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cbo100··on DeepSeek-R1
I get the right answer on the 8B model too.

It could be the quantized version failing?

cbo100··on BYD EV teardown in Japan reveals secrets to its affordability
The Chinese made cars meet the same safety standards as US and EU made cars (at least the ones sold outside of China do).

I thought GP was talking more about the safety standards for workers in the factories - which do cost more to meet.

cbo100··on Toyota CEO: "Our ammonia engine is the end of EV's" [video]
No mention of EVs in that article, but even if there were, it's not like car fires are a new thing.

Maybe better phrasing would be "not actually the new problem it is made out to be"?

1,400 cars burn, not an EV in sight: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-k-parking-garage-fire-destroy...

and it seems fires at airport car parks are surprisingly common...

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manches...

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manches...

cbo100··on Ask HN: Possible to go/live underground to cool off?
It's very geology dependent, but they do this in Coober Pedy, a town in Australia where underground building is common for cooling reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coober_Pedy

I don't think it's something we will transition to in general "for survival" though. Building regulations should just catch up and enforce appropriate insulation levels and building methods for the given environments.

cbo100··on The OpenTF Manifesto
> have contender products they can choose to vigorously fund tomorrow.

Then why didn’t they “choose” to fund hashicorp yesterday and avoid this?

As usual in OSS-goes-private events these all just sound like “keep building our critical infrastructure tool for free or we will go elsewhere”.

What is hashicorp or any other company in their position to do?

This is not sustainable.

cbo100··on Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit
Yep, as a relatively recent (2.5 years ago) convert from HP to Brother because HP was pulling all this crap with with 3rd party toner cartridges.

The Brother has proved to be just as bad, and in some ways even worse.

Once it decides the (genuine) toner must be empty it basically refuses to print without some complex reset procedures. At least the HP would just happily print faded pages all day long.

cbo100··on Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts
> Looking at Reddit's new API pricing, 100 calls per day per average user would cost $0.72 / month

The problem I think they will run into is that this 100 calls per day average is across all users, even those who don't use it that much.

Once you intersect that with the users who care enough and are willing to pay $2+ per month the average calls per user will blow out.

You pretty much have to be a heavy user in order to justify spending money on it.

And the Relay dev even points that out:

> An example is that a subscription could act as a filter where mostly high-rate users convert.

cbo100··on Meta's Reality Labs lost $3.99B last year, bringing total losses to $30B
I still use my original rift for sim racing. It's brilliant, and much more convenient than trying to setup 3 or 4 monitors instead.

I have no interest in a metaverse or social vr activities.

On its own, with consistent simple hardware improvements the CV1 would have been a decently profitable business by most other companies' standards and done well enough to keep going.

Facebook/SV trying to turn VR into something it's not ready to be, and that nobody is particularly interested in, in the hope of turning it into a mega multi billion dollar venture worthy of them is what has made it no fun and is just wasted money.

cbo100··on SpaceX based 4G/5G coverage coming to New Zealand
2-4mbps is better than 0 even if it is divided by all users in that area.

Especially considering that in a lot of areas this will open up coverage to, you could be the only user relying on it anyway.

cbo100··on Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes
> Is it really a major burden to accept cash?

It means somebody has to go to the bank each day to drop off the cash and collect change.

So it's inconvenient, and an unnecessary security risk to whichever staff member is required to do that.

Compared to not accepting cash and not having to deal with any of that, then yes it's a major burden.

cbo100··on IRS Free File: Do Your Taxes for Free
Same in Australia, well except our refund usually takes around a week.

And it gets better every year too. More and more data automatically pre-filled. More and more of the form intelligently hidden unless you need it.

And yet every year I’m blown away by these stories from the US about all the hoops they need to jump through just to submit a simple tax return.

cbo100··on U.S. judge rules Apple Watch infringed Masimo's pulse oximeter patent
I've found the watch to be within a percent or two of both store bought and hospital based "finger tip" meters.

You get the occasional outliers from a bad reading but in general that's how I've experienced, and I've had nurses and doctors say that they are "good enough".

And yeah in my experience, anything less than 90-93% in a hospital and they will have you on high flow oxygen pretty quick. So 85% as a single bad reading is fine, but a sustained 85% on a watch means you probably want to head to a medical facility.

cbo100··on The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on
Yeah I tried that for ages. Was never seamless enough to get the whole family on board easily.

Especially across multiple users.

cbo100··on The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on
> but it still feels like a net improvement to my overall online security.

This is what I’m at on it too. Without cloud syncing convenience wins and we end up using simple passwords over and over again.

With cloud syncing I believe we are much more secure than we would otherwise be.

cbo100··on France fines Microsoft €60M for imposing advertising cookies
Probably not strictly by the letter of law.

But practically, when they take up a good 2/3 of the screen and are not dismissible without making a choice then they do.

cbo100··on MDN converted to Markdown
The autorest project uses this actually.

It works by embedding yaml code blocks into a markdown file.

It’s actually not completely awful and has proven somewhat useful to have a configuration clearly documented within the config.

https://github.com/Azure/autorest/blob/main/docs/generate/re...

cbo100··on VESA Releases DisplayPort 2.1 Spec
VirtualLink on the NV 20xx series was almost there on this.

A USB-C socket on the card and it can host audio/video/usb.

Skipped from 30xx onwards, and I'm not sure of the maximum video resolution, but I use an Apple USB-C to HDMI/USB dongle in mine to connect a rift - I don't think there is any reason it couldn't be a monitor on the other end of the USB-C cable.

cbo100··on EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
You could just take the SIM card out and never connect it to wifi.

Things like navigation can be done on-board (proven when in zero connectivity area), and playing MP3s from a USB can replace spotify.

No idea what it might start complaining about long term though when it can't talk to the backend for extended periods.

cbo100··on 9,000-pound electric Hummer shows we can’t ignore efficiency of EVs
I imagine most of the longevity research is actually being done for the stationary battery market.

The fact it carries over to vehicles is just a bonus.

Besides the salvage value of a battery pack would be huge, so I suspect a battery would be about the last piece of a car to end up on the scrap heap.

cbo100··on 9,000-pound electric Hummer shows we can’t ignore efficiency of EVs
Most EV manufacturers are offering around 8 year/160,000-200,000km warranties on the batteries.

So not 200,000miles. But definitely covering the average usage pattern.

And not all will last that long, but the majority will. And potentially the worst case is just degradation - I.e. 200km range instead of 400km range, so still quite useful for a variety of use cases even outside of cars.

cbo100··on Ask HN: Has your total compensation drastically changed with the stock downturn?
Isn't that the gamble of choosing a position where such a large proportion of your income is based on a volatile stock price?

If you want protection from the company on the downside would you accept the company setting a maximum on the upside?

cbo100··on Mygov is a ‘huge disappointment,’ key architect despairs
Are you meaning business taxes?

Personal tax is via mygov which is SMS 2FA.

Business tax (which I thankfully haven't had to do for a while) has always been "difficult", it was an awful Java applet for a while there.

Edit: I think I realise now my mistake, the new beta/govid looks to be following that path. So iOS/Android only. Old IDs still work for the moment though.

cbo100··on Actual is going open-source
Or is it concerning that nobody else is raising prices?

We are literally commenting on an article about a similar business that is shutting down due to being unsustainable without price rises.

I was on grandfathered YNAB pricing. The increase isn’t great, but at least I know they are working to make their business sustainable.

Plex has a similar problem, I’m on a grandfathered lifetime license, but without the ongoing revenue they are really struggling to the point the product is now a mess of add-ons and I don’t even use it anymore.

cbo100··on Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs
Find them yourself by RTFM maybe?

Tesla puts all the info you need in the owners manual, just like every other manufacturer with automated systems on their cars.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-8EA7EF1...

There are dozens of warnings throughout the manual explaining limitations and cautions around using the systems.

Every other car I've owned with the same or similar systems has the same warnings littered throughout the manual.

cbo100··on Tell HN: Tesla rear-ended me on autopilot, no one will investigate
Doesn't this indicate that she was likely "panic braking" on the accelerator?

This would override AEB / TACC on any vehicle I own, radar or not.

cbo100··on Hertz orders 100k Teslas
As far as I can tell, from the somewhat minimal GUI Tesla gives you, and the general feeling while driving...

You can "coast" with regen on, you just need to balance the accelerator at the point where you aren't adding power, but the car isn't taking power away.

You won't see any green or black on the power usage bar.

Coming down long mountain roads, it's somewhat easier than coasting in an ICE and having to continually shift down gears or ride the brakes (which is obviously bad).

cbo100··on BYD has reportedly received 10 GWh of orders from Tesla for LFP batteries
The CATL LFP are prismatic.

https://insideevs.com/news/542064/tesla-model3-lfp-battery-p...

cbo100··on EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
That’s beside the point. (And people said the same about headphone jacks, but look at them now)

Should a government be able to dictate the feature set of a class of devices?

cbo100··on EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all phones
So due to the EU we will never have a port less phone of any brand?

That doesn’t sound right either.

cbo100··on A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database
Yep. This exact interaction between UFW and Docker had me stumped for a while too.

Totally unexpected outcome.

Luckily I discovered it in testing, so didn't make it to production. But annoying that those issues still remain for so long.

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