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Ask HN: Meeting New People on Today's Internet
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Hello, I am in my late thirties and seeking to meet new people.
In the late 90s and early 2000s, I would meet people the following ways:

1.AOL Member Directory. Starting a conversation based on a common interest and talking for hours with a person out of nowhere. It was almost like a magical link to another dimension. The interests ranged from careers, stock trading, cooking, my obsession with retro 80's cartoons and my religous/political ideology of the month ( From 18 to 25, I was everything from a communist to Fundamentalist Christian to Libertarian to New Age progressive). After speaking to these people for a few weeks, we would often move on to related topics and eventually reveal more personal details . Some of these people became lifelong friends that I met in person. 2. Chat Rooms: There were often chat rooms. In one chatroom, we would meet for one hour each week to debate political ideology, religion, and philosophy. We got to know each other first and foremost based on our dedication to debate and ideas. Later on, we got to know personal details and met in person.

I am interested in meeting new people again.

Does anyone have any suggestions of any parts of the Internet where the "old rules"still apply. i.e: Writing essays and/or message board forum posts that actually get read, discussed in depth, and responded to personally, in depth conversations either by email, private message or live instant message, chatrooms, etc. In other words, are there any parts of the Internet where one can meet new people based on shared interests and ideas, engage in depth discussion, resulting eventually in RL friendships, career contacts, etc.

I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions. Thanks
And the final step, pixel rendered canvas generated in webassembly (basically Flash in 202x.)
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I was just imagining the opposites of these and remembering some of my favorite people I ever worked with. I've only ever worked with 2 developers who I didn't like, and they fit this list almost perfectly.

Be humble, be kind.
I can't un-see that Comic Sans clock
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> but nowadays the tooling has gotten so much better that it matters a lot less

I think that that's the point. Portability to platforms with a strong tooling and usage base even in a different sector is ok and safe. The problem is when you try to do something like x86 -> Itanium or alike, that could take some time to stabilize.
Might be fun. This would be similar to what recording industry did on P2P sites. At first it was easy to get what you were looking for. Then it got saturated with garbage.
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Why the hatred of TypeScript? The vast majority of TypeScript devs tend to love the language in my experience
Here's the point of disagreement, then: I don't think YouTube prohibits "non-free" licenses, and I don't see how their terms of service can be construed as such. I also don't see anything that would prevents users from contacting content creators for licensing inquiries. Could you point out where in the terms these exist?
this is categorically not true.

> In Matrix bubble (and any others, see cryptocurrency or p2p community for example) they are the only one who makes the decision. They don't care on other opinions.

You can see our governance model at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc177... and see that we do everything we can to ensure that the wider community can contribute to the spec and steer it in the right direction.

And fwiw, we'd be perfectly happy to contribute the spec to IETF or W3C or whoever once it's relatively stable, just like XMPP did.

Rather than burning all this energy spreading FUD about Matrix, perhaps it might be better spent improving XMPP? :/
I think the parent was talking about using SPI in bidirectional mode (one shared wire for both tx and rx). In that case indeed it is hard to only read a fixed small number of bytes
Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls
It's an 18 minute video. Does it include the point that Earth has been broadcasting "I've got life on me!" for about a billion years now, ever since the Great Oxygenation Event?

Since I realized that, I've stopped whatever slight worry I may have had about the "kill everyone you discover" theory. If it was going to happen, it wouldn't happen in the near future because some of our radio waves finally got somewhere, it would happen eight or nine hundred million years ago and we wouldn't be having this conversation at all.
Looking at MySQL with PostgreSQL Eyes
As someone who have computer modelling as a core of my research it makes me happy to see this quote mentioned here.

People on other science forums are generally fast to dismiss computer models as 'unrealistic' and 'non-representative', disregarding their utility.

For those interested in models I always recommend looking at Schelling's segregation model for starters, the premises and conclusions drawn from the experiment are quite interesting.
I agree, and further I think of books like Gladwell's as a kind of summary with pointers to deeper reading by following up with the references.

I don't really expect one book to be the final answer on a topic. In particular, if you do look up the references in a book (even just in a cursory manner) you may be surprised to find that you don't think they support the author's interpretation.

In short, if Gladwell did supply more density or detail, it wouldn't really make his interpretation more right. It might seem to strengthen it in some peoples eyes, but that is an illusion.
My quite old Chromebook is my main laptop for university. I have Python + Latex + Gcc on it and live with ~ 500 spare megabytes...

When I code, I generally do it with Emacs in crouton, not with a remote IDE like Cloud9.

New Chromebooks are even better for development because they support docker, but I can't test it with my "too old" Chromebook.
Great article!

I had a similar revelation with Lisp and Clojure. Writing in a language you enjoy using and are very productive in (effort->effect) is really liberating.

The great thing is even when I have to return to the old ways (Java) Clojure's java interop makes writing the Java a lot more manageable, almost fun.

I don't know whether it's the functional paradigm, the dynamic typing (I didn't have the same revelation with Ruby/JS), immutable collection by default, the minimal lisp syntax, etc.

It just feels right.
Yes but the platform is just one of the unknowns at the lower level. If the tooling is fine, the C compiler is very unlikely to emit things that will run in a different way, it is much simpler to see software breaking because of higher level parts that don't have anything to do with the platform like: libc version, kernel upgrade, ...

About SDS: glad it is useful for you!
I'm reasonably sure that the self-aggrandizement that he does is probably why Mathematica is pretty much a niche product, even compared to Matlab, and certainly numpy/pandas.
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#9 for sure. Probably a side effect of being sloppy or writing bad code.
If you're buying equities and leaving them alone for decades, sure. But if you're retired and depending on your investments for an income, being 85% in equities is insane. One prolonged bear market could wipe you out.
Sounds like thermal throttling. I don't think there's any reason turbo can't be continuous if thermals are under control, see https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/frequency_behavior
Had the same thing, actually knew the security question answers as I had logged them. But according to the fine website they were wrong. Called apple. First time they told me "too bad" (took me about an hour to get that answer)

Called them again and another apple employee pointed out that as long as you can login, you can enable 2FA via iCloud (something I'm not using either). Once 2FA is enabled the security questions can be bypassed. Not sure if that required them to change a setting, but from then on you _should_ be able to change anything else, including the security questions or assign another email address or add an extra one or..
"It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.
But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple." - Terry Pratchett, _The Color of Magic_
This. Static typing doesn't mean tedium in modern languages. In Java and old C#, you would write stuff like this:

int x = 1;
BigOldClass y = new BigOldClass()
Dictionary<int, List<string>> z = new Dictionary<int, List<string>>();
int[] p = new int[] {1, 2, 3};

In modern C#, you can write cleaner code like this:

var x = 1; // type is inferred
var y = new BigOldClass(); // syntactic sugar to avoid repetition
var z = new Dictionary<int, List<string>>();
var p = new [] {1, 2, 3};

Still strongly, statically typed, and obviously typed.
I was looking at UI toolkits recently for a new side project and I consciously avoided Material Design because of the Google connection and also because I don't really think it looks that good.

Went with Grommet - perhaps for no good reason, but that's the joy of side projects.... (and liking it so far).
What exactly are engineers and designers at Facebook doing? There are thousands of them! I've seen teams of 10 ship more (granted, no one is delivering on Facebook's scale)...

I know most of them are likely working on backend stability and performance... but come on.
Sure, because only a few websites have new content every couple of minutes. No point in visiting a site daily that updates monthly. There's RSS for that.
As mentioned above, either the code works or it doesn’t … but it needs to work in combination with all the code being added to the codebase by your teammates.

That is Linus' job (or one of his trusted lieutenants). Kernel contributors generally do not interact with each other directly. There are simply too many kernel contributors to hold all kinds of "team meetings". The problems that the article mentions, exist mostly in a corporate environment. Virtual, distributed teams generally do not have these problems.

Software engineering is probably the most collaborative work in today’s world.

Yes, but successful software, such as the linux kernel, is not developed in the way he believes it is. What corporate IT typically does, is certainly not a reference.

A manager who doesn’t understand this is a manager who doesn’t understand software engineering.

A manager who does not read, evaluate, and merge pull requests, is not a manager; and does indeed not understand software engineering. The article complains about the side effects of one particular, rather outdated approach to software engineering. You will, for example, not hear the PostgreSQL or the Debian team complain about that kind of issues.
I talked to potential customers, built a POC, showed some end users, had a meeting with an investor, built the MVP, deployed last night, now looking for beta users.

Low code for developers
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> With Chrome OS, that was never a problem, all my settings sync'd perfectly between my two desktops (home/work) and laptop

did these two desktops also use Chrome OS? This sounds pretty nice
Everyone experiences the same colors in the sense that sunlight has a particular emissions spectrum, Earth's atmosphere has a particular absorption spectrum and light-scattering property, and any given viewable object has measurable properties for diffuse reflection, specular reflection, and its own emissions spectrum.

If you point a measurement device at a particular point, you can get a histogram of light intensity over several frequency bands. A histogram with many narrow bands gives a more accurate profile of the measured light.

The human eye usually has only three frequency bands: blue, green, and red. They overlap. They are not always the same width, or centered on the same frequency. The width and center of the red bar is defined on the X chromosome, so some people with two X chromosomes from lineages that see red differently have a fourth histogram bar, and therefore have better ability to distinguish between similar color profiles at the red end of the visible spectrum. Some people with only one X chromosome have a defective copy of the gene encoding for the red histogram bar, and thus only have two bars in their histogram.

So while color is objectively the same, different eyes--connected to different visual cortexes--quantize and encode color information differently. Each brain may interpret the data in the color channels differently to establish an individual's world model.

What I see as "red" is unique to me. If someone were to bridge my brain to someone else's, my "red" would not match to someone else's "blue". My color channels would be as their octarine, smaudre, and refulgine--three completely different color channels that they have never experienced before. But if our optic nerves were linked, rather than somewhere deeper in the brain, I would see their red as my red, even if their eye reads reds slightly differently because of a minor difference in their X chromosomes. The translation layer between raw visual data and personal worldmodel is not guaranteed, or even likely, to produce similar results.
Idea HN: Finding Project Teammates
Do you have a project you want to work on, but are missing some of the skills required to make it a reality?

Or do you have a skill (marketing, engineering, product, business) and you are looking for a project to help out?

Finding teammates for your project shouldn’t be hard. But, it often is. Maybe you live in an area that has a shortage of talent. Or you are looking for people with specific skills that are hard to find. There is no way to connect to these people because you don’t even know where they are.

We want to change that by providing a service that connects people around the world with the same interests to work on projects together. Completing projects with teammates is in itself a fulfilling experience. It might even turn out to be a business.

If you are interested to work on a project with other people, please sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/NJaGMTLbImBPo6e62.
Insect size tends to be limited by oxygen availabiltiy (since they don't have lungs, and must absorb oxygen passively). Hence why the biggest insects are found in oxygen rich rainforests.
Why? Google has the option for many years, it is hard but definitely doable.
The point is that disrupting local industries gives only a narrow field of what can get funded

The graveyard of seemingly pointless portfolio pieces is a key component which nyc cant replicate
At first it is not about metals, but water. Water is the oil of space. You can use it to make propellant, human/plant consumables, radiation shielding, and for further chemical processing. Once you have cheap water in cis-lunar space, it becomes 'easy' to move payloads around the Solar System and start the process for other resource utilization.
Personally, I have a similar project and I think I'm going to go the Patreon route, maybe merch. My followers/users aren't mega wealthy or enterprise users, and I work on my project for the community and the love of it. I never want to make them the product. This route won't make me mega rich or famous, but it will live and maybe even give me breathing room to prioritize it along with my professional work.
But how do I know you're possible-coloured?
A lot of the time it isn’t Safari that’s asking for the crappy mobile version of a site. Quite a few sites will return the mobile version even if you request the desktop version because they identify that you’re using an iOS device through avenues other than the user agent. The only way to force a desktop version to load in these instances is to inject Javascript and/or spoof a bunch of stuff.
I think it is perfectly reasonable for a client to use more RAM than a server, having to display a GUI and all. I'm thinking of IRC servers vs. clients. (Certainly not 2 GB, but that's another matter.)
Common misconception, but that graph does not explain the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's actually more like a linear curve, it's just a little flatter than the graph of y = x.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is that the best people underestimate their relative abilities, and the worst overestimate. So, the worst 10% may estimate they are about average, while the top 10% might estimate they are in the top 20%. These are more realistic figures than the graph used in this article.
As a solo developer who does all these, I have a lot of self-loathing.
The reason I suggest the video is to help people that feel "depressed" or similar feeling after finishing the book, the book had this effect on me and I seen people on reddit having similar feelings after finishing it. So my intention is to help , I don't want to discredit a book or theory or promote something. (I loved the books)
> be liberal in what you accept from others

This is a recipe for disaster and code bloat. I met in the past a vulnerability that some irc clients had due to that principle.
If you can login to your device then you should be able to reset by enabling 2FA in iCloud. See my reply above.
Still the perfect is the enemy of the good and all that. It's probably better to have a flawed but functional mechanism than nothing. I'll give you that hfc 23 story is bad.
For those leveling the criticism that Gladwell's style is too simplistic and unacademic, is this stylistic form simply a product of the author or a product of a publishing industry that knows their audience will choose digestible prose over dense manuscripts (and sponsors authors and their books accordingly)?
The Russian Sleuth Who Outs Moscow's Elite Hackers and Assassins
My fiance has on her laptop, but definitely not me as she is usually saying how slow it is and all she does is browse the internet.
> I wish DNT was honoured, but it's as good as a "do not commit crime" sign.

I bet the ad industry wishes they'd played ball, now that browsers are baking tracking protection in.
Super piece of work. A great way for people to see how Linux works up close. Thanks for sharing.
It probably just takes a long time to develop! I mean, keep in mind, Facebook's app doesn't even support landscape mode. It's hard to find the development bandwidth for advanced features.
You don't understand that many people prefer interacting with other people in person instead of via a slack channel?

You can like your remote job. I agree there are ways to make it work, for certain people and certain jobs, and it can even be better than a workplace in some cases. I am not criticizing it, just explaining the advantages I find from working in an office with other people (btw, I have done remote work too, though never in a remote-first company).

I wonder if you have tried socializing in person and via a computer. It's so much better in person, that I don't care about not having logs. If you don't understand that, you may be a robot.
Consumer Reports No Longer Recommends the Tesla Model 3
Well then you should move to China, seeing as you prefer their system.
Well, you see, people didn't leave Facebook in the numbers anticipated, so the project got deprioritized.
You can always unsubscribe at any time. It's probably just a click away. I like the idea of being reminded about continuing parts of an article I'm interested in. Getting a reminder is easier than making a note, remembering to check the note, checking the website to see if the next part has been posted, etc.
Not sure. But sounds messy -- type aliases aren't really intended for that.
Not everyone gets h4 EAD. Someone who have approved I-140 but couldn't get Green card due to country backlog, may get EAD. So essentially these are families who have been stuck in green card limbo for years in some cases for 10+ years, because they are from India.
I think that's probably true, and the Bay Area needs more high density housing, but lessening the impact is not eliminating the impact.

So perhaps it's less harmful for the current residents of Queens, but it's still negative. Why should they not oppose that?
yes, type inference is pretty comprehensive, function signatures don't usually need them even.
I've been thinking about this as well, after using a manual version of this strategy. Might still implement it one day.

That said, it's pretty hard. It's not entirely clear which data points Facebook uses, but it's very likely you can't influence all of them. For example, friends adding you as contacts, or linking your profile to your phone number. If you also want to continue using it as normal, your normal usage will still give a lot of data about what you view; what you interact with; when you use it; that might stand out from the random stuff - and if you don't want to continue using it as usual, the extension will have to visit the website by itself, without interfering with your regular browsing activity, and without relying on your computer being on.

I also think that if something like this would get big enough to actually impact the quality of their algorithms, it'd be pretty easy for Facebook to detect abnormal activity.

(And of course, it's not even that much of a problem if the algorithm screws up more often, as long as advertisers believe it's accurate.)
Did it? I didn't notice it.
I’ve always thought PCs will become business workstations. Meaning you use them for office work but everything else will be “cars” as your quote put it. Meaning internet browsing, social media, view/edit photos, and the like will be done on some mobile device. Windows is alresdy the de facto business workstation and I don’t see it going away.

There’s already a whole generation or two who will likely have little to no experience with PCs.
Machine Learning for Classifying Turbine Engine Performance
>I migrated to uMatrix because it allows me to block cookies, media, javascript, and xhr by default. It replaced several different privacy extensions with a single control panel. You can set the defaults to be as strict or lenient as you wish.

That's a lot of configuration to do. I'd rather just use Firefox containers, noscript, and use Tor for things I don't want tied to my ad profile.
This has always bothered me, I want everyone to see colors the same way so we can all have the same internal experience.

However, I have rationalized away this theory with a thought experiment. Imagine someone messed with your brain and remixed your colors. So now maybe what you once saw as red you now see as green. However, since your brain has no other reference, you will not even be aware this change has happened.

Now if we put a device in your brain that changes your colors every second or so, you still won’t even know. You’ll never know! Because you have no way to compare a previous representation with a new one.

Imagine looking out now into the world around you, and being told every second your colors are being rewired. Since you can only have one dictionary of colors in your mind, you see nothing change, because that would imply there is an even deeper meta-representation of colors you can compare with.

Ultimately, colors do not exist. This is why my favorite color is black, as it is the only “true” color, and not to mention everything looks good in black.
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