skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The literal collapse of an institution is a pretty A+ indicator of failure of leadership
few understand
Did their acquisition price factor in the % of people who will stop feeding because of this? It's one thing to feed a free open source project it's another to give free labor to Silversmith Capital.
Offensive research is what motivates lessons for the OS layer. Look at the struggles were are having with things like kernel-level memory safety even when we can point at mountains of CVEs found by white hats. The community would be dragging its feet even more if the shared consensus was that actually it is really hard to beat ASLR and DEP so we are all done and have solved it.
1Password works everywhere too, and it works much better than LastPass from everything I've heard and seen.

1Password also actually encrypts your entire vault, and it uses a strong, generated secret key in addition to your password, so even if a user does not use a strong password, their vault would still be very hard to crack.
> I don't think he's replaceable.

Rick & Morty started out as a Back to the Future parody where the joke was that Morty had to repeatedly lick Doc's balls. It's so bizarre it's kind of funny, for about a minute anyway (not an entire episode). The other shorts aren't really all that funny, IMO. You can watch it here if you want, but you will proabbly regret the time you spend on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngN7eJUQyXk

It seems to me that Roiland always needed other people to actually make his weird shit funny. Is he replaceable? Who knows; I'm not in the writer's room. Star Trek TNG got significantly better after Roddenberry left, and I think it's fair to say that a significant part of the brilliance of the original series mostly came from other people, and not Roddenberry himself.

Who knows what will happen. I don't think it's a foregone conclusion either way.

(No comment on whether it's fair that he's let go, as I don't really know all the details)
And the money has to come from somewhere, unless they are paid in NFT/e-coin.
it's remarkable how little time it took for the big pharma to become our greatest ally
> So he did a poor job

Or (at least partially) the surrounding market conditions have changed into unfavorable conditions for a company like Coinbase

Should a product officer be judged on whether the economy/financial markets change their mind on the value of risky things like crypto?

Plus the FTX thing most likely isn't a product officer's fault
Alternative title: "We casually decided to run a social media site for a starched-collar pillar of the financial reporting community, and all we got out of it was some clever snark."
> Coinbase is down 88% from all time highs, and slightly less from its IPO.

This has nothing to do with "product", though.

Memestocks are down ~80%. Crypto prices down ~70%. Volumes are down even more in many segments... >97% for NFTs.

Just because Coinbase was at one time valued almost 10x what it is now, doesn't mean that was the correct value - and "product" ruined it.
>I pay $33/m, I fart around with some device in my kitchen, then send them by post to some company and get nothing in return.

I think you also pay for the electricity the device uses, and for replacement filters.
No idea what happens in case of issues (need of repair/replacement parts/etc.), i.e. if it is included in the subscription or if it malfunctions it is on you.
I assume you then read the article, so... no problem here?
Headlines from last week:

> It was announced on Jan. 10, 2022 that Coinbase would be slashing its workforce by about 20% (which translates to 950 employees) in an effort to reduce overall operating expenses by 25%.

> This is the second round of layoffs for the crypto exchange, as they laid off 18% of the workforce last June as the crypto winter sets in and the space attempts to recover from the disastrous year.

why exactly is this guy getting $105m again?
Annotated: Sam Bankman-Fried's “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview”
This is certainly the way it should be done in the crypto world.
This is as bad as some self-published children's books, but in a different way.
I think that "messages need to be coarse-grained and contain little nuance," as stated in the comment, is a comforting thought, but it has little truth to it. I just have observations, many of them anyway, and not any proper experimental or observation study, but reflecting on them has changed the lens through which I look at leadership and management.

When you say in the previous comment that "it's easy to assume that words are intellectual garbage, but that's not always the case," I see the position/authority bias at work: it can't be nonsense, they are the leaders, what they say has to make sense, if only seen in the context of having to speak all day, or to dozens, hundreds, thousands (unlikely outside of politics) of people every day.

Or look at the layoffs at Twitter, Meta, Google, etc.: even if they seem to make little sense (some of the decisions anyway) in the way they are done, somehow they have to make sense, either because the layoffs are a "blunt instrument," or because the shareholders are asking for something particular or whatever.

I would like to bring an example. A person in my company was hired in a management role, overseeing a function for a group of hundreds of people. As soon as they gave their first "speech," it was clear to my shrewd eyes that the words uttered made no sense, that they were lying about their past, their accomplishments, and that their skills were not what was advertised. If I focus my attention on what people do in a context where I am competent, it takes between very little and not much to assign them to a broad range of competence: incompetent, somewhat competent, okay competent, very competent.

Similarly, I've played a couple of sports at a high level, and if I see people training for, say, an hour, I can assign them to a level of competence, with little margin for error. The guy who does everything differently and originally is sort of an invention of novels and TV shows. Sometimes, very rarely, they show up in real life, so I might add a little bucket labeled "mysterious."

The executive hired by my company fell squarely into the category of incompetent. But because the executive had been hired into that management position by people deemed competent (they weren't, that's why it was a flywheel, a charade), my colleagues considered the executive competent for years, despite the obvious nonsense. It was rather bizarre to observe, but position bias (and "whatever" bias) is as strong as many of the biases related to physical characteristics that we carry around with us all day, every day. And when I tried to explain to my colleagues what I had seen, they did not believe me. I think they still don't believe me.
> I mean, unless as a child you had abusive parents who forced you to smoke, it’s absolutely a choice.

My mother started at 11. It's actually very typical for a smoker to start around that young. Many drug addicts are first exposed to the drug before their minds are anywhere nearly developed. They never had a chance to make anything like an informed adult choice. It's one of the saddest aspects of it.
It's amazing how much some can milk a company
It lets one buy Bitcoin (etc) with US Dollars.
Because that's not a realistic requirement.
This is just for this specific company or this person alone. Usually, they or HR only spend around 15-20 secs on each resume to decide. Github or others don't matter
I'm surprised anyone thinks this might not be intended seriously. It's a pretty common sentiment among the working class. Stole from the little people? You suck. Ripped off the owning class? Nice job, please do more of that.
/r/chicago is very active
Family members tell me in Italy the plant managers are personally liable for worker injuries. A workplace death is a big deal, even if the executive in charge resides in another country.
You’re right. To be a success capitalist, you need to be maximally greedy at all times. If you’re not greedy enough, someone else will just come and replace you
You should avoid characterizing someone as "a certain type of person." Especially an internet stranger that you do not know in the least.

I have encountered plenty of servers who hand you the card reader, step back, turn around, whatever, then take it when you're done and walk away. Zero issues. That has been fine.

I have likewise encountered overly pushy servers, often those who knew they did a less than stellar job, who literally stood over my shoulder looking at the screen, pointing over my shoulder saying "and here's where you can enter the tip." That sure as hell is creating a sense of "looming" and "guilt" and "social pressure" (if not physical pressure). I've likewise encountered servers who deliver less than stellar service who complained quite vocally when I dared to leave a 15% tip (they should probably have received 0%).

Don't mistake your personal experiences for those of others. Don't presume how you feel about social encounters is how others should feel or shame them when they don't align with your world view.
The good old a16z heist. Rugpull on investors after.
These comments don’t really address opportunity costs. It’s the same concept where why are we paying non profit CEOs so much but when you think about it those CEOs could have just worked for a much higher salary anywhere else .

The cheap money era is gone now though.
Yes. Regulations should exist. Econ 101 is a prerequisite to learning about exceptions to Econ 101, which evidently the general populous has not. This is why people get surprised when the solution of throwing more money at a limited supply of housing and college slots ends up increasing the price of housing and college.

You can make a good argument that protections need to be made to protect income workers and that we wouldn't lose much economic efficiency from these changes. On the other hand, most people in this thread are intentionally ignorant of the market landscape that gave their their cushy mid-six figure compensation. Instead they would rather make the same tired memes about "short term profits" and whatnot.
Dang is Coinbase collapsing?
If you think that black people have a “huge advantage” in society then you need to educate yourself.

There’s plenty of data on hiring discrimination for you:

https://hbr.org/2017/10/hiring-discrimination-against-black-...

I’ve literally had someone whose job it was to read resumes for their company straight up admit to me that they throw resumes with black-sounding names straight into the trash.

You still didn’t respond to my comment, which spelled out very clearly the role of racial discrimination in society that you seem to interested in denying. Instead, you change the topic from criminalization to college admissions. I wonder why.
I would definitely encourage others to try doctors and see if it helps. I’m just saying for me it hasn’t (so far).
Not necessarily. If your market evaporates, you can't really blame it on product.
Don't discount talk therapy as an aid to reduce depression symptoms. I did different medications for 10 years with limited or adverse results; talk therapy by comparison has been way more effective, even if it's a big rubber duck session sometimes. I'm fortunate to have found a therapist that takes my insurance though so YMMV
And still read comments against setting minimum wage at some liveable levels. These are likely different people, but still it is somewhat weird to read either of the comments.
There are special subsidies for rooftop solar here in the US (Solar Investment Tax Credit). Are there not subsidies for solar where you live?

https://www.seia.org/initiatives/solar-investment-tax-credit...

> The solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) is one of the most important federal policy mechanisms to support the growth of solar energy in the United States. Since the ITC was enacted in 2006, the U.S. solar industry has grown by more than 200x - creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and investing billions of dollars in the U.S. economy in the process.
>TLDR was that it is not patentable so there's no money in it.

I think you are overlooking some of the major technical problems with phages. In no particular order:

1. The immune system develops antibodies for many phages.

2. Microbes develop resistance to phages.

3. Phage multiplication using host cell is a primary step for phage production, and this causes many (serious) adverse effects.

4. Only obligate lytic phages that lyse the bacterial cell directly instead of integrating its genome in bacterial DNA (temperate) are usable for phage therapy. Temperate phages play a major role in the exchange of genetic material between different bacterial strains and often contribute to the pathogenicity.
https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1522046933258293248

This is his legacy
I've been using AI image generators to help me brainstorm compositions/colors/themes for traditional artworks. Your note about lack of "coherent viewpoint" very much rings true for AI-generated visual arts. The AI will get many patterns/images "right" in a given piece but has no sense of how far to take those patterns or how different components attach or relate to each other.

Even so, it's a fun and interesting tool to use alongside traditional media, so I'm excited to see it improve.
Was about to say- dietary cholesterol doesn't matter! Eat those eggs folks
Attrition loses your more talented and motivated workers, as those are the ones that can and do find better deals elsewhere.

Layoffs are the way to lose your least talented and motivated workers.
> “As our product leaders have taken on more responsibility, I've been able to consider taking a much-needed personal break to spend more time with my family. It has been a tough year for me personally — my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and my mother passed away unexpectedly. If I'm honest with myself, I don't think I've allowed myself time to grieve either yet,” he wrote in a recent LinkedIn post.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reflecting-my-crypto-web3-jou...

Maybe these people absolutely no heart at all but I'd be a tiny bit surprised if he actually mentioned his mothers death and father getting Alzheimer's as the reason for leaving when in reality he was fired.
SSRIs aren’t the only medication that requires weeks to work.
No whitepaper?
>If your market evaporates, you can't really blame it on product.

Come again?
As if omics research isn't hard enough, there's a confounding layer of privacy and incentive problems here.

From a science angle it makes more sense to just collect this data from everybody all the time and let the studies be post hoc explorations of that giant dataset. But how do you get people to cooperate when they have reason to believe that the data will be used against them?

Either we accept the diminished value of isolated study-at-a-time datasets (as we're doing now), we figure out how to do this kind of research through a layer of homeomorphic encryption which the layman trusts (a tall order), or we wait for an era with more trustworthy institutions (potentially a long time).

For this reason, I think it'll be like fusion power: the perpetual "next big thing".
Did you read the article? What about the stress of being in between jobs? You have a single point of failure that's outside your control.

With contracting, you can take as many clients as you can handle, and you'd have to lose all your clients simultaneously to end up in an equivalent position.
Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor
I figured it out, basically, the start-time is constrained by the end-time, which is why I couldnt change the start-time until I changed the end-time first. It wasnt obvious at first, but makes sense. That said, i do wonder if a better UI control would make the operation more obvious.
Indistinguishable from parody...

What would be an example of a new product that will help the company thrive?
I think you may have missed the point here.

Rooftop solar is heavily subsidized almost everywhere it’s popular. Rooftop solar isn’t a good deal for utilities or their non-rooftop-solar customers.

I say this as someone who lived off the grid on solar for years; encouraging rooftop solar may have kickstarted the learning curve for the solar panel industry, and as such may have been pretty good social policy.

But it definitely owes its existence to subsidies.

These days grid scale solar makes lots of sense, rooftop solar still doesn’t (and the subsidies are now harder to defend).
Big Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Diversity and Inclusion Jobs Hard
> giving technical talks, writing documentation & tutorials, organising developer events, recording video tutorials

Aside from giving talks and maybe event organization, the rest of those functions (docs, tutorials) already have roles.

The more naked truth is here:

> marketing teams usually don't have the technical knowledge required

DevRel is marketing that targets developers. They do all the things marketers do: drive adoption, control perception, pressure product teams in customer orgs, and drive product-market fit.

Just like marketers try to build champions in C-suites and pursestring-holders for sales to use to land and expand, devrel builds champions on dev teams in orgs where devs have more control or influence over budgets.
> To get anything done, you need to start it.

This is... not true? Also not necessarily something to even select for in a corporate environment (even if you want to tell yourself that it is).
Being right does generally lead to being depressed and "toxic", because people (one's self and others) aren't happy thinking in terms of cold hard truths. At least that is my experience.

The constructive analysis is the show isn't meant to be an example for fully formed adults to emulate. Rather it's a coping mechanism. Have you ever had to spend weeks of your life dealing with bureaucrats, while they drown you with their sea of forms and policies? cf. "They're just robots, Morty!". That does not inspire me to go out and start shooting bureaucrats as they do in the show. Rather I just appreciate someone else casually cutting through to the ugly dynamic of the social mire.

The main difference between Rick and real-world intelligence is that Rick just blurts things out while those of us in the real world learn to tone it down and be highly selective about attacking social consensuses. But Rick blurting things out is the only way for the viewer to know them - the show isn't based around his internal monologue.

Additionally there are a lot of kids figuring out their place in the world, and looking for truths they can trust. Being technically correct is one of those truths. That some kids end up emulating the whole character is just stupid youthful experimentation that we all look back on and cringe. The fact they're expressing it on web forums and you're reading it and can't see that it was written by a prepubescent noob has more to do with the vanishing spaces of childhood than anything else.
Not sure the exact timeline for these, but what about staking and yields, integration of Coinbase Pro with the main site, and a more robust Tax Center? Those all seemed pretty useful to me. Pretty sure all those were within the last couple of years.
Collapsing is a strong word, but their very tightly tied to whatever the crypto market is doing..which is not good at the moment.
This doesn't affect anyone else! Other than they don't see noisy, meaningless merge commits.

It only takes effect when you are both behind AND ahead of the remote (as in: you have local unpushed commits, and there are remote commits you don't have).

It pulls the remote commits first, then rebases your commits using those as a base.

You are left with a repository where you are ahead of remote, and can just push your commits normally.

Only your local history is affected (insofar as your hashes will change).
Yeah, at a 11 b market cap, he got 1% for joining? That's amazing.
What if you aren't super out of shape? Do the results translate/is the "hack" too good to be true?

Working out for 45 minutes a day isn't fun
Fools weren't being separated from their money quickly enough
What I find shocking is that they'll work for a billionaire for £10/h, and let him micro-monitor break time.
Conceptually yes, but IIUC there should be worlds of difference at the compilation output level (i.e. unlike calling a function, the compiler's not obligated to set up or tear down a context every time it enters or exits a block; it can just treat the static scope semantics without having any impact on the runtime semantics).

ETA: except for go's `defer`, and off the top of my head I don't actually know if Go is obliged to run the defer immediately upon exiting the block or can choose to run it at some other point in the function.
> Rooftop solar outcompetes solar farms because energy from a solar farm pays taxes and distribution costs before it is delivered to a user.

This depends where you live and the size/efficiency of your rooftop setup, right?
He's also been exposed as having sent sexually explicit DMs to minors, which started to come to light after the lawsuit was filed. It was probably that, more than/in addition to the lawsuit, that led to Adult Swim dropping him.

I looked into it because I had the same initial reaction you did. It's pretty terrible stuff, dude's got some issues
not so much the board as Brian Armstrong himself. he seems to have a history of very dubious C-suite hires, including acquihiring Balaji's Earn.com for $100m and constantly talking up his impact when it turned out to be.. a shitty e-learning platform (https://www.coinbase.com/learning-rewards)

(i know i sound negative about all this but if i'm mistaken about Earn please correct me)
Bryan Johnson's Anti-Aging Protocol
With fentynal getting into everything I'd say it's far more dangerous to take a substance orally or by injection that it is to inhale nitrous oxide which fentynal can't get into
What would dang know about it?
Yes I've used it a bunch in production it's great. It is highly valued in some PII-conscious fields for compliance reasons that I don't fully understand, but becoming competent with postgres RLS has been a huge benefit for my career.

The main practical downside is that it is more precise and rigorous than your app- or business-level auth logic is likely to be, and has no real escape hatches. If you're trying to drop it on an existing system you're going to spend a lot of time going back and forth with whoever to shake out edge case ambiguities in your rbac policy that weren't obvious or relevant before.
I'd put this a bit differently, though with the same general idea:

- The alarm will alert flight attendants to the situation, allow them to identify the violator of the non-smoking regulation, of the potentially hazardous situation (open flame in an aircraft), and if necessary bar the person from future flights.

- The ashtray will likely prevent a lit cigarette from burning down the aircraft in flight if improperly disposed of with, say, dry paper trash.

A smouldering cigarette in a rubbish bin could imperil the entire flight, passenger manifest, and crew.
I meant systems that can differentiate between AI generated content and organic content.
Just an observation: what I said in my comment is falsifiable. I'm pretty certain you'd find, if you polled a bunch of job application sites for various-sized companies, that large companies are a lot more likely to separate out new grads and entry-level candidates into a separate funnel from more experienced professionals, with separate candidates and more "basic" questions.
I'd love to read a "novel" AI story; sounds very interesting. Can you link an example or two?
Thanks for sharing this @nateb2022 -- I saw that you also have a Zoom clone which is set up as the default meeting option. This seems like a big leap, though I see the obvious advantage and synergy. How are you able to focus on two very different things as a company (one: calendar sharing UI two: video streaming)?
> you can't really blame it on product

indeed you can