harles

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   by harles 5y ago

   I get mostly small bands in Spotify and I worry that Spotify is actually bias towards them. I assume the royalties are cheaper for smaller bands and that may factor into recommendations.
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   by harles 5y ago

   500MW of heat from 620MW of electricity seems far from useful. Interesting, but not useful.
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   by harles 5y ago

   So the case for this practice is that Apple is the only corporation that can be trusted with billing - consumers are just being protected from all those evil corporations that aren’t Apple. Seems like a straw man.
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   by harles 5y ago

   It’s hard to tell if these results hold any meaning or not. Where did the numbers come from? Are these just averages from their users? If so, I’d imagine a huge selection bias pushing these numbers up. Are these households only or do they i
5. 215.▲
   by harles 5y ago

   My guess is it’s the chargebacks that banks really care about, which licensing and regulation won’t solve.
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   by harles 5y ago

   I’m pretty sure the majority of consumers don’t want to be associated with such a thing - almost certainly tied to SSN and part of any credit report.
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   by harles 5y ago

   I wonder how much of this has been pushed along by incumbents in the space - they nearly always benefit from regulation as smaller companies suffer the most.
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   by harles 5y ago

   Back of the envelope calculation for HD mapping cost: $5k / km * 4,000,000 km of road in the US = $20bn / yr on HD mapping (assuming once a year updates, which is actually quite infrequent). And that’s not considering all other co
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   by harles 5y ago

   I think there’s way more hand correction needed than people are estimating. Google Maps (the non hd version) employs a small army of 6k contractors [0] to correct way simpler data. Getting cm accurate lane markings and correctly classifying
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    by harles 5y ago

    I didn’t say it was prohibitive but it’s certainly not cheap. The cost is per km rather than per square km. DeepMap charges $5k / km for example (the big companies don’t publish their costs, but it’s widely known in the industry to be
11. 221.▲
    by harles 5y ago

    I’m not aware of any HD maps built entirely automatically. As soon as manual steps creep in, the cost skyrockets. The backhaul and processing power required for updates can also be staggering.
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    by harles 5y ago

    I’d recommend using your own style of zettelkasten. Roam Research is an excellent tool for this, but it’s a matter of preference. Keep your to-dos light weight (I like Asana so I can add comments, but again personal preference). If you have
13. 223.▲
    by harles 5y ago

    Tens of thousands deciding what’s law in a state with tens of millions sure doesn’t sound democratic. This is the definition of special interest and is the opposite of democratic.
14. 224.▲
    by harles 5y ago

    How is giving unions a special line to legislators democratic? Because union leaders are elected like company directors?
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    by harles 5y ago

    How did AB5 benefit their workers? It sure seems like a cash grab to expand their scope.
16. 226.▲
    by harles 5y ago

    Except this was a pretty overt land grab to expand the unions into new territory. How did AB5 support existing union members?
17. 227.▲
    by harles 5y ago

    So not having citizens vote on legislation is the more democratic? Lobbying is?
18. 228.▲
    by harles 5y ago

    I’ve always seen prop 22 as the counter attack to a union driven AB5. Both are bad, but I agree having legislators directly implement laws from lobbyists (as was the case for AB 5) is worse.
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    by harles 5y ago

    Unions with a direct line to the legislature created AB 5. I’m amazed so many people are ok with that while shaming Uber for spending money to encourage voters to overturn it.
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    by harles 5y ago

    iMessage data is getting scanned with a broader set of heuristics than iCloud data, while it’s supposed to have air tight privacy.
21. 231.▲
    by harles 5y ago

    iCloud != iMessage
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    by harles 5y ago

    The concern is that Apple is handing governments a new tool to go “give me a list of all users that have this photo”. It could track down dissidents based on this and combined with metadata is probably sufficient to pinpoint who took a part
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    by harles 5y ago

    100% agree. I think depth is critical and monocular estimation doesn’t cut it.
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    by harles 5y ago

    How often it’s seen in training data that is, which is pulled from data in the wild. It’s simply not possible to do depth estimation like this without priors. That’s one of the serious limitations of such systems - you have to train on ever
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    by harles 5y ago

    After Valve tried and failed with this trick[0] nearly two decades ago, I’d be surprised if anyone else falls for it. [0]: https://www.wired.com/2008/11/valve-tricked-h/
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    by harles 5y ago

    Tesla’s website[0] states it’s monocular depth estimation. I haven’t heard of them doing any form of stereo. [0] https://www.tesla.com/autopilotAI
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    by harles 5y ago

    I’m not sure about newer models without radar, but the older ones explicitly discard stationary returns on their radar. As I understand it, without elevation data it can’t know if it’s a bridge you’ll pass under, a soda can in the road, or
28. 238.▲
    by harles 5y ago

    While that’s useful, I suspect the real reason it exists is to discourage fix-it-yourself options, where an engineer may access sensitive user info to help a friend.
29. 239.▲
    by harles 5y ago

    Rust and many projects using it dual license under Apache2 and MIT. The former for patents and the latter for pervasive OSS license compatibility. Discussion: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rationale-of-apache-dual-l
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    by harles 5y ago

    On the flip side, going all EV puts 2.5x more pressure on the supply chain to remove battery production and capacity as a constraint, which might be optimal long term.