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Agree ; got excited too soon.

was listening to Kyle Vogt about his new bot company and he described that folding laundry is sort of a frontier problem for robotics and we are still many ways out from there. There's solution from physical intelligence and probably other companies; but they are still fairly complex and not as easily reproducible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXbrt_2Fvgk

Still looking for the LLM moment in robotics


Con: a small chance it may take over the world and exterminate humanity.

Pro: can fold my laundry.

Sounds like a good deal to me.


haha - yes - sometimes when you look at all the Web 2.0 and beyond startups, all of the startups seems to be at least original founded to solve problems single people think need solving:

* finding good looking people in college

* sending dm's to other people

* carpooling with strangers

* crashing on strangers couches

* getting takeout delivered

* robots/drones that fight each other

* the meta verse

* the equivalent of digital beanie babies

Meanwhile automation to help out with stuff like laundry, dishwashing, cooking home cooked meals, other household chores, helping the elderly, etc. remain untouched.


> Meanwhile automation to help out with stuff like laundry, dishwashing, cooking home cooked meals, other household chores, helping the elderly, etc. remain untouched.

The other things were easy.


GPay which is a widely used payment service in India is down as well


India is having a really bad day today


May such bold assertions should require proof to be shown to leaders of other nations


What type of proof would you like? An official statement by Pakistani militias that the government asked them to do it? We see similar tactics being used in Syria by Al-Jolani / Al-Sharaa to wipe out the Alawaites (20-50,000 executed) with the same being planned for the Druze. That way the government can say "it wasn't us", although of course, they didn't prevent it.


Proofs have been provided in lot of previous terror attacks like 26/11 Mumbai attack, Pathankot, Pulwama etc. What did Pakistan do with the proofs? Nothing.



yup, george also commented on the cruise news here https://x.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1866617393436651688


At $1000 a piece which is the rumored price ; is around 2,000 units if they got a volume discount it would be 4,000 units


exactly. the UI is shockingly similar


As somebody who works along with Applied Scientist helping them with tasks related to model training and deployemnt; how does one get exposure to more lower level engineering work like optimization, performance etc. We have an ML infra team; but their goal is building tools around the platform, not necessarily getting workloads run optimially


I think no optimization is possible withoutprofiling. I think getting yourself familiar with the tools to understand the performance of a model might be the 1st step, e.g., https://pytorch.org/tutorials/recipes/recipes/profiler_recip...


Yes - understand first, then fix. And you’ll understand by measuring/profiling things.

I’d also recommend the detailed pytorch optimization case studies by Paul Bridger:

https://paulbridger.com/


Brendan Gregg's work on system performance and profiling is a good place to start. A lot of ML perf boils down to Linux perf or what the heck is happening in an HPC scheduling system like SLURM. https://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html




He is probably right to some extent, but he didn't solve self driving. He left his own company claiming that the problem is solved and only the boring part was left.

He also claimed that he can fix the search in Twitter, but he left after 2 months and now he is working on something else.


How many autonomous miles has comma driven?


From the first article from 4 years ago:

>Last month, we had 1,209 cars drive a little over 1,000,000 miles

Let's say they've had zero growth since then, so 48,000,000 conservatively?

Actually, from their website [1]:

>100+ million miles driven and 10k users.

[1]: https://comma.ai


Didnt Sundar ask disappearing messages to be turned on on an internal communcation tool ?


You might be interested in https:// www. jwz.org /gruntle/ rbarip.html (I'm obfuscating the URL a bit because the website's owner does something rude if your browser sends an HN referer header)


HN uses rel="noreferrer" on all links so perhaps this is no longer an issue?

Let's see: https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html


https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html

HN turned off referrer globally, so that no longer happens.


I believe so but from what I recall, he still wanted syncing between phone/computer which required the messages be stored at some point, alebeit with an extremely small ttl (minutes? seconds?). This miniscule retention meant the record was created despite a low ttl and so when the record was removed, it became a violation of the court-ordered record retention. Again, this is all just from fuzzy memory but I think that's how it approximately went down.


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