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The obvious future is that robotaxi network will be operated by the company that makes the software, not individuals.

Be it Tesla or Waymo or GM.

So unless you can develop your own FSD software and build millions of cars cheaply, you won't be competing with a robotaxi network.

And they won't be selling you robotaxi software at any price.

And if someone does develop FSD software and sells it to individuals, there's still the issue of competing with a network. You won't compete with Uber even if you build similar iPhone and Android apps. The size of the network matters.

There might (or might not) be a transitory period when this software is sold to individuals and there's a rev share agreement.

Musk mused about such scheme but he also hinted that this is not going to last forever.

This is simply a financing and cash flow decision of the CFO.

If Tesla goes unprofitable and cash flow negative, the wall street might loose their minds even if this money is simply an investment into robotaxis that might return 10x in the future.

A simple way to fund robotaxi network without going negative cash flow is the sell the car and the software for, say $20k, and then do 30-70% revshare on the $100k of profit (i.e. $30k for Tesla, 70k to car owner, which would end up with 50k profit to Tesla and 50k profit to the owner while keeping Tesla profitable on a quarterly basis).

But eventually Tesla will want all of the $100k profit and will be making more than enough to pay for the cars upfront.

At such time they'll stop selling FSD and cars altogether and go exclusively robotaxi.

The logic doesn't change for GM or Waymo.
“Give us lots of money or you will lose your business” is basically they argument. It obviously works in some cases but I seriously suspect most advertising money is wasted.
This reminds me of the paradox of tolerance.
He was referring to a common myth that 22LR will "bounce around" inside the body without exciting, and thereby cause more lethal damage than other calibers.

I've read this theory many, many times on gun forums and comment sections.
what can you do to look like "top" talent?
Don't think of it as a less powerful class, think of it as a more powerful enum. At least that's how it's meant to be used. It's a good feature in other languages, and like you said, "final" already exists, so you're no worse off on that front.
> I don't believe any entirely locked down firmware ever made it into any x86 board.

There are some Android x86 devices that won't boot unsigned firmware and won't let you change the signing keys. But I've only seen that in non-BIOS, non-UEFI devices.
Whatever link I click on asks me to select a google account to read it, which I won't.

But isnt this just a sign of thorough documentation? I see this article and another one downstream and both make it seem like a bad thing they python has a lot of documentation. How does this compare to java or c++ etc? I work daily in python and I don't consider it to have a particularly steep learning curve or lots of stuff that you need to keep in mind to work with it - I actually think this is one of its features. But it also has a lot of layers of depth you can get into, even for relatively mundane stuff - think about context managers or pathlib or a thousand other things how deep you could go if you need to. I think that's a good think and it doesnt make it a complicated language
The decision is so (apparently) obviously wrong that I'd really like to know what the decision process was.

My first guess is that it involved some kind of architectural peculiarity of the PDP11.
Society writ large, usually.
Some lenovos are still fairly upgradeable, such as the thinkbook 16p
People say the same kind of thing about all of the others. "Traditional herbal medicine does help some people." isn't a good argument if it doesn't help most people and is downright harmful in a significant fraction of the cases.
Look you are arguing about the parameters, so I guess you acknowledge there is a trade off. Maybe in one city it's 2 miles you are willing to walk. Maybe in another, only 1 mile, or 4 miles. Point being, there is a reason people don't walk everywhere, which is that there is a space/time trade off. Once you understand this trade off, you'll also understand why we give more room to cars than to pedestrians, and why people walk short distances but not long distances.

And I haven't even begun to model all the positive externalities of vehicles -- everything from letting trucks filled with goods stock your "local" coffeeshop, and workers to drive to that coffeeshop. And when the plumbing gets backed up or the ice-machine needs repair, someone will drive to that coffee shop -- right by your house -- and fix it, all so you can have a walkable neighborhood in which you can sip coffee and complain about cars. And there are other positive externalities including more price competition and thus cheaper goods, reduction in geographic monopolies, increases in homeownership rates, etc.

I say this as someone who doesn't even own a car, but I recognize that I am extremely privileged to be able to work from anywhere and live in an expensive urban center where everyone spends long hours in their cars driving to me and catering to my needs, from delivering my groceries and packages to driving from the burbs to my neighborhood to cook me dinner. I am at the top of a huge pyramid reliant on vehicles -- and I know it. I'm not going to say "Let them eat cake".

A good life-tip is that if you ever come up with some model of society that makes everyone look like they are doing something irrational, then odds are that your model is wrong, not that society is wrong. It can happen that you really are smarter than the system and that you've predicted all the important long term consequences of your proposals and correctly weighed them -- but it almost never does. And not for something as obvious as sidewalks being able to hold more people than cars per square foot.

We need far fewer would-be social optimizers, and far more humility in these discussions, as our world is flooded with bad models and bad ideas.
TIL UX designers are behavioural economists
The Design of the Connection Machine (1994)
Opaque boxes have been issues before, when they end up being "semi-transparent" and you can up the brightness to beat them.

Safest is probably just to cut/crop the sensitive bits out.
The houses are close together "village-style". There's a part early on in the video where the lady compares the previous owners plans for building traditional suburbs to their own setup and how it differs.

Each "neighborhood" is a tightly packed cluster of houses with pedestrian-only paths and 90% of the total land is not built on. Each neighborhood was said to be 5 acres, so x3 = 15 acres residential while 10% is 17.5 (so maybe the farm structures? Or maybe they're in the 90%, I'm unsure)

The point is, the homes don't each have their own 1/2 acre plot with 1/4 acre border. The homes are all within 15 acres. The rest is farms or left unbuilt.
Looks hella fun! Imagine the noise though, you'll get tinnitus riding that thing all day.
I feel like when currencies are abandoned there's a de-facto hyperinflation involved in the old currency if looked at from the exchange rates involved. Perhaps there's been examples of currency replacement in the past that have been driven by non-economic factors?
Here's probably the answer: https://opus-codec.org/docs/opus_api-1.2/group__opus__decode...

"Lost packets can be replaced with loss concealment by calling the decoder with a null pointer and zero length for the missing packet."
What I learned is that once a library is in the stdlib, it's usually stuck being maintained for a long time. And then you've got all these libraries that see no use because they were ill-conceived or better ideas came along.

I don't think stdlibs should be barren, but I completely get the ideas of languages like Rust that want to include only the most obvious of candidates and leave the rest for the community to organically evolve.
https://prospect.org/economy/usps-begins-postal-banking-pilo...
It seems we’ve gone back to where we started. I said I didn’t see how my car would be worth $100k with complete FSD, you gave an equation claiming it would be, and now we’ve looped to you agreeing that it won’t be?
Why should the burden be on common people ? It’s the government and policy makers job to enforce the law and make appropriate policies and legislation. Common people pay taxes (a lot of it) for them to do their job. Why do commoners have to wade into politics and then get exploited by the politicians to fight brother against brothers?
It’s sales testing. I don’t think “we test our products for safety on unsuspecting canary consumers” would pitch better than “we sell anything that’s legal” even if the math would back up the former as being possibly better.
India has a shortage of fresh water?
Be careful what you ask for though. Cops are given a lot of discretion about whether to make an arrest, issue a citation, or a warning, or none of the above.

If you start demanding that they never "break the rules" it could have outcomes you didn't want.
My gripe with C++ is that you need to know so many things to build even the most basic abstractions. When writing a custom data structure you always end up with having headaches about the specifics of std::iterators and rvalue references and all that jazz rather than focusing on the actual algorithm. There’s a reason why people want to go back to Orthodox C++ (using C++ as C with a few extra features)
It's easier if a large part of your value add is being the cowboys that your customers' internal teams can't. Easier to justify shit breaking in weird ways when they pay you to slap shit together ASAP.
What if buying useless shit gives certain people some enjoyment and happiness? If nobody bought anything what would we do for money?
At least small planes in europe (CS-23) aren't allowed to have humans within an (iirc ~15 degree) cone of them.
This approach here seems to be done with no regards to such regulatory (and well-meant) requirements.
If you wanted to use Linux-libre, wouldn't you just use Parabola?
Kotlin is easy to write because every idiom is available - but calling that a low barrier to entry reminds me of how articles used to suggest Perl as a beginner language because it was expressive. I actually consider it more complex than Scala as a language, because a lot of complex Scala idioms are just library code that you can click through to, whereas Kotlin tends to implement them as part of the language. I fear for the people who will have to maintain large enterprise Kotlin codebases in 5-10 years' time.

SBT is inexcusably awful (and so is ScalaTest, which is a lot of people's first exposure to the language), and you might be right about the zeitgeist having moved on, but it's a shame; it's honestly a significantly better language design.
Is there a reason this requires a Twitter account? Seems like something I'd like to use but I don't have Twitter.
When using yyyy-MM-dd, I've had two people comment that they'd prefer if I didn't use American dates.
My workaround has been to use alternate Unicode for colons[1] in filenames in Windows, along with similar substitutes for other illegal characters. For ease of input I use Autohotkey bindings (in this example: Alt+colon).

[1] '꞉' (U+A789). On my Windows systems the default typeface renders this identically to a regular colon.
> When storing integers in floats, you use an exponent of 1, and then stuff the integer into the fraction and sign bits.

Is this correct? I would have just guessed that JS stores integers as their equivalent float values, which is why above 53 bits, you stop being able to represent all whole numbers (but you can represent some whole numbers), unless JS-land has changed since I last checked in almost a decade ago.
The static URL encoded by the QR code funnels you to a web page where that page view can be reported back to trackers and incorporated into your advertising profile.

Using your device to read the menu puts your device in the loop where formerly it was not.
Budget version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SabzZ5UOC-c
Did you see the "20 minute flight time"? Your ears will get plenty of rest waiting for it to recharge.
Almost looks like a ground-effect vehicle. Doesn’t go too high; which may not really be an issue. Just high enough, so tarmac isn’t necessary.

I seem to recall a discussion on HN, where it was explained that quadcopters don’t scale up too well. I don’t remember the reasoning.

The one thing that concerns me about commodity-level flying vehicles, is the way people drive the ones that are stuck on the ground. I would want autonomous vehicles to be devloped and refined, before flying ones.
The commenter above doesn't understand how courts work.

When a court declines to hear an appeal, they are simply saying that the below court handled the case appropriately. By choosing not to hear it, they ARE ruling on it by maintaining the lower courts decision.

To say that SCOTUS "refuses" to hear cases on Terry cases, they are saying that the lower courts were correct.

It's not like they are dodging their responsibilities when declining to hear an appeal. That's how the system works - otherwise literally every losing party would appeal every single case to the supreme court.
Great points, where do you suggest reading to learn how to think like this?
This is a common misconception with technical people. Laws are not computer code. What they mean is not just what they literally say, but what the words means in legal context, and considering precident, and the intent of the legislation.
> A good tip is that if you ever come up with some model of society that makes everyone look like they are doing something irrational, then odds are that your model is wrong, not that society is wrong.

Well, but it could also be a case of "tragedy of the commons". Everyone is acting rationally on an individual level, but a collective change would be to everyone's benefit.

I know people who drive big SUVs even though gas is more expensive not because they like big SUVs, but because they're worried if they don't drive a big SUV, they're more likely to die in a crash with someone who does. The result is, of course, even more SUVs.
Yes, all the ones that contain statements about the pandemic being manufactured.
Hmmm...maybe dried jello bullets are next since the whole "ice bullet" didn't work out

https://mythresults.com/episode1
Ok, I pay for Jet Brains all product pack because it's good. Though I feel the need to use VSCode because LiveShare is so much better than CodeWithMe
I'd like to say that if I was already experiencing good growth as a founder, and financially comfortable, I'd be disinclined to take the offer.

If the company is already going down and someone wants the IP, whatever.
CBD has quite a lot of scientific support. And it works by interacting with the human cannabinoid system, which is a real scientific thing.

Even worse, the FDA has been flexing its muscles trying to prevent CBD products being sold[0][1][2], despite the products being restricted having no health concerns. You can sell all manner of dietary supplements and "superfoods", but according to the FDA, not a cup of tea with a few drops of CBD oil.

[0]: https://www.inquirer.com/business/weed/cbd-legal-cannabis-we...
[1]: https://reason.com/2019/09/07/pointless-cbd-bans-are-spreadi...
[2]: https://thetakeout.com/cbd-food-drink-banned-illegal-states-...
It’ll be hot when FAANG starts doubling senior comp + non-FAANG start competing. Anything else is noise.
> Thank god for that, because those feature are either horrible on their own or superseded by better ones.

Are they though? I agree mutable data classes and property _setters_ are bad, but what about the rest?

I personally like the idea of checked exceptions, but there is no doubt they failed to deliver on Java. Perhaps the good parts of this idea can be salvaged by having an easy way to explicitly wrap a checked exception, like with_context() in the anyhow Rust crate. Kotlin dumped checked exceptions in favor of Results, and I don't see how Java has anything right now that supersedes that.

Explicit nullability is unarguably a good feature. You could make a convincing argument that expressing it with an Option/Maybe is better than the road that Kotlin, Swift, C# and TypeScript took. But Java's Optional<T> is not that solution, since the T within the Optional can still be null. And I'm not even getting into how verbose and unnatural using it feels, or the small issue of having to rewrite all the existing Java APIs to make it work.

The same goes for having eager collection operators. The JIT compiler might be able to inline and optimize simple stream operators, but the ergonomics of doing simple things on a collection is just bad.

But even if Java does all of that, just lack of extension methods and top-level functions make using Java a nightmare for me. If Java had extensions methods (or an equivalent concept like Type classes or the Uniform Function Call Syntax that D has), the previous complaint about lacking collection operators directly defined on Collection<T> and Iterable<T> will be a non-issue. Just let anybody who wants it define their own.
No, they will all just quit. There is no job on Earth that you could fill, from teacher to plumber to police officer, that literally anyone would do if they were held personally responsible for doing their job wrong on the job.

It's insane that people want to strip this worker protection away from workers.
Did you try

> Just tweet the GitHub URL to @ForkFreshness on Twitter.

as instructed on the front page? It seems like he's inviting people to use it.
Punishment? When I was about ten I killed my first squirrel, and we cooked it up into a fantastic stew.

Many people think squirrel is the best meat in the woods. Nutty.
Got anything that mentions amounts? This page is failing to properly quote or link to the things it talks about.
> and if everyone uses a "consensus" to kick someone out

Then do you really want to live there? At this point, it becomes important what the rules say happens to your shares if you're kicked out, they did not explain this in the video.

> The law should come in

> that are protected by law

It does. These people aren't above the law. You are free to challenge them in court if you feel your are being discriminated against.

> should be shut down by the government, or arrested, or fined, for breaking anti-discrimination laws.

And if it happens, maybe they would be. Until they actually break the laws, by kicking someone out or otherwise breaking anti-discrimination laws, they haven't broken any laws. You are equating "their internal rules would allow them to" to them actually doing it. They aren't and haven't (she said they've never kicked anyone out and would do it only in extreme cases). So why are you so hung up about something that's never happened? Their internal rules cannot override state or federal anti-discrimination laws and you have the same recourse there as you do anywhere else: you bring them to court for breaking the law.

If that’s not enough guarantee for your comfort then the solution is to not buy a house there. Nobody is forcing anyone to live there, if they’re not comfortable with the community or it’s rules.
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> I really hope the blur on the picture (https://citizenlab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Hubbard-Ima...) isn't hiding anything actually important because that can almost certainly be de-blurred with the right tooling.

Yeah, the right way to use blurring is to mockup a lookalike for content you want to hide, then blur the mockup.
I was about to leave a snarky "glide ratio = 0" comment until I saw the note about the ballistic parachute. Wish they included the effective altitude though. I assume it would be effective from a lower altitude than the Cirrus, as this thing weighs only ~400 lbs with a human in it.
I am interested in this as well. The regular media can be monotonous or driven by agendas. Would be great to find content created by folks paid to write unbiased, say it like it is.
And I'd like to point out that a majority of comments to this post are about how 'they' are censoring 'us'. It is censorship but not for the reasons most commenters want. Its medical disinfo about covid being removed. They are not being opressed, as much as the commenters want it to be that.

You want exaggerated expression? I got one for you: Freedumb.
No, I don't think it will. I hate this trend of pretending that our relative freedom on PCs has anything to do with the platform. Our freedom on UEFI Secure Boot PCs was hard fought and could be taken away at Microsoft's whim*. They literally hold the keys.

Remember the drama about whether Linux would be allowed to run under Secure Boot at all? That was last decade's reminder about hardware freedom and it had nothing to do with a new ISA. Thankfully Microsoft graciously decided that all Windows 8 logo hardware should allow users to load their own keys, but there's nothing intrinsic about the PC platform that forced them to make that decision, and nothing forcing them to keep it.

* This Ars article seems to say it's already been taken away. I'm trying to confirm Microsoft's current UEFI requirements in their docs, but I can't find them. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/windo...
That's an air bearing. Those are used in industry for moving heavy objects on flat floors.[1] Needs a very flat surface.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEtZn3YrEEQ
Agreed on all points (especially about chiropractors calling themselves doctors). One major driving force behind quackery seems to be the ability to assert that it's banned because it works so well it would put pharma out of business. But as we've seen from the dire warnings and non-banning of Ivermectin, these things can now burst into mass poisonings in a matter of days, much faster than any regulatory body let alone public messaging campaign can keep up.
That's all well and good. It is not a fundamental "system" of human physiology no more than we have an "aspirin system".
Frugal Computing (2021)
Yes, but that wording carefully evades explicitly saying they don’t scan content in the service of ads. For example they still could use your drive content to enrich how they target to other people who have similar profiles.
US productivity growth is negative and economists aren’t sure why
The market value would still go up under this fantasy scenario that was actually sold to people, whether you value it personally or not.
Adapton – Rust framework for incremental computation
I remember my college Latin prof saying that if you ever wanted to feel good about your Latin skills you should read the Vulgate Bible. I've been working (very slowly) at translating it chapter by chapter (I'm up to Genesis 9). It does feel much more approachable than most Classical authors.

For learning classical Greek, I recommend beginning with a Biblical Greek text. In general the pedagogy from the Biblical people for Greek is so much better developed than what the classicists use.
What can be done about the fact that industrial and financial services corporations can commit the most heinous crimes with impunity with zero public backlash or penalty, but tech companies do something somewhat questionable and the Senate starts public hearings, the media writes exposé after exposé, and the public regards Zuckerberg and Bezos as the ultimate evils of our time?

If I were Zuckerberg, I'd find a way to fund public media and public opinion smear campaigns against industry, CPG, and finance. Because they're raping our planet for generations to come with no penalties or slaps on the wrist, meanwhile he gets dragged in front of the gerontocracy once a year to explain how online communication works.