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Thanks for writing in the first place.

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Lithium batteries have tripled in energy density since 2010 while the price has dropped about 90% I believe.

I was pretty skeptical when Tesla announced the Semi but the trend lines are there if not on Elons over promise timeline.

I agree it will be some time before they are viable for long haul, but a lot due to charging infrastructure.

Weight is the big question mark, I am anxious to see the Tesla semi battery weight and final capacity to see how viable it is. My guess is around 10,000lbs and a megawatt-hour capacity for 500 mile range. I imagine them trying to do a structural battery to try and make up for its weight. The equivalent diesel drivetrain is under 5000lbs including engine and can have up to 2000 miles range.
eHighway[0] anyone?

[0]: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-tests-first-ehighway-autobahn/...
There's a difference between suppression and realizing you have a choice on whether to follow that emotion. Obviously, suppression is bad but so is allowing yourself to get completely wrapped up in it. You can let that emotion just float there in the "background" and continue on.
I've heard the Philippines are a pretty good place to stretch a buck... if you can stomach their draconian free speech restrictions and authoritarian politics
> Fuck restorative juice blends and creams

Hey, I already get half a dozen emails about these in my spam folder every day.
I also use this, but it's not gotten any updates since it was introduced. I would like to rewrite a bot from scratch, but the Gmail bot's initial offering is still good enough that I don't have the motivation.

The worst problem it has is the lack of multi-account support. The reply functionality is also a bit buggy. I generally only use it as a read-only client.
Web Technologies on GUI Apps
I mean I would actually expect if any government where Apple does significant business demanded my user data they would give it silently. Like we're talking about entities whose authority is ultimately backed by violence. Nobody should be obligated to put themselves in harms way for anyone else. It is of course very noble if they do but not something that can be expected.
Ah, yes, the old Boston Busing method. A patently ineffectual solution to a serious problem is implemented, so one side can point at it, saying "it doesn't work" while the other says "we did our best". The political class profits, while the best outcome for the citizens is no improvement.
Agreed on low-tech, low-tech can be great! My personal calendar is just a huge whiteboard I scribble on, and redraw at the end of every month. Physically crossing out tasks/appointments is rewarding in the way that a phone-tap or CTRL-X CTRL-V can never be.

That being said - do you not find the duplication of tasks from the index card to day.md to be annoying/unnecessary? I know if I was rewriting the tasks from the index card to the .md file every day I'd get irritated and eventually just resort to the .md file, but maybe I need to learn to be a little more patient :)
"hydrogen truck boom"

I'm all for puns, but at some point we need to stop the association between hydrogen and explosiveness. Absent the perfect mix of H₂ and O₂, Hydrogen burns like most other fuels.
We may have WebGPU powered desktop applications in the near future though. Let's see how things play out, as you daid
Oh, you'll love https://orgmode.org/ then.
you mean discount?
Why would anyone choose this job? What am I missing? If you’re absolutely desperate, what about working at a fast food restaurant?
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I doubt fb is involved these fears but it’s funny to imagine that they seeded those rumors to distract from what they are really collecting.
At this point, I use telegram for essentially everything, not just email either. I found this HN thread through the Hacker News telegram feed[0]. I don't check reddit, or have other RSS feeds anymore, I just subscribe to the equivalent telegram channels. I even use the "to me" telegram channel for searchable notes

[0] https://t.me/hacker_news_feed
Regardless of the current political situation, it's not worth commenting on. That's why you're getting downvoted.
why the "wow"? Looks ok to me.
Not like you know what that obfuscated minimized javascript was doing anyway.
It’s a talking point from the right I’ve been hearing recently, along with “there were more slaves in Africa than the US”. It’s just more whataboutisms to distract from the utter lack of coherent policy from that side of the US political spectrum.
Because I’m lucky. When I was younger I wasn’t, nothing ever really went well for me.

But after close to 30 years of gainful employment, and stability in marriage and work ( This is the good luck) I’m calmer.
The focus on national politics by the media and both parties is the greatest scam perpetuated by an (unfortunately) all too willing populace.

As the old saying goes, All politics are local. And the last four years in particular have been a huge wake up call to me that I need to get WAY more interested and involved in local politics.

Utter BS like critical race theory would never get a toe hold in our schools, for example, if people paid attention at all to what was going on in their literal back yard. In one way COVID and kids attending school remotely has been hugely beneficial in that a lot of people have started to pick up on the utter garbage being routinely foisted on our kids.
> You can already get nearly pixel-perfect consistency by rendering each character as a separate dom element at specific X-Y coordinates.

You could do that for every character, but the size of the DOM and updating it will kill your performance. You're better off just drawing the characters yourself into a canvas then.
I don't know why you got downvoted, because they have literally gerrymandered the zoning map, to make the average income of Hudson Yards be counted as part of Harlem.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-12/the-visa-...
That makes no sense, it's takes much more power to split hydrogen from water than you get out of it. Where does the power come from to split the water?
I don't understand why FB didn't instead try to appeal to people's desire for freedom. Instead of talking about ads they could have built a whole campaign around how Apple doesn't let people control their own devices.

They could have helped us get real sideloading on iOS.
User preference and configurability of hyperTEXT display has been totally thrown under the bus, increasingly throughout the web's existence. I remember when it was straightforward to have your own text color and font preference, and web sites didn't try to override them. You could even configure a brick wall GIF background for sites if you wanted to. Now, these preferences are buried and easy for a developer to ignore using CSS and JavaScript. And as you say, it'll get even worse. The user agent (who, by the way, you're writing your web site for) now has very little say in how a web page is rendered.

Unpopular opinion on HN full of web devs, but I don't want my browser to be a "canvas" for some developer. I don't want it to be a "stable ABI" for some opaque binary app. I already have a platform for binary applications: It's called a desktop operating system. I wish more developers would go back to developing for that and leave the web alone. I want my web browser to display hyperTEXT documents, with links out to other hyperTEXT documents, and occasionally accept input from me via a FORM. And that's it. I understand that opinion makes me a minority nowadays, though. Maybe we should revitalize gopher or something--something to get back to the roots of fetching, displaying, and navigating information.
This is what Flutter on the web is, by the way. You can try it out here:

https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/

and marvel at the impossible to select text, one of the many affordances violently excised here.

If it wasn't still incredibly slow even on a cutting-edge Zen3, Nvidia 3070 system they might almost be on to something here.
The government also tends to only operate during business hours without any care for anyone else.
One person in our village who happened to live next to the telephone cabinet had a campaign against the installation of a DSLAM which would have made the cabinet slightly larger. As a result the whole village couldn't get FTTC for a couple of years. The village is miles from the exchange and DSL speeds were really slow (1-2 Mbps on a good day). It was only resolved when our campaigner moved away.

(Thankfully that was a few years ago, now I have FTTH, yay!)
"Well... PHP is inelegant, and there's a reason that it's been abandoned."

Abandoned? 79% of websites are still running on PHP. Let's postpone the funeral.
Wrong, 1.0 released exactly one year ago, before there was mostly destabilization of the runtime and not really development features
I suspect a lot of these job listings are disguised as generic office work, and you don't know what you're in for until it's too late (NDA, job started, etc...)
Is It though? I would imagine that there is some marginal utility if it's done in such volumes.

I get the occasional friend request from profiles with links to porn sites. Even if I report it, the fact that I saw it implies others might have seen it already and more will see it before Facebook removes it.
I'll give up HTML when you pry it from my cold, dead hands ...
Is there any ad blocker that blocks ads rendered within videos?

It's possible doesn't mean it's viable.
I hope so too.

But I once read, most performance problems come from all the changes that are chached for a document and yoh can fix the problem by copying the text of an old document in a new one.

This doesn't let me hope for huge performance gains.
I think photo-realism in games is not merely a black and white, positive or negative. There are trade-offs, and I think it has to do with perception around aesthetics.

(also, this is simply one guy's opinion, but I am curious if anyone else feels the same)

For instance, in my view, I tend to prefer a stylized less hyper-realism in games. I think this is because the enhanced color, light, and brilliance is more aesthetically pleasant to look at, even though it is certainly more uncommon in the real world.

I don't believe this is because saturated color, and brilliant light doesn't exist in reality, but these occurrences happen more rarely and in specific, often planned, situations and settings. And some people (trained or gifted photographers, for instance), have learned how to capture this look, or to take something rather ordinary, and capture it to appear extraordinary, much like the difference between your average person snapping a photo with a disposable camera, and Ansel Adams. The former will produce a photo that is far more common in appearance, and thus...boring, or uninteresting.
So when it comes to games, if you simulate the "average look of reality" the game certainly appears more photo-realistic, but may also be less aesthetically interesting (to me, at least).

This says absolutely nothing about the technology developed here, which is incredibly impressive. Nor do I think there is a right or wrong way create game visuals. I think that misses the point.

However, I feel I'm not the only person who can be blown away with how realistic something can be made to look, yet ...also find it more aesthetically drab and boring to look at.
And in the case of games, as I mentioned above, I tend to prefer to see things that are rare, interesting, and extra-ordinary, and thus less "realistic".

Anyone else feel the same?
To add to that, in the US, municipalities, school districts, and many other government entities fall under Open Records laws - the agendas for meetings must be published with enough advance notice that you can decide whether or not the decisions to be made at any given meeting are relevant to your interests. Check your local town's web site for where they publish the meeting notices and agendas.
The Web started as a document display and delivery framework.

Now it has turned into an application delivery framework, which uses the old document-rendering abilities to display the UI, with many quirks and workarounds, because DOM was never intended as a performant dynamic medium.

With canvas and WebGL taking more and more, it will turn back into an X terminal, with more advanced network capabilities.

If most important sites switch to canvas rendering, what used to be the browser can be radically simplified and made lightweight and much faster. The 'legacy' full-web sites can be shown using a plugin that does all the fancy and heavyweight HTML 5 and CSS 3 stuff.

Also, with webassembly running JITted platform-independent code delivered over the network, and displaying it in a platform-independent graphical client (née browser), the promise of Java from 30 years ago will finally come true — sans Java proper, though.
> Taken to its logical conclusion, "Animals to be formally recognised as sentient beings" should outlaw their slaughter for food or other products and much more essentially including whatever rights humans have.

If I understand the article correctly the new law recognises (some) animals as sentient, not as humans. I can't see how "sentient" automatically means "has human rights".

In any case, I bet UK laws, those that are actually written down anyway, are written so as to grant rights to categories more strict than "sentient". For example, wikipedia says that in Common English Law, "murder" is the killing of one "person" by another:

> Murder is an offence under the common law of England and Wales. It is considered the most serious form of homicide, in which one person kills another with the intention to cause either death or serious injury unlawfully.

In fact, from this definition it seems like "murder" is a kind of "homicide". So it seems that not only the perpetrator and the victim must be "person"s, they also must be "human" (species homo?).

tl;dr, I don't think "sentient beings" are currently extended the same protections in law as "humans" or "person"s and so slaughtering them for food is not prohibited by any laws (and therefore, is allowed).
Is there a Linux port?
I'm with you. I do the same. I've saved a few caterpillars on the sidewalk in my day!
Eh, as a desktop user it sucks to still get the same patronising and space-wasting mobile design.
The author explains the Keter classification in the discussion: "It's a slightly meta nod to the old days (and the coldposts that ape them) where every spooky murder monster had to be Keter. I imagine there was a similar tendency in-universe as well."
We're talking about reducing the number of blackmailable situations not eliminating them.

You're arguing we shouldn't put up, "don't feed the bears signs" because some people are going to do it anyway.
So much anxiety in my life is about thinking Im wasting years, not just comparing my life experience to someone else's but comparing it to everyone else's. I wonder if this is an american saying, notably from "It wad the summer of 69"
> The issue is that Apple can pick and choose whoever they want which is anti-competitive.

No it isn’t. They work with whoever the market leaders are.

> It's certainly not the first time they've done this,

You say this as if they’ve been caught doing something wrong. You may wish to create that impression, but it’s a silly one. They openly talk about doing this on stage every year.

> but it's a shitty business tactic.

It’s not a business tactic. It’s normal software development methodology.

> Everyone should have the same opportunities.

On one level, everyone does - any business can partner with any other business who chooses to work together to create APIs.

On another level, the statement is a meaningless platitude.

It is obvious for example that not all developers can have a 10 minute phone call with Craig Federighi because there are millions of developers. It would equally be absurd to ban Craig Federighi from talking to developers.

Similarly it would be absurd to ban Apple from allowing 3rd parties to work with them to test new APIs.

In order to consider these questions in a meaningful way, slogans are not helpful - instead we have to look at what the realities look like.
"gentrification" is just a way for people to be NIMBY while feeling noble at the same time. It would be pretty freaking hilarious if it didn't harm so many people - especially those at the lower end of the housing spectrum.

It's the ultimate in selfishness "I'm secure with my affordable housing - screw everyone else" :p

Two things can be true at the same time - you can be economically disadvantaged and also be a selfish asshole too. I'm so sick of people giving groups a total pass on not being toxic, selfish assholes because they also are also part of a "protected" class.
We just installed a new cryo-electron microscope. It was an expensive piece of equipment. It's also very sensitive.

It is not connected to the internet. It is connected to a local network, but that local network is not bridged to the internet in any capacity.

It is hard to imagine that Thermo-Fisher was capable of realizing the security implications of having the controls connected to the internet, but a trans-national pipeline was not.
Secret spyware sauce.
> I don't think Volvo and Daimler make uniformed bets, so there must be some reasoning behind it.

It's probably fair to contrast the EU vs. the USA for this. Given the geographic and political differences, I can see where a European market for trucks might be sufficient for the manufacturers to fund development efforts. I should have been clear that I was thinking primarily of the US, living here and all.

It would be interesting to have a better overview on freight handling in the rest of the world. China tends to be left out of these discussions and I can't imagine wide swathes of Asia or Africa changing anytime soon.
I would disagree, Apple is absolutely better (or rather, less harmful) than Facebook when it comes to user privacy.

This absolutely does not mean that Apple is realy a defender of consumer privacy. Apple does not support privacy out of principle but does it for PR and market share. Apple will (and does) happily compromise privacy for their bottom line.
IPv4 / IPv6 Address Lookup (API) and network connectivity check
Data Scientists Will Be Extinct in 10 Years
Ah! So that's why you don't like hamburgers - no idea whatsoever, what it takes to cook it right. And dress it. And the right bread.
I agree, that story is fascinating. In fact the shift in the 1950s in how scientists thought about psychedelics is actually what my second book (in progress) is about. The Abramson cited in that study is one of the main people I've been researching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Alexander_Abramson

So as a follow on, I know this is a long shot but if anyone reading this has family or professional connections to some of the people involved in that first generation of psychedelic research in the 1950s and early 1960s (yes, they are old now, but at least a few are still around) please get in touch with me. I've been conducting oral history interviews for the past year or two and finding out all kinds of interesting things.
> because you really need that thing so what you are going to do?

When that thing is as simple as left_pad, I’d just copy and paste it into my own code. Or just write it myself.

When did so much of development become glueing other people’s code together? Don’t we all know how to write something as simple as left pad? Why was it ever a good idea to pull it in from somewhere else?
Are there plans to launch an end-to-end encrypted version of Writer?
Digital Gulf of Tonkin
Is there a way to search for fiber optic cables nearby? Calling the local telco has always been a dead-end -- I can't get beyond the sales-rep who's computer shows fiber service isn't available at my location.
I for one would welcome the death of HTML and CSS. Unfortunately I suspect they will merely be re-used for this.
Well, the Little Father Of The Russians -- pretty much an Über-Slav, no? -- already used American and British systems to steal a British referendum and an American election, so the cherry-on-top Germans seem to be the ones who got it right.
Do you have any links I can read about solutions like this? My understanding is that producing hydrogen through electrolysis takes more energy than it produces. How would you power this in mobile applications?
They may have sherlocked Tile (though I think this is debatable) but they absolutely did not sherlock Facebook Ads. Facebook Ads is far reaching and monitors you on and off their platform, showing ads in the app store using data about your App Store habits is a completely different ballgame.
Off the top of my head:

- This can be done from home.

- It can be done by individuals with mobility issues, or other conditions preventing them from leaving home

- Ability to have a flexible schedule (not sure how FB handles this, but I can see the work being done ad-hoc)
Decryption is illegal? Lol what?
Tesla is claiming "under 2kwh/mile" for their semi. At 2kwh/mile your looking at a megawatt for 500 miles range which is close to an 8 hour drive.

There will need to be stall where a semi can park for 8 hours using a charger.

Local deliver makes sense also city buses obviously and thats already happening. Long haul will need a lot more charging infrastructure to make sense.
There is a raft of talking points used to explain why Israel are right to behave so poorly. Many, if not most of these talking points are specious. A common one is that Israel is the only democracy in the middle east, which is absolutely not true.

What does "Lebanon is not a free democracy" even mean? You can say the same about Israel. They have many laws and restrictions that are based around religion, and religious groups are very powerful. They enact apartheid, which is about as opposite of democracy as possible. Even if Lebanon has a troubled democracy, it's definitely better than what is happening in Israel. This trope needs to be retired.
Or, as suggested, just use an ordinary building that can be sold and repurposed when grown out of. Instead of the marble built-in counters and elaborate state offices etc.
Wait, how is decrypting the WASM blob illegal?
I don't like this change, but it's not being done to "control to web".
You can do it, but it’s not done commonly. The most common way ads get onto the page is by including a third party script which is easily blocked.
I think it might still be too soon to tell with vaccines. A lot of information from last year regarding effective treatment by using monoclonal antibodies to help combat patients actively experiencing a cytokine storm though.
Now hook it up to a methane sensor that is also connected via WiFi and add a loudspeaker - so everytime the sensor sees heightened methane concentrations you spray and play an audio file that says "uh-oh, fart" in a Rainman voice.

(Hey downvote me all you want, we're talking about strapping a dual core MCU to an air freshener. It isn't like this was Nobel Prize material to begin with :-))
I see this happen when i use my Amex card with merchants that use square POS systems. The data comes through to me in the Cash App.
Stigma and criminality often go hand-in-hand.
Yes, I think this is by far the most equitable solution - for the privilege of getting right of way to lay cable, you should be forced to allow others to leverage the infrastructure too.
Which is why so many companies fight it :p
We have tested with 30 columns. The horizontal scrolling works alright, but as you have rightly pointed out, the actions column is right at the end. We will have to work something out.

We plan to add advanced validation capabilities as and when we get use cases demanded by real customers. Its a huge project in itself!

Thanks once again!
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