skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, the hauling and aviation industries will probably stick to burning fuel for a while. Maybe eFuel someday but still burning fuel.

But this don't mean that average Joe transportation (which incidentally makes up 99%ofprivate vehicle travel) cannot be realistically electrified.

Sure, even there people will keep running their classic cars and probably even some sports and muscle cars but for the biggest majority of casual commuters the writing is on the wall. There just is no real upside to sticking with ICEs even today.
What is he or she not impressed about? Why should we care?
>Microsoft Edge does not guarantee settings persist across updates. //

This sort of behaviour, which Firefox had indulged in in the past, is abhorrent. It needs punishment of the company and the controlling staff; they can not be trusted at all.
I love safari for my phone, but I prefer brave for my browser just because I still think chromium is the best browser, and brave has excellent security features. Plus its how I found this website, when you type "news" in the search bar it automatically re-directs you here.
I came here to say this. I still think rz and sz should be supported everywhere. Even now, I can't tell you how many times I wish I could grab a file straight form the terminal. We lost something when we stopped using zmodem. (and for the record, yes, I do know about all the other things that aren't saving a file direct from the terminal)
WebGL was based off openGL, which was already pretty much deprecated at the time browsers implemented it for better APIs like Vulkan/Metal.
This is why I do not understand people who would jump at the chance to live on a permanent Martian or Lunar colony.
The Need for Speed (and why it takes time)
There's wisdom in what you say. At the same time, technology adoption curves only get to 100% at the asymptote. For example, one still encounters a need to send a fax from time to time, and some people still have landlines.

That said, the auto market at 50% or 70% EV adoption will still be a big deal! And we might find out that some of the issues that folks see with EVs are solvable and/or aren't that important anyway. For example: the average American summer road trip is under 300 miles, so the range anxiety might be ameliorated by wider availability of faster chargers than are available today. Similarly, we might learn that users of heavy equipment are in the habit of taking breaks during which they could charge their equipment, etc.
I'm a late melinial, and anecdotally I've noticed that a few atheist friends have become religious. They generally have unfortunate live, and it obviously seems like a way to cope. When not religion, some of them embrace extreme politics. If life is getting harder and society more psychopathic, it makes sense to me that religion is making a comeback. Doubt it will get to levels we had before, but it makes me wonder if political Islam is a glimpse into the future instead of the past.
> As usual Matt Levine's take on this is a good read.

Link?
Things to Make and Do
As a Firefox user I have no idea what you are talking about.
One summer, I had access to a local university's Ultrix machine (on 4.2 BSD) via dialup. The connection was 7E1, so Zmodem was out.

But I could uuencode into a big buffer on my terminal program and uudecode locally.
The confusing thing is that they waited until the stock was under a dollar to do an offering. Had they done at $20 just like 6 months ago they probably could have paid their debts.
> wood coated transistors

Definitely a market for those with the audiophool crowd.
Don’t forget that “news” keeps getting added back to your customized “new tab” page. That was there last straw for me on desktop. I switched to Firefox. It’s slower but still fast enough for my purposes.

On mobile, they broke the address bar somehow, so now I’m using Firefox everywhere, even though I never really planned to do so…

It’s a shame. It was a great browser for a while.

Edit to add: Firefox has the best “reader mode” of any browser I’ve tried. I’m actually really happy about that.
History matches are regularly at the top of suggestions for me.
Solid woods also elevated to more premium material due to scarcity, scarcer the wood, the higher the price.
Intention is irrelevant when the end result can wind up misleading. See google removing the "m" subdomain once upon a time. Also this move to hide the full url comes at the reliance of instead looking for a green shield or some type of lock icon in the URL bar to ensure you're on https as safari hides this too.

In regards to the https problem specifically, while safari will say you are browsing an insecure page if using http, they do it in a horrible way - by adding text to the beginning of the url bar. Certainly if you were trying to reduce url confusion, you would add a separate symbol and label! I can click insecure icon on chrome and other browsers to read more about how, but I cannot do so on safari -- so much for trying to reduce confusion.
A fully offline, and open source software can be audited.
Could you link it, instead of just quoting it?
When I briefly worked at RCA/Victor on 1540 Broadway NYC ..one evening leaving the office I bumped into a tall gentleman walking out of the elevator into office I worked at. I looked up and it was Mr. Belafonte. Rip.
Dumb question, but why don't people[1] use Chromium instead of Chrome (or Edge)? Does it still send data to Google?

[1] - I'm presuming HN people, not moms & dads.
Just curious, what's the population growth been like? If it's been declining, why would we expect housing prices to go up at all?
Add Michaels, same story with always 20% off. They even have those coupons to scan at the registers, you just have to mention it.
I think this is the simplest "jailbreak" jailbreak I've seen work so far - clever!
Would you happen to remember if you had any extensions or anything of that sort enabled on that chrome instance?
> You can band together with other people to make a down payment, but again, this is unattractive for most people because there is no good exit strategy to cash out.

Yea. It probably doesn't work if you are wanting to buy something as an investment that you are planning to cash out of. But if you buy to use (to live or to produce something) it is attractive to collectively buy to have larger bargaining power and better credit trustworthiness if the risk is shared.

> I don't see why society would want to incentivize people to join them beyond the benefits that those people would naturally see from working at one.

Because model of ownership that is most popular currently led us to very pathological situations. Like this:
https://money.cnn.com/2016/07/29/news/economy/top-1-income/i...

It got worse since then.

Another thing is that working conditions and salaries got really ridiculous and a whole class of employed poor rose that borderline can't sustain themselves with their work.

It's hard to regulate this stuff in current ownership model. So I think our best bet is to promote alternate ownership models so we may end up in less insane place than the one towards which we are heading.

> on the flip side, why punish workers are aren't part of co-ops?

It's never actually punishing workers. Ultimately it's the employer who pays for it all. And it makes sense because todays employer on average doesn't invest into the education of the workers, in their health and development, in their safety net. So it's only fair he should be paying for those costs that he externalizes to society.

In case of worker co-ops it's reasonable to assume that workers in them will be taken care of better. So less burden on society from externalized costs.

> If it is a good deal for the workers, they should do it. If it is a bad deal for the workers they shouldn't.

Currently the deck is stacked against coops because being able to fuel your company by burning people is a real advantage so a company that does that more will nearly always win with the one that does that less. And losing company will eventually have to dissolve so workers are pretty much left without a choice.
Doit: The goodest Python task-runner you never heard of
Sure, under the assumption that your parameter space is convex.
>While “those who can, do; those who can’t teach” is funny, it’s usually so, so wrong.

Right? I have found that teaching is a skill like anything else and is usually orthogonal to whatever skill is under discussion. It'd be like saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, bake."

I think a more useful saying would be "Don't assume that just because someone can DO it, that they can TEACH it." i.e. Engineering professors :-(
Best use of time, money, and effort I’ve ever seen. Congrats on winning life.
While I think this is largely pretty true, I think in the longer run that if you get to a place where the average consumer is no longer exposed to the price of gas, you can get into a political reality where you could start pricing in the remediation cost of the fuel.

An analogy might be ethanol-free gas. Many motors out there still require it, and you have to go out of your way to find it, and you will pay a premium for it. But it is at least there if you need it.
That uses a hashed URL
> don’t follow any rationality anymore

Anymore? When have markets ever been rational? Markets only line up with reality over the long term. You can point to any instant, and even any decade in time, and point major inaccuracies in the public's collective financial thinking.

> Houses can sit empty without tenants for years but they’ll only go up.

Do you have stats for how much of a problem this is? The problem seems to be vacancy rates that are too low, not too high.

> Companies can be unprofitable for literal decades but they’ll keep finding funding and buyers.

This was a ZIRP (zero-interest rate policy) phenomenon and even then, was very limited in scope. Uber raised billions on a dumb business plan, yes, but that investment is tiny compared to the total amount invested in that period.

> In a world of shrinking growth , stalling productivity, and dying demographics,

Opinions should be based on facts, not over-excitement. Growth has been booming in real terms for centuries now. Many countries are in demographic decline, but overall we still have lots of net population growth for a long time. Productivity is not stalling, and is in fact skyrocketing all over the world.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-productivity-per-ho...

> the market behaves like infinite growth is baked in.

Lots of people blindly pump their money into index funds every month. While this raises PE ratios to near-historic highs (not all-time highs mind you) it is by no means "infinite".

I find lots of great businesses with stock that sells for far more reasonable prices, given that they are off of the major indices.

Blind doomsterism doesn't help anyone.
> I find it very hard to believe an IQ test on a six year old is going to be much of a indicator of anything.

It is, though. To a disturbing extent. Individual IQ scores predict career success more than any other single metric.
Show HN: Cipherem – A Self-Sovereign Social Network for Web3 Enthusiasts
Hi everyone, my first post on hacker news!

I am currently developing, Cipherem, a self-sovereign social network to help web3 enthusiast solve fragmented experience with seamless integrations and we do the heavy liftings instead. I've been to 3 accelerators to refine my business model and was recently accepted into buildspace (which is backed by YC). I would greatly appreciate if you are able to give some feedback, or your experience with my app.

Evolving to do list >

current affairs at cipherem:
fixing bugs (messaging, theme switcher....)

Upcoming iterations in cipherem:
zk proof login system (say bye to axios + JWT xD)
cipherem protocol
nft marketplace

You can also place your votes or make a new vote under comments on what feature you want to see come alive! Feedbacks are appreciated.

Thank you!
FYI: You might be shadowbanned. A lot of your recent comments are marked as dead, without seeming low quality enough to get flags (including this one, which I just vouched for).

What's weird is that some of your comments aren't dead, and typically shadowbanned users have all of their comments auto-marked as dead. It's possible those got vouches though.
From the USGS article:

> Scientific research has proven again and again that depressurization is one of the factors that drives magma toward the surface to erupt.

The first time I heard of this idea my immediate thought was, "so you want to shove a needle into a massive magma balloon." I know I wouldn't.
Microsoft makes an absurd amount of revenue already from Office and Azure. I say it's good that their software interfaces are more awkward than Google's, otherwise they would soon dominate everything.
It’s much less stupid if you think about it as a way to halt global warming and reduce pollution and noise.
I went to a hotel and loved the mattress so I emailed them, and it was a Classic Brands Cool Gel. I bought one and am very happy with it, and it was relatively cheap compared to some of the DTC brands out there and extremely cheap compared to mattress stores. You can get it on amazon but some of the branding is confusing. I think we bought the Cool Gel Chill, although a quick glance online shows there are fairly similar. I also recommended it to some of my family and they are happy with the choice.

The hotel was also great. If you're ever in Houghton in the UP of Michigan, I would highly recommend the Vault hotel.
https://sendcutsend.com/
Your physics is all fucked up dude (very grating).
Yes and it will take decades to replace the millions of fuel burning fuel machines that exist. I have a 5 year old gasoline car that I don't drive much. From an EROI (Energy Return on Investment) perspective I wouldn't be helping by replacing it with an EV any time soon.
Yeah, haven't seen much about it but it looks and seems really cool! Buy why oh WHY doesn't the fscking landing page have the tech specs? I spent way too long trying to navigate their maze of documentation without finding a basic listing of the raw specs (and whether or not it's FPGA based, since that sometimes matters for retro computing). No dice.

Checked for a Wikipedia entry, but found only the "real" Commodore 65 that the Mega65 is based on, and it does not seem to have been 40X faster than a C64.

Finally found a German retailer's page, with some actual specs, yay [1]! So it is FPGA-based, in fact there's three of them if I understand correctly. Cool.

[1]: https://shop.trenz-electronic.de/en/TE0765-03-S001-MEGA65-hi...
This is really great context - thank you for posting, because it's incredibly informative.

I should also say that I use Open AI products and am overall an advocate of them. However, with that being said:

- I regard it as 100% disingenuous for them to call themselves Open AI, in the same way I regard it as 100% disingenuous for EE (Everything Everywhere) to call themselves EE in the UK when their network coverage is demonstrably patchy, and to the point of being woeful in many rural locales,

- The reason people are objecting here is that GPT is an acronym of Generative Pretrained Transformer which, unless I've entirely misunderstood the last decade or so of AI, is a standard term in the AI field that describes a type of model. People don't think, and I don't think, a single company should be able to trademark a standard piece of terminology within a field.

Beyond this, they're throwing shade at Open AI for trying to trademark GPT because this 100% conforms to the pattern of a company that started out with, what we all thought, was a remit of openness, still having the front to call themselves "Open AI" whilst locking any information of substance down for internal and Microsoft use.

And I still think what you said is incredibly useful, so I'm absolutely not trying to start a fight.

(And I don't hate Microsoft either: they do some good stuff [Azure, SQL Server, Xbox, Office, Teams {I know, that one's controversial, but I don't want to go down the rabbithole}], but the amount of BS involved in using Windows in a corporate environment does infuriate me on a daily basis - I point blank refuse to have it at home for anything other than emulation and retrogaming, which can, praise be to the Lord, substantially be satisfied with Linux nowadays.)
If you're in the market for buy-it-for-life solid wood furniture:

https://www.thejoinery.com

https://vermontwoodsstudios.com/

https://hedgehousefurniture.com

https://57stdesign.com

https://www.57thstreetbookcase.com/ (all bookcases, some veneer and plywood)

https://www.spekeklein.com/home

https://www.pompy.com/

https://www.chiltons.com/

https://roomandboard.com (mix of solid and veneer, some MDF)

These makers are in a league of their own, very expensive, incredibly beautiful hand-made pieces:

https://www.sammaloofwoodworker.com

https://www.thosmoser.com (highly recommended)

https://nakashimawoodworkers.com (new commissions around $7K-$15K for a coffee table, $20K-40K for dining table, plus shipping; older Nakashima pieces are highly valued in the art world and sell anywhere between $15K-$300K)

https://www.wright20.com/search/nakashima/items#past

Edit: Also, to echo what someone mentioned below, if you're interested in solid wood furniture you should find a local woodworker.

Another edit and thought: I used to own a lot of IKEA furniture and as I've gotten older, have slowly replaced those pieces with items from Knoll, with custom pieces from local woodworkers, with a few pieces from the studios listed above. A lot of people are commenting on the cost, and yes they're expensive and could be considered luxury goods.

But if you like art and design and you care about quality, you save for what you want to buy. I wanted to be surrounded by great craftsmanship, so instead of buying "stuff" and instead of spending money on lots of subscriptions and services, or constantly upgrading phones and computers, I buy one piece of nice furniture every year. I believe the more you appreciate the things around you, the more they begin to influence your own work, and your sense of place.

I regularly see a lot of IKEA furniture on the side of the road and in dumpsters. I think this is the difference between buying "things" and having "possessions" but that's a discussion for another day.
There are already niches where EV aircraft will be likely wins - right now for frequent takeoff/landing, short hop travel it looks like some form of EV aircraft will take up that space.

Very heavy construction and marine equipment is already electric propulsion. The question is what will be the source for that electric. Even if diesel fuel is much more energy dense, IC engines thermodynamically lose a majority of that energy. So the gap to make up is smaller than a superficial look.
>The only real answer is to build more

I don't think this kind of dichotomous thinking generally holds with complicated real-world problems. They are almost always a confluence of multiple "answers".

E.g., yes, housing supply is probably part of the solution. But so may be integrating policies that disincentivize viewing something necessary (like housing) as an investment asset.
This is HN. No-one reads the whole thing. Some don't even read the beginning!
You won’t pay enough for it to make sense to support. That’s the harsh reality. Every single ‘altruistic’ browser has ended up on the dole of adtech because consumers will not pay even $0.01/pageview and publishers believe they’re worth $0.10-$1.00 per PV. I worked with an amazing founding team at Google and launched this [0] across many sites across the internet. People able to pay enough to fund the open web don’t, and people willing to pay realize that it gets pricey, fast.

[0] https://blog.google/technology/ads/helping-publishers-recove...
I trust any engineer who responds with an “it depends..” over someone who has an absolute answer.
Stainless would probably do ok but I’d assume stone or fiberglass/FRP would be superior over time out in the elements. But not the best stuff to build a house with.

Oh what about titanium?

Edit: lol oh well even timber structures Can last a millenium if maintained
This sounds like it came straight out of a "What If?" book from Randall Munroe :)
I've had good experiences with sendcutsend for small aluminum parts, not sure about large wood parts but they do support many materials including mdf and plywood.

https://sendcutsend.com/materials/baltic-birch-plywood/
I think the "don't"s are fine, but each bullet should say "don't" in that case.
The thermal capacity of space is quite low, what with it being a vacuum and everything.
Some of us have no scientific reputation at all, so we are free from the reputation trap.
A sign of things to come. (No political opinions involved, but if all that was done by AI, it was pretty impressive.) For those who are watching the disinformation scene, 2024 has long been projected to be the super election year:

https://www.disinfo.eu/outreach/our-newsletter/disinfo-updat...

The US, EU, and India all have big elections in that year. It will be a big showcase on how severely these AI things will be (mis)used. Hopefully the EU has the DSA in place by that time so that people can later conduct audits, including about the use of AI.
From the linked article:

> "All working on the study are still amazed that we can predict how an adopted child is parented just from a knowledge of birth parent characteristics," said Reiss, a professor of clinical child psychiatry. For example, birth parents' lack of interest in social engagement predicts hostility in the relationships between the adopted children and their rearing parents. This appears to be due to the adopted child's indifference to engage with the adopted parents, a trait genetically influenced by their birth parents, the researchers say.

> In some cases, these birth parent-child-adoptive parent associations drove the child toward behavioral problems. For example, adopted children of birth parents with highly assertive temperaments showed more anger, which elicited more parental hostility. This parental response led to increased behavioral problems in the child. Sequences such as these could be curtailed when parents had a satisfying marriage.

> "The full impact of children's genetic makeup on their development depends on how parents respond to them," Reiss commented. "We were pleasantly surprised to observe that very troubling genetically influenced traits in children—such as a worrying mixture of callousness and fearlessness—could be offset by parental warmth. Favorable responses to children that offset genetic risk are enhanced if parents have a positive relationship with one another."
i hadn't ever heard of this but this sounds immensely helpful. i wish this were a more common practice!
> She supposedly sat on the image for months without realizing its significance, only for Watson to understand it at a glance.

That's not the lore as I learned it. The lore is that Franklin sat on the data for months before analyzing it (she wanted to collect more data). Then W+C visited her lab and saw the data, but did not instantly understand it. Instead, the lore is that they figured out the structure of the DNA through a combination of going on daily walks, playing with models, and taking LSD.

It is Linus Pauling who would have been able to instantly figure out the structure of DNA by glancing at Photograph 51. His initial theory had been that the phosphates were on the inside of the structure, which in hindsight would never work because the negative charges would repel each other.

Source: Don't remember the primary source, but we covered it in Martin Stranathan's AP Bio class in high school
I agree with this assessment but not on the Target conclusion. I'm sure it's quite dependent on the neighborhood but both the Targets by me are always busy and often packed.
It’s not efficient for replacing power sources on the ground, but for airplanes, ships, and remote communities it could be genius. No need to carry heavy batteries around and your capacity is virtually unlimited (At least as far as it is feasible to build a massive orbital solar array).