skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will tell you this, the best days are behind you only if you believe them to be. I know that sounds cliche but is honestly true. You have plenty of time left for all of the things you want to do. Here is where I might start theoretically if I was in your shoes.

1. Find yourself something social, a book club, chess club, anything that you can focus on and be around others. Humans are social animals this will help you get friends and network. If you can find something related to any interests you have even better. The internet != social interaction... period. There is no emoji which replaces a legitimate smile.

2. When or if you have the means do seek help but be picky about who you choose.

3. If you cant work on external circumstances work on yourself and how you respond to them. Read, study and examine yourself and the way you operate and then if you are unhappy take steps to change.

4. Journal daily, nothing profound just feelings and thoughts. Over time you will begin to see patterns in the way you act. This will help you see triggers and let you focus on developing better patterns in your life.

I myself am 43, this has worked for me. I am a practicing Stoic. Most of what I am saying comes from this philosophy. IT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE though and I am just a guy behind a comment on the internet so always be suspicious.

I wish you well my friend and I do hope you do great things.
>You can turn off Location Services access for Google apps, if you feel the need to run them at all. Adding a few seconds of panning and zooming is a reasonable trade.

That's not workable if you need it for turn-by-turn directions, which is a pretty common use case.
My son came to me the other day asking about some properties of material question for his engineering BTEC, it just happened the night before I had been playing around with chatGPT for ffmpeg commands and stable diffusion prompts. I told him about it and he got right on it. It answered the question for him with plenty of extra info he had not considered. He tried to add it as a reference ,the instructor said it was not allowed. However the instructor who had never heard of chatGPT was so impressed he started using it on all the questions to see how good it is. Also so he can detect others using it.

It’s a game changer and a really great tool. If it helps people learn then surely that must be a positive.
Musk’s Twitter poll says he should step down
If a technology can make an educational method obsolete maybe it is time to rethink the educational method?

And if students can use a technology like ChatGPT to complete their education, are they not then prepared for real life tasks and situations that they can also complete using ChatGPT?
The most important lesson for me in this area is this: I can only control today, and not every day is going to be a home run.

For me, trying to commit to big, sweeping, dramatic, permanent changes on a dime in my life has always resulted in failure and been a mistake. Whereas when I make a decision to make some small incremental progress/task today, and worry about re-committing tomorrow, tomorrow, I've had success.

Otherwise, I buckle under the burden of my own commitment and in failing, come to hate myself more and sabotage myself more.

After more or less discovering this on my own I found St. Alphonsus Liguori discussing this in his book Preparation for Death. In his case he's discussing the limited issue of the folly of making overly-sweeping spiritual commitments, but I find it true in the abstract.

* Also: I found that, there's a complicated problem where introspection can be immensely valuable, but can also turn into a selfish impulse, that sitting around thinking of yourself all day can produce no good fruit for yourself, and that getting out and doing charity can get you off that track. I was very depressed once and started volunteering at a soup kitchen every day. It didn't transform me into a happy person but it got my too-inwardly-focused thoughts out of a rut.
Great work! Really brings back those heady days when dithering was futuristic.
Apple Music (The app) replaced iTunes (The app), and Apple Music (the service) contains a modified iTunes Match service (which used to only be a separate iTunes service) which is still available (the iTunes Match service). The service (iTunes Match) was optional where the Apple Music (the service) method is not optional when using a synced library since part of syncing is matching what is already there. I think that might be what the comment was hinting at.

You can use Apple Music (the app) with Apple Music (the service) and disable library syncing, but enable iTunes Match. But at that point, you might as well use Apple Music (the service).

Selecting AAC does work in both cases if it's about DRM.
May also wake up and discover the realities of vendor lock-in, and having little or no story for offline development.
>The drivers were sold that they are contractors who make their own hours and don't have a boss.

Which was total BS from the start - when they do choose to work, they’re told (by a boss) when/where they do their work. Hardly “own hours and own boss”.
Wages are by far the lowest in Western Europe, less than half of UK or France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...
"Education" maybe the worst of them. One of the what-to-do steps is... learn what to do? Talk about drawing the rest of the freaking owl.
Starting a family with twenty spouses sounds like a lot of work, honestly.
Yes, I'm sure there are some men that do it. There is no data to indicate that the MILLIONS of men disappearing from the workforce are supporting themselves from OnlyFans.

So we're back to the original question again.
I recently bought kids rain boots, just normal vulcanized rubber which is itself water proof.

The lady at the counter asked if I wanted a water repellent coating (PFC) on it for extra money. They are exposing toddlers to this crap for literally no benefit.

The pace at which we allow chemistry innovation to permiate consumer markets needs to be curbed.
One interesting thing I realized after experimenting with this today is that if you upload mp3 (as opposed to wav) your audio won't really sync correctly afterward. For example, I found the effect to work too well at certain points, and so I tried to blend it with the original audio, but then it sounded as if the phase was off. Uploading a wav resolved this issue for me.
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Languages, frameworks, technologies etc.
> Who's gonna work the low paying dirty jobs after all if everyone is smart and capable?

Not the son of Jeff Bezos, I can guarantee you that. Your idea would only work if we could completely and clearly separate what we like to call "merit" from "daddy's money". Unfortunately, there are no bulletproof ways of doing so 100% (yet), so we work a little harder to give people with not so much wealth a better shot at life with "no child left behind".
I'm not qualified to give much of an opinion on epigenetics, but I do find it interesting how it is talked about in popular culture, and I think it's good for us to be careful about that.

At my last employer, we had a diversity training where the speaker framed the lesson around the idea of epigenetics and how we all inherited generational trauma. My BS-detector instantly went off, and I found it hard to take the rest of the session seriously. This seems to be a concept, like "quantum mechanics," that can be easily misused in general discourse.
If you choose to reply, I have a few questions just to get an idea of where your at.

In my opinion, all that stuff "healthy"/functioning people say to depressed people is technically correct, but completely missing the point and ignorant of the real problems(through no fault of their own of course, because how could they know?)

e.g. "being happy is a choice", "you just need exercise and sunlight!", "fake it till you make it", "perspective if everything, if you focus on the positives instead of the negatives you won't feel so bad", etc.. I could go on forever with those. If a severely depressed/suicidal person were able to do all of those things, it's true they wouldn't be depressed, but they usually can't, and in the few cases where they do it's often done without the belief and commitment necessary to make it effective. Not doing those things isn't the root problem IMO, the root problem is the thing that makes it impossible to follow all that advice. I think this is especially true for people who are NEETS or who have similar lifestyles to a NEET.

The question I wanted to ask though, is what is your current perspective on this type of advice? Do you do the things they say, do you attempt to, do you believe it could work, have you tried and failed to do those things?

And secondly, what is your outlook on life itself? Do you have meaning in your life, whether spiritual, religious or otherwise(personally I believe there are plenty of ways to find meaning outside of religion and whatnot, if you have something to believe in that's a good starting point though. If not, are you are a non-religious and non-spiritual person with materialistic or very scientific, or even nihilistic perspectives towards life?
Somebody wasn't minding the door and post-modern Marxists snuck in. Now they've Theorized your science and they get to define what the proper way of knowing is, and what it means to be an expert.

Don't argue, or you're racist/sexist/homophobic.
Replying to myself to expand, since I can't edit now

I'm actively trying to work myself away from 'short form' content. YT Shorts, TikTok, image memes - that kind of thing.

I don't like how my attention span has wavered over the last decade or so, and I feel a lot of this has to do with it.

HN/Reddit are still here for the time being, as they at least have articles with some depth... and replies are afforded enough characters for actual conversation

Under this light, I'm left feeling that Twitter/Mastodon are just an engagement machine, bare minimum to have something to engage with to move 'currency' around

I want to be better off from my time here, and I don't think I have
Having worked in Germany's healthcare system, specifically in Hamburg, I can only see one trajectory. Worse. The policymakers are deeply corrupt and doing everything they can to squeeze more money out of patients.

You can book therapists online next week in the US, but they're not cheap.
Pearl Izumi rain pants work great for me for heavy rain. I never got a proper upper cover just a hoody jacket cover thing that doesn't do as good a job of keeping water out as the pants. I wear a coat sometimes and needed something to pull over a coat. The rain pants pull over existing pants very readily, the top has a wider variation in thickness I need to cover so I never got a proper rain jacket from Pearl Izumi which is more on the tight end of a fit.
> Apple provides all developers with access to its Network.framework, Multipath TCP (MPTCP), and other networking APIs, which by design allow any app developer to bypass the Wi-Fi interface and route traffic directly over the cellular interface. Invoking these tools effectively allows any app developer to unmask VPN users on Wi-Fi without notice or consent. By routing device traffic over the cellular interface, app developers are able to bypass VPN protection and obtain the user's cellular IP and other device information that allows that app developer to fingerprint a particular device and/or user.

https://blog.disconnect.me/ios-vpn-leak-advisory/
It doesn't matter whether some will circumvent the age-gate. The company made an attempt, and enough kids are blocked by it, this is a good enough for the law, at the moment. But Epic is not willing to even walk this short way...
Please everyone, pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for Mark Stokes: https://stfrancismhd.org/the-chaplet-of-divine-mercy-promise...

Jesus says: "When they say this chaplet in the presence of the dying, I will stand between My Father and the dying person, not as a just Judge but as a merciful Savior."
You're saying this like it's bad but I'm not sure it is. If kids want to use voice chat they can, all they have to do is lie about their age. Default off for children is a good policy, and allowing them to get it around it with some effort probably is too. Seems like what's important here is that unsuspecting children aren't thrown into voice chat and immediately called the n word or something. If the kids are prepared to be bullied then they can go ahead with voice chat.
What's your preferred medium (one-on-one conversation, book, audiobook, podcast, article, etc.)?
There are different kinds of lasers. Last time I checked in 2018, Nd:glass lasers were the only choice for producing short, ultra-high power laser pulses with regular beam profile. Beam profile is very important for tight focusing. They may be 80's technology but these were produced in 2005. Efficient fiber optic lasers were already available but they are not suitable for the task. https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/how-nif-works/seven-wonders/la...
There’s a lot of good advice here but I’ll chime in with something that I think is both underrated and immediately useful. Most people don’t pay enough attention to what they’re filling their heads with.

The things you listen to, and the stuff you watch become the ways you think, almost invariably. So you should find things to listen to that prime your mind to embrace the difficult process of change.

My recommendation? The Jocko Podcast.
When your country is a shithole every citizen is a potential asylum seeker. That’s nothing but an abuse of the system.
Based on a "misunderstanding" of obscure user-hostile behavior that no sane person would expect. Behavior that no sane designer would design, and no sane coder would code, absent evil corporate pressure.

And, no, it being "documented" does not excuse it.

I don't have an anti-Apple fixation. My "anti-" is decidedly unfixed, and ranges over Apple, Google, record labels, and all of the other scumbags who operate or influence 99.999999 percent of "the cloud".
> The types are not important, imo.

IMO, they are. How else can we explain it if we can't define it?
"If you can't hold copies of it, it's not your data."

As in: two external drives, unplugged, one in each hand, each with a complete, usable copy. Bonus points for storing them in separate buildings miles away from each other.
At least this one links to a place where you can read the story in forward order without interruptions from the information-free peanut gallery.
Was talking to my wife (an educator) about this...simple answer is periodic tests that have essay components and weighs heavily on your grade.

As the grifters get poor scores they'll easily learn that there's a time and a place to use these tools and however they decide to use it they still need to learn. I think the perfect example is when babelfish came online and I'd use it to get an idea for my Spanish essays but not use it copy and paste. There were some kids who copied and pasted blindly and got caught with phrases like "falling in love".

I'm sure translation tools are better now, but leveraging tools for homework is nothing new.

Also, the SATs now have an essay portion, but many schools don't require scores anymore (tbh I feel that's to let legacy students in but that's another story). So those who practice writing would score higher there as well.
Can you point me to somewhere to read more about this? Also from wikipedia: "NIF hosts the world's most energetic laser."[0] Is that true and if so can many less powerful but more efficient lasers make up for it?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility#
Dear OP,

To turn everything around, change first the inside.

Words can change a person from the inside.

Try if you can hear these words:

“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Reference: John 8:31-32

https://www.esv.org/John+8/
I know what CBT is (well, I mean, I've heard term) but what is MCT? Also, I would say that a (good) therapist is quite like a (good) coach/personal trainer - someone who keeps you accountable and committed to a course of treatment/training. Many people could probably do these things by themselves, but many others struggle to keep it up for one reason or other. As an analogue I had a couple of very bad PTs and then went to the gym with an experienced friend and felt very motivated as he encouraged me and helped me through rough spots. Made the most progress doing so. This is not to say going it alone is bad - you need to be able to sometimes.
>it will be about a thousand years before you get to a 1 in 1000 chance. Is that about right? Don't trust my math.

The ESA's long-term collisional evolution simulations, as visualized in this video[0], seem to disagree with that result.

[0] https://youtu.be/9cd0-4qOvb0
Yes, Leetcode pushes you to the top. SWE often divided into two camps, those who really refuse to do leetcode and those who do it because they know it will give them advantage.

Leetcode actually does make you a better engineer, provided you study deeply for it. Ofc it has diminishing returns, but you are already ahead of the game 99% of the time if you are doing Leetcode.

ChatGPT will make some students lazier, and will make some students better. Those students who can use ChatGPT correctly, by taking and observing the output and synthesizing it with their own understanding, will be ahead of the game. Students who are lazy and just copy pasting ChatGPT answers won't, but McDonald's employment is still open for them.
Kudos buddy!
I went to community college for free on Pell grants and then to a similarly priced state school, though not in California. It was a fine option for me and I’m doing well for myself almost a decade later, but it wasn’t a free lunch. I had a hell of a time getting my first job out of college, in no small part because my community college did absolutely nothing to equip me to apply for internships at the start of my junior year. And missing those years with my eventual graduating class definitely left me with a shallower network than my peers - to this day, I’ve gotten every job I’ve ever had through a cold application. Not to mention the signaling impacts. It’s not hard to imagine these drawbacks costing me six figures in earnings over the course of my career.

For people whose best available alternative is not to go to college at all, I’d recommend community college + 2 years at a state school with no hesitation. In other cases I don’t think it makes sense to paint with such broad strokes - it depends on the particular student’s career aspirations and the particular college’s aptitude at positioning students to succeed in that field.
Can't you deselect your worst traits with IVF?
In C, the value 0 is equivalent to false and all nonzero values are equivalent to true. It’s a convention throughout the C standard library to return 0 on success and nonzero when some error occurred. The behaviour of the new checked arithmetic library is consistent with that convention.
I give you another anti-cheating solution: test all exams on chatGPT, by giving it first the tasks, then the answers for self grading. If the model fails, use the problem, if not, change it until chatGPT fails. The task should always require human intervention to pass.
They r central right acedemically even in US. The difference is that the public might perceive them as 'the US left'. Isn't relative definition more confusing? Isn't it easier to put everything on the same scale so that there is no confusion? To say US dem party is liberal is exactly right. Liberals are central right
holy shit do people with like a ton of music not realize backups are important?

A backup doesn't help when a service is silently changing your files.

Once you realize a file isn't right, you look into it and discover that it was automatically replaced by the service three or four years ago. It is not reasonable to expect anyone - even a tech-literate person - to keep 300 hard drives around for a decade or more, and audit every change made on them hour by hour.
I don’t follow your last sentence.

Why? Because it is a very American approach that is less the norm elsewhere. Therapy is not an industry to such a degree necessarily in other countries. Cop-out because it is akin to RTFM, ‘go Google it’, ‘delete and re-install’. If one doesn’t have a personal viewpoint, why bother responding.
If you're deploying XGboost and small classifiers, or even now on larger models but just using high level interface like just hugging face I would say monorepo makes sense.

With considerably large custom models with experimentation and R&D, dev and prod are way more separate, foremost because there are many disjoint dependencies and there is no need to clog up builds with all of it.
Do not give up. The idea that at 40 or 50 you're past it and have missed out on all the opportunities in life is common, but it's flat out wrong. A wife and kids in your 40s is perfectly feasible, but I wouldn't focus on them first. Once you're in a happier and more stable position personally, then other things can and will follow.

Other people have given good positive practical advice on therapy, which I would recommend too, pick anyone and see if it works, if not move on. The therapist is not your friend and you don't need to worry about their feelings or long-term commitment upfront.
I think the idea is that parents are supposed to create accounts on Epic and Steam, not children. The parent selects the correct age during account creation.
I got divorced (not my choice) around age 55, after 30 years of marriage. Our one child (now an adult) wouldn't even talk to me afterwards... I don't even know why. I do have a good job, and thank God for that... for a number of years (and in many ways, still), it was what kept me going. Severe suicidal depression hit me during and after divorce.

I don't like the word "recover", because it presumes things, but you can climb out of that hole. For me, it took lots and lots of honesty and work -- and I got help. Even so, it took years of it before I stopped feeling crushed by my divorce/estrangement on a daily basis.

You can eventually see yourself as a better, different person than you were before. I won't lie, there are days when the agony of it comes to mind, but... you learn to cope.

In your case, what you have to grieve is the life unlived. I can get that, but you can still create a life -- even a good one -- at your age. Mid-40s is not too old to have a wife and kids, if you know what you want and act on it.

I would start with some therapy. They can't do the work for you -- and there will be a LOT of work -- but they can offer a different perspective and help get you out of the echo chamber of your own mind.
> I am more excited by Emacs 30, mostly I like the ahead of time compilation of Lisp code.

Emacs has had an ahead of time compilation feature, "Native Compilation," since Emacs 28. Is this what you mean? Or is the Emacs 30 feature something different?
ChatGPT Desktop App with Powerful Extras
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> It's sort of like performance art (very well-paid performance art) rather than something mere mortals could learn and use.

If I were to be flippant, I would just say "not with that attitude!" But, mere flippancy being (rightly) not welcome here, I would also point out that all code is opaque and difficult to people who haven't learned how to read it. I think this kind of code should be taken, not as absolutely unintelligible (elsethread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34052034, zwerge posted a link to their dissection of it)—after all, part of the beauty of coding is that we all have access to a source of absolute truth (the code does what the compiler says it does)—but as either a fun diversion (my personal perspective) or as a goal. If making the code-reading part of your brain fluent in this sort of code is something to which you aspire—and there's no reason you should, but also no reason you shouldn't—then you can do it, with lots of patience!