skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Figures that I have for Q1 2023 for BMW Group (which includes Mini) are: 588,138 total, including 64,647 BEV. So that's 11% BEV. IN Q1 2022, figures were: 596,907 total, including about 25,940 BEV. So it was 4.3% BEV.

Going from 4.3% BEV to 11% BEV may not sound so impressive, but little by little non Tesla BEVs are adding up, and I think many car makers are investing very seriously into it.

Historically the car market has not been one of monopoly, I don't think it's going to change with Tesla. Market shares will change, some car makers will fail to adapt, but I don't think German carmakers are the ones that will suffer the most. Japanese carmakers I have more doubt: they are moving very slowly, but on the other hand Japan knows how to manufacture batteries at scale (Panasonic), so once Toyota decides to move seriously into BEV, they might be able to move very fast.

I'm a lot more worried about my own country carmakers (Renault and Peugeot). Not only they move slowly and erratically, they are going to compete head on, on price, with Chinese carmakers...
Due to the blatant activism.

I really feel they shouldn't go all in on it right now. Winds are changing and they'll end up alienating the new youth that I see hints of starting to push back at the feel good activism for the sake of activism.
I test drove the BMW ix, Mercedes EQS and Model Y last year and ended up with the Y which is my second Tesla.

The BMW and Mercedes experiences were a frustrating combo of the usual dealership tactics, large price markups and many of the options being unavailable in the US. The Y was also superior on features like storage. The BMW has neither a frunk or a sub trunk like the Tesla. Both the BMW and the Mercedes don’t allow the end user to open the hood at all.
What a strange comment.

Is there an argument that we can prevent nuclear power, cars, or the sun from becoming dangerous?

Does the fact that all of those things are intrinsically dangerous mean we should panic?

AI may or may not kill is all, but I’m pretty sure random panic won’t change the outcome.
The base Model Y is not even at a luxury price point after tax credits.

But yeah, Tesla’s interior build quality is not really comparable with other luxury cars.
I recently bought a Polestar 2. For people who aren't familiar with the brand, I describe it as "Volvo makes a Model 3".

Is it less high tech than a Tesla? Absolutely: Volvo is a car company. Is it better constructed than a Tesla? Absolutely: Volvo is a car company.
"What city? Surely not Beijing. Maybe Shenzhen?"

As you've caught on, I'm a bit fuzzy on the dates.. But I feel I was riding Caocao taxis in Chengdu around then?

"Definitely not the blue trucks that are only allowed inside the 5th ring at night and cause air quality to tank after midnight"

Yeah you're right! I was off the mark there. There are smog monsters at night thats for sure. Forgot about those haha. During the day the smaller refrigerated trucks were electric though

As to your last point.. It's not a simple topic, but protectionism in theory only hurts your own market and your own consumers. Reciprocity is kinda irrelevant
Except this leak confirms them in this case hence the subject of this thread?
Sorry, my snarkiness was not meant personal, I know you're not to blame :)
I definitely like the batteries included and speed of bun.
> literally threatened Musk if he didn’t eventually settle a deal

This is nonsense. Congress gave him tax breaks.
I've also driven my Nissan Leaf since 2013 with zero shop visits outside of tire shops.

Wah. That is crazy. The total cost of ownership for that car must be incredibly low. Think about what that means for the future of all auto mechanics. Will there be far fewer?

Anecdote about a Nissan Leaf: I'll never forget being on holiday in Sri Lanka, walking through a tiny, countryside village. I was on my way to see a Buddhist temple. I was surprised to see an all-electric Nissan Leaf. It blew me away. I guess she is still driving it today!
At least on my chromium variant each private window (not tab: window) gets its own isolated environment.

I frequently use this to log into websites with different user accounts for testing purposes.
I like your change. Much clearer.

Makes me more interested than the current syntax.
My desktop has over 2000 tabs open in Firefox. Memory footprint is slightly over 3 gigs. I usually manage to keep the laptop tab count under 1000. Honestly I think you're the first person I've ever heard praise Chrome(ium) for gracefully handling high tab counts.

I'm not a fan Mitchell Baker or many of the ways Mozilla works these days. But in the pulling crap department, Google and Microsoft have given Mozilla a very low bar to clear.
European countries were not squishy towards Russia. They acted according to their own interests in a world where no major power could be trusted.

The norms that govern international politics are similar to the ones that young kids develop when left to their own devices. Without shared values and without an authority that can impose theirs, you can't evaluate justifications. The norms that emerge deal with the actions themselves. You can do X for your reasons if I can do X for mine, and so on. The ways the US used their global hegemony taught Putin what he can do for his own reasons.

It's easy to forget how immensely unpopular the Bush administration was among the West European elite. Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize for not being Bush, while Biden didn't get one for not being Trump. When the Bush administration tried to tell Europe not to deal with Russia, they had barely more credibility than the Iraqi propaganda guy.

That loss of soft power was the beginning of the end for the American hegemony.
> Doesn't matter

In civil court, damages are the only thing that matters.
One question... why?
PS1 was a low volume car, almost concept level. The UX of PS2, a large volume car, is much better and generally very well received.
Same could be said for php…
Siddharth Mehta, Bay Capital say UPI platform transformed lives of Indians
Siddharth Mehta, CIO of Bay Capital says UPI stage has changed the existences of millions of Indians and assisted the country with taking a quantum jump bypassing the whole installments venture from money to checks to charge cards to wallets to P2P!
I’d actually argue that the increasing centralization of power in the U.S. is due to the increasing nationalization of political issues and the requirement for nation-wide resolutions to problems. The way it has expressed itself (strong presidential executive instead of parliamentary democracy) is probably due to the way the U.S. constitution was originally framed and some random events asking the way.
1. Source?

2. Toyota is behind. Check what the Chinese and Germans are doing. Though you can't really do that since most of those cars aren't sold in the US.
Heck even here in Vancouver we’ve done a bunch of cut and cover under roads - it’s disruptive but it works without tunnel boring
We get quarterly pamphlets in the mail by Sound Transit detailing the latest updates on the subway construction projects and reading these pamphlets is one of the few moments where I really confront the concept of mortality. The years annotated on certain lines opening stretch into the mid 2040s!

I'm a huge supporter of rapid transit in our area and it just breaks my heart to see our (best-case) pace of construction, especially when I go and look at European and Asian rapid transit projects.
Microintelligences or AIs talking to AIs in the cloud
You have it the wrong way. ICE cars has always been heavily taxed, especially more powerful ICE cars are 2x more expensive in Norway than in EU. EV's just have no tax and only VAT added above 45k USD
I am not interested in anything Microsoft has to say about design.

They haven't had a consistent OS UI since at least 2009. and they seem hell bent on removing all vertical scroll bars, or reducing the size until they are pointless. why do you need to hide the vertical scrollbars, and even on hover they are 4 pixels wide? I have dual 27 inch monitors, I HAVE THE SCREEN SPACE. stop fucking up my shit.
Sure, but having an offline copy with IMAP allows one to not depend on the server to work with your email.

And if your account goes poof, you still have all your messages.
How do you make a parody of American imperialism without being vulgar?
Surely you're familiar with this? https://youtu.be/3mnG_Gbxf_w?t=7
Yeah but it's not like you get 10 new customers and that suddenly adds 10 more joins to your query in the middle of the night. At least I hope not.
I own a white model 3, I am not young or single, but I see how it could be judged that way. Well, I wish you could try one and enjoy the ride, because it is a well made vehicle, regardless of the clichés attached to the car.
Yeah, I’m also looking for something I can actually buy through normal channels (granted in in the last few years it has been difficult just buying any car has been difficult from a party who isn’t clearly a scalper) and expect to have some level of support availability. Not really looking to buy a car the same way I buy Raspberry Pi clones from AliExpress.
Almost 23k stars!? Isn't that kind of crazy for a new niche project like this you've never heard of?
I think this is because people Googling a question often end up at a SO post that answers a slightly different question. But since the keywords blazed a trail to a certain answer, that's the one that gets the upvotes, even though it's not the "correct" answer.

This has happened to me many times.
It's not. They barely have any cars under 4m there.
Classes still work fine if you want to keep using them.
"Stop hitting yourself"
Funny, how even the sibling comment states something different. Maybe there are a lot of bundler bubbles in the JS world?
Nothing of value will be lost
I got a journalism degree from Medill (Northwestern University). We had to write an ethics paper, and I twisted the assignment a bit so I could write about The Mirage after I learned about it.

As I researched it (pre-Internet, 1990), I was shocked to discover that my professor worked with the the reporters on the case as one of the key investigators. She’s a lawyer and still at NU: Mindy Trossman. That made my job a lot harder; no bullshitting her! Still eked out an A-.

I grew up watching Pam Zekman on Chicago news, and doing that paper gave me much more respect for her.

Students may dread paper assignments, but I can think of several that taught me quite a lot and made me more open-minded.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/02/17/1725220/tesla-teard...

>What stands out most is Tesla's integrated central control unit, or "full self-driving computer." Also known as Hardware 3, this little piece of tech is the company's biggest weapon in the burgeoning EV market. It could end the auto industry supply chain as we know it. One stunned engineer from a major Japanese automaker examined the computer and declared, "We cannot do it."
Don’t know if it’s available in the US, but we’re similar to you in wanting a lower priced second car and we’re buying an MG4.

They’re pretty reasonably priced here in the UK.
The source seems to be a February article from Automotive News interviewing several Toyota execs off-the-record: https://archive.is/0LZYf. The relevant quotes are midway through
How long will it take you to get out of the parking garage after the show? I haven't been to Climate Pledge but I've easily spent 15 minutes waiting to leave a garage after a 3000 attendee stage show.
In one sentence: Make it the browser that fixes the web. E.g. Remove ads, privacy popups , paywalls, ad tracking, and other annoyances. Make the plugin ecosystem so good that people flock to help you with that and then people will only want go browse the web that way.

It should be a noble goal that acts as a beacon for others to follow. It'll lose money at first, but they'll keep their core privacy and power user base, until people come around.

Oh and stop following google and privacy advocates supposed efforts to make the web "safer". Those are all mostly propaganda and feel good initiatives whilst the tracking still happens. But that's a long side rant from a pet peeve of mine.
There is no threat of extinction, this is silly.
There is a lot to unpack here — first of all, Nix and Docker are not at all competitors. Docker doesn’t even try to be reproducible, most builds will just apt install the newest available version that could easily change between invocations.

Next, Cargo is not a solution: it can only do a tiny part of the problem, namely managing Rust dependencies for a Rust project.

What if you are building a tool that needs a shared lib to communicate with.. basically anything? Rust has an enthusiastic community, but it is still a tiny language — most problems require more than what can be found in any one language’s berks.

Also, what even is a version? 3.4 of package X doesn’t mean anything — if it has like 10 flags than it can be built 2^10 different ways, and then we didn’t even count its dependencies that are also not just a number. Nix does the correct thing, not the naive one.
It's so crazy when you dig in to it. Take some protected forest, then claim "uh actually we are going to bulldoze this unless you buy our carbon credits" then vastly over calculate how much carbon is stored, sell it off as credits for not bulldozing it, and then a few years later, sell the same forest again for credits.

And then consumers think they are all cool and good because their flight was "offset". Carbon offsetting is not real. If your product or consumption is creating greenhouse gasses, the only solution is to stop consuming it until it becomes more efficient itself rather than rely on accounting trickery.
With the amount of rain we get (or just cold or brisk or misty weather in general) for 3/4 of the year, even if the transit option is only 16 minutes (inclusive of the bookend walks, according to Google Maps), it's still infinitely preferable to walking 20 minutes in that weather.
Norway is the most mature EV market in the world, and looking at 2022 numbers Tesla sold the most cars, but VW is not far behind. 21300 for Tesla (most model Y) vs 20183 for VW (most Id.4), of which the vast majority (like 90% or more) were EVs.

So Tesla is strong, but they are not crushing the market.
BMW is fine. They already have a purely EV platform and are selling something like 10 BEV models...
There are a couple of challenges with making this stuff completely open like that right now.

The first is that OpenAI has rate limits. They are especially small for GPT-4, which for anything complicated can be quite a lot better than 3.5.

The other one is that if you do leave it open, then you can be sure that a significant portion of your customers will be from countries that could not pass the OpenAI phone verification. Or just didn't want to identify themselves. For some reason.

Combine that with something that scares some people a lot like autonomous AI or connecting them to servers or the internet, and it feels like you might be on thin ice with OpenAI or some regulatory group. Especially if a bunch of Russian and Chinese users are finding you on some directory or post listed as a way to get around the phone verification.

Just based on experience running my own service.
I’m not convinced by the common wisdom that “consumers demand longer battery range.” That’s especially irrelevant to the “second car” market which surely must be pretty big. I think it comes down more to how ridiculously cheap gas is (despite incessant complaints) and how long it would take most people to come out ahead even just buying a hybrid instead of a pure EV. It sure would be nice if gas were more expensive!
It’s funny because when a Tesla is given to a spouse it has lots of issues, but tech bros never seem to notice.

Which, honestly, can be said for lots of things.
I haven’t been to chengdu since 2005 so you might be right.
Can confirm that it’s an iPad on wheels. I love my old suv, really great car but the Model Y is like getting off a horse and into a space ship.

There are features on this car that should be standard on every car in the planet, and one thing Tesla will accomplish over the next few years is force car manufacturers to implement those features. And not nickel and dime you for premium audio in two trims out of 12 and list 160 features on an about this car page. It’s bananas. Anyone that’s ever bought a Tesla will never step a foot into a dealership to be talked down by some kid about how they need to check with the manager about the price of a some mid fit bs suv, while trying to sell you a tire warranty.
A real automotive neighsayer
I don't know about the engineer who wrote the feature, but definitely any layer of management who came up with the idea and approved it, should be shown the door immediately. It's clear they don't understand the values they're supposed to uphold.
Teslas don't have these things called "eyes" that have a few millenia of "neural network training"
Original article has a bit more content, although a fair bit of it is largely quoting from the source strategic plan -- https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/25/white_house_ai/
And I think about 5 more models, at least, on the way until 2025.
I took a 15 second review of this "Design System" and was woefully under-impressed. They are still using far too small of fonts and half serif/sans serif typefaces that are way too Optima-esque.

I just get the same old feeling that MS has no idea what good looks and feels like.

I am sad mostly because there is probably someone in the org saying "We cannot go too far away from what is established here or else how would we be different?!!!?!"

You don't have to be different, you have to be usable.
So far they are still supporting Windows 10 for those customers. If that ceases, then you might have a claim.
Yes, actual net zero would involve removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which is impossible at the scale these companies require. The equipment doesn't exist beyond a few tiny demonstration projects, and if it did it would cost 100x what the companies want to pay.

Offsets are like me offsetting the cost of a night out by buying a coffee machine to help my wife to skip Starbucks. The bank balance still goes down.
I have read dozens of articles, buying guides, and reviews of electric and hybrid cars, and I’ve never even heard of that make, so I’m guessing it’s not available in the US.
Smartphones don’t have screen space and modern desktop UI design is influenced by phone UI (I don’t like it but probably someone does).
> no magic would be needed, a lot of indirection and complexity would be avoided

Is this an informed criticism based on your experience having worked with htmx, or is it just an off the cuff opinion?

Personally, I don't think the goal should be "no magic", or "no indirection", or "no salt", or no "sugar". I feel that aiming for just the right amount of those things, to have the goody without crossing over to disgust, is a sound goal.
What happens when you need to change the battery? Isn’t it extremely expensive?
If people are "misinformed", that's a marketing fail by those other frameworks, despite many years of headstart. How are people even finding HTMX (with a single developer and until very recently, no corporate support) in a marketplace which includes Angular, backed by Google?

Or maybe people are kinda informed, and simply drawn to HTMX because it's easier to learn than Vue, Svelte, Mithril, Cycle, whatever (or they just don't want to try a zillion frameworks) and it works really well and developers seem to love it and recommend it a lot?
It's no different from anything else. The promise if every framework is to abstract away some low-level details. Whether that means writing "higher-level JS" like jQuery did many years ago already, and hundreds of other frameworks do today, or inventing some new DSL like htmx does that translated to JS internally. No difference.
You can certainly create legislation while pretending you are just interpreting text.

Roe vs Wade is an excellent example of this. Which is why finally getting rid of it was a good thing.
Last time I checked, they basically resold aggregated behaviour data.

One day, maybe, someone might finally understand that web browsers have become utilities, and regulate them.
Flakes seem to be in "beta" the way Gmail was for years. Just about everyone I know that uses nix uses flakes now, and I've mostly switched myself.
For those that don't know, the recommended way to get Fluent UI styled controls natively is to use WinUI 3.

The fun part is that WinUI 3 is not bundled with the OS, meaning that whenever they make updates to the controls (say... Fluent 3) any apps built with an older version of WinUI 3 will still use the old look.

Enjoy an even worse hodgepodge of UI styles everyone!
They will, soon. About 30 car manufacturers are entering the EV arena by 2026 and there isn't enough room for all of them at the top.
> but not be able to figure out what pattern of bits gets a bunch of AND and OR gates to output a "1"? 10-15 years ago, the basic idea was "P≠NP because otherwise computers could do crazy shit." Well, looks like they can do crazy shit!

I think you've fundamentally misunderstood the meaning of the P!=NP problem. In very simplified terms, it's not about what a computer can do, but about how long it takes to do something in the worst case.
There are multiple ways of separating concerns. Htmx is faithful to the original HTML separation of structure / presentation / behavior. Elm cuts this way too but with a completely different approach. React does components.

Pick your poison because in any case there will be crossing of those concerns.

Personally I've never seen react code that doesn't go sour beyond a toy demo.
I think microsoft is the only large hyperscaler that seems to take this as more than a shallow PR push. Their goal is carbon zero by 2030 - not net zero, but actually removing as much carbon from the atmosphere as they put in. They pay for actual carbon removal and help develop that tech in order to get there. And their targets are all three classes of emissions (ie including indirect emissions) which no other tech company even talks about. That's recognized within the carbon monitoring industry... I think they're on the CDP A list for carbon for the third year in a row now? (Amzn and goog have never been there)

On the other hand, I don't see people in tech making buying decisions based on this. Why does your company use AWS or GCP, and did the "nothing more than PR" state of their climate commitments even come up in that decision?

Complaining on the internet is fun, but changing buying habits is better.
I think I might give a try for MY (if its suspension got any better), but where I live there is no real place for servicing it and insurance costs 7x the price of a new leaf for example which is insand.
those responsible have been sacked
Nice. Let's remember the old days when everyone had their own blogs :). The more who share their knowledge on personal blogs, the better. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions, or the Quartz Discord (https://discord.gg/cRFFHYye7t) is also a lovely small helping community.
The government can use less-cruel ways to collect owed taxes from people who don't or can't pay, including [as mentioned] liens and negotiated payment plans, or even income garnishment and private debt collection. Even that would be more humane than stealing someone's home and kicking them out to live on the street.

They could also make exceptions for owner-occupied vs. investment property. It's one thing to seize (or threaten to seize) someone's profitable business assets to force them to pay their taxes, it's another thing altogether to force an old lady out of her only home onto the street.

Finally, they could even simply accept the reality that a certain percentage of very poor homeowners just cannot afford their taxes, accept this humanely, and budget accordingly. I'd be willing to pay 0.5% more or whatever on my property taxes if it meant Tax Foreclosures were abolished.
Record whistleblower award went to a tipster on Ericsson