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Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @12:59PM (#45903402)
I assume this is not a HW4 vehicle?

I am empathetic to the disappointment of older vehicle owners who have been promised this capability for years and still don't see it (because their hardware just can't -- and the hardware upgrade isn't coming either).

That said, the new Y with 14.1.x really does do as claimed.

Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @12:32PM (#45903017)
Truly curious - have you tried it recently?
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @12:14PM (#45902757)
Perhaps more a reaction to pressure from Tesla; the latest FSD builds show full autonomy is coming very soon. Without highway driving, Waymo would quickly be seen as a distant second in the race when the safety driver is removed from Robotaxis in Austin (supposedly before EOY 2025).

Ask HN: How do you handle application spam via Who's Hiring?

I'm asking specifically for people who post in the Hacker News "Who's Hiring" thread. But anyone who is a hiring manager dealing with this problem, I'm very curious about your answer as well.I'm sure most of you have seen, as I have, spam applications skyrocket over the last few years with aid of LLMs.High-intent people applying to your company should be a great pool and incredible signal. But...

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process on Sunday December 29, 2024 @11:47PM (#42546572)
As someone who works on the other side of this... if you're getting through 10 phone screens and not getting an offer, something is wrong with the way you're interviewing.

You've gotten 10 phone screens, so you can probably double your activity and get to 20. If you're actually going for jobs you're qualified for, 20 screens should net you ~3 offers, if not more.

My suggestion: record yourself on your interviews and have friends review the recording and offer critique. You have blind spots you need to address to achieve the outcomes you want.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024) on Monday December 02, 2024 @05:15PM (#42300975)
Fathom - AI Notetaker | REMOTE (must work US hours) | Full time | https://fathom.video

We make the premier AI Notetaker and are hiring across the stack (rails/typescript/go/k8s/gcp).

Highlights

- YC w21, raised Series A this summer, ~50 employees

- Growing 10-20% every month

- 82 NPS, #1 app on both G2 + Zoom marketplace, 10k+ installs on Hubspot marketplace

Team makeup + culture

- Low ego, high integrity, highly collaborative, hard working

- Senior team (8 eng), many have worked together at previous companies

- Remote but synchronous. Multiple team offsites per year

This IS for you if

- You want to work on a product people love

- You like highly talented, experienced coworkers

- You prefer working hard and making pragmatic decisions that keep the team shipping quickly

Not for you if

- You want rest & vest

- Sprint planning is your favorite

- You being right is more important than the team being right

If interest, apply for roles here. Mention you’ve come from HN in the application!

- App team / Rails+typescript (https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fathom.video/01619869-e031-464c-b3b...)

- Platform team / Go (https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fathom.video/50323c12-96b2-4e6a-b8e...)

- Infra team / K8s+GKE (https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fathom.video/7d8d38ec-393d-415d-a55...)

- AI Engineer (https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fathom.video/7705a844-b3f2-4650-bed...)

- Technical Recruiter (https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fathom.video/da6e2b74-9048-4868-8de...)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024) on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @07:34PM (#42131838)
Fathom - AI Notetaker | REMOTE (must work US hours) | Full time | https://fathom.video

We make the premier AI Notetaker and are hiring across the stack (rails/typescript/go/k8s/gcp).

Highlights

- YC w21, raised Series A this summer, 43 employees

- Growing 10-20% every month

- 82 NPS, #1 app on both G2 + Zoom marketplace, 10k+ installs on Hubspot marketplace

Team makeup + culture

- Low ego, high integrity, highly collaborative, hard working

- Senior team (8 eng), many have worked together at previous companies

- Remote but synchronous. Multiple team offsites per year

Roles

- App team (rails/typescript)

- Platform team (Go)

- Infra team (K8s/gke)

This IS for you if

- You want to work on a product people love

- You like highly talented, experienced coworkers

- You prefer working hard and making pragmatic decisions that keep the team shipping quickly

Not for you if

- You want rest & vest

- Sprint planning is your favorite

- Your being right is more important than the team being right

If interested, email me at the address in my profile. Please include a sentence or two about what in this post resonates with you.

Re:Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth on Thursday December 14, 2023 @07:05PM (#38649290)
Given the costs of launching, almost assuredly not.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022) on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:59PM (#33424877)
Having worked with the Ambrook team, I can confidently say they're a wonderful group worth a look if you're interested in climate/sustainability.
Re:Ask HN: Working in tech for climate? on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @09:13PM (#32326486)
I've been consulting with Ambrook (https://ambrook.com/) who are working on this problem. Great team and worth checking out if you're looking at the space.
Re:Never Use Black (2012) on Friday December 03, 2021 @02:19PM (#29434040)
Consider the following: if your design expertise was as significant as your database expertise, perhaps your view of the downstream implications of decisions in each would be more alike than not.
Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” on Friday August 20, 2021 @02:39AM (#28243306)
Flipped around, but potentially the same takeaways:

Turns out building a true FSD car is almost as hard as a humanoid robot. They've already got a Boston Dynamic's-like robot dog internally, but it sucks at getting around a parking lot.

i.e. set your expectations of the arrival of true FSD on the car to whenever you think Tesla can actually deliver this robot.

Re:How Doctors Die (2013) on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:30PM (#26686224)
Couldn't agree more re: patient advocacy. My mom wrote a book -- a bit of a how-to guide -- for being effective in this role after her experience doing as much guiding her mom through terminal care for dementia.

http://speakingupformom.com/

Ask HN: Most accurate ML speech-to-text API?

I'm building a project that relies on at least pretty-good transcription with timestamps for each word and ideally speaker diarization.Right now I'm using Google Cloud's Speech-to-Text, but the accuracy is underwhelming when transcribing a Zoom call (50%ish).Am I likely to fare much better with Azure/AWS? What about Symbl.ai?

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Malcolm Gladwell touches on this beautifully in the most recent season of Revisionist History:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dragon-psychology-101/...

Re:Common mistakes writing React components with hooks on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @01:55PM (#23909121)
I found this article incredibly helpful in answering these questions: https://overreacted.io/a-complete-guide-to-useeffect/
Re:A first look at Unreal Engine 5 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:47PM (#23168810)
Extremely impressive.

That said, I am struck by how the inaccuracies in physics modeling start sticking out like a sore thumb the closer the visuals get to realism. After gawking at the ground and falling rocks in the first scene, I kept getting stuck on the weird movement of her ponytail. Also the landing of the first jump across the chasm.

Picking nits for sure; incredible work here.

Re:What I wish I knew about React on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @03:14AM (#23016316)
You know it's real when it hits you in the feels.
Re:Apple Sign In on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:39PM (#20086612)
Shyp tried to do this ~4 years ago. Very challenging problem.
Re:YC's request for startups: Government 2.0 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @02:13PM (#19994342)
People for whom forgetfulness is the reason they'd miss a court date are likely solve their problem with a normal calendar reminder.

Literally nobody is probably close to accurate.

For those without full context, this comment is by Hacker Noon's CEO ^^
Re:Piano Tuning on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @02:08AM (#19308675)
yeah, great, but what about adjusting for inharmonicity in the overtones? (partially /s)

a good explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_fU6yVxDZs

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