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Waymo | Bay Area and Remote within the USA | Full-time

I'm hiring for the team I lead at Waymo. We're GPU experts who care about latency on the car.

Before coming to Waymo, I lead the CPU/GPU parts of XLA, the compiler for TensorFlow that also powers JAX. We're using XLA and other technologies to make ML and non-ML GPU code run fast on the car.

Ideally we're looking for someone who's comfortable hacking on high-ish level TensorFlow and low-level XLA (or similar frameworks, like TVM), to help with e.g. speeding up int8 stuff. But I'm open to considering strong candidates without this specific experience -- all of this stuff is learnable.

Apply here https://waymo.com/joinus/4764940/ and maybe mention that you saw this on HN! Also if you have questions I'll try to check this thread and reply.
I'd love to use it just for work. I can take it off and walk away. They need to be good though.
They can try to keep up :)

We have two major advantages:
1. We can use best-in-class AI tech, from any vendor (ie. OpenAI) -- whereas Google is only going to use their internal tech
2. We can take lots of UX risk when designing the perfect UI for an AI email client. Gmail has to be much more cautious given it's such a core, old, massive product.
So are iPhones, but they're also tremendously profitable.
All except search are paid services so you wouldn't think so.

And search would probably make more money if they could sell ad space to other companies. And by selling information on popular search terms for particular links.
How important do you feel it is for their real physical bodies to be what you see instead of a 3d avatar? And how important do you feel it is to be able to see them in your actual physical room instead of a 3d virtual space? Basically, I'm asking how far from satisfactory is VRChat.

> But I'm skeptical of any approach with a headset.

Is the problem that it's less comfortable than not having it on?
LinkedIn shows people in working on it and Google hiring for it, too. But I haven't heard from anybody at Salesforce or T-Mobile.
All non-US countries experience this. Apple strictly ties pricing to some USD value, which at the baseline is not always 1:1 (meaning it may be more expensive taking into account conversion).

If your country's dollar falls in value, Apple punishes your country. It's not fair to you as an individual, but it's how Apple have operated for at least the last 15 years.
Social Security is about 30% of the income of the elderly according to the SSA.

https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/factsheets/basicfact-alt.pdf
I suspect that's excluding VAT, which would add 25% where I am, making it a $1000 laptop. I understand Apple isn't responsible for VAT, but I still need to pay it. Still it's hitting the price point I think it should be at, it's just not really an offer that's available to me.
This is an awesome idea! Whilst I know nothing about containers, I find myself wondering if the connections between containers would be able to support the massive moments of force from these sails. Also, would you have to ensure that all the wings are based at the same height on deck for stability or can that be effectively managed through extending and contracting individual wings? Finally, suppose you need the sail containers to be as close to the deck as possible (anticipating one response to my previous thoughts), how much shipping volume would be sacrificed by being unable to place any containers directly above?
I agree, the roll moments are a huge design challenge! We're looking at multiple avenues to bring those loads down to the deck:
- The double wide container already has a longer lever arm to provide righting moment
- We plan to incorporate load spreaders (similar to a crane) which can further extend the footprint to the adjacent container stacks
- We are designing in tethers which automatically drop down to the deck level and get lashed down by a deckhand during installation, which provide additional tension support.

Bailey has written a routing software which we use to send virtual ships on crossings (for instance Trans Pacific), incorporating historical weather data. Even with no change in route or vessel speed, we can see benefits.
> On one hand the strong dollar has held back the US economy because it made it less competitive with lets say German exports (which are sold in euro)

Due to higher US productivity even with the strong currency the cost of production for goods is significantly lower for same quality. US companies are generally gaining market shares in all high value goods.

> On the other hand the strong dollar has been great for the US consumer (cheaper to import stuff)

This allows higher quality of life at lower price. I’d like to point out that EU member gdp per capita are worse than the poorest US states. This is surprising to me as well, but true.

> From an economic perspective BRICS (which on a net basis are exporting nations) should really be worried about more dollar weakness.

How is that true? I’m not following. They need dollars to buy imports and with strong dollar it’s harder to buy imports for same exports. Take Turkey as prime example currently.

> If they do something the US or EU doesn't like then their funds will just be frozen.

I agree that is a big concern for them. However I don’t think a currency pact using Yuan will help much. They really want to give that same power to the Chinese? who have even less due process. This is actually a big reason I’m bullish on Bitcoin it’s probably a better reserve in long run.
Good stuff. They should make a mobile version with extensions: mobile firefox is surprisingly hostile to extensions beyond a small whitelisted set.
> because there can't be multiple advanced civilizations because as soon as we suck-up all the available computation the simulation speed crawl to a stop.

If our reality is a simulation. It doesn’t matter how fast the “computer” is running. We could be living inside a grid of rocks in a gigantic dessert being pushed around slowly by an immortal turtle according to rule 30. How would it matter for us as we are living in the simulation and our relative time is always one second second per second, even if it takes a billion years for the turtle to rearrange the rocks to compute that second.

So there is no way to “drain the simulation of resources”, unless we figure out a way to kill the turtle, but that’s not likely to be possible, since we’re just patterns in the rocks.
> and in particular the Tidyverse model

This isn't really true.

R took data frames from S, which was using the concept at least as early as 1991.

Pandas itself predates most if not all of the tidyverse. Pandas original release occurred in 2008, whereas the first release of dplyr (one of the original packages of the tidyverse), didn't come until 2014.
What I don't understand: Is it established in the law whether intent is enough in this case for there to be a crime, or is actual harm required?

Lots of people are saying either "No evidence that any votes were lost" or "He obviously had mens rea." As far as I can tell, both of these statements are probably true. Sometimes in law, intent is enough to create a crime, and sometimes it isn't. For example, attempted murder is a crime, but attempted assault is not (although sometimes attempted _aggravated_ assault is). So, is it established that intent is sufficient for a crime in this particular case or not?

Note that when I say "no evidence" I mean that I don't think the government lawyers submitted any evidence (like a sworn statement by somebody who said that they got fooled and subsequently did not vote because they thought they already had) that anyone was deprived of a vote. I don't mean that there's no rational basis to believe that anyone was deprived.
> I can't imagine God at judgement time going "Well you got me on a technicality, head on up you cheeky rascals", but I guess they know him better than me.

The reasoning goes like this:

- God is perfect and omniscient.

- The Jewish laws come pretty much directly from God.

- Therefore the law is perfect as written, because to assume that a mortal could ever find an error in the laws of a perfect God would be an act of the purest hubris.

- Therefore there are no unintentional loopholes, because God is perfect. Any "loopholes" were put in there on purpose by God, as Easter eggs or as rewards for those who studied diligently enough to notice them.

- Therefore any "loopholes" which stand the test of time (and with that the thorough inspection of other experts of Jewish law) are to be celebrated. They were surely found by a person with great knowledge of the Holy Book, which is to be admired.

So yes, in the Jewish perspective God would indeed go something "you got me on a technicality, well done!" when judgement day comes. I'm not sure if I agree, but I do admire the internal consistency of the belief. It does seem pretty heretical to presume you know better than the actual Bible after all, and surely an omnipotent and omniscient God is capable of writing down exactly what He means.
Mid-sized Java project would balk at running tests with that amount of RAM. Hell, I had problems with 16GB.
ACT helped me turn around my life at a low point in my mid 20s. The problem it helped me with was essentially the same as what it helped this author with - how to do hard things.

The short answer is, if you accept that it's going to be hard, you can focus on the problem rather than how stuck and frustrated you are, and that helps you to not make it harder than it needs to be.

Of course, a person who needs help needs more than the short answer; in particular, we often need a lot of unlearning of bad mental habits, and we need to hear exactly what ACT is saying and, sometimes more importantly, what it is not saying... because we tend to hear what we expect to hear, not what is actually being said.

Here's the self-study book I used: https://www.amazon.com/Get-Your-Mind-Into-Life/dp/1572244259

Highly recommend.
This feels like the future of programming to me. When trying to teach kids to code, a common complaint I've gotten is how rigid existing programming languages are. They mistype a little thing and then get some general error, and it immediately turns a creative and fun process into something that's frustrating for them.

After things evolve a bit. Pseudocode programming languages are going to be a lot of young peoples first programming language. I know something like this integrated into Roblox Studio would instantly hook my 13 year old nephew.
Living really isn't that expensive once you have the home cost covered. Some people also work enough to cover the bills.
Bro RE4 Remake released, tonnes of anime and shows and movies to watch, D4 in June

We cozy bois uwu
Good thread!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1642726595436883969.html
Location: San Francisco

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Scala, Ruby, Python, Javascript, Typescript

Resume/CV: Upon Request

Email: poetic.artifice@gmail.com

I've been a software engineer and accomplished poet for over a decade, and am looking. Having started three companies, I've worn pretty much every hat in an organization and understand each role's needs and how to translate between different teams to get everyone aligned behind a plan, allowing me to act as a communication hub. I also have extensive experience leading and managing developer teams.

I'm a force multiplier through the three Ts -- Tooling, Teaching, and the above-mentioned Translation between teams.

I specialize in tooling meant to lower or take away the need for scarce developer-hours, and have built a number of low- and no-code solutions for data storage, stream processing, form building, front-end creation, EDI specification for data ingestion and export, complex algorithmic transformations, and lately tools for dealing with Large Language Models.

Currently, I have been helping organizations create a repeatable process for turning initial explorations with LLMs into productionized, repeatable processes.

If you are already in the Generative AI space, I am very interested in hearing more about you and your company. I have a number of thoughts on how to improve both developer and end-user tooling and I would love to work with you to change the world at this pivotal moment in history.

On the other hand, if you need help integrating LLMs such as GPT or any other form of Generative AI (audio, visual) into your organization or offerings, or are in need of training in how to use LLMs effectively for any team in your organization, please do not hesitate to reach out to me at poetic.artifice@gmail.com
Public transport and free roaming children are contradictory. Where there is public transport, you won’t want your kids running around. If you want to live somewhere where you can let your children roam with relative safety, it’s going to be somewhere where public transport doesn’t exist.
JSON vs. XML with Douglas Crockford
Unrealistic because LLMs never admit to not knowing something. It would probably be more like "I opened the door for you Dave", and then he goes check but the door is still closed.
How well does Polars play with many of the other standard data tools in Python (scikit learn, etc.)? Do the performance gains carry over?
The author of the article you linked is Clay Bavor, who left Google in February 2023 to work with the former co-CEO of Salesforce. — https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/8/23591447/google-clay-bavor...
>Its not if it becomes a Russian satellite.

Indeed Ukr has always been in a tough spot. Align with NATO or Russia and become a target for the other - that was the only choice I guess, but it was never explained why actual neutrality was never sought (like Switzerland). The only explanation I have is that both the US and Russia run covert ops to put puppet regimes in place.
Should the second one be illegal as well?

What is the functional difference between the two besides more paperwork and another middle man taking a cut?
Is it really any worse than living on the Edge?
But there’s speculation that vegetative electrons may still exist in the brains of the people who have been peer reviewing these papers.
Location: Chicago, IL

Remote: Yes / hybrid

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Product designer. Research, definition,
prototyping, UI design, CSS, can hack a React component. Figma + many other tools.

Résumé/CV: https://rclayton.net/downloads/Resume%20R%20Clayton%20Miller...

Portfolio: https://rclayton.net

Email: hn@rclayton.net
Wrocław, Poland, Rmote.

Full stack: python, react, golang, elixir, c, Unix, k8s, embedded.

Tech stack is not as important for me as field of project is. Doing something meaningfull, helping solve others problem is driving my motivation.

I am interested in web development, devops but don't mind digging deep in system debugging, understanding how things work.

Email: zdzislaw [at] krw.sk
What are the cheaper options? We use a lot of MacBook Air M2s at work, would really like a cheaper solution!
Simply speaking - They chunk the document (make it smaller so that it can be sent to gpt) and then vectorize it (change it to numbers / vector array). From there that is stored in a vector store - now, when you query you first query your vector store for the context (part of the 50MB file) and then send the context along with the question to GPT.

You are right GPT-4 doesn't support fine-tuning but, I think (in general) people might be misunderstanding what fine-tuning does.
Regarding your last point: No, you need all of the weights all of the time.

Edit: except embedding weights but those are not the problem.
Algorithmic Entities (2017)
‘Referred to as inmates by managers’: DHL workers push to unionize US hub
it's an interesting question (whether Apple's monopolistic behavior has produced any good), but entirely orthogonal to the underlying question, whether Apple is behaving monopolistically (they are).
> Russia hasn't stated a wish to reclaim other countries, even former parts of USSR.

Actions count more than words.

20 Feb 2022: "Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov denied Sunday that the Kremlin is preparing for an invasion of neighboring Ukraine..." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ukraine-ambassador-anato...

21 Feb 2022: Invasion!
Customs duty on men's/boy's clothes is 12%, VAT is e.g. 24% in Finland.

€360 * 1.12 * 1.24 = €500

Add on some sort of handling fee for the parcel company, e.g. €10, so it could easily be €150.
Both Kubrick and Clarke denied a connection. As tends to be the case with such seemingly improbable (perhaps) coincidences, maybe someone got cute but decided to keep it to themselves for reasons.
Telepresence is actually a big downside for me (telepresence for work, that is, being able to see long distance family memebers would be great).

I dislike most meetings I have to attend. I want fewer meetings, not the million dollar, realistic car racing simulator equivalent of Teams.

What I do want is a Bret Victor style 3D dynamic medium. Something genuinely new and not possible with current technology.
I almost bought a Model Y.

Tesla has so many kinks.....

1. Wipers are using cameras and not working properly. Legacy automakers have solved this 20 years ago.

2. There are bad design decision all around and poor build quality. Examples: door seals are glued on, everyone else uses clips. Poor panel fitment.

3. Tesla makes insane cost cutting decision, removal of USS sensors, to be replaced by INFERIOR tesla vision.

4. Tesla locks you in. Dealers are independent, there is an upside to this. The dealer works for you, not for manufacturer. Tesla service center has an incentive of trying to cut cost.

5. No 3rd party parts.

6. No proper blind-spot sensors.

7. The door handles are worse than regular door handles.

8. Noise inside cabin is high, very poorly insulated.

9. The suspension in a 2022 Y I drove was BRUTAL, like a modified race car brutal. It is also a common complaint.

10. Lack of cross traffic alert and 360 camera.

11. Tow hitch requires a software unlock....like wtf.

12. FSD is a $15k scam that should not be allowed on public streets.
Paralympics in crisis as athletes game the system
Also Washington and I can tell you there are a whole lot of people here in the hinterlands of the east who are regular AM listeners for weather, the sports ball games, and various other things. I know several radio station owners in the area and have to wonder if this will be the final nail in the coffin for them.
BBC | London, UK | hybrid-remote | Elixir & AWS | Senior Software Engineers

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By working with us, you'll tackle the challenges of high traffic patterns, developing innovative Elixir solutions for resilience, caching, availability and scalability for one of the biggest websites in the world.

https://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs/job/Senior-Software-Eng...
It's basically paging to disk.

Not necessarily memory savings, but the improvements here are that it will run on computers with less ram because it can page to disk.

Not necessarily the number reported (since you do need to load chunks into ram), but still lower.
monopolistic behavior doesn't require a monopoly
> Apple is the only company whose success people take personally.

Nah, NVIDIA has the same thing.

> I will never understand people that a) care about why other people buy computers and b) assume that the only reason people choose differently than they do is due to vanity/ignorance/status.

Yeah these things almost always come down to values differences. You value different things than the other person, leading you to a different conclusion. There is a side helping of sometimes different observations too... like all the people insisting that macs are super slow or whatever, even into the era of apple silicon (there are many many people who continued to dive onto that grenade on the basis of cinebench tests or whatever too).

But nobody is generally making irrational decisions here. The question is "what alternative machines can I get at a similar price and how does the overall big-picture compare". And they're ending up with the other machines at that price not comparing well.

It's a tough lump to swallow for a lot of people but the M1s were very compellingly priced, with the usual apple caveats. The MBPs are within the range of reason overall, the MBAs are actually probably better than you will find at an equivalent price in the wintel market. Even for engineers - it's *nix on the desktop, that's part of why a decent number of companies are switching.

> Wishing that people would finally admit to being as shallow and status chasing as you know they are is an excellent view into your mindset.

Yeah. All you have to do to redeem yourself in the eyes of this random internet commentator is announce you're a big dumb idiot baby! Why isn't anybody willing to do that!? Really says a lot about society imo. /s
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> It's thought they do not produce the toxin themselves. It's absorbed from their diet, probably from toxic frogs that use the same compounds.

From what I understand, those frogs in turn acquire the toxin from their diet of various arthropods, and aren't toxic when kept in captivity. Makes me wonder how long a chain of diet-acquired toxicity could stretch.
BC, Canada, occasionally I still see people meet up trying to catch em all. Although I don't know how much it is really meeting up and how much is having to be in the same location because that's where a particular pokemon is. Obviously I have no idea how any of that works but it's fun to imagine.
It seems dishonest to leave out Windows 11 when talking about how MS is for announcing in advance what support will be. They did not give anywhere near proper notice about the TPM/UEFI/Secureboot requirement ahead of time.
Not me!

I spent most of the weekend in VR No-Mans-Sky exploring a made-up galaxy, and when someone tried to speak to me near the meetup-for-missions place I ran away.