interested in teaching someone who wants doesn't really want to learn, just wants to use the class to meet others. Conversely, if someone really wants to learn, I'm excited to teach them, and they seem to have more in common with the others who really want to learn.

Not sure if this will help you, I'd love to chat with you more about it here or at the email in my bio, because in helping you figure this out, maybe it'll help me and/or help me help others. If not, that's OK, too. I think you reaching out and asking for help is a huge step, having the courage to open up and show us a little more of what you're struggling with—I believe so much loneliness comes from closing ourselves off from others. So I'm grateful that you asked for this...thank you!
That and a mix of people tolerating and working around broken systems because the bureaucracy wasn't worth it.
https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...
That is mostly true, but I hate to see the narrative that it's insecure due to lack of resources. It's easy to miss the ridiculous scale of these big tech companies.
History of Pizzatool
Hedonism is overrated – to make the best of life there must be pain
Cheese pizza must be the default, right? It is the lack of toppings. Although whether they follow up to clarify about toppings must depend on the place.

In my experience, if the guy on the phone is rude and lets you mess up your order, they are much more likely to produce a good pizza. Places will only be polite (or offer lots of options) if they can't compete on quality.
I've been looking up exact variable names from various API documentation and getting no relevant results despite these variable names appearing in multiple Stack Overflow posts, the API documentation where I copies the text from and of course GitHub.
Nutritional literature is notoriously contradictory.

Here's an article that says higher intake of dairy fat is associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease.
https://www.clinicalnutritionjournal.com/article/S0261-5614(...

And here's one that says the exact opposite of that.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Very interesting! You should submit that to HN too.