skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You'd be hard pressed to find an object which most people own that has a more complicated UI than a car.

I dunno, just spitballing here but...a VCR? Heh...or a TV (remotes have lots of buttons!), or a computer perhaps.

> Steering wheel, pedals, buttons everywhere. Probably well over 100 separate features.

Of all the complicated machines humans tend to use on a daily basis, a car is probably the most intuitive of them all, and most familiar. The basic, most important functions of all cars are practically the same. I don't think you can seriously say a steering wheel and pedals are confusing to anyone, especially with automatic transmissions. The basic controls in cars are pretty well optimized for intuitive, and safe human usage.

As for "buttons everywhere", sure, they can take a little getting used to per car type but it's not rocket science, or even car science. Pretty sure most people can get a rental car and have the whole thing figured out in 5 minutes. Apple could try something novel or "different" but remember, cars have multiple physical buttons and knobs because the driver needs consistent and unambiguous access to whatever "setting" they want to change without significant distraction from paying attention to the road. God help us if we had to swipe through menus and thumb a flat screen to change the AC temp.

There's room for improvements sure, perhaps voice control for some functions (though that might get annoying with kids and idiot friend passengers), and I'd be curious to see Apple's novel take on a UI that employs physical controls (not sure the last time they did anything like that). If they do want to improve something, maybe start with working on a way to present wtf the orange indicator lights that randomly popup on the dashboard mean.

Of course I don't think Apple has much interest at this point in regular human driven cars. In a vehicle meant exclusively to be driven by computer, I guess all bets are off. But we're a long way from that. Technical concerns aside, as we could do this with planes much more easily than with cars, it will be a long time before people would be comfortable with such a situation, and for good reason.

So I think radical changes to basic driving functions, and touchscreen controls for auxiliary ones is I think a no-go as long as humans are allowed to drive (though I have no doubt there are already examples/experiments in such things out there).
What features are missing?
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Sorry, should've clarified. I was referring to installing Android apps, which is currently listed as “TBD” [0].

[0]: https://github.com/anbox/anbox#install-and-run-android-appli...
This is exactly my experience too! I've realized it many times and made many amazing things during each of those brief times, but then somehow I forget again and go back to the old habit of "patient perfectionism".

I've found that it especially comes from the knowledge of knowing how much work it'll take to undo something that's done the wrong way, and being afraid of that extra work and wanting to avoid it. But every time I've overcome it, it's been because I finally remember how very little time it'll take to do both the mostly-okay solution now and the better solution later, if I just stop worrying about it.
Here's an intro video [0] and here's the actual paper [1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxcKkhmqXP0

[1]: https://synrg.csl.illinois.edu/papers/mute-sigcomm18.pdf
Is it better to eat in the morning or night for humans?
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The packet loss was artificial to test resiliency.
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Tim Pychyl is my favorite procrastination researcher and this article is so good. It’s the most I’ve ever highlighted a Medium article.

https://betterhumans.coach.me/how-to-use-psychology-to-solve...

He calls it short term mood repair. Once you realize that, there are a lot of interesting ways to beat it.
A separate study showed a small increase in the effects associated with these windowed eating patterns if the majority of food was consume earlier, and meal size tapered off as the day went on. But the difference wasn't big enough to worry about it.
Deep Gradient Compression: Reducing the Bandwidth for Distributed Training
In Jony Ive's words, a robotaxi presents Apple's best opportunity to "Reinvent the mobility experience"

A couple years ago amid reports that project Titan was an gigantic, unfocused clusterfuck, there were rumours of a rift between project lead Steve Zadesky and Jony Ivy backed by a bunch of top engineers about whether to build a more conventional vehicle for private ownership or to work towards an autonomous mobility service, and that they were going in two opposing directions at once, before doing a reboot.
In mice.

Whose genes have been altered.

And who show no adherence to a circadian rhythm.

Not exactly relatable, is it?
Haha, I remember playing a rpg game where you had to kill this undead boss, it's kinda hard but it turns out if you cast heal on him it killed him in 1 hit.
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the video linked in the article brings back a lot of good memory of the touch and feel of DOOM's shotgun, it is by far the best weapon in all FPS games. ;)
Totally agree. I only use Postgres on my stuff now (MySQL in a pinch if there's legacy reasons). I got burned too many times by ORMs.

The other point is that the data is the most important part of the application in most cases. Understanding how the data fits together, how it's structured and stored, and how to make sure it doesn't corrupt, is one of the key tasks in creating a system. ORMs don't help with this, but SQL forces us to think about the data. Which is good. I can't count the number of bad architectural structures that seemed like a good idea at the time but that I've had to discard (thankfully in the end) because the database told me they wouldn't work.
There's lots of information here: https://talent.adrev.net/about
(spoiler alert) there is an undead boss in Final Fantasy 8 who is incredibly hard but can be killed using a "Phoenix down" (which is an item that revives dead players). As a kid, I got a real kick out of it.
Samsung doesn’t own the OS to the extent that Apple does.
Ford's market cap is just under $38B. IIRC, Apple has >$250B cash on hand. Moving that money around (across borders) might be a little bit of a pain, but it's certainly doable.
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Without wanting to sound too snarky, wasn't this already pretty well-established knowledge? [0]

Imho one of the more infamous and recent examples of human hubris. Who knows what we are downplaying right now, that might end up really messing us up in another couple of decades? Only time will tell.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Controversy_and...
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uhmm.. Staring into a book while listening to silence.. staring into a wall listening to music.. These are introspective journeys. You can’t expect everyone to be social in person from day 13.. Some ppl need time before they bloom socially. Social blooming is different for everyone.
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There's no Uber Eats in Buenos Aires yet though, and it would probably be a pretty dangerous endeavor given how violently taxi drivers have been reacting against Uber drivers. Any person on a bicycle or skates with an Uber logo on them would essentially become a moving target for some frenzied taxi driver to run over.
On a related topic, I would add that managing energy is often more important than managing time, especially if your line of work is fairly intense.
It would not be more signal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_interference

The goal of noise canceling is to fully use destructive wave interference to create a 0 amplitude "signal", which is no signal at all.
Knowing Romero he probably thought it was impossible
> The bottom left had things unprocessed ore, which have never made sense to ship.

China mines and ships bauxite from Fiji to China.

https://aluminiuminsider.com/bound-chinese-shores-fiji-ships...
Tarrant county (Fort Worth TX) is basically ground-zero for what I call the "McMansion White". I define them as:

A white, suburban dwelling American, typically married with kids, making about $33,000 per year per parent and spending every dime of it on housing, transport, food, clothes and entertainment. This person is not particularly securely employed and not particularly financially secure, thus harbors a great deal of resentment for people that don't have a similar lifestyle and consumption pattern.
California Lawmakers Pass Nation’s Toughest Net Neutrality Law
Interesting how this time restricted eating seems to differ from perspectives in the intermittent fasting community.

Intermittent Fasting folks tend to espouse avoiding caloric intake for long periods of time every day, but they're fine with black coffee/tea (since it doesn't trigger an insulin response). But here Dr. Panda seems to believe that even coffee would compromise the fasting window: https://youtu.be/iywhaz5z0qs?t=1h15m15s

There goes that 7am cup of coffee...
Microbiome sentience fiction
It's interesting that the blog needs to be high signal to noise and yet the insinuation there is that twitter does not..

I would personally agree that it is not.

I'm sure I'm _far_ from the only one who doesn't follow much of anything on twitter. And, I'm fairly confident that twitter posts rarely hit hacker news front page. I do, however, read various engineering blogs. Perhaps a different track can be setup for WIP and experiment posts the by the core team...
Terry, despite his achievements, was erratic and schizophrenic, which led to him posting a lot of racist rants. Qualities which I assume made him attractive to 4chan.
We actually have dozens of competing explanations for the crime rate decreases. Everyone and their uncle claims it's because of that thing they talked about all along!

Which is why it's important to look at actual data and try to keep an open mind. This stuff is complicated!
It's not just the politics, it legitimately changes your whole cost structure. If you spend ten billion dollars in R&D and then someone else comes out with something that is just better, you have a big problem.

You still need a hundred million units. The external supplier charges $200/unit. You paid ten billion dollars so you could manufacture your own at an incremental cost of $100/unit. Are you going to pay another twenty billion dollars (total of thirty) to buy all your units from them, even though your competitors are paying twenty in total? Or are you going to carry on manufacturing your own to contain costs, but then your competitors have a superior product? Either way it's a major competitive disadvantage.
Genuinely curious about what other people think about this, but why do people think it's an acceptable excuse for formerly mentally healthy people making insanely offensive comments after they start suffering from a mental health issue? I truly feel compassion for those going through mental health issues, but is it possible that the people who become offensive after becoming mentally ill always thought these things but just had a filter? Should we accept that?
If there are churches near you why not drive by one or two any random Sunday morning around 10:30 or 11:00. Do it a few weekends in a row and see if your impression changes.
Cars are already mostly software controlled drive by wire systems. Self driving cars will also be easily safer than meat bucket controlled ones. You should try roding a bicycle regularly. It's scary how bad people are at driving. Most shouldn't be on the road. It's like they think what they learned to pass their test isn't relevant one you have your license.
I'd think safety (or lack of the same) might be a factor too.
I'm not sure how well this translates to humans.
For practical interaction with the network this can be drastically reduced by using light sync, of course.
Thats the case for apple chargers. I have seen that macbook chargers fail after about 6 months use because they switched to a plastic that was less toxic. Conveniently the side of the cable that always fails is the one you can't remove from the brick so you have to buy a new $100 charger at least once a year.
There is literally one at the corner of the next block and parking is never an issue on Sunday. I walk my dog past a few and apart from being well maintained they seem pretty deserted. The exception is the one downtown Palo Alto where Harold and Maude was filmed, but mainly I see wedding parties coming out on Saturdays.
You clearly didn’t read the article.
Read the linked post within. Did you read my post? I explain this. Does no one read posts anymore?
Show HN: Splitit – A way to easily split receipts
Hi guys, I made Splitit (https://splitit.io) which an app I used to help me pay for lunch at work and fairly split the receipts.

I track where we went, who bought what, how much they used of each item, and how much they owe me.

It's not super complete, there are some glaring things missing, but I'd appreciate feedback on the idea and it's existing implementation.

Written using ReactJS talking to Django. The website and client side are hosted on Netlify (super amazing) and the API is hosted on Heroku.

Feel free to register and try it out!
Sci-Fi category: Sentient Microbiomes
I think for just this moment, I have the fiction category "Sentient Microbiome" pretty much to myself. I just became convinced that evolution will force our microbiomes to sentience to help us, their hosts, navigate this ever more toxic world. So I wrote six stories about how it might happen and self published, calling the thing GUT 4.0. It's my third sci-fi book and the first made up os short stories.
I pretend no expertise, just a slightly perverse imagination.
I love the react team for what they're doing here, but I have a feeling that the className -> class change would be a huge mistake. It makes it so that the ({ class }) => ... syntax would no longer work since it's a reserved keyword. A simple find and replace is not going to work and a pretty sophisticated code mod would be required, and even then it still means convenient practical uses like the syntax mentioned above would never be possible.

It also brings up significant package compatibility issues, if even a single package I use uses className I can't upgrade React, if a single one uses class I can't upgrade it. I'd rather not deal with a Python 2 -> 3 situation in React.
Wait really? That's extremely sad. I hope this is not true.
I think his evidence for being a honeypot is speculative at best. The more likely explanation is that it's simply a mediocre VPN service bolstered by fake reviews and marketing money. Snake oil is so much cheaper to produce than something actually nefarious.
He's obviously been deteriorating mentally for a long time. What do you think the proper response is, shaming him? He needed professional help—lots of it—and unfortunately, in the United States and many other places around the world, there are a lot of barriers that prevent people from getting that help so he ended up homeless and (possibly) dead.
Another major victory in mankind’s long quest to render mice immortal.
I'm not sure "incredibly expensive" is a thing that Apple needs to care about per se. They are the most profitable company in the world. They have so much cash on hand, coming in so quickly, that they are desperate to find ways to productively spend it. From that point of view, a possibly multi-decade-long "incredibly expensive" R&D process to try to tackle an impossible market (I'm thinking ultimately they would want to make the cars themselves, not just self-driving software) is not entirely ludicrous.

That said, I can't map this vision of Apple as a company with too much money to spend looking for new markets with the Apple that can't be bothered to update its desktop computers and who bailed on the wireless router market. If there's any company that has the resources and vision to create the components for an actually useful and productive Connected Home, I would have expected it to be Apple. And I would have thought home servers (in the form of a beefier Mac Mini, maybe) and no-nonsense self-meshing wifi routers (the products they already had) would have been the perfect platform to build on. But they really do seem to have hit some sort of practical limit on how many things they can do at once within their current corporate structure.
There was a Chinese decentralized exchange that (foolishly) decided they would include ERC20 coins for trading according to which had the most transfers from unique accounts to the exchange (I believe?). This incentivised individuals who wanted their coins included to distribute them among as many sock puppet accounts as possible and transfer them separately to the exchange. The resulting transaction traffic had a non-negligible impact on network capacity. In cases of load like that (or many individuals with strong incentives for their transactions to get in) people pay higher fees to increase the probability that their transaction is included in the next block.
> For most, music is a secondary activity.

This is strange to me. It seems like a modern change -- is it? Mostly today I see people listening to music while doing something else, or hearing it as background for movies/TV/games/commercials/stores.

In the past, we didn't think it was strange to just listen to a record. That was how we heard music. It wasn't a sign of depression. (Before 2005, the most I ever did to music was drive a car.) Music used to be a more social activity due to technological limitations, but one consequence is that it was more often a primary activity.

I suspect that I have some condition (hidden hearing loss, perhaps), as I can't just listen to music while doing something else. If there's music playing, my brain can't ignore it, or background it. Maybe these people who listen to music in private simply aren't physically able to appreciate it the way most others are. The constant noise of modern life causes anxiety for me, too.

Concerts may be more social but they're also a lot more expensive. Bumbershoot was $10 in 1997, $35 in 2007, and $130 this year. You can't blame teens for choosing to listen to music in private. I don't know how any teens could afford to go to concerts today.
Maybe with qemu translating then?
This probably isn't the time or place to discuss it.

But FWIW, if someone thinks racist things but never speaks nor acts upon them, I'm not sure what it means to "accept" that or not; and I'm not sure how we could possibly know if they only came out because of schizophrenia or if schizophrenia triggered them in the first place. It all just seems to be kind of moot.
It's an interesting day when Github issues on an official project are considered "social media". I think that can be taken many ways and most of them interesting to ponder.
You don't need to make radical changes to make a significant improvement. Laptops of today are essentially the same as laptops of 25 years ago. And yet Apple has found plenty of ways to improve them in that time.

Also, what you're missing about car UI is all the other stuff a car does. Seats are adjustable. Sometimes they're heated and/or air conditioned. Ditto for mirrors, etc. Humans interact with many different parts of a car. All of those are game for improvement.
I do not have experience with clojurescript or Om.
However, I very frequently switch between React-Native-Web, React-Native & Android SDKs.

In my view, React team actually -- discovered a paradigm that's really good and workable.

In comparasing Android SDK UI work -- feels like it was 'invented' rather than discovered.

Too much difficult to follow indirections and wrong abstraction.

When I program direct Android, I find myself introducing React concepts.
Most of my Presenters and Views now have CMyState class and its one instance.

I have setState_XYZ, and clear_State associated with that state. I cary in that state backend pagination hints, etc (as an example).

And I use RxJava (in Android) to emulate eventing model of Clicks/Mounts/Dismounts (eg when android screen rotates).

All in all, again, it does seem that React developers (not sure who the credit should go to, Peter Hunt, many others ?) -- discovered an a abstraction that was always there, but was not easily crystalized through other frameworks.

And now it is. I would be happy if others would just emulate it and make it working across UI programming platforms.
It supersedes in my mind anything else that I had seen in last 25 years, in this space.
i hope they send the CIA agents to hell for doing this to our sweet terry
Middle of the day for largest meal. Try to eat less before bed so liver can detox instead of digest food while u sleep. Also if your a man try working on peacock pose each morning 30 mins before eating (up to 5 mins) to boost digestion , if woman be careful when menstruating
In 2018, maybe. Before smartphones and mp3 players just sitting and listening to music was entirely normal.
Kevin Drum discusses this in his piece that popularized the lead-crime hypothesis in 2016[1]. Some of the research[2] into the lead-crime hypothesis was inspired by the abortion-crime hypothesis.

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...

[2] http://www.nber.org/papers/w13097
> So write some drivers

This old adage has never made sense to me. Not everyone can write software (let alone device drivers).
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My read has always been that they are preparing to provide a luxury/high status product in a future market which will be dominated by whatever the “android” level brand is.

Cars are such a strong status symbol that Apple can’t resist. If these vehicles become the next huge computing platform, they have no choice.
I admit the camera perspective can be misleading, but it looks like what, 4-5 car lengths? If traffic is heavy it’s not enough space to accelerate up to the speed of passing cars.

If traffic gets heavy, I can easily see the need to stop and wait for an opening.
And in FFX...underwater resurrected dragon, dead with two Phoenix Downs.
I remember fighting hard through that train level and being down to just a single Phoenix down for my battered party and no healing potions when that boss appeared. It was a kind of "here goes nothing" moment and I was so relieved when it worked.
To add, here is a nice compilation from his live streams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqFgtYrw4J8 (Nothing really dirty or offensive, more of his real personality.)
There is also a bunch of stuff about the person getting to 100% on that level winning, so maybe it was intentional? I don't know.
And honestly, you don't really have to keep up with the latest version of React. We're still on 15.4 – almost 2 years old! Works great for us.
In the Seattle area, the local government insists on ripping up the tracks to create urban "trails".
This guy definitely belongs to the hacker community. He was a weirdo, a misfit, a nerd, like many of us. There is always a thin line between being a genius and being insane.
AR and wearables?
The media's fondness of using the term "algorithms" for the products of rigor-allergic ML practitioners breaks my inner algorithm theorist's heart. :(
Yep happens heavily compounded by working on crappy codebase and/or in crazy dev env.
I had forgotten just how fast Doomguy ran. Compared to modern shooters its like he's playing on fast forward. Good thing too since that level is so massive.

I also remember how bullshit the par times were on each map.