skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla doesn't even register in the top 10 most recalls per car company in 2023.

https://i.imgur.com/bygtzk2.png

What data are you using?

How many of Ford Motor's 58 recalls in 2023 made HN's front page?

Meanwhile Tesla updates the car UIs icon sizes via a software update, and there are headlines all over the media including HN stating that Tesla recalled millions of cars, omitting that it was a software update.

That makes people like the GP think Teslas have disproportionately worse issues, which appears to be the objective.
As of now he is actually paid 0 for last 4 years when Tesla stock has gone up by 900% (even after the recent stock slide).

People forget that if the stock price didn’t at least double and Tesla meet some manufacturing and sales quotas, Elon’s pay package would be 0. The only reason he’s getting paid 44B or whatever number is because the stock price has gone through the roof and the Model Y has become the best selling car in the US. On top of that, he is required to hold the stock for at least 5 years, so even if the judge didn’t invalidate his pay, he wouldn’t see any liquidity for at least 5 years.

You don’t need to like Elon to see that his pay package was completely fine. I doubt many CEO’s would accept a pay package where they don’t get paid a dime unless the stock price at least doubles, a very large number of CEO’s would also be paid 0 under such a pay package.
> more code = more optimised data structures and faster runtimes.

Not sure if I agree, can you elaborate? Seems a more modest claim "more code allows for more optimized ds and faster runtimes" would be more accurate(?)

At least, in the Pentium era it used to be that instructing compiler to optimize for size often resulted in faster code than optimizing for speed. That was of course the result of relatively small (text segment) caches and the often underestimated effects of temporal and spacial locality.
Show HN: Mai Tai – Turn your documents into a live Q&A
Hi everyone! I put together a small web application which lets you upload documents and gives you an AI chatbot that answers any questions you may have.

I built the site because my developer colleagues and I spend way too much time searching through API documents looking for answers to our questions. I figured that it'd be nice to have an assistant to do the reading for us. Friends of mine have also found it helpful as a study buddy, getting answers from documents in other languages, and finding specific excerpts in long documents.

I have no idea if this would be helpful for anyone else, but I'd love to hear the community's feedback. And if it's totally useless I'd be interested to hear that as well.

Thanks!
Electric cars don't have a gearbox that you can put into neutral
I don’t see Elon as a business genius and thus the idiotic decision to go thru with production for this truck is not at all a surprise to me
Tesla’s are not really luxury cars. They charge luxury car prices but you seem to get the ride quality, interior quality, build quality, and customer service level of a cheap American domestic car. Luxury German cars of various makes have their own reliability issues and can be expensive to maintain but the quality of car overall is still in another league.
I really miss the animation Netscape had at the time. The comets and all...
Most of the Tesla recalls are just software updates that are done from home over the air
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40084903
They certainly had an impact.

I'd say net positive looking at the whole of the Eastern bloc.
"Car wash mode" sounds like such a crazy hack. They probably realized bad things would happen after a test, and the fix was probably a project-killing overhaul, so they patched it somehow. Just incredible.
I can +1 this approach and report a good amount of success with it using mysql.

it really enabled end to end level testing as well as being able to stand up development instances quickly.
Putting stuff in blogs has been the norm for several years now, as basically any email from Sundar inevitably leaks anyway.
People protest all kinds of things, what aboutism doesn't really explain why a company wanting to do business in a country wouldn't follow the countries laws.

If any company wants to do business in China they have to deal with strict CCP censorship.

Sure you could argue that Apple should SCT on principle and just leave the Chinese market, but play that strategy out to the end. We would have every company moving towards only doing business in their home country. I don't expect that's what most people in the west want and when anything related to tariffs, onshoring manufacturing, etc comes up it gets thrown out as nationalist BS (or MAGA if you're in the US).
It's cause he made all his money in tech first. It's a hard life otherwise.
I don't think that single number by itself says very much though as it's not normalised, for example by the number of different product lines a manufacturer produces or the total number of vehicles manufactured.
Perfectly reasonable feedback, that warning doesn't actually need to be there.

One sec!
Recalls are automotive equivalent of security updates. Testing catch bugs but not all of it, and while a bug-free software won't ever get a patch release in theory, in reality it means the software is not maintained.
Wasn't playing on primetime for years on end though.
Primary Care and Longevity?
"Pay for it with your face?" At a burger joint?!

As an occasional connoisseur of Nickelodeon's You Can't Do That on Television back in the day, I can only state that I hear the obvious punchline / catchphrase resounding loudly in my head: https://youtu.be/cATh91BYjjA?si=D6X97xDwZwff3izz
I can't fathom the reason to need both a car wash mode and the warning not to wash the car in the sun.
Are you implying that’s not long enough to be a real issue?

Because even as someone who doesn’t drive much and likely wouldn’t even notice if my car stopped working for five hours, I’d be pretty pissed if it had to take a multi-hour break because I got it wet
I work on PGlite [0], integration testing is absolutely something we want it to be useful for. For an early data point the Drizzle integrations tests run in about 1/4 the time with PGlite in-memory than a full Postgres.

The OP mentions lack of extensions being a blocker for them using it now, they are coming soon. Additionally it's currently limited by being single connection, and again I hope we can remove this limitation.

I also have a few other ideas around how to make supper fast testing possible.

http://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
Public servers with e.g. coreprotect for rollbacks are still around. Most people play nice, but when somebody doesn't their acts can be reverted without impacting anybody else. It's a lot of fun if you can get the right team of admins/janitors to keep it running.
Throw out an entire brand new airplane?
I never worked in a kitchen I'd remotely describe as fancy, but I've certainly worked a fast food kitchen or two. I know way better than to go to one looking for meaning; it'd strictly be more of a last-ditch paycheck thing for me at this point, and not an option I'd like to be forced into; that's for sure.

Mostly I'm just disappointed that apparently we're determined to make humans toil in order to free up the robots to create art; I rather preferred the opposite vision.
And guess who owns epic games?
Do not use "hack" because DHS chooses to take these words literally or figuratively as they see fit and have full discretion to do so. It's also administrative so you aren't entitled to free counsel. O-1 can be used for extraordinarily talented scientists and engineers who HAVE ALREADY innovated. Having a Github doesn't count. We're talking Shohei Ohtani level broadly speaking. If you built Github from scratch, you MIGHT have a case. It is dual intent, but whether you are able to actually obtain a green card entirely depends on your nation of origin. It's easy for everyone unless you're from China, India, the Phillipines, and Mexico, in which case, you may die of old age before it's your turn.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of large language models (LLMs), one trailblazer stands apart - Google Gemini (formerly Bard). This AI marvel isn't just another conversational assistant; it's a portal to new realms of interactive exploration and cognitive augmentation. Here are seven compelling reasons why Gemini could revolutionize how you interact with information.
You might have missed some recent news about Boeing...
Must not have an SSD
Exactly! If one can optimise for 1200x it was bad from the start.
Which point of view is the myth?

I guess it depends on the number of outlets repeating it?

And yes it does to answer your question about Time Magazine, one in the same really.

At one point Time Magazine was a good publication, not in the last decade though. (in my opinion incase that needs to be stated)
For the average person, dark matter should be presented as absolute fact. It's the leading explanation that best explains most of the associated phenomenon, and the average person has repeatedly shown themselves to be unable to understand what a scientist means when they call something a theory.

Emphasizing that we haven't explicitly discovered what dark matter actually consists of inevitably leads to people who don't understand the evidence dismissing it as "made up" and instead pushing explanations that have a much higher burden of proof (eg modified gravity or modified light speed, which struggle on the point that there are structures which have more or less "extra mass" than usual).
Except it's all fly by wire so you're relying on the software to be bug free and I'd honestly rather trust physics.
It’s better that a mat was designed in a dangerous way vs a production line mistake? That is similar to saying a simple bug is worse than an architectural flaw that no one caught at design time. Far more eyes are on the design flaw vs a production bug.
That is what objC scripting brige is for.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/scriptingbridge
I feel like many of the "good" companies are morally bankrupt too. Just because the cause is good doesn't mean the company or leadership is.
2.5% not a drop in my bucket
This seems like first generation vehicle problems to me. There is an old saying that you never buy the first model year of any vehicle, especially if it is a brand new vehicle and not just a refresh.
It remains to be seen, but I don't really see it this way.

To me, this feels like Hiroshi went to Sundar and said that he wanted to step down or wanted to do something else or whatever. Sundar then had to choose whether to elevate one of Hiroshi's reports or elevate one of the other SVPs to lead two orgs together. Sundar chose Rick.

This feels more like a question of upper management politicking rather than mission change.
Also Joy Page. She's really bad or maybe her style of acting doesn't transcend the era.
GOPATH actually made me realize that the

~/src/$host/$owner/$repo

organization structure makes a ton of sense for every project and as long as you organize all of your languages into this one tree, everything just works.
Of course Elon gets treated differently. No other car company CEO is on Twitter drawing attention to himself like Elon. Tesla itself is also the darling car company of the decade, with the highest market cap. And the Cybertruck, by design, is basically a celebrity on wheels on every road/parking lot it traverses.

I’d be blown away if a full recall of the cybertruck wasn’t top headline news.
I wonder if Google is anticipating that they will be broken up.
Per the article, their original goal was to man a grill station but they realised it was far too difficult. Still, manning a deep fryer is possible apparently.
The AI can only execute functions that the user would be already be able to execute, and you'd definitely want to have an approval step where the user can see what's going to be executed before it happens!
And it's gone! If you refresh the page Chris it won't do that anymore.

I'll put an optional anonymous filter on the pushes/timeline pages to avoid spam.

I should have said you can always share, just share the URL to the page. A push is like an advertised change within the app. But it was poor communication on my part.

Thanks for the feedback, it's very, very welcome.
So cool but i am not sure about increasing the rates i will show to our cmo.
They rarely make the tech news. There's plenty reporting on recalls in traditional media[1][2][3][4][etc]. I think a lot of Tesla fans have a persecution complex when it comes to reporting on Tesla.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-toyota-cana...

[2] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/international-busin...

[3] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-toyota-cana...

[4] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ford-recalls-...
The amount of attention "the media" gives a company is correlated to the number of shit posts per day the CEO makes on Twitter.
As a derivation of this, in general I advise reading framework source code. Not because you should write code like that, but to learn what the language can do. Framework source code has often been refined by several people over a longer period of time, honed to avoid rough edges. I think you can learn a lot about designing an API, writing good abstractions, and encapsulating complexity.
> It would also be great to have this running on ESP32 or similar

ESP32 has its own port of the Codec2 library, which allows intelligible communications using very low bandwidth (a few kb/s). It could make the ideal solution for creating small cheap intercoms scattered around a small area using WiFi, or employing very low bandwidth radio connection such as LoRa for wider coverage.
I still didn't see any real application, beside a few simple proof of concept videos on YouTube, though.

More info:

http://www.rowetel.com/?page_id=452

https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/libraries/esp32_codec2/
Now I'm wondering what month "19" is named...
Iconic like the Titanic.
Why would you normalize by number of vehicles sold?

If a large-volume vehicle gets recalled, it should be a bigger news story than a niche car.
I really really really agree with you.
Every auto detailing product you see on the shelf has instructions to wash your car in the shade. You don’t want the product to dry out while you are applying it.

This has nothing to do with the CT specifically and it’s actually embarrassing to see this mentioned in the article and interpreted as some kind of slam against Tesla’s quality
Then why don't you eat a tv dinner instead of getting McDonald's? That's what you're talking about.
The odds of winning the lottery are one in a billion, yet many people have won it. Mighty suspicious! (Except not really, when you account for the size of the lottery-playing population.)
It’s different audio codecs and data connections which can be changed and adjusted.

Voice over mobile data will benefit from a different type of data compression relative to how data packets are handled in a cellular radio vs a wired internet.

The landline service could be as clear or clearer than mobile data, it just isn’t configured to do so in your case. I have seen VoIP setups using a high quality codec and a handset that can use those frequencies.

Phone companies use different setups that compress to their advantage for many more callers.
Show HN: Pitlane – a Formula 1 based tyre strategy simulation game
Pitlane is a car racing simulation game where you have to pick the best pitstop strategy to finish first. I built this over a weekend and recently I shared it on HN as a comment and many users played multiple rounds of the game. I am excited for rest of HN to play it too!
Why would number of recalls be proportional to number of vehicles shipped? I think number of recalls would be more proportional to number of car models available. And number of vehicles recalled would be proportional to number of vehicles shipped. In this case 3,878 vehicles were recalled.
I've implemented some terrible hacks to work around hardware issues in shipped products. I wonder if this is simply a 5hr artificial delay to allow some hardware issue to settle, e.g. to allow water to drain out of some compartment.
> The Cybertruck’s owners manual does caution against ever washing the truck in direct sunlight, and there is a section expressly mentioning that the truck has to be switched into “Car Wash Mode” before washing to avoid damage to parts of the vehicle.

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqeZl8OI2M
It depends on the style of automatic wash, but even for the ones that pull the vehicle along... why would you leave it running? Not only does that waste fuel, it seems like a good way to get carbon monoxide poisoning.
The Bone-Marrow-Transplant Revolution
Yeah, but... how can you have a chip without DIP?

More seriously, the DIP package was within the ability of semi-skilled randos to solder or wirewrap. That lead to all kinds of things being developed that would not have been if the barrier to entry had been higher.

So I see this as the end of an era. You can get the Z80 in other ways, but the loss is real. (Yeah, I know, if you have an idea that you want to try to implement, you probably don't reach for a Z80 now, and haven't for decades. Still... this is the closing of a frontier, or at least an acknowledgement that the frontier has already closed.)
I really like the word "yeet". 10 years old this month I think [0]. I really need to look up the origin sometime

0 - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=yeet&hl=...
Yeah, apparently Flippy is now only for working a frier. The article says it can use intelligence to properly cook different things like wings or onions. The fast food way of doing this would just be to put a timer over the frier with a preset and a picture of a wing/fry/whatever on it that you press when you drop the basket in.

I'm sure it could save some labor, but you know the thing probably costs a hundred thousand dollars and also comes with a SaaS contract that's twice what a worker would cost already. And you still need a worker to get stuff out of the freezer and load up whatever hopper the machine is working out of.
British flag protocol: flying the union jack. (2021)
Give every human an acre of land, and we'd all easily fit into Texas.
Point it where? We don't know exactly where to look, and it might be far out enough to be barely visible. Pointing a telescope at it requires a precise location.
I'm not so sure. You point to a vocal minority, I see something amiss for the company.

If I were "corporate" I would be asking myself why it is a group of my employees faced arrest, job loss to make a statement about company policies. I would want to know if it suggests a bigger problem down the road for the company.
https://archive.ph/Ed45S
Nhost user here.

Pros:

- The team is very approachable and responsive.

- Hasura is awesome! Especially the relationships. It took a while before it clicked but I don't see myself going back to joins. Also permissions are really powerful.

- Nhost stack allows you to do more complex stuff than with Supabase.

Cons:

- The documentation can sometimes be a bit unclear. Comparing to Supabase they can really improve on this.

- Deploying migrations can be a pain. Took a while before it clicked.

- Not a big community (yet). But they are growing.
I think it’s a combination of:

1) China has demonstrated plenty of times that it is not to be messed with, while EU, if anything (especially with GDPR) has demonstrated that you can keep breaking the rules and even a history of obvious bad faith is not a problem.

2) China has a successful domestic smartphone/tech industry that can (and does) compete with Apple. The EU doesn’t. It’s a much easier decision for China to kick out Apple than for the EU to do so.

3) I believe Apple also depends on China for manufacturing, so pissing them off could go beyond a national ban on sales and even affect production of international devices.
Not sure what's going on with that page but for me it loads, and then just freezes like it's waiting for something else to load and can't. I didn't wait long though because I didn't want to find out what kinds of resources it was going to try to eat up from my browser.

Seems newsworthy but not the best source for this topic.
> Until the robots can do all of the tasks above and quickly switch from one to another and be highly adaptable in real time based on the needs of the restaurant

Ideally if your robots cost less than $20/hour you can buy enough of them to do one job each.
Awesome to see this!!!

I am curious about the solution you have on there:

- Is this built on Opentrons or something similar?

- Was this an off the shelf solution or something you built?

- I would also be curious about the sample batch size

Note that the Volta solution does not require app development or method development. Many off the shelf sample prep workflows are readily available on the Callisto system.
NHTSA targets a 5th percentile person being able to stop the car with the engine at full throttle. https://www.autosafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/The-Br...
I was pretending to be so in love with The Godfather that I saw this as an objective fact, rather than a matter of opinion.

I was also making an oblique reference to the meme that The Godfather is "the perfect film".

I was trying to be amusing, but apparently I failed spectacularly. I am ashamed.
What if Zuckerberg didn't change overnight but his terrible reputation was somewhat undeserved all along ?

I worked at Facebook in 2010-2011 and I must say that the gap between what was really going on inside, and the hysterical, least possibly charitable interpretation and scrutinizing of every single product decision by the press, public, and politicians was insane. By far the worst I'd ever seen.

As an engineer, I actually learnt to appreciate the job of a PR team during that time (I previously assumed they were professional hypocrites paid who put a positive spin on indefensible corporate decisions), and was impressed at how professional they managed to remain as they had to counter some truly insane shit with facts, and still nobody believed them because Facebook is the devil and obviously lying.

Of course there were obviously some large fuck-ups at Facebook over the past decade (some of which even originated from good intentions, like the Cambridge Analytica fiasco : "people accuse us of being anticompetitive as we sit on a treasure trove of data, let's be more open and create a platform !")

In my view, these were more the product of Zuck's failure to rein in bad ideas from some executives due to his inexperience, rather than any indication of strategic malevolence and cynicism on his part.

In other words, he's not perfect but I've always seen him as the rather decent guy that more people can see now, like in this interview. If there's one area where he has changed a lot, it's probably in his ability to show it.
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I remember landlines fondly, it felt like I could hear people better back then. At the same time, I also remember the 4khz cutoff. It was the reason music sucked over landlines. Like if you were listening to music with a friend from highschool over the phone, it'd have no depth and you couldn't understand half of it from lyrics to beats. Hold music was a lot worse back then, these days it doesn't sound near as bad.

I think for a lot of us later Gen-X and older Millennials, as we age our ears don't work as well as they used to. Especially those of us like me that didn't heed good ear protection. I can't speak for everyone, but I suspect if today me tried to talk to someone on a landline back in the early 90s it'd still suck as bad as it feels like it does with cellphones today. We get more range with our phones now but our ears have a harder time processing it.

Just a thought.