skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take off and landing aside, can you properly control the aircraft on the ground without brakes? I'm thinking of stopping at hold short lines, at the gate, etc. How precise, responsive is reverse thrust in those cases?

Or will they get picked up by those little cars and pulled right after landing?
I am not excluding EV. I am saying "tax by weight regardless of powertrain and slap an extra charge on top of it if it is an ICE"
I'll express my opinions after really trying it myself...
Do you have any actual safety numbers? Or are you just going on your gut instinct of "bigger must be better just because"? There was a time when those big SUV vehicles were more likely to kill your family than a mini-van or sedan because the high center of gravity + no rollbar (and other such protection) made it both more likely to roll and more devastating when it did so.
How readable is the code? Does it follow SOLID design and the likes?
Yes, driving a car makes you morally culpable for the harms it does.

If you ranked the harms you are likely to cause, driving a car would be very near the top of the list.

You are exhibiting an aspect of the myopia the article is highlighting.
I'm not meaning to take away from what you are saying, but your blocks are some of the very best pedestrian designed and sized the world.

American blocks are by and large, boring, stupid and hugely oversized. Making them pedestrian only would solve nothing when most towns in america are covered it "Stroads"
It's extremely frustrating as a car enthusiast. Even a tiny 2 door sports car like the bmw m240 is almost 4000 pounds!

I want a fast, light car that isn't 20+ years old and falling apart.
I love phind. It has helped me a lot but the hard coded (or heavy weighted) ‘ask user question’ after every single query can be too much. Especially when it asks to see parts of the code that aren’t relevant to the task, and it does this is so much that I started to wonder if you were trying to scoop up more code blocks just to increase your data set.
The strong interpretation of the GP's proposal is that such a system would include carve-outs for assistive vehicles.
The game can't continue if there isn't a steady supply of new players. As a pedestrian, involuntary non-cyclist, and someone who prefers normal vehicles, your excuse is paper thin.
You can change it on their free self-hosted deployment.
Ya I didn't have the figure off the top of my head, it does appear to only be 1.3x to 3x which is really not much more.
(only) High population density is also terrible for society. Cars offset this and provide good medium and low population density living. A good balance of people in high, medium and low density living situations are needed to be sure.
The platforms war continues. I’m looking forward to see the native platform shrinking, only because it will mostly hurt Microsoft.

http://kvark.github.io/web/platform/2020/09/30/platform-wars...
Possibly, but you say that without any direct experience. There’s a long history of people trading form factor over everything else when it comes to computers.

Tablets < laptops < desktops by almost every single metric except that isn’t representative of actual usage. AR could easily displace all of them.
There's a near limitless number of things of this nature to be designed and built, running the gammut from little gizmos to electrical distribution boards like you've designed. I've had ideas for an in-vehicle weather station (internal/external temperature and humidity), a music system hand-off switch, and a variety of other little things that somebody building their own overland rig might want.

Speaking as part of your likely market, I'm really not surprised that there is a market. The mainstream RV market seems to be most focused on the kind of person who wants to run their generator every day so they can watch satellite HBO on their big screen TV in a KOA campground every night. The interior design is locked into what a person retiring right now wanted their very first kitchen to look like. So things like off-the-lot solar, or effective laptop connections, or modern interior design is not really a thing.

My main hesitation on starting down your road myself is that I already have a job building things like this, just not on projects of my own choosing.
"sorry we got caught"
I’m not sure how anyone can hate Kafka? It does what it says on the tin - move data from A to B with publish/subscribe semantics.

It’s quite easy to just use it as a dumb message broker with no retention if that’s all you need but if you do want to do something funky with persistence then go down that route.

I’m not sure how anyone could have a negative feeling towards a vanilla, but rock solid and wildly popular open source tool. If they do then it will be about some niche feature or use case.

I actually think this message reflects badly on the vendor here. Criticise or compete with Kafka on its technical merits if you like, but this is just a misrepresentation of their position in the market.
> Not sure how much a PPL will run you these days.

As of 2019, about 10k (more if you needed extra time).
Same regurgitation of weasel words.

"our AI models"

"your consent"
The VW Multivan Hybrid is great! The electric range is quite small (60km I think?) compared to a full EV but still sufficient for some daily trips. And smaller batteries charges fast.
Don't worry, I can hate the players and the game at the same time!
I wouldn't assume this particular arrowhead was used as a weapon
It's the sight-lines that are driving me nuts. I'm 6', and I can just barely see over the hoods of the new trucks and SUV's. When did all the automakers get together and agree to make them as stylish as a brick? I've almost gotten hit in parking lots twice this year, because I can't see around them in the car. We need to rewrite the rules on how much space a car park slot takes, because these new vehicles have to turn in their mirrors automagically just to fit in them now.
> In this particular case there was technical discovery on a non-trivial approach to patch an npm package (which didn't work out)

You can see that this PR took a while to get merged (~2 months) with multiple iterations as shown here https://reviews.gitsense.com/insights/github?bq=8218%2Bpull-...

Full Disclosure: This is my tool
> You can't seriously tell someone they have a moral obligation to buy a smaller vehicle when doing so puts their family and themselves at increased harm.

I don't mean to be snarky, but most moral dilemmas boil down to some trade off between what is best for yourself and whats best for society. In an evolutionary sense, our monkey brains see our children as an extension of our self. It seems to fit well.

You might decide that trade off is well worth it, which is a fair conclusion, but you can't deny that moral calculus is there to some degree.
Meh, I'll stick to binaries for 95% of my stuff.
I think you miss the key ingredient, they are tragedy of the commons where a company profits from amplifying the game-theory of the tragedy.

That is a HUGE difference. In one everyone is playing equally and if recognized can be de-escalated. In the other, there is a major monied player with power attempting to enshrine the tragedy into society.
> ...destabilizing the whole system by using the disk as ram.

Could you please be more specific?
I've been living in Europe for many years. Never needed a car, and moved around cities on a bicycle, public transportation, and sometimes a cab. On a train/plane for longer distances. Safe, healthy, pleasant, loved it.

Moved to the US last fall. One can't live here without a car anywhere outside NYC (and maybe Boston/Chicago?).

The reason is not just the car-centric cities design. It's the individualism culture, the severe income inequality, and the crime levels. I'm not advocating for or against the US culture to be clear, just pointing out the slightly less obvious causes of the car use.
As quickly as the percentage of ICEVs goes down. When one closes, the ones around it will gain customers, helping them stay open.
I love trucks. Small trucks (think Datsun 620). But they don't make small trucks anymore.

If there was a choice for a smaller truck, maybe some of us would choose it. Right now I'm driving a small (heavy) jeep.
So it's a tutorial where the goal is to be able to take a screenshot, post to Reddit, and feel cool. There are a few pieces of good information, but it's for people learning Linux (how to install, run a package manager, etc), not power users, which I would define as someone who understands a lot of the OS and takes as much advantage of the system at hand.

I feel as if I'd qualify as a power user, who has used Windows since the 3.1 days, who has used MacOS since the Tiger days, and who has been using various Linux distributions since 1999 -- I definitely wasn't the intended target audience of this article.

With a title of "Linux Guide for Power Users," I was hoping for some interesting scripts or relatively unknown applications that might be fun to tinker with. I always love to learn something new that I didn't know before (an example: recently I discovered TimeShift which is really a fancy wrapper around rsync and BTRFS, but it's a pretty nice GUI to help create and restore snapshots that I wasn't aware of before).
Where does your link support what you are claiming? Clicking "see more" on all the sections and searching, there is no mention of "valuable debubbing information". Under "Using NVIDIA Products" section it lists GeForce experience, but not plain graphics cards or their drivers. I have no nvtmmon.exe running and the folder

C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\NvTelemetry\reports

Has almost empty files last modified 2019.
in austria there is a popular model where a small group of people (10-20 families) pool their resources to build a house they can all live in with shared ownership. these also can be found elsewhere.

i don't know where to start though. i guess it is a combination of picking a target area and finding others interested. also choosing what is important to you. like how close do you want to live to the city. i fear that more isolated locations work better for an already close knit group as opposed to one that just finds itself.

an alternative approach might be to buy a piece of land and start building for yourself but with expansion in mind and then invite others to join you for short or long term stays. (like build an area with rooms for guests and if you find some that want to stay expand as needed)
This should help you understand the problem of higher vehicles limiting visibility of what's in front of them: https://imgur.com/a/aYbCbyg
Life matters not there.

Not in war. Not in peace. Not in travel. Not in home.

Most Western countries obsess about proventing deaths. The USA does as well, except among poor people and gun victims.
This has always been a cop out. When people CHOOSE to play the game because it enriches themselves at the expense of others, they are 100% at fault.

Hate the player. You can hate the game too but if nobody played it there would be no problems.
this worked on tea stains for me: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B092SMPQQD
Whoa what. This a game breaker. I’ve been using this tool for some personal side project stuff and had no idea that this was happening. Whoa. Not good.

To edit: I was never expecting full privacy as I assumed everything being fed into your service was being padded to your data set to make phind a competently fine tuned agent, but open web is not good.

In the end, the amount of times I’ve sworn at your bot with some foul language after it forgets everything on the 3rd chain and I have to go back and redo everything, will probably harm your seo if those swears get published. Just saying.
It's really just math. You can't simulate a 3840 x 2160 screen with a 1920 x 1920 headset. So until the headsets get more resolution than monitors the monitors will look better. Especially for text.
You have a perfectly legitimate reason for using a large car, and you should advocate for support. Laws can be designed to discourage things bad for society, while not further punishing the disadvantaged. I realize this doesn't always happen the right way, but using that as a blanket reason for not even trying the reduce amount of tanks off the road also doesn't seem reasonable.
That seems an intentional business decision where expected value of fine < perceived benefit. $85M is little
I still don't know what a "power user" is supposed to be, after seeing the term for like 30 years. Seems to describe a range from "able to leap tall spreadsheets in a single bound" to "the person in the office who knows how to fix things".

In my experience, most long-term unix nerds today seem to end up using (a) whatever is in front of them or (b) vanilla Debian.
>my moral obligation to protecting my family supersedes any moral obligation I have to protecting strangers

Surely it doesn’t supersede any obligation you have to protecting strangers. If you’d greatly increase the likelihood that you end up killing a pedestrian to only slightly increase the safety of your own family, I think that is morally wrong.
Show HN: News2reader – Readable articles from HN and Pocket on your e-reader
Hi! I recently became the owner of an e-reader, and wanted an easy way to get web articles from Hacker News and my bookmarks onto the device, on-demand, for easy reading.

I'm using KOReader (https://koreader.rocks/) on my device, and like lots of e-book readers it allows browsing online catalogs of books (e.g. from sources like Project Gutenberg) using the OPDS protocol. news2reader is a self-hosted Node application that acts as a "virtual" catalog, connecting to link aggregators instead of a local database. When you select a web article from the list, the application will (try to) fetch the page, generate a "readable" version with images, and serve that up as an EPUB on-the-fly.

I've found it works pretty well for my needs, but improvements and enhancements (e.g. support for more aggregator services) are welcomed as Pull Requests. If you want to know more, the README has screenshots and setup instructions (using Docker or pure Node+Yarn). Hope it's useful to some of you!
You do know that Europeans also have a ton of trailers, RVs and boats? Maybe ask yourself how we managed to do it?
Heavier vehicles use more fuel. Roads are paid for based on fuel taxes primarily.

I’m sorry my daughter’s equipment for her wheelchair is causing you such distress and ruining the roads. Let me just sling her over my shoulder and carry her everywhere from now on instead of using all this polluting road destroying equipment.
They bribe them.
Yeah, that's probably right, but I don't think that's what OP is talking about here.
I have a GUI which has a checkbox for IPv4 and a checkbox for IPv6. Checkboxes are self-explanatory. And if I hover over them they say something like "Use servers reachable over IPv6 (do not enable if you don't have IPv6 connectivity)". And yes I didn't have to look up how to do that. It's staring me in the face every time I open the program.
You just listed 3 choices, which range in size, weight and likelyhood of killing pedestrians. I.e. a minivan fits more people, but is smaller than some of the massive trucks I see driving around.

I knew a family growing up that had six kids, so 8 person household, they had a minivan (Toyota Tarago).

A modern SUV would likely be a) heavier b) have worse blind spots, and c) has a higher front bumper, so worse impact if you hit a pedestrian.

The "I didn't have a choice" argument is almost always a logical fallacy.
Sure, like shouldn't we try all the colors?

What if yellow cures everyone?
If you need a bigger 3-row vehicle for carrying people, a minivan is by far the most reasonable choice since they tend to have good visibility and crash-compatibility with other vehicles. Low hood height also means they can have pedestrian safety features that are impossible to implement on e.g. pickups with 5+ foot hood heights.
> A well armed society is a polite society.

That slogan has always been bullshit. Plenty of road rage and similar impulsive shootings happen in the most heavily armed states. A well armed society has more guns is really the only takeaway.
I think that this is a semantic distinction without any practical difference whatever.

What you think doesn't matter.

General Relativity says that the Alcubierre drive would work if you could find a source of negative mass. It can get a vehicle from here to there, outside of its light cone. And yet that's not game over.

That's not a word game. That's mathematics applied to our best model of how space-time works.

If you want to imagine it, imagine ants crawling on a balloon. Motion is their crawling. But now start blowing up the balloon as it crawls. Distances are changing, and it isn't the ant doing it! Think this is unrealistic? The current model of the Big Bang says that things we see from 13.7 billion year old light are now 47 billion light years away from us. Our naive ideas of motion can't explain that. But general relativity does, and it is exactly parallel to the ants on a balloon image.

Now imagine coming along, pinching the balloon, having the ant walk over the fold, then unpinching the balloon. The ant got from here to there faster than it could possibly walk! That's the idea of a warp drive.

Is it possible? Probably not. But we know of nothing that forbids it other than the fact that we can't figure out how to do it.
You're rewriting the GP's argument and then responding to that instead of what the person actually wrote. Try again.
This is the dictionary definition of a tragedy of the commons. You must recognize that regardless of your individual decision making, the fact that vehicle sizes have ballooned has made everyone on the road, your family included, much less safe.
There are a lot of monuments that would feel similar if they got hit (the Taj Mahal, Notre Dame cathedral, the Statue of Liberty, Machu Picchu, Stonehenge, large parts of the Vatican, the Forbidden City, ...), and the odds of any one of them getting hit should be quite a bit higher. The Sphinx is on the smaller end of qualifying monuments, but it had a lot more time to get hit than most. A meteorite striking the site of Notre Dame in 1000 B.C. wouldn't have had the same ... impact.
Spending a month "on an article to quantify why it is ridiculous to think that a VR headset, even one from Apple, will be a replacement for a physical monitor", without actually using the headset sounds like an insane waste of time. Given other reports by people that have actually used and compared a Vision Pro, I'm willing to bet Karl changes his tune when he finally joins them.
Would you rather raise your family in:

(0) a place where nobody else can have an SUV whose extra size directly increases the danger to your kids, but you also can't own one to keep your kids slightly safer while you drive them; or

(1) a place where you can have an SUV that keeps your family slightly safer while they're in it, but everyone else can also own one and they make your family less safe whenever they're not in an SUV themselves?

Social rules are, at least at their best, a way to do better than a Nash equilibrium of mutual defection.
Wouldn't Knot Theory fit the title better?
Those American trucks are an emblem of freedom and sovereignty! /s

I chuckle at the weird and ridiculous things people do with their trucks. The lift kits, and the widening, and the heee-yuge tires. I cannot imagine what kind of mileage they make.
Very well written post.

ThePrimeGen made a video on it.
To be fair, in America I don't think we have rules against reintroducing planes involved in deadly incidents, but are still airworthy. The shrine is a bit wild, though.
The largest threat to gun owners is their own gun.
Texas has considerably more gun violence than, for example, Chicago. You may want to reconsider.
Landing page of OpenAI website says:

> Creating safe AGI that benefits all of humanity

In big letters.

They are very clearly playing the game of positioning themselves as the AGI good guys, and at the same time Sam Altman has been encouraging the view that AGI is dangerous.

Regulatory capture.
What's interesting is WHY cars have become bigger.

The driver (heh) is the way the federal car mileage legislation formulas work.

Simply, the large the vehicle, the worse the gas mileage can be. This is a reason why pickup trucks are large (not just F-150s, but "small" trucks like Toyota and Nissan). The overall area that the vehicle covers is part of the equation about what the minimum gas mileage can be.

Smaller cars have to be very efficient compared to larger ones. So, cars and trucks have been drifting larger, longer, and wider in order for the automakers to cope with the demands of the CAFE standards and the market.
Back in the days of office work having multiple monitors was mostly a power move, a sort of status symbol like having a corner office with windows. There’s really no need for anything more than a single screen. I don’t even work off anything more than a laptop unless I’m feeling gratuitous.
Didn’t Sisi basically threaten to nationalize or nationalize one of Egypt’s largest dairy companies?
kguttag approaches this from a first principles approach. I think you have a solid point though, I can use the multiple monitors setup on the road, flying, etc
Carefully, so as to not accidentally exit the simulation
Key cause of restricted blood flow to the brain in vascular dementia discovered
Where does it stop though? Are you fine putting everyone else in danger so you feel safe? Are you buying a tank next?
ICEVs have been increasing in efficiency for 100 years. EVs have been for less than 20 years. If EVs are already halfway to being efficient enough for winter driving, imagine how efficient they could be in another 80 years.
Built a leg vise stand out of an old truck brake drum. Very simple construction but I think it's cool and a great use of reused material.
TBH his daycare teachers brought this up first, based on his interaction with kids older than him.
Minivans are far more efficient at storing stuff and people than SUVs. SUVs lose so much interior space by being higher off the ground.

The idea that SUVs have good storage space is a marketing myth.
This ignores the fact that people are doing this right now with Quest 2s. They're early adopters, sure, but they're doing it.

I've done it, and for sure the limiting factor was the clumsiness of the interface and the discomfort of the headset after an hour -- not the sharpness of the text.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
The land yachts were only barely lighter than modern SUVs or trucks. The weight difference between Crown Vic and a new Ford F-150 is 2 extra passengers worth of weight. F-150 gets better gas mileage and lower emissions too.
And some people's personality is to be an armchair expert speculating for speculation's sake. I guess it makes them feel smart, and they like to hear themselves talk
Influencers need to grab attention
It seems to me there is a chicken and egg problem with (non-car) infrastructure and the demand for that infrastructure. Nobody wants to get on a train full of homeless people or a bus that's always late or a sidewalk that has no shade. There is little incentive for city leaders and planners to invest in things that nobody uses.
Very cool. To be completely candid, we just hit OpenAI directly, no 3rd party libs involved at the moment (just fetch).

We're open to trying more TS-focused libraries, but definitely more hesitant after our initial experiences with other libs. The less magic the better (no hidden prompts, etc.).
> most of the country

I invite you to visit N. Montana or either of the Dakotas, or that stretch of highway in Nebraska that seems to go in a straight line for several hundred miles.
The cached link is currently shareable but won’t get indexed anywhere unless you yourself share it somewhere like Twitter. But we’ve heard the community’s concern about security through obscurity and we will address this shortly.
Professionals using a larger vehicle for work should already be getting a tax break on the entire vehicle. If they don't, it sounds like it's just a personal vehicle.