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Do you not have any S&P index funds or anything like that? Because Tesla is included in a lot of mutual funds these days. Just wanted to point that out since this disclaimer seems unlikely unless you don’t have stocks at all, or only buy individual stocks.
How on earth are you seriously claiming that Tesla "doesn't run well"?

They've gone from nothing, to a major competitive auto manufacturer, in 10 years. Not only that, they've built out the service and infrastructure to support themselves as a major auto manufacturer, as a side project.

Seriously look at this map: https://www.tesla.com/findus?v=2&bounds=58.46119224394316%2C...

If this was tesla's only accomplishment, it would still be a major one.
If I had to imagine, they need HD maps everywhere and don’t consider their cars capable of level 4 in non-typical circumstances like heavy snow or thunderstorms. As Waymo is targeting the ride-sharing network, they probably need to work in any circumstance in case things happen during an existing ride (so that people don’t need to be dropped off on the side of a busy highway in bad weather).
What doesn’t make sense about it?

We were planning to get 18kW system installed on roof, but to get sign off from power grid we would need to upgrade our power lines at great expense (we are end of line rural), so I am wondering about using solar farm for additional capacity (when it’s available).

Interested in your thoughts.
Most high speed rail lines are just upgrades to existing lines.

We already have these rights of way settled. That is all the more reason that should not be abandoned.

It is typical to run minimal service to maintain the route, until service can be improved. China's passenger rail in rural areas looked downright dysfunctional 25 years ago, until it was upgraded, now it is the best in the world.

I think it is perfectly fine to run empty trains to the middle of nowhere.

NYC runs excessive service to neighborhoods that don't need it. There are four different lines to Coney Island that are nearly empty by the time they reach their destination, even during rush hour. They should not be abandoned though, because those neighborhoods have the capacity to grow. Neighborhoods that were lower traffic 20 years ago have only improved because of subway access, and are now reaching capacity limits. If we keep pruning parts of the network that are under-performing, we will be left with nothing.

I don't think that characterizing mass transit networks as unidirectional money sinks is correct. Cost goes in the other direction as well; if you invest more, then they expand and more people use them, and then they become more efficient to operate.

Eventually, populations align themselves around well developed public transit, but that can take decades. We just spent decades re-aligning the population around government subsidized highways and air travel, that's all.
Megacorp I work at does this. I think I've had around 1 phishing mail per month for the last year or so, and yes, just clicking the link is enough to fail.

It's particularly annoying where I work, as the company itself sends out a completely unreasonable amount of internal spam every.single.day - often with bad spelling/grammar, and very often with the contents being a single image with rendered text (why?!?!).
Right evtol also seems to be ramping up. For the individuals direct transport is always going to be preferable. The cost for evtol is much lower than for rail or highways, however currently they require pilots which is a stumbling block.
This is a good reason to keep off the social media as much as possible because anything can be doctored to go against you. Starting from the real name, anything you say and and opinion, photos of you, all can be used against you not only if they’re public but if the attacker can get into your private circle (eg, hack the accont of a person that is and vaccum up all info about you).
Which Tesla could do tomorrow if they wanted to.

Tesla FSD isn't Level 4/5 because they're skipping level 4, at least they're trying to. Honestly the level system is pretty stupid. The gap between 4 and 5 can be tiny or it can be huge, depending entirely on what you decide to constrain your vehicle to.
Yeah, I'm just not sure post brexit Britian will be the socialist people republic he expected...
It seems to be that closed captioning would be more useful. But I'm not a sign language reader.
This was a fascinating article. I haven't drummed in years, but it suddenly made me want to again. Thanks for sharing. Loved this!
An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator. Autopilots do not replace human operators. Instead, the autopilot assists the operator's control of the vehicle, allowing the operator to focus on broader aspects of operations (for example, monitoring the trajectory, weather and on-board systems)

Autopilots don't stop crashes, or change lanes. So Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot already does more than a standard Autopilot
I am a noob to Javascript, so if someone knows better, than please correct me about this, but arrow functions aren't meant to replace normal function syntax, right? From [1], it seems like the main point of arrow syntax is to allow you to inherit the "this" parameter if you are inside a method. Meanwhile, you need normal function syntax if you are creating a constructor, making a method function for a prototype, or making generator functions. (I didn't even know javascript had generator functions until just now :))

So it seems a bit weird to me that they advocate using arrow function syntax instead of the regular syntax. They seem to be advocating using the new class syntax instead, so I guess they don't need the constructor or method creation features of the normal syntax, but I still don't see why they would specifically advocate for arrow function syntax. Is it faster? They say it interferes with other features, but which features?

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
This is a really great point. The difference is between instinct and intelligence. But is the difference merely due to a greater amount of neurons between a spider and a chimp, or is there a fundamentally different architecture of those neurons that enables intelligence over instinct? Not coincidentally, the creatures we most often associate with intelligence happen to be mammals, who alone have a neo-cortex.
DOes your username mean you live in AZ? If you are in Phoenix, you actually can hail a waymo.
So it’s just a legacy file format that (as reflected in the article) has likely evolved from an internal object representation in the early days of macOS X (maybe earlier?).

Apple has been working on the tooling for the past several years. They improved the editor performance, created a new build system (llb), made a native dependency manager (swiftpm). For third-party tools they have released an LSP extension (hopefully they’ll end up using it internally in Xcode).
Nice work :-) I have a side project with the same goal. Some ideas:

- Once started, no way back? How about double-click?
- Background images would be nice, custom CSS?
- How about loading URL contents (e.g. from github)
- Auto agenda / TOC?
- Support for Math, Charts, Code?
- Export as single html?
- Localstorage history?
- Standardized GH repo layout `markshow` for listing, loading and showing all my presentations?

This is basically part of the feature list, I would like to implement for my personal tool.
I have about 100 movies I’ve bought through iTunes so this is a very pertinent lawsuit for me. And no, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to believe that I would have access to the movies forever.
WASM alredy got a killer app: being able to run any snippet of any language in a browser. For teaching programming, it's use, because projects like pyiodine can load a full python vm in a the browser and let the student experiment with the snippet without taking the risk of ruining my server.
As nice as expanded rail travel would be between cities, there are a lot of cities that are set up for cars and I was disappointed there doesn't seem to be much if any money in Biden's plan for creation and expansion of subway lines.

Even cities that have subway systems, they're in desperate need of new lines. Washington DC and Chicago spring to mind, since their systems could benefit greatly from simply adding an outer loop line. They both suffer from many lines where you have to go into the center to get back out again. The dream for the silver line was to connect the spokes in DC but I know of no real projects in Chicago. It would be a dream to have a map like this in Chicago[1]

I'm glad that Musk's proposed line was chased out the state. The Blue line needed expansion to allow for express lines to the airport, importantly with a few stops in between like a better planned purple line. Chicago did NOT need a 20 dollar a trip vanity project train that only went from O'Hare to the loop so that tourists and the wealthy could have a convenient private line to avoid all the poors. [2]

[1] http://www.gapersblock.com/detour/a_cta_map_for_2055/

[2] https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-biz-chicago-...
The problem is less the limits on itself, but more that they might be reached "surprisingly".

E.g. sudden dust storm on the highway in Germany where dust and/or sand storms on itself are a rarity (also this is something humans are bad at coping with themself, as given example caused a accident with multiple dead people).

Less unusual but still realistic example: Sudden extreme heavy rain (I had that once, the car I was driving in was old needed new windows and I wasn't able to see anything at all. The only reason I didn't cause a crash is because I knew the road I was driving on very very well). Or sudden fog.

Humans just tend to be better at handling such potential fatal unexpected situations, e.g. because they have a good memory of the road and contextual thinking in ways which are hard to explicitly train a robot in.

So they kinda need to find ways to still handle things well in such situations and "just stopping" isn't an option as this might endanger people around you (and yourself).
Everyone who develops a tool did it because they thought their tool would be great, and do exactly what they needed better than everything else that existed previously.

Everyone has slightly different needs, so that is exactly what creates the complexity disaster you are talking about. I think that being more willing to re-use the existing work of past developers actually works to reduce this problem.
Thank you for sharing this.

Go and flutter are a match made in heaven. I’m still not sure if I prefer to spin up a server and talk via http/grpc or just use bindings through ffi.

This is my goto project for go binding examples https://github.com/jerson/openpgp-mobile

There is also a sister repo that contains the flutter part that should be linked in the readme.

There is a very interesting lite ipfs go project with dart bindings by I think the berty team but I can’t seem to find a link atm.
I guess I picked a bad example in that, to my surprise, there is a direct train for that route--although it still takes about a day and a half. But I could certainly pick a lot of city pairs in Europe that are 1-2K miles apart that would be anything but efficient to travel by rail.
A car is a deadly weapon. There are great ways to prevent being 'dragged out and beaten' like for example locking your doors and gently pushing through a crowd slowly should you find yourself, somehow agenda-less, surrounded by protesters. It's a straw-man scenario anyway. These rare incidents are set against the statistics of many injuries and deaths from cars running over innocent people. A car is an incredibly deadly weapon, capable of killing or maiming people as fast as a semi-automatic rifle. Anybody who runs their car over somebody should be prosecuted and liable to be sued penniless, because the immense responsibility of operating a deadly machine lies with them and nobody else.
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They have the hardware, software is what they're waiting for
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I said for less than 100 miles of travel.
That’s a fair question about proportionality.

I don’t have any special insight into the kernel team, but I think the response is as much about making an example of the university as it is about removing any plausibly contaminated commits, in which case it makes sense to be somewhat extreme.

Others are saying the entire research team should be fired.

It’s interesting that the former (reverting the commits) is something the kernel devs can do to publish the university, while the latter (firing researchers) is something the university can do to punish the researchers.

Who messed up? The researchers or the university who approved their research?

Probably enough blame to go around.
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Flying used to be like this. I'm from Long Island and I went to college in the Boston area. I remember you could buy a book of delta shuttle tickets (~$100 / fight, book of 5) and show up and use them whenever you'd like, last minute, with no security hassle or whatever. You could also use the same tickets to go to DC if you wanted. Just stay on the plane for the next leg.
Can we please, please stop with the whole "Autopilot is so misleading thing". Tesla's Autopilot is more sophisticated and feature-rich than any other autopilot (i.e. in an airplane) that you've ever experienced.
Correction: They say they have the hardware just like they said they had the software...
Except in the terms you initially agreed to, you also agreed to let them change the terms at their discretion.

(To be clear, I think that's BS, but that's how this happens).
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They are, ironically, professional slanderers.
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But we all knew they lied.
Same.

I completely overbuilt a recent side project and ended up scraping the whole thing because it wastes too much time to maintain it. As much as I love building new projects, having children at home reminds me that time is my only true resource and it's better spent with the kiddos (at least at this stage of my life).
Bari Weiss's resignation letter from the NYT is probably the best place to start https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

Matt Taibbi has a good article on this too https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-i...

Glenn Greenwald talks about this on his Substack a lot, too, and the malpractice of the larger media as a whole. This recent and highly topical Twitter thread is one of many examples.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/138376788266898...
> You have to deliver regardless of the hype, and frankly, Tsla hasn’t.

Based on what exactly? They have fast growing revenue and growing operation income, good margin, huge new investments and an exiting product product pipeline with 100000s of per-orders.

What exactly outside of getting FSD to Level 5 have they failed to do?

> Elon’s gamesmanship to maintain access to capital so he can lengthen the runaway is a tactic, but again, you have to deliver and this can only go on for so long.

They have 20+ billion of cash and the have lots of free cash flow as well.

Your statement seems totally divorced from reality of the balance sheet.
> I don't get the point of all those cross-country routes, isn't air travel both faster and cheaper once you are going long distance?

It's also an absolute atrocity in the face of climate change.

And it's long overdue that fact is reflected in the ticket price, imo.
Agree with all.

My open question wrt to squatting is the potential to incentivize keeping real estate in active use. If "use it or lose it" is official policy, it might help mitigate hoarding.

A bit like some cities are now penalizing unoccupied condos, where investors buy up condos and then don't even rent them out.
Wait till they get to Spain and someone declares them to be their pets
Because all they care about is the stock price ie money.
Maybe. When driving in snow there are other considerations besides following the lanes buried somewhere beneath the snow.

Like "has this lane been plowed" ? And "has the plow actually followed the lane or gone in the middle of the lanes" .
>> Apple countered by arguing that “no reasonable consumer would believe” that content purchased through iTunes would be available on the platform indefinitely.

I guess I will soon start a site about the amount of crap and hypocrisy modern Apple are saying. I dont know exactly what happened but post Steve Jobs Apple are getting ridiculous with their defence.
To create believe is basically the goal of every marketing campaign of any kind. Thats expected and reasonable.
There are lots of reasons it can be. Here's an example: in many languages, concatenation requires reallocation to generate a new string object. This is especially the case where strings are immutable. That can get expensive quickly as you're producing lots of garbage for little benefit, and each concatenation requires progressively larger and larger reallocations. You end up seeing quadratic runtime costs in terms of both memory and speed. There are a few different approaches taken to this. In Python, the popular option is to append everything to a list, and use `''.join(lst)` at the end to concatenate everything. Java and C#, on the other hand, have StringBuffer/StringBuilder types to accomplish something similar.

Generally, you want to avoid simple string concatenation in loops because of this, and it's not always obvious when string concatenation is being done in a loop, such as where the string concatenation is being done in a method that's being called by some other code.
What others can deliver totally irrelevant. Can I sell my drug as cancer curing (even if in clinical trail it didn’t show much success) just because there’s no other cancer curing drug?
This is how I feel about the Steve Jobs and Jony Ive dynamic. The two of them together was a great match, but when Jobs died Ive was left to his own devices and kinda just ran with his own worst impulses ("make everything as thin as humanly possible", etc).
A requirement for my next car is also having a "traffic jam" mode. Lots of adaptive cruise control systems only work over a certain speed.

I live in a traffic jam prone area, and being able to not worry about stop and go traffic takes all the stress out of driving.
I suspect I know what you are implying.

However there is a difference forcing a company to do additional business in the future or forcing them to not unilaterally keep the money for "purchases" made in the past.

Fully refunding customers (+interest) and/or explaining the decision to suspend the account in detail (perhaps even allowing consumers to correct potential problems) is not burdening Apple beyond reason.

No one here seems to argue that they must allow the plaintiff to continue shopping in iTunes.
It might have been a live event, but captions would be better, indeed.

The speaker is also too fast for her to catch up, and she has to drop a lot of things.

On a side note, the speaker spends a while just reading what’s on the slides, that, with too much text on the slides, is not great.
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You can't call a level 2 system a "beta" of a level 5 system any more than you can call khtml a beta of Chrome.
Or you can reject and loose all your "bought" Goods.
Yes, String was an oversimplification, String means I either own or copy it, both things I usually don't want to do, so I end up - as you've said - with &str.
How about pick one of his other bullshit things he said and apply that to his general level of bullshit that he's always ready to say.

He's popular because people buy into his bullshit 100% instead of having a measured approach to a guy whose reeeeally into self promotion.
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It's not how the public perceives it.
We're using traffic sign and zebra crossing detection as a Turing test. Machine translations in the Play store read as if they were done by 5 year olds. When you buy a garage door, the recommendation algorithm of the most advanced company in the world suggests you garage doors for the next 2 years.

"Autonomous driving is right around the corner" my ass.
While this is certainly true for falcon 9 I wonder if Shotwell is deliberately letting Elon go unrestrained on Starship. Maybe SpaceX winning the Artemis contract changes things but until now Starship was an area where they were free to make whatever claims they want and to fail as much as they like. Elon the hype man could run wild.
https://twitter.com/dakami/status/1171643896750755840 - he was diabetic, not that it was a cause but it is a complication in covid.
It's such trash. For my personal projects, XcodeGen is a lifesaver.

How Apple thinks that a single god file is a good idea is crazy to me. No other build tool needs this.

https://github.com/yonaskolb/XcodeGen
>We aren't going to see a cultural shift in timescales shorter than a decade.

Why not? We already did. 2000 was still in the era of "never give out accurate personal information online." 2005 was fully in the MySpace/Facebook social media era.
It doesn’t seem at all guaranteed that Tesla can ever achieve Level 5 autonomy, in any timeline, using the hardware deployed into Tesla vehicles today which were sold with “Full Self Driving” (FSD) as the $$$ expensive upgrade option.

I doled out ~$5000 for FSD on a Model 3 Performance bought 2018 which has now had a new computer fitted (at no cost to me) and always considered FSD pretty much a “bet”, which is not IMHO a complete loss since the HW3 upgrade got me more Level 2 features on a 2018 MY vehicle, something which is quite unprecedented in the auto industry.

I suspect Elon may be wrong about LIDAR and for any manufacturer to get to Level 5, it may be required and cannot be replaced entirely by cameras and computer vision. Since it is not present on any Tesla today and cannot be sanely retrofitted, barring what feels like a miracle to me, the “Defects per Million Miles” (e.g. disengagements, and accidents leading to property damage or non-fatal injury) and the “Fatalities per Million Miles” (where one was enough to tank others Autonomous Driving programs) will probably continue too high for public and regulatory acceptance that Tesla has attained Level 5 autonomy with their current vehicles and their current hardware.
The "levels" beyond 2 are do not add any new driving features, but rather shift the legal responsibility increasingly to the manufacturer.

So Tesla has a choice of no unprotected left turns, HD mapped area only or go full in. And they are choosing the full in route which is very Elon's style. And allow them to roll out beta quality features quickly and iterate.

I agree it's a PR nightmare right now. I hope they will eventually recertify the current cars as L3+, but for the regular user that will only mean they can now officially take eyes off the road and only look when it beeps.
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Level 4 doesn't actually include the long-tail though, that's Level 5. It's really a terrible benchmark system. Tesla could be level 4 tomorrow if they said (like Waymo) "we're gonna enable FSD only in the greater Phoenix area", where the roads are well-maintained, they could map them all out, etc.

The issue here is that Tesla actually wants a generalized system that will work anywhere a human driver can drive, and does not seem interested in geofencing at all until they've reached that (level 5) point.
This "apology" sounds like social engineering to me. Like they only sent it so they can continue their "research" about how easily they can manipulate the humans reviewing patches for the Linux kernel.