skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned to code at 33.

I am now working full time in the field. Before that, I was a sysadmin. I worked as a sysadmin from about age 20. I understood ops coming in and this let me punch above my weight.

It took about a year for me to get good enough to apply for jobs.

I would now be considered a good developer by most standards. This only happened because I found a fantastic mentor. He took me under his wing and pulled me up.

I have since introduced my non-technical brother and encouraged him to start learning to code. After about a year of effort he is starting his first full time job in the field next week.

It is possible and very doable.

Find a mentor early though to fast track the learning process.

Other notes based on other comments:

- My brother and I both value critical thinking and apply it naturally. We didn't work in creative fields previously.

- We both settled on early mornings to study while managing our other lives (work/family) (5am).

- I don't have a post secondary degree. Brother does in unrelated field.

- Don't get hung up on "which language and ecosystem to learn". Pick one. Your work will ultimately dictate these things to you and you'll need to adapt. You can pick up a new language quickly.

- Get good a networking (people to people). If you can talk to people, you can get a job in tech.

- Find a mentor or a friend you can talk to about programming and computers. It's more fun and keeps you thinking about it.

- Open your editor every day. Even if you're just reading code for 10 minutes. It sucks coming back two days later and realizing that it's slipping.

- Be kind to yourself. This stuff is complicated.
I tried, but didn't have anywhere near the same luck.

Hey, I made $5 off the Mona Lisa, though!

https://jerseyfonseca.com/blogs/nft
Before anyone gets too excited, check the bottom comments.
100% agree. I find this is problem particularly acute in Data Science / Machine Learning / AI.
The more Dalio gets public, the more I'm doubting his game.

His book ''principles'' is interesting, however with time its starting to look like an elaborate marketing plan. I have no doubt that he his serious about his principles and business culture, but there are second order effects to make everyting public. In the case of his firm culture (which claims to be an idea meritocracy), it will attract certain kind of people.

The same can be said about marketing his financial views. The guy is already rich. He is smart. Why does he needs to post everything on linkedin, suddenly?

I have a hard time understanding the underlying strategy of his public persona. Earlier this year he made a long post about the way he used his principles to deal with the accidental death of his son. I mean, why would he do that?

Does he wants people to think like him? Why?
Don't sell yourself out for money unless you need to. Figure out the amount of money you would like to make then if your at not getting paid that at CurrentCo go find a darling SV company, unicorn, or a FAANG+Microsoft and switch to an IC role at one of those companies and get paid better.

Going into management for money is a terrible reason to become a manager...

Unless of course your goal is executive management... but that's very different from engineering management.
Scala Engineer – remote within UK – permanent – £55-65k
Heritage Foundation? Rand Corporation? Cato Institute? American Enterprise Institute? The institutional right is unimaginably huge and well-funded. Half of them even have "institute" in the name.
Subconscious bias is the modern day original sin.

It's creepily similar to the indoctrination technique of teaching people they are evil and can only be redeemed by following <belief system of choice>.
I think protecting side-loading would be a sensible regulation to fix the situation of app-store gatekeeping.

On the hosting side I think it's a bit different. For instance if AWS wants to kick an app off of their platform, there should be a legally mandated warning escalation process, and cloud providers should be required to give clients a reasonable amount of time to migrate their product to a different provider before kicking them off (maybe even 6 months to a couple years). I also think there should be some limits to which reason a hosting provider can use to evict a client from their platform, at least when they reach a certain size. It's very difficult to be competitive in the current market without access to cloud hosting, and there are only a few serious options available in this space, so it should be a very high standard required to remove someone from this type of service.

And then for services like DNS providers, I think they should have to act as unbiased infrastructure, and should not be allowed to deny service for any reason short of a court order.
This reads a bit like the dismissal of SQLite comes down to a desire not to do any data modeling at all, which seems a bit silly in a discussion about standard formats and schemas. Obviously you shouldn’t put your data into a single hard coded “column per feature” table. So the limitation of “only” 2000 columns is really just there to nudge you in a better direction.
> Thus it is a useful reminder of the implicit bias that contributes to the lack of diversity in tech.

This is a useful reminder. It's a reminder that associative thinking can invert causal relationships and turn anything into a symbol for anything else. There is no rational limit to things that can be attacked this way. Someone can demand you to change the way you talk or dress, what you read or watch, how you do your job. The changes themselves can be anything and the only limit to their extent is your willingness to say no.

And by the way, don't ever forget who is enforcing this. This is not your coworker individually asking you do something differently to accommodate them. This is coming top-down from one of largest tech corporation in the world.
Just use rsync.net. All you really need is a secure SSH accessible system with the git suite. Publishing a website is not necessary since you can browse code locally through git-web.
When I look up to the sky at night I just see reflections of the lights emitted by my city. It often is an orange glow.
Which features are the ones that you like the most in clickup and not in others?
That makes more sense then.
Will Workers Disperse from Cities?
This could be very interesting to me. But no specs on CPU makes me scared this will be a raspberry pi case.
Autonomous Exploration of Subterranean Lakes; Moon/Mars Lava Tubes (2020, Video)
American is not going to start the slave trade again because we stopped using the word "master" in software engineering
Certainly the movie is a bit exaggerated, but I'm not sure what your exact point of contention is with that scenario?

OTC or seldom traded securities may not operate in the same way that a highly traded stock like Apple does from a price standpoint. For a boutique security that is created for a customer, the price is whatever the market is willing to pay - but the discovery of that price can quite literally happen over the phone because in the market there might only be one customer and if you sell to them... that's the price!

So assuming that Michael Burry (in this instance) actually had Goldman Sachs create a boutique security, price discovery may very well have happened over the phone in just such a manner. I don't know the details but I'm also not sure why you would think that this can't happen? Please feel free to educate me. I don't know much about professional investing either.
The $100 a year ensures that trash doesn’t litter the App Store and also supports the ongoing development of tooling and management of the store (manual review, Xcode, documentation, distribution, APIs like Metal, etc).

If you’re not committed enough to releasing something with >$100 in value or not committed to releasing something high quality, the App Store doesn’t need you or your app - period.

As a user (and as a dev), I like this. The bar does not need to be lower.

Also if you look at a platform like Unity, the Hobbyist license is $25 a month and the Pro license is $125 a month.
Not on this site, but I sold a copy of the Mona Lisa for $5

Https://jerseyfonseca.com/blogs/nft

There's nothing stopping people from doing this. V.cent.co does a decent job, though.
Twitter can ban a US president but not an Iran president?

I think it's not about just formal power, but also about political affiliation.
How much does wikipedia need to operate and how much are the donations?

I kept donating every year for the past several years, but I wonder if I should continue to do so.

As other commenters mentioned, the dark patterns make me reluctant to donate in the future, and this move potentially too.
Ironically, anti-racism is sounding awfully like racism to me. But maybe that's just my colour-blind self...
I'm not a member of those companies' boards, so I could not say. I suspect because they're politically aligned with the "soundbite" message presented by the leadership of the riots, and that their marketing teams calculated it is beneficial for PR purposes. Useful Innocents.
> OpenWRT is no panacea. It generally doesn't support higher throughput modes in wireless radios in said routers and I need these features

I doubt this generalization is true. With OpenWRT, you're generally screwed if your router uses Broadcom WiFi, or you get full speed from the other common radio vendors. My Qualcomm-based 802.11ac router running OpenWRT has no trouble maintaining link rates of 866Mbps or higher with several devices in my home (5GHz band, 80MHz channel).
4-5 ideologically homogenous corporations that increasingly buy into a fundamentalist religion-in-all-but-name.
>The thing I’d add is that it’s not just consumer-grade products with this problem, there are plenty of supposedly professional-grade devices where the firmware is junk too.

Absolutely. An example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8DjTcANBx0

There are $5000 security cameras placed in very sensitive areas with security just as poor as the $50 trash you can buy from Office Depot (or at least it was the case 8 years ago).
Aside from the issues with the images others have mentioned, it would be more convincing if they had a native speaker go over their copy.

>The JingPad Keyboard is inspired by the Apple Magic Keyboard for the iPads. It is a full-size 6 rows keyboard just for productivity!
One power of Spring Boot , non-xml based code is using an IDE like intelliJ for refactoring/navigation. XML is hard to refactor/navigate if you're dealing with 1000s of files.
> We seem to have an entire generation of people who think "stonks can only go up"

I'm not denying the existence of bubbles, busts, and crashes, but historically and on average, the stock market does only go up.

This market is overvalued and will likely correct, but that doesn't mean it won't continue to rise on the aggregate.
I don’t think government regulation of software distribution will prevent censorship.
Finding a job with higher pay or a better work environment makes the rest of that team (and possibly members of other teams) reconsider staying.

Personal anecdata: one person leaving a team of 10-20 caused 3-5 other people to either leave or re-negotiate in private. In extreme cases, this triggers a chain reaction.
> Well the whole "public static void main(String[] args)" thing took me about 8ish months to understand everything in just that statement.

Yeah, that's exactly what I mean about jargon. Even the idea that you have to hardcode what appears at first to be a string of magic words is not very accessible.

> JavaScript, jquery, json, and xml also were another hurdle.

Another area where things are made needlessly difficult - you really shouldn't have to worry about /how/ your data is being transferred (JSON/XML), just that you are in fact transferring it. JS versus jQuery is a bit more of a legitimate concern, but thinking about them in terms of their function rather than what they "are" (JS being general coding and jQuery being a tool for manipulating HTML/CSS) clears it up a big.

> Now my main struggle is LINQ expressions and streams.

I can't help with LINQ but I use streams all the time - what about them are you struggling with? Maybe I can help.
"Either do some real shit or stay silent. Stay the fuck out of our way and don’t pretend you care. Then we can all get on with our lives."

In general a brilliant writing.
There's no shortage of apps of any kind in Apple's store as far as I can see. I would say the same is true of the Play store. There are some exclusives on each platform though, but nothing without competitor.

FWIW, I avoid free apps and apps with subscriptions as much as I can.
Everybody lies on exit interviews. You mostly don't want to burn bridges and frequently will need some references. So HR departments have 0 useful information as to why people are leaving and even less about the costs of having developers go.
How did you get mentor?
I'd actually argue that Android users have more options, thus the market price for apps is reduced by the amount of supply.

When you're looking for a "Todo" app, there's 1000's on Android, and many or most are free. Many people might be better served by a quality app, but when the alternatives are good enough, it's a hard sell.
Aren't there some aggregators that group posts from various instances, rate them and match their contents with user preferences?
Related: Gell Mann Amnesia

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
Well now that casts this in a significantly different light. I have read that T-cell response is much more labor intensive to measure than antibodies, but it seems to not uncommonly tell a very different story.
I don't like to say that not everyone can code. I like to say that not everyone will enjoy coding. Personally, I find it more liberating to confront my personal challenges in learning something in terms of how much fun I'm having and/or how much work it'll take to get good at it.

For many years I told tried coding and told myself that I couldn't do it when it got to hard. But the honest answer is that I simply didn't want to put in the work.

Later in life that changed, and I started seriously working at learning to code around age 35 because I was having fun. I decided to go for it professionally at age 38, and got my first coding gig at age 40.
> If it is just users, why ban them and not browsers or anything that can access Facebook?

Because Facebook is controlled by the right people, and Gab is not.

Consider the unbelievably offensive and sometimes illegal content (including child porn) that's been hosted on Reddit. They've cleaned up significantly recently to be more advertiser-friendly, but they were able to host all that content for years without getting deplatformed or facing any real consequences. Because Reddit is controlled by the right people. It's all about power.
Found this out last year after waiting patiently since 2008. Volatility ruined the prospect of large quick gains. I now have no specific strategy to trade the next crash except buy and hold the fundamentally sound stocks (same strategy as normal investing heh)
Incredibly entertaining writing. Keep writing.
We've been a proper team for almost two years now, we recently brought on a new developer last year. Onboarding is a whole thing as there are many, many systems involved in our project. We do hop on 1:1 video calls as needed to discuss things or get help debugging, which also can end up being a social call just as much as working together.

We're a very technical team, so we don't have any business specialists on the teams.
Nobody is talking about having the government run app stores. The argument is about regulating app stores to limit the power of the duopoly from having sole discretion over what is and isn't allowed on their store. Mandating side-loading would be an example of one such regulation.
Liberal has not meant capitalism for a very long time, not in europe or anywhere else. Maybe if you say libertarian it still does.

I really don't think europeans think the left in american are really "right". Europe is not further left than the american left.

Grrr, what does european even mean. It's like 40 different governments and countries. All with different cultures.
Enterprise as in "sold to enterprises" or as in "created by enterprises"?

Both are complex, but for different reasons.

Software that is sold to enterprises is complex because they compete on number of features (in checklists), and there is no pressure for quality since the software users have little saying on what software gets brought.

Software that is created by enterprises for internal use is complex because the enterprises themselves are complex. They are full of rules, created by different people with very different goals, that add up with time, and the applications must deal with them.
Any reason you couldn't replace "Postgres" with "a database"? I didn't find anything Postgres specific other than maybe "SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED" which you can do without.
Choosing the Right Virtual Event Tech
The marginal cost of a software license is approximately zero. And selling an extra license due to a lost device is a windfall, from an already paying customer, that would not have occurred but for the lost device. People will interpret that intuitively as the business taking advantage of them.
And I'm asking Big Tech to pay me for my personal data oh wait a minute I get free access to their internet services but is that really enough?
Copyrights and patents are the opposite of property. The
term "intellectual property" is a complete lie. You could
probably make a strong case that it is proof there is such a
thing as a "Big Lie".

If you have copyrights and patents, you do not have
property rights. Once you implement those, you then remove
the rights people have over their atomic property, like
computers and paper and printers et cetera.

You cannot have a logical conversation with anyone who uses
the term "intellectual property", because at that point it
would be like trying to talk to someone about "fire water".
There is no such thing.

The reason why that term became so big is that because
during the Cold War capitalism and property rights were all
the rage, so the proponents of copyrights and patents jumped
on the bandwagon and rebranded their issues to be about
property rights, even though they were the opposite. It was
a very shrewd move, and I'm amazed at how effective it was.
It would be like the cigarette industry was able to convince
people that cigarettes were actually "health sticks".

That is why you will never see me ever ever use that term,
and instead I will refer to them as "Imaginary Property"
rights, and encourage everyone else to do so (I read the
"Imaginary Property" term for the first time right here on
HN).

So all that said, I am a strong believer in property
rights. I believe Marx was wrong, and that property rights
are an engineering solution to the problem of "how do we
assign decision making power over scarce atoms in an
efficient way".

I believe the real problem is copyrights and parents.
Abolish those and you will eventually unchain the minds of
billions of people, and we will be living in a lot more
intelligent and prosperous world.
This discussion is about how the vast majority of apps don’t make any money. What needs to make sense for that completely arbitrary fee?
Dude, thanks, I've been looking for any scrap of rumor or release date.
So now - many generations later - no one knows anymore who was slave and who was master

This is an "all blacks look the same" argument - but in reality, in Africa, everyone knows exactly which tribe they were from and which tribe someone else was from and who enslaved who. And it continues to this day.
Agree with the author, "do not run as root" is a great point. Prefix the required commands with sudo instead!

And even with "sudo", limit the exposure -- sometimes you can sudo to specific user/group instead of more general root.
Google or Apple have no power whatsoever to prevent your speech.
I would love to be able to switch to FreeBSD but the one thing holding me back is support for .NET Core (and lack of VS Code support if that also doesn't run on FreeBSD -- but that's moot if .NET Core support isn't there). Docker support would be nice but isn't essential since code can be checked in to a Linux-based build server and VS Code can attach to a Docker instance on another machine.
Moderna ready to test version of Covid-19 vaccine aimed at worrisome variant: https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/24/moderna-ready-to-test-ve...

Covid-19: Where are we on vaccines and variants? https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n597
I just keep my mouth shut talking to anyone in a minority status, born in the west, that I don't know well. I've seen it go wrong several times so I'm just 100% business. I'll get hate for admitting this, but what am I supposed to do? No one wants to think critically or challenge their beliefs on the matter, so if I'm not willing to 100% toe the line if I do make a mistake then either I have to debase myself in an Orwellian "there are two fingers" moment, or I get in trouble. I'm not willing to do either.
Not race in particular. Just identity politics. In this case, it seems one of the woman friend in my circle thought I was being sexist to her friend. We were Asians, but I didn't grow up in the US, but these 2 women do. The immediate reaction to that question must had evoked something deep within her, that I attribute to her upbringing here in the US.
My suspicion is that the protests are far less coordinated or politically aligned than you suggest. For every "committed Marxist" involved I think you have a lot of plain old liberals and people with no real coherent political ideology at all.
Will all the Jackie Chan films need to be dubbed?

Will dojos have a new name for their master?
The problem with tackling diversity at the hiring level is that there's a finite supply of candidates. If you a proportional number of each group, you'll still end up with a large number of white men. What then?

> It's a close cousin to "she shouldn't have dressed like that" or "she shouldn't have gone out alone". Or maybe "I was just following orders".

I really struggle to see how.
Well ... it is societies which have a problem. As a German, my society is very old. As a country we are very young. But we would never think, that nationalism would not be a problem we had in our society.

Accountable implies a lot. But mindful we should be.
Language polyglotism was the original selling point for Java when it was first released.

It didn't quite pan out that way, but back then OOP was "the future" and everyone sort of assumed that only the classic style of OOP will ever be needed in the future.
It’s actually a CUV, the number one selling type of car in the US, and is much larger than a Golf. The ride height is lower and The wheelbase is stretched which makes it look smaller than it is. They also have the kia ev6 which is a more organic type of design on the same platform.

I actually drive a GTI now so I like the blocky golf styling and the retro/cyberpunk look of the Ioniq5. The car is intended to pay homage to the old Hyundai pony coupe concept.
Hard to tell without being closer :) Nebulae might not even emit that strongly in the spectrum that we humans can see. A lot of these pictures are taken with special narrowband filters that isolate wavelengths for specific components, such as Oxygen or Hydrogen. Then these narrowband images are combined and assigned to the R, G, B channels. A popular palette is the "Hubble Palette" because, well, that is what the Hubble uses.
One of the important points of an "app store" is discovery.

Another, lack of hassle.

Both are gone if you have to add a separate repo / PPA / whatever, after finding it first. Still much better than not being able to install it at all.
I'd dare bet that the WiFi-radio and 1000BASE-T -ports are indeed not switched, but connected to the CPU, which as stated above looks very much like a router :)

There's sadly no block diagram released for these, which would document the internal topology. I also do not have this exact device anywhere to look this up from.