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I am not an expert, but the way that I understand self-driving systems is that there are multiple models running, and then those outputs are fused into yet another model which outputs the raw controls/actuations. In other words, I see this model/trainer as the "conductor", telling the car how it should approach an intersection, enter a highway, deal with merging traffic or construction zones, etc.

There is another model which interprets visual data to assist with lane-keeping, slow down or stop for pedestrians, inform the conductor of road signs... The final model combines all these inputs and incorporates the user preferences and then decides whether to brake or accelerate, how much to rotate the steering wheel.

Idk heh. The point of the high performance training is you can train the "conductor" role faster, and run inference faster. Assuming the car has limited compute/gpu resources, if you have a very high performance conductor function, you can dedicate that much more budget to visual/sensor inference and or any other models like the Trolley Problem decider (jk).

edit: grammar/details

Re:How French Drains Work on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @02:29PM (#41183997)
Recent YT vid for how this is installed in practice (for a home in the mountains): https://youtu.be/nA_-SFRkY94?si=z6UYNNVS8Zdk0tIt
Re:RFC: Intent to Ship React 18 on Thursday March 24, 2022 @04:07PM (#30794727)
I am "the react guy" -- but before that I built knockout applications with requirejs & angular applications with coffeescript and gulp, and before that with a 2000 line long script.js & jquery ;)

I don't really disagree with anything you said, except to point out that a lot of the current crop of web devs have never experienced what it is to build an app without any abstraction such as React, and quite understandably have no idea what problems it is doing for them.

I do know that since hopping onto react with all of that ~baggage~ context, I have never wanted to program UIs with a different model. It is true that hooks introduce a layer of abstraction that is sometimes difficult to reason about, but IMO they boil down the problems we faced with class components/lifecycle/server rendering gotchas, and put them front and center - forcing you to confront and fix them rather than settling for a solution that works 99% of the time.

Re:Embedded Malicious Code in node-ipc on Sunday March 20, 2022 @05:45PM (#30746998)
How did you accomplish this practically? using '=' in package.json + shrinkwrap or vendoring in dependencies?
I thought the same thing - reminded me of birds. (I was casually aware that we knew they had some sort of magnetism sensing, but hadn't caught up with the fact that we think it is a visual thing)

https://www.sciencealert.com/birds-see-magnetic-fields-crypt...

One last random association "I want to see Gamma Rays!" https://youtu.be/mPnx3zO3SDc?t=70

Re:Show HN: Medusa - The open-source Shopify alternative on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:03AM (#29405114)
Awesome, thanks for the reply.
Re:Show HN: Medusa - The open-source Shopify alternative on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:00PM (#29394335)
Looks sweet. How hard would it be to run in a multi-tenant scenario? Does/could the plugin system offer such flexibility?
Re:How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @05:22PM (#28295154)
Also, RBAC which allows huge flexibility for users to run their community in whatever fashion they want.
Re:NASA Space Tourism Posters on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:19AM (#27688861)
If by "look like", you mean they have bright-colored illustrations and text on them - that comparison would make sense.
Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:07PM (#27626729)
What is the attack vector here? Malware running in user-space or remote commands from the (compromised) mothership?
Re:Show HN: Auxl – Modular API Client for macOS on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @02:10PM (#27358817)
Also support for Websockets and chaining those w/ rest calls. (I know insomnia doesn't support this, dunno about others)
where & how is the 'configuration' encoded? [we don't know, right] Is this why string theory requires higher dimensions? Also when I see the term 'harmonic oscillations', I think of plucking a string -- it seems so elegant for the physical particles to be manifestations of higher dimensional ~~vibrating~~ oscillating strings :) (thinking of flat-lander analogy)

gp's premise about learning with the multi-particle landscape first sort of blew my mind.

Re:Ask HN: Losing all interest in programming, what now? on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:37AM (#25374794)
> Later, it optimizes the process to reward you earlier for just planning to do the thing - sketching, architecting, dreaming, writing task lists. Eventually, it gives you the same "I'm really proud of that accomplishment" reward for just watching someone on Youtube do it (you don't even have to look at all the off-camera drudge work).

I'm deep in the depths like OP and I can relate to this, like, a lot. Do you know of any literature or 'what to google for' regarding this sentiment/behavior?

I agree - it's great but... is there a hosted solution? If I just wanna run lint and unit tests on PRs for my shitty open-source project, Jenkins is overkill and not really viable.
Re:Raft Visualization on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:45PM (#25340578)
As does RabbitMQ, Docker Swarm, AlertManager (prometheus addon).

If you run any of these systems in production, it is good to have a cursory understanding.

Re:Show HN: Visualizing Deep Features from Podcasts on Sunday December 06, 2020 @11:42AM (#25324585)
Why was I not surprised to see that David Fravor (Navy Fighter Pilot, 'credible' UFO sighting) garnered the most views by a wide margin in the dataset? Sigh...
Re:Diskitude: Disk usage visualization tool in 10 KB on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:10PM (#25317842)
Grand Perspective is in the app store--wasn't aware of this one, but GP works great.
That's part of the fun
Re:Self-host your fonts for better performance on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:38PM (#25306701)
Did you read the article?
Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git on Sunday October 25, 2020 @11:55PM (#24892700)
yeah my bad. When I tested I used the full hash and just wanted it to look concise, but didn't try the shortened one :/
Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:45AM (#24884295)
git clone https://github.com/github/dmca.git .

git fetch origin 416da574ec

git branch youtube-dl 416da574ec

git checkout -f youtube-dl

Looks great, lots of presentation options and whatnot, but I was missing the ability to scroll on desktop.
Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:47PM (#24840969)
Resigned from the case, but not resigned from the dept?

When you argue a case in court, you have to be a "zealous advocate" meaning you have to believe what you're arguing. I don't think a lawyer even employed by Justice Dept. can be compelled to argue a specific case.

Of course he can probably cook up whatever reason to fire them.

edit: in case it wasn't obvious, IANAL - thanks for clarifications

Re:HashiCorp Boundary on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @05:39PM (#24781935)
This comment resonates with me so hard. Specifically TLS certs, private certificate authorities and Consul. Like I wanna run my PCA out of Vault (right?), but if using Consul as the backend how do I bootstrap? Sounds like the reply from Michael seems to suggest running the integrated backend, which I can get behind.
Re:HashiCorp Boundary on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @05:31PM (#24781865)
https://smallstep.com/

One example. I have been testing smallstep, which puts IDP around ssh (with group management), and also includes a dynamic host catalog (hosts run an agent that phones home to your identity provider).

However, I am very excited about Boundary as it seems to be a much more comprehensive solution.

Re:Did You Write Mine? on Monday October 12, 2020 @12:41PM (#24756309)
Probably. However you could make the argument that many of today's players wouldn't have had access to the sports medicine that is available today. Slow-mo analysis of pitching motion plus modern advances in understanding of biology, plus the expertise of the former greats.

Also, it's not _all_ about the fast ball. There are a good amount of pitchers who throw high-eighties/low-nineties - the difference is the amount of deceptive movement they are able to put on the ball as well as being able to locate and change speeds - both things that Whitey Ford was good at. He was also notorious for spitballs at the end of his career, something you don't get away with nowadays.

Re:Nova by Panic on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:07PM (#24498559)
For me the lack of auto-complete that _I_ prompt (ctrl+space / otherwise known as intellisense) is a deal breaker, and TypeScript story is completely broken. Cmd+Click (goto definition) doesn't work across files (though I do like they've implemented 3D touch as an alternative to Cmd+Click).

Update: looks like if you context click on a path > Typescript > Goto definition works; Weird that it is not unified with the editor's concept of goto def though.

Agree with parent that it's a valiant effort, just way too immature w/ no compelling features over VSCode at this point.

Edit: Native editor is compelling for battery, but not at the expense of developer experience - and even then, it's been quite a while since VSCode has felt slow to me.

Re:Design, edit and share custom terminal color schemes on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:16PM (#24433687)
Really well done application with tons of export / import formats, lots of presets and the palette is integrated into the UI - delightful.

Thanks for the submission.

Re:Twitter x TikTok = Twiktwok on Sunday August 09, 2020 @12:54AM (#24097359)
Please bind mousewheel and arrow keys, thanks.

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