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New comment by farresito in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

farresito — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:13:44 +0000

> In some sense, the visionaries in this space are not thinking big enough. I want visions of mobility with a totally different size, look, speed, etc. autonomous Golf carts? tuktuks? A moving autonomous bicycle carrier? etc

If anything, it's the opposite: most people in this space (Elon, George Hotz, Demis, etc.) have been saying for a very long time that autonomous driving is just the first step, and that their objective is to build world models.

New comment by farresito in "xAI joins SpaceX"

farresito — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:28:07 +0000

I'm not talking specifically about SpaceX, although historically the cost of their rockets have been much lower than NASA. I'm being much more general. The public sector doesn't have the same incentives that private companies have, whether it's rockets or any other technology. It's sad, but it's the truth.

New comment by farresito in "xAI joins SpaceX"

farresito — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:00:18 +0000

NASA just splurges money. The private sector is far better when it comes to money.

New comment by farresito in "The inefficiency of RL, and implications for RLVR progress"

farresito — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:15:52 +0000

This is the first time I read that someone uses an acronym for ragebait purposes. The acronym "RL" is very well known. Dwarkesh's podcast is mostly AI related, so it's not a surprise that he will freely use acronyms. I think your take is very cynical.

New comment by farresito in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

farresito — Mon, 19 May 2025 09:54:27 +0000

According to the FSRS author [1], it will adapt to two buttons.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/16t2lva/comment/k2cor...

New comment by farresito in "Studies correlating IQ to genius are mostly bad science"

farresito — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:08:39 +0000

What was your experience like in school and university? Have you come across people who you thought were at a similar level intelectually as you?

New comment by farresito in "Studies correlating IQ to genius are mostly bad science"

farresito — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:00:12 +0000

Do you have any other family members with very high IQs?

New comment by farresito in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

farresito — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 11:56:49 +0000

I disagree with you. I think the impact of AI on society in the long term is going to be massive, and such investments are necessary. If we look at the past century, technology has had (in my opinion) and incredibly positive impact on society. You have to invest in the future.

New comment by farresito in "Four limitations of Rust's borrow checker"

farresito — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:51:18 +0000

As someone who is interested in getting more serious with Rust, could you explain the essence of how you should always approach organizing code in Rust as to minimize refactors as the code grows?

New comment by farresito in "Long Fatigue: The exhaustion that lingers after an infection"

farresito — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:01:10 +0000

That's interesting. For me it takes 30 minutes, give or take, to start to feel sleepy, and I'm also a night owl :-)

New comment by farresito in "Long Fatigue: The exhaustion that lingers after an infection"

farresito — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:05:42 +0000

Not OP, but I've been using melatonin every night, no exception, and it's been very helpful. I use a much lower dose (between 0.3mg and 0.5mg), and it's worked completely fine, so I would suggest that you start very low and only increase if you really need it.

New comment by farresito in "Terence Tao on O1"

farresito — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 00:09:37 +0000

Once we have AI-based language servers, which will, at some point in the future, be able to track entire repositories, I think maintaining projects will actually be far easier than right now.

New comment by farresito in "Learning to Reason with LLMs"

farresito — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:27:06 +0000

> like what's it doing differently, is it just a matter of more training data or is there something more going on

Well, the model doesn't start with "GPT", so maybe they have come up with something better.

New comment by farresito in "Learning to Reason with LLMs"

farresito — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:15:10 +0000

Damn, that looks like a big jump.

New comment by farresito in "Alphabet to invest another $5B into Waymo"

farresito — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:49:08 +0000

It's common (at least nowadays, in my experience) in English to omit the verb or part of it in headlines.

New comment by farresito in "Entrust Certificate Distrust"

farresito — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:08:25 +0000

Entrust makes a ton of revenue from hardware-related products (for example, printing ID cards), so it is far from the end.

New comment by farresito in "Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects"

farresito — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 15:01:48 +0000

Could you expand a little bit on what the "robust requirements engineering process" was like on that one team?

New comment by farresito in "The search for easier safe systems programming"

farresito — Wed, 08 May 2024 10:15:37 +0000

I think that's what they are trying to achieve with Mojo.

New comment by farresito in "Antithesis of a One-in-a-Million Bug: Taming Demonic Nondeterminism"

farresito — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:37:36 +0000

What does the tech stack look like?

New comment by farresito in "Ask HN: How can I learn about performance optimization?"

farresito — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 11:00:44 +0000

This is the answer. I have only read bits from this book, but it seems very good for what OP is looking for.