freerobby

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by freerobby 6mo ago
This is what happened. Tesla security received tons of bug reports that required root access to identify, yet they got a vanishingly small number of root vulnerability reports. This policy fixes that misincentive.
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by freerobby 1y ago
> Nope, they gave up on that and moved them to the driver's seat. FWIW, Tesla disputes this claim: https://x.com/robotaxi/status/1963436732575072723
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by freerobby 1y ago
Yeah I think their early success with Tesla Vision was faster than expected, it went to their heads, and they underestimated the iteration and fine tuning needed to solve the edge cases. It's difficult to predict how many reps it will
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by freerobby 1y ago
I haven't closely followed which rides have drivers where, and what is driven by Tesla vs what is regulatory -- but I thought some "drivers" were still in the passenger seat in Austin? At any rate, I don't think they are
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by freerobby 1y ago
Yeah, Tesla did themselves no favors with how they initially marketed FSD, and all the missed timelines amplified the brand cost of that. I'm glad to see them focus on what it can do today. Better to underpromise and overdeliver etc. A
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by freerobby 1y ago
The first one. > Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of delivering unsupervised autonomy. They have not given up on unsupervised autonomy. They are operating unsup
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by freerobby 1y ago
People never learn. The haters always think this time will be different.
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by freerobby 1y ago
This is clickbait from a publication that's had it out for Tesla for nearly a decade. Tesla is pivoting messaging toward what the car can do today. You can believe that FSD will deliver L4 autonomy to owners or not -- I'm not wadi
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by freerobby 1y ago
No, they never had LIDAR.
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by freerobby 2y ago
Thanks.
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by freerobby 2y ago
Any recommended article/link to get the backstory on this situation?
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by freerobby 2y ago
I led a migration from Mongo to Riak at Shareaholic about 12 years ago: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/migrating-to-riak-at-sh... It was successful at first, but ultimately we traded one set of problems for anoth
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by freerobby 2y ago
FWIW most people mean the Lansing book when referencing Endurance (the book).
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by freerobby 2y ago
I'd suggest Lost in the Funhouse. It's a collection of short stories and showcases a wide range of his authorial style. I'd suggest a paper copy for reasons that will be clear by page two (maybe page one).
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by freerobby 2y ago
Damn. He was my favorite living author. Got introduced to his "Lost in the Funhouse" in senior seminar in high school, was hooked immediately. His stories (and especially his writing style) changed how I approach literature and wr
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by freerobby 3y ago
What's this in reference to? WhatsApp, Signal, and many others are in the App Store.
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by freerobby 3y ago
There's lots of research here in the Tesla hacker community. The car continues to function. The easiest (not trivial, but easiest) way to test it yourself is to remove the SIM and disable wifi -- the non-network features of the car con
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by freerobby 3y ago
Tip for the future: you can upvote the submission and then go to "upvoted submissions" in your HN profile.
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by freerobby 3y ago
This only affected pre-BLE models when the owner did not have the key. It's no worse than when an ICE vehicle owner loses their key; it's just that typically with a Tesla, you can start it from the app in that situation.
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by freerobby 3y ago
The info dialog is the screenshot on the left in the embedded tweet. https://twitter.com/_bennettm_/status/1720287612664217758
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by freerobby 3y ago
That isn't what I'm saying. I'm saying it was a reasonable hypothesis that "you're going to have a bad time" with a system like Autopilot, because of the vigilance concern you're referencing. But there is
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by freerobby 3y ago
With specific respect to ADAS systems reducing fatigue: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13698... > We investigated the effects of ACC and HAD on drivers’ workload and situation
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by freerobby 3y ago
I don't have any independent data, just what Tesla reports: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport I've read the many critiques of Tesla's analysis, and I tend to agree the benefits are overstated, but I h
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by freerobby 3y ago
> Humans are terrible at vigilance tasks, and if you ask them to passively monitor a system that gets things right 98% of the time, you're going to have a bad time. I understand this as a hypothesis but it hasn't been borne out
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by freerobby 3y ago
You need to sign in with a Tesla account. Once you sign in, the service manuals are free for all vehicles. The paid subscriptions are for their proprietary software.
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by freerobby 3y ago
I think the suit is just referencing the rated range meter. The trip planner (which is what predicts how much battery you need to get to your destination) uses real world conditions, not rated range.
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by freerobby 3y ago
I'm able to beat rated range pretty easily on my '15 Model S on local roads. It's tough once I get on highways and exceed 65MPH. EPA is 290 Wh/mi. I typically get 330-350 on highways, going about 75 MPH, without the OEM
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by freerobby 3y ago
What charge port do you have that isn't Tesla compatible with an adapter?
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by freerobby 3y ago
Good. If mods want to withhold their own work and resign in protest, power to them. But right now they're hanging this all on mass censoring the work of their users. Screw that. Now, if users want to take down their own content in prot
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by freerobby 3y ago
Lots of ancient tech in control towers. The FAA is soliciting proposals, though. https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/non_federal/r...

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