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by jfoster 6y ago
Yes, Waymo seem good in Phoenix for the people who have access to it. Looking forward to their expansion.
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by jfoster 6y ago
It's the Musk pattern. For every single company he's started, people are always 100% confident it won't work, and also (somehow) a bit offended that he's trying.
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by jfoster 6y ago
> every other self-driving car group is incorrectly deploying an expensive hardware solution Given that Tesla are the only company to have put something approaching autonomy into the hands of customers, that does seem to be the case. Wha
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by jfoster 6y ago
If you are using AP or FSD and you take control suddenly, that will sometimes send data to Tesla so that they can improve the autonomy. I don't know what the ToS say, but Tesla are pretty open about the fact that the cars do that.
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by jfoster 6y ago
> Tesla has taken thousands of dollars from customers with the promise that they will deliver them “full self driving” in the near future Isn't that between Tesla and the customers who paid for it?
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by jfoster 6y ago
You're not too far off; all SDC systems (including Tesla & Waymo) use disengagements to train on. So it's not accidents themselves, but human takeovers prior to what might otherwise have been an accident.
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by jfoster 6y ago
I think it might be due to a form of jealousy. Sad to see HN so unenthusiastic about a guy who is probably the most amazing entrepreneur of our time. It's not that he hasn't invited a little bit of controversy (eg. comments about
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by jfoster 6y ago
> Deindexing just news but permitting other searches certainly was floated as one of a few possibilities. From what I've read, they're even running a 1% of users test for it. Certainly makes it seem as though they're being
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by jfoster 6y ago
It still seems to me that there might be other options. What if Google News picked a small set of the more cooperative Australian publishers to work with? In order to handle the algorithm side of things, what if they deindex news in the pri
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by jfoster 6y ago
I haven't been following this too closely, so I'm hoping someone could bring me up to speed a little bit. Do Google actually need to pull all of search in order to avoid paying news sources? Why wouldn't it be enough to remov
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by jfoster 6y ago
It's akin to typing and having the characters appear out of order, isn't it? Are those particular keys more difficult to process?
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by jfoster 6y ago
Hang on a sec, doesn't Google Chrome display user-generated content?
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by jfoster 6y ago
"It may continue to cause severe illnesses for some years yet, especially among older people." What's behind this being raised as a possibility? Is it just that some older people may not be suitable for vaccination, or not ac
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by jfoster 6y ago
This is boring because it lacks the type of imagination that Elon Musk's companies tend to bring to fruition. I would like to see this type of article rewritten for a scenario where Tesla Network is up & running. Would the stock pr
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by jfoster 6y ago
I'm not American so I could be way off on this, but I can't help but wonder if the politicization might've actually helped in this case? My big assumption is that Trump supporters would normally be more skeptical of vaccines.
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by jfoster 6y ago
It feels much better whilst in the air, but at least some airlines don't run the air conditioning whilst on the ground, so it can feel horrible in the event of warm weather & a delay on the tarmac.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Things don't become true based merely on the number of lawsuits filed. If there were some further substance in the public domain (eg. emails, whistleblower, technical analysis, etc.) then adding "allegedly" might be more of a
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by jfoster 6y ago
The HN title is hugely misleading, because it drops "Texas says". I would change it to "Google, Facebook allegedly had illegal deal to rig ad market" Sometimes this would be a technicality, for example where it's be
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by jfoster 6y ago
US politics has become so tribal that it's pulling new issues in. Anything that makes it into the media will accordingly have two opposing stances on it. I think the real question is, why is US politics becoming even more extreme than
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by jfoster 6y ago
It seems like a poor business decision to be so heavy handed on this. They have made it black and white where a shade of gray would've been much better. For instance, they could leave the videos accessible but exclude them from their r
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by jfoster 6y ago
Like elevators where the brakes fail. If it's infrequent enough, we tend not to think about it even if it does still happen from time to time.
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by jfoster 6y ago
If a vaccine contains a known allergen, is giving it to people with severe allergies even a test of anything? Is it possible for allergens to not cause allergies despite being present?
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by jfoster 6y ago
Okay, let's use another example: lifts don't move until the doors are closed. If the lift thinks the doors are open, it won't move. If it did, it would be an out of control situation just as quickly as a car misbehaving at 60
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by jfoster 6y ago
Sometimes they try to drive through floods. They also seem to randomly run red lights. Also, what's with the way they keep veering out of their lanes?
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by jfoster 6y ago
You do develop an internal model for the behaviour of machines, though. Examples: Elevators where the doors take extremely long to close on their own. Elevators where the doors close too soon after opening. Elevators where the limb sensors
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by jfoster 6y ago
Pedestrian deaths are not the only bad thing that can happen when driving.
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by jfoster 6y ago
I love the idea. From experience, though, this type of thing becomes a bit painful when you realise that you actually want to use some of the tools & code from the javascript world.
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by jfoster 6y ago
Might this also have a silver lining? If the virus is still able to spread, does that mean that it is less likely to face selection pressure to mutate around the vaccines?
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by jfoster 6y ago
From what I understand, people unlucky enough to have certain conditions haven't been included in the studies, and therefore won't be taking the vaccine. That includes pregnant women, and (I think?) people with autoimmune disorder
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by jfoster 6y ago
I'm concerned about that, but I'm far more concerned about covid-19, so I would be pretty happy to take a vaccine. Covid is known to have risk of death, side-effects, and unknown future medical conditions, so it seems unlikely tha

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