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>Note that 3rd generation Google TPUs are on par with latest NVidia GPUs in terms of performance according to Google. If Tesla has made a chip that is 100x faster, they should spin it off

I don't think they've claimed that the FSD computer (hw3) is 100x faster than "the latest NVidia GPUs". He's said that it's about an order of magnitude in the number of video images the current Nvidia hardware in a Tesla can process (that is, from 150-200fps to ~2000fps) without needing to scale down any frames.

I think he may have said in one live interview it would be "2000%" better, but since he said previously it would do 2000 frames/s, that may have just been a mistake of saying "percent" instead of "frames".
> I’d wager greater than 90% of working developers without a CS degree could not pass a test in any of these courses, or even discuss the topics at an intelligible level.

As someone who did not major in CS, and learned coding on the job, I find this particularly elitist and an awful attitude. I realise that I am behind the ball a bit on things like having memorised the space-time complexity of sorting algorithms, but I am filling these gaps quickly, especially when it applies to real world problems I face in my career.

I can't say for certain that I would be able to pass calculus, linear algebra, discrete math, and differential equations, but I think that I would. To throw some elitism back at you; I wound not consider any of those subjects to be anything except pretty basic in the realm of mathematics.
In my experience test failures occur vastly less frequently than the rate at which tests are written, and when they do fail, it's usually due to a refactoring where lots of tests fail with only a tiny handful of failure modes.

If test setup is involved, adding multiple assertions is much cheaper (both in code and test suite execution time) than having a test per assertion. If assertion failures don't fail fast, later assertion failures are frequently just noise. For example, often the size of a list or map is asserted on, and then the entries checked; if the size fails, there may be spurious null reference or index out of bounds failures.

And due to far fewer failure modes than broken tests, it's often the case that once one test has been fixed, a similar fix needs to be applied to most of the other tests that failed. In a dynamically typed language, this is usually due to a refactoring that changed the API in some way; a method renamed, parameters added or removed, that kind of thing.

(I am increasingly convinced of my long-held opinion that unit tests are mostly useful at the leaves of the call graph, and the pinch points in data flow (which are usually fairly integration flavoured), and not very valuable everywhere else. Integration tests that seldom need to be rewritten after a major refactoring are worth their weight in gold, though. Major bonus points of they can be run quickly.)
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I’m a fan of boot camp education not a fan of most boot camps. Not only do the graduates from good ones learn skills, but they are typically the kind of students who want to learn and then get something done. I see this in community college students too: little screwing around, lot of determination.

Unfortunately most bootcamos make outrageous claims as to the job opportunities post completion, and also the quality is uneven. Both are serious problems.
I don't know about overqualified, it's more that the job is hard in a different way. I'm not a CS grad, but it's not as if I'm actually using my numerical analysis or computational fluid dynamics coursework either.

However, I do jump between discussing if a trie is the right way to implement something, discussing whether the "simple" model should be a SVM or boosted tree, trying to figure out if we've covered the major abuse angles in our product, coordinating with all the other teams we're collaborating with, analyzing the experiment results, etc, etc.

Having at least some actual CS certainly helps fill in the gaps, even if it's not what I'm doing most of the time.
I don't want TV or movies often (About 150 hrs a year total consumption), but when I do I actively suppress the skeptic inside in order to enjoy the narrative and special effects.
Government commonly pays people far more than competitive, usually in the form of extra paid hours for nonwork, at the office or in pensions.
Try reading "The Story of B". It discusses this exact circumstance.
TrouSerS and tpm-tools supports TPM 1.2, and tss2 with tpm2-tools supports TPM 2.0. Also, I'm not aware of any hardware with BIOS firmware and TPM 2.0 even if nothing prevents the combination, TPM 2.0 post-dates UEFI. Consumer hardware circa 2016 is when I started seeing predominantly TPM 2.0 appearing.
You guessed correctly.
The overwhelming majority of spam rejected by Gmail is rejected at SMTP time, so checking your Spam label isn't much of a solution if you don't have confidence in their classification. A very small fraction of spam is delivered to that label.
Your TPU point makes no sense. If Google's TPUs are on par with NVIDIA GPUs for NN workloads (I assume that's what you mean on par?) then they suck at making chips, which they don't. What's even the point of making them, and why has e.g. Deepmind been using them if they could have been using NVidia chips in the first place? I don't think they're budget constrained. It sounds to me like you're using a non-relevant definition of "on par".

About the stuff that's based on Elon's assertions:

First, yes, he is often wrong on timelines. Nobody doubts that. By the way, for other car companies (even Waymo!) who claim they'll have X milestone by Y date, everyone is understanding, since timelines slip. For Tesla, apparently it's a capital crime to say "I think we'll have it by then" and not have it. But your original points were not about timelines.

As for the miles they have registered with the DMV, Tesla's self-driving programme does not follow the same path as others. They are progressing from level 2 upwards, and deploying improvements to their fleet of cars in production. Other companies are working with tiny fleets and aiming directly at level 4+. So basically, you're looking in the wrong place. But even so, Elon's latest prediction is that they'll have "feature completeness" by end of year, and then they'll start working on regulatory approval. So I assume that's when you'll start seeing miles there, and you will very likely see lots of them, all at once.
The continued fetishizing of child-molestation fantasist, heroin-evangelist and wife-murderer William Burroughs is gross. To place photos of him on the cover of a new book holding a handgun is to mock the murder of his second wife Joan Vollmer, for which Burroughs never served a day of prison.

Burroughs fans treat her death by gunshot to the head and Burroughs continuous lies about it as little more than a humorous anecdote. You'd think in the #MeToo era, they'd have a little more sense.
Well the logic is that just choosing not to be part of a country is insufficient. Otherwise separatist movements would be extremely successful.
Tencent Just Made Mobile Game Development a Lot Easier
Flexibility itself has economic value to workers.

The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers

https://www.nber.org/papers/w23296?sy=296

There are jobs that pay more with less flexibility. These individuals are free to pursue those jobs. Personally, I would easily trade a third of my salary in exchange for the flexibility of 4 months of vacation each year if my employer offered it. I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to trade salary for flexibility because flexibility has greater marginal utility to me.
I know there is currently in the air a zeitgeist against declaring it, but I still maintain that almost noteworthy humankind achievements happened like this, or in very small teams of highly aligned individuals.

Now of course, he is standing on the shoulders of giants, so to speak, but hasn't he become very close to a giant himself now?

It is almost always true that your daily behavior speaks your deepest beliefs, and to put something like this together as quickly as the OP did...well, awesome work OP maybe now you can work on flying cars :)
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The Product-Market Fit by Michael Seibel (2006)
Deadlines Are Killing Us, and Almost Everything Else I Know About Leadership
Since when do we completely absolve individuals of being responsible for their well being? The state should be support of last resort.
For example, loose legumes (ie tomatoes) that need to be weighed. Can't think of an alternative to plastic bags
It's all worth subcategorizing. Highway driving is substantially safer than surface streets, and if you stick to awake, sober, daytime drivers in good weather, the safety of human drivers is even higher.

Given that autopilot can handle nighttime, but not the others, it's completely possible that 1/300 million miles is above the sober good weather highway human driver fatality rate.
It's maybe worth mentioning that people doing that trick with duster gas (such as R-134a) should avoid freezing any body parts, and should also try not to breathe much of the gas.
I'm a big fan of standardjs. Beats prettier and the rest. Takes more of a go fmt approach.

While debating myself on whether to learn rust or go next I fell into clojure. I'll probably pick go up next and then rust.
> Prioritize the people and projects that matter, and it won’t matter how long anything takes.

This is exactly why I created Pony [0], an email platform that sends and receives messages once a day. The problem for me wasn’t managing my time, but managing my attention, which was really hard with everything coming at me constantly all the time.

I observed that most things aren’t urgent, and further I observed that nearly all communication was improved when I had space and time to handle it, and most importantly, was able to compartmentalize and give it attention.

[0] https://www.pony.gg
I had only recently moved and had no idea if he was a neighbor or lived on the other side of the city. Not that I would have done anything differently otherwise, but I also happen to be a terrible liar.
That is usually true, and it's a lot easier to find all of the failures first if you can see all of them at once instead of fixing one rerunning the test suite fixing another, and continuing the cycle until they all pass.
> Hard science

Of course, this is "hard science" that you learned in The Matrix...
Lots of understanding about how to prevent and cure cancer is ignored and is based on strengthening the immune system and giving it the building blocks it needs to do its job (or avoiding poisons that make it harder for the immune system to work). Maybe some of it is just too cheap and easy -- and yet also expensive and difficult in the sense that it involves a radical change to culture and lifestyle?

See, for example: "We Can Win the War on Cancer - Right Now - with Author Joel Fuhrman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qOKsPkfIWw
"The underlying theme of this presentation today is that the diseases that afflict Americans are unnatural. They're not the result of genetics [or] predominantly from aging -- in other words cancer, heart attacks, strokes, [and] dementia don't have to happen and they shouldn't [happen] if we live in .. the way [our] bodies have been made and [are] biologically designed -- if we live a natural life [and] consume the nutrients humans require to be normal. Being normal means no cancer. ..."

As just one example, he explains how animal products, especially dairy, raise IGF-1 which contributes to cancer, and a white-bread bagel drives insulin levels high which also contributes to cancer -- with both driving normally useful hormones into cancer causing ranges. How many oncologists probably still eat bagels and have dairy?

There are some funny animations about this in "Fat Sick & Nearly Dead 2".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDeTKomY4P8

Here is one of those animations on the immune system needing enough good food to do its job:
"Understanding The Root Cause of Chronic Illnesses"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlDPzdTciM8

(Ironic to see this modded down within minutes...)
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11731564.
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It's clunky to build CSS 'packs' and it's unclear how to wire in asset helpers e.g. checksum'd file names for images. It's not insurmountable, but there is no obvious best path forward.
Plus, I don't think a lot of the engineers on HN are actually even working on first page optimizations. If you are building an application that people are logging in to and using on a regular basis, you can afford a little bit of first load overhead which will then most definitely stay cached for the remainder of the session.

All this talk of trying to skim off a few kb of load time only applies to extreme edge cases of landing pages with flighty potential customers.
The 8810 4G doesn't have great frequencies for the US, so be aware of that if you live around here.
Thats what I call the grind factor. Does the person grind it out until they succeed? Very important in programming.
> People of Earth, your attention, please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system.

> There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. ... What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.
I don't think bash is feature rich: you have to call a program to do arithmetic! It's BASIC with pipes. If you really want to script in a unix-traditional way you should go for perl i guess. Also: i didn't want to imply going text-mode, scripting probably is going to be keyboard-driven but you may have graphical composition too. Tiling window managers usually get this "graphical shell" right by letting you choose/replace most components (status bar, window decorations, keybindings, launcher-menu, notification viewer). And about learning curve: i think we should really acknowledge that with any tool either you go fast or you go far. I'm not sure what's so unusual about struggling with a programming assignment in first year when for most other things of life it usually takes something from a couple years to a decade to be considered "good enough to stop learning" (or maybe start advanced training) (writing, basic math, music, sport, craft).
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I'm getting errors when using a VPN:

> The firewall on this server is blocking your connection.
The color palette and the shape are generative used a cos function mixed with 10% of horizontal and vertical perlin-noise as well as for the radius.
I used to think like you until I met a coworker. He could not code to save his life, nobody in the team liked working with him. Until one day we had a boring data entry task. He could do it for hours at a time, and barely made any mistake. This experience taught me something.
I've worked as a bootcamp instructor, I've hired people from bootcamps, and I worked as self-taught programmer for years before going back to get my CS degree.

From my experience, the very top tier bootcamps basically function as an extended job interview. They select for people who either already have most of the skills needed, or who possess an extreme natural aptitude. Graduates from these programs can be effective programmers out of the gate. However, the pool of people who can pass these programs is extremely limited. The failure of many top tier bootcamps to scale points to this.

As for graduates from other programs, I place them in 2 buckets. The first is people who have substantial additional experience--they’ve been programming as a hobby for years, they learned python to automate work in their old career, they have a related career or degree etc... These candidates can also be extremely effective.

The second is candidates who have little to no experience beyond the bootcamp. These candidates from what I’ve seen are almost never a good fit. They generally come in below the level of a 2nd year college intern. 12 weeks just isn't enough time--barring extreme outliers.

The problem is that people who fall into the first set of candidates tend to be effective with or without bootcamp. My advice is that if you want to be a programmer, don’t pay thousands of dollars for bootcamp. Either take the time to go to school and learn the theory, or learn on your own through free or lower cost materials if you’re happy with CRUD jobs.

There are other ways to level up into more interesting work, but most people won’t learn the boring parts without external motivation and structure, and a CS degree is the easiest way to provide that.
I got to play with Dynamicland for a couple of hours last week, thanks to a meetup organised by Steve Krouse and Omar Rizwan. Steve runs the Future Of Coding podcast ( https://futureofcoding.org/ ) and Slack community, and Omar is a researcher at Dynamicland. Last year Omar posted an excellent, detailed breakdown of GeoKit, a map toolkit he created at Dynamicland; it includes much of the technical detail and videos you probably want if you've read this far: https://rsnous.com/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/

My own feelings about Dynamicland, after a couple of hours there, are mixed but mostly positive:

* Like many who experience it, I don't have a handle on DL's most valuable differentiators as a platform. But that's OK, because it feels like they're not trying to achieve that yet; it's more about just experimenting. We're so unused to computing with this UX model that it's going to take a while to find its best uses.

* Plus, DL is chasing an idea for which the hardware barely exists yet. Ideally, it would be cheaply sensing full 3D in the environment, and projecting higher contrast visuals at all angles.

* Even so, there are some easy, playful ideas they've done that are wonderful. For example, an animator script which lays out three paper-sized outlines to the right of wherever you place the script, and then rapidly cycles the images it captures from those outlines. So, if you want to teach animation, you just draw a cycle across three pieces of paper, put them in the outlines, and the animation shows up instantly on the animator.

* The RealTalk code for the whole DL environment is pasted on a couple of whiteboards on one side of the space. They've voluntarily chosen to constrain themselves in how complex it can be. I really like that.
Computing cluster vs battery is pretty basic.
Google are pretty hot on censoring copyright infringement. Which is arguably a pretty western value, and is a direct consequence of US government influence.
You don't get citizenship. You get residency with a path to citizenship.

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A lot of large enterprises using GSuite route their mail through external systems that provide various dubious services and which often screw up the spam classification by having dirty VIPs or being open spam relays etc. Perhaps your organization was infected by such a thing. Otherwise having a threaded message or a sender in your address book is a virtually guaranteed saving throw against spam classification.
I keep seeing people say that and in a society wide kind of way I think that's true yes but I think for people to actually accept it it will have to be better. Everyone thinks they're a better driver than they are and all the failures and crashes will be attributable to either the autopilot or the passenger-driver.

Also if we're going to need roads upgraded for autopilot it's going to be much much more limited. Roadworks take so long and we can barely keep roads together in some states.
Let's not post this stuff.

If you see it here, flag it.
I was shopping a few months back at a store with a particularly disinterested cashier who was doing something on their phone and was also charging it using the USB port that was on the register. It struck me as something that you probably shouldn't be able to plug your personal device into but that it is likely a common practice when nothing actually prevents it.

Made me wonder if an attack scenario would be feasible where compromised phones could be used for targeted attacks utilizing one of the USB vulnerabilities; essentially just laying dormant until the user plugs into something interesting to charge.

Assuming that: Physical access vectors are often deemed a low priority/less likely to be patched and that testing if an employee cares more about the BYoD security policy or their dying phone will have not favor infosec. It seemed like an interesting way to get access to point of sale systems that I had not heard anyone talk about before.

Some other privilege escalation vulnerability would have to be exploited go beyond the usual app malware capabilities but I don't know enough about USB or mobile OS's to know if it would be possible even with root(maybe that's why no one talks about it).
> [we will reach] no-fail image based object detection level of advancement [...] my most optimistic wild guess is 10-20 years

You mean using cameras without LIDARs right? Presumably Waymo itself (cameras + LIDARs) is roughly at that level of advancement today.

In 10-20 years LIDARs should improve dramatically as well, in both price and performance. So I'm guessing cars will continue to rely on both technologies even when cameras become viable by themselves.

BTW, did you enjoy working at Waymo? Would you recommend the perception group as an employer?
Other posters have already brought up some good examples to chew on, if it all seems so simple to you perhaps you’re oversimplifying things.
That's probably where I read it.
You (ok well Neil Tyson really) are the motivation for this curated content

https://mobile.twitter.com/hardscifimovies
It's not a fallacy, he's saying that its not the point. The question is why is this the crime?

Matt Levine talks about insider trading a lot. He brings up the point that "it's not about fairness, its about theft". He approaches this much in the way. The crime that took place was against the schools. People misappropriated their property; the ability to trade access for money.
Do CS grads study svm?
The list is not exhaustive, we're looking for loopholes all the time.
> That is the situation for any driver.

The software running on drivers has been under active development for much longer than Tesla. (I'd start bidding at billions of years, though I'm willing to get argued down to tens of thousands.)
If their base salary is decent, then it might not be surprising at all. Determining whether an individual stays in a particular job involves multiple weighted variables. To give an example, once an individual has a base level of financial security, salary could easily become less important than time spent with loved ones. But there are some people who will give the maximum weighting to money no matter what, and companies which optimize for this variable will always need to outcompete all other companies on salary to retain employees. In this case, it's no surprise that their retention rates are relatively low. Looking at the article that you referenced, I notice that the companies with the highest retention rates aren't the ones with reputations as having the highest salaries.
Sure, if they're TLB-bound.