skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget to pair the Touch Button with a Minimalist design that gives no indication if a button has been pressed!

Bonus points for a big long click buffer and strange multi-click semantics so that once the computer unfreezes your attempts at diagnostics are redirected into messing up the state in weird and wonderful ways that you will have to unpack over the next week.
4 in 5 Americans think 'words can be violence'
As someone who writes a lot of RoR and typescript at work, I find I’m generally happier and more satisfied after completing a ticket in typescript.

It seems counterintuitive because Ruby is generally more expressive and readable than JavaScript. In theory, Ruby should be the “happy” language. I think it really just comes down to confidence that what I’ve written will work properly at runtime. There’s always a nagging paranoia with Ruby that I’ve missed adding a safe nav operator or forgotten an .is_a? somewhere, and those mistakes have led to embarrassing production issues in the past.

Typescript is far from perfect, but I experience a lot less bugs when writing code in it.
Cost. They put them in to save money. It’s not a mystery at all. Plumbing wires for a bunch of analog switches is more expensive than one databus, and then there is the simplicity of turning your hardware problem into a software one.
I generally don't try to get answers for things I don't already mostly understand anyway (sounds like you did this as well), because if what I get back is a hallucination, I don't want to spend added time figuring that out, and then I'm back at square one and have lost time.
Truly a vision of dystopia.
Our team runs into errors (changes not syncing, etc.) on a regular basis 'collaborating' with Excel. definately doesn't work like magic in my experience.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Thank you all for your suggestions and for pointing out issues and typos. I've updated the README to make the contributing section clearer.
> The word enterprise means that we do this in a way that makes people say "Dear God, why would anyone ever design it that way?"

I feel this comment in my bones.
Since Bush was the one to push them into NATO back in 2008 when the Ukrainian public strongly opposed NATO membership until 2014, but he worked with Yuschenko to do it anyway.

Except he did not "push them into NATO in 2008". 2008 was the year that Ukraine's membership application was formally rejected by NATO, and there it has sat, in the doghouse, ever since. But Putin invaded anyway, because the NATO noise was never the reason he invaded in the first place.

The most significant consequence of the Bush presidency was probably the criminally insane invasion of Iraq -- which arguably did encourage Putin to go into Ukraine, on equally vacuous and fraudulent pretexts. "If they can get away with it, then why can't I?" was apparently his thinking.
This is really cool, I've always liked the idea of being super close to hardware, like being able to visually inspect it, walk around it like it's your kitchen or something, and make modifications to it. Something akin to walking downtown NYC or any big city
You're right! Data.ByteString.Lazy is Word8 under the covers, so wide characters are truncated. tr takes a similar short cut. Swapping to Data.Text would fix that.

Where simplicity conflicted with compatibility, I've chosen the former so far. Targeting the BSD options and behavior is another example of that. The primary goal is to feel out the data flow for each utility, rather than dig into all the edges.
A tiny amount of water getting on these buttons can make them go nuts too… I absolutely hate the electric stove ranges with surface touch buttons… as if those never get water on them…
A poorly designed synth doesn't generally cause a car accident though, far less of a legislative impetus to stop softwaring everything in synth-land =)
The effects of these weather events are much more severe due to increased development in coastal areas, often in places where houses should not be built.

https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/spain-at-flood-risk-over-mi...
Given TSLA’s last earnings, lots of people are.
Yes I do prefer analog controls. Dials for heat. Open close flaps for vents. On off switches.

Tangentially: the Tesla single giant glass console is in dire need of a UX designer to take the clutter out and make it far more usable. It’s here I wish that Apple had bought Tesla many many years ago: CarPlay as they have it now where it takes over the whole screen would have been amazing.
From the fact that you can get profit by removing waste. Without profit there is no reason to remove waste. Waste isn't a thing you add intentionally if you have a reason. Waste is entropy it happens unless you continually clean it out. If you don't HAVE to clean out the waste it doesn't get cleaned out.
Similarly, when I played UT'99 (by the definition it was ages ago ;-)), I loved playing against stronger players. Yeah, losing a lot, but also getting better, decreasing the gap, learning new things, and at some point being able to win against some of them (or keep the match close). Lots of them was so good - I played solely Instagib, and a lot of 1-1s - that I was happy with just making some kills. But it was a lot of fun nonetheless.

But I've also seen a lot of players that could not cope with losing - maybe overly competitive, maybe a bit immature etc. etc.
A touchscreen with an entire software engineering department behind its software is cheaper than buttons?
How Bad is This $10k PC from 10 Years Ago? [video]
The option is not a binary between "let it fail" and "no strings attached bailout."

If things get bad enough for Intel, the precedent that makes the most sense is to follow the model that was used with GM: the company enters bankruptcy, existing investors and creditors are wiped out, and a new corporate entity backed by the fed.gov steps in and assumes the assets and operations of the company. Once things have sufficiently stabilized, the government can then divest its ownership in the company.

Intel is economically and strategically important enough that just letting it collapse without a plan to pick up the pieces is a serious footgun. We have a framework for handling this kind of situation that has been shown to work without rewarding those who caused the problem. It'd be silly not to use it.
But did you see the stick insects?
I've been relatively convinced that it was a cost savings measure. Both in cost of components and, probably more importantly, cost in labor of install, since touchscreens are cheaper on both regards. Everyone knew it was worse, but it saved money, and, at least for a while, it could be marketed as "premium".
Just in time. Yesterday I had to use a touchscreen-based card reader for the first time to pay for something. What a jarring interaction. Impossible to use muscle memory, so I actually had to think what my PIN was and had to look at the screen the whole time, being stressed about pressing just a bit too much to the left or the right so that the wrong digit would be entered. I very much prefer classic card terminals, thank you very much.
You give Musk money every time you pay taxes.

Or if you're outside the US, anytime you touch anything economic that has ever been priced in US Dollars (since the US runs a huge budget deficit which it finances through printing dollars, aka debt monetization, which is partially paid for by foreigners who interact with the USD directly or indirectly).
Yeah that’s what I mean. Another trick I’ve used is building a web page that reloads itself because interactive calls have more generous quotas
Honestly, this was a big one for me too. I remember being a kid and using Office 2007 on a terrible Windows XP desktop, and things just worked. Now I'm on a "modern" machine with "modern" software, and right-click takes half a second to pop up the context menu.

In the grand scheme of things, maybe not a big deal? But that's also how things get worse.
Paper ballots are standard and the majority of states require ID to vote.

There was someone using the Michigan voter file (which has a line in it for each change to the voters record, so repeats voters) to claim that someone was voting dozens of times. They weren't airing a legitimate concern about the voting system, they were sowing discord by lying about how it works.

Your framing of the situation is reductive and cartoonish.
That is what is stated by the Secretary of State in the PBS link above.

“we get information when Coloradans pass away from two spots… the Department of Public Health and Environment and also the Social Security Administration.”
Soft keys don't require any significant wire plumbing, the keys are less than an inch from the screen. And they've been used for decades in ATMs and gas pumps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_key
Evidence suggests that their engineering teams are either not that big or not that good given how garbage most vehicle UI/software is, and it's a price you pay (mostly) once per touchscreen software design, which will span several models, where as the component + install cost needs to be paid for every vehicle in perpetuity.
I'll be the contrarian and say I prefer touchscreens. To get some system into a touchscreen you need to digitize the whole system which allows you to control it through automation which creates a more versatile system. The system could be digitized and then have a physical control to change the state, but then it's not necessary at that point.
The problem for Intel is the fabs have their own version of Moore’s law: their prices increase exponentially.
Touchscreens are anti-accessibility.

Lack of tactile feedback for the sight-impaired is the obvious part but there is another thing:

Touchscreens just stop registering your touch when you get old. The older you get the less moisture there's in your skin, which at some point makes touch screens ignore you.

https://www.gabefender.com/writing/touch-screens-dont-work-f...
Let it be known that (good) designers are fully aware of how bad touchscreens are, with regards to UX and many other things.

It's just that touchscreens have been the least bad option, when you really need/want (always arguable, of course) to iterate a lot on the software, that is inside an expensive and not cheaply/easily modifiable piece of hardware.
The designers are not the ones who decided on that. It’s cost reduction, feature flexibility (you can decide later what exactly to provide in the software), and the marketing semblance of a cool modern interface.
Nginx vs. Caddy Performance [video]
No one can ever have believed that touchscreens are a good method of operating anything without looking at it.
The point is that the small few will become extremely popular.

ChatGPT isn't particularly useful.

A wrapper around ChatGPT which extracts specific entries from a PDF bill? That's incredibly useful.

The only niche so far that seems to have caught on for LLMs is code autocomplete, but that's already recording real revenues.
Given economies of scale, yes
This is exactly the issue. We can do things faster => we can do more things worse!
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Same with my apartment’s smart lock. The deadbolt gets extended accidentally while the door is open when someone brushes against the panel from the outside and you have to reach around the door to retract it.
The "assault" in "assault and battery" can be entirely verbal, so this concept has been legally enshrined for quite a while.
America grows an enormous amount of food and exports it all over the world. We don't need indoor farming to be competitive. Indoor farming will only ever be practical for expensive and highly perishable crops that can't be transported very far.
yeah not cheap. Like 10bi/year? Still 20bi profit.
UI can evolve over time -- for appliances that need it. Almost none of them need it, and always always the "UI enhancements" are stuff nobody asked for, like 24/7 telemetry to servers that are gods know where.

No thanks.

Another commenter beat me to it but I'll just join him to reinforce their point: UI changes also break muscle which is something extremely important to have in a car and in your home appliances. People just don't enjoy relearning their own machines when they expect the job to be done with minimal cognitive overhead.
let's face it, what does X have that can't/hasn't already, very easily be replicated elsewhere?

in the past I might have said "legions of effective moderators. You can't just flick a switch and implement that on a Twitter clone".... but now?
the obvious consequence of electric vehicles is live configurable filters and patches for performance tuning. I want an ADSR for my accelerator in different modes. give me an EQ for acceleration and braking, along with a feedback cycle for cruising, and the era of performance personalization will be huge.

I would buy a tesla instantly if you gave me a eurorack dashboard insert!

eurorack module designers have moved hardware interface design to where they can create intuitive design languages as well.
Sure maybe and it still never seems to be proven on a substantial level. The Heritage foundation has an agenda to prove voter fraud and even going by thei number, it appears to be a 1 in every million vote level event. Far more legal votes are stopped by existing laws than illegal votes.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-widespread-is-electio...
Yea, you're not the only "insider" here. And you're 100% wrong. Just because you completely misunderstand what those Amazon/MS employees are doing in those buildings doesn't mean that you know what you're talking about.

The big cloud players have the vast majority of their compute and storage hosted out of their own custom built and self-owned data centers. The stuff you see in colos is just the edge locations like Cloudfront and Cloud CDN, or the new-ish offerings like AWS Local Zones (which are a mix between self-owned and colo, depending on how large the local zone is).

Most of this is publicly available by just reading sites like datacenterdynamics.com regularly, btw. No insider knowledge needed.
I learned from the structural engineering perspective. What are you struggling with? In my mind I have this logic flow: 1. strong form pde; 2. weak form; 3. discretized weak form; 4. compute integrals (numerically) over each element; 5. assemble the linear system; 6. solve the linear system.
You only have to look at history to see how those "something else" alternatives tend to work out.
Why do you get so defensive?

Also, didn't what I said about usage better map to number of dependent crates or downloads by cargo?
Both are listed on https://crates.io/crates/ractor
This is a ridiculous mix of statements! I don't care how many people have 'supercomputer' in their pockets. On other hand homelessness is rampant in USA/Canada and that's a major fail of the capitalism.
Assuming that a Tesla is a vehicle that you would enjoy more than an alternative vehicle option or that would better fit your needs (which is presumably the situation if you are considering buying one), then the value you are giving up for yourself by going with an inferior-for-your-needs option far, far outweighs the money from an individual sale that goes to Musk. If you are willing to hurt yourself more than you are hurting Musk, then I guess sure, you do you.
What works is to sleep outside (bivouac), no artificial light besides maybe your device screens, and nature is an amazing lullaby. When I'm living in an apartment, with neightbors noise and smell, I can't easily sleep before they stop their mess, so near midnight; when outside I sleep soon after the night comes, 19:00 currently. I often wake up super early because of all that excess sleep
I went through this already. Lived through a category 5 hurricane that took out the power grid, and antennas (among many other key infrastructure).

I downloaded as much documentation about the technology I relied on as possible. Ma pages, cloning repos, saving websites as HTML, etc. My goal was to have everything I needed in case I had to build my own internet again. Even if it was like cubas version that uses thumb drive based networking.

It worked for the most part. The one downside was having to ration my electricity usage as it was generated by a generator and fuel was not easy to come by.

This taught me that any kind of network requires a robust electrical grid. So, I’d install solar panels with batteries, a backup generator, some wind turbines, and then work on downloading all the documentation needed to make the network work.
>Remember when we did this in 2008 under the Obama administration? We gave them $10bil and they paid out "contractually obligated bonuses" with more than half of the money? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/jul/31/wall-street...

AFAIK in finance, "bonuses" are a significant part of compensation, similar to RSUs in tech. So while it might sound great to hose all the greedy bankers, all that would encourage is for people to jump ship, making the prospect of a recovery (which is why you bailed it out in the first place) even harder.
Lessons I learned the hard way from 10 years as an engineer
> ON the hook

Weird to see this framing for something that was promised as a condition of employment.

The USPS gets me my mail regularly. Not sure what else it should be doing. And yes, paying people pensions you promised them is a good thing to do and has nothing to do with mismanagement. Taking the money you had already promised for pensions to instead pay shareholders or executives seems to be mismanagement to me.
Is it possible to configure this so that the metadata remains on the server by restricting access to only those users who are not members of any other servers?
"Could" being the keyword here. We're not there yet.

Also the touchscreens break muscle memory habits and don't give any feedback. These things are actually extremely important f.ex. in a car.
Sooner or later youtube would have its own ad network.
My favorite anecdote of this is talking with railroad people. Talking about rolling stock, and locomotives.

And talking with someone (at a museum, or something, I don't recall) they mentioned something like "Yea, we think we all of the locomotives tracked down, but there's always the chance one might be in someones private collection somewhere."

And I just have to marvel at the idea that someone, somewhere, has a locomotive shoved in a barn somewhere out of public view. This isn't Steve McQueens Bullit Mustangs under a tarp somewhere. It's a locomotive!

I had a friend that collected pinball machines, that was an endeavor all its own.
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I think you have it backwards. We get away with longer distances because of faster automobiles.

But imagine for a moment what would happen if we had faster automobiles and shorter distances: things would just be better.
I'm saying that it doesn't matter how much porting and optimization the llms do if the person designing the product doesn't care about efficiency.

Currently designers have pretty limitless ability to add features even without LLMs. LLMs will just compound that. The only way to get efficient code is to have the right mindset from the get go. Not as an after thought that you hope the LLM will optimize.
No pain, no gain.

Article makes sense. No hacks.
How's that webgpu or webassembly working out?
I love how my stove’s capacitive buttons sometimes don’t register when I’m using one hand to stir with a conductive spatula while trying to turn down the temp with the other until I let go of the spatula.
Transport cost in the USA is very low so that's not going to be much of an advantage for hydroponics here. The situation in India might be different.
> While I can see why it might seem superficially suspicious, such phenomena is inevitable if the pool of mail-in (or other forms of voting liable to get delayed/incorrectly rejected) ballots lean one side.

God help us that Pennsylvania mandates mail-in ballots can only start being counted on election day.
The worst variation I’ve ever seen, courtesy of r/CrappyDesign: My oven uses a touchscreen, so whenever I open it, steam gets on the touchscreen and messes with the settings.

http://web.archive.org/web/20210509153031/https://www.reddit...
Go is pretty good, too.
There's a interesting middle ground, programmable button that is also a rotary button that gives feedback, the KeWheel by KEBA. I'm sure that are similar solutions from other manufacturers.
You probably meant other industry but this is a terrible mindset for cars for example. Touchscreens are so terrible premium manufacturers ignored them for a long time since its obvious downgrade in comfort and safety, yet people kept buying teslas despite this, even bragging how cool some cheap ipad is.
I am having trouble picturing this. They do not sleep in bedrooms? Or is this just during a big gathering or party? (Or is everyday a gathering?)