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Highest theoretical production rate, they literally just started pumping out vehicles with any volume within the past year. Fremont has the highest production rate, where are you getting your information?

How long have GM had factories in China?

> "General Motors Co. traces its [Chinese] roots back to 1908. GM has 10 joint ventures, two wholly owned foreign enterprises and more than 58,000 employees in China." - From their website
Not the person you're replying to but

> What do you recommend I do right now [...] ?

(1) Obtain a solid understanding of statistics, (2) formulate a hypothesis, (3) collect multiple viewpoints, data and arguments related to that hypothesis, (4) sift through the collected data and judge their quality based on reproducibility and history of the author, (5) be prepared to not reach any solid conclusion

Making a decision for your and your family's health is orthogonal to all of that.
Ok, let's look at a scenario. If a board member of a powerful pharmaceutical company was also a chief executive at a news organization responsible for "fact-checking" claims about that company's medicines, would it be inappropriate to wonder about financial incentives?
Sandboxing and strong isolation are not mutually exclusive with allowing third-party sources to install apps. If their sandboxing is as good as you say it is, there should be no security threat imposed by allowing other apps on the device. The two should be distinct, separate threat models, but Apple conflates them.
Previously on HN, there was a 288-comments discussion on “Mindfulness and meditation can boost depression and anxiety” (2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24185710

When considering these two studies together, I find a very interesting question to ask: Have we evaluated treatment of depression and anxiety as if they were self-enhancement disorders?
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> Streets of SimCity

Maybe that's why you had a Voodoo card? My brothers and I loved Streets of SimCity. That you could load your game from SimCity 2000 and drive around in it was genius. We had so much fun with that game. The ridiculous songs on the radio and the over-the-top cheesy dialog were just icing on the cake.
Except that in America the word's meaning has shifted, to mean what a European would call a social democrat.
Planet Money did a great breakdown of the whole thing. They put a lot more credit on Kadlec himself and implied the Slaoui and Perna were just sort of there to make sales pitches. I think it also can't be understated that none of the bureaucratic victories would be possible if the science wasn't so advanced. Moderna had their vaccine in hand and ready for trials in a matter of weeks.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1053003777

Also, notable that Russia and China delivered vaccines even faster by not bothering with so much testing. They took a much bigger risk in their approach, but the vaccines they produced turned out to be nearly as effective as those coming from US/UK/Germany
A topical steroid I assume? Sure it’s an immune suppressant, since eczema is an immune condition. Topical steroids are standard of care.
Anecdotally, O365 products always felt like disjointed attempt by various engineering and sales teams to put a modern spin on the client side offering. In these contexts, it never had to be good - but just similar enough to the old products that excel, word, and outlook power users would use it and find value.

GSuite, Notion, Confluence, and others appeal to an audience that either never required MSFT office nor felt the need to become power users in it.
Ford said that their range estimates were all made with a bunch of stuff in the bed, of course that’s not comparable to towing but I’m willing to bet that it’s not going to be as bad as 100 miles.
I use gsuite for my own needs, but unfortunately whenever I deal with anyone on the non-technical side (marketing, support, etc) I always need to switch to word/excel/powerpoint.

I have been waiting for this to change, but I can't yet free up the gigabytes of space on my work laptop that is currently occupied by MS software.
Realistically once you go beyond the simple case of extreme deprivation, inequality in social capital is going to matter far more towards outcomes in health, biological stress, violence, crime, isolation, mental issues etc. than anything strictly limited to income or assets/wealth. What are you going to do to help the social-capital-poor, those most marginalized today by their own fraying communities and neighborhoods? Merely redistributing physical and economic resources is a blunt, costly approach which does not even begin to mitigate the underlying issues.
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People have been doing Symbolic Regression for a long time. I don't really see any novelty in this paper. They have left out a large part of the history and comparative results. How good is this compared to other methods?
Well I agree that there are actual valid arguments about priority, by which I mean the math works out- the costs are significant either way. Excess deaths vs. broader economic impact or even questioning how much economic benefit from allaying fear by an otherwise dubious activity (cloth masks..).

But in the US, we have this extreme irrational vaccine skepticism where the math just does not work out. People believe the vaccine is much worse than its benefit. It's hard to argue with since prominent people are supporting this idea.
Years ago when I was a regular Facebook user, there was a language setting called "English (pirate)" that would turn your inbox into a "Bottle o’ messages". Not sure if it's still an option but I quite enjoyed it :)

https://reface.me/hacks/make-facebook-talk-like-a-pirate/
If 90% of the time, you're puttering on the farm, but 10% of the time, you need to haul your horses somewhere or you need to go buy and haul some equipment back, it negates the truck. It needs to work for all cases or you need two trucks.
Many states are having severe problems with their grids. In California, for example, brownouts happen hundreds of times a year.

A sharp increase in the number of electric vehicles will pose a very heavy strain on the grid at night when they recharge.
(I don’t like my advice here, now that I’ve had something to. File a safety complaint, not a feature rollback request. They’re more likely to listen that way.)
I was watching the San Fransisco v. LA NFL playoff game. A commercial triggered Alexa, then all of them are offline in my house.

How do you prevent commercials from triggering voice activated devices?
Frame clearance can get you too. Cantilever brakes will allow you to fit a lot of tire, but you'll likely rub the frame long before you rub the brakes.
They are "PANGO" names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic_Assignment_of_Nam... https://cov-lineages.org/index.html
By distrust, do you mean “blindly believe SMEs to be wrong just because they’re an SME” or “fail to blindly believe what SMEs say?”

If people don’t understand a complex subject, then I think they should neither endorse nor reject SMEs’ opinions on the matter. People don’t have to have a belief about everything. Maybe they’re right. Maybe they’re not. Blind trust is dangerous.
I think you missed a step in the chain; if you increase the quality of life for humans, what are the consequences for human population growth and the consequences for the rest of the biosphere as a result?
My impression is that critical points in the process (combining mRNA with lipids) is a rate limiting step and can only be performed by a handful of specialized manufacturing facilities.

Derek Lowes “In the Pipeline” column has a number of articles relating to mRNA vaccine manufacturing:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/more-mrna-vaccine-...
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/myths-vaccine-manu...
What alternative should be purchased instead? Lead with that information, otherwise you're not helping the person who is looking to buy a lock.

I'm increasingly growing incredibly numb to calls for "don't associate with X because of Y". If you want my attention come to me with "Rather than associate with X check out Z, they offer the same service/product but aren't associated with Y".

I do not have the time, energy, or interest in morally auditing every company that I do business with (like buying a freaking padlock from).
Not sure! I encourage people to travel as much as possible. Start companies wherever you want. The internet provides almost unlimited resources to do this. There’s really no excuse why you have to be in the US, or start in the US. Start wherever you want.
Crypto works like cash. If you lose cash, there is no one to dispute charges and issue chargeback.

BTW I never had success trying to chargeback VISA for services that were not delivered. Scammers do it without problem though.
I'd wagger these were just excuse programs aimed at releasing regulatory pressure. Employees working on them might have put their best efforts, but they were inherently flawed and limited beyond just the "viewing" aspect.

A long time ago of my employer tried to skimp on a license and we tried those instead, just to give up after a day and buy the whole package.

I wonder how many people just had the same course, and we were visibly not alone:
https://www.mrexcel.com/board/threads/using-macro-enabled-wo...
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But farms already have many vehicles for different purposes. If almost all of them could be electric that’s progress.
<< But really, if scientific literacy is required to have coherent political preferences, what does that say about the right of participation of people in a democracy who are simply not educated or smart enough?

Ellul would likely argue that prerequisite of any propaganda is the obligation for a preference -- regardless of whether the individual knows anything at all. The purpose is to include him/her in the machine.

Personally, to me it is akin to my aunt telling me computer's are devil's creation ( she did ) and be the downfall of us all ( possible ). Yeah, maybe basic literacy is necessary to participate.
They are not necessarily wrong.
(This is an anonymous account so I'll state my qualifications: none regarding medical stuff)

I think coronaviruses we knew before were not immunizing either, which is why people catch the cold over and over (I catch it every year, sometimes twice a year).

What's wrong is pushing simultaneously the view that natural immunity is not very effective against SARS-CoV-2, but that vaccines somehow are, which is indeed a disingenuous proposition on its face.
That's interesting. I keep my A/C on "auto" and it doesn't seem to detect a fogged up windshield. This mostly happens on colder days after a workout at the gym. I'm hot and sweaty and I get in a cold car and the glass fogs up pretty quickly.

I'll have to make sure I have it configured correctly and see how the car reacts next time. I've also not seen the "defogging limited by settings" warning; then again, the text is so small on the warnings I might have seen it but not been able to read it.
I find it hard to understand why these things are allowed to be more than one button away in the first place. You really don’t want people driving a 2 ton monster taking their eyes away from the road to locate something 3 submenus deep.
> Fremont has the highest production rate, where are you getting your information?

It's in the link I already provided. Here's another source:

https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/giga-shanghai-november-2021...
Not to diminish the substance of the range/torque questions, I think there's a mass distortion effect at play here. These trucks are bought by a huge number of people and everyone assumes they're median for the range and pull. It's very likely the significant but none the less smaller cohort at the extreme range and pulling end exist, and have need to voice concern. Most of the buyers will never stretch this problem.

In Australia, where the myth of vast commutes is awesomely loud, especially amongst farmers and tradies, when the stats on average drive per day are abundantly clear this isn't the predominant problem. Is it a problem? Yes. For a small but vocal minority of the future drivers of these EV.

Diesel isn't going to disappear overnight. Trucks are alive and well now, which will be there to be used, with ICE, for decades. The production might cease, but that hardly stopped the VW/Microbus from living beyond its expected lifetime, spare parts and all.

Point a farmer at an opportunistic cost saving and reliability improvement on a $750k+ piece of farm machinery and they'll go there when their first neighbour shows the bottom line difference. They're like penguins on the ice-floe, nobody wants to be the one finding the lurking leopard seal in the water. But once its clear a combine/thresher/header machine works better, cheaper by battery, and has lower TCO they'll be all over it like a rash. If you combine that with huge roof surface area on sheds and opportunistic cooling/shade from PV cells they'll be off-grid power advocates in seconds.

Will farmers north of 50 have problems with snow in winter? Sure! Oh damn, ok, lets tank the entire EV market because a cohort in the midwest with snow can't "win".. Thats basically what we're seeing here. Everyone assumes they are 'normal' and their 'normal' usage risks determine the entire market. The F150 sells internationally as well as domestically, its market includes a lot more than RV hunters in the forests, and people north of the snow line. Most of the world lives south, the vehicle will sell everywhere if the price is right.
The difference in between using Vulkan and using OpenGL 3.3/4.0+ Core Profile is quite significant. It's hard for me to be motivated to upgrade existing code.
It doesn't seem possible to me to ban general purpose computers. Any society that tries would at best, lose to the ones that don't. It seems impossible to me to have enough surveillance to both prevent unauthorized code and also still allow effective/competitive software development.
Things I wish mc had:

- Extensibility (e.g. Far Manager has macros, plugins, and scripting; mc has none)

- Better file system navigation (pressing Ctrl+S every time to start isearch when entering a directory is cumbersome)

- Better history (no search; the history file is clobbered on exit, overwriting other instances' history)

- Generally better ergonomics that don't rely so much on the hard-to-reach F-keys

- Things like built-in image viewer that are present in modern file managers are absent in mc

- Development velocity seems to be rather low; not sure why, perhaps because it adopted GitHub only relatively recently.

mc features that I wish other file managers had:

- Stable (no crashes)

- Packaged in all major distributions, so can be installed and used anywhere

- Fairly good performance (asynchronous listdir/stat would make this even better)

- VFS for archives and remote hosts (FUSE/sshfs can be flaky)

- File management features which are standard for Norton clones (but not for many new file managers like ranger), such as searching in files (and operating on the results)

- Runs in a terminal, so can be used via SSH
I think research quality isn't the primary problem. Yes there are bad quality papers being published but it usually highly depends on the institution. The problem here really is unending demand for novelty. I find it weird that academia has a very high risk appetite for research that's "shiny and new" instead of focusing on reproducibility. They'd rather have a bunch of "new" topics which has flaws in their methodologies rather than verifying old ones which has a solid foundation but boring. The thing is, a lot of advisors are incentivized to do so especially in private universities where they can advertise these new papers just to entice more students to enroll with their exuberant tuition.

I'm speaking from a first-hand experience in a private university whose image heavily depends on what "shiny and new" thing their students somehow invent. My university spends so much advertising those things and constantly raise prices at the same time, a shady business model. One of my business professors, who teach in the same institution, also subtly judge the ethics of these kinds of universities.
Virtually all of these are rehashed press releases with essentially no thoughtful editorial contribution.
It’s still a good selling feature. Do I want to spend X on a home generator, or put that money into a truck that can also provide backup power?

I can’t imagine that the backup power from a truck is truly a replacement for a generator. More of a “nice to have because you can” rather than something you’d depend on. If you’re really worried about backup power, you’d have a generator in place.
Think of all of the real good devs could be doing instead of rearranging UI components and especially the wasted time of making vehicle interfaces require more screen interaction for prior one tap actions.

What a waste of brainpower and education.
I've been wondering the same.
When I was a student in SoCal, I hardly had to use the windshield defogger. After I moved to Texas near the gulf of Mexico, I had to use the defogger regularly in the winters. I have now moved to Switzerland and the defogger button was very handy, especially when exiting the Gotthard tunnel to the other side of Alps, when the temperature drops down from 20C to negative 5 to negative 10 all of a sudden and everything fogs up.
Some buttons really need to be hard-coded and presented to the driver properly for safety reasons.
Another interesting omission with my 3 is that the headlight fogs up and then ices over. There is no headlight cleaning / defogging system in this car, I have to pour warm water to make the headlight function properly.
Even if pachinko is related, Sega (Samy) is also big for pachinko machine market. Arcade machine is not very profitable business but I don't know they completely shut down their business in the future or not. I just point that no more shop != no more machine.
To me, it reeks of a new form of virtue signalling.
The exponential growth of spending on research is the main factor working to dilute quality and to corrupt the process.
Yes, but like I said, if it isn't obviously wrong, it's probably close enough to work. I've put 35-559 and 54-559 on the same generic mountain bike rims. They both worked.

My road bike has 25-622 in the front and 28-622 in the back because a little more padding under my ass is pretty welcome at the end of a long day. I'll note that if you run radically different widths (and by extension heights), you'll likely find that you need to change the saddle angle to keep your weight on the parts of your body the can support it comfortably.
Tesla has an unhealthy obsession with minimalism[1].

As noted elsewhere even in this conversation, the ability to locate a control via touch alone allows drivers to keep their eyes on the road (I realize that "where your eyes are pointed" != "where your attention is focused", I'll leave the research to others whether there is sufficient scientific evidence for this reason for tactile controls).

Additionally, physical controls might still be operable even in circumstances where the touch screen is rendered inoperable, and arguably can be made more durable than a big piece of glass.

It's commonly believed that the reason that Tesla cars only have a physical emergency hazard light button is because of US regulations (SAE J910 from Jan 1966[2]); the design minimalists at Tesla have moved it to the center of the ceiling console on the Model 3, to the point where there are many forum discussions of owners asking where the button is. IMO this pretty much proves the "minimalism gone too far" theory, if a critical safety control cannot be located by a nontrivial number of drivers. Similarly, the emergency brake in early Model S and X is a gesture on the shifter (direction control stalk), which is completely non-discoverable without RTFM.

I love Tesla. I've owned a 2015 Model S and a 2018 Model X. I sold the latter yesterday in anticipation of my new Model X that will be delivered in two weeks. My point is, I'm a fan.

That said, I'm concerned about my new Model X because of reports that they've removed even more physical controls (this time, they've removed the shifter) and are depending either on heuristics or touch screen interactions to set the direction that the car will go. The steering wheel has become a yoke (my uninformed guess is that this is more of designers trying to minimize the fact and appearance of driving controls and trying to visually convey the idea of a self driving car).

One weird note: For wanting to get rid of so much clutter, why haven't Tesla designers incorporated a HUD?

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=minimalist+design+of+tesla&...
[2] https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2011-19595/p-73
Many thanks for this. Very generous of you.
Cities are really not that dense. Harrisburg to Pittsburg is over 200 miles along the highway. From Albuquerque you could only get to Santa Fe or vice-versa, and then you're stuck. You'd be trapped in Salt Lake City or Denver too.
They do, but they usually only have 1 truck which is what we're talking about.
Short answer: it's complicated, and not a binary, but perhaps a gradual process of "becoming less of a mystery". The history of the subject is actually pretty interesting, and like most things in science gets more nuanced the more time you spend on it.
>if roadside assistance can reach you to deliver gas, they can also reach you to tow you to a charging station.

That's a little bit of a stretch. You can walk a 5gal tank all sorts of places roadside assistance won't go, though that's largely a reflection of corporate policy than physical inability.

Also it's way harder to get someone to give you a charge if you run out due to circumstance in the middle of nowhere whereas pretty much anyone will give you a gallon of fuel if you're truly out.
Then you suddenly have to go to auction 200 miles away in cold weather or make an emergency vet visit 70 miles away when your range is down, or need to tow your backhoe 120 miles for service. It is in an immutable law of the universe that these things will not happen right after your car has been charged fully and there’s a charging station on the way back home.
I'm a software engineer and I've done similar Operation Warp speeds in the past.

Mandates from executives to ship something now. Disable the test suite because we don't have time to look at the tests. Skip QA, release directly to prod and see what happens.

It always works very well in the IT industry, it's not wonder pharma wants to adopt the same proven approach.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was pointedly not involved in Operation Warp Speed.
That's terrible. Here's a recent example from a credible source that does name names: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-31/on-the-trail-of-dodgy...
> Science does eventually self-correct, but unfortunately it takes far too long to do so.

So kinda like the democracy then.... the worst system, apart from all the others (paraphrased)?