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User interface developers have always been less numerous and undervalued.

Back in the day, Mitch Kapor (Lotus 1-2-3) was widely panned for claiming design is a skill set separate from programming, and should be valued equally.

Not much has changed since.

> frontend is probably the hardest part of the stack

Again, this has always been true. Especially in terms of fit & finish. It's really no comparison. And it gets harder over time.

The real bummer with UI work is when you nail it, almost no one will notice.
If we (North America) had more walkable streets a lot of these problems would be solved: grocery stores are easier to place in population centers a short distance with less car and more foot traffic and you can rent a car for occasional "off-road" recreational driving.

In terms of transportation and city design, the US could learn a lot from Europe if it weren't so addicted to cars. It's better for the environment, mental well-being, and a sense of community.
Doesn’t that make i2p less vulnerable to an issue tor suffers from - that of hostile-owned relays and exit points? I remember reading something about how a large part of them were controlled by US intel.
It depends on how you define “urban.” The way the census defines it, less than 20% of the US population is non-urban.
Microsoft buying Skype must have added additional incentives to centralize. Regulatory, organizational control, auditing, etc. And tinfoil take would include surveiling.
We inbred southern bumpkins have no ill will towards our slack-jawed fellows.
Apple has a settings screen where you can choose from 6 possible search engines. Mine is set to ddg
If public transit can't be solved in SF, the second densest city in the US, there's no hope for the rest of America outside NYC.

On average it takes close to twice as long to get from point A to B in SF using public transit than with Waymo. And for the walking portions you're likely dealing with either hills or sketchy areas.
It's a shame, my SO (completely not in IT related work) does enjoy reading my ACM magazines, and despite being in very different industries, we do see and share quite similar experiences.

Perhaps it's time I obtain one of those A4 e-ink readers!
Absolutely correct. Mobile phone service isn't free either, but it's so much better than land lines that most people have given up their land line. I expect a similar adoption pattern for self-driving car service.
Same here. I guess they don’t like my IP.
> Are there cultures where people actually wear shoes throughout their homes?

American culture? Way too many movies I've watched feature americans wearing shoes while lying down on their beds. Always weirded me out.
Back around 1980, they had already forecast the CO2 emissions curve we are on (we are tracking their best guess scenario) and the economic impact.

We’re currently approaching the regional disasters stage.

They thought we’d hit 2.5C warming by either 2038 or 2025, which will be enough to halt global economic growth. We seem to be on the 2038 curve.

That curve has us hitting 5C by 2069, with globally catastrophic impacts.

The document I’m referring to is here:

https://download.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/g/f/f/l/gffl0228...

It is a set of AQ-9 climate task force minutes. In the end, they conclude:

——

AT A 3% PER ANNUM GROWTH RATE OF C02, A 2.5°C RISE BRINGS 2
WORLD ECONOMIC GROWTH TO A HALT IN ABOUT 2025.

Even If this estimate is grossly wrong it Is still probable that

• WHETHER THERE ARE GROUNDS FOR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE TO THE THREAT DEPENDS ON THE VALIDITY OF THE LONG MARKET PENETRATION TIME CONCEPT.

• EVEN IF THE LATTER IS APPLICABLE, PRESENT DAY SIGNIFICANCE OF
THE IMPACT DEPENDS STRONGLY ON CHOICE OF A FUTURE DISCOUNTING FACTOR.

• NEED FOR IMMEDIATE POLICY ACTION HINGES ON THESE LAST TWO
FEATURES.

—-

The document also says that back in 1980, there was no leeway to wait to take action to mitigate climate change. Instead, they ended up spending unprecedented amounts of money on disinformation campaigns and in support of climate change denying politicians in the 1990s and afterwards to prevent action from being taken.

I guess their discount factor valued their grandchildren at ~ $0.
Your truthiness sensor needs adjusting!
My oldest is approaching more than 11 years I believe, though I've replaced its brushes and rollers and batteries at least once.
The popups are useless. Tracking is happening 1st party now too. Now it’s just an annoyance.
Yes, that option is need on all inputs really.

I know some disable the touchpad to not have to bother with palm rejection and accidental touches at all. Same for shitting off mouse input when the touchpad is used. And so many other combinations.
Thank you for saying this, was wondering this all along while reading the article.

They compared the information density of, what is essentially a marketing flyer or a billboard and then stated that it doesn’t convey everything: well that’s the point, an ad is meant to invoke the desire for a product in its viewer, instead of being a spec sheet.
If you're not rapidly scaling it probably doesn't matter. But if you're still buying (and maybe even using) Haswell CPUs in 2023, you may be missing out in a big way.

A moderately large Haswell cluster is equivalent in power to a moderately powerful modern server.
Is verifying interactions and allergies the pharmacist's job or the physician's?

Seems like it ought to fall on the physician, which allows us to replace the retail pharmacist with a vending machine.

As a bonus, this drives costs down.
> What incredible inconvenience are we trying to solve?

Having to pay those pesky gig workers I think.
> Note that they had the same skin tone, or very close.

Maybe under makeup and the right lighting. Many pictures show not.
Switzerland has a similar service. For about 25 Swiss francs they’ll take your suitcase from the airport to your hotel, I think pretty much anywhere in Switzerland. I didn’t use it personally, but it’s a very nice option to have.
Time to bring back trolley cars!
There was a definite bro culture reminiscent of Uber's and we all see all the horrible actions Uber did to try to win / kill it. Unfortunately killing an innocent pedesterian in the process of trying to win / kill it.

Cruise's responses to their many negative events read like Uber's and I expressed my distaste for Cruise numerous times on here because of their bro trying to kill it attitudes (if you're not for robot cars you're out of touch being one example).

I'm not surprised and maybe sharper and more adult heads in GM stopped the program in time saving another poor innocent pedestrian from being mangled by training wheel robot car technology. I.e. The cars all came to a screeching halt when the 5G network it used was clogged up due a concert nearby (wow). It relied on a public 5G network?

Maybe one day robot cars it will be safer then a humans if so it will take decades to more yet is that progress worth these algorithms learning at the expense of more innocent lives?
The last time I tried it out I found that it had all of half a dozen websites and that was it. Nothing to see or do.
Java did a lot of things right beyond the language and VM runtime, both of which were "sturdy" by the standards of the early 1990s. Using domain names for namespaces was one nice touch. Having built-in collections with complete built-in documentation was another excellent feature that contributed to productivity.
Raising her children
Self driving technology (sensors, processing, etc.) gets dramatically cheaper every year, but bus drivers get more expensive. The $200K of equipment that goes on a self-driving car now might drop to $50K in 5 years time.
Paid game replaced by a free game replaced by a different game entirely. That’s an anti-trust lawsuit waiting to happen. At the very least consumer protection law.
“What incredible inconvenience are we trying to solve?”

40,000 deaths in the United States every year.
Hundreds of thousands of costly accidents

We can’t get great transportation even in the New York City area. We have 0 miles of high-speed rail, while China built 25,000

it’s great that you want to start building some mass transit, but it’ll take a century if we start now.

Let’s start by having trains take you to the airport directly…

In the meantime, getting self driving cars that are all electric will be a big win. Perhaps car ownership will drop.
Losing your passport can be a bigger hassle than losing your residence card, I presume.
If a pedestrian gets flung in front of your car and then you no longer see them, wouldn't you be inclined to check whether they might have gone under your car? Especially if you're hearing screaming...
"IIUC the leader, Waymo, does all the computation in the cloud, so you're hosed if the network goes down."

Book recommendation: Ada Palmer's "Seven Surrenders".
They literally decriminalized the possession of meth. Not. Single word of what I said was inaccurate in any way.
The limiting factor for increasing bus frequency and adding new routes is the lack of operators.

Having self-driving buses will obviously help in cities. And given the higher momentum, the margin for error is lower for self-driving buses and it's better to start with cars.
I'd think they'd have support through Mesa's amdgpu backend.
I don’t follow why that’s the next best thing.

It seems like making cars more convenient would induce demand (i.e. add more cars), opposite of what the parent comments desire.
> It took me more than a decade of living in Japan to notice the takkyu-bin service.

That’s sort of shocking to me. I’ve only spent a few months in Japan but it was well known among people I knew offering advice leading up to each trip and mentioned on every single travel guide. On top of that there are always lines at every counter and you see them often enough picking up and dropping off in hotels.
Fired != exiled.
"semantic indenting"

bah.

At least there's the option to do it properly, ie with matching parentheses or braces of some kind. But then what when you're editing someone else's code and they used whitespace - you're stuck trying to decipher the indent level and wrangling tabs and spaces and whatever.
How to catch a wild triangle
The only people that seem to actually care or consider that negative are…. Younger men? Maybe?
Let's see a show of hands: Who among us have had to worry about scale?

Last place I worked that struggled with "scale" tried All The Things except one: simplification. It was like being a little kid in a royal court filled with naked people complimenting each other's fashion choices.
What forecasting models / techniques are prevalent in disease forecasting?
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23738581/tesla-model-y-ev...

True, last year it wasn’t but this year it was the best selling vehicle of any type, EV or not, including trucks.
Tangential to the main topic, what generative art artists are you following and/or where did you look to find them?

I found a couple myself (@D_VISION7 @lv374 @beesandbombs @HAL09999), but ran into roadblocks trying to find more. There are a few fractals here and there, etc. Shadertoy seemed mostly like math demos/challenges rather than art, or at least it doesn't have an easy way to find the artsy ones.
As a smell test, when writing a FOR loop in pgSQL, you might ask yourself, "does the order of these rows matter?" And "do I need to see all of them?" (rather than say, just the first or last). If the answer to either of these questions is no, you can probably rewrite it declaratively. You might be able to turn the entire function to PL/SQL rather than PL/pgSQL, at which point you might ask yourself if it's better as a view instead of a function. (Similarly, if the answer to both of those questions is yes, you definitely cannot rewrite it declaratively, unless you figure out a different algorithm.)

If all of them matter but the order doesn't, you might be able to use aggregations like sum.

If the order matters but you don't need to see all of them, you might use aggregations like min and max.

You can refactor some of your logic into an aggregation function if your use cases isn't in the standard library. Often helpful if you have some core business logic that contains lots of if statements, and so is easier to write imperatively.

But I also wish the language were more ergonomic.
Minor nitpick: you mention cel shading but spelled it cell -- the term comes from cels used in hand-drawn animations and the quantized tones used in shading there.
>That almost certainly won't happen, so it will be a hellrush of legislation and funding resulting in crashing prices and soaring costs and bankruptcies galore.

Ooh, chaos! I'll start the popcorn.
Public transit can be solved in the US. Plenty of other countries have done it. That's why it's so exhausting that so many of our brightest minds AND the public's imagination of the future are dedicated to turning our unsustainably-car-centric cities into possibly-safer-but-still-unsustainably-car-centric cities instead of, you know, modern cities with good transit.
I think you’re getting your 90s rock goddess Kims confused, though it would be cool to hear a Breeders/SY combination!
Some people drive crazy

https://youtu.be/r86kxxU-LUY
It's much stable after 6.4 kernel. Last year was not really stable yet.
I faced too, problem is I didn't know we have to schedule a `btrfs scrub`. After kernel update and scrub, everything works smooth.
I don’t think that’s a valid comparison. Landlines and mobile solve two different problems and were probably about the same price. If a subscription to a car costs you as much as owning a car over a long period of time, why subscribe ?
>Also, I considered titling this "How the men folk ruined web design"

Ctrl+w
That's not relevant because if literally the exact same game is resold the dev team won't be involved - it will just be an emulation/port team.
Speaking from observations, lack of good public transit is more of a political problem. There's extremely less chance of progress unless more people start attending city council meetings and start pushing for public transit. Fortunately, there are several initiatives like Strong Towns that are spreading awareness around this topic.
Secretary of Defense Statement on U.S. Military Strikes in Eastern Syria
"While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this."

You have got to be kidding me.

Really? Spelled with a "K" sound? This crap could've come from straight out of my Facebook feed!
I never knew that web design and gender were so intertwined. Color me informed.
It implies that other devices that are not supposed to report their MAC, but do, deserve a high CVE as well.

This has to do with a bug seriously compromising a feature. It does not reflect the overall security rating of the entire device. If I have a one-way data diode sending telemetry from the flight controller to a passenger's entertainment console, it works as intended - which is why they put in a layer1 one-way diode. When you have a feature, you use that feature for a scenario where it is useful.

If the flight controller data diode has a second fiber and allows it to be hacked from a passenger seat entertainment center, that is a high severity. It does not mean every network switch has a high severity security issue, because we don't put those into flight controllers that hook up to entertainment centers.

Let's do a car example. If I rent a Uhaul to move my piano, and it splits in half from the weight, this is a serious malfunction. It does not mean the mini-coop croaking from a piano loaded on it's hood is also a serious malfunction.

Let's do a food example. If I put an empty metal frying pan on a stove and it bursts my house into flames, this is a serious problem with the frying pan. If I put it in the microwave and it does that, that's not a problem with the frying pan.
This article is the first time in 20 years of doing this that I've ever heard of UX/design work referred to as "feminine"
It’s not at all uncommon.

Scrollbars can show up at weird places and not do anything at all due to UI issues, and they’re not that visible anyway in proportion to the page contents, even if we are to assume Windows 95 style scroll bars. Therefore the only indication of whether a piece of content is scrollable is its layout, and a hero taking up the entire viewport height is next to impossible to understand.

This is the reason many such pages have a “Learn more” page whose only function is to scroll the page down by one viewport height, or less commonly a pulsating arrow at the bottom that tells the user the content is scrollable.
The model wasn’t update after the initial training, they’re definitely using in-context learning. The advancement here, as I understand it, is that they’ve achieved in-context learning with a very small model. From the paper:

>> Few-shot instruction-learning task. MLC was evaluated on this task in several ways; in each case, MLC responded to this novel task through learned memory-based strategies, as its weights were frozen and not updated further.
It’s an acquihire play. It might be possible to beat the hypers with $100 billion and some really good engineers. But building custom racks ain’t the angle to do it.
Except in the real world this is the opposite case… population centers are full of food desert pockets and the suburbs are the land of plenty.
Cruise's death knell was when they were bought by GM. There's something insidious about US Detroit-based car companies that keeps them from innovating almost as a rule. It seems they often deliberately prioritize making their cars worse if it can drive up profit.
No worries, it is just their sales pitch. They'll co-exist.
RFC 9457: Better information for bad situations
> 40,000 deaths in the United States every year. Hundreds of thousands of costly accidents

Somehow, after a decade of hype, it doesn’t seem like driverless cars are the most direct path to solving that problem.

> Let’s start by having trains take you to the airport directly

I feel like that exists in a lot of places? Not sure what you mean.
My expectation (from what I know of Waymo's current behavior) is that cars will be perfectly safe and predictable road citizens, no more threatening or dangerous than a Roomba.
Driver behavior after collisions isn't remotely that rational. People do all kind of crazy things in extremis (secondary collisions caused by post-collision drivers mistakenly hitting the accelerator instead of brake are a whole category of accident!). And in any case (again, as I understand the accident) this was stopped traffic and the Cruise vehicle was hit by another vehicle. In that kind of situation I think a human driver would be hard pressed to know a pedestrian was nearby at all.
The problem isn't (just) the brain power, the shoulder joint is also a necessary component of the full range of motion and degrees of freedom your arm has. You can't just slot a ball and socket somewhere into the side of your ribs (and all the supporting musculature) and have it work the same way.
When those suburbs are within the city limits of large cities, yes absolutely they should be dismantled and densified. There's no justification for using government power to create a housing cartel during a housing shortage.

Further, mixed use development like corner stores, restaurants, and grocery stores where people live will eliminate a large fraction of vehicle trips entirely.
some birds have X and Z

and 2 of the same shape in the males, while females have different
We're going to get roombas with full AI at some point aren't we.

Clean when people are away and pets when they are home.
> Benchmark Score Microsoft Edge Google Chrome
> Speedometer 2.1 252 277
...further 4/5 benchmarks in favor of Chrome.

There you go, now Edge is also objectively worse than Chrome.

This is what I'm talking about. "Better" is in the eye of the beholder. There's nothing objective about it.
I think you actually said it without recognizing.

The current state of the art is a fucking train wreck. Choose any layer of abstraction and start picking at it and you’ll find mostly gaffer tape. Scaling up sucks. Rewriting old monoliths to micro services wasn’t a panacea except maybe for cloud vendor profits. You said the hardware market is well defined, which is another way of saying ossified. Particularly when you start comparing it to the expected pace of software. How’s Open19 going? How much liquid cooling do you have in customer racks?

In my opinion this is ultimately a software offering that happens to come on vertically integrated hardware. It offers a complete, highly polished API to a minuscule-scale
DC. If they can find market fit and make a little bit of money, the next step is to start making deep improvements to things behind the abstraction. From where you sit, you are well aware that you could make huge improvements inside the DC demarc if you could do it without disrupting customers. But you’re probably limited by the terrible, terrible APIs you would be forced to use, that don’t offer the capabilities you need, from vendors who would be happy to chat but would provide timeframes in the 6-18
month range for even a modest improvement.

So this, IMO, is about defining that interface to a DC on a single hardware platform with vertical integration, and then scaling up from there. The current hyperscalers will adopt the suite of APIs and capabilities directly, make lower quality copies, or die.

Of course all assuming they’re successful enough to get the revenue machine going in the first place which seems likely to me, given the absolute dogshit state of the cloud world today, the trend towards multi cloud, and the business case for moving certain loads back on prem or to a bare metal colo++ offering.
Ah, my bad. Here's a quote from the transcript:

> But when they looked at young people who were born after 1980, in the 1980s and 1990s, their wealth benefit was much smaller. And for certain cohorts, for Black and Latino-headed families, that college wealth premium had disappeared altogether. So a college grad wasn’t amassing any more wealth over their lifetime than a high school grad.

Essentially, total income ≠ total lifetime earnings. Wealth is what people really care about when comparing (non)college wages. Fact is, college is a big gamble now. For more explanation, read past the cited quote. (Or listen to the entire podcast, if you can! It's really interesting!)
Good job on a really good intro
Won’t that still be in print form?
You forgot the next clauses that are a tad fairer than that:

> and just hear me out, I am going to explain that.
Yes, and every time AI comes up, the downsides of AI are also brought up. Because they're important to talk about.

Anyway, the driverless car pilots are happening in our dense city downtowns. If it was all confined to Palo Alto and other techie suburbs then maybe we wouldn't care as much.
For me it’s available in the app but not the website, although I can access the conversations that have generated images on the website.
The cultish smell comes from the author's nihilism, which doesn't mean he was wrong. It's similar to how the cult of scientology started: a psychiatrist had discovered a form of self-hypnosis that appeared very efficient to solve common psychological problems; that psychiatrist became a nation star for a brief period, but when his fame fade off, his selfish ambition demanded more, so he wrapped his discovery into a cult and became the high priest with followers.