skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stablecoins only maintain their peg when they aren't being exchanged for actual dollars. When everyone runs for the exits during the inevitable crash, there will only be so many dollars to go round.

No real dollars are being created anywhere in any of this - it is all simply a astonishingly complicated mechanism for transferring wealth from the marks to the scammers (and to pay some enormous electricity bills).

For example, printing USDT out of thin air and buying BTC with it supports the BTC price, this BTC is then brought onto the Tether books to back the newly printed USDT. The scammers then sell their own BTC into this price rise, receiving USDT which they (as privileged USDT account holders) can turn back into real dollars. The real dollars of course are coming from the marks who see BTC rising and dump their life savings into it, needing to buy USDT in order to buy the BTC.

It is almost beautiful in a way - and absolutely should be shutdown real soon now.
cryptocurrency is not intended for making purchases?
Before the butterfly keyboard disaster at least, Apple laptops were known for their excellent industrial design and usability. I'm not a huge fan of the screen notch (though arguably you're not losing anything from it) but the current MacBook Pro has an amazingly bright screen and terrific speakers (and they also fixed the keyboard.) An underrated feature of Mac laptops is that their integrated mics aren't terrible.
Trust but verify comes to mind.

I expect bias in all sources (including myself), but the key thing is to be prepared to be wrong in one's assumptions, as well as being able to update one's understanding of things as new data arrives.
They are affiliate link farms.
This is the meaning that was intended, thanks.
Google Fi releases parent number automatically when porting child to family plan
While we're here I might as well add a link to Scott Atran's RSA lecture about his book Talking To The Enemy, where he discusses his findings about radicalization and deradicalization, a topic very much related to the discussion here. It's one of those youtube videos I wish more people would watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ijmBd69878
I converted https://github.com/FirefoxGraphics/qcms and then refactored it to mostly safe Rust. I ran into a number of issues https://github.com/immunant/c2rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue+autho... but it generally worked ok.

I found refactoring the resulting Rust code somewhat error prone and didn't have great success with the automated tools. I'd recommend having a good test suite and suggest adjusting the C before the conversion to avoid using C features that don't translate well like the C preprocessor.
Can't you just open Google Maps in the browser? Just tried and it works fine. (Firefox did try to auto-open the app, but going back and trying again caused it to stay in the browser.)
Should you do a bootcamp in 2022?
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Round 3 Finalists
For a laptop it takes power to keep memory powered up in sleep mode. For a 32GB laptop it is bad enough.
I’ve loved your posts for years on piercing through the smoke and mirrors on Magic Leap. Thanks for another great breakdown!
What used to be "by mid to late 2021" is now "late 2022" for my location.

I'm not shelling out another $400 for nothing. In fact, this reminded me to cancel my pre-order. Thank you! $99 back in my pocket.

Deliver scalable GA and I'll subscribe.
Any reason to use fetch if I’ve been happy with axios for years?
That is not corporate law 101. I see how a layman could construe it that way, particularly when motivated to argue.

However, it is perfectly fine for corporations to allow you to disable notifications without charging you for it.

The general thrust of that value does not mean the corporation has to find a way to profit from every interaction
I don't seem to recall Mogadishu being any kind of "victory". It's almost like the casualty data didn't tell the whole story.
My knowledge only comes from Karpathy's talks about this (which are great, worth watching if you haven't seen them).

I found his and Tesla's arguments convincing for the general case. That doesn't mean that the narrow cases aren't super cool or valuable (I signed up for this Cruise thing in SF).

I just think that if the software is unable to make decisions based on visual data alone without up to date high resolution maps it'll never achieve true FSD in the general case (not geo locked). You'll end up trapped in a local max otherwise because there are just too many conditions in the real world that vary (and the world is too large to economically map fast enough for that approach). You have to solve the vision problem.

I don't know enough to comment on the approach differences beyond that, but my understanding was that Tesla did not rely on the same stuff that Waymo and Cruise require (largely Lidar and these high resolution maps).
... and bathroom schedule.
ok. who wants to work on competitive ranked multiplayer games!?
probably in the browser. with a focus on flawless netcode. i already have flawless p2p rollback netcode working!
People still haven't gotten used to magic that works. We're still in the snake oil phase of this technology. "The wonder isn't how well the bear is dancing -- it's that the bear can dance at all."
The most common cause of motorcycle injuries that make it to the hospital (and statistics) is someone turning left in front of them in an intersection where they have right of way.

Not quite this, but you get the idea:

https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/motorcyclist-rider-survive-hor...

I couldn't find the clip of a motorcyclist patiently stopped at an intersection get taken out by an out of control left turner. Lots of fully legally stopped vehicles get hit.
EIDs (Encoded IDs)
and this is different from other industries and traditional finance?
Not going to comment on the overall lidar vs. pure camera approaches, but I don't think human eyeballs are more capable than a full 360-view array of cameras looking at everything (including blindspots) at once. For once, human eyeballs cannot see in full 360 or view the environment from outside of the car cabin (aka unrestricted by pillars and other things that obstruct the field of view from inside the cabin).
I'm still dubious behind the economics of even high-value NFTs finding their way into _some_ games.

Assume I own a game studio and someone (say, Louis Vuitton) wants to convince me to add a purse NFT to one of my games.

Unless they pay me to do so, I'm not going to dedicate the several-person workload (between artists, shader techs, QA, and production) necessary to implement that asset into the game for a single user unless they pay me to do so. This seems like a reasonable requirement on my end (and although there may be a company or two that might warrant the "free" work, the vast majority will not).

Therefore, Louis Vuitton now has a "cost" for their otherwise-free value-add NFT -- which can now be multiplied by the number of game studios they need to convince to add their NFT(s) to their game(s). Obviously, this can't scale to "any" game in the current industry (e.g. literally thousands of incompatible engines in use during any year's new releases) and also increases in cost over time as more games come out and/or older games would get updated.

This is also also for Louis Vutton -- I'm even less incentivized to spend more and more manhours implementing NFTs for smaller and smaller brands, and every brand that requests their NFT(s) added to my game(s) is competing in a zero-sum game against eng resources being put towards, well, real work that generates ongoing revenue for the company.

In the current industry, there would be literally hundreds of thousands of manhours required (if not more) to add a single NFT to "any" game, and still a significant amount of that to add a single NFT to "some" games. The primary beneficiary of adding NFTs to a game is Louis Vutton (with a value-add on purse sales) -- not the studio that actually has to do the hard work to implement it. So... why would they?
They earned their monopoly position.
YMMV. I've doubled my salary in the last couple of years by following recruiter cold-calls, including once for a recruiter not affiliated to the company, and it obviously wasn't a pure waste of time for me.
That's an Ayn Rand novel, not real life; if you somehow had all the money in the country and fired everyone (i.e. stopped trading with them) then by definition you're not rich because the ability to trade with people is what being rich is.

Instead you've created two economies, one with just you and one with all of them, and the other one's better because it has more people.
I think the overall sentiment is more the "let's avoid premature optimisation" rather than "let's spend the most money".

If you have pre-sold a 'self driving' capability which you have guaranteed to be backwards compatible on cars you have already sold, then you are effectively cutting out Lidar as an option unless you are going to go back to all those cars and screw it on.

And considering that self-driving isn't solved yet, it seems like a bold move to define both your processing power and your sensing hardware in a way which makes it very difficult to (commercially) change.
This is both really impressive and really disappointing. The technology has been refined to an incredible degree but it sounds it's still nowhere near the fidelity that would make it useful. It may the biggest VC money pit in SV.
Cars are made to be completely quiet inside them, which means there is limited way to communicate with those inside and also that horns are obnoxiously loud.
The sleep number smart beds detect heart and breath rate through the bed's pressure sensor.
I kind of dig this idea.
Makes me wonder, was the DoJ right that it was bad for Microsoft to bundle Internet Explorer for free? I know it sounds insane now to have an OS without a browser, but was this the “original sin” that permanently warped expectations for what amounts people should be willing to pay for software?

Even today, outside of gaming/entertainment, the consumer software market is basically a wasteland. But if you had to pay for a browser today (pick your favorite), how much would that be worth to you? (Netscape cost $50! Or $90 in today’s equivalent.) I can’t think of any other market where we expect so much in exchange for paying so little.

Most likely today’s end state was inevitable; if MSFT hadn’t bundled IE, someone else would have made a similar play and capitalized on the network effects.
Amazon has also become a dumpster for poor quality products and high prices now a days here in Canada. Few months ago, I bought some bedsheets which claimed to be Egyptian cotton but upon delivery, that wasn't true. I have had this experience with other products too now on Amazon.

Their customer service and returns are still very good but the product quality and online marketing is filled with lies.
>Also, for the love of god, let's stop prioritizing saving "jobs" that may or may not be necessary for civilization and start prioritizing real people's well being.

The people who've finally managed to increase their wages and take-home pay thanks to the full-employment conditions that started in ~2019 or so might have something to say about that.
We have a cat that was briefly feral, and she will gorge anything she can get to. While we were visiting my family for the holidays, our cat sitter friend called us and let us know that she had left the bin full of dry food on the counter, and the cat climbed up, pushed it off the counter bursting it open, and gorged on a ton of food, so much that she thought the cat was having trouble breathing. She was OK though, I think at some point she vomited up some of it.

We definitely can't leave any extra food out with this one around, likewise she will try to get to people food if human backs are turned. She's calmed down a bit though, it no longer seems that she's constantly plotting how to get extra food.
On iOS, such marketing notifications is supposed to be against the developer guidelines but I regularly see Uber, Ubereats and other high profile companies break those rules without any repercussions.
And most of those stories were business owners who used the money on themselves, let the business fold, and walked away. Not what's being argued here.
Over two years ago I emailed them about "sailing" starlink and actually got a decent reply back about it but have never seen anything else about it.
You should visit Tokyo when they let you back in. If your city lets you get a car up to every door, it's not dense enough.
You missed the point of my analogy. You CAN point your knife at anyone and even attack with it. You will be punished for it. That's the point.

The knife is not going to stop you from pointing it at someone. If we want car to force people to not overspeed, perhaps we should replace metal knives to plastic ones to prevent people attacking other people with it.

My entire point is that the responsibility to drive safely should be on the driver. The car should not force anything.

Also, you should read the rest of my answer to see why I think it's a really bad idea.
In Florida, not SV
The reality is that this kind of stupidity is built into accounting systems. It's not even the people with the spreadsheets. They're doing what they've been taught to do. It just happens to be completely wrong-headed - if you're interested in tangible long term growth and not quarterly plunder which moves money around without seeding genuine real value.

Which is why companies can "grow" in accounting terms while actually being hollowed out as going concerns with a future.

Likewise with the planetary economy, which appears to be growing financially while in ecological terms it's almost literally eating its own seed corn.

A better approach needs a revolution in accounting. Current accounting practices are built on so many false assumptions they cannot possibly produce lasting long term opportunity, except for a tiny minority of exceptionally and unhealthily privileged people.
The complicated futility of WordPress
> Almost seems designed to get people's hopes up only to squash them again. What people have been asking for is an RV/camping/sailing Starlink they can use moving, and that product has yet to materialize.

What an odd comment. Seems like a narrow way to blame the marketing. And, a narrow way to cherry pick what doesn't fit your description of what Starlink should be and shouldn't be. In truth, Starlink is an absolute game changer for the entire world. Mobile or not. I think you need to think about rural people that have to deal with shitty DSL. 20-40 ms (You can go on YT and find people benchmarking it - average I've seen is around 40-50 ms [1]) ping is amazing and 350 mbps is exceptional compared to the status quo.

Also others complaining about delays is strange. It's a fricking satellite constellation in the sky. Give them some time and slack.

[1] https://youtu.be/nB5d8zqnvug?t=370
The majority of your cats’ diet should be wet food, or else you risk kidney problems.
This makes me think of two things, but I can't quite put my finger on how they intersect, although they do feel extremely related somehow.

1) Hanlon's razor (do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity)

2) It was discovered (unfortunately missing citation atm :< ) that people who fall for spam scams that exploit gullibility do so "completely" - most see the scam for what it is, but the ones that do fall for it will kind of double down, defend their actions and see through their part of the "deal" because in their mind it Will Work. So it's almost like there's a super-thin line somewhere where everyone rubberbands to one or the other extreme ("are you serious, that's a scam" vs "are you serious, of course this is real") depending on whether That Last Single Piece Of Straw is on the haystack or not. (I just realize you could substitute "a scam" for "fake" and potentially explain a substantial percentage of conspiracy theorists... hmm)
Any ideas why this is $500/mo?
This throttling burned me today. Capital One’s mandatory SMS 2FA didn’t deliver codes for 2-3 hours after they were requested. Needless to say I grabbed my AMEX instead.

Repeat: SMS is a trash 2FA system
Granted bean counters fail as leaders (typically) but I would strongly argue it's the job of leaders to explain up front costs and value to been counters.

E.g. yes not providing free/cheap coffee/drinks in the office saves money, but it has a damaging cost in terms of employee attitudes and getting people to talk openly in a friendly environment about what they're working on and being able to ask for help.

These things can't be directly easily measured but can be quantified in a way that bean counters see the true value of the little extras...
Sam here, still no news on the original order.
Real monopolies like Comcast and Waste Management lock up markets so consumers don't have a choice.

Google has to re-earn their position every day since competitors are only a click away.
To put that into perspective - if the rate continues for 4 years (doesn't seem that unbelievable) - revenue would be ~$24Bn - which is close to FB currently...
> inefficiencies in the investment banking world where marketing materials and other pitch deck materials is too manual

Really? I suspect it's actually pretty efficient getting analysts to do this and paying them for 40 out of the 110 hours they work each week.
I've been doing this and fully agree. On my side my reply is not as nice as this, I'll steal this and improve it. I also agree with the 50% rule. Currently I'm interviewing with 3 nice opportunities in parallel, but now getting to the 6h-8h interview step is hard, I have to basically take 3 days off and this costs a lot of money and energy. I wasn't much smart at first, so this is why I got into this situation, but each time I do it I improve on the next. I may be getting close to 20 first step interviews, 10 second step interviews and finally now 3 last step. And this in about 2 months, excluding all others that failed my requeriments since first contact.
If you give a lot of money to the rich, I would expect to see inflation in the stock market. Coincidentally, the stock market has far, far outpaced inflation for probably at least 20 years now.
So, What Is Roblox?
A misquote or an edit in the original comment occurred, as it now appears as: "Finding the author of most common malware isn't hard."

This assertion is different (i.e. Finding the author of [the majority of] malware isn't hard..., versus Finding the author of [the most popularly-used] malware isn't hard...).
I'm assuming by that they mean the value of the land.

And if it's done similar to an appraisal they see what market price is for a sale (which combines the value of the building + land). Then they can estimate how much it would cost to rebuild that building if it were completely destroyed. That's the value of the improvements. The remainder is the amount someone implicitly paid for the land.
It's growing 45% per year. In 3 years - the profits of Cloud alone could be bigger than all but a few companies in the world.
Thank you! It's been slow progress because I'm a freelancer in a quiet period, so that's taken precedent. But will start posting progress soon.
It costs a lot of money to send satellites to space
Played with it for a minute or two. No network permissions. No sudo. There is a su, but it hangs after entering a password.

So probably good for unprivileged non-networking applications.
If "teng" is "thing" then "sleng" has to be "sling"? Sling thing? This [1] gives the definition as marijuana cigarette, so semantically it checks out.

[1] http://wiwords.com/word/sleng-teng
They may not have one, or have one that’s so underwater with larger issues that the rest of the org doesn’t know how to route things to them.

Hiring for technical security is hard—you need engineering expertise to find good people, and then you need someone with an infosec background to vet them.

Finding a combination of both is surprisingly rare and you usually find infosec folks who can define but not implement a security program, or an engineer that can implement a security program with no idea how to run or grow it.

I need more peers in this space. If you’re reading this and are a software engineer looking for a transition please do reach out—email is in my profile. There’s a huge demand for security engineers and not nearly enough engineers interested in doing it.
I had Teeworlds [1] in mind but their game is tg Space Station 13 [2].

[1]https://github.com/teeworlds/teeworlds
[2]https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation
None.

Since I am determined to crush this stupid meme, here is a longish thread discussing the relevant case law: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23393674

The gist of it is that management must act in the best interests of the company generally, but has exceptional latitude in deciding what those are: you don’t need to squeeze every penny from customers if there’s some nebulous but plausible reason why doing so may eventually be good for the company and its shareholders.
Dodge is a tough case because Ford explicitly disavowed any business reason for his actions, but instead framed it as his own philanthropic interest and not, say, a reinvestment in the company or an attempt to grow the customer base.
The actual competition: https://www.hughesnet.com/get-started
DAI is small and half of DAI collateral is USDC in any case.
My guess is that recruiters know not to spend their time trying to recruit someone who just started a new job. I suspect you'll start seeing those emails again in ~3-6 months (around the time when people who start a new job are deciding if they really want to stay with that company), and again in ~2 years (around the time when people decide to look for new opportunities). I'm not a recruiter, so take that with a grain of salt.
Fine in the UK. I assume yellow cabs in SF are still just as scammy as ever, since that's basically the reason Uber was started.
Pollen is a decentralized mobile network built on blockchain
The article attacks measurement based approaches, in general, which I don't think is supported by the anecdote of McNamara's failings in Vietnam.

Kill count was simply a terrible metric of victory.

Vietnam was a civil war, which requires a political victory. This means allegiance of local leaders and populist support – both of which are measurable values. A kill count is often inversely correlated with political support.

McNamara's failing here is more like the XY problem [1]. He incorrectly assumed that a brutal display of military power was the way to political victory and so he measured the wrong value.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
How does a self driving car make that determination? Query the school district website for the school, identifying their bell schedule and tacking on a buffer ahead and behind? Assume a school schedule that’s M-F? What if it’s a religious school that operates Sun-Thursday? Now the car has to determine which religious sects obey which calendar? Is it different in each country?

Just another example of a massive hurdle self driving cars have……

This isn't just a problem for self-driving cars, school zone laws are ambiguous, even for human drivers... and the rules can differ by locality. This is a problem that states and localities need to figure out.

https://mynorthwest.com/1543253/washington-driving-school-zo...
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/education/more-school-zo...
https://patch.com/missouri/fenton-highridge/school-zone-spee...