skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed it is!

Also to add. If you can't work out the answer to that question then don't feel pressured into trying to force it.

It's ok not be able to answer the question. Life is a search for meaning. Sometimes it comes, sometimes it doesn't. The money in and of itself isn't going to answer the question. And in fact, freedom from the 'toil' required to make ends meet might remove some of the purpose that OP previously felt. But I think when faced with change and upheaval that removes the certainties of life (in this case 'work, eat sleep, repeat') you owe it to yourself to see if you can work out the answer.
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I wonder how successful demanding self-classification would be? I'd imagine it would be better than an AI, and you could have user-reporting, AI monitoring, random employee sampling, SERPs monitoring to catch those who purposefully misclassified and apply the ban-hammer.
The graph of PageRank is fundamentally different from academic citations because it allows for cycles and that allows the algorithm to converge.

Papers cannot cite future papers, so you are left with trying to value older papers from a number of newer citations of unknown quality, by essentially counting them. Until enough citations become available, the quality of the new work is usually proxied by the prestige of the journal, which in turn make these papers more wide read, influential and cited, and this perverse power drives the whole train wreck of academic publishing.
Scientists were gaming citations before SEO.
I think most everyone in the sub-$25M bracket is better served paying a broad-based index fund 0 to 4 basis points for VTSAX or similar and using fee-only planner/advisers for tax, estate, and investment advice.

Completely agree that if OP wasn't previously a skilled investor with a track record of beating the market (extremely unlikely), that they shouldn't now try to become one.

With this amount of money, they've "won the game" and have no need to beat the market. They only need to match the market over the next 50 years. That can be done very simply, reliably, and cheaply.
what's the point of this when the money is obviously going frozen/siezed by the authorities?
As one commenter on the post points out, there's a really simple optimization that can be done to make this much faster and avoid local minima: check for dead ends ahead of time.

Example: I'm generating 5 new boards based on this one to check. In 3 of them, there is now a spot that cannot ever be reached. But the board is only half completed and from the spot I jumped to, I can still reach other places.

By trimming these options from the search at the moment of their conception, one can greatly reduce their search time.
Undo-tree is pretty awesome. Saved me from anguish more than a few times.

But alas, emacs is just too slow during startup for my workflow. I use it with clojure but only because of Cider.
Stripping everything away, the basic question is how they will make money. Raise prices? They have local competition pretty much everywhere, there’s no moat around the rideshare business. Food delivery? Maybe, but will that be enough to justify their valuation?
I would say that anything which is both deterministic and fundamentally unpredictable by humans can be said to have something like "Free Will", which I think includes a lot of non-conscious systems as well as human beings. The weather, flocks of birds, river flows, sunspot activity, etc -- really any kind of chaotic system -- which is not the same thing as saying it's random.

But it's also a self centered definition, because I think a being with vast computational power and perfect knowledge of the current state of a chaotic system might not see it as free.
I'll go poll the world and get back to you to see if you align ;)
You've written a lot of text, most of which I might agree with, but you haven't demonstrated why any of it precludes the existence of free will.

Compatibilism is specifically the position that free will is compatible with deterministic agents. Merely stating you disagree that this qualifies as free will isn't particularly compelling. Compatibilism makes sense of our moral language, we clearly have the free will described by Compatibilism, and it's strongly predictive of our moral reasoning as the paper I linked shows.

That seems to describe what most people mean when they use the term "free will" quite well, just like "day job" describes quite well what I do every weekday from 9AM to 5PM.
I also agree that Firefox needs to work on beautification and marketing.

But I'm happy Firefox did Pocket because I view that as a cross-platform readability and bookmark strategy that other companies makeup for through their platform. Even if Pocket ultimately folds, I'd want Mozilla to do something else in that place. Like if Mozilla knows that iOS users by wide margins use Safari, how are they supposed to get their bookmarks to them?
It is just a rule of thumb I created for the OP, you can create it as well for yourself any way you want.

It just shows the importance of diversification and mitigation of risk, and real diversification, which means that you aren't diversifying between 5 oil companies stocks, but different types of assets, maybe even contradicting assets, so it hedges you a bit just in case one goes down, the other goes up.

So tha greatly reduces the risk of the OP losing all his money(it can still happen) meanwhile give him some time to figure out things by himself.
Learn how to know whether somebody is trustworthy. You will certainly attract a lot of friends who either want your money or will help you spend it. If you don't know how to measure trust, you might well lose a lot.

For most of us, the stakes are low so it is not a primary skill we need but with $8M, you need to know there are people who would ask for it all, promise the world and deliver nothing.
Again, don't ask people to be tolerant of intolerance.
I've had I believe a single NPE in Go in production for three years. It's a blip on the radar. If you are testing your code, how do you even get an NPE in production? Seriously, it should be rare. I've actually had more trouble with channels than pointers in Go.

Also, if the situation is really so bad.... How come no one cares? I saw no Go 2 proposal to fix this situation, just generics, less boilerplate for error handling. But nothing about nil pointers. It's not at the top of anyone's list. Generally, people feel comfortable with nil in Go in ways they don't in JS and C.

I will take that for fact even though certainly you disagree. So why do people feel more comfortable with nil in Go? Because nil is not an error.

In C and JS, there are cases where nil is treated as an error. For example, getElementById returns null when it finds nothing. If you designed this API in Go, you'd instead return nil, PLUS an error (or Perhaps, a bool, if no other possible errors exist.) You can argue semantics but in Go it's generally held that if you aren't returning what the user wanted you should return an error. Exceptions to that exist but probably mostly just string manipulation functions.

This convention is so strong, though, that it nearly eliminates nil pointer errors caused by edge cases. Most nil pointer errors you DO hit in Go are:

1. Set on nil map
2. Send on nil channel
3. Failing to check error

The thing is, if you are writing production code, and writing tests for your production code, this shouldn't even make it to your code repository. It's virtually a non issue.

Even better; in C and C++, when you hit a null pointer, you don't get an NPE. You get a segfault. Everything dies. Kaput. Go is obviously not alone in not having this issue, but it's surely worth noting that it doesn't.

Go is not going to die some day because it's "not safe enough" - it's absolutely safe enough to write reliable code. The difference is, writing reliable code in Go is easy because for the most part, all you have to do is follow conventions and unit test. Same cannot be said about C and JS where you will inevitably get blindsided by sharp edges.

If you are in a situation where you can't have runtime errors, it's a poor fit. I don't know personally any developers that are in this situation. If your code doesn't put lives on the line, its OK to have a runtime error. Most of your real outages will be due to other bugs, and probably more of then will be due to other people's bugs, natural disasters, human operator error, bad configuration pushes, etc.

If you really think Go NPEs are even a significant portion of Go reliability issues I'm gonna need more evidence.
School starts early because most adults have to get to work by 8:30 or 9, and they need to drop off their kids early enough to drive potentially a considerable distance to that work after the drop off.
Links to the homepage for me, is this article region specific?
Five years ago in Switzerland I could get a full blood panel from my Dr's office in the mall within twenty minutes. The blood came straight out of my arm, into the vials, and into vials went into the analysis unit.

Maybe there needs to be some investment in better analysis equipment for routine draws.
Zaha Hadid: Maker of the 21st Century
Cool argument, bro.
Of them, I have read Warlight. Either it is playing a deeper game than I am aware of, or Ondaatje thinks poorly of his readers' intelligence.
Testing Ansible roles with Molecule
You would likely have to extend residency based on everything that you need to learn for a given specialty. Med school graduates have an average of over $180k in student loan debt - from med school alone - and resident salaries in the 2-4 year programs are mid five figures.

Given the choice, I'm not sure someone whose 4-year earning potential is capped at $60k with $200k in student loans would want to extend that to 5/6/7 years.
To add to your list, a big one for me is the ritualization of coffee. Can't focus until you've had a cup!
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When I was a trader at Merrill Lynch (NYC, 2005) I traded these basket securities on a Swiss exchange through a Rube-Goldberg-like trading system employing two Excel spreadsheets. Here's how it worked:

A spreadsheet on my computer would pull data from Bloomberg using their Excel API and would price the securities. Those prices would be pulled off the spreadsheet by some Reuters application that would then send those numbers through a 56K modem to Reuter's system. Somebody I never met in London would screen scrape the prices from Reuters into Excel. From that Excel spreadsheet the prices would be posted on the Swiss exchange. I was responsible for any resulting trades and they would go into my book.

These were two sided prices (bid-ask) so if the process broke and the market moved I would get picked off. Thankfully they were mostly all delta 1 instruments with 50 bps of spread so that didn't happen too often.
> and/or Apple

Apple has nothing to do with this. Tumblr was removed from the app store specifically because of child porn; plus, if the anonymous sources are to be believed, Tumblr have been working on this for >6 months, predating the app store snafu.
damned if they do, damned if they don't
I've been acquiring some early, 19th century British Printed Patents and using the very large flatbed scanner at the Cleveland Public Library to scan in the giant drawings. Ex: https://aaronnewcomer.smugmug.com/Cartridges/Pinfire-Manufac...
I recently met a friend's father-in-law at a party. He seemed like a super modest guy, and then I realized he acquired a similar windfall twenty years ago. He kept working at the same company, and then jumped to a project manager role at a new company. Even after major back surgery, he kept working like an average joe (and seemed to enjoy his job). Outside of family vacations, he has only made one major purchase from his fortune - a crash-pad apartment in the Upper West Side that ended up doubling in value since the nineties.

At the time, I thought he was a bit eccentric; maybe even a workaholic. Especially after reading this thread, I think he did absolutely everything correct.
How Big Food Uses Big Tobacco Tactics to Manipulate the Public
(Curious vim user here) Did you find any occasions where emacs was preferable to vim?
In the absence of free will, expressing yourself in a decision is simply a function taking the current environment and your past as input.

You may be a unique being, due to your past, meaning that the possibility for another being to make the same "choices" in the same sequence as you is really low, however that's just high entropy.

Compatibilism is basically word play. If the universe is deterministic, then we are just a bunch of atoms reacting predictably to external forces, making us not very different from rocks.
A couple of similar questions on HN from a few years back:

- "Ask HN: Steady 4-5% on $5 million?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1108163

- "Ask HN: Just cashed out for 2M. What now?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486755
Some people experience very real guilt/depression when a windfall happens "I don't deserve this" "why me" "shoulda been someone else" etc, not unlike survivor's guilt.
Did they take the page down? I'm getting redirected to the Firefox homepage
Bing is "Google Search but not Google and cheaper".

The cheap bit is easy to understand, Google has APIs for GSearch, Translate etc but they are quite expensive. Microsoft on the other hands has much lower costs for services that are usually not that far off.

The "not Google" bit is probably the reason why it will always have at least some traction though: It's used by Google competitors (eg. Alexa uses Bing, Siri used to.)
Integration with documemt and version control with anything other than sharepoint. Something that is guaranteed to work without application crashes. Configurable Cloud storage/saving. 100% open document formatting to allow for interoperability.
On the contrary, it's probably a small part of their service. The nature of Tumblr is to make it easy to find like minded people, and construct a subset of the site that's full of what you're into. So it's very easy to feel "Tumblr is all left-wing teens" or "Tumblr is all porn" depending on what you go looking for. But Tumblr is a galaxy of niches and I doubt porn was their mainstay. This fact probably caused them to underestimate the disruptive effect of banning it.
The dichotomy is real, I know a thing or two of how hospitals work and what prioritizing comfort would actually mean. But I'd still choose it.

> but I'd rather be uncomfortable in the hospital for a week in my 40s if that means I get to live another 40 or 50 years

Yeah, if you're the 1% that could've actually died if not continuously and repeatedly checked upon and pestered with tens of mostly unnecessary tests, or if you need that expensive life saving drug whose costs would've been covered if less money were spent on better air-conditioning, lighting and soundproofing... bad luck for you. The other 99 would prefer the additional comfort. Heck, there's many people who avoid going to hospitals when they know they should because they know how uncomfortable they are, and some end up dying because of that...
how is any of that relevant when malware authors are from from random countries and accept payment via cryptocurrency?
Also worked for some large financial firms, and can confirm that there is a disconnect between Excel models created by traders and IT. One interesting development was the acquisition of ClearFactr by Goldman [1]. Seems like they hope it will centralize some of these models into one sytem, making them accessible across the firm (Excel sheets can even be imported).

GS has had a centralized risk/pricing system for over 20 years now that is pretty powerful [2]. Fun fact: GS was able to calculate their total exposure to the Lehman collapse 12 hours after it happened using this.

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-buy-financial-...
2. https://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/276170/secdb-quartz...
Just live frugally, be prudent with your money, save for your kids or any emergency. Be happy.
I'd think so, if you're up against enough people willing to sacrifice sleep/social lives to get a job/project done faster
That's one of the more broad-sweeping statements I've come across. Object orientation is perfectly well-suited to every-day productive work of certain kinds. Just like most other programming methodologies.
Here's another article on FP in Python for those who'd rather an alternate than go to kite.com.

https://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/a-practical-introduction-...

Edit: After scanning the kite.com article for a second time, I see the author actually links to Mary Rose Cook's article.
Well yeah, a handover after thirty hours at work would be incredibly dangerous.

That doesn't mean you should extend the shifts, quite the opposite. How can we get real data on work quality from well-rested doctors when the comparison is between thirty and thirty-four hour shifts?
He has a few good points in there. The thing about the desktop is one of them. Sure, Google and IBM have contributed to the kernel, but that's because they use the Linux kernel for things very important to their businesses, and it's to their advantage to mainstream their changes instead of maintaining entirely separate kernel trees. However, they don't contribute to the desktop at all, nor does almost anyone else. For Google, it isn't important to their business strategy because they're interested in Android, which isn't a desktop OS and doesn't use the desktop parts of the system, only the kernel. IBM uses Linux on servers/mainframes, so again they don't care about the desktop. However, at both, I wouldn't be surprised to find that many, many developers do use desktop Linux (maybe in a VM) to get their work done, so it would actually help these companies, and many more, if they contributed to desktop Linux as well, but they don't, because their management doesn't see that part.
> No. Causality is all you need to identify who the criminal is.

Unfortunately not. If your gets car stolen, without free will, you can't assign responsibility to the "thief", because you yourself were a causal factor in your car getting stolen: had you parked somewhere else, your car wouldn't have been stolen. Had society or his parents better supported the "thief", he wouldn't have stolen that car. Had your city placed that street somewhere else, your car wouldn't have been stolen.

To designate the "thief" as the "singular" cause that's relevant, you need free will.
Twain's quote seems to be that when copyright expires, the retail price of a book stays the same, just the publisher stops paying the author (or their descendants).

It's a long time since something went out of copyright in the United States, but I've seen similar things in other fields. In ~2008, Saleae figured out a way to make a (24MHz 8-channel) logic analyser with an off-the-shelf microcontroller, and sold it for $149 [1]. Today, you can get a chinese clone using the same microcontroller for $9 [2].

Seems to me the retail price didn't stay the same, rather it dropped by 94%, presumably due to multiple clone manufacturers competing on price.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/378
[2] https://www.banggood.com/USB-Logic-Analyzer-24M-8CH-Microcon...
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I don't know the last time I read an article so snarky and without substance as this.

Just a few points below:

> After nine years, Uber isn’t within hailing distance of making money and continues to bleed more red ink than any start-up in history. By contrast, Facebook and Amazon were solidly cash-flow positive by their fifth year.

Amazon was founded in 1994 and reported a quarterly profit in the fourth quarter of 2001 and, at $5 million. It then went back into the red for several years. [0]

> The app is not technically daunting and and does not create a competitive barrier, as witnessed by the fact that many other players have copied it. Apps have been introduced for airlines, pizza delivery, and hundreds of other consumer services but have never generated market-share gains, much less tens of billions in corporate value.

So its easy to copy, is regularly copied, but none of them made any market-share gains? Maybe it's not so easy to copy?

> Nor, after a certain point, does adding more drivers. Uber does regularly claim that its app creates economies of scale for drivers — but for that to be the case, adding more drivers would have to benefit drivers. It doesn’t.

For drivers the economy of scale is that they are in a market. They can be in their own market, a market of 1, and alas, they'll have no competition. But saying that a market adds no value to producers as it grows large is backward economics. The benefits of economies of scale for the passengers is more obvious and completely ignored by the article.

> Unlike digital businesses, the cab industry does not have significant scale economies; that’s why there have never been city-level cab monopolies, consolidation plays, or even significant regional operators.

There are no benefits to scale economies in taxi markets, that's why one never existed. Oh, except Uber, which does exist and is worth a lot but is stupid.

> Uber has never presented a case as to why it will ever be profitable, let alone earn an adequate return on capital. Investors are pinning their hopes on a successful IPO, which means finding greater fools in sufficient numbers.

This is just a cynical view of anything financial. I believe something is stupid. If others agree, good. If others own it, it's just because they know other people are stupid and they'll pass it on to someone stupider.

[0] https://qz.com/1196256/it-took-amazon-amzn-14-years-to-make-...
Ironically, in the US we have a saying: "Make hay while the sun shines."
Since WeChat is a central authority, it would be foolish to ask for payment to the ransomware author's actual WeChat ID. It's very likely whatever ID they're asking for payments to is automatically generated/pulled/guess/etc so that the ransomeware's only purpose is to cause havoc and/or waste the government's time. If the ransomware was created to earn money it would ask for cryptocurrency like all the others, but then it wouldn't have made as many headlines.
I suggest reading my other reply here since it covers the same ground:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608505
Uber is a technology company with a taxi service attached. I don't know if everyone investing in Uber, or writing about investing in Uber, appreciates that and the resulting risk.

Investors should be hoping for a pay-off from developing technology rather than profiting purely from taxi fares.

A company that was primarily a taxi service would probably realise sooner that to be profitable by paying humans to drive is much more likely than developing, building, maintaining and improving self driving cars for themselves.

The company gets valued like many others: on their user numbers and potential future earnings, but not profits. (See also Tesla.) I don't think that's right but that's how the system works these days.
Yep. A few years back I tried out a handful of new apps, or at least new at the time. Two have folded, the third merged with another service and offers very basic backward compatibility. While I'm not a huge fan of Office, and I think Google Docs/Drive is in need of a big update, they're both likely to be here in five years.