They say, in Aircraft, safety regulations are written in blood. While no one died from this event, its clear the the metaphorical corporate blood spilled probably did wonders to help a lot of other groups.
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If I build and give the kid a display so they can simply stare at it all day without any human interaction... how is that better than the AR on parents phone? It's not, it's worse. (Note, I'm not saying that's what the author actually did, just proposing an option)
The technology here is not the problem. Be in AR or CRT. The problem is how we use it and how we teach our kids to use it.
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/show-us-your-best-augment...
Also, if I were to build my own local copy, I'd use an RTLSDR to get the ADSB packets direct and base my app on tar1090. https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090
No one has walled anything off in any way that is materially different than any other option in the space.
I would argue that Github has done a LOT of good in the space. Making good software, making it freely available. Keeping it reasonably open and accessible. Keeping it standards compliant where there are standards. Having API's for the rest. And in general, giving a huge amount of storage and compute away for free for open source projects.
I listen to it via SDRTrunk which is fascinating, but challenging with so many channels of so many different things going on. That being said, half the police chatter is encrypted. Not by default, but they have the option. And that's totally fair.
The police deal with a lot of sensitive situations and personal information. If it was my information that they were reading across the radio, I'd rather it's not generally available for any random person to get. Plus I've seen first hand what happens when the criminals have scanners tied to police radio. My favorite was 4th of July in San Francisco - everyone was setting off illegal fireworks all over. Some of the bigger displays would go on for quite some time then, as soon as there was a police dispatch call for that location... the fireworks show would stop and no one would get caught. 15mn later... the show would start again.
Clearly people are listening and using the information for illicit purposes. There are not a huge number of benefits to the public having real-time access, but there are some huge detriments. Note: I said real time. Recordings obviously should be kept of everything.
And remember, cops have cell phones. If they really want to say some shit and not have it recorded, they know how to turn off their body cams and use their phones. It's not like the public listening to the radio is gonna keep a bad cop from doing bad things.
But really, it's hard to take something like this seriously. It may be 100% legitimate, but most of the claims are nebulous at best. The sort of claims that unless you're intimately involved with day-to-day of the company, you're not going to understand. While us randoms on the internet are not the target audience, the Board is not involved in the day-to-day either. So the only logical target could be the current employees. Whom either don't know about these situations...or turned a blind eye to it.
By shining a light on what has (reportedly) happened again, what is accomplished? Those that didn't know still don't know for sure. Those whom ignored it the first time around are... what? Going to change sides? So they can be the one of the 15 people remaining at the company after everyone else defects to Microsoft?
The timing is also perplexing. If things were really this terrible, why wait until after Sam et al has been fired/left to make demands for an investigation? Realistically, these accusations, if true, are useless. The current employee base has already signed away that they are going to leave OpenAI if the Board doesn't backdown and undo everything they've already done. If the BOD were to take this seriously and wait for the results of an investigation, which would take months... the entire employee base would already be gone.
Maybe it's an attempt to put a hit out on Sam & Crew at Microsoft. But MS really wants that AI juice. Some anonymous hearsay on the internet is not going to change their mind. A lot of these accusations can also be filed under "start-up growing pains". So MS isn't going to do anything about this.
Net-Net, if these claims are true or false. It changes nothing for no one. The boulder of doom is already rolling towards OpenAI and the BOD.
I believe this is what they call, in the legal industry, "Hearsay". Pepsi person tells friend person who tells the author. A lot can get lost in that chain of telephone.
But yea, you're right. A lot of it is kinda nonsense statements. Or it's otherwise meaningless. For example
> There is a team of Tesla engineers on call 24 hours a day, ready to fly out and fix anything wrong with the Tesla Semis. No one at PepsiCo is allowed to fix the Semi.
Well, duh? These are preproduction units that Pepsi is probably getting for a song, with the understanding that there are going to be teething issues. Of course no one is allowed to "fix" the semi other than Tesla, no one is qualified to fix them. Hell, Tesla Service Centers aren't qualified because the only people who know enough about these machines are the engineers who built them.
The author likes to repeat things that are clearly non-sense as well.
> The batteries completely burned out
What does "burned out" even mean? Driven until failure? That doesn't make sense. Tesla, if nothing else, understands EV's and battery packs (if maybe not Semi's). They know how to build batteries with protection circuits so they can't go too low and permanently damage themselves. So what this probably means is driven until the battery went flat/dead/0% SOC. And that's, once again, not a shock. Drive a vehicle that isn't ready to do 500 miles, more than 500 miles and its going to go dead. There are a total of ZERO megachargers out in the world that the Semi could use, so... of course they are going to die. If you drive a gas vehicle somewhere there are no gas stations it'll also die.
> The constant use of the battery pack is unprecedented and is causing reliability problems for Tesla and other EV truck makers
There are, what, a half dozen preproduction units out in the world? How can you even come to a statement like this that makes sense? The announcement of the first public delivery of a semi was December 1st, 2022 - so they've not been in fleet hands for even a year yet. I would be shocked if the first unit that rolled off the preprod line WAS reliable overall, if anyone remembers... the roadsters had more than a few issues too.
> All Tesla Semis and other electric trucks are subsidized by California state
Where are the sources on this? If Tesla was actually getting subsidy to build these, it would be in the news. Easy to prove. I cannot find any articles other than one mentioning the hope to get a federal grant to build a megacharger corridor from CA to TX.
Do I think the tesla semi's are the most amazing thing since sliced bread? No. I'm sure they have tons of issues. But shitty writing (I won't even call this article "reporting" since it is basically some dudebro's blog) based on hearsay without any sort of proof or corroboration is just shitty fantasy. Might as well read some of that rule34 fanfiction about Elon that the fanboys write, if you want equal levels of accuracy.
But they can’t. Maybe they can order some companies to do so, those companies which would fight tooth and nail in court, whom cumulatively have more money than the EU (probably).. . and certainly more lawyers.
But at the end of the day, they couldn’t force every browser. No company would accept a website that doesn’t work with 30% of the internet. It would, once again, knee cap that company.
And while I’m not sure of every browser, I’m fairly sure you can delete CA’s in most browsers today. You certainly can on an OS level. So as soon as one CA get’s p0wned by the government, the techies would just run around and “help” all their friends and family delete the CA from being trusted.
But on the Internet, it doesn't work that way. You can't just do your own thing, lest you kneecap your citizens. How will the Europeans citizens react if their own "free and democratic" governments take away their access to Wikipedia? Or Facebook? Or Tiktok?
Using known suspect TLS Certs would also violate basically every B2B contract. When businesses sign contracts for SaaS applications, it involves some verbiage about encryption and best practices and data security in transit and at rest. What business will WANT to sign a deal that says "Yes, it's ok to use a TLS cert that we know our government can intercept" when they have the option to use a cert from someone else that's secure? Cool, shoot your own businesses in the foot too, while you're at it.
Freaking politicians. Can't be bothered to do anything about the issues we citizens ACTUALLY want, but instead are too busy meddling in shit that no one wants.
That being said. The entire concept that tech giants being the ones to theoretically create new real estate empires... gives me a lot of Snowcrash vibes. And yes, I know the real estate megacorps of today are probably worse than Google. Really doesn't help.
It's a logical "feature" for them to offer this "shield" as it significantly mitigates one of the large legal concerns to date. It doesn't make the risks fully go away, but if someone else is going to step up and cover the costs, then it could be worthwhile.
For large enterprises, IP is a big deal, probably the single biggest concern. They'll spend years and billions of dollars attempting to protect it, cough sco/oracle cough, right or wrong.
But realistically, you can also register mycallsign@gmail.com and have an easy to use email for free.
Also a lot of the things he does is not 10x. Look at twitter. He's turned it from the worlds town square to a square filled with a bunch of white dudes in pointy white hats.
1gig/500meg would be a huge step forward. I'm currently on the highest most bestest plan that my ISP (Astound) offers. And it's 1.2gig down, 50 mbps up. That's not a typo, FIFTY up. I'm a techy and even I know I don't need 1.2gig down. My house is wired with CAT6 because I dragged it around, but my main switch is still gig. So... I can't even enjoy the increased download. The only reason I stepped to that highest plan was to get more upload than the 20mbps they previously offered.
ChatGPT4 gave me a solid answer hitting all the points I wanted. Phind din't get the account handling correct, didn't address regions, and didn't handle pagination.
"Write a python based script that uses boto3 to query AWS Route53. It should print a list of every record for a given hosted zone ID."
ChatGPT4 did exactly as requested with pagination, and even smartly decided to use "input" so I could give it a zone ID at run time. Phind didn't handle pagination, or do ANY error handling. It was also slower than ChatGPT4 to generate currently, and it wasn't in a single block of copy/pasteable code.
ChatGPT's solution worked without modification. Copy-Paste. Run.
Step 2 - Give them anything to shoot with up to and including a literal potato.
Step 3 - Be amazed at how good of results they get.
Look, I love my iPhone and my Nikon. But at the end of the day in most photography forums you'll see the recommendation to "use what you have". Expensive body and fancy glass only goes so far. You can use the worlds most expensive camera and still take shitty pictures. You can use a Gameboy Camera and still take good pictures.
That all being said, I think these photos are a great demonstration of "use what you have". It doesn't really matter that it's the new iPhone 21 Pro Max Ultra w/ Quantum Tunneling. You can take amazing photos with a little bit of creativity and a practiced eye. In fact, "limitation breeds creativity" is doubly true with the many limitations of an iPhone camera.
However, Google has repeatedly demonstrated that they'll sell you something only to kill it off very quickly. They're great at innovating cool new ideas and absolutely terrible at getting anyone to maintain those ideas. And you can see that based on their hiring. They want the best of the best, people who want to do nothing but blaze new trails. Maintenance? Techdebt? No... not for these esteemed engineers. Which leaves... basically no one at Google to mop up after.
My mother has zero desire to upgrade. I told her in another year her phone may no longer be supported by the latest iOS, in which case she was getting a forced upgrade (by me). Because everyone's phone has becomes the center of their lives and security of that device is of the utmost importance.
They said at the very start, the purpose is to be able to CHEAPLY and QUICKLY produce and deliver beds when disaster strikes. If you've months to prepare, then you can buy and ship decent beds from anywhere in the world via sea/train/truck. But if you absolutely positively need 10,000 beds tomorrow? This is the answer.
I'd love to see a combo of this Google tech and AI upscaling do the same for Babylon 5. They had shot the actors in widescreen format, but the CGI spaceships were only rendered in 4:3 and the files have been lost.
The problem is really just that while premiums consumer devices support basically all GNSS providers, that's not true of a lot of devices. There is a lot of cheap/old/specialized systems out there that are still GPS only.
In the case of a GPS shutdown, I'm not worried about my iPhone 15. However, what is currently in place and certified for flight in a 30 year old 757? Have they gotten around to generic GNSS support or is it just GPS? I honestly don't know and would rather we didn't have to find out the hard way.
Oh hell yes. GPS is the basis of trillions of dollars of business globally. Just look at sea shipping and aviation alone. Would a lack of GPS ground every commercial plane? Maybe.. maybe not... but it certainly would be a huge disruption.
The first time it happens everyone would just drive hard to making sure all "GPS" systems were actually multi-system GNSS systems. Which is already true of most consumer phones, but I imagine there are still plenty of GPS-Only stuff out there. After the first GPS shutdown and the time for retrofit, everyone would have support for Galileo etc... and the Europeans would be standing there going "SEE!!!! I told you we can't trust the Americans!". And they'd be right.
You can have 2 trusted people be administrators of the 1P account. Then you create a shared vault for anyone who needs access to the master credentials and store them all in said shared vault. You can have multiple vaults with multiple different sets of credentials and access (Ex a vault for HR is going to have different creds and people than a vault for DevOps). Note: The list of administrators and the list of people with access to the shared vault doesn't need to be the same people.
If someone who's in the trust circle quits or gets fired, you have someone else remove their access (just like any other offboarding) and go change the applicable credentials.
As for insider threat, there isn't a lot you can do if you give someone access to the credentials. For the admin, that should be easy - certainly, you can find 2 people in an organization who can be trusted implicitly (even if one of them is required to be the CEO/founder). If you're worried that someone is going to go rogue, then don't give them access to the information in the first place.
There is some stuff that just doesn't need to be broadly shared...lets say master passwords for AWS accounts. Really very very very few people will ever need those - mostly for "Break glass in case of emergency" purposes, right? So your Director of DevOps has access and maybe one other person. If you can't trust that Director of DevOps to have those credentials.... well honestly your organization has bigger issues.
So if tablets do the same thing the sun does and keep us awake, that must mean kids in very sunny areas have early puberty as well? Those up in the tropics with a consistently large amount of sun year round, for example?
Even simple logic deduction, this story makes no sense. And when the truth comes out, it'll probably be something like "Exposing rats to the equivalent of 20 suns worth of blue light causes early puberty and death"