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Actually it is possible to make gasoline with solar panels, water and carbon dioxide from the air.

Making synthetic gasoline was already possible before WWII and that was used a lot by Germany.

It is true that making hydrogen is easier, because making gasoline requires additional steps and equipment, but due to the large disadvantages of storing and handling hydrogen, making gasoline is nonetheless preferable and it does not require any infrastructure change.

While hydrogen is preferred currently for room-temperature fuel cells, for the moment that seems like a dead end, because the current catalysts are much too expensive.

High-temperature fuel cells can use gasoline, so hydrogen no longer has advantages.

Even if one would not choose gasoline, there are still other much better ways to chemically store solar energy than hydrogen, e.g. ammonia or methanol.
With descriptions of social clumsiness, being independent minded, and difficulty navigating two-way communication (when to start/stop) pg's depiction of "nerds" resonates because these traits are frequently associated with asd.

But what surprised me is that instead of washing away negative traits as part of the package, two options for the "fierce nerd" are presented:

1. use power for good

2. be cynical and embrace bitterness

It's a lot easier to do #2 than #1.
Although questionable as a psychometric test, he is describing the Myers–Briggs INTJ [1] or INTP [2] personality type here. In terms of the Big-Five [3], I would suggest: Moderately-high Openness, High Conscientiousness, Average-to-Low Extraversion, Low Agreeableness, Average-to-low Neuroticism.

[1]: https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality

[2]: https://www.16personalities.com/intp-personality

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
> - The argument that you need an equivalent charging infrastructure isn’t really true since you only need that for long tail long range trips (and also we have that now).

To add: Hydrogen stations are fairly unique. It's really expensive to build such stations (millions). Plus heavy restrictions on where they can be placed. Putting up a charge station is really cheap in comparisons (think it was something like 10k for on a public street with 2 charge ports), plus you can place them pretty much anywhere (way less safety restrictions).

What I dislike about EVs is how expensive they're to charge if you're not using your own electricity. At least, that's the situation in NL.
Also sounds pretty similar to Useless chalk
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Right. Similar to a liquid fueled car, but worse than an electric car in most circumstances.

But the problem is there will never be an equivalent hydrogen network as there is gasoline network because hydrogen fueling stations are far more expensive to install and maintain. Either the station overhead ends up much higher than gasoline or hydrogen is used much more rarely.

Electric car distance records as of 2018 are 1178km in a Model S and 1001km in a Model 3. https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-s-model-3-hypermile-wo...

Model S Plaid+ next year is supposed to have ~50% greater range than the Model S used in that 2018 record. And has a nationwide charging network (and access to other EV charging networks, which themselves are becoming impressive... Lucid Air’s offering is also impressive).

I just don’t see the attraction of hydrogen any more besides niche applications.

The vehicles are much more expensive (Model 3 way cheaper than equivalent range Toyota Mirai), the charging is far less convenient and totally unavailable outside California, they’re slower, and the fuel is vastly more expensive, and they’re fundamentally less energy efficient. Heck, the Model 3 LR actually weighs less and has more range than the Toyota Mirai.

Hydrogen cars are a bonfire of money.

Conventional carmakers insistent on fast fueling capability ought to do plug-in hybrid. Even if you use synthesized fuel for the few trips that go beyond the electric range, the cost per mile (and cost per vehicle) would be way lower than hydrogen and you could use existing gas stations (although we’d need a lot fewer of them), and you still get the logistical benefit of home/work charging for commutes.

You could switch everyone’s car for a plug in hybrid version today and they wouldn’t even know except it’d sound different. We could ban new vehicles without a plug and it wouldn’t ruin anyone’s corner case commute and a lot of people wouldn’t even realize it at first (just like many don’t realize they drive a mild hybrid). This is a far better argument than hydrogen cars’ “liquid fueling like experience! But only in a handful of stations in California at enormous expense...”
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CS50X Led a Bangalore Student to Help Walmart Develop Its Vaccine Portal
I believe that's the correct answer.

However I still wish they'd be able to get the bezel down to the size of an XPS 13
Just not a mistake by any IT guys I supposed.
I own Pixel 2XL (released in 2017). It has an amazing camera which can compete with any modern phone camera, great battery life, no bloatware, excellent performance. Best phone a ever had - really zero issues. Not only I wouldn't switch to other OEM, I can't even find a good reason to upgrade.
Sort of, on some qualitative descriptions. But on the quantitative level they are quite different, enough to change the entire quality of the relationship to carbon. The cheapest source of electrical power are renewables, and for more than a decade renewables have been at cost parity. Additionally, electrical vehicles are the perfect complement to the weakness of renewables: intermittency.

In contrast, the most optimistic estimates I have seen say that we are at least a decade from electrolyzed hydrogen that is as cheap as carbon-spewing current steam methane reformation. And in the interim, hydrogen boosters are pushing a nonexistent large-scale carbon capture and sequestration of steam methane reformation, something that doesn't exist on an industrial scale, with several failed projects over the past decade.

So I would say that hydrogen cars today are like EVs in the mid 90s. The tech chain has a long ways to go.
It can be, particularly for scams which require human interaction. But for an extension that collects phishing data, there's no point in it: If people enter data into it, they are a good target.
I feel like the Gen-X terminology of a nerd just isn't a thing anymore. Being an older millennial, I fully understand what sort of person Graham is talking about, however I don't think Zoomers or even younger Millennials would describe these people as "nerds".

Also, these days if you are a smart ambitious person looking to make an impact with technology you're not terribly edgy and you certainly aren't defying any major social norms. And that's a good thing.
The azure window has gone!! I didn't know that. It's such a shame, because I dived it twice in my life in 2008 and 2010. Gozo does indeed have many other good diving spots.
Apple II demo places 2nd at Outline demoparty
Even further to that end of the spectrum is "The World's Worst Graphics Card"[1] on a breadboard with mostly discrete logic. Fascinating.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7rce6IQDWs&vl=en
well the community process thing is sort of a more complicated thing - some argue that the old process of putting people in the stocks / public humiliation was a more humane way of treating people because they then paid their debt and could be reintegrated. Not saying I agree but the argument at any rate is there was a community process. I am at any rate open to the possibility that this was a good aspect of a system that in many other ways was bad.

If so that community process was destroyed and replaced with a system that would never forgive you for your transgressions.

However the system was imperfect and thus people could move, reinvent themselves and reintegrate themselves by exploiting the imperfections.

Technology is now working to remove this capability.

So it was not that the community process was removed by the arrival of technology, it was removed and later the technology arrived to strengthen what had been put in its place - creating a system in which transgressions and punishments are eternal.
40-core Mac Pro reportedly in development by Apple
No regrets, Elixir is a great language running in a rock-solid runtime, with such a nice community around it. Recommend that you give it a try.
It is explosive only when mixed with enough oxygen, much like gasoline or propane. Hindenburg did not explode, it burned (quite fast, I should add).

As I understand, If you make a hole in hydrogen tank and set it on fire, it will just burn (don't try to do this at home).
Read Geoffrey Moore's classic "Crossing the chasm." (The title is no metaphor for your prospective customers.) It will give you a framework for thinking about introducing a new product -- early adopters, and all that stuff.

Ask yourself: What's my "beachhead?" Where can my product find a loyal early following?

Maybe instructors? Maybe climbing gyms? Maybe among people with the "leave it cleaner than you found it" outdoor ethic? If you can find some strong spokespeople in your target beachhead who loves your product, that helps a lot.
This is true. The current production techniques are basically using water. This is producing a ton of CO2 - the very opposite of what we're hoping to attain by running Hydrogen-powered vehicles. The hope is that we're able to leverage methane from animal droppings in the near future. Toyota is leading the research on this I believe.
Try reading his Twitter feed. He went from VC visionary to Facebook mom.
> Another solution may be to somehow turn off your fierceness, by devoting yourself to meditation or psychotherapy or something like that. Maybe that's the right answer for some people. I have no idea.

I do, and I think you should invest in these things (not "devote your life", PG shows his deep ignorance here of these things as though they are black and white). if you are in the overwhelming vast majority of "fierce nerds" that does not become a billionaire, or even if you do, you will invariably have a lot of problems in social situations and close relationships until some investment is made in tempering this extreme sort of personality.

> But it doesn't seem the optimal solution to me. If you're given a sharp knife, it seems to me better to use it than to blunt its edge to avoid cutting yourself.

PG encouraging people to be emotionally unhealthy so that they can add to his pool of talent for him to profit from. The fierce nerd, great term btw, is ambitious and brilliant. they can do all of these things at the same time. It might just cut down the full on "become a billionaire" mindset, but that's a good thing, since it's unethical to be a billionaire.
They've played an interesting game where they called Trump illegitimate from the beginning of his presidency, entertained the idea of flipping electors, entertained conspiracy theories about him being a Russian agent, and now he's the evil one for trying to "subvert democracy".

Likewise with the pandemic, essentially any observation was weaponized against him. My favorite is the ventilator crisis which has been essentially lost to history now. He was cast as a murderer, only for us to find out that ventilators were leading to more deaths.
Yeah that view is simply not here anymore. Thankfully
> Most people think of nerds as quiet, diffident people. [...] In fact some nerds are quite fierce.

That someone would think nerds are not competitive is, to me, the strangest thing about this article.
Perhaps because I'm one, but whether it's Magic the gathering, Demoparties, rubics cube solving, chess, Counterstrike LANs, academia, or any of my tech jobs, every "nerdy" activity I've ever engaged with has always been overly competitive.

The fact that so many open source projects have had to adopt "code of conducts" is IMO a direct reflection of the fierce competition that has always been inherent to software development. Whether it's code quality, clever hacks, optimization... everything about what we do has a competitive element.

Come to think of it, I can't actually think of any nerdy activity that isn't, in practice, extremely competitive.
Lost village emerges from Italian lake
It's a classic refrain in a petty "revenge of the nerds" mindset. All the "haters" are wrong, unconditionally, and acting like an asshole is excused as being very special and brave.

It's a siege mentality designed to shore up one's sense of superiority, and ensure that one doesn't need to do very much soul-searching.
As far as i can tell you are advocating to punish the residents of pallestine because some time ago, when most of the current residents were either children or unborn, someone else did a bad thing.

To me that seems exceptionally unjust.
I doubt that. I've got a Leaf that I've had for almost 2 years (i.e. lots of rubber on the road), and I'm not going back. Judging by the number of Teslas I see driving on the road every time I'm out, I don't think other people are going back either.

This is in Minnesota too, with very icy and cold winters. I've seen that commonly brought up as an anti-EV talking point, but it's empirically wrong.
Author here: I think 4 weekends worth of time is a reasonable estimate, though it was spread out over a longer period — iterating the PCB manufactured in China takes time!

The most time consuming part was the enclosure design.
The problem with taxing revenue instead of profit is that it allegedly would stifle reinvestment. Whether that's actually true or just convenient storytelling (like e.g. with trickle down and patents) is a whole different story.

What you described certainly plays a role too. But it is not what I was pointing at.

What I wrote is no doubt speculative and only meant as contextual background. Still, here we have a country that literally wrote the book on capitalism. Which "just so happens" to be a popular tax haven for big multinational corporations. When in addition to that, the country's IRS has (or at least used to have) a "discretionary authority" to make secret arrangements, I sincerely wonder how much faith it takes to hold on to the idea that their role as a tax haven is just an inherent consequence of how profit tax works (or how companies can be creative with their bookkeeping).

The Dutch generally have a good reputation, but a lot of that might have more to do with their wealth (for those who own it, because over 1/3 of the country's population actually balances around the poverty line), clever PR and keeping the doors to their kitchen firmly shut. Strictly in accordance with their laws, of course.
It's a solo founder company, and the founder is the author (namely myself) :-)
I met a lot of nerds in graduate school. In my experience the "fierce" nerds weren't smarter or successful than the "nonfierce" nerds. The fierce nerds were just more insecure and emotionally immature. They felt more threatened by being surrounded by other people who might smarter or more successful than them. It threatened their identity of being uniquely intelligent. They responded by lashing out.

It may be that this source of insecurity is a driving force. But years later, when I see who is more successful I think it is the nonfierce nerds. The fierce nerds exhausted themselves with petty disagreements and arbitrary hills to die on. The nonfierce nerds were able to focus on the hills worth climbing and recruit others to work with them.
Doesn't the XPS have the weird webcam position?
Rails is awesome nothing comes close to being as fun and productive. Tried php and django, not bad but not Rails.
The number of charging poles I see in public and store parking lots has literally increased 10-fold over the past 3 years. To the point where I always see several free charging points every time I bother to look. I'm reasonably convinced that this scaling can continue at the rate of electric car adoption.
Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference
What my last company did was to find any way to integrate with the apis without contacting them. Throttle and cache calls to avoid hitting limits, use web scrapping to access any data you can to avoid restrictions. Some companies may never interact with you whilst you are small. But if your customer is also their customer you might be able to make headway, and if you can onboard without the relationship then it may lead to one
> but in this case we're trying to figure out if something is man-made or occurred naturally.

False dichotomy. The main lab-leak theory is that a natural virus being studied escaped from a lab, not a man-made one.
I enjoy reading Paul Graham's musings on nerds / nerdiness, but I can't help but have difficulty relating.

Maybe it's a generational thing (born in '92), but Graham often seems to paint a picture of nerds similar to what you might see in movies and TV shows depicting the 80s, like the kids in Stranger Things.

Even this article, while I can certainly conjure which of my friends growing up were the "fierce nerd", it still feels a little disconnected from my reality.

For example, Graham begins by explaining that the concept of a fierce nerd is one unknown to the general public. But I'm not sure I agree. In the era I grew up, there was not so much social distinction between who is a nerd, but there was a lot of social distinction for those who were argumentative, or "fierce". In my experience, everyone knew who the "fierce nerds" were (although not by that name), because they were known for their awkwardness and combativeness - not for their nerdiness. Indeed, my own nerdy friend circle in high school spanned a wide range of popularities and I would say "fierceness" (or rather, lack thereof) was probably the best indicator of popularity.

I see these themes spanning Graham's other musings on nerds, typically trying to characterize a class of kids who are hated for their interests and passions, but that's just never been my experience. I think it's a generational thing.
Google knows all this. I figured they're keeping the skeleton of a flagship, branding, marketing, and distribution as a countervailing threat to oems like Samsung that have played around with Tizen or thinking of going too propietary. If an OEM decides to drop play services or the play store then all google has to do is dump some money into their pixel org to make things move a little bigger and faster. Plus it helps to have a flagship when you're developing new Android features. Telephony features and dual sim was supported by pixels first, at least in a non hacky way
Why not both?

There are companies pushing the boundaries every day, with governments generally failing to even investigate unless there are enough complaints to raise attention.

Complaints by themselves depend only on shame, which most companies seem to avoid easily. Complaints that catch the attention of governments, on the other hand...
If you can talk about the benefits of your chalk authentically (as a climber), what's the problem? Why do you think you're not good at it?
There is supposedly a huge gas deposit under the sea between those three countries so it’s supposedly just a matter of negotiating and setting up a fair mining operations and start extracting it to theoretically become big oils overnight.

That isn’t how things work but that’s the logic behind pushing Hydrogen.
I think the original link was posted a couple of days ago, but didn't make it anywhere. It's very difficult to get seen on HN.
I find it ironic that an esports site is hosting this article since, in my opinion, many recent major RTSes were lacking in appeal to many because they were focused very heavily on the esports oriented, "may the best APM win" niche rather than being about, y'know, strategy. Yes, yes, there was an element of being clickfests that existed in older successful RTSes but it really feels like developers have doubled down on that over the past decade.
The amount actually traveled on a single tank is indeed meaningless - Teslas can go a thousand miles if you go up a mountain, end up at 10% battery, then charge to & past 100% on the way down the mountain via regen. Improving overall efficiency should be what is strived for.
>As the world progresses, the number of things you can win at by getting the right answer increases.

Either that or in history there are certain junction points in which a number of hard problems arise and if you are good at solving hard problems at that point you are going to do well for yourself. After which there is a period of consolidation until the next rise of hard problems. Probably Mr. Graham wouldn't like to consider that idea though.
You've got a niche product so maybe find an influencer? One of the top rock climbing folks? I would also send a bunch of free trial stuff to the local rock climbing gyms maybe with an ad campaign.

Searching Amazon also seems to show that gymnastics and weigh lifting are a market as well.

You really want a strong brand. Shark tank might be an option too.
> I would never complain about a language just because an IDE does not exist for it.

I think their complaint is valid, especially in light of their finding it difficult to find experienced coders who are in their salary range.

New coders can lean heavily on a good IDE to help: code completion, breakpoints, step wise debugging, one click links to the docs, easy code navigation, and more. Senior coders can and should use the editor of choice, but a great IDE makes a world of difference for a junior or even intermediate coder.
> You don't need exceptional intelligence to do that.

You need the intelligence to see which rules really impact you and which don't. That requires insight.

> What could be smart is to successfully build that same capital without resorting to such lazy and harmful tactics

Often being 'lazy' is the smart thing to do. Why do extra work that you don't need to do?

What's why I think you're confusing it with morality. You're saying it's better to do it without being lazy... but why? If being lazy gets you the same or better result, then surely it's the smart thing to do?
I forgot the 80-character limit. Because of word-wrap, and the tendency for editors like notepad to save the newlines it adds, the 80-character limit came into fashion. People that write long chains of functional code also like tabs. This forced them into deep nested calls with lots of tabs, and the tab display width changed from 8 to 4, sometimes 2. There was good reason for this. In C/C++, you had to declare every variable at the top of every function so that the compiler could allocate space for it on the stack. This was inefficient, hard to get right with the types, and ugly to read, but it was the way that people were taught in school, and the other intent of the 80-character limit was to force homegrown coders to do it like everybody else. Tabs of course wreaked havok upon these linters. Wars erupted over how many characters a tab should be. The internal divisions between old-school 8-space tabbers and the new hip 2-space tabbers made surrender to 4-spacers seem a little more like compromise rather than death of principles. 80 characters? Seriously? My template type declarations are greater than 80 characters.

This of course gave rise to the huge cultural phenomenon known as “wrap music”, which is composed by independent cubicle artists producing either ‘scratches’ using the scroll wheel ratchet on their mouse, or the loud unstoppable succession of system beeps that you get by holding the down arrow until your laggy system finally gets to the bottom of a text file.
I intentionally avoid SV/Tech/VC on Twitter. It’s a parody at this point.