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> There's a reason every single company wants to just build web apps and electron apps, because it's actually the best and simplest platform for delivering a cross platform UI [...]

Maybe, but consider that possibly the reason why many companies go that route is more to do with financial incentives: it provides for the cheapest option (both in terms of resource costs and time), while still retaining complete control over the use of the software (and consequently their revenue generation).
Even ignoring the latter aspect of that, its cheaper to have 1 team build out a single interface than multiple teams each working on platform specific interfaces. Then theres a follow-on reduction in support (and troubleshooting) costs in dealing with platform specific updates, less coordination/communication needed and thus reduced need for management level resources, etc etc. Theres also lower costs in terms of skills the company is hiring.

I'd also extend that to the possibility that the prevalance of tooling such as electron and its kin is a response to a demand for it, rather than arising out of being "best in class".

So best and/or simplest platform... well that depends on whats being measured. From a financial perspective, sure, why not. Other measures though... Im not so sure.
> Used in a work context, they are nearly always used in an attempt to diminish the perceived effort of something

Similarly, when I hear people say "nearly always" to justify a position I get very sketched out and think they're either not listening or are inexperienced and irrationally afraid of what I'm trying to tell them.
I’ve had my spicy posts get downvoted within 10 seconds of me making the post. Impossible for that to always be organic. Glad others observe this here. Dang will of course deny this happens, but it is happening for sure.
Meta: I wanted to point out some bad UX-element on this website just for fun, but the more I look, the more I like it. No pop-ups, no pop-overs no tooltips, no request to sign up for newsletter and it loads fast. Scrolling is not hijacked, text is readable. The only thing I'm not a fan of is this shade of pink, but I must concede that it is subjective. I guess I give up on this one.

Anyway... personally I'm happy for the CT's design. All other cars look exactly the same. Which I'm not a huge fan of CT, but I'm a fan of change, finally. We haven't had such a brave design since the Fiat Multipla. But this one doesn't look like the new car of Mr Bean.
This seems directed at the Trump campaign more than anything else. There are a number of stories popping up in the media at the moment that are essentially hitjobs against a Trump re-election.
Q: If sea levels are going to rise, why did Al Gore retire to an ocean front home?

A: Sea levels are not going to rise, and Al Gore knows it. He was and is a fraud.
Door handle hadn't confused me once I figured it out on my Tesla.

Also, I wouldn't judged a car's or a truck's safety without a crash test report. I like the big touchscreen, but I must admit that I also like buttons. That said, I prefer using buttons on the steering wheel if possible. The yoke design is probably not a problem if you don't ever need to rotate it like 180 degree or something.

I think the simplicity and minimalism stems from Elon Musk's drive to reduce the amount of parts and weight in a car. I agree that some functionality is lost, and maybe a little bit of safety as well, since it's hard to do certain tasks without physical buttons.
This is a lot of anecdotal evidence.

And you are touching a lot of different subjects which I don't have time to refute one by one.

Examples:

1. Convinction rate in Israel is over 90% for the entire population, not just palestinians. This is because different reasons such as preference not to press charges if there is not a very high chance of conviction, plea bargains, etc.

2. Multiple checkpoints - The security situation in the west bank is a reflection of the fact this is an occupied territory which should have been solved in subsequent peace negotiations. This never happened, and the reasons for that rest on both sides, but you have to be honest with yourself if you think the Palestinians did not reject multiple fair peace offers.

"Systematically exterminated" - This is an extreme hyperbole.. there are enough historical examples of how systematic exterminations looks like to make this a not serious claim. Just compare the amount of casualties of different middle eastern conflicts to the Israeli-Palestinian one

Please try to touch something more concrete than multiple anecdotes which most do not really represent anything similar to an apartheid government.
Is the back window not see through? I've never been in a Tesla
If the universe is infinite then you are a more likely to be a disembodied Boltzmann brain thinking that you have posted a Hackernews comment about the universe being infinite than being a human brain in a human body evolved on a terrestrial planet with limited growth, because that chain of events is far less likely than a spontaneously formed brain.
Did Tesla end up going with steer by wire? I support fly by wire on any aircraft that can be flown by instruments and can carry passengers, as the cost of getting to right is worth it in those cases, and can help pilots in a lot of situations. However, how is steer by wire going to help you while driving on a 2D plane, more or less? You can't "fly" a car by instruments, and if the horizon is not more or less horizontal across your windshield and/or the ground is not right under your wheels, steering is not going to help you much anyway. For airplanes, the bottom of the U curve often suggests fly by wire, but for road cars I doubt it would almost ever. How many people are going to inspect and maintain the system correctly anyway? I know people who have totaled cars by driving them on check engine lights, so if this can cause someone to crash it will cause someone to crash.
I like the departure of the design, but I am definitely not a fan of the visual style. I prefer something less polygonal.
Al Gore is extremely rich and can keep moving, unlike the billions who live in poverty.
The Sun and the Solstice
I wondered how many bits per silicone atom these SD cards are capable of now. Quick back of the envelope calculations say we're at 300 million atoms per bit of capacity.

Assumptions:
micro sd cards weighing 250 mg, resulting in 0.25/28 moles of silicon.
My no 1 rule is simply not to let others tell you what you should enjoy.

If you know what you like, the opportunities for finding that enjoyment are much expanded!
I have programmed in many languages. I'm kind of weird, I think, because I honestly think the bugs that people complain about in javascript count as features :):). Everybody hates double equals. I consider it a convenient shorthand :).

Go is a lot different. It's not fun to work with if you come from a dynamic language and need to get something done quick. It's annoying because you have to typecast from int to float and back. So frustrating.

But the place where go is amazing is memory management
First - you have access to pointers.
Secondly error handling is superior (few exceptions, pretty much everything just returns the error instead of crashing your program, which is much less difficult to reason about than try catch. It's also more succinct).
Third - go allows you to mess with threads and passing data back and forth between them better than most languages. I CANNOT SPEAK TO RUST AS I DON'T KNOW IT. But it's way better than any of Java, python, c, c++, etc, because it's just made for this.

Hopefully this helps!
Consider this, driving a car on xbox/pc compared to IRL
Yes, I would agree with that. And that's why "running natively in the browser" is not a remarkable feature of web components, because you will need something like lit anyway for using web components in a productive way. So you might as well use React, or any of the other billion frameworks.
>The system works well both for employees and companies.

It's bad for the economy because it slows the circulation of ideas. A part of why there's been so much technological growth in Silicon Valley is because ideas could move between companies much faster.
Thank you. I don't personally believe in non-competes, and have the luxury of living somewhere where they're not enforced, but if, as an employer, you believe in non-competes, it's seems obvious that nurses should be just as subject to them as any other field because of their knowledge of the hospitals proprietary systems under that belief system. That's not a general statement on what I believe about non-competes, and the distinction is subtle. Such subtleties are often lost in online discourse.
thought battery swap outs were on their way out as range / charging speed improved. I think Taiwan were ahead on this, but didn't realise Mainland China was also building swap out. I guess the most robust system would be heterogenous yet integrated, give the drivers as many options as possible
At least this is innovation and always moving forward. For the frontend space sometimes it’s step backs, reinventing the wheel, or just because a new tool looks shinier…
> most people are not disciplined

Abstracting from programming languages alone, this is the reason why good software design makes doing the wrong thing either impossible, or at least very hard, while making the right use very easy.

I am still learning to do that better. Sometimes I am able to foresee the misuse of a feature and make it impossible, but not always - and it's harder to correct the error once it proliferates.

However, the article puts the quote (though it had nothing to do with GOTO) in context - and at the time no dialect of BASIC that was used by millions of users had support for functions (other than mathematical expressions declared with DEF FN), or procedures - so you couldn't jump out of scope... because there was only one scope.
I know HN will rip this to shreds because it's Gates and this is HN but I look forward to reading his annual letter each year. It's nice to read a optimistic take on the worlds direction once in a while, among the daily pessimistic domerism.
Fake things can definitely look fake, I think, or am I missing the distinction you are drawing here? I don't understand what you are correcting me on, but I'm curious. I'm aware there's no color in the black and white original.
Their evaluation stack uses GPT-4 to rate the answers, so that might also be the reason why that's in there.
It is clear that the car is designed in a country with essentially zero roundabouts. It is very hard to blink «out» of a roundabout when your steering wheel (or yoke) is upside down.

The lack of handle for blinkers and handle for cruise is why my next car will be a mercedes. I have the older X with physical handles now.

Or maybe I should say part of why, it’s almost embarassing to drive a Tesla these days with Commander Dunnig-Kruger at the helm of the company :(
so assuming they take control of starlink, then what?, no retaliation?

As for invading Taiwan, again, is the US going to stand idle and let China take over or intervene?
Cybertruck is doing steer by wire and they also transitioned to 48V away from 12V. So much of the technology showcased in the cybertruck will be coming to a new Tesla vehicle sometime in the future as they work out the supply issue.
A video of before and after would do wonders.

Also, if this could show stats and graphs on the topics the user has been exposed to and what has been blocked out it would be amazing.
Love this! I had to implement a half-assed version of this a long time ago at a job because there was a class of subtle bugs that popped up due to poor naming/documentation/spaghetti code that would've been eliminated by things like this.
You are right, but no language has tried to claim the space of giving the user more control, so C remains the lowest level language we have that is portable. I think there are lots of opportunities in this space, but i don't know of anyone working on it.
With that pedantic an approach you are missing out on an otherwise fairly informative piece.
You may well be correct in that bet. I lean that way myself more than most of my colleagues. On the other hand your reasoning is quite wrong, entanglement is both very well understood and fairly robust. Scale and gate fidelity are significant problems in building quantum computers, entanglement isn't really (by this I mean that building good entangling gates is hard, but the entanglement once you've made it is ok).

The theory (which is just quantum mechanics) matches the reality better than any other known physical theory ever has. It is certainly not "just literature". Of course it is wrong in some sense, since it doesn't appear to cover gravity, but it is also right in some pretty meaningful sense.
Indeed, I just checked it online and it is definitely a very informative book.
Absolutely, there are plenty of climates where HRV (aka MVHR) is quite sufficient. In inland areas (most of the US, and a fair chunk of Europe), the temperature difference between summer and winter is enough that a HRV is unlikely to be sufficient. Somewhere like the UK or somewhere near the equator and high altitude, a HRV system probably will be absolutely fine.

In the UK, the outside air dew point in the depths of winter is likely to be between -5 and 15 °C, and in summer likely between 10 and 25 °C. That might be a little dry at the driest, and a little sticky on a couple of days in the summer, but it's perfectly reasonable to just bring that air into the house without messing with the humidity. Most UK houses are too humid and don't have enough ventilation.

However, as soon as you start wanting to cool a house because the outside air is too hot, then that outside air will basically have 100% relative humidity when it is cooled to your house temperature, and it will probably have condensed out a load of its moisture onto whatever was cooling it, so you absolutely do need to mess with the humidity.
yes the problem is most likely that a lot of people have become hamas's defenders recently for some uncomprehensible reasons. Like finding them justifications, or supporting them on the ongoing war. It's pretty insane if you think about.

I remember some people in the arab world took side for ben laden on 9/11 but this time it's happening in the west too.
Many cars (crossovers and SUVs, really) have screens as their rear view "mirror" now, because you can't see out the back well enough with an actual mirror. The old "aerodynamic" streamlined cars got it wrong, you really want the front of the car to be blunter than the rear, so I assume that's something to do with it.
i shop here often now, self checkout is one of the main reasons, so easy to use and quick too.
The Ruff Formatter
For cyber truck, it's blocked by the bed cover so you can't see out it 99% of the time.
Never did I think I'd hear someone describe a 7000lb luxury vehicle as simple, minimalist and an exercise in weight reduction.

Are you an oil tanker captain perhaps?
XS4ALL was amazing and it’s a genuine shame that KPN corporate decided to dissolve the brand. But I guess, KPN wouldn’t have been comfortable with XS4ALL’s hacker ethos anyways…
While solids are transmitting sound waves much faster than air, spaghetti is also very prone to mechanical destruction. A dense metal rod would do better, but at the cost of requiring more actuation force.
Environmental Performance Index: 2022 Results
The title perfectly captures the state of the art. How most people think of the relationship between the two protocols. I am glad I know the truth.
Resetting the timer in my toothbrush
Pixelating Live with SVG
I might be misunderstanding something, but it seems like a hard problem if you spent 3 years solving it.

Or are those 3 years mostly maintenance and the bulk of work was done in a few weeks at the start?
I actually think that quite the opposite is true.

Yes, children can get some idea of a language, but they need a lot more experience and exposure to reach some level of proficiency in the language and this mostly includes supervised training in the school. They must read multiple books, have conversations etc to be able to really express themselves. It takes 10 years

The difference is that LLM don't try to have such iterative intelligence like humans do but are more like knowledge boxes. Perhaps it would take a lot less data to gain the same level of language understanding the 3 year olds have.
It's not that bad. i ve seen uglier trashcans
Most spicy comments get rapid downvotes, and it's organic.

I know mine do.

Long time HN readers frequently load https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments to see where the interesting conversations are happening right now .. and they pretty much all reflexively downvote comments that appear to be rude or attacking other users directly rather than discussing their positions.
I recall PLENTY of "The west deserved 9/11 due to imperialism" sentiments, although not people who actually supported Osama Bin Laden.

I see similar sentiments around this war all the time, "Israel deserved this terrorist attack due to imperialism" but again really not much actual support for Hamas.
Bundling / Tying is not illegal in and of itself.
One-off fees don’t work for services that require continuous compute IMO.
CI Dream
> This is a lot of anecdotal evidence.

you see enough annectodatal evidence and it starts to become a pattern

> And you are touching a lot of different subjects which I don't have time to refute one by one.

thats how systematic oppression work. it has many facets and if you're pro israeli, you've only maintained that position by bot reading though the evidence

> Convinction rate in Israel is over 90% for the entire population, not just palestinians.

fair, but why do palestinians go thougha. seperate miliary court? why are children as young as 10 serving time in military prisons? october 7th was horrible but lets not ignore that it was motivated by people in a desperate situation trying to gain bargaining chips to have their loved ones released. some of those children released from the prisons in exchange for the israeli hostages were as young as 10 at the time of incarceration.

"Systematically exterminated" - This is an extreme hyperbole..

no its not. this proves to me you have spent no time watching any of the documentaries exploring this. you wouldn't last a day living in the west bank as a palestinian. Ive seen plenty of videos of settlers shooting down palestinians in cold blood with IDF soldiers doing nothing to stop it. they only step in when palestinians fight back. as an american who studied history, I know enough about the ku klux klan to to know ethnic cleansing when I see it.

> Please try to touch something more concrete than multiple anecdotes which most do not really represent anything similar to an apartheid government.

I think its obvious that there is no amount of evidence that would meet the bar for you to consider whats going on an apartheid.
When I saw the title, and the picture, my thought chain was going fast!

* Is it electrical? No, impossible, dry spaghetti is not a good conductor

* Is it optical? It could make sense, maybe spaghetti behaves like an optic fiber, trapping the reflections inside?

* Oh my god, it's mechanical!

So what happens here is, there's a relay (electromechanical device) modified to be able to poke a metal rod when a signal is applied.

This rod pokes the spaghetti.

The receiving end watches the end of the spaghetti for movement - with an optical sensor. When it moves back, more light will get through the sensor, than when spaghetti is in the way. So the bits are represented by physical movement back and forth of the spaghetti noodle (is noodle a correct term here?).
This was the game plan of most tech companies in the past 2-3 decades: get as big as possible at all costs, while luring all users and killing competition. Now that they are as big as possible, have most users and little competition, they are getting back that cost (and then some).
I'm not sure the steering wheel even flips over, if it's steer by wire like the comment says, you could easily program a law that changes the response of the steering depending on the vehicle's speed, preventing it from getting too twitchy at highway speeds while still allowing parking, even with only a 180 degree (for example) rotation from lock to lock. Toyota/Lexus has already done so.
I had the same need to tinker from work, who blocked many ports. I used wireguard on port 21 (ftp). Worked well.
> a country with essentially zero roundabouts

there are thousands of roundabouts
What do you mean it was not hateful? War is not hateful?
I think Tesla’s chief designer Franz von Holzhausen doesn’t get nearly enough credit for the company’s success.

He created a look in 2012 for the Model S that’s still in use with only minor variations across the company’s range. The best-selling Model Y is instantly recognizable as a cousin of the original S.

The design doesn’t look like most American cars from the same era. It eliminated grilles and other aggressively masculine elements. It has a sophisticated softness that would pass for European, yet it also has an edge that communicates the hidden power of the full-electric system. It’s pretty unique that one design manages to hold desirability for a decade.

Other car makers would have revamped a design several times already. So Tesla is clearly taking a risk that their signature look grows tired and commonplace.

The Cybertruck seems like overcorrection in the other direction. It also smells of the CEO’s influence overriding the car industry experience of von Holzhausen. Musk’s companies seem to do best when he’s focusing on fundraising and hiring, leaving product and operations to others.
Regarding the lack of crumple zones, what regulations on passenger safety exist in the US that would apply to the Cybertruck? My understanding is that because it's classified as a light truck that not all rules apply to it. But if there are any passenger safety rules left that it has to meet, shouldn't there be information available by now on how the passengers inside would fare in case of a crash?
> But what Elon wants, Tesla customers get

Had to laugh at that bit, and then sigh :(

On the one hand, it's great that he takes nothing for granted, and does his own thing. On the other hand, it's sad (for everyone) that he can't listen to reason at the same time.
I've enjoyed reading this article, as if it were the exploratory notes of a deeply depressed alien culture. I am going to go for a walk with my dog. Later I will play a bit of Elden Ring, then meet my family and have an excellent meal.
There's no need to be rude calling someone an oil tanker captain.

I am talking from a manufacturing standpoint as well, not just making sure that the truck doesn't weigh too much. To be fair, EV just weigh a lot, but you can do a lot worse.

The cybertruck is a luxury vehicle, but it also weigh less than the Ford Lightning F-150.
Promote polars-ruby so people will have a huge performance gain by using a rust backed dataframes api.

Port sklearn to ruby, and people will use that..

Python is horrible in terms or exceptions, code conventions, etc.
One of my all-time favorite records is entitled Crown Shyness. The eponymous track [1] uses this phenomenon as a metaphor for feeling alone while depressed. The branches are so close, but just out of reach. I always thought it was a beautiful analogy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHkdU105HNA
That sounds interesting, could you share a link? I couldn’t find anything obvious by Googling. Thanks!
Roko's basilisk more or less is Pascal's wager and shouldn't be taken too seriously. If you want to know why you can read the decision theory papers but it's probably a waste of time.
This comment sums up how impenetrable software audio feels to me.