skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, stop this rubbish about getting old; with current life expectancies I wouldn't even consider someone middle aged until they are their forties. Old is probably late sixties to seventies. You still have a long way to go :-)

Secondly, stop trying to define your life by "achieving". I know this is a difficult one, I'm still (sort of) struggling with this one. Achievements are ephemeral. Only an incredibly tiny minority of people achieve anything really significant, and even then those significant achievements often only touch a small minority of the world. It helps to bear in mind that about 99.9999% of the worlds population have no awareness of your existence.

The problem with trying to achieve something awesome is that either you never manage it; in which case you are left permanently unfulfilled and with a sense of failure; or you do achieve it, in which case: what then? You are suddenly left having to find another goal.

I think it is better to just find small ways to enjoy your life and work as much as you need to support those interests.

I am 51 and I still go to see bands at pubs regularly. I know people in their 30s right through to their 70s who are still going out watching rock bands. Hell, I know a couple guys who play in bands and their mum, who has just turned 90, still goes out to see them play and likes a dance. I also go to little festivals with friends who are all in their 50's and 60's.

If you are feeling too old when you go to bars and stuff you are probably going to venues that have a younger crowd. Look around and you can find plenty of places that are patronised by people that are a similar age to you. Many of those, both male and female will be single and probably feeling some of the same things you do.

Finally, don't feel alone in this. There are vast numbers of people who feel similar to you. I am single and have been for a very long time, but just recently - completely by chance - have sort of stumbled into something promising. I also handed in my notice at work recently and finish at the end of the month. I am taking a year off to just enjoy myself and am very excited about it.

Good luck, and don't beat yourself up about stuff. Just remember, we're all a bit lost and stumbling through life the best we can :-)
Women with limited vision surely don’t deserve to know if they’re pregnant. /s
Support requests can be kept as long as you anonymize them. This is true for everything else. Look up "GDPR anonymyzation".
Yup. My wife and I got one when we moved in together before we were married. At the time we were very poor students and it was not obviously the right call. But we have gotten an insane mileage out of that thing from the day we brought it home. Easily worth it many times over.
>A good chair (either herman miller or steelcase) fixed my back pain

Mine too! If you're on a budget, there are plenty of individuals on Facebook Marketplace and similar that sell used Steelcase/Herman Miller chairs for about a third of retail price.

The more reputable used dealers will repair them before sale, as well.
The main thing you're describing is not having a future.

You're a bit young for a midlife crisis, but covid has forced it on all of us (I entered mine at 39 and covid just crushed it). And the world has changed a lot; a lot of the future we imagined has really been taken away - that is, it isn't available anymore, not because of something we did wrong, but because the doors have slammed shut. Just for one thing, having $500k in the bank ain't what it used to be. But I get the sense that you aren't really defined by money.

Maybe the "haven't had a serious relationship for many years now" part is what you should work on. Just putting your time and energy into a relationship is good for you. Without a relationship you have no future.

I have no kids. That makes me feel like I may have no future.

Being aware that the thing you're fighting, the dread you're experiencing, is really about your fear of not having a future -- that can at least provide an anchor, to focus you on imagining what you want a future to look like and taking the steps to get to whatever that place is. I think the biggest problem is that we're all constantly obsessed with the present and somewhere along the line we stop trying to evolve into what we want to be, and get mired down in the quotidian. This may be a normal feature of growing older, but it's definitely amplified by the overwhelming flood of bullshit we see every day now, which seems designed from the ground up to prevent us from thinking about our future.

Spend a little time and ask yourself if not having [edit: not being able to visualize] a future is your actual problem, and take it from there.
Regulatory pressure. With privacy comes illicit use. With illicit use, "what about the children / terrorism / etc..." becomes enough of a reason for regulators to pressure centralized exchanges to drop support. Without widespread adoption, centralized exchanges are needed to swap with more widely accepted monetary devices. If centralized exchanges are blocked, the on/off-ramp for privacy coins suddenly becomes much more difficult.
>I suggest machining

That's a great hobby, but instead of screws i made some small steam-engines, it's not too hard and it's absolutely fascinating if they start working ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp8FMqgc5Io

Not my content...
It’s not clear that smaller sites would have fewer lawsuits if the civil suits were to proceed, as they would be flooded with new users, and with new lawsuits, as soon as the large sites became hostile to them. There are already web3 social media sites that require login with a crypto wallet instead of a traditional user account. It wouldn’t be too difficult to create a site that would be immune to such lawsuits even on a small scale, so I’m not sure why you think that adding more lawyer paydays and violations of the right to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble are the answer. If the site doesn’t want to censor first amendment protected speech on their platform, but the government demands it, that’s a first amendment violation.
No. How do you know it’s the right test strip? How do you know everything that fits will work correctly?
An Android phone with a physical keyboard. It's a night and day difference for me with fat fingers and who likes to look at the text I'm writing, not the keyboard I'm using to write.

RIP BlackBerry Key2.
Thanks, I have. The first result on Google[0] says that pseudonymized data is still considered personal data.

[0] https://dataprivacymanager.net/pseudonymization-according-to...
Same (pfizer) and this was the typical reaction in friends and family. A couple had minor flu-like symptoms for an afternoon but nothing like some have described here (days of "agony" etc), totally unheard of in my circles.
Thirties. Married. First kid on the way this year. Consider your opening sentence. Who are you comparing yourself with? Most people don’t achieve much. You also aren’t owed anything. Time isn’t running out. You hold unhealthy expectation that you are owed a certain amount of life. Release that expectation. Read books about real people dealing with real problems. Write real people letters of gratitude and encouragement. Record for yourself your own ledger of gratitude. Learn how to cook and make a few good dishes. Invite people over to talk and enjoy time together. Finally consider the golden rule as diagnostic code. Whatever you love with all your heart will be your god. So don’t love your money, travel, or even time itself. They’re all pitiful gods. You will love other people the way you love yourself. Take an intentional and committed force of action to loving yourself. Be kind to yourself. The most serious relationship you have is the one with yourself. My sincere best to you on your journey. May you be blessed.
[disclaimer: i agree 100% with your thinking], but...
> When was the last time you thought, oh my god look at that old loser

last night
Same here.

A decently-sized 4k display allows you to have documents open next to your main work app when necessary, but equally lets you use the full real-estate when you don't want to.

With two monitors, I just found myself shoving shit on the second screen and getting distracted.
I went through feeling like this when I was about 27. I felt like I had settled into a comfortable, but monotonous, way of life. Programming, my favourite thing to do then, had become challenging only because of problems created by things like application complexity, framework churn, software development fads etc.

What helped me was taking up new interests and hobbies, ones completely removed from software development, ones with a long history that would take a long time to 'master'. For me this was things like reading, writing and studying ancient philosophy.

I also found developing a kind of 'spirituality' – a word I would have considered dirty in my early twenties – essential to living contentedly in a reality that seems chaotic and meaningless, and accepting things like ageing and dying. For me, the writings and recordings of Alan Watts helped enormously here, but I find different people fill this hole with different things and people.
Who are “they”?

What’s a “RAT” in this context?
A keyboard where the keys are symmetrical, and allow greater use of the thumb (and allow less usage of the pinky fingers). -- Maybe it's not for everyone, but I wish I'd gotten a keyboard like this years ago.
A floor heating pad. $30 and my feet will never be cold at the computer again!
More like what you can hold as a single entity in your head. The sum of your knowledge is vastly more than that.
Bidet.
The email standards explicitly allow everyone to impersonate anyone. That’s why you should use S/MIME and PGP.
This is almost exactly my life, shifted by a decade.

The problem is that by 35 you can't get by on novelty anymore because you've seen some version of everything there is to see.

The worst thing you can do is pine for the good old days. They aren't coming back. And they weren't that good anyway. Your best times are ahead if you can successfully adjust.

What worked for me was putting down roots. I resisted it mightily at first because I wanted to stay mentally 25 forever. Now I see that getting married and having a couple of kids was the right thing to do. It forced me to become more flexible, more deliberate, more focused and have more stamina to do hard things

I'm a loner by nature, so I can't imagine where I'd be if I hadn't settled down. I just know it wouldn't be as good.

Once you've got those roots down, life will lead you to what you should do next. Maybe being a full time parent, maybe learning to sail, maybe more successful entrepreneurship. Who knows...

EDIT: I don't mean to imply that everyone needs a family. What's important is to start living for others to some degree. Hedonism has famously bad diminishing returns.

Some people choose to do lots of volunteering or switch careers to social work. There's lots of options.
Anker PowerCore 26800 (26800mAh) - 3 USB outputs, 2 inputs for charging. Removed away all worry about not having phone charging capability if you're on the move.

There's likely better options available now with USB-C inputs, but the product is still fantastic.

Oral-B Genius 9000 - looked like an overpriced & gimmicky toothbrush (with AR + Bluetooth). It is, but the carry-case is useful to double as an extra shaver->USB option, it's got a long battery life, and it has a good number of modes for brushing.

Oculus Quest 2 - initially I wasn't sure if it'd be a gimmick, but it's an effortless & fun way to burn calories
One more suggestion: try cooking classes, HelloFresh or just YouTube lessons. Preparing and serving a good meal three times a day helps a lot to distract from what’s behind the screen and also offers enjoyable experience, that you can eventually share with someone.
"Two wrongs don't make a right" - did you miss that childhood lesson?
In my domain q/kdb is used extensively. I don't have a decade to master obscure syntax/grammar just for one simple purpose of extracting some data set from a larger population and maybe do some basic statistics on it.

If you're like me R is a godsend. You'll also love the tonnes of free packages. You can't get wrong with R if you appreciate simplicity and intuitiveness.
As a Non-English speaker, my advice is to try some language exchange services.
There are a lot of girls out there in their early 20s who want to have a relationship with English speaker like you.
Learn a new language and make new connections with new people.
A good travel, or new business opportunities.
Who knows the future?
Being unmarried also means being free.
Take advantage of the privileges you have.
Zynthian audio/synthesis platform: I got it to act as an FX processor, and it has become an extremely rich resource for creative instruments and digital music-making. Not just an FX box, its really more like an entire studio.

Synthstrom Deluge: so incredibly deep and complex, it also started life as a simple tool that is now becoming a lynchpin in my studio operation - not just for drums and sequencing, also for recording quick takes and samples and so on. This machine has replaced the DAW for pure creative modes.

NORN+Grid: Again, was purchased for one thing and is now being pressed into use for so many other purposes, un-dreamed of previously.

Arturia AudioFUSE Studio: THIS was just supposed to be a neat desktop mixer that fit on the table, but it has become so, so much more - the STUDIO in the name is no nonsense! Again, way more power than expected, and it has expanded beyond the original purpose of having a quick desktop mix available - now practically everything in the studio is going through it (ADAT for the win) and it is the central console for production. I haven't touched the other mixers in weeks ..
> However, I strongly suspect poor folks and especially middle class folks, have far more debt as a percentage of net worth than rich folks do and so spend more time at the spigot so to speak - relatively, not in absolute terms.

It reads as if you put some kind of blame on those poorer people who borrow money .. or do I get this wrong?

You do realize that taking on debt doesn't make these poorer people the ones who create the money, right?

The banks lending out the money are the creators of fresh money. And likewise it's not the debtors but the banks who collect the interest. The interest, which represents the exact (and only) amount of money that'll effectively have been created out of nothing after everything will have been payed back.
The much bigger credit sum which the banks hand out to the debtors, that's just lending from the future, not money creation.
The pasted text already includes the GTUBE string [1], which is used to test some spam filters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTUBE
short answer: it will pass

longer answer: been there, seen that. carry on, find yourself a hobby and a couple of friends who share it (might require some effort, but it’s worth it). kids are also very rewarding (probably not for everyone, but surely for me), albeit very demanding too. anyway, it will pass, just dont try to drink or drug it out - that will only make things worse

good luck
> Also note that sometimes you're legally required to keep PII for a certain amount of time

I'm not talking about legal reasons. You can keep the data regardless for any purposes as long as you remove the "personally identifiable information".

For example, you will be required to remove their exact address but you can replace that with the general area (eg. post code) as a part of your anonymization.
A good dishwasher.

I resisted getting one for years because the one I had growing up was pretty bad. Nothing would dry, items would come out dirty all the time and it was loud and would "chug" for hours.

However, a good (not even fancy, just mid-range from a competent manufacturer) modern dishwasher is night and day. Doesn't even need special tablets, it just gets things clean, even on the eco mode, which is the only one I use. Its not the quietest on the market by a dB or two, but its basically not noticeable.

So much better than having a huge pile of dishes taking up the entire draining rack until dry enough to put away, getting splashed with more water every time the sink is used (and the water is medium-hard so that makes a mess, but the dishwasher has a water softener).
I think it's all a sign that you look for happiness at a wrong place (for you). I'd suggest to look at other aspects of life, in light of what makes people happy, what makes their time feel worthwhile. For example, you haven't listed your social connections at all, aside from being single. If this reflects your current priorities, I'd suggest to look for people who make you feel like you belong.

Coincidentally this is also how I personally moved my life forward, but it's not just an anecdote, lots of different sources tell me that this is what matter at the end of the day. For a random example, Season 3, Episode 4 of Bojack Horseman (Fish out of water).
A tiny bluetooth adapter for good old earphones. I know analog + wires is often simpler, but tangled broken wires are hell, being tethered removes opportunity for simple multitasking.
I'm experiencing long image download times from desktop Twitter and TweetDeck with 1G Vodafone fiber in Italy.
I don’t think they can implement such a check without breaking changes.
Yep. Maybe use a small l for latitude. Judicious font choices should ensure little room for confusion.
A decent fabric mousepad. Night and day difference.
>It would save the community from re-doing the same analysis

I vaguely disagree. Secure software is not a well defined state so security analysis is not a process with an end condition, so theoretically, you can never stop looking.

But documenting failed attempts and methods is still worthy because duplicate work may still teach a lessons.
> I got my first SSD drives

And to experience it all over again with proper nvme drives was very enjoyable indeed.
Cold boots in about 5s now vs 20-60s with the old ssds of back then really makes shutting down/starting up into a very different experience again
Lon Lat makes more sense when the programmer organizes the way they think about geography by timezone or east/west hemisphere first; or if they consider a typical cylindrical projection and think to represent that very human-centric representation of earth's surface as x, y: x, being longitude, would be specified first. The first thing you know when given Longitude is approximately how out of sync the target is in their day/night cycle, and more broadly whether it's the eastern or western hemisphere.

Lat Lon makes more sense when the programmer organizes the way they think about geography in a more astronomical or climate-centric way first, by sun exposure. The first thing you know when given Latitude is north/south hemisphere, what season the target is in, and roughly (although depending on land masses and bodies of water and terrain) what the climate is probably like.

Lat/Lon is the traditional and historical standard way of expressing location. Why are programmers treating it as if it's a new, unsettled question, and deciding for themselves which order to use for their software?

Interesting that both WMS and WFS changed to lat/long in later versions of their specs. Maybe more people could take the hint.
I've spent a long time engineering, and adapting my workspace. It's at the point now that going to an office is a horrible experience, compared to my home office. Here's my setup

* Ikea Standing desk (I never sit). I know plenty of people who use these for sitting, simply because the height of the desk is finally suited to their specific frame.

* As many monitors as will make you happy (to each their own, but I'm happy with 2)

* Kinesys Freestyle 2 keyboard (wired, I hate wireless things, I never want to think about batteries)

* A laptop stand to lift my laptop - it turns out this made an enormous impact to my neck

* Monitor stands - most monitors are stationary, but the wrong height, even when compared with arm layout in an ergonomic setup.

* Kensington Expert Mouse

* Wacom One tablet - Now I can draw on digital whiteboards in Zoom, or even on shared websites and it's significantly better than the mouse experience.

* Sony WX-1000XM3 headphones - I use it for both music and the noise cancelling. Just having in on an cancelling noise has been an incredible improvement

* Whiteboard - This is by far the most important one in this list.
Thunderf00t just kicks, i liked especially the Elon busting ;)
Congratulations on your system!

> Must be manually curated and posted

Well sure but you can make that semi-automated using a TUI/WebUI to filter out obvious spam then review comments individually before pushing a batch to your publishing pipeline. For example, by importing the maildir entries into your SSG directory, or by forwarding the selected comments to a localhost address not reachable from the outside where the maildir will be automatically picked up by a script.

> No notifications

for me i don't have notifications of email but that's a feature not a bug. i could set up some easily on my smartphone. and you could do the same, or you could use something like sendxmpp to keep you updated on a chat account.

> No “built-in” reply functionality

Why not? Just assign every article a uniqueID, and every approved message a uniqueID based on a hash of publishing date and commenter email and use a mailto URI for the reply link where subject = "articleID-commentID" and body = explanation to not change the message title and about privacy policy. That's how email-based bugtracking systems like debbugs work to keep track of relations between messages. You could even make opt-in for receiving (approved) replies via email maybe by adding "Can't wait to hear from you!" at the end of the body...

I can't find the source right now but if you ask cmccabe from rawtext.club (can also be found on other tildeverse IRC chans) he's got a nice/flexible email treatment pipeline using simple scripts that could be very well adapted to this usecase. Demo? Send "pepperoni" subject to frisbee+pizza@rawtext.club ;-) ;-)
Once you include the statistical packages, ggplot2, and dplyr, there is nothing that beats R in ease of prototyping for data exploration, model fits and sanity checks, and data visualisation of high dimensional data.
Air quality monitor and air purifier. Helps me to have cleaner air at home by e.g., reminding me to open the windows more regularly.
If you are looking for a Bluetooth adapter then would recommend Qudelix 5K.

Has the advantage of a built-in parametric EQ which can make a big improvement for even the worst tuned headphones.
definitely. I have just under 500k in debt and about 30k in savings. and I'm 47.

Most of that debt is a house (that needs a lot of restoration). I have two awesome kids and a wife though. I'm happy with that part of me.
What a waste of electronic devices. Single use electronics should be declared illegal. I don't get how my country (in EU) bans disposable plastics (and I'm 100% in favor of it) and permits these devices.

I also wonder how many people will dispose this thing properly as electronic waste and how many people will simply throw it in the normal garbage.
My apologies, in Australia the Government banned plastic straws prior to COVID, to reduce that style of plastic polution. However now COVID is here RATs (Rapid Antigen Test) kits are all the rage and people are purchasing them left/right/center to test for said virus, but I assume they're ending up in landfill, just like the straws did back in the days, but noone is batting and eyelid.
Unless you are to pass moral judgment it doesn't matter. One of the parties staged a causus belli, a plausible reason to initiate war, this escalate things.
Free-market advocates really need to decide whether trickle-down economics is slander or something to hold dear. I'm getting mixed signals.