skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what founders risk in terms of opportunity costs and lower wages is usually only slightly more than very early stage employees

Excellent point. And there can also be huge differences in non-monetary value that make the opportunity cost more worthwhile for founders.

If the startup fizzles, but the founders were spending most of their time getting startup founder experience, and building their professional network and personal brand, then the opportunity cost would probably be well-spent, despite the fizzle.

Of course, worthwhile experience value can definitely happen for junior non-founder ICs.

Worthwhile experience value can happen for already-experienced non-founder developers who can get experience/keyword in some very marketable thing they couldn't pick up on their own. (For example, the necessary capital expenditure means they couldn't get experience with Quantum Deep Learning Transhuman Interfacing from their kitchen table. Or they need a team of full-time collaborators to together accomplish something they couldn't do by just organizing hobbyists on an open source project.)
Internships are pretty much required in this day and age. Almost to where the whole point of college is to intern. Those companies are going to be how you get hire, no one cares that you got a degree - Almost every ambitious person nowadays gets a degree, so the only differentiator is if i can see you work.
I don't work with Java, but I can think of a few advantages off the top of my head:

- appreciation of backwards-compatibility (here it wins with Python);

- great debuggers and performance tools (e.g. Java Flight Recorder or Eclipse Memory Analyzer);

- easy deployment - you can just give someone a fat JAR (here it wins with all scripting languages, so Python, Ruby, PHP, or any other flavour of the month);

- industry-grade garbage collectors;

- publicly-available standard spec (here it wins with all the defined-by-implementation languages such as Python, PHP, Rust, basically most languages, and with languages which are standardized, but their specs aren't public: C, C++, Ruby);

- kind of like the previous point, but anyway: multiple implementations to choose from;

- I've been told it has good performance. I've never seen a real-world Java application which felt fast, but I've heard people put it at the pedestal and the Debian programming languages benchmarks game seems to corroborate that story;

Besides, the question wasn't about which technologies we like, but which we believe are entrenched so much, they aren't going to go away for a very long time. I don't see Java going away for another 100 years, no matter how much I would or wouldn't like to work with it.
> My question, then, is this: if punishing people for crimes was shown to be ineffective for society, you would continue to support punishment?

> I think I must be misunderstanding. It sounds like you are saying that you’d prefer to cut off your nose to spite your face. (Punish criminals despite punishment being a net negative.)

No, you're not misunderstanding. To me your question makes no sense. By definition, a society that does not punish criminals is no society I want to live in. It is uncivilized.

If you mean, "if punishing people for crimes increases the number of crimes, would you still support it?" then my answer is yes, of course (though I don't accept the premise). Reciprocity is part of human nature. If you do something bad, you deserve to be punished in porportion.

To the extent that we adopt your perspective, the value of human beings will be lost. When you punish a criminal, you are treating him with respect. You respect that he made a choice, you are showing that he didn't have to make that choice and that he could refrain from making it in the future, and that by accepting his punishment he can pay his debt. I believe that this perspective will result in less crime but even if it doesn't, I'm still in favor of it because justice is an end in itself.
Exactly, alternatives to dynamic linking can go either way: static linking if you make decisions earlier or dynamic loading (via libdl) if you make decisions later.
Yes I did work remote there, the maximum internet speed you'll get is 5mpbs/1mps , and it's flaky.

It goes down once a day , you'll want to be setup to work through the down times ( offline documentation, be able to fake connections etc ).

You wont be able to Zoom, but you can get a google number and use a local telephone if that works.

But yeah I'm with you on working less and enjoying life more, that you can definitely do there. There is actually a lot of similarly minded people ( expat Americans and Canadians ), doing the same thing. I love it there, as soon as the Pandemic flushes out I'm going back, though I'm trying to get out of software work.
Yes, becoming a wealthy doctor is rare.

Again, the original point isn’t that it’s impossible to get rich by selling your time but that you’ll most likely need some leverage (i.e. in the form of owning a business)
To be fair, volunteers on freenode also had lives outside of IRC.
TIL - thanks for the heads up. Is this a documented substitution?
The demo link is a good start - but it would be nice to have the JSON output pretty-printed.

I'm not sure that the first thing I should see in the documentation is the changelog.

But, other than that, I like it. If you offered UK/EU geocoding, I'd use it :-)
I recommend the book "SQL Performance Explained" by Markus Winand: https://sql-performance-explained.com/

It covers all major databases and is a good start to dive into database interna and how to interpret output from query analyzers.

Other than that, I highly recommend joining the mailing list and IRC (#postgresql on libera.chat).

Lots of valuable tricks being shared there by people with decades of experience.
You'd be surprised at how far tradesmen need to drive sometimes. Jobsites are all over the place, and not everyone lives in the same place. So the jobsite might only be 45 minutes from the builder, but it's 75 minutes away from the trimmer. That's the situation for me, and it's not uncommon to travel that far to a job.
> return ping from them to your ip address a few hours after you pinging them

Could you elaborate? I think I'm not aware of this.
> it betrays your worldview. It implies that they are only being put to death because of the rules that somebody came up with, rather than for having done things that are objectively, unspeakably, bad.

No betrayal there. That is my worldview. Cultures through history varied a lot on which crimes were deemed worthy of capital punishment. Even now as we speak there are people who has been sentenced to death because someone saw them tear pages out of a book. Where I am from that is either not a crime or minor property damage. So clearly we as humans can’t agree on what is “objectively bad”. Even if we argue that those other cultures got it wrong and we have it right on who is objectively bad our processes are not deterministic. The same person if tried again with a different jurry might get acquited. Not always, and not and not every case, but often enough to undermine the notion that we are dealing with some kind of objective badness.

> it must be done for the safety of everyone

The idea that we have these dangerous criminals who cannot be contained safely in any other way than by killing them is a comic book plotpoint not reality. We have the technology and the resources to keep any humans safely contained if we choose to. We can even do this in a non-cruel way if that is what we want to do.
If any non-British wonder why we Brits don’t know the rules, well back when I was at school, studying GCSE English in the 90s (qualifications we get age 16), they explicitly didn’t teach us grammar rules, at all, just made us write stories. It was a bit of an experiment that I think they have since reversed.

This meant that I knew rules of French grammar more explicitly than English. Which is nuts.
It's well known among scholars but I think the title here is aimed at popular culture.

Hoplites (shield, spear, helmet, greeves) were rich citizens which is how they could afford their armor. Many of the men who fought in the Classical era were slaves or foreigners or teenagers, often from Macedonia, called peltasts or psiloi.
What would your stance be on having HN discussions of such topics as the comments that were submitted to the FCC about net neutrality, which were later found to be fraudulent?

I’m trying to make a distinction here between insinuating that sinister manipulation is happening here, and discussing, here, the actual sinister manipulation that, let’s not beat around the bush with insinuations, I’ll just state it directly and factually, does in fact, happen in the world? Is that also off limits? I’m not trying to question your authority here, just wondering about your thoughts on how the internet community can navigate this.

You could also take this question as rhetorical… I don’t want to drill into this in the sense of putting you on the spot to reply. It’s just an interesting topic I think that cannot be swept under the rug. And I don’t know that you’re doing that, but I would hate to see this topic be a third rail.
Anyone interested in both Wittgenstein and film should see Derek Jarman's "Wittgenstein" --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein_(film)

I don't know enough to comment on its biographical accuracy but it's a great weird movie by one of the greatest experimental directors of our age.

[Edit: mentioned in TFA but very briefly. Not sure where to watch it now but... internets...]
Pg_upgrade [0] is an official part of postgres and does the binary inplace upgrade for you. You should obviously test before running in production, but it has worked perfectly for us when upgrading a 10+TB cluster from pg11 to pg13

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgupgrade.html
I've interacted with a bunch of legitimate recruiters, journalists, etc. who do business over a personal Gmail account. Even at major media organizations.

I don't know why, but unfortunately it's not actually a red flag at all. It's shockingly common.
Did you try the example I described at your home?

You not going to distinguish what people want to BUY from Google search as good as from conversation. When I google "Ferrari" it may mean I am looking for Ferrari wallpaper, Ferrari stats, Ferrari parts, or want to buy new Ferrari. When I have a conversation with someone about buying Ferrari, the conclusion IS I am ready to buy a Ferrari.
Richard J Schueler, it's true that you're a biased shill, but there are many other very legitimate reasons not to listen to anything you say, such as the fact that you falsely claim that proof of stake is a proven successful replacement for proof of work. And also the following reasons, based on your own words, that I will cite and link to, and the fact that you refuse to address them and answer simple straightforward questions, and repeat things like "Dodge, dodge" instead.

Confronting Richard Heart of HEX - SPAM KING and Crypto Scammer

https://www.cointelligence.com/content/confronting-richard-h...

So will you again confirm what the article claims you already confirmed?

>Richard Heart was sued for spamming in 2002 under WA state law. Source:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/peacefire-org-beats-spammers-i...

>During the interview at ANON, Richard confirmed that he was one of the first people in the world to be sued for online spam, back in 2002. This shows us Richard has experience abusing unregulated markets, as he is doing with crypto these days.

Is this an accurate quote of your own words?

>When I pressed the matter and asked for a simple “yes” or “no” as to whether he, as the FOUNDER of HEX, knows who benefits from the funds sent to the “Origin Address” he flat-out said “I’m dodging your question.” Dodging the question! He proceeds to repeat “Dodge, dodge.”

Is your real name "Richard J Schueler", and is this true?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kwhjxa/why_...

>Why HEX is a Ponzi and not a solid investment (Part 2): Richard Heart

>Legal and questionable events from Richard J Schueler:

>2002: Sued and won by Peacefire.org for violating Washingtons anti-spam laws, he was known at that time as the 'spam king' and made a lot of money off it - source. The Methuselah Foundation, for which Heart volunteered at that time, was committed to extending the human lifespan and “making 90 the new 50”.

>Questionable events in Panama: Several of Heart’s alleged aliases (James Hart, J. Richard, Richard Schueler) were named in connection with a Panamanian criminal network. Heart, called "CharityLover' at that time supposed cohorts included robbers, blackmailers and corrupt lawyers and judges, according to posts stemming from the now defunct Panama-Guide website . Miguel Antonio Bernal (Panama lawyer) described the process by which American criminals flooded Panama to “rob, cheat and blackmail local businessmen using Panama’s weak legal system'' in the linked post under ''Panama".

You're the same "Richard Heart" who won the "Golden Pump Award" for "Best New Scam" for "HEX", correct?

https://twitter.com/JuanSGalt/status/1233242355995750400

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=857&v=tf-lJu5iDh...
Sanctions aren't violence, or even the threat of violence. They're an attempt to prevent violence.
It goes both ways, my take is how it was perceived by some is as improve in go=improve in wisdom
Yes, as Mount Points. When you partition and format storage in Disk Management, it asks you what drive letter you want to assign, and that dialog has the option to alternatively specify a folder on an existing disk instead.
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> I don't know why

Makes it easier to take connections with you to the next job maybe?
I think this is very convenient; you don't want to automatically upgrade a big database because you probably want to choose the downtime window. This is obviously by design, but I'd also like being able to automate the pg_upgradecluster pg_dropcluster process, specially for install-and-forget little databases.

IMO, the biggest shock from the MSSQL/MYSQL to PostgreSQL migration was not having 1 or 2 specific files per database, specially if you used to backup the files instead of doing a formal database backup.
My MBP (2015/2016, I think) even sometimes hard crashes when plugging in my dual monitor setup (daisy-chained DisplayPort). It feels reminiscent of Windows BSODs from circa 2000 :(
i would say golang and nodejs are more popular for api's, python is also popular with flask and fast api.
lastly my experience is graphql is getting very popular for building api's that power the front end so learning that would also be advantageous.
a subversive if subtle inversion also underlies the argument, that status is subservient to wealth. instead, status is the game, and wealth is a conspicuous component of that. everything we consider ‘sociopolitical’ is about trading various proxies of status, including wealth, to try to ‘level up’ on the status meter.

his obfuscation is plainly designed to enhance the statused (like him) against the rising threat of the unstatused by confusing the potential up-and-comers.

also, luck is inherently cognitively dissonant. as such, it insists on rationalization, and rationalizations grounded this way inherently lack explanatory power beyond the individual and/or circumstance (since they’re projective rather than observationally exhaustive).
The very first version of Linux was bootable from a floppy and required 4 x 1.44" FDs to install.
The last point is extremely important. I tried DotA for a while after playing a lot of LoL and had the same content, but it's not just discerning characters against the background that's difficult, but even distinguishing one character from another. Not that it's hard to tell them apart when looking at them, but in LoL characters are so distinct in how they move and in their shapes that even with tons of skins that you aren't even familiar with you can tell out of the corner of your eye which character just appeared on screen, while looking at something else.

I'm convinced this is part of how world of warcraft distinguishe[d|s] itself: characters aren't just cartooney, they're distinct. Zones feel entirely unique because of the appearance at any point.
What do I mean by ‘generative pattern’?
> We can see that by seeing, that in the First World, everyone is basically richer than almost anyone who was alive 200 years ago.

And we can also see that those riches in large part rest on the poverty of people who happen to be outside the first world, even for basic necessities like food and clothes.

Externalising the poverty doesn't make it not exist.
I never give out my SSN to anybody who isn’t a bank, current employer, or government agency, except in really special circumstances.

Doctors tend to be major offenders here - their forms always ask for SSN. I never fill it in and they often don’t even ask a follow-up. But when they do, I’ve almost always been able to still get out of it by telling them that I don’t give it out to anyone ever. Or I don’t remember it.
Uhh... You had me at "bioprinted fairy drones" Please give a website, blog or book recommendation so I can become your humble disciple.
How can I spread something if I don't meet anyone?
This code seems to be pretty hacky, it works by injecting a dynamic library into the program and then looping on a timeout to rescan every window and attach a key handler: https://github.com/p-e-w/plotinus/blob/master/src/Keybinder....

Newer Gtk apps that use app menus with GAction and GMenuModel should work fine, and will be forward-compatible with other similar tools, since those will export the menu over d-bus.
Honestly I don't think there's anything you can do.

In the same way you should call banks back when they call you and need a PIN or something, you need to similarly contact companies directly when they ask for an SSN or something.

As a general rule, companies can't protect individuals from being scammed in the name of the company (except for basic things like HTTPS, etc.). It's up to individuals.
That sounds like a fun but challenging project: Convert sql to idomatic ecto. Mostly as a way to help people learn ecto better. Probably a long-tail-y issue, but maybe one where a 70% solution is useful?
For All Mankind: A Peek into What Could Have Been
More anecdotal experience, but I agree. Most people I know doing FAANG only “don’t hate” the work, but love the pay and benefits, and the fact that laying low rewards them. Quizzically, previously politically active friends have turned quite quiet about their beliefs and morals as soon as they started earning a fat paycheck from Facebook.

For a lot of people, vast amounts of money really is the most attractive aspect of a job.
As long as the initial state of the network is fixed, the compressed output will be identical every time.
Turtle in Python would have the same flow of ideas up to the invention of new control flow, which I agree is cool. But that's why Python isn't a LISP.

Yet, the creation of a "while" here isn't so different than making a new function which performs that logic. Was your example intended to demonstrate creating new syntax?
ProtonMail says that it holds a ‘significant portion’ of its reserves in Bitcoin
I know Vallée, he was the inspiration for the character in Close Encounters.

His thinking is marked by significant logical errors including but not least..

Observational selection: basically ignoring the large body of observational evidence against UFO as paranormal or alien

Appeal to ignorance: Saying since we can’t 100% disprove ufos are alien or paranormal, they must be

Straw man: Blaming hard to explain data on some “invisible entity” attempting to deceive mankind

Special pleading: He can’t explain why crop circles exist. So “watch out. It is probably psychological warfare”

If you read Carl Sagan’s book, you’ll quickly realize that the “science” of Vallée is not that at all. And it’s not just Carl Sagan, the vast 99% of scientist with a firm understanding of the scientific method would concur.

Ultimately, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and that is precisely what UFO phenomena fail to generate in regards to alien or paranormal explanations.
Why would it need more chips? It's not inherently different from existing trucks in that regard.
> I tend to trust state policy and political leanings more as an indicator then a self reported study.

I don’t, in the absence of strong enforcement of policy (which did not exist in, e
g., California COVID policy), especially on issues of strong partisan posturing; even solid red or blue states tend to be pretty closely balanced in the population; majoritarianism, reinforced by gerrymandering and related mechanisms, produces strong and durable political dominance from slight population imbalances, so “state dominant party” stereotypes and state policy vastly exaggerate differences in distribution of individual belief, preference, and, in the absence of effective compulsion, behavior.

> To indicate the problem you can observed how inaccurate polls around politically charged choices has become when compared to actual choices.

They...haven’t, really, become particularly inaccurate. Poll-based predictions of binary outcomes of things that poll very close to even have become somewhat less reliable than they very briefly were before (they were a fairly new practice compared to just reporting polls without predictions, anyway, so its not like there was a well-established baseline) because when polls are near even, very slight changes in accuracy have an outsize effect on binary predictions.
Techempower is not a database benchmark. The tests that involve a DB exist to include a DB client in the request flow, not to put any serious load on the database.
I seriously discount your api if I can't do my initial review via curl. As the author stated, having to do all this setup creates friction, your api is supposed to be solving a problem for me. If it just creates different problems you're not offering a good solution. If I can quickly see how it works via curl it will be that much easier to evaluate.
Oh, you must be right. That's almost certainly it, since it applies to both recruiters and journalists, and both them them make a living off their connections.
Looking at you literally all of AWS.
I've put a fair amount of work into getting this exact time as low as possible for my exchange rates API [1]. I've noticed slightly better conversion each time I've taken a major step out of the process.

I've specifically eliminated some of the steps this article cites in its example of a tedious flow - for instance I changed user accounts to be confirmed by default and then only disable them retroactively if a user doesn't click the activation link within 24 hours. This way you don't need to wait for the confirmation email. Even though I use Postmark delivery times can be surprisingly variable.

I'm not sure how I could further improve the current flow, which is 1. put your email into the landing page, 2. then choose a password for your account, then 3. you're presented with an example request format including your already activated API key. Suggestions welcome!

I guess because the scope of my service is so limited it's easy to have this fast flow, no complex libraries or auth is involved.

1. https://www.exchangerate-api.com
Are you not worried about Docker Hub clearing down those older images (isn't their new(ish) policy to remove any images that haven't been active for 6 months?) Or are you hosting those images on private docker repository?