skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, no idea why you would undergo the inefficient and complex chemical reactions needed to produce carbon based fuels when there are easier alternatives that you don't have to burn but can use a fuel-cell for.
E.g. the sodium cycle. Sodium (Na) can under circumstances outlined in the expired US patent US3730776A react with water (H2O) where there is no flame but instead flow of electrical current. You get a sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solution + a lot of energy + oxygen if you do it well, if you do it less well, you also get hydrogen and less energy.

The well known Castner Process can be used to split molten salt NaOH and get sodium, hydrogen and oxygen in the process. That does work under lower temperatures than the electrolysis of NaCl which is more efficient if you only look at this part of the cycle to get sodium. If you use sodium as fuel, the cycle as a whole is important for recycling.
Sodium has much higher density than e.g. liquid hydrogen and does not require any cooling or pressure for storage. Also, it melts at about 100°C so you can pump it if you can keep it at about the temperature of boiling water. Yes, NaOH is caustic but neutralizes quickly in the nature which cannot be said for oil spills. You can keep NaOH in normal steel containers. For instance, it is common to use NaOH when cleaning clogged toilets. However you wouldn't pour gasoline down the drain.

You can read more about the sodium fuel cell and the context here: https://orgpad.com/s/5BfLP-cxj-7
That's funny! Reminds me of all the posts I've seen over the years concerning the wrong assumptions software engineers have about people's names and dates.
Hope this gathers more momentum - crazy that Apple/Google charge 30% of the subscription, especially for competing products.

I'm the founder of a fitness app on the app store - a product that Apple offers. So on top of them having the home team advantage on the os/app store and Apple's name recognition, they're killing their competitors' margins.
>but for a reusable rocket company and an electric car company?

The word lucky is wrong here.

He does seem to be a decent investor at finding underserved market niches which can grow.

However, a lot of this is before he let social media rot his brain and let his ego run rampant.
hmm right, so while the monkey needs infinite time... in reality there's a feedback loop that rewards the "correct" output
it was in 1992 that i discovered what long distance calls actually cost, when my young dumb ass called up about 12 different non-local BBSes in search of more daily turns on Legend of the Red Dragon.. i didnt know modems would incur long distance fees just like phones... i was a special child
And yet, self taught ML algorithms have mastered Chess.
I understand you guys hate him because the media basically tells you to and because he doesn't behave like your average tech founder

I was with you until this part. I used to be a Musk fan but he's done a lot of things to make people legitimately dislike him over the last few years. I agree it doesn't make his past accomplishments less impressive, but people don't just hate him "because the media basically tells you to".
try Kagi ( kagi.com/ ) . SO answers are almost always the first ones for my geeky questions (as they should be in most cases), and it also extracts and displays the official answer to the question that best matched your search.
> “[Everybody] wants to do something extremely fast, and this is not a fast process,” says Elizabeth Bernhardt-Kamil

I began trying to learn Serbian in earnest roughly a year and a half ago. It's been a rough process. I wanted to start with Duolingo, but they had no such course. There's another app -- Ling -- that has one, but it was paid. So I paid.

A few weeks in I realize I'm not _actually learning the language_. Slav grammar is a little weird and can be complex at times, and while the app taught a little bit of basic vocabulary and some token sentences ( much as Duolingo did as my memory serves from using it for Greek, Spanish, ... ) I wasn't really _getting it_.

So. What to do? I bought a book -- "Teach Yourself Serbian". Why that one? Because it's one of like, 3. It was as good as any other.

I started going through it and the differences were immediate and enormous. There's a pointed focus on grammar, there are full conversations -- both written and recorded -- to translate. There are tests and practices.

Now, that book has not earned me fluency, but it has acted as a step toward the next phase -- the ability to read childrens' books. That has been huge.

Looking back, I don't think I would have _ever_ gotten to this point using an app alone. I wrote lots of flashcards to help me out and I even created my own little "web app" that has flashcards and quizzes based on the content of the book, but it's mostly been focused study time ( more than the 5-10 minutes per night you'll get from Duolingo or similar ) that has really earned me any semblance of understanding of this language.

No, there's no easy way to learn a language, as the expert says. Duolingo, in my opinion, is just another "phone game" that allows you to convince yourself that you're actually doing something worthwhile on your phone, and while you might pick up a couple of words here and there, I think its usefulness dies off after a couple of weeks, at which point you should try dedicating yourself to something a little more in-depth if you have the real desire to.

> The awkwardness of screwing up in front of strangers, butchering their language and sweating while you raid the mind’s dusty corners for a verb conjugation, is not to be found here.

There's no replacement for embarrassing yourself. There's no replacement for hard work and hours of effort. Languages take time and dedication, and are worthwhile once you get going.
It does feel a bit like the internet era just before the Netscape IPO. I'm looking forward to the pets.com of AI.

Maybe openai will go the way of Netscape and make it all FOSS eventually. That'd be nice.
Iconic Products Are Forged, Not Discovered
When the thing is not just simply a molecular but work as a group, that can create some "energy potential" by itself, like attractive to water or nutrition or something. The whole idea of self evolution is not impossible.
I agree. Windows 9x included Outlook Express which had a built in news reader in addition to mail. If you could setup your mail you could also setup the news reader.

I think most of the ISPs that I used either had a setup program that configured it automatically along with mail/dns, or provided clear instructions on how to set it up manually.

I may be in the minority, but I actually liked Outlook Express.
Abusing trusted computing? The whole concept is about NOT trusting the user and giving control to third parties instead.
Because of my declining span of attention and ADHD, I could not reach the end of the post...
They can also do a barrel roll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA7kPfC5Hk
You're approaching this from a very high-level abstract theoretical point of view; things probably were significantly simpler than you're imagining. There was no "factory" or "information" or anything like that: just basic mechanics on the molecular level. This is still how things like DNA work today, as well as prions as I mentioned before, albeit these are much more complex than earlier life of course.
How about two uppercase letter i each overlapping at opposing 45 degree angles?
Splitting hairs on "first" is an interesting pursuit.

I prefer selecting "first" in terms of context/influence. Unless Bushnell, just to pick an oft-named starting point, was not inspired by (or even heard of?) the Nimatron then Nolan might be said to have won round one against Nimatron.

I think what's interesting is the direct lineage leading us to, say, Pac Man — not just who checks off the minimal definition of "video game". But as James Burke showed us, working backwards can take us in all manner of strange directions so it is not an easy task.
This is a horrible idea, for several reasons.

First, much of the country is never going to be capable of having efficient passenger service. There is no way you can make a viable passenger route between Chicago and LA; the distance is just way too large.

Second, passenger and freight rail just doesn't mix. A lot of European countries look at the US rail market and ask themselves "how can we move that much freight by rail?"

Third, nationalized rail has not worked out well in the US. The article here already talks about Conrail (the nationalized corpse of Penn Central) a little. But Amtrak's stewardship of the Northeast Corridor has been abysmal--here is a linear corridor about 500 miles long connecting 4 of the top 11 largest cities in the US, entirely in public hands, with no freight traffic running along it, and yet we still lack a proper 220mph high speed rail with frequent service along the corridor. US commuter rail systems generally suck even harder than that, and again, they are already all publicly owned anyways (and many of them can't even use the excuse that they rely on track owned by other people).

Finally, if you read the article and particularly some of the comments closely, you'll notice that the problem here can be boiled down in simple terms to "cost minimization in one domain creates secondary consequences that have problems elsewhere"--given the size of the US, even a nationalized system is going to have internal business unit divisions that will keep the same underlying problems. The comments give some examples of such intra-service turf wars causing solutions to not work out.

As an addendum, I assume by "entirely created by the US government," you're referring to the land grants to railroads. Well, land grants to western railroads--the eastern half was built out before they started giving out land grants. And the land grants were only given out during a short ~30 year window. I don't have the exact number on me right now, but I think it was about 40% of the US railroad mileage that was awarded land grants. Hell, one of the transcontinental lines received no land grants whatsoever.
Fun fact, I bank with a bank I won’t name, who has a change password flow that allows for up to 32 character passwords.

Their login page only allows for 16 character passwords using the max length. This would truncate my password on login.

Backend handles the longer password just fine though.
and Mendocino

That's the same codename Intel used for Celerons 24 years ago, the ones famous for 50% overclocks:

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codenam...
I think you should focus your energy somewhere else.
New Coke wasn't terrible tasting, most people liked and sometimes preferred the drink, but they didn't like the change.

In fact, New Coke is based on the Diet Coke recipe, the latter is still a success to this day. The sugar-free version of Coca-Cola classic is Coke Zero, and it sells less than Diet Coke. If it really was about the taste, Diet Coke wouldn't have sold as well and would have been quickly overtaken by Coke Zero.

The most likely explanation for the failure of New Coke is that it replaced the classic, and an influential minority felt alienated by the change.
What actions? One thing I never see is a list of everything that must occur to reach the 2030 goal. It's much like the article of doom and gloom and 'the only solution is to vote for Party A, B, C, or D.'

We have Party C in Canada right now. Capable of gaining approval for anything using a coalition of Party C and Party A. Yet, we do nothing to combat carbon. Instead, we offset our footprint by having it outside of the border.

The people in power, from all parties, are incapable of making the important decisions. This is by design. These politicians are there mostly for power. Going to your voters with a statement like "you have to modify your diet" is opposite of what these elected/placed individuals will do.

I propose an immediate and strong response from a party with the power to do so. If you happen to have power in Canada, perhaps you read this and actually do something? Kill the meat subsidy, Let's start there. Move it to a vegan alternative or move it to better sources of the removed nutrients.

Create a program for mini homes (that are carbon neutral by design)

Tax excessively sized vehicles instead of gas (which harms the poor and increases waste [unproven theory])

Fix recycling.

Charge for garbage collection.

Build road-free cities.

There's a whole lot of low hanging fruit that could be tackled in a matter of weeks in Canada. Same with California.
I have doubled down on using Apple’s privacy and security capabilities but I also don’t feel so great about living in a walled garden and it is not totally clear to me how they might use my data.

I use it all: I run all of my Apple devices in Lockdown Mode, and I try to use private browsing tabs as much as I can.
Under what circumstances is this not a medium? The only case this applies is if you have public runners running completely untrusted code, and if you're doing that I hope you're doing it on EPYC, which is fixed. And if you're doing that, you're probably mining crypto for randoms.
VMs were and always have been a sort of faked out security blanket. The reality is there's shared hardware, shared memory, shared network interfaces, shared storage.

That and these days you can run so much on a single machine its really hard to understand the thinking that colo isn't and wasn't the best option. AWS isn't some mythical devops dream that never fails. It's a highly convoluted (in price as well as function) affair.
Deadly dust: engineered stone is making California workers sick
I would creating a landing page that creates a mailing list to get notified of when the ebook comes out. plus example scripts

Then I would would create blog posts around a hook for each chapter in the book with enough teaser info to want to get the ebook and when new articles are coming out.
Many people have complicated finances, or are on uncertain trajectories. This can provide a mental model to help understand and navigate the lumpy bits, and hopefully assist with making sensible and valuable decisions early on.

If it’s boring, change the channel?
In his defence, just that abiogenesis sounds impossible to him doesn't necessarily mean that he has an alternative explanation.
The futurists keep re-inventing trains badly.
It seems like the tracking protection looks for specific parameter names. Won't people just start using randomized names?

Already now I have to rename my stats script from 'track' to 'res', otherwise I only see about a quarter of users. (I'm just using it to count how many views each page has, not for tracking.)

The endgame is to move all ad and tracking code to 'first-party', i.e. the website delivers the code in its source. (Un?)fortunately that is not happening quickly since advertizers distrust the publishers.
I can't read this article because it's behind the typical mastodon post-v3 javascript execution wall. So... did they not notice the activity in alt.startrek somehow? I know I was posting back then with others and alt.startrek remains minimally active to this day.
To paste a value that’s too long, then remove some part in the middle. Otherwise, it’s truncated.
I would assume this would be for cases where your are using that same software to report income, expenses, tax etc. But in Invoice Dragon (i.e. just a template) case you would be keeping a copy of the invoice for later reference in calculations, the same as a handwritten invoice, no? It's just "typing it up" for you. This isn't accounting software, just a template.
What a terrible idea. Our freight rail system is the envy of the world. Why would we wreck it with government control just to serve a small number of commuters?
> I understand you guys hate him because the media basically tells you to

We're perfectly capable of forming our own opinions based on personal observations.
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Thanks to privacy extensions most of those logged addresses will have expired and be useless. Also most people don't permit connections from the Internet to privacy addresses in the first place, they only add firewall exceptions for the base addresses, so even if you're running a server on the same machine you make an outbound connection from, the servers you connect to don't learn the IP needed to make an inbound connection on.

> IPv4 NAT allows people to have quite weak security internally in a network, and not get compromised.

No, it doesn't. This is allowed by having a firewall on the router, exactly the same as in v6. NAT doesn't block connections, so it doesn't contribute to this security.

Device firewalls do work, but connections will generally be rejected by the router's firewall before they even get that far.
Why would Sam Altman, the king of the world, ruin his reputation with crypto-bullshit at this time in his life? I honestly don't get it. Is it possible that he really thinks he's solving a problem?
https://archive.ph/myFXl
Yes. StackOverflow mods frequently mark questions duplicate that are not. That is something that has been observed by many many people.

Some of it is that SO has gamified shitting on and suppressing the question/asker instead of gamified providing the answer, and built a culture of toxicity that tolerates the abuse of the tools in this fashion.

And when the CEO asked them to tone it down maybe 5 years ago they basically did a collective “am I so out of touch? no, it’s the askers who are wrong”. Extremely funny to read the meta responses to that at the time.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-ve...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934942

(admittedly "women and people who don't speak english well are particularly unlikely to adopt to the pedantic neckbeard culture we've built" is a spicy take for your average SO'er, or wikipedian, but it's also not actually a wrong one either. SO's culture problems probably do disproportionately chase away users with marginal engagement, nobody likes putting up with formalized neckbeard culture and those users have absolutely encountered it before and absolutely have an aversion/revulsion to entering yet another online neckbeard nest. I think this is a case of “he’s probably right but the medicine would have gone down better with the manchildren if he hadn’t mentioned women and minorities”, and he’s also right that those issues have continued to bury SO over the last 5 years.)
This is clearly a troll. Can we not feed the trolls, folks?
I've always found "you don't understand, it took a really long time" to be an incredible copout
I think one of the key aspects of the dialup BBS days was that long-distance connections were (sometimes very) expensive, and so BBS systems tended to be populated by locals. There were some networked BBS systems, though (FidoNet and WWIV spring to mind).

I played around with FidoNet back in the late 1980s/early 90s, when Usenet was not available to me, and FidoNet's Usenet-like echomail system had some very active groups. But even with FidoNet, there was very much a local-to-regional focus. Networks were organized geographically, and Net 115 (Chicago area) had some social gatherings. But FidoNet collapsed pretty quickly once the internet came to the public.
I was about to complain on the title too. They say that a theory is being challenged on how life on earth started and then all of a sudden in the first 2 paragraphs jump a couple million (if not billion) years straight to multicellular organisms.

I didn't read any more, I do hope they started discussing how multicellularity arose and only the title was amiss.
"If you've ever prepared curry from scratch, you'll know it's not simple. It involves considerable time and effort, as well as a range of unique spices, and the use of grinding tools."

Except that today the ingredients are available at the neighborhood spice shop and the grinding tools are electric.
One nit- "Facing many business challenges, large technology companies have laid off more than 386,000 workers nationwide since early 2022, according to layoffs.fyi," -> this nationwide clause is incorrect. Layoffs.fyi aggregates layoff data from tech companies in general, which includes layoffs happening in the US and internationally.

Most of these press releases from companies conducting layoffs aggregated, and the exact US count cannot be determined (example 10,000 laid off from Meta worldwide https://about.fb.com/news/2023/03/mark-zuckerberg-meta-year-... )

The closest thing you can get to US-only layoff count is to look at WARN data (government mandated data). (I run https://www.warntracker.com/, a aggregator website for this government layoff dataset)
I've started using Trilium notes and so far it's decent. Haven't used notion much though, it's very possible power users will miss many features - i'm just casually taking notes in it. love having a self-hosted sync server, and it also comes with a decent "export to text files" option in case i want to switch again.
>it is not totally clear to me how they might use my data.

Well they have given it to the US government, they give data on people from China to the Chinese government, and the same for Russia.

That is likely out of necessity, but the bigger concern will be when Apple stops growing and stockholders will demand more.
That's fair, but it's the best example I know of to demonstrate how this could have worked, even though it's not perfect. Happy to hear of other better examples.
Bro be acting like the motivation for getting the T1 installed in the first place wasn’t for porn… Remember what the Internet is for, after all.
I think you're significantly underestimating how many words could be retokenized into multiple words even before considering how concatenation affects things. For example: Concatenate is a word, but so are con, catenate, cat, and enate. Yes, no two of those are likely to be used in sequence, but I don't think that's a very reliable rule overall—"a" and "an" are both common words and negative prefixes.
Maybe instead it is a form of dissociation? Your mind just wants to go elsewhere to avoid something.
Consider, for a moment, that for others it might not be?
If you just want to count page views you can use your HTTP server logs, no need to have Javascript.
>You think that land would be inhabited if it had commuter trains?

Yes, considering the distributed nature of the US's population pre-dates the car. Go look at a population density map from 1900. Tons of primarily agricultural small towns spread out over an enormous area. Back then most small-ish towns in the middle of nowhere probably did actually have commercial rail because there were no other options. It's just that when the other options did appear, rail went into terminal decline because it was simply a terrible way of serving those kinds of areas when cars and trucks exist. Even today when the spread is less driven by agriculture, people still prefer lower density housing because being stuck in an apartment building sharing walls with god knows who else stops being fun really quick. People like having a bit of space of their own.This results in lower population densities as a result of people's preferences about how they would like to live. Rail is a good means of transporting high volumes from one node to another. It is good at that and it should be used in that context. It is not good if you try to shoehorn it in as a replacement for all other means of transportation as some groups seem to be inclined to do.