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by lacker 7mo ago
This part of the essay makes me feel moved by the author's situation. > I am sitting down after a long walk outdoors. It should have been relaxing, but I was processing - processing another interview pipeline that has fallen throug
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by lacker 8mo ago
It's funny to use "the market value of all taxi companies combined" as a proxy for how valuable the self-driving market will be, because that's exactly the reasoning that led people to underestimate Uber. The market valu
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by lacker 8mo ago
It seems tough culturally. If you look at it from an outside point of view, right now Tesla is worth $1.6T, Waymo is worth $130B, and GM is worth $72B. If Cruise were actually a third viable competitor in this race, it would probably be wor
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by lacker 8mo ago
In general electronics aren't recycled because people don't care about recycling them. The easiest piece of electronics equipment to recycle is probably an iPhone. You can give an old iPhone to Apple and they will recycle it for f
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by lacker 8mo ago
It doesn't surprise me that Siri continues to be bad - Apple's current plan is to use a low-quality LLM to build a top-quality product, which turned out to be impossible. What does surprise me is that Google Home is still so bad.
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by lacker 8mo ago
It would be great if home assistants actually started to understand me personally. Not even in the sense of "what am I like", more like in the sense of, "when I ask what the weather is today, do I want a long lecture, or do I
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by lacker 8mo ago
The problem with AI art is that it mostly sucks right now. Well, for "high art" - it can't write a novel, it doesn't create interesting artistic images. It's great for mocking up product UIs. And there are exception
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by lacker 8mo ago
It's pretty common in California for cities to abuse the permitting process to extract money from homeowners. But on the other hand, these homeowners are getting subsidized by Prop 13. For a typical house in the Palisades bought 34 yea
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by lacker 8mo ago
If they actually worked right now, the demand would be high. Demand is certainly high for Waymos. Even if they worked worse than a Waymo I think the demand would still be very high. But it's hard to tell if (or when) it will work well
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by lacker 9mo ago
In my experience, whenever you mandate open source software, you get software so unusable that it might as well be closed-source. Like, it doesn't compile, and they ignore all bug reports.
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by lacker 10mo ago
I'm not sure if I have the right mental model for a "skill". It's basically a context-management tool? Like a skill is a brief description of something, and if the model decides it wants the skill based on that descripti
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by lacker 10mo ago
At first this sounds cool but I feel like it falls apart with a basic example. Let's say you're running a simple e-commerce site. You have some microservices, like, a payments microservice, a push notifications microservice, and a
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by lacker 10mo ago
I feel like Zig is closer to "better C" and Rust is closer to "better C++". So I'd pick based on whether you are more in a C mood or a C++ mood.
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by lacker 10mo ago
The real risk is not that Anthropic will run out of money, but that they will change their strategy to something that isn't Bun-based, and supporting Bun won't make sense for them any more.
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by lacker 11mo ago
A similar problem that I like. A "lattice point" on the plane is a point where both coordinates are integers, like (3, 4) or (-2, -1). Prove that for any five lattice points, there will be two of them that if you connect them with
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by lacker 11mo ago
I think Ruby has declined because Rails was its selling point, but Rails was optimized for the world of HTML templates. Once you're writing JavaScript-heavy frontends and mobile apps, Rails isn't giving you much that you can'
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by lacker 11mo ago
Something people want, apparently!
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by lacker 11mo ago
I was riding in a Waymo recently and it suddenly braked for no reason at an intersection where it didn't have a stop sign. I was like, what the heck, this Waymo is broken, it didn't see that the stop sign is only two way. Then a l
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by lacker 11mo ago
Obviously it's property damage. How would you like it if someone covered the windshield of your car with glue?
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by lacker 11mo ago
It makes sense to me that criminals, like this guy you met in a bar, are opposed to Flock cameras.
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by lacker 11mo ago
There are a lot of Flock supporters out there. In my neighborhood, homeowners can volunteer to put Flock cameras on their property, and a number of people are doing this. It's like having a Ring doorbell and sharing the feed with the p
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by lacker 11mo ago
Oh... that explains what's happening here. It's frustrating for the participants, but typically for these "internship programs for disadvantaged students", future employers will not treat it as equivalent to a regular in
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by lacker 11mo ago
I don't intend to say the author is "bad", I'm just trying to follow up on this reasoning: I learned the tools I was told to learn. I watched the right talks. I followed the right people. I can point at a neat little ro
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by lacker 11mo ago
What jumped out at me is that the author had three internships. Those are essentially "entry-level positions". If you do well at an internship, you typically get a job offer. If you don't do well, usually you can at least get
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by lacker 11mo ago
I personally like AI but it has definitely shifted my job. There is less "writing code", more "reviewing code", and more "writing sentences in English". I can understand people being frustrated. To me it's
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by lacker 11mo ago
The point I found most interesting is what the author calls "robustness". Another advantage of AlphaEvolve was robustness: it was relatively easy to set up AlphaEvolve to work on a broad array of problems, without extensive need
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by lacker 11mo ago
Batteries are also a pretty good solution. It's possible that eventually there is enough battery storage on the grid that we can shut down the highest-risk transmission lines for longer periods of time without having power outages. Cas
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by lacker 11mo ago
In my Mazda the wired CarPlay also seems to fail a lot. But whenever I rent a car with wireless CarPlay it's been fine. Take this one anecdote for what it's worth.
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by lacker 11mo ago
CarPlay has its pros and cons. I drive a Mazda and have rented enough GM and Ford vehicles to say that all of their software is consistently terrible. It's like every rectangle on the screen is built by a different team, all of whom ha
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by lacker 11mo ago
Yeah, I just meant proposition-as-types. Sloppy terminology by me. I meant to complain about the general conflation of the "proving system" and the "typechecking system". Generally in dependent type systems you are limit

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