skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm describing is what any economist would tell you. You made your misunderstanding clear when you write this:

> You provided a tautologic "definition."

No, I didn't. Money itself is not "real" wealth. It's an agreed-on abstraction which is used to represent wealth. It's a measure of wealth, in the "unit of account" sense. Wealth exists in the form of things like property, other tangible assets, the output of services, etc.

To understand this better, consider a barter economy. Someone might trade a cow for some swords or whatever. The cow and the swords are assets which have value because they're useful to someone. But not every asset is useful to everyone. I have no use for a cow or a sword, but some people do. This makes it difficult for pure barter systems to work well, because the assets I have may be of no use to the people who have assets that I want to trade for, and vice versa.

Money solves this problem. It is used to represent wealth. Typically via a market system, assets are valued in terms of an amount of money. This allows people to trade assets for money without having to match assets that both sides are interested in.

Once you understand this basic fact, a lot of economics follows quite obviously. For example, it become clear that the amount of money in a society needs to grow to match the underlying wealth (total assets) in that society, otherwise the value of money will either increase (deflation - prices drop making money more valuable) or decrease (inflation - prices increases making money less valuable). This is why central banks pay attention to, and manage, the money supply.

Bringing this back to crypto, we can use this fundamental understanding to understand why cryptos like Bitcoin are deflationary: since they have a limited supply, as the amount of wealth they represent increases, the value of the currency has to increase.

> I would say a currency has value as a currency iff it meets the three criteria that define a currency.

You can say that, but it's pointless because you're not using "value" in the economic sense. It's more accurate and less misleading just to say that some instrument can serve as a currency if it meets those criteria.

Your description doesn't help explain how much actual economic value a currency has. To find that out, you need to look at how much underlying wealth it represents.

> A currency has value because it is useful as (1), (2), (3).

You could say "it is possible for a currency to have value because..." But that doesn't help you identify how valuable it is.

> You can say monopoly money represents real wealth but if nobody agrees with you then it is not too useful.

That's the point. Money has to actually represent real wealth for it to have value. Its value is largely determined by how much real, non-money wealth it represents.

> I think you don't understand what a currency is.

You've been reading definitions without a full understanding of the bigger picture.
There's a lot of sunlight between 'barely targeted brand ad' and 'i was just talking about this exact product yesterday and now its in an ad'.

It's the latter that creeps people out, especially combined with a) data leaks, b) news coming out about how fine-grained the targeting systems are, and c) a system that constantly nags you to share personal information (FB).

Nobody balks at ads in magazines or TV or frankly half of the youtube ads out there (other than we'd like less). I don't think the narrative is at stake if the ads team is kept on a short leash, which they likely will be, and I'm guessing there'll be clear preferences to control this.

Agree completely Apple's potential ad surface area is big.
That's because Apple introduced their own targeted ads, which you don't need to opt-in to (since there is no opt-out). See more below:

https://searchads.apple.com/advanced/
I have, and since it was good food/wine I certainly could have enjoyed it without the words that were said about it.

In other words, what was said enhanced the experience without being essential.

We wouldn't eat food or drink wine that requires many words of explanation to even be palatable - that was my point.
So wouldn't a car that would actually fix your problem just be a two-seater?
I think we're seeing two things: increased reporting because of increased interest and an actual uptick in actual ransomware attacks. The rate of attack isn't necessarily increasing with the rate of increase in reporting but both are up YoY.

For increased interest, the Colonial Pipeline shut down had huge far reaching affects beyond the cost to the company. News of the situation reached beyond tech wonks. It also impacted tons of people not directly related to CPC.

To the uptick in successful attacks, the increase in working from home probably has a lot to do with it. A virus that wouldn't make it past an enterprise firewall will more easily hit some user at home. They then connect to the corporate VPN for work and bridge past a lot of firewalls and IDSes. Companies they might have decent network security are poking a lot of holes to handle people WFH that never had previously.

Joe from Accounting that's a wiz in Excel but falls for every phishing e-mail that hits his inbox is a bigger problem WFH than when at the office. He's a match in a powder mill when he connects to the corporate VPN from his malware riddled home PC. Was he not supposed to install totallylegitzoominstaller.exe from totesthisiszoom.ru?
> "One unfortunate thing about Black Power is that it gives priority to race precisely at a time when the impact of automation and other forces have made the economic question fundamental for blacks and whites alike. In this context a slogan 'Power for Poor People' would be much more appropriate than the slogan 'Black Power'."

Martin Luther King, Where Do We Go from Here, 1967
Showstopper! (2004)
I'm currently a full time employee at a contract firm. Befor e that, I was full time with an international firm and before that I was full time with a local CDN provider. that goes back about 10 years...
If you read my argument I'm saying the optics don't look good because the margins on phones are high AND they are taking platform fees on top of that. As the margins on phones decrease in the future, the optics won't look as bad.
The pros and cons of remote work have posted many times here. Just like most things, it is going to come down to market forces determining whether remote work will stick.

If employers discover that they can pay less (in real estate and salary!) if they offer remote work as an option, while keeping the efficiency of an office worker, then the companies that do this will have a competitive edge. If companies discover that having employees in the office is a competitive advantage, then I don't care how harshly HN lambasts office work, it will make a comeback.

I expect the result will be somewhere in the middle. Certainly different jobs and industries are going to be affected differently. As HN is mostly computer jockeys, I have no doubt that remote work will be more common to the people here.
As an ML engineer I'm a little bit baffled that Tesla has not solved this by now. It's not like they lack data or ML knowledge.

It seems like they should have a million hard test cases that must pass in simulation before releasing a new model. The simulations should be harder and more extreme than anything encountered in real life.

I think the real problem is obvious. They're trying to rush the work because Elon said so.
If he directly shared or transfer the police database information to someone else then it looks very odd that the government went after him for hacking. Sharing of classified information is a more serious crime, and hindering a police investigation is also a crime.
i signed a 39 month lease, at 18k KM allowance per year. in 2019

pre-pandemic we were doing a little less than that.

with WFH, we have only put on 4k in the last 14 months...

kicking myself for not doing a lower KM lease.
Not if the GDPR has anything to say about it

> The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
"The largest modern privacy concern is being dependent on any one private party."

How does that follow at all? It doesn't.

Further, Snowden pointed out government abuse surreptitiously gathering user data. In the wake of that the government has a much, much harder time doing so covertly, so in many cases they engage in the same data broker activities that everyone else does. They don't have tap underseas cables anymore -- they can just buy the data wholesale from a wide variety of sources.
If they have an advertising network set up and realize they can extract more value out of it, will they choose not to just because they don't "need to"?
Hey thanks so much for the input. Yes, you have hit upon many points I am aware of. I knew what I was getting myself into when making yet another website builder.
Thankfully I can run the thing almost for free, which allows me to play the long game, if I want to, anyway.
We differentiate on a few different metrics. It's certainly a much easier to use product than other website builders out there. I think our module-based approach is reasonably unique too. So is the quality of our documentation.

The thing is, and that was one of your central points, website builders are not compared side by side. I am thinking of making some content that does this, which may also help.

I'll give you a shout via email to talk more in depth.
Seconded, I would like to have a look but I won't give out my email without researching who you are more thoroughly. And I can't "Try Now..." if I have to go spend time researching before I try it.

And I don't think using a fake or alternative email is an option.
Three crucial skills that leaders must develop to become executives
No choice in graphics API and no general purpose compute on the GPU. WebGL is a start but it's missing major features.

If you want to build a competitive game engine or do any sort of machine learning on device then it has to be native.
Is the car trying to stop? The visualization here is for autopilot (which ignores traffic lights), so even if the truck driver was trying to do something malicious, the car would ignore it.
All of this paranoia would be warranted if this wasn't something that only applied after your main warranty is up

The main warranty is kept if you can show any maintenance records, even receipts for your own oil change materials is enough.

And once a year makes it obvious they want it in a dealership to make sure they're not bankrolling engine replacements for people who'd otherwise let basic maintenance intervals go indefinitely...
Most static time type systems can enforce that a voting age is an Integer, say, but can't validate that any value is at least 18, for example.
my guess is that with this explosion in photogrammetry we're quickly developing enough data to start training neural networks to create procedural geometry... whether that'll be fast enough to happen at run time or even at realtime render time... who knows yet
Also, anyone that is vaccinated can still 'catch Covid' and potentially pass it on to family members that are not yet able to be vaccinated.
That's so uncharitable. Somebody who makes their living off iOS apps obviously doesn't care about the $100 annual developer fee. This isn't just about the contractual dispute, this is also -- as the post clearly explains -- about respect, fairness, and acknowledgement.
Maybe I'm missing what's ancient about Fedora or RHEL, care to share?
If Apple's AppStore is really so good, it should be able to withstand a little healthy competition from 3rd party stores. Who knows, a little competition might even inspire the AppStore to become even better?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness

It's an old term, and has been used in it's current form since the 1970's. I remember it's usage in media in the 80s, before the commercial internet.
I used to own a 2006 Hyundai and it was very reliable. I only sold it because I sustained a foot injury and could no longer operate a manual transmission, even the extremely forgiving one in that car.

I would prefer to never buy another car (and would absolutely not buy a Samsung car) but Hyundai's absolutely on my 'consider again' list.
The first thing that crossed my mind when I saw the clip of autopilot hallucinating flying traffic lights was that it was clearly DUI and there’s no way I’m getting in the car with that guy.
Imagine it's 2007. You are not a web developer. You are not a programmer, either. But you do something you want to make available online. You built a site that serves your needs, and used MooTools as part of the process. Or you hired someone to do it. It's probably a pretty simple site by the standards of someone from 2021 who routinely dumps ginormous piles of javascript onto people to create apps. But it does what you need.

Whoever built it did a solid job. It has sat there continuing to do what it needs to do for a decade. It may not look like the current trends in web development, but you don't care - you still like the way it looks. It still serves its purpose. You're not a web developer, you have no need to rebuild it to show off how you can use this year's hot framework. You still update it regularly with new content, without ever touching the code. It hasn't broken, it hasn't become a spam link farm. And then along comes a new release of Mozilla and you start getting people bitching about your site being broke. Or, thankfully, because Mozilla decided to not make this name change, nothing happens, and you keep on having your website just work while you get on with doing whatever you built it to help support you doing.

I'm pretty close to this description; I'm an artist, whose self-made personal site did use MooTools for a while, though that went away when I stopped using my own personal mods to an obscure image gallery package with some MooTools for spice in favor of Wordpress around 2011. I have dug into the site's code maybe a half dozen times in the intervening years, mostly to set up new styles for new comics projects, and recently to replace the ten-year-old front page hero image and freshen up a few colors to match it. Sacrificing this "simple" name would have affected a whole lot more people than you think it would.

(More succinctly, consider this line from the "Why don't we just keep the existing name and break the Web?" section (https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate...): As it turns out, “don’t break the Web” is the number one design principle for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and any other standard that’s widely used on the Web. With a link in there to a W3C document on the core ideas for guiding the evolution of HTML that expands on this.)
Apple bolsters AirTags privacy, will offer Android detector app later this year
I'll paraphrase the reply I put under a post that's about to also get buried in a flurry of downvotes:

Seattle area has had access since mid-April, and I drove 90 minutes to get that shot as early as I could. I hit full vaccination status on Monday of this week, so no outdoor lunches for me last week. But math is hard, amirite?
> Given the fuel needed per passenger per mile

What are the expected numbers for the Boom plane? The Concorde was a little over 1/3 as efficient per passenger-mile compared to a contemporary 747. I seem to recall that the planned successor to the Concorde was considerably more fuel efficient.

I imagine it would still be more thirsty than a typical subsonic airliner, but I am curious to know how it actually pencils out.
I don't think that Hunter S. Thompson represents what you want out of a FAANG engineering manager either.
I mean, a year of employer-paid leave is frankly ridiculous. There needs to be federal support for that kind of benefit.

It's not really the parental leave policies (which are often generous). It's the environment around WFH policies and setting up viable career paths for part-time work which is lacking. Ex, if a woman wants to work 20 hours a week instead of being a full-time worker with small children, none of the FAANGs to my knowledge offer a career path that looks like that.
This post should’ve been a tweet instead.
I agree that has been the case but I don't think it is a certainty that it will continue to tbe the case. Certainly many immigrant workers in IT do good work and are well paid. Why could they not do the same thing from their home country?
> you can write your calculus text to not be rigorous rather than trying to make it rigorous with non-standard analysis.

e.g., many engineering calculus courses, and explicitly some of the texts.
> Whenever the discussion of commuting comes up, the discussion revolves around worst case scenarios.

The median and average commutes are not the worst case scenarios.

> Its not worth agonizing over a few bucks an hour

10% of a software engineer's yearly salary is nothing to balk at. A year or two of that is easily the down payment amount for a modest home, and is more than what many people make in a year.

> It would be a non-issue for most people here to just pay for an Uber back and forth to work, and not have to worry about driving at all.

I just checked Uber, and a one way trip to my last employer is $40 without surge pricing, and to another employer, it would be over $60. Assuming there's about 260 work days per year, that's at least $20k - $31k a year on Uber rides alone.

And it's not just about cost. It's also about time. Based on my last commute, I'd spend about two weeks straight just driving to work and back each year.
Just wait for the mass exodus.

Remote work is turning out to be a requirement for hiring people. So once the company starts bleeding (good) people who find remote jobs with other companies, they are going to be difficult/impossible to replace.

At some point, the execs will have to suck it up and offer remote work.
Sounds like... you want some office time and probably some "non-office" work time, and that you'd want that to be at least partially under your control (both now and long term). And you probably recognize the benefits in having people have a (large) degree of autonomy in how they do their work. There are some things which are better done face to face, in person, and some things where... working solo (in surroundings of your choice) can allow one to be more productive.

IMO, there's no one "right" answer on this issue beyond "more autonomy", and I suspect we'll see more contractors/freelancers in Coworking spaces and more WFH arrangements to accommodate that, even if it's not touted publicly much.

It's somehow fine to have a group of people you've never met work in India, and they can get their work done OK, but you can't do the same thing from 15 miles away from your main office? Just insane.
Would love your thoughts on my attempt at this space, jel.app, if you have time!

It’s 3D but is designed to run well on low end laptops. It incorporates UX patterns from Slack and Notion and has full world building (voxels) and friendly avatars with lip syncing based on voice. No webcam used, on purpose. It does presume some basic gaming literacy.

(I started the Hubs team at Mozilla and Jel is a derivative work from Hubs)
Thanks for the input! We do actually offer that as well. And at pretty darn competitive rates (because we can build sites very quickly), but have not had any interest from that angle yet either.
Yes, we've contacted businesses which have terrible / no websites. But it's surprisingly tricky getting people out of the mindset of "I hate my current website setup, so all website setups must be terrible"
As for your restaurant example, I would gladly pay for it. I didn't pay enough attention to many things in my life until I got to know them better.
Contenteditable on Android Is the Absolute Worst
BitTorrent can prioritize which parts to download in which order to keep the swarm healthy (I don't know how smart it is, but in my experience it seems to go for parts with less availability first) and besides people trying to play videos/audio before it fully downloads (like popcorntime or picking "download in sequential order") this works pretty well.

With a live stream you have a few problems:

* The data you just downloaded is only relevant to the swarm for a short time

* The whole swarm wants the same data at each point in time, and the only part of the swarm that has that data is the originator of the stream

* I'm by no means an expert in this, but isn't it harder to do DHT type discovery in real time when the hashes of the content are new or are always changing? New chunks would need to broadcasted over time, similar to how livestreaming MPEG-dash or HLS works and those torrents would only be relevant to the swarm for a few minutes max.

Something that could (In my amateur/uneducated opinion/guess) work better is staggering the clients based on some sort of grouped delay. If you had X viewers and spread them out over 10 groups each staggered over 10s delay with each video chunk being 10s then the swarming could probably work better and the group with the longest delay would have the best smoothness (because 9/10s of the swarm has the chunk, and 1/10 of the swarm dedicated to only uploading that chunk) but the longest latency.

It would probably work better if the groups lower down the stack are larger too, so that each layer seeds more clients in the layer below it than it was seeded from above it.

Problems that I can see is if there is a lot of churn in the higher groups there would be latency from reconnections/seeding to those and the latency of broadcasting new chunks but I have no idea how solvable or severe those would be.

Would be interesting to build a webtorrent webapp to do something like this to see if it's feasible. If my assumptions are somewhat right it might make webrtc better for broadcast/conference use-cases without using SFUs.
On point 4, I think this is where co-working spaces have a moment to shine. A fully remote environment that you still get to leave the house to go to and no impact on how the rest of the team live their lives.
What if I, as your employer, say "you're not authorized to look at records that haven't been assigned to you" and you then look at a record that hasn't been assigned to you - is that unauthorized access?

edit: I certainly don't agree that the distinction between access to a file in a file cabinet and a record on a computer should be significant. I think it's a dumb law. But the unauthorized access test is straightforward. If I work at a company that disallows internet browsing other than for work purposes and I visit my facebook page, I think that's a clear case of hacking under the "authorized access" test, and my only real defense would be that I needed to check facebook for work.
> This is what Flash was already capable of doing in 2011 with CrossBridge, their C++ compiler stack.

Then why was the Android Flash experience so bad that it got quickly killed off?

There was a time where Adobe could have shown a performant, stable version of mobile Flash, and Apple would have had to find a way to accept it. But it never got there, on any mobile OS.
The point of the bit about Western Europe was to point out that hate crime laws in practice achieve the exact opposite of their intended goal: They make societies more bigoted. The US, which doesn't legislate against hate speech, has less hate crime than countries that do.

The point is to figure out what works, not "keep trying what we expected to work, but it didn't, but we've already sunken the cost of believing it, so we might as well keep trying."