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Nah, I quit at the end of 2023, so much for those compromises

I have pride in my work, and having to watch it be destroyed repeatedly is not a way to keep me around.

!!! You described my experience in the workforce to a t! So frustrating that tech managers look at tech debt as a thing to be maintained at a certain level instead of allowing us to achieve perfection

um um um um do we want nvidia to be on the same network as hugging face given the recent incidents?

> Waymo has zero "remote human drivers". It is literally impossible to "drive" a Waymo by remote commands

And yet?

A guy phoned into our waymo with a thick indian accent and told us to hold on just one moment and steered us around the obstacles and then let the waymo get back to it.

I know I'm just some person on the internet but this is what happened.

Edit: I think I was wrong and the parent comment is right, although this is indeed what it seemed like happened to me, that human on the other end of the line was most likely a member of Fleet Response. More details here: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/

Also I was confused because now-a-days the word "agent" in my circles more often than not no longer refers to a human.

> Redundant: Because there is no human to take over, proactive safety and redundancy are natively built in. Our compute is designed like two independent engines. While they normally operate as one unit running full parallel workloads, if one experiences a fault, the other seamlessly takes over.

uhhh i've been in a situation where a remote human took over before

it's rare but it can happen (or at least it could 1.5 years ago-ish)

the specific situation was a tight alleyway with cars parked on either side and people doing things like opening car doors and crossing randomly. the waymo obviously wanted a much wider safety margin than what was available and stopped to wait for things to clear up. the remote human driver instead drove more aggressively towards the pedestrians so they would clear the road.

It's not one kid, the scale of applicability is massive. The word kidnapping here is misdirecting the conversation a bit, because it's not even usually kids, often it's like, human trafficking cases that involve adults, or missing persons reports.

Like I said, my position is not popular. I think if you can get rid of the abuse from the police departments that have this tool, and it enables them to save people, it would be a good thing.

Often when a car is stolen, it's stolen so someone can do a second crime with it. So reducing successful car theft has lots of good downstream effects.

When I see posts online of people cutting down the cameras, it makes me feel like those people are pro-crime and anti-police rather than pro-privacy.

To add a complication to my position: I have been to the UK, and I did not like all the CCTVs around. They were often pointed at places where pedestrians would be rather than at the roads tracking the cars. That felt invasive and intrusive.

If present day Flock is just a stepping stone towards having that in the United States then my position on the matter would change.

It seems to be an issue that people care about on both sides of the political divide.

I am an outlier in that I like them because they help catch kidnappers and help police be able to return stolen cars in time for the victim to make it to work in the morning, with no obligation to press charges.

I haven't seen evidence of anyone else like me online or in real life.

The answer in the thread (which is quite hard to find) is to use the Google Photos app without an account.

The app has some very nice features that are locked behind account access though.

> the trips it produces are unusually long, commonly lasting one to three days after an onset of 12 to 24 hours, and in some cases even causing hospital stays of up to a week. Because of the extraordinarily long duration of these trips and the chance for prolonged side effects such as delirium and dizziness, Domnauer has yet to try the raw mushrooms himself.

> These mega-trips might help to explain why people in China, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea do not seem to have a tradition of purposefully seeking out L. asiatica for its psychoactive effects, according to Domnauer's findings. "It was always just eaten for food," Domnauer says, with hallucinations being an unexpected side-effect.

From when this same story was covered in January

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-m...

Contractors get paid less and don't get the same benefits as a full Amazon employee. It makes sense for NYC to push for them to be recognized as employees.

It also makes sense for Amazon to push hard into drone delivery for NYC as a response, which I also support.

My experience the last few months has been that the "take me to" command no longer worked! "Take me home" for example would no longer work. "Take me to <coffee shop name> in <City>, <State>" stopped working. I relied on that to navigate me to places when I'd already started driving, so it was pretty frustrating when it suddenly stopped.

google assistant has been failing at more and more extremely simple tasks the last few months. the writing was on the wall.

Sounds false

What it we would prefer that there were not other people in our homes for interpersonal reasons?

He makes a very good point here about llms or lrms not being good at taking video as inputs, and i think he's signaling his intent to help change that. He's pointing at an open problem. This isn't a carefully structured blog post, it's just a tweet.

better google news than alphafold tbh

exactly

I asked Fin to escalate my issue to a real human once I realized it was a chatbot. The real human helped me with my issue.

The reason i want to run models at home is to be able to experiment on them, change things, see how they get better or worse.

> Zinzindohoué agrees: “We don’t need to wait for others to come to our country to show us what is under our sea. We are the ones who must take responsibility.

This post felt like it ended too soon? Seemed like the author never got around to explaining why he (she?) fell out with the rationalists

Paypal offshored all of their support staff.

Claude & ChatGPT can still see your name on your payment information I bet.

FTA: "essentially punishing them for the sins of Big Tech"

I was triggered by the "Honest Numbers" section

> “When our staff reviewed and cleared those accounts, the same bug prevented the ban from being lifted automatically, so it just stayed in place,” Discord says.

It seems like a similar issue is affecting Twitter currently. People are being suspended for inauthentic behavior, they appeal, they get an email saying the appeal was accepted, and then, nothing, the account doesn't come back. Is there perhaps a third party moderation platform behind both of these services?

https://www.reddit.com/r/twitterhelp/comments/1sr7t1m/x_rest...

https://devcommunity.x.com/t/restoration-emails-for-suspende...

I mean, I probably saw this when I was 4 or so, and I don't have any children now. I can't really blame my four year old self for being impressionable. I'd say this is probably more of an example of why people should be cautious of the kind of content they put in front of their kids.

Captain Planet literally told children who cared about environmentalism to "keep families small" to save our planet.

https://youtu.be/tZCg9HsDntY

It's not difficult to take that to the next logical conclusion, no children means less resources used.

update your priors dude