skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is still around and that's one of the few places on the Internet where I still see tightly knit communities with old Internet buddies from the early 2000s. I am quite happy that IRC is less popular than the world wide web. As a consequence of it being less popular, it has not become riddled with ads, political influence, and addictive content popping up every few minutes, like the web has become. Some IRC channels can be unusually quiet with nothing more than phatic expressions exchanged occasionally for days before any engaging conversation comes up. Yet these channels maintain a tight sense of community.

Among some of the active channels I have found due to my interests, I find the Freenode ##python and ##math to be very good quality channels. There is a #not-math channel which is good fun. Then there is #not-not-math too. I have been an operator of the ##algorithms channel for over 10 years now, and although I participate rarely in this channel these days, the channel continues to have good quality discussions by other operators and members of the channel. By the way, my nick is "spal" on Freenode.

These days, there are web gateways to IRC, that make it easy to connect to IRC networks without having to install a new client. For example, there is https://webchat.freenode.net/ which is a bland but decent interface to connect to the Freenode IRC network. Note that the "unaffiliated" cloaks are not honoured while connecting via the web gateway. Using a proper IRC client like WeeChat or HexChat provides a better experience than the web gateway. Pidgin supports IRC too.
I think the key distinction is the concept of "place".

TF2 has (or had) a concept of "place" in the form of named servers. That made it possible to encounter the same stranger repeatedly over time.

In contrast, Overwatch wants you to already know and specify your friends into their social-media graph and group up before going to a random/anonymous/ephemeral location. So you seldom knowingly encounter the same stranger twice.

> FFXIV

Thinking about an MMO, a "placeless" MMO would randomly assign you to a one of a great many small instances every time you log in. Eugh.
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Doesn't LibraryGenesis cover this space?
The show was careful to never show someone getting killed due to sheer incompetence. But to be fair even "realistic" shows like ER would tread lightly when they went there, it's nearly always depicted as a systemic failure due to poor communication or some other unforseen circumstance.

But since the overall topic is the nature of elitism, I would volunteer that when I've had a friend or relative at a hospital with an "elite" reputation, that was no guarantee against episodes of incompetence. But that's a completely different topic.
In terms of gaming, it's also the result of a shift from dedicated servers to matchmaking algorithms.

On dedicated servers, a community of 'regulars' forms through repeated interactions.

Modern matchmaking is a more disposable approach - here's a set of players that you'll be up against for 10 minutes, and then you'll never see them again.
It was really tremendous. Truly a Day among days.
No. Electric dryers do, but not washers.

But that said, it would not be hard to run 240V to washer, so that can't be the reason.

Do Europeans typically heat water with electricity? That might be the reason - if you are anyway using electricity, you might as well let the washer do it.

In the US natural gas water heaters are very common (it's more efficient). And natural gas dryers too.
Study: Mass surveillance silences minority opinions
I moved out of Seattle a couple of months ago. One of the reasons I left was because I knew this was coming.
Some will say that has been the coveted intention from governments all along.
I think size explains some of it, but I think the way we view the internet is the real issue. Upvotes and karma systems have trained us into seeing the internet as a popularity contest even when we’re posting useless nonesense.

Even on small subreddits, you’re still entering a staged debate which gets judged by its audience, and nobody wants to take an unpopular position, and if they do so by mistake they certainly won’t do it twice.

Hacker news is similar. I’m sure there is a lot of people who hold back because they don’t want downvotes or maybe even because they don’t want no votes, and you simply can’t have any meaningful conversation when everyone is self-censoring.
I think I'd like to be a project manager, but honestly I'd be happy doing it at my day job. Any suggestions for how to show people that you can do that kind of job?
Clearly they just always write everything that needs to be said on a topic!
How does it relate to Zigbee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee? Is it mostly that Zigbee is for low power devices and this for the rest?
I think it depends on the use case. The secret ballot exists for entirely ethical reasons. The Monero blockchain is more specifically hiding provenance (or trails from initial provenance). In your case it would mostly remove reputation for analysis of stakeholders between votes. I'm not entirely sure why this would be relevant for ethical considerations.
completely ridiculous, it just sounds like this guy has no imagination left and no drive to keep learning new things, and most importantly, no desire to move with technology.
Would it be "pure css" if you did it in SVG and embeded that into the css?
Some have proposed even a token renewal fee to fund a registry, or even a postcard registry, which would eliminate the orphaned works problem while limiting the impact on publishers.

Mostly this doesn't work because of the Berne Convention, which made assumptions about how copyrights should work, then enshrined them in a multilateral treaty, which in turn is implemented in a framework of laws among various signatories, making it all now incredibly difficult to unwind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
There seems to be some variance. At least two of the ones I’ve been around have had this problem, including the one I own. Maybe a design flaw.
This is a thing that's bugged me for a long time: the death of dedicated game servers. Game servers had to be run by communities, and they were gateways and feeding grounds for those communities.

However, games don't typically use dedicated servers anymore; they use matchmaking. You're right -- matchmaking means you gather your friends first. More insidiously, it means you probably won't see the same players again, and even if you did, there's nowhere to find them again later. There's no community to join.
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With games like Destiny, "placeless" MMOs are already starting to become a thing.
I’ve been holding to the opinion for a few years now, that ever since end of the 2nd term of George W. Bush, TV, print, movies and music have all suffered a nigh-catastrophic brain drain, and fewer and fewer nerds drift in the direction of such career paths.

Because of this, the candidate pool is smaller, filled with weaker options and the ones that do land in the field are mostly mediocre and surrounded by the mediocre examples of the old guard that can’t (or won’t) retire.

After that, the rest is deterministic. Bad decisions compound, nothing is good any more, and the shit that really sucks isn’t even laughable, it’s either confusing, tragic or repellant.

I made the mistake of watching cable in a hotel room, and it was like grazing my eyes with a red-hot shrimp fork, while running an angle grinder right next to my ears, and telling me my parents were killed in a horrible accident.

The things happening on that TV were decisions so awful, that I questioned whether those responsible even understood their own motivations for operating what doesn’t even seem to be a business anymore. Everything was a chum bucket. Everything was clickbait. Everything was dark patterns. To watch TV and feel that way, for every channel I tried, means that almost all of TV has been reduced to the lowest internet tabloid trash by default.

I remember what it used to feel like when nothing was on, but this seemed beyond nothing being on. I don’t know how the story ends though. The only thing I do know, is that TV is still a different enough game, such that no tech company really represents a credible DIRECT threat to TV at large, except Netflix, and only Netflix distinguishes itself from other tech companies by producing original shows that people actually talk about.
I suppose we could call this effect "snail mail" :-)

More seriously though, while I understand the basic method they used for their experiment, where is the theory about how the brain can catalyze the RNA into understanding in millisecond times rather than days.

Or is it perhaps an epigenetic marker that signals "danger" ala the learned muscle memory 'flex' from negative stimulus?
It is well worth reading the comments - it contains a discussion about how long you can run a fire burning only wood from your boat. Out pops the guy with boat burning experience.
I don't think they are -- who is the person whose argument is being characterized?

It's just being cynical about companies and recruiters.
Optimistic, linearly distributable ACID transactions
And leads to "toxic" behavior. If you behaved poorly in a dedicated server environment you could be banned from multiple servers in one go as each clan might host multiple servers. Eventually all that would be left for those people would be a handful of lawless servers, enough threat of punishment to deter shitty behavior, not enough of an impetus to buy a new cd key and reimpose yourself on others. In practice, most people just behaved better.

It is bizarre to see riot and blizzard run around in circles trying to combat their toxicity problem... its your meat grinder matchmaking system.

As it turns out, matching people against those who are exactly their skill level isn't what you want to do.
That's all true!

Here's an illustrated transcript of a video (and the video itself) demonstrating the pie menus (and SimAntics visual programming language) in The Sims!

The Sims Pie Menus:
https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-sims-pie-menus-49ca02a74d...

And this discusses the issues you raised and more:

OLPC Sugar Pie Menu Discussion:
https://medium.com/@donhopkins/olpc-sugar-pie-menu-discussio...
yes. yes it does, and I don't need a study or article to tell me otherwise, it's common sense imo
Ask HN: Smart news/political commentary YouTube channels?
For my life, I cannot find a source of commentary on current events that isn’t both vapid and clearly partisan. Dan Carlin’s Common Sense podcast used to fit the bill, but that seems to be finished now.

Any good Youtube channels to recommend?

With all the content created there, the must be at least s few amateur commentators with thoughtful and intellectually honest views.
Instincts hold much greater weight in attraction than personal hygiene preferences, regardless of what the person says.
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That's not how depth of field works. DoF, simplistically, is governed by the usable angle of light at the back of the lens - the more obtuse, the more "DoF". Larger sensors (like your 6x7) might be useful if there are limits in sensor resolution, necessitating the sensor being placed further back so the light can shine over a larger area. But if the sensor is higher resolution (as I said the 645z is 50MP) then it can be closer and capture the same DoF. If technology improves enough then we might be able to deliver your "medium format" DoF with a 10mm*10mm sensor placed right up close to the lens. You would not be able to tell the difference.

The 645z and x1d are delivering the medium format DoF right now. Things can be improved upon, sure, but insisting on a certain sensor size is misguided. That size was necessary simply because of the limitations of film chemistry. Remove this limitation and the sensor size becomes less relevant.
Tim Pool

https://www.youtube.com/user/Timcasts
Yes, and notably Ubiquiti and Meraki.
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Most young people today are either massively in debt due to student loans or they don't see themselves earning high wages because they don't have a degree. Either way it's understandable that they're averse to speculating with the little money they have.
"Sure, maybe it is just an age thing, and nothing has really changed. But I don't know... I feel like the Internet used to be something special, and now it feels like flipping through TV channels in your office break room."

At one time, I could get any book, journal, or work of art off the Internet for free.

Yes--it was wrong, but it was also magical. Those days are gone, unless you live in a country that allows it?

Today, I seem to go to the same monopolized websites. Websites that seem to control me? I never felt that in 2007.

Hackernews is my one of my three sites I go to.

And yes--it was so nice when celebrities didn't know how to use the internet. So--so nice.

I wonder if artists/authors/creators are better off with today's internet?

(Yes, downloading was against the law. I don't need a lecture. That period of history was exciting though.)
If you friend them through whatever walled-garden chat system that game has, then you might have a chance. But good luck getting conversions to a proper gaming community.

I think a lot of this has to do with how casual the gaming community has become. Not that there are fewer hardcore players, just that the very games that killed the dedicated servers (call of duty) also onboarded millions of casual gamers who felt like using gamespy to find "good" servers was too much effort.

Now there are so many casual gamers that you have almost no chance to find someone who deeply appreciates a game enough to join a community you are in. My internet statistics generator says that 1-in-10 is a good ratio for number of conversions 20 years ago. Now it's maybe 1-in-500.

And if the game is popular enough, then everyone's just going to use the subreddit to chat by default, and that's a clusterfuck of a topic all on its own.
>I don't think this generally is a change in the person so much as fundamental changes in how the modern internet is experienced.

It's not a change in the person, it's a shift in perspective due to boredom. There was a podcast about boredom from freakonomics I believe, and a lot of people (largely those 40+) simply don't view themselves as bored when all signs paint a different picture. This is what is happening to a lot of people (ITT), they are unaware of their boredom which feeds into a lack of curiosity, and so they keep doing the same routines and feel somewhat claustrophobic.

They could very much break out of that routine, could look for new places to visit, new sites to sink their fangs into, but they won't because routines are very comfortable, and heck most of the top 100 alexa sites fulfill nearly every desire.

When people say the internet isn't fun, it's not about presentation at all. Yes, Google has a lot of power in where people go, but there are so many alternative search engines and variety of leads that it really just takes one good afternoon being the excited curious cat you were as a teen.
Maybe it is time to explore deep/dark web. It is more like nineties on the Internet.
I sometimes enjoy browsing i.reddit.com
Why kill all the people but 'silence' them by decompressing the aircraft (I'm surprised decompressing is possible)

Wouldn't you do it just so they can't kick the door in?

Anyway, I stick with a bunch of engineers making a call to their manager 'they knew where it was' and no one willing to back down from the $100 million mistake and the maths/data just wasn't there.

Who's going to go in hard and find if the engineers made a mistake. It's in no one's interest who has the data (Last I checked)

Just like it's in no ones interest to make it easy for you to 'unsubscribe'

Bad engineering is just an emerging pattern.
Zigbee is a vastly lower range and bandwidth protocol. Suitable for low power sensor networks; not media devices.

> Zigbee has a defined rate of 250 kbit/s, best suited for intermittent data transmissions from a sensor or input device.
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> In February, it was reported that Amazon had been granted patents for a wristband that ... could “read” their hand movements, buzzing or emitting a pulse to alert them when they were reaching for the wrong item.

Setting aside the privacy violations of the rest of the article, this part is really depressing for me. I'm reminded of an episode of Mind Field [1] where they steer live cockroaches through a mobile app by connecting a chip to its antennae - the potential application being scouting of buildings, since it's cheaper to use a live cockroach than build a tiny robot.

This to me feels like Amazon are working towards a fully robotic factory worker - they have all the smarts done in software, but for now they need to use a human for the body. Could you imagine how dehumanizing it would feel to be the body of a robot?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXNGvDdkXZE (YouTube Red subscription required, unfortunately)
I used to work somewhere that gave us discounts on our health insurance based on our daily average # of steps taken. People would hook their fitbits up to drill bits and spin it around on electric drills to log 10k steps per day to get the $75/month discount.
It's perception. They network, get lucky sometimes, and don't stop preaching about it until everyone around starts believing they're valuable authorities in their profession. Snow ball rolls from there and they start attracting candidates based on perceived connection to the top company/people/teams.
Any CS degree worthwhile taking should have such projects.
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Inigo Quilez releases poster-sized prints with the accompanying shader code on his patreon, very similar to this! Ray-march shaders aren't necessarily obfuscated, although it can sometimes it can appear that way :)

https://www.patreon.com/inigoquilez

(disclaimer: not affiliated, just a fan of his work)
> CraftyOS is under development by young people and still is in early Alpha stage.

Like, how young are we talking about?
Average price of a detached house in Vancouver is $1.5 million and avg software salary is C$72,945 per year (completely unaffordable). Average price of a detached house in Seattle is $772,729 and avg software salary is $110,907 a year. Still unaffordable and getting moreso, but doable with dual income.
Within a block of 1 Wilshire probably.
It only applies to companies that make $20 million a year. At that point, I don't think someone is going to say we won't an extra person because it's the tax. The $15 minimum wage but the companies a lot more. This is essentially thirteen cents an hour tax.
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> I never say anything negative.

Funny thing... my ex says unkind things about my partner. Kids pick up on this and it has actually strengthened their relationship with her and has harmed their relationship with their mother. Kids aren't dumb, they know when adults are being unkind and irrational.
Zapier looks like a app trigger. I'm looking for more of a task management system.
I wouldn't even want my fingerprint to be in any of these systems...
I tried an high up in the center of the house. I just can't get full coverage at AC speeds throughout the house. I think mesh is the only way to go. Thanks for the suggestion!
Love seeing another agentjayz fan here!

Want to spend hours watching somebody repair marine props and shafts on machine tools? Keith Fenner does excellent, detailed repairs.

Regular car reviews makes incredible car reviews of mostly normal cars (this detailed review of the PT cruiser is amazing. Watch the WHOLE thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoxqtnI4I4c)

Ben Krasnow (on applied science) is an intellectual and engineering treasure. Watch anything he makes.

Youtube has for sure become one of my favorite websites. There is SO much good content there.
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Runescape will always have a special place in my heart.

Aside from its community it was the first browser-based game with really good 3D graphics, at a time where table-based browser games were the norm. And it was even free!

For a non-native English speaker like me in hindsight Runescape helped me a lot with English vocabulary, granted a lot of it wasn't really helpful thanks to its fantasy setting, but still it helped to improve my English skills significantly.
Drop me an email if you need help anyway. I tried many existing options and have not found any good so far.
Is it your first foray into Unix? If so, it brings joy and a little tear to my eye to see such a properly motivated new user.
Joy, as you hit all the right spots for being a good Unix user (Great Editor Holy War notwithstanding), and tear, well, because of systemd, intelligenti pauca.
Maybe one day something like OpenBSD will find its way onto your machine. It works great on ThinkPads and doesn't even support Bluetooth!
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Ask HN: How to filter (whitelist) DNS lookups. Is there a way?
I want that DNS lookups of only whitelisted domains will go to external resolver.

My machine is configured with VPN. I want my machine block all DNS requests except for VPN server name. Or block on router before going out.

Could not find a solution either for Mac, Linux or a PF firewall rule for router ...
As far as I've read, sometimes questions are ambiguous to see how the interviewee proceeds with the problem, if they ask relevant questions.
- https://discourse.mozilla.org/latest

- https://platform.github.community/latest

- https://forum.golangbridge.org/
And they have over 3000 employees. It's quite a mystery to me what all those people could possibly be doing.
She says on the Francine README that she used to have a few hand-coded SVG shapes, but then realized she could do without them.

If you allow exporting from a graphics editor, a <table> where each cell is a pixel is "pure HTML".
And also births.

The big issue with the migration differential is that it is expensive to move into California while it is relatively cheap to move out.

So, you need a job and you have to save money to eat the differential (rent increase, security deposits, car registration) if you want to move into the state.

Selling your house in most other states barely gets you a down payment on a house in California.

On the other hand, Californians selling their houses and then paying cash to buy another house in Texas, Oregon, etc. is sufficiently common that most of such places have derogatory terms for it.
Private blockchain (one that is centrally controlled, usually internal to a company) or privacy blockchain (the flow of funds is obfuscated)?

Private blockchains lack decentralized consensus, so the have more in common with a typical database than they do w public blockchains.

Given that they are normally used inside a single company or between a few companies who already trust each other, i don’t see any ethical problems.
It should be obvious: These articles are put here artificially. They are low quality content with low engagement, and a significant outlier in terms of normal HN content. Even the articles themselves get no comments on their native Disqus plugin.