skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
≥If you have two buttons, there is a third ‘object’ created, the decision a user must make on which button to tap. This cognitive load is invisible and rarely discussed but it can be a real source of confusion.

I was just making this argument on a kde mailing list about the kburgermenu. It hides the main menu, that I've been using for 30 years, behind a burger. It adds a surprising amount of cognitive load, and you don't need to be a UX professional to feel it. To their credit, the digikam team have so far resisted hiding the menu by default, but the first day you accidentally press ctrl±m will be a bad one, when you notice that menu missing.

And it is becoming fashionable now to drop the main menu altogether. Why, to save 10 pixels? Darktable and rawtherapee both have a lot of awesome features, but no menu bar. So they each have there own ideas on how best to reimagine the UI, and then you have to search the internet to learn how to do the equivalent of File ≥ Save As.

It's cool to be sleek, stylish and unique. But not in dangerous machine interfaces. FFS. I even heard that Musk got rid of the yellow/black striped safety tape from his factories, because they didn't fit his aesthetic aspirations. And I honestly don't know if that is a myth or not. Given this latest evidence, it is believable.

What is interesting is the fact that so much research, and expensive lessons in engineering and design are now ignored so easily. I wonder if it stems from a deeper societal phenomenon of denigrating the past? The younger generations, caricatured in the media as angry Greta Thumbergs, seem to have declared their undying enmity towards an generation they blame for their apocalyptic fate. So they also reject, instinctively, symbols of those people, the visible signs of the past, and the lessons handed down.

This may be a meandering rant, but I do feel that there is a real problem in UX and UI that is hurting us all. And fixing that requires some questioning of the root causes. Why did we collectively forget good UI paradigms and accessibility best practices?
Yes agree re: avoiding pricing and focusing on utility like ENS.

Your examples about web dev in the 90s got me wondering "what does Coinbase do today with ENS?". They're fans of ENS, surely whatever's great about ENS, Coinbase must be using it.

Well, as of today their ENS profile isn't anything radical [1], just an address, image, and link to their ENS delegate page.

That gets me thinking more about toyota.com. Do you think they had internal sites and computer resources before their public website? Just makes me wonder where their "toyota.com" site came from, was it as simple as "they heard about the web and then BAM immediately built a website". Wary of doing mental gymnastics myself tho, maybe this all just does mean crypto stuff is overhyped and not very useful.

[1] https://app.ens.domains/name/coinbase.eth/details
> Seeing as how 60-70 are both reasonable temperatures in Fahrenheit and speeds in miles per hour, it is not at all clear at a glance what that number means.

I would not even consider the speed being on the center console so I’d have assumed it would be the temperature either way.

However in all the cars I’ve used that would either be completely inanimate (as affordance as it would be easy to hit when trying to increase or decrease the temperature), or it would lead to extended climate control configuration (e.g. vent speed, multi-zone temps, …).

I’d never think of looking for the defroster there though: while defrosting uses the same hardware as climate control (heating and vents), it’s not actually the same function.
There’s a difference between stupid money grubbing stuff (which they’ve all been looking at) and risking safety by hiding safety critical systems.

I was referring to the later.
Thank you! So I get it that glaciers eroded miles of rock from the surface. But where is all that material? Was it moved to the mounds elsewhere? (where?). Was it ground into gravel, dust or silt and washed into the ocean?
I have also written a ledger using sqlite and go. It is not open source (yet) because somewhere in the git history may be traces of personal details. But at some point I think I will open it.

The way it works now is that I generate a directory structure from my bank account transactions. In each directory I put a text file thay describes my accounting transactions. The program parses this and inserts it into the database. From there it can generate reports.
Prodspec&Annealing: continuous declarative infrastructure management at Google
From a software perspective that’s still not far off.
Hmmm. I can't get the model to recognize a damped sinusoidal wave (10, 0, -10, 0, -5, 0, 5, ...). Does the model have the capacity to express such a function?

An equation is available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping

Pretty neat otherwise!! I especially love the interface. I wonder if there is a plug and play framework for deploying pytorch models on a website.

EDIT: They seem to be using https://streamlit.io . Seems like a neat tool.
> Wait, getting multiple vaccines ready but none were from the US.

See sibling comment on Moderna.

> The vaccine was practically ready on day 2 of COVID due to mRNA

No. "ready" as in we can produce a vile in a lab? Sure. Ready as in tested in the general population, mass production facilities, distribution networks? Absolutely not.

> So I'm not sure why Warp speed is considered a success?

Producing a vaccine is about the easiest part of warp speed. Having the supply chain needed to vaccinate the whole population in such a brief time? That's the success. Also, it's literally the entire point of TFA.
I thank you both for the analogy and the recommendation.
Completely agreed on all fronts: my point is that the "problem" is so complex that I think expecting a bureaucracy (which is guided by a political class that campaigns on basically one metric "how much did you spend on education") is unlikely to make much headway at all. If you want a reductionist soundbyte, as a political system we have goodhearted education spending and neglected truly important things which you have bulleted (and more important things in addition).
Lack of empathy? Definitely. Impulsive decision making? I'm not so sure.

What you describe sounds pretty BPD, especially with the black/white thinking (although I think hot/cold is clearer wording). I was more thinking along sinister lines here.

And indeed, zero regard for different points of view. Which is very logical when one finally understands that: if you are - in your own mind - the god of the universe and beyond, every other view is by definition beneath you.
Thats why touch screen controls are bad for a car. At least for the main controls. A gps pannel is different but auxiliary to the main controls.
Yeah, that's an obvious thing to do, right? However, the company armored themselves against this sort of competency attack against The Machine by having in-house IT by policy gate keep access to the ERP db tables, which are exactly as you describe, and can be reverse engineered. This does have the additional side effect of making it quite difficult (in practice impossible) to implement in-house statistical process control. Which, again, makes it much more difficult to, um, need to be diplomatic here... discover which processes could be improved. Much better to outsource to another corporate consulting parasite a multiyear/multimillion $$ effort indoctrinating the troops on the abstract importance of process.

However, I enthusiastically applaud your success! Seems it might be a tightrope act to balance "Ima worth a bunch of money to you" vs. management realizing "that nerd is a massive SPOF".
>the belief that anyone who is rich got that way by screwing over other people

Is this a symptom/cause of the crab-bucket mentality? It is here in Uruguay, as well, and I hold it myself, to my own detriment.

Is there a name for this? I want to read about it and see if I can change my mind, grow a bit.

Thank you
> an electric car has about the total-cost-of-ownership co2 footprint as a diesel (sic!)

That's nonsense, ICE propaganda which has been thoroughly debunked. Cf. https://energypost.eu/latest-data-shows-lifetime-emissions-o...

> I ride a bike or go by foot

Excellent! Can't be beat in terms of co2 footprint!
For me it’s probably fine. For Google, it’s not.
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Indeed. What is the largest button I have in my Renault's dash? It's the triangle-shaped hazard light switch. Do I ever use it? I hope not. Do I want it to be that big? Yes, I do.
Their application is also rather a downgrade. They promised fixes. Lets see. It's not super bad, but definitely a step back.
"Data proven decision" is just an excuse.

I didn't use defrost button for almost a year. Yesterday I had a snow storm and I wasn't able to find defrost function. It's appears you have to swipe up in climate settings of the app to see extra options. Why? Make it at least contextual. If I enable HI heat mode, suggest me these options if you think such option in hot countries is redundant, don't blame data.

Now just imagine an owner is not millennial on Gen Z, they will never find this option.

So with one simple update you turn them from proud tesla owners who heat up the car from snow from a warm sofa to a frustrated blocked by snow user. Even though the hardware is amazing.
In this scenario, I can only assume that corporations are not subject to the same tax, less you would destroy every medium to large business that competes internationally? This would be all domestic manufacturing for instance.

If so, I don’t imagine that funneling even larger amounts of capital into corporations is what you have in mind.

The point isn’t that the tax couldn’t be paid for, it that it’s an extremely perverse incentive against growing your business. Why bother trying when you will be forced to divest, or take on millions in personal loans on bad terms (illiquid asset), inevitably losing control? This policy would be a disaster.
Subconscious productivity hack when WFH
There are a lot of problems with this proposal, and it's also not clear what problem it's solving.

Battery life prevents using this for long hauls, but the idea of using these small pods that can easily split up on small industrial spurs doesn't make sense either - most of those non-main-line routes have manually thrown switches. So beyond the much higher unit economics of requiring 2 complex autonomous vehicles (and associated maintenance) per container instead of a basic hunk of steel with wheels, you still need to have a person travel with it to throw switches, or else upgrade every switch on every tiny, poorly maintained spur to be electrically operated.

There's also some strange claims by this company in the article, like the ability for these to carry double-stacks. If you look closely at current intermodal rolling stock, you'll notice that the containers are between bogies rather than above them. A double-stack container would sit too high to fit through standard tunnels and bridges if the containers were on top of the wheels. There's no possible way to accomplish this concept (a pod per end of a container) if you need the container to sit lower than the top of the wheels...

Maybe there's some potential with this idea, but I'm really not buying it based on what they're saying and showing so far.
For carts for retro platforms, wouldn't Nintendo/Sega sue for commercial activities? Just curious.
Not the same thing - broken analogy.

If anything is the case, web advertisers are using my car to drive to my mailbox and stuff it full of crap. Just like email spammers of the past, web advertisers are externalizing the costs of their ads onto all of us. They are morally in the wrong.
How are they terrible?

Having used cellphones since the 90s, my experiences with Android/Apple phones have been nothing short of remarkable and to be frank, life changing in terms of day-to-day utility.
Most GPUs are not self-sufficient to the degree that CPUs are. Where on a CPU, I can spawn an arbitrary child process/thread running (almost) any code with customized communication between the threads/processes, on a GPU, the hardware (and/or driver) implements the process loading and scheduling logic, usually restricted to a pattern that suits graphics applications. This means that there's a greater surface area for the graphics APIs to have unintuitive behavior.

GPU-driven rendering relies on some of the limited ability for the application programmer to schedule more work for the GPU _on_ the GPU (example: https://www.advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/aaltonenhaa...). Bindless rendering refers to the ability for the GPU shader to use resources on the GPU without having to announce to the driver that it intends to use those resources. Essentially, I'm saying that the layers between the application and its shaders are so opaque that for most ordinary people, the most reasonable solution is to use less of them wherever possible so that they can actually intuit the numbers they're seeing through microbenchmarking. In both cases, there's a code complexity and performance penalty, so if you're trying to get peak performance (like a AAA might), then there are good reasons to not do it. This is on top of portability concerns since not all hardware supports all the features that might be needed to do this.

If you're just trying to get into graphics though, I'd recommend starting with webgpu (where these techniques aren't possible, yet). The API is relatively clean and easy to work with compared to everything else, and I'm assuming performance won't be the primary concern.
It's a quick read and an interesting peek behind the curtain at Apple during the development of the iPhone, with a focus on designing elements like the keyboard and predictive text.

What I took away from it is that the design decisions at Apple are in the hands of a few. The chain of command is small, it takes countless iterations until it "feels" right and you obviously can't consult with too many people when it's a secret project. A/B testing is out of the question.
Being a web app that runs everywhere and is always up to date is a big part of Figma’s success. They’ve already crushed a very strong native desktop competitor.
The only people who benefit from yet another tax is the accountants who get paid to help the wealthy avoid those taxes.

The 1% already manage their affairs to reduce the amount of tax they pay, why would adding yet another tax change that?
And while the Pfizer one was majority developed by BioNTech, they lacked the expertise to actually produce it at scale.
I agree it's not a necessity, but I simply find that it works very well for me in practice, the vast majority of the time (current UI update aside).

For example, this may not be common, but I find I can glance at the speed/car status section of the screen more quickly than I can glance down at a set of dials in the traditional position, and weirdly the sidways/down glance seems to retain more peripheral vision of the windscreen/road than the downwards glance to the traditional location.
Noob question but are these layers in general built up from sediments eroded mostly from higher ground, volcanic activity, or both (or something else)?

In any case, if glaciers rapidly eroded kilometers of rock on a continent-wide or global scale, could evidence in similar layers be found for all that sediment when it is deposited by the glaciers? And if so, might that look different expected by the other theory (tectonic activity)?
How does notebook/Jupyter help? What does it add?
To each their own. I had a Tesla Model 3 Performance. The navigation was nice because of the big screen. Spotify never worked correctly for me (couldn't even see my playlists, for whatever reason).

What Tesla doesn't do well is voice control, including text message integration. Like, in theory that exists, but the text message integration failed for me after a couple weeks and nothing I tried could make it work again.

And no other apps supported by CarPlay, either. Things like Podcasts, different flavors of navigation apps, etc. You either get what Tesla offers, or nothing. Usually nothing.

And it's not like you can't have both. Tesla fans are good at telling me why I shouldn't want CarPlay, but that's just apologizing for Tesla. Other manufacturers offer CarPlay in addition to their own infotainment. Both my non-Tesla cars even put their own app in the CarPlay interface to make it easy to navigate around.
Spotify is in the same situation like Facebook is in the recent times; Spotify end up being content curation platform not platform which empowers creators and connects people. I think free speech is very important and problematic content should not be flagged and removed instead it should be labeled with something like "not fact checked", "controversial" etc.
Regardless, why does the experience differ so significantly? It clearly isn’t due to execution speed of the technology. Is it a leadership problem, a training problem, or something else? What’s missing?
Win32 should suffice.

You put lines with Direct2D and text with DirectWrite.
What's missing is a feature to share your creations.

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Apart from the low resolution of that scan, I find that easy to read.
> I'm sure the decision was "data driven" based on real life usage.

You're assuming Tesla's end goal is to make the car more usable, and not to maximize revenue.

Their goal is to be transportation smart TV. Sell apps, media, advertising, etc. That's why so much money is being poured into self-driving cars. Americans in particular spend a massive amount of time staring at pavement, and that represents a huge untapped market.

Self-driving cars aren't about the betterment of humanity; the deaths and injuries are certainly horrific in scale, but self-driving cars don't solve the primary problem: our heavy use of low occupancy vehicle trips is not sustainable environmentally, energy-wise, land-use wise (roads or parking), logistically, economically (6+ year car loans, crumbling infrastructure because we can't afford to keep it all in good repair, etc)
It's funny how much Elon trashes US regulatory agencies for interfering, when in fact that they let him do whatever he wants.
> Also worth noting, on the topic of culture, that while the heartland votes red, it's mostly just because of how the counties work.

I don't know about that. I grew up in Wichita, Kansas, and I've lived here most of my life (apart from a little over three years in the Seattle area while working at Microsoft). I grew up in an evangelical Christian home, and my parents have voted Republican for as far back as I remember. I rejected both their religion and their politics in my early 30s, but IMO, I did some of my best programming work before that. So if remote work really takes off, you might be surprised.

Addendum: I did get a college education, but it was from Wichita State University; for reasons having nothing to do with religion or culture, I was slow to leave home. So maybe I'm just an outlier that adds nothing worthwhile to this discussion.
Signal's and Matrix's position is quite different because Signal doesn't attempt to be a distributed eventually-consistent data store but simply a message transport. This is a trade-off which costs you some metadata leakage and is what leads to aggregations being a thing that is relevant for Matrix. It also gives you a lot of power, because you can now construct generic, distributed E2EE-enabled apps for "free".

That being said, there is still a lot of it that is up in the air. From what I've gathered, there's been talk about leaving aggregations to be done client-side specifically for reactions.
None of them. Consider supporting DRM-free music services: https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v12/ (scroll down).
Thank you much! Got my wires crossed apparently.

Applicable FAA Regs btw [https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-D...]
mRNA was an accomplishment to be sure. It’s a necessary but not sufficient condition. If you look at the stories for the rollout, the logistics challenge posed by mRNA vaccines were quite substantial, particularly refrigeration but also supply chain logistics in general were complicated. Warp Speed definitely was run competently by all accounts.
"New! Fresh! Shiny! Modern!"

UI is like fashion. Practical matters seem to be ignored, but it's desirable on novelty alone. I fully expect the trend to reverse once it becomes "old and boring".

And, "airlifted"? I've not heard that expression before.
Depends on the specific car (and frequently the trim level, as well). A lot of manufacturers have tightly integrated infotainment and you can't do a retrofit if nobody makes the right trim panel to allow it. Gone are the days when everyone used DIN or 2DIN.
> So in conclusion: [...] LE is definitely a NOBUS.

This sounds a lot like a conspiracy theory and I don't see in the article any explanation how that's relevant or possible.

LE doesn't force you to add CAA DNS records. Furthermore, you have CAs in your browser/machine that are far more sketchy than LE in the first place.

I think the article suffers from a clear point that I can put my finger on and say "oh yeah this is why LE is bad", in fact I don't see any points supporting that in a solid way. The article could be 1/5th the length and still achieve the same result.
They are designed for laptops so I would expect them to in theory be choosing the right voltage for whatever brand the plug was designed, but they should not be used on random electriconics unless they specify the output voltage!
For anyone interested, the article and the headline are about pretty different things.

I was kind of expecting an analysis of what the impact of scrapping isolation would be - the UK is likely to do this in the next few months across the board.

The majority of the article seems to be about the author's opinion on the pandemic in general and what people can do to mitigate it, there's only a very brief one or two sentence mention of the fact that they're going to work whilst having coronavirus.
I somewhat disagree. My brain does not see a climate control button and think "that button which can control fan speed and cabin temperature probably also controls the weakly-related function of window demisting".

I would have no trouble adapting one I knew, but I doubt that I would find it for myself. And relying upon users discovering where functions are located by randomly pressing buttons is a bad UX/interface for a vehicle IMO.

EDIT: Or how about this one as in my 2000 model S4: http://www.2040-parts.com/_content/items/images/50/340150/00...
I just threw that in as a lightning rod. In the USA, at least, "socialism" or "communism" or "radical left" is just something that conservatives use to label anything they don't like.
https://gitlab.com/dalibo/dramatiq-pg
Fonts on my website add up to around 40kb. It barely makes a difference.
You might be thinking of the UI as of a month ago. They've updated it last month and botched both the look and the experience, that's what this thread is mostly about.
That is fair. But by similar logic, some medieval lords technically also owned nothing. They merely were administrators for the king's land. And yet that position enabled social and political connections that translated into fabulous wealth. The ability to control the disposition of nationalized property as the Communist leaders had, was a form of wealth, in my opinion.
It's not great, but what I do is create a fake expense far into the future...