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New comment by thg in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

thg — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:41:21 +0000

Several, actually

New comment by thg in "Self Driving Car Insurance"

thg — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:07:19 +0000

It was just another marketing stunt to pump the stock price before their terrible earnings report. One "unsupervised" unit, with the supervisor in a follow car, that nobody could actually get and drive around in.

https://electrek.co/2026/01/28/teslas-unsupervised-robotaxis...

New comment by thg in "Tesla's Germany Sales Down 72% from Their Peak"

thg — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:13:45 +0000

For the last few quarters, Tesla was only profitable due to their selling CAFE credits. With those gone and their sales declining, it's all but certain that Tesla will post a loss for Q4, unless they resort to some very creative accounting tricks.

New comment by thg in "Tesla's Germany Sales Down 72% from Their Peak"

thg — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:43:06 +0000

They're declining worldwide and since Musk got the climate change denier elected who did away with CAFE credits at the end of Q3, Tesla is now also no longer a profitable company.

New comment by thg in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

thg — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:46:10 +0000

Tesla was only profitable the last few quarters due to selling their carbon credits to other companies. They'd have lost money otherwise. And since Trump basically did away with that, Tesla is no longer a profitable company now.

New comment by thg in "Volvo delivers 5,000th electric semi"

thg — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:27:48 +0000

Geely owns Volvo Car AB. Volvo Trucks is a different company and part of the Volvo Group, which is not owned by Geely (but they are a big shareholder).

New comment by thg in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

thg — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:53:47 +0000

They couldn't even if they wanted to, because that scam was shut down in 2011.

New comment by thg in "Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam"

thg — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:55:40 +0000

Doesn't help the op, but I use my Nikon Z6 II as a webcam under Fedora and have been doing this for a few months now, mostly without any problems.

Here's a guide for those interested (not by me): https://www.crackedthecode.co/how-to-use-your-dslr-as-a-webc...

How to Use Your DSLR Camera as a Webcam in Linux (2020)

thg — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:47:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crackedthecode.co/how-to-use-your-dslr-as-a-webcam-in-linux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42737459

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thg in "Beekeepers halt honey awards over fraud in global supply chain"

thg — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 19:03:56 +0000

That's a link to this discussion.

New comment by thg in "Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices"

thg — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 13:45:20 +0000

The traffic limit is outbound only. There is no limit on inbound / internal traffic. So even if they were to hit you with a 5TB / month limit, you'd be just fine.

https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/general/traffic/ (bottom of the page)

New comment by thg in "Why are my ZFS disks so noisy?"

thg — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:20:17 +0000

Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but I suppose it will be of at least some help: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tf4qx1aMJp8Lo_R6gpT6...

New comment by thg in "It's Now Officially Illegal to Use AI to Impersonate a Human Actor in Hollywood"

thg — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:41:17 +0000

Quoted from the second paragraph:

> the new laws not only bolster those existing protections but extend them to everyone in California — not just to people working in front of a camera in Hollywood

New comment by thg in "Germany sees company bankruptcies soar"

thg — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:42:40 +0000

That's 80+% of the companies here, so I doubt it really is the relevant factor.

TSMC says it has discussed moving fabs out of Taiwan but such a move impossible

thg — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 08:11:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-says-it-has-discussed-moving-fabs-out-taiwan-such-move-impossible-2024-06-04/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571912

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by thg in "Ask HN: Should we stop posting X links on HN?"

thg — Fri, 17 May 2024 18:51:28 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

It's a little-known and barely-used feature that's mentioned in the sites' FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

New comment by thg in "Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history"

thg — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 09:41:36 +0000

Now that's simply not true.

Closing down all nuclear plants was first decided on in the year 2000, 24 years ago. It were the Liberals (FDP) and Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) who rescinded that decision in 2010, only to later reinstitute it in panic after the Fukushima meltdown happened.

Those reactors that got shuttered hadn't had any safety inspections in years, they had no viable fuel left and not even the owning energy companies wanted to operate them any longer than absolutely necessary, so they would have been shut down even without the Green party in the current government.

That the now missing nuclear baseload had to have been replaced with coal, well.. Thank the Christian Democrats for that. They're the ones that favoured building out coal, slowing down the build-out of renewables as much as possible, at every chance they got.

Tesla claims California false-advertising law violates First Amendment

thg — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:59:52 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/tesla-fights-autopilot-false-advertising-claim-with-free-speech-argument/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38626078

Points: 108

# Comments: 122

Elon Musk is considering taking X out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation

thg — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 08:21:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-considering-taking-twitter-x-out-of-europe-dsa-2023-10

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37940024

Points: 29

# Comments: 42

New comment by thg in "iPhone 15 Pro Max vs. DSLR photos: Real world camera comparison"

thg — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:34:59 +0000

> The article seems to praise the iPhone a lot for some reason

It's an Apple news and rumours site, so not really unbiased.

> but to my eyes all its images immediately pop out as worse, except for the case where high depth of field is desired

Can only do so much with limited glass and computational photography. Dedicated cameras are always going to win in the image quality department, simply by virtue of having much larger photo diodes to capture more light with.

Smartphones will also never be able to match the bokeh, as the shorter the physical focal length, the more depth of field you have. Can't beat the laws of physics. They're great for flat-looking everything-in-focus photos, though. Can't replicate that with a DSLR / DLSM, unless it's an (almost) static composition and you do focus stacking in post