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by bobsomers 5y ago
> I wonder if that was a mandate from Alphabet leadership to show some urgency. Surely Alphabet has noticed that their competitors are nipping at Waymo's heels. If they don't pick up the pace, all sorts of business books will
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> It may not scale to rural areas though. Most products, including this one, don't need to do everything to be both useful and profitable.
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Surely this is just moving the goal posts. If they can launch in Chandler and in San Francisco then a huge amount of the contiguous United States is on the table.
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> There's no evidence that wearing masks prevents contracting Covid (or any other airborne virus). It does a bit toward preventing spreading it if you already have it What you just described is the same thing, it's simply a mat
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There are plenty of "real problems" whose solutions failed not because they didn't work, but because the founders couldn't communicate effectively. A great solution without good communication is just as worthless as an a
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> Hard to see how this can be done legally. Why? Things like Wine and Proton exist and Windows is proprietary.
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by bobsomers 5y ago
The experience of learning about Comma, buying a dev kit, downloading a separate software package, flashing it to the device, wiring it up to your car, etc. (vs. just having it there on your Tesla, and everyone's heard of Tesla) is t
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by bobsomers 5y ago
> No it doesn't put lives at risk. Everyone knows it's not actually full self driving. Most people I've talked to cannot accurately articulate the boundary of its operational capability, and there is a growing number of in
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> It's true that long-tenured engineers (if they're good) can do amazing things. Things that other engineers don't have the implicit knowledge or political capital to do. The problem is that once that project is over, it&#
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I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. This is an accurate, if colorful, assessment. It has all the same safety problems as a Tesla with even worse sensors, less compute, and practically zero real safety V&V work. They cutel
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by bobsomers 5y ago
> Do you, or anyone else here, know how much money Apple saved by offshoring? There's another axis here, which is how our desire for a product overlaps with DFM. It could be the case that offshoring to cheap labor actually increased
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by bobsomers 5y ago
Heh, it's an interesting comparison. I think in this case Tesla can get it working just enough for the Elon to shift the goalposts and avoid legal disaster. But it will likely never be safe enough to divert your attention, and their
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I don't think that's necessarily true. There are plenty of people in the AV space that routinely drive significantly better than this and are already doing completely driverless service in some geofences. The problem with Tesla&#x
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Safety drivers at proper AV companies usually go through several weeks of rigorous classroom instruction and test track driving with a professional driving instructor, including lots of practice with the real AVs on closed courses with simu
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by bobsomers 5y ago
I don't recall where it is on BofA's website, but most banks have some feature along the lines of "send me an email when a transaction over X amount happens". I just set that value to $0 or $0.01 so I get emails for ever
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by bobsomers 5y ago
Completely agree. If anything, I see tools like this actually decreasing engineering speed. I don't see how it doesn't lead to shipping large quantities of code the team didn't vet carefuly, which has is a recipe for subtle a
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by bobsomers 5y ago
Same here. I switched to Fastmail from Gmail a few years ago and it’s absolutely fantastic. The app is great, no AI magic, things just all work exactly as they should.
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by bobsomers 5y ago
Plenty of games run on multiple consoles, despite having completely different operating systems, graphics APIs, etc. It's certainly a pain, but cross-platform development has always been a thing so it's not a unique pain to Apple
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> That was one of the major points of the talk - the vision-only system is more accurate than the one with other modalities thrown in, even though the latter has more data. We intuit that the fusion network should just learn to ignore th
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by bobsomers 5y ago
You can't avoid this problem by only having a single sensor modality, because you still have to decide if you trust your sensor data or not. In effect, you actually made the problem harder because you have no other information from any
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by bobsomers 5y ago
> Humans do it with vision alone And despite humans having legs and birds having articulated wings, ground vehicles use wheels and airplanes use fixed wings with propellers or jets. Why? Just because biology solves a problem a certain wa
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by bobsomers 5y ago
Generally this is true, but in the safety critical domain you don't gamble. You do your homework and make sure you aren't exposing your users to unnecessary levels of risk. If Tesla was developing their system with trained safety
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by bobsomers 5y ago
This framing is a common error in the debate. It's not cameras or lidar, it's cameras or cameras + lidar + radar. Nobody is driving on lidar alone. Many others actually have more cameras and are doing substantially more vi
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by bobsomers 5y ago
> If I increase online sales by 0.1% through optimizing something, I am worth millions of dollars to Amazon and nearly nothing to Joe Schmoe with a small Shopify site. Yes, but software skills are fairly fungible. Just because you curren
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by bobsomers 5y ago
I don't mean to come across as too forward or rude, and freely admit that I know nothing about you personally. Thank you for making such generous contributions to charity! The way I look at it is like so: I think most people want to br
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> Why does anyone drive any car when the manufacturer isn't liable for mechanical failures that could cause a crash? Manufacturers absolutely are liable if there is a design problem. This is the entire reason recalls exist. One co
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by bobsomers 6y ago
> The Five Whys specifically does not stop at a single root cause or fault, that's why it's the five why's and not the one. The Five Whys is a good start. It gets you thinking past the first cause you see. But it still sug
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A big part is acknowledging that the actions that human operators take is largely a result of the environment in which they operate. Typically there are many issues with that environment that be improved and all human operators will benefit
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by bobsomers 6y ago
Avoiding the trap of "root causes" is exactly what has lead to such a significant reduction in failures! Avoiding "root cause" thinking doesn't mean that there isn't something that can be found and fixed. The i