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I watch Tesla fairly closely from both the bull and bear sides. In short, I don't believe Tesla is anywhere close to Waymo. They won't achieve FSD in 2020.

It's important to see this event in the context of their significant demand and cash problems. Even enthusiastic Tesla investors like Galileo Russell suggested that Tesla is in a cash crunch and should raise money. Which hints at the main mystery about Tesla, why haven't they raised money yet?

Take a moment and think about why are they doing this event now. Elon is setting a stage for a capital raise, he's pitching the autonomy narrative after the Model 3 cash cow narrative failed. They're trying to convince investors (and customers) to give them money because money-printing autonomous taxi service is coming next year.

Also, think about why basically everyone except Tesla uses Lidars. Is it because they're stupid or because Tesla cannot use Lidars even if they wanted to?

P.S.: Nvidia issued a statement saying that Tesla's claims about their chip are incorrect: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nvidia-says-tesla-inaccura...

Edit: In 2012, Waymo reached the milestone of handling 8 100-mile routes, specifically chosen to capture the full complexity of driving. I doubt Tesla is currently at that level. Source: https://events.technologyreview.com/video/watch/dmitri-dolgo...
Former student zapped $58,000 worth of PC equipment using a 'USB Killer' device
What we know, and what we don’t, about the Crew Dragon accident
How about, you still protect the rights of people that make the corporation - as individuals. In other words, if the corporation can name a specific individual whose rights are being infringed, then they have a case. But the corporation by itself can't claim infringement of its rights.

So for example, with Citizens United, there's no restriction on individuals that make up the company from making political donations from their own personal funds - including those that they earn as owners or employees of said company. But the company cannot use the funds that it owns as an entity in its own right for the same purpose. If its owners want to use those funds for that purpose, they can have the company pay it to them as dividends (taxed accordingly), and then spend them as they see fit - with their own name attached to any such use.

Note that this effectively protects free speech qua speech even for corporations, because there's ultimately always a person speaking.
So when are they going to get them working?
> Why doesn't she propose a plan to subsidize home buying or raise salaries?

She has. The latter, at least, as that's one of the things behind her corporate governance reform proposal.
SEA seems like a terrible place to run an e-commerce marketplace. A bunch of competition that seems pretty content to run at a loss to try and build market share.
So they're making a compatible API. I would consider this a good thing.
>Unless of course you don't care about the variables created inside.

In majority of cases I really don't care about the variables created inside. If I can't handle an error just by looking at the exception and method arguments I usually refactor. In my view, error handling should not be intertwined with the "happy path". It makes reasoning about non-trivial code much harder.

For other cases the old syntax will still be available.

And yes, the value of "finally" in such a shorthand is dubious. I just added it to make it clear how the rewrite rule would work.
Fresh grads are getting 100k in Chicago as well
I don't disagree that those are nicer items, I've had them countless times myself.. but I think you may be missing the "point" of Beyond Meat if you solely talk about the taste or macronutrients.
There's also the very real question of "Is there a non-deleterious mutation that confers resistance?"
There’s a large gap between ‘a few frames’ and a massive amount of data, and the amount sent lies somewhere in the middle. Clearly they can’t send all data (nor would they want to) but it seems it is sufficient for significant learning to take place and the examples shown were good quality over at least a few seconds, so hundreds of frames for each example.
Rare and Historic Northrop Flying Wing Crashes into Prison Yard in California
I believe the idea is that employees should be seen but not heard.

Democracy is all well and good, as long as it knows its proper place in the corporate hierarchy.
No, I think I said "We don't know" what the better way is.

But if your goal is to let animals roam free in their native habitats then captivity on farms probably doesn't seem like the better option to you.
As the son of Italian immigrants (who moved here 40 years ago), I've just learned to think of it as "Italian American" food/culture that evolved/diverged over the last 100 years. It's still painful to hear things like 'pasta fazul' or 'mozzarelle' being passed off as Italian.
Firstly, that's ridiculous, vegetarians are definitely a minority on HN. And secondly, that's ridiculous, the people on that website are attributing all kinds of unrelated things to a "carnivore diet". Are you seriously trying to suggest that it's a cure-all?
> I can imagine it'd be nice to spend the genuine VC money on company Lamborghinis and penthouses for a few months, declare bankruptcy, rinse and repeat

or simply refocus the startup on used lambos and penthouses :)
A los of people beat you on that one
I have seen recent Teslas in person in the showrooms, and there doesn't appear to be any wiper for the cameras. Especially with a firsthand owner account just a few comments up I think it's actually only logical at this point to assume they didn't put wipers on the cameras.
> Not a fan of Result, either - it ties together the error type and the type of the desired item - these should be separate concerns.

How so? 'Result' is just a generic variant record with two variant cases, for the "success" and "error" condition. It's the exact same as the `value, err` pattern in Go, except that it additionally enforces proper semantics and handling of the outcome.
Taco Bell is junk food Tex Mex and Chipotle is just mass-market Mexicali burritos. You can find Tex Mex and Mexicali analogs to Buca di Beppo.
> This is not neutrality; it is capitalism without ethics, which is a moral stance that you are taking.

I disagree. It is neutrality, because it is recognizing that different parties and individuals have different ideas of what is acceptable to them (morally or otherwise), and that they can decide that for themselves. If there aren't enough customers to sustain some product/service, then that business would fail. If it finds product-market fit, then that business will continue to operate. It is a distributed method of taking measure of what people value and don't value, which includes a distributed notion of morality.

> Your alternative is that the company should be able to impose their decision-making on the employees, and e.g. ask them to work on things which violate their personal principles, with their only alternative being to leave the company.

Yes that is my alternative, and I don't see anything wrong with it. Those employees can choose to do the work that is asked of them or leave. The company is not imposing anything on the employees - they are compensating the employees for their time/labor, and get to specify in what capacity those employees can contribute. If you were an employee in the IT side of some company, and you saw the R&D side acquiring some other company, would you think "well I disagree and this makes me want to leave, but it is unfair that I was not consulted or don't have a voice in this matter or that my only choice is to leave"? Of course not. Why would it be any different on other matters?

Another example: If you hire a plumber to fix your toilet and that plumber took the opportunity to deliver a religious sermon at your home, would you find it acceptable? What if they lecture you on how you are parenting your kid or your relationship with your spouse? A lot of the recent employee activism is similar to these hypothetical situations, except at a larger scale.

> you are arguing that corporations have the right to freely transact in the market but employees (many of whom cannot pick and choose their employment or tolerate underemployment) do not have that right

Employees have the right to pick and choose their place of employment. They have that freedom, and tech workers drawing large salaries are especially employable today. If someone cannot tolerate unemployment, they can invest in making themselves more-valuable to would-be employers. And yes, that means that in the interim they need to choose between putting their head down/getting their work done and engaging in workplace activism. I don't think it is reasonable to feel entitled to everything all the time, which is how this comes off to me.

> They have not only a right, but an obligation to oppose actions by the corporation inimical to their worldview.

Employees have limited rights at work. They are being compensated to perform a limited role and the measure of their success/failure is up to the company compensating them. Corporations also have a right to oppose actions by employees that are inimical to their worldview or interests. They can do so by terminating that relationship.
Title is incorrect. It is a Maori River, not The Maori River being talked about here. It is The Whanganui River. National Geographic's title is also confusing, but not outright incorrect as posted here.
They've got cheesecake, who cares about decor?
FWIW, I have never seen an Impossible Burger in any Safeway (or Whole Foods) in the Bay Area. And I somehow doubt they would have just stealth launched an enormous chain without someone noticing; https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Safeway-to-Carry-the-Pla... there are plenty of articles like this about the Beyond Burger getting into different chains.
There was a mindset shift similar to what you describe that made it easier for me -- stop pursuing replacements for the meat in the dishes you already eat, and instead discover new dishes. Indian and Thai cooking, for instance, has a long history of delicious vegetarian dishes. Look at some of the rich foods developed by some of the poorest people and there's a whole culinary world there.

Once I did that, and understood how to spice ingredients, then I circled back to my previous habits a bit.
Subsidizing teacher pay is subsidizing education.
Assuming social security still exists for millennials.
> [surely] you can find communities of like minded people for a lot less than what remains?

I'm not so sure. The amount of free time available to discuss the topics of life with other like-minded people who also have that same amount of free time I have not been able to replicate (nor come close to) since graduating.
L.A. County’s homeless population is growing – but not as fast as they’re dying
Yes, men are sometimes subject to unwanted physical contact, and are probably not taken as seriously if they complain about it.

But I would be very surprised if the overall number of men experiencing non-consensual touching was greater than the number of women.
> Single family homes with good transit would slowly be sold to developers who would replace them with quads, bringing in increased taxes so that transit could be expanded, leading to more SFHs near transit, and so on.

There's water around two-quarters of the city that means it is not possible to keep developing the extra layers of suburbia that you are describing.

I mean, it should be obvious that increasing the density of a city forever, cramming more and more people in, and developing more and more, is not sustainable however you try to do it.
It is curious that while HN as a whole seems to be on the same side regarding the Google vs. Oracle case, they also are quick to jump on this bandwagon, but in the other direction.

Is it lame to blatantly copy someones API docs? Sure. But even looking at the screenshots in their blog post, which I presume is meant to highlight this issue, it's clear that there are changes as well, so it looks more like derivative work than just blind copying (I'm not sure if there's a meaningful legal distinction here, but it feels more ethical).
Why not use machine learning in order to rank candidates and "waste" time only on the top 3?
I don't get the widespread notion that a city of mostly SFH = morally bad

Forget morality. A city with a large demand for housing that refuses to allow higher density is inevitably going to end up only being affordable to the very wealthy, with others forced to move, or out on the streets, or clinging to rent-controlled units with hostile landlords. If that's what you want, then by all means continue the current policies.

And frankly, if increasing density actually helped property values wouldn't you expect a place like NYC to be more affordable?

Manhattan holds a lot more people than SF, and there are reasonable cheaper options such as Queens and New Jersey.
Except that the cities in question are not exclusively American...
There's no penalties unless they're not paying in which case this is a different problem than student loan debt in general.

Another issue with this is that the vast majority of students hold way less than $50k in debt. This would help out people who either will be earning substantial incomes, e.g. physicians, or who used student loans to subsidize their lifestyle well beyond their school expenses (this might include living in New York City/San Francisco for four years without having any income.)

Making student debt dischargeable via bankruptcy would eliminate student loans all together.
They offer KMS literally every region except China. No point in running a security/encryption service in China when they're just going to steal the keys.
I came in here to say... Duh?
Legal fictions that carry the force of law are very distinctly not legal drivel.

Children have rights, though those rights pretty much all have to be modulated through someone who is either their parent or acting as their parent.

Children can't march into court and demand justice when they are harmed, but you can 1) sue on behalf of a child, 2) take a child into the care of the state and 3) prosecute someone who harms the child. They're legal people, though all of their rights are contingent on other people acting within the legal system to enforce them.
99% perspiration, 1% inspiration, and the rest is ML.
Their excuse for the block was the new GST laws but they have removed that now so the US site can be used.

It seems that the relatively quiet launch and slow growth has been intentional. As long as Amazon maintains a decent level of investment here I think they will continue to grow and possibly eventually be dominant.

Only recently have they ramped up advertising and started putting their listings onto Google Shopping.
Hey my bad for obnoxious comments on my part, it's true that people overvalue IP sometimes in the West. Part of the reason for the reason for China's entrepreneurial success is the fact people borrow ideas from others to move faster.
I had a similar experience with a silly little content assist widget of all things. The company I was with had a very particular set of standards that made a lot of sense for the sort of work they did, but none of the features we wanted were standard in the common drop down libraries. After about a day and a half of trying to wrap my head around some of the hilariously complex content assist widgets, I had a conversation with a colleague that prompted me to write my own. Two hours later, I had it. And it was compact and simple enough that other developers were able to easily make modifications as our problem space evolved.

This is an eternal problem of software design, when do you borrow, and when do you implement your own. I don't know the answer but I think there are some factors that can lead you in the right direction.

Did you do your homework? Implementing your own tools should be the last resort not the first resort. It should be driven by frustration at the inadequacy of current tools, and not based on a whim to do something cool.

Of the examples tools you've found, how much customization is required to get them to do what you want? If a 3rd party library requires a lot of hacking to do what you want, it's a hint that those tools don't actually solve your problem and you're going to end up hand rolling what you really want anyways.

How much overhead do the other tools bring in? Sometimes you need to do one simple thing, but all the tools available have a lot of overhead. That's a hint that maybe you should do your own implementation

Have you talked to other people about this problem? A conversation with a capable colleague is usually the fastest way to get useful perspective on what exactly you're trying to do.

How well do you understand the problem space? No matter how much it may suck, if you don't know what you're doing, take the time to figure out how to use the tools instead of creating your own.

All of these factors must be balanced against each other. One of the most important things though is that if you do decide to hand roll a specific tool, don't keep it to yourself. Such pieces of code can be a little hairy sometimes and you need the feedback from others to ensure the code is clean, and to make sure they know what's going on.
Beats me. It could be a while before we see anything that can compete with conventional rideshare at scale.
Arguably, you can't destroy corporate personhood without doing a lot of damage to capitalism itself.

One problem that corporate personhood was meant to solve was that owning part of a business becomes a legally risky thing when the business isn't a separate person from its owners. Incorporation creates a legal firewall that, for example, allows me to own stock in Apple without having to fear that I will get personally sued if they do something wrong, or that someone will be able to go after my personal assets if they go bankrupt.

It also makes it easier for me to interact with the corporation in certain ways - for example, if I have a grievance against something Apple did, I can name a single, easy to identify entity in my lawsuit, rather than having to pursue a case against a whole slew of individuals. The latter would be a prohibitively difficult effort, since you'd have to figure out exactly which individual are responsible in order to name them in the lawsuit, and then deal with a whole bunch of additional litigation in order to allocate liability among all the people involved in whatever thing it is you're suing them about.

There is still a question of exactly what rights and responsibilities a corporate person should get. Many legal jurisdictions, including the United States, have historically been very liberal in granting natural rights to corporations, and there's plenty of room to argue that they've gone too far. But I don't think there's much room for arguing against the idea that at least some aspects of corporate personhood actually work out to the benefit of people who interact with corporations.
But the actual argument Dijkstra makes against goto applies to any use of goto (and would also apply to break and continue and to multiple returns).
Sort of seems even worse in that there is no built in way to propagate the error if you don't want to handle it. At least with Java you just added the exception to the throws declaration of your function if you didn't want to handle it. Here you have to do something about it or manually do something to propagate it? I think the failure of checked exceptions in Java to be a really interesting example to study for language designers, because on the surface, it seems like it was mostly a good idea. Yet in practice it was nearly universally disliked.
At the University of Nebraska they have an athletic director who used the same legal agreement from his past job to arrange a football game with the Zips.

The game was cancelled due to lighting. But the contract supposedly copy and pasted from his old job at a costal school only addressed "tropical storm, hurricane and flood."

It's amazing what people will or will not do when it comes to important legal matters.
Would you argue that slavery is valid since freedom from slavery and other human rights are human constructs?
Seems to me that relying too much on Machine Learning for this is actually the real risk, not LIDAR. Tesla's competitors are using ML, but combining it with sensor fused data from LIDAR, Radar, accurate maps, and visual data. In other words, they're starting from a view of the world with super-human sensing.

Starting from a purely visual domain likely dooms your system to making the same types of mistakes that humans make visually in judgement. At least with accurate maps and LIDAR as backup, you can sanity check output of your visual processing against a map and LIDAR. If your claim is that the map might be out of date, or the LIDAR too low rez, it still helps to err on the size of caution.

In the worst case, the map tells you you can't go somewhere that you're allowed to go. In the case where it says you are allowed to go somewhere were you shouldn't, well your visual system should be telling you not to go there. If it isn't, you're in a lot worse trouble than having a map with flaws.

Likewise, the claims that "LIDAR is expensive" is like claiming EVs are expensive because "batteries are expensive!" If AVs become common, then they'll be a huge demand for LIDAR and the costs will decline. LIDAR costs are already declining. Maybe if Elon took some of Tesla's miracle engineers and had them make a LIDAR, they could not only defeat Nvidia at chip making, but defeat all LIDAR makers as well. (sarcasm) My guess is the real problem with LIDAR is drag and vehicle trim/styling.

At this point, Tesla is basically stuck. They bet big early on a shitty sensor suite before AV technology had been worked out, and wave their hands about how using consumers as guinea pigs to feed them fleet data will magically fix deficiencies in sensors. Well, what if this is a false hope and it doesn't? It would mean they'd get sued by everyone who bought the AV suite as an option and have to issue refunds or recalls to upgrade.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you don't ship AV as an MVP on a $100k vehicle and promise magic upgrades and fixes later before the technology is even close. It's risking people's lives and it's already killed people.
Hard to say. SFH owners typically own the dirt beneath their house. A lot with the right to build a 3-story block of 3/2 flats might be worth considerably more than a lot with a single 3/2 SFH.
I watched the original and so far it's as close as it could come barring obvious cultural differences.
Seems to be much more of a US thing. As a European I'd use the category name for most of those.

Some of the category names don't even match up - adhesive tape is definitely not what comes to mind for Durex for me.
The simple answer is that we have over a thousand years of jurisprudence to answer that question. In some cases it's the next of kin; in some cases it's a state-appointed guardian.

But even with the benefit of all that law we still have many courtroom arguments over who gets to decide what is best for individuals who are only partially able to speak for themselves. When we move beyond natural persons and corporations, we have far less jurisprudence to rely upon and they can't express their desires at all, so it's harder on both counts.
You'd think if nothing else their PR department would've caught this. These headlines just write themselves.