Sounds like a solved problem and you can buy a solution with a perfect accuracy?
Who said that?
Readit Newslkois commented on BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech thedriven.io/2026/01/11/b... · Posted by u/senti_sentient
lkois commented on BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech thedriven.io/2026/01/11/b... · Posted by u/senti_sentient
> doing cameras plus Lidar
At what proportion? Is it mostly lidar or mostly cameras? Or 50/50?
> Potentially as extraneous as range to a surface that a camera can’t tell apart from background.
I guess yeah for backside of the car you'd probably better off measuring actual actions.
How about when you come 4 way stop. LIDAR is useless as it wouldn't recognize anyones turn signals.
What do you mean by proportion? They are different data sources, and their usage is determined by system design.
eg A driving decision system needs to know object distances AND traffic light colours. It doesn't particularly need to know the source of either. You could have a camera-only system that accurately determines colour and fuzzy-determines distance. Or you could have a LIDAR-only system that accurately determines distance and fuzzy-determines colour.
Or you use both, get accurate LIDAR-distance and accurate camera-colour and skip all the fuzzy-determination steps. Or keep the fuzzy stuff and build a layer of measurement-agreement for redundancy.
So then the question becomes, what's your proportion when deciding whether to stop at a traffic light? Is it mostly light colour or mostly distance to other objects? Or 50/50?
I'd say it's 100/100.
lkois commented on Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/doppp
> There's a reason that "ban the cars" posters never mention a partner or children in their bios.
To the extent that "ban cars" even exists as a real political archetype rather than a meme, this is just patently not true. At least one of the two co-hosts of The War on Cars (again, a title which is intentionally tongue-in-cheek) has a preteen son.
But more importantly: car-dependent suburbs are an absolutely miserable place to grow up as a child if you're not wealthy enough to have one non-working parent and/or a nanny (or both). Being dependent on someone else to enable your entire social life until you turn 16 is a torturous enough experience that I'm not surprised that the first generation to have universal access to social media as teenagers has become the first generation to use social media to organize a teenage-driven movement for public transit.
> To the extent that "ban cars" even exists as a real political archetype rather than a meme, this is just patently not true. At least one of the two co-hosts of The War on Cars (again, a title which is intentionally tongue-in-cheek) has a preteen son.
Similar for the YouTube channel NotJustBikes, who has gone into great detail about the advantages of raising kids in a city planned around pedestrian and cyclist usage, and not in a suburban sprawl.
They may come to see it more like a mercenary does. Some may be jailed, hurt, tortured in Central America, etc but if the pay is high enough it is worth the risks. If they offer high enough more than they can get in South Korea, people will come.
Sure they may become mercenaries. Maybe "Hyundai factory worker" is akin to "remote oil rig worker".
Or they could just be regular people with regular, stable jobs because they haven't chased a life of risk.
lkois commented on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday reuters.com/technology/ti... · Posted by u/xnhbx
> Reciprocity is not a good idea.
Sometimes it is. Especially, if an adversary is bad to you, you should not be good to him. You should be equally bad, or sometimes worse.
That's how wars are won. Those who are nice to enemies because of "values" get crushed by the ruthless opponents.
But China banning foreign apps also plays into their stranglehold on their domestic media and economy, so it's not a purely adversarial move against the US.
Or to put it another way, should the US also ban/censor Chinese art and cinema within it's borders?
lkois commented on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I agree that the top row on a macbook keyboard shouldn't be replaced because some of the keys are essential there.
I'm imagining a touch screen right next to the trackpad that displays the short cuts to common functions of the current app that's open.
For example, I don't mind having common controls of, say Google sheets or Photoshop near the keyboard. Maybe the trackpad could be that touchscreen. idk but I feel there's something to explore in this space.
Or alternatively, individual keys on a keyboard can be LCD screens and show you app specific controls. this way you get the haptic feedback too.
So basically a stream deck. Those things are pretty tempting, I must admit. When similar functions are shrunk down and integrated into regular keyboards, my wallet will be in trouble.
Although this reminds me, my old Logitech G15 from 2008 already had an LCD screen and a bunch of app-customisable buttons.
But who really pays? The employer? Yes, at first, but the cost is passed straight on to consumers. Prices are sky high in Australia for this reason, businesses have many laws that each increase prices by a fraction of a percent - almost imperceptible - but cumulatively very noticeable.
So, paying for a night shift will increase the cost to customers, but higher salaries negotiated by on-call employees won't?
Or did you leave out the part where those employees discover how little negotiating power they really have
Maybe we should think of these things as employment flags?
There's no right-to-disconnect in my country, but sometime this year my boss started putting "I don’t expect a response to this email outside of your normal working hours." on the end of his email signature.
I might not be earning FAANG money, but it's just another sign I'm working for a 'good' company.
I recently had a slack message on my Friday evening from my delayed-timezone manager starting his Friday.
There was no expectation to answer out of hours, but it was some small detail I could answer in a few seconds. And this was from a new and intense 24/7 workaholic ex-FAANG manager, whose high expectations I was still getting used to, and who would likely spend his whole weekend working on this project. So I gave a quick response.
He said thanks, told me to turn my phone off, and sent a group message to the team reminding us not to work outside hours, with a link to instructions on disabling slack notifications. And then he started scheduling his own overnight/weekend DMs to send at 9am Monday.
It was an awesome response, and those firm self-imposed boundaries helped allow the work to be rewarding, rather than an absolute nightmare.
lkois commented on They make USB-C cables with displays now ounapuu.ee/posts/2024/06/... · Posted by u/transpute
I had one of these and quite liked it. Then one day I plugged my phone in before bed as a million times before and the cable display popped and started emitting smoke.