skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 1.5 percent in the first quarter of 2022

Any bets it's going to be positive in Q2 with the ballooning oil prices?
Taking it a little personal, eh?
Be careful this isn’t an an excuse for ageism. Skills like problem solving, debugging,, planning, … these are invariants and always useful. The language or tool that is used will change, but the underlying process remains the same.

Medical and scientific fields have continuous learning via papers, conferences, even courses that update peoples skills. Also, there’s new ideas and methods coming in with new people who then get involved in the skill exchange once hired (latest synthesis ideas vs. Picking up medchem).

And it seems to be panic buying and selling in this field - inhaling anything with a pulse 5-7 weeks ago and now trying to lay off half the staff today or next week. Same problems, same market issues.

And if the damned SWE’s we’re valuable they’d give them proper working conditions. As somebody wrote, lawyers don’t do jira tickets.
buddy our goal is to make their professions just a shitty and atomizing as ours. it is the way (the faster the better). the professional class are an impediment to progress idc how mean that sounds.
Didn't they pay it back?
This is the best advice to realize early on.
>If you are affected, you will receive this notification in your personal email, because we made the decision to cut access to Coinbase systems for affected employees. I realize that removal of access will feel sudden and unexpected, and this is not the experience I wanted for you. Given the number of employees who have access to sensitive customer information, it was unfortunately the only practical choice, to ensure not even a single person made a rash decision that harmed the business or themselves.

Very interesting!! Cutting nearly 20% of your staff but not giving any opportunity for workload transitions take place.
I think they do/did - iirc, i read something in a thread on Reddit from one of their employees...
It is fascinating just how quickly sentiments can change (both in the broader market but in crypto it seems to be exacerbated). That said, it's obvious that companies like these dramatically overhired and overspent on talent and were growing far beyond what the market could bear except in an extremely bull run subsidized by government largesse. Now that investors are losing their shirts on crypto and retail people who were playing with fun money have sports to bet on again and can go outside, I imagine the trading volume is going to keep declining dramatically, and they basically missed the NFT craze since their marketplace was late to the party. Hope their employees who have been with them for a while were able to sell at a reasonable time after IPO and aren't still in the lockup period.
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> Yes, that is mostly because your education happened in a 3rd world country

I couldn't disagree more with this sentiment. I live in Canada and by way of both running a tech company and working with colleges/universities here I can tell you that none of them have curriculum that's adequately connected to industry skills.

The only exception, and it's a small one, is the University of Waterloo. By way of their reputation they've built a robust internship network for the engineering students. Although they still have gaps on the curriculum side, albeit smaller gaps than other schools, students complete up to 4 internships before graduating giving them a big advantage.
If something seems more exciting, pleasing, or ideal than seems reasonable, then it likely isn't genuine, legitimate, or true.
> Or are they really making decisions from one week for the next?

I'd say this is the most likely explanation. The weekend was brutal for everyone in crypto.
The union worked well as long as voters in Scotland and England voted similarly, but that hasn't been the case since the 1970s.

Scottish voters only rarely influence the outcome of elections to the Westminster parliament, because even thought they vote differently, they only make up about 10% of the GB population (Northern Ireland has different political parties). Almost always, whatever the English electorate votes for, Scotland gets, even when voters in Scotland vote differently.

In the few exceptions where England voted Tory but got Labour because of Scottish votes, how was that fair on England?
> "Home-wise, it has destroyed home life because I was dealing with all this by myself, my wife didn't know what was happening."

Six figures "invested" in cryptocurrency speculation without even informing his partner?

I have real trouble relating to these kinds of people.
So you'd rather have bugged out people which decreases morale which decreases productivity? See it as an investment. Yes, motor oil is more expensive than no motor oil, but it makes the engine run a lot better.
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I looked over the web site. A few questions:

- Why won't the OSS version provide features like history of execution? It seems like those are pretty basic to adoption. I'm working on an open source project, and it'd be a nice tool to potentially integrate. The commercial license is of zero interest since it's, well, all open-source.

- Why don't you sell the OSS version as well (e.g. for people who want to support you, or who want support)?

- Do you provide consulting services? Are they in the $50/hour range (just extrapolating from $200/year for up to 4 hours support)

- Why Django? I like Django, but it seems like using the same tech stack as Jupyter would make for simpler integration, administration, and lower TCO (plus the universe is going async)

- For presentation, the speed is an issue. Regeneration takes a while (I'm playing with the demo on Hugging Face). It's not quite adequate for interactive presentation. I do really like the concept of making presentations in Jupyter.

- And on that topic, the biggest gap I have is with interactive front-ends. I'd like to be able to somehow connect notebooks (both for dashboards and otherwise) for data munging to data visualization frameworks like D3. Jupyter is nice. Observable would be nice if it were open-source. There's a mile-high wall between the two.
People usually don't stress so much on the size, but on the neighbourhood and number of rooms. A "big house" might mean a separate office for a work-at-home parent (or two) instead of the bedroom or living room, or separate rooms for your soon-to-be-teenagers. Maybe that was the case for the OP?

Unfortunately, if you are not building your own house (or having it built, ofc), you can only get a house the size that's almost always bigger than what you'd like initially. Or has fewer rooms than you'd like. You simply don't get to specify the room sizes or such, and for unbeknownst-to-me reasons, people simply build huge houses with huge rooms instead of smaller houses with more smaller rooms.
To those not that familiar with NetHack, it's possible to run up arbitrarily high scores by doing activities within the game such as pudding farming. This is essentially a risk-free way (when done correctly) to get an unbounded number of kills, and as each kill is worth points, an unbounded score as well. I believe the score maxes out at 2 billion something, i.e. the maximum value of a signed int. So you may as well consider all 7 digit and up scores for ascended characters to belong to one single group, as any of these characters could have arbitrarily inflated their score, they just chose not to, as it's relatively uninteresting/boring to do.

What's more interesting is a low score ascension. That is insanely hard to pull off as it means you're taking a very fragile character into the endgame, and yet somehow pulling through.
They might actually do so this week if the news is to be believed

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/13/markets-are-now-bracing-for-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/13/fed-reportedly-may-hike-rate...

edit to add second non-paywalled link
Crypto is clearly crashing but I’m more curious if a reckoning will hit FAANG, particularly Google. I know one person there who is the spouse of a good friend, and they make nearly 7 figures as a middle manager (although I’m unsure what happens with the stock declines and RSUs).

Can these companies support legions of absurdly highly paid people? GOOG is down 25% this year, what will happen when it drops 50%?
Cry me a river. Software development is some of the easiest, highest paid work in history. The majority of the population is grinding away in tough physical labor or abusive service jobs getting paid pennies while software devs moan about only making low six figures and getting a few boring jira tickets while they sit in their home office reading hacker news for half the day.
Except the Supreme Court have said they will not consider an appeal.

So it is not illegal.
I'd say with a caveat it depends if you know what you need to build. You can have 0 bugs, but if you also have 0 users, it's not going to end well.

If you've already built a slow or not-so-reliable prototype in a scripting language, and have users pushing it beyond its limits, then go ahead and make the proper version in Rust.
Cash and stock
It's a really basic playbook. There is a server build block that basically says install Apache, PHP, etc. and edit a few config files. And another block that just does a pull from GIT. As far as playbooks go, it's pretty basic and easy to understand. I'm not looking at it right now, but it's probably fewer than 10 tasks. It's not not one of those with thousand of lines referencing dozens of roles with complex when conditions and jinja2 on everything, like I often see.

As mentioned in another comment, the site has been running on VMs for almost 10 years and not containerized. The CICD pipeline is built around Kubernetes and I have no real reason to move to Kubernetes other than to say it's running in containers. The VMs have never had issues, it's a relatively small internal site, so I don't need to worry about scaling issues. K8 is also in the process of being replaced, so moving to it now seems silly. I use the pipeline for another project I'm working on with another team and while it's needed for the stack they're using, it's bad. No one seems to know how it works, I haven't spoke to a single developer who has a positive thing to say about it, it's very poorly documented, and any time there is an issue it requires messaging a bunch of random people until you find someone with the right blend of tribal knowledge and time to help. I've had a half dozen people come to me just to find out where to see the deployment status or to know how to promote something to upper environments... and I wasn't given that information until 8 months in. Seems like it would be day 1 stuff that would be easily documented.

For a hackathon they made something to do a one-click setup of a project that I would likely use, but outside of the hackathon, that feature isn't available and it would require months of work when factoring in meetings, waiting on other teams, etc to get setup without that. It's just not worth it for my use case.
> they said cryptocurrency is unregulated

> The company had asked him for extra money as an insurance on his investment.

This person is beyond stupid.
The myth of segmentation faults being hard needs to die. A fault is like an exception in Java (or a panic in Rust for that matter), only generated by hardware. It's the best case scenario for your buggy code. It's when you don't get a segfault, but your buggy code keeps chugging along, that's a problem. If after using an out-of-bounds index into an array I get a segfault instead of a memory corruption, I thank god for his mercy. The alternative of the program just continuing execution is horrible.
The veto isn't the only, or even the primary mechanism for countries to have a decisive say in EU affairs, the other and I'd argue far more important one is the opt-out. The UK had many opt-outs such as from the Euro, the Schengen Agreement, the working time directive, etc. Denmark also opted out of the Euro.

It's why I felt the Brexit argument about sovereignty and being forced into things was so spurious. The worst example of an EU rule we were 'forced into' I could find was some food labels (which BTW we still use). As long as a country is smart about what it does or doesn't opt into, there's plenty of scope to chart your own course within the wider EU program.
The beaming clown Chatterjee was brought on from Facebook by cueball and ended with about 500MM within a matter of months.
Raising rates has a lagging effect. That results in the economy won’t be felt until next year.

One of the benefits of crypto was supposed to be that it was uncorrelated to the market, etc.

“Money” shouldn’t change in value so quickly.
Also, HR Manager is a low-risk job.

Recruiter is the high-risk equivalent.

So not only do you compete with a lot of people for the job, the pay structure does not depend on performance.
You've mentioned two important factors but the harder standards to be met are economic. This[1] covers it quite thoroughly, is written by someone I would expect is in favour of joining the EU (though I'm not sure) but I think they've done a fair job, and some (some) of the comments too.

Once those are met then thorny issues like a hundred mile long border can be looked at. I don't think it's impossible, but, as is covered in the first link (and many other places, did you look?) Scotland cannot swan in to the EU in less than 2 years even at the very best. And without the Euro?[2]

[1] https://sceptical.scot/2020/03/can-scotland-meet-eu-economic...

[2] https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-independen...
They massively iterated on Safari after receiving bad feedback.

I really like the version that shipped: I love the much more reachable address bar and use the quick tab switching by swiping (and also the quick tab creation) all the time.

I also like it much more visually – but even if you don’t, it‘s clear that the design is different for functional reasons, not visual appeal. There is a clear purpose behind the changes (moving the address bar to the bottom is the obvious change, making the address bar look draggable and providing the hint of the other tabs to the left or right is also quite important and very much function first.

I didn’t care for the first iteration. I do like the final design. The only thing that‘s weird is that they kept the old variant around as an option. Maybe because the discussion turned toxic and people became unable to evaluate the design based on its merits?
"Scotland won't be part of the EU"

Oh yes, and voting for Remain is the only way to stay in the EU.

I think that argument has long since sailed. The EU will undoubtedly fasttrack Scotland straight back into the EU and single market before independence arrives.

As a major English-speaking country in the EU, with ports at the periphery of Europe, strong exports, and a finance capital, Scotland will be in a great position. Brexit has given them a huge opportunity. They should capitalise on England's foolishness.
Because everyone does it in stages as listed above (some more loudly than others), if you jump to step 3 without going through 1 and 2 people will assume it is your step one and things must be really, really bad.
Which is great for London's economic growth, but not so great for scotland's.

The intense focus on London above any other region is a key driving force of indy
Makes sense to me, an Appalachian.

They're not an enclaved nation didn't want to Brexit because they're not royalists[0]. Based on my informal conversations, my sense was they wanted to have the ability to travel and work throughout the EU, and that they declined independence (narrowly) because even if they're overwhelmingly... let's phrase it "not exactly a bunch of royalists".

They may very well actually do it, a second time, then negotiate in partnership with France to possibly allow the UK to retrieve their nukes, given how poorly folks honored the Budapest Agreement[1] and the Good Friday Agreement[2]

The end result of Brexit, as I told many folks back in DC, is looking increasing like the "United" Kingdom will have to renamed "Wangland"[3].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/15/scottish-sup...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement#Equality...

[3] Wales + England, get it? ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Wales
Not familiar with Signal, does it require you to hold something down as it plays?
We have to finally accept the fact that the clowns are indeed driving the clown car.
You know there's also a version number, always worked great for me.
> The only reason it was not done is because politically it was inexpedient for the Nixon administration to continue supporting the Apollo program, which it saw a legacy of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

What shortsighted thinking! Yet another reason to hate the Nixon administration.

The one month limitation due to CSM seems crazy. I can’t imagine spending a month in the CSM.
> You lost your privileges after killing a fucking kid.

If a person is in a frat and did none of these things you mentioned, then that person can absolutely not be held responsible for any of the ACTUAL COGNIZABLE IN LAW CRIMES that you have mentioned no matter how dramatically. "You lost your privileges?" WHO the F are you?
1 may be better asked as what aspects of your team understanding of any considered language apply to your problem space. How well can you port that knowledge to another model of expression.

2 is fine. the more significant question is often do you want to work with that talent pool and does the pool tell you more about the costs structure of your sector against which information you may prefer to tack against the prevailing winds and even more patiently attempt to trade actual equity for deep abilities and stuff what language is chosen if your stock has value.

I don't understand how much attention individual languages receive. Plural understanding across your team and ability to transcribe the code into valid parseable docs against which APIs are easily written, is paramount in my mind. Corollary to my incredulity I have often thought that you emphasize the codebase language and dialects only to find you fuelled holy wars and dissipated your technical mission values. Which is disastrous for hiring the kind of colleagues we get up in the morning and forget about industry grief to share increasingly awful spaces with.
Puts in stark contrast the relatively recent ad they ran for the NBA finals mocking crypto skeptics. Hmm, I wonder how much that ad cost...
Not any more, but they could’ve after the previous independence referendum if it had gone that way.
4. 100% layoffs.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro. I'm typing on it now. I admittedly do mostly fairly lightweight stuff on it--I do photo/video editing elsewhere although until recently that was a 2015 iMac--but it works fine for that. Certainly not an awful experience.
Reasons for wanting a referendum are none of your business. It suffices to say they want one.

If it fails, then not enough wanted to leave. That is all.

When they failed to do Brexit for years running, and it turned out the arguments for were lies, there should have been another Brexit vote. It would have failed, and a great deal of trouble would be saved.
Well not really. You do want to bias for dissolving a union.

If half the population is against it, it doesn’t matter if it’s 51% or 49%, it’s unpopular enough that it is tearing your nation in two.

Imagine the US civil war came down to a vote: “Sorry, 50.1% are in favor of slavery so we’re just going to keep practicing it in all of America”. Would the 49.9% be happy to live within that union? How about vice versa? The division is too deep.
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So did smart phones. And people do it to themselves.
The difference, of course, being that chess doesn't have an RNG. Manipulating a pseudorandom stream of bytes to get an exact unlikely desired outcome doesn't have a parallel in chess. Chess has no random or hidden state.
> Scotland's implied deficit in 2020-21 was £36.3bn, or 22.4% of GDP. [1]

How has the price of oil changed since then? Cherry picking much?
I think the problem of ageism wasn't mentioned at all and it should be.
People who love the field have no problems keeping up to date. Sure some job posts will mention Hadoop or Kafka but whatever, a good dev will have no problem learning these in a few days.
Does he get a chance though if he's 50?
I think the sidebar is a big improvement and I think it is nice that you can quickly get to the network items you need. It's the right hand side that is awful.
You'll review GPT42's code. Then your GPT43 boss will review your review.
Wait, are you talking about the character margo? I'm onto season 3 and I'm not picking up on this love interest vibe you're talking about.
> I've only had dashboards requested by users with a dysfunctional relationship with engineering, in companies where the data is irrelevant.

Sry, but this completly ... not true! Maybe in your subjective business environment, but definitely not for the whole community of python users.

We are placed in a scientific environment, teamworking with highly dimensional data. Here there is not a single person who has time to tinker around with another ones code nor data structure.

This will be a great benefit for regular report sessions - THX to the author!
The alternate is not owning the house and instead paying rent, which means your rent would have to be far lower than the appreciating asset (house) and the cost of servicing the debt (interest part of the mortgage)

That's certainly not the case in the UK. I'd be surprised if it were in the US
Just wanted to note that if you're talking about "personal development computer" and "developers loooking ... and comparing", then it's more like an "individual" license as opposed to the commercial one, which is meant to be evaluated by companies.

The individual-license pack for all of their IDEs would set you back $250 as opposed to $650 commercial license.

I used to use "IDEA Ultimate", which is 30% cheaper than the All-Pack and supports installation of most of the other language plugins, allowing me to use a single IDE for everything. Nowadays I'm using separate IDEs as that seems to work faster.

I personally find the price worth it, as even a simple "expand selection scope" operation which I use many times per day just doesn't feel right in VS Code.
I'm not sure my concentration is good enough to sit through a 15-hour long session.
As soon as you started seeing projects like NFTs of jars full of farts you had to know the end was coming.
The biggest problem with this analysis is most of the time in companies it's organizational authority that picks the solution. It usually is an argument between two sides with one not recognizing the effort or the lack of resources to make the change. Also, a lot of the decisions aren't really cut and dry. There's some reasonable chance of failure.
Can't believe they are still airing the Long Live Crypto ad during the NBA playoffs. Just saw one last night.
Ok but in real-world usage "nationalist = far right = nazis = bad". So I was clarifying that while that is not untrue, nobody is saying the Scottish independence movement or the SNP are that.
The value at minimum in my opinion has to be what it costs to mine each coin. This makes the most sense to me, who would sell it below the cost? Silly. When people were raving about a crash a few years back (was it 2018?) I said, unless it costs less to buy than to mine, I don't see it, and sure enough it bounced back then.

Anything above that amount is either speculation or perceived value in a specific coins ecosystem. I still hold that Ethereum should be worth way more than bitcoin given how much richer its ecosystem is.
UKIP is not far-right. You can't just label anyone you disagree with as "Far Right". You have to base your argument on facts.