skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it so much that battery chemistry is so hard to improve, but rather the energy density of oil is so high, you don’t simply don’t need an efficient thermic motor to do useful work.

If you completely ignore the externalities of oil (which we did for a very long time). Then it’s very hard for an electric battery to compete with diesel or gasoline. Gasoline has an energy density of about 46MJ/Kg, compared to a lithium ion battery at just 0.9MJ/Kg and that’s a modern battery. A lead acid battery is just 0.15MJ/Kg.

So right out of the gate, your thermic motor can be two orders of magnitude less efficient than your electric motor, and still achieve the same range with an equivalent mass of stored energy. And that’s ignoring the fact the thermic engine burns its fuel, so does more useful work as the mass of stored energy drops.

To be quite honest, it’s astounding to me that electric traction was even remotely competitive with thermic traction back in Henry Fords era. The head start thermic engines get from such high density fuel is kind of obscene.
Sounds like a process, maybe detached, is still running. I think lsof or netstat shows which process is connected https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/64102/how-to-deter...
As I said in my post, I did not release it yet, and it will be very incomplete. But I am not alone, and some did assembly written printf like functions (gogol).

The actual real way to work around the inappropriate complexity of that function is to remove it and switch to a brutal "put string" with string conversion functions (with space allocated on the stack). In the end it would be not that much more work in most cases, then in the end I may not even use my assembly code, but lower some printf function usage to what I said.
Maybe for some inspiration, but to get a really nice metagame (potential to inspired by classic formats like gen 1/2/3), I think it'll be pretty manual to get something fun to play.
It would be interesting to see ChatGPT-like agents as intermediaries between requirements and implementation.

Specifications are sent to the bot in a manner most convenient to business: emails, conversations, and video.

The implementors can then query for what matters most and what matters next. Updated daily, this "middle model" crunches semantics and--most importantly--holds contradictory ideas in memory.

There may be less need for meetings, since everyone asynchronously updates a 100% uptime, completely attentive go-between for most things.

There could even be a congregation of bots, where their goal is consensus, even as the individual agents are prompted to serve in each sponsor's best interests.
Now I have something to refer to every time I hear someone complain about the standard notation. I am an orchestra musician, and about once a year someone comes up with a system with more shortcomings than benefits. I have started using the socratic method, but I have had conversations that ended with people saying that it isn't a problem to not be able to write triplets. "Then you switch to 6/8".
the app does have some focus on money. Does the 3 really have that big of an impact?
More properties of UTF-8: It is self-synchronizing. It has the same lexicographical sort order as UTF-32. It allows substring matches without false positives. It is compatible with null-terminated strings.
YouTube has been trying to constantly recommend me BobbyBroccoli for a while! I’ll give it a go on your recommendation, thanks!
I think this is one of those things where you get the most benefit with the least cost to your lifestyle by focusing on the ~80% primary contributors - whatever those are for you. For example, sugary drinks. No need to avoid ketchup or peanut butter with sugar and such, as those probably small contributors overall, and working around them is tough.

I'd suggest simply observing the sugar in various foods that you eat without judgement, and without a specific plan to cut them out. Just observe. Then if you think you're consuming too much overall, get rid of the easiest, highest-sugar ones first and see how it goes.
https://archive.today/QHfAb
> Why does it need a practical reason?

To at least give us something as a consolation for all the havoc all sorts of deep fakes will wreak on societies. It's like asking what a knife can be used for other than murder. It's a valid question.
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Ma's downfall came shortly after Putin suggested that he run for president of China. Coupled with his association with Peter Thiel, Xi decided to reign him in before he could do any real damage.
If there isn’t a curated “Awesome Educational Channels” list, this should be the beginning of it.
You could start a transaction?

ref: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/223425/how-to-test-q...
As a first pass I'm sure it'll save some effort (i.e. l -> 1 in some fonts).
I can't imagine it fully replacing and editing/proofreading passes.
At last summer's WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin, one of the talks I went to was by someone who did this with their own voice, to better respond to (really long?) WhatsApp messages they kept getting.

It worked a bit too well, as it could parse the sound file and generate a complete response faster than real-time, leading people to ask if he'd actually listened to the messages they sent him.

Also they had trouble believing him when he told them how he'd done it.
Also if you wanted to travel a longer distance, you just threw a couple cans of fuel in the back. Neither electricity nor fuel stations were abundant, but extending the range using gas was dead nuts simple.
Best not to have the offending hardware in the first place.
The USGS also has a live list of these: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-29.5352...
That is what I was thinking but people have pointed out that if your business is centered on money management it is less likely to be taken seriously
I've tried this but I don't think it really works, it forms sodium citrate which tastes sour. Maybe not as pronounced as the citric acid in tomato sauce, but you still need sugar to balance it out. It's also an emulsifier so it can change the texture of the sauce.

A lot of tomato based sauces are just very sweet. If you're worried about the sugar intake eat less of it.
Does Windows 7 still contain recent TLS cyphers? Websites starts to refuse connections with TLS < 1.2.
How would the semicolon also generate a single quote? Something is fishy in your story :)
The best I’ve been able to do is: if perfection == high quality, then shipping smaller iterations faster is the most cost-effective means of improving quality.
A lot of those regular folks could have kept their money in US Government bond funds or in FDIC backed bank accounts as well. They invested in commercial real-estate paper because they wanted higher returns than those bonds funds would provide. Usually higher returns means accepting higher risk.

Maybe to level the playing field the government should publish a list of investments with high returns and implicit government guarantees so that we’d all know where to put or retirement money. It really screws with my retirement planning to only find out after the fact.
While metal objects can completely rust away over time, they leave weird shapes of high metal content soil shaped like the object.

If someone used rebar, you would detect strange lines of iron oxides in the soil. Those would be destroyed over large geological timescales.
It's a correlation, not a causation, in my experience.

It's likely that the brain chooses the path of least resistance toward dopamine.

Sometimes, just choosing to not be lazy clears it because then not being lazy and doing the darn thing provides enough of a dopamine hit in itself.

It can be changed consciously.

There is also the fear of the unk own but one has to then know that no matter what, they will figure it out. That can be a self-confidence issue. Related to the first point still.
Excuse what? I have no idea what you're even asking here.
It's possible that god has a PC, but it isn't interesting, it isn't falsifiable, it's just another generation inventing a religion that conforms to the fashions of the day.
This is part of a whole series:

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/ge-and-the-electric-...
What are we overlooking today that will be obviously a bad decision 100 years from now?
It shouldn’t be error, but it has to warn you..are u sure to execute this query?…(by default)
Considered how expensive EVs are and since they can’t do simple things like airport return trips, I predict that gas guzzlers still have a long life ahead of them.

I know EVs will get cheaper. But there’s no chance they’ll ever be as inexpensive as the cheap gasoline cars that some people can barely afford today. It’s unavoidable for car ownership to go down on the long run.

It may not be such a bad thing to have more public transport or car sharing schemes though… but in the mean time expect disenfranchised people to vote for populists candidates that go against EV policies, hence slowing down adoption.

The tail end of EV adoption will be a lot longer than people think in opinion.

My guess is 20 years for 2/3 cars to be EVs. 10 years for new cars and another 10 for the second hand market.

It took about 10 years for SUVs to become the de facto car form factor. So I see a similar adoption here.
The value.
I've read several books about the Apollo program. Sadly, the focus of those books is always on budgets, management, personalities, and politics. Just a few technical tidbits are thrown in here and there.

Personally, I'm much more interested in how problems were identified and overcome than how The Trench was organized and how astronauts liked to speed in their corvettes.
Very cool project. Does anyone know of something similar for audiobooks?
Milton Friedman thought that a free market was incompatible with a totalitarian state, so once the economy gets freed some sort of liberal government would follow.

Perhaps Xi is the CCP immune reaction to the risk that a freer economy would lead to a freer state.
If you assumed that, was there a need to post that you assumed it?

I mean, if you search that name and that word it fills up the results. It doesn't help for you to go "hint hint".
A ChatGPT-shell compose UX experiment
Does anyone have any reliable info on how much this sort of trading pays now, especially how the carry/perf. bonus is calculated?
this seems neat!
I just checked in Postico (Mac) and got a syntax error when trying to execute a statement when the one a few lines above wasn't terminated.

Making newlines significant by default is... well, yeah. OP should beat themselves up a little bit less.

If you wrote `DELIMITER \n` in SQL (if it was allowed) it would be a total shitshow.
$1.5 million in 1912 is almost $50 million today, so he invested pretty heavily in electric before moving on. Without the benefit of hindsight, it's hard to imagine that going differently.

I wonder if anyone at the time had an inkling of the long-term downsides of gasoline powered engines?
Not OP. Have driven over 110k miles in a 2018 Model S, bury me in it, I almost love it more than my family. Value is subjective, of course, but few material possessions bring me as much joy as driving fully electric across the country while the vehicle is on Autopilot (have driven across the US the last 6 years almost exclusively on Supercharger fast charging [1]). I paid for the future and got it, that is value (to me).

(own an S, an X, and two Ys; also have a Cybertruck reservation)

[1] https://supercharge.info/map
I think you might be underestimating the value-add---at least based on the existence of this thread! Yes quality copies are out there, but easy to find for the Editor-in-Chief of Standard Ebooks doesn't mean easy for everyone. I suspect plenty of people would find a trusted, no hassle source for a quality print copy worthwhile, just for the simplicity and convenience. Though I totally respect not wanting to waste ink and kill trees reprinting something that's already widely available.
> I was trying to find the range of gas cars vs electric in 1912, and it looks like gas cars at that period tended to be a little over 100 miles and the best electrics were 80, with most at 50. It’s too bad the Model T wasn’t electric.

It's pretty trivial to range extend a gas vehicle within reasonable limits. Gas cans had a lot of development (the shape and features of a modern metal gas can came together in the 1930s), but any container sturdy enough and sealable will work. In a model T, fuel was fed by gravity, so tank capacity is strongly limited by where you can put the tank. On a vehicle with a fuel pump, there would be more flexibility (my first car had a 33 gallon tank... if you combined that with a fuel efficient powertrain, the range would be huge)
Sometimes we don't really understand why we do things until later. No need to be passive aggressive.
I think I somewhat disagree, having studied EE, although I did get out on purpose, so maybe I am biased. Analog circuits can be a real pain, though.

When the voltage means something, you actually have to get it right. With digital circuits, just smash it in the right direction as fast as possible. Get anywhere near Vdd and you have a 1, perfect!
Fantastic article, I’m perfectionist to the bones, and as the article states, it does cause procrastination for the “personal” tasks I have (one time it took me 3months to perfect a resume, and the same reason why my personal site is not yet complete), however, for work related, I do not procrastinate but I ended up overworking extra hours from my personal time to perfect the little details about whatever I’m doing, mostly details no one notices except me!

> Forgive yourself for past procrastination

And this is an important point too, for the personal tasks and especially when some time passes due to procrastination without doing the task, it gets even harder to get back into the tasks simply thinking “if I didn’t procrastinate I would have done by now..” and it demoralizes me more and never start that said task..
Transactions are good/best, but I also have a habit of prefixing my statements with "a " before pasting anything with a semicolon (or anything more than a few characters really), so in the accidental case a newline gets pasted it's a syntax error.

Working in databases is like an old adage I heard from an aged motorcycle cop. There are two types of motorcycle riders. Those that have been in an accident, and those that will be.
You've been breaking the site guidelines badly in this thread—e.g. in the parent comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38829675, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38824306.

Please don't do that on HN, no matter how right you are or feel you are. Instead, please make your substantive points thoughtfully. This topic raises a lot of strong feelings in everyone. If your feelings prevent you from commenting within the site guidelines, please wait to comment until that's no longer the case.

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is important for preserving the community here, and it's important for another reason as well: to the extent that what you're arguing for is true, by posting aggressively and abusively you end up discrediting the truth that you're arguing for. That's not only not in your interest—it hurts everyone. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. We've had to ask you this at least once before, so this problem is not limited to this topic.
I would love a monthly “Where cool things are” post on here. Kind of like the Who’s Hiring post, but simply for listing channels, blogs, people etc. No specific works that would be better served by a regular post, but a comment with [name] and [what they do].
> This is true. A degree that doesn't increase earnings by at least $1/hour (enough to cover the payments on a $25k student loan), is a financial mistake.

1$ per hour seems on the far low end to cover that much debt. Also, the 25k number isn't the amount that was owed at graduation, but rather still owed some number of years into the repayment term so the actuall monthly payment is likely even higher.

Additionally, many of the lower paying jobs are still ones that we need as a society. While everyone picking lucrative degrees is good for them, it would be bad for us as a society.

Even so, I'm not disputing that the vast majority do pay for themselves in time. I'm saying that financial burdens imposed by student loan are significant. I would also posit that this repayment can hamper the ability for people to make other investments that improve their productivity and long term earning potential. Instead of the financial safety net enjoyed by the more well off, it does the opposite and increases risks.
No need for sugar, just let it rest more; it will still rise, only more slowly.
JetBrains does this as well. It also visually indicates the query that will run by changing its bgcolor so weirdly placed semicolons become apparent. It also does not insert semicolons on empty lines…
This article describes human error but it was not helped by their tools.
This clearly can't be the case since then copyright could be extended for thousands of years just by purely cutting out scenes here and there.
Thanks, that means a lot!

> I made an abstract programming language in 2023

This is super cool. The block editor is especially impressive.
The algorithm on YouTube strongly favors a fast upload cadence, so that would lower the profit on his videos most likely
Two links, to start your rabbit hole for today: [1] [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_modular_redundancy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault
I've had similar thoughts with regards to the development of solar panels.

Imagine if America chose to respond to the 1973 oil embargo by investing tons of resources into the development of solar panels and made true energy independence a priority.

We would be in a totally different position right now with regards to the climate and geopolitics.
> I'm not sure I buy his reasoning there.

Not everything is more than it seems. Its ten long years of uploading weekly. Thats hard graft.
From 2011... The 2011 Guide to Making People Feel Old - Using Movie Release Dates - https://xkcd.com/891/

Age 26 - Did you realize that Toy Story Came Out Over Fifteen Years ago?

Age 27 - Did you realize that Lion King Came Out Over Fifteen Years ago?

...

Age 33, 34, 35 - Did you realize that The Little Mermaid Came Out Closer to the moon landing than the present day?
That's the desired end state, as far as I can tell. Make a deflationary currency and concentrate it in the hands of the very, very few who can "use it wisely".
Their Tokenomics page say

$SHELL is the token used for user incentive, governance and in-app utility.

The total supply of $SHELL is 1,000,000,000

Team, Treasury, Advisors & Private Sale = 55% allocation

Community Incentive = 40% allocation

Liquidity = 5%
Great read for the beginning of a new year. Thank you. Humans have the capacity to become deep and wise. This essay is empirical evidence in support of that assertion! It seems, though, that something has to break for this transition to take place. I lost a friend to cancer when he was in the prime of life. It sent me into a spiral of surreal disorienting despair, and shattered the superficial model of life that I had been unconsciously following. It was the start of a different and deeper way of being for me. Reading this profound and thoughtful essay re-activated my awareness of this sensibility. Thanks for laying open the truth of your life. I hope that you have a good number of good days ahead of you. (To the extent that any growth or positive change happened, I would of course give it all back in an instant for my friend still to be with us.)
So I guess we could (legally) now create a voice chatbot using Mickey Mouse audio from Steamboat Willie?
This has always been the case since the printing press practically. There's always been way too much quality 'content' to manage and you have to sift your way through it. What has changed is that everything is now at our fingertips and we expose ourselves to the recommendation feed. I guess I'm saying that the problem hasn't changed, just our awareness of it.
Imagine your customers want to reserve some of your limited capacity, before they know precisely what they want to use it for. So you allow them to "check out" empty placeholder orders, to reserve their place in the queue. They edit the order later to add the details - and they very rarely forget, these being some of your most eager customers. (Yes it's an ugly hack, but business types love getting features on the cheap)

Do that enough times and eventually someone will forget to edit the order, and at the front of the queue you'll find an order for nothing. Which downstream systems will quite reasonably not accept, as it's obviously corrupt.
Cortex podcast: https://www.relay.fm/cortex

It… isn't my thing. But CGP Grey has a nice voice and is like an excited puppy, so I find myself listening anyway?
Can’t recommend Cody'sLab enough. A very curious and clever guy doing backyard experiments in most of the sciences.
you cannot turn mammals into efficient obedient workers and expect them to have a sane mental health.

we're mammals with inflated brains, anxiety and depression, and it's too soon since we were hunter gatherers living in caves, we barely started working in cubicles and that's a small sample of the population.
Because culture is built on itself. Almost everything is built, remixed, rewritten at some level. A good chunk of the Disney classics are taken from older stories, fairy tales, etc that were by then public domain.

Borrowing/"stealing"/copying happens with movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-HuenDPZw0 (fast forward to 3:12 to see how much star wars borrowed from other pieces)

It happens with music (kirby had to remove this originally because of...copyright)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmjHlkQYoOM
People suffer from “perfectionism” as much as everyone else suffer from reductionism.
I wouldn't go that far; we all want to be lazy. Using it as a crutch and assuming everyone else uses GPT so it's all good - well, nobody is going to understand it any more.

Half of the stuff GPT comes up with in the reviews I could rewrite much more simply and directly, while improving code comprehension.
Neither of them are really worth watching imo.
This is really divorced from reality. There was just no way at all that electric cars would've been viable in the 20th Century. No, we wouldn't magically have developed modern computer-controlled battery packs of lithium ion batteries in 1920 if we just wanted it hard enough.