skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How interesting - is he calling from a new number each time?
Again, this doesn't make much sense to me.

Assuming that we're talking about 3 systems where the html is exactly the same between them, and we just want to add a single class on the outer element in order to style the whole component. I can do that with Tailwind.

.box { @apply m-4 bg-gray-200 p-4 w-3/5; }
.box div { @apply mb-4 text-xl; }
.box p { @apply w-1/2; }

I'm evidentially missing something here.
What’s the hostname on the invalid security certificates?
I just installed Ubuntu 20.10 on a new machine. Is anyone else actually able to run Steam in this environment (or 20.04)? I can't get it to work - even after running

sudo apt-get install libnvidia-gl-390:i386
I've interviewed people who had ostensibly been working for years as a professional software developer be unable to even define a function that would accept a string as an argument, do _literally anything_ to it, and then return it. People who couldn't even write a syntactically valid function definition of any sort, during the entirety of an hour long interview, when given the choice to use any language they wanted.

A few years back I was working at a company that had a policy that they didn't have recruiters do any pre-screening of candidates who had prior development experience listed on their resumes. I was a frequent stage 1 interviewer for our team, and we gave the candidate an hour to write a function to count the occurrence of words in a string (e.g. "the old man and the sea" -> {"the":2, "old": 1, "man": 1, and" 1, "sea": 1}. Candidates were allowed to select any language they wanted, use their own editor/environment or use a cloud based IDE if they preferred. They were allowed to search any API documentation they wanted, to use any libraries, and were explicitly told to not worry about any edge cases like punctuation, capitalization, etc.

I'd guess about 1/2 of the candidates I interviewed were able to complete the assignment in the provided time, with about 1/4 of them finishing it almost immediately, and another 1/4 unable to even write a single syntactically valid statement or line of code. Some candidates claiming years of experience with a language couldn't even write something that looked at all like the syntax of the language.
Please don't stoop to personal swipes on HN. Your comment would be just fine with just the first part.

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Hi - can you tell me the model you bought?
Fizz-buzz is a well-defined specific task. It's not a stand-in for a generic easy question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz
You can squash into a single commit at the end

Creating a fresh commit for each comment, provides me an easily clickable diff link
Then client two can't read the new value until a least one node of the minority side can connect to the majority. Also client two can't update anything.
> Mars .... Compared with the absurd amounts of money wasted on defense contractors

Couldn't we spend absurd amounts of money on fixing Earth instead? Surely it's easier than starting from even less resources and livable environment than Mars.

There is a cultural myth in New Age communities that humans decimated Mars and came to Earth after, or something like that. We should fix Earth first
You don't need to own the tech to use it, anymore than they would need to be manufacturing the cars they're using.

OR: they finally accepted the fact that self-driving cars aren't realistically happening anytime soon, at least to the level needed to entirely eliminate the driver cost.

That, and they probably realize they have enough market share at this point to be able to (long-term) raise prices instead of lower expenses.
Once you go public, you become 5x harder to kill than your average company, and US investors have shown am increased appetite to fund unprofitable companies in the last few decades, so Uber will be around for a while
And don't forget. this isn't the original article: it's an article describing another article. What's that ? Metajournalism ?
SV has remained a key center of technology because it's easier to find elite and specialized talent there. Telework has yet to prove as collaboration-friendly as face-to-face and water-cooler talk. I'm not sure cost of living alone can counter that advantage. Any other city that "collects" enough techies to do the same will start to have cost of living problems of its own.

Plus, SV is used to "foreigners" and oddballs. Many other cities are not. As soon as you leave downtown, tradition-based evangelical influences take over. Rural areas are going to be that way no matter where you are in the US, but the intensity is generally more gradual in CA.
I probably should have phrased my comment in a less confrontational way.

I think there are more likely explanations for this story; my guess is a confluence of a nervous breakdown with a life-long desire to meet aliens. I reckon most people who work at space agencies are also fans of science fiction.
Did you not see my several replies to you in this thread? Posting like this after we explicitly asked you to stop will get you banned on HN.

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The big plan is a war of attrition to capture a monopoly/duopoly status for taxi services within a given country. Acquire all competing taxi companies or price them out of business.Once that is done, raise prices. If competition arises, lower prices again until they go away. In some senses, its just like Amazon.
Ask HN: How to Abandon Stock of Startup?
Hi HN,

I am looking to abandon the stock of a startup I worked at (purchased from exercising ISOs when I left) so I can claim a loss on my taxes. I am willing to accept a complete loss on these shares and offered to give them back to the company for $0.

However, the company wrote me back that "the shares are not transferable to a third party without the prior consent of the Board of Directors and the Company cannot authorize or otherwise agree to your request to surrender them for zero value".

I contacted the portal where our shares are managed to ask if they can process an abandonment and they just said to talk to the company.

Any options for me here or am I hosed?
when has Google been known to do that?
Interesting that full flow LOX-LH2 engines could be easier to get, as oxygen and hydrogen can be ignited in a wide range of ratio. With LOX-kero you might have to have a two stage gas generator, when first you ignite components with a good ratio and then add a component to the already established combustion.
I am likewise on my way out the door, not quite to the giving notice stage but not far either.
Thanks! Just started reading about rocket engines, I don't think most people realize how many moving parts the SpaceX engines have!
Selling or shutting underperforming divisions (like ATG, air taxi), reduced competition in the space as players consolidate, higher prices, cutting expansion/marketing costs.
Oh man, I didn't even realize they were available outside of SF with fiber.
This was used to flip votes in Dominion machines from our greatest president Trump to China Joe, and the stupid Dems forgot to turn it off. Otherwise Trump wins CA easy. Wait till Sidney Powell hears about this.
Shouldn't be too hard to adapt though; certainly PAL isn't that different from NTSC.
I don't think they ever actually tried to hit mars. mars was in completely the wrong orbit at time of launch - they just wanted to get to about where mars would have been.
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Realistically though it's about as much of an actual threat as teleporters are.
I had started something similar but never found product-market fit.

My pitch was more about having multiple phone numbers and having a filter where it would only allow certain phone numbers to ring your actual phone. The idea was that you would give out a phone number, like you would give the number out but it would redirect to your real number without revealing it to the caller.

Once you are done with the throwaway number, you close the number and you no longer receive calls from people who had that number.

The big issue with my idea is that these telemarketers and other phone ner-do-wells aren't sourcing numbers. They are blindly dialing numbers along with spoofing the incoming number so it appears local.

It isn't possible to eliminate these calls by never giving out your actual phone number because your phone number is a string of 10 numbers that can be narrowed even further by knowing what area codes are in service, then narrowing even further I think on a closed set of the first three as well.

Ever notice how if you pick up a scam call, they don't immediately pick up, it takes 5 - 10s? Yeah, that's because the machine keeps dialing until it gets a signal that the call was picked up so it connects you to the caller.
NIMBYism at its finest. Cupertino did not allow cell phone towers for a very long time. The only one was an ATT tower on the top of Infinite Loop, right on the Sunnyvale border.

The people who would call their provider about bad cell coverage in their house are the same people that would go to city hall and demand that no cell towers be built in the city.
Are you thinking about the area just around the SFO landing zone?

I thought that was less of a "won't" and more of a "can't" between the lack of taller building towers and the radio interference zone for the airport means the directional antennas skip a slice there.

This will probably get fixed if 5G becomes a proper thing and there's a lot of micro-cells along the "bay area's biggest parking lot".
Sorry I should have said "external people".

and yes, the reality distortion field was his preferred method for that.
"Really isn't that bad" is your experience. The physical reality is that average January lows in NYC are 20 degrees lower than in SF.
I think most bigger cities have this same set of people, though I would guess SF has it more.
I’ve certainly experienced it in Atlanta, and from former coworkers in Chicago/NYC/Boston as well. There are a lot of people who will complain incessantly about the place they live, and how it’s not as good as some other place.

A lot of those folks aren’t going to find happiness with their move but some will. The grass is always greener until you’re standing on it.
To all your "are you saying [invented supposition]" style questions, as expected:

"No".

Incidentally, while obviously I didn't pronounce on it, no, the Irish aren't British.

Feel free to fact-check your theory with an Irishman though.

I won't comment on what I think that all says about your own psychology and insecurities, but will take your opinion on my racism and sexism under consideration - cheers.
Sounds a lot more like a merger than sale:

> Uber is handing over its equity in ATG and investing $400 million into Aurora, which will give it a 26% stake in the combined company
With age one realizes computer security field is very similar to game dev and entertainment - there is constant stream of young naive and impressionable people willing to do the hard work in exchange for "exposure".
It worked for WalMart.
My assumption would be both. Taxi companies have way lower cost structures. They certainly don't employ lots of software engineers. And there's no reason to think that Uber should be significantly cheaper than a taxi ride. Scale buys you something but probably not a lot. (And scale has some costs too.)
I agree, but that is also part of what Thiel is talking about.
I do agree but some features are complex, and invesitbely PRs will sometimes be large. Using this tactic it help keep things in check even then.

I just want to be able to open up a review, click a commit ID to view a diff, and be able to move on

Any additional steps are unnecessary friction I feel
I designed a technical solution to this last year and ran it as a business called CallStop for a while, see:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22211791

Here's the problem with the business side:
If you want to code in extra rules around PINs, requests, whitelisting, you need to route the carrier traffic through a service like Twilio, which is really expensive and cuts down on the margins of the business hard. When you combine that with Apple's margin and taxes, it's a really tight margin I found (even at 6.99$/month). If rerouted traffic could be much, much cheaper there could be a business there -- but there's always a threat Apple will just copy those features. I did get some paying customers though who really liked it.

There's also whitelisting on iOS, might that be enough for your use case? Otherwise there are plenty of blacklist/blocking services.
Sometimes I wonder if people talking about this "inevitable unprofitability" have used ridesharing recently. At least around SF, prices were steadily going up for the past couple of years.
once self driving arrives, the network effect is a lot less prominent, since the supply side can more easily be scaled
The tweet indicates it is at a specific bit position. That isn't symptomatic of a bad cable/sfp/etc. Analog problems like that tend to be more random. Random bit flipping in a fixed bit position is symptomatic of bad ram somewhere, or a router asic gone bad, or various software/config issues.
> Many places have some of what SV offers. Very very few have everything, and I would argue that none of the cities you listed fit the bill.

Ah, but all of them have more affordable housing.
In case people don't know, they hit the orbit they were going for.

This was a solar orbit that goes out as far as Mars orbit, but does not actually rendezvous with Mars. It's similar to the first part of a Hohmann transfer, but without course correction and circularisation burns.

Trying to actually hit Mars would require launching within a specific window, as well as all the other things required for planetary missions - powered upper stage (not a car), planetary protection protocols, etc.

So actually hitting Mars would not only restrict launch opportunities (bad for a test launch) but would also add a whole suite of costs associated with going to another planet (also bad for a test).
>However you'd be surprised how many high end kitchens will use a gas stove because it's often a better and more versatile cooking tool,

Since I switched to induction i think it's the best technology. Yes, you need specific pans, but all the good ones are induction ready anyway.

Besides that, it's safe like any electric, can be fast heating like gas, is more efficient than standard electric, and the oven plates don't burn you for more than a minute after taking off the hot pan or pot (since the vessel is heated, not the glass plate).

It's seriously the best way to cook now, and it has gotten quite affordable.
Personal attacks and name-calling will get you banned on HN.

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>They do indeed live without owning cars. They also use Ubers, ZipCars, and regular rental all the time.

Is there that much of a difference between owning a car and renting a car or using Zip or having a chauffer (Lyft, Uber, taxis) tote you around? I'd get rid of my car too if I could afford to have Uber haul me everywhere.
I suppose the employees at Tutanota can do what the employees at Apple did: they could threaten to quit if they are instructed to work on this.
The problem with Riots anti-cheat (at least to me) was that it runs all the time not just when you're playing the game. This is completely unnecessary and a pretty huge security issue.

They've sort of fixed this now by letting you disable it, but it requires a reboot so I'm still avoiding Valorant for now.
Looks like they will at least take a stake in Aurora.

> As part of the agreement between the two companies, Uber is taking a 26 percent stake in the start-up and Mr. Khosrowshahi will take a seat on the Aurora board of directors.

> “Uber can still have a hand in the game, without putting out the enormous amount of money they were spending with A.T.G., but still have a path to market when this technology is actually deploy-able in several years,” said Elliot Katz...
> This should be handled internally and not aired in public across several media sites.

When the triggering event involved a collaboration involving non-Google parties, that became pretty much impossible.

> Why should I care about the dirty laundry of FAANG and some random individual?

Maybe you shouldn't, but not everyone outside of Google is you. Other people in the field of AI ethics might want to know, because Google’s practices when it comes to employee research have a significant impact on how publications from Google authors are approached. And people who might consider working at Google, especially in the same field, have an interest in information about the working environment, positive or negative.
>the younger generations are less likely to own cars

There's nothing inherent about this. If the promised alternatives to owning cars turn out to be BS, the younger generations will have to own cars whether they want to or not.
Indeed, this is a great example of space exploration benefiting life on earth. If Elon didn’t want to colonize Mars he wouldn’t have started SpaceX which then wouldn’t have developed reusable rockets that make a LEO broadband constellation economically feasible.

And that’s just the beginning of the technology needed to fully achieve his ambitions.
"turned out"... it's been starkly obvious since day one that true self-driving is a problem that requires general intelligence to solve. All you have to do to know that is drive a car and think about what's actually required to successfully drive from A to B in the real world.
As linked above, the idea of new leadership starving OSS and simply supporting existing enterprise contracts was talked about extensively in the acquisition announcement thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18978251
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Teaser marketing. Give it 2-3 months of this, then they'll make some announcement.
I agree that saying self-driving is a threat is very different from saying that your business will fail unless you create self-driving cars.

Also, saying that Uber/Lyft need to create their own self-driving cars is ignoring the fact that other companies that create self-driving cars are, and will likely continue to offer rides in their cars through existing ride sharing companies.
"to protest the new no-politics policy that the company's CEO, Brian Armstrong, put out in September"

There's nothing more central to Coinbase's mission than securing the $30b worth of cryptoassets that they custody.

So it's oddly appropriate if more than half of the team responsible for the most critical part of their mission resigned to protest Armstrong's new "mission focused" policies.
From my professional experience of programming and debugging networking equipment, this could be a switch/router with a buffer with bad memory (stuck bit maybe). The better chips have CRC/Parity/ECC to cover such issues but there are always those magical choke points where the past CRC is tossed and the new one is generated that can leave a gaping hole. The tricky part is how often is this bad memory buffer used...

I would use traceroute to find a common bad point for everyone. It is also possible that the networking point where the problem occurs is invisible to traceroute as it could be part of a provider network probably MPLS but at least the common ends of the tunnel would be visible.

The fact that it is a a specific interval indicates a stuck bit in memory.

Some good previous public stories about such incidents
https://www.verizondigitalmedia.com/blog/being-good-stewards...
https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1309568337408454658
Appreciate your thoughts as well! Without getting into the weeds too much on it, I would draw a contrast between a few perspectives:

a.) "The intelligence community are the good guys and mostly do the right thing, minus one or two foibles here and there." In this category you've got your Marvel movies, your James Bonds, your Tom Clancys, etc

b.) "The IC is fighting the good fight, but sometimes has to do morally questionable things to get it done." This is stuff like Zero Dark Thirty and encompasses most of what you might call "serious" cinema that depicts the CIA.

c.) "The IC is deeply morally flawed, serving the interests of an elite few at the expense of the vast majority both at home & abroad, and often undertakes actions where this must be clear to anyone involved who has a conscience." This is very rare. There are a few paranoid conspiracy films from the 70s, there's American Made, there's Kill the Messenger, there's JFK, but I'm already struggling to come up with more names.

Intelligence work is so compartmentalized that I believe it's possible for the vast majority of those who work in it to believe they are fighting a good (or at least neutral) fight without allowing for too much cognitive dissonance at all. I don't think this is true of, say, the FBI agents who buried the allegations against the Epstein & Franklin pedophile rings, or the CIA agents who ran drugs into Mena airport to supply funds to child murdering contras in Nicaragua. These are the characters which tend to be assiduously avoided in Western media.
Cheaper and more reliable Databricks Spark cluster with Apache Airflow
I think they may be called "spaces" now.
If you want a library and not a fully-fledged raft-backed KV daemon/service, there's also dragonboat [1].

[1] - https://github.com/lni/dragonboat
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