skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profitability maybe, but the obscene valuation was based on Uber having a self driving fleet one day, at least to my understanding. Many businesses are profitable and even much more profitable than what Uber might be in a few years time and yet they have never come close to any valuation such as Uber has seen.
I hear you. I disagree with you re: PA residents setting the prices. It is demand that sets the prices. Too many people wanting to live in PA increases desirability of the area.

The city complying with ABAG demands to build new high density and affordable homes are also increasing land value making it unaffordable for the medium income demographic like yourself.

Welcome to being middle class in the Bay Area. You will probably be eligible to own a below market rate home in PA if you had a lower paying job.

Also Palo Alto is a richer zip code than the rest of Bay Area. If it becomes affordable, then it’s not Palo Alto anymore. It would be Newark(not that anything is wrong with Newark. It’s a great for a starter home and ripe to build equity as Facebook is moving there) And it would lose it desirability as a PA address. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

Good luck.
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Others in this thread have mentioned them, but this is the exact use case for energy recovery ventilators
I was planning to migrate to Tutanota, I guess I will not be doing so after all
Respectfully, I think you're missing an important piece here. Much modern and contemporary art is not going to speak to most people on its own.

Art serves as a physical token of something bigger -- a shared experience of culture, time, place, narrative, or whatever. Sometimes, the technical craftsmanship of the piece is self-evident. Sometimes, it's not. Sometimes, the craftsmanship, or lack thereof, is completely beside the point.

One of the things that really changed my experience of art was doing guided tours at museums. Invariably, I come away with insights that would not have come to me, no matter how long or how many occasions I might have visited a piece.
I don't quite understand this; what's an example of an experiment that verifies whether or not you predicted structure is accurate without determining the actual structure?
Taxis haven't been losing billions a quarter for thousands of years...
+1 on this, would happy to pay more for a better voice. Currently it’s similar to what I get with Instapaper, so I don’t know if I would make a switch. But if the voice is better then I would like to use Listenlater!
Tesla also makes money selling various environmental credits which are usually viewed as a government subsidy. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/23/teslas-sale-of-environmental...
You can't use a real wok on an induction cooktop.
So, Elon Musk first flirted with Democrats, because this is how he got the buddy favors. But this year, he probably saw a change in the wind and started to flirt with Republicans - I expect him following the wind again...
It's probably a matter of convention. We consider solar a renewable resource even though the sun will eventually die out. Humans are wired to think little beyond generational timelines, not geological ones.
Treat it like any other utility - it continues to run, just without servicing its debts. Most of the expense is paying for capital. Stop that (because bankruptcy) and the ISP can be profitable, and sold to whoever pays the most.
> much more mature, lower margin, steady-state business--presumably with a whole lot less SV engineering.

sure reminds me of a taxi company (without the fleet management of course)
> First we have tesla which already has a self driving car. They were the first to build one and now everyone is playing catch up, or are they?

They have a Level 2 system, which is certainly an impressive technical achievement, but not what most of us are thinking of when we think, "self driving." They are hoping to grow it into something more, but it remains to be see whether that will be possible. Other companies also have Level 2 systems, and, while I've personally never used any of them, some sources do report that Autopilot is not the best one out there, just the most hyped one. So, even if we are just focusing on assisted driving rather than self driving, I'm not sure one can say with too much confidence that they are the clear leader.

I would not interpret the existence of a functional consumer product as evidence of a technical lead in the race toward true self driving. Waymo never had any intention of commercially releasing a level 2 system. Their plan was to go straight to level 4 without any detours. Reports would seem to indicate that they are far, far ahead of everyone else on achieving that goal. It may be that they now have an unbeatable lead. Or it may be that some more direct competitor catches up. Or it may be that a company like Tesla or Cadillac is able to use profits and data collected from their commercial level 2 systems to accelerate their development and catch up. This, too, remains to be seen.
...late 80s. The dude has probably less than a decade left. Though, sure, family can always do with a bit more money.
If data scientists had licenses, what do you think the exam for new 2020 grads would look like? Would it include methods introduced in the 2010s? I can't imagine an exam keeping up with the pace of the field. And which field is that?

If there were to be an exam I'd be on board with, it'd be questions about GDPR and CCPA compliance. Even those are moving quickly as courts decide what the laws mean.
Proton initially had some Mac support via MoltenVK, but they never managed to get it runs stable enough, and all mentions of it have been removed from the repo 2 years ago.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/commit/a84120449d817...
Oh I didn't mean what you think I meant. I'm sorry I wasn't more clear.

I'm not one of those "why spend money on space when humans are starving on Earth" people.

My point was more about the actual technology required to terraform a planet. Why talk about terraforming Mars when our own would be saved by the same non-existent tech.
If your company refuses to hire anyone where this statement is false, that doesn’t tell you much.
It's just a different way of thinking about it. Not sure how it could be impossible to use an electric range to "properly" cooj.

I find it MUCH easier to simmer at a low temperature with electric, and I prefer the dial a temp, over dial a volume of natural gas. You don't have to tinker nearly so often. Want a nice slow boil, just set the temp, watch it run at 100% till it reaches the temp, then throttle back as the temp is reached.

Similarly when cooking any kind of reduction you don't have to keep tinkering as larger fractions of the water cooks off.
The cost of timber has also tripled this year, at least in some areas.
Just watched it live on twitch! There where some great people there for the Q and A.
What are satellites up in orbit stopping you from not using electronics?
Admittedly I think it’s not a ton of work with there being things like Stripe Atlas (I think there are others as well) that automate a lot of it: https://stripe.com/atlas
It was the great recession.

I remember reading at the time that it is typical for there to be populist right wing movements after economic calamities, same as happened after the great depression.
Black female scientist Timnit Gebru fired - the end of Google as a top AI research institution?

https://melwy.com/blog/black-female-scientist-timnit-gebru-f...
To this topic there is a more recent statement from tutanota on a german scene site.

https://tarnkappe.info/tutanota-will-beschwerde-vor-dem-bgh-...

A recent interview with Tutanota can also be found there.
https://tarnkappe.info/tutanota-der-deutsche-e-mail-dienst-i...
We are already seeing mass extinctions though, and biodiversity is generally greater in warmer regions. Unless these extinctions are entirely due to the 0.9 degrees of warming we've seen, there are other factors at play, many of which might yield more bang for our buck if we focused on them instead of net CO2e.

I think of measuring environmental health via CO2 like measuring economic health via GDP - it's probably the best single indicator if we have to use a single indicator, but it ignores a lot of nuance without which a better system can't really be designed.
>Nobody really brings up that the bay area is one of few places in the US where you can live without a car.

Not really, not compared to Boston or, particularly, New York.
It’s no one’s business outside of the organization and the person. You may feel entitled to an explanation as an uninvolved third party, but I can’t think of any legal reason why you would be.
And a lot of people who need a PC with Linux will get a Dell or a Lenovo and reinstall.

As Linux hardware support improves, it gets easier to buy a computer that "just works" with it. 20 years ago it was hit-and-miss. Now you need to actively sabotage yourself to get a computer that doesn't work with Linux.
Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do?
I am writing this mostly to evaluate a potential startup idea. Would love to know if there's anything that can be done for people experiencing this, even if it costs money and takes time. I would pay quite a bit not to have to change my number, and I imagine there are quite a few people out there in the same situation.

I received a call from an obvious scammer (something about my social security number being stolen, etc), and in their recording they didn't provide an option to be put on a no-call list which has happened in other cases. The only option I was given was to dial "1" to talk to one of their agents. I dialed 2, and was instantly greeted by someone who had an almost accent-free English but was on a poor phone connection. He said "hello," and I said "would you please remove me from your list." He said he'll do that if I paid him $2k. I declined and said I need to be removed or I'll contact the police. At that point, he reiterated his offer, but added that he'll call me every single minute until I give in. I responded that I am not falling for this and that I'll file a police report, at which point he started using foul language and told me "that I am f*cked."

What surprised me about the call was the rudeness. I was expecting someone on the other line hoping that they are not going to get themselves in trouble and politely apologizing for calling the wrong person. Instead, the person I talked to was clearly convinced that they cannot get caught. Given the digital nature of our world, I am a bit surprised that's the case if you come across a sufficiently motivated person.
Kinda ironic this article is locked behind blurred curtain and tracking agreement
And nothing about this deal indicates Uber is stepping away from self driving cars.

They basically structured the deal as buying stock in the company and investing $400M.

Letting them focus on their core business while still having a large financial stake in AI cars.

The big development is that self driving cars turned out to be an extremely hard problem which didn’t match company timelines (or potentially company business models, if for example AI kits can get installed in existing cars and brands for which they become the denominate call network) and they outsourced it to one of the best companies around.
How do drivers make any money while keeping the overall price less than a taxi? Factor in fuel and maintenance, and drivers are already getting pretty screwed on these platforms.
Nor does it need to. Card holder has a more powerful weapon: chargeback.
Ohio has to be one of the best zoo states in the country.
Solving 1 partially solves 2 since people will cook a lot less if they have to use electric cooktops.
So basically you are betting that not many other people have the same winning combination. Sounds like a good deal for the house to me.
lit, earlier today i needed to do shopping which I hate so i wanted to listen to some of the articles my friends have been sending me and I have not responded because they are too long but of course mobile text to speech extensions inside android where not working well and even the goolge assistant was a pain in the ass to setup and then didn't work.

So yea thanks for making this went for premium right away I assume its good but in general want to support audio based products :)
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It’s not so late here in Europe yet. At least not for hackers :) And there ought to be some German-speaking persons over the pond as well. We’ll see :)
It doesn't matter whether people of the time said AD 1 or not, because the BC/AD b system was adopted much later. It's confusing and ultimately pointless, but if you plant apple trees, the year in which you do that is the first year in which you planted apple trees, not the zeroth year. After ten years elapsed, it is now the tenth year of your apple tree planting phase.

I agree about your 80s example (of course I use it in the same way), but that doesn't change the fact that it ultimately doesn't make sense because you'll be off by one when counting backwards. So for colloquial conversations it's fine, for serious date calculations, you cannot just have one "decade" with only 9 years.
Everyone brings that up. All the time. As one of the (maybe not elite) tech people who has left the Bay Area, I can tell you that we're well known braggarts. The "SF attitude" actually makes it harder for us to integrate into new communities.

Edit: also, SF isn't _that_ walkable; have you spent time in NYC? SF was a huge letdown to me once I had lived there for a couple of years.
Did a sweet potatoe diet
For a month. Boiled or microwaved. Nothing added.

Felt Amazing after it. Was the most boring thing ever.
Fun fact: Norway is not a member of the EU.
The future is induction cooktops.
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I think there are multiple companies that can make something that works most of the time in good conditions, but you have to have a certain level of arrogance and self confidence to be the first to release it as a product.
In 2020, Disinformation Broke the US
Nukes have pretty much ensured via MAD that there is no future "full scale direct conflict" between major powers. No matter how narcissistic some despot might be, their overwhelming self-interest still realizes there's not much power held over an empty parking lot or when vaporized into the side of a building. It's proxy wars from here on out.

Given that, you can't think of a single scenario where having multiple floating runways would possibly benefit wartime?
It adds overhead on initial write, saves massive overhead every day after that.

There is JS code I deal with once a month where the manipulation of types is so complex I probably burn ~30 minutes every time I have to touch it. If that was was transformed into TS (which is going to happen eventually) that'd be 30 minutes saved per month, on this one particular flow of data.

I've done refactorings that were only possible because TS existed.

A lot of JS unit tests consist of "ensure these fields exist on this object after it has been called by these functions."

Typescript removes the need for those tests.

And it removes the need to update those tests every time the code changes (just change the declarations appropriately!). And it removes the need to run those tests on every commit.

That said, the overall code/compile/run time savings is possibly not in TS's favor due to how slow the compiler is. :/
> Of course without massive fossil fuel burning, Vegas can't exist

Doesn't it run from energy generated by the Hoover dam?
> I have an Awair unit and it's fairly inexpensive.

I have an anecdote about the Awair. The air at one of my previous workplace was making me sick, so I asked the management to look at the air quality. They hired a professional who saw nothing - because they asked for the AC to be turned off during the monitoring.

I got an Awair and managed to track when the air quality dropped. It was whenever the AC came on. They then called another professional who finally caught it -- turns out the building's ventilation ducts had not been cleaned in 5 years AND there was water damage.

Without a customer grade air quality tracker, I would have simply believed the first professional. I would have had to either suffer being sick daily at work or having to quit for air quality reason.

Now I carry mine around to my friends and family's house and let them borrow it for a while. It always come up with explanations about issues people had been quietly enduring forever.
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This has been affecting us intermittently for weeks.
Over the last few years there have been several (4-5) instances of British subs nearly striking surface ships in their home waters. Also running aground right outside their home port in 2010. Not exactly reassuring.

The US Navy is much bigger and has global operations. They're just as guilty of being careless but they also have proven war fighting capabilities. No one is asking the British to sail by as a show of power and solidarity.
MIT online trainig has this great YouTube playlist on distributed systems, with one of the lectures being on RAFT [1,2,3]. The entire playlist [4] is probably worth your time, though.

[1] Intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzzcUS2OHqo

[2] Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Zp3tzNbpE

[3] Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r8Mz3MMivY

[4] Playlist for the course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...
[https://medium.com/unikie/self-driving-cars-2020-and-beyond-...] helped me understand the major players in self driving vehicles and what they're upto.

Tesla does not use Lidar as a cost savings measure, and only uses camera output to determine how the car drives. It is unknown if this is enough to account for enough permutations of traffic, but they're calling it full self driving while using car owners as paying (!) beta testers.

AFAIK, no one is close to releasing an autonomous vehicle that can drive on par or better than an average human driver, but that several have a path to getting there.

I believe many companies can thrive until M&A whittles down that list. I don't think this is a first mover takes all kinda deal because safety will have to be proven over a long time allowing other entrants to prove their worth.
I wonder if this discovery is related to the similar recent discovery in sugar gliders:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/01/flying-sq...
I'm not OP, but my parents house in Missouri sits around $300/mo for internet via mobile hotpot, occasionally getting up to around $500/mo in the months were a lot of family visit. HughesNet is their only available ISP, so they just went with a data plan through either AT&T or T-Mobile ("unlimited" but with a data cap with expensive overages that also drop you down to dialup-esque speeds) and stick that SIM card in their router.

There was also a brief stint of time when I lived in Europe in a long-term Airbnb that didn't tell us there was a data cap (and since we weren't real residents, we couldn't set up our own internet) and I got nearly $500/mo for a few months doing video calls for work etc from my LTE.
>There is a strong selection bias here: homeless people who are addicts or suffer from mental health issues are significantly less likely to be on a computer writing interesting articles of their experience.

Good point. But shouldn't we see those kinds of articles in other countries as well? Maybe #4 (down-on-their-luck) might be proportionally smaller in the US but bigger in comparison to the same group in other countries?

One interesting thing also is #3, why are veterans homeless? PTSD?
To answer your question: presumably it's easier for a self-driving car company to offer "ride sharing" than a ride sharing company to offer self-driving cars. The power imbalance could be an existential threat to Uber or Lyft if it were realized.
Australia, the country destroying its own Great Barrier Reef on the altar of resource extraction (coal, etc), is promising to protect oceans? This commitment isn't worth the paper it's written on.
I think my best advice would be that you tune in on one of the streams on Twitch when it is live and ask him about it. Then maybe the two of you can figure out what is most relevant to you of his content compared to what you already know?
Many RTS games have already done this in a traditional client rendered setup with deterministic lockstep (e.g. [1]). The basic idea is to have an input at time t which has a fixed delay until t + x. During [t, t+x] everyone syncs what actions they will take, and so everyone renders the exact same state. Of course, if this sync fails then the game will stutter for everyone, unlike in the stadia case, and it has pros and cons for various types of game. It was largely rejected for action games in the past. The trick is you need to specify the minimum latency that everyone must get under for it to run smooth. In the server-rendering case you would be locked to the renderer's region and would have people with better internet having a strong advantage.

If you're interesting in this sort of thing, check out [2] which goes into depth on how to synchronise game simulations in a bunch of different ways.

[1] https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131503/1500_archers_o...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9X4lysFr64
Potatoes have among the highest possible satiety values.

If plane, you basically can’t over eat them. You be full quickly.
Entropy waits for no man.
This article has almost as many upvotes as that one you’ve linked to, so the criteria doesn’t seem to be very clear.
In my country they simply force the main ISP to open their network on fair rates. No need for and entire new physical network but there is competition.
All that anyone would ever see, though, is a flying saucer or one of those 'pill'-shaped things. That's pretty easy to write off, regardless of the credentials of whoever made the observation.

And, anyone who blows the whistle gets written off as crazy.
Yeah, I do. It helps to weed-out a lot of junk.

Sometimes, if quickly looking for something read for the moment, I'll only scan the domains.
Comp sci students drawn to classes on Sanskrit, a 3,500-year-old language
I don’t know much about the rate of car ownership in Japan. But I do know that public transit in Japan is insanely good and the cities are definitely walkable and all of it is quite safe. Trains are always on time. You can see small children riding them on their own. You can get almost anywhere you want to go using them. It’s actually phenomenal and it makes me angry to come back to the states after being there for any period of time because I suddenly need to drive again. (That said groceries would be more problematic if living there and I’m sure there are places you need to get to via car if living there, but most of the time a train has been fine for me as a visitor or when I was living on a military base. Only needed a car to get to the gate to leave and then walk to the train station)
This is a completely ridiculous argument. You're essentially saying that anyone who has objections to a particular tool has never used it, for if they had, they'd certainly love it.

Well I've written Tailwind extensively and I don't care for it at all. I also don't agree with most of Adam's arguments, whether made three years ago or today. Shocking, apparently!
One of their execs literally pitched me this very vision when I turned Uber down for an eng mgr position several years ago.

I thought it was comical that his pitch was "The reason we're going to be successful at Problem 1 (taxis) is because we're going to be successful at ridiculously-difficult Problem 2 (self-driving) which we're not close to solving". Pass.
Yes, sorry I couldn't send it this morning.

He talks about it on his campaign website: https://joebiden.com/housing/