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I'm not sure i've ever read an HN comment i find as distasteful as this.

The OP is building an app to help people meet, yet by their own admission have managed to attract one user. They asked a question about a common issue engineers face: onboarding and marketing. Your comment ignores nearly every shred of this substance. Instead you accuse them of "getting [users] killed"? Patently absurd. To cut them down at the knees in this way is counter productive at best.

In the greater context of American society, Urban Isolationism is a real problem. You can argue that it is a less urgent issue during covid, but the dangers remain all the same. I applaud the OP for trying to chip away at this problem. Crazy to think your comment is the HN-upvoted response to their efforts.

What a place this has become.
Sure, but that’s a moral problem not an engineering one.
How about doing it in SQL, build a site around it that allows customers to query and generates sample output, like the first 50 rows. Then for delivery, after payment just create the .csv on the fly with whatever given data the users requesting.

So, basically a mySQL database displaying with something like https://datatables.net.
Facebook is not the government. First Amendment doesn’t apply.

So far, anyway. So far.
It’s a stupid idea anyway. Firstly, no hunter only grinds one arrow. Secondly, it’s a saying my a Sun Microsystems executive. And we all know how well that went.
We do 360s one level up but the real problems are two levels up. I think it would be great if people could rate the management chain all the way up.
USA medium town here. Day to day you wouldn't know anything is wrong beyond everyone wearing masks.

I believe I caught it myself several months ago. I had what felt like bronchitis in the lungs. A slight burning or tickle feeling in the lungs. Occasionally I still feel this, months afterwards. I've suffered no ill effects though. No fatigue.

I don't mean to downplay the real danger. Even some young healthy people are dying from this. But it's not like the medieval plague with bodies piling up in the streets.
It was one of their engineers who noted the car you can put your child into and it drives her to school is still decades away.
It sounds like folks are interpreting your app as promoting behavior that’s irresponsible at best and potentially dangerous to vulnerable demographics at worst. I don’t think that’s an uncharitable perspective given the zeitgeist and would advise pausing for some serious introspection here.
Bitburner – A cyberpunk-themed programming incremental game
Recently I've discovered that TCL is a very pleasant language for shell scripting. The command-based syntax and the "everything is a string" design are a perfect fit for that problem domain.

Next time that you have a shell script that is too complicated for bash but not complicated enough for Python, give TCL a try!
Let me know when Libre Office's Calc can sort 20,000 rows with multiple column constraints in less than half a second. Because last time I tried, it took over a minute, which is unacceptable for spreadsheet software.
One quirk of Microsoft Word is that for historical reasons it has highlighting, which only allows a small number of specific colors, but also equivalent functionality in background shading for characters which allows arbitrary colors.

IIRC, because this doesn't really make sense, libreoffice just has highlighting which allows arbitrary colors, but it can be confusing because it may by necessity become background shading when you export as a word file.

Unfortunately, the UI for background shading is absolutely terrible in Word (there are different types of border/shading settings and you have to open the menu but then select the correct type to even see the current settings that are being applied) so people who don't know about it will be unlikely to figure out where it is or how to change it.
I personally use backblaze and it's been excellent. Cheap, works flawlessly in the background with minimal resources, doesn't bombard me with ads or upsells, and it's saved my ass twice now - once in an actual hard drive failure, and then when I accidentally deleted files I needed to get back (you can download them for 30 days after deletion).
We are vastly different programmers if you are being hindered by your ability to input.

If I could write code that was perfect and easy to read - but had to use nothing but my toes, I’d be investing in some fancy slippers and in a second.
Well yes, you could construe any physical object as having conciousness by having a sufficiently detailed/complex schema that assigns 'meanings' to each of its states.

But we all agree a rock is not conscious, so this definition doesn't pass the common sense test.

One mistake is then claiming that this usage of the word conciousness can be substituted for the commonplace usage in all situations. E.g. why don't we feel the same ethical obligation to a potentially conscious rock that we do to animals, humans and, arguably, seemingly intelligent entities?

For a nice exposition of this one can read chapter 2 of Gary Drescher's book 'good and real'.
Many years ago I worked briefly for this company. It’s nice to see them hit the big time.
At this point, the two projects are totally different. I know I wouldn’t use OpenOffice.
Orange Health (YC S20) Is Hiring Front End React Engineers in India
You have to find some other competitive advantage why you can solve it better. As a one man operation those advantages are very limited
It is a brand name.
you and pretty much everyone else

can't believe the amount of 'wishful thinking can replace science' that Tesla pushes out

and now he has gotten into Neuralink and chips in the brains of pigs stupidness
If you're interested in watching competitive Scrabble, the NASPA YouTube channel recently did a virtual Tournament of Champions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhvDB0pE-3ptFJBqemMOh...
I don't know which he likes better, but I dislike that one because it is misleading. The phrase "scrambled" suggests that you might be able to unscramble it fairly trivially.
Getting paid not to use Facebook
would be cool to be able to click on the results and go there
*300m
would be surprised if anyone came up with an actual self driving car in the next 2 to 3 decades
Yeah... Real engineers would call that an engineering problem. Like the kind who have stamps that can cost or preserve lives.

You're just showcasing the immaturity of most software "engineers", yourself included.
Very cool. Focusing on a domain is a good idea and this strikes me as a good domain to focus on.

While I've never managed to write anything useful in Inform 7, I'm glad it exists; it stretched my idea of what a programming language can be.

Good luck!
> Ever get into a situation where there's on-ramps and off-ramps on both sides, you've never been on that stretch of road before and there's a lot of traffic?

One advantage cars with large sensor suites have over humans is that they can see and process information from all around them. In your specific example, the car can watch both on an off ramps at the same time, isn't phased by the "newness" of the road since other cars have navigated this section of road hundreds of times before it has, and can keep tabs on cars obscured by line of sight due to the car's ability to bounce signals off of vehicles.
Please be mindful of voicing this opinion.

It is an opinion I share but disagreeing with the inclusion of politics into tech makes people believe you have taken the opposite stance.

There is little nuance permitted in US politics and US politics is the only politics permitted in technology.

I blogged about it. It has cost me job opportunities.
Thank you for sharing gtoolkit! I’m also looking for the sequel to Jupyter, something that gives the same speed of iteration but with the ability to scale to production systems.
The plague is now endemic in the western US. It’s postulated[1] that it came here via ship from Asia and through San Francisco at the turn of the XX cent. Most cases happen in the four corners region, but they happen all through out the west. It’s not particularly new.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jme/article/44/3/530/856131#9096682...
manual labor like field work, house work, baking, tailoring, keeping a shop, etc are things you can do while watching kids. you take the kids to work, and let them play alongside you. when they are old enough they can help, or pretend to help.

if your work requires focus like writing or programming, then kids are a disruption and you can't do it.

also once factory work was developed, schools for everyone were built too, those developments happened at around the same time.
It is what the data says. People didn’t suddenly get cancer and heart disease because of Covid.

You may believe that these illnesses were exacerbated by the virus, but that doesn’t change the fact that the vast majority of the seriously ill were not healthy before catching the virus.
I just am not that interested in the semantics of the name. I understand your point, that’s fine, I didn’t name it.

The idea is that you buy an option for the car that they claim will not now but in the future allow the car to qualify as “Full Self Driving” by some definition. It is not claimed that it will do that now, it’s fine to be skeptical that will ever happen to your satisfaction, but the feature has always been something that will be delivered over time.
"That is, for any random set of relations with enough complexity to represent a human mind, Egan claims, there exists an exotic encoding scheme that can interpret this set of relations as representing any arbitrary function, including the function that you would call “I”."

"There exists an X" is significantly different as a statement from "This X" (or "All X", for that matter).

Since I assume that solipsism is a fallicy, I don't find this philosophical position all that useful.
That is not an accurate summation of the evidence. 11 publications were used to analyze the efficacy of dental floss, a some dozens more for other inter-dental cleaning methods.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcpe.12363

Characterizing this as 'absence of evidence' is incorrect; the specific issue has been investigated by several independent investigators and consistently fails to find evidence of efficacy. Even with much higher sampling and statistical power, if any effect was observed, it would likely be well below anything that could justify flossing as a health recommendation, especially over IDBs.
> Sure, but that’s a moral problem not an engineering one.

I'm pretty sure "don't kill user" is not only an engineering requirement, but the most important one.
As always, the truth is somewhere in between what you say and what the government portrays. 38 Oxley Road was owned by the Lees since the 1940s, well before any of them came into power, and well before property prices in Singapore exploded to the level they have now. It is also a stretch to call it "giant" or the "most valuable" piece of real estate, when there are hundreds of bigger houses in the nation. The number of "guards" is also comparable to the state leaders of any other European country, and certainly pales in comparison to the US or some dictatorial nations.

There is some bias in state media coverage, but that is fast becoming irrelevant when the main source of news for people nowadays is social media. Criticizing the government is not a crime, and people regularly do it - one only has to go to the Facebook comments section of the state newspaper to take a look. Making a factually false statement and then gaining significant fame could get a lawsuit filed against you - so tread lightly when making big claims that you have no proof for.
Github - https://github.com/danielyxie/bitburner
Documentation - http://bitburner.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Subreddit - https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitburner
Aren't you contradicting yourself with the industrial uses point? I don't have any strong refs but my understanding is that 19th c. deforestation was driven by growing population, which isn't a problem in europe for much of the foreseeable future. Btw there have been big advances in forest management and forest-compatible agriculture (agroforestry and intercropping in general).
Plants to Remotely Detect Human Decomposition?
Hey Ben! Thanks for the feedback. If it wasn't in the middle of a pandemic where people are dying, you'd be right – negativity on HN toward makers sucks, and is way too prevalent.

You can check my comment history, I spend a LOT of time helping people who are building things. I love makers, and like yourself, I'm a founder. I'm pretty sure this is the first time on HN/Twitter/etc I've been negative about someone putting something out into the world.

But it is a pandemic, and this app is trying to get people to do something that will endanger themselves and others. I'd even be supportive if he was just building it for when COVID slows down, but this whole post is about getting people to USE it. Right now.

People are dying... even if not directly due to the author. If they built something that helped people connect virtually, I wouldn't have said something "distasteful". But context is relevant here.

Ethics are as important to technology as code is.

(And on a personal note, I know you've heard this before... we were at RIT at the same time, and you had to take the same ethics classes I did to graduate.)
What does true inference mean?
It's a distinction that Facebook seems to make since they still allow creating events on their platform.
I don’t think there is currently any danger of anybody using it for anything.
I’m not opposed to naming things after people. That said, I often suspect that the naming conventions and rituals of mathematicians (and sometimes physicists) serve as gatekeeping mechanisms that make life extra difficult for newcomers to a field while preserving the authority of current experts in a field by turning their history and duration of involvement into a more powerful resource than it probably deserves.
Salesforce Inc. tries to sabotage social networking site Ruqqus
The SiFive HiFive Unleashed has quad RV64GC plus one RV64IMAC and runs at around 1.5 GHz in TSMC 28nm -- mine's a little unstable at 1.5 after three or four hours at full load, but it's perfect at 1.4.

It was pricey at $999 because the chips are from low volume "shuttle run" aka MPW production (probably $300 or $400 each -- would be maybe $10 in volume production) and the board has 8 GB DDR4 2400 and other expensive things such as FMC connector.

But it's well faster than a Pi 3 and I've had 2.5 years of use out of it already...
Self driving can and likely will eventually save lives. The medical world deals with the same basic issue constantly and neither reckless behavior or extreme caution is the answer. At best you can model how much of a reduction in the 1.35 million people die in road accidents worldwide every year / 3,700 deaths a day offsets moving more quickly.

If we are talking an eventual 10% reduction waiting just 1 year costs ~130,000 lives. On the other hand if mistakes slows long term adoption that’s also harmful.

PS: Adoption curves etc are also import, but that’s what I mean by mistakes slowing adoption.
There is no universal right to have sex with another person. You can always have sex with yourself, if nothing else.

If you want it badly enough, you can always find someone who will be willing to let you pay them for it.

If you blame your radicalization on the fact that no member of the appropriate gender has been willing to have sex with you, then I submit you have much bigger problems than just trying to blame your problems on someone else.

As for myself, I didn’t have my first girlfriend until I was 29. Among other things, she seriously messed up my 30th birthday, by trying to turn it into a company celebration when in fact all I wanted to was to spend time with her. My second girlfriend ended up making me the happiest man on earth, by agreeing to become my wife. And we’ve now been happily married for more than 20 years.

I used to think that the old saw “There’s a perfect match for everyone, you just have to look hard enough” was one of the cruelest jokes ever played on humanity. But I never blamed my problems in this area on someone else.
How video games saved Ryan Hart from the streets
Is Tesla really sending all that camera data off the cars? That doesn't sound plausible.
Not a book, but this is a great talk about [How to Design Great APIs - Parse Developer Day 2013](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCdpTji8nxo)
> Please expand on that.

If you don't even know this, why are you making comments here as if you know what you are talking about?

"Even though it excluded areas not in rebellion, it still applied to more than 3.5 million of the 4 million slaves in the country."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation

There were about 500,000 slaves in the north/union when the civil war started. They were outright slaves or were classified as "apprentices for life".

For example, in New Jersey there were still eighteen enslaved people in 1860, although officially termed “apprentices for life.”

https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-north-and-slav...

I'm done here. Can't be bothered educating someone who refuses look up basic facts. But then again you believe china is a "free market". Ignorance is bliss.
Memorizing an entire dictionary is kind of like the cases I've read about with persons whose native language isn't arabic, but have successfully memorized and can recite verbally the entire Quran.
Shameless self promotion, I wrote an article on this a while back: https://jarbus.net/Tesla-and-False-Advertising-In-AI

Elon Musk is just blatantly falsely advertising FSD by this point. He's trying to sell a technology that a) doesn't exist, and b) has no guarantees of being ready anytime soon. I wouldn't be surprised if people started demanding refunds pretty soon.
There is the Curry Howard Lambek Correspondence (or should I say: the Types, Logic, Cartesian Closed Category Correspondence). Curry Howard in particular, says the act of providing a term for a type is the same as providing the proof to a theorem (modulo a few details). Note that this isn't the same as saying writing a concrete computer program and proving a theorem in a type theory are the same type of activity.

Numerical methods and algorithms are fields of math as old as geometry, especially if we focus on the Babylonian or Chinese styles.

Hermann Grassmann sought to formalize arithmetic, not wishing to assume them as granted. In doing this, he also connects recursion, induction and the natural numbers (he would have known of recursion from its early application in the theory of combinatorics). Peano, Dedekind, Frege, Zermelo and many others would also work on the foundations and axiomatization of mathematics and deduction. Computing began as a side-effect of attempts to formalize just how far such an approach could be taken. The Turing Machine arose to tackle Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem. The lambda calculus as an approach to the foundation of mathematics. Functional programming languages were originally part of tools meant to study formal mathematical objects while Logic programming sought to apply ideas from formal logic and the axiomatization of mathematics to automatically search for programs.

Dedekind said: "In speaking of arithmetic (algebra, analysis) as a part of logic I mean to imply that I consider the number-concept entirely independent of notions or intuitions of space and time, that I consider it an immediate result from the laws of thought."

What we find is computing reaches right to the foundations of mathematics. Whenever we try to systemize thought, we end up with ideas which seeming inevitably also lead to the foundation of computation.
All of the current gen assisted/self driving tech seems like it's operating in a legal grey area like Uber. Every car manufacturer assumes people are still behind the wheel, and the government is (naively?) going along with it. "By operating this vehicle you agree to..." seems to dissolve them of any responsibility, including around quality of software, and it honestly scares the hell out of me.

I don't know what the fix is for this, the genies out of the bottle here. We won't have reliable self driving cars for years (decades?), and until then we're stuck in this horrible wild west where an off by one error can cause a pileup on the highway.

Let's stop the the assisted/self driving stuff until we have a regulatory framework that can prove the tech works in various conditions, much like seatbelts and collision testing.
Indeed, this sounds a lot like cancer, which has some similar effects (even on different organs), and can be induced by a variety of methods (genetic, carcinogen, etc), but is fundamentally many different conditions often requiring different treatments.

The desire to categorize and use reductive reasoning is powerful and seductive, but not always effective until you really understand the system. With human biology and brain we're a long way from that.
Unfortunately, many people treat Tesla auto-pilot and Waymo's Driver as though they were similar, when Waymo is probably 10x more capable, reliable, robust. I see this as similar to how people equate Alexa and Siri simple voice commands to Google Assistant's deep knowledge.
Yeah, like any car if you do not operate it properly it will fail to handle an intersection.

I don’t think I buy that a driver assistance system that does not always intervene is dangerous, when the expectation, design, and legal agreement is you must drive the car responsibly. I’m not sure it’s conceptually different from a safety perspective as something like cruise control.
This is not a naming problem. In fact the naming is consistent: There's a base-case "manifold". Another one build on top of it; another one build on top of that second one, etc.

This is precisely how knowledge is built, one thing on top of another. Naming would not have solved this "manifold" issue, in fact in would have obscured the root of that bit of knowledge.

In short, the author's real problem isn't names, is that they don't fully appreciate the way knowledge is built with ever more complex layers of abstraction.
Wait till he discovers Lisp. Tcl's flexibility combined with actual types (and not stringly typed). That's how I got seriously into Lisp: reading about the "Tcl Wars" and then trying out Guile.

That said, Tcl/Tk is still the fastest way I've seen to go from zero to GUI. Not even Visual Basic beats it in terms of quickness and simplicity.
I think that it would be more helpful instead of shaming Ryan into not building a meetup app at all to instead offer the suggestion I'm about to.

Why not spin the meetup app to be a way to connect people virtually to reduce isolation? I know everything is bigger in Texas, but there is a huge target audience (maybe even bigger:)) outside of Texas.

Just look at netflix party as an example.
I know this sounds like I'm missing the point, but I'd love to see enhanced clients for chess which graphically pointed out long and short term options for those of us who play casually. That way we could be more like generals choosing among battlefield options, rather than having to memorize openings.

As a somewhat odd example, this would be like the Nintendo DS version of Street Fighter - which allowed you to assign on-screen buttons for common attacks. Rather than having to master a series of button presses and execute perfectly, you could just tap the button and fire off a Hadoken. Would I ever compete at EVO playing the game like that? No, of course not. But it was fun! I still lost a lot, but it was just a deeper game.

I think the same could be done for Chess. Let those of us with mediocre knowledge and skills play the game at the level the masters play at with the help of some AI. Rather than handicapping with time or giving up a piece, let the other player have options to get help from the AI once in a while - say 3 times during the game. Or have it set to not allow blunders without confirmation. There's a lot that could be done to add pleasure to the game.