skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can just use the screen for infotainment and satnav though.

I already have a screen showing what radio station is playing, and one on the dash telling me where to go. If a screen is required for a backup camera, just combine it. If I'm reversing I probably don't need the satnav anyway, whereas if I'm reversing or using satnav I probably do need other functions which just means you need an even bigger screen so you can fit everything on.
Just someone getting older and repeating the ancient mantra of "things are getting worse! because children are not educated the way they used to be".
"A year of capacity" is just a big tank of ammonia.

Not that anybody needs that, because tanks of ammonia are transportable from places that produce reliably.
You just added a whole new perspective. Thanks for sharing!
I bet it would end up looking better as well. High quality switches and buttons feel really luxurious.

If you look at Gordon Murray's latest car, the t50, he spent a lot of time sourcing buttons and switches for the car because he cares deeply about their tactile feel. There is also not a single touch display in the car. Because he passionately hates them.

If you are into sports cars you kind of want to cry when you look at how badly some of the dashboards tend to age. Some of them look like embarrassing student projects where a 1990s web designer has crammed all manner of animated gifs with a horribly infantile palette onto the dashboard.
Ask HN: Interested in canaries build on top of AWS Lambda
Hi HN,

I have hit this problem at a personal project where I would like to run Gatsby on AWS lambda, however Gatsby requires the last Nodejs runtime that AWS does not provide yet.

I am thinking to build my own set of canaries to test the very last version of common software building on top of AWS lambda.

Would people contribute to it? Would it solves someone else problem or just mine?
Being the minimum wage 7.25 an hour, wouldn't be yearly around half of that number?

(Foreigner here, I don't have the minimum wage in the US super clear)
"Right hand side of subtraction cannot be a date or time." :(
Can you add bit and byte values, as well as units per unit of time please?

Base 10 (GB for example) and base 2 (GiB) would be very handy. Full words as an alias as well, so GB -> gigabyte, and GiB -> gibibyte.

That way you can do something like:

1GB / 40MB/s in minutes

1GB to Gib

1GB to bits

50 bits to bytes
You can order them using user targets.

Ie, create a ssh-agent.target and have the default target depend on it.

Now your ssh-agent is guaranteed to be online when the default target comes up.
Start with telling it what you want in natural language. Conversational AI is good at understanding variations like "I want, " "I need," "please," etc. The touchscreen can help you discover what features the car supports, and those should have CUI commands that are easy to intuit, which you can then use while driving.
Let's not get carried away. He's far more into infusing the blood of the youth than he is about being a Bond villain. Does he fund even a single true doomsday project?
Stand with Tornado Cash
It's interesting to see a parade of people object to the updatability.

Sure, on a minute-to-minute timescale, anyone must obviously agree.

But over the long term of owning a car, it is an immensely valuable feature. My 2018 car still feels quite new and fresh - much less reason to replace it than if it were falling behind.
https://www.theonion.com/report-93-of-drunk-drivers-get-home...
The problem with touch screens is that they're lazy design.

If you have to design an interface with physical buttons you need to fully design that interface because you can't easily or cheaply update it after you ship it. This is expensive. This is in addition to physical buttons themselves being expensive.

With a touch screen a UI change is just a software update. The net effect of this is you can be lazy about UI/UX development because hey you can always fix it later.

For cars in particular, physical buttons allow some use without looking at the display. Touch screens do not.

Phones went touch screen because of their limited size, so much so that on iPhones we even lost the home button (which I still miss). Actually the home button is a perfect example because the swipe up gesture is strictly worse. Example: which direction is "up"? It depends on orientation. Also some apps are only in, say, landscape orientation so "up" is actually "right" from the user's perspective.

Driving with a giant iPad is generally suboptimal.
Built a demo app to stress test supply chain resilience by contract
Only a pretty basic version right now that I built in a week. If people find it useful I will connect it to data and make it more useful.
Keep in mind that food as a percentage of one's budget was considerably higher 150 years ago. For that family size she probably paid at least 1/3 and maybe up to 1/2 of her income on food, plus clothing for growing children and school. Seems unlikely she'd be able to afford significant vices of any kind, if that is your implication.

Here are some family budgets from the 1880's, just to get a general idea of the type of expenses she might've incurred:

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5754/
My wife’s car is a Hyundai Tucson, which is a touchscreen. Mine is a Mazda CX-5, which is a touchscreen, but one which is disabled when the car is in motion. Instead, the primary mode of input is a set of buttons and a wheel. I much prefer the buttons and wheel. I feel like I can safely navigate both the native and CarPlay UI with the wheel while my eyes remain on the road. In my wife’s car, I’m extending my arm and trying to counter movement from bumps in the road, while trying to tap small touch targets. That said, my wife isn’t a fan of the buttons and wheel in my car, so it might be more of a case of what we’re used to. But even then, if it is easy to get used to a mode of input that keeps your eyes on the road, I feel like that is a good thing.
It's supposed to be their job - lots of "designers" nowadays seem mostly focused on aesthetic trends rather than those (IMO) more important things
Everybody says that WWIII won't happen because nobody would dare to use nuclear weapons, but I think that there is a possibility for a world war without nuclear war. Russia didn't use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
Same for Volvos back in the day.

And the new generation are all using touchscreens which need you you take eyes off the road to find the fan settings (return to home screen, touch near the bottom centre, then find the wedge-shaped fan speed widget and adjust that). Temperature needs to pop up another pane and set that by clicking the temperature number and then manipulating a bar chart thing. None of this except the "return to home" button is tactile in any way.

Before: turn the dial. Done. Temperature is the one next to it.

Adjusting the sound balance is downright dangerous (pull down the Android-esque menu and click though levels in the UI). Old car: press the tactile centre of the volume wheel until it says balance, then use the wheel.
Pff, well, with a password like 'dolphin' you're not safe anyways.

At the very least go for a password like mine, which is hunter2 (browsers even automatically hide the password for ya!)
Not just that. You spend way more of the 80000 hours in deliberate practice.
No offense, but how could possibly Debian Sid and the SUSE have more stable rolling release. For a rolling release you count on the default configuration working and both Debian and SUSE are a hell of customise scripts. I don't think it is technically possible for that to be working better.
No comment on Tesla but the divergence between big companies and startups on the WFH issue is the first new tangible benefit to working at a startup over a bigco in a while. They never reformed the ridiculous tax treatment of ISOs and AMT. The bull market made RSUs and 500k yearly pay realistic at bigcos even for middling employees.

But bigcos don’t trust their own employees and have to justify their massive capital investments in office space. So there is a real, tangible benefit to startup life over cushy bigco.
See also babashka, a native Clojure implementation for scripting. https://github.com/babashka/babashka
Agreed, I use scroll wheels on my steer for volume and next/previous song. Voice control for temperature & navigation and if an text comes in do a quick reply.

Honestly I barely feel the need to use the touch screen in my car while driving, and if so I always make sure autopilot/high way assistant is turned on as extra safety.
It needs to become a status symbol. Like a car or a dr. title. Something that society by convention is forced to recognize.
I can't recommend enough this "backpropagation from scratch" from heremy howard (fastai) where he implementes backpropagation from scratch using python.

UPDATE: link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJKnDu2dxOE
It's a very difficult question.

War between nations has mostly gone out of style. From Putin's stated point of view, the war in Ukraine is a police action in a province (more or less) of Russia. Old school Russians think of Belarus, Ukraine, and Georgia as property.

It's similar with Taiwan. Mainland China thinks of the island as part of the country, so they would not really see it as going to war with another country.

I think it would be interesting to think about the groundwork for WWI, like the Franco-Prussian war in 1870.
Sounds like someone doesn't know what 'better' actually means.
> Audio balance seems like a bug

A long standing one actually. I remember having it in Mojave/El Capitan already on my 2102 MBP.

The others are annoyances from not being familiar with the UI, some more motivated than others. But let’s recall the sad story of the thumbnails in GNOME’s file picker, for a second…
I have been surprised to learn that regulations only require that the backup camera turn on when you go into reverse; not that it stay on while you are in reverse. Some cars let you navigate away from the backup view even while moving backward.

There is so much opportunity for better regulation, without making more numerous regulations.
ISO?
I must make the assumption that you’re young. China today has set its path to carry out an action in 5-10 years when it’s ready. You never engage when you’re not prepared. You build up, plan, prepare, then act. That takes time. Remember, revenge is best served cold. China has stepped down today, but I can reassure you, in 5-10 years it will act militarily to avenge its current embarrasment. Just like Russia prepared for the last 8.

Russia won the war in the first 72 hours, now its grinding Ukraine and its supporters, they’re too stubborn to back away. Russia has also only committed 10% of their resources, the rest are on standby in case NATO intervenes.
Thanks so much for your detailed response. And thanks for your contribution to the space with VirtualMin.

It appears it would be unwise to just build a direct competitor to CPanel, Plesk, etc. Not only would that be short-sighted (given the competitiveness you've highlighted), it would be unnecessary (because control panels don't appear to be required tooling for the people buying cloud infrastructure).

According to Gartner, Cloud IaaS revenue was $90B in 2021, but the combined revenues of CPanel and Plesk in the same year couldn't break $100M (according to data from Datanyze and ZoomInfo). This is a clear signal that those who are buying cloud infrastructure from Amazon, Microsoft, et al. don't have an essential need for these tools. And even at the smaller providers like DigitalOcean, Linode, etc. you'd have to be unreasonable to pay $20 per month for a license to manage a $5 per month droplet; the panel won't even install on a $10 droplet.

It's kind of funny, because the things that can be done on that single droplet/server are incredible. What can't you build? Unfortunately, control panels as they are setup (and have been setup for ages) can't cater to aspirations. People need user-friendly tools they can use to build things on servers; by themselves and/or with others.

You're right about the innovator's dilemma though. Your customers aren't going to tell you what could be, only how 'what currently is' could be a little different. It's going to take some kind of leap, but the companies seemingly thriving in this space may have become too comfortable collecting license fees to make it. Maybe they've seen it (or something like it), but the refactoring cost and mental paradigm shift constitutes too much inertia to overcome their comfort zone without a looming existential calamity staring at them in the face.

'Going to take a crack at it. I have a few ideas I think could work, but I'll never know unless I test them out. There'll be a server management aspect to it, but that's not going to be the main. And I don't think 10 months is too optimistic for an MVP. Again, it's not going to be a CPanel clone; not that many folks really need that.

Is it ok to check in with you later in the process and perhaps bounce a few ideas off?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411493 [429 comments]
Just waiting for the day some enterprising MBA decides it's a good idea to add ads.
I've avoided adding mpg because the UK and US disagree on what a gallon is and mpUKg/mpUSg is not very nice to look at. You can write "miles per gallon" or "miles per US gallon" because per is the same as the "/" operator, and you can sort of do "L/100km" but you can't convert to it.

I'll have to think some more about this one.
The big players and medium players will continue to play out their proxy conflicts where they can. Some fighting might happen, but I don't think we will see an other global war. There is just too little to play for even without nukes.

Africa and Middle East might be riskiest areas. Also Pakistan and India might escalate. Not sure about South America if something would go on there.

I think China will limit their territorial ambitions to opportunities to project power and areas they have history or claim with.
Ok let me answer your stupid sponsored rhetorical question, on the off chance you aren't a shill. And you are a shill.

Yes, if the contract states on termination no access to a cloud resource, that's the deal. Technically they're within the rules they laid out and we agreed to, except that they held onto data they do not own after termination.

There are two issues. First, this is a trust me story. A company that pulls this trick can do it one single time. We will never pay them another cent, and will tell everyone that will listen exactly what they did. Their contract has a clause to fuck the customer, and they use it. Lastpass are done, and they know it. This is a "fuck the last standing customer" clause to milk what's left of a resold company with a collapsing user base and a broken outdated business model.

Second, they kept our companies sensitive secret and essential-for-operations data and refuse to give us a copy unless we pay the resubscription fee (ransom). That's a state where a terminated contract leaves them with secret customer data, and now they want a payoff. Their contract doesn't excuse them from breaking the law. That data should've been deleted, if not, it has to be accessible by law to the owner. It's Right of Access.
Putting your accusations of arrogance aside, the point is ultimately this: unlike the work done by a worker on an assembly line, software work scales out "infinitely." You may pay that team of developers a huge amount but the work they have done is reproduced at "zero" cost hundreds of thousand of times.

It makes sense to invest in quality there.

I have made the point that ad revenue distorts FAANG practices elsewhere. I agree on this. You'll note that myself and my friend had no intention of seeking a FAANG salary elsewhere, it's unrealistic. However. There are limits. And sane practices.

The low compensation band reflects a lack of recognition of a) the importance of software and b) the economics of it. It isn't just that they pay bad, it's that they produce bad software because they don't get it.
> ... The only relevant question is whether we can find a cheap and efficient way of storing it ...

Not sure which percentage of the cost of the whole system comes from the hydrogen storage in these standardized steel containers.

To me it looks like the bigger issue for most property owners would be finding the space for putting enough of these containers (guess they need to be kept outdoors for security reasons) rather than the cost of the containers themselves.

https://www.homepowersolutions.de/en/product/
> the actual quality and robustness of CUIs is nowhere near what you imply

I don't agree - I've been very happy with my car's CUI. I can't see going back to analog controls or touchscreen. There just aren't that many commands that I need to execute while driving, and the CUI understands them all.
Plenty of bigcos still allow for 100% WFH.
World war 3? No probably not in the traditional sense of war like world war 2. But could this be the ground work for a devastating nuclear war? Absolutely.
I started to explore the area, mostly arm based (rp2040 and STM) and a little bit of ESP32.

Tool chain wise:

ESP32 support is very recent and still based on the C tool chain and this makes it very fragile (you can break your environment easily and it is never clear how to recover except recompiling the entire tooolchain from 0)

Arm is a little better because the support is native.

The community is trying to make a generic embedded Hal platform API and implement it for specific devices. And it is pretty bad: almost no documentation, very few examples, tons of autogenerated code where you need to come back to the C world to understand the actual concepts.

Once you start to get going Rust is a blast to program in and the generated code is pretty efficient.

A small project I shared to help people starting on a raspberry pi clone (lilygo): https://github.com/gbin/rp2040-mandel-pico
On one hand, I understand your frustration here, for sure.

But on the other hand, Pine devices have severely lacked for being able to tell users what the best place to start is. I've wanted to back to my PinePhone a few times and had to ask, like, what is in the best state to use, and nobody could tell me.

Updating my PineBook Pro took a ton of investigating because the simple explanation of how to get from what mine shipped with to what new ones shipped with was hard to find, discussion of what mine shipped with was nearly gone already, and the process for upgrading it also had since changed!

As someone who doesn't build distros, your post is actually really nice for me, now I know I should just install Manjaro on my Pine devices! About time they picked something.
I dont think so.

I think that there will be some wars... to distract or reset from the mess the global economy is in. but nothing "World War" sized.
Task time is just one aspect of it.

Touchscreen interfaces give you a worse reaction time than drunk driving [0]

This alone should be reason enough to regulate infotainment into oblivion.

[0] https://trl.co.uk/publications/interacting-with-android-auto...
Incentive Stock Options, I assume.
SpaceX did it on the Dragon too. Hard to imagine an environment that is more mission critical and less cost sensitive than a space ship under severe engine vibration or tumbling out of control though space.
Incentive Stock Options. The US government makes you pay taxes on the full paper gain the moment you exercise even though a real exit at that price is still a long ways off or likely still low probability. It makes average employees either bound to an employer (and never get favorable capital gains), or they have to be wealthy enough to pay the full tax hit the year of exercise and not be destitute if it never pays off later.

In reality the rich get richer etc. etc.
These are not photos: landscapes created by new AI
I've seen the backup camera integrated into the rearview mirror in some vehicles. That doesn't have either of those drawbacks.
Creating a Computer History Website (For Multics, by Tom Van Vleck)
You'd buy a new car because the UI feels a bit dated?
Where does the expectation comes from that software needs to be permanently updated? Would you consider your car unsafe if it didn't need repairs for years?
Incentive Stock Option. SOs that vest over time or via some other performance metric
And how is the car supposed to know if it's a long trip or not?
let’s never improve, let’s bifurcate development to support old systems

this is a unproductive conservative attitude

no I won’t get off your lawn

I’ve been burned by changing UIs but it’s the price we pay for progress
This exactly.

Simply put, with physical controls you can operate them without looking. That is impossible with a touch screen.
True but plenty don’t as well. See Apple.
A large part of it is just that it's "home" after finding it at the right time in my skill curve - probably could've been Arch as well.

The Arch wiki might be a bit better and we all benefit from it to some extent, the Gentoo wiki is also good and honestly I don't use either that much anymore.

The great differentiator is portage. I never run into "maintainer built the package without xyz support" - sometimes I'll run into "stupid user disabled xyz support when installing" but that's just a config change and easier to accept since I'm the stupid user. In theory they might've missed adding a USE flag for that feature and I'd have to overlay my own ebuild or live without it. Custom source patching is built in and package versions can be (un)blocked via package.mask/.accept_keywords.
Version 4.3 broke something? package.mask: =pkg-category/pkgname-4.3 to downgrade to 4.2 and still automatically get 4.4 when that shows up. Mask >=4.3 instead and nothing will change (but eventually dependencies might force you to fix it, of course).

Compilation is pretty fast on a modern computer. Significantly slower than binary packages sure but it's mostly with browsers and maybe qemu/compilers that you really feel it (and several of those do have binary packages, e.g. www-client/firefox-bin, dev-lang/rust-bin). On my old laptop this turned into an excuse to experiment with distcc and nfs for speedups (Core2Duo with 4GiB RAM is a bit weak for encrypted ZFS + compiling gcc, and also it's fun).

Compilation times is still the strongest con but having compilation as a first-class citizen is what enables most of it and the big stuff you just run in the background.

(For the unaware, do note that "compiling myself" means "emerge pkgname" or "emerge -auvDNU @world" and includes dependency tracking, not "./configure && make" and manually hunting things down.)
One problem is that 'aesthetics', both graphical and functional, dominates actual usability design.
> Voice control fitted to cars is pretty terrible still. It interrupts playback, takes a long time to resolve an input and takes even longer to repeat it back to you before doing it.

I can't speak to all cars, but this isn't the case for Tesla. It's a very good user experience. It may be inconsistent across manufacturers right now, but as that evens out I don't see a barrier to more adoption.
Ocean freight shipping costs are driving prices higher
If your new car has a large touchscreen your friends who own 5+ y.o. car compliment your choice and express jealousy

Does this ever happen? I've never heard anyone express jealousy regarding not having a big enough touchscreen in their car. I've heard several owners of modern cars with touchscreens bemoan how complicated and slow to use they are. In my experience literally no-one who actually buys and drives cars thinks they are a good idea and many people - including myself - are deterred from buying a new model specifically because of the technology.
It's the current Boogeyman.