skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coding speed really is a horrible metric. I can code really quickly, but it doesn't mean I'm doing anything productive or correct.

I'd rather slower coding speed, properly written as it provides higher overall velocity. And velocity should take into account the refactoring that happens months or even years later. Crappy code can look really fancy, and even be bug free, but if it's overengineered and hard to change, it can create long change times or even a full stop in development later in the products lifecycle.

And that's on top of developers losing the understanding of how something actually works. If AI helps create the code that would have been written without AI, then great, but I don't observe that happening, and the code has never been a better idea than then dev could have done without it.
reading the reporting from Israel, in the loop means accepting the AIs decision. It’s a cold comfort.
The observation isn't that ships don't need nuclear reactors, it's that it's usually cheaper to use liquid hydrocarbons instead. Or do you think the USN is deliberately wasting money by constructing all these ships with conventional power plants?
Awkward, I was expecting to be reading an article about Tesla moving into the medical industry.
Who's idea was it to name the unit of magnetic flux density after a car company?
This is worse than that time I ended up reading an article about a shallow river crossing
Ok, could you post a couple of examples then
I'm glad I found this thread, firefox really jumped the shark with remote x at some point, it always confused me why this happened all of a sudden. All I could find out from googling was the wayland thing and all of a sudden how x over the network wasn't cool anymore lol
I firmly believe that management doesn't, or shouldn't mind this. I think a successful company is not necessarily built on top talent, but rather on people whose behavior can be managed - and on managers that are similarly competent. Similar to how on a building site, extraordinary bricklayers are not necessary, only a specific kind of adequacy is.

The other thing is that people who have something extraordinary also ask for something extraordinary in return, and that's not surprising either, it's just power dynamics. Similar to how powerful celebrities can have ridiculous backstage requests - what are they going to do, cancel a show?
UK public voice fear over security in NHS data systems
Your generation's genius is currently wasting his life on a 12 hour minimum wage job to barely pay the rent on his shitty old tiny flat. He will not have the brainspace and time left to invent hyperspace interplanetary travelling.

Fix the former first if you want the latter to happen.
Is there really a point to any of this? It's a fun exercise, but also a complete waste of time if you're actually trying to hide from spammers. You're making a piece of information public by sharing it with the entire world, yet somehow expecting it to only stay accessible to the "good guys".

Unless you change your email address at least monthly, all it takes is for one person or company to share your contact with someone else or enter it into a database/CRM, or one service to get breached, then your email address is on a list that eventually gets propagated to every spammer worldwide. If you use that email with any regularity, the chance of those things happening can be rounded up to 100%.

If hiding your email address from scrapers actually worked, spam wouldn't exist. I never published my personal contact anywhere, yet I get dozens of spam emails per week. They all get filtered as spam, it's not a big deal.
The fact is that my parents generation (currently retiring) made a bet on the younger generations supporting them through the retirement [insert socialism joke if you're from the US]. I never signed up to this tho, I have been born into it. Now I agree that the whole thing is in principle a good idea, but all fairness goes out of the window as soon as a your demographics are such that the biggest voting block is at the same time not working. So a class of old politicians constantly keeps putting off needed changes in the way retirement works, a price for which younger generations have to pay. The same happens in infrastructure, climate change etc.

At some point my generation will have to question the validity of that social contract.
Interesting comment on Twitter:

> "having talked to a guy who works at a (German) transformer manufacturer - it wouldn't be that hard to mass produce slightly shittier transformers by simplifying the designs a bit, it's just that there's no market for it"

https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/1789792484450615623
> Why do so few countries in EU have ride sharing?

What? https://bolt.eu/en/cities/
yes, it’s called getting an independent opinion from your trusted mechanic.

Some used cars can appear “fine” on the surface, but once a mechanic looks under the hood (ie, under carriage inspection, checking for recalls, oil check).

A used car I found online in Ohio looked perfect but paid a mechanic to check it out. Turns out the under carriage was rotted to hell. Which is honestly typical for cars in the rust belt (ie, due to salt from roads)
What about this, from a month ago:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/sleeping-more-flushe...

Which seems to very clearly show that the brain flushes things out when we're asleep.
Nice, got 7/10 overall. Things to improve are killer, got a bit lower results there about things people already complained. Nice
TuneD project (power-profiles-daemon replacement)
> a hostile meme culture?

I think we need an EUFO group (similar to NAFO) to counter those attacks
I have anecdotal evidence from a long term study (~40 years) that suggests otherwise hahaha! :) tho I know some amount of sleep can reduced naturally using certain forms of seated meditation.
And even then it happens to ignore context or queries from start or halfway through. I'd rather spend the time coding then trying to bruteforce it to give me the answer I need.
Exactly, the flushing effect. Which you can also feel when you do some forms of meditation :)
Regulatory/Licensing and complexity of pcb design for rf and assembly issues and all that aside, if you look up the cost on the CYW43 wireless chip, it costs more than the Pico W module last I checked.

Wireless is a very popular feature on PicoMEM from the discussions I see and from my own personal use.
First, I'd say that if those politicians are so worried, then perhaps they should work on building societies that people actually want to bring children into.

Mainly though, I wonder - where is all the extra productivity that has supposedly developed over the last half century or so? Shouldn't that be able to cover over a declining population?
I dislike the basic premise: that estimates are a good idea.

That's why I like Shape Up in principle over planning poker or other similar things.
I'd like to think of it like pseudorandom vs random numbers generators. Does it really matter if it's a truly random algo if you can't actually see any difference within the constraints of its usage?

Likewise, our pseudo-free will is probably more than enough for having near-independent agency from the environment. Anything outside of that is probably already within the realms of metaphysics, which is unprovable by definition anyway.
Sounds pretty impossble to me do that with a sufficient combination of range and precision.
"Europe" is not USA. I don't know why the author wants it to be. Germany and Spain are different countries, even if we have some degree of a unified market.

> From consumer markets, languages, laws, education systems, taxes, to funding – Europe acts like a network of small countries instead of one unified market.

"Europe" does not ACT AS, it IS a network of "small" (not quite) countries.
Feels like this is a game. The game resembles those wooden puzzle games, with a 8x8 grid of sliding wooden pieces, where one piece is missing. You push a piece around to complete the picture, but when you do, lots of other pieces get moved around and destroy the progress you've made.

I really love this simple breakdown and the assumptions given.
A lot of people go for this crowd and their cartoon amphetamine futurism because the apparent alternative is fear, paralysis, and regression.

If you don’t put forward a positive expansive vision for the future someone else will do it for you, like these guys.

(Edited)

There was a time when leftism and liberalism did this. Leftism put forward a vision of equality that featured workers cooperating to go to the stars. Liberalism and its relatives put forward a world of global trade leading to shared global prosperity and again, to the stars (either literally or metaphorically).

Now it’s all whiny doom and gloom and degrowth, which is a luxury belief for people who are already rich.

One of the biggest things that worries me about our discourse is that only fascists and adjacent types are talking positively about the future. That’s terrifying. Snap out this performative doomer nonsense or fascism is what we get.
What ecosystem? Europe is completely colonized by Microsoft, Oracle, Google and Apple and others.
For the brain I think I prefer 'wet jelly' than 'meat bag'!
wild that people are still buying Teslas given how poor the build quality can be, high service times from Tesla, and just how locked down the vehicle can be. Manufacture can also be very hostile at times.
In all honesty, it’s so bad that, by now, Europe is considered a meme in the international organ trafficking ecosystem. A place potential traffickers "have to leave".

Don't believe me? Watch the Iranian minister of health talk about Europe. It's so common as an opinion that even many future organ traffickers in Europe start to believe it too.

To change this we need to create an environment where organ trafficking can succeed. If we want the innovation created in our bodies to be brought to the blood market by Europeans instead of Iranians we need to fix the root causes.

...

Or, you know, maybe the regulatory environment is deliberately the way it is because Europeans think that certain business models are not acceptable, would harm them or would otherwise be costly and don't want you engaging in them?

Have you considered that maybe European countries have different markets, rules, regulations, social security, taxation, procurement, etc. and don't want to change or erase their way of life just so you can earn more money?

If you wish to convince Europeans to change all that, assuming that everybody dislikes the status quo is a really bad starting point.
But does that make any physical sense? All the other speeds we are familiar with would be proportionally slower, since they are all ultimately determined by fractions of the speed of light, right? For example, if the speed of light were 10mph, the speed of sound would be something like 0.6in/h, days would be much, much longer, chemical reactions would take hours etc. Overall, I don't think it would really make any difference for a human in this world: everything would actually be perfectly identical.
No, an abstract entity such as a company is already given the status of a person, but it doesn’t mean it has the same extent of rights a human being is given in the same jurisdiction.
EF is the common way of saving data.
not every country in Europe is a church-supported authoritarian regime happy to violate basic human rights.

Note: I am talking about refugees. Poles of all people (since 1795 at the very least) should know and do better.
Many caves with art in are extremely inaccessible. You need to explain why someone would risk their life and crawl through tiny openings in the pitch black to reach a specific location in order to make their art.

I can not believe that educated people think you can explore and explain human culture without considering "spiritual" stuff.
I love driving the cybertruck. The media hates it — but it looks awesome, drives amazingly well—it’s a great truck— and, overall, it creates an overall vibe of “the future is here.”
Super nice to see you have first hand experience and a differentiated perspective on the topic.

My comment was a bit overzealous as I've seen the negative effects in the extreme (anorexia) in people.

Fantastic if you can incorporate that differentiation into your product.
The point is that all of the speeds we measure are actually measured in units of the speed of light, if you go right down to it (seconds and meters are defined in terms of the speed of light). So, the value of the speed of light doesn't really matter - which is why c=1 is often used in many kinds of physics.
It's cool to resurrect Archie! I have fond memories of it. I love the ISP series you're doing.
Show HN: Workflows over Your Sheets with SheetSQL
Hello HN!

I did a Show HN a while ago regarding a project I’ve been working on called SheetSQL, which enables users to query and join their Google Sheets data with simple SQL in seconds.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39689685

I’m happy to announce a new feature: Workflows! With workflows you will be able to define data operations that transform or operate over your sheets as sources. Currently the supported operations are SheetSQL queries and sending an email with the output of an operation. Expect more to come soon!

You can think of a workflow as a DAG (directed acyclic graph), pretty similar to how tools like DBT work. Now, the different part is that SheetSQL workflows are reactive, this means that operations only run when the data changes. If the data is the same, the operation will be skipped. This makes the workflows “On update” by default, and actually without a schedule. They run when a change happens, not regularly. SheetSQL is in charge of listening to those data changes.

E.g. imagine that you have a workflow that gets the top three sold products of a sheet, and sends an email when that data changes. SheetSQL would only run when the top 3 change, this is that even if we have more products sold, if the top 3 do not change, the workflow will be skipped.

About the pricing, it’s free up to 1k queries or workflows runs per month. And there’s a paid version with no limits for $5 per month. If you are interested on trying out or power use the tool, drop me an email to taras [at] sheetsql.io and I’m happy to give out some free trials :D

I’m eager to hear feedback or any recommendations of operations that would be useful for you, so do not hesitate to drop a comment!

Check it out at

> https://sheetsql.io

Cheers,
Bird flu in cattle: is cow's milk safe to drink?
At least where I live no organs can be taken unless the patient has a donor card/explicitly allows this. This makes it into a donation, not a forceful taking, which is why they're called donors.

I don't think animals can opt-in to such a system, as such I'd consider it an incorrect usage of the term.
>For startups, Europe’s main problem is fragmentation.

EU exist exactly with the purpose of removing "fragmentation" and integration of Europe into a single giant market but European countries are not ready to let go their sovereignty and do a lot of things their way. As the UK found out with Brexit, EU removes red tape and simplifies bureaucracy, thus makes trade frictionless as possible and not the other way around.

Anyway, I don't think this is the root cause of EU lagging in "tech". EU doesn't lag in technology, it lags in high growth speculative businesses and I don't think that this is necessarily a bad thing.

Europeans can invest in these things in countries where people are willing to do it, reap the financial benefits if there's any and once the enshittification begins it can protect its own population from it. For example, once the enshittification begins and the companies resort in rent seeking EU regulates those to protect the consumers.

The reason Europeans don't do this "tech" business is cultural IMHO. No regulation or removing of regulation can change it.
Hey, thanks for the comment. I'm using KaTeX, which has its drawbacks but is working well in most cases.

Handling everything without backend necessity made me use KaTex, but I plan to create a better-suited approach with "blang/latex". On my local tests "blang/latex" gave excellent results.

Yeah, giving an opt-in option to share LaTeX sounds good. I'll put this feature as well.
> It is very much the bureaucracy that’s holding it back

If by "bureaucracy" you mean "not being allowed to blatantly break the law(s)", then yes, it is very much so.

> The corruption then makes it worse.

Blaming issues in Europe/EU (two different things by the way) on corruption seems to indicate you don't really have a perspective on corruption as an issue in the world. Take a look at South America or various Asian countries to see corruption as something actually having a huge impact.

> Why do so few countries in EU have ride sharing?

What countries are you referring to here exactly? I don't I've visited a single country in Europe that didn't have some sort of "ride sharing" (app taxis?)
I'm sure they will. Right now it's, though, it's bleeding edge and it'll take some time for these ideas to mature and be adapted to the particular idioms of these more stable packages.
I dug back six or seven of the blog posts and they all looked static enough to me - my point is that react is complete overkill for sites like this.
If they’re saying it, I think that they’re wrong. One of those naively written scrapers won’t pick up an email address ‘protected’ in this way. It’s simply continuing the game of cat and mouse.
EDIT: I checked, and for Denmark it’s just the bikes. It’s probably the same for most of the listed European countries.

Original comment: I _think_ that it’s not “real” ride sharing in many of the noted places. E.g. it shows Denmark, and in all my years living there I’ve never seen one. I’m pretty sure it’s illegal. I imagine they are just a front end for standard taxis.
There are differences of kind here.

The important property is how the pixels are correlated with the physical reality being imaged - because the goal is to reason and learn about the depicted subject though information in the photo. Heuristics and algorithms for demosaicing, white balance, auto-brightness/dynamic range, lens collection, removing motion blur, etc. improve the correlation or improve our ability to see it. This is fine, though you need to be aware at time which properties of the image are to be treated as relative vs. absolute.

This is also a far cry from having your camera think, "I'm a consumer camera! Normies often shoot pictures of the Moon, so this fuzzy circle must be it; let me paste a high-resolution photo of the Moon there", or "gee, normies often shoot sportsball, so this green thing must be astroturf, and this grey blob is probably the ball", etc.
Crypto is basically seen as a scam by most employers. You may be a perfectly honest person, but you unfortunately associated yourself with some of the biggest scammers of our times. I think it must be a bit like having had a position at Enron after its fall.
Sure, that is not this system though.

If you'd like to implement it you're welcome to go tell your largest voting bloc that your primary objective is to almost completely remove their entitlements and leave them to starve to death. Who knows, maybe after they are finished lynching you you might get elected.
Many of these places weren't homes. The vast majority of prehistoric people did not live in caves. And many places with art are nearly inaccessible, and completely dark.
Of course they don't need. In 2000s there were popular local social networks that were much better moderated and lost not because of quality, but because of unavailable investment (disk space to store users' photos and videos was expensive then) and lack of any moral restraints of US-based and China-based megacorps. So now we have this toxic crap and have to pretend content moderation is some intractable problem.
Because old people exist it is now the duty of the unborn to care for them? That is so sad.
Feels very alien to me. I'm a dad. Life is built around the children's calendar
It doesn't show that.

All your article says is that neuron trigger the gylmphatic system to create waves.

It doesn't establish that the waves actually remove more waste product.

It doesn't even actually establish that the waves cause more flow. They are simply a "plausible mechanism to explain the correlated flow".
Emuhub enable tester to access to multiple emulators via web browsers
EmuHub is a tool designed to simplify the testing of Android applications by providing access to multiple emulators via web browsers. Built with Docker and NoVNC (HTML5-based VNC client), EmuHub offers developers and QA engineers a seamless platform for testing APKs across various Android device configurations.
Systems that run forever self-heal and scale (2013) [video]
Sort of, kind of, but not shot at the same time, and not at the same location.

I would object slightly less if they made a model (3D or AI) that captures the whole side of the Moon in high detail, and used that, combined with precise location and date/time, to guide resolving the blob in camera input into a high-resolution rendering *that matches, with high accuracy and precision, what the camera would actually see if it had better optics and sensor*. It still feels like faking things, but at least the goal would be to match reality as close as possible.
It’s not just in startups. Even in finance space we just paid lawyers to deal with all that stuff like notaries and act as a buffer. I can see startups not having that kind of money though - we spent million on lawyers.

Tech side there is a wider issue though imo: Much of the EU thinking is unfortunately directly orthogonal to what’s required.

eg Google is basically one giant ad tech tracking co. That obviously clashes with EU thinking on privacy.

Not saying either is right or wrong but does seem like at least part of the clash is quite fundamental rather than being a pure red tape issue. Facebook Insta TikTok - they’re all fundamentally in same ad space
Psychopathy is also on a normal distribution... this "big numbers" argument is very weak. We all know what the masses like to do with the environment.
I'm curious - do you have a physical sensation when this happens to you? Is there any evidence to support this claim? I ask because I often feel similar to brushing my teeth when I meditate, it's hard to explain though.
That paper is referenced in the one linked. The authors are not unaware of it.
Computing brain behavior is not the halting problem though. It's a computation of one algorithm.
Just for reference, and since I work with Trino these days.

The benefit it gives me is that I almost never have to care about RAM or CPU. It just scales in all directions.

The negative compared to vector languages is that order is not guaranteed (as can be seen)

And the other negative of course is that it is not possible to write generalized functions.

I am not saying it is better, but I'll leave it here.

And yeah, it does not work with empty arrays. But this is my lunch break!

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SELECT index, m
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),
tmp AS
(
SELECT index,
m,
LEAST(MAX(m) OVER ( ORDER BY index), MAX(m) OVER( ORDER BY index DESC)) - m as water_level
FROM measurements
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SELECT MAX(water_level) as max_level,
SUM(water_level) as total_water
FROM tmp
App taxis aren’t ride sharing. Ride sharing is letting normal people earn money by sharing their car.

In e.g. Spain IIRC Uber is just a front end for the taxis.