skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a chance. Unless you want to live in a place without facilities and a functioning economy. Inflation alone will take care of your million quite handily. Of course if you're 85 already then you'll manage but if you're in your 20's or 30's I can pretty much guarantee you that this is too little.

Also: taxes, setbacks, health, children, divorces, stuff breaking that needs to be replaced and so on. A million all at once is a lot of money, but spread out over the course of a lifetime in the developed world it isn't all that much.
Note that they surveyed "investors" about what they needed to retire comfortably via the MLIV Pulse survey (I think Bloomberg "Markets Live"?).

I don't have the data, but I would speculate the the socio-economic expectations of investors that Bloomberg could reach may not reflect the actual economics of what is required to live normally in retirement.
As someone in mid-30s with a child, I absolutely could not imagine founding a startup based on hope. We do need the 20-somethings to go out on a limb
If seeing is what you like, it’s a great show. The imagery is fantastic. If you like coherent setting and characters you identify with, it’s less than awesome.
In Seattle you can throw up a tent and you might have to remove it a few weeks later. In Bellevue, you lay down on a bench and swat is out in 5 minutes (even if you won’t go to jail, the police will harass you enough that you’ll leave). Bellevue makes it annoying to do illegal things, Seattle makes it convenient, so of course they are going to head to Seattle, it’s simply the path of least resistance.
What do they mean by "live comfortably"?

If I were to retire at 65 my monthly Social Security payment would be 1.94 times my monthly budget for food/groceries, taxes, insurance (health, car, house, earthquake), utilities (electricity, internet, phone, waste), prescriptions, subscriptions, domains, email, web host, gasoline, car registration, and clothes. (House is paid off, as is car).

That seems to have everything I need to live comfortably covered with plenty to spare for the occasional need to replace old furniture or a washer/dryer/fridge or a TV or phone or computer or random small to medium things, except for a small number of bigger things that I might have to go to savings for.

The big things are a new roof for my garage (house got a new roof a couple years ago which should outlast me), a new well pump, a water heater upgrade, an HVAC upgrade, and a new car.

I don't think $3M would be needed for all that. (And if those can be reasonably spread out I can probably do most of them without having to touch savings).

If I wait until 67, SS is 2.24 times my monthly budget.
Link: https://archive.is/0qT8O
The People Who Are Secretly Working Multiple Full-Time Jobs From Home
(Spoiler warnings possibly, although I haven't solved anything...)

I am stuck there too. I'm almost certain it requires sending an email to a gmail address, but I'm not sure what that address is. I've already tried:

No response:

3.243f6a8885a@gmail.com (hexadecimal representation of pi to 11 digits)

3.243f6a8885a3@gmail.com (hexadecimal representation of pi to 12 digits)

182d4454fb210940@gmail.com (IEEE double precision representation of pi, little endian)

Address not found:

3.14159265359@gmail.com

pi@gmail.com

ea2e4454fb210940@gmail.com (IEEE double precision representation of 3.14159265359, little endian)

3.243f6a88876@gmail.com (hexadecimal representation of 3.14159265359, no rounding)

3.243f6a88877@gmail.com (hexadecimal representation of 3.14159265359, rounding)

332E3134313539323635333539@gmail.com (ASCII string 3.14159265359 in hexadecimal form)

7069@gmail.com ('p' and 'i' ascii codes to hex)

But I'm starting to think maybe my idea of using the hexadecimal representation of pi is a red herring. I also hope I'm not hitting gmail's spam filters.
Is it even logically possible to prove nothing does not exist, period?

If this is for a specific point in space, are they proving this at plank length and at the smallest possible measurable unit of time?

Something about proving a negative.
Can someone translate exactly what this means? I assume they mean you should have $3M in assets at the point of retirement, but... in what year's dollars?! $3M in 40 years-from-now's dollars is going to be way less than $3M in today's dollars!
No idea what a shiv trackpad is. I did find this while googling for it though: https://www.etsy.com/listing/783328345/
Thanks, this was an interesting writeup. Learned a few new things today.
Good point, maybe the 'inflation is transitory' crowd can chime in as well
The library mentioned in the article is C++ code that extends Nodejs and basically bypasses all of it. Nothing is making Nodejs special here.

The Readme says:

> µWebSockets.js is a web server bypass for Node.js that reimplements eventing, networking, encryption, web protocols, routing and pub/sub in highly optimized C++
You, too can have your opinion counted towards next weeks non-scientific clickbait story: https://bloombergresearch.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4MZWbA4o...
Nice, I host a public chat app off lambda https://sqwok.im
> How long do you plan on living?

That is in the most literal sense the million dollar question and the answer is most likely 'you don't know'.

People routinely live to their mid 80's and even early 90's now, which used to be quite rare. But the quality of life isn't all that great for the majority of them and if you end up misjudging your longevity by a year it isn't going to be all that hard to make ends meet. But if you misjudge it by a decade or even more you are going to be utterly miserable near the end.
This but unsarcastically.

Think about how many white Americans will be able to see that this is wrong, when they think anti-Blackness is a matter of culture and assume people who speak African-American Vernacular English are less educated.

When we have a mix of problems, we can build large enough anti-discrimination coalitions to make none of those discriminatory beliefs advantageous to hold.
Singing the song of angry men?
Maybe but the feasibility takes a huge dive, because you now need the application to terminate tls (or additional configuration for the route wherever TLS is terminated), plus a flow to rotate certificate.
I mean this is based on basically nothing, just a survey of 500 “investors”.

I would say though that aiming for more predictable spending in retirement would be very good for the economy. It’s a bit disconcerting that in the US, a medical procedure that slips through the cracks of Medicare/medicaid can suddenly cost millions of dollars for a retiree (when most health problems start happening). IMO this makes it so basically no amount of money feels like enough to retire so everyone has to just sit on their cash like a dragon protecting their gold until death. I think if this was a bit more predictable way more people would be spending money more liberally and/or retiring earlier, leaving jobs for the newer generation.
30 years is a lot for retired individuals..
I would say owning your home free and clear is a prerequisite to retire. Rent or payments on debt are often our biggest expenses. Retirement is possible only when passive income is enough to cover expenses.
Yeah, It looks like its in the begining phase
> Anything that helps convince people that containers running on a single server can be simple, and doesn't require an entire k8s stack.

Docker?
Why recommend lock-in vendors when there are better options in between? There was no mention of Heroku which is easy and scalable.

Hugo is wonderful, until a deployment bug or misconfiguration exposes all of your server settings in a page that should be serving a 404 instead. Wordpress, Hugo and others also get constant attacks from hackers who can exploit each bug found on thousands of sites all at once.

Go has fantastic server examples and plenty of starter templates you can use to build your own server, and deploy to Heroku and scale to millions of users far cheaper in engineering and financial terms.
It's a common misconception that inflation drags you down with these methods. The real question is will $40k/yr work (or the inflated equivalent) cover your lifestyle. That's where major lifestyle adjustments you mentioned could matter.

> ... If you have $1 million saved for retirement ... you could spend $40,000 in the first year of retirement following the 4% rule.

> Beginning in year two of retirement, you adjust this amount by the rate of inflation. ... In year three, you’d take the prior year’s allowed withdrawal, and then adjust that amount for inflation.

> One common misconception is that the 4% rule dictates that retirees withdraw 4% of their portfolio’s value each year during retirement. The 4% applies only in year one of retirement. After that inflation dictates the amount withdrawn. The goal is to maintain the purchasing power of the 4% withdrawn in the first year of retirement.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/retirement/four-percent-rule-...
With all the money they raised, they're treating people like a sinking startup playing these games? Definitely a warning sign.
Naïve realism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
The state doesn't need to perfectly represent the public to represent the public.

Their only leverage is not doing their job. How, exactly, is not doing their job serving the public a form of serving the public?
Now way its an old generation thing? I've seen "gang wars" among young adults of different castes in reputed Indian universities, located in cities.
I have first hand experience with people who chose friends based on caste. And caste is not illegal in India discrimination is, but politicians here are mostly caste mongerers and win elections.
Not the parent, but I use teams in macOS. I wouldn’t call it fast, but I also haven’t experienced the kind of horrible performance other people apparently have.

Video playback and taking calls on a second, larger (40” 4k) display, have improved slightly but are still bad enough that I’d rather move the app to the laptop’s display (32gb mbp mid-2020)

I do think it’s a second-rate app compared to most of Microsoft’s usual offerings - OneNote being a notable exception. Other than the video item above, I’ve found overall performance to be adequate and not remarkable one way or the other.
Wolfram Mathematica.
Ok, but not everyone can afford it. When there's a dearth of apartments and you can't afford your own detached house, you're forced to share a house with other people.

People do not prefer sharing a house with roommates to having their own apartment.

Also the idea that people's preferences should be encoded into bans on certain housing types is completely absurd to begin with.
Only another $2.9m to go
Well this isn't really NodeJS, it's written in C++. The whole point of Node is that it is a wrapper around the V8 JS engine (the one used in Chrome) that allows you to run JS specifically in a non-browser environment. This project is more an extension to Node (or as it is called in the GitHub README, a "web server bypass for Node.js).

You do actually see the same kinda thing happening in other ecosystems, especially Python – something runs slower than you want it to (because Python), so you re-write it in Rust/C/C++ and hook into the extension system of the lang for a seamless DX. Off the top of my head things like `asyncpg`, `orson`, `uvloop` and esp relevant in this case `websockets` are all async libs that do this.

Mildly tangential but as someone who has spent a lot of time making the Python backend for my startup run as fast as possible, I would recommend avoiding Python if performance is your primary concern.
What a disgusting but revealing story. By saying "being laid off is a red flag" they are loudly signaling that actually they have no way of measuring interview performance and are just trusting the former employer's judgement? So why even bother with the interview then?

It would be like if someone is selling me their car and I run the car history report and see it was in a minor collision but was repaired. I look over the car and see the repairs were done fine. In fact I bring out a mechanic I trust and they tell me that yes the repairs were completed with high quality and everything is great with the car, am I really justified in calling myself rational if I reject the car anyway because of some metaphysical spookiness I think inhabits cars that were in collisions before?
I worked for a state government that was in the process of migrating hundreds of Oracle DBs from VMWare VMs to Exadata servers. I think combined they had over 20TBs of RAM. I asked one of the DBAs about how much better performance was and he said he typically saw at least a 10x increase in QPS and reduction in latency.

Samsung has a SmartSSD with a FPGA on it to offload compute to the drives.

https://phisonblog.com/why-is-computational-storage-inevitab...
It's entirely due to training and approach to use of force.

Police in the US kill civilians at a rate of 20x that of police in the UK.

It's due to a culture of violence and one arguably made worse since the 1970s when the US NRA became more of a marketing arm of US gun sellers and less of a gun club promoting responsible gun handling and safety.

> the freedom vs. safety trade-off.

< ROFLMAO > Never ceases to amaze hearing seppos spout that one.
I've run the numbers on this often enough to believe Bloomberg on this one. If I were to start today by retiring on the spot at age 57 the first thing I would have to do is move out of this house, cut our expenses to the bone and hope that I would die before my 70th birthday. Otherwise there isn't enough to make it last.

Also, I really wonder if they meant for a couple or an individual and whether or not there was some misinterpretation there.
In that metaphorical body, what is the amygdala?
You would receive compensation from seed round?..
It is funny to me that of all the comments I've left today this is the one that gets downvoted. It is a simple fact.
"The theoretical limit is 65k connections per IP address"

What's the driving factor for that limitation?
I gave a ref check for someone trying to join databricks and honestly their level of probing gave me the creeps. Like they were trying to find some dirt. Never seen anything like it. It seems like they’re either not confident in their interview process or trying to lowball people, either way wouldn’t recommend interviewing there
> The $3m is really fascinating because no financial advisor I speak to promotes this figure to me nor has done

They say achievable things for a broader population, not the most accurate things.
https://moneysmart.gov.au/retirement-income/retirement-plann... suggests around $800,000 to live on an average comfortable income ($61,062) if I retire at 67 and live to 92.
huh? why is it impossible for passive income to cover a mortgage?
The youngest CEO I ever met who didn't give me WTF vibes was 29 years old. I know because I asked directly. He was raised by a successful CEO dad and I think absorbed a lot of wisdom.

I agree the idealistic 20-somethings are important. I don't think they should be handed tens of millions of dollars and trotted out like show ponies.
It's harder to discriminate against people with good options: they just leave when it's tried.
Talk to ChatGPT in BDD
It might be possible someone is using home equity loan for leverage.
> enjoy the growing support of people they were generous with or loyal to while they were younger

Lucky them. This isn't the rule though. The rule is that they will be paying it forward to the next younger generation, not to pay it back to the one before.
Definitely possible to get similar or better performance using go, swift and rust. Python is slower in most cases so i dont think it would be possible using python(unless calling C from python)
> I would say owning your home free and clear is a prerequisite to retire.

People in countries like Switzerland with a high percentage of renters (58%) somehow manage to retire...
So did you marry her?
There is no dearth of apartments. Apartments are everywhere. It's just silly to think that people are "forced" to live in single family homes.
"The TCP protocol provides 16 bits for the port number, and this is interpreted as an unsigned integer; all values are valid, apart from 0, and so the largest port number is (2^16 - 1) or 65,535."
And/or boiled beforehand?
It's not unreasonable though. A small, reasonably efficient car uses the equivalent of 15 plastic bags of oil for every mile driven.
Facts. Quite a few ignorant comments on this post follow the classic "discrimination has nO pLaCe iN tHiS cOuNtrY!!!" by amnesiacs who need to be reminded that just 6 decades ago it was a COMMON & POPULAR American cultural practice to hog-tie pregnant black women upside down on tree branches and burn them alive for fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States.

Should we talk about how equally they treated Native Americans? (they've slaughtered 99% of them and stolen their land which they continue to live on and enjoy as their own).

And remember, they're going to teach the world about human rights and equality!
3 2 1 where are the SJW crying about suppression of culture.
Ah, on the client side not the server, makes sense. I was doing the math as the full IP + port, which would offer 48 bits, but with only one client IP you really only have a client port to play with and you must bind as long as the connection remains open.
I’m assuming they mean today’s dollars. In 40 years, that’s probably close to 4.5-5 mil
Software Development is competing with all the other possible fields out there for talented people. When we fail to address or mitigate sexism, our profession loses out to the professions that do.
Yep. I'm also not sure if the server libraries in swift are mature & well optimized enough to handle millions of active websocket connections.

Maybe someone with more swift experience can chime in! Whats the state of swift on the server these days?
I was fairly surprised when I went to pypi and tried to look for the same.

But here it is, feature requests welcome.
My grandparents outlived their savings.
reputed ? sure they're?
> We don’t have a word for it because we don’t see that color.

I think you’re missing the argument.

We can easily assign words to things we know exist. That’s not the issue.

When we define things (like “naturalism”) we are invoking symbols and their semantics, all the stuff Mary presumably has access to in her room.

In her room, Mary already understands subjective experience, the brain mechanics behind it, etc.

The realization that there is more outside of Mary’s room suggests that our conceptualizations are limited / not accurate.

If that’s the agreed case how can anyone cling to a universal “naturalism” with a straight face?

With Mary’s room, haven’t we already accepted that formal statements are incomplete - and therefore would be silly to call universal?
Sure, bats echolocation is more precise, basically due to the shorter wavelength, which is quite obvious if you think about it. However, what I was trying to hint at is that the function is likely equivalent, while the implementation is definitely more sophisticated when it comes to bats. The function is to build an internal representation of the external world.
Hum, no?

I would say a prerequisite for safe retirement is to have enough to buy a home outright in cash, otherwise mortgages will weigh you down like a stone:6% interest on a 1 million gbp loan in the UK is unpayable for majority of people even in London and yet you wont find anything worth buying there below that price.

Also we should stop saying a house has equity: it doesn't. You are a paying off a loan for a commodity. A house is like a car or groceries: necessary, yes, but not an investment, unless its luxury. This is how we exploded house prices.
Maximum file descriptors
Port numbers are 2 bytes (16 bits) in the tcp packet header.

so 2 * 16 == 65k
Skip the containers and have it all be reproducible with Nix/Guix
Amen. Searching chat history is a uniquely horrible experience. I’d like to search for a word or phrase and see not just the single chat response it appears in, but some context around it. As it stands I’ve found myself searching for a phrase, noting the date on which it occurred, then finding the chat/discussion and scrolling up to that date.
C1M is not that impressive anymore, these days one need to do C10M;)

Most of the work of accepting and holding concurrent TCP sockets done by the OS, not the language runtime. One can easily tune Linux kernel to 1M concurrent sockets.

The real issues: memory usage per concurrent socket (idle or active), and ability to do something useful with all these active connections, e.g. send pings every 30s, or broadcast a message to all of them.

I'm not sure NodeJS/C++ based system from this post will allow sending pings every 30s to 1M websockets, let alone to do something useful with them, beside some low-traffic or infrequent notifications (Of course one always need to perform realistic loadtests in order to answer these kinds of questions).

Erlang/Elixir/BEAM have a relatively large memory usage per active socket, but it allows doing something useful with them under an easy to use programming model (read: no callback hell).
This article is completely missing any stats about how effective such a range extender would be.

I came across this page last week about EV charging using a generator:

> A typical EV such as the Volkswagen ID.4 has a 75 kWh battery that allows it to drive about 275 miles on a single charge. That works out to around 3.5 miles of range per 1 kWh of charge. Now let’s assume you have a 2.2kW generator that can output 1,800 watts continuously. If you ran the generator for 4 hours, it would produce around 7 kWh of energy. Now, that’s assuming 100% transfer efficiency, etc. So, in 4 hours of driving, it could possibly add maybe 24 miles of range. But things being not 100% efficient, it would be lucky to add perhaps 15 to 20 miles of range to a 250-mile trip.

https://www.rvtravel.com/rv-electricity-generator-in-back-of...
As an American, your metaphor makes absolutely no sense to me.

Why would a European think an American would possess a gun in their country? And how would they get it there through customs - it’s not an idea? And a gun is a lethal weapon - is the caste system?

Sorry, I’ve spent a bit of time in Europe (including living for a stint). I’m also from a part of the US that has plenty of firearms. I just can’t make sense of this metaphor.
This is probably the best explanation you're going to find https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/apbcLXz5zB7PXfgg2/an-intuiti...
Not sure I follow the original premise. If Mary knows everything there is to know in physics, then Mary knows about the wave theory of light and the colour spectrum. She may not have experienced the colour red but she is aware of the concept of the colour red.

Additionally, while Mary may only receive information in black and white, she perceives in full colour and can see the colours of her own skin and clothes.

The combination of the first and second facts means that Mary can conceive what it would be like to see the colour red before she ever sees it. The first time she sees green she will know that she has perceived some colour, even if she gets the label wrong and calls it red for instance.
Eastside is tougher on crime, more conservative, and actually enforces laws frequently unlike Seattle, which is more progressive and extremely soft on crime.

A man bashed in the head of a female Amazon software engineer in Seattle and last I checked, they were considering letting him go free.