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It’s also a multistep process with a touch screen: 1) find the button on the screen 2) lean over to reach it 3) touch it and look at it while doing so to confirm you did it right.

In a clickwheel car the wheel moves the focus rect. You twist it blindly to approximately the right spot. Then you look at the screen and adjust one or two clicks and press to confirm. You won’t trigger the wrong action by accident and the focus rect makes the operation async: you don’t have to look while you turn the wheel, you can look at the screen when it suits you.
I really don't think that's true. I'd be happy to look at past data to check that, if you have any links that you recall giving you this impression, but in my memory, the Tailscale people did basically nothing to promote themselves on HN and the user reaction (including from whatever high-karma users) was completely organic.

I do think the pedigree of the founders helps them a lot, but that's a different issue and also counts as completely organic. It's just harder to pull off if you haven't put in 20 years of hard work beforehand.

It's so soul- and bone-crushingly difficult for most startups to get attention on HN that I understand why it seems like these 'darling' successes must be pulling strings or knobs or levers, but it's really not like that. It's actually the other way around: if anyone does try to pull strings or knobs or levers, but without doing work and writing content that the community is genuinely excited by, the result would be a community backlash.

The other side is that the 'darling status' phenomenon is interesting and contains lessons for people who do hope to get attention for their work on HN.
The question is not just how much Excel costs, it is how much revenue it helps bring in. And in many places, it brings more than it costs. Nothing is worse than a poorly designed webapp that was supposed to solve the "Excel problem" in a process.
Without concrete examples of good v bad behaviour it’s a lonely call in the void, IMHO. Without a clear commitment to solid versioning, where it is clear what is considered ready and stable v WIP it also doesn’t really help. Good will on all sides depends on understanding and communicating. This is a task for all.
> We're at extremely low unemployment

Back in 2018/2019, when I got curious and looked at what signals people look at for recessions, too low unemployment was one of them.
There's only one button I press for my climate control, AUTO. Everything else is just a waste of space to me. Auto climate controls with some decent low-emissive tint on my cars have been fine for over 20 years, and I live in a place that gets snow and >100F temperatures over the course of the year, at somewhat low latitude for the US so I get lots of long sunny days.

I do agree with the idea that not everything should be behind a screen. There's one button I miss on my car with mostly just a touchscreen. My many-buttoned car has a button to engage the 360 cameras while at a low speed even in drive. That's so useful for parking rather than waiting until I get close to something for the car to automatically show it.

But even then, theoretically that could easily be achieved without me needing to press a button. I'd love for there to just be a toggle to say "if I'm creeping and the radar senses I'm probably in a parking lot or garage, engage the cameras". It wouldn't be that hard for the car to tell that I'm going slow in a narrow space with lots of probably-car-like-things on the sensors and cameras.
The comments here all sound like "this thing can never replace me". But if it's an inscrutable black box that performs better on the bottom line metrics (which is something AI can be trained for) then how is it different than all the other AIs that play chess better etc. but can't explain how they do it, because it's a strategy encoded in a million-dimensional vector space?
Where in my comment did I use or refer to the resting burn rate? This is precisely the point: If you can bound the total calories burned (E_O) from below (by means of the laws of physics), individual variations of metabolism don't matter – the calories must have been burnt by the person in question no matter what.
The reason cars are as insanely cheap as they are for the level of manufacturing and design sophistication within them is because of many, many such cost reductions across the whole vehicle (which is made possible by the large scale on which they are manufactured).
The availability of cheap and easy debt is the main thing that has changed in this economy. Startups that don't rely on debt for financing are still doing fine.
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Yes! I think the problem is that it looks simple to build. But once you get in the weeds - its not so easy to manage performance, flexibility and stability :)
Just a thought, incentive-wise. Could part of the motivation for automakers to use touch-screens involve regulatory risk? It is one challenge to freeze requirements within a companies own process well enough in advance. It is a risk to have those requirements changed from outside. And what if regulators start to assume touchscreens and lower cost of implementation.
Thanks for clarifying that. I stand corrected.

It all makes sense from just the financial point of view. So that means it isn't going away any time soon, unless there's a huge backlash from consumers.

Perhaps the best thing we can hope for is 1 car manufacturer deciding: "Buttons first, touch screen(s) second."

Let consumers decide with their wallets. Though, I wouldn't be surprised that many consumers go for an inferior product just because it looks cool. Because that, unfortunately, is how humans work.
Election day not being a holiday in the USA is weird
> Stuff like climate controls, pausing music, or switching driving modes.

None of these things are things you need to be doing while actively driving.
It's always been hard for people in those income buckets. But if the question is: are we in a massive economic downturn over the past half year, it's really hard for me to look at the data and answer with a yes.

One thing I'm looking at is:

https://realtimeinequality.org/

And that's showing that for the first time in over a decade, the bottom half is seeing real wage/wealth gains, even after recent inflation. Am I missing something? Because your sentiment is the more common one.
From my, very limited understanding, the big benefit is the representation of obligations and receivables.

For example, if you take a bank loan of $1 you’d make an entry for your cash balance to be $1 and your obligations to your bank being $1. Your books are balanced.

Now you use that $1 to buy a machine. $1 down from your cash, $1 up in your non-cash assets.

For what if instead you pay someone for a service for $1? $1 added to your expenses, $1 down from your cash.

And so on, and so on. At the end of the day you have a fairly good idea where your money is coming from and where it’s going as well as any outstanding obligations and receivables.

One of the main aspect is that there’s an element of validation in here. If your books aren’t balanced, something is off.
Yes, its from the standpoint of me, as a developer, using these things to improve my own workflow... not to use to automate stuff.

Even the control master thing, I mentioned it goes against the purpose of the yubikey, but then I explain how I use it only for github and only for a few seconds to prevent having to touch the key nonstop when updating nvim plugins and such... IMHO its a good tradeoff...
This sounds like a free activity or daycamp for kids[1]. I don't see what the big deal is. Gives kids a hobby and keeps them from getting into trouble. Probably a net savings long term when you consider the cost of dealing with youth crime.

By this name logic, public libraries and museums are also a waste of money.

[1] https://kids-fishing.com/fishing-chicago/

Edit: It's also worth considering the scale of the problem vs the cost of a program like this. The article says that the state is billions in debt, meanwhile this costs .35 million - probably less than the average house in Illinois. A debt of billions seems more structural in nature than small, possibly unwise spends like this. This is the political equivalent of boomers telling young people that they could afford a house if only they cut back on avocado toast.
You're not ever going to see long-term, broad price drops. That would be deflation.

Your statement appears highly misleading, as if you don't understand the topic. Prices (in the U.S.) did not rise at all in July, so it's not clear what you could mean by "8.5% month-to-month" which, as stated, would be a spectacular and unprecedented rate. The month-over-month inflation in July was none. Prices rose 8.5% vs. year-ago.
I'd hesitate to even call myself a musical dilitante over the past decade, but it was my primary medium from my teens to mid twenties. Having graduated culinary school in my late twenties and now getting my first actual degree– a design BFA– a bit over a decade later, I'm often struck by the similarities among creative endeavors. Conceptual elements like texture, metaphorical or otherwise, can interface with so many of the same underlying emotional triggers in such interesting ways. These realizations certainly would have made me a better musician. Too focused on the composition and not enough on the feel. I think it was because my first guitar teacher, my dad, is a mechanical engineer. He's a far better musician than I am, but he's just used to communicating ideas in cut and dried technical terms.

Technical stuff is important, but for menu development, I'd partner with an experienced creative musician who can confidently manipulate abstract concepts over someone who'd memorized a food science text book, any day.
There’s early voting.
This is incorrect on a political and economic level. Fwiw I live in lower Manhattan, so I’m not saying this because I benefit from suburban subsidies. But if the country as whole subsidizes roads and services for a suburb of net positive income tax payers with otherwise low usage of welfare services, there is an economic logic to that. And obviously it gets votes.

As much as I like living in a dense area and riding my bike, the rise of the YouTube educated urban planner has led to a lot conclusions that aren’t particularly sound. Doing a flaw P&L on a small town and deciding, in so many words, that it shouldn’t exist is peak smugness.
While I don't have the 1st class experience, I recently went overnight with a sleeping train, and was unlucky to find the slower 7 hour one already full, so I had to go with the faster one, which only let me sleep for 5 hours, leaving me a bit dazed at the train station at 5am.

Sometimes speed isn't better :).
Exactly. Why can't we invent better manual controls that don't wear out as quickly, rather than switching entirely to something as problematic as a screen?
Tearing out cement and putting down differently arranged cement is just wasteful. The Channel likes to dwell on how the Netherlands do all these things, but the creator fails to ever mention what pays for them there.

Hint - It's oil and gas revenue.
Then don't work for Apple, that's fine. There are plenty of companies who are fully remote.
Genuinely curious, what do you like about it compared to Win10?

I've only tried it in a VM for a few minutes so far, but was unnerved by the general feeling of 'pretty, but impractical', mainly thanks to the taskbar and the right-click 'hide everything by default' context menu.
Many of them make the seat position selectable based on the key fob used to unlock the car - this is order qualifying in anything I buy these days.
Mine triggers when I say my kid's name with different vowels and number of syllables. I had to turn it off.

If I have to press a button to make it work I might as well press the button that does what I want.

It seems like a good idea for adjusting the climate control but I apparently didn't pay enough and it replies something along the lines of "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

So far it hasn't offered a monthly subscription to enable that feature.
Most people who aren't rich are poor because they showboat.
I am the author of NoteCalc, and it warms my heart that my project is mentioned here :)

As a sidenote I would like to mention that NoteCalc is still in active (but slow) development, though I do it privately, and the next big release will be definitely this year.
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> not being registered was the biggest reason people didn’t vote, above apathy and political disengagement.

And it seems likely they didn't make the (often minimal) effort to get registered because of apathy or political disengagement.
> The entire point of FTX, ultimately, is to take money from crypto traders and put it into Effective Altruism charities.

The entire point of FTX is to profit from the unregulated crypto markets by front-running his clients with the FTX-Alameda combo and pump (to bring in new cows to milk) and dumping (to crash the markets and buy sinking companies on fire sale) the markets; while waving the altruism flag.
Ex graphic designer here, but don't (and never have) used Mac. I highly respect this project and initiative, and the following is more a commentary on my own reaction than your product.

I read the title--finesse of MacOS. I open the link, and the first thing I see at the top is the circular raven logo vertically misaligned with the header on mobile.

That made me think, okay let's try desktop version instead, so I switched to desktop render (still on mobile browser) -- this time the logo is vertically aligned but the padding / margin on top and bottom are lower than on the left.

This is of course nitpicking in the larger scheme of things--I haven't tried the OS, but the screenshots look great and definitely look like MacOS. However, with the title setting up expectations and the first impression being of a misaligned logo made me (unfairly) dismiss the project since I felt you were trying to claim a level of finesse that might not be there.

I don't use Linux, so I'll never really use this product, but it's interesting to me--why do people / projects/teams (in general--not just this product) try to emulate the "finesse" of Apple products? To me, it sets up unrealistic expectations from that product, and I might dismiss an otherwise excellent solution if it doesn't live up to that comparison.
I'm hoping for two things, and I mean "hope," not "expect." The first hope is for the growth of aftermarket mods that electrify internal combustion cars.[1][2] They don't save you money right now but maybe costs will come down. They'll never be as slick as the OTS stuff.

The second is even more distant, and that is for the right to repair to extend to cars so that we can safely mod all the software that comes with a modern car. Then, at least if we don't want it we can turn it off.

One bright spot though is a massive growth in non-car transportation. I work by the window in a lower middle class neighborhood in a small town and I already see all kinds of cool e-bikes, scooters and hell-knows what whizzing by the house. No room for awful electronics on those, they're just wheels, motors, and helmets. Here in Colorado something like that would serve 80% of my transportation needs. Maybe renting a car for the other 20% becomes more of an option.

[1] https://www.electric-cars-are-for-girls.com/electric-car-con...
[2] https://canev.com/
Yeah, actually. But maybe a bit nicer. Think like 2-4 dials that have multiple functions (adjust temp, volume, seat warmer, etc.) with a small OLED to indicate which, then like 4-6 buttons above the dials (but below the screen) that have ATM style multi-function with the infotainment screen (or themselves have small OLEDs).
They also state they can and will shut down your service for copyright infringement.
"Can I run Photoshop?"
As a Codespaces competitor, glad to see a Codespaces user giving us some attention.

Love to see how you like Nimbus and how you feel the difference between different alternatives.
Why are people reading emails during these breaks? By not reacting everyone would quickly understand that off means off.
Increasing real estate values are directly related to increasing poverty and homelessness. The reason is pretty simple- when housing prices go up, rents go up. When rents go up, people have trouble affording them. They deplete their savings and are at risk of becoming homeless. That's why you get million dollar homes with people sleeping on the sidewalk outside.

Normally, there would be a negative feedback mechanism to push back against this- when people can't pay rent or mortgage, then the prices would go back down. But if inequality increases enough, and there's a lot of extra cash sloshing around in the economy to be pushed into real estate as an investment rather than as a place to live, the feedback path breaks down as you have investors buying homes to flip them or just have a place to park their money, and the people who actually need homes to live in suffer for it.
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Well, I’m afraid for your case there’s no silver bullet, neither hardware nor software. If you really need to improve things, you should refactor code, and especially data structures, for performance. Couple tips.

I recommend staying away from GPGPUs, at least for now. Porting things from CPU to GPU, especially in the cross-platform code base, is relatively hard on it’s own. Unless you’re fine with vendor lock-in to nVidia: CUDA is easier to integrate than the others.

Viewing SIMD lanes as equivalents of GPU threads is only one possible approach. It’s also possible to leverage these fixed-length vectors as they are, within a single logical thread. A trivial example — all modern implementations of memcpy() are using SSE2 or AVX instructions to sequentially move these bytes without any parallelism. You obviously don’t need to implement memcpy because already in the standard library, but SSE2 and AVX2 sets have hundreds of instructions for manipulating integer lanes in these vectors.
It's because a lot of the problem has to do with how Car centric the US is and Suburbs in particular are extremely car dependent. It's not super clear you can change that without massively rebuilding them.

So take an example: let's say you want to go grocery shopping from your home in a walk-able urban center, it could be a 10 minute walk to get that done.

In my suburban neighborhood a 6 minute drive to the nearest grocery store becomes a 50 minute walk along 3 lane highways.
The cost of fixing hardware failure in a final product is not the same thing as the cost of developing and mass-producing the product.

For example, we're not talking about one button, we're talking about a lot of buttons, usually custom-made for the car in question. The whole dashboard physically has to be designed around them. Meanwhile Tesla just slaps a screen on a mount in the middle of the car and calls it a day. It's basically "we have to get everything right the first time" vs "fuck it, we can always fix things in a later software update". Which is a way to save costs by cutting corners.

The buttons all have their own complicated logic too, although I suppose that even with physical buttons one can handle almost all of that purely through software these days, so that's not really as much of an issue any more as it used to be (it does make me terrified that cars can be hacked and bricked, but I digress).

Speaking of a lot of buttons, that's the other thing: if all your buttons are virtual, you can have infinite buttons! The only thing we have to do is introduce a ton of mode switches! Which is absolutely terrible when you're driving, but nobody seems to care! So we can cram a ton of features into a screen that would otherwise require a million buttons, and use that in marketing. Even though we'd probably be better off if some time was spent to whittle things down to the essentials and design the interface around those cleanly.
Would you argue that software isn't a core competency for Apple or Samsung because they sell phones? Same situation.

Modern vehicles are just distributed computers with tires, and self driving vehicles are worse. Virtually every feature is either massively supported or entirely enabled by software.
> I want to get my thoughts out of my head as soon as possible

Why, is there something wrong with them?

> I think the author might have chosen the traditional way of note-taking, because he just doesn't have the patience or the particular obsession to tailor the note-taking system.

Because nothing says "This is naturally the best way for humans to do something" as clearly as it requiring patience or a "particular obsession", right?
Somewhat convoluted but I have started experimenting with treating my venv as immutable. So I do this:

- Manually created requirements.txt with top level production requirements

- Manually created requirements-dev.txt with top level dev requirements.

- pip freeze > requirements-lock.txt (with no dev dependencies)

When installing a new requirement:

1. Delete old venv and create new empty one.

2. pip install -r requirements.txt

3. pip freeze > requirements-lock.txt

4. pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

This ensures your requirements-freeze.txt doesn’t include dev dependencies. With most packages that have binaries now releasing wheels the install isn’t too slow.

Technically you could just save a copy of the venv after step 2 to speed up the process of installing new requirements.
I must have missed the 56+ Ford Sync monthly updates. Do you know where I can download them?
Then each renter will become a homeowner, they will feel very comfortable, have 4 kids, and now you will need 4x more units.

Then their kids will have 4 kids, and you'll need 16x more units with respect to where you started.

Few generations after you have a much deeper problem that the one you started with. Now you live in a country with a population of over 1 billion, where protests cannot be controlled anymore and now you need a totalitarian regime with a massive surveillance and censorship apparatus to keep things under control.

The alternative is that everyone is stressed out and feels the pressure of a system that is over capacity.

Have you heard of Earth day? In 2022, it was April 22. It means that by April 22 we already consumed our environmental budget for the full year.

If we continue like this it's not going to be long until there's mandatory population control.

NOTE: this was edited
Elon Musk writes magazine column for China's Cyberspace Administration
The self-styled "free speech absolutist" writes column in a magazine published by the Chinese government administration in charge of online censorship.
FWIW this is what Audi's MMI does. (Or used to do? My car is old.)

The control panel has:

* 6-8 buttons for switching between different MMI modes, labeled

* 4 universal buttons, function contextual to the current screen

* 1 return button

* Turn/press controller

I can navigate 90% of the menus blindfolded. Despite my older MMI not being a marvel of UX, I can access functions 5 actions deep, while driving, from pure muscle memory.
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It's not intentional, just a side effect of using musl libc instead of glibc (GNU C library).

Some distros, such as alpine Linux, use musl libc as their system wide C library.

glibc is pretty much ubiquitous, so any closed source software will be compiled against glibc and will not work with musl c libraries.

That's not to say a vendor couldn't do a muslc build of a closed source software, just that it's pretty much unheard of.

I believe binary compatibility is a goal of musl, being able to run a glibc binary against a musl libc library, but I think that's a long way off.

So an alternative on a musl libc distro is to use something like flatpak that bundles glibc libraries in a sandbox / container.

The side effect the grandparent comment is referring to, is that you have a good idea all the software on your system is open source, other than what you are running in flatpak, as closed source binaries are unlikely to run on your musl system.