skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're claiming that corner stores - independently owned entities in expensive real estate selling cheap commodities - should be able to sell products as cheap or cheaper than Wal-Mart?

Things are more expensive in corner stores because it's more expensive to run a corner store. You don't have as many customers, but you have higher expenses. You can't stock a larger variety of goods because space is limited and you have to move the lightest, most profitable goods to stay afloat. You can't dedicate $20,000 worth of real estate (one corner of your shop) to 12 kinds of salsa.
That would be good by me. The car people go back to doing what they’re good at, and let the software people do their thing.
Yes. All of the Uber drivers and other unskilled labor should move to Montana. That would be super helpful for those needing rides in SF.
> Might be true in the valley, but I see no reason to believe that this is true in many other markets.

I responded to this statement, in which you implied that uber had little market share in other areas. No where in your comment did you state that it was operating at a loss, you simply stated you didn't believe Uber wasn't as strong in other markets.
What makes ELF normal? Funnily COFF also comes from Unix.
Fair enough, I was just giving my driving experience. I don't like to use the car for anything but driving. The most interactive it gets is me putting on a CD.
Did you just compare a Bluetooth connection to a self-driving car?
i think that's a good rule of thumb and something to strive for, and most interfaces can be made more obvious than they are with more skilled design work... but imagine if you applied that rule to, say, an airplane cockpit.

Sometimes powerful interfaces for doing complicated/powerful things need to be learned.

(And an airplane cockpit can still be designed poorly or well at varying degrees, certainly! A well-designed one will be safer and easier to use. But nobody thinks an untrained person should be able to step into even a well-designed one and fly a plane. That doesn't mean it's a poorly designed interface).
I never thought that anyone other than the driver would want to connect their phone to the head unit in the car, regardless of how many other people might or might not also be in the car.

On further reflection, I think it's still overall not a good idea. If the driver wants to change the music being played, or the volume, or whatever, and there is a passenger in the car with them, then I would think it would be okay for the driver to have the passenger do that on their behalf. And that might affect the display.

But I guess I can wait to see if iOS 13 can change my mind.
It seems like this is the exact same problem that was solved (to our satisfaction, at least) by trains over a century ago. If you're riding on the light rail and the train car ahead of you has an axle failure, what happens? We don't think very much about this case, because in practice it basically never happens.
Did they fix the issue of pocketing the money on behalf of content creators who are not registered to Brave?
I appreciate this honest statement. I work daily with individuals with mental disabilities including psychosis, memory dysfunction, and perceptional disturbances, and can certainly agree from what I have subjectively seen. (Though also longitudinally as I have viewed medical records extensively over years and years of research). I have witnessed secondhand that higher doses and earlier use of THC are more likely to produce anxiety, agitation, paranoia, and psychosis. Dr. Volkow's research at footnote 8 of this statement is spot on, and your comment seems to support his findings.
I had a 2015 Highlander with Entune. I just bought a 2019 Highlander with Entune.

I'm Apple/iOS all the way, but honestly... Entune is relatively stupid and inoffensive and I don't ever think about it. I think I actually wanted nothing related to my tech life in my car. Nothing that resembles my desktop or my AppleTV or my iPad.

I think I don't really want a car. Maybe when I ditch this Highlander I'll live somewhere I can easily do without a car of any kind. Don't even want an EV.
It is not lost, Perl 5 is still developed.
Because you can walk into a store and buy it?
Curious to know if you have seen any project management software with either good calendar or planning support built in? What made it better?
And the system sucks and is unreliable, so people who pay the rent are regularly told they aren't entitled to use CarPlay.
Clinton said deplorables were "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic". Trump supporters promptly embraced that label and started wearing t-shirts about it. So yeah, it’s not a personal attack to observe that they embraced the label of racism.
How long would a 90 mile commute take, in a best case scenario?
> enjoy the car as a mechanical machine, eg. buy the torque-y 30d not the 20d.

Surely if you really wish to enjoy a BMW you buy one with a NA petrol engine ;-)
>This attitude is one of the reasons it was so hard for public opinion to change on tobacco usage.

With tobacco use, there was a huge amount if money spent selling the public on the idea that it wasn't dangerous. In contrast, there has been a large amount of money spent selling the idea that marijuana is incredibly dangerous. More accurate conversations would be

"My mom died of lung cancer"

"I'm sorry to hear that, would you like one if my doctor recommended cigarettes? Marlboro published a study saying smoking helps grieving people with no side effects."

Compared to

"My mother has schizophrenia"

"It's her fault for smoking marijuana. At least they locked up your father for selling it."
It works because they're physically connected already, which would be really really difficult with cars (standardizing the connectors, etc etc). Agreeing on a standard protocol for communication is a hard enough problem to start with.
This is the most infuriating thing. Android Auto does it for some apps also, but it feels baked into the core experience of CarPlay. Given the choice between the two, this UX mishap alone makes me choose AA over CP even when I'm driving alone.
F*ck AppleCare – $15/Month = Any 25 Items Protected- Accidental Damage and Theft
Neither do most of the drivers, unfortunately. They are going to be the ones holding the bag at the end.
> Got an official opinion from legal that employer programs, working on a videogame mod is programming

Don’t trust anything the company lawyer says. They work for the company, not you. They will lie to you to protect the company.

“Everything you do is property of company” has never held up in court and is just legal bullying. If you’re not actually stealing company IP and using it at a competitor it’s all BS.

video game mods? Unless the company is a video game studio that’s a croc of shit.
I more and more grew to love simple solutions that just work, and do so in a predictable way — and lets face it: stuff fails, so having it fail in a predictable way is good too.

Cables might sound oldfashioned but they tick these boxes for me. Just buy them in packs and throw broken ones out or repair them. If you get decent ones even that will be rare.

Mechanical rotary switches to switch between multiple modes? Hell yeah. Actual potentiometers that end when you are at max for values that make sense? Sure way.

Since the eighties a lot of specialized interfaces that should have been condensed down to perfection were instead defaced by membrane buttons and a single push encoder that is meant to do all the things. Nothing against encoders, they are cool for certain stuff — but even cooler is a fixed interface where everything is literally in your hands.

That is why touch interfaces are even worse: ever tried to use one with your eyes closed?

The thing is: good working solutions and well defined haptic interfaces pair incredible well with sturdy and wellwritten code. Electromechanical parts are just more expensive, and that is why they fell out of favour.

On the other hand we literally live in times where anybody could build their own car radio if they just wanted..
The biggest thing that was exciting to me was EPUB having native OS support, effectively, via Edge. You could assume an EPUB was readable in Windows without downloading something, just like you can assume for JPGs and TXT files. This feels like a huge step back for the format to lose this.
A lot of things would have made more sense in hindsight, but it's not where the community was at the time, and ultimately Larry said no to a straight rename. He is taking less of a role now so it can be revisited.
$ perl6 -e '!$#foo->_%[]'

===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e

Unsupported use of $#foo variable; in Perl 6 please use
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at -e:1

------> !$#foo⏏->_%[]
Thank you! The AdvantageII and Ergodox are definitely good keyboards. We just went the next step and added the mouse built in, so you don't have to move your hands of the keyboard to use the mouse.
> The average mobile browser user pays as much as $23 a month in data charges to download ads and trackers — that’s $276 a year.

Is that true?
I replaced the radio in my 2016 Toyota Prius V because the software was sooo bad. It was the only model in 2016 that didn't support hands free Siri, They pushed out a final update to etune 2.0 removing features as it moved into maintenance mode, and it crashed and rebooted on hands free calls.

I bought my new radio from crutchfield.com, they did all the compatibility checking for me, suggested all the additional adapters and devices for best compatibility, and for $25 spliced all the wiring harnesses for me. I installed it myself, and have been very happy with the results. I now have wireless carplay, so handsfree works great, I can easily get directions/eta while driving, I can easily listen to podcasts, and as a bonus I get visual information on various car sensors, like which door is ajar, and the PSI of each tire. The most important feature is that it hasn't crashed once.

The result has been better than I expected, there were somethings that weren't quite obvious, such as there not existing OEM adapters for the hands free mic and the gps receiver for my model of toyota. But ultimately, it wasn't hard to run the new mic and the new gps sensor that came with the radio out through the seams of the dash. The handsfree audio quality is way better with the new radio's mic. Everything else integrated with the OEM hardware of the car.
From the comment above, to which I was responding:

> pretty strongly engrained habit

An ingrained habit and market share are different things. Market share is dependent on price point among many other conditions. I never said or implied that ride share services, and Uber in particular, don't have strong market share. They do at the moment.
> Or perhaps the problem is that Jira gives people too much rope to hang themselves with.

This is like complaining that C (or assembly, or VHDL) is too complicated, and we should all use easier languages like Java, Python, and Ruby.

>It should not be possible to make the experience of users sub-par by 'holding it wrong', and it should not take months or years to learn to use a project management tool IMO - the project should be over by then!

It should not be possible for engineers to do this, which is why the Jira admins should be to blame for setting up a shitty Jira environment. And how long it takes to learn Jira is irrelevant to engineers because you're never supposed to have to learn Jira beyond "move your tickets to done when you're done." How long should it take to learn C++, or Kubernetes, or TensorRT? Do we say those are all a waste of time as well because engineers need to set aside time learning a new language/technology/tool in order to help them do their jobs?

> Tools like Jira should get out of the way, not get in the way of the real work.

I agree. The problem is it sounds like you're assuming I think engineers should learn Jira. Engineers should not spend more than a few minutes a day "dealing" with Jira, on average (ideally no more than 30 seconds, but that's a bit optimistic at a real company). If you spend more than a few minutes a day struggling with Jira, you should bitch to whoever is in charge of Jira. But if you really believe that 15 minutes a week of your time in order for the organization to function at much high levels is a waste of your efforts, then perhaps you should set out to redefine project management. I assure you, there is a shitload of money to be made if you think you can do it better.
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its okay, I’m fairly certain that there exists Perl 5 code that will outlast our very species
The incremental safety improvements are at best marginal.

The period of most rapid car safety improvements came during a single ten-year period, from 1910 - 1920. Since then, with small variances, deaths per passenger mile have halved roughly every 20 years. The rate 20 years ago was already very low, with the inter-vehicle variance likely greater than the total car fleet improvement.

Deaths per billion vehicle miles travelled (VMT) is the red line in this plot:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/US...

20 years ago you had ABS, airbags, side-impact airbags on many vehicles, and crumple zones.

You also had far fewer distractions, whether built-in or carried by drivers or occupants.

Auto MPG is largely a function of engine size. Fleet average in the US remains ~25 MPG. A 1970 Datsun or Toyota would deliver > 30 MPG. Hybrid, deisel, and electric vehicles are exceptions to that rule, but generally, buying a small-engined small car delivers max benefits.

Note too: the improvement from 10 MPG to 20 MPG is twice that from 20 MPG to 30 MPG. If you're interested in fuel consumption rather than range, it's the fuel consumption per distance travelled, usually given as km/100 litres in Europe. 10 MPG == 100 mi/10 gallons, 20 MPG == 200 miles/10 gallons, 30 MPG == 300 mi/10 gallons. A doubling of efficiency would require going 20 MPG -> 40 MPG, or 400 mi/10 gallons.

TL;DR: progress isn't progressing as progressively as progressive would like to think.
We have a similar thing going on here in Vancouver. The computer controlling the cars centrally manages their location and velocity, as to ensure that there's a breadth of passenger coverage around the metropolitan area. It's also elevated to help streamline trip times too.
Swedish school fined over $20k for using facial recognition on students
My weed dealer when I was in highschool was a jackass wannabe-surfer (never saw the ocean) whom I didn't particularly like, but was totally harmless. I'd much rather betray him than a friend. I know it happens sometimes, but the stereotype that weed dealers are/were often violent criminals is a bit silly. I'm sure if you were buying in bulk from organized crime things could easily get dicy, but a teenager buying a dimebag from some dude? Probably not much risk there...
On the other hand if you were a minor that wanted to use illegal drugs, you had to have the right friends/contacts to know where make illegal purchases.

Legality makes it so that now everyone knows where to buy it (at any store) and now minors just experiment a few times until they find a lax vendor just like they do with Juuls. After all, minors are not penalized for merely attempting to buy something.

And, like I put in my other comment, it doesn't really matter if the barrier for minors buying drugs is higher if the act of legalization increases the number of minors attempting to buy the drug by an astronomical factor.
I have no idea, as I mentioned im not familiar with that, and I've never signed up on the ad platform / solution / whatever offered during the installation.
I just decline to join that program during the setup, and never ever popped up again. If I could hide the red triangle on the right of the nav bar, i'd do that as well.
In addition to the other replies, there is a serious argument to be made for keeping a car longer or buying used in terms of environmental impact. MPG improvements have been minor enough to not offset the huge environmental cost of manufacturing the car itself. It's better to keep the old Explorer that still runs than to buy a new Prius.

I'd be interested to see a study about whether the last twenty years of safety gadgets have actually reduced accident casualties significantly. My thought is that at least as far as collision performance, things have been pretty well understood that whole time.
An ePub is an archive of HTML files plus a bunch of metadata. It's almost literally a website in a zip.
One problem is browsers have incomplete PDF implementations. PDFs with 3d models is big in the engineering industry as dumb as it is and Chrome completely fails there and results in numerous less engineering user complaints :/
Thank you! There are some possible options out there for 2 mouse cursors, you can see here: https://www.keymouse.com/resources, but not sure how well they work. Also, we are considering making a product that will allow 2 mouse sensors in the same device (trackball and bottom mouse sensor).
Every country, city, and government has a bias and an attitude toward drugs, including London. I hope you're not suggesting (perhaps you improperly worded your comment) that the US government is biased toward drugs but English government is not biased at all and is completely neutral scientifically. If that's what you meant, I think it's specious.
More like zipped html and some metadata, but yeah, basically it's that simple.
That's called a 2 din car stereo slot :D
I on the other hand, love that my 4Runner has a built-in crappy navigation system. I don't like the fact that it's crappy but I love that it's there whether I have my phone with me or not. Yes, it's not often that I don't have my phone with me but one time when I needed navigation, to get back home, and I dropped my phone and broke the screen it was a godsend.
In 2016, when I got it, there was pretty much no used/demo cars on the market with CarPlay, and I wasn’t willing to pay for a brand new one.

Also, I hadn’t actually tried CarPlay then, and CarPlay has improved a lot since.

Dunno about Tesla’s charges, I’ve never owned one.
Will a Tesla sync w/ your calendar so that when you get in it to drive to an appointment, it already knows where to take you?

For the record I also use my driving time solely for the purpose of driving. CarPlay doesn’t have to mean annoying interruptions.
I'm sure you're right about the smaller and smaller accommodations, but I think the argument I heard before was intended to be a little longer-term than that.

Our starting position is that a lot of employment is very centralised in big cities or industrial areas, sometimes for historical reasons that aren't necessarily as relevant today.

With better planning of future cities, with an emphasis on keeping everyday services like schools, shops, basic medical care and sports facilities more local to where people live, both the provider and the consumer have less need to make routine long journeys that overlap lots of other people's routine long journeys.

There will always be a need to centralise certain key facilities more, say hospitals that need to respond to a diverse range of serious conditions very quickly but also serve a wide area because fortunately there aren't many people with each condition at any given time. However, there is no need for your dentist or optician to be based 10 miles away in the nearest city centre when there are more than enough patients who need that sort of care within a one mile radius anyway.

In my country (the UK) we do this much better in some respects than others.

Schooling is usually relatively local in the early years, for example. Most kids don't have to travel silly distances to reach secondary school (ages around 11-18) either.

Some places have much better routine medical facilities available locally than others. This is definitely an area where we could improve.

Shopping in bricks and mortar stores is so bad now that we're increasingly seeing our traditional high streets turning into deserted wastelands, far too expensive and time-consuming to reach for a quick visit when you just want to buy a new shirt for the weekend or toy for your child. Online stores and huge, car-friendly out-of-town shopping centres with almost exactly the same 100 brands as all the others are driving all the traditional, local, interesting shops out of business, sadly.

More generally, far too many of our vanilla office jobs are based in city centres entirely unnecessarily. Their staff don't live nearby any more because they can't afford to, so what was once an advantage is now a disadvantage that causes big problems for and because of commuters.

So I don't really think living in shoe boxes is the answer. Moving everything else so it's more readily accessible from good quality homes is the answer, according to this argument at least.

Just to be clear, this isn't necessarily an argument for moving everything out to the suburbs or smaller, more rural towns. The same principles can also be applied in much larger cities, by better balancing residential, business and leisure facilities in each neighbourhood. The trouble is usually that historically this wasn't so well understood, so existing planning/zoning rules often aren't very effective but you can't just transplant everything overnight to where you'd ideally like it to be. Hence the desire to promote newer and better designed areas as a general trend, and in (lots of) time allow the older and less practical areas to be rearranged.
Thanks for posting the link. LTT definitely made a cool video!
Thanks for a good conversation :)
I'd have liked to have Android Auto for my Prius, but overall it isn't too bad, because I have the super-basic version of Entune.

It plays BT and USB audio files, and has dedicated buttons for voice command, call and hangup.

The voice command thing I rarely use because it isn't very good.

All I really want is a way to trigger Google Now from the car controls. My BT headset can do this, but there is apparently no way to do this with the car. Just frickin' open up a hands-free profile connection, and turn on the microphone!

I plan on driving this car for another 15 years or so (or until they stop selling gasoline) but I'll upgrade my phone a few times in that interval. Let me just use the phone.
I would go even farther - I don't want a screen in my car. I have enough of that in other devices. Give me a convenient place on the dashboard to attach a phone holder, and provide a nearby USB power port, and I'd be super happy. Focus on making the climate controls work great, and have great Bluetooth, and I'm all set.
You can turn on do not disturb if you don't want messages or notifications, you can even make it automatic as part of driving. AND you can get map navigation that isn't in a phone.
I love Android as a mobile OS on my Pixel 2; especially with apps like MiXplorer (fully featured file manager). I can't count the number of times being able to plug in a flash drive and copy files to it has saved me.

Subjectively, running Android 10 on a Pixel 2, battery life has never been better, and apps running in the background sucking up my battery hasn't been a problem.

I've used the ubiquitous cheap Huawei and Xiaomi phones, and while they get the job done, the experience isn't nearly as good, as you have to deal with their UI and clutter. Unfortunate.
To put some numbers in this thread, it was fixed in CPAN.pm version 1.90 in 2007, which first came with Perls 5.8.9 and 5.10.0 (but can be updated on older Perls).
Are the engineers you are referring to in developing brain stages? You are replying to OP who said from 16-18.. that is still fairly prime development.. your bay area engineers are probably mid 20's? That is quite different when we are talking about brain development.
at least we didn't ditch our audio jacks until the technology matured. oh wait