skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
43's a great time to reinvent yourself. You don't have to look at your progress on the plan you probably put together for yourself in your late teens/early 20s (engineer / wife /kids).

Let's talk about steps:

> There are no mental health facilities in the small town where I live. I let my professional network decay and die, and there is literally nowhere else I can get any kind of useful, actionable advice.

(1) Get out of that town. Both problems you have are easily solvable with moving a few hours away from where you are now. Find a therapist, find professional meetups/orgs/etc.

> I had all the desires of a regular guy: a wife, kids, a house, meaningful work, etc. I mean I still do, but I guess I'm too late for the first few.

(2) Frankly, work on just one of those (hint: start with a girlfriend, figure out wife later; you actually have plenty of time, and the standards drop as your competitive pool shrinks). The others will come a lot easier. See #1 for how to make that situation easier.

> With every passing day, I am becoming more bitter, angry and disillusioned. I don't want to live like this anymore,

(3a) Part of that sounds like grieving. I'm guessing on this part: did your dad provide you some of your motivation and direction? If so, that's a second loss.

(3b) What are you doing for fun? Do more fun stuff. This isn't frivolous, it's survival. Men in their 40s (I'm one too) forget to actually enjoy their lives. You have time, and you have health, and you have necessity for it. Your depression justifies more effort in enjoying yourself.

So, as you're asking for advice, I'll give it. Move. Move somewhere that has good therapeutic, social, professional, and recreational potential. BTW: it's more important to go where there's people than somewhere with good rental prices. Suck up a crap apartment to have fun again. The nice thing about renting is that you can rent somewhere else a short time later.

If you want really good advice that I'll probably get flamed for: Get a motorcycle. There's an old saying that you don't see motorcycles parked in front of therapists' offices. Riding is pure meditation and you don't need to have any friends at all to enjoy. It also makes you more interesting and respectable. As you're in your 40s and a professional, a BMW GS is kinda presumed (I also have one).
Hopefully FTC is eventually taking action against Adobe as well.
My life turned at 26 when I developed schizophrenia. I was a startup enterpreneur and now doing open-source lol
I was in the reverse situation than you, maybe something I have to offer will help. I was suicidal as a young teen, hospitalized for it (forcibly) as a risk to myself. The last time I considered suicide was in my late 30s.I have too much to say, so I will try to start with the most important.

Find someone else to care about, and do something for them. (keep doing this until you feel better)

There are so many people in trouble with so many issues. This will instantly take your mind off your own problems.

No matter what you are going to suffer. Either your suffering will be because change and taking action (against procrastination) hurts really bad. (people who dismiss this pain have never experienced it) Or you are going suffer a life of decline.

You need to have some belief and faith in the answers given to you here that they will do you any good. I've followed advice that I had no belief would work because I was at the end of my rope multiple times, but I trusted the person saying it. (what else can you do sometimes?)

Look for things to be grateful for.

I've had zero money in the bank and mouths to feed, be grateful you have a home (I assume), some money in the bank etc... Really think about these things and try and appreciate them.

I am in my later years now, and because of my past I grit my teeth and accept the pain of facing my problems head on because I've proved over and over again that yields the best results for having a satisfying life.

If you keep looking you will figure something out and find the courage, strength and hope.
>This one actually looks like they may be on to something because of the level of inconsistency between cloud apis.

I still don't see why this requires a totally new language. You could easily write a high-level API in a commonly used language that under the hood generates cloud provider-specific API calls. Indeed, this is exactly what Pulumi does, with API bindings to many commonly used languages. There is no need for a custom runtime, much less a new language specifically designed for that runtime.
Fortunately systems for bringing in "fresh" air without dumping heat (by means of a heat exchanger) now exist which basically removes the issue of indoor air quality / Co2 and VOC buildup in highly insulated homes. However, circulation is essential.

The biggest issue that still arises in highly insulated homes is moisture buildup. Even with ample air circulation, modern building techniques at large have accepted having a home that "breathes" is more important to prevent dangerous / destructive mold from growing in enclosed airspaces / under siding etc.

Also, "high performance" homes in most of the country, especially the east coast are at least 1.8x to 2.5x as expensive as the average builder home. This is simply not accessible even to relatively financially equipped home buyers.

That said, my current apt is incredibly well insulated and in comparison to my parent's home it's wild how much more efficient my dwelling is. At times in the winter I barely use my heat pump for days at a time to keep my home comfortable.
You can find therapist from other countries if you are comfortable speaking with them in english through video call. It may not provide the same experience but it might be better than the alternative which is no help.

I would check out eastern europe or Asia. They will cost around $15-25/hour.
Twitter deletes new no social media link poicy
Ask if they will take a sliding scale, most will.

Also if you can provide tech stuff (like a website or what not) see if they will trade in kind services.
Takeaway: don't use Google if you care about privacy. Your VPN/browser config likely cannot outrun their algorithms.

I'm neutral about this - making GeoIP data better improves everybody's life, so I find it hard to be annoyed about it.
I recently watched a YouTube video in which Joe Buissink was interviewed. Joe BEGAN photography at 43 and became one of the most sought after wedding photographers on the west coast, charging up to $50,000 per wedding. I've loved photography for more than 20 years and even did some low-end wedding and portrait work over 10 years ago but was thinking that I was merely a mediocre photographer who wouldn't ever improve my skills to the point of being truly in demand until I watched that video. If you want to do something, DO IT. If you're not good at it today, PRACTICE. The only thing that can prevent you from improving and achieving is deciding you aren't going to try.
Do we care about performance when the purpose is proof-of-concept? Those numbers aren't set in stone. Efficiency won't be utilized when it's besides the point.
You're right that we don't have enough information here, I've been reading a lot about it's theory and practicality throughout the years. There's also theories about ignition in parallell, by using multiple pellets. Since the first step has been taken, there's a lot of avenues for improvement. However, one also has to take into account the "chaos" created by the ignition in the first place, re-introducing an additional pellet or chain reaction has it's own challenges.
Because it's written by random people who may or may not know the topic well. How does that apply?
Do you use Google Maps as a logged out user? That’s what I do and hope that they don’t link my information back to me.
I’m talking about my fellow pub go-ers.
> Can't believe people think they can get away with this sort of thing in 2022

The 2020s - well, really any time post 2010 - is a new era of fraud. The last elements of self-restraint honor culture have vanished, and the cultishness of culture wars makes people eager to throw their money at people who will tell them the right lies.
Lots of good advice in this thread. I will just add that you have NO IDEA what will happen in the next year or decade. Life gets different as you get older, but not all of it is bad.
>>>just like possessing a pound of marijuana can be considered an amount with intent to distribute, the same can be said for having a NAS server with 20TB of copyrighted media.

Not even close to being the same thing under the law, not even in the realm of the same thing. Show me one case, even one where a person was sued or even implied that the amount of digital content stored on a storage server was considered "intent to distribute" for the purposed of copyright violation

>>In addition, there are state criminal/civil laws to take into account as well.

Name them, copyright is 100% US federal law. So what other laws are in play here
This tank was indoors, right? And it was full of water presumably maintained at a temperature tolerable by tropical fish. If the heater or its power supply failed, it might cool somewhat, but that the outside temperature was about -10°C seems to be something of a red herring.
It should be noted that even if the lasers were 100% efficient, this result is not sufficient to achieve a practical fusion power plant. That target could produce maybe $0.02 worth of electrical energy. That's nowhere close to paying for the plant, even totally ignoring operating costs.

A real plant would need target yields 100 to 1000 times larger, with all the engineering issues that would entail.
Yeah the idea is to catch earlier then "after a few decades of having people consume these things". I'm not saying it's easy of course. But there must be a causal chain, a mechanism by which these acids lead to harm. And if we can find an earlier link in the chain maybe we can find the issue after just a few months of consumption. Or maybe even a week. If we can shorten the timeframes this much then attribution becomes much much easier.
A good therapist will change your life. They will show you how your thinking effects your life and outcomes. You are holding yourself back. Go get some help, seek professional help, not comradeship on the internet.

You still have like 40 years of being awesome, it only takes 1 to turn it all around.
Count All the Things
...just don't merge?
Something tells me with such a window to merge in you are probably looking into to mirrors and not accurately estimating the distance of the car from you either.
Also don't rely on this because the road condition is not going to guarantee you get up to the needed speed in time(cold tires or undesirable road surface conditions). You don't need a sub 5 second car to safely merge.
> everyone knows that X over network is just not made for modern applications ("modern" in the year 2000!). I worked with Matlab

No. I don't think everyone knows that at all. At my university we used X terminals connected to a central Sun SPARCcenter 2000 over ethernet and it was fine. We used MATLAB, Maple V, SAS, etc etc.
Yeah no we are rich property owners/developers and what they’re doing to our city. Take your money and fuck off kindly, we’ll keep our pubs.
Wolfram has a similar product that they call a “problem generator” [1]

[1]https://www.wolframalpha.com/problem-generator/
In the Reddit thread there is a comment with a possible solution: https://old.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/zl8ko3/ysk_a...
I know plenty of people who did 1+2 in their 50s and later. Your problem is your outlook on life.
Wasnt it always the case that Itunes messed with peoples files and replaced metainfo etc?
Hey man,

I am 40 and have a house and kids. I used to get shockingly depressed. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy got me out of it.

I have since made and lost and made millions. I don’t feel any happier than I was when I was making millions. There were days when I would look in my account and see $50K increase.

The stock market is an illusion it was all just fake. Everyone is in your position post 40 in tech. No one is getting rich right now. Just look around. Everyone is going through it.

It isn’t a realistic mindset to think there is something specifically wrong with you. It’s everywhere.

In this market you should be looking ahead to where you want to be when the market improves: that means surviving the next two years with a hell of a lot new skills, better health and most importantly better skills at controlling your brain and attitude.

You and I are too old to be negative. No one in any position of responsibility can afford the luxury of waking up every day and just picking whatever random attitude they feel like having. That is a teenager or a child behavior.

If you have responsibilities, which we do as adults. To ourselves and our community and our family and our society we can only afford to choose optimism.

Even if it hurts. Even if you have to look at it sideways and squint. Even if you have to grit your teeth.

If you have responsibility, you have to learn to put on blinders and view the attitude you choose every morning as being like a game cartridge you load in a game console.

Read about CBT, read the power of positive thinking, how to lose at everything and still win big, everything by earl nightingale.

The old advice for
Men from the 1950s is the best advice.

The world is a mirror. It will show you whatever you are projecting internally.

I strongly recommend investing in nutritional experimentation. My personal finding is that multi minerals, flax and sufficient protein make a lot of despair go away.

You need to choose a frame for yourself. I’m having to process this myself.

My friends who all worked in big tech, realized at 40 that it never ends. It’s just awful politics and never getting to do what they want so they all quit and became entrepreneurs.

My most successful friend is almost 60. He told me everyone goes through it.

From
My perspective, I realized based on listening to him that the worries never end. You will feel like this from 40 until you die. That’s a long time.

The solution is all mental.
If he can't handle the uncertainty of shifting markets getting in the way of the binding agreements he forced on other people, if the stress of managing that many billions of dollars is making him sad, I'd be happy to take a few off his hands to help lighten the load ;)
Elon Musk’s Twitter Poll Shows Users Want Him to Step Down as CEO
I have moderated large internet spaces. There are people with severe mental issues who, when confronted with direct moderation, will make it their sole purpose in life to ruin the forum. I'm talking 20 hours a day of spam, ban evasion, doxxing, DDoSes, direct messaging other members, and whatever else an intelligent-but-disturbed human can come up with, solely dedicated to ruining the space the moderators are trying to protect.

Shadowbanning is like a dodge—instead of head-butting such an explosive personality, you let them slide by and rant on into the ether. It can be, and is, abused, but it is also extremely effective and time-efficient when dealing with "the weirdos." (Generally they will go away after some time not getting any engagement, positive or negative.) That can make or break a volunteer force, and if it's a paid moderation team the cost reduction is real.
> so big corporations can save like $5 on paper & postage?

At their scale it's much. I honestly don't care about their costs, but at their scale that's tons of paper and gas that's totally wasted.

I don't know which country you're from, but all my bank statements, utility invoice etc go to my email, so there is no need to log anywhere. I'm not sure about others right now, but utilities are definitely signed. Maybe you could talk to your bank/... about it.
At least when I went to one, I generally had no idea who had generational wealth (there were a few with famous names), and there weren't obvious ways to show it off; the University had so much money itself that everything was free or nearly so for the students. If you were a billionaire on campus, you still got the same crappy dorm room and wore the same uniform of jeans and t shirts etc. Bragging about how rich your parents are to a bunch of ivy league students isn't going to make you friends.

I did get a sense of who was extremely motivated and smart, and, by and large, those people have been the most successful, not the ones who came from money. The ones who came from money were more likely to take 'interesting' vs lucrative jobs, but most of the advantages of networking are knowing other highly motivated people who are at the top of other fields, but knowing rich people.

Apart from that, classes at top schools go faster and teach you more, and if you want to, you can take more of them for free. So many students get 5-7 years of mid-tier college content in 4 years, which tends to produce a better trajectory for lifetime earnings.
A.I. is here, and it's making movies
We are years and years away from this. We still need to go from

"I can write a function that does what I tell it to do, and I need someone with engineering and architecture expertise to determine if this function does that, error-free, and understands how it fits together with all the other functions I've had this AI write"

to

"I can write a complex architecture which manages multiple data points doing multiple things."
Ask HN: What are computer techs that survived the stand of time?
We often see debates about whether to use old/new technologies, whether a technology is too complex and you should use something simpler, or writing your own vs using an external tool.

What are some simple tools that are more than 10 years old that are still being used today ?

Examples of such tools that come to mind:
- `make`
- `linux`
- `bash`
Apple Music includes the old iTunes Match features, so it matches your local library with the Apple Music library if you allow it to do so, and uploads only the songs it can't match.
This process is not perfect so some songs might be matched to a different version.

Anyway, even if I download a matches song it's DRM free on my Mac, and Apple Music won't automatically delete your local files. But I guess bugs happens, the app is quite buggy in general.

Edit: it seems it download a version with DRM if you set it to download in Lossless format, but my songs weren't originally lossless, and if I set it to download the AAC version the file is DRM free.
> I’m a bit weary to discuss super personal things with someone I don’t know even if they’re a professional.

You don't have to unpack everything in the first session. Generally you want someone who is trying to build a one-on-one relationship with you where you feel comfortable doing this.

> Not like the movies where the clock is up and ok next issue.

I mean, all appointments end at a certain time and then you get up and leave.

> Sometimes I feel like just suspending the world background process and being still would be nice.

You could try meditation. I do both therapy and meditation.
Canary Wharf is built by the rich to serve the rich, the average Londoner at best thinks of it as kind of a dystopian novelty with big stuff.
> This dual condition of "useful-to-people" is the thing introducing the illusion, since it changes depending on what we're modelling. The system isnt acquring any new property.

I have a couple of possible responses to this, but maybe the most obvious is that I'm not sure why "useful to people" can't qualify as a new property.

For instance, a system that suddenly becomes useful to people can be transformative to society, which can lead to new emergent social or economic properties at the societal scale. To conclude that "useful to people" is not a meaningful property, aren't you basically implying that something that suddenly becomes useful cannot even in principle lead to new societal scale emergent properties? That seems dubious. Edit: or you're implying that emergent properties are not reducible to interactions between constituent properties, which also seems dubious.

For a concrete example, the internet probably falls into this category. It has transformed society and led to new emergent properties at societal scales, but computers didn't suddenly acquire any new computational properties, or new properties to manipulate bits. Only the scale of their deployment changed, and that scaling was itself useful to people, and this led to new societal properties. That arguably can't happen unless "useful to people" is itself a meaningful property, no?
no educators have reached out yet! As for quadratics, I haven't found much use of them, except in cases where you really need an exact solution for arc length or area. Usually the cubics give you a ton more control for not that much extra cost, they kinda strike that nice balance! And yes, the quadratic B-spline is C1, just like the catrom
You have a wonderful life ahead of you. 43 is nothing and you can have all the things you long for.

So I've ripped what people in the thread has written and compiled for you, like an action list. Hope it helps.

- CONTACT A THERAPIST to find out if you have a depression or some other mental illness. Illnesses are things you can get help to deal with.

- MEDITATION! Preferably do it in the morning but works any time of the day (when it fits your day)
I like this one

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

If it's too dopey for you try this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpok4MKVLM

or this

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

Repetition is what makes meditation work, you'll be more present, more aware of the world you're in with less disturbing thoughts and feelings.

- CHANGE TO A POSITIVE OUTLOOK OF YOUR LIFE. Your problem is your framing of where you are in life. Visualize building your ideal life and repeat the visualization every day. I googled "visualizing a better life" and got these, you can probably do better

https://www.happierhuman.com/visualization-techniques/

https://jamesnussbaumer.com/visualize-a-better-life/

https://taminglife.com/improve-life-goal-visualization/

- BROWSE THROUGH THESE MOTIVATIONAL IMAGES at breakfast and before bed, take notice when something applies to your life. Repetition is key, do this every day (and if you miss a day it's no biggie, just do it again)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yTrJkmUUFAzlhuQ5ZzyG...

- AVOID NEWS if you can, it feeds your mind with fear, angst and anxiety

- JOIN A SOCIAL GROUP (music, art, volunteering, courses, church, craft...)

- YOUR LOOKS CAN HELP YOU - change your haircut and clothes to imitate your image of a happy and successful person

- VISUALIZE THE HOME YOU'D LIKE TO LIVE IN, repeat regularly.
I'm sorry but how is this helpful? Even if you're actively employed that's a tough cost-benefit decision.
I've never understood this. If I was suicidal, being given the suicide hotline number as a response would just tick me off.
Futureverse is a technological and cultural foundation for the Open Metaverse
I know little about this, but from reading the description this sounds like a replacement for the "server" side of it (running on the machine where the game is running), but the article is talking about ending support for the client side of it on the Shield (please correct me if I am wrong)

In which case, perhaps a better replacement is something like this: https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-android
My claim didn't really have to do anything with inflation specifically, just that evolution itself can make fine distinctions.
>>By default, you can't record a concert either,

Under what law?

The venue may redistrict it, that is not a law though at most they could do to you for violation is kick you out

There is no law I am aware of that prevents such a recording, only redistribution of the recording made would be a violation of the law
I did so on the brewery tour:

https://youtu.be/M5pdHVoXQHE