skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, there's some pretty good advice already here. I'm not really adding much, but I'm hoping I can simplify some things.

Don't freak out. There's nothing to freak out about. You have a windfall, and unless the taxes are wrong, you can live the rest of your life on the interest.

The simplest thing to put the money in an index stock market index fund (I have very high trust in Vanguard, but there are lots of low cost index funds in most brokerages). You can realistically live off of a 3% draw down for the rest of you and your wife's lives, and never have to worry about the capital. 3% is very conservative, and many consider 4% to have a very good chance of continuing to grow your capital. This means, that your family now has a nearly guaranteed income of $240k, which will more or less grow with inflation. And is more than enough to live on in roughly 95% of the world.

You mention everything is paid for, and no debt. This is good, if you're not including your mortage in this, it's definitely a good idea to pay off your mortgage even if it's below 4% simply because you reduce your risk profile.

If you want to get fancy, and reduce your risk profile even more, at the cost of income, it's a good idea to also hold an index bond fund, somewhere around 30% of your portfolio. You'll want to decide the percentage up front, and rebalance your portfolio at least every 2 years. More often is better, but I've never run the math on how frequent will minimize your tax burden.

It's also a good idea to keep cash reserves of somewhere between 1-3 years living expenses split amongst multiple banks. This is mostly for catastrophic risk prevention, and will prevent you from selling index funds if there's another black monday, and prices are at their lowest.

If this is all you do with your money, you will never have to worry financially ever again. Just continue to live within your means, and don't try to show off your wealth, or keep up with the Joneses.

This means you no longer need to work for money again, and can be very liberating. Now you can take a job that normally wouldn't pay enough, or get a PhD in some field that will never make sense financially. All of my favorite school teachers in high school were mostly financially independent, which meant that they didn't have to tow the line, and could contradict the administration if they felt like it. It does sound like you may have to worry about motivation since you will no longer have any extrinsic need to work for money. I'm not sure how to help you here. I have so many things I'd do if I didn't have to work for a living (ironically many of them have much higher earning potential than my current career, gotta love local maximas...).

You may also want to lurk in the subreddits related to FIRE (financially independent retire early), the content isn't as pertinent to you, since you aren't striving anymore to retire early, but you'll find people who are very economically conscious, and want to not have to be wage slaves anymore.
It seems this article is not accurate anymore? (the reference is from March). It's not far off though:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/wekaio/

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/wekaio-places-in-top-fi...
That of course only works because the surfaces of balloons we are used to are always embedded in spacetime. There is however no [good][known] reason to assume that spacetime itself is embedded in any space.
We are working on improving scope atm which is quite an improvement. Tieing exceptions into it too to remove allocations.
In states that presently discourage non-competes, employers could easily offer parting employees a "stay at home" wage of say one third salary, yet they do not. Which implies they do not value non-competition anywhere near what the employee does.

In general it's impossible to put a price on an unworkable concept. Attempting to do so just adds token compensation as a fictional justification for the existing problems.
This needn't involve publishing politically sensitive material. "Student" W.C. Gossett published his paper on the T-distribution in statistics anonymously, because his employer Guinness frowned upon publication. This attitude is still prevalent today among many employers. Rather than putting measures in place to vet and approve publication of material that does not involve a conflict of interest, they simply discourage it. This is net loss to society. Conversely, many academic journals have policies prohibiting anonymous publishing. Gossett would be unable to publish in such journals today. Hence the need for this new journal.
> Doing a typical Flash like casual game, game prototypes at Ludum Dare, participating at IGF? Having a GC around isn't the biggest concern.

But for those cases, what would move you to use D instead of an entirely memory-safe language like Python or Lua?

To justify using D for games, you'd need to find a use-case where speed (e.g. targeting 60fps) is high-priority enough to be writing a lot of low-level code; and yet, where "having a CG around" still won't cause problems. Can you think of one?
Not in one place, and not sufficient to give anyone an implementation roadmap, but that is to be expected, as this is still a commercially-active architecture. They're not about to give away their architectural advantages that easily.

But if you read between the lines, and are savvy enough to look up the background research papers, you'll pick up most of the technology. The devil as they say however, is in the engineering details, and that's where you'll run into a lot of special sauce.

You'll want to look at their Transaction Monitoring Facility (TMF) in detail. They baked fault tolerance right into the bones of the architectural design, and TMF is an identifiable chunk of how that was done. You aren't going to be able to pull off the same kind of fault tolerance they're delivering at just the database level, too. Their thinking about fault tolerance goes way beyond, down into the hardware level though it stops short of the silicon.
> i'd be curious to see why someone would specifically choose just video based?

other than cost? Teslas are consumer vehicles that are price sensitive.
I kinda did the same with all of my favorite comments (not including screenshots on my desktop/my phone) and compiled what should be a pretty good guide for me. But if I have to put another quote in: It's hard to act according to my knowledge/thinking. https://raihansaputra.com/hn-wisdom/
So, electrons are attracted to protons by the electromagnetic force, but they don't make it all the way there because they are repelled by some other force. You don't have a paradox because our model of the electromagnetic force doesn't specify that it's the only force there is.

But if a negative mass is moving towards you and encounters a repulsive force, that repulsive force will, by definition, move the negative mass further toward you. It would need to encounter an attractive force to reach equilibrium.

Note that, unlike in the electron example, it doesn't matter what kind of force is being applied; the object's negative mass tells us that the response to any repulsive force is acceleration towards the force.
Yes, but a replay attack is quite different from a relay attack.
Give it to a bank, in the sense of handing it off to a private banker.
I think most people would categorize this as Psychological Experiments vs A/B testing. Most companies don't A/B test whether they can intentionally manipulate people into generally feeling negative.

> To test that, Facebook data scientists tweaked the newsfeed algorithms of roughly 0.04 percent of Facebook users, or 698,003 people, for one week in January 2012. During the experiment, half of those subjects saw fewer positive posts than usual, while half of them saw fewer negative ones. To evaluate how that change affected mood, researchers also tracked the number of positive and negative words in subjects’ status updates during that week-long period. Put it all together, and you have a pretty clear causal relationship. The results were published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences, which, for what it’s worth, is a pretty prestigious journal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/07...
> Dark matter can be placed arbitrarily so it can match pretty much anything.

Quite the opposite, and that statement is obviously uninformed. The science behind dark matter is very precise and exact. That's why the alternative theories can't come even near: once the same rigor which was applied to test dark matter is applied to the alternatives, the alternative theories simply break.

> I'm afraid I have never seen this ... Can you give an example of this?

I've given you the link to the complete articles and also highlighted the major points. Try to read and understand them fully, then search for more. For example, even on the MOND page that you linked you can read:

"2013: ΛCDM provides an excellent fit to the improved CMB data just as MOND provides an excellent fit to improved rotation curve data. As before, one's interpretation depends entriely upon which you find more impressive."

Note: "rotation curve" from that quote is the "item 2" from my posts before. So, no, still the match of the single "item 2" is definitely not "more impressive." The "CMB" mentioned on your page is the "item 3" from all 5 which are explainable by ΛCDM (and specifically, ΛCDM is the model part of which the "dark matter" is: https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/graphic_history/univ_... see there 4 and 5).

Edit: response to your later response below:

> The claimed predictions from the 1970s and 1980s are not mentioned on that page.

They are mentioned even on the very page that you linked to: that page, among other points, followed the history of the tests and effectively concludes that, yes, finally, in 2013 ΛCDM wins the "item 3". Read carefully. Learn what ΛCDM is. MOND can still only claim "item 2." Which actual "authority" can show anything else? Also, behind "darkmattercrisis" blog are just a few guys with very fringe positions.
i'll just download OSM and view it locally.

The Boston Globe ran an expose a few years back that came to
the conclusion that the cost of mobile data to download ads is orders of magnitude greater than what the web sites make.

If verizon kicked back 2% of revenue to web sites then they would make more money than they do from ads now, and verizon would get the warm fuzzy love that they wish they could have gotten from Go90, Oath, etc. But no: their business model is "buy web sites crammed with porn, remove the porn, and hope some users are still around when they are done".
Use conda
By offsetting the mass of a system, to produce a zero mass vehicle.
"I don't agree that Elon Musk is like this (quite the reverse)"

Well, of course. He's trying to scam investors, not the general public. That's starting to come to light as Uber is hitting its downward spiral of even ore money lost for no apparent reason.
Nah, -betterC gives you an advantage over C. It isn't meant to give you an advantage over languages like C++. Its in the name after all ;)
My suggestion would be to set aside a reasonable amount of money to be able to continue a normal lifestyle if something should ever occur and then try to figure out how you can habe the most positive impact in the world.

There is a movement called effective altruism (EA) which specializes on the topic of how to do the most good with the resources you have. For example, there ks the website 80000hours.org which does research into the worlds most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them.

For me, the most interesting thing about EA is that it combines a challenge to develop yourself with a meaningful goal and a supportive community to help you along. You could certainly contact 80000hours to get personalized recommendations if you tell them you have say 7m available. Other organizations which may be interesting to you are: givingwhatwecan.org; founderspledge.org; or more generally effectivealtruism.org.

You could also ask more specific questions here and I will see what I can do for you :)
I disagree with your statement that grandparent's explanation was not educational.

The explanation helped me, a primarily C programmer who has done some work in higher level languages. When I read "reification of return addresses" that helped the concept click in a way it has not before.
Yes, a MEMS accelerometer would be a very cheap mitigation.
Quantopian ? https://www.quantopian.com/
Really? It's pretty opaque what the topic might be to begin with.
People please stop engaging with pipenv and just use conda. Even critical arguments are mistakenly acting like pipenv deserves a seat at the table. Just don’t engage. It’s like the creationism of Python packaging.
My first thought too, but with small population breeding with a much larger surrounding population for 100 (20 year) generations could we really expect much roman DNA left?

Maybe they're homeopathic Romans.
Google dumped an incredible amount of money into Allo's marketing at my (large state) university -- they plastered many buildings with full-length advertisements, filled all of the local businesses with pamphlets, and even drove students around campus in weird little (electric?) buggies[1].

Despite all that, I don't think I know anybody who installed (much less regularly used) Allo.

Edit: They also bought Snapchat filters that were geofenced to the campus.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=allo+campus+car
More than an auto-pilot, AI charts its course in aviation
He's a very intelligent man who as a barrister understands the power of language.

When a very intelligent man who understands the power of language says something so obviously false, it makes me almost certain there is something larger at play here.
Thx, an error on my part. Will fix ASAP
There is a little nugget here that I've always found illuminating: the mention of the text address and frame pointer, sometimes called the ip-ep pair, short for instruction pointer and the environment pointer.

The environment that a function executes in is important if, as in most interesting languages, there can be any free variables within the body of the function. What is the environment of a running function? Usually, its a collection of variable-name binding frames that determine the value of a programs variables at any point in time. The ep stands for the pointer into the data-structure (e.g. stack and its back links) that determine how variables are attached to values at a particular moment.

Lots of languages use stacks to hold these frames. In dynamic scoping languages, for example some Lisps like Emacs Lisp, a free variable's value is found in the stack frames determined by the run-time order of calls. Most modern languages use static scoping and the frames that determine a function's free variables values are based on the static nesting of functions or modules as they appear in the source code. In either case, a stack is usually where these frames that bind names to values are found. Dynamic vs static scope just changes which frames are searched for the binding of a variable at runtime (optimizations make this faster enough to be practical).

The text address is the reference to the next instruction (symbolic, virtual, or machine level) to be executed in a text segment (or code segment), the part of an object file that holds executable instructions ; I think of it as the IP of assembly language.

These two elements form a pair that in a simplified view represent a program in execution at a specific moment in time. So, this (ip, ep) pair is like a frozen program that can be brought back to life by simply loading two values into the basic execution machinery, the instruction pointer and the environment pointer. They need to be stored somewhere when a function is invoked and reloaded so that the caller is resumed upon return of the called function. When narrowly interpreted as parts of a call stack it's easy to lose sight of the power of the (ip, ep) pair. Part of Scheme's beauty was the expicit embrace of continuations as first class objects that can be flexibly manipulated by a running program and reified to put the program into a previously frozen state and awakened to continue there.

The Borrough's 5700 was designed to support a specific model of computation (Algol 60) and it's hardware description in [1] has pretty diagrams of the interaction of the ip,ep pair and the hardware (although the book is quite dated now).

[1] E. Organick, Computer System Organization: The B5700/B6700 Series, 1973, https://www.amazon.com/Computer-System-Organization-B5700-B6...
I flagged this one as a dup, not for content.
Facebook is in a negative news cycle. That’s means two things:

a) Journalists ignore your PR team.

b) Journalists just parrot and re-write was other journalists report.

c) Some journalists are doing real investigative reporting to reinforce these views.

How does it end? The news cycle changes. People forget things. Worse things happen somewhere else.

I’m a lot more concerned about what is being ignored. Facebook has apps which people can, despite what is claimed, fairly easily stop using. Google owns the full stack, operating system, browser, ad platform. It’s a lot more difficult for users to fully exit that environment in the event of abuse.
If you don't want to be fucked by the US don't fuck with US sanctions?
I complain about Google having too many competing/overlapping products, so I can't really complain when they close/merge them.

The best time to shutdown Allo was before it launched, the second best time is now.
I've personally verified this part of the paper:

> Observations clearly indicate that the Universe is not empty.

EDIT to add: Another nice, slightly Douglas-Adams-y quote:

> This implies that our Universe is just one of those things that happen on occasion, and we can simply think of its existence as being illustrated by a 1 billion-σ statistical event.
Assuming non-competes are perfectly valid and fair (which I disagree with but that's a separate point) is this scenario fair if a large portion of the employee pool is unaware of the ramifications of their non-compete on signing?

I am quite thankful non-competes are unenforceable because I believe they (and much other contract legalese) are a soft form of classism that creates an unequal information state between the majority of employers and employees. The end result is that these sorts of inequalities distort the free market.
Anyone know what the state of NC in Canada is?
Reminds me a bit of the landlady in Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love ;)
Isn't "Googlers Write..." misleading?

The letter linked in the article says it was written by TVCs (Temps, Vendors, and Contractors).

I guess "Contractors Write to CEO Demanding Equal Treatment for Contractors" is less exciting?
Not public goods in the literal economic definition, true, but there's some flexibility in common usage of this term.

Irrespective of who owns it, I can walk up to a scooter and use it. I cannot do this to your bicycle tied up to a post. From the general public's perspective, the scooter has vastly more utility than your bicycle.
Is Waymo's announcement even worth mentioning?

https://mashable.com/article/waymo-one-self-driving-taxi-lau...
Funny, the number of Gopher servers has started to grow again lately...
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Let's see: The current NYT front page, top to bottom until I stop caring:

6 x GHW Bush

2 x "Wisconsin Republicans Approve Stripping Power From Incoming Democratic Governor"

"Facebook..."

3 x CBS' Moonves showed dick to actress, tried to get her roles to keep it quiet, lied to investigators

3 x New data on World-Wide Greenhouse gas emission

Trump/China

OPEC Meeting

Markets down

"The Best Movies Of 2018"

None of these come anywhere close to what Graham describes, i. e. "Dude Ranches are the New Trend in Gender Reveal Outings" or whatever. Except maybe the list of movies, where it's generally understood that reviewers enjoy the luxurious bribes that are free tickets (and still dare to publicly rubbish films, with no discernible trends that neatly align to some production companies figuring out how to reliably buy good reviews)

You can make this conspiracy theory work by insisting there some groups that profit from each of these stories, in some convoluted scheme. And most of these groups probably engage in PR, because everyone does. But then you have just arrived at a useless truism.

So what's the purpose on insisting that everything is manipulated, and that there's some dark powers scheming to manipulate us, apart from the smug feeling of superiority? There's a point where critical thinking just becomes nihilism.
What if you judge the cost of a NC agreement to be the cost in lawyer fees to fight it?

Ask for that, and if you ever get sued over it, well...the fees are covered...
OK, I think full taxable income is a nice suggestion. But it will require legislation, i.e. probably will never happen.

Moreover, the point of the article is that NCAs are a long-term drag on the economy. If the main reason there's SV in California and not near Boston, is the lack of NCAs, then that seems like a huge cost and a drag on the economy as a whole.
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I still miss Google Chat. I spent at least a hundred hours using that, then they changed it to Google Talk and I used it maybe three more hours. Trash fire.
If you have a replica, you have two db's already as I've suggested. And no one said anything about uptime; the point was single point of failure, not uptime. When I said single master, I just meant a single db as opposed to a master/slave setup.
> You literally can't buy a 2.5" hard drive bigger than 2 TB last time I checked.

You can get them for sure[0] and they're not really that expensive at all. That particular one gave me about 95MB/s write speed on large files.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Elements-Portable-Hard-Drive/dp/...
Look up Blind. It's a gossip app where you need to sign up with a corporate email, thus creating verified but anonymous chat rooms for employees.
Hacker News: LOL! Google has so many messaging apps, their product strategy sucks!

Google: They're right, we need to focus our messaging strategy. Let's consolidate our platforms.

Hacker News: OMG! Google deprecates everything! Classic Google
but what if you have to do this:
"h1": {
"children": []
},
"h1": {
"children": []
}
which can't be done because JSON?
This is correct but it's serfs not serves
Cyber-espionage group uses Chrome extension to infect victims
I don't know if you're looking at the same list I am, because the large Seagate disks on here have some of the highest failure rates outside WDC.
Amazon Warehouse Workers in New Jersey Sickened by Animal Repellent
"but with the short distances involved that means the fob has to generate and transmit a response within a few nanoseconds."

And the challenge-response pair must be different for every transaction, otherwise the thief can easily grab a SDR with tx capabilities, get to the car and ask for a transmission, record the spectrum, then go near the car owner door, transmit the car challenge and record the key fob response, go back to the car, wait for another challenge transmission and time the response accordingly. Not even need for a second thief.
Historians now agree: Ybor City's tunnels were sewers, not smuggling routes
Sweden doesn’t view that as a crime so they don’t have any interest in further oppression. Many western countries will arrest foreigners that attempt to use their country as a hiding place. There are extradition agreements that outline this - the long arm of the law.
DGI == Dividend Growth Investing