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What would they be plugging these USB flash drives into? Underdeveloped countries / regions have very low penetration with traditional laptops / desktop computers. But nearly everyone has a smartphone of some kind, which has WiFi. That's the reason the form factor of these are mobile hotspots.
Hard to compare that to a level 4 company where the car can go hundreds of thousands of miles without disengagement
This is nowhere close to being true. The latest numbers I could find for 2022 are 17,060 miles per disengagement[1] for Waymo. And even then the definition is not quite clear, because these are safety disengagements from what I can tell, and not disengagements for things like getting stuck because the road is closed or something else.
[1] https://www.eetimes.com/waymo-cruise-dominate-av-testing/
It may not be quite that simple, see hiQ Labs vs LinkedIn[1].
Can you find any specific examples? I've only seen that apply to severance agreements where you're being paid some additional sum for that non-disparagement clause.
Never seen anything that says money or equity you've already earned could be clawed back.
Samsung is expected to get $6 billion.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-15/samsung-p...
Even if a human sees the bike slightly sooner, the reaction time is so much slower that it's either a wash or the self driving car is likely still faster. Median braking reaction time for humans is ~500ms[1].
Number of hops definitely matters more usually. For example I'm about 150 miles from Azure East US 2 (richmond, va), and at the speed of light that should be sub 2ms round trip, but actual latency to it is ~30ms. But I'm sure I'm going through dozens of switches/routers to get there. What Starlink buys you is that you get to go straight to a satellite, then a laser in a vacuum to other satellite(s) and then a ground station that's likely already at an IXP or very close to one.
For json schema specifically there are some tools like go-jsonschema[1] but I've never used them personally. But you can use something like ffjson[2] in go to generate a static serialize/deserialize function based on a struct definition.
[1] https://github.com/omissis/go-jsonschema [2] https://github.com/pquerna/ffjson
What happens if the tree dies on its own?
The federal government is incapable of efficiently allocating resources at scale, it's just the reality. Take a look at the defense industry. I have a friend who worked for a 3 letter agency, left and joined a private contractor and was assigned to the same team and project again but at 2x the pay. In practice the actual cost to the government is likely 3x factoring in the profits the contractor makes. Government pay scales also make it so that it makes no sense to work for the government if you're in a high demand / high pay field. That means the government tends to get the bottom of the barrel talent & then they end up massively overpaying for "butts-in-seats" contractors who do the same exact job at a way higher cost.
That's why we have things like the FCC, FAA and DoD who oversee things like telecommunications and rocket launches hopefully without putting too much of a damper on innovation and progress while also protecting lives.
The $35 is a cap on co-pay, not the actual cost paid out by insurance.
There's a setting "Suggestions matching public code" that can be set to "Block" that I think is sufficient for most people's usage. But many companies don't want to involve themselves in any sort of liability.
They're going to license it to cloud providers and make money from that. This lets them avoid all the other headaches associated with becoming a cloud services provider while still getting some income to pay for this work.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/07/18/microsoft-and-me...
There's another maker event in the bay area called Open Sauce, newly created by William Osman (Maker & YouTuber). I think Maker Faire being cancelled for the last few years was a large motivator for this event. The event is this coming weekend, July 15-16, though it appears to be sold out already. https://opensauce.live/agenda/
Slack started out on LAMP stack, so a lot of their choice of technologies stem from there. There's a mention of using Hack in this article, which is a PHP dialect. People frequently reach for things more complicated than MySQL, but the truth is that there are likely very few use cases that won't work with MySQL. Vitess makes MySQL manageable at scale (YouTube uses it too) as long as you invest in getting the tooling & automation ready. Vitess itself is fairly straight forward to understand and operate. It's ultimately just MySQL + a side car service and a query layer that handles reading/writing to shards for you, and some other admin tools for managing shards, migrations, etc. If you need to debug something you can just SSH into a host and connect directly to the mysql instance. It uses standard mysql replication and you can tune it the same way you would tune mysql normally. There's no shortage of resources available when it comes to dealing with mysql.
I have several Anker 100 watt USB C cables scattered throughout my house and they've all lasted a over a year now with no signs of any issues.
Apple's cables work fine too but they of course eventually get worn down at the ends and eventually need to be replaced. I also tried Aukey, but their cables stopped working for me after a month or two. I had them replaced under warranty twice and all three times it stopped working within a month or two.
So at least for cables I use with higher wattage adapters I exclusively use Anker & Apple USB-C cables now.
I wasn't referring to the cells, but the products themselves. CATL produces cells, and yes Tesla uses cells from many of those companies. But a battery storage system is more than just the cells. I was specifically referring to Tesla's PowerWall & PowerPack/Megapack products, which has been growing at a fast rate. Just in the last ~3 weeks there were two several hundred million dollar battery storage projects announced that use Tesla Megapack[1][2].
In terms of cell technology, it's really hard to say whether those press releases announcing major break throughs actually matter or not. Tesla is also producing its own cells, but they'll happily buy whatever cells are available since at this point they're constrained by cells.
[1] https://electrek.co/2023/06/20/tesla-megapack-2xl-power-new-... [2] https://electrek.co/2023/05/31/tesla-power-massive-500-milli...
I guess I should have been specific that I'm referring to the last quarter. Tesla's sales growth has been ~50% YoY so comparing to 2022 numbers won't be so accurate going forwards.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23738581/tesla-model-y-ev...
At present, Tesla really feels like a bit of a "Jack of all trades, master of none" job.
That's an odd take. Model Y is the best selling vehicle in the world, and the second best selling vehicle in the US after the Ford F-150. It outsells the Corolla, Camry, Rav4, Civic, etc. Look at Mercedes, BMW and Audi sales, they've been plummeting because everyone is buying a Tesla instead.
They're also the leading battery storage company and their battery storage business has been growing like crazy.
But the cars themselves as a whole. They feel like what they are. Cheaply built, but sold at a premium price.
This has become such a meme that I think anyone who says it has never driven a Tesla for more than a few hours. The interior quality is not on par with Mercedes/BMW and maybe there's a few panel gaps, but every other part of the car is significantly better. The handling, infotainment system, performance, efficiency, autopilot, maintenance, etc. A $50k Model Y competes with $70-80k cars, but has the interior of a $35k car. Most people are more than happy with that trade off and that's why it sells so well.
It's quite a bit higher than comparable social media sites
What site besides Twitter even has paid API access for something like this? I haven't seen anything to indicate Facebook charges for API access. Even then, you can't build a full facebook replacement with their public API's. I agree that the execution in terms of timeline was awful by reddit. But the pricing makes sense when you realize their goal is to kill off third party apps. Reddit charges $5 a month for Reddit Premium, so allowing a third party to charge less than that and deliver the same feature set is silly.
Reddit has handled this pretty terribly but I also think people are being unreasonable. This is no different than me creating a third party YouTube client, charging for it and displaying no ads. Why would YouTube allow me to do that? And why should Reddit allow third party apps to do that? Reddit screwed up in the first place allowing third party apps that they have zero control over to build a full frontend replacement.
They already have Reddit Premium, they should just say that you need Reddit Premium to use third party apps. The technical details would be pretty straight forward. If you look at the features of reddit premium the only one anyone cares about is ad-free browsing, which third party apps today get to give users for free. So reddit was having to compete with these third party apps.
There are some really cool apps, but likely not ones that you and I would use on a daily basis. Most of it is like seeing furniture in your living room in AR, or products on amazon, etc. There's also some cool ones for scanning objects, generating blueprints of a house, and more. Even if the apps themselves aren't that useful right now, they've been working on the software & hardware to do this work for years and iterating on it. So when they finally launch Vision Pro they're not starting from scratch and a lot of the code is tested in the real world.
I'm not sure it's fair to say that Facebook had a 7-8 yr head start because Apple has been developing every single component that goes into the VR headset for well over 10 yrs. They design their own cameras, displays, micro processors, lenses, speakers, sensors, etc. Apple has hundreds of engineers working on each of these components for various devices they sell. They've shipped a billion+ of their own custom processors and have a world class chip design team to make custom chips for specific products. Meta has no where near the level of hardware design expertise that Apple has. They've also been slowly laying a lot of this ground work for years now with ARKit and LiDAR on iPhones / iPad Pro, moving Mac's to Apple Silicon and supporting iPad apps on it (allows them to bootstrap the Vision Pro app store).
Even if Apple found the displays, cameras, sensors, etc. the one thing they won't find available is the processors(s). Apple is shipping an M2 chip, which they use for desktop computing as well as a custom new chip to handle sensor information. I read that the actual parts cost of the Vision Pro is $1500, and that's with Apple having huge contracts with their suppliers for other components and getting a discount. Add in R&D costs and even at $3500 Apple is likely not making much on this device. If Meta were to make a similar device I think it would cost $5k or they would have to sell it at a major loss.
While I agree it's expensive it's not quite apples to apples. GPU memory is very very expensive. A100 80GB costs $10k msrp (> $15k on ebay). An RTX 4090 only has 24gb of vram at $1600. Even if you do dual 3090's + nvlink for $1600 you only get up to 48GB, no where near the up to 192GB of vram you can access on apple silicon. The upgrade from 64GB to 192GB of ram is $1600. That's still expensive of course, but 128GB of 800GB/s memory that your GPU has access to for $1600 is actually not bad value. It's not like just sticking an extra 128gb of ram into your computer. DDR5-6400 dual channel will give up up to 102 GB/s, which is no where near M2 Ultra or GDDR6X.
I saw this video[1] of them at CES and was wondering when people would actually be able to get their hands on one. Cool to see they'll actually be in a product soon.
Technically you can still do that by launching chrome with some special flags or with a chrome extension.
But I do agree that CORS is being hijacked/abused for this purpose. But at the same time it's an important security feature. It prevents the scenario where you visit some website and some malicious javascript starts making calls to some-internal-site/api/... and exfiltrating data.
The reddit UI has gotten so hostile that I stopped using reddit a few years ago. Third party apps are nice and all, but I think a site that's so hostile to its users isn't worth me wasting my time on. I have several friends who are active reddit users but exclusively use third party apps, if those apps stop working I'm confident they'll just stop using reddit all together too.
I remember when Digg.com launched v4 and everyone hated it so much that they planned a "quit Digg day" and then collectively moved to Reddit. Maybe some day reddit users will do the same thing and move to something else.
That's at least not true for Lyft as of October last year. But there are many factors, like other apps, traffic, getting offered something better from another app, etc.
With upfront pay, drivers can now see ride information and what they’ll earn before accepting a ride. Drivers will have access to trip details including the pickup and drop-off locations, estimated time and distance to complete the ride, and a map view of the full ride in addition to the fare.
https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/upfront-pay-and-the-next-cha...
Microsoft does this, though not sure if the program is still active.
It's much simpler than that. Drivers accept and then they cancel the ride themselves if they don't like the destination or the earnings. Normally you would penalize those drivers but I imagine with Lyft losing market share they likely can't afford to penalize drivers all that much.