skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s been pretty interesting watching YC backed Coinbase get absolutely crushed by FTX, which has a higher % of crypto trading volume despite having less than 10% of the headcount.

Crypto is a zero sum game, and the old Paul Graham essays and other tired VC dogmas really only work in positive sum games. FTX was founded by traders which is valuable when the ultimate purpose of the crypto industry is to separate uninformed people from their money.
This reminds me of Zebulon (sp?) which I think was run by Packetstorm Security - although it was more geared towards infosec than AI. Does anyone else remember that?
Usually it’s a given, not something you have to advertise...
In general to me the whole process of getting the degree, the bar and then the actually work and the pay unless you make it seems like rather bad compared to how easy SWE or related work can be.

The school is laughably expensive for something that should in reality be rather cheap. Read books, listen to lecturers? No laboratory work or practical experience and so on, clearly overpriced. And the studying to get approval of cartel? And then end up working for rather poor compensation for quite a long bit in career... As the pay is bi-modal, yes partners rake in money, but they also need to get the clients. But the people doing bulk of the work aren't that well paid.
In the uk there will be a perfect example of this at around 10:30 this evening
“It is fascinating just how quickly sentiments can change”

Sounds like a classic bubble that people have been warning about. Tulips all over again?

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/05/02/warren-buffett-wouldnt-s...
There's also https://larder.io/
VLC Media Player uses Discworld character names.
Oh, my apologies: I misread "scrolling right and left panes" as horizontal scrolling.
I don't think it is perfect, but I agree that it is good enough
Some Wine components were/are hosted on Github.
lol yes this is a good point. We should all volunteer in a hospital or police department for a few days to get some perspective...
And another thought: many jobs descriptions list any technical novelty under the sun even though only some small project in some small team somewhere in the company uses it. Why? To look more appealing to job seekers. It's much cooler to describe the job as PHP + Elixir + Kafka + Big data than simply PHP - which is mostly what the job is about.

I'm not denying the field is changing fast, it is. But there's other reasons why 50 year olds are pushed away besides some imagined inability to keep up.
It would be very popular move for every EU politician to fast track Scotland to EU. But yes, it would be complicated to separate from UK and become independent. Becoming EU member would not be that complicated.
A new feature will take longer to implement on top of a badly designed or misbehaving dependency.
>There’s no recession as far as the eye can see.

You cannot print money nigh on end. If you did not see this downturn coming in the markets, I have a bridge to sell you.
I believe that most grants are "money value of stocks at time of grant" so if you're getting 1m over 4 years, you get however many shares 1m would have bought at the time of the grant.

This of course means that if you were granted just before a downturn, the "reason to stay" isn't as powerful as it was before.

And I think the big names will start slowing down hiring and offering less, probably salaries stay the same but the grants start to decline.
We would still be below 2%. Interest Rate in the United States averaged 5.44 percent from 1971 until 2022.
Is there a "recession" in the rest of the tech industry? I took that to be the point of the person you are replying to.
"sophisticated"

If something is promising you 500% returns or whatever, ask yourself why they aren't investing their marketing budget in their goldmine, ask yourself why are they trying to get you to invest.
I'm constantly discovering oddities about the R language. Since I use it interactively, it's extremely rare that such oddities cause any problems. Here's an example I found yesterday (lines 1, 2, 3, and 4 make sense, 5 is interesting, and 6 is perplexing!):

1 == TRUE # TRUE

as.logical(1) # TRUE

0 == FALSE # TRUE

as.logical(0) # FALSE

2 == TRUE # FALSE

as.logical(2) # TRUE
Celebrities should start to be held liable for their endorsements. The crypto.com endorsement by Matt Damon is a huge example imo
The UK can't send asylum seekers to Australia because Australia is a sovereign entity and wouldn't accept them. Indeed Australia already has anti-asylum policies locally, and these influenced the model for the UK's decision.
That money has already been spent. No way they'd be getting that back.
between 2 and 3, the bls released a new inflation report, and there was a subsequent market crash.
It doesn't have anything to do with distance to the objects. Straight lines in the sky are great circles that may appear curved to us because of our biased view standing on the surface of earth. Light rays traveling from the sun to the moon take a great circle path through the sky, and the path might look to us (if we could see it) like it goes "higher" in the sky than either object, but it's a straight line across the dome of the sky.
Would those kids not get a vote in 20 years? Those who are young tend to skew left anyway. As a Danish friend once told me "If you're young and you don't vote left, you have no heart. If you're old and you don't vote right, you have no brains."

Ever was it thus.
That definitely sounds broken. I have a hard rule with my PO: 30% of the sprint is mine (read: the team's). He only gets to schedule 70% of the stories according to his priorities. I use that 30% for tech debt, primarily, but sometimes for spike projects and other things that interest us.
Rust doesn't have a mark-and-sweep GC. It has "automatic" memory management through static analysis. Rust's memory management is done by the compiler automagically inserting free() in the same places that you would put it manually in C.
yeah. I hung out there in the early 2000s, but was never a resident. Roommates with the head RA’s younger brother.

I was very jealous :)
You seem to be stating two contradicting things, that the Saturn V was too expensive to be maintained and that the space shuttle was even more expensive and yet continued operating for decades. If the space shuttle was never pursued we could reasonably assume that its budget would have gone into a launch system like the Saturn V or even just kept cranking Saturn Vs out on the assembly line. If they were the case then it seems like many of their plans would have played out, the continued moon missions at least.
I can't help thinking there is a certain tension between wanting to be an independent country, and then also wanting to join the EU and give up your currency. Most of the new powers you would gain under independence would be given away again.
What is reasonable depends on context. If 80% of scottish voters argue 15 years (for eg) is reasonable, what makes Westminsters 25 number more reasonable?

I would agree 10 years is pushing it .
They raised interest rates several times over the last year. Of course from any point in time a recession is “on the horizon,” but this is not the cut and dry predictor you’re making it out to be.
The problem space will just shift and the market will demand much more and much better software.
There would be a hard border, which would become relatively efficient over time but cause real disruption. The use of the Euro in Scotland would cause friction for trade. More and more Scottish imports would come from Europe instead. England would continue to import from Scotland as it has no attractive alternative.

Realistically there are only two paths forward for England anyway: either the EU will fail completely, or England will eventually be forced to rejoin. So the border will only be temporary.
I’ve used iOS since the first iPod touch. Basically everything dumped into “General” is misplaced and hard to find, you only find it because it has been there for 10 years now.
I disagree with point 1). The real problem is not that immutable references are inconvenient to use, but that you cannot mark the whole instance as read-only and get something similar to the const-correctness that you can achieve with C++. There are tools that help with this, but having something either in the language or in the JVM/standard library would be much more useful.

Point 3) and 4) are in my opinion not that big of an issue. Annoying, yes, but not deal-breaker.

Null safety is really something that I miss in Java and what I consider the biggest flaw in the language. Again, there are libraries and tools that help with that, but it is not the same as something which is part of the standard.
> Coinbase has survived through four major crypto winters

I don't understand - has crypto been around long enough to have winters? When were they?
Just 3 months ago many people thought the markets could potentially bounce back (e.g. if the ukraine conflict didn't escalate and if inflation came down on its own - neither of which happened).

Not so long ago, CNBC was still talking about the probability of a recession a quoting probability percentages less than 50%.

I think the reality is that 2-4 months ago, very few people thought things would get as bad as they are right now.

In an environment of extremely high unpredictability, sometimes week-by-week decision making is the only way to operate. Re: your point on publicity, I think they will get less negative publicity now that they're announcing layoffs after many other companies have already done the same
My answer to your question of how to fill those knowledge gaps is "experience". Whether it's work experience, fiddling around at home experience, or classroom environment experience, this is going to be your best bet. The more hands-on experience you gain with a subject, the more the rest of the subject will make sense to you.

So, provided you've got free time, use it to gain experience. Pick a subject, and dive in. Spin up virtual machines, experiment, and learn from your successes and your mistakes. So long as you let your desire to learn guide you, you'll be able to pick up experience in any number of disciplines under the CS banner. And, the more you explore these various disciplines, the more likely you will discover one or two (or three or four) that you're really interested in, which you can then focus on and turn into a career.

In a way, your current mindset (of not thinking you know enough) is an advantage, motivationally. Every single thing you feel you don't know enough about is an opportunity to learn more about that thing. You're on the right track, plan-wise, whether you go full-time or part-time. Just spend the time you don't have to spend exchanging your labor for capital, building more intellectual capital for future you.
Google makes millions per employee, they’ll be fine until people stop buying ads and they stop making money.
Many software positions do not account for the opportunity cost of learning job-specific knowledge, or soon-obsolete knowledge, making it hard to justify the investment in the long run. With pressure, the human capital will also erode faster, leading to a situation where more fresh blood is needed.
Consequently a smart software company need a mechanic to maximize learning RoI for its workers, else the best choice for them would be to leave (even a job they appreciate). So called "accidental complexity" is almost always low RoI.
What's special about this evening?
Ask baseball players what they think about unions. Or police. Can do more as a group than as individuals, and picking them apart is a common strategy of management or ownership.
Beanie Babies all over again
> What I value about current EU is precisely that it cannot just squash dissent by force, even from a single country.

And this often means that the EU can't get anything done on an EU wide level
Still waiting for the banks to raise my saving's interest rate to 70's level. ½ percent doesn't cut it.
Ask HN: How to bypass root passsw/passphrase in Ubuntu 18 GRUB for beginners?
There's user apps/desktop locked by a passphrase on an Ubuntu 18.04 after multiple unsuccessful attempts to enter user password. I can get into GRUB menu only, for root console it requires passwords. In detail the situation is described here [1].
I was curious how geniuses and PhDs of CS, as everybody here functionally is, can handle this situation.

[1]https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/is-there-a-way-to-change-root-user-password-in-grub/25204/5
Twitter hosts text, images, and video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Integrated_photo-shari...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Non-tweet_content
I think you're really asking about a continuous vs discrete management approach.

In a continuous approach, you run the company according to control-theory like laws. Ie. you want to maximize profits, so you adjust the workforce up and down gradually to maximize profits. If labor prices go down 3% you might increase headcount by 1.5% to stay at optimal profitability. All parts of the company get optimized to the best of your ability like this, with signals giving a proportionate effect to the levers you control.

In a discrete approach, you recognise that some actions will have dramatic non-linear effects, and therefore it's better to announce a 10% downscaling rather than ten separate 1% downscalings.

The downside of the discrete approach is your response to signals is delayed, because you want to group together the bad news, and don't want to pull a big lever based on uncertain information.
Ok, if one of the posters here is actually LaMDA, you need to say!
I've always liked that lambda and functions are the same thing in R and write `function(x){x + 1}`

I dislike both of your examples and am glad to have never seen that in any R code I've met.
> For normal speech, text is essentially a 1:1 recreation.

More of a 1:0.5 or even 1:0.25. There is a lot lost in text to speech,such as tone and volume two very aspect of speech, that affect what is said and attempted to be conveyed. Not to mention their are certain little tidbits you can do in speech that is not a lossless translation. I don’t disagree that voice notes take up more time than text, but Speech and text are far from 1:1.
The US subsidizing defense spending has allowed the EU to vastly expand social welfare spending on healthcare and education.

Those $100B in arms Germany is about to purchase will be that much less spending on social programs.
To everyone: 2017 had the exact same pattern. Coinbase is suffering this time because they didn't learn at all the lessons that happened to the companies in 2017. For example, you will not see this happen with Kraken.

This is normal, nothing to see here.
Yup. Corbyn lives in the UK. Politics is relative.
I've had many rejections from publishers and literary agents for a book which I've put a lot of work into (https://www.wyclifsdust.com, since you asked). It's very tough, and puts a lot of pressure on one's innate self-belief. And as an academic, you probably have on average at least one rejection for every paper you write. (If you don't you aren't being ambitious enough in your journal targets!)

I like the (apocryphal) Churchill quote: "Success has been defined as the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
Whoa. I didn't realize the umpire patch was crypto related. That's almost like it's subliminal placement.
In Britain people are commonly investing money which isn’t even theirs

https://londonlovesbusiness.com/60-per-cent-of-uk-investors-...
Yeah. FTX people clearly know a lot more about market making and how exchanges work. Makes coinbase look like amateurs. Coinbase hired their CPO with a 650 million dollar pay package. They should have spent that money on 2 - 5 million a year hft programmers and traders
A Chewing Gum Heir Fell into a Sticky Situation with Weed
At least that's what Thailand's IP Authority explained to the public. Many Thai people are outraged of what they saw as a "ripoff" of sauce (purportedly) made in Sriracha, but marketed by foreign companies. The authority did suggest a geographical indicator (GI) as a way to market it as genuinely coming from Sriracha, but AFAIK, there hasn't been a proof about the distinctive property of sauce from Sriracha, so it hasn't yet been recognized as a GI.
On the other hand, tax codes and laws change all the time. If the law changes, and you don't know it as a professional in that area, the outcome isn't good.

Every field has to deal with change. In law, you've got politicians changing the rules, in the corporate area, you've got Office Politicians changing the rules.
This person's "lost" wealth should be counted as wealth for any means tested social benefits. otherwise he's just a money mule helping the scammers steal from the government.
FTX's success is a bit questionable. They are the biggest buyer of USDT/Tether and shady things are probably going on there.
I've found them very useful at impressing clients and getting contracts XD
So when the CEO said "leave". He was trying his hardest to get get his employees to leave so he doesn't have to pay severance.
In that case it actively makes the situation worse for the recipient: by offering free Facebook (not internet) access, they're pre-emptively distorting the market, denying the recipients the benefits of better alternatives that no longer stand a chance.
My understanding was that his post was to be read in an ironic tone.
Fortune favors the brave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gor-8erHxoY
You could work two easy software engineering jobs from home in parallel and double your income though.
> What are you telling the younger voters you want to disenfranchise?

Will they not get to vote in future?
But Hadrian's wall is already there. We'd just need to fix a few of the holes and throw up some checkpoints and the border would be sorted!
The avoidable part is pretty obvious: don't invest in, work for, trade in crypto.

The recession part is of course debatable.
Journalism schools exist. The supply of people stupid enough to get a graduate degree that costs tens of thousands of dollars that takes two years of your life who don’t expect to make a good salary is quite limited. Unless the graduates of J schools always expected to rely on the family money or their supportive spouse.
One planet means world peace? Wasn’t clear from the context.
Hope no one was that stupid.
Was reading recently about how the EU also sent refugees to Rwanda.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people...
Much more of a disaster for England, which is pretty worrying for that declining nation. Scotland will have the single market as compensation.
FTX is also going to feel a lot of pain when the crypto market crash completes. None of these companies are IMO sustainable without mass interest in cryptocurrencies, which is rapidly fading as people realise they're not going to get rich quick.
Nothing to see here, Schumpeter's gale [1] in action, actually good news for Bitcoin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
Wow. The language is nice but the behavior is horrendous. Also illegal in many parts of the world: IDK if they have employees in Europe but if they do it will be a big mess.

Suddenly cutting off an employee from a company, with no way to even say goodbye to their former colleagues, is despicable. It really shows who you are. Let's hope they will have a hard time hiring back anyone in the future.

Edit: as pointed out in many comments in this thread, this is apparently "normal" in the US. Point taken. (But if it is, then it's a little strange that the CEO felt the need to justify it.)
Any other investment situation has layers of regulation and oversight so that people don’t lose their life savings to scammers.

Crypto should be the same.

Though I’m interested, what is the value we gain in return for not prosecuting scammers?
Why has the crypto boom and bust lined up so closely with the COVID pandemic? Is it a coincidence or is there some underlying cause?
> The one month limitation due to CSM seems crazy. I can’t imagine spending a month in the CSM.

From the article, it sounded like the CSM would be unmanned during that time, as they planned to carry a crew of three down to the surface.
Molecular Notes: Practice
Some really good points on the ultra-fast depreciation of SE tech skills. A relative of mine is a mechanical engineer, well past retirement age and still going strong in his 2-man consulting shop because that's what he loves doing. He works with precision manufacturers, automotive suppliers,... all very cutting-edge stuff, helping them develop new product lines, manufacturing processes,... He says the core skills that he's using are still those that he learnt in university several decades ago.

I was actually surprised because I heard so much about crazy new materials like carbon fibers, graphene, technologies like 3D-printing,... but apparently what makes a machine break are still the same things: mechanical stress, heat dissipation, friction,... new materials and processes might change the coefficients, but not the (mostly Newtonian) physics (my interpretation btw, not his words).

One could say the same thing about software engineering - true fundamental advances in algorithms and data structures are sufficiently rare that it wouldn't be a nuisance to keep up with them. But the %-age of how important those basics are relative to the extremely fast-changing landscape of tools and frameworks is much smaller (plus, one could argue that even the fundamentals see a lot of shifting ground in CS, with neural architectures, differentiable programming, not to mention quantum computing).
Just an exaggeration of course based on the current hype and over-enthusiasm for the language.
Buy I Bonds. 9.62% https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds...
The article is about a fake investment Ponzi like Madoff, not actual crypto purchases.
Coinbase has survived something like 4 downturns before, the previous ones on the same strategy that they are employing now. So not sure what lessons they are not applying, that others are?
Adjustable rate loans. People lose their life savings and credit over nonsense all the time with those. Now you have al these YouTube "experts" telling eachother to take HELOC loans to buy investment property.
> Everyone is vulnerable. It's not just crypto.

That's the truly educational take.

Many will jump the crypto hate wagon. I hate fraud and fraudsters. But the reality is crypto is just another excuse for the to defraud people.

Interestingly, the same BBC article features links to other two frauds in contexts totally unrelated to crypto:

Romance scam: NI woman swindled out of £112,000 life savings [1]

International students in NI scammed out of £105,000 [2]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-61241596

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-61378430