skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
48V isn't what enables Ethernet, it does however make it more useful. 48V enables high power things to be scattered around the car - voltage loss from the front to the back of a car at 12V is an issue, and cars spend a lot of money on large wires to work around that.

High power things scattered around the car often can take advantage of Ethernet. things that cannot get a lot of power can get by on lower bandwidth data buses.
At has been echoed in the article and in the comments, so many people are different. I write and run software in my head long before it gets into a text file. This is very mental work but I could do it at the Super Bowl successfully. I zone out like a pro and can get completely lost in my head with no fear of distractions.

Conversely when I am debugging or doing more creative stuff like systems design work, I love distractions. For some reason the momentary interruptions really help me reapproach the problem from a new angle.

When all else fails a crack open a beer, my very best work has always been done while sipping a cold one.
Especially surprising since consolidating multiple messaging protocols under Matrix is literally Beeper's service, and has been for a few years.

Several other comment mention "piggybacking", but there are plenty of services piggybacking on tech giants: SearX, Nitter, Invidious, Teddit, Libreddit. One can even argue that LineageOS and GrapheneOS are piggybacking on Google's efforts.
A solution to running Gemini Nano locally and energy-efficiently.
We don't really have the problems you mentioned in Alberta and we have maintained our standing relative to everybody else in that academic world wide test or slightly improved (pisa??? I forget the name), however our performance over time is terrible. The percentage of people not sufficient in math has slipped from the low teens to low 20% comparing now to 20 years ago, if I recall the numbers correctly. Not to say it's phones, but something is certainly going on over time that is making at least a subset of the kids dumber.

You see places like Thales academy growing and killing it on a budget far smaller than our per student budget and you really have to wonder as well, because it implies the budget isn't the real issue either. I sometimes wonder if the big thing is parents at home who are pushing in the right direction followed by teachers that just teach and don't taint things with political BS, as my best teachers were the ones I couldn't tell you who they were going to vote for (suspect left to far left candidates but I couldn't be sure because they presented issues mostly neutrally).
Nope but Uranus is a mere 2.5h light hours away and the resolution appears to be roughly the same than looking at the moon with naked eyes. So it's not totally unreasonable to have expected a slightly better image for the best telescope we have.

This being said, that image is still better than anything else we have seen from other telescopes
Once upon a time it was easi-ish to scale out, and was simple to use and fast. There was Percona as well. These days, who knows? Might still be true.
I’d argue access to YouTube is probably one of the only things keeping the smart kids grades up at all.
The age of weaponized LLMs is here
It's something he thought sounded really cool yesterday after his employees talked about how waterproof it is with Jay Leno.

If he ends up feeling obligated to follow through it's definitely just gonna be some kind of impractical pontoon thing you tow and can put under it.
I could do that with a touchscreen if I didn't need to look at it to know what was where.

There's two problems with this. Firstly it's generally unknowable what will appear where on the touschreen. Secondly even if you just want to know exactly where the touchscreen is then you need to look at it.
Wonderful! And it's probably not too hard to take this to the next step by having natural language to code (via genai) baked into this? Interactive natural language functional cells. Something an average writer, journalist etc can put in any given article. Thatll be incredibly helpful
What does it even mean to learn chess? I suppose any adult can learn the rule in a few hours and start to have fun from there. Then is there a specific rating after which you can claim that you have learned chess? or will you get more fun once you reach a given level? it seems to be a very elusive target.
Sorry that's just you. As an amateur musician myself, music helps me concentrate. Actually, if I have been writing code for a while without music, I would notice that "something is missing" and turn on my music. I know a number of colleagues who use their headphones all the time as well.
Touch screens, DRM, and subscription based upgrades need to die ASAP.
>It's not about touch nor physicality of a button or knob, but about a control that is not dependent on UI state

No, I disagree.

The heterogeneity and tactile response of the UI is fundamental, at least for me.

Which quadrant of the display is the control in? You flick your eyes to check. Ok, now is my finger in the right place? You need to check again. Is it at the right level…

For the terminally space-brained like me, buttons and dials work much better. You flick your eyes and can see where the control is and in relation to what. Now you can trace with your finger to the area of the controller, and feel around to locate it in relation to the other controls. If it is ridged, you have tactile feedback on its orientation.
For context I live in Brazil.

Laptop theft was never a pressing enough matter for me to do anything except encrypting its disk. I never met anybody around here that claims to have done anything about protecting from it (except for physically protecting it). And nobody that I know has a locked-down device that would be worthless if stolen.
The Russian performance in Ukraine hasn't been astonishing, but the losses don't compare to 1914-1917.
lol, no it’s not, it’s an NFC chip with an account ID on it. That allegedly encrypted hd is just a vhd stored in programdata that anyone can mount and read. It’s not a Kensington lock but it provides the same amount of data security as one.

c:\programdata\asus\virtualdrive
A handful of games have been invented with the purpose of giving humans an edge over AI. They may have had a chance when the best AI was alpha-beta search, but against modern reinforcement methods, I don't believe they have a chance.

The games invented were Octi [1] and Arimaa [2].

[1]. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/450/octi

[2]. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4616/arimaa

A casual search shows some discussion of AI-resistant board games here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/eaept6/tell_me_...
Go is so wonderful as a social game. I took its philosophy on "teaching-games" (ie, every game is approached as an opportunity to learn/teach more than as a competition, and handicap structures are built-in to skill difference), and have applied them to chess as I start playing with my 7 yo son.

We both really enjoy playing the game at our absolute best when I start the game less one rook, knight, bishop, and two pawns. I'm not a great chess player though.

Anyway, more to your question, finding a way to play Go in person is such a game-changer, literally.
> you don't need [...] 9 buttons for favorite radio stations.

It certainly is nice being able to switch to one of a handful of stations with just one press, though. Why not have that?
The photos on that page were taken with 8- and 14-inch telescopes. I expected a 6.5-meter one to have a more detailed image.

Keck has a 10-meter aperture and its image of Uranus looks like this: https://keckobservatory.org/keck_pictures_of_uranus_show_bes...
Maybe it's not the phones per se, but the fact that most of the software on them is written by people whose business model is primarily about distracting people from whatever they set out to do and getting them to do something else instead.

Learning requires a modicum of dopamine hygiene, and dopamine hygiene is bad for business.
Looks like Microsoft people have had access to it to benchmark promptbase: https://github.com/microsoft/promptbase
I used to be firmly towards the zealot side of that. Until I tried Ruby and my first experience was cutting down a 7k line piece of code to 10% of that while adding functionality, and it just turned out the typing was much less of an issue.

I'd love to see some improved typing support in Ruby, but it's gone from a "the world will fall without it" to something that'd be a minor nice to have and which doesn't need to be complete.
I can't stand his voice or fireship. YouTube need to roll out a voice changer. I'd love to listen to this content with a more palatable voice.
I dont think there is anything disingenuous in prioritizing US-Russia relations more and US-Ukraine relations less.

Ukraine has 100% agency, but that is independent of US support. The US has agency too. I hear this ignored a lot with respect to NATO. The US can unilaterally deny any country entry- all it takes is a vote - but people in this thread act like it is helpless and has no control over admittance.
Maybe it was in pesos?
There's still some of middle school in all of us.

I don't think it's happenstance that the title on HN is not the same as the title on the original site.
I've been to FOSDEM since around 2011. My advice to you is to not try to over optimize your schedule and the tracks you want to attend.

Overall the format of 1h makes for rather lightweight presentations, nothing really goes in depth, so watching the videos is good enough.

You should rather see it as a way to have social interactions with the maintainers of libraries you like, go to dev rooms, hangout in the cafeteria, have a good time with nerd friends, etc.
I know a lot of teachers, who’ve been teaching for quite a while.

“Each class knows less than the one before, over more than a decade” and “yeah, obviously it’s the phones, they’re a constant problem” are what you’ll hear from all of them if you ask about this stuff.
Microsoft has DirectML and a PyTorch backend for it. Although it is stale and significantly slower on 3090 than CUDA (5x+ as of 2 years ago).
"There was never a proper embeddable gecko" is both (a) a strong claim which with some difficulty we might be able adjudicate, but not especially important whether we do or not because, crucially, it is (b) not the same thing as saying/proving that "Gecko was not originally conceived to be embeddable" (or proving that its negation is untrue).

Gecko was not, at the time that Servo was conceived, supposed to be easy to embed. Gecko had, by the time that Servo was conceived, undergone refactoring that knowingly made it more difficult to embed. It would be accurate to say that, at the time that Servo was conceived, embeddability of Gecko was an explicit non-goal.

This is exactly why I raised the issue of the logical throughline of the other comment—what is the point of mentioning Gecko's embeddability in this discussion? All right, Gecko is "notoriously unembeddable". So what? It's a complete nonsequitur, and it risks catching anyone off guard if they're not playing close enough attention and they mistake it for a salient retort of... something not actually stated or argued here
It seems to be younger people where I am. What's funny is they don't hold the phone to their ear like I would, they hold the phone with the screen facing them right in front of their faces. I assume that's because their generation don't really do phone calls anymore.

I've never used voice messages like the ones being talked about in this thread so I don't know if there's a particular reason they hold the phone that way
If I was in Tolkien's shoes I don't think I'd care a whole heck of a lot considering I'd be dead.
I would hate that due to the visual distractions and lack of privacy, but "quiet as a library" is absolutely essential.

It does sound like that office layout (as with most US office layouts) is designed to clearly reinforce the status hierarchy.
I asked ChatGPT, and it reluctantly told:

"The phenomena discussed in the text are more about the inherent characteristics of the model's representation space rather than the input data being flawed."

It took three attempts, the first two were merely a rephrasing/paraphrasing of the abstract.
48V is a common POE standard. But Musk is again blowing a bunch of smoke.
Your cats are adopting the universally understood pose of their human not being on time to feed them.
Intel has stated that their foundry services will act independent of their chip designing division i.e. intel chips will have to compete with 3rd party chips for intel foundry time.

So yes, Intel (Intel foundry services) intends to be a direct competitor to TSMC.
I think we got supremely spoiled by Cassini.
It is a design issue because you cannot freely change the number, location and size of buttons. Also, buttons need to be planned long before mass production starts, and for smaller series it is quite expensive to have the mold and design created only for a specific car. That's why some buttons in super cars are shitty looking stock buttons.

With touch buttons or touch screens you only need to decide on the screen size and placement and everything can be done later in the development. It is quite an advantage from the car manufacturer's view.
As with seemingly everything PS1 related there is a healthy dose of misleading information here. What the game implements is known as an assisted swap trick and is nothing new, neither now nor at the time. In particular, after entering the cheat code, the game will:

- stop the CD-ROM drive's spindle motor, so that the disc can be safely removed while manually holding the lid sensor down to trick the drive into thinking a licensed PS1 disc is still present;

- wait for user input, as the lid sensor obviously cannot be used to determine when the new disc is ready;

- turn the spindle motor back on and force the game's ISO9660 driver to rescan the contents of the disc;

- parse SYSTEM.CNF, a text file containing the path to the main executable, then hand that path over to the kernel and let it load the game.

The fact that the PS1's optical drive only validated a disc's license when it was first inserted, and didn't invalidate it until the lid switch was released, was a pretty well known one even back then. Swapping out a legitimate game for a burned one as it spun up during startup was a rite of passage for many PS1 owners, and plenty of third-party cartridges that would plug into the back of the console (before Sony eventually removed the port for that) offered assisted swap trick functionality as well. Some games with anti-piracy checks did actually force the drive to authenticate the disc multiple times in order to detect and block disc swapping.

The video is partially misleading as it compares this feature to the likes of modern PS1 modding solutions such as Unirom or tonyhax, which do not require fiddling with the lid sensor as they instead activate an undocumented backdoor in the drive's firmware [1]. The backdoor was first discovered in 2013 and no code to enable it is known to be present in this game or in any officially pressed disc.

For the reverse engineers out there, the function responsible for this feature is at 0x8003ec84 in ALIEN.BIN (which is a regular PS1 executable). Interestingly, the string "SYSTEM.CNF" is shuffled and XOR-obfuscated, possibly to reduce the chance of Sony and/or the general public finding out about the functionality.

[1] https://psx-spx.consoledev.net/cdromdrive/#cdrom-secret-unlo...
Let’s also not pretend this was a new invention and/or innovation. It was a (big) change to UX/UI of mass consumer heavy machinery, something that should absolutely require some due diligence and regulation should exist to ensure sufficient due diligence is taken proactively in cases precisely like this. The auto industry is quite used to navigating regulatory hurdles, I doubt this would have been a hindrance. It’s just a matter of requiring them to be proactive about it.

I think it also may not have mattered. We, as in contemporary humans, continue to devalue our attention/focus in regards to our technology. I think that’s the core problem with digital UI is they just requiring too much of our active attention where as physical knobs allow us to passively perform actions with muscle memory (low attention requirement)

If they took all the knobs and put some in the glove box and some inside the console and some in the back seat and so on… we wouldn’t consider that an invention. It would just be obvious that the knobs were difficult to access. That’s basically what they did but act like it’s fine because technically they’re still right there on the dash.
>How many people died (this includes pedestrians) because someone tried to adjust their AC in a multi level menu touch screen?

It's not clear. Does statistically normalized data show more or less death when buttons and levers were the only way to adjust temperature?
It's equally frustrating to see hater comments complaining about a company's executives running a business in perfectly normal, legal ways.
What regulations that hinder competition have been added since Covid?
> less error-prone ciphers.

AKA Intentional backdoors for the NSA.
"Older" cars had screens that only the passenger could see while driving and the driver would see a blank screen.
The terms to car makers for this stuff isn't always nice to car makers. I'm under NDA here so I can't say more.
Those benchmarks are from the Gemini Ultra announcement post
> If the distractions truly cut productivity in half we can double the number of seats.

Usually salaries cost more than offices.

> Going too far and too fast without focused guidance results in deadtime and technical debt.

Focused guidance requires intentional communication. Not hoping people will overhear the right conversations.

> 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.

Show the data.
HCI people have been analyzing this problem since the 80s, and the consensus, outside of a few grifters who told Elon Musk what he wanted to hear, is that operating a complicated modal interface while driving is unsafe. It's not even safe to talk on the phone hands-free while driving.
Does it work well? All I want is a reliable first layer, as that's what causes 99% of my failed prints.
> There is absolutely no reason to declare things safe until proven unsafe

I wish i could upvote this more

>> and at that level, no health impacts have been demonstrated

There’s a really important distinction between these two mindsets. The presumption that small amounts of chemicals should have to be demonstrated harmful to be considered toxic, is a mindset that is common in the self-identified scientifically skeptical, yet is anything but. It’s somewhere between careless - something like “humans have always consumed whatever is in the environment, therefore that’s the baseline” - and simply parroting corporate propaganda and lobbyist talking points.
The cybertruck door has been tested with an inch of ice and still opens. I once broke my door handle on my Mazda trying to get it open with much less than that.
I'm just quoting the article. TFA talks about not being able to find information on touch screens. The quoted portion talks about tactile controls. Both were a problem.

"Overregulation" is a squishy political term. We cancel each other out on this issue (assuming you're US-based). I'm not advocating for car controls to have regulations, but would be fine if they took sensible action. But they probably won't need to.
How big should the corpse pile sein?

In summer 2017, the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship near the Japanese mainland in an accident that killed seven sailors. The McCain was off the coast of Singapore when it hit a container ship, killing 10 of the Navy destroyer's crew.

The report blames touch screens.

IMHO, car screens are useful to watch some telly or films during your boring commuting

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49319450
I know that, but OP said they "prefer proper physical interface" not something that they just want for safety. My preference is physical for everything else like windshield etc. but power assist is too convenient to not want that.
I find working in shared office of up to 2-3 people to be doable. 2-3 people can learn and agree to be quiet most of the time. If you have a meeting, do it in a meeting room, respect each other's privacy, etc.

But it highly depends on who you're getting as an office mate. I've had mostly good experiences, but I've had one very bad experience too.
AWESOME!! Physical buttons are great.

A while back I was considering buying a Tesla, but I rented a Model X for a long trip and overall found it pretty enjoyable. However, I found their heavy reliance on touch interface pretty annoying, and did a much deeper dive into other EVs as a result.
The number of commands for a car are pretty limited, so I don’t have any problem. But, I know that voice recognition has a very bad reputation, and also that nobody prefers it over buttons.
Nothing like this.

Voyager saw this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/132160802@N06/40079347843

Even that's better than we'd see with our eyes:

> The rings here are significantly fainter relative to Uranus than pictured here; the charcoal black rings would be near the limits of naked eye visibility to a human observer.
I don't care as I only work remote now.
Cars from thirty years ago still work. What makes them future proof is maintenance and engineering. Not touch screens.

We will always need to tune the temperature, switch turning indicators, turn on warning lights or change the volume.

Touch screens are only cheap. And it is questionable that we get any software update in ten years. Not even thinking three decades ahead.

And probably we will be glad that there are no software updates removing* or changing* features. With constant updates and internet connectivity we will not get any car safe.

Basically we want electric cars. Not computers, at least none we need to handle.

* e.g. Shimano Di2 (shifting groupset for roadbikes) with a Hammerhead bike computer: Shimano forced Hammerhead in 2022 to remove the support for the Di2 because Shimano now consider them as competitor. One of the reasons for mechanical groups is reliability!
* Hello Windows Users. Do you like automatic updates? How about enforced updates? May we increase requirements?
In a weird coincidence, I just watched a video of her performing "Didn't it Rain?" a few days ago. Had heard of her but hadn't heard her until then.
You have hit the nail on the head, and many countries have an invisible tax on services due to company owners selling to private equity companies / large majority shareholders that extract profits to other countries. American (and other) multinationals make owners wealthy and as a quick turnaround start extracting profits outside the nation.
Anyone figured out how we see the hidden setting?
I can swipe with Google gboard faster than I can type on a real keyboard (and I'm a programmer and can type), but I tried that google keyboard ("Gboard") on my iPhone and it was awful - slow to respond, lots of mistakes. (Until fairly recently, Apple didn't allow third-party keyboards at all, and iPhone still doesn't allow third-party keyboards access to all the API's, so they're a bit hamstrung). (Note: on GrapheneOS, I block Gboard from all network access, so it doesn't learn from my mistakes or new words, but it's still light years beyond running it on iPhone.)

So it might be a platform-specific thing. I definitely find typing on an iPhone to be rather painful, but swiping on Android is very, very fast.
Is it a caching thing? The slow version seems less cache efficient, so if it is waiting due to cache misses, that could create an opportunity for something else to get scheduled in.