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We seem to be on the same wavelength. I might be giving up a viable idea here, but for a while I've been thinking about a sort of hybrid between Meetup and online multiplayer matchmaking where groups of people can meet up and do stuff without the need for an actual organizer.

Here's how I envision it:

- A user joins and provides a materials used to perform a background check.

- People with accounts sign in and are automatically grouped based on distance, interests, etc.

- 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. In other words, if you don't like fat people, guys who aren't cute, women who aren't hot, etc., you can't game the system without being punished. If a person really doesn't like someone they've met, they can set it to never put them in a group with that person again.

- Once a sufficiently-sized group has been formed(let's say between 6 and 8 people), they are given a time-limited choice between a list of activities. These activities can be autogenerated and evergreen(e.g. go see a movie, bowling, eat dinner, etc.) or be brought in from a list of actual events happening in the area(e.g. comedy shows, local bands, group painting classes, etc.). If consensus is not reached in 10 minutes, a random activity is picked.

- Once a group has formed, you can still back out but it will drastically deprioritize you in future meetups until you have actually attended enough of them that you appear reliable.

- When a group meets up, the app pops up with a unique QR code for the user. Each person in the group should scan each other's QR codes to verify that not only they showed up but that others showed up. This can be cross-checked with GPS proximity and motion, in case a user ever claims that the QR scan "doesn't work". By having your QR code scanned, you make yourself more likely to be grouped faster in the future, be given more interesting events, and be grouped with fewer flaky individuals.

I feel like there must be a reason why nobody has done something like this yet, especially since there's already an algorithmic model for this in games like Halo. Maybe autogeneration of meetups exposes a company to liability?

One thing I want to avoid, which is a part of your idea, is the notion of having users rate each other. I think that can lead to a lot of abuse and isn't really fair. I can only picture people downrating others because they are Jews or "she wasn't that hot". It would be much better to have a system where people are only judged on whether they show up(people are flakes) and if they have been reported for being creepy or worse.
Past year? :) That was a phrase I associate with comp.lang.lisp, from 15-20 years ago. I’ve used it since.
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"Limiting fringe speech" is censorship. I'd rather no one did it.

Instead, air it out, discredit it if it is wrong. When people are forced to stop talking they resort to violence, in the same manner that other species in the animal kingdom handle their disputes. Let people talk.
Main reason people do not write more is that those who spill a lot of ink usually do so in vain -- anything longer than a sound-bite is not going to get read carefully.

I always wrote trying to eliminate extra and meaningless words and phrases, so that my emails and documentation would not contain much hot air. But my work related to technical subjects and the world is complicated, so there is a limit to what terseness can convey. My typical estimate of my accomplishments trying to inform co-workers of my activities would be this:

I write 3 short paragraphs, say 10 sentences and 125 words to explain something that I have done or planned and send it to 10 people who ought to care. Two read only the subject line. Four scan it and three of those do so too quickly and don't get the message. Two read the first paragraph and stop there. Two read it, but only one gives it enough attention to get anything out of it. Why bother?
I really liked this article. It's by far the most concise explanation of asyncio in python that I've come across. Also, great use of little "quoted" statements throughout that encourage you to stop and really understand what was said before moving on (these probably have a special name).

Bravo!
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manually controlled drones

How about we just call them "remote-controlled aircraft"... which is what they were called before the whole "drone" fad came along (and "drone" itself used to imply at least some autonomous capability.)
I am fascinated that after the fact that he needed to get to the front page of Hacker News in order to have that issue resolved he keeps using this shitty service.

Like one modern Russian anecdote says - mice were getting pricked, cried, but keep eating cactus.

Yeah... Keep chewing on this cactus, good luck
For anyone else who was wondering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright
My god. It's an actual, blatant violation of the Rule Against Perpetuities. [0] And here I thought I'd never use this knowledge outside of a Property Law exam.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
He also predicted 9/11 three months before it happened, I don't believe everyone commenting here for his removal is acting in good faith, outrage is such an effective method to manipulate forums.
There's the floor on prices that they will advertise to the public and then there's the actual floor on prices, and the latter can be significantly lower than the former.

Car dealerships have a number of incentives that can change their reserve price in strange ways. There's the advertising holdback and potential servicing cross-subsidies that sokoloff mentions, and then there are also monthly quotas and per-salesperson quotas. If the dealer is very close to their monthly quota and it's almost the end of the month, you can get a car below invoice price, because the manufacturer will give them a bonus for hitting the quota and so the marginal profit on the one car they sell you can be positive (including the bonus) even though the car itself sold at a loss. Similarly, if an individual salesperson is close to hitting their personal quota, they will let you have the car for the lowest price that won't get them in trouble with the dealer, because it helps them hit their numbers and gives them a bonus.

It's entirely possible that similar incentives exist for financing, and that's why people get zero-percent auto loans with cash back, and they're cross-subsidized by people who end up paying thousands in interest because their credit scores weren't as good or they didn't get as good a deal. But on average, the financing cost needs to be eaten by somebody, so on average you're likely to get better deals paying cash than financing. The dealer can also book all the cash immediately when you pay cash, which makes them somewhat more amenable to offer deals and opens up some other incentives for them to sell cheap (like getting rid of old model years near the end of the fiscal year and converting it to cash so their numbers look good and they can order more new model years).

(There can also be strange situations that make buying new more economical than buying used - I bought my Fit in 2009 for less than used 2007 Fits were going for, because the bottom had fallen out of the economy and oil had gone from $100/barrel to $50/barrel. The used car owners had paid ~$2000 over sticker price for a fuel-efficient car in a booming economy, while I paid ~$500 under invoice price because dealers were desperate to hit their quotas, and the dealer's beliefs about where the market is at adjusts faster than private owners' beliefs about where the market is at. Such situations are the exception rather than the rule, though.)
That's four keystrokes. Impressive! I don't think there's a five-keystroke pattern.
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One point to consider if buying a condo, assuming you can get board permission, it can cost $8-10k for a licensed electrician to extend a 240V 50A circuit to a plug on the wall of your parking spot. It is definitely a consideration. Electrical loads in parking structures for 60+ cars are not usually designed to support electrical cars.
> Avoid compactions where possible, including the downsampling path, to increase the utilization of host resources for more concurrent writes and provide steady write/read latency.

What does that mean? What kind of compaction?
Please be more specific.

> The US is relatively unique in that we have a relatively large population of individuals that seem to resist all efforts at stopping them from engaging in crime.

What "population of individuals" are you talking about?

> This is not really a problem in places like Scandinavia.

Why do you think this isn't a problem in places like Scandinavia? What is different about Scandinavia?

> In my opinion the major problem is once a culture develops around criminality it becomes practically impossible to detach the criminality from the culture, as resisting reform becomes part of the culture.

What is an example of a culture which is attached to criminality?

> But the issue is that we're not part of this culture, and to understand why things the way they are you really have to live through it. In that culture prison is just a regular part of what we'd call 'real life' so this sort of loss minimization calculus simply does not exist.

What culture are you talking about? Which people are part of this culture?

Your comment clearly has a point of view which stated plainly would make it hard to defend. Dog-whistling.
...and that the "third" one is also amusingly absurd.

(Imagine a "bird-vacuuming drone.")
Tesla has halted trading after Elon tweets intendening to make Tesla private
With predictable outcomes. Liars avoid prosecution and
weasel out of consequence, even with dedicated decisioning.
In Europe they are the best, especially PHEVs as they lower the cost of driving substantially in addition to getting less taxed. There is no competition cost wise.
> The problem is I have no way to take advantage of any of that.

Some metropolitan areas have residential level demand response programs that address the obverse issue: when there is too little power, participating opt-in residential electricity customers with a qualifying Internet-connected thermostat would see their HVAC systems reduce power consumption through adjustment of the temperature set point. I suspect most of them use OpenADR [1].

If my skim of the OpenADR specification (requires free registration) is off, and we can't use it to pass pricing signals through the EIEvent/Quote/Report/Avail/Opt services, then we can use the OASIS Energy Interoperation parent specification, though that seems much more heavyweight and baroque to work with, and likely a harder sell to utility organizations to adopt. The utilities would need to expose pricing history as well, so longer-term planning by consumers can be performed through predictive trend analysis.

The communications and protocol infrastructure is there to convey the information to your residence, but the back-end at the utility side is an open question, and likeliest hardest to hook up. If I had access to near-zero cost electricity when they're trying shed load, then I would use it for drying clothes, chilling a pool (thermal mass) during hot months, heating a pool (thermal mass) during cold months, baking and pressure cooking while running a kitchen A/C at full blast, etc. All of these activities either use capital equipment already paid for, or very cheap to acquire to add to my existing equipment stock (like heat exchanger to thermal mass and even a brine tank).

[1] https://openadr.memberclicks.net/
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Ironically, the executive regulatory bodies also have mandates that aren't followed (across their existence), so I'm not sure that's a compelling reasoning.
In fairness, most of those were Native Americans. Most of those nations are already, effectively, gone.
> Does HN qualify as "social media"?

Here is a good discussion about how academics who research the Internet define social media:

https://www.fwdeveryone.com/t/ZZCAfWipRjCjvC9ZzbLf1w/air-def...
One of the key reasons Rust took this approach is because Rust's implementation is zero cost - it doesn't require a runtime to implement. It is potentially very efficient, and thanks to Rust's other guarantees its very safe to use. It's as close to bare metal as you can get for a async framework and as a result its incredibly efficient.

However, to me, the implementation is a lot complex that green threads. The Future's crate has had a lot of churn, and when I first dabbled in it a while back, it was one of the first few times I struggled to understand what the compiler errors even meant as the types were so deep. Compared to golang's 'go', futures are harder to understand, plus you have to rewrite all your networking/blocking code to be compatible (Python would still likely have to do the same, but I think it could be done in such a way that if you were using the system provided networking libraries, you could get compatibility for "free").

Python doesn't benefit from the Rust benefits explained in that article. Python already has a garbage collector and runtime. Python is single threaded.

I don't follow the Python language to have a well informed opinion on why they went with futures, but I doubt its close to the reasoning that Rust chose.
It isn't but it kind of is. It is a 95% chance that you should reject the null hypothesis. For example if we flip a coin a 5 times and get heads every time that gives you a p value .03 for rejecting the null hypothesis that the coin is fair. If I run the five coin flip experiment a 100 times and never once reproduce a significant result is it because gee science is hard, or is it because you hit one of those 3% of cases. The same goes for real science if you can't reproduce it more often than not then you might be close but you haven't figured it out yet.
We use 'TimeDoctor' as our tracking app at work, and it does an alright job. It also takes screenshots and checks for user activity.

A lot of people bitch and moan about it. But if you go work in a factory - for instance - you'll be clocking in and clocking out just the same.
There has benn one recorded accidental collision between a Phantom and a military helicopter (the drone exploded) and there is one guy that posted a video of a freestyle drone flying above incoming airliner on landing approach (which outraged the community).
you can bring a small generator though
This is insightful. The solution is probably to have a spot market for electricity that is accessible via an API so that smart AC or fridge or electric car charger can make use of it.

This will encourage market for devices that can utilize the lower spot prices dynamically and keep the things more efficient overall (in steady state).
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Yes. I'm amazed that the writer or this article didn't realize this.
Name some problem that blockchain solves that isn't already solved, other than "make illicit financial transactions".

I'll wait.
Are you against marketing in general? What's different about these advanced techniques? I see technology applied to marketing as a natural consequence of business. You have a point that it's not necessarily in the best interest of society at large, but how would we go about regulating the messages businesses are allowed to communicate?
I cannot envision myself joining a community like the one you described unless the utility of the community was very high. I do not think that paid posting will improve the average utility of a community, but I am open to examples showing I am incorrect.

The best publications pay people to write for them, not the other way around.
> How do we find rules that permit us to say "no!" in the name of good and not have those rules turned against good disturbances of the status quo?

Well, let’s see how deplatforming InfoWars turns out before trying to create general rules about it. I think it’ll work, but no sense in trying to generalize without any data. And maybe we don’t even need general rules, but can do it all on a case-by-case basis.

> and not have those rules turned against good disturbances of the status quo? [...] meanwhile I try to consider how rules can backfire when such things come up.

The people who would misuse rules against hate speech will ban good disturbances of the status quo anyway. Whether or not InfoWars and its ilk get banned will have no bearing on what they do. Trying to create good rules offers no defense against those who refuse to play by the rules.
I didn't expect the number of followers loss to be over half a billion. Makes me wonder how many accounts were purged. Even if each of the purged account followed 100 of the account measured, it still means millions of accounts were purged.
I don't expect renting computers in the cloud to get more expensive. Do you? The end of Moore's law means slower improvements, not that things will actually get worse. If anything, it means computers in data centers need to be replaced less often, so on a per-hour basis, they're still cheaper.

For a scalable application, better performance basically means reducing expenses. If your cloud computing bills aren't high to begin with, it may not be worth the rewrite. Of course there might be new companies or new projects that can use TPU's for machine learning, etc.

But Moore's law is not the only way to scale better. Today's machine learning algorithms are ridiculously inefficient and that seems unlikely to remain true forever, given the amount of research being done. A series of algorithmic improvements might result in a 10-100x reduction in cost, or maybe even not needing TPU's anymore?

Who knows what the future will bring, but making straight-line predictions in a fast-moving field like machine learning seems unlikely to work out.
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This piece has more technical details on their architecture and expected performance:

https://www.top500.org/news/darpa-picks-research-teams-for-p...
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Hmmmm? Can someone make cents of this for me.

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I don't disagree with blocking children from Facebook. Replacing it with InfoWars would be a medicine that's worse than the disease.
I also think more jobs should be trades. Data analyst (not machine learning, but running SQL queries, etc), marketing, bookkeeping, sales, etc, dont need 4 year degrees. 1 year bootcamp could get people reliable jobs.
Facebook is evil.
The new Ux is pretty bad and confusing and introduces new problems the previous iteration did not have. I did a video call with my mother the other day and we both had issues trying to figure out the video part of that. That is not acceptable. At some point I ended up with a full screen view of myself and a tiny version of the other side overlayed. Eh just wtf?! Why? In what universe is that useful? No obvious way to fix it either. They seem to have removed all the relevant buttons that used to be there.

I actually don't mind the look and feel. But the product is a lot more confusing than it used to be.

It seems both Ms and Google are stuck in loops of reinventing video chat in increasingly worse ways.
Well, if I ever want to move to London...

As I said, there are also plenty of PHP and WordPress jobs, but those aren't exactly paying top dollar either.

If you have to tie your horse to something. It makes the most sense to tie it to JS. Until something takes over JS on the browser, it's going to stay marketable. Then you consider Node for the server and the frameworks that you can make good enough mobile apps with JS has both marketability and flexibility going for it.

Then add TypeScript on top of it, you have a mostly strongly typed language.
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> Those that won't or can't, no school can help them.

Isn't that the complete opposite to what teaching is about?

Have you considered that maybe this isn't a problem with the students but a problem with society and the very problem with the education institutions and teachers like you that are just basically feeding on them?

It's far easier (and economically viable in a shortsighted way) to blame students for their shortcomings than to make the effort to help them. I hope you are not thinking that you're doing society a favour by failing them instead of making the effort to figure out what their strengths are and/or if the way your teach, or what your employer preaches, may actually terrible.

Maybe you shouldn't go back to teaching the next time you get "dragged back into" it.
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Zig is on my "must follow" list right now. It's still early enough in the going that I don't want to maintain code in it, but it's developing in a promising direction and making the kind of commitments that are reasonable to keep.

A lot of language devs want to play with semantics but aren't into the whole "let's do the hard work of actually getting off of C as the baseline" idea so it's nice to have a project that does and has a fairly explicit goal of absorbing and replacing the existing infrastructure step by step.
Yeah, but it is not acceptable to try to boost natality by denying opportunity to 50% of adults. My response would be "ok, you don't want me to be a productive member of the society in the way I wanted, I won't be in any other way whatsoever".

OTOH I'd guess that low natality in Japan has other factors, as other comments pointed, even for men: long, long hours of work, living in a cage called "apartment", probably no leeway in the work to handle domestic problems (yes, even living under the most conservative marriage arrangement possible, there will be domestic emergencies all the time, where a man needs to step in).
I think one other main reason for myself is I feel happier being non conformist, and sometimes writing my own from scratch code rather than using a popular library.

When I do that I find I perform better, feel more confident, have more creativity, and am more engaged in my work. Feeling unique and being authentic in work is important to me.

Writing my own stuff like this is one things that feels non conformist to me. It’s motivating.
I had a financial counselor at my college suggest I a put the last semester on a credit card. Fuck that woman, she is terrible person for even suggesting that. I dropped out in my final semester and quite frankly it hasn't mattered. College is insanely expensive, and at the end of the day for some careers is a waste of time.