skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more the fact that they were a two income family and never had kids. Their apartment was probably paid off and they were one of those couples that was perfectly happy not taking expensive vacations or buying expensive things. Combine that with smart investing and you an amass quite a fortune over a lifetime.

Of course then you are 95 and realize that without descendants about the only thing you can do with the money is give it to a charity and hope they don't squander it.
Especially over a 67 year period! If she saved about $10k (2018 dollars) annually for the first ten years of her working career, got ~4% after inflation, and never saved another penny that would account for ~$1.2 million of the sum by itself.

Buy and hold long term; reinvest dividends folks :-).
Which will be the first neighborhood to forbid solar panels, thereby forbidding new home construction completely?
Just to clarify, are you claiming iTunes isn’t the most amazing piece of software ever? ;)

More seriously, are you talking the desktop app or the music player of the phone? (I’ve not found the phone version /that/ bad, but yeah desktop version remains terrible)
> If you don't provision the image at all, you'll wind up with a copy of Pro with a few more enterprise features. If you want to slim it down, you'll need to do so.

Isn't that the complain? A serious enterprise version (and Pro version for that matter) should never include candy crush or ads in the first place. And it should not require every sysadmin in the world to disable them.
Warren Buffet: 6-7%
S&P returns: 7.45%

Looks like Warren Buffet knows what he's talking about.
But if you do put in effort, it's still hard
The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb is a good introduction to Greek philosophy. You really should start there, since everything since then is a response to what they had to say.
Andre_Wanglin alluded to it, though $70k was a slight overstatement.

With the effective inflation rate, $5,000 in 1947 was equivalent to $58,035 in 2018.

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=5000&year1=194...
There are more funny bugs like that.

For example, the result of "ab".split("") differs by android version. OpenJDK returns ["a", "b"], but older versions return ["", "a", "b"] and some even return ["", "a", "b", ""]. All this is strictly specified in the documentation and Java language specs, but no one ever bothered to fix it.
> It's not really about being in charge/calling shots

I believe, admittedly based only on personal experience and anecdotal evidence, that this attitude is shared by a vanishingly small minority of managers, at least in practice.

Even the manager you mentioned referenced "the only way he can move upward" which implies even he ultimately wants to be in charge or call the shots in some hierarchical system, or am I reading too much into it?
Agreed, it's a wonderful book.
The $5k figure is in 2018 dollars and the rate of return is inflation-adjusted.
teacher here. Most smartboards are rubbish. The calibration fails constantly, it's really hard to draw on it ... and most "ready made" lessons for smartboards are usually boring. So I'm afraid it's a projector for me.
Part of it’s obviously the changing social outlets and life situations as we get older, but IMO the biggest reason is that social interaction for its own sake loses a lot of its luster as people get older. Friendship becomes more focused and personal, alone time becomes much scarcer and more precious, and everyone’s just way less bored all the time.

The threat of boredom is always a huge motivator for people to hang out and try not to be bored together. As people get older, that ceases to be a social motivator for many/most people. They may still have a bunch of other reasons for wanting to socialize, but boredom’s not one of them.
Sorry if I misread it!
The 6.2% return on investment is after subtracting inflation. Think of the $5k in 2018 dollars.
A few months ago I had a chat to one of the engineers working on the SLS during a NASA outreach presentation. Super defensive about it and dismissive of SpaceX and their accomplishments. The goals of the SLS mission before 2030, build an orbiting moon space station, isn't even that ambitious or scientifically valuable.

2 years ago, I was having a similar chat to someone who was a retired ULA ~30 launch veteran (I forget exactly their title). But they didn't want to entertain the idea that SpaceX even had a business model. 'The market that they're aiming for is only a few launches a year'
Gender Dysphoria AND Medical Assisted Death
I think the difference is the scope of the problem. A coin flip is a deterministic, known event with two possible answers in most situations.

A rocket or space shuttle launch is like a thousand coin flips, where any one result, sequence of results or other combination of events results in death. As an added bonus, any number of unknown external events, from
Ambient temperature, to bird strike, to sabotage can render the model useless and kill you in some unforeseen way.
How about starting with the goal of making a warehouse scale battery and starting backwards?
Those threads made an interesting read. A general feeling i got is that random interactions, or interactions loosely based on common interests (like sports) are becoming less successful at making friends, because everyone is more guarded now, but also because people have an expectation of having a more 'tailored' matching processes. So their random interactions often end up frustrating.

Interestingly, people who belong to a subculture report success - gay people have it better, but also swingers, another lifestyle (I would add to that the nudists as a very friend-seeking community). Online gaming seems to be a good venue for having that initial "match" of a common interest, as well as meetup groups. While i suspect most people find friends at work, it appears to be an unsatisfactory way for many to make lasting relationships.

So, it appears that there is a genuine need here that can be filled by "something that looks a bit like dating". Maybe facebook should consider rolling out a 'friend finder' along with their dating feature. Nevertheless, it seems to have become less of a taboo to admit that people can't find friends, and it seems there is space here for social apps to cover.
Just looked up the nonprofits 990's and it looks like a decent nonprofit.

I only looked at the three highest paid employees though. I didn't calculate adverting, and company expenses to money sent out to the cause. I never used to be this leary of nonprofits. I guess I'm just getting old, and seen way too many people abusing nonprofit status?

(Waystar takes public information and makes it easy for the user to evaluate a 501c3. Waystar recently made it harder to access the financials, but they are still Free with registration. You can see the last three years usually. Use a throwaway email because they do like to market.)
Thanks for the thoughts. I plan to start talking to journalists who cover breaking news and live events.

And any organization that uses Slack but wants to publish content one way.
It isn't sarcasm that's unwelcome here, but snark and personal attacks.
Usually dot notation is used for time derivatives, while Leibniz's prime and d/dx operator notation is used for most other things.
Living in Washington, DC with a lot of other people who are over the age of 30 and still single, it's not as hard as I anticipated it would be, actually. The key is to have reasons to bring people together. I'm in a karaoke club, and a programming meetup, and several other things, and my social life is pretty healthy as a result.

With parenthood in the mix, you have to get really aggressive about scheduling, but it's still not impossible.
Here's a conference that a few attendees and I liveblogged using it: https://echothread.com/c/c57kakx1p
Asciitabs alpha – launch and postmortem
what an unfortunate metaphor
He was using 5k inflation adjusted dollars so starting with ~350 actual $/ year in 1947.

Really, just do the calculation.
LIBOR refuses to die, setting up $370 trillion benchmark battle
There are a bunch of extra features vs sms (attachments, groups, actual encryption, that’s even end to end). I assumed android had similar but I can’t tell from things like the gchat news from last (?) week whether that’s true.

For me (exclusive Apple product house) it’s useful that messages end of an every device - it’s useful when looking things up, and saves finding my phone when I’m working, etc.

Also read receipts are useful - they’re opt in, but the useful when communicating with coworkers. Which also feeds into the ecosystem thing - if most people you talk to are also using iMessage you can get read receipts.

This isn’t saying iMessage is flawless or superior to everything else - as I said before I don’t know the state of android messaging, so I just can’t really compare.
Epic Use of Visual Data: History of YouTube Stars (2017)
Without being able to see what research they actually did/scruitinize their methodology, I don't find the claim that they checked very compelling. Humans are crazy-hard to study -- research that's not even peer reviewed is basically worthless.
I think this 'true fan' thing can be summed up as the difference between two types of creators/businesses, with one doing well on services like Patreon and one not.

On the one hand, you've got creators whose fans like them for their branding and personality, and whose fans often come under the 'true fan' label described in the article. For these types of creators and businesses, getting 1000 of these fans is basically going to guarantee them a small but potentially sustainable income stream for a lifestyle business or what not.

These are your artists, YouTubers, indie game developers, etc.

On the other hand, you've got the 'scale' type of business or service, which offers products or services that fill a need without really banking on its own branding or identity. These types of creators and businesses don't tend to have 'true' fans, and become popular purely because their offerings are convenient, cheap or basically mandatory in some way.

See also the likes of Walmart, McDonalds, the average bank or a utility company. Or perhaps a generic service site online.

These would probably sink without a trace if they tried to live off Patreon or similar services, and will basically have to keep competitors out of their market or die.

And I suspect the former are probably in a better position in the long run, especially in today's market.
Thank you for posting this. All of this should be apparent to users when they visit the website though - right now all that I see is an offer to signup, but you should be dazzling me with all the coolness and advantages (and maybe even demos) before you ask me to signup.

As I was typing this, I visited your site again and realized that there's more to the website when I scroll down, but all the was lost below the fold. Clearly, a lot of work has gone into making Stadia and it deserves to succeed. May I suggest that you take another look at how users interact with your site?
I haven't read the article. My reply is not a response to the article, but intended for an audience who might think their life is looking all downhill from here.

In my late 20s my life looked like downhill. I had had friends but I had no friends at that point. I was single and alone. I was depressed and anxious. The only good thing I had going for me was that I had a job.

Just before I turned 30 I was fortunate to come across a video on youtube which pointed out that there were various quite impressive personages who were at 30 failures and only became the impressive persons after that date. I don't have to become a genius, but it's nice to know that our society's rich privilege that favors young people says nothing about human nature. Life can get better from any starting point, and there's nothing wrong with ageing.

And then I joined a community where I was able to find friends. (In my case, it's the Esperanto community.) Now I'm engaged to someone I met through the community (though she's not an Esperantist) and my own personal community of friends has expanded even further. Now I've got the opposite problem I used to have - I have so many friends I struggle to balance them all (and my own need to have some empty time - perhaps higher than average because I became so accustomed to being alone). It happened in only a few short years (today I'm almost 34, but it feels like I've got another life). My fiancee regards me as an optimist - anyone who knew me five years ago would be shocked.

And all this is to say nothing about the changes I've witnessed in my parents' lives in the same period.

It might be harder for humans to get friends after 30 but you don't need to think "I'm a friendless blahblah year old, what hope is there for me?".
The Microsoft is doing exactly what they should be doing--extracting money from people who will simply refuse to move.

Look, I do a lot of embedded work. And that's about as Windows-y as it gets with drivers and tools. And, yes, I have more than a few virtual machines with Windows.

However, I can minimize the amount I use Windows outside that arena. Linux with a Windows VM when you absolutely need it is a solid choice. OS X with a Windows VM when you absolutely need it is also a solid choice.

Funny you should mention climate change. Cutting down on your "Windows footprint" is like cutting down on your "carbon footprint". 100% is never achieved in one jump--it is a gradual process. And, quite often, benefits appear much sooner than you expect. (Less Windows means less ransomware exposure, for example)
The line isn't "your thirties."

The line is when you graduate college.

The fact is school is the biggest reason why we make so many friends. Different classes, different people, from grade school to college. Food is taken care of by adults or the dining hall. parents pay the bills or it's covered by your student loan.

Then you graduate. Now you must: spend time to cook, work to pay bills, and if you have an SO/kids, the rest of your time goes there. That's literally it.
That would only be in the worst case scenarios, and even then only a transitory condition. You can't keep humans down forever, sooner or later we'd rise again. It's debatable what it would take for civilization to collapse, and how long it would take to recover. But I think there's little doubt that recover it would.
Wow it didn't take long for the first un ironic blockchain comment.
To pull it off, you have to take high-paying jobs (i.e., not startups) in your 20s, be somewhat frugal, and save a large portion of your salary. The compounding is really significant, but early retirement does not give you a lot of working years for compounding to happen. As they say, the best time to invest is 20 years ago.

If you're interested in discussing or learning more about this topic, the subreddit FinancialIndependence focuses on it.
Best course of action is for GP to step away from the television for a while.
The section about speed had some interesting claims:

> The direct interpretation technology chosen for Tiny Basic sacrifices up to an order of magnitude execution speed, but the speed of modern computers reduces the impact. Moreover, the memory bus bandwidth limits in modern computers can completely cancel the speed advantage of native code over interpretation.

I decided to verify how much TinyBasic really achieves. Downloading

http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/IttyBitty/TinyBasic/TinyBa...

compiling it with VC -O2, and running the program to count to 10 million (for which it seems a loop in loop is needed as TinyBasic variables are 16 bit). The result: around 20 seconds needed to count to 10 million. The inside loop is:

10 a = 0
20 if a > 9999 then goto 50
30 a = a + 1
40 goto 20

It's far from the optimal modern interpreter speed. I've repeated the same procedure with Python, which used 14 seconds for the 10 times bigger count. Lua 5.1 needed 4.4 seconds for the same loops as Python.

Finally, to compare with the compiler which is intentionally controlled not to overoptimize, I've made a loop in loop in C too, declaring both variables as volatile to avoid optimizing the loops out or doing too much at once, giving the inner loop:

$LL3@main:
add	DWORD PTR _a$[esp+8], eax
mov	edx, DWORD PTR _a$[esp+8]
cmp	edx, 100000
jl	SHORT $LL3@main

The VC for 32 bits needed 7.8 second to count to 1 billion, and assuming the "3 equivalent lines of the inside loop" (assuming the last two are the equivalent to "if") that gives 385 M "equivalent lines" per second. Moving to the even higher optimizations, the equivalent Javascript in Firefox needed 3 seconds to count to 1 billion, and the C code without "volatile" optimizes the loops away completely, needing 0 seconds.

The relative speedup vs TinyBasic:

1 TinyBasic
14 Python 2.7 (Interpreter)
45 Lua 5.1 (Interpreter)
256 Visual C (volatile vars)
667 Javascript in Firefox 59
inf Visual C (loops optimized away)
Indeed it is. Plus I don't have to fight with other people if they don't like something about me or what I'm doing, I'm on my own, in my own little world.

I originally setup the CVSweb thing to let google crawl the pages, so instead of building a search service they would do it for me, which has worked surprisingly well. Although with all the other search engines around it does get a fair amount of traffic.

It strikes me as incredibly strange that we now have Linux and *BSD, this entire built up idea of taking power away from few hands like AT&T, or the various VAR's, moving away from Microsoft, and yet everyone is expected to throw everything they have into the hands of some other corporation to house their source code of all things... Having worked with http://www.oldlinux.org/ trying to hunt down 20 year old 'open source' projects which many have been lost, because of the same mistake of trusting 3rd parties who don't care, the amount of stuff that is going to be lost in the next 'I can't believe we are going to have another .com crash' is going to be incredible. And of course it'll seem like a trivial amount of space, just as something like 4.2BSD full source fits into 20MB, and yet could have easily been lost if it weren't for SIMH interest would have been completely lost.

I'm more impressed with sourceforge, as it's been around for quite some time, offers far more services than github, and survived their prior owners stupidity of trying to inject spyware into downloads.

Oh well, I guess that is my old man rant, don't rely on one thing, spread the software, don't let it sit on an apathetic 3rd party company who isn't even close to being able to operate without angel funding.
They have been building basically the same cars for far longer so that does not say much.

Tesla is attacking too many different problems at the same time IMO. Just building batteries at scale and low cost is on it's own a huge undertaking. Now add cars, self driving systems, charging network, home battery and solar etc.

It's over valued as a pure car company, but the other lines could also be huge companies on their own.
Well, yeah. Not for the profit of other parents, mind you--that'd be gauche. the money's just to cover the fees of whatever venue the play date's to be held at.

That is, unless you're arranging play dates at free / public venues... like some kind of common poor.
Maybe it depends on where you live, but I'm over 30 and I've made friends with coworkers from probably every job I've ever had in my adult life. Sure I've dealt with a few jerks at work, but very few of the relationships have felt adversarial. I certainly would not call most of my workplaces environments "toxic for creating trusting friendships".

I don't know, maybe you need to be more particular about where you work.
the movie "I love you, man" was made for your situation
This is the way to go, nobody should be relying on one apathetic corporation to house source code of all things. The amount of people with powerful 64bit machines, and $5 VPS's is just too damned high to be relying on something that could kick you out, ban you or just straight up go bankrupt is amazing.
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Thanks for this! I could have used a few return entries to break it up, but otherwise I very much appreciate the response. Much of what you said echos some of my observations.

I too find myself mirroring - if they are a verbose writer, I'll be verbose; if they're short I'll be short.
That makes sense; and we will have more information on this front.

As a side note, aside from the above sources of value mentioned (essentially access), one thing that we're looking to provide is some structure and community to those who are also looking to start a company. We recognize that this is not something necessarily every founder needs
The Various Kinds of IO – Blocking, Non-Blocking, Multiplexed and Async
I think the end goal is not really develop their own chip. It is not economic to do all the research again. They just want to have some important patent and so they can avoid punishment from US government.
Seattle is not alone. Vancouver, Sydney, London and other cities all have experienced the same boom. The global economy is currently booming, wealth is shifting from middle class to upper class. Building homes have become cheaper but since transportation services are still outdated, more and more people want to stay in the same place. The super wealthy are leveraged by the banks and think housing is a great investment so they squat on swaths of buyable property and rent it out.

If a City implements a solid transportation system that gets you in the burbs within an hour, then the prices drop. Prices are simply a matter of demand and supply, and supply is artificially capped.

The truth is, humans are terrible long term decision makers for the good of a large population. Personal agendas always get in the way.
Maybe for a _very_ specific subset of people, but I think by & large we can count on Americans' distaste for organizing our schedules to preclude any kind of hyper-optimized child-rearing from becoming too popular.

That is: the caricature's funny, but it sounds like _way_ too much damn work.
Did you really have to plug your startup when telling the story?
I don't know if reimbursement happens, but kids will bring home a note with the contact details of their playmate, and their parents will schedule it. The whole calendar scheduling, driving, chaperoning etc are things that definitely happens. It's not the age of 'go play with the kids down the street', at least in the urban California I'm familiar with.
Ask HN: Do you dislike the way you read articles?
I feel quite dissatisfied with the way I get content. I wish there was a more curated service to read articles from all over the web. Like a personalised HN focused on what I want to read. what are your thoughts?
The downside I found to parcellite is that it doesn't handle images at all. Instead I've been stuck using xfce4-clipman, even though I've actually wanted to switch to parcellite so I can have a less DE specific solution.
I think this is a class-driven norm. I grew up in a poor neighborhood and dropping by unannounced was the norm. If you called beforehand, it was likely just to make sure your pal was even home.

Overall, I think most trappings of etiquette fade away as you climb down the socioeconomic ladder (I think rich folk have a lot to learn from poor here, fwiw).
Uh, doesn't hydrogen have a history of leaking through most materials due to its small atomic size?
Are Bay Area residential towers too costly to build?
You sound like the kind of person who attacks a person on their writing style rather than their argument on its contents.
It really depends on what you mean by "plan" and how realistic your expectations are. And "most," I guess.

Check out the reddit sub FinancialIndependence if you want to discuss or learn.

If your income is high enough (tech workers are commonly several standard deviations above median income) and your cost of living / lifestyle expenses low enough (SFBA makes this harder, but may come with more income), it is definitely possible to retire in your 40s.
TIL about Esperanto. Sounds interesting.