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I agree but I think both things can be true . Like in this case.

Sounds like great weapon to assassinate someone.

Jokes apart, can anyone well versed actually tell of this is just a paper for publishing sake or is there any truth to this story ?

> ' a man driving them home and knowing their home address while right there is a much more immediate and specific point of threat than '

Its not anymore of a threat than the taxi itself in case of Waymo. If you have already designated the driver as the threat actor then the Waymo is just as much a threat. In case of the driver the threat is visible. In a robotaxi the threat actor is invisible and multiple. You can be remotely locked in, driven away, suffocated, driven into water , driven in middle of a shooting.

You are just trading a visible threat with an invisible one.

Humans vs clankers it is then then! lets see who wins.

Surveilling on women without their knowledge and then using that footage as you like is dangerous too. Tech companies are famous for their ethics. Letting women get into a cab controlled by an overseas driver seems dangerous too.

Lets not hide profits behind women's safety.

Spoken like a true Waymo lobbyist.

IMO legislating for them is legislating against humans , their jobs, their families .

Cost of driver replaced with cost of what ? how do you sustain that cost and dose it cost more than the driver ? One liner sounds cool but please back it up with something.

Where are you getting this number? Imagination is free but to execute the imagination is not. So yes, it depends on the imagination of the person who owns the tech AI company not your imagination.

And what is the cost of replacing the driver with the hardware/software and the servicing cost. and the operators in Philippines that are remotely working ?

Do you know any minors that had the police called on them mid ride by a RoboTaxi company becuase the taxi AI though the minor had guns. Yeah Waymo did that.

For your Women's safety POV. just because now youre alone in the car doesn’t really mean you are alone. You are under constant remote surveillance.

Regarding the meter broke issue. So you'd rather have corporate price fixing. Because that’s what Waymo is doing. The fleet size is same but the costs are going up.

And when a giant tech company is a service provided and rule maker , you don't really have a choice left.

HackerNews is a bubble in itself. Most people here cannot relate to a person who drives a cab for a living and is having a real tangbile crisis seeing how these tech companies are eating up their livelihood. Switching jobs for a taxi driver is not the same as switching jobs or career as a software coolie.

No taxi driver union can combat the amount of money waymo is spending lobbying.

[1] https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/23/cruise-waymo-spent-million...

New York is still holding on but I dont know how long it can. https://thenextweb.com/news/waymo-new-york-city-political-ro...

Very interesting historical read from March 1982 Radio-Electronics issue.

This is such a good website. I love it.

I feel that LinkedIn has a lot of similarities with late stage Quora. Though linkedin has handled the its descent into Instagramization a lot better than Quora did.

You were the exception too. A PC was one of the most expensive items in my house when we bought it. The computer table it sat on was the second most. I was so afraid of doing anything on it that'd break it. Heck I freaked out one time when I shut it down from the power button directly.

I know that used to be the case. But its unfortunately not anymore. I am currently In RF and working on some resonators and waveguides. Recently I had the displeasure of reading some papers from top journals to survey what are some new designs that are being pursued. I was highly disappointed by the low bar of publishing. No characterisation of design, no repeatability study, no comsol files, no fringe field study. Most of the papers read like "we came up with design, tested it with the lowest hanging usecase and there are the results attached with a basic smith chart we made". How am I supposed to have any confidence in anything that is being published like this . The point of public funded research is so I don’t have to research and I can take that research and use/engineer it. But If this is the output then I am not going to spend money and time to do studies to figure out if someone else's research is viable or not because the peer review is broken and publishing bar is in the grave.

With so much publishing fraud, low quality of publishing and bogus peer review, I am hard pressed to believe anything that comes out of these journals. I was highly disappointed after reading about Dana-Farber Cancer Institute publishing fraud that endangered so many people lives. Specially papers with 'dietary' research, which are even more bogus. So if someone says, eat X to reduce chance of cancer, I'd ask them to take X put it back where the sun don’t shine.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurling down the highway. - Andrew Tanenbaum

This is a classic case of "Thing in japan". Yes 'wakaba' mark is cool. But the exact same point can be made about a big red L . Far more ubiquitous. Also there are beautiful medieval crests on British Fire engines. I doubt that purely wordless, symbolic system was truly the ultimate pinnacle of operational clarity.

I agree with the sentiment of the parent comment. But I also sometimes question what you have posed exactly. Am I really learning or getting the curiosity itch scratched. The line is very thin sometimes. But I think I am more in the camp of learning. I can ask so dumb question that I never had the courage to ask nor were they entertained where I was educated. It has been a boon to finally ask.

For example I am following Dirac's book "The Principles of quantum mechanics" to study QM. Pre-AI wouldn't have been able to do so, I am just that dumb. Even with AI its tough. but the thing is I can keep asking questions until I get that concept drilled in. Now I am doing it at a pace that's unfathomable to me.

But now that I am getting to grips with QM, I can get to things that I am really interested to learn like spin resonance and so on. This is something I am so grateful for.

Now it can be questioned that is it making me wise, intelligent or just "giving me answers" that I should strive to discover myself. I dont know the answer to that. But studying what I want, how I want and not getting judged is something i deeply enjoy. Srry the comment might have taken some tangents.

I agree. This from the paper mill for the paper mill.

In defense of Byzantines. Their rules and amazing diplomatic prowess is what let them be an empire for so long. The negative connotations to Byzantine comes from the negative perception the west had of them. Byzantines were very practical in regards to who they allied with.

Its interestine, when you say abstractions. Could you explain what you mean by abstractions in this context and what do you mean by the underlying fundamentals.

Its a good effort but very pedestrian and a very low hanging fruit. Its just another academia paper that will be published.

https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9014297 https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2018.8319181 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3286978.3287003 ..... many more.

I'd say this is far more interesting, does not use ML and credits the tech stacks that it leverages . https://people.csail.mit.edu/davidam/docs/WiMic_final.pdf

If only they bring back their "On the metal" podcast. That podcast scratched an itch I didnt knew I had .

One of the best shows I've ever watched.

Its not. Here is the paper. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu8826

Thats neat! thanks

Are there any good sources that I can read up on estimiating what would be hardware specs required for 7B, 13B, 32B .. etc size If I need to run them locally? I am grad student on budget but I want to host one locally and trying to build a PC that could run one of these models.

I've only recently started looking into running these models locally on my system. I have limited knowledge regarding LLMs and even more limited when it comes to building my own PC.

Are there any good sources that I can read up on estimiating what would be hardware specs required for 7B, 13B, 32B .. etc size If I need to run them locally?

I am in a situation right now where I have to deliver on all three platforms. I chose Flutter because I just couldnt do anymore JS.