minwcnt5

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by minwcnt5 3mo ago
Reread the comment: Shazeer was the one shitposting about politics, not Jeff Dean. Dean called him out over it.
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by minwcnt5 3mo ago
Depends where you live. In SF, parking alone is more than $300/mo if you have to pay for a spot. Also, many companies subsidize Waymo rides for employees as part of their commuter benefits.
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by minwcnt5 7mo ago
You can probably infer the average number of active cars from trips and utilization metrics, which are out there (at least for California I believe they report this). E.g. 450,000 trips/week * 15 min/trip / 0.56 loaded:empty
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by minwcnt5 8mo ago
Alphabet is only giving up around a 3% stake. They continue to own most of it, and mostly bet their own money.
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by minwcnt5 8mo ago
I think some of the external investors have board seats, so the outside people do get a (small) say in things. And to your point, that's probably also a good thing for avoiding another Stadia mistake.
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by minwcnt5 8mo ago
"Yes it is that bad" - every woman I've ever talked to.
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by minwcnt5 10mo ago
Building out depot and charging infrastructure and working with city officials are both slow processes, so I imagine you'll see them prioritize spreading out to a lot of cities first, in the most profitable areas (downtown), then expan
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by minwcnt5 11mo ago
> There is no road in SF that is as hard to navigate as the average suburban London two-way traffic single car width road with parking on both sides. I think you just described the entire Bernal Heights neighborhood in SF (except with 20
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by minwcnt5 11mo ago
> People say yes it drives, but it drives like a rookie I think you just made this up. Almost every anecdote I've heard, and I spend a lot of time in two cities where it's launched, is that "it drives better than most huma
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by minwcnt5 1y ago
European cities have lots of taxis. Same with Asian cities. They will obviously have AVs in the future. I'm not sure why you think they should be mutually exclusive with transit.
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by minwcnt5 1y ago
It's a "joke" (I wouldn't call it that, but it's a vastly different product) because you have to pay attention to the road at all times. You don't live in a Waymo city, so I understand. A lot of people who don&
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by minwcnt5 1y ago
They're operating a Robotaxi service, not a robotaxi service. If I create a shuttle bus service for my neighborhood and call it the "Space Shuttle", I am not operating a space shuttle.
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by minwcnt5 1y ago
I think the plan is that other entities will own and maintain the cars. That's why they're working with partners like Uber and Avis.
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by minwcnt5 1y ago
How much money they've spent in the past is irrelevant. That money all came from investors, in exchange for a stake in the company. It never needs to be "paid back". Besides which, those investors have earned all those funds
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by minwcnt5 1y ago
I have a slightly different take than others on this: I think the main contributor is the fact Toronto's financial district is extremely dense compared to most if not all European cities, and serviced by a highly trafficked subway li
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by minwcnt5 1y ago
Well, no, almost everything you said simply isn't true. Immigrants create jobs. They create homes. They make healthcare more available. Why? Because they work productively, they earn money, and they spend it in the US. "Illegals&q
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by minwcnt5 1y ago
Sorry, but corporations are not people despite what some people will tell you. They would definitely NOT survive in any recognizable form with "only a few billion dollars", because the stock price is a function of profits. Take aw
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by minwcnt5 1y ago
Maybe he knows something.
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by minwcnt5 1y ago
This also lets all of his co-investors in X, who were likely pissed that their shares tanked, exchange their shares at an inflated value (but one that still sees them losing 25% of their original investment) for shares in a trendy yet likel
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by minwcnt5 2y ago
A Waymo employee replied to the Twitter thread and said the post's interpretation is incorrect.
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by minwcnt5 2y ago
One of the big flaws in Karpathy's logic is that it implies human vision is acceptable and sufficient for an AV. The reality, as Cruise found out, seems to be that society will demand AVs are much safer than humans. Human vision is an
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by minwcnt5 2y ago
They drive in downtown SF, downtown LA and soon Tokyo. I've been to all these cities and besides occasional snow, I don't see what's so special about NYC. Shibuya Crossing is even busier than Times Square. What's the dif
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by minwcnt5 2y ago
Those points will help, but they aren't sufficient. Sometimes it's necessary to have an instant reaction time and do more than just slam the brakes, like this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/waymo/comments&
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by minwcnt5 2y ago
These videos are from three and six years ago, lol.
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by minwcnt5 2y ago
People sure are reading a lot into my comment that I feel "more vulnerable" on the sidewalk than in a Waymo. That doesn't mean I think walking is dangerous. (It can definitely be unpleasant in some locations though, for a var
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by minwcnt5 2y ago
San Francisco. I do walk and take transit all the time, but I'm a man. My wife has been chased by mentally ill people bin broad daylight. The risk to me is low, but I still make sure I'm aware of my surroundings. I don't thin
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by minwcnt5 2y ago
If training data is such an edge for Tesla, how is it that Waymo works so much better than FSD with only 1/1000th the data? I also don't see any evidence that Waymo can't work anywhere. They recently expanded to Austin, and i
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by minwcnt5 2y ago
Boston? Pfft. I'm not going to get excited until this can drive in rural Turkmenistan. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35834271 ).
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by minwcnt5 2y ago
> ridiculous intersections and confusing rules that only humans can do LLMs are already better at this than humans: https://x.com/petergyang/status/1707169696049668472 I think it's actually going to be the
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by minwcnt5 2y ago
You can open the door and get out if it's stopped. You can press the "pull over" button to have it pull over as soon as it can safely do so. You can call rider support or 911 while the doors remain locked to the outside. I ag

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