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AI breaks physical boundaries: CyberRunner, the superhuman AI robot [video]
How GM thinks removing CarPlay and Android Auto is a strategically beneficial move, is mind boggling. I literally can't imagine how the reasoning happened, except for some really strong-willed exec with a lot of political power pushed it through.

Can't wait for the post-mortem analysis in 10 years.
Jaguar does that, at least in the latest XE (which stole the screens and such from the iPace if I am not mistaken):

- climate control, driving modes, gearbox etc... are all physical buttons. As is entertainment if you count the steering wheel buttons.

- radio, navigation phone and some other non essentials are touch screens (there are two of those)

- car parameters and display are controlled by buttons on the steering wheel and displayed at the display unit

As it should be. Only thing I miss is buttons for the touch screen controls, but then the screen is reactive enough, even with gloves, so it is not really an issue.
Everyone in the township was invited/asked to participate in this study:

https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/safety-injury-prev/environmen...
I equate this to owning a car, but giving the master keys to a third-party that doesn't have your best interest at heart, with the ability to lock the owner out of the car simply because his keys were taken.

Any anti-theft method needs to give complete and full control to the owner of the device so this kind of bullshit doesn't happen.

The fact that Apple doesn't provide a mechanism for the owner to gain full and complete control of his device at any given moment has more to do with Apple wanting to control their technology for ulterior motives.

We live in an age where corporations want to take away ownership, and we're letting it happen because we're stupid enough to think that they have our back.
> In the AI space it's unclear what/who they could buy

They bought the most promising AI startup in the world for $650m and failed to integrate it or make use of it until ChatGPT was released.

That was DeepMind, nine years ago.
Chances are the number of accidents caused by the lack of physical buttons is quite low.

Same reason why (in absence of extreme environmental conditions) difficult climbing routes are considered quite safe: Because people are aware of the danger in the specific situation.

Doesn't eliminate the need for safe design, tho, attaching giant spinning metal blades to dashboards might solve many problems, but few in favor of the driver.
Sounds like the remote company wasn't that good at it, or at least the team you were in.

At the very least they should have assigned someone to be your mentor for coming up to speed.

That way you have someone you can ask (and you're aware you should) and you're not just forgotten about and left to you own devices, which is rarely successful.
I know, I understand the thought process behind it. But the font selection ruined it completely. If someone picks the device, optically the first letters in the logo looks like "SOW" and brains tries to read the word.

Edit: Also looks like it has a display underneath for "TO". As I said, this is overengineering, removing it will save cost.
I feel the same way, and it's what drove me to backgammon instead. Lots of fun, far less things to memorize to be competitive, and the dice make it exciting (and infuriating!).
I’d be interested in something like that, where do I sign up?
Oh yea, for sure. And I guess some people do use the maps rotation feature. I'd just like an option to turn it off. I'd even accept it as an accessibility feature :P
DNS isn’t centralized; it’s federated. I mean, just because there’s an ISO and a UN does not mean there is a single world government.
Sure, but now you've changed your point from "very obviously" to "it's a cost-benefit analysis." It's not hard to imagine how someone else's analysis might end up different from yours (say, based on their previous experience, or experience of others in their industry).
The regulators were indeed negligent. They either should've said no touchscreen controls period. Or said that the touchscreen needs to be disabled when the car is moving - with no override. I would've preferred the former. I think there's no place for a touchscreen in an automobile.
Last year I took headphones + power bank and watched presentations live on my phone while waiting in a queue at another auditorium or commuting. Worked well.
Video test?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!%3D%3D&t=h_&ia=web
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They prickle differently
>Now if touch screens had a dynamic 3d surface that you could navigate blindly it would be something else.

It's not about touch nor physicality of a button or knob, but about a control that is not dependent on UI state
In my experience, there is nothing like being in a room with a team. There is something about the physicality of presence, the way the communication has both lower latency (because it is not intermediated by electronics) and higher bandwidth (because in person even things like the way someone shifts in his shoes or his eyelid quivers is information).

I have worked remotely for a significant portion of the past few decades. I work remotely. I anticipate working remotely for the remainder of my career. I enjoy working remotely. But working in-person has some real advantages. I just don’t believe that they outweigh the disadvantages.
I don't think you get the prevailing sentiment the people do not want AI to pollute out human interactions.

They only people that do are the ones who want to make easy money on social media without putting in the effort. We're building blocklist for those people who do this kind of thing
> I can't say i agree. Projects need idiom reflecting the particulars of said project. Rails as a framework, shouldn't impose idioms to the whole project.

I disagree pretty heavily. There are certain things where it may be valuable for a project to have it's own bespoke idioms or conventions (if it was doing something especially novel because that's what was necessary to solve the problem), but there's all kinds of decisions where this level of uniqueness actively harms a project, because it's not something that developers should be expending energy on. How to log data, how to deal with basic straightforward security concerns, how routing should work, how to connect to a database, how to run routine queries and get an object graph back are all boring problems with well established "good enough" solutions and no particular need to innovate, and expending cycles on those, either in initial development or when new people onboard is wasted time.

I can be pointed at almost any Rails repo and have a baseline understanding of where to find things on day 1. That is almost never the case with a Javascript project.
https://www.osha.gov/nationally-recognized-testing-laborator...
Not for me. I don't even own a smartphone, just a good old small mobile phone whose battery charge virtually lasts forever. I can't do anything useful with a computer that doesn't have a proper keyboard and screen.
I've often run into the "just wear headphones" argument and never been a fan of it. Do you code with noise cancellation in a sort of sensory deprivation mode? Or do you listen to music?

Listening to music while coding severely reduces my concentration, and I find it in no way to be a substitute for silence.
Are you able to adjust the temperature without looking at the screen?

Being a flat pane of glass, I would worry that you need to use hand-eye coordination to locate the button, whereas with a physical button you can feel for it without looking.
"Engineer" was too strong of a word, IMO.

You can increase the odds, so that it is likely to happen more often. You can't engineer an instance of it. You can't compute it. If you could, it wouldn't be coincidence; it would be design!
From what I understand, even ICE cars have more wiring than ever.
I agree. Lack of typing in JavaScript is a hassle.
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This reminds me of the Navy issue years back that caused them to rip out all the touchscreen interfaces.

Critical path controls should not be touchscreen.
Short intro to StyleX
I totally agree about productivity. It's one of those things where focusing on it really improves your outcomes.
I'm curious about julia as a gui language: mind sharing your code/project?
Many people, myself included, can't talk and do things at the same time. Talking is far more distracting to me than pushing a physical button. It actually takes more brain power to talk than to navigate a screen interface, but the screen interface is still worse because I have to take my eyes off the road, but talking is a close second. If I'm in a high-interaction driving environment (ie not an express way with low traffic), I will literally, unconsciously slow down if you ask me a complex question. I think there is some gender asymmetry to this issue, as my wife, and all the women I regularly drive with, can talk and do things at the same time.
Safari lets you drag and zoom so it’s still more than just a zoom function.

Also, Boxed already replied by complaining about rotation in the Map app imagine the hate if Safari did let you rotate. Removing features is just as critical for UI design as adding them.
Seems like the article should have been about his mentor, creator of the Nudie Suit, Kyiv born Nuta Kotlyarenko - Nudie Cohn. https://carriagemuseum.org/history-of-nudie-cohn-and-his-nud...
> Test scores have been falling for years

Does low test score means students became dumber or they care less about tests?
what's clear is that the refrigerator is just a plain-old bad idea for bread

In humid climates bread molds quickly and unrefrigerated bread turns green in a couple of days.
There are so many great games out right now but, like many others, I’ve found myself returning to games like Old School Essentials and other games from the Old School Renaissance. I’ve been inconsistently playing in this game - https://attronarch.com/wilderlands - and dying a fair amount . That game is perhaps more lethal than most, but the stories I’ve come away with have made it maybe the best game I’ve participated in.
I'm curious about this part:

Your data is stored locally in your browser, using IndexedDB. If you upload a book, there will be a remote copy in the cloud.

If you click the 'Import' button, does that import the book into IndexedDB only, or does it store the epub 'in the cloud'?
> I actively enjoy being interrupted to discuss something unrelated to my current task

wat
> WE ALL HAVE THESE KIND OF PEOPLE IN OUR LIFE, you are not special enough that the human condition should not apply to you.

And I (and most other people in this thread) am fed up with them and trying to actively remove them from my life. Hence, when people suggest I should deal with it, I tell them that I will most certainly not deal with it. That there are things that can be done to make their and mine life easier.

There are people who put their soda cans on the ground, there are people who talk loudly in the train, there are people who park their cars wrongly. Yes, it's a mild inconvenience. But I won't be dealing with it and accept it, I will actively shame them for the spoiled babies that they are, making a spectacle of their needs and accepting everybody to cater to them. Follow.Societal.Rules or get out of society!

> Just be a grown-up and accept that, no, people have no reason to cater to your little comfort

Me putting out all possible social clues that I don't want to be asked questions at the moment is not people catering for my comfort. It's people going through my boundaries so they can get their little comforts themselves.

> Are you really arguing that these people are the problem when you are the one not able to deal with that.

Yes, because they are breaking established social norms and work etiquette. I have clearly indicated by wearing headphones that it's not the time to be asked questions and I have indicated what's the best possible way for me to be asked questions: email, slack, a scheduled meeting, and many questions in bulk.

I most certainly will not cater to how somebody prefers to ask ME questions just because it's more convenient for them to do it ad-hoc. The same way developers of open source want you to use THEIR issue tracker, and fill THEIR code of conduct, and follow THEIR coding guidelines, and not you doing whatever the heck you want.

If you want something from somebody (like information), better follow their preferred approach of how to be asked, and not act like a spoiled little baby when you are told NO.
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Not sure why this is down voted. A decent virtual whiteboard can be better than physical. No more chicken-scratch text labels, plenty of pre-drawn widgets to drop in, easily shuffle things around, sticky arrows, everyone can have a different color pointer, etc. The learning curve is a bit higher than physical, yet worth the pain.

Also, no judgement about attire, eye contact, stance, or demands to stay during a fire alarm ("it's just a drill!").

Shame that Slack killed Screen Hero. Perhaps the founder's Pop.com effort will catch on.
He should call himself an EIT until he passes the exam to become a professional engineer.
Exercise. Cold showers. Long (1hr) walks. Good sleep. Clean house. You need a long term daily system. Something that will enable you to be productive and learn and overcome setbacks for 30+ years consistently. You don't need a quick fix.
> However, I've encountered some challenges with the blinker controls, particularly when the yoke isn't upright.

The blinker control placement confused me: how do you change the indicator direction when turning off a roundabout? With a stalk it's just a press down with your little finger, but surely with buttons that move with the wheel it's harder?

Or is the yoke on a Tesla so sensitive that you don't turn it far enough round for it to be an issue?
I worked for a Japanese corporation.

The Tokyo offices had enormous rooms, with long rows of desks, arranged by section/department. The section manager's desk was at the end of each row. VPs, with billion-dollar budgets, had small, schoolteacher-style desks, in the corner of the room.

These enormous rooms, with hundreds of engineers, were quiet as a library. They had carpeting, people wore "office slippers," and there was very little chit-chat.

American open-plan offices, on the other hand, resemble flea markets. Loud, somewhat chaotic, and distracting as hell.

But the Japanese also have a culture that is attuned to open-plan offices. When we would bring them to the US, they would be uncomfortable with cubicles and offices.

I have found that "one-size-fits-all" solutions, don't really work, across cultural boundaries.
The Go processes I'm currently working on do thousand of requests per seconds doing tls and DB calls / serialization with less than 128MB of memory.

Go does not need me much memory, it's in the same ballpark as a C++ server, using way way less memory than Java / C#.
This is interesting - how long does it take to write? Is it reusable?

I'd be really interested in a blog post about this.
The turning point will be ads displayed in these ridiculous screens. Or not. On top of existing product placement e.g. preinstalled apps, upselling certain subscriptions, premium POIs, etc. If this continues, in 10 years the driver will have only huge screen in front of them and the car will self drive straight away to Shell then to Lidl and the range of the car will be just enough to come back home.
For me it’s because my cat won’t stop trying to step on my keyboard.
Because Tesla did it and the market blindly slovenly and stupidly follows leaders regardless of their sanity.

See also how every laptop is becoming a MacBook and every phone is becoming an iphone. Non removable batteries, touch screen car interfaces, soldered in memory, removal of things like headphone jacks ... Competitors fall over themselves trying to follow any design signal they see.

You can disagree but you really ought to be evidence based and not just vibes.
> Same reason why (in absence of extreme environmental conditions) difficult climbing routes are considered quite safe: Because people are aware of the danger in the specific situation.

If this were applicable to drivers made up of the general public, we wouldn't have a glut of accidents caused by people using their phones while driving.
I think you'll find yourself in the minority soon.

My grandma said, "I won't send any email through a computer, I prefer to write it by hand and have it delivered by a human being".

Although maybe it will be even weirder with AI assistants sending birthday greetings to other people's AI assistants and then your AI assistant summarizing who sent you birthday greetings.

The fact is the next generation moves on and uses new tools. I don't think AI will replace our jobs but people who are good at their jobs can, with the help of AI, outcompete people who are just good at their jobs but don't use AI.

The parent you were replying to may currently be able to automate what they are doing with the help of AI but I don't think that will last long as jobs end up requiring a mix of human and AI capabilities.
Would you own a car that has an associated app for a phone or tablet?

The app would do things like planning trips, showing mileage statistics, giving you verbose errors in case the vehicle has issues, and for an EV you could plan and control charging for off-peak times, etc.

If you would like that, why wouldn't you like the same in the car itself? Those are not things you would need to use while driving, of course, but it would still be quite a bit nicer that going to "stats menu 001" "L" "2" "11" and viewing a number on some LCD readout...
To set the record straight, as this is now the top Google result for “N900throw”… it was actually called N900fly.

Just popped into my head…
Speculating on what exactly?
How fast is gravity, exactly?
Assuming this actually ships on time, here's hoping Intel has the sense to offer this to foundry customers instead of keeping it exclusively for their own chips.
Exactly. There's no language that comes close to Ruby on the productivity front. At least none that I've found yet.
I'd say two people like that shouldn't be on the same team, at least not on their own. If it is possible to find some sort of compromise, that's great, but it might not be. You are going to make each other extremely unhappy, and why would anyone want to put up with that?
Unfortunately is not only regulators, substitute all physical buttons with touchscreen is way cheaper and future proof, so all automakers were happy and quiet about it.
Sometimes, while using chatting apps like WhatsApp, I get annoyed by people that despite knowing perfectly how to read and write, seem incapable of doing so over the cellphone. They just keep using annoying audio messages. This gets me pondering if cellphones + AI tools like converting text in pictures to audio will eventually cause illiteracy to be fashionable again. Perhaps people will just stop bothering learn how to read and write, if their gadgets can act as the equivalent to personal scribes in antiquity.
Kuiper internet satellites will form a mesh network using optical links
SV-talent that then figures out ways to monetize the ads shown to you in the HUD while driving? Sorry, couldn't help it.
Similar here. I expected to hate working remotely when my company decided to switch. It turns out that I love it overall once through the adaptation period (for individuals and for the company).

Even with that, I think there is an optimal number of times per year to get the team together in one physical space and that number is probably somewhere in the one to three range, but by my estimation it sure isn't zero.
Is there any EU body you can report them to?
No need for wiring from the controller. A distributed IO breakout box at each cluster site, with CAN communication in between, would suffice.
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Yea, Apple got most of this by buying a company that started working on this stuff in 1999. You can argue about the patents, but in this case it was beneficial for a small innovative company.

Also, the original idea for pinch zooming dates back to 1985, but I have no idea what that UI was actually like.
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Senior programmer on management side. Personally when I'm coding, yeah, isolated, distraction free environment is my demand. I'm knocking stuff out, achieving flow state. Anything else I feel frustrated that I'm not performing at my peak. I liken it to brain surgery. You wouldn't expect to be well received if you just pop into the OR to discuss getting new scalpels in the middle of an operation.

That being said, it's really the crux of the issue with work from home that the trajectory of the company doesn't really depend on individual workers hitting their maximum output. An individual having the best coding experience is rarely the ideal option for the company. It is far more important that the team moves in a cohesive formation. If the distractions truly cut productivity in half we can double the number of seats. Going too far and too fast without focused guidance results in deadtime and technical debt. It's a tortoise and the hare situation. Would we rather have 10 rabbits moving one brick at a time or 20 turtles strapped together towing a trailer with a full stack of bricks.

It's also not like we haven't tried to make remote work and other options be successful. The reality is that it's something we can pretty effectively A/B test. The results have been fairly consistent across fields and even companies. Physically collaborative environments yield better and faster results.
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As I stated in my other comment, I don't think Russia would use nukes, only when their core existence is threatened.
I'm not advocating to NOT to help Ukraine, I'm just trying to figure out what exactly is our plan. Which is still unclear. You and all others here have absolutely zero idea.
I'm a very cautious person and before committing to sending more weapons, at least I'd like to know what is our strategy. How we're going to win?
But of course, it's also an option to send as many weapons as we can without any further strategy and let as many Ukrainians die as can, without even understanding what winning means. This is somehow the only accepted solution currently. And if you don't like that, then you are pro Russian fallen for Russian propaganda.
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Might be worth blocking all controls, touchscreen or not, while the car is in motion.

If you need to turn on the defroster, pull over, turn on the defroster, and pull away again.
> Getting paid to waste time not doing your job

You mean commuting? Getting commuting hours back each day allows you do to hobbies.
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I thought this approach by the columnist was especially interesting, which was to read research papers in order to discover new topics and ideas, rather than largely focus on the conclusions of one particular study:

“A lot of science journalism values novelty over utility, reporting on studies that turn out to be more likely to fail when someone tries to replicate them. As well as leading to confusion, this misunderstands the point of behavioral science, which is to provide not edutainment but insights that can improve well-being.

“I rarely write a column because I find an interesting study. Instead, I come across an interesting topic or idea and write about that. Then I go looking for answers based on a variety of research and evidence. That gives me a bias—for useful studies over clever ones.”
I apparently need to map more. My head had some Mercator perversion where Finland and Estonia were a continent apart. Or maybe I don't do spheres well.