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I bought 3 VWs, then switched to a Mazda for my last car after they went full-touchscreen. And I told my dealer that was the reason when they called me. I assume they ran that up to the boardroom in Germany, and that's why this changed. You're welcome, everybody. /s

> This is reassuring for the simple fact that actual buttons just work. The touch sliders and whatnot in the Mk8 Golf and ID.4 are finicky, only operating like they should some of the time. They also aren't backlit, making them difficult to find and use in the dark.

I'd frame it differently. It's not that, under certain circumstances, buttons work better than touchscreens. It's that there are particular situations when touchscreens are superior to physical buttons (nav is one of them), and for every other use case, buttons provide a more intuitive, consistent, discoverable, pleasurable experience for users. Because I can do GPS nav on my phone anyway, if I have to choose one, I'd say it's reasonable to conclude that physical controls are superior in general as UI for cars.

The other problem with touchscreen interfaces is that, paradoxically, they can result in worse design. You'd think that an all-software interface would give designers more options. What it seems to do—and many designers will recognize this antipattern from the real world—is make it so that you don't get as much time to think about the right design, and you don't have to make the difficult decisions that result in a simple, opinionated design. Instead, the UI ends up being an afterthought because it's just software, and every VP with a dumb idea gets to have it crammed into the design. That's why touchscreen controls for cars still suck, 10 years into them being ubiquitous, while a dashboard from the 1970s can be controlled by a child.
If this is “free GKE autopilot” (autopilot billed at the same price as regular Fly Machine compute), then that changes the way I think about Fly’s basic compute pricing a lot.

I would think they should highlight that a lot more in the product announcement!
Terminals are pretty important for transfers if it's a hub.

It's probably no coincidence that Los Angeles has a terminal and Lordsburg, New Mexico doesn't.

If you're going from Las Vegas, NV to Palm Springs, CA, there are no direct Greyhound routes (that I could find). You're going to go to a hub city (like LA), get off the bus, and sit in the terminal a while before you board another bus. McDonald's doesn't want you doing that, and McDonald's might not even be open.

However, Greyhound could save money on real estate by moving hubs to the suburbs. They could still have stops downtown in big cities, but have the bigger facility where land is cheaper.
Assuming these arrangements aren’t made and then not adhered to, I agree. Checks and balances, trust but verify, all that jazz.
I worked on this a little bit. You still need to energetically pay the entropic cost of separating salt from water, and the kinetic over-potential (on the electrodes). Also these cells hate running in reverse. Ruins their lifespan. Overall it is still not viable.

Your idea to use it to iron out the economics, though, might have some merit if the price fluctuations are high enough (which is what motivated us to begin with)
> The dial and 5 buttons on the center console behind the shifter is wonderful

One of my favorite feature on Mazdas... never seen anything like it before
It was already inclusive, through these means, yes. This is the real "écriture inclusive".

I've seen your other contributions on this post and I think I'm done exchanging with you. You nitpicked just the right thing and forgot all about the rest of my comment. Have a nice day, you need some love.
>Are you saying you think that someone >
should be left uneducated or lack medicine if they don't like running an unsecured browser?

... As opposed to not liking to run an installer for an unsecured program?

App stores have the same issue. You just juggle the trust from some third party to another third party

If you want to do anything more complex than transfering text and images you'll need to trust a lot of things
Maybe not much. They’ve released some big things like dev mode that have been in the making for a while.

They’ve obviously still developed new features and fixed bugs, along with future roadmaps as shown in their showcases.

It’s not like they had the entire company focused on this but likely hired an outside firm to walk them through it.
I don't understand, if you are using natural gas for electricity why not make it last twice as long and use the cheaper solar during the day?
Accident rates per mile bottom out during people's 60s and then rise again. Drivers 85+ are involved in accidents at rates similar to drivers in their 20s.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/older-drivers#by-the-numbers
Not enormous, but not insignificant either.
One of the leashes I use has a hook to hang bags by the knot. They occasionally fall off.
A single bad tenant can wipe out a decade of rental income.
Matplotlib code from hand-drawn graphs in Jupyter Notebooks
> then turned out to be very poor on the job with in one case worst “teamwork” I’ve witnessed

Which was what I meant by "might not be perfect employees".

> many jobs require more than one muscle

Sure. But high intelligence, discipline and a capacity for a high level of sustained effort is a good start.
Safe memory management without GC is the feature that gets Rust the most headlines, but it's not the only raison d'etre. It also has a great type system, that combined with the focus of the standard library and the library ecosystem makes it a lot easier to avoid bugs and makes refactoring a lot safer and easier. It's also very fast, and scrapers are surprisingly often CPU bound
There is certainly a trade off there, does the cheaper electricity compensate for the fact that you need to add say 20% extra capacity and the accompanying costs to your desalination plants as they will now be idle during low renewable production/times of high electricity costs.
> Ovens and stoves should have knobs I can turn with wet or oven-mitted hands

Ooh, yeah this is a big one for me now. A few years ago I got a new range and the controls are all capacitive touch. Mitts are a minor inconvenience, but also sometimes cooking is messy and liquid gets spilled here or there. Now imagine how your phone works when you get some rain on the screen... yeah, it's not great. I've learned enough tricks to live with it since it's honestly the only thing I don't like about that range, but next time I'll probably shell out a little more for knobs if I have to.
> avoiding feature creeps with extensions/attributes,

That seems like a purely semantic argument? Rust is adding features extremely rapidly! You're just saying it's "development" if it's done by one entity but "creep" if it's done by someone else?
Strange for me to see the negative comments on Flipboard (though I'm not of course criticizing anyone's personal opinion) since I've been a user pretty much from the beginning and still use it daily. Ads are definitely visible but not obnoxious or in the way of how I read it. I agree with Brent's take on Fediverse in read apps (https://inessential.com/2023/12/17/on_mastodon_support_in_ne...) and Flipboard seems to match with this thinking.
Could magic mushrooms replace oxycodone? Study suggests it can
Maybe it’s an example of “fake it ‘till you make it” that crossed the line into fraud?

For example, when puffing up one’s CV, one could probably get away with making an actual accomplishment seem more important than it is. However, if they were to make up the accomplishment whole-cloth, the that would cross a line.
It seems like the solution is not to compensate oil producers but to outcompete them. As long as the price of batteries and solar etc keep dropping there is a chance, but if we reach monopoly before it gets cheap enough it’s probably not going to work.
Ironically, that decision to run Javascript without a prompt was probably a huge step forward for the security of most users. The 'do you trust this' model of security doesn't work well in practice once you can download programs from the internet - there's too much stuff you need to or want to trust to get on with things, and even if it's not actively malicious, it may be vulnerable.

Because Javascript can run in the browser without the assumption that you completely trust it, browser developers have put a load of work into restricting what it can do, even within the browser. Of course, sometimes there are holes in the sandbox - nothing is perfect - but I think it's vastly better than giving any program you decide to run complete access to your computer.

(Better for the majority, that is. If you're truly paranoid and have enough time, explicitly deciding what to trust can be better. But I think that's <1% of people - certainly not including me.)
I think there’s potential here.

It is Kubernetes since they are running k3s as the control-plane. It’s not just an implementation of the Pod API, it’s an implementation of kubelet which handles logs/exec/etc APIs. The rest of the Kubernetes API is part of the control-plane on k3s.

The only major issue I see is persistent volume support, but persistent volumes in Kubernetes were always a bit flaky and I’ve always preferred to use an externally managed DB or storage solution.
What you are talking about is file change notifications. A huge part of Everything's speed comes from reading the master file table that other people mentioned, so you would need a way to quickly read file table entries on linux.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/devnotes/mas...
I think on average, more competition is better for consumers than all these massive oligopolies. I doubt it is for stockholders, though, especially those who want to ditch the stock soon.
I was expecting that someone found the cave and had an explanation for the vibration he felt - such as sound waves from wind going through the opening.
I had addressed that aspect in my original comment (“Granted, …”).
Good. I have an ID4 and really like but the touch panel for climate controls is definitely a nuisance, physical buttons are definitely preferable.

Glad to see this trend is going in reverse.
There's no reason why AI app wouldn't be able to interact with you through the most suitable UI.

For example, when playing music can show you the basic buttons but also let you type or speak for more advanced stuff like "let's do karaoke" or "why don't we go through move soundtracks by showing me iconic scenes from each movie while playing the songs".
More intensive resource use is also the answer to climate change. The problem is CO2 & friends, not growth itself.

A knee-jerk response against growth is hardly going to fix the situation. We can drastically reduce our footprint while growing the economy even faster by building more nuclear + solar power, and digging deeper, improving our water treatment ability, etc.
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue Wants an AI Democracy
I get this is useful for a huge overload of wind or solar power, but this doesn't address base load and offpeak generation usage.

The headline reeks of oil/gas companies pushing an agenda to keep gas turbine a critical part of the baseload infrastructure and keep grid storage from developing.
> It is my impression that checks and balances, constitutions etc need to work exactly in times of crisis. If they only work when everything is all right, they are useless. Especially when it comes to freedom.

Agreed, but you haven't demonstrated that these checks and balances have been violated. At least in the US, authority was exercised and at times found overreaching and at times found well-within Constitutional bounds. That's exactly those checks and balances functioning correctly.

> The fact that a government minister even wrote in a book (hastily taken off the market) that he hoped the situation would be used for "a new cultural hegemony" speaks volumes.

What volumes does it speak?

> Didn't dictatorships always use justifications for threats or emergencies to be instated?

Nope, not always. And even if that were true, it's also true that threats or emergencies have sometimes required extraordinary government action that didn't result in dictatorships.

> An emergency doesn't justify taking away fundamental freedoms. Hence, anything the EU does in this space, justified or not, must be scrutinized.

Of course not. But obviously the debate is what is "a fundamental freedom" and what counts as "taking away." Sure, scrutinize away. Just don't assume that lockdown == illegal == immoral == people don't agree with it == you can just assert that it was illegitimate. People elected the governments they elected, a crisis emerged, and those governments did what they felt they were elected to do, and if you disagree you just vote for different leaders next time around. That's how it works. We're obviously not going to do snap elections every time a new crisis emerges.
Say more! What should we highlight more?
How to fork source code and joint ownership of source code
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Just like everything else I remember at the time most of HN were singing songs and praise about the Tesla infotainment interface and everything touch screen. People who preferred buttons were the minorities. "You already have to look at buttons for playing songs or X why not make everything touch screen."

Now the tide has finally turned. Sigh.
Nice video. Looks like Arizona. Used to live there for mountain biking.

Crazy it's up to $5k. I think I picked up mine for $1500? Something like that.
At least, unlike copyright, patents don't last forever...
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What will become clear over the next 5 years is the extent to which the worldwide environment is polluted with PFAS.

Given how much PFAS has been found in remote corners of the world, I think it is safe to assume that most of the world has been touched by PFAS. Everywhere humans try to find PFAS, we find it. The reason we hear about it so often now is that we are checking for it everywhere. And like the article describes, there are new PFAS being discovered all the time.

This is a generational issue.
Those companies are good at one thing: extracting money from VCs who are bad at math.
The PMs I’ve worked with have had many decades of experience in the area of their product and knew much more than our dev team about the business domain
I can't put my phone in a cup holder and change songs at a red light, they'll take my license.

Yet the car comes with a device I also need to take my eyes off the road and poke around at.
Also, 50% of everything is below average.
I feel like having a distinct implementation that is unstable is more likely.

Stabilizing things from rustc is a recipe for disaster as if rustc builds something new you are in a bad place.
Maybe the patent lawsuit was an attempt to try to force Apple to buy the IP. They’d make money either way.
Why sigh?
Smartphone use per hour seems to be $0.18 in the US using 2023 numbers, excluding all other costs (data plan, charging, etc.), on average.

Average daily use time is 276 minutes or 4.6 hours [0]. Average smartphone price is $790 [1]. I am assuming people switch phones every 2.5 years.

790/(4.63652.5) = $0.18

0. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045353/mobile-device-da...

1. https://www.androidauthority.com/average-smartphone-cost-202...
It's not further along when you consider the vulnerabilities that are present. C++ is unfit for long term use because it is intentionally introducing severe tech debt that we mistakenly imagine doesn't have to be repaid.
That's good to hear. I test drove a Range Rover and it was bewildering. Buttons would change function based on which mode they were in. It became very confusing very quickly and I had to pull over and spend a few minutes to figure it out. Even then it was awful.
> "Types" is just one form of, in many languages quite limited, specs.

That's the "Curry types" perspective described in the article, yes. "Church types" are syntax, not specification. In Haskell, for example

main = print (5 + "foo")

isn't a program that fails to conform to its spec, it's just not a program. It has no meaning and no behavior, not wrong behavior. You can (but should never) `unsafeCoerce` `5` to `String` or `"foo"` to `Int` and get something broken out - but they'll be different broken things, and neither will in any sense be the compiled form of the `main` function above.
Hi! I'm Clippy. It looks like you are trying to make a point. Maybe I can help?

Because you definitely need it if you thought your comment did anything.
Is disallowing IGNORE messages during handshake a good enough fix for this ?
its too expensive (150 per share and going up), apple would need to spend billions
Ah, in the case you might be splitting the vote, I see.
I think a lot of times customers are expecting the service provider to provide adequate customer service as part of the service they are purchasing and have no reason to suspect it will be sub-par until they are already paying for it.

This information asymmetry is not ideal.
Hyundai has about the right balance from what I have seen.

Owner of a '23 Ioniq 5 here. Hyundai has struck a balance, but not quite the right balance. There are physical buttons, but they don't control the climate or seat warmers. In fact, one of my few annoyances with this car is when I use the physical volume button, my finger often brushes up against the capacitive "climate" button area, hence flipping on the heat when I just wanted to turn the podcast down.

Now, there are the usual physical controls like wiper and turn signals, but that's not because Hyundai are paragons of control design, but rather because they're not idiots. And the complaints above are not that big a deal, as the "buttons" are right at hand. But with just a minor tweak or two, they could have done much better. And, as other commenters point out, it could be much, much worse.
I work at Shopify (not the team that does YJIT) so I am working on a very large, modern Rails codebase. (my opinions are my own)

I think rails code is the easiest code to follow in any code base that I have ever worked on. The enforcement in the framework of the code structure, models containing the object and schema relationships, focus on message passing, skinny controllers. Its very very easy to debug rails code and work in code that is relatively foreign due to the consistency across the code base. Some of this might be discipline at Shopify, I do think we have a very good code review culture. But I have been places that rest controllers just led to a spaghetti of "Operations" and "Processors" that just change state everywhere and a bunch of microservice network calls.

Ruby speed hasn't been an issue. We focus on latency and speed quite a bit and work on keeping request times low. The speed of ruby running is a good trade off for the speed of development I think. And most slow running requests really seem to end up due to network io or database calls that I see.

Sorbet uses a kind of type annotation, its very ugly and I do not like it. I really would prefer something more built into the language. Like def foo(Integer x) -> Integer. The big issue is method arguments I think since Ruby already uses :x, x:, x =, and a lot of the other symbols that indicate types so its hard to add it in an optional fashion.
A tech unicorn slays, but for how long? I do think the intention of most American tech companies is to financialize some aspect of the market, and that is lucrative and "slays" - but I think such arrangements are moats built with sand. Without that angle, a tech company is just another goods or service and looks less like Uber and more like the gaming industry.
There's a reason the most important controls on phones (which are all about interactive interfaces) are physical buttons!
> If there's a way to do it, you'd think Apple would probably have enough money to pull it off if having an oximeter was going to make them money. Why should they get a pass or shortcut to a successful product just because they're Apple?

So it’s your position that there is a way to do this without violating the patent, and Apple has chosen to be lazy and not pursue it?
Title should be “repeatably” not “repeatedly” - subtle but important difference!
> What makes this demotivating?

My understanding (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that the people would have sold their stocks, something that is not very liquid and therefore worth less without an IPO or merger. Now, with no merger, they can't get "real" money for their stocks.

> What makes this demotivating?

Well, maybe yesterday they thought they'd soon have a multimillion dollar payout, and all that is gone. I can see how that can be frustrating to some.
Wow! This was already 100% memory holed by me, what a pleasant surprise to see this coming back!

I wrote a small article for your 2nd edition, and I'd love to write again for your 4th edition (hopefully sooner than 2026, lol).
Agreed! I have a 2021 CX-5, and it's not just the infotainment controls (which are great, and work really well with Android Auto), but also just having real buttons — some with indicator lights, even — for all the heating/cooling/demisting controls.

I've rented several other cars in the last couple of years that have been touchscreen only (or, at the very least, very heavily biased towards touchscreens), and the amount of extra time needed to orient where you're pressing is honestly kind of terrifying when you need to, say, demist a windscreen quickly.
Any chance they will be forced to disable the blood oxygen monitoring software on phones already purchased, as part of a settlement? Wondering if I should grab an Ultra 2 but hesitant
And who is going to maintain it after the original developer moves on to another project?
FAA resorting to memes to fight increase in unruly passengers
If you mean shorting Masimo purely to drive down the price, that's market manipulation and is definitely illegal. E.g.

https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...
TBF, they kept Skype, GitHub, and Minecraft, running fairly well - one can disagree on the features, but they did get continuous development and support, they weren't just "deprecated" and sunset like, say, Yahoo would do.
0 fossil fuels doesn’t mean zero fuels. Further starting from scratch with different constraints means different optimizations.
From an employee's point of view, I'm 100% OK with that. If Apple wants to throw money at an engineer to do the same thing they were already doing, but for Apple, then by all means do so. I don't think it's at all unethical to hire away employees. If it were, that'd lead to bad outcomes for those people (i.e. artificially suppressed wages).
It's not on professional level yet, but it was barely O.K. a few months ago. It's moving very fast.

The gist is, if something is learnable by practice the AI can do it because by training these machines we actually teach them patterns and methods. Any "blue collar" job like editing images is going away.
I had a Volkswagen Arteon Shooting Brake as a rental car on holiday this summer. Me and my family just loved the car, but the buttons on the steering wheel were really weird. I am not sure if you can get used to it, but I really prefer classic buttons on the steering wheel, so I get clear feedback when pressing them.

Too bad the Arteon will be phased out and the ID7, which looks like a great car, will have the same buttons. At least the new Passat seems to get the haptic buttons again.
what about lowering our usage? or more efficiently use what we have, even if it means less growth for the economy.
If you got to the lawsuit point you already tried negotiation.