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Tesla has sold about 1.4M cars in just last two years. 500k last year and 910k (likely more) this year.

Next year Tesla is going to sell probably at least 1.5M cars. Given they have two new factories, and Tesla Shanghai factory is expanding again, 2M wouldn't surprise me.
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I am so sick of car culture. One good part of covid was seeing all the pointless car driving significantly reduced.

The usual arguments I see here on HN which are pro cars are "what about the children/disabled/elderly". Completely nonsense pro car argument. An efficient, humane public transport system that is well connected, gets you to where you want to go, well funded and maintained would probably be better for a majority of the people in these groups anyway. Im not even advocating for removal of cars, but Im sure the majority of the population could easily reduce dependence.

As for the "freedom" argument. Sitting in some box confined to miles of endless tarmac with countless rules, regulations, taxes, insurance doesn't seem free at all.

Sure, I like the ability to go out into the country side to go for a trail run, but again that is not the majority of my trips.

The vast majority of trips in a city could probably easily be replaced by public transport for a lot of people. It's just laziness and a deeply embedded car culture. Looking at pictures of American cities with enormous parking lots horrifies me.
Wheels like this could literally turn the car 360 degrees in place...
No one is complaining about the most offensively ignorant line in the Scientific American article, so I will:

“ First, the so-called normal distribution of statistics assumes that there are default humans who serve as the standard that the rest of us can be accurately measured against.”

No such thing is remotely true. This line is a deep embarrassment to the magazine, even in an opinion piece. Do they not even have editors???
Seems like this is a competitor to my company's ULTRA Loader:

https://www.bastiansolutions.com/assets/1/6/ultra_cutsheet_3...

I work in a different division, so I can't really speak to how this was developed. But, it's interesting to see the different design decisions, particularly the decisions to integrate or not integrate conveyor with the robot itself.

Our robot is much larger due to the integrated conveyor, but from what I understand this simplifies navigation. We remain stationary on the outside of the trailer, so we sidestep the problem of navigating in an arbitrary trailer. This is a big challenge according to some of the AGV vendors I've spoken to. Maybe it comes down to mapping techniques - not my area.
Not all, but enough to make this a viable product. There are a lot of high volume, low-sku warehouses where each product is light enough for Stretch's arm.

As with any robotics project, there are a lot of ways that this might fail, but my money is not on boxes being too heavy or flimsy.
They are a massive driver of pollution, death, and injury, all while providing poor-quality transportation for a high price to a subset of the population.
Speak with a lawyer who specializes in something like business brokering. IMO, I would rather license out the software in your position, but we lack the details.
Are you sure its $14/hr? I was watching the documentary about the Chinese Car Windshield company opening a plant in Ohio and they were paying workers there something like ~30ish an hour. I recall some lady was sad because the old GM plant was playing closer to 40 but still happy to have the job. Isn't this the same kind of work? Wouldn't it be closer to the 30$ figure?
No video games though. Phew! :D
I think we can leave this at "I disagree that there's no meaningful distinction between a threat of single-digit years and double-digit years sentence".
Doesn't the saying refer to those who design their own cryptographic algorithms, not those who write their own implementation of accepted ones?
Based on https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-v... (which doesn't include Q4) it's probably about 20% of the total cars ever delivered.
I assume you are talking about the US there, since here in Germany we are racing to booster as many folks as possible right now as the nth wave is tsking over the country again. Hard restrictions for unvaccinated people, as makes sense. But the thing that counts is: our health care system is on the brink of collapse. The hospital staffs around the country are edging on breakdown. Health care workers simply can't hold off the storm much longer and we are headed right into a big wave of infections and thus bad disease courses. Unvaccinated people are clogging our ICUs, directly leading to deaaths of multiple groups of people waiting for surgery of various means. There's also an uptick in healthcare professionals leaving the field and major mental health issues even leading up to higher suicide rates.
>rethinking the whole process instead yields a much bigger boost.

Reminds me of a Tom Scott video where he checks out the Ocado warehouse in the UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE

It's crazy; they've rethought the entire system to have it navigable by machine.
1. I went from $150k -> $250k TC when I entered FAANG

2. I became engaged and am part way through the deposit on a wedding venue

3. My house value grew from ~550k -> $750k

4. I had several pets die and adopted several more (we adopt elder dogs)

5. I went on 6 trips of various sizes (2-7 days each depending on trip)

6. I kicked out all my room mates and now have a 5 bedroom home for me, my fiance, my dogs, and future kids
With the pace of development, any given bug or issue could have been fixed within the past few years- I do see your point about Emacs's stability and dev-additudes, which can stand on it's own, but I usually do try to replicate an issue on a clean install (minimal config needed to reproduce the issue) of the latest (released) version before filing a report. Dev time is as scarce as our own. Additionally, if the amount of configuration needed to reproduce your issue is prohibitive, that sounds like it might actually be an emacs-distribution issue?

I dont want to be too caught up in the cons. criticism- thanks for bringing it to someone's attention in the first place c:
You can easily split stuff into modules without getting classes involved. For example the `Math` module which has been in JS basically forever.
This makes sense as it has a 25 km/h top speed
> I wonder how it is expected to work with non-table references (views, CTEs, subqueries)

It’s not, it’s only for the special but common case of joining two tables based on a foreign key.
Another, excellent source for historical use of EW in World War II: the book Instruments of Darkness by Alfred Price [1]. In fact, the Association of Old Crows, a US professional and lobbying organization for EW includes it, as well as several others, in their recommended reading section on History [2].

[1]. https://www.amazon.com/Instruments-Darkness-History-Electron...

[2]. https://www.crows.org/page/recommendedbooks
I wouldn‘t completely exclude the possibility that a random bit flip caused the ML processing to go haywire.
Is it possible to opt in to this feature? I would love it if any unauthorized photos of me had me replaced with background scenery.
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it's interesting how Tesla is definitely not a car company when somebody mentions their absurd valuation but just like all the other car companies when something goes bad. Cannot have it both ways.

I have read about Toyota's impressive production systems and then hear people claiming that Tesla's manufacturing capability is 10x better than anybody else's.

At some point we'll have to decide whether looking like a duck, swimming like a duck, and quacking like a duck makes it a duck.
PS: As an example wet wood ash normally has a PH of 9 to 11 which can cause mild chemical burns while I burned wood is harmless on it’s own.
While I've driven them (on a track) and appreciate the attraction of the German sports luxury brands, what I've always heard is that if you want to keep them past their warranty period you need a trusted independent foreign car mechanic--and it can still get pricey. Just has never been a sufficient priority for me.
Well yes, but you seem to think it's unfair treatment whereas I think It's perfectly reasonable to treat them differently if they are different(Which they are). So we disagree as well.
This is unnecessarily defensive. A quick search shows that other large recalls have been heavily upvoted on HN: Volkswagen, Hyundai, Fiat, Peloton, Amazon, and many others.

Just a reminder that news about the 6th-largest company in the world, owned by the richest man in the world, isn't a personal attack on you.
> You might have noticed that most companies don't care about these things

I've noticed the opposite. Even when I worked retail jobs (minimum wage) in high-school and college, those employers considered morale the be an important aspect of a productive work environment.

We'd have company BBQs, random pizza days, birthday recognition (sometimes with cake), etc. They gave us the proper tools to do our jobs, including gloves/box cutters/shirts/etc. Typically if you told a manger you needed something (work related), they would get it for you. Things chugged along fairly well.

Reducing turnover was an active goal because it cost them time and money to hire and retrain new people, even for basic tasks.
But how could you accurately tell if some queries join on the foreign key, but were written by someone without knowledge of the new specification?
Ask HN: Has anybody had an Instacart Express renewal message hit their inbox?
Anecdotally, quite a clever dark pattern Instacart is using. Telling users they can get an email before they cancel and then designing the email so it will likely be marked as spam.
Why so aggressive?

Including signatures as a matter of policy on all public communiques from a government agency would be useful for validating legitimacy, as anything deepfaked (i.e. without a signature) would immediately be called into question.
I didn't read past the paywall but the 1st paragraph was enough to understand this article is not about addictive videogames and business modeling but Pro-China Anti-liberal propaganda. I know this to be true because the first paragraph didn't mention either. Then at the beginning of the next paragraph they claim that Video game addiction clinics spread from China to the West, which is laughable considering such places have been operating in the West before the WTO invited China to the party and the majority of their citizens were living on farms.
Big tech has this uni-modal aporoach to users: they find what maximizes a metric, and works for 75% of the users, but roll it out to 100%. Dealing with the remaining 25% would have low ROI.
Depends on the project, but AWS can accommodate this. Potentially free tier too.
I've seen what an unlatched hood can do at highway speeds. It will rip the hood right off the dampers and smash the windshield. FSD won't help you.
I was self-hosted enthusiast myself, until I found out that self-updating is not fun, not always compatible and thus not secure*. And therefore, I take the hard pill of SaaS even if security wise, it is hard to swallow.

*Not secure: It will always catch you off guard, and will require a lot of work, so you will postpone it which is, not secure.
I have a cheaper phone that has this, makes your face look weird, it's too smooth

LG Stylo 6 has "AI cam"
I get that. But you're only convincing the people whose personal choices you disagree with that you're a jerk. You're only pouring gas on the fire.
Energy usage of ETH would've been exactly the same whether those artists or anyone else created NFTs.

So the comparison with gaming is not really correct. Playing PS5 consumes energy in a direct way. Creating an ETH transaction doesn't consume much more energy than vising a website.
I could see if you were a big company, trying to migrate a bunch of users and retrain them on a new password manager would be costly, there are probably admins out there looking for any reason not to make the move, but at this point, I think they have lost all credibility.
What makes this more interesting to me is that is came about during a probe into the driver assist technology. This particular recall is of less interest than that probe.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
Your comment would imply they both lack certain innovations we have but also have equally big ones they're ahead of us on. I don't really find that to be the case. I think it is awesome you can board a bus with a 10,000 yen note and the machine can give you change no problem. Also, ATM machines take your coins for deposit and all. But that has been around twenty plus years, and I can't think of anything else substantial I'm jealous of.
I actually think such vacuum transistors are the future of digital electronics. I remember first seeing the research on them when I was in grad school back in ~2014 or ~2015. The big challenges I see are making a complementary version, to get CMOS-like power savings, and mass producing them with sufficient yield. If you can do both of those, it should be possible to 3D stack them, which would put silicon transistors to shame.
Yeah I find that the front facing camera on the iPhone is notoriously bad. The pictures it takes don’t look like me because it alters the skin tone and does aggressive smoothing. I hate it.
The downside to losing links is that checking sources becomes quite a bit more bothersome.
Maybe top-100 population US cities don’t count as “small democracies” in your definition. But if they do, I’d argue that small democracies do plenty to protect owners of capital at the expense of people in the lower half of wealth owners.

For example, take the surveillance and excess force against protestors during the summer of 2020 in the US (various judges and courts have agreed that some of the most high-profile police actions were illegal.)
> The model is considered the greatest computational project in Russia for now, totaling 24,256 GPU days to train the models.

> We don’t know for sure why OpenAI hasn’t shown its work in a more reproducible way. But this step is definitely done to stimulate the further openness and progress of such models.

Super interesting and great commentary, thanks for sharing!
What, why would I do that? I don't want to fight for something I already have. I'd rather fight against people who would take it from me.
Can you expand on what these CBT exercises are?

I gave up after the Lexapro until this year where I am trying to tackle this issue again with the Welbutrin. I keep reading that maybe ayahuasca or psilocybin might be the miracle key that solves the underlying issues.
It looks like NeXTSTEP but it isn't really following its concepts beyond those looks. I did use NeXTSTEP for a bit some time ago, after years of using Window Maker and NeXTSTEP's window management felt very primitive in comparison.

> Nowadays it seems mostly stable, to put it on a nicer way.

Sadly it has some bugs, though it is largely external stuff (RandR support was never implemented properly and is so broken that i don't think it is even compiled in by default, mouse settings do not work since it uses some old APIs, EWMH support is buggy/incomplete and some applications that assume it is always there have issues under it), but UI-wise it is stable (in that it doesn't try to reinvent itself - a 1997 screenshot of WM looks pretty much the same as a screenshot from a current PC, aside from increased resolutions, at least unless you are on a cheap laptop :-P).

I do try to fix some bugs myself and implement features whenever i get too annoyed by something though.
As someone that has worked with Chinese production enough to for it to give me grey (each order in the many-millions of pieces) - the factories do this behind the backs of the company and they're pretty good at evading detection, and yes they know it's wrong.

For example any scheduled inspection by Apple would be met with a safe and well running facility - and the moment they leave it all returns back to normal. Apple, like other companies, do random inspections - and that's when you find all of the infractions, but these companies are pretty clued in to when a random inspection might occur since there are telltale signs for that (the factories will also pay off anyone they need in order to get advance notice, e.g drivers, airport staff, hotels you name it.)

So it's a constant battle of trying to uncover and rectify the supplier problems. As a simple anecdote for the production staff to have normal working hours we would need to pay them as if they worked an 18 hour day on the requirement that they used the rest of the day for rest and leisure - because otherwise they'd just go to other factories to get in additional hours. The workers are not there for a good time, they're there for the cash.

Despite the Apple hate on HN (HN has a big thing for double-standards), Apple do a very good job about this and unlike many companies Apple publish their own dirty laundry in their supplier responsibility report.
As someone rightly noted earlier: You hear about the Apple ones, you barely hear anything from non-American companies, but let me assure you - their conditions are far worse and in many cases simply dangerous and not suitable for humans.1

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2018/11/23/samsung-electro...
I have also experienced this buying behavior first hand when a colleagues spouse had an avoidable accident with the kid on board. The thought was - My partner cannot drive, so I need to buy a bigger car so that they dont endanger my kid.

The US needs regulation and more driving training to protect the other traffic participants. While we are at it also safer bike lanes and walk ways and crossings.
Sounds like you need to watch the White Christmas episode of Black Mirror.
Actually, cryptocurrencies and DAOs were supposed to be socialism. The network was going to be owned by the people. The natural way to monetize open source.

Well, minus the whole one person one vote part, but still better than the surveillance capitalism of Big Tech companies funded by VCs buying shares, propping up their “free to lockin” model and dumping them on the public, who then made them extract rents forever to satisfy wall street earnings.

In my opinion, cryptos were seduced by the dark side of profit, and buyers failed to care that the emperor (blockchain) has no clothes (scalability).

I am focused on micropayments and local currencies with actual utility, and moving past blockchain. I am going to link to something — and historically this link was immediately knee-jerk perceived as “shilling a coin” but if you read, there is no coin, it’s just talking about how to ACTUALLY monetize open source projectsand joirnalism and other online content on the WEB using WEB technology instead of government enforcers: https://qbix.com/token
Ask HN: Why do so many developers seem hostile to their users these days?
This is a discussion I hope can lead to some answers among the developer community about what's going on these days.

I previously wrote about how various shopping sites are being very hostile to their customer base [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29384866]. Why does a 32kb text article need 10MB of battery draining heavy javascript to just work? But this is more then just shopping sites as so many websites, browsers, programs, and even OS's are making decisions that are hostile to their users. And it's coming from everywhere. What used to be controversial (e.g. dark patterns), is now normal. And if the user complains - the answers from the developers is "we're sorry, just live with it?"

I could write an essay on this but I'll focus on a company which publicly represent this hostility - Blizzard. Blizzard is an entertainment company in an industry which has a tremendous amount of competition. And many Blizzard games are paid for directly from the user's pockets so the customers are paying. But yet, even with this, the contempt the developers have towards their users is immense. While I'm not a Blizzard fan but listening to people who are - they are not happy. Yet at the same time, even with this angry customer base, the developers kept saying they "knew best" demanding the customers do things their until the ceiling broke and the mass exodus we know today happened. There's no apology, no sympathy - nothing - just complete hostility against their users.

But of course, this is not just a story about Blizzard. It's Apple, Google, Firefox, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, etc. Just look at Microsoft and their heavy use of dark patterns to force Windows 10/11 options (another essay unto itself). And so many companies gleefully advertising "it's your choice" where "your choice" is slowly "depreciated" until "your choice" is no longer in the deeply hidden options menu.

What is it about this field that attracts people that are so adamant, so demanding that their users, their customers do it "their way or the highway"? People who seemly absolutely refuse to even acknowledge the burdens they force upon their users even when their users are saying, very loudly, "I don't want this."

In the past, I used software because I wanted to use it. These days, I use software, not because I want to, but because I have to.

(To be fair, it might not be the individual developers who is hostile but something in the decision making process is causing entire company to be hostile to their users.)
Tesla has bumped the price of their vehicles _at least_ three times this year, in some cases well over $10K in total, so it's not all that much different to "market adjustments".

Not sure how a $5K refundable deposit is "obnoxious". Sure, it's less convenient than the Tesla deposit, but it wasn't like that money wasn't earmarked anyway. (And if you're in the market for a $50-75K vehicle and the difference between a couple of hundred and couple of thousand down is a deal breaker for you, you could argue affordability).
At that point you are just building a feature into an "ORM" of some sort. The entire point is to allow queries to be written in a more concise way for this simple equality join use case which is (total ballpark figure) ~half of the joins in my system.
> we live in society of laws. You don't get to just decide which you like and thus will follow.

Tell that to Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Thoreau, and the many benefactors of mankind who have seen a law was wrong, and refused to obey it! And all those that admire their courage and efforts.
Well it’s in telephoto and 1/121 exposure so the photographer was probably wobbling around like mad when it was taken and the overlay and computational image stuff got confused.

I’m fine with this. I use a mini tripod with my 13 pro on telephoto. Back in the old days this would just look like ass instead.
Flush toilets use a lot of water, even wealthy people use buckets. Moreover squat toilets, which is how the human anatomy has evolved generally require the use of mugs and buckets, is the preferred and often cleaner method.

Soap usage is quite common these days except perhaps in the remotest and the poorest regions.

There is an obsession with western comodes and toilet paper, if you read up on their relatively recent history and a solution looking for a problem you would realise they they aren't great ideas. This is especially considering a warm country like India, where washing one's self with water and soap is the safest option.

There is in general a problem with most countries especially developing ones, where the ones using the facilities are far removed from the ones providing it. Often the builders/contractors provide substandard facilities, this includes public facilities like busses.

The food poisoning incident has brought out the other complains about other the facilities which has always existed.