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For me it has been running with minor issues and very few crashes for the last month as my daily driver on both my work (Fedora) and my private (Gentoo) laptop.
Props for being open. As a tentative future customer, hearing you say "we're not reliable (yet)" isn't awesome, but it's infinitely better than what large cloud platforms do (that is, gaslight you into thinking nothing is wrong or it's your fault).

So all in all, fly.io is pulling ahead in my view :p
Is SAE Level 2 perhaps 'good enough' for most people, especially on highways (either flowing or stop-and-go), for now?

Comma's 3X seems to be something that increases driving convenience for people, but doesn't over-promise / under-deliver on its capabilities. Should Level 2 be what manufacturers be shooting for when they're shipping their 2024/5 models?

(Though certainly strive for higher levels in the future.)
Never assume as malice what can more easily be explained by incompetence or accident.
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I got mine for only $2000 and I feel conned. Nonstop empty promises, suddenly removed from the site as the date comes and goes. e.g., "Your car will be able to drop you off, park, and come get you by the end of the year. Really."

That was two years ago at least.
Dangerous for the potential consequences we cant predict, and the violation of ethical considerations for a sentient organism.

We dont fully understand consciousness or how it works, and by experimenting with these, we could inadvertently create something capable of suffering or even self awareness. Without a clear understanding of these processes and how they work, it's downright reckless and unethical to assume theres no risk. Dbingham rightly points out that we're treading into unknown and potentially unethical territory.
It doesn't noticeably change the taste of beverages to me. As to the chemical argument, that doesn't matter to me. I'm willing to trust that people have done the homework and that it's safe to drink.
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The auto manufacturer, as they're the entity actually operating the vehicle. You can absolve yourself of responsibility with enough legalese "self-driving doesn't work, it will kill your kitten, you're responsible when you plow though a Denny's" but it doesn't make it right. Mercedes is taking liability, it's possible.

You have no control over how your car's self-driving operates, you can take over control but that doesn't mean you're driving. You're the passenger in one of those student-driver cars, you might have your own steering wheel and brake but it doesn't make you the driver. The life-guard isn't the swimmer.
Who paid for this in your case?
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Pavel Durov is personally acquainted with the son of the UAE Prime Minister.

France just lost $10-20B over the arrest of Pavel Durov.
> It may be because of height restrictions - people build up as high as they can to get the view.

Here in London, a flat roof means you can add on an extra floor (raising the property value) without towering above adjacent homes (which would make it hard to get approval to build)

Does it leak? Not in the first few years - and if you're a house builder, anything after that is the buyer's problem.
they offer you the free trial again a few months after cancelling

so you can sign up for the free trial every time you want some counterfeit tat shipped cheaply

then immediately cancel it
It doesn't need to be perfectly random; you just need every sequence to have a nonzero probability of being generated.

"to be or not to be" may be more likely for a monkey on a keyboard to generate than a random string, actually. The keys to generate it are highly repetitive and relatively close together. That's true for any NL string: the lower entropy of NL strings are reflected in the keyboard layout. If the monkeys switch to Dvorak, they could probably generate Shakespeare even faster.
Easiest thing is to say that you are protecting children. End to end encryption is that technology which ensures that when your wife sends you the shopping list on WhatsApp, tavarish militsiyan cannot eavesdrop and see that you ran out of toilet paper and liquid soap. But they must see! What if you accidentally dropped some pedoporno on that list? It's for kids protection!

So with this attack on Telegram encryption, definitely EU didn't wanna see what political opponents are doing or who's organizing what protest so they undermine it before it happens. We're just hunting pedophiles, what's your problem?
Is entertainment value really a good goal for such a system? A key part of entertainment is typically surprise, and that's also normally a bad characteristic of a safety-critical system.
I build this solution for myself but it's available for everyone now.
"major controversial opinion of the Nazis was that buildings should be beautiful"

That's not controversial my friend. They should absolutely be beautiful. This is a belief that has been held for thousands of years up until the advent of the late 20th century.
Heck, I script with Elixir like it was Python.
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One is designed to provide medical grade protection for those around you from potential airborne bacteria you expel when you breathe and is primarily used for that purpose.

The other is designed for protection from the elements and is primarily useful for establishing anonymity, frequently when breaking the law.

Why be on a social forum if you aren’t participating in the conversation in good faith?
Problems for two papers down the line.
There are far more Teslas that have purchased FSD than Waymos, and the Waymos are trained on those specific streets.

Maybe Tesla should treat FSD like Waymo, only available in certain cities to a few hundred drivers? As a pedestrian that would make me feel a little better about it.
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Alas being stolen from biweekly is a fact of life independent of which country you live in.
> running them safely tho?

I'll grant safely jaywalking as a thing that can be done. Running a red light in a vehicle safely, no.

Best case the signal is malfunctioning. But that's a classic situation in which an L3 car should ask for a human.
I think the only company who takes liability when you use their self driving feature at the moment is Mercedes, and it is only active in very specific driving situations.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892154/mercedes-benz-dr...
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NASA used to want a fresh rocket, now they prefer the second flight to the first because any "bugs" get shaken out during the maiden voyage.

They've always made money on the bulk of their first flights but the income is much better for later flights where the booster is already paid for.
This is really not a surprise. And I'd like to clarify more misconceptions of modern science:

It isn't their identity the atoms give up, their hyperdimensional vibration synchronizes.

This is puzzling and spooky enough to warrant all of those flavored adjectives because science is convinced the Universe is smallest states built up into our universe, when in actuality the Universe is a singularity of potential which distributes itself (over nothing), and state continuously resolves through constructive and destructive interference (all space/time manifestation), probably bound by spin characteristic (like little knots which cannot unwind themselves.)

As universal potential exists outside of space and time (giving rise to it, an alt theory to the big bang), when particles are synchronizes (at any distance) the disposition (not identity), of their potentials are bound (identity would be the localized existential particle). Any destructive interference upon the hyperdimensional vibration will destroy the entanglement.

The domain to be explored is, what can we do with constructive interference?

Modern science worshipers will have to bite on this one, and admit their sacred axioms are wrong.
Tesla's decision not to release the data required to make such an assessment might be considered some sort of indication about what that data says
> On this, I assume we agree.

I am glad. There is no intent to misread, hence my caveat between the commas and the tilde: this is merely how I did perceive it.

> one of the most important safeguarding measures to prevent this in the prison system

I assert, and I thought demonstrated, that this does not in fact seem to be an effective safeguard.
Wow, I've never heard anything like that before (never used TG). Do you mind sharing what language that is? (or language family, ie. Germanic, Semitic, Sinitic etc.) Also, IIRC, the Taliban has used WhatsApp in official capacities.[0] Obviously IS and Taliban are not nearly the same, just thought it was worth mentioning. WhatsApp does not have the same public groups as TG so I guess you would have to already be in an IS adjacent WhatsApp group to get videos from them.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/world/asia/taliban-whatsa...
It has been a few years, but last time I looked, they were the obvious choice for the cost-conscious build-your-own-server market.

The HP/Dell markup for servers is insane.
Rarely, false negatives are way more likely than false positives.
I think you are grossly misunderstanding what does and does not make a CRDT. The existence of conflicts is fine - they just need to be solved automatically and in an eventually consistent manner so that all clients come up into the same state once they’re all online. “Conflict-free” refers to there not being any unsolvable conflicts or ambiguity in solving those conflicts. That’s why git isn’t but automerge is:

> The values of properties in a map in automerge can be conflicted if there are concurrent "put" operations to the same key. Automerge chooses one value arbitrarily (but deterministically, any two nodes who have the same set of changes will choose the same value) from the set of conflicting values to present as the value of the key.

> Sometimes you may want to examine these conflicts, in this case you can use getConflicts to get the conflicts for the key.

Basically it’s saying may be you want to look at other “older” values that may have been observed even though the conflict was resolved (eg showing to the user previous copies of the values).
> I'm sure some use them because they like the aesthetic, it would not be most people's first choice as a daily driver.

Aesthetic?

Durability and ruggedness are the distinguishing feature for these, and there are many people not working in offices who have that as a requirement for their "daily drivers".

Sure, some people might enjoy the aesthetic for its own sake, but that's not going to play much part of the product strategy.
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This stuff is not for consumers. It's for the military. That's why they cost so much and put so much emphasis on features that seemingly don't have any purpose (a bar code scanner and modularity but bad specs? auth readers but a terrible display and keyboard?)

As someone in the military, these are everywhere - that's their main customer. When judging this product, realize that's what it's built for.
I also like that the presence of Waymos has an overall traffic-calming effect even when human drivers are present.
With “emotion” do you mean trust?

It’s not “some random gov employee” btw. It’s our Minister of Health, Hugo de Jonge. He was on stage weekly (sometimes multiple times a week) to inform the population.
What I’m saying is that he didn’t do that correctly, knowingly or unknowingly. And for that, I lost trust in him (and Mark Rutte, who was always next to him).

I would expect the Minister of Health of my country would at least know that no vaccine is 100% safe. But alas.

Now Rutte is Sec. General of NATO, as a side note.
Mercedes is confident in their system, that's the difference
Yes, there are those with law-over-money and those with money-over-laws, in German the second one is often called "Realpolitik"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik

The only other similar jet might be the Gripen.
> anyone that works in the service industry has to have an iron-clad patient and friendly manner with all forms of idiots and jerks

> giving each of these users a clue that there's something they could be doing to make life easier for the maintainers of the project that they are using for free.

The intersection of these two things is something I've been mulling over lately. In other words, how do we respond to the implicit proposition of "I'm going to pay you $0 and expect the effort and patience of a well-compensated service industry employee"? Putting in the mental energy to deescalate conflicts and be diplomatic with challenging personalities is something I'm willing and able to do... but not for a hobby/unpaid volunteer project!

But then there are many different types of people behind those interactions, including but not limited to:

* Someone who's genuinely a sociopath, or at best an entitled ne'er-do-well who just wants free labor

* Someone in full "socially inept engineer mode," with terse communication that comes across as curt or demanding via text, but are otherwise reasonable if you spend more time talking with them; in their own mind, they're probably just being "direct" or "efficient"

* Someone new to open source etiquette, who doesn't yet know what a good bug report or feature request looks like, but are willing to learn with a little guidance

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference, and all of those cases can have the same effect of being rather draining, at least in the short term. Longer-term, I've had at least a few cases of someone who seemed like an entitled jerk at first blush, but turned out to be a valuable power user who stays engaged with the project and provides useful feedback. Of course power users come with their own challenges, like wanting to cram every feature under the sun into your project without appreciating the long-term maintenance costs. But at least they're more fun to work with!
"Ordered 2 flash drives both are probably counterfeit the first 1-2gb of write are at spec and then the speed drops to 1/3 of spec."

If you're writing to them constantly, that doesn't prove they are counterfeit. They will thermally throttle. Naturally, specs don't talk so much about that part. I have an older one that throttles down to almost nothing, but it is still technically writing correctly. I don't use it much anymore, because it's like 16GB which is nothing now, but I used to "liquid cool" it... by holding it with my fingers while writing. I suppose you could call it blood cooling for some metal cred. It wouldn't recover full speed, my blood cooling rig didn't have enough heat transfer (it's got some pretty serious rate limits on how much heat it can handle), but it would noticeably speed back up.

Now, if you can't write the entire space and read it all back with the data being retained, you've got counterfeit.
This is the full or classic version of clean room reverse engineering. Using unencumbered public documentation is relatively new, that kind of detailed documentation wasn't widely available. Car manufacturers still protect their service manuals with an agreement that basically says they can't be used for this but I think a lot of service centers stopped making people sign them.

The classic tech story that used this technique is the IBM BIOS and the resulting spread of "IBM PC-Compatible" machines. There is a little bit about it on the wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC%E2%80%93compatible). Random factoid, the Netflix Original "Halt and Catch Fire" has a depiction of doing this IBM clone reverse engineering and did a pretty good job at it.
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>The leaker has an absolute track record
It's not like it was handed a check that has been voided, and France's GDP is $3 trillion, and we're talking Saudi Arabia. I doubt major Western trading partners will defect.
We both know that's not true. It's either temporary posturing or a convenient excuse.
I can't tell if this comment is sarcastic or not. Are knives illegal? Is it reasonable for knives to be illegal for someone walking down the street? What kinds of knives are reasonable to be illegal?

It sounds like NY state's laws on knives are broad and vague. While the law pays specific attention to a few particular kinds of knives (like switchblades) a 3-inch blade that doesn't meet any specific criteria can be judged an illegal "dangerous knife" if the owner says it's necessary for protection, even if it was never used or even brandished as a weapon. https://www.akti.org/state-knife-laws/new-york/

We're in this weird world where you can carry a gun around and it's considered your right to do so, and but carrying a pocketknife or a leatherman might be a crime. You can wear a t-shirt with a hate-speech slogan, and you can wear kkk robes, but the minute you put on the hood that obscures your face, or god forbid a ski-mask, that's when you've apparently crossed a line. How did we get here?
> Well you see a wall you turn around then turn back the wall is still there. With enough training data the model will be able to pick up the state of the enemy because it has ALREADY learned the state of the wall due to much more numerous data on the wall.

It's really important to understand that ALL THE MODEL KNOWS is a mapping of [pixels, input] -> new pixels. It has zero knowledge of game state. The wall is still there after spinning 360 degrees simply because it knows that the image of a view facing away from the wall while holding the key to turn right eventually becomes an image of a view of the wall.

The only "state" that is known is the last few frames of the game screen. Because of this, it's simply not possible for the game model to know if an enemy should be shown as dead or alive once it has been off-screen for longer than those few frames. It also means that if you keeping turning away and towards an enemy, it could teleport around. Once it's off the screen for those few frames, the model will have forgotten about it.

> Is this a problem? Do games not exist?

If you're trying to make a new game, then you need new frames to train the model on.
> https://tools.simonwillison.net/image-resize-quality is a tool for dropping in an image and instantly seeing resized versions of that image at different JPEG qualities

This is also doable with one line of bash via imagemagick in any terminal that supports the Kitty or iTerm2 graphics protocols, which is most mainstream ones (iTerm2 itself, Kitty, Konsole, etc.)

I don't say this to bash your techniques but to point out that there are other methods which permit quick prototyping and easy iteration, and that LLMs are, at least in my experience, not a paradigm-shifting improvement in this vein.
What you're asking for was already linked in this thread ~30 minutes ago, at the very top. I doubt you didn't already see that.
> I have to assume they made similarly confused choices with their Consul and Nomad setups as well.

I found their explanation about why they wrote Corrosion confusing since most Hashicorp services (including Consul) already support data sync via a gossip-based protocol (Serf).
I've failed inspection for a mere bulb being out or code not being set but there are people flying around in heavy and fast death traps running beta driving software. It's absurd.
It's almost like you have to become an unboxing content creator for every single order you ever make regardless of where it was purchased. I purchased something from Home Depot that was clearly a return based on the type of tape used to reseal the box and even more obvious once opened to discover the missing contents. Luckily for me, there's a human available on their phone line, and they very quickly helped me to a very satisfactory resolution. So at least that happened.
I would not be surprised if the Waymo was left "stranded" in the intersection due to red light runners.
This is a good point. HN posters have some difficulty looking at the objective reality of this situation, for example some are missing the obvious comparison to a completely unrelated sci-fi hypothetical that exists in your head.
For a moment I was concerned about the terminal emulator alacritty[0] which this post, as it turns out, luckily is not about.

0. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
If Ukrainian drone teams and others are using it to publish their footage, in what sense is it not being used by the Ukrainian military?
I feel like I'm in a similar boat. Like 6 different mental disorders including constantly pulling my hair out.

I've contemplating sales calls. You can theoretically make like on the order of over $1000/hour while sitting on a bench or walking on a trail. It can be done in short bursts once you get the hang of it.

Then once you have some financial freedom in a few hours of successful work (not the first few hours), you can sell other people designs for clubhouses and build them all over the world and pay people to show up to club meetings (because sadly that is the only way).

Modern workplaces are a lot like clubhouses because everyone is friends there, but they suck because you have to be there all day. If you could just show up to any workplace for a few hours here and there whenever you wanted, the world would be a better place. Some days you could be a dishwasher, other days you could be a bulldozer operator or dig in the mines. I like to try new jobs.

That's my business idea, thanks.
So what is Pavel Durov providing to UAE that they consider it $20B worth?
That price should be divided by 10 since the CPU is 5th gen from 2015[0].

[0] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5600U...
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I have the Dell variant too. Great laptop in general, but not as rugged as the proper toughbook
I don't have a big problem with the Amazon listings that don't claim to be genuine, other than that Amazon lets them DoS search results with tens or hundreds of listings of essentially the same product.

What I hate is outright counterfeits. Especially given Amazon's commingling of product sourced by third-party "sellers". (Solely due to counterfeits, I don't buy OTC pharmaceuticals on Amazon, I mostly avoid buying flash and SSD devices on Amazon, and I've recently started buying shoes and clothing direct from the brands' DTC Web sites when possible.)

I hate counterfeits so much, I worked at an anti-counterfeiting early startup.

In our marketing and sales efforts -- analyzing many kinds of product categories, and approaching many companies (unfortunately, much of it during peak Covid panic) -- we actually didn't have much success getting brands willing to pay for an anti-counterfeiting solution.

For reasons unclear to me, we had more success by pitching the same tech&process cost as anti-gray-market-diversion, rather than for the rampant counterfeiting of their brand that we could show. (Maybe sometimes because there were always a bunch of execs charged with global distribution, and this was on their plates.)

More predictably, some brands seemed most interested in using variations on the technology for end consumer engagement. Once stakeholders brought into enterprise sales meetings started latching on, when you initially approached with anti-counterfeiting or anti-gray-market story. I can see that, but please let me end counterfeits in the process.