skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are still in the motor cars looking like horse drawn carriages without the horses phase.

Electric cars don't need ICE engine layouts. It will take a few years until the designers realise they can have cars looking much different as they have more flexibility.

I also have hope this truck on the roads will get manufacturers doing something different. Concept cars at car shows should be where we should look first.
The ML field is doing work in that area: https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors
It should be safer than a normal truck to pedestrians, since it doesn't have a broad front. With a car, the most common scenario is that car hits your legs and then you bounce on the hood. IOW, you don't get the full kinetic energy all at once. With a truck your body takes the full hit and you're more likely to fall under the tires.

With a lower, sharper front, the Cybertruck should behave more like a car than a full size truck.

But we really don't know yet. It's a real failure of regulators that we it's not a standard part of testing and that their aren't good standards in this area.

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/vehicles-with-higher-more-v...
How many years experience and education? What is your skill set?
Citation needed. It’s expected to be around 7k lbs, over 8k would put it in the hummer EV territory.
The premise here is you don't like someone. Why are you trying to become friends with someone you don't like?
llamafile will run any compatible model you want. For example, if you download the LLaVA llamafile, you can still pass `-m wizardcoder.gguf` to override the default weights.
Unplug the USB chargers first.
French cars not included, i would say Renault is pretty reliable as well
> Anyone seriously trying to claim they chose to be aggressive rather than silent out of laziness is involved in what's known as a post-hoc rationalization.

Thankfully that wasn't my claim, so good luck with your strawman!

You've failed to make your point. Your down's syndrome paragraph... I cannot even begin to decide whether it's offensive, or stupid, or both.

You've failed to say anything besides doubling down on your initial unsupported assertion, even after I graciously provided you with an "out".

And so I too must bid you adieu.
People significantly underestimate how much FAANG pays, especially for very experienced developers.
Anecdata.

But as a long time BMW fan I too feel the cars have really taken a nosedive in just about every metric. Reliability, design, quality, you name it.

Very surprised to also see Mini as high as it is.
This looks a lot more like a lock screen than a screensaver. A screensaver could be implemented using this API, but it would replace the DE-native lock screen and need to implement everything it used to do.
any further real experience so to prove it, that's e.g. some Linux tools that can trace/benchmark for this so as to prove it?
or that flat surfaces aren't very strong, require more material to be rigid and generally have bad aerodynamics.
I have only been using NextCloud personally with a single user but every instance I set up, there are basic problems like apps freezing, (and GH issue seems to have stalled some 6 months or so ago) and non polished interface really puts me off but since there aren't a better alternative, I use it.

Seafile is a close call if it gets more attention to remove rough edges and a bit more feature but interface looks more polished.
This brings back a lot of fond memories. The Acorn BBC B was my first computer. We even had the speech ROM which felt like sci-fi. Those hours we spent waiting for the games to load via cassette. The games we had first were Kingdom?? and Meteors, and some text game where you started off in a dark room. Later I got Elite for my birthday and we played it solidly for over a whole year, every time we were allowed to play on it. Typing in the programs from magazines. Great memories.
That seems like the easiest part, flip the relays to disconnect the battery pack, evaluate remaining capacity and if the detachable pack is discharged by the expected amount and the onboard packs are full, then go ahead and jettison.
What’s the right modern analogy for that transition?

Fukushima?
I feel uncomfortable with it. Allowing a very small number of very large card processing networks to become gateways to virtually all commerce seems like a dangerous idea.

As I have begun to see "we are a cash-free business" signs proliferate, I have begun to carry and use more cash.
It is in the post!
Twice the weight of the Tesla model 3 which is 1800kg, it's pretty extreme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_3
Counter-Strike. It's like badminton for me. There's decent strategy and such but it boils down to speed, reflexes, and muscle memory/intuition. There's the newer shooters, but CS gets the essence just about right for me.

I used to play FIFA competitively and did quite well. A friend went full pro. But at the higher levels, it's all exploits; you know what ranges are a balance between accuracy and non-performing goalkeepers, you know the unblockable passes.

I played a beat em up online where someone was cheesing through by attacking, then interrupting the attack animations to attack again.

CS uses nearly the same engine year after year and it's been tested through by so many competitive gamers that I'd trust it to work well after 10000 hours of experience.
Your link lists 6 trucks that are heavier than the 6,670 Ibs two motor version of the cybertruck.
Even if you usually run in pairs, if your gunboat is engaging a foreign hostile, and only one fighter has a pilot immediately available, are you going to wait for a second pilot or just send what you have?
I think EVs are having a hangover moment and Toyota was in the right all along.

Sure, you can make an EV with 300 mile range that will only be tapped once or twice a year. Or you can use the same amount of lithium and make 10x as many PHEV vehicles with 30 miles of range that gets tapped every day.

I understand the goal is to electrify everything eventually, but given that the current production bottleneck is batteries, making the most efficient use of the batteries we do make seems smart.
Sure, I get that. The key from my limited experience is to be open to work-adjacent outings. Going out to lunch, participating in some company event, or simply making the occasional comment in some casual chat channel. The "voice" won't be completely unmasked, but you start to see more points to jump into other than what deadlines are coming or ideas for the next feature.

I'll admit it's usually easier (or harder) for my industry to do this. I work in games, many people like and play games Obvious icebreaker: what kind of games do you play? Granted, games are super varied and it can lead nowhere if you play MMOs and the recipient plays FPSs, but it's more than what most can try to start out with. It also means there's a lot more non-devs on the floor to talk with too if you don't care to breath tech in and out of work.

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I do also need to echo the other reply that there are also, simply more and more people who aren't willing to try to socialize at work. You can't do much about that so don't spend your time talking to a wall if you can identify one.
I would suggest a combination of pair-programming, coding dojos and code reviews with NO force to participate.

1. pair programming

Pair programming, if done correctly, encourages you to communicate with your partner. If he is shy, he won't be to excited about it, so I would start giving him the possibility to attend a pair-programming session of two other developers working at a pretty trivial task.

2. coding dojos

Participating a coding dojo and solving a problem in groups of 2 or 3 devs can support you not being shy about presenting your solution. A fizz-buzz unit testing dojo maybe would be too trivial, but I think adventofcode[1] may provide some interesting problems that have nothing to do with your daily tasks.

3. Code reviews

Weekly 45 minute code reviews build up a regular practise and knowlege transfer. My recommendation would be that you start by having a conversation about a piece of code, that everybody likes to get into a positive mood. Presenting something that you are proud of can be a problem but discussing a problem about an existing solition is often a common ground.

[1]: https://adventofcode.com/
Jiffy Lube had 1,000 locations in the U.S. in 1989. According to my experience in the 1990s (limited mostly to the Midwest), quick oil change shops were ubiquitous even in small towns.
Toyota is amazing for making reliable cars but writing truly shitty code. IIRC, a lawsuit a few years ago about Toyota's faulty brake system revealed that Toyota engineers cramped tens of thousands of lines in a single file and the lines freely update hundreds of global variables. It's also interesting that Japanese companies follow ISO this and CMM that yet they develop slowly and produce shitty software services everywhere. On the other hand, they have amazing engineers who wrote amazing books about deep technical topics and optimize the hell out of esoteric mathematical software that is probably used by millions of people. Truly mysterious country
Everything on the 12V system essentially is powered from the traction battery (the big one that can power the motors), once the car is turned on.

In Toyota, at least, the traction battery is completely disconnected (via a relay) when the car is off. The 12V battery is needed to power anything on the 12V system up until the car starts-- that includes the car's computer, which is what (after doing all its self-checks and whatnot) activates that relay and connects the traction battery to everything else in the car.

The traction battery isn't always connected probably mostly for safety reasons (having 400-someodd volts energized across the whole car even when it doesn't need it isn't great), but that also keeps it from getting excessively drained if something in the car malfunctions. It's pretty cheap to replace a 12V lead-acid battery if it's overdischarged after you left the lights on... the big hybrid battery, not so much.
Basado: A systems programming language with theoretical comp. sci. concepts
Marshall Fraternity Drug Ring
“While only 2% of America’s population is involved in fraternities, 80% of Fortune 500 executives, 76% of US senators and congressmen, 85% of supreme court justices, and all but two presidents since 1825 have been fraternity men.”

In that vein, the former fraternity members Marshall interviewed for Among the Bros said their experience selling drugs in college was good prep for their careers: “They’d say things like, ‘I learned supply chain economics, salesmanship, delegation and marketing.’
Because they want to completely disconnected the big battery when not in use to prevent phantom drain, and you need a little power to run passive systems that need to be on still (like remote keys etc).

Some EVs like Tesla now use a separate lithium ion 12v battery that should last forever, instead of a lead acid 12v battery with a limited life span.
I would suggest exercising caution in using that article as a guide post. The car the author is inspecting is literally the model Tesla chose to put on the showroom floor in front of customers and the general public. I'm sure they ensured it had no major flaws.
It also has to be much thicker, or needs to be bonded to a backing frame for rigidity.
I understand the nostalgia for those rock solid steel bumpered behemoths people used to drive. Knocking your bumper on the curb and shelling out a few grand for some plastic sucks. But think just for a moment about how the physics of that equation work out. There's 3 tons of rolling steel coming to a stop, and something's gotta give. It's either the car, or you.

Best of luck to anyone who drives ones of these. I'll be interested to see the NHTSA results.
Thanks for the tip! Any chance this would run on a 2011 MacBook?
I’ve never seen a shop that will let anyone stay in the vehicle while it was being worked on, even for something so simple as an oil change. Where did you find one?
> All models, cruise control or something will sometimes suddenly slam the brakes on wide open road, so you need to keep good distance

You saw this on all models, on the road and/or in your neighborhood? (I mean surely not, but I'm curious to know how you came to this conclusion.)
you joke now (because oil is dirt dirt cheap right now) but just wait a few decades. I've listened to some of the most knowledgable people in the oil industry (Art Berman and others on Nate Hagens podcast) discuss Oil. And it looks like Hubbard's curve at least on a worldwide basis is true and oil supply is only going to go down in the long term. The peak is much much closer than most people expect. The world is so much more dependent on oil than it realizes and the impacts will be far more profound than most economists currently realize.
Apple Security will be excited to reach out to you to find out where you got a copy of macOS 15.6 :)

I'm guessing this should be 13.6?
Long time miab user here, recently switched to MailCow to make my host a run docker stack only (no more vms). Also, mail search on non email body finally is fast. Much love for MIAB still though.

Self-Hosting email isn't that hard as it used to be (as long as you don't have to deliver to MS)
It does not weigh 8000 to 10000 pounds. It is listed between 6500 and 7000.
Switching to part-time, a role maintaing some boring tech system which is too important to be shut down. Then remaining time spent on tech hobbies and family activities.
I still have the barf-bag.

Also jwz is still a salty old man.
https://vadosware.io/post/its-never-been-easier-or-harder-to...
No. Or, at least, not easily. The high voltage battery isn't generally connected until "the computers are happy" with the state of things, for various hybrids/EVs/etc.

There's also a legal requirement that "marker lights and such" still work (presumably, also power locks and such) after a prime mover failure. Basically, if the engine quits, you should still be able to signal, get over, turn your 4-ways on, etc.

The easiest solution is to just put a lead acid 12V battery in the car for that. Lithium, in particular, is a problem below freezing because you can't safely charge it, whereas lead doesn't have that problem.
thanks, egregious error I made in haste =)
It's something you learn to optimize after a few passes, I got to the point where I made it through the game in 2-3 hours.
Yes, it's the difference in pressure/heat that is exploited, as Sadi Carnot noted (by analogising the steam engine to a water-wheel exploiting a fall of water, treating it as a "fall of heat")
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Not sure if you're implying that it's easy or hard to be a NYer writer
Cool! Looking through this made me curious - how do people tend to translate between languages? For example, do people tend to know English and then translate it to that language? Or do people find a good translation they know to reference for another language? Or maybe translate into an intermediate language that's closer to a target language, then translate to the target language? I've never really heard about what people's processes tend to be, and I only know English. So I don't have a clue!
NDC Techtown Keynote: Safety and Security: The Future of C and C++
Toxic people are more likely to seek positions in power. They are also more likely to keep and gain them, because they have less issues to harm competitors (for example by intentional gossip) and are more likely to say pleasing lies.
It’s thanks to their culture and mentality. You cannot replicate that.
It is the single biggest step backwards in automotive safety in the last ten years.

https://www.travelers.com/resources/auto/safe-driving/how-cr...
You could also change you code so that when it runs, it checks as early as possible if you have a file with a well known name (say ~/.freechat.run) and then switches to reading from it instead for the assets than can change.

You could have multiple updates my using say iso time and doing a sort (so that ~/.freechat.run.20231127120000 would be overriden by ~/.freechat.run.20231129160000 without making the user delete anything)
Tell everyone you know to stop worrying about NameDrop already
I'm my case I found a company where almost everyone in including the C-suite is almost entirely remote and is spread everywhere. I'd be very cautious about taking a job where being remote isn't the norm because it makes it a lot of extra effort to avoid being sidelined. In that case I might prefer going in.
I suspect it is caused by the numerous models with a faulty engine, like my 2010 Forester.
Sort of... subscription software, not the same thing... something I actively avoid.

Services are fine, like BackBlaze for backups, or 1and1 for domain/mail hosting
> "Loongson however will have that problem, as software is either targeting x86 or ARM."

This is one (of many) advantages of open source software. If you have access to the source, you can build it on a ridiculously wide range of hardware. I've been downright shocked over the years at some of the strange things people have run actually useful (and entertaining) open source software on. Doom runs pretty much everywhere just for one example. ;)
A 2024 Ford F-150 weights more.
I hope he is released very soon.

Also, thank you for sharing the https://www.geektime.co.il/ site, it seems it has original content and you can follow it translated in English.
Xscreensaver is both a lock-screen and a screensaver, so for jwz, that should be fine.

[edit]

It is missing what jwz calls the "blank" state (i.e. screensaver showing, but no password required to unlock).
Just one data point, someone I know sells cars and told me that the old Renault duster was based on a Nissan car but the new model is based on a Dacia car and it sucks.
Didn't you read your own link? Jobs sold that 43% in the 90s for $1.1 billion to keep Apple afloat at the time.

The reason that Apple doesn't pay much to ARM is because of the long term "architectural license" that Jobs negotiated in the 2000s well before it was clear that ARM would be the dominant powerhouse in mobile devices. At the time, Intel was pushing a low power version of their Atom chip, and Apple used that as leverage to get a deal from ARM.

That type of license meant that Apple was in full control over their implementation, meaning they don't rely on the rest of ARM's IP like other licensees do. It doesn't use any Cortex designs, for instance, or any thing else in the stack. This means Apple uses less of ARM tech than any other licensee while still remaining ARM compatible.
It has not been, as far as I'm aware. But King has prepared a proper reply for publication, which I expect will end up being published - if not in H&T then in some other journal.
> Today I got technical feedback on an assessment (making a gRPC server in Rust)

Did you interview at Helsing? Pretty sure that their test was something like this.
ConsumerReports just covers the American market, so in addition to Renault (which doesn't sell in the US [1]) it excludes all cars that the listed makes sell outside the US.

[1] https://www.hemmings.com/stories/renault-returning-to-us-mar...
> I love RELION and EMAN2 dearly, but, particularly RELION needs to throw a FTE at a UX designer. CryoSPARC is just so much easier to use, easier to manage, easier to onboard folks.

I've heard that the CCP-EM is working on a new front-end for RELION. It's doubtful that it would reach the same ease-of-use as cryoSPARC, but it might be a step in the right direction.

> You seem like you have quite a bit of experience - I'm curious what your background is?

I'm a freshly minted postdoc. I studied biochemistry and somehow spent about half of my PhD processing single-particle cryoEM data.
Apple have a lot less problems to contend with than China do.
Regex to the rescue!!!
when I try to do this (MBP M1 Max, Sonoma) I get 'killed' immediately
Laser beams are only one method of acceleration for the pellets, and not necessarily the most efficient option.
The USS Stark was attacked by an (Iraqi) Dassault Falcon 50, not by a fighter jet. Fighters operating solo is virtually unheard of, especially in a live offensive posture.
You don't run your dev tools on the production boxes.

And you don't run your apps directly on the production boxes either these days.

There is just no reason to endure the constant pain of outdated dev environments.

Of course that doesn't mean that you can't develop against a stable environment, in case you plan to deploy directly onto such thing. That's usually independent of your tooling. You just need to look for the right versions of your deps (which is trivial within some "container"; which runs of course on your up to date dev box).
I saw a talk about this recently at roomgpt.io. Maybe of help.
You just need to have a stray TXT file in your system, or even downloaded from internet that prompts the AI to hack your system. If your AI has Python sand box and that has vulnerabilities, you can be hacked by any web page or text file. And the AI would be able to study your computer and select the most juicy bits to send out. It would be like a sentient virus spread by simple text files (text bombs?).
Feel free to submit your GPTs to gipeties.com

I will try them out first though before adding them so if they don't work well they will not be added...
I am as old as the hills. How have I never heard this story before? Thank you.
I’m buying one because I was born too late to own a delorean.
Unix has gotten better while everything else got worse.

We no longer have dinosaurs like LISP-M or TOPS-10 for the Unix-haters to get rose-colored nostalgia for.

And Windows NT proved how terrible the alternative could be. The NT api and Powershell is basically the "Monkey's-Paw" version of what the authors wanted. Be careful what you wish for.
I accept all liability and my insurance is happy to accept my payments. If I don't pay attention and kill you it's my fault. Just like if I drink and drive.
> a large, fast filesystem with much higher aggregate bandwidth than a typical local storage device

that assumption gets wrong very fast with nvme storage, even before you add herding effects
weird, that's my favorite thing. I like old RoboCop movies though.
> The basics are seriously optimized for typical use cases, take a look at the source code for the dict type

Python is well micro-optimized, but the broader architecture of the language and especially the CPython implementation did not put much concern into performance, even for a dynamically typed scripting language. For example, in CPython values of built-in types are still allocated as regular objects and passed by reference; this is atrocious for performance and no amount of micro optimization will suffice to completely bridge the performance gap for tasks which stress this aspect of CPython. By contrast, primitive types in Lua (including PUC Lua, the reference, non-JIT implementation) and JavaScript are passed around internally as scalar values, and the languages were designed with this in mind.

Perl is similar to Python in this regard--the language constructs and type systems weren't designed for high primitive operation throughput. Rather, performance considerations were focused on higher level, functional tasks. For example, Perl string objects were designed to support fast concatenation and copy-on-write references, optimizations which pay huge dividends for the tasks for which Perl became popular. Perl can often seem ridiculously fast for naive string munging compared to even compiled languages, yet few people care to defend Perl as a performant language per se.
BMWs are actually pretty reliable these days. the b58 is very solid and used all across their lineup.

of course, they are still expensive to maintain.
There was a time when CR regularly rated Buick at the top of the charts. At that time, my mom and all her little old lady friends (I'm not using those adjectives lightly) had Buicks and literally used them to drive to Church on Sundays (and occasionally the grocery store, which was about five blocks away). The cars were terrible, but they were treated well.