skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not in a similar situation so I cannot truely relate. I’d say start a company. It is difficult and your bank account will be the last criterion people will be judging you by. It will set a different kind of a bar for you. You will be among other wealthy pears you you might align with them better. And as a side bonus, you might get even more rich. Follow Twitch founders. They were in a similar situation.
Try some sports? Find out about what you truly love doing, could also just be food.

My personal answer is paddleboarding. There are very few things that crosses my mind when I'm on water and money is definitely NOT one of them.

If I suddenly had a billion dollar I would still paddleboard. If only because I can't think of anything I really wanted to do more but can't because I don't have the money to.
I've been in the same spot as lots of people here. I started doing some changes.

I started to practice meditation, with no guidance and no bs like headspace. Real meditation is exercise on how to focus on what makes you happy and avoid any thoughts in the process. Basically find a focus point to watch, or close eyes , count, if you have a thought - start counting again.

I deleted social media. All of them. the only one left is youtube. Even for youtube I have two profiles one for work, where I search only tech related stuff. I still had to curate and spend ~3-4 hours to delete, remove from recommendations everything.

I installed app called Lock. That literally block all the apps on the phone for defined amount of time.

Meditation + deleting everything makes you rethink of what is really important to you. Every of this new youtubers looking at you offering to watch a new review about Travel, Space, Tesla, Ecology, News , anything you think is interesting.

You start see social media producers and their real relationship with YOU in a different way. They eat a lot of your time. Don't Believe ? check screentime. They bring you very little real value. You just watch another stupid episode with mediocre value you barely even able to share with friends to make them interested.

They all fight for your attention , once they grab it, they will try to monetize this attention to sell you something.

Another side effect of this relationship is separation of interests. Since there are a lot of them, they tend to go into not very crowded topic. While it's good, it creates more and more bubbles you can get into. I like EV's my friend still own an ICE car? Our content will be different. We will be laughing different jokes. And that's happening in hundreds of dimensions.

Now ask yourself a question, do you really want to have a relationship, when the best person knows you is algorithms of TikTok/Youtube. Because that's what they created for... This also leads to disconnection from society offering you more and more curated content about your phone brand, car brand, space company, travel style , food, anything you wish.

Without a mental model to resist such trend you're done as a fully integrated to society individual.
As others have pointed out, it would be wise to seek the services of a wealth manager to handle the large sum and have it in a place which passively funds your lifestyle sustainably.

I would highly encourage you to pursue your passion. Since you are in a financially better position, the desire to just get a high-paying job might no longer apply. The option of applying for positions which do not traditionally pay so are available now well where you think you could really make an impact.
Will - G. Gordon Liddy

Mission Earth - L. Ron Hubbard
I do own a kindle but reading from it is so unattractive over reading from the Hard copy. Has anyone here tried audible? Are audiobooks good? I've read a few audiobooks, but it still can't match reading from the hard copy.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to Hacker News? It leads to tedious internet threads and we're hoping for the opposite here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think founder effects. It started in the math and science community so that's where most of the library-writing energy has gone into.
Browsers allow it because it's needed for single page apps and history-aware modals to function properly.
Why can't we point out that the "default" choice for most java shops is one that is massively overcomplicated, a nightmare to use, and subject to security disasters like we are seeing? This wasn't "unknowable". Using overly complicated, poorly designed software is a direct cause.

Why should I show respect for software I hate using and that causes problems for the entire tech community? I appreciate that they built it for free. I write open source code too, and glady accept criticism if I release something that sucks (which I do often)

This saga is a lesson in choosing the right tech, and switching off libraries built for use cases 100x more complex than what 99.9% users need.
A lot of good books in this thread and I have read many of them, but in retrospect these 3 titles have had the greatest effect on me:
The End of Faith by Sam Harris: Crystallized a lot of things I have been thinking about over the years.
Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett: Really delved deep into what evolution is and the way it affects how everything in the world works.
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life by Jon Kabat Zinn: What is mindfulness? Why is it important and how can you apply it to your every day life (like the subtitle says). Bearded guru in a cave at top of mountain is optional.
Yes, but also it can be signal that old hobbies are not right for changed lifestyle, changed experience and so on.
More evidence that user provided data shouldn’t be logged at all.
No I think it's never that simple. I would agree they shot themselves in the foot and it s fair game to assume as much, but in reality it was a sentiment of systemic impunity laced with laziness, most likely.

This also means that since financial crime most arises out of opportunity rather than genetic predisposition, this would eventually have let to it if it had not already. The fact the SEC discovered it during investigations doesn't sound very good in that regard.

And a lot of non finance people always dismiss fines because they sound small vs the whole group profit, but damn 200 mil it s a team entire year of profit and it would fuck me to hear the bank had to give it back because assholes couldnt get bothered to transcribe whatsapp into emails at the very least.
Your "easier" has a lot of complicating qualifications. :)

I'd describe single-partition as "slightly simpler, but requiring additional support mitigations, and less effective at the primary job of keeping systems running".

I prefer:

One partition for / which is required to have an operable system for diagnosis of problems

One partition for /var which is expected to grow with limited predictability

One partition for the rest, which should be largely static depending on function, but sometimes surprises you regardless.

...

With elastic scaling compute nodes and centralized logging, most of these issues are subsumed into the enormous support infrastructure and can be ignored. But some applications don't map well to that environment.
If you define yourself by your pursuit of wealth, then when you get it you have nothing left. Try developing a personality.
Please don't cross into personal attack. You can make your substantive points without swipes, and that's the spirit we want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What crippled newspapers as a whole was essentially unbundling. The local car dealerships didn't actually want to pay for foreign news bureaus in Baghdad but if they wanted to run an ad that local people saw on Sunday, that's what they had to do. The crippling of the classified ad market by Craigslist was probably an even bigger blow.

Now, it's hard to argue that people shouldn't be able to pay for just what they want. But now you're effectively arguing for relatively expensive a la carte rentals/purchases which I'm guessing people wouldn't want either if you want to keep revenues neutral. People may want to pay only for the media they watch. But they may not want to pay $5 for a TV show even though I was probably paying way more than that per show when I had cable TV.
> terminators are self-evidently dangerous as all hell and should be prohibited

These are war machines. “Dangerous” per se cannot be a disqualifier.
I use services that do use that code though, so I am affected when it goes down
I think it competes with R, which has a similar usage profile
If bacterial contamination is suspected, liberal application of ethyl alcohol is advised.
As an aside, I wonder if we’ve missed out on longer term repercussions of violence in video games, after the hysteria of video games causing violence turned out to be false. You’d think immersing people in unreality for extended amounts of time could have a desensitizing effect. Sure, there’s violent movies and other media, but the degree of immersion feels like it should make a difference. And I’m still weirded out how kids these days can get an elementary familiarity with real-life weapons not from gritty adult FPS like Doom, but the cartoony Fortnite.
English:

Do you consider having a new layer in your thinking process "life changing"? Then, I would say-

1. Deep Work and So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport. He goes against famous ideas such as "follow your passion" and provides you with alternative actionable advice.

2. Black Swan by N. Nicholas Taleb. It makes you aware of unhinged "platonistic thinking" where stuff are "explained" looking back. And people expect to use these explanations in future. I also learned about silent evidence which is, of course, a type of survivorship bias and sampling bias. Whenever, I see a straigh-forward "explanation", alarm goes off inside mind- 'this is too simplistic, and thus oversimplified, and not entirely correct'.

3. Made to Stick by Cheap Heath and Dan Heath: this book explains why some ideas stick and why some don't. From this book, you also learn how to make ideas stick. You start to see the world in a different way.

4. Godel, Escher, Bach: others have already mentioned it. It is life changing. I am still reading it.

5. Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen: Indian past is generally seen as a golden age heavily tied to religion and faith. Sen, in an articulated, smooth, and scholarly way provides evidence in contrary. The past of India is also an age of reason, athiesm, debate, faithlessness, unorthodoxy, and opposing of religions. Sanskrit is the first language to have athiestic text, maybe.

Bengali:

I used to feel very bad about my ethnic identity, and felt ashamed about it. (I was 14/15.)

Then I read the book "Those Times" by Sunil Ganguly. It is a novel based on history and historical figures, the Bengali renaissance, the feminist movements of Bengal.

This was the first time I ever felt confident about my ethnic identity, and fount a history I could take pride in. Totally changed me. It was like finally having soil under my feet for the first time in my life.

Bouddha Dharma by Haraprasad Shastri: This is a history of Buddhism in Bengal region.

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These are just some of many. I am in my early 20s and I have read 250 books till now, and all read in recent years were carefully chosen. Many had meaningful impact in my life.
If it’s such a burden, I’ll do you a favor and take that money off your hands.
A one time $50 purchase of a device is a much better deal than paying $10-$20 monthly rent per box from 2009 that also uses $50 in electricity per year because the power button only cuts video output.
It doesn't really make sense in a grocery store context. But that's exactly what something like a farm-share is.
The extremely similar brain structure of all mammals?
I wonder if big.little is the first step in really hetereogenous architectures.

Once we get OSs capable of understanding "this task should be executed on cores 0-7, and these others can be on 0-15", it's a much smaller step to "this task can only be executed on cores 0-7 and will be literal gibberish on the other cores". Over time, you skew the core distribution until x86-64 is a legacy product and you install a separate accelerator that has a couple of cores on it if you still have x86 software that can't be emulated efficiently.

What worries me about ARM and RISC-V is that the diversity of SoC design that makes them great for embedded systems, makes them awful for a desktop PC where third-party software and peripherals matter. In that sense, any attempt to ask "will ARM/RISC-V replace x86/x86-64" has to be followed up with "which ARM/RISC-V".

We'd need someone that could unite the industry around some standards for an ARM/RISC-V desktop. I worry that may end up being Microsoft, because they have a unique potential gatekeeping position with their closed-source portfolio. They can say "this is the right memory map/device tree for Windows ARM/RISC-V" and actually exert leverage on manufacturers. (If a Linux/BSD product tries the same, vendors can always patch around it).

The alternative is chaos. Even in x86 land, with only two meaningful players and huge installed bases of each, we had various instruction sets that took forever to get adopted, or just withered entirely (3DNow!) because people didn't consider them part of the least common denominator.
As for your question: you'll get bored soon enough. Enjoy your sabbatical.

If you are sitting on cash you are not yet technically wealthy. You are rich. Rich is temporary, wealth is permanent (and intergenerational).

You could completely bankroll wealth with your riches: turn that cash into passive income ASAP. Buying some rental properties is a good start (that could keep you busy), but you'll definitely want to bring professional wealth management into the equation.
Im in the same boat as you. 32, never have to work again, living in an apartment just off the beach in a holiday resort in the eu. I can only recommend checking out Michael Singer and Anthony De Mello for spiritual guide. Im personally keeping my possessions to what can fit in two suit cases so that I can master what i have which is mostly portable music studio gear , a synthesizer, drum machine, qy700 for composing melodies and making one music album a year from here on out and releasing a video game every two years. I'm half finished the first game now. The universe gave you this freedom for a reason. You're going to die pretty soon regardless so work out what will satisfy you and reach your utmost potential. If you want to chat get in contact with me here.
That the same logical steps expressed in one language results in less computation time spent - when compiled or interpreted - than when expressed in another language. Seems a resaonable question to ask, given there's more to a language than how you express things. Like toolchain, library availability and community.
You're right, we still matter as people, but only for our own feelings and circumstances.

It's humbling because it puts all that hubris away, which most people tend to have an excessive amount of - and begin to focus on living and achieving simple happiness instead of some illusion of grandeur.
This ... tell nobody for a few years ... specifically, don't let anyone know until you have a very clear idea of how you want to live the next decade of your life.
I'd worry more about electrical interference than read latency.
I was curious too and found this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2513741/c-vs-c-for-perfo...

from which I gather that if you're using an allocator function that zero's out memory then it will be slower of course.
Not sure whether that is a good thing, nor that it is a non organised but conscious effort to sabotage systems.
I think many workers have figured out there isn't much that can be done to improve their conditions, that they have meaningless impacts, and that they don't value their employment all that much anymore, that doing the minimum and even enjoying sabotaging what they can is the last measures they can afford to take, providing each individual the pleasure that nobody is profiting from them any longer.

Note: I think it's a world-wide phenomenon, not localised to the US where clearly, the workers have changed their relationships with productivity and contributions to making the system prevail.
> Open source can either mean "publish the source" or "run it as a community project".

This is exactly it. I'm amazed that so few people in this thread are recognising this key ambiguity which underpins the confusion. As Wittgenstein writes in the Tractatus[0]:

> 3.323 In the language of everyday life it very often happens that the same word signifies in two different ways — and therefore belongs to two different symbols — or that two words, which signify in different ways, are apparently applied in the same way in the proposition. Thus the word "is" appears as the copula, as the sign of equality, and as the expression of existence; "to exist" as an intransitive verb like "to go"; "identical" as an adjective; we speak of something but also of the fact of something happening. (In the proposition "Green is green" — where the first word is a proper name and the last an adjective — these words have not merely different meanings but they are different symbols.)

> 4.003 [...] Most questions and propositions of the philosophers result from the fact that we do not understand the logic of our language. (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)

[0] Hilariously republished here by Buzzfeed as '7 Fantastic Ways To Distinguish Between Sense And Nonsense': https://www.buzzfeed.com/ludwigwittgenstein/fantastic-ways-t... It's such a mindblowingly profound work of philosophy, especially the kinds of philosophy that programmers are often unknowingly engaged in, that I feel you just can't read it all at once. You have to keep referring back to tiny chunks of it, as you start to understand their meaning and significance through epiphanies arising from particular concrete problems you wrestle with in your life.
For UK readers, here is the regulation around amount of lead and cadmium in ceramics that are in contact with food.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1179/made

I'm not 100% sure of the maximum safe lead per day, though I did find this

https://www.hse.gov.uk/lead/health-effects.htm

> The occupational exposure limit for lead in air set out in the Regulations is 0.15 mg/m3, and blood lead suspension levels for males and females are 60 and 30ug/dl, respectively. For young workers (under 18) the blood lead suspension limit is 50 μg/dl.

But someone with better dotUKfu may provide a better source!
See also Sydney Padua's 2D Goggles: https://2dgoggles.com/
The people commenting on the Newsweek page were saying exactly this, that there was a simpler instinctual mechanism to describe the monkey's behavior. Who knows why.
Rights are fundamentally a social construct. So the question is not 'what are rights?', but 'how do we define rights?' And there isn't any reason that we have to define rights to only include negative rights, not positive rights. In fact, that kind of a definition would be inconsistent - what value does freedom of speech have without the economic (housing, food, etc.) stability and education (both positive rights) needed to thoughtfully participate in society? What's the point of property rights (negative) if you don't have any property (positive)?

Also it's possible that reality simply says the right cannot be provided, and reality tends to beat policy.
I support that goal but it takes careful planning and a lot of hard work. Simply calling it a right and leaving the details for someone else to solve achieves nothing.

This is true of any right. Freedom of speech, the right to vote, etc. did not appear out of nowhere. They were the result of people fighting for them - either making revolution or pressuring governments into guaranteeing those rights. Those fights took a lot of planning, work, and sacrifice. In the same vein, if there was enough political drive to give everyone housing, at least in the West we have enough wealth to achieve that.
>Yet this conspiracy theory is discussed ad nauseam in the American press

Please point to any major media discussing the Wuhan coronavirus GoF research involving human subjects (the EcoAliance's approved by NIH grant application is pretty clear about it).
People definitely use the more sophisticated algorithms, it just depends on the size of the matrix. Usually exploring computer architecture is more important than the algo, but at a certain size MMM is definitely faster using state of the art algos.
Slf4j is one of the two examples I point to for really great java design. It's broken down into one jar for the no-op interfaces, and other jars for the various implementations. This lets library owners instrument their libraries for logging without having to make a final decision on the actual logging library and its settings. It's great.

The other example for those that are curious is micrometer. The basic API and the implementations (prometheus, statsd, etc.) are separate jars.
They even have a monkey god. May be the legend stems from the furious monkeys.
> The universe is infinite ...

Yet we can describe most of what we observe with a tiny set of equations. What's more meaningful to science is that the universe is not bound to our models and assumptions. Even the assumption that the universe is ordered and so will remain ordered is not guaranteed. It's just a convenient and historically effective assumption that appears to be justified as far back as we can look. No science, therefore, is a done science.

> ...the human mind is finite.

A whiteboard is finite. It is bound in spacetime and no matter how small the writing, there is an upper limit to the amount of information that can be displayed on it at any one time. No matter how quick the erasing, there is an upper limit amount of information that can be displayed within the lifetime of the board.

Despite this, it can have an uncountably infinite variety of information impressed upon it.
I guess like so many questions it comes down to how you choose to define and name things.
Lack of integration with other massive libraries that Python, Java and C++ have. Lack of books, tutorials and extensive knowledge bases that Python, Java and C++ have.
Yes. Dopamine is the mediator of the brain's seeking system, SEEKING being one of the seven emotional drives, according to Jaak Panksepp and Mark Solms. The full list of instinctual emotion systems comprises SEEKING, LUST, PANIC, GRIEF, RAGE, CARING and PLAY.

https://www.therapyroute.com/article/what-is-emotion-by-m-so...

Seeking makes a cat play with its prey before eating it. Presumably the exercise of skill and the risk of losing lunch make the overall process more satisfying.

What might be the reading equivalent? Something like having to track down one's target book in an elaborate and interesting library, complete with secret rooms and hidden shelves (this being an analogue of the internet). In the process one risks being tempted and distracted by other volumes and other authors...
Yeah. Someone gave me a file and told me to parse it. I used structs and fread. It was easy-peasy! I do not know of any other languages where what I wanted to do would have been just as easy as it was in C.
Put at least half back into BTC or ETH. Why cash out into Euros?
Omicron variant?