It’s indeed a war machine. Even going at slowish 60 mph. Trucks go through all barriers and 20 passenger cars over before stopping. The pictures of accidents with asleep truck drivers are shocking.
As you mention, the (infrequent, but not nonexistent) accidents caused by overworked commercial semi truck drivers are one of the reasons why I do hope this works at least as well as human long-haul drivers.
But that’s the winner takes it all situation thanks to software patents in US. The first one patents everything and the rest can catch up later or think about really different approach.
I really like this idea of silent monitoring. Monitoring and talking about bad things seen weeks/months later. Because while I can block everything I want at home… there are other kids with free Internet access where everything is available and then I have no idea what’s happening.
So many cool technical projects here. But I am doing something completely different - masonry. Repairing walls in 3 rooms. It includes reinstalling dozens of falling off bricks, installing 30 or so power outlets, replacing old windows with bigger modern ones, fixing openings for the doors and plastering everything afterwards. On one hand it’s interesting, because it’s very different from the dayjob. But doing it by myself pays my newish car in cash immediately. However I wouldn’t do it for money somewhere else, it’s really really hard work.
Instead of masonry I would like to work on time of flight cameras. But the day has only 24 hours :-(
Thanks. It is not sexy. There also many YouTube building channels. They concentrate on nice content while I live in construction site and would love to finish it asap. It’s also not really interesting topic - nobody builds brick houses anymore. Mortar was replaced with glue and bricks with much bigger building blocks.
There is many "not sexy" projects that many people indeed find interesting and worth watching. And OP did not want to watch ANY youtube video.. he wanted to watch your work, as I do to since these other youtubers (AFAIK) are not on HN :)
Sounds like a case every lawyer in Germany would like to take. 500€ for first letter to send to the manager reminding the contract conditions. It is enough for most companies not to go further with shady activities. As a contractor one should know how to deal with the clients.
I don’t think that’s shady? When I was hiring contractors it was always project based with mutual understanding things could end quickly if the project or collaboration didn’t work out.
Yes, they get paid 1.5-2x, and that also prices in that it’s not always 100% utilization. Only once had a contractor oppose that, but that was in the context of (severe) underperformance.
In his case, the contract had something different, and they did not pay the actual invoice - that's the shady part.
With contractors, you have more freedom of choice when you write the contracts, but whatever contract you agree on, you still have to honor the contract as agreed.
Exactly. I bought 3 or 4 China Lego clones to try and the parts were slightly different in size and in color. Some blocks way too big, so building was not good experience. For original Lego you don’t need sanding paper on the table.
I implemented an acoustic segmentation system in FPGA recently. The whole world model was a long list of known events and states with feasible transitions. Plus novel things not observed before. Basically rather dumb state machine with machine learning part attached to acoustic sensors. Of course, both parts could be hidden behind weights. But state machine was easily readable and that was the biggest advantage of it.
I would say, there was not much new in this. The key part of the project was the real time approach. Acquire samples, process them, find peaks, do FFTs, sum, multiply, divide. Get a float number, turn on the proper LEDs. The data was moved in C code between DMA blocks written in VHDL. Actually far away from optimized version. But it worked. IP does not belong to me and I would like to avoid technical details. The project was ended immediately when the company we worked for offered 25000€ for all IP created during the project. Very bad joke. I am still confused, because there was massive potential in this cooperation for everybody involved.
We waited once for German Telekom‘s technician 4 months to get a stupid confirmation, that wiring is ok. So we got dvd player and lots of dvds from flea market.
Have you been in the startup job market recently? 110k EUR seems like the most common baseline I see for high-growth EU startups hiring engineers with a few YoE. I don't work at a hyped finance company but I make north of the range listed above.
Can you recommend sites that have postings for EU startup jobs? I recently received EU citizenship so I'm thinking of making my way over to Europe in the next year or so.
How much is language a barrier for these kinds of jobs? I'm a native speaker of English and think that I can become proficient with French again within 3-6 months of immersion.
I think the best way to find these roles is not to go through job boards at all. Job boards tend not to have the best quality talent, so the best quality jobs don't go there at all. I would say the biggest alpha in getting these jobs is keeping an eye out for routine funding announcements and applying directly via the company's page on Lever. I average around 1-2 recruiter inbound per month for this kind of role.
The well paying jobs are the ones at startups funded by US VCs. It's much easier to pay well when you think of EU talent as a 25-50% discount on bay area salaries.
Tesla sold a million Model Ys last year. So having a safety increasing part like lidar would reduce the profit by hundreds millions. Removal of ultrasonic sensors saved Tesla tens of millions. Ok, model Y is a big car and I don’t aim for tightest parking spots anymore. But basically removal of anything is very profitable for Tesla. And vice versa adding something useful is very expensive.
It’s saved hundreds of millions at minimum. LiDAR is incredibly expensive hardware which is why they’re making it work well without it - it would make the cost of the cars really uncompetitive while also looking incredibly silly like Waymos. No one would buy them
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