skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no DDoS prevention tool in play here (aside from that being Fastly's business).

Arista's default of having the TTL as part of the hashing function to calculate packet path means that any TCP connection that does not have a consistent TTL when it reaches this (source) ISP's routers can potentially be bucketed onto multiple different egress paths (transit or peering connections) onto different upstream SP's.

Because BGP works on the concept of AS Numbers rather than IP's (and because Fastly uses Anycast, which announces the same set of IP's from multiple POP's), it's possible that packets that leave the ISP network over different transit connections end up at different Fastly POP's, as each transit provider or peer will have a different route to Fastly's AS.

Fastly does not share TCP session information between POP's as I imagine at that scale it's massively prohibitive to do so.

The TCP RST happens because there is no established TCP session at the secondary POP which receives the TLS handshake packet, and because TTL is part of the hash function it will always end up following a different path (and therefore hitting a different datacenter, if routing stays consistent) if the TTL is reduced by 1.

It's generally deemed 'acceptable' in Anycast terms to cause a TCP RST when traffic switches from one POP to another, as this usually happens rarely, in response to changes in the path between two AS numbers.

For things like websites, browsers will usually just retry the connection, and as the path has changed and stays consistent, it starts to work and all you notice is a slight delay.

It doesn't work in this situation because the second packet with the reduced TTL is consistently routed to an 'incorrect' datacenter and breaks the TCP session every time, effectively dropping service to 0.
> Either way, enjoy watching your plan to get rich doing nothing crash and burn when this bubble pops in 2 years lol

And living beyond your means while slaving away somehow better prepares you for that future?

I hope you're as young as you sound.
> Opening markets when these foreign actors very recently attacked your population is basically suicide.

Opening markets in Europe immediately afte WW2 were a major contributor to preventing another European war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1951)
Where this is all going to fall apart is when the stock market goes down or inflation takes off. You really don't want to be retired, out of the workforce for 10 years, and only have a million dollars in assets if either of these happens.
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This is such an important point. I have friends who routinely go out for $300+ dinners, and then complain about having near empty savings account.

It’s honestly quite shocking, coming from software engineers who are (supposedly) analytically/numerically minded.
Wow. Seems easy! Can't wait to do this!
There's also a Science Daily report with some other info including

>"We have seen this before when the Soviets irradiated the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in the days of the Cold War," he said.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180829115456.h...
(A miniature horizontal CNC mill for cutting joints in the spirit of the pantorouter)
The socially acceptable way to be a stay-at-home dad. I am not a failed breadwinner, I am retired and spending more time with my kids.
I used to always use the automatic check out at the supermarket, because I used to dread being forced to interact with a stranger (who often doesn't even want to be there, or interact with me!)

I recently began doing a job that requires me to smile at and greet strangers all day long, and I found myself doing this automatically off the job as well. So now I find myself having pleasant interactions with supermarket staff, and looking forward to saying hello to them.

The other day, after taking the automatic checkout out of habit, I realized that I had missed a great opportunity to connect with another human being, by choosing to use the machine instead. Then I thought, all of society seems to be headed in this direction, and it seems sad.

On the other hand, making life more efficient in this way does free up the time we previously had to spend interacting with strangers, and we are now free to use that time to create deeper, more meaningful connections with friends.
i tend to agree: anycasting stateful services is always a gamble.. however, i do think including ttl in the ecmp hashing alg is prone to failure, and is probably a poor default.
To me, FIRE is more about financial freedom, than early retirement. Having the ability to quit your job at any time is the ultimate leverage, and gives you the ability to choose work that fulfills you intellectually, without worrying about the financial consequences.
1. US Websites with high international shipping costs. It appears to be common for the business to just put up a 'cover my ass' flat fee instead of doing the homework of discovering the cost of shipping for a different country.

2. Import duties and taxes so high that when added to shipping they're equal to the price of the product. This is usually discovered at the last minute.

3. Amazon's policy of listing dozens of product providers - with sometimes no visible way to detect if they ship to your country - so you have to hop back and forth to check if you may really buy it. I'm amazed Amazon does not provide a method for a user to send a message saying "I'd buy x if your shipping to country y was lower than z".

(1) and (3) are laziness. (2) could link to third party retailers to make an end run around the taxes.
> Also, his wife is still working?

Technically, this alone is enough for early retirement.
In your estimation, how long will it take for India's economy to no longer be influenced by British colonization?

It's been 71 years so far. A hundred years? Five hundred years?

Chinese jingoists are still moaning about what the Brits did in the 1800's and blame them for every bad thing that happens between Kowloon and Mongolia today. Will India also follow that path?
Fine share!

+1
Funny story, Excel was on the Mac before Windows.
I’ve use Mac laptops as my primary work machine since the nineties. This year, with the MacBook Pro problems, and noticing that I was almost always working from my home office these days, I got a 5k iMac instead of a new laptop.

I’m delighted with iMac. The monitor is amazing, and it has quite a bit more horsepower than a comparable Mac laptop.
I thought you were broke and in debt when you left for Africa? That doesn't make your post wrong, but you're really shoehorning your book into a thread that doesn't have much to do with your path.
This reminds me of that article about an early thirty something who paid-off a quarter million in student debt in X years[1].

Her parents bought her a condo, she got a job at her mother's non-profit and she lived with a second-income earning partner.

The message was that if she could do it, anyone could do it.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-ebony-horton-paid-off-22...
Add up how much a nanny, preschool, etc. costs and compare it to a non upper tech salary, and you will quickly realize that stay at home parent != failed breadwinner. Especially when you’re starting to account for more than one kid.
Welcome to the past, friend. It’s not like your future, yet.
I'm retired early, but mainly because I got lucky in bitcoin. I'd suggest retiring to Asia. You can live a lot cheaper here.

My thinking is as technology progresses, the gap between the life styles of the poor and the rich will continue to decrease. If all we do is spend our day staring at screens and phones, and one day wearing VR goggles, what does it matter what car you drive, how big your place is, or whether you live in a big city or out in the countryside (or in another country, in my case)?
The iPad Pro has 4GB of RAM but the point remains.
I don't buy the theory, I think one person convinced everyone else by accident.

But if you want to do this I'd run with a few people got a some sort of disease not common (STD / a parasite) and the others then grew convinced they also suffered. Less of a conspiracy, an STD works well cause it means people will lie.

The evil country X could never have guesses at the USA's incompetence in dealing with this.
If you want to live cheaply and see the world (or staying in one place does not appeal), consider becoming a perpetual cycle tourist and live in a tent. There are tonnes of countries where it is easy and spectacular to travel this way and these days a light bluetooth keyboard and a phone with HDMI out are all you need to make money.
I've written a login before that allowed non-unique login names that were solely differentiated by password. Given the relatively low volume of visitors to the site and the minimum password requirements (8 characters, at least one cap and one punctuation), we figured the chance of collisions was minimal.
If it is science what you are looking for, on one side you need extreme discipline to force yourself on hard, alien subjects that you will mostly not understand at a glance. On the other side, you much probably need a mentor to discuss things in a sequential or progressive manner, assimilate the underlying theory with its nuances for real and test yourself against a rock solid reference. I acted as an informal tutor for a number of fellow students at uni and both circumstances were needed to get them results (and pass their exams).
In one sense, it’s switching from working one’s professional job to being a homemaker, a penny pincher, and an amateur investor.

It could work and one may enjoy it better than a certain job. But isn’t it a better use of one’s time to switch to a related job, perhaps a part-time one, where one can deploy existing skills/education productively, and not worry too much about everyday’s expenses?

Also, what would happen to one’s mental state when a bear market hits and the nest egg one depends on takes a big hit at the same time that the job market freezes up?

Using the privilege of time to find out what one really loves to do and embark on a journey to master that and perhaps make a living out of it in future would be both more fulfilling and less risky in the long run.
Likely. Luck of good timing presented as clever frugality.
Yeah, that's the key point with a lot of these articles. They assume you're able to get a job making $100,000+ a year. Not sure about anyone else, but that seems like it's both unrealistic for people in many fields (aka ones that aren't tech/finance/law/medicine/high level business related ones) and unrealistic for many locations. I mean, over here in London that's a steep ask, with only about 17% of roles I've seen offering anywhere near enough for this sort of plan.

So yeah, step 1 is earning a million dollars, arguably by being in the top 10-20% of your industry salary wise.
Detroit ? lead-in-the-water, streetside shakedowns, multiple burglaries.. living with .. whom?
Wow, now that I am looking this up the pre-2012 Zero bikes used Molicell LiMn2O4 batteries instead of more common LiFePO4s (see A123) or ubiquitous LiCoO2 batteries. This gives them a deeper voltage range and makes them require some form of reengineering to replace with more modern battery technology, which really does suck.
If you can manage 1 million in cash/stocks and own a home somewhere (reasonable if you’ve saved up that much). 4%/year is $40k, and will hopefully be below your earnings on the money. That’s a reasonable amount to live on if you don’t insist on New York or San Francisco or something.

That’s still 25 years of living if you get no interest or earnings.
Another shameless plug: you might find https://johnnydecimal.com useful.

Forgive the design, I’m right this very weekend updating the whole thing. I’m busy writing a little web app which will replace the spreadsheet you’ll currently need to keep track of your numbers.
I watched the Most Unknown documentary on Netflix a week ago and liked the format. First couple of episodes it felt a bit like telephone for researchers, where scientist #2 discusses the field of scientist #1 with scientists #3. But after the third episode, it was just scientist #n and #n+1 discussing each other's fields. Wish they picked scientists from a few other continents or at least working in places other than North America and Europe.

I loved the bit where team of scientists #n+1 describe their experiment to scientist #n and then #n describes it back. I believe the experiment was about measuring time.
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> The secret to having more money is not to earn more, it's to spend less.

I honestly thought it was the complete opposite? The whole "being poor is expensive" thing? That buying expensive shoes is economically better longer term vs buying cheap shoes?
I am not suggesting that being a stay-at-home parent doesn't make sense, just that the "I am retired" is just cover for a man who is the stay-at-home parent. While it shouldn't be this way, unfortunately many see a stay-at-home dad as a failed breadwinner.
And wife still works.
It's an amusing stereotype. I grew up in a nice small town, circa mid-late 1990s. That market had five competing ISPs in 1997. Everyone of course had phone lines. The first two ISPs with local access were available sometime in 1994/95.

All of the various school libraries and the public library were online by 1997. We did have nice public schools and a solid public library, it gave me an immense appreciation for those. So even if a household didn't happen to have a PC, the family still had free or very low cost access to get online.

I'm sure there are some horror stories of small towns and access from that time. That wasn't my experience. The relatively low cost of setting up an ISP and the phone network access made it very easy to get online in the mid 1990s where I grew up. The nearest major metro was ~120 miles away. Intellectually and culturally the Web was an oasis in a desert, it gave me access to ideas and people from all over the world at a time when the Web still felt like a small experimental mosh pit of people interlinking. Growing up in a small town likely made my Web experience more vivid and energized than what you would have experienced had you grown up in NYC. I instantly got the value proposition it was offering the first time I used it, it was subtle like a bolt of lightning to the skull.
I also host my own MediaWiki instance, complete with VisualEditor and a mobile skin. Out of curiosity, why are you not loading documents and images into your wiki? For images, I don't use it as an image repository, just for images of things specific to personal knowledge.
This should be fixed in the next release.
direct story -- a Bay Area artist saved money and bought a tiny plot of land in unnamed central american nation.. brought his lowpressure friendly style to the modest home there.. after two months the nearest neighbor started visiting more frequently.. by the fourth month the neighbor entered the home with a machete and said it was time to leave now or else.. end of story
My favorite part is at 19:35, where Turturro assures us that credit card details are safe to use because "It's private. I've done it before and it's not a problem."
https://youtu.be/M6xqxoTKWv0?t=19m35s
How much interest per year would $1 million yield?
By far. Why South America? Move to a safe location in Mexico.
Exactly, “communist” has just become a meme that means “dysfunctional” ish.

People pretend to be experiencing communism even though almost no one is practicing it in the modern world. China is communist? Give me a break.

The nice thing is no one remembers what communist actually means anymore. So someone will be able to come back and describe communism and people will be like “wow, this is interesting.”
It all depends on cost of living. A reasonable withdrawal rate that should be sustainable is 3.5%. [0] $35k is what a lot of families live on in America. Many live on a lot less. You're not going to have many indulgences, but for a lot of people, $35k/yr and no job is better than thrice that but having to work 40+ hours per weak.

In America, 35k per year was the 29th percentile for household income in 2014. An even more sustainable withdrawal rate of 30k per year puts you at the 24th percentile. [1]

Sure, you can't do it in San Francisco, but if you think you can't sustainably live on $1m, you're living in a bubble. Because a huge fraction of people in America essentially do it, but they also have to work forty or more hours a week.

[0]: https://gersteinfisher.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Gerste...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
It takes a lot less work to meet up with friends when everything is a 20 minute drive vs. when everything is a 2 hour walk to bus to once-per-2.5-hours train to bus to walk. In the Bay Area, seeing friends who don’t live in my neighborhood is a special occasion. In car-oriented Midwestern sprawl, it was almost every week. Being in cars together, trading rides, etc. also created a pleasant, low-pressure space for conversation. The audience of one’s fellow train/bus passengers changes that dynamic a lot. I don’t think it’s as drastic a difference as you say. There are tradeoffs all around.
The report doesn't say loneliness is rising recently. It says technology use is rising and then measures individuals' loneliness, following up with a survey on technology use and a self reported ~"Do you think technology is contributing to loneliness?".

I think for a large part the Internet is replacing television. Is there a suggestion that those spending over two hours/day online (correlating more in the report with loneliness) are being affected by the medium or content or they're just using PC rather than TV?

I'd wager that car use is also up significantly too. Better roads, better cars, more two-car families (28% of US households have more cars than people), kids not walking to school...

[] https://newsroom.aaa.com/2016/09/americans-spend-average-176...
https://gersteinfisher.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Gerste... suggests that 4% is sustainable in the large majority of cases and 3% is sustainable is essentially all cases, assuming there isn't a total economic crash.
While Windows revenue must be nice, I agree with you that Microsoft ‘s future is more tied with Office 365 and Azure.

The Office 365 iOS apps are nice enough and the web version runs anywhere. Mostly because of the cloud storage space, but also the applications, I will probably be a lifetime customer for $100/year. I wonder how $100/year compares to Facebook’s and Google’s revenue per user. I pay Google $500/year for music, books, movies, tv dhows, and GCP but I am not a typical user.
How is this story not about the increasing prevalence of horrendous work environments and expectations? Of course these people wanted to retire - their relationships with their jobs were wildly unhealthy.

Which seems, unfortunately, increasingly common.
I was not even close to broke or in debt, and I'm still not 2.5 years later. Reddit read my story and came up with that story, when the story really was "I screwed up and lost some budgeted travel money, now I'll have to be more careful about my spendings".
Thanks for that link. It looks very promising!

Still needs a bit of soldering, but I may try to find a neighborhood kid with better hands than I have to do it.
How can you retire with $1M at 30? Even frugal living seems as though it would burn through this. And what about travel and entertainment? This seems like an unreasonably low amount of money to have.
None of the 85% of Android manufacturers are in a good position fighting over scraps and Google still pays Apple over $2 billion a year to be the default search engine on iOS.

Market share doesn’t lead to profit.
Similar to another site, http://www.versionmuseum.com
I try to do this but having a plain text editor built into their site would make it much more powerful for me. There are multiple times a day where I find myself on a system that I don't have my Dropbox files synced to.
You still have to pay a chunk of change in property tax and HOA fees every year as homeowner.
What advice do you wish someone gave you when you moved from dev to management?
What advice would you give someone on how to make the transition from developer to project manager?

A freelancer is asking for input for an article. The goal is to share useful suggestions for someone who is contemplating making the change from "coder" to "new project manager" or "project lead." That advice could be based on your own experiences or watching others stumble.

Imagine that a friend just got such a promotion -- or has decided to look for a new job where she can move into project management. What would you tell her?
I don't understand the "but" in your uncontroversial comment.
Could you not have a similar violent encounter in the mission or tenderloin districts in SF? Or in the East Bay?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/06/bay-area-homicides-20...
The element that you might not be aware of is Discord. Primarily a chat and voice communication app but its divided up into individual servers run by community members for free where each is like a Slack server if you are familiar with that software.

I'm not in the child age group, but I've made friends this way as a 31 year old.
Typing a paragraph of nuance isn't as easy.

Of course BIFL is better if you can afford it. It also means not keeping up with the Joneses, spending money out all the time, buying more than you need.
You're both right, but you're both speaking casually so it's hard to understand precisely what you're saying. Here's my take on it:

At least from a perspective of early retirement, if you can change your lifestyle so you can sustainably spend less, then (i) while you are working, you can save more money, due to lower expenses, and (ii) provided you are willing to continue living frugally after retirement, you don't need to build up as much capital to fund retirements from investment returns, as your post-retirement expenses are also lower. I think the second factor makes a bigger impact than the former one.

The point you make is also a good one: people with more wealth and resources are in a better position to make longer-term investments, which can help them save or make even more money in the long run.

The two heuristics "spend less" and "earn more" aren't always in conflict, you can often find opportunities that strictly improve one without damaging the other one.
You shouldn't be buying in an HOA if you're FIRE or living on a fixed income, where someone else sets the annual costs and rules. My property taxes on 2600 sq ft of single family home are ~$3400/year. Still manageable on a $40k/year investment income budget.
I'm not the GP, but spending less is not the same as being poor. The former is about having options, the latter is lack of options. Poor people have to buy the cheaper shoes because that's all they have enough money for (compared to a wealthier person who made the decision based on average cost over time, even if the initial outlay was more).
You are pointing out the problem actually. E.g. being woken up an hour earlier/later for instance to get fed and milked isn't fun and quite arbitrary out of the blue.
I’ve seen this before with someone who inherited a sizable amount of money from a deceased relative right after the financial crisis. Given where the market is today I’m not sure what advice I’d give to them if the same were to happen today.

Do you still just go with the long-term play and put it into index funds when they’re at all time highs?
From what I've seen, it seems to be the other way around.

As we get better linearly (e.g. code faster), our income increases somewhat exponentially. So, it seems like a better strategy to try to earn more.

Not to mention that having more money will potentially earn you more as well.

Ranked tennis players and their earnings are a good example. It seems true in a company setting as well.
How can you safely earn enough income on 1 Million dollars to live and keep up with inflation. Even if you can earn 5% and reinvest 1% for inflation that’s 40K/year.