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>However, the author is still someone who does not know how to use a programming language and is still bound to not only the mental model of another programming language but also bad practices that lead to problems.

Well, that's the same attitude ("the language is fine, you just don't know how to use it, that's why you have bugs") that led us to 30+ years of shitty unsafe C code.

Now it's applied to the other side (Rust is fine, you're just not good enough in it yet to use it properly, that's why you're discouraged).

Well, sometimes the language is not fine, and its ergonomics can be all wrong.

In C it was the type looseness, bad standard library, and presence of many foot guns.

In Rust it's the overt explicitness of the borrow checker, and the friction it adds to one's programming.

I don't care if the author is a Rust expert or total newb. Someone who can write a 3D modeler in C++ is someone who should be able to use any new Algol-derived language with ease in short time, regardless if they hasn't seen a line of code in that language before.

If they can't, something's wrong with your language's ergonomics.
Forget open source - Apple rips off ideas from devs-and subsequently dumpstering their apps coz why buy an enhancement when your device does it already?- on their platform so commonly there is even a term for it - getting "sherlocked"
I've got a Model X, and the touchscreen is only dangerous when using the on-screen keyboard. If I need to type something whilst driving, I engage Autopilot. There is voice recognition for the phone connectivity and Spotify, but I rarely use it.

Turning on windscreen heater, heating, and all that stuff is pretty straightforward, the on-screen buttons are always in the same place and are next to the bezel so you can anchor your hand. Plus cabin heating can be controlled via clickwheels on the steering wheel.

I think maybe the seat heaters are a little distracting. You can only tell their state by looking at the screen, and they cycle through settings. That's something I'd like a button for, or at least to be able to control via the clickwheels.

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Studied HCI and Usability Engineering at university, did my dissertation in usability of web systems, and generally share your concerns. Not aiming to dismiss them, more say that in my experience it's not as bad as one might expect.
If you wonder what metrics comprise the value of a woman today (surely we have improved since the days of the lotus feet!), a thought experiment: Imagine walking into a museum and seeing a large, stately portrait of a well-dressed man, of an older age. What are the first things you notice about the man as you observe the painting?

Really think about the kinds of questions you're asking yourself as you're looking at this painting.

Now, imagine seeing a large, stately portrait of a well-dressed woman, around the same older age.
What do you notice first about her?

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For me, the answers are:
Man:
Posture (confident? not?), eyes, watch, spectacles (was he a professor? scientist? businessman?) What did he do to deserve a painting?

Woman:
Dress, beauty (or lack thereof - is she beautiful? wrinkled? old?), hair. Who was she [related to] to deserve a painting?

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Did you ask yourself what the woman might have liked to do?
No, that is not the same story. Physical stores can be swapped out on a whim. Phones are something you change at most every couple of years (and hopefully last even longer, if you give a damn about the environment).

Actually, the "Walmart is a choice" claim also only holds up if there actually are multiple stores nearby, because who is going to drive fifty miles to the next store? Food deserts are a thing.

This is a false idea of "choice" and it is just yet another way producers and sellers try to shift responsibility to the end consumer who is largely powerless in most cases.
What about the fact that Apple Music does not compete fairly ? They provide music services like Spotify, if they where a different company they would have to pay and play by the same rules. They do not or do they ? I have no trouble with free apps by the OS developer. But once you have to pay they must compete with alternatives.
Hmmm. So this is actual story. I read the guardian reporting and it was very clearly leaving out details, because the questions being asked contained specific details which the answers simply ignored.

But similar to the Pell case, with international media outlets, under different laws and protocols, it just seems to constrain certain media organisations from discussing the facts as they are known.
Although I don't disagree, the difference was that Microsoft had a monopoly on computing. Not just on PC but take computing as a whole and microsoft was hugely dominant. From a legal standpoint there is a huge difference.
I've mentioned this in a reply but I think it's worth pointing out as its own comment to gather thoughts on this: What if Microsoft would take 30% of every transaction that is done via Windows? And if the sellers don't comply they gets kicked off the platform. That's essentially what Apple is doing, but I'm pretty sure if Microsoft was the one doing it the would be far fewer apologists.

In fact, I very much think Microsofts business model, that is decades old, is far better for customers and developers, and helped Microsoft become so successful in the first place. Microsoft provides a platform for others to make money on. The profit their customers make on Windows exceeds Microsoft's by an inestimable factor. I'm not aware that MS ever provided a case for regulation on that basis, and I think that's worth pointing out.

If your company controls a platform that affects a sizeable part of the population, it should not be able to act on their whim. And if the company doesn't play fair it needs to be regulated.
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Don't know about the US or whereever you live, but in Germany rental cars are only provided by the insurance for about two to four weeks. After that you'll have to pay them by yourself.
$3 in Apple's bag for no work or effort at all

I agree with most of what you said, but come on. Running (one of?) the biggest software distribution and payment processing systems on the planet is hardly "no work or effort at all".

This is the same sort of rhetoric that calls dropbox a weekend project.
In addition to using a program like flux, develop your awareness of your monitor brightness. Adjust it throughout the day so that it is neither too bright nor too dim.
That's the whole concept of kaizen, or improvement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
> On an ICE vehicle the only difference between rear and all wheel drive is a differential and a drive shaft.

You need three differentials for AWD as you first need to split the power front/back and then right/left in each axle. That's two more differentials than in just RWD or FWD. You also need to package all that together with a gearbox. That's why many manufacturers don't even offer an AWD option, and having both FWD and RWD versions of a car is very rare if it happens at all.

Meanwhile Tesla already builds all their cars to have two independent motors front/back each with their differential. They could very easily build a FWD car right now just by omitting the rear assembly. The cars are apparently even already designed to work with just the front motor for reliability so even the software update would be simple.

And building AWD cars by having two electric motors is almost surely not more expensive than the ICE way. Electric motors are much simpler than combustion ones and you eliminate all the mechanical parts needed to split the power between the axles. Control also becomes much better as the software gets to adjust power independently to both axles.
Fair point. Let me rephrase my point of view a little: you haven't made the users truely productive unless the tools are able to provide responsive and accurate interactive feedback. Anything that causes feedback to be non-immediate makes it harder for the user to dial in the exact results they want. They have to spend more time and give up when they have reached an inferior result that meets basic quality standards. Smooth and direct interaction makes them go the extra mile while enjoying the process.
Parenting is also dependent on the environment and your culture (you as both parents).
Western city culture tend to breed impatience, which helps a lot with being punctual, but screw up a lot with how we interact with people (including our kids).

I tend to think that as long as I can say to my kid that I am honestly proud of them, I know me and my partner haven't screwed up.
Facebook is not that thing for sure. There is someone comparing it to Tobacco in some other comment. HN really is too much sometimes and often in its own bubble. The same arguments can be made against the Internet as a whole.
> I know because I built FRP UI libraries based on Snabbdom and on native DOM APIs. The latter is much simpler to deal with and more performant.

I built something on native APIs and on userland APIs. Native APIs are more performant.

Really? That surprises you?

> The browser would be doing all the same diffing work, just closer to the metal.

Exactly my point
My take away is not that people should blindly copy the technique, but draw inspiration on why they work. Yelling is just an other fear method, either by threatening the child by violence (I am loud so I represent danger to you), or threatening by abandonment (I am angry at you and socially might not like you any more if you continue to misbehave). Both can be very damaging to the children mental development.

Which method that is best to get a child not to run over the road without looking is debatable.
Yeah, by all accounts reading online indicates a 45% tax rate for a sole-trader[1].

I'll have to enquire with the few mates there -- don't see a reason as to why they'd bullshit me. Frankly I have nfi however, apologies for the cop-out of an answer.

1: https://www.highspeedtraining.co.uk/hub/sole-trader-tax/
While the findings on discrimination based on holding meritocracy as a value are interesting, the premise of the article--that meritocracy is wrong--is itself wrong. Or at least, it's arguing against a strawman version of meritocracy in which everyone gets exactly what they deserve, but I don't know anyone who believes that.

The idea of a meritocracy is that you can improve your outcome by working hard and smart. That doesn't guarantee that you'll do better, or even as well, as everyone who works less hard or smart than you. Weight lifting is a perfect example here. Train hard; gain strength. Train smart; gain more strength with less effort. But, there's always going to be someone who gets stronger with less effort than you. Does that mean you shouldn't bother with weightlifting? That it's all a scam?
~10 years ago I had a small fanless computer running with an AMD Geode LX CPU that supported AES-128 but not 256 in hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode_(processor)#Geode_LX
European salaries are in my experience usually reported pre-tax, which makes the situation even worse :P Half the pay of our American counterparts, double the taxes and most non-real-estate goods are more expensive.
So Mr Cox is the good guy who happend to be in charge of this toxic and privacy abusing platform for the last 10 years?

- I had to do that to survive - would be rather lame excuse.
Blindly trusting what you read on Wikipedia is like blindly trusting what you read on the media. And I don't think there's much we can do to avoid it. Because conventional wisdom says more education will fix it. But wasn't there a study that showed that even highly educated people believe anything that confirms their biases?
If people are this open and brazen about it then ultimately we have passed the point of usefulness. This can be seen in social media vote farms where you pay for exposure. Once they start appearing en masse then it is the death knell of the platform.

This also has a chilling effect on free speech and what an individual is allowed to know about an organization, person, company etc. As any 'trusted' source of information is now spoiled.

The way we get ahead of this is do what the internet forefathers wanted to do to any problem... re-route. There are wiki clones and methinks their popularity will only grow now.

This should be the chief concern for Jimmy Whales and the Wikimedia foundation if they actually cared about providing 'an encyclopedia for all' because they are no longer providing a platform for learning but rather just another corporate blog.
Do you need to form an entity at all while you are exploring? I think it is best to defer C Corp formation until a 6+ figure check is on the table.
MS had a monopoly in the personal computer industry. Apple does not have one in the mobile industry. By this logic Mercedes has a monopoly on all Mercedes cars but they're clearly not one in the auto industry. If Mercedes ever decides to ban or squeeze a supplier, monopoly will not be the argument to nail them.

I'm not saying Apple is right to do this. I'm saying the monopoly on their own product is not the correct argument. Apple is not a monopoly. If they lose this case it won't be based on this.
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I also wonder how you would fit a roof box on that thing, sort of a requirement for calling a car a SUV IMO
So do video games. So does the internet in general. Too much of any thing is almost always bad
This way of illustrating categories of DP problems seems really intuitive to me. Thanks for sharing.
Car2Go and ReachNow are two other similar services that let you leave the car in any legal parking spot. You can see available stock on a map just like these scooter/bike share companies.
Crust, an open source Unified Work Platform has been released
Apple ad focuses on iPhone’s most marketable feature – privacy
Damn, this sounds so brutal. Thank you for explaining.
That's how every other open-diff car already works. Everyone does that. EVs just have the extra advantage that they're much more precise at applying power so the traction control can be much better.
That you know of. Who knows how many sock puppet accounts they may have.

Heck it could even be an additional fee 'well for an extra 10k I will create a new personality that isn't tied to anything'
Yes, these backing constructs essentially become special case memory managers for the problem domain. You may call then by different names, but the essential behaviour is the same.
LSDs are no longer the domain of expensive sports cars though, nowadays they made it all the way to the cheaper cars, like the hyundai i30n and the mk8 fiesta st. It's pretty cool.
Crazy saleries in the bay area compared to EU. How many hours do you guys work?
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I quite enjoyed Ben Eater's playlist on building a breadboard computer, made a lot of electronic concepts click for me.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2...
To those saying you could not have traded cards on Mt. Gox:

"sometime around late 2007, the service went live for approximately three months before McCaleb moved on to other projects" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Founding_(2006-10)

Gwern: "we know
the mtgox.com domain had a landing page discussing a forthcoming Magic card trading site (because a 2007 page is in the Internet Archive), but we can't find any evidence that there was any actual trading going on. Did anyone ever actually trade card for card or money for card on Mtgox.com?" McCaleb: "yeah they did" https://www.gwern.net/docs/bitcoin/2014-mccaleb
> For what its worth(1), I think that "learn a bunch of stuff -> go build something cool on the first try" isn't quite the right approach.

There might be also some kind of misconception in the way that you're
seeing something cool and now also want to get this cool stuff. But if you
aren't interested in the fundamentals - in this case electronics - and
don't have fun learning these by simple experiments - like you described -
then it's neither worthwhile for you nor you will get to the cool projects.
Each Movement Counts
Users can’t reasonably be expected to switch smartphone hardware just because of an app. The smartphone hardware market has its own constraints (people generally own only one at a time, they upgrade it every couple of years at a cost of several hundred dollars, etc). Apple may have legitimately earned its position in that hardware market by making products people want, but it’s not legitimate for them to use that dominance to control wholesalers’ access to consumers in a separate marketplace: music streaming. In that marketplace, the relative success of Apple Music vs Spotify should be based on consumer preferences for those services, not on which company also happens to dominate a separate marketplace. See also: Microsoft using its OS market dominance to control the web browser market.
> The way we get ahead of this is do what the internet forefathers wanted to do to any problem... re-route. There are wiki clones and methinks their popularity will only grow now.

It's wishful thinking. In the software and internet world, once something is entrenched, it's rarely removed from first position unless it no longer serves its primary purpose to its main audience. Which Wikipedia does.

It's a bit like Facebook vs Mastodon. Ask your non-techie friends about Mastodon and they'll probably go: that was a sort of elephant or dinosaur, wasn't it?
Ask HN: Dealing with too many browser tabs?
When browsing/working, I end up with like 20+ opened tabs. Sometimes because I don't really notice it, other times because I'm anxious about losing any of the tabs. I'm curious how do you guys handle multiple tabs? Don't you get lost often?
Yes thank you :) It looks like everyone understood, though!
Apple's walled garden is _A_ store. One of several.
The facts so far are that two new aircraft of the same model have crashed in a very short period of time, in the same stage of flight and exhibiting the same problem as evidenced by ATC recordings: loss of flight control.
We should not focus only on the software aspect, even though a very questionable (and dangerous in my opinion) decision was made to not communicate to the pilots the existence and operation of the software with no additional pilot training.

The software relied on input from sensors at least in the Lion Air crash and the fact is the sensors failed on new aircraft.

I would trust the NTSB as much as the European counterparts. I have read some of their reports and they are very dilligent and fair.

We should avoid placing blame now on anyone whether it is Boeing, pilots, national agencies, until the full reports are available. The grounding of the aircraft was perfectly justified with the available data from a security point of view.
The air industry has been focused on avoiding a blame culture. Even I, as a passenger sometimes look for the lowest price, so the pressure for cost cutting may come from us as well.
Although the trend is now heading back towards that (in some places, including the US and the UK); the wealth of your parents is a stronger indicator of future success than it was fifty years ago.
Edit: please don't upvote this, it detracts from the discussion of the article itself.

Side note: I don't mind that my earlier submission[0] didn't get traction, just happy that the article gets the attention it deserves.

However, I'm curious, because the URLs are completely identical, and I thought HN then treats a submission soon after as an upvote to the earlier submission. Has this changed, or was this new post just out of the time range?

Also, when I submitted it, I was surprised that the title got automatically edited, chopping off the "How". (I submitted it as "How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger", exactly as this posting, and also the title of the article.) Yet this posting has the original title. Can anyone explain that?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19387122
All definitions are ambiguous. It's useless to argue over them. We need to argue about real things in the real world. To do that we need to name them, point them out. It's easy for things like cows or planes; for things like censorship we need to zero in on a minimal model that showcases censorship.

For example, if I remove a book from my private library because of its contents, is it censorship? I don't think so. What if this is my library, but opened to a public, even to some small community? In this case I think this is censorship. What if the whole community decided the book should be removed? Again, it's not censorship. What if only the elders of the community came to the decision? It seems more like censorship again. What if we removed the book because it's damaged or, say, radioactive? Not censorship.

See, it doesn't matter if I'm a "big player" or something like that, or whether I have rights to do what I do, or what the book contains. All I have to do is to have some people to restrict access to a book or something like that to another group of people because of the contents of the book.
Sure but that's true of just about any state. Assuming the US still exists in 600 years it will look very different than it does today.
I’d say many corporations are amoral, while the mobile gaming business is totally immoral.

Neither is good, but the latter is worse.
Use Firefox Tree style tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...)
Unfortunately, same is not very handy for chrome. But this will help you a lot
Oh man you hear some silly numbers being thrown around when it comes to COBOL...

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-banks-cobol/banks-scra...
I am already enjoying this on my Windows Store delivered games.
Tesla production problems are well documented: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tesla-model-3-production-sto...

Heck, their line was catching fire on a weekly basis a few months ago. Academic citations hardly necessary.
> There must be deeper, more subtle factors that explain why Toyota's particular combination of techniques yields such superior results.

Why? That's how engineering works; small improvements aggregated over time.
Surely we're more than our jobs
That's a good point, and I guess highly dependent on location. I honestly don't know how this works in the US, though in Germany pretty much every private parking lot has signs that the road traffic regulations apply, which would then result in the same limitations as on the road. I think (read: hope) that there is some regulation for traffic on privately owned parking lots in the US, and at least a superficial skim of what information the internet has to offer, there are some rules of the road that may also apply to private property (e.g. reckless driving, impaired driving, vehicular homicide, ...). This might limit what Tesla can (or is willing to) do even on privately owned parking lots.

But I'm not a lawyer (obviously), so this is just an idiots' take. I guess this question goes on the list of "problems modern technology presents that regulations need to prepare for".
So basically, boy acted like normal 4 years old and took an interesting thing into hand? And that is somehow proof that the kid is exceptionally difficult? Four years old holding knife right now is a reason to tell him to put it down or introduce consistent safety rules, but really really it is neither proof of unusual out of control behavior or something that requires instant yelling.

Four years old can be taught to cut soft vegetables under close supervision. However, if you constantly yell at four years old, four years old will learn to ignore everything except yelling.

Not that occasional yelling harms that kid or something. But, yelling often is more of adult emotional reaction, not a rational reaction to real acute danger.