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Seriously. Remember when the RIAA sued a 12-year-old girl for using Kazaa?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/09/music.swap.settl...

QUOTE:

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A day after being sued for illegally sharing music files through the Internet, a 12-year-old girl has settled with the Recording Industry Association of America.

She's the first of 261 defendants to settle their lawsuits with the association.

Brianna LaHara agreed Tuesday to pay $2,000, or about $2 per song she allegedly shared.

"I am sorry for what I have done," LaHara said. "I love music and don't want to hurt the artists I love."

The suit claimed LaHara had been offering more than 1,000 songs on the Internet, using the Kazaa file-sharing service.

The RIAA said it was pleased with the settlement. There are 260 cases still pending.

"We're trying to send a strong message that you are not anonymous when you participate in peer-to-peer file-sharing and that the illegal distribution of copyrighted music has consequences," said Mitch Bainwol, RIAA chairman and chief executive officer. "And as this case illustrates, parents need to be aware of what their children are doing on their computers."
Ordering::Relaxed guarantees atomicity (but not coherence). On 32-bit or 64-bit platforms, a (aligned) 32-bit read or write will always be atomic anyway.
The funniest piece is a16z bragging about how many startups they're now funding that are run by ex-Ubers.

Yes, let's assume people who did not work in a sane environment, who have never seen how to make a profit, yes, let's give them funding. Same BS as all the ex-Googlers who immediately ran most of their start ups into the ground (after 6-7 awesome funding rounds of course).

Let's be clear, the ex-Uber founders will make mint, given what happens in those endless funding round pyramids. But for anyone considering joining those rackets? Goooooood luck.
> from SoftBank, no less

Is this supposed to be evidence of a sound company or a strike against them?

After Wework I really can't tell.
Reakit: A low-level toolkit for building React components
This is not made for ordinary people I would say
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It would fit one definition of "are very motivated".
It's fairly common. Typically you need to have your dog certified as a therapy dog by somebody like Therapy Dogs International. It's also common for larger hospitals to have a dog or two on staff with a full time handler.
In some way it is genius,
US ban 28 Chinese companies because of surveillance, now everybody has to support surveillance by law, apply the rule now ..
In the bay area, Non-engineers, like product managers, MBA types and data analysts, etc are having a really hard time finding work (sometimes taking 1 to 3 years to find their next job!) based on what I've seen in my circle of friends. (unless your in a specialization that's in high demand like User acquisition).

It's the senior engineers (5+ years) which have multiple emails from recruiters and are in really high demand, not so much junior engineers.

Look at the last StackOverflow dev survey: the number of devs with 0-5 years of experience is almost double the number of devs with 6-10 years. That means the number of senior engineers will be increasing very rapidly over the next 5 years. You can bet it's going to be much harder to get a job in about 5 years or so, layoff or not.
Fuchsia[0] (an OS by Google) on a Chromebook is the closest to being a worthy competitor.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia
That's one of the policies that destroyed Microsoft's reputation for years.

You could argue that they did it in the stupidest way though.
> I worked at Uber from 2014-2018.

Seems like you probably got a lot of shares and were lucky. Now that they IPO'd, do you consider that you came out ahead financially (compared to working elsewhere)?
> They have no particular desire to "innovate"; their business model instead relies on identifying innovators, buying them, and then selling the product of their research at high prices for as long as possible.

Isn't that to a great degree how Silicon Valley works too? Google didn't develop Android, for example. It acquired Android, Inc. and then plugged it into the Google ecosystem. Such acquisitions are a fundamental pillar of R&D. They enable startups to do what they do best, and allow big companies to take over when it is time to try and bring a product to market.
And the team publicly defended their consideration in a company all-hands, IIRC.
If the company pays dividends, you may purchase a stock with zero expectation that the price of that stock will rise. There may be risk, but some of that risk is that your asset will stop delivering value to you, not soley that other speculators will not be willing to buy that asset from you at a higher price.
my guess is he is using the acronym AI to mean statistics/modeling/inference vis a vis actual intelligence (understanding/conceptualization/novelty)
The Linux of 2019 is still pretty much the Linux of 2000. Apple caught up.
Is there a comprehensive resource for LXC based dev environment? There was LXDock which went unmaintained and had several bugs leaving me with Vagrant.
I mean, it shows some poor Iraqi guy with a bloody child when I google the FB health center.

https://i.imgur.com/URhantv.png
That mirrors my experience with hobbyists. My wife doesn't like using a Wacom and we could never warrant a Cintiq. So she uses Procreate on a tablet. It's also kind of hard to get her to try new stuff because the little time she has to draw she wants to spend time drawing.

For people who do it for their job, they're willing to invest in the hardware and software. I can't speak directly to painting software, but in my industry people really cling to the software they know or the rest of the industry uses. It's an uphill battle even if the software is better or cheaper to get adoption.
This happens all the time. You don't notice it because you're not directly billed for it, but basically the central theme of the startup playbook is to subsidize growth, acquire a userbase, and then (and only then) monetize the hell out if it.
The fine print to such management speak is, "...this is the final wave until our bottom line improves". If Uber's financial position doesn't improve, we are guaranteed to see more "waves". Given Uber's current trajectory, I would assume they would end up cutting 30-40% staff over the next couple years. 19K employees for their business is overkill.
What exactly are you arguing? That stock based compensation or usage in an acquisition means the stock market isn’t about trading?

Sure, the more valuable your company is (let’s not say stock price because really it’s your market cap and some other factors) the more it can leverage that to make deals. Not sure how that’s related to the function of the stock market itself
How to determine the age of your tires
Do this dozen people have:

- a different language?
- a well defined culture?
- a political composition which differs greatly to that the rest of the country? (check the representation of the PP and PSOE)

If you are interested in discussing the reality of the Spanish situation, it is pretty clear where this right of seccesion might want to get exercised (Basque Country, Galicia...) and for sound, historical reasons.
This is a cat-and-mouse game. The assumption that people are time-limited and that UI design could be designed to ensure fairness on that assumption is along the same lines of security through obscurity.
Google tried to do worse with dragonfly and employees stood up. That made me feel nice
It does not. The expected number of deaths for 1.6bn miles in expensive cars in perfect driving conditions is probably 0, Tesla had 3.
This reminds me of genrules in Bazel. Bazel is a sandboxed build system where code-generating tools need to declare all inputs and outputs. Before running a code generating tool, Bazel needs to compile it for the platform that's running Bazel. The code-generation binary can be cached, though.

Procmacros in Rust also imply a build system that runs arbitrary code, so it's interesting to see them exploring a similar direction.
Purdue's new delivery mechanisms were actually a huge benefit to the right patients. The problem is they abused it and actively sold the drug to the wrong patients repeatedly and worked hard to push back oversight.
The thesis of Practical Parallel Rendering was that any useful task distribution strategy requires a work stealing mechanism because you are leaving serious amounts of responsiveness on the table if you don't.

With an infinite queue, the same number of tasks per second happen either way, but the delay until the last task you care about finishes can be pretty substantial.
Has nothing to do with sanitization, frankly.

It has everything to do with exploding rents, which themselves are due to the consolidation of commercial (and residental) ownership, changes in yield expectations from real estate, changes in global capital availability, and the benefits that accrue to owners at scale when property lies vacant.

And the complete lack of energy or imagination from De Blasio.

I have personally seen commercial rents rise by 10x in some extreme cases, from contract to contract, with 2x-4x being more common. When demand isn't there at those prices capital rich owners often can wait and take paper "losses" while the neighborhood takes real losses.
Epic run an event in fortnite called the The End. Then turned off all servers
What Drives the Poor (2011)
That's because a method of solving useful work has not been discovered yet. Are you also incredulous that we don't have flying cars yet and how come Ford hasn't fixed that problem? If you're so concerned, perhaps you should start working on the problem and become the inventor of the next big p2p currency?
>This encodes a particular definition of fairness: that those who register early, or are very motivated, or simply those with a lot of free time to refresh the site, will get permits.

Why is this definition changing with knowledge something that should be considered wrong? The ability to do this work isn't gated to certain people except by knowledge, and the knowledge itself isn't gated. For the longest time this has been considered a fair way of doing things to get an item in limited supply.
By all means, they should be free to spend their money on whatever speculative research they want if they do it safely (it's easy to test cars on closed circuits.)
If you've ever owned an inflatable kayak - or even an inflatable mattress - you'll already know that:

Inflation takes a long time.
Deflation takes a long time.
Folding it back up neatly is impossible.
Leaks appear out of nowhere and are tough to patch reliably.
It's really heavy and floppy to carry around.
That's also one of the hats I wear at work.

48 port 10GBE switches that support 1, and have 40GBE uplinks are pretty inexpensive. The real problem is, 10 isn't replacing 1, the nbase-T/802.3bz 2.5/5 NICs are (which, they themselves, are just 802.3an 10GBE ran at half or quarter clock)... the places where 10 replaced 1 is where that happened years and years ago, and 40 is now replacing 10. A lot of the newer 48 port 10GBE switches have 802.3bz support, and a lot of newer platforms are coming out with 802.3bz by default in 2020 or 2021.

You're right with the rest, though, the 10gbit serdes family (4x10=40, 10x10=100) is being replaced with 25gbit serdes to build 25, 50, 100, and 400; and even more ridiculous is 100gbit serdes is coming out soon, so theres going to be 8x100=800 as a future 802.3 spec.
Previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819355
Without any equity and preferred shares? no.
Bell Labs was funded by a monopoly.

I guess another interesting question is "Does the fact that companies are more shareholder-friendly now increase or decrease innovation?" (that is to say friendly, in the sense of returning a larger portion of earning to shareholders via stock buyback or dividends)

I'd argue it seems to have decreased it, but I'm hard pressed to come up with a reason why.

The closest I could offer would be that retained earnings fund capital investments and corporate-managed R&D. Whereas distributed earning fund... investors.

Which is the point, but this far investors don't seem very interested in funding long-term research.
For a small but excellently usable folding bike check out a Brompton https://www.brompton.com/
Just saw your other comment. Not sure exactly when you left in 2018, but around that time, there was an internal summit involving various platform/infra orgs that decided to invest in Bazel as a company-wide standard. Java is still on Buck due to some technical reasons, but several orgs are either moving towards or already fully on Bazel.
I think your point is well taken but Google does a metric crapload of innovation on the Android platform.
Watch out for that assumption.

I believe at the end of 2015, a few months before the Brexit referendum, about 70% of people were indicating they'd vote remain in polls. That's the only reason Cameron and the rest of the Remain-supporting political class allowed a referendum at all: they were sure they were going to win.

Turns out that intense discussion, debate and political campaigning can change voter's minds. That's the point of it in fact. Who knew?
Can you afford a walker? Of course spending more time with the dog would be good but just a suggestion. I have a friends who use a walker. They actually do spend time with their dogs quite often but they didn't want the dog to be totally alone while they are at work.
Would you describe a neural network as “pre-programmed”? What if it’s updated by every vehicle constantly comparing its own predictions with reality?

Don’t get me wrong, I am aware that current generation AI is fundamentally worse than a human brain, because if it was already as good as a human then the fact Tesla’s AI has done more miles than the average person has had heartbeats would make it essentially perfect. It isn’t perfect, so I know the AI is flawed.

But my question is, does it seem to you that this approach cannot ever become the equal of the best human (if that best human had 360 degree vision, sonar, and radar, and their nerve impulse conduction speed was way faster), and if not, why not?
Not in 2015/2016 when so many choices were already available, and certainly not in an org where MySQL would just be more than enough to meet Uber's need. Besides, Uber built their version on top of MySQL following pretty much FriendFeed's design: https://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql. A strange choice by itself given that better solutions had popped up left and right during the 6 years since the blog was published.

Uber switch to Schemaless from a Postgres cluster, claiming that Postgres "does not scale for Uber". I see irony in that piece of Uber history. Particularly, Uber always claimed that some OS solution "had serious reliability issues". Cassandra in 2014 worked for companies that had orders of magnitude of traffic, yet Uber found it unusable. Similarly, Uber switched from MySQL to Postgres and then from Postgres to MySQL. Each time Uber published an article to claim engineering victory. The truth is that any of the three systems would be perfectly fine for Uber. Oh, didn't someone also claim that Elaticsearch crashed under Uber's load" and JVM-based systems were not usable for Uber's scale? " before Uber ended up adopting Elasticsearch?

What really happened was that some teams in Uber simply didn't want to dive deep and produce objective tech assessment.
A dividend just reduces the value of the company by x cents per share and pays you x cents per share in cash. It's not "free income" as most people seem to think. It makes more sense to think of it like a buyback.
What Linux has gotten right (on my hardware), is wake from suspend. That laptop never has problems with that. What's frustrating, is my work MBP laptop, can't seem to reliably wake from sleep (inc using my external monitor).
Relaxed ordering impacts the compiler. There are a number of optimizations it cannot make. I am not sure exactly what those are, but it is measurable.
The fact that you think greed is the reason bitcoin hasn't designed a useful work load means you don't understand the system at all. What useful workload should bitcoin calculate, and how would it work? I'll wait for your PhD thesis on the matter.
Just curious, do you have a good idea of how many of these are still being actively developed? I remember seeing stuff like Ringpop and Hyperbahn get moved to the uber-archive github account.

I'm especially curious about Schemaless, since it seemed like at one point every company tried to build a NoSQL KV store on top of sharded MySQL, realized how janky it is, and are currently decommissioning it.
So, have the data available. But I see no reason why they should have to go out of their way to change their site to make it easy for someone to get it.
How much money does Uber Eats make? For that matter do any of these delivery companies make money? Its pretty hard to see how. Someone has to take a hit, enter the restaurant, delivery company or the user. One cannot expect the user to fork a lot of money, and the delivery company probably wants to make money at some point, so it will mean the restaurants have to be willing to eat these costs over the longterm. Is this sustainable? I cannot imagine the delivery/routing algorithm to find optimum routes every time to merge or make the delivery efficient.
>The letter directly threatens malicious investigation

Interesting word choice there. I saw nothing malicious in the statement that moving forward would result in elevated regulatory pressure. That is a regulator's job. If Libra took off, but could not be monitored through the existing regulatory infrastructure, then those organizations must do more to make up the lost ground to meet their mandate.

So malice doesn't really come into it.
Laziness will prevail. No one will want to deflate their method of transportation.
Link to the original article (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-big-five-largest-acquis...) which has more data. The current link serves no purpose.
Just a note: Uber's valuation was higher in 2015 than it is right now...
I enjoyed the article and would recommend it.

Aside: At the end of the article they have a "Bonus: Speeding things up" section where they automate adding 300~ coupons via 300 HTTP connections in 5 seconds (instead of 60~ seconds).

In my opinion if you're going to automate stuff like this, you should do so with the goal of minimizing disruption (and frankly, detection). They run the script automatically at midnight in the background via cron, so why was going slower problematic? 300 requests in a span of 5 seconds seems much more likely to trigger an IDS[0], get flagged as unusual in the logs, or similar than 300 over 60 seconds. Particularly at midnight.

I'd be trying to look at human as possible and not set off automated security systems. Heck you could add a randomized delay (e.g. 1~2 seconds) between requests and it would still be completed inside of 10 minutes. Plus then nobody can reasonably accuse you of trying to "DoS" them/violate the CFAA.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_detection_system
Exactly, the high dimensionality is very difficult to grasp for regular people. The nonlinearity of AI models makes the situation even worse.
Many are suggestion Google takeout but I would prefer something I can run automated on a server that will make a continues backup.

Using takeout manually every so often is a pain.
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The list of things we've gotten in the last 20 years of shareholder-friendly innovation seems like a strong rebuttal to that argument. 20 years ago it was amazing to think that I could get on the Internet from any room in my own house without plugging an ethernet cable in; today, I can run a 10 person videoconference on my phone, which also holds every song I could possibly care to listen to or have ever really cared to listen to, along with every book, from the bus stop.
I think food delivery will come to be won by pseudo food trucks. Vehicles with minimal cooking capabilities, perhaps just warming, that go around delivering standard uncustomized meals.

The economics of one driver picking up one order and delivering it just don’t make sense to me.
Since you cite bench as an inspiration, have you ever thought about including the nice graphical HTML page with graphs that bench outputs? In a similar vein what are your thoughts on directly depending on and using criterion (the Rust port)?
Ordinary people would absolutely use an app that lives in the menu bar/system tray, has a Safeway login page and a "run on startup" option, and once a day does magic stuff in the background that adds all the available online coupons.
If they want another wave after saying 'final wave' they just tell their managers to manage their bottom N% out during the next two quarters and call it a day.

Or they can just talk about changing priorities and keep on cutting. It'd be fine in the long run.
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I'm living in a newer building in SF, and while it's not like the walls are paper thin, the construction is still lacking in many respects, especially ventilation (toxic levels of anything airborne travel from apartment to apartment) and floor-to-floor noise isolation.
If it's a private company (not publicly owned) we have zero ability to know, they would not have to publish any financials.

If it's a public U.S. company we can know with 100% certainty via GAAP accounting.
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Independent, 3 towns/4 bakeries, + SuperU, e-Leclerc, Carrefour once, and one Artisan bakery in Paris.

The one in Paris was by far the best, but it was bio levian and a pain complet. So that was kind of not fair to the others, but it's the only one that had a real depth of flavor. They were excellent loaves, and I wish I could have had more. (but I only walked past it once, and there's only so much bread you can eat before it goes stale)

Second best has been a Leclerc, surprisingly good. Good crackly crispy crust, good structure in the center. Nice mix of lacy holes and structure. Not just a fluffy almost pain de mie with a leathery crust.

Third best has been another one of the big supermarkets, probably SuperU. They have a coupage or something like that that is probably a very high hydration that's made into a sheet, then cut lengthwise into baguette shapes.

The independent bakeries all seem to have pretty much the same baguettes, they're not great, better than your average store bought bread, but the crumb and structure are far too uniform to be anything other than a mass process.

It's almost as if they're getting the same flour and have pretty much the same process and equipment. Yeah, it's good compared to plastic bagged sliced bread, but I'm comparing it to what I've made and eaten, and I've seen better.
Ah, you're right. I had my English vocabulary loaded instead of my investor vocabulary.
We could also make an argument that Mark Zuckerberg could solve income inequality by tracking everyone and providing true transparency to a utopian world.

I'm pretty certain that if you evaluate mining and exchange activity, very little of it is impacting areas where it can effect real change (like Hong Kong or Venezuela).

For example, here's a report from the trenches on Venezuela:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/dht1qw/venezuela_u...

For the disaster that is that economy, only 0.004% of global BTC volume is taking place there (yes, that's the correct number of zeroes) Put another way, it represents about 0.08% of Venezuela's GDP.
How are they even able to fund flying taxis and self driving cars? Even if it’s part of their plan to avoid the cost of the drivers, there’s no way that investors can or will keep funding them for the next 15 to 20 years while they get the technology ready.
I asked a question on Twitter a few weeks/months ago, and didn't receive a very good answer:

At what point do we have enough data?