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Between "Most of the west" and "Asian countries" it seems like it's the vast majority of industrialized countries that take off or swap their shoes inside. There's just an odd blip of over-represented online people who don't.

Tesla's system is well-integrated to the car and chargers, but its navigation is terrible. It seems to have marked a street near my home as impassible, so it takes an absurd roundabout route. This problem does not exist on Apple or Google Maps.

California also has its own special gas that no one else uses, and cannot produce or refine it domestically to meet its own demand.

My locale uses Nixle to send people alerts: https://www.everbridge.com/products/nixle/

It's not just Mac apps. A Twitter ad is a negative indicator, and makes me less interested in the product.

It's probably more expensive now. No date stamp on the article but was first submitted to HN in 2023.

I thought that was obvious. Stores specify garbage cans outside for the convenience of their customers. People generate trash, especially while eating. But also when they buy stuff. So we have garbage cans so they don't have to carry it with them, and the trash is contained. But they're not entirely necessary, just like public bathrooms.

We seem to be just talking past each other, so maybe we should just agree to stop wasting each other's time.

There's no line in my garage.

Also most of the public chargers are networked, so you know when they are busy.

I don't live at Costco so it's going to be 30 minutes just back and forth. My Costco does have quieter times, but then I have to plan around it. It never made the slightest bit of sense to make a separate trip for $5.

It's probably part of the initial franchise standards, required and signed off by the fast food corporation. Or the shopping center design. We know as a society, that we need garbage cans, so they are budgeted for and installed.

But owners are always looking for ways to save money. If the garbage can works fine, it gets maintained. But if it gets hit by a car, or the wind blows it away, it might not be at the top of the list of things to fix. The remnants of the garbage can are removed. The expense gets put off for another month. And slowly the lack of garbage cans becomes normal, and staff can remove another responsibility from their list.

Now the situation becomes, who wants to spend a bunch of money to put in garbage cans, and also add onto the staff's workload? It's not like customers are asking for the manager to install garbage cans.

The user had to notice, and then investigate, their extremely high heart rate and lack of fitness, to have any reason to run an ECG. The watch didn't alert them in the conventional sense, it recorded the information and provided an additional tool to investigate the problem.

There are two mechanisms on the Apple Watch that did not trigger:

- high heart rate notification

- irregular rhythm notification

They're getting a nice assist from global warming.

I'm not sure that anyone in the management ladder is affected. People don't generally choose a fast food restaurant or convenience store based on the cleanliness of their parking lots, so sales isn't going to be affected. Nor is staff, already cut to minimal levels, going to be given additional hours to keep the parking lots clean.

There even might be a disincentive to have garbage cans if they can't be maintained. People who don't litter will either take the extra step of going indoors, or they might leave it in their own car to throw out later. Whereas people who do litter will do so regardless of when there are trash cans. By removing outdoor trash cans, you've "saved" the staff the time to monitor and clear out those trash cans.

It's too bad there's no API to find the current wait time at the Costco gas station. I'm not going to spend an extra hour of my day to save $5.

It is unlikely the low-ranked employees responsible for cleaning up garbage are making decisions on whether to construct or retain garbage cans.

We're not throwing the homeless in jail here, but all the streets smell like urine and you have to watch your step on the sidewalk.

Tesla also cheaped out and didn't use a normal rain sensor for the wipers to enable auto mode, instead using "Tesla Vision". I've heard nothing but bad things about it.

Rain sensing was a solved problem and Tesla un-solved it.

Covered in this Technology Connections video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLm7Q92xMjQ

Apple did exactly the same thing a few years back:

Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products (2023)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/at-ap...

Every Waymo on the street is already an advertisement, especially since they're so distinctive with their LIDAR units and now they're driving Chinese cars. Every time a Waymo is remotely associated with anything bad, the media jumps on them anyway, like the times they've "hit" a pedestrian but literally after a human driver hit that same pedestrian.

Tesla Robotaxis need to hog the media spotlight because they're trying to prop up the stock price, not because they work.

The article clarifies the comparison is between NYC and the entire San Francisco Bay Area.

NYC is around 8.8 million and the Bay is around 7.8 million.

There is one specific plane type (Airbus A320) that has significantly more fume events than all other plane types, suggesting that plane type or associated engine has a design or procedural flaw.

Since airlines consolidate on specific types, it is possible that some travelers experience this problem often and others very rarely.

Through no choice of my own, I seem to only fly on Boeing 737s, but the one recent time I was on an Airbus (A321neo) there was a distinct exhaust odor upon engine startup.

It's probably good old "normalization of deviance". Smelling exhaust/fumes is common enough that it would not get reported unless someone has a medical event. And reporting it would require investigation and downtime which management would frown upon.

They've had the international menu at that location for years.

Gift link: https://www.theverge.com/report/982414/meta-glasses-work-sur...

Maybe I'm looking too much into this, but MVX sounds like an end-run around Labcorp not providing medical advice.

Here's Labcorp's page:

https://www.labcorp.com/tests/123590/metabolic-vulnerability...

This test was developed and its performance characteristics determined by Labcorp. It has not been cleared or approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

This sounds like a proprietary index. An index is not a absolute measurement, but a specific weighing of multiple measures and run through an algorithm. I can't find that Quest Diagnostics offers this test, although that may be temporary.

Labcorp can now say, "According to our test you are unhealthy." without a doctor involved. If somehow it gets accepted, only Labcorp can administer it, unlike a normal blood test that measures actual values.

The founder of Soylent came to the conclusion that having polyester shirts bulk-purchased directly from China, and donating them instead of washing them, was the ecologically sensible thing to do:

Thanks to synthetic fabrics it takes less water to make my clothes than it would to wash them, and I donate my used garments.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161104001753/http://robrhineha...

Discussion at the time (2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996038

This also may be satire.

I have crafted and uploaded CSV files to my company's wellness portal in order to get gift cards. By coincidence, everyone else on my team also had the exact same number of daily steps.

Amazon Halo did something similar five years ago:

https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/the-science-behind-th...

A recent clinical study, whose results haven’t been published yet, determined that [Amazon Halo's] Body is nearly twice as accurate as smart scales in measuring BFP when using DXA as the ground truth.

Some discussion on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24295779

There are many countries involved, who may be unable or unwilling to pass or enforce the kinds of necessary laws. And people who donate want to see outcomes like "removed X tons of garbage", not "continued to lobby government to pass law".

Yup, the new phone size is in between the Flip and the previous Fold (now Fold Pro).

I would not take the release of this device as evidence that people wanted a smaller phone, no more than the release of the original iPhone Mini and Galaxy S10e, and to some extent the iPhone Air and the Galaxy Edge. Manufacturers are experimenting to see what form factors people will buy and it is entirely possible that this size will be phased out by both Samsung and Apple in a generation.

Samsung has a major advantage over Apple in that they have multiple generations of folding phones so modifying both their manufacturing and software is less of an issue.