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> We will eventually update markings and beacons on the roads to make it easier for the cars, implement networks in which the cars can talk to each other, and make special lanes for self-driving cars only, among other improvements that will make it easier for the cars.

I feel like the correct way to describe this future isn't "self-driving cars", but rather "personal autonomous trains." In est, the road system described here would just be a rather clumsy railroad network.

I interpret the goal of having "self-driving cars" as referring to the ability to have a passenger vehicles that can autonomously navigate (wayfind?) off-road, i.e. what the aim of the DARPA Grand Challenge would eventually evolve into.
Correct, it is an encoding to represent SubManifold spaces used in the multi-linear Grassmann algebra. It might seem strange on its own, but the advantage it provides in Grassmann.jl is specialized automatic pre-compilation for differential geometric algebras based on a vector bundle manifold. For example, see https://grassmann.crucialflow.com
The primary deployment potential for self-driving cars is long haul freight, which could be done exclusively via the interstate system.

If we're going to beacon up a road, they easily make the most sense.
Legacy admissions for nonprofit institutions are a scam on the public.

If a university wants to keep legacy admissions, fine, that’s their right. But no more tax exemption for their revenues, property or endowments. (And no more, I’d argue, publicly-subsidised loans for its coffers.)

Same for “institutional advancement,” i.e. granting the progeny of the rich seats in exchange for patronage.
> rare mosquitos

almost.. its bats :D welcome to germany elon

https://www.businessinsider.de/international/tesla-gigafacto...
Thank you so much for putting in this work . Helped me a lot .
It's my belief that self driving cars will, for a very significant time in the future, still need to make human control possible. Think about the vast amounts of rural roads -- dirt, gravel. Anyone who's ever taken a 4x4 out to a trailhead in the desert knows that sometimes those roads don't even exist except on a map. Washouts can be a weekly problem in certain seasons. But you don't start in the desert, right? You have to take highways at a minimum, and quite likely national interstates as well, to get to the desert roads.

Think about attending a festival or fair with grass parking. You follow a line of cars, pull up to a guy who's standing out in the field. He looks around and says, "Why don't you go park next to that red Toyota two rows over?" Sure, that part is not "on the road," but certainly I had to take highways to get there.

Maybe I, as an urban-dwelling American, only need functionality like this a few times per year. But there are significant chunks of this country and the world in general where this is part of daily life. Adopting fully self-driving cars without manual driving modes is going to take extreme amounts of change and adaptation, not only technologically but also culturally. I would recommend spending a few weeks in the deep country if you want to fully understand some of the difficulties in reaching level 5.

If the time scale you're talking about is on the order of 50 years, I could maybe see it. But I do think there will always be a need for personal vehicles with some level of manual control.

Beyond all that, however, this article to me seems like 90% clickbait. The statement merely was "Maybe it will never happen," and it was stated in the context of a discussion of the difficulty in reaching level 5 autonomy. But now we have articles throwing headlines up saying "VW Exec admits fully self driving cars may NEVER happen." Feels a little disingenuous.
I don't think it's just about tariffs, BMW and MB have been exporting cars from Germany to US for a LONG time, if the tariffs are reciprocated I am sure it's not that a big deal to just pay them.

I think it's more about Tesla wanting to capture German manufacturing know how and skilled auto labor to improve Tesla's products.
If there is one thing we can be sure of, looking at the past couple decades of wireless tech, it's that there will be a profusion of mutually incompatible standards, each spanning multiple HW generations. It may not experience the same physical wear, but it will be an expensive maintenance issue nonetheless.
How much do pilots actually pilot vs how much do they just assume responsibility? I.e. I as a passenger feel much safer knowing that there's someone actually responsible to prevent me from dying (because if the plane crashes, the pilot dies with me), not just some C_O suits pushing PR through legal trying to gaslight the public and avoid any culpability (cough Boeing cough).
A potential way to solve this is randomness. Instead of every customer paying $3 per month, every customer has a 10% chance of paying $30 per month.
That sounds horrendous, honestly.
Yep. Intercity traffic is a problem we solved in the 1800s.
One question I never found an answer for was what AlphaGo thought komi should be. Since Black goes first, it has an advantage of x stones. But if Black is given a handicap of 2 stones (placed on the board before play), white then goes first.

Since AlphaGo plays itself, it could have been set to play itself with a handicap, such that the win rate was 50%. I want to know what that handicap would have been, because wouldn't that indicate a pretty accurate measurement of what komi should be?
The government's endgame for restricting individual liberties and privacy as much as possible would be only allowing self driving cars. As a result, I regretfully agree that this is inevitable and wholly depressing.
I'm not sure that's true. There are rules about explicit quid-pro-quos, and although they're not entirely banned (if you donate $250 for a concert ticket worth $50 you can deduct the $200) there are rules that clearly aren't being followed in this case. But tax law doesn't (and probably couldn't) attempt to restrict vague returns like "the recipient sees you and your family in a more favorable light".
Absolutely- I am about 30,000 words into a book on Software Literacy and it's good to hear I am not the only fool thinking along these lines :-)

Edit ... not that you are a fool :-)
And why do these things need support? If you build them with open standards and protocols they will continue to work until they break, no support required
You may not be getting in that car, but I certainly will.

After all, every driver on the road today is an incomprehensible black box where not only do we not know the parameters, we don't even know the function they're parameterizing. Every instance functions differently, and our testing procedures have woefully low coverage.
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Hopefully, the admissions office requires you to furnish your tribal ID or paper showing you are an enrolled member. There are plenty of articles showing blood tests are inaccurate and basically showing ignorance of the whole issue.
> Consider the Osborne effect.

Agree completely. It would be suicidal (in a business sense) to say that Level 5 was right around the corner right when you're on the verge of rolling out Level 4.
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There are other actors on the road, namely pedestrians and cyclists. Unless we're going to remove the right of citizens to the street at all, they will be present and will need to be accommodated for.
> We will eventually update markings and beacons on the roads to make it easier for the cars.

Or even easier, platooning. I don't understand why autonomous cars is a bigger thing than platooning. I mean, platooning solves 95% of use cases of self driving cars [1] and is orders of magnitude easier problem to solve.

[1] At least for me. I do not mind driving in the cities myself, but if I just could nap or watch a movie on the highway part, that would have some utility
You're missing the point.

Drivers own the liability for illegal parking. Autonomous cars would make the developer liable.

No government is going to tolerate systemic and wide spread violation of the law.
This is no longer a violation of the merchant agreement. The card brands used to ban minimums, but now merchants are allowed to require a minimum payment for credit. Too many cash-based businesses who just would not bother with a credit card machine at all if they weren't allowed to stay cash-only for small transactions, and the card brands want to be in as many storefronts as possible.
Local streets will always have pedestrians and cyclists. The main limit on road capacity is generally where highways interface with the local network, and the local network itself.
I'm not much of a chemist, but I don't think bombs are particularly easy to build. I do a bit of metal plate etching, and I've found multiple times that useful chemicals (specifically nitric acid and hydrogen peroxide) are pretty tricky to get hold of, because assholes use them to make bombs.

I had a friend who was making black powder as a schoolkid, and he actually had the police turning up at his house to ask questions about his purchasing history - which is a small sample, but it fits with the basic intuition about how you'd stop people from building bombs: make non-household bomb-making stuff impossible to get hold as a private individual, then just monitor people that make weird purchases of the chemicals that remain.
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You cant have other people on the road then. If I was a protestor or bored teen, I would find it pretty fun to block self driving cars' cameras and sensors, stranding them and creating chaos. Imagine a line of self driving cars just blocking a busy street. It wouldn't be hard to do, but it would take a lot of work to recover them to the point it wouldnt be profitable for the companies running them.
Aside: if you ever notice a teeny tiny panel that has a dimple or hole to open it with by the shifter, that's the release for the interlock that prevents changing gears without the keys. That's how you get in neutral when the owner isn't present.
A car that has "self" is equiv to a living being, and it wouldn't be ethical to lock it inside a box. It's not going to happen any time soon and it will never happen with conventional binary computing; a non-wetware system capiable of emulating a mouse would melt itself through the road.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22061718

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21250424
because unless the driver is a raging asshole usually the person behind while you are going 80 has more stopping distance than 5 fucking feet.
> "they'll probably share"

The people who are driving, or at least a significant portion of them, pick driving over public transport because of perceived privacy and control.

I don't think uptake of shared mobility is going to be so popular where that becomes the norm.
Computers have costs associated with running them. electricity, infrastructure for them to run. The cost is not zero.
Think about Uber cars today. Their entire value proposition centres around them breaking parking laws in order to pick you up.

I take Uber and Lyft in NYC multiple times per week. No one ever “parks”, they just pull up, you jump in, and off you go. Takes less than a minute in most cases, doesn’t block traffic, and I suspect it virtually never results in a ticket. Maybe if they sit there for 10 minutes or more, but that’s exceedingly rare. And even then, they’re not going to get a ticket outside a few ultra-congested areas of manhattan that make up a tiny fraction of this city. Even in most places in manhattan, you could sit in a running car in a no parking zone for hours without getting a ticket. I had a moving truck up on the curb on the Upper West Side in a no parking zone for hours and the NYPD rolled past several times without a glance.

Also, this is exactly how taxis all work too, btw, which seems to undermine your entire point.
That makes a lot of sense. Tempted to try this out now. If people would just stop coming up with all those really interesting projects, that'd be great. At some point I should probably get some actual work done...
> Why bother w manufacturing in the EU?

1. Have you ever heard of the trade war?
2. Intercontinental transport will become more expensive.
3. Geo-redundancy means safety for mega corporations.
4. China may decide those are now state owned factories.
Those two aren't mutually exclusive, and attempting to frame it in this manner is disingenuous.

The ability to book a place to stay is regulated by hospitality law to prevent exactly this type of discrimination by AirBnB against Cadence Lux's non-work related usage of AirBnB.
The EU should be working in something like that. It's called TIPS iirc.

Edit: yup, tips: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/target/tips/html/index.en.htm...
The problem is that in many cases, many people want to get off at the same freeway exits, and the local network doesn't have the road capacity to match.

AI doesn't really have the power to change that, and might actually be worse depending on how it reacts to pedestrians and cyclists.
I have a friend who a mechanical engineering professor doing robotic research. He says that one of the reasons that robotics has not advanced more is because it has primarily been the domain of computer scientists who don’t operate in the real world. Every robot works great in a simulation. Same could be said for cars.
Last week I wrote about how Roam Research does Zettelkasten [1]

[1] https://medium.com/bloated-mvp/roam-research-mvp-review-page...
You can open the developer tools in your browser to see what cookies are set. My guess is that this could be something remembering settings but it's most likely saying that the Google Ads will be more targeted to things you want.
I would say your primary strength right now is that you're clearly skilled in developing an aesthetically pleasing front end experience, something that EPIC and other major vendors don't do well (there's an entire PhD thesis to this, but the tldr is that the vendors primary 'selling point' is to help increase revenue from reimbursements).

The biggest opportunity area imho are clinical 'apps' using interoperability standards (HL7/FHIR). While EPIC and CERNER have a lot of functionality, they don't cover everything (like certain clinical calculators/ better visual representations of data). There are certainly unmet clinical needs from these apps, and if you're willing to put in the effort to do more background research, I'm certain you can find some of these unmet needs. It's admittedly a very different strategy that you're currently pitching, but I think it's where there is significant growth for

For further references that are useful:
[1]. https://www.wired.com/2015/04/the-overdose-harm-in-a-wired-h...
[2]. https://apporchard.epic.com/
[3]. https://healthtechmagazine.net/article/2018/10/everything-yo...
[4]. https://apps.smarthealthit.org/
That does happen. Ruby 2.7 was going to remove something called the swip-swap operator (or similar), which was thought to be essentially unused.

That plan was shelved after a search of GitHub turned a few examples of usage in the wild.
Except if you are living in Japan.
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How is this not a massive copyright violation? When I upload a photo to, say, Instagram, I know I’m granting them a perpetual license to do basically anything with my photo, but scrapers don’t inherit those rights.
"some time in the future"...

... while Musk promises "you'll be able to self-drive, coast to coast, this year" (haha, no).
Those who think FSD can be solved by building special road infrastructure for self driving cars misunderstand the problem.

Cars are already equipped with suites of sensors giving them far more complete information than any human can process. Cars can already react faster and hold lanes with more precision than humans can.

What’s lacking is general intelligence. The ability to creatively respond to unexpected situations, even when it’s something you’ve never seen before.
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Sure it is, bro.
Does knowing some obscure nmap flag really make you a good baseline candidate? Aptitude tests are hard, but CRT was silly things like ‘what normally runs on port 1433’. I don’t care. I have 2 devices that can google on my person at anytime when the question is relevant. I’d prefer to see MCS*, OSCP, OSCE, hell even pentesterlabs stuff. Anything that runs at or near actual cost of development.

I also don’t take financial reports as gospel. I’m no finance guru but assume it’s possible / easy to hide money, or it gets reinvested into marketing the notion that crest actually matters, the former at which doesn’t make the thing a giant scam at least.
I feel like the readme could do with a better introduction. At the moment it seems like weird mix of mathematically technical definitions, code examples (I guess related to api specifics), and some random Julia type-system/size-limit technicalities thrown in too.

But that said, I don’t think I know anything about this sort of geometry or algebra so maybe instead I should want a paragraph telling me to give up.

Also is V"++++" the same as S"++++" (or rather, is V the same as S?), this looked like maybe the notation just changed? But like I say, I couldn’t really follow the readme so I’m likely wrong here.
Also frugal habits learned from agonizing over $100 and $10,000 spending sometimes trickle down to those $2 decisions. It becomes an instinct even if it doesn't make sense.
So just make it an annual-only plan. Companies that charge subscriptions vastly prefer annual payments to monthly payments, anyway. It's not just the per-transaction percentage that credit card processors take. Cards get declined (expire, etc), and 1/12th the number of charges means 1/12th the number of potential issues.

That's why they offer such great discounts for annual billing. DropBox's cheap plan is $10/month when paid annually, but $12/month if you pay monthly, for example.
That's never going to happen unless you truly change human nature. We are tribal and protect our families. Nepotism is a family member making life better for other members of the family. I'm not sure we will still be a society if we eliminate family bonds.
I don't understand why they want to make them fully autonomous. Even human drivers must stay inside the lanes. Why can't they make a semi-autonomous car that operates automatically with some sort of electronic lane marker, and have drive by wire with a human driver for off-road?
Sounds like you described a really complicated train system.
I am more fearful of trolls, tricking the technology. I doubt, that the software / hardware will have a common sense, like we humans have. Its this common sense that keeps us alive in unexpected scenarios, like when the paint on the road is missing.
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You do have a point.

Basically it's making up stuff to believe in, rather than believing in "nothingness" (which is not just "nothing").

As Landmark says, "We are meaning making machines." So it's very hard to stay centered on nothingness. And that's what TFA alludes:

> as nihilism is all about hiding from despair

So with existentialism, you're just manipulating yourself. But that's arguably better than being manipulated by others, your culture, authoritarian structures, and so on.

Another perspective is that it's all games. But that we're prone to forgetting that, and thinking that it means something else.
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I think legacy admissions are a good thing for the organization and the other students who go there. People in the US have a close attachment to their university, they would like their children to go there and they donate a lot of money.

Take away legacy admissions and you just get people who want to go there for the reputation and endowment. The endowment quickly fades because people are less likely to donate, and when your reputation slips suddenly your students dry up and there is no loyal customer base of families who are committed.

Legacy admissions are a great way to generate loyal customer base. Top schools would be crazy to give this up.
Would it be possible to build a floating (or submerged) factory in the ocean? Far enough from shore but linked to a coastal city via a "boring company" tunnel. And thus be outside of any political jurisdiction.
Could be, i know some girls that keep drawrs tho, but it may very well be a case of over applying spaced rep.
It's more likely that the device sends a heartbeat every minute or so, either for notifications or just for this "device is offline" feature.
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"I tried to explain once that the "zero emission" label on the Nissan Leaf is misleading because building a car makes emissions."

I don't know why anyone would ever think the "zero emissions" label applies to the manufacture of the car. *obviously" it only means the car doesn't emit anything when moving, that's what it's about.
It’s hardly a marginal improvement. If FSD were to become a reality, it would offer incredible benefits to economic productivity, safety, and quality of life.
The only question is whether the value is > 0. If so, then Clearview are vulnerable to legal challenge.

The final step of identifying people involves actual individual photos, and these photos are displayed to the police officer. It is not just the aggregate.
I would say this does solve the problem. If you have enough money for your vote to matter, then you can just own all the stocks in an index yourself and get to vote. This is now even more practical as trade costs have recently been cut to zero for all major brokerages.

The average index fund owner is also not likely be spending time looking over the voting possibilities of 500 companies and aligning votes to decrease competition between them, even if that was possible. They just wouldn't vote on issues. The problem is that three funds can decided to vote on policies that reduce competition between companies and that they are big enough for the votes to matter.

Transferring votes to the underlying owners of the fund would in reality likely just cause those votes not to be cast. It is similar to just saying that the funds can't vote, but doesn't disenfranchise people who really want to vote and still gives all those shares the index funds own possible power.
all fun and games until some jack-ass spoofs the GPS and moves a road 20 feet to the left.

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/drone-hijacking/
Everything you need at least once week while driving in a car should be doable without taking your eyes from the road for more than a second. Radio, AC, window heating and such fall under this category.
And you have exactly the same amount of buttons on a screen anyway, they're just not physical.