skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Touch screens are just their 60+ year old fossils deciding "that's hip, that's what kids want!" and probably their testing audiences responding more positively to images of flashy touch screens and shiny lights.

Driving a car with touch screens (new BMW or Mercedes) has left me very unimpressed. My 2016 VW Golf has actual buttons, switches, and knobs to twist and turn and press and flip.

Car reviewers, too, often say it's a shame that car manufacturers are switching to touch screen nonsense. It's such a shameful trend if you think about it. The BMW series of pre-2022 had buttons in the dashboard, but the upcoming new series will do away with those entirely.

Touch screens even find their way onto steering wheels and doors.

Of course, it's easy to understand why:

1. It's cheaper to produce;
2. It looks more expensive, so the price goes up;
3. Testing audiences respond positively to shiny lights;
4. Fossils decided that this is what the young people want.

Honestly, I hope European legislation makes it illegal at some point. For the sake of safety. With touch screens, even the most simple task requires you to take your eyes off the road in front of you; with regular buttons you could do many task just with touch.

What was even more surprising, to me, is that Mercedes had this amazing nice center console unit to control things with your arm in a rested position. They removed that piece of brilliance!

So, now you need to do everything with an outstretched arm in a moving vehicle to operate tiny buttons on a flat touch screen.

Oh, and the touch screen can only barely hit 60 frames per second and often feels much slower. They're even saving costs on GPU power in their fancy luxury cars.
Yes! I want a car interface designed by whoever is responsible for vim.
None of the DT approaches are going to be highly economical, for fundamental reasons. I do agree that Helion is the least dubious contender.
Pix 2208.10: SM 6.7 Support, GPU and Timing Capture Improvements
The man was "arrested" and it may have been a baseless arrest and it has not reach a court. The Saudi woman has been sentenced by a judge to 34 years prison term. Both events are not even close.
Got it in Mars as well
Using performance budgets in the Timing Capture metrics view
Each dollar diverted from building renewables + storage into building nukes brings climate catastrophe nearer.

Hydro generation sites are used up. We are demolishing dams, nowadays, because the fisheries they displace are way more valuable. (This does not make pumped hydro a bad idea: pumped hydro does not destroy fisheries.)
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I believe the pymc versions were resolved into developing version 4 of pymc. Development at https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc

It still depends on theano now evolved and renamed
https://aesara.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Current pyro has a Monte Carlo sampler

https://docs.pyro.ai/en/stable/_modules/pyro/infer/mcmc/nuts...
> Neither your ISP nor the government (assuming the VPN provider is in a "hostile" jurisdiction) can intercept, analyze or modify your Internet traffic when you are using a VPN to mask your Internet access.

This is exactly the problem with VPNs, they give you a false sense of security. When your traffic goes over the public internet, you should assume everyone and their grandmother can track it. So the traffic cannot be intercepted at your ISP, that only leaves a billion other places where it can be intercepted.

> The downside of course is that you are now forced to trust the VPN provider instead of the ISP

No. The point is neither should be trusted.
The only rational move is for aspiring owners to leave SF, and not for another crazy expansive city.

There is a gigantic country and world out there.
I’m driving a rental MG on vacation right now and today I managed to hit a button that made the speedometer on the digital gauge screen go away. It’s just… gone.

Hoping it comes back after being turned off overnight, or I’ll have to find a manual online somewhere.
And why not Carbon?
:-)
Bingo! This post was originally intended as an "engineering log" to work you through my thought process as I attacked putting Tailscale on the thing. It was also an exercise in trying to document how to think laterally and abuse second and third order properties of immutable operating systems to get them to do what you want.

Also as an aside, please use they or she to refer to me. I try to not be intrusive about it, but you are making a factual error by referring to me as "he".
Yes, the test was devised with people who had learned how the system and the screen work.
> What we call it doesn't matter, but what GP said is actually incorrect as written.

Please do point out which part of my comment is incorrect.

> Meaning if you are naively doing calories in vs calories out, or doing desired estimated calories out based on a table, you have an error factor significant enough to skew your results.

What does "naively doing calories in vs calories out" mean exactly? I agree that some people do it naively but where exactly was my comment naive?

> Calories In vs Calories Out is mediated by a factor, usually labeled S, which accounts for the individuals own metabolic factor.

Yes, the metabolic factor affects the numeric value of E_I and E_O (I never disputed that), but once you have determined their value (or bounded them as in my comment – which, as demonstrated, is orders of magnitude easier), the statement "weight loss occurs if E_O > E_I" remains correct.
It's all fun until someone else tries to quit your car.
> all platforms

Meaning Windows, Web/WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android, and Linux. So, no consoles.

But it looks good for many back-office applications.
China won't invade Taiwan.

The CCP is sabre rattling and blustering to look good to a domestic audience because it has lost huge face when Pelosi visited.

Here's a great video to watch on the topic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1sGjulgBBs

The CCP well knows that if it moves to take Taiwan then the outcome WILL be world war 3 and remember all those politicians are leading extremely comfortable lives with everything they could ever want - why risk it?

If China invades Taiwan - and I've read quite alot of stuff that says they don't even have the military capability to do so - then they'll be fighting everyone from Taiwan to USA to Japan and possibly India and who knows what other countries. They won't win, they know it.
> When I look at the world unfold in the 2020's, it seems very few people accounted for how much corruption, economics, social media, propaganda, etc. would factor into geopolitics.

While I agree that propaganda has never quite been as hyper-targeted to specific micro-populations as it is today, you can't forget the larger role propaganda has played since, say, the printing press. Especially propaganda tied to the same concerns as today: economic insecurity, racial and cultural in-groups and out-groups, etc. Ask a Southern male US citizen in the 1850s what he thought about the island of Cuba — although he likely never would have any interaction whatsoever with the island, its inhabitants or its politics, he would've encountered (and probably adopted) talking points given to him by propaganda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostend_Manifesto
Love this. As a Lisper I’m always intrigued by Clojure but as someone with no knowLedge of or desire to learn to JVM I stayed away since I figured eventually I’d hit JVM questions/issues I frankly didn’t feel like dealing with.

Is it really 100 percent compatible with Clojure or is that just aspirational.

Also, is it the case that lots of libraries/workflows outside the core language in Clojure assume Java integration? I always thought a big Clojure selling point was the awesomeness of Lisp while having full access to the libraries of Java.
Thank you! TIL :)
It's just cheaper to design and certificate one part and put it on multiple models than making dedicated analog controls for every new design. Touchscreens are just cost cutting measure. I wonder how many people died fiddling with car radios so one pencil pusher could get a bonus for skimming $10 off manufacturing cost.
France's energy supply is 70% derived from nuclear power, exporting huge amounts of electricity to the UK. Their system is under immense pressure currently due to heatwaves, causing rivers to dry up and heating the water that is required for cooling. There are other problems being discovered, as the article mentions:

>...the recent discovery of stress-corrosion cracking in pipes located in the critical cooling systems of numerous French nuclear units. A dozen reactors have been shut down, and no one knows how long it will take to fix them. It may take years. Meanwhile, the heat wave and drought in Europe this summer have forced other units to go offline, since river water flow no longer suffices as an adequate coolant. Altogether, French nuclear capacity has been effectively cut in half.
WW3 will not happen. Countries are not stupid to destroy the Earth.

Local wars here and there happened and will happen in the future. There's nothing special about Ukraine or Taiwan in that regard.

World will move from US-centric model to multi-polar model. One pole is China, one pole is Russia, one pole is EU, one pole is US, one pole is Iran. Confused about India but probably it'll be a separate pole as well. Probably there will be African pole and South-American pole. Economy, Internet, Science will be divided among those poles. Some poles will cooperate, some poles will not. Countries will join some pole or dive into anarchy. That's the script for next 50-100 years, then another country will rise as a world hegemon. I expect it to be China, but I might be wrong.
> This is unrelated to defamation laws in any way.

Did you even read the case-summary?

"The respondent commenced proceedings, claiming damages for defamation
from the appellant"
Ask HN: Did the Tesla return to work happen?
There was a big splash a couple of months ago with the letter Elon sent employees saying get back to the office.

What happened?

Did people go back?

Did people quit?
Very unlikely. Posturing regarding China is much cheaper than any action, the US was barely willing to take any action regarding Russia, and that's at least an order of magnitude cheaper. Consider that in any outright war, a company like Apple would no longer own anything beyond a trademark, and would have zero manufacturing ability. The costs would be massive - and for what? A small island in the Pacific?

As long as China doesn't launch missiles at the Pacific second island chain or carriers, an escalation to a world war even in a situation where they launch a military attack on Taiwan is unlikely.

Look beyond the rhetoric and I think even the ~ 20% odds on prediction sites is much too high, mostly clouded by recency bias.
Sure, a certain amount of good luck is always required.

I've been involved in two rewrites during the past 5 years. While the rewrites were not by choice (one was forced by Flash EOL), in both cases there were multiple, very obvious (after the fact) benefits:

- Better, modern technology top to bottom

- Better dev process, facilitated by the better technology

- An excuse to focus functionally, and rethink. We couldn't possibly reproduce a heap of legacy features and were forced to focus on what mattered, and managed to offer those key features in a far superior way.

Done right, a rewrite can be fantastic. And sure, rewrites often happen for the wrong reasons and at the wrong time.
But the point is you shouldn't trust either of them.
If it's drawn to their attention and they don't remove it, that seems reasonable.
Not OP, also I don't know if is sarcasm or not, but Carbon is just too new, I would understand somehow if you asked about Zig, but isn't also mature enough.
You also wonder if any sort of cost benefit analysis was done over decisions to mothball nuclear power plants after said event, compared, say, to restricting the building of houses in areas prone to tsunami damage (there's plenty of good reasons we need to stop living so close to shorelines yet it seems as popular as ever).
Gates-Backed Nuclear Co. TerraPower Announces $750M Secured in Fundraise
You are misunderstanding the problem.

The were converting the links, using AMP for instance, and driving traffic away from the publisher
It’ll be very very very painful, Great Depression and beyond levels of pain, but doable.

If it starts today, in 10-15 years the western world can be back to its current level.
FTFA:

> One important aspect of this test is that the drivers had time to get to know the cars and their infotainment systems before the test started.
I’ll just start by letting you know this is going to be a rather long post [and lots of images!] compared to its on-point findings.

I will take you through multiple blogs from all kinds of industries so we can identify primary trends and preferences when it comes to how often we publish articles on our company blogs.

Spoiler alert: There’s no common rule that says companies from the same industry need to opt for the same post frequency.
The whole thing with touchscreens in cars reminds me of the touch bar in MacBooks.
It's a nice looking gimmick if all you want is to show off but not suited for serious use.
I think it's a moot point.

One of the features of modern cars is conversational UIs (CUIs) that enable a truly hands-off approach from controls altogether, both touchscreen and analog.

I hardly use my car's touchscreen except for discoverability, and definitely not while driving. Speaking to the car is easier and more efficient:

- "I'm cold"

- "Turn on the windshield wipers"

- "Navigate to work"

CUIs have evolved to the point where controls are generally a hindrance to consumers and manufacturers both. Why include expensive, breakable analog controls when you can give the driver a better user experience hands off.
Douglas Engelbart Institute website domain is expired
You might know Doug Engelbart from his 1968 “Mother of All Demos”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

I just noticed that the domain dougengelbart.org which hosted the Douglas Engelbart Institute pages has expired.

I thought it had been taken over by a content farm because of the stuff Directnic puts on expired domains. If you really want to see it, replace “https:” with “http:”.

The Internet Archive shows that it was still up the 11th of August: https://web.archive.org/web/20220811215128/https://www.douge...

Can anyone contact whoever is in charge of it? All I have is the email address info at that domain: https://web.archive.org/web/20220614213753/https://www.douge...

EDIT: I did send an email to that address, there is still an MX DNS record and I did not get any error messages. Maybe it works.

EDIT2: just notified them with a reply in Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristinaDEI/status/1549812063387561986
My half Ukrainian wife says that the US is willing to fight the war in Ukraine until the last Ukrainian.
Not a Rust dev but I like the language. I've learned embedded over the last few years. I used to hate C and avoid it like the plague. On a good day now I kind of enjoy it, in some sick perverse twisted way. I'd say in general the embedded space is more project-centric in general thus new stacks are not at as significant a disadvantage as in backend land at the lower end of the project complexity and regulatory ingress spectrum. You will see gaps in terms of device driver availability and maturity and integration level with silicon vendor toolkits. However, since most projects do not use too much exotic hardware writing one or two I2C or SPI drivers won't take forever, you're probably OK to go Rust. But realistically, for complex stuff, you're going to run in to wall after wall that will eat time and money. If you can meld C/C++ and Rust in one binary or reach godlike device driver implementation status then you'll be relatively free of issues but while I'm sure that's possible once you're at the point where you're writing the whole stack you might be best to look for a job with a silicon vendor overhauling their toolkit for Rust support, since base library and code generation will help shift more product than any one shop. Try writing to TI/NXP/Renesas/STM/Freescale/Microchip/NXP/Atmel's HR department and asking for scope: I'd be surprised if you received zero interest.
Can you name a few of those rough edges in the tooling? Thanks
Objective-C is the ABI of all UI-related macOS frameworks and it would probably always be. Even if you're writing in Swift, as long as you're using AppKit, you're using Objective-C classes under the hood. There's no such thing as "Swift Cocoa APIs". And SwiftUI is an abstraction layer on top of, again, AppKit/UIKit/WatchKit, which are themselves all written in Objective-C.
> China preparing to invade Taiwan

They have been preparing for a long time, but Taiwan is preparing extremely well, too. If China decides to strike, they will take enormous damage and if they succeed, they will just get some barren land with toxic waste which is an unreasonably high price to pay and completely unnecessary - it's not like they lack land like Bangladesh.
Where’s China proxywarring?
Because of business, I cannot switch to linux. For personal use, sure, no problem. But if you use Adobe for business, linux is out unfortunately.
If a function can be controlled from more than one place (such as power windows or locks that can also be controlled from the driver’s seat or key fob, or anything controllable by software via central control panel) then you can’t really have a manual, state-full control for any of it since it can go out of sync with the state of the function.

The exception would be to put a tiny motor on each control to keep it synced up, but the cost to reliability (not to mention just money) would be unacceptably high.
"Cost" - a truckload of fertilizer? Turning a lake into a dead zone might happen on its own if there is insufficient circulation. Pits for brown coal are likely suitable because they used to be bogs in the past.
The problem with war is that you lose control of the situation extremely fast.

Whether the countries want to go to war doesn’t matter when a bluff that isn’t a bluff is called.
the other day we had a post that win32 is the only stable abi on Linux. interesting to see if that happens with .net
And `mpg`/`l/100k` please!
When did the US 'flex their muscles' over Ukraine? There was absolutely zero talk of the US/NATO directly intervening militarily in Ukraine.

As for Taiwan, it's an unknown and if you claim otherwise, you're doing it based on nothing. Biden has clearly and repeatedly stated that the US would defend Taiwan. Not saying the US actually wants to, maybe it's just a deterrent. However, if China does attack and the US backs off, that would mean the end of American supremacy regardless.
I’m wondering where the code ‘runs’ is it in the browser or on the cloud.
For example if I have an app that connects to MQTT can I connect to a private broker inside my network
We have plenty of calm freshwater sites for solar, so there will be no need for ocean solar.
It's very nicely done, but I'm afraid I don't "get it" with things like this and written out calculators in general. Why would I type out something long like:

"
Alice's food = £30
Bob's food = £25
VAT = 20%
Alice's food + Bob's food + VAT
"

Rather than just punch (30+25)*1.2 straight into a calculator?
Sure, why not. Wars happen. World wars happen. Peace was never supposed to be eternal.

I started pivoting my software engineering skills to be more useful at wartime since 2018 (GIS, simulations, network analysis etc.)
There’s 0 chance a South American pole forms so long as the US is around.
I'm shocked no one mentions voice control. Isn't that superior to both touchscreens and physical knobs?
Sure. My point is, the hardware is not directly executing Java bytecode, so I don't think I would say Java is native to Android in the traditional sense of the word. Google themselves make the distinction between Java code and native code.
From Carbon's FAQ[1]:

> Why not Rust?
If you can use Rust, ignore Carbon.

So that's probably one reason.

[1]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...
Agreed. While that translates into 30k pounds today, one has to also factor in the cost of living in Bengal at the time.

While she rented in a poor area, would 17 pounds have been on the high end or low end for the kind of living quarters it got her? What were the price levels in general for food, clothes and so on? You'd have to look at rent levels in that area at the time to make an accurate assertion.

> Even with all this misfortune, all of them seem to have done well later.

They clearly did. One unanswered question is what the intentions were behind her petition to take her children on the Bengal Military Orphan Society. Was there a real hard pressure to take such a drastic measure? Or was this a desperate plea in hopes of drawing attention and financial help from elsewhere e.g. erstwhile social circles she frequented?

Ultimately, the article does mention that the petition was denied, yet doesn't answer how she made ends meet in the following three years before the family moved again.
What problems like this (and the Monty Hall one) really illustrate is that a piece of information like "one of the frogs is male" or "there is a goat behind this door" is not independent of how you got it. You have to account for the different probabilities of getting that info in every scenario.

The important missing clue in this riddle is: When exactly does a male frog croak? What are the probabilities? The solution proposed in the video assumes that the probability of hearing a croak is the same as long as at least one of the frogs is male. But it should be twice as likely to hear a croak from two male frogs, which increases the posterior probability of two males and decreases your chances of survival to 1/2.
I don't believe NATO will work in case of direct attack from Russia, e.g. if Russia decided to "denationalise" Poland or Litva. They'll send weapons and may be some limited help, but they won't engage into a full scale war, I don't believe it. There's no point for US soldier to die for Poland territory, especially knowing that it'll cause nuclear response killing his family. NATO is good as long as nobody powerful challenges it. It won't last forever.
Because that is a false equivalency. And also, you never responded with your bank info.
> The TikTok spying is probably irrelevant since most TikTok users are teenagers.

Guess what those teenagers will be in like 10 years.
It's called ergonomics [1].

The "crapification" you describe is the creep away from the scientific
principles that once underpinned this field. Before UX we had HCI
(Human Computer Interaction) which was in turn a development of CE
(Cognitive Ergonomics) and other "human factors" sciences.

These sciences were rooted in very rigorous but time consuming tests,
observation, psychology and physiology.

from TFA: "Designers want a "clean" interior with minimal switchgear"

This is where the wheels fall off the wagon. Should "what designers
want" be high amongst the priorities for safety critical products?

[1] https://iea.cc/what-is-ergonomics/
Using SSH_config Match to connect to a host using multiple IP or Hostnames
Except SwiftUI is itself built on top of AppKit/UIKit.
Climate change is on