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as well. but where's the line?

I've stuck 1in angle iron together and had it stay stuck under load. I count that as welding, with some pride.

but then i've seen folks weld together an excavator that broke (in half) halfway up the main arm. and then seen the machine finish the job with their repair. that's real welding, so i can only claim "small".
The linked article says: "However, says Arm, it appeared from subsequent press reports that Qualcomm may not have destroyed the core designs and still intended to use the blueprints and technology it acquired with Nuvia"

Obviously it's hard to know for sure - it could even be an Anthony Levandowski type situation, where an ambitious employee passes off an unauthorised personal copy as their own work without Qualcomm realising.
Media storage sucks. We fixed it
So does Tesla’s. I use it daily. From home going through a busy city, onto a major highway with rush hour traffic, into a downtown area to work. It can do this without me touching the wheel or pedal for the entire length of the drive. I have a hw4 S plaid and it’s made dramatic improvements over this last year. I’m blown away at how good it is (also blown away by waymo).
> In reality Tesla FSD is still in very primitive shape.

From the article. Have the people saying this actually tried the most recent FSD build?

I used it yesterday, and it reacted flawlessly to road construction that blocked a lane, then had cones demarcating a lane that didn't follow existing road markings. Then it saw that a driver wanted to turn left from parking lot while approaching a stop light and made space for the driver to turn out. It also flawlessly executed a merge involving turning into a suicide lane and waiting for traffic to pass.

It's very good at adapting to changes and can work on roads its never seen before. There is no other production car that can do what FSD can do currently.

Does this mean it's ready for full autonomy tomorrow? No, but I could use supervised FSD today if I wanted to drive 1600 miles from Austin to Toronto with hands mostly off the wheel.

The pace at which FSD is now improving is quite remarkable. In the long run it's clear that this approach is going to be WAY more flexible than Waymo's, because Tesla has so many more vehicles on the road collecting so much more data, and throwing vast amounts of compute at vast amounts of data is basically the best way to see rapid improvement for the foreseeable future.

But sure, "concepts of a plan".
I'm curious how their model responds to interventions like rent-control. Does it merely slow the process, or does it provide stabilizing damping to an unstable process?
This is terrible, actually. And I've run into it, causing a memory leak.
Someone making ~$80M who "feels" a 6.5% difference in TC is somehow doing the millionaire version of "living paycheck to paycheck."
What does "tolerating experiments" mean? If they can tell it's an experiment, then isn't your change bad?

Do you mean "tolerate change"? But then you still eventually roll out the change to everyone anyway...

Or do you mean that users would see a different color for the "buy now" button every day?

From a purely statistical point of view, if you select users which "tolerate" your change before you measure how many users "like" your change, you can make up any outcome you want.
The Witch of Endor described Samuel as a "god" coming up out of the earth in the appearance of an old man in a robe.
You're still in the driver's seat ready to intervene. Others are doing it every 13 miles: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/09/tesla-full-self-driving...
In other words, people are returning to how online communication worked before Facebook.

Offline, people have always tended to come together around common interests and values. My wife and I, for example, are part time performing magicians and we're a member of a local magic group that meets IRL.

Prior to what we have come to call "social media", existed forums. Forums were this wonderful utopian paradise of yesteryear where people engaged in long form discussions, often heated but mostly civil, about special interests that they cared about.

The term "social media" didn't start to catch on until the news feed was a thing. That was the "contribution" of both Facebook and Twatter and it was a big PART of what changed everything.

The other factor was the so-called "mobile revolution."

Forums are great when you're at a keyboard. They start to lose their appeal when you are engaging using a small touch screen.

What you are describing sounds like people returning to the state of the world as it existed before social media. Where people come together around common interests and values instead of using the news feed where you get fire-hozed with random shit that "the algorithm" thinks might trigger you into engaging with it.
No one's ignoring it. They're saying that Waymo currently works, and Tesla Self Driving does not currently work.
CDR degradation can be total and I don't know of any tools to recover them.

I have a box full of unreadable CDRs from 20 years ago and a box full of perfectly playable cassettes from 40 years ago.
Waymo's latest hardware uses 13 cameras, 4 LIDARs, 6 radars and at least one mic. Def not early-optimized. I have not found a BOM for the whole package. That's a significantly different idea of how much, and how varied, sensor input it takes.
Reasonably sure that Qualcomm aren’t claiming their X Elite cores are free of Nuvia created IP. Rather that Arm can’t prevent the transfer of that IP to Qualcomm.
Life Before the Invention of AutoCAD: Photos from 1950 to 1980
Website link (instead of video) https://shade.inc/ "The AI-Powered Cloud NAS for Creative Teams"
Seems like they relicensed their whole SDK to GPL so that's a move in the right direction!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41940580
Yup, this. I use FSD almost every day now that it's available for Cybertruck, and it's already quite excellent. It pulls off human-like maneuvers that are kind of gobsmacking.
The biggest difference is the presence of lidar in Waymo vehicles which means they have an accurate physical representation of the world vs the vision only based approach that Tesla is taking.
What is the market for this? Users use Google/Facebook logins because it’s one easy click and no one cares about privacy. Users who care don’t want a unified identity tied to all of their online activity, regardless of Eartho’s current privacy policy.
Data quantity is useless if the data is of low quality. You need to be able to judge the car's performance in simulations to guide training. Elon admitted in the latest quarterly this is a huge problem for Tesla -- they have to do many millions of miles of simulations to compare two models. Higher fidelity data would cut this number by many orders of magnitude.
“Greek fire(1) can’t melt Corinthian columns”

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire
What happens if you keep clicking "try another way" during the recovery? Sometimes the options change if you click it enough times...
I use it (Keepass) for a while and never got the conflict on the desktop client (osx), nor on Firefox. But the iOS app does not like the file on the Google Drive and occasionally it needs to be reloaded.
The difference is you are in the driver's seat paying attention at all times and ready to intervene. That's the expectation set by the system.

It's the fundamental difference between partial autonomy and full autonomy.
Waymos are NEVER "driven remotely".

Occasionally there are problems of being stuck (at 0 mph) due to a lack of aggressiveness or the refusal to violate a rule, or being in a loop the car can't figure a way out of. Often times this is just a safety precaution, at this early stage, of wanting a human in the loop to confirm a plan, but sometimes it's because the system isn't robust enough to properly make the plan and I'm sure that's where a lot of the development effort is currently pointed -- reducing these events to as close to zero as possible. That's the long tail. It never really quite goes away.
Apple used to use full mechanical keyboards on their laptops -- the Powerbook 1xx era (with the exception of the 100) had wonderful keyboards. Good feel, good travel. Over time they flattened down, buy the ibook/tibook era they were super flat. Still mechanical, and popping the tabs at the top opened it up for memory/disk access. The downside there was that they were flexy, and not great to type on.

The island keyboards came in when they put the keyboard base inside the aluminum case and screwed it in with 60 of the smallest screws you've ever seen. Pain in the ass when you needed to replace one, but _way_ more solid and better typing experience.
Battleships Logic Puzzle
I doubt that the contribution to capital development made Newton and Einstein household names.

When the giant magnetoresistance was discovered it wasn’t useful at first. if all is capital focused we likely miss those discoveries.
> but you can refuse to license them for their next product

That might not be legally possible - or deemed to be anticompetitive. Cancelling an existing license if a firm has breached it would probably be less problematic.
> so complicated as those in modern particle physics

But... modern particle physics is one of the simplest things around. (Ex-physicist here, see username.) It only looks complicated because it is so simple that we can actually write down every single detail of the entire thing and analyze it! How many other systems can you say that about?
I would highly recommend watching this side by side comparison video of the experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kswp1DwUAAI
I also understood it to mean the "move fast, break things" attitude, that many techy VC startups have.
Google probably realized their mistake on the desktop with ad blockers, and didn't want to limit their income on mobile browsers.
Along with the reconnect solution already mentioned, you can also decouple your Websocket and business logic layers using something like Pushpin: https://pushpin.org/. This allows you to deploy your business logic layer without disconnecting/reconnecting clients.
I don't see it as a significant dis-advantage for Waymo.

With modern drones and UAV, getting millimeter level details on infrastructure should be easy and cheap.

I would expect such maps for every corner of the world in next 5 to 10 years.
Robotaxi will use the same stack as other Tesla vehicles, which is deployed on millions of vehicles. The <$30k price point and lack of controls/supervision are the only things that truly differentiate it from a Model 3.
As you mentioned, it was indeed just a simple change of the .mp4 extension. I have now fixed this issue using ffmpeg, as you suggested. Thank you very much for your feedback.
Isn't that 4 Hz?
Gamers hunt for monsters in Shibuya as Niantic searches for a hit
Lidar produces a monochromatic 3D scene, which you can also extract with cameras using SLAM techniques. But these scenes simply do not carry the information needed to navigate the world - you only get one colour, so you cannot see signs, markings, lights, anything. LIDAR is thus a small, secondary input to the problem of "perception".

Once you've accurately perceived the world, the hard part is the action, and the judgement needed to drive safely. It doesn't matter how you got your labeled 3D scene (LIDAR or SLAM), you have to figure out how to navigate it safely and this is more like 90% of the self-driving challenge. If you look at videos of the latest FSD in action (12.5) perception is not an issue. Teslas see everything just fine, they don't disengage because they didn't see a car, but because their judgement is not human level yet.
As long as US keeps the Chinese manufacturers out..

Baidu Apollo now has a $28K self driving vehicle [0], I doubt Waymo is ever getting close to those numbers. They might replace some US personal cars, but they won't be able to compete globally.

edit: Waymo wanted to use Zeekr vehicles before, I guess that ship has sailed now - they will have to get by with their new Hyundai contract [1]

[0] https://cnevpost.com/2024/05/15/baidu-apollo-launches-6th-ge...

[1] https://waymo.com/blog/2024/10/waymo-and-hyundai-enter-partn...
Everytime I see the word delve in an article I can't help but assume it was written by an LLM which this probably was?
My hands are a bit shaky now, so I don't attempt anything but through hole. I would avoid asking people to do surface mount unless it is reasonably straightforward - it was never meant to done that way.
> Tesla has millions of cars on the road gathering this data, vs a couple of thousand for Waymo

Except that Alphabet has been mapping and scanning for years, since before Waymo. And, Waymo vehicles are on the road while waiting for a fare, so they can use that time for mapping, while Teslas are reliant on where their owners go.
Completely agree. It’s frustrating how every thread on self-driving devolves into the same argument about cameras vs. LIDAR. Everyone points to Tesla FSD disengagements as evidence, when the vast majority of disengagements are caused by the route planning, not the vision stack.

I’ve watched countless hours of FSD footage and have FSD on my Model 3, and I’ve never seen it incorrectly map the position of a vehicle. Both Tesla and Waymo seem to have reliable perception stacks, the actual decision-making is the hard part, like you said.
I get messaged by recruiters in my area weekly, but I currently have a fully remote job, so I would need another fully remote job to willingly leave. However, if I were to lose my job, I think there would be plenty of opportunities out there in my area, and obviously I'd be willing to take an in person job if I needed to. Hell, I'd work at the 7/11 if I needed to, I got bills to pay
Google "waymo dolgov" on YouTube, there's a recent lecture and a recent interview by Dmitri Dolgov. In the lecture, he talks about their architecture.
My Tesla drives me around the city autonomously every day and you're telling me it doesn't
The case I would make for the Satoshi9000 is that its method of generating randomness is intuitively understood by anyone from five years old to ninety-five years old, technical or non-technical.

I think it would be a stretch to think you could pull a random person off the street, point to a wall of lava lamps, and ask "do you see the randomness, how does it work?" Whereas, I think if you pull a random person off the street, let them watch the Satoshi9000 do its thing, and ask "do you see the randomness, how does it work?" you might get an answer that makes sense.

That, in a nutshell, is the value proposition behind the Satoshi9000.
Thanks for the clarification! :-)
If they're Byzantine, calling them "Greek" is not wrong.

Byzantine = specific, inaccurate.
Romans = accurate, nonspecific.
Greek = a bit of both
Wow, quite an invasive anti cheat?

Had no idea it went this deep on your device.

Also their parent company is Chinese Tencent, which is a major alarm coupled with this type of invasive software.
It's apples-to-oranges comparison.

One is doing it completely driverless and has to get it right every single time. The other has a driver ready to intervene and just needs a single intervention-free drive.
Geely made an incredibly smart move buying Volvo.

Ford had run down their reputation by forcing penny pinching cheap designs, but there was still a lot of engineering prowess in-house that had gone underutilized and made them a tech-team to catch up the Chineese tech, design and manufacturing to concurrent standards.

The only lingering worry is if they're gonna find themselves content with the amount of technology transfer and move on (because Volvo standards requires a high price point and non neglible market share).
Great suggestion, haha!
I’ve heard human jaw muscles are becoming smaller and weaker as there’s less need to chew for prolonged periods of time.
This reminds me of a early career Software Engineer who thinks the answer to every complexity problem is to throw it all away and start a rewrite.

I look forward to their third attempt in a few years when Arc: The Sequel gets similar user reviews about it being too complicated.
Well, let's put it to the test. What "useless" scientific discovery has given someone a household name in recent years?
Right, like I said, it's nothing...

Assuming you have 3 meals a day, and assuming you have 600 kcals per meal, and assuming your nutritionist has prescribed a diet with a 50/20/30 carb/fat/protein ratio, and assuming one of those meals (dinner?) has 100 kcals from fat, that means 16% of the meal was fat. If you eat a lean protein (with a tiny amount of incidental fat) and carbs with that meal, that's actually the perfect amount of fat.

You can also mix up your meals so that, say, breakfast has very little fat, and dinner has more fat, or vice versa. It's all about balance.
Dj-beat-drop is more about making minimal changes to the official Django templates. It mainly involves standardizing to a config directory for configuration code and optionally using an `env` file and `uv` for package management.

By keeping things minimal, the chances of it getting accepted as an official Django project seem better. It would need to be renamed, of course, to something like django-installer or django-cli.
I'm in the UK. Our healthcare is socialised.

My elderly nan had a fall this morning and has badly hurt her back. She has been lying on the floor in her house since this morning (six hours so far), immobile, waiting for an ambulance to arrive. I wish I lived near her so I could help. She needs an ambulance unfortunately as she literally cannot move - she is in terrible pain.

When/if the ambulance finally does arrive, it will take her to a crowded, failing hospital where she will probably have to wait several more hours before being seen by an underpaid and overstretched nurse in a miserable ward.

Our system is failing, and not because it is underfunded (it gets nearly £200 billion a year and it has had real-terms increases in funding for decades, and employs 2M people). It is failing because:

* it is monolithic and unwieldy

* it has no efficiency incentives

* it is a state monopoly, so it is able to underpay and poorly treat its staff

* politicians are not the right people to preside over healthcare

* it is considered our national religion, and it doesn't get the scrutiny it deserves

The European public/private model provides much better quality and outcomes. The American system, expensive though it is, provides far better quality and outcomes.
While the strategy to find good deals / award space is a solved problem, the search tools to do so aren't. Tools like ExpertFlyer are super inefficient: it permits you to search for maximum one origin + one destination + one airline per search. What if you're happy to go to anywhere in Western Europe? Or if you want to check several different airlines? Then all of a sudden your one EF search might turn into dozens. And as you say, pretty much all of the aggregator tools are getting slapped down by airlines so they increasingly have more limited availability and some are shutting down completely.

And then add the complexity that you might be willing to pay cash if the price is right ... so then you add dozens more searches to that on potentially many websites.

All of this is "easy" and a solved problem but it's incredibly monotonous. And almost none of these services offer an API, so it's difficult to automate without a browser-based approach. And a travel agent won't work this hard for you. So how amazing would it be instead to tell an AI agent what you want, have it pretend to be you for a few minutes, and get a CSV file in your inbox at the end.

Whether this could be commercialised is a different question but I'm certainly going to continue building out my prototype to save myself some time (I mean, to be fair, it will probably take more time to build something to do this on my behalf but I think it's time well spent).
> The reason AI is hyped is because it's easy to get the first 80% or 90% of what you need to be a viable alternative at some task.

No, it's because if the promise of certain technologies is reached, it'd be a huge deal. And of course, that promise has been reached for many technologies, and it's indeed been a huge deal. Sometimes less than people imagine, but often more than the naysayers who think it won't have any impact at all.
Pistachio consumption increases Macular Pigment Optical Density in adults
Why did he need to punish himself? Isn't that the board's job?
I agree with this, but it's worth noting the quote is from a journalist/blogger who was not talking about social media. He was talking about keeping up with a 24 hour news cycle by any means. The problem here isn't specific to social media. It's with overwhelming information flow, the vast majority of which is not actionable to the person consuming it. People come down with a type of awareness FOMO such that they feel like they need to know all things as they happen, even though the information is incomplete, often wrong, misleading, and doesn't impact their everyday real lives in any way.

This is what Andrew Sullivan was getting at. People should worry themselves with information that actually concerns and impacts their real lives. All else is entertainment. If it stops being entertaining and starts being anxiety-inducing, stop consuming it.
Ads will move to the layer of the new interface when that happens. Also a computer can't watch a youtube video for you or look at funny cat pictures. You can still put ads next to things people want to look at.
I believe IntelliJ IDEA IDEs have a 30-day trial. If you get the trial license and use that instead of the community version it should be entirely possible to never enable telemetry.

Though, I think this still requires contacting a license server (either at your company or at Jetbrains directly) so maybe that doesn't really fix the problem.
They're doing 100k paid trips/wk now, per the CEO in a recent LinkedIn post. If average trip value is (very generously) $20, that's still only $100MM in annual revenue. I would bet that doesn't even pay for the direct physical + digital costs of operating the cars, let alone salaries, office leases, etc.

Waymo has started onto a very good trendline now, for sure, and a path to revenue-positive is becoming clearer. But they have a loooooooong way to go before they are offsetting even their operating costs, let alone beginning to pay down their (absolutely massive) fixed costs.

I think the bear case is actually pretty tough for Waymo. Their scaling is not cheap.

- The cars are, by all account, expensive as hell; I've seen $200k+

- The cars require ongoing cleaning, maintenance, mechanical work

- There's a massive customer support operation; not just people to call for support when your car gets stuck, but people who can step in and remote-instruct the vehicle.

- Expanding to a new city requires a massive data-gathering operation before any paid trips can begin.

None of this is taking into account the massive fixed costs that come with being a tech company - hundreds of $400k+TC employees, server bills in the tens of millions, thousands of top-of-the-line GPUs for training clusters.
The Coming AI Startup Bust