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He said'the moment you save more than you spend you are rich' this is not obvious (and not true). Really rich means if a unsuspected big expense (medical bill e.g.) you can afford it.
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If the EU is to become independent from the US as Macron wants it to, then that's going to have to change.
> finite resources

Resources are infinite under free markets. For example, software. There is great wealth in software creation, yet it does not exist in the physical world. Even for physical things, they can be re-arranged to make the new arrangement more valuable.
Your parents worked hard and what they did was amazing. With that said, getting free lunch at school gave you the help you needed. Plenty of research shows that free lunch at school makes a huge difference in a child's development and academic achievement.

This article is showing what other children needs. We should help them just like we helped you.
Looks like the images were updated on April 1st of this year: http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86/release/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Core_Linux#Release_histor...

The 2008 date is likely when the page was initially authored rather than last updated
Reductive gibberish. It would be more accurate to say once you are earning more than you spend while spending as freely as you want you are rich. Maybe he forgot that eating pb sandwiches all day doesn’t feel real rich.
> He's sharing a three bedroom apartment with two roommates.

that was before he made a company and then sold it for $22m.
Scholarships maybe?
Student loans have been a scam for quite a while now. Inflated tuition costs, pressure on unsophisticated borrowers, normalization of extreme debt levels for graduates -- and $400B is a pittance for government budgets.
So where did all that money disappear to? Oh, right, to banks and wealthy university endowments. Entities who can well afford a bit of loss, unlike struggling young graduates.
Engineering is using science to build technology, using engineering principles that are common to all engineering disciplines. Software Engineering is using engineering engineering principles to build software.

Project management methodologies like scrum are implementation level details, together with platform (user interface, programming language, database e.t.c). Software Engineering starts at the feasibility study, followed by detailed design, then comes the implementation phase. Most Software Engineering job posts only list implementation phase requirements, which I reckon has led to SE being misunderstood.
.... Which the story implies had nothing to do with his later happiness.
I only need superficial socialization most of the time though. It's kind of silly to think everyone needs deeply engaging social time for 99% of their life. My close friends are all busy and successful we talk and see each other every couple of weeks and months but I rather like the superficial socialization to fill the gap and liked being able to go home to escape all of it if I wanted.
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You're right. But I just had to vent. I see serious work being done and then this kind of stuff gets headlines.
That's cool as long as you don't care about having kids, a spouse, a house, ...
> This Anandtech review has a page called "An X86 Massacre":

Note that Anandtech was only comparing against chips that had already been replaced. They did that comparison like a few days before Amazon started offering Epyc Rome instances. See https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=epyc-vs-... for a more like for like comparison, and the results are brutal for the N1:

"When taking the geometric mean of all these benchmarks, the EPYC 7742 without SMT enabled was about 46% faster than the Graviton2 bare metal performance. The EPYC 7742 with SMT (128 threads) increased the lead to about 51%, due to not all of the benchmarks being multi-thread focused."
I posted the following as a comment on the article, but it's stuck in moderation there...

I'm not clear on what it is that you [the post's author] don't understand about interpretation of Bayesian credible intervals.

Both "objective" and "subjective" Bayesians interpret them as degrees of belief - that, for instance, one would use to make bets (supposing, of course, that you have no moral objection to gambling, etc.).

The difference is that that "objective" Bayesians think that one can formalize "what one knows" and then create an "objective" prior on that basis, that everyone "with the same knowledge" would agree is correct. I don't buy this. Formalizing "what one knows" by any means other than specifying a prior (which would defeat the point) seems impossible. And supposing one did, there is disagreement about what an "objective" prior based on it would be. To joke, "The best thing about objective priors is there are so many of them to choose from!".

Many simple examples can illustrate that the objective Bayesian framework just isn't going to work. One example is the one-way random effects model, where the prior on the variance of the random effects will sometimes have a large influence on the inference (eg, on the posterior probability that the overall mean is positive), but where there is no sensible "objective" prior - you just have to subjectively specify how likely it is that the variance is very close to zero. Another even simpler example is inference for theta given an observation x~N(theta,1), when it is known (with certainty) that theta is non-negative, and the observed x is -1. There's just no alternative to subjectively deciding how likely a priori it is that theta is close to zero.

Frequentist methods also don't give sensible answers in these examples. Subjective Bayesianism is the only way.
Who said anything about doubting science or masks? Come on
Depends actually, it's pretty easy to see that boomer kids had way more opportunities than those of today. Depression era kids had it way worse of course.
My thoughts as well regarding "no intent", if we assume an atheistic world view.

Sometimes when people use language like that, I can't tell if they really mean intent, or just use it as shorthand for evolutionary fit.
He's the guy who built and sold CD Baby. The way he did that is actually quite interesting (including the odd ownership structure he had to navigate) and he has lots of interesting things to say. But few people say only interesting things.

And when generally interesting people say some incredibly boring things, people treat them as still interesting in some weird afterglow of the other things.

So this post is entirely halofied by his other stuff. This is self help guru shit. Which is fine, right? He's writing the blog perhaps for himself and we may not be the intended audience. But that's what it is.
How does this disprove determinism?
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> Why is it important to consider his right to get even richer?

Because it has a correlation with making a lot of other peoples' lives better. For example, I needed to do some repairs two days ago, and ordered the parts necessary from Amazon, and received the parts yesterday. I didn't have to spend 2 hours driving somewhere to get those parts. That extra 2 hours is a benefit to my life. Amazon, in aggregate, has saved me a great deal of time. Another benefit Amazon provides is selection - I can find much more exactly what I want, rather than accepting whatever the store has.
I have tale of two kids in my household. My older son is fairly stoic and in 9th grade; he's doing pretty well in school (A's and B's). My younger son is in 6th grade and hates it; plus, he is having a hard time adjust to the multiple subject / multiple teacher concept in middle school (his grades are horrible).

I feel like the school system, in my area, has made zero curriculum adjustments and is just trying to pound a square peg into a round hole. In times such these, I think schools should dial back on remote work load and focus on math and english and try to make everything else lightweight and fun. Maybe also make electives completely optional.
> Get rid of Agile. It doesn't work. All you need is sprints with planning and retrospective, a ticketing system, and a daily status sync through Slack.

What do you think "agile" is?
Ask HN: Can you recommend any books on genomics, entry level?
I wanted to learn about genomics. I have CS and EE background and no biology background. I want to learn what the modern genomics is about, from the ground up, and later how gene sequencing is done, how gene editing and CRISPR works, how to interpret gene databases.
At least after formation, but also likely again after the impact thought to produce the moon, all the surface was melted, so all the water was in the atmosphere and inside the Earth. When things cooled enough for liquid water to rain down and stay liquid, that must have been some deluge.
> Linus of the Tech Tips variety has said that a major reason they kept paying for the forums ... is so that they could have a direct line of communication to their core fan base no matter what happens.

Using it for announcements is precisely the primary reason they claimed to want to keep the forums. So in this case, Twitter would be appropriate.
Unlike most stupid takes, this one is actually enraging. He is mocking everyone out there who is not a millionaire like him. Everyone who has kids and wants to give them a good life and is struggling to make it work financially.
yes. the point is that fuck you money is a lifestyle, not a number.
Such helpful advice to the people living paycheck to paycheck. Just spend less money! Why didn’t they think of that?
It's from Numbeo (crowdsourced), if you click the name of the city you can go to the website.
No. I would say "take causality seriously or give me death". There are cases where RCTs are impossible, or would be overkill. There are plausible natural experiments. There are good regression discontinuity designs. Heck, there are cases where the independent variable just is plausibly exogenous. Heck, there are cases when you care about prediction not causality (cross-country analyses can fit this sometimes). But here none of these apply. We do want causality. Correlation just isn't good enough. And there's not just some research - there's lots of research - that does this to investigate poverty. I mean, there's literally a book called Poor Economics by Nobel Prize winners who run RCTs.
I know. Also saving $0.01 after all expenses per month isn’t great either. I at least gave the benefit of the doubt and thought maybe he meant FIRE and the 4% rule eventually. But still, this is all kind of obvious and the story doesn’t seem particularly profound. Maybe I am missing something.
For me, a 10x engineer is about rate of value-add. Maybe its some of my manufacturing background, but I feel like the best engineers are constantly thinking about how they can increase the value of the product relative to customers (internal or external). These are the only things that really seem to matter at the end of the day.

Would you consider someone a 10x engineer if they can crank out a super-fancy backend service in 1 weekend that nobody wants to pay for or actually use? I know a lot of developers who occasionally fall into this trap (myself certainly not excluded). They can very enthusiastically produce output at the drop of a hat, but then we frequently have to put this output in the scrap bin and figure out how to recover the wasted time. This is why for most developers we have to have explicit design review sessions to make sure we are staying focused on the important value drivers. I have to make sure our work activities are well-scoped and broken down into small enough pieces to prevent elaborate trips into Alice's Wonderland.

Note that when I talk about value-add, that also includes paying off technical debt. Determining what debt to pay off is just as important as determining what new features to roll out. Determining how to balance debt vs feature development is one of the most arcane and dark magics. This is where the 10x thrives.
Ask HN: Storing Computers in Cabinents at Home?
Hi HN,

I spent a year in a tiny flat in London and every night I would close up my pc into my dresser to save space. It was awesome to have a mental and physical box to store my electronics so they wouldn't bug me. A turned off monitor still distracts me with the potential for surfing the web and work. An office or study becomes a dedicated computer room as soon as I put in a pc. I really enjoy closing cabinet doors on a pc so it feels organized and I am no longer distracted by its presence.

Does anyone use furniture to store and mentally zone out computers (or phones) when shutdown?
Learning to play guitar. I started with self learning. There are excellent tutorials on YouTube and other websites. Got quite frustrated due to painfully (pun intended) slow progress. Then took lessons for six months. Music lessons are expensive! So once I got the basics down, I decided to go back to auto-didactism. Without a doubt, learning to play guitar is one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my life. I think clearing Google interview is way easier.
Relevant: https://web.archive.org/web/20030812081806/http://klausler.c...
The title does have the words "disposable income" in it, which explains what it is. You can gleam from it what you like, probably influenced by your political views.
it doesn't look like they've misunderstood anything, are you a shill or simply not reading anything? it's cringeworthy
Rock climbing, soccer, disc golf, crochet, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Angular, management, Buddhism.

Meanwhile I've given up running volleyball, C, C++.
Great answer. Honestly, while the theory is that you can Dockerize your build and you can do remote caching with Bazel I've never seen anyone do it. Like it seems some confluence of steps that doesn't occur. I think I wouldn't use Docker for builds at all just because of this performance regression.
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> Linus of the Tech Tips variety has said that a major reason they kept paying for the forums ... is so that they could have a direct line of communication to their core fan base no matter what happens.
Using it for announcements is precisely the primary reason they claimed to want to keep the forums. So in this case, having an archive of old posts really doesn't have much of a purpose.
Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel. I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents. The next morning, I invested those ten cents in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing them and sold them at 5 pm for 20 cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I'd accumulated a fortune of $1.37. Then my wife's father died and left us two million dollars.
I will be 40 soon.

I picked up the rudiments of Sanskrit enough to be able to understand lectures in the language and read straightforward prose. I also gained a basic understanding of Indic philosophy, but I suppose that is not a skill. Now my aim is to deepen these skills to more advanced levels.

Currently I am also trying to learn Physics and Mathematics at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. It's taking forever because I keep getting distracted with life generally. But my aim is nothing less than gaining a solid grasp of our current modern understanding of how the universe works. I hope to get somewhere respectable by the time I am 45.
Fair points but is as profound as not all of us like to wfh, but now is an option a lot more of us can have than ever. Is a good thing
I don't think you're engaging in the specific sense of objective (, subjective) meant here.

A frequentist interpretation of probability is objective in the sense that it grounds the probability value in objective features of the world.

A bayesian is subjective in that the probability valuation of an event is grounded in the belief-state of its observer.
It's an estimate from Numbeo (crowdsourced) data which comes from real people like us, crowdsourcing costs and salaries.
> you can just give up the material world and be....

You are correct. The vast majority of people cannot pursue their dream life because they cannot give up their iPhone and other material things; we are a consumeristic society.
We definitely cover it in the Indian (CBSE) syllabus.
Which tech did you use for this? Nice end result!
In the theme of this excellent article: solving proof-based problems takes skill, but designing good problems in the first place is even harder. I wonder to what extent solving such problems automatically makes you better at formulating similar problems. Reminds me of how being able to understand a spoken language doesn't help with speaking as much as I expected it would (for me, anyway).
Rock climbing, soccer, disc golf, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Angular, crochet, sewing
When I saw "C++17 and Rust are bad" I assumed it would be written in C89. I'm used to that kind of bad take.

But it's actually written in C++. There isn't a Makefile, just make.sh. And in there, I don't see the C++ standard specified. I'm guessing g++ defaults to C++98.

So that really makes you think. suckless means C++, but not the convenient parts like type inference. Not the safe parts like unique_ptr. A language with inheritance _and_ all of C's footguns.

What a head-scratcher. Excellent outsider art.
It meant he was free to be a musician and maybe that freed up time to learn to program and through serendipity to start cd baby.

I think he is really talking about a mindset here. Also a lot of monks and nuns give up things and are happy.
After >30 years as a professional programmer I have finally learnt to touch type. While watching TV with the family I have been practising on typing programs. I am still fighting old habits and muscle memory, but I am getting there.
Or generous parents.
My wife is learning to hand-stand and jump rope. She has learnt "castor-boarding" (somewhat similar to skateboarding) - I should mention that we didn't get to learn to skate as kids. I learnt to ride a fixed gear cycle - as a commuter in heavy traffic; now learning to track stand.
>As someone who has dealt with serious, chronic health issues for a decade, I truly hate this attitude

Do your chronic health issues alter the way your mind operates? If you believe that some external agent is inserting thoughts into your mind, how do you take control of such a situation?

That's an extreme example, but such issues are common with mental disorders. When your mind itself is ill, willpower alone doesn't necessarily cut it.
It's not wholly binary--maybe 2 scheduled days a week will work for both many of the people who would just as soon mostly work from home and those who want to be in an office with their team. But, in general, yes. A "you can come into an office if you want" policy is probably not going to be very satisfactory for someone who wants a co-located team and much of their team chooses not to come in most days or even live in the same area.

As I've said before, as this shakes out over the next year or two, I suspect a fair number of people who can do so will end up choosing jobs based on remote policies and how companies operate in practice.
Until you get sick. Or your loved ones get sick. Or any of a thousand other things happen for which our society has no safety net.

Make more than you spend is indeed very good advice. But the bullshit stories that the wealthy tell themselves about themselves never cease to amaze me.
Oh right. I hadn’t heard of him so I just read his words without context of who he was. To be honest, we should all try to separate the author from the words.
That first feeling for true financial independence is different for everyone, I guess. For me it's having enough to pay for unexpected medical bills and children.
Not sure about the entire industry, but at least for the companies I worked in/with during the last few years, it's the opposite. In most investment rounds/IPO/acquisition scenarios, high HC is a disadvantage. I have seen investors that are actually treating the revenue per HC number as a performance indicator.
> I did exactly that for more than a year, living off my savings after being laid off. It was fantastic.

Really? How did you spend your time?
I got my pilot's license and instrument rating along with endorsements for mountain flying and high performance airplanes. I've now started studying for my commercial pilot's license and may pick up a multi-engine license, too. Took about 2 years to accomplish all of these tasks.

Studying for the license felt like I was back in university. So I treated it as a goal, studying ground materials consistently every day while blocking out 2 lessons every week. It was effectively a job on top of the work I was already doing.

Most shocking was how much longer it took me to absorb the materials vs. studying equivalently complicated topics 25 years ago. Not to understand what they were, but to be able to have instant recall with precision.
I’ve found that it’s because it’s all-but-impossible to quantify in numbers. Secondarily, it’s because the person doing the signoff doesn’t agree with you. You know that person, the one who prefers to work from his laptop on a conference table.
I enjoyed Derek's writing while I ran my own business, but he's forgotten the difference between having millions of dollars in the bank and living comfortably, and living hand-to-mouth with the tiniest of buffers. He's literally confused the two.

This bit is impressively tone deaf:

Once I had $12,000 I could quit my job and become a full-time musician. I knew I could get a few gigs per month to pay my cost of living. So I was free.

I bet loads of musicians knew that in January 2020 too! (also what freelance musician can get good US health insurance?)
My rice cooker at home have setting for different type of rice. Because unless you know what you are doing, different type of rice (Japonica, Basmati, Thai Jasmine, etc) have a slightly different requirements in term of water volume, etc.
Community college can shave off two years of tuition.

Not staying in dorms and instead commuting from home can shave off thousands of dollars in rent.

Working part time is enough to pay for the rest, unless it's a private college with enormous tuition.
I think a further problem may be that probability could take on different meanings under different applications. I admit that I may be influenced by how I learned statistics -- in a math class that was primarily focused on proofs and not applications. But I've formed the view that math is math, we choose a math technique that works for the situation at hand, then we choose an interpretation that works for guiding and explaining what we're trying to do.
Thank you.

Does there need to be a legal distinction between cloning + selling and cloning + sharing?
I bet it gets sued and has to change its name.
Boundaries need to be enforced. That's hard to do if you shy too much from being perceived as impolite.

Everyone has a different level of conflict tolerance, of course. But letting someone know that they are being rude and disrespectful should be on the table.
Anyone here using this in production? I’ve always thought it was a neat idea, but haven’t heard of anyone building their API-oriented-SaaS company around it.
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