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by nfw2 2y ago
In the article, the user looks at the price and thinks it seems higher than normal, which is different than comparing prices for identical rides at the same time. EDIT: There is another account I missed in the article where identical rides
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by nfw2 2y ago
My comment was about the usage of the term unfalsifiable, which means something specific that was being misunderstood. I don't know whether they are charging more when users have credits in there account. It seems plausible I guess. He
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by nfw2 2y ago
If two accounts show different prices, it proves the pricing algorithm isn’t standard, but if they show the same price, it doesn’t prove that there are never situations where the pricing algorithm is predatory. It’s hard to prove a negative
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by nfw2 2y ago
You’re confusing unprovable and unfalsifiable. It could proven either through a whistleblower or finding an example where two accounts request the same ride at the same time and show a different price. If these sort of anecdotes aren't
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by nfw2 2y ago
I have some major disagreements with this: 1.) Arguments about what words should mean are silly, as words clearly can mean different things in different contexts. If a word conveys a concept consistently and without confusion between the sp
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by nfw2 2y ago
I would guess public sector, academia, and large, older enterprise software companies are most likely to be similar. Or just choose any product that is expensive and bad and apply there. I had the same view going into this job though. Worki
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by nfw2 2y ago
You've clearly never built a complex UI. Ad hominem arguments don't land so great, do they?
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When you're on a team with 15 people, that means a lot of process to push through to get anything done. One of the other engineers was the owner for analytics, and as a result we had basically no analytics. Furthermore, the team lead w
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by nfw2 2y ago
This is one of the reasons I think that the push towards server-side UI is misguided. It's much easier to walk through the runtime of a program running locally than it is to step through a render that's distributed across a networ
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I think that many, perhaps even most, engineers incorrectly believe that the main purpose of abstraction in code is simply DRY, as if the goal is to save keystrokes or something. In my view, the purpose of abstraction is to compress the con
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by nfw2 2y ago
5 is a stretch for sure, but Retool, for example, grew to a 9 figure valuation with 2 engineers, and AI is now a big boost to developer velocity.
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I recently left a software dev job in academia, and the amount of inefficiency in the organization is insane. As part of my off-boarding, the lead engineer mentioned she would ideally like to hire 5 more developers to the team. That would b
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I would say you probably could get it done with 5 people (1% not 50%)
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I’ve seen multiple teams hire mediocre people despite having a choice. Usually it is because either: - they believe velocity is simply additive (A player + B player > A player) - they look too much into credentials (big name school &#x2F
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by nfw2 2y ago
Agreed. This sort of posting is against the HN community guidelines: - don’t sneer at the rest of the community - don’t comment about the upvoting of comments - don’t say hacker news is turning into Reddit (not explicitly the case here, but
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by nfw2 2y ago
Last year, I went to a AI / labor roundtable discussion event at the university where I work. One of the folks attending was a state congressman or something like that, and the topic of autonomous vehicles came up. He said his goal was
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by nfw2 2y ago
I expect Uber is feeling extreme pressure to stay relevant, which may means changing the operational model significantly
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The one-shot models aren't going away for anyone who wants to program the chain-of-thought themselves
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I personally find daylight itself to be "distracting" -- like that basic sensory input alone consumes some non-trivial amount of cognitive energy. I much prefer to think in a dark space. I've never met anyone IRL who relates
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by nfw2 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification!
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How does an attacker gain access to a phone number without having the phone? Like physically stealing the sim card or something else?
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by nfw2 2y ago
Can you expand what you mean when you say the security of phone numbers is leagues below email? If someone can gain access to someone's phone, it seems like they would gain access to their email as well.
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Yes, but you define them with Javascript rather than in CSS which is a key difference since the syntax is more intuitive for some (myself included)
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This seems like a bad path to go down. Even if ChatGPT were a perfect developer, being able to understand code would be important because communicating specs is hard
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The main benefit of abstraction isn't to reduce keystrokes; it's to break a program into comprehensible chunks of operation. Routines that are conceptually identical should share an abstraction. A concept might benefit from an abs
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You would have a more permissive development environment where all queries are permitted. Then, once the change to FE code and related queries are finalized, you could automatically have the production whitelist updated before the FE is dep
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by nfw2 2y ago
Whitelisting the queries that clients can use in prod actually doesn't seem like a bad option to avoid a lot of these security issues, assuming you control the clients
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They are referring to the schema language
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You would think a professional writer would be able to describe straightforward arithmetic in a coherent way.
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And the other 29% don't make it

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