skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sorry life hasn’t gone the way you wanted it. Unfortunately almost no one’s life does, this is just a fact of life. Many things that seems to be promised or “owed” us turn out to not be, or to be struggles. Depression is very real, and really does require professional help sometimes to get out of it. So I would suggest getting help if you can afford it.

On the bright side, your life is far from over, 43 is still plenty young enough to have meaningful relationships and build a career if you want to, it just requires that you out yourself in the correct situations repeatedly. You can still get married and have children if you want, you’re definitely not that old. Many people move on to their second marriage at your age.

I would suggest, that rather than promising yourself radical change each night, promise yourself one small change that you’ll make tomorrow. Just a single thing that will make your life better. It can be as simple as going for a walk or cleaning a single room. Do it first thing so you don’t procrastinate on it all day, banking an accomplishment each day is small and easy, but when you look back at a month of that you’ll have accomplished a lot and you’ll start to have a habit of doing things.
I can recommend Airthings Wave. It’s a useful product to have around.
In addition to the other mental-health maintenance suggestions, you'll get confidence back once career things start to go right, but it may take a little while. I would suggest doing some practice-interviews before you do real ones (or practice-customers for entrepreneurship), so that you can work the hiccups out of the way without missing out on anything. "Fake it 'til you make it" is a real thing, especially in the US, and so are positive-feedback loops. It's a lot easier to work on other parts of life once income is sorted out.
This comes off more as condescending than helpful.
My partner was "shadow banned" from Uber for what we suspect was a payments related reason. No matter what card she put in Uber, she would see "payment declined", even when the card was well below the limit, and she would not see any attempted transaction on the bank website. Uber customer support was non-existent.

She eventually got a new phone, made a new account, and gave them a CC number they'd never seen before. Things just magically started working.
OP, I feeel the same way a lot of time. I focused on a narrow set of things into my 40s and life just passed me by almost without me noticing it until now. Sometimes I'll wake up at 3AM panicking that i'm blowing it. Just wanted to say that you're not alone, and I'm rooting for you to get the help you need.
> 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

Unless your post is missing some major red flag, your experience should make finding a job relatively easy anywhere in the globe.

My personal advice is that you build your way back up with a job that does not push you to your limits.
I had fond memories of Atkinson dithering from my time on early Macs as a child. That led me to create the ultimate 1-bit dithering Mac app (it even exports to MacPaint format so you can display photos from your modern Mac on your '80s B&W Mac). I wrote about the experience of implementing Atkinson dithering here:

http://www.observationalhazard.com/2021/09/building-retro-di...

There's some stuff in there both about 1-bit dithering as well as about the MacPaint file format.
> When speaking in political terms, it does mean exactly that.

No, it does not. Russia is part of Europe purely because of the geographical location. It always will have a relevance for neighboring countries, simply because it's there. This won't change, as long as people are living there, and it won't change just because the communication has lowered or even shutdown.

> There is a clear wall between moscow and europe and everyday more of the remaining ties are being cut.

The Wall is between Russia and the EU (+NATO), not Europe. The majority of Europe is part of the EU, but EU is not Europe. And Political, Russia wasn't a big player in EU anyway. East-Europe is their interests, there they still have their connections running in Non-EU-Countries.
The article states that over 95% of samples were within established limits, so there's no need for any solution as there's not any problem, though the article advocates for new pesticides towards the end.

But really, this article and its referred study are thinly veiled climate change propaganda:

> Climate change is projected to cause earlier anthesis, coinciding with wetter, warmer weather, thus increasing the severity of FHB epidemics.

It's very hard to sell Europeans pesticides, so if we scare them with climate change, they might change their tune. It's also ironic, considering how we heard all summer that the tough drought in Europe was also caused by climate change, it's all very convenient that climate change causes both wetter and drier conditions in the same region.
Also, if a stock gets delisted that isn't necessarily permanent. If the company gets it act together it can be re-listed on the exchange. For example, Tandy Leather Factory was delisted from Nasdaq in 2020 because of accounting problems (I think) and was re-listed about 3 months ago.
The nuclear part isn't the expensive part, and building a plant 'cheaply' isn't gone save you that much money.

> Solar and wind aren't inherently expensive.

Wind requires a gigantic amount of resources. A single super large wind power plant that produces 4MW at low utilization and has to be replaced every 30 years requires as many resources as a comparative 200MWe nuclear reactor.

If you go from first principle, and you really look, at what goes into these things, fission nuclear is clearly the cheapest. This goes for land use, general resource use and for the environment.

> Even the USSR-style, dangerous designs aren't cheap enough.

In fact making safer nuclear plants is CHEAPER not more expensive. Building inherently safe air cooled plants makes it massively cheaper.
In short: if you have a meaningful recovery pathway for a particular exception this can be useful, but I found that 9 out of 10 exceptions/errors in code cannot be recovered from.

This is checked exceptions all over again... Frankly, I usually do exactly the opposite. Most cases I've seen the exceptions that can arise are not widely known in advance, and for most spots where exceptions can be raised from I simply do not care about them as much either. If my DB is not accessible - do I really, really need to wrap it? If the DNS resolver is failing - do I really really need to wrap it?

When debugging I actually appreciate when a library/controller/module/whatnot does not attempt to "enhance" the exception from something outside of its control with a wrapper, and value seeing the original failure instead.
From the people buying an IPO a "very successful" one is one that was under-priced and goes on to produce outsized returns afterwards, this means the company owners sold below some "real value".

The most successful IPOs for the company are where it sells a bunch of stock at prices that then stay steady or even go down, they traded (potentially worthless) paper for real cash. I suspect the majority of IPOs are "successful" in the second way even though they're "sold" as being (a chance?) at the first way.
nah. We live in the real world where people make mistakes and need help to fix them. I would be fine with some kind of a KYC process to recover the account, but they have no such thing. Or I wasn't able to get to it at least.
> 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.

ITT: How about both? :D

Scrolling through the comments and this Grinch's heart grew three sizes today.
Hi, Philipp here (one of the creators)
Haha, this is so funny, this is one of the BIG reasons why we built this in the first place
They're an indian starter/snack made chiefly from onions and chickpea/gram flour: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/onion-bhajis-raita
fwiw, we’re solving this at DevZero with having multiple AZs - given that our platform centrally manages remote compute (hibernation etc), this is working great at making sure latencies are <20ms for users
Go to your doctor to get some help with how you’re feeling. Then take one day at a time.

Then maybe think about travelling for a while and remembering how to enjoy life.
Thanks, it should be fixed now (you will have to clear your cache)
> because evolution does, in fact, make fine distinctions all over the tree of life.

I said evolution often can't make fine distinctions, not that it never can. The inconvenience of improper inflammation was clearly never so great that it impacted reproductive fitness, where death resulting from no inflammation clearly does.
You have to learn it with a club. A good club is the safest option, they will teach you the techniques, the places and the safety. Although it's still dangerous and accident may happen even with the most cautious people, like for diving or climbing
I love ASCII diagrams, and fixed width everything... Until I want to read it on mobile.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll take a thousand words of computer.rip over any picture ;)
My Emacs is reporting that `count-words` was "Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 24.1." but good post regardless.
Any person with a "scientific attitude" in this field would find it incredibly easy to observer that the training target for natural language is,

f(Q) = {A1..An} -- n being very very large

and the target for mathematics is,

g(Q) = A1

And the model they're using approximates with,

m(Q) = A_guess

So it's incredibly easy to model f with m because A_guess just has to be close to one of A1...n; and its very hard to model mathematics because it has to be only A1.

The reason articles like this are written isn't because people dont know this; it's because they just do not have a sceptical attitude. And that's a problem I can't fix.

If they'd approached this issue with the goal of "finding nothing surprising about this behaviour", ie., trying to make it maximally consistent with existing (basic, trivial, widely-taught) theory, they'd reach this conclusion in under 5min.

The problem is their goal is always to find something surprising so they can release some PR about it. There's nothing I can write to fix this problem, it's edemic in the whole field.

It makes ML/AI research much more like psychology than physics. Alas!
National Geographic covered it about a year ago:

https://archive.vn/YHs1H
Which one? I occasionally check the ingredients on the ones in Tesco and Aldi.

Indian restaurants would likely use the authentic recipe - the use of wheat is more for supermarkets.
I'm also in my 40s, and also not super happy with my current life. I have no magic bullet, but wanted to say: People I know in their 70s and 80s have insisted to me that in your 40s the best of your life is not behind you.

(To me, this is just more terrifying, oh no, so I have to make THESE years count too and have no excuse for them being crappy? haha).

But other thoughts...

* These days you can talk to a therapist over zoom

* Do you have legal permission to move back to US right now? If so, and you want to... do it? Putting together a plan to get back will give you some direction
Yes.

if you have 100,000 shares in circulation at $10 each you have a market cap of $1,000,000.

the same as if you had 10 x $100,000 shares, or 1,000,000 x $1 shares.

but why the rule? theres no reason why my $1 share can't rise 0.1% just like the $10 share. they don't hand me a 1/10th penny coin. so why arbitrarily decide that stocks below $x are bad?

yes a 1c movement is proportionately more, but if youre saying that humans are so obviously psychologically anchored by such round numbers, then the least of humanities problems, and finances, and capitalisms, is the price of a share.
It's called "rabies" in English
One of them still has a piece of the Shutterstock watermark on it. https://mobile.twitter.com/WhaleChart/status/160423220601628...
Everything about that was amazing. The design loos so simple and it's so small. The fuel used and the forward thinking of the fuel availability, separating fuel making from the reactor, how the fuel interacts with the reactor. Harnessing power from the magnetic field not by boiling water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDXXWQxK38
Not really, it was pretty strong curation of certain narratives and maybe the FBI was also involved. They had pretty strong ties which many already suspected.

Whether Twitter employees were groomed into censoring in the interest of state authorities or did it on their own volition is probably to be determined. But I think making the fact transparent was a good step. Because that is vastly more relevant than any other content removal if political interests get involved.
By not spending a generation of lives and treasure on war, and preventing the military industrial complex from growing so large that it runs the show. A anti interventionist America wouldn't have wasted resources on Vietnam or the Middle East either. Instead of war, invest in infrastructure have the world's cheapest energy and later fastest internet as well as the lowest taxes then dominate the nations who spend those funds on bombs and bullets instead.
Surprised his opponent or his party didn't do some vetting. the gop only has a very small majority. If this came out before, it could have cost them. Seems like he lied about everything on his background.
Oberon+ has a lovely syntax. I need to find the time to play with it.
> Most content can be purchased outside of Netflix at some point, on DVD or another medium.

You cannot buy Netflix original movies on DVD or blu-ray. They do sell some of their series (although not all of them - mostly just the very popular entries).
Aside from seeking therapy I’d suggest taking a baby steps approach. Lives are not changed overnight but step by step.

Also - having a MEng must surely make you employable in some capacity even if a little more junior than you’d ideally want.
Use Git Tactically
I think they were trying to ride the beyond meat wave, which is arguably at least a company based on a novel proprietary food production process (tech?). But I agree a lot of companies got the tech label without having the actual benefits of being a tech company meaning a software company (high margins, low distribution costs) which is what was really attractive about tech companies the last 10+ years.
You need a friend. Or need to become a friend. You also need a faith. And finally you need to take some small course on the side.

Humans are: social creatures with need for personal improvement and a faith to help guide them thru life.

The rest will fall in place.

And Digital socialization won’t work.
I am 47 years old and have had two suicide attempts in my life, various interventions and other close calls and I just want to say to you that, even though things can seem hopeless, your life can get better; but you absolutely need to seek professional help.

I did and that and medication (I have Bipolar disorder) has probably saved my life.
Why do we get to elevate chare givers feelings over the well being of those chimps?

Where are you reading this? The current caregivers are professional veterinarians and believe the chimps are too sick/elderly to be moved. The law requires the chimps to be moved regardless of their well-being. The judge has followed the letter of the law, but not the intent (because the intent wasn't codified in a way that was clear). Congress wrote a shitty law; the judge is following it.
Do you think that Lyft would not do this?

OP wrote:

> I don't get how a ride hailing company thinks [it's] cool to behave like a bank.

Rather than "bank," they could have written "global corporation" without sacrificing accuracy. When you have billions of customers, each worth a small amount, problems with fraud that cost a much larger amount, and an algorithmic moderation toolset... the logical, financially-obvious outcome is treating individual customers who are inadvertently harmed by that automatic moderation like garbage.
They probably mean that we tend to vomit up foods containing them, while we don't do so with the fungicides.
I remember a "Our Universe" book [64] that was pretty cool; and it was quite capable of describing what we knew from telescopes and other scientific sources, while still having "fanciful" pages detailing how a mars base might look and what a creature that lived on Jupiter might look like. I feel that was a pretty good way to balance the objectives.

[64] https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/national-geographic-picture-at...
You're not wrong in saying it's a harder path, but I guess for me anecdotally I know more non-techie people who are still pirating all their TV and movies than techie people.

Anyways, appreciate the different perspective, and the alternate use of "everyone". ;-)
"This news shows that practical fusion is now only an engineering problem, not a fundamental physics one..."

Yes, I'd agree with that statement that it's only an engineering problem, but with a laser energy of 2 million joules and a fusion yield of only 3 million joules and an overall input of nearly 300 million joules to produce the lasers then I've no expectation of ever seeing a total net positive output in my lifetime let alone fully established working fusion plants providing power to ordinary customers.

Moreover, compare the overall 'negative' efficiency of this experiment with the actual positive efficiencies of existing generation systems: solar: 20+%, combustion: 20%-40%, mechanical/electrical turbine: >97% and so on and we see there's three or so orders of magnitude to catch up upon.

The task may not be impossible but don't hold your breath.
When we get into situations like this, you do have to question if the law requiring it is just plain silly.
>> I know the best of my life is behind me

This in not true. It may feel that way now, but I promise when you truly reach the other side of this your life can be better than ever. It's a long road and others will have good advice. I just wanted to emphasis this statement you made does not have to be true.

Been there, felt that.
I am the author, this was my weekend project. The first released version had an embarrassing bug that prevented it working properly on some browsers when zoomed. This is especially annoying since I put some effort into accessibility.

It is fixed now on the site (refresh to clear your cache). The repository will have the fix soon (edit: just pushed!)
> Although the relative plethora of Oberon variants [..] suggests that maybe it was still not quite fully evolved.

That's a reasonable conclusion, but one has to consider that most variants came from academia and focused on specific scientific questions, not on the adaptation to practical needs of the industry.

> it would be possible to re-unify them under one standard, in the way that Common Lisp managed to do

I did that with Oberon+ which unifies Oberon, Oberon-07 and Oberon-2.

It also includes what I consider the best ideas of Component Pascal and Active Oberon (though I don't like the syntax of these two languages very much).

See https://oberon-lang.github.io/2021/07/15/motivation-for-a-ne..., https://oberon-lang.github.io/2021/07/16/comparing-oberon+-w... and https://github.com/oberon-lang/specification/blob/master/The....
Sure, but this is not the point of this fragment.
Would it be a way for Elon to cut his personal losses?
That bug is fixed now
> why would I want to interrupt my bodies response to a pathogen at the precise time it's learning to combat it?

Some of those responses are of the form "hurt the pathogen more than it hurts you" and since the vaccine isn't a real threat all they do is hurt you.
because it's expensive and the conditions very difficult. People are starting to use lidar techniques to map caves however.
I am referring to the act of vomiting itself - a defense against the spoiled food in its entirety.

I am hoping people would find fresher food as a consequence.
we’re not seeing cloud costs be too terrible at DevZero - with proper hibernation/suspension, cloud costs are ~$50-60/mo in the worst case
admittedly, we target only enterprise companies where the cost of loss of dev efficiencies is much higher

Say net cost to company for an engineer is $100k-$200k+. Even a net 10% savings over a year means $10k-$20k+ vs a $600-1k/yr investment (in worst case).
Security posture is also significantly improved, which admittedly is harder to assign a $ value to
Because it is effectual for the Disney-fanatics. If 99% of your customers will buy "the latest movie or whatever is on the shelf at Walmart" and 1% will buy multiple copies of something "from the vault" so they don't miss out, then the vault move is a winning play.
Yup, here’s the one: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.2022121...

Credit: Mark Herrmann/LLNL

From this article: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.2022121...

Clear qualitative difference.

Additionally, this is laser energy, but the lasers aren’t used directly. They produce X-rays which are the ones that actually drive the ablative implosion of the fuel pellet. If you used X-rays directly, the gain value would be MUCH higher… I think by that measure, they would’ve achieved Q=1 back in 2013?

Note that hey COULD use the lasers directly to drive implosion but haven’t yet. The Hohlraum/X-ray/indirect method I think produces more consistent lighting on the target, and is more analogous to the operation of an H-bomb, which is partly what this entire process is intended to replicate. They may do future experiments to try direct drive, in preparation for actually using this as a power production method and improving the efficiency dramatically… in combination with far higher efficiency modern lasers, this could enable Q high enough for net electricity production.
It should be said that PDF signatures are a very fragile design, leading to a pletora of security issues:
https://pdf-insecurity.org/

A core problem is that a pdf signature does not necessarily cover a complete file, but can be a partial signature. This adds a whole lot of complexity and unclarity around what is actually signed, allowing all kinds of attacks. I feel this is all so problematic that if you want to sign PDFs it's probably better to not use PDF signatures, but some form of outside signatures over the whole file.
When and How to Use AI Solutions in Your Product?
Lots. Large parts of Europe, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan looks manageable too, etc. It all depends on destination and area of course, but in countries with decent public transport any part where you can't get to by bus or train or ferry tends to have decent local taxi companies to fill in the gaps.

I base my travel around public transport almost exclusively. I've never even used Uber or any other service like that. (And obviously, I don't need a car (or ride hailing service) living in a medium sized city in the Netherlands either.)
So from the looks of it you are in a negative mind frame. Use a professional mental coach (therapist, of course, not one of those "gurus") to help you reframe. It is never too late nor you are never not good enough. But you have to get to a point where you really believe it, not just superficially. A well structured mental coaching development path will help you reframe. Use the right tool, get into therapy.
How do u find a therapist? I’m a bit weary to discuss super personal things with someone I don’t know even if they’re a professional.

How can I find someone I trust and is actually good? Not like the movies where the clock is up and ok next issue.

My work offers a mental health service but I’ve looked at their TOS and no thanks.

Sometimes I feel like just suspending the world background process and being still would be nice. But I don’t have sudo.
Isn't the major reason why there is one dominating type today, because some decades ago the Panama disease mostly wiped out all other competing types?