skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a couple issues as a third party:

1. NFTs and cryptocurrency have avoided being heavily regulated so far, and it seems businesses have begun pulling out there "history of fraud and market manipulation", textbooks. We have enough of an issue with bottom-to-top flows of wealth right now that just poo-pooing bad behavior because the people being scammed or stupid or arrogant doesn't exactly seem constructive. Especially when the public education system is what it is.

2. NFTs are the least efficient and convoluted ways you can solve the problem(s) at hand. It demands enormous amounts of power and it's use at any appreciative scale would overshadow the energy use of first-world individuals (PoS is still not here or being used by the major players, so it's not really an argument). And the hardware using this energy is expensive to produce, currently supply limited (hurting normal folks), and is regularly cycled. So while we're already struggling with climate change and environmental destruction, this technology aims to create an artificial spike that makes it even harder to address for no real benefit.
Gitlab is also Rails :)
But wait it's probably super slow. You should try Jira heard it was wriiten in Java. Must be a fast app then.
Become a teacher
Perhaps I just never read that kind of book, but I don't believe that a single book can significantly change your life.

There's a few recommendations made here that I have read, for instance Nassim Talebs Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness, both of which I honestly didn't find to be all that good. They're interesting, but not that useful and I don't feel that he's all that good at explaining his ideas.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius have some rather good parts, while others are just rambling and repetitive. It's not enough to be life changing. It can guide you in some specific situation, but that's about it.

Atomic Habits: Again interesting, very pratical, but long winded and by no means a guaranteed way to changing your life/habits.

Don't get me wrong, the books recommended, at least those I've read, are interesting, and worth a read, but they won't change your life.
Fair enough. But to me it was the smell of a toxic Java ecosystem, where people had to use crappy software even though they knew how bad it was.

It took a simple problem and turned it into a clusterfuck of configuration and complexity.
Help people in need, teach the new generations, plant trees, etc.
Boring borosilicate glass is the best. Strong, heat resistant, and very safe.
I think the problem with that is - if he's already lacking motivation for regular life - going into a dream vacation will just make regular things mundane. He's got a lot of money so he could probably keep up that lifestyle and live off investments ... but have to be careful to not go broke like many suddenly rich people.
7.5 millions is enough, but barely, to buy and renovate a nice castle in Normandie.

If you want to get into that after your Masters', I guarantee that you it will eat the totality of your spare time !
Standard borosilicate glass. Metal ions are more reactive than their glass counterparts (because they already have their oxygen;)).
Naval was born poor.
There's a bit of a distinction between people who make pottery for a living and people who run factories that churn out pottery.

When the focus is mass production it stops being a craftsman's job and rather becomes a calculated process designed to extract as much profit as possible with little regard for anything else.
Magnetic bottle. Great for fusion cuisine.

But seriously, my lay understanding is that PTFE is one of the safest things that could exist, for some substances/activities at least.
Thanks: I will use my Pihole. Should have thought of that.
I don't have an answer for op, just I would like to understand more of this. As someone who has never made it big, I can only think that'd I could never stop being motivated in spite of great and sudden wealth. Can I ask, what motivated you to found the startups? and what were you looking to achieve, long-term, by investing?
A couple of years ago, Netflix added a science series about the Universe, and I could not understand why they referred to the process behind planet and star formation as a mystery. We know that dust, left to just float in space, will create clumps, rocks, boulders, and so on - due to microgravity.

The series was from the mid 2000s.

No one suggested this very obvious process until an astronaut on the ISS had a fine-grain substance in a small plastic bag (no, not THAT one), and they noticed the grains stuck together.
You might think you will figure it out overnight but it may take years to know what you want to do. A quote from Schopenhauer on boredom, feel free to take from it whatever you like:

The most general survey shows us that the two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. We may go further, and say that in the degree in which we are fortunate enough to get away from the one, we approach the other. Life presents, in fact, a more or less violent oscillation between the two. The reason of this is that each of these two poles stands in a double antagonism to the other, external or objective, and inner or subjective. Needy surroundings and poverty produce pain; while, if a man is more than well off, he is bored. Accordingly, while the lower classes are engaged in a ceaseless struggle with need, in other words, with pain, the upper carry on a constant and often desperate battle with boredom. The inner or subjective antagonism arises from the fact that, in the individual, susceptibility to pain varies inversely with susceptibility to boredom, because susceptibility is directly proportionate to mental power. Let me explain. A dull mind is, as a rule, associated with dull sensibilities, nerves which no stimulus can affect, a temperament, in short, which does not feel pain or anxiety very much, however great or terrible it may be. Now, intellectual dullness is at the bottom of that vacuity of soul which is stamped on so many faces, a state of mind which betrays itself by a constant and lively attention to all the trivial circumstances in the external world. This is the true source of boredom—a continual panting after excitement, in order to have a pretext for giving the mind and spirits something to occupy them. The kind of things people choose for this purpose shows that they are not very particular, as witness the miserable pastimes they have recourse to, and their ideas of social pleasure and conversation: or again, the number of people who gossip on the doorstep or gape out of the window. It is mainly because of this inner vacuity of soul that people go in quest of society, diversion, amusement, luxury of every sort, which lead many to extravagance and misery. Nothing is so good a protection against such misery as inward wealth, the wealth of the mind, because the greater it grows, the less room it leaves for boredom. The inexhaustible activity of thought! Finding ever new material to work upon in the multifarious phenomena of self and nature, and able and ready to form new combinations of them,—there you have something that invigorates the mind, and apart from moments of relaxation, sets it far above the reach of boredom.
Unless it says "Not food safe" on the bottom, you're probably good. If you can find a manufacturer mark and Google it, that might be the best way to check. USA made is very likely safe.
Gravity’s Rainbow

Book of the New Sun
Confessions of a Recovering Corpspeaker
-write in a journal daily, even if it’s a single letter

—let your mind wonder to what you want

-if you used to workout to get attention for the opposite sex it makes sense why you stopped, seek out physical activity for the sake of physical activity with no goal in mind

-get into habit of doing something daily
> "The Defining Decade: Why Your 20's Matter and How to Make The Most of Them Now":

Being 31, still feeling lost, this title stresses me out
TLDR:

> Overall, the potential for lead ingestion from contaminated ceramic mugs is minimal when compared to other sources, such as food. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) reported that the average daily intake of lead from food sources in the general population is approximately 56.5 μg/day (ATSDR 2007a). In comparison, the maximum daily lead intake from drinking 3.3 eight-ounce cups of coffee based on the data collected in our study resulted in a dose of 6.71 μg, over eight times less than the average daily lead intake from food. Nonetheless, exposure to lead should be minimized to the extent possible.
The title is a bit misleading. Its not clear if the compiler times are included, but the numbers do include the benchmark. Thats why the exact same sbcl compiler has different times.

The benchmarks are mixed with some having simd and some using threads. It'd be helpful to be able to sort submissions by threaded/unthreaded as well.

Still kinda fun to read the different languages. I found Zig was very chatty and annoying to read even compared to the C versions. The common lisp was foreign. The Fortran 90 with openmp and Julia versions were pleasant to read. The Nim version was easy to read but lacks threading or simd.
concretely, because you, mr. vox author, could possibly maybe just be slightly wrong about all that.

some of use are betting on things continuing, and we would like to stay alive, prosper, and maybe even get ahead whilst you are busy freaking out. or at least hedge our bets a little.

i'm too busy and tired picking up the slack to do this personally. but i wouldn't be surprised if one could take a look back through history to get an idea of whether this kind of slightly-less-than-ideal worldwide condition has ever come up before, and whether life did in fact go on...
Really interesting.

From the article:
"Total Lead content in the glaze or coating of modern mugs (as detectable with an XRF) is not regulated. As long as mugs are not leaching Lead at the time of manufacture (when they are brand-new), they are considered to be safe to use — even if the Lead content of the glaze is very high. However, for context, the amount of Lead considered unsafe (and illegal) in the paint, glaze or coating of a newly-manufactured item manufactured and sold as “intended for use by children” is 90 ppm or higher. The good news is that, since children’s items are regulated for total Lead content (as of 2008), newly-purchased children’s mugs legally must have coatings below 90 ppm Lead [and my findings have confirmed that manufacturers are generally complying with this law — although I recommend sticking with children’s items manufactured in 2011 or later, as it took a while for the companies (and their supply chains) to get up to speed in their compliance with the new regulations]."
Talk to a financial advisor, make sure that no matter how depressed or burnt out you feel, you don't throw away the safety net this money provides you (and perhaps your family, present and future). Then, talk to a therapist and spend as much time out of the house as you possibly can. Hopes and dreams will either resurface, or come to you in time.
This is how I've explained programming to friends and family. It's like I got my letter to Hogwarts and I've been learning magic ever since. I get to make something real out of nothing, just by spending time learning how things work and working on the craft of using that knowledge. That's magic to both 11 year old me and and 32 year old me.
> In Rust, you need to learn a whole new regime to do even basic things.

Sure, but the same can be said of any language that’s significantly different from C++ (OCaml, or Erlang for example). That doesn’t mean they’re as complicated.

Rust syntax and semantics are basically ML syntax with curly braces and semicolons on top. Having already learned OCaml by the time I picked up Rust, all I needed to internalize was the borrow checker, which is simpler to appease than it first appears.

> There are literally thousands of times as many people who can answer questions about C++ than about Rust, so mysteries are shallower.

Again, this is an argument about adoption more than about the intrinsic complexity of the language. I agree it’s harder to find answers, but that’s always going to be true when the languages you’re comparing to are C/C++/Python/Java/JavaScript.

> But actually using it, sticking to the modern bits, doesn't depend on much in the way of new concepts.

I disagree that smart pointers and move semantics aren’t new concepts. But more importantly this is basically an admission that C++ is vastly more complicated. It doesn’t really matter that there are subsets of C++ that are simpler, because to be able to understand code written by other people, and old code, you will need to understand these bits. The same is not true of Rust.
This is some nature is benign nonsense. Plenty of animals will attack humans without provocation. E.g., mosquitoes are animals. More seriously, stray dogs etc. attack children quite regularly in India. Man eating tigers etc are documented to track down and hunt humans.
The device was ridiculed as an expensive spying kit. A lot of restaurants banned anyone wearing the Glass device. I worked on the the design sprint workshop at Google where I developed an app for handsfree Kitchen cookery recipe sharing. https://github.com/smbale/GlassCookBook

Jeremy Paxman on BBC Newsnight was extremely skeptical when he interviewed Robert Scoble
Lead is not used to make stainless steel.
First, I would put the money in a low-risk place so it isn't a continual distraction while you finish your degree. It doesn't matter to leave it there for a year or two.

Then consider if there's a situation in which you'd like to write software. Would you like to write algorithms to aid cancer research, or improve access to banking in Africa, or teach children robotics? It's more comfortable to work or volunteer on these types of things when you own an apartment etc, and hopefully more fulfilling than improving FAANG's ad sales.

If software was only interesting for the money, maybe you could quit. But what was interesting? You have enough money (spent wisely) to do something completely different, like be an artist, actor, volunteer anywhere that seems interesting etc, and it's probably not a good idea to quit without having some other plan in mind.

You can also try https://www.studentenwerk-muenchen.de/en/advisory-network/ps...
Pottery classes. Diving lessons. Travelling for years at a time.

Seriously. I've done them all. FIREd at 29. Stop playing games you can't win. And you didn't win anything only got lucky for a very brief period "cheated" the system that has no purpose and definitely doesn't care about you or anyone else.

You can afford to stop playing so stop playing and just live.
(I don't have, have never had, nor ever will have that kind of money.)

You have just earned your life's salary. Treat it as such. 7.5M Euros gives you approximately 100.000 after taxes per year for the rest of your life. Anywhere in Europe, that is a very healthy salary. So I think your focus, money wise, would be to try to stay ahead of inflation, longterm. Setup longterm investments, pay yourself a monthly 'salary'. If you want to do more startups, do them. If you want to bike from Munich to Lisbon, do that. If work is what gives you purpose, find a company/organization with a mission you truly believe in and get as well payed as you can. And start working out and start reading again. Take a deep breath.
Waitbutwhy has a great series about this:
https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html

Basically absolute freedom means less freedom overall because the strongest take over. Limiting freedom (eg you can't kill others) can mean more freedom overall as more of the population are able to exercise their (limited) freedoms.
Give it all away to a good cause. We will all be dust again soon in about 50 years or so, might as well enjoy life.
What I would do is reinvest half in safe investments to maintain independent wealth, then buy property in all the places I love, and build small (750sqft or less) but decent and interesting, though practical as opposed to luxurious, cottage residences, or just purchase a small but upscale condo if the area is urban. A place in the mountains, a place at the beach, a place in the country, places in my favorite cities and towns. I'd hire local firms (or create them) to for property upkeep and to clean and stock each before I arrive, and for security while I was away. Every place would have it's own vehicle(s) for local transportation. I'd also make certain to install my favorite restaurants within the vicinity of all the locations if they did not exist, which would provide enough residual income to cover the local property taxes, bills and expenses of the various properties. When I felt bored or blue, I'd relocate to a different cottage and settle in to the change of scenery at locations chosen for their excellent views, clean air and peace and quiet. Sometimes I'd invite friends to visit for the weekend (not too many at once, due to limited spacing and capacity) and cover their travel expenses.
Please don't say something is well documented then link to NBC
But the analytics script provides an API that some websites rely on so it would end up breaking some sites. This necessitates the approach of disarming the script rather than just blocking it.
Staying Healthy on a Musician’s Budget
I think it had little to do with that. Every year Sun had bigger and bigger computers like we needed bigger monolithic servers. Run an ISP and need 100,000 user telnet accounts? Bigger computer! Then, seemingly overnight, the problem is solved by buying a hundred blades instead, and paying nothing for except hardware.

Sun was riding high on the dotcom era where every new company ran out and bought an E10000, and maybe one with less specs for a development server. I've heard stories of these being shipped before payment just so they could declare the sales early -- once the bloodbath started, it Sun was left holding the bag.

BSD and Linux on commodity hardware killed everything at Sun and Java really had nothing to do with it.
I went through something similar 15 years ago. Your problem is effectively a spiritual problem.

You need to discover exactly who you are and learn to fully love yourself in order to be fully alive again. When you know yourself, your meaning and purpose become clear.

Exactly how you accomplish this is specific to you, but know that what got you here, won’t get you there.

It could be meditation, psychedelics, athletics, social volunteering, reading philosophy, travel, who knows?

Psychedelic therapy can be the most efficacious for many people and I strongly recommend reading Michael Pollan’s “How to Change Your Mind”. While all the psychedelics have the potential to positively improve your life, MDMA done in a therapeutic setting is often the easiest/most gentle and can still deliver big results.

Ask yourself what are you afraid of? What do you resent about yourself? Who are you unable to forgive? These are all the things that block you from fully loving yourself and are the types of questions that MDMA or loving-kindness meditation can gently guide you through.

There is light at the end of the tunnel and an absolutely amazing life awaits you in the future. Money does make life much easier, so use it to become the next evolution of your self.
This is a really strange benchmark to use. Compiler speed is not an issue for these 100ish line standalone benchmarks. The question is how fast it is for a million-line project or worse. I doubt c or c++ do good there with their header file includes for dependencies.
I actually find that the process of formation of everything around us is pretty straight forward. After all, none of it is explained by magic.

Now, how all this shocking amount of matter came to exist from energy, which also had to come from somewhere... That's a head scratcher alright. The path to God is hidden behind rock solid plausible deniability.
The scoring has little merit in general.
Maybe not yet, but the simple fact, that there even is a Cloudflare "analytics", hints at a direction, in which this will probably develop. Some people inside Cloudflare will think "If only we could sell our analytics data, we could profit more!" and then they might just do that. The temptation is huge for them. Lets be realistic. They are not all idealistic developers at Cloudflare. It is a huge business with lots of unethical people working at it, like in many big businesses. At some point some internal pressure might overwhelm a minority fighting against it and the change will happen. Perhaps it will happen step by step, slowly boiling the frog.
Everyone is giving you random advice here, but I think the real think you should do is talk to a professional. You've got the cash so just make an appointment with a Therapist and chat to them about stuff. Therapy is great, It'll make you feel better.
Rebol itself is practically dead, no new release in a decade. It was also proprietary early on and a "weird" language (interesting, and good, but non-standard in so many ways that it was very niche). That killed its potential in the late 90s and early 00s when everyone was moving to open source scripting languages that filled the same niche, but with more conventional syntaxes and free access.

That's why it isn't more popular. In some ways it was a few years too early (to hit the zeitgeist around DSLs), but it was also a few years too late for its proprietary model.
I agree with most of this except I would set a budget for the trip: a budget higher than anything you would have imagined spending in the past but still a small fraction of your newly gained assets.

Then, when the month is over, you’ll have plenty left to work with when figuring out what you want to do.

(Safe investment should be part of what you figure out. Your risk profile should be different now if you intend those funds to be a good portion of your livelihood.)
I understand but aren't we to be blame for this? We took their home, we took their shelter and what can they do? And they don't have enough wisdom to know who they should harm and who they shouldn't.

And many of monkey i know here are too friendly but yea after they starts to live with humans they learn to hoodwink people because many thieves are known to use monkey to snatch valuables from tourist by providing bananas as incentives to them.
Am I the only one who thought this sounded exactly like local government?
You can certainly aspire
in many ways still. Consider that if you increase your standard of living, don't combat inflation, and share this standard of living with a close group (family or otherwise) you will approach "normalcy" where your money is large but finite again. You should act to keep some wealth for retirement, and as others have mentioned humans have plenty of other problems to focus on. I'd personally go on HN co-founder matching, find someone you really like working with, and forget about the money until its time for the first funding round.
I know. My point is you don't need fine grained control when it only makes sense to deny allow of it
The only hedge against inflation is quality
Huh, most of these patterns appear regularly in US federal government workplaces...
First - tell no one you made that much money. You'd be amazed who comes out of the wood work to "be your friend" at that age.

Second - check out https://old.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/ - some great like minded resources for how to manage that much net worth.

EDIT: Regarding first point. Good guide here: https://old.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/windfall