skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's not much more you can get out of current fuel blends. Methanol is potent but very expensive to mix, the even more expensive nitromethane is so powerful it strains the science of metallurgy and thus is some of the most dangerous stuff to handle, and hydrazine is so energy dense but so unstable it's used as rocket fuel. Porsche's E-Fuel is just barely more efficient than gasoline because of the density at point six megajoules a kilogram, versus point five four for one hundred octane gasoline.

The major issue is parasitic drivetrain loss from having to push the cylinder which pushes the cam which turns the flywheel which friction fits against the clutch which friction fits against the transmission flywheel which turns dozens of metal gears which rotates the driveshafts. Direct drive implementations where the engine's output shaft is mated directly to the axle are much more efficient and have been used in massive ships, but are entirely impractical for use in passenger vehicles. There's the Otto, Atkinson, Wankel, Scuderi and diesel cycles for liquid fuel combustion, and all have tradeoffs leaving them competitive with eachother instead of having a clear best solution thanks to everything else required to transfer the power from the initial combustion.

In short, we've hit the mechanical engineering dead end for massive efficiency gains with ICEs. It's all chemical from here, and thus gets much more expensive to run.
> There's no money in making a thing that works well, only in making things that look good

Amazon, AWS, Salesforce and anything Oracle entered the chat.

More seriously, I think it really depends. People will use and pay large amounts of cash for stuff that solves there problem and does not have a fancy looking UI.
The City isn't a seperate legal jurisdiction in this way. The Corporation of London has special rules regarding itself only, as a local authority.

The City, as a place, hosts companies who offer services that can move your funds to seperate jurisdictions, but these companies are subject, AFAIK, to all England&Wales law.

Lastly, the tax dodged in the City was often not going to the UK Exchequer anyway, usually it was diverted from the treasury of a developing country. We slap a fee on that work and call it an economy.
Some have been converted into homes, good example here https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2014/09/21/on-the-market-award-win...
Tell me you don't scratch the surface of what Excel is capable of without saying it directly.

Use PowerQuery and PowerPivot for a few months and then try to go to Google Sheets, LibreOffice, Gnumeric, or any of the other supposed replacements.

It's like comparing the Gimp to Photoshop, except that I might be being unfair to the Gimp in this situation.
I'd argue that pubsub systems are the modern goto, but exceptions certainly come in a not too distant second.
I was planning to build something similar with a higher budget for a Spellman HVPS, a shielded Oxford Xray tube, and a CMOS flat panel detector.

However, I learned the potential law consequence of irradiating my neighbors if they found out and that the Xray from the planned 1mA, 50kVp system cannot be shielded to an absolutely safe value easily. I decided to put the plan on a indefinite hold.
> We can't colonize Greenland or Antarctica due to the lack of fertile soil, and it would take thousands of years to develop it.

I wonder if it would be possible to rip soil off places that are no longer habitable and transport it to Antarctica.
Recently I survived covid exponential deaths apocalypse and Al Gore's sea levels rising in 2016.
Forgive me for reflexively jumping to one of my favorite critiques of the universe:

Flat design weeds out a myriad of built in affordances of our visual system:

- Color to help us more quickly distinguish between things, what the things are, and their roles.

- Borders, to demark edges of active usable elements, communicate roles, encapsulate closely related things.

- Translucence as a way to combine subtle elements into a single form in a way our visual system can quickly interpret.

- Texture as another means of quickly communicating topic separation and indicating roles. Especially useful for areas containing other elements.

- Shading that our native visual system naturally interprets as rich 3D information. For processing separation, function, including the state of dynamic function.

- Smooth motions to draw attention to, and indicate changes of state.

I am NOT suggesting graphical interfaces should:

- Resemble a rainbow Christmas tree of "look-at-me!" ornaments.

- Organize hierarchical information in n-level nested Mondrian boxes.

- Be performatively stylish: overly glassy, shiny, lickable.

- Have unsubtle textures, or painstakingly recreate leather, felt, marble, or (dear baby Zeus) grass.

- Spray shading and shadows onto everything in an attempt to recreate VR on a flat screen.

- Sparkle, blink, bob and weave, and otherwise snow and distract us with motion.

I am suggesting that it is madness not to sparingly use large dimensions of our visual processing system, to communicate visual information.

These extra dimensions not only provide richer information for our visual fovea, but to our peripheral vision. Our brain is constantly processing peripheral vision to create context.

A classic case of form over function.

A classic case of "simple" as in "less design work, trivial brand language consistency", not "simple" as in "easy to discover, understand and use".

(As with the check/radio/button/selector, I cannot process that Apple fell for flat design. Such corporate amnesia. From design leader to lowest common denominator follower.)
* Github Copilot for assisting me writing code more efficiently.

* 34" ultra-wide screen for productivity.

* Firefox with a bunch of addons, including tab containers, for browsing the web with sanity.

* Youtube for following my favourite channels to de-stress and/or be informed.

* Pocketcast (on Android) for all my podcasts.

* Quest 2 and treadmill for keeping me fit.
NASA invented wheels that never get punctured
Good list! Personally, I would add the following:

Cream-colored ponies.

Crisp apple strudels

Doorbells.

Sleigh bells

Schnitzel with noodles

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
If it's all you need, it's all you need. But comparing Gnumeric to Excel is a bit like comparing nano to emacs.
That's still such an amazing accomplishment. Look at the bottom of the board how densely packed it is, this is nothing short of jewelry.
exactly as you wrote, social crap and news sites are the main issue, OP may quit from all of them - use RSS for the news , try to check from time to time, or better during the end of te day.
The whole Western world? It seems mostly men, not women:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates/comments/1ac0...
> We can't colonize Greenland

But we can dig it up fast enough ro build all those batteries we need.
What was that story about a frog which was slowly boiled in a pot and didn't know it about it until it was too late?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7069279/
This is not quite true. The late Hamas rhetoric was that they are opposed two-state solution, but quietly, somewhere in 2010-s they began agreeing to 1967 borders.
Here's one that seems genuine and has round radio buttons: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f4/c8/8b/f4c88b861769e24674b4...
Looks like there's going to be another war.
What warming scenario on Earth would lead to the end of complex life forms? You realize that humans colonized most of the planet thousands of years ago with stone-aged technology, survived ice ages, lived in all sorts of climates? That the dinosaurs evolved on a world far warmer than we're likely to see? Complex life forms didn't all go extinct back then.
It'd be amazing to have it replace the primary one. It would be so fast you'd not need the tube at all. Though, with the tube you probably would have fewer timing issues to contend with. I wonder if the Elite code would seamlessly adapt to being run that much faster.
> Also there is an increased chance Putin might order be mass mobilization after he wins the elections in May.

Increased but still highly unlikely. The Russian military inducts ~260,000 men annually just from conscription. Now that the Ukrainians have exhausted their supplies of ammunition, manpower, and funding, it's unlikely that the AFU can sustain its ability to attrite Russian manpower faster than it can be replaced.
Is there any service you would recommend to know where to watch something you are searching? I know Hoarder Hoogle does it, but trying to look for an alternative
You can put storage above the bed. With some clever engineering, you could probably fit an entire closet at no cost to your sleeping space. It's much easier to sleep nearer the ground than it is to place a loft bed closer to the ceiling to create more space. There's something about climbing up a ladder that's not quite so fun.
Certainly more of a problem for diesel cars (diesel starts to gel not much below freezing). However, if there's any level of condensation in your gasoline tank you do have to worry about the fuel lines developing ice crystals... I wouldn't like to bet my life on starting an off-the-shelf car without any preheaters in -40 degrees
It's interesting because years ago, I was discussing the possibility that corporations might use shell companies to launder money to themselves.

My guess was that shell companies would be taking out loans, raising as much money from investors as possible, spending all the money on corporate services and then letting themselves go bankrupt.

Then, if the founder managed to stay out of jail, they would get a well paid job at the big corporation.
> Apple’s HIG explain why this decision was made

Honestly, I wouldn't trust any modern Apple HIGs. After the UX butchery of BigSur they retroactively updated the HIGs to justify their decisions.
I'm not giving my most private thoughts and notes to a company's database and paying a subscription for the privilege.
The majority of Earth's population would like to have that standard of living and strives for it.
Places without decent soil (i.e. Northern Russia, or high mountains) can only grow food in meaningful qualities if you bomb the soil with copious amounts of fertilizer. Fertilizer production requires fossil fuels and advanced civilization, both of which are not a given in the future.
It worked as long as they were properly integrated into the legionary structure. Auxilia were organized, disciplined, led, and ulimately paid and rewarded like the non-auxilia. The system stopped working because they abandoned it. Due to time pressure, they hired entire war bands and armies as mercenaries led by their kings instead of reorganizing them into Roman-style forces. It didn't help at all that the Romans were prone to cheating them out of their rewards.
There's MMCE†, the spiritual successor of Marble Marcher. I've only played the original some years ago and it was pretty awesome. You simply have to move a ball across a 3D fractal surface that's constantly evolving in real-time!

Sadly, I can't run MMCE to test, since I'm using a PC and gfx card from 2009.

†: https://michaelmoroz.itch.io/mmce
I've owned three Kindles, but bought a Kobo last year for a better integration with my public library, and I haven't touched the Kindle since. The only complaints I have about it are the poor dictionaries (a pain when reading in other languages), lack of translation abilities, and that you can't make the home screen dark mode. But I love the Pocket integration.
It's all about timing. You need the ice shields to be gone before you deploy the new soil; otherwise, it will be scraped or eroded. You also need to consider rising sea levels. You may need to think about bringing the soil first and storing it there until it's usable. Otherwise, you could lose it.
It's not enough to call it a change of trend. I have another comment here where there are other, more temporary factors that also came into play. There's not consensus until after we see the new trend. Likely there are some temporary factors that will make the lines go down again when they wear out. But the overall trend might still be accellerating, just that it's going slower than normal human reference of time.

The increasing sea surface temperature is concerning because it directly is starting to harm millions of sea creatures that cannot adapt fast enough. There are multiple die-offs happening already that might be due to this.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/ocean...

What's concerning is that all the arrows are pointing just one way. The discussion is now wether it's accellerating or not..
People can get a good standard
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exercising more but habit forming is hard and people
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termist and sheep like. Sheep like can be a positive thing too though (in a more health obsessed city you might encourage others).
1. hacker news.. absolutely my favorite daily web experience. The nerdy eclecticism of the topics, coupled with the stripped-down experience are just unequaled on the Web, in my view.
2. writing software.. after almost 40 years (including college), I still love learning new languages, new techniques.. still love solving problems.. after 40 years, I've even gotten somewhat passable at it.
3. golf.. even though I'm not very good..
To code from scratch you should first fab your own semiconductors
Ah, I did not try to imply that you did. I was actually unsure how you meant it, but just wanted to emphasize anyway, that those regulations are very useful for disabled people. Because in most places, you would just get stuck using a wheelchair on your own. (German trains for example, in most trains you would just not get into - and if you managed to arrive at your destination, you might find out, that there are only stairs and no elevator, despite there should be one. But on this day they maybe changed the lane or whatever, they don't care. I noticed while travelling with a 2 person stroller)
We'll see about that when the war is over.

At the moment it's not NKs shells that keep the war rolling but the huge Russian population which allows for a seemingly endless supply of corpses to be.
Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Agent Orange, 2,3,7,8-TCDD, aspartame, patented GM crops and now glyphosate the list goes on. Monsanto (now Bayer) is really living up to the name of "evil corporation".

https://dioxindorms.com/content/chronology.html

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41271-018-0146-8

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/feb/24/monsanto...
> I'd say that North Korea got the better of the West here.

Depends what's the most important missing item on Ukraine's wish list; Ukraine did get rocket artillery, SAM systems, tanks, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

To me, it suggests that shells are something that NK knows it can spare (and the same for all the stuff everyone else collectively is providing Ukraine, it's stuff the donors know they can spare).
My current primary workstation is very low spec and old compared to a M2 Mac. On that machine Sublime Text is very performant and provides an awesome code writing experience through LSP. I use it as a daily driver with TypeScript, Go and Dart. I try out IntelliJ (or Android Studio) and VSCode occasionally to check out how they are these days but they feel sluggish in comparison.

If you need more IDE-like features like running tests and builds or managing for example mobile phone emulators from the editor it requires more fiddling with configuration and plugins but is doable.
+1 for Glib if you are looking for a good C "standard" library.
I was just on a such a project. Output was via custom binary format send through BT. Commands where generated through a wpf app. The code did not follow separation of concerns or MVVM at all. Just trying to disentangle Bluetooth from wpf was a major task with several unforeseen side effects (e..g newer code was just faster, which crashed the receiving BT device...).

Ultimately the contact for me was axed because the root cause (bad leadership) just did not understand that bad code needs fixing before velocity can go up again.
Oh... I didn't realize you could change the link like that?

Uhh isn't that a big flaw with HN if you can?

(for example, link to a blog post that would be popular with the community to get upvotes, then switch it up for your own company blog or something to get the traffic)
How do you return an error that communicates "missing quote on line 42 character 200"? A much better solution is to use std::expect (or something home baked if not available) and make the error type something that holds an actual context. HRESULT is a remnant of the past, not something you should replicate in your own code if you have the choice.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/expected
You'd fit right in on habr, in a society specifically built to not discuss politics. Complimentary tumbleweed in comments included!
Some of the doomers are accelerationists and just want to get the worst over with now. I think that's foolish and untenable, but it makes more sense of their arguments.
Looks very nice! Whenever I write hobby stuff in C, I re-implement (for fun) simple stuff such as a dynamic vector, dynamic string and a key-value map, but nothing to this extent ofc.
That's not true though. I learned Piano at 18, and fine I may never become a virtuoso, but I'm good enough play what I want to play.
If you keep substantially the same interfaces, I’d call that a big refactor rather than a rewrite, though it gets blurry at some point.
I did watch some youtube video about "cheap" aluminium cutting (carbide mills), it is far from easy.

It seems plasma/high energy laser cutters are a must.
I've had the same car since 2014 because I don't drive much. From my perspective this is still good advice.

With current EVs I'd have to keep that it a very long time just to break even with the energy used in manufacturing. I think I've heard estimates of about 20,000-30,000 miles to break even.

For a number reasons I don't find the current EV offerings compelling enough to trade in my old Golf yet. Right now I don't think there's anything I need to do for my use-cases that I could do better in a current EV.
An RDCworld video on HN, never thought I'd see the day.
That makes sense, it's one of the few armies which has been involved in one war or another, at scale, for the last several decades. Practice makes perfect. And this is probably the only way such an organization can evolve, just like a muscle will only evolve if used, and will atrophy otherwise.

I think the original reason for requesting the high-school diploma is two fold. On one hand the person can come back and pick up where they left off, with a better chance of serving society. But maybe the more important one was that it lowered the chances of teens enlisting it the pit of desperation, seeing themselves as failures, with no other way out. Those may not be the people you really want because those may not be the people who really want you. This is the kind of deal that's hard to pull out of, and the Army would probably not want to be in the situation to have a wave of desperate teens realizing they just made a rash decision. The Army also doesn't want to be drained of new recruits, so here they are, taking what's on the table. It's a clear sign that young people are sending to the Army though.
Charles Fefferman skipped high school, went to college at 13, and got his PhD in math at 19. The Maryland department of education tracked down his parents, and accused them of not sending him to his; when they found out about what he was doing, they sent him a complimentary diploma.

I'm sure the military has identified a pool of people that were excluded, but that they can use. Same with the people with tattoos
Google Indexing Script
I've never heard of Ghost, so I'm not sure how much that would help with readership.

In any case, external hosts undermine the goal of having the blog be a permanent record. External hosts are fleeting. They can shut down. Even Twitter itself could shut down due to massively declining ad revenue. And even though Twitter is still operating now (well, technically, "Twitter" did stop operating and was replaced with "X"), the site has started to put content behind a login wall that was previously public. Self-hosting is the only way to keep control of your content.
AC could be cheaper than the cost of a move, not to mention you wouldn't have to uproot your life?
I'm the same. I'm a quiet greenish person. I don't own a car I walk and I hate these death cults whose sole nihilism is that you shouldn't exist, you were born into Original Sin™ for being the wrong sex/gender/race/country, and when you aren't busy killing off things you enjoy, you yourself can only be green when you die. The logistical thing to these cults is suicide to prevent global warming, so they mentally circle the drain constantly.
Hammocks - the poor man's AC?
JJazzLab is a free backing track application for generating play-along songs
ICE is kind of a dead end, you convert energy from chemical to thermal to mechanical and every conversion is lossy. You want to use chemical energy directly instead, like some kind of "hydrocarbon/air cell" and we don't know how to do it. At least not with mixed hydrocarbons.
> I’m not aware of anyone running Caddy at any sort of scale for customers.

Well, to name a few...

- Stripe (https://twitter.com/caddyserver/status/1559591673511813120)

- Mercedes-Benz (https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/5275#issuecomment-...)

- Approximated.app (https://dev.to/carterbryden/how-to-allow-end-user-custom-dom...)

- FusionAuth (https://fusionauth.io/blog/unlimited-domains-fusionauth)

The problem is those using Caddy are shy, not that it's not used at all. I know this because I see users removing the `server` header on the Caddy forum all the time, and many of the large users are just shy of their technology stack when it comes to Caddy.

Disclaimer: Member of the Caddy team
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Dad must know better, surely! It's absolutely impossible that almighty Apple is now full of subpar UX wannabes.

Apple design has been on a downright trajectory for a long time now, basically since Ive was promoted to the very top (yes he left now, but the damage was done). The Peter Principle doesn't make exceptions.
Tax all corporations discriminating against parents and fertile-age women in their hiring processes.
An opensource private on-premise huggingface. looks good.
Swift Package was coded by ChatGPT, including the README
Maybe shout out to HAProxy people, like many they've observed performance problems with OpenSSL 3.x series. But having good old OpenSSL with QUIC would be so convenient for distro packages etc

https://github.com/haproxy/wiki/wiki/SSL-Libraries-Support-S...
Honestly, one would think that the switch to a binary protocol and then to a different transport layer protocol would be justified by massive gains in performance...
I imagine this has uses in more than just flooring for a Holodeck-like uses. I can imagine a smart factory powered by AI using this to move things around, or assisted living where you can help disabled people move around. Some form of it could be used underneath seating to create an advanced type of wheelchair or mobility device.
I'll do one of each.

Essential software tools: i3wm (a tiling window manager for Linux). So much nicer to use than draggy droppy window managers, and so lightweight.

Impactful books: The Fabric of the Cosmos (Brian Greene). Reading this changed my view on the world, mainly due to it helping me get an intuitive grasp of general relativity.

Physical tools: My laptop. I have had a bunch of different Thinkpads over quite a number of years. My work and hobby lives largely revolve around computers so a laptop I like and am familiar with is very important.

Art pieces: Framing and hanging my own photos has been a lot of fun. Next I want to make the frames myself rather than buying them in.

Any other items that have significantly influenced your life or work: My dSLR (Canon 5d mkI & 50mm f1.4), my musical instruments. Also a handful of humans!