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by close04 | 2025-08-01 19:47:34+00:00
> I imagine the jury heard "autopilot" and then assigned blame to the company that called it that.

It's only fair. If the name was fine when it was attracting the buyers who were mislead about the real capabilities, it must be fine when it causing the same to jurors.

There's another similar argument to be made about the massive amount awarded as damages, which maybe will be lowered on appeal. If people (Tesla included) can make the argument that when a car learns something or gets an "IQ" improvement they all do, then it stands to reason that when one car is dangerous they all are (or were, even for a time). There are millions of Teslas on the road today so proportionally it's a low amount per unsafe car.
by guywithahat | 2025-08-01 19:48:10+00:00
It's also worth mentioning he would have been required to keep his hands on the wheel while using autopilot, or else it starts beeping at you and eventually disables the feature entirely. The system makes it very clear you're still in control, and it will permanently disable itself if it thinks you're not paying attention too many times (you get 5 strikes for your ownership duration).
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-01 19:48:25+00:00
The features of Go's error handling that people don't like aren't necessary to achieve that. In any language that requires a function to declare in its signature whether it can err (either through result types or through checked exceptions), code coverage tooling should be able to detect and report all untested error cases.

That said, I'm not sure whether actually existing coverage tools for those languages do this. I'll check and see if I can find out.
by koolba | 2025-08-01 19:48:33+00:00
> Dalla worked at Philz for nine years until last year, when he was laid off. He said that many longtime employees left around the same time as the company’s culture shifted to a more profit-driven, corporate culture.

> On his way out, he said that CEO Sadarangani urged him against exercising his stock options — options that will now, barring changes to the current deal, be worth nothing. “I always assumed they would do the right thing,” Dalla said.

Wouldn't the options also be worth nothing now? So by not exercising them at least the exercise money was spared?
by kibwen | 2025-08-01 19:48:51+00:00
> When average people are asked to reach for AI, they reach for ChatGPT.

No, average people are nowhere near that tech-savvy. Just because every mom in the 90s called every video game console a "Nintendo" did not mean that Sony didn't mop the floor with Nintendo in that era. This isn't brand loyalty, it's brand genericity. Other than, say, Replika-style users who have formed an emotional bond with a certain style of chatbot, no average joe on the planet gives a damn whether the LLM powering their chat is provided by OpenAI or Google or etc. They'll use whatever's in front of them and most convenient, and unlike Google, Apple, or Microsoft, OpenAI doesn't own the platform that establishes the crucial defaults that nearly no user ever changes.
by bko | 2025-08-01 19:48:59+00:00
Right, this is the frustrating thing about court room activism and general anger towards Tesla. By any stretch of the imagination, this technology is reasonably safe. It has over 3.6 billion miles, currently about 8m miles per day. By all reasonable measures, this technology is safe and useful. I could see why plaintiffs go after Tesla. They have a big target on their back for whatever reason, and activist judges go along. But I don't get how someone on the outside can look at this and think that this technology or marketing over the last 10 years is somehow deceptive or dangerous.

https://teslanorth.com/2025/03/28/teslas-full-self-driving-s...
by mezzie2 | 2025-08-01 19:49:08+00:00
I do think it's harder for women, though being gay also makes evaluating that weird in my case. I find I get more static for not having a partner, as even the queer community expects women will make romantic love their life's true purpose even if kids aren't involved.

One reason I don't seriously seek partnership is that I don't want to give up my time for intellectual and creative pursuits. The usual come back is 'if you find the right person...' but I can't move out of my state without losing healthcare and as a homosexual I've got a small dating pool. Partnering would require compromise on this, and I don't want to.

> Definitely already observe the being seen as children thing.

I'm hoping this gets better as I age. I have noticed people in their early to mid 30s, particularly those following 'the' life path, can get on a really high horse. But the longer people live, the more likely something is to happen to prove to them how fickle and random life is. (e.g. a child dying, a divorce, struggling with infertility, cancer, etc.)
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-01 19:49:53+00:00
hitch

verb move (something) into a different position with a jerk. travel by hitch-hiking. informal obtain (a lift) by hitch-hiking. fasten or tether. harness (a draught animal or team). noun a temporary difficulty or problem. a knot of a particular kind, typically one used for fastening a rope to something else. a device for attaching one thing to another, especially the tow bar of a motor vehicle. an act of hitch-hiking. informal a period of service. informal

Slanguagely: "There is a hitch in your get-along", implying "there is a difficulty with your system/process/activity"
by brk | 2025-08-01 19:50:04+00:00
At this point a firing or layoff might as well just be a text message: "You're fired. K, thx, bye". Any words beyond that are just fluff anyway. To the person getting let go, it really doesn't matter if the decision caused the CEO to get ulcers, or if it was the easiest decision ever. Executive teams only take responsibility in words.
by ascagnel_ | 2025-08-01 19:50:09+00:00
The problem with the Supreme Court is the handshake-agreement to limit the court's size in combination with lifetime appointments and the Senate majority leader's pocket veto. Going back to 1992 (eight Presidential terms, three served by Republicans and five by Democrats), Republican presidents have successfully nominated six justices while Democrats only five (including a no-vote for Merrick Garland).

The better thing to do, in my mind, is to limit the term length of a justice and eliminate the pocket veto, but I can't think of any way in which the elimination of a pocket veto also can't be exploited in some way (eg: with a 6-3 court, if a Republican-aligned justice stepped down, a Republican president can knowingly put forward a candidate they know won't get approved to keep the margin 5-3 vs. 5-4).
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by dave333 | 2025-08-01 19:50:59+00:00
I always hated whiteboard coding exercises because under stress coding from scratch I would make stupid syntax errors often in boilerplate code that I normally would just copy from an example. Pseudo code wasn't as bad, but still stressful. Brain teasers on the other hand were fun and I could often solve them without having seen them before. Solving one brain teaser has got me hired more than once.
by therein | 2025-08-01 19:51:18+00:00
It is made worse by it not actually looking for the right answer at all stages of that process. Part of it you're training it, and it will take your word for it. Let's make that image appear slowly, like real slow fade in. Motorcycle? Include the rider, not include the rider? Does it matter? Who cares, we have made our mind about your IP already, this is just to annoy you.

There is that one guy that orders 50lbs anvils from Amazon, just to return them. He has been doing that for 6 months. This is the kind of thing that makes a person do that.
by Ray20 | 2025-08-01 19:51:26+00:00
>Unfortunately (for you), some engineers are just better than others.

Yes, and most of these engineers are not in the US and are cheaper than engineers in the US.

The only reason engineers in the US have jobs is because employers, for one reason or another, believe that in an office environment under their constant supervision, workers work more efficiently.

When they stop believing this, engineers in the US will not work remotely, they will lose their jobs.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-01 19:51:33+00:00
> Lot of good that will do you when Linux users will curl | bash most any garbage.

Same for Windows users who zoom through UAC prompts without reading.

> The Windows NT file permission system is far more advanced (and I'm not even including AppLocker or software whitelisting).

...and much more convoluted and easy to break while most systems allow unfettered access to everywhere. On the other hand SELinux and AppArmor already provide transparent system isolation for decades now, and they are completely invisible. If you want even more security, you can install an immutable distro.

> So "app store" is the wave of the future?

App stores are capitalist versions of software repositories which are present for more than 20 years now? Plus, these repositories are generally well-vetted and observed by their maintainers.

> Most malware these days targets Linux servers. If you think chmod u+x is what is preventing your computer from catching digital AIDS I have news for you.

No, instead many sysadmins who know what they're doing are depending on a layered security system, provided by Linux kernel and its peripheries. Containers, CGroups, namespaces, SELinux/AppArmor, package integrity checks, multiple limited users (with reduced capabilities as well), UNIX file permissions, and many more.

If you think Linux only has file permissions for system security, I have news for you.
by bko | 2025-08-01 19:51:44+00:00
> If you want Tesla's behavior to change - and other automakers take notice and not repeat the behavior - then the fine must be meaningful to them.

What behavior do you want them to change? Remove FSD from their cars? It's been nearly 10 years since released and over 3bn miles driven. There's one case where someone died while fetching his cell phone. You would think if it was really dangerous, people would be dying in scores.

This is obviously targeted and the court system should not be playing favorites or going after political opponents
by alnwlsn | 2025-08-01 19:51:53+00:00
The whole of the 20th century was pretty fast. There were no vacuum tubes in 1901; by 1999, 15 million transistors on a chip. Plus spacecraft, refrigerants, airplanes, CFCs, antibiotics, nukes, plasics, radio, lasers...

It was a real "move fast and break things" time period. We'll probably never see anything close ever again.
by cameronc56 | 2025-08-01 19:52:08+00:00
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by stouset | 2025-08-01 19:52:43+00:00
I agree that Tesla should receive punitive damages. And the size of the punitive damages must be enough to discourage bad behavior.

I'm not necessarily sure the victim(s) should get all of the punitive damages. $329 million is a gargantuan sum of money; it "feels" wrong to give a corporation-sized punishment to a small group of individuals. I could certainly see some proportion going toward funding regulatory agencies, but I fear the government getting the bulk of punitive damages would set up some perverse incentives.

I think in the absence of another alternative, giving it to the victim(s) is probably the best option. But is there an even better possible place to disburse the funds from these types of fines?
by Boogie_Man | 2025-08-01 19:53:07+00:00
I agree with you generally, but the two points I want to make are that these shows are messaging politically (I know you agree with this, and I appreciate you saying so as many others in this thread do not agree), and that this political messaging is not inherently good in and of itself, and must be evaluated on a case by case basis, both for the "correctness" of the political messaging, and for potential concerns of alienating audiences when a specific case is included in a children's program.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-08-01 19:53:26+00:00
And the fine needs to be high enough to prevent them from just saying - oh, well, we can make money if we keep doing it.

If you could only fine a person for committing murder, you wouldn't fine a billionaire $5m, and then hope he wouldn't go on killing everyone he thinks he'd rather have dead than $5m.
by alganet | 2025-08-01 19:54:05+00:00
You're trying to imply that all things that are not a matter of taste or preference are already decided. I'm not convinced.

There are unknowns, which benefit from discussion so they can be transformed into knowns. It doesn't matter that they can't be absolute knowns, but it matters that they're constructed upon a system that assigns less value to taste.

In other words, if only taste matters, some people always lose. That might be desirable for some people. It's not desirable for me.
by xp84 | 2025-08-01 19:54:07+00:00
Indeed. I've long felt that most undergrad students would be better served by a typical college minus the formal classes. Basically dorms and all the other amenities found in a typical college campus, where you mainly gain life skills and mingle with other people your age. Because most people I met at an average 4-year school were there because it's a societal expectation among certain classes, it's less scary than just getting a job and figuring out life completely on your own, and it is 10x-100x easier to make friends at college than just "out in the world." Not on the list: to learn from college classes, which at an average school teach you less than you'd get from a $200 a year subscription to Great Courses Plus or Brilliant. Or free from Khan Academy.

I know a few very special schools give undergrads access to brilliant minds in their field, but I also have been told that undergrads at those schools are mostly taught by grad students, so I'm not sure that Ivies provide a lot either, beyond the opportunity to hobnob with the legacies that will be running Goldman Sachs in 20 years.
by MBCook | 2025-08-01 19:54:11+00:00
I took it as they said you’d get an email in 15 minutes but immediately (before then) locked your computer so you wouldn’t be able to read it anyway.

Telling people “wait to see if you’re fired” is absolutely cruel. Hold a virtual meeting, even if it’s just to play a video, and hit send on all those emails the instant it’s over.

What a horrible thing to do to people. Can’t even do it yourself? Gotta pre-record it?
by fuball63 | 2025-08-01 19:54:23+00:00
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by CM30 | 2025-08-01 19:54:33+00:00
Cancel culture always scared me, and this blog post sums up exactly why. It seems like pretty much everyone is willing to turn on a 'social pariah' at the drop of a hat, and just about every aspect of your existence gets annihilated as a result of that.

What's more, it feels completely counter productive anyway since the impact of a 'cancellation' on someone is inversely proportionate to how powerful/damage their actions are in general.

Because the most dangerous folks around can simply ignore any efforts at such anyway. Someone like say, Elon Musk doesn't need to care how they act or treat others. They're so wealthy and well-connected that they can just shrug off any callouts or exposes or gossip, and keep causing as much damage as they want.

So the end result is that to a degree, it often feels less like 'punishing' bad behaviour and more like sticking the knife in deeper into someone who might already have a hard time as it is. The billionaire or millionaire ignores the consequences, while some random schmuck sees their life torn to shreds.

It also feels like yet another thing that makes life miserable for people struggling with anxiety, who are neuro diverse, etc. Just takes one person misjudging your intentions/being weirded out by your behaviour, and then it seems the internet mob wants your blood. So now you've got someone who already likely has few friends and supporters and few job prospects getting a scarlet letter above their head and their already difficult situation made even more difficult...
by mc32 | 2025-08-01 19:54:33+00:00
That sucks. It sucks that employees’s common stock will be cancelled. It also sucks that the vitality of the company will be drained. Maybe this was its destiny.

With investments they were able to furnish nice locations pretty well. Better than many normal franchises.

But perhaps that was overshooting and they will be brought back to financial reality by the PE firm —they’ll try to make it turn a profit at the expense of employees and customers but then again maybe it was existing on borrowed time (money).

At least, so far, it’s a slightly better story than the ice cream shop that grew too fast and then had a complete meltdown from the financial burden.
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by ofalkaed | 2025-08-01 19:56:22+00:00
$150 guitars (from the reputable brands) tend to use about the same quality of hardware as the $400 guitars, they just use plywood and synthetic fingerboards and uncool woods which are generally uncool for stupid reasons. Add in a cheap paint job, a thousand fewer turns of copper on the pickup coils maybe made up for with a cheaper stronger magnet and you are getting into the $150 range. Setup and playing wise they tend to be about the same as the $400 guitars.

There are lemons in every price range which no one can detect, it is the nature of wood.
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by skunkworker | 2025-08-01 19:56:38+00:00
I've personally used one of these before in a performance where you needed individual based tracking, the chips were active UWB radios and sensors were placed and calibrated around the stage, I believe it was < 10cm accuracy and quite an interesting sensation to walk with lights following you perfectly and quickly.

https://kinexon.com/products/kinexon-rtls was what was used.