skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your point. But ambiguity has deterred a formal Taiwan president from declaring independence. "Aggression" may not be the right choice of word, but this is what I meant, "the leash is gone" in the original post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/12/11/t...
To the best of my knowledge (and I'm well known as a hater) they are actually audited by auditors. [1]

> "Audit reports of the GUSD reserve are published monthly by an independent registered accounting firm, BPM LLP."

[1] https://www.gemini.com/dollar
Non-CNN version:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/starbucks-ceo-says-pub...
All relative I suppose. Scrum on its own might feel refreshingly light if you've been experiencing something like: https://i0.wp.com/jeffgothelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05...
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of climate change
Except a bug is an unintentional problem with something, which exists.
The backup feature not saving attachments is a missing feature.
You need to write more code to support it, NOT simply modify existing code, which was already meant to provide this feature, but because of some mistakes it doesn’t.
The amount of likely harm to shareholders is greater than the amount of likely harm to customers from this action.
Russia has already been humiliated. The allegedly second strongest army in the world could not defeat a much smaller neighboring country quickly and had to retreat from the proximity of Kyiv and Kharkiv.

They do still have their artillery, though, and they are trying to take Donbass. In a very piecemeal fashion, very slowly. They have learnt something from their spring failures.

The result of this war depends on how fast can the Ukrainians re-arm completely to Western weapons, including artillery. It does not make sense to send tons of heavy Western guns there, if there aren't enough trained soldiers to operate them and enough trained technicians to fix them.

This is the bottleneck, not the raw number of weapons; people tend to treat weapons as magic, but they only work in combination with skilled soldiers and a functioning supply chain.

The Ukrainians are learning fast - people generally learn fast when their country is on fire - but the process will likely take months.
Old thread from 2020:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513713
Crowd the working class into cities while you retreat to your private mountain or estate in the country? Keep all the icky poors away from your sight?
Thank you, reading it now.
> What about the topic of this post, the second law of thermodynamics?

It might be a side-effect, an emergent property of a decaying universe initiated by the Big Bang. The process that generated the Bang may be unaffected by it, or it may be compensated by a stronger physical effect creating a big concentration of energy. (We know from Stephen Hawking that particles and anti-particles are created "ex nihilo" in the vacuum; this could be similar, but way bigger and uncommon).

> turtles all the way down problem

Why should that be a problem? Or, in any case, more of a problem that an entity without a cause of its own?

In any case, if we're going for 'there are things beyond our reach we'll never know about', I prefer to think that they work the same as the things we know about, e.g. my example of other universes created by the same process as ours. This follows the principle of relativity ("there are no privileged places in the universe"); and the alternative you suggest leads to imagining absolutely everything as possible, since there is and never will be a way to know it, so it's no better than fantasy.

> It seems strange that at some point things stop being caused and instead cause themselves, don't follow laws but instead create laws out of nothing

That's a common misconception. The universe never "follows" laws, not in the sense that we understand mathematical models (nor human laws, for that matter); it's the other way around. It exists in a certain way, and we "create" laws to describe patterns in what we observe. There is no guarantee that the universe is fully behaving in the way the law describes; the model can always have missing parts.

If the universe is its own cause, there would be no separation between 'creating' behaviour and 'following' behaviour. Those are just labels we assign to understand what we perceive as causality (a.k.a. predictable effects).

> guess that sort of makes sense. But I think it makes more sense to divide it into the foundation cause, and everything that rippled out from that.

Yeah, I agree it can make sense - from a linguistic analysis POV, just like the 'cause' and 'effect' I mentioned above.

The big problem with that approach is that we humans have a tendency to anthropomorphize phenomena, and we come from a culture with an imposing tradition of imbuing that 'ultimate cause' idea with the attributes of an old, wise, powerful mentor in the manner of the Elder guides of the tribe. Which is absolutely unjustified from a logical point, and only serves to muddle the dialog with people who can't avoid using those attributes. So, in terms of ontology and teleology, I find it better to conceive the universe as its own cause, in order to completely avoid that categorical error.
Scrum master here (amongst other things). Just want to point out that nothing mentioned in your comment is "Scrum". Though they can certainly be characteristics of terrible attempts at implementations of scrum and other methodologies.

The first thing to do when considering scrum is really understanding the problem to be fixed or process to be potentially improved and if the best approach is an Agile methodology (Not just Scrum, it isn't the only thing out there and isn't always the best solution). Then only adding as much as you need.

Scrum really shouldn't be adding any bureaucracy. Not any more than a sufficiently complex project would already have inherently. In fact just the opposite, it should cut down on bureaucracy and make teams more (drumroll) agile. Which is the whole point of self-managing teams.

Sounds like this guy did a hacky job while calling it Scrum, and was not at all the right hire for your situation.
Those ad-hoc doc updates are the exception vs the norm.

It is also common to have controls in github, where its required for a jira ticket to be attached to a PR.

In that situation. Its literally impossible to merge into the codebase without a ticket.

Again it comes down to 'who can create the ticket' and 'what is the required scope of the ticket'
Yea i used to purchase music from Amazon before the locked the digital downloads behind there streaming service. Now I strictly use Bandcamp because, al though it is a streaming service, you can download music in the format of your choice without installing software. If I want to play some mainstream music, I'll do a one off play from youtube. If I need to pull something off of youtube to play later I use yt-dlp.
It's not a lot of value but it's also not a lot of effort. At minimum it gives a little bit of visibility into what you're doing and why to the rest of the team. That's probably worth the 2 minutes it takes to create a ticket.
Me too. Made the mistake of checking out his instagram which had all those pesky normal full res photos and that kind of took the charm out of it :)
No one really knows who the fuck Coinbase is outside of some very small circles.
I have to say he's right you know.

Just like the free-software movement that wanted to remove all non-free software from existence, some of those folks instead joined the likes of Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Meta and they have a nasty and vile history of unethical practises which are just a nasty as Coinbase who were also being involved with VCs pumping and dumping on retail.

But are we trying to find angels here? The pattern is the same. They DO NOT care and they will NOT change. So it is pointless expecting them to.

So if you don't like them you are free to leave, just like you were free to join them in the first place. Or be a founder at your own company.
I think that's kind of the point. You wouldn't want to drive your car across a bridge that was live-designed on YouTube. You want a bridge that was designed in a boring way with lots of redundant safety systems.
The irony is that if they'd just open source them, it's not like that's where their real intellectual property lies and they may get a lot more help -- or at the bare minimum I can see what the extension is screwing up in my case and fix it while they "damn get around to it"

I'm waiting for someone to point out that BW's extensions are open source and are still a dumpster fire, but for me the difference is that BW started as a dumpster fire, so I don't feel compelled to bring their extension up to sane operating levels, whereas 1P's are _mostly_ right, and just need a tune-up here and there
My experience is aligned with this. I would add fast growing teams as well. It is difficult to grow 10->150 in a year without some form of methodology in place.
While this makes sense to some degree, it sounds like an easy way to filter candidates based on how difficult it may be to work with them in the future. It really depends on how this is approached. Someone that drops an ultimatum during the interview process would be a hard pass for me. Now, if it were phrased as a request, maybe. It also depends on how they handle no. Either way, not hiring the candidate if there is disagreement on this sounds like a win for both sides. They likely are seeking a different work culture than the company has.
Completely agree that this is the easiest way to do it. Especially a big whiteboard that can hold those sketches to come back to is really valuable. If only it was just as easy to digitise (not looking at you, laggy overpriced smart board).
I think we started there but have extended into a different discussion as to 'why is jira important to engineering teams'.
> not a single deposit dollar was lost in a bank collapse

The federal reserve will print money in order to inject liquidity into banks. This means they are creating money out of nowhere, inflating the currency, essentially taxing everyone holding USD in order to maintain the illusion that banks are solvent.
Chinese Loongson Claims Next-Gen CPU Matches AMD's Zen 3
Given that I don’t know what this is, and that Selenium’s API is well-known to promote flakey tests (it’s flakey by default and needs layers of abstractions to add waits, delays, etc), I’d stay away.
Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31697296
There's huge amounts of anti-process arguments in the threads here that is frankly immature.

Most engineers when "empowered" and left to their own devices without much accountability go off on their own side quests that often add no value to the business, but scratch that engineer's curiosity. These side quests also tend to not contribute to business aligned goals.

It'd be great if we could all just do what we want, but in my experience, process is crucial when aligning great people's efforts and energy with the business paying them.

I'm not saying scrum is the way, but calls for "just let engineers decide and get on with what they like" sounds like 20-somethings with little experience of when and how often that goes horribly wrong.

Suitable, proper process keeps chaos at bay and ensures everyone's expectations are aligned. That keeps business running and jobs and growth happening.

Funny thing is, 15 years ago, I'd have been the first to agree that processes are "infantile handholding" (to quote one poster here).

15 years later and much wiser, I'd never hire anyone with that attitude.
Venezuela producing oil to meet the US demands is never going to be possible. The industry in the country is hardly able to produce 800K barrels a day
Powerlessness was your interpretation of the situation. Maybe you can go back and revise that interpretation b/c these thoughts do have a long-term effect on your psyche.

My family was well-off [but we didn't really know it until my Dad died]. We lived a comfortable existence. During childhood, Mom's purse was my bank (with her approval). Growing older and needing more than the occasional coin, I tried to arrange a regular allowance with Dad. Having been raised on a poor sharecropper's farm, he wouldn't give me an "allowance" without some serious tit-for-tat, usually involving days of labor (e.g., digging a ditch from the back yard to the front, painting the house, etc.). Working for him was best described by the phrase "wage slave". So ASAP I got a supermarket job across town, rode my bike to work and became largely free of family financial ties. I still remember the exhilaration of my first paycheck. Bonus: Dad approved.

It wasn't "our society or 'teenagers in the 80s'", it's you. We're all different, including our interpretations of events and other peoples' actions. Changing your interpretations, even now, can be very uplifting.
> So how can a Canadian mortgage (or series of them in 5 year increments) be paid off in 30 years just like a US mortgage, if the monthly payments are much less each month?

When you presented your US numbers above, your "X year US mortgage" both fixed the interest rate for X years and set the amortization period as X years.

Canadian mortgages don't do that. Canadian mortgages fix the interest rate for X years, but the payments are set for a Y-year amortization schedule (Y>X).

If you go to a US banker and ask for a 5-year mortgage, they'll think you want your house paid off entirely at the end of 5 years, and you'll pay a hefty portion of the principal each month. If you walk into a Canadian bank with the same request, they'll be happy to quote you 5-year mortgages with an arbitrary amortization period in the 5-25 year range.
And the FDIC is backstopped by the Fed. They have a $100B line of credit there.

In the WaMu case actually no money was lost by anyone - and they didn't even touch the Bank Insurance Fund. The Office of Thrift Supervision took control of WaMu and sold it JPMC.
I call it theater because if the vaccine is as good as Western ones, you really do not need these draconian measures.
Be more fiscally responsible. Isn’t that the advice rich people keep giving people living in poverty? I think expecting that from a multi billion dollar company is actually realistic don’t you?
As long as you don't park in a tow zone. Chicago is/was notorious for predatory towing, and it will cost you hundreds of dollars and hours of your time to get your car back.
But then why stage an incident? If your total profits rise when production at one plant stops, why not just shut down the plant—or reduce output across all plants? As far as I know, nobody is forcing them to over produce.
"There's a loud minority of developers out there who are nostalgic for something they never actually experienced."

Having actually experienced it, all the way back to writing business applications in mainframe assembler, I am not nostalgic for it. Today I write mostly in Rust.
What does the traitors 8 have to do with this? They left and founded companies they believe in.
And I would gladly ignore your encouragement without a second thought. Work is a subset of life and society, not a separate reality.
Investors also wanted to invest in a ponzi with madoff - does that make it ok?
Financial education and common sense are at all time highs at a global, hundred years zoom level. If you are trying to make a claim about your region on a shorter time scale, I could believe it.
Same for "people want money more than ever". Could be true for your bubble, country, etc but is not globally/100 year window. But of course this claim is hard to measure.
That could cause the end of Coinbase. It's busy dealing with less interest in crypto; it doesn't need to add labor negotiations into the mix. It's easier to get wins when a company is doing well.
The apolitical stance is nonsense given that the only reason Coinbase exists is due to the explicitly political actions of Satoshi and the early BTC community.
exactly, on the other side of this, the rich person should have learned how to get better banking service that doesn't encumber them with these fund movement limitations

most “anti money laundering” or “security” stuff is actually just that one bank’s poor and inaccurate implementation of a law. most of it is just company policy and nothing related to the law.

with electronic funds, the entire banking system relies on assuming that the prior and next bank has already done the checks necessary

because the law only creates a firewall of reporting at the deposit and withdrawal of physical notes (its same across europe, across us, and elsewhere)
Seems like this is good for both you and coinbase?
Yes.

Americans are far more violent, crass, and "independent" (selfish) than their European counterparts, despite having greater opportunities for a high income.

I've seen someone get knocked unconscious because he called a gentleman out for skipping to the front a restroom queue. I've seen trivial altercations over nonsense[1]. Words (air) lead to violence far too often. Whereas in Europe, people just ignore you, or brush you off as ridiculous/insane.

And you can't complain about crime because it's racist[2]. The ethnic strife is increasingly reminiscent of the Balkans. I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. fractionalizes within the next few generations.

I don't feel safe, ever. I work from home and order everything via Amazon.

My plan is to earn enough to buy a house plus a 5-year cushion, then return to Europe or explore Southeast Asia.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muS3adntVf0

[2] https://nypost.com/2022/06/08/san-francisco-da-chesa-boudin-...
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> If you’re hiring a grad student

Be careful with this one. If the student is here on a visa, they are not allowed to have outside employment. Many do have "under the table" income of course, because graduate stipends are poverty-level at most schools, but it could get them in trouble.
Glad to hear that, good luck!
That's not how deposit insurance works. The FDIC has a $125B fund (the BIF) that banks pay into, to insure against a default. If that's somehow not enough, the FDIC does have a $100B credit facility with the Fed.

However, in the event of an actual, real-wold bank collapse, the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) will take ownership of the bank and sell the book to someone else. That's how WaMu's collapse in 2008 was mitigated (WaMu -> OTS -> JPMorgan Chase) without ever drawing on the BIF let alone the credit facility at the Fed.

Remember, the fractional reserve is where the supply of currency in the economy comes from so this is a pretty big misunderstanding of modern monetary policy. Dollars are backed by the obligation to repay the fractional reserve loans that created the dollars in the first place, and the entire social system on which it is built.
I can imagine it. Rushed new technology does tend to freak people out. I know when I got my second shot, the effects were unlike anything I had ever experienced in a vaccine. Passing out on my couch with my keys in my hand to drive myself to the emergency room at 3AM because I just couldn't get warm and my teeth were chattering was not a fun experience. I had a winter coat and a winter survival blanket and just couldn't get warm. Worse, it wasn't just me. Something like that does that tends to make people pause. I wonder what would have happened if I had decided to get my keys 15 minutes earlier.

Having a shot made in the same way as something that most people take will improve the rate of immunization. I would expect they will market it correctly and probably cast some shade towards the previous shots.
(To give the cynics all too much ammunition,) I'm still too busy setting up & playing around with Kubernetes to have made much progress actually getting a homesite up.

2018 I think I had made my yearly objective to be back to hosting a more live site. I have some WIP persistence layers that I want to power it all. A desire to use webcomponents & ActivityPub- with my homesite as basically a well tailored feed reader that happens to point first at my content.

I have written a couple tbings on LinkedIn, because I more or less wanted some practice. But not a lot.

Mainly... I guess I ought confess.... I write here. In comments. To me, my writing is about, not quite an arena of ideas (it's no so zero sum) but participating in exploring & thinking & searching for Truth and Meaning, Justice and Liberty, Progress and Gain. Hashing things out, seeing a lot of different ways of viewing a thing, and finding a couple pivotal points or ideas to inject: that's really rewarding. I really enjoy the interlinked nature of the web, and having threaded conversations to engage in, that can branch out & talk to different ideas very much embodies similar values.
I'd like to verify knowledge about your private password, without it being shared. Sounds good? OK, my first question: does it start with an "a"? No? What about a "b"?

How can you verify something about someone's criminal background that doesn't ultimately share the information?
Coinbase has 98 million users so I don’t think that’s true.
For folks who have already read the (great) CitizenLab report but would like more research-based literature into TikTok and/or Douyin:

- Analyzing TikTok from a Digital Forensics Perspective : (Published in 2021 by some Portuguese researchers:
https://iconline.ipleiria.pt/bitstream/10400.8/6263/1/jowua-...

- Post-mortem digital forensic artifacts of TikTok Android App : (Published in 2020 at ARES 2020: The 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
; authors are a lot of the authors from the Analyzing TikTok paper in the previous link): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343856173_Post-mort...
> Pretty much every other language has atomic mean "one of these will win, one will lose"

Could you elaborate how "much every other language" implement it?
Uhm, just remember that there's usually a reason why it's illegal to park in some places, e.g. if it blocks an emergency access route.
Ok I'll be the contrarian. My team transitioned to agile about a year ago. The difference has been dramatic. We ship faster, are way more focused, able to prioritize effectively, and don't burn out committing to unrealistic delivery dates. We don't have certified SCRUM masters or any of that silliness. We do have a PMO that knows what shes doing and that makes a huge difference IMO. The entire process is very fluid and we'll never go back. It took us a lot of work and iteration to find a working agreement that worked for us. I think maybe thats where a lot of co's go wrong implementing this stuff. You can't just cookie cutter it. It's a collaborative process with your teammates to find a way you collectively like to work together.

And before anyone says that I don't know what it's like on the other side, know my team was following practices very close to that described in this post before switching. An EM decreed that we didn't need all the baggage of sprints etc and ditched it. Total disaster. Everything ended up being high priority (which means nothing was), fire fighting, heroics, burnout, the works. We shipped stuff but we struggled to prioritize larger initiatives such as architectural migrations etc. Really sucked. That EM was an idiot. Also that EM was me.
No one in the industry really respects coinbase and most people I know have been bearish on them for a long time (some of them profiting handsomely on shorting COIN after the IPO). General consensus is that FTX is going to eat their lunch.
Fair enough--I mean "many of the same europeans who mocked American military spending in the past." Many Europeans making negative comments about American defense spending is definitely a recognizable phenomenon. I'm simply trying to comment on the shift in tone now that there is a threat in their own back yard.