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> The reasons are not fully understood.

As someone who lived in NYC all their life and took public transit to school - buses suck. You have to stand in whatever weather is present: pouring rain, freezing cold, sweltering heat. Maybe there's a shelter, maybe someone is sleeping in it, maybe it's already full because it can only shelter a few people. No matter how "big" the stop is its always the same fucking pathetically small shelter. The ride is substandard with poor HVAC and in the colder months when it rains its miserable and very uncomfortable - damp and cold. Then the drivers have to deal with morons on the road so you get jerks and sudden stops from braking. As soon as I could I bought a car and to this day avoid buses like the plague. Thankfully I only have to take the subway to get to Manhattan as I live 2 blocks from the A train.
>widespread use

We are talking about the early 80s at worst. It would have consolidated by now.
All types, although we are finding high interest in this tool from folks in tech
“They” is a private profit-seeking corporation. Local governments claim monopolies on roads and public transport in the places Waymo operates. Existing public transportation infrastructure is also being heavily underused as both MUNI and BART in the Bay Area are facing financial shortfalls from a lack of ridership, and of the ridership they do have, there is a lot more fare evasion than there used to be.

There isn’t a single day that goes by when I’m passing through a station in San Francisco anymore that I don’t see someone (and usually multiple someones) hopping the gates into BART and several times a week I’ll see one of the fare gates to MUNI has been forced open and is out of service. MUNI and BART could probably stave off some of the losses if they just put actual police there to ticket and/or arrest fare evaders, at least when it’s busiest.
Those reasons are similar to why Americans aggressively dislike public transportation. A single digit percentage of experiences are horrible (or worse).

Trapped in a small space with sometimes psychotic, violent, smelly, modestly insane people. Somehow the proponents of public transport haven't figured out that's undesirable. It's not at all remotely worth the risks, unless you have no other good options.
Vehicle depreciation doesn’t matter unless you’re selling the thing.

Wear and tear will be reduced with an all-electric drivetrain, which is uncommon for Ubers outside of California.

Costs will be further reduced by bulk maintenance and solar charging.

Autonomous vehicles will also have extremely high utilization rates since they can run 24 hours a day, versus a cab or Uber vehicle which sits idle, losing money.
It’s hard enough for bike teams to get sponsorship. Adding that burden on the sponsor could kill the sport.
You can probably run it on your local PC at 1 token/minute.
Alongside the other reasons mentioned (comfort, right of ways, dedicated corridors), it's blatantly obvious where trams run due to the tracks in the ground.

With a bus, there's always the potential the route has changed, or your specific bus is skipping over your stop for some reason. With a tram, even if you've never been to that city or part of the city before, you know there's going to be a tram along those tracks, and you simply need to walk along the road till you find the stop.
Without knowing anything about the system at all - does it use the same payment system as the buses?
Don't believe everything you read on the internet, especially the places pushing an agenda. As a self-described non-douche (at least, I don't go around judging people simply for buying a particular model of car), the CT is actually quite a good vehicle. I've had mine for a few months now and really like it. Granted I don't use it much for "truck" stuff but it has been a fantastic family car and the attention it gets is incredible.
This is Elon, who lies perpetually about everything. Absolutely no chance he ends up giving Trump $200 million.
I think you hit a interesting point. If you define a very specific set of criteria to judge skills by, e.g. "classical piano", then unguided exploration might be a worse starting point than no exploration.

But, if we accept a less restrictive/strict outcome, then unguided exploration is very likely a net positive. I think many well known "unorthodox" musicians did this, and also attributed it to exactly that. Though I cannot recall specific examples. So take it with a grain of salt. I'll look up who I suspect.

Edit: Searching for examples of largely self taught musicians, there are lots of examples. What this implies, probably varies wildly. So feel free to correct the examples I encountered: Chopin, Hendrix, Schubert, Uematsu, Bowie.
Are you referring to Audi's EVs? Or Audi in general?

Either way, looked it up out of curiosity: Audi's parent company, Volkswagen, currently has a market cap of ~58B EUR with revenue over 300B EUR in 2023. Tesla has a market cap of $772B with revenue just under $100B in 2023.

Tesla's stock is trading (and has) at a staggering multiple for the automotive industry. It's fair to call out that their competitors may have their own struggles, but negative growth in Tesla's primary product line is going to make it increasingly tough for investors to stomach that premium.

Elon has a gift for selling a vision, so I certainly wouldn't bet against Tesla on any short-term horizon, but I struggle to imagine that alone will be able to carry their stock price in perpetuity.
Unfortunately open source really just means an open API these days. The API is heavily intertwined with closed source.
> cost per trip will never make sense for this to be a viable business model in the way Waymo presents itself as a product

How do you figure?

In any case, Waymo is presently positioned as a premium product. That looks likely to remain true for at least half a decade.
According to the chart in the article the EU seems to be building at about the same pace as Russia, so I'm not sure it is a great example for the success of bureaucracy. And is East Asia particularly bureaucratic? The idea that I get is that building a train line over there isn't going to be held up for years in environmental review and lawsuits, but I could be wrong.
This has never made sense to me because it is essentially arguing that, say, the fifty year period between 1960 and 2010 doesn't exist.

I don't care if maintaining large roads and power and water is expensive. I'm happy to pay for the increased quality of life.

I don't see how this is unsustainable at all. It might need higher taxes or some other way of ensuring that ongoing maintenance actually gets paid for. So what?
Something I didn't realize before trying one is the different assist settings available. The lowest one just made it feel like I'd slept better and was having an easy ride. The highest assist setting had a really obvious "kick".

The bike I used didn't have a "cruise" setting that moved the bike along while your legs sat still, like I've seen on some bikes.
Relative to everybody.

Megapack is a product they've been perfecting for many years and it's already at least a v3 product.

Not only they are not using Panasonic cells in Megapack (those go exclusively to their higher-end cars), if you think all it takes to create a competing product is to have money to buy battery cells then you exemplify "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing".

Megapack is a product with lots of sophisticated electronics that takes serious engineering to develop, it's at least v3 product with years of improvements. You need high-powered voltage conversion, battery management hardware and software so that it doesn't explode etc.

Tesla is a clear leader in the field: every major energy project announced, from Australia to California, uses Tesla megapack. I don't hear much about any of the competition.

Tesla is leading in scale and expanding rapidly (just finished ramping up first U.S. factory and building another factory in China).

Even for Tesla to build another 40 GWh factory which is mostly copy & paste of their existing megapack factor, it's a year long process.

If you start with battery cells, you're looking into a multi-year design & testing & initial production for the first megapack-like product and then at least another year to scale your first factory to 40 GWh yearly production.

By which time Tesla will have few more factories and v5 of Megapack.
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And once you've got lots of crop pickers you can transition to management. Then you can start a marketplace, then upgrade that to a chain of supermarkets, then upgrade that to a global FMCG conglomerate, and then your birth rates will also decline and population go to zero.

It's a sad realization that modern life which we deem the right way to exist is basically just wrong. That which is unsustainable by definition cannot be sustained after all.
SQL Server has supported Linux since 2017
Here you go. Opens end of the week and over the weekend: https://maps.app.goo.gl/v3HFoRTtUPoug8yq8?g_st=com.google.ma...
I opt in, and am always very excited to participate in this beta. Opting out isn’t going to change the deployment scale.
And yes, it's beyond kind of cool. It's a total game changer to be able to ride that fast with so little exertion. It feels like a superpower.

Fun fact: net net, people are more active with an ebike, even though they expend less energy at any point of any particular ride.
Spurious patterns and where to find them
They had to go that way to get back to the parking lot. The alternative would be walking on the ground, which is even more dangerous and why the boardwalk exists.

Every time I see posts like this admonishing people I am astonished by the apparent ego of the authors and the power of assumptions.
Once self driving is solved, the custom hardware and software is largely a fixed cost which can pay for itself over long time horizons.

Meat-based drivers must be continually paid and don’t get any cheaper over time.
Just get a regular pedelec that doesn't look like a regular pedelec. For example something from Fazua (https://fazua.com/), it doesn't scream pedelec right away, still it provides decent electric support and can also be used without the motor. There are for sure way more stealth solutions.
Just use private use area for your made-up-on-the-spot language. It's not a problem.

Do you have a symbols that satisfy the unicode consortium criteria? Submit a proposal.

Here is a good guide how to do is and be successfull: https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode/?tab=readme-ov-file#less...

Edit: I looked at some proposal for in Unicode 16. Some proposals are of poor quality (e.g. leafless tree emoji), some are good (numerals for Eastern Pwo Karen and Pa’O).
You talk a lot about performance in this thread but I haven't seen any numbers. What is the performance requirement before it's "too slow"? On what data size?

Part of your issue is doing the calculation on read. If you can get away with slower writes you can store all available slots for the day on write at minute/5min etc granularity, then remove used slots from the tree as they are taken.
It's political BS usually. I always point out to certain types that constantly harp on Pelosi that there are people that earn more than her with the (R) next to their name, but they scoff at it and say Pelosi=bad. I agree none of them should be trading, but the hypocrisy is boring at this point.
Nationally yes, but states can do it independently (piecemeal).
The Waymo-Zeekr robotaxi has come to San Francisco
On one hand you are correctly concerned.
On the other hand, how much code are you (and everyone else for that matter) running that is not provisioned by "randos on the internet"?
Even if you compiled it yourself, do you check all your kernel code and drivers?
Firmware? That can just as easily crash your computer and even make it impossible to recover.
If you main worry if that "windows driver" was "Turing Complete" you should be horrified that some kernels even have their own scripting built in or available, BSDs can use Lua, and even Linux has Lua kernel module (lunatik).
Out of curiosity and domain ignorance, why is the performance of something like your scheduling example something that needs to be optimized so much that you’ve tried so many structures already to no avail?
Yeah.. and Facebook said they would enforce censorship on their platforms to ensure content safety.. that didn't turn out so well. Now it just censors anything remotely controversial, such as World War 2 historical facts or even just slightly offensive wording.
I don't think this is correct. 5 years power usage of 4090 is $2600 giving TCO of ~$4300. RTX 6000 Ada starts at $6k for the card itself.

https://gpuprices.us
They might be able to charge a premium for the unmanned experience. It’s at least more consistent, if not outright better, than a human-driven ride. In my city Uber costs nearly $100 per hour and the drivers are hit or miss; most are fine, but I’ve had a few near-collisions and wrong turns. Plus they cancel on me if I want to go somewhere they don’t like.
You have an overflow issue in iOS (mobile) Safari.
My experience with an e-bike is that range anxiety goes away. You don’t mind traveling further because you know that if you get really tired, the motor will bring you back.
Three simple facts here: 1) This is obviously abnormal enough for the people in the video to flee 2) the aftermath - (1:15+) - clearly demonstrates it was unsafe to be there and 3) there is no way to predict if the next eruption would be equally abnormal or worse unless one were trained in this field

There is no arguing those facts, it's 100% clear from that video you linked. Am I going to stay away from the park the rest of the day? I don't know, maybe. It really depends on the circumstances. I am not a volcanologist. I'm not even a scientist. I don't understand the specifics involved here. If it were me, and I can clearly see something abnormal happened, I would NOT risk going back unless I can somehow verify it was safe to do so. That's common sense. It might involve finding a park ranger to speak with or calling the ranger station to get more information. I've been to the geyser at Iceland where they have signs that explicitly tell you about the unpredictable nature of it and how people have been badly burned. This is not a no-risk situation, especially when the situation is not the norm.

I've been to the big island of Hawaii during volcanic activity and they explicitly tell you to stay away from it due to the gasses, rocks, lava, etc. Maybe that elevates my skepticism over the safety here, but it seems that's for good reason.

EDIT: here you go mate, you don't need to look at Hacker News comments. Take it from the Park itself:

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/240723.htm

> Biscuit Basin, including the parking lot and boardwalks, are temporarily closed for safety reasons. The Grand Loop Road remains open.

> Park staff and staff from USGS will monitor conditions and reopen the area once deemed safe.
I flew into SFO recently and got a BART to Milbrae (a few minutes, regular) and from there a Caltrain towards San Jose to Mountain View. From an outsiders perspective (living in London) if you live/work near one of the Caltrain stations I guess it's not too bad. The Caltrain feels slowish (and looks like something out of Mad Max), but does the job. You better be sure you have some way of getting from the Caltrain station to wherever you want to go on the other end though. I thought I'd walk to my hotel as it didn't look too far on the map but was actually a 1h30 walk!
Well, it's not as bad as Q1. But way down from last year.

It's amusing to see what Tesla puts in a filing in which material mis-statements are felonies.
It's quite different from what Musk says when he can get away with it.

The phrase "full self driving" is never written out. They do use "FSD (Supervised)" twice, both with the footnote in tiny type "Active driver supervision required; does not make the vehicle autonomous." The closest thing to a mention of real autonomous driving is "Looking ahead to future
autonomous driving and robotaxi service, we continued progress on software and hardware
development." Remember that Tesla announced the reveal of their robo-taxi for August 8, 2024, but that's been cancelled.[1]

On the battery front, Tesla is having a bad year.[2] Tesla is trying to make their own cells, rather than buying them from Panasonic or CATL. It's not working well at all. Also, note the total absence of any mention of solid-state batteries. That's clearly the coming technology, and Tesla is nowhere in that space. (Yes, solid state batteries are real. On sale at Home Depot now.[3])

This is a big car company having a so-so year. Ford and GM have years like this. Ford's P/E ratio is around 15. GM's is around 6. Tesla's is around 68. Nothing in this report justifies that.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-11/tesla-pla...

[2] https://electrek.co/2024/07/17/elon-musk-might-give-up-tesla...

[3] https://www.homedepot.com/p/YOSHINO-Solid-State-Portable-Pow...
The presence of bureaucracy is universal, but the amount of it and how fast it moves varies massively.
I wonder if you can save significant money on the vehicle itself. You could even design a one seat version, which I suspect would be the majority of rides. It would also save some gas.

I know it wouldn't be enormous, and probably zero savings on maintenance. But perhaps you could save 25 percent all told?
He also went on making another absurd statement. That would expect this "Unsupervised Self Driving" technology, to be approved in all countries by regulators until the end of the year. And no, no analyst asked how does he expect something it's not available yet to be approved, ( presumably after product release ) by regulators in multiple countries, within presumably 2 to 3 months...

Just in Germany, they would take 12 months to find the correct paper form....
These were the crucial bits for me:

> "Sundays are for listing everything that went wrong during the week on the blackboard we painted on the wall of my study, so we can figure out what needs to change."

and

> "I liked to think about our life as a piece of software. We had our routines and our principles, this was the code. We ran the code by living it. The list on the blackboard was the bug log, a record of the ways our routines broke down in contact with reality. We kept going through the code until our life did what we wanted it to do, more or less."

Love the idea of bug log/dev cycle as a metaphor to use for improving relationships.
> Autonomous vehicles will also have extremely high utilization rates since they can run 24 hours a day, versus a cab or Uber vehicle which sits idle, losing money.

Math doesn't work out there.

You need N number of vehicles to give good service (low wait times) during peak hours and special events, and a much smaller number of vehicles the rest of the time.

Only a small portion of a fleet will need to run 24/7.

Now that said, they can cycle vehicles in and out of 24 hour shifts to spread the wear and tear more evenly across the fleet, assuming there is a benefit to doing that.
I go to Paulina Lake every year. It's a glorious place, even with all the geological activity.
I think you might be underestimating how many potential customers are unwilling to buy from Tesla after Elon Musk decided to openly support the MAGA wing of republicans.

Not sure why that makes you more inclined to buy a Tesla or flip someone the bird?
With these interest rates? Bold move, especially from Google. I hope that it pans out.
Flying back to the US earlier this year in June, I declined to have my face scanned. The agent was rude and aggressive because I “didn’t tell him I wanted to opt out before he started.”

He went overboard in terms of harassment and intimidation but he did not win. Fuck that guy.

Also who cares whether the photo is immediately deleted? The metrics are what matter and those are kept.
Isn't the powermeter usually measuring tension forces on the pedal arms? So it won't measure the forces of a motor which is probably inside one of the bearings.
What does net net mean in this context? Is the implication that there's more riding ebikes vs regular ones and so they're more active? Hard to imagine that there's people taking long rides on ebikes, if they even last that long (25+ miles rides).
This isn't helpful. The community...

Speak for yourself, please. The term is much older than 1998, with one easily-Googled example being https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000639879.pdf , and an explicit case of IT-related usage being https://i.imgur.com/Nw4is6s.png from https://www.google.com/books/edition/InfoWarCon/09X3Ove9uKgC... .

Unless a registered trademark is involved (spoiler: it's not) no one, whether part of a so-called "community" or not, has any authority to gatekeep or dictate the terms under which a generic phrase like "open source" can be used.
Can they magically avoid traffic?
> MUNI and BART could probably stave off some of the losses if they just put actual police there

At least in New York it’s politically touchy to discuss penalising fare skippers. (Granted, our police are municipal while the subway is state.)
Yeah, you learn valuable lessons like “don’t mess with the code this guy makes, he puts traps on it”
The worst is when you finally

quit that dead end job | end that toxic relationship | start the business you've been dreaming of | write that book you're planning

and your friends suddenly start telling you how glad they are that you finally figured out the bad thing was hurting you.

Could have used that info while I was in the middle of it, my dude. Tell the people you care about when they are doing it wrong. If they can't see it, they will appreciate the outside viewpoint. If they can't take it, they're not good friends.
Hope it does.

I’m also the person who consistently opts out of airport body scanners too, much to the embarrassment of whomever is unfortunate enough to be travelling with me. It is my petty indignation- if you want to violate me then I’m going to make it resource consuming for you also, should I have the capability.

Reactions of the airport staff are surprisingly mixed, many don't mind at all - though universally they will force you to wait for 10-30minutes, though Gatwick staff in particular consistently repeats that “this won’t always be possible”, which is a weird statement to make to be honest, but I've travelled through there many times and they try to talk me about of it this way.
If net profit was 0.5B, and next quarter they lost regulatory credits, it would make even more sense. Tesla would have a negative net profit next quarter, all else equal.
"The music likes me not" - "The music" is the grammatical subject, so the third-person singular conjugation "likes" is used. "Me", being the object form of the first-person pronoun, is the object of the sentence.

It's comparable to how in Spanish, you'd say "Me gusta la música" and not "Yo gusto la música" - the person that does the liking is the grammatical object, and the thing that the person likes is the grammatical subject.

Except, in English, unlike in Spanish, it used to be in free variation which things were the grammatical subject and object. You can even see how, in Old English, the person who liked was put in the dative case[0].

Translated into modern English, the lines would be:

You don't like the music.
You're wrong. I don't like the musician.

Another verb this happened to was "to think." The word "methinks" is a archaism/holdover from when "think" had the meaning "to seem" and so "me thinks" came from Old English "mē thyncth," which had the first-person in the dative case.

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lician#Old_English
My experience reflects this too. My hunch is that GPT-4o was trained to game the benchmarks rather than output higher quality content.

In theory the benchmarks should be a pretty close proxy for quality, but that doesn't match my experience at all.
Quick build your 100 person company and beat them. It's still early days for them, and you.
French, too: Avez-vous de la laine?