skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the ultimate solution will combine touch screens with physical buttons and dials that adapt to different contexts. Ford already has what is effectively a stylus dial and products like the Elgato Stream Deck have basically solved how it could work with regular buttons.
Me too. I'd imagine anyone who values time more than money would prefer the fixed-cost option. (And I learned a long time back buying time is the best possible use of money!)
Touchpads are a horrible interface for almost any device - especially ones that can easily kill when there is an operator mistake.

God I hate touchpad or touch based controls or whatever the correct term is, even on mobile phones they are almost always terrible to use.
The Hidden Secrets of Alien Resurrection on the PS1 [video]
> If it doesn't smell

I guess that's exactly the problem. The only food which doesn't smell is cold food.
The Systemic Racism of the Electoral College, Revisited
The CE marking is a self certification program, and there isn't an approval process. All the can happen is that you can get fined after the fact for applying the mark to products which don't fulfil the necessary requirements.
In fairness, my other link was to a Google street view image of (possibly) the actual trees from which the apples fell in c. 1993.
Yes. It is easy to balance these things. Ask the question in an asynchronous medium.
Yes, and given that USB devices usually don’t have protective grounding (since they expect to be supplied 5V to ground at most!), you just might be what eventually provides that ground connection when you touch a conducting part of the case…
I like the changes, but the time limit seems crazy. The jury ruled there was harm to consumers, but in 4-5 years we are okay with them going back to business as usual or worse? (If this somehow doesn't get delayed forever via appeal)
I'm favorably disposed to QML, but for it to actually replace Qt Widgets it'd have to provide: better out of the box desktop integration, a public C++ API and a better WYSIWYG UI designer.
See also this talk: Why Static Typing Came Back, Richard Feldman, GOTO 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tml94je2edk&list=PLEx5khR4g7...
I just bought a Taos this past July and the general familiarity of the interior controls (pretty much all buttons) coming from a Mk7 Golf was a big factor in going with it.
> ... as it's acceptable to do some research on yourself before asking somebody, or try to keep your voice down in shared rooms, or to not tap people on the shoulder when they have indicated deep work (headphones).

Again, nobody is pretending that they want to do that.

> I am upset from people who ...

And I'm upset from them too. In fact, I'm upset from people who have childish behavior and ask other people to adapt to their needs. In this conversation, you call "toddler" someone who did not propose anything that corresponds to what upset you. You just work differently than this person, so you childishly reacted.

You are clearly not better than people who don't se their blinkers or discuss Game of Thrones loudly: you also don't have considerations for the needs of others around you.

As I've said in my first comment on this thread: what if someone is in their flow and just need a quick and simple answer to a quick and simple question. You call these people "toddler" even if they will never ask someone they know does not like to be disturbed.

> But if they do so incessantly

Who is proposing that they do it incessantly?

All I'm saying is that when A needs to ask a question and get an answer immediately and B needs to not be distracted, both to keep their flow, then, logically, there is no solution where someone doesn't lose their flow. And my point is that you act as if someone here has more right to their flow than the other, which is just self-centered childishness.

> and the problem shouldn't be simply solved by saying: "Yeah, just ask John, he's always available and ready to help".

Should it be solved by "if you have a simple and quick question and Jack told you several time that he loves answering these questions and that you should not hesitate, you NEED to book a meeting, otherwise, according to ath3nd, you are a toddler"?

> If all that is already there, asking many questions all the time can rightfully be labeled a "disruption".

WHO IS SAYING INCESSANT QUESTIONS IS NOT A DISRUPTION?

This is very simple:

yes, incessant not pragmatically useful questions is disrupting, and people who do that are self-centered.

yes, asking people to "book meetings" or "write a message and wait hours before getting the simple unblocking answer" is disrupting, and people who do that are self-centered.

Just be a grown-up and accept that, no, people have no reason to cater to your little comfort. Someone tap you on your shoulder when you hear your headphone? Though sh*t little baby! Are you really arguing that these people are the problem when you are the one not able to deal with that. There, a little trick to you: "hm, John, next time, maybe you can ...", and problem solved (and if John does it again, guess what: 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 based on you calling "toddler" someone while not even saying anything bad, I'm pretty sure you are the "John" of someone else)
NASA beams cat video from deep space with laser
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.
The game on its own is rather interesting for its capabilities for the period, but even more interesting is the copy-protection bypass feature included as a cheat code that made it into the commercial copy of the game...
iWork predates the open formats.
There was fast food 2000 years ago with no real "experience". Nothing has changed in that regard.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55454717
Domains, Decentralisation, and DNS
Undertaking that kind of focused, bold, visionary attack would first and foremost require to have a CEO with the same kind of attributes:bold, focused and visionary.

Unfortunately, ball-less wonder milquetoast Sundar has none of the above attributes.

He was hired 10 years ago not to rock the boat, but to stay the course, a strategy that requires a CEO with all the exact opposite attributes: meek, boring, visionless and all over the place.
Yet as a general rule, the cheaper a car is the more buttons it has.
This does not seem relevant to the alignment discussed in the paper. It seems to be explicitly out of scope:

> The potential harmful, false or biased responses using the compressed prompts would likely be unchanged. Thus using LLMLingua has no inherent benefits or risks when it comes to those types of responsible AI issues.
One aspect of this that independent site admins often have to deal with is CSAM filtering. Many jurisdictions require it in some form but by definition you can't "roll your own" automated solution because how could you? Centralized solutions like PhotoDNA are not available to most people.

With most other things I can see open source solutions prevailing, with this I can't. This will likely be the thing killing the decentralized Internet of ye olden days for good.
Not sure what you mean, actually. Navigate? You mean pressing the microphone button and saying "Let's go home", or some other kind of navigation?

Route planning typically happens when stationary — or if you have passengers, they'll obviously use the systems onboard (or on their personal devices) to do navigation.

But if you're driving alone, and no-one else is navigating for you… you'll have to stop.
>Right-wingers like the authors of that essay

Why do you immediately go to an attack? How do you even know their political affiliation? Israel does tend to be right wing I guess.

>For example, the authors incorrectly make the general assertion that it was impossible to talk about the origins of COVID-19 or the efficacy of Ivermectin on Twitter,

Which was absolutely true. This rule has since been rescinded.

>when anyone who used it then knows that there was tons of discussion and the few things which were blocked were false claims which were not just speculative but proven to be wrong

I disagree. There was clear censorship over topics which later on we found out to be true.

>Actual scientists were discussing things like whether there could have been a lab leak, the people getting banned were making false claims about genetically-engineered Communist bio-weapons for political reasons or claiming that Ivermectin was a miracle cure in contradiction of all available scientific evidence.

Lab leak is a great example. Universally censored across all major social media, turns out that's the only possible explanation. The idea it was zoological sources from a smaller animal and be so impactful and not be rapidly mutating is impossible. So why the censorship?

Ivermectin is a hilarious amount of censorship. I highly recommend you research and fully understand why. It has nothing at all to do with covid.

>. Despite being cursorily on the same topic, those aren’t the same conversation and only one of them was in good faith trying to learn the truth. If you grounded your statements in data and didn’t promise false certainty, you had nothing to fear.

Censorship is censorship.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29257278/

Opps did I link something I wasn't supposed to. You better not use that horse dewormer!
Why everyone considers some graphic icons inside of a text object as improvements?
people don't realize it. but small high capacity memory changes a lot. now even small robot cam remember it's whole 'life' in low resolution. and this makes possible to create, say, powerful assistants. when you can ask questions like "what did she say about dinner?", or "where are my keys?", "who was standing in line with me?". assistant can simply scroll through the raw memory to find the answers.
Grassmann should get more credit. Lawvere admired Grassmann.

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Ausdehnungslehre
And that’s a tolerable outcome if the UX is responsive and well designed. Tesla can just barely get away with their approach because the software is sufficiently good.

Unfortunately most legacy auto seem to have hired their talent directly from printer manufacturers like Canon and Epson. So blindly copying Tesla isn’t going to turn out quite so well for them.
Let me see: The Great Recession in the 40s including hyperinflation in various countries. The settling of the American West. The colonisation of India. The Opium Wars. That list quite long actuallx. But of course everything we experuenced ourselves is worse than anything else that ever happened, right?
Can you elaborate on “recipe for tears”?
It's probably closer to the outputs (and differences in output) not being measurable enough.

I had a private office setup in one place. It was phenomenal and by far the best work environment (physical and otherwise) I've ever had.

The biggest problem was: we couldn't double the size of the team without it being a half-year leasing and construction project. So, we'd sawtooth among "far too much space and lots of pent-up hiring; a Goldilocks zone; out of space; hiring freeze; lease/construct offices; loop".

My office now is whatever I want to do with my house. That's also good for heads-down work (and obviously for the commute), but terrible for collaborative whiteboard design work.
Thank you for your comment ! This issue consumed a lot of my brain thinking cycles, which is why Textual Paradict allows both of its modes (data and config) to be used in the same document or section:

[user]
name = 'John Doe'
'région': 'Himalaya'

> ASCII hurts readability, not helps, especially since a lot of regular text constructs that humans use to improve readability are excluded.

Characters like œ [1] or ï [2] are common in my everyday vocabulary, but I've always stuck to ASCII and underscore in my code sources for reasons like keyboard layout availability, portability, IT legacy, etc.

> Also it's strange that your view of the config users is so limited as to only include programmers

The Paradict texual format has two modes (data and config) for this very reason: we need a relaxed version of the data mode.

I will continue to weigh the cons and pros for the characters allowed in the config keys. At the moment, some of the pros are:

- Developer experience: the 'dictionary unpacking' [3][4][5] capability in programming languages is really cool.

- Target population: I assume that the majority of configfile users are programmers and those who are not are used to following more complicated rules (e.g. formulas in spreadsheets).

- Least astonishment principle: people already know by heart the rules for naming identifiers in C (which inspired many other languages).

- The "key = value" syntax is the same as the variable assignment syntax.

- With rendering ASCII as a monospaced font, we won't complain about a character being visually similar to a space or the equal sign (=).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%92

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8F

[3] https://reference.codeproject.com/python3/dictionaries/pytho...

[4] https://discuss.python.org/t/syntax-for-dictionnary-unpackin...

[5] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Because, you bring up sales, I am assuming that is your area of expertise. If a big sale can be unblocked by asking some specific employee an important question now, do it. If that happens five times a day, those sales are neither big nor are these very specific questions. Developers are most productive when in deep working mode. A simple question like "What time is it?" can be answered in 5 s, but it may cost a developer 30 min when in deep working mode. Because of the lost focus. On the other hand, many questions (not onboarding questions) could be answered by the colleagues themselves, if they would spend a bit more time on them. Thereby, they would learn more than just by getting the answer.
The art of slide design: Maximise signal, minimise noise
I wanted to set up a security camera to watch my pets when I was gone. The only requirements were that it had to have iPhone app, and I wanted the video to stream from my home network and not be funneled through a cloud provider. I couldn't find anything that did what I wanted, beyond a bunch DIY solutions which I did not have the time or energy to implement.
Not sure they should be over by the pad. Again, I have to reach for them, which means I have to take my eyes off the road to find them.
The design in the pic looks reasonable. Big screen for nav, setup, rarely used functions. Then a set buttons with a knob for volume (or other rotary control when in setup mode on the screen) and buttons around it to provide just the minimum functions you need while driving such as defrosters and climate control.

You really don't need a lot of physical buttons for a car UX to be safe. And each button shouldn't need a separate cable. That button pad can be the exact sam N buttons for every model, every trim, and regardless of which side the steering wheel is on. The design with "flying" screens in front of the dashboard feels modern but it's of course a cost saving, which can be copied for the button pads. And use a single cable to the button console. I can't see how it's a massive production headache or cost if it's built that way.

It's not 1989 you don't need 2 wires per button and 9 buttons for favorite radio stations.
It's really simple: Anything that needs adjustment during driving should be a physical button so I can interact with it without looking away from the road. Especially basic climate and media controls have no business in cascaded touchscreen menus and these things probably have caused countless accidents.
At 7.5V, any properly engineered consumer device you plug into that port should do one of two things:

1. just accept the 7.5V and charge happily.

2. trip overvoltage protection and refuse the charger.

That doesn't make this okay, it just means it isn't catastrophic.

Note that I said consumer device. If I plugged one of my microcontroller dev kits into this thing, the magic smoke would be released pretty quickly.
D&D is an example of a tabletop RPG, yes.

> no one around me would want to sacrifice themselves

It's not so much a sacrifice as it is simply a different game. Some people enjoy coming up with stories more than exploring other people's stories.
I did but unfortunately it quickly turned into all parties involved blaming each other (it's your utility, it's your installation...) and it got nowhere. For the past year it's been much more stable than before so I don't worry too much about it.
>I don't think having physical buttons worked well for BlackBerry.

Phones aren't 2T vehicles you need to control at speed or you'll kill someone.

If you want a paralel form the consumer tech space, look at game consoles. They all use primarily highly tactile physical buttons and switches instead of large touchscreens, because that's best for accurate control using your muscle memory while keeping your eyes focused on the TV where the action happens, instead of looking at the control surfaces.

Muscle memory is a very important thing in safe vehicle control of any kind, not just cars. Look at crane or excavator operators. They're also looking out the window at what the hook or scoop is doing instead of at the levers they're pulling.
Almost 500 different talks and not a single one which involves .NET or C#.
Besides ChatGPT, what other AI products do you use on a daily basis?
Can you explain or give advice on how one would self-host?

In my country none of the main ISPs offer static IPs. They're only available to businesses.

Self-hosting with a dynamic IP seems difficult if not impossible. There are some dynamic DNS services but that kinda defeats the self-hosted part.
I can imagine a near future where voice controls are flexible, personalised, and portable using small LLM models running locally. They would adapt to your style and needs and be sort of like a universal interface to a lot of devices - not sure about cars to be honest but for navigation and similar functionality I imagine they would be pretty good.

I am also working on a small personal prototype of this - anyone know if there is a more serious project or company that is getting into this?
Nope, Estonian. Quite close to Finnish but not quite the same. We do have all the õäöü-s that we need though.
Divesting from nuclear is a big problem, I agree.

Anti-Nuclear has been the policy in Germany for decades. The UK has been investing massively in Wind for decades. The prices only went up after the war in 2021.
The takings clause does not apply to copyright. Copyright is not private property. Courts are not stupid.
You are assuming the breathalyzer tests are very accurate, but anything below .1 their error margin begins to show. And many states will still fine you if they read anything above .02 if certain circumstances are met (eg kids in the car). A lot of legal advice in the subject goes simply don’t drive if you drink anything at all, because if you get pulled over you are coming out with some fine, or worse.
Stop for three weeks. Then it works again.
Oh, oh! I love FOSDEM. I live in Brussels and love the city, I want to make a couple of recommendations for people coming to visit:

1. DON'T RELY ON CARS. Traffic is awful here. Brussels is bikeable, has shared scooters and shared bikes as well as a fairly solid public transport infrastructure.
2. I recommend finding a hotel either in the city center, or near the Merode area (east of Parc du Cinquantenaire). Don't try to get a hotel near the ULB (the venue) itself... it's not the most exciting part of the city.
3. While you're here, take a moment to visit other cities in Belgium such as Mechelen, Leuven, or even Antwerp. They're a cheap and short train ride away (20 mins for Mechelen/Leuven, 40 for Antwerp).

Also if you have any questions feel free to ask them here I'll check back in a little while.
Because the cheap car has an old and unmodernized production line.
Good luck filing an insurance claim for damage caused by the use of a non-UL-listed appliance.
Scaling Up a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer
My friend's experiences ranged from "too many papercuts to deal with, gave up" to "broken entirely on Ruby 3", but good to hear it works for you. For the Shopify case, do you not have a Ruby infra team that manages the install?
Such a style of eruption is now called "Plinian".
I am looking into comments:)
> which posits that Google is uniquely positioned to win the AI space and hence the future of computing?

They have been "uniquely positioned" as you put it to win the AI race for the past 15 years now.

And they have done exactly zilch (other than produce an OpenAI-wannabe fake video with Gemini a couple of weeks back).

I see no reason why that will change in any way.

Astronomical payoffs is not something Google is culturally capable of anymore, because they require risk taking, and strictly no one has any incentive to take any kind of risks at Google anymore.
Sounds like a mix between Scratch and Game Maker. I wish I had something like this back in the days. Trying to implement a 2d platform on game maker without access to the internet and with a very rudimentary level of programming was really hard
> Why send an email when they're thinking for themselves?

Because, the act of writing down a question --- with the necessary details to state the question precisely --- is often enough to find the answer yourself. Unless it is simple matter of a missing fact. But that is rarely the case in my line of work.
So managing state in one big message window with templates for it?

```message

{{context}}

{{for agent}}
{{{agent/message}}}

etc?
```
I work remote, so I control who interrupts me. I can turn off Slack notifications, I can close my email, I can put up a calendar entry for 4 hours.

But I still have to do something to control my time. A door isn't enough, because someone will just knock or open it. You have to put in effort and plan ahead to control your workflow.

A lot of people seem to believe that work should be easy. It's actually difficult and complex to work really efficiently. It requires knowledge of how to work efficiently, and then it requires a lot of people to stick to a process, someone to measure it and keep people on track, and continuously changing it to improve. That's a lot more than just "don't interrupt me".
I used to drive a Nissan Juke that I felt had the best of both worlds: a regular screen with a physical dial and buttons that change function based on the context displayed on screen (e.g. AC, drive mode). The buttons even had little screens on then so that they could display the function label.
I wasn't making a joke.
Why is Zigbee or similar not an option there? I have a whole bunch of physical controls all around my house without running a single wire, why can't car manufacturers do the same?
> Why would you want OpenCL?

OpenCL is stricter with the results of floating point operations, and makes different assumptions with respect to memory aliasing. Whether or not this is important the AI domain I don't know.

> Why would you want a unified address space?

A unified address space doesn't always imply that the memory can be accessed from anywhere (although that might also be supported with some memory allocation mechanisms), and you still may have to copy between host and device memory. But it makes it much easier to have pointers in your GPU kernels, instead of having to deal with objects like OpenCL buffers.
Daily Telescope: James Webb Zooms in on Uranus
I won't let any AI read my e-mails, let alone reply to them. I discuss car services when I drop of the car at the workshop, and the workshop confirms the details. I don't want an AI to know anyones favorite dish, and delivery services suck for fresh ingredients anyway. And I think about presents before buying them, that is a crucial bit of gifting things to people, especially if you care about them.

By the way, if I would use ChatGPT for my job, let alone letting it do for me, I'd be fired, worst case go to jail. And even if not, what would prevent my employer from firing me anyway if a basically free to use web service can do it at the same level I can?