Hacker News: wolkmo

New comment by wolkmo in "Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency"

wolkmo — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 15:22:37 +0000

Happened to me twice with an iPhone. Both times I triggered it when the phone was lagging for some reason (eg it got too hot and throttled down). I guess iOS doesn't track the delay between button presses properly when it's overloaded. I was able to cancel the call in time, but it's a horrifying seeing the timer go down while mashing the non-responsive stop button.

New comment by wolkmo in "Cloudguy says we should log out of Amazon"

wolkmo — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 19:33:59 +0000

Now he is telling us to not update Twitter and Fire Tablets, and he is deleting "dubious followers". He doesn't seem to have a problem with Microsoft Defender scanning his network though. Clearly an absolute sane security expert.

New comment by wolkmo in "Comma Two Devkit"

wolkmo — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:56:58 +0000

Compare OpenPilot to other solutions.

Tesla trying to kill someone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GnysB0rO3s

The super reliable "Level 3" Audi system not being able to go straight on a highway, the most simple problem there is in self-driving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsiUwq_M8lE&t=297

Several cars "pedestrian safety system" failing on detecting pedestrian (You had one job..) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y8JG7kepwc

Let's be honest, there is not a single driving assistant that isn't dangerous. Why care for "realtime" if your model tries to kill you once per minute? Realtime is one of the final touches you need to make your software perfect. That's just how the industry works, and if you want to keep up with them you have to go the same route, or do you know of any exception? Most manufacturers tell you that you should closely watch what your car is doing on autopilot, and they limit it's torque and acceleration, so the human driver is reliability, redundancy, testing and the realtime system.