Hacker News: zyang

New comment by zyang in "Supervision: Reusable Computer Vision"

zyang — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:06:41 +0000

Have you tried Jetson boards. Jetson Orin Nano have pretty decent gpu for $500.

New comment by zyang in "We Choose Profit at 37signals"

zyang — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:14:14 +0000

I agree there are many out there using fake outrage for personal gain and ladder climbing. In this case DHH's frat club behavior was publicly called out. Instead of accepting responsibility he called timeout to cover his own behind. 37 lost business and credibility from the fallout. That's hardly harmless.

New comment by zyang in "We Choose Profit at 37signals"

zyang — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:41:52 +0000

Employees came forward that 37 kept a list of "funny" customer names - some offensive and racist. Instead of fixing the problem Fried and DHH banned employees talking about it. Later it came out DHH was a contributor to the list. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-politic...

New comment by zyang in "Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research"

zyang — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:57:41 +0000

It's not always the money. Many academics labs are toxic work environments compare to industry labs.

New comment by zyang in "Japan's Space One rocket explodes seconds after liftoff"

zyang — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 04:03:43 +0000

I wonder participating in ISS was a mistake for Japan. It sucked up most of Japan's space program budget with very little to show for.

New comment by zyang in "Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study"

zyang — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:17:27 +0000

I love the little hand flap that does max regen. Bolt could be a cult classic too bad GM was in such hurry to kill it.

New comment by zyang in "Generating a 3D map with OpenStreetMap and A-Frame"

zyang — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:07:07 +0000

For those interested in a no-code solution, I was able to do something similar in Figma with help of some plugins:

1. Use Mapcrate plugin to pull in OSM layers as vector layers: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1251030017228239072/v...

2. Extrude polygon layers using Fig3d: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/946020080871644950/fi...

New comment by zyang in "Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS"

zyang — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:40:30 +0000

Tim Sweeney could lead by example and remove Unreal royalty fees and make his app store free for all. There's no freedom fighter here. Just another greedy troll.

New comment by zyang in "Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey"

zyang — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:23:52 +0000

It's insane how many companies went down the "full self driving by 2020" rabbit hole.

New comment by zyang in "Readability.js"

zyang — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 23:37:52 +0000

This is the type of work ML should excel at.

New comment by zyang in "Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro"

zyang — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 05:30:02 +0000

I have a feeling is going to be a speedrun of the reddit saga. Google obviously doesn't want a smooth youtube experience on vision pro.

New comment by zyang in "Epic Games CEO Likens Apple's Core Tech Fee to Unity's Disastrous Runtime Fee"

zyang — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 19:35:27 +0000

Doesn't Unreal charge a "core technology fee"?

New comment by zyang in "Why are so many EV charging stations broken in California?"

zyang — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 17:35:08 +0000

I noticed many inoperable chargepoint chargers are due to the broken plug clip - it's a plastic clip that snaps easily when exposed to weather. It's truly poor design and even worse maintenance.

New comment by zyang in "Show HN: Atlas – GIS and interactive maps in the browser"

zyang — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:17:22 +0000

If you are interested in making map art, there's a Figma plugin that can pull map data as vector: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1251030017228239072

New comment by zyang in "An influx of Chinese cars is terrifying the West"

zyang — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:39:13 +0000

Supply chains are global. Germany still has an edge on machine tools and precision engineering.

New comment by zyang in "Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone"

zyang — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:07:32 +0000

Does the LLM run on device or in cloud. Can't find any info on the website but I assume device that size everything runs in the backend?

New comment by zyang in "Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone"

zyang — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:18:30 +0000

Yes it's in the video. Part of the pitch is "no bluetooth just plugs into your charging port".

New comment by zyang in "Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone"

zyang — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:00:43 +0000

I have a feeling this is going to get bent in my pocket and damage the charging port. A desk stand with integrated keyboard would have been better.

New comment by zyang in "SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields"

zyang — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:53:21 +0000

Is it possible to use zip-nerf to train GS to eliminate the floaters.

New comment by zyang in "SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields"

zyang — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 02:28:58 +0000

Why is there a 300m^2 footprint limit if the sub-models are dynamically loaded. Is this constrained by training, rasterizing, or both?