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by kiratp 4y ago
A very large part of why there M:W ratio is different for immigrants than those back in India is also very sexist - parents don’t want to send their daughters abroad alone because… <sexist> reasons whereas the sons all get pushed to t
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by kiratp 4y ago
We built <osmos.io> in Rust and we started in 2019. Our first lines of product code were also my first lines of Rust. It can be done and it’s not that hard. I think the choice of C++ for an in-process DB that is going to be very popul
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by kiratp 4y ago
Its disappointing that C++ was chosen to build something that is going to live in-process. Rust would have been so much safer. All the segfaults you get when running DucDB supports this statement.
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by kiratp 4y ago
Sometimes it’s better to just change your workflow to match the tool if that avoids you having to build and maintain your own ticketing system
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by kiratp 4y ago
This looks like the vehicle tried and failed to get the driver to engage and pulled over best it could. There is no shoulder there so… Let’s wait to get more info as to what the driver was doing and if they were incapacitated. The FSD beta
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by kiratp 4y ago
Antarctica has the same gravity and radiation levels (magnetosphere) as everywhere on Earth. In HN speak - “to learn to build a filesystem, build a web server first!”
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by kiratp 4y ago
Speaking for myself, the Prime Directive is the survival of humanity. Any other altruistic Prime Directive (ala Star Trek) is a luxury affordable only by a species that has figured out a way past the eventual explosion of their system’s sta
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by kiratp 4y ago
> And there’s nothing in the foreseeable future (the next 10–15 years) that changes that. If we cannot, at a nation-state level, apply ourselves to 30-50 year goals, we might as well just give up on the survival of humanity.
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by kiratp 4y ago
We will continue to kill each other at a similar rate regardless of the outcome of colonization. At least, unlike “Manifest Destiny”, there are no innocent sentient beings we will be attacking.
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by kiratp 4y ago
https://mars.nasa.gov/msr/ Sample return step 1 (collect samples) is already underway.
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by kiratp 4y ago
Arguments against human colonization of the solar system (moon/Mars/etc) sound just like trying ot argue against the westward expansion from the 13 colonies. We will have a Donner Party-like memorial on Mars. And there will be a M
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by kiratp 4y ago
> now that Edge switched to a compatible render engine What is the definition of “compatible” here? The point of “one specification, multiple implementations” is to explicitly leave the door open for slightly deviant implementations.
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by kiratp 4y ago
Given that we are able to prompt GPT (davinci) to learn proprietary DSLs that it would have never seen and build programs with it on data it has never seen… I find it really difficult to buy that there is no internal representation of logi
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by kiratp 4y ago
Quoting you: > To make this even more clear, let's make it concrete with one plausible future: In 2032, Waymo (or Didi, whoever) achieves true 'level 4' fully-self driving with proprietary technology. Their tech is seen in
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by kiratp 4y ago
You seem to imply that for progress to be classified as “R&D” it MYST be published. A huge amount of R&D is never published. Eg: lithography tech at ASML.
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by kiratp 4y ago
But it doesn’t act like an application. Most of the OS right click services, keyboard shortcuts, menu items are all missing. Accessibility tools don’t work.
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by kiratp 4y ago
The software license will still stop you from doing that. No business that would need Oracle will run Oracle software knowingly violating the license.
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by kiratp 4y ago
Announcing partnerships is the easiest thing to do. The proof is in the pudding. Right now Waymo is paying carmakers for the vehicles, not the other way around.
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by kiratp 4y ago
- Changing lanes with someone in my blind spot just behind the B pillar - someone changing lanes into me while cruising - car tried to cut across from lane to my right to lane to my left. Got blocked from going to left lane and slammed brak
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by kiratp 4y ago
Yes. Everything you need while driving is on the wheel or at a well defined corner of the screen (which big touch targets). And that too can be avoided if you’re willing to use voice control.
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by kiratp 4y ago
As an industry we need to get over this pattern of scoping down usage of something that has failed it’s prime directive. People still use MD5 in secure related things because it’s been allowed to stick around without huge deprecation warnin
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by kiratp 4y ago
Literally making their own AI training chips with novel architecture doesn’t count as participating in research? Google has tried and failed at commercializing similar technology in other verticals (like building environmental automation fr
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by kiratp 4y ago
Believe it or not, if you spend enough time with a Tesla, you quickly realize that actually detecting things is a solved problem. The thing they need to improve and are doing so rapidly is actual trajectory policy calculations. And that’s n
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by kiratp 4y ago
This claim is not true. As someone who drives a Tesla with the FSD beta, the vehicle has been getting progressively better since 2018. It’s drives smoother and brakes more predictably dive they stopped using the front radar.
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by kiratp 4y ago
Except the driver (user) is not the buyer. See also - medical health record systems.
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by kiratp 4y ago
> This is a KNOWN issue. There's very very little upside to any sort of touchscreen in a moving vehicle. That’s a very confident statement to make without data to back it up. Strong disagree. I see a huge number of benefits from the
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by kiratp 4y ago
The only way to be sure that your HSM is about to sign what you told it to is if it shows you what was sent to it to sign. Otherwise you’re trusting that something didn’t MITM between your computer and the HSM (eg: driver) such that you see
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by kiratp 4y ago
Not even close. As an example, waiting for my consoles to update games and losing half my hour of free gaming time is terrible - and I have 10G wired around my house to a 1G Comcast connection.
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by kiratp 4y ago
1.4 runs on iPhones. I’m sure we will rapidly see similar for 2.0 https://apps.apple.com/app/id6444050820
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by kiratp 4y ago
Starship has absolutely undergone extensive testing and continues to do so - https://youtu.be/gA6ppby3JC8 These are decades long investments and technologies. The next Artemis doesn’t launch for something like 2 years. Star

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