Hacker News: cloudwalking

New comment by cloudwalking in "Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities"

cloudwalking — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:06:19 +0000

verily

Waymo expands area for its self-driving cars to north Scottsdale, Desert Ridge

cloudwalking — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 02:27:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2024/06/05/waymo-adds-north-scottsdale-north-phoenix-salt-river-reservation-coverage-area/73977675007/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40592803

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by cloudwalking in "Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging"

cloudwalking — Sun, 26 May 2024 16:52:25 +0000

Agree, I find Meet is the simplest and works the best. I really appreciate the audio filtering -- don't ever hear colleague's typing or dogs barking or lawn mowing.

New comment by cloudwalking in "SpaceX launches first phone service satellites"

cloudwalking — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 16:53:02 +0000

Allegedly it's LTE and higher bandwidth than the Apple solution, although still relatively low bandwidth. Enough to text and call but not browse.

LTE, text only, with voice and browsing coming supposedly in 2025 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/spacex-launches-...

New comment by cloudwalking in "Uber Joins the S&P 500"

cloudwalking — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 01:32:30 +0000

Uber sold its autonomous division to Aurora in 2020 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-atg-idUSKBN28H2RX/

Uber's self-driving dreams rest on a partnership with Waymo (and whoever else eventually produces a safe autonomous vehicle).

New comment by cloudwalking in "iOS 17 is available today"

cloudwalking — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:08:27 +0000

subsequent phones significantly improved FaceID performance (faster, fewer false negatives)

New comment by cloudwalking in "iOS 17 is available today"

cloudwalking — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:15:28 +0000

FaceID, camera, 120hz display are significantly good upgrades.

New comment by cloudwalking in "Waymo approved by CPUC to charge for driverless rides in San Francisco"

cloudwalking — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 01:45:28 +0000

https://waymo.com/blog/2023/08/waymos-next-chapter-in-san-fr...

Waymo approved by CPUC to charge for driverless rides in San Francisco

cloudwalking — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 01:44:41 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Waymo/status/1689809230293819392

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37084113

Points: 24

# Comments: 3

New comment by cloudwalking in "Why do cloud providers keep building datacenters in Phoenix?"

cloudwalking — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:02:33 +0000

It’s not actually Dallas Texas, it’s The Dalles Oregon. Much smaller town. Bad journalism.

New comment by cloudwalking in "Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous driving technology to Uber"

cloudwalking — Fri, 26 May 2023 01:24:24 +0000

This is actually not true at all. At Waymo we have a very good understanding of our behavior.

New comment by cloudwalking in "Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-selling car in 2023"

cloudwalking — Fri, 26 May 2023 00:07:46 +0000

Model 3 is available new for less than the average US vehicle price https://fortune.com/2023/02/21/tesla-model-3-sells-5000-less...

New comment by cloudwalking in "Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?"

cloudwalking — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 18:44:51 +0000

People need social connections with their peers to work together successfully. It's much easier to build these connections in the office than virtually. Seeing each other a couple times per quarter for an extended period could also work, but it's easier--if you already have an office space--to bring people together in the office once or twice a week.

New comment by cloudwalking in "ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business"

cloudwalking — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:13:08 +0000

I had ChatGPT hallucinate an entire iOS API, complete with docs, sdk version, and URL on apple's website. All of it fake news.

New comment by cloudwalking in "Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a code base you thought was well done?"

cloudwalking — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:38:11 +0000

Yes, at YouTube I inherited the Pilot Studio iOS codebase from Will Kiefer. This included a solid iOS application framework and a couple really nice prototypes. We hired some great folks, extended "PilotKit" quite a bit, and built a dozen incredible apps with it (Motion Stills, and the UX experiments that became YouTube Live and YouTube Stories, plus a bunch of fun internal stuff).

New comment by cloudwalking in "Ford’s electric pickup can power a house for days"

cloudwalking — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:49:28 +0000

Yes that is a good long term strategy, but short to medium term, there are not enough batteries, and batteries are not cheap enough. It's aspirationally priced (which is OK because there is so much demand for the expensive models too right now).

New comment by cloudwalking in "Ford’s electric pickup can power a house for days"

cloudwalking — Tue, 31 May 2022 18:04:04 +0000

They aren’t, yet. There is enough demand that Ford does not need to produce these smaller pack cars for a few years at least. Much like Tesla, they announce the cheaper (shorter range) config, but enough demand exists they never need to actually build it.

New comment by cloudwalking in "Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring"

cloudwalking — Thu, 12 May 2022 17:26:55 +0000

A lot of assumptions here that Parag is out after Elon takes over. Is that backed up by evidence?

New comment by cloudwalking in "Elon Musk texts Larry Page about investing in Tesla (2018)"

cloudwalking — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 20:18:21 +0000

Fun little Google/SpaceX trivia. For a long time, Google was the biggest SpaceX investor. Elon used to sleep in Larry's Palo Alto guest room for years... may still do so when visiting Tesla's Palo Alto office.

Larry has a Merlin engine in his office in building 1900 (Googleplex).

New comment by cloudwalking in "Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter"

cloudwalking — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 14:12:04 +0000

Seems unlikely. They’re friends. https://twitter.com/jack/status/1507146276416098307