skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think expanding our personal Overton windows, as the author suggests, is an extremely important skill in life. Social media has fragmented our mental experiences, and if you don't step out of your echo chamber, it will definitely feel like everyone else is simply going crazy.

That said, what if a sizable portion of people are indeed going crazy? How would that look like, and what would be the appropriate response? The author's framework only holds if we trust each other to be rational and well-intentioned, and at least in my feed that's not the type of people being promoted.
> Before we get rid of colleges we need to find an alternative to this.

Most people in the US didn't go to college until very recently and the vast majority still don't graduate. Is it your belief that the majority of Americans simply didn't make lifelong friends and that college is the default solution?
At the moment would say VRChat just because anytime of the day you can just drop in/meet random people in this world. It's funny I still feel anxiety (don't really want to talk/share my voice).

The recent Zenith was impressive but needs to mature (quality). I was using an Index but it still has that low poly vibe.
positivism does not make the world a better place neither tools useful
Something like 'cmake --list-options CMakeLists.txt' seems the most obvious.
I am always curious to see new approaches to the classical terminals that i've been using for 20+ years now. So i don't mind this trend.

What i've seen so far was mostly aesthetics and less "functional" stuff, which makes me wonder: Maybe there isn't that much to improve?
Doesn't AGI fall under the first amendment? ;)
In NL the concept of ‘sick days’ doesn’t exist. If you are ill, you are ill. You can get the flu and be out for a week or so and nobody bats an eye. Some use more than others and some may game the system.

But overall we in NL are not familiar with the stress of losing our days off because of illness. This should be the norm for every decent country that cares about human well-being.
it's one of those things that makes me want to quit technology, people get bored out of their minds and try to reinvent the wheel instead of doing something useful
This article is very frustrating, it's full of assumptions that are stated as facts.

> Most of all, it makes people perceive your site to be faster than it actually is. Remember that we are designing interfaces for use by real people. We need to give people the illusion of speed.

The first claim is not backed up by evidence? At least not in this article and the claim "we need to give people the illusion of speed" makes no sense?

And then for the perceived benefits of skeleton loading screens.

> 1. Helps people perceive your screen to load faster

Again 1. is just an assumption for all I can tell, you don't cite any research on this.

> 2. Eliminates surprises

As for 2, with skeleton screens there is still pretty much always a significant layout shift as it is quite uncommon for all elements to have pre-defined dimensions so the skeleton screen actual works. So it can work for some screens. But if you implement it only for some screens, users will be surprised about the differences. Hence, user is surprised? :D

> 3. Gradual loading of UI – clear indication of progress

As for 3, there is literally no difference in the indication of progress between this and a spinner.

> 4. Shows exactly what’s loaded and what’s yet to load

As for 4, see 2.
It's not just them being nice, it's the law! As an employer you legally cannot deny a request for working part-time unless you have a halfway decent reason.

In my case I was able to start working 32 hours a week at my previous employer, even explicitly communicating that I was going to work (teaching CS in high school) on my day off. I initially requested 30 hours, for working 7.5 hours on the remaining days, but they figured they should set a company wide minimum of 32 hours for people in (more-or-less) managerial positions. If I had pushed it, they probably would have budged on that too.
Apparently, this is how the world operates.
Started Out as a Fish. How Did It End Up Like This?
Fig https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31222277

Warp https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30921231
> I don't know the name for when you have to bail out and parachute to your destination while the plane continues onward.

Railways (especially in the UK) used to have something like that under the term of "slip coaches": Rear coach(es) were decoupled on the approach to a station – the front portion of the train continued at speed non-stop, while the uncoupled rear portion was braked to a stand (hopefully not stopping too early, because otherwise a rescue engine would have to be dispatched to draw it forward into the station). The heyday of slip coaches was in the early 20th century, although the practice didn't fully die out until 1960.
Historic fertilizer crunch threatens food security
The problem with desalination is that you don't extract all of the water, you extract half of it, leaving a bunch of very salty water to be dumped back into the ocean, causing dead zones.
I find the discussion of ghosting interesting. If I've gone on a bad date or two I don't specifically tell the other person I don't want to see them again unless they ask me. This allows for a lot more saving face if I run into them in the future (we can both pretend it just fell through the cracks) and is exactly how I want to be treated.

While I appreciate the honesty I do find it a little condescending when someone messages me "just so you know, I don't want to see you again" after a bad date. But some people consider not doing this to be the equivalent of going from daily messaging to total radio silence out of nowhere after dating for months.
I don't think they intended for the tree to make an easy to read font. It looks like it "worked" very well as a cool art experiment to me.
If it makes them better than other people at reading things up close, such a person could thrive in an environment that demands that. Of course, they should also be able to wear glasses when the environment demands it.
> If you do not enjoy the often stressful and thankless role of staring at the computer and doing frustrating logic puzzles, usually alone, eventually you will burn out and wonder why you ever got into the industry.

I'm happy to say I find coding extremely fun. I like everything in it, even the most irritating bugs ( some of these will turn into stories down the line, we all remember THAT bug).

It was just surprised by the description. I never even considered there could be people in the computer engineering businees who'd legitimately could not like coding.
Spanish prime minister's telephone infected by Pegasus spyware
I believe this very nicely ties in with "No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31143279

We have turned sexual partners into an affluent commodity, thanks to apps. With a bit of paid boosting, you can show your profile to 1000+ potential partners and surely a few of them will have a favorable first impression. We've also successfully reframed being sexually promiscuous as not being limited by religion / social norms / the patriarchy. Plus we've all but eliminated potentially negative consequences with birth control. And our entire society celebrates a "hustle" and "fake it till you make it" culture.

The article's complains "men signal emotional seriousness that they don’t actually feel" which I'd say is "fake it till you make it" combined with very low investment due to oversupply of partners.

"you’ll likely be terrified the person you like will meet someone else they like more, or likes you but doesn’t like you enough to commit" also just means that there's a high level of competition, due to oversupply of partners.

And lastly, the article nicely points out that everyone wants a "quick fix", which is why you can buy tons of books and guides on how to behave, i.e. imitating the correct gestures, but very few people put in the effort to actually learn to become a good communicator.

But the article also has one huge oversight in my opinion: Pheromones and genetic compatibility. People can smell if their offspring will be healthy pretty quickly, but it's impossible to screen for this with apps. That's how people end up with so many dates where they should like the other person, but for some reason they don't. I believe this is also why some people ghost each other after the first intimate contact. "I didn't like his/her smell" is a common reason to stop dating, after all.

We as a society need to accept that not everything can be fixed and improved with self-help courses. Some people just won't match on a genetic level and there's little you can do to fix that.
I grow a large amount of fruit and vegetables.

There isn't really a best seed. There are simply tradeoffs. That probably sounds familiar :-)

Disease resistance, water tolerance, soil conditions, climate, daylight, tolerance to heat and cold, pest resistance, taste, yield, time to grow, harvest period, storage period.

There are usually an incredible number of varieties for any given plant. It takes quite a few years to start to find ones that work the best for you. It's also doubly tricky as your conditions will change each year.

I like to plant a wide variety of seeds as that makes it likely that something delicious will thrive.

I'd also say that typically home grown fresh vegetables are so much tastier than ship bought that you might worry less about iothan you think.
What is the problem with that ? I've tried both warp.dev and fig.io, except thier annoying telementry events, I love them both.

Developers use terminals frequently, and there have been no major improvements in terminal software in the last few years. I'd be happy to see more terminals developed because they are useful. I would rather encourage them than discourage it
While I agree to you that everyone who can leave Russia - should do it for now, your arguments about personal economy are wrong. The thing with Russia is enormous inequality, which is not seen in average metrics. Moscow has enormously cheap taxi and delivery services because of abundance of immigration workforce and lack of social security. Imagine US allowing free immigration and work for all immigrants. All low skill professions will be immediately taken by wave of immigrants from LATAM and Asia, which will significantly increase quality of life for US middle and lower-middle class with all the spare cash from cheap householding, transportation and other services. Uber and Doordash will become dirt cheap. Amazon may transform into something even more dystopian.

It will also force Americans who are doing those jobs right now to live on welfare, effectively bankrupt welfare system. They are voters, so due to democratic processes this will never happen, but this is not the case in Russia.
I have never lived in the US :)
Improvements to Fedora Docs
I muck with the OS and above all the time, and I somehow can’t remember I ever needed to restore my bios. No. Never. Really.

But M1 macs need the internal storage to work and be intact to boot even from external media. If the internal ssd on my intel mac or dell xps tablet (the soldered one, yep) dies, I boot from usb3.1 and keep on keeping on. The M1 Mac is a brick after that, except the new mac studio where the ssds are somewhat replaceable.
I admit the C/C++ build setup has deterred me from prototyping at times. I used to solve this by keeping a sandbox project where I replace code in main().
I'm not familiar with that one and my searches are failing. Have you got a link?
https://phys.org/news/2022-04-discovery-one-way-superconduct...
There was a pop hit a decade before that, in 1984 ex Yugoslavia - "your computer's program". It was a mainstream song, not for geeks.

80-ties were the time when computers were very present in mainstream tv and newspapers as a fascintaing, hyped new thing. There were lots of educational content explaining in basic terms what computers are. It seemed that everyone (including grandparents) knew they were digital, and most probably that zeroes and ones were involved.

https://youtu.be/pldDuqnPP1s
Yeah it sounds like bullshit pretentious art (technology, nature, synergy ) but the results are actually really cool.
The problem with Autotools isn't the end user experience, it is the developer experience - and guess who has all the power to make a build system choice? :-P

IMO there needs to be a replacement for Autotools that from a user's perspective behaves exactly like Autotools (following the same GNU standards that specify how the configure script, etc is to be used, what parameters it accepts, etc) but provides a better experience for the developer.
> As for fly.io, well, I work there, so, they pay me.

Well, that’s nice and all, but if a fly.io customer were attacked with 3.1GB/s throughput, according to the lowest outbound bandwidth price of $0.02/GB [1] they’d be burning at least $3.72/min. 6 times that if attacked from India. That would be a lot less fun.

[1] https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/

Edit: They mentioned they waive charges as a result of attacks: https://community.fly.io/t/about-rate-limiting/156/4
Am I the only person who can’t get a job?
~5 years Python, STEM non-cs degree that all recruiters tell me is “amazing.” For this reason (?) get interviews, 0/ many. People seem to like me at my current shitty job, and management likes that I am a good little slave. But people don’t ever take me seriously - always peg me as “long hair, don’t care.”

This is a cry for help, feel free to give advice, a job interview or just commiserate if you’re in the same boat.

*EDIT* didn’t want to doxx myself but [link redacted]
IPv6 Breaks 40%
Russian troops plunder $5M farm vehicles to find they've been remotely disabled
He himself says at least half that time his predictions are wrong. His predictions were always aggressive.

He says what he believes, this topic is where he has totally miscalculated. And he recently admired that but said he just has to look at what he think the current fundamental problem is and when it will be solved.

> Do his investors?

Mhh as an investor I would say, no.

Because for me its not about matching prediction but its about overall strategy and the competition.

If there were millions of self driving taxis on the road from the competition I would suggest that is a big problem. However that is not case.

Massive investment in this is the correct thing to do in my opinion. Their approach is correct in my opinion, they are trying to solve the hard problem. They have done many things that no competitor has even remotely done.

So I am happy even if he miss predicts this for the next 4 years unless there is continues progress and the competition has not 100% solved the problem.
I.. wouldn't like to be trapped in an MRI machine with an operator who's typing random values into the software to try to see what it does. I mean I know MRIs are relatively safe, but they're still huge machines with moving parts you're supposed to be inside of.
In the UK the mandatory minimum is 20 days paid holiday (plus the ~8 public holidays per year).

In Spain 22 days + public holidays.

That's the minimum, many jobs give more, e.g. 28-32 days + public holidays. (On my last job in Britain it increased slowly, when I left I had 33 plus the public holidays.)

It would be informative to see if the people in Britain and Spain take more holiday than those in Texas.
I mean, it probably helps that we don’t graduate with obscene student debts in Australia either
I was going to ask how they dealt with the hydrogen sulfide. That's the weird part of having an oil well in a residential area, not what the building looks like.

I guess the answer is "they don't".
Agreed. IPE is far far superior to Inkscape for mathematical diagrams. Honestly Inkscape is rather painful to use just for arty stuff. Using it for precise diagrams with maths labels sounds downright masochistic.
College isn't a necessary condition at all. Plenty of lifelong friendships are made in the military and in other contexts at that age.
If you use Python on the backend, rank-bm25 is a great library for quick and dirty bm25 search.
holy darn. this is amazing. i have prayed for this thing to exist for essentially 6 years now. thank you.

BTW, is this a foss product or not?
Wait, in Scotland?

That means you don't actually have the FSD Beta.

That's a totally different software stack.
My current usage is everyday, 4 cups of medium single spoon for 2 cups, and then a NOS can. I don't eat the entire day eg. 9-5 that keeps my energy up. Once I eat usually I get lethargic.

So yeah unless I've got money in the bank/don't have a job, I will be using it.
Here's someone who did some research and found the exact opposite to be true for example https://www.viget.com/articles/a-bone-to-pick-with-skeleton-...
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By posting this study here on hacker news, you will somehow get a bias in your study. Here, we are usually very technical people. We work with randomness, we studied it, implemented it or proved something about it.
Many have studied it in university and have a different understanding of randomness than non-technical people.

Therefore I would be carful when evaluating this study when a lot of the participants of this study came from here.
This comes timely after the "catalangate"
https://citizenlab.ca/2022/04/catalangate-extensive-mercenar...

The case had already escalated to the EU.
It is true, however ignorance and analysis are not mutually exclusive. Just because one analyse it doesn't mean one can avoid being ignorant. Certain things are just not meant for analysis. Dating, Love fun are in those things for my personal experiences.
I agree with the other comments that this NDA serves a very useful purpose, by detailing all the non obvious forms of information that could be a risk, impressing on people the seriousness of keeping that information confidential, and ensuring they have no excuse to claim they were not fully informed.

It also provides a route to prosecute someone who might be caught sharing information they shouldn’t maliciously, but where treason etc could not be proved.
I'd love to be able to append to a mdb file with mdbtools.
The answer to this question is that we don't make bread like we used to. There's a wonderful documentary on Netflix about this, called "Cooked" (the episode entitled "Air" is about bread). Short answer: bread used to be fermented, and consisted of three ingredients. Today's regular supermarket bread is bad for you, unless you take the time to go to your local bakery and buy their sourdough.
My wife couldn't eat bread without falling asleep on the couch a couple of hours afterwards. But she can eat sourdough - which costs about the same as the gluten-free variety we used to buy. Also, it's beyond delicious.
'Modern Dating' is where corporations intermediate your interactions with the other sex... and its not working out well? Well, what a surprise!

People have lost all sense it seems to me - we have been trained to have technology do everything for us. This really means the corporations behind the tech are meant to do everything for us. Good god.

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.

Humanity is being softened into a warm puree.

PS

If corporations are involved in the dating business (which they are) think about it from their point of view. They do not actually want you to succeed! They want you to fail but keep using their services. The more you fail the better! The more unhappy you are the more you will spend in your date-death spiral.

Like we don't have a health industry but a managed illness industry, the dating industry would be better called a managed loneliness industry, cos loneliness and unhappiness opens the purse strings as you try to resolve your unhappiness with all the other crap corporations have to offer.
Bill Gates warns 'we've NOT seen the worst of Covid'
there is nothing to talk about ghosting. They just don't want to see you, get that as a valid communication and move on.
I personally don't mind spinners. They're an explicit indication that something's going on and I should wait. For me, skeletons look more confusing, as if the app is broken: I can see the layout, but everything is empty for some unknown reason and I can't interact with it. Is it loading or just broken? How is the user going to tell? The only issue I have with spinners is when a spinner keeps spinning forever with no feedback because there's an error hidden somewhere in the JS console and the devs forgot to add an error popup. So you are waiting and waiting and nothing happens, and you don't know it's all been just a waste of time.
My guess would be no. After all if you're going through the trouble of setting up a home assistant it'll be mains powered anyway, and the Pis don't actually use that much more power when at max load than when turned off.

I think the ballpark figures for the Pi 4 are 0.5 A when doing nothing, 1A when doing something intensive a single core and 1.2A when at full multicore load.
Which countries do it like this? At least at where I've worked in the UK, only the days where you would've normally been at work are counted.
So no, er, but actually yes?
That reminds me of this research:

https://www.math3ma.com/blog/language-statistics-category-th...
I've been very happy with both my P1 and Carbon touchpads. Not as customizable as a mac's (using BTT) out of the box, but the feel is fine. Much better than the Dell XPS I'm writing this from, dragging anything is literally impossible.