skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not because you can get the same information online for free. Much to my amazement, in 20+ years, no one has really catered for this particular market online - there's a lot of chuntering on forums and Facebook groups,

This "chuntering" is the replacement. It's the same reason I spend more time on HN rather than tech blogs. Here, I can directly interact with people who have experience in areas I'm interested in, compared to a blog or magazine where I can only passively absorb info from professional writers.

The quality of writing here is lower, and I have to "chunter" through a fair amount of noise, but the lived experience is orders of magnitude higher and more than outweighs the difference. I'd never go back to passively absorbing info from a magazine when I can have this.

Of course, HN is far higher quality than most FB groups. But the answer will never be to go back to printed magazines or their online equivalents.
>Shakespeare plays were made for broad appeal (he was a professional playwright, after all). Mozart's music was made for the broad appeal.

This statement is misleading because the broad appeal of both Shakespeare and Mozart today is the culmination of centuries of attempts to understand (and misunderstand) them. Calculus can be taught to high schoolers nowadays, but how many scientists in Newton's days could understand the Principia in its entirety?

Not to mention that Shakespeare and Mozart were both able to produce works of the highest sophistication that leaves most of their contemporaries (and many today) baffled. Harold Bloom wrote that the sophisticated word play in Love's Labour's Lost was not surpassed until Joyce, and Mozart's contemporaries complained endlessly about the complex textures in his opera finales. When Mozart wrote piano trios for the public, his publisher cancelled the series after two pieces because they were judged far too difficult for the masses, and when Mozart intended to write some easy piano sonatas at the end of his life, the first (the only one he completed) turned out to be the most difficult he ever wrote.

Invoking the popularity of Shakespeare or Mozart as analogues to Mr Beast reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the longevity of both Shakespeare or Mozart, and leaves unmentioned the extensive body of difficult works on which their reputation rests today.
I highly disagree, we don't know for sure what is causing people not to have kids.

However it's much more likely to be that it's due to the atomonization of society and as such people have a hard time raising kids.
Let me ask that question a different way: let’s say what you learn had no value or it was something that was already pretty well understood (such as the fact that people click misleading or hyperbolic links). What was the value to society in that information being created or shared?
I am that get of my lawn guy, no shame. You are 100% correct and I do call for bs like government intervention, as the lesser evil, ofc. See what happened with tobacco. IMO it's the same.
Or how main branch has replaced master branch. Despite “mastering” and “master recordings” still being a thing in audio.

All these DAW companies insisting on devs using main branch despite having “mastering” plugins in their actual product.
We never 'needed' a damn feed on Linkedin in the first place

I get updates from daughters fights with cancer of people I don't know. I don't need to see this on a 'professional' network. Not sure why people post such intimate private things.
Multiple things. EGR, the scr, and particulate filters are not super reliable, and when they fail, either your truck goes into limp mode or if your EGR cooler failed and your engine sucked in coolant, you're buying a new engine. They also give you slightly better fuel economy and more torque/horsepower.

Then there's the real jackasses (like my cousins) that delete all that stuff along with the muffler and deliberately blow clouds of black smoke because deep down they are deeply insecure people and suffer from undiagnosed depression and anxiety.
entertaining and very true. I will be sending this article to people next time I see them waffling on something.
I absolutely cannot understand this perspective. I open LinkedIn to add somebody to my network, contact somebody, or look for a job/hire somebody, and for those things it’s really good. I don’t make any LinkedIn content, I don’t consume any of it, I don't struggle to ignore it entirely, and I don’t miss out on anything by doing so. Where exactly does it need to improve?
The energy source for AC is a big issue but the refrigerant gas in most AC units cause issues for the ozone and for global climate change.
This has impacted the photography industry profoundly. Not only the magazine content but also all the ads that were produced.

Photography budgets have been plummeting for years and there are less paid gigs now than there were even a decade ago.
Ah thanks, I had no idea HN processes links. Sorry for assuming it was the OP.
It’s not that they couldn’t learn those lessons, it’s that the system makes learning those lessons a bad idea (in the short term).

It’s the same thing that happened with ‘08, etc. The market can stay irrational far longer than you can stay solvent, so in most cases it makes (short term) sense to just be irrational with everyone else.
I've logged 762 Waymo miles and over 2,500 ride minutes, as a passenger, so here goes:

Waymos indeed make odd and non-human maneuvers. A quite frequent one is inching forward jerkily as it pulls over (<5mph) at which point there's usually no-one moving nearby either.

Waymo has veered into oncoming lanes a few times, though traffic was stopped at that intersection. I've really never witnessed any risky maneuver that would endanger property, humans, or even warrant a ticket.

BUT... motorists and pedestrians HATE Waymo with a passion. I was literally spit upon when riding a scooter-share and it may get worse in those comfy white Jaguars.

No overt incidents yet, but several passers-by have vocally expressed their ire, and there is no shortage of folks who deliberately block our path just because I have no control. But I suspect, violence will arise as the pressure rises.
I wonder how many will switch to Firefox after this action. But it may be a small number because I assume that not many people use adblockers and most of those who use them already had Firefox, but I may be wrong.
VPNs (if not detected by their system) are also very helpful for this.
Cool to see how swift wire payments works in practice, but using JS floating point numbers for money amounts is a disaster waiting to happen
Google.com/takeout

It will dump your Gmail data into a mbox file, which is reasonably well supported.
> You put humans in extreme situations and you see how they react and you see what they do

That's not psychology. That's torture for dubious gains. By that stretch of imagination, you can construe any gulag or concentration camp as an examination of psychology.

Psychology would require a double-blind experiment, some kind of control group, etc.

> Possible. But then again you have no evidence to back that up that it's entirely fake.

https://www.uniladtech.com/social-media/youtube/mrbeast-resp...

He already faked videos before.

Most of how reality TV works is by live editing to create narratives and guiding players along what the audience wants to see. It's lies by omission and exaggeration.

> The leaked document doesn't mention anything about faking anything.

Well, of course the official manual isn't going to spell it out, that's stuff that's admissible in court. But learn to read between the lines.

No CEO is going to tell his employees, lie, cheat and steal to get our taxes to appear as low as possible, and our revenue as high as possible. They will say: "Be a go getter. Get those KPIs in the green. Only you can make a difference! Make me proud! Etc."

That said, the leaked production document is alarming even by these standards. "NO DOES NOT MEAN NO" stands head and shoulders above the rest in its implication, even if it didn't sound like a rapist's mantra.
But Indian, German, and Chinese are the legal ones right? Maybe even Polish, too.
Windows 2000: Managing the Largest OS Project, Brian Valentine (2000) [video]
Building businesses out of debt, starting with negative balance and when approaching out of money, asking employees for a last minute war time mode. That’s plain terrible business practice, don’t work there.
> glove sizing at Home Depot starts at XL and goes up from there

This is demonstrably untrue, FWIW. I have in front of me two bundles of gloves, recently purchased at Home Depot, one marked M and one marked L.

> * You can’t fill the bed of an F-150 with sand, with plywood, with cement bags, with lots of building materials*

You appear to be suggesting that truck bed sizes should be volumetrically limited by the densest and tightest-packing material available for general sale.

That's probably sand or gravel. Maybe rebar. Doesn't make sense though.
> To me it feels like TikTok culture infesting all types of social media.

Social media is and always has been a mirror of the real world. Today's dominant real-world culture consists of virtue signaling, vague pseudo-philosophy, toxic positivity, and a hyper-focus on group identity. You can see this every time you read the news, but you can also hear it when you just talk to random people.

The trend towards that culture started a few years before social media became a thing. I can't even imagine having a conversation with a friend anymore the way I used to in the 1990s and early 2000s. Everything I see online, I recognize from real-world interactions. Those who think social media has "corrupted" society are barking up the wrong tree.
Re-read those operational principles out loud. Now imagine them being executed at-scale by a fraudulent enterprise to the net detriment of society.

You don't have to imagine very hard.
Mdisc uses a special very hardened layer thats set it apart from other discs. That is why long term storage works so well.

"Instead, the M-DISC™’s data layer is composed of rock-like materials known to last for centuries. The M-DISC READY™ Drive etches the M-DISC™’s rock-like layer creating a permanent physical data record that is immune to data rot. The stability and longevity of the M-Disc DVD has been proven in rigorous tests conducted according to the ISO/IEC 10995 test standard for determining data lifetime of optical media."

https://www.mdisc.com/faq.html
Unlikely, I zoomed in on one that had a pool with round edges within a square concrete area that had the rough geometry of a basketball court and I imagine a image recognition engine being confused by that.
PR should be sent to review in a state that author considers ready to merge. Assuming it will be squashed and taking that as a reason for submitting dirty history is just sloppy and unrespectful.

Merging is for keeping track of a group of commits that has been taken from a feature branch and included in the mainline. Why would you clutter the feature branch with periodic main merges when you can cleanly rebase it and keep it tidy?
I used to subscribe to general news magazines, and of course there's some obvious reasons for it:
- Competition for attention
- Emerging miche magazines
- Conservatism of investigative reportage
- Shorter news cycles due to social media
- Journalism becoming partisan
- Opinion pieces and narrative building instead of histories

As a reader, I am more than satisfied with the current state of niche magazines (e.g., guitar, drones, motosports, and lifestyle), where the access to the internet in those places became some kind of meta-curation on interesting topics.

For the general magazines, I feel bad about how this trend is going. For instance, in South America, magazines used to cross-communicate with some points of society (Class A, B, and a bit of C), and the rest of the society (Class D and E) used to have some of this work downstream via night news.

Another thing is that wristleblowers knew that the enditorial support in magazines is way higher than in TV news channels, since the latter used to be more compliant with some of the power systems.

Back in the day, it would be impossible for any TV news editor to ignore any history from the magazines (that in this time was upstream), and the lifeblood of this kind of vehicle was to denounce corruption of the government, investigative reportage, and obvious discussions related to societal trends. The sad thing is that only the latter is happening.
Temporally Multiplexed Storage of Images in a Gradient Echo Memory [video]
They obey laws on the open road, but their parking decisions are ATROCIOUS around here. Taxi drivers always annoyed me by deliberately parking badly or even illegally, and Waymo follows suit. Red curbs, unsafe egress, blocking off three spaces outside my home, too far to walk, business that hates me. Sometimes I contact Support because there's no other way to move the thing when your trip's ended.
This is frankly the actually difficult part of the process. ISO20022 is just a way to send messages, your actual commercial and settlement arrangements still need to be done. Banks are not required to provide such a service, you will specifically need an arrangement with a bank that offers that. Or more likely with an intermediary like Wise which will abstract the distractions like ISO20022 away from you.
What the other comment said is 100% correct, and it's a bit puzzling situation.

- in Japanese language:
- JPY: 円(*en*, "circle") and '￥'
- RMB: 元(*gehn*, "root, origin"), "人民元(*jinmin gen*), or "RMB"

- in Chinese language:
- RMB: 元(*yuan*) and *the same* '￥'
- JPY: 日元(*righ-yuan*) and "JPY", and sometimes the same '￥'

- Character 圓:
- is used for old JPY and all RMB notes
- is a traditional, homophonic equivalent of 円 in Japanese and 元 in Chinese

So if something is in:

- "yuan" -> RMB, "人民元" -> RMB
- "yen" -> JPY, "円" -> JPY, "日元" -> JPY
- `0x5c`, "￥", "元", it depends(元 is more likely RMB)

Two obvious questions are "why they don't make their own double-struck R symbol" and "why Chinese language mixes up 円 and 元 when there are two perfectly serviceable unambiguous characters". The former, I don't know. Most currency symbols are Unicode anyway so 元 might work? The latter is the most puzzling part. Maybe it's just not-invented-here response to 円 character. But it's a foreign symbol! I've never heard they have issues with existence of the dollar sign itself than what it sometimes represent in some contexts.
What is the rent for a two room apartment in New York vs Stockholm?

What is the real salary once you substract retirement funds and medical insurance?
You lost me at "ignoring the ethics".

By de facto, you never ignore ethics. You may disregard them, but they're never ignored.
most of the effort is spent on writing and A/B testing clickbait headlines
So, there is something to overcoming childhood adversity. Since the rise of the modern primary system for electing US Presidents most of our Presidents had traumatic childhoods(1). It seems like most of the people who want a stadium full of people chanting their names are trying to fill the hole where parental love should have been. Of course, most people don't grow up to be President, so I don't think this isn't something that you should be optimizing for!

I think where I ultimately come down on this (and I'm a dad so I've given this a lot of thought) is that a crappy childhood is a high risk play: it might give you a slightly better chance of a really amazing outcome, but at a much greater risk of a truly terrible outcome. A happy childhood doesn't guarantee anything, none of us are guaranteed anything. But it can make truly negative outcomes less likely- though again not impossible. So all things being equal, I want my son to feel loved.

1: Just looking at the Baby Boomer presidents, and staying far away from actual politics, Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, his dad died in a car accident before he was even born and his mom remarried and he was adopted. GWBush had a famously withholding and demanding mother and was viewed as the family scapegoat into his 30's- JEB! was the golden child in that family, George was the family screw-up. Barack Obama wrote an entire book (when he was a campaigning for an Illinois State Senate seat, long before he thought about running for President) about how he never really had a relationship with his father and what effect that absence had on his life. Donald Trump wears much of the damage Fred Trump inflicted on him on his sleeve.
I’m certain the Indians, Poles, Germans or Chinese are not causing any problems.
On another hand it's a point of turning for all those that dismiss it like yourselves. Maybe culture needs this so all "bad curiosities" are catered for, so it can serve as a base for more ambitious next steps.
nit: it’s been called ‘Swift’ for a while, not ‘SWIFT’.
> How much societal progress has been killed from the amount of time spent watching Mr beast videos?

This is a good question. I would say that I don’t know how to quantify “societal progress” aside from arbitrary wishes that I can imagine, so I guess since we still have war, hunger, illness, poverty, crime and indignity in our society… all of it? All societal progress has possibly been killed by mrbeats.

I haven’t had a lot of time to reflect on this. What in particular do you envision society could have accomplished without this man on youtube?
The satellite image of this place on Google Maps is extremely obscured by the tree shadows, which may have deceived the recognition.
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I use tig for staging individual lines and hunks. Haven't found a faster or easier way in more than a decade. Such an underrated program.
I don't totally understand the implications of this (although clearly they're not good):

The most important tools in this “creative accounting” when it comes to data centers are renewable energy certificates, or Recs. These are certificates that a company purchases to show it is buying renewable energy-generated electricity to match a portion of its electricity consumption – the catch, though, is that the renewable energy in question doesn’t need to be consumed by a company’s facilities. Rather, the site of production can be anywhere from one town over to an ocean away.

The "doesn't need to be consumed by a company's facilities" part makes it sound like you can buy these credits without actually using them(?), but the "site of production" part makes it sound like you're buying credits and cashing them in, just not in the same location as your data center. So I'm not sure if the situation here is that you have a data center in Seattle, but you're buying solar power generated in Kansas City, and you may or may not have a corporate office or something in Kansas City to use it.
It's Lowtime – Observations on Apple's September Event
They might turn off/block egr which reintroduces exhaust gasses to intake to reduce combustion temperature. The upside of this system is that it reduces NOx emissions, the downside is that you’re bringing a lot of soot inside the engine. They are abrasive.

Combine egr with pcv, which directs positive crankcase pressure into the intake, you get an oily sooty mixture caking inside the intake.

Combine this with swirl flaps, which create a small tornado at lower engine speeds for better combustion, you get caking on the flaps and your intake becomes halfway clogged.

These are my annoyances. But to be honest, it didn’t require cleaning even after 250.000 kilometers of driving. I saw the caking while doing some other work, but the engine was running fine

But there’s also the dpf, and the adblue stuff. Dpf is an issue only if you use wrong kind of oil and clog it. I’m assuming people remove the dpf to run coal, as it will get clogged extremely fast if you detune your engine. It might also be an annoyance if you want to mod the engine, but not sure on that front. And adblue is yet another thing to fill every now and then. No experience with that, but I assume it might annoy some.
Super typical behavior like this should be legalized. It is super typical because it is safe and efficient.
Everyone has wants, nobody likes consequences.
Does this leave a bad taste in anyone else's mouth? The phrase "people will love" was especially nasty. These tricks are explicitly about hijacking the brain's biases. Who actually loves that? Who loves Facebook as a product these days?
Is this still true in 2024? AFIK, modern ( everything after 2010) ACs, pumps and refrigerator use ozone neutral gas like HFC.
I couldn't care less about the commit messages on a PR, I care about the diff. as long as the messages are cleaned up in the squash and merge with main
Solar panels across the entire roof of a data center can't generate much more than 1-2% of the total power usage of the data center.

Would need a solar farm with about 50x-100x the land area.
"Ignoring the ethics of Mr Beast" — in a discussion on the ethics of Mr Beast.

Sure I get it, probably there are lessons in there ethically good actors could look at and use — but if you find yourself casting away the ethical doubts too easily, you might be in a dangerous spot to begin acting unethical yourself. It is totally possible to learn about the whole system with a morbid fascination while being constantly aware of the ethical implications without casting them aside.

The real question for such an ethics-free look at a business is whether the unethical bits of a business can be really disentangled from the interesting bits in a meaningful way. That is very often not the case.
I think you might be over-estimating solar or under estimating data center power usage. A quick search suggests that a data center consumes between 150W and 750W per square foot of building space. Solar is roughly 20W per square foot.

Even if you assume 1 floor and a roof covered entirely in solar and the lower end of the power estimate, that's only covering 13% of the power requirements. If you look at the higher end of power estimates and assume a 3 storey data center with 50% of the roof covered, a more realistic set of numbers for a hyperscaler, that's only 0.4%.

As for being synergistic for emergency power, batteries would help here, but peak power usage is probably around dusk when solar won't be that useful but when power is most likely to be disrupted.
I made an absurd example exactly to show that there is a limit after which the argument of "tainted source" should not apply.

(Regarding tobacco, see a different thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41552737)