chronic940

I said I wanted to avoid terrorist attacks, not be near them.

Yep. Quite simply, the 0.1% of the US population here on HN does not care about privacy nor protesting nor writing to their local or state government.

HN needs to stop living in a bubble. Only 1/3 of the US even bothered voting in the Trump v Clinton presidential election. I'll let you think about that for a moment. Now think about border searches. Has your phone been searched? Neither has mine. I'll go back to my company catered lunch now.

You forgot the AWS Internet egress charge per GB..

K80s and K40s have a K. That's two generations old. We are currently on P and about to be V. If you think K80s are good, you are far far behind the times in machine learning. A single 1080Ti even in a 4U server outperforms 2 K80s.

Lol

Do you know how few people on HN even own any cryptocurrency? It's likely close to 1-2%. It's been like that for the past 5 years.

Still too expensive. Instead of biasing your user studies with big companies that already use your product, you should listen to the greater population of potential users. But hey, that's startup 101 and I don't expect you to know that.

> store them securely in a password manager and use different passwords for each account​

You are about the 2% of the tech crowd (i.e, bay area software/data people). The vast majority of engineers do not use a password manager, let alone the entire US populace.

You severely overestimate the amount the average person cares about password security.

Taxpayers spend millions saving drug users in hospitals for their stupid decisions.

Here's another data point. I've never been to one of their shows. I don't plan on it. I'll go if I have time. Elephants or no elephants does not contribute to my decision.

For those wondering, it costs 4-5 USD one way.

Do you still take an Uber to the airport?

What is Hashcat and why should we care?

> Unless I really have to now, I'm avoiding Uber and driving myself to the airport. Uber has proven they don't care about passenger safety, and only care about profits.

You do that. Me and the tens of thousands other riders will continue to use Uber for airport trips despite owning a car. I just wanted to counter your antecdote with mine.

Delays don't seem to be part of the process at Slack, Google, or any of your top tier software companies.

Tesla? Delay after delay. Want to cite auto industry, I can point more successful examples.

Data science is absolutely based on degree level. Software engineering, maybe 50% of people care about your degree.

> The actual decision-making is still heuristics and hard-coded rules.

The planning system always be hard coded rules. Perception, fine, throw the latest CNN at it. Planning and control, better stick to the DMV/NHTSA traffic book.

I love Elon as much as the next guy. I think SpaceX, Tesla, OpenAI and even Neuralink are great companies tackling meaningful problems and wish them the best.

The Boring Company however, yeah, he messed this one up.

HN is full of Elon fanboys. I'm one myself. The die hard, willing to say "the world is flat" fanboys are out here defending him. Look, I like Elon. But the sane fanboys are trying to save Elon a lot of headache by not pursuing this venture.

If they're not residing in America nor are a threat to the US, the 96% should be ignored.

Net impact on society: You and all your friends use UberPool to get around San Francisco for a few bucks one way. No more car insurance or car lease payments for 24 year olds. Now the Uber riders can afford their medical bills or college tuition. Uber is bad, right?

Very few people care about the direct negative externalities you mentioned, including here in HN.

Very few people on HN actually care about the Uber scandals. Almost no one has changed their daily behavior. They all still use Uber.

It's exactly how Trump won the US election. A small group of people spread the idea Uber is doing poorly when in reality they're not.

> And any excessive force or mistake that they engage in will be trending on YouTube in under an hour. So you better be damn careful.

And what's the best outcome, huh? They get out on temporary administrative leave? Ha. Go ahead and record the police. They don't care. We on HN don't care. And you won't care after a week.

> Just think about someone who listens music at unusually high levels or with channels heavily unbalanced compared to someone with normal hearing abilities. That innocuous information if leaked could hurt the user insurance or job opportunities.

A person who listens to music at unusually loud levels SHOULD be charged more for insurance. Just as a 24 year old Asian single male software engineer in Mountain View gets charged more for car insurance. And if you have poor hearing skills, I sure as hell don't want you on my Marvel Studios audio engineering team (example)

It seems that your really want everyone to be treated equally when in reality it will never happen, and in fact comments like yours increase the disparity.

> I recently joked with my dad "I guess I'm done trying now!" when I stopped qualifying for a certain tax credit after I'd negotiated hard for a nice raise.

If you are still talking about tax credits, you are no where near the top tax brackets. Note that income brackets extend to more than just your reported W-2s...

The industry is doing fine without the old workers with outdated skillsets. Correctness does not matter as much as velocity to release.

And since then, has Digital Strong ARM produced anything? You are further proving his point.

So do you propose we give free scholarships, jobs, and tax breaks to those who end up unlucky?

I was unlucky and had medical problems in college. I deserve some relief. But I'm also a co-founder of a decent startup. Am I lucky or unlucky?