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> As most of the apologists in this thread have rightly pointed out, Tesla can fix the problem with an over-the-air update.

Huh? That's for a different issue with the UI icons being small. Source?

> We hear about this one because it's fucking absurd for a software bug to cause intermittent steering issues

Source that it's a software bug? In fact the article says it's likely a physical defect in parts.

> good evening tesla apologist

Ah, irrational Tesla haters are not known for the ability to discern facts.

Not necessarily.

> In 2016, Pontzer and colleagues published a study putting forward the constrained energy model: Energy expenditure does increase with more activity, but only to a point. Once physical activity gets really high, the body will adjust other components of the metabolism to keep your daily energy expenditure within a narrow range

https://physiqonomics.com/biggest-losers/

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/study-off...

> I don't criticize real kindergartners, only Tesla engineers and executives

Where is this criticism? And why only Tesla engineers and not other car company engineers or executives? Why are they exempt from criticism?

Losing weight is way more about diet than exercise. The body gets really efficient at doing repetitive motions and starts burning fewer calories for the same actions.

> But then in the next breath you claim that we only hear about this one because it's Tesla.

"We" in this context is HN. Type 'recalls' in HN search and see how many Tesla vs non-Tesla recall news were popular on HN.

> Of all the administration's recalls in 2023, Ford issued the most recalls (58 or 16% of all recalls issued), followed by Chrysler with 45, per NHTSA data. That includes either parts of vehicles or entire vehicles recalled, and also compliance concerns over emissions standards or environmental regulations, and software or technology glitches.

> General Motors, Chrysler, BMW and Nissan all ranked in the top 10 most-impacted manufacturers, according to NHTSA.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2024/01/12/vehicle...

How many of the above recalls did we hear about on HN?

Power steering failures are relatively common, among companies that have been making cars for a century now.

E.g. https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/gm-recal...

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-recalls-defects/hon...

https://amarolawfirm.com/product-liability/vehicle-recalls/f...

You only hear about this one because it's Tesla.

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> Good thing we are capable of reading beyond the headline

People don't read articles on tech forums like this so frequently that RTFA is a common meme.

> Every single time Tesla gets a recall (kinda often aint it?) there are people in HN comments who just want to fight over a word

You only think it's often because the other ones don't get reported on HN, creating the false impression.

> According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Ford issued 55 safety recalls in 2023, down from 67 last year. The repair campaigns affected 5.9 million vehicles, down from 8.6 million in 2022, which put the automaker in second place for the total number of vehicles recalled. Honda’s 19 recalls affected 6.3 million cars.

> Chrysler issued the second-highest number of recalls, at 45. Kia came in third for the total number of recalled cars, with more than 3 million affected by its 20 repair campaigns.

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/in-2023-ford-again-led-nation-i...

Anti EV publications like the NYP should definitely be called out for writing misleading headlines.

Looks there's a light that glows when it's recording alerting folks. Is there a similar mechanism on the AVP?

Great write up.

> Over the next day, the threat actor viewed 120 code repositories (out of a total of 11,904 repositories

> They accessed 36 Jira tickets (out of a total of 2,059,357 tickets) and 202 wiki pages (out of a total of 14,099 pages).

Is it just me or 12K git repos and 2 million JIRA tickets sound like a crazy lot. 15K wiki pages is not that high though.

> Since the Smartsheet service account had administrative access to Atlassian Jira, the threat actor was able to install the Sliver Adversary Emulation Framework, which is a widely used tool and framework that red teams and attackers use to enable “C2” (command and control), connectivity gaining persistent and stealthy access to a computer on which it is installed. Sliver was installed using the ScriptRunner for Jira plugin.

> This allowed them continuous access to the Atlassian server, and they used this to attempt lateral movement. With this access the Threat Actor attempted to gain access to a non-production console server in our São Paulo, Brazil data center due to a non-enforced ACL.

Ouch. Full access to a server OS is always scary.

> just that there is no real evidence of this being a real disease

What does this even mean? How do you define a 'real' disease?

Sounds like a god of the gaps fallacy to me. Just because we don't understand and can't treat it yet doesn't mean it's not a real disease. At the very least it looks like a cluster of various kinds of diseases.

Smoking wasn't banned on planes till 1985. You had smoking and non-smoking sections, but they were only separated by a curtain, same with restaurants.

Edit, it was even worse:

> In 1988, airlines based in the United States banned smoking on domestic flights of less than two hours, which was extended to domestic flights of less than six hours in February 1990, and to all domestic and international flights in 2000

I meant the PC hardware market, edited it.

Epic/Unreal doesn't also own 50% of the PC hardware market making tens of billions at high margins where only Unreal made Games are allowed and other game engines are banned.

Wasn't Pelosi at the bottom of returns with -20% at some point? https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/unusua...

How so? There's not even a passing mention of the macroeconomic conditions like high interest rates that affect sales of big ticket items that almost everyone takes out a loan for. Teslas have been in the mid luxury segment.

It's definitely not reliable analysis.

That's in a big part due to interest rates going sky high during that year, but you won't find that mentioned in the blog post. Wonder why.

That's because it's omitting inconvenient facts, like zero mention of interest rates becoming sky high as one of the reasons for the slowdown.

Do you?

For a true comparison it needs to be an eXclusive, with promotion on his YT saying he posted only on X. This is an old video.

> unending layoffs

Sounds like a frog in the well mentality, big tech is a very small part of the economy, even if you add companies like CitiGroup it's still tiny compared to everythign else where hiring is still strong. A good chunk of the laid off folks have savings from high salaries so they will keep on spending like normal so even those don't affect the larger economy too much.

Buried the lede:

> The Highway Loss Data Institute, a US-based organization funded by the insurance industry, has not found higher crash rates for Tesla vehicles or other EVs more broadly based on overall insurance claims

Might be related to their stock compensation being high. Tesla stock has rocketed up since 2020, and some early factory workers turned into millionaires, not just engineers. SpaceX has also seen valuation grow a lot. As the article notes, it's very unlikely that Tesla stock doubles or triples anytime soon at current valuation.

Presumably the new bitcoin ETFs allow shorting? Taking a big short position before crashing the value sounds like a plausible attack.

From Wiki:

> On August 29, 2008, Reiser was sentenced to 15 years to life, the maximum sentence for second-degree murder. As a result of his plea bargain, Reiser cannot appeal his conviction or sentence

That would be August 2023, anyone know if he's out of prison?

Those cars are already sold, cheapest one right now is $22,400 according to another comment.

The car is already sold.

From the article:

> The cheapest cars depicted have already sold, so the lowest we found at time of publication was $20,500

Edit: It's 24K right now for me.

Even in Canada the gas pumps froze over and ICE cars are unable to fill gas.

https://calgary.citynews.ca/video/2024/01/12/gas-pumps-freez...

Same in Illinois but the article doesn't mention it https://www.wcia.com/news/local-news/cold-weather-causes-fro...

Illinois area gas stations are also lined with ICE vehicles unable to fill gas because gas pumps are frozen.

https://www.wcia.com/news/local-news/cold-weather-causes-fro...

I wonder why the Fox Business article does not mention that?