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by pj_mukh 3y ago
For the 80% during peak rush hour? Just based on spatial efficiency that pricing doesn't seem attainable. Maybe if you were to throw infinitely scalable roads in the way of Boring Tunnels, but now we are off in la-la wish land. Just
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
This picture makes it clear, for the most part. Public transit is a pareto improvement on personal driving pods in terms of scalability. Especially for fixed commute routes. https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8456/799951036
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
I agree with the second point but given as 80% of city transports post-covid is back to being fixed commutes along fixed routes, I'm happy optimizing that along transit ways. I don't really care what happens with the remaining 20%
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
The first problem is much harder to solve, the second one only happens because of the first. The city elected to do the easy useless thing first and is patting themselves in the back (people are still gonna be flying due to shitty human dri
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
"It also doesn't take into account the transport to and from your door on both ends." This type of design is terrible for average health outcomes [1]. We should not be optimizing for this. Walking to the bus stop is a good ou
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Note this is suspending operations indefinitely with no pathway back. No "take these steps and we'll consider re-instatement". Basically a death knell. Moreover, the city had requested the DMV do this to Waymo as well (the st
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Which is further making my point. Most of tech should abandon the city...fast.
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
" it's you need to completely rebuild the city with 5-10x the population density." Which..is exactly what is going to happen [1]? [1] https://www.californiacitynews.org/2021/09/california-says-g...
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
I mean maybe if you're a small town and want to stay a small town. Large cities, should definitely drive most transportation away from personal vehicles/pods. Its simply a space/first principles issue [1]. The math seems 100x
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Are people this incredulous about public transit? I love autonomous cars, but its not scalable at all. Its obvious to me that public transit is the real future as the population grows.
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
It’s so painfully obvious to me that the solution here is to not having flying humans because of bad drivers that hit and run and not “actually let’s ban autonomous driving” (the city will inevitably come after Waymo next)
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
“Screwing up publicly” How else are they supposed to screw up? If the city needs more information from the cars, they should sue for it not indefinitely suspend operations. The city is looking to regulate all this like it regulates new ho
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Based purely on city pressure. Background reading will make this clear [1] [1]: https://sfist.com/2023/08/17/sf-city-attorney-files-motion-t...
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
“The woman got dragged 20feet” With respect this part is not clear. Only that the woman moved 20feet. The DMV has not made clear whether she moved 20feet from the location of original Collision (ie with the human driver) or she was dragged
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Dragged 20 feet after she was pinned under the car, or after being hit by the (human) driver? This part is not clear to me, and DMV never makes it clear either.
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Did Cruise release the video, its not clear to me a human driver would be better (other than some textual descriptions of the event)? The (human) person who actually caused the crash is still at large, and the bay area (SF + Oakland) still
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Amen. Really wish there was a way for tech (especially new AI tech) to wholesale abandon the city. Even just move south to the actual Silicon Valley. The city picking winners and losers like this is untenable
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
"Cities and neighborhoods are deeply attached to their reasons for resisting various densification projects, and breaking through arbitrary red tape here is an immense and intractably expensive undertaking." The large-scale toler
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Seconded. Great idea.
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
The federal government is (mostly) inconsequential on housing supply. Trudeau knows this and so has to do all kinds of other song and dances to distract. If we have a labor problem let’s import construction workers , fix zoning, build a la
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
“Destroying the local job market” This has been debunked again and again[1]. Please stop. No ones complaining about unemployment/underemployment anymore and with good reason. Even the article OP posted cites a job market that is too g
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
I hear this all the time. But everytime it’s complaints about too much demand, but never a complain about supply. Even though they are both similar political problems. I don’t want to speculate why. Immigrants have more than proven themselv
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Controversial opinion: that program is mostly inconsequential at scale. The real needle driver is the much maligned student visa program. While stuffing students into rando colleges in the far flung regions of the country (“diploma mills”)
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
“ People in their late 20s to early 40s are the most likely to start businesses, but that demographic is shrinking with Canada's aging population, leaving a smaller pool of candidates as potential founders.” Canada has an ace in the ho
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
2D to 3D networks are pretty amazing right now. High poly meshes and low poly textures are possible.
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Inpainting manually is incredibly laborious. The comparison is almost like manually adding numbers on a paper spreadsheet vs excel. Manual inpainting gives a lot of control though, something I hope these SD pipelines can improve on.
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Also this is inpainting, not compositing.
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Another way of framing this without the fiefdom comparisons is that a lot of managers simply don't trust their employees. Weekly check-ins leave them with 4-5 days of fretting, not knowing if progress is happening. Looking over at an e
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
haha a costly demo to run with the hn hug + inference costs..
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by pj_mukh 3y ago
Wow, 10cm live view for complete situational awareness of forest fires feels like it should be a game changer. Can we make sure someone (if not you guys) fully builds this service on your flights for the fire service?

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