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manquer
1y ago
Later stage things are , the potential IPO is a benefit not deterrent. Recruiters and hiring managers will hint at potential IPO being not far off as an incentive to join. It minimizes risk, they do same for potential target’s founders like
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manquer
1y ago
No, basically it is a buy back of employee options and stock . Many companies raise money only to give liquidity to founders / employees and some early investors even if they don’t money for operations at all. While Databricks is large
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manquer
1y ago
Progress is not just a function of technical possibility( even if it exists) it is also economics. It has taken tens to hundred of billions of dollars without equivalent economic justification(yet) before to reach here. I am not saying econ
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manquer
1y ago
As long it is orbiting the sun, i.e bound by the solar gravitational field then it is in the solar system? Also depending how elliptical the orbit, is the perigee might be much closer than 700AU, while still being further than Pluto's
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manquer
1y ago
It may not be option to most people in the US (most self driving use case is built around the US market) In America driving is a economic necessity, from going to work to even the grocery shop needs cars and dependency increases inversely w
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manquer
1y ago
* In a better car, serviced much better than the average professional vehicle. The % matters because it is close enough excluding these factors, so we can not definitely say it currently better than humans yet, close but not conclusively so
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manquer
1y ago
> 4.6 cab crashes, 3.7 livery car crashes, and 6.7 crashes with private cars. > Waymo 2.1 crashes The numbers become much less 80+% plus claim in the article as you remove factors. It comes closer to 30% with professional drivers. Liv
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manquer
1y ago
Not the same cars though, people are not driving newish mid range SUV with professional maintenance all the time.
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manquer
1y ago
Waymo ( and self driving programs as well) have been careful not to go for public large scale deployments in any city with difficult weather and for good reason focused on cities like Austin, Phoenix, Los Angeles, SF[1] so far with easy dri
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1y ago
Here is one, Humans drive in all weather conditions on all types of roads and also many types of personal vehicles of varying ages and conditions. Waymo is limited to few specific locations with decent roads and does not drive in poor weath
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manquer
1y ago
Not even when their product kills thousands or more and they knowingly took action that resulted in those deaths. Perdue pharma is a high profile recent example of this , but there dozens of such events from big tobacco to baby formula
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manquer
1y ago
Yeah you are right, thank you the correction. I vaguely remembered they announced it, but didn't find it on a quick search, thought maybe I was wrong.
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manquer
1y ago
Almost every cloud provider outside of Azure and GCP have an s3 compatible offering . S3 API is de-facto standard for object storage tooling Cloudflare, scaleway, hetzner, OVH, Oracle, minio and dozens of others all have s3 compatible objec
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manquer
1y ago
You are mixing build time reproduction with run time ones. Docker images (not files) help with the run time consistency . Docker (files) barely scratch the surface of build reproducibility. Most applications depend on the distribution packa
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manquer
1y ago
Having a good ethos before significant funding rounds is one thing , it is lot harder once you raise a ton of external money. It is not big bad VC either, VC funding while demanding is still lot more forgiving than Private equity or public
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manquer
1y ago
GoDaddy is the root registry for all .us ccTLD, MarkMonitor is the actual registar Zoom is working with. The issue seems to be more how GoDaddy assigned to the domain to MarkMonitor not something Zoom itself likely controls (such as NS reco
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manquer
2y ago
How so ? While it is P2P protocol, the network is pretty centralized. UPI is owned by NPCI(gov entity) and runs on top of IMPS both the networks are strongly regulated by RBI the central bank. There is fair amount of regulation and KYC/
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manquer
2y ago
> ChatGPT alone has hundreds of millions of active user that are clearly getting value from it So does OG Siri or Alexa, Letdown does not mean completely useless, it just means what the users are getting is far less than what they were
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manquer
2y ago
As one such developer, it is a powerful ability to be able to bypass restrictions meant to be used sparingly for a good reason I rarely commit the same kind of code the full time professional developer do(when bypassing policies). Typicall
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2y ago
It does happen for many reasons and not uncommon, uncertainty and risk is typically why. There isn’t one single value, value derived ( let alone perceived) is subjective In this case, The stock is worth more(or less) to the 49% shareholder
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manquer
2y ago
While robots.txt is not there to directly prevent automated requests, it does prevent crawling which is needed for search indices. Without recursive crawling, it will not possible for a engine to know what are valid urls[1]. They will oth
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manquer
2y ago
> they aren't much different .. NSA, GCHQ, or Netherlands I (and most here) wouldn't really know what that caliber is in these other organizations either to compare What we do hear is of how the Hubble's tech stack is h
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manquer
2y ago
> It is not so mossad-y. Would we (i.e. anyone not in the intelligence space) know how intelligence service-y software would look like ? . Aren't all such organizations trained and designed to be inconspicuous and in places we are u
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manquer
2y ago
They are not ? Most of your references are more than a decade ago, (alongside Apple) compared to peers like Microsoft they are very much do not have acquisition culture . Mandiant is only large acquisition in the last 10 years > $1B whic
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2y ago
The actual problem statement is can such a system do so safely . If it is just to drive a car all you need are some stepper motors and a raspberry pi. The goal is to reduce accident and fatalities not eliminate jobs . If LiDAR has 1/1
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2y ago
The maintenance costs are only marginally higher per the report at $1.33 FCEB vs $1.15 BEB , $2.37 for Hybrids and $1.28 for Diesel (with additional public health costs for respiratory illnesses), the sample size(5x5) is too small to draw a
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manquer
2y ago
Who is bashing China here ? You misunderstood my point Chinese tech giants like Alibaba or Tencent or Baidu are just as good as western ones . Their inability to go global has little do with just their technical ability to build products. I
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2y ago
Compensation is complicated and function of value added to the organization may not correlate to work put in. I have no opinion on what should be cut, just pointing out it won't the end of Mozilla without Google deal. -- For anyone who
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2y ago
Tech companies or big tech conventionally usually mean software companies. Every company is a tech company, if you want to be broad in your definition, they have to use tech to compete . Actions on Chinese EV cars are either being serious
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2y ago
It will hurt but it won’t be their death. They have been saving up a bit last year if you see the financial reports their reserves are just above $1B now and there are others who paid in the past (like Yahoo did till 2017) who will pay Fire
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