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.
> 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
I see they've mastered the modern rhetorical technique of having a trillion in assets, billions in sales of this product, buildings filled with professional engineers, lots of bragging about the size of their engineering genitalia ... and instantly adopting the position of the fragile, vulnerable victim the moment they are criticized. They are so agile. It's like criticizing kindergartners - they start crying and then what do you say (I don't criticize real kindergartners, only Tesla engineers and executives). I'll also point out that Musk delights in demonstrating that he doesn't give a crap about anyone or anything, but let's not stoop to that level.
> Power steering failures are relatively common
Let's have a contest: who can describe the problem most euphemistically? 'Minor safety issues are common'? 'Software calibration issue'? 'All software has bugs'?
> You only hear about this one because it's Tesla.
So.. you're saying that power steering failures are common and then proceed to link to articles listing power steering related recalls. But then in the next breath you claim that we only hear about this one because it's Tesla.
Seems a bit contradictory. If we didn't hear about recalls from other car companies, you wouldn't be able to link to examples of them.
Your comment is an example of the "Tesla's just another car company like all the rest" line of defense offered up when there's bad news about Tesla.
> 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.
The only notable thing about the comment section on the Toyota recall, is that it not filled with apologists crying that people are unfairly highlighting a safety issue.
Of course, Toyota is treated as a real car maker, and they should be scrutinized as such. Recalls are no joke.
But when it's a Tesla recall, the comment section is a shitshow. An odd mix of Musk sycophants, shills that are financially invested in the company, and fanboys that adopted Teslas as a sort of status symbol.
The funny thing is that initially I was neutral on Tesla. I didn't love or hate Elon, and saw Tesla as another US car maker, not more or less special than Ford, GM, etc.
But those people really soured me. If the consumers of those cars are willing to undermine its flaws for ulterior motives, that's one car I'll always refuse to buy.
Funny how you missed the irrational Tesla haters in comments, who said the Model 3 would never ship, and then that it would never be manufactured at scale, then that a Tesla bond payment due would render the company bankrupt. More lately that the Cybertruck would never ship. Or that SpaceX did no innovation. I don't know if they are just haters or short sellers but it's weird.
Not to mention the upvoters that bring almost every negative Tesla story and hit piece(many of them submarine anti-EV pieces from the right wing media) on to the front page.
One of my favorites is the below comment that was the most upvoted on a story about Tesla stock moving to the downside.
Someone quoting Brianna Wu who is neither an auto or stock analyst predicting that the stock would go below $100 in the next few days. Spoiler, the stock never did that and went on to triple in the next few months.
And anyone speaking out about that or arguing against it with facts or sources is labeled a fan or shill by people like you and downvoted. For example this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34150931
That's the level of discourse on HN about Tesla. Hope no one shorted the stock based on the opinion of a Musk hater that translates it to Tesla. It's just a constant stream of FUD stories at this point.
So.. you're suffering from a persecution complex about a car brand?
I think there are bigger and better things to worry about than Tesla's image. You're not even getting paid to be Tesla's volunteer PR flack and spin doctor.
If you want a career in PR then at least get paid for it.
Just correcting people and noticing things is a persecution complex now? And nothing about all the haters of a car brand? Literally I just posted a list of URLs and stated that other car companies have had power steering problems too and it triggered a bunch of angry replies and got downvoted for listing inconvenient facts.
You're not just correcting people. You're saying things like "irrational Tesla haters" and "upvoters bring almost every negative Tesla story and hit piece on to the front page" and "you only hear about this one because it's Tesla".
That's less "noticing things" and more paranoia. And paranoia about something as trivial as a car brand. That is a significant loss of perspective.
An obvious problem with Tesla is its lack of commitment to the truth. When lying becomes standard operating procedure for a company then that company is not worth your time or money.
In 2016 Tesla claimed that "as of today, all Tesla vehicles produced in our factory – including Model 3 – will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver". That was lie: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...
Tesla even feels the need to lie about something as dumb as quarter mile times for the Cybertruck. Their recent "quarter mile" video was fake. Lying is simply the company culture at Tesla:
So instead of running around with paranoid fantasies that world is out to get Tesla, first ask yourself why Tesla feels the need to lie so often. Then ask yourself why it is that you have to spend so much time and effort making excuses for Tesla.
Maybe it isn't the rest of the world that's the problem. Maybe all those articles that you don't like aren't "hit pieces" after all.
I could make a long list of 'lies' that other car companies made up with actual harms that are completely ignored and never brought up. Like the Volkswagen emissions scandal or the GM ignition scandal that resulted in deaths and criminal charges for hiding and falsifying information to the govt.
Even if what you said was true it's not okay to constantly make up misinformation about Tesla. As you listed there's enough to legitimately criticize Tesla and other automakers about, so why are people hell bent on making up things?
> So instead of running around with paranoid fantasies that world is out to get Tesla
There's a long line of shortsellers, fossil fuel and car company anti-EV lobby money in the media and just plain haters making up things, and anyone pointing out the falsehoods personally attacked.
I hate this trend of demonization of cancelling something or someone, and then falsehoods are spread and anyone pointing out the falsehoods are demonized.
> I could make a long list of 'lies' that other car companies made up with actual harms that are completely ignored and never brought up.
Ah, back to the "Tesla is just another car company like all the rest" whataboutism.
> Even if what you said was true
It is.
> it's not okay to constantly make up misinformation about Tesla
So.. it's made up misinformation that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is doing an engineering analysis of Tesla's power steering problems?
> There's a long line of shortsellers, fossil fuel and car company anti-EV lobby money in the media and just plain haters making up things, and anyone pointing out the falsehoods personally attacked.
Not that's your paranoia. Like how people on here said Cybertruck was scan for the preorder fees and would never ship based on similar thoughts like yours.
> So.. it's made up misinformation that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is doing an engineering analysis of Tesla's power steering problems?
When did I ever say that? I just noted that most other automakers' having similar issues and recalls don't reach the front page of HN. Ford had 68 recalls in 2023, how many reached HN's front page compared to Tesla's?
I was responding to a comment high up the page stating this:
> I've never driven a tesla.
>I've also never had my steering wheel randomly stop working in the middle of driving.
The implication is that only Teslas have power steering loss issues because the poster never had a Tesla and never had power steering losses, based on a faulty anectdotal assumption. Isn't that misleading if not misinformation?
Mazda just had a big recall for power steering loss:
> Mazda recall for power steering warning
Mazda is recalling 43,752 of its 2024 CX-90 vehicles. An assembly issue with the worn gear in the steering wheel system could result in a sudden loss of power steering assist. Loss of the power steering assists while driving increases the risk of a crash, the NHSTA reports.
> Mazda owners can visit their dealers to replace the spring engaging in the worn gear. The mechanics will reapply grease to the gear teeth, which will be free of charge. All Mazda owners affected will receive a notification letter on March 18. Owners can contact the Mazda customer service at 1-800-222-5500 and press option six. Mazda's number for this recall is 6542A.
And this isn't even a software recall that is fixed with an OTA update.
Where's the coverage of that story on HN?
I responded with a list of URLs showing other car companies had similar issues and somehow everyone's super angry about me and it got downvoted as punishment for adding context and facts, and to bury it lower down the page. And all the personal attacks.
So.. your claim is that Tesla didn't lie about its Cybertruck quarter mile video? After the lie was exposed Tesla admitted that they didn't complete a quarter mile.
At this point you're not even agreeing with Tesla. These are the dead end roads paranoia leads you down.
You're just putting words in my mouth now because you are completely unable to address the arguments in the rest of my post because you have to admit they're correct. You also admitted other car companies lie by saying I was resorting to whataboutism.
It's not whataboutism when someone implies power steering failures happen only with a particular car company, and someone corrects them by showing instances with other car companies. That's irrationalism.
You're not even getting paid to be anti-EV and fossil fuel lobby's volunteer PR flack and spin doctor to spend all that time and effort to demonise Tesla while completely ignoring the other car companys' faults.
If you want a career in PR then at least get paid for it. Literally promoting Volkswagen all over the place after the intentional emissions scandal ruining people's health with 5 million dying because of pollution every year, that's sad, disgusting and pathetic.
You seem to be very obsessed about a car brand and building an identity around hating it and spreading the hate around as much as you can for more than half a decade.
I think there are bigger and better things to worry about than Tesla's image.
If you were anywhere near objective you would give the same scrutiny that you give Tesla to other car makers. Since you're horribly biased against Tesla you instead try to make them look good in your comments and submissions. How is that being objective???
Since you have a long history of posting like this, I've banned the account.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
good evening tesla apologist, look closer. Those are due to physical problems, not software bugs.
As most of the apologists in this thread have rightly pointed out, Tesla can fix the problem with an over-the-air update. Other manufacturers can't.
If you took my post to be claiming other cars never had physical problems, you misunderstood the absurdity.
We hear about this one because it's fucking absurd for a software bug to cause intermittent steering issues.
and tesla's aren't that old, give it 20 years and then you might have a leg to stand on comparing recall percentages. Toyota just recalled 2003/2004 corrolla's for an airbag issue. Tesla hasn't had time to find all the bullshit yet.
It literally says in the very next sentence: "Documents posted Friday by U.S. safety regulators say the recall will be done with an online software update."
You cutting that out has to be intentional. ;)
I'm kidding: I don't think you or the writer had any intent of anything, other than communicating, nor do I think about that sort of thing.
> 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.
> You only think it's often because the other ones don't get reported on HN, creating the false impression.
Tesla & Other car companies have way too many recalls. Someone else also failing does not negate the amount of recalls Tesla is doing or change the frequency at which they occur. I do agree that Tesla recalls gain wider internet spotlight. I believe that is largely due to Musk himself is attracted to the spotlight. I couldn’t name you the name of ceo of another car company, and tbh I think that is a good thing. It is widely known that scrutiny increases the more you of a public figure you are. Especially so if you are a divisive one.
> 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.
12k git repos can happen if the team uses github enterprise with forking internally.
It can also happen in franken-build systems which encourage decoupling by making separate repos: one repo that defines a service’s API, containing just proto (for example). A second repo that contains generated client code, a third with generated server code, a fourth for implementation, a fifth which supplies integration test harnesses, etc…
Sound insane? It is! But its also how an awful lot of stuff worked at AWS, just as an example.
I can relate to this, it seems that code hosting providers push their users into having more repos with their CI limitations. I’ve noticed that with GitHub Actions, I assume Atlassian does the same.
They probably have thousands of devrel/app engineer type example/demo/test repos alone - it doesn't say they're active.
2M tickets - in my 4.5y at present company we've probably averaged about 10 engineers and totalled 4.5k tickets. Cloudflare has been around longer, has many more engineers, might use it for HR, IT, etc. too, might have processes like every ticket on close opens a new one for the reporter to test, etc. It sounds the right sort of order of magnitude to me.
At least 25% of that is a single Jira project consisting of formulaic tickets to capture routine changes in production, and a large portion of that is created by automated systems. There may be other such projects too.
> 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.
I think my org has on the order of 3 repositories per dev? They seem to have 3200 employees, with what I assume to be a slightly higher rate of devs, so you’d expect around 6-7 thousand?
2M Jira tickets is probably easily achieved if you create tickets using any automated process.
> 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.
Looking at the history of things like fibromyalgia and CFS (remember when that was called “Incline Village Yuppie Syndrome” to dismiss it?), I think your god of the gaps comparison is quite apt and it seems like it’s especially used to minimize diseases which affect people unlike the speaker. It’s no coincidence that all three of these are associated with women, for example.
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
> 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.
Can confirm, I still remember playing with the in-seat ashtrays and my mother telling me to stop, and then the whole rigamarole with the "smoking" and "non-smoking" sections and lights.
Hell I remember my father buying Marlboro reds from an old vending machine that was entirely mechanical.
There are still a few of these cigarette vending machines around in bars and they were always fun to use back when I was a smoker 5-10 years ago. The ones I got to use had a pull style activation that was quite satisfying as it required a decent yank to dispense the pack.
Yeah, I’ve only used them a few times, perhaps less than 20 in my life, but I distinctly remember that using them took more strength than I expected, hah.
Curtain? There was no curtain. I got stuck in the smoking section once flying home from college in the late 80s and started to get sick. Fortunately the flight attendants were able to find someone in non-smoking willing to switch seats with me.
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.
I'm guessing they mean the app store on the iPhone, that being the only option.
The iPhone itself has been consistently superior to its competition across its history (although obviously not always best at everything). And I say that as an Android fan.
