skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Since you have no contact information for any of your attendees, you can't reach out to them to move them to another platform.

>It would be nice if Meetup could give you the contact information of all your members

Meetup has a spam problem, as greggman2 has pointed out.[0] Your proposal would make that worse.

>This allows someone else to step in and take over. Taking all the hard work you did to create the meetup and giving it to someone else.

Believe it or not, some people think this is a feature. I know of groups where the original organizer(s) had to leave the locality for various reasons, but designated successor(s) to keep the group going.

>allow you to close a group without allowing anyone else to step in.

Yes, that'd be good to have.

>They hold your meetup group hostage if you're an organizer.

Yes, all these contributed to lock-in, but some of these were features that some people wanted in the past, or at least that's my impression from using the site for many years.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21266422
While what you say is true, does pushing the start time of class back 30 minutes or 1 hour make any difference? I'm skeptical.

When I was a teen, on weekends with no where to be, I'd regularly sleep until noon, 1pm, sometimes 2pm or later. Should we push school back until, say, 4pm through 10pm-12am? Doubtful that's good either.

On some level, it teaches kids that they have to be someplace at a certain time, regardless of what they might want... You know, obligations and responsibility.
Latest Victim in ‘Zero Sum’ World Is a Russian Internet Giant
You don’t need to worry about disk size in RDS now. You can set an upper limit and it will grow as it needs. No need to resize now.
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/19755/Oracle-Solaris.html...

https://www.cvedetails.com/product/32658/?q=Suse+Linux+Enter...
Thanks for the additional data points!
Unfortunately that specific study is notorious for blowing past the peer review process: https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2014-haier.pdf

The reviewers shared a 20-point critique of the paper prior to publication that was ignored by the publisher and researchers. In fact, their results clearly showed the existence of a general intelligence until they performed an unnecessary rotation which is mentioned in Appendix B point 7.

Whether or not IQ has human meaning, social value, or is the "end-all" are subjective arguments that are not within the scope of IQ study. Statistically we know that so far out of all the psychometric scores that have been invented it is the strongest one. Better measurements will most definitely be invented, but they haven't so far.
Looking over your shoulder takes a lot of time. Adjust your mirrors and you'll rarely ever have to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIkodlp8HMM
25K for the workers, 100K for materials. 875K for the company that sold this to the city. Rich keep getting richer.
Why, I used to be down-voted into oblivion by declaring Joyent's OS a bullshit.
She Took a Two-Year Break in Her Career. Now She’s CEO
Haha wow no I hadn’t even realized that connection could be made and it wasn’t intended but I do like the idea of malapropisms as well
I've developed myself a minimal alternative at https://meetup.events when I was not allowed to run my Elm Study Group at meetup.com. It doesn't even have means to create events yet, but if you're interested in developing it further (Haskell + Elm), or contribute a design, or you are a potential user and need something – please contact me (via creating an issue on GitLab) and I'm happy to actually feature-complete the thing as needed by actual users.

UPDATE: actually, let me add the means to add/edit events there today...
Just repeating "non-sequitur" is not an argument. If you have nothing else to add I'll just reiterate what I wrote above. It doesn't matter how popular twitter is, you don't have to use twitter and twitter isn't obligated to provide service for free.
This is San Francisco; construction will always take forever
I believe there was a movement to change the name to compassionate communication, maybe even led by Rosenberg himself, but I don’t think it has had as much traction as NVC.
How to Code? – 4
Solaris is the laughing stock of any offensive exploit shop. Hackers like it so much they cheer every time it comes up in a gig or otherwise.
The Bundy standoff was in Nevada. Some other assholes decided to take over a bird sanctuary or something in Oregon
Is that why the US has no legally mandated annual leave laws?
An example dit is now live at https://www.ditabase.io/example.html
There’s a little more information at https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Market-Street-ma...

The $600m includes upgrades of sewers and utilities so it’s likely all of Market street is getting dug up some way down. $600m still seems like a lot for that, but it is more than repaving.
I think any communication technique that you are just starting to practice sounds unnatural.

Just think of NVC as a tool in the toolbox, for how to initiate a difficult conversation and be understood without being as likely to provoke a defensive or derisive response... that then can grow into that genuine, comprehensive human interaction.
Twitter interfering with foreign elections has nothing to do with FEC.
Dang... super unique. We might need to add this approach to our Lost and Found software when the digital outreach and postcards don’t quite get through. Love it.
So if I sign up for Lyft as a driver, I can drive on Market Street?
Sun and SGI both died not because of the dot-com bubble bursting, they died because commodity PCs became competitive with their extremely overpriced offerings, then GNU/Linux enabled the PCs to do all the UNIXy things too.

They should have seen the writing on the wall and done something to differentiate themselves meaningfully before the PC wave washed over them. They failed to do so, and could barely afford to keep the lights on at the scale they operated afterwards.
...but .. they are. Just because you hate something doesn't make it untrue. Twitter CEOs are probably more aligned with foreign interest than you might think. It barely even matters considering how insignificant an impact the average American has on policy decisions. The system has evolved to give the richest the strongest voice .. and what rich Russians want is probably not so different than what the top 1% of industry leaders in America want. I made a video about this a few years back:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/video/does-voting-make-a-...
Make sure there's fenders on your bike -- you don't want a stripe of what's on that road.
Well, it might be that it is effectively a theocracy because a church with a strongly enforced normative code of "morality" controls access to political levers (practically requiring membership for anyone who wants to effect political change of any kind), and that church exerts a 10-15% tax on its members?

Which it then uses (in parallel to the "official" state government) to invest in projects and consolidate its own economic and political power?

Just spitballing though. It's certainly not as bad as Russia or China, but it's not an entirely unfounded inclusion on that list.
The link between stress and depression and simple words that could help
I hate that VirtualBox is owned by Oracle (Innotek GmbH was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008).

I have used VirtualBox for a decade for my VM on Ubuntu - it just worked better than VMWare for me (I recently bought a VMWare licence, but went back to VBox).

Ages ago I even tried to pay Oracle for it, since they documented that they wanted USD50 per seat, but when I emailed them they had no way to accept the money!

Oracle strikes me as a deeply disfunctional organisation.
Do you think that there are groups of people that should not be allowed to be represented in the media?
I grew up when BSD was kinda mature but SVR4 was the "new thing". People, probably inertia, were hating SVR4 and Solaris vs. SunOS (BSD) too. But it was solid. Solaris 5.5.1 and 5.6 were bulletproof, organized, documented, and worked. I don't know who worked for Sun back then, but to you, Thank You!

At the time, many UNIX vendors were sparing, warring even. But Solaris is one of the best, purest SVR4 implementations. On top of that it had a very unique and excellent driver model (one of the first), true multi-threaded kernel, and extremely good compiler. And it ran on an extremely well designed post-RISC CPU (UltraSparc). CDE was ... not really the point...

Sadly, while it powered that dot-com bubble, that success led to the failure when $50,000 Sun workstations and servers became available for $0.01.

If you're going to fail that is the honest way to do so, in my book.
You are being downvoted by people who either used it in some self-diluted nostalgic glory day or have never run it. The OG Sun people bailed when SunOS was dismantled and AT&T shucked their shit to Sun management as part of a capital infusion. Linux won the Unix wars because of extreme arrogance by the competition plain and simple. The critiques of Linux are well known and it's not hard to find treachery in the system, but run any kind of efficiency or performance test on Linux versus others, year by year fair to the defeated systems, and prepare to faceplam. Any multithreaded test will do, you can easily select amateurs versus pros on this issue with a simple truth test like https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale
Study in mice explains how brain can turn pain signals up or down
I flew back from Palermo to Zurich on Monday. Exceptionally in business class (essentially same price).

A pretty well known German performer was also on the flight with his companion and - I assume - his favorite microphone.

The gentleman was meticulously polite, including the fact that he queued up at the gate instead of jumping the queue with about a dozen economy passengers in the queue.

Not every prominent person is an asshole.
This has the benefit of showing that Perl gets a new version released every year.

I have previously stated that I would like it to be an alias of sorts.

use v5.30;

use v2019;

Basically have both of those lines do the same thing.

---

Perhaps even something like:

use Perl v2019;

(I actually considered posting a module that would make that work.)
Can we stop with the Switzerland IT hype?

Switching jobs take months before even getting interviews, bunch of useless people in all layers of hierarchy only good to believe the jumbo marketing crap from consultancy 100 times worse than Accenture.

And don't get me started on xenophobia or the place of woman in society.
Why not elementary schools too? :(
“I was told to buy a software or lose my computer: I ignored it”
Amazing and Mysterious Uses of () Symbol or Operator in Linux Commands
I'm going to come off as cynical in this comment, but I'm a little qualified on this topic - my parents met while attending App State, my mom was raised in Watauga county, I still have family there. I'm from Charlotte myself, but still have some defensiveness on this subject (thanks no doubt to the frequent experience ofbeing "corrected" on the pronounciation of my family's home region by random transplants)

But this article, and others like it, make me cringe like nothing else. A well-off academic type from the north reads "Hillbilly Elegy", decides to take a temp job / vacation in Boone and then writes about how much he learned about "America's divide" from a bunch of 18 year olds at a school for teachers and liberal arts students. Spare me please.

It's a tired trope. A well-heeled, educated outsider who comes down to teach the poor, ignorant working-class mountain folks the ways of civilization , but leaves having learned something heartwarming that money just doesn't buy.

Dudes like this need to stop using Appalachians as pawns for their narratives. The discussions he outlined could have happened anywhere. He just wants to get social credit for trying to "reach out", when all he really did was take a working vacation.
Because the unit of swappability changed to a VM or server... for good reasons.
When Blizzard says "this character is gay in America but in other countries he is straight", it seems like inauthentic pandering instead of actual representation.
Blizzard absolutely has the right to punish Blitzchung for his statement, and I am sure he expected and accepted there would be consequences. The issue is, was the punishment:

1) Strictly because Blizzard did not want unauthorized political statements on its video game stream - perfectly understandable, or

2) Partly because Blizzard feared retaliation from China, and acted more harshly than it normally would.

We can't know for sure from the outside, but context suggests 2 is more likely.

This is where the LGBTQ thing comes in. It's not central to the controversy but it is one small piece of the puzzle. It's an instance, in the past, where Blizzard has calculated it is worth it to take a public stance on a non-gaming related topic.

Now we would not normally expect Blizzard, out of nowhere, to take a public stance on the HK protests. But Blitzchung has forced them to consider the issue internally at least. We now know they have calculated, unlike LGBTQ, that it is not worth it to take any public stance on HK even though it might be the only way to disprove 2) and repair PR damage at home. Their silence doesn't prove anything but it is one more clue.

Also, regarding skeletons:

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-deal-with-skeletons-being-ba...

It's a silly example, and I don't have a big issue with localized versions of games or movies customized for local norms. But it becomes interesting when US content starts to self-censor at home to avoid losing money in the Chinese market. For years American entertainment has been some of the most effective propaganda globally, now American citizens are indirectly starting to be exposed to Chinese propaganda (by avoiding content or topics) in American entertainment. It's only tangential to the Blizzard situation but I think it's part of why it struck such a nerve.

This is why I find this mess so fascinating - it goes far beyond just the statement on the stream and it ties together so many different threads into a perfect storm for Blizzard.
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In the US, if a player won the tournament and went political during the post match interview the likely response would be to switch to a commentator and that would be the end of it. Instead they went nuclear on him, banning him, clawing back winnings, going silent on the issue until finally responding on a Friday night.

There is a big difference between "not supporting" a political rant, which could be accomplished by turning off his mic and what Blizzard chose to do.
LegoOS: A Disseminated, Distributed Operating System
Same here.

My basic introduction was that my boss sat me in front of a VT220 terminal and told me about the HELP command.

Later I discovered the absolute awesomeness that was VMS (at that time, OpenVMS came later) documentation.

For me and to this day it's the benchmark how documentation should be written an organized.
I believe that communication can be violent, but I guess that depends on one’s definition of “violent.” I see “violent” as causing harm to another being and I can think of many examples how communication can be used for that. Also this is assuming “communication” means verbal communication, because I also see punching someone as a form of communication, or sending one message to another.

That all being said, I think when we receive communication that we perceive as violent, we often have a reaction to try to stop people from saying those things, thus the increase in censorship. I don’t think that works well. What I like about NVC is not about stopping someone from communicating in a violent way, but choosing to respond in a nonviolent way. Similar to MLK’s beliefs on nonviolent resistance. In the end, I believe the goal is to change the way people communicate, but not violently stopping someone from being violent.
You are wrong.

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-re...

> An in-kind contribution is a non-monetary contribution. Goods or services offered free or at less than the usual charge result in an in-kind contribution.
Reminds me of a similar story from HN which I remember doing a rewarding deep dive into:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/chop-suey...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13258636
I remember Irix as the bad one. SunOS/Solaris was ok. Linux/BSD was worse, until it was better.
> in general laws exist because people (or at least, the legislative body) wanted them and can have them enforced.

I think it's actually more common for laws to exist because people wanted them despite enforcement being impossible than because people wanted them and could have them enforced.

Consider things like the Jewish law that a child who disobeys his parents must be stoned to death.
> While what you say is true, does pushing the start time of class back 30 minutes or 1 hour make any difference? I'm skeptical.

Did you read the article? They have done several studies to show a significance difference in academic performance with a slight shift. That's the whole reason for this change.

"One three-year study (pdf, p.1) of 9,000 high-school students across three states, for example, found that academic performance, “including grades earned in core subject areas of math, English, science and social studies, plus performance on state and national achievement tests, attendance rates and reduced tardiness show significantly positive improvement with the later start times of 8:35 AM or later.”
>To be fair, the main thing you learn doing the cryptopals challenge is to not write your own crypto.

D'oh! Good point though lol.
As a physicist who worked in Biology for a while, money didn't always make things better and sometimes made it worse. Programs with slick user interfaces tended to be overwhelmingly chosen over better open source programs which were command line. In bioinformatics a lot of excellent software is open source and updated regularly. In contrast, closed source software could be nightmarishly opaque in how it handled the data. Also, companies had better salespeople than open source proponents. Graduate students used to take bets about whether a software would be purchased by looking at how hot the salesperson was.
That’s why Chromebooks are a lot better choice - $150 buys you a reasonable example and you also don’t have to worry about kid breaking it and loosing weeks of work.

Example: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-11-6-chromebook-intel-cele...

And for older kids, there’s Linux support, etc.
What’s missing/are the issues with Apple contacts?
LeBron James’s Big Miss on China
The Russians was my first thought as well lol. I really like the cosmic background explanation it makes a lot of sense and can relate to having days like that where I’m grouchy and liable to downvote. I can see how some would get irritated from the sentiment of “why can’t we all just get along?” but that’s also super ironic and I think it’s what the article is trying to highlight as a problem in the current political universe.
I know so many people like this: they practically tour the south hoping to see an insensitive comment or outright bigotry as if they’re in a zoo.

My experience with this country: the south tries to do better. The non-south-eastern US has never checked itself and just assumes the south is worse on all social norms and subjects.
Don't Track Your Phone, if it gets stolen; you might get arrested !
I had my new phone stolen in San Jose; but I had a Tablet, and the Tablet showed that the phone was about 1.5 Miles from my location. With a friend we got to the house, At the place, the police was called to the scene and I ended up at the station for 6 hours for a DUI that I was not even driving. It seems that nobody really cares about phone stolen from pockets on the region, I don't know what is going on. I was treated like a criminal, while trying to get hold of my phone. They did not even ask, and just took me to the station. Besides the telephone stolen, now I have to prove I'm not a criminal and fight a DUI that I was not even close to the car. I had lost my grandmother about 24 hrs before and she did a last video for me, so it was very important for me the phone. Anyone has an advise to give me or a lawyer to recommend ? In today's world you cannot even get an UBER without a phone. thank you all
Isn't that the point of Filecoin? As payment mechanism to incentivize node operators to host content
That's true, why fix one problem when there are also other problems?
Hosting an exit node is not illegal, but some of the users of that exit node may be doing illegal things.
The street is a clusterfuck.

Most of my experiences driving it are late at night, after last-call, sharing the road with intoxicated tourists, it was total insanity. Between the copious amounts of confusing signage, partial lane divisions, crazy painted lane colors, taxis/ride shares obstructing the right lanes compelling drivers to use the bus/taxi/carpool lane to get around them... oh man.

I remember one night mowing down the flexible plastic divider posts in protest, at about 2MPH. Thud, Thud, Thud, Thud, nobody even seemed to notice, well, other than my passenger. It's such a circus.
You can visit https://news.ycombinator.com/classic which are articles submitted by older HN accounts with high karma.

The selection tends to be far more of the classic high-quality HN style and less Reddit-y.

The politically obsessed people already ruined Twitter, which for some reason doesn't let you opt-out of seeing some random hyper-politicized tweet that a person you followed 6yrs ago liked (not even retweeted). It's natural that their "my pet political issues are more important than everything you care about" mentality is expanding onto other platforms when it's been so encouraged elsewhere.

Plan B is using https://lobste.rs
You’re missing the point. If you have an opportunity to travel for work, take it.
Seven? Not ... year 7?
> 3 months vacation per year

This perception is usually pretty inaccurate. There's no time given during the school year for essentials like curriculum development, continuing education requirements, training new teachers, etc, so that eats up time during the summer 'break'.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/07/myth-o...

> Klem says she’s spending the rest of her summer this year attending meetings, developing school curriculum, helping train new teachers, and contacting families of her students, among other tasks. Past summers, she says, have been equally busy: graduate-school coursework to complete her master’s degree (which isn’t required but can mean higher pay), classroom organization or relocation, and so on. While some of these responsibilities come with a stipend, teachers say they’re relatively negligible given how much time they take—no more than $1,000.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/16/hold-on-before-you-get-too-j...

> As an educator you constantly have to be on top of trends, so it’s not like it’s just six weeks of me laying by the pool,” said Sara Holloway, a fifth-grade English language arts teacher from Monongahela, Pa.

> “You are taking classes in the summer, or you are reading material, or you are conferencing or blogging with other teachers, you are planning for the next year,” she said.
Hell, even my native-born, non-educated granddad, from Mitchell county was registered Democrat his whole life. My grandma voted for Obama. Even natives in Western NC are not the monolith this guy is painting. The history of mining, unions, and the new deal were not forgotten for many.
> (otherwise mandatory) election spots

How do I qualify to have it be mandatory for broadcasters to carry my spot? I assume running in the election isn't enough?
I mean re.search() should always return a MatchObject, dont return None.