skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fell into a deep depression at your age as a consequence of a sudden lack of prospects, going from a hectic and busy lifestyle to sitting around doing absolutely nothing all day.

I eventually clawed my way out and I look back now and just think it was something I had to go through. The feeling of doom and hopelessness does fade away over time and you will be in more positive frame of mind at some time in the future.

On a positive note you have some cash savings and the presence of mind to ask for help. I'm not going to say there is some magic route you can take that's going to turn your life around overnight but the longer you hang in there more the chance of something happening that will provide the spark you need to start thinking positively again.

I burned through all my cash, asked help from nobody and ended up living on the street. I still managed to recover though, so don't ever think your situation is hopeless.
Epic could add a dose of CYA here. Disable voice and text chat, and put the enable switch behind a "for 18+ only" or something like that and have them confirm their birthdate. Not that it would actually stop minors from bypassing this by clicking through the prompt and entering a fake age. But this would allow Epic to argue to the court that they are doing more than their competitors to verify that children are not using voice/text chat and that requiring them to go further would be unfair.

* Not a lawyer
You are 43 not 83. And you are a man, so even having kids is not off the table. Yes, it’s possible to turn your life around. And yes, there are people who did that.

But it seems like you are looking for help doing that. Its great that you are asking for help, I think this approach will get you somewhere. HN may not be the best place though.
Amazing how many people in this thread want to run to the government to solve the problem.

It’s kind of like that musk thread from yesterday where a bunch of people showed up to defend the policy of banning links. If someone makes a rule, there will always be someone else who thinks it’s a good idea.

As someone who grew up on roleplaying games when I was about 13, and had lots of exposure to the adult side of life, I’m with you. It’s totally lame that the government is trying to regulate this.
One of the ways*
Upvote for the dissenting view which should be heard. Your two points both came up in the replies to my post, yet no example was ever given. Do you have some intractable cases to share?

In my replies I also suggest that shadow removal of a toxic comment can also be perceived by the user as support for their views. I've yet to hear the harms of that possibility refuted.
Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI
We can also trigger fusion bombs with nice clean anti-matter instead of dirty fission. But we'd have to get better at making anti-matter.
She Finds Keys to Ecology in Cells That Steal from Others
Are you eligible to work in the US without going through the green card lottery?

You mention you're in a small town; I am presuming that your country has larger towns and cities. Is there a possibility of getting there?

You have $25k in savings, this is more than a significant percentage of the people in the US - if you can work in the USA you could become a bus driver tomorrow; they'll train. It may be worth trying for awhile just to shake things up.
To the other fundamental ideas in the replies, I would add what SM motivation content profess for similar situations: getting organized and working out to lose weight.
It is highly unlikely for a person to be worse off by taking a vaccine for a prevalent disease. Like 1 in a million odds.
RDP does not mostly do that. It sends higher level commands like text and geometry placement. That’s why it performs 10x better than the competition.
Therapy time! Check out online therapy providers if you don’t have anything available locally.

This is more my personal suggestion, but make sure you’re exercising. It helps me, it helps many others, maybe it’ll help you. Not a replacement for therapy but a really good way to improve your base.
This is election denial.
Sodium-Sulfur Battery cheaper than lithium-ion, and four times the capacity
Yes. Source: an Irish Twin who so described herself.
When I ran Engineering for a startup with 6 different software teams, I resorted to index cards + sticky notes on the exterior wall of my office. It was a great visual display of status that everyone, including those not in the tech org, could understand. The Engineers found it very satisfying to physically move the tickets themselves.
PDF papers are also much easier to save/archive and use offline. And great for printing
But it doesn’t work globally in the OS. It’s nice to casually mash capslock as esc to get out of modals and such all over the OS, even in games.
I’ve seen this part before. Sort of given up to hope to ever have a traditional family life, but they’re now a few years older with a lovely young son.

43 is not too old to start. Of course, I also recognize that it’s not quite as easy as all that, but in some ways it is. If I had to do it again I’d not be so sceptical of dating apps. At the very least it gives you a convenient excuse to meet new people.

Not sure if it’s possible to do it in the US, but there’s other countries that are easier to emigrate to. I’m not sure if moving now would be conductive to your other wishes though.
Small time grifter who is working extremely hard to become a big time grifter.
> We are, aren't we?

"There are more than 1 000 varieties of bananas produced and consumed locally in the world, but the most commercialized is the Cavendish type banana, which accounts for around 47 percent of global production." ... "Virtually all bananas supplied to the US and European markets are Cavendish, which are better suited to international trade than other varieties as they are more resilient to the effects of global travel."

Just as an example. You may find three types of banana in your supermarket from the 1000 varities. But most of the production is Cavendish. The other ones are just a novelty item and it the logistics to get them to the supermarket are more complicated.

"The impact of TR4 on food security in developing countries has so far luckily been limited because the spread of the disease is gradual at larger scale. The disease predominantly affects the Cavendish variety, which primarily meets the international market demand but is also important for local consumption in developing countries."

And Cavendish is in danger. Partly because it is so dominant that it is very difficult to stop a disease that targets this variety.

- https://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/oilcrops/ba...
Weird how some people have a mid-life crisis. I am 47 and I never had issues with turning older. My parents both really had issues but it seems to have skip me. Maybe it's me; I also never really hit puberty.

But focusing on you: calm down. It's never too late to start a family. Kids is certainly fun. If you you want kids and the woman you eventually find is too old for kids, adoption is also very nice and as a bonus you can skip the diapers period (I never liked that period of my kids).

Since you would like to find a woman (good start): take a holiday. There are singles holidays and I can recommend them. If you do not get a girlfriend from the trip at least you spend the time relaxing and site seeing.
First Look: Dell's 'Concept Luna' Modular Laptop Is Back, and More Refined
The guidelines [1] state:

>Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

>Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

>Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion.

(They solicit upvotes in their slack/twitter/etc)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't really understand why he didn't just use trolls (which, as he mentions don't move in the day) rather than invent a new tree folk.

It seems like he came up with the disk idea and then thought 'this looks like a tree' and back-solved Middle-Earth and then was like 'oops, this behaviour is actually trolls' when writing it up (rather adjusting his paper to use stone discs)

I can't imagine there's many people who both get past the opening and don't understand the concept sufficiently for the allegory to be useful.
It's sometimes related though; one of the routes into becoming transgender that sexologists have hypothesised is a rejection of one's own homosexuality.

Parents of transgender kids sometimes allude to this too. For example, Susie Green, recently the CEO of the transgender charity Mermaids, said about her child:

> What I had come to the conclusion with [...], was that I had a very sensitive, quite effeminate little boy who was probably gay.

> [...]

> But Jack's dad did not approve of our child's effeminate behavior, and it created such tensions that we ended up in couple's counseling. We went to couple's counseling, and what they said to us as parents that we had to agree, no matter what it was that we agreed upon we had to agree. At that point, Tim decided that I must agree with him, apparently, and then all the "girl toys" or "girly toys" as such were taken away and put away, and Jack was made aware that this was not appropriate. And suddenly, a confident, happy little boy became quite quiet, withdrawn, very clingy, and tearful. I didn't like it, and I didn't think it was right.

Gay son, homophobic dad - and a mother who took him to Thailand for his 16th birthday to get his penis inverted and his testicles removed.
I think you can turn this around. You are showing a good introspective self awareness here which is very promising. But when you are feeling depressed, it’s hard to see clearly where things stand, especially alone.

Because of that, connecting with a therapist/coach to talk through things may really help challenge your thinking and hone your understanding of your situation.

For instance, you have more time than you think. As a man, you can still have children in your 40s and 50s and beyond. So why does it seem like it’s too late? A therapist may be able to help you reframe things, and help you find that hope again.
The answer seems to be they don’t want to pay residuals.
I've had something like this with a Spanish-language Netflix account. Kept getting email in Spanish for it. Tried contacting Netflix in lots of ways, and nothing worked. Eventually, I used a password reset to take control of the account and just disabled it. I assume whoever created the account didn't have access to it.
There is a very strong chance that you are sick with depression. Consulting a health care professional should be your first priority, in my opinion. If you can't find treatment where you currently live, then it could be a good idea to move, if only temporarily.
Maybe they should have looked into it before the election.
To be clear, that link shows how to use extra software to do it in each OS including Karabiner on macOS.
surely price manipulation is a function of the market cap, not the share price.

again, people don't buy stocks with actual physical cash. theres no reason why we are tied to whole pennies. a 2c stock could rise or fall 1% in the same way as a $2 stock could.

plus lowering the number of shares in circulation isn't going to make it less susceptible to pump and dumps.

finance is populated by a lot of extremely well paid people, I can't believe everyone has a blind spot around 'bigger arbitrary token size == better'
If they are not ready then the website should say that. Here it seems like they are really ready
To be clear, given what you quoted, your claim is that inflammation is almost never wrong?
There has been a ton of speculation presented as fact in science-related reading materials for kids across the board, and I'm not sure how much that's improved (although it has in some places).

It seems the thinking often was that we need to keep things simple for children so they'll uptake it more easily. Many educators want to avoid getting bogged down in fuzzy areas like debates about support for theories, or difficult ones like the details of actual research.

The unfortunate downside is that the oversimplification of introductory material inevitably leads to a period of frustrating cognitive dissonance for anyone who develops an interest in a subject, as they need to unlearn all the nerfed-to-the-point-of-being-wrong stuff. I suspect those who have multiple & diverse interests are more likely to go through mentally and emotionally devastating experiences of overall disillusionment with humanity as a result.
At 40 I had a stalled career and an unfortunate marriage where we truly disliked reach other; I was extremely unhappy and bitter. I felt that I was stuck and wondered if this was my lot in life.

I stepped clear. I got divorced. I started over. The coding skills I had I re-applied to things I wanted to do. My ex moved on and found someone good for her.

In the years that followed I found the love of my life and had a beautiful daughter. Restarting was a great move for me.

But a lot of the bitterness and anger remained. I've been a total jerk at times. It took a long time to get over the frustrations caused by staying in my old place for so long. I found therapy and constructive outlets for myself, got over many of the dark feelings, and I believe I've become a better person for it.

My story is my own, not yours. However, what I can say is get yourself to a therapist. If you can change your life now, why not try to do so?
I guess the fact that treating the animals like property leads to unwanted effects begs the question on whether we should be treating animals as property. Clearly there is a difference between an animal and an inanimate object. We have animal welfare and cruelty laws, etc.

While this may be legal, whether it is ethical is a more important question. Seems to me it’s time to update the laws that describe living beings the same way as pencils.
> isn't too far out of reach

If you are referring to the recent ChatGPT developments, it can't even solve these very basic exercises.
10 year olds aren't as dumb as you're assuming here, they'd either make a new account, or have already been been putting an 18+ birth date for years.

All anyone cares about is covering their own ass, so it'd solve that issue, but it would have neglibile effect on anything real.

Source: Used the internet when I had to lie to every site about being over 13, so lied to every site about being over 13. Also vrchat requires being 13+, and boy, does 'requiring' it not accomplish anything at all.
This was my weekend project. I have figured out the problem - Firefox and Chrome (but not Safari) report a fractional devicePixelRatio when Zoomed, which the dithering code cannot handle properly.

I had not anticipated this - I'll fix it in a couple of hours.

In the meantime, you can reset your zoom back to actual size to get the effect.
There is a story that when penalties were first introduced they were seem as unfair by both players and goalkeepers. That was because at the time, the box (or perhaps just the penalty line) used to run from side to side. Rumor has it that players, because of that sense of unfairness, would miss the penalty on purpose.

Eventually the box was reduced and now penalties are a (99%) sure way of scoring.

I don’t know why you mentioned Messi and etc., I was replying to what you said about trying to optimize for PKs during a game.
Please could you link that aritcle?
It's not about what is hip, it's about what is most comfortable. For me, light themes feel like they induce more eye strain. But if a light theme works better for you, then go for it and ignore anyone who judges you for preferring it.

Also, whether the theme is light or dark, I would try playing with different contrast levels. Like in a light theme, black on off-white will reduce the amount of overall light being blasted at you and look much more like the page of a book. Or for a dark theme, making the background slightly lighter and the text slightly darker should reduce haloing around the letters.
IT Runs on Java 8

https://vickiboykis.com/2019/05/10/it-runs-on-java-8/

hn discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19877916
I think "scale-dependent capability" is a much more precise term for what they're describing, but I'm not sure that that term doesn't fall under the general umbrella of emergent properties. The opening paragraphs of emergent properties in philosophy [1] cites a number of examples that I would argue are comparable to LLM suddenly becoming able to do arithmetic past a certain scale.

> In philosophy and esp. the philosophy of science, emergence is a relation between a whole and its parts such that a property of the whole does not obtain just in virtue of properties of its parts taken in isolation.

This is not a settled definition. I think everyone can agree that this applies epistemologically, where studying the parts in isolation cannot always yield sufficient information to predict macroscopic properties, but to claim that all properties of the whole do not reduce to the properties of its parts is controversial.

For instance, it seems unlikely that we would have predicted H2O's dipole moment and the phenomenon of surface tension just from studying hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms in isolation, but it would be incorrect to say that surface tension is not the result of the properties of hydrogen and oxygen in isolation. We simply cannot discover all the relevant properties without studying them together.

Edit: to clarify, H2O's dipole moment seems obvious in hindsight when we have a good model for what's going on, and analogously, LLM's ability to do arithmetic seems obvious as a scale-dependent property in hindsight, but that doesn't mean it was obvious that this would happen before it was created.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/
$245 million is earmarked for customer refunds. The FTC has set up a website for players to request refunds...your claim is false.
I read with showdead on and often traverse a user's post history when I've determined that they've been shadowbanned. In almost all cases the root activity that caused the ban was not an unpopular view, but rather a series of abusive comments.

Sometimes it was a brief abberation and many of the user's subsequent posts are acceptable (though often still low quality). More often than not, the user continues to be abusive and break site guidelines.

In the realm of non-shadowbanned dead posts I do see a lot of community penalizing of merely unpopular opinions.
A few things:

The HN crowd is not known for kindness, but you can use sincere and reason-based advice, something for which the HN crowd is excellent at.

I remarried in my early 40's, after leaving a mutually abusive relationship. And we got a lovely daughter (with two amazing older half-brothers from my previous marriage), moved to Ireland and fell in love for the country. You are not past your prime - while I miss my 20's brain plasticity, there's a ton of new content in my brain that would have been extremely useful in my 20's. As for love, it's a lottery. You may find it, you may not.

The MEng degree is a very versatile tool. I'm a BEng and the problem-solving mindset has been the foundation of my career, as a software engineer, then as a 3D VFX animator, then as an SW engineer, manager, and now architect.

As for the depression, reach out for professional help. Find a therapist you are comfortable with (it may take more than one try), and work from there. I treat mine as a debugger that helps me understand how my mind works, and where my blind spots (I've got plenty of them) are.

I'm not American, but I've considered offers to move from Brazil and Ireland at different times, and the math didn't make sense. While compensation packages are better in number, depending on where you live costs will eat into that and, since you mentioned mental health problems, I'm afraid you'd need to get social services that do not exist in the US. Your nickname suggests you are German and Germany has world renowned public healthcare system - use it until you are better. I understand you were happy in the US, and I fell in love with Northern CA during the 90's, but the country has changed, in many ways for the worse. Don't forget nostalgia is a set of rose-tinted glasses.

You may also be able to move in the EU, for warmer climates and lower cost of life. Many friends of mine are quite happy in Portugal and Spain and we are considering retiring there in a couple decades. Ireland is still hiring IT folk like crazy, but Dublin is expensive to live and your reserves are not enough for too long (you should always have enough reserves for a couple months of unemployment, more if you are at risk of getting depressed).

Good luck and feel free to vent as much as you need. I hope I was useful.
I think the interesting question is, is uber aware of it? Like okay, that happens the false positive rate is under 0.001% percent and we try to improve. Maybe if we add this "edge case" the true positive rate would go worse. Then I can undestand it.

On the other hand if they are not investigating and do not try to improve, then it is really bad.
This can easily be streamlined to consume little time by:

- Realizing that whenever you need to extract some old document in the future for reference / proof, you'll likely have a date range when it happened to go looking for it. And needing something old happens rarely enough that the overhead of searching for it can be neglected, so you'll layout your binders to make putting things away fast, not searching things. And the older things become the less likely it is that you'll ever need them again. So sorting by date is important.

- Thus realizing that any finished documents can go to a SINGLE binder which is sorted by date, you don't need a separate one for healthcare, utilities, whatever. You don't even need registers in the binder, just flat date sorting.

- Therefore, you'll only be having 3 binders:

"ToDo", "Done" and "Constantly needed" (the latter is for contracts for example).

Sort the contents of "ToDo" and "Done" by date. Adding new paper will be quick because new stuff arrives close to the most recent date so you don't have to search a lot for the place to insert it at.

AND: Make sure to mark the date on every document with a highlighter of always the same color so you can easily spot the dates when inserting.

TL;DR: Most documents will go to a single or two sorted-by-date places, just like your email inbox. This makes adding things fast.
Nothing major but about when I turned 40 I went and did a lot of fun exploration of new programming languages and ideas. I did some game projects, some coding challenges on various websites, some hobby open source contributions and projects. It was all work very different than my day job, played with a lot of new languages. F#, Rust, Typescript, Nim, Go etc.

This ended up being really good when job hunting, I was up on all the hip new stuff, so I don't come across as being dated, and it was fun and I learned a lot. This didn't result in a total career turnaround or anything but I did get a lot of offers and better pay the next time I had to get a new job.

Sounds like you have some decent fundamentals and could easily ramp up skills in some field you are interested in and get more interesting work.
Musk became Chairman of Tesla and largest shareholder in February 2004. He oversaw Roadster production.

The first Roadster was delivered in February 2008. To Elon, by the way.
As the top comment says: you need to see a psychiatrist. You are manifestly depressive, and that not something that heals by moving to another country (except the rare case of the source of the depression is the country)
There's legitimately good advice in this thread.