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Re: Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

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Post by mitfahrener »

cardigan wrote: post #15
cardigan wrote: post #13

(I work at scale) Hmm this blog post and the website doesn't mention that this dataset was mostly annotated by Scale (scale.ai), as part of a partnership with Lyft ... We're going to publish a blog post about this soon, but if anyone at Lyft is reading this, please figure out how to reasonably credit Scale since I doubt leaving out Scale completely from the announcement is in the spirit of the agreement. Scale should…

Also, the viewer packaged with nuScenes was built by Steven Hao from Scale, and while it was packaged as part of nuScenes it should probably be called Scale's viewer instead of nuScenes' viewer. The original viewer in the nuscenes SDK has the Scale logo, but it looks like Lyft removed that in the fork. Maybe a bit of public shaming will fix that... Dear Lyft marketing person who wrote this: we are a data labeling com…

Have a wonderful day tomorrow. Good luck.

Re: Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

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Post by goguy »

cardigan wrote: post #15
cardigan wrote: post #13

(I work at scale) Hmm this blog post and the website doesn't mention that this dataset was mostly annotated by Scale (scale.ai), as part of a partnership with Lyft ... We're going to publish a blog post about this soon, but if anyone at Lyft is reading this, please figure out how to reasonably credit Scale since I doubt leaving out Scale completely from the announcement is in the spirit of the agreement. Scale should…

Also, the viewer packaged with nuScenes was built by Steven Hao from Scale, and while it was packaged as part of nuScenes it should probably be called Scale's viewer instead of nuScenes' viewer. The original viewer in the nuscenes SDK has the Scale logo, but it looks like Lyft removed that in the fork. Maybe a bit of public shaming will fix that... Dear Lyft marketing person who wrote this: we are a data labeling com…

"Gets to number one in random video games"

Genius

Re: Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

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Post by parsimo2010 »

m0zg wrote: post #19
jacobn wrote: post #8

“There will be $25,000 in prizes, and we’ll be flying the top researchers to the NeurIPS Conference in December, as well as allowing the winners to interview with our team.” I guess it’s a decent opportunity if you’re trying to break into DL?

>> allowing the winners to interview with our team This was pretentious AF. People who win such competitions _allow companies_ to interview them sometimes, not the other way around. It's not like working at Lyft is some amazing privilege.

I agree that the wording of "allow you to interview" is pretentious, but the end result is commonplace. Successful Kaggle competitors score job interviews all the time because of their performance. Getting an interview is a two-way street. The company needs to give you an invite and you need to accept. Doing well in the competition will get you an invite.

You might not think that working at Lyft is an amazing privilege, but it could be a good gig for someone that needs a paycheck and is looking for a job in the self-driving field.

Re: Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

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Post by gesman »

ayw wrote: post #38
cardigan wrote: post #13

(I work at scale) Hmm this blog post and the website doesn't mention that this dataset was mostly annotated by Scale (scale.ai), as part of a partnership with Lyft ... We're going to publish a blog post about this soon, but if anyone at Lyft is reading this, please figure out how to reasonably credit Scale since I doubt leaving out Scale completely from the announcement is in the spirit of the agreement. Scale should…

Hi, I'm the CEO of Scale.ai. This comment does not represent the company's viewpoint, and cardigan is not speaking on behalf of Scale. We are very excited to have been able to work with Lyft in open-sourcing this dataset and advancing the research community. We are also very grateful to Lyft for choosing to leverage our point cloud viewer and have credited the annotations to us on their launch page.

Gotta love HN.

Good people come to comment on a minute notice!

Re: Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

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Post by [deleted] »

ayw wrote: post #38
cardigan wrote: post #13

(I work at scale) Hmm this blog post and the website doesn't mention that this dataset was mostly annotated by Scale (scale.ai), as part of a partnership with Lyft ... We're going to publish a blog post about this soon, but if anyone at Lyft is reading this, please figure out how to reasonably credit Scale since I doubt leaving out Scale completely from the announcement is in the spirit of the agreement. Scale should…

Hi, I'm the CEO of Scale.ai. This comment does not represent the company's viewpoint, and cardigan is not speaking on behalf of Scale. We are very excited to have been able to work with Lyft in open-sourcing this dataset and advancing the research community. We are also very grateful to Lyft for choosing to leverage our point cloud viewer and have credited the annotations to us on their launch page.

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Re: Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

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Post by kerng »

DeonPenny wrote: post #26
cardigan wrote: post #13

(I work at scale) Hmm this blog post and the website doesn't mention that this dataset was mostly annotated by Scale (scale.ai), as part of a partnership with Lyft ... We're going to publish a blog post about this soon, but if anyone at Lyft is reading this, please figure out how to reasonably credit Scale since I doubt leaving out Scale completely from the announcement is in the spirit of the agreement. Scale should…

You should delete this.

Overall many more people will know scale now, so I don't necessarily think it's as bad as many think. Maybe not the best choice of words obviously...

Re: Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

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Post by kerng »

ayw wrote: post #38
cardigan wrote: post #13

(I work at scale) Hmm this blog post and the website doesn't mention that this dataset was mostly annotated by Scale (scale.ai), as part of a partnership with Lyft ... We're going to publish a blog post about this soon, but if anyone at Lyft is reading this, please figure out how to reasonably credit Scale since I doubt leaving out Scale completely from the announcement is in the spirit of the agreement. Scale should…

Hi, I'm the CEO of Scale.ai. This comment does not represent the company's viewpoint, and cardigan is not speaking on behalf of Scale. We are very excited to have been able to work with Lyft in open-sourcing this dataset and advancing the research community. We are also very grateful to Lyft for choosing to leverage our point cloud viewer and have credited the annotations to us on their launch page.

Still odd Lyft doesn't credit this when posting about it.

Re: Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

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Post by jaimex2 »

obese_by_nature wrote: post #33
jaimex2 wrote: post #18

It's looking more and more like everyone is just going to have to licence Tesla's FSD when its finished. They are the only ones with a broad real world data source and seem to have wisely taken the right path by not adopting LIDAR, focusing purely on passive vision.

No LIDAR means zero ability to detect pedestrians in heavy fog, rain, and snow, right?

Other way around. LIDAR doesn't work in fog, rain and snow.

Re: Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

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Post by bearpelican »

jacobn wrote: post #8

“There will be $25,000 in prizes, and we’ll be flying the top researchers to the NeurIPS Conference in December, as well as allowing the winners to interview with our team.” I guess it’s a decent opportunity if you’re trying to break into DL?

I had a bad experience with Lyft's previous self driving challenge - https://www.udacity.com/lyft-challenge

I unofficially got first place after finding a bug in their test set (allowing me to blow the competition away). I reported the problem directly - they decided not to fix it and asked me to take my submission down. They said they'd still offer an interview.

However - this interview wasn't even for their DL team. They offered an interview with the web tools support team because they felt I didn't have enough experience...

Reference - https://github.com/bearpelican/lyft-perception-challenge

Re: Lyft releases self-driving research dataset

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Post by exit »

ayw wrote: post #38
cardigan wrote: post #13

(I work at scale) Hmm this blog post and the website doesn't mention that this dataset was mostly annotated by Scale (scale.ai), as part of a partnership with Lyft ... We're going to publish a blog post about this soon, but if anyone at Lyft is reading this, please figure out how to reasonably credit Scale since I doubt leaving out Scale completely from the announcement is in the spirit of the agreement. Scale should…

Hi, I'm the CEO of Scale.ai. This comment does not represent the company's viewpoint, and cardigan is not speaking on behalf of Scale. We are very excited to have been able to work with Lyft in open-sourcing this dataset and advancing the research community. We are also very grateful to Lyft for choosing to leverage our point cloud viewer and have credited the annotations to us on their launch page.

the point cloud viewer which cardigan also had to point out was produced by someone at scale, and not nuScene?

pretty inconvenient for you when workers want their efforts recognised, and not just thought of as capital for you to push around however you please, huh?

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