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Post by jack_pp »

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

Find something you don't like about the world and try to fix it. Your financial situation gives you a lot of freedom to pursue either tough projects or thankless (money wise) projects like open source. For me there's no better satisfaction than knowing I contributed something to make the world a better place

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Post by chirau »

gitfan86 wrote: post #661
chirau wrote: post #645

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When people say "enough money so that they don't have to work anymore", what kind of money are we talking about here? 1 to 10M? 10 to 20M? or what?

In general you can leave your money in the stock market and take out 4% a year and expect that to continue forever. Obviously there is no guarantee on that but it has held true for 60+ years. If your expenses are 40k/year you only need 1M to retire. 20M would get you 800k/year.

I doubt 1M is anywhere close to the figure. And 40k in expenses? What kind of life would you be living? My rent alone is more than that.

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Post by TylerLives »

sweuder wrote: post #694
baylessj wrote: post #660

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another aimless 24 year-old here, count me in!

I would also be interested in this, but I am 25, but likely just as aimless. Hope that still works!

Almost 24. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'll make the logo.

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Post by gustavpaul »

melenaos wrote: post #390
gpaul wrote: post #276

I've been steadily sinking deeper into Go (the board game, not the PL) for the last few years. I keep thinking that my enthusiasm for it will dry up soon, but it just keeps increasing. The depth is immense, every few months I feel like I'm swimming along the bottom of the ocean, then I come to a continental shelf and as I stare into the depths below, I realize that I've only explored the shallows, I dive, and leave t…

I was in love with Go when i was younger, i have even created an AI that played using some rules, not an algorithm. But when i created again the same game with AlphaBeta algorithm, i just quit the game. No matter how good you are the computer can predict all the moves, and win you no matter how good you become.

I don't really find that to be an issue - regardless of how good computers get, there would always be thousands of people better than me anyway. It is a personal discovery journey for me, like exploring a new mountain that others know well already.

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Post by gustavpaul »

hairui wrote: post #283
gpaul wrote: post #276

I've been steadily sinking deeper into Go (the board game, not the PL) for the last few years. I keep thinking that my enthusiasm for it will dry up soon, but it just keeps increasing. The depth is immense, every few months I feel like I'm swimming along the bottom of the ocean, then I come to a continental shelf and as I stare into the depths below, I realize that I've only explored the shallows, I dive, and leave t…

what levels have those "shelves" occurred at?

Hmm - well I still feel relatively n00b as a 3k. For me the most prominent ones were

15/16k: I think that's the moment I started evaluating different moves instead of just playing what looked best and hoping I pick better ones than my opponent.

12k: discover first bits of wholeboard thinking

9k: discover first vague ideas around direction of play

6k: discover tenuki / sacrificing locally for global benefit, leaning attacks

6k-4k: reading, basic haengma (moving with shape and speed)

4k-3k: life&death, reading

3k-: I'm approaching 2k mainly by making my group strong before attacking, attacking to push around not kill

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Post by yekm »

Last couple of years I feel like my pet projects are more important for my general well being than money gathering.

I started making "smart"[0] bird feeder 2 years ago. First year I was taking photo of the birds (early posts in telegram channel[1]) and lately I switched to video [2]

https://github.com/For-The-Birds

https://t.me/moscow_birds

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP-589PnZE3i-l2lsRh0sqw

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by gitfan86 »

chirau wrote: post #712
gitfan86 wrote: post #661

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In general you can leave your money in the stock market and take out 4% a year and expect that to continue forever. Obviously there is no guarantee on that but it has held true for 60+ years. If your expenses are 40k/year you only need 1M to retire. 20M would get you 800k/year.

I doubt 1M is anywhere close to the figure. And 40k in expenses? What kind of life would you be living? My rent alone is more than that.

It depends on the person.

There are a lot of people in the world who make $18/hour. This would cover their expenses. On the other hand someone like Bill Gates or Jeffrey Bezos have much higher expenses to you.

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Post by Zababa »

joshxyz wrote: post #581
dcz_self wrote: post #474

Too many ideas given the time, but now I'm focused on two: 1. Building an open source bicycle computer. It's been over 20 years since they arrived at the scene, and there still isn't one that you could hack! An outrage! No published sources yet, I'm getting stuck on not having much experience building physical things. 2. Getting rid of the directory hierarchy. I have 10K photos, 30K emails, 10000km of GPS tracks, and…

Maybe the answer is tags/attributes for filtering, instead of nested directories? Could be more tedious but given the image recognition ArTiFiCiAl iNtElLiGeNcE maybe it could be easier

I think it is. Directory hierarchies are trees, tags are graphs. Trees are great when you need to optimise the physical retrieving time, but don't map well to stuff like pictures. For example, tags of who is in the picture are way better than making folders by person. Same thing for places.

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Post by bloaf »

I have slowly collected a large (several million file) ebook library from open directories over the past few years. I am now trying to set up a search solution for it.

Recoll doesn't seem to work well headless, so I am taking a look at: https://github.com/ICIJ/datashare

which claims to be able to do some distributed indexing.

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