skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A simple app (e.g. a wordpress plugin) that would load some nice elements of a web page above the fold ... then load the rest of the web page after ... something that would lower time to first byte, first contentful paint and time to interactive.
"to proper autotools" ah yes, the usual "you're holding it wrong" defense

No, another hack on top of the auto-* ecosystem won't make things better. CMake's problems are cmakes's problems, but it doesn't make autostuff better in any way

But please tell me again why do I need a buildsystem that needs to check if I have Fortran or if I'm running AIX under MIPS again?

Makefile only is crude but it can work fine if your target is the usual distros and your project is small (read: less trouble than autotools)
More like pre-agriculture. There is evidence of legally-recognized union between man and woman going back over 5000 years, right at the beginnings of both history and of law. And there is strong case for socially-recognized exclusivity of partners dating much further back, right up until the first seasonally-permanent settlements which to our knowledge coincide with agriculture.
That kind of goes to the wrong end of the solution for me: Run-of-the-mill phones should be hardened, ultra-secure devices. We all have a right to privacy and security.
> Most real-world code (by number of codes and lines of code) is something else than C/C++ nowadays, just because of developer velocity and a larger hiring pool.

This is simply not true. Examples of major software that is being actively developed:

- Lots of compilers/runtimes (gcc, LLVM (which Rust builds upon), Java/JDK/JVM, Swift, node.js)
- All major browsers and browser engines (Chrome/Chromium, Firefox, WebKit) and thus Electorn
- Lots of rich client applications using either some Windows API, or something like Qt, or Electron (JS + C++)
- Major game engines such as Unreal, Frostbite, CryEngine
- Major OS'es graphics API build upon C++: Microsoft's Direct3D, Apple's Metal

And this is completely ignoring the embedded world, where C++ competes at least at some higher level with C.

All of this requires C++ engineers.
Something to convert from one date to other, but with timezone names used by humans. For example:

"today 17:00 Pacific in UTC" should be accepted.

There are other time zones too: I've seen "PDT", "Mountain", and so on.
The `date` tool doesn't always understand what those are. That's a bummer because neither do I, and that's why I need this tool.
(rip)grep S3 super fast
> Do you toss around your laptops?

Yes.

> Do you keep dropping your laptop?

Yes.

> My question is what is the use of such a build quality

Travel. As a former on-the-road consultant my laptops have taken all kinds of beatings - spills, inconsiderate recliners, drops etc. A (small) part of my preference for Apple machines is that they can be replaced with something basically identical almost anywhere in the world almost immediately by visiting either a first or third party store when something bad happens. Even commercial warranties with on-site support don’t get that good.
How about removing actors that have tweeted 300 times Every Day for 5 years.

This is 19 tweets every waking hour for 5 years.

Tweet every 3 minutes for 5 years.

https://twitter.com/ambrowoll
the "current thing" must be destroyed at all costs
The point about how people can perceive skeletons differently and how that can affect the emotional impact is interesting, but it's not like the underlying problems have been solved, even the ones posited by the site:

1. When you looked at the Loading Spinner, did you know how much time remains to complete?
2. How much of the content has loaded?
3. How much remains to load?

You don't know how much time loading your data will take, you don't know how much of it has been loaded and how much remains, at least most of the time. You probably aren't going to spend a bunch of resources on adding information about the sizes of all of your API endpoints (or even averages if you can't do per-request), aggregating all of the endpoints that might need to be hit for some component to be displayed and visualizing it.

Most of the time, even the loading spinners can be an afterthought in the face of needing to implement whatever the business requirements are. That's also why the fake loading bars that get slower towards the end were popular for a while.

In my mind, use whatever is easy and feels good to you; spinners, loading bars or even skeletons. Don't just leave your users hanging with no visual feedback. The rest is just details.
My dad was severely disabled and in a good care home (after joining a wait list and having his sister as his advocate) for some years when part of his insurance ran out, requiring me and a sibling to begin paying part of the monthly bill. Shortly afterward the nurses in the home sent him to the hospital where I went to pay him a visit. This happened somewhat regularly, he would be temporarily sent to a hospital after an incident and then sent back to the care home. He seemed normal enough to me, and in fairly good spirits. But this time he did not get sent back to the home, instead the hospital called me and said my dad was in a life threatening condition and might die shortly. I went to the hospital again and visited with him and he seemed more tired but still not too different from himself. But the nurses and doctor nevertheless asserted that he was close to death. We ultimately agreed to put him in palliative care where he soon passed away. Looking back I sometimes feel that I implicitly agreed to euthanize my dad. And that if he were still fully insured that he would have been sent back to the care home as normal. His life at the time was painful no doubt but the more I think of it the more I feel like this incident was a contrivance to clear his room for the next guest who had insurance. I had no clue of the legal going ons around euthanasia at the time, my thoughts on this are not effected by any of that. It may have been more humane to euthanize my dad from some perspective as well. But the real trigger to his demise was perhaps simply the hospital's knowledge of his financial situation, as communicated to them by his care home.
Thinkpad P52 here. Touchpad is good. Better than on my work MacBook Pro (2019) actually and very similar to touchpad on my own Air (2015).
> so rather than lowering my fees (never do that)

Seriously underrated advise. If they magically find funding for you to go back to full time again they will not be so quick to return you to your original rate not because they don't like you or anything but because accounting witchcraft. Always make sure they never degrade your pay. If they want to pay you for less hours fine.
The process by which you came to hear about this particular spin of this particular roulette wheel was far from random.
Without signing NDA they would be able to (rightfully) pledge stupidity.
How is this different to tail -f ?
I got lazy and installed https://github.com/ryanmjacobs/c . (Other than that, I intend to learn Zig including its C++ build capabilities.)
> and how EU and other countries are talking nothing about the use of this.

Because they are all customers themselves.

It’s just that these countries start crying when they get hit with their own medicine.
I wonder if the issue is not even worse. If I was an intelligence agency that wanted to listen in on some world leaders, I would not (only) target the devices of the PM/President etc., but on the PAs and bureaucrats in the vicinity. I suspect they would likely be easier targets and one would get as much interesting information from them as from the world leader themself.
> The mega-trend - IMO - in all this is a fostered neoteny (extended juvenile period) where our expectations are that someone should service our desires. Its such an irresponsible and weak position - it doesn't even register as a possibility to the younger generation that they should be able to sort things out on their own - benevolent tech companies should do it instead. Even a date is too much apparently.

Sorry, I don't buy this. Even working in the tech field, buying a house with your salary is really tough. And it only goes downhill for other types of jobs. So this "fostered neoteny" is just young people not feeling financially secure to start a traditional family. You can't possibly sort out generational financial insecurity on your own.
Taking time to think and consider lowers your risks to harm yourself and others but:

Anything you believe that have loose variables with irreproducible outcome is false belief.

Those false belief are decisive when built properly, and you need them for functioning, but never ever rely on them for more than that.
Yes sure, but the requirements for normal consumers are much lower than for any high profile individual. It all comes down to cost vs. need. Think of the security of the average home users wifi network vs. the networks of a small company. The latter will have to be more hardened and also spend the money for that.
> The traffic doesn't look like something like headless Chrome was used

Setting aside the fact that headless chrome or other browser testbeds do a good job at hiding their presence, what could be the vector for a botnet infection if this were true? Extensions?
I loved this article but I can't like it without an account.

> The real thing people should be actively looking for is strong emotional connection, as in: to what degree can I share who I am with this person, do they get it, how interested are they in who I am, my feelings and thoughts, can we accommodate each other’s preferences, are we good at talking.

I am in an hopefully now lifelong relationship, that almost failed at some point, but what brought us back together is this. So very true. We just "got" each other, from pretty early on, and although it can be crafted through years, it's just a bliss when it's spontaneous. And finding that level of connection (of course strengthened through the years together) again looks impossible.

(And if they stalk my account, I love you :) )
not gonna lie, as far as i can tell every single one of these things has predated social media and online dating. the cycles are just faster and the ratios shifting, but it's roughly all the same stuff just happening faster and with more people involved.
Then you define "want" in a very narrow sense, and there definitely is no evidence to show that it's "social condtioniting", nor that it's a desire shared by (nearly) all men.
CF reinforced fiber is not cheap plastic by any margin.

I've owned alu-slab macbooks (personal) and company-owned thinkpads for a long time.

If you bump the macbook, you get a permanent ding. Nothing happens on the fiber for comparable force (unless you literally crack it).

If you flex the notebook, the alu can be permanently deformed. The "cheapo plastic" will easily take a ton of torsional deformation without complaining.

It's a very functional chassis in my eyes.

And I love the boring look honestly. I'm kind of disappointed that recent models switched to a more grey-bluish look.
date(1) is very close to doing this.

/ You already mentioned it.
Yep, that's what I'm also looking for. I bought the Thinkpad E14 Gen3 not because it was the best I could afford but because it was the best Thinkpad with AMD chips in it. I'd happily chip in +1000 euros for a higher build quality laptop with similar stuff inside.

Something significant has to happen before I buy another Intel/Nvidia combo ever again. I'd much rather suffer the mediocre OS and go to Apple.
Intensive agriculture has been focusing too much on short-term yields, and too little on long-term soil performance.

Plants need nutrients which they normally retrieve from the soil. Natural soil is rich in organic matter and minerals, a product of microorganisms consuming biomass and excrement. Note that it forms a cycle!
Nutritious soil -> Growth -> Death -> Decomposition -> Soil enhancement.
Plants are just the visible part of the cycle. The other part consists of microorganisms.

The use of pesticides, monocultures, and an absence of organic waste material and natural decomposition, effectively kills the microorganisms in the soil. This is what intensive agriculture does. Now, the soil is devoid of nutrients that plants need to grow. So farmers have to use fertilizer to substitute the required organic building blocks.

The problem with this, is that fertilizer just provides the most common organic building blocks. This is enough to grow, but not in the most healthy and fruitful way possible. It's comparable to humans living on a diet of water and rice. They'll survive, but their health will suffer from a lack of nutrients.

Now that intensive agriculture has literally killed the soil, there is no easy way back, and we are dependent on fertilizer to produce food of inferior quality.

Luckily, alternative ways of agriculture are picking up popularity. See for example, biodynamic farming: https://www.biodynamics.com/
Have you experienced a caveat in terms of coding quality?
I study mathematics, and I think it is pretty standard for mathematicians to disregard theoretical run times when experimenting and doing "napkin" computations. Invariably this leads to relatively poor code quality. Speaking from experience, I just failed a coding interview because I solved the question like a mathematician would do, i.e. a quick and dirty way. What is your experience with this phenomenon? I know academics often gets railed lacking concepts in data structures etc.
A very simple tool for transferring files between two computers. Linux <-> Windows should just work, uPnP handling, etc - just a crazy simple way to transfer a file without setting up Dropbox, ftp servers or whatnot!
CTO with hiring experience here, if you provide me with contact details I can also give a honest feedback on what might be wrong with your CV/interview process/experience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love
I think (/would hope) the hardening there would be more in procedures and app installation. The base/OS layer should be secure from intrusion for heads of state or for everyday people, help people make good privacy decisions (with granular permissions), etc.
The first discoverers / owners of many such findings died poor.

The classic example would be Henry Comstock, after whom the Comstock Lode is named. Died broke.

And he didn't even discover it --- he was the second owner, after the Grosh brothers. Who also died broke.

It was Adolph Sutro, after whom the Sutro Baths and Sutro Tower are named who ultimately profited most from the find.

"Colonel" Edwin Drake and Columbus Marion "Dad" Joiner are amongst the other notable names in oil who kicked off major finds (Oil Creek, near Titusville, PA, and the East Texas Oil Field, near Tyler, TX, respectively), who similarly failed to profit spectacularly.

So don't feel too bad.
Just leave some hair somewhere... In the future, kids will clone us and keep us for pets in their garden
Meeting strangers to 'make out' with or 'hook up' with is literally the point of a club. It's been going on ever since humans had festivals and dances. Lets case conservatively 8 - 12k years. What you consider 'trashy' is completely culturally determined, and in this case amusingly bourgeois.

This post is part of a wider trend toward sex negativity. It's not predicated on any major social change - in fact young people are having sex later on average, having fewer sexual partners, and people of all ages are reporting less casual sex (at least in the US). But rather on reactionary moralising.
My company has a 4-day workweek, and personally, this is the best place I've ever worked at. It's an American startup, but about half of us (including) me are from Europe, and communication is very async-friendly.

Here's our post from this April's who's hiring thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30879344
Random: ethylene is psychoactive. Haven’t tried it. But, some evidence that it was the abiogenic gas at the temple of Apollo at Delphi:

Foster, J., & Lehoux, D. (2007). The Delphic oracle and the ethylene-intoxication hypothesis. Clinical Toxicology, 45(1), 85-89.
Not my experience in NL, having worked 4x9 at 3 companies for the past years, only some minor pushback easily set aside.

Might be different at Booking or fintech companies.
Thanks for pointing that out. The Windows 11 dialog does not take any keyboard shortucts. I can't even use Enter or Escape, or switch between the options using arrow keys. This has to be a bug, right. Right?

I think it is literally impossible to exit the program without a mouse, after you did something that requires saving.
Thing is, you need the MHC markers that your dream partner lacks, so the optimal chemical combination would be different for each couple.

And the stuff we use to mask this effect - called perfume - is indeed pretty popular ;)
> sign without reading them.

If you're actually signing, with signature, a legal document without reading it, you reap what you sow. Ticking a checkbox on a site is not the same legally binding agreement that an NDA is.
I assume you're American? Then I'm already confused by the use of the word 'friend' because that could be a person you've been talking to every day for decades or someone you interacted with three times on Twitter. I am honestly lost when someone says 'friend', sometimes it's 'good friend' and I might be persuaded to believe it's what I would call a friend.

To the point, seeing as nearly all universities here are not campus universities (and interestingly, if they're a campus university your housing might still be somewhere else in the city and your friends may as well live in another neighborhood) - do continental Europeans have less (intensive/amount) friends than Americans? (Please disregard my first paragraph now :P). I mean that's pretty hard to measure already - some value quality, some value quantity, and for everyone a certain number feels okay.

Anecdote time. I studied at a university in my home town and made very little friends in my 'class' (as in the year I started) but I formed quite a few better bonds with people in our IRC chatroom and the forums, all having 1-2 years later than I did. So while I might in theory regret mostly hanging out with my highschool (and other) friends, I simply didn't get along very well with the people at university. But I actually did make friends (and also people I enjoy seeing again) at the job I worked at during my studies (and a bit longer).
If you'd have bothered to click on the link that mentions it has been illegally used in 20 countries, you'd have been able to read that. But what's the importance anyway?
I think if anything it underthinks it.

It has turned into a Game Theory kind of problem.

Dating sites used to have a lot of compatibility questions - I think OK Cupid still does - and they were useful for filtering by values. But filtering by communication styles is much harder, and I don't think anyone has attempted it.

The core of the problem is that everyone is playing by different rules. You have no idea what the other person's rules are. And some people are very insistent that their rules are correct and absolute.

Worse, some rules are dysfunctional and more likely to produce bad outcomes.

So it's like an intelligence war where the only signalling is behavioural, there are huge gaps in the available information, and you don't know what stakes the other person is playing to, or their appetite for risk, or what constitutes a win for them, or if they're aware of any differences between what they believe they want and what their actions reveal.

Inevitably the information-free areas are filled by wishful thinking - encouraging that in partners is part of some peoples' strategy - or paranoia. Or possibly both.

No wonder it's incredibly difficult.
This sounds very nice. Im a MSc student about to graduate (linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charel-felten/, CV: https://cfx.lu/cv). My main areas are data science, but I also have a bachelors in computer science so I am flexible.

I see that there is only a vacancy as Full-stack React developer. I dont have the necessary experience for that probably. Do you think there are any positions closer to my area of expertise?
This article presents GWAS evidence for assortative mating, if anything – none for the existence of functional pheromone sensing in humans. Look up the work by Catherine DuLac and/or Lisa Stowers.
Using sound to control enzymatic reactions
Takes a troglodyte would think "troglodyte" is jargon.
Fuck you. Leave that company and do your work somewhere else. I don't care if everyone thinks they are doing well, it's cancer. Your blog post is an embarrassment. Leave it up so we can see how well it ages.

That's my opinion. My FU here is not a reflection of who you are as a person, but how I feel. You made me read you blog post, so my response is FU.
This is a wholly subjective, not to say toxic view of relationships as mutually codependent and cloistrated. It speaks more to your own personal issues than any universal problem with a given relationship style. No one is forced to adopt an open relationship. The idea that 'I don't like it, so you can't have it', is profoundly authoritarian. If it doesn't suit you, don't engage in it. Easy, you can thank our pluralistic tolerant society for having options.
>Kärna, which had invented an opto-mechanical encoding wheel that could track a mouse’s movements at 2000 dpi, far higher resolution than other mice at the time.

http://www.dansdata.com/images/boomslang/bswheels480.jpg

Instead of quadrature encoding the disks are filled with little slopes and sensors seem to be taking analog readings. In 1999 it directly competed with optical IntelliMouse Explorer and imo didnt do a good job. The shape was a gimmick and unwieldy - designed purely by marketing (confirmed by Fitch PR material linked in another post here), not someone actually looking into ergonomics (IntelliMouse Optical shape prevails to this day as the go to for all gaming mice).
USB cables: shielding matters as well (2018)
My startup Goosechase switched to a 4 day week last summer and it's awesome.

The two easiest ways to find companies already doing a 4 day week would likely be:
1. Dedicated 4 day week job boards, such as 4 Day Week (https://4dayweek.io/).
2. Looking for articles highlighting companies with 4 day weeks, such as this piece from Angel (https://angel.co/job-collections/20-startups-with-4-day-work...).
Making traditional light switches smart
You are probably getting downvoted because of people objecting to framing human relationships as owning property. I want to point out to the downvoters that this post did not endorse this, but simply claimed it's traditionally so, which I think can be argued successfully. That I think it's part of the fucked up way "traditional values" make us think about people with agency is independent of that
That's why people don't buy a house, live with parents longer, live as nomads etc.

I don't share the pessimism around this - housing should be a commodity i can get at a touch of a button because it is easy to build (and i work remotely). There are interests preventing this though, so until then, anything goes
It always amazes me how Americans picture the companies doing "H1B" as evil and exploitative. But in reality it's only an opinion that people not using them have.

Any person using an h1b will tell you how happy they are of having it. Its they alternative/escape to their country's reality. But Americans having no idea what that means, are fast to dismiss it.

Reminds me of the comments about China workers working and living in Foxconn or similar manufacturing jobs: everybody was quick to judge how "bad" the conditions are there, while in reality the increase of quality of life for a lot of them was huge compared to their previous life in their rural towns.

As a Mexican living in Mexico I've seen some of those realities, and I'm sure most of the people that go to the USA from Mexico on a TN or h1b visa had it way tougher here.
Not the OP, but the r/rust subreddit is my other lurking spot besides HN. (And I’m also currently working on a site to document some of these useful crates)