Yeah, I've got no problem with the range on my Tesla. It's not difficult to achieve. Tesla gives you all the software tools you need to achieve it onboard. No, it's not the way most people would want to drive their car regularly, but it's definitely achievable if you're really in a pinch such as when we were driving through South Dakota in bad weather, very far from the next charger. It wasn't fun but we did make it, driving very carefully and doing exactly what the car said to do.
That's not to say there aren't other class actions that ought to be considered, such as the whole FSD debacle. Now that is one I would definitely join.
I thought it would be cool. I didn't consider the fact I don't actually like it when someone else is driving. I don't like being a passenger even if a person I trust is driving, so why would an AI be different? Apparently I like to drive more than I thought I did.
Also, I didn't realize how many restrictions there would be. You have to keep your hands applying constant tension on the steering wheel, and there's actually a camera that watches your eyes now. So you can't even eat a sandwich without the car freaking out and punishing you for looking at your food too long.
I would recommend a Tesla to anyone, but not the FSD option. Don't waste your money on the FSD option, and you're fine. It's an expensive car that's super cheap to drive. The motors are basically zero maintenance. The battery will likely last the rest of my life. The interior is not too luxurious but decent. The seats are surprisingly durable and comfortable. No reason to sell it ever, unless you just get bored easily.
While there are things to hate on with Tesla cars, range is not one of them. I have a Model Y and for the most part I like it. I plug it in when it needs charging. What's so hard about that? I've been on several 6000+ mile journeys across the country and never had a problem, even out west where charging is more sparse.
The thing I hate most about my car is that I spent $10K on "Full Self Driving" and rarely use it. It totally sucks and is definitely the worst $10K I've ever spent on anything. That money could have gone to a nice vacation somewhere and I would be happy about that. But no, every time I try out the FSD, I come away disappointed.
Yeah, and I think it will be pretty simple to do. Just switch over to looking at what district the applicants graduated (or what neighborhood they grew up in) from and try to equally represent all school districts over time. For instance, if you have a poor high school that's never had anyone admitted to your university, then try to choose the next outstanding applicant coming out of that high school. That promotes diversity without involving race. Poor families can't easily change school districts just because they find themselves with a gifted child on their hands. I know because I've been there.
The shapes of the crystals affects the taste. If the salt is going to be dissolved, such as in pasta water, then grain-shape doesn't matter. Use the cheapest salt. But if the salt is going onto the surface of a food, such as in popcorn or a steak, then fresh-ground salt gives a more salty flavor per gram used. The salt grains that come already ground have a smooth texture like the smooth pebbles in a creek. Fresh-grinding gives the crystals a jagged, irregular shape. This enhances the effect when they hit your taste buds.
I never thought that. I knew seeking professional help was about trying to fix the underlying problem through therapy, not about paying for friendship. I'm in the process of doing this for the first time myself. I'm having a first consultation today and the irony is that talking to anyone, even a therapist, has increased my anxiety in the short term. But I believe it's necessary and I will get through it because I can't live this way anymore. There must be a better way to live.
The reason I haven't done it earlier is because back in those days I had no health insurance and I knew it would be cost-prohibitive for me.
We stopped paying first. As we got more comfortable over the past few decades, we wanted the news to do our bidding and confirm our prejudices. Because you can't please everyone, they failed, and so we stopped paying. Now all we get is corporate PR and AI-generated clickbait like this. It's a pay-to-play world.
Less than 1% of NPR funding is from govt. Tesla and SpaceX get far more public money than NPR does. $7500 per vehicle subsidy. Lucrative NASA contracts.
I'm with you, man. I run an ad blocker and I sure would hate to pay Google another dime. But I have to say objectively, govt ownership ought to be reserved for services that either practically cannot make a profit or morally should not make a profit. Things like police, fire, medical, education, etc.. The entertainment sector though has been making a profit for hundreds of years. Radio was funded entirely by commercialism from the beginning, as was television, and thus far the Internet has followed. So I gotta disagree with you as much as it pains me to admit. There may be a way to get some things funded like purely educational, or the arts, but the vast majority of YouTube is really just pure entertainment and ought to remain profit driven.
It was a Fiddler on the Roof reference. I don't believe most people think of Fiddler on the Roof as a musical about pogroms, although from a certain point of view maybe it is. He's referencing it because the final scene is what's important.
How is it better? Seems to me the client is about the same as it ever was, which is another way of saying stagnant. Only the games have changed, and they don't make the games.
The Mac Mini is pretty tempting, but I wanted something even lower-power. 15W is possible for Celeron mini pcs. They are around. I ended up getting a Quieter3Q which is a Celeron-based 15W, fanless and cheaper than a Mac Mini.
Just have to pay attention and be picky while shopping for the mini pc. Yes most of them are way over 15W but you can find them under 15W. My Quieter3Q for instance is fanless & runs on a Celeron in just 15W. I love it, but one annoyance is, it does not come back on by itself after a power interruption.
I know exactly where you're coming from. I've tried to avoid the hype train but I still feel the hot wind from it because I literally had my manager ask me if I could use ChatGPT to do my last project faster. I was astounded. It's tough when you know a dumb idea is not going to work, but now you have to articulate exactly why to your manager, without insulting them. Also without wasting a lot of valuable time proving something won't work, when you could be using that time to make actual progress on the project.
I feel like a lot of valuable time is going to be wasted by engineers trying to prove to managers why ChatGPT can't do a certain thing they want done faster. I don't believe ChatGPT will be a net negative for the world, but it won't be as positive as it could be exactly because of the hype effect.
It does feel a bit like Bitcoin hype, in that I know there's something wrong with it but I can't quite put my finger on it or explain it. But this is why it's also likely to last a long time, just like Bitcoin did, because it's so enticing and yet so difficult to articulate exactly what it is that's wrong. I'm at that level where I'm just smart enough to know something is wrong here, but not smart enough to say what that is exactly.
I know that I can use ChatGPT for things where it doesn't matter much whether it contains factual inaccuracies. Where all I need is a lead, like the same things I would use Wikipedia for. Where the failure mode definitely doesn't lead to anyone being hurt (or fired). For work where the results matter to someone's career or health, yeah I would avoid it.
Oh, I thought "Dark Pattern" meant trickery, deception, and using the browser in a fraudulent way to make users do something they didn't want to do. The features described in the article are certainly unpopular and annoying to certain types of people including myself, but they're not fraudulent. They're not deceptive. They clearly say what they do, and become disabled when you disable them, using the provided controls. That's not a dark pattern.
"Dark Pattern" does not just mean anything you don't like.
I wouldn't call it "Dark" if switching it off is so simple and right there in front of your face. "Rapacious" is a great description though, and one I would see used in the title instead. These "features" shouldn't be default, they are extremely annoying and they are numerous. Some are arguably useful. But it's not "Dark" if you can switch them off right in the main interface where you'd expect, and doing so actually does what it says it will. Otherwise, this is an excellent article. Thanks for the tips!
The reason I'm suspicious of these claims is because there's no empirical evidence to support them. I have this pet peeve about news people when they say "the market was up|down today on fears of _" and all the news does it, from Fox to PBS. As if there was some kind of survey attached to every trade asking "Why are you paying more|less for this stock than you were previously?" and the news people are all analyzing this data. They're not. There's no such polling data, and so how could they possibly know the reasons millions of people move in a certain direction on a certain day? They're just guessing. Or else, it's a way to prop up their own credibility. Anything the market does must be due to whatever other stories they've decided to report on today. It's narcissism.
This argument is like watching multiple Tarot-card readers arguing over tea leaves. Hilarious content. This entertainment is why I come to HN. Everything you said is a guess, but you say it with such sincerity and conviction, as if it could have been written by the new Bing-powered-by-ChatGPT. Good work all.
That's why we spent all that money on free vaccines for the entire population. People who don't want to take the vaccines can now complain about a problem that they created, high infection rates.
This story is all about how our greed loves to create problems and then we get to complain about the consequences, and get sympathy. On all sides.
Okay, I'll defend floating point numbers. The choice of floating point over decimal represents the choice of science over money. In science, it's more important to have a number system that represents everything from the infinitely small to the infinitely large, rather than one that has perfect precision. Because in nature, perfect precision does not exist. It doesn't matter what pi is to perfect accuracy because there are no perfectly round circles in reality. Only in money and mathematics do people really care about perfect precision. In the real world, precision is negotiable.
I knew this was coming. GTA V is the game that finally caused me to quit PC online gaming entirely some years ago, and purchase a game console instead. I had to relearn everything, because I grew up on mouse/keyboard control and had never used a console controller before. (It's not that difficult, really.) The move was worth it. The amount of headaches caused by cheaters and hackers in PC gaming just isn't worth the time, money, aggravation and risk. User-created game mods aren't worth it. Building a faster rig than everyone else is interesting, but in the end wasn't worth it. My life is much easier & simpler now.
You're mixing two different concepts. One is how to design a graphical gadget, which is a problem for front-end art work. Another is how a boolean variable should be implemented, a problem for your back-end logic. Computer-engineering ancient wisdom says always use positive logic. If you have a choice, never label a boolean something as 'disable', always 'enable'. Use positive logic, avoid negative logic.
Problem is, now it's years later, the product has been in the hands of consumers for a while now, and yet it still doesn't work. People are pissed off, people are getting hurt, and yet he continues to insist on calling it "Full Self Driving" when it is very far from that. If the government can't do anything to protect consumers for whatever reason, then the consumers must take it to the courts and to the media relentlessly until the knowledge of what FSD really is becomes a part of the zeitgeist. Much value and many lives will be destroyed needlessly because of one snake oil salesman holding a whole bunch of money.
They have a generous return policy. Buy an iPhone, sign in with it to accept the terms and get your AppleTV working, then erase the iPhone and return it for a full refund.
With a 45-year-old Tom Brady still leading teams into the playoffs, I think this is a bad argument. If you think you're experiencing a cognitive decline at 40 you should see a doctor. Physically, yes your healing abilities aren't the same as when you were a teenager but the brain is different. Talk to your doctor about this before you make any life-changing decisions.
You neglect to mention the inmate has to pay for each scanned card or letter, which most inmates can't afford. And you can't write on it, because it's on a screen, so if you're sending crosswords, the inmate can't do the crossword now, which is very demoralizing so they'll just ask you to stop sending them. There is another service where they can pay an exorbitant fee for a printout though. It's also very difficult to read scanned handwritten letters even if you pay for the printout. Inmates will ask you to stop sending Christmas cards because it's not worth it for you, and it's not worth it for them. It costs them more than what the card & postage cost you. Also the screens are pretty shitty so when they break down, it takes months to get a replacement.
The worst thing is the lies about why they're doing this. They think we're stupid. They don't really care about prisoners getting sick from possible drugs on the letters. If they really cared about this issue they would screen the letters for drugs, which would be easier & cheaper than scanning and reprinting them, or they would provide healthcare in prisons (they don't), or they could even stop corrections employees from bringing in the drugs in the first place.