skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walking on the way to the bank, to get a loan, to start a business qualifies as economic activity.

As does going to the store, and a whole bunch of other things.

The USA built the Interstate Highway System for exactly the reason of economic growth. The ideas behind it are no different from the ones that justified sidewalks.

Should any small town evaluate their sidewalk projects, like we have the Interestate Highway Project, assuming they have the records and they probably don't, they would find those sidewalks probably returned a couple times their cost already, and will continue to deliver that, easily funding their upkeep.

(something we seem to have forgotten about roads, which has allowed tolls to encroach on and marginalize said growth and value)
Tell that to the people who live in neighborhoods with 30min police response times.

Even in a "functioning society" we are all at each other's mercy to a greater extent than many would like to admit.
This is brilliant and is true across so many industries outside of software. I don't think there's anything "wrong" with it, but it seems like we get fewer choices every year and that doesn't feel like progress.

Who knows how things will end up because of the state of things. It'll be interesting to look back ten or twenty years from now and see where our current trajectory took us.
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Looks like the press release was only a few weeks ago. I wish they provided some way to access historical data, however. I struggle to find accessible and inexpensive histories.
Weta Digital (https://www.wetafx.co.nz/) are named after the grasshopper, not the bird.
In some places, liability can be based on lifetime earning potential, so OP may have already been a good candidate for liability insurance. Don’t wait for a windfall.
I can't imagine the advertisers being too hot on literal nazism and white supremacism, though. At least I hope not.
From what I recall, Quake existed because of instruction level parallelism between apu and fpu. This indeed has importance.
> "What do I want to do with my life?"

That's a hard question without the $8M too :)
I never really liked the earlier Stephenson that much - but I love Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, Anathem and Seveneves.

I even like the last part of Seveneves!

Reamde wasn't very good though.
If we are to believe experiments by Dan Ariely,
everyone tends to cheat a little bit. It is covered in one of his books, this article seems to contain the summary.
https://fs.blog/2012/05/everyone-lies-dan-ariely-explains-wh...
But if enough people say it incorrectly long enough, it becomes correct, no?

Not that I disagree that it hasn't happened yet. I too find it quite annoying when people say they "could care less".
Came here to say the same thing.

It's also rather hypocritical to display the trailer as a Youtube embed rather than a <video> tag. Google Analytics on the website as well? Of course there is!

I did upvote this at first but quickly unvoted after seeing JP in there. Yes, surveillance is creepy, but I'm not suddenly going to cheer for a climate change denying misogynistic speciesist because he's expressing a common-sense truth. Context does matter to some extend.
This maybe is a question more about our egos than about the universe (which we do not just exist in, but are the most intricate part of). But is it even very much possible to begin to answer it?

What I mean is this: The idea of choice is a human concept, which seems to be made to be illusory by the fact that, for the most part, our universe is deterministic in nature.

But even in the case the universe is wholly deterministic, as the article's hidden variables theory proposes, then our choices would still be attributed to ourselves.

So in that case, what created ourselves is the big bang. And what created the big bang? Is it even possible to answer that?

The nature of time and the universe is not something that is understood. We understand a lot more than our ancestors due to the scientific method and the spread of the tolerance of Enlightenment-era ideals which allow its pursuit, but that seems to give the illusion that we understand the nature of our universe well-enough to answer these metaphysical queations.

Perhaps we are just in a bubble that is a kind of Sagan's Flatland. Perhaps we are some insignificant random combination of patterns, or perhaps not. We have no idea what we are. But I dont believe our ownership of our choices is refuted by a universe without randomness.
That's awesome, congratulations!

If you're not already familiar with FIRE (financial independence, retire early) then check out these subreddits:

* http://reddit.com/r/financialindependence

* https://www.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE

Most people use a safe withdrawal rate of around 4%. If you retire at 50-60 and invest your money in index funds, you can withdraw around 4% per year if you want to end up with $0 just before you die. If you use a much more conservative rate of 3% and minimize your expenses during a market downturn, then your assets should actually continue to grow while providing you with a steady annual income.

$8,000,000 * 3% = $240,000 per year

So the first thing to realize is that this does not make you ultra-rich. There are plenty of people working at tech companies (especially managers) who are earning around $240k per year. However, this means you can earn the same annual income without ever working again for the rest of your life. Don't buy a bigger house or a few new cars before you think about this carefully. It would be very easy to inflate your lifestyle or send your kids to much better schools, and then you would just have to keep working to pay all your bills (and you probably wouldn't be any happier.)

I don't think you need to hire a financial advisor. $8M is a lot of money, but it's not too much to invest by yourself. If I were in your shoes, I would put a lot of the money in index funds (VOO - Vanguard S&P 500).

Also you should really ask yourself if you need more than $8M, or if $240k per year for the rest of your life is plenty of money. If so, I would avoid any risky investments, because you need them. If you want to do some angel investing or buy some Bitcoin, do it with no more than 5% of your assets, and just because it's fun. Don't purchase any rental properties unless you want to deal with maintenance and tenants. And definitely don't be tempted to start your own company and invest a lot of your own money. You would be taking on a huge amount of risk for no reason. It's very easy to lose all of your money that way.

Anyway, I should try to answer your questions:

* Should I donate it?

Yes, that would be great. If you want someone to recommend numbers, then I'd recommend an initial donation of $1M, and then 10-20% of your annual investment income.

* Should I hire a personal wealth manager?

No, I don't think that's necessary. A lot of them end up charging really high fees for below-market returns. I would start looking for a good financial advisor around $25M. But you should definitely find a good accountant.

* Should I retire?

Yes, definitely. At the very least, find some work that you enjoy. Don't just keep going into work because it's what you've always done.
Is this trolling? How much money do you spend per month lol?!

The OP could buy a 1M house and still have enough left for $14.5k per month salary for 40 years...
>you suggest they actually start caring more about money.

This is how the rich stay rich. You can't just spend (I mean, you can if you're really disciplined and treat it like a retirement income). When you've got a lot of money you need to park your money somewhere it appreciates and then skim off some of the appreciated amount when you want to use it.
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There's a few other subtle things I like about D too, like the constructor[0] for a class is just this() {} instead of SuperLongClassNameFactoryShopPlaceThing () {} so instead of being redundant with typing, you realize the constructor can just have a much more obvious name such as "this", I know Python has __init__ and the @classmethod decorator for the case where you have to 'overload' the constructor. There's also 'auto' which is similar to 'var' in C#. If you are instantiating a class, why the hell do you need to write it twice, shouldn't the compiler know already the second you invoke the class constructor that your variable will be of that type? So 'auto' is nice too. These are seemingly minor things, but being a programmer who loves programming and programming languages I appreciate language aesthetics / syntatic sugar.

Also parallel compilation is my absolute favorite. When I found that compiler flag and used it I was amazed at how fast code compiles with the D compiler.

[0]: https://dlang.org/spec/class.html#constructors
It should be noted that with a UID larger than INT_MAX a lot of things will start to break, ext4 for example only supports 32bit UIDs, so you won't be able to chown any files as this UID (atleast my own experimentation seems to find this. NFSv4 allows it if you enable squashing/mapping of user ids).

Lots of other tools will likely break in similar and unpredictable ways if your UID becomes that high. Likely those ways are also a lot of fun.

Since you'd need to be a privileged user to begin with, this is on the same alarm level as "running sed with sudo allows you to edit /etc/sudoers and gain full sudo privilege".
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Put aside enough for your kids college education. Put aside a year’s living expenses.

Donate a small sum to charity.

Do you really have much left after that? Kids are expensive.

Unless you are ready to stop working I wouldn’t retire - enjoy some time off and do what you love now that you have options. Thank the lord for your blessings.
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Have you run these numbers? I think you’re assuming the results because for most of your questions the answers are not what you seem to be implying .
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Samsung and Qualcomm phone prototypes tease our 5G future
Well. Basically if I have to write a letter I:

- hit a single key on my keyboard (pause to be precise)

- hit 'l' followed by few arrow down to choose between italian, french, swedish or english letter template than enter

- start type the letter (my sender address autocompleted, I only type firs letter than tab and yasnippet insert the rest correctly)

- hit a two key combination (control+c than control+e) or run org-export and quickly answer (with predefined defaults) where to save my file than create and open a nice pdf ready to print, optional scanned signature included.

Of course that work anywhere on my desktop, I do not have to open any specific application, choose templates, choose from them, fight to format the text properly, find in complex menu how to insert an image (my signature), go looking for it on disk etc. Of course my letter get properly saved/archived digitally, I can send via mail in other two keystrokes etc.

It's normal that sound complicated for you if you never tried it. I see many colleges that remain astonished seeing my demos inside Emacs and can't hardly figure out what happen on my desktop. It's a path to learn something new and effective, but learn an OS, a different system not a simple single-purpose application.
Retire or move to a low stress job, teach young people if you enjoy that, spend time with your kids, travel every year.
...which implies already having high privileges. (How do users with such high UIDs come into existence?)
I think you are vastly underestimating the amount of money this requires.
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How, other than the word "patterns"?
It's a false dichotomy between parking minimums that are too high, or that fail to account for existing under utilized parking, and no minimums. There are several projects I have seen built with insufficient parking that have created problems for surrounding businesses and homes, traffic safety issues, and a great business for shady towing companies.
Yeah, try to ignore the fact that it's money; imagine it's some other asset the person wants to keep, like 100 ponies.

You would definitely suggest reading up on how to successfully keep ponies, right?
>They broke extension support.

Was this intentional, or simply a consequence the architecture of quantum?
i invested close to the ETH ICO. just $10k or so, but that gave me a windfall of $3.5m (I sold in early to mid-December).

im not super conservative with my money (i.e., i don't do t-bills, and other "super safe" investments).

i am just dollar cost averaging into index funds, like ive always done. I anticipate that I'll get anywhere from 5% to 15% per year, compounding.

i also have pre-tax income of roughly $500k. i still abide by my financial plan as if my windfall didn't exist. we save about $100k a year.

im around 31, so im hoping that the combination of these two will lead to enough accumulation in wealth by the time im 40 that i can retire early and live off investment income.

by my current calculations, assuming increases in compensation (and retirement contributions) that match inflation, and based on my current war-chest, I should have between $8.1m to $19m by the time I reach my 40s. If I average out investment gains to 8% compounding, we're looking at $10.5m.

By that point, 5% gains should give me around half a million to live off of every year. And anything higher is icing on the cake.

And I can definitely live very well on that budget. That's basically life now. And life is good.

i'm not going to tell u what to do, but just sharing my experience.

other people made a lot of money doing similar bets in crypto. they decided to launch crypto funds, buy altcoins, do more investing.

i just recognize that i got very, very lucky, and decided to take cash off the table. ill still do some risky betting with my money, but that's with a very, very small % of my investment capital.
Bringing balance to the universe: New theory explains missing 95% of the cosmos
Liability may be the wrong term for it, but if you want to do several expensive things, you probably want to make sure you've got enough money for all of them and prioritise if you don't.

Maybe you never want to work again, and you want to buy a yacht. It'd be poor planning to end up back in work at age 60 because you got a bigger yacht than you could afford at age 45.

That doesn't mean you can't buy a yacht, it just means you might want a 60ft yacht instead of a 100ft yacht.
Interesting, since I remember how controversial the Steam DRM was at the time of its launch.

But Valve have outcompeted and outlasted other vendors by being the least anti-consumer DRM system with the best discounts that doesn't interfere with playing your games. If anyone remembers Games For Windows Live, that's an example of how not to do it. Here's the cheering on RPS when its closure was announced: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/08/20/it-liiiiiiiiives...

UPlay and Origin exist but are tolerated through gritted teeth. It remains to be seen whether Epic get a good or bad reputation.
ext4 for example only supports 32bit UIDs

Unsigned or signed? That seems to be the critical difference here.
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You can't have runtime configuration on the frontend because the frontend is running on the client (browser). The best you can get is build-time configuration that embeds in the SPA.
https://kocircuit.io/ is down for some reason
Mh, for me just because life is too short I never really learned spreadsheet software (and I have seen many disaster made thanks to them, including important institutional and scientific ones) and I'm happy without them...

Try to look for some Emacs demos on YT&c, perhaps you'll discover a different world :-)
(Azure) Sphere OS Lite #!/bin\:C\Windows\System32 ???
>Of course, randomness isn’t the only thing necessary for free will

Not only that, but randomness and determinism are equally against the (casual) idea of free will.

Free will, as commonly understood, means there's an "extra layer of abstraction" between the universe (material objects and their relationships) and me. What people called "soul".

It's not just that our decisions (will) are random instead of predetermined by a cascade of material interactions.

Note that if one presumes a soul, free will is then not an illogical impossibility. It's just an extra layer of abstraction: it can decide based on our material-timeline-history (our interactions with the universe and others), but it's not absolutely bound by them (in the way a deterministic brain would be).

A soul, in that sense, is like when a protagonist in a movie breaking the fourth wall. They exist in the world of the movie, but they have some footing outside of it. (Of course in the case of the movie, the breaking is scripted).
First of all, the taxes are probably not all paid on it. Some shares have been withheld (perhaps at 28%) when the actual figure is going to be higher (if ordinary income) or lower (if capital gains). You will need to find out next year when you actually file what the figure will be and be prepared to cut your state and Uncle Sam a fair-sized check.

Second, there may be a lockup period where you can't actually access all of the funds for perhaps 6 months. Then, if lots of people stampede for the exits on the same day, you could see some volatility then.

In your situation, I'd plan to keep working (or doing whatever you currently do) for at least 6-12 more months. You have enough money to retire (figure that you can treat as income 3.5-4% of your investment portfolio each year, provided it's invested appropriately [mostly in equities], so you're looking at $200K-$300K in pre-tax income just from the portfolio).

Why keep working? Well, you need something to create stability, normalcy, provide the same social interactions (with other people going through some similar things, presumably) and it keeps your health insurance and everything else "normal" for a while.

Other advice around is mostly good. It's a retirement amount of wealth, but it's not a crazy-large amount, so your lifestyle doesn't have to change much (and probably shouldn't) If you were happy 3 months ago, you should be about as happy now (not a ton more and not any less).

Don't buy annuities with it. Or at least not without talking it over with at least 3 financially savvy people that you deeply trust and letting the idea kick around in your head for 45 days.

Give it time to settle. Don't be in a rush to go through any "one-way" doors (quitting job or locking the money up in complicated investments). Put the money in something like VTSAX while you wait (that will give you broad-based stock market exposure).
Curious about why you ask for feedback with friends? Do you mean to get a rating of a movie or restaurant or something - or are you looking for feedback on your friendship performance! :-)
Thinking you have more money than you'll ever need is the first step to losing it all.
Like the saying goes,
if you want to get rich:

1. No 3rd house

2. No 2nd wife

3. No 1st yacht

Yayy, now that you made it you can get all of the above!!
I kind of agree.

Western consumers are so removed from clothing production that they’ve lost sight of how vast the gulf is between real and perceived value. Paying 10x or 20x the manufacturing cost for what is essentially a commodity item with zero technology or innovation is insane.

That said, brand and design do have some value. There’s a reason why Chinese consumers and counterfeiters have insane appetite for western brands, but western consumers would struggle to name a single Chinese clothing company.
There's two components you need to manage here: the financial/legal/security component, and the personal component. The latter is the really hard one.

For the first, you may want to go as boring and sane as possible, make sure there's never a way to lose all of it at once. Banking crashes? Have money elsewhere. Other country crashes? Have money at home. You crash (literally, in a car, and become disabled), have someone you trust have access to part of the money. Your family crashes (emotionally), have some money somewhere safe.

And, for the personal component — the tough one — you have two troublemakers: the urge to treat yourself and live a little, and the urge to make something entirely different of your life than you thought was previously possible.

While you say you have no vices, understand that they come and go as they please, and you might find yourself in an unexpected situation with a perfect vice to match.

It's like going up escalators. Floor 1 and 2, regular people, regular shops, you've got all you need there. Now you're on floor 6 or 7, everything looks ridiculous. Why would anyone need another house, why would anyone drive a fun car and a regular car, why vacation on a tiny island at the remotest place on earth? Why.... well... I will be dead in a few years anyway, so... I can do what I want. I should do what I want. Why do I live, if I don't live a little! Those things catch you out on the days when your emotional vinyl record skips a little, just for a split-second. Maybe you used to treat yourself to a chocolate pastry you'd usually skip at Starbucks on a bad day, which, now is capable of turning into a cancerous flaw around your self-reward-system. Something with the kids, something with the wife, something with a friend asking the wrong thing. Not everybody is like this, maybe a lot of people aren't, but most won't know before they come across a bit of money mixed in with a cocktail of new opportunities.

The calmest and most-stable rich friends I have, are those who live a life that really is almost entirely like anyone's life. They spend on things that matter, which is health, security and reasonable comfort, and are just like everyone else otherwise. They know when the grocery store raises their prices is what I am trying to say.

I think the best thing you could do, and bear in mind this is advice from a random stranger on the internet, is to pay yourself some kind of yearly allowance. Much like a salary. In a perfect world, that'd be mostly from interest and similar gains, but don't be too tempted to maximise that (and its risk). Do work, do something that excites you. Working with other people you like very often trumps trying to manically work something out for yourself, but everyone's different. Possibly work part time, two or three days a week, spend the rest of the time seeing your kids actively grow up. They'll appreciate it later, even if they won't show it now.
I think we can safely say that different levels of urbanization can have different policies. Or we could unify it under land value taxes ;)
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You realise you are suggesting to somebody to put their money into high risk investments that might completely crash before they can earn him any reward right?

This guy just won the startup lottery. He needs to invest in low-risk and assets, not in phylantropic issues. 8 million is not enough to start thinking in that direction.
It'd probably work better if you put a direct link here.
Millions of people do, dude.
What is Bitcoin and how does it work?
Here's an example where it can be done in Angular: https://www.jvandemo.com/how-to-use-environment-variables-to....

Not exactly the same as shell environment variables, of course. And you may disagree about exposing the `enableDebug` flag as a runtime config there.

Still it is doable, in a sort of roundabout way, using the browser as the environment.
> the virus world

The bacterial one. Virus infections are (almost?) never treated with antibiotics.
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I wish it would hurry up, I don't have too much longer left before death is going to do the replacing.