abhibeckert
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- Comment on Tesla is being investigated by the DOJ for securities and wire fraud by making misleading self-driving claims 21 hours ago:
This. But I think it’s better to use marine autopilot system as a comparison - aircraft autopilots are closely monitored by three people (two in the cockpit, one on the ground as air traffic control). Not really comparable to a car.
Autopilot in a boat traditionally just turns the steering wheel for you. And all it does is maintain a desired direction of travel. Not even a destination, just a direction. So if wind or currents blow you off course, it’s not going to account for that. It also doesn’t control speed.
There are more advanced systems, but that’s traditionally how autopilot works.
Having said that, Tesla hasn’t just used the word “autopilot”. They also repeatedly refer to their system as “Full Self Driving”. And it kinda does that, as long as there isn’t a fire truck in the way.
- Comment on New Laptop Memory Is Here! LPCAMM2 Changes Everything! - iFixit Video 21 hours ago:
It runs at 120 GB/s…
As a Mac user that sounds pretty shit. A MacBook Pro has 400GB/s RAM.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 22 hours ago:
Every edit is reviewed by multiple people. If you have low karma, then your edit is reviewed before the edit gets applied to the current state of the database.
Even with high karma, your edit still gets reviewed and will be reverted if it’s a bad edit.
Too many bad edits, your account is going to be banned for wasting moderators time.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 22 hours ago:
The thing is there are no pure telecoms anymore. There’s a company that maintains underground infrastructure and gets paid when that infrastructure is used, and is incentivised to upgrade the infrastructure because they make more money if it’s used more.
And there are thousand of companies that benefit from the infrastructure, and they can charge customers pretty much whatever they want… though it better not be an excessively high price because every ISP, even a tiny one with a single employee, can provide service nationwide at the same raw cost as a telco with tens of millions of customers.
The difference between what we have done, and net neutrality, is our system provides an open book profit motive to upgrade the network. Net Neutrality doesn’t do that.
Fundamentally there is a natural monopoly in that once every street in a suburb is connected, then why would anyone invest in digging up the footpath and gardens to run a second wired connection to every house? The original provider would have to provide awful service to justify that, and they can simply respond to a threat of a new network by improving service just enough (maybe only temporarily), for that new investor to run for the hills.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 23 hours ago:
That’s fair, but personally I don’t think Net Neutrality was the right solution.
They should have been found guilty of anticompetitive behaviour and split up into multiple companies.
- Comment on Inside the Climate Protests Hell-Bent on Stopping Tesla 1 day ago:
TLDR - they don’t want a transition from combustion engines to electric cars. They are saying building electric cars is bad for the environment.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 2 days ago:
The headline photo for the article shows a camera over a road that likely is likely running number plate recognition software…
Honestly I’d be more worried about where that data is going than the tracking software in your car.
This needs to be fixed with legislation, and it needs to be fixed actively. For example by getting rid of number plates entirely and replacing them with something like the transponders used in aircrafts and ships, but with an encrypted rolling code that only shares your data with authorised parties.
It could work like the “Find My” feature on an iPhone, where your location is encrypted and uploaded to the servers anonymously… the decryption key is only provided when the actual owner of the device authorises a data lookup. E.g. in a traffic stop, police could ask you to tap a button on your car that sends the cops your insurance/etc.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 2 days ago:
They’re the ones using their devices all day for work or similar.
I spend about 10 hours a day doing “real work” - computer programming, on a desktop Mac with an M1 chip. It’s way faster than I need.
- Comment on Report: Facebook Parent Company Meta has been Censoring and Shadow Banning Pro-Palestinian Accounts 2 days ago:
I’m pretty sure Meta has been shadow-banning all news related content for years now, and anything related to Palestine is news.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 2 days ago:
Sure but my iPad already lasts a week on a charge.
- Comment on Powerful New Chatbot Mysteriously Returns in the Middle of the Night 2 days ago:
They’re not really - they’re just making it available to a small group of experts to kick the tyres and provide feedback.
It’s journalists who are hyping it up. Somehow making “company dedicated to AI research is working on AI” into a story.
- Comment on Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon 2 days ago:
Google doesn’t own most of their map data - they license it off other companies that have spent decades and billions of dollars collecting map data from all around the world.
So even if Google gives a project a “special deal” it’s still not going to be free. Open Street Map, on the other hand, is totally free. And in some ways it’s better than Google Maps — because it has millions of people contributing to the map. No commercial mapping company can come close to that.
- Comment on Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon 2 days ago:
It was great, in 2017
It hasn’t stopped being great.
We need better safe guards and checks so that some person can’t just delete France.
The map is updated millions of times per day. There are checks in place, but sometimes one is missed especially if it’s a minor contribution such as “this street has a bus stop”. Deleting France, yeah someone would notice that change and prevent it from taking place.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 2 days ago:
People sure have, but then your warranty is void. And with a Tesla, you’re probably going to wish you had that warranty one day.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 2 days ago:
That’s different - it relies on having an active cellular connection in the car and older cell towers (5G has improved this dramatically) cell towers could only handle a hundred or so active connections at once, so Toyota is absolutely paying a monthly fee to access the cell network.
Those fees have gone down, since not only is 5G much cheaper per customer (for the cell network), everyone switching to 5G has taken the pressure off older wireless protocols so they’re almost never crowded anymore - so they can pretty much have as many cars connected as they want for near zero cost.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 3 days ago:
Everything-but-Windows?
No. Any device that implements a certain DHCP feature is vulnerable. Linux doesn’t support it, because the feature is only useful for home computing/office workstations where Linux is rarely used. And Android doesn’t support it because it inherited the Linux network stack.
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 3 days ago:
When I think of “influencer” this is the image in my mind.
… OK. But that’s not what the term “Influencer” means. The actual definition is basically just “anyone with a lot of followers”.
And there are plenty of people with a lot of followers who produce great content.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 3 days ago:
How would that ruin it?
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 4 days ago:
The Nilay (the “author” of this article) at The Verge is heavily Anti-AI especially when it comes to article content — he doesn’t allow anyone at the company to use it except when they are writing an article about AI and even then only to demonstrate a point - e.g. “here’s an example of AI generated content”. It was also his decision to stop AI’s from crawling any content on their website.
He used AI to pad the article because that’s what real spam articles do. It had nothing to do with acceptance.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 4 days ago:
they do some squirrely stuff to try to get you to buy a new toner cartridge early
My brother is newer than yours (the cheapest one I could get that prints on both sides of the paper), and has a setting to toggle how it behaves in low toner mode.
The default is to pause printing until you replace the toner - honestly that’s not entirely wrong. Having the printer run out of toner half way through an important print job could be a disaster.
The alternative mode is to just show a “low toner” warning badge whenever you print a document. That’s what I use, but I also check if it printed properly before closing the document which a lot of people don’t do.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 4 days ago:
That seems like a bug assuming you have your region selected/enabled? I’d report it to DDG.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 4 days ago:
What do you mean by “local”? If you mean finding somewhere to go for lunch or the opening hours of a store, I recommend using the maps app on your phone (I prefer Apple Maps over Google, because it uses Yelp and TripAdvisor for reviews which are accurate than Google reviews… if I had an Android phone I’d probably install Yelp/TripAdvisor).
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 5 days ago:
I can usually find what I need on google pretty damn quick
It depends what you’re searching for. Some things are very hard to find that used to be easy.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 5 days ago:
Because they are making so that we get less results that are just cheating the system to show up at the top?
No, because they are failing to hide low quality search results. Something the would invest more money in if an alternative search engine existed.
Imagine if you could search for a GPU and get a a proper review of it instead of a million websites that post inaccurate specifications which are categorically worse than just looking up the specs on the official manufacturer’s website? I think we would live in that world if there was competition. Google Search would be better if it had competition.
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 5 days ago:
ChatGPT 4 is a great assistant, I find it indispensable… I use it on my phone and computer but would like it in a dedicated device.
Privacy? Yeah it’s not great, but that’s mitigated by OpenAI focusing the product hard on areas that don’t really need privacy.
I do think these tools can be private - but to get there we need more RAM on our computers and phones, and it needs to be expensive high bandwidth RAM, which costs a fortune.
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 5 days ago:
They’re being given leniency because the hardware designers have a great reputation.
Unfortunately the software team has fallen flat.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 6 days ago:
Utah made a big splash about that as part of a climate change based election campaign.
They got real quite about a year later… and the website for the project is now a domain-for-sale page. The stated reason was what I said, it’s just too expensive.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 6 days ago:
They really don’t. I live in regional Australia - the nearest data center is 1300 miles away. It’s perfectly fine.
- Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake 6 days ago:
The S30 OS, before Nokia collapses, was much better.
Yeah no - you’re miss-remembering it. For example you had to delete SMS messages otherwise your mailbox would fill up.
It could only fit 10 messages before it’d run out of space, and any message sent to you would be deleted without showing the message to you.
Also, the battery life was great if you didn’t use the phone but as soon as you started using it… then it was flat in 3 hours.
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 1 week ago:
Yeah I call bullshit on that. I get why they’re investing money in it, but this is a moonshot and I’m sure they don’t expect it to succeed.
These data centers can be built almost anywhere in the world. And there are places with very predictable weather patterns making solar/wind/hydro/etc extremely cheap compared to nuclear.
Nuclear power is so expensive, that it makes far more sense to build an entire solar farm and an entire wind farm, both capable of providing enough power to run the data center on their own in overcast conditions or moderate wind.
If you pick a good location, that’s lkely to work out to running off your own power 95% of the time and selling power to the grid something like 75% of the time. The 5% when you can’t run off your own power… you’d just draw power from the grid. Power produced by other data centers that have excess solar or wind power right now.
In the extremely rare disruption where power wouldn’t be available even from the grid… then you just shift your workload to another continent.