skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise is that if you have a company, for example a delivery company, and viable electric and ICE vehicles exist, the delivery company with an electric fleet will have a cost advantage, and it will out compete the ICE fleet company.

Of course, we're just barely into electric mass production of vehicles. And as a result, there is still a cost favour towards ICE, they're currently cheaper.

Will that change? Maybe? Probably? Batteries are the big cost, and range, but these keep improving.

But unless gas costs people $20 per gallon, there won't be a panic switch. Or even $30. So this is going to take decades.

And to add to that, our backbone electric production now produces any excess via carbon. That is, if everyone could magically buy an electric tomorrow, and all industry moved there tomorrow, we have absolutely no way to provide enough power. We'd need to bring back coal, gas burners to provide power in the interm. And on top of that, we don't have enough transmission and distribution station capacity to double power delivery.

So what this all means, is that regardless of incentives, costs, or even desire, it will be 20+ years to get off of oil. It will be a gradual switch.

We should try to accelerate this, certainly. But I am skeptical of the ability for any government to accelerate this too much. There is a limit.

And of course, there is the remaining spectre. Other countries. Some are transitioning, others cannot hope to afford it, some don't care.

Do we go to war to stop it?

edit:

Oh, and don't get me started in the anti-plug in hybrid hate. What fallacy. What lunacy.

I own a delivery company. I need range. Now my options are, go electric and my ICE competition steals my business, or I stay ICE.

What a dumb choice.

Better to have hybrids aplenty, so that companies can transition to full electric. A delivery company could go hybrid, and they'd have incentive to put up solar panels, to roll out charging infra. They'd also be able to have a mixed fleet, some hybrids, some full electric, balancing the cost of solar panels across the entire fleet.

As range improved, they could slowly move more and more to full electric.

But no, hybrids are bad, hate hate the hybrid, anger at, and deride the hybrid, made it difficult for people trying.

I personally cannot, period, ever ever ever go to pure electric due to range and charge time issues. I could go hybrid. Except these are disappearing, and hard to get.

Great. Just great. And telling me I'm wrong is absolutely stupid, I know my needs, I want pure electric, and trying to tell me it's fine is beyond absurd.

Nothing ruins progress more than absolutists.
Lots and lots of tables for layout
Is this actually your reality?
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It was pretty clear that Google was in trouble after trying Bard.
I've just started importing my parents plastic bags from out of state, or doing more shopping across the state line.

Definitely not actually BUYING dog poop bags.
Well, indeed in that case it doesn't matter as much. But with 2 kids, taking high quality photos is number 2 on my phone whishlist, right after being an actual phone
Nobody seems to remember the original criteria that would decide if they found the Highs Boson. They never came close to that, but given how many careers were on the line they made an announcement saying the had found the thing.

Anyone wanting to build a career investigating scientific fraud could start there.
Crikey. Is it really the case, here on HN, that not wanting to have kids actually makes you an "anti-natalist"?

It just means you don't want to have kids. It doesn't imply any kind of belief structure.

Who knew HN had such a trad subculture.

Does not wanting children rule you out from being a role model for them (or anyone else) or being "exemplary"?
> The price for good content has certianly decreased but it most certianly hasn't become any definition of cheap.

Big-budget entertainment certainly remains extremely relevant for things like star wars and marvel movies, I agree. Not to mention sports!

But the rise of Youtube and Twitch and suchlike have shown there is a great appetite for cheaply produced niche content.

Linear TV would never have considered it economical to air 30 minutes of chess coverage every day. But it turns out there's a market for 30+ minutes of chess-themed entertainment per day, paying in the low seven figures annually. And the viewers really don't mind if the mic is in shot or the guy flubs his lines, they'll do the whole thing in one take.

And sure it's not literally one guy, I know that low-seven-figures has to pay for video editing and community chat moderation and enough of a creative team to keep things fresh and so on - but compared to the production standards of linear TV, even way back in the 1990s, this stuff is very cheaply produced.
For web serving, IIS, Apache, and NCSA HTTPd were available and in use at that time frame. They would have run on Windows NT 3.5/4 (IIS), or some sort of real unix (AIX, Solaris, etc) but OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDi, and Linux were also available. Oh, and NeXT, where it all began.
Don't forget the language intelligence core being built from the ground up as a universal engine for semantic editors!

[4] https://github.com/bablr-lang/
Show HN: SEO-Optimized Content Automation
zefrank mentioned this briefly in his latest video[0] showing a paper titled "Thoracic scales of moths as a stealth coating against bat biosonar"[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-s714RNXHY

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2019.069...
Hi, Bartek from the Deno team here. We are actively looking into improving this situation and from initial investigations we were able to shave off roughly 40% of the baseline size, with more improvements possible in the future. Stay tuned for upcoming releases.
What benefit does that provide? Some commenters are saying it reduces taxes. Why would it reduce taxes? Why would the government reduce taxes for people who jump through these hoops?
Could someone recommend me good and interesting books about how social media changed/s people. Socially and psychologically.

I just read Stolen Focus 2022, a book that talks about the downside of social media. But I got a little bit disenchanted with the second half.

Is Cognitive Surplus a good book? What else comes in your mind?

Thank you.
I am alive.
>registering their companies abroad, for example.

"Registering" the business only is a trap and a way to pay much much more _when_ the tax office decides you are avoiding taxes. To truly do that, you need to move your center of life abroad, which generally means being outside Poland for 183 days a year.

>I guess the government isn't eager to start this cat-and-mouse game, preferring a smaller slice of a bigger pie.

I agree that it mostly is the case, as I still pay few times more taxes (and VAT on consumption...) than average citizen, even when using 12% lump sum tax.
Show HN: Spatial Musical Instruments and Breathing Exercise for Apple Vision Pro
Hey HN!

I’m an NHS Doctor and founder of Pia (https://www.piahealth.co), which developed Lungy (https://www.lungy.app), and now an extension / partner app for Apple Vision Pro – ‘Lungy: Spaces’

Lungy: Spaces is designed to be a relaxing instrument you can play in space, as well as a calming, immersive environment to perform breathing exercises. This was inspired by ancient meditation practices, such as Tibetan singing bowls, encouraging the user to focus on the present moment and their surroundings, an active, sound-based meditation.

Lungy: Spaces uses a combination of Metal + RealityKit for the visuals - combined with a soft body solver. It combines full environments, which fully surround the user in a virtual space, and the Apple Vision Pro’s mixed spaces, which blend the user’s surroundings with interactive 3D objects. The UI is fully native for Apple Vision Pro - we rebuilt it from the ground up.

The app is free to download, with full access to all visuals / spaces costing $4.99 (one-off, no subscription). It’s available here: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6470201263

Would love to hear feedback!
It would be wrong to assume that there is a correlation without proof.
Thousands? In many scenarios I have worked with the number is millions or billions, but I do "data engineering".

Want to tag all traffic on your website? 1 billion visits = ~375 visits a second.
Some of the accounting systems I have worked with were raking in datasets ~300GB at a time that were almost purely compressed transactions.
Some of the companies I have worked for in retail have thousands of stores and a pretty constant volume, getting to that rowcount for some of their customer tracking stuff would easily blow that out.
I once told my colleagues that I didn't think they could find a photo of me on the web.

5 minutes later, one of them came up with a pic: it was a group photo of the company staff, taken a few weeks earlier (with me skulking at the back; I never wanted to be in the photo). It was in an article on the company blog.
Me neither. China is facing the same thing and we have the boomers getting old.

Such a phase sucks but it's temporary. Eventually the wave of old people is gone and things are back to normal. It's not something we can't overcome.
Sorry, I don't know segments.

Dimensions - some examples:

Toyota Corolla 4600mm x 1710mm [0]

Toyota Prius 4645mm x 1760mm [1]

BMW X3 4,716mm x 2138mm [2]

VW Passat 4767mm x 2083mm [3]

Doesn't look like an X3 is particularly egregious vs some non-SUV family cars.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Avensis

[1] https://www.parkers.co.uk/toyota/prius/plug-in-2017/specs

[2] https://www.parkers.co.uk/bmw/x3/suv-2017/specs

[3] https://www.parkers.co.uk/volkswagen/passat/estate-2015/spec...
Free market is not an absolute measure, not a 100%, but rather a cursor.
A country is rather ruled by free market or by government.

Like in "are USA more a free market than Venezuela and North Korea ?"

I can't understand why so many people keep on saying "there is no free market", as that's not even an argument. I mean i hope you can get out of this "black or white" void which just cancels any intent of reasoning. Unless it's done on purpose.

Here is a list by the way :
https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
Exactly, that's what I meant, I should've worded it better. I see no reason for most companies who are successful to move off of Rails, but then again, many big ones have over the years [0], including Twitch, Airbnb, Hulu, Coinbase, SoundCloud, and even Twitter.

[0] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1701299614148919301/quotes
Yandex Strikes Record $5.2B Wartime Deal to Exit Russia
> You seem to be in need of not a keyboard customized for you, while judging keyboards customized for others' needs.

Ah, yes, just searching for the wide RShift, on the place where it was for the last 30 years is 'customized for me'. K TNX
One project I worked on someone picked UUID for tracking AAA telco records. Then decided to make it the primary key (you can guess how well that worked out).

There are lots of uses for thousands per second. Usually in some sort of logging tracking application where you have have lots of processes and users.
Respectfully, no deep cycle AGM battery lasts for decades.
> It’s nice and hot in Vegas in August

A high of 40C / 104F is not generally considered "nice".
You don’t need to look down for this. You look at the windows that you want to move/interact with, which are presumably in front of you (not down below), and that acts as a pointer. While your hands are on your lap, which you use to click/drag things.

It is kind of similar to how you don’t need to look at your keyboard or mouse buttons to interact with things on your screen.
I don't think reviewer bandwidth is the main issue for this patch. It's a 200-line change (considering C code, there's more in docs/tests), and the code is not overly complicated / sensitive (in the sense that it's very isolated and unlikely to break random stuff).

For me the main challenge was that it's still considered a draft (AFAIK). It may be unlikely to change, but if it does I'd rather not have to deal with persistent UUIDv7 data generated per some previous spec.

Also, if I really want/need UUIDv7, it's not that hard to create an extension that generates UUID in arbitrary ways, including the proposed v7.
Yes of course, you can use keyboard to do everything in Zellij. One thing that eased my transition was the addition of (customizable) Tmux keybindings so that muscle memory was retained.
The biggest speed gain comes from a snippet tool that can interact with a programming language. He uses Ultisnips, which can bw filtered through python.

This is probably an equivalent in emacs. Interestingly, this is more or less unusable in neovim because of how slow neovim's python interop is.
Currently the generated binary is not static anyway, so you still need some parts of the system installed to run code. To be more precise, you can't use a "from scratch" container image base, but need to use something that at the very least has libgcc installed, such as the distroless "cc" image (gcr.io/distroless/cc).
Yes, production failures.
Bartek from the Deno team here - we are actively working on improving experience running NextJS projects in Deno.
How this was not caught preproduction is really worrying. It doesn’t seem like a stretch to expect that this sort of issue would be caught from modeling the vehicle performance in computer software.
Archive version https://archive.is/xnnLo
With the way streaming services are beginning to mirror the cable TV model, I'm surprised that I've not yet been offered streaming service bundles. Similar to paying one monthly rate for HBO, Cinemax, etc., no one has offered me a discounted rate on Netflix, Hulu, etc. as a bundle.

Is this being done somewhere? If not, I suspect it is coming.
Are All ByteBuffers Equal?
Summary:

“Amelia Earhart went missing in 1937 during her attempted circumnavigation of the globe when she failed to find Howland Island, as intended radio navigation assistance from the Itasca ship was compromised by issues with her plane's radio equipment. Specifically, Earhart had mistakenly designated 7.5 megacycles as the Itasca's beacon frequency, which was too high for her plane's direction finder to get a bearing from. This prevented her from coordinating with the Itasca. Intriguingly, radio signals later intercepted by stations in the Pacific showed Earhart's plane was still operational for hours after she went missing, suggesting she survived the initial landing but could not be reached due to radio problems. Unfortunately, no definitive evidence of her final fate has ever been discovered.”
> Porn is free

Open an incognito tab, open <insert popular porn site> what is the very first thing on the page after the age disclaimer.

Let me give you a hint, "Meet sexy single in your area" isn't a meme for nothing. Porn is far from free, it is paid for by advertising, and from my recollection they are the ones that revolutionised the ad industry by bringing in pre-roll ads.

Regardless, if video distribution is free at a global scale, then go do it. Create a video hosting service with global scale with any video, not even ones people want to watch, create one that serves 40 views a month. Then come back with an income statement that proves your point.

That is the point I'm trying to make, you claim it's free purely because you don't know what the actual cost is.

I'm not saying the current providers are doing the correct thing. I end up sailing the 7 seas far more than I like purely because I don't even know which one of the 40 services even have the series I want to watch. You know what does? <Insert streaming site with dubious legality>

Ps:

The majority of porn content is user submitted, you knoe we already have a free video service that does the same thing as porn, it's called YouTube.
Tour de France for mortals? Comparison of recreational and World Tour cyclist
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/11/1207991399/4-four-day-work-we...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/lambor...

https://www.equipmentworld.com/business/article/15280393/haw... (4/10 admittedly)
This is a great article! It’s very helpful to see what a system-wide setup looks like with Caddy. It’s also crazy how easy caddy makes configuration for a zero-trust environment. Well done.
No vfx1?
I liked the distinction made between frameworks and libraries, especially with regards to their level of engagement. Once you start using frameworks, you become more dependent on them than you would if you were using libraries. Nowadays, people often choose frameworks for everything so it's started to become very common to get absorbed in the details of the framework you are working with rather than the actual problem at hand.

> It’s easy to add complexity as you need it to accomplish your goals. It’s much harder to remove it.

Very good saying.
Another 3D code base tool is Primitive they were pushing almost into IDE territory but not sure anything got beyond beta but maybe with Apple Vision Pro they might take another swing.....

https://primitive.io
We chose Rails + Sidekiq for building PlanetScale's REST API + background workers. Project started 3 years ago. We are still very happy with the decision and wouldn't change it.

> Why?

To build fast. Our team knew Ruby well. Many of us worked at GitHub and trusted we could solve the problems ahead of us with it.

> Do you have trouble hiring?

No issues at all.
Okay, then maybe a better example would be a command-line program like `grep` or `sed`. Should those be tested in a nursing home? I'd argue that's the wrong audience, and testing there would cause you to simplify these tools to a point where they're no longer useful.

(I do think it's notable that you can combine the inputs and outputs of such programs into a shell script, which feels a lot like using a programming language—but this is beside the point I was trying to make.)
It depends --- on the nature of the product.

Does a subscription offer a real, significant, tangible benefit or advantage to the user/customer?

Subscriptions almost always cost more over time so this needs to be clearly justifiable to the customer.

A subscription offered mainly to benefit the developer/publisher is a marketplace failure waiting to happen IMO. Its only a matter of time before the customer puts 2 and 2 together and switches to a standalone product that costs less.
Without looking at their CSS, I'm going to assume you hit a sweet/bitter spot in their media queries breakpoint.
Sad to say this for a promising idea, but the search results are objectively terrible. If it wants to succeed, it needs to nail the primary use case.
Appreciate this may not be what the HN audience wants to hear, but there is evidence that writing things down helps you remember information better than typing things out on a computer.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2414241-writing-things-...

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/11/23/why-writing-by-hand-is...
Link to Musk’s original talk: https://youtu.be/xKCuDxpccYM?si=VAMdiUYWgFeQB2sQ
Are you an ivy grad? If so.. well defended.
orderless and fussy with vertico is real nice.
it's needed if you use space within, otherwise

[1 2+3 4]

doesn't need a comma, and the rule "if you value space in values, quote/bracket those" is a fine simple rule

Redundancy is also a bad thing, it's a tradeoff, so the proper approach is to allow enabling it for those and in those case when the value of the good part is higher
> why would Apple use a different charger on Macbooks than on Iphones other than to make more money?

Power delivery. 12W is fine for phones, but modern laptops require ~100W

> what awful consumer experience are you talking about, that I can charge all my devices with the same charger?

" things can go wrong, and the results can be ugly:

Overheating cables
Overheating devices
Possible battery damage from overcharging (this is rare since most batteries have separate charge controllers, but cheaper devices might not)
Risk of fire from overheating or overcharging"

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/smart-office/using-the...
TrackTales: Zero-shot narrator for mpd using GPT-4-vision
I find it amusing that the news cycle presents this outcome as unexpected. Apple is absolutely expecting no one to adopt the news rules and that was the point.
After VMWare pushing us down their SaaS option they are shutting it down.

They say we can continue to use our SaaS instances until the licences expire but we're running out of available licences and can't buy more which means we have to spin up on-prem instances.
Thing is, I’m very early in my journey, so I’m not exposed to many obstacles, besides learning. I’m thinking of just getting myself an intership in a software company which make ssoftware for clients, that way, I’d be exposed to many problems and how things work, then go from there.
Yes, we always at this level of discussion. Smartphone is a tool, not a sentinent thing that commands you what to do.

Its always the simplest way to forbid something, but I think we have to be more caution with easy ways.
Note that this is just for the infotainment head unit, sort of your wall thermostat, not the "entire car". A car is like a lunchbox, there is in fact no "core".
In my opinion tmux has two shortcomings. The built in session manager is very limited(so I am using my own script instead). And the ability to save and restore sessions is achieved using two plugins that can take some time to wrap your head around and make them work.

Zellij on the other started with the goal to be as user friendly as possible and basic tmux features(such as detach) were implemented very recently. There are too many elements on the screen, and each actions requires you to go into a "mode" which feels like unnecessary overhead after getting used to the way the modifier/prefix approach works in tmux. And I am more then fine with modes(I use neovim and emacs with evil keybindings) but when it comes to terminal multiplexer or window manger I feel a modifier provides less friction.

When its all said and done and tmux is configured I feel I am getting
a more fluent experience. Unlike vim and emacs I don't see a lot of distinction between tmux and Zellij and I don't see a many reasons to switch at the
moment.
> I think there is little hope of normalizing relations with Russia

After 9/11, the US maintained productive relations with the Saudis. They're actively supporting Israel through the Gaza business. They have a long history of propping up dictators and thrashing countries for hard-to-articulate reasons (I still don't get exactly what the point of Afghanistan or Iraq was, even accepting the blunt "oil" that is sometimes given out).

I don't see why relations with Russia aren't normalised now. As can be seen in this very announcement (suddenly international deals are being handled in Yuan), the US appears hell-bent on taking Russia and China then welding them together. That seems wildly stupid to me and personally I think it is a serious foreign policy blunder. The US should have sought a quick peace in Ukraine and normalised relations immediately.
That's not how I remember it but it was a long time ago and memory is unreliable so I won't claim that my statement is a fact.

But I remember a period of time where basically every rip was VBR. 192kbps then took over when bandwidth and disk space were no long were no longer concerns.