skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I drive a 2007 pre-touchscreen car, and have told the dealer every time I go in for service (yeah, yeah) that I will hold on to this car until the bitter end because it has physical buttons. I tell them "I can 'touch type' this car" i.e. I never need to take my eyes off the road in order make a critical adjustment.

I've driven a LOT of rental cars in the last 5 years, and the de-standardization of the interface elements -- even how to shift!, increasing distraction and eye-aversion has made the highway driving experience much worse - both as a driver and someone who has to share the roads with distracted people baffled by their cars.
Oh yeah. I never thought I'd have the warm fuzzies for a USB PSU until the PinePower.
According to the tests:

* The one and only physical button car took 10 seconds total to complete their tasks

* Two touch-screen cars (Volvo C40 and Dacia Sandero) took only 13 seconds to complete the tasks

* Most touch-screen cars take 20-40 seconds

These results are certainly consistent with the hypothesis, "A moderately well-designed physical interface is likely to be better than an extremely well-designed touch-screen interface". But it's not really enough data to support the hypothesis that all physical interfaces are better than all touch-screen interfaces. You'd want to see what the curve looks like -- with it so close, it's quite possible that some, or even many, physical interfaces would take longer than 13 seconds for their benchmark.

And if you slow people down by 30% but reduce costs by a significant fraction, I think that's probably worth it.
Driving feels dangerous. It feels like whenever I commute into the city, there's a motor accident of some kind.

It's not surprising since you're basically forcing million of people to control 2 tons vehicles. Inevitably, for one reason or another, someone's going to make a mistake.
> start calling themselves "nightly" distros

It's not a "nightly" distro, it's a "let's take patches that are unfinished, release them into the wild onto unsuspecting users, and let the upstream developers deal with it" distro.
Every time I see this format of a title:

"$EXTREMELY_OBVIOUS_THING that literally everyone outside the corporations knows, $STUDY_FINDS"

...I lose a little bit of hope for humanity.

Physical knobs, levers, buttons etc. have superior usability and the fact that car manufacturers deliberately closed their eyes on that is only saying bad things about them.

What's even more despairing is seeing comments arguing in favor: "it's cheaper". Yeah well, it's also cheaper to die on the road because you couldn't press the touch-screen control and not live 20-50 more years and pay those pesky bills and food now, is it? Both what they say and what I said are complete non-sequiturs.

What's "cheaper" might seem like an awesome idea to some manager looking for a promotion but they never play the long game. They'll be gone and another more sensible human will take their place... eventually. Any day now... Maybe this century?...

[starts crying]
> Just like your unfortunate and unnecessary anti-American comments that got you downvoted

anti-American? Seek help buddy.

> It would be so much stronger if you simply qualified your claim as your own belief and left it at that, or did some Googling to find stats.

Look, my claim is obvious to anyone who isn’t completely out of touch with the world outside of North America.

“Googling to find stats”? There obviously isn’t going to be any meaningful numbers to be found on Google wrt this.

Using cars for food deliveries is a completely ridiculous idea in most cities of the world. There’s no parking! How are you going to deliver food with a car when there’s no free parking?

Shit, what do you think are the odds that a food delivery guy can even afford a car in most of the world? There’s something like 1 billion passenger cars in the world, that leaves you with something like 1 8th of a car per person.

This really is as obvious as “the sky is blue”.

To suggest that you’re trolling is simply the most charitable way to interpret your comment.
I would like the process for android phones with postmarketOS to be easier. In the end for a lot of these devices you have to work around vendor weirdness.

Luckily it seems like SHIFT Phones is actually improving the situation, they actually have one of their developers helping out with the kernel development and the device is not terribly hard to get postmarketOS on and I think it'll only get easier to dual boot that device in the future. Sadly the SHIFT 6mq that is supported is also not nearly as cheap as a PinePhone. Hopefully we can get similar levels of support on their cheaper mediatek devices.
What a coincidence, me too. I think there should be a marketplace for them. Ability to lock changes, or go back to an earlier version of your algorithm. Power user tools for curating it better.

That's the next influencer game imo. Having people want to see your feed(s)
Its a joke, because vim is so difficult to exit from.
Are you speaking for yourself?
It had been way better earlier, both on Roman and Greek coinage. Some of the Greek coins would put anything modern to shame. For some reason the quality of the coinage at the end of the roman empire (what we'd call the byzantine empire, even though they'd have just called themselves romans) took a major turn for the worse in terms of artistic quality.
Pretty much all the photos of water reflecting mountains are obviously fake because the reflections are wrong. Seeing the wrong mountains & clouds in the reflection kinda triggers me a little bit, I wouldn’t want to have prints of these.

Are there any other major tells that this is AI, especially for the photos that don’t show reflections?

I think the AI tech is really cool, and I’m sure they’ll figure out how to train accurate reflections if prints of AI landscapes start making money, but to me in this specific case, there’s something a little depressing about an auto-generated picture of a place you can’t go. The reason that good landscapes are wonderful is because they were captured, and it’s an aspirational image of somewhere you can visit. The story of the photo’s origin really matters in a lot of cases, which is true for art as well as photos, and is the main thing missing from AI imagery.
I used to freelance for over 5 years. Good boilerplates matter. Still constantly working on new ones.
DALL-E 2 Art: Experiments with Prompts or How I Got My New Wallpaper
Just set up a new M1 last week.

IntelliJ, git (and Xcode tools), VS Code, Wireshark, KeyStore Explorer, Divvy, Homebrew, fish shell, maven/gradle, Parallels.

Usually iTerm2 but trying to give Terminal.app another chance.
Singaporeans are all well aware about the discrimination in renting. It is opportune to note that almost one year ago the Prime Minister addressed this as part of a speech https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ndr-entirely-basel... , in so doing claiming that all races are treated equally, disingenuously so by narrowing his use of equal treatment to be with respect to the state apparatus, and not Singaporean society at large

Indeed, here too the reason claimed is Indian curries
Most Japanese people are really friendly and have pretty good attitudes towards westerners. The difficulty arises when there is a relationship between the two parties that may at some point require settling a dispute or problem solving between the individuals and it's way outside their comfort zone. They don't necessarily have a problem with the individuals (though there are a few older people who live around military bases that do), but they clearly have a problem with how such situations make them feel.

One time I wanted to go into a restaurant and there weren't any signs anywhere that said 'Japanese only' or anything like that, but I rocked up to the door and made an inquiry in Japanese to the lady on the door and some guy from in behind came through and was like 'sorry, no foreigners' and she turned to him and said 'no, it's ok he speaks Japanese' and I went in and had a meal without any problems.

It definitely offends my western sensibilities to be exclusionary in that way, but I think the thing native English speakers take for granted is that it's a lot easier to have an open and inclusive society like we try to when we can make a pretty safe assumption that the people we're including will be able to communicate with us to an adequate standard. I'm fluent in Japanese. It was a really hard language that took a lot to master. I have an excellent sense of the range of English abilities of Japanese people. The language barrier is a huge factor in the discomfort felt. Then there's the cultural norms. Japanese people tend to talk about other Japanese people as if everyone has baked into them the same set of rules / behaviors / assumptions. When that goes out the window, I think a decent proportion of them don't quite know how to mentally simulate how they think such a person will behave other than it'll possibly (and maybe probably) be in violation of at least some of the norms that they kind of rely on.

It always makes me pretty sad when people level comments about native English speaking countries being racist etc and then you look at how much poorer you'd fare in comparison in the general case if you were to live in their country.
People frequently cite historical racial inequities (race-based loan denials) as proof of racism in 2022 when those specific issues are no longer prevalent.
I don't need no steenkin' test to know that's true. Nothing like a knob or switch with tactile feedback as to its function and setting.
Ed Catmull made this animated hand in 1972:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhyBfLFyNA

Would anyone in 1972, even Ed Catmull himself, be able to imagine the Youtube video you linked, broadcast globally, for free.

I think these tools are going to be big, but I feel the whole AI thing actually detracts from it. I'd rather think of it like tracing paper or photography than as a replacement for artists.
Yeah but you wouldn't know it from the volume of travel vlogging that takes place there. Wouldn't be surprised if it's supported by the junta.
We need a word that is not intentionally a fraud but is pretty much an example of an unsustainable pyramid.
> There are certainly older devs who only know $thing and can be kind of myopic, but this works the other way too: there are also young devs who only know $thing and are rather myopic.

This is why I tried not to classify this as a young v old thing. I don't think it's the case that old devs can't keep up. I think it's the case that some devs don't keep up regardless of age.

For young devs, it's hard to know if that's the case or if it's simply inexperience. For old devs, it's far more glaring when all their experience is with VB6. I think that's where a lot of the ageism in software hiring practices comes from.

> Not all that many years ago someone saying "no thanks, I'll stick with SQL instead of no-SQL" and even "no thanks, I'll stick with Java because I think the static typing is better" could be seen as "not keeping up".

Perhaps some saw it that way. I never did. I would say that if you were completely unfamiliar with no-SQL, you likely weren't keeping up. Just like if you aren't aware of k8s or docker today, you aren't keeping up. Whether or not you chose to use those techs is entirely different from simply outright rejecting them without evaluation.
It’s a reminder that your own stereotypes exist for a reason. You’ll never remove that from the human brain. It’s not always a bad thing (your brain takes in cues, combines them with experiences, and uses that to make decisions while spending less energy).

But we should be careful to not let our own biases be baked into systems and processes.
I don't mind the smell, I do mind the smell every single day. Just like I don't mind kids playing, babies crying, loud music. But when it happens every day it gets to be a bit much.
Really cool. Minor user pain:

When starting a new line, and the first character is 'e', it gets evaluated to the euler constant. Would be cool if you could find a way to prevent that. :)
Water wetter than air, test finds
Note: Please don’t share this on Hacker News – I don’t need the grief from gatekeepers telling me I don’t know how to write a compiler. This is an account for myself and for friends. /hugs
I use a generic version of this.

My .gitconfig has:

[pretty]
co-authored-by = Co-authored-by: %an <%ae>
[alias]
co-authored-by = log -1 --pretty=co-authored-by --regexp-ignore-case --author

Now `git co-authored-by Tom` generates a Co-authored-by: trailer for the last person named Tom who committed to the repo. Typically I'd just do `:r !git co-authored-by Name` in vim (mapped to \gc to save typing).
I just point to the windows 10 default background not being a render: https://gmunk.com/Windows-10-Desktop
Less doing well because of the downturn, more doing well despite of it, but many players in climate tech are doing really really well lately (for example [1]). Longer term, with IRA [2] now law, the industry is poised to continue to grow faster and faster.

[1] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/climatetech-finance/inv...
[2] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/this-is-hu...
This is an odd example.

Detroit literally lost hundreds of thousands of auto manufacturing jobs.

The companies only remain there in a token fashion.
>> Does any system aspire to be a Prolog for 3D? You sketch a variety of views and a system solves, if possible, for a solid geometry representation?

I'm not aware of any. Maybe slightly related, my plan for a "hole tool" in Solvespace is to add a hole entity to 2D drawings that will automatically create a featured hole when the sketch is extruded. But that's not actually solving anything in a math sense.
for one the fact that most americans are aware of the existence of racism and openly debate it. whereas european rasism is hidden, and many people are unaware that it even exists because they don't see it. in germany, racism is considered a feature of the extreme right, ignoring that general xenophobia is more widespread than that.

european racism is also more xenophobia than about race, which is exemplified by the difference between africans and african-americans. it's less the skin color that matters but where you are from. an african-american is from a 1st world country with a western culture similar to europe, whereas a native african is from a 3rd world country. "from the bush", from a poverty stricken and war-torn region.
That was a cool watch!
The problem isn't overt racists so much as subtle, persistent bias, which absolutely holds people back in very significant ways. See my comment about my grandmother.

And... unless you're in a marginalized minority group, you really aren't in a position to know how racist people are.

Oh yeah, I just remembered, we also recently had a president for four years who was overly racist. Remember his attacks on Judge Curiel? Remember Mexicans "are rapists"?
Isn't this what Tesla's electronic door handle is all about while the car burns?
So your saying this is not a no-agenda site?
Note: Please don’t share this on Hacker News
We have been growing like crazy - https://rezi.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32447650
> In the end the SPI hardware did get added and it just works

What about their new PineBook Pro, though? Is that situation still in flux?

> The issue with that is it's really easily wiped or changed when installing an OS.

I'm not really seeing this. If the OS supports this special scheme, they need only deal with the soft block device that's created by mapping "the rest" of the partition. And if they don't, then all bets are off anyway.
In this chapter, we are going to discuss about multi-stage build process in docker and it's advantages. Keeping size of docker images as small as possible along with reduction of attack surface area has always been the main challenge of building images.
> Recent installer improvements make things much easier and I might consider switching from Manjaro to Arch at some point

This post made me play around with Arch last night, and specifically the installer. Having spent most of my last dozen years in Debian and Ubuntu, it wasn't as flashy or glamorous, but it got me a running system really quickly. One thing I missed was the network setup - I skipped it, and was left with a VM that had no network access. But after playing with it some, I spun up two VMs - one profiled 'server' and the other 'desktop' - and have really enjoyed the limited time I've had with them. Way back in the day, I spent a lot of time with Gentoo, and while building from scratch wasn't my jam every time (like, when novice me installed `emacs` and not `emacs-nox` and lost two days of compute time), but this scratches the itch I had for lower level control of my system but also with a little bit of shiny knobs and levers.
Just a reminder - BMW also denied dieselgate allegations.
This is, still, an extremely common practice here in Singapore. In my experience this is because of racism. I say this because I present as the majority race and I know Chinese landlords who have complained to me, in person, about "all those Indians taking over the neighbourhood", and many worse things that they think are funny and that I would laugh at because I present as the majority race.

The common reason given is that Indian cooking involves lots of spices that stain and remain in the kitchen, necessitating either a kitchen overhaul prior to renting to a new tenant, or renting to another Indian family. I understand and am sympathetic towards this reason, having frustratingly burnt-in a few permanent turmeric stains into my work surfaces. But just a little. To be a landlord in Singapore is to be of a financial status that most Singaporeans are not a part of.

And again, I also know it is simply a smoke screen, because these same landlords are also the ones complaining about "all of the Indians in the neighbourhood"! And making variations of the blinding smile joke, bobbing their heads mockingly, wrinkling their noses in disgust at the imagined smell of food or perfumes or incense, complaining about the noise they make, and advising you earnestly to never invest in property in known Indian enclaves.

Thank goodness not everyone is like this, and thank goodness for the enforced racial quotas of government housing.
This is something i’ve been thinking about for a long time and your comment made me think about it again. I’ve seen many companies developing using docker-compose but deploying their software in a different way (on bare metal, kubernetes or nomad). Why hasn’t anyone build this yet? I’m afraid I’m missing something so starting on this my own is risky.
Question, why did you choose Japan specifically ? Feels like it would be wildly more successful in USA, Europe etc?
In my experience, if the company says "we would prefer that you do this, but it's your choice" it means "We don't feel like we can make you do this for whatever reason, but if you don't, you're Not a Team Player, and your career advancement ends here"

Maybe Google is different, but I doubt it. Probably Google used to be different, and no longer is, and a bunch of people are going to be unpleasantly surprised.
Okay cool, but what we were talking about was the job market for artists, and that includes people making commercial "art", not just people making emotionally moving pieces to be hung up in art galleries.

You seem to have completely missed the point of this discussion:

> ShutterStock should be concerned, but artists and graphic designers don't need to worry. Just another tool.

That's the thing I was disagreeing with, and they're obviously talking about artists in general, including commercial artists, not just ones who are engaged with the platonic ideal of art.
Maintaining an adequate technological basis for continued survival on Mars requires, simply, many, many times more people than Mars could support. So, all the more tricky components and chemicals have to come from Earth. When those stop, the technological basis soon declines below the level that can support the population living there.

All the choices after that become very unpleasant, of questions about who gets to continue living. The supportable number declines inexorably to zero.
Could also set up DNS server to return different IP addresses for same hostnames depending on the which interface the DNS client is connecting from. There'd only be one hostname per server, two (or more) IP addresses each mapped to originating network.

Edit: autocorrect
There’s a lot of complaining and not a lot of suggesting going on in this article so I don’t take it for very much.
I feel like the author got a job and realized that it almost exclusively involves writing glue code and tests and looking at text diffs, so how convenient to imagine a world where they didn’t have to do the boring parts of their job.
The shifting thing has not been standardized in a while. Stick shift, stick on steering wheel, even buttons on steering wheel in some cars. I agree with you tho.
Which is actually an argument for non-updatability.
Well allow me to throw my two anecotes into the ring. My grandfather is an asian immigrant who dreamed of coming to the US, which he did late in life. He died in a hospital angrily denying help from black staff members. My grandmother is a sweet old italian lady. She got real mad when one of her grandkids started dating a black guy. She doesn't believe in mixed race couples / people. I'm mixed race but of course I'm "One of the good ones" largely because I'm whiteish. I assure you her liking me has not changed her general opinion at all.

They're very nice at the surface level. You wouldn't expect it, but oh boy was it there an it was deep.

I really, really do not believe that the racial epithets are superficial. It's not a uniquely old person problem by any definition, but it's extremely common.
You can't use a touchscreen either when the cockpit fills with smoke.
Indian here. My company had booked a B&B when i was staying in UK for few months. Once i got Indian takeout, the landlady did not want that to be brought to the room because of curry smell. But the whole building smelled when they cooked some meat/pork. Even the bath towels smelled. I suppose its what the smell you are used to.
They make the argument that growth, in an of itself, is a "ponzi scheme". Whereas boom-bust economic cycles are nothing new, and are clearly not the same as a literal ponzi scheme.

I don't think there's any novel thinking here. They're just rebranding cyclic economics for dramatic effect.
What is the use case for shipping unfinished patches?
Forgive the trite take, but it looks like a child was given photoshop.
It's disappointing to me that there's not a manufacturer leaning into a market for people who don't want big screens and spyware in their ride. In every thread, I see a lot of people who share my concerns, but they don't seem to manifest as an actual consumer class to be catered to.

https://twitter.com/jazz_inmypants/status/138178395638376038...
Vaccines are what they are. If the bug doesn’t mutate much or has useful invariant regions then perhaps sterilizing immunity can be obtained. If not, mediation of duration or symptoms might be obtained. The year flu shots fall into this latter category. Tetanus lies in the middle ground what with a ten year booster.

Some bugs, such as norovirus or colds, either mutate so quickly or have so little impact that virus development isn’t cost effective. Sometimes, neither vaccines or previous exposure helps when exposed again, and sometimes (dengue fever?) previous exposure makes things worse.

It all comes down to risk management and empathy. If you think you’ll be ok and not a danger to others, run barefoot. Tailor your response to your world view, but don’t complain when it’s not shared by others.
That is what I felt as well. Managed to create simple project where MCU connects to WiFi, announces itself on network (mDNS) and gives me a tcp api to turn led on and off. I used ESP32-S3.

Ability to use STD and their rust creates made it very easy to do.

Tho most of their rust creates are just wrappers around C.