skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I exist in an IRC channel of about ~40 nicks comprising some bots, some inactives, and maybe 20-25 that talk fairly frequently. Most of us are oriented on computers throughout the day, so there's really always someone chatting -- there are patterns to when people chat, based on timezones, etc.

When any of us are in another person(s) city, we tend to meet up. Some of us sync and travel to certain conferences. There's been a few in-group marriages, a few deaths.

This is a group where the bulk of us have been around for close to a decade or longer. Newcomers are rare, which is good for noise reasons among all else probably.

The only thing I've had similar to this was the core group of friends I had on a MUD in the late 90s till the early 00s.
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I switched away from the official app to get away from the "algos" that keep surfacing content that's either old or I'm not following. No I didn't miss those tweets, and I don't care what someone else liked.

Stop turning Twitter into Facebook! I'm sure it increases your engagement metrics, but at some point I'll feel overengaged, realize how much time I'm wasting and quit the app completely.
Nothing I've found on the internet has yet replaced the sublime excitement I felt when dialing into a local BBS in a small town in California when I was a kid.

There were maybe 4-5 people on at a time, but I still remember the total thrill of chatting with them and imagining who they might be, where in town they lived, what they looked like. Oh, and how much money I could make in Tradewars that day.

My biggest question about this feeling of a long-lost treasure has always been, am I just getting older? Is it just nostalgia for those first experiences of connection through a network? Because if I liked local BBSes so much, you'd think I'd like Facebook or Nextdoor ... but no, I strongly don't. I can't even explain why I don't like them, but it certainly has something to do with anonymity and imagination. In dial-up BBSes, MUDs, IRC, AIM, ICQ, and Livejournal, I was always anonymous. I could be whoever I wanted to be, express myself freely, make friends, and only then choose to reveal my identity — to individuals. Today, so much of the internet is predicated on establishing my identity as quickly as possible, and then profiling me -- tracking my behavior, building a chronology of my behavior, showing my timeline, revealing what I liked or disliked, compiling that data, repackaging it into a derivative, mining the derivative for value. It's so far beyond fun that it's exhausting even to describe.

The one thing I am pretty sure about is that this feeling of "I used to do X, it was so simple and fun, what happened?" can be more than just nostalgia. That is, I felt this way about something else several years ago -- tabletop role-playing games. I kept thinking, damn, the guys and I used to have so much fun playing those games: face to face, low-tech, up all night with our D&D sheets, laughing and drawing, etc. It seemed like simple nostalgia for childhood, until I got together some grown-ups and ran some D&D games. And you know what? Three years later, I’ve made some great friends, deepened existing friendships, and had a blast.

So I wonder if, for me, what’s missing in my internet is that feeling of a small community — and local, maybe? — with anonymity at its core. I’m not really sure and more thought is needed.
It's also really hard on the motor if the fluids are cold, as you're more likely to induce wear because of boundary lubrication and similar effects. Additionally, like on my truck, the synchronizers on the transmission are really cranky when they're cold, and it's hard to get it moving without warming up a little bit.
6 Benefits of Choosing PWA's Over Native Apps – IQVIS Inc
Azure CosmosDB is too expensive for toy projects. Alternative: MongoDB Atlas
Could anyone distill this down for the casual reader? The author has a fairly laborious style and seems to be writing for an audience that is intimately familiar with the internals of dep and vgo.
The lack of empathy for those being displaced by huge tech companies moving in and eclipsing everyone else's salary in this thread is incredibly stunning. Not to say that homelessness is entirely caused by this, but its definitely a factor.

91% of the homeless in Seattle are from the greater Seattle region. Home prices have doubled in 10 years, and tripled if you count the bottom of the great recession. Renters have had to move further and further away. Saying there's no effect on people falling into homelessness is both silly and dangerous.

That's not to say Seattle doesn't have some of the blame - they are not great at solving actual problems with their tax money, they're slow, and they don't tend to enforce a lot of quality of life things like panhandlers or break-ins.

But for heavens sake, if you suddenly drop a huge amount of upper class people that buy up all the housing in an area you should have to be at least partially responsible for cleaning up the consequences.
Having the third zone means you can now run some pretty important services in Singapore, including Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable, and Managed Instance Groups.

Also, connectivity within APAC is generally not great, you really want to avoid those round-trips to Tokyo or the US if you can.

Disclaimer: I work at GCP, but had nothing to do with this particular launch.
Why Your Team Should Start Using a Shared Inbox
Anyone know a good way to sanitize wool and high-tech fabrics?
All of this still sounds unnecessarily complicated and Rube Goldbergian in comparison to just using a regular physical key.
In the past used both Celery and RabbitMQ for some custom services... however we also used to use Qube (A render farm manager) to link long running tasks together in a dependency chain which was workflow specific.

Some times job could take days to finish (doing a water simulation in a 4k res sequence)

Qube has resource constraints per job as well as number of tries and so on. Those would all be configured at job (think workflow) submission time.
Thanks for trying to help. I'm not ugly or unfit and as I mentioned women are interested. Rather I have some other issue which is finding one I want that's also interested in me. I find plenty (well, 3-4 a year so maybe that's not plenty) that would be happy to date and are attractive. They just clearly (or at least in my head) are not a match. That includes at least one actual "model". I dress well as well.

The issue is not attracting them so much as something about my attitude and finding better matches. Example: I have a hairdresser who is clearly interested. We have zero in common though. Her entire life is drink with friends at a bar near her salon and otherwise watch Japanese TV. (both her own admission that that's all she does). And she's attractive. I'm not judging her choices, just saying that doesn't interest me so I don't pursue.

Conversely, met a girl who was a game dev. We hit it off immediately. Talked like fast friends. Thought it might go somewhere. She ditched when she found out I was 15yrs her senior (3rd-ish date). I wasn't shooting for young, just happy to find someone with semi common interests so that conversation was a exciting and joyous for both of us. That rarely happens. Not saying I need a game dev person. Just saying need someone who I can see as being a friend I can have a real conversation with. Who I like talking to because she's interested in more than just fashion (that's not an indictment of women in general, just that it's been a common experience for me). Have met a couple of girls I could talk well to but I wasn't physically attracted. Not looking for model just for whatever reason it attraction wasn't there for me.

Anyway, clearly I'm doing something wrong that I can't seem to meet someone that both seems like a match and we are mutually attracted. 15yrs is plenty of proof that it's me. Still I have no clue where to meet them. If I go to some conference where I think I'd meet some who have compatible interests they're are too few so they are probably taken or hit on constantly and therefore I'd feel like a jerk to be yet another guy trying.
> Love seeing another agentjayz fan here!

Honestly his stuff just comes first to mind as "outstanding, fascinating videos I would never have seen without this platform." Say what you want about Youtube but they sure have enabled an amazing flourishing of creativity and sharing.

Will check out your others! RcR though... there really should be a warning. That is some advanced cynicism. Don't get me wrong, I love them. But your link is, how should I say, "the deep end"
It sounds like a win-win to me. Seattle's housing prices come down and there's more prosperity elsewhere. The only reason everyone is so concentrated in Seattle or the Bay is that the companies insist that they must be there for the talent.
Why do you feel the need to defend him ?
Even read-only?
Re-Coding Black Mirror, Part II
In what way is that a best case scenario? It's just a scenario.
The public ETA on the Los Angeles region remains "2018":
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Disclaimer: I work at GCP, but am not involved with new regions.
This article explains how to create a second phone number, for usage for Signal. Which confirms my assertion that you need phone number, and makes your statement of "no" completely false. Among options offered:

The desk phone at your office.

A free Google Voice phone number, if you live in the United States (this is what I do).

Any phone number from any online calling service, like Skype.

A cheap pre-paid SIM card for a few dollars a month (and temporarily put it on your phone to register your second Signal number).

Twilio, a cloud service that allows developers to write software that makes and receives phone calls and SMS messages.

Obviously, each of those still requires registration within government-controlled phone network, and additionally also may require you to entrust your security to a third party - such as your employer, Google, Microsoft or Twilio. So in fact, you refutation of my assertion "you need to publish a phone number" is "you can have two phone numbers". This is not serious.
Biosocial Criminology and the Lombrosian Paradox
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/21/16687192/pixar-disney-an...
That's a very considerate thing to do. Cute!
I wonder if the real reason advertising companies are worried about millenials is that they just avoid advertising whenever they can

I don't think advertising companies are worried about millennials; they can target them and measure results far more effectively with online advertising than they ever could via television, and thanks to smartphone addiction, screen time/ad exposure time is the highest it's ever been.

Myself and many of my friends avoid ads by using ad-blockers and subscription services

That may be true of sophisticated users like yourself and your peers, but I'm fairly sure you're in a small minority. Most people just use Facebook and Instagram and Snapchat and YouTube and read news articles unfiltered, and outside of that, brands can insert their message directly into the content via sponsorships and product placements with online celebrities.

Broadcast TV may be declining as millennials spend their time and dollars elsewhere, but the advertising industry has never been stronger.
I agree that it does feel like a terrible self-centered choice to be so against this. I'm actually working in Seattle at a smaller software company where I will have to pay that tax. I used to work at Google in Seattle, so I would have had to pay it there too. There's a tremendous problem here with homeless people. I can believe that rich techies coming in and raising prices by increasing demand must have helped push people out of seattle. I want to help, and I support taxing rich people like me to help pay for it. I also want the city to build way more housing so that the prices go down (via usual market forces) and we should also build housing for lower income people with lower prices.
It probably has more to do with your climate than your model of washer. Warm and wet climates vs cold and dry.
Privacy Badger Rolls Out New Ways to Fight Facebook Tracking
Jurong West: https://www.google.com.au/about/datacenters/inside/locations...
this is so awesome
thank you
hope it takes off in a big way
The FBI Supposedly Has 7,775 Un-Hackable Phones. We’re Asking for Proof
I have a family and live in the east side :-) I've seen it a million times, people move to seattle, get an apartment, then couple up and buy a smaller condo, have kids, need space, move to the evil eastside.
I love nautilus articles for about the first 40-50%..then I get bored cause they provide too much info, lol. I end up moving on, plus they're more 'info' related than controversial so there's really less to discuss about them usually than say something about global warming.

I think the length and fullness of articles might make it so people are less prone to leave comments. I only checked on this one because I was curious what others thought of humans using natural compression techniques on language.
This strikes me as a strawman, at best.

After all, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon posts entire seasons at a time for (some) new shows. Perhaps more importantly, they do so for older shows and for movies.

Even waiting for a YouTuber upload isn't the same as waiting for an exclusive time-slot on a channel, which cannot actually be relied on.
Technology in Events Industry: How to Choose the Right One – NVOLV
I feel you brought out the critical point very well. There is the internet sucks the vacuum from our lives like FB, Twitter or blogs, News...while there is a whole lot of utilitarian needs fulfilled on the other side...And, yes, I have felt the same, the fun part has diminished except following News and occasionally some brilliant links..
Note that I am personally anti-copyright at this point. But the idea that retroactive copyright extension cannot incentivize creativity is a bad argument.

Retroactive extension sabotages the public domain. Without the public domain, there is more incentive for new work.

If we DESTROYED all books written more than 10 years ago, I guarantee there'd be an increase in sales of newer books.

This is obviously not in the public interest. It's the broken-window fallacy at best.

Yes, copyright extension is like paying the builder of your house extra for no reason. But it's also like charging extra fees for the ways older houses aren't up to the latest codes as a shitty way to further reduce their value in the market in order to give new construction a better competitive edge. Not that it's good to build new houses as an end in itself if there's good older houses available — but if you're focused on the interests of home-builders instead of the public interest…
Meh, http://radiomesh.org is where it's at! ;)
> making the city and population at large successful; growing the economy

The economy doesn't grow for most of the population, only those with the ability and skills to ride the wave. The rest are pushed out and forgotten. This is like asking why someone like Trump would get elected when GDP is at an all time high.
Life force acts at the molecular level. There's a fifth fundamental force of nature, just like gravity/electromagnetic/strong/weak forces, which interacts with specially structured organic matter, like DNA or RNA, that act like antennas to that force.

Anyways that's just my theory and a lot of the skeptics, like the people downvoting this right now, have already made the assumption against it without testing it for some reason.

Science can and will eventually solve everything, including life itself, but we need people to believe in the scientific process.
Nebulet – Microkernel that implements WebAssembly “usermode” that runs in Ring 0
The problem with location is that for almost all the companies I have worked for in the Seattle area, almost every single person lives on the east side (cause we are older, have families, etc and got imported here by Microsoft). New people, those young college kids, they all start in Seattle, whether at amazon or not. When I moved here years ago I wanted to be close to my work, so I was at Microsoft.
my linkedin profile has me listed as an oscar winning actor
http://cpcdososx.wixsite.com/craftyos
The future of reading?
The basic upshot of all this is that vgo's attempt to avoid NP-completeness in the dependency resolution algorithm is solving a problem that doesn't matter in practice, and is simultaneously creating downsides that do matter in practice.

This is consistent with what I've seen with systems like Cargo. If I had to make a list of top 10 issues I run into with Cargo, theoretical scalability of the core dependency resolution algorithm wouldn't make the cut.
> without testing it

What is the proposed test methodology to test your hypothesis?
Is it developed at all yet? Interesting idea... but the site doesn't seem to have any links or hardly any information at all.

Is there something I am missing?
My guess is that their RNA solution also contained neurotransmitters
I am a huge fan of Simple Machine Forums

- https://www.simplemachines.org/
One flimsy article doesn't warrant banning what's arguably the most prominent news outlet in the world. I can agree that a lot of NYT content is lame, but its stature remains strong and the HN community would justifiably revolt if it were banned altogether.
private blockchain doesn't have to hold by one company, it can be multiple companies, they can set different party for doing the PoW or other algorithms.
I agree with all of this as well. I am saddened that most of the time it is the rich techies (along with existing landed wealthy people) that come in and prevent any additional housing from being built - I live in an area well known for its NIMBYism.

If they raised everyone's taxes on my pay scale and above by 2%, and un-restricted building in much of the city, it would go a million times further to make it a more livable city for everyone than this tax.
I agree with you 100%

It basically comes down to tradition, ubiquitousness, and stubbornness. Which is sad to me. We fix other stuff. If an exploit appears in the OS it gets patched. Yet here we have a system that basically defaults to bad behavior, un-secure. It should be redesigned/replaced with something that makes it hard to do it wrong. If not replacing then maybe adding a "safe" mode and slowly deprecating the non-safe way. Sure it may take years. So did moving from python 2 to 3 but it is happening.

Maybe it will take the powers-that-be to start having their data stolen though shell exploits to realize if they made the shell hard to get wrong by default they'd be helping themselves as well?
> but I see you spending a lot of time writing C# in your personal time, or somehow demonstrating a passion for you, I'm more likely to think you'll be a fit.

Do you ever worry that you’re overlooking talented people who have a life outside of programming?
Pre-Conversion Activities to Support a Successful S/4 HANA Implementation
Internet's been all downhill since Westwood Chat got shutdown.
I think what they mean is that unions will protect known law-breakers beyond what most people would believe reasonable. They might protect, for example, teachers who exercise physical violence upon pupils, just because the worker is in a union. In other words, they exhibit bad corruption (as opposed to say something relatively less bad like nepotism).
I think the current approach of announcing the death of `dep` before even having a stable alternative (`vgo`) is deeply flawed. With `dep` the ecosystem finally had something most of the developers agreed on, despite whatever shortcomings it had. The model was working. They could have adopted dep and improved on it. The packaging story for Golang has gone from worse to OK to worse again.

After all this progress, we still don't have a stable alternative and no clear date as to when it might be ready or even worse, the community is still not sure vgo will be the final one. Golang should be about pragmatic, practical decisions. The packaging situation is just the opposite.
Again, why would I have to be explicit/exact on it? Two stars in the sky have an obvious substantial difference between their existences. Even if I couldn't readily express what those differences are.

I mean, I get that these are fun discussions to have. Likely even meaningful. But the odd friction this is adding to enter the conversation seems overblown.
Lynn Fisher has also a great website that inspires me regularly. She draw using css and 1 single div. It's all about linear-gradient background. Very interesting.

https://a.singlediv.com/
I think media is moving from Movies and later TV Series (none are good since 1 year back) to now become MMOs. Just the MMOs we have are really bad still. Follow the lineage of WoW, then PUBG; and extrapolate.

The internet will become MMOs; hell, life will become MMOs. MMOs are virtual reality more than VR itself could be if it tried real hard (yes, I'm looking at you Nevell).

Edit: Maybe streaming of MMOs is where the mass audience kicks in, though in the long run everyone will jack in.
Since we can't do income taxes in washington state, we can't make it a perfect tax, which would be to tax rich software engineers more, and say construction workers and baristas not at all. this tax would be better that way. They try to limit it to people working at big companies. I think they should do something like make it only for people making 100k or something. But would that tip it over into an income based tax, probably?

So what's your idea for how to raise money to deal with homeless people. My idea is copy what worked in Utah, which is start with building tons of housing, enough for all the homeless people.
I spent $6,000 on a Mac back then, when I only made $60k. Spending on better tools for developers is a no brainer.
this absolutely still exists, it's just different than it used to be. go find a twitch streamer that averages 10-300 viewers and you'll find a community. join a slack/discord organization for some niche hobby and you'll find a community. start an instagram account chronicling your trips to craft breweries and you'll find a community
The technology and those pics are interesting. Though the content of the pictures are odd.. mannequin heads and metamucil.. xD
I also find myself lacking ideas for places to explore. I usually wastes time like this:

- Do I know of a youtube channel I like and want to watch: mps-youtube [1]

- Do I want to get youtube content randomly/reddit-recommended: reddytt [2]

- Do I just want some images and gifs, not whole videos: redditp [3]

- Do I want to explore twitch, but do not know of a streamer I like: ryck [4]

[2] and [4] are my own tools for a more optimised time-wasting (I apologise if self-plugging is considered bad behaviour).

[1]
https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube

[2]
https://github.com/johanbluecreek/reddytt

[3]
https://github.com/ubershmekel/redditp

[4]
(early stages of development)
https://github.com/johanbluecreek/ryck
Saying it should be federal problem means nothing will happen. First, half the nation hates anything to do with us evil left coasters. Second, the govt is not that functional, nationally right now.