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by labrador 2y ago
100,000 miles as a paid professsional driver and a couple 100k more for pleasure and I never once drove into a telephone pole. But keep talking about the mirage Level 5. I can think of many snap decisions I've had to make to prevent de
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by labrador 2y ago
Alphabet has way more money to spend on it than Ukrainians. I was a professional driver in a couple of jobs and as far as I can tell Google Waymo doesn't care about the millions of Americans they want to put out of work, possibly by ha
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by labrador 2y ago
Drone operators in Ukraine seem to do fine and besides, I'm talking about having the option, not using it 100% of the time
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by labrador 2y ago
So I've learned but it's not reassuring because the safer option would be to give a remote operator the ability to take over
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by labrador 2y ago
I'm a better and safer driver than Waymo. I trust myself over software. I also trust human professional drivers over software.
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by labrador 2y ago
Interesting. This is about a month and half old, so they are getting more transparent. I am not reassured though because based on my reading, it appears the fleet response can't actually take over and drive the car in an emergency. I d
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by labrador 2y ago
If it loses remote monitoring I'd rather it would pull over and park rather than barelling down the steep hills of San Francisco without a safety monitor.
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by labrador 2y ago
That's reassuring to me. I don't know why Waymo doesn't reassure safety conscious people like me by being explicit about this. As it stands, as a computer programmer and professional driver at different times in my career, wh
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by labrador 2y ago
I really don't understand why they aren't transparent about this, but judging by the downvotes I'm getting it seems people really, really want to believe they are intelligent and independent self-driving machines. It's s
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by labrador 2y ago
Based on anecdotal evidence, I strongly suspect these are remotely driven cars, not completely self-driving, which means there is a remote saftey operator ready to take over if the ride starts to go bad. "Self-driving" sounds sexi
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by labrador 2y ago
> He was the only person whose books were burned by the Nazis, the Soviets, and the Americans Wow, that's got to be a record. I'm going to take a deeper look. I've done breathwork, but didn't know it came from Reich.
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by labrador 2y ago
Came here to post this. Here's more info about it: From YouTube description: "The music video, directed by Julian Doyle, was conceived by Terry Gilliam and Kate Bush. The video features Canadian actor Donald Sutherland playing the
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by labrador 2y ago
Waht language? Because I'm guessing they work well for languages with a large amount of training data like Python (in my experience), less well for less used languages like Zig or Clojure (haven't tried them but that's my the
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by labrador 2y ago
Maddox was the originator of this style afaik. He's been at it for over 20 years. https://maddox.xmission.com/
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by labrador 2y ago
This explains a lot about America today. There's a related quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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by labrador 2y ago
The deeper isuue is that is that he and assocoiates like Robert Scoble keep hyping xAI's Grok but I've seen little evidence that anyone uses it
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by labrador 2y ago
Amazon invested $4 billion into Anthropic [1], which makes Claude AI, the AI I use almost exclusively. Claude is being trained to be very human-like, safe and friendly and has improved very much in that area lately [2], so I assume the idea
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by labrador 2y ago
I block and hide all right wing content but the X algorithm doesn't care. I feel like Musk personally wants to force me to see it as he tweets out his support of Trump. I like X because AI people are there. The right wing content is ri
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by labrador 2y ago
The end of this article is so beautifully written it made me tear up
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by labrador 2y ago
I had Claude modify it to add those features javascript:(function(){ var imgs = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i = 0; i < imgs.length; i++) { imgs[i].style.visibility = "hi
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by labrador 2y ago
And trade one set of quirks for another? I'll need a good reason. I hope Microsoft doesn't give me one.
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by labrador 2y ago
Steve Jobs led teams to innovate in several industries, such as computing, music distribution, film making, mobile computing etc... I don't worship him or Elon Musk but I recognize their talents. To do less would be to deprive myself o
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by labrador 2y ago
I was wondering about a headless browser. I'll look into this. Python is a great choice.
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by labrador 2y ago
I was speaking to what Steve Jobs had that made him successful, not to his messy behvior and personal life. A lot of great artists were borderline or full on terrible people. We still appreciate their art.
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by labrador 2y ago
Thanks I'll check out Joplin. I also found FireShot which I'm currently trying. It saves to PDF while I just want text
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Ask HN: Best way to save text from dynamically generated pages that won't curl?
5 points by labrador 2y ago|4 comments
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by labrador 2y ago
When Steve Jobs said Microsoft had "no taste" to Bill Gates during an interview, I think one aspect of that is that Jobs had high EQ as well as high IQ. Jobs understood how people felt about products. Microsoft doesn't. When
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by labrador 2y ago
I wrote a bookmarklet for same: javascript:(function(){var imgs=document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for(var i=0;i<imgs.length;i++)imgs[i].style.visibility="hidden"}());
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by labrador 2y ago
I'm not living in fear of that happening. I'm keeping an eye on it. If it crosses a certain threshold I'll switch to Linux. It's not that hard to install Linux.
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by labrador 2y ago
> As they add more features, we have less and less control over our computers. Dropbox, iCloud, Copilot, and all of Apple's Continuity features rely on the cloud, sending data back and forth. I don't use any of these on Windows

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