skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A quick primer on what diesel shops are selling with these:

There are 3 main methods of emissions controls on modern diesels

- EGR (Exhaust Gas Return) which takes already burned (hot) exhaust and reinjects it into the intake tract. This causes soot and cokes the intake valves, grid heater, etc.

- DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter) which collects soot until it’s restricted, then burns fuel in the exhaust to cook the soot into ash.

- Catalytic converters & SCR (selective catalytic conversion) which injects corrosive DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid/ cow piss) into the exhaust.

If you remove these systems from your vehicle, it won’t run, because the OEMs engine controls say if the DEF tank is empty or it’s throwing codes for EGR or DPF, it won’t get full power.

These shops sell a way to get around that, so you can take all these systems off your engine that kill longevity and efficiency, while not caring about the soot and NOx you’re emitting. A pre-emissions diesel will easily go for 300-400k miles without a rebuild, the modern ones break in really really expensive ways right about the time your warranty ends (60k)

I drive a modern diesel, I race motorcycles and I’ve got a heavy rig to tow to the track, and I’ve left my emissions in place. I don’t love the trade off, it does seem like the manufacturers took the easy way out and tuned their components for timed obsolescence just like the incandescent lightbulb. What these shops are doing is filling a request from owners in states that don’t emissions control these engines, but I guess federally they are breaking the law. Seems grey to me. The manufacturers are only selling the emissions controlled engines to comply with CA and MA and others, while the middle of the country doesn’t control these things.
OpenSCAD feels awesome to start with, but is ultimately a disappointing experience because it lacks parametric solver capacity; data flow is one way, from the script, to shape generation, to CSG operations, and you cannot do quite reasonable things like extracting dimensions from a CSG-constructed shape and feeding them back into the script.

A better system would enable true constraint-based parametric design, but I think doing so would involve an order of magnitude more complexity in the implementation, and quite probably infeasable compute times.
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The number of people who would cry at my death is ~13 (immediate family including in-laws). Within that, the number of people who would be deeply affected is 5 (kids, spouse, parents). Aside from them, the number of people who would think "wow, weird" on hearing of my death is maybe a couple dozen, and the number within that who would think of me for >20 seconds more than a year from my death is probably less than half dozen.

It doesn't bother me that these numbers are "small."
Fantastic advice, packaged in a fun and relatable way. Accurate.
I have had a similar insight.

People often wonder what advice they would give their younger self. This would be it for me.

It something seems too difficult, it is likely because you are still struggling with a pre-requisite. Go back to working on the previous foundation until your mastery is complete.

This is true for work, mental & fitness progress.

I.e. if you find losing weight hard, you probably need to improve your diet (not to lose weight, but to find healthy food you enjoy enough to become a self-reinforcing habit).

Don’t try to improve your diet in order to lose weight. That is trying to solve two big things, on two different levels, at once.

This may take a while, but eventually you can find your way to an exceptionally healthy diet you like too much to require any discipline to stay on.

That is a health foundation of lasting value. And with that foundatiin, when you try to lose weight again, it is much easier.

Likewise, if you find it is hard to improve your diet, even in increments, perhaps you are fatigued? You may need to improve your sleep routine until you are habitually not tired.

For some of us, that might take a lot of work. But focusing on it, instead of downstream efforts will pay off.

Etc.

Foundations should be iterated on until they are self-perpetuatingly solid. Then the next thing will be much easier.

Math and physics are mental versions.

The result for any path: Go slow (iterate & explore to complete fluency & habit) to go fast (compounding instead of linear gains in understanding & progress).
Thanks for the kind words! Yeah I've sorta taken it for granted that I'm going to comply with their "no ban evasion" rule, but I guess I should give it some thought if I find the urge some day. Given that my old account was publicly linked to my real name (and I'd like to do the same for any new one), that could get a little tricky... But that's obviously a self-imposed hurdle.
HN engagement is really low compared to platforms like reddit
> ~~Someone~~ *An LLM training bot* now finding it and using it for their own benefit/loss, that's a problem.

I believe you meant.
Porn is bad, and clearly they should feel bad. (/s, but that is the way these things tend to go longer term!)
This is all great, but while the internet is filled with auto-playing videos and invokes to external scripts from google, meta, amazon and who knows where, the example on this page is about saving... 148 bytes?
Does minifying CSS really make a big difference, in the end? I'm guessing that a page with a serious CSS payload (say, over 100k) already has more serious weight problem elsewhere.
Sure, I’m saying someone make a cheaper kit that goes into a Corolla and with various range options. I’d pay a lot to replace all the maintenance parts with electric stuff for my everyday driver. I’d spend more than my car is worth to keep it going but as an electric car, especially for the reliability.
As someone who runs an archive for a 90s radio show, I have to contratict partly. I regulary get tapes that are 30-35 years old. The quality of those audio tapes is shockingly good. The old chrome audio tapes very rarely show signs of degradation compared with audio CDs from the same time period.

Mid to late 90s we also got the metall audio tapes that are even better. I got a few DAT tapes from the early 90s that are in same league as metall audio tapes.
Funnily enough, the article had too many headings for me. I’m scared of Wall of Texts as much as the next netizen, but I need… text fences? Something a bit more than Heading-Paragraph repeated.
Ignoring the ethics of Mexican drug cartels, they are producing some crucial and consistently demanded products. Like high-volume of drugs and violence that rivals the state.

None of those are easy to achieve.

Sure, it's maybe not great to be impressed by the logistics of a militarized drug cartel, but from a business and systems view it's quite interesting. /sarcasm

This is literally cocaine logic, i.e. because I feel good when taking cocaine, it's good for me. Ergo, cocaine is good.
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“Stricter requirements that force founders to be personally on the hook for any loans have prevented VC deals too”

Can someone shed more light on this? Sounds absolutely crackpot if true.
the audacity to ask other people to give up their life for helping you fulfil your dream and even sell it to them as them fulfilling their dream.

is it the same "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" shtick the american dream brainwashed americans with?

if you have that much drive and want to invest so heavily in work - do yourself a favour and do it as a leader where you call the shots and have the equity instead of as a follower.
Or you know, sometimes your boss just lies to you, you do the crunch time, then when you save their asses you get laid off because that's cheaper than the raises or bonuses and you're prolly burnt out anyway so you won't be that productive again for months

At will employment, baby
I see you haven't done even a casual search.
I don't disagree - I subscribe to two magazines for a hobby of mine. I used to buy physical copies of one because I liked the fact I'd have to put aside time to disconnect and enjoy the content.

The ownership of that physical one change and the physical copy increased in price by 50%, so I went with the online subscription. Now I'm 6 months behind in my reading and when I do find the time I skim more than read.
Absolute nonsense. Even a few months difference in when children get sucked into the YouTube vortex means they have totally different understandings of creators, their content and the contemporary dramatics.

YouTube content, thanks to its short-lived nature, has become essentially useless as a shared 'cultural context' unless one is plugged in 24/7.
I tried that. What happens is that other cars will put themselves into the space in front of you. If you slow down to make more space, it will happen more and more.

Basically, it is impossible to keep that distance on half busy road.
I studied Shakespeare relatively extensively and while it's obviously clever, probably a big part of his appeal was his plays were vulgar. Also a lot of the things we often attribute to him inventing may have been common turns of phrase back then.

Shakespeare is Wicked or Hamilton is probably a good modern comparison.
I don't like CO2 emissions being framed as harming the planet. They harm the human economy in the long run.
This is cool; I'd love to hear more about how the actual transfer of money works e.g clearing, r-transactions and so on if you're looking for a follow up blog ;)
AWS moves OpenSearch under the Linux Foundation umbrella
The other comments are a let down so far. I find this impressive!
Same here, tried clicking near the prompt, nothing. Maybe I'm bad at git, can't even perform a simple commit.

edit: right after typing this, I clicked the title of the MacOS styled window to the left and somehow it worked, even though clicking everywhere inside it didn't.
I have been working in long term storage for many years. I never understood why we cant just 3d-print binary code on thin clay tablets and then burn them for long term storage. Clay tablets are readable for thousands of years.
It's is likely reviewed by humans, who can just capture a screenshot or snap a photo of their screen with their phone.
Capitalising on suffering by alleviating it is still capitalizing on suffering. It's one step removed from Bumfights.
> There's no reward for lingering, just the peculiar pleasure of simply being.

Reward: the numbers go up. Almost like idle clicker games, but without clicking.
Maybe explaining why would you ever want to have branches in your code? I'm a longtime git user and never felt a need for them.
Ignoring the ethics is literally antithetical to good engineering. Alas it seems to be the default for operating a business.
It is still true, most common refrigerants still have quite high GWP [1]. Not as bad as in the 70's, but the transition to neutral gasses is not ready yet. And then there is also all the old installed systems still running.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerant#Common_refrigerant...
I'm not sure telling men to shape their eyebrows will be a big hit.

If the app would instead focus on fashion/style with clothing, maybe that's a better approach for men?

I clicked on the link thinking that's what it would be.
The way I designed the language I had the current languages in mind. Don't forget you are programming, it's just more natural, you need details

But also the main reason is that it's much more difficult to solve the intent when mixing multiple action into the same step. In theory it's possible but the language isn't there yet.
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yup, sad shit mate.

and to think of all the emissions being spent on useless AI
you empower your employees with a mindset of "no doesn't mean no" and have them get results with pushback on no's. they are young kids mostly, don't you think that they will apply the same learned mindset the next time a girl tells them no?
To be fair, watching sports is absolutely also brainrot for people not enjoying it.
The ratio probably goes the other way. You'd be counting the amount of productive hours that were enabled by letting people relax their brains watching novel and enjoyable content. MrBeast videos likely add to GDP.
Some people have alluded to this, but I find it sad that so much energy in our modern society goes towards trying to exploit arbitrary particularities of arbitrary platforms. Even if we set aside the stuff like "you're taking a risk building on YouTube because they could ban you", there's the more practical stuff about how the plan is all about the title and thumbnail. Like if YouTube somehow switched to letting you have two thumbnails, or some other UI element that you could customize, suddenly everyone playing this game would have to scramble to figure out how to maximize in that environment.

It just seems to me like following a rich person around hoping some coins will fall out of their pocket. It's a parasitic ecosystem that encourages content to focus more and more on "what works" in the self-perpetuating context of that ecosystem, and less and less on making contact with any kind of external reality.
interesting to see this leaked a few weeks after the valve one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41329274), albeit unrelated.

if an actual one, to me it is another interesting perspective inside the minds of a privately-owned, internet-based party that hold a significant mind-share in its domain.
That seems super dumb indeed. I really wish JSON had an actual decimal type, we already have valid "e" notation (like 10e2), why not have a "d" notation, like 5d3 (meaning 5.3) or 5.3d.
I don't know if you have given it a try, but check out industrial tools like Cadence Virtuoso and Innovus. by letting people design their own standard cells, you can let your players go deeper down the rabbit hole.
Fine. What I am trying to say is that if you truly innovate, it's a whole different ball game. You want to build a monopoly, have a large enough moat, patents, make it as hard as possible for a competitor to copy you and do a better job at it. You need good lawyers, and need to grow ASAP, you cannot afford to faff about if you're sitting on a golden idea.

No startup course or ebook even touch upon these problems, and it is exponentially harder than simply being a "regular" entrepreneur.

Many just want to be their own boss, and don't need to ever go down this route.
> I specifically said "I am not calling for government intervention or any of such BS" because I knew you are around and you are going to maliciously misunderstand me.

What does this mean? You introduced the idea of government intervention unprompted because you wanted to be misunderstood by me?

Generally speaking if I do not want to introduce a topic to a conversation I just don’t do that. The laying of rhetorical traps is too complex for me when conveying something simple like “I don’t like this guy on youtube”
I would disagree on the net bad for the world, or at least be skeptical about it. Personally, Youtube was my life changing tool which I used to learn almost everything essential to my career and personal development, and I would assume lots of others would be the same. The type of content it recommends goes with the type of content you interacted with in the past. It just a tool and it matters how you use it
I'd advise a complete rewrite of Astro to Rust+WASM, then add most of what Angular does inside the framework, then usenothing will benefit from it.
It would be if it did any arithmetic. But maybe it works without any computation. Then the fp arithmetic is not a problem. Or could you provide an example?
I wonder about if lot of these were ever considered valuable. To buy yes, and then kept around for a bit as it costed money, but after certain time as valuable? Very likely not. Pruning collections is normal process and something like encyclopaedia never truly had much second hand value.

You buy a book, and you read it one time and then after it has been sitting in yourself filling up for years maybe you decide just to get rid of it. I have shelf full of books I will likely not read and by parents have book cases I think they have not touched during my lifetime... At some point some of this collection is discarded and "donating" feels cleanest way.
Would you say the same about companies, that the only interesting ones worth talking about are the ones in the Fortune 500? If anything, I would say many of them are rather boring examples, we all know roughly how they're managed and run.
This is all purely political. The EU and Commissioners are on a power grab and self-promotion trip (Thierry Breton, who's just resigned as Commisioner today, is said to seek higher office. Probably disappointed that Von Der Leyen was reappointed. New minister in France and more?), and Musk is the boogeyman.

Disinformation is everywhere in the EU/Europe. Read or watch the mainstream media and news, but this is controlled. X is not controlled and Musk is highly critical of the 'correct' narrative so this is both a threat and opportunity.
The main problem with CSS is that it is "render blocking". If you want the user to see stuff sooner you have to make the CSS smaller and/or serve it faster (e.g. inline it to avoid another request).
Exploitation and profit are the same concept just different framing. The distinction between shady and non is usually more about who is being exploited, to what extent they're being exploited and how transparent the business is about that exploitation.
Obviously data centers shouldn't lie about the emissions, but it would be interesting to know how e.g. Amazon compares to the on-prem setup their offerings frequently replaces. Apple and Meta is a little different, in that none of their data center capacity directly replaces anything, it's all "extra".

Internally we had an interesting discussion, about travelling. Some one brought up that it might not look good that we fly to frequently, or at all. That's true, but it's also a very visible and easy to understand thing to focus on. One engineer does some quick napkin math and suggests that we optimize our code instead, as that would save more CO2 yearly, compared to us not flying. To me that's a really good indication of something that's wrong in the industry, we're not optimizing our code anymore, we're barely able to get rid of rarely used code and infrastructure, because keeping it running isn't really that expensive anymore.

Again, data centers shouldn't lie about emissions, but what difference would it make it they didn't? We're the ones buying the capacity, rather than moving to on-device computing, rather than an always running cloud. We spin up way more infrastructure than we should, because it's easy, and it doesn't cost that much.
You’re being downvoted but you’re right. The feed is really just a vehicle to deliver ads. The content I see there is almost entirely garbage. I only use my profile and the ability to DM with recruiters and maybe the jobs board.
youtube still has a net positive value. the amount of knowledge & learning (and ok, entertainment) i get out of it on a daily basis is immense and i can't imagine the amount of wisdom i'd have sucked up as a kid if i had access to all this.

if it comes at the price of having it subsidised by the likes of mrbeast, i'm all for it. same trade-off as getting ads on instagram to enjoy it as a free service.
OpenSearch moves under Linux Foundation umbrella
Could we get a leaderboard feature
It says right in the table that propane only has 3.3 times the potential of CO₂. That's in fact quite low for the use.
Eddy Grant Wins: Trump's 'Fair Use' of 'Electric Avenue' Was Anything But
These are people who definitely are required to do manual labor.
I've used a similar analogy a few times - do we make medical software where someone will literally die if we don't fix this in the next few hours? No? Then chill the hell out and we'll get it fixed without giving ourselves stress related diseases. In a week or a month no one will remember this particular "emergency" but we'll all remember the general level of stress we felt on this team for years.

I've said this out loud a few times. But I've said it quietly to myself far more often when someone is trying to make me feel stressed for no reason. It's very effective.
I really don't understand the hate for Agile, so let's make it concrete: which things to you not like about the Agile manifesto?

1. Value individuals and interactions over processes and tools

2. Value working software over comprehensive documentation

3. Value customer collaboration over contract negotiation

4. Value responding to change over following a plan

And then there are the 12 principles:

1. Customer satisfaction by early and continuous delivery of valuable software.

2. Welcome changing requirements, even in late development.

3. Deliver working software frequently (weeks rather than months).

4. Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers.

5. Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted.

6. Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication (co-location).

7. Working software is the primary measure of progress.

8. Sustainable development, able to maintain a constant pace.

9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design.

10, Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential.

11. Best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.

12. Regularly, the team reflects on how to become more effective, and adjusts accordingly.

So in total 16 points to cirisize! For everyone who hates Agile so much, please make it concrete.
> suddenly everyone playing this game would have to scramble to figure out how to maximize in that environment

These people are the best positioned to figure this out. They've been experimenting with youtube changes for years and they already know how to experiment out the particularities.
LOL. You think business is so easy you can pick it up in a weekend from a couple of books?
I agree, but that's their way of breaking quite a long article into chunks that others would find digestible.
ACE 9 - Happy and fulfilling life. Just want nothing tragic to happen, and continue to enjoy a wonderful existence.
FTA: Sometimes, for the most general tests, the only invariant you can assert is that the program doesn't crash. One of the most valuable tests we ever wrote at Row Zero is the one that just takes the top-level spreadsheet interface, and takes completely random actions on it

That strategy was also part of testing the original Mac. See https://www.folklore.org/Monkey_Lives.html.

As that article hunts at (“usually it didn't run for more than 20 minutes, even if it didn't crash, because the Monkey would invariably select the quit command”), there’s a black art in determining what “completely random” means.

You probably want the ability to change that depending on your testing needs. For example, if you’ve been working on the code for array formulas, the randomizer better create and edit them fairly frequently.
There is no ethics in business, only revenue and profits.

Name any ethical company and I'm sure there will be questionable actions they did in past with "due to the market conditions" excuse.
Mozilla started working on a similar API with Facebook back when Google announced FLOC. They are most likely more opposed to the bad press FLOC got than they are to the idea itself.
my assumption is the only way you will be able to stop any bot from double spend attack is to multisig the puzzle address when its solved so any transaction there forth would need your main wallets or any wallet that you set up to need its signature or signature(s) if using multiple before any transactions are made but you will need to be quick about it maybe even setting up your own script or bot to do so i find it wild that the solver didn't think that someone could swoop in and take the reward i multisig all my addresses for that very reason and yes i know a lot about mutisig it's impossible to use a double spend attack with that set up