skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
44, somewhat in midlife burnout here. Plenty of better replies- getting professional help seems to be a solid recommendation here- but a few thoughts I don't see mentioned elsewhere:

- Your life has value no matter what. Your worth is not measured in money, fame, number of kids, etc. I arrive at this several ways, but firmly believe even the poorest homeless guy's life has intrinsic value worth preserving. Life is certainly better with a little money and social support, so those are worth seeking, but you have value even without them.

- I know when I've really been down two things help me the most: 1) Helping others. Find a soup kitchen, tutor program, some volunteer org and volunteer a few hours. 2) Being creative. This may be more personal, but is something I never _feel_ like doing at the time, but always helps. I watercolor mostly, but would also count writing, gardening, or really any non-commercial hobby.

- The two things above may not be the end all, but may get you to a point where you are networking and have some drive to answer the other questions. "I don't have ideas/skills/network for entrepreneurship" especially seems like a solvable problem.

Again, you can probably do better than some internet rando's advice, but thought I'd mention those. All the best!
> Bazel is extremely cool! But you end up with, like, a handful of people on the team who can write Bazel and eveyone else cargo culting their way through it.

It's not that difficult and docs are outstanding. It can and it will be worse with your own Bash-isms that likely won't have any docs at all.
I wonder how many of these have actually been used vs someone thought of a cool bitwise trick for a problem that doesn't exist. Can anyone think of a use-case for TurnOffLowestContiguousBits?
Idea: Not exactly sure how it would be implemented, but some sort of virtual proctoring for writing essays that prevents usage of chatgpt or similar tools?
So what are we going to do about this? I mean yes it’s wrong, now what?
I remember first watching back when he was on cable via hacked DirecTV cards. Fascinating back in the day. When it went to the podcast/vid, I started losing interest when it became a smart phone centric, then came the two inadvertent D pics live on air. Never watched a segment since. Great run though, congrats.
This EU commission page suggests that a human review should be conducted before a client is informed of the decision, not only in the case of an appeal.

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
Anyone up for starting a programming language with me to farm data about programmers?
I wonder how the composition of the pellet was optimized. I'm sure the pellet was setup to make ignition as likely as possible. Now that they've accomplished that i wonder if parameters can be changed to up the efficiency of the reaction for energy output? Granted, optimizing for likeliness of ignition may well be the same as optimizing for energy output. Can they just up the mass of the pellet for a longer fusion reaction?

Isn't additional stages in fission/fusion bombs just upping the mass with the result being higher yields? "higher yield" being a bit of an understatement as the range is like 100KT to 100MT (and beyond).

Can a multi-stage pellet be formulated? Ignition of an outer pellet provides some energy to get a more powerful inner pellet ignited.

/not even close to being a layman, let alone expert, on the subject
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> It looks like it's returning the (biased corrected) value of mantissa.

I think you mean exponent?
Or small businesses that served these needs got murdered in the pandemic and well capitalized corporations are stepping in.
It's certainly a journey. I recommend checking with both for this reason. If one isn't working out, you would be able to tell which you respond to better. Medication also often take time to work and may need to go through months of experimentation if common prescription do not help. In the meantime, theraphy can act as a strong force in improving your life and vice versa.
Literally there is no greater cost than not being able to live/earn a living/achieve any of your goals.

So of course the cost is worth it.
I totally just wrote down my thoughts that came into my mind reading the GP. Not arguing with you.

Tho I don't see how you could ever "pay up front" for energy for that long of a period without someone doing a futures deal. As a person especially today the energy prices fluctuate wildly.

Edit: making a hedge for your energy for the lifetime of the building (or yourself) does not in any way negate the idea of the GP. TCO is still made explicit and the energy part can be compared with other buildings and smarter decisions about insulation will be made which should drive developers into building better.
I'm not a religious person, but I second this. I met my wife through a religious institution and I've also made one good friend there.

Note that the religion itself doesn't matter as long as you feel safe and comfortable with the people there.

Now, with regards to your dreams, are they really _your_ dreams? Or are you chasing them because, well, everybody else is chasing them?

I'm no therapist so please take this advice with a grain of salt, but I _felt_ my life improving when I stopped chasing for things that I actually didn't value much, such as a prestígios career, a beautiful home and family, a nice car, traveling the world, buying a big TV, etc. After much introspection, I realized that as long as I can pay my bills, have food on the table, and have the company of my wife and dog, I don't really need more than that.

Obviously we're all different and each of us will have different _needs_, but the _wants_ can be quite similar because of what we've been told our entire lives.
I do not have children but I could not imagine my parents leaving me with unfettered access to a TV at age 4. If the Internet had been around, they certainly wouldn't have given me an internet-enabled device and left me by myself.

How is playing games online where you can communicate with random people across the world without any sort of parental supervision possibly a good idea?? And why is it someone else's problem?

I don't mean this rudely, but how about actually doing some parenting?

I used to work with a guy who said the schools should be doing more to make children behave better, as if he was somehow absolved of any input. Absolutely baffling.
It's a mystification of what's going on -- the term makes it harder to understand, not easier. It's prone to popular misunderstanding, and it seems even to confuse the researchers themselves.
I agree that a Soldier forfeiting to a Plastic junk Whirlygig is hilarious.

Shoot the fucking thing.
Start listening/reading Jordan Peterson

Get religious. We are meant to have a story we fit into, this had been religion for every culture as far as we know. The modern atheist man is lost, nihilist, doomed in most cases.

Depression is a way your body/mind tell you something is not working, that the things you are pursuing are not worth it (loose interest in everything)

If you go into a religious practice, there is process to forgive yourself (procrastination) and a path to push forward to something good (wife, family, etc)

Woman are starving for a decent man that want to be usefull and do good things.
Start by addressing the basics. Get out of the house frequently, get around other people. Spend 1 hour a day walking in the sunlight. Climbing hills and/or exerting yourself can help you feel better about yourself. Do your own research on vitamin / mineral deficiencies. I find B vitamins and magnesium supplements plus potassium-rich foods to be beneficial.
I completely agree! Walking livestock is best — that is what I tried to convey by excitement level.

I have just watched videos of middle-eastern mounted police doing riot work, and their actions seemed very similar to (a) heading off stampedes, and (b) cutting out individuals from the herd.

Just remember, that the same actions that calm a cow when drawing can be done "in reverse" to heat it up[0]. So someone practised in moving cattle, and calming them, is also not so far off from having the skills to influence the movement of groups of people, and terrorising them.

[0] partner dancing is similar to duelling, in that in both you're paying close attention to your partner/opponent. It's different in that in the former you're paying close attention for small mistakes, in order to act so as to cover them up; in the latter you're paying close attention for small mistakes, in order to act so as to amplify them.
That would seem to be a violation of the First Amendment, and a tempting way for a corrupt party who controls the police to criminalize speech that contradicts their platform and narrative.

Like it or not, allowing politicians to lie is the least worst option. The solution is for voters and the free press to hold them accountable, rather than in essence expecting government to police itself.
Wow this currently has 111 points and is sailing to the top of HN... based on a user misunderstanding...

Edit: What's more, the person pointing to the solution isn't even the top-voted comment on this thread. Just everyone repeating their usual anti-Apple fixations.
Yes, sometimes weird things happen at night with propagation: https://blog.jgc.org/2021/07/receiving-wwvb-time-signal-in-p...
There's a lot of talk to suggest the opposition didn't have it together in New York, not doing even basic due diligence on opponents. Not sure if this is the actual case or perhaps they felt, as a party, this race wasn't worth putting energy into.

Not every race gets the same scrutiny by the opposition due to things like limited funding, probability of losing etc.

You're right though, you'd think they'd have enough funding to handle this nation wide in every race, but alas, maybe not.
The NY Repubs must be horribly dysfunctional if they could not find a candidate better than this. This is who they want representing them? You'd think the party machine would follow up on references before letting someone so dishonest represent them.
Katie Morton has some good videos on how to select a therapist and red flags to beware of.
Lately I've been in a bit of a rabbit hole on YouTube looking at AM transmitter tours for facilities ranging from 2000 to 50000W transmitters (and beyond! Look up WLW for an insane facility that seems like it was built by mad scientists!), and it was interesting the variety of methods they used to control their AM signals.

Some stations have highly complex phased antenna arrays designed to distribute the signal more north, or in a certain pattern, to avoid certain cities.

Others turn off completely at night, and yet others have transmitters that shed load at night to just reduce overall coverage with a simpler antenna system.

And all that, while companies like Tesla have started not even including support for the AM band on their car radio tuners...
I know most of these are compiler intrinsically but it’s good to have them standardized.
"I'd rather my kids learn to use every tool at their disposal to be as fast, efficient, and effective as possible."

But that's not how (pre college) education works for the most part, unfortunately. It's lots of fact learning and essay busywork, not a lot of actual problem solving and critical thinking.
These tools aren't going away. And I still think ChatGPT is incapable of writing a full essay with parenthetical citations and such that schools require. Perhaps the best solution would be to teach students to use ChatGPT to help improve their sentence structures and grammar, which I think would raise essay and writing quality across the board without explicitly crossing the line into blatant cheating.
Going against the grain here. The only person who can help you is you. A good therapist can help you realize that earlier too.

You're going to get many perspectives of how you can help yourself in this thread, some will resonate and some won't at all.

Facing your longing for happiness and reason may be the very thing preventing you from obtaining it. Sometimes in order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

In other words, you have to listen to yourself in terms of how to turn your life around. Maybe even the fear of being successful paralyzes you from beginning.
This was a close race, not some race in, say, rural Wyoming or San Francisco where one party is essentially the only one that counts.
Or a net gun
NSAIDs are anti-inflammatories. Analgesics are anti-pain. Completely different mechanisms.

I had arthroscopic surgery for a torn meniscus in my knee this year. My doc (well-respected pro sports ortho in Austin) put me on ice and rather long term Naproxen (NSAID). So not every doc has gotten with or believes in the new thinking.
Just keep in mind that therapists are vastly overrated and are designed to help you accept where you are.
Or, in other words, gravity ages you.
It's interesting that the mechanism, process and outcome of what Apple
is doing is in every way identical with a ransomware attack. At least
the overtly criminal gangs let you know and offer to restore your
original files for some bitcoin payment.
40 years old. I used to work doing odd jobs, but during the quarantine decided to pick up programming because I was always a gamer and my desktop was where I would spent most of my time. I also have an unidentified health problem, which is to say that the symptoms are obvious to the naked eye but the cause isn't.

So I thought "maybe this will be fun to do, and if I'm good at it perhaps I'll be able to afford healthcare". At this point, I'm not delusional enough to think that this problem has a definitive treatment, but it's better to try than doing nothing.

At first I worked with the pomodoro technique, but nowadays I only use pomodoro to remind myself to take breaks. I ended up getting really addicted to studying and building stuff when initially every little red squiggly line would be an attack to my self-esteem and proof of my incompetence, but now I'm just embracing the chaos and have fun with it!

I've been working as a fullstack developer for a little over a year, and on my free time I focus to build my backend development skills. Unfortunately, my current company has no room for backend at all as they're mostly writing AI solutions, and in spite of the fact that I expressed my passion to dive deeper in API and database design my CTO gave me the cold shoulder. But at least I have some experience which I can market for my next job.

It also helps that I have no desire to have children or even date. Maybe it's my low self-esteem but I cannot imagine ever finding someone who would want me with my disease, so this career is all I love (outside of the usual hobbies).
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Hey man lots of courage to ask for help- as others have said a therapist will be a huge resource.

Things are far from over yet and I and most on this thread are rooting for you.
Used to consciously avoid it when I was a kid, but if we could do it completely that'll be so great :)
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Yes, never logged on. Linking your location back to you personally is a different topic and depends on your usage - but if you have a static IP for > 2 weeks - google.com should show you your precise location (at the bottom of the page).
While the findings are interesting and may hold therapeutic potential, this is a very zoomed in perspective.

We know that epigenetic changes occur in microgravity and they occur across the entire genome. While one gene may see an upregulation or downregulation, it's important to know this happens to many genes i.e. differentially methylated regions (DMRs). And these DMRs are not entirely predictable as there are many mechanisms associated with epigenetics. For example, two species at different levels of maturity may exhibit different DMRs in microgravity.

So while we may see downregulation in one age-related gene, you may very well see an upregulation of the many other age-related genes. We'll have to find out with further inquiry.

Still, very cool stuff and I hope more funding goes into microgravity effect on gene expression.
You know Apple Music doesn't actually delete your stuff, right?
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Funny they didn't just extend the 32 bit reverse algorithm to 64 bits: https://github.com/electronicarts/EAStdC/blob/master/include...
Ditto. I kept >200GB of music on GPM and had no issues with codecs or bitrates getting changed when I had to move away from it (much less being replaced with clean versions).

It definitely butchered my metadata, however. I've spent a couple years now slowly fixing everything.

(I still miss the Play Music iOS app's offline playback, it was miles ahead of anything else)
I had to "AI" proof my technical screening questions for engineers. I was alarmed that about 1/3rd of my questions were easily answered by ChatGPT. Thankfully I've always made about 1/3 my questions from their resume so hopefully they can answer that without GPT...

Most of the ones that it did not answer you could tweak the question into ChatGPT to get a correct answer, but would lead to a pretty noticeable delay in answering.
Also, math changed after calculators became ubiquitous and questions became more about the concepts (which calculators don't help) rather than the arithmetic. ChatGPT seems to be good at reciting facts (that is, when it doesn't get them hilariously confused on occasion), but not so much at making the sorts of synthesis that a good essay entails.
Infracost is OK. It's not great, it's OK. To not be meaningless, it's not always accurate, still has some bugs, doesn't cover everything. But it's still the best tool in its class and I use it.

If the value proposition of a cloud language included "infracost but better", I might be more inclined to listen.
I deleted my Twitter account years ago, I just didnt use it anymore. I was on Facebook for a while, but I hated every minute I was there, so I also deleted that.

I signed up on mastodon a year or two ago, and it's the most positive experience I've had online in a very long time. It's fun, like MySpace was in the beginning.

Mastodon is interesting because it isn't one thing, it's many unique communities that talk to each other. My home server is full of people like me, it's a strong community where people feel safe and comfortable. However, most of my follows are from outside my server. It's an environment where I can be my actual, genuine self, which is a nice experience these days.

I think mastodon has captured the spirit of what social media was originally meant to be. Without the pressure of trying to extract money from your users, the users are more free to express themselves. It's the way things used to be before "don't be evil" went down the toilet.

Mastodon is good, and whether or not it "replaces" Twitter (which is not and never was the goal), it's going to stick around for a long time.
Nvm. New 52 week low this morning.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221218185446/https://help.twit...
Great outlook. This is literally true though with modern medicine and standard of living at many countries.

If you take care of yourself, stay fit, fix your brain life only gets better. If you're a pissed off 25 year who can't get laid on a constant basis vs a contend 50 year old who has sorted their life, I'd take the latter any day of the week.
Pick a skill you would enjoy learning about, and start learning about it.

Start picking up odd jobs on upwork to practice it. Even dead simple ones will help you start practicing the craft and feel useful. Keep doing it and it will improve.

You could learn building Wordpress websites and start helping with issues around that. All you need is time and Google to figure out pretty much anything.

Once you start helping other people, even if for free, your feelings about yourself will change.

And yes, I know people who have moved into tech (digital marketing/advertising) in their 50s and made it work very, very well for them, with no prior tech knowledge. So it is possible, takes a lot of work, and it can deliver not just a decent life, but an amazing life.
Please seek therapy as soon as you can. This is not the right place for you my Brother. Good luck and don't give up.
I’m of Asian descent. I was raised in a white community and don’t know much about Asian culture. I am ethnically Asian, but if you were to try to infer things about me through an Asian cultural lens you would largely be incorrect. American white is largely my cultural identity. I largely relate to white New England Americans. It’s not necessary or relevant to imply I have “transitioned” from something Asian.

Personality is an overlapping but poorly fitting term to describe identity.

Transitioning gender is not so much about changing how you perceive your personal identity in a self reflective way so much as a term for publicizing it so that others have a frame of reference for understanding where you’re coming from because it’s uncommon and non obvious and helpful to them if they’re open to accommodating your own identity, imo.

The types are not important, imo. But a simple thing may be that you feel very uncomfortable being seen as a thing of sexual or romantic interest from heterosexual men (or anything) and you want to make it clear that this is not a social role you want to play. Can you stop dudes from
feeling that way? No. But perhaps you can create a social norm that such feelings are not brought up much as it’s generally not cool for gay men to openly hit on openly straight men in public.
Hospitals completely overwhelmed in China ever since restrictions dropped
Honestly, none of the things you want - a wife, a kid, house, meaningful work - are behind you.

The first thing you need to tackle is meaningful work. That will get you a house, and make you an attractive candidate for a wife.

Remember: you don't have to be right all the time. You really just have to be right ONCE. One right job. One right person. One successful idea. And this can happen at 25 just as well as it can happen at 45.
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IMO searching on stack overflow/googling requires some level of technical understanding. Ex: You can't just paste your homework problem into google and get an answer. However, ChatGPT is just a better/high level of abstraction of google search. You can 100% paste in a full leetcode question and get an answer. Obviously it is wrong sometimes, but in the next few years it will become more accurate.

This is no different than the people I was in CS with who would just copy other people's projects/homework though. If you want to use ChatGPT for 4 years in college and then are able to get a job and do the job somehow I don't really care. I would be surprised if you could do the job well, but I am sure some people will be able to.
I wasn't advocating for a position, just explaining that they clearly lead (or led) in two big technological advances.

It depends on what the company's core value proposition is. Toyota's is clearly a car company. Tesla is now more of a car company, but there was a time when they had no or few cars but still had the battery and driving tech. Their valuation and promise was of bringing a new technology to the world, rather than a physical product.