Exactly. Thus far, all we can say for sure is that we have not yet been carelessly crushed to make room for some intergalactic freeway we do not understand.
That doesn't mean there isn't one right in front of our eyes though.
An ant cannot "see" not comprehend the purpose of a freeway, no matter how hard we might try to explain it. It would walk right over it and not think it were any different than your average rock.
For the same reason that humans have not "made contact" with ants.
Why do you assume a higher intelligence would even be capable of making contact with us on a level we understand? The discussion would be meaningless, in the same way that an ant would not comprehend our desire to build a freeway right next to their ant hill.
Cruise Automation | Senior Software Engineer (Backend and/or Frontend), SRE | San Francisco | ONSITE
Interested in working on tools at the intersection of robotics and machine learning? Our engineering productivity team is responsible for web-based tools and infrastructure to support development and testing/simulation at scale of our Autonomous Vehicle software. We're also looking for a talented Engineering Manager to join our team.
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We're looking for experienced (5+ years) software engineers interested in Go, Docker, and Kubernetes, to build infrastructure running thousands of driving simulations every day. This simulation infrastructure is critical to our success, and helps us understand how changes to our code affect our company-wide performance metrics.
Apply via link below, or feel free to reach out via my HN profile.
Also, even if they verify you meet some minimum bar of being able to support yourself (which I was not asked about in my interview, other than turning up looking generally presentable), this is still a far cry from a more rigorous points-based immigration system. Per GP, DV immigrants are still basically chosen "at random".
Not entirely true. For the diversity visa (green card lottery), there are (extensive) medical and background checks, but the US consulate does not consider skills and resources beyond verifying that you meet the minimum requirements (high school diploma). The consulate interview for this category is basically a rubber stamp.
However, as others pointed out, the DV is a small fraction of green cards granted, and the process for family based immigration may differ.
With ECS and EKS you get a managed master, then you set up your own autoscaling groups etc to deploy nodes (which you manage) into the cluster.
With Fargate, you get access to AWS-managed multi-tenant nodes. So, Fargate connects to either your ECS or EKS cluster and avoids the need for you to worry about managing the nodes as well.
Completely unfounded nonsense. Their profit margin is much higher than the fraud rate (as others pointed out, if fraud was as high as you say, banks would have shut down the relationship years ago).
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We're building self driving cars, and we're testing in the most difficult urban environments. We have a world class software team, plus a parent company with decades of manufacturing experience. All employees have access to free self driving car trips within SF.
We're hiring for many roles, including ML, C++, backend, frontend - check out our website for the full list.
I'm specifically interested in talking to any senior devops/SREs, or any senior data infrastructure engineers (spark, swift, jupyter, airflow, etc).
Not damage control, just providing an alternate opinion.
Yes, it's entirely possible that the commenter is (or was) an employee in a department other than engineering. We all report to CEO eventually though, so I don't think that would result in a significantly different experience.
Cruise employee here. I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. In my experience, Cruise is one of the most exciting companies to be working for today, and Kyle is easily the most intelligent, hard working, and reasonable CEO I have worked for.
For sure, there is still a lot of work to be done before we can launch a full L4/L5 vehicle, but I would say with high confidence our platform is ahead of most other players in the industry, and I'm confident that we will be one of the first companies to launch AVs at scale.
Hi HN, engineer at Cruise here. I just wanted to point out that most people are surprised when I tell them we're hiring a ton of backend/full stack/android engineering positions (mostly go/node/react), and you don't need prior robotics or machine learning experience to apply (although we like those too).
So, if you're interested in working on AVs or the systems that support them, please take a look at our careers page: https://getcruise.com/careers (or feel free to reach out to me via HN profile).