skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are people researching it, I believe Airbus is about to test flying with hydrogen. It's the usual thing though for "green hydrogen", there's not much green hydrogen, there are some testbeds but just like for cars it seems to be mostly extracted from natural gas. You can extract it with any energy source like solar power. There's still the challenge that hydrogen fuel is not very compact, so it's hard to carry enough energy (in a car or plane) for much use, you end up with very very high pressure tanks. I think hydrogen will make sense eventually for trucks, tractors maybe. The question is will the massive investments in improving batteries make hydrogen vehicles obsolete or not.

There are also research programs about making fuel from other sources, like https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016523702...
Yes, you make an excellent point, almost as excellent as this crisp and refreshing Pepsi I was drinking as I read your post.
Did you know that Israel controls a whopping 13% of Gaza's water? Maybe that wasn’t widely reported for some reason.
I bought a refurbed G4 Cube in 2001 and it was a wonderful machine. I don’t remember why I sold it (I think probably too many computers on my desk), but it was great for hauling to gigs to do live recordings before I got my first Powerbook. I used to pack it, an LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse into a suitcase padded with towels.
Both of the texts are suboptimal in different ways. The original text is:

im interested in this place - do you allow dogs?

Some readers will assume the writer is not well educated because "im" should be capitalized and there should be an apostrophe. Other readers will notice the use of a hyphen, which is not very common in written text; it reveals that the writer may actually be educated but writing quickly. A well educated reader will see both of those signals and recognize that this is too little information to reliably judge the writer.

The AI version of the text is overly formal and verbose, making it clear that the writer does not wish to reveal their level of education. I think that's the reason people might be interested in this.
You aren't the only one who has noticed.
Yeah it's understandable why though from your own article:

>The PCPSR poll found that 44% of Gazans say they have enough food and water for a day or two, and 56% say that they do not. Almost two-thirds of Gazan respondents - 64% - said a member of their family had been killed or injured in the war.

>Fifty-two percent of Gazans and 85% of West Bank respondents - or 72% of Palestinian respondents overall - voiced satisfaction with the role of Hamas in the war. Only 11% of Palestinian voiced satisfaction with PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

I would wager that actually means they're satisfied that there's "someone fighting for their rights" rather than they're satisfied with terrorism.

From another article[1]:
"Israelis reject U.S. pressure to shift the war in Gaza to a phase with less heavy bombing in populated areas by a ratio of 2-1...Only 23 percent answered that Israel should agree to the U.S. demand "that Israel shifts to a different phase of the war in Gaza, with an emphasis on reducing the heavy bombing of densely populated areas...A full 75 percent of Jewish respondents said Israel should ignore the U.S. pressure"

So it seems the same number of Jewish respondents are ok with the genocide occurring right now. Like I said in another comment, both Hamas and Israel seem to have genocidal intentions but only one side is actively pursuing it at the moment.

[1]: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-02/ty-article/75...
As if we know how many Hamas fighters have been killed at the first place.
According to the official stats there is like 259 IDF casualties during the land operation. Which means that death ratio is 30:1 wrt to supposed 8000 Hamas death.Laughable.

Even then, military necessity of killing combatants, not actively particpating in the war is not justified. Yes, you can kill those, who is shooting the rockets at Tel-Aviv, but bombing willy-nilly all of Gaza just because there might be tunnels, where potential combatants might be hiding,. is not acceptable, although not am not an international law lawer.
Thanks for the clarification NW
This is more nuanced. Some people in the government respect Barak. I don't know that Barak is active in politics (I haven't really heard him opine on the current government, but one can imagine he's not a fan). The more extreme parties in the government resent/oppose Barak. The "government" doesn't attack Barak or protest against him but certainly some (extreme/right-wing) political factions in Israel blame him for many things. I don't think he was sent because he's necessarily the best international law expert, but he's a very sharp and widely respected. His being sent while the government is trying to undermine the practices Barak established in the supreme court is a bit weird. Politics.
or you know just get any other car lol
Seven is almost certainly too short of a timeline for this? I'd expect the retention policy to be at least months, if not longer. Certainly for top level employees.
The streaming war isn't over yet.

Netflix had a hilariously dominant market position, with a subscription to them being basically a no-brainer. As media companies have developed their own streaming platforms, Netflix has been losing quite a lot of content. Previously a Netflix subscription would give the user access to pretty much anything they wanted to watch, now Netflix only provides a small fraction. Sure, Netflix might still be the largest streaming platform, but that's not saying much anymore.

The real war is going to be retaining their user base over the coming years, as more and more people realize that getting access to the content they want means paying >$100 / month for half a dozen different streaming services. People ditched cable television for streaming because cable provided shitty content at high prices. Now streaming is rapidly becoming the same.
I'm surprised there's any doubt about this. If I want to learn something in earnest I always write it out. Whilst typing gives me neat notes I forget what I've typed much more quickly.

It's especially so with math equations etc. Typing math with say MathML or AsciiMath is easy but I've found that it's no match when compared to handwritten workings out.

Same goes for tech drawings and circuit diagrams. I work stuff out on paper first and then tidy up with CAD.

It seems to me the mechanism—typewriter, computer, screen, etc.—gets in the way of one's cognitive processes and requires additional mental resources.
None of them. But GNU does not have this either. For awhile GNOME was part of the GNU project, but isn't now, and even when it was, X was not a GNU project.

GNU has this random assemblage of packages:

https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html

So add the Hurd to that, along with an actual distribution mechanism (not a trivial task), and what you get is something like a BSD.
> it still is unable to survive a lightning strike, which is a pretty basic requirement even for civil aircraft

Military aircraft tend to be less robust. From being aerodynamic instability (to be more maneouverable) to engine failure being a game over, the trade-offs you make are different between the domains.

Also, the F-35 has lightning mitigation [1]. We just don't know how well it works, so we're avoiding flying it in lightning when not necessary. If we had to scramble jets into lightning, we'd do it.

[1] https://breakingdefense.com/2022/11/pentagon-wont-lift-f-35a...
My biggest personal gripe with developer culture is how utterly historically ignorant it is.

There's a general recency bias in the field where computing knowledge works like a social media feed. New ideas and new projects are at the top, and old stuff just falls off the bottom regardless of merit. Then someone re-invents it, often claiming credit (not deliberately dishonestly because they are ignorant), and then it runs its life cycle and scrolls off the bottom. Repeat, forever.

There are a small number of things like very popular languages and OSes that have staying power but the rest of the ecosystem is fads and churn.

There is some progress under the churn, but the actual progress is almost in spite of the fashion chasing. The churn just forces us to do a ton of extra busy-work re-implementing the universe constantly and chasing fads to remain compatible.
Alright folks, pack it up. The word "hipster" has officially lost every ounce of its original meaning.
I remember reading about the 20th anniversary Mac and wishing I had the kind of disposable income where buying one would make sense. Yeah, it was overpriced but it did look seriously cool and they would send a concierge to your home or office to set it up for you!
I think you're missing the point. The battle of gaza is not fought on HN. We can only comment on the situation, and we can do this with equanimity and compassion even if we disagree.

Shouldn't we all be opposed to Nazism? Shouldn't we all be against slavery? Of course. But in the present discussion, I can be opposed to the atrocities of October 7th, while being sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians, just as I can be opposed to the destruction of Gaza while having compassion for the Israelis.

Being critical of either side doesn't mean I'm against them.
Reminds me of how they need to raise sunken wwi ships to get clean steel for certain applications after all the nuclear weapon testing happened.
My subthread started with "you need a LOT of bad luck". You can have a lot of bad luck, just like people can have a lot of good luck. It's not impossible but you should not plan your life around it.
> Why not? The sheer joy of exploration is reason enough.

Amen
That's really not as simple as you make it sound. Chrome and Playwright record the rules that were used, but if you don't trigger every media query, a lot of useful CSS will be flagged as useless. Also your playwright test needs to hover every element which has a :hover rule and print css will be discarded. You also have to keep in mind that Chrome isn't the only browser, some browser specific css will be ignored. Another example is if you have rules like :nth-child() on a list of results and the html you test it with doesn't have that element right now but an api call might return more result later. These css rule won't get counted.

Also there are some false positives, for example if you set a variable twice and only read it later, then both variable declaration are marked as used while the first one was never read and is therefore useless.

There's to my knowledge no tool that automates this process. I wish there was one.

The only one I found is doei [1] but it's not finished and it just tries on a couple of hardcoded media queries. It's far from a simple problem but I'm sure someone can do it.

[1] https://github.com/JamieMason/doei
I'm aware, but in most countries the rich will self-sort despite less severe state control.
California takes a much more european approach to energy efficiency.
> the Holocaust was not a lesson taught to Jews so they'll learn empathy. It was something horrible and traumatic that was done to them.

Well of course I am not suggesting that it was a lesson to teach empathy. My comment was merely that people who suffer traumas tend to have empathy for other people suffering similar traumas. I don’t think this is a particularly controversial observation.

> Two - comparing the Holocaust to what happens in Gaza means you're not aware of what the Holocaust was. Maybe you know highlights such as gas chambers etc, but not what it really was (through no fault of your own I'm sure).

Well I suppose you might be right. I’ve seen a number of the major films and documentaries and read Viktor Frankl, Eli Weisel and Anne Frank and visited Auschwitz, and I’ll be the first to admit this is merely a very basic overview of the atrocities rather than any form of academic investigation. But from this overview it seems like there are common threads of severe oppression based on immutable racial characteristics, no?

On your final paragraph, I probably would ask the same question!
> I'm interested in your property. Its exactly what I've been looking for.

The AI may be giving up some of the users negotiating leverage there
A Presenter for your Music Player Daemon using OpenAI APIs
I am blind. When gpt-4-vision-preview was released, I started to think what I could do wth it which isn't just straight image-to-text conversion. A narrator for my MPD playlist, with the ability to see albumart, was an exciting idea. Orignally, I didn't even know about the albumart and readpicture MPD commands. But once they were accidentally discovered, it was pretty clear how this little program should work. A bit of environmental information like sunrise and weather, and gosh, I suddenly had a private moderator for my own little local radio station.

Originally written in plain bash, this is the polished-up version for publication.
What makes you assume they have not already been used by OpenAI, Google, or Baidu, etc?
> If I understand the capabilities of modern Software Defined Radio
systems, then they can monitor many different frequencies at the
same time

Haven't been keeping up with it as much as I should, but that's very
interesting.
If I worked 3 jobs as a software developer I'd probably be fired for "moonlighting" from all 3 of them. Elon's attention is ridiculously split between Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter/X (oh and maybe X.ai, whatever that is). If I was a Tesla shareholder I'd be pissed.

But then again, this truck seems like it might have been Elon's pet project - so maybe it's better that he's less involved in Tesla? Who the hell knows. A lot of tradeoffs were made in favour of aesthetics and marketing at the cost of functionality with this one[1].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cybertruck-manual-road...
Thanks. The idea was perfectly understood.
There is a two and three motor version so one or more diffs are needed.
Since Pixel 6 Qualcomm is no longer used...
Amazon's "Day one" thinking.
Show HN: Feedriv.com – Simple RSS Feed Reader
FeedRiv is an open source RSS feed reader that I built as part of my 12 Startups in 12 Months Challenge (Open Source Edition). The open source code can be found on Github: https://github.com/dashboardq/feedriv

It is very minimal and probably a bit rough in some areas. I use it to track freelance jobs through RSS so it does what I need it to do.
AA and 18650 are just form factors. You can get rechargeable AA.
>Spanish? Nah, we sunk the Armada and took Gibraltar, that's about it.

And shared a king: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Spain
Hard to see how this would be better than just having a pair of glasses.
As long as the houses are still connected to the grid you will indeed by paying for distribution costs. But I think that you should expect to see transmission savings since you'll have more of the demand met locally.
>Sponsors nations of Israel are now been warned

Warned of what? That's what I don't understand. What possible consequences could there be for the US, UK, Germany etc.?

You can't economically sanction a majority of the world economy, you are basically just sanctioning yourself.

Not to mention what a war would look like.
Given the number of upvotes and comments on a story about MC a few days ago¹, they're not that dead now.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39075316
English "smashes words together" too - English is full of compounds (e.g. shopkeeper), it's just a much slower process, often goes via a long intermediate period of hyphenation, and the implied difference in meaning is a bit smaller.

The "smashing" together of words is much less interesting to most of us who use languages that does so than it seems to be to others - it does little more than placing the words adjacent to each other does in English, with the exception that it disambiguated.

E.g. "hakke" on it's own is the verb to hack in Norwegian, but as part of a compound it will mean something that has been hacked, or is hacking (e.g. hakkespett = woodpecker - and there's another English compound)

Funnily, Norwegian (and Danish) has imported the French boef - Norwegian as "biff" - while we still use the Germanic ku for cow - but we also "smash" words together, so hakkebiff = hakkebøf (Danish) = boef haché.

But "hakke biff" would imply the act of chopping it. And so we compound to remove the ambiguity.

We also have flesk, from the same origin as fleisch and flesh, but in Norwegian it specifically means pork flesh, so hakkeflesk, while it's not a term I can remember having heard, would be understandable but refer to pork because the meaning of combining the words is fairly generic.
Yes but most processes are unique. The only bash process I have running is my interactive shell.
My views on the situation aside, the clearest I saw anyone communicate the issues from a global angle was the former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin

Translated here: https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1718201487132885246

Viewed from the angle of the West, I think the message it needs to avoid isolating itself from the world is very unusual for Western media and important.

Quote:

"Westerners must open their eyes to the extent of the historical drama unfolding before us to find the right answers."

And

"This Palestinian question will not fade. And so we must address it and find an answer. This is where we need courage. The use of force is a dead end. The moral condemnation of what Hamas did - and there's no "but" in my words regarding the moral condemnation of this horror - must not prevent us from moving forward politically and diplomatically in an enlightened manner. The law of retaliation is a never-ending cycle."
it is also the hardware.

my budget for a phone is about $150. i have been thinking about getting a pinephone (with a keyboard) but that would have been twice my budget, and after i saw a friend with that having trouble getting the keyboard working, i passed on it. before i had a fairphone 3, which i had received as a gift, but its performance was worse than the $150 phone i had before that. now however i got a very good deal (slightly over my budget) on a refurbished 3 year old oneplus nord that new would have cost $400. and boy, i have never had a phone that was that good. not only is it much faster, the battery lasts longer too.

i can now understand why people like to spend money on a high end phone. i still won't spend that much but thanks to refurbishing services i don't need to.

i really appreciate what fairphone and pinephone are doing. we need these alternative phones. i had my share of them, firefox phone, geeksphone. a sailfish based phone from india, a samsung phone running tizen. i even got a second hand openmoko very cheap because the owner was unsatisfied with it. and i can really see the evolution.

the problem is that these phones are a few years behind the curve and that the apps are written for high end phones. (the fairphone was really struggling to run wechat)

so actually, in theory you should be right. there should be software that is snapping fast even on these phones. i mean even the openmoko had usable apps. but in practice, sadly the hardware is simply a limitation.

perhaps in a few years phones will reach the same state that desktop and laptop computers have now. they can only speed up by adding more cores, and individual applications can't really go any faster, so a 7 year old computer still performs fine, even for my kids as a gaming device.
It is true that Bard/ChatGPT is just two clicks away. But never underestimate the power of defaults. This is definitely not a good default for writing anywhere on the web. Google could at least have made this an extension instead.
I wonder if you could have hidden green threads from the application entirely. Have a "full" standard library where std::thread is M:N green threads and I/O is implemented behind the scenes that way, and a "thin" version where std::thread is OS threads and I/O is just passed through to the OS. (Then of course no_std for embedded.)

Of course the problem then would be that Rust makes it trivially easy to call C code. As soon as someone in a green thread runtime called libc I/O functions directly they'd be in for a weird surprise when the call froze all threads on their worker.

Of course the "full" M:N runtime could be instrumented to print a warning when this occurs unless explicitly told not to, and std::thread in the "full" stdlib could allow explicit creation of full OS threads outside the runtime.

There is an attempt at doing this out there:

https://github.com/Xudong-Huang/may
Similarly can anyone recommend an affordable oscilloscope? Ideally mixed signal and PC attached.

Picoscopes are great and very affordable on a work budget, but a bit much for my home budget particularly if you want a mixed signal one.
It's not only pointlessly verbose, it ruins the intention behind the input! The user wants to know if they allow dogs, not pets. They can get a "yes we allow some pets" response and now they have to start all over to figure out which pets those are, whether dogs are included, etc.

This is a shitload of computational expenditure to make things objectively worse by introducing an entirely new class of problem to the original message. It's literally "I had a problem, so I used AI, and now I have two problems"
> This is in contrast to a trained animal that has already undergone synaptic remodeling. If you have the appropriate synapses but were somehow able to remove all the relevant RNA in an instant, the animal would continue to 'remember' its training. Synapses are sufficient.

Not if you removed the DNA. Epigenetic changes to the DNA are what maintain the synapse at it's "learned" state. Here's a link:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402...

In addition, research has shown neurons communicating via mRNA (surrounded by a lipid).

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00492-w

https://www.inverse.com/article/40113-arc-protein-ancient-mo...

Lots of interesting stuff in this arena.
That's what I meant: pronunciation (as best as can be reconstructed) of a word being discussed in a historical context.
UX is probably a matter of habit, I for one find the chesscom UI unintuitive and I can never find what I'm looking for, but Lichess certainly also has its problems.

The free and (to me) intuitive analysis tools on Lichess are the killer feature for me.
I notice that the great universities and scholars of the English-speaking world have created a Dictionary of Old English (in progress at U. of Toronto), Middle English Dictionary (completed, at U. Michigan), and the grand historical dictionary of early modern and modern English, the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford U.).

https://doe.artsci.utoronto.ca/ - free with registration

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dicti... - free

https://oed.com - ~$100/yr

Somehow, one major era of English language history has been overlooked, one that "contributed so much vocabulary to medieval English that, alongside Latin, it remains the largest source of non-English words", and so prevelant that "Early printing of French books outweighed that of English in England.". Chronologically slotted between Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) and Middle English, it is of course Anglo-French (or Anglo-Norman).

One of the article authors says out loud the great implicit fear of the English(-speakers), and then comforts them:

"Did this make the English partly French? Only if you project back the 19th century’s nationalising image of French and English as the mutually exclusive properties of two nation-states."

Thank goodness. Someone remove this abomination from the front page! (/s)
Why rebuild OLD planes? Aren't there any planes that are later designs to build instead of 33-year-old designs from the 1990s?

This sounds a lot like rebuilding Snoopy's Sopwith Camel from WW1 to fight the enemy jets 30-odd years later in the Korean War.