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How would the FSD beta program kill me?

I realize that not everybody is in agreement, but I personally use the FSD beta while remaining fully in control of the vehicle. I steer with it, I watch the road conditions, I check my blind spots when it is changing lanes, I hit the accelerator if it is slowing unexpectedly, I hit the brakes if it is not...

You know, basically behaving exactly as the terms you have to agree to in order to use the FSD beta say you are going to behave.

When I look at the wreck in the tunnel (in San Francisco?) a few months ago, my first thought is: how did the driver allow that car to come to a full stop in that situation? Seriously, you are on a highway and your car pulls over half way out of the lane and gradually slows to a complete stop. Even if you were on your phone, you'd feel the unexpected deceleration, a quick glance would show that there was no obstruction, and the car further slowed to a complete stop.

FSD is terrible in many situations, that is absolutely true. But, knowing the limitations, it can also provide some great advantages. In heavy interstate traffic, for example, I'll usually enable it and then tap the signal to have it do a lane change: I'll check my blind spots and mirrors, look for closing traffic behind me, but it's very nice to have the car double checking that nobody is in my blind spot. There are many situations where, knowing the limitations, the Tesla system can help.
> it's not on Macports, what do you do?

Portfiles are definitely a little more outré than brew's Ruby, but I've found it's not too hard to make one for a tool by starting from another similar existing port. You get the contents of the example one with `port cat $existing_tool`, tweak it, and then add it to a local port repo: https://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.local-reposit... And then you can just `sudo port install $new_tool`
It's a mixture of both, but I will say that while I read fairly fast, I can still buy books faster than I can read them. So the unread portion is always getting larger. Which is kinda sad, but I'm at a point where I'm OK with it. :-)
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Are you suggesting that she is less qualified because of her sister's past relationships?
Part of the problem for desktop browsers (except for power users) is that they've never opened the settings option, not once. They might have opened Mac's system preferences or Windows Settings app but other than that they have no idea they can toggle a plethora of options for their browser.
I disagree. If someone is a bad driver, and causing crashes, we don't say "we need to improve the road system". We suspend the drivers license until they can prove they are capable of being a safe driver. We should hold this software to the same standard. Until it can demonstrate safety at or above human level, it should be outlawed.

Road systems should always be worked on, but when a crash happens its usually the drivers fault, except in a minority of cases where bad road engineering is to blame. this self driving is fucking up enough that it cannot be blamed on the roads anymore, if it ever could.
Crypto was pushed by crypto bros and their VC funders, and now AI is being pushed by AI bros and their VC funders (probably the same group). I think there's a lot more overlap than you're giving it credit for.
The reason for that being not that good basically has the same reason as with coercion rules in weakly typed languages like JavaScript.

If I'm passing a string to an int column, there is most likely an issue in my application code. If there currently is none, there might will be.

For example, I might have forgotten to parse the string properly in my application code. If I'm doing '10' * 2 in JS, it returns 20. If I later change it to '10' + 10, it will be '1010'.
Say I then save the result of that compilation in the DB. Raising on '1010' would have prevented me from persisting the error and gave me an opportunity to investigate the situation. Without an error, there will be a much harder debugging session.

These coercions were popular back in the 90s/00s, which is why I think most DBMs have them. At least that's why JS has it.
In what way? Getting "lost" on youtube just meant following your interests until it strayed far away from the original video. Jumping video to video was fairly similar to "surfing" the web by jumping hyperlink to hyperlink.

Now it feels like Youtube controls the tide towards some fixed direction outside of the user control, which is frankly really boring. It's almost like the opposite of TickTock if comparing to other platforms.
The thing you want, low stakes low effort programming, doesn’t really exist. The reason Google can survive building everything themselves — and thus giving you and many others endless code to write — is because they have exceptionally deep pockets and army’s of people.

Outside of Google-type companies, people write code to serve a direct business need which means the impressive software engineers are not the people who write good code but rather the software engineers who can use technology to benefit the business — which sometimes means writing code, but often does not.

If you go to a smaller company, even in a software engineering role, even as an individual contributor, expect to spend a lot less time having fun programming and a lot more time solving business problems.

You can absolutely coast in a low stakes environment at a smaller company, but don’t expect that being able to write Google-quality code will impress anyone. At a pragmatic company, people are more impressed by whatever benefits the bottom line. If you’re not a natural at the business side of things, it’ll be much more challenging to impress at a small company than it would be to impress at Google.
This may be the wrong take-away, but the Air Force shooting your balloon down would be a massive source of pride for the science clubs I remember from my youth. We would have had that on a t-shirt within a week.
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I thought I had some problem w/ my shoulder and/or headaches, I never thought it was my jaw until my dentist told me I was grinding my teeth. I tried a bite guard and found the pain became highly localized in my jaw and realized my jaw was clicking. TMJ!

After two years w/ the bite guard I feel a lot better, it's been a long time since my jaw clicked or popped although an emotional event last December caused the pain to flare up again for a few weeks.
> "true physical recall"

ah, a made up term in order to justify your point. how convenient.
Ford's marker lights are an example of this. The huge consistently illuminated panels are simply amazing. The huge light source is perfect for maximum visibility without presenting a blinding spot source like the majority of automotive lights.

But that practically singular investment in automotive optical engineering and innovation is let down by the low frequency PWM driver baling wired into the final design to cut cost by perhaps a dollar or two.
We do know the components of the brain. "Hypocampus", "Prefrontal cortex", etc. The AIBS is studying how these regions map down to the individual elements (neurons, peptides, chemical transports etc).

You're discounting a significant amount of experimental science that is really going on right now. I don't understand why.
I bought one (probably not the exact one i linked) for mounting a UPS and a home security camera DVR unit (I don't buy into the security as a service from all of those options), but it never got installed. So the DVR/UPS just sit stacked on a shelf unprotected, but that's what the missus wanted. So now it's that thing that just sits there taking up space that is hard to sell at a garage sale, and I can't be bothered to create an ebay account to sell it.

Also, even if you don't have rack mount equipment, they make the shelves you can attach to the rack mounts and set other gear on them. So yeah, you can really clean some stuff up with these.
Nobody is handflying a commercial airliner at 40k feet, and nobody is maneuvering an airliner traveling 500-600mph to avoid a balloon like this, it's unlikely you'd even see it before you ripped through it.
In this scenario 'recall' is a legal/compliance term. It's appropriately used.
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It’s unfortunate that art generation, something humans genuinely enjoy doing and can be a source of personal fulfillment, is capable of being replaced, but customer service and answering stupid questions are apparently hard problems.
A bird is usually not an issue (unless it's huge like a condor or something).

The problem is ingesting a whole flock. Turbofans are designed to fling debris (rain, hail, gravel, birds) out to the bypass via centrifugal force. However, too much material (or insufficient thrust) causes the impeller to bog down, so more junk gets sucked into the burn chamber, which can cause a flameout.
And the reason ai art is interesting is precisely because art is about mistakes and hallucination and wierdness, and unexpected connections.

So the flaws of chat AI currently are exactly what make art great. And art came before science, so perhaps scientific thinking is much harder on an evolutionarily timescale than we think.
Right.

Ultimately, it’s a business decision, because paying for 3x the people or 3x the time to implement one feature on web, iOS and android is not something that people like to do, let alone the headache of coordinating feature parity and release timeline with said teams.
The basis for the entire piece is false, as many historians have said. People within the Times have admitted as much, and have even silently edited the piece without issuing corrections to remove some of the most blatant falsehoods as an attempt to save face.

The Times has lots of good journalism still, but is a propaganda laundering outlet. Falsehoods are published there so that other journalists, lawmakers, and academics can reference falsehoods in the Times as truth. This has happened in the past, just reference how they were used to launder misinformation with regards to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
> True, but by announcing things in this fashion it is making Tesla look bad.

They rolled out software with critical safety issues. They have to be called out.
Sure, but say I consider myself a diligent driver and I've never caused an accident... what does FSD have to offer me? Yet another random opportunity for a car to fail me. Why would I surrender control for that?
Focus Modes can also hide/show different Home Screens depending on Focus Mode, which is also one of the handy reasons to use Focus Modes.
Looking forward to BingFSD.
Keep your resume ready just in case...

Take a look at this old post by Joel Spolsky "Getting Things Done When You’re Only a Grunt" https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/25/getting-things-don...

You can add unit test for new and updated features. Don't try to add them to old code.

A bad UX is really a huge problem. Can they replace that person? Can they make a new UX for Android?
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This is not a threat model that's unique to PWAs though, nor in any way enabled by what's seen here. Installing a PWA is practically equivalent to installing an app and a malicious app or an app that had their OneSignal or similar credentials compromised could do the exact same thing.
TattleGPT might be reading this thread. Problem is that it can rhyme now.
VCs invest other people’s money from funds they raise, thus removing “skin in the game”. The risk they bare may be reputational at best. Hedging bets with others peoples money is not real risk taking.
There are benefits weight and cost and system complexity and network specifications, etc. There are certain things you just cannot do with CAN bus that manufacturers want to do. Using traditional Ethernet is possible (and I've done it), but the second you bring it up to penny pinchers they get a headache and the conversation is over. Having something like this allows you to make the transition while not just increasing capabilities, but actually decreasing costs.
You found the old version of modern recipe sites.
That’s not really surprising. More clicks = more friction = more people not making it to the end.
> I view Apples reluctance to implement the install prompt as politically driven

I agree. See also: the way you can't directly open an HTML document from Files (you essentially get a blank screen, even if all the JS and CSS is located in the HTML file).
An owner of a store which gets the stuff in plastic should also be better at recycling the plastic. Since the plastic bags are also going to a few consumers, they could also insist they're more recyclable and/or reusable.
What is made easy will become inevitable.

OTA updates carry a perverse set of incentives. Look at the gaming industry. They went from putting out rock solid games because of necessity (the reality of publishing physical cartridges and CD-ROMs without network updates) to the absolute dogshit of No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk 2077. Gamers have effectively become an extension of QA to the point that some game devs simply stop doing QA at all. Which we are seeing clearly with the "beta" version of self-driving software.

To make matters worse, firmware devs are on the lower totem pole of the developer hierarchy. They live more on the cost center side than the profit center side (think airbag control vs. the guy that did the whoopee cushion sounds). The quality of firmware is already incredibly poor across the range of consumer devices. OTA incentivizes corporations to release software earlier than they currently do knowing that they can always fix it later if necessary.
Trying to work backwards from the (likely true) notion that Hersh's story is fiction is just as intellectually flawed. We don't anything about Hersh's source or their motives. You could write an HN comment about how the CIA planted this whole story to cast doubt on the actual US-led operation to blow up (some) of the Nord Stream pipeline. Or you could write the opposite comment. There's just nothing to go on.

The only thing we can really discuss here is whether the Hersh story is credible. It seems clearly not to be. If we establish that, that's all we get: the fact that one story about what happened is false. We'll be no closer to knowing what actually happened. That's life!
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Notice that we don’t have Barry fielding a public Q&A so that he can share his knowledge with the world.
I don't think the other people that replied picked up on your sarcasm.
That's fair. In this instance DHT traversal is equivalent to a really slow DNS lookup. I really don't think you can expect better than 2-3s in the BitTorrent implementation, and 5-10s on average.
But how do you trust the output of the summarization? Do you trust yourself to identify when the model goes off the rails and starts making things up?
Transponders are not required for payloads below approximately 100x the weight of these types of balloons. There is zero liability, but also zero recourse.

It's hard to argue that if the government can't identify something operating in controlled airspace that it can't take measures pretty solidly in the realm of "national defense," up to and including blowing it up.
Programming AIs worry me
If you're keen to go down the wikipedia hole, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-bit_character_code and then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCD_(character_encoding) explain that IBM created a 6-bit card punch encoding for alphanumeric data in 1928, that this code was adopted by other manufacturers, and that IBM's early electronic computers' word sizes were based on that code. (Hazarding a guess, but perhaps to take advantage of existing manufacturing processes for card-handling hardware, or for compatibility with customers existing card handling equipment, teletypes, etc.)

So backward compatibility is likely the most historically accurate answer. Fewer bits wouldn't have been compatible, more bits might not have been usable!

(Why 6 bit codes for punch cards in 1928? Dunno. Perhaps merely the physical properties of paper cards and the hardware for reading them. This article talks about that stuff: https://web.archive.org/web/20120511034402/http://www.ieeegh...)
And the gall of them... to call it unsubscribe! As if I ever "subscribed" and now I need to "undo" that action. Nope. I have never in my life signed up for an E-mail list or newsletter, let alone a marketing E-mail list. There is nothing to undo, because I never did anything in the first place. Calling the link "unsubscribe" is an insidious way to blame the spam recipient for the spamming. Your E-mail list is not full of subscribers, it's full of victims.
I get that NOAA and NWS and whomever else release balloons that they never see again, but those at lease provide helpful data that benefits the public in some way. These seem to just... blast some portion of the EM spectrum with their location?
As I understand it, DuckDuckGo relies heavily on Bing. Am interested, and alarmed, to know how this might play out.
And that didn't get you in any trouble?
But oil blockades won't stop the production of new ICE cars. A battery-related blockage will stop new car production. That would be a big crisis for automakers.
Pretty sure you need to defrost that turkey first.
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It's certainly an accomplishment to achieve a highly productive per capita economy, but I don't think it's quite the slight on the US when the four countries with higher productivity per capita range in size from 0.3% to 2.8% of US GDP. Achieving productivity per capita at scale is hard.
Several people I know are using it for sales and customer service writing. As a user, that's not really what I want, but they are finding it to be a useful tool in generating text for them to review and modify.
I worked on a browser MMO game TimeZero. It used to be the second most popular game in Russia in early 2000's. Had about 5000 online users and ten times that much of active accounts. We had a lot of different problems with Flash player, but memory leaks weren't a thing.

Grant Skinner was a... popular person in Flash community... but, you also need to understand that Flash community, almost entirely, was amateur programmers. Looking back at those days, I feel the same kind of light embarrassment like when I thought I'd discovered some new fundamental theorem in algebra when I was in mid school only to later learn that it's something we'd learn about a year later.

So, what he discovered can be summed up as "works as intended". It's not a memory leak. His mistake was literally:

> function variables are transitory – they should only exist during execution of the function.

He's both confused between variables and values, and believes that common behavior is the only possible one. It's easy to make this mistake if you never work with entities like, eg. sockets or threads and similar system resources that have to be explicitly released by the program because the system that created them doesn't track their lifetime.

In other words, that's not a memory leak. A memory leak would be something like if BitmapData.dispose() didn't actually free memory.

I believe that the reason for this kind of behavior was that BitmapData would be also implicitly used by the player's own rendering layer which had to be explicitly instructed to remove it, if the program no longer needed it.
More than a year ago, but perhaps referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_16 ?
Also usually when bird strikes cause real problems it's a flock of birds, not a single one.
Ugh, yep, you're correct. Too late to edit and fix, unfortunately.
> Those detector vans were a hoax.

Their existence was not[0]. Maybe they didn't work. It sounds like they may have been a paper tiger.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van
It may be interesting to read this[0] OSINT analysis of Hersh's claims.

[0] https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1626176420648026113
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The ads haven’t stayed gone, though.

I would pay a substantial premium for an option to filter promotions out of videos. I would even pay to just never get promoted videos in my steam.

The option to pay for no ads doesn’t exist, today, although it would be easy to ad. Instead, you get to pay to remove one advertiser, and not all the others.
> First, we're not talking a tiny 12 inch party balloon.

Click the link, look at the photo. These are not large weather balloons.

The article even says "The club’s silver-coated, party-style, “pico balloon”..."
I don't disagree but it doesn't matter in this case. In fact, this is _precisely_ why (especially local) newspapers targeted "5th grade level" vocab and syntax, or lower. It's been the unofficial standard since long before the study cited.
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It was fine for lawyers to represent Russians and Russian oligarchs before February 2022. After all, the West is a democracy based on the rule of law.

After February 2022, Russian oligarchs have become enemy combattants from an unfriendly state (literally their wording), and have thus placed themselves outside of the scope of our rule of law.

We have nothing to gain from allowing them to act as plaintiff's in our court systems.
With the (hopefully) forthcoming ebike/escooter revolution, where you see china/netherlands small transportation/bicycle use in urban areas on a massive scale, the basic security issues of the bicycle-sized transport unit remain.

It's a problem so old, some of the first auteur films in cinema, "Bicycle Thief" was based on that problem.

If you can pick up something with your hands, how do you stop it from being so easily stolen?

The ebike battery provides power and weight for the personal transport vehicle to incorporate keys, trackers, and a bit more weight so it can't be moved with a single hand, but still, the issue is out there:

- we need embedded serial numbers in the major components (battery, frame)

- tracking / pinging that can be turned on for theft tracking like they did here

- removable batteries (recharge where you are, make the most valuable part of the e-vehicle more securable)

- integrated U-lock that isn't so effing annoying to use (cryptographic key on your phone) and isn't easily defeated by liquid nitrogen or other means

well, yeah, and make it cheap. I think there's a lot of opportunity for innovation in these platforms to solve/counter these age-old bicycle thief problems.

But a lot of it might be to get municipal policing policy to address them under the (flawed, but not totally) broken window theory. Take bicycle and ebike theft more seriously, it will help enable the transformation of cities in safety, use, convenience, and environmental efficiency.
Next: cracking down on mail pigeon carrying microfilms
Ya. It's safe to assume if someone is opting to add a website to their homescreen they are interested in it; notifications may make sense. Random websites asking me to enable desktop notifications are annoying. This prevents that for mobile.
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The problem is in targeting. No missile works on computer vision. There are older guided bombs that use "TV guidance" but I don't think that's even close to the same.

It either needs a hot part for an IR seeker to lock on to, or be radar reflective enough that a high power radar beam can reflect off and be picked up by the missile's antenna and pass a certain threshold of reflected power. There's not much heat in the payloads, and balloons probably aren't the best radar reflectors.

Even gun lead calculations require a good radar return.

I've always predicted we would eventually end up with missiles that guide on visible light, but that's terrifying if it isn't nearly perfect.
I left Google in 2018. I was working in Zurich and moved back to Romania. My compensation dropped by ~60%. I don't regret the move at all. There's a lot of cool stuff outside of FAANG and there's lots of cool stuff outside of work.