skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would Facebook fire Peter Thiel?
The paid search service is called Kagi. It's pretty good.
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Ah, the sweet spot between a cockpit and a calculator. You're spot on; we're not trying to relaunch Apollo 13 here. Sure, give us a touchscreen for the tech savvy, but let's not forget the tactile satisfaction of a good ol' button. And yeah, a universal button pad is like the Swiss Army knife of car controls – versatile, yet uncomplicated. Let's keep the touchscreens for Candy Crush and leave driving to the buttons.
This is a pretty common anti-pattern with how technical ICs view their work. No matter how technical or silo’d you are, your work is always going to be inherently collaborative, and your ability to collaborate with others is a hard bottleneck on everybody else’s ability to extract any value at all from the work you do.

Managing or working with ICs with this perspective is also a lot like having a toddler around.
Manufacturing, close to the floor, where you often need to react fast and start in the morning with no idea what you will be doing that day, yet will still have more work than hours.
Touchpad controls are so bad I've literally never played a game on my phone.
Yes, but this is even lighter weight. There is no distro or kernel, only the program.
Just put it on the parasol
Totally fair.

What Moxie argues for in that essay is effectively a setup where the service and data are centralized but importantly the control/power is kept out if the central authority as much as possible.

I can definitely see an argument there for that centralized model being akin to theoretical communism.
Great points. I also admire Ruby as a language (Eloquent Ruby is probably my fav programming book at this point in my life) but have had absolute nightmare scenarios thanks to terrible engineers who are not good at software architecture. Rails is a blessing and a curse in this regard.

99% of the time when I get air dropped on a big piece of non-rails ruby software it's going to 1. be a headache and 2. earn me a tremendous number of billable hours trying to fix it.

A lot of dev/consulting shops that popped up after the advent of Rails began using it for absolutely everything and none of them knew what they were doing architecturally.
The cars with aftermarket (now market) LED lamps tilted up also need to go, both are massive safety concerns.
Thats one reason I prefer small companies. Less bureaucratic BS, more accountability, etc. Sure there isn't as much room for career growth and other downsides, but much simpler.
Similar issue: My small-ish company used to hand out the emails and phone numbers of its programmers. After enough of them threatened to leave because our customer-facing offices were constantly distracting them from projects, their policy changed entirely. Now there is a Jira firewall, managed by a liaison, and we get to things when we get to them. A distraction-free environment is the only way to get your money's worth from a good programmer.
D&D is the most famous tabletop RPG yes. There's a large variety in them though, so calling them all D&D games would be like calling all sports Football.
Of these games it looks like Dead After Dinner, Desperation, Home, I'm Sorry Did You Say Street Magic, and What Dust Remains are all GMless games for groups. I'd also like to recommend Ironsworn and it's sci fi spin off Starforged for RPGs that can be played solo, GMless in a group, or a more traditional GM style.
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But who'd contribute when qt is already there?

Getting contributions is nearly impossible. Getting them for a not so useful vanity project is probably impossible.
It is a nice app but it had too many bugs for me to consider renewing my subscription with it. It would sometimes make suggested moves that were just completely wrong. I did provide feedback on some, which they agreed were bugs.
My parents have a 2019 Subaru Forester and it has too many buttons. It also has too many screens each with their own settings menu. Which goes to show that the battle isn’t really between buttons vs screens, but rather good UX vs bad UX.
It's https://wirehub.org

Yeah, theres a typo right on the homepage, I know, I'll get to it.. :)
Wish car manufacturers simply design a place for an ipad and Apple integrates Carplay with it. That’d be my ideal setup. I rather not pay $5,000 (implied) for some infotainment system that will be outdated in two years.
Agreed for others but I don't think you have driven a car with physical steering if you think they are good.
There are ATMs about a 10-15min walk from the university in the "Cimetière d'Ixelles", I'm a bit surprised about people not taking cards, maybe not VISA? It's often possible to pay with a bank app or your phone as well though.
But the monitor can range in price - the more features you put in it, the better (pricier) it should be, specially vs cheaper buttons.

To serve a level of functionality, you have a curve described as

PriceOfMonitor(MonitorQuality) + X * PriceofCheapButtons
Because of muscle memory?

And well-designed physical buttons have identifiable marks or features on them to help you find the right one purely by touch. The input type (button, dial, lever) shape (round, square edges to the right), dots on the button and location (I change songs in the top left).
No they don't and both the US and EU had approved it. The UK is using a novel theory that have no basis in reality where they are claiming to be able to predict the future.

You don't have a counter argument, you just have your own opinion on how it should be done. Antitrust is not being done that way you seem to think it's not the reason why the UK didn't allow it.
Yes it would definitely be more honest of Apple if the base Pro came out with 16GB of RAM
Tesla gets away with it because almost everyone esle followed them to save costs. And because they managed to convince people to cope with that shit in first place (cars are now software because of EV and reasons and all that crap).
Could be useful to interleave icons of gamepad buttons or keyboard keys in a game as a tutorial, like Press "→" to dodge.
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Ghent/Gent is also lovely and quite easily accessible!
It should be noted that we're taking Masimo at their word here -- scummy as described, yes, but for all we know things may have actually gone another way: they may have tried to hold Apple over a barrel, may not have actually revealed all that much, etc.
Looks like CE to me: https://u.ale.sh/iaN5ie.png

It is a self-certification mark though so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Highly recommend The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin.

He has at least two beautiful chapters on this subject:

Completion p191

The Experimenter and the Finisher p205

The last sentence of Completion:

We can't wait to finish,
because there's another idea calling
that lights us up.

The endnote for Completion:

Is it time for the next project
because the clock or the calendar
says it's time,
or because the work itself
says it's time?

P.S. All his chapters are beautiful.
What is this? The website is just all blank with "V-test" written on it as a header. Is this some kind of unreleased project?
The eruption appears to have calmed way down (flow down by a factor of 4), and they're saying Grindavík appears to not be in danger, with the lava being erupted north of the topographic dividing line where it would flow to the town.
James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus
Or it may help the owner, if they robbed a ton of valuable stuff and didn't realize the laptop was transmitting their location.

If it works some of the time, that's valuable.
This has never proven true in practice. There is so much people are not willing to communicate when third parties are present. This is why the behaviors and availability of features are wildly different on closed networks versus the web.
When i read the title i thought the idea may have been to engineer coincidence, which seems like a contradiction, but i wonder if is not impossible.
First you say 'it isn't politics'...then go into a rant about Trump. I stopped reading here. The answer has always been politics.
it has been not an easy thing to find .net developer since the last ice age.
I have a car from VW concern that has touch sensitive temperature and volume. They are absolutely invisible at night.
> pay to get out of blocklists

Only a sucker would do that. Google, Yahoo and Hotmail, the providers of nearly all email addresses, don't rely on public blocklists. Those are very much a noughties thing.
Cancelling sound distractions with NC headsets isn't that bad.
Cubicles will most likely help with visual distraction i have in an open floor plan.
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I feel like that's exactly what email or pinging someone in a group chat is for, or at least that's how I prefer it.

If I'm deeply focused on something else, I'll just ignore the notification, if I'm available I'll respond.

Bonus points for just posting it to a team group chat or CC-ing everyone involved so someone else might be able to handle it.
> The automaker has since reverted its since on the steering wheel buttons and is looking to now claw back its reputation for something that its current CEO, Thomas Schäfer, says "did a lot of damage" to the brand.

They aren’t even the first car manufacturer to reverse on this. Do these companies not test market these things? Like, I’ve never heard of anyone actually _liking_ these all-touch controls; it’s transparently making things worse to save a few cents.
This is where I always thought the vampire the masquerade games excelled. In fact, they seemed to have so much content that the game itself was less important. I spent way more time reading vtm books then DND books. But I played way more dnd. But maybe it's because it's a lot harder to convince people to play vampire.
Can you recommend some low budget district, with cheaper restaurants hostels ,etc..
I don't mind if it's 20 min more commute in the morning.
I want to come with a group of students from Berlin and we have to do it on a shoestring budget
Amazing, they are indeed adorable!
OOC, what was painful about maintaining Sorbet compared to, say, TypeScript?
> They have tiny cubes for worker bees [...]

Not sure if you're on the same page as this conversation.

Open offices don't really have cubicles.
Questions to fall (back) in love with tech
> Last updated 15 Dec 2023, originally created 18 Dec 2023

I respect Itamar even more after realising that he has invented the time machine... :o
I agree that the navigation is pretty well done (in my MX-5 ND2), but one horrendous thing is this Gracenote thing that tries to guess music tags and covert art on external media (i.e. USB drive), but in the process completely ignores AND mangles the tags I've carefully put in my Vorbis files.
Of course, you can't disable it.

I also think that the whole interface is quite sluggish in general.
Gumshoe is a family of mystery RPGs and they've come out with a spin off system Gumshoe one-2-one for a single player and GM. There isn't a base book for the system but specific ones for Cthulhu, sci fi, teen detectives etc. Ironsworn and it's sci fi spin off Starforged also work well one on one.
You are clearly not a team player.

The goal is to make the team succeed, not to be individual rockstars.
Not OP, but QML is not a great language to put more logic than simple bindings and functions like

Button {
text: "Save"
enabled: textField.text.length > 0 // this is reactive to the value of a TextField
onClicked: Backend.save()
}

as soon as you try to for example implement the save method in JS/QML this starts to become very painful as it often ends up with a lot of spaghetti code. The very cool thing with QML is that the save function can be simply implemented in C++ like this.

Backend::save()
{
// call QFile/QNetworkRequest/...
}

It force the programmer to split their logic from the UI layer which I don't consider a bad thing.
Thank god. I hate cars with touchscreen controls for core functions. I shouldn't have to look away from the screen for more than a minisecond to turn the temperature up a bit or turn up the volume.
> A bunch of extroverts who just can't wait to tell you what they did over the weekend and a bunch of C-level dudes who can't believe work can be done if they PERSONALLY can't see you at your desk working.

The sight of people in an open office plan is merely an expensive therapy session for these guys
> If want to attend a certain talk you absolutely have to arrive early.

For popular tracks the trick used to be to arrive for an earlier less popular talk. Does not really work anymore, past 10 you'll probably never enter the PG or Rust tracks unless you spend more than 1 hour waiting outside.

Good news is streaming is really good so a fallback is to stay at the cafetaria and just stream.
Lightning rooms usually have some space too :).

Edit: disclaimer my last Fosdem was in 2020 ^^
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They thought it was a way to save money, but they really seem to have underestimated how much it would annoy people.
Ok let's go down the metaphor then :
If the doctor tells you have one month to live because of lung cancer and it turns out you had actually two years ahead of you, I'd agree it's not the same but it seems that the information about the possibility for the end of it all for you should be the center of your attention and not whether you could have kept smoking another year, darn it.
Or it might be 100% wasted time that could be bypassed with a 5 minute conversation across the room. =)
I've been driving a new Tesla for the past months, and the on-screen climate and media controls actually don't bother me much at all. Granted, it's not actually a cascaded menu, so maybe I'm not really responding to your argument at all. Which car does have climate controls hidden in a cascaded menu, and not available more easily?

In a Tesla, these things are in a predictable place physically and the controls respond quite nicely. I can use the scroll buttons and other buttons on the yoke to control these and various other things without taking my eyes off the traffic. There's even good voice control for things like navigation (“take me home”).

However, I've encountered some challenges with the blinker controls, particularly when the yoke isn't upright. I've gotten more accustomed to their placement and can usually find the right spot instinctively, but occasionally, they either don't respond or I press the wrong area. It's a minor but noticeable annoyance. I'm thinking about adding tactile stickers to the wheel to help identify these spots more easily.
> but there are people who can blow right past them

Ultimately, I think this is what's often downplayed in these conversations. Just because your friend was able to excel at Go in those 15 years, doesn't imply that any other specific person would be able to do the same, even with the same study. You'll find many people who attempted this but simply couldn't get past a lower plateau.

So, when you say "if you can make the time, it’s not impossible", I'm not sure that that's true. My suspicion would be that for a significant portion of the population, it would in fact be literally impossible. (edit: I was reading a different thread where somebody was asking about becoming a FIDE CM, that's what I was referencing here as being impossible for many, I don't know anything about Go ranks).
Google Pixel smartphones get 'Repair Mode' and diagnostic app
Apple can have their own, separate private key for convenience (so that you can reset your device using an iCloud account). Your private key is for when you forget your iCloud password (or the device is bricked, as in the article) and Tim Cook can't be bothered to step in.
Oh no, that would explain the lack of updates :(
Think about it a bit more. You still need wires for power, you can’t be swapping batteries in car accessories as you can in your home. If you are already running wires for power, running 1-2 more for data is not that problematic, you are already running the harness. In addition, you don’t want the latency and unreliability of wireless solutions in a car. It might be ok in your home, but not in a pretty rough environment such as your car. It would also be much more expensive both hardware and software wise, not even mentioning the potential bugs and such.
That’s terrible. Why don’t they just use a barrel plug?
Was his identity revealed? He was in the audience for a talk I gave.
You can distinguish between iMessage messages and SMS/RCS messages more subtly than making them a different color and going out of your way to 'other' non-iMessage users.
but I am saying that even a lot of places where people think that is the case, it often isn't actually the case.

Yup, one day someone was poking around our mess of over-engineered k8s web app ephemera, clicked a button, and realized we finally had a working Rails production console, albeit one in a web browser, without our tooling, and that would drop connectivity every 15 minutes. When this was discovered this was told to be all part of the plan… welcome to the spin zone.
What is the reasonable and less expensive alternative to shopping in a grocery store though?
Seconding a vote for Ironforge/Starsworn, very cool settings and super easy to get started solo. There's a great webapp (customized for both flavors) IronJournal/Stargazer that makes it easy to track your adventures.

https://nboughton.uk/apps/ironsworn-campaign/#/

https://nboughton.uk/apps/stargazer/#/
> but terrible for collaborative whiteboard design work.

Not at all.

If you think so, maybe try switching jobs to non-remote and let someone fine with virtual whiteboarding take your role on.
This happens when you can't sync your tasks correctly in a multi-threaded environment. Synchronous tasks happen in wrong order.
It's walkable from the CBD of Brussels if you don't mind a proper walk (about an hour).
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Is fossdem Kids friendly ? Is there somebody who came with a 8 year old child to fossdem ?
On old inspiring story from the former CEO of GitHub and inventor of Jekyll static site generator and TOML configuration language.
I think another major problem which people do not mention too much is that the ruby community went pretty deep in the whole solid principles, uncle Bob refactoring rabbit hole.

Because of that a lot of people still have major bad practices set in their heads such as a method shouldn't be longer than 5 lines etc.

Most rails code bases that I have seen usually has had a senior ruby lover refactor things in such a way that one thing is always calling another thing and even though the actual working business logic might be 12 lines which should have been linearly written, is spread across 5 files with objects being new'd up everywhere making it really hard to follow.
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This is the reason I only use apple chargers for charging everything.
(Author here) It's useful to render things like gamepad buttons, in-game items and characters, etc. Here's an example from Nintendo: https://scirra.aha.io/attachments/7235903469701444113/token/...

Another point to note is this is rendered in to the canvas so it can be processed with effects and layered easily with other game content, which isn't so easy with HTML (although our new HTML layers feature also helps with that).
Automotive grade, smart touch screens are not that cheap. And all the do is allowing for lazy development and the release of pre-Beta software if used the way they currently are.
I guess this depends on use-case. I mean, if someone has a need for the more advanced features of a router/firewall like this, then they don't need the consumer focused UI.

If someone doesn't know networking well enough, then the UI isn't helpful really since they don't know the why of things.

It's a great niche, but Unifi has issues and they seem more focused on selling more of them, than fixing issues present for 5+ years.

Here's an example:
Unifi uses Strongswan for VPN. There is a bug in that 2 people cannot connect to the VPN site from the same IP. Site2Site between 2 unifi devices has been unreliable.

As far as what I would have bought, it's moot, since I'm not the common use case. At one point, I used an ASA 5510 as a home router. ;)
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Makes me think that reality is truly leaking in some way. That's something a worse model of LLM's would create.
Im doing a lot of python now, and I found the python code abs mess. it should be only one way, that is a joke. ruby is way more consistent here .

check fastapi, sqlalchemy, or any ML library, what a mess...
> much like the Inuit people, who have many words for snow,

this is a myth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow
Everything you need for a traditional desktop app, or hell, a complete desktop environment, is LGPL. GPL parts are more specialty and industry tools (IoT protocols, etc)
Open floor plan is why I am way more productive working from home. Because of that I go into office about once every three months, just so we have in person white-boarding sessions (no actual coding work is possible). Hard wood floors, sales guys talking loud on phones, people buzzing around the office. It's impossible to focus on any non-trivial coding. And no, I'm not going to wear noise cancelling headphones all day.
Out of curiosity, which car are you thinking about that places climate and media controls in a cascaded menu? I don't think this happens. In a Tesla, for example, volume/play/pause/skip/back are all on the left thumbwheel and the climate temperature is fixed at the bottom left of the screen in all UI modes (well, you can hide it with a game/video, but not while driving).

I worry HN has gotten itself into an "alternate facts" mode again with this subject, where the hyperbole has led people to assume facts that don't exist. The real world is always more boring than the most upvoted comment.
They will certainly care when you tell them they should stop driving their two tons trucks around in a city that's as friendly to pedestrian life as Afghanistan is to women.
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It's not splitting hairs, it's the literal words they wrote that I explicitly quoted in my original reply.

> You've pointed out some times he's failed. That doesn't contradict whether GP thinks he's trying.

Elon didn't simply "fail", like an honest person earnestly working hard to adhere to the values they proclaim loudly, rather he has repeatedly used his unique authority as the owner of Twitter to censor speech in a way nobody else could - it's not a one-off mistake, it's a deliberate pattern of behavior that flies directly in the face of his stated intentions for the platform, which was the clarion call he shouted from the rooftops in has campaign to take over Twitter.
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I suspect there's an element of snazzy modern screens selling well, but it takes time for the bad feedback about sustained daily usage to accumulate.

Personally I'm inclined to write this one up to a confluence of "manufacturers think people want this", and also customers think "I want this" - and reality is now catching up!
> It doesn't even pretend to present evidence beyond the fact that a journalist was killed in a war zone.

While he was working on news coverage over a warzone, the first attempt at his life was not while on duty. He was sitting with his family at home when it got bombed, killing everybody except him. In fact, many reporters were killed/maimed this way, not only while in duty, but while at home. For me that is pretty solid evidence of intentional targeting of journalists to avoid proper coverage of conflict.