Length and width wise, it's smaller than a Model Y. It's deceptively styled to look a big boy car, but it's a matchbox. That's why no reviewers will show themselves or anyone else towering over it. It's for those who want a big car, but without all that space. Rivian calls it a mid-size SUV, but that is straight up bullshit.
Readit News7e commented on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV rivian.com/r2... · Posted by u/socialcommenter
7e commented on U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession forbes.com/sites/mikestun... · Posted by u/alephnerd
I mean egg prices went up because of avian flu and that was Biden's to own so seem perfectly reasonable.
Is this the avian flu that didn't turn into another worldwide pandemic?
Brendan can do whatever he wants. Hes that good. If anybody seriously needed to interview him 20+ times to figure it out, then the burden is now on them to not fuck it up.
He's summing interviews across all AI giants. But the ones about to IPO can interview someone almost infinitely many times, because everyone wants on the bandwagon.
7e commented on Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped educationnext.org/hard-le... · Posted by u/grantpitt
Most studies are showing children with neurological damage from continued exposure to covid outbreaks in schools multiple times a year.
Lockdowns did not last more than a few months for the vast majority of school districts in the US.
Three-quarters of urban school districts were operating fully remote until late 2020. That may skew the results.
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Tesla went nothing-but-nets (making fusion easy) and Chinese LIDAR became cheap around 2023, but monocular depth estimation was spectacularly good by 2021. By the time unit cost and integration effort came down, LIDAR had very little to offer a vision stack that no longer struggled to perceive the 3D world around it.
Also, integration effort went down but it never disappeared. Meanwhile, opportunity cost skyrocketed when vision started working. Which layers would you carve resources away from to make room? How far back would you be willing to send the training + validation schedule to accommodate the change? If you saw your vision-only stack take off and blow past human performance on the march of 9s, would you land the plane just because red paint became available and you wanted to paint it red?
I wouldn't completely discount ego either, but IMO there's more ego in the "LIDAR is necessary" case than the "LIDAR isn't necessary" at this point. FWIW, I used to be an outspoken LIDAR-head before 2021 when monocular depth estimation became a solved problem. It was funny watching everyone around me convert in the opposite direction at around the same time, probably driven by politics. I get it, I hate Elon's politics too, I just try very hard to keep his shitty behavior from influencing my opinions on machine learning.
Monocular depth estimation can be fooled by adversarial images, or just scenes outside of its distribution. It's a validation nightmare and a joke for high reliability.
Has anyone yet designed a language with the explicit goal of being cheapest/easiest to use by an AI coding agent?
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7e commented on I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/ingve
> Unfortunately you're using a browser (or client library) that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious because it's sending inconsistent values for Sec-CH-UA-* HTTP request headers...
The world doesn't exclusively use Chrome. Nice to see even the nerds are contributing to the closed web.
Not working well with something that doesn't conform to the WICG User-Agent Client Hints specification is an interesting definition of "closed." More like, "I have standards." And it's hardly closed if you can get the information by using literally almost any other client.
7e commented on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins fortune.com/2026/02/03/fa... · Posted by u/shscs911
YC, like most incubators, has always encouraged their companies to use products and services from other companies in their portfolio.
The simplest explanation is that this is a mostly symbolic move: They want to show that the stable coin and crypto companies they invest in are actually trusted by YC. It starts to look hypocritical if an investor is funding crypto companies and praising them as important breakthroughs, but not actually using them where it’s important.
But what advantages do stablecoins have?