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I foresee more people will live in vehicles.

It's far cheaper to live in an autonomous motorhome that drives around all day and happens to arrive at work just as you need to be there each morning than to rent an apartment in San Francisco. Driving about is probably cheaper than paying for parking too, especially if you deliberately head for the busiest traffic.
The most hilarious thing is that the Imperial units came from the UK. They should blame the UK for the Imperial units, not us.
Another aspect to Cruise (and potentially waymo, but it hasn't been publicly stated) is that they claim thousands of miles per disengagement...when on average their cars needed remote assistance every 4-5 miles[0]. Waymo does the same thing, but the numbers just aren't publicly known.

IMO stuff like this is going to lead the public to trust it less, since they're gaming numbers as hard as possible.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/06/cruise-confirms-robotaxis-re...
>Why would a sane person want to deal with the maintenance, insurance, repairs, depreciation, etc.

Because it will probably still be cheaper if they use it regularly (as is owning in most cases). Because they want a specifically equipped vehicle for young kids/outdoor activities/etc. Because when they want a car, they want one right now.

I'm also skeptical that, if you own a vehicle, it would make any sense to then also rent robo-taxis locally. Certainly I can reserve a private car for an evening event today but it would be 10x or more the cost of parking/gas.
The European Union and Europe are not synonymous.
I have moved out of the EU to Switzerland, partially to avoid shit like this.

This authoritarian bureaucracy needs to die. It is doing more harm than good.
It seems like there are multiple reactions one can have to Snowden type revelations:

1) "I have nothing to hide" (which isn't quite as bad as it sounds - "my security is being a nobody")

2) "The government shouldn't be spying on people"

3) "The government shouldn't be spying on people but of course they are and you should expect that. Your online privacy is essentially your jobs and you shouldn't use services and expect them to protect your privacy"

4) "Even if the state is always actually going to spy on people in various fashions, we still don't want to accept and normalize this. Forcing the state to 'parallel construction' is better than letting the just publicly exhibit all its surveillance since normalized surveillance has more of a chilling effect. Moreover, institutions have a limited ability to keep their own secrets so surveillance is itself going to periodically come into the open and when it does, attacking it is useful, again, even if we know it will always be an element of modern society".

5) And you can go on and on... Should we allow enough explicit machinery of surveillance to make the state not want to use don't-ask-don't-tell third parties (no but..) and so-forth.
I came along Mate a few days ago and already see a lot of potential here. It performed not all but many of the requests I prompted. For example it was even able to search the web and create google docs! What I really missed though is interaction with Spotify, I hope you add this feature soon :)
Rail and Advertising
A blog post about rail advertising but it merely a pretext to present how artificial intelligence technologies can be used in blog post.
Nardwuar is interesting because he's a litmus test: some people just absolutely don't like him and his persona and his schtick, and the fact that he's clearly done more thorough research than any other interviewer they'll ever talk to doesn't move them. And then other people appreciate right away how unique he is.

It's funny that many of the punk rock types don't like a guy who is as DIY as Nardwuar.
The fact that you have to manually maintain the binding between states and UI elements and propagate state changes to UI elements is exactly the thing offered by VanJS, or other popular reactive frameworks (despite with a much larger bundle size)
As someone that has taken quite a few Waymo trips now since October 2023, I am continually impressed with how it handles the crazy here in San Francisco from odd/narrow streets, bad drivers doing stupid things, and overall safety with pedestrians doing all sorts of non-standard behaviors from crossing randomly to pausing at odd points in crosswalks, etc. Also, I've been in a bunch of situations in a Waymo where other drivers are messing with position to try and freak the Waymo out, and every time, it did a great job. I've never been in a Cruise, but I can't deny Waymo has been a great experience for me in SF and up around 20 or so trips.

Here is a video of Waymo going through the Broadway Tunnel in SF back in Oct 2023 to give you a sense of it. >> https://mer.gy/broadwaytunnelwaymo
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When “I confirm” isn’t just a button but a face-to-face accusation I’d expect people would choose to err in the other direction.
Therein lies the wisdom
You would be naive to think that nowadays governments are seriously working for its citizens’ interests, it’s just a mean to further violate the privacy rights, one side is the “not the kids!” the other is “terrorism”.
> And, it's completely secure, so you can feel safe. We do not store, see, or train on your data.

Is it inferencing and searching on-device?
When autonomous vehicles become super safe, will the size of the vehicles more accurately reflect how many people are in the vehicle? Cars that can carry 5 people when the average occupancy is 1.5 in the US seems wasteful just because people feel safer in big cars.

It seems like we should have a lot more small single occupant vehicles that are effectively caged motorcycles, but actually safe.
There has to be a better indicator of disaster severity than the economic impacts of the damage. If an area is hit that has built strongly in anticipation of such an event it will counter productively cause the size of that disaster to diminish in the results.

Shouldn't we be looking at wind speeds, time spans of events, precipitation records, water level increases and other such values instead of anything having to do with economics? Watching a friend of mine dealing with insurance companies after a house fire I can guarantee that the values coming out of such processes aren't as tied to reality as we'd like to think.
Removing the driver frees up a lot of money to be used towards all of that.
> this study includes all Waymo crashes, regardless of the Waymo vehicle’s role in the crash, and with any amount of property damage

I really like this because I think this happens a lot with human drivers. There are many instances where there was a potential crash that was avoided by me or the other drivers. I think that's crucial to autonomous driving. Not only should they have the ability to make mistake but to also compensate for other drivers' mistakes. It's all very good to say "we did everything we were supposed to" after an incident but it's even better to never have the incident at all. An AI that can react well to the unexpected would be a huge milestone.
Why don't you see millions buying a real self-driving car? You can work (or read or watch movies or whatever) during a commute and buy a bigger house where land is cheap. I doubt there are fundamental reasons why sensors couldn't be made more appealing for people who value aesthetics above saving a literal hour+ every day.
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I don't think the price they charge for Waymo is related almost at all to their operating cost. Operating cost is undoubtedly much higher. I suspect Waymo has set fleet size based on how many cars they want operating for gathering the best amount of data and testing improvements, and then prices are set by demand (i.e., price that keeps the cars busy while minimizing wait time).
CCS2 is terrible, I'd hate to be forced to use that giant bulky connector and cable. The EU got it wrong. Design by committee always sucks.
I am okay with using my name when the post is for other people (i.e. work or occasional charity – otherwise I'm not working for you for free!). If the post is for me, then most definitely a screen name. It saves the confusion of someone who might come back to me thinking that I gave them free labour.
Where I live, I can get a cheap taxi, any time, to anywhere I might want to go, through an app. The only difference between that and Waymo seems to be that it is controlled by a meat sack rather than a computer. I don't see autonomous cars as all that different to what I have now.
You mean like the (sometimes unmutable) video ads I've seen in practically every traditional taxi for years now?

That ship sailed a while ago and didn't need Google to push it.
It's a lot harder to artificially constrain autonomous taxis with taxi medallions.
They break it down by SF & also attempt to control for location
Tempe, not phoenix. Also that one was tough because the pedestrian was pushing a bicycle across a four lane road at night and not at an intersection or crosswalk. How many human drivers would have hit her also? I’m surprised the backup driver got charged at all in this case, if they were driving the car themselves and the same accident occurred without any tech at all, it would have probably been a non-interesting case of jaywalking gone wrong and the driver might not have even been cited.
Because total dollar cost is dominated by major hurricanes, which are rare, therefore any underlying trend would be invisible under the stochastic noise.

Frequency at a moderate severity level is much more stable and can give better insight.

As other posters already pointed out, the severity of the events should be adjusted for inflation, building characteristics, and total exposure.
People will very likely also be willing to spend much more time in cars if they don't have to actively drive. E.g. you have a 2 hour commute but you can play on your steam deck the whole time, or you can travel by sleeping in your car while it drives 8 hours.

To the extent that self driving taxi services are cheaper than human driven taxi services, they will also increase use of taxi services.

There's no reason to assume that on the balance people will end up driving less as a result of a technology that makes driving significantly more convenient simply because it might make taxi services somewhat cheaper and therefore potentially might make it easier to not own a car and encourage people to use other modes of transportation for some trips.
I think it's absolutely fair to call public transport "better" for society.

Every single time scientists and city planners are called to answer "how we make the city more livable and reduce traffic" the answer is always better public transport (more trains especially).

The only part I could resonate with you is that we don't know whether SDC could lead to less cars. That's true if people will use more self driving taxis over personal cars.
Both have up and downsides to them. The NACS is physically smaller yes, but CCS2 supports 3-phase power, which NACS does not.

In the end the most important thing it that you can charge when you want to. So I'm glad there's now a standard in NA. And congrats to Tesla, they've earned it.
If they're lying and you can prove it, you can make a lot of money. Lying in a press release is securities fraud, and there are some nice whistleblower statutes that can give you a big payout.
Probably using remote human operators to make numbers look better.
Not quite. Gas stations don't have enough to keep a person busy for an entire charge session. You need real shopping or a place to sit down to eat. They will also not be needed in town near your home, since people will just charge at home.
> I was myself a "Right Way Guy" at the beginning of my programming for a few years

Maybe it's a case of known the rules so you can break them.
Yeah, so they demo a bigger model on an RTX 4090 with 24 GB VRAM. Granted an implementation of sparse activations with the Mixture of Experts could be non-trivial, I think it’s a brilliant move, that could potentially allow for even, e.g., CPU only processing and/or much cheaper GPU processing… Mixtral technically already has neural network controlled sparse activations, but like the Inception meme says: we must go deeper…
It's terrifying that basically nothing has changed since the Snowden leaks. And most people simply don't care so governments can keep scooping up our data, sifting through it for whatever they may deem interesting.
That's less cars in garages, not on the roads.
Especially when you can automate switching rented batteries instead of waiting to charge them. Drive 4 hours out in a random direction, then 4 hours back for work, with nary a minute of downtime
A more fair comparison would be against human drivers who are constantly texting about where they are and what they are doing and seeing, since that's what the Waymo drivers are doing.

:)
I love the 4G coverage on the Jubilee line, it's absolute great.

I assume the gaps in the 'end of spring' coverage between Woolwich and Custom House are under the river and the two places the train surfaces (where it wouldn't be needed)?
> I think the point is Google could have communicated more clearly

Agreed. It's always better to make things as clear as possible for the slow and deliberately obtuse. However, that doesn't excuse the user here from having completely unreasonable expectations.

> You don't give a business (since this was an enterprise account) a week to take action. That's unacceptable.

They were given over half a year and did nothing.

> we can't just leave livlihoods to the whimsy of automated bots without some human to contact.

I agree and support a law that creates a standardized dispute/appeal process for customers of large companies. I don't think that would have directly helped in this case as no such system should force a company to continue offer a product at a loss or offer more than 6 months of migration time. Perhaps the threat of appeals through such a system would have incentivized clearer communication though
My only thought was rails truly require little intelligence for autonomy, and require less maintenance (or at least less involved maintenance), but just doing some armchair engineering...
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The price of charging is already dominated by the marginal cost of electricity, in the same way the price of filling your gas tank is by the price of gas. That will only be more true as charging gets faster. So an advantage in fixed costs is unlikely to be much of a strategic benefit. If they can save 100k/stall, that's great. But that is only a few hundred million a year at that install rate.
I think I did the monthly costs to do short commutes with just uber or taxis and it is easily in the high hundreds or low thousands a month (for me, doing a 20ish minute commute each way)

If it ended up being in the low hundreds, well, that's lower than a lot of people's car payments. Couples or roommates could share a car for non commuting purposes or trips.

You factor in intelligent ride sharing and you could halve the number of cars on the road most days.
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MSFT announces more Xbox leadership changes as Activision's Bobby Kotick departs
It'd be nice to have cheaper vehicle options but it seems the entry-level market for virtually every size has disappeared over the past decade, and EVs won't be entry-level for a long time.
This is my second favorite HN comment of 2023
I'm a huge fan of the landing page(?). Might I ask what you used for designing and building it?
With JSX you can do

const todo = <DoMoreStuff args={...}><DoEvenMoreStuff args={...}/></DoMoreStuff>;
<DoStuff args={...}>{todo}</DoStuff>
I don't own any electric car. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Tesla's standard vs CCS2 (pretty common in Europe as far as I know) ?
There are two questions that may have different answers:

1. Will it mean fewer total cars? Probably. If I have to drive to work and then back home, and you do to, and we each own cars to do it, that's at least two cars. If I can take a Waymo to work, and then it can take you to work, that's only one car.

2. Will it mean fewer cars on the road? (Or, perhaps, let's say fewer car-miles driven.) Plausibly not. If I drive from home (A) to work (B), and you drive from home (C) to work (D), then if we own cars, we drive A-B and C-D. If we use Waymo, it may drive A-B-C-D, which is longer by the B-C leg. That takes up space on the road.

So we may have fewer total cars, but more car-miles driven, and therefore more traffic and congestion.
> I assume you mean subways, buses, and trams here. But I don’t think it’s fair to call them “better”. They’re hugely expensive and can be disruptive in many ways, are much less accessible.

Now this is a bad take. Public transit is _always_ better than individual vehicles when we are talking about a metropolitan area. The amount of resources, land, and pedestrian freedom that is eaten up for roads is insane. Imagine how many people can fit in a subway, and then expand that to each of them individually being in a car on the road.

Public transit is expensive, but so are new highways, highway maintenance, road accidents, speed enforcement... Etc. The worst thing is that many times people who don't own cars pay for those services they won't use. All the while public transit is getting it's funding cut.

I think the original comment is a little off in that more autonomous drivers does not directly lead to less public transit. But it is a concern that these profit/investor driven companies will be competing with public transportation and this has a lot of implications.
California energy officials vote to extend Diablo Canyon operations
What a horrifying existence. The author recognized the problem, “The problem with doing something pointless for accolades is that you have to do so much of it, for so much longer than you expect” but what were the consequences? Are they happy now?

BTW MIT doesn’t do legacies.
Well there are now thousands and thousands of chargers in the US that have to be retrofitted to NACS, if possible.

On top of that many cars will now need adapters to charge at public infrastructure.

And in the meanwhile many people still can't charge at every public charger because they have CCS or Chademo or Tesla and the charger has another one.
Could you include a demo or video? Hard to understand what's going on just with images.
The boxes look good.
You are only taxed that much on income in that band; the amount earned below that is taxed at lower rates.
I thought the opposite. I thought this was one of the main reasons in favor of LIDAR vs regular cameras.
If there are several different metrics which you could plausibly report for a situation, then you use the one(s) for which the measured values are the best fit to your agenda.
> Gallup, the global analytics firm which gathers data from the workplace around the world, poses an interesting question in its annual survey: ‘Do you have a best friend at work?’

[...]

> Gallup is asking specifically about the workplace and places the emphasis on ‘best’ friend because it recognizes the impact of a meaningful and close relationship at work. So, do you have a best friend at work?

Interestingly, my employer made us respond to this Gallup poll and this particular question caused a great deal of discussion and confusion. I'm still not really sure what the question is actually asking.

In any case, since our team is of devs, the question was taken at face value and 100% of everybody answered "No". You can only have one "best" friend, and everybody that works here agreed that their "best" friend was someone they'd know long before they ever worked here. A best friend, after all, is someone you can call up at 3am and have them help you hide the body.

But we were also pretty sure that the literal question wasn't what they were trying to ask but nobody was sure what they were really asking here. So they answered it literally.

My best friend is not a coworker, of course, and I wouldn't want him to be. Having my best friend as a coworker would mean that I'd have to start being cautious about how I discuss work issues with him, and I could no longer just rant wildly when I get upset about work issues.

Having friends at work is fine, of course. It's entirely optional and for most of my career, I haven't had friends at work. I've had colleagues. Close acquaintances. And that's perfectly fine as well.

I'm not so sure about the "storming" aspect the article talks about, though. I can't think of a team I've been on that experienced that.
Agreed. Their hardware is actually pretty decent too. They gave me a set of 4 Wifi 6 APs that were strong enough to cover my entire property.
Having a set of "cool" words or definitions and "anti-cool" one. Having a hope that some special topic helps in the research. Also unlike with fiction books, it is very typical to read about some narrow thing, maybe few pages, and to consider the book as a read because of some achieved goal.
Is there an option to kick off a new sequence by providing an image?
Google stopped using information from emails as part of ad selection years ago, the ads shown in Gmail are based entirely on the other ad personalization data they have from other Google properties. They obviously still parse email contents for spam blocking and such, but that seems like a necessary part of running any webmail service, and not a profit center for them.

I guess it's always possible that they're lying about it, but given the depth of the regulatory and public relations fiasco that would cause I'd be very surprised.
"Cloud Native" == Kubernetes

As in https://www.cncf.io/
> If it ended up being in the low hundreds, well, that's lower than a lot of people's car payments. Couples or roommates could share a car for non commuting purposes or trips.

So the leap here is based on "Autonomous taxi companies will charge less per ride than rideshare"?

perhaps.
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As has been pointed out by others, putting stuff like climate controls or volume controls that commonly need to be accessed while driving on a touch display is dangerous, since you need to look at a touch display to find the thing you're pressing. Anything that the driver might need interact with while moving is essentially a driving feature and deserves a stable interface, and IMO a tactile one. Frequency of updates and rigor of validation are [negatively] correlated in software and elsewhere, though they don't necessarily need to be, if you're willing to spend on a giant QA pipeline.

I'm fine with the idea that navigation data or some nonessential entertainment stuff that mainly exists for passengers can be updated on a rolling basis, it can be OTA, whatever.

Anything else, I stand by what I said. It's silly to put it on a touch display for the sake of potential improvements via software update. A bigger improvement is just not having those things on a touch display, forgoing that ability.
I think this is where we get to eventually when there are no more human drivers and so the roads become extremely safe. Until then, you need a certain amount of mass to protect you from idiots, no matter how safe the computer is driving. Given that mass, adding three extra seats is little additional cost, and gives you additional flexibility in dispatch (reducing wait times). But to your point, they will probably have a "large" size pretty soon, a la Uber XL (although it will only come after the first no-steering-wheel vehicle is widely deployed).
Phoenix also has a lot of jerk drivers. There's a law here against displays of road rage, but it doesn't stop people from doing some really weird and dangerous stuff just to show their displeasure.

(In constrast to say, Albuquerque. Drivers are a lot nicer and polite. They just have traffic signals that are confusing, and the regulations on signs and lines placement sets you up for failure).