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New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

omarforgotpwd — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:09:06 +0000

I would say the article is speculative. My statement is based on information given at Tesla's shareholder meeting.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

omarforgotpwd — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:46:17 +0000

Tesla is actually starting to make cathodes in house via a dry process, which is why they are no longer buying cathode material from this supplier. Typical sloppy reporting from Electrek.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank"

omarforgotpwd — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:41:06 +0000

the triangle truck supports 500 kw charging

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Tesla excluded from EV buyer credits in California proposal"

omarforgotpwd — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 08:24:46 +0000

Subsidies should not be used to decide winners and losers. There should be an equal playing field for all companies. When the government starts deciding winners instead of the market, things start falling apart fast.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Tesla excluded from EV buyer credits in California proposal"

omarforgotpwd — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:22:33 +0000

It makes no sense to subsidize only the players who have low market share. Tesla is the only carmaker that still makes cars in California, why subsidize foreign cars at the expense of California workers… using their own tax dollars?

The only justification for such harmful economic policy is political retaliation against Musk. But it is not the role of the government to use taxpayer funds for political retribution against opponents.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Tesla excluded from EV buyer credits in California proposal"

omarforgotpwd — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 05:24:56 +0000

The 200,000 unit cap was part of federal legislation, not state legislation. That was repealed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act under the Biden administration, and replaced with a new system where you qualify for the credit based on the sourcing of your battery materials and other factors.

Here, Newsom is proposing an entirely new incentive that he has designed specifically to exclude Tesla.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Our Self-Driving Cars Will Save Lives, but They Will Kill Some of You First"

omarforgotpwd — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 23:57:39 +0000

Funny article, but as someone who has access to Waymo, Cruise, and Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta I have never seen any of the above have trouble differentiating between a green light and a green shirt. Again, very funny but from a technical perspective the challenges he's describing — rain, a dog running into the road, are things that I see many different companies already solving reliably.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "The paper that made ChatGPT possible"

omarforgotpwd — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 05:34:29 +0000

Transformers are much bigger than just ChatGPT!

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Ask HN: Anxiety and dread approaching status update meetings"

omarforgotpwd — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 07:33:15 +0000

Do something of note, something that wows, and you will be excited for the meeting. If there is something else that needed to be done, explain why it was important for it to be done. If there are too many meetings in a row where you don't feel there's much to report, it could be an opportunity to reflect on goals / prioritization.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Tell HN: OpenAI Whisper Is Overfitted"

omarforgotpwd — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 08:52:59 +0000

I assume you set the language flag correctly?

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16"

omarforgotpwd — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 14:43:28 +0000

completely normal for large companies just to simplify IT management / make sure all applications used by the company are compatible

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Starlink V2, launching next year, will transmit direct to mobile phones"

omarforgotpwd — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 17:28:31 +0000

As someone who has a Starlink dish at this price point, I can assure you that it's a real product. The reason why there is a waitlist is to avoid over-saturating the bandwidth in a small area. If your area does not have a lot of users, you can sign up right away. Similarly if you order Starlink for EVs you do not have to wait.

https://www.starlink.com/rv

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Starlink V2, launching next year, will transmit direct to mobile phones"

omarforgotpwd — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:28:36 +0000

There are two other companies working on satellite based cellular service. One of them is publicly traded. Starlink costs $500 for the hardware and $99 a month. I think the pricing you are referring to is for a higher tier professional service (I.e. a school vs a single house)

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "California DMV accuses Tesla of falsely advertising Autopilot and FSD features"

omarforgotpwd — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 03:41:10 +0000

The Full Self-Driving package on Teslas gives you access to a number of features including autopark, auto lane change, navigate on autopilot, green light chime, traffic light and stop sign control, summon, smart summon, an update to the latest car computer, as well as the city streets Beta. Just not true to say they received no functionality. I paid $7,000 for it on my last car and it's incredible. It can often do entire drives with no human input. And not just simple drives, but some pretty complex scenarios too.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "CNN tried Tesla's 'full self-driving' mode on NYC streets. It didn't go great"

omarforgotpwd — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 06:09:36 +0000

It will get better. The fact that cars are doing this with computer vision at all is incredible.

Since it is just a driver assistance system, the user will only turn it on when they feel it is useful. The interior camera is used for driver monitoring to make sure that people don't use their phone / fall asleep etc.

Encourage everyone to try this latest software if you can, it's incredible.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Self-driving Waymo cars clog up dead-end San Francisco street"

omarforgotpwd — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 05:30:21 +0000

I doubt this was a mistake, they were probably having the cars drive there on purpose. They seem to be running in fairly tight loops, which would help keep disengagement numbers up. That’s important, since California requires those stats to be publicly reported on a regular basis.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Autopilot"

omarforgotpwd — Tue, 11 May 2021 11:30:12 +0000

The story was widely reported as a driverless Tesla crash. In fact, there are no driverless Teslas. Furthermore the Autopilot driver assistance feature was not even used and could not have been used. It's too bad you will never buy one of their cars because of Musk trying to correct this story, because their cars are quite good.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "SolarBatteryBitcoin"

omarforgotpwd — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:37:52 +0000

Negative priced power is a problem for the people who own the solar panels. They want to make a return on their investment. If the business case improves, renewable capacity will build out faster.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "CEO of Waymo John Krafcik is leaving"

omarforgotpwd — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 23:30:22 +0000

Chandler, not Phoenix. Went over to try the cars recently. They sometimes drop you off or pick you up from a different location than you wanted if they can't get to the location you provided.

If they actually launched in Phoenix that would be encouraging. Instead they're stuck in the suburbs.

New comment by omarforgotpwd in "Apple discontinues original HomePod, will focus on mini"

omarforgotpwd — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:56:08 +0000

Shame, these produce the most amazing sound.