skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering his background of Yale, Stanford and 13 honorary PhDs spanning 4 continents (his words) I wonder how far back his gamesmanship goes.
Amazing how many people think $8M is enough to retire, or even that you'd want to. Go travel the world with the family for a while. Clear your head and have a good think about the future.
In either scenario, there can be knowledge about the future, which, paradoxically, might cause that future never to materialize.
Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars trilogy - half of the crew are russians, japanese etc. After colonisation even more diverse etnicities arrive.

James Corey - The Expanse - main characters include Indian, Polynesian, whole premise of the book is "nationality" conflict. Belters especially.

Jemisin - The Broken Earth trilogy - again, different looking people as main characters, racial conflicts and so on.

Ann Leckie - Ancillary series - ambiguous gender characters as main characters, racial conflicts etc.

I'd say that western sci-fi is rather progressive in character diversity.
There are several misleading comments here making the incorrect assumption that the term “concurrency” in software has something to do with time. In software design, when we talk about concurrency, we are talking about coordinating distinct logical processes (not necessarily OS processes). This term has limited similarity to the common-knowledge understanding of concurrent events “happening at the same time”. Logical (not temporal) ordering of operations is implemented using process synchronisation techniques. One of the important differences between parallelism and concurrency is that parallelism is typically restricted to almost identical process definitions which aim to exploit the physical architecture of processing units. Concurrency, however, makes fewer assumptions about the physical architecture and focuses on software design in a more abstract way with a primary objective of coordinating resource utilisation of competing processes (especially physical resources).
The thing that concerns me is that "I do not think I have any real hobbies."

I suggest continuing to work, but perhaps being pickier about where you work. Perhaps there's a dream job you've always wanted to do that up until now wasn't feasible because it doesn't pay enough, like fireman, park ranger, teacher, musician, etc? The key here is to have an obligation (people depend on you) and social interaction.

Also, see if maybe you can develop some hobbies. It can be as simple as hiking or collecting stamps. Preferably one that has a social aspect so you have human interaction.

You're going to need, at the bare minimum, a passion project to keep you engaged.

Sometimes, retiring early is the worst thing to happen to a person. Make sure you know well in advance how you're going to fill your days. Because having a bunch of empty days in your immediate future can be very detrimental to your mental health.

Good luck!
Sorry, I forgot I was on the internet. I should have said "usage telemetry." I forgot that being on the internet means that people can't really follow unless everything is spelled out precisely. It doesn't matter that the whole conversation was about usage telemetry, it needs to be specified.

Are you switching the conversation topic from open source software telemetry to mobile phone tracking? That's a whole other thing, and doesn't contribute to the in-progress discussion on open source software telemetry, nor does it prove me (or anyone else) wrong.
Nazis are 2018's "think of the children".
Take a vacation with the kids, just a few days, then go alone with your wife.
Do no stop working as "work ennobles man", just figure out what you like first.
And yes, hire someone to figure out how to secure your money.

I, like many others, could use some money right now.
Why don't you give some money to the best pitch you receive?
Static content is extremely cheap to host. I would compare it to S3 costs.
No one wants desktop apps anymore. Everyone wants web apps. Except for legacy software WPF is dead unfortunately.
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What I'm getting at is Calgoo's point. If Google/Facebook use my data before they get the request to delete it will they also delete the output of that processing?
Cont. Draft for a clear text protocol
Howto transport ascii data over clear text

As in Pre-Shared keys.

(http://lists.unixcenter.ru/archives/mlug/2018-August.txt)

Generation of Tables is critical part. Don't even think about using
dynamic tables.

Three Possibilities with given attack explanation:

1.Simplified with strlen.
2.Different Mappings.
3.Binary to text (binary on host, text on the wire)

A grammatical wordlist attack, to match n variants of the solution.
This attack still requires the attacker to choice.

1. Using Subject/Pradicat/Object (SPO) (simplified with strlen):

NUN REDEN SIE
NUR REDEN SIE - no SPO
NUT REDEN SIE - no DE
NUN REDER - no DICT,estrlen
NUN RUDER SIE - no SPO
WIR GEHEN AUS - strlen, SPO

2. NUN REDEN SIE - NOR DO ORF

3. NUN REDEN SIE - ELFÀ4¨t4

...
AT&T carries way more of it than any individual website serves, but nobody complains because they're generally thought of as a pipe that is at worst absent. If a social platform can get the coveted "at worst absent," perception in place, nobody will blame them, and by extension nobody will blame the advertisers. That's why it was against the rules (so to speak) for the media to hop on YouTube for the "Nazi" videos: the only reason any of these platforms can get by at all is because we agree not to blame them for what they host. If we stopped doing that we would end up with three or four sanitised news websites, and at most eight mainstream entertainment websites. jokes.com would make a killing.
In my opinion taking a percentage cut on something that is not strongly correlated with any special effort, borders on scam.

And yes the scammers are everywhere: your bank, broker, recruitment agency, financial adviser, real estate agent, etc...

Call me bitter, but I paid way to many years 20% of my paycheck (yay, work for free on Fridays!) to some agency because they, for no good reason at all, somehow are into this percentage margin business as well.

The country I live in all major stockbrokers will charge you the higher of $90 or 1% (discount brokers take about half that), whereas a lot of other countries have enough competition that you get actual flat prices per trade.

You are selling some service, then please put some actual price on it.
E.g. $2000 to review your game and put it onto our platform.

If the service requires ongoing efforts than put some price on this as well.

Without price there can not be any free market.
Nurses are a lot more than just shift change workers, and their nursing school requirements are a lot higher than you seem to believe.
Safari stores that on Apple's servers.

And some people are okay with storing their history somewhere in the cloud.
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I typically use something similar for web apps:

1. Local Development
2. Development
3. Test
4. QA
5. Staging
6. Production

Local Development is the dev's local development environment. For performance reasons, and so we can work offline when required, we usually try not to touch any 'real' cloud-hosted components here, and run a local database and blob storage emulator in docker containers.

Development is a cloud-hosted environment where devs can deploy to at any time, for example to test that some code they've written works with real PaaS components.

Test is where our CI pipeline automatically deploys code to after every succsessful build, unit test run and integration test run, so as well as testing the code, this stage also tests our database migrations and deployment. Despite hitting a real database, we usually manange to keep our integration tests fast.

QA is where our testers and pilot users can test new features. We only deploy stuff here when we have something worth showing - the point is to have a relatively stable environment to test in.

Staging isn't a 'real' environment for us - when we reach here, database migrations are executed against the production database, and a Staging version of the web app is deployed that runs against it. This means we can do smoke tests before the final deployment to Production.

As an aside, our web apps are all hosted on Azure, using their App Service PaaS. When we move from Staging to Production, what we are actually doing is just swapping the slots around, so we get zero-downtime deployments to Production.

As another aside, we generally don't run a replica of all cloud services for each environment - mainly for cost reasons. So, all the test/non-critical environments (Development, Test, QA) are hosted on a single instance of each cloud component: we use a single App Service, with a slot for each environment, we use a single database, with a separate schema for each environment, etc.

This takes a lot of discipline to work, but in essence you need to make sure that any database changes are backwards compatible, since the Production web app must be able to run using the newly migrated database - so no columns/tables can be dropped, new columns must have default values etc.
I don't get it: apart from buying a gun in order to be able to rob banks, I cannot think of any kind of investment that will generate anything close to 21% ROI. Is this a scam? Is it just a lie?
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$8M is a big chunk of money, but most retirement advise being followed by the upper-middle-class still applies to you. If you follow the recommended investment advice given to retirees, you can afford to withdraw ~4% of your principal every year in perpetuity. This comes out to ~$320k (inflation adjusted) per year. Find a financial adviser with fiduciary duty, and he can help you get set up with this.

If your wife is working, I'm guessing $320k/year is a little higher than your existing household income. What that means is that both your wife and yourself can now quit your jobs and still maintain the same quality of life you currently have.

Note that quitting your job doesn't mean doing nothing. It just means that you can be intentional about what you want to do. If you want to spend time with your kids, read books and travel the world, you have the option of doing that. If you want to work as a teacher or non-profit volunteer or even start your own non-profit, you have the option of doing that. If you want to go back to work as a tech manager, you have the option of doing that too.

It may take you a while to figure out what you really want to do with your time... but don't try to rush it. Once you've quit your job and have time to think and experiment, you'll eventually figure it out.

The most important thing you can do in the short-term is to not burn your principal on something stupid like a private concert with a celebrity. The $320k/year I mentioned earlier is assuming that you have the entire $8M invested. If you splurged half your $8M upfront, your investment income will drop to ~$160k/year. Still a nice amount of money, but you'll find yourself in a situation where you have to continue working to maintain your desired lifestyle.
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Kinda, Zig has a small selection of allocators in the standard library, but it would be true to say that it has no "default" allocator. Idiomatic Zig code that requires allocation accepts the allocator interface as a parameter, so that the programmer is free to choose whatever implementation suits their needs.
Most "Western" Sci Fi has been very diverse in it's characters as most non-dystopian futures assume a very globalized earth. Let's take star trek for example

* TOS has been on the forefront of this with basically the whole bridge crew beeing a commercial for space diversity, even going so far as having a russian officers during the cold war on the bridge.

* The first Chief engineer of the TNG Enterprise was an Indian only to be replaced by Geordi La Forge (a blind black man).

* DS9 dealt with race and diversity on so many levels, i can't even begin to count.

* VOY just happened to have a very diverse crew, it was never explored much just...accepted?

* ENT same as voyager just a little less "on the nose"
Not been in your position, but what truly spoke to me was the book by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, titled:

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

In short:
The key lies in adhering to five key principles: Buy Experiences (research shows that material purchases are less satisfying than vacations or concerts); Make it a Treat (limiting access to our favorite things will make us keep appreciating them); Buy Time (focusing on time over money yields wiser purchases); Pay Now, Consume Later (delayed consumption leads to increased enjoyment); and Invest in Others (spending money on other people makes us happier than spending it on ourselves).
One thing you can not go wrong with is learning things. It kindah sux that in general outside of situation like yours you can not really take a break and just learn something new full time in early 40s (if you have family and kids to take care off).
>Furthermore, I doubt any Chinese person, apart from a scholar, could actually write down a few lines from these works

They might not know it but its still ingrained, influences their culture and laws.
I guess it is supposed to go something like this:

1. Aus government attempts to use this law to compel Whatsapp to provide decryption or technical assistance for same

2. Whatsapp tells them to go away

3. Whatsapp is banned in Australia
> plenty of people

that's probably a drop in the bucket. really at best a few tens of thousands of people.
I think it's a boring theory that doesn't pass Ockham's razor. For the universe to be superdeterministic you'd have to encode its whole evolution somewhere. That is more complicated that the normal interpretation of QM but doesn't explain more.
I think there also should be a concept of 'personal inflation'. For example, if you consume a lot of electronics and only use little petrol or whatever is becoming more expensive that time, your personal exposure to inflation is lower than the official number.
Didn't they just have their app removed from Google's Play Store for the presence child porn on their platform? I think the point might be that they cannot reasonably be expected police their platform to determine what porn is and is not acceptable. Surely there is going to be a lot of porn posted that is crazy unacceptable, and I'm sure they don't want to have to sift through it all to discern what is what.

I am actually surprised porn is a big thing they are known for, considering their platform is aimed at kids/adolescents?
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You missed the part where I mentioned people owning apartments yet not cars, and also where I explicitly referred to my (admittedly subjective) impression of a subset of car owners as ‘poorer’. To expand: this is a rather well-known cultural effect, with first-gen immigrants valuing wealth and its symbols more than the postmaterialistic boheme.

The families I know generally use attachable bike carriages for their children, and car sharing for exceptional needs.
Ketosis
Just reminded myself of this: In the model 2001: A Space Odyssey the moon station has a "sovyet" and an "american" entrance which both lead to the same room. The main character notices this with releave instead of annyoance.
Less risky type of subscriptions for physical products?
I don’t think (s)he was commenting on education. I read their comment as only people who can do 12 hour shifts that may be required to occasionally be overnights followed by days, completely disrupting their sleep schedule, can make it as ICU nurses.
> he definitely is not misogynstic, but he plays that card often

"He's not racist, he just says racist stuff often"
"He's not a serial killer, he just murders people often"

It's not a great excuse, really.
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Was watching an ESPN doc about professional athletes that had earned a lot of money and suddenly became rich. These people usually came from low income (broken) families and had no idea how to manage this sudden financial change.

One of these ex-athletes now tries to educate the younger generation about this. He tells them:'Better to live like a prince for your whole life, then to live like a King for 5 years'.
I think this is good advice for a lot of people, maybe including the OP. Sadly, some people will never be prepared to "unplug from the Matrix". They wouldn't be able to handle the unlimited freedom and time without turning to vices. Especially if they've had their soul crushed by 20 years of a career and responsibilities, and they've forgotten all of their hobbies and interests. I'm not being sarcastic, I think this might actually be true for most people.

This advice doesn't really apply if you are any of the following: young, creative, already self-employed, an entrepreneur, or you don't care if people say that you're "not a man".

I've been freelancing for many years, so I feel like I already have one foot in the door. I'd much rather have a lot of free time to work on my own projects and hobbies, especially the ones that will never make any money. Even 5-10 hours per week on freelance work is really annoying (because of context switching), and I'd much rather be doing my own thing.
This is so awesome! Thank You.
But you need a level of determinism for peoples' decisions to affect their future.
That's a how, not a why. Asking why is it worth the trouble ascribes intentionality to the universe where none is expected
Please quit helping. The thing is, until like 4 years ago, Google worked just fine without any operators. Then they improved it to the point you can't find anything specific any more.

Edit: Actually you could help. Show me where I set "Verbatim" as a permanent option :)
what kind of lifestyle you going for where 8M isn't enough?
Yeah funny
The link at the bottom of that article is pointing to another Medium post with details of the launch: https://medium.com/waymo/riding-with-waymo-one-today-9ac8164...

Notably, "At the start, Waymo-trained drivers will be riding along to supervise our vehicles for riders’ comfort and convenience."

Edit: Re-reading my comment, it sounds negative, so I want to acknowledge that I think this is a big deal. No matter how "soft" this launch, it's still a historic moment.
Right? My parents home consumes an order of magnitude more electricity per month, despite only being 3x bigger. Turns out reducing exterior walls helps.
How is this platform called? I am very interested in something like this and even thought of making it, a number of times.
Yeah, Geneva is already clogged and just doesn't have the space to build more roads. Driving is curable, as they say.
I'm always concerned when people use an acronym as if everyone knows what it means, when it is in fact a fairly niche acronym. It shows people maybe haven't talked about their ideas to folks outside of a certain group with preexisting notions.
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Europe seems pretty happy with the train.
Congrats man, you have what most of us do not.

FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM.
But that keeps them at where they are now. Imagine making them a Japan. What would that take?
Zoom dethrones Facebook as the best tech company to work for in the U.S
First of all, just being open-source doesn't make Windows Forms or WPF cross-platform and in fact, that's specifically not the goal or focus here.

Secondly, Paint.NET includes quite a bit of non-WinForms/WPF code by now, talking directly to DirectWrite and Direct2D in places and probably other things as well. It's very much a Windows-only application and porting it would require rewriting a lot of important core code of the application.
This is called compatibilism and yeah it seems to be a mainstream view in the academic debate

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

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
Deleting "chronic pain" posts makes sense if Tumblr is trying to eliminate drug-related posts with as much cleverness and grace as the porn purge. (Chronic is uncommon slang for marijuana.)
Haven’t you been paying attention? We’ve been breathing for the past two months. My tech stocks have lost over $120k of value since September highs, in just two months.
Isn't it simpler? There are just a few rules and everything works? For the normal QM you have to get some randomness from somewhere else.

edit: I mean I agree it's problematic for experimental science, but I think Occam's razor cuts the other way in this instance.

edit2: Isn't the entire history encoded anyway in the current state of the universe in the deterministic case. I don't understand what the problem is there.
> The same they represent a not-really-free society because yes there is no need to work and anybody seems to be happy, but anything goes around "starfleet" or around a military apparatus, not a democracy.

Well the societies are free by our modern, humanist standards. Just one of many examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdXTohdKcm4

The whole "everything goes around starfleet/military" is basically just bad writing, but very much against what the future of star trek wants to project.
Pretty sure ".rocks" didn't exist yet when this domain was purchased. It's not all that new[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=emacsrocks.com
Source? I've asked nurses why they constantly wake up patients and they always say it is because they are supposed to get X data ever Y hours. None of them have ever said they purposefully wake a patient to just ask how they're doing.

If they wake you up while they're checking something, obviously they are likely to ask is you need anything. But that is not the topic of the discussion.

Also, its usually phlebotomist, not nurses, who are drawing blood at night.
I love how whenever people talk about banning cars in cities everyone comes out of the woodwork and screams “but what about the rural towns?!?!”.

Well, I hate to break it to you, but rural towns aren’t cities.
> I've also never seen them do anything blatantly greedy/money grubbing on a large scale

Well... Steam launched with Half Life 2, and you had to install it and have an internet connection to play the game on the CD you just bought. And Steam didn't work for several days after HL2's launch, so everyone who bought the game day one was forced to wait for the Steam gatekeeper to let you into your own game (again, that was sitting in the physical box). And it was quite buggy for a long time, even though it did very little for the user. They eventually rewrote the entire thing as an embedded web app!

Also besides the Half-Life IP, many of Valve's franchises are either takeovers of user-created mods (Team Fortress, Counter Strike, DotA 2), and now Artifact appears to be heavily "inspired" by hearthstone.

As for Steam for Linux, that was a contingency against the Windows Store when it was released. Valve recognized Microsoft could theoretically kick app and game stores off it's platform, leaving Valve with nothing.
Is there a catch to Alpaca? How do they make money?
This is the claim, but if you look at the experiments supporting it, they’re all bonkers. For example, care is no worse from doctors on 28 hr shifts vs 24. I would argue that both of these are so far from a well-rested baseline that they’re meaningless.

We know from lab experiments that performance craters way, way before that, which is why pilots, truck drivers, cops, and every other profession work shorter shifts.
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A fool and his money are soon parted, and whilst OP does not sound like a fool, he came to this forum for help so he would not act foolish.

To wit, this is probably the wrong forum if people are going to respond as you did, Sir, so he is probably better off over on Bogleheads.