The only thing that will do that is regulation, either mandating the types of cars we can buy, or taxing the kinds of cars we don't favor.
People in the majority prefer large, powerful cars, given the choice. And those cars already cost a lot, so any strategy of price increases to discourage them will have to be significant. This is why most people in Europe drive small, economical cars. Big cars are heavily taxed, and so is the fuel they use.
The US in particular has many oversized cars. Fuel is cheap, the roads are wide and there is a general imperative to get a car bigger than others for safety and status. If this pollution could be used as a means to reduce sizes to something more proportionate to what they’re generally doing it will be a good thing.
I really wish we could buy a Citroen Ami in the US, which is a small, light, and slow (28 mph top speed) electric car for city driving. Plus, it looks super cute!
I wouldn't mind them bringing in something like that - I'm in the UK where they don't have N-Boxes either but it would do the job and I mostly get around by e-bike these days so I prefer others to drive small light cars.
I hear this a lot and I am quite skeptical. Price-sensitive buyers do not buy new cars, they buy used ones. What is available on the used market is directly controlled by what the minority of people who buy new cars put their priorities on.
I see it as less a masculinity problem and more a "common view of physics" problem. IE it's less about masculinity and more about the perception of "winning a crash".
Cars can pass all the safety standards they like but the common view is a multi-ton ladder chassis truck keeps the kids (and themselves, their loved ones, friends...) safer than the small city car (containing others). So stupidly sized trucks are desirable...
The only way out I think is regulation. Otherwise the "outsizing" will continue.
That's quite the hot take, more worthy of Reddit than HN.
Pickups are super useful. Especially if you live in a place that does not have narrow roads, and if you have a family to tote around. It's in many ways the modern equivalent to the luxury barges of the 70s.
Plus, modern trucks are frequently as efficient as a mid size sedan from 10-15 years ago, which is pretty wild. Some of them, like my Lightning, are more efficient than pretty much any car which uses gasoline.
Lastly, 80K is a lot even for a truck. The vast majority are more like 40-50K. 80K is a top trim, brand new, no discounts price.
Yes, we're at the stage now where democracies need to become far more dictatorial, otherwise their populations will continue mindlessly along the path of 'Tragedy of the Commons'.
Thanks. We get that question a lot. I think currently it distinguishes;
- Shuttle allows you to make well designed sharing pages in your branding (wallpaper, logo). Looking to extend those customization features further.
- Share pages can also be used to request files from others without them to require an account.
- We allow you to connect your own storage account (Backblaze B2 or Amazon S3) turning it into a truly pay as you go storage
- It's generally cheaper than Dropbox
Obviously Shuttle is just getting started and Dropbox is a big company that's been there for a long time. Instead of competing with Dropbox, we're currently looking into optimizing for niche like photography.
We used Redis with persistence to build our first prototype. It performed amazingly and development speed was awesome. We were a full year beyond break-even before adding MySQL to the stack for the few times we missed the ability to run SQL queries, for finance.
Well, if the company is providing input data, it could be interesting to generate something with it. Like a customer profile pic based on their user data and past orders!
I'm dealing with this right now. New institutional leadership at the most executive level. This person believes
a) if you're not moving up you should be moved out;
b) there is zero value in the historical operations of any department; and
c) the only way to tell if someone is a good employee is whether or not his gut tells him he likes them.
These are three things I disagree with vehemently. He has no use for me.
It has been difficult, to say the least, to work with this person. If it weren't for the layers between he and I, he would've fired me by now.
This is a place I have never been. Ever. And it's massively frustrating. No amount of ability or intelligence can overcome this man's gut instinct. And he's in charge now.
I have zero idea what to do here. I have never worked with someone who so explicitly wants his employees to kiss his ass (HR literally said to kiss his ass when I went to them for guidance on how to improve myself to fix this situation).
I don’t have advice for you, as I am just as bad at kissing ass. Maybe try to elevate your perceived image/worth by liking what he likes outside of work: trying out a <sport> that he plays. Watching a <movie> that he likes. Wearing the same shoe <brand>. That stuff might be easier to do yet might buy some credit.
As for the Mandarin tones, the model might have mixed it up with the tones from a dialect like Cantonese. It’s interesting to discover how much difference a more specific prompt could make.
I don't know if my iOS app is using GPT-4o, but asking it to translate to Cantonese gives you gibberish. It gave me the correct characters, but the Jyutping was completely unrelated. Funny thing is that the model pronounced the incorrect Jyutping plus said the numbers (for the tones) out loud.
