skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pros:

- accelerated responsibility, especially early in career

- making something new

- little bureaucracy

- credentials matter less

- can be more fun

Cons:

- typically inexperienced, inept management

- longer hours, higher instability, and lower comp even if the startup pays off. Not quite the worst of all worlds but it's getting there.

- lack of transparency about cap table and what options are worth. 90% of my colleagues don’t even know about liquidation preferences. We expect early employees to make investor-level decisions with employee-level information

- exits are rare or perpetually delayed. even acquisitions may mean nothing if you aren’t a good fit at the acquiring bigco and are let go before vesting (and if you were a fit, why were you at a startup?)

- chaos, stress

- typically hostile environment for URMs, monthly HR disasters

- distorting effects of investor prejudices, expectations

- SFBA-centricity; locks out the vast majority of founders and potential employees, and very high costs for early startup employees

You asked for solutions but I doubt many of these are easily fixable. Maybe we have to accept that startups just aren't a rational career path to maximize wealth. And especially for Americans, it's incredibly risky to try a startup, unless you come from a very privileged background.

The fact that startups are chaotic and run by inexperienced people seems to be a given. Unless you go to a "studio" model where you have a stable team of professionals spinning out startup-like projects all the time. Some people are trying that but IDK if it's ever worked.

Transparency about how funding and options work would be trivial to solve. But the founders, board, and investors all have the incentive to keep it hard to understand. But maybe YC could set new norms here, somehow.

It might help if YC's alumni network included more URMs. I know you're trying to fix that.

And maybe this is harder but at least at the startups I've worked at, there's been a lot of wasted effort simply in order to satisfy what various investors want this month. But I've never worked for a YC company so maybe it's better there.

One possible mitigating factor to all of the above would be for the whole startup ecosystem to be more remote-friendly. The compensation starts to make sense if you have nationalized healthcare and don't have to pay SFBA rent and aren't in the running for other SFBA jobs anyway.
Speaking of spinning pizzas, I think Dominos needs to work on their pizza ordering user interface.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-story-of-sun-microsystems...
Parallels Desktop 13 Pre Cracked [Business Edition]
I would add that there is some added risk (impossible to quantify) to being an early employee in 2018 as it seems that we are coming to the end of a macro cycle. Therefore the likelihood of a positive outcome (or surviving follow-on rounds) for a start-up in a down environment is lower than if it was earlier in a cycle. The obvious caveat being that if this bull market continues - this point is moot.
Uh...Wells Fargo is probably one of the worst banks out there. To the point where anybody still banking with them probably hasn't been paying attention.
It has absolutely nothing to do with driving above the speed limit -as a matter of fact driving at a completely legal 120km/h won't use anywhere near as much fuel because you are travelling pretty fast and not accelerating anymore, so the consumption will be decent.

But try accelerating from every stop in the city all the way to the redline, pedal to the floor, but never going above 50km/h - you would never go above the speed limit, but the tank would disappear in no time at all. I'm certain that if I tried I could burn the entire 50L tank of the Polo in ~250km, by just keeping it in high revs and accelerating hard(as hard as you can in a 90bhp Polo anyway) and frequently. The injectors will happily keep feeding the engine more and more fuel as you do this, while diesel common rail systems have almost a hard limit of how much fuel they can inject - no matter what you do you won't go above certain values.
This is from a 4 socket Xeon E7-4860 with 64 ram slots(16 in use)

e7-4860:~ Mon Jun 11
03:06 PM william$ numactl --hardware
available: 4 nodes (0-3)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49
node 0 size: 16035 MB
node 0 free: 1306 MB
node 1 cpus: 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
node 1 size: 16125 MB
node 1 free: 3237 MB
node 2 cpus: 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69
node 2 size: 16125 MB
node 2 free: 11004 MB
node 3 cpus: 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79
node 3 size: 16123 MB
node 3 free: 12044 MB
node distances:
node 0 1 2 3
0: 10 20 20 20
1: 20 10 20 20
2: 20 20 10 20
3: 20 20 20 10

The chart at the bottom of the output is the weight for accessing a memory pool from a CPU socket. This is the most important part of the output.

On this server, CPU socket 0 is hardwired to ram slots 0-15

CPU 1 to ram slots 16-31

CPU 2 to ram slots 32-47

CPU 3 to ram slots 48-63

If CPU 0 wanted to read something outside of its local ram slots, it would have execute something on CPU n, then copy that segment to its local ram group.
I personally stick with Silicon Labs CP210x devices ever since I had bad luck with Prolific. I avoid FTDI chips as well because of the aggressive anti-consumer behavior of FTDI in regards to their drivers.
GStreamer CI support for embedded devices
LOL. But the new $5 doesn't seem Spock-resistant either:

https://mightymega.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/spock_2-62...
I think I can answer this because I asked this to Elon Musk around a year ago. Billionaires have higher anxiety and relentless stress. They just hide it from the world. Many develop mental diseases such as anxiety, disorders etc. Here is a link to my conversation with Elon Musk:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/08/03/elon-musk-a...
If you read the article, the testbed is a ranch. This tech may already be used to deny access to public lands, and such use will certainly get more common.
I’m generally pretty privacy conscious, but not about my location data. What worries you about that?
There are quite a few online US banks that don't handle cash. Ally, Schwab are just a couple names that come to mind. They offer very competitive savings rates and perks.
Didn't they rename to SonarQube though? All of SonarSource's products are named Sonar.*, which is unfortunate but in theory there should be no collisions on a Google search.
Not in most places. They have specially delivery cars that are compact and have a built in pizza heater on the side.
The difference is a percentage of people purposely buy more cryptocurrency than they can afford expressly because they think they will be able to sell it for more than they paid before the bill is due. Essentially the house flipping craze of the mid 2000s, but with credit cards and cryptocurrencies.

No one thinks a $100 Best Buy card will be worth more than $100 in the future, so people don't load up on them looking to make a buck.
Cash-equivalent gift cards.
Having worked at both a Fortune 500 software company, and a small valley startup with good funding, I can speak to this issue.

On the matter of working at a startup:

PROS:

- You have a much larger impact on the product. Often times you may be working solo on a very significant part of the product. If you enjoy this feeling of autonomy, this is a major plus.

I list this as a major PLUS because at the large company I worked for, I felt like a "cog in the wheel". I could easily be replaced. Despite doing good work, I was just one of many who could do the same work. I could only "own" a small portion of the application.

- You have a chance to make money on the exit. Assuming you got stock options as part of your hiring agreement.

CONS:

- Jack of all trades, master of none.

You will be asked to wear multiple hats. In my case that has meant I was hired to do one X, but actually ended up doing Y, and Z in addition to some X. Specifically, that meant learning new programming languages, new domains, etc.

I list this as a major CON. While it can be very good to learn new languages / domains, I think you should do this on your own "track". Learning a new programing language on the job, especially at a startup, can be quite stressful when you're expected to also PRODUCE.

On the other hand, learning it on the job can give you some of the most practical experience in the shortest amount of time. So this one can be a double edged sword. In general, if you are YOUNG in your career, this is GOOD. If you are middle, to late in your career, avoid a startup for this reason. (Don't stop learning. Rather, find a mastery of one domain, and make that your day job while keeping up your abilities in other areas).

- On all the time. Your coworkers will be working weekends. That can mean that when you aren't working, you feel like you should be.

- You'll never feel like you can take a vacation. Take them anyways. But you will feel guilty, and like you're asking a lot to take a week here or there. At a big company, this is "PTO" and you either have the days available, or you don't. Take the time if you have it, because you have a large team that can cover for you.

- You'll never feel like you can leave, as the business hugely depends on you.
The differences are very small. I use both, nvim for programming, and vim for everything else. This is for no real reason - it's just turned out that way. Some programming-related plugins I use work better on neovim, although there are also some where it's smoother sailing on vanilla.

I rarely notice any difference whatsoever in terms of behaviour.
it's precisely true; but I get your gist. if you enjoy writing that much cloudformation then by all means have a good time!
The issue is whether greater fluid intelligence is better or not for a particular job and whether crystallized intelligence plays any role. Who is better as a linux kernel developer: Linus Torvalds who is 48 but has 28 years of active involvement in the Linux kernel or a 22 year old who has 2 years involvement in writing code for the Linux kernel?

Perhaps a 50 year old wouldn't be your first choice for a startup who is looking at a blank slate for their codebase. But there just aren't that many companies who are starting the platform completely from scratch.
Is... is the rest of the site with the dinosaurs your work as well?
You actually get to do something meaningful, at least to the company.

vs working at one of the big companies and doing fuck all.
Of course that could be the case. But I don't assume that. I ask. I'm trying to find the optimal solution.

There are other valid reasons for restricting the IP. I ask about those. I'm not arguing with the customer. I'm trying to be helpful.

Unless the customer doesn't want help.
No, you're getting downvoted because Wells Fargo themselves have committed fraud against their customers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_scan...

I really hope your comment was just a joke that is being poorly received.
I’ve been in the UK about ten days, and spent less than £10 of the cash I withdrew on the same day, while having spent well in excess of £500 retail
Its important for everyone to know that the existence of non-existence of the Obama-era NN rules had no bearing on what most people think net neutrality did. (read: Those rules did nothing for consumer protection). ISPs were free to opt-out of those rules if they so chose to do so.

https://techliberation.com/2017/07/12/heres-why-the-obama-fc...
Can I be the antagonist here?

I simply want a free market for the internet. Stop with government intervention on both sides. Simply protect the consumer and let the free market take over.

Who cares if companies like netflix get charged more? It will allow another competitor to bubble up since Netflix will start adjusting their prices. This works. Its called capitalism.

In theory, simply look at Lasik. Lasik 5 years ago, used to be 5k an eye. Now I can get it from a Pandora commercial for just $200.00. Thats capitalism. It drove prices down. I expect the same thing to happen with this. Competition will drive prices down quickly. It also allows the providers like Cox or Verizon to invest in their infrastructure. EVERYONE knows we are way behind Japan and other countries with our infrastructure.

Let people decide with their dollars, rather than the government deciding.
The biggest pro IMO is that you get to see how a startup is built without having to take all the risk as a founder. Not everyone is in a position to jump in to a risk taking venture on their own, or have the ideas that lead them there. This includes not just the technology, but also a wide exposure to product, marketing, sales, finance and the investment ecosystem.
What is a good tool to block cookies and JavaScript on specific non-GDPR sites?
I generally do concent to adverts etc on sites that allow me to opt in. However there is a worrying number of sites which have wording like the following:

To use [sitename] you must agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy.

I basically want to block cookies and Javascript on only those sites that make it mandatory - and only on those sites (it's a stupid principled thing I know).
I stopped reading when he attempted to conflate 1,580 psi at the battery (source) level, with blast pressure of 20 psi on a (target) concrete structure damaging it.
Why guess? The FBI has a full battery of statistics on anything and everything gun related, including CCW license holders.

https://www.gunstocarry.com/concealed-carry-statistics/conce...
And now a story on the front page about her mom!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280561
If I understand the ruling corretl, this has become illegal in the EU recently.

It's been against the rules (card network? clearinghouse? not sure) for a long time in the United States, too. But it still happens.

As an example, a bookstore I was in a couple of weekends ago had a sign at the cash register notifying people that all transactions incur a 4% "customer service fee." There was a sign immediately below that one noting that there is a 4% discount for paying with cash.

Where there's a will, there's a way.
There is, mostly on the merchant side and generally only with cash-equivalent gift cards.

Buy enough of those and your bank is likely to shut you down. FlyerTalk is full of threads about this. There used to be a number of easy ways to buy Visa gift cards and then cash them out to your bank account. You could send a couple thousand bucks in a circle earning points off each purchase.
If you have businesses, not dealing with cash means you never have to deal with employees stealing cash, errors in counting and taxes, and very minute risk of your business being robbed (for cash).

Could also result in more customers transactions since you can process them faster if you have a simplified payment stream.
I disagree about the pie-in-the-sky-ness but that's a fair thing to disagree about and I don't see myself being able to convince you otherwise on a messageboard. what I don't see as fair is pretending that there is such a thing as forcefully removing large amounts of impoverished people (who ostensibly do not have better options) from the country as being possible in a way that doesn't result in large amounts of deaths (either from our police state or from the conditions that caused them to emigrate in the first place, conditions that have, incidentally, been primarily caused by american empire). I also don't think that, given the nature of our law enforcement, it won't be the case that the additional enforcement of these laws isn't just going to be used to disrupt labor organizing or political action that tries to decrease the amount of power held by capital. I agree that pretending there's a gray area only helps the rich but I disagree that enforcing laws that are fundamentally broken and that primarily exist to serve capital is a viable solution either.

I have no problem with reformist solutions, but there's no worker-friendly way to arbitrarily deport workers that's an intermediate to a future that's good for anyone but the rich
I'm doing graph clustering, where stories are connected by shared terms, so I'm ranking based on the weight of the edges to a story inside the cluster. The terms are weighted by frequency over all the stories in the system with the intention of prioritizing articles contain a lot of specific terms that look like they're related to the story.
Also, it's Uber - Brand isn't comparable.
I only bought my crypto with credit because I wanted the reward points.

I paid my bill off the same day my purchase cleared.

Why can't we just use the existing credit reporting system to manage risk here? Those 22% of investors that were unable to pay off their debt can just suffer a blow to their credit score for irresponsible spending.

Spending credit on crypto isn't a sign of risky behavior - spending more than you can pay off and failing to pay off what is owed is.
Your own link describes roads as generally nonexcludable:

Once a road is built, it is difficult to exclude people, although toll roads can exclude nonpayers.

Taking the definition to the extreme makes it no longer useful. Yes, technically you could make a road exclusionary and rivalrous. But their nature tends nonexclusionary and nonrivalrous. "Public good" is really an observation about whether something is more suited to private or public ownership, rather than some kind of strict legal term.
30 here with a lesson for younger guys. Ask for more compensation not stock options. If you’re offered stock options ask if they can swap it for an increase in compensation.

You vest slow, you may be fired before they vest, hell, the company may go under before they are even worth something.

Take the money.

Or take stock a few times and learn the lesson the hard way.
Practically speaking: A long-running transaction is one that issues BEGIN, locks some rows, then blocks on other network input, and finally COMMIT. Once a day/week/month that input arrives very slowly and the COMMIT happens minutes or hours after the BEGIN.
Correction -- Dial-up ISPs have been under Title II since the 80s up until 2005.
https://careers.google.com/
Show HN: Summarized Startup Case Studies
That make sense. You can't, in general, buy money with a credit card.
That's true in America too. (You have to have both halves in your possession, of course).
The FCC actually changed the definition of an ISP so that cellular and satellite providers are included. Meaning according to official FCC statistics your area is swarming with competition, in spite of having just a single wired ISP.

In fact according to official statistics, even rural areas with zero wired internet options have a great competitive landscape. Let that sink in...
The problem is that since we are drawn to startups, we tend to read material about startup by startups. And startups would never say joining one is bad, since they need employees. And they would never make it easily known that founders get most of the benefits here. They throw things around like "great culture" and "office perks" but at the end of the day, they walk away with millions and you walk away wiser. Saying you're the next Google is like saying you're the next Buffett - the numbers make it too unrealistic for an early employee to do well.
That's what plants crave!
One real reason to add distribution is for geographic redundancy or other high availability use cases. At the core of distributed databases is a distributed stream. Here's a comparison between the performance of logical timestamps vs atomic clocks for consistency management. https://blog.fauna.com/distributed-consistency-at-scale-span...

Of course these streams are more rigid than the kind the article discusses, but the tradeoffs are similar, and anyone architecting streams should know about the state of the art in database distribution.
In addition to the risk and opportunity cost and work-life balance issues that everyone's already mentioned: immature organizations. Both in the sense that the organization itself hasn't yet matured and that the people running the show are often immature.

This is particularly prohibitive for underrepresented groups - a combination of colleagues too inexperienced to know what professional behavior actually looks like, nobody more experienced to model better behavior, and nobody to turn to when things go horribly, toxically wrong.

The superfund site cases are thankfully rare, tho we've seen a few of them discussed here. Even some of the big names (Uber and GitHub come to mind) have hit the news with significant issues that have made employees feel marginalized. And that's just the ones that have made the news. Even if the problems are relegated to only 5% of the startups out there, that's a risk for a job seeker.

Moreover, the weird kool-ade assumption that the team has to all bond and be best friends and voluntarily go out for beers twice a week as long as the company is <25 people is off-putting. Especially for those of us who are more than 3 years out of college and already have friend networks and in many cases families we want to spend time with instead.

I would also mention that there are some things startups are great for in terms of learning, especially as a junior. You get exposure to a lot of things, the chance to wear different hats, challenges that in a larger company you'd be sheltered from by the presence of seniors.

But a very small company isn't always great for mentorship, especially in management. (My experience with management at early stage startups has been awful.) Even when management is excellent, startups are typically too small to have layers of management and opportunity to learn leadership and management skills.

Further, startups tend to be devoid of opportunity for advancement or promotion within the company unless they manage to grow very quickly - which is rare.

And when they do grow quickly, they typically grow too quickly to grow well. Hiring too quickly to preserve culture. Outgrowing processes and then taking 18 months to realize it. Hiring incompetents or toxic personalities because they can't find enough bodies to fill the seats at the at-best-median salaries offered.

And then there's the inevitable 18 month long "we'll be out of runway" death march. Never again.
Both of those banks do in fact handle cash - through ATMs. Note in the article, one of the options banks could employ for handling cash would be ATMs, indicating that not all banks do...
from: https://neovim.io/doc/user/nvim_terminal_emulator.html

"In [terminal] mode all keys
except <C-\><C-N> are sent to the underlying program. Use <C-\><C-N> to return
to normal-mode."
Agreed. I always think of the greek word "arete", which (as I understand it) means roughly achieving excellence and living up to your potential.

I'm currently at a big co (though not really a "tech" one, so can't speak to FAANG) and can relate to many of these. I can def see the attraction in taking less money in order to have a better shot at achieving excellence.
As far as I know, the only bank that fully bans mortgage payments is American Express, I've use my Citi card to pay my mortgage when Plastiq has discounted fees from time to time.
Type systems. Granted, it may not be US politics, but it can produce heated conversations short on light.
Running find/replace: “Service” with “Object”
He's coming off a crack-binge. Pay no mind.
Cite your claim. He strengthened it. Obama admin didn't actually implement any consumer protection.
It's a very emacsy idea. I think, for better or worse, vim is centered around the goal of making a better editor. Emacs is centered around making a portable universe.

To be honest, I don't really like having a 'terminal' in vim. It makes more sense to just use the terminal, which is like, right there, one ctrl-z away.