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moojah commented on Scenarios in which Tesla FSD Beta 9.0 fails twitter.com/giacaglia/sta... · Posted by u/giacaglia

moojah · 4 years ago

This really isn't beta grade software, as it isn't feature complete as the failure scenarios in the video clearly show. I'd call it alpha grade, and it has been that for a while.

It's not 2 weeks or whatever unrealistic timeline away from being done, as Elon has claimed for ever. 2 perhaps years if we're lucky, but given human and driving complexity probably way more before even the whole of the USA is reliably supported beyond L2.

moojah commented on Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t be able to buy ads techcrunch.com/2017/08/28... · Posted by u/artsandsci

grzm · 8 years ago

> edit: there is some heavy downvote brigading going on here. I've alerted the mods.

You'll likely attract down votes with this edit regardless of whether members agree with the sentiment, as it's counter to the guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

moojah · 8 years ago

There is likely also some state player trying to rig the hn system. Why is this post at the bottom of the front page after 2 hours and 120+ upvotes?!

I hope hn has some anti state player routines in place...

moojah commented on U.S. judge says LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data reuters.com/article/us-mi... · Posted by u/techrush

djsumdog · 8 years ago

It gets into the incredibly murky water of how the web works. You're just issuing a request and getting things back. Sometimes in a web browser, sometimes not. But the content itself may still be copyright. You can't just take it, even though for now, the publisher/server is allowing you to view it for free.

But what if you only chose to view some of the content (e.g. block ads). What if you apply your own styles to change the way that information is displayed? You're just changing the way the browser represents that data. You're not redistributing it as your own at this point. What if you store that data, but don't republish it; just used it in some each algorithms?

There are a whole lot of interesting grey areas here, but many that already have precedents that side more with the copyright holders.

moojah · 8 years ago

The interesting part here is that linkedin doesn't hold any copyright on much of the data. You cannot copyright someones name and title.

moojah commented on Implementing State Machines in PostgreSQL felixge.de/2017/07/27/imp... · Posted by u/nreece

moojah · 8 years ago

".. come and join my team at Apple. We're hiring Go and PostgreSQL developers in Shanghai, China.."

Woot? Apple uses Go?

moojah commented on The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure bloomberg.com/view/articl... · Posted by u/Typhon

justinator · 8 years ago

Perhaps also Back In The Day, Big Picture things were over-engineered.

I guess also, ever do a home renovation on a house > 40 years old? You usually walk into a disaster of things not up to code. These days, it would just be done correctly, just as cheap as possible, and not built to last. Most recent housing developments near here are just ways for developers to make money and run, as the infrastructure (housing, not utilities, etc) is not going to last all that long. The developers don't care - they'll be enjoying their profits States away, as the city that is home to their developments are quickly crumbling.

Not that I'm bitter on the changing landscape of my city, or anything. But a housing boom has dark sides.

moojah · 8 years ago

To be fair, houses and engineering projects in the olden days probably suffered from exactly the same problems. I've read multiple accounts of people complaining about just this in the late 1800s in the UK...

moojah commented on The Race to 10/7nm semiengineering.com/racin... · Posted by u/rbanffy

jandrese · 8 years ago

Chips that are just like the ones we have now but 30% cheaper? I don't see how this is going to open up whole new technologies that weren't possible at 10/15nm.

moojah · 8 years ago

One of the biggest advancements due to this kind of tech has actually been throughput for radios. By using more sophisticated / denser encodings, we can scale the same 4G tech to even higher speeds. Think 1gbit/s speeds for mid-market phones. This is effectively enabled due to the smaller node sizes also being more power efficient, which is required for mobile phones.

The advances are less in your face, but still there.

moojah commented on Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone maruos.com/#/... · Posted by u/type0

janwillemb · 8 years ago

I think this may be the future of computing, but not yet. A high-end phone may have the computing power to replace simple desktop systems, but connectors to the peripherals haven't been standardized yet.

moojah · 8 years ago

With USB-C this shouldn't be a problem whatsoever. In fact, the peripherals largely already exist. Given the driver support, these should just work "out of the box" with an up-to-date linux kernel.

moojah commented on Is Every Speed Limit Too Low? priceonomics.com/is-every... · Posted by u/ryan_j_naughton

strictfp · 8 years ago

Germany is also the most stressful country to drive in I think. You usually have three or four lanes - 80 kmph truck lane, 140 kmph standard lane, 200 kmph I'm slightly crazy lane and 250 kmph I'm a loonie lane.

When you accelerate from the 80kmph to the 140kmph you better have a good engine or you feel stressed like hell slowing everybody else down.

And keeping right all the times just creates a lot of unnecessary dynamics in traffic flow.

Don't even get me started on congestions when everybody slams their breaks and hit the warning blinkers.

German traffic is for macho wannabe race drivers.

I rather have US traffic or the traffic in the Netherlands where everybody just set their cruise control and drive casually.

In the Netherlands they also have trajectory speed checks, so you cannot speed anywhere from point A to B, since they clock your total time. Works wonders for getting a nice steady flow on the highway.

My 5 cents anyway.

moojah · 8 years ago

Having grown up in Germany and living in the US, I feel the opposite. The US traffic is far less predictable. In the US, you have to look, left, right, back and ahead when trying to switch lane, as anyone could appear from anywhere. You never know which lane you should stay on to drive "a little faster". Generally, people just don't pay attention.

In Germany it is in one direction only. Left to overtake, right to pull back over. In addition you do have to monitor your back mirror more carefully, which people in the US do not seem to do (though they should). In Germany, virtually no one plays with their phones on highways.

Also, traffic deaths are more than half in Germany than in the US, despite higher speeds [0].

I feel like traffic rage in the US is much more prevailent, particularly in the east coast. Having said that, Dutch or Danish traffic is far more relaxing. But also much much slower...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

moojah commented on Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center techcrunch.com/2017/04/20... · Posted by u/miraj

moojah · 8 years ago

This sounds like the typical Silicon-everywhere story. Any big developed country now has a "start up scene", and rightly so. Otherwise they wouldn't be developed. Relatively speaking, all of them are up and coming, as they're all catching up with the original silicon valley.

The only notable and interesting stories are when the articles compare absolute investment amounts, tech GDP growth, IPOs, open tech jobs or other real measurable comparisons. This seems to be lacking any of these deeper comparison to actually non-trivially show how this area is really the "up-and-coming startup center" of North America.