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Cars are the best example of how decades of usability tests, feedback and research can evolve the UX of the driver tremendously. How many things we do at the car without even looking at the controls (because we need to pay attention to the road).

Then comes the industry "foreigners", ignore everything that was learnt and put all controls behind the screens "because we need to be minimalist".

Now the UX inside the car is worse because drivers need to look to the screen (and away from the road) to find the AC control (I had a though time finding it on a Polestar the other day).
Out of all the tech problems to solve, driverless cars or driverless taxis has always baffled me. It’s a very complex thing to solve with a zillion edge cases. And for what net gain? What incredible inconvenience are we trying to solve? Lack of good public transit? Let’s solve that instead.

Millions of cars driverless or not are not a great solution to anything.
'right' and 'droît' work the same way too. Right as in direction, right as in ethics, and right as in civics.
I big part of that is Japanese shame / honour. This means the 'worst' employee is not as big a negative than in Western culture.
"I no longer connect with the crowd here."

Then why are you still here?
Friendly reminder:

The federal gov got involved in home ownership and mortgages.

The federal gov got involved in higher edu and student loans.

The federal gov assured us there were too few big banks and then failed to resolve that problem.

The federal government doesn't have a great track record on large often complicated problems.
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Because travelling in Tokyo is wild. It’s extremely densely populated. If everyone took their luggage on the bullet train, there would be no room.
> This is the actual argument, so the clarity is wonderful.

Thanks, that matters a lot to me. I really make an effort to be clear about what I think.

> If your starting point is to argue that NO manufacturer can be permitted to make a handheld mobile appliance (e.g., to phones what Switch or the PlayStation Portable [PSP] are to consoles)

I have no problem with the devices themselves. I have a problem with not being able to run my own software on them.

It was such a problem for me I installed custom firmware on my PSP. Even had my own pandora battery back then. Hell I hunted down and bought a very specific PSP model with a very specific motherboard revision so I had maximum control. Over a decade ago I installed rockbox on my 80 GB iPod so I could have FLAC support.

> these days everything has a computer in it

All the more reason to run our own software on them. We should always have the power to do that. Anyone who doesn't care can just use the manufacturer software.

> But "infinite potential" is a lot of potential to be wasting -- what potential is unable to be met if allowing Apple to offer an appliance alongside others offering general devices?

The potential to do literally anything you want. As opposed of course to the limited set of things the true owners of the platform merely allow you to do.

Thanks to apps like Termux which turn consumer hardware into real computers, I'm able to write software on my phone. I contributed to free and open source software from my phone. I developed a feature for and submitted a patch to GNU coreutils entirely from my phone; if you check their mailing list archives you can find some termux paths in the emails which I forgot to sanitize before sending. I forked and maintained npm packages from my phone. I wrote my own website with my phone. Hell I implemented my own lisp programming language with my phone, perhaps the first programing language ever to be literally born inside a phone.

This is the sort of creative potential you miss out on when you accept this "appliance" nonsense. I can only imagine what the next generation will be like, a whole generation raised on these appliances rather than real computers. A whole generation that only knows how to do what their corporate masters allow them to do.

This notion of "fitness for purpose" is absolute nonsense. Computers don't have a set purpose. Their purpose is whatever we make of them. It fills me with sadness to see that potential reduced to just the things corporations make money on.
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Beautiful, thanks for posting!
Maybe, maybe not. Your passport is absolutely necessary to get on the airplane and go home, wherever you go. But in Japan, it is mandatory for foreigners to carry their passport at all times in public, and to show that passport to police officers upon request. Not all countries are like this; in America, there's no requirement to carry ID at all times, for instance.

Also in Japan, if you're a foreigner (this includes non-citizens on long-term visas or even with permanent residence status), you must carry identification at all times. Usually, this means your "residence card", since it's dumb to carry your passport unless you're traveling internationally. Citizens, however, are not required to carry ID. This can cause problems when police assume you're a foreigner and don't believe you're naturalized.
Why does Tor Browser still insist on phoning SecureDrop on startup? (Older versions used to phone Firefox servers too but that has been fixed.)
LOL that’s such a disrespectful take… the gameplay design in those games are second to none. That’s something that needs to be fine tuned from scratch each time.
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Europe's doing a pretty good job at limiting hill making, while still having plenty of hills for healthy competition.
> I've never seen a car once in my life

Your forgotten word makes this comment seem like it’s from the early 1800s ;)

That said, as a German, I expect to see driverless cars in 2030 the earliest ;)
I have been interviewing intermittently for a few months and I can completely empathize with what you are experiencing. It has been around 10 years since I had to do any real interviews. What is expected and accepted now is way over the top, and really feels disrespectful how much time some of these companies expect you to spend interviewing with them. Some companies are definitely better than others though.

For the worst ones, the interviewers act like you should know what they want you to do already. I'm guessing because there is so much information about tech interviews out there. One of my first interviews they opened an online IDE with 15 minutes left in the interview, showed me how to write code it in and use the command line there, then told me to build a GitHub clone with such and such features. That left me completely flustered because I took what he was asking quite literally.

The best interviews I've had so far they send information about the interview beforehand that explains what it will cover, what they are looking for, who I will be speaking to, etc. I don't know if we are allowed to name names here, but I would like to give a shout out to Cisco Meraki. They definitely had the best interviewing process I've been through so far.

Mainly, the problem is that things are so competitive right now as far as getting jobs. If things were normal I would just focus on the companies that had a sane process and ignore the rest. My strategy right now is to take any interview right now and treat it as practice since I am really bad at interviews, and hope I do well with the companies that actually seem like a good fit. I don't think I would accept an offer from a company that put me through the ringer though.

I run my own business right now, and I really like having to tackle all aspects of it, which has led me to also consider trying a different field of work. The problem is that none of them seem to pay nearly as well as being a software engineer. In your case, I would just keep doing whatever interviews you can. Do the terrible interview loops with the knowledge in the back of your mind that you would never actually accept the job offer. Then when a good interview loop comes along, it will seem all the sweeter and you'll be ready to ace it.
I would expect they were already getting pressure from other cities to pause driverless rides, so they might as well pause on their own terms.
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I'm thrilled! Has it already been launched for 2024?
What I find interesting is that this "press release" reads like a response to an exposé of a toxic internal company culture. But as far as I can tell, this was just a technology failure. It's not very clear to me why they need to "examine their processes" and "take a hard look inwards at how they do work" in order to rectify what was basically a software bug.
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It's even more amusing when you don't know how to spell these in the pronunciation too.

But IPA is too hard for Americans.
Google doesn't give a shit.

I tried to order a DVD as a gift for a friend, searched for it on Google, clicked a shopping link from the top of the results and ordered.

I had to fill in the delivery address as part of the purchase. A week later I asked if anything has arrived in the post - it hadn't. So I checked what I'd bought and despite the listing showing a DVD cover, asking for an address and looking like a genuine UK based company, the order confirmation email had a download link.

This was clearly dodgy, I asked for a refund which I eventually got, but Google wouldn't even let me report it. I even spoke to a support agent who told me it was my fault.

Edit: they're still at it https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/globalstore.uk
It's really a shame, especially on a website like this. I can understand being frustrated with things, but we need some nuance a lot of times.

I'm not sure why we need to have holy wars over what is "open source" and rather recognize that it's a scale. Importantly, if an opensource operation can't be funded being unquestionably open source, then I see no issue making transitions like you suggested or the "free to user, cost to companies" method (how is that worth a holy war?). It's an extra shame given the average salary (current or future) of someone on this website. If you're not struggling, pony up, if you are, then I'm not sure how you don't have compassion.

After all, isn't the open source dream we all have about open communities, code, and everything? If we can't perfectly achieve that due to environmental constraints, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. That just discourages any other "open source" projects, by whatever definition you use. Mostly open is still better than fully closed, right?

[note to holy war people] I'll accept holy wars if you show me receipts that you fund >25% of the open source tools you use. That's a low enough bar, right?
Reevaluating to build public trust would have been fixing things when their cars kept blocking the street or preventing ambulances from getting where they need to go.

NOT waiting until you ran over over someone who was hit by a car and then dragging them along the pavement, followed by lying to investigators about it.

You don’t get trust back after that.

How much do you want to bet all the other cities were suddenly grilling them and they just thought they were about to lose the other licenses as well and this would look better than waiting until they were actually kicked out?
Yes it can vary from person to person. Nonetheless, the USA consistently doesn't rate well when it comes to happiness. Why is that? A lack of achievement? If so, who's hoarding all the opportunity?
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Are self-driving cars actually going to be lucrative?

Yes, the progress is promising, but it seems to me (as an observer that knows nothing) that things aren't very scalable.

- It seems like every city pretty much requires a custom-tailored solution, and they still haven't solved the "downtown" problem.

- It's far more of a regulatory minefield than a pure software business model.

- The cars themselves, in addition to being expensive, well, cars, also require even more specialized equipment like lidars and infrared cameras.

- I imagine that if real disruption starts to occur these cars are going to be easy targets for vandals and disgruntled transportation employees.

- IIUC the leader, Waymo, does all the computation in the cloud, so you're hosed if the network goes down.

I'm rooting for self driving cars as much as anyone, but it seems like an uphill battle to achieve a "fleet of robotaxis" style approach... seems more likely to me that Waymo will eventually license the tech to automakers for use in personal vehicles.
For those interested in SDR, there was recently a discussion here on signals identification [1], and some months ago a discussion of NXP's new LA9310 ADC chip for radio applications [2]:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869534

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35325165
A single driverless car can substitute for multiple car owners' vehicles if a schedule can be worked out. Long haul freight can have a potentially more efficient alternative to human truck drivers. Accident rates for a horse-level AI are significantly lower than the typical distracted human. There are reasons to pursue this problem.
That you can use a service account instead. Their tokens don't expire (but they will add an option to allow you to set an expiry).

It hurts because the kind of maturity you need to maintain an ops calendar and be diligent about rotation across time and personnel changes is exactly the sort of thing that small orgs on cheaper plans tend to be bad at.
Intuitively I would say those look like GAN profile pictures to me.

Trying to more objectively analyse them, the things that give it away are

- Generic out of focus greenery background that is both a little too bland for professional headshots but also inconsistent between them.

- Odd details around the ears

- "pseudo earings" in the hair detail where the ears are covered.

- Finally, what the heck is going on with Breanna Miller's left shoulder?
Apple could simply trigger a warning in the settings menu instead of making the part unusable. Or a similar solution. People are so naive defending these horrible practices, I don't know if it's because of apple cult or masochism.
I have a microwave with two knobs: power and time. Both controls are haptic and I imagine the circuitry is the same as what might have been built in the '60s. It's perfectly fine.
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> how is this more convenient than taking your luggage with you in a taxi/Uber to the hotel you are staying at?

Taxis are slow, expensive, and worse ride quality than a train, and you'd still have to carry your luggage.

> Waiting hours for luggage to show up seems pretty inconvenient?

You don't wait for it though - it's usually there in your room when you check in, or at worst you have to collect it from the front desk. It's similar to the best part of being on a cruise - you can just go around whichever city you're visiting today, and at the end of the day all your stuff is in your room without you having to worry about it.
If it’s critical enough of a bug that they had to suspend testing immediately then they probably shouldn’t have been doing the testing in the first place

That too
Over a million people die annually from traffic accidents.
1200s.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/car
How often do you play past 1750? That’s when the 5 second month ticks happen for me. Also 2-3 seconds between clicks in the macro builder when you get 3000 provinces or so, methinks some algorithm is quadratic. Restarting the game helps.
Bad analogy. A gas buyer is still making a choice.

Google pays Apple to eliminate the need for choice. And Apple users are accustomed to choices being made for them.
The chartered buses are no longer included either. Now they’re a separate purchase from the company Disney used to contract with.
Male monkeys of some species are born colorblind. Researchers used viral gene therapy to add the other rhodopsin shapes for the other colors and they learned to process the new info in less than two weeks. Brains are amazingly plastic, but they are finite, something else would maybe have to go.
Two things that make this a potential culture issue, as I see it:

1. Software that operates heavy machinery is life-critical. There’s no such thing as “just a bug” in that environment. It requires a different level of care.

2. As I understand it, Cruise was shut down in San Francisco not because of the software error, but because the company didn’t disclose the full details of what happened with the pedestrian that was hit. That’s very much a cultural problem.
what bugs are we talking about?
You can have medical research without charging $1000 for an ambulance ride, $10k - $20k for having a child, $100,000 for staying in the hospital a few days. Those are the things I'm talking about.
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It is alleged that Cruise neglected to provide the DMV with information regarding an incident that led to a pedestrian being badly injured. Other reports claim they willfully withheld information. It appears to be more than a “software bug.”
The process failure was Cruise didn't suspend testing immediately; they waited until they got yelled at.
This headline could really use the word "hurricane" in it. I had no idea what Otis or Acapulco were, and my initial guess was wildly off: some sort of space probe experienced a catastrophic failure on the way to an asteroid.
This is the most likely answer. Since the atmosphere is a chaotic system weather models are extremely sensitive to initial conditions. A lot of the improvements in weather forecasts have come from better data assimilation for better initial conditions.
Feel free to downvote, but this is the most idiotic and pointless thing I've read all week. I want my 10 seconds (now 20) back.
Nope. Plenty of countries where you can be out and about in public without any id at all (e.g. the UK). Even in Germany (which is pretty strict relative to other countries I've been in) it's legal to leave your passport in your hotel, although you risk having the police escort you back there to show it to them.
Most people don't live in urban centers. Unless you plan on dismantling the suburbs, we're stuck with cars of one form or another.

Taxis, driverless or otherwise, are "public transport".
It's not the crime (software bug), it's the cover up.
They will be lucractive if one company succeeds and can charge "human taxi fares" for driverless rides, and pocket the difference.

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.
Yeah, many of the Americans complaining about the situation when compared to Europe are embarrassingly ignorant on the topic.
when i was at a uk boarding school back in the 1960s, British Rail used to have this thing called PLA - Passenger Luggage in Advance. They would pick up your luggage (in this case a trunk with my clothes & stuff in it) and transport it to an address at your destination. I really never understood how this all worked (our house-masters did all the paperwork), but it worked well.

Just another example of how in some ways (not all, i will admit) the past was a better place.
Actually I'm having a hard time even seeing it as that much of a bug. As I understand the accident, the woman trapped wasn't visible from anywhere in the vehicle or its sensors. Any human driver would likely have done the same thing (pull over after a collision when your vehicle is still drivable). It's a terrible situation for the victim, but it's not something reasonably preventable by safety technology of any kind.

But regardless, that's not what Cruise is on the hook for. They got in trouble because they tried to hide the full truth from regulators. And that for sure is a toxic internal company culture problem.
Kim Stanly Robinson also hits on this in Red Moon. Someone is emotionally invested in having a particular plot of moon where the earth peeks out through a gap in a crater wall during the wobble.
Those are both extreme overkill for the task but participating in ADSB networks for sites like flightradar.

I really enjoyed making antennas and capturing data from satellites.

Getting trunking receivers (eg unitrunker) to listen to local first responder radio.

Decoding pagers is fun

As others have said, decoding various devices that talk on the various ISM bands is interesting.

Just band surfing at night is a lot of fun imho. Finding random signals and trying to figure out what they are is cool.
> Usually, this means your "residence card", since it's dumb to carry your passport unless you're traveling internationally.

Why would it be "dumb"? But regardless, AIUI you're legally required to carry your residence card specifically (or, if you're a temporary visitor, specifically the passport you entered on with its entry stamp, although they relaxed that part for covid), not just identification.
Webauthn == one way to use passkeys. Which as you note can also, optionally, request other information. Which isn’t passkeys. Which is nice, but doesn’t mean passkeys do. Their scope is more limited.

Technically correct is the best kind of correct, no?

As I noted, if someone wanted to build a more complex flow they can - but it would be more of a jerk move than anything probably.
The author is a PR guy. Stupid text for stupid people.
To me this is a serious flaw and I simply refuse to accept that it's beyond criticism. No language should allow its collections to be corrupted this easily. Especially when a key use of the language is configuring other software.

Fortunately there are other configuration languages available now besides Lua which provide type checking, so I remain hopeful that a future version of Lua or one of the newer typed Lua variants will eventually learn from those.
Do we have to have this conversation in every single thread that mentions driverless cars?

We get it, an extremely vocal subset of reddit/HN who lives` in downtown cities likes public transit more than cars.
A good idea! I might take it for a spin. I started using shadcn ui this week as it is an option on the kirimase tool, and I like the approach of copying components into your codebase instead of making them a package dependency.

With all this cool but complex tech around React it is nice to have examples to copy and play with!
Reminds me of the people who have accidentally parachuted or para-glided through a cumulonimbus clouds, the stories are insane. Getting spun until they vomit, getting hit by tennis ball sized hail, frostbite, lightning and thunders meters away