skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason that earning more never works out is because the more you work (and attempt to earn) your actual money in hand asymptotes and you're not getting reward for your effort & time.

Taxes go up the more you earn. You'll spend more on food and stuff the more you work because you're more tired, you'll spend more when you earn more (b/c the goldfish fills the bowl), you will be surrounded by people who earn more, so you'll live the "high life", etc. etc.

Also it's a bit of a play on words, because when you spend less, you'll realize you need less, and so it will appear you have more.
The current MINIs' size is, for the most part, dictated by safety requirements. They don't sell as well as large cars because they're BMWs and are priced accordingly.

Kei cars (which are similar in size to the classic Mini) do sell large volumes in Japan and are quite cheap, but they don't meet the aforementioned safety requirements (in either the US or EU) and their sales numbers are heavily inflated because you don't need proof of off-street parking to register one.
There's also the web apps. They're pretty much on par.
Depends what your assets are in. You really want to have ownership of monopoly assets that are low down on Maslow's hierarchy of needs if this happens. That could be apartment blocks in metro areas where demand exceeds supply, or it could be Google/Facebook/Amazon stock, or it could be defense stocks (war is usually the inevitable result of hyperinflation), or it could be a successful local medical practice.

The people who get fucked by inflation, in order of screwedness, are a.) people who depend on cash savings or fixed-denomination bonds for survival b.) wage workers in non-differentiated industries c.) commodity small business owners (eg. restaurant or gas station owners) d.) salaried workers in differentiated professions and e.) monopoly business owners and executives. There's also a separate debtor => creditor axis where inflation benefits debtors much more than creditors.
The author makes some interesting arguments, but they are all predicated on the idea that generics are somehow hard to grok or use?

Having helped teach Java to many people with less than a year's programming experience at university, I refute this.

Bear in mind we're hardly talking about higher kinded types here. Generics are a simple abstraction over a lack of type information which allows you to write and maintain a lot less code; something which has been repeatedly demonstrated to reduce the incidence of bugs.

Personally, I am encouraged that the Go team is flexible enough to change their position. That gives me more confidence in the future of the language, not less.
That's an anti-solution, tho.
IMHO i think we need a another acronym for "RE" in "FIRE" because it is a lil bit of a misnomer. Most people who come across the concept of FIRE will inadvertently ask the following questions:

• What will I do after i am "retired early"?

• Wouldn't I be bored when I'm "retired early"?

• What happens when I need more money than I expected later for <insert reason here> after I'm "retired early"?

• If an emergency crops up, how do I deal with the unexpected expenses after I'm "retired early"?

People seem to equate the "RE" part as you show the finger to your boss, stop working completely, and you are at home now doing nothing. While that might be true to a very very very small percentage of people that FIRE, in my personal experience, most people (including myself) continue to work or at the very least, do something part time (sell things on the side, cut their working hours down to 3 or 4 days, part-time "menial" jobs, etc). I will hazard a guess that most people that FIRE-ed are actually still "working" ergo still have some form of income to supplement their living expenses (on top of their FIRE stash) thus I will describe the RE part more of a mental freedom thing than an actual thing one does.

My personal anecdote - I am technically FIRE in a lot of measures but I am pursuing a fat FIRE (mentioned in the article) so I'm not exactly there yet from my perspective. However I do have the choice to FIRE if I want to but yet, I continue on working. Why? CAUSE I LOVE MY JOB! but let's say tomorrow if I stopped liking my job for whatever reason, I will still continue finding another job that I like even though I have the freedom to sit at home and be "retired early". I will even boldly say that 9/10 people I know that are on the way to FIRE or have FIRE-ed all are either still working or continuing on doing something they love that most people will define as a "job".

Sorry for my verbose explanation but the "RE" is a lil bit of a pet peeve of mine of all concepts of FIRE. Definitely need a better acronym - maybe something closer to FU money.
Apologies for the naive question, but how are the native filesystems for metadata storage, like say if you wanted to store Author for a video, or Location for a photo? Do they have preset available fields, or can they store an arbitrary number of key-value pairs?
After further thought, it is clearer from the comments of others who know more that it is his height and size and speed that give him an advantage. Therefore, he is not average in the NBA but an outlier.
Speaking of companies laughing at competitors they shouldn't, my father has a great story from his time at IBM.

He was in a meeting where they were talking about Amazon Web Services, which had just launched. He said an IBM executive called it "stupid" and asked, "Who would ever pay for a server with a credit card?"

This blew my mind, because now that AWS is crushing IBM's cloud offerings, the answer to his question is tons of people.
4% of $1m = $40K... there's people that go to work for less, you know!

It's true that if you've got the sort of job that lets you save $1m by the time you're 30, switching to a $40K/year lifestyle could feel like a bit of a step down. But, look on the bright side: you don't have to go to work.

You just need to ask yourself what you want from life, and choose accordingly.
When did Norway begin to add incentives for electric vehicles?
I'm not sure that home appreciation helps, because you have to live in a home, and if you sell one home, you have to buy another. Or rent. But rents should track home prices.

The way I figure it, home ownership helps because once you own a home, you can't be priced out of the housing market any more.
Yet another language tries to bolt on generics after the fact and finds that doing so results in awkwardness. Note to language designers: if you are creating a general purpose language, you will eventually need to add generics. You can either do it right at the beginning, or else you have to bolt it on at the end. Rust gets kudos in this regard for having well designed generics from the beginning.
Every person successfully doing this seems to also be selling something. From the article: "Mr. Jensen also practices an activity that for many FIRE achievers seems to be the new golf: writing a financial advice blog." That blog seems to be mostly affiliate marketing. There's even a comment here already (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17894385) where the author talks about living without a job then posts a link to a book they're selling.

The real story here isn't about retiring early, it's about how to change your career to writing books about retiring early. Writing is still a job.
This is called market segmentation, it’s one of the hardest things to get right in a business, and I think Apple have done a pretty good job of it. Every decision in a business has an opportunity cost, you can’t make products that will meet the needs of everybody in a market, and you can’t try to sell products to everybody in a market. It’s hard because segmenting your market is essentially deciding that you don’t want to sell to some customers, but it’s more important to look at what each customer is worth rather than how many you can get in total.
MS books anything they can as ‘cloud’ revenue, including all their server software and o365. So when you hear about Azure being the second largest cloud - take it with a grain of salt.

Their IAAS revenue is a lot smaller.
Microsoft has always supported the Mac. It was an early Developer for the Mac in ‘84. PowerPoint was running on the Mac early on.
If you use this convenient syntax in many places, replacing it with views could result in hundreds of extra views in the database. Then you would have to maintain them whenever something changes.
I'm on my third EV (Leaf, S, M3). Never going back. Since the Model 3 is so well built (after some startup hickups), I can recommend it on that alone. Tesla is very vertically integrated now (they make their own seats) and so the Model 3 is profitable for Tesla although the capital investment was quite high.

Also, it's fun to drive next to a Viper and throw shade.
Well, for a long time their name was Apple Computer and throughout their history they've basically made computers in different form factors - first desktop then laptop then music player form, phone form, tablet form and watch form. It now seems cars are going to become basically computer systems with wheels attached so it may make sense for them to get in on that.
Sadly some public networks I had to use were blocking Wireguard, while my IPSec VPN would easily go through each time :(

I wish there was an option to obfuscate the traffic as a plain HTTPS connection, but that would defeat the idea of keeping Wireguard simple.
Will you short the S&P 500 right now? If the answer is no, just hop on the index fund train. It might be near an all time high, but it can go higher while your money is sitting idle. Maybe it will drop and wipe out most of or more than those gains, but you will be there for the recovery. Studies have shown this to be an incredibly effective strategy.
House appreciation and FAANG stocks would do the trick methinks. I hope he's diversified by now into some sort of reasonable mixture of stocks and bonds for the long run.

20 years ago I used to call this the "Live in California" investment plan where you buy a house and make a California salary. The trouble is that you need to cash out and move somewhere else someday to make this work. Then deep learning happened and everybody who understands backpropagation saw their salaries double or more so I'm still here hoping to win the lightning round or at least sticking around long enough so that when I retire my relatively modest lifestyle won't change much other than location.
Many people don't see it that way. People are generally understanding of changing circumstances and don't hold others to antiquated notions of masculinity.
If you want to get some affordable z80 hardware, pick up an TI calculator. I recommend the TI-84+ Silver Edition, the other the better if you want more RAM. 15 MHz CPU, up to 128 KiB of RAM, 2 MB of Flash, a USB OTG port, a 2.5mm stereo jack (can be used for audio or networking), crystal timers and an RTC... You may have to do some work to port CP/M, though. I recently put together a simple bare-bones operating system template for TI calculators for reference:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hiti/

WikiTI is a good reference for the ASIC's behavior:

http://wikiti.brandonw.net/index.php?title=Calculator_Docume...

The pages under "TI-83 Plus family" are what you're looking for.
Lately, I’ve used Flask with Connexion, JWT, SQLAlchemy, and Alembic did my microservice APIs.

Relatively few lines of code that comes with validation, API playground, and defined routes plugged in via the swagger doc.

The main I ssue is having a nice admin page, tbh. Flask doesn’t have one like Django but eh. Good enough I suppose.
I wish the Briar project well and congrats to them on this milestone. With that said, here is an essay I wrote in 2015 on "Why Encryption Use Is Problematical When Advocating For Social Change" (prompted from thinking about working for the Briar project):
https://pdfernhout.net/why-encryption-use-is-problematical-w...
"I believe decentralized knowledge sharing is important, especially for disaster preparedness. I also believe encryption is important in practice, the same way as many people have locks on their doors. Such things do affect a balance between state power and individual power, which is important in a democracy, and they also make it harder for vandals and criminals to operate. So, a project like Briar that supports decentralized communications and encryption is important for those and other reasons. Still, as my father (a machinist among other things) used to say, "Locks only keep honest people honest." Here is a partial list of all the ways a tool like Briar can fail when being used by activists engaged in controversial political actions. ..."

In short, there are many ways that your privacy can be compromised when using networked computers even if your software works perfectly at the application level --- from the hardware, to the firmware, to the OS, to the network stack, to user error, to people you communicate with being untrustworthy.

The conclusion: "If you want to build a mass movement, at some point, you need to engage people. In practice, for social psychology reasons, engaging people is very difficult, if not impossible, to do completely anonymously in an untraceable way. People have historically built mass movements without computers or the internet. It's not clear if the internet really makes this easier for activists or instead just for the status quo who wants to monitor them. If you work in public, you don't have to fear loss of secure communications because you never structure your movement to rely on them. If you rely on "secure" communications, then you may set yourself up to fail when such communications are compromised. If your point is to build a mass movement, then where should your focus be?"
Anyone[1]!

[1] Who comes from wealth, marries wealth, and benefits from nepotism.
I’ll be better off than you when that happens.
Even when the primary risk is that you’ll build the wrong thing, there would be cases where paying a market research firm to compile advice on that topic that balances current customer requests against other things, like forecasts of industry or demographic or supplier or political trends, is a vastly better use of time than having the founders sit and use a product and develop their own idiosyncratic (and likely ignorant) idea of what to improve, or to oscillate between different focus points based on possibly incoherent or inconsistent customer feedback.
Very easy to say from a computer. Not easy to say 168 hours after no contact with the outside world.
I think having one parent home looking after the kid is very important for the kids development, it doesn't matter which one stays at home in my opinion.
Its wonderful how much Go wants everyone to repeatedly develop container data structures. That way everyone gets their own artisanal bugs.
Do you know about & have you considered the following alternative population density measures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiological_density

https://ggwash.org/view/65370/median-versus-average-populati...

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/10/americas-truly-denses...

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It's the new making money blogging by blogging about making money blogging.
I never claimed it was your idea. It's just people who think like this want to claim that every successful non-white group of people are white to continue viewing reality through a faulty prism.
1990

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N...
A big benefit of how opinionated frameworks preempt debates about marginal issues is that it's an externally imposed decision, instead of one team member triumphing over the others.

It really helps team cohesion for DHH to tell you that you're using X instead of Y as opposed to the most domineering devs getting their way every time. In my mind this even compensates for some suboptimal choices Rails may make.
>How much of your anxiety boils down to just not feeling confident about the appropriate actions to take or words to say in social situations?

You're enabling your own prescription by making the problem easier, viz. reducing the problem of anxiety to "not feeling confident about the appropriate actions to take", which, I might add, is also a redundant claim since its taking an effect of anxiety and elevating it to the cause.
The only thing holding back EVs are/were batteries/charging times. Aside from that they're easier to maintain and perform better — on paper they're loads more practical.
Seemed like an interesting article until halfway through the 1st paragraph, (on mobile) a full screen ad locked down my whole screen and caused me to close the broawer tab. Booo
The average British diet improved during WWII too, rationing and British Restaurants [1] made sure that people were eating the correct kind of things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Restaurant
You joke in an earlier post about how people should "get out of here with reddit puns", yet you make wild conjecture about stock market moves, the plight of people who have invested, and and it with "lol" as if this were some Twitter banter.

$3 a day is more than $1000 a year, and for poorer people that would make a lot of difference. For modest earners, even, that is an emergency fund or a local family holiday. But enough with rebutting your specifics: I agree with the other poster. Given an option of "live within your means" or "Don't have a savings account and carry a credit debt", there is a pretty obvious choice. And before you try to call me out on false dichotomies, re-read your post.
It doesn’t take THAT much power. The paper says effects took an average power of ~1 mW/cm^2, with a 0.0001 duty factor. That’s not much from a heating standpoint, but extremely strong for detectability. That average power is about what your phone delivers to your head.

The peak power is massive, but it doesn’t last long, so the energy is weak. To get the equivalent peak power, you’d have to put 10k phones against your head.

If you put your head in a 1 kW microwave oven, and pulse modulated the magnetron, your could maybe get the effect. It would make an entertaining YouTube video.
I use Airtable for "quantified self" type things like logging workouts and health metrics, also tracking reviews of books and movies, planning travel, and anything that I would otherwise use spreadsheets for.

By the way, you can do simple joins in Airtable by using the "lookup" and "rollup" field types, but I agree that it is relatively limited in that respect.
Wait by your car, start a fire. He would have lived if he did.
The simple question you need to ask yourself is: If everyone did this thing will it still work? If the answer is no, and you've seen it in popular media, don't do it.

Can everyone retire in their 30s? Sure if life expectancy was 35.
Skimming the article:

His income was $110k. Hers seems to not be listed, but they plan to live on $40k and her work means they aren't yet dipping into savings, so presumably she makes at least $40k.

Their net worth was $1.2 million, not their savings. For most Americans, equity in their house constitutes at least half of their net worth and in some places house appreciation is incredibly rapid tight now, like $100 per hour.

They seem to have come up with a few talking points while not genuinely digging into the details. Okay, people want their privacy and yadda, but it winds up being kind of a case of how to lie with statistics.

I'm cool with the FIRE movement existing. But articles like this are more like inspiration than a guide book. I get it: Actually doing this requires a lot more detailed information than a single article can give you. That's fine.

But I basically agree that this approach is a bit misleading and I'm not crazy about it.
> “I'm not trying to be pedantic”

Nobody likes to think of themselves as being pedantic.

But people can choose to make an effort to avoid being pedantic.

Instead you’ve chosen to use emotive words like “historical revisionism”, “fascinating”, “sad” and “oblivion” to create drama over something that, as I said in another comment, for all we know, PG may not have even properly heard.

If you’re a PG fan, perhaps have a re-read of the “Life is Short” essay and take a moment to think about whether PG (and Jessica and the other YC founders) would think this discussion is the kind of thing life is or isn’t too short for.
On bare-metal or base VPS servers, it's a Good Idea™ to set swappiness to 1 and have only a tiny amount of swap (say 512 MiB) in order to measure memory utilization pressure and OOM via swap usage trends in monitoring/alert tools. (Any sizable swap usage indicates heavy memory usage and likely things breaking.) Having giant swap files hides problems, slows servers and wears SSDs. Excessive memory usage is rarely addressed unless memory metrics are time-series monitored. Also, if running a production DBMS, as with most server programs, monitor major metrics from both outside of it and those metrics it offers.
Were you raised in the East side of Europe, by any chance? I noticed, that those, who grew up in post-communist countries, generally deal with money much more carefully. They primarily see it as a tool to free themselves from external dependencies, not the other way around.
Busy eating captchas.
I don't disagree, but many don't and that is where the need for cover comes in.
I have yet to meet a startup for whom hiring a market research firm and depending upon the results in the report gave them useful information that turned into a big opportunity. There's a simple reason for this: if such a report exists, then a big company who actually has money has already hired that market research firm and executed on those results, and that market opportunity is closed.
> I also tried Quiver for storing code, but it is specialized towards code storage.

Can you expand on this? Was quiver not good enough at basic text?
ABS is able to disengage your brakes even while the pedal is fully depressed, the old-school hydraulics are connected to ABS that can release the pressure so that the brakes disengage - that's what it does during normal operation. If it would intentionally release the brakes and keep them open instead of "pumping", there's nothing you can do.

The same applies for power assist - it's quite powerful; steering at high speed is possible but quite hard if it simply turns off; however, if it would be actively working against you (and do it suddenly without any warning), it's likely that you wouldn't be able to turn it back until you'd already smashed into the opposite lane.
Why doesn’t the wheel deform at all? If it doesn’t, how is it a suspension?
Life and the economy is very much a lottery.

You get a ticket by signaling you spread memes that support the lottery economy.

If you question the lottery or don’t spread its memes, you loose your ticket.

<notice the soon to follow critique of this comment from folks hoping to keep their ticket!>
> That's why we need to bring back the old home economics class. Call it "Skills for Life" and make it mandatory in high schools. Teach basic economics along with budgeting, comparison shopping, basic cooking skills and time management.

Some Jupyter notebooks for these topics that work with https://mybinder.org could be super helpful. A self-paced edX course could also be a great intro to teaching oneself though online learning.

* Personal Finance (budgets, interest, growth, inflation, retirement)

* Food Science (nutrition, meal planning for n people, food prep safety, how long certain things can safely be left out on the counter)

* Productivity Skills (GTD, context switching overhead, calendar, email labels, memo app / shared task lists)
Posted a bit too late :)
The first person featured in the article "retired in his 30s" when he was 43 and his wife still works. :\
That's a bit like saying "No problem, we just won't make money then." Netflix seems to be a good example of forward thinking.
The gap between Scala + Play and Ruby + Sinatra (or cut down Rails) is not like it was in 2008. Ruby 2.5 is ~13x faster than Ruby 1.8. Now you're lucky to squeeze 3x the web throughput out of a Java/Scala service as opposed to CRuby and JRuby closes that gap further.
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