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I don't know about fully open, but I think Buffer is an example of a company that shares unusually much. https://buffer.com/resources/revenue-dashboard/

There's some sort of list at https://openstartup.tm/ but I think a lot of companies listed there are open with only select pieces of info.

Both of these are about public sharing though. Employee sharing is trickier to know from the outside. Perhaps Valve Software because of the lack of hierarchy?

Cost of living is way lower in Europe, especially if you also account for health care and higher education.

HN still accepts new accounts. It's not an exclusive club for old people.

Even beyond that, stories have been repeating here since the beginning. Not everyone has the same life experiences, and not everyone checks HN at the same time.

To the source.

The Onion is a well known source of purposely incorrect information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion

I love the concept and really tried to get on the JimmyJoy train. However it causes severe nausea for me. I don't have any known allergies or intolerances and no other food ever has caused similar issues. So, I think they have some ways to go.

It's a deliberate meme from early 2000s.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-1-phenomenon

Let's take a look at some of those realistic timelines. A quick googling gave me a very helpful listicle by VentureBeat from 2017, titled Self-driving car timeline for 11 top automakers. [1]

Some examples:

Ford - Level 4 vehicle in 2021, no gas pedal, no steering wheel, and the passenger will never need to take control of the vehicle in a predefined area.

Honda - production vehicles with automated driving capabilities on highways sometime around 2020

Toyta - Self-driving on the highway by 2020

Renault-Nissan - 2020 for the autonomous car in urban conditions, probably 2025 for the driverless car

Volvo - It’s our ambition to have a car that can drive fully autonomously on the highway by 2021.

Hyundai - We are targeting for the highway in 2020 and urban driving in 2030.

Daimler - large-scale commercial production to take off between 2020 and 2025

BMW - highly and fully automated driving into series production by 2021

Tesla - End of 2017

It certainly wasn't just Tesla who was promising self-driving cars any second now. Tesla was definitely the most agressive, but failed to meet its goals just like every other manufacturer.

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[1] https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/04/self-driving-car-timeline...

> This is a current limitation

The thing with any AI/ML tech is that current limitations are always underplayed by proponents. Self-driving cars will come out next year, every year.

I'd say that until the tech actually exists, this is a great way to detect live deepfakes. Not using the technique just because maybe sometime in the future it won't work isn't very sound.

For an extreme opponent you may need additional steps. So this sideways trick probably isn't enough for CIA or whatnot, but that's about as fringe as you can get and very little generic advice applies anyway.

A great strategy but has its limits. Just a few weeks ago some guys tried a rather good version of this strategy in Estonia to sneak into a Rammstein concert. Not only did they have high-vis vests, but one of them also had high-vis pants, both of them had working gloves and they were carrying a ladder. [1]

It didn't work out though, they didn't get past security. I think one of the major flaws in their attempt was that they arrived too late, thousands of regular people were already on the premises. They should have come early in the morning.

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[1] https://f7.pmo.ee/Rur-qzbdJAu0h_EKSRoidSHPFsg=/1536x0/nginx/...

The leaked source is from somewhere between 5.65 & 5.66. https://getwacup.com/blog/index.php/2021/04/17/what-does-the...

There is some way to mute it. I've already forgotten how exactly, but I think you have to open a non-reel video and mute that. Then all the reels are muted.

This means that I now have the opposite problem. I can't selectively unmute reels in my feed even if I want to. Instagram is 100% silent for me, even though my phone is not muted and doesn't have the volume turned down.

I really don't get it why they don't have a mute button on the reels themselves.

You have a good point that would stand even stronger without the name calling.

It seems that they also bet on the hypetrain lasting longer. They are now trying to cancel some of their TSMC orders. [1] They'll probably end up with a juicy profit overall anyway, but perhaps the more clear shovel sellers here are foundries like TSMC and Samsung.

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[1] https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-reportedly-wants-to-cut-t...

If you're an actual problem solver, you don't even need a CV. Your clients will be so happy that they will recommend your services to their buddies.

It's obsession with technological advancement. There was a time when people were resistant to even 720p, saying that 480p is more than enough and they can't even see the difference.

When comparing local production prices between different countries it is important to keep local wages in mind. The ISP employees in Kazakhstan are not getting paid US salaries.

To do some quick math, let's take the median monthly salaries of both Kazakhstan and USA, 364,000 KZT ($755) and 3,500 USD per month respectively.

That means that the $10/month 500Mbps symmetrical fiber is about 1.32% of median monthly wage in Kazakhstan. For the US, 1.32% of 3,500 USD is about $46/month.

Looking at the AT&T website, they offer 500Mbps symmetrical fiber for $65/month + taxes. So yes, the US internet is more expensive by about 50%.

However one should still ask - well, maybe AT&T provides better service? I don't know whether AT&T is a better provider than your Kazakhstan ISP, but some points to consider are:

- Can you have a connection uptime of 6 months without interruptions and it's just business as usual and not an achievement? (In Estonia I have router & connection uptime measured in years. When I lived in the US, my Xfinity connection dropped for a few minutes every week.)

- Does the ISP have excellent global peering? Poor peering can result in much higher latencies to international destinations, and also much lower bandwidth. (In Estonia I know all the budget ISPs buy (as opposed to build) their international traffic and oversell it, which means connections across oceans are at quarter of the advertised speeds at peak hours.)

- Is the last mile cabling cost eaten by the ISP, or will they demand you to pay for its building?

It's a real law enforcement term, even though it has no pharmacological value. Hard drugs are just controlled substances that come with larger punishment.

There are also some incorrect definitions being peddled by law enforcement like higher chance of addiction, however hard drugs like LSD clearly contradict that.

As far as this article goes, I read it and I'm not sure what part of the hard drug meaning was meant to be communicated here.

It's funded by the EU and it doesn't even cover all EU languages. This is just a small scale pilot project, it's unreasonable to expect them to cover 3000 languages.

> Because TSLA is way too overvalued. He has to know that it is overvalued.

Indeed he does. He has talked about this publicly in various interviews over the years. [1]

> Musk pretended that TSLA valuation is reasonable. Musk even called out Gates for shorting TSLA stock

Musk definitely really dislikes short sellers, no doubt about that. However that is different from pretending that TSLA valuation is reasonable.

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[1] A decent example is the 2021 Kara Swisher interview, where he states I have literally gone on record and said that our stock price is too high. https://youtu.be/O1bZg7frOmI?t=2450

The judges in courts are humans who look for intent. They're not machines who you can trick that easily. So no, no need to worry about a €1000000000 entry fee to Berlin.

Venice is tiny, old, decaying. You can just think of it as a museum. EU free movement does not give free access to all EU museums.

It's not about change being hard, it's about doing a reality check on moral highground. You chose to talk about working for a company that cooperates with MBS, and I wanted to point out that it is only a tiny fraction of activities that support MBS.

Choosing an MBS-free activity is all fine and good for personal moral growth. However, in general, I've observed a lot of gloating about moral highground once someone does a few of these choices. Without realizing that the people they're trying to describe as morally corrupt might actually be less corrupt just because they shop less.

Mohammed bin Salman is from Saudi Arabia, this article is about the United Arab Emirates, or well the Amazon-related part anyway.

Also, while we're on the topic of moral dilemmas, I would like to add some spice by pointing out that buying almost anything from the supermarket funds someone like Mohammed bin Salman, because their oil was used in the production and transportation of the product or its components.

Oh yeah, I've noticed that as well. Mainstream media loves talking about the general chip shortage and investment into 5nm and 3nm fabs in the same article, whether it is Intel or TSMC. The media (and the general population) seems to be fully convinced that a chip is a chip.

> Intel is totally irrelevant

Intel still has the fastest chip in the world with the i9-12900KS. They are also the second largest semiconductor company in the world by revenue, only just last year barely passed by Samsung. [1]

I know Intel is not hip, but to call them irrelevant is some serious reality distortion.

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[1] https://www.eetasia.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/I...

I was a Orkut user with a good connection (Tier 1 ISP) and I can't say that I remember it being slow in general. There is some fuzzy memory of discussion boards loading slowly, but that was the case often for very popular phpBB and and vBulletin boards of the time.

Facebook didn't accept new user accounts at the time. You have to remember that Facebook was for university e-mails only before September 2006. By that time Orkut was already widespread in Estonia, taking market share quickly from the previous dominator rate.ee, which was a domestic hot-or-not clone that didn't offer discussion opportunities. Orkut was a breath of fresh air compared to rate, because of its wide selection of features.

As a daily Bolt user I have two main guesses as to why they want everyone using the app.

1) GPS tracking. They want to know where you are at all times. The app makes this tracking easier than a webpage.

2) Upselling. The Bolt app has front and center upselling to their car rental service, their scooter rental service, and their food delivery service. All these services share the same account and payment info too. -- Do these exist in the web version? I don't see them on the screenshots. These upsells can be implemented on the web too of course, but that probably hasn't happened as it requires web apps for those services too.

For what it's worth Uber is still in the neighboring Estonia, which is also the headquarters of Bolt.

Uber entered Estonia quite early and did its classic market share grab where it completely dominated. However they quickly lost that market share to Bolt (in a period of a few years, and even before it was called Bolt - it was Taxify back then) because of local market understanding and more concentrated marketing/advertising. Nowadays Uber still "works", but you have to wait 20 minutes for a car, compared to 2 minutes with Bolt. I get a sense that a good chunk of Uber drivers are banned from Bolt, but this is just a hunch based on the Uber drivers accepting low fee rides during surge pricing on Bolt.

It's true but the same thing is true for almost every open source project. Instead of Microsoft it's usually a single guy or perhaps a duo who has the ultimate say. Everyone else's word is just a suggestion. It's a rarity for an open source project to work under some sort of democracy where random developers have a say.