skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great set of charts and analysis, although I have two problems with it.

1. On the chart of energy density, I'd like to see the the energy density of petrol for comparison. It's much higher, and even though extrapolation is dangerous, I'd like to see how long it could take to reach parity given some of the different forecasting models they mention. Specifically regarding their mention of air travel, I'd like to know what the minimum viable energy density would be for a vessel's fuel source, because my current understanding is that commercial air travel powered by electricity is not feasible.

2. They mention S-curve adoption, but that reaches a horizontal asymptote eventually, it doesn't go up forever. I'd like to see more analysis on where we think we're at on the S-curve, and why. I'd like to see a guess on where it levels out displayed on that chart, instead of the arrow simply pointing at the sky. If nothing else, show where the chemical limit might be based on current battery technology.

I want to displace fossil fuels and reduce pollution and slow the greenhouse effect as much as possible. I think transparency and realistic expectations need to be part of the transition. The more information available to markets, the more efficiently they can work towards the goal. I find it very difficult to get answers to these types of questions when discussing renewable energy generation and storage. I'm sure part of it is my own ignorance on where to look, which is why I ask: especially here, hopefully an expert can see this and quickly point me in the right direction.
Show HN: PHP API Bindings for Open Brewery DB
Howdy! I'm a recent PHP convert after a decade of laughing at PHP memes on r/programmerhumor, and wanted to dive a bit deeper into the language by building something practical with it. I also love beer and decided to combine the two by building a PHP library for the Open Brewery DB API (https://openbrewerydb.org/). Hope someone finds it useful!
It's still illegal to use your phone while driving in most countries. So by allowing you to use CarPlay on your phone while not connected to a car's media system, that could be interpreted as enticing phone usage while driving and thus open them up to potential lawsuits. The irony is that so many people disregard the law anyways that it would actually end up making roads safer. But Apple wont risk offending lawmakers for that.
Proposed CA Bill Would Electronically Restrict Cars from Going over Speed Limit
To extend this metaphor: one thing to note is that Jobs wasn't the guy doing the magic. That was Woz. Jobs was the priest who wrote the rules about what magic is and isn't OK.

And now you know why I call Tim Apple the iPope.
Granted, it wasn't so newsworthy that a wheel fell off a 1992 vintage 757 the other day. But people are really sensitized to stories like this now, and it's particularly important for anyone who represents the US because Boeing is our biggest exporter and when they fall out of grace it impacts our image... Regulatory capture is the real point of this particular article.
Feel free to send me an email if you run into any issues! :)
Support for code navigation in the rust doc provided sources was implemented some time back. I think it wasn't enabled by default due to HTML bloat, it made the pages too big and slow to render on larger files. It'd be nice to revisit that and get it over the finish line. This is something I want too.
Consider getting an Android, driving mode is implemented extremely well.
> Like the author says, Google already injects online fonts into the EPubs they generate.

I didn't notice that before, but now I will actively avoid Google generated EPUB files.
China reveals goals, payloads of its lunar water-ice probe mission
https://unusualwhales.com/politics/article/congress-trading-...
What about if I duct tape some 3d printed wings to a 94 Hilux to make it look vaguely like a Wright brothers prototype?

What kind of nautical mileage would that net me?
Thanks for posting this. I really enjoyed reading it. It'd be worth a top-level post (hint) - there's lots in it to discuss without side-tracking this thread.
probably hit an inflection point in the 1990s when the internet backbone went private and libertarianism started to become so popular in tech circles.
The bored billionaire is about the only market left (other than scrap). While this can be very profitable, there are only a few routes it is worth running this on and that just isn't enough to be worth keeping around. Thus the best market is a billionaire who realized they can put a whatever luxury on this and fly when they want - if you don't already have an airplane and staff to fly it don't think about it. if you do have the airplane and staff for it this might be a nice upgrade and you will have a good idea if you can afford it.

Note that whoever buys this will be ripping out the seats (well they night leave a few - let the staff's family go with in them next time you go to Australia) to make it what they want. Hot tub, full 5 start kitchen, movie theater, or other such things that most of us couldn't think about....
> It's incredible to me that there is no bullet proof recovery mode for this, even something as dumb as an Arduino can recover from almost every form of abuse.

There's a bullet proof recovery mode, check my comment below ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145490 ) where I detail the steps and provide links.

The EDL firehose mode is just the phone showing up on a very unique USB-ID and waiting to be spoon fed the data to be rewritten to its flash. It needs partition specifications (think like a GPT partition table) + the binary data for each partition (think like the EFI partition for the bootloader, the Windows partition for the actual operating system etc)

It would take litteraly 1 minute for someone with access to the QPST to post it to archive.org and help all the people who've been affected by the bug.

It would take each of them about 5 minutes to restore their phone to a working state. You may object that not everyone may have the technical ability to do that, but I'm sure the small businesses fixing phones in the malls would be happy to charge for the "service" of plugging the phone on a Windows computer, double-clicking on an icon, drag and dropping the right files and clicking on another button.

IMHO, the fact this situation is allowed to persist, even after multiple reports of similar pixel phone problems in the past, can only have 2 explanation: 1) the good people at google writing this software have less understanding that you and I, 2 random HN users or 2) there's money to be made in not fixing the problem, as it will increase the update cycle (people with a dead phone will buy another phone)

I'm all for making money, but not if the consequence is creating ewaste, and forcing people who may not have deep pockets to spend more money on yet another broken-by-design phone.
2020s anti-LGBT movement in the United States
I'm not a phone dev, but is there a second by second logging of what app was in the foreground? I assume it does, but just unfamiliar with how long it's retained blah blah. Is it also granular enough to show if it was actively being used and not just in the foreground? Or do they just look at the timestamp of last messages sent in various apps to see if they were texting? Doom scrolling while driving with no commenting is sadly something I've seen a driver doing while being a passenger.
This seems awfully dismissive of people who choose to use a system. Just because you don’t agree with people’s choices doesn’t mean we don’t understand “how computers actually work”.
This is a nice submission, but I don't think post grads are allowed to comp the Lampoon tech board.
Maybe in out of the loop for servo, but is it now looking to be an entire web engine to compete with chromium and gecko? Initially iirc it was just meant to be a rendering engine so back/forward etc seems out of scope for that.
ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022 which was 357 days before this trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT
If this post is still up it’s still available?
Dogfooding there was historically kind of a joke. I had severe issues with my Nexus hardware as a Googler and none of them ever got fixed. When they offered to give us all free Nexus phones as a Christmas gift one year I refused because I wasn't about to subject myself to another one. I'd wager money that dogfooders caught this issue and reported it, and nothing was done because it either fell through the cracks or wasn't reported enough to pass the "care about it" bar.

Don't interpret this as a slam on the individual developers from the Android team, though. They're determined to fix stuff and some of them worked with me to troubleshoot issues. At the end of the day though it was organizational priorities preventing fixes, or high level decisions resulting in trainwrecks down the road.

My favorite example is that the Nexus 5x phone I owned (bought out-of-pocket) had horrible thermal characteristics. The second-hand explanation I got was that late in the design process, they decided to put a fingerprint reader on the housing such that it sat directly on top of the main CPU package, and it turns out fingerprint readers don't work terribly well as heat sinks. The people who knew enough to protest about this decision were, it seems, overruled.

I can attest that the stupid thing overheated constantly, causing the CPUs to throttle. I had to stop using the official (also purchased from Google) case because the case further impaired heat dissipation. That was my second Google handset and the last time I will ever personally buy one.

My current employer did buy me a Pixel 4a for work use but I don't have anything positive to say about it other than "it only makes me angry some of the time".
any "no coder" that loves what he/she's doing... will want to learn more and BECOME a full fledge programmer :)
Compared to an actual war? IDK
At least they're doing updates.
It's unique in that it's an addiction that enough people have that it's considered entirely normal. And that normalcy means it's not seen as a big problem to fix, it's just "how it is."

Until people decide that reality is better than the unreality of phones, this kind of willful ignorance will continue.
Ask HN: Bookmarks Categorizer in Social Media
I have a lot of bookmarks in Chrome, Instagram, Twitter(X). Are there any tools or ideas for tools that can categorize these bookmarks? My bookmarks are numerous and it has gotten a bit out of hand to categorize it manually.

Chrome browser, in its latest release got an experimental AI feature to group tabs. I was wondering if there were initiatives on the same lines for bookmarks. This would immensely help organize my digital life.
Agent 2 Agent AI Debate
A colab notebook that automates a debate between an AI accelerationist and AI alarmist using langchain and 2 openAI agents that have access to wikipedia, DuckDuckGo, and arXiv for their research before they respond.
iPhones are expensive for a reason.

Moving from android was the best decision I’ve made tech-wise.

If you can afford it, it’s totally worth its value.
Starship works pretty well without nerdfonts, BTW.
> I wasn't laying the blame solely on the CEO, I was responding to a comment about her being a vicar and what might be the cause of that incongruity

exactly it, thanks.
The bigger issue with "battery" technology is that it is unsustainable/toxic.

https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/poison/dry-cell-ba...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01735-z

Fossil fuels are OFC also toxic, I'm not advocating for indefinite use of those either.
The reason why melting permafrost is considered a global catastrophe is that it's a feedback loop that will accelerate warming. There is massive carbon that has been frozen in the permafrost. Permafrost melts > the organic matter decomposes > more CO2 released into atmosphere > warming happens faster.
The current proposal is the exact opposite. The condo owner with higher income would be paying far more.

The fundamental issue is further complicated by the government involvement in infrastructure expansions and funding.

In your case, if the government passes a funding bill to bring power into remote communities, why should citizens pay again?
Why wouldn't they? They'd probably just use the business tin as the taxable account owner and then their real foreign passport as the UBO for KYC. If they can't do that it would surely break the wheels of industry as foreign owned US businesses need US bank accounts.

IIRC banks need a ITIN or SSN + passport or ID of the UBO
The US Department of State has a webpage literally called "Employment-Based Immigrant Visas": https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...

It's not common for people with no prior connection to the US get one of these, but it is 100% possible. You can look up statistics on the number of employment green card visas issued here: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v... In the PDF you need to search for E1, E2, etc.
Maybe if you don’t have backups?
Windows is a showstopper itself. It might play nicely sometimes but it isn't a workable solution. I can no longer ever try dual booting because it doesn't respect anything but itself. It'll just decide to get rid of other bootloaders at its own discretion.
> Finding the correct limits is nontrivial because they might change over time.

It's even worse than that, a lot of consumer Internet connections are bottlenecked by some shared link, which means your max bandwidth literally depends on what the other customers are doing at the moment. There is no "correct limit".
What is the real value here? Man years in prisons equal a better society. Is anyone willing to reconsider how insane driving is in general for the average person?

It's one of the few areas where society basically demands we take on massive liabilities in order to live our basic lives. Then we also like to pretend it's a "privilege", and not necessary. My employer almost called the cops on me, because I didn't drive in one day and used uber.

Starting to get some real second thoughts about this culture. It seems we have taken an insane shift in perspective. In 1970 all car crashes were accidents, but in the 2020s, none are; and someone has to be obliterated.

Tackling "drunk drunk" driving eg. 10 beers, 0.10+ bac, etc. is one thing. All these calls to lock up more people for longer seem to be taking us down a crazy road... and they continue to use the same rules for other substances, even though the chemical testing doesn't work, and the number of cases are low (ie. not a lot of crashes happening).
Batteries can also help to handle peak demand.
Same. 8p, 6a and 6p all working fine
Isn't it already more expensive for remote customers?

Electricity bills are typically separated into generation, transmission and distribution.
I've lost so much respect for Google over the past few years. I keep having problems with the Youtube app locking up on my Pixel 4a, requiring me to force-stop the app via applications settings before it will work again. And after doing some travel with my phone, I have a difficult time believing that the Android PMs do much traveling with theirs. So many little issues that my wife didn't have with her iPhone.
They have a mandate allowing electronic observation of foreign nationals activities and filtering out US citizens.

Someone posts a threat on FB, tell us exactly how you would filter it and remain in compliance.
I use a very inexpensive standalone screen that works flawlessly with CarPlay. Under a hundred bucks, works great in my older vehicle.
Plugins, unless you want to have one process per plugin.

Which in the days of running Kubernetes clusters on laptops maybe isn't a big deal.
Why would someone ask such a loaded and naive question?
There are some on landing page.
I believe a good size chunk of that 7 million comes from Google. Which is a pretty strong conflict of interest.
These might be useful tools, if you don't want to maintain an Atari 410 but do have a tape player - https://a8cas.sourceforge.net/
I’m not really interested in reading this entire report. This is their first bullet

> Congress beat the market, once again. Of 100 trading members, 33% beat SPY with their portfolios.

This does not inspire a lot of confidence in their findings. If 33% beat the SPY, then twice as many congress members underperformed.

Can you share specific claims that seem relevant?
For that reason, Office Space is widely considered the most disturbing movie ever filmed: https://youtu.be/N9wsjroVlu8
It can be argued, that Yandex didn't do enough to fight the Putin's regime, but:
1. How realistic is to expect something like this from Corporations? How much have American corporations fought against American terrorism or attacks on freedoms (e.g. of speech)? Exactly.
2. It absolutely does not mean that they were an arm of the government. Among the tech giants, even without the Russia caveats, Yandex was definitely a good guy, with good ethics and core, with people who cared (and who helped a lot in personal capacities).

A very telling sign is a list of Western countries that participate in the Yemen war, but want to keep it a secret from their citizens. Yes, they fully know that what they are doing is wrong. No, they don't want to stop doing the evil, they only want for people not to know.

This is a pattern. Remember illegal CIA prisons all around the world, torturing people?

Democracy often means that bad deeps must be better camouflaged/hidden, not that thr actions and people doing the deciding are inherently better.
Wait until you hear about fossil fuels.

https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/poison/fuel-oil-po...

You don't want to swallow either one.
if what we are doing to those poor animals don't touch your heart, you are a monster.

look at what the F we are doing to the planet. look at that.
Haha, well they will get lots of feedback they don't want to take.

A company like Jetbrains can do this to an extent due to existing products fueling long term R&D efforts before they bare fruit. Interested to see how this outlook holds up as the runway burns and investor pressure increases from that cool 12.5m they raised last year.
Where do you live that there are "Murderous beast that attacks people on sight" roaming the streets.
https://archive.ph/dfxhF
> but grid access fees should be equal for every household

No, they should vary depending on the grid connection type. Someone with a three-phase max 100A per phase connection should pay more than someone with a single-phase max 50A per phase connection.
The number of times I look over and see the driver of the next car watching a goddamn video on their goddamn phone... Mind blowing.
There may be "millions of people" doing this, but they are running street carts and house cleaning services, not tech companies.
Right. Because we are privileged and reasonable people!

Privileged by the fact that our existence, and our choices, do not raise the ire of our community. Some of our choices are tailored to fit that community of course.

Reasonable because we believe that the existence of others, and their choices, are not things we need to have opinions on, unless they are directly affective of our well-being.

But this is not true for everyone. Outside of our quadrant, things get complicated quickly.

Some people do not have the privilege of being culturally unexciting. And some people do not come by reasonableness naturally.

I'm not saying you can't go through your day without thinking politically. I'm saying that there is a politicization angle on everything except the most mundane. And outside of our quadrant, this can create real life-affective friction.

And, back to the topic, this is why they put "political affiliation" on dating apps.
The process being somewhat inconvenient ("cumbersome" is overstating it) is intentional. It's one of the few protections we have from abuse by law enforcement in the US. I'm glad we have at least that.
Where do you see 16gwh?

I am always confused by how CA reports energy storage in GW, not GWH.

The number I see most often is 6GW for California storage capacity.
I make it a point never to buy replacement devices from the same vendor if the product fails in such fashion.

Never reward incompetence with additional revenue.
"donc" is "therefore" (though shorter and less pompous).
Chase requires more than just the SSN. Chase requires you to prove your identity matches the person whose SSN you submit. They require it as part of a larger picture, not in isolation.

(Employers are supposed to verify ID too, but they're not scrutinized as heavily as a major bank like Chase.)
How fallen leaves create slick train tracks
> Yes, I get the point that you couldn't muster an actual argument

Don't be a dick. It was a legitimate question. And no amount of insinuations or insults on your part changes that. Your points are very weak for someone advocating for getting the gov't more deeply involved in everyone's affairs.

And if you don't think some 12 year olds are wildly incapable of making good medical choices, I don't know what to say.
Apple won't be the one distributing them, alternative app stores are, that's the point.

Besides, Apple never claimed their new fee was for distribution, but for "core platform services", i.e. the SDK and tools, which they're already charging for.
Similar here. Also, when I am learning the 20th framework for doing essentially the same thing in a slightly different way / in yet another language / better fitting some other framework, I am simply not as curious as I used to be.
> the legal and regulatory framework catching up with the technology for some time

Is that true though? What legal framework do you have in mind? Immunity? That’s never going to happen.
By that measure, port 22 is useless because you can change it....
BBC Essential Mix Archive 1993-2023
The current low hanging fruit for demand response would be industrial customers who have some ability to scale up/down power usage.
I wonder if they really use OCaml for the reasons they state, or because it used to top the computer language benchmark game back when the firm was founded and now it's too expensive to rewrite everything.
It may be interesting to somehow incorporate a timeline into the scenarios. Along with that, perhaps add operating costs and show the runway.
And 6 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36706934
De facto standard is still a standard.
'All encyclopedic content on Wikipedia must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV), which means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...

The article does not have an NPOV:

'The 2020s anti-LGBT movement in the United States is an ongoing political backlash from social conservatives against LGBT people. It has included legislative proposals of bathroom use restrictions, bans on gender-affirming care, anti-LGBT curriculum laws, laws against drag performances, book bans, boycotts, and conspiracy theories around grooming. Between 2018 and 2023, hundreds of anti-LGBT laws were considered, with more than one hundred passed into law.

The backlash has been described as a moral panic and part of a larger culture war in the United States.'
Unless I’ve misunderstood something, a phd holder who has published papers and worked in tech/banking/etc with a high salary can get that kind of visa ?
Chase uses the SSN to look for a bad banking history.
Extism is a polyglot plugin framework that has support for a lot of languages. It supports passing strings back and forth but that’s it for now IIUC. I’ve started incorporating it into a project of mine and really like it.
https://archive.is/NyEci
Aren't there restrictions against using GPL stuff in the App Store?
Structural demographics (keeping consumers purchasing) and loose credit (financing the wage spending gap).
Yes, that is a common section in computing papers.
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-kills-android-auto-for-...