skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many issues around housing, some derive from capitalism, like building apartments because doing so milk more money from a handkerchief on land, but some simply due to different evolution speed from human needs vs buildings lifecycle.

I see at least two kind of schools on housing, one who talk about cheapness, typically from USA, Japan and few others. Another who talk about forever and ever duration, typically from south EU. Both have reasons and both to the extreme prove to be a disaster:

- in the JP/USA model a simple strong wind or a flood (from EU perspective) suffice to demolish houses, making big damages etc

- in the southern EU model houses are VERY old, they do not respond then to current needs and evolve them being not design to do so is a nightmare

Some countries choose the "division" model, like almost in the entire north-America with their residential-only suburbs, some mix at unbearable high density. Both models prove to be disastrous: the suburb model impose too much travel and being tied to some "district" nearby became a graveyard when the district change; too dense southern EU and Asian cities suffer the opposite issue: little travel is needed but things are so concentrated that there is no room to evolve.

Old Romans have a proverb: in medio stat virtus, "in the mean live the virtue", and I think that's well valid for housing... Too much dense => fail. Too little dense? Fail as well. Too diversified => fails, too much scaling issues. Too subdivided? => fails can't survive for long. Unfortunately evolving from a model to another, no matter if the change is good or bad, take MUCH, MUCH, MUCH time. Around homes we need infrastructures, like roads, aqueducts, power lines, TLCs, ... building a single home might be quick and easy BUT change the infra around normally is not. We still do not have the '30s dream of flying homes or semi-autonomous starships that can be moved easily everywhere... So far we do not even have flying cars (while they might be there technically)...

That's not much tied to richness: poorest countries have their housing issues as well, just in different terms. It's tied to the lack of Star Trek alike replicators and tech. Something that's not on the horizon nor for the rich nor for the poor. Is something we can and should tend to, but knowing it's far away.
Not everybody wants to talk to their devices? I think they are fine to have, but there always need to be a fallback to a manual hands on input.
Maybe you want to store all that information for later and also want the calculation, both now and later?
+1 for the Laowhy86 link.

The paper tiger won’t be invading Taiwan anytime soon. The west will pull out even further. Not sure who they will make stuff for if manufacturing leaves. We already see it happening during Covid and especially the 0 Covid measures.
I also made one of these, still working on it now with a focus on including support for accuracy/measurement errors.

This is impressively close to what I have in my desired spec (but already more future proof). Congratz!

https://github.com/xixixao/recomputer

https://xixixao.github.io/recomputer/
Regarding defining the "winner" of a global war, I can't help thinking of the quote from General Thomas Power, head of US SAC in the late 1950s and early 1960s:

"Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_S._Power
No. Pressing a button will give you the functionality you want 100% of the time. A voice command won't.
Eternal Terminal is a great alternative that doesn’t break scrollback

https://eternalterminal.dev/
Mini feedback: The difference between a defined variable and an undefined variable could be clearer. And should an expression with an undefined variable still give a value?

So if you had: Alice's food + Bob's foood = £30 then I think there should be more to highlight the typo.

P.S. This is an awesome thing
No crops require 100% direct sun.

Maize and wheat yield is reduced a bit, without, but the year-round revenue from solar panels easily exceeds the difference.
This touchscreenification needs to stop.

Familiarity is my personal favourite part of driving. Knowing the road, how much input you need to apply to a turn, knowing where the buttons for things are, just being able to feel for a control and know its purpose. All while my eyes are on the road.

You lose this with a screen.
> Is it really 100 percent compatible with Clojure or is that just aspirational.

Aspirational. The project is really early still, and in the middle of a grand rewrite so basically it doesn't build at the moment, see https://github.com/jeaye/jank/issues/7

Current progress seems to be outlined here: https://jank-lang.org/progress/
Buttons in old Range Rover (L322) was designed to use in winter gloves. Imagine how good they are.
Eternal Terminal is way better. It’s like Mosh that doesn’t break scrollback.

https://eternalterminal.dev/
I’m not sure.

At a certain point, if landlords strangle renters it can make hiring hard (workers can’t afford Cost of living if rents are too high), thus making the business environment uncompetitive.

Will the business community have more power than landlords?

I think so, eventually.
I agree with your view. Looks like history will repeat. We will be back to with all buttons someday!
The official Clojure (JVM) project has an official sister project: ClojureScript, which is designed to be compiled to JavaScript (and maybe Webassembly in the future?). There is a lot of code that runs with both languages and therefore I don't think you should worry too much about using Jank with existing Clojure/ClojureScript libraries.
If your goal is to replicate the UI quality of MacOS, then just reskinning the work of others will only result in inconsistent jank.
Nah. The difficulty that Russia has had with taking any significant portion of Ukraine has, if anything, shown the folly of military adventurism in the post-modern era. Remember that in WW2 Poland and France lasted for about a month before capitulation.
So...a spreadsheet?
“WW3 will not happen. Countries are not stupid to destroy the Earth.”

That’s pretty optimistic. I wish I was less pessimistic. I think it’s just a matter of time.
Habitual GPS usage also results in you frequently arriving on time.
Programming Real-Time Web Applications with Tall Stack
It's mainly about cost and a bit about "but Tesla!".
It might build, but can you actually execute something? According to https://github.com/jeaye/jank/issues/7, you won't be able to compile `(if true 1 0)` at the moment even.
> 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.

It's mostly a cost saving measure.

Physical buttons are expensive. I you eliminate them, the car gets cheaper to make.

That's all.

It's a sign of low quality and I expect that in 5 to 10 years, consumers will start to realise this.
Voyager 2: An iconic spacecraft that's still exploring 45 years on
Tokyo, 1970, Nightime: Capturing the Rise of Bubble-Era Japan
Serverless Architecture Pros and Cons
A golden age of consumer convenience is passing
I hardly know anyone who uses an internal GPS provided by the car. Everyone uses their phone, either through CarPlay or just putting the physical phone up somewhere, somehow. Every car manufacturers' GPS's I've seen or heard of have terrible UX compared to phone apps such as Google Maps, Waze, or Apple Maps.
Energy efficiency will become radically less important as energy cost continues on down.

Then other things become more important, and drive choices.
> In the 2010's, many people told me 'WWIII will never happen, the world is too interdependent'.

That's because it happens this way - not as immediately global and not as intense as one would expect from a world war - because the world has became more dense and viscous so processes like that happen this way like processes in molten glass compared to processes in a gas.
There have been lots of attempts by people trying to solve the RH and quite a few of them use the exact same kind of circular logic that is demonstrated in the paper.
I think that the world is now more unipolar than ever before. Russia is repeatedly proving that it worth nearly nothing both in military and political sense, the Chinese military power is also very much overestimated. EU is nearly defenseless on their own too.

Only the US has the military power to win any existential war (small wars of course can still be “lost”, as the adversary can become the prize not worth taking).
"Sir, can you please explain what you were doing when the accident occurred?"
I think this is more a problem of standarisation and if car companies got together and pitched in a bit of research to find out what worked well with users they could all get an interface (or a set of standards) that worked well for most users.
How do you know what you can say? Do you keep a separate vocabulary, like you would when you talk to a pet?
Sounds like the car equivalent of HOTAS.
I want CarPlay/Android Auto.
Maybe its because I'm a Scot and apparently have an accent, but I'd say that voice control is by far the worst means of controlling anything.
I didn't say the BB assumes inflation, I said it needed fancy physics such as inflation to explain the current state of the universe.

> The BB is compatible with inflation, but theories of inflation were proposed well after the BB theory itself.

Exactly, and the reason these theories were proposed was to 'fix' the BB itself. So of course they are compatible with the BB. There is no observation that asks us to consider something like hyper inflation, except if you assume that there has been a BB.
I would like that to be true.

Did Germany stand a chance to win WWII? Probably not, or at best a slim chance; it made huge, surprising victories against most of continental Europe, but it just picked on too many opponents. By the time the US was in, it was (slow and deadly) game over. They believed their own BS and went ahead with it regardless.

I guess the risk here is that Russia or China could also believe their own BS and do something stupid regardless. Russia clearly did in Ukraine.

As far as I can tell, WWI started kind of because everyone wanted a war. All the belligerents were convinced this is their moment to shine, 3 months and it will be all over, with [shiny new territory]. Alas it was not to be so.
My wife drove a 2002 Honda Insight for 2 years. She never did understand the "window override" switch on the dashboard that disables the power windows in the doors. She taped plastic over one side for a week the first time she hit that button and the windows stopped working. She took it to the mechanic a couple times "the windows stopped working again" because the switch on the dash was easy to frob by accident.

Why was that switch there in the first place? Being familiar with the car didn't help her remember it existed, even when she encountered the "windows wont move" problem repeatedly. Assuming you want a "stop the windows working" switch, why put it up in the corner of the dashboard and in a form where it's easy to hit accidentally and hard to tell that it's not in the right position?

The problem is deeper than screens and older than "legally required backup cameras;" the ergonomics of the car interior became secondary to "but marketing says people want feature $X" checklists.
Surely the buttons don't cost that much compared to, y'know, the rest of the vehicle?
Pixel 4a. Recently I've not been using it excessively, so it's got quite an optimistic estimate.
But if I'm careful it's possible.
Yes, if designers are component at all of these things:

> tests, observation, psychology and physiology

Is that not their job?
Ooh a super useful function (in my experience) is the monthly mortgage repayment calculator.

MonthlyRepayment(principle, annual_interest, term_in_years)
Doesn't surprise me at all really. And it doesn't even necessarily mean it's irrational to prefer living near a wind turbine farm than a nuke plant, given most people aren't turbine engineers.
I also imagine it's a statistic that will change considerably with time as we build out wind farms, especially if doing so can largely be automated.
At any rate, we need both (given the current state of affairs). I doubt the choice to build one or other is going to come down to deaths-per-GWh.
My Mac OS bootstrap script to setup any new Mac from scratch. It includes niceties like moving the default screenshots from the Desktop to a more sane location, setting full disk encryption, and setting up privoxy & dnscrypt out if the box. https://github.com/james-see/fresh-mac
The impressive thing about the touchscreens in BMWs is that you don’t need to touch them at all. [I’ve not seen the new models though. I’m sure they are not better than the ones being replaced.]

https://www.carbuyer.co.uk/tips-and-advice/170098/bmw-idrive...
Biggest problem IMO is that "young generation" is already split among ideological lines(myself included), and kind of hard to imagine a concentrated "young vs old" movement that wouldn't at some point devolve into infighting.
That doesn’t seem like a floating point inaccuracy. What’s going on there?
Just wanted to add this anecdote in case people want to get frisky with fermented hot sauces. I’ve been experimenting with fermented hot-sauce equivalents of Indian pickles, using green mango, dried lemon, turmeric, fenugreek, nigella, mustard, etc (not all in the same sauce) and it’s shockingly similar in taste to the original pickle but without any oil.
We lack fundamental science, such as no theory at all for artificial comprehension. That "first android baby" within 5 years is theater and fraud. (Which, incidentally could be Art.)
They said the same thing in the build up to WW1 and that is even considering that all the royal houses were cousins on top of it.
I agree with this. 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. Siri makes this a little bit better, but she's not been given access to the AC APIs of my car.

Buttons are the way. Or those cool switches from fighter jets... I'd like to see those in a car.
Hard to see how Climate Change would make Florida a good long-term bet.
>7.5% of her income

Wouldn't it be better to use expenditure instead of income? As an example, my rent is 40% of my expenditure. Couple of years back, my income was just enough to cover my bills. Now I've more than doubled that income. But 40% of expenditure for rent is roughly the same even now.
That number is a bit low, but area for solar panels will never be in short supply, because the same land can be used as is used for other things.
Yes, I also like the prospect that this tool would allow rapid prototyping and storyboarding for games, graphic novels, films etc. Being able to generate a rough idea of what you want or envisage for a scene and show that to an artist/director of photography/whatever would be very useful.
5. The manufacturer can change functionality and user interface with a simple software update.

If Toyota half-way through shipping their latest car realize it's better to have two knobs on the dashboard, they can very easily add one if the dashboard is just one big touch screen.
The website didn't actually claim they had implemented those features yet, just that it's their goals.
I'll bet there's a service running to protect brands from the lens of HN. They'll pay a monthly fee, and fake users with enough karma flag out unflattering stories.

Something is very off here. Where's dang when you need him?
Adjusting climate control, since that is now in the touchscreen, although thankfully some manufacturers are back tracking on that one.

Adjusting the radio station is the other big one.
Probably also to appear more modern. The problem with that approach is that, besides well known touch screens usability issues, it takes only one bump in the wrong spot to screw all the interface, so it's cheaper only until something goes wrong. They seem to know this though, as Space-X ships have all important functions replicated on real physical interfaces.
"I just thought I was in INSERT mode"
Only as long as people still drive.

If we had to dial every number we want to call manually, physical buttons on phones would outperform touchscreens too. But nobody does that anymore. And it is nicer to select the name of a friend on a touchscreen than to type it with physical keys.

Same goes for cars. Humans spending their time keeping the car in lane, stopping at red lights, starting when the light turns green, doing turns etc will phase out more and more over the next 10, 20 years.

The interaction we still want to have with a car is probably nicer on a touchscreen. Especially when you are not dabbling with a steering wheel anymore.

Stuff like seeing the route on a map, selecting waypoints etc. We would not want physical keys for that when we are at home at our computer, right? I think dedicated keys are just legacy from the "I'm busy with the steering wheel and need to do other stuff blindly" area.

Much of it will probably also move to voice control.
The IBM researched this in the late ‘70es and reached broadly the same conclusion. They were talking about “productivity” instead of “bounce rate” back then, but the basic biology of attention span and working memory is the same.

He and Richard P. Kelisky, Director of Computing Systems for IBM's Research Division, wrote about their observations in 1979, "...each second of system response degradation leads to a similar degradation added to the user's time for the following [command]. This phenomenon seems to be related to an individual's attention span. The traditional model of a person thinking after each system response appears to be inaccurate. Instead, people seem to have a sequence of actions in mind, contained in a short-term mental memory buffer. Increases in SRT [system response time] seem to disrupt the thought processes, and this may result in having to rethink the sequence of actions to be continued."

“The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time”

https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/the-economic-value-of-rap...
I guess its the installation. One touch screen is one process. 15 buttons require 15 operations to finish the dashboard.
You have to save everywhere, else costs will run up. Small savings become huge at scale.
> It's hard to tell if you are pro- or anti-revolution.

Politically I am all in favor of a revolution. The amount of change necessary to fight off the worst of climate change is unfeasible to achieve in most Western societies, simply because the ones profiting off of the status quo have bought out politics and mass media (see e.g. the Murdoch empire or Fox News and their ilk) since decades, and because the ones in power have done everything they can to prevent democratic change (gerrymandering) or to dismantle trust in democracy itself ("the election was stolen!!!"). I cannot see any way that this changes without what will be effectively civil war.

Socially however? Revolutions tend to lead to an awful lot of death, suffering and instability for decades, often with an even worse outcome than the status quo - just look at what happened after the Arab Spring events. I won't shed tears for any billionaire that ends up with a punishment for their crimes against humanity no matter if they are judged by someone in this world or in whatever form of afterlife there is, but I'd like to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.

The most problematic trend I see is political radicalization: on the far-right side, propaganda and brainwashing has already led to an attempted putsch in the US, and general terrorism from the far-right has shockingly escalated - bombings, mass murder sprees with explicit fascist manifestos and general organized hate crime against anything the far-right dislikes are commonplace. And on the far-left side, we have young people who are really desperate that the planet will be unable to support human life rather sooner than later (backed by actual scientific research)... which means both sides feel that they have nothing left to lose. Obviously, the far-right side doesn't have anything but conspiracy myths (e.g. "great replacement") to back their claims.

Now, should Western countries succumb to internal conflicts - and it's way, way too likely that the next two years' elections will lead one side to that - there is something even worse at play: China and Russia will graciously take and fill whatever power gap the Western countries leave behind, and neither of these countries has a halfway decent track record regarding climate change.

tl;dr: we're fucked, one way or the other, and there is no nice and perfect happy ending I can see.
I think the trend towards touchscreens has to do with the halo effect of the iphone. The fully touchscreen phone was much more modern-feeling, and also better and easier to use than previous phones with buttons.

The irony is of course that the decision to have very few buttons (not one, not zero, but very few) with almost all input via the screen was made very carefully by Apple with very specific justification based on understanding of how phones were used and could be used. This is clear from Jobs' iphone keynote.

If Steve Jobs, Jony Ives etc were redesigning car interfaces it's far from obvious that they would have made similar decisions.
Blind operation of a car is a very important notion and existing research is pushed aside to cram screens into cars to make them hip and cool.

I have a 2002 Ford Focus, and I can use everything while still looking to the road. This is very important for my and everyone else's safety. Every other newer car I have driven needs much more attention to do simple tasks, and I'm traveling 80km/h at that point. This is dangerous.

I have read that Ford had a vehicle simulator to test cognitive loads of their consoles and dashboards during driving, but can't find the article now. Hope they're still using that, because new screens are a clear step back with no tactility.
Many, but not all, designers are just making their boss happy.
Nice work! I like that you're using rational numbers, I thought about going that route but decided to compromise by using Decmial.js in the end. Also really like the "Same Use Case" section in your readme. It's a good summary of the reasons I made this app :)
No, PyPy is a Jit-ing the interpreter.
Sorry, but this sounds like a nightmare to me even if it worked well, but the actual quality and robustness of CUIs is nowhere near what you imply. In any case, there’s about 0% chance any car computer is going to do the right thing if I say “I’m cold”. And in no world is saying “turn on the windshield wipers” a better user experience than turning a knob within easy reach, especially if you are listening to anything or if you have other people in the car.
I also had issues navigating on mobile (iPad). There seem to be hover states that get in the way (example: I tapped on a line to move to that line and it had a small popup to say something was copied)
It's definitely not a magic wand but it's a prerequisite for sure.

Switzerland has actually tried to pursue a policy of keeping its exchange rate depressed to make its industry and agricultural exports competitive.

High exchange rates dont preclude switzerland from exporting complex industrial machinery or watches or anything else high up on the value chain but you need to develop industrially before getting to the point where you can do that. El Salvador cant export fancy watches. 1990s China couldnt even dream of it either. China after decades of pegging low can do it.