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If you are the CEO of a company that sells a robot, shouldn’t you be deeply concerned about any time one of your robots is accused of killing people?

Likewise, public perception of Autopilot is very important to Tesla’s marketing and market share.

Tesla’s CEO should be very concerned about both of those issues.

Tesla’s autopilot is very comparable to autopilot in aircraft (read a bit before downvoting). It is something you engage to take the load off the vehicle operator but does not eliminate the need for the operator.

Autopilot (both in aircraft and in the Tesla) is really good at what it does. But if you start thinking about it as anything other than something which helps reduce the vehicle operators workload, it is dangerous.

Pilots understand this and get pretty extensive training. Some Tesla owners clearly do not. Some of the blame lays with Tesla due to marketing. Perhaps these hybrid machine/ human driving systems should require training.

This as likely as pretty much any explanation I’ve heard.

I think Tesla tries to be too clever by far with their doors. I sure hope the rumor they are eliminating outside handles on the Cybertruck is nonsense.

Seems unlikely, it's written in Python. Might be possible to bodge something together, but interop would be crap.

"Mongita is to MongoDB as SQLite is to SQL"

SQLite is a embeddable SQL implementation which has been ported to dozens of platforms with no requirements.

Mongita is a Python library.

I like Python as much as the next guy, but the comparison is pretty far off whack. SQLite is popular because it embeds everywhere easily. This doesn't. I can't use this on my iPhone app. It's likely way too fat for Android and awkward at best on Android.

Old: Google collected data, kept it on their servers, and sold advertising against that data. They don't ask permission, they don't let you black out categories you don't want to see advertising against. Nor do they (effectively) prevent malicious actors from using that advertising to sell content to manipulate people.

Now: Exactly the same, only Google uses your hard drive to store the data.

There are some privacy issues addressed by this, but it doesn't address many of the issues with personalized targeting.

It's neat when you are talking about things like fishing, but targeted advertising has also been used in multiple countries to manipulate elections by outside governments. It's also been used to out gay people and racist marketing.

You sleep for 8 hours.

Another 2 hours is spent showering, prepping for sleep and waking up and using the bathroom during the day.

So you have 14 hours left. If you work, you only have 6 hours left. Commute to work? 4-5 hours.

Dishes, mowing the lawn, prepping and eating meals, studying for your next job advancement, housekeeping, laundry, etc etc... by the time you are done there isn’t a ton of free time in the day.

Spending half of that free time on such a mundane and boring way to pass the time sounds truly impractical to me.

I’m ok with Twitter blocking people who are ciculating lies that are prolonging the virus which has fucked our economy and killed millions of people.

Conspiracy theories about viruses are literally killing people. I’d file that right in the category of shouting fire in a crowded theater.

Twitter rarely “censors” anything. There are countless examples of people getting multiple death threats and Twitter just blowing it off. Female journalists are frequently targeted with rape and death threats for posting things which are only moderately controversial and Twitter waves it off “this isn’t a violation of Twitter policy”.

The people who were blocked at all were generally repeat offenders.

> Parler will forever be associated with negative connotations.

Parler was created so people would be free of Twitter "Censorship". About the only thing Twitter censored was threats of violence or rape, election misinformation, or extremely blatant racism.

Their only appeal was to people who found that kind of speech acceptable. If you market primarily to violent and racist people, you are absolutely going to be associated with negative connotations.

The linked article didn't say what model it was other than the fact that it was a 2019. Even so, that console only looks marginally easier to get your foot over. Definitely not a maneuver you could pull off in the heat of the moment.

> What if the Cessna salespeople and marketing was all doublespeak about high G flying

The driver deliberately set out to sabotage mechanisms which are there to protect you.

A more apt comparison would be if the pilot disabled the stall warning on the aircraft. Then attempted to do low flying maneuvers at the threshold of the aircraft's stall speed.

If someone deliberately disables safety features, they hold the bag.

> when left to its own devices the car drove at high speed into a tree.

Was it "left to its own devices" though?

You can't put the car in drive from the back seat.

Autosteer is limited to 5MPH over the speed limit unless you are on a divided highway.

The car seems to have accelerated faster than it normally accelerates under autopilot.

Something doesn't add up here.

In my Model Y, there is no way the passenger could reach across to put his foot on the brake or gas unless they were straddling the console.

So much for "It'll take years before we get the GPU working". Obviously this is far from a full implementation but seems like progress has been quick. Hopefully the power management stuff will be equally quick.

This is consistent with my experience:

> - On highways: Autosteer and Traffic Aware Cruise Control have speed limits of 90 mph.

> - Off highways: Autosteer is no longer restricted to 35 mph. Autosteer has a speed limit of 5 mph faster than the detected speed limit, unless you’ve specified a lower speed limit offset.

> - If Model S does not detect a limit, then the maximum speed the vehicle can drive is 45 mph.

https://insideevs.com/news/332446/tesla-autopilot-update-bum...

We know it wasn't a divided highway. Even if they were on a 2 lane highway the speed limit would have been limited to 60MPH. They wrapped the car around a tree, destroyed the integrity of the battery, and both passengers were disabled enough they couldn't escape the car.

The car doesn't peg the accelerator under autopilot so even getting to 60MPH in "A couple hundred yards" seems unlikely unless there was someone applying the gas pedal.

I suppose the alternative explanation is there was a malfunction which caused uncontrolled acceleration and ejected the driver into the back seat?

When auto steer is engaged, it limits the speed to 5MPH over the speed limit unless you are holding the gas pedal down. If you hold the gas pedal down, the automatic braking and speed controls are not active. At that point, the car isn't in control.

If you are on the highway, it is different. But this car was in a residential area.

Teslas do have black boxes. Whether they would survive a fire like this is questionable though.

Tesla's "black box" data is obtainable like any other kind of crime scene evidence, via court order.

I believe autopilot's safety features were disabled so these statistics are meaningless. I'm not talking about simply forcing it into autopilot, but disabling autopilot's ability to control the vehicle's acceleration. The reason I think this is the case is due largely to the speed the vehicle was traveling which is... unlikely under autopilot which limits speeds to 5 MPH over the speed limit.

If you are pushing on the gas pedal, the car can only steer and has no control over speed.

This weird sort of hybrid riding where the car is controlling the steering and the driver is controlling the speed puts the car in an untenable situation. It is a driver with no brakes and no control over the gas pedal.

Maybe Tesla should disable this mode entirely. Tesla (very reasonably) limits speeds to 5MPH over the speed limit when you are in autosteer mode, so lots of people like the ability to bypass the speed. Personally, I very much like being able to push the speed when it's reasonably safe to do so. If you are operating the system as designed, it's no less safe than cruise control.

You have to actively ignore multiple safety warnings and deliberately bypass failsafes.

The big thing I have to wonder about is how on earth did they get the car going so fast on residential streets? Autopilot is hard-coded to limit you to 5MPH over the speed limit. I know you can push the gas down with a brick or something stupid like that, but doing that disables the car's ability to slow down or stop automatically which is a pretty fundamental part of what Autopilot does and how it operates.

So many people look at this as if the driver pushed a simple bypass button to get around a safety feature, but getting a Tesla going fast enough to wrap itself around a tree on a residential street is not simple at all.

Walking will help your heart and is a good way to improve base fitness, but generally speaking not a way to lose weight. Fundamentally, walking burns very few calories. To lose 50 pounds walking, you need to walk hours per day which isn't very practical.

That said, it can still work because ritualizing fitness also brings more awareness to other aspects of your life. When you are regularly working out (walking or otherwise), it can make you conscious of mealtime choices. You also are fundamentally not eating when you are out walking.

If you want to lose weight, you either need much more intense exercise or to figure out how to stop eating. Walking or other activity is still important, but it's not a "Weight loss" solution.

All of this.

To be honest, I think my estimate may have been generous, I just don’t know France.

In the US, I wouldn’t even consider flying unless it was closer to 5 hours. Anything shorter than that I’d just drive. But not knowing France at all, I was being I think generous.

It was originally supposed to be domestic flights under 4 hours which would be a much bigger area. This feels a bit like a token victory.

Consider for a moment, the chances you’d fly if a train trip was less than an hour are pretty near zero. Even at 90 minutes, it’s pretty unlikely you’d fly. Every mile less than exactly 2.5 hours makes it less likely you’d fly regardless. So it’s essentially banning a small number of flights which might take 1.5-2.5 hours by train. How many airports are situated that distance apart? Is there a lot of domestic traffic between La Mans and Paris? I’m not familiar with France, but it really feels like this won’t affect a whole lot.

While I agree with most of this...

Who has trouble with ":x"? It's no more keystrokes than any other editor uses. I guess if you are in insert mode it's `esc :x`. I suppose you could bind a single keystroke in normal mode, but it's not that big a deal.

Multicursor would be fantastic. Macro goes pretty far to supporting what you do with multi cursor but falls a little short.

One of the big advantages of VIM is that it's ubiquitous. This has some potentially more intuitive features, but I when I'm setting up a new system, it's not there.

It's VIM-like... but just different enough where it seems like it would be infuriating in practice if you had to even occasionally cross between the two.

I like that they chose to use an existing format for language bindings. Sublime bindings are pretty decent. Less clear is how you would integrate something like prettier. I suspect that's not even possible right now.

I like built in fuzzy search a lot (not sure I like this specific implementation, but a lot better than nothing).

I would love to see something like this, but that sticks more closely to VIM in terms of default bindings and features.

At some point, April Fools jokes ceased being funny.

Now I’m trying to figure out if I just got too old to appreciate them, or if the good ones have all been used up.

Apple didn’t establish the 30% cut. They kited the idea from console makers and other walled garden industries that came before them.

This doesn’t make it more defensible, but they didn’t create it.

Well what I meant to say is they were both inspired by the OS I'm going to release next year.

I meant partner with them then clone it’s products. Or just clone their products. That’s a total difference in meaning.

Mostly Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. Amazon is far more likely to partner with a company than clone it’s products. Apple acquires mostly smaller companies, often things you’ve never heard of.

Also worth noting, many of these smaller companies plan on getting acquired. That is their cash-out. In particular the ones which accept VC money are under tremendous pressure to cash out in one of these deals.

I also would prefer companies stuck it out, but there are huge risks if you stick it out and massive payoffs you get from a buyout, it’s rarely in the founder’s best interest.