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by jaxbot 4y ago
Doesn't that broadly seem like a problem? Given the preferred pronouns here are "they/them", which is what people ought to be using if they don't know, the problem stems from people inherently assuming "he&#x2F
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Zoox: ~1-Hour Fully Autonomous Freeway Drive from Menlo Park to San Francisco(youtube.com)
7 points by jaxbot 6y ago|0 comments
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Zoox: 1-Hour Fully Autonomous Drive in Las Vegas with Commentary(youtube.com)
1 points by jaxbot 6y ago|0 comments
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by jaxbot 7y ago
Wow, this sounds eerily similar to my situation, though I was only there about 3 years. I left to join an AV startup and it's amazing how much more I've learned and accomplished in a few months versus the time at Google. Things at
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by jaxbot 7y ago
It also wasn't in isolation; he made very similar remarks in 2006 on his blog that he got flak for, but people mostly brushed aside as 'oh, Stallman..' Comments here seem to mostly equate this situation to a Cancel Culture ou
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by jaxbot 7y ago
If you read through Autonomy by Lawrence Burns, the author states that Levandowski felt the project was losing focus & getting too bloated, and wanted to disrupt it with a Team Macintosh style parallel project that he would head. It cou
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by jaxbot 7y ago
Read the license on this thing. "open data set" is a stretch here. It's against the license terms to publish a trained model, or its weights, or even use the dataset for models that are run on a physical vehicle (supposedly e
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by jaxbot 7y ago
If I make project Foo, which leverages #Script, and make Foo MIT-licensed, by your statement #Script is now also MIT licensed in this project. So then Company Blah wants to use Foo, which happens to just be thin wrapper/modification ar
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by jaxbot 7y ago
This is one of our favorite jokes internally, often invoked when new signage is put up to clarify how trashcans work or the like.
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by jaxbot 7y ago
Even on a lighter note, I'm getting more and more frustrated at cloud device providers changing features on a whim. For example, I own Nest products that I bought to integrated into my 'smart home'. Now Google is ripping out
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by jaxbot 7y ago
During a snow storm/PABT outage this past winter, I observed a jitney line from 8th ave down halfway to 10th. It's pretty crazy to see the mishmash of alternative transit modes people will piece together when their main route (NJT
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by jaxbot 7y ago
Same. Basically anyone with a newer Veriphone system (which everyone seemed to roll out back when we switched to chip) seems to support it. I use Google Pay, so it's not Apple-specific anyhow. But it's so much faster to process th
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by jaxbot 7y ago
Right. There's no enforcement of visa itineraries so long as your first one has valid flights & hotel. After that, you get 10 years of multiple entry with no required itineraries. I just brought it up as a point, that Xinjiang is n
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by jaxbot 7y ago
I'm not sure and I don't want to misspeak. I know that my company does not do such a thing, and my phone when roaming (Project Fi) bypasses the GFW. However, I do know there are specific different IT infra requirements when connec
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by jaxbot 7y ago
If that's the case, it's worth noting (since it's often lost here, on reddit and in the news) that is app is only required at border checkpoints in Xinjiang. Putting Xinjiang on your itinerary would likely result in your visa
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by jaxbot 7y ago
There's important findings in here, but it also reminds me of reactions to Prius, Tesla, public buses, etc., where people latch on to any viable excuse to continue their wasteful status quo. Scooters aren't perfect, just like ever
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by jaxbot 7y ago
I regret, though should be grateful, that I live in a space too small to fit my own model railroad setup. Been thinking about building an El onto the crowning for a while, though.
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by jaxbot 7y ago
Seems like misguided faux environmentalism, like banning plastic straws but keeping the longtail of plastic waste. Electric buses are good, of course, but a well-designed and highly utilized bus network, even with the dirtiest diesel engine
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by jaxbot 7y ago
Hold on a second. NYer here. Yes, we spent a lot of money on the problem. But we did not 'solve the issue.' Not even close. Our problem doesn't seem as bad as SF's (perhaps just less visible due to more clearing), but we
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by jaxbot 7y ago
This is SOP at most Big 4. It does strike me as funny, though, that MS would ban Slack/GDocs, that Google bans basically all non-Google cloud products, yet both companies are trying to convince other large firms that cloud is the futur
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by jaxbot 7y ago
I've heard tales of cell towers having more or less automatic interference detection and the owners have a big incentive to let the FCC know. For other things, it's so rarely enforced or "self-policed" (like ham bands) t
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by jaxbot 7y ago
The idea that Tesla could get fully auto vehicles out of the existing Model 3s their building today is laughable. Even top-tier AV companies, with larger teams and far more advanced sensors, can't. There's a huge difference betwee
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by jaxbot 7y ago
>It is incredibly hard to have consistent results on e-sports tournaments. The NYXL are a great example of this. Often undefeated in normal season stages but then choke when it actually matters. It doesn't help that their strategies
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by jaxbot 7y ago
As someone who attends community board meetings in Manhattan, this seems to be the average attendee's opinion too.
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by jaxbot 7y ago
It got a little more complicated than that. I can't speak too much about the specifics, but people were definitely defaming the country itself and overall going out of line in hopes to amplify their protest. It's one thing to say
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by jaxbot 7y ago
My only strong opinion is that I'm completely unqualified to opine on this as a white american westerner. When the Dragonfly outrage was happening within the company, many people stood up and helped kill the project (by leaking, by com
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by jaxbot 7y ago
I think about this a lot when considering China's extensive High-Speed Rail network. China's government operates it at a loss, and the capital expense must have been enormous, even with their wages. But the government had enough s
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by jaxbot 7y ago
On the other hand, censorship isn't perfect, and giving more access to the internet means more access to west and censored ideas by the masses. I can't predict how it will play out, but I was hoping that Dragonfly, if launched, wo
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by jaxbot 7y ago
What you are referring to is your comments on my question about Silicon Valley members working in China: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19500740 This thread, which was about tech scenes in China for foreigners, cultur
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Ask HN: Hiring managers and recruiters, how much does resume layout matter?
3 points by jaxbot 7y ago|4 comments

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