skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not surprised (unfortunately, and I am truly sorry for this).

Don't look to the 2008 recession for an idea of how things may go. Look to the 2000 (Tech Bubble Burst) recession. In that one, the bottom dropped out of the tech market. Web designers were especially hard hit.

I have family that works for Intel, and they say that Intel tends to actually increase hiring in bear markets. I suspect that's because they are getting bargains, and preparing for the inevitable upswing, so they will be in a position to jump on the up elevator when things turn around.

I guess it depends on the company. Companies that are running on fumes (highly leveraged) are likely to have a tough time. Companies with conservative approaches may do better.
> You should open source the data.

The data isn't theirs to open source (or not).

> Temperature records are collected from ACIS, which tracks weather for approximately 400 US cities. ACIS has data from the ThreadEx project.

The ThreadEx project is http://threadex.rcc-acis.org

This suggests its using the data from a service that is collected from http://www.ncei.noaa.gov which right on the front has: Looking for Data?
Got my last job thanks to Hired. It was my first time using it, and I had a good experience. I'd use it again.

Main benefit of Hired is I could set my target salary ahead of time and the people contacting me knew and agreed to what I was looking for, instead of having to dig it out of the interview process elsewhere, and I still had about 10 companies reach out to me through there.

In comparison, pretty much every recruiter that contacted me on LinkedIn were giving me ranges at least 20% lower.
He knows the information about the author because he read the article.
There's a nuance here that you are deliberately ignoring. It's not like I'm asking the French to atone for slavery (which is what you seem to be implying); the reality is even worse than that: the French made the Haitians pay 150 Million Francs for their own freedom (an amount 10x larger than what USA paid France for the state of Louisiana).

Think about it: THE FRENCH FORCED THEIR SLAVES TO BUY THEIR OWN FREEDOM FOR 150,000,000 FRANCS!

Please read the gory details here before replying: https://theconversation.com/when-france-extorted-haiti-the-g...

This is what's shameful and the French _should_ be ashamed.
I wonder if something similar could be useful for transmitting data optically, like an animated QR code. Maybe a good way to transmit data over an air gap for the paranoid?
The author of the post is the CEO
Would be interesting to have the same info for a record low.
I wish we had this when I was younger lol.

Seriously though, was this not vetted by researchers before deploying to the public?
Ok... So what are the tiktok accountants? All the bad financial takes on tiktok or something else?
In case anyone is curious, the theme song is "Having an Average Weekend" by Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuifllwrFe0

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowy_Men_on_a_Shadowy_Plane...

Live performance at Sled Island 2012 reunion show (at a Legion hall of course):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmU3FYlRZNM
They may retain the original files, but they don't give that back to you in the download screen. I just tested it by going to the Studio screen to download a video I uploaded as a ~50GB ProRes MOV file and getting back an ~84MB H264 MP4.
Are you f*cking kidding me?

Counterpoint: Say "get rekt" around me. It's fine. Nobody cares if you're making stuff or can help them make stuff.

This comment is a joke, nobody who matters thinks like this.
When people say that BTC is worth $30,000 on Binance right now, what they are really saying is that BTC is worth 30,000 Tether dollars (USDT) on Binance, because there's no mechanism on Binance to exchange BTC for US Dollars in a direct swap. You have to buy USDT and then use that USDT to buy BTC.* Basically USD -> USDT -> BTC. Today the ratio is 1 -> 0.998 -> 30,000, so in theory BTC priced at 30,000 USDT is currently worth 29,940 USD.

If the USD -> USDT relationship breaks and "USDT dies", then what happens is the prices goes 1 USD = 0.05 USDT, which means that 30,000 USDT worth of BTC on Binance [1] is now worth just $1,500 USD.

[1] https://www.binance.com/en/trade/btc_USDT

* You can buy directly with a credit card, but that's likely settled off-chain with a banking relationship. If you want to use a direct bank transfer, you have to buy a stablecoin first on Binance.
My house was built in the early 60s, has hardwood flooring throughout, copper plumbing, the wiring is all in hard conduit, the 2x4's are actually a bit thicker than today's, and of a higher grade. The original windows are still functioning, though not as efficient as modern ones. The appliances are modern because they've all been replaced.

Today's house in the same region uses lower grade lumber, carpeted floors, Romex, and plastic plumbing.

Agreed about the Corolla. I owned a second hand 80s Corolla, and it was the best car I had ever experienced up to that point, but a second hand Corolla would be so much better today.
This exception wise might be the case but, the cost to performance is probably just less for some senior folks compared to up and coming new people. For instance if i have 10+ year employee who has received 3% cost of living raises + additional performance raises they likely have a cost/performance ratio worse than the A player with 5 years experience who wants to move up. I can promote them for a bump in salary and have someone who hasn't accumulated as much cost overtime with a similar performance. I reduced capacity, improved moral for an A player and cut cost in one decision. There would also be minimal impact moral wise to the remaining organization by hiring within. That's just my take though and I am no authority in the topic.
Go get your MS/PhD. By the time you finish, the market will be stronger, and so will your resume

The Georgia Tech online MS is good and about $7k total. You can pay for it working at Starbucks
I think your last sentence is unnecessary. What purpose does it serve?
This bug has nothing to do with language choice.

I agree that better professional standards and accountability should be introduced for software like zoom though.
> books on niche technical subjects don’t seem to be much of a thing anymore

Why not? Blog posts aren't nearly as valuable.
I bet the non-profitable, feeding-on-VC startups are getting worried and we'll see more of this. I work at a non-VC-funded, profitable, stable, small place and we're desperately trying to hire. I've never made FAANG/startup income, and I've always felt a little left-out because of that. But we've been stable for nearly 30 years, and have never had the big layoffs or hiring freezes including, dot-com bust, 2008, 2020 COVID lockdowns, and now. We're low variance, so the upside isn't as crazy, but then again the downside has been historically pretty limited too. My advise is to find a smaller, stable, profitable place to interview at.

edit: grammar
I assume they just mean that it hasn't been managed by humans.
This is a common misconception and is not at all how Tether works.

Tether acts more like a central bank, they allow people to trade USD for USDT for exactly $1. Trading USD directly can be difficult because there are extensive KYC rules and not everyone has access to a USD bank account.

On some exchanges, there is still a demand to trade in USD and it commands a premium due to the difficulty in trading it. This generates demand for USDT and slightly increase the price, suppose to $1.02 on this exchange.

Arbitrage traders can now buy USDT for $1.00 and sell it on this other exchange for $1.02. The tether corporation simply holds the original $1 (of actual USD). They should have $1 USD for each USDT in circulation, and that's a lot of 'float' that they can invest in safe things like short-term US treasuries to make money off simply holding the cash. No need to speculate on Bitcoin or other risky investments, they are making plenty off just holding cash-equivalents.
> Saying they don't do anything new isn't right.

Perhaps it's possible that some people simply don't see the benefit of the newly added functionality, because they don't really use it?

For example, personally I'd be served perfectly well with something like LibreOffice, so from my point of view, all of these new solutions do not indeed do much new (that I'd benefit from) and sometimes do things worse (cloud based platform with all the drawbacks that come with it vs local software in open formats).

That's not to say that the point that you're making wouldn't be important, quite on the contrary - and even if the software doesn't do anything new, even in those cases one can make an argument for refinement being a worthy pursuit (as long as it's not a useless rewrite).

Perhaps text editing isn't the best example, given how different people's expectations can be in that regard.
“ My M.O. with these posts: write it like it was an HN comment, and then edit the sentences to be shorter. I'm glad people like it, though.”

From the button of the comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26747701

He is often on HN, look at the karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
Binary dump / prewarmed up Python interpreter would be amazing even today. Could enable a lot use cases with Python.
Be nice to have 30-40 planets to run the experiment on first. You assume that governments don't want to expand to more resource-rich areas.
it really depends on the format. pressed DVDs will outlast your VHS tapes
If only it caught abusers, it would be great. Just think about what kids do while teenagers, throw in some poor judgement. Kids being kids. Is it a good thing that there should be a system in place to "catch" this? To involve strangers in their most intimate and vulnerable private communique?

That's just one argument on "even if everything works exactly as intended, it's still a terrible idea".

Then add malicious use of such a system once in place. We know such systems are misused ALL the time. So I would bet good money that someone, somewhere, will instead use it to neatly collect CSAM material.

Not to mention other malicious use of surveillance whereby you just add some hashes for files completely unrelated to CSAM. I'm not talking about the slippery-slope of "let's include some gay porn in the mix", but rather stuff related to political opponents, and what not.

It's a false dichotomy to suggest the trade-off is "catch some abusers" vs "catch no abusers". It's a "catch some abusers" vs "violate privacy of minors | remove e2e encrypted communication | etc"
The author of the article is the CEO, which makes it at least 2x as cool.
Got a lot of nostalgia seeing OPL being mentioned…

Twenty years ago my grandfather gave me his old Psion 3c. To a curious 10-year-old, the novelties of a world clock, spreadsheet and diary grew old after a few hours — but OPL caught my imagination…

Here I am now, two decades later, programming professionally full time as a startup founder — all thanks to a dinky little BASIC-like language on a pocket organizer from the early 90s :)
Oil spills.
The "story" being told doesn't have a clear through line. I didn't understand the context for anything. I also didn't see any of the information I wanted to see.

What was the hottest year? What was the year with the most broken records? What is the overall trend? It actually told me what the hottest day on record was, but there is so much to read I completely glazed over and missed it the first time.
Given you have 400 samples a day, what is the baseline expected days since record high temperature just based on statistical variation?
IMHO with fly.io their use of containers is more for the dev experience. It's incredibly easy and popular to whip up a Dockerfile, test it locally, ship it to a registry, etc. Anyone can learn the Dockerfile syntax and be productive with it in an afternoon.

The tooling for proper VM creation on the other hand is in the stone-age comparatively--there are just a few tools like packer or a frankenstein of ansible scripts and neither are as nice or easy as Dockerfile creation.
2008? Not much. Some hiring freezes, maybe some salary freezes, but overall quite reduced impact. Of course, this is very location dependent and domain dependent.

New grads were probably hit the hardest, as they usually are during recessions.

2000 was much worse from everything I hear, but I wasn't there at the time.
> hypnotized themselves into believing that containers are not secure

They provide any extra layer of indirection which helps with usual exploit attempts, but also introduce new scope. We've had exploits specifically targeting the namespaces API already.
The post states:

>"We're not done. You need something to run, right? Firecracker needs a root filesystem. For this, we download Docker images from a repository backed by S3. This can be done in a few seconds if you're near S3 and the image is smol."

I feel like I am missing something. If an S3 bucket is a requirement and I was interested in the isolation provided by Firecracker why wouldn't I just use AWS Fargate or Lambda which are both powered by Firecracker? If low latency was the concern, I can't imagine there being any lower latency than having my workload and storage being colocated in the same AWS Availability Zone.
> the market will be stronger

what makes you think so?
> So rather than a curing a lack of expressivity, complexity instead provides a marketing edge, in his opinion.

His focus was educating students at ETH; the languages he created with this focus were fit for purpose; it is true that there are developers in industry who prefer complex languages for sophistication reasons; but there are also pragmatic people; even they apparently prefer Delphi over Pascal; I don't consider Delphi complex e.g. in comparison with C++11.

> to me that seems like a kind of success

Agree; the original languages are great and a robust basis; and e.g. Go is a very successful offspring of Oberon-2.
Probabilities and rights have zero to do with each other. Ask the residents of Russia, China and the USA in confidence about whether their governments respect that charter in their home countries.
Indeed there is no longer a possibility to edit or delete for me.

I was careful not to include names or places, and all this information is easily searchable starting from the author's username on HN or the website name.

So while I maintain that I made my comment in good faith, I hereby acknowledge that it is okay if it gets deleted, should HN moderators be requested to do so.

Update: I will contact the HN moderators myself, as I feel it is the right thing to do here.
Is there any source / data on that? I haven't noticed such a difference between our apps.
> or I Speak No English

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vgoEhsJORU
Or for record high lows ("the low has never been this warm").
>Isn’t that pretty great? Get paid for 6 months of relatively light ramp up time and then a few months worth of severance for some time off once fired?

Nah that'll torch your resume for years. Unless you're a total rockstar otherwise, I'd be terrified to explain a 6 month stint.
DirectX - bane of my childhood
Right, but financial markets are forward-looking (or "leading economic indicators"). They don't encode the current state, they encode a consensus prediction for some time period in the future. In this case, the stock market is pricing in a sharp downturn in profits (and margins) over at least the next few quarters, and I don't believe it's even finished.
I have never once in my career seen someone with an MS get hired over someone with a BS because they had a MS. If you're doing it purely for return-on-investment, it's a massive waste of time and money.
Space is not just space. Space has qualities such as non humid climates, near mountains, beaches, access to potable water, and of course, political considerations.

Also, people like more space than less space so incumbents will fight against others coming in, unless the others are bringing benefits such as money or labor for the incumbents.
I graduated during a financial collapse in 2008 with a CS degree. I had about 2 years of internship experience at the time. My college friends were telling me "it's really bad - take what you can get." After weeks of searching I ended up taking my first engineering job which paid $25k a year. It was rough and my only advice is get ready for the worst.
Why would you need a map or overhead?

Each frame gets the same amount of the file, about a kilobyte. So each frame is basically a sector. You need to read in a few extra frames to undo the compression, but otherwise it's just like a normal filesystem. And reading in a batch of sectors at once is normal for real drives too.

Even if you did need the frames to be self-describing, you could just toss a counter/offset in the top left corner for less than 1% overhead.
I think the same, you would need a different positioning of the switches on most keyboards. But as the poster I answered to was claiming you could convert them, I was curious, what he was thinking of :)
> Is this the best that anyone can do?

No. It's the best that can sometimes be done quickly.

Additionally, this doesn't mention the value of a good postmortem. Or the horrors of cloud computing, where restarting things is deemed a good enough mitigation because in the cloud these things happen, and nobody pushes for a good postmortem and repair items.
I was laid off in early 2009 during the Great Recession. I figured instead of competing with a bunch of people getting laid off I might as well go back to school and spend the next two years finishing up my degree and ride it out a bit.

Didn't regret that decision. Although tuition has gotten totally ridiculous. Do it the cheapest way you can, like a public in-state school or something (I did that and it was still pretty expensive).
What information do you need that's gone? Type erasure happens but the objects still carry their true dynamic type with them, isn't that sufficient?
No. And you can do pricing that’s flat if you are really good at risk management but note that means the price for smaller transactions begins to subsidize the big ones.

See Atlantic Monthly vs Wise for different pricing types in fx transactions as an example.
I understand your point, but I don't share the same interpretation of the author's point.

I don't think the author is claiming that he wants the /only/ face of the culture to be the most disabled members of society. I think the point is that those people are increasingly being pushed to the side-lines.
...something else.

Edit: the meme goes something like "no one asks follow up questions if you say you're an accountant"
No, I think it’s really cool!

Their website, their decision on how to “force” you to experience it. Remember, you can always close the tab if it’s not compelling or interesting to you personally.
My impression is that most Muslims don’t real care about Muslims from other ethnic groups

You can't write comments like this on HN. Choose better words. You're way off your game here.
You could build a completely different language with some of Rust's features, if you go back a few years before Rust 1.0 there are lots of possibilities, but what I was getting at is that Rust itself is much more tightly wedded to the generics than many of the languages people associate with generics, a "Rust without generics" isn't Rust at all.

Even in C++ the generics are a later addition, Stroustrup's early 1980s language doesn't have generic types, templates were a proposal added to what would become the C++ 98 standard and the Standard Template Library presents generic types for containers in C++ years after the C++ language was first popularized.
I think I'm pretty qualified to talk about training people outside a PhD.

I had a high-school intern who worked with me and hit the top of Hacker News with a new compiler optimisation she invented.

I still think a PhD is the best for most people in most cases, if you want to be doing genuine research.
> a person can write a paper just as well in Wordperfect 5 as the latest Google Doc or Office365 Word

That seems hard to believe; try printing, or formatting. It's like saying 'a person can fly just as well in a 1930s biplane or a current 737.' Sure, they both fly.

On the other hand, am I more productive in 2022 Emacs than I would be in 1985 Emacs?
> My advise is to find a smaller, stable, profitable place to interview at.

This is the answer. Our organization is tiny and works in an extremely boring niche - B2B banking consultants & related software shenanigans. We've been at it since the 90s.

If you adjust your expectations just a little bit (i.e. you are now OK using "boring" stuff like .NET/Java), you might be able to get something much more quickly than otherwise.

Regardless, the market has spoken and we must all adapt.
Ask HN: How can I make a simple interactive website with minimal experience?
Non-technical user here: I recently graduated from optometry school and would like to make a website with a few useful tools for calculating some numbers that are important in optometry. I've always wanted to learn how to program and I think this might be a good introduction to it. I'd like to make a simple website that takes mathematical inputs and gives outputs. I would also like it to be mobile-friendly.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a newbie to the tech-space or am I in way over my head? I'm asking on HN becuase there seem to be a dizzying number of ways to create a website with little experience, but it seems like everyone is just selling a product, which can be a little off-putting. I'd like to be a little more self-sufficient and learn how to do things along the way.
What about a decision like “can this wave be faithfully represented by this set of points?”

Wouldn’t the Sampling Theorem give an answer in some bounded time? Is the idea that the time required to crank the algorithm can grow without bound?
Don't forget: waste tons of energy, dump tons of carbon into the atmosphere, and generate tons of e-waste from fried GPUs.
I've been interviewing as well, and plenty of companies have either gone totally silent or cited hiring freezes after very positive interviews and even some offers. It really burns to put in the hours and have things go cold, but I try to remind myself how much worse it has been and could be. It's alright to have to work a little harder at times like this.

I'm looking for much different roles than you are, so our experiences will differ. My advice for anyone would be to be persistent though. There's not much to lose by keeping at it and maintaining good spirits, but there's a lot to lose by giving up. You could be surprised to find that connections you make now are rewarding when the economy is looking better, too.

The job market isn't a reflection of you, and losing out on opportunities will be easier than ever, but not by any fault of your own. Give it time and do your best, and you'll find something.

Good luck, keep your head up!
Why do people think oldtimers at companies get paid better than new hires?

That is the case for traditional companies, but not for tech. I worked for one company (most of the time as a manager) for almost 27 years, and never made as much as new hires at most tech companies. My company got an insane bargain with me, and my whole team, and they knew it.

I don't think that cost is the reason that companies like firing older folks.
Heat losses are proportional to the temperature difference integrated over time, and the refrigerator is more efficient in taking heat from the inside when it is close to the temperature of the room. This means that you are better off letting it warm up, because this results in both types of losses decreasing.

This continues all the way up to perfect insulation, though ultimately it's breakeven with perfect insulation.

> Perfect insulation doesn't help if you open the door?

This doesn't change the picture, but worse, it's just completely unrelated to the scenario. Who's opening the door when everyone has left for weeks?