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Those "contenders" are referenced in the article:

- Escadia has less than half the range of Tesla Semi and ~6 times slower charging rate per mile.

- Peterbilt has 3.5x less range that Tesla Semi and ~10 times slower charging rate per mile.

- Mack has 5x less range than Tesla Semi and ~10 times slower charging rate per mile (not in the article — I looked at the spec on the link).

What are they exactly contending on?

Watch the delivery event. They address that.

In the presentation, Musk stated that the drivetrain is guaranteed for 1 million miles. I have no data on what sort of guarantees Diesel Semi manufacturers offer. Would be good to work that out. There is battery life and degradation as well to take into account.

We need Elon to drop by HN next and clean up these mess of BS submissions that continue to amass 100+ points and not flagged to oblivion despite them being non-news.

EDIT: and maybe we should penalize users on HN who post these stuff too

BTW, thanks for your relentless work here — much appreciated.

I'm amazed by how HN just takes every piece of data at face value and starts reacting to it like it's gospel. News story after news story. This place is no different than Twitter, Youtube comments, etc. It's very sad to watch.

> The easiest way is to start by putting everything into one file. You can start simple, defer some decisions, and evolve your project with time.

This is something that most even senior developers don’t grok. Default so called project starter scripts of the node world don’t help either.

The more structure you build before you know wth you’re doing, the more difficult you’ll make life for yourself down the line when you inevitably have to refactor code.

Little confused - I’ve been using fractional scaling on Wayland for 6 months now!

Meanwhile my personal installation is 8 years old. It was initially installed on a desktop on btrfs and has since moved between three laptops and across to ext4 and now xfs. 150K lines in pacman log file. I love it.

GDPR applies to any company that offers services to EU residents. It doesn’t matter if the company has any presence in the EU.

Now, that means EU may not necessarily be able to force the company operating in a different country to pay up but if a company has any significant EU customer base, I assume they will play ball.

One wheel scooter are generally more dangerous than their two or more wheeled counterparts because upon software bug or power loss, all control is lost. At higher speeds, serious injury is very likely.

> Under an agreement with the tribal government, Tesla will train tribal members to serve as service technicians.

> But with 574 federally recognized tribal governments in 35 states, Tesla’s new strategy could do a lot to close that advantage.

Fuck ye!

Implementation of EVERY service on AWS is unnecessarily complicated. Not an exaggeration. Making things simple takes considerable consideration and effort, and that costs money. AWS is a nano-margin business. As long as something works and doesn't fall apart, they ship it.

:D this is like giving someone a smartphone and watching them trying to crack open nuts with it. Sad but also hilarious.

Assuming you’re sincerely asking this to learn, I suggest you ask Google, and read some Wikipedia to boot.

> Elon is a fake person created by VCs to fulfill their goals.

I'm gonna give you a bucket full of benefit of doubt and assume you mean nothing negative by this. I'm all for fake people fulfilling VCs goals if that means we can have better and more exciting future (which Musk has delivered to date).

It's worth mentioning that many other "real" people with "no" hidden agendas have done ... jack shit over the past 20 years. :)

uh - you just specify the location of your initramfs in the kernel boot params and that's it, no need for all the above

My humble boot installer, no explicit bootloader, straight to the kernel:

    #!/bin/bash
    set -ueo pipefail

    # Remount EFI partition read/write and restore to readonly when done

    trap 'mount /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ -o ro,remount &>/dev/null || true' EXIT
    mount /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ -o rw,remount &>/dev/null || true

    # Remove all existing Arch Linux entries

    efibootmgr | grep 'Arch Linux' | grep -Po 'Boot\K\d+' | while read -r bn; do
      efibootmgr --delete-bootnum -b "$bn" &> /dev/null
    done || true

    # Install boot entry

    efibootmgr --verbose \
      --create --disk /dev/disk/by-id/nvme-abcdef --part 1 --label "Arch Linux" \
      --loader /vmlinuz-${_linux} \
      --unicode "initrd=\\intel-ucode.img initrd=\\initramfs-linux.img OTHER-KERNEL-BOOT-PARAMS"

EDIT: added initrd boot params

> But! You go with low setting, tires don’t last 10k miles.

It's well known that EVs in general due to their weight, and especially those with high torque cause the tyres to wear out much faster than their ICE counteparts. 10K miles sounds too low. Would love to know why low suspension setting on a Model X causes much faster wear, and whether for the same efficiency/range on a different vehicle, the tyres last significantly longer.

> You go with high settings, axles are suddenly broken.

We know media is trigger happy when it comes to the most minor Tesla related incidents and yet, I've never, in the 10 years of following Tesla, heard about this one. Can you link to perhaps a bunch of these?

> After 60000 miles all parts under the car must be replaced.

Again, never heard of these issues and I watch daily Tesla news from multiple sources.

> Let’s talk about my future Model X 2017

I'm puzzled. Despite all the issues you listed, you're still going with Model X just because it has free supercharging? You do realize that broken axels can kill you, right?

Well, the car has 360 degree camera view, with far wider coverage than a turning head in a driver seat.

And more importantly, it sees in all directions at all times.

> Tesla has nothing to throw against some serious cars like Mercedes EQS or EQS SUV.

Besides sensationalist comments, do you actually have a list of what areas the Mercedes excel that Tesla doesn't?

I can't take "serious car" seriously - like what, Tesla is kidding?

> It is simply (physically) not possible for the existing cameras to see the area directly in front of the car.

Think about how a human driver does it, given his/her even worse vantage point. They model what's in front/behind the car from afar and remember what's where as they approach it. There are other signals as well, such as continuation of a kerb, etc.

I think people keep forgetting that Teslas run hundreds of ML prediction tasks all the time. Watch recent AI day and their talks about "occupancy network" to get a sense of the car's ability to:

1. Construct 3D model of its surrounding in real time; 2. Remember occluded sections based on what's it's seen previously.

Well watch it again and again and again. He talks about the determental effect of lo-fi sensors in conjunction with vision among other things.

I don't know if you're addressing what makes a good "EV" or just listing some features you personally care about. If the former, then 360 degree camera and build quality has little to do with an EV. Tesla is a young company and build quality has dramatically improved over the years (see Munro) and will continue to do so. Tesla has close to 360 camera coverage, it just hasn't added it in software. All it takes is a software update on existing hardware. If they haven't done it yet, it probably means they have other priorities at the moment.

Some EV specific advantages of Tesla over competition:

- Range: Teslas continue to lead in range, as result of best aerodynamics, best drive train efficiency and vertically integrated design (see Munro - highly integrated component).

- Charging infrastructure: largest available and most reliable (see MKBHD for e.g.).

- Regular software updates improving everything from range, to charge planning (recently added much better estimate based on wind direction, inclination, tyre pressure, weather, etc) to safety, etc.

- and most important of all: Availability and production volume. Best EV in the world isn't worth anything if you can't buy it.

If you look forward and see what Tesla is doing with its manufacturing innovations, it should become clear that things like in-house battery production, single front and rear casting among numerous other things has already secured their top position for sometime to come.

> Now, if you want the best EV, it's usually not going to be a Tesla.

Would love to hear what you consider "good" and what specific EV ticks the most good features that a Tesla Model 3 doesn't.

Here's the summary (mixed with observations from Munro and past Tesla presentations):

- Costs money: the physical sensors (a dozen of them), wiring it up, assembling it, maintain inventory, code it, etc.

- Time spent on maintaining, improving software stack for the non-vision sensors as well as efforts needed to fuse the data with vision, takes away from focusing on vision alone. It also holds back vision in relevant areas.

- Existing non-vision sensors used by Tesla are orders of magnitude lower fidelity than vision. It has historically (as the case with radar) led to vision essentially having to overriding radar because vision just performed much better (see AI day 2021).

My take:

As with any new tech, it likely sucks at the start (think HDD and SSDs, and how a mechanical thing with lots of moving parts was way more reliable than SSDs at the start). However, by essentially moving past the local maxima, you get to innovate better, faster in the future.

In case of ultrasonic sensors, they are for low speed cases anyway and most people are fine without them. Majority of fatalities and injuries happen at higher speeds.

> the hero cave diver a pedo out of spite ... he is a flawed as fuck human

Wow! You went from a 10 word tweet to "a flawed as fuck human"! I guess you've never said or written anything bad about another person given the angel that you are.

Oh btw, did you hear Musk won the case because the diver was trying to make some bucks off of an angry response, claiming it was "defamation"? Maybe not a "pedo-guy", whatever that means, but certainly a petty opportunist who received a nice basket of egg on his face.

> a functional company and added his brand of PR on top

Which company would that be?

Correct me if wrong, but Apple ID still asks for security questions. Pisses me off.

> Social media is not just an engineering problem.

What you makes you think Tesla is just an engineering problem?

You have regulation, laws protecting dealers, government negotiations, lobbying (and that's just from top of my head) and not to forget, large distributed software and hardware infrastructure

SpaceX: strong relationships with customers, dealing with lots of government and private companies that are paying you millions of dollars, etc.

> You're assuming that the attributes that lead to success in those companies will also carry across.

There are many attributes across the board that is needed to succeed in a scale of those companies. Even in Musk's existing companies, he's most definitly not suited to do certain tasks. It's well known and that Gwen Shotwell is a huge part of SpaceX'es success to date. I agree that social network requires its own area of knowledge and experience, but Musk isn't literally doing all this by himself. He attracts talent and that's the key.