n0tth3dro1ds

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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
I always thought the confounding factor was that coffee keeps you productive. Meaning, drinking coffee gives you (superior) employment, which means you get decent health care. You also might gain some meaning in life from your job. You will
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
“Tech”, as in social media company, isn’t cool. It’s mostly CRUD at scale, and the core product is a social ill. Fighter jets and super cars are cool, but they aren’t considered “tech” for some reason. The former pays way more than the latt
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
“Meaningful defense work” is not orthogonal to violating the 4th amendment. I don’t think I’ve heard Snowden argue that the NSA’s work is not meaningful. He mainly objected because it was unconstitutional.
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Based and Ted-pilled
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Grandparents? How about Obama (or most mainstream Dems) from ~2006 >against gay marriage >against illegal immigration, supported erecting physical barriers >pro wars in Middle East You surely do not need to go back two generations
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Not at all. Silicon Valley tech companies crushed all dissenting opinions online to a comical level. The only place you’re allowed to have a dissenting opinion is in real life
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
>BLM >LGBT >counter culture Endlessly supported by literally every news outlet, major tech company, big 5 sports league, F1000, university, and at least half of the political class. You’re not counter to any major institution, lmao
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
That’s cool. The engagement metrics show more usage and ad clicks when the feed is ML-driven, so that’s what they’re gonna give you. Thanks for playing.
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Cowardice: the post. Cops won’t care or do anything near me. Dangerous confrontation > dead/raped sister any day of the week.
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
>“If you drive a Tesla you’ll have experienced phantom braking at some point, a false positive condition when the Autopilot cameras thinks there’s a wall up ahead, for example if going under an overpass. It will literally brake. You step
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
>It’s relatively easy to take over the controls which instantly disengages FSD or Autopilot. What a naive assertion. Have you read takeover studies? Driver assistance systems put drivers in a state of inattention (universally, not just o
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Less friction for the option that scores Apple some sweet, sweet recurring revenue.
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Foot and mouth disease (and others)
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
> You're already behind on which cities are being mapped by the way. Funded by investors or search ads, not ride fares. And in a $200k vehicle that will never be economically viable. Your resume will be embarrassing in a few years i
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
>build really good electric cars, that people choose to buy over cheaper alternatives. From the perspective of an employee at another OEM, I’d say they already do that. They have several moats outside of autonomous gimmicks: 1) Charging
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
> this ranting would be a lot more relevant if you couldn't hail rides in our vehicles Where? A narrow area in which you can create ultra-HD maps that are in no way indicative of the general case? If you’re at Cruise, I can only gra
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
>How do you see the path from no autonomy, to partial autonomy, to full autonomy? I don’t. Should you be able to sell an unsafe car just because you speculate about some non-existent alien technology that would make it safe if it exi
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
>You don't know how much a map costs to make, nor how much it would cost to maintain long term. Nor the cost of amortizing over 30 years. You're just making claims with nothing to back it up. I literally work at an automotive O
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
You work at a company committing fraud with a dead end product that will never scale. You’re mad that I’m exposing your fraudulent demo tactics. Go tweak those hyper parameters one more time —- cross your fingers your model converges this d
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
But then you may form an opinion of your own (that differs from theirs) by reading the source material. Or you may notice that those trusty journalists weren’t accurately representing the content of source material in their articles. That w
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
> Ok, and when they want to expand to Knoxville, TN, they'll have a couple people take X months to map it No they won’t. That’s the entire point. It doesn’t scale from a cost perspective. The entire thing is funded by their search a
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
I literally work for an automotive OEM and have worked in computer vision for over a decade. Nice links to engineering blogs written by my colleagues. You are a moron and I seem to have struck a nerve. Hello, salty Tesla owner or engineer.
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
> for something you understand enough to actually tell anyone anything about. I work in computer vision and work at an automotive OEM. Left autonomous field specifically because it was fraudulent. Have many friends that helped stage frau
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
It’s about scale. When you show a video of the car driving itself, you’re implying it can do it in similar arbitrary scenarios. When the car can only drive itself on a route with an ultra-HD map, yet your business model doesn’t allow you to
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
> Was Steve Jobs lying when he showed a barely-working iPhone prototype on stage for the first time? If Apple never delivered the features that he demo’d and went on to sell the phone for $650 with the promise of those features existing,
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
A software system sold as “self-driving” with the lawyer-derived safety valve of an attention warning is not safe. All automotive companies have done takeover studies for ADAS systems. Spoiler: there’s no such thing as a timely takeover at
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
> Why do so many news articles do this? Because they’re serving ads. They don’t want you clicking on a link that takes you to an external site. They don’t care about you reading primary material and forming your own opinion, either. They
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
I told you so. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33212850#33214018 > This is also how Zoox, Tesla, and Cruise do their demo videos to scam more money out of investors: they collect ultra-HD maps in a very narrow area
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
Never hire a lawyer, then.
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by n0tth3dro1ds 4y ago
The mental model of GPL cancer has infected the concept of public domain

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