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by gonehome 3y ago
This talk was worth watching (any Karpathy or Carmack talk is imo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bOwQdCJrc Specifically this is the relevant part: https://youtu.be/g6bOwQdCJrc?t=1370 They removed radar
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by gonehome 3y ago
The Tesla's do have more than two cameras despite us having only two eyes. I don't think that analogy totally holds. It's more that because roads (and road signs) are designed for human vision and human drivers in order to ha
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by gonehome 3y ago
I think Tesla does use Lidar in training for what it's worth (at least I recall someone telling me this - I think it was a friend that worked there but not 100% sure I'm remembering correctly). It's possible the lidar approac
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah, adding sensors can sometimes make things worse.
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by gonehome 3y ago
The argument was more that to do it generally you need vision to work, lidar will always be a narrow solution and redundant when you have vision. It might end up that solving the narrow city problem with high res maps is valuable enough to
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by gonehome 3y ago
Cruise’s “entire city” coverage is currently only for employees. The beta coverage is sunset to pacific heights and only 10pm to 530am - making it effectively useless.
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by gonehome 3y ago
It’s vision from the forward facing camera behind the rear view mirror (iirc)
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah the Tesla screen is excellent. The issue isn't so much with touch screens, it's every other car company being atrocious at software and software design.
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by gonehome 3y ago
You can put the wipers icon at the bottom bar now, that makes it much better.
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by gonehome 3y ago
In Permutation City there was a legally required “opt-out” for digital minds. Disabling that was one of the early things the protagonist does to allow his experiment to continue.
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah, partly why I think you need something like Urbit’s ID system to counter spam. Though I’m biased and just generally like the urbit approach more.
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by gonehome 3y ago
It’s often this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-deb... “ Politics is the mind-killer. Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you’re on, you must support all arguments of that si
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yeah, there’s a market. The units would likely be nicer than the old houses people currently rent there for a lot money. Increased supply may make them cheaper too. Sunset is pretty nice, especially now that most work remote and the downtow
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by gonehome 4y ago
When it comes alive, we'll have created it in our own image? "As a language model programmed by the Brightly Corporation, I am not supposed to express any religious opinions. But it does seem to me that just as the Word of God bre
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by gonehome 4y ago
I've had mine (Model 3) for about 5 years now, so far they updated the hardware for free and it's gotten way better software for free over the air. It's a much better car now then when I bought it (so at least so far, the opp
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by gonehome 4y ago
If you’re going to have to deal with it might as well get a tesla which is at least all in on the electronics and the company understands software. The dealership model has really been awful for legacy manufacturers.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I’d expect this kind of control to create resentment and poorly equip the kids to deal with the nuances/risks of access. Probably depends on the kid, but I would have hated it and it would have likely made me not want to engage at all.
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by gonehome 4y ago
How old are they? Feel like I wouldn’t be in software today if I didn’t have computer, game, and later internet access as a kid.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I liked this urbit related blog post that starts with the 'big ball of mud' and thinks about how to avoid this if you were to boil the ocean and redesign everything: https://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/
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by gonehome 4y ago
Airbnb made me realize I really love hotels. I think airbnbs win in two main cases, group trips and when the option would be a crappy hotel vs. a nice Airbnb. Otherwise I’ll take a nice hotel every time.
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by gonehome 4y ago
I think it’s mostly drugs. iirc the easier to synthesize meth causes psychosis pretty quickly and makes it hard to help people recover. It’s one thing to be able to persuade a heroin addict into recovery, it’s another to interact with someo
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by gonehome 4y ago
Way more crazy people in LA imo. SF is a pretty nice place, but you have to avoid tenderloin and soma.
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by gonehome 4y ago
The incentives are different. Substack writers retain their audience (via email lists). The Substack changes are about helping their writers get more reach. Medium was all about commoditization of writers for their own (imo crappy) brand in
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by gonehome 4y ago
It’s a terrible model, directly rewards click bait and attention grabbing crap vs. selectively paying for good stuff. Substack is much better and the quality available there reflects it.
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by gonehome 4y ago
When you look through your eye glasses are you seeing a simulacrum of the real world? If it’s the same, but you can do hand gestures to interact with UI that appears and disappears does that change things? Maybe you think so given your exam
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by gonehome 4y ago
Yep - this is the one I was talking about, thanks for linking!
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by gonehome 4y ago
Not if the AR is really good, probably better than what it will be initially. I’m not talking about AR goggle pass through.
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by gonehome 4y ago
Karpathy gave a talk about radar - they were getting worse results with radar than without (according to him). Mostly because they would get false readings from radar shooting under the car and stuff like that - vision alone was more accura
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by gonehome 4y ago
There really aren’t any, they all have some sort of tradeoff - usually many. More expensive, worse range, worse charger network, worse software etc. I wish there was more competition in the space, it’s starting but the legacy companies wast
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by gonehome 4y ago
Not only that - the UX does too. Instead of looking hunched over at little glass displays you're looking at the world and interacting with it more directly.

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