skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but for functioning economies, you can expect a recession every 10-20 years, with smaller corrections more often.

I remember the talk about "stagflation" in the 1970s, though I was too young to really understand it. The boom economy that started in the 1980s crashed in 2000. I remember that well as I lost my job. In 2008 I was working in the public sector and my employment was unaffected, I also didn't have any mortgages with stupid terms, and didn't need any of my retirement investments yet so I just rode that one out. So a recession in 2022, especially given the past two years, is maybe a bit early but not really surprising.
Yes. I have seen it work many times over.
Open Source Intelligence May Be Changing Old-School War
How can something be completely unmonetizable? If users want to use it, then you can sell them access or show them ads. It'd be strange to have a product that's logically only usable by people without money.

I mean, it's possible if the content you're indexing is offensive or pornographic of course.
Medicine, and food of all kinds, but especially shelf-stable foods, the sort that are really handy after a natural disaster.
If I get laid off, I am looking forward to a nice break from work. I'd have a nice excuse to go travel instead of feeling compelled to earn money.
Microsoft Azure DCsv3 and DCdsv3 virtual machines are now generally available
I am thrilled. Burn it all to the ground. The only way this ends is with serious systemic reforms, and a massive crash will force those to happen sooner.

Maybe in a decade or so, property ownership will be within the reach of middle-class families again.
Glade is replaced by Cambalanche https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/category/programming/cambalach...
> I can teach a programmer Lambda Calculus in a few minutes and they will be able to use it for programming.

Which programmer? Bare Lambda Calculus? Wouldn't that be pretty useless?

> Not so with CT. You need to add a lot of structure to get anything close to Lambda Calculus.

I'm not sure I follow, I've heard that "the simply typed lambda-calculus is modeled by any cartesian closed category (CCC)." http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/
> In BE, bit n has value 2^(k-n) …

Bit numbering does not necessarily follow byte numbering. Personally I favor BE byte-order—if only because it means a standard hex dump shows the bytes in normal reading order regardless of grouping, which is especially helpful when larger integers are not naturally aligned, and it also matches the order of digits in (English) text strings—but I would agree that bit 0 should always be the least-significant bit.
GPS doesn't use battery; a better description of users is they do completely random stuff because they think it might increase battery life or they dreamed someone told them to do it once years ago.

Killing apps after they're done with them is the other big one there.
Oops I was totally wrong: https://twitter.com/rclmenezes/status/1529278214346051584?s=...
Three weeks after layoffs, Genocea shuts down
> Modified May 13, 2021

is it just me or is it odd to maintain this list?
Homes today are cheaper than the 60s? The 60s where a single earner family, where the earner was a schoolteacher, could afford a house before having kids?
Sometimes the race is "not burning your whole raise".
They're trying but it isn't going to work. China already manipulates the yuan so hard it screams and Russia is too involved with foreign trade to resist the temptation of manipulation. The USD is by far the best option for the world at large.
Glade itself is deprecated, but the UI XML file format it works with is not. Cambalache and Drafting are two WIP projects to replace Glade.

Until then, you can either avoid UI files, write them by hand, or my favorite option: use blueprints[1], a file format that compiles to UI files. For instance, this file[2] describes a form with a folding advanced section, complete with functions to call when buttons are pressed, and CSS class names to apply to widgets.

[1]: https://jwestman.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blueprint-compiler/
[2]: https://github.com/JMS55/whatthefn/blob/master/res/blp/profi...
Organizations should be judged based on what they are doing now. Historically the Republicans were the anti-slavery party and the Democrats were the party of Jim Crow, but that should not determine one's current party allegiance.
Yes. Pushing problems around, or as they say in business, externalities.
> People are still spending a lot of money and demand for a lot of things is still high

Yes, that is how you create a gigantic crash. Look at this graph, click 25 years, does this look to go in the right direction? The US economy is shifting more and more towards consumption of imported goods instead of producing things itself, this isn't sustainable. You see how the 2008 crash got the curve back and track, a similar thing should happen this time around as well.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-trade
Pretty sure the untold masses actually think you're weird for oddly capitalizing the type of rubber used for condoms and fetish wear.
I can compare apples and oranges. "Well, oranges tend to be rounder, and more orange, and tarter, and...". Doesn't change the fact that it is THE cliche for bad comparisons that you shouldn't attempt.

Maybe I should clarify, especially if English isn't your first language, saying something "isn't comparable" doesn't mean you literally can't compare them, but that doing so is unhelpful and misleading.
More like 1929. At least as it relates to deep recession and food scarcity. But on a global scale.
> Kevin Cameron, whose father died last year and whose mother is in a nursing home, must now decide what to keep or toss from their cluttered home in Shelburne, N.S.

this doesn't seem like a difficult decision.
Then we'll convert the most wasteful human invention yet, suburbs, into farms like the retrosuburbia movement in Australia
One thing the author talks about is adding a slog to increase write speed but that is only true for synchronous writes or when your system memory has already been maxed out. The real purpose of a slog is to protect against data loss in the write cache that resides in volatile memory but has not yet made it to disk in the event of a power failure.
Super hygroscopic polymer films for moisture harvesting in arid environments
In the name of all that does not suck, I beg you to NOT do "flat design". Make it possible to navigate a website - make hyperlinks blue, underlined text. Have visual cues for buttons. Have buttons, not magic pixels. Don't hide information in "hover over" things.
The story title "Southern Baptist leaders plan to release a secret list of accused sex abusers" contradicts the posted title.
What percentage of Netflix holders are underwater?

That's the point of this whole thread: whenever you get crypto haters on these fora, they act like crypto is the only volatile asset that has no effective price floor. But in fact, there are loooooooooooots of assets that are volatile and have no effective price floor.

Are those assets dangerous to invest in? They sure are. I don't invest in crypto and I don't invest in Netflix, either.

But do those many other assets that are volatile and have no effective price floor draw all this apocalyptic talk and complaints? No, they don't. They may draw entirely reasonable discussions of the value of not investing all your eggs in one basket. Which suggests to me that all the hate that crypto draws is not in fact because they're volatile and have no price floor -- that's a smokescreen for people who, generally, are in some combination of: a. don't like the politics of some people involved in crypto, or b. are pissed off that they spent a decade saying that crypt was going to crash any day now and have been consistently wrong.
Just as an aside, it's absolutely astounding how much hardware Google must throw at YouTube to achieve this for any video anybody in the world wants to upload. The processing power to reencode to so many versions, and then to store all of those versions, and then make all of those accessible anywhere in the world at a moments notice. Really is such an incredible waste for most YouTube content.
Eh, whatever.

I guess I could worry, but having been through enough of these "sky is falling" events I've mostly decided to just tune out. I think it was covid, or more specifically the wildfires during covid, that finally just broke me down into a "i no longer give a fuck" mindset.

Bad shit happens. I'll continue to be kind to others, and try to treat people the way I would want to be treated. Life will do what life is going to do.
> that we can take the squares down to 10x10, maybe even 8x8 or 5x5

16x16, 8x8, or 4x4 would be the way to go. You'd want each RGB block to map to a single H.264 macroblock.

Using non order of 2 numbers means that individual blocks don't line up with macroblocks. Having a single macroblock represent 1, 4, or 16 RGB pixels would be ideal.

In fact, I bet modifying the original code to use a scaling factor of 16 instead of 20 would produce some significant improvements.
There are hundreds if not thousands of positions at boring old big profitable enterprise shops like banks and government jobs that are humming along fine. I barely knew there was a dot com bust in 2000. I was working for a bill payment printing company.
> Is demoralizing to find out I spent 4 years in school just to get into a really harsh job market.

I know it doesn't make your experience any better, but this is *not* a harsh job market. Yes, some companies are pulling back/slowing down/pausing hiring, but there are still far more software jobs available than people to fill them.

> What companies or roles will be more resilient?

Those that are or can quickly become profitable. Most startups are NOT profitable because they chase growth at all costs. This may change as cheap and easy money dries up.

> And how as a SWE / tech industry professional, specially the ones starting their careers like me, can prepare?

Don't do anything different. You had one company pull out on you. That happens all the time for a multitude of reasons. Don't be discouraged. Apply for jobs at a range of companies, from start-ups to profitable SaaS companies to companies outside the typical "tech" wheelhouse.
Treated wood isn't really used for indoor furniture. It's for wood that would be exposed to a lot of moisture, e.g. wooden decks.
> Not only the implementation of qsort would have to be visible to the compiler, but also the implementation of the comparison function, which may be defined in a separately compiled module or passed around dynamically as a function pointer (as might qsort itself, potentially).

In postgres' case the whole set of comparison functions isn't know at the compile time of the server - new types / operators can be added at runtime by extensions.

Hence the branches for the few most common/performance critical cases. I'd personally prefer if we gradually moved to C++ in postgres, but that'd not change that we'd need to have those explicit branches to benefit from a faster sort.

Of course it'd be a lot less annoying to implement in C++ - manually implementing templates with macro magic is many things, but not fun.
I believe this is what theyre referring to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31085051#31088549
There are risks, yes, but fundamentally we are still an industry that has a lot of upside, vs many others. In a recession many businesses will contract, but it's a rare large tech company that will do more than pause some forms of spending. Even when you hear that hiring is paused at the big tech companies, they will usually still be backfilling departures, and they won't be doing significant layoffs. The exceptions are companies with large service-based businesses that may or not qualify as tech companies based on your definition.
>This is a bunch of religious zealots

Believe it or not but there are millions of prolife people who are not religious. Trying to paint such a diverse group with such a paint brush shows you either don't know what you are talking about or are not arguing in good faith.
Microsoft's Project Volterra is a mini PC for ARM developers
Tyvek is also polyethylene.
Buy from matrixeditions.com for $98.
Almost any redistribution scheme you come up with is going to look unfair from some perspective. I shy away from "immoral" because that's just a triggering word. What we're really trying to decide are the terms of the social contract, and despite my libertarian past, I am now 100% on board with introducing a personal wealth cap significantly under $1 billion. No person could really spend that much money in day-to-day meatspace activities in a lifetime; it can only be hoarded, squandered, and splurged on flamboyant things, none of which I think we should allow until we get out of climate crisis mode.
Ask HN: Earn Crypto While Job Searching?
I believe I created the first and only place to earn crypto while job searching.

jobcull.com

I would like your insight regarding this marketing tactic and if it's a good or bad idea. I am using my own money to payout. Currently capped at $100 a month and divide it out among the users on my platform who chooses to participate. As I payout, they will find it's legit and tell others. No one can game the system as it takes way more effort than what the payout is worth, few dollars a month. I figured this would be a better use of my money than advertising into the void. The main purpose of my site is to find a job, job management, get paid each month for doing so.
I think we all have some skill in understanding if we are being engaged with authentically or are being deceived.
I'm really skeptical of all the "sky is falling" talk. Asset prices have been wildly inflated since COVID opened the taps on QE. That they are now coming down to reality is the entire point. The Fed is doing its' job. This isn't 2008. There isn't a systemic risk. Revenues are strong, consumer spending is strong, and savings are at historical levels. A wildly inflated sector of the economy is being unwound, and there will be sore losers. But the bull case for the foreseeable future hasn't changed at all really.
Think of the 20th century and people dealing with WWII and perpetual nuclear threat of the cold war? The world is too complex to be free of instability, free market capitalism makes it less so. Consider that developed democracies seldom fight with each other.
This book excerpt doesn't mention the bar code patent troll, a man who made billions out of evergreened or invalid bar code patents:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/12/14/the-pat...
There are open-source projects that attempt to do emulation of some of the larger mainframe systems (S/370, ESA/390, z) like [0] but you have a number of things working against you in that. You are more than likely not to find any newer version of, say, z/OS to run. Couple that with the fact that most mainframe programs deployed at FIs like core banking are so heavily customized commercial packages to fit an individual institution's needs, Hogan and similar [1], that they might as well be bespoke, internally developed systems. You may be able to get away with learning the basics of CICS [2] but it would be a struggle, not near as easy as fetching a linux distro ISO.

That said, I personally think that the Z architecture is completely bonkers and I would love the opportunity, like you, to learn it more in depth. My info above comes second-hand from what I've been able to piece together in my own searches.

[0] http://www.hercules-390.eu/
[1] https://www.luxoft.com/banking/core-banking/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS , https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247952.html?Open
Amen. The continual hysteria about "growth" is goddamned annoying. Things can't grow forever. Can't they just make a healthy living?

Meanwhile, what the U.S. should be doing is ruthlessly cracking down on de facto monopolies and oligopolies that are ripping off Americans and making record profits, like meat... baby formula... and most of all TicketMaster.
I thought they determined it was bacteria in the gut?
a slew of articles came out a few weeks ago where the top US brass admitted that they have no idea where all of the weapons we're sending are going.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/04/united-states-military-ai...

you know how when a movie is almost over, they start setting up for the sequel? well..
The author longs for an environment that doesn’t force her to be more like a car in order to justify living.
Twenty Years in and We’ve Stopped Poseidon
NTI statement on “Monkeypox” tabletop exercise
Gov. Newsom Still Agitating for Urban Water Restrictions While Ignoring 50% State’s Water Sent to the Pacific

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31496174
Wait, you take it easy for six months when onboarding? That’s an interesting strategy but can’t say I’d recommend it to a junior to mid-level engineer.
Haha yeah I think I've probably predicted collapse annually since like 2010. So either you can safely ignore me, or we're due for a 12x apocalypse.
Maybe something on Adult Swim? ATHF, Space Ghost, Harvey Birdman?

In the US, live action shows seem to be big productions, maybe not as well suited to making things that aren't universally appealing.
Could “nuclear clocks” drive a technological revolution?
I have books on math from encyclopedias from parents from the 80's weighting more than 4 KG each.

Now I can just fire up a browser and understand a hard math concept in minutes in a much easier way. With free as in freedom CAS tools and such, and with a netbook bought at a ridiculous price 20x cheaper than the book volume set itself,
which back in the day costed A LOT.
I mean, the crash, by definition, is when the demand stops, yeah? "A crash is coming because currently demand is still high" is a bit incomplete as far as theories go. That graph matches my original point about the last two years being very different from 2010-2020 - but it doesn't tell me anything about where to expect things to "correct" to or whether or not such a correction would be good or bad - a lot of people would love to see a US spending shift back to spend on services/experiences rather than manufactured goods. If you look at the 2000 dot com bubble, for instance, that line didn't move as much as in the 2008 crash. Does that tell us that tech valuations popping doesn't affect other things as much as other crashes might? I don't know - but I don't believe you can know for sure either on knowing what'll happen next. We've been defying predictions for years!

Is that crazy luck, or is it that the predictions are extrapolating from small samples against an ever-changing background and so basically just throwing darts? Everything is unprecedented, both good and bad, at this point in human history.
Or go to the opposite extreme and use fuzzing.
I can tell you two of the BigTech companies that are definitely not slowing down - at least in their cloud divisions.
Ebikes are much more like bikes than cars. Biggest difference is you don’t need to shower when you get to work.
Unfortunately, most of the fired-for-cause people also claim that they were just laid off, hence the uncertainty.
Weird. I thought that Ahrefs was a spammy, SEO thing.

I had my personal web server set to direct any requests from some user agents to an "infinite website", a piece of PHP that generated lorem ipsum text, random JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs, and a random robots.txt file. Ahrefs fell down that hole, hard.
> A smart contract defines all the interactions that are valid.

A smart contract defines all the interactions. Whether they are legally valid is another matter. In contract law, usually the intentions of the parties (at the moment of agreeing to the contract) are taken into consideration. In most other cases, the legal system has rules to determine the validity. The customary practices of the crypto ecosystem is something they might take into account, but it's not necessarily a final outcome.
Not especially familiar but is it really a 50 year recession and not just stagnation
Where I live (San Diego), they're big, heavy, mini-motorcycles zooming past others at top speed in narrow bike lanes. Is the hate for that so hard to understand?
I'm not concerned about the finances. Recessions are when dictators rise around the world and democracies fall. That's the scary bit. People blame the current leadership and look toward what they perceive as "strong". Then they can't go back.
Since code is typically stored in files, I hope that new programmers would be expected to learn what a file is.
I thought teslas real revenue comes from carbon offsets? They do not make a profit from the actual cars
rr is amazing...
Your 22 Outlander won't last as long as your 1995 car.

There's just too much tech in it that will go wrong, or be unsupported in 10 years.

No one will know how to fix it.

We are adding complexity where we should not be, but then cars are designed to be sold, not to be used for more than 3 years.