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>When I hosted meetups, paying $20/mo wasn’t the end of the world.

>So just give the $2 back to each attendee in that case, solved.

Under the new model, organizers will be paying $2/mo for every attendee that RSVPs. For meetups attracting a large audience, this easily comes to >$200/mo, which is a 1000% increase.

>I think for meetups where the hosting companies are getting value, ie: recruiting at tech meetups, it’s reasonable for hosts to absorb attendee costs.

>Now, finding cost effective space for large groups was very hard.

Many large meetups are run by volunteers who have to seek out companies to sponsor the space, which you've already acknowledged is hard to do. $20/mo is affordable for them and can be done without seeking out additional sponsorship; $200++/mo isn't.

Ultimately, I think organizers will self-select: those who can afford Meetup.com's model, or who're already charging attendees, will stay; those who can't afford the new charges and don't believe in charging attendees will leave. This dissatisfaction isn't an overnight thing anyway, and the new pricing policy will be a push factor for some to do their own thing.
Alternatively, you can order a domain and register it with Amazon Route 53 and store your website in S3 buckets - that way its even cheaper than having a droplet, the downside being that you wouldn't be able to have a back-end. It doesn't sound like you need back-end logic though.
HN search should be parameterized by the user, where they've commented and what they've clicked on. The last part is why outsourced search performs poorly. They can measure what you click on in their search results but I doubt they know what you clicked on HN.
Ah the old "too big to fail" argument, alive and well.
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That is why you don't play the promo game and get promoted via interviews at other companies. When you reach staff, that is usually when you have to practically start playing promo games. Not everywhere is google with their slow promo processes.

Also career and personal skill wise, it's good to see how other companies work. Pay is in many ways determined by your negotiation skills, and that is empowered by creating better BATNAs via interview skill.
This is simply untrue. Habitable land is different from total span of a country. Habitable land assumes that there is public infrastructure, networked transport and public roadways and essential services.
Call me the evil polluter, but I'm sorry I still find cars one of the best inventions humankind has come up with, and it could be a horse and a carriage for all I care. But the freedom of having your own horse/car won't be replaced with stuff like this imho.

If somebody comes up with electric cars that are small and standardized, small enough to carry you and your groceries, and not to be a victim of the elements (rain, heat, cold), then you can call me a believer.
Nope. I disagree with your definitions. And I disagree with the definiteness of your definitions. That is, you speak as though this were the only possible definition of "profession". In that, I believe you are in error.
I read it as poetic license.
Summarized succinctly in this tweet from MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle: https://twitter.com/sruhle/status/1184628336066289664?s=21
The bitcoin network has a limited number of transactions per second that it can process (Limited by block size). Last time I checked the network was basically at the limit so per transaction is not an insane way of looking at it.

I get what you mean, if you decide not to make a transaction, the energy still gets spent but the more you use bitcoin the more valuable it becomes which incentivizes miners to keep mining. Also someone elses transaction will just slot in to fill the gap left since there is a very limited amount of space for transactions which is always fully utilized.
A better question would be how many of the Forbes 500 started with significant inheritance?
A job is negotiated. You don't just accept or quit, you have a thousand different ways to come to a compromise with your employer about all sorts of things. It's baffling that so many people insist that the only feedback you can give your employer is quitting on the spot.
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That's spot on! Take a look at our intro video for an end-to-end overview of how to use the tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivkE26ZsyUo&feature=youtu.be .

I'd love if you had the chance to sign up. It's free to use and we'd love the feedback.
It already is due to energy being the biggest mining expense. Miners congregate around inexpensive sources of hydroelectric/wind/solar energy.
Car-free does not mean inaccessible. All cities that have taken these steps have also made exceptions for emergency vehicles, commercial vehicles (with permits) etc. In fact with fewer cars on the road you are going to be able to get to the hospital quicker.
If you see platforms being moderated, it's because the platforms want to survive. Because their usually is only one around, because once it becomes toxic the regular people flee and the toxic elements follow because having a platform is not the point for them.
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Halevei the most Litvish comment here.
The folks who work on Xorg are perfectly fine. The problem is the segment of the Linux community that wants to keep X11 around forever.
Proof of stake sort of solves this. In theory those with the most money can spend the most on mining equipment and get the biggest payout. Proof of stake short circuits this and just gives the biggest payout to the ones with the most money.
> the numbers have barely budged in more than 10 years

What are you talking about? The numbers have varied wildly in the last 50 years. In the US it was almost 40% women in CS in 1984. Now it’s 18%. Why? The numbers also vary wildly from country to country, and in India some years have seen greater than 50% women in CS. Why?

Cherry picking numbers to make it seem like it’s not changing and make it seem like today’s numbers are the natural order of things, when that’s very very far from the truth, is a way to ensure people who think will interpret your argument as sexist.
Famous (in certain circles) quote attributed to Bob Widlar, a legendary analog designer who didn't think much of digital designers.
> When was this ever true in Manhattan,

Probably not what they are going for, but uptown was relatively undeveloped until surprisingly recently in historical terms.

Also there are lots of famous photos of kids playing on Manhattan streets from circa the '30s and earlier.
It doesn't seem that way. There are still people attempting pwn2owns. The grey market value of a root exploit is still in six figures and likely higher on the black market.
Those don't sound like theft. KYC is supposed to make it easier to trace money, ostensibly if used in crime. But doing this before any crime has occurred seems like a violation of the 4th amendment, and probably only passed constitutional muster at the time because the laws force a nongovernmental entity to infringe on your rights.

The problem with KYC and banking laws are that you can prevent anyone from conducting business for any reason. They've not seen abuse per se but people have been caught up in them with no recourse. Their application in reality may see them ruled unconstitutional.

Bitcoin, then, is just a correction in the other direction. Because face it: large financial institutions still facilitate money laundering, just not for small people.
I happened to look this up earlier today for a completely different reason - S&P results to date since 1/1/2000 is 5.6% assuming dividends were reinvested.
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Here's the definition of anecdotal

>Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis.

You're basing it off your own casual observation of one school system. Nobody is moving goalposts.

>With regards to the study, it compares two classes in two schools in high school. Yet somehow that's not anecdotal

Because they actually ran an experiment where they tracked and controlled as many variables as possible. It had scientific rigor.

>Furthermore no it actually says that the amount of sleep is what leads to better performance.

It also says the later start time gave children thirty more minutes of sleep. So yes, it does say that a later start time is better.
Unless you are talking about email coming from the most blacklisted of IPs, that’s not true.
Every time a page loads, there's a positive quote from one of his readers. This is part 4 of his 11 part series on Telsa. His About page is literally more cliches than not.

Is this a parody? Serious question.
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I think the way forward is to adopt Wayland and use compatibility layers to allow old apps to work forever. And to not feel bad about that.
Let's not pretend voice isn't also a huge novelty.

Yes the gestures are majorly a novelty, but the fact is, this is a radar, not a gesture sensor.

It would be capable of determining if you're in a dangerous situation (by sensing assault / weapons), it could help a blind person avoid walking into walls, or simply chime when it falls out of your pocket.

Some of these have very high power requirements which is why it's not entirely practical to bake it into the phone as a common feature, but they're all entirely within the realm of possibility.
Algolia is also a great project that is easy to implement. I have been a paying customer for years. I have used open source Elastic as well, but it takes a lot more work to run and maintain. I don’t want to spend my time dealing with search, I just want it to work with minimal work. The JS client for Algolia makes it trivial to use — not much work “integrating” it as I have experience with ES.
Well, employment discrimination by gender is illegal in my country.
> It said: "straight man should be jailed at 18 and take an exam of being a decent human being to get out"

No it didn’t
I'm surprised that no one has brought up the Lattice IceStick. It's an oversized USB stick with an ice40 FPGA on it and it's the cheapest option I've seen.
>trust-based models (like Stellar)

What you're describing is basically Libra with slightly better entities backing it. Transactions can be reversed by those "trusted entities" with no recourse by you and at no cost to them. At least with PoW and PoS (to an extent), attempting to reverse transactions has a cost.

Speaking of PoS, were the issues with PoS ever solved? Specifically the "nothing at stake" problem. The Wikipedia page[1]'s list of implementations makes it sound like it's not at parity with PoW in terms of security.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake
IIRC there is even a Hasidic version of Shark Tank floating around on YouTube
Because employers in the US are legally prohibited from discriminating on the basis of sex and race. At least in theory, enforcement seems to be lax in Silicon Valley.

Also, it creates a situation where people are aware that non-diverse employees are held to a more selective standard. This can increase impostor syndrome among diverse employees who may feel that they would not have been employed if they weren't of a specific gender or ethnicity.
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Archive them! Please! For the good of the future.
Probably since at least Citizens United and social media provided a medium for spreading targeted propaganda.
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You're conflating craftsmanship with art.

There are literally factories in China where painters paint replicas of classic art works at scale. They paint hundreds, even thousands of such pieces every year.

They're undoubtedly very skilled painters. But would you call their work "art"?

How much time and effort something takes has no bearing on whether or not it is art. Something that takes 5 years to make isn't automatically better than something done in 5 minutes.

Painters like Picasso and Matisse were also classically trained and had all the skills to paint like the painters of old. They just chose not to.
>Twitter isn’t a phone call, but it also isn’t a message board.

Well, Twitter is Twitter. But Twitter is probably closer to a message board than it is to a phone call.
> Fundamentally, there is value to most businesses in being able to just buy a decent solution to a non core competency.

Bingo. Exactly that. My core competency isn’t (nor do I want it to be,) implementing and maintaining a search system. Same reason I use Twillio, SendGrid, and Heroku.
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I’m not sure how to teach this directly through comments as there are so many ways to create wealth to increase the overall value. Khan academy has a decent series on microeconomics [0] that will take an hour or so to view.

I think the simple view is wealth is zero sum. I have a pie and there’s only eight pieces. If I have seven pieces then you can only have one. Easy enough to split the pie and we both have equal amounts. But it’s not possible for you to have more pie without me having less.

In the real world it is possible to create value. And the things human value are intangible. So if you paint pictures and I sing songs, you paint 5 pictures, I sing you five songs we are both happier and have more value. I can’t paint so I value a painting at 100 whuffie. You can’t sing so you value songs at 100 whuffie.

In economics they can this guns and butter and use it as an example of trade increasing wealth.

If country X is really good at making guns but marginal at making butter and country Y is really good at making butter but marginal at guns they have to allocate labor to make both since everyone needs guns and butter. So each country makes $100 worth of goods at the total value of $200. However if country X only made guns and Y only made butter they could exert the same labor but have $400 in total value. Neither country is worse off.

This works in part because money is imaginary to reflect how people value things.

This works more with no tangible things that can be reproduced so it’s quite possible for someone to make a trillion dollars worth of software without taking a trillion dollars away from somewhere.

[0] https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microec...
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In this survey the finding is exactly the opposite: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/17/ssc-survey-results-sex...
Small error in the article: 200*10e6 is 2GHz, not 200MHz.
I guess it's suprising if you've never looked into it, but even back when their only game was Ingress, it was a gamified way of giving them location data that they can sell to help optimize mapping software.

I guess I had my first real wake-up call about how much data is being collected and used was when I got an Android update, and google maps had pre-filled entries for my home and work addresses based on where I spent most of my time at certain parts of the day.
> I know I'm setting up a bit of a straw man here

Especially as this thread has already mostly said spam filtering (which your example would easily trigger) isn’t in opposition towards a goal of neutral status.
It is documented, but it strikes me as simply being a lazy implementation. The consequence of this is that you cannot submit jobs 0-999, then 1000-1999, etc. You must submit 0-999, 0-999, ..., with an additional argument. It doesn't really prevent you from doing anything, it just gets in your way.

(The name MaxArraySize definitely makes it seem more like this is a bug than intended, albeit documented, behavior.)

I looked into submitting a patch but unfortunately MaxArraySize is used in more places than I would have guessed, and lost interest in trying to test all of them.
Chouinard has long been something of a personal inspiration.

- Early advocate of Clean climbing

- All around dirtbag hero and hardman (numerous FAs in the valley, the bugaboos, patagonia, the gunks)

- blacksmith, who made and used his own tools to climb.

- by all appearances a bullheaded guy on ethics and best practices: “ The whole purpose of planning something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain and if you compromise the process, you’re an asshole when you start out and you’re an asshole when you get back.“

As it happens, the companies he founded or was involved in make very nice gear and i’m happy to own an ethically appropriate amount of it. Preferably preowned, and repaired instead of replaced.
I mean, I personally wouldn't. I don't think this is an actual problem, but in the face of a suggestion that "tech platforms are too big, ergo they must not be allowed a choice in who they do business with", I'll pick the "use anti-trust framework to make them not so big" option over "force a business transaction" any day.

Of course, those who make the "publisher or platform, pick one!" false dichotomy aren't really genuinely concerned about the size of the company. They just want to force someone to host their content, which is why they jump to "free speech means more nowadays than what it says in the constitution [so platforms must carry my speech]."

Sorry for the tangent, just want to make sure my position is clear.
An free-to-play mobile game that requires GPS location to work collects location data. Also at 11, water determined to be wet.
Land is cheap as dirt.

Why are we filling in the sea?

Because it's next to prime real estate I suspect.

Which to me means you're stealing part of it's value and a bit from all the zip codes on the way out of town to add to yours.

Given the massive expense of terraforming, society would be worse off.

Building up is different, it's adding a 3rd dimension, so increasing density which is adding value due to efficiencies of compact societies.

Increasing coast line length also value adds, because humans enjoy being near water. This seems to be decreasing coastline... which depends if the current coast line is usable or not by the citizens.
That still holds true, eventually nearby clusters will go beyond our "observable" view.
Spending too much time with computers.
According to Marketwatch [1] you are incorrect. The MEDIAN NET WORTH is $97,300. The MEAN is way higher at $692,100.

Also, note that this figure varies considerably by age and education, as you might expect.

[1] - https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/how-your-net-worth-compar...
> iPhones won't be supported 3 times as long compared to Pixel 3s.

As someone who bought the very first Nexus phone (Nexus One, 2010), and several after that until the Nexus 5, I don’t believe this one bit and it’s why I moved to an iphone and never looked back.

Google’s long term hardware support commitments are worth less than their human technical support commitments. Apple has demonstrated their commitment to long term hardware support. My 2013 MacBook Air still runs the latest version of MacOS (Catalina) six years later.
"Anybody can create a cryptosystem that they themselves cannot break" -- it's easy to not see something wrong with what you're proposing for a variety of reason, this is why level-headed discussion is necessary and valuable. Nobody has the same background or viewpoint, and it's oftentimes harder to criticize others than it is to criticize yourself.
Ten years ago, in grad school, I co-wrote a video conferencing module in VHDL [0]. I haven't touched HDLs since but here's what I remember very clearly from that project:

* It took > 3 minutes to compile our code.

* DMA made a huge performance difference once we figured it out.

* Realizing that we had to be one with the clock tick took a lot of time. Understanding synchronous based programming (if that's the term) was a paradigm shift for my partner and I.

* The utter delight when we got frames streaming across the wire. The performance (though over a LAN) was silky smooth and you could tell immediately this was different than the run-of-the-mill x86 desktop program.

[0] - http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/classes/2009/4840/repo...
I think if there are going to be filters, then it would make sense for users to be able to opt in or out of filters. That way you can choose what you want to see, instead of having an almighty force that determines what you see. Having global filters that users can't turn off, besides to filter out illegal content, needlessly take away freedom from users.
There's nothing fundamental about this state of affairs. We're simply early in the adoption curve: the network of services around fiat is larger than the one around cryptocurrency, so to use cryptocurrency effectively you have to connect with fiat.

The infrastructure required for functional cryptocurrency usage in society is far smaller than for traditional money, so with enough adoption to supersede fiat, there would be efficiency gains.

Remember, we used to need the phone network to connect to the internet. 30 years later, the trend is reversed and it's telephone that we layer on top of the internet.
And Algolia has great analytics, so you can actually mesure business value from actual search queries: you can tie a query to a purchase and then run further analysis on that. It’s powerful and doesn’t require any exceptional engineering talent to use.
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I don't even know what problem Bitcoin is solving anymore. I haven't seen a single website accepting Bitcoin as a payment in the last whole year.
While not specific to mobile, D.C. seems nice for developers if you are okay with working for a government contractor.
> because you can never know for sure whether those types are "smaller than int" and thus get promoted to signed types when you do any arithmetic

You can deduce the width (number of sign + value bits) of the standard integer types from their limits (e.g. INT_MAX, INT_MIN, etc). The problem has been that this is non-trivial if not impossible to do from the preprocessor. The next C standard will include width constants (e.g. INT_WIDTH) for the standard integer types.
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> I’ve always had a hard time understanding the value proposition in the same way I don’t understand the value proposition of e.g. AWS Rekognition.

I signed up for AWS specifically to use Rekognition. I use it to screen alerts from my security cameras. In short, Blue Iris detects motion, a Node-RED flow grabs an image and uses Rekognition to see what's in it, if there's a person detected the Node-RED flow notifies me via PushOver. This significantly reduces the false-positives that inevitably happen on windy days - I've already done a lot of work in Blue Iris on this, but passing alerts through Rekognition makes it almost perfect. Based on my testing, this reduces false-positives to zero and hasn't yet produced a false-negative.

Based on my usage I expect my costs to be ~$5/mo once I'm no longer in the free tier. This is cheaper than the person detection service that Blue Iris natively integrates with and is significantly less effort to get up and running compared to, for example, TensorFlow. I also assume that Amazon will periodically update their detection models to make it better, which is one less thing for me to worry about.

For me, all of these benefits are worth the ~$5/mo.
Wouldn't be sure about the carcasses, bones, and kills, not when they share(d) an island with another carnivore that is a very effective and enthusiastic scavenger:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_devil
> Tasmanian devils can eliminate all traces of a carcass of a smaller animal, devouring the bones and fur if desired.

The poo one is interesting - no matter how hard I google, I can't find an image of thylacine shit, so not sure how you'd differentiate it from other animals' scat.