skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dont do these things, you dont need to just start adding crap to your schedule to make up for your loneliness. just sit with it and understand it before you pull the trigger on church or volunteering. just sit with it, understand it, be silent and contemplative.

>What you need are random collisions with other people. More random collisions means a higher probability of meeting someone you get along well with.

typical programmer mindset, turning everything into abstraction, using his spacial/math abilities to obscure the nature of the modern world, which is just a detached, technocratic hell. making complex models for problems does not get you closer to the solution on it's own
The popularity of black makes it a Schelling point [0]. It's not my favorite code style. At some point before the enum module was added, I picked a habit of using single-quote 'strings' for internal fixed strings and double-quote "strings" for human-readable messages. Black's formatting of strings to all use double quotes removes this distinction. But having some 95% solution can get 95% of people to agree to it, which is enough to avoid arguments that never reach a conclusion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schelling_point
Yeah so called experts should come with warnings, they could be about to open Pandora's box and there isnt any going back once that happens!
Cool! You've probably already seen it but Dune Analytics has some useful blockchain data analysis tools too. I hadn't heard of Glassnode before.

Edit: thinking of other technology adoption curves. Faster than EVs but slower than web and mobile. Thinking of finance too. What's the adoption of NFCs/touchless payments/chips look like? What about the rise of microlending/lending club etc?
> dance lessons

It's true that many sign up for those lessons looking to meet people, and have no particular interest in dancing. The trick, though, is to persist until you get good at it. Your attractiveness to the other dancers will go up as you get better, and so will opportunities.

Besides, even if it doesn't work out for you, the skills you'll learn in posture, elegance, etc., will pay off for you in other activities. A woman likes a man who knows how to make her look good.
> Most people can't do it, and get weird about it.

What? Definitely not my experience.

> Its very expensive or you need to luck into a certain life style.

Travel does not need to be expensive. Hostels are cheap. If you volunteer, you can even stay for free. Also many regions of the world are inexpensive.

> No one is interested in seeing travel pics or talking about places ime.

Again, not sure what kind of people you're meeting, but I haven't found that to be the case. Then again I've been traveling the last 4 years, so the type of people I meet tend to have the same interests.
here is why people don't like GMOs. it has nothing to do with the genetic modification. it is due to the rationale by which GMOs are used in the US, which are exactly: 1. to allow much greater use of herbicides 2. to allow much greater use of pesticides 3. to allow seeds to be patented and subject to license fees such that control of the food supply is handed over to multinational corporations.

now you can get into debating that glyophosphate is just fine and you could just drink a whole jar of it no problem (yeah right) and all that, you could get into how it's just fine if there's no more seeds available to humanity that don't come with license fees, but that's what the actual debate is about.
Do you have any references for other people, articles, etc with similar questions? They seem incredibly obvious to me but it's very strange to feel so alone in what I consider to be such an obvious perspective.

That's just it - people went through A LOT to get on the web in the early days but the value was so immediately compelling and obvious they considered it worth the effort. As I note in the rant corporations were snatching up their .com within a year or two. How many legit companies have their domain and presence on ENS (which itself has been around for almost five years now)?
Go hiking every weekend. Somewhere that takes some planning and a bit of effort to get to.

I know you said doing things yourself is boring and depressing, and this won't fix the social aspect or give you wild and crazy fun, but it's what changed things for me, when all my usual hobbies and activities didn't. The separation it imposed from my day to day recontextualized everything; it made the job I hated bearable, it gave me purpose each week to figure out where I'd go that weekend, and a task to solve in actually making that hike happen. I felt great afterwards (exercise + accomplished something personal to me), and it started to change how I interacted with the world. It wasn't a magical fix-all, but it started the ball rolling in a bunch of different ways, changing my outlook and how I presented myself to the world, in what I invested in, and it clearly had an effect on how others saw me.
Not just uncomfortable, the shape doesn't even tell your hand which way is up. Every time I went back and forth between typing and moving the mouse, I would drag it slightly off axis.
You really can do it in much smaller amounts.
this person was not very nice to OP. OP is totally normal for feeling this way and his post should elicit sympathy, not contempt.
I remember being amused that they advertised the change pretty heavily, and the tone was pretty explicit about saying "we don't suck now!"
Yeah those all sound nice in theory but those activities way more likely to be populated with other weird lonely overthinker types like OP. Do stuff that normal people actually do, not what internet people think normal people do.
> The ubiquity of standardized smartphones at the highest levels of government means that unfathomable budgets are dedicated

Our field is in denial about the importance of diversity to security.

Biologists have no problem understanding this. Why can't we?
Pizza is like sez: even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.
> Whether or not libertarians would agree with my characterization is immaterial to the reality of the impact of libertarian policies which are tailored in favor of the rich at expense to the poor.

I was remarking about your specific claim about the Libertarian perspective and your implication that they’re inconsistent:

> [libertarians] see the police as necessary to insulate them from the negative externalities of late-stage capitalism.

The libertarian belief that a “rising tide floats all boats” might be incorrect, but inaccuracy and inconsistency are different things. Moreover, progressive policies have often been hard on the poor, and socialist and communist policies have been absolutely disastrous. No political ideology is blameless.
If you need some ideas for brainstorming, here is the endless source for inspiration.

https://shitcode.net/
Well I'm glad the staff at the Post is focusing on what really matters after a million Americans have died (and counting!):

CONSUME
Historically it was common advice to avoid elaborate code formatting, as keeping up such formatting by hand was tedious, time consuming, and inconsistent, compared to the value add.

Given near all code (let's say for large projects) is authored with IDEs, elaborate formats can be applied consistently and automatically, at little or no cognitive or typing cost.

To me the question is then if such formatting can increase the legibility of the code. The grid of static variable declarations in [2] is nice, but I wonder if sorting the variable lexicographically would make it easier to read/find a var by name?

Not sure how splitting method signature names onto a second line helps, though.
I mean the continuation pattern used that effectively mimics the pipe operator. I realize that the functions themselves are provided by lodash.
Felt that way in my 20s. Married a girl and bought a house and those feelings went away. But...if you don't want to do those things don't renew your lease and go travel. Do some risky stuff while your out there. You never know who you're going to meet.
Because "we're a tiny bit better than the other half of the duopoly" is avoiding the issue.
The Ukrainian President is concerned about invasion, not sure where you’re getting the idea he’s not. His criticism is specifically about the handling so as to not cause panic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/28/ukraine-russ....
Commander Keen mods??? I know what I'm doing with the rest of my weekend...
Had the same thought. Youtube and HN harm my attention span much more than netflix did when I had it.
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You feel your life is done while you are unhappy, you come seek help on HN because you logically understand that you have much more things to do in life.

Work part time. As a developer, you can make 7-10k usd a month working part time, without much effort, from any part of the world. This is pure luck, we live a time with free money, VCs are pouring the tech with billions and billions, grab the cash.

No western country: Move to a place with sun, parties and good food like mexico or thailand. It's much more easy to make new friends in your 30s in a foreign country because western migrants are always grouping together, in small communities easy to find and to join. Bonus point, go to a place with peaceful locals, no stressed commuters and welcoming people. Learn the local language, make new friends in the new country.

Improve yourself, now you have free time to travel deeply in yourself, understand the whole psychologic movement happening in your brain. You have time to experiment and ultimately learn how peace and hapiness is generated in your brain and body. You will also learn how to understand other people, which will lead to new friendships.
I think the sibling comment pointing out that the compiler errors tell you exactly what trait you need is for you then! You can get them with just a `cargo check`, no language server required.
> Then again, from my experience it was hard to find true Italian pizza in the US.

A useful keyword to look out for if you want something (similar to) Italian pizza in the US is a restaurant that's marketed as "wood fired" or "brick oven". This will pretty much always get you a Napoletana-style pizza, regardless of your current US regional specialties.
Touting therapy as incredible effective is at least a little dishonest. I know very many people who saw no benefit from it despite great expense.

Think: If you see benefit from therapy are you not more likely to keep going?
I'd say find a spouse and raise children. It's much harder than you think, and you will have to go through many sacrifices. But people changing diapers and working to pay off their mortgages have purpose in their lives, they have something to live for. Life is often brutal and it is hard to live if you don't have a goal. Many are getting stuck in their career phases. Career is not an end goal. You only need so much money to be happy. You need to something bigger than yourself in your life to be happy, and for most of us it's being a parent. Even Musk, who arguably has all the purpose in his life a man could get has spawned six children. We all die, and you will as well. If you don't leave someone behind, what's the meaning, why bother? Your life ends with you and all your money and career are gone.
I know what you mean!

One way to meet lots of people you’d be able to relate to without abandoning your engineering career is to start a startup - your own company, where you use your developer skills to make a product.

That’s what I did, and the only time I dove back into depression was after we got acquired and I had to deal with a regular job again.

If you don’t have any ideas, there are lots of folks looking for technical cofounders - e.g. at this YC resource: https://www.ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching

Being a founder comes with its own set of challenges, but over the past few years mental health in entrepreneurship has been adopted as a serious issue by the community - you’d have a wealth of resources and plenty of people will help you without expecting anything in return.
I’m confused. You can always run your backend code on the same machine as your database. It’s a good idea to keep the code decoupled (so when you get popular, you could move the database to a bigger box). But you have to maintain/install those things yourself. If you’re using a PaaS vendor, they will use specific instances or installations for your database to help make your setup more scalable. In reality, it is to make your code and all of their other customers code more scalable as a whole.

But, the first step in developing an MVP should probably be running all of the code on a single server. But again, that assumes you’re the one setting up the server.
> Where can one vote against it?

In repos you're contributing to.
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quit your job, buy a one way ticket anywhere.
Yeah I often see people recommend board game groups for people like OP which is shocking to me. Take a look at the people attending these events. They're not what OP is looking for. Look for normies hobbies.
> hide the fact that the menu prices are often jacked up by 50% or more.

Wheat in metric tonne lots direct from the farmer costs about $350-400/tonne, or about $0.35-$0.40/kg. Kroger enriched white bread costs about $3.00/kg, more than seven times as much.

There are a lot of middlemen in there, each of which raises the price. On the other hand, I don't have to store a metric tonne of wheat, and maintain my own milling and baking facilities (I do make my own bread, but that's actually more expensive than buying cheap white bread... worth it, though).

Similarly, with DoorDash I don't have to interrupt what I'm doing, go to the restaurant, stand in line/wait for a table, then travel back home. Those are costs I avoid by using Dd.

Is it worth it? It depends on the individual. But no one is being forced into the transaction, and they are clearly adding value for many.
Yeah, and I don't understand what plans are being avoided. If anything it seems the extended unemployment, advanced tax credits, etc seems to have paved the way for UBI, etc. Sure, the conservative side is against it, but once Rome starts handing out free bread... once constituents realize they hold the keys to the coffers... assistance programs only grow... When people are getting something out of it, that's an entirely different dynamic than stagflation.
Oh cool! I hadn't heard of that.
Eh, I wish them all best of luck, I'm sure they're great people. My point was that people seem to attend various hobbies to find romantic partners, rather than friends.
Did anyone else catch the response to this FAQ ?

> Can I harvest free energy or power an "off the grid" electrical system with a Tesla coil?

> Many people have realized our fiat monetary system and corrupt political leadership will likely lead to increased financial and political disorder - and possible electrical outages and price increases. I'm often asked if a Tesla coil can be used to generate or gather power. No, a Tesla coil cannot harvest free energy, ambient energy ...
I once shorted out one of those through my thumb and I swear I felt the ghostly presence of my dead brother even though my brother is alive and was at work at the time.

Getting a few dozen volts straight through a nerve will make you feel weird things.
> I wanted to learn how to dance (to wit, I failed miserable)

Perhaps you gave up too early, or had a poor coach. I am terribly awkward, but I persisted, and eventually people who didn't know me told me I was "talented". What a laugh.
If a notary lies or commits fraud, you still have legal means to undo the damage. You can't yank back funds or mutate data on a blockchain.
> not what internet people think normal people do

As internet people debate in a lengthy thread about what normal people do. :-)
That is an extremely naive viewpoint. When the NSA develops a capability they don't just sit around spinning in their office chairs until it stops working. There is constant development effort to ensure continued access to the information they need.
I think the threshold for too much diversity is high. Going to college exposed me to a lot of different people and cultures. Despite a few misunderstandings it seemed great for everyone.

The only real downside I can see is if immigrants become isolated in enclaves or the 'natives' are xenophobic. (Ultimately we're all immigrants unless you belong to a demographic that evolved where you live today.)
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>Should I build a Tesla coil for a science fair?

>mostly I built it because it was cool.

I would say build it because you want it, then it'll be a science fair every time you run it.

In 6th grade we built one on a portable cart which was brought into class on project days until it was complete.

Ended up with a 6 foot tall coil topped with a classic copper flush toilet float. It would throw sparks a few feet to the closest fluorescent tube a kid was holding up.
I would argue AMM go beyond just evading gas cost. It sounds redundant to say, but an AMM eliminates the need for active market makers; or put another way, anyone can be a market maker. I think that's an interesting thing--previously there was no very effective way for me to participate in market making (and the potential profits of such), but with an AMM it essentially becomes a passive investment.
A comparison of ENS and .com seems super interesting. In another comment you mention the difficulty of comparing chains vs popularity etc. Or comparing market caps and sich is so weird, what's the "market cap" of USD?

Whereas for ENS you have something real to compare to with .com, including registration data. ENS does seem to be getting some adoption mostly at an individual/celebrity level. Here's the leaderboard of top ENS users by # of Twitter followers: https://ethleaderboard.xyz/

I also think the ENS community in general is curious about the questions you're asking. Fundamentally ENS/DNS is pretty boring, so it's hard to get too wildly speculative.
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Is keeping commitments vital to US security?

Stay well away from that can of worms. The US has reneged on many, many commitments over the centuries. Probably almost as many as the original 'Perfidious Albion'.
This seems like you’re using a relatively uncommon tooling setup (no language server, some kind of inline vim errors rather than the command line), and expecting that to “just work.” As a user of arcane tools, it seems to me a slightly unreasonable expectation. If you’re not going to go down the “golden path” of using rust—analyzer, you’ll need to assume that your editor’s support for the language may be incomplete out of the gate and figure out how to supplement it. Even with rust-analyzer, the source of truth is always `cargo check` and friends, so I recommend getting super familiar with them on the command line, regardless of your editor setup.
Eating a small serving of potatoes is generally fine for most people who have a healthy metabolism (i.e. not insulin resistant). But they do have a high glycemic index.

https://www.va.gov/WHOLEHEALTHLIBRARY/tools/glycemic-index.a...
It’s just a way to have sex with foreign women. I don’t know why people aren’t just honest about it.
Why should people unlike you like people like you?
A decade or more ago, I had in my backpack a set of rubber bands, heavy thread, and paperclips that I did a demo with. If you suspended a weight from the thing with a removable paper clip joining one of the links, the load settled to a certain height. If you removed the clip (a negligible mass, in the demo), breaking the link (in a resettable manner for the next time), the load went UP, instead of down.

I can't find the story that prompted me to make this demo back then, but here is an article from Nature that probably was the root source of it.

https://lab.rockefeller.edu/cohenje/PDFs/185CohenHorowitzNat...
> Apple cant do this on its servers either, considering it has no server product

Wat?

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro/rack

https://www.apple.com/macos/server/
> I really don't like myself right now :)

This seems like the actual issue you should be addressing.
He’s just saying what everyone is thinking. You sound fake as hell
> I hear you, Nix definitely does feel slow and I must day over the few years I’ve been using it it has definitely slowed down even more.

I don't know about others but once you become used to package managers like pacman and apk, it's a jarring experience to use apt and dnf, especially dnf. And Nix feels just as slow, if not slower, than all of them.

I have to install hundreds of MBs of metadata before I can install a package with dnf and the fastestmirror=true has essentially been useless in the history of my years of usage of dnf. The end result is me downloading hundreds of megs at speeds less than 1MBps.

> In terms of the DSL, I’m really surprised that people find it a problem as much as they do. When I first tried Nix I moved my first nonprod server over to it that very afternoon.

I find it much easier to use a combination Ansible, python/shell scripts, and dotfiles on multiple git forges. This setup may not be as declarative as NixOS but it is much easier to grok and use. I have no motivation to learn an obscure DSL to manage my system.
Just last week this site featured an article about Chesterton's Fence:

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/

Surely the people who design the protocols aren't intentionally sabotaging the usefulness of the blockchain with these limits? If the limits are raised, what problems are introduced, and what advances are needed to avoid them?
Speak for yourself, not "everyone".
> So the 8088 and assembly window was really, really small

It really wasn't. Ten years later you could walk into a shop and still purchase an XT-class system. It ran WordPerfect (written in asm) just fine. Newer stuff had come out, but it was always more expensive. It wasn't until Windows 3.1 took off circa 1992ish that PC hardware started getting faster and cheaper very rapidly.

> And people were over dos by the time Windows 3.0 was released

As a practical matter, Windows 3.x required a lot of DOS configuration. It really wasn't until Windows 95 you could mostly ignore it.
It won't magically end his isolation, no. But, it will create an environment that is conducive to ending it. You run into opportunities every day, and it's up to you to take advantage of them, or immediately drown them in negativity.
What's the difference between "Boomer-like foolishness" and actual foolishness? How to know when we are experiencing the former vs. the latter? /s

I'm not a Boomer but took offense to your ageist comments. I was actually with you until the last sentence. What the fuck does not understanding NFTs have to do with being a Boomer? I've had conversations about NFTs with 11 year old kids, 21 year old students, 49 year old dads and 73 year old grandmas. They all equally understood absolutely nothing about the topic.