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> Is it because Uber's expenditure will decrease because of the layoffs?

Yes.

This is Uber's way of saying to their investors that their costs will decrease due to losing billions during the coronavirus outbreak, thus head count must be decreased. But some who are buying now, may see this as a way of selling at the "bull trap" in Q2.
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Very cool. Can I ask what your use case is, or if it's just for fun?
Uber and Lyft are public, they haven't relied on VC cash for over a year.
The safety requirements are so much more lax that I'm willing to bet it makes building a factory much quicker in China.
I think there's a huge grey area between "hire a 3rd-party person to pick up your food and deliver it to you" and "impersonating your business."

Like DD, GrubHub, or whatever aren't pretending to be the restaurant (shady website bullshit notwithstanding). They're just saying that they can buy and drive the food to you on your behalf.
Usually late stage startups switch from options to double-trigger RSUs years before they go public. I doubt anyone at Uber has unvested stock options.

Assuming anyone laid off had unexercised options, they'll likely have a short window to exercise them before they expire.
The bigger question is why google/youtube cares. Isn't youtube/google banned in china?
The Past, Present, and Future of API Gateways
Canadian here:

It's not as easy as you might expect, through normal channels. There's a points system to gain access and a whole lot of hoops to jump through if you aren't able to pay for the economic class.

Now, if you were to walk across the border at certain locations and claim refugee status you could probably remain so long as your application is being processed; regardless of the merits of your claim, that process time has become _rather long_.
> These include the lack of testability, debuggability, reproducibility, separation of concerns, documentation, or usability

Have you actually checked to what extent the Ferguson codebase is guilty of these things? It seems to me there are people spreading misinformation, and too many people taking their word for it.
I've been running a 3400G since last fall on Debian with a custom kernel to get the latest video drivers. It's been stable until a few freeze ups in the past week. I'd pin the blame on Ubuntu.
The whole crypto thing is such a fascinating experiment of human behavior and side effects and so on.
It seems kind of silly that USA military would use tech that needs a pristine frequency band in the first place. During a war, are their opponents going to be super-polite about interference? Or, are they going to look at FCC regs when deciding which frequencies to jam?
> I’d recommend just breaking Google’s monopoly

Would an independent YouTube be less susceptible to these requests?
You are right; I see what you mean, and I agree that just saying, as some people do, that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon, does not explain it, and does not avoid the fact that there is a big hole in our understanding here.
Some information such as the making of a sandwich, is not conductive to be conveyed through text. So the correct answer for me would be, "I would use a different medium to convey the info, like video."
Q2 is already doomed - plus now they're adding millions of one-time severance costs to the quarter. This is a hail mary for Q3.
Likely, but not yet decided. The other front-runner is Tulsa.
> one of the margins on which they can undercut competition is not paying benefits

You think minicab firms paid benefits before Uber?
Stock in two countries is nothing that can't be managed by hand without an ERP. I know, because I've done it before.

You usually reach in inflection point where your manual process sans-ERP is costing the company real money, and the ability to make quick(er) decisions is hampered by your current process.
You’ll need a Cybertruck given the condition IH-35 is in.
I disagree. In the case of this submission, the restaurant was getting negative reviews due to poor delivery (e.g. not keeping food warm) - all of which were the fault of DoorDash, and the restaurant had no control over it.

Doordash is exploiting and harming the restaurant so that Doordash can make money. I think it's totally fine to make changes to your own site to thwart this. Doordash is in full control of this. They're the ones scraping the site, and they're the ones who should pay the price if they do a poor job.
That was an insightful comment, pointing out a pattern.

- [A SaaS startup or established platform] has a huge marketing budget / money to burn when starting up.

- Early adopters see great returns because someone else is paying for a bunch of advertising for them.

- They tell their friends and slowly the system grows to a critical mass where you're losing out if you're not on it.

- Then they abuse their market position and do stuff like this.

To put a name to this trend, to call them "subsidized services", makes it clear to recognize how much of business/software/web ecosystem is getting consumed by the strategy.
With the proviso that the perf/$ approach works less well on GPUs cause you need to match that with what type of screen res & refresh you want to drive (if gaming I guess).

..which might easily land you in 2060/2070 territory.
The anti-concentration laws seem like a super idea since it would create incentive for building a ton of infrastructure in areas that have been allowed to degrade.
Any decently sized C++ or Swift code base is going to have compile times way over 5s. Many just moderately sized projects have build times over 10 minutes.
> Without those qualities, your code is brittle, your deploys are brittle, changes are brittle.

Is this brittleness stopping the scientists achieving what they need to achieve?

Are you sure that writing tests makes science better? Or are you just assuming that?

They aren't idiots and they aren't ignorant of how professional software developers work.
Thanks for the reminder! I read that at some point.

The problem with this is exactly what I'm trying to address in the AskHN submission: the probability of a random person running across interesting content is much smaller, than that of a group of users with agenda, who monitor new submissions/comments on a constant basis, as they appear.

I.e. there's a non-zero probability that my controversial submission looks interesting to several random people, and maybe they even give me an upvote, but at the same time there's a 100% probability of being flagged and never making it out of "new". In my opinion, this misbalance completely breaks the moderation system.
The most worrying thing about your reply is probably the premise that the burden of proof would be on you to prove it materially incorrect, and not on those advocating policy based on it to prove that it had any scientific value in the first place. If obfuscating code to the point where it could be doing just about anything but it's so difficult to understand that no-one can positively prove it's doing something wrong is a viable strategy, the system is broken a priori.
Are they still paying peanuts? I'm actually surprised more companies haven't take advantage by poaching from Red Hat. It's pretty much a free opportunity to get some decent people on the cheap. And it would still probably be like 2x bump for most people there. Or more, depending on location.
John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
This is what the AGLP3 is for.
For wikipedia, the guidelines are here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...

I'm not sure that Google has a published set of guidelines. Obviously Hacker News has a different set of guidelines.

Individual corporations are allowed to make their own guidelines. This is what Libertarians call "freedom of association".
Then we need to come up with ways to counteract the Milgram effect, if that's even possible.
Also I believe a third party installed app cannot do a push notification when app is not open?
Not the first time I see something like this, would have I not been using hckrnews.com I would have missed it.
There is no way peak oil (which I assume is peak oil demand, not supply) is going to happen anytime soon. Too much of the world has massive energy needs in order to develop (almost all of Africa, large parts of South America and Asia) and oil will be a huge part of the energy mix given its advantages. The current coronavirus situation might depress oil demand for a bit, but unless living standards get permanently stuck at low levels in the developing world oil demand is going to grow for the foreseeable future. Of course, how Saudia Arabia does depends on how long their reserves last, and many people believe they've overstated the amount of oil they have remaining.
> beating COVID by creating herd immunity, similarly to Sweden

The big problem here is that herd immunity requires that either you have a vaccine or you get some large fraction of the population infected, over 50%.

The death rate is about 1%, plus further people suffering long-term complications.

So achieving herd immunity in the UK would require about 300,000 dead.
Texas Transportation Commission just approved $3.4 billion in funding last month to reconstruct 35 through Austin, so there's hope.

Will still take a Cybertruck though.
> If I'm going to mingle, I'd prefer to mingle with the locals rather than other foreigners

I don't understand you here: that's the whole point of couchsurfing! You're staying with "real people", instead of yet another backpacker hostel
Only in expensive urban areas, not in smaller towns and cities.
I think "someone"
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I quietly launched Hexadecimal several months ago.

The idea is simple: monitoring websites & APIs for uptime, and having a decent looking status page to display status (duh!) of said websites/APIs. On top of that, Hexadecimal also monitors TLS certificates for expiry.

Built on the vanilla Rails stack: Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq, and Caddy. For the curious, I share my costs & tools publicly: https://tryhexadecimal.com/running-costs

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I'm still thinking about my cheap Ryzen-based PC only as a stop-gap solution, until the "real deal", aka Intel 7nm CPUs, premieres in 2021 (fingers crossed) .
I've been working full-time open source for two years. I'm spending my savings to sustain myself. Not sure what will happen when I run out of money. I receive around USD 40 of donations per month and use them mostly to pay servers, domains, and other project's expenses. For reference, my top 3 projects on GitHub have 12k, 5k, and 2.5k stars.

To be clear, I'm not complaining, I think it's worth it.
No, landlords do not provide land. The land was there long before the landlord and will be there long after the landlord is gone, too.

The landlord, as evidenced by the fact that you are calling the land good or bad prior to having been developed by the landlord, should earn no profit based on that difference, because that difference would exist regardless of who – if anyone – is the landlord.

If the landlord makes some particular investment in addition to the "natural" or community-driven component of the land's value, she will keep all of the upside from that investment.

To repeat: All the gains generated by improvements upon the land – or enhancements in the "usability" of the land – will be retained by the landlord.

That is sufficient incentive for landlords to productively develop on valuable land. More importantly, it is a disincentive to speculating on that land (or withholding it from the market/withholding it from productive use). This is of course a behavior you see all over high value areas.
Tom Lehrer was my math professor in College. He was delightfully amusing and I learned a lot (in particular, the birthday paradox, years before I understand why they matter in hash tables and other probability problems).
I remember the professor asking a student from China how he was doing with the class being taught in English. The student replied, "Uh... book. I read book." At that moment I caught a glimpse of how big the language barrier could be, and how much sheer work it would take to overcome it.
We were fanboys enough to use the East India Company flag, too.
So the argument is that determining the correctness of the simulation is so complex that any kind of automated tests won't matter.

The rebuttal makes a couple of statements about how scientists spend their time to verify their work:

> Scientific software tends to be validated in a more ad hoc way. This is a domain-specific norm, not a matter of competence.

> Practically every scientist I know spends most of their time checking their results rather than coding, and I sincerely doubt that the Imperial group is any different.

I wonder if the team could iterate more quickly if some of these ad hoc validations were automated.
I dont know if the whole team was laid off, but I can confirm that a lot of (most?) people working on self-driving were laid off today.

(My source is a friend working on self-driving who was laid off today)
A lot of the layoffs are international, so if they had announced on Friday the employees would have learned of their terminations over theirs weekends, as Friday in the U.S. is generally at least Saturday in Europe and Asia.

International companies generally announce cross-border layoffs on Monday (US-time), because that announcement will be during the work week everywhere they operate.
Man I can't believe BBEdit didn't make the editor list!
As someone who has been on funding committees there is a logic for making a few large grants. Monitoring costs and efforts are far smaller with a small number of grants, so sometimes it is less work to give a few large grants than a lot of small ones even if you know that there may be more wastage.
So google gets to decide what's hatespeech? One step closer to the cyberpunk dystopia I'd say.
> the tech to spin up a competitor is extremely cheap and commodity.

This is the part that makes me the most mad. The delivery companies have almost no value as business entities, all of their value is in the technology, and the technology is not complicated at all.

The job that's being done by doordash and grubhub and all of them would be accomplished much more affordably, sustainably, and ethically with a marketing co-op, which is already pretty common in the food industry in America (Blue Diamond, Land o Lakes, Ocean Spray, Sunkist, Sun-maid, Tillamook, Welch's, etc). There's no need for a separate VC-backed for-profit here, a simple confederation of restauranteurs would work fine and be just as effective and way better for the whole marketplace.
Being able to get food delivered from places that don't deliver.

I don't think the apps really add anything substantial for restaurants that have their own delivery network.
Are you speaking as a Google employee or just from personal opinion?

Also, this viewpoint is naive. Simply more information isn't better. What if all that information was about the flat earth theory and nothing else? Wouldn't more "mutually consistent" information be a better goal? Flat earth stuff is fun but you must limit yourself to a very small plausible universe in order to really buy into it.
> If you e.g. don't receive options but actual shares?

Everything your employer gives you as part of your salary is subject to the salary tax. Whether your employee gives you options or shares, doesn't matter, you need to taxate them, and that requires assigning them a value.

If your employer gives you options, you can only exercise them when the shares you buy have a value (via an IPO, acquisition, etc.), so you pay taxes on the value when you exercise them - verifying this value is trivial for the tax office (check purchase price of shares, IPO share value, etc.).

For publicly traded companies, if your employee gives you shares, you pay taxes when you get the shares on the value of the shares on the day that you got them.

If your employee gives you shares from a private hold company, those shares have no value until the company gets public or acquired. You'll taxate them not on the share price that the share had when you got them, but the one it has when it went public.
This would depend on what specialty you're getting your masters in. What we would call theoretical computer science is really just math and predates computers. How many working programmers can explain fundamental concepts like the halting problem to a layperson? Clearly this knowledge isn't required to write good code but to use your analogy I'd say your average good programmer is more like the man in the chinese box than a fluent speaker of the language.
Ended up with a 3700x. They seem to run at the very edge of their thermals straight out of the box though.

I tried a light touch of overclocking and got absolutely nowhere. (Stock cooler)

Running that close to the edge is an achievement in itself though I guess
I'm astounded that they ever tried to operate a factory in the Bay Area to begin with. Forget about regulations and taxes. The real issue is cost of living. You're going to have to pay all employees 2-3X what you'd have to pay them elsewhere, and it's not like they're keeping any of that. It's all going to rent/mortgage payments.
If there's anyone from Vienna, Austria, we're hiring.
> The Founding Fathers could not have predicted this.

Who cares what a bunch of dead slave owners thought. We should be able to decide for ourselves what kind of laws we have, let's stop second guessing these guys that rarely even agreed with each other.
Conflict isn't necessarily a bad thing. Conflict can resolve tension and raise long-hidden concerns to the forefront. Conflict is a natural part of human interaction.
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What a load of horseshit.
Probably, as it would have fewer conflicts of interests and relationships with foreign dictatorships.

...but ideally, we would have multiple YouTube competitors, that would allow content creators vote with their choice to use Google.
It wasnt meant as an excuse, just to point out what effectively would have to be done to solve this is the future.

I am a bit sceptical of your suggestion of putting more non permanent staff (even from CS) into the pot.
Then apply a "digital" tax for whatever amount of revenue or justice you imagine you're missing out on.
I don't care about other people's definitions of the term open source. To me, software is open if I can read the source, modify the source, and redistribute modified or unmodified copies. If I have to pay to use it when creating proprietary software, or within a commercial context, then so be it. It makes sense that the people most closely deriving financial benefit from a piece of software should be the ones to fund its continued development and maintenance.

The FSF's concept of four freedoms always appealed to me, but the problem is that freedom 0 allows people to take away the freedom of others, because it allows the creation of proprietary software. The Parity Public License doesn't have that hypocrisy. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
>never seen it get above 55 degC with the prism is impressive.

Pretty sure I've seen 75+ on mine 3700x
My point was that the Constitution does not handle the current situation - not specifically that the authors thought of it or not.
Object initialisation complexity is a consequence of the design goals of C++. It's unavoidable complexity, but it's not surprising once you know about it, and it is required for consistency.
> Can you imagine if Apple snapped it up? Or Qualcomm? Or even Intel?

Apple perhaps, but they tend to avoid generic M&A like this. They tend to only do M&A when there is a very strong fit; they’ll happily continue to license ARM’s IP.

The others each have offerings that compete with ARM, so on that alone, they wouldn’t be able to close the sale unless regulators are completely asleep at the wheel.
And the standard formula for mileage compensation that everyone follows is super generous. If you're driving a car with even half-decent mileage and reliability you come out ahead.
It's more than price for performance. It's also a very high absolute performance. Especially in games, where something like a Threadripper processor is not faster.
The leadership team has repeatedly said they acknowledge it sucks to leave people hanging for weeks on end since it obviously drags morale through the mud, but that the logistics are complicated, due to the sheer number of people involved, local laws, etc. The leaks have just made it all the more stressful.
Surprised how everyone just reads the title and no one is discussing whether "Google deletes comment globally" as reported by a single forum post by "Anti-communist hero" who posted one time in 2019 is factually true.
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>What does hate speech have to do with minority populations?

Come on. There's a debate to be had about hate speech and free speech, but it can't even get started on a reasonable footing if some of the participants don't know enough history to be able to answer this question.
I wonder why the GTX 1080 isn't in the videobenchmark all-time value chart.
In Germany you need 20k Euros cash, and an accountant, and to pay all the "bureaucracy costs" of registering a new company.

That's something you have to pay independently of whether your startup is making money or not.
> having a near-monopoly on various public communication channels

Since when did Google became the defacto public communication channel?
What were those clear rules we apparently abandoned for no reason?
Tried it myself. Can confirm. 15 seconds on the dot.
Wouldn't stability of output with given initial conditions totally freeze any ability to change the implementation in the future?
You're putting the cart before the horse. Google and Facebook are utilities but the Internet service you need to access them isn't. Seems a bit ridiculous, no?
While I agree there are over-sensitive people in our society, I'm not sure you can reliably recognise hate speech in translation.

I mean, I know a word that Google Translate defines as "a Jewish person" - do you think you can tell me if it's offensive or not based on that?
If anything, new Android is killing termux, one of the best apps for devs:

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...
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None of those combined instantaneous planet-wide distribution of spoken word, produced by anyone, shoveled to everyone, individually based on what they would be most likely to want to hear.

If founding fathers had netflix this wouldn’t even make to a black mirror episode of their time.
thats an intersting way of thinking about it, but one has to be careful not to attribute eveything to genetics lest we fall into biological determinist thinkimg about eveything

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_determinism
>The standard on the software side is CUDA..which is nvidia only.

I was under the impression that AMD gpus had achieved some modest level of compatibility with the major frameworks?
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The one I linked is from a Swedish conspiracy theory channel with 16k subscribers and it has been up for 2 months, gotten 40k views (huge for Swedish language content) and does not try to hide itself at all ("WakeUpGlobe SE" and uses "corona" in the title). It would be trivial for a human to find this.
Make their bias really obvious like we have for the major media companies so consumers can make an easy choice.