skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a bus stop, yeah, it is kinda strange, cause people are usually there because they have to be, not because they want to. At a hackerspace, at a bar, at a book club, music concert, etc. it isn’t weird all. Some of the best friends I’ve made over the past couple of years (and i mean real friends, the ones you hang out with multiple times a week, go on trips, etc), it almost always was through some kind of spontaneous contact. I guess it depends on where you live. I’ve found (anecdotal evidence incoming) that it is much easier to do so in big cities with a lot of people that are not car-centric.
However much latency a wifi network has, making the controlled connect to another local box and that box to relay the signal through the same wifi would definitely by the latency of the wifi + T right? They are shaving off T.
See the references in the wikipedia article. Article came first it appears.
an agpl lisc only requires that you provide the code you altered in order to integrate. prohibiting it from running on their servers simply closes the door on people coming to them for code they don't even own!
Thanks for this comment. I had once reached this conclusion (everything is meaningless anyway, stop worrying about being single&lonely), but had forgotten it.
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This is great advice! (I also agree with OP's sad lack of connection in America. It is there but it is work to find it sometimes)

Also great:

Volunteering. You're guaranteed to meet some good people because these are other people that are interested in (1) working together (2) helping people (3) donating their time. The very worst-case scenario is that you don't make friends, but have helped somebody in need. =)

Sports. Grown-up recreational sports are nothing like the (often hostile) world of sports you might remember as a kid. Generally very supportive places. Co-ed leagues tend to be more easygoing. If you're a beginner, pay for some lessons. For example... lots of tennis coaches out there. If you are healthy enough to move around you can learn to play a pretty decent game of tennis in not much time and with less $$$ than you'd spend on a new Xbox. Obvious direct and indirect benefits as well.
I do! I have 91 windows open in my current irssi session. I think only 50 of those are actual channels and the other half is active or dead queries between people.

I use have slack for some group of friends, but I have been less active after they removed the IRC bridge. I try to avoid Discord.

IRC is also used for my core group of friends, some of them I got over when we started University together as I couldn't stand Facebook messenger. A lot of time is also spent on various open-source projects, mainly Arch Linux but also security related channels and misc projects.
You want to see one of the most fascinating uses of IRC in a focused, dedicated community let me introduce you to the player group known as the "Fuel Rats" of Elite:Dangerous[1]. They use IRC for far more than just a hub to congregate and socialize, 100% of their actual dispatch operations are planned, coordinated and excuted on IRC.

If you run out of "fuel" in game, and you need a Fuel Rat to come rescue you, you do it in IRC. Dispatch talks to you in their IRC channel, other dispatchers are communicating in NOTAM[2] like notation with pilots out 'rescuing' other players.

It's amazing to behold.

[1] https://confluence.fuelrats.com/display/FRKB/Rescue+Standard...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOTAM

Disclosure: Fuel Rat 2010-2013, Retired.
Tip for a fellow traveler: you might want to check out the Autism Advantage program. They give job training specialized for autistic adults so they can work in the SV.
Cool - Is there a similar verse describing the end?
No the games stream from Nvidia's servers, no LAN and no computer needed.
>We have everything we ever wanted and absolutely no happiness.
I guess this is the difference between generations and why they struggle most of the time understanding each other. What older generation dreamed about and worked hard to get the younger generation takes for granted, and that is not necessarily something bad. I would argue that it's mostly good, because that's why people have ambitions/goals/dreams about something which previously thought was impossible. Hence pioneering in different fields of science, entrepreneurship, social interaction, etc.
This is basic evolution, yet we struggle to understand it. Old organisms in almost every aspect of life are hard to change. That's why the nature takes care of it time so naturally. Most parents don't realize that they don't have to love what their children do in order to simply love them and let them live their dream.
You would probably get less of that if the military wasn't as much of a boys club as it is today - which is what you would get if everyone had to serve. I'm curious if countries with required service like Israel or South Korea have less dick drawing because their gender ratio is closer to 50/50 than 80/20
I think where this gets tricky is when the display is plugged in via Ethernet.
You're delusional if you think climate change isn't going to play out without human deaths on a massive scale, regardless of whether that's wars for habitable land and water or explicit murders of "surplus" populations.

We're on a path that is going to significantly lessen the carrying capacity of the planet (on the human timescales we care about). It's implicit and unavoidable barring a wholescale change in power structures and probably human attitudes in general.

It's not a good thing but it is inevitable at this point.
Does Trump see himself as "a man of genuine self"?
Recipe for solving loneliness and increasing the odds of "successful marriages" (which is really what this article seems focused on conveying as a problem).

Build a successful community:

* Enough housing, at reasonable cost
* Enough jobs to "employ" all adults
* Good jobs, fitting the skills of workers
* Stable jobs, that aren't a gig or contract
* Career jobs, with a future in the area
* Good transit mesh
* More diverse third places / third spaces

Right now transit sucks, zoning sucks, housing options suck, and decades of trying to manage things from the consumption side have lead the supply side to be crazy in all sorts of aspects. Since markets aren't free (zoning laws, all sorts of other regulations) active maintenance is not just desirable from a ripple smoothing standpoint, it's actually required from a systemic viewpoint. There are also too many areas of uncertainty on the supply side; cases where things fail because of those who already got their happiness.

Japan's "nuisance" based zoning is better (#1), if a project fits within an area's limits and passes environmental/other planning review it can be done. Their transit structure is also partly funded by the "taxes" involved with the rail companies also owning the land around the stations (which ends up falling in to the higher end of the nuisance classes and gets the shopping centers, hotels, and denser apartments built on it); but that could happen here too if we actually had civic planning, taxes, and open book accountability that could tie taxes to spending and involved politicians/companies in people's minds.

I'm also in favor of a //long term// plan for establishing an expanding zone of high quality (Japanese subway/rail style) transit that has frequent, on time, predictable service. This would spread out from city centers over time and would involve interface and storage silos (for cars, and big stuff). Critically this should start with first improving transit, then adding the interface silos that adapt legacy infrastructure to the city-core infrastructure, and only then getting the cars out of the city; entirely. Aside from maybe an underground network for deliveries and emergency transport.

Finally, because the market is so screwed up with respect to available housing in the areas that need it, emergency remediation should be instituted and reviewed until the crisis is resolved. That would probably start with a short-table evaluation of rezoning, and even loans if at least 70% of the units were intended for median in the state's population income and at least 10% for those making "minimum wage" (the lesser of state and city values).

A land-value based tax should also be instituted to encourage the evolution of a zone over time rather than keeping historic single dwelling housing just because it made sense 50-100 years ago.

#1 http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
#1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540845
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'By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.' (Jesus, John 13:35)
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Textual is good. It costs money but it's GPL'd so you can build it yourself for free in a matter of minutes, there are plenty of tutorials online.
Tell him what you believe. However, it sounds like you may be unsure of what you believe or not confident in what you believe. If that is the case, perhaps this is an indication that you should search out and come to grips with this, as it will impact many other aspects of your life. This can be a time of discovery and bonding for your family. Your son will see how you tackle this and learn, regardless of how you decide to proceed.

Some believe that there is no metaphysical: no god, no heaven - just the material universe. This itself is a metaphysical truth claim that is not falsifiable. It takes faith in certain things to believe this.

Others believe that there is a metaphysical, but that it is impersonal and must be actualized through your actions or ritual. This is also not a falsifiable claim, and takes faith in certain things.

Still others believe that not only is there a metaphysical, but that a Person created the physical universe and has revealed Himself in history and in nature and that He may be discovered through examining these things. Also not falsifiable and takes faith in certain things.

If you are interested in exploring this last avenue, may I suggest reading:

https://www.amazon.com/New-Evidence-That-Demands-Verdict/dp/...
Can't find any details myself but the usual issue is energy density or number of charge cycles.
Ayn is a "she," not a "he."
Although on the flip side, the number also assumes you have no flexibility and don't change your spending according to how much you have left.

It's a tricky one to work out, and 4% is (as you say) definitely not a number you can easily use for retiring in your 30s.
Hello, I am a new iPad user and this is one of the first iOS apps I ever downloaded along with iSH on testflight(the alpine linux distrobution for ipad). I have 2 questions if you don't mind:

1) I love iSH because I dont need to be on the internet or connected to any other devices to get a local shell. Is there interest in the project in creating a local shell using busybox or the like built into the app? As awesome as iSH is, unfortunately things like F-keys and general user interface still need a bit of work.

2) Will you folks support mouse integration on iOS 13?

Thanks for the great app. I am rooting for you folks.
lol the hacker news relationship advice this spawned
I am logged into several channels 24/7, in one (with a close group of friends) pretty much without a break since about 1999. I also frequent some channels with technical topics.

IRC appeals to me by its simplicicy, just like good old plain text email does. It is a great design that has outlived many of the better, more colourful or more modern alternatives, and will continue to do so.

Like everywhere on the internet there is a resident braggart, a few weirdos and a few ever silent lurkers in every channel, but after 20+ years on this medium my mental filters are well honed.
Could you expand on that statement a little, please.

You can take a curved object in 3D space and project it into 2D space and it remains curved?

In the examples of Gaussian curvature here https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/about-us/departmental-art/theory/... they only appear to be curved because they're 3D (an arc-section of a sphere, a paraboloid), none of them is 2D. Are the examples just weak?

Wolfram has a curious definition:

>"A curvature such as Gaussian curvature which is detectable to the "inhabitants" of a surface and not just outside observers. An extrinsic curvature, on the other hand, is not detectable to someone who can't study the three-dimensional space surrounding the surface on which he resides." (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/IntrinsicCurvature.html) //

but it doesn't make sense to me. A cylinder has no intrinsic curvature but the curvature is discoverable by travelling in one direction only to return from the other?
Random convos at bus stations are the best convos.

Especially if the bus is late and the wifi/cellular service is lousy.
Your second sentence seems to contradict the "it doesn't have to feel weird" part of the first.
Along a similar note... kids are for the young. When you're in your 20's it's MUCH easier to play with young kids and at least try to keep up as it is when you're in your 40's.

There's also something to be said for averting hookup culture and actually trying to build a relationship as opposed to ejecting at the first sign of inconvenience.

I say both of these things as a twice divorced 40-something that hasn't had kids of his own and deeply regrets it.
Of course that's true that they could no longer be the victim, but that's not the case here. Woman still are treated unequally many ways in society, and white people are still privelaged over black people (for example) in society. There's plenty of facts and statistics to back both of those statements up. Look at the wage gap between men and women and the average wealth of black vs white families, for a couple of examples.
> Not making things worse is not "good".

If you have Choice A which actively makes things worse and Choice B which doesn't make things worse then Choice A is the "good" choice as it is the one that causes the least harm. Driving a 50cc scooter instead of a car doesn't actively help carbon emissions, in fact it still puts out carbon, but it any reasonable person would say that switching from a car to a scooter helps the environment. Splitting hairs over whether doing less harm counts as "helping" isn't very productive.
> If we come up with a model of a super-universe and then find that model says that universes like ours are more likely to exist, then it can be evidence for the super-universe.

That's not evidence FOR the superverse, just like we can inherently not rule out the idea of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon deceiving our every perception.

At best, this is untestable philosophy that's fun to debate over drinks. At worst, it's a tedious discussion about the semantics of existence and time.

Don't get me wrong! We could discover interesting things about our universe looking for holes, but there's no indication this problem is tractable.
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>It is not like overhearing a conversation in the park, it like is hiding in the bushes with a tape recorder.

It's not like that because people have a reasonable expectation that what they say in a conversation will only be heard by those in that conversation. Tweeting is the real life equivalent of standing on the table and shouting something with a bullhorn. There's no expectation of privacy there.

>Total observation is socially and politically horrifying

It's not "total observation". It's observation of things they explicitly choice to make public.
Maybe I'm alone here in never actually having read any of her books - but being well aware of the content as I bump into the lovers/haters online.

To me it's up there with the Bible. I'm aware of the jist, sounds like there's good and bad stuff in there, but know I f'in hate people that quote from either.
I haven't gotten into Discord yet. Isn't it a pain that there are so many Discord servers and you can't just have one server with all the channels (ala Freenode)?
> tons of cheap regional school

That is how it was when I first went away to college in 1994; I think I paid around $3k a year tuition at University of Missouri. I started planning a 529 for my kids this week and was shocked to find that in state tuition here (South Carolina) is $15K a year for just tuition and fees. I'm scared to imagine what it will be in ten years.
We're trying.

I think these things are path dependent. There's not a particularly good, short-term, economic reason to go to Mars and build it up enough to be self-sustaining. However long term, it probably does improve our civilization's and species' (and perhaps life's) chance at survival. Unfortunately, we're not terribly good at long-term decision making.

It could very well be that there was a window when the hypothetical Venusian civilization had the capacity to leave en masse to Earth but by the time the matter had become pressing enough, it was too late.

For instance, it could be that advanced geoengineering techniques were able to hold off the effects of warming for thousands or tens of thousands of years which reduced the urgency leaving Venus, but over time the cost to maintain such systems became much too expensive and then some crisis (global war?) destroyed the geoengineering scheme, quickly heating Venus and destroying the advanced technological civilization and/or putting it into terminal decline.

Point is you have to do such things when you have the chance, not necessarily when it seems most pressing.

As Randall Monroe has said, "The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."
https://xkcd.com/893/

We went to the Moon ~50 years ago and soon stopped. It was somewhat of a historical accident that we went at all. It's not obvious that we will return in the future (even those efforts to go to the Moon or Mars face voices calling on even private efforts to be stopped). The future has not been written, and we don't know that it'll end up in the positive direction. But we, today, have the power to try.
I'm curious to query the HN crowd: How do we mesh this learned helplessness on subjects for which there are no definitive studies for? (eg. is the purpose of a human life to produce more humans? How does one formally prove that, and how does one prove those proofs are valid, and the organizations that prove the proofs are valid are also valid?)
Going in the opposite direction, this means it's generally becoming more likely for the people you meet (even if you meet very briefly) to not have any real close friends, people to hang out with, etc. Therefore, if you're feeling lonely yourself, it sounds like a great idea to ask a bunch of people you meet to all hang out together. It might give everyone some relief.

I've been on the fence about trying to put together a friend group and see who fits at my new workplace, since I started with a bunch of other newbies that seemed relatively nervous. I think I'll ask them if they wanna hang out.
For comparison, Hetzner is offering dedicated i7-6700/64GB/1 TB SSD/GTX 1080/"unlimited" bandwidth for €94/month (no installation fee) [1]. Due to their business model, I assume this is a price that also generates them a healthy profit.

The stadia pricing does not sound completely unfeasible when taking into account the 130€, another 70€ from the extra controller, cut from game sales and the fact that casual gamers do not spend their days play the most computationally demanding titles. Some extra €€ would come from family plans and there might be some synergies with their cloud computing business (for example using spare capacity from GCE for Stadia).

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu
Spent some time on LexisNexis over the weekend
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Not the parent, but it kind of makes sense: if a network cable has no beginning it definitely has no purpose.
>That some people can even think this could ever be different is a testament to the low quality of education and media in the US.

Exactly - they weren't home-schooled.
Nice quote. Does the author tell why he ends up hating a human when he loves humanity. I think I too have that problem. I look at all the TED talks and think I should love humanity but I have a bad husband to my wife and a bad father to my kids. tia.
They wouldn't have had to wreck their atmosphere to that extent so quickly. What if they wrecked their atmosphere more slowly, then experienced a slow global collapse of civilization due to the climate change? There could have been a "phase change" event where they retained technology, but quickly lost the ability to engage in the magnitude of project required to save their planet. "We of Souvenusia do not trust the people of Norvenusia to act in good faith in the sun-shield project!" Venusian civilization devolves into global war. Then the climate has warmed up to the point, where their wartime activities trigger a global methane clathrate catastrophe.

It's especially not particularly plausible that it just so happens that life did it to Venus using exactly what happens to be a fashionable thing to talk about here on Earth at this exact time.

But it could make for a timely, marketable, ripping good novel!
Sure, but who's to say whether or not those children will fly on planes or go on cruises? Or their grandchildren? Or their great-grandchildren? This strikes me as a fallacious argument that simply not going on cruises or plane rides can offset the environmental footprint of having children. At least not unless there's some mechanism to forbid those children from every flying on a plane or taking a cruise - and not aware of any such mechanism.
This could bring electric aviation (constrained by a battery's specific energy currently) a decade forward. Let's see how it pans out.
According to Wikipedia, he's received praise from critics for some smaller roles that don't fit the typecast, though.
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Question to the HN crowd: How do you feel about choosing one's own family, as is a common phenomenon among the LGBTQIA+ community (who are more at risk of family rejecting them?)
It does if you're a woman who wants to have children. There are of course expensive ways to increase fertility after it has started to decline, but they're far from a guarantee.

The point, though, is that if a woman is still just looking for a husband at 25, when she is already nearing the end of her peak fertile years, she will likely be at the end of her peak fertile years when she gets married, so it's all downhill from the get-go.
AirDrop is one of a few iOS-only technologies I really wish Android and Windows would adopt. I hate having to upload files from my Android phone to Google Drive, open the Google Drive web app (which isn't a quick loader mind you), find the file, and then download it to my computer. Android Beam (may it rest in peace) was a close alternative, but even then it only worked Android-to-Android, and both devices required NFC.
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You can buy the game and use Stadia without subscription. You are capped at 1080p though.
You need to put contact information into the 'about' text field of your user account if you want to be contacted, the account email address is hidden.
Yes. And it was awesome.
On being given the planetary model of an atom I think it's relatively common to consider that maybe atoms are mini star systems. That was one of my early "aw shucks, someone else had that idea already!?" deflationary moments.