skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The typical Canadian mortgage would have a smaller monthly payment because they've locked in a lower interest rate for 5 years, instead of 30 years. For example, it looks like right now (just a quick Google, so maybe these are off) a 30y rate in the US is about 5.2%, while in Canada you'd be able to get around 3.9%. If the rates where the same then the payments would be the same. Although 30y mortgages are atypical in Canada, 25 year amortization is the norm here.

The risk for the Canadian borrower is that rates might go up significantly in 5 years, while the American lender is taking the risk that rates might go up significantly and they've got capital locked up at lower rates then what they could get.
It's always a shame when ideologically motivated policy doesn't line up with reality. Bathrooms are closed to non-customers because the burden of dealing with the occasional mentally ill drug addict isn't worth the risk or expense. This was just as true a few years ago when the policy was changed as it is now, when it has been quietly changed back.

We can't have nice things because not enough of us are nice people. In places like Japan, where people are fundamentally more well-behaved, they can have nice things. I dare someone to ask why Japan doesn't have a problem with violent, drug-addicted, vagrants.
Warning: NPM packages are out of date x 1000000
1. Rip off paying customers

2. Customers pirate your software

3. surprisedpikachu.gif
Here you go: https://imgur.com/a/fbt68er. I've removed the first and last year since they had incomplete data and did a simple linear regression. These are yearly totals from https://www.weatherbook.org/dash/3/totals
“Whatever fossil fuels exist in the continent”

That’d be coal. Which Europe produces some of, but was importing from Russia until a few months ago. In general, it is not like Europe has a big pile of practically exploitable-in-reasonable-time fossil fuels that it isn’t using.
That is why I am building notik.app. Having worked at big tech, I have taken the essence of scrum: single person responsible for a project, weekly updates, clear success metrics and delivering incremental value, and removed the bs which surrounds it.

Oh and tie it with lessons learnt from other projects and suddenly you're in magical territory.
We run Postfix at a large, high-volume scale and I can confirm OpenSMTPD does not have the feature/configuration set to work as a replacement. Postfix is great in this regard because it has near endless configurability, but it comes at the cost of complexity.
The US policy was more nuanced than you suggest. The US never agreed to One China, the US just said it wouldn't challenge it. This is the exact text of it in the 1972 Shanghai Communique.

the United States acknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States does not challenge that position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007–2008

> As part of national fiscal policy response to the Great Recession, governments and central banks, including the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England, provided then-unprecedented trillions of dollars in bailouts and stimulus, including expansive fiscal policy and monetary policy to offset the decline in consumption and lending capacity, avoid a further collapse, encourage lending, restore faith in the integral commercial paper markets, avoid the risk of a deflationary spiral, and provide banks with enough funds to allow customers to make withdrawals.

> The Federal Reserve created then-significant amounts of new currency as a method to combat the liquidity trap.
I know hundreds of people who have triple doses various combinations of Pfizer/Moderna/AZ vaccines. None of them have collapsed and died. Where does my anecdotal information fit into your theory?
The Annotated Turing is probably my favorite technical and historical book, there's nothing else like it. But I'll never forgive the utterly strange typo in it:

"In a famous 1907 paper on relativity, Hilbert's friend Hermann Minkowski would coin the word Zaumreit or spacetime."

Zaumreit literally translates to "bridle riding" and is probably a play on words, Raumzeit means spacetime. This has puzzled me for over a decade now. How does this even happen?
Yeah, it's a live record + blog of his hike. Weather and time autoupdate, and scenery changes across states. He updates physical/mental state, stats ("advil taken"), and blog posts. Looks like the status was last updated ~20h ago.

In the bottom right, hit "Live" (which is the current status; UI is hard) to switch to "Demo" mode, where you can alter all the settings.

Also, one brother wrote the music and another brother of his coded the whole thing. Super cool. Apparently the inspiration was The Oregon Trail but powered by live data
Tickets can, theoretically, be used to protect a development team. I agree with you there. But they usually aren't, and most folks are living in the land of what-is, not what-can-be.
A potential prion disease?
The thread contains much more context that the article ignores. Which is funny given that tweets (even threads) are generally much more condensed than articles.

Yellow journalism at it’s finest.
Quite a few centralized blockchain exchanges have come and gone in the last 10 years. Coinbase is no different. I won’t be surprised if they implode.
Yes. That's true for the temperature as well. In most place the average temperature is growing, but some places are actually becoming colder.
I think you just nailed it. With the PR that fell through the cracks.

The danger of having a ticketless fix is, you end up with PRs that are not on anyone's plate to fix.

The nice thing about tickets is that it creates a clear line of succession for adding value. If done properly, you will not have anything fall through the cracks. The cost for this is, you need to create tickets.

Reduce the friction to as close to 0 to create a ticket, and you can net all the benefits of tickets without a lot of cost.
Ask HN: What new technologies should I go deep on to better my career?
Title says most of it. But, curious what the broader audience says about emerging technologies are good to go deep on for the next 10 years.

My background is web development so I might be tunnel visioned into that space. But, open to all areas.
New Axial Higgs Boson (Possibly Dark Matter) Has Not Been Discovered
It’s DNM related drama, as always.
Lol what a delusional guy. He wanted everyone he hired to believe "in their mission" and take ownership in everything the company does, but he's okay to not care about them and would push them to feel free to quit. Lol.
Why not just put your friend's keys in a well known place by their name, like in your home directory? Then you can just refer to them as ~/identities/andrew for example. You could even add a symlink for andrew's email in the same dir.

This also lets you use your shell's tab completion or even a fuzzy finder to list and select identities.
HN may have finally found the use case for Web3 ;)
220m users. Let’s imagine 50m are streaming concurrently. That’s 100TB an hour in logs lol. They could be storing an entire petabyte of logs a day. My friend did some data center stuff for the large hadron collider and wasn’t hitting these data ingestion states, and these are just to record me binging the office.
> Those ad-hoc doc updates are the exception vs the norm.

Where you work, maybe. Not where I do, or have. If I'm in something and see that I can make it better without losing my stack, I'll do it. I encourage my coworkers and, when managing, my reports (when they have proven that they won't rabbit-hole) to do the same.

What is often pejoratively called "boy-scouting" in a codebase is the only practical way by which many organizations will maintain that codebase beyond feature requests.
Yes. Not as a hater but it’s what blockchain was built for. No one cares about brand when they can use another exchange and get exactly the same outcome. It’s a double edge sword.
The NSA registry key has nothing to do with cryptography, security or CSPs.
It is an urban legend. It's reference to "Name Space Assembly"
It does seem to be a weirdly ritualistic way of quickly signifying that ‘I am on your team, I am not one of the crazy ones; however, I would still like to talk about [touchy subject] without you making baseless assumptions.’
Back in the day there were many opportunities up for grabs; for online businesses the limiting factor was programming skills and if you had that (keep in mind that the tooling was much more primitive at the time so a lot of what we take for granted today had to be discovered & implemented from scratch) you were golden, therefore relying on outside investment was much less required.

Nowadays, almost every opportunity out there has either been tried and proven not to be viable or monopolized by a big player that can sell at a loss thanks to VC subsidies. Skill alone won't get you anywhere, now you need lots of capital to try and break through and you get that capital from VCs which means you need to play by their rules - in general, "rocking the boat" is not a good strategy.

In addition, the amount of capital slushing around and burning holes in VCs' pockets means opened a new "market" where building a business that solves a real problem and makes money off it is no longer the priority, instead you could merely convince VCs to give you money and enjoy the "startup founder" life regardless if the business ends up successful. That's a much easier and less risky strategy (until today), so we ended up with a lot of startups that don't actually create any value and just leech off VCs.
I got stuck overnight in LA last year. Booked a hotel near the airport. Woke up early the next morning and walked a few blocks to a Starbucks.

An old homeless man wandered in, wearing filthy clothing but brand new white sneakers that someone had presumably donated. Speaking loudly to himself about something. Fished around in his jacket for a while and produced some kind of gift card, and ordered a coffee. Then walked to the corner of the store and took a piss on the floor.

An unsolvable problem for the most “progressive” state in the richest country in the world, apparently.
Yes I agree and thats why Scrum / Agile gets a bad rap around here.
My company is undergoing an "agile transformation" to use Scrum. Whereas before my team was working prioritising people and communication over process we're now "committing" to arbitrary deadlines and bogged down by process and useless meetings. Rather than being able to respond to change we have set scope and bringing work in is frowned upon because it might cross the "deadline". We don't even have a fixed release schedule so the fortnightly sprint boundary is pointless.

I can see why you might need to run a low-trust low-skill offshore project this way but actually existing Scrum is worse than even the waterfall my first company did.
You're right. What what bothers me most is not the stopping — it's the maintenance required.
I think over-reliance on scrum or other heavyweight methodologies create a very low ceiling of performance for your team. You can't hire good people into that environment, and you're teaching a form of learned helplessness.

I wonder if instead you could teach better practices to a broader swath of engineers. I don't think you have to be a 90th percentile engineer to respond well to empowerment, accountability, and an expectation to collaborate with others. They may not have seen that behavior modeled before, but I bet a lot of them would rise up and meet the challenge. Even if 50% of the team didn't meet the challenge, you're likely still better off with that smaller but more productive team.
Right, and SELinux, alternatives like AppArmor, and the various kernel hardening parameters available on Linux are things that get in your way relatively rarely. SIP is much more annoying.

And there are also configuration matters where rather than policy on what root is allowed to do per se, making things a pain in the ass is the security strategy. Like there's no way to non-interactively enable macOS' built-in SSH server without resorting to an enterprise endpoint management system.

Part of what gives the feeling that ‘root is not root’ on macOS is that you can't really administer macOS like a normal Unix system or like Linux. There's a bunch of things that require interactivity, or a cloud account logged in. There are files that are part of a normal POSIX filesystem which play a certain role in configuring Unix systems which are present on macOS, but literally just don't do anything anymore, in favor of some other format that macOS actually cares about and which is a bigger pain to edit or automate using normal Unix userland tools.

Things like creating users in a script is way more verbose on macOS than on Linux or any BSD I've seen. (The least annoying way to handle it IME is to use a wrapper that imitates NetBSD's utilities for this which is bundled in pkgsrc.)
I remember working at companies where we'd have meetings once a week to discuss what people were working on and plan out the next week. Daily "standup"-style meetings were absolutely unheard of. If you had a "blocker", you'd check in with a coworker or boss, discuss it, and work it out, like a normal person. You're not sitting on your ass to announce "you're blocked" in a daily standup.
https://xanmod.org/

Hands down.
Because they believe in collectivism. If someone is peeing on the street, they think oh how this makes my country look. In SF someone peeing in the street thinks aaah so much relief.

It's like how killer whales share their sense of self with others in the pod.
It helps a few ways

- Confirming that's why I'm groggy in the AM, and not some other reason

- which limbs are moving, which can help for targeted treatment (stretching, magnesium cream, etc)
That reminds me it's a been an entire decade since I have worked with an actual product manager who knows and cares about the product they manage. Project managers are NOT it
Heartbleed bug was a great name for this purpose, for motivating more towards fixing it.
I will agree that the One China Policy issue is more nuanced than that. But we should also recognize that the Sino-British Joint Declaration issue is more nuanced than "China broke an agreement"
How is it clickbait if it's a verbatim quote? In context it means exactly what the headline says and the article does a pretty good job adding the context leading up to his tantrum. To me, it's extraordinarily immature leadership. He's on twitter fighting a PR campaign against his own shortcomings and throwing his employees under the bus.

I went through something similar at a much more ethical company where the CEO absorbed public criticism and addressed by hosting all-hands and taking direct, unfiltered questions from employees and never said shit in public. People who were really being unreasonable got fired, several key people who sympathized with the dissenters quit as is their prerogative at any point. The ones who stayed really wanted the company to succeed and leadership very well knew it and respected it. Armstrong is very clearly saying "This is my company, not yours" which is technically true, but anathema to millenial ethics and I'd argue anathema to the founding principals of crypto.

Mind you, this is all happening at a company that produces actual value as a top priority and isn't a just a platform to extract rents from suckers.
I work in "BigTech" and larger projects often have 'sync' meetings to give updates and note where you're blocked. You also typically have 1:1s with your TL (or maybe stakeholders with other teams depending on scope) where you typically give updates on what you're working on and might chat about challenges/blockers.

These systems are crazy complex, proprietary, and constantly changing plus you need agreement from a number of people to do anything making it very easy to get blocked so you really need to give people a forum to escalate technical or non-technical blockers.
Actually, it’s Hillary Clinton DDoSing Tor to cover up recently released evidence linking her and the DNC to a child-trafficking organisation that worked with Jeffrey Epstein.

On a more serious note, Tor DDoS attacks are always DNM related.

It doesn’t make any sense for Russia to DDoS Tor, they haven’t even blocked it domestically.
> Highly talented developers don't need this structure and process, but if given the freedom, they are also more likely to create software that only they understand, using flavor-of-the-month languages or frameworks that they have personally selected. When their work is done and they move on, nobody else can figure out what they have done or why.

IMHE, not so much. You can't tell which code they wrote, except it's easy to read, and there's a lot of it. The loudmouths, they write inscrutable, flavour-of-the-month code. The talented coders aren't as bothered by this as much as everyone else is.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m 100% behind keeping a private journal, even one where you just write about yourself, but you can have too much of a good thing, and I see 30 minutes a day as the reasonable limit.
Perhaps you've worked in notably functional organizations, but, with respect, your claims throughout this thread read like theorycrafting. I have been a Jira administrator, I have had extremely positive feedback from all parties based on the workflows, the automation opportunities, and the minimization of overhead involved when I did so, and it still required a context switch. And context switches always and without exception suck.
> or end up stagnant and dysfunctional (Facebook)

Facebook still one of the largest tech companies, and the largest social media platform, and messaging.
Not yet for real estate agents nor Elsevier.
And despite all that effort, hardware is far from free of bugs! Lots of broken features ship and have to be disabled, or the software has to do horrible workarounds. These fixes are hidden inside CPU microcode, OS kernels, GPU drivers.
>Note that you can replace “hire” or “buy” with “barter for” or “find a DIY guide to” nearly everywhere below. E.g. you can clean the bathroom in exchange for your housemate doing a couple hours research for you.

I've been wondering about this. A quick Google reveals that barter is indeed taxable. This specific example might be silly, but would it be taxed according to the market rate for toilet cleaning services?
“Elon Musk Emails Tesla's Board August 2018”: Internal Tech Emails (thread)
The model shows that increasing interest rates while fixing housing prices will cause an increase in inflation, which is interesting because most people believe that increasing interest rates is an effective way to reduce inflation. The accuracy of this analysis is acknowledged to be limited to the five-year mortgage terms common in Canada.

But I don’t see a justification for fixing housing prices. If we assume that a decent fraction of people have maximally extended themselves to buy their homes, then when forced to remortgage at a higher rate those people would instead sell and downsize, rent, move in with family, etc. A model which allows demand to change as a function of monthly mortgage cost could yield completely different dynamics.

That said, awesome analysis. It was really interesting to learn that home price increases and interest rate decreases have basically perfectly balanced each other to keep mortgage payments flat. And we’ve just run out of interest rate decreases…
The analogy I usually use is

“a Michelin-starred restaurant doesn’t have laminated recipes on the kitchen wall. A McDonalds does. Both of these are a good thing, depending on who you’re working with and what you’re trying to achieve”
What an awesome project, reminds me of Stardew Valley.
It’s still very early in whatever the future of this stuff is going to be.

If you look at other technology frontiers that were to eventually mature, many of the pioneering brands that were very well known at the time became just a mention in the historical narrative.

I think one can make a fair argument that there’s a long road ahead and that Coinbase’s future will have much to do with their positioning (product, partnerships, sticky user capture) and little to do with their brand.
Is an agile coach a PM? Or do they function more like a (lifestyle, executive) coach does?
I love this. It's very simple and fair. "Show me you can code. Yes, if you show me."
to add to what I said - puzzle-solving in an interview process is usually mandatory when it exists, in other words, an ultimatum (usually not framed as such, the implication is implicit).

this is the double standard.

just as, through their actions and words, a company is saying, "we need you to do Y in order to move forward", the engineer can also communicate that "I need you to do X in order to move forward." both needs are equally valid.

the way this would be presented and communicated about in the interview process definitely matters - if a prospective employee presents this need in an antagonistic way, that can definitely be a flag.

this need can be shared in a collaborative, kind, and curious fashion. that's how I would work to frame it.
Trust isn't necessary for lending tools to your neighbor, pure self-interest is good enough. Cultivating good relationships with people who know where you sleep is just good sense, and looking out for your neighborhood is mutual aid. Next to reason, trust is inconsequential in such a situation.
I don't get a rush after green tea, compared to when I take in similarly dosed caffeine with energy drinks. That's what matters
I'm Switching Form VS Code to vs Codium
> I t’s nice to see the simple truth called out.

It’s not as though it’s a secret or anything. It’s a common point of discussion. The simple matter is that big co’s naturally have more inputs into the same types of decisions and thus need more people involved.