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People aren't setting Teslas on fire? Where do you get that from?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/05/01/tesla-pr...

One of the few reasonable datasets suggesting it doesn't help is the amish

When you literally live on the farm where the cow is milked, there is less benefit to pasteurization, yes. Unless you want us to live like the Amish, then let's keep our pasteurized milk, OK?

one involving Waymo

Are you referring to the one where a Waymo, and several other cars, were stopped at a traffic light, when another car (incidentally, a Tesla) barreled into the traffic stack at 90 MPH, killing several people?

Because I am not aware of any other fatal accidents where a Waymo was even slightly involved. I think it's, at best, misleading to refer to that in the same sentence as FSD-involved fatalities where FSD was the direct cause.

The article notes that the data is incomplete, but that only means that there are more incidents than the graph shows.

But what it doesn't note is where the data is incomplete.

If they started actively looking for incidents in March of this year, and the previous months are just whatever they happened to notice on social media, then it could be both true that "the data is incomplete" and that "there has not been a skyrocketing of incidents".

If you care about absolute numbers, then you need to compare it against human-caused incidents too. If there's 100,000 human-caused incidents then AVs going from 3 -> 300 isn't even a blip.

Sure, but the point is, they're doing it.

full self driving cars are a reality

Full self driving cars are a reality. Waymo is giving 10,000 trips per week with nobody behind the steering wheel in SF and Pheonix.

It was the right decision not because it was made of cardboard, but because it "fluttered".

If it had been full of bowling balls and just thunked to the ground, it would not have been the right decision to just drive over it.

And in some circumstances four-way stops flow more traffic.

There's no way that's true, is it? What circumstances would a four way stop sign allow for more traffic flow than a roundabout?

I'm pretty sure it's purely cost-cutting. Four way stop signs are extremely cheap compared to roundabouts. There's no other advantage that I can think of.

Roundabouts are safer (there is no opportunity for t-boning at a roundabout), faster and simpler to navigate than four way stop signs (a roundabout you just give way to people already on the roundabout, a four way stop sign requires you to keep track of who arrived first and then do a weird dance if you both arrived at the same time, and you still need to watch out for people attempting to go out of turn -- which is not possible with a roundabout)

It's fairly well-known that the Tea Party was basically funded by the Koch brothers, right? I assume you've read things like [1] which go fairly deep into how they funded and organized pretty much all the "grass roots" activities of the Tea Party

Now, these "reopen" protests are basically the same. The sentiments of the people are real, but the funding and organizing are not "grass roots" by any normal definition of the word. For example, of the Michigan protests[2]:

The Michigan Freedom Fund, which said it was a co-host of the rally, has received more than $500,000 from the DeVos family, regular donors to rightwing groups.

The other host, the Michigan Conservative Coalition, was founded by Matt Maddock, now a Republican member of the state house of representatives. The MCC also operates under the name Michigan Trump Republicans, and in January held an event featuring several members of the Trump campaign.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/koch-brother... [2]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/18/coronavirus-...

The exact same problem exists with volunteer-maintained maps. In fact it's even worse there because at least with a commercial map, quality is basically correlated with where the users are. With a volunteer-maintained map, quality is correlated with where the volunteers are, which is not necessarily going to be where the users are.

I don't even understand the benefit of 100.00% uptime, over 99.99% anyway? I mean, I probably spend more time in a parking garage with no internet available to me at all, than google spends being down in any given month.

I mean, I understand the idea that Google wants to increase their uptime because every lost query is lost revenue, but OP seemed to imply there's some intrinsic benefit that's more than just the incremental benefit...

None of that really matters if Mars is on the other side of sun from Earth. You'd need relay satellites to direct the signal around the sun, and even at the speed of light that's going to take tens of minutes, one way.

As the parents suggest, even at Earth-Moon distances, we need to completely rethink things.

What makes you say that?

See, eg https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/google-search-engine-chi...

But they don't have to ask for access to all your pictures. You can ask Android to show the standard picker, get the one picture you've selected and that's it.

Or you can do it the way FB does it, by asking for permission to access all your pictures and build your own non-standard picker...

They send each other checks. Actual piece-of-paper checks.

To their credit, they've got it to the point where I can take a picture of the front/back of the check with my smartphone, upload the photos to my bank's website and deposit it that way, but the first time I did this I felt really weird about the whole thing...

Why is it only the server's service that you get to pay what you feel like?

This steak is nice, but it's not $17 nice. I think I'll just pay $14 for it.

These new tires for my car don't ride as well as the old ones. I think I'll only pay $50 for them, instead of the $75 asking price.

It was a nice concert, but I don't think it was really worth the $90 I paid. I'm going to pay $50.

There was a bit too much traffic on the bridge today. I'm going to only pay 75% of the usual toll.

That's still not even close to Google's repository:

"The Google codebase includes approximately one billion files and has a history of approximately 35 million commits spanning Google's entire 18-year existence. The repository contains 86TBa of data, including approximately two billion lines of code in nine million unique source files."

Source: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...

I thought it meant that Google et al are all trying to solve the "pizza in San Francisco" problem (i.e. trying to find local businesses) and not trying to solve the problems that people are actually turning to maps for, because "pizza in San Francisco" is an obviously-monetizable problem.

That possibility always exists, but it's hard to see how it could be worse than the half a million deaths per year that is currently attributed to mosquitoes.

Potato/potahto, really. Good luck getting a visa next time if you've ever been "denied entry".

Really, for non-Americans the best advice is just don't go in the first place. Second best advice is just comply with border security personnel.

Any tricks like leaving the battery empty, bringing a burner, not bringing a laptop and getting a loaner when you get there etc, they do nothing but raise suspicions.

I had the same problem with someone signing up for an Apple ID with my email address.

I even tried calling Apple to get them to cancel the account, but they wouldn't let me because I couldn't answer any of the security questions on the account!

The guy on the phone acknowledged that of course I can't answer them, because I didn't create them, bit their policy forbids them from doing anything without the security questions...

Google Play Services won't give an app any more than that app has permissions for. If you request location updates from Google Play Services, for example, but your app doesn't have the fine-location permission, you won't get GPS locations.

Well you still need to trust that Google/your device manufacturer isn't simply reading everything on your device's screen.

Yeah, I found I needed to set up some keyboard shortcuts for controlling mute/volume levels, but other than that it's been pretty set-and-forget (timezones not being a problem on a desktop).

The time I spent setting those things up has been more than made up for over the last year as I've spent less time managing windows and more time just doing work.

The first option I tried was an i3 based desktop. However whilst I wanted to like tiling window managers I decided it wasn’t for me.

It took me a week or so to get used to i3, but once I did I can't see myself ever going back. I've been using i3 at work and at home for about year now, and every time I get on my (Mac Book) laptop it's a frustrating experience: I feel like I spend more time trying to figure out how to get to the window I want that actually using it...

I've been using Visual Studio Code on Linux to do some TypeScript development. It's actually pretty nice, and works really well in a general JavaScript environment (npm, etc).

I agree. The article says there'd be some benefits to switching, but there'd also be costs (for example when I travel I don't have to do mental calculations to figure out what time to eat lunch, or when to set my alarm clock).

I think removing daylight savings is a good idea, there's no benefit at all to it, and a lot of costs.

But timezones are handy. Maybe you could simplify them a bit, but to rid of them completely is overkill.

Pretty much any half decent software developer could have done what they did over a weekend. This is incredibly clickbaity and is definitely not the sort of calibre of article I'd expect to see on HN.

It's because other manufacturers replace the Nexus dialer with their own app.

But you can download the Nexus dialer from the Play Store now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...