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> It is interesting to me that right now this is sitting on the HN homepage directly adjacent to: "Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs (reuters.com)"

Based on https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2022/01/13/a-robo... Tesla's FSD has other issues as well.
Considering how much storage capacity becomes available when connecting cars to the grid - even if the part used for grid storage is only 10kWh/car (typical batteries have 70 or more kWh) - I would assume there will be a huge push by utility companies to get as much cars connected as possible.
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Does autopilot make sense? Aviation autopilot seems to be many orders of magnitude more reliable than Tesla's autopilot.

In fact, autopilot in aviation contexts is regularly used when human pilots are worse, such as landing at airports that regularly experience fog & low visibility conditions. As in, autopilot is the fallback for humans, not the other way around.

Heck, aviation autopilot is now available for use in emergency landings ( https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/garmin-autoland-wins-202... ).

Compared to Tesla autopilot, these are seemingly two vastly unrelated situations.
I remember the story on here a while ago about a self-driving car that got rear-ended because it stopped in the merging lane of an empty highway rather than accelerating like any human would...
Hmm... I'm skeptical.

At some point, no matter how cheap cold storage is, the "dead" content costs will trump the live content streaming. Like postpone but... at some point content needs to be pruned. What's the value in keeping everything forever? 1 year after the video was last viewed? 5? Like when can you safely purge videos?
There are still places in the world where Apple Maps isn't great, but for 90% of people they're now as good for navigation, if not better (since they've built a data gathering operation).

Last year I used Apple Maps for a 34,000 mile road trip. No significant issues.
Sure, but this was supposed to be fully autonomous. Nobody is arguing the human didn’t make a mistake. The autonomous system, however, definitely also did.
I did look into performing stuff like md5 inline while streaming the download, however it tended to slow down the extraction significantly. Other less rigorous checks like crc32 are still possible inline though with minimal performance reduction.

It should also be possible to split off and write the raw download to disk in the background with something like an io.TeeReader object [0]. You could then checksum it after the fact like you normally would.

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>me confused again by your rhetoric about "subsidies to the rich."
If you hire people, you should pay them. Every person who works for less then minimum wage is impacting the wages of people working for more then. It's a race to the bottom and corporations/wealthy have all the power. I strong minimum wage (which should be way higher) is an important part of this.

>You wouldn't outlaw the services I provided when I was young to people that kept me alive, just because someone else may need more than me.

You would be better off if you'd made more. You should get paid what you're worth.

I think this covers all your arguments. It's just not a level field. Just like we don't let children work, we should limit the race to the bottom with a minimum wage. We should also take care of people who can't work or don't want to. Everyone should have a right to basic food and shelter.
Assuming it is $250k one time purchase, it seems cheaper than annual pay for a person to drive around SF, and the overhead to manage the person.
Perhaps people would "love" that but I have a feeling that the continued retreat from all forms of socialization due to technology is not a good thing by and large for society. I would guess that most people who think they desire this wouldn't even think they desire it in terms of safety but instead in terms of avoiding distraction or awkwardness.
So basically by patent trolling and investing in patent trolls investors are encouraging patent trolls to de facto legally harass people and companies and cause distress on multiple levels(affected company, lawyers and court) which all costs time, money and energy.
Yes, they're referring to the same misapplication you're referring to.
Yea i think they're going to be my next laptop when it's time for me to upgrade.
I'm sure that any of these services are going to depend on customers reporting when a car shows up in an unacceptable condition.
That Tesla headline is misleading. Should be “Tesla Removes Rolling Stops from Assertive Driving Profile”. Tesla added rolling stops to make the car behave more human like. NHTSA said no, so Tesla removed the feature.
> I think the issue of "always bringing up edge cases" is meant to illustrate that a LOT can go wrong with some of these hard and fast rules.

This makes more sense as an objection in a vacuum than it does in the reality where the alternative is that speeding is a big problem within cities. We don't have to solve every edge case. We just need the edge cases to be less of an issue than speeding already is. And that's a much easier bar.

Asking, "what if we do this?" is fine, but one should also always consider, "what if we don't?"
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I still remember filling out my Facebook profile back when it was very new (after it was open to everyone but before it even had the timeline) and I'm just flabbergasted at how much information I was willing to fork over as a naïve child presented with a grid of form fields to fill out. crazy to see how it's only got more ridiculous over time. now Snapchat (which I'm about to convince my fiancée to uninstall so neither of us uses it anymore) is giving me notifications telling me about friends and family that I should add as friends, despite me never giving the app access to my contacts! I wish I could go back in time and convince my younger self about how bad things were going to get and why I should minimize my online footprint as much as possible. well, cat's out of the bag now...
While I agree with most of your points, I don't want Firefox to implement uBlock Origin.

Should Firefox prioritize compatibility with it? Yes. Should the uBlock Origin developers have the personal cell phone of Mozilla's CTO? Also yes. But there's nothing to be gained from absorbing it, and all we'll get is more bureaucracy.

If anything, I'd like Firefox to focus more on their core product, not less.
Firefox's UI/UX for profiles is, unfortunately, very clunky and nowhere near as intuitive as Chrome's.
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I will believe it when I see it. Focusing that much light on a small moving object, through layered and moving air, with an intensity to burn through metal would be an achievement. Burning through enough of that metal to degrade a falling rocket (as opposed to during boost phase of flight) is even harder. For all the talk about cost reduction, have a look at what realworld laser armor costs. Painting the nosecone of a rocket white, or coating it with reflective foil costs next to nothing but is remarkably effective.

Better question: What would this do to a manned aircraft? There is a reason there are treaties against blinding weapons.
The image is to illustrate the size of a group of people on foot vs in vehicles. There are plenty of protests on foot in Ottawa every year but they go largely unnoticed.
That's a great point! Maybe replying works past the filters, too!
AI; in commonly used forms, simply can't be trusted in a lot of critical situations.

It defeats the deterministic nature of computation. The answer might be right or it could be very wrong. Without some method of verification, you really don't know for sure anything more than you started with.

There are applications where some significant percentage of wrong answers can be tolerated. But I suspect these are fewer in number than those that can't.
That's really a legal disclaimer, a list of limitations has to be sspesific to be usefull: don't use beyong X temperature range, beyong X speed, below X visibility,etc.
A computer operating correctly should never go into thermal protection, even with an insane load. Thermal protection is a CPU's last resort to return to sanity and its likely physical damage could result if the thermal protection isn't applied fast enough.

But FWIW, my mornings usually consist of updating everything for me, personally. I never have updates happen unexpectedly. There's a script I run when I sit down to my computer for the first thing, every single day.
Please, stop pushing for static typing in Python
On behalf of every Python developer who still considers Python a true dynamic language, just stop.

We don't need static typing, we need other, much more useful things. Like stability, reliability, speed and good packaging standards.

I don't want ugly Rust-like typing in my favorite language. It may look good in Rust, but it looks horrible in Python.

Here are just some of the arguments against typing:

1. They are ugly. Honestly, the code with typing is not pythonic, at all.

2. They require additional knowledge to implement correct type hints. The language is much less complex without them. It is even getting hard to track the changes without including typing.

3. It encourages bikeshedding on features useless to the core language. Manpower is wasted on something the majority of Python developers and applications don't really benefit from.

4. It creates the rift in the language. The language is "extended" with features that push the developing tools (such as Pycharm) in the certain direction. The editors and IDEs have become too reliant on type hints, so they changed their linting algorithms to basically require typing. Now they are nearly useless without them. This creates the division in our community and further pushes away those who don't want typing in their code. Sure, they are not required, at least for now. But people are really making it harder to develop without them.

5. It affects the startup performance. It is not a big hit if the application is small but it adds up.

Of course, there are certain benefits to type hints. As mentioned, your IDE will be "smarter". It may solve some bugs related to types. It will help you make concise docstrings. All this, at what cost? Python is becoming a complex language to learn even without mentioning type hints. My friends want to learn Python, and now I need to explain to them that those weird function signatures are optional, and you can write it another way.

So please, stop with the useless typing PEPs. Fork the language if you must. But don't call it Python anymore.
HERE WeGo[0] works remarkably well here in the north of Africa, much better than google maps or TomTom.

[0] https://wego.here.com/
Amazing considering that he said he wasn’t comfortable putting his own kid in them just a few months ago.
I know I'm annoying but this would be a really good project to write in Rust.
Well we haven't invented AGI yet, and so we don't even know if it will be possible to control them with an objective function. So your opinion is entirely speculative and not based on any science.
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Because cars are not, in and of themselves, inherently deadly any more than a train or a boat or a plane are inherently deadly. The fatality component of a vehicle largely rests on operators and those who are around vehicles. If a pedestrian on their phone steps off the sidewalk onto the road and gets struck by a vehicle is that the vehicle's or even the driver's fault? Of course not, just like a pedestrian is not at fault if they are crossing the street properly and a driver ignores the crosswalk or red lights. This issue cannot be solved by simply putting more sensors in a car, drivers and pedestrians need to take responsibility for their actions and understand exactly what they are doing when they cross each-other's path.
> Convenient for tracking people! Also terrible for the environment.

Can you explain the environmental critique a bit?

A Solana transaction consumes about as much energy as two Google searches. Where exactly would the environmental damage come from?
From what I can tell, these are vanity domain addresses and so Google is trying to tell you to use a free Gmail account instead.
Yes, and the go light years back in ecosystem ;)
Is this really that much of a problem? Like, even if you only get 1 random bit out of 100, you just sample and hash 100 times as many samples. What can you do with quantum noise that you can’t do with thermal noise?
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I run an Arch Linux mirror. [1] The server hosting the mirror is averaging 1 MiB/s (8 Mib/s) outgoing traffic. There's quite a bit of fluctuation since package downloads are a very spotty load, but overall I don't think the server is breaking a sweat at all. CPU usage is pretty flat at 5% (of 1 vCPU). The same server is also hosting approx. 10 other websites, but the mirror causes most of the load by far from what I can tell.

[1] This is n=1 data because I can only speak for my own machine, so obviously take this with a grain of salt.
Can you give a few examples of apps where this is a real problem?
It's worse than using the thumb because you have less range and it's a lot less comfortable. Thumb-click index-drag is for me also a requirement.
The human behavior can also result in an accident when a car or pedestrian that expects the car to stop walks out in front of the car.

In theory, the car should be paying attention in all directions at the same time and won't get into an accident, but car sensors are not infallible, especially when detecting pedestrians, moreso if they are partially obscured by foliage, newspaper stands, etc.

Automated cars should stop 100% of the time at intersections where they are required to do so. When the stop signs are changed to "Self-driving yield" signs, then the cars can do a rolling stop.

So my point wasn't that cars should act like drunk drivers, but that modeling human behaviors is not the right mindset for self-driving cars.
One of the YouTube comments makes an interesting observation that this is an entirely digital rhythm.
I still see a lot of Cruise cars training in the mission.
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My argument is that Firefox should have functionality equivalent to uBlock Origin by default, so that less tech-savvy users who install the "privacy" focused browser actually get some without having to browse for extra add-ons and potentially install an inferior or outright malicious option.
What is success?

Does 50 miles of geofenced and daily mapped streets mean Cruise won self driving?

What if Waymo gets to 20k miles of geofenced roads and monthly mapped?

What if Tesla gets to the point of one intervention/crash every 100k miles? 10M Miles?
And that's the story behind xkcd.com -- one of very last available 4-letter domains in .com zone back then.
The video I saw from him recommended the Kryptonite Evolution 4 chain lock (was there a different one?). It's still quite a beast of a lock with a 10mm chain and weighs over 6lbs (standard size, the mini is lighter). Maybe not the strongest bicycle lock in existence, but still leaps and bounds ahead of many of the lower-end ones...
I just bought the Tom Tom app and paid for the maps I need. One of their big deals is privacy protection as no data is collected
That raises another question for me: I thought Uber and Lyft[0] had COVID-related cleaning protocols that require their drivers to disinfect some surfaces of the car after each ride. How can a driverless car do that?

[0] https://www.lyft.com/driver/clean
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I see Cruise a ton around downtown, but Waymo and Zoox seem to be test driving through a larger part of the city.

Some times I will see a fleet of Waymo cars in quick succession, going through seemingly the same route
Maybe someone should build a portable (FCC compliant?) device to put in your car that spoofs and rotates a bunch of 2.4/5Ghz SSIDs periodically to "trick" apps that mine wifi data with GPS location. Bonus points for bogus names like "Starbucks Wifi" or "McDonalds Free Wifi" in the middle of the highway.

Even easier, just reverse engineer the API and send the SSIDs yourself.
> Tesla Marketing: 2016

For reference, this same marketing video is still up on Tesla's site[1].

[1] https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
i'll add that there's a lot of people that see death as the door to paradise and fighting for their cause as the key to that door. No amount of logic or information is going to stop them.

when you're dealing with the mentally ill, all bets are off.
Perf. Our JIT is extremely advanced. Of course different workloads will behave differently, but you are welcome to try multiple payloads and see for yourselves.
Then just respect those limitations at all times. The school zone will last a whole 200m, you can live with driving 20 in there all the time instead of wondering if you can go full speed in a school zone.
Interesting experience. Maybe I did that in the early 2000s after all, and not the 90s. I don’t recall.
Microsoft Office (local versions of course) is the main offender here :-). I'm not sure how much testing they do against non-Windows servers.
Let’s pull back on virtual meetings, shall we?
I'm working on computational chemistry, with the very long-term (decades) goal of designing molecules (proteins/enzymes) for things like artificial photosynthesis and molecular computing (chips still rely on the bulk properties of semiconductors; for miniaturization to continue, at some point it will become necessary to design molecules to function as logic and interconnect).

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This could impact NAS devices from Synology and QNAP.

These companies use old kernels, offer a lot of fancy features and are also slow to patch.
The benefit, one day, is if you're a criminal whose face is detected, the car doors will lock, and you'll be driven directly to law enforcement who will be ready and waiting to apprehend you.
"Because IMO, this is mostly a solved problem in practice with Steam, Epic Store, Windows Store etc."

Erm. Yes, but wasn't your point that indie developers can market directly(without those plattforms) with ease right now?

"WebAssembly only replaces the auto-updater part. The actual value that Steam adds is discovery and trust"

Using webassembler brings in trust. Worried parents do not have to approve installing another unknown app.
It’s pretty accurate even if you’re a fan of the company. The more accurate description is that they shipped a feature which breaks traffic laws, which is a serious error in a company asking us to trust their judgement in a safety-critical system. Given how many other problems they’ve had and the consistent overselling of their capabilities and safety, that’s an important conversation to have.
That throttling bit me hard last week. DHL's delivery message didn't come until hours after a package was delivered and by the time I got it the message the package was already stolen. Doesn't help that DHL didn't forward my delivery instructions to whatever third party last mile service they used (GSL US). Doesn't help that GSL didn't even make it to my address and dumped it behind the mailbox 2.5 miles from my house on a public road even though there is a secure drop box at the actual house address/location. Yesterday told me they'd pay out the claim, today they're fighting me over it.

I guess it'll be another month before I can get another PineNote developer kit delivered to me (between CNY and international shipping). :(

Jokes on whoever stole it. It's a paperweight unless you know what to do with it. A pawn shop wouldn't give them anything for it.
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Rt multiplied by serial interval it is, so "fastest and most widely spreading contagious pathogen in modern history" is probably correct.
The difference being that with nuclear mutually assured destruction, the actual leaders are assured of their own personal destruction.