skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always get flak for this but here we go anyway: the key is to manage expectations in the short term.

First realize that the market you know is far from the norm. We were at the end of the longest bull run in history and the hottest tech job market in memory. These are things you can kiss good bye for a while: eye popping salaries with little experience, kombucha on tap and Prosecco Friday, headcount doubling every 6 months, 50% YoY stock growth...

Yes, your timing is bad and it sucks. Such is life. I graduated in 2008 into one of the worst economies in my country. Imagine living paycheck to paycheck working as a software engineer.

The good news is you have a few years of experience, so you are in a better position to weather this than a fresh grad. When the economy starts picking up again you'll be in an excellent position to take advantage of it.

This is a fact: big companies are still hiring and are very resilient. Deep pockets will take the chance to attract talent. Amazon still has a huge gap due to the great resignation and hasn't slowed down. Now is a good chance to join for a stable job during turbulent times.

This is an opinion: I truly believe many decacorns from the next generation will come out of this. The recession will clean up the undergrowth and leave room for the next rocketships to take off. Imagine being an early engineer at Google? that might be happening now. Of course the trick is to pick the right horse out of thousands.

What path you choose depends on your situation. If you want stability try big tech. If you want to play the lottery keep an eye open for startups.
Punk is very strongly connected with DIY. Often times you had to do it yourself because money is scarce: printing your own shirts, pressing records, setting up shows, etc.
Nice thanks, this answered my biggest question, which was "will it survive compression/re-encoding." (yes it will). Very cool idea!
I was in a similar position in 2008. The key thing you need is experience, as people fresh out of college take awhile to ramp up and actually be productive.

I'd avoid small startups and focus on larger, established players. Unless they raised money before things started to get bad, smaller companies won't have the same resources as late stage orgs and FAANG.

While you're applying, try to get experience however you can. Work on personal projects relevant to jobs you're applying for and post them on Github. Pick up work on UpWork, etc at whatever price people are willing to pay. Having experience you can point to gives you a leg up over everyone else.
This is not to fault the site creator(s) at all, but wow this a good example of how using third party viz libraries can be misleading. At default zoom on my device, this shows the all-time high near Portland, OR (Vancouver, WA) registered 330 days ago, while the nearest visible data for Seattle shows 40 years(!) despite the fact that Seattle’s all-time record was broken the same day. I have to zoom in knowing that fact to get accurate data.

Limiting data points on a zoomable map is a great reasonable default, but it degrades pretty terribly when it matters.
Well played, didn’t see that one coming. =p
Solar cooking is one of the most accessable yet under rated energy savings that can be achieved by the average person.

Most people have zero idea how easy and effective solar cooking can be.

You can make a more than adequate solar cooker with 1-2 square metres of cardboard with foil or old chip packets glued to it, a dark pot, and the secret - put the pot in an oven bag to limit convectional and wind losses.

For more details see the BYU solar funnel, as just one example.
Interesting, I can see Firecracker doesn’t even support snapshotting it seems which could be a challenge
Twitter thread was cool thanks.
It pleases you to believe so, but as was the case for solar PV, wind turbines, and batteries before it, literally all hydrogen electrolysis needs now is manufacturing volume.
> For Mandarin, detecting the word boundaries in the absence of white space between word-indicating characters or character sequences has been a dedicated sub-task of NLP pre-processing

This is also really hard(at least for me) for second language learners.
I thought the analogy of defragmentation was considered acceptable. I stopped doing all nighters a few years ago and the days have become much easier to handle, even bad days. Always getting a good night's sleep is, in the modern vernacular of philosopher-poet DJ Khaled, a "major key alert"
Between s-expressions in Racket and indentation in Python, this thread really turns out all the people who whine about code that doesn't look like Java.
No I'm pretty sure you're right on the timing. I was a teenager in the mid to late 90s and britney tapes were extremely common then, to the point that it was often used as a joke (much like in your story!)
I don't know about your experience, but 2008 was devastating to people just starting out in their careers. So far, the current economic situation feels mild in comparison.
Ask HN: How is explanation on current Syria condition, the ongoing courses?
How is the truthful explanation on current Syria condition, the ongoing courses of disputing parties toward each of their goals, compared to that before its war of 2011?
The laws we have clearly aren't working, then. So: Better gun laws. Background checks. No guns for mentally unstable folks, or folks living with mentally unstable folks.
This is definitely something you can do as a newbie. I'm a newbie working on my first project (well technically second but i decided the first i started was a little complex for a first) that is basically exactly what you're trying to do. A simple webpage that does calculations based on mathematical inputs and shows the outputs.

https://jbcoventry.github.io/standard-drinks-calculator/

You can see the code here:

https://github.com/jbcoventry/standard-drinks-calculator

My suggestion would be to install VSCode, it's a very popular code editor so there's lots of information on the internet about doing things with it. Then install the extension Live Server for it. This lets you have your code up on one screen or on half of your screen, a browser showing your webpage on the other, and as you make changes to your code the browser will automatically show them. I find that instant feedback really helpful.

As a test to make sure you've got it working and to quickly get some results up on the screen, feel free to copy my code and make some changes. Open three tabs in vscode, copy my html, js, and css files in to one each of them, save them all in to the same folder as index.html, script.js, and styles.css; then when you run Live Server a tab should open up in your browser that looks the same as when you open my first link except with this one you can change it.

For example go to line 16 in index.html and change "Standard Drink Calculator" to something else. When you save it you should see the heading on your page in the browser change. Then you can go in to VSCode settings and turn autosave on, and you wont even have to press save any more.

Then I can recommend three resources.

freecodecamp.org for basic structured guides that take you from having nothing to something.

javascript.info is a great online textbook.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web you can think of as basically your coding dictionary. If you search for a term in here you will get a page on exactly what it does.

Initially I think you will find searching javascript.info more useful than the mozilla docs because it fills you in with more general context. For example if you were reading my code and were all "huh, what's this addEventListener thing do" and searched for it in them, the top results you would get are these:

https://javascript.info/introduction-browser-events

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget...

I like that javascript.info starts with what events are, what you would do with them, and then moves in to why you would want addEventListener and how to use it.
Literally every time. Except not always cancelled.
You can spin up a $5/mo instance on any of the low cost cloud and install MySQL or whatever.

Why go the more pricey/complicated route?
Make Tracker Tunes in the Browser
"Bugs" is more or less only ever used as a colloquial term.
I doubt it could really be any worse than how wood rots if you don't handle it properly.
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Matches my other Logitech peripherals. Sadly that's major reason. And dongle + bluetooth = easy switching between multiple systems.
California threatens ‘mandatory water restrictions’ if people don’t cut back
There's an overall trend that this example fits in where people tend to act on spectrum of outright denial, not caring or actively exacerbating/ridiculing/etc, when it comes to problems experienced by people other than themselves.

It's only when they themselves, or someone they care about, experiences something that they begin to care about it. It speaks to a selective empathy, one that is ultimately selfish, because it is only given when it starts to impact them. It is especially selfish when that lack of empathy has benefited them in the past, as well.
I quite like the idea that punk was about annihilation, if you found out the missiles were on their way, you’d probably start saying what you always wanted to.

From Legs McNeil of Punk Magazine: "This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form—it was about advocating kids to not wait to be told what to do, but make life up for themselves, it was about trying to get people to use their imaginations again, it was about not being perfect, it was about saying it was okay to be amateurish and funny, that real creativity came out of making a mess, it was about working with what you got in front of you and turning everything embarrassing, awful, and stupid in your life to your advantage."
It sometimes really is as good as you can expect. You can have a compiler that checks for increasingly complex errors in intent but it won't defend you against cosmic rays.
not every industry needs the same regulation
Alas, “only” 7 years to find.
Now Amazon offers many non famous brand (likely rebranded Chinese OEM) products and find good one from there is nightmare. Some consumer may stick familiar brand like Logitech or Corsair.
https://github.com/webinstall/webi-installers

I just got done putting this into my routine and I find this one.
The JEDEC standard specifies client SSDs have to retain data powered off for a year under worst case temperature. Enterprise drives have a relaxed requirement for three months. This is because lower programming voltages are used to achieve higher total bytes written endurance.

Even hard disks should be powered on occasionally to test backups.
Well of course they are. A generation of bacteria is about 20 minutes, for human more like 20 years.
Having to invoke emergency powers, when other similarly-affected countries don't resort to that, should be seen as an admission that the government has failed to correctly prepare.

As such, power should instantly be transferred to the main opposition party, especially as you shouldn't trust any party to wield powers that you wouldn't want to be available to your worst enemy.
Awesome, proof once more man is not at the pinnacle of evolution.
Solar and wind have been and are being built out. Dropping that to start nukes and wait 10-20 years for any power at all would be strictly worse.
I know Category Theory quite well but have never used it for anything practical. Do you have any examples of practical solutions that benefitted more from Category Theory than just straight forward algebraic thinking?
> I'd avoid small startups and focus on larger, established players.

normally good advice, but it is a conservative stance and one should understand what they are choosing if they go down this path imho.

Fresh out of college is a time when you can take the highest risk in terms of jobs; your expenses ought to be quite low (zero dependants presumably), you can share house/get room mates etc; you can work long hours without hugely impacting health short term (as you get older, you will no longer be able to function this way).

Therefore, if you would want startup experience, and a chance at making it big (both financially and experientially), there's no really better time than straight out of college. Of course, nothing prevents you from doing so later in life - there's a large variation in startup career, and what i described is merely just one anecdote.
Worth knowing how California water is used and which sectors consume the most.

Hint: it is not citizens watering their gardens or drinking 8 glasses of water a day or taking long showers: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2022/02/24/california-wate...

Now, I recognize that the industries who ARE consuming virtually all the water bring in tax revenues, but when there's no water, perhaps time to think about incentivizing other industries.
That's Ohio. But Youngstown (close to the Pennsylvania border) had a record high 79 days ago.
Coincidentally I'm also reading about Lamport signature (https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/04/07/hash-bas...).

It's really interesting because it only uses hash function and doesn't rely on trapdoor function! I think quite many people (me included) only learn about digital signature after public key cryptography, so it's quite a surprise to know about Lamport signature. Also, IIUC, because it doesn't rely on trapdoor function it also resistant against quantum computer in the future
That’s because there is no incentive to ‘artificially’ speed up wood decomposition right now.

With the right incentive and no thought on unintended consequences, it might happen.

You are probably right though.
I think it explains why Dart is used as much as it is.
I'm surprised that there aren't more companies taking this seriously. Google or another large mobile hw/sw company is in a good position to replace Android with something more forward thinking with Android APIs as legacy support built on top. Google has the advantage in that they can also support Google's extra APIs that most apps don't work well without.

Samsung is putting together their "Dream Platform One team" to go beyond Exynos to meet Apple's M1, but I can't see them doing well with the software.
the bit vs. atoms thing is interesting though

We don't have the ability to regenerate someone's arm in real time or program it to become the limb of another animal in real time.

Teleportation, FTL, flying cars (anti gravity), consciousness transfer, 3D printed food from raw atoms, seamless BCID, direct matter to energy conversion, space elevator, real holograms, all those currently sci-fi/impossible things

plasma/laser/particle weapons which Nikola Tesla supposedly was working on back then but with miniaturized fusion energy sources maybe it'll be a thing (small cyclotron too).

active camouflage (cheap mass produced lcd display/camera overlaid on aircraft) haha name every sci-fi concept you've ever seen

I remember the first time I saw a helmholtz coil in action (bending glowing electron beam into a circle via magnetism) that was crazy but of course tv, even those tiny ones size of a walkman
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Wires get dusty, it's one less thing to worry about for me.
hey there stavros, are you from pinata?
I want a mechanical keyboard with a unifying dongle. I have three laptops I switch between. I can plug the dongle into my monitor or dock and I never have to worry about switching inputs.
who IS in the $200B club?
What is AMC?
Two more key differences:

- In 2000, people were talking about the future being about outsourcing engineering work to lower cost-of-living countries. To some extent that's happened, but companies also see tech as integral to their survival and have realized that their core engineering teams need to be in the same time-zone.
- In 2000, tech was for tech companies. Now, every large bank has a huge technology team. Every company in logistics has a large tech team. Every retailer needs good engineers. In 2000, there were a few niche websites online. Now, a strong online presence is essential even for stores like Home Depot.

There's no question that the market was overheated, but it's too early to call doom here. The NASDAQ is still up about 50% from where it was 3 years ago, before COVID, even after the recent drop. That's a 14% yearly average return... still a crazy amount. At it's peak, it was up over 100% from May 24, 2019... a level that just wasn't sustainable.
NPR’s marketplace segment was unusually honest in their assessment yesterday, noting that most economic experts want new hiring to considerably slow down. I’m old enough to remember when this kind of statement was in the news all the time in the 1990s, but this is the first time I’ve seen it said in public in a long time.
I think the idea that a languages ought to cover 100% of possible usecases has done far more harm than good. It's a ridiculously high bar. We should aim for more "Pareto-optimized" languages -- languages that address 80% of the problem space with 20% the complexity.
One more thing: the choice of Wolfram Mathematica as an implementation language was a deliberate decision on my part. Not for any technical reason -- YouTubeDrive doesn't use any of Mathematica's symbolic math capabilities -- but because I didn't want YouTubeDrive to be too easy for anybody on the internet to download and use, lest I attract unwanted attention from Google. In the eyes of my paranoid freshman self, the fact that YouTubeDrive is somewhat obtuse to install was a feature, not a bug.

So, feel free to have a look and have a laugh, but don't try to use YouTubeDrive for any serious purpose! This encoding scheme is so horrendously inefficient (on the order of 99% overhead) that the effective bandwidth to and from YouTube is something like one megabyte per minute.
> Society had less crime not more.

Citation needed, at least if you're defining crime in the sense of what's experienced by regular people. Being a victim of violence was much more likely in those days, and the fact that you could easily spend the money of someone you mugged was a significant factor in that.

> Moreover, things like capital controls do nothing at all. Criminals with half a brain are quite obviously going to work around publicly known limitations.

The point isn't to eliminate it entirely but to make it more costly, and in that regard they seem to have been quite successful.
I don't necessarily disagree with "the linux kernel boundary is porous and probably not possible to secure in depth", but IIUC the hypervisor is part of the kernel too, so wouldn't it have the same problem?

The win would be in the attack surface area. For hypervisors there's a good layer of abstraction to pivot over, whereas with containers it's a much thinner wall.
Not at all. Lambda Calculus is a much better mathematical foundational for functional programming that Category Theory is. I can teach a programmer Lambda Calculus in a few minutes and they will be able to use it for programming. Not so with CT. You need to add a lot of structure to get anything close to Lambda Calculus. Basically about 50% of a Typical CT book to get there.
Biden isn’t as sharp as Carter and will likely be a one term president due to health issues. We may be properly screwed if he doesn’t have the ability to lead here.

It’s sad, he was a true lion in his youth
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This is like blaming lawnmowers for high gas prices.

Everybody knows agriculture is using the lion's share of water and it's unsustainable. Drinking less water and reusing laundry water isn't the answer.
That's about as close as you can get.

Americans are too earnest to be into absurdist humor.
So far it's really just asset valuations coming back to earth. With employment so high, wages higher than ever, and the problem is that we can't get enough supplies are employees, can we really call this a crash for the economy at large? For once it's wall street suffering while main street thrives.
I'm mostly looking for things like I bonds, solid blue chips, and ex-China developing world ETFs.

No idea if that will play out well. I'm not that worried though.
With the proviso that she's coming at this from the opposite political slant (the link above being a hard-right, pro-Trump account), journalist Marcie Wheeler (https://www.emptywheel.net/) has been extensively reporting on the trial; her assessment, conversely, is that the prosecution scarcely has a case, though the FBI also doesn't come off as either effective or coordinated in her opinion.
It seems to be inevitable. Few languages can remain simple forever because they run into the realities of large scale systems development. If they remain simple, they either force the programs to become more complex or effectively constrain the complexity of the systems that are developed.

Even Fortran has added OO and generics.
Didn’t the Wii do something similar for GameCube games? It would technically reboot when loading and when done.
WKUK had its moments, but was definitely led by Trevor in a way KITH members could stand on their own. Personally, i felt it dipped a bit too much into contemporary politics (stuff like Bush being in Skull and Bones), which doesn't quite have the shelf life of KITHs high points.
Very nice right up on how unfinished and insecure Fuchsia is as a result of it being so unfinished.
I feel like this is just how most people behave, for better or worse. I have a set of strongly held opinions about certain things that may or may not be considered socially acceptable and when people I actually know that I care about are experiencing particularly bad consequences as a result of secondary or tertiery effects that "derive from" from views (in the sense of legislation being passed that is in line with the views that I hold, or anything adjacent from this) as such, I sometimes loosen up - isn't this pretty reasonable, natural given that we empathize with people we know more than people we don't know?

It isn't really hypocrisy -- it's more of a moderating factor given one's connections with people one might know, assuming the desire to fit in with society and have more pro-social interactions with others.
> Personally I try to turn GPS off as much as possible but I also frequently consult it even for routes that I know well.

I'm not saying it's not useful. I'm just saying it's not as big of an advance as it's being made out to be.

> And come on, maps are excellent, there's no garbage there.

I've above clarified, but my "garbage" comment was not referring to maps, but other kinds of material you'd fine online. Maps are actually one of the few types of online references that tends to have very little garbage.
This was at Amazon.
Those "L2s" are the same kind of entity as something like Zelle, and equally able to exercise controls on what kind of transactions you can do and for how much.
> Clearly it is in peoples best interests to not have children these days.

Why do you say that? This seems rather short-sighted. The decision to have children was the best choice I ever made. It demanded more of me than I ever knew I had to give, and that turned me into a much better person. And lets not forget that future generations will be the ones supporting you in your old age.
Shells already implement many commands as shell builtins. For example, echo, true, and so on.
Yes, it's also good that Unifying receiver support multiple devices.
Yes, this is more complicated than my experience had revealed. My references came from Chinese immigrants. Their main "biodynamic" practice might be an odd translation of a Chinese term. Mostly that involves using compost teas which is extremely non radical as soaking vegetation and then using the soak water to help grow plants is basically just a mechanically assisted equivalent of rain transferring nutrients from topsoil.
Games just felt so much more intelligent back then. Morrowind really went off the deep end.