skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the discourse you started here becomes even more interesting and defensible if your assertion goes from “God isn’t real” to “God is human created.” It makes the idea of rights clearer as some kind of higher order, purer version of law
Is it possible that they know it’s a Ponzi scheme, but think they will get out before the crash?
> It's almost like crypto has become a living thought experiment in how many times people can be scammed and keep on believing.

So it's just like the perpetually insolvent fractional reserve banking system that creates not only massive inflation and inequality but also global recessions and yet continues on with complete impunity. Cryptocurrency is only slightly more unhinged by comparison.
It can add value if done right. Just as you typically want to make a design doc / rfc before working on a project, you often want to describe what you are doing before you do it.

This can protect the engineer / team against scope creep, as well as determine the context of why work was done when you may need to understand more context (in the case of a bug for example).

Also it increases accountability and transparency. It is common that teams want to know what other engineers are working on and why.
"...as people who have the rugged pulled out from under them...".

WTF? Am I reading Forbes or some old MySpace page?

Way to not proofread your shit at a major publication and put an automatic back button in the second paragraph.

TD;DR

Too dumb didn't read it.
Adding a Dunder to an Object
Books are only one way to train a biological neural network, there are many others (schools, the media, etc). In fact, we are on a training platform of sorts right now!
Would IPFS make it globally distributed and censorship-resistant?
The main thing that I wish age had is a key database for managing contacts. It's awesome that it's modern and secure, but having to manage and refer to my key files (and friends' key files) manually is painful. Not that it matters much; for both tools I have a contact list of effective length zero. At least for PGP, I can sign my commits (and various other artifacts) and use my GNU pass/gopass database.
Doesn’t matter. People always blame their problems on the current President. And to be fair, he could be signing some executive orders that signal he’s doing something about it, but I haven’t seen him do much more than say it’s his top priority and maybe negotiate with Venezuela and get snubbed by Saudi Arabia.
Microecnomically, sure. Macroecnomically, if housing prices were stable, I am pretty sure the other reasons would evaporate.
As energy prices soar, the Bitcoin miners may find they have struck fool’s gold
That ticket is just adding friction to getting things done. Why can't you track the pull request itself?

This one instance of friction might but seem like a big deal at first, but the attitude is what causes slow development and burnout. First there's this tiny process, and then why not add a few more bita of process on top, until finally your merge process takes longer than writing the updated documentation, and so people stop doing it.

Instead of asking "why can't you just do this process," you should be asking "why is this process necessary at all?"
Let’s separate the two first. Clearly we can move the start date for recession by changing interest rates and pumping money into the economy. I think you agree on this? If so that would mess with predictions which is what I said.

Can recessions be prevented. I think it is believed they can. The theory is juice the economy on hard times and pump the brakes in good times. This the depends on two things, ability to know what is good and bad times which I personally depends to some extent on predicting the future. I think it also depends on being able to use the brakes in good times which we did not do, the Trump tax cuts clearly should not have happened if this was the goal.

So even though I believe in the Keynesian model I agree with you that it might not work in practice. But it is mostly working right now, although clearly not 100%.

But I think the evidence is quite clear that the timing and severity of a recession can be influenced by monetary policy, and if you agree with that you probably agree that predictions of recession are not going to work 100% even if there was a clear way of predicting them.
Vegan meat from the supermarket is delicious but not a sustainable option for a weekly diet: too much salt and preservatives.

Recipes such as black bean & beetroot burgers are superb. I'm on the lookout to more classic recipes, maybe using soy protein or even anything more complicated as long as it doesn't need an industrial kitchen.

https://itsavegworldafterall.com/black-bean-beet-burger-reci...
an underappreciated feature in Keepass are URL overrides so you can autorun RDP sessions, SSH sessions, SFTP sessions in other apps with filled in credentials.
If Bitwarden had this feature, I'd probably switch.
> It feels like the plan has always been to price the working class off the roads, with no alternative beyond walking or cycling.

"Just use slow, crowded, unsafe and inefficient public transit" "Don't worry about me, I have to be chauffeured around, security reasons you know!"

"Just give away your guns. You don't need them for protection, you and your kids will be safe with the police" "Me? Oh it's different. See I need theses armed bodyguards with me. For security reasons you know!"
It depends on your goal.

"Given the acquired studies in astronomy and rocket science, engineering and robotics, surely we can plan a mission to explore the solar corona in-place, which we calculated as safe and achievable, provided we limit the physical environmental constraints by carrying the mission on rigorously at nighttime"

Maybe you are into entertainment, maybe you are into AI (AKA "automated problem solving").

Maybe the appearance of some emergent property leads to potential foundations, maybe just to potential for deception.

It is very dangerous to have around hollow simulacra "good at faking it" (from pseudo-professionalism to populism, etc).
Mitch Bradley of Open Firmware (Sun, Apple bootloader) builds custom golf putter
This looks great! I'll check it out. Subscribed.
Uh, Europe and the USA have similar area (with Europe being slightly larger). Though Europe has 2.5x the population.
I don’t think the problem is discussing other kinds of slavery, because wage slavery is a thing that’s discussed, but there is a type of slavery that is very recent, still relevant because we’re still feeling the effects of it, and it does seem in bad taste to compare being a tech CEO to something people are still digging themselves out of the effects of.

We’re all on someone’s dollar and beholden to them so by the “chief enslaved officer” logic we’re all slaves which really cheapens and nearly erases a very real and very recent thing.
When Water Flows Uphill
> "Scrum is great for teams composed of new developers who don't yet know how to work together, or teams at companies with poor culture."

Hmm. I think your take is a bit like saying "Baths are only for dirty people. People who stay clean don't need baths."
> Way to not proofread you shit at a major publication and put an automatic back button in the second paragraph.

Sometimes it slips through!
yaupon tea has by far the cleanest energy of any naturally caffinated beverage but supposedly it also has the highest l-theanine content as well. I've only found it in north america. The tannins in regular tea are too much for me.
https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/

Groupy might interest you.
Good idea, make sure all vapes etc are gathered in the same bag. Less nicotine = less drive to smoke = less drive to learn how to overcome the basic obnoxious aspect of smoke breathing - after all, it is the tars carried by smoke that cause cancer. rapid heating of vegetable matter followed by both steam distillation(reactions in abundance) followed by hot air extraction of the thousands of organics made = into your lungs a recipe for cancer. Nicotine on it's own is not a carcinogen, so it should be tolerated, but limited in the concentration in the vape liquid. Other crap in the vape liquid = regulated.
As for me, I do not smoke or vape. If I find people by me smoking = I move.
I also avoid the clouds of vapers vaping. Those clouds are there for visible effect = no nicotine, but they often have harm profiles of their own = begone...
Interesting find. The kernel has all kinds of weird and wacky things in drivers.
My experience echos your finding, but in reverse. Going from Enterprise companies to a tech company, I was surprised that PMs actually seem to do things. I was so used to Project Managers / Scrum Masters just taking up time with meetings and pushing around Jira tickets with status updates, that when I finally got a Product Manager that really seemed to do stuff, and get a vision for where things are going, but worked well with engineers to get a design it was a breath of fresh air.
They could be more forward-looking when making hiring decisions.
Text-only version:

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_e596a4452e66f1c24519e7badb...
Nope.

Your citation refers to the status of customers with respect to other creditors.

It says diddly squat about shareholders, who are below creditors in the event of a bankruptcy. Because, in a corporate bankruptcy, shareholders generally lose their investment.
Nitpick: Calvin was mostly active in Geneva, in the French speaking part. The most important exponent of the Reformation in Zurich was Zwingli. And the (German speaking) cantons in Central Switzerland that “founded” Switzerland are to this day mostly Catholic.
There definitely seems to be a dearth of competent IT people in industry in Europe in general. I wonder if the same is true in the USA.
The average new hire should be a better fit for the company than a bottom 25% performer.
They could've had asymptomatic covid and never knew about it?
Thank you for saying something about this. I make up answers to "security" questions like: first pet's name? Favorite teacher? and so on but that means that I have to record what the answer is.

I've been doing that in the notes section for LastPass. I think that I'm going to have to move to doing it in the Notes app since that works on all my Apple devices. And it looks like I can lock one Note without having to lock all of them.
Some US news commentators talk about supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. That doesn't mean it's official policy.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-russia-ukrain...
That's interesting, this behavior is one of many reasons why I love age. I don't want a key database for virtually any of my use cases
They should have planned better and not made the offers in the first place?
Can you explain how sqlite is a better container for arbitrary binary files than zip?

I mean, I know "INSERT INTO files ('my-file.bin', X'CAFEBABE...')" gets it into sqlite, but how would a sane person get that content back out?
Peace in Europe Is Slipping Away Again
What does it mean when dialogue can’t be had without first incensing the air with the quasi-religious rites of “jabs are safe and effective,” “climate change is real and manmade,” “there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud,” “peace be upon him” etc?
The implication of zero knowledge proofs is that no private data need be shared. The “zk-something” you and Molly both brush over translates literally to “verifying knowledge without any private information having to be shared or checked.”
I highly suggest reading “An incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalism” [0], as it covers the situation with Forbes’ declining quality quite well.

[0]: https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/02/an-incomplete-history-of-f...
Imagine the inverse where you have a team of engineers working on their own projects. And you dont know who is working on what, or why. Because there is no pull request yet.

Who requested this change? What is the scope? Where is the upfront documentation?

Now imagine the PR is ready to be merged. Since the engineer doesnt like documentation (as you are suggesting) then theres little context into what this is doing, who it will affect, and what types of changes can be expected.

Now imagine those PRs create a bug and causes an outage. Where do you look to determine the context into why this decision was made?

Now imagine a dozen of these teams working on the same repo. How do you coordinate who is working on what and what types of releases need to be schedueled?
I'd say, without a doubt, 5.19 is the best.
I don’t disagree with you, merely said that for some reason it was possible to make a cheaper and quicker HIV test that has a high false positive and a low false negative.

I have myself tested positive twice without actually being positive when being deployed with the army, so agree on all your points that this is not great and not an intended goal,. Just what we get when we try to make the cheapest possible test today.
> you are front end, and you will only work on front end

That is something outside the scope of scrum. Whoever you hired may have called that scrum, but it seems they were bringing in unrelated processes.

> turned simple decisions into decision by committee

Scrum isn't a decision-making framework either.
>known was impossible

It's not impossible. They just have to support more.
Homeboy built the Iron Dome in his garage
that is exactly what i had thought. i think they should write (MLe)
Yeah, I read this but decided not to upvote it for similar reasons. Surely the Ukranian military has some form of communications besides the civilian cellular network, right? What is it?
All big methodologies and big application platforms (e.g. J2/Jakarta EE,.NET) are attempts to make average developers predictably productive and to ensure long-term consistency in and across large projects. These things are more important to "enterprise" than raw productivity/development speed.

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.
Beat my edit! Well played. But I'm not Forbes either.
Salaries have been relatively stagnant for most software developers since the late 1990’s boom. Kids straight out of school were then getting 80–100k to start in mid market cities like Atlanta and Raleigh/Durham where you could buy a nice house for $160k. Many Silicon Valley salaries were in the mid 100k range and you could buy a home for 400-500k.

Many other jobs, on the other hand, have seen significant boosts in salary and many business careers have much higher top end potential than software development careers. My main point is that I disagree with the general opinion that software development is a slam dunk for people starting new careers.

I am encouraging my children to focus on their reading, writing and language skills over tech skills for their future, as they can always easily get into tech with the multitude of high level languages and mostly CRUD / web development that dominates the industry now. True CS skills are rarely needed.
“Find a company you believe in” is the exact reason I’ve been ignoring Coinbase recruiters for the last few years.
Europe is pretty diverse.

Many European countries have efficient public transit. Some allow firearms. One territory even has mandatory open carry.

Where might you be from?
Thing is that scrum is for kinda hostile enviroments where developers need some safeguards and peace agains adhock requests and constant ops works.
If you don’t want your employees to be highly opinionated and engage in ownership politics, perhaps you shouldn’t hire smart people (who tend to be opinionated and think a lot) and hand them shares in your company (hence turning them into co-owners)?

Brian Armstrong wouldn’t have gotten very far with Coinbase if it was just him, on his own. Companies with this sort of management either blow up (RIM) or end up stagnant and dysfunctional (Facebook). He will end up alienating all of the people who he needs to resuscitate his company; moreover the sort of weird, semi-nuts people who create all of the great stuff in our industry (e.g. von Neumann) won’t go anywhere near his company.

Coinbase may be the centralized crypto exchange with the lions’ share of liquidity today, but there’s no guarantee they’ll even exist in an industry that evolves past its shitcoin phase. Maybe he thinks he can single-handedly navigate this transition on his own; let’s see. Clearly, the market doesn’t think so — pretty ironic that he’s a market-maker who ignores market signals…

Edit: I want to note that this tweet is toxic and disturbing on so many levels… It’s also comical given the history of our industry and the Traitorous Eight.

https://mobile.twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1535305081...
I don't think it's about largeness, and the autonomy of "rockstars" is of dubious value. Google is the largest company where I've worked, and also the most productive. For code that an IC owns, they only need the sign-off of literally anyone else in the company to land changes, and all that is expected is those changes are generally consistent with team goals. For code an IC does not own, they only need the approval of one owner. Pretty straight-forward.

A medium-sized company where I worked had a "rockstar" who was really just an early employee with a high title and no idea what he was doing, so every week he committed a thousand lines of brand-new unreviewed tech debt. Much of the rest of the company was unwittingly dedicated to overcoming his tech debt. Said company currently trades at about 1/3rd below its IPO valuation.

The experience of these two companies led me to the belief that hiring practices and review culture are more important than project management culture. You can get a lot done with good talent, code and design review, and vaguely disorganized project leadership, and you can run in place achieving nothing with formal project management hamstrung by bozo engineers.
> Nothing is impossible.

Technically, this isn't true.

> But the chance of the being sufficient fraud to change say the presidential election is extremely unlikely....

Technically, the likelihood is not known. Humans are welcome to state estimates of the likelihood, and believe those estimates to be true (and rebroadcast them, seeding the "fact" into other minds), but base reality is where the truth lies. We can (and do!) pretend that our estimated reality is factual but this is a collective cultural delusion, and a harmful one at that (which sometimes people can see clearly (in the behavior of our outgroups), and other times not (in their own and ingroup behavior)). Pick any culture war topic thread on HN, and observe how people describe "reality" - the phenomenon is not really hiding as much as we aren't able to see it (similar to how we couldn't see certain things until we developed techniques, like using lenses to see into different realms of reality).

> ...especially given the evidence that we have.

Our discovery of evidence has no influence on that which preceded it, it only has influence on our beliefs of that which preceded it. Unfortunately, we often tend to not form a distinction between the two.
I’d love to see on the fly calculation of things like UF https://transportation.report/definitions/utility-factor/
> It was bureaucratic, it siloed people (you are front end, and you will only work on front end)

Not sure where Scrum says that. In fact I remember it being the inverse. Maybe you just had a bad hire.
I can't believe that got traction. I saw it and figured it was just some disgruntled employees in denial about the current state of the crypto space.
In case you haven't already seen it, 1P has effectively a "click button, get fake security question answers" and I love it: https://support.1password.com/generate-security-questions/

They use the "battery horse stable" scheme so you don't have to read crazy ascii over the phone to customer support
less of a pain if someone makes an extension for it, which afaik no one did neither (without cryptocurrencies being mentioned)
They said the new employees were told that their offer would be upheld at least up until 2 weeks before it wasn't. So what I'd expect them to do is not be terrible human beings.
You should think more about what China didn’t do in Macau, to understand China’s actions and motives better.

Many people in Hong Kong grasp onto useless documents like the Sino-British Declaration because their actual constitution (the basic law) gave them no assurance to match promises. That constitution always gave the PRC ability to control any and everything there to suppress anything. The appointments always came from Beijing, and it inherits a system similar to City of London where 100% of the people’s vote and representatives can only be 50% of the legislative outcome. Its hopeless - for those deathly afraid of PRC life - and always has been, and China can wait out that “50 year thing” ever so nominally, in a way that doesnt match anything remotely close to what is often repeated in the west about what “should” happen. To me, having read the basic law and prc constitution, China didnt break its agreement, and anyone grasping at the Sino British Declaration is being disingenuous, ignorant, or really that desperate. Only thing to point at is Britain for giving up on negotiations, because they failed the people of Hong Kong back in the 90s and let the basic law be good enough.

But again, look at Macau and why that area isn’t an issue in the minds of the west, its not the smaller population.

Despite rule of law being kind of a burgeoning concept in the PRC (unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles to the stuff they were already going to do), China is pretty predictable and operates within some easy to understand confines.
Ask HN: How to advocate for prospective employers to show us their codebases?
It's common for prospective employers to ask for some examples that prove our ability to code, whether through a sample assignment, an online programming test, whiteboarding, etc.

Sometimes a new job or contract will come with the discovery that the codebases on which we are asked to work are not what we were expecting, to put it lightly.

Such as,

* saturated with anti-patterns to the point that it's a massively negative impact on productivity

* excessively long compile / build times due to lack of maintenance and/or things just not being built well

* severely outdated tooling and versioning

etc.

While this can be a workable situation sometimes, an opportunity to contribute in a meaningful, positive way, in others it can be a tedious slog.

A developer can ask questions during the interview process about these things, which can sometimes illuminate these issues.

If an organization's developers are active in open source contributions, that can be a helpful signal as to the quality of a codebase.

And, it occurred to me that there's a big double standard in hiring around this. It seems like the software development process, generally speaking, is built on what is essentially a lack of trust in engineers - we can come in with over 10 years of verifiable experience, talk eloquently about that and our abilities, and still be met with these ridiculous and demeaning puzzles.

Why should we not be able to look at the code at a place we are thinking about working at? It's a CORE part of the job. To be blind to that doesn't feel right to me.

If/when I decide to look for a different position, I'm considering to ask employers if they would be willing to let me sign an NDA so that I can take a look at the code on which I'll be working. Or at least some portion of it.

I'm curious how this idea lands for people reading this post. I can envision a world where this is standard practice in hiring.

I'm curious to also hear reasons as to why this couldn't work in practice.

EDIT: changed non-intentional ultimatum-esque language