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It's hard to Paint this as a bad thing.

If you're in or near SF I recommend looking up optometrist Dr. David Stamper, he specializes in keratoconus and similar issues.

Exactly. Thus far, all we can say for sure is that we have not yet been carelessly crushed to make room for some intergalactic freeway we do not understand. That doesn't mean there…

An ant cannot "see" not comprehend the purpose of a freeway, no matter how hard we might try to explain it. It would walk right over it and not think it were any different than you…

The answer to this is very obvious: For the same reason that humans have not "made contact" with ants. Why do you assume a higher intelligence would even be capable of making conta…

Cruise Automation | Senior Software Engineer (Backend and/or Frontend), SRE | San Francisco | ONSITE Interested in working on tools at the intersection of robotics and machine lear…

Cruise Automation | Senior/Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE Cruise is building the world’s best autonomous vehicles to safely connect people to t…

Source? Also, even if they verify you meet some minimum bar of being able to support yourself (which I was not asked about in my interview, other than turning up looking generally …

Not entirely true. For the diversity visa (green card lottery), there are (extensive) medical and background checks, but the US consulate does not consider skills and resources bey…

P3 instances have Volta (V100) GPUs.

With ECS and EKS you get a managed master, then you set up your own autoscaling groups etc to deploy nodes (which you manage) into the cluster. With Fargate, you get access to AWS-…

Agreed. I got about half way through the article before realizing the author does not understand how an exchange works.

Ultimately, because large traders care more about short term liquidity than long term solvency.

Completely unfounded nonsense. Their profit margin is much higher than the fraud rate (as others pointed out, if fraud was as high as you say, banks would have shut down the relati…

Cruise Automation | Senior DevOps/SRE, Data Infrastructure | San Francisco | ONSITE We're building self driving cars, and we're testing in the most difficult urban environments. We…

Different car.

Not damage control, just providing an alternate opinion. Yes, it's entirely possible that the commenter is (or was) an employee in a department other than engineering. We all repor…

Cruise employee here. I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. In my experience, Cruise is one of the most exciting companies to be working for today, and Kyle is easily the most intel…

Yes! I think we're kicking off 2018 intern hiring in the next few weeks. Keep an eye on the website :)

Hi HN, engineer at Cruise here. I just wanted to point out that most people are surprised when I tell them we're hiring a ton of backend/full stack/android engineering positions (m…

Our drivers always keep their hands on the steering wheel, even while in autonomous mode. There isn't really any way you could tell externally whether the car is engaged or not, ot…

Cruise Automation | San Francisco | ONSITE We're building the world's most reliable self driving car technology, and we have the right backing + partnerships in place for manufactu…

You could, but it's simply not necessary. I have not verified the numbers, but I think this answer gives a better idea of the scale we are talking about: https://bitcoin.stackexcha…