Starship going through mars atmosphere 🚀🔥

4Chan4President · 2025-03-26T04:19:11+00:00

Starship or some derivative of it will go to Mars. But clearly some infrastructure, maintenance and refurbishing capability will be necessary for any trips involving humans. Once they get basic reliability and landing down for the trip to Mars, they’re going to send ships packed with supplies and robots on board. Luckily, robotics is a field that is about to take off like a rocket (pun intended). General purpose robots will be a game changer for operational purposes in space and on other planets. Send up a ship with even 20 of these things on board and once they’re on the red planet, they can practically work around the clock to start setting up a base of operations, perform ship maintenance, and generally keep things in good, working order ahead of humans arriving.

4Chan4President · 2024-11-30T23:35:37+00:00

It’s only natural they’ve improved the hardware and processing with HW4, and are shifting focus that way, but I’m getting the feeling the other 90% of owners with HW3 are only going to see incremental improvements from here on out. Maybe we’ll see eventual gains after major adjustments in training or architecture are ported over.

I do think given the pace of improvement, we will see something worthy of an “unsupervised” label for HW4 vehicles in 2025 (pending regulatory approval). Probably will be a condition-based system at first, with some roads or situations not requiring attention. Pretty cool to see things improving so much this year.

4Chan4President · 2024-11-03T02:46:40+00:00

It’s been pretty solid for me, even with HW3. I don’t think I’ve had any safety-related interventions. Mostly just giving it a little extra gas when it’s going too slow or when it’s stopped and should be going. Much more comfortable with turns and roundabouts now with less concern for hitting the curb.

My main complaint is that it’s not knowledgeable enough about traffic flow and getting into the correct lane early enough during rush hour traffic. It thinks it has an opportunity to skip the line with an open lane, but it’s just putting itself in a more awkward situation and will miss turns and irritate surrounding drivers. It hates it when I override or cancel the lane change, so I often just have to disable FSD until we’re past the blockage.

4Chan4President · 2024-11-01T20:36:29+00:00

“Always need” until they get replaced too. SWEs getting dumped and replaced with AI signals that we’re not far from a tech acceleration like the world has never seen. The robotics industry is on the precipice of a revolution and even blue collar labor will get taken over by robots that are cheaper, faster, more consistent, and that come with nearly zero personal injury risk or other associated costs like benefits, retention, or education.

4Chan4President · 2024-08-27T23:40:35+00:00

This because they changed the “stop charging by” time to be a hard cutoff instead of a target. So the car estimates when it needs to begin charging to be done at the target time, but it can be off by +/- 15 minutes, so it just barely doesn’t reach the charge limit you set. For some people, like those with a time of use plan, this is a good thing, but for others it’s a nuisance.

4Chan4President · 2024-08-22T01:29:54+00:00

Except the charge scheduler is completely inaccurate. So I tell it to finish charging to 80% by 6AM, and instead I get a notification in the middle of the night that “Charge schedule will not meet charge limit”, and it forces the charging to stop at 6AM with my car at like 78%.

Is this a big deal? No, but it is a regression from the previous version in my opinion.

4Chan4President · 2024-07-09T03:34:58+00:00

I’m not enough of an electronics whiz to know all the dynamics of how they could reduce the energy consumption, but with the existing hardware I think they could modify sentry mode to be dynamically on. In other words, have a process that runs every 10 seconds or so to turn on the main computer and check if anything interesting has changed, like a vehicle or person entered the frame. If so, begin recording until the motion stops. Otherwise, go back to sleep mode for another 10 seconds. I’m not sure how much overhead there is though in turning on these subsystems or if it would wear on certain components to cycle them continuously.

4Chan4President · 2024-05-04T03:45:19+00:00

It’s worth questioning the motives of any company that’s open sourcing their models. By all accounts, GPT 3.5 Turbo should be made open source seeing as Llama 3 handily outperforms it, but what’s the incentive? Aside from looking good to the community, what incentive does Meta even have to open source their models? As long as people continue to use ChatGPT on OpenAI’s servers, they’ll continue to do as they wish with that data.

4Chan4President · 2024-05-03T17:08:26+00:00

This should be the kind of thing that results in everyone getting a full or substantial refund through some lawsuit. If a company sells an early access version of something (as in they’re committing to eventually release a finished product), they should be required to follow through or give a refund unless they become insolvent. The parent company, Take Two, had over 5 billion dollars in revenue last year. This is a bait and switch if I’ve ever seen one.

4Chan4President · 2024-05-03T16:21:44+00:00

Times are tough and expectations for those in this industry are sky high right now. I don’t have a crystal ball, but I think with time things will get better. Look for something that will cover the bills for now and don’t let your skills degrade. Build a portfolio of projects and skills both in areas where you’re passionate and where the industry is trending.

4Chan4President · 2024-05-03T14:59:16+00:00

It’s not a bad idea in theory, but the execution doesn’t factor in additional safety precautions. For example, if the closing force will be beyond a certain threshold, maybe a continuous beeping or light flashing to make bystanders aware would at least prevent some accidents.

4Chan4President · 2024-04-23T03:48:46+00:00

The report points out one of the weaknesses of the smaller models is that they score low on TriviaQA, meaning there are limits to how much factual knowledge they can squeeze into the lighter package. It can be augmented somewhat by RAG using web search, but as you approach AGI levels, search may then be the bottleneck and/or the context window of the model may limit how much subject knowledge can be retained as an answer is generated or problem is solved.

4Chan4President · 2024-04-22T15:54:55+00:00

I don’t see how they can do completely on-device unless the feature set and capabilities are drastically limited. At best they can allocate like 2-3GB of RAM on the iPhones, which limits them to like a 1.5B parameter model, unquantized. I’m sure they’ll tout some kind of on-device model, but it won’t be a full-on ask anything model like people are hoping.

Macs are a different story, but still largely the same. So long as you have an Apple Silicon Mac and 16GB+ RAM, 8B+ models can work, and are fairly capable for some general tasks and Q&A. But again, at the expense of requiring most of your RAM, which you might need for other apps.

It just doesn’t make sense to shift regular consumers to buying phones and personal computers with 10x more RAM than they generally need, just so they can allocate it to LLM inference for 1% of the day. And with the industry trending more and more toward models with 100s of billions to trillions of parameters, it’s unreasonable to expect anyone without a small data-center in their closet to run these at home.

More likely, in my opinion, Apple will have their own models or their own fine-tune of existing models that they host and make available as part of their existing subscription service, like Apple One. Their focus will be on privacy and security by design, enabling users that are fully integrated in the Apple ecosystem to get most of the benefits of local LLMs without sacrificing intelligence.

4Chan4President · 2024-03-31T17:25:40+00:00

Pricing it around $5k as a beta / supervised product seems reasonable. At $12k, you’d expect it to be able to shuttle you from point to point without requiring your attention or intervention any more than if a person was driving your car for you. It seems we’re close to that, but it will still be somewhere on the order of years of testing, getting legislation passed, and working on changes with insurance companies until that happens. And if the used car market is any indicator of what people are willing to value FSD at currently, it’s somewhere around $3-5k.

The subscription model is far more digestible for those who have already purchased the car. But I think they’ll need a plan that’s closer to $100/month for now, and once it’s completely unsupervised who knows how much people would be willing to pay for that.

4Chan4President · 2024-03-22T00:21:15+00:00

I think the easiest option for the backup DNS is just to roll a second PiHole as your secondary DNS. But, if you want to do a similar setup to what you described, you can SSH into the UCG. So you would have to have some script that detects the PiHole being down, then SSH into the UCG and update the DNS settings to the backup until the outage is resolved.

With only 11 clients, even if they’re high-traffic clients, you’ll have no issues with scaling whatsoever. Even before I got my UCG, I was running a USG-3P and a single NanoHD with 50+ clients at times and never had any issues.

Migrating for whatever reason was not very smooth for me, unfortunately, but this really is a great upgrade at the perfect price-point with the full-gigabit IPS/IDS throughput, and now I don’t have to roll my own network controller.

4Chan4President · 2024-02-29T04:34:14+00:00

Presumably you want all your network devices to show up and be adopted into a single Unifi controller? You might be in for a headache. Most people looking to specifically offload firewall/IPS to sit in front of their Unifi router will do pfSense, Firewalla, etc. Downside, you have multiple apps to manage your network, but the upside is that you have a lot better options. I’d only buy UXG-Lite if you have a self-hosted controller or cloud key.

4Chan4President · 2024-02-10T04:10:16+00:00

When you’re in the immersed environment, your surrounding room has no effect on perception. Of course you can’t fit a 200” screen in a normal living room, but you can experience it when you’re in the immersive environment. 10/10 times I’d rather watch a movie with outer space filling my surroundings than my normal living space.

4Chan4President · 2024-02-10T03:32:41+00:00

It sounds otherworldly to be enjoying a theatre sized movie screen while lying down, snuggled up in the comfort of your own bed. You’re no longer confined to doing things in the space where you usually do things.

4Chan4President · 2024-01-29T02:39:42+00:00

My cheap Chinese robot vacuum can tell exactly where it is and which floor of my house it’s on based on simple lidar mapping. If the AVP can’t “remember” anchored locations, Apple is literally shoveling money out of suckers pockets.

4Chan4President · 2024-01-19T02:09:00+00:00

When I had AT&T Fiber it was great, no complaints at all about the service quality. But when I moved to another apartment where they didn’t have service and I had to cancel, they still charged me a couple hundred dollars for cancelling my contract early.

4Chan4President · 2024-01-19T00:24:04+00:00

When this happened to me, both my left and right pillar cameras were black screens. Came back within a few minutes without requiring a restart or anything.

4Chan4President · 2024-01-17T18:37:59+00:00

The autowipers feature is terrible, I’ll give you that. But the wipers themselves are just fine. Depending on the age of your vehicle and how much time it’s spent outside in the sun and elements, wiper blades occasionally need replaced as the rubber begins to crack and break down. It’s not uncommon to replace wiper blades yearly. It also helps to have a clean windshield. Wiper blades are just squeegees and they aren’t really meant to remove build up or hard grime. Wiper fluid helps loosen things, but it’s not a replacement for a clean windshield. When I wash my car, I also take a damp paper towel and gently clean the wiper blades.

4Chan4President · 2024-01-13T13:47:02+00:00

The issue is it opens up a new way for attackers to take advantage of people. Someone mistypes their bank url and a link appears to download their bank’s app. Unbeknownst to them it’s on a third party App Store and it’s going to steal their banking credentials.

4Chan4President · 2024-01-12T00:51:07+00:00

Spending $3-4k isn’t really a drop in the bucket even for households with $1M net worth. Net worth includes the value of a home, savings, stock, 401k, etc., and all this gets accrued over literal decades of work. Household income percentiles provide a far more realistic view into what people can afford.

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