skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you go against what people voted for, isn't it denying democracy and the votes of the people ?

No. An explicit feature of a representative democracy is that the will of the majority can be ignored.

The EU isn't a direct democracy where people can vote on particular issues, they vote on national parties, which send representatives to create EU wide parties.
I see this kind of thing very frequently and it feels like pandering - no one that is busy working 996 will see your advice and everyone that isn't definitely appreciates the reassurance that they're doing the right thing by taking a break.

As a counterpoint, I worked 7 days a week for the last 2 years (tail end of my PhD) and although I don't recommend it to anyone (my health and well-being suffered) I have maintained high productivity the entire way through. I continued to have "aha shower moments". And if you think I'm lying, I'm exaggerating how much I work, I'll just say, start to finish my PhD took exactly 3 years and 2 months (first year was lighter because it was mostly coursework).

I recently graduated and started as a senior in industry and I plan to keep up the pace for the next 1-2 years in order to reach principal.
Emitting Radio Waves from a Computer with No Radio-Transmitting Hardware
Ask HN: How do you use SEO?
Hi everyone!

From my personal experience, SEO is only worth doing when you have validated your idea and want to generate constant traffic to your website. From what I understand it requires some time for any SEO effort to generate results, hence only being worth doing when your idea is validated.

What do you think? Am I missing something? Do you have a different view on it?
Humans are animals, not plants or mushrooms.
> In fact when you look at any typical modern fertility correlation explanation, they all really just fall apart under the slightest of scrutiny. Education/income stuff? Look at Thailand - extremely low education, extremely low income, extremely low fertility - even lower than Japan! So what is the real driving factor? It seems clear that if people believe 'true happiness' is just one 'thing' away, then they are motivated to continue chasing those things. Children don't really have a place in this sort of world - as they simply imperil your ability to pursue that sort of perceived happiness.

Don’t they correlate with access women’s rights and access to contraception?

I see a very strong correlation with the ability for a woman to live on her own and/or the ability for a woman to access healthcare that prevents her from having to give birth with fertility rate declines.

There is clearly a mismatch between the near term costs of pregnancy/childbirth/infant rearing and the long term benefits of having kids. Humans are unique in that they are the only species (I think) that can analyze and opt out of the mechanism by which evolution propagates the species.

I also don’t know how representative Russia is because broad availability and use of very effective and “easy” birth control (IUD/pills) took place in more recent decades. And according to Wikipedia, Russia did roll back women’s rights to only allowing abortion at 12 weeks (passed 2011):

> During the 2000s, Russia's steadily falling population (due to both negative birthrates and low life expectancy) became a major source of concern, even forcing the military to curtail conscription due to shortages of young males. On 21 October 2011, the Russian Parliament passed a law restricting abortion to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, with an exception up to 22 weeks if the pregnancy was the result of rape, and for medical necessity it can be performed at any point during pregnancy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Russia
Basically he’s overloaded, can no longer supports the whole site on his own and there it goes the shutdown.
Should I be building everything that the designers give me on Figma?
Lately, I have been working with designers to redesign our application.

The designs they create look interesting, but whenever I take a closer look, I see elements that are not industry-standard practices or are not feasible. If they are feasible, the implementation is often hacky.

For example, using ellipses at the start of a input box when the user has typed the entire length and is still typing, or havind a scrollbar outside an overflowing div.

These designs drive me crazy. I get frustrated seeing these designs. Am I right to criticize, or should I implement them in a hacky way?
Can't EU be terrible, just because those ideas get this far?
If you read
>The EU (as often) is being used here as a scapegoat for anti-democratic policies desired by national governments.
as
>The EU (as often) is being used here as a scapegoat for anti-democratic policies desired by democratically elected national governments.

This is a perfectly fine statement. The policy is argued to be anti-democratic because of its substance, not because of how democratic the process is by which it is adopted.

A measure with broad popular support can be anti-democratic, a measure only supported by a small portion of the population can be pro-democratic. It's orthogonal and if anything there is an inverse correlation.
Thanks to both comments.
The problem Apple's walled garden is that they don't mainly use criminal law but technology to protect it. Nothing really keeps you from legally jail breaking your iphone, but it's a painful process and staying up-to-date is a constant cat and mouse game with iOS devs.

Only competition law can force them to open up properly.
> Twins occur in only one percent of elephant births and male-female are even more rare, according to Save the Elephants, a research organisation.

1% is "rare", I guess, but I'm not sure exactly why it's newsworthy. About 3% of human births are twins, so twin elephant births aren't much rarer.
You thought you had it bad, you can look forward to some royal enshittification now!

PS: (pun intended)
What isn't measured isn't managed.
The Challenge of AI Is Reliability
AI is everywhere now, from chatbots to self-driving cars; it's on everyone's lips. On LinkedIn, the number of AI experts has skyrocketed, even if their so-called expertise is often limited to knowing how to use ChatGPT, Midjourney, or any other AI tool. The hype is strong, which is good for the AI industry, but it also creates a lot of confusion. People think AI is magic—that it can solve any problem, that it can do anything. But the reality is that AI is not magic; it's just a tool, and like any tool, it has its limitations.
Was travelling through Sassnitz / Rugen last year and the restaurants we visited didn't accept cards. We had to run around late trying to find an ATM the first evening. And that is a tourist region even..
Maybe talk to the designer?
I don't have experience with SSO. It's a typical feature SaaS tries to charge extra for (https://www.enterpriseready.io/#features). Maybe they don't have an add-on feature in their billing app.
Reading the manual.
Another detail is that Chinese people generally retire at 50, and turning 50 prompted the author to reevaluate what they were doing and write this post.
It is most definitely not the same in any manner other than being a prompt for a response and not just a weird sentence floating in a void. What would a reasonable response be? “Cool story, bro?”
Is there a convenient listing of the timeframe of cosmic events?

I have a poor sense of when we’re talking hours, years, decades, millennia, MA, GA. Might make for a really cool static website project.

Same with geologic events, too!
> Swift Playgrounds is an exception too. Apple trusts itself to use JIT compilation safely, but not third-party developers. That’s not unreasonable — but I’m not sure it’s compliant with the DMA.

> That’s not unreasonable

Is Gruber paid by Apple?
> most importantly: your full contact information

Note that unless T-Online has additional requirements here this doesn't need to be your home address but only a valid mail address through which you can be reached.
The vast majority of the budget is just transfers from one person to another. (Social security, welfare, medicaid, etc.) Doesn’t make much more sense to compare this to infrastructure spending than it makes to compare the cost of maintenance on the bank building to the total value of the payments it processes.
I am using the "Tasks" Plugin in Obsidian, but just supporting a checklist that appears in a specific location would also be sufficient for me.

But Obsidian will probably be quite a difficult destination as it's working locally - in your position I would try and support the hosted tools (Asana, Notion, ...) first as that's probably easier to adapt to your current flows.
Shit, I never thought about that
In my last job, we did both and used the latter as part of our pitch to migrate customers to newer architecture. In order to justify the R&D, you have to show a benefit to your margins or the time spent has less value. Not everyone will share the savings with their customers, which is why doing it is good for sales. Show the customer you care about their spend and not just your own.
You're right to criticize, but talk to the team/lead to get clarification/direction.

If you have valid concerns, then it's a teaching lesson for the designer.

Good luck!
Yes. That is the point of the article.

> Jerk and snap can be observed in various areas of physics and engineering. In physics and engineering jerk and snap should always be considered when vibration occurs and particularly when this excitation induces multi-resonant modes of vibration. They should also be considered at all times when a transition occurs such as: start up and shutdown; take-off and landing; and accelerating and decelerating.

> Acceleration without jerk is just a static load, and therefore constant acceleration alone could never cause vibration. In a machine shop, a toolmaker can damage the mill or the job if the setup starts vibrating. This vibration happens because of jerk and snap.

> In mechanical engineering it is important in automotive design to ensure that the cam-follower does not jump off the camshaft. It is also important in manufacturing processes as rapid changes in acceleration of a cutting tool can lead to premature tool wear and result in an uneven and rough surface finish.

> In civil engineering railway train tracks and roads should be designed for a smooth exit from a straight section into a curve, and it is common to use a transition called a clothoid, which is part of a Cornu spiral (also referred to as an Euler spiral). When a clothoid is implemented the change in acceleration is not abrupt and the levels of jerk and possibly snap are significantly reduced. If the transition between different radii of curvature is sudden, the transition is uncomfortable for passengers and potentially dangerous as it could cause the car or train to be thrown off the road or track. With good physics design engineers are attempting to produce a gradual jerk and constant snap, which gives a smooth increase in radial acceleration, or preferably a zero snap, constant jerk, and linear increase in radial acceleration. Just as road and railway engineers design out jerk and snap using the clothoid transition so, too, do roller coaster designers when they design loops and helices for the roller coasters [11, 12].
That’s a great table. Thanks

Edit: doesn’t look accurate to me? ChatGPT def has an api. And phi 3 weights are available.
The experiment the piece refers to is interesting, but the conclusions appear to be incorrect according to the experiment. Universe 25 is about overpopulation, not the dangers of a paradise. The utopia did work well as one until the mouse pen got too crowded - it's a warning against high density living, not necessarily against a stereotypically utopian lifestyle.

https://www.the-scientist.com/universe-25-experiment-69941
https://flowery.app is exclusively a PWA. It was designed from the ground up to prioritize the “Add to Home Screen” experience on iOS. The web is the ideal platform given the app’s emphasis on text and typography, and a native replica would be reinventing the wheel for no tangible benefit to the user.

WebKit and Safari have come a long way. Flowery puts browser engines through their paces with its UI animation, which is smoothest on WebKit. Safari’s OS integration (e.g., elastic scroll, Sonoma’s “Add to Dock”) is more polished than Chrome’s.

It wasn’t a walk in the park though. An early decision, after maddening attempts to circumvent browser quirks five years ago, was to build substitutes for common building blocks of the browser on mobile, notably the virtual keyboard, textboxes, and text selection. This wouldn’t have been possible without web components and Google’s excellent Lit library.
Show HN: My First SaaS, Create RSS Feeds from Your Spotify Activity
Hi HN,

I'm excited to share TuneFeed, my first SaaS. It's a tool I created to help you share your Spotify activity through RSS feeds.

TuneFeed lets you generate RSS feeds from your Spotify listening activity, whether it's your current listens, listening history, or specific playlists.

I posted on the blog recently, on how you can showcase your Spotify activity on your GitHub Profile.

Currently I'm waiting for the App approval from Spotify, but I can add 25 users to test it out. A free month of the Pro plan is included.

I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions!

Thanks,
Felipe
Im not sure if flagging those topics didn't escalate echo chambers even more.
When I read 'React testing library' I thought they had added an official testing library to the React project which would have been fantastic and a worthwhile migration target for sure, sad that it's just another third party one which also might one day stop supporting newer React versions
Thank you! I really appreciate it!
This isn't news to any logician or people working in formal methods. More like a mathematician getting his head around what has been thought about for decades, if not centuries.

Also, -1 for not mentioning Leibniz equality.
> People who buy Apple devices are sheep who don't want competition. They want Apple to curate applications for them.

The only Apple products I own is a iPhone and a €5 2007 MacBook which I refurbished from a flea-market for fun. Never had one, I would use it more but the coil-whine is annoying.

I don't like Google devices, nor really support Google as a whole.
So I'm stuck with an iPhone, my real preference would be nothing however do we live in that world anymore; lesser of two evils.

Google curates applications too. My device is jail-broken which is why I do want a second store.

Why should Apple be the only store?

> because you're trying to spy on all online communication and track everyone.

How is the EU trying to spy on all online communication different than the US trying to spy on all online communication?

Any country anywhere wants to spy on online communication. It's not like this is new or the first attempt at such from the world.
2x daily 30 mile commute sounds like a (relatively) substantial risk to me? Driving is already more or less the most dangerous activity most people engage in nowadays, tolerated by long acclimatization and sheer utility.

Moreover, people generally perceive things in which they (theoretically) have more control over as safer - You can control/mitigate the risk you undertake as a driver to some extent (drive slower, bigger gaps, etc), not so for a random bridge collapse.
Not to mention the possible savings if you just don't switch to whatever the latest testing framework is your resume driven developers want. 100% time savings!
> have every idiot on the Internet know their personal address

It doesn't have to be your personal address though.

I'm somewhat mixed about the details of the law, but requiring businesses to make it clear who you are dealing with makes sense to me.
They don't listen. They say do it later if not now.
They say there are benefits of changing the default way.
Wholeheartedly agree. But we (as a society) have neglected the environment for far too fucking long now, some inconvenience for tiny gains is valid until we start seeing societal and environmental improvements.
It’s best to get ahead of these issues.

I don’t know if $759 counts as “massive” but you can get a refurbished M1 MacBook Air (warranty + AppleCare eligible) from Apple: https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac
The issue of chat control is also orthogonal to it's "democracy". It is neither democratic nor anti-democratic. It obviously in no way invalidates people's rights to determine their government, labeling arbitrary issues as "anti-democratic" just because you don't like them is very unhelpful.
https://archive.fo/SgCxt
this is the same as dimensions
In the proposal, they write that the service providers have to figure out a way to make the false positives reported to the police "minimal". This is obviously a major burden to put on the service providers, in effect completely excluding all small outfits (and I'm sceptical the large companies want to deal with this either).

Germany have had some similar tech in place according to Der Spiegel, but the entire increase in positives was found out to be legal dickpics and flirty messages between teenagers etc. The only result was that the police now have a huge database of teenager's naked pictures and kids on the beach, which can hardly be a good way to minimize pedophile activity.

It will be a shitshow beyond comprehension if this eventually gets implemented.
Write barriers aren't just for durability - they also can even out major latency spikes when bloated buffers ultimately must be flushed. Database, filesystem, RAID, device, flash management and individual chips all become saturated at some point. Managing performance at the database engine layer gives you visibility into the issue at a high level as opposed to rolling merrily along until commits start taking 2000 ms. As an example, ZFS is terrifyingly unpredictable at high loads.
Are you implying Apple should limit Apple-made apps on the iPhone?
Exactly that. I think GPT-4o has demonstrated those abilities, but since they haven’t enabled image output yet we can only hope.
Someone will still have to review and validate all the tests, which may take more time than rewriting the code.
Has it been shown that the hype cycle is just Dunning Kruger effect for populations? I feel like every cycle starts with the experts standing on mount stupid confidently explaining how radical this new thing is going to be.
Well I wish this was the case as well. Most developers writing apps are making them a for a company/employer. Try to telling whoever you work for to ignore iOS for moral/ethical reasons. Companies and even independent devs are just trying to make money. Also if a company or dev says no I am not going to jump through your crazy hoops Apple. Apple is not going to care some other company or dev will. It won't really effect apples bottom line much if at all. Entities publishing apps are a disparate group there is no coordination, Apple a single entity that also has the private cryptographic keys for these horribly locked down devices. So apple basically holds all the cards here when dealing with a non-coordinated of people and companies making apps. The only way Apple would care is you could some how basically get almost everyone to boycott making Apple apps.

It also does not help that most users don't understand that the way the device is locked down really limits their ability to truly own their device. Even those that have some understanding of how apple is basically infringing on the owners right of exclusion by not letting them load their own boot ROM and/or OS keys to sign OSes/apps themselves or sideload. Some how think that this being prevented is a good thing cause "security". Like what? You can't trust yourself, but will trust Apple okay then...
They should or allow other developers to use the same features.
Read the other recent discussion on Debian moving to mount /tmp as tmpfs in upcoming stable release. It’s just confusing at the least if not a bad idea outright that systemd-tmpfiles goes out to delete files in /tmp regardless of how and by whom files were created. /tmp is a shared folder.
Jerk (how fast acceleration changes) is useful. I've found being a passenger in newer electric buses to pose more challenges than ICE buses because EVs can change their acceleration so rapidly. While their maximum acceleration isn't very high, they can go from standstill to accelerating in a split second, toppling anyone standing unless they hold on to something. ICEs need more time to reach maximum acceleration. In other words, EVs jerk more.
From the article:

> Our initiative began with a monumental task of converting more than 15,000 Enzyme test cases, which translated to more than 10,000 potential engineering hours

That's a lot of editing.
>Selfhosting?

I presumed self hosting a chat service becomes illegal with these laws?
I've (with help of ChatGPT) written an email that I've sent to all representatives. Feel free to use it!

To: info.belgoeurop@diplobel.fed.be, mission.brusselseu@bg-permrep.eu, eu.brussels@embassy.mzv.cz, brurep@um.dk, info@bruessel-eu.diplo.de, permrep.eu@mfa.ee, irlprb@dfa.ie, mea.bruxelles@rp-grece.be, reper.bruselasue@reper.maec.es, courrier.bruxelles-dfra@diplomatie.gouv.fr, hr.perm.rep@mvep.hr, rpue.rpue@esteri.it, cy.perm.rep@mfa.gov.cy, permrep.eu@mfa.gov.lv, office@eu.mfa.lt, bruxelles.rpue@mae.etat.lu, sec.beu@mfa.gov.hu, maltarep@gov.mt, bre@minbuza.nl, bruessel-ov@bmeia.gv.at, bebrustpe@msz.gov.pl, reper@mne.pt, bru@rpro.eu, slomission.eu@gov.si, eu.brussels@mzv.sk, sanomat.eue@formin.fi, representationen.bryssel@gov.se

Subject: Urgent: Chat Control
Dear Representative,

I am writing to express my deep concerns regarding Chat Control. As a citizen of the European Union, I am committed to safeguarding our fundamental rights and freedoms, particularly the right to privacy and the protection of personal data.

The Chat Control Chat Control poses several significant risks:

Invasion of Privacy: The proposed measures would lead to the mass surveillance of private communications, undermining the privacy of all EU citizens. This broad surveillance is disproportionate and infringes on our fundamental right to private correspondence.

Security Risks: Weakening encryption to facilitate the monitoring of communications makes all users more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Encryption is essential for protecting sensitive data, including financial information, personal communications, and sensitive business data.

Potential for Abuse: Granting authorities the power to monitor private communications without adequate checks and balances can lead to misuse and abuse of power. This undermines trust in both governmental and digital platforms.

Stifling Innovation: Chat Control could have a chilling effect on tech innovation within the EU. Companies may be discouraged from developing new technologies or offering their services in the EU due to increased regulatory burdens and privacy concerns.

I urge you to oppose Chat Control and advocate for solutions that protect children online without compromising the privacy and security of all citizens. Alternatives such as targeted interventions, improved digital literacy, and support for responsible online behavior are more effective and less intrusive ways to achieve these goals.

Protecting the privacy and security of our digital communications is crucial for maintaining trust in the digital economy and upholding the values of the European Union. I hope you will consider these points and vote against Chat Control.

Thank you for your attention to this critical matter.

Yours sincerely,
[your name/address/etc.]

If you are outside the EU, change the first paragraph to:

I am writing to express my deep concern regarding the proposed Chat Control legislation, despite not being a resident of the European Union. As someone who values privacy and security in digital communications, I believe this legislation has far-reaching implications that extend beyond the borders of the EU.
What ideas are you talking about for example?