skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 2019 Ford Ranger has all three, opting for at least throwback one -

On the dash, a volume knob w/on-off button in the center and tuning knob

On the steering wheel, digital control buttons (L/R=tuning Up/Dn=volume)

On the Screen, touch controls

But that is all - the climate controls are all the damn flat, blend-it-all-in mini buttons or the touchscreen, so if the windscreen suddenly fogs up it's a few hazardous seconds while you have to keep looking back&forth at the controls and through fogged windscreen to find the [defrost] button.

And yes, I use the knobs probably over half the time. The steering wheel controls are also nice because they can also be used by touch without looking. Probably used the touchscreen controls a couple times while stopped, mostly as a novelty.

Gawd I wish designers would prioritize actual use over how good they think it'll look in some glossy brochure. and, frankly, at this point, I'd rather toss them all and have an ugly knob in a good spot I can use by feel (HINT: I'm NOT looking at it!!), than any flattened wall of pretty backlit buttons. I'm not lounging in a living room, idly caressing your damn panel, I'm driving a two-ton machine at speed.
>most people won't have defined benefit plans any longer.

Most people never had them. Only a minority of middle and upper class white men had them for a short period in time.

Here's some historical tables [1]. For example, in 1975, 44M people were in one, decently less than half of workers.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ebsa/researchers/stat...
Friend. It's not my position or argument. I was only trying to clear up the comms disconnect.
I don't know who "they" is, but HN moderation doesn't work that way.

We don't usually turn off flags on hot-blockbuster-controversy stories because those don't usually lead to intellectually curious conversation.

The other site is banned the same way other primarily-political sites are banned on HN, regardless of their politics.

Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle? We've asked you repeatedly and you're still doing it. If you keep it up, that is going to get you banned here. No, not out of political disagreement (or "them") - it would be just the same if your politics went the other way.
I don’t find this April Fool’s joke (2017) very funny. What are they parodying exactly?
SubEthaEdit
It's hard to convey in the title how cool this is

One feature I'm especially excited about is differentiable physics which taichi enables automatically. This means you can know how a small adjustment to your initial state will change the simulation. The power of this is it makes it possible to figure out what initial state you need to achieve a given final state. For example, in this Taichi demo they compute velocity field of a fluid so that it warps a grid into their logo after a certain amount of time

Here's a two minute papers videos explaining this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7w7QuYa4SQ

To top it off it supports compiling multiple backends, including GPU backends like Metal and CUDA as well as plain C
“The algorithm can also work with accents from other countries, such as Australian ones or Irish.”

Other than which country, though? Presumably an English speaking one - UK? New Zealand? Canada? US?
Avoiding capital gains tax that happens when you sell.
That introduces a time-of-check to time-of-use bug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use).
Disclaimer for the sake of clarity: The "my" is part of the article name. I am not the author.
User since maybe mid 00's here, I still load it to use the rectangular select and multi-line cursor, and HyperSearch still beats grep because I can jump to all instances of a searched word and see the context before/after it (yeah grep has a flag for this, but who knows how many lines the context should be).
A 2018 phone that no longer receives updates, and that you would likely struggle to repair if anything broke. Not sure that’s a great choice for a phone as we near 2022.
This isn't how things work in corrupt countries.
Sometimes it isn't even their breakfast, it's just their ego.
High quality standing desk.
It better not take generations! We don't have that kind of time.
BBEdit?
Bad example.

Look at musical instruments, particularly synthesizers.

This world went from menu-diving and screens to a full-blown knobfest (for digitally-controlled equipment, mind you).

Specifically, no gear has ever not had the volume knob/slider; but now, there's a knob for everything else.

Also go figure, my $200 Sonicware digital synth made in 2021 can have 15 reliable, precise knobs that will last decades, as well as analog and digital I/O on the front panel, but my $20,000 car can't have either because of cost savings/reliability? Please.

And my Fostex 4-track recorder from 1995 has 24 knobs and 5 sliders, perfectly functioning, and if you think that musicians are gentle on their gear, you haven't seen many musicians.

Knobs and sliders on my Korg, Casio, and Yamaha digital synths from the mid-1980s work well too, never a problem with them.

Let's not pretend that lack of knobs is anything but a UX/aesthetics choice — and for cars, a particularly awful one.
Show HN: Format-code – a simple and convenient online formater based on prettier
Instant Pot. I bought the largest one I could find so that I could amortize my prep time. Now I mostly just put a bunch of fresh ingredients in the pot along with some grains and beans and forget about it. The end result is not as delicious as something prepared by a more competent chef but the meals usually last me an entire week so I'm pretty happy with the time saving vs flavor tradeoff.
See 2.5: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi

Not sure how a subset would work in practice. Though I can imagine a javascript gemini client (as perverse as it sounds...) that could be used as a tunnel into the gemini world in cases where you just want to look something up quickly and/or don't have or want to install a proper client
Like news and other media, I think social media is better at framing the questions we are supposed to think are important rather than the particular answers.
Rst2pdf/rst2pdf: Use a text editor. Make a PDF
I used amfora for quite a while before I found Lagrange and Diohsc. It is a very good client, also probably the easiest to use TUI client for starting out.

Diohsc takes a little getting used to, but once you start using marks and the queue, it becomes very pleasant.
That's a loaded opinion. A lot of people said the same about Bitcoin, the internet, social media, electric cars, and mobile apps.

My argument is that the system works just fine as a plausibly neutral ledger of account and for establishing provenance of ownership through reputation and convention.

And in fact I very much prefer it to the legions of corporate lawyers enforcing man-made copyright laws and enriching monopolistic centrally distributed platforms such as app stores. I consider it much more sustainable, universal, accessible, and respectful of human rights and expression than the current systems in place.
Please don't post ideological battle comments to HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

I know other people are doing it too, but your comment stands out as particularly snarky, and in any case the rules apply regardless of what other people are doing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think that's wrong though. Hypothetically you could have a vaccine engineered alongside the virus and deploy it in secret, or at least using some mode of obfuscation. Not that it would be simple, and not that it wouldn't leak, but it's not an impossible scenario to have a country immunized, I don't reckon.

I mean, look at COVID response, Russia and China both have their own vaccines, what's to prevent them from sliding in something extra to prevent another disease which has been engineered?
>"It can be really nice to have an official way..."

Windows store started with only being able to serve UWP applications that were really constrained in what they could do. I just laughed when my competitors went that way as they'd lost some rather important features.

As a person I just hate an "official ways" as in my opinion they are detrimental to customers but to each their own.
It’s just baffling what (very rich) people can get away with before getting caught…
Yep my wife and I moved to Connecticut from North Carolina. The summers here are very mild compared to what we are used to and as such leave the windows open to stay cool. But as you mentioned the screens do allow in rain if it’s raining and windy. Funny I never thought about seeing if there’s an alternative material for it.
Furo: A clean customizable documentation theme for Sphinx
So they're opposed to the military and the police then? If there was no military or police force then they would be fine with Gov. Inc?
Arguments that superintelligent machines are impossible.
Strange that you think it looks “old.” Personally tiny phones with advanced internals seem more futuristic than tablet-sized slabs that practically require me to sit at a desk just to use them.
For me, it was the reverse osmosis Brondell water filter. You don’t know how much you rely on clean tasting water until it’s gone.

Air Fryer is starting to come in at a close second though…
What an uplifting, encouraging comment.
They're parodying those who claim that AGI will never exceed human intelligence.
Presumably there's a non-joke version of this at some level in the hardware / firmware stack?
>I disagree, modern wipers on auto sense just work.

Not from my experience. Having a dirty windshield or worn out wiper blades causes them to act erratically because the sensors aren't being properly cleaned. I've never heard of another manufacturer with rain sensing wipers removing the physical controls from them too. It's a horrible design choice.
I think it's the maximum depth where the animal has been spotted, even if it's not the "usual" depth.
How could one use an 18-bit D/A in a radio? (an 18-bit A/D is a different story).
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments? You've been doing it a lot lately, and we ban that sort of account, regardless of what they're flaming for or against. It's not what the site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I like you would absolutely admit there is a lot I don't know about China. I would say that that is a complicated enough topic where no person on the planet truly comprehensively understands it.

However if you want to hear what I think is a really well stated case for why China's housing problem is more structural than it might appear on the surface I encourage you to check out this bit regarding how China's local governments utilize property prices via LGFVs to do off balance sheet financing off it's social security system and really it's entire economy. If you find it interesting the whole video and the whole 4 part series is really worth a watch:

Housing Crisis — China's Reckoning (Part 2):

https://youtu.be/EgVXRtq5EIg?t=1045

I recommend you to change it to 2x speed.

The reason Evergrande plays into this is not directly a Lehman like systemtic solvency issue IMO, it's a consumer confidence problem which indirectly leads to solvency issue. Regular Chinese citizens are seeing other regular Chinese citizens who pre paid on Evergrand units losing their shirts. Data already show's that housing demand and prices are already way down from pre Evergrande issues.

I would argue if this translates into failures in the local government land auctions, China is basically instantly in a solvency crisis, which, it can deal with, but which will have major consequences.
Simpler Bootstrap for Big(ger) Data
At a certain point it doesn't matter if the invisible friend is real or not if the relationship is beneficial. People have probably been personifying abstract ideas for this purpose since language began.
It would be trivial for existing browsers to adopt Gemini if they wanted to, so that’s a moot point.

Some of the goal is to prevent it from being so easily infected with tracking, malware, and other anti-user mechanisms.

Another goal is to make the presentation be truly a function of the client, and not the server.
Is this different va what Google already does this Cloud Functions?
I've done the same to install Windows 10 to an external SSD (I don't want to divide my laptop's internal drive up between two different operating systems).

This is the guide I used for making the SSD look like an internal hard drive https://ckirbach.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/how-to-add-a-physi...

Once the first part of the installation was completed, I turned off the VM and booted the SSD from real hardware (after disabling the internal disk in the laptop's firmware to avoid anything unfortunate happening).

Apart from being a little slower, everything works fine. I haven't yet been offered the windows 11 upgrade so I can't say if that will continue working.
I mean that metaphorically but I do have a bunch of keyboard shortcuts (in a browser extension) that make finding these, and formatting the comments, much faster.
En mi comentario, estoy hablando de precios sin seguro, o sea que para cualquiera, con FONASA ISAPRE o sin seguro.
Sold my manual for a Tesla. I drive my wife's manual Mazda when I want to enjoy the driving experience.

Tesla does have good digital inputs, but very little about the car is analog, so I think I'm being consistent.
Idiomatic algebraic data types in Python with dataclasses and Union
All valid points, thanks for your perspective.
I use this frequently for plotting planar vector fields: it is much better than Mathematica’s StreamPlot (which I am forced to use from time to time).

Also another colleague found out the hard way that maxima can happen to solve symbolic/arithmetic linear equations much faster (2 orders of magnitude) than Mathematica.

A great tool. A pity it is underestimated.
The point is to extrapolate what I wrote.
PC. I've always enjoyed strategy games, both RTS and turn-based. Mouse + keyboard is still by far the best interface for it. I also don't game enough to have a dedicated setup.
When I first read the headline, I assumed this was some kind of query to the Intel Management Engine. But in this context, it's some good programming humor.
And you don`t get to decide how others should react to someone else articles content. Whether I believe the article is full of shit or not is my choice and I can express it freely why not?
On Black Fridays in the past, I've bought:

* Screenflow – the best screencasting software / surprisingly good general purpose video/audio editing software

* Access to Cruip.com – nice landing page / admin templates, with versions made separately in Vanilla HTML/React/Vue/Tailwind. I've used the Vue ones.

* Affinity Designer - a vector editor like Adobe Illustrator, but smaller footprint

(I have no affiliation to any of these)
I was mostly referring to Cliqz, but I don't like Pocket being forced in the browser itself. And all the "recommended from pocket" content on the home page.

Yes, you can disable it but why not make it a preinstalled extension that can be removed entirely.
i suppose, giving the authors the benefit of the doubt, one could make a statement like:

if one were to parameterize an entire line of evolution over time, and one were to parameterize a single intelligent being over time, then it is likely that the number of bits required to describe that evolutionary line (and the space of all evolutionary lines) is greater than the number of bits required to completely describe a single intelligent life form over time.

this still tells us nothing about the rules behind evolution, how an intelligence actually works, how evolution actually works and what would be necessary to manifest an intelligence.
My PC. I think that may change when I get my Steam Deck. I refuse to use a locked-down ecosystem.
> What makes the iTunes MP3 marketplace valuable?

The music is good, and it’s harder to get them elsewhere.

> What makes the Amazon Kindle text file marketplace valuable?

The books are good, and it’s harder to get them elsewhere.

> Does the convention and reputation-based open source nature of Web3 disturb you?

Why would anyone be disturbed by this? I see nothing wrong with people trading tokens. What is disturbing are claims that trading these tokens is equivalent to trading in the associated goods.
I've been in a retro game mood with GBA games, so I bought a RG351P. Emulates up to n64 and comfy to play in bed. They released a newer version, the RG351MP, with slightly different screen size. But interestingly there should be a chip upgrade in the next year that will allow smooth emulation up to ps2 (so they say, the current chips are old to say the least).

Retrododo has good reviews of these types of devices. Not affiliated, just think their content is good
I've been using jEdit for probably around 18 years until around a year ago when I fianlly switched to VSCode because, unfortunately, it just couldn't keep up with all the modern development in the dev tools space.

There are two features I really miss from jEdit:

* "dumb" autocomplete that will include any word in any open buffer, even if it's a different type (html/css/js). VSCode kindo of has word based autocomplete, but expected matches are just not there on third of teh time.

* HyperSearch (search result in the sidebar) when searching in the current buffer only. So much better than having one search mode for single buffer, and a completely different one when serching through multiple files.
Boba U4

Having used every tactile from Zilents to Holy Pandas, these are the first switches I'd consider a strict upgrade over the competition (including Topres)

They're crisp, come in silent and unsilenced (I prefer silent), and have uncanny tolerances which results in a consistency Topres can't match.
Postman opens in 14 seconds. What went wrong?
On paper this makes it even weirder, you would think the company that made its money from advertising would have done this - not the company that made its money letting people write VBA and macros
I'm not really sure that we saw anything is broken in the US. There isn't a strong consensus for intervention among the people, and we saw some states with intervention and some states with out, and not a lot of federal intervention. The results of intervention or not don't seem to have convinced many people to change their opinion, either.

This is what I would expect on any issue where there are large groups with strong feelings for and against intervention. Only if there is broad concensus or at least broad apathy would I expect uniform decision making.

It's certainly true that it's hard to make major interventions in such a decision making environment, but that's the system we set up. A benefit is that it's a lot easier to move to a different US state than to move to a different country if you don't like the government.
Schmidt is painted as the same by Assange in "Google is Not What It Seems", no?
Private cloud can be big Apex. Doesn't have to be though. The IBM's an HPE's of this world are perfectly happy to sell you PAYGO on prem solutions. Or you can lease the hardware.
This is about as off topic as you can get. The author doesn't discuss some kind of proportional assembly at all. Why shoehorn this in at all?
No, that doesn’t meet my requirement above. Nothing does, because Meta doesn’t impose the constraint I am talking about: it was a hypothetical example to try to convey to you the dynamics going on regarding NFTs that you seem to think you fully understand.
I've done that. But it gets annoying too.
Yeap the rectangular select and multi-line cursor thing! And the find replace with new lines. And so much else that mainstream IDEs seem to still struggle with!
And by Debian's definition, some of FSF's own packages are non-free (notably, the documentation), so you have to explicitly opt-in to installing that.

I wish both of them directed their efforts towards more pragmatic problems, like making their software more accessible. In the rest of the world, freedom is usually a function of accessibility.
The difficulty of hosting my own pages makes me prefer a system like Nostr[1] where the user doesn’t need any kind of account on a specific server.

I could also post markdown files over that too.

[1]: https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
another one:

https://www.sakailms.org/

https://sakai.screenstepslive.com/s/sakai_help

https://github.com/sakaiproject/sakai
Oh goodness - I’m just getting Bostics Sleepycat -> WiredTiger play now. Well done Keith.
> There is one complexity that you left out, which is that they are unknowingly spending more money on heat because of the "freeloader" that they share a wall with.

They would spend more if they were heating an outside wall with an average temperature below 19 degrees. The unheated apartment acts as additional insulation. An optimal arrangement would be for the hottest apartments to be in the core of the building with cooler apartments radiating out to the edges. But it makes sense in that scenario to price heat into a shared cost that everyone bears equally. No one would be happy with temperatures below their comfort threshold, and at the equilibrium heat flow that satisfies everyone it's worth just about the same marginal cost of keeping the temperature that way; one might offer slightly lower heating prices on the outlying apartments so that residents who had a very low comfort slope vs. temperature could pay slightly less for heat and be slightly cold, making an apartment free for a resident with a steeper comfort slope at a more affordable price.
Nice, a few more plugins and you'll have a semi-vanilla Vim!
Recently rented a small-ish Ford (a Puma) which had physical control for almost everything you'd want to adjust while driving, though the touchscreen was pretty crap (and didn't duplicate most of the physical controls, which I didn't mind).

Also it had one of those infuriating pseudo-analog control wheels, where you can keep spinning and spinning the wheel with no effect once it reaches either end of its selection course (the ones where the selection wraps around is also bad, incidentally, probably worse really), thankfully it was for something of low importance (controlling the regime of the headlamps between off, DRL, standard, and automatic, which has an indicator on the dash).
I've been holding off replacing an old stove I hate for that reason. If someone wants my thousand dollars they will make a stove that is easy to control.
and all filenames in the OS.
I know these responses might be a bit different than the question you are asking, but they lead back to the deeper question about lifestyle / finances /longevity.

Marry wisely. One of the biggest financial hits I took was a very costly divorce.

Don't be afraid to move to lower cost areas. Maybe not today, but realize that you might need to at different points in life in order to maximize your savings.

Realize that you might need to find a career niche or even a different career that value your age and experience. I did this and it's working well.

Take good care of your body and mind so that you can continue to work.

Live modestly. This isn't about whether you drink Starbucks every morning, but rather whether you use your money overall in the smartest way possible. If you live modestly, you can live on less, which means if you get to a point where you need to make career compromises you are in a position to do that.

If you are in tech, consider going to work at blue chip firm that makes its money in tech. You'll have variety in your career and it is likely they will still be in business 10, 20, 30 years from now, ie: if part of your desire to work a long time also revolves around stability and the likelihood you won't lose your job in a merger, etc at an age where it would be hard to find a new job.