skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is compellingly well-written but wrong, in my opinion. There's been a steady trickle of articles on the top of Hacker News that make essentially the same argument: your odds of choosing a successful startup are miniscule (2% in this one). I think this does people considering startups a disservice.

The conditional chance of picking a successful company to join is way higher than 2%, or whatever the median success rate of all startups is. In particular, I think really intellectually curious, ambitious, hard-working people can, for the most part, identify each other. This is really different from reading about valuations or what other people think in the news, which leads to a lot more noise. If you meet a bunch of people at the company, you can assess the their caliber for yourself.

While it's not a perfect predictor of success, it's at least the case that such people are usually working on cool, worthy projects. Based on this, it's possible to get conviction on a group before their likely success becomes common knowledge—granted it's getting harder to do this because of how much money is floating around.

To put it another way, there are a handful of companies out there right now at Series A/Series B with a dense accumulation of talent. It's probably a reasonable bet to try and join them before they hit unicorn valuations, when room for growth is smaller. And in these cases, you could be #10-#40 at a relatively de-risked company and have a really great outcome.

On the flip side, if you even remotely enjoy learning and autonomy, working at Google/Apple/Amazon/etc is probably a great way to set yourself up for existential frustration. It's not even a great financial proposition. Even at $500k/yr, it's 20 years—a whole working life—to make it to $10m, the hypothetical number from the article. Even if your first startup doesn't make it after 2-3 years, you can try again a few times and still come out ahead. This is a classic pg argument—I can't remember which essay—but the point of a startup is to compress decades of working life.

Caveat: I happened to join a startup whose success changed my life both financially and in terms of career trajectory. I'm very biased. But this is also why I feel passionately that this article's advice is bad.
Yes, and prop 13 makes all kinds of ridiculous impacts whereby one person living in a 2 million dollar home pays a tenth of the property taxes of their neighbor also living in a 2 million dollar home.
Depends on what you mean by "value," I guess, but it seems to me that being an effective participant in market economy is impossible without bringing some kind of value to the table (if only indirectly or as a side effect).
Unfortunately some companies have completely outsourced their hiring
Men are bad, even though we need them for homo sapiens sapiens to continue existing without cloning. Let's have a study and write a paper to find that conclusion! We don't need no men!

Yeah!

Oh wait, we used thin correlation not even matched in time instead measuring causes, effects, and search terms. We're going to have to retract that one. ): But we published! :)

Damnit! Find real evidence, or create your own, like honey traps at tech conferences!

Okay, let's try those!
The idea that there's no luck involved is pretty dumb.
To make this more apparent, “that big yellow bird” just means any old ordinary bird, whereas people would probably take “that yellow big bird” to refer to Big Bird the Sesame Street character. So that can totally be a valid parsing of the sentence.
Like what ?

For the past year I've been WFH with the MBP (which has a 5500M gpu) driving its own panel (3072x1920), an external "wide" ~4K~
"Big-ass" (3440 x 1440) and an external "4:3" 4k (3840x2160)

No problems here.

[edit: display info]

tanelorn ~ % system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | grep -C1 Resolution

Display Type: Built-In Retina LCD

Resolution: 3072 x 1920 Retina

Framebuffer Depth: 24-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

--

--

V3L6W:

Resolution: 3440 x 1440 (UWQHD - Ultra-Wide Quad HD)

UI Looks like: 3440 x 1440 @ 60 Hz

--

--

PN-K321:

Resolution: 3840 x 2160 (2160p/4K UHD 1 - Ultra High Definition)

UI Looks like: 3840 x 2160 @ 30 Hz
> If power tends to shape the perceptions of those who have it, the implications for public policy — especially around issues like poverty, crime, education and health care — are significant.
Gee like politicians who get paid a good wage with benefits who are not interested in health care and the minimum wage? Who setup themselves as exceptions for many laws?
"I am, therefore, of the opinion that the problems have in essentials been finally solved."
If you're getting a job reference to work at google from a gmail address that should be an even redder flag.
It's just inescapable that your argument in fact requires explicit returns in mainstream languages whether you return value or not.

Because the "does it return value or not" question doesn't sit in expression languages. They always return value.
Having a fake/temporary/nonpersistent/whatever-makes-sense instance one can quickly test in swagger or similar tools just to get a feel would be nice, though.
Wow! Memory stats! Repeat query stats! The perfect database gets more perfecter! I'm looking forward to using PG for another 20 years.
For the record there are FAANGs paying their salaries in the Midwest. I could transfer to Detroit or Madison fairly easily.
This should have happened a long time ago.
I don't know to what extent that's an explicit strategy, but I would find it plausible to imagine that FAANG could spend a lot less on engineering - both in terms of salaries and head count - to keep their current velocity on product development, but they see a strategic interest in controlling that talent pool which they have an opportunity to exploit via capital advantage.
“Time to 200”? Why not “Zero to 200”? Feels closer to the car simile
The minifigs taste better ;-)
A rethink along these lines would be good imho. Less stick and better carrots.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2021-05-21/com...
Just because you don't like it, it should be forced to die? You know there are people happy with the way it is...
I don’t drop ship. Obviously it’s hard to find opportunities like the one I had, otherwise everyone would I have one! I bought this business back in 2000, when everyone was getting out of web properties so the price was very low.

My business is on the buying end. I do however consult for a huge eBay seller that had some pretty deep experience in drop shipping. They got out of that business in a few years and switched to private label products to reduce competition. The problems with dropshipping are sort of obvious: no exclusivity, nothing stopping your supplier from entering the same business, and massive supply chain problems lately.
>But the reality is everyone can be rich. We can see that by seeing, that in the First World, everyone is basically richer than almost anyone who was alive 200 years ago.

>200 years ago nobody had antibiotics. Nobody had cars. Nobody had electricity. Nobody had the iPhone. All of these things are inventions that have made us wealthier as a species.

>Today, I would rather be a poor person in a First World country, than be a rich person in Louis the XIV’s France. I’d rather be a poor person today than aristocrat back then. That’s because of wealth creation.

Ppl keep making this argument,and even though it is not wrong, rhetorically it is unpersuasive. People see the huge hospital bill, having to negotiate with insurers, tuition going up, bills unpaid, unrest and anger online and in poltics, etc. They feel like things are getting worse on a relative basis even if the iphone is more 10000x more advanced than a supercomputer 60 years ago.

You cannot make such an assumption because the subjective 'you' cannot experience both at once or compare and contrast the two. Both have advantages and disadvantages: Being a king means more status but also possibly dying of an infection and only having 0g wireless. Higher social status means generally an improved well-being.
Motherboards for those kinds of cpus tend to have 8 channels of ram. Plus DDR5 is coming soon. These kinds of cpus also tend to have tons of L3 cache. One obvious use case is cloud servers, where they are running shared hosting or VMs providing many logical servers. Databases and web servers can usually make use of that many cores no problemo.
You Can't Prove Everything That's True
Most recruiters who call me have a pretty poor command of the language and very few even speak clearly on the phone because they've left the same message 1000 times already. Expecting them to sign emails is expecting far too much.
This reminds me of a story, true or not, of a king who's jester would constantly whisper in his hear "you are human and will die some day." I think that people in power need constant bias training towards this kind of thing, especially public servants.
I think the value of a state machine is treating all of the associated states in a single conceptual model or level. You can definitely do everything directly in a bunch of if statements and tracking state in separate variables, but that opens yourself to more potential bugs, higher maintenance cost, less big picture understanding, and even larger performance costs (separate codes means the compiler can't optimize as well; means hardware caches aren't as effective; there's more overhead to run separated functions; etc, etc).

Here's hopefully a more apt example: imagine wanting to have a multiple document interface (MDI) that shows a bunch of 'window' like views. Some examples of the idea are react-grid-layout, golden-layout, react-mosaic. Each window can be minimized, maximized, moved, flashed, and closed ... all with flashy animations. You could create a whole bunch of components that allow you to capture all the different states and toggle them in different components, and effectively have the MDI business logic sprinkled all through out YOUR code, not just the 'library' code. Alternatively, you could use a state machine that captures all the states in a single spot and manages that all efficiently and safely, you just call an api to trigger state changes throughout your code.

As some other comments have mentioned, this is a fundamental part of computer science. You can get by without knowing it cause you can write a bunch of ifs and state logic all over the place. If you only know how to use a hammer, ya you could still hammer a screw in. Understanding how different data structures of different patterns fit together provides you new tools to do things in different ways when appropriate. Learn how to manage complexity, not fear it, cause there's nothing dangerous about state machines. In fact, I'd argue that anyone that thinks state machines make things more complex just isn't looking at a large enough scale because state machines should make things less complex by wrapping all the complexity inside them (when used appropriately).
In practice, a lot of bad choices aren't truly volitional; they are mainly the result of conditioning. Repeated bad choices reflect a reduced capacity to learn, which is a kind of disability.

It's annoying and costly that so many people make these bad choices, but I think we still have the obligation to care for each other. I expect to make at least some bad choices and I may need help.

But usually, nobody can help you as much as you can help yourself, so it's a good idea to arrange things so that people can increase their own resourcefulness and help themselves.

Be grateful for how lucky you are.
Yes socialism and communism are two very different things in European politics.
In fact in many countries socialist parties pre date communist parties.
freenode has a traditional policy for ##-namespaced channels to require a period of inactivity before they may be re-registered. Lee ignored this.
ProducePay scores $43m Series C funding from VCs, development banks
The poor is more likely to have their boots stolen. Curious omission on (defacto police) Cpt.Vimes' part.
Competition Can Be Good for the Developing World
I consider principal engineers / architects "astronauts". They've spent so much time floating around they've forgotten what solid ground feels like. They're both disoriented and atrophied when it comes to engineering. It's a trap. You'll eventually have to come back down to earth, and the longer you spend in this role the harder it will be.
Weren’t Scythians also Greek? Or rather Greeks came from one of the Scythian tribes? Or am I mistaken in my recollection?
I really don't think that's going to fly.

People are concerned that you don't have the community's best interests at heart. Your actions say you don't have the community's best interests at heart.

All this lawyering corpspeak means nothing when your actions don't back it up.

If you want to prove us wrong, walk the walk.

edit:

Looking at the list of top10 channels[0], several of them have such notices in their topics. If this takeover was policy, can we assume you'll do the same to ##linux? Or is it a very selective policy only to be enforced when you have a personal interest or believe you can get away with it?

[0] https://netsplit.de/channels/?net=Freenode
yeah it really bugs me when ascii faces like :-) are auto converted into a emojii/emoticon by messaging apps or text editors. but that is another conversation
Highly recommend NeoVintageous! How does it perform in Sublime 4 so far?
3440 x 1440 isn't 4k, it's an ultrawide 1440p monitor
As I understand it, a Chinese company now owns a large portion of Forbes

https://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN16Z0BW
Well, we're assume there's a certain path you can take to maximize your chances, it will be too pessimistic to always take bad luck in account.
Ditto. IMO every application should have a searchable (and context-aware) command palette. (Gimp, Inkscape, I'm looking at you in particular!)
If you’re using the JAM stack, other than your preferred browser and text editor, you’re pretty much set.
Fairy nuff. Substitute "Big-ass" for "4k".
Right. There was an incident in Europe, I believe, where law enforcement thought they'd identified an individual responsible for a massive international crime spree.

What they'd actually identified was the factory worker who packaged the DNA collection swabs.
Yup - and it makes the fact that there are a lot of wealthy liberals that lionize bodegas for their “authenticity” even more gross.
Why did they do it at Delloit? What else should you have said?
I am in a PE role right now and I 100% agree that the PE is the hub. I like that. I see my role as being a catalyst. I make things move along faster and more efficiently. I like seeing growth in others on the team.

Also, it’s ok if you don’t like that. If you would rather just be in there getting your hands dirty solving that one hard problem with no interruptions, then I think you should do that. You’ll be happier. Probably the increase in happiness is worth it even if you have to “pay” for it with a slightly reduced salary.
They are not. But some low paid jobs exist only because they are interesting to certain demographics and some people are willing to pay for it; think about the paper boys or lawn mowing adolescents - it is the kind of thing I can do myself (I find it relaxing), but I pay for it only because it gives someone else the opportunity to have some extra pocket money easily. It is a good arrangement with your kids or some neighborhood kids and in rural areas in my country (Europe) it is sometimes an arrangement also for a nanny. In many cases the money I pay is more than the value I receive, but I still choose to pay. If someone feels the need to pay $40 for 3 hours for a nanny that is fine, but that does not make it automatically worth $40.
The dictionaries we have (Oxford, Merriam-Webster etc.) are all descriptive rather than prescriptive.
Well, we have run a natural experiment. At least where I work, productivity doubled towards the beginning of the pandemic, and has been rising since then.

I imagine part of that is physically separating the micromanagers from their reports. Another big part is not putting everyone in a distracting cube farm.
Yes, that is the point I was making in reference to the OP.
Lots of people don't drive cars. I figured most programmers would be familiar with "Time To Live" (TTL).
Not sure if I would consider Phoenix basic. As far as I know, it's a wrapper around (and configurator for) Cowboy and Plug. I would consider Cowboy basic and Phoenix advanced.
The meaning in this case would have come out to be roughly the same, as explored in another comment thread. Sometimes I'm sure it's helpful but most of the time it just adds noise.
Check out NeoVintageous
>Locking an innocent person up for n number of years

Until we invent time travel, incarceration for n number of years is also immutable.

Almost any form of justice is going to be immutable in some way, but it's not a reason to abandon the justice system.
Deliver the most amazing service you’re capable of and see what happens. http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

For example, email them personally on Saturday and explain that you’d like to welcome them with a small token of appreciation. Confirm or obtain their mailing address and send them something from your area, like a bar of local chocolate or coffee.

Either in that email or in a week or two, email to ask whether you can save them time with setup, or whether they and their team (or family or whatever) would like an interactive guided tour from you.

If your service has any complexity, offer to optimize their setup by hand.

Intentionally lose a small amount money to deliver the best service that this customer has ever experienced. Have fun with it.

See whether it translates to referrals or a tweet.

It may not be cost-effective with 100 or 1000 customers (or it may be…), but it’s amazing with 1 or 10.
If ##hntop was truly involved in spam, you would shut it down, not take it over.
For FreeBSD users who want to install Sublime Text 4 or Sublime Merge 2, you can find ports here:

https://github.com/matias-pizarro/freebsd-custom-ports/tree/...

https://github.com/matias-pizarro/freebsd-custom-ports/tree/...

Hopefully soon, these will get added to the official ports repo and you can find them there:

https://www.freshports.org/editors/linux-sublime-text

https://www.freshports.org/editors/linux-sublime-merge
> There’s no reason to believe that the robots/AGI/whatever means of production will naturally be owned collectively rather than privately.

I think that depends on the tech and what it can do. If we get a general purpose construction robot that can also make copies of itself — be that a 3D printer with some manual assembly required once the parts come out, or a genetically engineered programmable moss, or bioprinted fairy drones with microchips for brains — anything like that has close to no marginal cost to give to everyone rather than just to the rich.

If we never get von Neumann tech? Then sure, I agree with you.
I don’t really use this as a command palette, but it’s so good for finding specific bits of functionality in an app.

It’s also one of the reasons I’m a big fan of global menubars: they act as a sort of index of everything an app can do, and the menubar is always present anyway there’s no point in devs not utilizing them.
So what is the solution for startups now?

I’ve worked the whole gamut from FAANG to 1st employee (and founder of a side project startup) and I just don’t know how they compete anymore.

We need innovation and new companies.

But for my own side project I can’t imagine hiring someone. I either are hiring if we become wildly successful or we just get acquired with our founding team and still make an outsized outcome.

It’s a grim outlook for startups but we need them
That’s a loaded question if I’ve ever heard one.

Having a companion animal is also something a free human does. Should we tell people to get pets they can’t take care of?

You premise that people are owed the opportunity to have children is a silly one. It’s not the parent that is the priority but the child.
Or distinguishing between two big-balls, one of which is red.
Neither happened here.
> Some of us immigrants do not come to this country with an existing stock of wealth either back home or here. We are also not in the favored group of immigrants. We have human capital which we are trying to convert to financial capital for the next generation.

And this is where the idea (now myth?) of the American Dream came from.

When America was young, no one really had much capital. Also true for periods of large scale immigration: most folks were 'equal' in the sense of not having much of anything.

Over time wealth got concentrated, but with the Great Depression and the WW2 war economy, capital was generally became more equalized in the early- and mid-20th century.

Of course in the last 50+ years there have been no 'equalization events', and so the concentration of wealth has managed to run for a while without interruption with the obvious results.

Piketty has a lot of historical data that shows this process for number of countries:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...
There is something to be said for the therapeutic value of failing miserably, when it comes to helping you move on and live without any more regrets about it.

The problem with a dream like marine-biology-professor in particular is it can take so many years to find out you have failed due to the tantalizingly low rung of grad school admissions and postdoc jobs.
> Can't find salary info for UW (the big university).

In most states the salaries of state employees (at least over a certain amount) are available. Since UW is a public school you should be able to find them here: http://fiscal.wa.gov/salaries.aspx

Filtering by UW employees I can see at least one professor making $627k in 2019, and I imagine there are lower tier professors making a fraction of that (some associate professors making < $100k).
"History of English Podcast" is fantastic look at both language and the historic and cultural events that impact the language.

“Lexicon Valley” is another language focused podcast that looks at how our use of language has changed over time.
The Big Money Is Going Vegan
I'm not saying Python is a LISP, but it does have closures. I'm not sure why tail call optimization matters for teaching. This is beginning to sound like a Python bashing instead of a Logo praising.

Anyway, I've taught with Python a fair amount and have been pleased with the results, especially when using the `turtle` module.
Every 3 hours, when I smoked a joint
Social Media vs. Small Businesses
This is a fine line for me as a PE. It is good to help the team grow. However, I like to do the PoC sometimes so that I can keep my skills sharp and my opinions grounded in reality.

If I just sit in my ivory tower dishing out advice, the advice will eventually become useless.
So where do startups go from here?

I feel like all I hear about is how bad it is and FAANG is now the ideal. A crazy thought for a forum whose parent company’s sole income is generated by creating and funding new startups.

So what are we going to do about it?