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Especially in Europe there are many locations that don't make a lot of progress. Some locations are in construction for over a year now, others just got announced and never started.

It's mostly a problem with getting permits and connections to the power grid, but still it's not a great performance. I don't know if they could do better.
First: shouting insults does not make your argument stronger, it merely suggests a lack of content.

People who donate to Trump are mostly people who are fed up with the way the USofA is being run by the current incumbent, i.e. they are people who are fed up with the bullshit. The mere fact that you don't like Trump as a person does not make those people non-'democrats' (you forgot the quotes around that word, 'democrats'). The type of rhetoric you're spouting polarises the discourse and does nothing for the democratic (sans quotes) process. May the best candidate win, granted the choice goes between two sub-optimal candidates [1] but that seems to be the way things go in that/your(?) country.

As an aside, can you tell me what irks you so much about Trump's policies - not Trump as a person, his policies - which makes you think so bad of people who support him? I think it safe to assume those people support him because they liked his policies, not because they are enamoured of his personality. Now that even CNN - not directly a MAGA propaganda outlet - publishes that More than half, 55%, of all Americans say they see Trump’s presidency as a success while [r]egarding Biden’s presidency so far, 61% say it’s a failure [2] there does seem to be a majority of people who support those policies versus the current ones.

[1] Biden being a long past hist due date habitual liar and grifter who has made his family profit wildly from his near half century in government, Trump being an egomaniacal billionaire who likes nothing better than to be at the centre of attention and is more than willing to let silly details like truth slide to get to that position.

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/28/politics/biden-trump-nost...
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These definitions are manufactured by HR. Being fired means being fired. What reasons the company had for it are irrelevant. Most employment in the US is at will, so the company doesn't need to provide a reason for the firing. In fact they don't even need to have a reason.

Plus most layoffs are also taking performance into account. If every department is tasked with cutting headcount by 10%, they aren't going to pull the numbers out of a hat. The lowest performers will be the ones shown the door.
"...but the system that can kill you is still safer than the average driver!"
Don't forget that while we have competing interests and disagree strongly on many things - overall we are friends. When someone does something that works we all benefit. Sometimes we decide what "they" did is better can switch, other times we decide what "they" did is worth overall but they did develop something that we didn't that we can use. Even if "they" are clearly worse, "we" cannot do it all and so both of us specializing in something different results in both of us getting the benefits of both to at least some extent.
I’m sceptical about the claims here - seems like all of the growth is coming from Eastern Europe catching up.

True exponential growth requires that everyone get richer over time, all the time, even the rich.

It would be wonderful for the world if Europe could grow as rich as the States, so I hope the article is right.
We're everything a world where cars won't run without phoning home first.
> Optimus robot, self driving taxis, licensing self driving tech, training AI models

I think it might be worth saying that:

1) Tesla has already accomplished its stated mission of making EV cars mainstream. This was Musk's goal from the beginning, and (insofar it is true that he's interested in working on "world changing problems" and not in making money per se) the mission of Tesla as a driver of transformation is accomplished.

2) Musk might have decided since a while that Tesla has a desperate need to pivot, because being a mass producer of a mature technology in the West is not sustainable in the long run.
“ "But with regulators in both Europe and the US pushing the firm to open the Supercharger network to owners of other electric vehicles, it will offer less of an advantage in the future." “

How exactly does making the Tesla charging infrastructure system open for other car manufacturers “nationalize” the network?

Network still owned and managed by private company. Private company has still manages day to day maintenance. Maybe private company gets a small kickback in return or tax deduction? But this is far from a nationalization of a privately owned infrastructure.

Looking of the popular VOD service, I see Tesla offers membership for non-Tesla owners and they can pay the membership fee or the market price at point of sale.

https://youtu.be/W-oaVLRH-js
Yes, but performance for my normal needs were already quite fine.
> I don't know if there are enough like minded drivers to make this a large effect

The disaster is that there has been a large enough component of buyers that did not care about the issue, and that had no idea of the possibility of the issue.

It created this perverse market together with many others.
The movements on a chess board can be mapped using purely x and y coordinates, so it's 2D.
Single-use packaging is just waste. Poor or not is irrelevant.

That’s why it so ironic sometimes to see west slowly turning into soviet union :-)

From recycling to cancel culture, just with 100 years of delay
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How does one learn more about virtual power plants? Are there books you'd recommend? I am interested in learning both about the tech involved and the market dynamics.
Check out Lilian Weng's blog https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-01-27-the-transforme...
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Being able to locate one's own vehicle is a common feature among modern cellphone equipped cars.
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"Who among us hasn’t walked up to a drinking fountain, expecting a bubbling stream of life-giving water, only to experience the crushing disappointment of a measly trickle after smashing in that button?"

That'd be me. I traveled quite a bit all over the world and these seem to be a pretty American thing.

It's also a bit strange because for the countries that have them it is generally not recommended to drink tap water and for the few countries where tap water is considered safe to drink they are virtually non-existent.
Only a king can fork a king. This should have had a name change or a statement of intent from the original author.
Musk has clarified: "Tesla still plans to grow the Supercharger network, just at a slower pace for new locations and more focus on 100% uptime and expansion of existing locations"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1785406795814510785
It’s unfortunate that they are not only putting themselves in danger, but also the lives of people all around them.
> and so you could install Linux without its own partition right beside DOS. Then you'd use loadlin which would load the kernel into memory and run it, basically shoving DOS out of memory.

It was more than just "install Linux without its own partition". It was "install Linux in a directory like C:\LINUX like a normal DOS application and start it from MS-DOS like a normal DOS application".

It's hard to overstate how important that was at the time. If you had a system running MS-DOS (like most people), with or without Windows 3.x (which also started from MS-DOS like a normal DOS application), you could install Linux without changing anything on your system, and if you didn't like it, you could simply delete the corresponding directory and everything would be gone. That (together with small Linux distributions which ran from a pair of floppies) made it much easier and low-risk to try Linux, and IMHO was one of the things which helped it gain enough marketshare and mindshare to later stand on its own.

(That was my own path with Linux: I started running it as a "normal DOS application" with UMSDOS and LOADLIN, then I moved to a dedicated partition with ext2 and LILO, and finally I discarded MS-DOS completely and gave the whole disk to Linux.)
What does the EU even do these days? Can't launch things to space, and gets salty that SpaceX is launching Sats for them, can't make shells for a war that literally at their doorstep and relies on countries literally half a world away to do basically everything for them (US and SK), barely has a navy that can patrol waters literally next to them and has to rely on the US for boats. Has fewer Carriers than single nations and the ones that the UK has are Diesel because they couldn't afford nuclear power.

What does the EU even do?
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They're free to leave and should state their reasons. What they're not free to do is disrupt the mission of the company and feel entitled to do so without any consequences. These people weren't fired because they answered some question incorrectly on a mandatory survey. They laid on the floor, prevented people from doing their work and harassed people making many feel uncomfortable. When you see someone like that behaving at your business, do you stop and think "let me hear them out"

It's not complicated.
Tesla going forward with next level fSD and competition (Ford) is recalling 130k vehicles for hands free tech.

Optimistic about your equity you invested or the problems they are working on? I mean equity been overstated for awhile - but that's the Musk effect. However Tesla is still far ahead of the competition - I see more Teslas coming on the roads around here then any other EV (not as many cybertrucks though).
I drive a Jeep. Jeep owners tend to skew libertarian & DIY. Owners have found you can bypass or cut power to the modules via fuse pulls. I bet you can do this on other makes.

If anybody cares, I can post more. I have not done this myself.
> Just leave your key with your lawyer or a notary, and existing regulation about fiduciary duty handle everything just fine.

Would you really trust your lawyer with your bitcoin seed? If they stole everything from you, how would you even prove it?
Deep integration with the car is the most difficult piece of the Supercharger system to achieve for any other charging network. They have the best in-car and in-app charging experience, with the best routing to chargers and scheduling tools. Most networks still require you to use an app or RFID card to start a charge, Tesla you just plug in.

The other is probably just scale of the parent company in terms of being able to build out and service the network. They tend to have more prominent, nicer locations for their stations.
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My guess is, it was too expensive. That was a huge team with a huge capex outlay and for what? They still had to slash prices to keep moving inventory.
You claimed „It's CCS type 3“, which it is not.

Instead the NACS is the proprietary Tesla plug but using the CCS protocol instead of a CAN-based one. Practically this means that all superchargers remain compatible and it also means that all cars with the CCS plug are not compatible (unless the plug is changed or an adapter is used). Therefore your statement is misleading in addition to being plain wrong about „Type 3“. Tesla has, of course, always also supported the CCS outside of the United States, both inside the superchargers and inside the cars.
A message board united by technology and IQ-identification would be likely to think that.
Yeah but elevated permissions may be needed from time to time anyway. Either on the client, the baremetal server or the container. Running everything as root is even for containers not recommended. Considering how popular these have become, it's a bit of an irony that systemd isn't available on the container without considerable detours.
>On the convenience front, the discs were a foot across, about half a pound, easily damaged, and had to be flipped half way through a film.

there is one picture near the end of the article ("Domesday") that does show the scale relative to a standard keyboard/monitor.
>I've been in the market searching for a car for sometime, and I was about to go with a Tesla, but this layoff pushed me away from the brand.

Depends on the reasons for it. If their performance is low why not lay them off?
You're aware that the person you're responding to could be a direct/first-generation survivor?
Your parent is either misinformed or misleading. At least in the US (not familiar with Europe) there haven’t even been mentions of nationalization.

Beyond that, the “pressure” for interoperability has entirely been tied to federal funding. The feds have money available to build electric charging stations, but the catch is that it has to work with cars from other manufacturers. If you don’t take the money, you can do whatever you want
This phenomenon is well known in tech. "The product doesn't work as well as expected. We can painstakingly investigate all the different issues one by one, root cause them, and put in the effort to fix them. Or we could just throw out the whole codebase and start again from scratch. That's sure to be more effective right?" Spoiler – it isn't. Musk just threw out a thousand+ years of combined experience in the area, and the new team is going to come in and repeat years' worth of the same mistakes in order to realize why things are the way they are.
Well that's good to hear - take care fellow traveller.
I am not following the train of thought. All I am reading is yet another wild projection.

SMS is the lowest common denominator across all mobile networks and is the ultimate fallback option for a smartphone if more modern messaging standards or extensions (RCS, iMessage or whatever) are not supported. Degrading SMS means losing 3/4/5G certification and losing the telecommunication authority certification in every single country around the world, consequently instantly losing sales. No sane company that is in the business of selling phones would dare to lose the certification on a global scale. SMS messaging has worked like a charm on iPhones, and I am not sure what the insinuation is all about.

GSMA, the governing body of 3/4/5/6G, has neither adopted nor endorsed RCS up to date, and it is supported at the core network layer only by a fraction of mobile operators across the world. SMS, being a 21st century rotary dial phone equivalent, is supported by every mobile network today however outdated it is. RCS is not.

The original spat over RCS, however, concerned a few sticking points:

1. Google becoming a gatekeeper and holding messages until they could be delivered to the recipient;
2. RCS not being end-to-end encrypted;
2½.Google providing a proprietory encryption protocol with no open source implementation and – *at first* – encryption only being available to P2P conversations (aka FaceBook Messenger style secret chats but not to group chats[0]);
3. Owing to (1), Google gaining the ability to track users via the use of metadata;
4. Only a limited number of Android handsets supporting RCS in the beginning.

I have no stake in the game, but, if I were Apple, I would have not agreed to RCS, either, considering the constraints.

As of May 2024, RCS is still not part of the GSMA portfolio of standards. From the mobile network perspective, it does not exist.

[0] Added later.
1. Bananas are yellow due to a biochemical process known as carotenogenesis, which involves the synthesis and accumulation of carotenoid pigments.

2. Bananas are yellow due to a specific carotenoid called beta-cryptoxanthin, which gives the fruit its characteristic yellow hue.

3. Bananas are yellow due to a gradual increase in the concentration of carotenoid pigments as the fruit ripens and chlorophyll levels decrease.

4. Bananas are yellow due to a series of enzymatic reactions that convert starch into sugars and break down the green chloroplasts, revealing the underlying yellow carotenoids.

5. Bananas are yellow due to a change in the pH levels within the fruit cells during ripening, which triggers the production of yellow carotenoid pigments.

6. Bananas are yellow due to a genetic trait inherited from their wild ancestors, which enabled the development of carotenoid pigments as a way to attract seed dispersers.

7. Bananas are yellow due to a complex interplay between various plant hormones, such as ethylene and abscisic acid, which regulate the ripening process and pigment formation.

8. Bananas are yellow due to a metabolic shift from chlorophyll synthesis to carotenoid synthesis as the fruit reaches maturity.

9. Bananas are yellow due to a natural defense mechanism that involves the production of carotenoid pigments, which protect the fruit from oxidative stress during ripening.

10. Bananas are yellow due to a evolutionary adaptation that helps the fruit stand out against the green foliage, making it more visible to potential seed dispersers.

The output of an LLM is usually randomly sampled from the top few highest probability next token/word predictions, but the model itself has no idea which word the sampler will pick. It presumably has some conceptual plan of what could follow "a", or any of it's other suggestions, but any such plan (high level prediction) is then rethought from scratch once "a" is generated.

The model not only can, but has to, change it's mind after each word generated, so this "planning ahead" is very ephemeral - more like a freestyle rapper making it up on the fly than someone thinking deeply about how best to reply and how to express it.
Great. Thanks!

I wish there was something like "can you run it" but for LLMs.
The US got to be a dollar-pringing superpower because of its commitment to economic growth.

If you look at places with easy firing, I think you’ll find they are growing extremely rapidly. Vietnam and China used to be the poster children for kids making sneakers and look at them grow today.
Not on iPad IMO.
Yes Minister had 'funny' skit back in the day about Salami Tactics demonstrating this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-UqIIvang
Reminds me of “I no longer build software, I now build furniture out of wood.”
https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...
Also their entire lineup of actual cars is now outdated.

The ark is almost Shakespearean. Pioneering renegade builds an empire, lets it go to his head, and leads two thirds of it to ruin. I just hope spacex escapes the same fate.
> Now that the charger standard is open […]

For anyone curious, this will be SAE J3400 when finalized:

* https://www.sae.org/standards/content/j3400/

* https://driveelectric.gov/charging-connector

Previously the open standard was SAE J1772 / IEC 62196 Type 2:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_J1772

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_2_connector
There are at least 3 different ways of expressing colour as covered by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors, and given the wide propensity of newer terminals to misidentify what they are (I know I have some additional checking in my shell startup to unbreak things if needed), and/or bad termcap/terminfo settings on older systems, sending terminal sequences that are apparently supported but are not happens surprisingly often (enough such that I've made sure to always install two different terminals which use different rendering backends, e.g. xterm and VTE).
This is from a couple of weeks ago and was already reported in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40068767
That's a very good point. I have been strongly influenced by Isabelle and Isar, which get a lot of things right.

I think the future looks like this: The resulting text will be natural language (LLM powered), layering upon the actual formal logic. I think Abstraction Logic is actually best suited for this scenario, and I am designing Practal from scratch for it.
So you admit it's the third plug used by CCS. You've made progress.

The Tesla plug is no longer proprietary. It's been standardized as SAE J3400.

CCS won.
Have you used it? I find that when you use it as designed and pay attention it is much safer and easier to drive. Especially in road trips I arrive fresher than I would if I were manually driving the entire time. Certainly there are dangers but there are already huge benefits.
Oh, yes, please! Make the web even shittier than it already is!
> Vote your car purchases accordingly?

And wait for the next internal administration to change policy.

The issue is with the car being connected!
> Musk might have decided since a while that Tesla has a desperate need to pivot, because being a mass producer of a mature technology in the West is not sustainable in the long run.

I'm sorry just... what? Being in a position to sell products to a robust and demanding market is a bad thing? What in the Business Major brain are we saying here?

And frankly calling their products "mature technology" feels like a stretch given Tesla is regularly stubbing it's toe on pretty benign design problems that numerous other automakers have had nailed down for decades.
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It's a valid reason to not give money to someone you dislike. Tesla is not owed his money because they were first movers in the serious EV market, especially as time goes on and more and more options exist.
I would compromise if they offer me in trade ability to shoot trespassers/"roamers" who are criminal traffickers.
That's the free market ideology framing (supported by free market economists). Not everybody agrees.
Nice, thank you. This is informative.

Though I really have to wonder if there couldn't be a way to generate the SQL constraints out of the data declaration as well. Golang's struct tags are likely not going far enough though.
> The idea that error handling is "not part of the code" is silly though. My impression of people that hate Go's explicit error handling is that they don't want to deal with errors properly at all. "Just catch exceptions in main and print a stack trace, it's fine."

I'm honestly asking as someone neutral in this, what is the difference? What is the difference between building out a stack trace yourself by handling errors manually, and just using exceptions?

I have not seen anyone provide a practical reason that you get any more information from Golangs error handling than you do from an exception. It seems like exceptions provide the best of both worlds, where you can be as specific or as general as you want, whereas Golang forces you to be specific every time.

I don't see the point of being forced to deal with an "invalid sql" error. I want the route to error out in that case because it shouldn't even make it to prod. Then I fix the SQL and will never have that error in that route again.
> And also Ireland, who have really done well the past two decades.

Ireland was excluded form the original article statistics since it's skews the data a lot, due to all the multinational companies being HQ there. It's kind of like the Delaware of the EU.
In code various functions are registered with their function and parameter definition. Based on text/voice based query, the framework uses OpenAI function calling to invoke the right function.
Better now than sooner I suppose since they got to collect for all those unauthorized access 'uses'. And by reacting 'swiftly' now that it has come to their attention, come out looking like a good player. If they really felt bad about it, there should be retroactive credits at the least.
If their actions spoke louder than their words I would actually be interested.
But that's what they did didnt they ? They pressed a button and they've posted it on HN. They actually did more to publish the button pressing than they did to keep the repo alive.

So yeah, pardon my lack of enthusiasm towards someone who says stuff.