Except that inflation isn't just the price of cars. The fact that car prices have gone up faster than "overall" inflation is significant.

cars inflating faster than overall/average inflation of the economy is significant.

I suspect the reason is that a car's parts are numerous, and because specific inflation affects different components, there's a good chance that a car's component has more inflation than other products in the economy.

And because inflation has an expectation driven aspect, suppliers that know inflation is happening is going to raise their prices more to combat it pre-emtively. This happens throughout the entire supply chain.

Thus, the end result is that a car's inflationary pressure is higher.

But that's just a theory - an inflation theory...

One of their costliest, most visible, failed experiments ever.

Which doesn’t disqualify it from disproving the statement above it

I was agreeing!

My apologies for the attitude, what you said makes sense, at least for now.

An ever-shifting UI sounds unlearnable, and therefore unusable.

It wouldn't be unlearnable if it fits the way the user is already thinking.

AI is not mind reading.

Behavioral patterns are not unpredictable. Who knows how far an LLM could get by pattern-matching what a user is doing and generating a UI to make it easier. Since the user could immediately say whether they liked it or not, this could turn into a rapid and creative feedback loop.

So, if the user likes UI’s that don’t change, the LLM will figure out that it should do nothing?

One problem LLM’s don’t fix is the misalignment between app developers’ incentives and users’ incentives. Since the developer controls the LLM, I imagine that a “smart” shifting UI would quickly devolve into automated dark patterns.

A user who doesn't want such changes shouldn't be subjected to them in the first place, so there should be nothing for an LLM to figure out.

I'm with you on disliking dark patterns but it seems to me a separate issue.

A sufficiently advanced prediction engine is indistinguishable from mind reading :D

A mixed ever-shifting UI can be excellent though. So you've got some tools which consistently interact with UI components, but the UI itself is altered frequently.

Take for example world-building video games like Cities Skylines / Sim City or procedural sandboxes like Minecraft. There are 20-30 consistent buttons (tools) in the game's UX, while the rest of the game is an unbounded ever-shifting UI.

The rest of the game is very deterministic where its state is controlled by the buttons. The slight variation is caused by the simulation engine and follows consistent patterns (you can’t have building on fire if there’s no building yet).

Tools like v0 are a primitive example of what the above is talking about. The UI maintains familiar conventions, but is laid out dynamically based on surrounding context. I'm sure there are still weird edge cases, but for the most part people have no trouble figuring out how to use the output of such tools already.

Like Spotify ugh

This is Hacker News sir

Uber lets you enable a PIN for each ride. The driver can't say they picked you up until they punch in the random 4 digit PIN the app gave you for the ride.

This is good, but why can't these firms determine when your phone and the drivers phone are far apart?

It's not unusual to call a taxi for another person. Or to make a multi-stop journey where some people get out before others. You can even send a parcel across town in a taxi.

Checking phone proximity might be helpful in some cases, but it's not a silver bullet.

Too many people order Ubers for other people so it won’t work.

GPS does not work everywhere, and not every device support BLE beacons.

I never give location permissions to any app if I can avoid it (indeed I don't even have the spyware app if I can avoid it; e.g. I use the web to order an Uber)

I don’t know why they don’t require it. Every Uber in Porto Rico uses the PIN but I’ve only had one in the mainland USA ask for it.

You need to enable it on your account.

Exactly - I believe it should be required for safety, limits shenanigans, etc. Apparently, it is required in Puerto Rico, but I don't know if drivers have to enable it themselves or if the app knows where the driver is operating. Are you saying the rider can also turn it on all the time? If so, that's good - I've only ever it seen driver's request it (all in PR, and one in mainland US, everywhere else, no PIN).

Right, YOU need to enable it. I assumed it was always up to the rider, since they're the beneficiary of it.

> But because I wasn't there during the critical 49 days when the decision was made to kill WebOS, somehow the failure became my responsibility.

Wow, so whiney. He's an executive, a leader. A captain doesn't complain if the crew is mad at him, for any reason.

This is well after the fact though, and it does sound like in this circumstance he was treated unfairly. I don’t begrudge him some annoyance/complaining now.

... and it is their job to actually find somebody to represent the agreed-on goals and make damn sure that the leadership will listen them. If you're as a manager / team leader whatnot alone in your skillset and trained nobody to represent you and your vision, you did a bad job of management.

I’m going to stick up for him on this point. It’s likely there’s no way to get the right person in the room to argue on his behalf. Much as I think it’s not a good organisational structure, it’s very likely that the CTO title was the only thing that got him into conversations with the board or C-suite, they wouldn’t speak to a VP at all, even if he asked them to.

Exactly! It is your responsibility, like it or not. That’s what the money’s for!

But Mozilla isn't showing the supposedly problematic flow. Where, exactly, are things going wrong? Show an example?

> About as realistic as telling people how to use semiconductors or petrochemicals for good instead of bad.

Sounds better than nothing.

Right, needs more context. How many more people have internet access now?