skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep the 4Runner and buy something new for a family hauler.

New vehicles are much safer from a structural standpoint than older ones. Modern high strength steels form the safety cage of the vehicle, and greatly reduce the risk of injury in offset frontal impacts, side impacts, and rear impacts.

And then you have the multitudes of air bags.

Finally, the various electronic gizmos that further reduce risk of injury.

The presence of high strength steels alone warrants a new vehicle purchase. Vehicles are disposable, people are not.
Well you are using their store-front and real estate at their shopping mall.

There are plenty of alternatives to the play store. They just don’t get the same amount of eyeballs or require slightly more technical users.
This is why companies have PR departments and media training.

Video: https://twitter.com/jd_durkin/status/1729991850079990080
Some people prefer CLI over GUI, me included. For a lot of us, GUI is really inefficient compared to keyboard-centric interfaces. You have to move your hand away from the keyboard for every little thing you want to do. I see it as analogous to the difference between spinning disks and solid state drives; one is better in almost every way, the other only has like one advantage for a subset of people.

I also recommend against using git GUI for beginners just because it hides so much of what's going on, making it easy for people to stop learning after they figure out how to do exactly 2 things with it: commit and push.

But honestly if we're going for "best" I think magit is the winner.
Here is the complaint:

https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2023-11/Complaint%20-%20...
> car safety has drastically improved

Safety between cars, and within cars, has improved. However, due to the increasing size of the average vehicle on the road, among other factors, car safety for pedestrians/cyclists has decreased.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deat...
Yes, I keep on thinking that a premium market will develop for Toyota and Honda cars from roughly ~2006-2010. Those cars were the height of internal combustion technology without all of the electronics.
In Unix time please.
Sure, can give it a try.

I can think of two usecases, research and creativity.

In research (not scientific research necessarily), you can fight the "I don't know what I don't know" problem. For example, all the subcategories of math, write them down as nodes as you discover them, connect with edges when they are related somehow. Put a label to the edge, if necessary.

The nice thing (imo) compared to mind maps is the freeform factor. You can have orphan nodes sitting on the edge, the edges don't need to be directed, you can have cycles.

In creative manners, you can for example have elements of a story, characters, places, events, and connect them as you see fit. Being so freeform, you don't get distracted by being forced to classify (as in, define the position inside the tree structure). Note down open questions, contradictions as orphan nodes in the vicinity.
I'm in the market for a used vehicle, and I am looking at mid 2010's Toyota 4runner's and Tacoma's, maybe even Tundra. It's just hard to go wrong with a Toyota.
You don't have to trust the European Commission, discuss the license with your lawyer and network.

Personally, I am annoyed by the length of the license, when you compare it with the MIT license. Might make my own license (altered version of MIT).
Yet you still drive it
> No way BMW is that high.

AFAICT certain models have been highly problematic but overall they're very reliable things as shown by these numbers in TFA!?

Wife's BMW 3-series: it only started having electrical issues once it got very old and it was nothing too bad (heck, some I even fixed myself). Then she got a Toyota CHR hybrid: great car, but not for highway driving (at least not at speeds on european highways). She now bought a 4-series, used, five years old. One year and absolutely zero issue. A friend of mine at the same time bought a used 5-series (24 months old): zero issues.

I don't hear many people around me complaining about reliability issues on their BMWs (in the country where I used to live, Belgium, it's literally the brand the most sold, before Volkswagen and then Mercedes [1] and in the country where I live now it's the 3rd most sold brand).

> I remember because I was joking yesterday with my partner that we should never buy a Beamer.

They're good cars however I'm not sure I'd buy a german car if I was living in the US again. I did it and, well, it's my experience that german cars are easier to service/fix in europe (especially when you live in germany or close to germany) than in the US.

I'd probably go for a japanese car.

[1] Numbers for 2023: https://www.focus2move.com/belgium-auto-sales
I drove a Tacoma that started at 125k miles with a leaking cylinder and a torn CV joint boot.

Kept waiting for something to stop working and need fixing... 70k+ miles later, I was still driving and waiting.
Even if they don’t have a 12v battery they still have to have a 12v system for reasons others mentioned and because it’s a requirement to sell cars in the USA. My Porsche Taycan has jump start lugs for the benefit of other cars and so I can have my low voltage systems operate with some help from another car.

My mild hybrid Audi is the same way. Gas engine, 48v accessory belt run battery, and that 48v battery works in tandem with a small 12v battery for the low voltage system.
> I'm rooting for it despite it being silly and not a practical pickup, strictly because every car people are buying looks identical (picture a crossover SUV from Toyota, Chevy, BMW etc. Basically shoe-shaped things).

It’s almost like the entire automotive industry converged on that shape for specific reasons… aerodynamics and crash resistance.
It'll be even more cool because now there's a tribe
The parent commenter is calling out a bias inherit to the study.
What is used is not water, but fresh water flow. In a given unit of time, in a certain region, a certain amount of water that will flow through it, due to rivers, rain or water stored in a dam.

You can use some or all of that flow in that time period. If that flow is not used, then it is gone. If you use part of that flow on one thing, usually you can't use it for something else. The last tradeoff is what is often concerning.
If you see a knife move away from it.
My 1991 Honda motorcycle does this too. I can promise you that it has no smart features. It doesn’t even have a fuel pump. Lead acid batteries just don’t have long shelf lives.
The N53 is even better, BMW phased out the N52 in favor of it, except in developing economies with subpar fuel standards.
while this looks useful it certainly shows what they are most concerned about which is making money off their cloud service.
I don’t think they have much interest in being a Node alternative anymore.
crontab is just the schedule, there's a bunch of job handling missing. systemd timers get a bit closer and are worth learning for those that still touch actual Linux machines.
Before cars it was highway robbers. Being in between places is always a higher risk location and roads are the guaranteed routes someone will go down. Cars make it safer for the people in them, the same way a stagecoach protected people up to a point.
What is the bias?
It's just a fact, can't argue with it.
Ah well, then.
Super duper impressed. I've run llamafile-server-0.1-llava-v1.5-7b-q4 against the tests I need to pass for use in a project, and this passes them all, vision queries too. This is gonna change quite a bit, strategy-wise for quite a few people.
> It's mildly offensive that u10000 is a builtin type but vec2f is not

u10000 exists only because we want u3, u7, and u13 as builtin types.

u3, u7, and u13 are useful for embedded and systems programming.
Are these charts simply displaying the gradual decline in children-under-13 walking and riding bicycles?
`ollama pull <modelname>` has worked for me, and then I can try out new models and updated the binary trivially.
What evidentiary standard would that “proof” have to meet to satisfy you? Is there one? If not then you’re just expressing a political belief and not a scientific one.
Once you start paying the dane geld you never get rid of the dane. And just bowing your head with the zeitgeist is a form of danegeld.

And a lot of American corporations are captured by the professional activist blackmailers. That is definitely the right attitude if you can afford it.
That doesn't make sense. Facebook was Facebook (the company)'s property. Now it's Meta's. Twitter (the product and company) were both renamed.
I hate to admit it, but Kia got this right.

I own 3 Kia’s and they all have various problems, including really big problems, but this is an area they got right. On my daily driver, the Kia Niro, it has a battery button that instantly charges the 12v from the HEV battery. I’ve only needed it once, when I left a light on camping, but it was like magic.
> Furthermore, these R8g instances provide up to three times more vCPUs and memory than Graviton 3-based R7g instances.

So, uh, 75% more bandwidth but 200% more cores is a net reduction in available bandwidth per core. If you rented 32 cores of a server before, you got a certain amount of bandwidth. If you now rent the same 32 cores, you'll have about half the realized bandwidth?
By "themselves" do you mean Elon Musk? I wasn't under the impression that Tesla was much of a collaborative environment. Musk bans Kanban and Toyota Production System principles after all.
They really should. It's a good way not to die. Just like many of the motorcyclists that die should have worn helmets, not gone above the speed limit, and not drank alcohol.
Those 3 things account for something like 60% of motorcycle deaths.

Edit:
The point is, people contribute heavily to their deaths on motorcycles. And I assume on foot too. Wearing ear phones? Chance of death through the roof. Talking on the phone? Way more dangerous. Out at night walking after a drink or two? Better watch out. Don't look both ways, twice? You're in trouble.
Yes, with a patch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#macOS

from https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/MODELS.ht...

I thought my 2015 MBP wasn't able to upgrade. Good to know it's still supported.
Not everyone involved. Not for people outside the car. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deat...
This sounds very implausible. Is there like a proof of concept I missed?
Yeah - which is to say that that competitors and other competitors aren't actually going to create a CUDA replacement any time soon. And, correct me if I'm wrong, it would be quite possible to create such a thing - AMD had a system which had a tool to do conversion a while back but I recall them not supporting it seriously.

The problem is that when a company has done serious capital investment to advance a market, anyone who invested equivalently wouldn't reap the same rewards - competition would just eat away each company's profits so no one will challenge that.
First of all, this is a surprisingly nice font. Modern, clean, it has personality but it's legibile. Well done!

It has some similarities to Product Sans that Google has been rolling out in its interfaces [1] -- suggesting Futura [2], but Google's version is clunky and backwards-looking, while Reddit Sans is far more elegant and up-to-date.

I do wonder if they're going to use it for the body text of conversation threads though? Because it still feels more like a display typeface than body text, with its highly geometric styling. It looks great in the tag bubbles they show, and it'll be superb for headlines and things, but I'm not sure I'd want to read comments in it -- but their blog post suggests that's what it's for.

Using this geometric styling is what Google's done with all of its Workspace interface now (Gmail, Docs, etc.) and I think it's been a big mistake. Futura has always been best as a display font, not for body text, and I don't understand why Google has moved from Roboto to Product Sans for things like menus or e-mail subject lines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Sans

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futura_(typeface)
go basically has exceptions with panic & recover. and it’s perfectly simple to add stack traces to errors, should you want it.
TSMC does have access to ASML EUV litography machines, though.
The difficult part isn't designing a means of switching from one battery pack to another, it's convincing regulators that took decades to be convinced by things like two engines being enough redundancy that a mid-flight power source change is a good idea
> That the speed up was bought by throwing RAG into the mix.

sorry what? TFA does not mention RAG at all. are you reading your own biases into this or did i miss something
The tool looks nice. Is it really free?
The bible. Have you heard the good word of Jesus Christ?

[It's not sentient by itself but it's a self-replicating memeplex that activates in a "mind"]
> They don't, though. If you try to allocate too much VRAM it will either hard fail or everything suddenly runs like garbage due to the driver constantly swapping it / using shared memory.

What I don't understand is why it can't just check your VRAM and allocate by default. The allocation is not that dynamic AFAIK - when I run models it all happens basically upfront when the model loads. ollama even prints out how much VRAM it's allocating for model + context for each layer. But I still have to tune the layers manually, and any time I change my context size I have to retune.
It's not just HN.

You'd probably enjoy this meme:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thing-japan

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2554429-thing-japan
This is how many things unfortunately "work". The success comes from other things in spite of the business-selfish decisions.

Who would want their TV to spy on them? Who would want an app with nag after nag after nag? businesses want it.
"Cars make traveling safer than before, so we shouldn't care about improving automotive safety" is such a weird take.
LH2 may, in fact, be low-carbon fuel, depending of course on how it was produced.

An LH2-powered aircraft would use exactly the electric turbines that Rolls-Royce just cancelled work on.

Once LH2-powered aircraft enter any given market, kerosene-powered craft would be wholly unable to compete. But it will take a long time to build up infrastructure for it. Ultimately, international airports will electrolyse their own LH2 using power delivered from regional solar and wind farms, but don't expect to see much of it before 2050.
That's why I like that the Nissan Cube is a thing, though I wouldn't buy one, I like that it's not symmetrical and that they tried something different.
Compared to the cost of a mistake of a potentially hallucinating robot? “The LLM was wrong” will not fix a breach of contract or similar legal mistake. The tools make an excellent job aid like an IDE assistant, but human review is still mandatory.
At the very least, NASA couldn't find any cause in software: https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-department-t...
I've thought a lot about this as well, and I'm convinced it's a really great way forward assuming the model can have some inference of the search space of the queries that it's going to run.

It's too easy to fall into infinite loops for something with only a naïve understanding of the questions.
And even worse than that, what's happening in women's prisons. It couldn't be more obvious that this is rooted in male entitlement and dominance, yet somehow the oppressor gets painted as the oppressed and vice versa.
The Japanese obsession with handwritten resumes and faxes come to mind.
They let you stay in the car? That surprises me. Do they take the keys?

No way I would work on a car with a random member of the public behind the wheel.
I'm finding that the limiting factor is the catalytic converter. They just seem to wear out around ~200k miles. Replacement is about $4000 and California has a scheme offers $1000 to scrap it so at that point it is usually more economical to replace it with another ~10 year old car.
Straight up have engineers I work with on the regular who don't know how to use a Linux distro. The concept of a VPS or SSH'ing into something, not even a prod env, is seemingly terrifying to people.
Catch-up to what? EVs are still a bad idea for the majority of the world.

They are not cleaner (until at least about 100K miles), cheaper, faster to refuel, or have the same range. That’s not counting the lack of meaningful global infrastructure to support them.

Maybe things will change by 2050 or so. For now, EVs are the biggest grift of our time.
Oh, "painful" is to work under the sun. Installing a program in a computer is far away from painful.
llamafile runs on all Linux distros since ~2009. It doesn't have any dependencies. It'd probably even run as the init process too (if you assimilate it). The only thing it needs is the Linux 2.6.18+ kernel application binary interface. If you have an SELinux policy, then you may need to tune things, and on some distros you might have to install APE Loader for binfmt_misc, but that's about it. See the Gotchas in the README. Also goes without saying that llamafile runs on WIN32 too, if that's the world you're most comfortable with. It even runs on BSD distros and MacOS. All in a single file.
...and the proposed solution is to go about it by listing properties/behaviors/etc rather than agreeing on a set of names and hoping for the best.
There are some buttons. Perhaps not as many as you would like but it's not a single touchscreen.
I'd guess that these are probably going to be one of the safest things to drive. It's bigger and heavier than most things on the road, which improves your odds if they do it right.
This seems to line up with the rest of Tesla stuff - there are a few physical interaction points on the steering wheel (which work surprisingly well) and the rest is 100% glass screen. Its enough for the driver to do their normal tasks, but anything extra (e.g. changing AC) requires touching the central screen.
Do any of the (soon-to-be) available non-metal offers support nested virt?
I wonder how much the demand for this vehicle has changed since it was first announced.

I was definitely on the bandwagon from this thing from the first time I saw it. Four years of Elon's dumb antics and I now absolutely will not spend a dime at any company he's associated with.
Any ideas for how to redesign these? The thought is compelling.

I’m thinking about it and even with EVs you’d still want four wheels, want to put the battery flat on the bottom for various reasons. So the base seems like it’s four wheels with a flat platform.

Building space for 1-6 people on top thought and I seem to arrive at the same designs that already exist. Thoughts?
haha good find!
I thought it was worth pointing out since so many of the comments were from people with older cars that were still running well!
what I hate is that stalks, even overloaded with too many functions, were in a specific place you could reach for and activate.

the steering wheel buttons move depending on which way you are steering.

maybe not a big deal when the radio volume is wrong when backing up.

Critical when you need to use the horn when backing out of a parking space.
I’m sure folks knew it came in rolled form, but aren’t SpaceX and Tesla two separate companies?
Presumably so you don’t need to write a code generator for every language you support.
This factoid about motorcycles is a complete non sequitur. It's as if someone forgot what they were talking about in the middle of making their point.
yep, this is why i would stay far away for now, it's not NEARLY production ready

sure you can build and deploy something simply. the pain is felt when you try and actually use it on a real production app on a bigger codebase in a team. exactly as you wrote. the non-obvious but complete productivity-killing rough edges
Great answer! For anyone wondering, NCTR is non-cooperative target recognition.

> If the aircraft is not responding at all to transponder interrogations you can assume it's hostile and presently attacking you or the pilot is forgetful and didn't flip the switch (choose wisely).

Unless the transponder is bent, M4 is badly updated for some reason, etc. etc. Better do a RAYGUN call or ask AEW&E to declare.
how so? Details are horrible. Gaps and misalignments everywhere
One year ago during an online meeting, a coworker from another team compromised with our client on a set date for a solution. The deadline is reached a week later, and no updates are available on the progress.

I engage my colleague with an initial friendly tone via Teams, full of my characteristic smiley emojis. My messages are seen, however ignored.

Several hours later, I notice that my colleague is joining a non-priority, non-mandatory meeting. I send a new message, stating that I am aware of his presence on the meeting. I beg for any feedback, as by now my inbox has 2 frustrated emails from our client. My words are conveying desperation, as I only intend to obtain any significant status update.

My colleague replies that his agenda is none of my business, then proceeds to report my "invasive" approach to my manager.

Our client got understandably upset, as we missed the deadline. We later lost the contract that month.

I still do not go along with this coworker, as earlier this month we have had another disagreement, which, I am afraid, has only worsened the relationship, maybe up to an unsalvageable state.

This article does not seem to have suitable advice for my scenario, as I have no interest in working with unresponsive and irresponsible individuals. I do wish the article could provide more insights on how to deal with lack of ownership as well.
You’re off by about 20 years - it was the 1920s when car manufacturers were able to get legislation restricting public streets to their customers[1] - but also this ignores the magnitude: yes, cars have always been a public health hazard but the manufacturers reversed a multi-decade safety improvement trend a decade or two back because it boosted their profits, and that happened only in the United States. If our roads were as safe as Germany’s, while still not absolutely safe there would be an annual death toll reduction in the tens of thousands and 1-2 orders of magnitude more for series injuries. That’s huge even if it’s not perfect.

1. https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
Right... also, the shadows on the mountains don't make sense if the sun is sitting behind the dinosaur (never mind that the sun is much too big, as you said, artistic effect). But as AI-generated images go, this is actually one of the better ones...
Looks dangerous for other cars on the road in Texas.
This pretty much lines up with my bias (OK not Mini or Porsche). I still don't hold consumer reports in high regard though.
I think the confusion comes from people not having a good understanding of what an interpreted programming language does, and what actual portion of time is spent in high versus low level code. I've always assumed that most of my programs amount to a bit of glue thrown in between system calls.

Also, when we talk about "faster" and "slower," it's not clear the order of magnitude.

Maybe an analysis of actual code execution would shed more light than a simplistic explanation that the Python interpreter is written in C. I don't think the BASIC interpreter in my first computer was written in BASIC.
.woff2 file sizes of >50kb each doesn't rock me off my chair though.
In the US, this is really common. There a few big chains, like Jiffy Lube and Valvoline, but also a lot of local places. Just look for "drive thru oil change" on Google Maps
What big problems have you had? I’m considering a Niro phev.