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Reminds me that the balance between logic and emotion within a sociological system was explored many moons ago in the Matrix trilogy through the relationship between the Architect(Logic) and Oracle(Intuition).

WARNING: Mild spoilers if you've not seen the Matrix films

The analytics led social media platforms are evolving towards the early versions of the Matrix created solely by the Architect and ultimately rejected by the humans within:

"The first Matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equalled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being.

Thus, I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure.

I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus, the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche.

If I am the father of the Matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother." Architect - The Matrix Reloaded (via Wikiquote)

As an industry (and engineers) we have a tendency towards being led by logic and there has been a cultural focus (e.g. DevOps) on being led by metrics...we can sometimes miss or downplay the squishy yet equally important emotive side of systems ;)
A webcached version of your article, since orlandosentinel.com blocks visits from European countries because of the GDPR: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pI5zTYk...
What do you think of the newer WebKit GC scheme where they removed compaction?
> Users cannot see who is in groups until they join one. This should help prevent people from backing out of matching because being lazy and skip over lots of people they don't like for minor superficial reasons.

I'd worry more about being rejected in person, than beforehand. Ideally I'd want to never know I was rejected. Instead I'd like to notice when I wasn't (i.e., I'd rather never know there was an event of which I was never invited).

Also: the biggest challenge must be to prevent the whole system becoming impopular because of commercial abuse, i.e. "I went to one of those once for mountain biking, and of the 8 people there, 5 were bike salesmen pretending to socialize but constantly trying to advertise new bikes".
Gamers don't buy new CPUs hoping they might be faster, that's ridiculous.

They check benchmarks and see what kind of gains they can expect over what they currently have.
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These "unavailable features" are available in D. But NOT when you compile with a specific switch on.
Gah, what a formatting train wreck :-/ sorry...
It's not the same at all. Oxford extended time for both men and women equally and the professor wasn't allowed to bump the grades. Neither was a systematic manipulation of scores to keep men out of a field.
But then it depends how much is dependent on changes on the JVM and how much will get into the Android VM.
This nice thing of Kotlin is that you get a nice language which is JVM 6 compatible and thus supported on most Android platforms.
The last information I have from Android is that you can use partially features from Java7/JVM7 but not all of them.
How is "sacrificing" yourself for capitalism more liberating than taking care of your kids and family?
I think it's cool that you made this for your students!
Perhaps asyncio is just a bit more low-level than we're used to in Python. Maybe we'll end up with something analogous to the "requests" library, but then for asyncio...
> They are essentially unopposed. But they are also solving the problem that the other car manufacturers have already solved: Mass producing cars.

No. Wrong. Sorry.

Tesla is not just trying to mass produce cars. They are trying to mass produce profitable EVs, something that the others simply can not do.

> Why would Mercedes or BMW or Audi try to compete with Tesla directly right now?

My very argument is that they are not competing at the moment.

> The others are just doing R&D while Tesla is selling cars. But it's still hard to see Tesla having a market share in EVs in 15 years time that justifies it's current valuation.

Why? Unless you believe Tesla makes somehow fundamentally worse cars then everybody else, there is no reason why the other manufactures should have an easy time boxing Tesla out of the market once the have major mass production of their cars set up. They are not magic.

Tesla will have a huge established direct to end user sales force, a massive charging network, a well integrated app and software stack that will help costumers to their brand and a positive public image.
IIRC they raised around 200 million at the time. It would be nice if they throw some money at Clojure/script too , because they depend on it heavily.
>>nobody is going to buy an $80k+ electric pickup when a diesel F150 starts below $30k.

This is the same as saying nobody will buy a $600 iPhone. Only to realize in months that component prices have fallen by 50% and its not that expensive after all.
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we love gevent as well. we use rq instead of celery . Try that instead (http://python-rq.org/docs/workers/)
Growth prospects perhaps, it's a pretty small company.

And I tried some different things in the past (computer vision research for agrotech and food, software development at a medical startup) and recruiter types find it hard to put me into a neat box. So when I'm looking to switch it can be hard to find jobs that I like and then to convince them that I'm a good fit for them. But luckily I'm very happy where I am right now.
Thread (YC S12) is hiring engineers, back end, front end and data in London, UK
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I have long argued that any act of positive discrimination results in an equal amount of negative discrimination. Be it sex, race, social background, income or any other attribute. Some argue that positive discrimination is the most efficient way to right past wrongs or that it has a net positive effect on a society but that does not negate the effect of the negative discrimination on the affected individuals. What does HN think?
So you want to write a slower piece of code because it looks cleaner?

That's about the dubmest thing I've ever heard, the chances are that you or nobody else will see the code so who cares?

If it bothers you that much just document the code line
For my language, instead of targeting LLVM, I targeted C. That made me take off fast, because everything in C is available from day 1. What I did is build an extra layer over C to make it behave more like a scripting language.

Used it for my website.
Hey there is still a chance one day your maker shows up and say hi to you
Actually, that is quite different.

1. Seems like a legitimate choice on what a test is designed to measure. Exam times are the same for all students.

2. "Fortunately, the plan appears to have been vetoed." - so it didn't actually come to pass.
> if people like Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin were removed from power earlier

It's a bit ironic that you criticize the predictive power of my examples, then go full time machine to kill known mass murderers before they had the chance to do their deeds.

There is little doubt that killing Hitler would have changed the course of history for the better - as much as alternate historical timelines make any sense in a discussion. The problem we are trying to solve, however, is not "how to use a time machine"; it is preventing future dictatorship without full hindsight of who will turn out to be the dictator. The year is 1933 and a new, 44 year old Chancellor is using political violence as a pretext to suspend democracy. As it would later turn out in this story, democracy matters quite a lot.
You are comparing the "winners" view with the "loosers" view.

E.g. "I made something nicer for you" vs. "I made something worse for you". Of course the second is the negative, dishonest one.
> Optimizing for something as abstruse as "engagement" seems like a great way to completely ignore everything that actually makes social networks compelling.

Or anything else, for that matter. The most shocking part of Android Pie release[0] was the repetition of the "drive engagement" mantra (in the post as well as surrounding articles). Fundamentally, phones are tools; how good is any tool to me when it's purposely designed to make me use it more? A tool should make me more efficient, hence, for the same task, make me use it less! Everything about this is spiralling to artificially inflate dubious metrics such as eyeball time or number of interactions.

[0]: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/08/introducin...
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People who are stirring up discussions and ignore the answers have an agenda, they are trying to make it look like there is still serious disagreement about the existence and causes of climate change, because they want to hinder mitigation.

It is no use to try to win them over, that's not why they're arguing.
In the USA it's 98.6 F. I just converted it to Celsius and it comes to 37.0. It's interesting it's different in different places. (That's probably also why Europeans are so cold and snobbish... I kid, I kid)
> That being said, a less nefarious use could be lender has a std mortgage rate of 4.25%, but if you give us a FB data dump, you can quality for a 4.00% rate.

Or, with your FB, the bank realize you have an higher risk of defaulting/dying before paying the full mortgage, so they bump the rate to 5%
That requires big water deposits up in the mountains, along with a dam.

Norway is having great success with this strategy on their hydro plants.
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You need a home with a driveway. Out of all my friends in the UK, I can count two who have such a thing - if you live in a terraced house, apartment, or even a regular house but without a driveway, how are you going to charge your EV? Where you park at night is completely arbitrary - one night you get a spot close to your door, the other you have to park on the street nearby because there is no room. Public fast charging stations are the only solution to this.
DNS is a byproduct because 99,99% of the people don't want to pay for it. This is why domain registrars are not bothering that much about it, they don't earn money with it.

You can split it anyways, search for your favourite DNS provider and for your favourite domain registrar. There is no need to have both at your domain registrar.
There's also a blog piece from Autodesk about it with a little more information here: http://blogs.autodesk.com/inthefold/can-machine-learning-tur...
quoting the article:

> Concurrency is like having two threads running on a single core CPU.

> Parallelism is like having two threads running simultaneously on different cores

> It is important to note that parallelism implies concurrency but not the other way round.

Aurgh! I don't think this attempted definition-by-simile is helpful, or even somewhat correct.

I much prefer yosefk's way of framing things:

> > concurrent (noun): Archaic. a rival or competitor.

> > Two lines that do not intersect are called parallel lines.

...

> Computation vs event handling

> With event handling systems such as vending machines, telephony, web servers and banks, concurrency is inherent to the problem – you must resolve inevitable conflicts between unpredictable requests. Parallelism is a part of the solution - it speeds things up, but the root of the problem is concurrency.

> With computational systems such as gift boxes, graphics, computer vision and scientific computing, concurrency is not a part of the problem – you compute an output from inputs known in advance, without any external events. Parallelism is where the problems start – it speeds things up, but it can introduce bugs.

...

> concurrency is dealing with inevitable timing-related conflicts, parallelism is avoiding unnecessary conflicts

yosefk's whole essay about this is great: https://yosefk.com/blog/parallelism-and-concurrency-need-dif...
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> [...] will even Support FaceTime Calls between Different Vehicles

At first that sounded like a bad idea, but there's an important distinction:

> autonomous vehicle
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Another reason to never ever become a developer. This is worse than being a mechanic or contractor.
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I think he's talking about buying puts far in the future.
Which is nice because then you get a super easy way to arrest them. It's much easier to arrest a gang member for having a weapon than catching them on the act. It is very common in Europe.
They made themselves obese by eating the shitty food. When it comes to living healthy, you can either blame others or change your habits.
"Because of websites not willing to stop tracking users against their freely-given consent."

Fixed that for you.
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However, some of your employees can't use bikes, so this isn't an entirely fair comparison. All the employees could arrive by car (not all of them might drive, but the nice thing about cars is that they take passengers). Thus it may make sense to have 10 parking spaces worth of bike racks, and 5 parking spaces, but it doesn't make sense to switch to 15 parking spaces worth of bike racks... and no parking.
Options aren't "an investment", think of them more like "gambling". So the 3k is the "fee" (non-refundable), and the "winnings" depend on the price of the stock at a predefined date.

In this case, the parent would buy a put option, which would pay out only if, and proportionally to the amount that, the stock is lower than some predefined price (usually the present price with a small delta).
And some wider discussion of it on Fast company too: https://www.fastcompany.com/90204615/autodesks-lego-model-bu...

Not surprised they had to change the name to BrickBot from LegoBot. At least it was never called LegosBot! (since the toy is Lego not Legos)
I see it opens with a classic hippy-punching quote from someone who probably thinks the Vietnam war was just great: "“These naive hippy developers from Silicon Valley don’t understand – the CIA should force them,” says [Sandro] Gaycken, founder of the digital society institute at ESMT, a Berlin-based business school."

My three questions would be:

1) How is countering ""AI"" weapons different from countering any other kind of guided or semi-autonomous weapon system? (Do things like "Phalanx" anti-missile guns count as AI, for example?)

2) How do the information security challenges differ from the normal information security challenges against human-made massively automated attacks? At the moment defense in this area is really neglected to start with.

3) (The dark question) How does this stuff relate to civilians, especially in partial, secret, undeclared or unconventional warfare? Do we get to be civilians at all or are the norms so thoroughly eroded?
You don't need so much work to make an impact, a truck is enough.
> God this was a frustrating article to read.

Exactly what I thought. Some parts (10%) are very interesting, but it contains so much stuff I don't want to remember...
> Chronological is just one ordering. Why are you so attached to it?

Because one is essentially a feed of data, and the other is obviously/openly being manipulated based on things that I did not choose. The fact remains that removing that option is problematic. They switched the default - fine, makes sense. To remove the basic time ordered feed just shows they aren't interested in allowing users real choice.

I largely mothballed my facebook use years ago - so I'm not a user they should optimise for. But probably have bailed at that anyway.
It works horribly with any other hardware. Try to connect to Synology NAS from you Mac. It will subtly fail you in many curious ways in following weeks, months years. You'll go back and forth between smb, afs and nfs protocols and discover many fun bugs and missing functionality in implementations of each one. You'll remember your Linux days fondly.

Also mac gui thing is bit more stable than linux windows managers but after a time it will manifest bugs that you will only be able to get rid of by fresh install of the whole system.

Also don't be surprised when you copy folder onto the folder of same name. If source folder has less files then target one, the files missing in source will get deleted from target. On Mac sometimes copy means delete.
I agree, it's really not the legislation that should be blamed, it's the crappy websites.
So you're saying it's fine to break the law of you don't get found out?
> I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted

Probably the oddly aggressive "macho fascination" bit.
It's Buzzfeed. Their entire existence is based on psychological tricks. Ironic indeed.
Apple products are not the right fit for anyone who couldn't do with chromebook. Except perhaps people that just go straight to console after booting up.
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That's easy to say, but as long as C++ and other languages can do those things without a garbage collector, D seems somewhat less attractive. (I'm not the OP but I've had a similar experience with D.)
All PV cells have a temperature coefficient that reduces their productivity in heat. some preform better than others. Thin-film is notable example.
Placing large PV farms in the desert is mainly about two things: High insolation value and cheap land that is easy to build on. Many of the desert regions have very few cloudy days each year offering more available sunlight hours improving the annual production of the system. Second, land in the desert regions are orders of magnitude cheaper to buy than other areas. This drives down overall project cost and improves the IRR. In addition to the land being cheap, it hold little economic value for much else. If it can be used for generating power, then local authorities are often favorable when reviewing these projects.
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Scalability! But at what COST?

Single process performance and the COST principle, from the iconoclastic (some might say bombastic) McSherry:

[1] blog http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/...

[2] pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...
Could be Apple maybe? They have a huge amount of dough and IMO the companies are quite similar; Apple's been rumored to work on a car for forever to compete with Tesla. It would make sense for the companies to cooperate, Tesla doing the mechanics and Apple the software / UX.
Nothing will make you safe from cheap attacks like IED's or Drones dropping explosives. The Q is: what will make it "safe enough to operate" under the threat. The IED threat made vehicles heavy and expensive, movement restricted.

The drone threat is similar but different. Protection of a single high value locatoin like a presidential speech (Maduro situation) is quite doable. Some combination of surveillance and kinetic and electronic countermeasures. It's not foolproof but it appears to work ok-ish (there are still high value targets speaking around the world and zero drone assasinations and now nonzero failed assasinations). The problem is that it's resource intensive and asymmetric as hell. And it's still just a question of time until the first successful attack.

A more interesting question is, what does a group of soldiers do to protect from a drone threat? They don't have a fixed location and huge resources, like a presidential speech. You can't fire a hugely expensive AA weapon at an off the shelf drone. It would seem you need some kind of weapon that is light, cheap, and reliably kills an off the shelf drone up to max altitude, and can be re-used or carried in large numbers by a single rifle squad.

It could be as simple as another drone? This is at least my guess. The most reliable and cheap thing to use to attack a drone is another drone. That would then be effectively the start of an arms race of drones. Higher, faster, better armed, better countermeasures. We'd see a replay of the evolution of fighter planes, but for plastic UAV's?
Great, thank you for this detailed response! It sounds interesting.

I'll pop you an email and we can continue discussion via a format better suited for this kind of discussion.
I didn't find it hard to set up, it's just once CLI that also has "flutter doctor" command that tells you if something is wrong. Since I already had XCode (as I was doing some work on Swift) and Android Studio, I didn't find it even a little bit annoying :)

What really made the difference for me was their CLI to build and run the app + batteries included approach where the router is available out of the box and you don't need to look through some GitHub projects on how to implement routing and authentication in your app. That wasn't the case with RN.

Also, in this setup, all the infrastructure is in your computer, no need for a cloud service like Expo. However, I do agree with you that if you just want to try something simple, it will be easier with it, it's just how much can you trust that service and why would you for something more serious?
Watts per square meter of solar radiation is ~1kW before taking into account solar panel efficiency (usually ~20% these days) so it just doesn’t generate that much power on the roof of a car to be useful.
Disney may be huge, but even with Marvel, Starwars, and Muppets i don't think they are well equipped to compete with Netflix and Hulu. I don't have children, but maybe they'll fill the gap of children's shows that the other services don't provide as well. This could make a successful underdog service in that demographic, a kids streaming service. If that's not their intention, it won't succeed.
False advertising for everything is pretty much the norm. I get fatigued just navigating through all of the rackets out there.

I do not know how people who skip the fine print manage to survive these days.
Yeah I'm really wondering whether this was legal - I would've been on his ass if I were the SEC for illegal price manipulation. Even if he doesn't go through with it, it's still bumped the stocks up by a lot. Could've been a move to scare off the shorts?
If education rather than credentialing was the overwhelming driver, a priority should be providing education to people without credentialing built-in, in a form factor that's a lot more flexible than a classic four-year degree. Ideally, it should be easy for people to educate themselves on their own pace, even as they are doing other things at the same time (like working). I somehow expect a system focused just on education like this would not have the ballooning costs we see now.

The incessant obsession with multi-year degree-granting programs specifically is a lot more about the degree than the education.
Yeah, that's why I use a VPN; for BitTorrent solely. Which here falls under private law; not criminal law. So the equiv of the RIAA cannot do the correlation attacks whereas (the equiv of) 3 letter agencies can. But the latter don't do private law cases.

I also download over Usenet, over TLS. Its basically impossible to catch those who download over Usenet for copyright infringement since its again private law, and they don't have the power to sniff my ISP's network (though they'd also see encrypted data flowing from a Usenet server).
As I understand it, garbage collection is kind of a non-starter for games programming because it leads to unpredictable pauses in what should be a low-latency, interactive application.