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Fair, the litmus test would be whether Swiss Re charges less for (re)insuring autonomous vehicles vs regular drivers.
> But anyway, I have a feeling that in the long run they probably will be. In the meantime they share the road with human drivers and the real benefits won’t be seen until its just autonomous vehicles all carrying out the same rules.
Agree.
I do wonder whether a world of autonomous vehicles moving more slowly but safely is still a better world than ours — is there reason to the current speed/safety trade-off is optimal?
> Similarly, in a more statistically robust dataset of over 35 million miles during autonomous testing operations, the Waymo Driver, together with a human autonomous specialist behind the steering wheel monitoring the automation, also significantly reduced both bodily injury and property damage claims per million miles compared to the human driver baselines.
Link to the full research paper: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2309/2309.01206.pdf
Oh man, this sounds like a dealbreaker, but thanks for sharing your approach nonetheless!
Some other useful points to note:
- in general, you’d probably want to version your API keys (something that wasn’t done in the example)
- I tend to think base58 is less important for something that you expect your users to copy and paste (eg API keys) rather than enter manually (eg OTP)
- In a previous product, we have used a high entropy string in lieu of having a username and password to access authenticated resources. It’s somewhat risky in theory but in the years it’s been around, it actually works surprisingly well in practice.
Very well-researched, seems like they are behind a surprisingly wide range of hacks (government officials, business executives, telcos and political activists), almost feels like something out of a Neal Stephenson novel
I think you're solving a real pain point but to be honest I watched the video a few times and have trouble understanding how it works/differs from a regular debugger.
Furthermore, whereas we hardly rewatch the same movies, we constantly re-listen to the same music we first encountered in our adolescence (nobody can convince me that the 90s is not the pinnacle of pop music). This makes things like playlists a lot more valuable and sticky.
I am not particularly ideological about copyright/piracy one way or another, but I know I probably won't be pirating music anytime soon.
> Use dynamodb for storage.
So far I've done the opposite, i.e. use a relational database at the beginning, and, if the access pattern is clear and there are some parts of the application that would not scale well with SQL, move those parts to DynamoDB.
> (Aside: I wish someone would rethink Serverless, heh.)
Not sure if you've checked out https://sst.dev/ but I think they've done precisely that. For example, they have Live Lambda Development which makes local dev a real breeze by significantly shortening feedback loops (no need to push your code up to the cloud and wait for it to deploy)
If I owned the largest messaging networks, I would enable end-to-end encryption by default too.
Have you tried making a HN post or otherwise bring attention to this? My impression is he got a bunch of undeserved clout, especially in light of how things turned out subsequently.
> Many of my classmates in Malaysia were from Singapore and wanted to escape from the strict education system so I’ve always assumed that education is better there (in some sense, I understand it’s not for everyone).
Oh that's new to me, I didn't know that's a trend (Singaporeans going to Malaysia to escape the education system).
> I actually tried applying to some SG universities but was rejected (I have terrible grades)
Sorry to hear that. Something I have learned much later in life is that whereas schooling rewards individuals for being "all-rounded" and naturally caps the returns for being good at something (at most you can get 100 or 4.0 or wtv), in the real world, the returns for being really good at something (as you seem to be) are really uncapped.
> I tried putting a few job ads on MyCareersFuture for an average salary for Singapore, and only got a handful of responses, most of whom were entirely unqualified. Our circumstances changed, so I didn’t keep trying to hire here, but I get the impression MyCareersFuture is only really used to prove to MOM that you tried to hire a local so you can justify a visa to bring somebody into the country. I think most proper hiring is done via word of mouth or LinkedIn here. > I think a lot of people here hire developer teams in Vietnam and nearby areas. Which is certainly cheaper and opens up much bigger markets, but also introduces a language barrier.
Yes I think you're right about that. Am I right to understand that you ended up hiring elsewhere as a result? How was your experience in that regard? Yes, I know couple of founders who hire developer teams in Vietnam specifically. What they said is, for the equivalent of a fresh grad's salary (assuming you're getting the good end of that bimodal distribution), you can get a senior engineer in Vietnam. Oh, and I know someone who has dev team in India but I think he's originally from India and was able to tap into local connections to pull this off.
> If you’re keen on living in the region as a founder, then I’d say Singapore is the best place to be by far. But you probably aren’t going to build a dev team here.
So your advice would be to live in Singapore, but build a dev team somewhere else in Southeast Asia?
> It’s pretty easy to meet other founders and investors here. If you’re a founder then it’s a pretty good place to be as far as the entrepreneurial ecosystem is concerned. Antler started here and is very active in the community.
Any specific events you'd recommend?
Thanks in advance!
Side note: I also had to figure out the ways in serverless/PlanetScale's MySQL is different (e.g. you can't have foreign keys, you can't create triggers). On the whole, foregoing these features for serverless makes it worthwhile though.
EDIT: oh nvm they literally just announced foreign key support: https://planetscale.com/blog/challenges-of-supporting-foreig...
Personally, I am quite impressed by the new serverless database offerings (PlanetScale, Neon.tech, Turso etc.), but incidents like this give me pause and make me wonder if I am better off sticking to e.g AWS Aurora and paying fix fees.
Nope, he did not
> a) either setup Turnstile and don't worry until someone complains, or b) set up a 60 requests per minute global rate limit (just in case)
I guess technically a) is what I've done and my friend is the one who has complained.
But you're right, it's definitely premature optimization and I'm now doing the uncomfortable thing of trying to do marketing and get more customers instead of the more comfortable engineering work...
My sense is: - Engineers, while cheaper than the US, are still fairly expensive and are typically quite risk-averse - The investors-to-builders ratio is very high; while it might be good for fundraising, I wonder if having a critical mass of builders is no less important
Curious to hear your thoughts!
> As a child, I was always told by everyone around me, family, friends, teachers that going to the US or UK should be my dream. Those that manage to go either via scholarship or wealth are described as geniuses and assumed to be smarter than the rest of us.
On this particular point, similar phenomenon here in Singapore and I studied overseas and came to a similar realization as you. But one irony is it's not something you can credibly say/know without actually having done it.
Now that you're there, my advice is to make the most of it and aggressively filter for people with similar interests as you and accept that you probably won't assimilate in with the mainstream and that's OK!
> This setting does not sync across browsers or devices. You will have to disable chat & history on each device/browser.
I wonder whether this is a dark pattern or if there is a good reason for it.
I can't help but wonder if we live in the same universe. If anything, in my part of the world, I am seeing powerful surveillance tech going from the digital sphere and into the physical sphere, often on the legal/moral basis that one has no expectation of privacy in public spaces.
Would love for OP to elaborate and prove me wrong!
However, a more recent trend is companies that sell technologies to the state directly. For every reputable one like Palantir or Anduril or even NSO Group, there are probably many more funded in the shadows by In-Q-Tel, not to mention the Chinese companies doing the same in a parallel geopolitcal orbit. Insofar as AI is a sustaining innovation that benefits incumbents, the state is surely the biggest incumbent of all.
Finally, an under-appreciated point is Apple's App Tracking Transparency policy, which forbids third-party data sharing, naturally makes first-party data collection more valuable. So even if Meta or Google might suffer in the short-term, their positions are ultimately entrenched on a relative basis.
Haha yes indeed that's what I meant, I suspect this is only going to become more common whether we like it or not