skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes less sense on a diesel engine because their heat sources are lower temp. Fuel cells produce much more useful heat for a heat engine to capture.

And no, the complexity of heat recovery isn't high at all. The costs pay themselves off almost immediately. They're orders of magnitude less complex than an ICE, last almost forever, and require almost no maintenance apart from cleaning after tens of thousands of hours. If a modern heat recovery turbine is too complex, then so is an electric motor.
I’ve seen a lot of people age and slowly lose the ability to control their emotions as well, so Im not exactly sure what’s the ratio of bettering or worsening of emotion control.

But generally I agree with the idea that that wisdom collects with time and experiences lived and so emotional expense is better controlled along with aging.

From my experince, at a smillar age (41), I reserve my fucks for more important events so your take on fucks fits me quite well, I generally give a lot less of them.
With the exponentially increasing amount of information on the Internet, yes, we have matchingly decreasing amounts of patience for sifting through it. Shit is shit, matters not if it comes in tiny pieces or massive turds. It's about aggregate volume.
HTML and CSS were never denigrated. There's not one superficial feature which doesn't make sense. Most of it is barebones. If I had to pick one feature the blows the scope out of proportion, it would be the `is` selector, but that's the only one I can think of
Some people on here have an obsessive hatred for Malcolm Gladwell.
That's not correct. There's proof of work (what you're talking about), proof of stake (much more efficient, different purpose), and proof of history (more time centric).

These narratives about power and emissions are narratives with an agenda. The agenda may be good in nature, but don't mistake them for accurate or precise.
If that information is there, it's definitely not easy to find. Can you share a link?
Current Google Docs already uses iframes to intercept keyboard/text events, the document you actually see isn't the thing you're interacting with, because contentEditable is nowhere near powerful enough for something like this.

All their decision to use canvas is doing is changing the render target.
“Lithium batteries have tripled in energy density since 2010”

No they have not. My 2021 iPhone does not have triple the energy density of the 2010 iPhone.

The battery cells have improved but that is a packaging improvement, not battery improvement. Other companies are doing pouches for example. And then there is the question of cooling, do you include it in the weight calculations?

From what we know a Tesla model S in 2020 does not have triple the capacity of the model s of 2012. We only saw an increase from 85kwh to 100kwh in 2020. That is 20% increase not 300%.
Visiting that website made my laptop's fans start running.
I'm finishing up my LaTeX book which has its origins from teaching LaTeX classes for the TeX Users Group in the 90s. That teaching experience is essential for the quality of what I have because I have the experience of knowing what's helpful for LaTeX beginners and what's needlessly confusing. I do suspect that my original target audience—math department secretaries—is no longer the target audience.
3 Priciples for Product Development
Also, you know, accessibility. This could be a real serious problem for people with disabilities.
Cash requires a known location and/or time, and may involve the client seeing your face if face-to-face trades are made.

You still need to be local to perform the assassination, but the time and location are still vague. It's basically "somewhere the person will be at some point in the future". Makes it a lot harder to stage a sting because you can't have people set up everywhere that person will be at all times.

We're also not terribly far away from remote assassinations being possible. There was an assassination in Iran that allegedly used a computer to control a machine gun to kill someone. Combine that with a self-driving car, or a remotely operated car, and you've got a hitman mobile. Or the cheap and low-tech route, strapping explosives to drones. The cartels have already started using them, so it's not improbable that you could pilot one across the world. Pay the cartel to set up a drone and give you the credentials to control it and you don't even have to leave your home.

> It would be quite difficult to operate a ransomware operation out of, say, Belarus if you expected your victims to pay by posting you envelopes stuffed with cash.

I don't think that's really true. At the scale of money we're talking about, hiring a courier to handcuff the money to their wrist and fly across the world wouldn't be an excessive cost. The primary downside is the same; there's a known location where the money will be left and picked up.
Man, this is a very dramatic interpretation of their intent. Docs doesn't even have ads. They actually do have issues rendering consistently across browsers (I ran into this just like 2 days ago where something that had been carefully laid out on Chrome looked different in Safari).

My bigger criticism of this is that I imagine it was a very large refactor at a time when docs has barely evolved for years and still remains far behind desktop counterparts in many ways (although still slowly taking over because of vastly superior online collaboration).
Meta-comment: here are the typical arguments about consumer supersonic flight on HN.

1. It will be pricey. Counter-point - having the availability for the select few that need it is still a good thing; and perhaps it's not so expensive with new tech.

2. Environment. Counter-points - "if it were up to you, you'd ban air travel entirely"; let them purchase carbon credits or fund electric flight; is the marginal environmental impact that bad?

3. General comment about speed of innovation, regulations, where smart people these days are working, etc.
Hi HN!

I made this simple webapp and documented the process so I could share how I build webapps in Perl.

The whole process I wrote up here: https://modfoss.com/building-house-new-wire.html and all of the code is on GitHub here: https://github.com/symkat/HouseNewsWire/

Thanks for looking, I hope this is also useful for others. =)
I like plasma, but compiling even a subset of it might be overkill for my needs.

Any particular reason why plasma is not upstreamed if not for lack of interest/contribution?
You say this like it wont be used to completely remove all user choice and be an utter disaster.
It seems to be 0.9% MoM. While still high, a lot of the YoY numbers dominating these headline are driven by statistical base effect from covid anomalies 12 months ago.

Given we're still in recovery mode from Covid, I'd expect more anomalies to show up in econ data over the coming months.

I don't think there's anything persistently big on the horizont w.r.t to inflation.
I don’t think it’s the building that creates gentrification - it’s the lack of supply. Increasing supply to meet demand should reduce prices. Not building to keep housing crappy enough to reduce demand doesn’t work (and doesn’t everyone prefer to live in a nicer place?).

If that fails they fall back on generic environment arguments, “taking down any building is bad for the environment”.

I think it’s all just status quo bias and resistance to change, resistance to building.

All of the arguments that come after that are driven entirely by motivated reasoning. If you lean left it’s the left nimby canon, if you lean right it’s the right version of that.

I just want more housing supply.
Businesses fall into transatlantic privacy hole
Removing DRM on something you own for personal use is perfectly legal.
I don't see it.

Here are a few screenshots of GTA IV:

https://media.gtanet.com/images/5503-gta-4-pc-screenshot.jpg

https://media.gtanet.com/images/5505-gta-4-pc-screenshot.jpg

https://media.gtanet.com/images/5536-gta-iv-pc-screenshot.jp...

https://media.gtanet.com/images/5545-gta4-pc-screenshot.jpg
That is absolutely horrible. I am only waiting for the day when people start making desktop apps using electron + Flutter on the web.
Always the same objections, from the same people, when it comes to CM.

It's mostly just subjective nowadays, just like your whole 'argument'.

I think it looks great on high res displays, which should cover a huge chunk of all consumer displays used today.
> I see a ton of comments on this post that indicate how much power an individual can have.

Not everyone is in as fortunate position as you. Not everyone wants to change employer. You are, to your employer, another cog. If you got hit by a bus, or suddenly resigned - the business would carry on without you.

But if lots of you are unhappy - that's where the power is.

If you don't think employment lawyers are advantageous - why does your business have so many of them?

To counter your annecdata, I've worked in several heavily unionised offices. The union has charged very little and has consistently helped us make improvements which were initially resisted by management.
My local equivalent to grandma doesn't know what a camera roll is. When she wants to see family pictures, she goes in the family conversation and scrolls through messages until she finds them.

It might not be the "best" way but I'm not sure there is one. Instead of browsing content by type ("all photos") and scrolling until she finds what she wants, she browses by context ("all stuff involving family") and scrolls until she finds photos. She is not totally comfortable with the idea that a photo is a bunch of bytes that can be read from multiple places. She prefers going back to the place the content comes from, because that's just easier.

Of course one way is better in some situations, and the other is better in others. But not putting photos in the camera roll has one advantage: it doesn't store them in a storage that's probably unencrypted and readable offline by someone with physical access
A legitimate democratically elected national government in a continental union that conditioned its anti-trust approval of the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook precisely on personal data not being used in that way.

That "kind of wannabe authoritarian regime". HTH!
Ah, a plugin you say. What does this magic plugin do again?
You may have more options you didn't know about: https://members.wispa.org/members/directory/search_bootstrap...
Unio self hosts FusionAuth and saves $100k
Maybe sell a lifetime subscription with the caveat that you give a self-hosted version if you stop offering the service.
sorry -- you're right
JPL is Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. They are a part of NASA, but are a distinct sub-entity.
Google Sheets is canvas-based. I don’t remember anyone being upset about that.
Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for the JS web.
If you develop software on company time for the purpose of doing your job you will have a hard time claiming that this is not company property (maybe not your current employer if you started in previous jobs).
Maybe they could bypass it in Chrome, but it wouldn't make it impossible to use for anyone smart enough to set up a pihole.
Yep, was exploring ASPNet Core for a new project and was like nope ;)
I do not yet think that humanity's capability to destroy is stronger than nature's capability to heal and grow.

But ask me again in a couple decades.
Ahh thanks for the correction. This seems like it's still pretty consumer unfriendly though - you still have to advertise the card price in store and then you can take a discount at the register, as opposed to advertising a cash price and then adding a card charge.

There are a lot of small businesses around me that are cash only under $10/15 dollars. Given human psychology around advertised prices (i.e. most people don't think about opportunity cost), I'm not surprised cash discounts aren't common.
Does Your Digital Customer Experience Need a Makeover?
Web scrapping. Companies will just push their data to the giants. I did not read that sequence when I first heard about wasm. You made me sad.

Of course there will be scrapping, using machine learning and GPUs and whatnot but it's... maybe I'm just old.
Oh boy, I can't even scroll smoothly through these pages...
Some things really can't be changed on the local level. Take forced arbitration in contracts for example. This was made possible by a federal law passed in the 1920's, and further cemented by a series of supreme court rulings in the past couple of decades. No amount of desire or political will by individual states can ban the practice. The federal law trumps all, and this must be changed at the national level.
Don't people give it like 1-2 star reviews and it tanks with a few months?
> Seriously, remote-hostile places (expensive, terrible network, dangerous) are pretty easy to identify, and they are much fewer than remote-friendly places.

What's an example? I can think of dangerous countries, but how would you find out about a terrible network?
Interesting modelling exercise but until we have physical evidence that this is occurring, and can calibrate the model to what degree, this is just an interesting hypothesis/story. Models are always subject to the GIGO and built-in-assumption confirmation problems and are always wrong, just sometimes useful.

Find the evidence to prove/disprove the model.
There is a demo doc on their site, and it breaks the X11 primary selection.
> Java is disliked on HN because it represent "enterprise" - big long-lived organizations which maintain a codebase for decades

It's one of the few languages out there capable of producing a codebase that lasts for so long. That annoying verbosity and enforcement of naming conventions and directory structure mean that the Next Guy (or Gal) to come into the project and probably figure out what's going on. Most codebases written in other languages are constantly rewritten in the language de jure.
You don't own the Google Docs service, nor will you own any webpage you are served.
> Define consensus.

> I would trust their data sources more than any one person on YouTube

Certainly not just a single person. I'm sure if you have a trusted news source, You might find an article on the subject like these -

CNN: 'As Covid sweeps India, experts say cases and deaths are going unreported' - https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/27/india/india-covid-underre...

AP: 'Why number of COVID cases in India is exponentially higher than reported' - https://abc7chicago.com/india-covid-cases-coronavirus-case-c...

NYT: 'As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted' - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavi...

Sky news: 'COVID-19: India crematoriums 'underreporting bodies' as suspicion grows over true number of coronavirus deaths ' - https://news.sky.com/story/india-crematoriums-underreporting...

Bloomberg: 'Even Record Death Toll May Hide Extent of India’s Covid Crisis' - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-22/even-reco...

ncbi: 'Underreporting COVID-19: the curious case of the Indian subcontinent' - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7508490/

There are local regional(state) media trying to count the uncounted deaths like these -

BBC report on that: 'India's Covid crisis: The newsroom counting the uncounted deaths' - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56969086 . I wonder whether Our World In Data would accept these data, If so it would be worth a PR then again its just the data of a state.
Well, Google paid MasterCard to get the raw data feed, perhaps FB did as well.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an...
lol remember adobe flash swf binary files and how much that was fought against because it was anti-open-web?
Gold and stocks are very similar to that
Today, but this entire discussion is about how things will work tomorrow.
I don't think the intention was to water down the words' meaning. The intention was to get attention on just how terrible a certain thing was/is in the short run (This idea is abuse/violence!). The long term effects of this is future claims of abuse get ignored in the discourse because the words have been so watered down as to lose their meaning.
That is typically the argument yes. The business owners feel that the meager street side parking is integral to their business, and that their business' needs are more important than that of the thousands of daily commuters.
If nobody wanted to do the job, the salary would increase until people wanted to do the job.
I honestly don’t know either.

I don’t know how it is in the UK. Here in the US, a hiring manager sees a gap in the resume and asks about that. This has been a problem for say, women who exited the workforce to take care of their kids and then attempt to reenter it. I suppose, even if there is no negative mark, if you have a stack of 30 or 40 resumes, you start using “relevant recent experience” as a way to filter down to the people you want to interview.

There is also a tendency for agism, worse in some industries or disciplines than in others — maybe some kind of cult of youth thing going on. (I have found that development teams favor younger developers, even for senior developers, while ops and devops tend to favor a slightly older crowd).

There is a great article explaining how a software developer can get better negotiating position that can potentially bypass that resume gap: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

... but only because you can do this with software development, not necessarily with anything else.
Honestly if they did that I think I’d strongly consider paid alternatives to YouTube. Most of the channels I like are on curiosity stream/nebula. I’ve never subscribed because I don’t feel like I have a reason to. But that would definitely give me a reason.
I completely agree with everything you've said. The big problem (as I see it) is even if there was a way for Apple to provide the infrastructure for "hasPaidForSubscriptionInPast" or "lastSubscriptionActiveDate" or similar, the limiting fact is that Apple only allows 1 version of your app to exist in the app store (under the same identifier, obviously you could release seperate apps). The whole thing breaks down if you need to ship a nasty bug fix for a previous version.

Sure, Apple could stop letting users get updates if they stop subscribing but then you have no way to ship ANY updates to that user on an older version. I'm honestly not sure if JetBrains ever ships bug/compatibility fixes for older versions but for apps that are half-free/half-subscription this would be a huge problem. How can I convince people to restart their subscriptions if from their perspective the app has been stagnant since they stopped subscribing? And/or do they even have the option to go to the latest version and just use the free features? Now we are back into the "littering your codebase with checks"-hell that I agree would be terrible to maintain. I'm not giving Apple a pass in the slightest, but I'm having a hard time coming up with what the "gold standard" would be where you could support something like this.
Why, I thought I was describing an anti-utopia, a kind of a dark cyberpunk future, because half of the dark cyberpunk future predictions from 1980s have come true already.
In the case of the article, it sounds like the author is opposed to profiling and targeting. There are many reasons for that. Personally, I find it exploitative. In the case of the article, it was pointing out prejudiced assumptions. Reading the article, I could infer cases where that prejudice could have a very negative impact.

I'm going to be blunt here: there are circumstances under which women desire yet cannot bear their own children. It is a heavy burden that they may carry through much of their adult life. It can have a much deeper impact than being unable to afford some creature comfort or being unable to seat a child in a luxury car. Perhaps it can be argued that the number in a savings account can have an equally heavy burden, say for someone who has had everything taken away from them. I'm not the one to make that argument since I place the value of the person above that of dollar.

That being said, I am not particularly fond of direct advertising. Not only is it intrusive, but most forms of direct advertising involve making some sort of decision regarding who to advertise to. Even choosing people within a particular postal/zip code is going to result in bias, even if it is an unintentional consequence of structural problems within our society. Couple that with the intent of direct advertising having a larger impact, you end up with the negative consequences having a larger impact.
> Why did some drugs, like tobacco, move readily across cultural and geographic barriers in the early modern era, while others, such as peyote, ayahuasca, and psilocybin mushrooms, remained confined to specific regions?

One thing that's interesting to me is that psilocybin mushrooms were already widely distributed. Hallucinogenic mushrooms grow everywhere, including in Europe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_mushroom#Occurrence

The mushrooms you might pick or buy in Europe today are, AFAIK, those European varieties, not imported American ones.

But we don't have a widespread tradition of using these mushrooms in Western Europe, do we? If you read Aristophanes, Chaucer, or Shakespeare, there are people getting drunk all over the place, but nobody ever shrooms.

The Sami famously use fly agaric in rituals (concentrating it in human or reindeer urine). Apparently, so do other Siberian peoples. The people we now think of as the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas are descended from Siberians who crossed the Bering Strait tens of thousands of years ago. Perhaps they took the tradition with them?

Europeans have known about the Sami use of mushrooms for a long time. Finns protected the Sami from Christian missionaries, because they valued their shamanic powers. Lithuanians exported mushrooms to the Sami:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria#Psychoactive_...

And (further down the above page), scholars knew about magic mushrooms in the 18th century.

But somehow, the magic mushroom has had no deep impact on European society.

Or maybe it has:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_Cr...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/opinion/santa-christmas-m...
what about screen readers for blind people (aka accessibility)?
Fuzzing Embedded Applications with Dependencies
Switching to canvas sounds like a very roundabout way to handle an issue related to the dom growing out of hand. Surely unmounting pages that you you're not currently looking at should work?

Of course there could be many reasons but we're left to speculate...
Inflation climbs at quickest pace since 2008
A person in my neighborhood experimented for years with several different insects and food waste products. His conclusion was that it was not viable because there is no reliable stream of food waste in The Netherlands. Everything that is edible or valuable already has a purpose. It would be viable if the insects themselves were the end product, put the market for whole insects is negligible. Right now the insects are mostly an ingredient that competes with existing proteins.
No 4D chess. Even a 5 year old can play the blame someone else game.
Caring doesn't need to be negative only. IMHO You can care about love even if you're immortal, and you care about losing it even though you went through it all bazillion times already, as each person is unique and the feelings you lose are still lost and the loss is still painful.
Wouldn't it be better if people were in fact obliged to be involved? Once a quarter, everyone goes to meet everyone else in a hall, they have the issues presented, and then whoever wants to comment or volunteer can do so.

I see it like organ donation. A lot of people would do it if were default-donate (like recent changes in the UK), but if you don't want to you can opt out.

Likewise you would be forced to hear the issues, and then you can go home after if you don't care.
You’re going to own nothing and be happy.