Thibault Vilon

Working on @_Elevo + Husband and Father of three.

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@huguesdelamure Comment fonctionne l’ajout d’esim ? Je considère pour des voyages mais à l’étranger.

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@bfmbusiness Quel manque de vision

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

If you need any proof that self driving car are coming:

[JF @jeanfw]

Tesla FSD Supervised first ride along in Paris (Montmartre area), France 🇫🇷
- Full drive (30min+). Recommend watching @ 2x speed.
- Model 3 running FSD v14.1.7
- Audio removed
- Very grateful to @teslaeurope for the opportunity!

Re-upload with raw comments properly in video subtitles this time!

Let me know below if any questions!

Here with timestamps if you want to jump:
00:00 Start of recording from Tesla Center in Saint-Ouen
00:35 Disengaged to exit parking - I think FSD could have done it if not for us impatient humans ^^
00:44 FSD re-engaged
01:30 Letting a pedestrian cross, being super cautious (more than 99% of Parisian drivers)
04:00 Observation that the software here is the supervised version, but the “Full-Self Driving capability” outright purchase will cover the Unsupervised version once it’s available (technically and from regulation standpoint)
05:00 Observation that this FSD EU version has both Driving Profiles (from Sloth to Mad Max) and Max Speed offset (%)
06:00 Pedestrian thankful + very smooth re-acceleration before they even exit the crosswalk, like a human would drive. Already here we could feel it’s not rules-based and has an understanding of the world and good compromises between safety and comfort.
07:10 Good handling of speed bumps
08:00 Prioritized safety: yield despite having the right of way
09:15 Speed bumps, very comfortable
09:30 No stress handling of tight street
10:10 Switch to Mad Max, handling of speed bumps remains similar, and very cautious with cars parked on side
10:40 Unprotected left with limited visibility, Mad Max very cautious
11:10 Yielding as it should
11:15 Cautiously stays slow with pedestrian where it was unclear
11:35 Overtaking bike
11:50 Observation that Mad Max on city streets is indistinguishable from Standard
12:35 Going around left-turning truck
12:45 Highlight #1 : Threading the needle in very tight space around work truck with pedestrian on street
13:00 Observation that system feels as confident as it feels cautious
14:10 Overtaking stopped vehicle, very safe, proper use of blinker
14:30 Observation that no one is noticing that the car is driving itself
14:43 Vehicle that had right of way but was behind a parked van yielded to us, FSD very cautious but confident, didn’t overreact/didn’t stop as the other vehicle wasn’t moving
15:30 Nitpick #1 : positioned on crosswalk with rear of the car behind red light, once the bus restarted, car decided to follow but light was about to turn red. Tesla driver said it was probably to clear the crosswalk. Very human and totally safe but I would either have stopped cleanly before the light or much closer to the bus to avoid being in the middle of the light/crosswalk at any point.
17:00 Nitpick #2 : slight overcautiousness as pedestrians were approaching the crosswalk but they had a red, car stopped cautiously in intersection when it was not needed and could have gone forward without bothering pedestrians. I would have cleared the intersection in this case.
18:05 Leaves room for car
18:25 Observation that ride is very comfortable on Parisian stone roads (but sorry for the shakiness! mounts weren't permitted)
19:30 Self parks at destination reached. Not perfect parking but good enough. Back to Standard mode.
19:50 Attempt to go through highly touristy area full of pedestrians
20:15 Observation that human driver reversing into pedestrians is much more aggressive
20:40 Nitpick #3 : Had to disengage to go through tourists, car wasn’t being assertive enough to ever get through. This was totally because we were impatient/not willing to give the car more time, my guess is the Tesla driver knew we would never have made it through such a dense crowd.
21:00 Re-engage when out of crowded part
21:18 Extra cautious given pedestrians. Finally some people getting suspicious that the car is driving itself, maybe because we were super slow compared to Parisians
21:40 Being extra safe with pedestrian on narrow crosswalk
21:55 Questionable situation : there was a car coming from the right, could have been considered to have right of way strictly speaking, but car turned as a human would have
23:00 Superb pedestrian handling / reaction time, being extra polite
23:40 Observation that FSD Supervised is still designed for human to take over for higher risk situations
24:00 Navigating Montmartre
24:55 Highlight #2 : stopped to let motorcycle overtake us (!) - this is the time when the car felt absolutely sentient and not robotic
25:10 Yielded for pedestrians but they stopped, supervisor intervened to push it forward and avoid confusing them
25:40 Yielded for pedestrian in blind angle / behind plants while turning, definitely safer than human
26:00 Observation that FSD drives more cautiously and safely than most Uber drivers in Paris
26:08 Slowing down for scooter coming down the street in opposite direction, very safe and cautious
26:18 Observation that it’s awesome that Tesla is letting us choose any area for the ride along
26:24 Highlight #3 : Slowing down for pedestrian entering street without looking, then immediately back to normal once they are back on sidewalk, very safe again
26:50 Observation that it’s a huge sign of confidence that Tesla is allowing people to experience FSD in completely uncontrolled environments, on European streets
27:30 Tesla team member expressing gratitude that we as customers are willing to trust a new software, and that by riding along we are helping the team to find edge cases to continue improving
27:43 Highlight #4 : superhuman reaction to pedestrian deciding to cross, car anticipated her move - another example that felt sentient
28:10 No overreaction to undecided pedestrians
29:10 Tesla team member reminding that FSD is trained on >100 years of driving data, collected by both internal fleet and customer fleet. My take: that’s more experience than any human ever could gain over a lifetime
29:30 Observation that this system is clearly safer than human
29:45 Highlight #5 : Being very polite to pedestrian while motorbike wasn’t
30:20 Observation that Tesla wave is less frequent than in early years, but that the Tesla owners community is awesome, and OGs should keep doing it to perpetuate the tradition with new owners
30:55 Smoothly giving space to go around pedestrian walking on the road
31:05 Observation that so far there were zero interventions since reactivation after the tourist crowd (~10 min)
31:50 Going around stopped car while respecting bikes coming from opposite direction, including valid use of blinker
32:18 Accelerations and decelerations are very smooth / comfortable
32:40 Observation that FSD is more chill than human drivers - doesn’t honk
32:55 Highlight #6 : slows down for pedestrian entering street abruptly from behind a commercial van. This triggered a collision warning sound and red highlight on the driving visualization, but FSD was already handling it on its own
33:15 Very safe with pedestrian on their phone starting to cross the street while we had a green light, then stopping perfectly for orange light
33:50 Observation that FSD is very safe and very good at accounting for other people
34:00 Tesla driver intervened (Accelerator press) to get it past that green light. Possible that FSD was waiting for bike
34:20 End of recorded portion. Car drove back to Tesla without intervention/disengagement except parking.

[Gabriel Attal @GabrielAttal]

La France vient d'intégrer le Top 5 des pays qui réalisent la meilleure transition énergétique ! 🌱

Le 30 juin et le 7 juillet prochains, votons pour poursuivre cette action pour le climat.

Votons pour permettre à 100 000 de nos concitoyens de s'équiper, chaque année, d'une voiture électrique en leasing.

Votons pour permettre de rénover 300.000 logements d'ici à 2027.

Votons pour lancer 14 nouveaux chantiers de réacteurs nucléaires.

[Astropierre @astropierre]

Voici la séquence d'images prise ce 8 avril 2024 par le satellite 🇺🇸géostationnaire GOES-16 (@NOAA/@NASA) entre 16h et 23h CEST (heure de Paris), pendant l'éclipse totale de Soleil observée en Amérique du Nord.

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[DHH @dhh]

“I feel it in the feed. I feel it in the discourse. I smell it in the vibes.  Much of the pessimism that once was is lost, for none now wish to remember it.”

We’ve lived through some strange years in the recent past. Much stranger than any I can remember since my earliest, solid memories of the broader world from the mid-80s.

I’m not going to rehash the pandemic, Trump, wokeness, social media, or any of the many other perceived or real causes. I’m just going to remark that it’s been weird.

But not universally weird. Not hippie weird, for example. Not dreaming broadly of a better world, singing songs, smoking mild pot, and submitting to flower power weird. No, a pessimistic weird. An everything-sucks-all-the-time-and-there’s-nothing-to-do-about-it weird. A depressing, nihilistic, no-end-in-sight weird.

That’s been the vibe, at least as I’ve received it, over the last half decade at least. But I think maybe the fever is finally breaking. The dark clouds of pessimism are parting from optimistic rays of light.

I’m not sure what to think of e/acc or any of the other branded versions of this optimism, but I do think they're seeping into the groundwater, and we’re seeing sprouts everywhere with brighter, greener hues of positivity.

I like it. And I especially like it because it feels like I spent a fair amount of my own time in earlier years stuck in that pessimistic rut. This alternative is just better.

And now, like a former smoker, these heavy clouds of endless pessimism just seem extra suffocating. In the most existential sort of way: Snuffing out the hope we need to carry forward.

Maybe this is just how the pendulum has to swing. That we go through times of pessimism to correct for previous excesses of optimism. Maybe this is just the way it has to be. But holy moly am I ready for the reversal.

I don’t know where you are right now on the “it’s over” vs “we’re so back” spectrum, but if it isn’t near the latter, I think you should just force yourself to try it out in 2024. It’s mostly in your head anyway.

I’m going to try to stick with “we’re so back” and live up to its aspirations. Let’s go, Gandalf!

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@Betraydan @amoamoamo And no one really does

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

How is bitcoin a decentralized money if one guy has the power to cancel transactions ? Can someone explain… #bitcoin

[Conor @jconorgrogan]

13 years ago, someone exploited a bug to create 184,467,440,737 BTC

The blockchain was forked by Satoshi within 5 hours and the transaction (along with all of the other ones in between the fork) were thrown out. They never found the guy that did the hack!

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@peer_rich @stripe Most people track MRR wrong. Especially when you consider annual subscription, coupon, actual service period, proration, etc…
After 4 years I managed to build a system that works accurately using a couple gcp functions and google sheet, best of all it matches actual revenue!

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@HumansNoContext 999

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@svpino In the quest of making a request resolve for cheaper the quality drastically decrease and the user will lose trust in these models. With the AI hype behind us, it’s hard to project what’s ahead of us here.

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@davbona So very cool. Cannot use very far with a FR number though :(

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

C’est parti pour une nouvelle année et de nouveaux challenges. 2023 nous voilà !

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@CityscootParis votre service est complètement en panne ? L’app ne peut pas se connecter j’ai un message d’erreur toutes les 3s

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[Dave @GamewithDave]

Which controller was your first?

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@elonmusk No thank you :)

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@MathisHammel Est-ce que vous auriez choisi ce métier s’il était moins rémunérateur ?

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@lucdid I have heard a lot of people talking about “Rich dad, poor dad”. I haven’t read myself.

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@lucdid AirPlay devices, you can select multi channel output from any Apple device. The best price and quality will be with multiple HomePod mini. Plus they double as smart assistant that can work in the context of the room they are in.

[Thibault Vilon @tvilon]

@HarryStebbings When cheaper doesn’t mean cheap. Imagine you are entering a market occupied with incumbents only, that have failed to innovate for decades.