Agreed. I'm hopeful to see if their research into synthetically created hydrogen fuel powered cars will get us fuel created by green energy that we can run in hydrogen fuel cell cars so we get the best of both cutting fuel emissions to net zero and still have the flexibility of cross-country drives and fast fuelings without having to have all our (agriculture, industrial, etc.) vehicles be BEVs.
So Hydrogen's perk would be quicker fueling but I don't know how many people are going to be willing to pay the fairly large additional cost for that convenience.
Toyota Mirai:
Tank Size: 5.6 kg of hydrogen
Cost per kg of hydrogen: $13.11
Miles of range: 402
Cost per mile: $0.18
Ioniq 5:
Battery Size: 77.4 kWh
Range: 302 miles
Miles per kWh: 3.5
Cost per kWh (Currently at my house): $0.27 per kWh
Cost per mile: $0.08
Ford Maverick Hybrid (My current vehicle):
Tank size: 13.6 Gallons
Range: ~500 miles
Average fuel economy: 38.5 mpg (my average currently)
Cost per gallon: $3.40 (last price I saw on the way into work)
Cost per mile: $0.088
To get an equivalent cost per mile electricity would have to $0.63 per kWh. Largely though that is currently with hydrogen made from natural gas, versus green hydrogen which will end up being intrinsically lin.18/ked to the cost of electricity. From what I have seen it is somewhere around 3 watts of electricity to get 1 W equivalent of hydrogen which might be able to get a 2 to 1 ratio in the future. I think certain sectors like aerospace will be okay with the additional cost due to other advantages but regular consumers it seems less likely.
> The HN guidelines are clear about political topics.
I agree with that guideline. I don't want HN in general to devolve into standard tribal mudslinging.
But I don't believe this is the standard 'breaking news' chum of the day, mostly because of the reputation of the author, though I readily admit the sensationalist title is click-baity.
So far (7 hours after this was first posted) most comments seem to be complaining that the HN users can't flag this away. I found the story interesting, it makes you think about just what the USGov is doing, if it's true or not is somewhat immaterial...the story was an interesting read, whether it was a non-fiction story or not.
If the story isn’t true, then it isn’t just making you think about what the US government is doing. It’s making you fantasize about it based on an unknown person’s political agenda.
these tasks are similar to the 'intellgent dumbing down' talked about in Getting Things Done, no wonder they work!
Having said that...I'm not diagnosed as ADHD but I definitely feel I exhibit executive dysfunction symptoms, and one of my siblings was diagnosed, so I'm feeling confident I'm ADHD adjacent at least...and just trying to implement Getting Things Done helped me immensely. Not only does it help with having a less stressful day (no longer do I have "what am I missing? what am I forgetting? Ahhh, angst!" feelings), it also helps me to just stay on task and/or when I switch tasks, know that I have the confidence to come back to wherever I was.
Not to be a grumpy old man, but I will say, my known original definition of Web 3.0 was the Semantic Web [1] but I have no idea if that definition came before the one in TFA about those selling javascript webpage controls marketing their latest spinner product spinning it as web 3.0 > web 2.0.
Why do people always bring this up? Not to be rude but who gives a shit? You and some others wanted a term to mean something, everyone else disagreed and moved on. Let it go seriously
I suppose the point was that if every new tech is termed as web3.0 in the past decade and it still is something out there in the future, the least you can do is question it.
Language models and crawling the web for semantic data is sort of the same thing. It's like, an argument could be made that ChatGPT is itself a Semantic-created Internet.
If AI becomes the way we consume data then Semantic patterns will only help it.
Per [1], PWAs on webkit lacks push notifications, full-screen display, hardware acceleration, web bluetooth as major headline features needed, which Firefox on mobile appears to generally support per a 5-second glance (I didn't see web bluetooth, but the rest I did) [2].
That wikipedia page has a support table saying IOS supports PWAs as YES and Firefox as NO is odd considering Apple requires Mozilla to ship a crippled form of safari on IOS, if Firefox could ship their own true application, I suspect they would have better PWA support as a differentiator with Safari.
I do understand that there is much more flexibility of content to be hosted on Substack. It is, as it were, a OneNote page that can have access charged for. Pretty nice!
What I don't understand is...how do I get a PDF / talk authors who take this path into making one?
When the book was being authored, the True Blue subscribers could get a PDF when the book was done.
Can I do that now? If I pay $300, do I get a PDF still? Or has that opportunity passed, and in order to have an offline copy, do I need to subscribe and scrape all the content for my personal archive?
Like TFA states, one day Mr. Sinofsky can decide to download his zip and close up shop, what happens to the rest of us who subscribed? Our interesting nerd / business running / retro windows insider war stories archive goes poof.
I like this information. I want to 'own' it forever if only to review it and learn its lessons over and over during my career. I don't want to make unauthorized copies, but I can't actually buy this, I can only rent it, and that's a bummer.
So. I'm not subscribing nor am I scraping it. I just look at it regretfully from the distance of a free viewer.
I'm in the process of starting a webspace where I can both blog and write short fiction. So many people have tried to push me toward Substack instead of building my own space, but like you, Substack just looks too ephemeral for my taste. It feels like the hot new platform that everyone talks about migrating to, might try it for a month or two, then goes back to whatever they were doing before. Maybe I am wrong?
Agreed. Even when you own the space, from time to time you revamp some major subsystem (e.g. your typesetting pipeline) and it's a pain. But at least its on your terms.
If your hoster shuts down, you're looking at lot of work to port your stuff elsewhere.
That said, there are a lot of things about Substack that I like. They're doing a pretty good job of it.
That said, I still 100% plan to host my own stuff. :)
I don't know. I know that nothing digital is truly permanent outside of like CD-Rs and Project Silica, but websites you own tend to be way, way more permanent than services like Xanga, MySpace, old LiveJournal, etc. and I don't see how Medium, Substack, and their similars also manage to hang around.
It's the age old 'control of technology vs convenience of content authoring'.
Decided to reboot my website and blog over the holidays for various reasons though I haven't repointed my domain to it yet. I'm not interested in monetizing. In retrospect, I should maybe have just hosted it somewhere like Lightsail rather than using Wordpress.com. But I can always do so when the hosting I bought needs to be renewed.
My personal experience is that the lack of things to fiddle with (themes etc), the pleasant writing interface plus the knowledge that I have the privilege of sending something into inboxes have made me much more disciplined than I ever was on a blogging platform. And I didn’t expect that at all!
Fundamentally there is a conflict between a subscription model and a one off purchase of something like a book. I’ve had a bit of a think about how this might work on my own Substack (I have an idea for a book but still a long way from being realised).
1. Make the book something that is provided alongside other content so that subscribers get more value than just the book when they subscribe. This might be additional content or discussion groups Q&A’s with the author on each chapter.
2. Make a pdf of the content of the book available to anyone who has paid more than a certain amount in subs. So if you just want the book then just subscribe for a few months and then cancel.
I like #2 because, while I do have subscriptions lasting years, at some point, I will turn them off. Life circumstances change. But having a 'rent to own' model for digital files is perfectly acceptable to me.
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