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For those in the US, regardless of anyone's opinion on the president elect, his stated policy plans are extremely isolationist which will make our work improving manufacturing capabilities in our borders more important than ever. This post details a mental model for controls engineers entering the field of industrial automation and gives some appreciation to the value of what we do!

Automation/controls engineers have to stich together super specific solutions using various pseudo-compatible hardware, networking software, IIOT devices, & proprietary solutions. Its hard!

There's a dizzying array of industrial automation tools/terms/brands out there with overlapping capabilities that blend together into a gray mush of confusing vernacular: IPC, PLC, DAQ, SCADA, PAC, DCS… HMI, GUI, Touchscreen, Web Interface… EtherCat, EtherNet, ProfiNet, ProfiBus, modBus… OPC-UA, MQTT, HTTP/REST… LD, ST, SFC, IL, FBD?

My thought process when exposed to a new tool is categorizing it by its capabilities in a mental map to help make sense of things. Basic but important for clear thinking!
Defensive communication applies to interpersonal relationships. A business is not your friend.
That's because you aren't viewing it in the proper context and think that the result of the action is isolated. I can't honestly imagine that you couldn't come up with a single incentive for misinforming people on topics in such a way that would result in your own benefit.

Just curious, how would you describe the motivations of a stereotypical sleazy car salesman offering predatory loan rates: A hard working person doing what they need to do to survive, or a con artist trying to find more victims? Only one of those choices represents reality, and you should really be wary of anyone who would suggest the other choice.
I used it for 2 months during spring last year (averaging over an hour per day). I have chosen not to prioritize math study for now, but I also absolutely love it.
I'm ok with this because it's going to keep American money in America. The cheep prices we are used to are fueled by slave labor. That Chinese hammer that is $5 less at wal-mart was produced in a sweat shop by underpaid and overworked workers.

The tariffs level the playing field and allow us to afford to produce goods at home by effectively banning slave goods. Besides, when you produce local its better for the environment because you're not sending everything on massive cargo ships.
I've also "shipped" projects at big tech companies and this level of bootlicking really doesn't deserve to be called "shipping" it's just delivering for your management. Using the term "shipping" is a great scissor statement because it muddies the water.

The mentality from the article is another symptom of the many issues Software Engineering faces as profession.

Namely that a significant portion of us think of ourselves not as engineers, who need to tell management to get fucked occasionally, but as optimizers for accolades from whatever group can dole out rewards. This starts off in academia and continues into the professional world.

Certain folks just want to build a technical fiefdom for themselves, or get headpats from people who are above them in any given hierarchy.

Yeah this is "how the game is played". Playing this game eventually leads to the death of your organization and is why we have a corporate life cycle in the first place.

Eventually people like this eat an organization from the inside, pushing out anyone with an actual opinion or who optimizing for actually getting things done.

Instead it's just pure mercenary behavior for your managements attention.
The silly trick I found is to use Apple's Smart Playlists to help. I've been creating playlists like "Not heard since Jan 1, 2023". Songs drop out after they are played in a shuffle.
Not the OP, but...

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/w...

> What hellhole do you live?

Do a search for women and public transit. This isn't just Japan, or Europe, or the USA. It's a real problem being discussed. Honestly, I feel like this is fairly common knowledge at this point.
> This is just not true, I far prefer to bike next or in front of waymos on shared roadways because they keep proper distance and are predictable.

Safe biking is already being done. Instead of having a waymo, having good street design and more people using the roads in things other then cars makes it far more save.

If its a low speed road, driving with human on it is pretty save. If its a high speed road, you shouldn't share it with a car anyway.

> Possibly true but let's see some evidence.

Even if you can't prove its more, its unlikely to be significantly less. And even say 20% less, would still be far to much. Utrecht has a much lower number of car trips compared to Fake London without AVs.

So at best, you are still far worse then simply adopting better urban design.

> Waiting for a train sucks, people want to go point to point.

Waiting in traffic jams sucks as well.

People care about what is faster and cheaper. At scale, on aggregate a proper transportation system is more efficient, faster and cheaper overall for society. If people actually had to carry the true cost of their 'point to point system' they wouldn't want it.

The US with their amazing 'point to point' system has hilarious amounts of traffic jams and cities with incredibly long commute times. Even while being far less dense, far less efficient and owning car is more expensive then a city wide public transport ticket in a comparably sized city Europe.

> Same argument can be made for public transit / trains. It's not a good argument.

Same dumb argument people make about induced demand. You want to encourage public transport because, its environmentally friendly, highly space efficient, on aggregate highly cost efficient and leads to urban design that is incredibly for living quality.

Encouraging people to use the least efficient means of production is bad, encouraging people to use the most efficient means of transportation is good.
Not only are we paying teachers worse than we used to, we are actually spending more on education! The scandal is the addition of more useless Administrator positions. https://x.com/TCCRI/status/1760792700771533084
You can do that with Apple Maps.
Utilizing HubSpot's APIs to Break Down Data Silos
That's garbage. Waymo has been open about remote assistance ever since they deployed in Chandler 6 years ago. They've even given media interviews on how they use it. Other companies have had YouTube videos on it for years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKQHuutVx78

There's no illusion of any kind. We know how remote assistance works in this industry.
All the evidence suggests that the number is >1 operators per vehicle.
> in 3rd grade, he does math with the 4th grade class (which is currently working through the Singapore Math 4A book).

Coincidentally, my son is also in 3rd grade and also on Singapore 4A book at home :) He can't do math with the 4th grade class (not really an option at our school) but does 5th grade level with the apps they use in class (DreamBox, not sure which others).

> But usually he's just been too aggressive at skipping past the explanations or worked examples in the MA lesson, and I just tell him to scroll up and read.

Again, similar situation here; so I prefer to go over the concepts with him to make sure he's grasped them. His biggest problem is reading the problems too quickly. When he slows down and takes the time to think through he figures them all out -- and that's probably my most important contribution as his "coach" -- and also where you need a live person I think. It's like with sports -- many players are skilled enough that they don't need a coach to teach them skills, but they need a coach to learn how to use those skills.

> But it's more effective for MA to be the core experience, and for me to be an on-call coach (i.e. for me to the supplement).

Fair point. I should give it a try as an alternative (always useful to have different curriculums approaching problems from different angles, especially as the concepts get harder).
The average tenure is about 10 years at intel. 50% of Intel has tenure over 5 years, 35% over 10 years, and 20% is over 20 years.

The argument obviously isn't validated with RCT, but fruit is cheap so the financial argument is at least plausible and employees like it.

Also, not all benefits of healthy eating are delayed.
Theia hit Earth within 100-150 million years of the formation of Earth. It seems exceedingly implausible that life could not only emerge but go through all the stages of development necessary to achieve advanced intelligence in such a short time compared to what it took the "second" time around.
Its failure is virtually guaranteed because the effort is being run by the city of Los Angeles. They started working on it 7 years ago and have done almost literally nothing. They haven't even completed all of the environmental impact statements. All actual indicators are going the wrong way: bus ridership is down, service hours are down, capital and operating expenses are way, way up, much of the capital is being spent on freeway carpool lanes, widening, ramp widening, and other car junk, and consequently car vehicle miles traveled are way up.
Meta Horizon Worlds Has Been Taken over by Children
I swear there's a market to pay for third-world labor to click every link of every major website and store the pages as plain html text, pictures and links. Have image recognition to automatically cut the chum and pop ups, cookies, subscription warnings, and gdpr notices. Users pay $4/mo and access recent copies of whatever they normally browse. Either via a browser extension or a URL router (that served up cached versions, the delay wouldn't work to have someone viewing the site for you and filtering it in realtime).

Imagine having your daily news as a clean PDF document with working links. It might also have the psychological effect of signalling when you're "done" similar to reaching the end of a newspaper
Looks pretty good, customer support has always been a weak point for me but this looks like it'll fix that
Can we vax chickens?
man we're really heading for that corpo cyberpunk dystopia, huh?
In most cities there is simply no physical space to build separate infrastructure for AVs.
Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
> "Lunik" satellite

* https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/lunik-loan-space-...

* https://greydynamics.com/the-lunik-plot-how-the-cia-hijacked...
Sure, but that's less simple.
> The problem is that people expect teachers adopt to every single pupil.

Nah. The people expect EdTech to allow children to find their own suitable learning style with only babysitter oversight. But no teacher wants to "demote" themselves to being a babysitter, nor do the administrators want to become seen as running a daycare, so you end up with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42116365.
> Related: I often find myself disabling copilot when I have a fun problem I want the satisfaction of solving myself.

The way things seem to be going, I'd be worried management will find a way to monitor and try cut out this "security risk" in the coming months and years.
A little of both. I understand getting a warm fuzzy feeling that you did the right things, but if you don't achieve your goal, what's the point?

But let me clarify -- OP mentioned a contrast between consequentialism and virtual ethics and I think you can be "too much" consequentialism too. I'm wouldn't call myself a rule follower but I also follow rules 99% of the time too. It does create a sense of order and and predictability and I value that.

There is a right balance where you do follow rules but you also know when to break them. What I can't really stand are rigid people -- diehard rule followers or diehard "no one can tell me what to do." I find working with rigid people hard because you have to work around their "buttons."
Not all. Not us Europeans who come to visit sometimes. :(
As someone who does security testing for video game service backends, I benefit significantly from all the reverse engineering and tools the hobbyists and cheaters build, and always enjoy reading more stuff.
Being marched out isn't universal. A household company [left out of FAANG, but still huge] let me actually do a hand off during that time
> Well currently Waymo is about double the price of Uber.

This is not accurate in my experience in SF. Most of the time, the price is comparable to UberX and during peak-times, the price is upto 20% higher than UberX.
Recognize though that this is selection bias. The government wouldn’t have brought the case that you sat for if they didn’t have this information and we have no idea how many investigations are thwarted by similar efforts. There could’ve been a loose thread on this one that unravelled it, like a government source.
I think this is a good pragmatic default. The use case for the alternative is much more rare.
There's a world of difference between "driven remotely", which was your claim, and "autonomously operated, with a remote driver available to help, in case of exceptions and emergencies", which is reality.

Just like there's a world of difference between doing your kid's homework, which is viewed as unacceptable, and helping your kid with their homework, which is viewed as good parenting.
I think we need to define the problems.

It sounds like the industry changed. Get business processes or business data requirements first. What do they want to keep, change, get rid of, or add?

Template out your business objects and data structures. On the topic of a single DB... I wouldn't. Unless your clients are sharing data, that's just a huge security risk to keep it all together with website accessible from anywhere.

Then make your changes gradually. I assume you have no tests to look at for requirements, otherwise that would be helpful. It might be possible to migrate some pages or functionality by pulling in the new stuff using some sort of hybrid routing or microfrontend.

Any way you look at this, these sorts of rewrites are painful.
More the deep breathing triggered by a hill climb or brisk walk than the actual atmosphere.
Anyone here use 6NF to avoid nulls? See https://36chambers.wordpress.com/2021/10/22/avoiding-null-wi...
Replacing my $8000 Mac Pro with a $1400 Mac mini [video]
Why do we have self driving cars but someone can't make a completely automated McDonald's?
Urban mobility means very little when your streets aren't safe. I'm paraphrasing a poor translation, but as a Central American leader recently said:

>Some say that we have imprisoned thousands, but the reality is that we have freed millions.

Waymo is very much like this. It inconveniences a few people, but it also saves a lot more from accidents, or even worse.
Omg I was planning to build this for ages! That's very good.
Those are some impressive maps, with tons of foreshadowing, barely 9 days into the conflict.
Car ownership is pretty high in a lot of places. It's still pretty much central urban--lower ownership, harder to re-find a parking spot--vs. everywhere else. Taxis may be more common in some places but there are still a lot of privately owned cars and taking taxis or having drivers is really not the norm in most places.
> can't make a map of all of twitter

no, but nothing can stop you & a bunch of people from exporting your tweet archive and visualizing that!
That's not some gotcha. buybacks and dividends are the entire point of a company.

Product sales and employment are simply a byproduct and tool to achieve that goal.
The whole thing is absolutely utter crap. As early as 2002 there was, in the university where I studied a BIG push into NN. The term “deep learning” is also lousy and marketing.
if wear and tear occurs or your ram fills up, you buy a new machine. simple

(and i absolutely understand that ram is temporary memory)
It's long, but well worth an hour of your time. He even states in the comments that he set out two years ago to make a positive video about AVs:

What was most surprising to me was that when I began researching this video (two years ago!) it was going to be about some of the technical challenges that would need to be overcome in order to make self-driving cars a reality, but the conclusion was going to be that ultimately, AVs would be a good thing.

By the time I was done researching this topic I was absolutely horrified of our future self-driving dystopia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0&lc=UgzN9fnItjm2b...

The future he illustrates seems mostly plausible, except that it depends on all of the technology functioning flawlessly. I have a hard time believing that streets full of high-speed AVs functioning in perfect synchrony is likely.

However, that doesn't change my general agreement with the conclusions he draws in that video and the rest of his channel.
This sounds like an acoustic fingerprint, such as AcoustID[0]. I think AcoustIDs and XSPF[1] would be a good combination for shared playlists. It's a shame that development stopped on the Tomahawk music player[2], it would have been an ideal platform for shared playlists like this.

[0] https://musicbrainz.org/doc/AcoustID

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Shareable_Playlist_Format

[2] https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk
Some related news: https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2024/Anthropic-a...
If someone manages to break into a vehicle without an active account with payment details on record, it can drive them right to the police (or shelter).
> There's no illusion of any kind.

I don't know dude. Simple question: is it fully autonomous? No. If you step inside the vehicle, does it feel that way? Yes. That is nearly the definition of an illusion.
Has the same problem with time as I see elsewhere. I don't don't want to convert a billion seconds to number of hours and then days and then weeks and months and then years. I want to translate that to a human readable years/months/days/hours/minutes/seconds in one click.
You should Google "marc prensky digital natives". You'll see this hype is over two decades old now.

> Unfortunately for our Digital Immigrant teachers, the people sitting in their classes grew up on the “twitch speed” of video games and MTV.
> They are used to the instantaneity of hypertext, downloaded music, phones in their pockets, a library on their laptops, beamed messages and instant messaging.
> They've been networked most or all of their lives.
> They have little patience for lectures, step-by-step logic, and “tell-test” instruction.

There's a lot more cheerful predictions:

> My own preference for teaching Digital Natives is to invent computer games to do the job, even for the most serious content.
> After all, it's an idiom with which most of them are totally familiar.

I think the core fact that learning is fundamentally about curiosity and motivation, not "engagement", was (and continues to be) glossed over, or intentionally ignored by a lot of tech-pushers.
This may shock you, but companies actually need people to do things other than code. There's some strong "junior developer" vibes in this last paragraph, not realizing that SWE management and project management are spending their whole day making sure that the code you're writing is actually what the company needs, and they're not just lighting money on fire by employing you.

Just because someone "can't code anymore" (arguable premise though that is) doesn't mean their job is automatically bullshit.
Nothing will be completely autonomous and no reasonable person expects that. You will anyway need some degree of human intervention in order to achieve robustness. The important thing is that you don't need to take care of driving and spend the time in a more useful way. If you're insisting that everything needs to be fully machine driven and zero human intervention is required, you're effectively moving the goalpost just for your own argument.
It's not clear how many records were generated in the sample dataset for these benchmarks. The methodology [1] and Github repo [2] show how to seed tables of 1k records, but it's not clear what size the results on the website were using.

Additionally, it seems that these benchmarks were run by executing queries serially, which isn't particularly interesting to me -- I'm more interested in what latency and resource consumption look like for each query under any type of load. The issues that we were seeing with Prisma [3] were latency in acquiring a connection and executing a query when many queries were running simultaneously (with idle connections available in the pool and a high connection limit on Postgres). I'd also be curious about the difference in performance for something like a nested `updateMany` where depending on how the query is generated, could deadlock or place a lock on more rows than necessary -- and where the generated queries actually matter.

Running queries serially against what is presumably 1k records per table doesn't seem particularly valuable.

[1] https://www.prisma.io/blog/performance-benchmarks-comparing-...

[2] https://github.com/prisma/orm-benchmarks/

[3] https://docs.hatchet.run/blog/migrating-off-prisma
What's your position on intentionality[0]? I don't put stock into anything too fancy there. Being simple about things in general, you can define a physical or mathematical system that uses optimization of some sort to drive the world toward certain states over others.

Questions regarding if the system's conscious or "cares about anything" don't really matter.

Accepting that, you can say any system that drives towards states "intends" to do so.

Unless a system is not functioning well, is weak, or is adversarial opposed, in general what it does should be more or less what it "intends".

This isn't iron-hard, but as a first guess, that gets you "the purpose of a system is what it does".

[0]: e.g. I don't know if your definition of "telos" requires anything in that direction. If you've got definitions you can link them from the SEP (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) or similar. Maybe too far into the weeds to be useful from a cybernetics perspective though. More theological.
> autonomously operated, with a remote driver available to step in, in case of exceptions and emergencies

Listen to yourself...

Anyway, you're getting it. I guess we have to be there and see for ourselves how the parent was involved in the kid's homework, right? If Waymo has nothing to hide, by all means, let in the press to their remote driving center. What are they going to do, steal the source code?
At web companies maybe, but not tech in general (however we define that nowadays). At least that's been my experience. My mentors have each been 10+ years seniority at their respective companies.
Latency is only part of the problem. Unmanaged clock skew leads to race conditions, dramatically impacting circuit behaviour and reliability. That's the reason the industry overwhelmingly uses synchronized circuit designs and clocks to trigger transitions.
Lucky for you, waymo does not use remote drivers.
I'd love to see a more NLP look at this data, Google trends style. What topics of discourse come up regularly, what spikes during certain time periods? Can you summarize what economists are discussing? Can you find people talking about the same things but are not in each other's networks?
I know that code generation and self-driving cars are different in a lot of ways, but I wonder if a comparison could be made between the two. We could imagine the question "Future of Driving: copilot or robo-taxi?" The answer of which I feel would be neither, though both will have their place albeit limited.