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A unique (and IMO, correct) way to put it.

I personally don't want to have a kid of my own blood. But I want to adopt one or two and maybe foster a few IF I become financially capable, which is probably a decade or so away.

I do believe that having a kid of your own in this day and age (esp. when you are working day job and depending on that job for healthcare, housing, etc.) is unfair for the kid who will join you in your life. Sure you'll love him/her, but the reality is the kid will have to grind (again, assuming that you are not a multi-millionaire) when s/he reaches certain age. The best use of our resources, when we accumulate a good amount of wealth to sustain ourselves and have a bit more extra to spare, is to adopt/foster or do something philanthropic entirely (so many homeless, sick, hungry people that you can help).
it's not just the screen recorder: it's also the large userbase, the corporate connections, and the IP. if the stock goes up a few percent that alone covers the purchase
Looking to reach out to you, is the role remote? I am from the states.
It’s sleazy but not fraudulent.
DOGE hasn't done anything yet, so this is purely expressing prejudice.
how is tens of millions not a lot?
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“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”
― Jim Carrey
3 seconds?

I seem to fail 4 out of 5 captchas at this point.
Money doesn’t buy happiness but most people are subjected to artificial misery by this society and money does make that go away… at least, a fair share of it, probably 80 percent.

That said, a lot of people who get rich, because status is their real motivation, are shocked by how horrible society still is. At first they get hooked on the drug of high social status, but then they learn to see through the flattery and realize that nothing has truly changed, and they’re just as miserable as before. It tends to take about two years, in my observation, for the “new life energy” to wear off. Money teaches you that there isn’t some “better” society to aspire to. The people “up there” aren’t the supervillains Redditers imagine billionaires to be, but they’re not better either.

My daughter is autistic and when she started to learn how to read social cues she realized that her so-called friends didn’t actually like her, which I suspected myself but never had the chutzpah to say, and it made her angry. Getting rich has a similar “learn what people are really about” curse.
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You could stop eating meat instead. But unfortunately vegetables can get cross-contaminated with animal products during growing/harvesting/processing. So even vegetarians like me have this risk, albeit at lower levels, along with contamination from non-animal sources.
They had this as an internal product within Google. I liked it as part of their lab 120 division.
They ended up killing it :(
Everyone I’ve known to say they know all their issues has been blind to many obvious (externally) problems. I tried several different therapists until I tried psychoanalysis instead and it helped. That said, it’s true that many problems cannot be solved and must instead be grieved.
But perhaps people supposedly becoming in charge of material results should in fact at least have a sketch of an actual nuanced understanding of things.

People who watched Europe through the Great Recession and walk away thinking "I guess austerity works" are not people seriously consuming information, they are ideologues.
looking at https://mullvad.net/en/browser/hard-facts , Mullvad browser is much more extreme: many APIs blocked, always incognito mode... I would not be surprised if this blocks some sites.

the container approach on the other hand is bog-standard firefox.
Why "fight the bots" anyway? If software that is acting out the will of some humans somewhere is retrieving static contents, what's the big deal?
I mean memory is completely allocated up front and fragmentation is something for application developers to deal with.
> The GPL does the exact opposite of copyright;

No, public domain is the opposite of copyright. The GPL absolutely does give the author rights to dictate how people copy the software -- in fact -- even more so than many other open source licenses.
The Us is an outlier in this regard. Other countries have had major inflation and currency collapse. It's why predictions of 'US debt collapse' never come true although it is a real risk elsewhere.
No. The basis is OO and but they are multi-paradigm. Go has structs, methods, and type embedding but they don’t make it an OO language.
It tries to bypass the kernel as much as possible. It runs in userspace.
Check out https://floss.fund too.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41857032
Because of the messaging, like cutting regulations, entire departments - things that have impact on the entire country and not just a company and its customer base.

I believe, there is certainly a lot of room for improvements in government functions. But I also believe, those improvements are hidden in details and require actual work, other than just slashing funds, regulations or entire departments. Things are how they are for reasons. And those reasons will probably withstand deeper scrutiny, but not populism and conflicts of interest.
He wouldn’t have said “girlfriend” if they were married.
At many hackathons I attended (as a mentor, company sponsor, or judge) approximately a quarter of participants had never used GitHub previously. Such participants often thought of GitHub stars as bookmarks. Many hackathon sponsors provide Hackathon samples or references on GitHub - or guidelines for winning the specific sponsor's prize. As expected, those repos were "bookmarked" by the students.
In this case this is a misunderstanding of the purpose of GitHub stars by these new users, but certainly not a fraudulent action.
People need work to be happy. That doesn't have to be, say, office work necessarily: it can be making music full time, or volunteering at a hospital, or any number of other things.

But you have to have something keeping you busy that makes you feel like you have a purpose.
After trying out a bunch of digital zettelkasten tools, I just went back to paper.

This take may be a bit hot, but I actually think paper and pen is already the optimal maxima for thinking—not for retrieval, mind you, but for helping us produce new thoughts. Zettelkasten (at least the way Luhmann used it) is meant for this purpose—it is not a system for storing information and retrieving it but rather for supporting the creation of new connections.

The computer aided tools are suboptimal for this because they lack the good constrains of paper (severely limiting the search space) and the good features (seamless ability to incorporate a variety of representational modes, text, image, equation, with zero overhead, and the ability to organize things freely in space). As much as the digital knowledge base sounds good in theory, I don't think it will ever be as optimal for generation of thought. If all you want to do is summon existing information, digital tools are evidently superior. I personally think a hybrid system where one "thinks" on paper and "archives" digitally (after the thinking is done) might be best, but ultimately, we will be most productive with whatever system we actually enjoy using.
Hang on. You're the rsync guy and you're also running a ranch? DAYUM. I'm gobsmacked. Do you have an RSync Ranch blog somewhere?
Try this one instead :) https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM-135M-Instruct Much better, a modern attempt at a small model
I had a friend who I lent money to his startup during Covid. He promised would be paid back within a year. Multiple hard conversations and it’s 4 years later and not one cent has been paid back to me. We currently don’t speak to each other. He’s delusional with his startup ideas, lives in lala fantasy land. Refuses to get a job and take any responsibility. He has zero track record of success, so it’s somewhat my fault for loaning him money.
There's something inherently unsafe with replacing an industry-standard security tool with anything.

I don't think it's inconvenient enough to type `ssh -i key_file name@host` that we need to be creating more security risk to skip typing it.
Having been involved in creating content and deciding whether it should be retired or not, it really isn't about the money. Product docs can be locked to versions and archived pretty well; most sensible people understand the docs for 1.0 may not apply to version 3.0. But there are a ton of things on a company website that don't really apply to the here and now and will be increasingly out of date. And, if you just leave everything accessible forever, it pollutes the current information.

I get that some people prefer everything is just left online but it gets harder and harder for all the folks who just want info that's fairly current.
Worse a car manufacturer without a USP and the ecar tech race reset did not change fundamentally the economics of manufacturing in the us.
there is a reason real estate has yet to be disrupted and the reason is https://www.nar.realtor/ … the lobby is strong with this one… godspeed to you but you have a rocky path ahead of you
But first and foremost you must find the interesting repositories. I frequently use the search where i filter by stars, last push and language.
Excellent advice. I'd add, read a bunch of books. Not physics: history and biography. Learn about how other people live rather thsn how electrons behave. Nothing wrong with physics but unlikely to provide life guidance
I know that people like me do not belong on HN anymore, but:

Calling people "NPCs" is vile.

And, the entire ideology that makes it okay to say that one's fellow earthling is just an NPC? That is probably a major component of this person's problems.
Here’s an idea, donate most of it to a reputable charity organization and go back to work.
> But I was young and naive

Just ahead of your time. Progress is both a grind and a marathon.
I am definitely naive about the good faith of a lot of market participants.

But my motivations for applying have never been about "worshipping billionaires". If you have read anything I've ever written, I criticize concentrations of power, especially in the hands of billionaires, including Elon.

I am not even a fan of MAGA Republicans. However, I do think it would be great to make government more efficient. And my whole pitch was: we need to start using public blockchains for transparency, extending the legacy of Obama's data.gov which helped with transparency. By gradually moving budgets and payouts to blockchains and smart contracts, it would be much harder to sustain off-the-books excess and ineffiencies.

In fact, anyone who is for blockchain is for decentralization, not so much in favor of billionaire owners of centralized platforms. But anyway I digress, I don't think "blockchain" will find many fans on HN as it is...
Intriguing. I've been thinking of something similar. Do you have any notion of what constitutes an 'idea' in this context?
I've done this and it's great, especially for travel, but I've notice that each time I do it, employers are more and more uncomfortable with the employment gap regardless of skills.
If you believe that there are "good" mindsets and "bad" mindsets (relative to what you want in life), and that it's possible to change one's mindset, it follows that having guidance can help there.

Maybe you don't believe that a professional therapist can offer that guidance, of course.
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> Something I did not read in this essay is how he grew closer to anyone (in fact, I read the opposite). No path out of this valley involves traveling alone.

I think he needs to get closer to himself. I think he's on the right track.
The phrase "in many ways" is doing a lot of lifting. I wonder: what ways? What details need to be ignored in order for the rest of the sentence to seem plausible?
hookers and cocaine of course … https://youtu.be/0yrIvEgqAuo?feature=shared
People want a proven method for finding a niche... which is an oxymoron at some level. The proven methods that are accessible are already taken and used.
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Mitchell Hashimoto and group of contributors released a native terminal app recently - ghostty.org

Well suited replacement for iterm2 and terminal.app, imo
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> Many terminal programs, especially older ones, are known for having confusing or unintuitive interfaces, especially if you use them sparingly and you need to do something specific that can't immediately be gleaned from search results or from the man page.

When there is such a rich database of manual pages and q/a about these tools, I tend to blame the user rather than the tool when I hear it called "too complex".

Additionally, if you don't understand what the command is doing why are you about to execute it in your terminal?
Same. I switched to Alacritty and later Ghostty.
> constant mania

"internet psychology diagnosis" is strongly discouraged on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38589525
I find Rhino3D to be a pretty good antithesis to AutoDesk.

The company behind it is employee owned and been around since the ‘90s.

Subscription-free, single payment, and they actually support older versions of their software.

One nice part of their license is if you buy the student version, there is no restriction on you continuing to use that license commercially, in perpetuity.
I recently ran into a bunch of problems running neovim under GNU Screen with `TERM=screen.xterm-256color`. There was some kind of problem relating to GNU Screen's parsing and re-transmit of certain full-color terminal escape codes. I don't remember the details right now, but what I know is that building the latest from source didn't help. (I wish I could remember the specific issues)
If the US is an outlier.... then it's fine for the US to continue down this path?

Like in this supposed age of a US government spending crisis the dollar is extremely strong compared to other currencies. Where is the hyperinflation? How many decades will we need to wait?
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I had some experience with the IoT LTSC variant of W11 recently and found that while it's not perfect, it solves a lot of the telemetry and UX complaints people have with W11.
I can't speak to your specific circumstances, but perhaps this will help.

I find that people I talk to with chronic job dissatisfaction have a difficult time taking risks, because despite not liking their current circumstances, the unknown can be scary.

There are known pathways to work in tech or other fields, such as coding camps or community college. It becomes a question of what you're willing to sacrifice to make that happen. Would you move to a new city? Go back to school? Give up your evenings and weekends? Usually, some kind of risk needs to be taken, and there's always a path forward if you look.

I didn't graduate college until I was 29, and now that I'm in my mid-40s I can say that while every risk I took didn't pay off, it was in the taking of risks that has left me feeling satisfied with where I am.
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Step one is to take down the post saying you have $60 million. Step one in every. single. guide. on what to do is to not to do when you make it big is advertise how much money you have. Holy hell, just ask for "what to do if I win the lottery"

Step two is to find new friends. No, not to ditch your old ones; for being relative to you, poor, but to find other millionaires you can bitch about "zeroth world problems" with. If I told my friends that my Ferrari is going to take 2 years because there's a list, they're not going to have the remotest bit of sympathy, OR be able to help in any way. But if you make friend ym who are in that scene, they'll at least remember what it was like for them to get their first one, and maybe let you borrow theirs. (obviously Ferrari's aren't everyone's thing. The point is not the specifc brand, or even cars in general, but that, rich or poor, find community that you share interest with. You don't have to, but you can develop new, previously too expensive hobbies and will need new people who like those hobbies.

Form a foundation through which to give money that doesn't have your name on it. It'll come in handy for GoFundMe's for people you liked before you got rich. The anonymous button still gives your name to the organizer.

Take some time off to get utterly bored of not working. It's fun for a bit, but it gets old. After that, go find a job. Doesn't have to be a full time job,
doesn't have to be paid, doesn't have to have anything to do with your. previous career, but trust me, you'll get bored having nothing to do eventually and need something.

One thing sticks out in that article though, and that's not doing something because Elon's cringe. If someone had said how cringe it is to record a video yourself reading slides, would he be where he is today?

Don't be Elon if you don't want to, but if you want to work on robotics, go work on robotics. Who gives a shit what that egomaniac does?

The bigger advice there is find a therapist and talk it through with them. find one through your new wealthy friends for someone that's experience in your new problems. Just like there are therapists rush specialize in bullying or sexual abuse or divorce, there are those who specialize in other areas.
To note, IP is only a part of it, and the full extent of what's baked into a CF score will never be explicited (for obvious reasons).

CloudFront being way past the simple blocking of IP addresses, I wouldn't be surprised if a mismatch between your IP block and your language/cookies would be enough to lower your score.
I have used a lot of RDBMS vs NoSQL solutions and I love SQL Server. I have used and written services consuming/reporting/processing thousands of transactions per second and billions of euro per year.

The profiling abilities of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and its query execution insights, the overall performance and scalability, T-SQL support, in-memory OLTP, and temporal tables - I just love SQL Server.

I'm not sure if it's just that I learned SQL Server better in college than MySQL, Mongo or Postgres but it's just been an amazing UX dev experience throughout the years.

Granted, there's some sticky things in SQL Server, like backups/restores aren't as simple as I'd like, things like distributed transactions aren't straightforward, and obviously the additional licensing cost is a burden particularly for newer/smaller projects, but the juice is worth the squeeze IMHO.
in similar situations, instead of saying "VERBOSE=1", I say "VERBOSE=getenv("MY_NAME_MY_APP_VERBOSE") == '1'", and set this env variable in my terminal when needed. This way there is zero chance I commit verbose-enabled debug code.
tried out ghostty but its still missing some key features like cmd+F for searching. sadly sticking with iterm for now
Copyright infringement can also be a criminal offense, in some cases, in the US.
I like the highly configurable quake mode in iTerm2.
Oooh, I forgot about this. Only thing I can think of is something like:

1. Assume that some values can be treated internally as "physical register plus a small immediate"

2. Assume that, in some cases, a physical register is known to be zero and the value can be represented as "zero plus a small immediate" (without reference to a physical register?)

3. Since 'count' is always expected to be <64, you technically don't need to use a physical register for it (since the immediate bits can always just be carried around with the name).

4. The 3-cycle case occurs when the physical register read cannot be optimized away??

(Or maybe it's just that the whole shift operation can occur at rename in the fast case??)
Indeed, and it is better at continental scale: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...

France, albeit enjoying even better offshore wind potential than the UK, is even worse as it only starts to deploy turbine fleets.
brother, the answer is kids
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On top of that: some examples of the kinds of problems miniKanren can solve, based on real world examples rather than purely abstract concepts (e.g. "given a set of available air flights with origins, destinations, and prices, find me the cheapest way to get from Seattle to London")
Man, this thread is a bit silly. Not having to worry about finances is a fucking miracle for most people.

I'd happily trade places with the OP, because there is so much I already do and would do even more with the free time.

Completely un-relatable. I have come across a sum of money once before, it was stressful initially but it gave us free time.

People saying money makes things harder, what a fucking stupid thing to say. Money makes EVERYTHING easier.

Learning for 1, I love learning. Being with family, and letting them have more free time. Starting an animal rescue shelter. Tinkering with retro-electronics. Hiking and walking entire countries and writing about it.
brother, just have kids
HDPE Nalgenes (branded "Ultralite") are my standard water bottle. Unlike the clear plastic sort, they're not see-through, nor very heat/impact resistant, but they weigh next to nothing. Just don't use 'em as a hot water bottle.
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Probably needs to develop a soul first.

NPCs don’t actually exist outside of video games, those are real human beings.

Not sure what to do with all that wealth? Try asking one of those NPCs… spend a day with each one of them, learn what being human actually is
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Do you have children? If not, it's a great use of time, especially without financial pressure
The other child comments are responding with how to obtain this in a way that is of questionable legality, which I think is not what you are asking. The officially blessed Microsoft way is essentially not available to non-enterprise customers, and it's only available to some subset of enterprise customers from my understanding. And that the cost to acquire the license is quite expensive.
>don't want to have a kid of my own blood. But I want to adopt

Can you elaborate? This is totally alien to me. It basically defeats the point. There must be some monstrous self-loathing involved?
Okay, I have a wild idea for you.

You need adventure.

As others have said, you also need a hobby.

Consider how rapamycin was discovered, by scientists traveling to distant Rapa Nui and sampling soil. There are lots of truly wild places left on Earth -- most of Papua New Guinea, the northwestern Bolivian Amazon, the deep interior of the DRC, to name but few -- places where civilization has yet to touch. Go out there, discover new plant and insect species, and fingerprint plant and soil samples. You might find some very interesting and commercially-useful small molecules. But, more importantly, it would be a lot of fun.

You'd need a team, but that shouldn't be too difficult to assemble.

It's what I would do if I had absolute freedom.
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