niko001 · HackerTrans

Really interesting approach! I can see this being useful. How are you dealing with short/medium-term changes in consumer sentiment, I assume your model is currently fairly static? For example, the results to "Would you buy an e-bike?" might change over time as cities add charge-points or additional bike paths, prices for e-bikes go down, etc. And as a more extreme example, the answer to typical YouGov questions like "Who will you vote for in the next presidential election" will obviously change daily based on a multitude of factors that aren't present in your training data.

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At the scheduled time

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It might not matter to users in the sense that they ask themselves what rendering engine Chrome on iOS is using under the hood, but the effects do matter. I get a lot of support requests saying "Your [web] app is broken on my iPhone!", "Right, Safari doesn't support feature XYZ", "I'm not using Safari, I'm using Chrome", "..."

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I don't think that necessarily contradicts what the author is saying. Even you describe how these top 10% performers are often underpaid, so in some areas (getting noticed, managing office politics, switching companies to get pay rises) they seemingly "don't know what they're doing". A lot of people are brilliant in one particular area and at the same time fail basic life tasks, even though to someone from the outside it looks as if they've got everything figured out.

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By turning it into a nearly-useless system. You can only engage Mercedes' system if a number of conditions are all met:

- The route has to have been pre-mapped by Mercedes

- Only works on highways

- Only in traffic jam-like conditions, i.e. traffic moving slower than 60 kmh (37 mph)

- No construction sites (even a single orange cone left over from prior road works will mean that you can't turn on the system / it will turn off)

Under these conditions, 10 seconds doesn't sound too difficult.

I still think that this is the "saner" approach than calling your product Autopilot and letting the general public beta test it (and driving in traffic jams is annoying so I wouldn't mind using the Merc system), but overall it feels mostly like a PR move to be able to say "we have a Level 3 product on the road". I read an article where Mercedes wanted to demonstrate the system to a journalist and they had to have a second car drive in front of them to artificially create a traffic jam because otherwise it wouldn't activate.

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It would be interesting to estimate what dollar value can be ascribed to a x-hour FB outage, both in terms of lost ad revenue for FB itself as well missed conversions/revenue for businesses running ads on FB/IG.

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