skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan is clinging to hydrogen like a drowning man to driftwood.

About 80% of Japan's energy is imported coal and natural gas. Their electric grid is a bonkers mix of 50Hz and 60Hz single-phase.

Hydrogen is the only viable solution for them and even that's not going too well despite lofty goals. They can't build the tech and infrastructure alone and the rest of the world just isn't as enthusiastic on H2.
In case you are visited; Darkness Falls
Grappling hook through the front wheel fixes that right away...
>> There was no expectation for there to be a ground assault from Gaza

Many homes were equipped with safe rooms -- concrete and steel reinforced boxes inside the house where people could retreat, lock the door, and be safe from attackers.

Yes, safe rooms might also protect against rockets, but underground shelters are more resilient.

If you build a safe room into every house, people must have envisioned the possibility of armed attackers.
Nearly no one has actually read his post.

His point is allow open source not only use open source.

"Be a Free Speech Absolutist".

> Open Source AI is in many people’s crosshairs today. They believe that giving free access to state of the art algorithms and models without any guardrails constitutes a danger to society, that the public can’t be entrusted...

> In the spirit of the first amendment, congress should make no law abridging the freedom to release open source software.

I.e. Stop AI from becoming the modern version of prohibited encryption. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
No, what's ridiculous is claiming that conclusions from this study cannot apply to UBI. Nobody is claiming the study models inflation, it's about homelessness.

Basic Income is part of Universal Basic Income, and I think it's pretty reasonable to expect some conclusions apply to each.
US wealth, income concentration resume upward climb in post-pandemic era
Selfies and 15 second videos still exist as shorts and tiktoks.
I would assume they were maintaining a visible (and subsidized) presence in a non-fossil technology, while ensuring their profitable ICE business faced no immediate threat.
This trial is antitrust, not fraud, so Google lawyers will be rebutting it only to the point it helps them. And they will try to keep it sealed anyways. Since it doesn't seem that either party is willing to describe the auction algorithmically, we may never get to learn it, apart from reading Albert Cory substack

In particular, the linked article mentions 'squashing', and a quick research finds https://www.theregister.com/2010/09/16/yahoo_does_squashing/ where it is mentioned that ads are ranked not by bids, but rather by "bid multiplied by click probability".

In the ideal world, the first question to the auction expert should be "what price is charged, if due to click probability, the second bid ad wins the auction?" and the follow ups would be "but surely, the price charged isn't higher than the bid, or else the advertisers would notice that?" and "supposing the third bid ad wins due to the click probability, how would disabling that multiplying by click probability affect google revenue?"
> The argumentation is flawed.

Which argumentation are you referring to? You're re-iterating an anti-electric talking point that is explicitly debunked in the article.

> “That's nonsense,” says Liebreich. “[In] 1995, [people said] ‘we'll never use the internet because there are not enough modems’. [In] 2000, ‘we'll never do online video because there isn't enough bandwidth’, then, ‘you can't do multiple streams of video because you will never get fibre to the home’. We’ve got 30 years between now and 2050 [when countries plan to reach net-zero emissions] and we will simply have more and more investment. We’ve dug up the streets for cable, phone, gas, cable, fibre, electricity. It's a thing we do. We know how to just build slowly over time. This is not rocket science.

> “Plus, there's smart charging. And of course, we know we're going to be doing this because we're also going to be having to add capacity because of electric heating. And so the idea that you'll say, ‘no, no, we mustn't do that extension of existing infrastructure, we must build a completely new one [for hydrogen refuelling], it's nonsense, frankly.”
Am not historically familiar with this topic though the attached paper above shows a comparative figure of Specific Energy in terms of Wh/Kg at both 5k and 10k psi

Edit: interesting to do the conversion and realize 700bar is just over 10k psi - misunderstood the parent comment regarding "700bar safe"

Edit2: further interesting to note how the 5k compression of the hydrogen has _higher_ Specific Energy density than 10k due to _decreased_ pressure vessel requirements
> Dedicated hydrogen production today is primarily based on fossil fuel technologies, with around a sixth of the global hydrogen supply coming from “by-product” hydrogen, mainly in the petrochemical industry. In 2022, 70% of the energy requirement for dedicated hydrogen production was met with natural gas and around 30% with coal (mostly used in China, which alone accounted for 90% of global coal consumption for hydrogen production).

https://www.iea.org/energy-system/low-emission-fuels/hydroge...
EFF Annual Report 2022
Funnily enough, my father is at the 11th international symposium on “Ground Freezing” in London at this very moment. Most of the time you have to freeze the ground before you can drill.

He has been working in specialist civil engineering for many years and builds tunnels all over the world. He has told me many exciting and hard-to-believe stories about tunnel construction and tunnel boring machines.

E.g. during the work on the Eurotunnel. Here the British tunnel boring machine was diverted into the rock near half the length of the tunnel and left there. It was cheaper than somehow taking it out again.

Anyways, since my dad is always very stressed due to his job, I am happy to have gained a foothold in IT and not tunnel boring :D
1. Yeah, we upgrade the grid over time as demand increases, exactly as we have been doing. Nobody gets bent out of shape when a grocery store or something goes in and it requires power. This is only a problem if vehicles are "suddenly" battery powered, which is not a thing.

2. Yes they are.
You hit the nail on the head, this is why oil companies are pro-hydrogen.

They can greenwash their natural gas into "green" hydrogen and get even more profits. H2 prices are at least 5-10x compared to natural gas.
Why, is HN open-sourced? Is Reddit? I don't get this argument. The whole point is that we don't have to spin up our own open-sourced blog and host it ourselves just to post an opinion on the Internet anymore.
Beta was the inferior technology, like hydrogen.
Collection of information about "sexual orientation" seems like a textbook HR violation. How is anybody supposed to comply with this?
Tldr; mobian are tired with state of pinephone 1 kernel support. All this drama seems to triggered by one person's dislike for GitHub: https://xnux.eu/log/094.html Interesting open source dynamics.
You may be confusing boffin (British slang for expert) with buffoon (a ridiculous but amusing person)
CA (where real estate exploded) is a niche market. It's great if you happen to live there. Most people can't identify a hot new real estate market and then upend their life to move there. There are plenty of years and locations where real estate actually decreases in value as well.

If you are moving into a new house every few years that is particularly terrible, because you are throwing away a ton of money in closing costs and selling fees.
Yes it should support thunderbolt like all of the Android manufacturers.

How is Apple “choosing their own margins?” None of the example I listed pay Apple one penny for in app purchases.

I guess since the tech industry in Europe can’t export anything worthwhile, passing legislation is the best they have.
For long-haul trucks it's a viable option. I think there's a large-ish test fleet in Switzerland.

But for personal vehicles it's 100% dead unless we get some huge advances in the technology.
Re 1: The US built 1,000,000 new homes last year without anyone saying "how we the country cope with this increase in need for wood/etc". Most new homes will have multiple 50A circuits to power an electric range and/or HVAC system. Most level 2 electric car chargers max at 50-75A, and can be configured to only charge during times of low grid power demand. Every electric car in existence won't be DC fast charging all the time. In fact, I'd wager for most EV owners in the US today, DC fast charging is a very very low percent of their total charge allocation (between DC fast and AC level 2).
it's less about children that will ultimately contribute and more about parents that are incapable of providing for their children
Human genetic diversity on the whole is very, VERY low compared to other species. The superficial physical variation we associate with ethnic diversity (skin tone, nose shape, lip shape, hair color/texture, eye folds and angles) are genetically insignificant compared to their visual impact.
Yep, it's very locked down, and Art Mode behavior is often anti-user to promote their $10/month Art Store subscription. There are limited matting options and I believe it intentionally crops photos incorrectly, even if you upload in the correct aspect ratio. It also takes about a minute to scroll down to 'User Art' sections with how slow their UI is.
I’m with you in reading comments first, but I look for comments there, not uncommented pastes.
This sounds a bit like "a turned off computer is the only secure computer"
Also, he was a game developer - which is heavily lopsided towards Windows. Shocking, I know.
Disney corp. and their brilliant animators and technicians invented various parts of animated films during an intense period of RnD, both technical and creative. This culminated in Snow White which was the first animated feature film (afaik) and it was a huge hit.

Hollywood was the Silicon Valley of the 20s and 30s. They were using and inventing cutting edge tech!
In the circumstance that we wanted to deal with climate change, local air pollution and inefficiency of ICE, but didn't have modern battery tech available.

If we somehow magically knew that we'd hit a physics limit with battery tech over a decade ago, hydrogen for personal vehicles would be a good range extender option and worth rolling out the infrastructure to support.

And bear in mind, basically every FCEV containts a small battery BEV at its heart.
Yeah, that's my guess. Violence towards humans in video games was often prohibited in Germany, so drop it for the whole region, because two releases is hard.
This should be equivalent:

for i from 0 to N.length [by 1]
AI Predicts Schizophrenia via Hidden Linguistic Patterns
It looks like this is just a reporting requirement and no quotas are mandated. I imagine the intent is to indirectly push companies to improve diversity through embarrassment by public numbers.

However, these are private individuals funding private ventures with private money, as far as I know, so why the government should be involved at all in that process other than taxation isn't clear to me.
One giant step forward towards peace on earth.

The day every Russian or Chinese can listen to English-speaking news in their native tongue will have a massive impact on how tight a leash their local thuggish governments can keep on them.

Conversely, the day every American finally has access to non US-controlled world news automatically translated to English will be a giant step towards the US finally understanding how the rest of the world functions, and perhaps they'll finally become capable of deciding democratically to stop meddling in other people's affairs.
Added bonus you can’t die unless someone locates each piece and destroys them all
> This is your position, but it's not a position presented in the Wikipedia article.

It actually is, it's Russell's position! :) You claimed that before, and I corrected you then, so here, again for you, is the relevant part:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37831693

Also, you forgot the rest of that! It was probably an honest mistake on your part, so I'll include the full context here, including the parts you missed, and hopefully you can address the whole thing now:

> That's just it – there isn't. There isn't any effective difference between "assume false" and "no evidence for it, so we assume false". The reason we assume it's false is tangential to the fact that we assume that both the teapot theory and the fighting staircase theory are false.
I genuinely can't tell if this is supposed to be a criticism.

They tried something, it improved some things and made other things worse.
It's just the odd love of the Harley or similar.

I got pulled over for noise (in the UK) as my ZX6-R had a hole in the downpipes and it was obviously a bit too noisy. I was trying my best to keep the noise down and (genuinely, provably) on my way to drop the bike off to have it repaired.

The Cop that pulled me over was happy to chat about it when I explained that it was on its way to get fixed he let me off.

Then a Harley that was twice as loud went past and the cop says "Cor, doesn't that sound lovely!" I asked him if he was going to pull it over for being louder than mine and he suddenly got very grumpy with me again. I didn't push any further as I didn't want to end up with a fine.

What's the old line?

"Harley's are probably the most efficient machine to turn gasoline into noise without that pesky by-product of horsepower."
I have heard and read about a number of similar cases where people can get completely locked out of their account despite being able to authenticate correctly, because they lost access to some other required resource that Google decided is essential. I'm very skeptical about the utility of these types of security policies. I'm sure they prevent hacking in some cases, but they also greatly increase the chance of a legit user permanently losing their account which is a pretty freaking bad outcome for someone who has all of their email, messages, photos, documents and more stored in their Google account.

Given the importance of these digital services I expect that refusing to provide support to users in this situation, as Google is well known to do, won't be legally tolerated at some point in the future. Unfortunately this won't be changing anytime soon, so the best we can do is inform others about the risks of relying solely on Google for anything important and hope people backup what they can.
> The weight efficiency can only improve from here

I don’t think this is a given. I can imagine plenty of future battery tech that is much more physically dense, and also more energy-dense, but with an overall mass that’s heavier than what we have now. Consumers really want more range, and they don’t really care about their car’s weight so long as it isn’t prohibitive. (They will definitely care collectively as the roads deteriorate faster and they have to pay more in tax dollars and wasted time spent in construction to repair them, but that will end up being a tragedy of the commons.)
Except for when it happens to your email account.
Where are good examples of Silero TTS voices / outputs?
Hydrogen is _really_ hard to store. It leaks from every container, transport and storage losses are just an accepted fact.

It might be a good option when we have so much renewables that we can't find any more batteries to shove it in. Then we can use it to store compressed hydrogen, that can be released as electricity from large-scale fuel cells during calm cloudy days.
With the way cars are built today it can be an endeavor to change a lightbulb, let alone the entire propulsion system.
The first flat panel tvs started in the $x000 price range. I'm amazed an eink display this big is actually affordable (minimum quantities aside).
Zones, Way Back When
> Putting ten gallons of highly toxic and flammable fuel into a car-shaped object just to commute one person a few dozen miles is quite literally insane from all practical points of view.

And there's another 10-20 gallons of various oils in the engine and transmission. While they aren't nearly as volatile as the gasoline, they're still quite flammable. Really, it's a wonder these things were ever allowed. :)
Really skeptical of the potential EMG and EEG capabilities, feel like they would just be noise-filled approximations, but the other potential features of monitoring body temperature and hearing seem worthwhile.
> (i) The founding team member’s decision to disclose their demographic information is voluntary.

> (ii) No adverse action will be taken against the founding team member if they decline to participate in the survey.

> (iii) The aggregate data collected for each demographic category will be reported to the department.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
A control group would be people tracked without having received any money. The $50/month group doing nearly as well as the $1000/month group implies to me the overall situation in the city changed, and that's the majority of the improvement. Maybe $50 really was enough to flip over the edge, but we can't tell for sure because they don't have a real control group.
What does "locally emissions-free" mean? Exactly what I think it does?

Build everything in third world, ahem, developing countries, and so consumers can live guilt-free?
Thanks, fixing the typo :)
Some EDR examples for those wondering

* CrowdStrike

* SentinelOne

* Heimdal
Does this mean Apple is a major ad-tech player involved in buying and selling their own customer data (through partner comany but that does not matter much does it)?
>doing 200mph within a few seconds

It's still kind of amazing to me that race-tuned liter bikes are even legal in the US. Even a starter 250 likely has a faster 0-60 than most cars on the road. I believe you need a little extra power to spare when riding, so that you can suddenly speed up if you need to, but not so much extra power that a quarter-turn on the throttle gets you from 70 to 100 MPH in 1 second.

I've heard big bikes described as "ride to survive" because even a small mistake can be fatal when you are dealing with that much performance. Full disclosure, I ride a big, fat Kawasaki touring bike (1993 ZG1200, right about 760 pounds wet) and while the engine is big, it's geared to a max of 113 MPH. It's big enough I have to respect it when riding, but powerful enough that if I need to I can spur it a bit :)
It's not like Valve ever tried their best on Mac:

• Even years after the introduction of Apple Silicon, the Steam STILL only has a legacy Intel version which requires Rosetta. Despite being little more than a glorified web view, apparently they can't even bother to compile it for the newer CPUs.

• They outright LIE about macOS compatibility: The store pages of some games show a big warning banner about being 32-bit-only and unable to run on Catalina+, BUT THEY RUN FINE!

So Valve is not only not trying, they seem to be actually sabotaging Mac gaming. It's a good thing I started switching to GoG even back when I was still on Windows, and making most of my purchases there than on Steam with its additional DRM bloat.

As for the hardware, even my previous fan-less MacBook Air M2 with just 8 GB RAM ran games like Baldur's Gate 3 at a playable framerate, and my current M2 Max just blazes through everything (that's available).
I thought you were going to suggest it to be processed like one of those trick exams of reading all of the questions before answering any of the questions where the last question is something so obvious that like stand up sit down, then turn in the test with out writing anything on it. So in this case, read all of the instructions in the packet. If the last is CANCEL, do nothing.
"The Industry" also has interests like making password sharing impossible, uniquely tracking users and _doesn't care_ if users get locked out.

The industry does not put users first. It puts it's own risk reduction first.
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Maybe people are just allowed to decline to state it?
Ask HN: How to Stay Apolitical?
In our increasingly politically world, what strategies and guidance can you give me to stay apolitical?
> "BEV's aren't as ideally suited to the country's economy and resources."

BEVs are better suited to Japan's economy and resources than any other fuel, the vast majority of which is imported (including natural gas).

It's just that it's taken Japan's government a long time to realise this. But it seems like they're finally coming around!
Compare them to when apple switched from powerpc to intel.

When that happened, basically the mac was a better pc, since you could run windows natively on your mac. The mac now shared hardware and software with the pc industry, and innovations transferred over, like graphics cards. Apple let its customers benefit from multiple ecosystems, and they have more choices.

The apple switch to arm, went the other way. how many PCIe cards from a pc work in a "mac pro"?
that's why I said it's hard
Ad-supported, centralized platforms.

Aka money/greed, control freaks & their algorithms. That is what has turned present-day internet into crap.

(feel free to include AI ;-)

The nice corners are those where above factors don't apply.
No, you still misunderstand: "Basic Income" for some small groups of people works on a totally different principle than "Universal Basic Income" that applies to everyone. One is about giving a break to some unfortunate people, and helping them make a living in the current economic environment. The other is a complete overhaul of the economic reality we live in.
AFAICT, the flaw is that passkeys are tied to device security. If I steal a naive person’s phone at the bar, and if I can guess that their PIN is 1234, then I can get into their Google account.

The criticism is based on the idea that most non-techie folks are unlikely to use a strong PIN and are unlikely to set up strong biometrics. There’s a related criticism about malware being able to steal passkeys on PC-based systems.
It seems like his argument is that putting access to valuable accounts on your phone is a bad practice, because if your phone is stolen at the club after the thief watched you enter your code, then the thief can get at your banking, brokerage, crypto, password manager, etc.

But that argument doesn't address how passkeys somehow make that worse.

Sure, if you don't want your valuable stuff stolen, don't put it on your phone. But that's a problem whether you use passkeys or passwords or passwordless links sent to your email or SMS.
Calling California niche isn’t accurate. I don’t live in the Bay Area or LA. It’s a significant population of the country. Aside from that, low interest rates have seen many places throughout the country see home values double, or more, over the last 10 years.
Solving a set of analogous problems and then refining from those doesn't sound all that different from the general idea of adding another layer.
Why? Commuting 100 miles to work each day is ridiculous. For anything less than that, your 300 mile range is going to be plenty. There's an argument to be made that the tech isn't quite there yet for long haul trucking and the like, but 95+% of commuter vehicles could and should be replaced with EVs tomorrow.
The app is currently only in english, and I don't have "visual" guides yet, so I figured I'd stick with English speaking focus.

That was my thinking, particularly for when we start charging for it. We'll be looking to internationalize it in the future.