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by jfoster 1y ago
There's an infrastructure inflection point. Note how cities have much better infrastructure than country towns.
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by jfoster 1y ago
Yeah, in the limit, this is obviously false. My hypothesis: Prosperity induces the population decline. That means there will be some momentum behind prosperity in the initial stages of the population decline. The population decline eventual
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by jfoster 1y ago
I think it's a reference to this & similar things: https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-ver...
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by jfoster 1y ago
You are right that they might never be able to get it to 0, but shouldn't they lessen it if a simple measure like the one described can prevent a bunch of people from getting fooled by the scam?
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by jfoster 1y ago
That's true. It wasn't scary, of course. Just a very interesting station because I noticed that it must be more or less in a mountain. The train had been traveling through a tunnel for quite a while before stopping there, so I had
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by jfoster 1y ago
I caught a train through this station last year without knowing about it. It was very noticeably different from any other station I've caught a train through in Japan. I generally agree with you that a lot of ridiculous fake informatio
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by jfoster 1y ago
Seems like there probably is a green filter, but from my memory, the station was quite dark, so the filter might be setting the right mood.
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by jfoster 1y ago
I caught a local train from Minakami to Niigata last year and went through this station. I hadn't heard of it at the time, but it felt like you might imagine from reading this. Condensation built up on the train windows. Afterward, the
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by jfoster 1y ago
I run one of the many online word counting tools (WordCounts.com) which also does character counts. I have noticed that even Google Docs doesn't seem to use grapheme counts and will produce larger than expected counts for strings of em
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by jfoster 1y ago
An 8 year warranty seems fine for new vehicles, but doesn't help much with selling used vehicles that are 6 or 7 years old.
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by jfoster 1y ago
It's an exaggeration but you shouldn't need a source for older batteries being in worse condition than brand new batteries. Perhaps if battery condition could be measured and reported on well, used EVs could be more appropriately
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by jfoster 1y ago
Seems fair to say that OpenAI have lost their edge in terms of model capability. Gemini, Grok, Claude all seem comparable or better.
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by jfoster 1y ago
This seems to happen with other types of electronics, too. I think many avoid used laptops and phones partly due to the expectation that the overall condition won't be good.
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by jfoster 1y ago
I think they're currently doing the release. I am guessing those will all be online soon.
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by jfoster 1y ago
The page links to: https://gpt-oss.com/ and https://openai.com/open-models ... but these links aren't active yet. I presume they will be imminently, and I guess that means that OpenAI are releasing an
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by jfoster 1y ago
The dystopia even extends to HN. This was near the top of the front page just half an hour ago, but now it's buried several pages away. Not for discussion, apparently. I realize it was likely flagged, but burying anything controversial
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by jfoster 1y ago
You're conflating things a lot. This started with me pointing out that the scale of Apollo Go is greater than Waymo, but then you made it about safety, which is quite a different (but still interesting) topic. Then there's this vi
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by jfoster 1y ago
So you think Elon is not interested in numbers? Or you think Tesla employees are presenting fabricated data to him? The phenomenon in that video is only possible when management is heavily disconnected from ground truths & data, but tha
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by jfoster 1y ago
The video seems honest in what way? What part of it makes you think that? The only evidence of ride discomfort that I saw was some steering wheel shuddering. Once I saw the part where the car was being blamed for the pickup location chosen
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by jfoster 1y ago
Including being not the driver? Four. How is it relevant though?
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by jfoster 1y ago
So you're saying they developed it up until this level where it can mostly drive itself, but now they've pivoted toward collapsing the company? I just don't see how this train of thought makes sense.
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by jfoster 1y ago
Pulling something a few weeks later isn't uncommon when it's unknown how a service will go, but in this case they actually have data that pretty much tells them how this is likely to go.
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by jfoster 1y ago
I don't think this is correct yet. At the moment the various companies are still competing for customers. Model scalability seems to still be improving and local models are still somewhat feasible on high powered devices. I expect that
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by jfoster 1y ago
Heavily aggregated data. Nothing even close to personally identifying.
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by jfoster 1y ago
What would be a better option if the system doesn't understand the environment? Can happen in any system, right? There's really only two options: 1. Keep driving in some way 2. Stop Which one do you think Waymo (or any other syste
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by jfoster 1y ago
OK, but if the system avoids an accident by not driving in glare whereas the human doesn't, that is still one accident avoided, isn't it?
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by jfoster 1y ago
The video seems biased. What's with calling the car to a location where they weren't happy to access it from, and then acting as though it was a fault of the service? Pretty sure I also spotted a gap in the hedges where a fire hyd
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by jfoster 1y ago
But if you're correct, then won't it be a massive harm to the valuation once they are at fault in many accidents over the coming weeks? They have the Q2 earnings call coming up next month. It seems like it would be a really bad id
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by jfoster 1y ago
So you think they chose to launch it yesterday despite the data telling them that they will be at fault in lots of accidents over the coming weeks, and will presumably be forced to roll it back? You think they decided that's somehow be
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by jfoster 1y ago
It wouldn't make sense for the robotaxis to ever disengage in the same way that you might've seen in FSD videos. I'm guessing that they just stop if they ever encounter a situation where they don't know what to do.

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