skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If any UX testing had been done on these cars it would have been noticed that the drivers eyes drift from the road for far to long while operating auxiliary features. These large glass interfaces are meant as eye candy and/or cost saving.

It's really sad that companies no longer care to do any type of UX research, we need it more than ever. There are so few good product left in pretty much all product categories. It seems that with the introduction of the iPhone even Apple has opted to just stop doing any type of research and experimentation into UX.
I think part of it is that the generation who was never allowed to be bored is now raising kids, and so they believe that a perpetual state of being stimulated is the norm. And because kids in general are pretty boring little creatures, it only makes sense to distract them with screens of their own so you can go back to looking at yours.
Three Red Sea data cables cut
I feel that the previous generation of MLP with Twilight Sparkle was actually pretty good. Despite being made by a company who wanted to sell toys.

Most cringe episodes are the first and last two of the season, but the slice of life in the middle are more often than not golden.

But yeah, creating a curated library and not leaving it to chance would probably be a good idea.
Thing is, pulling the nose up silenced the stall warning. In the end, the flying crew was, wastly over-simplyfied, convinced to get out of a stall by pulling up. That alert behavior was changed by Airbus.

Blaming the pilots, or flatout stating that one design pholosophy is better than the other, is just ignorant. That's worse than all those soccer coaches knowing everything better on subdays, or whatever the US equivalent is, because at sport no lives depend on it.

And regardless of the latest Boeing fuck ups, everyone in aerospace knows that. And the people designing those planes and systems are fully aware of that, and know what they do.

Edit: The Vanity Fair piece also focuses on the stick behaviour and fly-by-wire systems. I cannot emphasize it enough, that pullong up silenced the stall alarm. The issue was that flight crew never realized that they were still in a stall. Pilot training aroubd that particular edga case, including simulator training, was ammended. As was the stall alarm behaviour. Fly-by-wire and stick behaviour had not much to do with it.

On a different note, for everyone blaming the pilots for being clueless amateurs (I exagerate, but I do get the impression): they died too on that flight. Inclusing the family of one of those pilots. Flight crew had as much skin in the game as possible. And before people start crying for remote controlled planes, how much risk does a pilot sitting in cubicle hubdreds of miles away from the plane actually take?
Yeah I am learning standard notation and I do look at the standard notation for pieces to look at the instructions from the composer. I mean, I can read music but and I could figure out how to play baroque music from standard notation, I would just be glacially slow.

I'm still working my way through Sor etudes so I learn the fretboard.
I've seen hundreds of Teslas driving in the UK and they're just as likely to use a turn signal as anyone else (~99%).

I'm not sure I've seen a less substantive comment on hacker news that wasn't flagged.
So it uses git, right? The readme should make that clear.
I don’t think maxwells demon is impossible, it just is a device for converting información to energy. In theory, many such devices may be possible for the conversion of information to both energy and matter. This seems like it might be support the simulation hypothesis.
Oh thanks for sharing. This seems super useful. It's been a long time since I learned some Chinese but this would have been very useful when I was learning Chinese.

Quite often I find myself in that situation where I know most of a sentence but not how to put together.
That particular statement seemed very clear, and not true. There were no anti-trust investigations into Commodore because they were never in a remotely dominant enough position for it.

If you have a clarification, make it instead of breaking the site rules with insults.

EDIT: I see you've made the suggestion of anti-trust issues in another comment too, and there's simply absolutely no basis for that. At the time Commodore reached its highest ever revenue it wasn't even close to even half the market, much less any position where theyd be at risk of antitrust, and Atari, which you also implicated elsewhere was a near bankrupt non-entity (soon to be bought by Tramiel for a pittance), and that was the largest Commodore ever got.
> This just tells me they don't understand why any of those things were created...

Like very nearly all FOSS, they were created to scratch their own developers' personal itches.

> ... and how to actually use them.

Their itches are not the same as everyone else's itches.
This is how I accomplished these things before. It involved simpler independent pieces which would not collapse whenever something went wrong. They were easy to reason about and building and fixing such tooling did not require me to hire an expensive consultant.

* declarative define your infrastructure

Declare in README.md that we have 3 web servers and that
Bob Jones set them up and manages them. Include Bob's email address and phone number.

* gives you load balancing, automatic recovery and scaling

Load balancing via a load balancer or another scheme. DNS is good enough for some cases. There are other solutions.

Automatic recovery - daemon scripts on the box to start all services when the box boots. VPS provider bounces the box when it crashes. That's one. There are others.

Scaling - automatic scaling is not needed at vast majority of companies that are starting out. When we need to scale to 4 servers, change README.md and send Bob Jones a quick message.

* provides great observability into your whole stack (kubectl, k9s, ...)

This is a need that is introduced because of k8s. There's a lot less to observe without k8s, and tools exist for it.

It's like saying "my backhoe has great diagnostic tools for diagnosing backhoe issues." That's true, but I don't have a backhoe and don't need a backhoe for what I am doing.

* has a huge amount of pre-packaged software available (helm charts)

This is a need that is introduced because of k8s. See above.

* allows you to stand up mostly the same infrastructure in the cloud, on your own servers (k3s), and locally (KIND), and thus doesn't tie you into a specific cloud provider

> doesn't tie you into a specific cloud provider

Not a real problem for most companies. If you're preparing to change cloud providers from day one, you are likely spending time on the wrong problem.

> same infrastructure in different envs

This is a benefit, which other solutions come close to, but k8s shines at. You can go a long way without having reproducible multi-machine setups in different envs and can come pretty close when needed, with manual work.

> Kubernetes could have been much simpler, and probably was intentionally built to not be easy to use end to end.

If true, this is a strange design choice. I'd be wary of anything that was made complex just for the sake of it.

k8s gets enough flack without having to accuse it of being complex just for funsies.

> But it's still by far the best we've got.

k8s is the best we've got when we want k8s. The trick is to not want k8s for the sake of wanting k8s.

There are times when k8s provides tremendous value. Most companies who decide to use it do not have the problems that k8s promises to solve, and never will. Sadly, sometimes it's because they've spent their time and money on unnecessary complexity like k8s instead of building a product that delivers value.
I mean, one of his mantras is "If you're not adding things back in at least 10% of the time, you're clearly not deleting enough."
Interesting, as most jazz is not freeform and typically follows an agreed chord sequence. Certainly, jazz improvisation tends to feature lots of notes, often played at fast tempos, but ‘messing around’ it definitely isn’t. Jazz improv requires years of concerted practice and deep thinking. If you analyse a great jazz solo, it becomes clear that it isn’t random notes, or a ‘mess’. To me it’s astonishing that anyone can create something so intricately structured on the fly. Of course, you’re free not to like it.
If they continue the fine amount will be increased on the next one. That's how the EU plays, you get a warning, then a deterrent, if that doesn't stop the behaviour fines will continue to be levied in increasing amounts.

GDPR rules follow the same structure and are a pretty good deterrent.
Mazda, and there is no close second.
> Was Gemini a "disaster"?

Not for those that demand such politicized images, I suppose. But on all other metrics pretty much yes. At least their leadership said the responses were "completely unacceptable".

I don't get your reference to elections at all, it doesn't seem to make sense in context of your first question.
You have to install software like UnnaturalScrollWheels or Smooze to get sensible mouse scrolling behavior out of MacOS (unless you use the horrific monstrosity of that Apple mouse that you can't use and charge at the same time). You have to install software like Rectangle to get actual window tiling + shortcuts for window tiling. You have to install Raycast/Butler to have a non-shit Finder alternative. There's dozens of basic UI/UX things Apple gets wrong that can only be fixed via either building your own hacks or paying for some ludicrously priced proprietary software (for example Smooze Pro).

I could go on, there's many basic features MacOS has been missing for going on a decade, let's not pretend they get it all right either.
I'm glad you can read my mind and decide what I'm using for OS definition.

But no, Debian Linux running on a VM is not its OS, but Mint Linux running on my hardware is the OS.

An OS is a body of software that:

- multiplexes machine hardware resources

- abstracts the hardware platform

- protects software principals from each other

Does Debian Linux in a VM multiplexes the hardware resources? Not really. Does a VM running on Mint Linux? Again not really. They are multiplexing the resources given to them, but not actual hardware resources.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853877

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252801

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39576200
Lenovo also ships Linux laptops, although their Linux team needs the ability to veto hardware choices that were made in support of Windows. (I wonder if the XPS team can choose their hardware; my developer edition XPS was rock solid.)

Lenovo's Linux team seems to use up a lot of their QA/support resources because they are handed a dozen new laptop designs each year with (for instance) a MIPI IPU6 webcam having no kernel driver, S0ix suspend broken at the EC-level, new types of forcepads and trackpoints and touchscreens and styli and soldered on Wi-Fi card with a track record of crashing in Linux... and told to figure it out.

Plus, I think they occasionally get sidetracked by stupid bullshit like getting the boot logo to not flicker moving from BIOS to Plymouth.

Also, they maybe should have pushed really hard on AMD (and possibly Qualcomm and their BIOS supplier) for having _multiple_ kernel releases that reached the stable "updates" on non-Rawhide Fedora that then broke suspend on several ThinkPad models. Bisect. Blame. Revert. If Linus used a newer AMD ThinkPad, some choice words would have landed on the mailing list.
Yeah, it was so weird when CPUs started sprouting first heat sinks, then fans over the heat sinks. :-)
But no ejection seats to escape a collision.
The wiimotes are just bluetooth and the tracking is 5 LEDs. I've used candles instead of the sensor bar before. You can buy a "dolphin bar" for $20 and use your wiimotes on the PC. It works great. I dumped my wii games and haven't touched the console in years.
> You just can't feel your way to the volume knob

Yes you can. My last three cars have had a volume knob under the left thumb. My current car has a second volume knob behind the gearstick, and the A/C is the only analog dial along the center console. I can easily adjust both without looking away.
Anybody remembers the original (not Apple) iCloud web desktop?

Or EyeOS?
Heavily depends on the genre and the artist. A lot of top 40 pop albums are vehicles for singles or designed to get chopped up across some playlists, sure. If they bother with the album at all. I would definitely say bands that focus on holistic or even high-concept albums tend to do it often though, and obviously you see more of it in genres like progressive rock where it was kind of a defining mainstay, but it's a form that's alive and well in a lot of genres on a case-by-case basis. For example, I like a Russian pagan folk/black metal act called Arkona (which is pretty well-known by folk metal standards actually) and their latest album released last year is high-concept and cohesive, structured as a katabasis. I'll also warn that it's probably less for everyone than some of their other music as it's very musically gloomy and thematically dark, which makes sense given how things have been going in Russia and especially given the lead singer's family is from Ukraine... Point being, cohesive albums are far from a dying art form, they're just not the format most optimized for broad appeal and whatever monetization method is most favored by the largest distributors (these days probably Spotify and, what like, Apple?), which the most well-known pop music is by definition

It's worth considering that writing a cohesive composition that's roughly an hour long (even if broken up into a few different songs) probably takes more effort and vision than accumulating individual songs and eventually releasing them together, so you'd expect the latter to happen more often even in the absence of systematic pressures of other kinds

Also, obviously this permits a lot of degrees and can be kind of subjective. Like you can have a whole continuum from "This is one large cohesive opera or play broken up into songs for convenience or structure" to "These songs share some musical motifs or thematic ideas, possibly just explained by all being composed around the same time by the same artist" and the latter of which one listener might view as having a coherent thematic thread through it while another might view it as a bunch of barely-related singles. Often even just the year an album was released can make it a snapshot of the zeitgeist in a big way that sometimes only even seems that way in retrospect
The sense of entitlement is epic. You're offended are you? Are you offended that Photoshop won't let you edit images of money too?

Its not your model. You didn't spend literally billions of dollars developing it. So you can either use it according to the terms of the people who developed it (like literally any commercially available software ever) or not use it at all.
Claude 3 Opus as an economic analyst [video]
> ... and it's unclear for me how I can get low level access to input devices events with Wayland.

You can't as far as I know, the reason it has taken more than a decade to gain adoption is the protocol design turned out to be unusable for desktops (at least, probably other platforms too). I've been avoiding it because Zoom & friends didn't work when I tested them. My understanding of the de-facto situation is that everything sucked for about a decade from the release, then (special mention to Drew DeVault) people started extending the Wayland protocol to cover the original design mistakes.

Documentation is available [0]. If I were trying to understand the state of play for mouse gestures I'd probably start by researching what is going on the wlroots project, that seems to be where a lot of the useful innovation was coming from. The extensions implemented in the compositor look like they matter a lot.

[0] https://wayland.app/protocols/
Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis [pdf]
Isn’t git already open source and peer to peer?

So this is just a web interface to git? Like gitlab?
From what i've seen JPEG XL always wins against AVIF in every category. What makes you say AVIF would be "objectively the best" while JPEG XL boasts better compression, more funtionality(32bit support e.g.) and faster encoding?
This looks like a fine project for its purpose, but I think git is already open-source and p2p. You don't need sh<(curl) a bunch of binaries, instead simply connect to another git server, use git commadns to directly pull or merge code.

What's missing in git is code issues, wikis, discussions, github pages and most importantly, a developer profile network.

We need a way to embed project metadata into .git itself, so source code commits don't mess up with wikis and issues. Perhaps some independent refs like git notes?

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes
> Which ofc isn’t optimal, because you turn it…

You're supposed to indicate before you turn, to be fair.
It's a shame that Mazda is so late on electric cars. They were a great option.
You have no actual idea what were consequences on your self-image, only a very close person who has seen whole transition, can be critical thinker and brutally honest with you can at least potentially tell some balanced evaluation.

Ie judging by your comment your ego seems a bit inflated here to keep things polite, and that in turn distorts literally everything you perceive, about yourself and everything else.

Also, its trivial to reason that rocket rise of over-compensation of basically all IT work in past few decades compared to literally any other engineering science twists this reasoning, but it fall apart quickly in almost every other scenario. (not arguing against high salaries, there are reasons for them, but at the end anything-IT is just another engineering/science branch, stellar people are everywhere but usually a bit more humble).
Is there a car without a physical volume control? Teslas have it on the steering wheel.

What really kills me is my wife's Civic has no pause button at all, physical or otherwise. And it autoplays media on your phone when you get in. Don't want your phone to play whatever random YouTube video you happened to click on hours ago? Gotta pick up your phone to pause it there. And this doesn't happen right away, oh no, it takes at least a minute into your drive for the Bluetooth to wake up.
Every single child is different, and parents love to extrapolate their own experiences on other children(I'm 100% guilty of this too).

But if we're sharing anecdotes:

- our (almost) 3 year old gets screen time(cartoons in the evening, just so I can cook dinner while my wife works), but speaks two languages fluently at this point, and understands when to switch between them.

- our friends 3 year old has zero screen time, very engaged parents, and knows like 5 words, babbles a lot otherwise. They've been for different consulatations about this and apparently it's completely normal, sometimes kids develop language skills a bit later and that's fine.

What I think is definitely related is parents giving their kids dummies after they turn one - I've seen kids as old as 3-4 years still using them, and I've heard about parents just doing it so "the kids stays quiet". It absolutely breaks my heart.
The whole cookpit lighting could be changed during simulation to remind which mode they are in. Something like Star Trek alert levels.
The Singapore Airlines Singapore to New York flight is 19 hours and only has premium economy and business. I have to make this trip fairly often and I prefer to take the direct flight as it’s simpler, faster and I have to pay extra for leg room either way. That said, if I had the means I would take business each time, because 19 hours in even the nicest economy seat can be tough.
Thanks! I appreciate your friendly reply. Best of luck
Nintendo have typically been pretty good with backwards compatibility as newer versions of consoles come out. GBAs could play GB/GBC games. DS could play GBA games. 3DS could play DS. Wii could play GC games. Wii U could play Wii games.

The Switch is an outlier in that regard but mostly because the hardware is so different from previous consoles. It could never support the 2 screens required for DS/3DS or some Wii U games, nor is it big enough to fit Wii U disks anyway. But it wouldn't surprise me if the Switch 2 could play Switch 1 games.

Nintendo also typically put entire games on their cartridges, and day 1 patches are for bug fixes only and are optional. If you keep the cartridges and your console, you keep your games perfectly fine. Or you can go out and buy cartridges second hand. And digital downloads will also still function, like my 3DS still has my digital purchases even if the eshop is gone. I just can't purchase new games anymore, for a 12 year old system.
I don't think this is a fair comparison. You cannot put your db in cloud provider A and run your application in cloud provider B.
Seems odd to say, but we just don't.

It hasn't really been hard at all. He just gets involved in everything around the house. He helps cook and clean and look after his baby brother.
Teslas don't have physical blinker switches?? That is pure lunacy, are you telling me they're touchscreen activated now?
Huh I didn't see the powder part. If the voids are filled with powder anyway, is there a point in not making them solid? I don't see how you would go about emptying that?
>Fly by Wire has a good safety record.

Because there are dozens of people helping keep each plane safe.
China is the largest coal producing country in the world. Why did China not have an industrial revolution?
Librarians are realizing that overdue fines undercut libraries' missions. (2017)
Ask HN: Whats the AI tech stack for platforms like jasper.ai, copy.ai?
Interested to know how these ai platforms work; are they just wrappers built on top of existing LLMs with a little bit of fine tuning involved or something else altogether ?
I am developing an online IDE capable of visualizing a program's call tree. Within this IDE, users can select a node in the call tree to observe detailed information, including function arguments, return values, local variables, and intermediate expressions. Additionally, the IDE features a time-travel engine that displays the values of mutable objects at the specific moment when a particular function and statement were executed.

You can try it online here: https://app.leporello.tech/?example=fibonacci
They are touch areas on the steering wheel. It's not on the screen, but they're not buttons. They don't click.
Android runs Linux on the hardware of the device.

Android 13 did add the ability to run Linux in a VM, but the host OS still is running Linux without virtualization
The Commodore 128 was first in 1985. But there was also a CP/M cartridge for the C64 released in 1983[1], which I think was the first Commodore CP/M compatibility play. It is very disturbing (as an old C64 user) to see CP/M running on the classic blue/light-blue C64 display.... Of course the C64 version suffered from the additional problem over the C128 version that it only had 40 text columns. Lots of other issues with it too apparently.

[1] https://commodore.international/2021/12/21/cp-m-for-the-comm...
and
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1312
They're not physical buttons. They're touch sensors. They don't move or click.