skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've essentially been FIREd for almost 18 months now (except for a very brief gig last fall). I really didn't realize that I was kind'a sort'a retired at 57 until just a few months ago. I was in a startup that ran out of money towards the end of 2019 and they kept telling me through 2020 that they'd get more funding soon and call me back to work - but of course, that never happened, and at this point it's not gonna. So that's how I eased into "early" retirement - if 57 is early. But really, what I've realized in the last few months is that I don't dislike working as long as I'm working for/with nice folks doing interesting work with a good amount of autonomy (all true in the case of the previous startup gig). But what I do hate with a burning passion is looking for work and interviewing - the terrible tech interviewing situation has been well documented here on HN, so I won't say more. So at this point I consider myself retired from interviewing, but not from software development. The short gig I had in the Fall was a contract with a previous employer who needed a quick project done (no interviewing required).

Like the author of the article I have had some issues with finding "purpose". It can be hard to relax into this kind of nonemployed situation and when you do get relaxed then you start to wonder if you're losing purpose and drifting. This is the battle - you're going to face it whether you retire early in your 30s or if you retire at the traditional age of 65. I'm trying to keep reading papers and doing some coding but I often come to the "what's the point?" crisis while working on something. Many times that's led to just dropping said project and going on to find another, but now I'm trying to push through the "what's the point" point.

During the short gig last Fall, I did notice that working more than 24 hours a week is difficult at this point - fortunately it was a 24 hour/week gig, but I'd get to the middle of that 3rd day and be like "Yeah, I'm really ready to not be working anymore this week". This was after about a year of not working. I suppose that if that short gig had lasted longer I would have gotten more into the rhythm of work again.
Elon Musk's life is at the opposite extremum of "floating through life." The man works 90+ hours per week, gambled his entire fortune on two risky hardware companies, serves as a prominent public figure, and destroyed many of his close personal relationships (e.g. remarried numerous times). He's having tremendous impact; I respect him like crazy & would happily back his endeavors... But I wouldn't wish for his lifestyle, let alone choose it.

I rather doubt that you would choose Elon's life either -- especially if you were in his financial position.

(Happy to stand corrected, since I don't know you.)
If we're going to continue to have cattle, pasture raised is the only way to do it. Feedlots are not just devastating to the environment, they are inhumane on a level that is difficult to even conceive.
Was Hegel Woke?
It does read a bit absurd with the over-the-top proper nouns, but this being the author's description of their past beliefs led me to interpret this as their being self-critical about the less nuanced opinions they once held about their lifestyle, rather than seriously looking down their nose at the people who have chosen a different lifestyle.
Oh yeah, try finding honest product comparisons and test. It is spam or "aggregated tests" on shopping sites. latest examples: cameras and tires. Cameras worked reasonably well on youtube (required some diging to get the "influencer" stuff out of the way). Tires required going through various forums. because every single video or review for tires I was looking for was product placement, spam or both. in the end price and availability decided the tire question. sometimes I miss the times when you had magazines catering for a certain domain doing honest tests and reviews. Well, even back then magazines started to prefer Canon over Nikon or the other way round.
Yeap. Cardio exercise for weight loss alone is mostly wasted effort that wears joints and causes inflammation.

It's unpopular because the fitness crowd is so religious and ignorantly-stuck in anti-intellectualism, but the best strategy to lose weight is to gain as much muscle mass as possible with the less effort to accomplish in order to raise NEAT. It doesn't take a lot of time or effort (mostly dedication and planning) to stimulate muscle development effectively, and becoming a gym rat is essentially wasted time, money, and effort. It's nice to have cardio fitness too, but I would do the minimum to avoid too much IIB to IIA conversion like the anorexic-looking treadmill-only gym users do. If you want no glutes, avoid squats and lifts, and run a lot.
Thank you! Do you find you get clear view of your performance and your gains? I personally haven't found any way to get clear picture of how much money I'd really make given some hidden costs like fees (for funds) and IRS (capital gains etc).
What does this even mean? A computation that results in the thought "I am seeing blue" could be defined as first-person perspective without any problem, and I don't think it's possible to prove this definition differs in any way from your first person perspective.
Crypto, or at least bitcoin, is not anonymous. On the contrary the payment trail is there for the whole world to see. Governments could blacklist those coins such that no exchange or legitimate vendor would ever take them. They choose not for whatever reason but not because the technology offers anonymity.
Or, you know, you let unprofitable endeavors be substituted by profitable ones, and you just import food from different places where it is profitable. Just make sure not to wage war with them all.
That's always an alternative to subsidies and tariffs, but it's not as politically useful.
Did you feel like the person who hated you could have seen the favor as "one upping" them or "showing off"? In the past I've tried to help the co worker but I'm not sure if I was harming or helping the relationship now that I think about it.
Sounds like exactly the same problem British farmers are having post-Brexit with things like fruit-picking, they're scratching their heads wondering why British workers aren't keen on having half their wages taken for "rent" to live six people to a crappy caravan on-site and do backbreaking labour day in day out. Their only choices are to improve their wages, conditions, both, or go bankrupt.
From a verge article: 'Stallman said that “the most plausible scenario” was that Epstein’s victim “presented herself to [Marvin Minsky] as entirely willing.”' e.g Epstein ordered the girl to say she was willing, when she very much was not.

Unfortunately, that got mangled in subsequent reporting to "Stallman said that Epstein's victims were entirely willing." Cue the firestorm.

edit: better quoting
I don't know how I feel about writing or receiving messages that were > X% undisclosedly written by AI, where X is probably around 5.
Correct and fair. Updated the code to remove the safety issue.
> There are likely issues with the data, which is not easily solvable given that complete databases are expensive.

>> cFIREsim uses historical stock/bond/gold/inflation data from 1871 to present[1]

I am not an expert here buy my impress is that this data is publicly available. What data is this model missing?

[1] cfiresim.com/about/
We do optical simulation to understand the behavior of optical systems, along input and output parameters that matter to the goals of the system.

Suppose you want to make a telescope with a certain spec for magnification and resolution.

Or, suppose you wish to design a headlight for a car with bright and even illumination over a given angular range.

Or, imagine you need to specify an interferometer for precision displacement measurement at the nanometer level.

For each of these systems, there are first principles equations and approximations that describe ideal and slightly-different-from-ideal behavior, but for anything other than very simple optical systems, these first principles approaches become unwieldy very fast. An optical simulation represents the physics of the design and approximates the output you would measure when you build the system. This allows you to optimize and perturb the design over manufacturing tolerances at the design stage, rather than iterating through these at the manufacturing stage (a rather impractical alternative).

The capability of any simulation approach depends on the phenomenon you need to model, and the degree of abstraction appropriate to that phenomenon.

An “exact” physical representation of an optical system essentially entails solving Maxwell’s equations along the initial and boundary conditions of the optical system. There are times when this is both necessary and practical, but (outside of semiconductor applications) that tends to be rare.

Ray tracing, which you mentioned, is a very popular and useful approximation for imaging and illumination. It’s especially useful when the wave properties of light are either not very relevant or they are very well behaved. Other simulation techniques incorporate more of the wave nature of light: Fourier techniques, field tracing, coupled waves, finite difference time domain, etc. It takes some domain knowledge in the application space to know which to apply.
Is it really that bad? I tried three queries.

Can cats eat chocolate? Yields ovrs.com (Oakland vet), purina, webmd, thesprucepets.com (cat blog run by vets), pdsa (pet veterinary charity)...

Can cats eat grapes? Yields top-N dangerous foods for cats listicles from various sites such as pet insurance and cat food brands. A response from a veterinary trust is in the top ten.

Can cats eat paint? Yields all reputable medical sources for the first several hits.

I’m not sure I can square this with your description of ubiquitous spam swamping out useful information.
To be clear - you get this same UAF protection in ReleaseSafe mode by default with GeneralPurposeAllocator and PageAllocator. It's not just a test thing. The testing system just chooses some nice defaults for you.
Is this possible to use on mobile?
Do you know if purely vision based techniques have any advantages for inferring depth in these scenarios (close range object scanning) over lidars?
Thanks for posting that. I never knew that. It does currency conversion too but unfortunately not crypto
on the contrary (and to your implied point, if i'm not mistaken), it's more like a cartel bent on extracting the most value out of the "consumer"...
You mean MMM or the author here? How do you know he "got lucky", since he doesn't mention how he got his nest egg? (Yes in a wider sense lucky to be born smart enough for a good job, in a country with good jobs and so on, but that applies to many people).

Maybe he took those FI blogs seriously and dedicated himself to reaching that goal, and he did. And then people who never tried say "he got lucky".
I don't know, as a freelancer high deductible health care plans are not that expensive. Like $100-200/mo. If you have kids that price would be higher, but then it's going to be a lot harder to FIRE anyways.
Why would I start a campaign where people could de-fund me instead of one where they can't?
This is just a tweet pointing to this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbxWGjQ2szQ
I don't really mind having less buttons to accidentally push on my phone or other devices that go in my pocket, but I can't stand this when it comes to car dashboard interfaces. Thankfully I still drive a car from before this trend but in newer cars where e.g. changing the radio station requires fiddling with a touch screen. With physical buttons or knobs I can do this almost unconsciously, but with a touch screen I have to take my eyes off the road to even see what I'm poking on the screen.

With this kind of stuff, it always makes me wonder why it's there in the first place. Surely there's not much demand for touch screens in cars, and it must be more expensive to produce than analog buttons and knobs. Why has it become so ubiquitous?
I've thought about doing it before. I don't have quite enough to justify a Show HN though.

You can see the list here[0], and if you see more feel free to send them my way!

[0] http://a-shared-404.com/other-stuff/
It can break Marathon, but infinity spins are not a great strategy for Ultra, Sprint, or 1:1 multiplayer.
Sprint Project Management Solution: Workast
Would be more boring than the OP, probably a waste of time to even write the brag piece.
I didn't say nobody is allowed to have more.

I 100% agree that people who _move production and efficiency forward_ should be allowed to allocate more capital!

Where I imagine we disagree is about what counts as productive
> for Google, Chrome does the tracking, so they have no need of the Referer.

Source?
I think for many people 'house' and 'home' and interchangeable and the connotations you see in the language aren't what's intended.
Now everyone is poorer.
Deepfake detection will not be an in-lock-step-antithetical-force to deepfake ubiquity. It does not necessarily postpone, it will have to live with and be the "immune system" if you will. The first successful deepfake that gets us all and proves the warnings correct will certainly ignite fervent research (and maybe policy and law) into mitigation/control of the technology. It would be used certainly as misinformation to legitimize an egregious act that succeeds and leaves everyone dumbfounded for X amount time necessary for whatever the egregious act is to succeed. Or there could be small scale, minor alterations of speech that disrupt automated systems meant to scour the internet for such-and-such person talking about such-and-such thing. Deep faking CEOs, quarterly reviews, etc.

But, alas, yes, even without deepfakes, society is susceptible to reality distortion.
More importantly: what is their CO2 efficiency? How much GDP and science do they output per unit of CO2?

India is close to Italy in Scientific output [1]: 1040 units vs 1104 respectively.

India's CO2e output is 2.62 billion tonnes, vs Italy 337 million tonnes.

India's GDP is $2.869trillion vs $2.004 trillion.

India's population is 1,336million vs Italy 60 million.

So, India consumes 7.7x the Earth's CO2 budget, but generates only .94x the scientific output and 1.43x the GDP.

Or put another way: the average Italian consumes 2.86x the CO2 as the average Indian, but generates 23x the scientific output and 15x the GDP.

Its really the 2nd and 3rd world who are flagrant wasters of the Earth's resources, not the developed world. Looking at CO2 on a per-capita basis is basically irrelevant.

The inescapable solution to climate change and resource degradation is population reduction of the 2nd and 3rd world to density and intensity levels seen in the 1st world, or perhaps even lower seeing as housing is typically unaffordable in most 1st world countries.

This would suggest a sustainable population of India of about 650 million - which was the population of the country as recently as 1977 [4].

[1] https://www.natureindex.com/country-outputs/generate/All/glo...
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/india
[3] https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/italy
[4] https://www.populationpyramid.net/india/1977/
Some cryptocurrencies are somewhat more ransomware resistant in that payment requires an interaction between the sender and receiver.
It isn't just SpaceX.

Rocketlab's Electron has gone reusable also, they already have a private launch site, and, are now exploring a much larger rocket.
If you would like to make a point that isn't a direct rebuttal to mine, it is possible to start your own thread, and make your point there.

As it stands, you seem to agree that RMS' point was pedantic.
I'm really noticing the performance on moderate-size code reviews — once you're over a few hundred lines changing their Vue.js code devolves into a JavaScript benchmark doing whatever it does before updating the DOM.
Some states allow "one party consent" to recordings of communications (ie, phone calls). Extending that, as long as Company A is aware of FB's practices, then your wishes are irrelevant as far as the law is concerned.

I have no idea what California's laws are regarding the matter, or the laws governing any of the other participants. I'm just speaking in the general case, that some states allow it, and the argument that could be made.
Ask HN: How do you repeatedly setup new dev laptops?
MacOS, Linux and Windows solutions all welcome. I really dislike the process of setting up a new laptop, and remembering all the software I typically install. Not everything has a Homebrew package, although that handles many things.

Especially across multiple operating systems, how do you make this a quick and reliable process without resorting to pre-built images that get out of date quickly? I've used JAMF some professionally for this, but its MacOS only and I'd prefer FOSS when possible.
> Why didn't EU do the same?

Germany gave BioNTech 445M. The US didn't give Pfizer/BioNTech anything.
I entered the professional workforce in the fall of 2008, as the recession was in full force. I had a college degree, but no experience or resume of which to speak - and frankly, didn't know very much outside of academia. I was lucky enough to land a job, but was laid off in fall of 2009. I was poor, sleeping on an air mattress, and in my early 20s, but determined to get a job as a software engineer, even if it meant taking a non software job for a while. This was before I knew that job-recruiters were a thing, or how to make connections with them, and before Linked-In had taken off. I made sure to apply for 10 jobs online, by going to companies "apply" pages, every-singly-day. I did this for two full months (weekends excluded). That's 400 applications. I only got 5 interviews, and only 1 job offer. That's 399 rejections.

I'm doing well now - but those were rough times for me. When my teenager feels rejected (e.g. not making the team), I always tell them that rejection is always a bummer, but not the end of the world. And I gently remind them of that story as a way of saying *"trust me, I'm not saying that as empty words; I do understand how it feels."
I had a "to the next quarter" period in my last job, and when moving to the new job the deadline was missed, making the contract valid for a whole quarter.

It wasn't a problem. I was on good terms with the previous company (I'm still getting invited to their anniversary parties and stuff like that), so there was no issue in working something out.

Also, remember that ~6 weeks of vacation per year is common outside the US, so often it boils down to taking your remaining vacation. (Though I think you need to be careful with taxes and other regulations if the contracts overlap.)
You could indeed, which would generally be a positive for society.
They don't need to be internet-connected though, there's many "smart" LED bulbs that run off a traditional remote control.
Whilst this post was sumbitted earlier another later post perhaps provides a better link [1] and already has some comments, this should probably be marked as a dupe.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26545082
Unifi Protect https://unifi-network.ui.com/camera-security
This is the most beautiful thing I've read today. Thank you.
Because people don't like fake people posing as real people. This may change but manufacturing a "real" person currently goes over like a lead ballon.
Wolfram's idea about computational irreducibility is an interesting one. Going through it again reminds me a lot of how intriguingly difficult the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem is.

But in this article Wolfram's view on consciousness occurs to be nothing more than a bunch of abstraction layers put together in a badly baked Lasagna.

For anyone who is computationally minded, I believe by just having a psychedlic experience one would gain mucher greater insight into the intricacies of consciousness than reading articles like this.

I highly doubt without constant experimentation with psychedlics one can come up with anything computationally insightful about consciousness, espeically theroies and mathematical models with practical applications in emerging fields such as BCI

e.g.

- models about how the brain's (sub)conscious attention mechanism works and how it plays a part in the (sub)conscious process of habit forming

- models about the conscious percpetion of time and how can one go about slowing it down or speeding it up and how will that play out in the (sub)conscious memory encoding and decoding processes

I believe the study of consciousness ultimiately resolves around the study of cybernetics in a none-ergodicity system within a certain set of constraint satisfactions. I think perhaps one can even apply frameworks such as homotopy type theory (HoTT) for a certain categorical formalization.
The largest pitfall is definitely housing. He mentions not wanting to own a home. He also must accept that rent rises faster than inflation, and he may have to move every few years to cheaper and cheaper places to keep things balanced.

If you can’t guarantee you’ll be able to stay in your community, with your friends and family, for the rest of you days, what’s the point? Moving sucks. Not being able to eliminate moving is a huge lifestyle and stress liability.
So the typical Thunderbird user speaks German and runs Windows 10.
Some people like to say they need to work to not be bored. I'd rather just be bored. If I didn't need to work then I wouldn't and I'd rather be bored with it. But I have plenty of stuff I could be doing instead of wasting life doing work.
Flibberty gibbets – “It's not Twitter”
Why should Google care about this? Maybe I'm trying to find examples of egregious claims made about a particular alternative medicine.

I only want Google Search to filter based on search terms, not it's creators opinions about what I'm searching for.
> a creep and general unpleasant person to work with

In my experience, the same sort of people who crusade against the Richard Stallmans of the world are the creepiest and by far most unpleasant to work with, yet they themselves are constantly being celebrated, uplifted, and raised into positions of real power and real harm.
Ronaldo – Haaland – Coutinho – Kane – Odegaard updates all given
Personally, I think the privacy cases that this Supreme court hears will probably be what it is most remembered for in the future. I suspect this particular lawsuit will be settled now for an undisclosed sum to the plaintiffs as it seems that it will be allowed to proceed in the lower courts and that means discovery and all sorts of things which Facebook would likely want to avoid.
Even if you think the example presented here isn't a big deal, it still exposes a larger issue in these large language models. These models learn from historical data and that history may not be the behavior we want in the future.
The history of the pharmaceutical industry is absolutely jam packed with deception, corruption and sinister lobbying.

Read up on the Sackler family for a good overview of horrible practices that is just the tip of an enormous iceberg.

The fact that a group of idiots exists doesn't mean one should talk about "big pharma" like it's fantasy.

It's corporate lobbying, and it exists in all industries. And it's often pretty bad.

I find it incredible that people on a "hacker" forum has become so incredibly authoritarian and uniform, and call even the slightest sceptic all kinds of names. Even if some of them are dumb people.

All of these companies incentives is : profit. Like always.

There has been a myriad of medical scandals over the last 100 years where profit has trumped safety.

Why should anything be different now suddenly?

One should handle everything with extreme scrutiny especially in vaccines tested way less than normal.

This should not be "controversial" to say for any science minded person.
Seconded! Great story and amazing podcast.
Great questions I will ponder, thank you.
Hopefully you wouldn't mismanage your own company and treat your employees like shit. Probably you are a better person than that, and can avoid this ever happening to you.