skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?
I know the best of my life is behind me, but I need help salvaging what's left of it. I've been meaning to ask for help for a couple of years now, but only now got around to it after being scared by my first real suicidal ideation a few nights ago. HN is probably not a suitable platform for this, but /r/advice seems to be not very active and I can't post on /adv/ due to some IP range ban. There are no mental health facilities in the small town where I live. I let my professional network decay and die, and there is literally nowhere else I can get any kind of useful, actionable advice.

I'm a 43-years-old single guy, NEET for the past decade. I got my Master's in the US in the late 2000s and was gainfully employed there for a few years (NOT in my field of education; long story) until I had to return to my home country to take care of my ailing father. He passed on within a year of my return, leaving my family with a financial mess, and his death took a lot out of me. I still obviously miss him, but in wallowing in depression and self-pity, I let the prime of my life pass me by.

As I stand, I have no current skills related to either my education (MEng) or my previous work experience (BI Reporting/Analytics). I don't have ideas/skills/network for entrepreneurship.

I had all the desires of a regular guy: a wife, kids, a house, meaningful work, etc. I mean I still do, but I guess I'm too late for the first few. Every night I promise myself to do/be better tomorrow and somehow get myself to sleep. I was once looked up to, now I'm a pity case and an example case of how not to throw one's life away.

With every passing day, I am becoming more bitter, angry and disillusioned. I don't want to live like this anymore, but I don't know how to even _start_ thinking of ways to get myself out of this hole.

Ideally, I would prefer to go back to the US; not only for the dollars (they're nice), but also because I actually was happy there. I'd do all the things that I didn't do enough of because I was focused on saving money and because I thought that there would always be time for them when I was more stable/settled.

The good: No diseases AFAIK, no vices at all other than severe procrastination and a masterful ability to lie to myself. I have ~US$25k-equivalent in salary savings from a decade ago.

Sorry if the above text is rambling and not very cohesive. I've probably also skipped over some useful information I should have provided. Please do ask. I'll take some time reflecting on your replies and then respond. Thank you.
Didn't I see a post here about how the link between red meat and cancer diminishes with rigorous studies until it disappears entirely?

Still fat and sugar are best limited. So still a good idea to substitute some (non-fatty) vegetables for some of those burgers.
The Peterometer, a Quantified Self Dashboard
Aren't the drive battery packs the single most expensive part of an EV? Anyone buying a used one with any kind of substantial mileage can expect a harsh loss of range.
Not American...but it's the same thing in my country, and most sensible voters seem to have given up. There's something about political power that seems to attract the scummiest of people even if there are enough competent people capable of leading...But then, mine is a third-world country, funny to see this happening in America and European countries increasingly (I thought it was only us :)

At this point, I may not mind living under a competent king instead of a democratic clownfest.
Ours.

Perhaps you have missed all the posts here on HN where some company or other locks up someone's account without the user being told why and without the possibility of having a human review the ban?

Most are Google but they're not the only guilty party.
None of the links to the Github repositories for the language resolve. I checked the link for the compiler [1], the SDK [2], and the VSCode extension [3], and all of them 404. Seems like the repositories are all still private, which is odd, given that the page claims

However, it's definitely ready for those brave of hearts who would like to
be involved at this early stage, influence our roadmap and join us for the
ride.

Kind of hard to do that when all the source code is closed.

[1]: https://github.com/orgs/winglang/projects/1

[2]: https://github.com/orgs/winglang/projects/3

[3]: https://github.com/winglang/wing
Maybe. Seniors in nursing homes allegedly have a lot of sex and have been known to spread STDs.
Perhaps just go back to a traditional taxi then? It might cost more, but if you need support, you call their number and get a real person rather than a robot that's sole job is to get you to give up.
uhh - that symbol is as old as cave paintings; let history speak as it is, not as it is told to be
Only post soviet governments tried to govern Crimea so far. If Crimea were US State like Hawaii or US territory like Puerto Rico, I bet economy would be great.
I will be thrilled if I can hear the dialogue in a Nolan film.
GhostSec put out the leak note on the Chinese government files during halftime of the FIFA World Cup Final on 18 December.
So having had similar injuries before myself it’s taken me longer to heal and movement was painful.

In my wife’s case she has full movement and no pain. But she didn’t go back for class for 2 weeks. Make sure it had healed. Just was surprising to me that she curls move her wrist without pain.
Came here to past just that. Also since the advent of Uber, local taxi services got a fire lit under them, and now many have their own app with up front pricing and route planning.
How to Surrender to a Drone
These media streaming programs are trivial to set up. Just as trivial to stream to mobile devices in the home. No "warez" no "malware". The media server itself downloads new content automatically. Making toast is more difficult.
The exact moral equivalent of a policy saying "no drinking and driving" then you and Elon desperately redefining drinking as a glass of water.

That, as much as anything else, would lead to everyone having drinking problems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl4plPGRG8o

But I get it now, you're doing comedy.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll try that out.
> What guarantees of layout do you require?

Some people write documents that can only be clearly presented on a 15" or larger display. Maybe a comparison table with a bunch of columns, maybe a detailed chart, maybe a PCB schematic, whatever.

These people, being considerate of their readers, want to ensure if someone with a 13" screen comes along, they'll get scrollbars or small text, rather than a badly reflowed table where the word 'Yes' gets split over 3 lines.

Other people want to read those documents on 5" phone displays.
Got to read it to the end.
Given HN is often the enlightened discourse space, while having quite the amount of shadowbans itself, does that mean shadowbans are the avante-garde good? if not, why do we still do it?
Fun is occasionally permitted on HN. This thread is about a joke add-on in the first place, you know.
Yes. At least Tesla has a battery-tech / machine learning / robotics angle to it.
Feels almost too good to be true, but I like the potential synergies.
Two reasons come to mind, and both applied in my case last year:

1. Diversification: the vast majority of individuals owning pre-IPO shares almost certainly hold options, and in tech companies at least where regular employees get these options few of these individuals are likely to have a large, diversified portfolio.

2. For those same individuals, it's often a life-changing event. (In my case, I went from servicing 6-figures of medical debt and 5-figures of student loan debt and contributing the minimum to my 401k to a 7-figure net worth with income producing, debt-serviced assets.)
Interesting tangent: I wanted to know what ATEM stood for - nothing:
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11160...
Interesting. Reminds me of Pulumi that uses Python/Js to define cloud resources.
The differentiator is the simulator, that could be a huge advantage - you could test your terraform and app with a single tool.
No need for terratest and local lambda sim with AWS SAM.

However it does look very limited at the moment - we'll need more than just buckets and queues. And the more you add the more complicated things get. Look at Pulumi and what a mess it is to define an env (depends on, apply(), wait for resource etc etc).

Perhaps it should be a module/lib rather than a lang on its own.
How will I write complex functions? will I need to import py scripts from other files? odd.
The companies that IPOed are the SPACS. The companies they acquired are the ones that are dragging them under.

Edit: To clarify, the company that IPOs is a company like "CFII" (CF Finance Acquisition Corp. II). These companies are called SPACs, but they go through an IPO process themselves. The IPO is pretty fast because everyone knows what the shares are worth, but it is an IPO nonetheless. Most of the SPACs IPOed in 2020-2021. If they buy a company and then fail, that would probably be counted as a failure of a company that IPOed in 2020.
>And encryption is not a signature.

Encryption involves using signing key and universally uniquely identifying something.

That's exactly what it is. In fact encryption is even more secure than a normal written signature.

I can sign a piece of text put it here -- sign it with my private key -- put it on HN with my public key and everyone can be sure I wrote it.
Debian Policy 4.6.2.0 Released
Could be an age gap. It's mostly dumb kids that get scammed and newspapers target older people.

It's completely possible to live outside the crypto bubble- thank god.
Can't you just reset the password on account without the dot it in? Lock them out.
I don't have a particular citation or anything for this. But a general point I've gathered from learning history is prior to the age of gun powder, there's always been this tension between nomadic pastoralist societies and farming societies. Pastoralist societies lived in environments that conditioned them better for war (and a zero-sum mindset) but bad at setting up long lasting institutions. They often had better nutrition, didn't need to rely on supply trains, they often lived a significant portion of their life on horseback, etc.,. Huns, Tamerlane, Ghengis Khan, Cossacks, Golden Horde, Turks, Magyars, Avars, Khazars, Cumans, etc., some of them settled down. Kingdoms had to deal with these groups in different ways than they did their conventional rivals, but most of the time they were small and unorganized enough to where they were only a threat for small groups they can easily pick off.
> 10 billion dollars for an oat drink company. We're way overdue a correction on tech stocks

Oat drink is tech? I am sometimes amazed how people can position a bog-standard business as 'disruptive tech'?
Even if that were true(and it's not), Ukraine would still be European, just like Moscow is European. Asia doesn't begin until Ural and Caucasus mountains.
> Science must eventually win, and produce foods that are healthier than the natural ones.

I do not share your optimism, because you forgot about economy, investors and shareholders driving science forward, not viceversa. The primary goal for public companies is to increase revenue and market share, not creating healthier food than nature, if unhealthier food sells more.

Also, I do not share the hubris that science wins over nature. We have evolved to thrive on what exists in nature, it is not logical to assume we would thrive more with something we are not evolved for. Especially when profit, not health, is the primary driving force.

I guess I'll keep eating real meat and real vegetables.
Perhaps licking of wounds?

Which seems to me like a way to introduce mouth bacteria and cause an infection, but maybe it’s counter-intuitively beneficial?
Good. It is also time to do the same to TikTok and fine them for abusing the privacy of its users in the billions of dollars.

They have been caught once [0] and have been caught again this year [1] and generally have lied about accessing the sensitive data of it's own users [2], [3], [4]. Clearly the fines in [0] and [1] are extremely low and the fine must increase in the billions since these are repeated privacy violations and haven't learned anything from it.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/tiktok-kids-pr...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/technology/tiktok-childre...

[2] https://futurism.com/tiktok-spy-locations-specific-americans

[3] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...

[4] https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/tiktok-just-gave-itself-pe...
Please do, I've been interested in this field for a long time (if you don't want to share it there is my contact info in my profile).
Signing is great until you have to rotate your keys.
The external wealth of nations database
About 5 years ago I tore my ACL and had it repaired a few months ago over the the summer. I’ve done a lot of PT rehab over the past few months and my PT mentioned that ice reduces blood flow, heat increases blood flow. It wasn’t so much an as ice vs heat but more about the importance of increasing blood flow to help the tissue repair. Other things increase blood flow too, like exercise. There isn’t really a strict dos-and-donts to treatment.
> Everything i have heard about this makes it sound more like a milestone than a breakthrough.

I guess milestone assume you already know you will reach it.

I also think breakthrough as a lot of meaning and people would assume there is a few years before a real application.

In a sense it's probably a breakthrough within the scientific ring rather than from the people perspective.
Easy—thanks to the first sale doctrine, Netflix doesn’t need any deal to rent out DVDs. They can just buy the DVDs off the shelf and rent them out.

If renting out physical media were considered a right of the copyright holder under US law, you can bet that Netflix wouldn’t have been able to come to a deal on that either.
A boy-boy pair of my friends visited Japan once, and said that although they felt like a bit of a curiosity, it was amplified when one of them wore his school sweatshirt (featuring a large "H") and that day they were pursued by muffled giggles.
BJSM: "Provenance and peer review: Not commissions; internally peer reviewed."
Pixel Accurate Atkinson Dithering for Images in HTML
I think Dell has pretty good support for this, I had a pretty old Dell model before my current monitor and ddc worked fine with it. I now have an AORUS FO48U and it also supports it. I'm not sure it's always listed as a feature though when you're buying a monitor so it might be tricky.

FYI, I originally learned about this stuff via https://haim.dev/posts/2020-07-28-dual-monitor-kvm/.
> I had multiple drivers in a row cancel on me before pickup. When I finally had enough I canceled the ride and then was charged a “cancelation charge” for canceling.

I've had the exact some scenario with Bolt.
This happened to me with Airbnb. Despite contacting friends who worked at the company to unban me, I always always re-banned.

I resolved it by using a different email address. Something about my primary email was on Airbnb’s shit list and there was apparently no easy way to resolve it. Never had a single issue with the new email.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/1aJ7S
Is that really the theme though? Last time I watched it, the theme was "Man with debilitating genetic defect (high risk of sudden heart failure) was denied a chance at piloting a billion-dollar spacecraft. So not an underdog; a selfish person wanting to risk public money and lives, for personal glory.

I never saw the theme the movies is purported to present. I think Gattaca is conflated with other genetic-modification memes because it came out around the time those were current.

If the director wanted the movie to be about a hero, they fumbled it.
All upsides for real people and all downsides for multi-billion-dollar companies, it would seem. There is never going to be a university degree program that precisely matches what a company needs. So why bother?
The comment above unnecessarily casts the author in a negative light:

> This whole article was a long winded way for the writer to look like a smarty pants …

There are other, simpler explanations; for example, the author might have wanted to write a longer article with detailed metaphors to make the content more approachable. It is clear the author wants to push back on pseudoscientific interpretations of epigenetics. I commend the author on this effort.

Criticism (even if perceived as ‘negative’ by some) is important; still, I’d ask that commenters dial back their sense of _certainty_ somewhat. Before assuming some flaw of the author, at least consider that (a) _you_ (and all your preferences about length and style) may not be their target audience and (b) the world of writing has many driving factors —- not all of which involve an author trying to “look like a smarty pants”
Around $100 a ton people will have a strong incentive to not release CO₂ and also some of these schemes for capturing and storing it will be feasible for industrial processes which are fixed and not easily retrofitted to not involve CO₂.
Project Cedar: Improving Cross-Border Payments with Blockchain Technology
"Ice" in the title should be ICE. It's an acronym - it's not about the use of cold compresses for pain relief. A lot of the comments here are about the use of frozen water. That's not what this article's about.

ICE stands for Impact, Confidence, and Ease. I think the acronym is rather stretched and awkward.
Cable isn't preferred. If OTA weren't available I guess we'd watch shows on streaming. OTA works great though, was just wondering.
The core problem:

> Limiting access to cheeseburgers can turn politicians into ex-politicians,

Though it certainly doesn't help that most of the activists pushing the "we gotta make big changes, or else the Earth is doomed" agenda seem far more interested in scoring points in the Culture Wars than they do in actual success.
Acute inflammation is there for a reason; it helps repair tissue damage. At the cost of function in the short-term. My bet is that icing means you can use your wrist again sooner, but with prolonged or incomplete recovery.
I haven't looked at the evidence (presumably) presented in the paper

Surprisingly, the blog has more references than the paper (and the paper mentions that).
Structuring Clojure applications
My grandfather used to say rub some spit in it--that's what the Native Americans did (before Pfizer stole their land).
Because you don't need to.

The next big push will be audible AI.
what you are asking for is called a "round-trip" by some printers.. This was requested the week after PDF was invented! It does work, unless it does not.. the company that invented this technology is apparently infested by MBAs and charismatic nobodies, since they announced they are exiting the type "business" ? Our house of cards is showing.
A doctor tried that with my wife's broken arm. It was very much the wrong call. She ended up getting surgery anyway, but is worse off for having waited a long time before she went to a different doctor.
The variety you see in a Supermarket is very shallow. There are literally hundreds of varieties of every item you find in the produce section, but only handful are raised as scale. Those handful of varieties dominate the landscapes and dwarf the production of all of the other varieties combined.
> just to level-set about the real difficulties of piracy for non-techie viewers

You missed one item on your list:

- Any of the free video streaming sites. There's almost always one up at any moment, and all you need to use it is a web browser, and perhaps an adblock to remove the noise (and avoid an occasional crypto miner). These sites tend to disappear after a year or two, but are always replaced by new ones.

(As I understand it, they don't even host the content themselves - they're just a frontend with a search engine, aggregating links to multiple third-party players and video files.)

You might not get 4K quality there, but you'll usually get 1080p, which is more than most people get from Netflix anyway. Such sites are stupidly easy to use, have been popular with non-tech-savvy users for over a decade, and (AFAIK) in plenty of jurisdictions, they're 100% legal to use.

You probably can't get them working on a smart TV (I don't own one, so I can't say), but I guess that's just another reason to buy a dumb TV and a Chromecast instead.
> I’ve come to the pretty reasonable conclusion that there’s no good faith discussion to be had when one side is “anything that leads to threats of domestic terrosism against a childrens hospital is a bad thing” & the other is “buh, buuh - have u considered that death threats against childrens hospitals might actually be the way of righteousness? This sociopath has thoughts they think you’ve yet to consider!”

I fully support directing resources to tracking down and prosecuting people issuing threats. That would be a good use of police resources as opposed to some of the bullshit they spend their time on now. The people issuing threats were motivated to act by their ethics that were triggered by stories told by LibsOfTikTok, but also because they think they can get away with it, and that's the lever that we can move without compromise. Instead of trying to constrain speech, ensure people can have charged conversations on important social issues without the threat of violence.

That said, I also reject your inference that LibsOfTikTok necessarily bears direct responsibility for the people who issue violent threats. "Incitement" are exactly the cases where speech does convey responsibility, and I'm not sure they've crossed that line.

To say LibsOfTikTok is responsible would also imply that CNN and MSNBC's coverage was responsible for Hodgkinson's attempt to murder a bunch of Republicans. If you want to make that argument too then at least you're being consistent, but it's totally reasonable to disagree.

Given how you've framed this, you'll probably argue that LibsOfTikTok is not practicing "journalism", but there is no rigourous, formal definition of journalism that would distinguish what the media does from what LibsOfTikTok does. Media is factually wrong all of the time and its coverage clearly biased as well. We can agree that LibsOfTikTok is probably wrong "more" of the time and "more" biased, but moving the line of incitement, libel and defamation to encompass more speech is slippery and dangerous.
I was getting a 404 error. Apparently, because the site redirects me to a non-existent localized version of the page.
You can bypass this by forcing English in the URL
https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/devpod-improving-developer-p...
Would you mind sharing what monitor you have? Mine "supports" DDC, but switching inputs from CLI doesn't work.
Former Uber engineer - had friend who got "randomly" banned in ~2016/17 and I investigated.

Sadly, it's likely the same story as back then, and same story as you see with other large tech companies - false positive fraud detection algo.

This doesn't help you much, but just wanted to try and help explain the "why".
I did some research into the best way to treat a third degree ankle sprain (after a mountainbike accident). From what I've gathered ice can still be beneficial in the first 8 hours or so. But shouldn't be used later on as it may hamper blood flow and thereby recovery. Compression, elevation, moderate use of an anti inflammatory and exercising just up to inducing more swelling is the best way to recover. I found "walking" exercises in a pool to be very helpful as the cool water plus pressure reduced pain and the buoyancy reduces much of your body weight.
Unless your dev environment literally took one decade to set-up, then it didn't take "a decade of productivity" ;)

For people who knew how to run vms or even chroots, this was not a big issue
twocolumn is terrible for mobile.

what's needed are narrow margins.