skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We get takeout a good amount ourselves but I do try to cook at least twice a week (sometimes more, also not including making salads or breakfast).

When I was single I would just cook some meat on a stovetop with some sautéed vegetables, cook frozen pizzas, or make basic sandwiches or burritos, but my wife (who I started dating in my mid 30s, btw) insists on cooked food when we don't do takeout, so over time we've built up some go-to recipes that aren't hard to make (although a bit time-consuming sometimes because of chopping veggies and slicing/browning chicken), maybe you'll find them useful.

For equipment, consider getting an instant pot for sure, and then maybe eventually a slow cooker, a deep square pan for the stove (that can hold a 3-4 servings of a meal), a nice sturdy spatula (or 3) like the Joseph Joseph Uni-Tool 5-in-1, and a vegetable chopper (to make dicing onions, green peppers, and celery super fast).

Chicken fajitas are pretty easy. Slice some onions and yellow peppers length-wise, cut chicken breasts into strips, mix together a few spices (can make a big batch of the spice mix ahead of time and store in another spice bottle to make it quicker next time).

Put the chicken and veggies in a casserole dish or sheet pan, drizzle oil and the spread out the spices, then bake it at 400 degrees for about 35 minutes, serve with tortillas, shredded cheese, salsa, and anything else you would put on them.

https://www.budgetbytes.com/oven-fajitas/

Chili is another one that you can just toss several ingredients into a slow cooker in the morning, and by evening it'll be ready for dinner and last a few days. Basically dump some cans of beans (rinse first), diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, and beef broth, then a diced onion, meat, chili powder and other spices, then maybe experiment a bit.

https://natashaskitchen.com/slow-cooker-chili-recipe/

A few other recipes we do fairly often that are hard to get wrong even if your measurements aren't exact:

https://emilybites.com/2015/10/spicy-taco-gnocchi-skillet.ht...

https://www.skinnytaste.com/lasagna-soup/

https://www.graceandgoodeats.com/skillet-enchilada-rice/

https://www.thisisnotdietfood.com/instant-pot-cheesy-buffalo...

https://www.eatingonadime.com/instant-pot-chicken-and-dumpli...

https://cafedelites.com/cajun-butter-steak-bites/ (we mix them in with some cooked egg noodles)

https://lexiscleankitchen.com/crock-pot-stuffed-pepper-soup/

Good luck! I was in a similar position a few years ago but now I'm glad I found some recipes we can cook that offer something different from what's easily accessible from nearby restaurants sometimes, to add a bit more variety.
If OP looks down upon his current neighbors for childish, superficial reasons, I doubt relocating will fix his broken "Instagram-warped" perspective.
What exactly are you talking about?

Dangerous cult leaders like

https://www.youtube.com/c/WheatWaffles

?
Making friendships is actually easier when you are enjoying something you like to do. I recently got back into scuba diving in the last few years (used to do it a lot years ago) and I've met a number of people in the community. A lot of acquaintances, some friendships along the way, but it's great practice for learning to establish a community around yourself. You'll find that making friends is easier when you frequent a community you actually like being apart of.

In all honesty, that feeling of isolation (i think) has a lot to do with just feeling bored because you've got nothing you want to do or anyone to do that with. Expand your peripheral a bit, figure out what makes you excited, try new things, (yes take a class). If you really liked dancing - like a lot - then yea you might make friends there if you decide to take enough classes idk.

When I got back into diving I found multiple avenues for opportunities to make friends. One - the dives themself are typically always with other people, two the planned trips together, three the classes themselves, four honing your own skills and learning how to become an instructor..etc.

I've known friends who got really into rebuilding cars, jeeps, motorcycles..etc for instance that they became regulars at certain places, groups or meetups that you make friends that way. Or others who are really into d&d, cosplay, and loads of other geeky stuff. It's a preference thing of what you like to do and whether other people like to do that too. Like a child who just wants someone to play with. It's innate.

Personally I'm a bit biased towards doing hobbies that involve being outside and doing something physical. Too much time in front of a computer staring a code all day - I need to do something else sometimes. Helps to talk to other people when you're working on some other skill set - you learn from others and you get to meet cool people. However, I've also just enjoyed playing card games and setting up movie nights - just having something you like doing together with other people - whether that's a group of friends or your wife and kids (for the parents/married group)
Hear hear! My quality of life tends to be inversely correlated with how hard I'm trying to put on the act of being a normal person.
"Reversible SQL" is such a great idea. PostgreSQL does have pub/sub semantics via LISTEN and NOTIFY. At some level, we should think about removing the centralized database completely, and let all of user's devices synchronize with each other somehow. Perhaps SQLite database files synchronized with syncthing? That would really be fantastic!
This is amazing. I’ve been wondering more and more myself why it’s always “proper” to run your backend code on separate servers from your database. Like this is considered a must have for even the most basic architectures. No cloud provider or PaaS has real support for running your app code and your database on the same machine, but that should be the default for a huge majority of apps out there that don’t need the scalability beyond a single server.
Yes, the framing of the high budget web military propaganda from the effectively state-run military news source is based on lies.
Of course, finding a hobby and approaching random strangers is the only way to find new things to do and new people.

But maybe consider some part time, low responsibility, public facing job. Don't worry about the pay, that's not the idea. Something that will put you in front of people to talk to.
There's a lot of more qualified people who have written better criticisms of it than I can, but it generally boils down to a few things:

1. Lack of basis in reality. While of course there are occasional cases of communities mismanaging resources, this was and is far from univeral or usual. In fact the english public land that the thought expermiment gets it's name from and claims can not work had succesfully been in common ownership for to my knowledge all of recorded history until it's relatively recent enclosure (privatization).

2. It supposes the commoners would desire infinite short term growth above and beyond what they needed, could personally tend to or the land could sustain. This is both ahistorical and circular logic. In reality commoners had long known the amount of cattle the commons could sustain and allocated limits among themselves.

3. Where examples of over-grazing do exist, it was as a result of deliberate action by wealthy people to drive commoners off of the land for enclosure. This is not unlike the patterns we do commonly see in the real world today, where resource exhaustion generally takes place when there there are big power differences.

4. Far more than as a prediction of reality, it has been successful as a justification for various unsightly things, from land theft and colonialism past and present, to eugenics and global poverty. It is not a neutral description of human nature and historical tendencies, but a distortion of them that aids the wealthy and poweful.

If you are looking for a better alternative I suggest you look at the power relationships between the people who are using the commons instead, it's usually much more enlightening.
My issue with central limit order books is that every asset is gatekept by the need for active market makers to provide the limit orders, it relies on money deposited at a particular exchange to be non-posted orders, it relies on stub quotes, it relies on strict regulations and deputization of exchanges to enforce behavior of market maker’s limit orders

These are expensive things to maintain.

Whereas with AMMs and liquidity pool assets, the community can provide liquidity, have a passive income stream, build new markets for the liquidity pool shares, and have routing between different asset’s liquidity pools such that the base currency isnt as important.

I like limit orders, especially for accumulation at the same price, but with the advent of this method I see more benefits. AMMs with ranged liquidity fulfills what I like about limit orders too.
Young told his management to tell Spotify to pull his music. No if.[1]

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-youngs-sp...
Find a dance studio that has partner dancing. Pick a style you like. You'll meet new people, add movement to your life and music.
You act like those were the only two options and outcomes. That's a failure of imagination at best, and a false dichotomy.

Some countries were able to issue effective mask wearing guidance - without lying to people, or causing mass mask hoarding. So let's not pretend that wasn't achievable.

Let's also not act like we tried other outcomes first; incentives to mask production, disincentives to mask hoarding, etc.

Multiple trusted organisations lied to Americans, not just for practical purposes but also for political and personal reasons. "Trust the science" now means, obey the science that we didn't censor / fail to investigate / lock behind data protection. It's really not justified, however thick you take people for, and however limited your imagination.
+1. Highly informative, well researched and has made me doubt some of my own investments into crypto/NFTs.
The sql/js syntax kind of reminds me of coldfusion for some reason.
Shoot wish I saw this post before getting PRK last month..
Finally, a good reason to have a couple paragraphs before the recipe!
Please refer to the Al-Hazred book that explores the question in detail.

Exercise caution.
use go-sqlite3 to work with sqlite3 is one choice.

https://github.com/etcd-io/bbolt is another pure go option.

cznic seems like an alternative to bbolt. nice to have some options.
A pipeline operator would be nice, but I just took a look and I agree that |> and % are difficult to read. I also think |> is hard to type, which makes it more painful.

Admittedly I don't have a stellar solution to this though. Only alternative I can think of is ~
RE: activity

This may sound crazy, but join a Crossfit gym.

Look on google maps, find one that is convenient, show up, talk to the coach, and sign up for a month.

Crossfit is instant community. And you will get fit and feel better about yourself while you do it.

Will it solve everything? Maybe not. But there's it's SUCH a simple way to make real progress on isolation, health, and self esteem.

There are a million other great activities and communities. Few are as easy to find and as consistently positive as Crossfit. (And it does't have to literally be "Crossfit" but if it isn't, then you are in a search mode, which leads to hesitation, reasons not to, and doing nothing.)
Read Starting Strength and start lifting with that program.

Cut out all the junk you eat, start eating heathy. Stop drinking or smoking if you do that.

Make sure you get at least 8 hours of sleep.

Read the Almanac of Naval Ravikant, specifically the parts about wealth and happiness.

At least once a week, take a walk outdoors.

Avoid therapy until you have taken the above simple steps to try to remedy your situation, which isn’t that you are lacking friends but that you have envy and a feeling that you are lacking something fundamental in your own life.

Friends don’t create happiness, happiness can create friends though.
> Still, I'm only in my 30s, and it feels like my life is pretty much done. Doing things by myself is boring and depressing, and getting into a group of "normal" friends, of both genders, to hang out and laugh with, seems like an impossible goal.

Wait 'til your forties, its like this except you're fatter, uglier and no one wants to hire you any more.
Telling people to just "be happy" is not constructive advice. If it was that easy everyone would do it.
get part time minimum wage jobs at Starbucks etc. You'll meet people different than you :)
Nostradamus also wrote recipes for jams, etc.

https://botchedandecstatic.tumblr.com/post/8954281467/nostra...
Move into a share house
Some people seems to love it, the mouse being "flat", while I cant stand it and prefer something from Logitech and Microsoft which has more height.

It is the same with butterfly keyboard. Some claims it is the best keyboard ever. While others hated it because it gives zero typing feedback and Key travel distance. Even on the new Magic Keyboard on 2021 MacBook still sucks for me. Adding a keyboard typing case / mat seems to help a bit. But 2015 MBP scissors keyboard is still so much better.
Easy fix: take a dark color sample and a light color sample from within the rectangle, fill with randomized solid noise, pixelize blur, then gradient map with the color samples.
> in my 30s

> my life is pretty much done

Hahahaha

Consider that we have essentially figured out how to live super long (> 100) and maybe even much longer, your life is faaaaar from over.

My advice is to take a sabbatical and go travel. You’ll meet lots of people outside of your zone and have fun.
When I was in about the same situation (and probably at about the same age) as you are now, a bit over twenty years ago now, I went to a bar and had a beer (and probably dinner) one Friday afternoon. Probably with a paperback SF novel in my pocket, as was my wont in those days, to have something to read while I ate and drank. The bar -- which fittingly was also named Friday -- can't have been too popular, because I had a whole booth to myself. (This was before everyone became too anti-social to even answer their phones, or use them to make actual voice calls to actual people, so it was customary to share space with strangers if space was in short supply.) Well, a few years later the bar closed anyway, so Friday is no more.

But, as I sat there in my booth reading my novel and nursing my beer(s), I noticed two women -- old friends, from what I overheard of their conversation -- in the booth next to mine. A while after that, I noticed that they had also noticed me, and a further while after that, we struck up a conversation. Can't recall if the blonde one, whom I at first found the more attractive of them, threw me a line or if it was me who interjected some joke into their conversation. Perhaps they asked what I was reading, or something. Anyway, after some time talking, I came to the conclusion that the brunette was even nicer -- not just good looking, but a great sense of humour (got in some real zingers about me, but all in good fun), and with a very sensible outlook on life in general. So I did my best to keep up my end of the conversation, took an interest in them -- no faking it, I was interested! -- and hung around until the talk turned to what to do for the rest of the evening. Can't recall who suggested another place, with music and dancing. So there we went.

The place was called Pikkuparlamentti, "Little Parliament", because it was right next to the parliament building. (Hm, also closed now -- am I cursed?!? Naah, at least media claimed it was torn down because the Finnish Parliament expanded their building in that direction.) This place was really popular at the time, so we talked some more while waiting in line to get in. At the door, disaster struck: "Sorry, no jeans and no sneakers!" I told the ladies I'd see them inside a little later, and took a taxi home to change and back there quicker than I would have thought possible. Then I danced, IIRC with both of them (possibly even at the same time), but definitely mostly with the brunette... Whom I had by this time realised was definitely the more attractive of them, and wondered how I could ever have thought otherwise. (See other comments about how attraction grows from more than superficial qualities.)

If all goes well, our son will graduate from "lukio" (~"high school") this year.

So:

1) Go to bars for dinner and beer after work.

2) Don't be so immediately judgemental.

3) Remember to bring a paperback novel.

[Edit: Ttpo.]
> The disease progreia is a possible example of the epigenetic clock malfunctioning and running too fast.

It's a great example, but if anyone wanted to know more, it's spelled progeria.
My point is you let people have their different styles, reject changes on lines where code isn't changed, and coach the style zealots to calm down. Changing a couple of bytes in a file? Don't change the style. Writing something new? Figure out what's best. Rewriting a big chunk? Make reasonable formatting choices.

Some programmers are zealots who have a hard time working with others, the solution isn't always to force the matter or acquiesce to the squeakiest wheel. A strong organization should be able to enable people do have their style and disable people from forcing their opinions on everybody or wasting everybody's time with low-value debate.
Well, IMO, it's time for you to embark the spiritual journey now. The mushroom awaits you! Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Turning a real product into a set of CAD files, though, requires a bit of ingenuity, especially when that product is a gigantic rocket engine.

Don't any copies of the original blueprints survive any more? The articles say they have all the blueprints still. So surely it would be easier to go from blueprints to CAD directly, rather than trying to scan from the physical object to CAD instead.
Thought experiment: Apple could hire nine NSO equivalent teams to do what NSO does. Then fix the bugs they find. This is not a guarantee there are no bugs, but if finding them is crucial to fixing them, NSO is now 1/10 likely to be the team that finds them and 10 times less likely to maintain unique access to the secret.

Scale numbers to make better financial sense.

Now, one would think there are already more non-NSO security researchers than NSO have, who earn money from bounties and report issues to Apple. Yet NSO has a business model. How?
Ask HN: Examples of Unusual Code Formatting Styles?
The recent discussion [1] on the Black formatter for Python had me thinking about whether there is any innovation still happening in the realm of code formatting. Most of the possible ways to format code in each language must have been tried by now, and I would expect we've converged on a narrow range of permutations purely for practical reasons. But recently I did see an interesting example [2] of Java formatting from the Boot library for Clojure, with a style that I had never seen before in that language.

Are there other major variants of code formatting style still being developed out there?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30130315

[2] https://github.com/boot-clj/boot/blob/master/boot/base/src/main/java/boot/App.java
Typical libertarian blind spot. If the government contracts out to a corporation, you get the worst of both worlds: they can tell you what to do (follow id.me rules or else) and you can't vote them out of office. If you vote the people who hired them out of office they still have a contract so we are stuck with them.

And a corporation hired to, say, run a prison can shoot you.
Hmm, I found a sort of workaround involving a temporary transfer to godaddy to get the records and then back to your preferred registrar. Any chance you know more about that?
Great! Black finds all my problems and manages to make my hackwork look respectable in public. I don't always like the output but I at least can understand it.
I traveled a bunch in my youth and it’s definitely not a cure all for life’s meaning. It was exactly like that line from Fight Club - single serving friends. After a while it gets tiring to meet interesting people, hang out for a while and go through the topics you enjoy and feel like you connect. Then they’re or you are off to the other side of the world and that’s the end of that friendship. I did meet my wife and have a lot of fun adventures though.

Try it for a few months and you’ll likely realize that you are the common theme in your problems. It’ll be a very enjoyable time nonetheless.
> 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.

If you are feeling lonely I suggest getting back together with friends from college/high school or joining hobbies/groups. That's what helped me when I was alone in the Bay area
yeah, US would require an unsubscribed analog line to still be able to call 9-1-1, but no such requirement in Canada. Once you kill your subscription, the line goes open circuit/dead.
A plan to chase down the first-known interstellar visitor Oumuamua
Bro, sign up for your local sailing club, learn to operate a boat and advertise discreetly on your instagram you've unexpectedly got single and going on a lonely sailing trip this weekend. Find a local crossfit club. Do something that an average nerdy coach warner wouldnt do.
People who can make friends at 2am on Thailand can also make friends with their coworkers and neighbors. Lonely loners at home become lonely loners on Thailand.
Dr Campbell can explains some difficult research papers fairly well but he has one major shortcoming - he does not explain study limitations. For example he may say that this paper found that some drug works for something but he does not stress that it was in vitro study (in the lab) and this is very early to say if it even works when tested on animals. Even worse, he have done the same for results in silico i.e. computer simulations that are not even close to the real world.
Longer-term, you might like yourself more, if you can get past dissing the people at hobby meetups and dance class.
Well, IMO, it's time for you to embark on the spiritual journey. The mushroom awaits you. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
The meta-talk is not how to make progress. Engage with the actual points. The actual points in the Medium post and the Google Doc.
> just that then there might be too much competition between ancestors and descendants for the same resources.

Why is that supposed to be a problem? Plenty of species will happily eat their own young.
Fpx: Easy USB‑C power for all your devices
> Friends don’t create happiness, happiness can create friends though.

[Citation needed]

Humans are social creatures. I'm pretty sure being socially isolated for an extended period of time has a significant negative effect on mood. Of course its not the only factor involved.

Hell, isolation is even used as a torture method to "break" people so that they spill their secrets.
We all like GPUs. Our author thinks they’re sufficient reason to stick to Linux. They’re not liable to go away, and continue to grow in power and importance. And a shiny new A100 can slurp a gigabyte of data a second, I think it was? You can buy eight of them in a single server.

But the rule of thumb they tell me is: If you try to use CPUs to move data to all these GPUs, your performance is going to tank. If at all possible, you want tech like RDMA, something that throws bits directly from your filesystems to your GPUs. This will only become more important as GPUs get more capable and data hungry.

Can Cthulix actually control enough I/O to build the future of distributed computing? The approach described wants to explicitly minimize filesystem use in favor of message passing. I’m not sure how that’s supposed to be implemented exactly? but there are only a few ways to get the I/O performance you want for the big heavy GPU workloads, and this doesn’t naively sound like it’s one of them, but maybe that’s because it’s a big question mark.