skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blogging.

EDIT:

It would be nice to look back at a decade of blogging, but I only started like ~3 years ago. It has many, many benefits: Practicing written communication, organizing one's thoughts, build up credibility, learn things in-depth by teaching etc.

Now that I think about it, actually, publishing anything in general. Working out in the open. I often kept side project to myself. I should have just open sourced that (did that for some projects after the fact).
Ah, yes. I forgot to mention that; the "fund controllers" take 1.25% of my portfolio. The last 5 years it seems to have increased 12,6% in average, though, so I'm not that worried. If I had controlled it myself, well, you get the idea... :)
Many of the things I would be tempted to describe (and am seeing others here describe) as passive income aren't, at least in the strict sense: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/passiveincome.asp

In the colloquial sense, I made about 18k last year off of money I dumped into Betterment a while before. I don't do anything but periodically check on how much money I've made. I wish I'd started passively investing about a decade earlier. If you have anything beyond an emergency buffer just sitting in your checking account, just do it.
Is there any chance you can invite me to Lobste.rs?
Hi, lobster users.
When I'm searching for an alternative for HN I found this website called Lobster. Stuffs there are pretty cool, and I like it a lot.
So could you please kindly send me an invitation for it?
here is my email address: 283745434@qq.com, Thanks
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Well I can't relate to your kicker at all. I'm worth 200k and my income is 300k pre-tax. I live in NYC on that salary and feel fabulously rich.
Sidenote: Amazing how international the collaboration in this industry is. Kudos to you people
Turning off email notifications on my phone. Finally pulled the trigger when I was relaxing on a Friday night and getting work emails. It’s usually more efficient to deal with email only once per day anyways.
Once would have been enough. Twice to make a point. But then the point's made.
no, logic says that image recognition is sufficient for human driving expertise-level, but doesn't say anything it being the limit...
Spend less, save more :)

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
In many countries such practices are illegal because they're considered exploitative.
Equally, I don't think it's fair that I should be expected to read "a fair amount of writing" before I can read this article which, itself, is a fair amount of writing. I can see that the author has some prior history with specific counters to his line of reasonsing, but i don't think I should need to go over the entire history before I can understand what he's talking about (and I do need to do that, then that's a problem of his text, not my reading; I'm reading an article on the web, after all, not a scientific publicaiton with references).

And I'm pretty sure I do understand what he's talking about. He's saying that the coming of AGI is entirely uncertain so we should act now. That's unreasonable in and of itself, and I don't need to go back and read all the history he's got with others to be able to tell that.

Opinion, anyway.

Edit: To reiterate why it's unreasonable- if we won't see AGI until it's already here, what, exactly, are we supposed to be preparing against? We won't know it even when we see it- so how will we know what to protect ourselves from?

Reasoning with uncertainty requires at least some amount of knowledge and the article goes to great lengths to point out there isn't any, in the case of AGI.

So there's no reasoning to be done, either. In that case, what are we talking about? "Beware of the unknown"? Well, OK. I don't know if the sky will fall on my head tomorrow so maybe I should stay home, just in case?
We had privately created money in Europe for centuries. It was a disaster.
Plus, the people you work with and for might start their own company and offer you work, take you on as a well-paid freelancer, etc. Business is not all business.
Spending more and saving less.

To explain: savings is great and smart. But I never evolved past university frugal living. I recently realised that I was living like a student despite a good salary. So I bought some nice furniture and other things. I didn't realise I was missing out on reduced life friction.
It doesn't help that the Davis Island yacht club is right next to the airport.

https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9136028,-82.4500183,1593m/da...
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After setup costs, I'd define it as "anything that brings in a number of dollars, where the number of dollars is not directly proportional to the amount of time I spend on the thing in any capacity".
Well, it's 2017 already.
You're missing the point. The way it all happened was essentially "yeah so we beat the guy with a baseball bat and he had the nerve to swing back at us while we did so"
Regarding mobile data in the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15477286
Story? :)
Homepage, http://www.withouthotair.com/Contents.html
Commonwealth's online banking is actually at my.commbank.com.au and does have HSTS - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.my.commba...

CUA does have it - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ob.cua.com.au

Bankwest does but has some awful problems elsewhere - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ibs.bankwest....

But yeah, Westpac and NAB don't, and in addition to the ones you tested, ANZ and St. George don't have it either. That's pretty unacceptable really.
Artists and scientists collaboration: Learning from experience
I have a Linux/Programming/Tech Career YouTube channel ( https://youtube.com/c/tutorialinux ) that just hit 50k subscribers (yay!), and it makes around $450/month in ad revenue.

I also made a poorly targeted and marketed practical system administration Udemy course last year, which does about $500/month.

These projects, along with a few other small things, are on track to make around $15k this year. That's after about 3 years of putting lots of time, effort, and love into creating content on YouTube.

Unfortunately that 'passive' income just barely approaches 10% of what I make at my full-time job (Sysadmin/Ops/Automation/DevOps? stuff), so the idea of working on my 'passive/hobby' projects full-time is not an attractive proposition yet.

I like building, running, and automating large distributed systems, so I'm not really itching to quit my full-time work and "just" be a teacher. The ideal situation would be 'regular' IT work 3 days a week, and working on YouTube, my own web apps, and additional tech courses the rest of the time.
Pretty sure if I had 100k it would already be invested, not just growing mold in my mattress.
I was going to add almost the exact same experience. Congrats to us both!
So this is Bitcoin 101 and you should really be reading up on it, but basically:

Bitcoins can be divided, the smallest fraction is called a "Satoshi" and is a millionith of a Bitcoin (So a cent is 500 Satoshis).
The blockchain is a peer-to-peer, which while technically 3rd party, is not something that "you have coin on". The blockchain is basically a cryptographically signed ledger that says a certain public key has this much bitcoins. If you have the matching private key, you have the coins.
Exchanges are mostly used to exchange between Bitcoin and some other currency, like US Dollars or another crypto currency.
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They have richer and better quality of data already. The cameras never look at their phones and are looking 360 degrees around the car at all times.
I make -200 Euros (yes, minus) per year with https://champignouf.com (a website to identify mushrooms).
I think it's the case for many people that their side project make them lose money, if you consider hosting costs.
Automating cold outreach emails.

I organise an event for people who run agencies in London (www.agencysummit.co.uk). I use bots to find relevant people on LinkedIn, and then pay somebody on Fiverr to find their email addresses. Then, I put them into Reply.io and send short two sentence emails asking people if they'd like to check out the event.

It works. Two or three times a day, I get push notifications telling me somebody I've never met has bought a ticket.

Without a cold outreach system like this, there's no way I'd be able to run this business.
So now that you've got a throwaway, and have purged the most sensitive of data, what market are you in and what's the product? You should really interview at indiehackers or something similar as there's an entire community trying to do similar.

Finally: you need to hang out with different folks and get your perspective changed :)
For me, it was budgeting my money with intention. YNAB happened to be the tool that worked for me, after many failed attempts with other products.

I believe that my quality of life would have been significantly better if I had started those habits earlier in my money-earning years.
Wearing earplugs at night. Vastly improved my quality of sleep. I use a vibrating watch to wake me in the morning.
I'm not a buyer in this market. Is there anyone else who prescribes to this? It must be a very long term play.
But you describe exactly how I as a haskell programmer experience JS. I need 6 babel plugins and and a build tool to my ES6 to work...
I dropped out of the software industry and moved to Greece. Now I go fishing in the morning, read in the backyard in the afternoon and play saxophone at the local taverna at night. I make all my money committing cybercrime.
I earn $6 a month on my patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/battlepenguin

I was driving around the US for five months and writing, but now I'll have to put that on pause as I just moved in with a friend and need to find a real job again.
So at this airport, there is a shipping channel you fly over right before the airport (the airport is on an island). However, this sailboat was motoring closer to the airport side and didnt have any sails up making it harder to see. Also, we were in an Extra 300, which is a tail dragging aircraft so we couldnt see over the front cowling. We impacted the boat at 40 feet, so gives you a sense of how close it was to the start of the runway. I didnt notice anything until all of a sudden I saw a pole whiz past the right side of my field of view and heard a bang. Next, thing I know we are rotating upside down, I feel an impact, then watch as the ground slides by a foot above my head (the aircraft has a glass canopy). Was conscious the whole time. Ended up pinned between the aircraft and the ground hanging upside down in my harness. Just typing this makes me think, oh yeah that actually happened.
Defer decisions until the last moment possible is one of the best things to do when making a tough decision. Its weird how we praise "quick decision makers." They are more or less simply gambling. Information tends to grow exponentially overtime. By waiting your chances of making a sound decision increase.
Stopped thinking that working harder at what others think I should be doing is the key to my success and start evaluating what should I do rather than only how do I do it better.

Stopped eating added sugar and refined carbohydrates.
Rental property, single family home. About $4800 a year in principle paid down. I'm thinking of putting some cash toward paying off the mortgage, and pocketing all the rent (minus insurance and tax). Just haven't pulled the trigger on that yet.
Computers have advantages in attention span, (lack of) fatigue, and reaction time. Potentially their performance could well surpass humans even without superior sensor abilities.
The gravity waves are caused by the high-speed orbiting of the neutron stars around each other before the explosive collision and merger.
Yep. Infineon is one of the largest (the largest?) producers. Most consumers wont be affected, a few security nerds with Yubikeys will be, and then there’s a giant bunch of places that do PIV.
Malta blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia killed in car blast
This is the project that interested me the most. Would you mind sharing what it is? I figure there must be some serious nostalgia built in there if you're willing to shell out that much for it.
I've got two: buying a house and going back to grad school.

For buying a house, I latched onto the idea that I needed a 20% down payment so I wouldn't have to pay for mortgage insurance so I was trying to save like crazy. Meanwhile, the property values were going through the roof and I realized that I'd always be chasing that 20%. I sat down and ran some numbers with a mortgage lender and that made everything a lot clearer. I could have bought a place two or three years earlier and been making money on the property value with essentially the same amount of savings. Probably not true in every area though.

Kind of the same thing with grad school. I needed a break from school after undergrad, so I took a few years. Work experience is great, but I hit a career ceiling in terms of being seen as "qualified" for certain opportunities. I should have just gone back and started taking classes much sooner.
Not really. Dogs have roughly the same visual capacity as humans but are really shitty drivers nonetheless. Visual acuity doesn't necessarily correlate tightly with driving ability. It's possible that human-level driving is as good as it can get with just optical vision, but there's no evidence to support that. There may be vast untapped potential from pure optical vision. Honestly, if we just got self-driving cars as good as non-distracted, expert human drivers, they'd already look super-human compared to the average human.

Still, it's very likely that we can improve faster with better sensors.
The difference here, IMO, is that iPhones and Windows/Linux/Mac PCs will receive a patch in a couple of weeks, but how many perfectly working Android phones are now abandoned by their manufacturer? How many Android phones beside Google Pixel/Nexus receive monthly security patches?
The extension makes you use the HTTPS connection when the site you are connecting to is known to support HTTPS.

Websites can automatically redirect to HTTPS if the client connects on http, but many websites don't redirect
It wasn't too different from the recent ICO stuff. Except that it was mainstream.

In other words, I completely agree.
Yep, and it's a very unnatural situation to be in, maybe people used to skyfall have better reflexes to stop spinning and getting a sense of orientation back.
I'd argue that no language in existence is even remotely close to having no extra complexity.
One unwritten rule is - evidently - to attempt to limit speed in the passing lane so that those who wish to pass must do so in the right lanes. Also: brake-check anyone who annoys you.

:(
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It's not just about the vendor. It's about anyone who gains access to the information which gives the vendor the ability to withdraw. This has not been a minor problem over the past decade or two.

The idea of making fiat payments work more like crypto is something I mentioned above. For now, we're a long way from it being ubiquitous.
I've started doing this recently and it's improved my quality of life outside work enormously.
On bestmotherfucking.website I make $10-20$ per year which goes into its namecheap account. It breaks close enough to even that I have no plans to shutter the site for the next 5 years.

On my blog I have affiliate links to Amazon products which I explain how to use. I've made $428 over the past year. Those regularly net 30$ per month on average. It covers the web hosting and leaves enough to help me buy random Amazon stuff.
QBasic

C++ (mainly C with classes. Done in AP Programming in high school)

VBA

C#

Java

-- Start Grad school classes

Scala

C

R

C++ (better C++ but focused on performance, so again, more C based)

--- End grad school

Elixir

Delphi
That's a big part of it! That's a strong point of Pilosa that particularly stands out in this benchmark, because of the contrast with the Hive+Druid approach.
I have about 50k€ on European and US stock markets.

Amazingly enough, that only payed me 1128€ (after tax [I just checked my income tax form]) in dividends last year. I guess I suck at picking high-return stocks.
Not yet, but there does seem to be enough interest for me to sit down and build one!
Shrug

Tastes vary.
You can always normalize it to a "the longer bar is better" measurement. For example instead of "Kernel Compile Time" you graph "Kernel Compiles / hour".
Nope. Try being worth -32k. And yes, it is often my job to hang out with wealthy people (in NYC, not SF).
Is your environment noisy, or does this help you even in a quiet room?
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I teach C as a second language. It is useful to learn from a historical perspective and because so much software is written in it, but I find it doesn't give that good understanding of machines compared to say java, and many of the problems are C specific.

By "C specific" I mean reading from freed variables, or going out of bounds in arrays. These bugs are horrible to find, but also don't map cleanly to the underlying machine, because often the compiler will optimise away invalid accesses, or move them somewhere weird, meaning you can't use your understanding of the real machine to understand the C bug.
This is quote from the video game Deus Ex for those not familiar. Here's a good followup to this quote: https://youtu.be/rxOKEsBx4NU?t=1418
This. And occasionally also Melatonin (see https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin )
This talk makes perfect sense if you know a bit about Steele's recent research history.

It was a main focus of Fortress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language...), for example, which was interesting but never quite got off the ground in the same way as other competitors, in part because of the focus on notation implementation.

If anything, my experience following Fortress led me to believe what Steele was discussing in his talk is both a tremendous opportunity but also much more difficult than the impression he creates.

For what it's worth, I thought the talk was really interesting and I would like to see it taken more seriously, if not as an immediate goal, then a long-term one.
One was when I realized I should try to do something that I can do to push my boundaries and instead do something I can right now. I'm writing down more koans like this and I might sell it as a deck of inspiration cards.

Another was Quitting Facebook. I tried a bunch of times but wasn't successful but I have been Facebook free for a few months now. I might turn it back on just to get a backup of my data for my own data science projects but I would immediately turn it off.

Yet another keeping a paper notebook with a pen with me at all times. Some notes are better written.
Listening to podcasts or reading while commuting.
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Can you elaborate on the last sentence? Serious question, unsure of the seriousness of statement.
but if you're not reinvesting your passive will shrink over time due to inflation(I'm not sure about US but here in Brazil the dividends are subtracted from the stock valuation), so even then it requires some kind of maintenance.
Capitalism is inherently competitive, if some way to generate capital is too easy it will become hard quite fast due to competition. If you can still make some money out of investing is because most people don't have the money or education to invest.
Hundreds of millions of perfectly working Apple devices no longer receive patches.
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Music. Music has such mathematical undertones - classical music especially speaks to me.

I wished I started learning music, especially reading music and music theory when I was a child. Now that I'm old, I realize that neuroplasticity is a bitch to fight against. Thank God I learned another language as a child, and a tonal language at that.
"Information tends to grow exponentially overtime. "
Maybe true. However, the opportunity cost of playing the waiting game also tends to follow a similar path.
1: Kids. My wife and I waited to get married, and then were part scared after we got married, and part selfish and wanted freedom to play and travel, so we waited more. I don't regret our adventures at all, but after we had kids, I realized my fear was unfounded and we still had a lot of freedom to play and travel.

2: Startup. I wanted to start my own business my whole life, and I waited to try until I had enough of a plan, enough personal savings for a runway, and until the kids weren't toddlers anymore. I wish I had done it a lot sooner, before having kids, and with someone else's money.

Yes, those two kinda contradict each other. :) I don't know how I'd resolve it, were I to do it again. Not sure I would do it any different, my takeaway is just that in both cases I waited because of fears that turned out to be only fear.
If you read/watch Debt the First 5000 years. A lot of this makes sense. The first form of money was credit. Which is Fiat.
> Anytime a vehicle gets rear-ended, fault belongs with the rear-ending vehicle’s driver for either failing to maintain safe following distance or failing to pay adequate attention to conditions in front.

I don't think that's true on a highway or similar road. Stopping in the middle of the highway is very dangerous. You cannot blame the 150km/h+ cars to be able to stop safely in all situations.
Seconded. I was just constantly getting annoyed by street noise and loud neighbours. Now I just put in the earplugs and everything is well.
Do solar panel and home growing food counts ?
Getting a domain expert (which I wasn't) to analyze my solution, long after launching it, and realizing it wasn't the ideal solution.

And blocking the shithole site Reddit until I didn't have the urge to check it.
How often are these kilonovae expected to occur?
What mountain range? I understand the Rockies have a lot of nasty deep slab avalanches (not soft and fluffy) and the Sierras have really heavy wet snow (also not soft and fluffy). Alaska was mentioned in avy classes as the chief place for fluffy sloughing?
Deleting the twitter, reddit, and facebook apps from my phone. I still access FB through the browser when I want to check something, and I check strava and instagram daily, so I'm not totally free, but it feels better.

I use that free time for reading, coding, cleaning, cooking, and running.
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A thing I've learned on top of that is that people can interpret the lack of care about social functions to be lazyness or harshness. Even introverts can enjoy certain social functions if they become more accustomed to take the edge off. I say this myself as an introvert - staying home all the time and fulfilling ones' comforts often makes one their own worst enemy when it comes to fulfillment. Comfort makes one weak. I should know, I regret being my own best servant of solitude. Be better than me. Push yourself outside of the meager boundaries of who we think we are. Or we can never be great, legendary.
I can imagine the writer not intentionally hiding these things, but I do agree that they should be added to the original article.
Yes, and as they used to say 'Queen Anne's dead'.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/5004/where-does-...
+1 citalopram. only downside is a bit of jaw tightness
Cancer that wasn't fatal, but close.

Followed by less interest in work/money, more interest in family.

Money still matters, of course, but I'm much more in tune with how much I really need.
> (I'm not sure about US but here in Brazil the dividends are subtracted from the stock valuation)

What is that about?? Usually the market prices the dividend removal, but that only lasts so long. At any point during the year the market prices it back, in anticipation of the next dividend.